Chapter 3
Nightmare Scenario
Alright, guys. Let's keep things running with this story going. But first, let's take a look at the reviews.
OmegaDelta: All will be revealed in time.
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Lucy returned to the shoreline where she had caught her Corphish. She then pulled out the Diveball that she kept the aforementioned Water-type inside before pulling out a black and white device that resembled a Nintendo Gameboy Advanced and holding it over the ball.
"Alright, Corphish. Let's see what moves you can do." Lucy said while looking at the screen on the device. "Hmm. Not a bad move set." She said to herself before she suddenly noticed something moving towards her and turned before being tackled to the ground by a small dark purpled humanoid Pokémon with a Ruby on its chest and back and two sapphire on its eyes and back. "Saybeleye?" She asked in confusion before she looked up to see a girl about her age with purple hair and blue eyes clad in a black and blue dress with very obvious sow marks on it, a gold band on her left bicep, and a pair of cyan sandals.
"Hey, Lucy!" The girl said before she picked up the Saybeleye.
"Acerola!" Lucy exclaimed as she leaped up and hugged the purple haired girl. "What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Well, I heard that you decided to travel through the Unova region and I thought you might like the company." Acerola said while swaying back and forth.
"I would absolutely love the compony. Lucy smiled back at her friend. "Now, think you can help me out with some training?" She asked.
"No problem." Acerola said as the two smiled at each other before the two of them move to across from each other before Saybeleye and Corphish prepared to battle.
(Theme song)
(Theme song end)
We join Lincoln and Georgia on the way to to Striaton City.
"Sni. Sni Snivyyy. " Snivy got out before she slipped off o Lincoln's shoulder, the young trainer only just being able to catch her.
"Snivy!" Lincoln called in concern for his Pokémon partner.
"What's wrong with her?" Georgia asked with the same amount of of concern.
"I don't know." Lincoln said before frantically looking around. "This way!" He said before he began to run as fast as he could. "One of my Mom's old students lives nearby. She should be able to help us." He explained.
"Not to pile on the bad news. But look." Georgia said as Lincoln took notice of all the Pokémon that were lying unconscious as well as the ones that weren't.
"That's weird. It doesn't look like whatever's going doesn't seem to be affecting any of the Bug-types in the area." Lincoln noted before catching a glimpse of their destination. "There it is!" He said before picking up his pace and frantically pounding on the door. "Fennel! Fennel!" He called before the door opened to reveal a young woman with raven black hair that had a flower pin with a rainbow colored gem in the center in it clad in a long lab coat, a dark grey skirt, and a pink shirt.
"Oh my. Lincoln what's wrong?" The young woman asked before taking notice of the grass type in the white haired boy's arms before inviting him and his companion inside where the two trainers explained the strange goings on. "And you said that the only types that you saw Bug-types being unaffected by this phenomenon?" She asked as she placed Snivy in a small pod.
"The only ones we noticed at least." Lincoln said as Fennel placed her thumb and index finger to her chin and looked over to a candle-like Pokémon with a purple flame on top of that was sitting next to the scanning pod.
"It couldn't be." Fennel whispered to herself before she turned back to Lincoln and Georgia. "Do either of you have a Dark or Steel types?" She asked before Lincoln pulled out his Voidball and Georgia pulled out a regular Pokéball.
"Houndour!/Pawniard! Come on out!" The two trainers shouted almost simultaneously as the hellhound Pokémon and a small bipedal Pokémon that seemed resemble armor appeared in front of them.
"Just as I thought." Fennel whispered before turning to Lincoln. " Lincoln, do you remember that research I was working on before I left Professor Juniper's lab?" She asked.
"Yeah. You came up with the idea of harnessing energy from dreams. Mom thought it was brilliant.
"Yeah. Well, a couple weeks ago... something bad happened.
(Flashback)
Since, leaving the Juniper Pokémon lab, Fennel had worked in a small private lab a short distance from her house to avoid her research possibly having problems with other Pokémon.
One night after dosing off for only a moment, she heard a loud explosion and woke up to a large flame. She had tried to rush to where her the fire had begun, only to be pushed out by Psychic energy.
(Flashback end)
"When the lab went up, I was devastated and I thought I had lost my Musharna." Fennel said while she sadly rubbed the flower pin in her hair.
"But whatever's going on might just prove the opposite." Georgia assumed.
"Exactly. We need to head to the lab site and Aceus willing, we'll find my Musharna." Fennel said before turning to her candle-like. "Come on, Litwick!" She said before the Pokémon jumped on to her shoulder.
"We should go too." Lincoln said, gaining a nod from Georgia before he went over to the pod. "Don't worry, Snivy. You'll be awake soon." He said before nodding to Georgia as the two of them exited the house and began to follow Fennel.
Some time later, the group were well on their way to Fennels destroyed lab.
"Come on. It not too much fa..." Fennel began to say before Lincoln noticed something and moved to tackle her to the ground before a bolt of electricity hit where she had. "What in the world?" She asked before looking to see a distressed looking egg shaped Pokémon with what appeared to be a plug on the top of its head frantically shooting bolts out of its head frantically shooting lighting out of its body and punching everying around it, causing it to freeze.
"What the heck is wrong with that Elekid? Georgia asked, rolling out of the way of a bolt.
"It must be having a nightmare and using Sleep Talk to let out those Thundershocks and Ice Punches." Lincoln hypothesized before his eyes widened. "Oh no. If it keeps on that rampage, it's going to destroy that tree and crush all of those Metapod on it!" He exclaimed before reaching for his Voidball to call out Houndour.
