After that pitiful test of my First Person skills I now give you 3rd person- enjoy. (Sorry for the late upload, lot's of homework, test and applying for college really bogs you down.)
It was the morning of the next day and in one of the rooms in the Pastoria Poke-center, a certain being was sleeping in, with her companion right on top, sleeping off the hours of walking/flying from the day before. After all that has happened yesterday, Azelf and Fair had somewhat become much closer to each other; for their love of adventure to saving the world, the two held common ground despite their massive differences.
Today was nothing special to anyone, but in a matter of minutes, it was all about to change.
Downstairs in the lobby of the Center, Nurse Joy was doing what she always did- take care of sick or injured Pokemon, while tending to other duties like boarding trainers and giving directions. As per a usual summers' day, it was teeming with trainers far and wide, either to heal they're somewhat battered Pokemon or to get a room and wait for their appointment at the Pastoria Gym; which was quite busy due to it being July with the fact there was no school.
As she was tending to one of the many young trainers', an tall, dark figure slipped through the center's rear door and went up the stairs', looking for something important. As the figure did this, a large group came through the now opened back door as well. Some went to the pokeball storage room while the rest went out in front. Before anyone in the lobby knew it, they were in a hostage situation. All of them were dressed with a black hoodie that covered his eyes and dark grey pants that had light yellow highlights running down them. On it was the old symbol for Team Galactic but it now had a deep red color instead of it's golden yellow; signifying their change into a newer, more threatening team.
One of them, a lower ranked leader to the small group, asked of only one thing of the many now against the wall of the lobby:
"Have any of you seen a blue haired girl with bright yellow eyes?" He said with a vicious smile on his face, which had purposely intent coming from the context of his smile.
Back upstairs, some sleepy trainers came out their rooms- only to be grabbed and dragged downstairs to the rest of the hostages.
In her room, Azelf had heard all the commotion and had gotten up silently, as to not alert Fair or being attention to anything in her room. After changing into her travel clothes, she eavesdropped through the door to hear what was going on.
"Is that every room?"
"I think so. Jupiter will be happy with this. In the room behind has to have that girl we're looking for. One of the others' has gone of to tell her but for now, we have to guard the door to make sure she doesn't escape."
"This plan is going off without a hitch. The only thing that can stop us now is divine intervention but the most the nearest being can do is open the door!" The two grunts laughed to the joke before quieting and standing guard from what the shadows under the door told her.
She looked back to Fair, who was still sleeping sounding in the folds of the bed cover. If it hadn't been for the situation at hand, Azelf would've thought this was undoubtedly cute but she needed to act- and quick.
She quietly tip-toed to Fair's side and gently rocked her awake. The Ledian, stirred a bit before looking up with her dark blues eyes. Her light blue iris' looked around for only a moment before looking upon her friend who had awoken her.
"Speak quietly. The lady from before has some friends here now and they want me. We need to act fast now." Azelf whispered to the Five Star Pokemon before pacing with a serious look on her face.
"We could just teleport if you can or I could fly us out the window." Fair said while looking back at said window, thinking about how far she could carry Azelf's teenage body.
"The thing is that they're probably expecting that..." She said before having an enlightened look on her face she looked at the room's only door into the hall. "We'll just do something they don't expect." She said with a devious smile as Fair looked on, confused as to what her friend was about to do.
Azelf walked up to the door, checked under the sill to see where the two guards were standing and then took a step back. She then had a slight purple glow wrap around her whole body. Fair could not see it, but Azelf's eyes were a bright purple, signifying that she was using her psychic abilities. On the other side of the door, she she mentally grabbed the two grunts and, as hard she could do without killing them, knocked their heads together, rendering them unconscious. She went back to the door, opened it and dragged the two men inside, hid their unconscious forms in the bathroom and barred the door with a chair for an extra measure of security and closed the front door once more.
"Well... that couldn't have been more exhausting. No more using my psychic abilities; Fair, are you alright with being sneaky and knocking people out with me?"
"Well if it gets us out of this crazy mess, I'm for it." She said while stretching all four of her limbs, getting ready for a lot of action.
