Cerulean City is a beautiful city. It has clean streets, kind people, and lovely weather. It really reflects how peaceful the entirety of the Kanto Region really is.
"What the hell!?" A man cried out angrily as he looked at his now empty wallet in front of a smoothie stand. "I know I had cash in this!"
"Sir," The young man behind the counter sighed, obviously doing his best to go through the motions of dealing with 'animated' customers. "Does this mean you want to pay with a card? There's a five dollar minimum purchase."
"Don't patronize me! You had something to do with this, didn't you!? I demand to speak to your manager!"
As that debacle started heating up, a young man with hair like the color of the desert, a skin tone as if he had lived there his whole life, and wearing an elaborate blue long-coat was drinking his smoothie to cool down.
He walked out of the shop nonchalantly as everyone watched the debacle between the angry customer and management. "Thanks for the money, good sir." He whispered with a smirk.
As he kept walking, he turned a corner towards one of the many parks the city had.
On one bench, there was this stranger feeding bird seeds to a bunch of wild Pidgeys. The stranger wore a long trench coat, gloves, and a fedora to cover most of his face from the sunlight.
The blue-clad young man sat down on the empty side of the bench and stared at the flying types.
"You're John Doe?" The young man who looked around the age of eighteen asked quietly.
The one addressed as john Doe scoffed. "You're Snagger? You're younger than you made yourself to be."
"I still expect your end of the deal." The one calling himself Snagger responded in a way that was flat, but someone more experienced could feel a threatening undertone to that monotone.
The other fully dressed stranger placed his hand on the birds seeds and threw something to the birds. But when then he placed something right beside the bag and slid it towards the one wearing a silver visor.
As Snagger caught the item, he saw that it was a USB drive.
"It's all in here?" Without even moving his head form the entire time they were having this 'conversation', Snagger placed the item into one of his inside pockets.
"All of the data, and the schedules. Even though they're using a public transport, they've got most of their bases covered. It'll take another task force to properly get it done."
The one known as 'Snagger' smiled. "You make it sound like this isn't going to be fun when I pull it all off."
Ash and his Pokemon were simply in awe as they entered into the Cerulean City Metro Station. The young boy from Pallet town had never witnessed something rich in agriculture and modern art, with trees being indoors, statues of water Pokemon that were spewing out water into a fountain, and floors of a material he was sure was some kind of fancy stone if it let him see his own reflection very easily. The most exposure Ash had to the outside world was pretty much Professor Oak's lab back out in the boonies.
Sabrina herself almost, and I emphasize this greatly, almost thought it was cute that Ash was such a country bumpkin to be wowed by superstructures of big cities.
'The floors are so shiny!' Jigglypuff smiled and waved at his own reflection on the floor.
'My feet have never felt this type of floor before.' Riolu added in as his paws met the marble floor.
'I have decided, my kingdom shall be as grand as this!' Prince Nidorino declared boldly.
'I wonder what kind of defensive purposes these colorful rocks have in case of an invasion of a rival tribe?' Spearow pondered out loud while looking at some of the statues.
At this point, Sabrina herded Ash and his partners, "Come on, we don't want to be late for those train tickets you bought for us."
Sabrina suddenly stopped mid step. Ash looked back towards the older companion who seemed unusually distracted. "What's up?"
The more experienced psychic blinked before shaking her head, "Nothing, let's keep moving." That was a lie, but at the same time, it may as well be nothing if she avoided it.
She felt a spike of energy—psychic energy. She could feel a blanket of the energy seemingly scanning the area. But why? Of course she could easily mis direct it, but where was this coming from? It's too wide spread and big for a single person or Pokemon to be using this power.
She soon found her answer when they reached their station area.
"Oh hey, I've never seen a marching band in person before." The raven haired teen commented while looking towards the group in question. They wore white with gold accented uniforms one would see from a normal marching band and they were carrying many luggages that had the shape of different instruments.
Yet for Sabrina, she noticed some things off about the 'marching band'. Since when do marching bands all look like olympic athletes? And since when did they have a large group of Psychic Pokemon with them? They must have been the group trying to scan the area before.
Which means that they must be specialists in disguise of some kind. Not that anyone but her could sense it. But why were they all here? She doubted there was anything of value here, but their presence only confirmed something was amiss.
