A/N: What is this?! I'm updating one day earlier than planned?! Yep. I got kinda impatient with myself, so I decided to upload this one day before the original day I planned out. The uploading schedule is still every two weeks. I will most likely update this again around July 25th, a Saturday. I'll be a lot busier in later July, so I won't be able to update (slightly) early for a while. This chapter goes into the powers of aura guardians and psychics a little bit through Aurora's interaction with Team Rocket. I hope ya like it.
EDIT: I edited through this on April 22nd, 2018. Happy reading~
Disclaimer: Pokemon is owned by Game Freak and Nintendo. This story is my idea, though.
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chapter 3: Rocket Intervention
"Well, that was a rough landing for all of us," Aurora thought, rubbing her head.
As her vision cleared from the blasting off, she started to survey her surroundings. She was deep into a thick and well-developed forest. From the distance, she could see the stadium, but it was a faded shadow. They had landed right before the cave to Victory Road, near the intersection of Snowbelle City and Santalune City. Luckily, not too many trees were toppled from the crash landing and neither Aurora nor Team Rocket was hurt of the landing. This begged the question.
Where is Team Rocket? Or rather, where's Pikachu?
She looked around and she couldn't see the electric mouse or the mercenary group. Perhaps they were still under the deflated Meowth head? Once Aurora was fully conscious, she decided not to worry about the inept members and start looking for Pikachu. She truly didn't want to fight them, but she would do anything that was necessary to find and give Pikachu back to Ash.
No one deserves their strongest and most loyal companion to be taken away from them. Aurora walked over towards the Meowth head; she noticed it starting to move slightly. She figured Team Rocket were beginning to stir, so she decided to keep a respectable distance away. Aurora climbed one of the nearby tall trees. They couldn't see where she was, but she could see them perfectly. An aerial view never hurt anyone.
Jessie immediately moved the Meowth head over her as she woke up. This revealed a still passed out James, Meowth and Pikachu. Miraculously, Pikachu was still trapped in his cage and the cage showed no signs of being broken.
"James! Meowth! Wake up!" Jessie said shaking up James and Meowth roughly. James and Meowth were none too pleased with being woken up so rudely. Both were about to yell at the person who did it. Upon becoming fully conscious, they noticed that the culprit was none other than Jessie and decided to back off. They didn't want to ignite Jessie's anger, especially since she can easily become furious.
"What happened?" James said groggily.
"Yeah, we never pass out during a blast off like that," Meowth said. The Scratch Cat Pokémon looked around. There were too little people present. Someone else should have been there. "Hey! Dat adult twerpette is missing!"
"He's right. The Champion is missing. She must have woken up before we did." James agreed.
"Whether she woke up or whatever, if I find her, she's going to have to pay to get rid the damages she brought to the balloon," Jessie said with fire in her eyes. James backed away slightly from the somewhat vain Rocket. From the trees, Aurora snickered, but not loud enough for the trio to hear. "She expects me to pay for a Pokémon stealing balloon? That has to be a joke."
"The important thing is that we still have the twerp's Pikachu with us. We can still give him to da boss!" Meowth said optimistically.
"I wonder who the Rocket boss is. I may have to get a bit closer in order to find out," Aurora thought, curious. She decided that was exactly what she would do. She decided to scare them to see how they would react. They looked like a bunch of wimps to her. Jumping from branch to branch, she made the tree leaves ruffle, at least, the ones with no Pokémon on them. She was extremely agile, almost acting she was a Pokemon herself. She snickered in her thoughts, "Let's see how long I can distract them, heh."
"What's that?" Meowth looked up at the trees. He noticed a lot of shaking in the leaves and branches. The forest was alive and bristling with activity. He wondered why and started to get nervous. Knowing Team Rocket's luck, anything could happen. He began to wonder if the had disturbed a hive of Beedrill.
"Maybe a flock of harmless Fletchling?" James said uncertainly.
"I don't know, but I sure don't want to stay and find out. Let's grab Pikachu and go." Jessie attempted to grab Pikachu's cage, but instead found another hand on it. It was Aurora's.
"You!" Jessie seethed with rage.
"Hello..." Aurora smiled, waving her hand. In the moment of distraction, Aurora grabbed the cage and jumped before Jessie could grab her. Aurora flipped to be about twenty feet away from the Rocket Trio. Although Team Rocket acknowledged that Aurora did something no normal person could, they cared more about taking Pikachu than a superhuman feat.
"Hey! Get back here with our Pikachu! We stole it fair and square!" James said chasing after Aurora.
"Yeah, like I'm really going to listen to you," Aurora said sarcastically. As James got closer, Aurora kicked him directly in the stomach. James grunted as landed on his rear.
"James!" Jessie as she appeared at his side. She turned to Aurora, "How dare you do that to him?!"
Aurora frowned, "You've seen nothing yet. You are weak and spineless. I show no sympathy towards petty thieves who take away a Pokémon's liberty."
James said, "We don't need to run to chase you. We can easily destroy you three to one."
"These three are a bunch of idiots," Aurora thought in observation of the three, "They aren't a threat at all. I don't even need to use a Pokémon to defeat these chumps from the looks of it."
"Oh? Is that so? Well, make me eat my words. I think you three are weak and spineless to steal other's Pokémon, especially a weakened one like Pikachu. People like you make me sick," Aurora said, visually showing her annoyance at the Rocket trio. She was irritated that they would interrupt her match with Ash. When they stared into her now yellow glowering eyes, they shivered slightly.
"Maybe we shouldn't mess with her…" Meowth thought, somewhat afraid. James was having the exact same thought.
"Ugh! I will not allow her to talk to us like that. Somehow, she has a domineering presence that she didn't seem to have in battle," Jessie thought with jealousy, "She didn't even have to yell to make those two shiver."
"Well, whatever! We're going to show you whose boss!" Jessie broke the silent tension.
"Yeah!" James and Meowth said. Jessie was just what they needed to fight this mysterious trainer.
James and Jessie each took out a Poké Ball and threw them. Out came a small squid-like Pokémon with large eyes. The other was a somewhat large pumpkin shaped Pokémon that had two flashlight-like pores.
"Ah, Inkay and Gourgeist," Aurora recognized immediately. Aurora whispered to the still knocked out Pikachu, "Don't worry. I'll get you out of that cage, Little Chu, but after I deal with these three. Stay safe."
She put down the cage behind her and looked at her opponents. "Since we are alone, I don't have to worry about hiding some of my… secrets."
The Rocket Trio looked puzzled. Secrets?
"Meowth, I'm pretty sure that you can feel what I mean. You too, Inkay and Gourgeist." Aurora continued.
