Tales of a Galactic Commander pt 7

Dustin Mercury Berlitz, also known as Commander Mercury, who had until recently had found out the truth about his fathers disappearance thanks to the help of Celebi. After finding out the truth, he decided to help Looker to bring Team Galactic to justice for there crimes. Now he s heading back to Galactic HQ plotting there downfall.

As he entered the HQ all the grunts were running around preparing for something, Mercury didn t care so he walked by them and headed to Cyrus s office, but on the way he walked pass Commander Mars without saying a word, as he was walking away Mars ran right behind and swerved in front of him so she could talk to him.

Mercury, where have you been? The grunts that took you to Ilex Forest said that you disappeared; now everyone thinks your dead.

Mercury didn t say a word, all he was thinking at that time was about Team Galactic s downfall, Mars continued.

Well I m glad that your alive, you re the only one that makes working here somewhat fun. Anyway I bet you noticed everyone s in a rush around here? We re all getting ready for the next part of Master Cyrus s plan.

And what would that be Mars? Mercury said with soulless voice.

Mars was shocked for a moment because for that exact moment Mercury sounded just like their boss Cyrus, then she continued.

That s right you missed our last meeting, well Master Cyrus told us that you and I must go to Lake Verity and capture the legendary pok mon Mesprit, the being of emotion.

Ok then. So when do we leave?

Tomorrow morning, and Mercury not to be rude or anything but I have a question for you. What happened to you in the Johto region, first you disappear without a trace, and now you ve returned out of nowhere with your face all cut up. You can trust me, I won t tell anyone about what happened, I swear.

Mercury gently pushed Mars out of his way and began to head to his room, but after taking a few steps forward, he said to Mars.

Thanks for your concern, I might tell you what happened, keyword might, and about these cuts on my face, don t worry I ll hopefully be all healed up by tomorrow morning. then Mercury continued walking back to his room. As he entered his room, he quickly jumped into his bed and thought about everything that happened to him today. Suddenly he heard knocking on his door, so he got out of bed and headed to the door, and as he opened it a grunt came running in and quickly closing the door. This grunt was a little bit taller than Mercury, and strangely didn t look like the other grunts.

Thanks for giving me this uniform Dustin, it will make my err I mean our mission run more smoothly.

The grunt quickly reached for his face and pulled off a rubber mask. It was Looker.

Looker, do you know what Team Galactic s planning for tomorrow?

Yes, and that s why I had to talk to you. You have to go along with their mission, if you don t they ll know something is up and that will blow both of our covers. Plus I just got a transmission from Interpol Headquarters, they want us to collect as must Intel about Team Galactic before we bring them down, got that?

Mercury nodded his head, and with that Looker took his rubber mask and placed it back on. Mercury escorted Looker out of his room, and after he closed the door Mercury prepared himself for the next day. Right before heading off to sleep, he walked into his personal washroom and looked into the mirror. He cleaned up his face and reached to a cabinet that was hanging on the wall; he pulled out a super potion and sprayed in onto his cuts. Most of the time everyone thinks that potions are just to be used for pok mon, but in fact it can also be used on humans. After that, he quickly got changed into his pajamas and headed off to bed. As Mercury slept, he dreamt about what he saw at Spear Pillar, and all threw the night he tossed and turned in his bed saying weird things.

As the morning sun shined threw the window in Mercury s room, a loud banging noise was coming form the hallway outside of his room. Mercury woke up and quickly went to the washroom and got dressed. Before he left the washroom he quickly looked into the mirror and noticed that all the cuts that were on his face were all healed up. As he left the washroom and headed towards the door he quickly picked up a letter that he made the pervious night and placed it into one of the many pockets he has in his jacket, then he left his room. Apparently all that banging was due to the fact that a bunch of grunts were carrying some sort of strange object, before Mercury had the chance to get a better look at it Mars appeared out of nowhere, she grabbed his hand and started leading him to the helipad.

You re finally awake, so now we can head off to Lake Verity and capture Mesprit. Mars said while pulling Mercury s arm. As they reached the helipad Mercury noticed that the strange object that he saw earlier was being loaded into another helicopter, with Commander Saturn in it. As they entered the helicopter Mars pushed Mercury in one of the seats then sat down in the seat right next to him. The helicopter closed the exit ramp and took off, and flew right towards Lake Verity. On the way there was some turbulence, and a letter fell out from between Mars and Mercury. Mars went and picked it up, Mercury started to freak in his mind because if Mars opens it and reads it, it will surely blow his cover. Then Mercury reached into his one of his pockets and grabbed a pok ball, just encase. Mars opened the letter and started reading it. Then suddenly she started to laugh, Mercury was puzzled, so he let go of the pok ball and took his hand out that pocket and reached into the pocket that he placed the letter in, the letter was still there. Mercury gave out a sigh of relief, and asked Mars about the letter she had just read.