As much as she would have liked to peek into the minds of one those people, and while she could easily over power all those psychics they have in their possession, it would be too much work to deal with whatever was going on just to sate her curiosity. She would simply have to lay low and stay out of their way.
"Guys, check it out!" And then there was a certain teen whose luck surpassed that of fictional works. The raven haired trainer found a pamphlet of the train they were about to ride. "The train we're ridding is a new high class bullet train that just opened to the public. It's super fancy, they even have a dinning cart with a buffet in it!"
'What's a buffet?' Riolu tilted his head to the side as he repeated the word.
"It basically means all you can eat!"
And like that, Sabrina felt a new pressure in the air without the need of her powers. Ash's usually lively Pokemon just… they just stopped to process the words they just heard.
'All?'
'You?'
'Can?'
'Cheese...' All four of them droned on with a monotone and almost hypnotic voice. Their usually, full-of-life eyes now looked hollow and drool specifically was falling from the corner of Riolu's mouth.
"Wow this train has everything! It's a good thing Team Instinct has a fifty precent discount when buying public transportation tickets!" The black haired teen in question happily said as he walked ahead, innocently oblivious to the walking time bombs now following around him.
A sigh escaped Sabrina. "I am staying clear of whatever madness comes next. No matter what."
The more experienced psychic followed Ash. However, with her powers suppressed, she was unable to spot someone who was also eyeing the marching band with an intensity much like she did a while ago.
The Temporal Diamond, named after it's beautiful and almost otherworldly sheen, this large diamond was found in millennium old temple shrine that was built in honor of the Pokemon, Dialga. The Diamond itself is a priceless artifact, and some rumors go as far as to say that the diamond itself contains essence of Dialga and is capable of low level temporal control. Some have claimed that time itself can slow down or stop when one holds the diamond in their palm, though that is nothing but speculation.
In a dark room, someone was walking away from a computer that was running. There was a the sound of a click. An old station radio started to wind up before it started to play a heavy rock and roll song.
Due to it's priceless value, or one nearing 1 billion in price of rarity, it is always escorted by a high class security consisting the best of over half a dozen regions.
The sounds of zippers could be heard in the dark room, gloves were stretched to the limit to ensure there would be no loose air, or loose grips when the time came.
As of this escort, the Temporal Diamond shall be transferred incognito in a public transportation between Cerulean City and Diagon City in the Knato Region via Bullet Train.
Metal clanked together as cylindrical items were picked up, holographic screens showing data and info were put on, and quickly shut off.
While there is great risk in using public transportation for the transfer, the new bullet train is capable of going 75-100 miles an hour, effectively meaning that the month-long foot travel between Cerulean City and the Mountainous City of Diagon can now be reduced to around three hours. Even the fastest of Flying Pokemon would have trouble keeping up with such speeds for a long period of time.
There was a mighty roar that did not come from an organic creature, but a beast made of metal and gasoline.
Not to mention the last third of the ride, leads directly to a subterranean path carved into the mountain range. If someone was going to try this… 'Great Train Robbery'… they would have to catch up with a moving train that is unable to stop, and leave before they reach the last third of the way or else get trapped into the tunnels leading directly into the Diagon City subway.
The sound of a garage door opening was heard, along with the light shinning down and slowly revealing a powerful machine.
So the only possible way for someone to pull this off is if they have their own special force infiltrate the train on broad daylight with some way to by pass over a dozen psychic scanners. There's no way one person can do this.
"Well... he's not wrong, but you two should be able to do the job." Snagger smiled as he looked towards the two Eeveelutions walking behind him. The two feline creatures jumped into a side cart of what was revealed to be a hover bike with a massive, pulsating engine that just screamed, 'Rapidash-power'.
"But I do like the sound of that: Great Train Robbery. Was that a movie?" And that was all Snagger said before the roar of the engine took over all sound and he sped out of his secret base.
"Status report?"
"Clear."
"Clear."
"All Clear."
His name was Korin Dirge, he was the commander of this operation and in charge of the safety of not only the diamond, but the lives of all passengers and employees in this bullet train while in the process of transfer. Honestly, he hated the idea of using a public transport in the first place, even if it was shiny and brand new.