Meowth didn't know what she was talking about. He squinted his eyes at Aurora, but still didn't see what she meant. Then, Aurora's body appeared to have yellow stuff around her. It looked and felt like pure energy. It was the same stuff he'd seen that Riley guy use in Sinnoh, but it was different in color.
"Yeah, I feels somthin' alright, but I don't know what it is," Meowth admitted.
"I don't see anything. What are you talking about?" James said trying to squint his eyes to see what Aurora and Meowth meant. He still didn't see what they were talking about.
"Pokémon do have a better sense of perception than humans. How about a visual demonstration, yes?" Aurora glared at the trio deviously. Aurora snapped her fingers. She made the bumbling trio get encased in the same yellow energy. It became visible to both Jessie and James because they were outlined in yellow.
"Hey, what gives?" Meowth wondered.
"What's happening?" James tried to move, but found that he couldn't.
"What did you do to us?" Jessie demanded an explanation.
Aurora murmured darkly, "Like I've said, I have no tolerance towards people who steal Pokémon from their partners."
Jessie commanded, "Help get us out of this Gourgeist! Use Shadow Ball on her!"
"You attack too, Inkay! Psybeam!" James added.
From her mouth, Gourgeist created a ball of ghastly energy. Inkay summoned a beam of psychic energy. Aurora turned and saw the attacks come straight for her. From her hands, she created a stream of fire which hit both attacks and caused an explosion. Aurora now had fiery energy coming from her fists.
"W-what are you?" James said in observation of her flaming hands. At this point, even Jessie became very frightened at the mysterious trainer. She didn't know what to think about what she'd seen.
"Why don't you find out via battle?" Aurora said indifferently. She trapped Gourgeist and Inkay in same yellow energy. She made all the Rocket member come close together, but not uncomfortably close. "Oh wait… you can't. This is for what you tried to do to Chi-Chi."
Before she could make any movement, her five remaining Poke Balls began to rumble. All five of her Pokémon came out at once: Chari, Kairyu, Suzie, a Sylveon and Rio.
"Aurora, stop!" Kairyu said. He wrapped his tail around Aurora. He constricted her not to the point of it being torturous, but enough to trap her.
"You know if we let you do what you're planning, you wouldn't forgive yourself. Don't. It's not worth it." The Sylveon pleaded.
Aurora closed her eyes. Kairyu became encased in the same yellow energy James, Jessie and Meowth were trapped in. However, out of all of them, only Kairyu moved. Aurora forced Kairyu to loosen his grip around her good enough to escape. She jumped out and landed right beside her Dragon typed friend. She started to pet Kairyu's head. She murmured, "Relax. I'm not planning on doing anything crazy."
She continued, "Why should I let them go when they will repeat the same action over and over?! Stealing over and over again? What would happen if they stole one of you like they stole Ash's loyal companion? How would you feel then?"
"It's not like you to have such petty feelings against a worthless mercenary group." Rio started. This earned a frown from the Sylveon and a glare from Team Rocket. How dare he call them worthless? If they weren't trapped, they'd teach that Lucario a thing or two.
"Feelings aren't petty! It makes us whole and it makes us individuals!" The Sylveon said in annoyance.
"Agreed," Kairyu stated.
"Pardon my poor choice of words, Happy and Kairyu." Rio tried to appease the Sylveon and Dragonair. Considering they were Aurora's Aspects of Emotion and Individuality respectively, he understood why they were less than pleased at his comment. He then turned to his trainer, "Have you lost your sense of duty? An aura guardian is not supposed to abuse their power."
"Aura guardian? So that's what she is. Still… how is she able to summon fire from her hands?" James thought.
"I still have my sense of duty, Rio. You just don't agree with the approach I'm taking. An aura guardian is also supposed to help out Pokémon and nature in general." Aurora countered, "You know this better than any of my partners, being my Aspect of Wisdom."
"True… but deep inside you, you know it's wrong to trap Team Rocket like this. I can sense that they aren't as bad as the Zurui goons. There's actually some good in them. Their wisdom is misguided." Rio argued.
Aurora still had a glowering expression. Her Pokémon were afraid of having to use force to keep her from doing something too rash. A visible red aura now radiated around Aurora. Her Pokémon got into battle position, ready to fight.
"I know it's wrong to trap them, but if I don't, they will cause more harm. After sixteen years of living, Ash is the most important thing to me. If these guys have been tormenting him for six years of his life, they won't stop. The only thing I can see happening to stop them is an aura wipe." The red aura started to disappear around Aurora. Team Rocket was freed from the yellow aura.
"Wait… how did you know that we've seen the twerp for six years?" James asked accusingly.
"There are a lot of things I can see if I trap you and that includes your aura. Our aura becomes intertwined. Aura shows memories, both yours and mine. You just need to know how to read it." Aurora responded.
"Guys, you can stop having those serious expressions. I'm not mad anymore." Aurora smiled at her Pokémon. Her Pokémon immediately obeyed, seeing her anger diminishing. Her smile faded into a frown. Aurora once against trapped Team Rocket in yellow aura and lifted them up in the air. She had a small flame on her hand as she said, "Still…"
"Waaaah! Don't do that!" Jessie complained.
"So we've been trying to steal the twerp's Pokémon for six years. It shouldn't matter to you." James said.
The same red aura surrounded Aurora once more. Her yellow eyes were seemingly glowing, like a feral wolf stalking its prey. She sauntered around the trapped Team Rocket as if she was interrogating them. Her voice turned more deadly when she hissed, "It matters a lot to me actually. You absolutely have no idea how much Ash is important to me and after seeing him again after so long… hearing you say that makes me want to lose it!"
The fiery aura on her hand intensified. She wanted to wail on this incompetent bunch so badly and to take out the frustration she's been holding in for years. She always had to hold back her true capabilities. Once again, she had to prevent herself from doing something foolish.
"Aurora…" Chari said in warning.
Aurora took a deep breath. The flames in her hands vanished and the red aura disappeared. "I'm willing to give you a new life. In exchange for never stealing Pokémon again, I'd let you out of my aura grip and you'd be free to do whatever your other passions are. Like Rio said, if I look at you three closely, I can sense you guys are just misguided."
"Misguided?!" Jessie said, annoyed. How dare some random woman say that she's misguided? "We don't have to listen to you! We aren't misguided!"
"Heh. I was hoping you'd say that. There's another, more…" Aurora thought a bit as she thought of the right word, "Fun option. At least for me. You guys… not so much."
James didn't like the way she said the word 'fun'. "And that is?"
