Pewter city was a huge metropolis of confusion. Andy was asking around if anyone saw a High Priest of Lugia and Ho-Oh. As he should have expected, no one knew anything. He headed to Pewter's museum to search High Priest battle styles, and finally had a stroke of luck. As it turns out, Religious leaders of most Old Gods (Mew, Bird/Dog trios, Ho-Oh & Lugia, Celibi, Jirachi and the Earth Wind Water trio) normally use normal types, with the exception of one team member. Since Andy was expecting a fire or water type, he headed to Pewter's gym for help.
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"Brock, I know you're back there!" Andy yelled into the rock/ground type gym. The man at the info desk said Brock had 'company' and was not to be disturbed.
'Damn you Brock, I need your help.' Andy continued to call into the gym for a few minutes, and decided he had enough waiting. He pushed the gym employee to the side and walked briskly to the door at the other end.
Andy knocked heavily on the door, and within seconds, a tired looking woman ran through the door, followed by a pissed off Brock.
"This better be important, Andy." Brock said, adjusting his green vest. "Not that I'm not happy to see you, it's just that I was-"
"I know what you were doing you disgusting man-whore." Andy said quickly. "I've got little time to explain. A new terrorist group is in Kanto and most likely Johto, and they kidnapped my girlfriend," Andy explained quickly, causing Brock's eyes to (RELATIVELY) widen.
"Damn man, I forgive you this once," Brock said, taking in the fact that Andy finally got a girlfriend. "So where are they? Steelix hasn't had a decent fight in forever."
Andy's shoulders slumped a bit. "That's what I was worried about. I came to you for info only. They said that if I bring anyone, she gets killed." Andy explained in a heavy voice.
After a few seconds of thinking, Brock spoke up, "What is this group called?"
"They call themselves 'The Army of the Old Gods'." Andy deadpanned. He could have sworn he saw Brock's face tighten.
"Sorry kid, I don't know where they are. I'll have officers look into it once you confirm your girlfriend's safety," Brock said deliberately, then shooed the trainer and his Ralts out the door.
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'I don't know how much more of this I can stand.' Samantha thought to herself. The people who carried her away were anything but merciful. They cut the inside of her bicep with a knife, threw her in a cell, and just stood there. The cut wasn't painful, just annoying. What she couldn't stand was the people watching her.
It felt like a day had gone by, but it was a mere two hours.
"I CAN'T STAND THIS!" She roared both mentally and physically. The grunts outside her cell turned to her and spat. Little to their knowledge, Samantha released all her hatred into that one sentence, and hoped that Andy would sense it.
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Andy was walking around Pewter challenging trainers out of pure rage, and completely destroying their teams with Ralts and Pikachu. While he was fighting a local hiker, he felt a small shockwave. The Hiker didn't feel a thing. Andy felt a pulling force from the shockwave and decided to wrap this up.
"Pikachu, Iron Tail." Andy ordered with urgency. Understanding this, Pikachu ran up to the hiker's Geodude and smashed it into the earth with his metallic force. Andy recalled Pikachu to his Great Ball and ran to the source of energy.
'I swear that force is familiar.'
Andy sprinted towards the source with Ralts hovered beside him. She knew exactly what that force was and why Andy could feel it. It was Aura (A/N: Andy told her the story of the Aura Guardians Aryan and Lucario). She was cursing herself for not being more powerful, or she would have just told Andy what that was.
Andy and Ralts arrived at what looked to be a normal drug/prescription store.
"So what's the plan?" Andy asked his Ralts. "Go in, kick butt, and take names, or use espionage, of sorts."
Ralts held up two fingers, and emanated a… Pink (?) glow. Andy waved this off and thought it was due to stress. He entered the store and started to act like a normal customer.
'Either I'm going insane, or people have different colours coming off of them.' Andy thought as colour surrounded his vision. He could see perfectly fine; the colours of the people were somehow not as distracting as they should have been…
"Psst, kid," a voice called over. Andy turned to see the woman who called him over.
"What in the good name of Mew do you want?" Andy asked, obviously pissed off. The woman grinned.
"I can lead you to your girlfriend." Was all she said before walking into an employee only area, followed by Andy.
Andy followed the woman down into a basement where there was a hallway lined with cells and a group of grunts in robes behind an elderly man in an orange and white robe.