The higher ups said that no one would ever know about the transfer here, but at the same time, his men were also in new territory as well, and not even an advantageous one in their favor. So it was more of command doing whatever they wanted and the actual staff picking up their slack—as usual.
"Attention passengers," An overhead radio began. "We will soon reach the Bevon Mountain Range, and the underground pass, for safety and security, please remain in your booths and seats as soon as you are able to."
Korin Dirge groaned. "Scarlet, Fernandez, hold your positions. I'm going to the catering cart for a snack. Might as well play the part of a band playing."
"Yes sir." The two agents agreed readily.
As the commander turned, he smirked and opened the door. "So don't end up shacking together when I'm gone." And he closed behind him before the girl and the boy could go into their incoherent, and flustered babbling.
With that little prank done, the man went into the cart… and quickly made his way towards the bar area.
The bar tender locked eyes with the man and asked, "What'll it be sir?"
"Just some milk if you have any." Couldn't even get drunk if he wanted to. Well, at least he liked the pay of his job.
However… a few table booths down from the head of the security…
"Okay, so here you go guys! Chocolate Supreme Sundae!" Ash cried out as the large chocolate based ice cream was put on the table.
'Oooohhh!' The teen's four partners were in awe at the desert in front of them.
"Chocolate always tastes good; I know you guys have never tried it but now seems like a good time for it." And with that, Ash and his partners all took a scoop—or for Prince Nidorino and Spearow, a bite—of the large sundae. "What do you guys think?" Ash looked at his Pokemon and his smile lowered. "Guys? Guys? Why are you all… vibrating? And why are all your pupils shrinking?"
And it was at that moment, that Ash learned sugar rush plus pint sized creatures with super powers equals everyone's day ruined. It was too bad that Sabrina was still in their original room booth trying to take a nap.
The master psychic shifted in her seat. "Dammit... Ash..." she whispered in her seat before continuing sleeping.
Outside of the fast moving train, there was a moving object that was running up to the public transportation with equal amounts of speed. However, due to the luxury functions of the train such as indoor television screens and free movie access, no one normal who was inside the train paid attention to the vehicle coming closer.
"EE!"
"Don't worry, I've got my Sonar Jammer on, and you two block any psychic energy from detecting us! Now, get ready to board, Umbreon, Espeon!" Then Snagger activated a machine that made a screen appear over the hover motorcycle that had the words, AUTO PILOT ENGAGED.
With precision like an expert, the young man in a blue trench coat jumped into the roof of the train along with his two Pokemon, aiming their landing into a cart with a roof latch leading inside.
He pointed towards it, and the Espeon's eyes started to glow. Clicks and unlocking were heard before the latch opened up and the boy and his partners jumped into what was revealed to be a luggage cart.
He brought out his right arm, where a mechanical object was fashioned around it, and on the back of his wrist, a small orb opened up to show a 3D hologram of the train schematics.
"Alright, the cameras here should be down for now after my sent program." He fished for his pockets and brought out three gas masks, one human, and two obviously specifically designed for the dark and the psychic type. "According to the info, the security group rented an entire cart just before the luggage cart, which means they're all behind… that door." He pointed to the direction in which they needed to go. As he put on his mask and as the Espeon used his powers to put on masks for both he and his brother, Snagger continued to talk while getting out three cylindrical objects. "Espeon, I'm going to need you to move these gas bombs carefully after all the windows, vents, and doors are locked—"
To Snagger's surprise, he noticed the door was suddenly set to lock by the electronic pad right next to the door. But he hadn't touched it yet. Suddenly, he heard the sounds of screaming and muffled gasps. Then soon, he could notice colored smoke slipping through the door from the opposite side.
"The hell?" Snagger recognized the color. It was a knockout gas mixed with a Sleep Powder variant.
Snagger looked towards his hologram and started to open up a data screen. He tried hacking into the security cameras of the next room, but to his surprise, he had found out that the system was under lockdown, and it wasn't by him or the original company of the train.
Someone already hacked the train and took out the guards? … Wait a second, this meant that someone else was trying to steal the diamond!
"That bastard! He didn't just sell the information to me, did he!?" As Snagger worked on hacking the hackers who hacked the controls after he thought he hacked it first. However, there was a beep coming from the door, signaling it was unlocking. Snagger and his two partners scattered behind the bags, before the door opened and more gas rolled in.
