AN: Hey everyone! I'm on break from college now so I should have a little more free time to work on this. Anyways hope you enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: ... Man I had enough of this already. Pokémon doesn't belong to me. All rights go to The Pokémon Company Inc.
Chapter 16: The Meeting
We were all walking to the table and then I heard Mewtwo's voice in my mind.
"Chosen one." It said to me telepathically.
"Yes Mewtwo." I said back telepathically. I sensed it being taken aback when I did that. I don't even know how I did that.
"Come to me. I'm behind you." It said. I turned around and saw it close to the hallway to the doors of the gym. I walked to it.
"What's up Mewtwo?" I asked slightly confused.
"I want you to join Olympia and I." It said.
"But she has to lead everyone." I said.
"It'll be us 3 doing it. But I feel like you should be the leader and we will guide you." It said. I was taken aback. I would help them lead? I don't know how I would do that.
"How could I do that?" I asked curiously and confused.
"Your thinking in battle is outside the box. And your leadership has helped us mythical and legendary Pokémon in the past. We could use that brilliant mind and leadership in battle." It said to me. That's true I did come up with lots of plans in battle that were out of the box and my leadership is vital.
"You're right. I'll join you guys. But I don't know it would be rough to lead a huge number of people." I said.
"Don't worry about it Chosen One. You'll do great. We will help you along the way." It said reassuringly.
"Wait have you been in a situation like this before?" I asked it.
"I have. On a much smaller scale though. But it's ok we are here to help. Everyone is." It said to me encouragingly. I nodded determined to help lead this.
"Alright I'm in. Let's do this." I said.
"Sounds good. Also allow Greninja to come up with you also." If said.
"Why's that?" I tilt my head in confusion.
"You'll see soon enough." It said with a smirk.
"I see. Gotta love the secrecy." I said with a slight chuckle. It smiled at me.
"Let's get on up there." It said as it began to float up to Olympia. I followed behind. There was commotion, but I know in a moment there was gonna be silence to be ordered by Olympia. All three of us, Olympia, Mewtwo, and I along with Greninja were on the stage now. The commotion died down a bit as they noticed me go up on stage. Some were wondering why I was up there, and others like Serena, Cilan and Brock knew I was gonna be up to a job. As it fell quiet Mewtwo floated forward a little bit.
"Alright everyone. As most if not all of you know this is Ash Ketchum. He has been known as the Chosen One among us legendary Pokémon and has helped the world out in so many ways possible. He is going to be leading a majority of you guys in the war," With it saying that a lot of murmuring happened. Some people thought that I wasn't fit for it because I was on the young side, and others believed that I was going to be to able to do it easily. It's nerve wracking a bit. But I was determined to do it.
"He will be key in this war. Same with every single one of you guys in here too. We will be able to stop Team Flare and the other evil organizations from reaching that Sundial and wreaking havoc on this planet." It said. Everyone collectively nodded their head in determination.
"Well Ash. I have said my part. Everyone is eager to hear what you would like them to do." It said. Everyone nodded in agreement. I was nervous. I haven't even thought of anything. I looked at Mewtwo and he nodded at me, giving a "you can do this" look. I look to Olympia who floated next to Mewtwo. She had the same look on her face. I then turned towards the quiet and eager crowd who was awaiting my instructions. I looked down at my feet and the gears of my mind began to turn. Maybe we could just attack them head on all at once, or set up barricades around the Sundial to make it impenetrable. Hell maybe even try negotiating. I shook my head disappointed in myself. All of those have flaws. I looked out to the crowd who was still silent. I looked at the champions of each region. Then, an epiphany happened for me. I know a plan that could definitely work. And I think a lot of people will agree.
"Alright I have a plan," everyone looked extremely eager to hear what I had to say.
"I'd say everyone from their respective regions should focus on the evil organization from their region. Since I know all of you have been keeping a close eye on them. You guys would have more knowledge of your region's organizations than other regions would know. So everyone should go and focus on their own region's organizations to help speed up the process." I said. Everyone murmured and saying they were pretty good at their own region's evil organization. I then started calling out all of the Champions of each region to see what they know so far.
"Ok we'll start at home. Lance. I'm sure you know a lot about Team Rocket. I mean I do since they've constantly been trying to steal my Pikachu for the past 9 years. They're always so predictable." I said. He nodded in agreement.
