An Altered Journey Chapter 7: The meeting of the league

Eclipse, once again, was pacing back and forth. He was in a conference room the four had prepared, and was going to make a speech to the league members attending. Barry was in no shape to, and Dawn and Lucas hated public speaking. He was sweating intensely, his messy brown hair slightly sweaty. He checked who was sitting at the long, oak table. The only ones not present were Fantina, and Aaron. Fantina was busy defending her badge from challengers, and Aaron was there via video. Eclipse got the sitting people's intention.

"Excuse me, may I please have your attention?" He began. The murmurs in the room died down.

"You all would know Colin?" Eclipse continued. The attending members of the league all nodded.

"I've been travelling with him for a day and, sadly he's… been… uh…" He was sweating heavily now, under pressure to bring the horrible news. The waiting attendees now looked at him anxiously.

"Kidnapped by Team Galactic…" He said, sighing with extreme anxiety himself. Maylene began to cry. Roark was tearing up too, but he was reacting less extremely than Maylene. The others looked extremely shocked. Eclipse then explained the incident in full detail, avoiding the bit about charging the base. He explained about how Mars tried to steal his Pokemon and kill them. Aaron and Maylene kept insisting that they should assault the base. Eclipse then talked about the two new admins. He said that Venus had powerful Pokemon, but Mercury was just as dangerous.

"Lucario noticed that a Galactic admin has Auran abilities, and if it's anyone, it's him. He has extreme strength. I kinda figured this out the hard way, when I tackled him after seeing he broke into the Old Chateau yesterday" He said, bringing up a picture of the mansion with its doors wide open on the screen behind him. The meeting then went on about how they need to rescue Colin and generally shut down Team Galactic's operations.

The large group split up. Roark went to inform his wife, and the others had to report to their duties. All except Maylene, that was. She had decided to stay with the group.

"Aaron will stick around too, after he gets here" She said, a little shyly. She looked down at the pavement, scared beyond belief. The group would now have their pokeballs ready at all times, as Lucas thought Team Galactic might target them, and shared this thought with the others.

"That's very cheery, Ya know?" Barry grumbled. He eyed the tall, blue building with utter determination. He wanted his friend back. Luckily, something productive had come out of the meeting. Looker had decided to look into it, as he was already undercover.

"Sir, the brief case has been locked up. We had to postpone the Pokemon distribution as the case arrived early, and it was under your strict orders that it was locked up immediately" Mercury reported in to Cyrus over his earpiece. Cyrus paused for a second.

"That's fine. Just have the Pokemon given out now" The pale man responded, a tiny bit eerily.

"On it" The Team Galactic admin said, hanging up. Cyrus then began to think about the other teenagers that were friends of Colin. He thought they might have some information he could use to his advantage. He figured he needn't have to have it now, but they had to be captured in the long run.

Mercury knocked on a door, holding a brown bag (sort of like Rosa's from BW2) that he had slung over his shoulder.

"What is it?" A grunt muttered, opening the door to see one of his superiors, his eyes widening in embarrassment and realisation.

"Sorry for the attitude, I didn't know it was you" He added, standing up straight". Mercury stared at him, with a an expression that said 'seriously?', before asking:

"Were you the grunt that ordered a Scyther?" The grunt nodded. Mercury passed him a pokeball from the bag. The grunt replied with a "thanks". The grunt was a man, most likely in his early thirties. He had near pitch-black hair, and the same shade of eye colour/color. He had a singular pokeball on his belt. He added the one of the Scyther, making it two. Mercury walked out of the room, disapprovingly. He obviously was very busy, as the bag was nearly full to the brim with pokeballs. He thought to himself *how come I'm doing this alone? I mean Venus was busy, but I could've halved the time on this!*

Mercury repeated this process many a dozen times over, becoming tired of visiting the same rooms many times. Eventually he was left with one pokeball. *Hmm, I wonder?* He then released the Pokemon within the capsule, before grinning a huge grin.

"Welcome to the team, Noivern" he muttered, before recalling the Flying-type. Mercury stormed into his quarters. He had been delivering those Pokemon for hours, and wanted time to himself so he could actual train his Pokemon. He walked down to the training room, several grunts already there. A large one with a Mohawk walked up to Mercury. The grunt was about 7 foot 10 inches, an absolute giant compared to everyone at the base.

