ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 42 - Rescue from Aether
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
It had been a wild night due to everything that happened. First the trial with Acerola to finding Incineroar to Lillie getting kidnapped and Hau being assaulted to the storm on Po town and lastly to Gladion running in about ready to tear everyone apart.
Ash tried to get some rest but he was too pumped from everything that occurred. He got up to see both Zach and Kiawe fast asleep on the inflatable mattresses with Hau in the other normal bed. While Acerola had Mallow and Lana stay with her. Though, Ash noticed that a certain edgy blonde was missing.
Ash walked outside to find Gladion leaning over the railing, eating an apple with Type: Null's evolution next to him.
"Hey." Was all Ash said as the pair turned to him.
Gladion sighed.
"Hey." He responded as he took a bite of his apple.
"So, when did Null lose the helmet?" Ash asked, trying to not provoke Gladion.
"A while ago now. In the Aether foundation the day UB-01: Symbiont attacked. I was trying to manually free him by finding the key. Truth be told, this isn't how he was before the helmet as I call it a half-evolution." Gladion explained calmly, like Ash, not wanting to start anything.
"UB-01? The weird clear thing?" Ash questioned as Gladion nodded with him pulling out some papers.
"My father was studying it before he died. My cousin who was one of the scientists that developed Type: Full handed me this before he died. Chaotic family, I know." Gladion told him as he rubbed Silvally under the chill.
"Type: Full?" Ash questioned.
Gladion sighed again.
"This isn't what Type: Null was meant to look like when I removed the helmet. He didn't break it naturally so the evolution only did half. Type: Full was created to battle against the Ultra Beasts in case they came and invaded. But they rejected what is known as the RKS system and was deemed Null. Once we removed the helmet, I renamed him to Silvally. Silver ally." Gladion told the boy as Ash handed the papers on UB-01 back.
"About before. We aren't friends but it was wrong of me to react how I did. So sorry." Gladion told the Kanto born.
"It's fine. So Lusamine is your mother… But why do they need Neb- Cosmog?" Ash asked, referring to Nebby by its species.
"Cosmog itself is theorised to be an Ultra Beast. It can apparently teleport and create Ultra wormholes." Gladion confessed as Ash's eyes widened.
"My mother grew obsessed with them… Spending countless nights trying to find a way to make contact but each time failed. So, she did use with what she had and made me and Lillie her 'ultra-beasts'. Lillie didn't see through her lies but I did. She would starve us, hurt us, force us to dress how she liked us to be!" Gladion explained his story.
"We are going to get her back. I'm going to make sure of it." Ash told him.
Gladion glared at him slightly.
"I saw that card and painting she got you. Happy birthday I guess…" Gladion muttered.
"You saw those?" Ash stuttered nervously.
Gladion sighed while running his fingers through his hair as he stopped leaning on the railing.
"I saw Hau got rather roughed up." Gladion said with the sudden topic change.
"Yeah."
"I don't know how he does it. To grow up in the great shadow of a Kahuna and trying to stand up and beat Hala who has 50 years of experience as a Kahuna? I couldn't do that. He might irritate me but he is not a bad kid." Gladion told Ash.
"We should attempt to get some sleep. The sun is going to be up shortly so any hours of sleep will help." Gladion told him as he returned Silvally and walked inside.
(A couple of hours later)
Acerola had explained to the staff that she would be gone for a few days.
They all returned to the dock's where they planned to get a boat to Aether and work on from there.
Mallow was on the phone and gave a worried look.
"Uh… So, Olivia is pissed that we just casually left. But I sort of explained and she understands to a point." Mallow told Lana and Kiawe.
"Okay, I guess we will just have to work double time when we get back." Lana said.
"That's if do get back…" Gladion told them.
"So, you four are going to act like you are on casual business while Me, Gladion and Hau sneak in somehow and talk them down from the core. Zach, you go with them to make it slightly less Suspicious. Any Aether workers that try to help you guys stop." Ash explained to the four trial captains that were assisting on the mission.
"Got it." Both Acerola, Zach and Kiawe said as Lana and Mallow nodded.
Hau stayed silent for a bit.
"You okay?" Ash asked his friend.
Hau gave a cross look.
"You know what? No! No I am not!" Hau yelled slightly.
The defeat to Plumeria had really shaken him up.
"Hau. This isn't your fault!" Ash told him for the 100th time.
"Hau, there was nothing you could do. They physically assaulted you before you could bring out any source of Pokemon. Cheap and dirty tatic's." Gladion told him with a rare piece of kindness.
Hau sighed. He knew Ash was saying it to calm him did which he did mean. But when he has Gladion telling him that it wasn't his fault…
"Alright… But when I see them!" Hau said with rage in his voice.
"Hold it!" a familiar voice called out.
Everyone turned around to see Nanu walk down the steps. Different reactions were given off.
"Officer Nanu!?" Gladion yelled.
"Uncle Nanu!" Acerola said happily.
"It's the Kahuna!" the three trial captains from Akala and Zach shouted which stunned Ash.
"WAIT!? YOU! You are the Kahuna!?" Ash yelled in shock this man was the human protector, chosen by the Tapu, was the Kahuna.
"Oh yeah. Did I forget to mention that?" Nanu mentioned to Ash as his jaw was still dropped. "You are going into Aether huh? Boy, you may have gotten some luck on tearing down Po town but Aether is a whole different story."
