Parallel Hearts Chapter 24

After a good nap, Breaker, Fast Star, and Striker decides to go back to where the pokemon are taking refuge, "we've done our part of the mission," Fast Star reports to Beauty while stretching his back from the sore.

Giving a worry look, Beauty told them to get to the healing pokemon, which they happily accept the order.

Rose just looks back at the facility as all this is happening, hoping the others are alright. "Don't worry I'm sure Midori and Knolla are fine," she hears the oshawott say from behind her.

"It's not them I'm worried about..." making the otter pokemon confuse from that statement, "it's Mega, Zero, and Diggy that are trying to get that 'item'."

Oshawott flinch at the name 'Zero' for he knows that stragetic genius, that guy really knows when to strike at a pokemon for the otter pokemon used to spar with him from time-to-time. Knowing the fact that if these guys are with Zero, they'll be alright...

"You're just getting on my last nerves, little treecko," sceptile shouts as he tears the floor around himself to slash through the small gecko pokemon.

"What's the matter? Losing your cool?" Zero mocks as he dodges every slash attempts the giant gecko is giving.

Out of breath, the sceptile couldn't continue his barrage and stops to regain air composure, "damn... you."

Taking the chance, Zero charges at full speed, "Quick Attack," and prepare his bladed arms in front, "Leaf Blade!" When the attack connects to the exposed sceptile, blood starts gushing out of his body as he begins to lose consiousness... Is he actually losing to a mere treecko? No, he can't accept defeat!

Getting back up, Mega notices sceptile's starting to glow all over, "Zero! He's using Overgrow now!"

Hearing this warning, Zero takes back to his fighting stance as the sceptile doubles the amount of Leaf Blades he already has, "ready for round three?"

Knolla finds the remote as Midori finds the rest of the bombs, "let's put this all around the facility," she says as they exit the room to stick a bomb on the wall.

Knolla calculates which part should be stick with a bomb because she knows that the snivy wants every little thing gone from this place, but she can't help but worry about Mega and the others that are still inside the very hell itself.

Zero knew that twelve Leaf Blades are bad, but he didn't expect it to be THIS horrifying. The sceptile's opposite sides of the arms are mirrored: six-sided Leaf Blades on both side of the arms.

He cringe at how disgusting these people are willing to do to a pokemon, "isn't this beautiful, 421?" questions proudly, only to receive a disgusted face from all three of the pokemon rebels, "whatever, you're all gonna die under the hands of this beauty... he IS gonna be Master Giovanni's pokemon afterall, I'll just convince him that you evolved during the training."

Zero just rolls one of his three fingers in the air next to his head, indicating that she's crazy.

didn't like this gesture, "sceptile... FINISH HIM OFF!" Shouting the order, which he complies by running up to the treecko, "I hope you like hell because that's where you're going!"

Zero rolls his eyes saying sarcasticly, "oh yeah like I've never heard of that one before," then jumps out of the way, only to be caught by surprise when he appears from behind and grips him into a shredding, bear-hug.

"I'm much faster at this state," sceptiles explains, "and since I'm stronger than you, you'll die a slow, gruesome death!"

Zero screams in agonizing pain as he struggles to break free, only to find the cuts deepen the more he struggles. He can feel his blood dripping from his body as he begins to slip away from consiousness. The sceptile lands back to the ground with a huge thud as a crater created from the impact.

"This should blow the whole place up," Knolla examines the distance between the bombs, "we should go back and wait for the three leaders with the others." Midori nods in agreement as they run back outside.

Diggy and Mega begins to run up to them and save their brother. Then some kind of net trapped them in place and even electrifies them out of their energy.

"Sorry," says, responsible for the sudden attack, "but I can't have you interrupt such a beautiful moment. And when all this is over, you two will also be experimented on as payment for not only trying to steal what's ours, but also making us waste such a fine experiment."

