I know I kept you all in suspense after the last chapter, but here's what happens! Please enjoy and review!
"What the?" Infernape said in surprise, trying to see who dared interrupt his and Lopunny's moment.
"Princess Lopunny! Oh, and Lord Infernape as well? What has happened here?" It was a group of Mightyena guards, trained by Luxray himself. No sooner than the guard who asked the question did a large and powerful Hyper Beam was shot at the entire group. Infernape was able to grab Lopunny and leap out of the way, but the still-bewildered guards weren't so lucky. They took a direct hit and all fell soundlessly to the ground.
"What? How could they have fallen so easily? They were trained by Luxray!" Lopunny asked.
"That is because they were all pathetic!" a voice answered from the cloud of dust. The owner of the voice was an Aerodactyl.
"Explain yourself! What are you doing in here?" Infernape demanded.
"You are in no position to make demands, fool. I believe I should be telling you what to do. Give me the princess, now." Aerodactyl growled.
"Never! If you want to get to her, you have to get through me first!" Infernape yelled, blocking the Aereodactyl's path to Lopunny.
"So be it. Prepare to die!" Aerodactyl warned. "Giga Impact!" he cried. With a large form of energy blazing around him, he flew at Infernape with a high speed that Infernape, with all his speed, could barely manage to dodge the attack, and it grazed his side.
Infernape then jumped onto Aerodactyl's back. Since Giga Impact was a move that caused a Pokemon to be unable to use moves quickly, Aerodactyl could barely react. Besides, Infernape had a new move that he was dying to try out anyway.
"Blast Burn!" he cried, using a recently-learned move. He formed a flame of blue fire in his mouth and released onto Aerodactyl. The flame quickly spread on a wide ring around Aerodatcyl's back. Although Aerodactyl was powerful and had a type-advantage, even it could not escape Blast Burn at close range.
"Aawk!" it screeched, and fell to the ground with some serious burns. Infernape quickly took Lopunny's hand and ran out of her room.
"We've got to wake up the others, right now!" Lopunny said. However, that was unnecessary, since all the other Team Majesta members were filing out of their rooms as they ran, joining them along the way. To Infernape's surprise, Team Valor's members were right behind Team Majesta as they ran out.
"Somehow, I don't want to know what you guys were doing in the rooms of your girlfriends." Infernape called over his shoulder.
"They weren't doing anything! Luxray and I were just talking!" Ninetales argued.
"Enough about that, what happened?" Machamp asked.
"Lopunny and I were interrupted by an Aerodactyl that was after Lopunny herself. However, I managed to knock it out with a Blast Burn at close range." Infernape explained.
"Interesting. What could they possibly want with Lopunny? Could it be a regular ransom kidnapping?" Medicham wondered.
"I doubt it. The Aerodactyl that attacked… I left this part out because I didn't want to worry you, but… with one Hyper Beam, it knocked out the Mightyena guards that Luxray personally trained." Infernape said.
"What? I trained those guards to be some of the best there are! It was that powerful?" Luxray said.
"It looks like it. We are going to have to protect Lopunny really well if we need to." Roserade said.
"I'm afraid that would be pointless." a voice said as they neared the gate. It made the twelve Pokemon stop right in their tracks. There was a group of powerful-looking Pokemon near the door. They were Electivire, Magmortar, Yanmega, Rhyperior, Ursaring, and Tangrowth.
"What do you want?" Drapion growled, beginning to power up his Cross Poison/X-Scissor/Poison Jab/Sludge Bomb combination form.
"Nothing. Just Team Majesta!" Rhyperior laughed. Then he charged up an attack. "Hammer Arm!" He quickly ran up to Medicham with this deadly attack. However, he did not count on Machamp's interference.
"Dynamic Punch!" Machamp yelled. He took the Hammer Arm with ease, and then punched Rhyperior on the stomach. The super-effective move caused Rhyperior quite a lot of pain, but Machamp wasted no time, finishing Rhyperior off with a Revenge attack, which was made twice as powerful due to the pain from Hammer Arm.
