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Catherine exited the Assignments Center with the credit card in her hand and a look of dissatisfaction on her face. Her coat's top buckle was still missing but the hole in her chest had been patched up by blood soaked bandages. A voice came to her general direction. 'Hey, Catherine. How ya doing?'

Catherine turned her head and saw Rick was coming her way, she saluted him. 'Hey.' She said.

'You look a bit, eh, I don't know what to call that face. What happened?'

'Nothing, just disappointed I guess. I was promised to have something nice for my effort and I get pretty much got jack shit.'

'What did you do?'

'I just straight up kicked an Infinity elite's ass.'

'On your own? Damn. And you got wounds to show for too. He gave her a thumb up, earning a grin from her. 'I did something like that a few times, usually net an A or S rank.'

'Usually?'

'Well, depend on a lot of things. What did they told you about your case?'

'They said that there had been some complications. And my encounter with that elite could have been a misunderstanding. Worse, it could have caused some kind of shit storm. Wrap things up, there will be some investigation until the reward or a fine could be given. But I call bullshit on that, she shot first.'

'Complications, huh?' The Emboar shift his view slightly to the left, his arms crossed.

'Okay, I have never asked this to an Emboar before but fuck it, what's on your mind?'

'Dude, that's hurts. But nah, I'm over that. It just that I had been gathering up some information this afternoon.'

'Gathering information huh?' Catherine gave him a side way glace. 'You've been to the bar right?'

'Ehhh, yeah. That's the only place to get quick info around here. And from what I got, things look pretty ugly this morning. And those things could be the "complications". I'm just trying to find the connection.'

'Hum, is that so? How about you tell me so we can speed things up?'

'Not right now. Have you seen Axel?'

'No, haven't seen him since yesterday. Why?'

'I got a feeling that something bad had happened to him. I was hoping that I could catch you and him here, but now I'm worry.'

Both of then then turned their head to the side when a bus arrived. They then saw Axel got off from it. There were burn marks and bruises on his tail and face. His head slightly looked down, thinking something.

'Hey, Ax-hole.' Catherine said and caught his attention. But after seeing the heaviness in his face, she paused for a moment while Rick ran toward him and said. 'Dude, you're here.'

'Yeah, appear so.' Axel said.

'Are you okay? You looked like you got crapped on by a Slugma and then rolled over by a Snorlax or something.'

'I'm doing okay.' Axel wiped the burn mark on his face and sighed.

Catherine looked pass Axel shoulder. 'Hey, so what happened to your happy go lucky girlfriend? Isn't she with you?'

'Uh, she is in the Medical wing of the Square. She is going to be there for a few days.' Axel said and pointed his thumb behind his back.

'Holy crap! What happened?' Rick said.

'It's just work. It's gonna happen to us sooner or later. But don't worry, she is fine now, just needs rest. The doctors and the staffs will make everything okay, I trust them.'

'Wait. You guys were doing assignment within a Genesis's colony right?' Rick said.

'Yes, who told you that?' Axel said.

'Holy Arceus ball sacks so what Gwen said was true.'

'She said what?' Axel said.

'How about we talk through this during lunch? It's rather long.'

'Rick it's 4 in the afternoon.' Axel looked at his watch.

'Just call it liner then.'

'Come on Rick. What the fuck? Stop running around the bushes and fucking tell it.'

'Well, sorry, but I haven't eaten anything for a good while. It hard to focus on details when you are hungry.'

'You are not the only one with an empty stomach, you know. Just fucking spill it.'

'On second thought, that could be a good idea.' Axel said and looked around, a few Pokémon were looking at the trio. 'Standing in a crowded place like this might not be ideal. Got to admit though, I'm hungry too. Spent all day at the Medical wing and all. Hard to think straight. Mercy is staying with Celeste, so no dinner as well. Okay, who's paying this time?'

'I just got reward from our previous SS rank mission and I'm feeling pretty generous.' Catherine said.

'Oh really? Good. I expect you to start paying up those IOU from now on.' Axel said.

'Pf, cheeky asshole.'

(The song "Do the evolution" by Pearl Jam begins to play)

Chesterization proudly presents.

A Pokémon fanfiction

Genesis

(Song ends)

Chapter 7: Reveal.

20 minutes later, they were at restaurant located at the top floor of the shopping area. Unlike the food court, this one was occupied just by a few Pokémon. Despite this, Rick was still insisted on taking a VIP room for them. And he settled Catherine's protest by agreeing to split the bill with her. They chose a private room with a wide window, leather furniture and a marble table with a hologram screen. Catherine said that the whole room was rather unnecessary but Rick assured her that he got a special discount for the owner was one of his "buddies" and he would take care of the additional charges. They settled down and ordered by tapping a few command on the hologram screen. A few seconds after, two Smeargle stepped in and placed their food on the table. Catherine questions would the speed effect the quality of the food. To that, Rick just said 'Judge them yourself.'

Axel got himself a half-full bowl of rice and a bowl of green soup. Rick and Catherine on the other hand decided to get two large plate of steak instead. Unlike Rick who just bit and stuffed the food to his mouth, she used knife and fork can cut the steak into pieces first. Lying beside Catherine's hand was a small round bowl of chocolate ice cream. After finish with his plate, Rick asked. 'So, are you guys listening?'

'Rick, that's what we have been doing this whole time.' Axel said before pouring the soup to the rice.

'Just cut to the fucking chase so I can eat.' Catherine pointed her knife at him. In her plate were bite size pieces of steak. 'I just got two shot of alcohol and a sandwich in my system.'

'Just eat it, who would stop you?' Rick said.

'Who in their right mind drink alcohol in the morning?' Axel asked.

'I didn't asked for it, them, okay? Just go head and stop the ominous bullshit, Rick. What's so fucking important anyway?' Catherine said before but a piece of steak in her mouth.

Rick said. 'Okay. So, ahem. This morning, Gwen told me that 3 Genesis colonies were under attack. All the agents who were on duty in those colonies-doing assignments and what not, they are all got beaten up pretty good and ended up in the Medical wing, heavily injured.'

'Uh huh.' Catherine said, still chewing.

'All of the colonies are near the.' Rick said.

Axel interrupted. 'Revived plots of land in the East side of the Outland.'

'Now, I guess it's 4.' Rick said.

Catherine wished to add her case but the colony she was in charge of was a free-lance one. Instead, she asked. 'Revived?'

'The land used to be radioactive but Genesis made it habitable again with the rejuvenation process.' Axel said. 'Continue Rick.' Axel then pondered, His face looked more troubled then concentrate.

Rick nodded and followed. 'Yeah, and we didn't know who or what caught these attack. All that we got is every female, male and children in the colonies were all gone. The only one left are our agents and none was conscious to tell the tale. You are the only one so far, Axel.'

'I might be, but Celeste is still not.' Axel said.

'Oh yeah. Sorry about that, bro.' Rick said.

'No need. I said don't worry, didn't I?' Axel said.

'So Axel, who is the one that caused the attack at your colony?' Catherine asked, trying to find some connection between them and her case. If he said the word: "bandit" then the fight she had that morning meant.

'The Bandit Kingdom faction.' Axel said.

Catherine bit her lip. "Oh shit, you had pissed off the company biggest rival. Fuck." She then reassured herself "Maybe not, these are Genesis owned land, what she got was a free-lance, maybe Infinity was responsible for that one. But then she remember the bandit's corpse with the crown symbol on his armor. "Oh shit. I fucked it up."

