Kates' P.O.V
"CAPTURE ON!" Keith and I both yelled as we began circling different type of pokemon. I began circling three different types in front of me; I had no time to take into account what type they were.
"AH! SON OF A! SHIT!" Keith yelled as he jumped out of the way of a fire attack, he landed back to back with me as he did so.
"This isn't going over to well," he stated as he caught one of the pokemon, which just seemed to be replaced by three more pokemon. I almost rolled my eyes, I knew that, but still, this was crazy.
"We need to run," I replied as I circled another one of the pokemon, only to have it replaced by another. I heard Keith breath a laugh before he ducked from something, taking me down with him.
"Run? Where the hell to?" he asked as he looked around us, we were surrounded by pokemon. Glaceon growled as she froze another pokemon, Buizel used another water gun attack to try and buy us some time. We needed help, no, we needed a miracle.
"EARTHQUAKE!" my head shot around as I tried to locate the sound of the voice, I knew it so well, but I couldn't pin point the location, as for who it was, well you'll find out in a minute.
The ground below us shook as an earthquake started up. The pokemon around us fell to the floor as it did so; I smirked as I grabbed Keith's hand.
"THIS WAY!" I yelled over the noise, Keith followed me as we ran up the stairs and towards the back of the room. I felt a pair of hands grab my shoulders as I was dragged into one of the other rooms. Keith's hand still in mine, making me drag him with me.
"AH!" I yelled as I fell back onto someone on the floor, while Keith fell on my knees. Glaceon and Buizel looked at us before the people who dragged us in the room. Glaceon made a happy noise before running over to one of them.
Keith jumped off of me as the rumbling stopped before helping me up. He glared at the person on the floor as I turned to look at them; my eyes went wide with shock. A boy with a giant red afro was sat in front of me on the floor; I looked behind him, a woman with blonde hair and grey eyes stood behind him in an all-black suit.
"CYNTHIA?! FLINT?!" I yelled as I looked at the two of them, Flint lifted himself off the floor as he smiled widely at me; Cynthia just enveloped me into a bone-crushing hug.
"Nice to see ya little sis," Cynthia smiled; I just looked at her gobsmacked, while Keith looked between us all in confusion. I quickly shook off my shock before looking at Keith.
"Keith, Cynthia and Flint, guys this is Keith," I introduced, Flint and Cynthia smiled as they shook his hands.
"Well, why are you two here?" I asked as I looked between them, Cynthia smiled again, as Flint gave a toothy grin.
"We were coming home to visit mom and dad," Cynthia began.
"We decided to stop off in Boyleland and then we heard the tale of people kidnapping pokemon," Flint added.
"So, we decided to stop off and try to find out who'd done it, which lead us to this ship," Cynthia continued.
"We've been on here for about two nights, we saw them bring a Ranger on board, but we don't know what's got the pokemon so agitated," Flint finished as he began thinking, Cynthia frowned at the thought of the agitated pokemon.
"Do you know where they took the Ranger?" Keith asked, Cynthia and Flint nodded.
"Yeah, he's a few rooms away, there would be things in the way, but we destroyed them with our pokemon, I think they're working on rebuilding them," Cynthia answered as she showed us to the other door in the room.
"Can you take us to Barlow?" I asked, Flint gave me a confused look.
"We could, if we knew who Barlow was," he stated.
"The Ranger who was dragged on here," I stated as I rolled my eyes. Flint and Cynthia nodded their heads as we walked through the room, avoiding a few angry pokemon that were in the room.
We managed to get through a room or two before we were ambushed by some Dim Sun Grunts; I hadn't said another word to Keith.
"GARCHOMP!" Cynthia yelled as the large pokemon stepped forwards. Did I mention it had been out of its ball? No? Well, now you know.
"INFERNAPE!" Flint yelled as he looked at the group of Dim Sun. I smirked as Glaceon stepped out in front of me; Buizel joined her by her side as we all stared the Dim Sun down.
"Give up," we all went wide eyed as we watched Keith's father emerge from the group, he wasn't with Phantom though.
"Keep an eye out, if what Jackie's said is true, Phantom should be nearby," Flint stated as he looked around, Infernape, Cynthia and Garchomp all on the lookout for him. Keith and I looked at each other before we frowned. Sure I may be mad at him, but I won't let that get in the way of our team work, I'm not that kind of girl.
"What do we do?" Keith asked, I frowned as my eyes narrowed.
"They aren't attacking," I stated as I looked around the group.
"We don't need to," Max said, I heard the sound of a gun being cocked. I gulped slightly, not daring to turn around. Keith did though, his eyes filled with anger as he looked at the person behind me.
"Told you this wasn't over, beautiful," Kai's voice reached my ears, I silently growled.
