A/N: terribly sorry for the long wait my step-father took away the previous laptop and I had to buy a better laptop. Now that I can write again, you can enjoy more of Parallel Hearts. Please review and I hope you like the plot so far.
Parallel Hearts Chapter 23
"C'mon, we need to go this way!" Midori shouts as she leads the large group of pokemon outside, only to see a heavy amount of humans outside, but seems to be cheering for something.
They take this opporunity to sneak to the front gate, as they see what the commotion is about: a battle between Breaker and a tyranitar. They quicken their pace to the front gates because the sooner Midori, Knolla, Beauty, and Rose get the pokemon out of the facility, the sooner they can help their friends in need.
Breaker is having a hard time going through the sandstorm the tyranitar was creating as he charges.
"Now use Strength," the tyranitar sees the charging bull in front of him and strengthen his arm muscles to stand his ground against Breaker.
"Agility," he quickens his pace with his horns glowing with massive amount of energy, "Horn Attack!" A massive shockwave shakes the ground beneath them as they connect, both holding their ground against each other.
But the tyranitar proves himself to be the stronger pokemon as he lifts Breaker from the ground by the horns and tosses him across the battlefield.
"Swap with me," he hears Striker say when he gets back up, "fine," he steps back to the others, making the sawk stepping forward to the opponent in front of him.
"I expected more of a challenge from you guys," the traineer taunts and waves his hand as a gesture that says 'bring it on' with the tyranitar doing the same.
This angers Striker as he builds up his muscles, "Bulk up!" Then charge with two glowing fists, "Focus Punch," making the tyranitar smile.
"Show him what a Focus Punch really is," the trainer commands as the tyranitar raise his glowing fist at the seemingly small sawk in front of him, but when he launches the glowing punch at him, he jumps in mid-air.
"Close Combat!" Striker spin-kicks the face and lands on the tyranitar's arms as he sends a barrage of still glowing fists at him. Each one much stronger than the last, then he lands on the ground and strikes the finishing blow to the gut.
This causes a large amount of damage for the tyranitar as he grabs onto his stomach, steps back by the pain, and throws up his breakfast.
Striker sees this and says, "you need a healthier diet."
The luxray just smiles at Zero, "long time no see... 421," receiving a growl from the gecko pokemon, "I told you before, the name's Zero," he replies.
He was ready to attack until he felt a hand on his shoulder, he looks to see it was Mega's, "I'm the only one who's allowed to get angry, remember?"
This calms him right down, "alright, Diggy you're up!"
Receiving a nod from the swinub, he jumps into the battlefield and growls, "Mud Bomb," he lifts his front paws, channels energy to them, and stomps the ground. Creating a giant ball-like mud wave towards the luxray.
"Dodge," the luxray simply jumps to the right to avoid the Ground-type attack, "Charge," then suddenly electric energy starts gathering around him, "Iron Tail." Luxray charges at the pig pokemon with a energy glowing tail and does a sweep-spin to aim his tail at the little swinub.
"Dig," Diggy starts burrowing underground, making the attack miss and look around to where he'll pop up. He pops out from below in the same hole, "Powder Snow," and blasts a barrage of snow from his snout, freezing the luxray in place. Jumping out of his burrow, and looking back at him.
"Mud Bomb!" He stomps his front paws to create another ball of mud, causing an explosion when it connects to the electric-type pokemon. It reveals an unconsious luxray when the smoke clears out...
When every pokemon is at a safe distance from the facility, "Alright Rose, Knolla, Beauty," Midori begins her orders, "I want you three to stay here and guard these pokemon in case the humans finds and attack them," when she receives a nod from each of them, she then looks back at the oshawott and torchic, "same with you two." With that, she goes back to the research facility...
After the vomitting finally stops, all the tyranitar could feels is anger as he glares at the sawk in front of him, "I'm not letting you get away from this humiliation," the tyranitar begins when he gets back up and roars again, "Mega Evolution!" A mysterious stone starts to glow in the middle of the tattoo as he begins to be engulf in it's power.
Striker gets into a fighting stance, anticipating what will happen, he heard of Mega Evolution: it makes the pokemon even stronger when it has the item it needs to perform a new form. When the energy flow ceases, it reveals a new tyranitar, stronger than it was before.
Suddenly, the sandstorm starts to intensify around the battlefield, "did I forget to mention that I can summon a much stronger sandstorm when I change into this form?" He mockingly questions the sawk before him, "Focus Punch!" The trainer commands the tyranitar, who was happy to take that order and charges at Striker in a slower pace than before.
Striker sees this and waits for the time to strike, he jumps just before the raging fist could hit him and focuses his energy towards the side of his hands, "Karate Chop!" He aims at the neck and chops his hand against it.
