Kates' P.O.V
We made it to the ninth floor with blood still lingering on us. Rythmi had paled slightly, Keith didn't look too well, Kellyn looked pale, while Seren looked fine. All the horror movies she's seen, this must be nothing to her.
We walked through the door to the ninth floor from the lift area. Turns out there was a vent after that. We followed it through before we got to an opening.
"What now?" Kellyn asked.
"You have to ask," Seren sighed as she pushed him through the hole in the floor. I looked at Seren as she jumped down. "LOOK OUT BELOW!" she yelled, we heard Kellyn groan in pain a moment later.
"Some things never change," Rythmi sighed as she shook her head. Keith and I couldn't help but laugh, forgetting about the blood on our clothes.
"So, who's next?" Keith asked, I pushed him through before jumping after him. We both landed on a large pile of metal junk. If it hit you in the wrong places it could, and possibly would, either kill or severely injure you.
I looked up to the top of the pile before climbing back up it. I poked my head into the ceiling to see Rythmi looked at me with a wide smile.
"I may be trying to pass off as a Ranger, but there is no way in hell I'm jumping through that," she stated as she sat on the floor of the opening before slipping through it. I grabbed her hand before she fell onto anything she shouldn't have.
We then gently descended the large rubbish pile. Keith grabbed me around the hips as he helped pull me off, while Kellyn grabbed Rythmi around her waist before picking her up into the air.
Once we were all off the large pile and dusted off, we walked out of the room.
"This is where the idiots are keeping the Yellow Gem?" we heard a Dim Sun member ask before sighing.
"Not the best place we all know that, but let's just go to our stations," one of the admins ordered. With that all of the Dim Sun members disappeared.
"Split up and look for clues?" Keith asked.
"What is this, Scooby-Doo?" Rythmi asked.
"Ru-ro," Kellyn mimicked, Seren slapped him over the head.
"Let's just split up and find the Dim Sun members, Rythmi, you can go with Kate if you want," she sighed, Rythmi nodded her head as we walked off towards the bottom of the place.
We ended up in one of the rooms where the Dim Sun member was just standing behind a crate.
"And here I was thinking it would be a challenge," I almost face palmed, Rythmi shook her head as she got an incoming call on her small laptop.
"I'll deal with this, you answer that," I ordered, Ryth nodded. "YO! DIM SUN!" I yelled as I jumped over the crate. "Nice to see ya," I smirked as I had around four Ariados set on me.
The Ariados were a challenge. Every time I set my styler out they would set a web out, which would stop me from capturing the pokemon, and cause damage if I accidentally touched it.
Fifteen minutes later I had caught them all; the Dim Sun was panicking before he went to sulk in a corner. I looked at Rythmi who just shrugged.
"Rythmi are you listening?" Hastings's voice came from the laptop.
"Sorry Professor, what were you saying?" Rythmi asked as I stood next to her.
"I was saying you shouldn't have left the Union, the mission is dangerous and isn't for Operators like yourself to go on," Hastings answered; he didn't think she could take care of herself in other words.
"Grandpapa," I spoke up from besides Rythmi. "Rythmi has every right to be on this mission, Isaac was taken hostage. Kellyn hasn't flown up into the sky he's here in the tower helping us until he needs to leave. Seren and Keith have been a massive help, but we need Rythmi here. She may be the only one, aside Isaac, who can dismantle things here in the tower until we find Isaac. So she's not coming back to the Union, we can't let her go by herself; we don't know what's out there. And the Gengar's back," I explained as I looked at Hastings, whose eyes went wide.
"Very well, there will be a change in plans. You will stay in the tower with Rythmi, Isaac and Seren; however, I would like Keith to also leave with Kellyn into the air. If it's the same Gengar then the Rangers in the air will also need help," Hastings ordered as he went into deep thought.
"No problem, we've gotta go now, we're almost at the Yellow Gem," I explained as I ended the chat.
"Thanks Kate," Rythmi smiled, I looked at her before smiling widely.
"Hey, we're all in this together, one family remember?" I asked, Rythmi nodded her head as we exited the room. Keith and Kellyn walked over to us.