Nanu turned to Gladion who gulped.
"You have caused a lot of trouble boy. But quite frankly, I don't give a shit." Nanu confessed as Gladion sighed in relaxation.
"Uncle! Are you going to help us out?" Acerola asked as her Uncle who groaned loudly at the one labelled noise on his phone.
"Ugh. I might be able to assist. But that's why I'm not here." Nanu grumped at the delight of his niece.
He turned back to Ash and Hau.
"You two have done all three trials on my island. So as Kahuna of Ula'Ula, you now have the rights to battle in the 'grand trial'." Nanu explained, placing great sarcastic emphasis on the grand trial. "Gimme an answer now or I'm going home."
"How will this work?" Ash asked.
"Ugh, details… Let's see, you two will battle me at the same time. Two Pokemon each to my three. 2 vs 2. Makes it fair enough. Just don't take it too serious." Nanu explained.
"Alright you got yourself deal." Ash told him as Nanu sighed.
"What about you Zach?" Ash asked his rival.
"I've still got take on Acerola's trial. So, I can wait."
"You can have like a minute to discuse whatever." Nanu muttered as he let for the field.
"My uncle focusses on Dark types so Bewear and Hakamo-o should be good!" Acerola explained to the two boys.
The group stood on a field with Kiawe acting as ref.
"The following battle will be contested between kahu-"Kiawe began to speak till Nanu decided to help.
"Get on with it!" Nanu growled.
Kiawe gulped.
"Bring out your first Pokemon!"
Ash brought out Bewear while Hau let loose Hakamo-o.
Nanu yawned as he dropped out an Absol and a Krookodile.
"Begin!" Kiawe called.
"Brick break!" both boys called as Bewear and Hakamo-o dashed at the two dark types.
"Do protect or something Krookodile. Absol use swords dance." Nanu blurted.
Krookodile stood in front of Absol who charged up its attack with swords dance. Both the fighting types slammed into the protect.
"Flail!" Ash yelled to Bewear.
"Headbutt!" Hau shouted at Hakamo-o.
"Stone edge! Use swords dance again."
Krookodile slammed the ground with the rocks thrusted out the ground. Bewear used flail to smash it the pillars of rocks into pieces while Absol charged up its attack again.
Hakamo-o headbutted Krookodile in the chest.
"Krookodile, crunch. Absol, baton pass!"
Krookodile chomped down on Hakamo-o while Absol switched out with Alolan Persian came in to the battle with the swords dance boost.
"Shit! Bewear help out!" Ash cursed as Bewear used hammer arm and slammed the Unovan Pokemon in the head, letting go of Hakamo-o. Krookodile fell to the ground but got up eventually.
Nanu slammed his Z-ring as dark aura filled Persian.
"Uh oh…" Zach muttered to the trial captains while Gladion held his look.
"Use Black Hole Eclipse!" Nanu shouted with actual effort in the call.
A black ball of dark energy appeared in front of Persians mouth as the cat fired it in to the air as a large black hole appeared in the sky as it sucked everything up that was loose. Though the gusts didn't affect the other that were watching, but the winds still flowed in their faces. Rubbish and debris were sucked up as Bewear and Hakamo-o tried to hold on to something but eventually fell to the gusts as they were both sucked up.
"BEWEAR!"
"HAKAMO-O!"
Once inside the blackhole, it closed and released a violent explosion with the two fighting types being flung into the ground and into craters. Once the dust settled, both were found knocked out with swirly eyes.
"Di-did that just happen?" Mallow said with a stutter. She had heard Nanu was a powerful trainer despite his attitude to everything but didn't believe he would be this strong to take down both Bewear and Hakamo-o…
The challengers both returned their Pokemon as Nanu didn't display any happy emotions.
"Shit… This is not good…" Ash cursed. He knew Mimikyu could be an option… But he felt this was going more appropriate.
"Incineroar! Go!"
The large cat appeared and roared.
"Primarina, let's do this!" Hau yelled as well.
The water fairy appeared graciously before smiling.
"Dark pulse!" Nanu commanded as Persian grinned sadistically and let the dark pulse go right at the pair.
"Flamethrower!"
Incineroar growled loudly as he unleashed the flamethrower, colliding with the dark pulse.
"Rock tomb!"
Krookodile threw rocks at Primarina who dodged them by zooming out of the way with aqua jet.
"Slam into Krookodile!"
She redirected the Aqua jet and slammed into Krookodile who groaned in pain.
Elsewhere, Incineroar and Persian were neck and neck with one another.
Persian jumped up with shadow claw while Incineroar jumped into the battle with fire fang with the two's moves cancelling each other out.
Persian hissed as the cat flung a swift at Incineroar, who made quick work of it by using darkest lariat. He spun and took out all the stars and even got a hit on Persian.
The dark type cat was hit into the air but landed back on all fours as it fired another dark pulse with Incineroar failing to act on the attack and was hit in the chest. But luckily, didn't do too much damage.
Primarina was swirling around Krookodile as he slowly drowned in the water cage thanks to the speed of the aqua jet.
"Moonblast!" Hau called out as the soloist Pokemon fired the fairy energy at Krookodile, finishing the ground dark type once and for all.