Mega and Diggy struggles to try and get out of the net trap to help, but the more they try to get up, the more the electricity drains them. But they know it's futile and can only watch their bother's struggle and pray for his victory.

Zero feels desperation kicking in and slams the back of his head against the sceptile's face, causing him to let go and cover his face in pain, the treecko summons out his remaining strength to slash his opponent's legs.

The sceptile was surprise by the sudden attack and falls down to the ground, but that doesn't stop him as he dashes towards his tiny opponent.

Zero was shocked that his opponent could still get back up and fight, because he himself is struggling to even STAY up. When the mutated sceptile charges at him with his blade-covered arms, he musters up the remaining strength to dodge, his arms begins to feel heavy to him as this is happening and performing his Leaf Blade isn't helping either.

"What's the matter little treecko? Used up all your strength already?" Sceptile taunts as he slashes air to try and hit the treecko.

As hard it is to lift his arms, it's hard to block the attack at this point and ends up getting slashed on the left side of his face, almost slashing his eye in the process.

"Awww, look your first scar," sceptile laughs as he continues to slash all around for his own pleasure to see the little treecko suffer.

laughs as she looks at the struggling experiment before her. To her, this is true heaven, then looks back at the machine that he came back for, "looks like I win at the end..." and laughs for her victory.

Zero could feel the anger building inside of himself as the sceptile cooed over his first scar. He could feel something on his back, driving him with energy, and into his arms, "you shouldn't have done that." As this is happening, he could see the sceptile stepping back from the sudden change in motion. Zero charges with this new-found energy coursing through him.

Mega and Diggy couldn't believe what they're seeing, there's a glowing leaf-shaped energy coursing through the back of his jacket and Zero's Leaf Blades are seperating into three. What's happening to Zero? This is a question nobody can answer right now...

Zero could feel the power coursing through him as he spin-slashes the sceptile... did he finally tap into the power of Neos? This feels great! It feels like he can take down an army right now! Slash after slash he feels stronger and stronger. He spins faster and faster feeling invincible as each attack connects before jumping pass him to deliver the final slash. Withdrawing his magnificent tri-edged blades back into his arms, his opponent falls to the ground behind him in defeat.

hears a scream from behind her and assumes it's coming from the traitor, but when she turns around however, she sees the opposite of what she wished for. Her greatest experiment falling down from behind the treecko.

How could a mere little treecko do all this? Is he that much of a genius when it comes to fighting? She doesn't want to find out as she sees 421 looking at her angerly with a slight growl underneath saying 'you're next'. She controls the flying device to get away from there as fast as possible when a gap begins to open from the ceiling, "I'll be back!" She shouts to the three individuals.

Zero then summons out his Leaf Blade once again and slice through the net that is trapping Mega and Diggy and looks at them with his back still glowing. He then begins to fall in exhaustion as the glow disappears, only to be caught by his pikachu brother.

"Thanks," Zero simply says, only to receive a smile in response. Diggy, however, has alot of questions for Zero, but right now, he's just glad that the crazy treecko of a brother is still alive.

"Let's claim our prize!" Mega chants as he, Zero, and Diggy walk up to the machine they've fought so hard for.

When they walk up to it however, the three begin to question themselves on how they'll get inside it. They take another step, then all of a sudden a panel on the front of the ship begins to open. They waste no time to get inside to happily claim their newfound home.

They look around the inside of The Great Behemoth, the halls are colored red and black stripes on each side they think to symbolize Team Rocket. They could see that there's rooms behind each door and the only way to access them is by some kind of control panels on the side of the door, they're located around the same height of the humans, but luckily, there's also another one around their height, so they don't have to struggle to open the door.

They continue to look through the halls to find a big, open space with rows of tables and four sets of chairs in each table. They decide to wonder inside the strange room and find another room, but with a wall and a square hole in it around the corner of the door frame. Inside the room is rows of some kind of object with cabinets, square light bulbs, and a large counter in the center of the large room.