All the mega evolved pokemon does is laugh as it connects, "that's a disappointment... I even stuck my neck out for you," Striker was caught off-guard when the mega tyranitar suddenly gripped into a bear-hug, "Strength!" He screams in agony as the bear-hug cracks his bones with great force...
growls at the victory for the three free-loading pokemon thieves below her, "Go, Salamance!" She summons another pokemon as it flies around the three, telling by their instincts that this is female, "421," she begins, "you could've had the honor of being one of Master Giovanni's pokemon, but you'd rather be with a bunch of free-loaders like them instead?"
Zero just glares at the pokemon flying around them, "like I said to you before I left, I have no interests in being someone's pet, unlike you."
This time, it was Mega's turn as he walks up to the battlefield, making the salamance laugh, "you? A tiny rat is my opponent?"
This angers Mega, "don't call me a rat!"
Making the salamance laugh even harder, "or what? You'll hit me? RAT!" Her laughter stops as a bolt of electricity hits her, causing her to scream in pain. When the attack stops, she coughs out a puff of smoke, then looks back at the mouse pokemon before her.
When she sees the pikachu with a mocking smile, she feels anger coursing through her body, "Flamethrower!" Her master commands her, she complies as a blast of fire comes out of her mouth and towards Mega.
He narrowly dodges the stream of fire by tilting his head and torso to the left, "Thunderbolt," and sends another bolt of electricity to the dragon-type pokemon, when it connects she scream in pain as another bolt of electricity goes through her body.
She sees Mega appear in front of her as soon as the attack was over, "Mega," he begins as bolt of electricity goes through his fists, "Thunder Punch Barrage!" He sends out a barrage of angry punches all over the salalmance's face and finishes with a fist down to the top of her head, sending her flying towards the ground.
He then dives head-first towards her, "Volt Tackle!" He channels electricity all over his body as he falls at an incredible amount of speed towards the dragon pokemon below him. When the attack connects, a large explosion of electricity occurs. When it clears up, Mega stands victorious over the unconscious salamance below his feet.
Surprising both Ms. Vana AND his own teammates... THAT'S the reason why you shouldn't call him a rat.
Striker struggles as he's being crushed in a incredibly strong, bear-hug, and out of despeation to get out,"Bulk up!" He strengthen his muscles, "Close Combat," he headbutts the mega tyranitar's head, causing him to cover his face in pain and let go of his grip on the sawk as he punch and kicks his stomach.
"Switch with me!" He jumps back as Fast Star jumps in front, "Ice Punch!" He sends the shivering fist at the same spot as Striker made him vomit ealier.
Apparently, Mega Evolution doesn't recover wounds because mega tyranitar grips that part again and vomits once more.
Taking this opportunity, Fast Star finishes him off, "Water Pulse," forms water rings from his arms, and tosses them at the exposed pokemon. A large amount of vapor from the rough contact occurs as everyone looks at three pokemon in fright, but to them they think it over with. That thought change when the mega tyranitar charges out of the vapor with eyes full of rage and two arms filled with energy as attempt to hit the opposing weasel.
"Hammer Arm," he connects his glowing arm with greater strength than Fast Star anticipated and sends him flying against the building.
Mega tyrannitar starts running towards the injured buizel with those very glowing arms of energy and rams against him. The agonizing pain made Fast Star scream as he's being pummeled against the wall of the facility.
Ironic that he's being pinned against something and being punched like he did to Mega... twice. Suddenly, an idea comes to him, "Water Gun," he unleashes a massive amount of water from his mouth and towards the mega tyrannitar's face, causing him to stop his attack and cough out the sudden water in his lungs.
Taking this opppotunity, the buizel musters up all his energy into his fists, covering them with massive amount of ice as he charges back at the giant dinosaur-like pokemon, "Ice Punch Barrage!" Fast Star unleashes fast amount of punches all over the tyrannitar's stomach, especially the weak spot Striker made earlier with all the strength he got.
The mega tyrannitar could feel his stomach being pummeled by ice-cold fists, making him feel whats in his stomach to go up his mouth again. After the barrage of punches were over, Fast Star finishes it off by a swift flip-kick to the face, causing the mega tyranitar to re-eat what's was was getting out of his stomach. The poor pokemon loses conciousness, knowing that he's not going to have a good time eating next time...
Midori looks back at the battlefield to see the three's victory with a smile as she hides from the large group of humans awing them. She rolls her eyes and continues to sneak past them to go back inside the facility and see how Zero, Mega, and Diggy are doing...
is actually amazed on the little pikachu's strength. If only she has a pokemon like that in the facility then she'll please Master Giovanni even more, but she DOES have something even better than the both of them combined.
She then sends another pokemon, but this time however, it's a Sceptile, "long time no see... 'Zero'." The sceptile says quoting the name as Zero enters the battlefield.
