Four Days after the mind control of Thomas, February 7
Steven
I walked into Gality's workshop to see him sitting in a wheelchair, staring annoyingly at some of his invention plans. "Good morning, Gality. Why have you called me here?" He turned his wheelchair to face me.
"I have been doing some experiments, and determined that my paralysis was caused by a strong electric attack. That attack has caused electricity to be trapped in my arm and legs, and if it can be removed, I can go back to normal. If I remember correctly, back when you were a champion, they used a substance to heal paralysis."
"That is correct."
"Well, I believe that I have found something that would work like that: the material called Negative Zapily. The Zapily that I have takes in other types of moves and changes them into electric type, but not electric. Negative Zapily will absorb electricity, which may clear my paralysis."
"Are you sure that this will work?"
"Not at all. But it's better than doing nothing!"
"Where is the stone?"
"It's at the top of Mount Dernek."
"The highest in the region. How am I supposed to get up there without suffocating?"
"I have a mask and suit that can counteract the altitude. However, I only have two."
"So, you want me to go get someone else to volunteer?"
"Yes! Going alone is not a great plan!"
"Well, let me go do that."
I stood at the front of the conference room and waited for the other three Remnant leaders to sit down. Once they did, I stated the mission. "So, Gality needs two of us to go to Mount Dernek to get a Negative Zapily."
"What for?" Cynthia asked.
"He says that they might heal his paralysis. So, who will go?" Red immediately walked out of the room. "Well, I'm going to say that is a no. Cynthia?"
"I'll pass. I don't wish to freeze to death."
"Blue?"
"I'll go, Steven. What do we need to do?"
"Follow me." We walked out of the door and into Gality's workshop. He was pulling the equipment out of a box when we entered.
"I see you have recruited Blue!" Gality stated. "Put this equipment before you summit the mountain. There are backpacks to the right." I grabbed the gear and started putting it in the bag, examining it. Insulating pants and shirt, heat regulator, oxygen mask, oxygen tanks… where did Gality get these things, or how did he make them with just one hand in about ten days? I thought as I zipped up the bag and stood up. Blue was already done and ready to go. "Steven, take this map." Gality handed it to me, and I examined all of the red lines and dots all over it.
"What do all of these markings mean?"
"Those marks show you the route up the mountain that doesn't require climbing equipment. This trek will take you longer than two days."
"Wait, why can't Blue and I use our Pokemon that can fly?"
"You can use that to get there, but they will get too cold, even if they both resist cold. Plus, they would suffocate because of a lack of oxygen. Also, I should mention that there is a communication system between the two masks." I nodded, put the map in my backpack, and walked out of the workshop to meet Blue at the exit door. He opened it up, and we walked out into the cold February air, me with a metallic blue coat on, and Blue with a heavy winter coat on. I threw out Skarmory, and Blue threw out Pidgeot. We mounted our Pokemon, and made sure that we were secure.
"To Mount Dernek!" Skarmory took off, with Pidgeot behind me.
Skarmory landed at the summit of the mountain. "Good job!" I retracted Skarmory back into the Pokeball just as Pidgeot landed behind me. Blue retracted Pidgeot as well as I started to put on the suit. I put the insulated shirt and pants over my current outfit, and then the mask. An interface appeared on the side of the mask, with connecting displayed on the far right. Then, connected displayed, then disappeared. "Blue, can you hear me?"
"Yes, I can. How did Gality build this? It even has current weather conditions, and other numbers on the left side of the mask!" We started to walk up the mountain, and I pulled out the map. I was trying to figure out out current direction when the map appeared on the mask screen, with all of the markings that Gality had put on there, as well as a compass. I put the map away and started following the map on my screen.
"The map is on my screen. Is it on yours?" Blue asked.
"Yes. It must have scanned it, though Gality didn't mention that it could do that."
"Well that should help us in our walk."
"Yes, it should." I should the compass to take a turn up a slight incline, with the visibility slowly getting worse.
Blue
I was getting bored of staring at snow and snowflakes, so I started reading the numbers on the left side of the interface. So, it is 263 Kelvin where I am. Why would Gality put the numbers in Kelvin? I don't know what that means! I thought, continuing to read the numbers. It's currently 296 Kelvin in the suit. Nothing is broken, and I don't know what the rest of the stuff means. Just then, an Ice Shard hit a piece of rock above us, causing it to fall. "Steven, get down!" We both dove behind a snowbank as the piece of rock fell. We got up and looked around.
"What was that?" Steven questioned.
"An Ice Shard hit the rock. Someone has spotted us." We looked around for Pokemon, but then the tree behind us was split in half by another Ice Shard, and fell opposite of us, revealing six Glalie standing in a line. We ran to the right as they fired again, in a group this time. "Go, Charizard!" I announced, throwing out the fiery dragon.
"Go, Metagross!" Steven said, throwing it out. "Meteor Mash!" Metagross did as told, firing the steel move, knocking out one of the Glalie.