"Krookodile is unable to battle!" Kiawe called as Nanu returned him and let Absol out again. Persian returned next to the disaster Pokemon side as she grinned at the two fully evolved starter Pokemon.
"Only difference is that we still have our Z-moves!" Hau muttered to Ash.
Hau pressed his Z-ring as blue water like aura filled Primarina.
"Oceanic Operetta!" Hau announced as Primarina cleared her voice as she began to sing as a water bubble formed as it grew bigger and bigger.
Nanu raised an eyebrow as his Pokemon didn't flinch.
Primarina pushed the giant ball of water over top the two four legged dark types. She used she opera like scream to burst the ball as water crashed on top of the dark types.
Once it was over, the two got up, soaking wet. Persian began to freak as she hated being wet. They both growled while Nanu cracked half a smile.
"Quick attack and join with psycho cut!" Nanu shouted as Absol slammed into Primarina and slashed at her with the psychic like cut.
"Flamethrower!"
Incineroar blasted the Hoenn native with fire to remove him off Primarina who was groaning while she got back up.
Absol was now suffering from a burn as he felt the full effects of it.
"Incineroar!" Ash called to his fire dark type, who nodded back.
"It's amazing that he manged to get Incineroar listening in such a brief time…" Acerola stuttered out loud.
Ash slammed his Z-ring which fuelled Incineroar.
"Inferno overdrive!"
Incineroar charged up the ball of fire and let it at the two dark types.
"Protect! Both of you!" Nanu yelled.
Both the four-legged creatures used protect but due to the pure strength of the Z-move, they felt some of it.
Absol collapsed slightly and was barely able to stand. Persian was panting heavily as well, covered in dirt and scratches.
"Persian! Absol! It's time!" Nanu told his Pokemon with a little bit of actual energy to the command.
"Flame burst Absol! Into the air!" Nanu told his Pokemon, whose final act was to spit a ball of fire into the air and quickly fainted shortly afterwards.
"Hyperbeam!"
Persian grinned as she let out the powered up hyperbeam which made contact with the fire burst, resulting in an explosion that consumed the whole field. Primarina was flung out and landed on the ground out cold.
"PRIMARINA!" Hau shouted in disbelief.
"D-did Hau just lose?" Mallow muttered about her cousin.
Ash gulped as there was no sign of Incineroar.
It stayed awkwardly silent as Hau rushed to see his fainted starter.
Kiawe was about to rule the match over till a bright red light appeared in the cloud of smoke.
Jumping out of it with an aggressive look was Incineroar, who like Persian, was covered in dirt, scratches, lost patches of fur and bleeding. From his belt around his waist, was the largest fire fang Ash had ever seen, boosted thanks to blaze.
Persian tried to run but it was too late as Incineroar grasped the fire fang around her head and clamped down on it, punching the ground with the cat going flying. Persian crashed on her back once, bounced and then landed on her side, out cold.
Incineroar did a fist bump into the air in celebration as Ash ran over to him to hug him.
"The battle is over! The winner is the challenge Ash!" Kiawe called.
Everyone went on to the field including Gladion. Nanu returned Persian and walked up to them.
"Hmph. Would you look at that huh. Should have known you two would defeat this old coot. Grandson of the great Hala and the dumbass that stormed Team Skull's home. I can sort you out a quick heal at the Pokemon centre as a Kahuna favour." Nanu explained as Hau walked over with a depressed look.
He knew something like this would eventually pop up.
"I present to the two of you, the Darkium-Z." Nanu said as he had the black crystal in his hands as Ash took his but Hau didn't.
"Hau. Aren't you going to grab the Z-crystal? You and Ash won?" Lana asked.
Hau shook his head.
"No. Ash won. I lost." Hau begrudgingly said.
"Just take it kid. No trouble really." Nanu told Hau who shook his head again.
"No! If I am going to get the Darkium-Z, I am going to get it fair and square!" Hau protested as Nanu shrugged his shoulders.
"Suite yourself then." Nanu said.
Nanu escorted Ash and Hau to the Pokemon centre and healed them up quickly as Nanu got priority over everyone as Kahuna.
"So, you said you could help us?" Ash questioned the cop.
Nanu scoffed slightly.
"Yeah. Yeah, I can." Nanu muttered. "We have a semi-close bond with the Aether foundation, so close enough so they don't bomb us on site. I can get you three in on the Ula'Ula police boat while your little followers do whatever they need to do." Nanu explained. "Just try not to destroy the place… Oh, and you, Gladion."
Gladion looked up with a confused look.
"You better be ready for her wrath." Nanu muttered. "Let's just say… Your mother and I go back a long time. Including your father.
"Boarding ship to Aether paradise! Leaving in 6 minutes!" A siren announced as everyone looked up.
"That's out boat!" Kiawe exclaimed.
"Alright! Let's do this!" Ash said as he placed his hand in the centre. Everyone joined in till it was just Gladion left who eventually placed his hand in the middle.
"We are going to win…" Ash muttered as everyone nodded.
The trial captains plus Zach left for the ship that was going to Aether on a tour while Ash, Hau and Gladion got into a small boat with Nanu setting off.
Ash stood out front as he looked into the distance ready to strike everything he had power wise on Lusamine. Gladion was thinking the exact same thing while Hau was off to the side doing some thinking.
