Chapter 1
Team Galaxy
Kazo walked into the airport. There was the sound of rolling luggage carts, crying babies, and of course there were hundreds of people walking around. He got to the center of the airport where there was a huge TV screen. He inspected it for times of arrivals. He finally found them in a corner of the towering screen.
Flight 425345 from Shinou – Arrived
Flight 195678 from Shinou – Delayed
Flight 340654 from Kanto – Arrived
Flight 120438 from Johto – Canceled
Flight 213212 from Kanto (connection through Shinou) – Delayed
Kazo looked for his Aunt Bria's flight number. He found it in his pocket and read it to himself. It was the 120438 from Johto. Consulting the charts again, he swore.
"Figures it's the ONLY flight that's canceled." Kazo said to himself. He turned around, and he jumped when he saw a girl his own age accompanied by a smaller kid, right in front of him. The smaller one seemed to be controlling a spoon with his mind by simply flicking his hand. "Telepaths." he groaned. He had an instant flashback.
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"You like that, don't you?" Said a blond-haired boy. His hair was spiked up in all directions. He also had a posse around him, and they appeared to be picking on a smaller version of Kazo. The blond haired one was moving his hand up and down, resulting in a heavy basketball bouncing up and down on young Kazo's head. Tears were streaming down his eyes… and then there was the awful laughter…"
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Kazo felt his head. It was four years ago, but he still felt the pain. He was brought back to reality when the two kids, Selena and Felix, walked up to him and asked him a question.
"Um… Sorry to bother you, Mister," Selena started, "but we want to know if you could give us a Hoenn map? We'd pay you, of course."
Kazo just stared back. This girl, his own age, starts talking to him like he's an adult! Mister! He tried to calm things down a bit.
"You alright?" he asked. "You seem tense. New here?"
Selena, confused by Kazo's hospitality, finsing it a bit creepy, simply answered back. "Um, yeah. Me and my new friend, Felix," Selena pointed down at Felix.
"Cool. Where are you two planning on going, anyways?"
"I wanted to check out Verdanturf for the contest hall, but otherwise, we don't really have plans…" Selena said.
Just as she finsished her sentence, a loud whirring noise was heard and it was getting louder by the second. Everyone in the airport crowded to the large glass windows to see what it was. When Selena, Kazo and Felix reached it, they staggered. A large Aerodactyl was flying straight towards them! Everyone fled, screaming and panicking, when Kazo saw something distinctive about the Aerodactyl. It had a cockpit for eyes! Other distinctive features like hinges on it's wings and a loudspeaker in it's mouth because evident. As it got closer, the people in the cockpit became more and more visible. One was a man and one was a woman, and there was another woman being a backseat driver. They were very close now, and Kazo could make out their facial features. They all seemed to be panicking. Suddenly, two voices came from behind them.
"Outta the way!" They said simultaneously. Two large hands pulled Selena and Kazo out of the way, and Felix backed up by himself. Kazo gulped as soon as he saw both of them.
"What is it?" Asked Selena.
"That's Maxie and Archie. Strict rivals. Archie leads Team Aqua, and Maxie leads Team Magma. They have crazed plans on the fate of the planet." He was cut off. Maxie and Archie both sent out Mightyenae at the same time, and commanded both of them to attack the window. In a few slams, the glass window was shattered, sending shards of thick glass flying throughout the room. Kazo, Selena and Felix dove under a table for cover.
When it finally ended raining glass, they each took a peek up to see the Aerodactyl plane getting threateningly closer. Maxie and Archie continued issuing their commands.
"Charizard! Use fly, and grab the Aerodactyl to stop it!" came Maxie's voice. His pokemon did as it was told, but it didn't stop the Aerodactyl completely.
"Blastoise! As it crashes into the ground, grab it!" Archie commanded. His Blastoise came out, and stood where the Aerodactyl was heading. It stiffened its position and spread out its arms, ready to catch the rock type dragon.
"That's weird." Felix said.
"What is it?" asked both Selena and Kazo.
