Chapter 23

Lies

Earth 63, 2048, 6:37 PM

Kelly's POV

As the portal deactivated, Nixullium (who had just gotten over what looked like a minor panic attack), Alveri and Lucina were staring at me and my brother like we were from another planet.

"You two are legendary Pokémon?" Luncina asked, breaking the awkward silence that had persisted for almost a minute.

"Our mom was given legendary DNA by Cipher, and passed it on to us," Charlie explained.

"Why did you hide that from us?" Alveri asked as Connor entered the room. It was clear that he knew what had happened.

"We didn't know if we could trust you, it's not exactly a secret to just pass out casually." I added.

Everyone seemed to accept that answer, Layla awkwardly rubbed her shoulder and said "Sorry you three, I knew, but it wasn't my secret to share."

Lucina and Alveri relaxed. However, Nixullium looked quite annoyed, his left eyebrow twitching.

"So, what other secrets are you hiding?" He growled at Connor.

"Everything that I need to hide." Connor said calmly, seeing Nixullium's hair rise like a cat.

"I've done a little research ya know, about how the MRPA fell. You are so damn powerful that you decimated an entire army by yourself, yet you send a group of normal people with damn good luck to fight a terrorist organisation, alone? What are you scared of?" Nixullium growled. Before Connor could answer, Nixullium walked off, grumbling about needing a drink.

Lucina began to go after him but Connor grabbed her by the shoulder and said, "Give him some time. He'll talk when he's ready."

We all left the vault and went our separate ways. We needed a break...

Earth 63, 2047 7:02 PM

Cyrus's POV

Cyrus slammed the door behind him. He then ran to the blast doors and shut them. Luckily his corporate clearance wasn't WiFi based so Giovanni couldn't revoke it.

Cyrus took a deep breath as the blast doors sealed. The betas didn't have the intelligence to open that door. It was reinforced with a magnetic field that no amount of brute force or heat could breach.

After he got his breathing back to normal he ran to the elevator and went up to Mr. Rapt's office. Calrok couldn't have wiped the files by now. It couldn't be done remotely and he wasn't here.

'I can survive this, if I give up all I know maybe they'll give me amnesty.' He thought as he entered the office tower. It was a long shot but he was desperately clinging to any chance of survival.

He booted up the computer and went to files only to feel his heart drop. All of it was gone. Someone had taken the data less than 5 minutes ago.

"Shit, Calrok teleported in and stole it!" Cyrus yelled in rage.

"Guess again." A cold female voice said from the corner of the room. Cyrus's blood turning to ice as he heard it.

Cyrus knew that voice, he turned in the direction of the remark only to see a horribly familiar face. Dr. Olivia Kassar was standing a mere five feet across from him with two beta rhinos by her side. The beasts were patiently sitting next to her, like a trained pet waiting for orders.

"I'm afraid you won't have any bargaining chips, not that you're leaving here anyway." Olivia said as she tauntingly waved a flash drive in her hand.

"Please Olivia, we can talk about this, we can make a deal, you and I!" Cyrus stammered, clearly afraid.

"No, we can't." Olivia said bluntly before pointing at Cyrus, her hazel eyes turning an orangish red color. The beta rhinos reared up and charged Cyrus. Using their two massive arms to pin him against a wall.

"Please, I'm begging you, don't do this!" Cyrus pleaded.

"You'll beg harder than that before I'm done with you." Oliva said before two smaller hunter betas appeared and outstretched their claws. One going for his chest and the other for his arms.

All that could be heard was Cyrus's garbled screams as the betas tore him limb from limb…

Earth 63, 2048, 7:37 PM

Amanda's POV

The smoke billowing from the hole had finally subsided. All three of the allegiance airships were now in position.

"Sir, the wall is secure." I said after reading the update from perimeter watch.

"Thank you Agent Laswell." General Castle said as the monitor in front of him showed the 20 mile perimeter we had erected around the complex. Using a new system of deplorable mobile walls, we had quarantined the entire surrounding forest in a little less than an hour.

"Send In the troops, lethal force is authorized, sweep and clear." Castle ordered.

"Sir, this is a publicly registered medical facility, it's possible that most of the staff was unaware. Are we sure that shoot first, ask questions later is the answer?" I asked timidly.

"Agent Laswell, are you questioning my judgement?" Castle asked, as if I had said something too quiet to hear and needed to repeat it

"No sir, it's just-" I was cut off before I could say more.

"Agent Laswell, you're my science specialist, you know how dangerous the creature that attacked us was, your fiancé learned that the hard way. We have already killed one here. It's far too risky to hesitate now." Castle reminded me.

"Yes sir." I said through clenched teeth, disgusted by his mention of Derek just to prove his point.

I was walking down the hall leading away from the bridge when my tablet alerted me of a massive thermal spike in the tunnels. It was a condensed ball of heat moving towards the breach. It couldn't be a fire, it was moving too fast and wasn't leaving any heat behind it…

Then it hit me, I ran towards the bridge, bashing open the door yelling into Castle's intercom, "GET THE MEN OUT OF THERE!"

"Laswell! Chain of command!" Castle reminded me.

"Sir there is something huge coming out of the tunnels, you need to-" I was interrupted by Castle uttering a yell that silenced the entire bridge.

"QUIET! Laswell you need to take a second and get your head in the game! There is no time for hesitation right…" Castle's order died in his throat as a massive creature the size of Gyarados pointed straight up bursted out of the hole. It's six massive pointed legs making small craters as it walked.

The creature opened its large bug like mouth, charging up a ball of energy. Two massive arm like appendages on its back popped up and began feeding energy into its mouth. Before Castle could so much as gasp a massive beam of red energy streamed past the window, blowing the airship next to us in half….

Chapter Edited And Proofread By FXCF.