Chapter 16
Space Awakes! Palkia!
Xero stepped in after Leo into the small submersible. "Let's get a move on." Leo nodded, closing the glass cockpit to the submarine. They slowly descended into the dark waters of the Slateport night.
Xero felt nauseous. He never felt sick on the ocean, or any body of water, but being surrounded by pitch-black waters made him feel absolutely sick.
Leo pressed a few lit buttons on the round dashboard in front of him. A robotic, female voice began speaking.
"This is Zoe, your pilot all the way from the MCLGA. The Mossdeep City Lifeguards Association. Where do you want to go?"
Leo ignored the voice and continued piloting the machine himself.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Leo continued ignoring Zoe.
"This is so pathetic! Ludicolo! Wailord! Let's go do something else… This idiot on the other end won't listen, and I would rather share my expertise with someone that needs it… Like that guy I saved from that whirlpool a while ago."
Leo suddenly became totally alert. Just as Zoe was about to hang up and call it quits, he spoke into the mike.
"Hey… Thanks."
"For what?"
"You saved my brother."
"Huh?"
"The kid you saved from the whirlpool, my little brother."
"Aha! Now, we're getting somewhere. And, about the whirlpool thing, don't sweat it. I do what I can."
"Sure. Now, are you gonna pilot us or not?"
Zoe, in the MCLGA headquarters, nodded, before realizing they couldn't see her. "Where are you headed?"
"We're trying to get to that light over there." Xero said.
"Light?"
"There's a glowing orb in front of us. I can't tell what it is…"
"Hold up!" Leo started. "It's glowing a blue-ish color… Wait… Now a pink-ish color…"
"Blue? Pink? I suggest you get out of there right now!"
"Leo… Maybe Zoe's right." Xero mumbled, nodding his head.
"Wait… There's something in it!"
There was a stunned silence.
"It's huge!" he cried. Then, the radio went static. Xero gulped, then, when he tried standing up, he bashed his head on the low ceiling. He was knocked out cold. Leo ran to his aid when suddenly, the light grew much brighter, aside from a few dark patches. The dark patches, Leo noticed, spelt two words that made his stomach tie itself in a knot.
They spelt: "I'm awake."
One second later, the glowing orb exploded. The pod was pushed back through the water at an amazing pace and suddenly, for Leo, all was black.
"Leo! Where are you?!" Xero cried, frantically. He had suddenly regained consciousness, and ignoring the large bruise on his head, he continued looking for Leo. There was no answer. Slowly, Xero lifted himself up from the floor and saw Leo's limp body a few feet away, limp against the side of the pod.
Shrouded in blackness, Xero slouched towards Leo. He checked his pulse-very faint. Suddenly, light came from in front of them, a light being generated by Palkia, who had escaped its underwater prison. It then jumped out of the water into the Slateport air.
It had smelled Dialga. It knew what to do.
Slowly, Palkia began walking towards its target, to finish a feud that should have been finished many, many, years ago.
Xero and Leo slowly began sinking to the bottom of the sea… One of them was out cold, the other frantically slamming at buttons on the dashboard, but rapidly losing hope.
