Parallel Hearts Chapter 22

After receiving his reports from the others, Zero waves his hand as a signal Breaker, Fast Star, and Striker to go break through the front gate.

The three complies as Fast Star and Striker runs on each respective sides of Breaker as he charges towards the gates. The three prepare their unison attack as they get closer to the gates.

"Ice Punch!"

"Horn Attack!"

"Focus Punch!"

The three attacks collides with the gates, creating a struggle as it seems to not want to give up easily. Breaker tries to hold his ground against the wall that seperates their golden opportunity, he gets angry as he pulls back in failure, leaving all but a dent at the gate.

Fast Star and Striker looks at the tauro in confusion, "I'll try to combine my attacks to get through those gates," he informs the other two as he pulls back a good distance to try again. The two nod in understanding and step aside for him.

"Agility," Breaker runs in a much faster pace towards the gates, "Horn Attack," the horns on his head glows with energy as it gets closer, "Take Down!" He charges head-fist with a great impact against the gates as it leaves a massive dent before finally collasping against the massive force.

An alarm goes off as they enter the field of the research facility, "WARNING! INTRUDER ALERT! COMMENCE BATTLE! REPEAT! WARN-" "Water Gun," Fast Star releases a stream of water from his mouth towards the speakers that made the annoying warning siren.

"Thanks," Striker says as he uncovers his ears from the loud announcement.

Behind them was Rose as she goes upstairs to the one of the watch tower, "I know this is the tower where Midori is," she remembers as she opens the door to see the snivy eating a bag full of random berries, "where did you get those?"

Midori gestures towards the closet as she eats then offers some to Rose, who happily accepts a handful of berries. "We need to find the other two for the next part of the mission," she points at a watch tower, one where they're at. Rose nods to the orders given to her as they rush towards their next destination.

Diggy receives his signal from Mega as he runs up the stairs to the tower to where the mouse pokemon is, he sees running Zero alongside him with Luna on his head.

"Don't ask," Zero simply says as he knew what his brother was going to ask with that confused look on his face. They enter the tower where Mega is and finds he has sitrus berries in his hands.

"Look what I found in another room here," the other two sighs at the pikachu's side-tracks and good fortune.

"Whatever, we need to get going if we're going to accomplish this mission," Mega finishes the delicious, sour berries and follows them to whatever they're going to get.

"Looks like this is going to be fun," Striker says as he cracks his knuckles, seeing the total of seventy houndooms in front of them, making Fast Star smile as well,"let's make this a little contest." He says, grabbing the other two's attention, "whoever beats the most pokemon gets to battle Mega next time there's a sparring match."

This excites the sawk's tension as he never saw Mega's battle techniques, Breaker just want to spar with Mega so he can prove to himself that he's worthy of being called the pikachu's noble steed, "alright, challenge accepted," the two said in unison as they charge towards the army in front of them.

Midori looks down the halls as she remembers clearly where the pokemon are being held prisoner, she presses her back against a wall as a group of humans in black runs towards the entrance. After they were gone she gestures them to the next door with her hand, she runs with Rose hopping behind her, Beauty sprinting behind, and Knolla flying as low as possible.

"I know this is where they're being held prisoner," Midori says as she opens the door in front of them, revealing a hall full of doors. The other three are surprise about how many pokemon are being held prisoner, "almost all of them are happinys, chanseys, blisseys, and audinos," Midori explains to the three, "the book to the rooms should be down this hall." She runs towards the office up ahead with the others following behind...

Zero is leading his squad as he looks around a corner, "so far so good," he says to the others as they run down a hall to where they're looking for. As he tries to remember where the item is, he looks over a corner to see a group of humans in the way with tazer guns at hand, "we need to find a way to get past through these guards," Zero says.

He then turns to Mega who was about to say something, "no Mega, we're not going to blast our way over there, that'll only make them realize why we're here!"

"I was going to suggest that you climb on the ceiling while me and Diggy hold onto you."

Diggy and Zero are actually surprise that he suggested such a good idea, it happens, but only when it comes to battling or food. The two ignore it with Diggy first on his back, then Mega grabs onto his shoulders, "don't slip or you'll blow our cover," Zero orders the two.

"Water Gun," Fast Star squirts a stream of water from his mouth towards a random houndoom that tries to jump at him, "Aqua Jet," surrounding himself in water, he charges towards the giant group of dog pokemon. He manages to knock out three more before he stops, "that's 23," he shouts to the others, who grow in fustration.

"Horn Attack," Breaker shouts as he channels his energy to his horns and charges at the remaining houndooms on his side. "That's 25 for me," he shouts.

Striker focuses his energy throughout his entire body, "Close Combat," he shouts as he runs at the houndooms with vigorious amount of punches and kicks on each side. After he was finished he counted all together of his, "22... Breaker wins."

