Rescue Effort Part 3:
Six Island, 7 pm…
Platinum and Y reached the edge of the island that Red had talked about. The Fletchinder remained high above from that location, flying around while keeping a close eye on the surroundings.
Y leaned against the guard rail to look casual as she looked around for anything suspicious. Platinum stood next to her and looked at her Pokégear, waiting for her senior to call. But even though it's been 5 minutes, Red hadn't called yet.
"Miss Platinum," Y began in a whisper.
"Yes?"
"If Red isn't calling… we should go after him, right? He could be in danger," Y said worriedly.
Platinum nodded. "Yes. He told me that he would call within 5 minutes, and if he does not call, we should converge on his location. Therefore, we will now investigate the cave he has found and try to rescue our seniors."
For a couple of minutes, the two girls waited while keeping close eyes on their surroundings, in case anyone was watching them. Once they were satisfied that no one was remotely nearby, they scanned the cliff walls to look for the cave. They soon found the entrance that Red had talked about, a couple of meters below their current position.
"I will go first," Platinum said. "Lower me, please."
Y did as told and after getting a firm grip on the guardrail and her senior's wrist, she gently began lowering the heiress towards the cave entrance.
Platinum carefully landed inside the cave and glanced up to see her junior climbing down. After helping the Kalos Dex Holder get inside as well, she let out a short sigh of relief and began to look around.
"This cave is really small," Y said. "Are we even in the right place?"
"Senior Red confirmed the location with your Fletchinder," Platinum said. "And he is out of contact. So it is reasonable to assume that this is the correct place." She crouched and began to investigate the ground. Before long, she found the trap door that was covered beneath the sand. "Ah, here it is." She pulled on the handle and managed to fully open the trap door.
"Perfect," Y said. "Now we can go in there and save our seniors." She took a single step towards the trap door before she paused. "… Wait…"
Platinum paused as well. "… If senior Red had found this and entered…"
"Then why is it covered up again?" Y finished for her.
"… Someone else must have seen senior Red enter and covered it up afterwards."
"Which means, that guy should still be around, waiting for us to go down there too," Y said. "… What do we do?"
Platinum quickly thought of a plan and whispered it to her junior. The Kalos Dex Holder nodded and the two girls moved to carry out the plan.
…
The kidnapper scout slowly peeked into the cave. He saw the two girls climbing down towards the entrance of the base, and like before, he followed the intruder in order to prevent escape and to cover up the trap door once more.
Inside the cave, he saw one of the girls (the one with the long dark hair), almost crouching in front of the open trap door with her back facing the cave entrance. The other girl was nowhere in sight, so the scout assumed that the blonde haired girl had already climbed down the trap door.
He quietly climbed into the cave and slowly crept towards the dark haired girl, who remained oblivious to his presence. He carefully stretched out his arms, ready to put the girl into a sleeper hold and knock her unconscious in a moment's notice.
Platinum focused all of her attention to her hearing, and could hear the faint shuffling of clothes behind her. She took a quick glance at the cave floor and as expected, saw a shadow of a hand stretched out. Although the full shadow of the kidnapper wasn't visible, the heiress could still use the existing shadow to time her movements.
Just as the hand's shadow would be around her shoulder, she quickly ducked with protecting her head and stretched her right leg backwards as much as she could. In that moment, Y dashed out of her cover in the corner of the cave next to the entrance and kicked the kidnapper on the shoulder using all of her running momentum. The kidnapper stumbled sideways from the kick, and immediately tripped over Platinum's right leg, causing him to fall out of the cave and into the ocean a few meters below.
Platinum and Y quickly scrambled towards the cave entrance and looked down. The kidnapper was swimming towards the shore, after quickly recovering from the relatively short fall. Y made a hand signal to her Fletchinder, and ordered it to take care of the kidnapper. The Fletchinder watched the kidnapper from high above, and the moment he had crawled onto shore, rammed into his head at full speed to knock him unconscious.
"Alright, that's one dealt with," Y said with a sigh of relief. "But that guy didn't look like any of those that we saw on the recording. So we still have at least two more guys to deal with."
"We can do this," Platinum said. "We still have the element of surprise."
Y nodded and was about to get up to her feet when she suddenly received a strong kick to the back, sending her tumbling out of the cave. Platinum quickly grabbed her hand so that she wouldn't fall into the water. But before she could even look back to see what just happened, an arm wrapped around her throat and pulled her off the ground, choking her from behind and forcing her to let go of Y.
