Race to the Finish: Final Confrontation
Back on board the ship Mischief was quickly settled into the medical area where Cole instantly took charge and left the others in charge of the controls and map. "We could probably get just a few more... I mean come on, this shouldn't-" Blade was cut off by having his head slammed into the ground by a very angry riolu.
"There is no way on Earth that's going to happen!" Tasha growled her sensors in the air and aura visible red around her. "Mischief needs to be tended to, then we can go do whatever..." with that said the riolu spun and left the three boys in the room. Ryan blinked and looked over at Zachary and Blade, the squirtle was rubbing his head and grumbled under their breath.
The charmander slowly pulled his hood onto his head over the backwards turned cap and looked out the window at the clouds that they past. "You could probably just let me go... I'll just cause you-"
"Nope!" Zachary cut him off "You're one of the team now, and besides Tasha's right, we've got to take care of Mischief first. Just because we're no longer human doesn't mean that there aren't diseases and sicknesses that we can get..." he shook his head and swished his tail. "We're going to head back to base then..." Blade moaned in the background while Ryan ducked their head. He sniffed the air and quickly shifted into a human form before taking a seat behind the wheel.
The trip passed in a rather awkward silence afterwards and soon enough they were back on the ground, and their vehicle was once more in the form of a car. Ryan sat in the back tail curled protectively around him, flame lighting up the area revealing Blade across from him with arms crossed over his chest. Tasha also sat in the room, although her eyes were focused on the door of the medical room, worry for her friend rather obvious.
Zachary sat in the drivers seat hoping that the cloak wouldn't fail any time soon while he was in the drivers seat. "Man what a way to learn to drive..." he shook his head. He focused on what was in front of them of course, but also listened to Blade's grumbling from the back seat and worried that the squirtle would do something stupid.
He didn't have to wait long, but to his surprise it wasn't Blade that done something stupid. It was Ryan, the fourteen year old had seemed to see something outside. Ryan leapt up from his seat and yanked the side door open leaping out before anyone could react, except for Tasha who quickly followed after the fire type. Blade blinked and Zachary sighed slamming one hand into his face.
"So... does this mean that we can look for gems while we chase after them?" Blade asked and Zachary had to grown.
Tasha looked around desperately for the charmander. She'd seen his eyes change slightly after he'd looked out the window and before he'd leapt from the vehicle. They had taken on the slightest red tint, and she needed to find him to ask why. Although, as she followed his aura trail, she begun to feel as though she was walking right into danger.
She stopped and closed her eyes and focused on his aura signature, the green of Ryan was very faint, instead the black tendrils that she'd seen earlier almost took up the entity of his aura signature. She had no chance to react though as the shiny Pokéuman charged into her side and sent her skidding across the ground. She slowly rose off the ground and stared in complete shock at him, his eyes glowed red and a malicious grin spread over his face.
"Ryan?" her sensors were flat and the 'ears' on her head were flattened even as her eyes showed fear and confusion.
"Isn't available right now!" the stranger in Ryan's body crossed their arms across their chest and grinned at her. "I'm Yol!" he pointed at himself before smirking, the flame on his tail glowing brighter. "And I think that it's time to get rid of you!"
She had to quickly push herself off the ground and jump to avoid the burst of flames that were shot at her, an ember attack. She landed just barely on her feet but she was still a bit dizzy and thus off balance so when he slammed into her and scratched her across the face she had no chance at all to put up resistance. Once more she was slammed into the ground and sent skidding across the earth.
She groaned and pushed herself up trying to ignore the pain in her body, she wasn't really used to losing battles, or getting into so many in such a short span of time. Before Yol could do anything else at all though, Blade jumped out of the bushes nearby and slammed into him with an aqua-tail. Yol skidded backwards across the ground and glared at the water element Pokéuman who slipped quickly into a ready position across from the fire type.
Yol growled and bared his fangs before charging towards the squirtle claws glowing brightly with another scratch attack at the ready. Blade quickly jumped out of the way before he dug underground and burst out from behind Yol with another aqua-tail at the ready. The charmander had no chance to dodge and was sent skidding across the ground and slammed into a tree.
"Wait! Stop!" Tasha struggled to her feet and leapt between the two boys, forcing Blade to pull up short from his rapid spin, while Yol/Ryan remained slumped against the tree, unconscious. "Ryan is still somewhere in there!" she looked at Blade with a pleading look and the squirtle crossed his arms across his chest unsure of whether to trust her. "His Aura is still there, just... cut off by something..."
