Chapter Eighteen: The Pokéball Factory Part 1: More School
"Everybody wake the f #$ up!" Arcey shouted, her Hyper Voice waking up the entire Hall.
"Arceo damn it!" Ace groaned, putting his pillow over his head. "Why does she have to do this every f #$ing morning?"
Maura jumped up and ran to the table, still in her blue pajamas.
"Trust me" Darkrai said, chuckling. "Her great grandfather was much worse."
"How so?" Ace asked, curious as to what the demon that lived inside of him had to say about the first god.
"Well, he was far stricter." Darkrai said. "And he had a huge superiority complex (you could even call it a "god complex" *chuckle*). Also, he's the reason your fire breathing friend has her level of power."
"What do you mean?" Ace asked, curious.
"You know how she has Aeona's connection to the Eon Force?" Darkrai asked.
"What do you mean?" Ace asked.
"Eon has a connection to the Eon Force similar to Aeona's" Darkrai said. "Almost superior even. But she's a daughter of Arceus. How do you explain that?"
"Well, it seems like—" Ace said, before coming to a conclusion, his eyes widening. "Oh my Arceus"
"Yep" Darkrai said, chuckling at Ace's horrible mental image (Darkrai can see everything Ace can, including his thoughts). "He did. Me and the rest of the Unholy Destroyers had words for him after we found out, but Aeona told us not to let it get to us. In fact, that's part of why I rebelled against Arceo."
"Wow" Ace said, slowly getting to know the Dark Nightmare better. "That's really dark."
"You think that's bad" Darkrai said, grinning evilly (Ace can see a mental image of Darkrai, so he knows what expression he's making). "You should've seen what your parents did with you."
"What?" Ace asked, both partially horrified and curious at the same time.
"Nothing" Darkrai said, blowing off the question. "Now you'd better get breakfast before your flaming friend gets it."
"Oh sh!t, you're right!" Ace exclaimed before running off to the table, still in his boxers. They were his favorites, with the Crobatman emblem all over them.
At the breakfast table
"All right" Arcey said as she saw all of her pupils sit down at the dinner table. "Today we have a lot to do, so after we eat let's get down to them."
All the legendaries groaned. They knew what was coming: Arcey would make them do a lot of cleaning. She used to make them clean when Giratina came over, but granted, the Hall was a trash heap back five years ago. Arcey was making them take responsibility for their actions, so they had learned from that, but now she would make them do something just because she "f #$ing felt like it".
"Arcey, I have an idea" Ace said, a smug look on his face. Eon snickered because she knew what was coming (Shadow face palmed).
"What is it Ace?" Arcey asked, eager to receive new ideas.
"How about" Ace said, pulling out his iPod. "We could just skip the part where you tell us something we're not going to do anyway and get right to the part where we don't give a f #$?"
"If you don't have anything nice to say" Arcey said sternly. "Don't say anything at all."
"That was honestly the nicest thing I could've said at this point." Ace said, putting in his earbuds and turning on his music before laying back down to sleep. The label read: Shadow the Hedgehog Main Theme.
Arcey moved behind Ace using her inhuman speed and smacked Ace in the back of his head, effectively removing his earbuds and waking him back up.
"Now" Arcey said, not missing a beat. "We need to be wary of some things in the wake of this 'Nightmare' incident."
"Like what?" Entei asked, a little nervous.
"The first is that we should train more." Arcey said with a serious look on her face "We need to become stronger."
"What's this got to do with anything?" Ace asked, confused. "I'm all for training, but you've never been so serious about something like this in your whole life."
"In light of the Nightmare incident" Arcey said, sighing with the weight on her heart from what she had been thinking about all night. "I've decided that we're going to enact a new training program."
"New training program?" the legendaries thought to themselves.
"In this new program" Arcey continued. "We're going to work on teamwork as well as solo work. I know we've done teamwork before, but we need to do it more. I can't have anyone here become so desperate that they rely on pure chaos to remedy a situation. That would mean I've failed; as a god and as a mother as well as a teacher. I'm not going to let what happened five days ago happen again."
"That won't happen again." Raikou said, standing up. "Giovanni is dead. We won't have to worry about that monster again."
"He's dead that we know of" Arcey said, causing Shadow's eyes to widen and Ace to clench his fists in anger. "Also I'm worried about a greater threat to us than Giovanni. I'm worried about Zygarde."