Snagger carefully peeked behind his hiding spot and was met with something he didn't expect to see: the stupidest looking person he had ever seen outside of his home region. The dude was wearing a bowl cut with blue-green hair, some kind of eighties sci-fi get up, and had a bizarre G logo on their torso. The see through gas masks he wore made him look even more stupid, like a cheap alien from those old, campy movies.
The freak turned back towards the room Snagger was originally aiming for, "Admin Saturn, the luggage cart seems clear. No one is here."
"Check every nook and cranny, we don't want someone to be hiding here somehow." A much more intimidating voice called out from inside the other cart. Snagger knew what the word 'Admin' meant.
"Really? It's always a Team Organization." Snagger whispered to himself in exasperation. However, it was cut short when the grunt was going to check behind his bags. Wes tensed, as did his Pokemon. It looked like this was going to be a hard fought es—
"Sir!" Another voice, more likely another grunt cried out from the room. "We can't find the commander!" That made the other Grunt stop in his tracks and look back into the room.
"What?" The voice of Saturn asked with surprise not unlike Snagger's a while ago. "He is the one in possession of the Temporal Diamond, what we are looking for, and he's not here!? … Call our men in the drivers' end! See if they can find him!"
"About that sir, they reported that they spotted him in the dining cart in the back, but for some reason all the feeds there got cut!" Yeah, that was mostly Snagger's doing. Good thing they didn't seem to notice the secondary source.
"What!? We were in the cart behind them! How did no one notice the commander making his way past us!?" It was obvious the leader of this group was quite vexed at such a thing.
"S-Sir! We did! You said that one of our agents would tail him… but he never reported back in..."
"No point now! We're on a time table, we're going to have to rely on more violent measures now. Capture the commander and get that diamond! All men move to the dining cart!" The Admin known as Saturn commanded and as soon as the Grunt trying to check the bags turned to follow, Wes made his move and grabbed the Peon back into a choke hold.
(The things I do for money,) Snagger thought to himself as he carefully tailed behind the fast moving group. It seemed like they were throwing caution to the wind, and to be fair, with their initial attack missing the intended target, it really was time for a show of force. Wes hoped to be able to use the upcoming chaos to steal the Diamond and make his escape…
Yet… neither him, nor the goons he was following expected that type of chaos.
They expected a normal dinning hall, they didn't expect to see hell itself. Food, shattered windows, and pained screams filled the cart. The source of the screams where sobbing civilians.
One person, who was crawling on the ground, desperately reached out to the people in the weird garb. "S-Sir! M-Monsters!" And then he fainted. The dude actually looked like a normal person, so that did mean that these, 'G-dudes', actually wore wigs. While that was less stupid than having it as their real hair, it returned to being full stupid when Snagger realized this idiots purposely wore that of their own free will.
However their attention to the missing member was cut short as the newcomers could only stare as four Pokemon plagued the entire cart, throwing around items and eating through other people's foods like demons of gluttony. Among all the civilians, a rather distressed, messy, raven haired teen in a cap was desperately trying to catch any of the four either by his body or what was obviously Poke Ball lasers.
"Jigglypuff, stop eating those! You're not even eating apples anymore! Nidorino, stop licking your reflections! I don't think the glass is sanitary! Spearow, stop challenging anything bigger than you to a fight! Inanimate objects are incapable of knowing what honor is! And where the heck is Riolu!?" Ash cried out desperately for who knows how long? Three minutes.
The stupor of the thieves all halted when something blue jumped in front of them.
'私の友人で、幻の銀河、お気に入り、フォローをサポートし、彼のお願いと共に私の作品のレビューを行く!' There was a Riolu whooping madly while raising both his hands up because he was car—the Temporal Diamond!? He has it!?
"Get him!" Saturn quickly cried out as the other grunts, with their Pokemon, tried to spread out and attack the madly whooping fighting type—
"No! Wait! They attack anyone who tries to subdue them!" Ash cried out before tackling down Saturn just before his other grunts were bowled over with a chair being thrown at the other grunts, knocking them back into the other cart. The other Pokemon, looked away in surprise, which turned out to be a huge mistake as Prince Nidorino, and Spearow ended up doing a war cry and ended up body slamming through the remaining Pokemon and running into the next cart, exclaiming things about 'honor' and 'beauty' as they did so with Riolu and Jigglypuff not to far behind.