"Oh yeah get this. My intel has told me that Giovanni wants to sit this one out," Everyone gasped in shock by that.
"He says at some point he may want to help stop the Kalos Disaster too. Which doesn't make sense considering of what he's done in the past. Something does seem fishy about it." He said. And he was right. Something is off. I know Giovanni wouldn't back down from a potential take-over-of-the-world type situation. It made me very curious but I realized I had to set it aside.
"Thank you Lance for the info. How about you Champion of Hoenn, Steven Stone?" I asked him. He was pretty close to me so it was easier to hear, but I do have my aura to help out with that if he was further away.
"Well Team Aqua and Team Magma will both partake in this event. All associates from both parties will be here in Kalos which will not be good at all since they do have numbers." He said. I nodded and pondered that. Higher numbers does mean more resources and time to train them so I think their skill levels will be no match for ours.
"Alright well since they have lots more numbers that means more time and effort and resources to train them so their grunts' skill levels will not be near us at all." I said. I sensed approval from both Olympia and Mewtwo. A lot of people in the crowd murmured in agreement including Steven Stone.
"That is very true. I'm glad you pointed that out Ash I would've never thought of that," I nodded feeling pretty proud of myself.
"Although I do hear that the leader Archie is fiddling around with Mega Evolution which could slow us down a bit. Same with the leader of Magma Maxie." He said. Hmm well that's ok we have secret weapons of our own too.
"That's ok. I'm sure we can handle that. Thank you for your intel Steven." I said gratefully.
"Glad to be of service." He says while bowing his head slightly. I then look around and find Cynthia who is more towards the back of the tables.
"Alright Cynthia. What about Team Galactic? What's going on with them?" I asked. She then stood up. She had a digital watch which she then held up her wrist and clicked a button on it and a hologram popped up. The image showed a factory with machinery and barrels in it. The barrels had the imprint "S-9" on them.
"This is a sort of drug that is basically steroids for Pokémon. It's called Serum-9. They have created this in hopes of increasing the power in all of the grunts' Pokémon to skip the time and training of getting them stronger. Thankfully there isn't a big load of it, but they are reproducing it as we speak so their supply will grow bigger. It's hard to infiltrate their bases we had to use a bunch of stealth technology to even get this close and have photos taken of it." She said. This will be a problem. Encountering enhanced Pokémon will be a struggle. But if we train up until then we can have our Pokémon do anything. That's for sure. And I'm sure a lot of us have Mega Evolution.
"Hmmm. We will train until then. Nonstop. We will get stronger all of us. And if you have Mega Evolution, use it." I said with determination. Everyone agreed.
"Speaking of which, there is word Cyrus knows a lot about Mega Evolution which is bad for us." Cynthia said. That is bad. He could spread the knowledge to the other teams and that would be bad for us. I gritted my teeth slightly.
"Ok thank you Cynthia for the info." I said. She nodded then sat back down turning off her watch. I looked at Alder. I know I was in the Unova region not that long ago, but who knows what Team Plasma and Ghetsis have been doing. I wonder if N is in anyway related to this.
"Alright Alder. What do you got for us?" I asked. He looked a little nervous when I asked him this.
"Well you know that whole mind control thing that they had back when you were in Unova? Well it's back. And better than ever apparently. My Elite Four have been scoping out Team Plasma for the past 3 months and it turns out they can pretty much control any Pokémon it wants. Even if the bond is as strong as it can be." He said. That definitely hit hard. My bond with my Pokémon is phenomenal, but could it withstand that I have no idea. I sensed worry from Greninja. I looked at him. He did look worried.
"What are we gonna do about this?" He asked me. I thought for a second. Maybe Clemont could create a device similar to what Rooker used to help us out that one time at the Pokémon laboratory in Unova.
"Don't worry Greninja it will be fine. We will be able to overcome this." Some people in the crowd gasped at me being able to understand him. Even Valerie.
"Do you think Clemont could help at all?" He asked me. I nodded.
"Yeah I think so. I have a plan." I said.
"I just don't want to be controlled while we are using the form." He said worried. That hit hard. Greninja is easily my strongest Pokémon so if the evil organizations had that on their side, it's game over for us.
"Yeah we need to think about something quick. I will definitely talk to him later." I said. I turn back towards the crowd who was still in shock and looked at Alder again.
"Anything else you've seen over there Alder?" I asked. He thought for a second and then shook his head no.
