ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 64 - The Ultra Recon Squad
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It was the next day after the events that occurred at the Hau'Oli city school.
Dulse and Zossie had been taken to the Aether foundation for further questioning.
Zossie laid on her bed inside of the cell room she now inhabited.
She was terrified.
They had failed, and it was as simple as that.
Not only that but if they make it out alive, who knows what Dulse might end up doing to her after she defended Lillie.
"Stay calm Zossie… Soliera will help you." She muttered to herself with her teeth chattering.
Elsewhere in the Aether foundation, Dulse had his hands cuffed up and restrained so the only form of violence he could do was verbal.
Gladion, Nanu, Ash and Lillie stood behind a glass wall as he just sat there.
"Who are they?" Ash questioned as he held on to Lillie's hand.
She was still shaken up about the little incident that occurred yesterday, but she knew she'd be fine.
"Better question…" Nanu muttered as the three young adults turned to the old Kahuna. "What are they?"
"What do you mean?" Gladion asked.
"They aren't from this world. Simple as that." Nanu explained. "Notice the advanced techno-like suit and the awfully pale skin. We call them visitors, but I call them Dimensional Terrorists."
The purple haired predator sat in his room calmly but sent a sharp glare down the spines of them all.
"You know them?" Ash asked.
"Not him or the girl. But I have encountered their kind before." Nanu explained.
Lillie turned to her older brother.
"And you knew about them as well Gladion?" She questioned.
Gladion continued to look at the being they had captured.
"When I first became president, Nanu tipped me off about their existence." Gladion explained. "I didn't know what to expect. All I know is our father had some sort of connections with them."
Lillie paled at the last bit of her brother's sentence.
Gladion sighed and entered the heavily guarded room.
He sat down in front of Dulse who just stared at him.
"So, you are a member of this Ultra Recon Squad?" Gladion questioned.
Dulse shrugged his shoulders.
"I might be." He responded.
"I hope you know who you are messing with here." Gladion told him.
Dulse motioned forward slightly.
"Same here human."
"Tsk, you say that but you're not to far off one yourself. Kind of contradicted yourself there."
"We are beyond your simple earth mind. Yeah, we look like you, but we have thousands of years of evolution ahead of you." Dulse snapped.
"I see this is off to a great start." Gladion muttered. "You nearly killed my sister yesterday."
"Does it look like I care? I had a job."
Lillie thought she was going to be okay listening in to all this, but what he said next made her ill.
"A job? To drown an innocent young woman?" Gladion pressed.
Dulse again shrugged his shoulders.
"Again, I had a job. I've killed before and I will again. She wasn't talking, and I will confess, maybe I didn't let her get a chance to talk but to see the life drain out of her eyes!" The man said.
"You're a psychopath. We are done." Gladion muttered as the two guards grabbed Dulse and escorted him out.
Zossie was soon brought shortly afterwards.
Ash hugged Lillie as she was shaking even more than before.
Sure, the man Dulse assaulted, kidnapped and nearly killed her but this one with Zossie was more personal.
The fact she had 'a dimensional terrorist' just sitting there in her class the whole time, knowing she could have gotten Dulse or attacked herself at any time made her shudder.
"Zossie? Isn't it?" Gladion questioned.
The young girl nodded. She was frightened.
Gladion had to take a more careful approach at this one.
"My name is Gla-"
"Gladion. Y-Yeah, I know." She said nervously.
Gladion nodded and sighed.
"How does someone so young be a part of a dimensional terrorist group?" Gladion asked.
Zossie shook her head.
"We are not that, believe me." Zossie assured him.
"I believe other wise thanks to some of your actions." Gladion mentioned to her.
She realised she needed to stick up for herself.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Zossie muttered.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way. We know you and your associate were responsible for the abduction of 4 children, three cases of assault and damage to public property."
Zossie dropped the tough act instantly and looked downwards with heavy eyes.
"Listen. From what I've heard, you defended my sister which I am thankful for. But that doesn't mean you get off scot-free." Gladion explained as the girl looked up.
"O-okay. Wh-what do you want to know?" She muttered.