Y managed to grab the cliff edge just before Platinum was pulled up, thus saving herself from the fall. She reacted quickly and climbed up, realizing that there was another kidnapper who was attacking right now.
"Don't move," the kidnapper warned as he tightened his grip around Platinum's throat.
Y stopped in her tracks right after she finished pulling herself up, hesitant to do anything if it put Platinum in danger as well. The heiress made eye contact and gave her a quick nod.
Just as the kidnapper approached Y, looking to kick her off the cliff again, Platinum rammed both of her heels into his knee with all of her strength, forcing him to stumble forward and freeing herself from his grip at the same time. Y saw the sudden stumble and quickly dropped down to the ground, sliding herself forward and kicked the kidnapper's other knee with both of her feet. The kidnapper stumbled forward even more dangerously, and couldn't stop himself in time to save himself from falling out of the cave.
Y took a quick glance in the cave to make sure that her senior was still there and then looked down the cliff to watch the kidnapper fall. Platinum soon recovered from the choke hold and moved towards the edge to watch the kidnapper as well.
"Well then… that's two down," Y said with a sigh of relief.
"Yes," Platinum said between breaths, looking relieved as well. "There should not be many left."
"This time, I'll go first," Y said as she approached the trap door.
"Be careful."
The Kalos Dex Holder quickly but quietly climbed the ladder. She paused every now and then, focusing on her hearing to see if she could detect anything. But there didn't seem to be anything there. She soon finished climbing down and lowered herself to a crouch to reduce visibility. She glanced around her constantly, keeping her guard up as Platinum began to climb down the ladder.
"I think we're alone here," Y whispered once her senior finished climbing.
Platinum slowly and quietly crept towards the only visible door in the "hallway". She pressed her ear on the door and listened intently.
"This is it," she said in a whisper. "This sounds like the only room. I can hear voices on the other side."
"What do we do?" Y asked quietly as well. "We can't just barge in there."
Platinum thought for a second before she began to whisper her plan once again.
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Meanwhile…
…
"Blue, what do these guys want?" Red asked quietly as the kidnappers continued to pull out various "interrogation tools".
"… Tech skills," Blue answered weakly. "… They want me to… work on some sort of a machine… … I'm not giving in…"
"But your health is important too," Red said worriedly. "You could've pretended to help them and just delay so that they wouldn't hurt you so much."
"… Never…" Blue said with clenched teeth. "… I'll never help them…"
The kidnapper with the eye patch grabbed a long sharp screwdriver and walked over towards the two Kanto Dex Holders. Red glared at him, hoping that he would come to him and leave Blue alone. Blue kept her head down, as she didn't even want to look at him. One Eye ignored Red completely and soon stood right in front of Blue.
The girl glared up at him defiantly, realizing that he was going to hurt her again. One Eye raised the screwdriver to her eye level, as if he was going to stab her there.
"Ever hear of the phrase, 'an eye for an eye'?" he growled out. Blue remained defiant, not giving him the pleasure of seeing her frightened.
But One Eye smirked and lowered the screwdriver, lightly scratching her cheek as it moved further down. Blue clenched her teeth as she realized where this was going.
The tip of the screwdriver soon stopped at her breast. One Eye gauged both Blue's reaction and Red's before he slowly started to push. Blue began to squirm in pain as the screwdriver was pushed further and further, until the tip pierced her skin. Blue clenched her eye shut as she tried to avoid making a sound, as she didn't want to give him the pleasure of hearing her scream.
"Hey! You bastard!" Red yelled angrily from the side, thrashing against his restraints.
One Eye smirked as he changed his focus to Red, leaving the screwdriver stabbed a few inches deep in Blue's breast.
"Perhaps I need a different approach to properly… motivate you," he said to Blue as he approached Red. He took out a pair of scissors and held it up to Red's neck.
Blue weakly looked up at Red and gasped upon seeing his predicament. One Eye grinned as this was the sort of reaction he was looking for. Without warning, he stabbed the scissors into Red's right leg, right above the knee.
"Red!" Blue screamed out as the scissors went into her friend's leg, up to the handle.
"Ow," Red grunted through clenched teeth. "… Is that the best you can do?"
One Eye didn't respond and simply pulled the handles apart, thus separating the scissor blades that were stabbed deep in Red's leg.
"No, no!" Blue yelled out. "Leave him alone!"
