Glimmering gold

by Nei The Maiden Of Mirrors

it has been 2 years after the events of shining silver, Josh has entered the Sinnoh region where he uncovers strange behaviour from a disbanded group called Team Galactic and meets new friends. when he meets up with a new friend, they both embark on an adventure to uncover the disbanded teams plans and what they intend to do. this takes place after the game, pokemon platinum.

6. Chapter 6: unexpected battles

Chapter 6: unexpected battles

Tank:

The fastest way to get the Sunyshore City is through Eterna Forest, through the cave, then past Celestic City and Veilstone City, near Lake Valor. Best tackle the forest first and the city. Looking at Eevee with her innocent smile and riding on Umbreons back. It was cute to seem them both getting along as well as they do. We left the Valley Windworks and walked through Route 205 to Eterna Forest with Umbreon carrying Eevee right by my side.

The forest was dark, closed off and it had a sensation about that was different from any other forest in the world. It felt spiritual as the glow from the top of the trees built on that sensation more. It's said in this forest was an old chateua where people lived, it's unknown as to what happened to make people abandon the building, rumours spread that it was haunted. Walking past the trees made Eevee feel tranquil, which is unexpected for a forest that held a haunted house in it. Umbreon looked happy by the feel of spirits in the air, all as if they were watching us and seeing what we were doing in such a place. Didn't take us long to gets through the Eterna Forest and we approached both the exit and a fence that lead to the abandoned building, the Old Chateua. Eevee grew worried just by looking at it while Umbreon was calm but looked at the building, I thought it was a sign that spirits were present since pokemon are close to nature and as I looked myself, I saw a figure move in one of the windows on the upper level. I knew what it was since I was young, I could see the spirits, so we left the forest and walked over a bridge with water running underneath to entered the city, Eterna City.

The city was nice, over to the east are two small ponds next to a small tower with a sinister vibe it gives, a pokemon centre, a pokemart, a place to by bikes behind the Eterna City gym and up to the north is a large tower with a rounded roof and a yellow ring around it, that is Team Galactics sub base. There are also steps leading up to a statue on the top of a small pillar, there are also steps leading down out of the city.

On our way through the city, Umbreon notices the trees in front of the HQ for Team Galactic was cut down and the doors to their building were wide open. He nudged me and got my attention on the door, I was just as curious. I asked "think we should go investigate?"

Umbreon nodded and replied "yeah we should be careful, it's the base of our new enemy" Eevee looked at Umbreon then at the door. Umbreon continued "it's ok Eevee, me and Tank will look after you" Eevee smiled and nuzzles the back of Umbreons head. We headed to the open door, little to my knowledge that it would be an encounter that I would never forget. As we walked to the automatic doors, the buttons that the members would push was soaked through. That meant without a doubt that this building was broken into via a short circuit and possibly whoever did it might still be around, as doubtful as that sounds. We walked in and the building was on alert. The place where people would wait was empty and 2 grunts by the stairs with the same bright red-haired girl from the Valley Windworks. She spotted me and whispered to the grunts then ran up the stairs.

The grunts came over and both said "our commander, Mars, has given orders not to let you past" one of the grunts was a man and the other was a woman, they both had the same clothing as the other grunts, must be a uniform to wear white and black patterned suits that look futuristic. The guy grunt sent out a stunky while the girl grunt sent out a glameow. I threw forward 2 pokeballs and called out "go, Bas and Dazzle" the Metang appeared while a large bug known as a Grubbin appeared next to the Metang. it looks like a large cute pincer type of insect with red and yellow pincers, brown head with a yellow strip across the forehead and a red top on its head, the body is grey with 2 yellow spots on both sides and 4 legs. They both laughed as they saw me send out a bug to the both of them but them underestimating me is exactly why I'll win this battle.

I turned to Umbreon and Eevee and told them "wait to the side, this won't take too long" Umbreon nodded and took Eevee to the side and watched as I continued "Dazzle, use string shot" Grubbin shot string to the Glameow and the Stunky tying both of them down. I smiled as the runts were surprised and I continued "now Bas, use meteor mash" stars formed around Metang's arm and swung it to Glameow and smashed down hard, dealing heavy damage. Normally the hit ratio is 9 out of 10 but thanks to the string made the hit 100% accurate. Glameow, with heavy damage wasn't far from being knocked out. The force of Glameow being sent flying pushed Stanky back getting them tangled up more. This was unexpectedly going in my favour, more so than I planned. The Glameow and Stunky struggle to get free, the Stanky succeeds while the Glameow isn't as fortunate.

The guy grunt told Stunky "smoke screen" Stunky opened its mouth and a black smoke flowed out and filled the room, blinding everyone. Suddenly an expected voice was heard by all of us, it sounded like a girl that said

"thanks for the cover" and afterward we heard slight footsteps go up the stairs. I said "Dazzle use mud-slap" Grubbin gathered mud and shot Stunky and in the mist of all the smoke the mud was sent into the unknown, unable to tell if the attack hit their target.