Azelf motioned for Fair to follow as they went to the door out of the room, looking both ways before silently walking down the hall. As they did, they heard a noise in one of the rooms off to their right. Azelf took a quick peak inside to see a grunt raiding the room for valuables. He was so distracted in his efforts that all he got in return was a large bruise on his head from Azelf, who quickly reeled in pain from punching too hard.
"Argh..!" She grunted through her teeth as she wagged her hand to stave off the pain. "Are their heads made of concrete or somethin'!?" As she started to rub her hand, Fair went up to the grunt and looked his uniform over and saw the weird symbol on his jacket.
"Azelf, what's this symbol mean?" She said, pointing to the red insignia with one of her fists.
Azelf took a small glance at the symbol while she was still focused on her hand. Once she saw it though, she froze up and got lost in her thought processes.
"It means bad things just got worse."
'These people revived Team Galactic into something much more threatening from what I can tell earlier with Jupiter willing to kill me. Their "blood" symbol shows this evidence to a tee. I now can tell they're not going quietly and that anything they do will involve violence. We have to take care of them swiftly.'
"Azzy, are you alright?" Fair asked her, pulling out of her thoughts and back into the heated situation.
"I'm fine, let's get going. Stay as quiet as can be all right- that means no flying."
The two of them went back to sneaking down the hallway, ducking into a room whenever needed. This worked until they got to the stairwell to the first floor, which was being guarded at the bottom by at least four grunts; possibly to keep the hostages from going upstairs. Azelf looked back down the hallway to see that no one was coming at the moment. The perfect chance to do something bold.
Azelf turned to Fair, who was still focused on the guards downstairs. "Fair, are you ready to play a game of hide and seek?" Fair looked at the blue-haired girl and saw that she was holding a vase and had a very twisted smile.
Downstairs, the four who were guarding the stairs were serious about their work and tried not to become distracted, lest one of the trainers get away using the top floor.
Suddenly they heard the sharp noise of something breaking upstairs. The four looked at each other before two of them decided to go up and check.
After ten minutes, the two left behind were worried, it shouldn't take this long to check for some noise. It could've been a Starly hitting a potted plant or one of the other grunts. One of the two decided to go up and check.
After another five or so minutes, there was no movement upstairs, which worried the last grunt. He wanted to check out what had happened but he had a duty and stayed at his post. As he was watching out for anything suspicious, upstairs or in the lobby, he heard shuffling at the top of the steps. The last thing he saw was a teenage girl beaning a flower pot at him.
"Thankfully for us, these guards are just plain stupid still." Azelf remarked to Fair, who was looking over the unconscious forms of the grunts. "It amazes me how easy it is to knock them out as long as I don't punch them. Added that you can punch them without hurting yourself and we pretty good at taking out threats, so long as we sneak around."
"You know, I'm wondering something... where's the lady that was after you?" Fair asked as she flitted closer to Azelf's side once more.
"I give you one of my tails that she's waiting for us, or rather me, where she knows we'll get to easily and escape. Right now though, I want to see what's going on out front in the lobby considering I hadn't seen another trainer or anyone of the like since our sneaking escapade. I have an inkling as to what they're doing besides finding me but for now, we have to to search for other grunts and take them out. We don't want any distractions when we make our big appearance." Azelf quietly shuffled to the nearest door, which was labeled "Poke-ball holding room" and took a peak through the small square window to see three grunts eagerly taking every Poke-ball. This angered the Willpower being much more than previously. Trying to catch her was one thing but stealing from innocent people? That's plain evil and she won't have any of it.
She opened the door as quietly as possible and motioned for Fair to come with her. The two tip-toed into the medium sized holding room. The room had a number of shelves that held Pokeball in small slots indented into each shelf but now, there were only so many left as the grunts had raided plenty of the Poke-ball's.
Azelf motioned for Fair to go right while she went right. Both went up to their respective target and knocked them out, but quietly so that the last grunt wouldn't notice. Azelf came up behind the last grunt, who was still stuffing the remaining Poke-ball's into the sack. Before he could even think about turning around, he got slammed over the head with an empty Poke-ball, which broke on impact, showering red and white metallic shards onto the ground along with electronic parts mixed in-between and the body of said grunt.