After seeing his own Pokemon run ahead, the young teen got off the man he tackled down. "Are you alright?" The raven haired teen then met eyes with Snagger, who was behind the door corner, no doubtably safe from his temporary super crazed friends. "Umm sorry about this?"
"What on earth happened to your Pokemon!?" Saturn cried out as he got back up and looked to Ash.
"I don't know! One minute, we're all eating ice cream and then the next—"
"Hold up, you gave them ice cream? Isn't that poisonous to a Pokemon's biology?" The blue coated boy asked before looking at Saturn. It seemed as if he didn't seem to suspect him now that his cover was blown.
"It is?" The two thieves were starting to understand what type of trainer had caused this madness, and it was making a horrible amount of sense.
Saturn slowly got up and spoke while dusting himself off, "That's just a rumor, but at the same time, Pokemon do have different physiologies; their effects with human food range from normal and stomach aches… but I have never heard of a case where four different species all get a sugar rush!" Saturn yelled out to the boy, and made the teen cower.
"I'm sorry!" The teen apologized quickly. "Look, I couldn't catch any of them on my own, so I need help to get them! And that jewelry that Riolu stole!"
Both Saturn and Snagger froze they looked back towards the now unconscious group of Pokemon and people back in the dinning cart. Those four Pokemon of this trainer seemed to be powerful under the influence of a sugar rush. And they knew that their window for escaping with the diamond was slowly closing.
Under these circumstances…
Snagger fought the urge to grab the bridge of his nose. "Me and my Pokemon will help you."
Saturn nodded after a few more seconds, "I will help as well. I will return the diamond back." Snagger would have said something if he didn't want to tip anything off.
"Great! Let's go after them! My name is Ash, by the way, what's yours?"
"… Just call me Saturn." The leader of the G-men closed his eyes and fought the urge to sigh. Then, Ash turned to Snagger.
"And you are?"
Snagger just contemplated on just saying his codename, but then Saturn was now looking at him suspiciously. This prompted him to use at least his other fake name, "Call me Leo."
"Great!" Ash cried out before they went into the room beyond the first— "What!? I wasn't even gone that long!? How did my Pokemon knockout all these marching band members?!" The young teen looked horrified at the damages before him that his Pokemon didn't cause.
"We need to stop them, fast." Saturn, the sly bastard who was avoiding all blame, said quickly and patted Ash's shoulder to increase the need to catch them.
"We're going to need Pokemon, though. I don't think an Espeon and Umbreon are enough." Ash looked down on the two eeveelutions near Leo.
"Not to worry," Saturn said as he made a call, "I have some other friends who can help subdue—"
"SIR HELP!?" The person in the other end of his call screamed out before there was a loud thud that was felt in their cart, before the radio turned to silence.
"On second thought, I have some Pokemon with me." He whistled, and as soon as he did, a round a half a dozen Pokemon appeared: a Duskinoir, Dusclops, Gengar, Haunter, Drifblim, and a Gastly, phased through the outer walls and into the cart.
Leo inwardly realized these ghost Pokemon must have been how they got past the psychic types of the security team.
"These guys should be enough to catch your Pokemon." Saturn spoke out.
Ash then opened the door towards the luggage cart, but no sooner than he did, several bags were thrown at them. In an instant, before Leo or Saturn could make a command, Ash raised out his hand and all the thrown luggage froze mid air.
"Wait a second, you're a psychic?!" Saturn turned to the younger kid.
"Well, I'm a new one, yeah?" Ash and the others then noticed that trainer's wild Pokemon were now opening up bags and messing with all of their items. "Guys, don't do that!"
Both thieves were flabbergasted at the implications that this kid could use powers from the start. "If you're a psychic, just hold them down with your power!" Leo screamed out.
"I tried! Look what happens when I do!" As if to prove a point, Ash aimed his power towards Riolu, who was chugging down an empty thermostat, but suddenly, the little fighting type back flipped and the thermostat was left levitating in the air. "I don't know how the others besides Riolu are doing it, but they can sense whenever I try to restrain them and avoid getting caught!"