'What, those deadbeats, Hellfire wannabe? I don't buy it.' Rick said.

'Buy it or not, those bandits certainly are apparently more than what we gave them credit for. And they are indeed the one that caused the attack at my end anyway.' Axel said.

'So there guy are no push over then.' Rick said.

'Rick, is there any EMP device at the sites of attack?' Catherine asked.

Rick kicked up his eyes brow and said. 'Oh yeah, forgot about that. They recovered an old school EMP device in each site.'

'Mine too, they dropped that thing to the colony from a hover plane.' Axel said.

'Catherine, you figured something out?' Rick said.

'No not that. But you can add another one to the list of colonies'.

'What?' Axel and Rick said.

'This morning or rather noon, I came to a colony of free-lance worker. It was deserted when I got there, a near ghost town. A single survivor told me that they were under attack and everyone but he was abducted. The only thing I recovered from the place was a flower like EMP device.' Catherine said.

'Really? There is no way it could be a coincidence.' Rick said.

'Why didn't you tell us about this earlier?' Axel said.

'I was seeing if there were enough common details before telling. Look like we got enough.' Catherine said before filled her mouth with another piece of steak.

'But you said you kicked an elite's ass this morning.' Rick said.

Catherine swallowed and continued. 'Yes, after I had discovered the survivor, I found an elite sniffing around at the EMP device. I asked question but the bitch was like, shoot first and answer never. So I did the most logical thing I could think of, kicking her ass.'

'Oh, great. Are you sure that was for self-defense?' Rick said.

'Who give a fuck? Only us were there, believe whatever side you want. 'Catherine said, before chewing on her steak.

'Maybe, it's not a bad thing, Rick. You got to ask the question. What was an Infinity elite doing at a recently deserted free-lance colony?' Axel said.

Catherine thought to herself. "Someone on my side, good."

'But, what if.' Rick said.

'Too soon to make any conclusion. Maybe they are involve, maybe not. But one thing for sure is that the Bandits Kingdom did the attacks. The abduction of colonists, the EMP devices, all fit.' Axel said.

'Then, how about you letting us know on the attack at your end. You saw it first hand, maybe we can get a better picture of things from that.' Rick said.

'Sure, I planned to anyway.' Axel drank some of the soup. Catherine finished the last piece of steak and both her and Rick focused their vision on Rick. 'It's all started this morning. Celeste and I was doing a few C and B rank assignments at the G16 colony. You know, maintaining the security system, delivering a few equipment, giving guidance and all at.'

Around 11 AM that day.

Axel and Celeste were at a colony positioned in the middle of a gray dusty field. It had the same structure at the one Catherine was going to be in later that day. It had buildings surrounded by high walls and a large yard in the middle. This one however, was much bigger than the other. It had an actual green house, more buildings and bigger turrets at the gate. Everything around the colony had the same white paint job and design as the buildings in the Delta base's Square. In the middle of the yard were two personal pods and a dozen metal containers. A few of those containers were opened and a Machop or two were unloading various equipment from them. At the ground floor of a building, Celeste was teaching a group of small Pokémon some kind of activity. There were giggles, laughter coming from the place, making the atmosphere around the colony livelier.

Axel was hanging on a section near the front gate. His vines were wrapping around a reinforced antenna. He was welding something in the circuit board hidden behind the wall. A few drop of sweat ran across his forehead and his eyes were focus on the task at hand. A Buizel exited one of the turrets and walked to the antenna. He held to the antenna and looked down.

'Hey, is everything okay there?' He asked Axel.

'Yeah, it's fine. Just a need a few tweak here and there. Tell the kids not to throw anything at this thing, okay? The big red light on this alarm is quite, tempting.'

'Our kids know better than that, thank you very much. So you are almost done with it?'

'Yup.' Axel said before gently pushed the circuit into the wall and closed the cover with a big red light attached to. 'And now I'm done.'

'Great. That's security part done for today. Let's take a lunch break before moving on to other things. The Buizel said.

Axel then said. 'Sure, clear the way. I'm going up.' The Buizel stepped back and gave the signal Axel. He then retracted his vine and quickly get on the wall.

'So, how was the turrets?' Axel said.

'Everything is good. The calibration software has been fully installed and running smoothly.' The Buizel said.

'Good. That's will make the bandits think twice about attacking you. Hell, those things won't even give them the chance to think of attacking you guys.' Axel said.

'Thank you. You don't know how much that means to us.' The Buizel said.

Axel showed his palms. 'Don't mention it. It is what we at Genesis do.'

The sound of children laughter reached their location.

'I haven't heard laughter like that for a long time.' The Buizel said.

'Celeste is a nature with that kind of thing. She can made living in an underground base with no nature sun light feel like having a vacation in past Essal. Wouldn't be hard for her to make a child laugh.'

'Indeed. Good to see someone could do more than just fixing a few circuits.

'Maybe we could visit you guys often. Just post lot of assignments and we will do it exclusively for you with a discount. Just don't make strange assignments or Genesis will call scam on us.' The Buizel laughed. 'I was serious on that one.' Axel said.

'Okay, but thanks. That will help us and the children a lot.' The Buizel then paused. Things are always rough for the kids. Even the most active ones couldn't even stay like that for long. We were thinking of sending them to the Square and just let us stay here to fix the land. Yet they chose not to leave us. It was hard seeing they made those kind of choices.'

'You all can always move back to the Square with them.'

'No, someone has to do this. And we are willing to change Essal for the better. Compare to those who suffered in the war, we had it good.'

'And I respect that.' Axel wiped the sweats on his forehead. 'Let's grab lunch and.'

The alarm that Axel had just fixed went off. From the left side of the colony, a loud engine noise was heard. Moment later, a large black helicopter was approaching the colony. It had two engines on its wings, each powered two rotating rotors. On the haul was a pray-painted symbol of a crown.

'We're under attack. Everybody get to safe room, now!' Axel yelled from the wall and get his rail gun out. There were panic screams from the yard, but Celeste spoken instructions soon replaced them.

'Frank. Get the mechs ready.' Axel said after loaded a shell inside and took aim.

The Buizel nodded and grabbed a remote strapped behind his back. He then turned a key to released a cover on a red button. Without delay, he pressed it, sending a signal for humanoid robots inside the containers to come out with assault rifles in their hands, immediately aiming at the plane and fire without any other command.

Axel raised his gun, took aim and fired his rail gun at the glass cockpit. The gun threw Axel back from the shot, nearly made him lose balance. The shell launched from it instantly impacted the glass, ate a clean hole on the glass and escaped from the upper dome of the cockpit. The plane jerked to the right in a panic, shaking but then quickly shifted back to its original position. A hatch in the belly of the helicopter opened, revealing a large cannon. The weapon's barrel began to spin, produced a threatening hum.

The sound of shifting gears was heard behind Axel as the turrets rotated. Seen the turrets on the gate was aiming at the plane. The plane hovered to a different location, instances before the turrets began to shoot. The plane dodged the attacks from the slow moving turrets. The cannon in its belly was still charging up. Axel shot another round at the cannon, but the spastic movement helped it avoid the shell. With a frustrated grunt, Axel loaded in another shell.

'Axel, a convoy is heading our way.' The Buizel said and pointed.