"Yol..." Zachary stated walking out in human form. "That's why his name was Yol on the mission report... not Ryan!" he crossed his arms across his chest and frowned "It must also be why he told us to just drop him off..." he shook his head "We should just get back to base. We can deal with this problem there." he turned and left the two younger members alone with Ryan/Yol to deal with.
"So..." Blade looked over at Tasha with an excited look "Is there-"
"Tall tree, highest branch!" The riolu cut him off and her reply was short and to the point as she walked over to Ryan/Yol. She sighed and ignored the actions of Blade in the background instead lifting up the unconscious charmander and carrying him back the the vehicle. By the time she reached it she was panting heavily, her energy almost completely depleted.
Zachary grinned at her and walked over to help her get him into the medical bay. After thinking for a while he also hooked up the straps that would prevent the charmander from hurting himself or others. Even though Tasha gave him a rather hurt looked he still locked them in before sitting down across from her. "Do we really want to take the chance that he'll wake up still as Yol rather than Ryan?"
"No!" Blade grinned as he walked into the room "Look what I found!" he showed another Dimension Gem to Zachary who looked over towards Tasha who shrugged. "It was up a tree... possibly buried underground originally until something planted a seed there... or something!" the squirtle rubbed the back of his head before he simply sighed and tucked the gem into the bag that held the other ones.
"Well, we'll be back at Base in about two hours..." Zachary was cut off by a boom and he looked out of the window along with Blade while Tasha sighed. "Looks like we might be getting back later than that though..." he slammed one hand on his face before turning to the group. "Okay, Cole, Blade and you to Tasha, we're going to have to do our best, get rid of those Extinctionists!"
Tasha sighed before accepting an Oran Berry from Cole and munching on it. Blade grinned and leapt out of the vehicle easily slipping into a fighting pose opposite the lampent. Tasha followed him and glared at the machop with Pokextinction, they simply grinned back at her before running headlong towards her. Cole intercepted the attack and Zachary jumped out from behind the leafeon hurtling a ball of shadows at the machop, which was hit right back at them by Leon.
"Oof..." Tasha slammed back into the vehicle and she shook her head before looking up at the Pokextinction members around them. Leon the Cubone, Justin the Lampent, Zeke the Pikachu, Ella the Eevee, Jessie the Zorua and of course Roger the Machop. "We're not giving up that easily!" she leapt back to her feet and throwing her palm forwards towards Leon.
The cubone simply jumped backwards to avoid it and nodded at the team around him. All of the Pokéuman members had to react quickly when the whole group charged at them. After that it quickly dissolved into a free-for-all where half the time they weren't even really using proper moves but more just whatever they could do to remain on top.
"Okay, this isn't getting us anywhere..." both groups split apart and stared across at one another panting. Leon shook his head and grinned slowly he pulled out a glowing blue gem, a Dimension Gem. "Now, isn't this familiar to you?" he smirked and all of the group tensed up. "If you want it then you'll have to win, and if we win then we keep it and the ones that you already have."
Tasha growled and Blade crossed his arms over his chest while Zachary and Cole both sighed. "So... I guess this means the Free-for-all is going to simply resume?" everyone froze and turned to stare at Mischief and Ryan, both of whom were standing in the doorway of the vehicle. "So? Are we going to beat them or what?" the minccino grinned, Ryan nodded his head from beside the younger Pokéuman and everyone looked at each other before Tasha nodded and grinned at them both.
"You bet that we will!" the riolu turned to the Pokextinction members who were all looking at each other rather confused. "Now, let's fight!" That single statement seemed to be the signal and both groups instantly devolved into fighting. Mischief banged heads with Leon while Cole and Ella faced each other the eevee grinning and leafeon hesitant. Tasha and Ryan went back to back against Zeke and Justin. Roger and Blade were both fighting and the two zorua were not letting the other out of their sight.
The free-for-all quickly became rather confusing after that, sometimes they ended up attacking their allies while struggling to defend themselves. Mischief kept on using sing to avoid taking too much damage while both of the shiny members of the group ended up joining forces and going back to back against multiple attackers. "This is impossible..." Ryan grumbled after another blast of ember against Ella who simply jumped up in the air to dodge it. Tasha nodded her head as she ducked to the side to avoid a Thunder Punch from Zeke.
