Angel Wings
Amy: Hi! I am still running from Dusk and...
Dusk*pops out from a shadow*: YOU. DIE. NOW.
Amy: SHIT! I DON'T OWN POKÉMON, SEE YA!
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Eleanor P.O.V
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"Carter..." I said, my voice shaking. "I can't... I don't... Oh, Arceus, Henry."
I felt his eyes on me, but didn't dare look at him. I think I was going to break at any moment, and I didn't need him sympathizing me.
"They got him, didn't they?" he asked, his voice like steel, hiding a hint of anger. I nodded, biting my lip and looking at the horizon.
"I need to get home, Carter. I don't know how my Mom will handle this, she's been wreck since dad disappeared, and I seriously don't think she can handle this kidnapping again."
Placing a hand on my shoulder, he looked at me with a sympathy.
"We'll head out tomorrow. I can-"
"No." I said, cutting him off. "I need to deal with this myself. I need to help my Mum by myself with Cynthia, and I need to track down Henry by myself."
"But Eleanor..." Carter trailed off, seeing the seriousness in my eyes.
"I know you want to help me, Carter. I can understand, I really can, but I'm going alone. I need you here, helping Barlow and Wendy to find Dawn, Dash, and Forrest. You know that this Team Hellion is most likely the ones who are behind the kidnappings, probably the whole Angel Gene reactivation. I really don't know why they're regathering us, but something is telling me that they aren't going to stop until they have us all."
"(You are absolutely correct.)" I heard Cala from behind us. I glanced over my shoulder, and turned seeing that not only Prince and Cala were standing there, but so was Eden, Rosalind, Miles, Storm, and Serena. Dawns, Forrests, Dashes, Surges, and Aquas partner pokémon. Did that mean...?
"(Yes. That wretched Team Hellion also got Aqua and Surge.)" Eden said, as if reading my mind.
"But how?" I asked. "Just today we found out about Dawn, Dash, and Forrest."
"(Those reporters are much to slow. By the time they announce Surge and Aqua, they could get Flare, Dusk, Wynter, Carter, and you.)" Serena said with a roll of her eyes.
"They move fast." Carter said as he raised his eyebrows. "We've gotta warn the others. Half of us are already gone."
"We talked to them just this morning. I don't get how they move so fast." I mumbled.
"What will we do?" asked Carter.
"There's gotta be a pattern, right? They can't just target at random, can they?" I asked, mostly to myself.
"I'll call the others, you need to get to Cocona tomorrow." Carter told me. He paused. "And something tells me you don't want me telling Barlow about this?"
"Please?" I asked.
"Cross my heart." he said as he made an 'X' over his heart.
"It'll at least be a two-day flight, and I don't know when I'll be back..." I trailed off, looking at Carter. "Just... don't get yourself captured, 'kay?"
"Me? Get captured? Ha!" laughed Carter. "I'd never let 'em take me alive!"
"(We'll come with you!)" cried Prince.
"I don't know if I'll be able to carry more than three of you. Plus it'll slow down the flight." I said slowly, as so not to offend them.
"(Nonsense!)" cried Serena. "(Two of us can be on you shoulders, and judging by your arm length, you may be able to carry three of us. And maybe one of the more free-spirited Eevee could ride atop your head.)"
"Well, I guess..." I muttered as I bent down and picked up Serena, Eden, and Storm. Miles and Rosalind climbed onto my shoulders, Rosalind more eagerly than Miles. And with a sense of honor, I guess, Prince scrambled on top of my head. "Comfortable, everyone?"
Rosalind and Prince let out a chirp of approval, while Storm yawned and Miles growled. Serena shifted slightly, and nodded with approval.
Speaking a few silent word of Angelic, I stretched my wings, ready for the long flight ahead. Shifting uncomfortably, I shifted Serena, Storm, and Miles in my arm, and stretched out my hand.
"Don't do anything stupid while I'm gone. 'Kay?"
"Don't worry about me, Eleanor. And I'll think of something to tell Barlow." Carter said as he grasped my hand in a handshake. After a moment, he dropped his hand to the side, and I flexed my wings, planning to take off.
"Eleanor, wait!" Carter cried out. I nearly fell off the roof, but steadied, and turned.
"Yeah?"
Carter rushed forward, and wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me into a hug. From there on I was red from the closeness, and felt like I was floating. For a moment, I forgot that Serena was scoffing from the rudeness, that Rosalind and Prince were squirming, and Miles was growling. I forgot that someone might just see my wings from below, and perhaps forgot why the hell I even had my wings out. Was Carter doing this to me?
Miles let out a loud growl, completely ruining the moment. Carter backed away abruptly, red in the face and stuttering over an excuse.
"Um, Uh... I-I..." he stuttered, running a hand through his hair, and fidgeting more than Dash. My own face red, I turned, squeezing Eden, Serena, and Storm in my arms.
"Thanks." I mumbled.
"Huh?" Carter asked, his fidgeting stopping abruptly.
"Thank you, for the reassurance." I said, looking over my shoulder. "Thanks... for everything."
And on that note, I took off, feeling light and carefree, even with the heavy weight of Henry being missing and my friends being shot down and captured one by one.
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(Dawn P.O.V)
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I took another turn, and paused, leaning against the wall to catch my breath. They were forcing me to do this. Forcing me to use my powers to run through the maze and predict the next turn. Apparently, according to Dash and Forrest, I was unconscious for an estimated three days. They later brought in Aqua and Surge, Aqua was awake, and Surge was still unconscious. He is still unconscious. What are they-
I shrieked as electricity jolted through me, my limbs thrashing and my brain feeling as if it was exploding.