At the mention of the Green Dragon's name every legendary in the Hall tensed up. They knew who he was. They had been training their asses off to at least stand a chance against him.
"We all know that we won't fight Zygarde." Entei spoke up for almost all of the other legendaries. "The only ones that will have a chance to fight him are the members of the Unholy Trinity."
"We can't always rely on them" Arcey said. "They won't always be around to solve our problems. We have to be able to fight for ourselves. I'm not going to be around forever either, so I can't babysit you guys all the time either. You will guard other regions when you become ready, so you have to be prepared to take on those responsibilities. Ace, Shadow, and Eon as well as the Dragon groups won't be able to help you guys all the time."
"We don't rely on them" Entei said, clenching his fists. "But the thing is they seem to throw themselves into most of our problems, not giving us a chance to solve them for ourselves."
"Well, that's true" Arcey thought. "We'll talk about this after they get back from school."
The three members of the Unholy Trinity got up and ran out the door, running to school.
Outside Pokémorph High
"So which one do you think is best?" Eon asked Ace as they walked towards the school.
"I think Shadow's the best." Ace said, think over his decision.
"Is that because it's the name of your girlfriend?" Eon asked, making a love-dovey voice.
"No" Ace said, chuckling a little. "Shadow's the badass of the group."
"But he's essentially the same as Sonic." Eon said, countering Ace's argument.
"He's better than Sonic" Ace said, rebutting Eon. "Shadow can do everything Sonic can and then has Chaos powers on top of that and can fly. He uses guns and he's black and red, my two favorite colors. Plus the music from his game was the best music in the entire franchise. Also Silver's a little bitch that can't run very fast and has weak telekinetic powers."
"I guess you're right." Eon said. "But I still say Sonic's the best."
"I like Blaze" Shadow said. "She has fire powers"
"Yeah, she's cool too" the other two agreed.
"Hey, there's Kiria" Ace said, pointing toward the open school doors. "And she's waving at us."
"Let's go say hi" Eon said.
"All right" Ace said. The three of them walked toward their first friend from school.
Pokémorph High-hallway
"Hi guys" Kiria greeted her friends as they entered the school. "What's up?"
Kiria was wearing blue shorts with back leggings underneath. Her shoes were also black with black laces. She wore a black shirt with long blue sleeves. Her gloves that she wore were blue with grey ovals on the backs of the palms. She wore a hat that was blue that had blue 'ears' on top of it and black ear covers that were long and tear shaped. Her face was kind and gentle. Her eyes were red, about four shades softer than Shadow's
"Hey Kiria" they said, lacking enthusiasm.
"What happened to you guys?" Kiria asked, noticing their facial expressions.
"Mom gave us all a lecture." Eon said, groaning. "It was the same old 'train to become stronger- I'm not always gonna be around stuff' she's always saying to get us to train"
"That sucks" Kiria said. "But at least the training's paid off."
"Oh we enjoy the training" Ace said. "Don't get us wrong. But it's just that she's always so dark about it. It's like she knows something we don't."
"Strange" Kiria said. "I guess we should get to class though. We'll be late if we don't."
"Right" the Unholy Trinity said, following the Riolu girl to their next class.
"There's something different about her." Darkrai said to Ace as they walked.
"I've been saying that for a while" Ace's inner mind said. "I just hope that whatever it is, it won't put me in a compromising situation."
"Listen kid." Darkrai said, sighing. "I'm gonna tell you this for your own good. You've gotta do what you gotta do."
"Still" Ace said. "Maybe Arcey would be able to tell me later."
Pokémorph High- Algebra 101
"And so class" the teacher, Mrs. Ella K. Zam, pointed at the blackboard. "That is how we can solve this problem"
Mrs. Zam was dressed in yellow pants with brown kneecaps. Her shoes were yellow with grey tips on them. Her blouse that she wore was also brown, but its sleeves were yellow and only went down to her elbows. From her elbows to her hands she wore brown arm warmers. She wore yellow gloves that seemed to have small claws on them. She wore a charm on each wrist that resembled spoons. Her hair was yellow and stuck up in a "v" format. Her face seemed bored, yet at the same time intelligent. Her eyes were a soft black and were very vibrant.
Mrs. Zam, however, had not noticed yet that her entire class was asleep, including Melody (probably the only student to even try to stay awake). The second she turned around, she realized that her entire class was drooling on their desks in their sleep.
"Well" she thought to herself. "That explains why they were so quiet. Usually they complain. But am I really that boring? Or is it just the algebra?"
