Category: Pokémon
Rating: M
Couples: X
Warnings: AU, Disturbing Imagery,
Chapter: 12
Copyright: Characters & places © By Game Freak, Plot & OC´s © by me
Author's Note: Multi Chapter Interlude between Sword's Fate and its' upcoming Sequel. Can be read alone.
"Italics" is indicative of Telepathy.
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"That can't be all there is to it?" Cynthia demanded. "Are you honestly just going to leave it at 'you'll get them back in a month'? What are we supposed to tell everyone? They are asking questions, you know."
"The affairs of humans do not concern us." Giratina pointed out. "What should we care for your politics?"
"You caused the politics." Alder countered, gesturing around him. "If not for you deciding to just take them, we'd not be in this situation."
"Since when are humans this demanding?" The ghost-type Legendary mused, lifting off from her seat on the platform. A ripple passed through her body and Mewtwo realized that Giratina had not gone to confer with Arceus, but merely to get the Griseous Orb. The Creation-Trio member was expecting a fight to break out. "We have given you all we are willing to give, we suggest you be happy with that and question us no more."
Without needing to be prompted, the Pokémon took up position in front of their trainers, ready for battle. Mewtwo too took a battle-position, his psychic glow shining around his body.
The massive dragon roared, shadows suffusing the room around her. The air near to the red spikes rippled, looking almost like multiple gates to the Distortion World were opening.
Instead of gates, bubbles formed, the like of which Mew loved to spend her time in. Instead of the bright pink the most elusive Psychic-type Legendary so favoured however, these were blood-red like the spikes that seemed to have spawned them.
Diantha could not stop a gasp at the sight; there, in the grip of Giratina's power, floated four people. One of them she knew well. "Olympia!"
Anistar's Gymleader did not react to the outcry of her friend, merely floating in the bubble. The other three did not give any indication they had heard the Kalosian Champion either.
Gardevoir seized her chance. Another Psychic being Arceus knew where was one matter, but a Great Psychic right in front of her? That she could work with. Glowing almost more vibrantly than Mewtwo, the part-Fairy cast her mind outward, honing in on the friend of her trainer. She was a touch surprised that neither Legendary made any move to stop her. Were they so certain that whatever they had done to the Psychic humans would hold against her?
It felt like she tried to break down a concrete wall with her head. It actually just might hold.
Suddenly Diantha's Pokémon felt a presence in her mind, Steven's Metagross appearing beside her with glowing eyes.
"This is something of a risk." The Steel-type pointed out, adding his own power behind her attempt. "If Giratina attacks over this, I'm not so sure anyone is walking out of this."
"I have to try." Gardevoir countered, feeling the barrier between herself and Olympia crumbling under the combined pressure.
"Bold." Mewtwo whispered softly. Without him actively resisting their attempt, they were breaking through. It would certainly be interesting to see how that would develop.
Power reverberated across the Psychic plane when the two Psychic-type Pokémon broke through the barrier holding Olympia unconscious. The Kalosian Gymleader woke with a start, gasping for a non-existent breath as the last vestiges of Mewtwo's power faded from her mind.
"Olympia!" Diantha called again, this time being rewarded with a reaction. The purple-haired woman rolled over, moving to face her friend as well she could.
"Diantha… You… you have to leave..." For all that she was infuriated with the circumstances, the fact that she had felt Mewtwo's mind every time had proclaimed that what had happened had been for good reasons had been enough to convince her. At least, for now.
"I'm not leaving without you!" Completely ignoring the massive dragon, Diantha tried to close in, only being stopped at Lance yanking her back behind their Pokémon.
"Trust me." Olympia smiled faintly. "You cannot save me, Diantha. Go." She jerked forward with a cry, her spectral body cramping up as the little protection Gardevoir and Metagross had managed to erect being brushed aside like nothing. The two Psychic-types cried out at the backlash, staggering back. The other Champion-Pokémon closed ranks to protect them immediately as their trainers rushed to their sides.
"And that will be all." Giratina finally spoke up. This time, her tone held a note of finality. If they didn't leave now, they might well never.
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"That did nothing." Diantha darkly stated.
"It did something; we know that they are safe." Steven pointed out, resting one hand on the despondent woman. "We know when they'll be back."
"But we can't actually tell the anxious public that since it'd mean revealing that a bunch of Legendaries decided to… to just abduct them." Lance countered with an annoyed undertone in his voice. "We gained nothing that will actually help in dealing with the people." He was pacing in the room.
"But we do know we just need to buy time for a month and think of some explanation for a group-coma." Cynthia spoke up, entering with a plate of tea- and coffeecups and some cookies. "That is something at least, Lance."