"Well that takes care of that. Let's check what's going on in the lobby. I want to make a plan and with this many Pokemon in this one room, it'll be a blast." She said while she looked over the room. Fair had a look of uncertainty but said nothing as she looked upon the many Poke-ball's in the sack the grunt was stuffing them in.
'It's weird seeing all these Poke-ball's, knowing that there are Pokemon inside them. Just thinking about how they were going to use them isn't something I want to picture. I would never dream of harming someone innocent, but I bet these people would use these innocent Pokemon as tools.'
Azelf was about to step out of the room until she saw her partner in a daze, clearly worried about something. She walked over and kneeled to Fair's height. "Fair... you alright?"
Fair snapped out of her thoughts and focused on the task at hand, leaving her current thoughts for a future time. "I'm fine. Let's go." Azelf nodded and walked out, Fair right behind her. Though she seemed okay on the outside, Fair had doubts forming inside her. She knew that she'll have to come to terms with some things later on.
As the duo came to the doors leading into the lobby, Azelf peeked into the window to see approximately twenty grunts but instead of having Pokemon out, they had something much worse.
They had guns.
Azelf backed up from the window and thought over the situation, looking over her partner, worried about the worst possible scenario. Pokemon can handle the worst of attacks like a Hyper Beam or Stone Edge because they are formed using natural energy and mostly don't make wounds unless intended to. Bullets are designed to specifically kill. Only the worst would ever use a weapon on a human but it takes true evil to shoot a Pokemon- most of which have no understanding of such a device.
"Fair, this may be a bit tougher than I first expected but we still have a chance... we do have numbers' on our side, considering all the Pokemon in the storage room- though..." Azelf looked off, not wanting to see Fair's innocent look while thinking about the worst-case scenario.
"Though what?" Fair asked, stepping closer to the teenage god, who leaned on the wall, knowing what now bears' on her shoulder is of the highest importance.
"I don't have any other way to say this..." She looked up and straight at Fair, who still had an innocent look of curiosity on her. "I expect death..." Azelf said, her voice quivering.
'I don't want any being to die in all of this, especially on my hand. As a deity of this planet, I'm supposed to protect them. If I get any of those trainers killed or any Pokemon I bring in there killed, it'll be on my head. Arceus would be very angry with me, acting as if they were all tools. I've got to be careful.'
"Azelf, I know everything is bad but we can't just give up because those mean people are tougher than the ones earlier. I believe we can win if we use strategy over overwhelming." Fair stated, stunning Azelf with her sudden courage and tact.
"Fair, I know you're right but you have no idea how bad the situation is at the moment. The two of us have a lot to lose and-" She pointed through the doors leading into the lobby," -so do those trainers and their Pokemon. I don't to risk anyone to these people. Knowing them, they're ready to kill."
Kah!
Suddenly a sharp noise cut through the hallway, the source coming from the lobby. The two of them could hear something thud and large cacophony of screams came after; all of them in fear and panic.
Someone had just been killed.
All Mark wanted to do was get his Pokemon healed before setting off towards Lake Valor and ultimately, Sunyshore City after his excursion in the Pastoria Pokemon Safari.
Now he was part of a hostage situation with this newer version of Team Galactic until some blue haired was found; apparently she's important to them in some way. Everyone was scared that they could be killed, considering the fact the grunts over-watching, and their leader as well, all had guns- along with an average of three Poke-balls on theirs belts. Mark assumed for a 'just in case' situation.
At this point, everyone was huddled together against the walls as the grunts walked around, keeping watch over everyone. Sometimes they subtly kick someone or step on their hands, just for their enjoyment. All Mark could think was that these people were sick and don't deserve leeway of any kind.
Mark looked up to see the leader of the group of grunts walk in with a phone, talking to someone about something...
"Well you better hurry up. If we don't get what we demand in ten minutes, blood will be shed. I thank you for your service." Mark could barely overhear what the man had said but knew it wasn't good news.
'Blood? Does he mean... he's going to kill someone?'
All Mark could really do was sit and wait, and listen in to any conversations going on. For a short time, he heard faint scuffling in the back area of the Poke-center but thought nothing of it but more grunts walking around.
Time had apparently flown faster than expected as the leader had come back in, phone at ear once more. This time though he was brandishing his gun.