"Class" she called loudly. Only three students responded, but they promptly went back to sleep.
Mrs. Zam got mad and threw Thunderbolts around the classroom, waking everyone up except for Kiria, Ace, Eon, and Shadow.
The Unholy Trinity was in one of the strangest sleeping arrangements ever to be thought of. Ace and Shadow were next to each other and leaning on each other, while Eon was on top of them, snoring away. Mrs. Zam wondered just how the three of them managed to sleep in such a peculiar and uncomfortable arrangement, especially after the Thunderbolt she just used.
"Wake Up Slap" she said, walking up to Ace. Her fist turned white as she prepared the move.
She threw the punch, fully expecting to wake up the Dark type. But before the punch could hit, a tendril made of shadows grabbed her hand, shocking her and making her lose the charge of the Slap.
She tried to pull away, but the shadow tendril held on to her tightly. After she pulled for about thirty seconds, it let go, causing her to almost fall over. She quickly regained her balance, looking with slight shock at the Dark type's defense.
"It's his self-defense mechanism." Melody said, explaining the situation to the Psychic type teacher. "It kicks in when he's about to be disturbed. Their 'mother' just wakes them up with a Hyper Voice."
"That's interesting" Mrs. Zam thought out loud. "And it works?"
"Almost every time." Melody said. Chopper, Mira, and Conner started to snicker, causing Melody to look back at them with a look that said "shut up".
"All right then, I'll try it." Mrs. Zam said. She took in a deep breath and screamed, shocking the Unholy Trinity awake. Kiria was also shocked awake by the jolting of the Unholy Trinity.
"Five more Arceodamned minutes!" Ace and Eon shouted, not realizing they were in class.
"Good morning, you three." Mrs. Zam said, looking at the three legendaries. "It seems like you've had a nice nap."
"Yeah" Eon said, rubbing her head. "Until you woke us up."
"Well, you should sleep more at home." Mrs. Zam said. "Now, would any of you like to help solve this next problem?"
"Nope." The three said, sitting in their seats.
Mrs. Zam continued with her teaching, the legendaries almost falling back asleep when the bell rang for everyone to leave.
Pokémorph High-hallway-Shadow's POV
When we left class, Ace and Eon went to their lockers, leaving me and Kiria to walk to ours. I swear, our lockers keep moving around randomly.
When we reached our lockers, there were some boys in purple standing in front of mine, standing as if they were waiting for me. They wore purple pants with yellow stripes down the sides. They all wore purple shirts, but some were also wearing purple jackets. Some of them wore hats that made them seem like they had a second head.
Suddenly it hit me: they were the same boys that had tried to harass me earlier this year. The ones that Ace had beaten up for that very reason. They were called some weird name. What was it? No, it wasn't Poison Stingers. Oh, I remember, it was Wheez&Koff. They had probably healed from that little incident and wanted to have a little fun.
I shuddered as I realized they had seen me. They walked up to me and Kiria, surrounding us so no one could see us inside of their little circle. But it's not like anyone would mess with them anyway. The only people not afraid of them were the students on par with legendaries (and Kiria, but she's new here).
"Well, hello ladies." The leader said, fully recovered from his little run in with Ace (Ace Moka kicked him into a locker). "It's so good to see you again"
"It's not so great to see you" I said, my voice calm. "No move so we can get to our lockers."
"Sorry, bitch" one of the other members said, stepping closer to us. "But we wanted a little payback from the last time we met. Without your boyfriend here, we'll be sure to get it."
"I don't need him to protect me from you" I said, unafraid of his threat.
"What sort of payback?" Kiria asked, slowly coming to the conclusion that they didn't want money.
"You'll understand in a few minutes" The leader said, reaching his hand out, most likely for my breasts. I grabbed it in midair, halting his advance. He just stared at my hand holding his arm and preventing it from advancing like it was nothing.
"How are you doing that?" Kiria asked me, shocked that I was effortlessly stopping his motion.
"I'm far stronger than you" I said to him, but it was addressing Kiria's question.
"I don't think so!" The leader shouted, infuriated, pulling back his arm and cloaking it in poison.
"Take this!" he shouted throwing his punch at me. "Poison Punch!"
His punch went straight towards my face. I quickly thought of things to do (not because I was worried about it hitting me, but because I wanted to intimidate him- to scare him into leaving me and Kiria alone). I finally decided to let the punch hit me in the face. When he made contact with my face I simply stood there, unmoving. He stared at me and his fist, as if he couldn't comprehend the fact that I hadn't even flinched when he full on punched me in the face.
