Ten Minutes after Steven and Blue returned from the summit of Mount Dernek
Stephen
We walked out of what had to be the hundredth cave at that point, and into another. "Stephen, I started questioning your guess about where this Gardevoir was about ten caves ago, but we have gone through Twenty-Two of these things!" Thomas complained.
"Sorry Thomas, but I had to make a guess off pretty much nothing besides a direction. Do it yourself next time if you think that you could do better!" I replied as we walked around some more stalagmites.
"Also, I haven't seen many Kaputops in these caves."
"Do you want to?"
"Not really."
"Plus, you're not going to find many rock or water types here." We kept walking through all of the corridors of the cave, and found absolutely nothing.
"Oh boy! Another dud!" Thomas exclaimed sarcastically. We walked out of the cave, where it was starting to snow again. "Even better! Now it's even colder!"
"Thomas, stop." Antonio commanded. "None of us enjoy this, and you don't see us grumbling!" Thomas reluctantly stopped talking and walked into another cave. We walked through it, just seeing rocks. "Hey Stephen, come over here!" I walked over to where he was standing, and he was looking at a sparkling light green rock. "Is that one of those elemental stones?" I took my hand and pulled a solid chunk off the wall.
"I believe that it is the grass elemental rock. I left my book back at the hotel, so I don't know exactly what it's called."
"Would you have any idea if you could make one of Gality's machines with that?"
"Maybe. It would take me a while, and I would have to use Gality's old equipment back at the town." We walked away to explore the rest of the cave, which just contained more rock.
After going through another five caves, we set up camp in the trees, since Thomas didn't want to sleep in the ghost town. I was sitting on a log, with Thomas on my left and Antonio on my right. "So, Stephen, how many do we have left?" Antonio asked as he was pulling a blanket out from his bag.
"Only two."
"Good! I'm getting real tired of this!" Thomas remarked.
"So, are we prepared if we find the Gardevoir in one of those two?" I asked. Thomas looked at me like I was stupid.
"Stephen, I've been ready since we started."
"I'm ready." Antonio answered in his usual leader voice.
"Good. Well, Thomas, would you like to go over the battle strategy?"
"I would love to!" Thomas leaned forward, closer to the fire."Stephen, attempt to use Close Combat as much as possible. Antonio and I will do the same with Brick Break and Aerial Ace. She is very dangerous one on one, so it would be recommended for at least two of us to engage at the same time. If that's not possible, use your projectile attacks to stall, since she will most likely dodge them. Got it?" Antonio and I nodded. "Good." We all went silent, and I walked away from our little camp site, and to a small cliff overlooking a river. Gality, I don't understand why we are in this situation. Why did you run? I know you never did like fighting, but why did you run when you fought your father? I thought. I sat there for about a minute, thinking, when I heard a voice. "You wouldn't believe me, anyway." I looked around, and saw nothing.
"Antonio? Thomas? Is that you being doofuses?"
"No." I saw a somewhat pink tainted Gality walk out from behind a rock.
"Freeze!" I yelled, charging Psycho Cut, ready to strike if he made any sudden movements. He kept walking.
"I would like to see you try." I fired the Psycho Cut, and it went right through him. "This is a Psychic projection. I'm not actually here."
"How is that possible?"
"None of your concern, my old friend."
"How did you find us?"
"Also not your problem."
"Well, why are you here, and why do you have a sling on your arm?"
"I'm here because I'm giving you guys one last chance, and for the second, I have done some work."
"For who?"
"People who oppose you. On that note, I have come here to try and sway you to my side."
"And why would I do that?"
"Because if you don't, there is a good chance that you will be obliterated."
"I doubt that."
"Well, let me answer your question. I did indeed fight him. I lost terribly, and he tried to kill me. I teleported away, and ran to this place. They understand what has to be done to free this world."
"One, why should I believe you, and two, you sound like you're trying to conquer the region, from my point of view." Secretly, I turned on a machine that I had that could track psychic energy, as long as they weren't under 30 feet of something.
"The Gallade government keeps you guys ignorant, so that they can control you."
"And why should I believe a renegade?" Gality sighed.
"Just as I expected. There is no hope for you. We are the light in the darkness, and will free this world. Goodbye, Stephen. I won't see you again." The psychic energy disappeared, and the machine tracked that the energy went towards the Dernek Region. I walked back to the camp, where Antonio and Thomas were staring at me as I sat down.
"Who were you talking to? Yourself?" Thomas asked.
"I was talking to a psychic projection of Gality."
"Are you sure that you're okay?"
"Is that even possible?" Antonio questioned. I shrugged, and took the recorder that I always keep on my collar off, and clicked the replay button. They listened to the entire conversation.
"He sounds like he's gone of the deep end." Thomas stated.
"I don't want to believe that Gality is completely gone, but now he's saying that our government is lying to us. I can't believe that." Antonio said. "Also, what was the "We are the light in the darkness, and will free this world" part?"
"I'm thinking it could be a motto for the group he is a part of." I answered.
"Well, we can figure this out tomorrow. It's getting late, and we should be ready if he have to fight tomorrow. Antonio commanded. Both Thomas and I nodded, and we went into our sleeping bags near the fire, though I could only think about what had just transpired. What was that, and why did Gality dismiss us so fast?
Thomas
I woke up as Stephen was tapping my shoulder. "Wake up! We have to get going!" I stood up, and rolled up my sleeping bag, and then followed Antonio and Stephen towards one of the caves. We walked through it for about ten minutes, and saw nothing.
