Chapter 11
For The Greater Good
Alfa woke up in his room, wondering why his head was spinning. All of a sudden, the pain came and left in a blinding shock as he remembered all the events of the previous night. There had been a celebration in Altru Park the night before to celebrate the victory, something that had been put off due to Chairperson Erma's, well, unfortunate condition. It had been a week since that day. Every other match in the league had happened and the semifinals were scheduled to happen tomorrow. That was, if something didn't come up.
The sun had risen and was shining through his window since he had left the curtains open. Alfa got out of bed and sat up. It was a Sunday, which meant that unless they were called, rangers weren't supposed to patrol. If things got out of hands, they would be contacted. He pushed the door open and walked out, checking his cellphone. He had recently gotten one so that Sicilia could contact him directly and because he needed one in any case. You could only contact so many people with the styler.
After confirming that there were no messages, he went upstairs to one of the upper rooms which had been converted into a tech lab. He walked over to the design board and keyed in his code, pulling up his last design. Alfa had decided that if he was ever to retire as a ranger before he was twenty six, he would become a trainer. A different type of trainer granted. The blue print showed the blue band that Alfa wore on his right arm. It wasn't made of silk anymore, rather it was a metallic object with a felt interior for his arm.
The upper end was slightly elevated, revealing a cavity from the front. On the outside of the cavity, there was a pattern carved into a black pad inserted in the device. Next to the design, there was a small container which clipped onto his jeans. It contained carved diamonds shards in it, carved into the same pattern of the pad on his armband. He would take one, press it into the pad, it would revolve and absorb through the pad, into the chute, from where it fired, and captured a Pokémon. Alfa had deduced that Pokémon couldn't always be happy inside poke balls, so each disc would take a certain color when a Pokémon was captured, and the name of the Pokémon would appear carved on one side. When he launched that disc, the Pokémon would be teleported from its place in his house to wherever the disc was.
Alfa smiled as edited out a few bugs and stored the program away, heading back out. He was walking down the stairs when his phone began vibrating. He had forgotten to turn the sound up now that he was awake. He checked the caller ID; Marlon Mason. He accepted the call, wondering why the captain of Wyvern was calling him at eight in the morning.
"Hello, is this Alfa Snowbelle?" asked Marlon.
"Yes, why are you calling me at eight in the morning on a Sunday Marlon?" Alfa replied.
"Damn it! I forgot about the time difference. Its midday here inn Unova. Is this a good time or were you asleep?" he asked.
"I just woke up, so you can talk without my exploding over the phone." Said Alfa.
"Yeah, we have a problem. It's us versus you in the semifinals tomorrow, but our keeper's injured and we have no reserve. I've talked it over with my teammates, and since the tournament has to go according to schedule, we're proposing that we forfeit the semifinal for a place in the runner up match, by which time Wulfric will be better. What do you say?" he proposed.
"I've got no problem with that, but we have to contact the Football Union and tell them." Alfa replied as he approached the kitchen and attempted to pour some cereal in his bowl with his left hand.
"I know, I'm on my way to pueltown on my Wailord, so if you could meet me there in a quarter of an hour, we can settle this matter." He said.
"See you in fifteen minutes." Said Alfa as he shut his phone, wolfed down the cereal and ran up to change. He grabbed his goggles and left a note for Ice, running out to where he knew Latios would be flying.
'We've got to be in pueltown in like fifteen minutes.' Thought Alfa as Latios nodded and swooped down, picking him up and tossing him onto its back.
'We'll go over the forest, it'll be faster.' Replied Latios as they passed Mach 1, soaring over Almia at an insane speed. Around twenty minutes later, they were in pueltown thanks to the shortcut. Latios looked out and saw an approaching Wailord.
'That's him I suppose?' Latios asked, heading for the docks.
'Yep, let's muffle the blast in the water or we'll wake up half of pueltown.' Replied Alfa. So to Marlon's great surprise, he saw a figure stream past him and into the water, re-emerging seconds later at a slower speed. Alfa burst out of the water and landed beside Marlon who had just stepped onto the docks and returned Wailord to its poke ball.
"Grand entrance dude!" said Marlon with a grin as wide as a Wailord.
"Let's get going." Replied Alfa. "I have to get home to my brother and sister after this." So the duo set off for the Football Union, located in pueltown's industrial district. They walked in the building, Marlon pulling a shirt out of his bag and wrestling it on so that he would look presentable.
"May I help you?" asked the receptionist, seeing the two captains side by side.
