Chapter 31

2 months later

Ever since the day I had eliminated that plant, things have become surprisingly quiet... for my life at least. Reports of chipped pokemon slowed a few weeks after I destroyed plant number one. I knew that the rockets had gotten angry, but they seemed awfully quiet about it.

Terra was really sad about missing all the action. She missed the outdoors, but she knew that she couldn't do a thing until that cyndaquil was born. I was looking forward to it and so was Terra, but we felt like we were waiting for an eternity to come to an end.

It was late winter, the ocean had frozen over, and the city was covered in snow. All the pokemon in town had a different way to react to this. The bird pokemon hated the cold, so they all migrated south, or just stayed inside with their 'owners.' A lot of the pokemon just coped with the weather like it was nothing. Water pokemon disliked not having any water to swim in and the ice pokemon felt right at home. And as for the fire pokemon, they didn't care as the snow would just melt on contact with their bodies.

As boring as the day was, I had a reason to celebrate. It was my birthday, I was 16 years old as of that day. Ever since the day I had first come to Chokoto, I had been keeping track of the days, so I could pinpoint the exact day of my birthday. As excited as I was, memories of my family had come flying in my head. I missed them, a lot, but there was no way for me to get back to Earth, well at least not yet.

It was another lazy day in the apartment. I was eating lunch, as Dallin and Terra ate with me. The snow delicately fell over the city, making a view of pure white from the apartment window. We haven't had a report of any chipped pokemon in about two weeks. I found it rather funny that these missions pumped me with fear, yet once they were gone my life felt so much more boring.

'Nick,' Dallin groaned 'When is something going to happen. I can't take this much longer.'

'I don't know! I'm getting just as impatient here. But I suppose that we should be happy that we eliminated one of the Alpha plants.'

'I guess you're right.'

We continued to eat when suddenly the phone rang. I walked over and turned it on.

"Hello-"

"NICK!! GET UP HERE NOW!!" Karen sounded hysterical.

'Yes,' Dallin said.

"And bring the gliders."

'DAMN!' Dallin really wanted to go.

"Sorry Dallin, I promise, I'll take you out somewhere or something for exercise." I grabbed the gliders, my protection, the EMDACs ,and my outdoor clothing, and went to Karen's office.

I opened the door to Karen's office. "Karen, what's going on-"

"NO time to explain!" She was smashing the keys on her computer, and looking insane at the same time. "Just get your equipment on, hurry, hurry!" I put on all of my stuff withing five minutes as Karen tried to explain what was going on. "We've found four huge energy signals, heading towards town."

"How many of them are chipped?"

"Three!"

"THREE!? Were you able to identify them?"

"No time to, but we know that they're going to do massive damage if they get here, soon. Are you ready?"

"Yes."

"OK, gogogogogo!" She opened the portal and practically pushed me in. Within seconds, the portal closed and I was left to observe my surroundings. I was in the middle of the ocean, standing on top of a thick layer of ice. The sky was shrouded with clouds but it wasn't snowing out here. Because the ground was flat, the wind blew at high speeds, causing a vicious wind chill.

I felt so alone their, but I knew there was a presence... somewhere. Off in the distance, I could see the cliffs off the edge of the city. Well at least I wasn't to far from Chokoto. All I had to do now, was wait for whatever was chipped to come.

Suddenly, a deafening screech filled the air. Was it a chip being activated? I covered my ears, and the sound became muffled.

'Well, at least there isn't a forth chipped pokemon, but that still doesn't solve the problem of finding whatever's chipped. What was that sound anyway?'

I looked over my shoulder to find a ray of blue light fast approaching. I dived out of the way, and avoided the beam, that froze the ground on contact. I looked in the direction of which the beam came from to see chipped pokemon number one: Articuno.

It screeched into the air, with a loud cold screech. "ARTICUNO!? Wait where's-" I looked to my right to find Zapdos, talons bearing and closing in. I ducked and dodged the being snagged off the ground. "Oh, you've got to be kidding-" Moltres let out a burst of flames behind me as I narrowly jumped forwards.

'Great, they were fighting each other last time, and now they're fighting me.' I watched them circle over head. I had to face the facts, and figure out how I was going to do this... How was I going to do this.

'There's nothing to get leverage off of, so I can't dive off anything. I can't simply jump onto the birds, they'd kill me on impact. Dallin and Terra aren't here so they can't help. There can't be any organization members within range. I was alone for a battle I could not fight. What was I going to do.' I couldn't do this alone, I needed backup. Suddenly the perfect backup came to mind

'I wish Lugia was here.'

Suddenly, something burst out from under the ice behind me. I swung around and saw a familiar blur fly over me. He slowly came down and landed gently in front of me.

Lugia, in all his majesty, was standing right in front of me. 'You called?'