"Beat them?" Kellyn asked.
"Kick his ass, you two?" I asked.
"Don't ask," Keith growled as he walked away, soaking wet.
"What happened to him?" Rythmi asked.
"The Dim Sun was hiding in one of the toilets; the only wait to get her out was to set of the smoke alarm. It was hilarious, you should have seen his face when he first came out," Kellyn answered as we walked behind Keith.
Seren emerged from one of the rooms just up from us with a wide smile on her face.
"Dim Sun beat and beat," she stated as she gave us the peace sign. We walked over to the last room on the floor, where the Yellow Gem was being kept.
The Dim Sun looked at us with wide eyes as she used her arms as a barrier. I looked at Keith, who smirked widely at me.
"Hey, remember that girl that Kai killed?" he asked, the Admin nodded her head. "Well, she's here, and she wants revenge," Keith stated, I used my powers to make my eyes glow white and my body to become a little see through. The Admin took one look at me, panicked and ran for her life.
"Well, that was easier than I thought," I stated as I looked at Keith, who cringed slightly.
"Couldn't blame her for running, you look creepy," he replied.
"That's so cool; can you do it to me? Oh no wait, I know what we can do, we can make a horror movie and you can be the ghost and…" I drowned out the rest of Seren rambling as we entered the room where the Yellow Gem was.
I returned back to normal as two scientists walked over to us. One of them took one look at Rythmi before sighing in relief.
"Thank Arceus, you're here to help Isaac right?" he asked, we nodded our heads.
"Well you better hurry up, Lavana has him working on some of the last touches to the Ultimate Machine," the other scientist said. "I'll unlock the door for you, give them the Gem," he ordered. The first scientist nodded his head before handing the Gem to me.
We looked at the second scientist who gave us a thumbs up. We nodded our heads as we looked at the scientists working for Dim Sun, poor guys.
"We'll save everyone, that's a promise," I smiled as we walked out, before heading over to the stairs. We walked up to them to the next level.
"Power outage?" Kellyn asked when the lights went out a moment later.
"Ambush," Keith whispered, he wasn't wrong either. When the lights came back on we were surrounded by around twenty Dim Sun members and Phantom.
"You ruined my plans again with the Sea Crown. You're not going to ruin Max's," he growled at us before laughing.
"Stylers at the ready," Keith and I ordered as we readied our styler, Kellyn, Seren and Rythmi did the same thing.
"Pokemon at the ready," Phantom ordered, I gave him a glare, this wouldn't end well. "ATTACK!"
"LET'S DO THIS!" Keith yelled as we began capturing a number of pokemon. I hissed as some acid from a Weepinbell hit my arm before turning around on it. I readied my styler before capturing it.
"KATE! WATCH OUT!" Seren yelled, I turned around to see a Mightyena heading my way.
"CAPTURE ON!" Rythmi yelled as she began circling the pokemon who turned on her. I nodded my thanks to her before returning to dealing with a large number of Bellossom.
They were stalling us, trying to make it so we couldn't get passed them. We were outnumbered by about twenty pokemon.
"Keith!" I called over all the roars of the pokemon and the sounds of things crashing.
"I know!" he called back knowing what I was about to say. I gritted my teeth as I glared at Phantom who stood in front of me. My eyes turned black as I opened up a dark void underneath him. I didn't want to do that, I wasn't doing this.
"KATE STOP!" Keith yelled as he ran over to me, everyone having stopped what they were doing. As he placed his hand on my shoulder he instantly retracted it, as if I was on fire.
"I'm done with this, I'm done with you, it's time you paid the price Phantom," I hissed as he was dragged into the dark void, screaming as he did so.
I heard the scatter of footsteps, all the other members of Dim Sun had run off, releasing their pokemon along the way. Keith rested his hand on my shoulder as the dark void disappeared.
I fell back into his chest. He placed his arms around my waist as he lifted me up into his arms. Glaceon and Buizel rushed over to me with Seren, Kellyn and Rythmi.