'Shift the turrets to them. We can take care of the plane from here.' Axel said before aiming at a different part of the plane, one of its engines.

'Got it.' The Buizel said before heading back into one of the turret. Said turret quickly changed its interest to beyond the gate, firing at a large convoy with a dozen of trucks. All of the vehicles were armored to the wheels with large plates of scrap metal and spikes. One side of their windshields were graffiti of the very same crown symbol. The first few trucks were instantly smashed by the shot and slowed down the line of vehicles behind them.

A bang came from Axel's rail gun and the right engine on the plane was shattered, sending the helicopter into a disorientated flight path. The cannon on its belly stopped charging and fired a large object at high speed. The recoil from the cannon pushed the vehicle back and making things harder for the remaining pilot to control it. The launched object spun in the air above the colony and was suddenly suspended by an invisible force. The object was a rusted EMP device folded in the form of a large bullet, some kind that Catherine could see later that day. Axel shot another rail gun shot at the other engine, rendered the plane useless and falling out of the colony air space. A few bandits jumped out from the side doors of the helicopter and get inside the colony. The bandit easily fall through the invisible barrier and landed on the yard. In a second, all the mechs aimed for the bandits' heads with deadly accuracy and fired without warning, executing them.

The EMP device then opened its back, revealing an afterburner. The burner soon ignited and pushed the device deeper inside, overcoming the invisible force. The device passed through the barrier's restrain and hit the dusty ground with a loud crash, destroying a mech and a bullet riddled body of a bandit. The device opened its "pedals" and released an electric shock wave that short circuited the mechs immediately.

'So, let's see.' Catherine get ta spoon full of ice cream in her mouth. 'Bandits with EMP device of unknown origin.'

'More like unclear.' Rick said.

'Pff, big fucking diff. So, they dropped the thing in the center of the colony, pretty much neutered all the defense systems. And they just come in, take the colonists and ride off into the sunset.' Catherine said.

'With our agent outnumbered and outgunned as these kind of assignments require just one or two agents. As the result the whole process is easy as taking candy from a Happiny. So.' Rick said.

Axel interrupted Rick. 'Not exactly like that from my end, though. Genesis had previously created a material that could protect important machinery from the effect of EMP. And that material was all over the colony I and Celeste stationed in, so we and the colonist managed to put up a fight.'

'Huh? Sounded like you should have it all under control.' Rick said.

'No, that was what we thought.' Axel said.

'So when did the shit hit the fan?' Catherine said.

Axel said with an angry glare in his eyes. 'When he showed up.'

'It's an EMP!' Frank yelled after getting out from the other turret, which was still active and keeping the convoy at bay, in his hand was now a pistol.

'I know. But the other defenses should hold. Just join everyone in the safe rooms now, Frank.' Axel said.

'No way, I'm not letting you fight them alone.'

'I'm not. I got Celeste down there and these turrets. Just get there and hope that you don't need to fire that gun.'

'But.'

The sound of helicopters was quickly approaching, sounded like a swarm of giant metal wasp above their head.

'No time for argument, once the barrier break, you'll become easy target with that pea shooter. Just go now!'

'Okay, good luck.' The Buizel said before hastily climbing down the ladder.

Three helicopters then entered the area. They were armed to the teeth with cannons and missiles launchers. The turrets were still focusing on the convoy from a far. The trucks had begun to turn back, but the turret didn't let up their long range attack. The helicopters then fired salvos of missiles and machine gun fire toward the colony. The missiles slamming against the barrier and exploded in balls of electricity. The sound of loud static filled the colony and the invisible barrier was slowly revealed in each missiles hit.

Axel fired his rail gun as fast a he could, damaging the helicopters and interrupting their attacks. These helicopters appeared to have stronger armor compare the plane. Celeste got behind a large metal container and joined in by fired a few rockets from her single shot launcher. Her rockets had less speed compare to the ones the bandit used, making it easy for the helicopter to dodge. However, her rockets didn't need to hit the target to actually explode. They just gain in close with the helicopter and then went off, spreading cloud of green corrosive substance near the helicopters. The green cloud touched the helicopters and melted their armor at a rapid rate. The side door on the helicopters opened. Strings of wire was dropped down from the doors and a few Raticate bandits slid down to the yard, very near Celeste. The Sylveon instantly used Quick Attack to land a full metal punch on a Raticate front teeth, knocking the teeth out in a bloody mess. While the Raticate was shock to see his blood-covered teeth on the ground, she quickly got behind his back, used her ribbon feelers and left arm to hold him in front like a meat shield. The Raticate squirmed and tried to break free. She opened the tip of her mechanical fingered, revealing a sharp needle. 'Please, behave.' She whispered before jabbing the needle to his neck, and the Raticate sound became dead weight. With this meat shield, she moved back to a better location, all while shooting the other bandits with a pink pistol. The bandits care little for their allies and blindly fired their gun at her. Celeste then carefully took aim at a bandits head while charging her pistol. The shots from the bandits' assault rifle drained her barrier. Yet that didn't worry her as she still got the Raticate. The bullets hit the Raticate. The Pokemon still didn't move but his eyes opened in terror. He tried to open his mouth for a scream but everything in his body beside his eye lids and pain receptors were shut down completely. Soon, his eyes close after his rib cage was exposed. She then fired her gun, sending an overheated bullet to the bandits head. The bullet entered through the skull, stayed there for a brief moment before blowing the bandits head clean off. The other stopped for a split second to look at the mess that used to be a head. One of them got his head shattered by four or five shot of Celeste's pistol. The helicopters were began to drop more bandits into the field. Some of which were descending behind Celeste's back.

Axel switched the rail gun for a sniper rifle. Axel pulled the handle and fired sniper rounds down at the bandits, both on the wires and in the yard. The bullets crushed their skulls, spraying brain, blood and flesh all over. Axel gave her the gesture to leave the bandits to him. She nodded and dropped the Raticate to the ground, not before putting a bullet to the back of his head. She quickly ran back to a better cover and loaded those corrosive grenade to her gun then continued firing. One of Celeste's grenade exploded near the tail of a helicopter and dissolved the section connecting the back rotor and the main body. In five second, the substance completely eaten that part, cutting the tail off, sending that one helicopter out of control. End result making it rammed to the other and then rammed to the other. The helicopters lost all control and fell on the invisible barrier, putting heavy strain on it, making static sound grow louder.

The remaining bandits inside the helicopters immediately jumped out the helicopter and free falling. Celeste load a new grenade and fire at the bandits that bypassed the barrier. The grenade exploded created long chain of blue lightning that passed and linked from bandits to bandits. They screamed when the jolts hit them. And screamed even louder when they fell to the ground. All were suffered from muscle spasm like mad. Celeste loaded a new grenade and smiled. She shot at the group of bandits on the ground. The grenade went off as it touched one of the bandit and covering a large radius with fire, letting all the bandits die in the flame, screaming.