'It's been ten minutes already!?'
"Your ten minutes are up. Since I heard nothing from my superiors of any typing of payments, I'll have to go ahead a make a point." The leader grabbed something out of his pocket, a black camcorder, and gave to one of the guards to record with. He made a small motion and the grunt hit record, keeping it on point with his leader.
"Because of your failure to meet our demands, I'm afraid we will have to resort to... extreme goading to make do as we say." He walked around for a bit before setting his sights on Mark. He grabbed him and forced him to stand up against the wall. Before anyone could even figure out what was about to happen, the leader had a sly smirk as he brandished the gun's barrel at Mark's torso. "I believe this is good enough a reason." With that he pulled the trigger.
'Arceus... I'm seeing you prematurely...'
Before anyone could blink, the bullet hit Mark. The last thing he saw before he blacked out from the extreme pain was the twisted smile of the grunt leader, still holding the phone- gun now at his side once more.
As he hit the floor, everyone couldn't help but scream in terror and in panic, knowing they could be next. But unknown to all, Mark was still alive, though injured.
Unbeknownst to all of them, the grunt with the camera had uploaded the footage directly to every news agency in the Sinnoh region via a stolen smartphone.
Smiling, the leader knew that his point was about to made. He made a signal to one of the grunts to do something about the body. To heck with image, he thought smugly, boss'll be happy once we catch that girl but money comes first.
All she could do was sit there and hold her head, eyes wide open from the sudden events that had just transpired. Fair, could look on, confused as to why her legendary friend was currently in shock.
'...If only... I should've... I could've...' thoughts shot through the Willpower Being's mind, trying to think of what she could've done to avoid the young male trainer from killed. When they heard the shot, one check via the window confirmed her fears' and made the situation much, much worse. They were willing to kill for anything: her, money, power. A lot people would kill for anything but usually conscience and a bit of divine intervention from one of the many legendary beings kept this in check. Now with Sinnoh's power balance interrupted, she could do nothing to stop criminal's like before.
"Azelf, you mustn't give up. I did not create you this way did I?"A heavenly voice burst into the fabric of Azelf's mind.
'Mother, is that you? I'm sorry, but I can't continue if blood will be shed. I've seen much more war and bloodshed than I could possibly imagine. If it were on my hands, I would not think about ho-'
"My daughter... all life is precious, but you must now to save life, you must risk yours'. That is what your second purpose is- to save courage, and to the extent, life. I know you have a plan. Carry it out; you have my blessing." The voice dissipated from her thoughts, which begin to flood with her ideas to modify her plan into the perfect strategy to free everyone and get rid of Team Galactic.
She looked up to Fair, who was sitting on a table across the hall, singing her legs nonchalantly- waiting for Azelf to snap out of her trance. "Fair," The Ledian, looked to her friend to see a dark smile across her face, "I have a plan and with it-" She looked up, showing Fair the devious smile on her face. "-we shall smite those evil people into fear they've never known before."
Azelf got up and started to walk towards the storage room. She thought only one thing:
'We're going to need an army.'
At this point, it had been three hours since the hostage crisis began and only forty minutes since first blood had been shed. At this point, national and international media were covering the story on how there was a hostage crisis in Pastoria City's Pokecenter and how it had connections to Team Galactic.
The leader of the grunts, whom still hadn't stated a name of any sort, said that every hour the girl isn't found and their monetary demands aren't met, someone shall die.
The families if the trainers' inside were now relegated to hoping their children were okay; praying to every "noble" legendary that could be thought of. Already one family was in mourning- no one wanted another to die.
Unbeknownst to everyone inside or outside the Center, someone was about to put a daring plan to action.
"I know you're all anxious but take my word for it- once you go through the door, attack no one but the people holding the weapons. They're willing to kill your trainers and even you all to an extent."
Inside the Pokemon Center's storage room, a large assortment of different Pokemon, ranging from your average normal-type all the way to the powerful dragon-types. The already small room was now cramped but still had enough space that you could move around in without hitting another 'Mon.
Azelf was telling the large assortment of trainer Pokemon her battle plan, while Fair kept guard on the outside, ready to pounce on any of the grunts when necessary.
