Chapter 17
Umbris and the Black Machine!
Felix and Kari were in their raft, slowly moving farther and farther away from the Port. Felix was giving directions to the mist, and Kari was piloting the boat.
"To the left, Kari!" He screamed.
"Gotcha." She swiftly steered the boat to the left.
Felix was feeling extremely frustrated. The mist wasn't stationary, as he had hoped, and it kept moving!
Suddenly, a deep fog began rolling in. Within minutes, the boat was completely shrouded in it and Kari was hopelessly lost.
"Where did this stuff come from?!" She asked frantically.
"No idea. Now be quiet so I can look for this mist!"
But the mist was still elusive, and the fog just got thicker. Eventually, a flustered Kari gave up and sat down on the edge of the raft. Felix began getting nervous.
This fog is insane! He thought. How are we supposed to find anything in it?! But just as he was ready to give up as well, the raft hit something hard and it toppled on its side. They both fell off the raft and into the frigid waters.
Suddenly, they heard a flapping noise and a gust of wind whooshed over their heads. They looked up, before realizing that they couldn't see what it was anyways.
"Staraptor! Defog!"
"Staaar!" The Staraptor above them flapped its wings, clearing the fog. Felix and Kari were amazed, not at the huge bird above them, but at the thing in front of them.
That "thing" was a huge box filled with holes just big enough to stuff a pokeball, which many of them were filled with. There were about 10 000 holes on each face of the square, which towered about 30 meters above them. They could make out a bleak dark shape at its peak. The dark shape jumped off, and as it came closer to the water, it was clear that it was a man. The man had black hair and a dark indigo cape. A lone pokeball ornated his belt, glistening in the moonlight. He leaped down off the towering black cube and began his descent, and Felix's and Kari's hearts stopped beating. But before he hit the water, a dark disk appeared and stopped his fall, as he landed with both feet on the disk.
From here they could see him all that much better. His boots were a light yellow, as were his cuffs covering his wrists. They contrasted immensely with his otherwise completely black outfit. He also wore a dark black visor that covered both his eyes.
"What are you doing here?" Asked the boy on the Staraptor in a powerful tone.
"I could ask the same, even though it is all too obvious. " The man in black responded in that slimy kind of voice only villains can pull off. "Do you remember me? My name is Umbris, but that won't matter in a couple of days. I won't exist, and neither will you."
"You're just a sick freak!" The boy screamed. At the same time, Kari howled: "That's horrible!"
Umbris chuckled maniacally, then regained his serious and began speaking. "Your opinion doesn't make a difference. Nothing will, once the eclipse touch is performed." He was on a roll, and not ready to stop.
"You children are such narrow-minded fools. I wish that you were more... Understanding. Why don't you see that what we're doing is for the greater good." A sickening smile grew on his face that slowly spread from ear to ear. "And you're here to witness it too… You should be honored."
"Enough of this!" The boy on the Staraptor screamed. "Staraptor, Close Combat, right in the heart of the Black Machine!" The falcon pokemon opened its wings extremely wide and let the air under its wings take it to extreme heights. Suddenly, it began a pivot towards the sea in a divebomb fashion, heading straight for the big box.
"You reckless idiot." Scowled Umbris. He pulled his pokeball from his belt and dropped it nonchalantly. A dark dog with rings and hoops of gold on its body appeared beside him. The hoops shone like the brightest stars, and its red eyes gave off a ghastly, malevolent feel.
"Umbreon… Shadow Ball!" The Umbreon vanished without a trace, stunning Kari and Felix. It suddenly reappeared twenty feet in front of the Staraptor and blasted an orb of darkness at it. The orb sliced through the air like a knife through a thin sheet of paper, and began its crash course with the Staraptor.
Instantaneously, the boy jumped off his pokemon, and released another, a Wailmer, whom he landed on. At that moment, the orb collided into Staraptor, who dissimulated in thin air.
" A double team!" Umbris scowled. Suddenly, a huge explosion shook the night. Smoke rose from the back of the machine, and they knew the real Staraptor had made contact.
"Damn it all!" Umbris screamed. Staraptor flew back to the boy, who sprayed a bright-pink hyper potion on the pokemon before returning it.