"Going through with the aura wipe of course! Since you will not stop at your own fruition, I can stop you from remembering why you were doing kidnapping in the first place. I can dispel part of your aura that makes up a specific memory. It's advanced, but with my aura, I can take away your memories of being in Team Rocket, forcing you to live out your lives outside of Team Rocket. The process for a guardian to do that is, well… you'll find out."
"And what if we say no to both options?" Jessie snarled.
Aurora laughed and said in a menacing voice, "You aren't in any position to demand anything. As long as you pose a threat to Ash, you have no choice. So choose… or I will."
This champion was definitely the scariest one they've seen yet. The way she can switch her emotions so easily was unnerving. She can go from being happy to intimidating in an instant. Since Jessie and James were at such a close proximity, they could whisper to each other.
"What do you think, guys?" James asked.
"I knows I don't like any option," Meowth responded.
"Me either. Well, what can we do? She has us trapped in some weird aura grip. Is that what she called it?" James asked.
"Yep. That's exactly what she called it." Meowth confirmed.
"If we do the first option, we'll become deadbeats. If we do the second one, we lose our memories of each other and become deadbeats." James said.
Jessie widened her eyes. James was right. For all it was worth, being in Team Rocket was the best time she ever had because of the two knuckleheads she called family. They'd been through too much not for it to be taken away from them. And frankly, she couldn't live without James. "Well, I'm taking neither! Besides, she can't take away our memories. We can call her bluff!"
"I'm not sure, Jessie. She can summon fire from her hands and trap some weird energy. I don't think we can call any bluff here." James looked at Aurora cautiously and noticed that she went away to where Pikachu was. She had her legs in a pretzel shape with the cage on her lap. With sparks on her fingers, she was trying to open the cage. James had to suppress everything he had not to yell and say something about their fleeting prize. Unfortunately, Jessie noticed, and unlike James, she wasn't thinking strategically.
"HEY-" Jessie started.
"Hush!" James shushed, "Do you want her to know that we can see her breaking the cage?"
"You guys know that I can hear and sense what you're doing, right? Remember, aura grip?" Aurora said aloud, looking down, still trying to break the lock via electricity. "I've heard everything so far. You guys aren't so good whispers, are you?"
Jessie and James gritted their teeth. She was mocking them!
"Come over here and say it to my face!" Jessie growled.
"Don't need to. I have you exactly where I want you." Aurora looked down as she continued to work on the cage, "And even if I did go over to you and fought you woman to woman, it wouldn't be a fair matchup. From what I can read from your aura, I have many more years of combat experience than you do. I don't want to actually hurt you. If I did... well... you wouldn't be awake right now."
"The nerve-!" Jessie seethed with rage. How dare she say that to her?! When she got mad, she can beat up anyone.
"Um… Adult Twerpette, Jessie is a lot scarier when she's mad." James warned.
"I can see that," Aurora noticed, "But so am I…"
"Her aura right now is off the charts! It's so red that it's like seeing human blood. She's furious. Should I take advantage of that?" Aurora thought upon inspecting Jessie's aura. She then inspected Team Rocket as a whole further. They were trying to hide how scared and frightened they were. "It would be fun to mess with them, but that's Suzie's department. I should make this go faster…"
"Look. I'll let you go, but you'd have to stop trying to steal Pokémon. That's all I'm asking you to do." Aurora said. She snapped her fingers. The sparks stopped emanating from her fingers. "Wow! This cage is really solid! You did a good job designing this to take in electricity. I'm done playing games. Make your decision…"
Aurora's hands stopped creating sparks from their tips. Instead, a small flame formed at her fingertips, similar to a welding tool. Slowly, she was melting Pikachu's lock.
"Tick tock…" Aurora pressured. "Make your choice…"
The melted metal was starting to fall in drops on the floor.
"Wah! What do we do!?" James said. Their situation was hopeless. They were trapped in some weird energy. The woman in front of him could apparently use fire and electricity and was forcing them to leave Team Rocket. The cage door finally melted in its entirety. Aurora scooped up Pikachu in her arms and placed an ear against his chest. His breathing was steady. "Good. He's only sleeping. I've given them enough time to make their choice. Time to make it for them."
"Time's up. I've freed Pikachu. You have no leverage against me." Aurora said, placing Pikachu beside her left leg. "And now… all bets are off. Now I make the choice and I choose…" Aurora places her finger on her chin, acting like she was trying to think of which one. She already had decided what she wanted to do.
"To let us go peacefully so we can never bother you again?" James said hopefully.
"Nice try. I like that." Aurora acknowledged. She chuckled and shook her head. "I'm going to make you lose your memories of Team Rocket."
James gasped. "Please, don't! I don't want to go back to Jessibelle and my boring rich life!"
"I don't want to be a dirty Meowth on the streets again!" Meowth pleaded
"And I don't want to forget James and Meowth! They're my only pals…" Jessie said softly.
"You guys are so vulnerable around me. Who said I'd make you lose your memories of each other? I... I would never do that. I'd… I'd... be no better than..." Aurora's expression softened. Her eyes were glistening. Aurora caught herself. She didn't want them to go through what she went through when she lost her memory of Ash. Still, She needed to be intimidating to them. Stifling her sadness, she blinked. The wetness forming in her eyes was gone.
"Will she actually let us go? My life before Team Rocket was terrible and I don't wants to go through it again," Meowth thought in concern. "I'd be a freak that can walk and talks like a human to other Meowth. I'd be an outcast…"
"I may have had a rich life, but it was awful. I had nothing to do and my only pal was Growlie. I love Growlie, but then I would have to marry that terrible witch… Jessibelle," James thought in disgust. "I can't go back to that life. I just can't!"
"I'd go back to being poor and never amounting to anything! I don't want to go through a lot of unsuccessful relationships again! I wouldn't know what to do with myself," Jessie frowned.
"So sad… Team Rocket gave them a purpose to strive for." Aurora became silent. She had read their aura and it displayed their thoughts to her clearly. Aurora shook her head. She'd seen this time and time again. "This is the sad truth. Villainous teams taking advantage of innocents like these three. It's not in my place to take that purpose away… I'd be no better than the Zurui who took my memory from me. Still…" Aurora stared into Team Rocket, lost in thought. Her hands began to glow white. "Maybe… if they find new purpose… In their time in Team Rocket, did they do something else meaningful and with purpose?"
The yellow aura surrounding Jessie, James, Meowth and their Pokémon intensified. It moved furiously around the three. The light emanating from them almost looked like a yellow blur.
"Whoa! What's happening?!" James said in alarm.
"Welp, this is it! It's been nice knowing yous two!" Meowth said with finality.
