HDD Mercury-Yes very interesting indeed.

Chapter 7: Trouble Continues…

Cynthia was sneaking on the plane trying to avoid capture and search for the bomb for almost 30 minutes now.

(It has to be in a place where it can do the most damage while still keeping the plane flying, since these guys are obviously not that dumb.) she thought while entering the staff only maintenance room.

While searching inside, she saw it.

(The ventilation shaft of course!)

She quickly removed the panel only to find a black bag stuffed in, while pulling the bag out she was quite proud of the fact that she had found the bomb.

"Bingo" said Cynthia to particularly no one as she opened the zipper only to be greeted by a black box with an LED on top which displayed the word 'ARMED' in bright red.

(Okay I found it now how to get rid of it.) while Cynthia was thinking this she heard a long screeching sound coming from outside the plane.

"What the hell was that?" she asked herself while she eyed an hatch on the ceiling of the room.

Seeing the hatch leading out the plane gave Cynthia an idea as she said

"The bomb would not do much harm outside the plane would it now." with a cheeky smile.

10 Minutes Earlier

"Keep it up Noivern we are almost there." said Frost to his flying type as he was flying toward the direction of the incoming plane.

"HQ this is Specialist Zero One approaching the target ETA 5 minutes." he informed the operator on the line.

"Copy that Specialist Zero One, current speed of Flight F170 is about 220 mph, it seems that the controls have been tampered with as this is way too slow for this model of jumbo airliner."

"Has any communication been established with the crew."

"Not yet also we suspect that since there are no demands from the hijackers this seems to be an attempt to kidnap the Champion this is especially bad as the airline policy states that all Pokeball's will remain locked during the duration of the flight."

"The Champion has no defence meaning more the reason for me to hurry up." added Frost.

After few minutes when the airliner was in sight the operator voiced through Frost's pokegear.

"Specialist be advised we have found an entry route for you to use it's a hatch on top of the plane leading to the maintenance room inside the plane alsozzzzz….."

(We must be out of range now.) was Frost's conclusion to the sudden disconnection, before he informed Noivern what to do.

"Noivern get ready the moment the plane is below you use your claws to grab onto it's body."

The Pokemon simply nodded and when the time was right, grabbed onto the metal frame of the plane but due to the speed of the plane was unable to get a good grip and both pokemon and trainer were slipping fast.

(This is bad think fast dammit) as in the nick of time Frost pulled out a knife from his long coat and jammed it onto the surface of the plane in order to prevent them from falling off.

After recollecting his thoughts from the newly prevented disaster Frost realized how lucky he was that he had worn his jacket if not anything else since although it didn't have all of his equipment it had the bare minimum like the knife he just used.

"The hatch is near the back of the plane Noivern, there it is." Frost said a little louder than usual because of the engine noise of the plane.

Once at the hatch Frost was about to open the hatch using his knife but right as he was about to try opening it himself the hatch flung open barely missing Frost, somehow he evaded the hit due to Noivern's agility but he lost the knife in the process. When Frost peeked in the hatch his eyes widened in surprise.

Cynthia thought that her mind was playing games with her when she saw a man on top of a Noivern of all Pokemon outside the hatch of the plane she was about to throw a live 'BOMB' out of. She was confused beyond words could describe before the man broke her train of thought.

"Champion what are you doing here?" said the man in disbelief.

"I am the one who should be asking that, what are you doing outside of a moving plane!" Cynthia resorted.

"Calm down I am here to help." replied the man.

"Well then move away can't you see I have a bomb in my hand."

"Oh…." said the man as he moved slightly to the left as Cynthia tried to reach the ceiling but was falling short a couple of inches.

Seeing this struggle the man grabbed the bomb from Cynthia's hands and threw it away before entering the plane, returning Noivern to his Pokeball and closing the hatch behind him all while landing gracefully in front of Cynthia.

There was an awkward silence between both the parties as each of them took their time to wrap their head around the recent development. The man recovered first as he pulled out what to Cynthia looked like a modified Pokegear as he spoke.

"HQ this is Specialist Zero One I have secured the objective." but all Cynthia could hear as a reply was static.

(Secured the objective is he talking about me) thought Cynthia as she asked.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The man looked at her and said seriously "My name is irrelevant right now and what am I doing, isn't it obvious I am here to escort you to safety."

"Wait what?" Cynthia replied dumbfounded.

"Yes I am the escort assigned to you by the P.L.A, the sooner you understand the better." added the man seeing the Champion even more confused than before.

"Well…" Cynthia was about to continue before she was interrupted by the P.A system.

"Times up Champion, sorry but here goes Bomb number 1." there was a long pause afterwords before the PA system turned on again. "It seems I underestimated you Cynthia but I did say don't play games, now I am really angry but I am a reasonable guy you see I'll be nice and give you another chance meet us at the bar in the next 30 minutes or else I'll blow up the hostages."

"So these are the guys who hijacked the plane." asked the escort.

"Yes" said Cynthia as she began to move out.

"Where are you going?"asked the escort.

"Didn't you hear I have a date at the bar in 20 minutes."

"Without your Pokemon that is suicide." added the escort while holding up Cynthia's arm.

"Let me go can't you see people lives are at stake either help me or don't interfere." replied Cynthia angrily while brushing the hand off.

"I never said I'll not help."

"What are you getting at?" asked Cynthia.

Seeing Cynthia starting to panic due to the immense stress on her mind the man took out a Pokeball from his long coat and handed it to Cynthia.

"It's my Jolteon he will help you."

"Thank you (sigh) it's just been very…" said Cynthia beginning to calm down.

"Stressful I understand, I am actually surprised, most people panic under similar circumstances while you were able to maintain your cool for such a long period of time." praised the escort.

"Hehehe I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not." Cynthia laughed sheepishly.

"Calm down Champion losing your cool now will be bad, just stay behind me and I will make sure you get out of this alive."

Sighing deeply Cynthia asked.

"You are right thanks I was starting to lose it back then, do you have a plan?"

"I wouldn't call it a plan but I think the hostages should be our main priority." replied the escort calmly.

"Good enough let's go we are wasting time like this." said Cynthia as our duo left the maintenance room.

Author's Notes:

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