168 days until extermination day.

In the angel base in heaven, the cloaked man growled upon the unfortunate results of his plan. "It appears that Vox did not use the gift we gave him wisely…." Said Dr Xeosecte. "You don't say…." The cloaked man replied angrily. "Clearly I cannot trust these demons to do my bidding… even after I had Adam desperately send my grunts to…" Suddenly the base shook as the rest of Team Flare covered their ears by the sound of intense rock and roll music echoing throughout the base. The cloaked man got up and stormed to the source, it being Adam rocking out with a guitar ax. He was shredding it up as he usually does but was stopped by the cloaked man. "Can we LOWER THE VOLUME PLEASE!?" He yelled. "Hey what gives, old man?" Adam argued. "You're blasting your music and making my grunts' ears bleed, that's what gives!" "Hey I'm just trying to make a kickass theme for when we begin the extermination!" Adam retained. "Well maybe you can do that with a lower volume?" "Ok boomer!" "What? You're as old as time itself!" "Adam, sir!" Said lute from the doorway. "Xerneas would like to have a word with you!" Adam groaned in frustration, and reluctantly walked out. "Don't think this is the end of my jam seis, oldie!" He called out before leaving.

Soon Adam arrived at the high tower of heaven, where Xerneas had a view of the angels fluttering about. "What's so important now Xerny!?" Adam demanded. "I was in the middle of an awesome tune ready for extermination day!" "I know… I could hear it all the way up here…." Xerneas sighed before turning to her colleague. "But that's what I wanted to talk to you about… the high seraphim and I were talking, are you sure it's wise to move up the next extermination…?" "So what? We've done it before!" Adam replied, pulling out a drink from his pocket and taking a sip. "Yes I'm aware of that, but those were moved up to a day or at least a week!" Xerneas argued. "But moving it to six months? Aren't you being a little careless?" "Careless? Me!?" Adam yelled, spitting out his drink. "Hey! Remember why the seraphim allowed me to even do them in the first place? Why do we let you stay up here even though you were created by him?" "I'm aware of my origins and why she let you carry out your yearly bloodbath, but the seraphim let me stay here because unlike my brothers, I'm not a violent mon!" Xerneas retaliated, "I'm just saying maybe you should reconsider this option!" "Yeah no thanks, babe, but that's for chatting with me Xerny gotta get back to shedding now!" Adam said nonchalantly while walking away, leaving Xerneas alone and worried. "Why do I feel like this will come back to bite us…?"

Meanwhile, back down in hell, Nathan just returned from a grocery walk but to his surprise he saw Charlie, Vaggie, and her goat bodyguards, razzle and dazzle. Alongside Nathan's Gardivoir and Aegislash hanging up a banner saying. "Happy first week Sir Pentious!" "That looks perfect!" Charlie cheered. "I'm glad to see you're getting ready for your second guest here!" Nathan said proudly, inspecting the banner."I know right!? Charlie cheered. "I am so excited that Sir Pentious is staying at the hotel!" "Um, Sir Pentious was JUST trying to take over the city with his weird steampunk bulls#!t a few days ago!" Vaggie commented. "Well I haven't seen him trying to do any of that here!" Charlie objected.

"Uh I think you spoke too soon!" Nathan said, pointing to Sir Pentious and his egg boiz wheeling in a large cannon-like weapon. "What the hell is that?!" Vaggie yelled. "Oh hello purple female!" Sir Pentious greeted. "It's my new invention! The Skin Flayer 11000!" "I'm guessing it flays skin of any kind?" Nathan guessed. "Correct human! With this device by my side, not to mention the Pokémon you let me keep after our battle. I'm really looking forward to shooting the other residentssss!" "What?! Why?!" Charlie questioned, while Vaggie crossed her arms. "Everyone is being too nice!" Sir Pentious answered. "It obviously must be some sort of lie!" "How exactly?" Nathan questioned. "Look around you! There are enemies hidden around us!" Sir Pentious answered. "I can sssense they are planning to kill me! But when!? How!? I must be prepared!" Sir Pentious then saw something arrive. "Oh! The new parts for my machines are here!" He then slithered over to two demonesses. One had white skin and blonde hair tied up like Charlie, and two small black horns atop her head, she wore a pair of circular-rimmed glasses with red tinted lenses, a long white buttoned lab coat over a black turtleneck, long black gloves, and a pair of silver pointé shoes. The other had puce skin, curly cream hair tied up in a ponytail, black lips and similar horns. She was dressed in a sleeveless black crop-top turtleneck, gray jean-shorts with a black belt, black fingerless gloves, white over-the-knee stockings and ballet shoes. "Sign please." The lab coated demoness said, handing the snake a clipboard, waver and pen while the red one wheeled in a couple of crates on a trolley. Sir Pentious immediately signed the paper and handed it back to her. "Thank you for your business, enjoy your carmine purchase…." The demoness said before she and the other left with the parts behind.