"Thomas! Stephen! Over here!" We both ran over to Antonio, where he was looking at a steel panel in the cave wall.
"What should we do? Stephen asked.
"I don't know." Just then, security turrets came out of the ceiling of the cave, and started shooting at us. We ran behind the cave wall, but then we heard the sound of something turning off, and footsteps. We came out from behind the wall to see the Gardevoir standing there, along with someone else standing beside her, with a cloak on. We stood in the opening blocking them from escaping, which was about twenty feet long.
"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" Stephen asked the cloaked character.
"You won't find out, but you're friend will!" The cloaked Pokemon pushed a button on a machine, and both the cloaked Pokemon and Antonio fell down a pitfall trap, and it closed after them.
"It seems like you didn't expect anyone else to be here, eh Thomas?" The Gardevoir mocked.
"How do know my name?"
"Not too bright out of combat, huh? Do you really think that there aren't cameras around the base?" I thought about that for a moment, then realised that I was an idiot.
"It seems that you have split from Gality." Stephen stated. The Gardevoir looked very angry at the mention of his name.
"Don't mention that waste of space. I know what he is." Me and Stephen looked at each other. We were both confused about what that meant.
"Well, we're here on a mission, and there's only one result that satisfies the mayor!" Stephen went to his battle stance, and I did the same, getting ready to do our original battle plan, just minus a member.
Antonio
I got out of the water and swam to an island in this weird underground cave. The cloaked Pokemon pulled off his soaked cloak, revealing a Speed Forme Deoxys. " Peter West, The Master Renegade?"
"I see you've done your homework, Antonio."
"You controlled Thomas' mind, didn't you?"
"Smart one, I see." Peter walked over to my island, using Magikarp in the water as stones as I backed up to the other side. I prepared X-Scissor, and charged at Peter, but he disappeared from my sight before I could even use the move. Then, I was launched across the water and onto the other island. Extreme Speed. Of course. I thought as I fired Psycho Cut while he was crossing the water on the Magikarps, but he jumped in the air and fired Psycho Boost at me. I dodged the brunt of the blast, but the psychic force hitting the ground knocked me back regardless. I got up to see Peter laughing. "You know you can't beat me. Just imagine how your friends are doing up there!"
Thomas
I ran backwards to pick up Stephen after he was hit with a Psycho Boost. I basically dragged him back up the cave system. I set him down behind a rock. I looked over his tattered clothes and the pain in his face. "Stay here." I walked to the front of the branch of the cave, where the Gardevoir was looking for us.
"Oh Thomas and Stephen, where did you go? You're ruining my fun!" She yelled just before I used Brick Break on her, catching her off guard and sending her flying into the wall. She brushed off the dust off her dress, and prepared another Psycho Boost. "Any last words?" I barely heard those words. I charged Psycho Cut in both of my arms, and tried to remember what Gality had told me. You may not be on my side anymore Gality, but you taught me some dangerous things. The Gardevoir fired the Psycho Boost at me, but it bounced off me as I began floating in the air. "Not this again!" The Gardevoir said as I started firing Psycho Cuts everywhere, shaking the entire cave system.
Antonio
I dodged one of Peter's Zen Headbutts after wasting all of his energy to perform Extreme Speed when rocks began falling from the sky. I charged at him with an X-Scissor, which he dodged again, and then I had to run to the right to avoid more rocks. Peter then began using Psychic to throw rocks at me, which I cut in half with Psycho Cut, then dodged the pieces until one of the falling rocks hit me in the back of the head, knocking me over. Peter walked over to where I had fallen, laughing. "A great warrior knocked out by a rock. Pathetic!" Peter charged a Psychic, but before he could fire it, I felt myself being warped, and then I was out in the snow. Seconds later, Thomas appeared, laying down, gasping for air, and Stephen, lying down, most likely severely injured. Then, Gality appeared, standing in front of all of us.
"Seems like that didn't work, huh?" He laughed in front of all of us. I went over to Stephen to make sure that he was okay.
"Gality, why did you do that?"
"Well, I needed to give you all possible time to see if you would change your minds."
"I don't believe that." Gality turned around to face the city, which was lit up as the sun was setting.
"Believe what you want." I began to prop up Stephen on my backpack, seeing he was hit with a Psycho Boost.
"Gality, how did you teleport that far?" He pulled out a pink, glowing stone.
"This rock. It is the psychic elemental rock, and it allows me to teleport twenty miles and make illusions of myself. Also, before I go, next time you use a double move Thomas, try not to destroy a mountain." Gality then teleported away before Thomas could tackle him.
"He just keeps mocking us!" Thomas yelled angrily, obviously somewhat recovered.
"Thomas, how much of the Psycho Boost did Stephen take?" I asked, getting Thomas' mind off Gality for a couple of minutes.
"He took it directly in the chest. He didn't move quickly enough."
"Well, we're going to have to carry him back to the hotel. We aren't that far away." Thomas groaned, and we unrolled a medical stretcher that I had in my backpack, and started walking. "Thomas, is Gality really as far gone as the community says that he is?"
"Of course he is! He just came back to mock us!" We remained silent for the rest of the walk, but Thomas' statement confused me. Gality just saved our lives. Why does Thomas not see that? Plus, why does the community say that he is completely evil now? He wouldn't have even gave us a chance if that was true! I thought as we walked into the city limits, and to the local hospital.