He pulled back his other fist, doing the same thing with it, but this time I decided to catch it in midair. His horror was evident as I started to squeeze his fist.
He got really angry as I had taken every one of his punches and not shown a trace of fear.
"You bitch!" he shouted, clearly angry and preparing a strong Poison Jab. "I'll kill you!"
"Listen to me." I growled in a low voice, grabbing him by his shirt and pulling him close to me (something very unlike me- I was mad; after dealing with things like this for my entire life, I could only take so much before I exploded). "I'm sick and tired of this SH!T you're giving me. I will not be harassed by the likes of you. I've faced stronger evils than you can even comprehend. I've fought alongside monsters that would make you soil yourself, and I've not even batted an eye in their direction."
"Now I'm only going to tell you this once." I said, causing my eyes to flash. "If you don't leave me and my friends alone, then I will personally escort you straight to the gates of hell. Do I make myself clear?"
He looked at me with a look that told me he understood completely. I threw him back to his friends and they all ran away. Kiria looked at me with a look of shock.
"Wow, Shadow!" She shouted excitedly. "That was awesome!"
"Thanks" Kiria I replied. Suddenly I felt a little funny. There was this tingle on my face, right where the Wheezing boy punched me. Almost immediately after I felt the tingle, I couldn't hold my balance and fell over, my vision fading. The last thing I remember before blacking out was Kiria calling my name and Ace and Eon running over to me.
Pokémorph High- Nurse's Station- Shadow's POV
I slowly opened my eyes to discover that I was in the nurse's station. I turned my head to the right to see Ace was on the bed next to me, sitting and watching me. He must have noticed that my eyes were open because he sat up straighter.
"What happened?" I asked, still unsure of how I wound up in the nurse's station.
"You were poisoned." Ace said, his tone seeming slightly confused.
I realized that the punch I took to my face must have been what poisoned me.
"Why did you let him punch you in the face?" Ace asked, confused.
"I wanted to show him I wasn't scared of him and that I could annihilate him if I wanted to." I said, a little embarrassed that this was the result of my endeavor.
"Did it work?" Ace asked.
"Yeah" I said, smiling a little.
"Nice" Ace said, giving me a thumbs up. "I saw them running and assumed that you had done something to them to scare them off. I ran over to find you and saw you unconscious with Kiria. Me and Eon got you here fast. Eon's with Kiria and they're killing time while I wait in here for you to recover."
"That's sweet of you" I said, feeling warmth in my face. I noticed Ace's face was getting a little redder.
"I told that nurse to turn off that damn air conditioner" Ace said, getting up.
"Sit down" I told him, having already figured out his little cover up.
He sat down on my bed, lying down next to me. I could feel the warmth of his body right next to mine (oh Arceus, this is getting awkward). My breathing became shallower and I could hear his was too. We just lay there for a while, looking up at the ceiling, too embarrassed to look at each other.
"Are you recovered yet?" he looked over and asked me. I don't know why, but I stopped breathing for a second.
"I-I think so" I said, staring into his eyes (why was I acting like this? I didn't know, but I kind of didn't want it to stop.). Our lips (almost) involuntarily got closer and closer. They were now about an inch apart. I started to feel colder, as if the light was being sucked from the room.
At that moment, my cell phone rang. I picked it up and looked at it. The label read: Arcey. I answered the phone, a hologram of the being that was revered (at least by us legendaries anyway) as god.
"Hello Shadow. Ace." She said. "I just wanted you three to check up on something. Get Eon so I can tell all three of you at the same time."
"How come you don't call me on my phone?" Ace asked.
"Because you broke your phone the last time you got into a fight with Chopper." Arcey told him.
"Oh yeah" he said, embarrassed that he didn't remember that. I giggled a little, until he gently poked me with his elbow.
"Anyway" Arcey continued. "Go get her so I can tell you three. Call me back when you do."
She hung up the phone, causing her hologram to disappear. Ace leapt off the bed, landing on his feet. He extended his hand to me, motioning for me to grab it. I grabbed it and he pulled me to my feet.
"I'm glad Arcey called." He said. "I was starting to slightly lose my grip."