"Shut up," One Eye yelled, striking her across her cheek. "It's odd how you two only react when I hurt the other," he said as he pulled the bloodied scissors out. "It's almost as if you two care more for each other than yourselves." He stabbed the scissors into Red's other leg. "Meaning, if I continue doing this," he said as he pulled the handles apart once more. "You'll eventually give in!"
The door to the room suddenly opened. The two kidnappers in the room instantly turned to look at it. But nothing happened. The door remained open outwards, and no one came inside.
"Go check that out," One Eye said to the other kidnapper.
The other kidnapper took a knife and went to investigate the open door. Upon reaching the door, he peeked around the doorway to see if anyone was hiding there.
From the other side of the door, Platinum and Y timed their movement. They were still hidden thanks to the door itself, and while they couldn't see the kidnapper, they could see the shadow cast by the light inside the room. Platinum looked over at Y and mouthed out a countdown. The moment Platinum counted 0, the two girls immediately kicked the door as hard as they could, effectively smashing it into the kidnapper's head, slamming him into the door frame as well.
The two girls kicked the door into the kidnapper's head once again for good measure, and watched as the man collapsed onto the floor.
Y quickly dragged the man out of the doorway and took away his knife, just in case.
"This looks like the guy that we almost caught in Blue's house," she whispered to Platinum. "So there should be at least one guy left, right? The guy whose eye got raked?"
"Yes. So he should be in there still," Platinum said.
"Hey! Show yourself or she dies!" came the remaining kidnapper's voice from inside the room. "I know you're out there!"
"… Crap," Y muttered. "… Now what?"
"He does not seem to know that there are two of us," Platinum said. "… I will go. You stay here and wait for the opportune moment."
"Are you sure?" Y asked worriedly.
"Yes. And there is no time to argue," Platinum said.
She took a deep breath to ready herself and slowly walked into the room. But the moment she stepped into the room, she had a split second to react as something came flying towards her. She quickly tried to dodge, but felt a sharp pain coming from her right shoulder as the flying object hit her. Platinum quickly pretended to have been hit in the chest as she fell backwards, twisting her body so that she would land face-down on the floor.
"Platinum!" Red yelled out. "No!"
From the hallway, Y gasped in horror as she momentarily believed that her senior had been hit in the chest. But she could see her face, and was relieved to know that the heiress was just pretending. Platinum squirmed in pain, but exaggerated it as if she had been stabbed in the chest. She pushed herself off the ground just barely to see what she had been hit with, and saw what appeared to be a small knife. She soon stopped struggling and remained limp, as if she had lost consciousness.
One Eye watched the new girl squirm for a second before she stopped moving. He didn't know how this girl got here after getting past 3 of his companions. But he was going to find out, though.
He walked towards the girl, occasionally glancing back to make sure that the two existing captives weren't doing anything. They seemed to be shocked and very worried about the new girl, so that was good. It meant that there was now additional leverage to force Blue to cooperate.
He soon reached the new girl and grabbed her by the hair. But the moment he pulled her up, she suddenly kicked him in the knee with both feet, forcing him to fall to one knee.
Y suddenly charged into the room at her top speed and rammed her knee into the kidnapper's face. The process forced her to stumble and fall, but she quickly rolled up to her feet and proceeded to kick the downed kidnapper a few more times just to make sure that he wouldn't be doing any more damage. She stopped kicking him once he stopped moving, and looked around to make sure there were no other kidnappers.
"… We did it," Platinum said after taking a quick glance around the room. "We finally saved seniors Red and Blue…"
"Yes! I knew we could do it!" Y said happily. She quickly ran over towards Red and Blue and began to untie the ropes that bound their arms and legs. "We're so glad we managed to get to you. We were so worried!"
"Thanks, you two," Red said with a warm smile. "You did wonderfully. Great job!"
Blue let out a long sigh of relief as she leaned against the wall. "… Thank you," she said in a tired voice. "It looks like I put my trust in the right people after all."
"You never doubted us, did you?" Red asked.
Blue lightly shook her head. "Of course not, Red. You're Red. You never fail. Thank you." She looked at her two juniors and gave each of them a gentle pat on the arm. "And thank you as well. I'm really proud to be your senior."
"Now come on," Red said. "Let's get the hell out of here and go to the hospital. After that, we can have a big celebratory feast. … And call the police too so the kidnappers don't get away."
Finally, the miniseries is over. Now it's back to what SC used to be!