"My pokedex says that Blastoise and Charizard despise working together and will do anything in their power to avoid it, unless extremely well tamed. Take a look for yourself." Felix pressed a button and the pokedex began emitting noise;
Charizard, the Flame pokemon;
It has a very rash personality, expecially towards water pokemon. It enjoys blasting helpless water pokemon with flame, even though not doing much damage. It will flat out refuse to be associated with a Blastoise in any shape, way, or form unless trained excrutiatingly well.
He then scrolled up three numbers, and the pokedex spoke again.
Blastoise, the Turtle pokemon;
Being calm and protective by nature, it is strong enough to uproot small trees! It takes its duty to protect smaller water pokemon, Squirtle in particular. It will flat out refuse to be associated with a Charizard in any shape, way, or form unless trained excrutiatingly well.
Selena raised an eyebrow. "Didn't you say those two were mortal rivals?"
Kazo staggered. "I-I thought s-" He was cut off by a large, banging noise that resounded through the airport. Blastoise had caught the Aerodactyl! All three people stepped out of the craft, and Selena, Kazo and Felix got up completely to watch them. They were clad in gray with a yellow letter "G" in the middle of their shirts. One of the girls, however, had green hair and a green vest. She had long pants that stuck to her like an adhesive and a blue t-shirt. She also wore a white hat. She was the first to speak.
"Oboe! You idiot! I told you the coordinates were 42-19-21!"
"No Ma'am." Began the boy. "You said 21-19-42"
"Don't be stupid! Why would I purposely send us into a Beedrill-infested area?"
"I recorded the conversation, Ma'am." he said, taking out a tape recorder.
"Forget it, Oboe!" She shireked, throwing the tape recorder to the floor, shattering it. She turned to Maxie and Archie. "Well, if it isn't my two brothers… who are dreadfully less successful than me."
"At least we don't run into swarms of Beedrill, Molly." said Maxie.
"Humph. Let's just get the motto done for and leave, okay?" Oboe and the girl nodded.
"To bend the earth however we like," began the girl.
"If you don't like it, go take a hike." continued Oboe. Kazo rolled his eyes. "Great. A Team Rocket Cliché. We know how the motto goes! We've watched the show!" They continued nevertheless.
"To announce the powers of time and space,"
"Take the controllers from their current place."
"Team Galaxy!" They chorused. Kazo groaned again, and Molly beamed proudly.
"We're fighting for what we know is right!"
"And we're doing it with charm and spite."
"That's right!"
Molly applauded quickly. "Wasn't that nice boys? Too bad I've gotta go!" She threw down a smoke bomb and the whole airport room filled with thick smoke. It smelled bitter. The smoke faded away slowly, but Molly, Oboe and the other girl had left. Maxie and Archie started leaving, when Felix cried out.
"Hold it!"
They turned around simultaneously.
"What on earth is going on?" he asked.
"Listen kid," began Maxie. "If I told you, you'd probably be scarred for the rest of your lives."
"Scarred" or "scared?" Selena asked.
"Most likely both. Now shut up while my brother tells you anyways." Archie said, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in his voice.
"If you were paying any attention to Molly's rant, then you would probably recall her saying something about "brothers"." Began Maxie. "Yes, we are brothers, and Molly is our younger sister. Sure, we went separate ways, all three of us. I started Team Magma, Archie started Aqua, and Molly started Team Foliage." Archie stopped Maxie, and then continued. "However, Molly always had much bigger dreams than us. While we dreamed of making the world a better place, she dreamed of genetically engineering plants to make them take over the world. So yeah, for the first time ever, Maxie and I joined forces and took her out instantly. Now, she has greater plans. Plans that are huge and all we know is from an anonymous tip that it has something to do with the fate of the planet."
"That's mad!" said Selena aloud. As the final syllable left her toungue, there was the sound of shattering glass. A skeleton-like creature with shadowed arms appeared out of nowhere. Felix's pokedex sprang to life.