"Carmine? As in Camilla Carmine?" Vaggie questioned. "You are buying parts from an overlord?!" "Uh… who's she?" "She's only the top weapons dealer in hell!" Sir Pentious answered, rolling away his new parts. "Ok this stops right now!" Vaggie yelled, grabbing the trolley and taking it away. "Hey!" "You absolutely CANNOT build weapons in this hotel! No one is trying to kill you! People are nice, because they want you to feel welcome!" Sir Pentious then looked over the weapon, seeing both Husk and Angel flipping him off while nifty gave a psychotic smile. "I have my doubtssss…." Sir Pentious replied suspiciously. "Well it's true you have to trust us!" Vaggie replied. "But I don't!" Charlie then got an idea. "Why don't we focus on that for today's activities!" She suggested. "Not before we lay some ground rules." Vaggie stated. "No more building weapons, no more plotting against others, and you need to get rid of these things…." She listed, pointing to the egg boiz before one of them activated a laser that blew a hole through the ceiling. "Ugh! What did I just say!?" "What!? Not my little egg boiz!?" Sir Pentious pleaded, hugging his minions close to him. "They do my evil bidding for me!" "Do you want to stay here and redeem yourself?" "Yesss?" "Then no more eggs!" "Alright eggies… you've got to go…." Sir Pentious weeped, letting go of his minions. "I can't keep you any more!" "Ok boss!" One of the eggs replied before his minions followed Vaggie. "No, don't resist! This is how it has to be!" He said dramatically before watching the last egg boi run off causing him to break out in tears with Charlie and Nathan confronting him. "Let it out man… let it out…." Nathan said comfortingly with his eyes closed and his head shaking.

Elsewhere in the hotel, Alastor was having his breakfast… a giant deer carcass. When suddenly he was interrupted by Vaggie. "Alastor!" She yelled, getting the overlord's attention. "Do you mind? I'm in the middle of breakfast!" He replied. "Pentious' eggs are running amok and I need you to get rid of them!" Vaggie explained as the eggs inspected the room. "Oh well in that case I'd be delighted to!" Alastor answered gleefully, rising up and strolling towards the moth demon. "Humanly!" Vaggie argued. "Well that's a lot less fun…. But I suppose I can take them with me during my outing today!" And with that Alastor left with the eggs and with Vaggie alone with the deer carcass. "That looks disgusting…."

Later on, Alastor went with the eggs by his side before noticing Nathan hanging up something for the others. "You almost done Nathan?" "Almost finished, you can get started, I'll be with you in a minute!" Nathan replied, tying the last knot for the banner for the trust exercise Charlie cooked up, but once he was finished he was suddenly ambushed by Alastor. "Hello!" He greeted, startling the trainer and causing him to fall on his back. "Ugh, you really gotta not do that Al!" He groaned, rubbing his head. "My apologies but I was hoping that you would accompany me during my outing today!" Alastor asked. "Well I was actually going to…" before Nathan could finish his sentence he was suddenly grabbed by the hand by Alastor. "Oh thank you! I knew you'd oblige! Come now you won't regret it!" He said gleefully before dragging Nathan to the front entrance. "Sorry Charlie! Looks like I'm gonna be busy! But I'll catch up with you laTER…." He hollered before being pulled away with the eggs following him.