I then remembered why Ace and I don't show our emotions much (for some reason it slipped my mind): his nightmare powers. If Ace goes too far into an extreme emotional state like anger (or passion ), then he can lose control of himself and become a terrifying Dark creature known as Nightmare, who can give people nightmares just by being around them. I'm immune, so it doesn't bother me, but not even Eon can resist the power of Nightmare's very aura. Ace and I have been working together to keep Nightmare held back, but Ace still has to be careful with his emotions.
"I'm sorry" I apologized, not wanting to cause him pain.
"It's fine" Ace said, taking my hand. "I didn't want it to stop either. Now let's go find our 'flaming friend' so we can hear what Arcey wants to tell us."
The two of us walked out the door to find Eon and Kiria to learn of our next mission.
Pokémorph High- hallway- normal POV
Eon and Kiria were sitting on the bench just around the corner from where Ace and Shadow were in the nurse's station. Suddenly Eon sat bolt upright, as if sensing something. Ace and Shadow walked around the corner and she jumped on them, tackling them to the ground.
"Well, thank Arceo you're not Cressa" Ace said from under his best friend.
"I haven't been able to get in a good fight with you in a long time." Eon said, grinning.
"We got a call from Arcey." Shadow said before the two of them could have a full blown war in the hallway (but it's not like they haven't done it already- that poor janitor Mr. Sugimori). "She wants us to call her and see what our mission is."
"All right!" Eon said. "Skipping school and kicking some ass. That's a great day in my book."
Shadow pulled out her cell phone and dialed the number for Arcey. After a few seconds of ringing, the God Pokémon's human face appeared in hologram forme.
"Yes Shadow?" Arcey said to the Dark Empath before being distracted by something the group couldn't see.
"Mina!" the God Pokémon yelled to the pink psy-girl. "You're grounded! Get off of that laptop!"
"Aww, but Arcey!" Mina whined from somewhere out of the view of the group. "I'm reading this great fanfiction. I just ended a chapter on a cliffhanger. Xeno just stabbed Darkrai through the heart when he entered his Devour Forme and went completely psycho."
"Ahh" Arcey mused, knowing what she was reading as she took Mina's laptop. "Ace told me about that part because my internet went down when it first came out. Gardevoir goes batsh!t crazy when she sees it, goes Blanc Forme and battles Xeno on equal terms. Ho-oh notices and Absolix causes him to forget. Giga gets pissed that Darkrai's almost dead, while Cresselia and the others try to heal Darkrai. Absolix tries to take Gardevoir, but Darkrai has Asmodeus teach him Horror so he can feign being all right and beat Xeno to stop Absolix from taking her. Absolix releases his full power, Darkrai converses with him, they have a small battle, and Victini manages to convince Absolix to heal Darkrai." (this is from an actual fanfic on this site-my favorite fic actually—if you don't know what it is, it's from Cataclyptic's Legendary Pokémon (spoilers))
"Aww, Arcey!" Minna whined again. "You spoiled the ending!"
"Mina, there's thirteen more chapters available and a third movie that's taking so Arceodamned long to come out." Arcey said, not amused. "Also that chapter came out two years ago."
"But I've never read it!" Mina whined.
"Mina, you're probably going to read it again the very second you get your laptop back." Arcey said, starting to get a small headache. "Just go to your room until I can think of a suitable punishment."
"Um, Arcey" Ace said, sweatdropping. "We're still here."
"Oh right" Arcey said, realizing she was supposed to be doing something else when Mina distracted her. "Your mission"
"Yeah" Shadow said, also sweatdropping. "What is it?"
"Your mission" Arcey said, trying to act extremely serious, but failing. "must be kept secret."
"Kiria's right here" Eon said.
"I don't care" Arcey said. "She can listen."
The members of the Unholy Trinity could do nothing but stare with confusion at the human known as god.
"Now listen carefully" Arcey said, snapping them out of their confusion. "There have been some weird things going on at the Pokéball factory lately."
"That's where my mom works!" Kiria said, starting to worry.
"Your what?" Arcey said, before realizing she said something she probably shouldn't. "Oh right, your adoptive mom. Well, I need you three (and Kiria can tag along if it's not too dangerous) to see what's going on and if it's dangerous to handle it."
The members of the Unholy Trinity looked at each other with excited looks.
"Without completely demolishing the factory." Arcey added sternly.
"What?!" Eon shouted angrily, drawing some negative attention.
"Bull sh!t!" Ace shouted.
Shadow just gave Arcey a look that said: "What did you expect to get from these two?"
