CHAPTER 5
Once they got in the storage place in the airplane, Scepter noticed that there were two doors right at the end of the room, one said "Pokemon" while the other said "EXIT". Evina noticed the signs too and quickly, with some effort with a broomstick and no opposable thumbs, plus the nasty burn that made it hard to even move, opened the door to see that it was a cold, metal room with shelves and shelves of Pokeballs of all kind: Pokeballs, Ultraballs, Love Balls, and even Master Balls! While Evina and Emmy were surprised at how many of these contraptions were in here, Scepter had a different view.
"They're all imprisoned!" he said as he looked at the Pokeballs as if he were looking at a slaughterhouse, "They could be suffocating in there! I could only imagine how airtight it must be! We gotta bring some of them out!"
"They're not suffocating," Emmy said, "in fact, Pokeballs are very comfortable, negate any afflictions (except Poison) from hurting you, and some have air conditioning!"
That did not stop Scepter from climbing up to one of the shelves and picking up one of the Pokeballs, trying to figure out how to open them.
"How do they even escape out of here?" Scepter said as he went from shaking it to looking at it with one eye open to inspect any cracks he could open up. He accidentally dropped the one he was holding, and it fell to the ground with a metallic "clang". All of a sudden, the ball opened up, shot out some white light that soon formed into a Raichu, and a confused one at that.
"Nicholas?" he said as he looked around, "Nicholas? Where are you, master?"
Emmy smiled at the thought of another Electric-type with them. She scuttled over to the big electric mouse and introduced herself, "Hi there! My name is Emmy. I'm an Emonga, and you must be a Raichu, am I right?"
The Raichu looked at her with a little surprise, "Um, yeah. Do you belong to trainers, too?"
"Oh no," Emmy said, "we're wild Pokemon, but we're on this trip to go to Isshu!"
"Isshu, huh?" the Raichu said as he nodded, "Well, I guess that's where I'm going, too."
"Do you have a name?" Emmy asked.
"Um…Nicholas just calls me Raichu, but before I was captured as a Pikachu my family used to call me Spark. I guess that's what you could call me." Spark said, "Now, where is Nicholas?"
"I'm sure your trainer is still here, Spark. This must be one of those fancy luxury flights that don't allow Pokemon on the main flights or something. Don't worry, Nicholas hasn't abandoned you!" Emmy explained, but at the thought at being abandoned caused her to be a little sad again, "I hope you're never abandoned…"
Spark looked behind him at Evina, who now looked like she was about to fall asleep, her eyes were glazed, her body twitching occasionally, and her breathing shallow.
"Sweet Arceus! Is she alright?" Spark said as he ran over to the injured Tsutarja.
"We had a little run in with a Houndour before we came here," Scepter said, "I don't know how to heal her, and at this rate, she's probably going to die!"
"Wait! I think I may have something in my Pokeball that Nicholas wanted me to hold for when I'm burned!" he ran to his opened Pokeball and pulled out a Rawst Berry, then he ran back and gave it to Evina, "Eat this, it's fresh, and it'll completely heal your burn in a matter of minutes!"
Evina did what she was told, and she soon felt a cool relief on her chest, as if water was poured on the burn. She felt a lot better, but still a little weak, "Do…do you have any Oran Berries?"
"No, I don't, but…" Spark thought for a minute, then he got an idea, he found the empty space where his own Pokeball was in and pressed the button on the one next to it and moments later, out came a Croconaw.
"Whaddya want now, Spark?" the Croconaw said before noticing the others, "Who are dese peoples?"
"No time for that now, Jaws, I need your Oran Berry." Spark said hastily.
"Wha? I dun think so, little Raichew, you had a Rawst Berry an' stuff, I ain't givin' you dis!"
"It's not for me, Jaws! There's a Pokemon over there who is about to die without one!"
"Aw? Well, why didn't ya say so? Here's da berry, now show me to da Pokemon!"
Spark and Jaws ran over to the weak Tsutarja, the Raichu gave her the berry, which she quickly ate, and she soon felt a whole lot better.
"Thank you, you two," she said, "are you two heading to Isshu as well?"
"Aw man, dat Treecko got a cold, too?" Jaws asked Spark.
"No…Isshu is where we're going!" he turned to Evina, "Why are a bunch of wild Pokemon like you going to Isshu?"
"I want to find my family," Evina replied, "I was told from someone in Hoenn that a Tsutarja like me belongs in the wild in Isshu, so I hope to see a herd of my kind there when we arrive!"
"It's going to be a ways away, Evina," Scepter said, "by what I heard from one of the trainers through the other door, it's going to take a full twelve hours!"
"What? THAT long?"
"Ey, nothin' to worry 'bout! Ya got us!" Jaws exclaimed, "In fact, why don' we get out some otha Pokemon as well! Have us a little party!"
"Jaws, there might be Pokemon that might make the plane a lot heavier! Why don't we just let out the other four Pokemon in our party?" Spark asked, looking at the rows and rows of Pokeballs on the shelves.
"Alright, have it your way," he said. Spark leapt up to where four other Pokeballs were, two were Ultra balls, one was a regular Pokeball, and the last one was a Quick Ball. Spark pressed all four buttons one by one. In the first Ultra Ball was a Gabite and in the other was a Larvitar, in the regular Pokeball was an Ambipom and finally in the Fast Ball was a Gallade.
