Category: Pokémon
Rating: M
Couples: X
Warnings: AU, Disturbing Imagery,
Chapter: 16
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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Lance was correct. Seemingly without warning, several Pokémon burst from their Pokéballs, closing in on the glass-tubes holding the Psychic-type Gym Leaders.
"Well..." Diantha put her paperwork aside, rising to join them. A small smile formed around her mouth as she watched the two catlike Pokémon paw at the glass.
"I don't really see activity though." Cynthia gestured to the screens that would show such a thing.
"Because going back at once would be detrimental." It was a soft voice that echoed in their heads. Despite nothing showing it, Caitlin had returned to her body. "It's nice to see that we have a welcoming-commitee."
"Welcoming-commitee with quite some questions." Alder countered, barely resisting the urge to poke her on the glass. "You better have an explanation for this."
"Certainly." Lucian answered, the feel of his mental voice propelling the metal bell he owned up and closer towards him. "Relax, Bronzong. Behave yourself. I feel that the glass will not be able to stop you."
"You should see your library." Cynthia snorted. "He exploded it."
A wave of minor annoyance poured through the room, before something else seemed to dam it in. The air trembled briefly before it successfully disappeared completely.
"What was that?" Lance's eyes narrowed, the feel of someone else's emotions being more than alien to anyone not a Psychic.
"The price for a disembodied Psychic." Olympia informed them. "A good part of our barriers is formed by our body. Without it, there is nothing to reduce the impact."
Forming from thin air, spectral bodies appeared, the four Great Psychic's images smiling down gently. Their Pokémon cried out in happiness, the rest of their teams now also pouring out of their Pokéballs.
By that point, the room was getting quite crowded. In the end, the Champions were forced to withdraw lest they risk that the sheer number and weight of everyone would damage the stasis-tubes.
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It was a mere hour later that the door was opened, without a clear hand guiding it. "Please tell me you brought us some normal clothes." Sabrina's mind had moved the door, she herself floating through the opening. "These are very uncomfortable." Aside from her Alakazam, she had returned the rest of her team to their Pokéballs. She touched down gently, her hair falling down around her shoulders.
"They're in a bag in there somewhere." Lance gestured towards the room she had just left.
"So I see." The Saffron Gym Leader's eyes glowed briefly, before her clothes changed with a flash. She stretched, rolling her shoulders. "Much better."
"You better be grateful I assisted you, otherwise you'd be taking Caitlin's outfit." Olympia was preceded by her two Meowstic, the two catlike Pokémon almost bouncing in the empty air with their happiness. "And I am not sure that would have suited you."
"Or fit!" The Unovean Psychic called from the room. "Ah, this is so much better than being in a coma."
"I think that is easy to achieve." Cynthia pointed out dryly. "Now can you tell us why you ended up in it though?" She only spared a brief glance around before continuing. "Why did a bunch of legendaries abduct you!?"
"I do not know what you are talking about." Lucian adjusted his sleeve as he joined the two females outside. "Cynthia, the very notion is preposterous. Not to mention worrying."
For a bit, it looked like the Sinnoh-Champion might jump at her Elite in retaliation, but Diantha stopped her. "What did happen then, Lucian?"
"A disturbance in the ether. Deep but powerful." Olympia answered her instead. "Only to be felt by those most sensitive to these matters, but felt profoundly by those."
"We feared the twins would not be able to withstand it..." Caitlin finally joined them as well, combing her hair with her fingers. "So we shielded them, to our own detriment."
"Olympia tried to experiment, and blew up her house." Sabrina smirked. "A-plus control there, dearie."
"At least I managed to try something, unlike you lot who keeled over immediately." Anistar's Gym Leader might have snorted a bit at that statement. "I wonder what it says about your powerlevels."
Their reaction might have been best described as three arrows of insult and annoyance. The purple-haired female merely smiled serenely, brushing them aside.
"Anyway." Lucian turned to the Champions. "Regardless of any personal shielding-abilities, it was quite the mental hit. Sorry about that. Also, we're taking a vacation."
Cynthia might have cussed him out after that one though.