"What happened?" Rythmi asked, I couldn't look her in the eye; I couldn't look anyone in the eye.
"The darkness is getting stronger, we're getting close to where Darkrai is," I answered as I looked down the hall. Why couldn't I sense this before? At the start of everything I couldn't sense the power of the darkness, but now…it was hitting me hard. I was fighting just to keep my powers under control.
I sighed as I got out of Keith's arms before walking down the corridor, my arms wrapped around me as I looked at the ceiling.
We rounded a corner to see a white door, that appeared to be locked. From inside I could hear voices of someone.
"Ow, don't do that, that hurts," Melody.
"Leave her alone, I'm almost finished," Isaac.
"Well you better hurry up otherwise we're going to slit this girl's throat," an admin's voice.
"ISAAC!"
"MELODY!"
I gritted my teeth as Keith styler went off.
"Now's not the best time," Keith stated as he answered the styler, I tried the door, locked.
"It's Barlow; I just wanted to let you know we're clearing the building of the Dim Sun who ran down here. If you need anything from me, just give me a call," Barlow replied.
"Will do, see ya Barlow," Keith ended the call. I removed my hand off the door before bashing it with my shoulder.
"Kate, it's not gonna move," Seren stated, I pulled my styler out.
"Barlow here," Barlow's voice came.
"It's Kate, come to the ninth floor, we need to borrow your target clear," I stated.
"Will do," the call ended as we waited for Barlow to arrive on the door.
"OW!" Rythmi bit her lip and balled her fists as she heard Isaac's voice in pain. I closed my eyes as I sighed. The darkness was seeping through the levels of the tower. I felt ill just feeling it around me.
"What do you need?" Barlow asked as he looked at me.
"The door won't open; think you can smash it down?" Kellyn asked as he looked at the door. Barlow smirked.
"Piece of cake," he answered.
"There's cake now?" Seren asked as Kellyn dragged her to the other side. "WAIT!" she yelled, we all looked at her. "Just hold that pose a second," she ordered as she snapped a picture. We all, minus Barlow, face palmed. "Ok, you can go now," Seren smiled as she gave Barlow a thumbs up.
Barlow rushed forwards smacking face first into the door that didn't move.
"Huh, well the door's tough. If it had hands I'd shake them for being so strong. Come on, we're going to have to do this together," Barlow stated, we all stood around him, ready to smash the door down.
We did our Ranger Poses, got into position before rushing forwards.
"TARGET! CLEEAAAR!" we yelled as we smashed the door down. Kellyn landed on top of Seren, while Rythmi went forwards into an unsuspecting Isaac, who caught her, while Keith and I landed in a huddle on the floor.
"DO IT AGAIN!" Seren yelled as she stood up before shaking her head. "On second thoughts, let's not, ack, my head," she complained.
"At least you don't have a brain to damage," Kellyn sighed.
"Oh, look who's talking," Seren retorted.
"What's going on?" the admin asked.
"You're too late," Isaac sighed, we looked at him with a sorry expression. "I finished the Ultimate Machine, now let my sister go," he ordered, the admin shrugged.
"Whatever, little brat anyway. Let's report back to Max, Scizor, Scyther, deal with the pests," the admin ordered as she walked towards the door.
Barlow blocked it, not allowing them to pass which caused the two to start panicking. Keith started to handle the Scyther, while Seren took the Scizor.
I jumped over to machines in the room to grab Melody, who was tied to a chair. I pulled out a pocket knife, don't ask, before cutting her ropes.
She turned around and hugged me tightly as I picked her up.
"KATE WATCH OUT!" I looked up to see the Scyther heading towards Melody and me with a crazy look in its eyes.
I turned away, shielding Melody from the pokemon, waiting for the impact to happen on my back, but it never came.
"ISAAC!" Rythmi's voice reached my ears as I looked over my shoulder.
"BIG BROTHER!" Melody yelled in my ear. I turned around and caught him before he hit the ground. Keith finished up his capture with the Scyther before rushing over to us with Seren, Kellyn and Rythmi in tow.
