Author's Note: Welcome back and this is Chapter 2 of into Reality. I the random person from before (still preferred Marlon) that talks in the beginning trying to work out the brains of those that will read this passage and I hope everyone will enjoy the text. Other than that, Enjoy and please post your comments or questions below :)

*cue curtains* *lights dim*

Into Reality Ch. 2 - Engaged...

Last time: *flashback*

"Done, the last assignment is finally done!" I cried as I proudly announced the completion of my weekend homework. "Finally, I get to enjoy my weekend for once instead of doing homework that never seems to stop coming!"…

Getting serious, "So far I'm interested, but didn't we agree not to go wandering off alone. The last thing we need is one of us getting taken and treated like animals like the way Latria was" recalling the incident that occurred when Latria was captured and treated as a zoo animal while Brad (a.k.a. Lateon) spent endless time searching for her. I certainly emphasized on Raid's 'special' training that involved dodging rapid successive attacks from Raid and Latias that came from everywhere within an area Raid calls the 'target zone' or as I like to call it the 'kill zone', without a shield or any form of protection. 'Oh come on, lifting rocks isn't hard.' Eager to be able to spend time with me, Latias tried to get me to comply using what all Latias's do best… look cute. Like checking a jet before takeoff, I checked myself over and reviewed all the basics of flying. Then I checked my powers and made sure everything ran smoothly. After getting the okay from Raid, the trio cloaked themselves and began their accent towards the heavens to begin what is to be an interesting nighttime training run.

"_" Speech

'Telepathy'

(Thoughts/extra information)

*_* actions

Back to the present:

Date: 8-31-2012 (Friday)

Time: 10:30 p.m.

Location: Somewhere in the sky (35,000 feet and climbing at a rate of 300 miles per hour)

Situation: … all is quiet (not counting the wind rushing by)

As the trio continued their ascent to Raid's training zone, all remained quiet.

The three of us were in a tight triangle formation with Raid in front and me and Latias to the sides. Me and Latias drafted off Raid; We knew that taking lead was a tough job especially when the wind is in your face, both me and Latias tried switching places with Raid but he always declined saying, 'Don't worry about me, I can handle myself.' Even through Raid's words of bravery, both Latias and I knew it was just Raid being stubborn. Taking my mind off training and continuing my accent, I decided to take a look around and man was I mesmerized by what I saw. Everything seemed so peaceful as I saw all the lights below from all the cars and houses as they twinkled in the darkness and as I looked up the stars seemed to get brighter as I knew we were nearing our stop. It was all so amazing, I thought to myself, 'No matter how many times we do this, it's always amazing. To think this is all real, wow what a dream I never want to wake up from.' Everything was just so peaceful that nothing could spoil the mome….. *gets cut off short*

'We are climbin' to the heavens in the dark, we'll be climbin' so fast we'll see Spear Pillar, we are climbin' really fast….. uh, I can't keep going, guys, mind lending a paw?' Latias yelled into our heads while singing in chorus. Completely taken off guard, me and Raid broke formation and crashed into one another head on causing us to see too many stars. Latias came to a halt and just stared at what just happened using all her strength to keep herself from laughing. Not noticing Latias holding herself back, I regained control, and managed to say 'I'd help, but I'm just as lost as you are Latias.' *Both me and Latias look slowly at Raid simultaneously as he was still trying to clear his mind of the sudden outburst* 'Okay, that's creepy; I'm with Marlon on this one.' Feeling defeated, Latias puts on a pouty face seeing that her brother didn't even try to help. 'Now it's my turn to ask, why'd you have to yell that song into our head?' I asked. 'Well, it was too quiet and neither one of you two said anything so I decided to break the silence and get some friendly spirits going.' Latias telepathed with a cheery tone in her voice. Although I was a bit hurt from both the outburst and the collision, both Raid and I were in the forgiving mood (probably from Latias's cheery voice) and we both forgave her for her actions. Getting back into formation we continued our last 1,000 foot climb.