"Why are you here?" Gladion questioned as Ash, Lillie and Nanu listened eagerly outside.
"We are after a traitor that stole something from us that we need back. We followed his Ultra Warp coordinates and ended up finding his partner was killed. Upon entering here, we received a large amount of ultra-energy which is radiating off Ms. Lillie and Mr. Ash." Zossie explained.
The young couple looked at each other.
"They are walking food for any Ultra Beast that might end up here." She continued.
"They are looking for something. Do you know what that is?"
She shook her head.
"Our Captain might though, Phyco." Zossie explained.
Nanu paled as that name rang right through his head and down his spine.
"Nanu, what's wrong?" Ash muttered as he saw the disturbed look on the Dark Type Kahuna.
"I'll explain later…" he muttered and turned back to the action inside.
"Your… Captain?" Gladion repeated as Zossie nodded her head.
"He has been with the Ultra Recon Squad for his entire life. He might be able to shed some light into this…" Zossie explained.
"Alright. You know how to contact this man?"
Zossie nodded again.
Gladion looked at the glass window and looked at everyone.
"Okay. How does tonight sound?"
Zossie nodded and was then escorted back to her cell as Gladion meet up with everyone outside.
"Phyco…" Nanu muttered.
"You know him?" Gladion questioned the Kahuna.
"Yeh. Yeh, I do." Nanu explained.
He took them to a cafe, which resulted in everyone being kicked out, save for one or two to serve food.
"It was during the original Ultra Beast disaster." Nanu explained.
The three young adults looked at each other, ready for whatever light Nanu had to tell them.
"Remember three years ago, you questioned why your father was in cahoots with these monsters?" Nanu directed at Gladion who nodded back. "You're about to get your answer."
"It was business to know as I was about of the international police along with my two assistants. The name Looker sound familiar?" Nanu started.
"Wait? You know Looker?" Ash said, quick to respond.
Nanu nodded.
"Who was the third?" Lillie soon followed up.
"She doesn't matter yet. I'll get to that." Nanu added on which confused the group.
"I was yet to become the Kahuna of Ula'Ula as the current was still alive and healthy. The International Police and Aether Foundation still saw eye to eye. I got along with your father very well."
"Mohn aspired to go big and wanted to take the next big step in the world by finding what was truly out there." Nanu explained as he pointed to the sky. "And thus, Operation Ozom went underway. A group of hard working and dedicated scientists, researching energy waves and disturbances in space."
"You mean like the Dimensional Research Lab? Where Burnet worked?" Lillie asked.
"I'll get to that."
Nanu looked down as they all saw tons emotion on the face of the old Kahuna. Something rare to pop off his face.
"A small group of hikers from the Unova region had accidentally discovered something that would change the whole course of this operation." Nanu added as he recalled the memory.
"The Aether foundation were quick to be notified, so was the International Police. One of them had slipped down the side on Ten Carat Hill and twisted his ankle. They went to go help him but were soon attacked by a flock of angry Spearows. Panicking and screaming, they all held onto each other and ran in to a small but hidden opening."
"Apparently, the Spearow didn't follow them in, well, wherever they were." Nanu added. "They had a discovered a giant hollow cave with in the hills. There sat a crater that scientists estimate to be around fifty-hundred thousand years old."
"The walls of the cave had been burned at by like some move with crawling marks fossilised into the ground. When we arrived, I had never seen nor felt anything like it before. Both me and your father agreed that this was the big break in the operation."
Nanu paused for a split moment.
"Then we found it." Nanu muttered as he pulled out a phone. "Ignore the quality of the picture, back in those days, this is the best we had."
On screen was a large black crystal shard.
"A crystal?" Lillie asked as they all looked at it more.
"I still can't describe it but yeh, we'll call it a crystal for now." Nanu said, putting away the phone.
"The scientists scanned the cavern and the place was dripping with an unknown energy source, but when waved over that crystal, the machine crashed. One of the scientists tried to pick it up… But as he touched it, he was blasted back in a light of fire. I had never seen anything more gruesome."
Ash tried to picture it but saw the discomfort on Nanu's face as he relived the horror.
