ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 25 - Confrontation
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
"Today officially marks the 2-month anniversary since the Orrean base attack which claimed the lives of over 4000 humans and countless amounts of Pokemon. Known noticeable figures that had family and friends in the base attack include Kalos's very own secretary of defence, Samuel North whose son was a captain in the army, Korrina the Shalour city gym leader, losing her elder brother and countless more. We have been notified that the president of Kalos will be making announcement shortly." The news reporter explained on TV.
Unlike Akala island weather, it was pouring down with rain.
With both hands on the cup of coffee, swirling it around to make a rippled effect, was Gladion who sitting at the bench of a local diner with Riolu swirling around on the chair next to him.
Gladion turned to him.
"Stop that."
Riolu dropped his ears slightly and sighed as he was bored.
Being homeless was not fun.
"Can I get anything else for you sir?" the green haired lady behind the bench.
Gladion looked at her.
"No. Thank you." He said as some thunder blasted after he finished.
"Some odd weather we're having today huh?" the lady said as she started to make some coffee.
"I guess."
"You not from Akala?" she asked.
"No. No I'm not." He answered.
"You even from Alola if I may ask?"
"Yeah unfortunately." Gladion muttered, not meaning to say that last little bit.
"Alrighty. You been to the Akala shack?" she asked.
Gladion gave a puzzled look.
"No. What is that?"
"My husband and I own both this diner to work during the day and then work in our 5-star restaurant, the Akala shack during the night. We both hope our daughter inherits the place from us." She told him.
With little interest, Gladion just nodded.
"She should be here soon to work. Late again. (sigh) she has to choose between the family business or her position as a trial captain." She continued with Gladion sighing.
"I might get a top up on the coffee actually." He said as Riolu wandered around the diner, jumping at the sound of the thunder while Gladion didn't even flinch.
While waiting for the top up on the coffee, he saw the door to the diner fly up with a girl around his age dash in. She had green hair like the lady that was working her.
"Stupid rain…" she moaned as Gladion kept to himself.
"Mallow? Is that you?"
"Yes mom." The girl named Mallow called out, as she placed her wet raincoat on the hanger by the door.
"Can you get this young man a top up on the coffee?" her mother called out.
Mallow looked at the blonde and blushed slightly at the sight of him as he looked rather attractive.
She grabbed the jug and poured him a new cup.
"Thanks." Gladion muttered.
Mallow couldn't quiet put her finger on it, but he looked rather familiar.
"Hey. Names Mallow." Mallow introduced herself to him.
"Gladion."
"What?"
"My name is Gladion."
"You don't sound like you're from Akala?" Mallow questioned.
Gladion groaned loudly in annoyance, confusing Mallow as this was a near repeat of his conversation with her mother.
"You ok?" Mallow asked.
"Just fine."
"Breaking news! The president of Kalos is about to go live!"
Mallow watched the screen and then turned to see the serious look on the blonde boy's face.
"What is going on?" Mallow asked.
"It's about the base attack."
The president of Kalos, Pierre Moore appeared on screen.
"Hello to everybody, tuning into to this broadcast. It is with my deepest condolences to see that it has been 2 months already since the disaster involving the Kalos military base. I can officially confirm that Kalos along with Kanto and Johto have declared war on the region of Orre, thus what we believe to be the third great Pokemon war. It is sad to see this outcome, but we are going to avenge our falling troops and put an end to this, once and for all. Thank you." Pierre said on the screen.
"Oh my god… This… This is terrible!" Mallow shirked as her mother moved to her side. Everyone in the diner began to panic from the news they just heard that the third world war was about to begin.
Everyone but Gladion.
Mallow noticed the calm and collected look on his face.
"How can you be so calm!" she screamed.
He contained the same look as he got up and placed some money on the counter as Mallow just looked at him.
"Because they are fighting the wrong enemy and they will soon know their mistakes. But it will be too late." He announced to the grass trial leader and her mother.
"Wait? HEY! What do you mean!?" Mallow shouted.
