Yeah, hey, sorry about the lack of updates, life being busy and all.
"Got it," Mossman says.
He grabs from a printer and raises it up so J and the others can see it. J squints her eyes before giving the command.
"Shoot 'em down."
The enemies in the copter in front of J's airship proceeds to gasp in unison before trying to fly off. Dawn and Paul look over J, as Meowth is focused up ahead, little to no emotion on his face as he looks through his unlocked, but closed cage.
"Wait, shoot them down? You have what you wanted, don't you?" Dawn asks.
"They're enemies Dawn, I must do what I must do," J responds.
Dawn's expression soon changes from fear to determination. She marches up in front of J and her throne before stomping her foot.
"We have what we wanted. They won't do anything unless ordered, and Cyrus hasn't anything other than to distract us," she says.
Dawn looks over at Paul, who remains standing there, no emotion residing on his face, as usual. Eventually, Paul nods before joining her side. They remain in front of J, neither moving an inch.
"Guns are at ready sir," a random soldier says.
Dawn and Paul stare at J fiercely, with J staring back. They both seem to be at a stalemate until J growls. She raises her hand, her palm facing the two.
"Do not fire," she says, defeated.
J then stands up, her shadow looming over Dawn and Paul, as she slowly walks down the steps. She takes each step carefully, with each one going slower than the last. In due time, she arrives in front of the two. Eventually, she speaks once more.
"Mossman," she says.
"Yes sir?" he asks.
With another growl, J continues.
"Set a course to where Mundo resides," she says.
"Yes sir," he says.
"And Mossman?"
"Yes sir?"
J continues her long, hard glare at Dawn and Paul before stepping back a step.
"Open the hatch door," J orders.
Surprised, Dawn looks at J, tears welling up in her eyes. Mossman remains sitting, having not moved an inch.
"That was an order Mossman!" J shouts.
Mossman presses the button, and slowly, the hatch door starts to open.
"Whoa!" Meowth shouts at J.
Dawn looks at J, her tears almost out, as he whispers one, single name.
"Diana."
This catches J, her simply takes it, and lets it go.
"That's kind of going over the line, don't you think?" Meowth asks.
J looks over at Meowth before opening his already unlocked cage. She then grabs him by the tail.
"Hey, hey, hey, watch the tail Miss Grabby," he says angrily.
She remains holding his tail for a few seconds before spurting out two words.
"I'm sorry."
This catches Meowth by surprise, whose eyes go wide. At the hatch, Paul and Dawn fall through, immediately being caught by the wind, going down.
"Ready the arms," J says.
She then toss Meowth, by the tail, down towards the hatch. He proceeds to fall into the open sky before J regains her composure. Her sad look turns to her serious, no nonsense look.
"Guns ready," the same soldier from before states.
For a few seconds, J closes her eyes, thinking to herself, and almost hearing a voice, an out of place voice.
"......J, wait!"
But it's too late, as the word spurts out.
"Fire!"
In the instant the guns release, all Tabitha can get out is...
"I'm outty."
While the guns and cannons strike the copter, it blows up in a huge explosion. Rubble hits the cockpit screen before a mere body is seen burrowing out of the explosion. It's Tabitha, who's got a cocky smirk on his face.
"Sir, he got away," Mossman says.
"Let him go. Set course to Eclo Canyon," she orders.
Mossman looks at her for a few seconds before swirling around in his chair, facing the screen.
"Yes sir," is all he says.
SCENE CHANGE
Down below, mid air, Dawn is screaming her guts out, trying to land on the ground below her. Paul is simply thinking, while floating over to Dawn. Up above them, Meowth, also screaming his guts out, soon swifts past Paul, falling at a much faster rate. Eventually, Paul reaches Dawn, hugging her close. Her screams immediately disappear, and is replaced with comfort, and a blushing smile. Paul remains thinking, while holding Dawn close to him. He looks up and sees Tabitha falling as well, but at a faster rate, almost like a skydiver. A thought springs to Paul, who hold Dawn tighter.
"Hang on," he says.
"With pleasure," she thinks.
As Tabitha rolls by, Paul latches onto his backpack. Tabitha notices this, and tries to shake Paul loose, to no luck. With a sneer, Tabitha pulls his backpack string, making a parachute envelope out of it. Paul is able to catch is mid way, grabbing a string. Using this string as elevation, Paul swings his foot to Tabitha, landing him in the face, causing his nose to bleed. Paul does this again, leaving an angry Tabitha down. The parachute now fully up, Paul lets Dawn go, having her hold on by another string.
One by one, Paul pulls up on the strings, having them come out. Tabitha tries to use his hands to grab onto them, but a boot to the back of his head by Dawn leaves him unphased. With one string left, Dawn grabs onto Paul once more. Paul himself has all the other strings in his right hand, and with one push, the final string comes out of the backpack. Tabitha is left parachute-less as he falls to the ground below. Dawn and Paul slowly float to the ground, the parachute holding them both easily.
KIND OF SCENE CHANGE
In due time, the two reach the ground. They land in a fountain, seen in the middle of a stone city. Paul lets go of the parachute, allowing to two to fall into the fountain. Paul comes out, staring into the eyes of Dawn. All she does is blush before Paul gets up, soon helping her up. They are drenched as the people of the town stare at them suspiciously. Paul looks back at the parachute to see a large Team Magma logo on it. With a sigh, Paul takes a look at the townspeople.
"I know how this looks, and trust me, we are not what it appears to be," he says.
Dawn latches to Paul's arm, a little bit scared at the townspeople who just stare at them. In due time, one of them walks up. This person is a tall, slender man, with blue hair and a poke ball covered peach suit. The man looks at Paul with a sharp eye, before nodding at him.
"If you truly aren't what you say, then come with me. You need to dry up, you both are drenched," he says.
Paul raises an eyebrow at the man before looking at the other townspeople, who go about at their business. Eventually, Paul nods, and the three of them are off to a round building with a Star Trek like door that Dawn is intrigued by. The two make their way to a large circle in the middle of a rather large room. The man presses some buttons on a control panel, making an elevator pop up on the far end. With his arms, the man invites Dawn and Paul to go in first, and they do.
"Press that button and you'll go downstairs. I'll be their in a second," he says.
Dawn presses a button next to her and the elevator closes. It then goes down a floor, soon reaching another floor. It opens and the two step out. It then goes up back to where it just was. Paul and Dawn look on at the wide, but short room. They see a bed, two more doors, and a large TV. Dawn glances behind her to see four doors with symbols of a leaf, a stone, sand, and water on each one.
Soon, the man from before comes down the elevator. He steps off when it opens and it goes up, not above, where it was, but in between so the top of the elevator looks like part of the ring.
"Might I ask, who are you?" Dawn asks.
"My name Justy, and you have landed in Phenac City," the man says.
Paul lets Dawn go, as he ventures over to one of the two doors. He looks it up and down before turning back towards Justy.
"Why are you so welcoming to us, while the other citizens look at us like we're criminals," he asks.
Justy looks over Paul, a welcoming smile slapped on his face. Justy replies in the same welcoming matter.
"Well for one, you floated in from the sky, two, you floated in from the sky with a Team Magma parachute, and three, this town has been on edge ever since Team Snagem was finally run out of our region."
Paul remains looking at Justy before glancing over at Dawn. Her eyes are a bit squinted, giving off a serious look on her face. She nods at Paul before looking at Justy.
"Thank you," he says.
Yeah, a rather bad, and short update, but at least it's something. They've arrived in Phenac City, and J's going to Eclo Canyon. Trust me when I say that this story is slowly nearing it's conclusion.