"Noises echoed around the cavern, almost like voices. We got a machine to pick the crystal up and into a safety container as we evacuated the place and making it that Ten Carat Hill was banned upon entering till further notice."
"So, what does that have to do with the Ultra Recon Squad?" Gladion asked.
"Whatever those voices were that echoed within the cave was actually a distress call or signal. Whatever you want to call it."
Nanu looked to the side.
"I remember that day as clear as if it was only yesterday…"
(20 years ago, Aether foundation)
Nanu and Looker were allowed into the foundation as the President had called for their assistance.
An older man with shaggy blond hair turned to find the much younger Nanu and Looker.
"Ah! Nanu, Looker. Thanks for responding so quickly!" Mohn said to the pair.
"No worries. What's up?" Nanu said back.
"Right. Follow me!"
Mohn escorted the pair to a room filled with scientists with the same black crystal sitting on a table.
"We did some tests and nothing on earth has a match to it, so we believe that it is indeed from outer space." Mohn explained.
"But yet it has the power to set things alight?" Looker questioned.
Mohn nodded.
"Though, this is the reason why I called you two in. When testing last night, a hidden radio frequency was found and translated." Mohn explained as he handed the two policemen a piece of paper.
Nanu read it out loud. "We are coming." He muttered. "What does that mean?"
Mohn shrugged his shoulders.
"It could be nothing or it could be something, but I just wanted to request if you could maybe just camp it out here for the night?" Mohn asked.
Nanu nodded.
"No issues."
It was roughly about 2 in the morning when the security alarm for the whole building went off.
Nanu and Looker were the first to reaction to the alarm as they were already awake.
Mohn and his wife, Lusamine were soon to follow up.
Mohn pulled out a phone.
"Visuals!" He demanded into the phone.
The Aether employee looked at the screen and saw two individuals. A tall man and a young girl.
"If you are listening… We show no harm. We just want to talk." The man said to the Aether employee. "We know you have the crystal."
The Aether employee responded back to Mohn.
"They say they are no harm but know about some crystal thing?"
Mohn gasped and came quick to a decision.
"Let them in."
Nanu and Looker turned to the President in confusion.
"What?" Looker blurted out as the doors in front of them opened as Lusamine stepped behind her husband.
Like the Aether employee spotted, there were two individuals, a man and a girl.
They both wore a weird spacesuit but with different features such as for the girl was a skirt at the end. They were both awfully pale with the man, who looked about in his early forties having a greying goatee and beginning to grow a moustache while the young girl had blue hair but tied into a ponytail. She barely looked no older than or 15.
"Greetings humans of Alola." The man said to them all.
"Who are you. Answer me and I might not shoot you!" Nanu threatened.
"I am Officer Phyco of the Ultra Recon Squad and this is my partner, Soliera." The man known as Phyco explained. "We received a signal from thousands and thousands of light years away which has located to here."
Everyone looked at each other, confused by the statement the strange man presented.
"Excuse me?" Lusamine was the first to speak up.
"Oh! Apologises! I forgot to explain. Heh. The excitement of this connection got ahead of me." Phyco explained. "Soliera? Would you mind?"
"Yes Officer Phyco. Ehem. This might sound a little out there but please do listen. We are not native to this world. We are an advance species of humans, thousands and thousands of light years away. The item in your possession is something we have been looking for due to its dangerous nature." The girl known as Soliera explained.
Nanu turned to Mohn.
"You don't believe this shit, do you?" Nanu hissed as he was prepared to shoot at any moment.
Mohn shrugged his shoulders.
"Can't hurt to let them look." Mohn confessed as everyone looked at him in shock.
Phyco chuckled.
"Thank sir. Now, would you mind?"
Mohn introduced everyone and soon escorted the pair to the room with the crystal in it.
The two looked at it long and harder before Soliera spoke up.
"Officer Phyco? Is it actually?" She started before being cut off.
"Yes… Indeed, it is…" Phyco muttered as he examined every inch of the mysterious crystal. "It is a piece of the Blinding one."
"The blinding one? What's that?" Looker questioned.
