Torrential downpour
Impossible odds and even greater danger. Us choosing to ignore all of that could be a testament to our bravery or our foolishness.
I didn't know which one it was and I guess it wouldn't matter.
The Slakoth that just appeared seemed to be agitated and ready to throw down.
'Well Slakoth weren't really that strong to begin with'
"Stay back Glaze I've got this" Matthias said as he walked in front of me.
"If you say so, I'll step in if things begin to get tough" I say as I took a few steps back as to not interfere in their battle.
"Prism we've got a challenge my friend. It's time we display our abilities"
At that Prism landed in front of him, alert and ready to battle.
Slakoth stood up and lunged at Porygon.
"Prism dodge"
Prism dodged the attack as Slakoth lunged harmlessly past it.
"Slak" Slakoth cried out as it missed and stopped moving.
"Prism signal beam"
Prism fired the beam at Slakoth who deftly evaded it by lunging in the air.
"Get some distance between your-" Matthias cut himself off.
Slakoth had managed to gain a grasp on Prism.
"Try to move around to get it off of you"
Prism tried to move up and down trying to shake Slakoth off.
*Scratch*
*Scratch*
Slakoth began scratching wildly at Porygon using it's claws. Being unable to avoid the attack Porygon couldn't do much other than take it.
"How annoying"
"That's a tough Slakoth for sure" I said walking up to Matthias.
"Yeah I thought this would be a one sided battle but"-The Slakoth was resting as Prism tried it's best to get Slakoth away as it flailed around-"Prism seems out of it's element here" Matthias said his face tense.
"Prism recover now" Matthias ordered.
Prism began to heal itself as it glows white and it's injuries begin to disappear.
"Slakkkk" Slakoth's arm began glowing white and expanding.
"Kothh"
Before any of us could react Slakoth slammed it's arm on prism. This made prism stopped levitating as it hit the ground.
Dust expeled from the point of impact. Both slakoth and Prism were unable to be viewed due to this.
As the dust cleared Slakoth moved out leaving a collapsed Porygon behind. It took a dive into the the water and quickly swam away.
"Prism get up!" Matthias shouted.
Prism didn't stir.
I looked at Matthias and Prism and then at the Slakoth who was quickly waning away from my sight.
The Slakoth seemed to have had it's fill of battle and had seemed to be satisfied.
"Are you okay Prism?" Matthias said after feeding Prism something star shaped.
My guess a revive or max revive.
Prism woke up after a few minutes almost as energetic as it had been prior to it's rushed around looking for the slakoth but on seeing that it wasn't present came back to Matthias.
"We probably shouldn't have underestimated that Slakoth" I said while going through my backpack.
"Yeah, I know. Anyway what are you perusing your backpack for?" Matthias said walking up to me.
I began taking out my potions and started counting how many I had.
"Okay so we've got about 10 potions. Matthias how many healing or support items do you have other than the one you used"
"Hmm, I've got about...6 max revives, and that's about it. Is this in preparation to battle?"
"You could think of it in that way if it comes down to it I don't think we can out run them"
"Fair assessment. Though in all honesty we should not engage"
"You aren't wrong"
I had no idea what the consequences would be of engaging with an eco-terrorist group like team aqua would be. In the games there weren't any, the anime? I had no idea.
Whatever the case we would need to tread lightly.
"If they're separated we should be able to get an opportunity and maybe defeat them one by one. At least leaving their leader aside" I said.
"Taking the initiative does seem better than just waiting on for them to attack us. So what now? Continue on to petalburg"
"Yep" I said as Matthias took the lead.
As we began walking I noticed how the forest had begun to resemble a swamp. The excessive rainfall must have caused the soil to get waterlogged. I could feel the overpowering smell of wet soil as we walked through.
That earthy smell felt nostalgic for some reason but I didn't pay it much heed as I continued on.
The damp soil also brought a number of grass types out of hiding.
"Shroom"
"Shrroom"
"Shroom"
I say grass types but well there were only shroomish to be shroomish that was tagging along with us went over to interact with the other shroomish. While we tried to look over for any other pokemon that needed help.
"Where are you Slakoth. I swear I'll catch you"
And Matthias incessantly tried to find the slackoth that tarnished his pride.
We needed to get our bearings soon and contact someone as soon as our Pokenav were in range.
The sky began turning dark again. The weather had been turning erratic frequently. Shroomish returned back to me as we began to leave.
"Seems like they're nearby" I said.
"Yeah but the clouds at this time don't seem to be nearly as substantial"
I turned up to take notice. Matthias was right these clouds seemed to be comparatively smaller closer to what I'd assume a normal rain dance to appear like.
"Lets make sure to be silent as we pass"
"Right" Matthias replies.
We begin stealthily making our way until we hear a voice behind us.
"It's you" A aqua grunt said pointing towards us.
"Damn it had to be this fellow" Matthias said.
"I'm assuming this is the guy you fought before"
"Yeah he isn't really that tough. Just wait a second I'll deal with him quickly. Prism" Matthias said as Prism came in front of him.
"I'm not alone this time hehe, I've got backup" The grunt said.
Two aqua grunts began walking up to him. They seemed different from the others we'd seen so far. Their uniform were a lighter blue color. Also they seemed inexperienced? Or at least it looked that way.
