Chapter 3; ambush and escape
"I see that they captured the two of you as well." Lucario's voice bounced around in my mind as I regained consciousness. I sensed the aura around me; we were in a large dome-like chamber underground; almost like a cave. Lucario and Flare sat near me on a wall, their hands bound. Flare voiced the thought as it entered my brain.
"Who captured us, Luke?" Flare's voice seemed sluggish, like he had just awoken as well.
"Please tell me it isn't who I think it is." I groaned as the two Psychic types from my childhood appeared in my mind.
"Unfortunately, those two are the only ones who could've captured all three of us this way." Lucario sighed as we heard footsteps moving in our direction. I saw the auras of two Pokémon; both humanoid, one was tall and wore a long dress; the other was half my size and held a pendulum. A Gardevior and a Hypno.
"Oh, this is rich!" An ecstatic female voice broke into our minds.
"Yes it is, my darling Grace." It was a male voice this time.
"Well, if it isn't Hypno and Gardeviour, my two favorite Psychos in the world!" I said sarcastically.
"If you were wise, you would it is not a good idea to anger us."
"If you were wiser, you would know that kidnapping an Aura Guardian is a really bad idea!" Lucario's voice rang out.
Grace appeared dazed by my partner's voice, it seemed like she was coming out of a trance. She took a step in lucario's direction, but then stepped back just as quickly. Try getting through to her Lucario! I thought, attempting to send a message to Lucario via telepathy. To my immense relief, my message went through.
"Grace, I'm here please remember me, try to remember the last time you saw me." This time, grace's aura grew slightly brighter than before.
"Grace, remember who holds your little friend's life in their hands. . ." Hypno's voice was taunting, mocking even, grace's aura grew dimmer than before, if that was possible. Then I noticed another, very faint aura coming from about ten feet behind Grace; the aura resembled Grace's in structure, but was blinding compared to the other two in front of me.
I tried to help Lucario break his childhood friend from Hypno's iron grip.
"Really Hypno, you've stooped to holding hostages? I knew you were low, but I never imagined this." Hypno tried to hit me, but Luke's paw stopped the yellow fist from making contact.
"What? This is blasphemy! How did you. . ." he stopped and looked at the spikes on the backs of my blue friends' hands.
"So, what's your brilliant plan now Mr. Hypno?" I snickered, knowing full well that he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
"Grace, destroy these fools, please." Grace's aura fluxuated then shone with the radiance of freedom.
"I refuse to harm any of these kind people, especially my best friend, I would say it's been a pleasure working for you, but that would be a complete and total lie, goodbye Hypno, I hope you step on o rock." Grace turned and bolted towards the smaller aura that I had seen before. That's when I realized that the aura belonged to a Raltz, the first form of a Gardevior. Lucario broke us free after he knocked Hypno out, just a precaution in case he tried hypnotizing us, and we all followed Grace and Raltz out of the cave.