Pokémon: Team Infinity

Chapter 4: Over The Mountain

Zane, Darcy, and Mist made their way to the large mountain and started climbing it. "So. Mist?" zane said, starting a conversation. Mist turned to zane. "Who was that Haxorus?" zane asked, jumping on a rock as he helped mist up. "Fang. He's dangerous. He's a monster! He destroyed everything I've own! Research I've had is gone! Crushed into pieces because of him! My father's struggling to charge it up." mist answered. "Research? What are you researching on?" zane asked. Darcy caught up and listened as well. Mist pulled out a blue stone, which shined brightly in the sun. "You see this? This stone is called The Peace Stone. It's suppose to bring peace and harmony for Pokémon like us. But there's too much hatred and selfishness for it to work. It's slowly losing power, that's why Fang wants it. If he gets his claws on it, it won't be called the Peace Stone, it'll be Called The Destruction Stone." mist explained, putting the orb back in her bag. "That's horrible. Don't worry! We'll get over this mountain so you can be back with your father!" zane said, smiling. Mist smiled. "Thank you both!" she said. Then, zane stopped walking, making mist bump into him and darcy bump into her. "Ow! You could at least give us a warning when you stop!" darcy yelled. Zane didn't move. "Zane? What's wrong?" mist asked. Zane closed his eyes, as if he's sensing something. Then,

"Girls. Be careful."

Zane said, facing the rocky path. "Why?" darcy asked. "Something's wrong. This path is too...quiet." zane said, jumping from boulder to boulder. Mist and darcy did the same, carefully jumping and landing. Then,

"Dragon Pulse!"

Startled, darcy turned around and the attack hit the boulder she was on. Darcy screamed as she flew into the air. "DARCY!" zane screamed. Darcy landed crashed into some boulders with a cloud of dust in the air. "THAT was for using flash on me, you little bitch!" fang growled. "You!" zane yelled, turning around. "Hand over that espeon and the stone! Nobody gets hurt!" fang said, walking onto the path. Suddenly, the ground shook. Boulders stated moving as it was getting hard for zane, mist, darcy, and fang to stay on their paws. "What's going on!?" mist cried. Then, rock type Pokémon appeared out of the ground. An angry Crustle, Nosepass, Geodude, and more angrily approached zane, mist, darcy, and fang. They all started attacking. Darcy tried using her flash, but it was hard to escape when they are surrounded by rocks. "THAT'S ENOUGH!" Fang yelled, using Dragon Pulse. "No! Don't do tha-" zane cried. Too late, fang used his dragon attack, caused a huge explosion, and rocks came tumbling down like an avalanche. Everyone screamed as they were separated among the rocks.

Everything went black for darcy. She found herself underneath boulders and rocks. She tried getting out, but she was being held down by the rocks and stones. She grunted in pain as she realized her leg was broken. "Z-ZANE! Help!" she cried. Darcy's ears perked up as she heard footsteps approach her. She opened her eyes and saw the Haxorus in front of her, looking down at her. Darcy tried unleashing another attack, by it was too much for her leg. She ended up passing out soon after. Haxorus sighed, lifting rocks from darcy and picked her up. He started walking off of the mountain with her, taking her somewhere. Meanwhile, Zane popped out of a pile of rocks with Mist. "AAhhh!...This dumbass! We were in a fallen rock zone!" zane angrily grunted. Mist jumped out, unharmed. "Are you alright?" zane asked. Mist nodded. "Good. Wait, where's darcy?" zane sighed in relief. Then, he remembered darcy being with him in the avalanche. "Darcy? Darcy! Where are you!?" zane called, digging through rocks, hoping to find the Umbreon somewhere. But, no matter how many times he called and dig, he couldn't find darcy. Then, a angry Onix popped out of the rocks and growled at zane. "You stupid absol! You will pa-" Onix growled. Zane clenched his teeth, he opened his mouth, an orange beam of light appeared and he yelled,

"HYPER BEAM!"