"A terrible monster that is capable of devouring light and ending worlds." Soliera explained.
Mohn gave a concerned look.
"I will explain a bit more, thank you for that brief summary Soliera. Ehem! Notice our pale skin? The world where we reside had the light stolen from the blinding one 100's of thousands of years ago. We should have died but our ancestors soldiered on and continued to thrive till this day."
"A… World without light?" Lusamine muttered as she held her husband's hand.
"Yes. It appears the Blinding one may have came to your world or that this shard of it's body fell off somewhere through Ultra warp and crashed here?"
Mohn had a plan in mind.
"How long do you plan to stay out of curiosity?" Mohn asked.
"So long as we know that this world is safe from the Blinding one. Why do you ask?" Phyco responded.
Mohn explained about Operation Ozom and the two beings decided to stay.
Mohn offered the pair a room each to stay in but along the way, they were interrupted by the sound of crying.
"Oh Gladion…" Lusamine stressed as she ran to her son's room to find the shocking discovery. "MOHN! Gladion is struggling to breathe!"
The president's eyes widened as he rushed to his wife's aid who was panicking.
Gladion was crying and was struggling to breathe but soon calmed down and began to breathe normally again.
"Might something be wrong, Mr. Aether?" Phyco questioned.
"Oh… It's just our son. When he was born premature and has always had breathing issues but they have started to get worse and worse…" Mohn explained.
Nanu stood the door and listened.
"Might I help then?" Phyco offered.
"I need a smoke." Nanu coughed half way through the story.
"Don't stop there for a break!" Lillie complained as Nanu groaned.
"I call bullshit on this whole story. I've never had breathing problems!" Gladion snapped.
"No shit you haven't because they did something too you to fix you!" Nanu spat back as he lit the cigarette in his mouth and blew the toxic smoke into the young president.
Gladion stood down and then thought that some alien-like human race did something to him gave chills down his spine.
"Anyways… They stayed around and toured Alola for about a year and eventually left. Your father allowed them to keep the crystal. They gave little background on what the Blinding One was, but they gave us basic information to help Operation Ozom." Nanu explained.
"Like?"
"Well, the existence of Ultra Beasts, the concept of fallers which we'll get to in a second. Also, Ultra energy AKA the aura a totem pokemon obtains in battle." Nanu went in further.
"That wasn't the last of them. Shit went down about two-ish years later when we discovered… A girl we will call Mary." Nanu explained, hiding the identity of Anabel for now.
"Looker and I responded to a call about some girl washed up on the beach, terrified of everything around her. All she could remember was her name, something about a tower and Mr. Glutton."
"This Mary girl was a faller?" Lillie asked.
Nanu nodded.
"Foolishly enough, we got permission to let her stick with me and Looker and trained her to apart of the police, something I regret to this day." Nanu said with a sick look.
"Cue Phyco and Soliera again."
(18 years ago…)
Nanu was chilling in his house with his young daughter near him. His wife was in the kitchen, preparing dinner. She was also in the force so for the pair, it was love at first sight.
His phone vibrated as he saw it was from Mohn.
"Yo?"
"Nanu. Those people… Phyco and Soliera are back…" Mohn explained.
Nanu's thoughts raced all over the place.
"On my way."
Nanu explained to his wife that duties called, which she didn't mind.
About an hour later, the brand-new Kahuna of Ula'Ula Island arrived at the Aether foundation.
He entered the artificial island to be greeted by Looker, 'Mary', a very pregnant Lusamine, Mohn and the members of the Ultra Recon Squad, Phyco and Soliera.
"Ah! Officer Nanu, so good to see you again! I heard word you are one of the leaders in this world now? Congratulations! A shame we are here on rather unfortunate circumstances." Phyco explained.
"We are in reports of an Ultra Wormhole being opened somewhere on the location known as Poni Island. We are not sure of what landed out of it and all we know is that it is a threat and a danger to the public." Phyco explained to the group.
"Our aura readings have picked it up of a typing combination of dark and dragon though, if that helps." Soliera followed up.
"Dark huh?" Nanu questioned curiously. "So, this is one of those Ultra beasts things?"
