The attack which was enroute to us was intercepted by a spherical bolt of electricity that peeled through it like butter and struck the lapras head on.
"Mist!"
The attack also knocked the traitor off her feet.
"Laprass.." The lapras uttered as it fainted.
"Good work Manectric," Zac said as he stepped out from the dense fog.
Along with him was his manectric who was still mega evolved and Rylan with his spheal. Zac took a breath of relief as he let his shoulders drip down.
"Your little game has come to an end, Elicia. You should have tried to make your escape instead of going for revenge"
He then turned to the two of us.
"Good job you two. It seems like we definitely have some talent in place which I had doubted due to the sheer incompetence I tend to experience. I'll be sure to give in a good word about you two"
He said then he turned to Elicia who had a look of defeat on her face and began walking towards her, possibly to apprehend her.
'What do I do?'
Actually, what should I do. I hardly expected for things to get this twisted up, what can I do to help this situation?
Can I let this happen?
Matthias walked up to me and whispered
"It's now or never do we intervene or avert our eyes and join up with them but escape when the chance presents itself. What's your opinion Glaze?"
"What do you think?"
"Me? I think we can't let an organisation like this get their way. Maybe what i'm speaking of is dangerous but that's what I believe"
Is that enough of a justification? No, the justification wouldn't really matter at this point.
The consequences? If I had cared about consequences I would have been hiding in some shrub rather than going against a terrorist organisation.
It seems I had already long decided what my answer would be.
"Absol perish song!"
Absol opened its mouth and a menacing tune was released. It had a malevolent feel as if it didn't care for foe or ally. It was a song of destruction and it goddamn did it's job well.
"Manec!"
"Porryy!'
"Sphell!"
All the pokemon around fell victim to the tune.
"What do you think you're doing grunt?" Zac said with no hint of amusement in his voice.
"I'm doing what I believe to be right," I said as I stared straight at him.
His sharp gaze was way more powerful than my own. But I didn't care anyway since this was just to buy time-
"Laprass"
Lapras shot out an ice beam creating an ice wall between Zac and Elicia. I began to shiver.
Not thinking about the low temperatures I quickly made my way to Elicia and held out my hand.
"I-"
"We can talk about who was right or who was wrong later on just hurry and get up"
She grabbed my hand and pulled herself up-
At that moment the ice wall shattered.
At the other side of the shattered wall was a mega manectric that was rushing up to us with a spheal riding on its coattails.
"Lapras Ice beam"
Lapras did so shooting a beam directly at the incoming pokemon.
"Dodge"
Manectric easily dodged the beam as it leaped even closer to us.
"Absol use pursuit to intercept manectric-""Prism strike with psybeam"
Absol and Manectric ran past each other. With manectric still running towards us and it's back towards absol, absol manages to attack manectric with pursuit knocking manectric to the side.
Then Prism attacks with psybeam.
"Manectric, Zap Cannon!"
The same bolt of electricity shot through porygon's psybeam grazed past Porygon.
"Prism recover"
Porygon began to glow as it's injuries began to disappear.
"Manectric Zap Cannon once mor-" "Absol stop Manectric with quick attack"
Absol's attack struck, making Manectric's zap cannon miss.
"Spheal rollout on Lapras!"
I turned around to see spheal coming up with considerable speed towards Lapras.
"Mist use Ice beam in font of spheal"
Lapras's attack froze the path spheal was rolling on leading the spheal to begin to swerve violently as it went completely off course.
"Spheal!" Rylan shouted as he ran after the spheal.
"It seems all the grunts I've been assigned are all pathetic Idiots" Zac said as he furrowed his brow.
He had a tired look on his face.
"You three better get ready. Manectric, rain dance"
A heavy downpour replaced the hail from before. The rain soaked my clothes making my shivering turn even more frequent.
"Hey are you okay?" Elicia asked me.
"I...am..fiii" I huffed out.
I took a deep breath then shook my head.
"I'm..fine. It won't be too long, we just need to stall… until the perish song does-" I stopped myself from speaking anymore since it was getting tiring.
There was a sort of heaviness to my body as I began to move.
"Manectric use Discharge"
Sparks flew out from the manectric making their way to every direction. Thanks to the rainwater being a good conductor of electricity the electricity was even deadlier compared to before.
All three of us had reflexively stepped back to avoid the incoming shocks.
This wasn't like in the anime so I couldn't rest easy seeing the sparks flying towards me.
"What's wrong, why did you stop attacking?" Zac taunted us.
Sparks were continuously being emitted by manectric preventing neither of our pokemon to get close to it. Long ranged attacks it is then.
"Seems like I can't..do much now"
"It's fine I'll lead the assault. You don't look too good Glaze" Matthias said.
"Don't worry about me. I'll manage" I said, managing to speak clearly.
"Fine then. Prism get that manectric with psybeam"
The beam began to make its way towards the manectric. But manectric simply leapt up and dodged.
"Now let me show you how outclassed you are, Manectric Thunder!"
A bolt headed straight for porygon leaving it no room to dodge.
"Prism"
"Once more Manectric, Thunder!"
A second bolt headed for absol.
