Author's Notes: Wow, it's late. But I really had to get this chapter out. It was fun to write. I've been waiting to write this chapter for a while. Wow, not much of a description.

BFoS: I'll answer your issue at the after the chapter. Don't skip ahead :) Most of what you don't know will be explained in the chapter. Also, the flight missions are your favorite things to picture? What about the other things... JUST KIDDING.

Oh, right, and the Latias in this fic, is in no way associated with the one in Dependency.

Chapter 26

'What is going on here!?'

'Let me start from the beginning. I was with Latios, and we were all alone. As we were flying I saw a strange orb come up from behind Latios.'

'The rocket orb.'

'Is that what they're called? Anyway, I tried to warn him but I wasn't fast enough. The orb moved quicker than I could see and before I knew it, Latios was chipped. He was about to attack me, but I flew. I flew away as far as I could. As I was flying, those orbs chased after me. Let me show you'. I suddenly felt a strange feeling in my head. Something was digging through my thoughts, until I suddenly saw an image that looked so real, it looked like it was actually happening.

I was flying over an ocean, faster than I could see. It felt unbelievable. But I was suddenly struck with fear as I looked over my shoulder to find hundreds, no, thousands of rocket orbs right behind us.

I was suddenly pulled out of the vision and found myself back in the cabin.

'I tried to out fly them, but I couldn't. So I hid here, in the mountains. They didn't dare come close to here so I was safe, finally. When I searched the mountains, I finally found this place. All I needed to do was show them a note that I needed you, and here you are. So, I need to know, will you help me.'

It was going to be dangerous, and it was going to be difficult, but it was Latias. One of my favorite pokemon is asking me for help.

'Aw, thanks,' Latias said shyly. She heard me, oops.

'I'll do it.'

'THANK YOU!' She suddenly hugged me and lifted me off the ground. Thank god Terra wasn't here or she'd really get angry.

'So, where's Latios?'

'Oh, I'd say about two hundred maybe three hundred kilometers away from here.' My jaw dropped.

'THREE HUNDRED KILOMETERS!? Wow, you certainly wanted to get away.'

'Right.'

'Ok., so what now. Oh, I'll contact Karen to locate Latios.'

'No need, me and Latios share a bond, good enough that we know where we both are, always. And don't worry about Karen, I'll just fly you there myself.'

'What?'

'Don't worry, at my speed, it'll only take us 20 minutes.'

'Can you support my wait.'

'Sure, it won't be hard.' She gave me a hard pat on the back that almost knocked me over.

'Right, so let me get all of my jackets back on and let's go.'

'Once again, no need. We're flying way south. Here, let me show you, something.' She flew beside the door, 'open the door.'

'I wouldn't want to waste the heat here.'

'Don't worry, you won't.'

'OK,' I said nervously. I walked towards the door and put hand on the knob. I turned the knob and opened the door wide open. Nothing.

I suddenly saw a light aura surrounding me and Latias. Safe Guard.

'No way, that's awesome!'

'Get the gliders.' I ran to get the gliders and slipped them on. I grabbed the EMDACs out of my jacket. 'Now step outside.' Without pause I stepped outside, with Latias. I could feel the snow under my feet, but the bubble kept the heat in. I felt no wind and no snow. It was working brilliantly. I closed the door behind me.

'This is amazing. Ok, I'm ready to do this. Let's go!' I could see the excitement in her eyes. I jumped onto her back. Her feathers felt warm and soft, but now wasn't the time to relax. She shrunk the safe guard around us, and flew off the ground. I could still feel the warmth of the cabin, still inside the bubble.

I suddenly felt a slight g-force as we suddenly started moving. My mind was suddenly filled with thoughts of falling off Latias, being tossed to the ground, or just basically thought about flying as fast as a jet with no protection. I closed my eyes and tried to relax.

'Calm down, you'll be fine with me.' I smiled but kept my eyes closed, I wasn't sure if I was ready for this. But I remembered how much fun I had riding Jess, and the rush of adrenaline I had when I was combating with Lugia.

Five minutes had past and I was still trying to gather myself. I was trying to figure out how I was going to dechip Latios. Everything seemed calm. I wondered how fast we were actually going.

'Nick?'

'Yes?'

'Open your eyes.' I opened my eyes and found Latias and I were flying at max speed; nearly 400 kph.

"HOLY-!!!"

'This isn't near as fast as I can go.'

'Really!? Wow.'

'Nick, lean down. Try and get aerodynamic with my body. I'm going to drop the safe guard.'

'WHAT!?'