"Andy, we finally meet," The old man said in a sadistically calm voice. He had his hood down, revealing a long braid of hair that was dyed in the same style of his robe. "I do believe we have something in common." He said, causing Samantha to wake up from her cell. She rushed to the metal bars and started tugging.
"Release Sam, then we talk." Andy demanded, but was quickly dismissed.
"I do believe we are the ones with all the power." The old man said. "Let us get introductions out of the way first. My name is Harold, High Priest of Ho-Oh and Lugia, and an administrator for the Army of the Old Gods."
Harold spoke in such a… a cruelly pleasant voice that made Andy want to rip him apart. He could picture it as well; the purple that emanated out of his body would shatter into nothing as his throat was being ripped out. 'Wow, I used to be the pacifist.'
Andy had to force this out of himself. "The name's Andy," He spat, "follower of Mew. Now let her go." Samantha let a small gasp escape her mouth.
Harold grinned at this. "It's not as simple as that my friend. You must join the Army for her to live."
Andy had enough. He could feel the hatred he had for this man swell up inside his entire being. Ralts was feeling the same as Andy as a white glow engulfed her. As she was glowing, she lightly floated down to the concrete. Andy was ready to beat the living hell (Or should I say distortion?) out of the grunts and High Priest. He looked down at his Ralts… Scratch that; Kirlia.
"Kirlia, wipe out the grunts with psychic!" Andy exclaimed. The grunts flew backwards and fell unconscious. Andy tossed out Pikachu and ordered him to wreck the cells where prisoners were kept.
"You are worse than those blasphemers…" Harold groaned. He grabbed a Pokeball from his belt, kissed it, and sent out his Pokémon. "With the love of Ho-Oh, go, Cyndaquil!" He cried.
"Kirlia, confusion!" Cyndaquil ran straight into a wall.
"Cyndaquil, flamethrower!" Kirlia dodged with her new speed, but was hit by stray flames.
"I don't have time for this." Both Andy and Harold said at the same time.
"Kirlia, shadow ball!"
"Cyndaquil, swift!"
The two attacks clashed into each other, creating a shadowy sparkle that would make Andy's mom jealous. But not all of each attack was dissipated. Both Pokémon were sent back. Kirlia sent Andy an emotion of wellbeing, and Harold was concerned with Cyndaquil.
Andy decided he would release his anger the old-fashioned way. That's far from what happened though.
Andy was ready to punch until he saw a blue glow in his hand. He knew full well what it was.
He took aim at the frightened old man.
"This is what happens when you make enemies with one of the Aura," He said, his voice calm as an undisturbed lake. No ripples were in his voice.
"You get hurt." A tidal wave.
He fired the abnormally bright blue sphere at Harold. The Priest went flying into the heap of grunts and fell unconscious.
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Andy fell unconscious soon after releasing the blue sphere and screaming in pain, and was carried to a hospital by Samantha (A/N: She's athletic. If you have a problem with that, go eat Andy's Aura Sphere). Once she entered the ER, the group of prisoners called police.
'Don't die on me Andy.' Samantha thought as doctors took him to an examining room. Samantha was being calmed down by doctors and nurses after waiting more than a half hour; she started crying.
Only Kirlia and Charmander could calm her down.
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It was well into the evening before Samantha heard anything from the doctors.
The head doctor, a short man, looked at Samantha sincerely. "Miss Waterflower, before I give you the state of Andrew Ketchum, I must know your connection to him."
Samantha was appalled by this. Wasn't it obvious? "I'm his girlfriend." She said, trying to stay calm.
"Okay." The doctor started ruffling through his sheets. "Miss, Andrew Ketchum is alive, but he lost his eyesight." He said solemnly.
Samantha was furious.
"Miss, please understand, we did everything we could. It was his first time using Aura abilities, so he must have surged the power. It destroyed his pupils." The doctor quickly explained, and ran out of the lobby.
'Andy's blind…' Samantha thought repeatedly.
"But he can see." Kirlia Telepathically said.
/AUTHOR'S NOTE/ Alright, I'm kind of hiding right now! I'm hiding from you guys of course! I had to take Andy's eyes away to advance the plot. So now he can use Aura and Ralts is now Kirlia! Happy times? No? I'm gonna hid then!
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