"Where is she." Lusamine demanded as she had Faba by her side.
"All set up in the quite room, just as asked." Faba told Lusamine.
The blonde smirked in disgust.
"Stay here while I talk to her." Lusamine commanded as she stepped inside.
Lillie was currently asleep. She had been stripped down to just a bra and panties as she was strapped to a chair with two needles hovering over her wrists. Above her head was a high tech like helmet. The room itself was made of mirrors.
"Wake her up." Lusamine commanded the grunts at the door who nodded as one pressed a button. A taser popped down and electrocuted Lillie in the back of the neck, result in her screaming in pain.
The electrocution stopped as she looked up at Lusamine with black rings under her eyes.
"Long time no see." Lusamine said with disgust in her tone.
"Ash is coming to save me…" Lillie hissed through her gritted teeth. "You are going to regret everything!"
"I don't know about that one darli-"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Lillie screamed.
Lusamine sighed.
"It's rude to shout and it's rude to interrupt. I thought I had taught you better." Lusamine snapped at Lillie.
"If you were better! You wouldn't have starved me… You wouldn't have hurt me! YOU WOULDN'T HAVE FUCKING TORTURE ME!" Lillie screamed as loud as she could with tears flowing out of her dry eyes.
Lusamine stomped her foot.
"That is no way to speak to your elders!" Lusamine lectured as the taser jolted Lillie again. She threw up over herself and cried silently.
Using the last of her willpower, she looked up again.
"Ca-can I eve-even call you my ow-own Mother anymore?" Lillie asked with a stutter.
Lusamine shrugged her shoulders.
"I have no children. At least none that actually love and care for their mother. I'm disappointed in you Lillie. I thought we had a bond!" Lusamine started to only storm over and grab Lillies hair. "A bond that involved no one but US! Then you ran off like your excuse of a brother! And that BOY came in… Has he tried to hurt you? Have sex with you!?"
"NO! ASH ISN'T LIKE THAT!" Lillie yelled. Lusamine let go.
"Hmph. Doesn't matter what you think of him anyways. I'm going to set things right. I will have my precious beasts, I'll have my caring daughter back and I'll have killed anyone that dares stand in my way!" Lusamine announced as Faba rolled his eyes.
"Doesn't matter what I think… What do you mean!?" Lillie stuttered as she figured out what was going on. "NO! NO! DON'T DO THIS!"
"I'll see you soon. Mummy will always love you and don't forget that." Lusamine said as she stepped out and the guards closed the door with Lillie screaming something but all noise was blocked out.
"Faba with me. If she is right, we need to prepare for an attack." Lusamine told her second in command and then turned to the guards. "Begin the mindwipe, setting 9."
"But… Madam President… That could kill her!" a guard said, expressing his concern. Lusamine stormed over to him and grabbed him by the neck.
"I don't care. She can either return back to being my precious daughter or she can be dead…" Lusamine whispered as she let go and walked off with Faba.
The guard gulped as they walked off to start the set up.
The trial captains had arrived at Aether paradise and while getting off, Zach was on a phone with Ash.
"Alright. We are here… Just give us the word and we'll do what we got to day. Be careful." Zach mentioned on the phone to Ash.
"Yeah. We are bout 5 minutes off. When you hear a siren go off, that's when you take out as many guards as possible. Good luck!" Ash said to Zach as the Unovan born put his phone away and caught up with the others.
Wicke was waiting at the entrance of the Paradise to greet the tourists.
"Welcome everyone to the Aether Paradise! A home for both the lost and hurt, Pokemon across the world will be loved here and cared for! It is also the great holiday on our hotel side!" Wicke explained as the tourists on the boat were broken off into groups.
Wicke noticed the familiar faces of Lana, Kiawe and Mallow.
"Oh! It's you three again! How have you been?" she asked.
"Good. Good! Yourself?" Mallow answered for the group.
Wicke sighed.
"Work has been a lot… Rougher lately. Lusamine is under a lot of pressure." Wicke explained. "Never mind that, I do not believe we have met before!"
"My name is Zach!" Zach introduced himself.
"Acerola!" the purple haired girl said.
Wicke bowed.
"Well, I might as well act at your tour guide. What brings you back here?" Wicke asked with interest on her face.
"Um. Just really enjoyed it the first-time despite… You know that little thing that happen!" Lana contributed to the talk as they walked off.
Elsewhere, the police boat Nanu was sailing ported in the private area. The three boys were hiding inside the boat while Nanu dealt with the guard.
All Ash, Hau and Gladion could hear was a muffling sound. This was followed up by a knock on the side of the boat as signal to get out.
They did and saw Nanu up against the wall, drinking from his flask as the guard was on the guard unconscious.
"Well… What are you waiting for?" Nanu growled at them.
"Thanks, Nanu!" Hau thanked.
"Whatever." Nanu muttered.
Ash sighed.
"Seriously thank you. I want to know this… How much do you actually know?" Ash told Nanu who sighed.
"If you make it out alive, I might tell you. Good luck." Nanu said as he got on the boat again and sailed off.
"Alright, we sneak as much as we can till we get to the big door at the end of this storage block!" Gladion explained. "Then it's a simple rush through. I know for a fact all the ones that know of Sivally's existence will not even dare come near us."