'Trust me. We've flown about 150 kilometers south now. The air should be warmer. I'm unable to keep the safe guard for much longer. Now, lean down and brace yourself.'

I did as she said. I laid my body as flat as I could onto her back, but she wasn't the appropriate size to do so. My feet were pretty much hanging off the back of her.

'You ready?'

I sighed, 'Yes.'

'OK, 3,' I tightly gripped her wings, '2,' I tightened my muscles, '1,' I closed my eyes.

'NOW!' Suddenly a burst of air flew over me. My hair was flying wildly from left to right. I felt the wind almost shove me off of Latias. I was only being held up by my hands holding onto Latias' hands for dear life.

I pulled as hard as I could, against the wind. I was finally able to pull myself up Latias' back and I wrapped my arms around her neck.

'Are you ok?' Latias said in an absolute normal tone. I was half out of breath from trying to pull myself up and half out of breath from hyperventilating.

'Ya, I'm ok.' I kept myself against Latias' body. I didn't want to be tossed off by the wind.

'Don't worry, we'll be there in only thirty minutes or so at this speed. Just rela- Nick, we've got a problem!' Her voice sounded urgent. She sounded scared.

'What?'

'Look behind you.' I tried to look over my shoulder without having my head ripped off by the wind. I maneuvered my head and looked in shock. The rocket orbs, hundreds of them, right behind us.

"Oh god." They were catching up to us at a speed I couldn't comprehend. I pulled out the EMDACs.

'Don't worry Latias. You keep flying, I've got your back.

My talent had increased dramatically with EMDACs as I used them to take out the orbs. They have become a target practice of sorts. With all the use I got out of the EMDACs they only took a mere second to charge.

I kept one arm around Latias' neck and fired rounds at the orbs as they caught up. As I fired I could see some of them trail off and explode in the distance. None the less they were catching up. One EMDAC wasn't going to do enough, so I had to get out the other.

I wrapped one arm around Latias' neck and used the other to get the EMDAC out. After I finally got it out, I slowly turned around on Latias' back. Within 15 seconds, we were back to back. I lodged my arms under Latias' wings to hold myself in place.

As soon as I was ready, I started firing more rounds at the orbs. I could see that the cloud was starting to disintegrate but it still wasn't enough.

I could here Latias whimper as the orbs started to catch up.

'Don't worry Latias, I have you covered.'

Aiming was hard under Latias' wings but I managed to get most of the orbs out of the sky. Suddenly the orbs came to a full halt and soon they were out of sight. What were they doing?

'NICK!?'

'What!?'

'Look ahead!' I turned around and looked forward. About a kilometer in front of us was a gigantic cloud of orbs. They were going to intercept us. I looked at my gliders I had on and came up with an idea.

'Latias, when I say now, put up a safeguard that covers right in front of us. When you do that, go as fast as you can. Alright?'

'OK!' The cloud of orbs was fast approaching. '3,' I leaned forward and put my head right over Latias'. '2,' the orbs were getting closer by the second. '1,' my heart was beating like crazy, but I had a plan.

"NOW!" I opened the gliders and they spread, fitting perfectly between Latias' wings and even her ears. We shot down and rose from the loss in aerodynamics. Latias opened the safeguard that blanketed the gliders perfectly flat, while the other half went perfectly straight below her.

Latias took off with a burst of speed, and entered the cloud of rocket orbs. The rocket orbs exploded on contact with the safeguard. We burst through a nonstop series of small explosions as we shot through the cloud like an arrowhead. We were going so fast that I could see the point of the safeguard glowing like the tip of a meteorite. It was amazing, we burst through probably a few hundred orbs.

The explosions finally stopped. I looked behind us to see a cloud of rubble and smoke as we obliterated the orbs. I put a smirk on my face and closed the gliders. Exhausted, Latias removed the safeguard and slowed down. The orbs weren't chasing us anymore so we were safe.

I gently stroked Latias on the back of the head, 'You did good, Latias, you did good.'

Author's Notes: You don't know how hard it was to resist making Nick love Latias instantly and vice versa. As Latias is one of my favorite pokemon, as you can see in Dependency, it's really hard to resist loving her :D

BFoS: Lemme explain the talking thing from the beginning. Because this story is placed in the first person, everything is based on what Nick thought happened, and not actually what did. That's why I always write things in the first person, it makes things easier to imagine and it makes things more exciting. Anyways, Nick thought that Latias was talking because he thought she was a human and couldn't tell whether he was being talked to or thought to. Latias was looking out the window the whole time so that means that Nick couldn't tell that she was actually thinking and not talking. Thanks again for the good review.