Suddenly, the black machine spun on itself, rotating 180 degrees. They could now see the damage Staraptor had caused, and it was horrible. The wall was completely cracked, black glass chipped off. Places where pokeballs had once been were gone, as were the pokeballs in them. Umbris bit his lip, then scowled.
"That wasn't smart of you…" He mocked. The boy frowned, then kicked his Wailmer, as though giving it an order. The pokemon began advancing at speeds unheard of for Wailmer, and within moments he was face to face with Umbris.
"Alright, Mr. IQ… How smart is this?" He raised his right fist and thrust it towards Umbris, who grabbed it in midair.
"Reckless idiot. That's all you are." He grabbed the boy and pushed him aside, into the ocean. A loud splash was heard as he made contact with the water. He quickly swam to the Wailmer and climbed on his pokemon, drenched from head to toe.
"Umbris… Don't think I don't know what you're up too." He smirked. "I've figured all of your plan out, and I also know how to stop you."
"In order for that to be true, you would have to be a lot smarter now than you were the last time we met, Tyson."
"Trust me, I am."
"That may be true, but I'm highly doubtful."
"Come on, Umbris. I'm not the only one that knows about the Renegade pokemon." the boy called Tyson smirked, and Umbris' confident smile turned into a frown. However, he quickly regained his own smirk and began speaking.
"You do, do you? I'm proud of you, Tyson! You must have really… Hit the books. But there must be more that you don't know. And since you aren't going to live for very much longer, I might as well tell you." His smirk began growing, and he began telling a story.
"Although any knowledgeable person may think that the eclipse touch is a sudden end of the world, they are wrong. When Dialga and Palkia touch, they create a portal… an inter-dimensional gateway, if you will. That portal will slowly release the deserter pokemon of our world, Giratina."
"Giratina truly is the Renegade pokemon, as it has left our world to become the guardian of the realm of spirits. And if ever one tries to reset the world, much like Master Steven is, they must reset both worlds, the spirit one and the current one, or else it will not work."
"As long as those three pokemon are in the same world, the fabric of time and space will be completely destroyed, much as it was billions of years ago. You see, the world was never truly formed, because the three Holy Dragons, Palkia, Dialga and Giratina, cannot live together in the same world without resetting it, because of their very genetic structure. Within moments, the world would be reset, with the only things coming back being the Three Holy Dragons, who would just reset it again. It is estimated that this happened roughly a billion times, until the pokemon came to an agreement. Palkia and Dialga both had the most powerful attacks known to anything-Eclipse Touch. Yes, Eclipse Touch is, or rather, WAS, an attack. When both of them used it at the same time on Giratina, they sealed it away into a parallel dimension, which Giratina later turned into the Spirit Realm." Umbris finished his story, sighing. "The only reason we have this Black Machine is to keep all of us, Team Oblivion that is, is existence when the world gets reset. You see, I'm doing the talking right now, but I'm really sealed inside a pokeball on the black machine. This is merely a clone."
Stupefied, Felix, Kari and Tyson just stared at the maniacal freak. Suddenly, a loud noise was heard and the Black Machine began sinking into the ocean! It went below the surface and within thirty seconds, all traces of existence of the black machine were nonexistent.
Umbris scowled. "Mission accomplished." he began "But Tyson, you are a nuisance of amazing proportions, and I'm going to have to finish you now. Umbreon! Faint attack/Bite combo!"
Umbreon appeared out of nowhere once more and began charging towards Tyson, fangs bared. Tyson grabbed a pokeball from his bell and threw it valiantly into the ocean in front of him. A flash of white light lit up the sea as a twenty-foot crimson sea dragon rushed out from the seas. The Gyarados' scales glinted in the moonlight, reflecting bright red onto the sea. Kari and Felix stared in amazement at the pokemon.
Despite the apparition of the towering pokemon, Umbreon continued its charge towards Gyarados. It made contact and sank its teeth into Gyarados' stomach, but the atrocious pokemon seemed unphased by the attempt at an attack. It shrugged off the Umbreon and backed up, preparing itself for an attack.
"Gyarados, use Tsunami!" yelled Tyson.
Kari, Felix and Umbris seemed confused. That wasn't an attack any of them had heard of before. The Gyarados stopped moving and began tightening its focus. Umbris smirked.
"Umbreon! Psychic, then follow up with Shadow Ball!"