"Lincoln wait." Fennel called before tossing a pink and purple ball to him. "That will use Elekid's dream energy against it. It'll be all but a sure catch." She explained before Lincoln nodded and looked to the Electric-type as it began to spin it's arms rapidly.
'Here's hoping I remember some of what Lynn taught me.' Lincoln thought before exhaling a deep breath and throwing the ball straight towards the Elekid and just before it reached its spinning arm, it curved at hit it in the back of the head before it was sucked in the ball with a magenta light before shaking in midair and blinking to signifying that the Pokémon had been caught. "Hope you can get some better dreams in there. We'll talk about you joining my team when you wake up." He said before turning back to the girls. "Come on. Let's keep moving." He said as the three of them continued to run.
Soon enough, the three arrived at the charred remains of Fennel's lab.
"I did most of my work in the lower parts of the lab. The door is over here." Fennel said before Lincoln and Georgia wen to to open the door only for it not to budge.
"It's locked." Lincoln said before looking to Georgia and the two of them nodded before the Pinkette called out her Pawnard and had the Dark/Steel type cut the locking mechanism to get the door open. "Let's be careful. If someone locked the door, that means this isn't just come random event." Lincoln reasoned while calling out Houndour and the group began to move down in to the hallway.
The three people and two Pokémon continued down the dimly lit hallway for several before they eventually came to the entry point of a room where two Team
"Team Plasma." Georgia realized with a growl as she and Pawnard readied themselves for a fight as Fennel looked at the pink and purple Pokémon with a color with a pink crystal floating in a pod in front of the two Plasma members.
"Musharna." Fennel choked out as tears welled up in her eyes. At this point, Lincoln had enough. He then stood up with Houndour next to him before the two fully entered the room with the others close behind him.
"So, looks like we found the ones behind all the Pokémon falling asleep." Lincoln said, just barely holding back his rage.
"If it means freeing Pokémon from you Trainers, we'll make any sacrifice we have to." One of the Plasma agents said, trying to justify the hypocrisy of Team Plasma using Musharna to further their goals. To mention nothing of his rage at their actions causing harm to all the wild Pokémon and especially to Snivy.
Lincoln then let out a growl before he went to give an order to Houndour only for Fennel to put a hand on his shoulder.
"I don't care how you try to justify it. You've hurt the Pokémon of the forest using my research and my partner. I will not forgive that." Fennel said before she put her hand to her pin, the gems in it and Musharna's collar beginning to glow. "Now, Musharna! Mega Evolve!" She called before Musharna's eyes bolted open before the pod she was in shattered and a sphere formed around it.
Once the orb of energy shattered, a new form of Musharna floated before everyone. This form was a now Magenta and had a pink smoke coming out of its snout which formed in to flower shapes on her sides that formed wings out of the center.
"What?" The Plasma grunts asked in unison.
"This is the bond between me and Musharna." Fennel said with her eyes narrowed. "Now, Musharna! Use Expanding Force!" She called out before Musharna blasted the two Plasma grunts and sent them flying out of the complex. After the threat was confirmed to have been dealt with, Musharna reverted back to her normal form as Fennel ran to her with tears pouring down her face before pulling her partner in to a loving embrace.
"So, does Musharna being awake mean all the other Pokémon are going to be okay now?" Georgia asked before Lincoln pulled the Dreamball off of his belt.
"One way to find out." Lincoln replied as he called out Elekid.
"Biri?" The now awake Electric type asked as Lincoln knelt down in front of her.
"Hey, Elekid. Sorry about having to catch you while you were asleep. Maybe you'd still like to join up with me anyway." Lincoln suggested as he held his hand out to the small Pokémon who then looked at him for a few moments before taking hold of the Trainer's hand.
A short while later, the group arrived back at Fennel's house where Lincoln quickly ran to Snivy and pulled her in to a hug.
"Thank goodness you're awake, Snivy." Lincoln said to his Starter in extreme relief. "I hope you had some good dreams other than that." He said.
"Well, we can look at what dreams she was having while she was in the pod." Fennel said, gaining Lincoln's attention as she pressed in a few keys on her keyboard before showing an image of Lincoln standing with a large snake like blue and green Snake-like Pokémon with yellow markings, a white face, and red eyes which was clearly the evolved form of Snivy in a crowded stadium as the crowds cheered.
"So, you were dreaming about us becoming the League Champions, huh? Lincoln asked as he and Snivy smirked towards each other. "Well, then. Let's get to that gym so we can start getting to work on that dream coming true." He said before raising his shoulder which Snivy happily jumped on to before Lincoln turned to Fennel. "Well, Fennel. I'll be seeing you." He said before he remembered something. "Oh. By the way. Mom was working on something that might Dream Energy might really help to work." He informed her.
"I'll give her a call then. Take care Lincoln." Fennel said as Lincoln responded for her to do the same and he and Georgia headed out.
(Back with Lucy.)
Lucy and Acerola were standing a part from each other as their respective Pokémon panted from a hard fought battle.
"Okay, Corphish. Return." Lucy called as she pulled the Water type back in to his Diveball. "You did a good job." She said before looking to Acerola. "You're always good for a battle, Ace." She said.
"I aim to please," Acerola said with her eyes closed and a smile on her face.
"Now, let's get some dinner and some rest. We've got a big day tomorrow." Lucy said before she and Acerola both left the beach and headed back to the Pokémon center.
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Well, there you go, guys. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Next time, one of our heroes will be going for their first Gym Badge. Please vote for which one in the reviews and until then and as always... Keep on keeping on.