The tauros jumps in victory as he wins the wager.

"I can't believe he won," Fast Star grumbles at Breaker's victory.

"I guess he won by determination," Striker says as he pats the buizel on the back for a good excercise they just got.

Then more humans rushes outside from the entrance of the research facility and releashing another large amount of pokemon from their pokeballs, making them smile crack despite their bruises, "ready for round two?" They then charge at the new group of pokemon.

"Ok, it should be here," Midori points at the office in front of them, "the three of you look for the book while I keep watch, got that?" Knolla, Rose, Beauty nods to the orders and opens the door to find that book.

Midori sighs as she looks back and forth on the halls before her as the girls make a big mess in the small room full of files and paper. She even see them crack open a computer as sparks scatter across the broken screen.

"Psst," she hears something trying to catch her attention, "psst, over here." She looks at the door in front of her and sees a happiny trapped behind a door with a small opening at her eye level, "the book is on drawer three... it's hidden in a secret compartment."

Midori looks at the happiny, "thanks for the help, happiny."

She smiles at the gratitude, "anything to help," Midori turns back into the office.

As the snivy enters she finds each girl in each cabinet digging through piles of paper, "I know where the book is," surprising the three girls in front of her.

"How do you know?" Knolla interrogates her from her sudden knowledge of where such a book should be.

"A happiny told me," Midori says as she opens the third drawer and lifts the wood below it.

The book is there, making Knolla smile as she runs through the entire book, "lets start off with that happiny since she's the one who helped us find this without that much of a hassle."

The others agrees as she runs through the pages. "Block 5 section B23, code number 52364," she presses the number code with her small hands, making the door suddenly open revealing the happiny.

"Thanks guys... never thought I'd see daylight again," she says as she stretches her entire body, "we gotta let the others out before those humans decides to come back."

Zero slowly climbs the ceiling above him as Mega holds himself and Diggy for dear life, nobody wants to even make a peep as they're afraid the humans below would hear them. Mega keeps hold of his cape on him with his tail so it wouldn't be noticed. Diggy is receiving thermal heat from the two between them and the fact he's nervous due to the situation they're in, is making him sweaty, as Zero quickens his pace to avoid any problems as he could feel the both of them slipping.

Diggy begins slipping from the amount of sweat between Mega's, Zero's, and his himself. Luckily, Mega grabs him as he falls down by the hairs of his tail, almost making all three of them sigh in relief.

Zero sees a hall to the left and quickly turns to it, after checking the hall to make sure there aren't any more human guards, he climbs down from the ceiling, down the walls, to reach the floor.

They quickly run down the hall to see a dead-end, with a door, "this is what we're looking for," Zero says as he climbs on the wall to get next to the keypad and pushes in the numbers, "172920," he says as the door suddenly pops open. "C'mon," the gecko pokemon waves at them to continue their search through the door.

"This last one should be code number 116151625," Knolla presses the code on the keypad to open the last door. When she does succeed, a oshawott and torchic comes out from the door, instincts telling them that their both males.

"Thank you for freeing us," The oshawott says.

"Our pleasure," Midori says as she offers them a hand shake, "we kinda need your help for the next part, is that ok?"

The torchic and oshawott looks at each other for a moment... they're free because of the pokemon before them, it only seems fair.

"We'll help," the torchic says while shaking the offered hand with his wing, "lead the way."

Luna flies around the facility as she looks after the three brawling pokemon before her, they seem to be in a tight spot as their vigorious amount of attacks slow down. She remembers the last order she received from Zero: look after them until he gets back with whatever he's looking for. She decides to go to a watch tower to see if there's anymore berries in there.

As the battle continues for the tauros, sawk, and buizel, they hit their limit from the large amount of energy they've been using and the large amount of pokemon they're facing in front of them.

"Wow, there's no end to them, huh?" Fast Star questions as everyone pants from exhaustion.

"Enough!"

Suddenly the large group of pokemon stopped and makes a path way for a muscular guard who seems to be only wearing a torn pair of pants down to the knee, he's bald with a tattoo of the letter 'R' over his left ear, and seems to have just left a training exercise.

The way he shouted that quieted everyone, including the attacking pokemon as though he's the alpha of the facility.

"Seems to me you like to pick fights, huh?" He asks in a deep, scary voice. All Fast Star replies to that question is with a smile, making him smile as well.

He then picks out a pokeball from his belt, "let's make a wager." This catches the three's attention, "if I win: you three become my pokemon, but if you win: you can cause as much destruction as you want here."

Suddenly, Luna appears from the skies and offers Fast Star a bag of berries full of leppa and oran berries. He happily accepts the offer and gives the everyone else their fair share as they get ready for the pokemon that he'll summon.

"Go, Tyranitar!" He throws the pokeball in mid-air, making it open with white material coming out of it, to take shape of a giant green dinosaur pokemon.