"Charizard, fly over and flamethrower!" Charizard flew overhead of the Glalie, who were blasting the immovable wall that is Metagross with Ice Shard, and used Flamethrower on all of them, knocking them all out. I signaled Charizard back over, and retracted him, and Steven retracted Metagross.
"Good work!" Steven complimented as he walked over to the downed Glalie. He examined them for a minute until he motioned me over there. He pointed out a logo containing a picture of Giratina in origin form with a dark cloud behind it.
"One of Giratina's soldiers? What are they doing here?"
"I don't know, Blue. All I know is that we should get that electric stone, and get out of here!" I nodded, and we continued up the mountain.
Steven pointed towards a cave off to my right, and we walked into it. He pulled out some wood out of his backpack, and Charizard used Flamethrower to light a fire, then I retracted him. We sat on opposite sides of the fire, and just sat there for a minute. "Steven, have you ever thought about how the Age Aura will disappear when we defeat Giratina?"
"Blue, the Aura keeps every human that is still alive around thirty years old, and anyone younger will age up to that point. Giratina put it on the world because it also works on Pokemon, as well."
"Steven, that DOES NOT answer my question."
"I don't, and I don't want to. Giratina must be defeated, and the few good things that happened along with Giratina's rule are insignificant compared to the negatives!" Stevem laid down, and I did the same. He seemed very agitated about that. Why?
I woke up just as Steven got up, and the fire had already gone out. We walked outside of the cave and into a more open area, with a large hill to our right. Just then, the ground started rumbling, causing us to fall to the ground. "What is happening?!" I asked.
"Avalanche!" Steven replied as he reached for his Pokeballs. I did the same, and threw out Charizard, and took off alongside Steven. We flew over the cascading snow on the mountain.
"Do you know what could cause this?" Steven looked around at the top of the mountain.
"Not particularly."
"Could we have caused this?"
"Well, its possi…." Just then, his Skarmory was hit with Fire Blast, and they both fell to the ground.
"STEVEN!" I screamed as Charizard dived down to try and find him in the moving snow, but couldn't find anything. The snow stopped moving, and about a minute later, I saw a hand sticking out of the snow. Charizard landed in that area, then melted the snow around him. I pulled him up, but didn't see Skarmory anywhere. "You alright?"
"Yes, besides that my mask is telling me that my oxygen supply will run out in ten minutes, and my Skarmony is critically injured!" I threw out my Pidgeot, and Steven mounted, flying towards the area with the stone. We flew fast, getting to the cave with the stone in two minutes. We ran into the cave and where the stone would be, where six Froslass were waiting. We ran back through the cave, running from the Icicle Spears flying past us. We got to a turn in the cave, and hid in a crevice in the wall until the Froslass passed, then we ran back and grabbed the stone. We ran towards the cave opening, directly passed the Froslass, who fired at us as we mounted our Pokemon and as we flew away. Charizard took evasive maneuvers until the Icicle Spears were flying under us, then both Pidgeot and Charizard dived down, trying to get down to breathable air before Steven's air runs out. After some very long minutes, our birds started falling out of the sky.
"Charizard, what's wrong?" I asked, then remembered what Steven told me Gality said that our mounts would freeze if they were out too long. We both crashed into the snow, and Steven pulled off his mask, gasping for air as I immediately retracted both of my birds. I ran over to Steven, and helped him up to his feet, walking down the remaining couple hundred feet of the mountain. We finally escaped from the snow, and Steven started walking under his own power after regaining his breath. "How much time did we have left?"
"Negative eleven seconds."
"Always cutting it close, aren't we?" We both laughed and started walking back to the base.
We walked into Gality's Workshop, where he was organizing something with his operating hand. He turned around to see us walk into the door, where Steven gave him the stone, and put his busted equipment on his desk. Gality goes over and examines it, and focused on the couple holes and cracks in it. "What did you get you guys get into?"
"Avalanche and Giratina's guards. I'll tell you after you do your thing with that Negative Zapily." Gality nodded. He cut part of the rock off, then put it in a small, handheld machine.
"I need you guys to walk out for a minute. This method will produce a large amount of light that could blind you guys. We walked out of the room, and both walked towards the Medical Bay, where we approached the front desk, where a Blissey was standing.
"What is it, Steven and Blue?"
"My Skarmory is burned, and Blue's Charizard and Pidgeot are frozen." Steven replied.
"Steven, follow me." The Blissey motioned over to her left. "Blue, you follow her over there." I followed the Blissey that the first one motioned to, and we walked into a room. I threw out both of them, then walked back out to the lobby as to let the nurses do their work. After a couple of minutes, Steven walked out, and we walked back to the door to Gality's Workshop to see bright yellow light from under the door, then it stopped, and the door opened, revealing a standing Gality, however his arm still didn't look right.
"Did it not work for your arm, Gality?" Steven questioned.
"No, and I don't know why!"
"Well, let's walk for a second, and evaluate our options, and I'll tell you what happened on the mountain." Steven and Gality walked towards Gality's room, and I walked towards the Medical Bay to see how my Charizard and Pidgeot were doing.