"Same. James… before we lose our memories, there's something I should tell you…" Jessie started. If they were going to lose their memories, she was going to at least going to get this off of her chest.
"Yes, Jess?"
"I…"
"I found something!" Aurora yelled out aloud, cutting Jessie off. Aurora suddenly felt a wave of despair and anguish. "Wow… they've been through too much. Their combined feelings are overwhelming. I haven't felt this way in a long time. I got to make this right. They must be scared out of their wits. I need to let them know that everything is alright."
The furious waves of yellow energy began to die down. It returned to being just a yellow outline around the Rocket Trio. They were still trapped in Aurora's aura grip, but somehow, it felt good. It didn't feel suffocating, but instead felt more inviting.
"Hey, what gives? I thought yous was going ta take our memory away." Meowth pointed out.
Aurora smiled, ignoring Meowth. She said, "You guys do have some good in you, after all. Meowth, remember how you were able to cut up ramen noodles like a pro?"
"Of course I do. I'm able to slice them up real fast, yet they tasted the best!" Meowth said proudly.
"Why do you ask? Why didn't you take away our memories?" James wondered.
"When I trap you in aura, we share it. I felt as if I was going through what you went through. You guys moved me a lot. I can feel that you've been through a lot in each of your lives. I apologize for threatening you. I didn't feel what you felt as I did that. Look. I know it's not in my place to force you to change. I can encourage it, but ultimately, it is your choice. I'll let you guys go… but hear me out, please."
Team Rocket had no choice but to listen. Aurora still had them trapped.
"I found out the name of your boss from your memories. Giovanni, right?" Aurora started.
"Yes… what does this have to do with anything?" James asked, suspicious.
"He gave you a reason to keep moving. A reason to keep living. Steal Pokémon to strengthen your team. That kept you guys going. I can sense that Pikachu magnified the purpose of pleasing your boss to the point that it became obsessive. You won't stop nor rest until you steal Pikachu. Then, your purpose would be complete." Aurora elaborated. She thought, "At least in your eyes, it would be complete."
"Yeah. Yeah. Now why are you spouting out our life story?" Jessie said, increasingly irritated.
"Because… I've seen it happen to many others before. I've seen what would happen as that obsession progresses. You become deeper and deeper into an inescapable hole. You begin to lose yourself. Do things that you regret. Soon, you become a husk of your former self, mindlessly following a leader with misguided ideals. Don't you see? You guys have a lot more potential than this. Escape that hole before it's too late. I don't want to see that happen to anyone else." Aurora said as softly as she could.
"A hole, you say? We're digging ourselves deeper into a pit? You really must be out of your mind, twerpette." James said incredulously.
"You won't see it if you stay in Team Rocket. I'm pleading with you. If nothing is done, you will become shadows of your former selves. You will die unfulfilled and weak. In my home region, the regional villainous team, the Zurui, finds victims like you three every day. So many people that are unfortunate enough to believe their lies. It appears that Team Rocket does the same. You're riding on a misguided ideal that will only crash. Leave, before it's too late. You can quit Team Rocket. Don't feel trapped. That is only an illusion you've made yourselves be in. You always have the choice. I saw in your memories that you guys are able to cook pretty well and is good at disguising yourselves. You could make use of those talents in life." Aurora continued.
Team Rocket was silent. They didn't know exactly what to think.
"Here…" Aurora's eyes stopped glowing yellow. The yellow outline surrounding them vanished. The Rocket Trio could move freely again.
"You're free to do whatever you wish. Heed my warning, James, Jessie, and Meowth. You're free to make your choice. Keep in mind that if you continue to steal Pikachu, I won't stop you… for now. After all, it's your choice. After this encounter, I will make you… how you say… 'blast off' each time you try, just like Ash does already. I don't want to hurt you. I want to see you guys do well. Being in Team Rocket won't help you much at all. Think about what I've said. Farewell." Aurora returned her Pokémon in their Poké Balls except for Happy and Rio and started to walk away.
"Hey! You say to us that we have a lot of potential and yet you leave? We aren't finished with you yet!" Jessie snarled.
"You have a lot to take in. I understand that. By our next encounter, I hope you've made the choice you're most comfortable in." Aurora said sincerely. Aurora suddenly stopped in her tracks. "Oh, right... Chi-Chi's request."
"Oh, one more thing. You've seen too much. I do wish the best of luck to all three of you, but…" Aurora said without turning around. Aurora nodded her head to Rio.
"Yes, Mistress… I believe this is the right call. Farewell, Rocket Gang." Rio said emotionless.
Rio suddenly lunged towards Inkay and Gourgeist. Before either of them could react, Rio unleashed his Force Palm attack on Inkay. The force of the attack was so great that it knocked Inkay into a tree, breaking a bit of its bark. Inkay was knocked out, unconscious. In retaliation, Gourgeist summoned a ball of ghastly energy at Rio. Quickly, Rio created a bone out of pure energy and hit the Shadow Ball back at Gourgeist. Since the attack came from Gourgeist, it didn't have enough power to knock itself out. In a burst of speed, the Lucario reappeared right in front of Gourgeist and hit her in the back of her head with Bone Rush. She crumpled to the ground, unconscious.
Rio looked at the last Rocket Pokémon, Wobbuffet. He knew that Wobbuffet could counter any of his moves using Counter or Mirror Coat. He decided for the safe option. Before Wobbuffet could react with the appropriate counter move, Rio slammed in shadow induced claws into Wobbuffet. To prevent Wobbuffet from using Counter effectively, he switched up his moves. From a single paw, he finished off Wobbuffet with a Flash Cannon. The bulky psychic type fell onto the ground, down for the count.
"Hey… what giv-" Meowth started to speak, but was cut off by Rio using Force Palm on his stomach. The force of the attack was so strong that Meowth was instantly knocked out. Rio slammed his paw on Jessie and James's stomachs simultaneously, before either could react.
"Y-you…" James choked out. Darkness started to dance in his eyes. He could feel his will to stay awake waning. Eventually, James's knees gave out and he collapsed on the ground. He was clutching his stomach as he slipped into unconsciousness.
"W-witch!" Jessie said with venom. She managed to last a bit longer than James, but she too felt like she wasn't going to stay awake for much longer. She fell on her knees, giving Aurora one of the most hateful stares she'd seen in a long time. Aurora approached Jessie and spoke with her while being on her knees to keep eye contact.
