Authors Notes: Well, BfoS, if I can't reply to your comments through the than I'll have to reply to your comments here.
1. Firstly, thanks for being an honest fan. To be honest, myself, you are the first person to give me confidence in my writing. Everyone else I've shown my fanfic to is a friend of mine who I'm not sure are giving me honest reviews. You however had no idea who I was before you read this, and I mean that in the sense that you don't know me over the internet, not in real life. Thanks
2. Anyone of my fanfics where the main character doesn't have a name, is a fanfic where you are supposed to imagine yourself as the main character.
3. You're right about the inaccuracies in chapter 14, I have a lot to learn about aerodynamics. But I do know to edit the chapter to make it more accurate.
Thanks for all the really nice comments and reviews.
Chapter 19
"Nick, you just read the prophecy word for word. How did you do that"? I couldn't move, I couldn't speak, and I couldn't even think. The only thing I could muster from my mouth was:
"I don't know". I had a million things running through my head, it all matched except for of the two lines. I was saving a few pokemon's lives but not the world's. Was I going to be this important?
The other line that confused me was the second last one, see through the eyes of the pokemon? What did it mean by that? Was I going to be able to look through pokemon's eyes or something?
A few hours later, we were finished up and back at the apartment. Dallin and I tried to make Terra happy after the confrontation. I felt her fur for the first time since the fight. It felt just the way it did before, except now it was dead cold. I guess her emotions affected her heat.
I fed her her favorite food, a nice cooked steak. After word Dallin and I just sat on the couch and petted and cooed her for the rest of the night. We could feel her heat up as the night went on. Soon enough, she was back to her old self.
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2 weeks later
Another lazy weekend day, with nothing to do. Thank god, I was told to come to the professor's lab. He said he wanted to show me some bad news.
"You wanted to see me"?
"Over here, Nick", he sounded somewhat depressed.
"What's wrong"?
"Take a look". He pointed me in the direction of a small cage. Inside was an robotic orb, nearly a foot long in all directions.
"What is it"?
"It's a rocket orb. Team Rocket has developed this to prevent endangering themselves. If you look here", he pointed to the side which had a small slot, "see that, there's a chip inside of it".
"What"!?
"The orb has the ability to insert a chip without instruction".
I sighed, "So why is it in a cage"? The orb suddenly started to float off of the base of the cage. It was hovering in midair without making a sound. It started to bash against the cage.
"Artificial intellegence. Team Rocket has too much time on there hands".
"Do you notice how the orb floats without making a sound. With our signals we've noticed a lot of larger pokemon being chipped. It seems the orb has the ability to be faster and quieter than a rocket grunt so a lot more powerful pokemon have been chipped".
"OK, now they're just trying to kill me. This is getting out of hand. Have you figured out a way to get rid of the orbs"?
"Were working on it. But we haven't come up with anything". I sighed and leaned on the table but I felt something under my hand. I looked and saw the EMDAC.
"Did you try this thing yet"?
"We figured that the results could be dangerous with that". I picked up the EMDAC and took im for the Rocket orb, I took a shot. The bullet hit the orb dead in the center. With all these months that I've had the EMDAC, I was starting to improve. I was able to take aim within five seconds, and it seemed to charge up in ten seconds rather than thirty now.
The orb started to jerk around a little, as if it was malfunctioning. Me and the professor took a few steps back. The orb started to shoot sparks, and me and the professor ran to the back of the room. The orb suddenly froze in midair for a second, and than finally, it exploded. Little pieces of metal shot around the room and a little poof of smoke was left in the orbs place. Me and the professor looked at each other in speechless surprise. I finally broke the silence.
"COOL. Do it again". The professor gave me a little smirk. "Well at least we know how to beat them now". Suddenly the professor's pager beeped and before I knew it, I was being sent to Karen's office.
"So, where to today". I gave out a smile as she smiled back.
"Today you'll be heading out to the cliffs by the ocean outside of town. We got several reports from fishermen that something large is moving toward the town. We scanned it and they weren't kidding, it's too large to be contained. We suspect that it's a wailord, or something".
"Right, so how do I get the chip off of it, if it's underwater the whole time. This would be my first water pokemon... why is that"?
"Team Rocket didn't have the technology to chip a pokemon underwater, but thanks to those rocket orbs, they can chip those pokemon too".
"Great. So how do I dechip it"?
"Well, we aren't really prepared for underwater missions so we figured this. We'll teleport you to the cliffs with the gliders", I lit up with excitement just as she said that word. I loved the gliders, "The wailord has to surface to breathe at some point, so you can just fly down and dechip it while it's taking a breath".
"So what danger would a wailord pose anyway".
"Well, actually, more than you think. It has the strength to create tidal waves, which can do quite a bit of damage to the city".
"Alright than, I'll go get the gliders, they're in my apartment, and so is my equipment".
"Alright, bye". We waved to each other and I exited the office.
In my apartment, I grabbed the gliders and started to put on all my equipment. Terra was sleeping on my bed, and Dallin was watching me slip on my gliders.
'Why haven't I seen those before'?
'I use them on flight missions, they told me that it is better that I don't take you and Terra for those'.
'Why'?
'Easy, you can't fly. You'd be stuck on the sidelines only able to watch me'.
'Right', Dallin acknowledged.
I had all my equipment ready to go. My gliders seemed to be getting lighter and lighter the more I wore them. Half of it was that I was getting stronger, and the other half was the fact that the gliders were occasionally upgraded in a variety of ways, including weight.
I used the data-brace to open a portal. Being that I was within range with the organization's satellites, I was able to open a portal of my own.
'OK, bye Dallin. Tell Terra that I'm gone'. The portal opened and some wind came pouring into the apartment. I walked in and found myself in a familiar spot.
'SURPRISE'! Dallin jumped through the portal before I could close it, which it did close the second after.
'Dallin, what are you doing'?
'I wanted to see you fly'.
'Well, I can't argue with that. At least I'll have something to pet while I'm waiting for that wailord'. Dallin and I smiled at each other and than sat in the grass waiting for something to happen.
'Well, I hope you have patience'.
'Right now, I don't need any'.
We sat there for about ten minutes waiting for that wailord to surface but it didn't.
'So, Dallin, that first day I came home from the ACPFs, how did you and Terra become friends so fast'?
'She told me that we needed to protect you'.
'Protect me? Why would she say that'?
'She said you're the one from the prophecy, and she needed all the help she could get. After she didn't eat me, we realized that we weren't really all that different'.
'Isn't that sweet', I hugged Dallin tightly, 'but how were you two not different'?
Suddenly, something splashed against the cliff, causing water to climb all the way up the cliff.
'I don't think that was a normal wave. I think we have our wailord'. Dallin jumped off my lap and I slowly approached the edge of the cliff. I had never seen a normal whale on Earth, let alone here.
I looked over the edge when a white flash of light shot up in front of me and flew high in the air. As it paused in the air I could see that it wasn't white but silver, with blue spines on it's back. It flipped around in the air and than spiraled towards the ground. Without slowing down, it landed, shaking the ground like an earthquake. I looked at its long neck, its large wings, the light reflecting off of it's silver feathers.
It was Lugia, in all of his majesty. But something wasn't right, he had an empty look in his eyes. But after I checked the brace, I was paralyzed with fear. My worst terrors had come to life.
Lugia was chipped.