The colony's barrier snapped off and let the helicopters' remain fall through. They were coming to the turret wall. Axel immediately jumped off. His orange shock absorb barrier activated, making him falling at a sluggish rate. The helicopters pieces crashed into the wall and destroyed the turrets. Axel looked behind him, the scrap metal that stayed still, covering the turrets that he had spent half an hour reprogram. Without his knowing, the remaining fuel and ammunition inside the wreckage meet the sparks from exposed wire, created a massive ball of flame followed by a booming shock wave. The shock wave and heat abruptly reached Axel and threw his barrier off. He soon landed back first on the hard ground. Another explosion was triggered, most likely come from the other helicopter, sending debris all over the place. Axel couldn't hear anything after that explosion but he could fell a sharp pain cutting into his left side. He lifted his head up and looked. A large shrapnel was there, pierced into his body. Axel sighed and grabbed the base of the shrapnel and slowly but firmly yanked it out. It was not in too deep, only a third of its length was in his body. He them threw it on the ground and took a long breather. He then held the wound and slowly got up. The ears inside his head was still ringing. Other than the pain at his side, Axel didn't feel anything, even the ground under his feet. He started walking, which suddenly became hard. Celeste then ran to him and said something that he couldn't hear. She then held his head, looked at the sides, lifted his hand up and checked the wound. She summoned a spray can marked with a pink cross and applied it to the wound, that made a great deal of pain surged through him but he had worse. The tips of her other finger opened, this time was a set of smaller needles. She gently pushed the needles tips to his neck. At first Axel couldn't feel those needle but soon he could. Those and the burning pain in his side. And then he could hear sound again.

'Hey, Axel can you hear me now? Hello?'

'Yes, I can.' he said and shook his head.

'Sorry for the explosion, didn't think of that outcome.' She said while looking at the wreckage.

'It's okay, but get into position, I don't think that was the last of them.' Axel said before letting his hand touched the ground. Large thorn vines sprouted up and covered the doors around the colony buildings. Axel's eyes close after the vines settled. Celeste didn't gave him a chance to lay down as she jabbed a needle to his back, making his eyes open and he stood up again.

'Why, do you need to do that?' Celeste said.

'Just to make sure. I can retract them later.' Axel said before summoned a syringe and stabbed it near the wound. The sound of the trucks returned. The engines roared before they rammed to the gate, bending it a bit. The scream of the driver cried out. 'We are coming in for ya!' One of the bandits said. A few of them get off the trucks and started climbing up the wall. The moment when their hands touched it, the wall set off its electrical charges and shocked the bandits, dropping them on their trucks, thus making them stop screaming for a while. But soon the bandits get back to climbing, trying their best to endure the shock.

'Let's stop all this pointlessness.' Axel said and took out his fabricate blade.

'Thinking way ahead of ya.' Celeste said and ran to the wall, getting on one of the ladder that barely held on the wall. Axel did the same. They avoided the burning wreckage of the helicopters and turret to find a good spot to observe the bandits outside the gate. They looked down and saw the bandits laying down like mosquito that had run into an electric net. Celeste summoned one big grenade that got the phrase "Super happy fun time" written in glitter on it. She loaded it up and made signs with her hands, telling Axel to put on his gas mask. After both of their heads were protected by an invisible bubble, Celeste looked at the bandits again. They were still trying to climb on the wall in vain and completely unaware of her and Axel. Kept her head low, she aimed her launcher at the convoy and squeezed the trigger. The launcher threw the grenade in an arc and landed it on one of the truck. The grenade didn't explode but instead released a large amount of yellow smoke. The bandit panic and trying to escape it, but the green cloud was expanding too fast and soon it engulfed them. The smoke moved all over and reached all the way to the end of the convoy and some reached back to Axel and Celeste.

A gust of wind came and blew all the yellow smoke away, what left behind were the bandit laying on the ground, on top of and in a few truck. They were still moving slowly and lazily, moaning something under their breaths.

'Okay, I'll go finish them off. You stay here and look out. Get to a safe cover before the barrier come back up.'

'Okay, I will.' She nodded and smile. 'Have fun and keep your mask on'

Axel just cracked a grin and vaulted over the leftover parts of the helicopters. He got down from the wall and fell to the other side of the gate. He walked casually among the truck and held tight to his blade.

'I can't feel my head anymore, man.' 'It's like heaven. All my problems suddenly just disappear. Do we suppose to kill someone? 'Two bandits laying on the ground said in an intoxicated state. Axel raised his blade and cut their head off.

'Wait, what kind of grenade is that?' Catherine said.

'DMHP.' Axel said.

'Huh?'

'It is not important right now. Let just-'

'Basically weed on steroid.' Rick said.

'Eh, what? As in the thing that Pokémon get high from?'

'Yup, what else?'

'Hm, And how did you not finding your girlfriend a bit creepy?'

'Pardon?' Axel said.

'I don't fucking know, eh, she acts gleeful and childlike but well, to some extend kinda like me in the killing department. Which I like but come on, she got weed for weapons and drug that paralyze but still letting the victim suffer from pain and torture. That's fucking awesome in my book but still a bit creepy nonetheless.'

'Well, if you have any problem with her, just go ahead and talk to her in the hospital.' Axel said.

'Fuck, got bitter quick, whatever, just continue.' Catherine said and waved her hand once.

After killing the last bandit in the long line of truck, his blade was dyed from tip to hilt with blood. He shook it before hearing a call on his communicator from Celeste. 'Axel, something is happening to the sky.'

Axel looked up and saw nothing change, but still he headed back for the colony, telling Celeste to hide.

Then came a strange noise and follow by the sound of a hover plane.

'Axel, we got more company.' Celeste said through the comm.

That was the signal for him to run back to the base. 'Celeste just lay low, I'm almost there.'

He soon heard the sound of Celeste fighting on the communicator, making him turn the thing off and entered his invisible state.

Inside, there was a large plane that nearly covered the air above the colony. Four massive rotors on it were producing flows of strong wind down at the colony, its four side doors were opened. Under it, down at the ground, there were a Sneasel wearing a brightly color jester outfit, a Machamp with heavy scrap armor, on his back and chest were two large speakers, an Eelektross wearing old tires armor and a Zoroark wear the same armor as the Machamp (minus the extra arms holes). All except the Sneasel were wearing a knight helmet. At the right section of the colony, Celeste was fighting a Lucario wearing a metal helmet that covered his entire head except an eye hole, light metal armor and lot of scars on his body. They were trading punches by punches. She was giving everything she got into her hands but the Lucario just blocked them with ease. He let out an unsettling shriek in each block, which constantly throwing her off. Before the other bandits "knights" could join in, Axel caught their attention with a rail gun shot near the Sneasel. The "knight" scattered as Axel continued firing.

In an instance, the Lucario got an open and landed a punch Celeste in her stomach. However, as soon as his bare paw touched her, the fabric on her clothes responded and sprayed a chemical that stunned him. Both recoiled and back away from each other. Celeste took out the pistol shot several bullet to the hole on the helmet. Blood flew out from the hole. The bandits let out incoherent screams and shook violently. Seeing the bandit still standing she shot a few bullet to his heart. The bandits just took it and resume his stance. She switched for her launcher and fire a rocker propelled grenade in the Lucario chest, sending him all the way across the yard and slammed to the wall with a bang.