"I'm sorry Jessie, but I need no one I don't trust to know of my aura abilities. It's nothing personal. I do hope that you take my advice to heart. I was being completely sincere. The next time you see me, you won't remember who I am, but you will remember what I said. You also won't remember Ash, but you will remember each other. Hopefully, you guys will lead better lives after this. Until then…" Aurora's hands started to glow a purplish hue. Jessie tried to resist its effects, but she was weakened from the surprise attack from Rio. A few moments later, Jessie was on the ground, sound asleep.
"Was the Hypnosis necessary?" Rio questioned his trainer while inspecting Jessie, James, and their Pokémon.
"Yes. I wanted to make sure she was unconscious completely. She has a strong will, that Jessie," Aurora looked up at the sky, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She felt the wind hit her face and it felt great, "You know, we were really fortunate that we landed in the forest on the other side of Victory Road. That means Ash won't be able to come here so easily. It should give us enough time, don't ya think?"
"Yes, but don't you think you should be trying to speed this up? If Ash is component, he will try to scout the area with Charizard and fly over here." Rio countered.
"I know my young one is competent. I sense they won't come immediately. You know, you can loosen up sometimes. Relax a little." Aurora opened one eye at Rio.
"You can learn to be more careful sometimes." Rio retorted. "Sometimes, I wish you were a bit more serious like when you were with Ash."
"Might I remind you that I can sense your thoughts? I'm serious when I need to be." Aurora who now had both her eyes opened, said slightly annoyed.
"Um… guys… I hate to interrupt your conversation about Aurora's seriousness, but we need to make sure Team Rocket doesn't remember us." Happy intervened.
"Right… let's do this," Aurora said telepathically, "Entrap Team Rocket in a triangle position and wait for further orders."
"Yes, Mistress!" Rio and Happy obeyed simultaneously. Happy and Rio moved to opposite sides of Team Rocket while Aurora moved to the north of them. Aurora once again surrounded Team Rocket in her aura grip. Instead of a yellow outline appearing on the bad guys, aura surrounded them. The aura varied in color. Jessie's was a fiery magenta, James's was a calm blue and Meowth's was an experienced cream color. Inkay, Wobbuffet, and Gourgeist all had purple aura.
"Happy, I need you to shift their emotions to being calm and relaxed."
Happy nodded. She extended her four ribbon-like feelers to touch the heads of Jessie, James, and Meowth. Happy became surrounded with intense red aura. She was shivering as she tried to withstand the combined might of Team Rocket's anger and confusion. Aurora folded her arms as she observed the sight. She knew that Happy had a strong will to overcome all of their jumbled up feelings. Happy closed her eyes as she began to concentrate.
Happy's body was surrounded by a light blue aura, but her feelers were drenched in red aura. She screamed as she summoned some of her energy into the sky. The burst of energy exploded and started to fall from the sky like tiny little specks. The specks resembled small stars. These specks began to touch Jessie, James, and Meowth.
The red aura around Happy's feelers began to slowly dissipate, but not completely. As a last measure, Happy sang a song that sounded soothing, like a bell. Team Rocket physically began to loosen up as they became completely submerged in a Happy's light blue aura. They began to smile in their sleep and were sleeping soundly. The red aura around Happy's feelers completely dissipated. She repeated this process for Inkay, Wobbuffet, and Gourgeist. Unlike the members that could speak in the human tongue, Happy had a significantly easier time making them calm. In no time at all, all Rocket members were sleeping soundly.
"Good job, Happy. Wish and Heal Bell did its work well. Stay in position. Rio, now it's your turn."
Rio didn't respond, but heard Aurora clearly. Rio made his paws become enhanced by his aura. There was a visible blue aura on both of his paws. He started to form six rapid-fire aura spheres at the fallen team. He launched a ball of blue aura at each individual. Then he made each aura sphere stop before they actually hit each Rocket member with Psychic. There was a large aura sphere floating right near each Rocket member, encased by a blue outline.
"Perfect. I expect nothing less from you, oh Aspect of Wisdom."
"Humph. Just as you can sense thoughts, I can sense sarcasm. Just finish this up. It's hard trying to maintain six Aura Spheres at once without being in my mega form."
"Just messing with you, Rio. You know you always do everything perfectly. Try to learn how to take a little quip."
Aurora's eyes shined a bright yellow. The blue aura encasing Team Rocket intensified. They were still happily sound asleep. Aurora brought her hands up. Team Rocket and the aura spheres were lifted higher in the air. The Rocket members were a bit of a blue blur in the air. Aurora had taken complete control over the aura spheres and the blue aura Happy and Rio created. Her two partners could only watch as Aurora continued.
One by one, the aura spheres exploded, starting to create images of the past. For Meowth's aura sphere, it showed him as a young kitten, trying to steal food from a chef. Meowth had a smile on his face from finally being able to outrun the chef for the first time.
For James's aura sphere, it showed some of the interaction he had with his Growlithe, Growlie. Growlie approached James suddenly. He forced James's hand on his head. James smiled and rubbed his head happily.
For Jessie's, it showed her in her home village as a child. She was playing outside in the snow, clearly not having a care in the world. As for the other three Pokémon, it showed good experiences they had as well. Wobbuffet's showed him winning a battle with his previous trainer; Inkay's showed him standing up to a meaner Malamar for the right his fellow Pokémon Inkay; Gourgeist's was, as young Pokémon, scaring a little girl near Halloween. It was her first fright.
As Aurora showcased these memories, she smiled. She was elated to see that Team Rocket's dreams were happy. However, she didn't want to linger on only the good dreams. She shifted the memories of them when they first met Ash in the Viridian City Pokémon Center. She saw as Pikachu sent out a shock so powerful, it electrocuted them thoroughly.
Their memories slowly shifted as Ash grew over the years fighting them. Ash and his companions changed over time. First, it was Misty and Brock, the current gym leaders of Cerulean and Pewter City. Then, it was a girl with short brown hair and a small boy with dark blue hair and glasses that she couldn't recognize. His companions shifted from a blue haired girl and Brock to a dark skinned girl and Cilan, one of the current gym leaders of the Striaton Gym.
Ash's companions stopped shifting she saw Serena and Clemont, the current gym leader of Lumiose City. She also saw a small blonde haired with blue eyes similar to Clemont girl with, so she assumed her to be Clemont's little sister, Bonnie. Aurora read up on all the regions she'd been to when it related to battling, so she knew all about the Battle Frontiers and gyms. She found it advantageous to do that just in case she wanted to challenge the new generation of trainers, just like she did with Kalos.
Jessie and James showed determination she'd never seen before in some of the memories of their encounters. They created very complicated plots to get Pikachu over the years. Ash looked like he grew in maturity over time. Aurora had tears down her eyes as she watched Ash grow up through Team Rocket's eyes. It made her sad because she knew she'd missed all of it. She decided not to dwell on it, though.