It roars a battle cry and stomp the ground with it's tail, but judging by their insticts, it's male. The tyranitar has a tattoo with the letter 'R' at his right shoulder, he looks at the three pokemon in front of with a sinister smile.

With everyone recovered, the guard says, "this will be a one-on-three battle, got it?"

"Holy Arceus!" Zero couldn't believe what he's seeing, he heard it was a big, moving ship, but the word 'big' would be an insult to this monsterous fortress. It's a ship with a kingler shaped head and on the side: hands with the letter 'R' on each shoulder. Looks to be at the very least sixty-five miles long, fifty-five miles high, fourty miles wide, with five sets of fifteen miles wheels on each side.

Zero smiles sinisterly at the magnificient machine before him, "this will be our new home, guys," he says to the two awe-struck pokemon behind him.

"T-This is what we're here for?" Diggy stutterly asks, making Mega smile to the idea of stealing something this big from the humans that tortured his oldest brother, "well, lets take this as payment for what they did to Zero."

Suddenly, laughter fills the room around them, "well, well, well, looks like you came back afterall... 421." They hear a voice around them, but Zero knows whose exactly it belongs to... .

She appears in front of the fortress before them on a floating device. "So this is the reason why you came back, huh?" She questions the treecko, receiving a simple nod, "sorry, but The Great Behemoth belongs to Team Rocket..." she looks at the jacket that he proudly wears, "after I bestowed upon you such a beautiful, high-tech jacket like that... THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME!?" She shouts with anger and hate in her voice as she remembers the day she presented it to him...

After the event of the training program and pleasing Master Giovanni with the results, couldn't be anymore happier than this. Not only was the experiment a success, but 421 completely destroyed the training robot along with 418, she gets to keep her job, AND make a rare occurance with Master Giovanni. She wishes she could repay him back somehow, but she doesn't know how due to her lack of interests in gift-giving... especially to a pokemon.

Not knowing what to do, the saddistic leader of the facility wonders around to think of something for the little treecko. She subcounsiously walks into a room and looks up to find herself in the research part of the facility, seeing the two scientists looking at her with a questioning look. She's here, mind as well ask.

"What do you guys think 421 deserves as a gift?" questions the two scientists before her, surprising them by the sudden request as to HOW AND WHY she wants to do such a thing... but it does seem natural because 421 DID save their jobs.

The female scientist sighs in happiness as she grabs a mini-sized, black jacket that'll fit perfectly on the treecko from a hidden-compartment underneath her desk and bestows it upon .

"Here, maybe this will make the perfect gift."

Only to receive a glare from her, "how? The sleeves will get torn when he summons his Leaf Blades, remember?"

Both scientists sighs at her assumption, "true," the male scientists explains, "but this is no ordinary jacket, we've created this ourselves on our extra time: it's built to regenerate ANY damage it takes and guarantees to lasts for eternity, even if you burn it, cut it, wet it, tear it to shreds, or anything else, it'll rebuild to it's original self."

She thinks it over as she looks at the tiny jacket before her... she loves the feeling of the black leather-like substance against her fingers before looking back at the two scientists, "can you give this a few green patterns?"

The female scientist simply grabs the jacket and puts it back into the secret compartment. She then goes back into the computer and open a program that was never seen before in front of and type in code designs for the color green.

After what seems to an eternity for the leader, the secret compartment opens up once more and reveals the same exact jacket, but with new green patterns to it's design. The male scientist then grabs it and hands it back to , "this will the perfect gift, thanks you two, you never cease to amaze me." She compliments the two brilliant scientists, receiving a smile from the both of them as she leaves the room with the item.

She goes up to the locked room that 421 and 418 are suppose to be in and opens the door, "421!" She shouts in the room and hides the present behind her back, receiving a groan from the small room as the little gecko pokemon rubs the back of his head as he walks up to her.

He has the look that says 'what do you want?' to her. "421... thank you for all your hard work, so as a show of gratitude, me and the scientists got you a little gift," she presents the jacket in front of him, giving him a questioning look.

"It's call a jacket," she explains as she helps put it on him, "you're suppose to wear it on like this," she helps with the sleeves part.

After it was done, 421 looks through it and smiles at how warm it feels on him and looks at himself in the room's mirror before looking back at her.

"It fits you perfectly, and it looks good on you to boot for a certain snivy," she teases the last part, making the treecko and snivy to blush uncontrollably and avoid eye-contact with each other...

She pulls outs her pokeball from her jacket, "you'll pay for making me looking like an idiot!"

Only to receive a smile from Zero that says 'aren't you one anyways?' making her even redder from anger, "go, Luxray!"

She throws the pokeball in the air, only for it to open and release a white material to take shape of the summoned pokemon, by their instincts telling them it's male, on the floor before the three rebelling pokemon.