Kabutops, the Shellfish Pokemon;
Kabutops' arms are replaced by long, bladelike scythes that can tear through titanium without any resistance at all from the metal. They are also aerodynamically formed so that by slicing the air as it moves, it will go much faster. Ancient civilizations that had access to these rare pokemon used to pit them in battle with one another in a colloseum type dome, and would place primitive forms of bets on them as well. The whooshing noise made by them when they run through the air is actually the blades popping the air molecules around them.
"BU-TOPS!" hissed the scythe pokemon. It sliced through the air, and reached the table that our small group was sitting at. They all stared, open mouthed, as it raised a scythe valiantly and brought it down to the marble table and sliced it in half.
"Run!" Yelled Kazo. The remnants of marble were still spinning on the floor as they all sprinted to the exit. The Kabutops, however, sliced a supporting column and threw it in the doorway, blocking the entrance. The building wobbled, when Archie spoke. "The building's going to collapse! We have to find a way out! Stick together! Contrary to his proclamation, everyone turned around and fled in different directions. He sighed, rolled his eyes, and ran his own way just as the Kabutops almost sliced his head open. It turned around immediately and started chasing after Selena. She swerved a corner, and almost lost her balance. Her sneakers squeaked against the polished floor. She was panting heavily and the Kabutops was closing in. Then, she slipped and fell on the floor with a thud, and a squeak as her shirt rubbed against the floor.The Kabutops reared its scythes above its head, and…
"Hey Stupid!" Felix called from behind. Kabutops turned around, and a chair controlled by Felix's psychic powers smashed it in the face. It fell to the floor beside Selena, with a loud cry of "BOO TOPS!"
"Good one." Kazo told Felix, astonished at what the kid could do. Selena scuttled away on the floor and the Kabutops got up right away. It hissed loudly, like a makeshift roar and sliced the air, getting closer to Felix and Kazo. They jumped in different directions, and the Kabutops kept going. It was after Maxie and Archie now! They also split up, Maxie following Felix and Archie following Kazo. Kabutops began chasing Archie and Kazo, when Felix and Maxie stopped and turned around. Felix frowned, and grabbed a pokeball from his belt.
"Abra!" He threw the pokeball and it made a clunking noise as it hit the floor. Abra came out, but the Kabutops continued towards the fleeing Kazo and Archie. "Teleport it!" Abra blasted a multicolor ray at the Kabutops, but it just bounced off! Suddenly, a small scrap of paper fell from the slowly crumbling ceiling. It had chicken scratch writing on it, but it clearly spelt out: "I learn from my mistakes" For a second, Felix remembered about the Scizor in the hotel room, before looking up at the ceiling. There was an open skylight, so whoever dropped the note must have done it through there.
"A LITTLE HELP HERE!" Kazo yelled, panting. He and Archie were always just barely avoiding being cut in several layers and served with a side dish. Felix nodded. "Abra! Use Confusion and lift the column blocking the exit into the air!" The building was really starting to come down now, with rubble falling from the ceiling. "Now throw the column at the Kabutops!" The Shellfish pokemon was squished under the heavy slab of marble, and everyone fled for the exit. Just as they got outside, the building collapsed completely, Kabutops and all. They huffed and puffed, before someone spoke.
"That Kabutops was no accident." Archie said. "We were attacked."
"Could it have been Molly?" asked Selena.
"No. Even though she's our enemy, remember that she's also our sister. She won't want to kill us."
"Or would she?.." Maxie started, before getting a slap on the head. "Sorry."
"Then who would?"
"I don't know. The smartest thing to do now would be to go to Old Man Starkanna in Verdanturf. He'll help us. We'll use the Rusturf Tunnel."
The group, now consisting of Selena, Felix, Kazo, Archie and Maxie walked out of the airport. A man, shrouded in black, stuck himself against a wall, and laughed.
"Fufufu… Those children got lucky with Kabutops, Scizor and Gyarados." He held a pokeball up to the sun. "But they won't get lucky again." As the sound of sirens from Ambulances, Police Cars and Fire Trucks neared the airport, the man crawled away, slowly following the group into Verdanturf.