"Hey, I wanna see if you're worthy of being an admin. Battle me, two on two?" The large grunt asked. Mercury nodded, a small smile creeping across his face.

"Ok let's go! Exploud, Murkrow!" The grunt called, throwing out two pokeballs. Mercury threw out his two Pokemon.

"Noivern! Larvitar! Let's do this!" He yelled. A crowd of about 15 grunts surrounded the two.

"Ladies first!" Mercury taunted. He was trying to get on the grunt's nerves. The others laughed.

"Ugh! Exploud, Hyper Voice, Murkrow use Wing Attack!" The hyper-aggressive normal type sucked in air through the holes in its body, before bellowing a large sound wave. Murkrow swooped at Larvitar, it's wings engulfed in a white light. Mercury then gave commands to his Pokemon.

"Noivern, counter with an Air Slash! Larvitar, use a Dark Pulse to protect yourself!" Larvitar released a dark beam from his mouth, creating a sort of force field around itself. Noivern slashed the air with it's wing, creating a energy ripple. The ripple clashed with the sound wave, ultimately causing the ripple to tear through the wave and hit Exlpoud. It went flying, crashing into the wall. The normal-type obviously hadn't been trained to take hits, as it had been knocked out. The grunt grumbled.

"Return" He moaned, as he pointed the pokeball at his Pokemon and recalled it. The Murkrow charged Larvitar, who was now enveloped in the dark energy. The Murkow hit the field several times over, with no signs of it deteriorating. Suddenly, a hole opened where the Murkrow was about to hit, and it's momentum carried it inwards. The hole then sealed, and the several sound of squawks were heard, as well as two bright, blinding flashes of light were faintly seen.

The force field with a dark tint then disappeared, as if it had evaporated. Inside was a Tyranitar holding a fainted Murkrow in it's jaw, stamping it's rock hard foot against the floor triumphantly.

"No way" a grunt yelled in the crowd, bewildered by what stood in front of him.

"That's impossible!" another one yelled, extremely shocked.

Mercury smirked, walking over to Noivern and contained it in it's pokeball.

"Who's next?" He said, patting his newly evolved Tyranitar on the head. The others mumbled, some laughing at Mercury's opponent. The grunt recalled his Murkrow, before charging at Mercury like a crazed Bouffalant.

"You'll pay for shaming me!" He bellowed. Mercury waited for the right moment. He then activated Colin's Aura, and pulled the man over his head, partially using the weight against him, and slamming him into the steel floor. Grunts gawked at the sight of a teenager holding his own against a man at the very least, two time heavier than him. The only ones that remained silent were Venus, who had heard the commotion of the battle and decided to check it out, and the black-haired grunt Mercury gave the Scyther to. Mercury walked out of the room, followed by Venus and his own Tyranitar.

"How?" Venus asked, at a loss for words. Mercury thought for a moment, unsure of how to respond.

"Simple, Tyranitar was in a close enough range of experience to evolve twice".

"Not that, stupid. You owning that buff retard" She said, as if she was talking to baby. Tyranitar growled as she said 'stupid'." Mercury sighed and told half the story.

"Used his weight against him. Guess he wasn't expecting it, and put a lot of force into it"

"Ok, whatever". Colin's Larvitar (Now Tyranitar) was extremely confused why Colin had joined Team Galactic, but was too loyal to dare defy him.

"Hey, I here we're raiding an escourt of Mega stones for the league tomorrow" Venus said, trying to enlighten the mood. Mercury bit his lip. It was like he knew who he truly was for a split second, but forgot almost instantly.

"Mega Stones? Sounds fun" He replied, smirking.

"Yep. Apparently they have multiple rare stones. Including a Tyranitite and a Galladite". Tyranitar half-smiled at the mention of a mega stone that had possibility for mega evolution with one of his species.

"Galladite? Do you have a Gallade?" Mercury asked, sounding very surprised.

"Yeah, I do. He's a good battler, but I rarely need to use him."

"Ah. Interesting" He responded. There was a bit of silence before Venus said something.

"We're to give a speech to the grunts on how the tomorrow's plan's gonna work"

"How is it gonna work?" Mercury asked.