Off in the distance

Four F-22's screeched across the sky on afterburners about 20 minutes out from what is our "training ground". All four were in a tight diamond keeping distance from each other while ramming their engines to the max. They all were fully loaded from heat seeking missiles to the standard SAAM (Semi-Air-to-Air-Missile?) with an automatic 6 barrel machine gun equipped with explosive incendiary rounds, each that had a nasty taste of giving really big explosions. As the four made their way to their rendezvous point and eliminate any threats on sight. Each pilot was constantly questioning the reason they came all the way out here for since there were no 'visible' threats around as their commanders didn't debrief them on the mission ahead of time and were told that they'd be debriefed once they got to their rendezvous point. Puzzled but intent on completing the mission, the four pilots had over 300 successful missions under their belts with an ace ranking. Each pilot although confused, was intent on completing the mission regardless.

Back with the trio

After about an hour of constant climbing, mind one small interruption, we had finally reached our training ground. We chose to be so high up so that it would be near impossible to get a glimpse of us even with a high-powered telescope or thermal binoculars as the constant wind and clouds acted as a cover up protecting us from unwanted eyes.

After arriving Raid proceeded to get his Frisbee's ready and got one out of the bag and handed the bag to Latias.

'Let's take a minute or two to recover. I'll admit, that wasn't fun at all.' Latios said in his native language (i.e. through "Cooes").

I just rolled my eyes at the comment. (It's not like Latias or I didn't tell him so...) I chose to stay quiet to the comment but Latias had other ways of handling the situation.

'RAID I TOLD YOU SO! WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN TO EITHER MARLON OR I! I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO! *REPEATS*...'

What Raid did next didn't help his situation...

'LALALALALALALA, I can't hear you, LALALALALALALA...' *also repeats*

*volcano explodes in the background (cartoon style)*

(Robotic voice) Commence physical beat down… target locked… commence attack in 3..2..1..

'ATTACK!' both me and Latias yelled as Raid continued ignoring; We started ramming Raid with Steel wings as payback from ignoring us.

(DON'T EVER IGNORE ME OR LATIAS OR YOU'LL MEET OUR NOT SO FRIENDLY STEEL WINGS!)

Catching Raid once again off guard and taking the full blow of our steel wings. After 1 (hehehe or two) passes from the both of us, we felt that justice was served. Raid on the other hand, completely forgot about training and went from teacher to TRAINER mode… This scared me half to death since Raid is super tough when his mind's set on training. Raid started by grabbing both me and Latias with his psychic and gave me and not Latias a major headache (probably because he knew Latias wasn't completely responsible and he wouldn't hurt his own sister. The headache was so intense that I was on the verge of passing out from his attack alone but Raid knew better and let me go along with removing the headache (better known as the "Thought from Hell"). Acting like nothing happened, Raid proceeded to begin training. Grabbing my head and moaning from the pain I experienced just moments ago, I very slowly began to regain control although it was hard to focus and found it a bit hard just to remain floating. Both Latias and Raid lended me a "paw" and helped me get back "on my feet". It took a while and even after the pain went away, I still felt dizzy. Regardless, Raid said that this would help in training so I could practice a new type or unexpected turn of events in tonight's practice. Raid assumed his position about a quarter of a mile away along with Latias and prepared for the first round.

(To make things more understandable, all three of us will take part in this activity as we will each try to hit our target, a.k.a. the Frisbee) First up was me.

Recalling Robot, begin practice in 'Three…Two…One…Go' we all said.

Raid tossed the Frisbee hard in to the wind. I took a split second and tried to calculate the angle of my attack as well as counting all of nature's factors, from wind speed to turbulence, to distance before impact, etc. Once I thought I had a good shot, I charged a dragon pulse and with both hands I launched the attack straight into the target but despite all my effort, I still missed by a long shot, lowering my confidence off the back but quickly regained it as Latias said, "Don't worry, Latios is next and I doubt he could hit it… just kidding, I know you can do it bro." A sense of mischief in her voice as she said that but still had hope in all of us. "Thanks sis, alright…"

After I got the Frisbee back, I proceeded to throwing it away from Raid. I thought out loud, 'Alright Raid hit THIISSS!' I yelled as I threw the Frisbee as hard as I could straight into the wind just as Raid did before. Like me, Raid took a moment to figure out his angle of attack and as soon as that was done, unlike me, Raid launched a partially charged Luster Purge, but even with his efforts, he, just like me, missed except his was a bit closer than mines. A bit upset that he missed, Raid dismissed his anger as an unnecessary waste of time. Now it was Latias's turn. Latias was all pumped up to hit the target so she said, 'Stand back boys, now it's time to let the little sister show you how it's done. Watch and be amazed by my awesomeness …' a brief moment of silence.