Before she could tried something else, she heard a *whish* sound followed by a maddening laugh. She was then struck her back. The Sneasel was the culprit but he soon regret the hit as the chemical from her clothes numb his arm completely afterward. Celeste recovered from the attack and turned around. She then fired her pistol. The Sneasel's movement was fast enough to evade her shots. With his hand behind his back, he let out a taunting laugh and began dancing on the dusty ground. Celeste fired at his feet but did nothing but making his laugh more irritating to her The Sneasel then kicked sand to her face, throwing her off and making her fire the pistol blindly. And when the magazine ran out her gain in close and raised his claws. But he couldn't truck her as his claws was stopped by an invisible hand. Before the Sneasel could pull his hand back, something punched him in nose (somehow produced the noise of a horn). He was then grabbed and thrown away from Celeste. Axel then reappeared in front of her asking whether she was fine.

The Sneasel got up and looked around, asking: 'How could he?' as he saw the Zoroark was on the ground holding a cut on his chest. The Machamp got pinned with Axel's sword in his shoulder and he was using his arms to get it out. The Eelektross was slowly regain height with his levitate. The Sneasel felt something ran from his nose and when he touched it, he found blood. Shook them off his hand, the Sneasel laughed and performed Ice shards with an attempt to throw them at Axel. It took him a bit longer to create the shards due to the heat. And when he got them ready, Axel was already on the way to give him a proper beating. He threw the shards which Axel dodged by launched himself in the air. Not giving the Sneasel the chance, Axel shot a Leaf Storm at the ice type. The Sneasel couldn't avoid that one and got tossed along by the green wind.

He got up, feeling his body ache all over. And then Axel hit him in the left side of his face. 'Come on, laugh some more.' Axel said as he gave the Sneasel the back of his hand. Before he could do more damage to the Sneasel's face, he was stopped by an electrified whip wrapped around his neck. The weapon shocked him, and dropped him on his knees. The Sneasel gave a cheap punch in Axel's face and ran back. He then breathed in relief and hide in a corner. Axel fell on his knees. The Eelektross keep shocking him, making sure that he stay where he was, all the while getting closer to him.

The Machamp got himself up and pulled the sword out of his body. Before he could crush it, the hilt let out a siren and release and electrical explosion that made the Machamp drop the weapon at reflex. Rubbing his burnt hand against his armor, the Machamp then slowly walked toward Axel. He raised all of his arms, completely cover Axel in his shadow.

And then, came a dart shot straight to the Machamp exposed neck. He let out a series of grunt then fall back and laid flat on the ground with a loud thud. Trail back from the dart and one would know who shot it. Celeste then closed her dart gun again and took aim. 'Sorry, Axel.' She said before shooting a dart at Axel. The dart hit him in the back and kicked started an adrenaline rush within him. His body overcame the stun effect of the whip and got up. The Eelektross put more charges into his whip but didn't help. Axel opened his palm and pulled back. The sword then flew to his hand. The Eelektross then stop advancing and back off. Axel turned around and sliced off the whip with one strike. The Eelektross dropped the whip to charge up his claws in electricity and charged toward Axel. Axel quickly extended his vines and tie them into a noose. With quick motion he boosted toward the Eelektross body and chopped off the electric type left arm, creating an open to get behind him. He then got the vine noose around the Eelektross's neck. While the Pokémon was still screaming from the loss of his arm, Axel twisted the vine and tighten up the noose. Due to the Eelektross's unique body, Axel had to twist the vines dozens of times to block the Eelektross's wind pipe. Axel locked it in place with both hand and choked the Pokemon to dead. The Pokémon round mouth opened and closed at the rapid rate but then got slower and slower and then remain open forever.

When Axel dropped the Pokémon to the ground, the Lucario was then walked away from the wall he was pinned into. He then let out a loud screech. Celeste shut him up by shot an inferno grenade at him and let him lay on the ground, face first to the fire.

With no other Pokémon inside, Axel summoned his rail gun and aimed at the plane, prompting Celeste to do the same. Before they could pull the triggers, they were forced to drop the weapon and stood still by an unknown and invisible force. They tried everything in their power to move but couldn't. They stood there like stature for a good long while, giving the bandits to slide down from the plane and point gun at them both in their stand still state. When the bandits finally got the upper hand, then Sneasel jumped out from his hiding spot and stabbed his claw on the head of a Machamp bandit, waking the Pokémon up. He then told something to the Machamp that made the fighting type stand straight and salute with only one hand. The other bandits, who were not in charge of keeping Axel and Celeste in line, followed suit. The Sneasel yelled. 'Make way for the Bandit King.' The yell suddenly made the Lucario yanked up from the ground and slowly stood in salute. His fur were burnt, exposing his skin, which was black and red all over. The Zoroark was getting up and saluted as well.

The hatch in the belly of the plane opened. From it, an Alakazam flew or rather levitated down from the plane in a standing straight pose. His left hand was behind his back and his right held a scepter with a large red crystal ball on it. When his slender and skin-wrapped-bones for legs touched the ground, the bandits who are not focus on Axel and Celeste bowed. The Alakazam looked quite different. He had a red gem stone on his head and floating behind his back were five silver spoon and a pink plate. The size of the plate was identical to the steel plate Axel had recovered from the previous day. There was a purple aura swirling around it as well. Around his neck was a crown made of gold, which had a a round gem melted into it. His beard was longer and bigger, but the crown on his neck always shine through it. He was wearing clothes resemble those that belonged to royalties of the eighteen century. The fabrics were torn here and there and the blue color had faded. On his chest was a medal with that crown symbol among other medals made from scrap metal. He gently stroll to the middle of the yard.

'Wait what fuck is Mega Alakazam?' Catherine said. 'Sounded like, what the fuck is the stupid thing that kids watch on the television?'

'You mean cartoon?' Rick said.

'Yeah, maybe that. Agh, just screw it. What the hell is mega anyway?' Catherine said and finished her box of ice cream.

'Well, mega evolution is basically you holding a magic and a super duper rare stone that turn you into a jacked up version of yourself. Stronger, faster, weirder, like that Slowbro thing. But it is only temporary, once you lost the stone, you lose the evolution.' Rick told her.

'Not magic but something else. Scientists have been working on it for years. And found out each stone is genetic material of various Pokémon. The origin for these stone are most likely human made.' Axel said.

'Okay, the more I know then. So, the one that fucked everything up for you, is an evolve Alakazam that was also a king of the the bandits. Okay, proceed.'

He let one end of his scepter touched the ground. 'What's seem, to be, the problem? The Alakazam said, calmly and slowly. He then looked at Axel. 'Ah, I remember you from the cameras. You and your friends, are the ones that broke into my castle, slayed my subjects, and interrupted my slumber.'

'It was way past noon. About time for you to wake up your highness.' Axel said.

The Sneasel gritted his teeth and yell. "Thou dare?' but soon Axel's stare shut him up before anything else with a death stare.

The Alakazam laughed heartily. 'Haha, good, very amusing. I wonder, if you could still do so as our time together, go on?' He then looked at Celeste. 'And you, maiden. You are the one that, sabotaged my expedition. What a lovely surprise to meet you both.'

Axel quickly used his vine and reclaimed the rail gun, taking all the bandits by surprise. He quickly fired the weapon with his vine at the new Pokémon. The Alakazam held his left hand up, a split second before the bullet came to him. The bullet then stopped advancing. Instead, it was hovering in front of the Alakazam, still spinning.

'Naughty, naughty.' He said. With a gently flick of his finger, the tip of the still spinning bullet was then aiming at Axel, whose eyes were wide open and vines were forced the drop the gun as well.