"Right. Plus we have our Pokemon as well." Ash said.
Gladion turned to Hau.
"Hau. I'll need you to go by yourself up once we hit that door."
"What? Why?" Hau blurted.
"In case we get flanked from that side. We need every possible point clear. I don't know when Lusamine might appear…" Gladion explained.
"You don't call her mum or mother?" Ash questioned.
Gladion snorted.
"Do you. Yeah, didn't think so. Let's go." Gladion snarled. "Any little piece of her inside of me is now dead."
The boys snuck around, hiding behind storage crate to storage crate.
A few guards were wandering around but nothing they couldn't handle silently with alerting more.
It took about 7 minutes but they managed to get to the furthest storage crate as Hau split off to the direction he was given.
Gladion sighed.
"What?" Ash asked.
"I do feel for the kid… Like I said, to be born with the DNA of Hala flowing inside of you. To then lose both parents. To then being physically assaults by a bunch of thugs. Top it off, I could see the loss to Nanu hurt him. Yet he still finds motivation to push on… I don't get it." Gladion explained.
"That's just Hau for you. Cry one second, happy and wanting a Malasada the next." Ash told him as he stopped and looked at Gladion. "How are we taking this down?"
"Hmm. Weavile could slice through it. See that opening up there? Send Decidueye to snipe from above. Unlike Team Skull, Aether will be ready."
Ash released all his mons as did Gladion except for Eevee. The Kanto born gave Decidueye the instructions who then proceeded to fly up, ready to move.
"Weavile. Slice down this door. Let's do this…"
Weavile's claw glowed a bright white as he did a sideway slash on the door.
Aether employees on the other side gave a confused look but the door and the tech controlling it exploded with the two teens and there Pokemon to begin their pursuit.
A loud siren rang throughout the whole base with the command to evacuate as soon as possible.
"What's happening!?" Wicke screeched. "We have to leave at… Once?"
"Sorry Wicke. We have some business to attend." Mallow told her as she threw her Pokeball up to show her Steenee had evolved into a Tsareena. Kiawe brought out his Turtonator and Alolan Marowak. Lana released her Araquanid. Acerola called out her Dhelmise and lastly, Zach sent out Lucario, Litten and Lycanroc.
Wicke backed off a bit and ran in fear as grunts and there Pokemon sprinted at the group.
"Trop kick!"
"Use Flamethrower! Marowak, shadow bone!"
"Surf Araquanid!"
"End this with anchor shot!"
"Lucario, Aura sphere! Litten, flame burst! Lycanroc, rock throw!"
There Pokemon all did their retrospective attacks and to great effect as they purged into battle with the waves of aether grunts.
Elsewhere, Hau was having his fair share of battles as Raichu duked it out against a Passimian.
"Psychic!" Hau shouted aggressively.
Raichu used the super effective move on the fighting type who fainted on the spot.
Another Aether grunt appeared sent out a Metang
"Flash cannon!" the grunt shouted.
Hau grunted as he slid to the side on a branching corridor as did Raichu with the bright light blasting down the way they came.
Hau let out Umbreon and whispered to him to use a dark pulse who nodded as a response.
Once the flash cannon was over, Umbreon jumped into the battle and blasted a powerful flash cannon right at Metang who fell to the ground heavily. The grunt gulped and ran.
"Madam President! We are being attacked at three different points!" a aether employee at a screen shouted.
Lusamine walked over and examined the map. 5 in the main foyer, 2 down in the work zone and one up in the technical area.
"So long as they don't interfere with Lillie. Then whatever. We have it sorted…"
She picked up a phone and called someone.
"You there? Good. Use everything you have to stop them…" Lusamine hissed as she hung up and went back to sitting down.
"HYPER BEAM!" Gladion roared as Silvally and Crobat fired the hyper beam at the railing that was above where the aether grunts were. They cut it on both sides as it fell with the content on it. They all rushed out of the way.
"Bewear! Incineroar! Through that railing into the wall to get us in! Decidueye and Mimikyu, watch there back.
The two strong Pokemon lift the metal railing with ease and threw it at the next door, shattering it in a blast. On the other side was Faba and some Aether grunts.
Silvally growled at the sight of the old man.
"Oh, we meet again!" Faba announced as his grunts took aim. The two boys kept their calm composure. "Well?"
"Well what?" Ash hissed.
"Give me a reaction!" Faba whined.
"Fine. WHERE IS LILLIE!?" Ash shouted.
"Oh… Her. In the labs…"
Gladions eyes widened.
"Doing what!?" Gladion shouted this time round.
"I don't know. Find out but you've got to get past the last line of defence!" Faba shouted.
Ash looked to the side and nodded.
The two grunts with guns had arrows fired into them as they flew out of their hands.
Salandit spewed poison on them, rendering them useless.
"There. Got any Pokemon?" Ash snapped.
"O-of cou-course!" one grunt stuttered but had Incineroar, Bewear, Gladion's Lucario and the worse of them all, Silvally surrounding them. He began to break down as he got on his knees with his hands up to surrender.
"What are doing!? ATTACK!" Faba shouted as a Gumshoos and a Flygon appeared.
Gladion inserted the Ice memory into the reader, changing his signature to ice typing.