The two members of the Ultra Recon squad nodded.
"Mister Nanu." Mary spoke up.
"What is it?"
"I think it would be wise if get back up. From what the these two have explained, I do not think just us will be suitable."
Nanu thought on it and understood.
"You're right. We can't take any risks."
Nanu called up his wife who got in contact with her colleague.
Nanu also made the phone call to his wife's brother who was the apart of the Alolan navy, simply due to his family tree and the tradition of royal blood to serve in the navy. His wife spent time in the army so she was brought along was well.
Nanu, Looker, Mary, Phyco and Soliera met up with them all on Poni island as they trekked through, following a high-tech scanner.
"I repeat: Only attack if we make the first move, these things are not normal Pokemon." Phyco explained as they found themselves wandering outside of Resolution Cave. "I can smell death down there…"
"Or… Maybe because you can smell rotting flesh?"
Phyco looked at them and shook his head as they ventured down.
They toured through the ghostly like cave as there was no sign of life except for a loud growling sound at the end.
Nanu motioned to get into position as everyone did.
Mary was to make the first shot followed by everyone.
Blood stained the ground with guts and brains sprawled everywhere just like out of a perfect horror film.
Nanu peeked around the corner of his station and saw it.
A giant black monster with claws on the side and a large swinging tail, was munching away at a pile of pokemon corpses.
Nanu waited for the signal from Mary but she never fired.
Nanu looked over to see her standing dead silent with a look of horror on her face.
He mouthed the word shoot, but it flew right by her as she stumbled back.
That's when Nanu thought to the day they met…
Her name, a tower and Mr. Glutton…
Was this Mr. Glutton.
Mary stumbled back and knocked a rock which echoed the whole cave as the UB looked up from its snacked and turned directly at Mary who screamed.
"FUCK! FIRE!" Nanu shouted as everyone there threw everything they had, including the Pokemon they had with them.
Phyco and Soliera released some 'Pokemon' of their own.
"Go Poipole!" Soliera shouted.
"Spirvenen, go."
To beings none of the humans had ever seen before appeared and hissed at the UB.
The monster had no interest in battling them but did want some extra food.
Mary ran away and hid behind a rock as the monsters' swinging tail impaled the Colleague of Nanu's wife.
"ROGER!" She shouted as in one bite, the body was now gone from existence.
The monster slammed its foot into the ground as the area shook with rocks falling from the roof, one landing very nearby the group and crushing Acerola's mother.
"ANNA!" Her husband cried as Nanu spear tackled with the Ultra Beast soon eating her in one go.
"WE NEED TO RUN!" Looker shouted.
The remaining group ran for it as Phyco and Soliera walked with the hungry Ultra Beast running towards them.
"Throw it." Phyco commanded as Soliera threw the crystal that was found in Ten Caret Hill right at the Ultra Beast.
A bright light glowed out of the large mouth and soon, an explosion occurred out of it's mouth with the humans watching as that part of the cave soon concealed itself.
They scampered out of the cave, mentally wounded at the sight of what that all was.
"Mission done. The Ultra Beast is neutralized." Phyco announced as Acerola's father cried on the ground. "I apologise for your loss."
Phyco and Soliera soon left as Nanu, Looker and Mary returned to Aether foundation with the rest going back to Nanu's place.
They explained what happened and needed a cover up story for the two deaths that had occurred…
Oh, how this day was going to get worse…
Nanu declined to stay the night at Aether and returned home. Upon arriving, he discovered the horror that awaited…
Half the house was eaten off with the remains of Acerola's father laying on the ground.
Nanu threw up at the sight and was scared to venture inside what was once his home.
And how he regretted going in further.
His wife had her torso ripped off with blood everywhere, holding on to their daughter whose head had been eaten off.
Nanu fell to ground and felt nothing but emptiness.
He crawled along the ground, regardless of the blood to get closer to the motionless bodies as they weren't coming anywhere near him.
He hugged on to them both and roared into the sky.
Aether soon learnt and Mohn and Lusamine arrived on the spot as did Looker and Mary.
