The character Pocky is actually all Digital Skitty's, I did not create her, and I do not own her. Just for fun, I've added a couple of her characters from Reishine, there will be two more in the next chapter. Two more… and their Pokemon, let's say. Anyways, they're all used with permission, so don't say I'm plagiarizing or anything, please… o.o
Skitty, I'm glad you like it! xD Please tell me if I've gotten Pocky right…
MorriganFearn, I know, Fiendre didn't speak at all during the last chapter, they same as Solorite. He's still here! Thanks for your review, and hopefully I still have good quotes in here…
Right now, I can't get the edit/preview thing to work, so there won't be any page breaks… sorry about that!
Chapter 23
"Are we there yet?" Star asked for the fifteenth time today.
"No, Star, we're not there yet." Elvina answered with a sigh, "Stop asking."
"Alright…" Star huffed, "Why is the terrorist with Maxie?"
The 'terrorist' as Star called him was Meep, who was sitting like a lap-cat in Maxie's lap, purring and getting petted every once and a while. The Magma leader had contented himself to sit and stare out the window, maybe there was something out there that he was watching…
"Maxie likes him…" Sara whispered up to her Pokemon, who found her trainer's head was the best place to settle. She giggled slightly, "You'd think he'd have one himself by the way he's holding him…"
"Maxie can have him." Star responded snappily.
"Now, don't say that Star." Solorite had decided to curl up close to Sara's leg as the cramped helicopter flew quickly to their target, Hoenn. "You'll miss him, believe me."
"I don't think so." Star sniffed, "I'd rather the pest left."
The Houndoom known as Fiendre snorted and growled something to the Swellow, yet he seemed to smile. Sara felt rather than saw Star nodded every time he paused. "What's he saying?" She asked when Star finally chirped agreement.
"Oh, nothing Sara." Star responded stubbornly, "You'll see…"
"I don't like the sound of that." Sara looked over to Elvina, who had been standing next to her, "Elvina?"
"Oh," Elvina blinked, "No, it's no threat. Not really, at least, unless talks about food include a Squee sandwich."
"Food?" Sara asked her Swellow, "That's all he said?"
"He didn't say anything about a Squee sandwich!" Star ruffled her feathers in anger, "We just had a conversation, that's all!"
"Look!" Maxie pointed out the window and yelled over the noise of the helicopter, "We're here!"
"Finally!" Star squawked as most everyone looked to where he was pointing. A small, misty mountain was coming into view on the horizon, "Wait, we're not there yet!"
"Mount Pyre, the resting place of all Pokemon…" Maxie continued softly, "And there's an orb there waiting for us…"
"Wait a minute!" Drake exclaimed from behind Sara, it seemed a bit cramped back there, "You're not thinking of stealing one of the sacred orbs, are you?"
"I am. For the good of the world, I am." Maxie replied with a chuckle, "I want all of you to stay here, except maybe Tabitha could come… if I say Sara can, we'll all be going."
"Then let's all go!" Sara exclaimed, "It wouldn't do any harm…"
"On the contrary, it would do a lot of harm." Maxie replied sharply, "With all of us coming, they'd know we're here and hide the orbs! So, it's an order, only Tabitha and I am going."
(Meanwhile…)
"Pocky, Pocky, so good and lovely… Pocky, Pocky…" Sang a girl in the misty-ness of Mount Pyre. For all the gloom, she didn't seem to think it was bad. Her song drifted down on all the sad souls grieving over their lost Pokemon. Most call her crazy, the girl that loved Pocky so much that she'd want to be called that.
"So delicious!" Added her Wooper, who was serving as a back-up singer. Woop, her Wooper, wasn't wearing a costume today, there was not one yet for the Pocky song. Oh, but Pocky was making one! A replica of the delicious snack would be done very soon for her Pokemon.
Pocky only stopped her Pocky song when two people, a man and a women, walked by. They gave her a strange glance, in which she returned with violet-blue eyes.
Pocky's hair was chin-length and silver, excepting the bangs on the side, which grew out longer to her shoulders and was dyed dark purple. Her tank top was a pale pink; the skirt she wore was light blue. "Should we follow them?" She asked her Wooper, who ceased to bounce around to look up at her.
Woop blinked, "Oodle Noodle!" It finally exclaimed.
"We're singing the Pocky song now." She corrected, "Not the egg song."
Woop blinked before starting to bounce around again. Pocky sighed and picked up her things and her Wooper and following the pair of red-heads. Coming up behind them, she heard them talking about the sacred orbs… "The blue one is probably the one with the power." The man was saying, his tone strict and enforcing, "That's the one."
"And the other?" The lady asked.
