Chapter 14

Fall

Earth 63, 2048, 5:48 PM

Layla's POV

I was too shocked to say anything. Kyle, after all the missions and training we had done together was an agent of Giovanni the entire time.

"Come on, don't look at me like that, you've been playing for the wrong side, I just realized that sooner than you." Kyle explained as the soldiers dragged me to my feet.

"Oh yeah, the "right side" that attacks schools full of innocent children and fundraiser events." Kelly remarked.

"Sacrifices are necessary, that's merciful compared to the things shifters have endured." Kyle argued.

"How can you rationalize all of this! Cyrus and Giovanni destroyed Earth 62 in its entirety!" I yelled.

"I don't like the nasty things we do, but we have to do them, ask yourself this, is the MRPA any better? Layla, this is me being honest." Kyle said holding his hands to his chest.

"No Kyle, this is you being a psychopath." I responded before spitting in his face.

Before he could say anything else an all to familiar man in purple walked in, a squad of four soldiers behind him.

"We've got all the agents in the basement, they're tied up to the canisters and the C4, everyone is accounted for except for the director and someone callsign outrider." Ethan said as we began to head for the exit.

"You sure you brought enough explosives?" Kyle asked as we were walking the halls.

"They just need to set off the shadow energy canisters, they'll take care of the rest." Ethan assured him.

"WHAT?! YOU WOULDN'T"! I yelled.

"What canisters?" Charlie demanded.

"When the MRPA purifies one of the newer shadow Pokemon, the energy doesn't just disappear. Every 2.0 shadow Pokemon's energy was stored is secure canisters below the base so that it could be disposed of slowly and safely." Kyle scoffed.

"If you set all that off at once, it could reduce 10 square miles of land to a crater!" I screamed,

"That's the idea, cover up the evidence and make it look the the MRPA did it, then both their base and good name is destroyed." Ethan said proudly.

As we got outside we were greeted by an entire army. Tanks and attack helicopters had the entire base surrounded. There was no chance of escape. An unmarked jump jet landed, we were shoved towards it as Ethan revealed a detonator. He spun his finger in a circle as the jets began to take off, however just as i was about to lose hope the entire army stopped in their tracks, they all looked as though they were waiting for something.

"Bogey inbound, 1 mile and closing fast!" Ethan said as he and his soldiers took up defensive positions near the tanks. We were cuffed to posts as the tanks leveled their cannons at the sky.

A green light appeared on the horizon, before anyone could so much as blink a blast of energy destroyed a tank. A green blur shot past, only to come back around and land. A green Latios with a strange stone around its neck was now between us and the entire army.

"Surrender or die." Connor threatened telepathically, I had never heard such rage in his voice.

"One more move and i'll turn this whole place into a parking lot!" Ethan threatened, his finger just above the detonator button.

"You've already lost that leverage, my son and the director hid until you were pulling out. They've already disarmed all your explosives." Connor revealed.

The color drained from Ethan's face, however he wasn't going to let Connor win.

"FIRE EVERYTHING!" Ethan yelled before teleporting behind a tank.

Charlie, Kelly and I hit the deck as rockets and gunfire roared overhead. The attack choppers and tanks firing their entire payloads directly at Connor and the base. I heard a horrid crashing sound as the entire 4 story building collapsed onto Connor. He hadn't vibrated to his full speed and as such couldn't have avoided the attacks.

As the dust cleared Kyle and 4 Soldiers grabbed us by the legs and began to drag us away. However they suddenly stopped and looked at the massive mound of rubble. There was a faint light from within.

"Impossible.." was all Ethan could say before a massive pillar of light erupted from the debris. The beam of energy shooting skyward and splitting the clouds above. I wasn't a psychic but I could feel the massive shockwaves of psychic energy. When I could finally see through the light my jaw dropped.

The being within the light looked similar to a Latios, but the emerald colored parts of its body had changed to a lime green. Horns had grown from the side of its head and now ran along its jaw. Its wings on its back were gone and similar but larger wings were now attached to its lower arms. Triangle shapes now marked the forward point of its wings instead of its chest.

"This ends now." Connor announced telepathically. His eyes glowed blue and then looked at the tanks. The tanks were lifted up in the air and then crushed into a ball of metal as small as a sedan. The choppers tried to fly away but were disintegrated by a white blast of energy. Soldiers looked at Connor for a moment before turning their guns on each other. I looked to the far end of the area and saw Ethan just before he slipped away into a multicolored portal. The portal closed just before Kyle could escape as well.

Connor slowly descended to the ground, deactivating his transformation along with applying his human guise and returning his collar to the shape of a cane. He closed his glowing eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. He didn't seem exhausted, but rather he was reigning in his emotions and calming himself down from using as much power as he just had.

He walked up to Kyle with a murderous look on his face. I had no drive to defend him, if Connor killed him so be it.

"Please, I surrender, there is no need for hostiliti.." Kyle was cut off as Connor smacked him across the face with his metal cane, arcs of green energy sparking from it as metal met flesh. Kyle fell to the ground accompanied by a disgusting popping sound.

Connor looked back to the rubble as the few remaining agents along with the Director and Zander stumbled out of the ruins. I heard sirens in the distance, the local towns in the area must have sent first responders after seeing the massive explosion.

We had survived, but the MRPA was in shambles….

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