"Absol, dodge with quick attack-
But I was too late. The bolt struck absol.
"And the final time Manectric Thunder!"
Leaving no time for lapras the third thunderbolt struck it head on. All three of our pokemon immediately fainted. A total white out.
"What just happened?" Matthias said.
"I didn't expect him to be this strong, if only I took him out first" Elicia said.
What now?
The only pokemon I had with me right now was shroomish and it didn't have anything particularly effective against the manectric.
"You don't need to look so shocked now. If I lost to a bunch of kids could I even call myself an actual pokemon trainer. Nonetheless the nonsense ends here, try any sneaky moves and I'll let my manectric loose on you"
"What do you plan to do now?" Matthias asked.
"After I'm done dealing with you three, I'm leaving. Though you two definitely have potential well at least compared to what fools I have under me. How about I give you an offer? If you join team aqua I'll spare you? A good offer isn't it now."
"Well I won't give you time to think so just accept now or else-
Before Zac could speak anymore the forest trees around began shaking violently. We all turned around to see what was happening.
At that moment a large number of wurmple jumped towards the manectric.
"What's going on here? Manectric discharge"
But the assault did not stop there. Following the wurmple were shroomish along with one very familiar pokemon from before.
"Slakoth" Matthias said.
It was indeed the slakoth from before that ko'd prism.
This could be nothing but nature's fury. No matter how many pokemon were eliminated, more came to replace them.
This gave us a moment to relax.
"Matthias you still have those revives don't you?"
"Yeah I've got about 4 of them, don't worry I'll give them to the pokemon"
Matthias made his way to Absol first then Lapras and finally to porygon. With each of them receiving a max revive they became healthy again.
"Slak"
Slakoth was knocked back into a tree by manectrics zap cannon causing it to immediately faint.
"Well I've got one more so I might as well give it to you" Matthias said as he fed his last max revive to slakoth.
Slakoth woke up full of energy, well with as much energy a slakoth could muster up anyway. Though it had a grateful look in its eyes as it leaped into the fray once more.
"Manectric make them Disappear, THUNDER!"
Manectric dropped several bolts each knocking out a large percentage of the pokemon until they were too less in number to put up a fight and began retreating.
Slakoth though didn't retreat and he stayed by Matthias's side.
"Well it would all end the same way I suppose. I'm cancelling the offer from before. I'm eliminating each and every one of you thunder!"
We all waited but nothing happened.
"Guess this is our time to strike Prism Psybeam"
"Mist Ice beam"
"Dodge manectric"
Manectric managed to dodge both the incoming attacks and let out a discharge preventing any pokemon from approaching it.
"Manectric Zap cannon at the lapras"
As Manectric prepared its zap cannon it was hit straight in the jaw by a glowing fist leading it to discontinue its attack.
"Manectric Discharge"
The discharge caught the unaware slakoth and launched it into the air.
"Prism get slakoth"
Following Mathias's orders Porygon rushed to where slakoth was and balanced it on its body as they slowly descended.
I couldn't just stand by, I need to help them.
"Absol try to get in.." I said.
Lapras and Porygon were both exchanging attacks with manectric but they weren't gaining much ground. Their attacks were mostly being dodged and if they landed a hit they'd take one in return.
In a while porygon had to return and recover while lapras kept the fight on.
"Manectric discharge"
With a well-timed discharge he managed to knock the lapras back. All three of our pokemon were somehow worse off than his single manectric.
"No more surprises present are there. Don't worry this will be over quick"
"No this isn't over yet"
A familiar made its way to my ear. Him? Why was he here?
A scyther intercepted manectric with its scythes draped in darkness.
"Hey there long time no see Glaze" Vis said as he walked over to us.
"What are you doing here Vis?"
"I'm here to provide backup, though it took me a while to recognise you two dressed in that outfit."
"Yeah well things had taken a turn for the worse" Matthias said as he pointed towards Zac.
"Yeah the team aqua admin. We should be able to deal with him. Anyone who's that with you two" Vis questioned as he glanced towards Elicia.
"That might be a tough question to answer right now" Elicia replied.
"Fine then we'll leave it for later"
A number of questions were beginning to whirle up in my mind too but I could clarify them later. For now we needed to focus on the real threat.
"Now this is getting needlessly here Manectric have some of this" Zac said as he began feeding manectric something.
Vis seemed to notice too late as he ordered his scyther.
"Edge stop him with wing attack-" "Manectric discharge"
The discharge made scyther back away as it dodged any incoming sparks.
"Good thing I had a number of full restores and elixir with me else this would be a problem" Zac said as he pet manectric.
"No way," Matthias said.
"Manectric thunder"
We waited for the eventual bolt to strike. The bolt rained down from the sky on course for scyther but it missed.
"Infernal use sunny day"
The sky began to brighten as the gloomy clouds withered away and the harsh sunlight warmed my skin. The intense heat was a far better substitute than the cold temperatures I was experiencing up till now.
Behind us were several officers, maybe about 10,30,100 in total. My senses were getting overwhelmed now. I couldn't really make out properly.
"I-"
Before I could say another word I collapsed.