"Multi-attack!" Gladion shouted as Silvally raced at Flygon and slashed at the ground dragon, knocking it out before it could react. "You gave up in Silvally and now its coming back to haunt you! The reason why they rejected the RKS system was because you treated them like tools!"
"Bewear, hammer arm!" Ash called as Bewear slammed his arm into Gumshoos. The normal type fell as it was returned with all the grunts running away to leave Faba alone with the two.
"Send us down!" Gladion demanded as Faba pushed up his glasses.
He walked over to the elevator and opened the door to let them in and quickly sent them down. He ripped off the connection and ran for it.
The trial captains and Zach were finishing up with the Aether guards.
A tactic they came up with was for them to throw them on to Turtonator's back to send them flying.
Everyone of them had used a Z-move to wipe out a few at a time.
And lastly, was just brute force.
"Well, that was something…" Mallow panted.
"Yep." Kiawe agreed.
Zach called Ash but got no response as it just went straight to voice message.
"Call us back ASAP!" Zach said into the message.
He tried to call Hau who actually picked up the phone.
"HELLO?!" Hau yelled as Zach could hear the commotion in the background.
"Hey! Hau! You heard from Ash or Gladion?"
"NO! Not yet! Hold up!" Hau explained.
"Primarina surf! Then jumped up on to the pipes above and hold on.
She did just that by first flooding the room and then climbed up. Hau climbed on to a barrel and had Umbreon on his lap. Hakamo-o was on a barrel opposite of them.
"THUNDERBOLT!" Hau shouted which Zach caught in the phone call as he heard multiple Pokemon and humans scream in pain.
"You were saying?" Hau asked.
"No word on Ash or Gladion?" Zach questioned.
"We just wait on the word now."
The elevator hit the bottom as they walked off and into the corridor of labs with the railing looking down on the sea.
"This is where Silvally was born as Null. I'll check these two, you get the end one." Gladion suggested.
Ash walked over and found a messy room with papers all over the place. Test tubes were broke.
"Nothing in here." Ash called out.
"Fuck. He lied… Old snake!" Gladion snapped.
He came up with an idea.
"Hold on! Follow me!" he said as he entered the lab in front of him. Ash did as told and entered the room to find Gladion typing at the keyboard.
"If I press this… I can crack this… to get to this!" Gladion muttered.
"You know how all this works?" Ash asked.
"I maybe an edgy teen but my cousin taught me a thing or two." Gladion confessed. "Bingo! Surveillance and informa…tion…" Gladion started to slowly stop as he turned paler and felt like he was going to be sick. "No! This can't be right!"
"What is up?" Ash asked confused as Gladion turned to him.
"She is in the quite room…" he stuttered as if he had seen a ghost.
"What's that?" Ash asked.
Gladion stayed silent and finally explained.
"Reason why it is called the quite room is because it literally keeps you quiet. It rips out any memories that has been commanded with a key word or whatever. Lusamine's sick way to turn us into the perfect children. Thankfully, I figured out a loophole in the system and managed to return my memories that she wiped. Lillie on the other hand… And she is on setting 9." Gladion muttered.
"What does that mean?" Ash asked with concern.
"She is trying to remove a large amount of memories with the key word being…" Gladion started to only stop again.
"Gladion? Gladion!?" Ash shouted as the blonde turned to him.
"You…"
Ash felt ill and dizzy. Lusamine wanted him out of her daughter's life by literally ripping him out of her brain.
"We have to go now!" Gladion said as they made a run for the elevator.
Once in signal, Ash called Zach.
"Oh, there you are! We cleared out most of the grunts!" Zach explained.
"Zach! Gather everyone and send them to the far west side of Aether! We will meet you there… We know were Lillie is." Ash explained.
"Got it. See you then." Zach told Ash as they hung up.
It was about 10 minutes later, that the group all got back together except for Hau.
"Hey!" Acerola called out as Ash and Gladion approached them.
"You guys okay?" Ash asked them.
"Some little scratches can't hurt us. Pokemon are a little tired but all in all." Kiawe explained.
"Where is Hau?" Mallow asked about her cousin.
"On a separate path. We'll get in contact with him soon. This way!" Gladion explained as pointed to behind the corner of the hallway they were in.
Two guards were standing in front of a giant bank like safe door with a viewing glass on it.
Their blood jumped a pace as they saw Gladion then Ash then the group approach them.
"Ha-Halt!" one stuttered.
"Get. Out!" Ash hissed with the guards running.
Ash looked into the viewing glass and what he saw horrified him. He saw Lillie scraped to a chair with needles injecting into her wrists. She had only a bra on and panties with a strange helmet on her head. Drool came off the side of her mouth while you could just see her eyes which were no longer green but a pale grey blue.
"What's happening to her?" Lana questioned.
"She is getting all her memories of Ash wiped!" Gladion explained.
"What? That machine can do that!?" Zach stuttered as they all looked in shock as Ash just looked at the girl he was falling for.
"Is there a way to stop it?" Ash asked desperately.
Gladion checked the board to the side.
"This use to have an open door option but it's been removed… Oh no." Gladion stuttered.
"What?" everyone questioned.
"Hau, is close to the control room. He could shut it off!" Gladion said reluctantly.
Ash heard this and instantly called Hau who picked up fast.