The hyper beam directly hit Onix. Onix tumbled off of the cliff, falling down. Zane stood there, holding in tears. It pained him to realize that he had lost his best friend, Darcy. "Come, zane. We have to keep moving." mist said, nuzzling him and encouraged him to keep moving. Zane slowly nodded, looking back at the rocks, and moved along with mist.

...

"Ugh...Ow...where am I?"

"Am I...dead?"

"No...this surface...it's soft."

Darcy opened her eyes and found herself in a small hunt. She was on a pile of cotton and her left leg was bandaged up. She looked around and saw the Haxorus poking the fire with a stick. She gasped, and he turned to her. "So, you finally woke up?" he asked. Darcy weakly got up, then her leg stung badly. "Ack!" darcy grunted, plopping down on the soft mattress again. "Hey, clam down! I'm not going to do anything to you!" Fang said. Darcy growled at him, "You best stay the hell away from me, zane, and mist!" Fang sighed, taking out a basket full of berries and gave one Oran berry to Darcy. Darcy was confused. "Here, eat. You're hurt." fang said. Darcy glared at him. "You didn't put poison in it, did you?" darcy growled. "Do I look like a fucking poison type?" fang asked, eating a berry to prove darcy that it is safe to eat. Darcy sighed, gobbling the berry up and soon found her leg healing. She curled her legs to her side and rest her head down. "Why?" she said. Fang turned to her. "Why did you help me?" darcy asked. "What's wrong with helping an Umbreon like you? You could've died." fang answered. "WE could've died! Why do you want that espeon?! She hasn't done anything to you!" darcy yelled. "She has. She stolen the peace stone from me." Fang growled at her. Darcy's eyes widen. "Wh-what?" Darcy said. "Yeah. She stole it from me. Now thanks to you and that absol, you're helping her get to her evil organization that's over the mountain! She never had a father. She killed her own parents." fang said. Darcy's ears went down. "I was trying to get the orb back to where it belonged, in Midnight Forest," fang started to explain.

"But that espeon stole it from me and tried to give it to her master. I don't know who, but I DO know that if I don't get that Peace stone back, it's going to be called a Destruction Stone, causing many evil Pokémon to appear out of nowhere, like Landorus, Thundurus, and Tornadus."

"Zane...h-he's in danger! We gotta save...I mean I gotta save him." Darcy replied, getting up slowly. "We? You don't trust me?" Fang asked. "W-well, you tried killing me and zane." darcy said. "*Sigh*...Sorry. I was just angry and was trying to get mist away from you two. But it backfired...badly." Fang apologized. Darcy looked at him. "Now do you trust me?" Fang asked. "To be honest, you seem like a good Pokémon, but how do I know if you're secretly working for mist? Pretending to chase her around and attacking her?" darcy replied. Fang angrily groaned, "I just said that she STOLE the STONE from ME!" "O-oh! Right! Sorry! I trust you...somewhat." darcy said. "Good, but it's getting late, we leave tomorrow." Fang smiled. Darcy smiled back and lied down to rest some more.

Meanwhile...

Zane and Mist were making a campsite in a mountain opening. As soon as zane made a fire, he sat down in front of it. He sadly hung his head, hoping that darcy isn't what he thinks she is. Then, mist wrapped a tail around zane's. Zane turned to her. "It's okay, zane. Your friend is in a better place." mist said, smiling. "Don't say that. She's alive. She has to be." zane said to her, eating his apple mist gave him. As soon as he finished, he lied down and faced the espeon. Zane noticed that she was hesitating to say something. "What is it?" zane asked. Mist suddenly crawled on top of zane, making him blush. "Um...are you...afraid of Fang?" she asked. Zane shook his head. "Why would I be afraid of the bastard?" zane answered. "I am..." mist said, shivering. "I lost everything because of him! I don't want to lose you." mist said, placing her head onto zane's chest. Zane let himself blush, he could no longer hide it. "Don't worry. You won't. Let's go to sleep. We're almost over the mountain." zane said, lying down to sleep. Mist happily giggled, as she watched zane drift off to sleep. When she lied down to sleep, her smile faded into a...smirk.