How are they going to catch Skarmory? And, more important than that, anyone notice they never got their stylers?
HidingFromTheCold: All of the above.
TheLightningPunisher: Yeah, I know, it's clichéd.
A Man-at-Legs: An Unova moemon. That's all I'm saying right now.
Moemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Chapter 36
"Alright, let's capture this Skarmory!" I said, staring at the moemon in the cave. She wore a metal leotard and metal grieves, and she also had steel-grey hair down to her shoulders and gold eyes, with a black bird-shaped steel hat over her hair, with red metal wings sticking out of her back.
"What do you want?" Skarmory asked, frowning.
"Can you blow away the smoke?" I asked.
"Mm… no." Skarmory said, shaking her head.
"Alright, then I'll have to capture you!" I said, reaching for my styler… which wasn't there.
"Um, my styler's gone…" I said, frowning.
"Wait, weren't we supposed to pick up our stylers before we went out on the mission?" Petal asked, frowning.
…
"Crap!" The three of us shouted as one.
"So, uh, good luck with that." Aurore said, smiling.
"Wait, you're just gonna leave us here?" Petal exclaimed.
"Uh… yeah. Not my problem." Aurore said, smiling. "But good luck, guys! I'll be rooting for you!"
And with that, Aurore walked out of the cave, leaving us standing there with Skarmory.
"Gust." Skarmory said, snapping her fingers, releasing a blast of wind from her, sending the five of us flying out of the cave. We flew over the edge, and landed on the ground a good ten feet below the cave. Skarmory walked out after us, glaring down at us with her cold-as-steel eyes.
"Alright, time to die, kiddies!" Skarmory shouted, a sphere of wind swirling around her hand.
"Not so fast!" A voice shouted. Skarmory jumped back at the last second, a figure shooting out from the sky, moving right through where Skarmory was standing. She spun around, and stared at Skarmory.
"Whoa…" Mary said, amazed. "How cool…"
The figure wore a black feather dress and had large black wings, with messy black hair down to her shoulders, a stripe of red hanging over her forehead. She had intimidating gold eyes, and a cross frown.
"A Staraptor?" I asked, surprised.
"Hah!" A voice shouted out, another figure dropping down from the sky, landing on a ledge above Skarmory, Skarmory whirling around. The woman standing on the cliff wore the red, black and white uniform a ranger, with long green hair flowing down her back and green eyes. On her wrist was strapped a red and black styler.
"Who are you?" Skarmory demanded.
"My name's Wendy, and I'm the guardian of the skies!" Wendy declared, smirking. "Tara, use aerial ace!"
"What?" Skarmory exclaimed, whirling around, the Staraptor hitting her head on, sending her flying through the air.
"Once you're in the air, you're mine!" Wendy shouted, a disk shooting out of the strange styler on her wrist. The disk looped around the Skarmory a few dozen times, capturing her. The Skarmory landed on the ground, standing loyally beside Wendy, as Tara hovered overhead, frowning.
"Hey there, guys!" Wendy said, landing on the ground in front of us, smiling.
"Who are you?" I asked, surprised.
"Kelly, don't you know who that is?" Petal asked, frowning.
"Nope." I said, shaking my head.
"That's Wendy, the queen of the skies!" Petal exclaimed, surprised. "She's the only female top ranger, and the idol to girls everywhere."
"Well, I'm not the only top ranger." Wendy said, smiling. "Petal, everyone's talking about you, being a child prodigy and all, making it as a top ranger even without a partner moemon!"
"Oh, well…" Petal said, smiling a little, a blush on her face. "Not really, you know?"
"Nonsense!" Wendy said. "After all, you're what, ten? That's amazing!"
"…" Petal said, shaking, and irritation mark on her forehead.
"Petal…" I said, backing up.
"I'm… fifteen…" Petal said through gritted teeth, the irritation mark on her forehead, still smiling in order not to create a bad impression on her idol.
"Oh, right, I forgot!" Wendy said, holding up a bag. "Here you go, guys!"
Wendy tossed the bag to us, me holding it up and dumping out its contents.
Our three stylers fell out of the bag, landing on the ground in a heap.
"Whoa, our stylers!" Keith said, picking up his. "Wait, this is weird…"
"Those are fine stylers." Wendy explained. "Exclusive to top rangers."
"SO how do they work?" Keith asked, trying to release the disk.
"You attach it to your wrist, like mine." Wendy said, holding up her arm to show the styler attached to it.
"Oh, I see…" Petal said, attaching it to her wrist, Keith and I doing the same.
"Then, you release the disk like this." Wendy said, placing her hand on the styler, running it down her hand, the disk shooting out after it, following the glove on her left hand.
"Then, you control it like this." Wendy said, moving her hand, the disk following after it.
"Cool!" Keith said, launching the disk out of his styler.
"Then, you can also do the styler charge!" Wendy said, pressing the button on the back of her styler, energy charging into the disk that had returned. She shot the disk out into the air, a track of rainbow light following after it.
"Cool!" Keith said again, staring at the lightshow in awe.
"And… return!" Wendy said, the disk returning to the styler.
"Wow, that was so awesome!" Petal said, smiling.
"Alright, good luck on your mission, and give my regards to Sven!" Wendy said, climbing onto her Staraptor's back.
"Wait, before you go, we need that Skarmory to clear the fog for us!" I shouted.
"Oh, I almost forgot!" Wendy called after us as Tara flew up into the air. "Skarmory, use defog!"
"Yes." Skarmory said, nodding, taking off into the air, flapping her wings, the fog blowing away, and for the first time we saw the Chroma Highlands in all of their glory.
"Alright, now that that's been dealt with, I am off!" Wendy said, Tara flying into the air and off into the horizon.
"Alright, let's do this." I said, reaching down, picking up the glove to my fine styer, pulling it over my hand, walking off through the highland.
So, Kelly means business! What does that mean for the rest of us?