Umbreon blasted a ray of psychic energy at the Gyarados, enveloping it completely. The red pokemon was still focusing, even though it was enduring great pain.
The Umbreon suddenly leapt up and released three shadowy spheres at Gyarados, and he took all three of the hits hard. Umbreon blasted another three, but before contact could be made, Gyarados' eyes turned red and the whole sea shook. The shadow balls were turned backwards, propelled towards the caster of the attack. Waves grew to double their original size, spontaneously, dousing Felix and Kari with each crash of water.
And suddenly, the ocean roared, literally. All was silent, and the sky was slowly getting darker for no visible reason, until they realized that a forty foot wall of water blocked off the moon! The wall of water went right through the Gyarados, Tyson, Felix and Kari, getting them drenched even more and crashed right on Umbris. They heard the deafening crashing noise, which was loud enough to wake even the most tired Snorlax. The foam cleared, but they didn't have to wait for that to know that they would never see Umbris, even if he was a clone, ever again.
Eventually, Tyson showed sign that he noticed them. Kari and Felix introduced themselves, as did he. He then climbed into their little raft and began speaking.
"My family's been on their case for generations. We've been trying to stop them forever, and now, I finally traced them. I will be the one to stop them… but still, I'm missing-"
"Three others." Felix finished.
Tyson looked shocked.
"What?"
"You're missing three other people. That would be me, Kazo and Selena."
"You know them?"
Kari was a bit nervous. This boy had obviously heard of her brother, even though she had never seen Tyson in her life.
Felix nodded. The two suddenly became immersed in conversation over the four chosens, and all that stuff that Kari was listening to, but went in one ear and out the other.
Felix realized suddenly why it was easy to think that Drew would have been the fourth chosen-he looked exactly like Tyson! The same green hair, (even though his ran slightly longer than Drew's) was the biggest resemblance.
Kari's cellphone suddenly gave off the same chime as when Felix called her earlier. She became thankful for it as she picked up.
"Kari! We're at the lighthouse… Selena… Help!"
"Kazo! Collect yourself. Are you okay?" She switched her phone to speaker so that everyone could hear their conversation.
"I'm fine. Selena isn't. We're at the top of the Slateport lighthouse… We need help!"
"I'm on it, Kazo." Kari said. She closed her phone and looked at Tyson.
"You don't mind if I ditch you, right?" She asked. "I kinda have to save my brother and-"
"Leave it to me." Tyson said. "Drifblim! You're up!" He sent out his balloon pokemon, and pulled out four strings from his backpack. He tied each end to a corner of the raft and tied each piece of string to Drifblim as well. This Drifblim was huge, though, at least ten feet tall. It lifted them with ease, and they began soaring to the lighthouse.
On their way there, Tyson explained that he knew Felix, Selena and Kazo because of all the books he read on the subject of the four chosens. He only knew their names, though, after seeing the news reports on the Gyarados, Scizor and Black Jynx.
Once they reached the peak of the lighthouse, they met Kazo, holding an unconscious Selena in his arms. They rushed onto the roof, and Tyson quickly grabbed Selena out of Kazo's arms. Felix began explaining Tyson's identity to Kazo, who understood quickly. In the meantime, Tyson was taking Selena's pulse, and checking her vital signs while Kari stood, overlooking the operation.
"So what's the verdict?" Kazo asked Tyson.
"Electric Shock. Knocked her out real bad." Tyson got up and searched in his backpack. He ended up finding a clear, plastic bottle, full of orange pills. He opened Selena's mouth and pushed one down her throat. He got up, and began speaking.
"Extract of Clement Berry, a special one found only where I come from. Instantly wakes pokemon from sleep, and cures paralysis, poison, burns, freeze and confusion. Since her condition is a mix of sleep and paralysis, it may take a while."
"That's fine." Kazo said.
Suddenly, the ocean, about one hundred feet beneath them, began glowing. Large ripples began appearing at its surface, and slowly, the ripples got larger. Tyson picked up Selena, and the four of them ran to the rim of the roof.
They leaned over and looked into the sea, illuminated now by a bright light. Suddenly, the light got huge and they were blinded for a few seconds, but when they regained vision, they saw a thirteen foot pokemon in front of them.
Tyson gasped.
Kazo stared.
Felix gulped.
Kari squealed.
It was Palkia.