"Why should we believe some human that isn't our trainer, you could be evil as well." One of the normal-types remarked, a Clefairy. She got some sort approval but not much
"If you want us to work for you, you better have a reason to listen to human other than our trainers'." A water-type, a Buizel. This one got a collective agreement.
"If you must know..-" Azelf was thinking hard and fast for a reason why they should listen to her. She came up with the perfect excuse, which also explains her body at the moment. "-...I am Azelf, this is my human form. If you want proof, I'll gladly give an example of my power. Being able to understand you all is already good starting point." She looked around to see the general reaction, which was that she was faking her status and was just an eccentric, normal human.
"If you're really who you say you are, why don't you take control of my body, miss being of willpower'" One of the ground types, a Golem , taunted, earning him a few laughs and an angered look from Azelf.
"If you say so..." She focused her most of her mental strength taking control of the offender's body, which had a very opaque orange glow around him, just like her eyes, once she gained control. Once she did, she made him punch himself a couple pf times while everyone else sat there in awe, realizing that she wasn't faking. After about ten hits to his own jaw, she let go of her control over the Golem, who even in pain, sat and stared at her in awe- now knowing his mistake for calling out on her guise.
She walked over to the door leading out into the hallway and leaned against, ready to open the door. "If that is all the pandering over with, may we go and execute this plan of mine? If we succeed, your trainers shall not be harmed. I promise that if one gets... hurt, I'll let you all use me as a rag-doll." Azelf said confidently. In actuality, she was scared, knowing that one trainer was already dead and her plan at least assured another one lost.
She pushed open the door slightly to speak to Fair, who was still standing guard but heard everything that happened in the room behind her. "Fair, you know what to do right?"
Fair turned around and nodded, a gleam in her in dark eyes showing off a dark intent to all this- for what it is for unknown. Azelf turned around and called for the large group of Pokemon to start. Some quickly rushed out, eager to cause havoc, some casually walked out, just wanting to get it all over with, and others' carefully got out, knowing full well the dangers'. All got ready for a fight, or at least, some sort of altercation.
In the lobby, the leader of the group was officially distracted by the call on his phone by his boss, who was still nowhere to be found in the building. As he talked, the rest of the guards watched the large group of hostages for anyone dumb and courageous. They all knew the situation was heating up via the fact there was a SWAT team waiting outside but they hadn't brought weapons other than their Pokemon for nothing. If it comes down to it, a massive fire-fight might ensue to ensure that they get what they want.
That is, as long the unexpected does not happen.
As sudden as it could happen, a dark smoke-screen quickly filled the large lobby, blinding all of its occupants and making them wheeze from the noxious gas as it came pluming in. The source of said smoke-screen were a pair of Weezing in the air vents above the large open room using Smokescreen, filling it quickly as the ventilation system had by rearranged to directly blow the smoke/gas into the lobby.
With everyone distracted, a large group of Pokemon stormed in, lead by Rock and Ground types as they were unaffected by the gas and were completely unaffected by human weaponry. On their backs were the Psychic type, who were taking said weapons and teleporting them to an unreachable place- the roof.
Most of the once armed grunts at this point are starting to recover from the surprise attack and released their Pokemon, only for them to get knocked out by the rest of the large group of Pokemon.
The fight itself was fairly short as once all the opposing Pokemon were down and out, the grunts were detained by Azelf- who had walked into the lobby as if nothing had just gone down. Once grunts were tied up with extra rope she found in a storage closet and, with a bit of help with the other Psychic types, locked into the Pokeball storage room, Azelf looked around at the large assortment of trainers' reuniting with their Pokemon. As she looked upon this scene, something grabbed her from behind and dragged through the doorway into the hallway.
Fair was celebrating their quick win, as she had helped fight off the opposing Pokemon. As danced around in happiness, she saw that her partner was nowhere to be found. She looked around to see if she somewhere in the crowd, which was starting to leave out the front door. Not seeing her what-so-ever, she assumed the worst. fair fluttered into the hallway to check if Azelf was there, hoping for her to be fine. She came into the hallway in time to see her fighting the tenacious grip of Jupiter, who was trying to drag out the back while everyone was leaving the Center.