"This must be the cafeteria of the ship," Zero assumes as he looks around the room with Mega still supporting him as they walk.

"What's a cafeteria?"

Zero sighs as these two never experience human culture, "a cafeteria is a place where people go to have something to eat and drink," he explains.

After leaving this 'cafeteria', the three continue to explore to find a room called 'control room' Zero explained to be the commanding part of the ship. They find an unual door; it was created with two doors that are actually closed together, the three co-ed leaders looks at the control panel next to them and see arrows that points up and down instead. Diggy presses the arrow that's pointing up with his snout, only for the double door to open, scaring them in response. After the sudden freight, the three walk into the tiny room, only for the door to close in response.

The three look around the room and see buttons on the right side of the wall beside the door frame with labels next to them from bottom to top, "'Halls,' 'Engine,' 'Training,' 'Deck,' aha 'Control Room!'" Zero pushes the button labelled 'Control Room' then the tiny room begins shaking.

The sudden shake startle them for a moment as they feel the room going up to something, they hold onto the rails behind them as this process continues. After what seems to be an eternity, the door opens revealing another room, that they happily get out of the tiny room.

The room's shape is unusual, kind of squarish on the side they're in and roundish on the other, there are machines making beeping sounds as they shape against the wall of the room with chairs pinned underneath the machine, there's a huge window frame in place of the wall of the round room, so they can look inside by the lights inside the facility.

The side they're in has a weird wheel of some kind with sticks and is being held by a big block of metal, there are rails around the weird block, and two sets of stairs on each side of the block of wood. There's also two sets of stairs besides the tiny room they just got out of, they sigh in relief knowing they don't necessarily HAVE to go in that weird room to get to the command room. They sigh as they know this is gonna take a while to figure out how to command the ship on what they desire for it to do.

"Did you find them?" Rose asks Midori as she and Knolla are back, receiving a head shake from them, "they're still inside?"

Receiving a nod from both of them, making her hop back to the facility. But Midori stops the bunny girl in her tracks, "don't, they'll be here soon," the snake pokemon assures her as she place her hand on the buneary's shoulder.

The three pokemon are having a hard time looking for a way to operate the machine... they're looking a way to turn the damn thing on, but it's fustrating since they don't know a thing about it.

"How do we turn this thing on?" Diggy asks, looking around for the answer.

"I don't know," Zero replies, looking around for an instruction manuel.

Mega just explores the room, then notices a red button on the right side of the weird block of wood and decides to press it. The room begins to lighten up by the ceiling above them and the ground below them starts shaking. They look outside the window to see they're going up somewhere as the lights outside the behemoth of a ship starts lowering down. Did they activate it? Whatever, it's their time to shine and to show everyone what they accomplished! They can't wait to see the look on everyone's face.

The ground begins to shake for the team as they look at the facility, hoping for the three leaders' return. It begins to seperate in two as something gigantic rises from the ground below it, they don't know what it is.

They get into their battle stance because it could be something dangerous. Is this what the human have been developing? As the mysterious object reaches all the way up the ground, they notice that there's something on the very tip of it, no, more than one and realize it's the three they've been waiting for.

"Everyone!" Zero screams at the top of his lungs, "this behemoth is now ours! Come on aboard!"

Everyone couldn't BELIEVE what they're seeing... nobody could do anything to respond but cheer for their hard work and success in this mission.

Zero, Diggy, and Mega sees the cheering group and smile to each other in response, but the only problem is that they still don't know how to opperate the giant machine, hoping Knolla could find the manuel and help them with the system. They left this alone as everyone continue cheering for their success.

After the celebration was over, everyone climbed aboard to their new home. With Knolla decision to search for the manuel, Zero assignings himself a room to rest his damaged body, Mega leading the ship, everyone else tries to find a place to relax elsewhere in the gigantic ship.