"I thought they said it was dead…" Looker muttered to Mary as Aether employees recovered the body of Acerola's father.
"Depression, gambling, alcoholic, suicidal. Yeah, that's how you could describe me now. We never saw those two again or any relation to the Ultra Recon Squad… Well, till now." Nanu muttered.
"What was the Ultra Beast?" Ash asked.
"UB-05: Glutton AKA Guzzlord, the Junkivore Pokemon. Eats anything in sight and no one has ever found it's shit." Nanu explained.
"If it eats everything… Then why were there remains?" Lillie questioned.
"Exactly." Nanu muttered.
"You said they removed a breathing issue of mine, correct?" Gladion asked.
Nanu nodded.
"I wonder…"
Gladion ordered to bring Zossie back in as he sat her down at the same table as before.
He was the first to speak.
"You seem like a nice and honest girl Zossie." Gladion started. "How familiar are you with the Ultra beast, Nihilego?"
"Very. It's basic Ultra recon protocal to know the dangers of a Nihilego, especially the neurotoxins." Zossie explained.
"Does those protocals involve knowing how to knowing how to get rid of the said Neurotoxins?" Gladion questioned.
"Yeah. Why?"
"I am willing to make a deal. Your freedom if you do a small favour in extracting a lot of Nihilego toxins."
Lillie gasped as she covered her face while Ash and Nanu looked at each other.
"Oh really? Is that it?" Zossie said with a shocked look as Gladion nodded. "It's a lot easier than you think."
Gladion uncuffed her as he personally escorted her.
Ash, Lillie and Nanu followed after them as they were now outside of where Lusamine slept in her coma.
Zossie examined her.
"Damn, she got hit hard, you can tell by the hue of her skin and the texture. Alright, gimme a few hours and I'll see what I can do."
Zossie closed the blinds as Lillie sat down.
"What are we doing?" Ash whispered.
"As much as I hate her, getting Lusamine back might be key in figuring somethings out. If my father learnt of anything, he would tell her. I trust the kid." Gladion explained as he sat down.
"It's going to be a long night though…" he muttered as he looked into the bland blinds, ready to count the hours down.
Authors Note: Well. It's been awhile now hasn't it? Lmao.
Look. I am not going to make any excuses on the lack of updates, I was just lazy about it and the longer I was lazing around, the less motivated I was to write.
That's when I realized I made a promise and that was to finish this and I am sticking to it.
So I am going to do my best to get back to where we were.
Anywho, I now have a beta reader (Only took 63 chapters lmao)
And yes, I expanded on the Nanu and Looker plot of Guzzlord in the Original Sun and Moon.
So get into the billions of questions:
QUESTIONS:
In a scale of 1 to 10 how hard was Ultra Necrozma?
It's the hardest battle in all of Pokemon. And I am saying this now, don't even bring up Zoroark.
Of all of the Pokémon movies we had throughout the 20 years, what is your favorite Pokémon movie and what is your least favorite one?
I am personally not to into the movies tbh. I could be bias and say the Genesects one cuz Genesect is my favorite Pokemon but I know a lot of people don't like that film.
First off, and this is kinda minor, the description of Ash's dream. It's kinda bland. I get where you're coming from, but it needs a little work. I can actually help you if you want.
It's meant to be bland for a reason. You'll see why soon.
Second, Dulse seems a bit... over the top. What you should do (If you're going for something like this) is have him lose his patience before dunking her in the river or any other harm.
Again, there is a very prime and big reason why Dulse is like this. It's a massive part of the plot I have set up his character and it will be explained soonish.
Does Game Freak really implies that the Ultra Beasts had destroyed the non mega timeline sometime when gen 6 took place?
I've never heard this before so I doubt it but I won't deny, Guzzlords world is a alternate world of Alola so it could be. Who knows?
Any plans for Zeraora?
Yes
What Ultra Beast will Ash being facing next in the USUM arc?
All of them :P
So yeh. I am going to try my best to get back up and running (Next one has already started and yeh)
First time I've said this in awhile Lol
So as always, Review, Suggest or PM me! Spectre out!