Acting fast, Fair used Bug Buzz to distract and daze Jupiter although it had a profound effect of also disorienting Azelf due to her Psychic typing. Once she had dazed Jupiter, she grabbed Azelf and pulled her back, struggling a little due to weight differences. Once out of harms way, she got in front to protect her partner as Jupiter finally regained from the harsh noise. "Heh, I forgot about you. Stupid bug, let's see if I can make you go splat! Go Skuntank!" She yelled as she called out her signature Pokemon, who came out with a drowsy look her face- as if she had just gotten up from sleeping.
Looking forward at each other, Skuntank felt confident, knowing the Bug-type in front of her can't do much damage. "Hehehe, what're you gonna do to me bug? Pollinate? Hah!"
"We'll see about that! Swift!" Fair shouted as she spun around, setting off a trail of white stars from her hands, most hitting Skuntank, knocking her back a couple of inches.
"That all you can do?" "Skuntank, roast that bug! Flamethrower!" "As you wish!" She remarked before jetting a stream of fire from her mouth, Fair barely dodging as the trail of flames kept going, making a hole in the double doors to the lobby.
'That was close, if I get hit by that, I'm out for the count and Azelf will be hers, I gotta stay focused!'
"You want me, try hitting me now! Aerial Ace!" Fair shouted before flying up, engulfing in a bright white light and swooping down, striking Skuntank full on, knocking her into a wall but not hard enough to knock her out.
"Use Smokecreen and blind that thing. Let's see it hit something it can't see." Without a word, Skuntank got up and bellowed smoke from her mouth, clogging up the room, blinding Fair and disorienting her. Knowing that if she didn't do something she would be hit, she quietly used Swift, hoping for the blind use will hit Skuntank.
On the other side, the white stars hit Skuntank, who took them full brunt. Some almost hit Jupiter but she jumped out of the way in time, looking angrier than ever for almost getting sliced. "Skuntank, I'm through with this, do whatever it takes to hit that bug. I'm going to find someone in this smoke. If it starts to wane, use Smokescreen." Skuntank nodded, before bounding into the dense smoking, hoping to find Fair and bring her down. As she did, Jupiter walked along the wall, to try and find Azelf in the smoke as well.
With Fair and Skuntank...
The two Pokemon were trying to find each other in the dense smoke, destined to knock each other out for their respective trainer.
Fair was fluttering high above the ground, looking down with a keen eye to see if she could spot her opponent before the other can see her. As she fly through the smoke, Skuntank walked around, also looking for her opponent.
As Fair looked around, she spotted a small flicker of purple fur. Her opponent. She sent out a flurry of white stars using Swift, hoping to hit her mark and possibly gain an upper hand.
Before Skuntank could react to what was going on, she took the full brunt of a Swift attack, seemingly out of nowhere. Above her, Fair was positioning herself for another sneak attack but before she could, Skuntank spotted her as she looked around for the source.
"You annoying bug! Get down here and fight me! Poison Jab!"
"Swift!"
The two used their respective moves, both colliding at full speed but Skuntank wasn't delayed by the Swift attack and jumped up to strike the confused Ledian, who was knocked into the wall by the full force of a Poison Jab. Thought the attack had bruised her, it did not do enough to knock her out.
"I'm not out yet. If you want to take me out, you'll have to kill me first. Aerial Ace." Fair remarked before using Aerial Ace on Skuntank, who had taken the attack's full force once more, getting moved back one foot.
"If that's how it'll be, then so be it! Flamethrower!" Skuntank yelled before shooting out a stream of fire, which had only just grazed it's intended target but it did it's damage as it charred some of Fair's right wing and burned a portion of her lower right body.
'This is bad, I'm going to be toast before I can knock her out. What do I do...?' Fair looked around for anything that could help her. She then spotted on the wall near her a a small red box with a lever in the middle marked 'Fire Alarm'. 'This might be helpful, hopefully.' Fair fluttered over to it and pull down on the lever, activating the loud shrill shriek of the fire alarm.
The sudden shriek worked wonders for Fair, as unseen in the fog, Skuntank became disoriented by the sudden high-pitched shriek. As Skuntank stumbling around from the ringing noise, Fair spotted her and lined up for one final Aerial Ace, which she had no intent on doing anymore of. She hit her target, who, this time, went flying back to the wall on the other side, colliding with her trainer, who had just fallen over from a sudden blow as well.