O this, it s from my cousin who lives in Kanto. It said that she and her friend Bre had entered the annual battling contest, and apparently she came to Sinnoh and she met an old friend. You know what the sad part, I haven t seen my cousin for years so I don t even know what she looks like now. she said while eyeing Mercury. Later the two commanders had finally reached Lake Verity, while everyone was getting ready to capture Mesprit Mars told Mercury if wanted to see his family since Twinleaf Town was really close to the lake. Mercury thanked Mars and in a flash he was heading home to see his beloved mother. As he entered Twinleaf Town he noticed a young boy running towards him, Mercury quickly ran towards the nearest tree and hid. As the young boy ran past where Mercury was hiding, Mercury was able to get a good look at him; it was the young boy he battled at the warehouse, Lucas. Apparently it looked like he was heading towards Lake Verity, Mercury didn t care at that moment all he wanted to do was see his mother. As he approached his home, he noticed his mother sitting on the porch with a somewhat sad look on her face. His mom had long purplish pink hair, and beautiful green eyes, but the strangest thing was that see was wearing a pair of baby blue goggles on top of her head.

As he walked up his mother, she gave him a hug, and told him that they need to have a talk. So they entered the house and went to the couch, while sitting Mercury was trying to make sure that his mother didn t see the Team Galactic symbol that was on his jacket.

I was afraid of this, you have your father s looks but your mothers mind don t you Dustin or should I say Commander Mercury. said Mercury s mother while going into the kitchen to make some tea for the both of them.

Mom, I don t know what your talking ab-

Don t play dumb with me, Looker called and told me everything. she said in a voice most foul that it almost made Mercury skin leap right off the bones. She continued.

He even told me that you re now helping him to stop Team Galactic, I ve never been so proud. Mercury s mother started to cry while bringing him a nice warn cup of tea. She continued once again.

I think it time for you to learn the truth about your father and I. you might have already known that your father was once a researcher for Professor Rowan, but he was also one of the best agents in Interpol. she paused for a few minutes thinking about the best way to tell her only son her dark secret.

Ok let me start from the beginning. My first name is Lovrina, I was originally from the Orre region, when I was about your ago son I too was in a evil organization, we were called Cipher. I was their lead scientist and I was the one who had created XD 001. Mercury was in shock, he remember when he was in school reading about the Cipher and how they turned normal pok mon into dreaded shadow pok mon.

After we were all defeated by a kid, Michael I think that was his name, he purified all the shadow pok mon we created, later your father came to Orre to arrest everyone who had worked with Cipher. I ran away while everyone was being thrown into jail, but your father came after me. I don t want to get into the details but let s just say that your father saved my life that day, and I fell in love with him. Later he talked to his boss on my behalf, and the next thing I knew I was a free women. Later I caught up to him to say thanks, then we when on a date and.

Stop right there, I think I know where this is going. Mercury yelled out

After their talk Mercury got up form the couch and gave his mother a hug, and he said in her ear.

Mom its ok everyone does something stupid in their life, look at me for instants I joined Team Galactic. I will never think differently about you, you re my mother after all and I love you no matter what has happened.

After hearing this Lovrina started to cry, Mercury let go of this mother and walked out of the house. He gave out a quick sigh and headed back to Lake Verity. While walking there he hear the sounds of pok mon battling, so he started running as fast as he can, and when he got back to the lake, he saw Lucas and Mars battling each other, and right behind Mars was his cousin Dawn. Before Mercury could do anything Lucas had defeated Mars s pok mon.

I lost again... So, first the Windworks, and now Lake Verity that I owe you for! This shouldn t be happening to Team Galactic Commander Mars yelled out in anger.

Calm down, Mars, we've done our part in all of this. Mercury said while walking towards Mars. At that instant Dawn looked at her cousin in shock, due to the fact that on his jacket was Team Galactic s symbol on it.

Our mission was to transport the lake's Pok mon to our HQ... That's right! We accomplished our mission without a problem! Mars said with pride in her voice, and then suddenly Mercury yelled out.

Team! We're pulling out! The boss is waiting at the HQ!

Before they left, Mars quickly said to Lucas and Dawn.

The pok mon of the three lakes are connected somehow. Thanks to Saturn's grandstanding at Lake Valor, a cavern appeared here. It was the cavern where the pok mon Mesprit slept. Mesprit appeared, too, probably to go help its friends. That worked out well for us. It was super easy to catch. So now we've got them all: Mesprit, "the being of emotion." Azelf, "the being of willpower." Uxie, "the being of Intelligence." Now that we have them all... you can look forward to what plans Team Galactic has for them!

Then suddenly Mars threw a small bag at Lucas and Dawn, which was filled with sleep powder, and the two fell right to sleep. Right as everyone was getting on the helicopter Mercury quickly slipped the letter that he wrote into Dawn s bag. He quickly got on the helicopter right as it was taking off and sat right beside Mars. She laid her head on top of his shoulder, and at that Mercury knew that he was going help the other commander see the error of their ways, and possibly help him bring down Team Galactic.

Mean while back at Lake Verity Dawn was finally waking up and then she noticed her bag was open. So she quickly search it, just to make sure that nothing was stolen, when she happened to find the letter that Mercury placed in there. She opened it and started to read it, all it said was

DOWN WITH TEAM GALACTIC.

Signed by: Dustin Mercury Berlitz

Then she knew that he was on their side.

To Be Continued