The Alakazam then let out a grin. Axel still felt himself frozen right in the spot, couldn't move his feet at all. A billion questions were circling inside his head regarding this Alakazam leader. The Machamp bandit then hit Axel in the back, making him dropped to the ground. The hold on his body stopped, but before Axel could retaliate, he was pinned down by three assault rifle stocks.

'Hm, now, now. Where should this go to?' The Alakazam asked while moving his finger around the bullet. He then looked at the thorn wall and said. 'Be a kind Pokémon and, retract those.'

'And if I refuse?' Axel said.

The Alakazam then moved the bullets closer to Axel's line of sight.

'Heh, go ahead. Kill me won't make those things come down.'

'Axel.' Celeste said to him, whispering.

'Kill me or she will trigger an alarm to Genesis. With those walls blocking your way, it going to take you half an hour or more to break through. By that time Genesis would have been here with reinforcement. You would accomplish nothing.'

'Oh, that's right. I nearly forgot. Clever boy.' The Alakazam snapped his fingers and the bullet changed to Celeste. 'If that is the case, we have to find some other way, to speed things up then.' He then released his restrain on the bullet and let it went straight to Celeste.

Axel tried to escape the bandits and get to her direction. But he couldn't catch anything but a mere cry of pain from Celeste. Axel then got his head slammed by a bandits and Celeste fell to the ground. The Alakazam made a gesture allowing the bandits to let go of Axel.

Axel quickly got back on his feet and rushed to Celeste. The Alakazam then teleported in front of him and bashed Axel's face with his scepter. The attack caught Axel off guard and staggered him. With a swift motion, the Alakazam hit him in the stomach and threw him back to the bandits. The Alakazam then instructed the other bandits to gather around Axel and pinned him down once more. The Alakazam taking his time approached Celeste. He slammed his Scepter down and look at her, who was curled up like a fist protesting death. She bit down her teeth and took every painful breath. The Alakazam looked at the hole at the wall behind Celeste, then changed his view to Axel, who was still being pinned down with assault rifle stocks.

'So. Did I have your, attention yet? Such a shame too. I hate hurting, a lady, but at the same time, I hate it when things, failed to follow my command. So please, released the vine walls now. And I will let you both go.' He still spoke softly and slowly. His voice emphasis on each pause.

Axel looked at Celeste and put his hand down the ground. With the right focus, he could use the vines against the bandit and catch the King in.

'Oh, and please, no game or trick.' He then stepped closer to Celeste. 'I know those look. You have to think, of this lady right HERE.' He then slammed his scepter down at Celeste's ribbon, making her scream.

'I don't know what went through Arceus's mind, when he created these flesh ribbon. I see no purpose of things like these, just adding vulnerability to you.' He then pushed the scepter down more. 'Oh well enough rambling for one day, wouldn't you agree? Let's not waste our time here, and release the vines. The healing serum wouldn't work if you, let a wound like that for too long.' Axel followed through. He touched the ground and the vines slowly retracted back to the ground, allowing the doorways to be seen.

'Good, very good.' He turned to the other bandits. 'My loyal subjects, do what you were told. Leave no one behind, beside these two of course.' The Alakazam raised his hand toward Axel. 'Let go of him and help your fellow man.'

The bandits around Axel released him. Yet, Axel could still feel the same, if not stronger pressure laying on him. He could even wiggle. Axel then saw the Alakazam pulled his hand back. And soon his feet began to move on their own. Axel tried to resist but it just made every step he took the more painful. When Axel was a few feet away from him, the Alakazam raised his other hand at Celeste, who were nearly pass out from the blood loss. A thin layer of bright purple aura covered her body entirely and lifted her up. He settled her on her feet, her arm was still trying to hold on to the wound on her stomach. The Alakazam then moved two of his finger, making she moved forward and placed her near Axel.

'What should I do with you two? For your crimes, I should kill you both at where you stand. It will be quick and painless. But, I'm an honorable king and I always keep my words. I shall let you go once my man finish with, the business. Besides, I don't blame you. You were just doing what, you were told and I forgive you for once. Take this as a lesson. Do not get in, my way, ever again and you shall be spared.'

The bandits then opened one of the doors. There were screams coming from the inside. And those scream got louder as the Buizel and a few other colonists shot back. The bandits took the bullets and fired tranquilizers from their weapons to subdue everyone inside. The Buizel refused to go down easy and empty out his pistol, got a bandits in the process. His courage however, was rewarded by a bash to the jaw, knocking him out before the tranquilizer could. The bandits then grabbed the colonist and get them to the gate. The Machamp blasted the gate with a sonic boom from his speaker, loosened the gate. He then used all his strength to forcefully rip open the gate. The bandits then exited with the colonists and putting them on the trucks. A few bandits took out the headless corpses and got behind the driver seats.

'Move it faster. The Genesis's Calvary is coming.' The Sneasel urged the other. The Alakazam then pointed his fingers back at Axel. 'This will take a while. How about you both, entertain me in the meantime. Jester.' He called the Sneasel.

'Yes, your highness.' The Sneasel turned around.

'Give us some form of music.' The King said.

'Yes, your highness.' The Sneasel said and bowed.

The Sneasel took out a portable CD player from the back of his clothes and instructed the Machamp to come to him. When the hulking Pokémon was there the Sneasel jumped up. With a quick jab, he connected the player to the speaker on the Machamp's chest. He touched a few commands on the device and turned to the Alakazam. 'Now? Your highness.'

'Yes.' The Alakazam said before swiftly moved his fingers. Axel and Celeste moved and faced each other. He then forced Celeste's hand to move away from the wound and straighten her arms. The hole on her stomach was surrounded by running stains of blood. Celeste faced Axel with a grimace. Before the Alakazam could make them bow like a pair of puppets, his ear was blasted by the sound of a long guitar rift, amplified by the gigantic speakers. The noise broke his focus briefly, releasing his control on Axel and Celeste. But before Axel could control his arms and legs, the Alakazam regained control and both resumed to their original poses. The Sneasel took his master's reaction as a signal to stop the music. Before he could apologize, the end of the King's scepter slapped him. 'Fool. Something with substance.'

'Apologize, your highness.' The Sneasel bowed once and jumped back on the Machamp

When the sound of piano and violins filled the air, the Alakazam began to swirl his scepter with the music. With his free hand, he controlled Axel and Celeste. He made them bowed and waltzed to the music. Their movement was quick, precise and graceful. However, that couldn't hide Celeste's pain. She was shaking her hands and cried out in pain in each step she took, she almost passed out from the pain as she was moved closer to Axel. Her blood dripped down from his jacket. And the Alakazam's control also couldn't stop Axel from gritting his teeth and glaring with hate and regret.

The Alakazam said then tapped his scepter to the ground. Behind him, a large amount of dirt rose, reshaped and hardened in the form of a throne. 'That's more like it.' The Alakazam smiled as he sit and continued to enjoy the show that himself put up. It went on for a few minutes until.

'Your highness, it is done.' The Sneasel told him.

'Aw, I have just get things, placed in perfection.' He let out a long sigh and allowed the dirt fell back onto the ground. 'It's time, for us to go. Let not keep, the lady from her needed medical attention. Our time together was short, but it was, really amusing.' The Alakazam said while giving Axel an evil smile. His "knights" quickly made their way up with the ropes connected to the plane. A few other went out to the gate and get on the trucks loaded with colonists. The Alakazam lifted himself up with his psychic power and got in the open in the hover plane's belly.