"Jeez" Arcey said, frustrated. "I shouldn't have to remind you guys not to blow up everything you encounter on a mission."
"But it's fun to obliterate stuff!" Ace and Eon said, their voices sounding like people half their age.
"I don't care" Arcey said, her voice stern. "I'm tired of fixing the huge messes you guys make when you go on missions."
"But what if we encounter a really strong bad guy?" Ace asked, starting to sound like a six year old.
"Then I will accept some collateral damage." Arcey said, immediately turning to Ace and Eon. "But if I find out you two destroyed the factory without a valid reason, I will have both your asses."
Ace and Eon snickered to each other. They would get some destruction in this mission. And Arcey wouldn't do a thing about it. They covertly fist bumped each other, grinning as they thought of how they were going to accomplish their destructive plan.
"Oh" Arcey said, remembering something. "Before I go I'd just like to say that there's been someone scoping out the factory while these strange events have been going on. I'd like for her to accompany you on your mission."
"But Arcey/mom!" Ace and Eon said at the same time, sad that their destruction might be put on hold. "She'll only slow us down if she's with us."
"I'm also going to keep you two from needlessly destroying everything inside of that factory." A fiery female voice said. "Because what's inside of there might blow your minds."
Kiria and the Unholy Trinity turned to see who had spoken, the three legendaries running up to the source of the voice: a woman.
The woman was wearing and orange shirt with green and white stripes running down the sleeves. The sleeves were long and ran down past her arms, almost covering her hands completely. They resembled wings if one looked at them right. She wore orange, fingerless gloves under the large sleeves, her fingers slender yet powerful. The shorts she wore were white and came down to just above her knees. She wore black leggings underneath her shorts that went into her shoes. Her shoes were also black and seemed to have claws on them. The laces were marked in such a way that it added to the look of claws. She wore a green collar around her neck that was the same color as her stripes. Her skin had a very slight orange tint to it, as if she stayed a little too long in the sun or ate too many carrots. Her face looked kind as well as fiery (not on Eon's level, but still fiery). Her hair was blonde and curled back into itself. Her eyes were orange, just about the same shade as the fruit. She had a look of pride and warrior's instincts as she walked up to the legendaries.
"Ho-Oh!" the three members of the unholy Trinity shouted, running up and hugging the Great Phoenix. Ho-oh hugged them back, laughing as she squeezed the beings she'd come to love like her own children (she was a motherly age after all-38).
"It's great to see you guys." The Great Phoenix said, still laughing. "It's been a while since I've been in the Hall."
"Why won't you come back?" Shadow asked.
"Because" Ho-oh said, sighing with a heavy heart. "After Lugia died seven years ago I decided I needed to learn to become stronger by myself."
"But we were here with you." Ace said. "You didn't have to suffer his death alone. Bianca could have used your support, seeing as how she had both lost her brother and her uncle within a year of each other."
"I couldn't stay there" Ho-Oh said. "The sadness was too great for me."
"You're always welcome back in the Hall" Arcey's hologram said to the Great Phoenix. "It's been a little bit sadder without you. I know Lugia was your boyfriend and you feel responsible with his death, but you must know it wasn't your fault. It was Yveltal's."
"You think I don't know that?!" Ho-Oh shouted at the hologram, drawing attention to herself. Ace told the bystanders all to move on.
"I know Yveltal caused him to be unleashed" Ho-Oh said, tears brimming in her eyes. "and I know Ace was the one that fought him, but I couldn't stay in the same place that he lived in without him. It was just too sad for me."
"I understand" Arcey's hologram said, sighing. Lugia's death also weighed heavily on her, due to the fact that she was both god and responsible for her Council. Instead of protecting her Council, however, she had lost two of them to a demon she herself wasn't powerful enough to face. That thought haunted her every night, along with the fact that her children would be in situations that she couldn't help them with. She knew it kept some of them up at night, Ace included.
"But" Arcey said, her voice comforting. "The offer's still open if you want to come back any time. We'd all love to have you back among our ranks."
"I'll consider it" Ho-Oh said, sniffling and wiping her eyes, causing the members of the Unholy Trinity to smile and pump their fists.
"But I make no promises" she said to the three teens.
"All right" Arcey's hologram said. "I'll leave you to discuss the mission with them."
"Fine" Ace said, taking a quick look at Kiria. "But after this, we're going to have a little chat."