With Jupiter and Azelf...
While the fight with the two Pokemon raged on nearby, hearing the tandem shout coming from either one, Jupiter pressed on through the smoke- trying to find the teenage Azelf. Somewhere in the smog/smoke, she knew the "fallen" legend was disoriented and possibly slumped against the wall but she knew better and was watching for any movements besides the pokemon nearby.
Nearby, Azelf started regain her focus after the Bug Buzz attack. Despite the painful headache, she forced her eyes open. She saw that the room was filled with smoke and that Fair was nowhere to be found but knew she was here from the shouts of the battle.
'Wait? Battle?'
Azelf started to get up, only to stumble a bit as the headache reared itself in her head, stinging pain being felt throughout. Once she did get up, she looked around to see if she could find a way to Fair and help her. As she started to walk forward, she heard someone shuffling towards her general direction. Knowing that this is probably Jupiter, she ducked under a nearby table, so as to ambush her when she comes close enough.
Not even a minute passes before Azelf could see Jupiter stalk out of the smoke, leaning against the wall so she wouldn't get lost of the dense smoke. As she stumbled upon the table, Azelf shot out and grabbed her by the collar of her jacket to keep her still. Despite the size difference, Azelf's teenage body was sturdy enough for her to hold still Jupiter- who had a malicious glare aimed at Azelf.
"Do you really think that I'm going to go easily?" Azelf quizzed the Galactic admin, who only held her glare at her without a word before a smirk formed, annoying Azelf once more.
"Actually, I don't. Knowing you though, you're too headstrong to realize the bigger picture." Jupiter pulled out her smartphone and took a glance at the most recent message.
Received 12:43 P.M - "We have one of the trio in our hands. Let's use that to our leverage for the other two to give up. Come back to HQ immediately, but make sure to drop a hint to the other two that their sister is in our hands." - Cyrus
"What're ya' looking at? It better not be a plea for back-up or the only thing they'll find is that shabby hair-do of yours." The Willpower Being threatened the admin, only for Jupiter to laugh in response before showing her the message shocking Azelf so much, she let go.
"All this time, I was only delaying you. You sister Mesprit is in our hands. Have fun rescuing her!" Jupiter turned to leave only to stop as the fire alarm suddenly went off. Azelf took this momentary distraction to punch Jupiter at full-force. As she fell to the floor, out of nowhere, Skuntank flew into to her, flinging both of them into the wall- knocking both of the out in a small pile.
As the smoke cleared, Fair and Azelf reunited once more, happy to see each other okay and happy that their enemy was out for the count. As they celebrated their second win of the day, Pastoria's Officer Jenny and a handful of other officer came into the back hallway. The officer cuffed Jupiter and put away Skuntank in her Pokeball. Passing by were two medics with an unconscious and injured Mark being hauled out the back door to a waiting ambulance. Officer Jenny then walked up to the duo, who had stopped celebrating.
"Excuse me, this maybe a weird question but are you...Azelf?" Officer Jenny questioned the being, getting a silent nod in response. "I'm afraid to tell you that your sister is in the hands of Neo Team Galactic. Don't worry though, there's going to be a full-scale operation involving the whole Pokemon League. For now, I'm going to escort you to the Pastoria Gym. Follow me if you will."
Azelf had no choice but to follow, knowing that it was safer at the gym then anywhere else. Fair followed above, getting a bird's eye view of the chaos that was left behind in the lobby. Once outside, the two saw how large the event had become, attracting half the city, families and news crews. And all of them know who she is. A couple of reporters' tried to get some sort of info from the legend, only for her to shun them- along with Fair blocking the camera's whenever possible.
The Lake Trio had become unwilling stars' in a massive plot that they didn't want to be in. For the next couple of days, everything will be decided.
What would the universe's fate be...?
To be continued...
Next Arc - Rescue Arc!
First though - Mesprit: Captured
Finally! I'm done! I want to thank myself for this wonde- nah I'm not going to be self-centered. Anyways, please leave your criticisms.
Oh and Happy New Year. (I missed Christmas sadly.)