When the Alakazam was on the plane and the sound of the convoy leaving was heard, he released his control over the two agents. Dropped Celeste to the ground and letting Axel rushed to her. Celeste couldn't hold on anymore and fell unconscious. Axel summoned a syringe with the pink liquid. He then injected its content to her neck. That made the Sylveon wake up screaming. A faint noise of Axel apologizing could be heard. The Alakazam raised his scepter and yelled. 'Sent my regards to Mr. Lucious Genesis the Third.' He then cackled with delight.

'After that I couldn't do anything but watch him teleported the entire plane away and his convoy just rode off and disappeared. I couldn't chase after them as I got to take Celeste back to the Square. Good thing that I made it back in time and the doctors managed to get her out of critical condition relatively fast. And that's pretty much it. The whole thing.' Axel finished his story.

'Damn, that was a close one for the Celeste.' Rick said. 'And what the hell is up with that guy?'

'Shit. Should have shot down those helicopters when we have the chance.' Catherine said.

'What plane?' Rick said.

'Don't you pay attention at all? This whoever the fuck he is said he remember Axel. And Axel was the one that disturbed his slumber. Guess who the fuck said that before?' Catherine said.

'Oh yeah, the Rhyperior.' Rick the rubbed his jaw. 'Still trying to forget that embarrassing moment. So what you are saying was that he was inside the helicopters that escape.'

'That was fucking obvious, wasn't it?'

'But then if he was powerful enough to bend us two to his whim them why didn't he fought us back then?' Axel said.

'Maybe, he was not all powerful then.' Catherine said. 'Maybe that mid-day slumbered was just he meditate or some shit. That Mind plate probably takes him quite some time to get used to, I think.'

'Oh yeah, didn't he mentioned of Celeste messing with his expedition?'

'Yes, he did. I guess it's safe to assume that he somehow has the knowledge of the location of the plates.'

'Damn, can you imagine if he has more of those?'

'We don't have to if Genesis got them all first.'

'Sound like we are going to bump into these guys a lot. Have you informed Anna on all this?'

'I did. And she suggested that we prepare for the worst.'

'Sounds like I need to practice some defense with my psychic power. Really don't want to fuck with that guy without them. Any chance that this place have some psychic type artifacts that I can buy?'

'Floor 11th, I think.' Rick said and rubbed the back of his head.

'Catherine, think you have any way to counter him?' Axel said.

'Well, that's kinda hard to tell. Mental puppetry, I can reverse that but my own mental power must overcome his in order to do so. With the Mind plate and being an evolved version of an Alakazam, that is fucking impossible at my current power.' Catherine said, and she meant it. She thought of the voice inside her but she didn't want to risk it, some past experience told her why. 'Okay, so there is only one way that I could think of.'

'What is it?' Axel asked.

'Gang on him.' She shrugged her shoulder.

'Woah, calm down, don't go there Catherine.' Rick said.

'Get your head out of the gutter, Rick. In order to do a mental grab and kill, psychic types need the target to stop moving too fast and absolute focus from the user. So we just need to attack him at multiple fronts, he'll need to keep that fucking barrier up to stop the bullets or running away, no chance to concentrate in one point. Remember how her nearly choke up just because of the music?

'So when in doubt, just scream in the face then.'

Catherine raise her finger and then dropped it.'Ehh, yeah, that could work, it should give you a window to run.'

'Well, let just think it as our only way for now.' Axel said and began to eat his soup. Which had got cold for a while. He just ate it slowly.

'You look pretty, eh, anxious.' Rick said but soon interrupted by Axel.

'I said, I'm okay.' Axel said.

'Don't go there. I know that shit. You don't want sympathy but something does bother you.'

'Well, today my girlfriend nearly die, dozens of colonist under my protection-abducted. And I was completely powerless when all that happen in front of my eyes. Oh and I danced while my girlfriend was bleeding out in my arms. So yeah, it bothers me and I'm trying to forget it.'

'Dude, you couldn't change any of that.' Rick said.

'You thought I'm not aware of that?' Axel raised his voice slightly. He then gave up on his meal and leaned back on his chair and sighed.

Catherine was about to tell him to relax, but that wouldn't help much. If those colonists were other Celestians she would act that way too. But it was really off to her. She was expecting Axel to be the one that got everything under his control. But again, no one was expecting that bandits King.

Rick said. 'You know what man? It's all been done. Just forgive yourself. Keep your head up. We will get these sumbitch one day and I shall let you tap dance on that Alakazam's rib case- right after I pluck it from his body and burn his head.'

'That was unnecessarily morbid, Rick. But, eh, thanks.' Axel said.

'I kinda like that, it give motivation. Sick and fucked up motivation.' Catherine said.

'Let's hope that I got to see the faces of those children again in a better scenario.' Axel said. His face still looked troubled.

'That's a bit better. But do you know what it the best thing for you to do right now?'

'Let me guess.' Catherine said

'Alcohol.' Catherine and Rick said in unison.

'Heh, well if they were made a reason, then this would be it.

'Sure. Why not? Drink on me. Let's drown this damned morning in alcohol, you in Catherine?' Axel said.

'You said that, not me. Rick, what is the most expensive and best drink Gwen got?' Catherine said.

'Bliss, no question. That's thing gonna blow head all the way to heaven like a rocket and then let it land in hell the next morning.' Rick answered her.

'With a line like that, I want two.' Catherine said.

Axel sighed. 'One Rick is enough.'

Somewhere on Essal. A Pokémon was sitting in front of a large computer screen. The room he was in filled with darkness and the blue crystal screen was the only thing that got light in it. The screen was displaying the image of Anna. The Pokémon rubbed his forehead and spoke. 'Pardon the time. The last meeting was much longer than I expected. You would understand, lives of our worker depend on it.'

'It's quite alright sir.'

'So what is it that you wished to report?'

'We have an issue at hand.'

'An issue? How big?'

'Very'

'Well, tell me then.'

'Today five separate colonies were under attack, sir.'

'What? Five? I thought we have given some manner of protection to all of our colonies. Must be the freelancers. Wish that they had listened to our offer.'

'No sir, there was only one freelanced, rest belong to us.

'What? Where?'

'All five were located in the revived desert in the East side of the Outland.'

'That was our satellite blind spot for today. What is the damage? How many got killed?'

'9 in total sir. But the rest of the colonists had been take away.'

'Who is responsible for this?'

'From an agent and various evidences found at the sites, a bandit faction named Bandit Kingdom and possible involvement of the Infinity corp.'

'What? That's impossible, you had told me that they couldn't do anything major and just a speck compare to other bandit factions that we have eradicated. And Infinity is involve in this?'

'Only possible, sir. And yes, we certainly have underestimated this group, sir.'

'It appears so.'

'We now have some detail regarding their leader this time sir.'

'Really? Who is him?'

'A mega Alakazam that claimed himself to be the Bandit King.'

'Oh yes, how typical.'

'And the Mind elemental core in his possession.'

'It's can't be. This individual must be the reason why they are making a daring move today. Hum, so that is why his henchman were trying to dig the underground lab up. He must be collecting them, just like us.'

'Everyone want a piece of Arceus's power.'

'That is true. But not all could use it responsibly. Especially the bandits. How did he have any knowledge about these core to begin with? The Pokémon the paused. 'Too many uncertainties. Any detail on why did he attack on our colony?'