"Oh we hide as citizens near the city exit and jump the truck. The only defences they have are two guards with Luxrays, which we can handle"

"Okay, let's inform the grunts then" Mecury said, diverting his path to the mass debriefing room.

The other teens rested in the flat, uneasy. Aaron had flown in via Pokemon, and was being impatient. He then received a message from Looker.

"Guys, listen. Looker says that there's a truck filled with mega stones passing through, and it's on the Galactic hit list" Aaron said, partially reading aloud.

"They're going after mega stones! The scoundrels!" Eclipse groaned, banging his hand on the table he was sitting at. He, like Barry and the others, wanted their friend back.

"Hey, if they're busy out on a raid, we'll let the police know and check their base out whilst the numbers are down" Lucas suggested, trying to be positive about the situation.

"We should leave it to Looker, and maybe some of us will stop the raid instead?" Maylene said, looking at the ground shyly. The group thought for a bit.

"Lucario, can you see if you can determine some information from Mercury's aura?" Dawn asked, thinking that getting some leads on their plans could prove worthwhile.

Lucario closed his eyes, and began view where the admin was. He sighed, and then shook his head, stopping himself and faking like he couldn't find anything.

"Oh well, it was worth a shot" Eclipse muttered. Lucario left the room and then stood in the doorway.

*They can't know. They shouldn't know. They shan't know* He thought, acknowledging the fact he now knew Mercury's identity.

*But they must. But they can't! It would tear the group apart* He thought once more, his mind and verdict truly conflicted beyond belief.

*It shall stay concealed, until we can sort it out* Lucario decided. He had to rescue his trainer, one way or another. But until the right time, Colin's Lucario would wait. He would see truth talked from Colin and bring him back. He vowed to do so.

Hey guys! What do you think? I hope you like the direction I took it in (I swear I say that every chapter summary!) and enjoyed it. Sorry for repeating this again, but I would really appreciate it if you checked out user TheRoyalSerperior! He's super close to having enough OC's for his story and would appreciate a few more. He'll address it when he has enough. I won't mention it again in case people already have or don't care. Brownie points for whoever figures out who the grunt with the Scyther is, and The Weavilist is out.

An Altered Journey Chapter 7: The meeting of the league

Eclipse, once again, was pacing back and forth. He was in a conference room the four had prepared, and was going to make a speech to the league members attending. Barry was in no shape to, and Dawn and Lucas hated public speaking. He was sweating intensely, his messy brown hair slightly sweaty. He checked who was sitting at the long, oak table. The only ones not present were Fantina, and Aaron. Fantina was busy defending her badge from challengers, and Aaron was there via video. Eclipse got the sitting people's intention.

"Excuse me, may I please have your attention?" He began. The murmurs in the room died down.

"You all would know Colin?" Eclipse continued. The attending members of the league all nodded.

"I've been travelling with him for a day and, sadly he's… been… uh…" He was sweating heavily now, under pressure to bring the horrible news. The waiting attendees now looked at him anxiously.

"Kidnapped by Team Galactic…" He said, sighing with extreme anxiety himself. Maylene began to cry. Roark was tearing up too, but he was reacting less extremely than Maylene. The others looked extremely shocked. Eclipse then explained the incident in full detail, avoiding the bit about charging the base. He explained about how Mars tried to steal his Pokemon and kill them. Aaron and Maylene kept insisting that they should assault the base. Eclipse then talked about the two new admins. He said that Venus had powerful Pokemon, but Mercury was just as dangerous.

"Lucario noticed that a Galactic admin has Auran abilities, and if it's anyone, it's him. He has extreme strength. I kinda figured this out the hard way, when I tackled him after seeing he broke into the Old Chateau yesterday" He said, bringing up a picture of the mansion with its doors wide open on the screen behind him. The meeting then went on about how they need to rescue Colin and generally shut down Team Galactic's operations.

The large group split up. Roark went to inform his wife, and the others had to report to their duties. All except Maylene, that was. She had decided to stay with the group.

"Aaron will stick around too, after he gets here" She said, a little shyly. She looked down at the pavement, scared beyond belief. The group would now have their pokeballs ready at all times, as Lucas thought Team Galactic might target them, and shared this thought with the others.