Disregarding the storm, Gladion returned Riolu and casually walked through the rain.
Mallow watched him outside through the window just walk through the storm as if it was a fine cloudless day.
She puffed her cheeks out in annoyance and turned to her mother.
"Hey, if I can have the next hour off, I'll work double tonight! Please?" Mallow pleaded.
Her mother had an idea why she wanted to leave so soon, but decided it was fine.
"Alright then. But be here at 4PM and you'll be working till 11 then!"
"Thanks mom!" Mallow smiled as she gave her mother a hug.
She rugged up into warm clothing then placing her already wet raincoat over top, lastly grabbing her umbrella and leaving.
She looked around and saw the blonde already far ahead of her.
"Jeez, he walks fast!"
After walking through the storm, Gladion returned to his current residence where he had been staying for the last month or so.
Type: Null, Riolu, Weavile and Golbat were all out and resting while Gladion was sitting on the side of his bed without his coat on, looking down at a picture of him younger and of a little girl with brown hair and green eyes like him. He was blessed in taking the features of his 'father'. He felt for the girl in the photo as she had to look like their mother.
Gladion closed his eyes and wandered off into his memories.
"Tag your it!" the girl shouted as she tagged her elder brother, Gladion on the back.
"Ha-ha! I'm going to get you!" Gladion giggled as he chased after his younger sister.
"Nah Nah nanah! You can't get me!" the girl chant. Despite her size compared to 7 year old Gladion, she was rather fast. Then again, Gladion wasn't the slimmest of people his age either.
The door opened from either mansion as their father walked into the garden to see his two children playing. He gave a warm smile as he adjusted his lab coat.
The girl turned to her father and then looked at Gladion who was rushing at him. The 5-year-old girl ran towards her dad.
"Daddy! Hide me!" she yelled happily as she hid behind her father.
He laughed.
"Hey! That's no fair!" Gladion grumbled.
"Ha-ha! Come on now kids! Play nicely." Their father laughed. "Or I might just have to join in!" he roared playfully as his daughter ran away giggling. Gladion tagged his dad and ran off with his sister laughing. "Hey! Come back here!"
"No, you're it!" they siblings said in sync.
Their father knew this place like the back of his palm as he played here as well when he was kid.
"Brother? Do you think we lost daddy?"
"I don't know but keep quiet okay?" Gladion said.
"Rig-"
"Gotcha!" their father said behind them, giving them a little fright. Gladion laughed but his sister began to tear up.
"That was scary…" she mumbled as she began to cry. Her father picked her up and patted her on the back before giving her a kiss on the forehead.
"Sorry if I scared you my little princess."
"Mohn?" a lady called out.
Like his daughter, the lady had brown hair and green eyes. She was slim but wore a lab coat over top.
"Yes honey?"
"Please don't get the children dirty before dinn-"
Gladion broke out of the memory in angry as she appeared.
Type: Null gave a concerned look.
He sighed and laid down on the bed now, closing his eyes once again.
"We all gather around today to remember the life of Mohn Aether. A friend of many, a caring husband and a loving father of two." A priest called out in the gardens of the Aether paradise. Over 2000 people were attending the funeral of the current president of the Aether foundation, Mohn Aether, who was killed in a freak accident inside the labs of the foundation.
An 9-year-old Gladion sat in the front emotionless while his 7-year-old sister cried her eyes out. Their mother had her hand over her mouth, still struggling to come to terms that the man she fell in love with was gone forever.
In the 17 years of being president of the Aether foundation, Mohn had brought upon many remarkable things and discoveries to not only the Alola region but the world.
Speeches from guests and family began as lifelong friends spoke as did his nephew, Ken who also worked as a scientist. His wife talked as well with the help of the priest as she was still in shock.
Gladion and his sister got up as the priest sent down the microphone to them.
"Dad… I will miss you. I know that you are up their somewhere… Looking down on us." Gladion started. He handed the microphone to his sister. She attempted to speak but fell to the ground in tears as her whales could be heard through the microphone. Their mother escorted them down to back and allowed the rest of the funeral to continue.