'Not right now sir. He seem to only be interested in our workers and the colonist.'

'What is our agents' status after the attack? How many lost?

Most of them were injured but they were all alive.

The Pokémon leaned back on his chair. 'So he had not grasp the full potential of the core or is he taunting us? Alright, announced all our colonies that are still on the Outlands surface, it's time to go back and stop all operations. Told them there was some difficulties and we need them back. Give them compensations if you can.'

'Yes sir.'

'Look like sun shine is no longer a luxury but a dangerous sport that none of them ask for. Do not cause panic, both from the move in colonists and those who are still here.'

'Yes sir. But what about the freelancers?'

'They chose not to get involve with us. They have to take the risk. Now, for the agents. Mark all assignments regarding colonies operations a full team mission. Cannot let the valuable colonies behind for looters and bandits. And instruct them to call for backup whenever this King is encountered.'

'Yes sir.'

'What is going on with this world anyway?'

'Sir, I wish not to upset you. However, in one report, the "King" said, "Send my regard to Mr. Lucious Genesis the Third.'

'Hm, that, is. Well, I think it's time for a double background check on our personnel. Look like he is taunting us after all. Is there anything else you wish to tell me?'

'No sir. That's all for now.'

'Good, I need to get ready for my next meeting. Good bye Anna.'

'Good bye sir.'

The Pokémon said before turning off the screen, changing the room into pit black. He leaned back on his chair and activated his stereo system with a snap of his metallic hand. The sound of classical music filled up his dark room.

The trio were now in the Reverent. The place at night was indeed more active. The music is more fast pace and upbeat. There was the thumping sound of dancing from the top floor. The neon light were turned on and filled the bar with colorful glow. The tables were nearly full, and it took the effort of several females dressed in Lopunny style outfit to keep every there happy. Gwendolyn was still behind the bar, mixing up drinks. Axel, Catherine and Rick were the only Pokémon to sit on the bar (probably because Rick took the space of three Pokémon). In front of Rick was a large number of double shot glasses. He had been placing then in order and stacking them up like a mini castle. Axel got himself three glasses of Scott. His head was still dropping but the drink and everything had helped him loosen up a bit. Catherine got two fancy tall glassed with various patterns carved on them. On the rim was a long angel wing made of ice that never seem to melt. Inside of one glass was 3 quarters of blue liquor and the other was empty. Catherine eyes were wide opened. Her hand grip the glass tightly. Her head fixed in place.

'Catherine, are you okay? You haven't said anything for a while.' Axel asked, his voice still sound the same, yet the pace was slower.

'Dude, I think the Bliss just knock her out.' Rick said then laughed.

Catherine then took a long gasp for air and whispered. 'The angels from above. They are looking at me.'

'Ha, told ya. Must be seeing things by now.' Rick said.

'Well, fuck you then, angels!' Catherine yelled and slammed her fist, making Gwen to turn her head. 'Those guy deserved to die and you know it. I don't give a fuck of what you think. I'll rip your fucking wings with a pair of chopsticks and scoop your holy eyes out with a spoon.'

'Eh, I don't think she is suitable for this type of drink.' Rick said. 'She's starting to sound like me, the old one that is.'

Axel tried to wave his hand in front of her. But Catherine then jerked her head to his direction. 'Boo. Ha. Just fucking with you guys. It would take more than that to get me seeing stuffs. But damn, this drink is fucking awesome. Is my face swelling up because I can't feel it, like at all.' Catherine kept an awkward smile while talking.

'Nah, you look fine.' Rick said.

'I'll take that as a compliment. See, Axel, can take one of those.'

'Yeah. I can see that.' Axel drank the rest of his glass.

A cough then appeared behind their backs. 'Ahem, I am surprised to see this. I was expect this kind of behavior from Rick and Catherine but you as well, Axel.'

'Hey, Doc, give the kid a break, he, he is oh god I forgot why we are drinking.' Axel gave a glance at Rick and then returned to his drink and said. 'It's not a regular thing. It's a long day for me. I need it.'

'Yes, I have heard the news. Terribly sorry. Nothing against your action right here.' Doc said.

'What are you doing here dude?' Rick said.

'I want tell you all that these will be few changes in future. Utterly important, must be addressed. But look like I will have to wait for that. But first, Catherine, can I talk with you in private?' Doc said.

'How about later? Creepy old guy and semi drunk female don't mix.'

'Hah, nice one.' Rick said.

'This is no joke. And I am not that creepy, mind you. I must tell you this right now, so I can delete it from my memory bank. I hate keeping it full.'

'Okay, okay, I'm moving.' Catherine got off the chair, her movement were still pretty accurate.

'Good, see me outside.' Doc said and walked out first.

Later.

'Okay, I'm here. What do you want?' Catherine said.

Doc then whispered to her. 'Anna told me about your little fight with Infinity elite.' That sentence got Catherine's focus backed to her head really quick. He continued 'She told me to give you this, give me your fabricator.' Catherine stretched her arm and allow Doc to touch the device on her sleeve. Doc then connected it with his arm to it and transferred something. 'Okay, congratulation on you additional reward. Just a B rank reward, but got to be better than a fine.'

'Okay, but I thought I fucked it up. Cause war and shit, maybe.'

'Don't worry about it. It was self-defense and her appearance after the attack certainly justify your action. But there would be less confusion if there were more data. And no guilt since you didn't kill her right?'

'Yup, not sure what happen afterward but I can confirm that from the last time I saw her.' Catherine realized how stupid that sounded and said. 'Sorry, this shit is kinda mess up with my head.' Catherine ended her sentence and rubbed her temple.

'Good, you can always pay for it as a hangover the next day. Off topic. Return to the elites and Infinity. As for the future, avoid fighting them or rather, observe them first. See what they are hiding, what they are doing and if they find you out, fight.'

'Ah shit, I have trouble laying low. Can I just pass that on to Axel?'

'Yes, you definitely should. But think about solo mission, like today morning. Keep those in mind.'

'Sure will, thanks old man.'

'Good now get back to sabotage your body with alcohol.'

'Yeah, yeah, see ya tomorrow.'

'Will do.'

Back in Lucious's office. A Pokémon-A slouched Alakazam stepped in, created a line of light inside. The music was still occupied the empty space of the room. The Alakazam turned on the lights. He was an Alakazam wearing a spotless lab coat with the Genesis logo on his arm. His skin was pale white and filled with wrinkles and signs of age. In his right hand was a golden notepad similar to Anna's.

'Lucious, it's time.' He struggled to make his words louder than the music.

'Right.' The Pokémon turned off the music and got out of his seat. He walked toward the Alakazam.

'What seem, to be, the problem, child?' The Alakazam asked, coughed out his words.

'There had been some complications with the bandits.'

'Aren't there always.'

'This time it's different.'

'Yes, it's always different. But, I'm sure that you will, be able to handle it, just like everything else in the past. How many factions were crushed, by your Foundation agents? More than the years of my life. These damned creatures are nothing more but a few, mere stones on our way of progress. No matter how big, we will eventually, crush them and continue.' The Alakazam gave a stronger voice for the word "crush".

'Your encouraging words will be appreciated, Markov.' Lucious place his hand on the Alakazam shoulder.

'You are being too kind. We should head to the, conference room now. Thousands of lives, depend on it.'

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