"Well, hello there, team!" Jaws said happily.
Spark motioned Evina, Scepter, and Emmy to come closer, "Everyone, I would like you to meet Scepter the Treecko, Emmy the…"
"Emonga," Emmy finished, smiling.
"Right, thanks, and this is Evina the…uh…"
"Tsutarja," Evina finished as well.
"Thank you, too." Spark said and giggled a little in embarrassment. He pointed to the Larvitar, "This is Tyron, the Ambipom is Amy, the Gabite is Gabriel, and the Gallade's name is Gale. Um…yeah, that's basically it," Spark introduced.
Amy bounced over to the wild Pokemon, "WOW, I have NEVER seen a Pokemon like you three!" she bounced over to Evina, "Especially you! You're so cute with your little leaf and your big eyes and-…"
"Um…thank you," Evina said, a small tinge of rose tinted her cheeks.
Tyron kept staring at the Emonga, smiling. He walked over to her and gave her a big hug, "Tyron like you a lot," he said as his squeeze made Emmy feel like her ribs were being crushed.
"Th-thanks…Tyron…" she gasped, "Please let go of me…" she got her wish when Gabriel used his mouth to pick up the little Larvitar by the horn on his head. He struggled to be free.
"HEY! Tyron no like that! Stop!" he yelled as he flailed his arms and legs.
"You'll have to pardon dear Tyron," the Gallade said, his voice soft and calm, he seemed to be the most mature of the group, "he hatched from an egg a couple of days ago, and he's now just trying to talk."
"Uhm…thank you, Gale," Emmy said and smiled, "so why is your trainer going to Isshu?"
Gabriel put Tyron down, "Well, why else would a trainer go to a new region? He's one of the few that defeated the Elite Four, and he wants to battle the gyms in Isshu as well!"
"Gale and I are 'veterans' if you can call us that, we've been with him since we were a Ralts and Pikachu, Amy was caught as an Aipom before he went to the last gym, and Gabriel was caught while we took the trip to the Elite Four.
"Wow," Scepter was in awe, "so is he, like, the ultimate champion of all Trainers or something?"
"Not exactly," Gale answered, "he has more respect than other trainers, but he's not a Pokemon Master. He wishes he was, though."
The talking went on for a couple hours, Evina did not talk much, a couple nods or maybe a "Uh-huh" or so. She felt very shy, she did not know what to do, the trainer's Pokemon were talking about things she had no idea of, while Scepter was doing a good job getting to know them, all while Emmy was trying to get herself away from Tyron. All of a sudden, Emmy's ears perked up.
"Someone's coming!"
"What?" Spark exclaimed, "Everyone back in your Pokeballs!"
The Pokemon did what they were told, and the three went off to hide under one of the shelves.
Few minutes pass, and no one entered the door, "Perhaps it was a false alarm?" Emmy said, a little confused, "I swear to Arceus I heard footsteps…" she crawled out from under the shelf, only to be met with a Crobat that looked so intimidating that Emmy froze when she saw him. The Crobat smiled, showing his ugly lower teeth.
"We got a couple of live ones…"
As soon as it said that, a Zangoose and an Arbok joined the Crobat. The Zangoose was male, had claws sharper than knives and more scars on him than the usual Zangoose. The Arbok was female and looked to be the strongest of the group, she spotted the two Grass-types in an instant, "Still a couple more here. We got a Treecko and a Tsutarja, they're pretty young, too, at level 10 at the least."
"Did you say 'Tsutarja?'" the Zangoose said, grinning, "wonderful… and what do we have here?" he used the tip of his claws to grab the scruff of Emmy's neck like a pair of chopsticks, not caring if it hurt her, and it did.
"Let me go! Please! This hurts!" she cried as she tried to squirm from the Zangoose's long claws, but it just made him grip harder, causing a bit of blood to form.
"Let her go…" Evina hissed, the Arbok looked at the little snake and laughed.
"Or what? You're going to wave your little leaf at me? I'm a level 23, little one, you're just a 10."
"Level doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is my friend in your friend's claws, now let her go."
"The Tsutarja wants to fight, huh?" the Arbok grinned, "Fine, I'll battle with you."
Immediately after she said that, she opened her mouth out wide to give out a Bite attack. Evina dodged, but barely, she then slashed her tail in the air, creating a blade every time she did it, which struck the Arbok, damaging her, but not that badly. The Arbok then made a quick movement to get behind Evina and, faster than the Grass Snake imagined, wrapped her around and around and then tightened as hard as she could. The air from Evina's lungs left her as she felt the coils tighten and tighten harder around her little body. She soon could not breathe. The Arbok was not aiming at making her faint, she wanted to KILL her. Evina could not even struggle, she was wrapped too tightly to move. Scepter ran over to the scene as quickly as possible and preformed a Slam attack on the Arbok's head. She was luckily not expecting the attack, and was caught off-guard enough to loosen her grip on Evina enough for her to squirm away.
"You okay?" Scepter asked Evina
"A little…" she answered, "I made a mistake fighting her… she really is strong…"
Emmy could not stand the pain from the claws any longer, it was a long time since she used her attack on anyone, but she pulled off a Thunderbolt on the Zangoose that knocked him out and released her. She ran over to the two until she was grabbed again, but this time it was a human's hand…