"We need to talk to the tournament organizers dude, and maybe you and I could go pick up a drink or two afterwards." Asked Marlon with a grin as the girl blushed.
"OH SHUT UP MARLON! We're not here to hit on girls!" said Alfa as he kicked him in the shin.
"This way please." Said the receptionist, her blush slowly fading away.
"I guess I deserved that." Marlon sheepishly replied. "But the offer still stands." He said as he turned to the receptionist. Before Alfa could hit him again, the duo went into a large office with three men sitting in it, looking at three wall screens in the hexagonal room.
Three minutes later.
Alfa was on his way home as Marlon left with the receptionist running after him with a stapler and a staple in his left shoulder.
He was home faster than he had expected, that or he had fallen asleep on Latios's back. He rushed into the house to find Ice at the table, finishing a bowl of cereal.
"Girls are still asleep and I got your note. Are we in the finals?" he asked.
"Yep. We can relax until for another few days." Alfa replied as they heard the sound of approaching footsteps. All of a sudden, Alexis and Sicilia came into the room.
"Morning." Sicilia mumbled as she rubbed her eyes, trying to figure out why Alfa was dressed and Ice wasn't.
"Anybody want to go rafting today?" asked Alfa.
"Rafting? Where?" asked Alexis.
"In Almia lake." Replied Ice with a grin.
"Have you lost your mind?!" Sicilia exclaimed.
"Relax, Alfa and I built a special kayak style raft which can stand the current. The point is to get caught in the current and go flying off the chunks of ice. It's be fun." Said Ice.
"If you say so." Replied Alexis doubtfully. Fifteen minutes later, the four were seated in assort of elliptical raft as the boys pushed off from the edge of the ice. A second later, they got caught in rapid flowing current were headed straight for a chunk of ice. Before the girls even had time to shout, the hit the ice and were thrown into the air. In that moment, Alfa felt the exhilaration, the excitement, the adrenaline for which they had built this raft. The girls gasped as the raft hit a wall of ice and slid back into the water. They were two preoccupied shouting with joy to feel scared after that.
They continued rafting again and again having an amazing time until one, when they headed to the opposite side of the lake, connecting to Hia Valley, to have a picnic by the edge of the lake. Articuno approached, carrying the lunch basket. The four started on lunch as they set the picnic cloth and sat down. Latios had followed them and melted the snow near them and making a small fire for them to keep warm by.
"That was amazing!" exclaimed Alexis.
"The exhilaration is just crazy, I mean, just pure crazy." Said Sicilia. "I don't understand how we enjoy it but, but we just seem to!"
"We knew this would happen." Began Alfa.
"Exhilaration goes straight to the brain which causes it to release endorphins, causing the joy." Ice finished as he bit into a sandwich.
"Guys, it's getting really warm here, can we put out the fire." Said Sicilia as she wiped her forehead.
"Sure thing. It is getting hot." Said Alfa as he got up and threw a bunch a snow into the fire, stopping it.
"It's still really hot." Said Ice. "Look that way! There's some crazy freak melting the ice!"
The boys got up and ran towards the man who was melting the snow. He had a wide array of fire Pokémon by his side, melting the snow at an incredible pace.
"HEY YOU CRAZY GUY! STOP MELTING THE SNOW! YOU"RE MESSING WITH THE ECOSYSTEM!" yelled Ice. The man laughed sinisterly and took no notice otherwise.
"That's a miniremo! He's from the disbanded team dim sun!" said Alfa.
"Haven't you recognized me already? You only saw me last week!" exclaimed the man, cackling sinisterly. Alfa looked at the man carefully; blond hair made in a swirl, a yellow shirt, black pants and a red waistcoat.
"Mr. Kincaid." Groaned Alfa.
"I'm doing this for the greater good!" he cackled.
'He's out of his mind. His brain's messed up!' Latios exclaimed mentally.
'I have an idea. If he's out of his mind, this should work better than blasting him to god knows where.' Replied Alfa as he thought of his plan. Nodding, Latios flew off.
A few seconds later, it returned with the leftover pie from their lunch. It gave the pie to Alfa and flew up before blasting the miniremo to bits.
"You say you're doing this for the greater good? Well then I'm doing this for the greater good." Said Alfa as Latios flew off and came back again this time with a straight jacket.
"For the greater good!" exclaimed Alfa as he rammed the pie into Kincaid's face and tied him up in the straightjacket, giving him to a local who had come to watch.
"Let's go. I've had enough of him." Said Alfa as he turned around.