CHAPTER 34:

Thievery and Reclaim

Lovrina, Roy, Melanie, and Steven were still dumfounded at all that had just happened to them. The legendary Orbs were their families' treasures, and they were part of some big legend that really had happened...

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The next day...

The night before, Steven and Melanie had come to Roy's house, where the three conversed about their roles and whatnot, and even Lovrina stayed there! But the next morning...

All four awoke to the sound of a helicopter approaching. Roy got up and looked out a window to a see a blue helicopter with a skeletal A... And then, two more transportation devices appeared: a red helicopter with a mountain M and a blue/red helicopter with a blue and red E.

"YAH! Team Eon, Aqua, and Magma!" cried out Roy.

Roy's mother, who was walking down from upstairs, gasped and said:

"They want the Orbs! You all need to go!"

It was too late; Team Eon had already bashed down the door. Grunts flooded in from both divisions. Then, Team Magma swarmed the room, followed by Aqua.

"There's no party." said Melanie sarcastically.

Before anything else could be done, Team Aqua was able to snatch up the Red Orb, Magma claimed the Blue Orb, and Eon was able to grab the Green Orb. All three teams rushed out as quickly as they came in.

"No! They so got the Orbs!" cried out Lovrina.

"Not... All of them." chuckled Steven as he held out the Platinum Orb.

"Oh, yay! The one that has the power of a Steel/Psychic puffball!" shouted Roy in sarcasm.

"Don't you go insulting the Steel Pokemon!" growled back Steven.

'Sheesh...' Melanie sighed in her head. That was not exactly the thing they needed the most right now: an argument. She was about to break up the fight, when a shout over a megaphone from outside blared:

"HAND OVER THE PLATINUM ORB, AND NO ONE GETS HURT!"

The four looked outside again to see a horde of people, some male some female, all wearing silver-colored jumpsuits with shiny steel helmets and boots, black gloves, and a shining silver S on the helmet's tip.

"Who are these jokers?" muttered Roy.

"I HEARD THAT!" a deep voice rumbled. From the several people walked forth a man, about 24, with gray-colored hair and gray eyes, wearing a silver-colored suit that flowed to the ground, gray pants with steel-colored lines on the sides, gray army boots, and a pointy-tipped helmet with the silver S on it.

Roy, Melanie, Steven, and Lovrina walked out of the house, with Melanie shouting: "Who are you people?!"

"We..." the deep voice growled. "Are Team Steel."

Steven's eyes began flashing like hearts, but Melanie grabbed his shirt before he could jump over and start acting weird.

"Our goals: get the Platinum Orb, awaken Jirachi, and use its moves to rule the world!"

Steven's eyes ceased flashing, and they turned angry. "You... You fiends! Using Steel Pokemon for evil! I WILL DESTROY YOU!"

In his outburst, the silver-haired Trainer dropped the Platinum Orb, and so it rolled over to the deep-voiced man.

"Why thank you..." he chuckled, picking it up.

"NO! GRR! I choose you, Metang and Lairon!"

Steven threw out two Poke Balls, from which appeared his Lairon and Metang.

"Lair!"

"Met-ung!"

"Guys, I don't care how, but GET THAT ORB BACK! PLEASE!"

Lairon and Metang nodded, and then they began to ram towards the strange man with a Take Down attack.

"Protect Master Silva!" shouted one of the teens behind the man. All of them threw Poke Balls into the air, from which appeared many light eruptions, taking the shape of various Steel-Element Pokemon.

A group of about ten had Skarmory by their side. A few feet away stood another, smaller group which had Metang. Another group owned a few Lairon. All Pokemon were sent towards Steven's Metang and Lairon, causing them to stop suddenly and high-tail it back to Steven.

"Oh, boy..." he sweat-dropped.

"Only way we're getting out of this is to battle!" smirked Roy. He grabbed all five Poke Balls from his belt and sent them into the sky, calling out as each Pokemon appeared:

"Let's go! Machoke, Masquerain, Nosepass, Torkoal, and SuperSlicer!"

All five Pokemon bellowed they're cries, readying for the assault from the wave of more than 20 Steel-Types.

Melanie also tossed all four of her Balls into the air, shouting in the same pattern as Roy:

"I choose you! Marshtomp, Mightyena, Carvanha, and Marill!"

All of them growled and braced for impact.

"I guess they're right." Steven smirked, throwing only one more Ball into the air.

"Let's go, Onix!"

His mammoth Rock/Ground Pokemon appeared, with his roar shaking the ground.

Roy turned around and looked towards Lovrina. "Listen, Pink-Hair! We need your help! And when I say that, I feel like pouring acid on my body... Ugh..."

"Whatever you say... Roy-Boy. Heh-heh-heh... Help us out! Luvdisc! Roselia (GRRRRRRRRRRR!)! Gorebyss! Chansey! Milotic! And Gardevoir!"

Three familiar-to-Roy Pokemon appeared, being Gorebyss, Roselia, and Luvdisc. However, three new ones also appeared. First was a Chansey, a Normal Element with a round, pink body having wing-like "hair" coming down from the top of its head, tipped dark pink, small hands, and a white egg in a pink stomach-pouch.

Beside it was the curled-up form of a Milotic, a Water Element with a long, snakelike body colored a light peach or pale tan with a spiked head, deep brown eyes, red-colored hair above its eyes flowing down about half its length with two strands of hair going up in a thin curl, a blue and red-patterned tail with five blue, sharp-ended oval-shaped, and long scales overlapping one another, with red ovals in the center of each.