"That's very cheery, Ya know?" Barry grumbled. He eyed the tall, blue building with utter determination. He wanted his friend back. Luckily, something productive had come out of the meeting. Looker had decided to look into it, as he was already undercover.

"Sir, the brief case has been locked up. We had to postpone the Pokemon distribution as the case arrived early, and it was under your strict orders that it was locked up immediately" Mercury reported in to Cyrus over his earpiece. Cyrus paused for a second.

"That's fine. Just have the Pokemon given out now" The pale man responded, a tiny bit eerily.

"On it" The Team Galactic admin said, hanging up. Cyrus then began to think about the other teenagers that were friends of Colin. He thought they might have some information he could use to his advantage. He figured he needn't have to have it now, but they had to be captured in the long run.

Mercury knocked on a door, holding a brown bag (sort of like Rosa's from BW2) that he had slung over his shoulder.

"What is it?" A grunt muttered, opening the door to see one of his superiors, his eyes widening in embarrassment and realisation.

"Sorry for the attitude, I didn't know it was you" He added, standing up straight". Mercury stared at him, with a an expression that said 'seriously?', before asking:

"Were you the grunt that ordered a Scyther?" The grunt nodded. Mercury passed him a pokeball from the bag. The grunt replied with a "thanks". The grunt was a man, most likely in his early thirties. He had near pitch-black hair, and the same shade of eye colour/color. He had a singular pokeball on his belt. He added the one of the Scyther, making it two. Mercury walked out of the room, disapprovingly. He obviously was very busy, as the bag was nearly full to the brim with pokeballs. He thought to himself *how come I'm doing this alone? I mean Venus was busy, but I could've halved the time on this!*

Mercury repeated this process many a dozen times over, becoming tired of visiting the same rooms many times. Eventually he was left with one pokeball. *Hmm, I wonder?* He then released the Pokemon within the capsule, before grinning a huge grin.

"Welcome to the team, Noivern" he muttered, before recalling the Flying-type. Mercury stormed into his quarters. He had been delivering those Pokemon for hours, and wanted time to himself so he could actual train his Pokemon. He walked down to the training room, several grunts already there. A large one with a Mohawk walked up to Mercury. The grunt was about 7 foot 10 inches, an absolute giant compared to everyone at the base.

"Hey, I wanna see if you're worthy of being an admin. Battle me, two on two?" The large grunt asked. Mercury nodded, a small smile creeping across his face.

"Ok let's go! Exploud, Murkrow!" The grunt called, throwing out two pokeballs. Mercury threw out his two Pokemon.

"Noivern! Larvitar! Let's do this!" He yelled. A crowd of about 15 grunts surrounded the two.

"Ladies first!" Mercury taunted. He was trying to get on the grunt's nerves. The others laughed.

"Ugh! Exploud, Hyper Voice, Murkrow use Wing Attack!" The hyper-aggressive normal type sucked in air through the holes in its body, before bellowing a large sound wave. Murkrow swooped at Larvitar, it's wings engulfed in a white light. Mercury then gave commands to his Pokemon.

"Noivern, counter with an Air Slash! Larvitar, use a Dark Pulse to protect yourself!" Larvitar released a dark beam from his mouth, creating a sort of force field around itself. Noivern slashed the air with it's wing, creating a energy ripple. The ripple clashed with the sound wave, ultimately causing the ripple to tear through the wave and hit Exlpoud. It went flying, crashing into the wall. The normal-type obviously hadn't been trained to take hits, as it had been knocked out. The grunt grumbled.

"Return" He moaned, as he pointed the pokeball at his Pokemon and recalled it. The Murkrow charged Larvitar, who was now enveloped in the dark energy. The Murkow hit the field several times over, with no signs of it deteriorating. Suddenly, a hole opened where the Murkrow was about to hit, and it's momentum carried it inwards. The hole then sealed, and the several sound of squawks were heard, as well as two bright, blinding flashes of light were faintly seen.

The force field with a dark tint then disappeared, as if it had evaporated. Inside was a Tyranitar holding a fainted Murkrow in it's jaw, stamping it's rock hard foot against the floor triumphantly.

"No way" a grunt yelled in the crowd, bewildered by what stood in front of him.

"That's impossible!" another one yelled, extremely shocked.

Mercury smirked, walking over to Noivern and contained it in it's pokeball.