"Yo!" Was Hau's initial hello as Ash passed the phone to Gladion.
"Hau. Listen to me carefully. You are the only one that can save Lillie!" Gladion told the Melemele native.
"Wait? What?" he blurted.
"Follow me directions and get to the control room.
Gladion guided Hau to the control as Hau found a Aether member on the chair asleep. Hau nodded at Raichu and used psychic to throw him outside and closed the doors.
"Alright! I am here!" Hau said with the phone now on speakerphone.
"Find the big red button!"
"There is a lot of big red buttons!" Hau hissed slightly.
"To the left!" Gladion told him
Hau pressed it as three screens appeared.
"Were three screens supposed to appear?" Hau asked.
"Yes. Good, drag and down the option feature in folder 4.54 in the third screen into folder 2 in screen one." Gladion explained to Hau.
"English please?"
"Do what I said!" Gladion yelled slightly.
"Turtwi?" Turtwig cried over the phone.
"NO! Turtwig, don't press that!" Hau cried.
"Hau. I swear to fucking god! If you turn my sister into a vegetable, I'm going to kill you!" Gladion roared.
" Real motivation right there Gladion! THANKS!" Hau snapped back.
"CAN WE JUST FOCUS ON THE TASK AT HAND!" Ash yelled above them both.
Hau did as Gladion instructed.
"Done that."
"Good. Drop the memory bank on the desk top to folder one. Close everything and pull the lever on the side!" Gladion explained.
Hau did the final commands and gulped before he pulled the lever.
The lights in the room flicked off and the needles popped out of Lillies wrists with the helmet lifting off.
"Madam President! The quiet room has been shut off! Should we-"
"No… Everything is going according to plan…" Lusamine laughed as Wicke and Faba looked at each other.
"She didn't…" Wicke muttered to him.
Faba just nodded as Wicke revealed a horrible look of shock as Lusamine looked at the screen sadistically.
The door opened as they heard the scraps that bounded Lillie pop off.
Ash was the first to walk as Lillie stood up shakily.
"Lillie…" Ash muttered.
Lillie looked at him dully before screaming at him. She charged right at Ash and kicked him straight in the groin. He fell to the ground as she jumped on him and began to chock him.
Gladion and Kiawe rushed in and grabbed Lillie off Ash as he gasped for air as he looked at the blonde in shock.
"I FUCKING HATE YOU! YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED IN KANTO! ARGH! MOTHER IS RIGHT! MOTHER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!" Lillie screamed as her brother pinned her to the ground, allowing Kiawe to get off.
"OH! Why did you leave Gladion! MOTHER WAS SO SAD!"
Lusamine sat and pleasure that her experiment on her daughter worked.
"PATHETIC! WORTHLESS! USELESS PIECE OF SHIT! That's what you are! That's what you'll always be!" Lillie screamed directly at Ash, trying to spit on him but barely getting anywhere near her.
"What happened!?" Mallow screamed as they walked into the room.
Gladion sighed.
"My mother manipulated the memories to make her purely hate Ash…" Gladion started as Lillie screamed just at the mention of his name. "With the good ones locked away…"
"You know this how?" Zach asked.
"Fucked up family." Gladion responded.
Hau watched in horror from the computer room.
"Can we fix her?" Lana asked.
Gladion gave a conflicted look.
"I-I don't kn-know…" Gladion confessed. Mallow covered her mouth as both her and Lana began to shed a tear or two at the sight of their friend. Kiawe and Zach hugged them. Acerola gave a troubled look.
Ash gulped as he recovered from the pain between his legs and the need for air as he tried to approach Lillie who was hissing at him.
"Stay the fuck away from me!" she swore at Ash.
"Lillie! This isn't you! You have to fight it!" Ash told the blonde. She was still growling at the presence of the Kanto born.
He pulled out the black crystal necklace.
"You brought this for me on our date remember!" Ash asked desperately.
"Wait?! DATE?!" Gladion shouted in shock.
"Role with it!" Ash hissed through his teeth.
Lillies gave a painful look on her face which everyone noticed.
Elsewhere, Lusamine sat watching the look of pain on Lillies face.
"Lusamine… We might have an issue…" the Aether grunt said.
"They have figured it out. We began phase 2 now: The Call. Wicke, Faba, with me."
"That's it…" Gladion muttered. "Where is that painting she got made!?"
Ash nodded and pulled out the painting from his bag. Gladion forced her head up to look at it.
"Lillie! Remember! You got this for me for my birthday! A happy time!" Ash frantically talked to her as she groaned more and more.
Ash continued through his bag and let out Ninetales and Kirlia. They saw their trainer in horror.
"I saved your Pokemon! They are here Lillie, but they need the old Lillie! FIGHT IT!" Ash yelled as Lillie groaned louder in pain.
The next thing was the card she made for him:
Dear Ash.
I just want to wish you the best birthday ever!
From me, Nebby, Vulpix and Kirlia, thank you!
If it wasn't for you, I don't know what I would be doing.
You have given me the sense to believe and have hope.
I got Mina to do this when you and Hau were out.
So once again, happy birthday
Lillie
"Fight it Lillie!" Mallow called out followed by shouted from Lana, Acerola and Zach. Ash handed the card to Kiawe.