Saturn was first to state something out. "Well they're no way they can all avoid multiple psychic based powers. We'll all use it, then you return them all." As he said this, he motioned the ghost Pokemon under him to slowly spread around the area, no doubt encircling the four. "You, boy in blue," Leo did his best not to react to that, but it took more willpower than he realized he had. "Distract the four with your own Pokemon."
It was only through repeated reminders of the time for escaping closing in that the young man flasely named Leo allowed himself to be ordered around. "Umbreon! Use Reflect to block their exit, Espeon, if you can't catch them like this kid, try to trap them with the items they're using!"
Both Eeveelutions did as they were told, further cornering the four crazed Pokemon. They all seemed momentarily distracted and instantly, Ash capitalized on this and fired two return lasers on Jigglypuff and Prince Nidorino, for the first time in like ten hellish minutes, the beams hit and both of them were returned.
"Now Dusclops! Prevent the last two from moving with Mean Look!"
The Dusclops appeared towards the right side—then there was a loud splat noise when a thrown underwear was hit into the lone eye of the ghost type. Taken by surprise, the Dusclops screamed and tried to get the nasty thing off. The other Ghost types and Espeon and Umbreon quickly tried to close in on Riolu—who was pointing and laughing at the Dusclops. However, Spearow suddenly started to gather a lot of energy with a mighty yell, unleashed around ten Dusclops Mirages.
"What is—"
"Get down, that's Mirror Move!" Ash used his telekinesis to cover him and the other two with a barrier of bags a second before Spearow did an impressive ten way Mean Look that locked all the other Pokemon into a stun.
Ash grabbed out Spearow's ball. "I can't put the bags down or she'll lock us down too!"
Saturn noticed a purse open and quickly fished for something inside. He then opened up a miniature mirror and used it to peek around the shield of bags. "The eyes are all still up and all the other Pokemon are still stunned into place. I've never seen a Mirror Move used like this." Saturn's constantly neutral face then frowned worse than he had that day. "And I think your Riolu is currently locking lips my Dusclops."
"Well that was Imagery I didn't need to know." Leo bluntly commented while Ash had this really dumbfounded look on his face.
"How is he kissing a ghost—oh wait he has Foresight." Instead of feeling satisfied, Ash was just more confused as he thought about what his partner was doing under the sugar rush.
At this point, Leo was having enough of this and pointed towards Ash's Poke Ball. "Can you give me that? And where is the Spearow now?" That second question was pointed towards Saturn.
Saturn was confused but then peeked back with the mirror. "She's still in the same spot… just squawking madly."
Ash decided not to say anything about Spearow trying to challenge the, and he quotes, 'gods from beyond the wall of text' to a staring contest.
"Is she moving from her spot in anyway?"
"No, she is still as an airborne Pokemon can be." Saturn responded to Leo's second question.
After hearing that, Snagger Leo was seen smiling while fishing for something in another bag. "That's all I needed to know." As he got his hand out, he revealed that he had fished out another mirror, this time it was hand held one and he tossed it high above the make shift shield of Ash. As the Mirror turned into an angle that showed Spearow, Leo launched the return laser at the mirror which then bounced and hit Spearow, causing her to return back into Ash's Poke Ball.
Wes then caught Spearow's Poke Ball and the mirror he 'borrowed, and handed the sphere back to the psychic trainer. Seeing the source of the lock down, Ash willed all the bags back and now saw all their other Pokemon free form the Mean Look hold.
… They were just in time to see Dusclops push Riolu away, only for the little fighting type to still hold on to the diamond.
"There's just one left..." Saturn narrowed his eyes as everyone looked at the emanation Pokemon.
"Riolu," Ash brought out the last Poke Ball. "Stay still, there's no where left to go!"
"C' est fini, Anakin! J'ai les hauteurs!" After screaming something intelligible, Riolu bent his knees and shot to the roof—blasting right through an already opened latch.
"Aww man! I can't believe he broke the emergency escape hatch!" Ash cried out while clamping his head. This was just getting worse by the second.
"We can still catch him!" Leo, also letting Ash take the blame for something he did, pointed out. "We'll have to go after him, but be careful not to fall."
At the mention of that, all the ghost Pokemon flew after the fighting type, phasing through the walls, with the Eeveelutions having to jump after him. Saturn followed by jumping out of the train with little effort, with Leo close after. Ash was somewhat worried but followed his two new 'friends' up into the roof of a high speeding train.