Her eyes grew brighter as the images started to shift into present time. She showed the images of what had just happened about ten minutes ago. She can see the contempt in their faces as she told Rio to knock them out. It made her sad to see that, but she knew they would move on. She needed to destroy those memories, but somehow keep her advice in their minds.
She created four pure aura spheres in her hands, two in each hand. One contained a memory of her mother nursing her back to health after she had knocked herself out from training. Aurora dimmed her eyes slightly as she used her imagination to think of her mother to have whiter hair. It worked when the graying raven haired woman soon started to have white locks of hair. The second one had an image of Chari rampaging because of an emotionally charged moment with people she came to despise. The third had an image of the unconscious Team Rocket, before Aurora started all of this. The last was imageless and contained the words that Aurora uttered to Team Rocket earlier about improving their lives.
She combined all the spheres together. She looked into the end result. It showed a Charizard losing control over itself. It aimed its Flamethrower at Team Rocket in pure confusion. They believed it to be a wild, but enraged Charizard because its eyes were red. Immobilized by fear, they hugged each other for their lives. They became badly burned by Charizard's flames and collapsed on the ground. A mysterious figure came to their rescue and calmed down the Charizard, but it is a blur to them. A week later, they woke up inside a house. Jessie and James lied on separate couches while Meowth was lying on the carpet.
They had bandages all over their bodies and had their newly washed uniform on. The other Pokémon, having woken up a few hours after they were found, were in their Poké Balls, already healed up from days before. In regards to the life-threatening experience, Jessie, James and Meowth begin to wonder if they had chosen their path well, having never been seriously injured. The mysterious figure is revealed to be a white-haired lady, together with a Gengar.
She expressed happiness that they had woken up. She was starting to be afraid that they had been knocked out for good. Over a few months, Team Rocket's burns healed. Every day, they tried to leave, but the old lady stopped them, insisting that their burns hadn't healed. She was right every time. She worked on re-strengthening their muscles and endurance over a span of six months.
Little by little, they revealed their origins to the old woman in confidentiality, feeling like they could trust her. Eventually, the day came for Team Rocket to leave. She expressed sadness over their departure and even claims that they are like to her children. Team Rocket expressed gratitude for all the old lady had done for them. Not wanting them to get hurt anymore, she gave them some parting advice, the exact same advice as what Aurora said.
Team Rocket thanked her and started to head off, moving away from the cottage they've had refuge in for months. For the next few years afterward, they took to trying out new things and still had indecision on what to do to this day.
Aurora held the fabricated aura sphere in her left hand. She smiled. No doubt they would believe this fake memory. It seemed so sincere.
"My imagination is vast, but I never knew I could create something so expansive. I do wish them the best of luck and maybe they'll reconsider being in Team Rocket. All right. The only thing left to do is to embed the memory in their minds," Aurora thought.
She knew that humans will cause any empty space in their minds to be fill with fabricated memories. After all, she'd been through it herself. She felt guilty to do this to Team Rocket, but at the same time, thought that it was necessary for the long run. She wanted to give Team Rocket a second chance to do things in life that were much more fulfilling, but also make sure they stayed away from Ash. She hoped she was doing the right thing. Her gut was telling her that she was.
Aurora said telepathically, "All right, Rio and Happy. I just need one more thing from you two. I need a sphere of positive energy and sphere of negative energy."
"Right." Happy formed a shimmering ball of unique pink energy, almost as if she was forming power from the moon itself.
"The positive power of creation…"
"From his paws, Rio formed a sphere a ghastly energy."
"The negative power of destruction…"
Aurora herself formed a ball of pure blue energy in her right hand. "The power of three different energy spheres should destroy their memories Team Rocket in the last six years or so and be replaced by the new one in my hand. When I say 'go' launch your attacks at the visual memory you see right above the Rocket Trio. May Lord Arceus and Lady Mew bless their souls."
Aurora aimed her right hand at the image above the Rocket Trio. Now, it was showing Aurora's hands being on fire as she was talking with her Pokémon in front of Team Rocket.
"Go!"
Rio and Happy complied. Simultaneously, the jackal and canine-feline hybrid launched their sphere based attacks on the memory. Aurora rounded the two attacks off with a neutral aura sphere. The attacks hit the recent memory at the same time. Aurora could sense Team Rocket shuddering as the memory exploded in a bit of light. Now, nothing was floating above Team Rocket. A black visage of emptiness was right above Team Rocket and was slowly spreading towards them. Aurora took a deep breath as she threw the aura sphere that had been resting in her hand at the black nothingness.
A huge flash of yellow light exploded as the aura sphere expanded until the blackness was completely filled. The flash was so bright; the mature aura guardian had to avert her eyes. When the flash subsided, she noticed the images she'd created in the aura sphere appeared in Team Rocket's memory landscape.
Aurora slowly placed Team Rocket back on the ground near their balloon. She sat them up, sleeping at the base of their balloon. She wiped her head, which was beaded with sweat. She smiled in satisfaction. A process like this one took a lot out of her aura reserves because it created a semi-permanent effect. A bit of rest was what she needed, but she still had the battle to finish.
"Well, I did what no psychic thought possible! I guess fighting them and having a psychic type in your party teaches you a thing or two… though this nearly isn't as strong as a psychic's memory loss process. It seemed Chi-Chi knew more about my abilities than I did. I didn't think I could do this without her. All right, you two. Return. Thank you for your invaluable assistance." Aurora said as she took out Rio and Happy's capsules and returned them inside.
Aurora's head tilted to the side abruptly and she could feel her head crack slightly. It wasn't enough to dislocate her skull, but it was enough to catch her off guard. She could feel pressure from an outside source trying to dislocate her head from her spinal cord. Her head snapped as she forced it back into place, but she was none too pleased. Her head was hurting slightly, but she knew what had caused her head to be in a weird angle. Her eyes turned yellow as she trapped the source of the sudden cranial attack. Aurora yanked the person from their hiding place and had her back turned to him.
The mysterious individual tried his best to move. His eyes glowed white as he tried to override Aurora, but she was still capable enough to shrug off the effect. The mysterious man became surrounded by a yellow outline, which increasingly became more suffocating to him.
"Hey... You tracked me all the way here. You must have taken the scenic route the find me, yes?" Aurora smiled. Something about the smile felt completely off. The mysterious fellow found the smile to be both unnerving and just plain wrong.
"Screw you," Chan said angrily.