"Nothing is working!? Nothing is snapping her out!" Gladion shouted as Ash thought of the last thing which Gladion will kill him for later.
"Stand her up." Ash told him result in a weird look. Gladion Lifted her while Kiawe and Zach held down her legs so she wouldn't thrash about.
"You can kill me later!" Ash told Gladion.
"Wait, what?"
Ash placed his hands on her shoulders and kissed Lillie on the lips as she gave a stunned look. The room went awkwardly silent but Lillie stopped resisting as she returned the kiss back slightly. Ash didn't know if it was good or not as it was his first. Gladions jaw had dropped but he noticed the colour in Lillies eyes returned to Green.
Gladion moved away as did Zach and Kiawe allowing Lillie too to stand on her own. Ash pulled out of the kiss as Lillie loudly gasped for air and started to have a panic attack. Ash caught her and hugged her.
"Shh! Shh! I've got you! I've got you!" he told her, stroking her greasy blonde hair.
"A-A-A-Ash! ASH!" she whaled and cried. "I'm s-s-sorry! For what I said! MY MOTHER… Sh…she…She…"
"Lillie that wasn't y-"Ash tried to talk but Lillie ended up kissing him again as he returned it back.
The moment was slightly awkward for everyone else but Gladion stood there about to face his biggest fear. Acerola smiled as she was waiting for this moment, just came under this circumstances.
Ash pulled out of the kiss.
"Lillie. Turn around." Ash told her.
Lillie slowly turned to break down even more.
"Gl-Gl-g-g-g-gl-gla-Gladion?" she stuttered and covered her mouth as she was going to break down even more.
He nodded slightly. He didn't know what to say as he slowly approached her.
The two-sibling hugged.
"I will never leave you again…" Gladion told his younger sister as she clutched on to his head, hugging for about 2 minutes.
"WOOO! We did it!" a voice they all knew too well, shouted outside.
"Hau!" Lillie cried as she ran over to hug the Melemele native.
"Lia!"
"Tale!"
Lillie left Hau and saw her Pokemon.
"Kirlia… Vul-Ninetales!" she cried as she hugged the two.
Ash removed his shirt as he had a blank undershirt on and passed it too Lillie to have some protection. Hau just happened to have a pair of spare shorts that he claimed he might need if he was to go surfing.
Ash was still holding Lillie as she was still shaken up.
"Alright. Now what." Zach asked.
"We stop Lusamine…" Gladion told them.
"Nebby…" Lillie muttered. "Where is Nebby?"
"With Lusamine… She is going to do the unthinkable…" Gladion announced.
"She is going to bring in some Ultra-Beasts."
(Kalos)
"Hoopa needs to understand. Greninja-San and Zygarde-sans need to go to Alola?" Hoopa talked.
The two nodded as Hoopa opened up a ring.
"What island should Hoopa send you too?"
Greninja and Zygarde looked at each other and realized they didn't know where in Alola Ash was.
"Uh... Island one?" Squishy said pointing towards the ring which had Melemele on it.
"Have a good trip! Say hi to Ash-San for Hoopa!"
The three jumped into the ring as they appeared in Alola straight away.
"Let's do this."
Authors Note: Oh boy... Cranked this out lmao. Reason of the high amount of uploads is due to me hyped for USUM and that we are around the UB part of the story now. Though now I might slow it down by like a few days lmao.
So Lillie and Ash share there first kiss, Lillie is reunited with both her Pokemon and her brother.
Ash beat Nanu, but Hau did not so that is something to look out for.
Greninja and the Zygarde cores are in Alola now.
And the most devastating chapter for Alola is too come...
The more I look at the Ultra Recon Squad the more I fall in love with them... Idk why though. If they are a evil team, they just provide something different compared to others and I don't know what.
Now with Custom UB's, I might not use all of them due to the new ones for USUM being added.
New Alolan forms should be in the game but lets say it was not: Would you guys be interested in Custom Alolan forms?
QUESTIONS:
when r u going to update?
An hour after you posted this pointless review. Before this, it was on the 7th. Today is the 9th (My time, New Zealand).
Delia Ketchum. How is Ash's mother doing?
She is still kicking around. I do have reasons for her not featuring as much.
So what do you think Guzzlord's home world will be like in the games?
I reckon it will be like a ravaged plain that has like barely anything.
Will Squishy and Z2 have some sort of Z move? (If we are bros reales it on the 9.10 its my b-day)
They can use them but a custom, okay that might be a bit broken. Birthday on the 9th huh. So its the 8th in Germany. Well, Happy birthday. Ironically, mine is the 10th of 10th so we are October bros.
So how close are we to the second half of the story now?
Seeming now, next chapter, The Ultra Beasts are being ported in. We just have Poni Island, Ultra Space, Pokemon League. Not long :)
Olivia didn't question her three trial captains up and leaving their posts like that?
Lowkey forgot about that completely lmao.
Will Ash find the Dawn Stone for (what i'm assuming) Kirlia to evolve into Gallade sooner than he does in the games?
He will evolve, just a when.
I'm writing my first fanfic series 'Pokémon Twilight'. It maybe short because of letter limit in my old phone. Can you review it and rate it? Here is the URL: .
Um, I think something messed up. I'd be happy to have a look though if you get the link sorted.
So thats all! As always Review, suggest or PM me! Spectre out!