Their mother had been officially elected as the new Aether president and began work straight away. However, she spent more time working than she did with her children. Gladion noticed that she was different but his younger sister didn't.
Exactly a year after his father's death, Gladion was chilling in his room when he got a knock on his door. His mother came in with his sister as he looked at them in slight shook.
With the duo once being brunette, they now were both blonde.
Gladion blinked his eyes.
"What do you think brother?" his sister asked.
"I thought I'd treat your sister to have a little make-over seeming I've been so busy lately. Would like any sort of treat son?" his mother asked.
Gladion thought about long and heard before giving a cold and chilling answer.
"No."
Again, he opened his eyes, angrier than before. He got up and looked at the wall then turning down to Type: Null as he flashed back to that day.
It was late at night and the sirens throughout the whole of Aether was going off, repeating the same message over and over.
"WARNING! PROJECT BEAST KILLER HAS ESCAPED! EVACUATE"
Gladion at the age of 16 rushed out of his room and tried to call Ken. He picked up but just coughed.
"K-Ken! What's happening!?" Gladion panicked.
"Dow- (cough)(cough)-nstairs…" his cousin breathed on the other side.
Gladion listened to the siren. What was project beast killed?
Following his cousin's instructions, Gladion reached one of his worse fears. Ken was in a pool of blood with his chest ripped apart.
"No! no, no, no! Shit! Shit! SHIT!" Gladion panicked.
"Gla-dion…" Ken croaked as the blonde moved down to him.
"Ken! NO!" Gladion cried as tears fell down. "Wha-what happened!?"
"Yo-your mother… Did thi-this… (COUGH)(COUGH). Go… save your sister." Ken hacked as he dropped a masterball in Gladions hand. "This will catch(COUGH) this beast… Track h-him us-using th-th-this…"
Gladion took the masterball and the tablet and gave a look of rage, thinking about his horrible mother.
"Sav-Save it… Befri-befriend it…" Ken muttered before his head tilted to the side.
"NO! NOOOO! NO…." Gladion whaled. He remembered what ken said.
"MOTHER!" Gladion yelled in pure rage as he rushed up stairs.
Gladions sister was running for her life as a monster was tearing apart the aether employees. She was crying as she had to listen to their pleads for help.
Gladion was running down the hallway as fast as he could with the thoughts of tearing his mother apart.
She continued to run as she the end of the hallway with could go left or right but tripped at the last second. She got up turned around to see the masked hound walked towards her. Gladion saw Lillie on the ground in tears as she screamed.
The monster leapt at her as she closed her eyes only to feel at the last second being pushed away. She opened her eyes to see Gladion shove her out of the way but the sharp claws slashed down his face. Lillie screamed as she saw the contact but the monster disappeared into a purple ball.
Blood trickled down Gladions faces as he had two deep cuts on the left side of his mouth and through his right eyebrow. He was panting as he shakily grabbed the ball and hid it into the dirt of a nearby pot plant.
"Br-brother?"
"We have to leave."
Gladion eyes pierced open as he roared in anger at the mistake he made, punching a hole in the wall.
Panting, he pulled his injured hand out and thought about his mistake of leaving her behind.
But she is in care now…
"Um… Hello?" a girl called out.
Gladion turned around to find the same girl as before.
"Get out."
"You sure do like small talk dontcha?" Mallow told him as she closed the door behind her. Her eye widened at the sight of his hand.
"Jeez! What did you do to yourself?" she asked with concern, grabbing his hand as he winced in pain.
"GRR! I-It's nothing…" he winced.
Type: Null began to growl as he saw his trainer being touched.
Mallow saw Null and gave a scream.
"SHH!" Gladion told her. "Null, that is enough."
Type: Null grunted and decided to get some sleep.
"W-what is that thin-thing!?" Mallow yelled.
"Type: Null." Gladion explained. "Listen, you can go now-"
"No. You're hurt."
Gladion groaned.