"Alright well thank you for the information." I said.
"My pleasure." He said. I then looked at Diantha. But we both know what they're up to. They are trying to clone Zygarde and use that against us in the war. But Diantha explained the situation to everyone that didn't know. That lasted a couple of minutes. I then turn to Olympia and Mewtwo after Diantha was done explaining Team Flare's involvement.
"Well Olympia? Mewtwo? We have enough information gathered. What next?" I asked them.
"Well we should definitely train for a bit and then get some rest. We have a lot of preparing to do." Olympia said.
"We need to prepare necessities too like food, water, forms of communication and stuff like that." Mewtwo said. Everyone nodded in agreement. I saw Clemont stand up.
"Well the communication part I have completed," He said while reaching for his bag. He pulled out a big case and opened it. Inside were many earpieces that were pretty small.
"I created all of these over our travels just in case we needed them and we need them now so I thought I'd unveil them. Took me a while, but I managed to make over 200 earpieces. You simply put in your ear, and tap it to turn the mic on and off. And if yours breaks, then there's replacements." He said. That's so awesome he did that. Everything was "oooing" and "ahhhing".
"I will pass these out the day of the war beginning." He said.
"Wow brother that's great! Your inventions are getting better and better. By a little bit." Bonnie said teasingly. He gave her a death stare with his face red and everyone started laughing including her. While they were laughing I felt a presence outside. Greninja did too. We looked at each other.
"Someone's here." I said. The laughter died down. I looked at Greninja. We both nodded at each other. We needed to go into the form for a bit. My heartbeat grew quicker and my body temperature rose. Mewtwo knew exactly what was gonna happen.
"Alright Greninja let's get stronger now! Grrr, Let's go!" I said as I felt it starting to happen.
"Let's do this!" He said. Everyone began looking at us shocked at what's happening.
"Wait you're gonna do that now?!" Olympia asked surprised. We had to. I don't know what's at that door.
"I sense someone at the door." I said determined. Me and Greninja cocked our arms back yelled and the torrent rose from him. Everyone looked on in shock. The torrent then exploded as it sprayed water everywhere and then the Water Shuriken was formed on his back. I could tell everyone was speechless. Mewtwo smiled proudly at the form.
"Now let's see what's going with what's out there. Greninja ready a Water Shuriken." I said.
"You got it." He said as he took the Shuriken off his back and prepared it. The door then rang and Olympia looked at it like a ghost past through it.
"Ash open it." She said. Greninja and I looked at her shocked along with pretty much everyone in the room.
"But we don't know who that is." I said.
"Well we will if we do open up the door." She had a good point. I went to the door cautiously and I slowly opened up the door. To my surprise there was Alain and Professor Sycamore standing there. I immediately became less tense as I was glad to see them. Bonnie, Serena, and Clemont came over. Greninja put his shuriken back on his back.
"Professor Sycamore!" Serena exclaimed happily.
"Happy to see you all again. Hope you're doing well." He said with a smile. Alain and I locked eyes.
"Ash. Good to see you again." He said.
"Likewise Alain. How is Mairin and her Chespin?" I asked curiously. He looked down kind of sad.
"Same state as it's always been in. And the doctors still have no idea what is going on." He said glumly. I gave him a sympathetic look.
"I'm sorry that it's still like that. I'm sure we can figure it out soon." I said. We all walked back to the main battlefield area. Everyone took their seats again. Everyone kind of just did their own thing and were relaxing a bit. That's good though. We need to be relaxed and have a clear mind in the upcoming days of the war. Greninja comes up to me still in the form.
"I'm glad he is back. We need all the help we can get." He said to me while we were both looking at him talking to Professor Sycamore.
"Yeah that's true. But hmmm I still don't know if we should really fully trust him even if my aura says so. I mean we barely know him and he has ties to Team Flare." I said.
"That's true. But it seems as though he doesn't want anything to do with Team Flare." He said. That is true. I decided to listen in on their conversation.
"So you're done with them for good?" Sycamore asked.
"I can't anymore. I only joined them in hopes they would help out Mairin and her Chespin, but they were just using me as another grunt. Albeit strong grunt. They don't know that I've decided to call it quits. But when they do the Director will be mad for sure." Sycamore gave him a confused look.
"Director?" He asked.
"Yeah. His name is Lysandre. He's the leader of Team Flare who likes to disguise himself as a good guy." Alain said.