Aurora's smile quickly morphed into a frown as her demeanor turned more condescending. The spy spat into her face. The spit landed on her right cheek. Aurora wiped off the spit looked at the goon with an indescribable expression. In turn, Aurora slapped him hard in the face. It left a red hand mark on his left side.
"You don't know how mad I am now that you spat on me." Aurora's eyes narrowed. All traces of childishness vanished in her demeanor and voice. She said with an angry expression, "Tell me... Why were you following me, Chan?"
"H-how do you know my-?" Chan stuttered. The choking effect was increasingly becoming harder to deal with.
"Don't try me with the obvious questions. You know that I can see into your mind if I trap you like this. After all, you've probably been spying on me since I regained consciousness." Aurora said harshly. Aurora's aura started to feel less intense, but he still felt incredibly uncomfortable.
"W-what will you-" Chan started.
"'Do to me'?" Aurora finished tactlessly. She approached him again with electric sparks in her fingers. "Unlike with Team Rocket, I'm not so keen to giving chances with the same people who took away the most important person in my life."
Aurora could feel her Poke Balls rumbling on her belt. She knew why. She returned her hands to normal. She sighed in defeat, "A spinal cord dislocation? That was a low blow Chan. And as a sneak attack no less?"
Chan growled in anger. He was trapped by a psychotic woman and he couldn't do a thing about it.
"You may think I'm psychotic, but that is far from the truth. I'm just a bit vengeful, is all. I'll send you back to where you came as an example of Zurui who do sneak attacks…" Aurora said menacingly.
"I would like to see you try. Mischieviog, attack, pronto!" Even while trapped in Aurora's aura grip, Chan managed to make his eyes glow white.
A Dusk Ball in her pocket corresponded to his actions as it caused a large four-legged brown furred dog like creature to come out snarling. It had dark, purple like patterns all over its body resembling ghostly portals. Its ears were ghastly wisps that seemingly dissolved into the air. Its paws, which were tacked with four claws on each paw, were large and wide. Seeing its master trapped, the Hokori native Pokémon ran at Aurora to head butt her.
Aurora cracked her fists as she as grabbed the impending Pokémon at its head. Mischieviog tried to nip at her hands, but Aurora's hands were high enough away from the dog's mouth. She forced the Pokemon's head down as she pinched a delicate spot on his neck. The quadruped yelped in surprise, but then fell asleep on the ground a few moments after Aurora held her place on his neck.
"Gah! What are you doing? Get up, you lazy mutt!" Chan yelled at his Pokémon. If he could move, he would kick the dog for falling asleep in the first place.
"A temporary immobilizing technique. Pretty cool, huh?" Aurora eyed Chan, watching him closely.
She took Mischieviog's Poké Ball from Chan's belt, returned the fallen Pokémon and placed the Poké Ball back where she got it from. She hadn't expected him to summon his Pokémon like that. He was definitely not one of those run-of-the-mill grunts she encountered before. Granted, it was most common for Zurui grunts to use Mischieviog and other ghosts or psychic types. They could even use electric types and dark types.
"A ground and ghost type like Mischieviog isn't going to help you. Since he was on the ground, his neck was touchable. A fatal and futile mistake, Chan," Aurora murmured in his ear. If Chan could move, he would punch that crazy woman in the face.
"Ooh? Getting testy, I see. I suppose I should wrap this up very soon." Aurora sensed his thoughts. Aurora left only about an inch of space away from Chan's nose. He could feel her breathe in slowly. She looked directly into his eyes. Chan tried to look away, the wolf-like stare was too much not to ignore. It unnerved him at how scary Aurora could be from her eyes and he saw a glimpse of how much power she was hiding. "W-what is that energy I'm sensing? It's enormous! Is… is from this pesky aura guardian?"
"Now that you've had a chance to calm down, you've sensed a glimpse of my true capabilities. This makes things a bit more interesting… at least from a goon." She narrowed her eyes. They seemed to convey something else now. Challenge?
"It's been fun, but you must be sent back from where you came from. Tell your boss that your mission failed, because you won't remember anything regarding our interactions once I turn you into aura. Well, maybe a little…" Aurora's hands became completely electrified.
Every finger on her hands was crackling with electricity, compared to how they were earlier. Aurora grinned a toothless, devious smile. She punched him directly in his stomach and twisted her fist as it bounced back. Since her fist was intertwined with electric aura and it had bounced back, the effect was more painful. Chan's body twitched in response. Chan grunted with pain, but refused to show any signs of feeling too much. Aurora needed to make sure she personally made him unconscious so the process she was planning wouldn't kill him.
"Besides, the fact that he could summon a Pokémon while gripped means I need to neutralize the threat he poses to me," Aurora analyzed the man floating before her.
Aurora's decided to test this man's pride. She kneed his lower regions and he felt unimaginable pain. If Chan could double over and hold his crotch, he would, but Aurora's aura grip prevented him from moving. He was trapped as if standing up in suspended air. He grunted in agony.
With fingers crackling with electricity, she made her index and middle finger touch closely together like a jagged stinger. Her two fingers looked like a mini Thunder Jab. She struck Chan at his right shoulder with the two fingers. Chan grunted as could feel his shoulder become numb. Moving around him in a circle, she did the same to his left and right arms, right shoulder, upper abdominal, lower back, right leg and left foot.
Chan was surprised. Although all the places she struck him at hurt terribly, they didn't hurt like some of the other places she could have struck him with her fingers. It was like she was purposely avoiding his skull and spinal cord. The electricity augmented the effect that Aurora hitting his pressure points had on his body. His entire body didn't feel like it was his. The only part he could still feel was his head.
"Surprised I hit you specifically at places that weren't lethal? A fluid body is all I need from you. It makes this so much easier," Aurora said, whispering in his ear. Chan shuddered. What did she mean by that?
Aurora snapped her fingers. The yellowing outline signaling he was trapped was gone. Chan's body fell on the ground with a large thud. He had landed face first and the impact was large enough to fracture his nose. Aurora immediately rolled him to be on his back. He wondered why she would let him out when she had him trapped. Soon, he realized why. He couldn't move. He couldn't stand. He was trapped in a new cage: the ground.
Aurora fell on her knees, watching Chan carefully. Chan realized that this would possibly be the only time he could escape and complete his mission. Chan tried to unleash his psychic energy, but found that he couldn't. He tried to make his eyes glow white, but he couldn't. He felt as though his psychic energy was being blocked off.
"I'm not making that mistake again, allowing you to call another Pokémon. Your psychic flow is getting blocked off." Aurora clarified to him.
"How-how can you-?"