And last was a Gardevoir, a Psychic Element with a white, rather human body, with green hair curled over one of its red eyes, green arms, a red appendage on its chest, and what was like an elegant white ballroom dress with a green inside covering its thin white legs.

So, it was about twenty-five Steel Elements versus eighteen various Pokemon. Rather steep odds, and not in Team Roy's favor... But something would soon happen that would even up those odds...

The Team Steel's Pokemon reached Team Roy's Pokemon, delivering wild blows like Steel Wing, Metal Claw, or Iron Tail. It was when Team Roy was able to retaliate when a few Pokemon began to glow... Glow as bright as a star at night... A white color. Soon they began to change... The Pokemon? Well, their owners can tell you.

"Uh... M-Marshtomp? Carvanha?" Melanie stuttered.

"Lairon? M-M-Metang?" quivered Steven.

Marshtomp changed into a larger Water/Ground Element, with a dark blue body having a lighter blue underside, with two almost navy blue, round crests on its head, a same-color, larger and fan-shaped tail, orange bumps with lines along them on its lower arms and lower legs, small orange eyes, and an orange circle with two orange spikes protruding from it horizontally. It was now a Swampert.

Carvanha's form became that of a bigger Water/Dark-Type, having a shark-shaped body with a dark blue top with a four-pointed star on the head and a white bottom, red eyes with black, gill-shaped designs beside them, two dark blue side fins, a same-colored top fin with cuts in the back, and a bottom fin with a cut near the bottom of the stomach. Inside the mouth were several sharp teeth, and the end of the shark Pokemon had a yellow star pattern. It became a Sharpedo.

Lairon had evolved into a much, much taller monster-like Pokemon, a Rock/Steel Element, with a black steel underside, silver steel-colored segments going down its back, a monster-like same-colored head with glistening blue eyes and two horns protruding from its head, silver rings on its wrists as well as silver claws, silver rings on its knees, and a black tail. It evolved into an Aggron.

And lastly, Metang had become a Steel-Psychic Element with a blue, metallic, spider-like body, having four arms with gray claws at the tips, which, from an aerial view, made the arms like an X, a silver-colored, gleaming X shape on its face, and red eyes. Metang was now a Metagross.

"Swam...PERT!" roared Swampert.

"SHARPEDO!" snarled Sharpedo.

"Ag... GRON!" bellowed Aggron.

"Me... Ta... GROSS!" yelled the new, deeper voice of Metagross.

"They all evolved!" cried out Melanie and Steven happily.

'Drat...' growled Silva in his head. 'I'd better escape.'

"Metagross, use Meteor Mash! Aggron, use Flamethrower!" Steven yelled.

A spark of flames appeared in Aggron's mouth, which soon blasted out in the form of a fiery-colored beam, headed straight for some of the Skarmory and Metang. The Fire attack hit its mark, bringing down six of the Steel-Element Pokemon.

Metagross lifted up one of its spider-like claws, which began glowing like a rainbow-colored meteor at the end. Metagross slammed his fist into the ground, causing the orb-like ball to slam into the ground and hurtle towards some of the Lairon, also making a small mini-fissure. All Lairon were hit, knocking them onto their backs.

"Now's my turn!" smirked Melanie. "Swampert and Sharpedo, use Surf!"

Swampert and Sharpedo let out loud roars, making a nearby lake become turbulent. Soon, the turbulence turned into a land-riding tidal wave, which the two Water dual-Types hopped onto (Strange for Sharpedo, not having legs, though.). They rode the powerful wave into the many knocked-over Lairon, burnt Skarmory, and almost KO'd Metang, knocking them all out!

"Sweet!" cheered the ex-Aqua female.

Before anyone could try and grab the Platinum Orb, a steel-colored helicopter landed in front of them, with an S emblazoned on the front.

"Ha!" sneered Silva as he ran towards the helicopter. He jumped in, and, with a Team Steel Grunt controlling the aerial vehicle, lifted up and away. The Grunts on the ground recalled every single one of their Pokemon and ran off in different directions.

"They... Got all the Orbs... The four Teams... No..." gasped Melanie.

"They... Did it... It wouldn't be as bad if the Platinum Orb was still here..." groaned Steven.

"CRUD, DOUBLE-CRUD, AND TRIPLE-CRUD!" Lovrina yelled angrily.

Roy only shook his head. "Now, look! We didn't come all this way back to Littleroot and two other places to whine and moan if we lose, right? Everyone loses sometimes! So, now, we need to band together and..." The brown-haired Trainer rose his hand in the air. "GET... THOSE... ORBS! Who's with me?"

The other three, even Lovrina, shouted in reply: "WE'RE WITH YOU!"

"WHO'S WITH ME?!"

"WE'RE WITH YOU!"

"Who... Is... WITH ME?!"

"We're with you Roy. Now shut up, would ya?" the other three said, groaning at Roy's repeated shouts.

"Sorry. I watch too many dramatic/ action-filled/ non-romantic shows. Now, let's go get those Orbs back!"

"YEAH!" All four jumped in the air, now being positive from Roy's pep talk.

PM: And so, the adventure throughout Hoenn for the mystical Orbs begins... But little do they know, but Team Roy will run into more trouble than the adventure is probably worth...

Oh, yeah, please note that Team Steel's leader is NOT the Silva from Colosseum. He is MINE! ALL MINE!