"Run faster subject seven." The robotic voice of a computer rang out. Yes, a device around my ankle was electrocuting me if I did not do as said. So I ran.
Thankfully the exit came upon me quickly, and I as soon as I exited, I fell to the floor. I was exhausted, to say the least. Opening my eyes, I looked around. Forrest was being forced grow plants behind a glass wall. Yet, he just kept refusing and enduring electric shocks. Aqua was in a huge tank of water, with her ankle chained to the bottom, scientists watching her through the glass. Dash was running at an unbelievable speed on a treadmill. He suddenly collapsed from the treadmill and fell to the floor, overexerted. All of us were in the hospital gowns, all of us with our wings out.
Tears sprung to my eyes as the scientists removed the device from my ankle. This is like one of those sick circus shows where they show all those individuals with deformities. Except for, of course, the excessive torture and tests.
"Just one more blood sample and we'll be done for the day." a male scientist as he pulled my arm towards him. One more blood sample, and then what? Locked in a cage, force-fed that disgusting, orange-paste, and then repeat the entire day again?
For some strange reason, I thought of my father, and how he always ordered me around, trying to mold me into what he wanted. Why? Why did I always had to do... what everyone else wanted?!
"Go away!" I yelled, letting out perhaps the strongest blast of psychic energy I've ever managed to muster. Stupid? Maybe. But I didn't care anymore. I'm not going to let these people abuse me or my friends any longer!
I pinned the scientists to the wall, and turned toward the chambers Forrest and Aqua were trapped in. With another burst of energy, I shattered the glass. Water began to gush from Aquas tank, but stopped mid-air, freezing, as if gravity no longer effected it. I saw Aqua clenching her fist in front of her, a blue aura similar to the one around the water shining around her body. Her face was set into the sternest look I've ever seen on the bubbly blonde, and she nodded towards Dash and Forrest.
Getting the message, I carefully maneuvered my powers through the electrical locks on the anklets around the boys ankles till the fell of with a clang. Turning towards the chain on Aquas own ankle, I worked the lock until it became undid. Aqua still hung weightless in the water, keeping her element hanging so that it wouldn't wash over us.
"What on earth?!" I heard a voice yell. I turned slowly. Forrest was putting his powers to use, and growing plants from his earthen cell, tying up the scientists that I had rendered powerless. In front of me was two more of the scientist, dragging a disoriented Surge with them. Surge blinked, trying to clear the fogginess from his brain. "How did they escape?!" demanded the scientist as he turned to his comrade. "Call security!"
"No!" I heard Aqua yell. "That..." water splashed over our heads, completely covering the two scientist, causing them to loose their grip on Surge. "Is so not going to happen!"
Surge looked at the two scientists, trying to desperately escape our wrath, and smirked. Then he let out an electrical shock so powerful that it knocked the two completely unconscious.
"Thank you, water, for being a fantastic conductor of electricity!" he laughed. Forrest and Aqua gathered Dash, holding him by his arms, and took off out the door, followed by Surge and I. How good it felt to fly again!
Unfortunately, our success was short lived. At the next turn, we nearly collided with two people, two very familiar people. A women, dressed professionally, and a man with crazy, Elvis-like blond hair, dressed in the Hellion uniform with a cape and no hat, which must mean he was a higher rank than the admins, who had the red scarves.
I let out a shuddery breath as I looked at the women more closely. Gorgeous black hair, in thick, wavy curls like mine. Her eyes, my amethyst purple. She smiled, a smile that I would know, even after all this time.
Her eyes flicked to Dash, and her face went into a cold glare.
"What happened to him? Do you realize how valuable these experiments are?" she looked us all over. "Have you been feeding them enough? They look starving! And how long have you been testing? They are about ready to collapse!"
When she said it, I knew it was true, my wings felt like lead, barely flapping me enough to keep me in the air, I glanced at my friends, and they too, looked ready to fall. The earlier adrenaline rush faded away, giving me a sickening feeling in my stomach. The sickening feeling of realization and frustration.
"Kincaid." I heard Surge growl. "Why would you be working with Hellion?!"
"All will be known soon." he chuckled. It really was sickening. And just when I really thought it couldn't get worse, I caught a quick glimpse of his mind.
"You... You used to work for Dim Sun. Didn't you? And... And you erased all evidence of you ever being a part of them, all surveillance, all files, everything. But how," I swallowed the lump forming in my throat. "How did you erase the minds? Of everyone in the Ranger Union, the school, how?"
Kincaid smirked, a cruel smirk, like the kind he would give to Carter when he caught him doing something he shouldn't.
"Isn't it amazing what Uxie can do?"
The room spun for a moment. Uxie, as in, the Being of Knowledge? As in, the pokémon that can erase memories? How could he obtain it without getting Azelf and Mespirit? Just what is going on?!
Maybe we should have been more alert, or fought back harder. I don't know, but I really wished something different had happened. Because somehow they managed to get a couple of grass-types in her, sleep powdering us until we were completely asleep.
I had to force myself to be strong, had to force myself to stay awake, to think of a plan. Maybe if I could connect to Dusk during our dreams, maybe if I could gain enough power...
My eyes barely open, I heard that women say something, something important.
"Take, my daughter and her friends back to their cages, and make sure they are fed a good meal! Subject Three is next."
I fell asleep, putting all my power in to connecting to one of my friends outside this horrid ship, to warn them that this 'Subject Three' was the next one to be taken.
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Amy: And tada! An update! Yays! Okay, first person to figure out subject three will get the reward of amazing awesomeness!
Amy47101 signing off! ^.^