Angel Wings, chapter 27
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(Eleanor )
To me, it felt as if only mere days have passed, yet, amazingly, it has been months. Ten months, to be exact. Of course, I kept in contact with my eight other friends via voicemail, but it just wasn't the same as actually seeing and talking to them.
Nothing much has been happening around base. Carter and Crawford had a tendency to play pranks, their favorite is stealing mine or Luanas' clothing while we were showering, and then sneaking into our rooms and stealing all our other clothing so we were literally stuck with nothing but towels on.
Of course, they just had to do that today...
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(Carter P.O.V)
"CARTER! COME BACK HERE SO I CAN KICK YOU SORRY ASS TO OBLIVIA AND BACK!"
"SHIT!" I yelled as I ran into the main area of the base, knowing full well that Eleanor wouldn't come in here. Two reasons: One, she had on nothing but a towel. Two: Even though the rangers knew about the wings, she didn't really like flaunting them.
And, like I knew she would, she stopped at the doorframe, and backed slowly into the shadows
"Ha!" I declared triumphantly. "Can't get me out here, can you?"
I knew Eleanors eyes were scanning the room. Ollie and Elaine were out to get more Mechanic supplies. Maxine was typing away on her computer, looking up occasionally with amusement. Barlow left on a mission in Puel Town. Luana was steaming mad, and Crawford was holding her back, keeping her from going to assist Eleanor or kick my ass for her.
I heard a door slam, and knew that I was triumphant.
"Hey, this sounds cool!" Maxine said suddenly.
"What?" asked Luana, who had finally ceased her struggles against Crawford. Maxine stared at the screen, and began reading from whatever she was reading.
"Scientists have announced that tomorrow tonight, at exactly midnight, that there will be a meteor shower and a full lunar eclipse. This is a rare occurrence because it take the teamwork of both Cresselia, pokemon of pleasant dreams and stars, and Darkrai, pokemon of nightmares and darkness, also known as the Lunar Duo. Because they are literally polar opposites, it is a rare occurrence to see them working together. It is recorded that this only happens every one hundred years, because Cresselia and Darkrai are sworn enemies." Maxine stopped. We were all staring at her, waiting for more info. "What? The only other thing that it says is that it will be seeable on this side of the hemisphere, and that they have been giving announcements for the past week or so, indicating that it could happen."
"What's so interesting?" asked Eleanor as she came out, wearing her uniform, and adjusting her goggles atop her head.
"How did-"
"Shut it, Carter." Eleanor growled, cutting me off as she looked over Maxines shoulder, reading the article that she was reading. "Huh. Sounds cool."
"Exactly!" declared Maxine as she snapped the lid closed. There was a ringing on both mine and Carters stylers, and we both answered to see what was going on.
"Hey, you guys!" Barlow said on the other end of the line. "Listen, I have a mission, and it's urgent! Hurry over to Puel Town!"
And with that, he hung up.
"Well..." said Eleanor. "That was pretty blunt, huh?"
"You guys should get going." said Crawford. "He hates being kept waiting."
"Right!" we both said determinedly as we walked out the door.
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(Eleanor P.O.V)
I was still angry at Carter for his prank this morning, and, therefor, decided to inflict upon him the worst form of torture known to man. That's right; the silent treatment.
"Pleeeeeeaaaaasssssseeeeee talk to me, Eleanor!" he begged. I merely turned my head to the side and crossed my arms.
"Pleeeeeaaaaaaaaasssss-Ow!" he cried out. "What the hell, Eleanor?"
I didn't really understand what I was doing either. I just stopped, and was staring at the street leading into Pueltown. There was a faint buzzing in my head, as if a Beedrill had decided to shrink down and fly around my ear.
"Can you hear it to?" I asked, speaking to Carter, officially breaking my oath of silence.
"What? The buzzing?"
"Yeah."
"What is it?"
"Only one way to find out." I muttered as we walked into Pueltown. The buzzing intensified to a small ringing, and was beginning to really get on my nerves. I noticed that some sort of darkened shadow had fallen over the town, as if it was gloomier than when Carter and I where last here.
"Hey! Angel! Rascal!" I turned my head towards Barlow, who was waving us over to the Ranger Depot.
"Hey, Barlow." said Carter as we walked over. He seemed distracted, staring ahead, while his eyes flicked nervously back and forth.
"Hey, what's with you guys? You seem tense." said Barlow, his eyes showing worry.
"It's nothing." I said as I snapped myself back to attention. I punched Carter in the arm, bringing him out of his distracted, tense state. "What happened?"
"To Pueltown? I don't know." we stared at him for a moment. "But I want to see how you guys do under pressure, so, I'm gonna have you help me figure this out."
"Okay!" cried Carter excitedly as we each performed our signature ranger pose.
"Okay! I'll go to the left of Pueltown, and you head towards towards the docks. You stick together, too. Even though you are professional rangers now, you're both still rookies, and very inexperienced. If you need your styler recharged, just head into the Ranger Depot. The operator will charge them right up!" and, with that, Barlow ran off, leaving the two rangers in the dust.