"Wish I could say the same thing," I hissed through clenched teeth. Cynthia frowned as she looked at the boy, Flint glared at Max, not bothering to turn around.
"Walk," I heard Kai order as he pushed the gun closer to my head. I mental growled as I took a few steps forwards before I was in front of Max. Glaceon growled, I knew she would try to fight them.
"Stand down, Glaceon," I ordered, I heard Flint, Cynthia and Keith gasp when I said that. I smirked a toothy smirk as I looked at Max, "You've got me, now what ya gonna do?" I asked as I looked at Man, who smirked before taking my styler from my arm, he crushed it in his hands before he began dragging me out the room.
"KATE!" I heard Keith call, I didn't turn around, whatever they wanted me to do, they weren't gonna do it.
"Tie 'em up a Smidgeon on the tight side," I heard Max order, I turned to see Kai shoot every one of them in the leg or shoulder before they tied them up. My eyes watered with tears as I looked at my two siblings and my best friends, also crush, get shot.
"You're despicable," I hissed as I glared at Max, who laughed before shoving me through a dark room.
"Who's there?" I knew that voice, it was Barlow, he was in the right corner by the door. I mentally noted that in my mind before I was pushed out of the room, down another hallway and onto deck. I was then dragged up some stairs before I was shoved into the cabin, or whatever it's called.
I growled as I was pushed onto the ground with such force it almost hurt. I looked up, only to meet a familiar face.
"KINCAID?!" I yelled as I looked at the former teacher, who I wanted to kill so badly right now.
"So you remember me, Kate," he stated as he looked at me, "I don't see what's so special about her," he added as he looked at Max, who smirked widely.
"Just wait," Max replied as he walked over to a cage in the room. The cabin door opened just as Kai stepped into the room.
"The three intruders are in the same room as the Ranger, they're disarmed," he stated as he set a bunch of poke balls and two stylers onto a nearby desk. It wouldn't be hard to get them, but right now I had to focus on the thing in the cage.
Max smirked as he opened it, Kai took a seat in one of the chairs, while Kincaid just watched us. From the cage, emerged a large Houndoom, but something wasn't right about it. It looked, walked, growled and barked like a normal Houndoom, but something in its eyes told me there was a powerful darkness within it.
I gulped as the pokemon charged at me; I quickly avoided it by jumping out of the way. Fire hit my back as I hissed in pain; this pokemon was faster than me, but nothing said anything about it being smarter.
I smirked as I jumped again, a felt a sharp pain in my ankle before I was thrown into the wall. Ok, this Houndoom was stronger, smarter and faster than I was. I coughed as I felt blood come up from my stomach from the impact.
I groaned as I felt sharp pains in my shoulders, stomach and legs, I wouldn't scream for these sickos. I felt blood trickling down my body as I felt my arm being bit; blood ran down my arm as I felt myself being flung in the air again. I couldn't take much more of this, I couldn't figure out why I wasn't fighting back, I think it was because I didn't want to have to do their dirty work.
"The Houndoom's going to kill her," Kincaid stated as he looked at me, I felt my eyes closing as the pokemon jumped onto me again, biting into the flesh covering my stomach, I screamed.
"Then let it," Max replied as Kai snickered. My vision was becoming blurry, black dots began taking over as I looked around. The pain in my stomach was still there, the Houndoom was still attacking me, but I really couldn't feel much of it.
I felt myself being taken by darkness, no less than a minute later, I was gone, from the scene around me, from the pain, I felt…at peace.
"Is she dead?" Kincaid asked.
"Yeah," Kai answered.
"Kill the Rangers and those two trainers then, we have no use for them," Max ordered, something in my snapped, it brought me back, I don't know why, honestly, I don't care why, no one touches my family and/or friends.
"NO!" I yelled, I felt my body fill with power, my eyes turned white, my fists balled, my clothes changed, the pain was still there, but I ignored it. The stylers and poke balls came flying to me, I easily caught them. I pictured where Barlow was, I felt myself getting lighter and lighter until my body became heavy again.
My eyes studied the space around me; it was dark, very dark.
"I found a light switch," I heard Barlow's voice. A bright light came on; I shielded my eyes before allowing them to adjust to the light. My clothes went back to their Ranger attire, my eyes stopped glowing, the pain became more horrible.
"KATE!" I turned to see Keith, Cynthia and Flint each holding a part of their body. Cynthia was paler than normal, she was holding her side. Flint was grinning like the idiot he was while holding his ankle. Keith smiled half warmly, half in pain at me, while holding his shoulder. Barlow's eyes went wide as he looked at the three losing blood. Everyone's eyes went wide when they saw me though, I was bleeding the most.
I felt a cold substance hit my body, Glaceon and Buizel; they were cleaning my wounds, like they had done with the other, or so I assumed.