Mega decides to help Knolla find the manuel and look around the control room: lightings coming from all sorts of places, a scale of some kind to see how fast it's going, some kind of machine that has some kind of green scanner with the ship in the middle.

He doesn't understand any of these things and sighs in exhaustion, "Why must humans make these machines so complicated for us pokemon to operate?" He questions himself as he gently bunks his head against the mysterious wheel, which is too big for him.

Just then, he notices a shelf with a book in it below the wheel and picks it up, "this must be the manuel!" He rushes out of the room to look for Knolla.

Fast Star, the oshawott, and torchic found a small, bubbling pool in a room and decided to relax in it, "man, this water is hot and relaxing," Fast Star exclaims happily, having the two to nod in agreement, "so what are you two gonna name yourselves?"

This pops them out of relaxation as they didn't consider giving themselves names, "we don't know," the torchic replies, "but if I do need a name, I'll guess I'll name myself 'Lock On'."

The oshawott puts more thought into his name and heads up thinking only one name, "I think my name will be 'Genis'," making the buizel smile at the names, "cool." And rest the back of his head against the side of the tub and let the heating waters relax his body from all the sores and bruises he got from going against the army of pokemon. This is something he needs after all the bullcrap he's been through.

The chanseys, blisseys, some of the audinos decide to cook dinner with the food they found in the cabinets, mainly berries, spices, and dairy, "do you think we'll be happy living like this?" One of the chanseys asks, "of course, we finally have freedom, Alice," the chansey next to her answers.

"We can't just leave these pokemon after what they've done for us and they promise to treat us as an equal," the chansey right next to her named Sakura says. Making Alice smile, "thanks, now lets finish dinner."

Knolla looks at the generator of the machine, "so this is the heart of this behemoth, huh?" She wish to take a look through it until Mega goes up to her with a book in his mouth and running on all four, "I found the manuel you wanted, Knolla."

She smiles at his accomplishment and rubs his head a bit with her hand, "thanks," and begins reading the first page, "it says here to drive the ship you have to press forward on the steering wheel."

Mega has as idea as to what this 'steering wheel' is and runs back to the control room.

Rose and Beauty decide to explore the giant hunk of metal, "I wonder if we'll get used to our new home," Beauty says as she looks at the black and red stripes on the walls.

"I don't know," Rose says, "but this IS what we invaded the facility for."

"True is truffles, my dear," Beauty says like an old pokemon girl would say, making Rose giggle.

Remembering from how the pokemon from the facility taught her how to open a door, Beauty feels like opening a door and inside the room behind it. She walks up to one and presses her paw against panels beside the door, giving the door permission to open up. When it does, she walks inside with the buneary behind her.

"Are these clothes?" Rose asks from behind, looking inside to see materials that are similar to Mega's cape and Zero's jacket.

A happiny appears from behind the rows of clothes in a dress, "I don't know about this, Happy, it's too big," she complains as the dress feels a little too loose for her taste.

The happiny she was shouting to appears the same way behind her, "ok Mee Mee, lets get you a diffe-" the happiny known as Happy stops mid-sentence to see the buneary and eevee in front of them, making her even happier, "yay, more pokemon try on dresses," she shouts in excitement.

The excited happiny grabs both Rose's left hand and Beauty's right paw to drag them into the row of clothes. The two look at each other as this is happening and smiles to think it could be fun to try on dresses for the first time.

"When is this damn ship gonna move!?" Midori shouts impatiently in the back part of the ship as she waits for it to move.

"Please be patient, nobody found out how to operate this thing yet," Breaker explains as he walks behind her. Suddenly the ship shakes and the two lost their balance for a moment.

"Sorry," they hear Mega's voice from the speaker, "once I become accustom to driving this machine, we can leave."

Midori sighs at the pikachu's announcement, "at least we're making progress to getting out of the facility property." She knows it's gonna take a while to leave, but when they do, she can finally blow the hellhole that this behemoth of a machine is standing on.