"Who's next?" He said, patting his newly evolved Tyranitar on the head. The others mumbled, some laughing at Mercury's opponent. The grunt recalled his Murkrow, before charging at Mercury like a crazed Bouffalant.

"You'll pay for shaming me!" He bellowed. Mercury waited for the right moment. He then activated Colin's Aura, and pulled the man over his head, partially using the weight against him, and slamming him into the steel floor. Grunts gawked at the sight of a teenager holding his own against a man at the very least, two time heavier than him. The only ones that remained silent were Venus, who had heard the commotion of the battle and decided to check it out, and the black-haired grunt Mercury gave the Scyther to. Mercury walked out of the room, followed by Venus and his own Tyranitar.

"How?" Venus asked, at a loss for words. Mercury thought for a moment, unsure of how to respond.

"Simple, Tyranitar was in a close enough range of experience to evolve twice".

"Not that, stupid. You owning that buff retard" She said, as if she was talking to baby. Tyranitar growled as she said 'stupid'." Mercury sighed and told half the story.

"Used his weight against him. Guess he wasn't expecting it, and put a lot of force into it"

"Ok, whatever". Colin's Larvitar (Now Tyranitar) was extremely confused why Colin had joined Team Galactic, but was too loyal to dare defy him.

"Hey, I here we're raiding an escourt of Mega stones for the league tomorrow" Venus said, trying to enlighten the mood. Mercury bit his lip. It was like he knew who he truly was for a split second, but forgot almost instantly.

"Mega Stones? Sounds fun" He replied, smirking.

"Yep. Apparently they have multiple rare stones. Including a Tyranitite and a Galladite". Tyranitar half-smiled at the mention of a mega stone that had possibility for mega evolution with one of his species.

"Galladite? Do you have a Gallade?" Mercury asked, sounding very surprised.

"Yeah, I do. He's a good battler, but I rarely need to use him."

"Ah. Interesting" He responded. There was a bit of silence before Venus said something.

"We're to give a speech to the grunts on how the tomorrow's plan's gonna work"

"How is it gonna work?" Mercury asked.

"Oh we hide as citizens near the city exit and jump the truck. The only defences they have are two guards with Luxrays, which we can handle"

"Okay, let's inform the grunts then" Mecury said, diverting his path to the mass debriefing room.

The other teens rested in the flat, uneasy. Aaron had flown in via Pokemon, and was being impatient. He then received a message from Looker.

"Guys, listen. Looker says that there's a truck filled with mega stones passing through, and it's on the Galactic hit list" Aaron said, partially reading aloud.

"They're going after mega stones! The scoundrels!" Eclipse groaned, banging his hand on the table he was sitting at. He, like Barry and the others, wanted their friend back.

"Hey, if they're busy out on a raid, we'll let the police know and check their base out whilst the numbers are down" Lucas suggested, trying to be positive about the situation.

"We should leave it to Looker, and maybe some of us will stop the raid instead?" Maylene said, looking at the ground shyly. The group thought for a bit.

"Lucario, can you see if you can determine some information from Mercury's aura?" Dawn asked, thinking that getting some leads on their plans could prove worthwhile.

Lucario closed his eyes, and began view where the admin was. He sighed, and then shook his head, stopping himself and faking like he couldn't find anything.

"Oh well, it was worth a shot" Eclipse muttered. Lucario left the room and then stood in the doorway.

*They can't know. They shouldn't know. They shan't know* He thought, acknowledging the fact he now knew Mercury's identity.

*But they must. But they can't! It would tear the group apart* He thought once more, his mind and verdict truly conflicted beyond belief.

*It shall stay concealed, until we can sort it out* Lucario decided. He had to rescue his trainer, one way or another. But until the right time, Colin's Lucario would wait. He would see truth talked from Colin and bring him back. He vowed to do so.

Hey guys! What do you think? I hope you like the direction I took it in (I swear I say that every chapter summary!) and enjoyed it. Sorry for repeating this again, but I would really appreciate it if you checked out user TheRoyalSerperior! He's super close to having enough OC's for his story and would appreciate a few more. He'll address it when he has enough. I won't mention it again in case people already have or don't care. Brownie points for whoever figures out who the grunt with the Scyther is, and The Weavilist is out.