"Are you ok?" Barlow asked, I smirked as I looked at him.
"Nothing can keep me down," I answered as I looked at the wounds, they were deep, more of them bled than others, some were scratches, what really bothered me was the bite on my stomach.
"We need to stop whoever's controlling this ship," Barlow stated, "If only we had our stylers," he added, I smirked as I held up three stylers along with six poke balls.
"Nice one Katie," Flint smiled as he limped over to me, I gave him a sorry look, he just smiled wider, "Hey, if I knew this was how bad you were gonna get hurt, I would have taken a thousand bullets," he stated as he looked at me, I smiled slightly.
"I don't think I'll be much help in this, but I'll do what I can," Cynthia stated as she held her side, I frowned as Glaceon froze the wound, slowing the bleeding down.
"You've done well Kate," Barlow smiled as he took his styler back; Keith also took his while I looked down at Glaceon.
"We're fighting battle style for now," I sighed as I held my broken styler in my hand; Barlow frowned before looking at Keith.
"Right here's what's going to happen, we don't know who's controlling this ship so-,"
"It's Kincaid," I interrupted.
"You mean 'NO RUNNING IN THE HALLS' Kincaid? The same Kincaid?" Keith asked, I looked at him.
"Am I speaking a different language or something?" I asked, Keith glared at me before huffing.
"So we need to be careful, I'll take on whatever pokemon's at the top, Cynthia and Flint, can you two take the grunts?" Barlow asked, Cynthia and Flint nodded their heads, "Kate, Keith, you're with me," Barlow added as we walked out of the room, or in mine and Flint's case, limped out the room.
I fell behind the group as I thought about the Houndoom from before, not realising my limping was getting worse. I felt an arm drape around my waist to support me. I looked to its owner, Keith.
"Just because you're mad at me doesn't mean I won't help or support you," he smiled as he looked at me, I frowned slightly at him.
"I'm-,"
"Don't apologize, Kate," Keith interrupted me, I frowned more, "It's my fault we got into this argument, I didn't mean what I said. You're one of my best friends, and the person I trust the most, I wouldn't turn you in for anything, not even murder," he stated, I frowned a little.
"I don't know whether I should thank you for that, or be insulted that you would think I'd kill someone," I replied.
"Take the damn apology already," Keith growled as he looked at me, I laughed a little before pecking him on the cheek.
"I forgive you," I answered as we carried on walking, Cynthia and Flint were staring at me with wide eyes, "Don't say anything," I hissed, they held their hands up in defence.
"Katie's got a boyfriend~," I heard them sing as we passed them, I glared at them.
"I heard that," I growled, they both gulped before looking from left to right.
"Erm, Barlow, WAIT UP!" they yelled as they ran from me, I laughed a little as we made it onto the deck again.
"So, she did go for her friends," Kai stated as we looked at him, Max, Kincaid and Phantom.
"When did Phantom get here?" Keith asked, I shrugged as we walked towards the four of them. A group of six Dim Sun Grunts came out as they surrounded Cynthia and Flint.
"We got this," Cynthia stated as she threw her pokeball into the air, "Lucario let's go!" Cynthia called as Lucario emerged from the pokeball.
"Rapidash, you're up," Flint called as Rapidash emerged from the pokeball, "You three carry on, we'll take these lot," he ordered as he looked at us. We nodded before running up to Kincaid, who was stood next to a large Drapion. Next to Kincaid were Max, Phantom and Kai, who were all smirking at us. My brows furrowed as I heard a growl from behind them, the Houndoom emerged from behind them.
"Oh no," I heard Keith whisper, some of my blood still fell from the Houndoom's mouth as it bared its teeth. I gulped as I looked at Barlow, who was busy capturing the Drapion, he almost had it, all we had to do was keep this Houndoom at bay.
"Ok, Glaceon use ice beam," I ordered, Glaceon nodded before using ice beam to try and freeze the pokemon. The Houndoom growled before jumping out of the way, before the ice beam hit it.
"Water gun now," Keith ordered, Buizel did as told, but with the speed of the Houndoom, it easily dodged the attack, Keith growled slightly.
"Kate, will you be able to handle this?" he asked me, I looked at him in shock as our pokemon attacked together or after each other.
"What?" I answered with my own question; Keith looked at me as his eyes narrowed.
"That Houndoom has a darkness inside it, it'll be impossible to beat unless I can get it out, can you handle this?" he asked again, I hesitated as I watched the Houndoom dodge another attack, "I won't be far, just in the shadows, if you need help, I'll come, I promise," Keith stated as he looked at me then the pokemon.