To his surprise, it was really hard to keep balance, more so that he felt like he had to use some of his new psychic powers to keep him grounded. Leo and Saturn seemed alright though, but the young teen wasn't aware the two thieves had gear specifically made for this robbery in the first place, including a situation of them being on the roof of the high speed train.
However, while Ash struggled against the G Force, Riolu seemed to be dancing with the wind as he avoiding blasts by nimbly jumping everywhere and off the Ghost Pokemon under Saturn. … And sometimes even locking lips with some of the ghost Pokemon. That reminded him of a cartoon Bunnelby…
Meanwhile, both Saturn and Leo turned back to see that they were heading towards the mountain range leading towards Diagon City. It meant that their window for escaping with the diamond was running short.
"We need to get that Riolu!" Leo screamed over the winds.
While all the other Pokemon still kept trying to pin down the zippy fighting type, Ash snapped his fingers and a his features visibly brightened up. "You two working together gave me an idea!"
Leo and Saturn both looked at each other weirdly after hearing that, they were working together?
Ash pointed on. "Everyone, keep attacking Riolu, but this time, aim for the shiny thing in his palm!"
Both thieves widened in alarm when Ash called that out, even more so when their Pokemon listened to the trainer!
With renewed focus, The Ghost Pokemon all launched a Shadow Ball from different directions, causing Riolu to backflip midair.
As soon as he saw this, Ash pointed to the gem. "Now Espeon grab the jewel!"
"What!? Hey!" Leo's complaint was ignored as his own Pokemon listened to the young teen's order and made a reach for the crystal mid air while Riolu was hanging on to it.
Ash acted fast, and recalled his first partner now that he was finally in one place long enough. As soon as he did, though, Riolu dropped to the roof of the train then fired a Vacuum Wave right into Espeon.
The psychic Pokemon let go of his hold on the jewel and it started to bounce on the roof and made it's way towards the edge of the train.
"NO!" Both Leo and Saturn cried out.
However, they both realized the item was frozen mid air and they both noticed Ash with his hand extended out. "Don't worry! I'm sure the person will be sad if they suddenly lost something so expensive looking."
That wasn't why they were crying out no, but then again. They were very glad they had met such a naive psychic unwilling helping a bunch of thieves. … Even if this naive psychic caused this problem in the first place…
Suddenly, the sugar crazed Riolu jumped right for the jewel again. But with Ash in control, he yanked it and caught it back in his palm, before showing off the object in the moderately insane Riolu's face. "If you want the shiny object, you'll have to get me, Riolu!"
Ash then jumped back inside the train with Riolu speeding fast after him and by proxy, everyone else. The raven haired teen bolted as fast as he could, using his telekinesis to ward and shield away Riolu who was chasing him down and randomly speaking some language he didn't understand. But he saw how to capture his friend, the two nice people—to him—had shown him how and what he needed to do to capture his crazed Pokemon, and for them to stop Riolu, he needed to head back into the dining cart.
As he reached for ground zero, Ash quickly ducked under a counter and began searching.
As Riolu came chasing in, he was screaming words in a very angry sounding language. However, Ash then almost slammed a plate on the counter and smiled towards his crazed partner. "Hey, Riolu? I got cheese pizza! Your favorite..."
Riolu paused mid curse and started to drool when his glazed over eyes looked at the cheesy slice of bread.
"I'll even let you have this shiny object again." The raven haired teen spoke as sweetly as he could, putting the gem right down next to the pizza.
See, when he was able to catch the other three, they were all distracted. Prince Nidorino and Jigglypuff were distracted while Spearow was caught by unexpected beam. So in order to catch Riolu, the emanation Pokemon needed to have his attention split. However, with his innate ability to sense aura, this made taking the little one by surprise very hard to actually do so. But Ash knew his Riolu had one specific clink in his armor: he loved cheese.
So when he saw the pizza, for the first time in a long ten minutes, Riolu was finally moving a straight and easy to read path. One that Ash noticed and quickly used his Poke Ball to capture the fighting type when he jumped for the two items.
"Yes! We did it!" Ash cried out as he pocketed Riolu's sphere and grabbed the diamond off the counter at the same time that Leo and Saturn came in.