"The other one we shall get as well; it would be a shame to leave something like that out so that Archie could get it." He responded, and with a thrill of surprise, Pocky realized they were talking of stealing the sacred orbs…
"Yes, sir." The other lady responded, nodding her defeat, "I understand."
They were coming up on a pair of old people, the lady was standing in the middle of two old rods of stone that had both orbs on them, her glasses small and eyes small and squinty. The elderly man, though, was in conversation with someone else that couldn't quite be seen at this angle. Yet, the red-headed man shouted something and broke into a run, being followed close behind by the other lady, and then Pocky as well.
The figure speaking to the old man turned slightly, a glint of icy blue for an eye stared right through them for a moment before doing an impossible maneuver in jumping and snatching both orbs at the same time. "Get back here!" The lady yelled at the top of her lungs, but the man just snickered and kept running until he was flashing past Pocky and down the mountain.
Pocky was swept aside as both the red-headed people turned on their heels and followed the raven-black haired man that had taken the orbs. When she followed again, they were standing on the edge of the slope downwards, cursing. The man that had taken the orbs was gone!
"He got them both!" The man cursed, yet he was looking at Pocky now, not the mountain. "Who are you anyways?"
"Errm, Pocky." She responded, taking out a stick of Pocky and chewing on it innocently, "My name's Pocky."
"I don't like Pocky. It tastes like old milk and stale biscuits." The lady interjected, "Really girl, what's you name?"
"Pocky is great!" She cried defensively, "It's the best thing since… well, anything! You've never really tried anything good until you've tried Pocky!"
"We're wasting time!" The man snapped, "Come, Tabitha, we've work to do!"
"Don't you think Pocky is great?" Pocky asked the man quickly, "You haven't said a word about it!"
"Ugh kid, there are so many other desserts better than Pocky." He responded.
The lady that was called Tabitha was looking at Pocky strangely, "She probably heard all of our conversation," She finally said to her companion, "Attack plan twenty?"
"That sounds good." He responded, looking over to Pocky and grinning, "Congrats kid, you're coming with us."
(Meanwhile…)
Tabitha and Maxie returned to the helicopter nearly empty-handed. 'Nearly' because of the person and Pokemon they had dragged with them. Her hair was strange, as was the choker around her neck. "Who's that?" Meep asked, his eyes shining slightly. "A friend?" The kitten added hopefully.
Maxie placed the girl in the seat in between his and Tabitha's, and got a kitten in his lap almost immediately. "She saw everything that happened, so we're taking her along until it's safe to release her."
"Wow, there's a lot of people here." The girl murmured, looking around at all of them, "Hey, do any of you like Pocky?"
"Ugh, not that again!" Tabitha groaned, "This kid says her name's Pocky."
"Come on, anyone?" She continued hopefully.
"Well, I've never had Pocky." Sara admitted, "Is it good?"
"Is it ever!" Pocky jumped up and handed Sara three stick of chocolate Pocky, "Try it friend, and enjoy the Pocky-ness!"
Star demanded a piece of Pocky when she heard Sara's muffled mumbling of 'It's good!' and got it finally. She squawked at Sara, "This stuff's funny tasting!" She chirped.
"It is not! Pocky is very good!" Pocky cried, getting surprised looks.
"Are you… perhaps a HAP?" Elvina finally asked.
"No, no, it's my necklace." Pocky flicked her choker, "I invented it. It translates Pokemon speech to me."
"I agree." Star grumbled when Fiendre opened one eye and snorted at the newcomer before curling up tighter and falling asleep.
"Anyone else?" Pocky asked, flashing more sticks of Pocky, "There's more to go around!" Everyone was silent for a while, and finally she sighed, "Why couldn't I have been kidnapped by a group of people who I can actually get along with!"
"Are you quite done?" Maxie finally snapped.
Pocky grumbled her yes and sat back down; looking like a storm cloud was looming over her head. Her Wooper exclaimed something and began a rolling dance in front of her, as to cheer her up.
"Alright, what happened?" Jacob prompted, "You don't have an orb, so something went wrong."
"It is a good thing. At least now you will not upset the balance anymore." Sundav murmured softly from her perch off to the side. Her feathers were still looking quite dull.
"Dominus got them before us. Both orbs are gone." Tabitha said with a sad huff, "Three days travel by helicopter down the drain-for nothing!"
Sara bit her lip; this wasn't a good thing at all. "So we won't be able to summon Groudon?" She asked.
Maxie nodded, his pale face twisted with fury, "But we've got to try. Come now, let's get going to our Hoenn base, at least there we'll be able to try." He gave the signal to the small group of people who were manning the helicopter. One of them shut the doors to the helicopter while it started up, the wings beginning to make the normal heavy beating of sound.
Little did the now large group of people speeding towards the Hoenn Magma base know; they were about to meet two very unlikely friends.