"I told you before; I'm their older brother before I'm an experiment here," he says before getting into a battle stance.
"Seems to me that you're a fail experiment... compare to me," this confuses to he's talking about, "Leaf Blade," sceptile morphs the leaves on his arms into three different blades, but then they begin to double as the two in front reshapes into the opposite direction, "w-what the hell?"
The sceptile smiles at the staggering treecko in front of him, as well as , "surprised?" She questions the battling treecko, "this is Project LB+," Zero doesn't like the sound of that, "unlike your painful experience in Project LB, Project LB+ allows the pokemon who already knows how to use Leaf Blade to double up the magnificent blade and it even DOUBLES if the pokemon uses the ability Overgrow."
Zero gulps at the last piece of information because not only does this sceptile get to use six Leaf Blades at once, but doubles if under the use of Overgrow. This gives him more reasons why he should destroy this damn, forsaken hellhole, with that satsified, he charges at his former evolution pokemon, "Leaf Blade!" "Leaf Blade!" The two shout in unsion as they charge at each other with a bladed arm...
Midori runs around the facility freely because of all the commotion outside and looks around to see the room she's been looking for, "what are you looking for, Midori?"
She jumps and turns around to see Knolla behind her, "Knolla, what are you doing here? I thought I told you to stay behind with the others."
Knolla just crosses her arms, "I'm just here to help you... and to look for another one of those flat, round things."
Midori sighs as she knows what the crazy togetic is talking about, "you mean TM's?" Receiving a nod, "follow me," she leads to where the secret stash is, considering they'll never be here again...
All the guards ran away from the facility after the small group of pokemon defeated the tyranitar, "man, that guy sure can pack a punch," Striker says as he lays down on the ground exhausted.
"I agree, and he wasn't in Mega Evolution when I was battling him," the tauros replies after laying down himself.
Fast Star decides to lay down as well, "I wonder how the mouse, gecko, and pig's doing..."
Zero struggles when he got stuck between two Leaf Blades on his armed Leaf Blades, "what's the matter? Can't handle the fact that you're a failure compare to me?" Sceptile insults the treecko before him.
"No, just that you need a breathment is all," Zero counters back.
"Then how about I'll show how 'bad' my breath really is, Dragon Breath!" He unleashes blue flames from his mouth towards the exposed treecko, who couldn't dodge the breath attack, "fail-" he was interrupted by a barrage of bullets-shaped energy to the face from under the fog of blue flames, "Bullet Seed," Zero says after finishing his attack and freeing his arm.
Jumping into the air, he wheel-spins his tails to the top of the sceptile's head, "Pound!"
The only response the sceptile does is grab his tails and slams him face-first against the floor, "I already told you, you only get lucky once."
"Who says I'm lucky?" Zero replies to the statement as he was lifted upside-down in front of the sceptile, "I know I'm smarter than you, -Follow-Orders."
This angers the sceptile even more, "at least it's better than becoming a thief like you."
"So you're saying that being a pokemon that always being ordered around by people who kill innocent pokemon for results is better than being a pokemon that steals and destroy those very people?" Zero pretends to think about it while rubbing his chin with his hand and shrugs, "nah, I'd rather be the thief."
The sceptile couldn't take anymore and slams the treecko's face to the ground again, "yes, yes it is, because I'm the winner here," he says.
Zero smiles as he gets released from the giant gecko's grip, "Quick Attack," he charges at him with great speed, "Leaf Blade," he summons out his blades once more and slashes the side of his face.
But the sceptile notices that the force this time is stronger, and that his Leaf Blades is giving off a different color than before, "so you've been letting me attack you... just so you can access YOU'RE Overgrow."
"Exactly, like I said ealier, I'm smarter than you'll ever be," was the reply Zero says as he glow radiantly from the extraordinary blades before him. It's true his Leaf Blade doesn't seperate like sceptile does, but it's glows in a much more reddish-green color, making it more than twice as strong as it should be. "You were just a pee-brain from the start," with that said, the two charge at each other again, but in a much more even field...
"Hurry up and pack the TM's in here," Midori carries a round case as Knolla stores the remaining TM's in there.
After they were finished with this, Midori notices a strange object in one of the drawers, picks it up, reads the word 'bomb', then looks back to the togetic carrying the TM's. "Hey Knolla, what's a bomb?"
Knolla eyes widen as swat the bomb from the snivy's hand, "they're dangerous objects that explode," she answers, "but from what I've read there's suppose to be a remote that designate them."
Giving the snivy an idea, Midori looks for more of the explosive items, "what are you thinking?"
She turns back to answer the question, "I'm going to blow the facility up... so no more innocent pokemon have to suffer the same nightmare as me and Zero went through."