"I'll try," I answered as Keith took off to the shadows; I had no idea what he was going to do. A few minutes passed, nothing happened, Kincaid was laughing as Barlow suffered from blow after blow. Cynthia and Flint weren't that good any more; Cynthia was ready for passing out, while Flint was getting tired. Glaceon and Buizel were panting heavily as they continued their attacks, but we couldn't lose, I wouldn't let anyone beat me, let alone Max, Phantom, Kai and Kincaid of all people.
I was brought back to reality when Barlow was thrown over towards me, his chest was bleeding, along with his arms and legs, I think he was poisoned as well.
"I won't let them win, we're Rangers and we will stop this," Barlow whispered as he charged back up to the Drapion, I frowned as I watched him get attacked again.
I turned back to Glaceon to see her almost collapsing, along with Buizel. My eyes widened as I saw the Houndoom charge towards them, I ran in front of them on instinct.
"KATE NO!" I heard Barlow, Cynthia and Flint yell, but I didn't care anymore, I couldn't let my partner get hurt, I wouldn't let my partner get hurt. The pain I was waiting for never came, not once. I opened my eyes to see the Houndoom glowing a black colour, my eyes furrowed in confusion. Max hissed from his station.
"CAPTURE COMPLETE!" Barlow yelled as he looked at Kincaid and the others, who all glared at him.
"This is your captain speaking, pull the king stone valve and abandon ship, I repeat, pull the king stone valve and abandon ship," Kincaid ordered, all our eyes went wide. I saw Kincaid, Max, Phantom and Kai take off on different pokemon, I don't know where to though. I heard splash after splash as the grunts jumped into the water before swimming to safety I think.
The Houndoom continued to glow black, Flint limped up to me with Cynthia draped around his next. Barlow followed suit as he also limped.
"What's wrong with it?" he asked as he looked around, "Where's Keith?" on that note, someone stepped out of the shadows, muttering something under their breath. It was Keith, that much we could tell, but his eyes were black not their normal colour. I frowned as I watched the darkness leave the Houndoom and return to where it came from.
I walked over to Keith whose eyes stopped glowing when the darkness left, all that was left was an unconscious Houndoom, at least, I hope it was unconscious.
"Keith?" I asked, Keith looked at me with a slight smile.
"Told you I wouldn't let you get hurt," he smiled as he looked at me; I smiled back before giving him a small hug.
"I hate to break it to you guys, but the ship's sinking," Cynthia stated, Barlow's eyes went wide as we all rushed into the cabin.
"Right, we can get this to ground if we had a little more time, but I don't know where the closest ground is. My styler's messed up, so we can't use that to call in help," Barlow began musing aloud as he looked around the cabin, I was already on the radio with Keith, Flint and Cynthia stood next to me, Barlow was at the wheel.
"Hello? Crawford? Rythmi? Luana? Elaine? Amina? Someone answer me," I spoke into the mic thingy, I was met with static for a while.
"Kate? Is that you? Are you alright, your signal went off the grid ages ago," Rythmi's voice came through; we breathed a sigh of relief as pokemon began filing into the room.
"I'm fine Rythmi, listen you have Keith's stylers location right?" I asked.
"Yes, what do you need?" she asked.
"We're on a cargo ship that Dim Sun were using to smuggle pokemon, it's sinking and fast, we need to know where the nearest dock is so we can get everyone off safe," I answered as I bit my lip waiting for a reply.
"The nearest dock is at the Ranger School, but I'm afraid it's over half an hour away from your location," I cursed a colourful word under my breath, Keith gave me a shocked look, while Cynthia and Flint did a little cursing of their own.
"Alright, thanks Rythmi, just tell everyone we love them if we don't come back, and tell my family, Cynthia, Flint and I love them more than anything in the world," I ordered as I handed the mic thingy to Barlow, who started talking. I sighed as I sat on one of the desks in the room. I panicky Machoke was looking around before it looked at me, its eyes filled with determination as it did.
"That's it," I muttered as I ran to the Machoke, my eyes flashed white as I looked at it, though I don't really think I needed them to. The Machoke nodded as we ran out of the cabin.
"KATE!" I heard everyone call, but I didn't care, I ran with the Machoke, Glaceon had stayed in the cabin, to the king stone valve. Along the way the ship jolted some, but I couldn't help what happened next.
I was drained of my energy but I carried on, the ship shook again, I lost my footing on one of the green crates, falling into the water. I began struggling as I tried to swim to surface, but I was too tired. Before I could stop myself, I had taken a large gulp of water into my lungs, my eyes began to drop as I felt them fill with water, there wasn't anything I could do. I was going to drown.
I'm ending it here on a cliffy for you all; I haven't done that in a while. Well I hope you all liked the chapter, hopefully the next one will be up tomorrow, if not then on Monday, now please REVIEW :D