Both thieves were glad that they had succeeded…wait a darn second. Why were they feeling content about helping a kid!? They needed the—
"So during the chaos, I forgot where Riolu got this diamond from. Should I just wait for someone to wake up or?" As Ash said this, he unwittingly walked closer towards the two thieves.
"Give it here." Both Saturn and Leo cried out with their hands extended out. The two men looked at each other and their eyes narrowed instantly.
"Give it to who?"
"Me!" Ash blinked when he heard the two of them talk at the same time.
"Oh forget this!" Leo dug into his pockets and then threw something in the ground. It ended up being the Sleeping Gas Bomb he was originally saving before Saturn and his team ended up using theirs before hand.
The bomb exploded, and quickly Leo and his Pokemon made their way out, taking the diamond in hand.
This left a now unconscious Ash Ketchum laying on the floor and with a Kneeling Saturn who seemed to stab himself with an adrenaline booster shot as the gas seeped out of the window cracks.
"That bastard!" He then quickly called his remaining members. "Team Galactic, report in! There was someone else trying to steal the diamond! Aircrafts 3 and 5 find him! We can't let him escape with the diamond!" He then ran out of the dinning cart, forgetting the teenage boy who he unexpectedly bonded with.
As soon as Saturn ran out, the door on the opposite side of the dinning cart opened up, revealing Sabrina finally awake. However, imagine her surprise that the first thing she witnessed when seeing the food area was nearly everything broken and tossed up as if a storm went through it.
Her eye narrowed towards the unconscious form of her unexpected student, seemingly asleep in the midst of this ruins or 'the eye of the storm'.
"I am starting to believe that punishing the boy is unfair with how often this keeps happening." Her eyes glowed was now going to use her powers for a far more mundane purpose: cleaning up.
It took far longer than he wanted, but 'Leo' had finally escaped Team Galactic. And had returned back into his secret base.
"Dang! That was… something." He didn't really have words, but as he took the Diamond out and looked at it, he gave a weak smile. "But at least I still got the diamond."
As he looked at his reflection, he thought back towards the smiling kid. "Ash, huh? I wonder who he is?"
There was a ringing on a phone in his garage that made the slightly tired thief groan before reaching for it.
"Hello?" The blue clad young man asked.
"Hello, Snagger Wes, former member of Team Snagem." The true name was revealed at last as Snagger Wes' eyes narrowed dangerously towards the phone.
"Who is this?" The thief's mind was going a mile a minute, pretty much no one knew about him existing except the people he met in Orre, and that region was basically and practically a wasteland. Nearly no one ever went or knew people from there, so who was this person who knew him specifically?
"That is not important. What is important is that I am… well… I am a collector of sorts, and I would like to hire you and certain individuals to a task that would require your personal skill set."
This was suspicious as all heck. A mysterious man who knew far too much about him, but was unwilling to share anything about himself? Yet at the same time, did he really want to test the waters and say no to this guy? There was something about his confidence on the phone, it was like whatever this person wanted, he would get.
So for now, Snagger Wes would play along. He'll figure out how to deal with this more as he finds more about whatever this call is about.
"… What's the pay?"
+Author Notes+
Writer's Block is a witch! You have no idea how hard it was to write this chapter! I had to scrap like three other chapters because I just didn't like them!
But enough complaints, I'm happy to introduce one of my favorite Pokemon Characters as a kid: Wes from Pokemon Colosseum! I just loved how different he is from all other Pokemon Protagonists then and since. First of all, he's a former member of Team Snaggem, he was part of an evil organization and just quit in the most badass way my like ten year old mind could ever see: exploding his old hideout's base.
I thought I could re-introduce him here in this story. Since I thought it would be fun. His inclusion helped me get rid of my writers block sooner than later. I at first wanted this chapter to be a train murder mystery… but then I realized… I sucked at writing mysteries, so I gave up when my drafts became waaaayyy tooo silly and I ended up having a detective rapping while solving the case. (I have no idea what my brain does since it's always sober.)
So instead, I settled with a strange take on a 'Great Train Robbery' scenario.
Well, I am really thankful that all of you like this story. It's mostly just for fun and such, and it's not all that serious. Thank you all for the support of this story too! I'm amazed that I've got already 100 plus followers and favorites. You guys are awesome.
I guess I'll sign off for now, have a great day!