Mallow went to the front office of the motel and came back with a first aid kit. She placed a cream to prevent an infection from happening on the open wound. She then wrapped his hand around with some soft cloth to cover it.
"Thanks." Gladion said as Mallow took off her jacket.
"No worries. I just wanted to ask you a few questions."
Gladion closed his eyes and then reopened them shortly after.
"What."
"What did you mean by wrong enemy?" Mallow questioned. "Why should I believe you over the government?"
"Well, I didn't force you to believe me. You chose to believe me. And you pursued me here to get an answer, didn't you?" Gladion explained, twisting the question.
"Right… Then who is this enemy?" The green haired girl asked.
"I don't know exactly. It's second hand information from a dying man. But I believe it. He was the only hope I had. God why am I telling you this…" Gladion muttered.
"We are the same age and all. What about your family?" she asked.
"One is literally dead and the other is dead to me." Gladion said painfully.
"Jeez. You sound like you had it rough. Kind of like my annoying cousin." Mallow explained.
"Go on…"
"He was born and his mom was killed in a car crash when he was really young and his dad hated being in the shadow of our grandpa who you'll never believe who he is! Hala, the kahuna of Melemele island!" Mallow explained.
Gladion blinked and then put two and two together.
"Shit, is your cousin Hau?!"
"Huh? You know him?"
"You could say that... I've met him and the other guy… What was his name?" Gladion said, pretending not to know Ash's name.
"Oh, Ash…" Mallow purred. "And oh yeah, that worry wart Lillie too."
Gladion stiffened and turned.
"What."
"They have this girl with them whose name is Lillie. Blonde with an overly big hat. Pretty sure she had a crush on Ash as well." Mallow laughed.
Gladion fuelled with rage in the inside but refused to show it on the outside.
"Is that right?" he said through his teeth.
"Yeah. So what was this enemy again?" Mallow asked as the thunder boomed. She yelped and grabbed on to Gladion, crushing his injured hand as he cursed in pain.
"FUCK!" he shouted. Mallow let go quickly.
"Sorry…"
"It's fine." Gladion muttered as he pulled out a tablet and opened a file. "Read this."
July 22nd 2000.
Though they have managed to pass in and out of their world from time to time, we have finally made a connection to this alternate world.
My team is thrilled.
We can finally connect with other dimensions to use their weapons and resources in case of serious wars were to ever appear.
"How did you get that?"
"My dying cousin gave it to me before he passed away. He said keep it so no one knows." Gladion told her but lied.
The rain started to stop as Mallow looked at the time.
"Well, it's been nice getting to know you. Hey! Why don't you come to the grand trial for Ash and Hau? Would love to see you again!" Mallow said as she opened the door.
"Maybe."
"Oh ok… Bye Gladion."
Mallow shut the door as Gladion fell back on his bed.
"Grhr." Type: Null growled.
"Of course, I didn't show her the real documents Ken gave me." Gladion said as he changed the page.
May 13th, 2000.
Researching into historical appearances, we have created our own ultra-wormhole.
Using the strange crystals found deep within ten-carat hill that radiate a negative energy signal, we have finally managed to bring a creature which we are calling a Pokemon for now from the other side.
We call it Cosmog.
Author's note: AHHHHHHHHHHHH! NEW GAMES YUS!
Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon! I will be honest, I was one of the people wanting a DP remake due to personal preference. But being a long time fan of Pokemon, I was going to be a happy with any new main line game.
Seeing some stuff online about the new games, it's annoyed me. Everyone has their opinions, but we cant judge a game we have only seen 30 seconds of footage of. We should just be happy we have a main line game.
And Solgaleo and Lunala cross Necrozma... Wow. Was not expecting that. Necrozma becoming Armour (Well, it's ability prism Armour).
So to the actual chapter, just a filler with stroy but next one will be the Kahuna battle vs Olivia and then the traitor chapter
So my question is: If you're buying it, which version are you getting?
I got Sun originally so might go U-moon this time.
So as always, Review, suggest or PM me. Spectre!