"'Still read my thoughts?' It's something I picked up from training aura. I've perfected my technique so much that I can just read how you feel outside the grip if I want to." Aurora said. "Isn't it just lovely? I'm not going to hurt you anymore. I'm sorry that I had to restrain this way. It's nothing personal. Instead, I'm going to send you back with one message. Tell your boss that I'm back. Tell him that I've grown much more powerful than I ever used to be and that I'm the biggest threat he has."
Aurora approached his face. She left a silver of a distance between their lips. Chan's heart was pounding. He no longer saw her as a human being. He saw her as an insatiable beast, hungry to torture.
She whispered, "Tell him all this... because… I'm gunning for you. No, not just you. Your entire organization. Whoever you and your cohorts killed will not be put to rest until the Zurui are stopped. And oh, one more thing." Aurora slapped him hard on the right side of his face. Two matching red marks were plastered on his cheeks. "I'm taking Ash with me to train and there is no one who will stop me. You guys have been deceiving too many innocents and you will not deceive him. With that, I bid thee adieu."
Aurora's hands glowed purple. Chan could feel his eyes heavy. That woman was trying to put him to sleep! He tried to fight off the effect, but with his psychic flow being blocked, he was helpless against Aurora's influence. Within a minute, Chan fell asleep, anxious and scared out of his wits.
Aurora hesitated. She was anxious because she hadn't done something like this before without Chi-Chi. She had to concentrate on the situation at hand. She wanted to make sure she did this precisely right. Aurora touched Chan's fallen head. She hummed in concentration as her hand's aura started to spread throughout Chan's body. Soon, Chan became completely engulfed in aura. Chan gritted his teeth in his slumber as he could feel a change, but he didn't know what.
Aurora slowly lifted him up and made him stand upright. She focused on turning Chan's body into his aura to send back to his boss. Aurora's blue aura shone brighter and brighter as Chan's physical form became less apparent. The blue aura surrounding Chan became replaced with a brown aura. Aurora waited until Chan's body was completely dissipated in the brown aura, signifying that he was ready to be transported. Eventually, Chan was nothing but pure, brown aura flowing a few feet opposite to Aurora. Aurora cupped Chan's aura into her hands, holding it almost as if it could break any second.
"I can't believe I did it. Me, holding a psychic's aura. This is incredible!" Aurora thought incredulously; "As a psychic, I hope Chan's physical body makes it though the strain of the auric realm. Only one thing left…"
Aurora's body shined a bright blue light. She closed her eyes as she tried to pinpoint where the old man was. It was arduous since she was a good distance away from the Pokémon League and there were many people in the stands. However, she knew the prune-smelling old fool well. She'd personally fought against him. After their last huge spat, Aurora could recognize his aura instantly and the old man could also sense her presence with adept skill.
She pinpointed where Chan's boss was exactly. His aura was a withered white. It was also deep. Limitless. It reflected a wise, but lost old man. It showed his experience very well. It somehow felt strong and intense despite being withered in appearance. With Chan's aura in her hands, Aurora shot it up at the sky, pinpointing it to a few feet above the old man aura. The brown aura disappeared as it whipped around to the north of where she was.
When moving aura, once the aura makes it to its destination, the physical body comes back as well, as long as the recipient was unconscious (if he or she was a psychic) or if the one moving is adept in the skill themselves. Psychics cannot be conscious because they have very little knowledge on how aura works. That's why they prefer their method of transportation. Just think of the place you want to go and boom! You're there.
Aura guardians can't just do that. They have to be one with themselves, or in this case, aura. It's a lot harder for an aura guardian to move long distances because they can't just think of a place where they want to go and go there. They have to sense where they want to be. Then, they have to be aura in order to go to their destination because all auras are connected. They sacrificed the level of psychic mobility for more physical speed. A regular human would die being moved via aura because their physical body would have entered the auric realm prematurely and they have zero knowledge of aura.
Aurora could transform into aura herself, but can't teleport. She had never tried to move another being's aura without Chi-Chi's assistance. She didn't do it earlier because she didn't want to be swamped with a lot of questions asking how she could seemingly teleport. Granted, she would still be swamped with questions as to why she threw Meowth to pop the balloon or why she wanted to teleport up there in the first place. She could come up with a more valid excuse for those.
She could only speculate the surprised and enraged face that the short elder would have seeing his employee appearing right in from of his eyes. Aurora snickered at the thought.
She noticed Pikachu still lying on the ground, snoozing soundlessly. She was shocked at how well Pikachu had slept through the entire time. She smiled happily as she scooped Pikachu up in her arms. She held him in a baby position, with his tail hanging down past her arms. Seeing him, she knew what she had to do. She had a larger focus now. She had to heal up Pikachu… and she knew exactly how she was going to do it.
She was going to whistle a forest tune.
A/N: An off the wall chapter, yes? So... Chapter 3... I had a fun time writing it. Team Rocket... they won't be appearing again for a long time. The capabilities of an aura guardian or a psychic are limitless in my eyes. They are like two sides to the same coin. They are very similar and very powerful in their own right, but are starkly different.
Some notes: Aurora mentioned she can perform the aura grip. This technique enables them to lift up living things with their aura, but only living things. However, a psychic can lift up both animate and inanimate objects at will. They can also build inanimate objects a lot faster. They are known to be mechanics and people that excel with electricity or machines. Aura guardians make this up by being naturally strong, speedy and resilient. They are often in tune with nature and life in general.
You noticed that Aurora can use the different types of Pokemon moves. A psychic cannot directly use energy from the type of Pokemon. They can use the energy around them to their advantage to reflect attacks back. However, they can create and use electricity. Why electricity? Because our brain uses electricity to communicate and create stimuli with our environment. Humans respond to the stimuli to our environment constantly and I thought it would be cool that psychics could manipulate that.
Since I'm a budding high school scientist in training, I decided why not? Incorporate science in the supernatural... kinda. Pokemon is still Pokemon and there are still things that cannot be explained by science... but that will be addressed further in the series. It's a weird idea, but I hope you'll like it!
Mischieviog is the name of the Pokemon Chan used. Note: The name is a combination of mischievous and dog and it's purely that. I'll give some info on it:
Type: Ground/Ghost
Pokedex Entry: Mischeiviog, the Ghastly Dog Pokemon. Mischieviog is created when a dog is abandoned by its owner and dies alone. It has a vicious temperament as a result.
This Pokemon is a stand only evolution (can't evolve to or evolve from anything).
I hoped you enjoyed the chapter. Please, leave a review! I would really appreciate the constructive feedback as I write more. If you have any questions or additional comments, be sure to PM me~
Until next time...
Next Chapter: The Final Round's Conclusion
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