"That Machamp's strength is impressive." Magmortar observed. "But it's my turn! Fire Punch!" His fist was charged up with fire and he charged towards Lopunny herself. Infernape didn't allow this, however.
"Close Combat into Flare Blitz!" Infernape commanded. It was a risky move, seeing as how he hadn't perfected the combination yet, but he would do anything to protect Lopunny and keep the promise that he had made to her parents ever so long ago as a Chimchar. He went into a series of punches and kicks, and was able to gain distance with the second-to-last move, seeing how Magmortar had a large enough belly for Infernape to kick right off of. He finished Magmortar off with a powerful Flare Blitz.
"Nice, but you end here! Thunder Punch!" Electivire yelled. He charged up a punch aimed for Ninetales, but Luxray saw to it that he didn't make it to her.
"Crunch!" Luxray commanded, and he bit down hard on Electivire. Luxray was actually an excellent battle tactician, and he had studied up a lot on other species of Pokemon to produce counter-strategies. Therefore, he knew about Electivire's Motor Drive ability, so he refrained from using Electric-type attacks, as they would boost Electivire's speed. He then used Swagger to raise Electivire's attack, but confuse him as well. A few Crunches helped lower Electivire's defense. Due to the Confusion ability of Swagger, every time Electivire and attacked himself, he would suffer significant damage because of the lowered defense and raised attack. This strategy, along with the damage from Luxray's Crunch, soon tipped Electivire past his limit, and he was knocked out.
"Sonicboom!" Yanmega was the next to attack. Being the only Flying-Type Pokemon, it was ideal that he would aim for Swellow. It was also ideal that Staraptor would stop him.
"Aerial Ace!" he used this attack to boost his speed, first to get Swellow out of the way of Sonicboom, then instantly whirl into the extreme pain of Yanmega. Yanmega's Speed Boost ability didn't help much either, since no matter how fast Yanmega was, Staraptor always managed to use Aerial Ace to dodge any attacks and then cause super-effective damage to the Bug-Type. Using this strategy, he was able to easily knock Yanmega out.
"Focus Punch!" Ursaring yelled. Apparently, he was tired of his comrades' weak attacks, and was pulling out all the stops. Then he did something surprising-he was first enemy to use a combination. "Slash!" It was pretty smart, for while he charged up Focus Punch as a follow-up in case Slash failed, Slash alone was still powerful enough to knock his target-Kricketune. But not if her self-proclaimed protector had anything to say about it!
Drapion had his combination all ready. When he saw Ursaring charging towards Kricketune, he immediately reacted, using his speed to catch Ursaring off-guard. It worked, but Ursaring got out of his surprise quickly enough to use Slash on Drapion, which was blocked by the X-Scissor and Cross Poison claws of the Ogre Scorp Pokemon. However, Ursaring still had Focus Punch, and pounded down on Drapion. Fortunately, Drapion still had his Poison Jab and Sludge Bomb combination on his tail, and thrust this tail upward to meet the punch. The deadly poison in the tail wasn't enough to completely stop the punch, but it was enough to cancel out all of the energy in Focus Punch.
Therefore, when Ursaring was able to punch Drapion, stupidly thinking that he still had Focus Punch at full power, he was shocked when his punch was virtually ineffective against Drapion's super-tough armor. Also, the ridges on Drapion's armor, which Drapion had honed to a fine edge, had caused damage to Ursaring equal to that a Sharpedo's Rough Skin.
"Cross Poison!" Drapion was using a move that had the highest chance of one-hit KO. This was because Cross Poison had a high critical-hit rate, and with the Scope Lens that Drapion was wearing, that critical-hit rate was boosted even more. Not only that, Drapion's Sniper ability caused extra damage whenever he landed a critical hit. Fortunately, it worked, and Ursaring was knocked out nearly as easily as his comrades.
