Chapter 14

"An aerial mission? What, do you expect me to fly"?

"Precisely". I gave her a somewhat puzzled look. "But we can't teleport you there, because if we did we'd have to teleport you into the air and that wouldn't turn out to good. So we have arranged a flight for you. I contacted the Professor while you were coming to my office, he shall go along with you to explain how things work".

"Ok, if you say so", I said nervously.

Several hours Professor MacKenzie and I were in a small airplane over the ocean.

"So, you have yet to explain to me how this is gonna work".

"Right, first put this on", he handed me a strange backpack that strapped all around my legs and arms. The backpack had something folded up on it. It had a series of metal shafts with plastic fibre attached to the shafts along with two handle bars sticking out the side.

"What is this"? I had a feeling that I didn't want to know.

"Those are your gliders".

"Gliders"? I said with extreme nervousness.

"They- oh wait, there's the target, take a look". I looked out the window to find a small redish, orangish speck off in the distance. " Here, take these", he handed me some binoculars. I looked through them to find the charizard flying as fast as the plane like it was nothing. I looked closer to find the energy stone hanging from a necklace in its hand.

"So how do I plan on confiscating the stone".

"Simple, you're gonna fly to him and take it".

"WHAT ... HOW"?

"As I said before, you use the gliders".

"But I don't know how to fly these things"! Just then, the back hatch to the plane opened, letting the blustering winds burst inside the plane.

"Don't worry lots of people have done well on there first times, now, have you ever gone hang gliding"?

"No".

"Good, because this is completely different", I just stared at him with my jaw dropped, "Now all you have to know is to go up, down, left, or right is just arch your back in that direction".

"But I don't even know if I can even do this".

"Don't worry you'll be fine".

"Wait, where's the charizard"?

"Directly, below us". I walked up to the hatch of the plane and looked over the edge and sure enough there was the charizard.

"Oh, two more things", he was acting like everything was completely normal, "just pull on the handle bars to open the gliders and take these goggles, it's gonna be windy. Ok your good to go". He gave me pat on the back that made me take a few steps closer to the edge. I almost lost my balance right on the edge.

"THIS IS CRAZY"!

"As I said, many people have taken this concept on their first time, so just go. Besides if it doesn't work you'll just fall into the water". He smiled at me like everything was still normal.

I looked over te edge again. We were pretty high up, but as I thought about it, I had the opportunity to actually fly. I was nervous, but was he telling the truth about people grasping the concept that fast. The temptation to fly was massive.

I sighed, "I can't believe I'm doing this".

I took one final breathe, I closed my eyes and I jumped.

I opened my eyes to find that I was falling, face first, at a great speed. I looked closely at the fast approaching charizard beneath me. I had to think fast. If I opened the gliders now then I wouldn't have enough speed and the charizard would hear me coming. I had one choice, snatch it at full speed.

I could see the charizard 250 meters away. I could start to see the stone necklace in its hands. 200 meters away, I was getting nervous. 150 meters away, I could see the alpha chip in its neck. 100 meters away, I started to hyperventilate. 50 meters away, I reached my arm out. 25 meters away, I closed my eyes. I opened my palm and felt it made contact with something. I opened my eyes, the energy stone!

I focused my eyes to look at the ocean fast approaching. I gripped the handle bars and pulled. They wouldn't move! The ocean was only 100 meters away. I jerked the handle bars, they still wouldn't move. 50 meters away, I pulled with all my strength. They slowly started to move until finally the jerked forward.

Not knowing if they opened or not, I could just imagine hard contact with the ocean. I closed my eyes and put my arms in front of my face. I arched my back backwards, in hopes of making it.. I felt massive g-force on my front side. I waited, no water. I opened my eyes to find there was 2 meters separating me from the ocean. I was flying, whizzing over the water at great speeds!

I looked at the wings to find not to find to long wings with a huge wing span, but to find one big, long wing, no wider than my arm span, but exceeded my feet by about a meter and a half.

Regardless I was flying and it felt great. But this feeling was lost when a fireball went shooting past me. The charizard was right on my tail. I veered upwards to gain some altitude. I looked behind me to find one frustrated charizard. He wasn't catching up but I had a feeling that it was gonna happen soon enough.

I tried out turning by twisting my back ever so slightly in the right and left directions. I flew and turned faster than I ever thought, but the charizard managed to keep my speed. In order to get the charizard off my back I had to de-chip it.

I decided that in order to de-chip, I had to get beside it. I spanned my arms and legs out to lower my aerodynamics. I found my self gradually slowing down. I looked to my right to find the charizard only one mere meter from my side.

It looked at me and opened its mouth. I looked inside it's mouth to find red light emerging.

"WUH-OH", I veered up just before flames came shooting out of its mouth. This was my chance. I veered down, right and grabbed onto both of it's wings. I reached out my hand and got a grip on the chip. I pulled with all of my strength. After about three seconds the chip was out.

I flew off and flew several meters away from him.

'What's going on here, where am I', came a mans voice.

'Your in the middle of the ocean, I just removed an alpha chip from you, the alpha chip is-'

'Oh no, I was chipped. I can't believe it, me of all pokemon', he had outrage in his voice.

'Wait, you know what the chips are'?

'Yes, the word has spread throughout the pokemon world. The word has also spread, that someone is freeing the chipped pokemon. I assume they are talking about you'.

'Right, you are, Draelen'.

'Wait, you know my name'. I froze. How did I know his name, it just seemed to pop into my head.

'I don't know ... anyway, it's best for you to find your way back to the mainland'.

'Right ... ok'. The charizard flew off into the distance.

I flew for another five minutes to find a small island up ahead. I slowed down as much as I could. I tried to land on the beach but instead of landing, I crashed and rolled several times. I got up and detached the gliders. I pressed the communicator.

"Karen"?

"NICK, oh thank god, I was worried you weren't going to grasp the idea of flying".

"Right", I was out of breathe, "Anyway can I get back to the headquarters. I think I've been through enough today".

"Ok, hold on". After a few seconds, the portal opened and I walked in, finally putting end to the day's work.