Cole and Mischief weren't having much better luck, the two of them having teamed up so Mischief wasn't as disadvantaged against Roger and to assist Cole in his battle against Justin. They weren't doing that well at all, neither were having any luck landing hits and Mischief's fall in the snow from earlier was still taking it's toll on her. "We need to do something, anything to turn this around..." the minccino flipped off Cole's back and landed on Leon's head before jumping off and landing beside Tasha. "Any ideas? Any at all?"
"There's nothing!" Ryan snarled scratching Ella and sending her flying back into Justin. Blade and Zachary dashed over both panting but they seemed relived.
"Well, we at least managed to take care of one of them... which leaves..."
"Justin, Roger, Ella, Leon and Zeke!" Tasha cut of the squirtle while aiming a blazing kick at the side of the pikachu that she was fighting. "Now focus!" she swirled away from the pikachu's brick brake. Blade sighed and jumped up quickly slamming an aqua tail into Justin as Mischief charged up a thunderbolt that she quickly sent at Ella. Of course that move went straight at Leon due to his lightningrod ability, he charged towards her with bone rush but was halted by an attack from Tasha.
Once more everything fell into confusion as they pretty much simply fought as best that they could. In the end only two were standing. Mischief stood across from Leon. Both were on pretty much their last amount of strength. Mischief glared at the cubone who simply smirked back at her, then he began to glow. Mischief's ears instantly dropped and pointed at the ground and her eyes widened with fear. This was going to be more than impossible at this point.
She eventually let go of her fear though, she wasn't about to back away when everything seemed to be left up to her. She bared her teeth even as Leon, now a marowak charged at her with bone rush. She quickly jumped to the side before slapping him multiple times. Both landed across from one another and she was left panting before she shook her head and straightened. She grinned and pulled out her microphone again and began to sing, it worked and Leon lay down on the ground asleep. She smirked and sat down before pulling out an oran berry. Munching on it she soon gained an energy boost, and sighed.
"Hey! I think that's it! He can't fight... not while he's asleep!" she cupped her paws around her mouth and slowly those around the area gained consciousness, the Pokéumans faster since Mischief swiped more oran berries from the Medical Bay and managed to make them eat them while unconscious. Although as Tasha was proving by coughing that hadn't exactly been the smartest thing to do. "So, I guess that means that this round goes to us!" she grinned at Leon who growled but threw the Dimension Gem at them before retreating with his team.
"I don't know how you did it, but well done Mischief!" Tasha shook her head before pulling the minccino into a hug. "Now, let's just get back to base, how does that sound?"
Everyone smiled and nodded their heads except for Ryan. "Hey, Ryan could hang around with me you know! At least once this is all over!" Mischief offered. "I would probably have a special item that would prevent Yol from causing trouble..." she shrugged and Ryan slowly smiled "Now come on, it's only two hours away right?"
Gems Gathered Pokéumans: 7
Gems Gathered Pokextinction: 0
Edited 10/09/2014: I own almost all of the characters and ideas, even if a few of them are drawn from other sources. Tasha and Mischief both came about from day-dreaming and the fact that yes this is pretty much the same Tasha as the one from my MD story, except that she's not. Mischief just sort of came about, yes she's got an actual name, no I will not tell you. Anyway Zachary and Blade were supposed to be the actual stars of this, not the girls... but well, you can see how that went.
Also another thing to note: Cole, is actually one of the school teachers, but as for how that happens, it doesn't factor into the story so whatever. To be completely honest, the entire reason I included him was that they needed an adult or other reasonable authority figure to keep them in line. As for the Pokextinction crew, that just sort of happened...
Ryan/Yol is not the same Ryan mentioned as Mr B's son in Spewing Fire (pure coincidence that...) because he belongs to a friend on this site I suppose that you could call them, although they're a guest reviewer... (Edit: They now have their own Profile :) I'm so happy, you can check them out here: u/6105283/ )
You can read some stories that they've written/helped write here: s/10691318/1/Accidental-Murder and here: s/10593521/1/Lumiose-High
As for everything else, this was a contest entry for a contest on Deviantart, that's finishing soon and as always the original concept of Pokéumans belongs to pokemonmanic3595 on DA. That is all!