Tangrowth was targeting Roserade with Power Whip. However, Abomasnow blocked it with his Frozen Wood Hammer combination. He then used his most powerful attack, an all-out Blizzard. For the poor Tangrowth, it was over too quickly.
"That's it? I though that it would be tougher than this." Drapion said. He was right. A shriek from Lopunny alerted their attention to her-and to an alarming sight. A Dusknoir had grabbed the entire Team Majesta, who were struggling in vain.
"No! What are you doing to them? Let them go immediately!" Infernape yelled in anger.
"Why would I? Kidnapping your beloveds was the objective from the very beginning." Dusknoir hissed.
"What are you after?" Luxray yelled as furiously as Infernape.
"If you ever want to see your loved ones again, you will come to the Kingdom of Zarton immediately." Dusknoir replied.
"Like we'll let you go! Brave Bird!" Staraptor cried. Unfortunately, he was quickly intercepted.
"Weavile! Sableye! Attack!" Dusknoir ordered. A powerful Icy Wind from a group of Weavile from behind Team Valor knocked canceled out the Brave Bird and knocked out the Flying-Type as quickly as possible. Caught completely by surprise, Team Valor had no time to react, especially with the speed of the new opponents. Infernape, Luxray, Machamp, and Abomasnow were swarmed by a large group of Sableye using Shadow Claw. Drapion, being resistant to Shadow Claw, was taken out by the Weavile using Metal Claw. They were actually nimble enough to reach under Drapion's armor and get to the softer skin underneath, so Drapion suffered huge damage. All of them were knocked out after some time.
"Pick up the others and let's go." Dusknoir commanded. The Weavile quickly lifted up the fallen Pokemon that Team Valor had beaten, while the Sableye ran into Lopunny's room and picked up Aerodactyl.
"You won't get away with this!" Kricketune screamed.
Dusknoir laughed. "We already have. Shadow Sneak!" Dragging Team Majesta with him, Dusknoir melted into the shadows and left in the night, with the Sableye and Weavile following his shadow.
Later…
King Lucario was sitting in Team Valor's room, waiting for them to wake up. Some guards had heard the commotion and rushed to the scene, but by the time they got there, all they found was Team Valor, all knocked out. After having their wounds treated by the Head Nurse Blissey, all Team valor needed was some rest, and Infernape had enough, as he was the first one to wake up.
Upon seeing King Lucario's face, Infernape opened his eyes wide. "Y-your Majesty! Please forgive me!" he stammered.
"I am well aware of what happened, Infernape." The king said seriously. Infernape hung his head in shame. "And I am very…impressed with you." At this Infernape looked up in surprise.
"But sir! I failed. I failed in upholding the promise I made to you and myself. I failed in protecting the one I care about most in this world. I failed to protect the one whom I loved, and the one who trusted me! I failed in protecting YOUR DAUGHTER!" Infernape cried.
"Stop beating yourself up. You were only beaten because you were tired. There's no shame in losing to an enemy when you are in that condition and the enemy numbers vastly outnumber yours." Lucario replied.
Continuing, he said, "Infernape…can I let you in on a secret? There is a reason that the queen and I chose you to be one of our daughter's options to marry. It is because we trust you above all. It was not surprising when, yesterday night, she came up to us and said, 'Infernape is the one I want to marry!' We didn't mind at all. She clearly loved you as much as you seem to love her. This goes without asking, but you will, go to the Kingdom of Zarton to go rescue Lopunny, correct?"
Infernape saluted. "Yes, my lord. As I have sworn to protect Lopunny ever so long ago, I will now swear to save her!" Just then, the other Team Valor members rose.
"Your Majesty, we heard the entire conversation. And as our leader swore to save Lopunny, we swear as well to save the others of Team Majesta." Luxray said.
Staraptor, seeing Infernape's doubtful look, "Look, Infernape, you can't do this alone. Besides, did you really think we would let you go alone anyway? We've been friends for a long time, and friends help each other."
"We will work together forever, no matter what happens!" Abomasnow rumbled.
"Thank you." Infernape said.
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