"About what?" Arcey asked innocently, though it was unclear whether she was feigning innocence or really didn't know what Ace wanted to talk about (she was god after all).
"You know what" Ace said, taking another look at Kiria.
"Fine" Arcey said, realizing her Dark pupil wasn't going to let her get out of this one. "But only after the mission is completed."
Arcey hung up her phone, causing her hologram to disappear. The other legendaries looked at the Great Phoenix, wondering what she would tell them about their mission.
"Um, Ms. Ho-Oh" Kiria said timidly, partially intimidated by Ho-Oh's tough demeanor. "Is my mom gonna be okay? She works at the Pokéball factory that you guys are talking about."
"Well" Ho-Oh said, trying to figure out what to say. "What's happened is that I believe some people have taken the factory over and may be holding the workers hostage."
"So my mom's a hostage?!" Kiria said, her eyes widening.
"Ho-Oh" Ace said, grabbing the Great Phoenix's arm. "I think we should take this to a more private location. We could draw the wrong kind of attention here."
"You're right" Ho-Oh said, glancing around at her surroundings. "You never know who's watching."
The five of them made their way out of the school to an alleyway behind the building across the street. Once there, Ho-Oh resumed her briefing of the mission to the legendaries and Kiria.
"Okay" Ho-Oh said, glancing all around her to make sure no one was watching. "So as I said before, I believe that the Pokéball factory has been compromised, and the workers are all hostages."
"But we can free them, right?" Kiria asked, worried for her mother's sake. "I want to save my mother. Can we please save her?"
"We will try" Ho-Oh said in a comforting voice. "But we need to act quickly before the people that have taken it hostage succeed in their goals."
"Who's taken it over?" Shadow asked. "And what are their goals?"
"I don't know the answer to either of those questions." Ho-Oh said. "I've been watching the place carefully, but I can't seem to figure out what they want from it."
"What could be some potential reasons?" Ace asked.
"I don't know" Ho-Oh said, pondering the fact. "It doesn't make much money and the authorities wouldn't come immediately to it if it was compromised."
"Then why would someone attack it and take its employees hostage?" Shadow asked, the question not making sense to her.
"That's what we need to find out." Ho-Oh said. "But I don't want to go in there alone incase it's a powerful foe like Yveltal or Giovanni. That's why I asked Arcey to send you guys to help me. I could use you guys' help to stop this bad group of people once and for all."
"We're in" all three members of the Unholy Trinity said at once, signifying their excitement for the mission.
"I'm going too" Kiria said boldly. "I want to help rescue my mother from the evil beings that have taken her hostage."
"Kiria" Ace said, trying to discourage the Riolu girl from her wild idea. "It's going to be very dangerous. You might die if you go in there."
"I don't care!" Kiria shouted with tears starting to form in her eyes, startling Ho-Oh and even Ace and Eon. "My mother is being held hostage in there. She's the one that raised me, the one that sacrificed a lot to help me become the woman I am today. Don't you understand what that means to a person?"
Ace, Shadow, Eon, and even Ho-Oh paused. They all knew someone like that, someone that had cared for them and comforted them when they were sad. A being that wielded such terrifying power, yet still cared for her "children" as if they meant the world to her (which they did). A being that had earned her title through not only her power and skill, but her compassion as well.
"All right" Ace said, taking Kiria's hand and putting his arm around her. "You can come. But you have to promise me you'll leave and hide if we tell you to."
"All right" Kiria said, wiping her tears away. "Let's go rescue her and the other workers"
Ho-Oh opened a portal, its coordinates being right in front of the Pokéball factory. The five of them stepped in, the portal closing behind them as they made their way to what would most likely be yet another crazy adventure.
A short time after i uploaded this I found out that Satoru Iwata, the Ceo of Nintendo, had died of a bile duct growth, being aged 55. Iwata has been on staff to make some great franchises come to life, including Earthbound (Mother in Japan), Kirby, Super Smash Bros., and even some Pokemon games and helped with The Legend of Zelda, Mario, and even Animal Crossing. He helped produce systems such as the DS and Wii. His death is a very sad time and he will be missed greatly. In part, if he hadn't done what he had done, I probably wouldn't be writing this fanfiction and pokemon might not be what it is today. So in part i'd like to dedicate this chapter to Satoru Iwata. As he said: "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer." Let's all remember that as we enjoy the things we enjoy about this site: Great stories, colorful creativity, and wonderful innovation, some things Nintendo has shown us over the years.