Five – Remains of Morning

Previously on the last chapter:
C and Ava are on foot on a land they never set foot on. After finding a sight on a cliff at high noon, he and Ava almost get shot by a dart from a sniper, hiding in the forest they were earlier. After a while, he sees a soldier hiding on the cliff with a Graveler. This is when C realizes he's being double teamed this time of day, but not realizing that Ava has nothing to do with this. He having to die at an early age gave him a disadvantage on type strategies, shown that he's having difficulties on his battle strategies.

None of this would've happened if the General hadn't given the briefing on C earlier that day.

Last action:
Damn it C thought what the hell do I do?

"Graveler: rollout!" The Graveler jumped forward into a ball form. He rushed toward C, he jumping out of the way. Another dart is shot, missing again. This is not helping thought C.

I wish I could help somehow… thought Ava.

"Hey, Ava," said C; Ava looked at him, missing moves," it would help if you can do a move…"

I guess I could do that… "O-ok." She looks at the three, "Who do I attack?"

"Try the Graveler." He dodges the Graveler, using rollout again. It seemed to get faster and stronger because it was digging into the ground.

So the kid can talk to the Pokémon? The soldier thought.

Ava looked at the Graveler, moving at high speeds. She tried to get her aim right, ready to use Ice Beam. She uses the move, but misses from a far range. The beam was long enough to hit the sniper she forgot about.

"Oh crap…" the sniper said, almost getting hit by the Ice Beam, "Time to hit ground." He quietly climbs down to the ground, careful that he's not seen. He drops down, getting in sniping position. He puts in another dart in the rifle, putting on the heater again. He also turned on the Red Sight. Instead of aiming at C, he starts to aim at Ava. "Let's see if this makes a difference…"

Ava tries to get her aim right again, until a red light. She sees that it's moving on to her head, then looks at where it's coming from: the forest. She jumps back, seeing that the dart is shot; the dart heated up again.

"Ava!" yelled out C, "you alright?"

"Yeah," she responded," just that the sniper went down the ground."

The man C is struggling with clicks on his mic," Hey, keep your guard up; they know you went down."

"Damn, alright." The sniper responded.

"What the hell is in the dart anyway?" C yelled out, still dodging the Graveler.

"Can't tell ya," responded the soldier. Oh really? Thought C.

"Hey Ava," yelled out C.

"What?" she responded.

"Try to get the Graveler, I'm gonna try out somethin'."

"Right now," Ava started," is a bad time to try out anything."

"Just hurry up, we don't have that much time!"

"Alright…" She started to aim at the Graveler, finding a good aim.

C jumps behind Ava, now seeing that the Graveler is now rolling fast toward Ava.

She gets ready, draws a breath, and blows out an Ice Beam. The Graveler is still rolling at high speeds, but it is barely moving at all. She tries to power up the Ice Beam; the Graveler now not moving at all.

"Alright, just a little more…" yelled out C. He was looking out into the forest, seeing if the sniper will pull the trigger.

The sniper is now aiming at the Glaceon, not knowing about her name.

Getting her out… thought the sniper …should make it easier to get the boy…

He pulls the trigger, hoping that the Glaceon would be one less of trouble.

"Ok, here we go…" said C in a low voice. He barely jumped over to carefully catch the dart, not to get hit by the needle. He caught the dark, the needle almost stabbing the hand. "Holy crap…" he said. He threw the dart at the Graveler quickly for the dart was heated up; the Graveler getting slower.

Ava lets go of the Ice Beam, seeing if the dart does anything. The Graveler stops rolling, revealing that it is partly frozen. It falls to the floor, not able to do anything; Graveler's knocked out.

"Is it not knocked out?" asked Ava.

"I don't know," answered C, "probably. Focus on the other soldier."

The soldier clicked on his mic twice. C didn't know what that meant; he didn't know that the sniper left on the second click. The soldier took out a Poké Ball, the top half colored in black, and clicked on the button. The Graveler started to glow red, so did the button. A strange red light started to retract to the ball, the Graveler possibly in the light. When the light completely retracted, the Poké Ball decreased in size, to the size of a regular golf ball.

The soldier put up the Poké Ball, and dropped from the cliff.

C and Ava looked over the cliff, seeing if he makes it alive. The soldier carefully stepping on the rocks doesn't seem scared at all. On his 5th stepping stone, he jumped back, jumping about 12 yards high. He lands safely, almost falling down, and then starts running away. He takes out a Poké Ball and throws it on the grass. A Pigeot comes out, the ball coming back to his hand, and jumps on it. He flies away, looking at the group.

"This is your first encounter," the soldier yelled, "be ready to be in more encounters…" After that, he disappeared.

C looked at the other darts that weren't burnt up. He picked one up, seeing that it is red. The other darts that were burnt were in a brighter red. The dart he picked up had some sort of glass on the side of it, probably the liquid chemicals of the dart. The glass wasn't in any color, so he could see the color of the chemical; a clear yellow.

"Hey, C," said Ava. C looked back at Ava.

"What?" he asked.

"What was that ball thing that the man had?" she asked.

"I don't know much before I died," C started," but as far as I know, that's a Poké Ball. I think…they are used for catching Pokémon…"

"Catching Pokémon?"

"Yeah, I think so… That was as much as I know when I was seven. I didn't learn anything else when I was dead for seven years."

"Oh…"

"Yeah, but this adventure is gonna take a while…so we'll learn more about those things…"

"Ok."

"I'm a little tired from all of the conflict this morning," C sat down in front of the cliff, "We'll just rest here for a while…that alright for you?"

"Yeah," answered Ava, "I actually never went to a battle before…with the exception of yesterday…"

"Alright… let's just enjoy the view before we leave."

30 minutes later…

"He knows a lot for being a young teen."

"What makes you say that?"

"He knocked out the Graveler with the tranquilizer darts, knew about the sniper…"

"Alright… then he's more trouble than he's worth…"

"I don't know about that…"

"You don't know what I'm talking about; just quiet down."

"Alright sir."

"Why the hell are you still here? Dismiss."

"Yes sir." The man walked out of the office.

"Alright, so the kid can do more than what he could do seven years ago… I've got to think this out…" He looks at the clock on the wall: noon. "I'll think it over during lunch." He walks out of the room, now on break.