Raid and I looked at each other. (Awesomeness really?)

Neither Raid nor I saw that one coming as we were both a bit surprised. Latias already knew what me and Raid were thinking and let out another outburst about how she had the right to say whatever she wanted (but it was more to me and Raid's amusement to see a cute Latias all frustrated but despite her efforts to be serious, still looked cute even through her outburst). Both me and Raid laugh at how cute Latias looked but that only made Latias continue her cute rampage.

I decided that this was getting nowhere and chose to stop the pointless argument and get back to training. Raid off course agreed while Latias took her time but eventually followed suit. Latias took her position and prepared herself a moderately charged Dragon Pulse. Raid was just about to throw the Frisbee when out of nowhere the four jets mentioned earlier screeched their way into 'our airspace'. Latias and I for one were taken back completely while Raid got all defensive. The four jets passed merely a mile out from our present positions and broke formation as we all heard one of the pilots say, "I think I know why we're here" (via quick mind reading).

Latias still holding her Dragon Pulse launched it with all her might at the one of the jets that were still in formation. To her dismay she missed slightly as the jet evaded with a quick accent while on afterburners. Although she missed the Dragon Pulse made a huge explosion as one of the jets was almost thrown from its flight path. Even with all the noise from the jets flying around me and Raid still looked over to Latias in disbelief that she caused such a huge explosion without a fully charged Dragon Pulse. Latias however, simply blushed from the stares but quickly changed the subject to the present threat at hand, 'Raid, now's not the time for this, I'd love to show off some more but let's focus and work together.'

Raid quickly agreed and strategized a plan of attack, 'All of us split up and attack from behind, their moving too fast so psychic isn't the best option so stick to distance attacks. We don't know their objectives but let's stick to defensive tactics. If they fire at any one of us, retaliate. Don't second guess, just go for the shot.'

Each of us spit off into different directions in an attempt to diverge attention. Raid continued discussing his battle plan, 'We're outnumbered so watch your back, they might not be able to lock onto us since we may be too small for their radars to track but be careful.' Following the orders given, all three of us began pursuit of the enemy.

I was the first to engage one of the pilots so I quickly charged my own Luster Purge. My body began to glow and a quick glance over and I saw Latias doing the same except she was using her Dragon Pulse again. Once I was charged and ready to let hell rein, I warned my friends of the oncoming attack since Luster purge causes a blinding light to occur around the surrounding area. (Not such a smart move since I'm actually attracting attention now from the ground since people on the ground can see a ball of glowing light but I was thinking too fast to care). I took my aim and proceeded to release all the stored energy from the front of my mouth. A small white/ purple orb began to form in front of me which quickly grew and simultaneously I launched my attack. The launched Luster Purge sent a powerful stream of psychic energy flying towards the jet but this pilot had skill. At the last second he pulled back on the joystick and cut his engines causing his jet roll backwards while moving forward. The maneuver caused his jet to fly right over me as I saw the pilot in his seat as I felt a sense of power come to him as now he was in the perfect position to take a shot at me. I had no idea an F-22 had this much maneuverability hidden in it?

'AHHHHH! Great I've been locked' I cursed under my breath as now I was the one fighting for survival as I dove in and out and banked hard left to right. But no matter what I did this pilot wasn't letting me out of his sight. I was on the verge of panicking as I quickly read his mind for his next move, "Good bye winged beast from hell." The pilot removed the safety and began shooting his machinegun showering the sky with tracers and leaving me no room to escape as he had all routes taken. Now I was in trouble.

To be continued…..

Great, is this how I wanted to leave the world of the living, getting shot at by my own countries weapons... *sighs*... *turns to the audience* Life's wonderful isn't it.. I guess I should say by goodbyes to Latios and Latias...

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