"The buzzing is a ringing now." muttered Carter. "It's giving me a headache."
"Carter, I wanna try something." I said as I turned towards the docks. "Remember in the Cocona ruins, when we kept going on Angel instinct?"
"Yeah. That was the day we saw those statues of us."
"Or rather, the original Angels." I mumbled. "I want to see what would happen if we just let our minds go blank, and we went on instinct again."
"Fine by me." said Carter as he shrugged. Then we just started walking. I wasn't memorizing where we were going, or what was going on, just kept walking.
Eventually, we rounded a corner, and I stopped, as did Carter.
"Do you feel it to?" I asked him. The ringing was louder than before, and was now developing into a small headache.
"Yeah, it's something bad. Something real bad."
We rounded the corner, and saw... some sort of machine. It looked like a pedestal, with some sort round orb in the middle. It was completely black, and had deep violet sparks traveling through it. To tell the truth, it looked an awful lot like one of those orbs that one would set out on Halloween, the kind that, when you touched it, the artificial electricity would travel to your fingers. There was some sort of shadows radiating from it, flicking around the edge, as if dying to get out of the crystals range, but couldn't.
"What the hell...?" I mumbled as I took a step closer.
"Hey! Who are you?!" I heard someone scream, stopping me dead in my tracks. I looked over my shoulder, and saw a man. He had on a rather... strange... uniform. It consisted of a pair of black pants, with black shoes. He had on a black shirt with a turtle neck that looked a little to tight for him. He had a gray scarf tied around his neck, over the turtleneck, and on the front of his shirt was a red outline of pair of wings. It struck me as odd how they looked like bat wings, stretched to their full extent across the shirt. On his face was a black mask that covered only the area across his eyes, with a white filming over the eyeholes, obscuring them from our view. I noticed that the mask tied at the back of his head, noticing the two small black straps of cloth billowing behind him. Finally, on his blond head was a completely black beret(A/N like Lucas's from the pokemon Platinum game). Around his wrist was some sort of device that was like a large wristband, going from his wrist to his mid arm. It was silver, with a marble-sized shard of the strange looking orb at the top, with a keypad and screen under it.
"Well, isn't obvious? We're rangers!" boasted Carter. "The more important question is, who are you?"
The man growled, and pressed a few keys on the device on his wrist. Suddenly, a group of Elekid appeared out of no where. I noticed that they were different colored however, their skin darker, their eyes, shadow black.
"Just like the Ursaring on graduation..."
"Carter! Let's do this!" I yelled as I focused my energy into the styler. Surrounded in a silver light, Carter surrounded in gold, we launched our glowing stylers, surrounding the dark pokémon until they were fading from their dark forms and back to normal. They looked around dazed, before scurrying away in fear.
"Shit!" screamed the man as he made a beeline around us. "Guys! I need backup!"
"Carter, you figure out how to destroy that machine! I'm going after that guy!" I yelled over my shoulder as I bolted after him. I was surprised at how quick he was, yet I still managed to catch quick glances of his gray scarf.
I skidded to a stop when we reached the port. Hiding behind a crate, I peeked out cautiously to see the man we battled frantically talking to someone else. I saw that a machine extremely similar to the one that me and carter saw was next to a small group of five other men dressed like the man with the gray scarf. There was a seventh man, also dressed in the same wacky uniform, only with a red scarf instead of gray. Perhaps it symbolized that he was a higher up? An admin, perhaps? They were all standing around a similar machine
"-And they captured the demon pokémon! Quickly at that! We were told that they couldn't be captured that fast!"
"That's true!" another grunt chimed in. "They told us that a normal capture would take over a half hour for a demon pokémon!"
"Do you guys realize what this means?" said the Admin. "We might have very well run into a couple of those Angel Gene brats that boss kept saying so much about."
It was then that I decided to make my presence known.
"You know, you're pretty pathetic, not being able to beat a couple 'brats'." I said as I stepped out from behind my hiding place, smirking. "Let's start off with introductions. I'm Eleanor, job occupation: kick the asses of people like you! How 'bout you guys?"
The Admin gritted his teeth, and typed in some letters on his wristband thing. Another dark pokemon popped out, a Jellicent. It was a bit more challenging then some of my other captures, but I managed, and sent the poor thing back to the sea.
"Aw, fuck!" yelled the Admin, looking suddenly nervous. I heard the sound of a helicopter, and shielded my eyes from the dust and papers that the wind blew up. I looked up, and saw that a claw had grabbed the machine, and lifted it into the helicopter while the grunts and admin scrambled up a ladder. I made a beeline for the ladder, but Prince stepped in front of me.
"(Eleanor, stop!)" he cried. "(I can feel major darkness from that helicopter, and I know you can too! It would be stupid to just go inside. We would be walking into our own death!)"
I knew that he was right, and I also knew I had no game plan if I get up there. The worst part was that there was some sort of darkness up there that I really couldn't handle.
So, for once, I shut my mouth and watched as the bad guys got away.
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