Barlow gave one nod to me before tying the admins up and rushing over. He pulled out a bunch of bandages while I set Melody down on the floor.
Kellyn and Keith took Isaac from me as they laid him atop the machine. Barlow took one look at his wound before shaking his head.
"He needs medical attention," he stated.
"No, what he needs is a healer," I replied as I turned away from everyone. "Arceus, help us out here, yeah?" I asked as I held my necklace Arceus had given me.
"Celebi?" Celebi's voice came. I smiled as I turned to the forest pokemon.
"Celebi, we need your help, Isaac's injured and I can't treat a wound like that," I explained. Celebi gave me a salute before tapping Isaac's wound three times.
We watched as the wound healed itself before Celebi gave me a herb from the forest.
"Wake him up and make him eat that. It's not the most appetizing thing, but it'll give him his energy back," Celebi explained. I smiled as I nodded my head before hugging the forest guardian.
"Thank you Celebi," I smiled as Celebi left. Isaac moaned as he sat up on the machine he was on.
"Ok, I'm never doing that again," he stated as he held his head.
"Eat this," I ordered, he gave me a doubtful look. "Celebi's orders, don't make me force you," I added, Isaac sighed as he started to chew the herb.
He finished with a look of disgust before turning around a vomiting all over one of the machines. We all cringed as he did so before helping him off the table.
Melody hugged him tightly as she kissed his cheek, thankful for her hero.
"My big brother's my hero," she smiled as she looked at Isaac, who kissed her forehead.
"I'm taking the admins out of here, Melody come on, we'll get you home safely," Barlow stated, Melody nodded her head as she climbed onto Barlow's shoulders before we all exited the room.
"Thanks Barlow," Isaac smiled as his sister waved bye to him.
"No problem," Barlow replied as he walked back towards the front of the tower.
We all looked at Isaac, whose top had been removed in the process of Celebi's healing. Rythmi took one look at him before hugging him tightly. Seren soon joined in, followed by me, we pulled Kellyn and Keith in as we all shared a group hug.
"The family's back together," Isaac stated as he smiled at us all. We all released him as we turned around to look at the stairs down the second corridor.
"Max and the rest are going to be some place beyond this point. Are you ready?" Isaac asked as he looked at us all. We all looked at each other.
"Ready," Rythmi smiled as she put her hand in the middle.
"Ready," Seren copied her motions.
"Ready," Kellyn's hand joined.
"Ready," Isaac's hand joined.
"Ready," I smiled as I placed my hand into the middle.
"Ready," Keith smirked as he placed his hand in.
"For Almia's future," we all stated as we balled our hands into fists.
We then started for the stairs. Almia's future now rests on our shoulders. If we fuck this up, we're all fucked.
Me: I'm done counting chapters, anyway, it's finished and we're coming closer and closer to the end of it.
Seren: Aw, I actually like this story, I DON'T WANT IT TO END!
Kellyn: *Covers Seren's mouth* Shut up or she'll make a sequel to it.
Kate: She is making a sequel to it. HTF and Sky have decided on part of the plot for now, they just need the rest of it. Not to mention a title and then the other stuff and-
Keith: We get it; they need the rest of the plot.
Me: Well, no one was supposed to know who I was writing it with but since you guys just did that. Yes, I am supposed to be writing my sequel with Riley Sky, check out her stories if you don't know her already, though I think you all do.
Rythmi: Plus we still have all the bloopers to go through.
Isaac: Let's just hope Ice and Red Eyes aren't in the closet again.
Me: Don't worry I have A Random Human on speed dial, if they are, she'll come get them.
Kate: I'm not gonna ask.
Keith: Let's just say review and get this over with already, I'm hungry.
Rythmi: Don't forget to check out Easter At The Ranger School, it's a Easter Special that was uploaded yesterday by our lovely writer.
Kellyn: Lovely? Have you seen her during the bloopers?
Me: Shut it Kellyn or I'll scar you face.
Kellyn: NOT MY BEAUTIFUL FACE! *Runs off*
Cast: *Sweat drops* Yeah, so review and we'll see you soon. REVIEW!