"You guys take care of these kids I'll go inform Zac on how far things have progressed" The grunt said as he walked away.
I sighed as I waited for the battle to begin.
"Go Zubat!""Go Whismur" The two grunts said as they threw thier pokeball.
"I guess we'll be getting through only by winning"
"Yeah you're right, let's get started"
"Absol it's time"
Absol walked up in front of me.
"Zubat leech life on Absol"
Zubat came swooping down with it's fangs.
"Prism use psybeam to stop Zubat "
Prism shot out a cylindrical beam intercepting zubat.
"Zubat dodge"
Zubat managed to aerially dodge the beam by flying to the right.
"Whismur supersonic on Porygon" " Absol pursuit on Whismur"
Whismur shot out it's supersonic but got disabled by Absol arriving at it's back with a pursuit.
"Zubat supersonic on Absol"
Zubat shot out supersonic waves at Absol.
"Absol use whismur to block it"
"What" "What" The two grunts seemed shocked.
Absol grabbed Whismur who had been taken by surprise by the last attack and used it as a meat shield. Zubat's supersonic hit Whismur straight on but it's ability prevented any effect from taking place.
"Prism chase after Zubat and use psybeam"
"Zubat dodge and use leech life"
Prism chased Zubat until it was close enough and used psybeam. Zubat barely managed to dodge.
"Absol quick attack on Zubat"
Zubat was immediately hit with the full brunt of the quick attack falling downwards.
"Prism psybeam finish it"
Prism shot a cylindrical beam directly at the falling Zubat. The beam pushed it to the ground with a tiny explosion scattering dust around. As the dust cleared a fainted Zubat was revealed.
"Phew glad that was easy now all we need to deal with is that Whismur" I said
"True lets finish this"
"Absol pursuit" "Prism finish it with psybeam"
"Whi-Whismur do-dodge"
The collision of our two attacks with Whismur left it unable to move to dodge. Absol's pursuit's black and Prism's pink cylindrical beam struck through a sound based move that Whismur used that Whismur appeared to use.
"Whi Whi smur" Whismur tottered around until it tripped with it's eyes swirling.
"Whismur!" "Zubat!"
We waited by as we saw the two of them go towards their pokemon.
'Oh'
"Something wrong Glaze" Matthias whispered to me.
"No I just seemed to have an Idea hit me"
"These team aqua clothes seem fine" Matthias said.
"Like I thought. We were able to get the other shroomish to take care of those two grunts by putting them to sleep"
I looked over to see the bunch of shroomish that we had met earlier were following us. They appeared to be using either sleep powder or spore to put the grunts to sleep.
"Yeah that was lucky now we just need to find that guy from before"
"He seemed to have headed straight ahead but I don't really see anymore clouds in the air"
"True we would at least have a direction then. Though the forest seems to be crawling with aqua members"
We turned around to come face to face to the aqua member from before.
"Prism psybeam now"
Prism launched a beam cutting off the aqua members exit and knocking him down.
"We can't let this guy start running otherwise he'll be out of here in seconds" Matthias said panting as he ran to cut off the aqua members exit.
"This is wrong let me go. If only my Poocheyena hadn't fainted I'd have shown you"
After throwing the third grunt to the shroomish I switched into his clothes since they seemed to match the colour scheme more than the light blue ones I was wearing earlier.
"Let's get moving we're probably nearing petalburg" Matthiass said.
"Yeah lets go"
We began running towards what we knew was the exit.
"Hey the two of you where are you going?" A aqua member called out to us.
The both of us froze.
"The admin is asking for all us to come back it seems we might have a traitor in our midst"
"A traitor" I said slightly fearful.
"Yeah we've seen a bunch of members defeated so come on hurry back with me"
"Glaze let's just go with them now. It seems their admin is nearby we should be cautious" Matthias whispered to me.
"Sure then lead the way"
"Fine follow me, you guys new?"
"Yeah somewhat"
"Oh so why were the two of you all the way out here?"
"Ehh..We're bad with directions"
"Yeah all these trees look so familiar we were bound to get lost sometime"
"Sure makes sense I guess"
We continued walking until we came across the same menacing man from before accompanied by his manectric. The manectric though wasn't in it's mega form.
"Admin Zac we're back from reconnaissance" The aqua member with us said.
"So have you found her?"
"Not yet but I feel that we're getting clos-"
"Quiet I want no more excuses! Speak to me when you've had any progress in your search"
"Also prepare for our last task then we're out" he continued.
"Manecc" Manectric growled as it followed behind Volt.
As Manectric and Volt left me and Matthias turned to the aqua member near us.
"Hey man you okay" I said snapping my fingers in front of him.
The aqua member dropped to the floor then swiftly got up.
"Yeah I'm fine you two be on lookout I'll just go out to search for the traitor"
The aqua member shakily made his way away from us.
"He was definitely scared wasn't he" Matthias chimed in.
"Probably, I honestly can't blame him though this Zac guy seems to command some amount of respect among team aqua's ranks being an admin and whatnot"
We were in the enemies lair right now anything could happen.
"Wait a minute, Glaze check your Pokenav now!"
Surprised at Matthias's insistence I opened my Pokenav.
"Full signal here in the forest? How"
"My guess would be the admin here might have some sort of device that helps amplify radio signals. Hold on I think It's time I contact the Rustbro police department"