"I see. How long have you been with Team Flare?" Sycamore asked him.
"Well long enough to know a lot about Team Flare that's for sure. A few months I think." He said.
"Well we could use some of your intel if you don't mind sharing." Sycamore said to Alain. Well that's where I step in.
"Welp, that's our queue. Come on Greninja let's go." I said.
He nodded and we began walking over there.
"Professor!" I said. He looked over and gave us a wave. Then he looked surprised and shocked when he saw Greninja.
"Ash. Wow your Greninja. I've never seen anything like it." He said surprised. We decided to disconnect since there was no point anymore. Plus we were feeling a bit drained. Greninja then returned to his normal form.
"Yeah! We unlocked this power when Greninja evolved from Frogadier." I said. He nodded with approval.
"I don't know what it is, but it's looking good." He said proudly.
"Thank you! We think it has something to do with our bond." I said.
"Yeah it's strange. My Mega Ring showed it as a Mega Evolution even though they don't have stones." Alain said. That shocked the Professor a lot.
"Well maybe I could look at some ancient history books of Kalos and maybe it could tell us what this evolution you have with Greninja is." Sycamore said.
"That sounds like a good idea." I said. He nodded. I then looked to Alain.
"So Alain. Do you have any insight on what Team Flare is gonna do next?" I asked him. He sat and thought.
"Yeah. I would love to tell everyone though so they can hear too." He said. I agree everyone should know this.
"Alright sounds good I will rally everyone up." I said. I then went to Mewtwo and Olympia.
"You guys Alain says he has intel on Team Flare and their whereabouts." I said. They both looked at him suspiciously.
"Are you sure he can be trusted? I mean he has been with Team Flare. What if this is a trap?" Olympia asked. Mewtwo nodded in agreement. Alain may have been dragged to the bad side, but he had a reason. Because he believed they would cure his friend Mairin's Chespin. But of course they're just using him and he is seeing that as well.
"Well the thing is he actually wants nothing to do with Team Flare. He joined them in hopes that his friend Mairin's Chespin would be cured if he helped. But he soon realized that was never gonna happen so he knew he couldn't stay with them forever." I said. They think and they look at each other for a second as if communicating through telepathy which I'm not surprised at this point if they were.
"Hmm ok we'll give him a shot, but of course we will keep an eye on him." Olympia said. I nodded in agreement. I went on the stage and Greninja and Pikachu followed me along with Alain and the Psychic duo as well.
"Everyone can I have your attention please?" I asked. The whole room stopped what they were doing and paid attention to us on the stage.
"This is Alain. Now I will say this. He is a former Team Flare member," people automatically became skeptical of him and were giving him hard looks.
"Now before you guys question anything he has intel he wants to share and wants nothing to do with them. His friend Mairin has a sick Chespin and being with Team Flare, who promised him they would fix her Chespin, has of course been using him all this time. So he decided to leave. Either way I will pass the floor to him so I please ask of you guys to give him some respect." I said. The tension was high, but they listened. I turned to Alain and he began talking.
"Now I don't expect all of you to get along with me, but I am here to help. I will tell you what they have been planning. They plan on a three pronged attack in Anistar City, but not without Lumiose City getting attacked as well. They will start in Lumiose City to draw you guys off guard, and then meet up with the organizations to go to Anistar City to reach the Sundial and sap it of it's energy," He said. Some people had worried expressions on their faces.
"It's ok though. With our numbers we will do well." He said. I could sense the tension in the air. Some people don't feel like they can trust him. Others were sort of buying into it but staying cautious.
"Thank you Alain." I say. He nods and then steps back giving the floor to me.
"Well we have gotten a lot of new info today. We should all go train for a bit," I pause to look at the time. It was 4:39 in the afternoon. We still have time to train.
"We have some time to train. And then we'll have to meet up for dinner and then rest. The next few days leading up to the war is nonstop grinding and training and honing your skills as a Pokémon trainer. I will come up with a more in-depth plan of attack tonight. Until then, everyone let's go train to be stronger than ever!" I said with complete determination. Everyone nodded and loved the energy I had. It'll be pretty easy to guide them. Everyone then got up and left the area to go around back. Diantha had said they created lots of space and room for everyone to train. But I still had my stuff that I need to do first before I train. Things that are pretty important in this war. I was gonna train for the Kalos War, the Kalos League, and for the future. And we're gonna give it everything we've got.