"Did you have to do that?" Nathan questioned, dusting himself off. "Do, what exactly?" "Kidnap me?" "Well I suppose it was a little excessive but then again you know me!" Alastor laughed. "And please if it would be kidnapping then well…." Alastor leaned close as several symbols floated around him and his eyes morphed into radio diles. "You'd be gone without a trace…." That caused Nathan to freeze up. "Well then I suppose we should be on our way now Eh?" Alastor said before they went off.

Later on in the streets of pentagram city, Nathan and Alastor continued to walk throughout the day, while the eggs were chatting amongst themselves. "So Al, what's the history between you and Vox anyway?" Nathan asked, making the radio demon raise a brow. "Please, you really wouldn't want to hear it!" He said, waving his hand. "Well you two do seem to really be at each other's throats, is it because you two are two different mediums or something?" "Well not really…." Alastor began. "In fact there was a time when we were the best of friends!" "Wait really?! What happened?" "Well back then Vox was just starting out his life as an overlord, and I was about to tear him apart, but then I felt pity for the guy, so I decided to take him in! From there we both skyrocketed towards fame! I helped him with collecting souls and he even guest starred on my radio show! It was a grand time for us!" "So what happened?" "Well as the years went by unfortunately, Vox started to care more for himself and his products than anything else! Even going so far as to swindle some of my souls out of my pocket and into his!" "Outch, that must've been a real nasty betrayal…." "You have no idea, that kind of act is not only unyielty but also very disrespectful! And I hate nothing more than disrespect…." "So what happened after that?" "We had a fight about it, and ultimately we challenged each other to a duel of the overlords! Where the loser has to leave the city forever! And on that day of the duel, it was a grand fight unlike any other! And I had him on the ropes! But then there was…." Alastor closed his eyes tightly, leaving Nathan confused before he continued. "Anyways I sadly had to withdraw… Leaving Vox the winner, so I ended up leaving town for seven long years…." "So how come you're back now?" "To entertain myself of course! I wish to watch sinners come to try their hardest to redeem themselves, only to repeatedly fail again and again…." "I'd say that's just wrong, but in the weeks I've been here and being near you, I'm not surprised anymore." Nathan laughed.

Later on they continued through the road, while Alastor noticed Nathan appeared to be pondering about something. "Got your mind on something?" "Hmm oh, I'm just pondering on how the Vees got their hands on the Pokémon they gave to Sir Pentious." He answered. "Apart from the way me and Team Flare came through, there shouldn't be any other way of accessing hell…. Oh! Is there a chance that unstable wormholes open every now and then to different dimensions?" "I've been here for a while now, and let me just say… no." "Well, it was worth a shot…." Suddenly as they walked through, they were confronted by another demon, this one was extremely skinny and body was mainly covered underneath a long black cape with a popped collar and a large spider emblem. It had four lime green, pupiless eyes and a stitched up hat with a large skull feather in it. "Halt Alastor!" He said in a hushed echoed voice. "Thou fare thee on this day…." The demon then noticed Nathan, while Alastor's eyes widened. "Who's that boss? Want me to ruff him up for you?" One of the egg boiz said, ready to fight the demon, only to be stopped by Alastor. "Follow in silence if you value your shell…."

As this was happening the demon slithered closer to Nathan and disturbing him. "It appears that thy rumors of a living soul walking through the lands of damnation are true…." He said curiously. "Uh, yeah… that's me Mr…?" "Ah… thow hasn't even introduced thine self…. Zestial, Zestial Morde…." The demon, Zestial introduced himself, showing his hand, revealing a web pattern underneath his cape. "Nice to meet you Zestial, I take it you and Al here know each other?" Nathan asked, shaking Zestial's hand. "Indeed we do! Greetings Zestial!" Alastor replied before a passerby noticed them and immediately ran off. "Ah the weather… doth become this fine day…." Zestial commented as another demon noticed him and immediately hid in a trash can. "Indeed it looks like we might have some acid rain this afternoon!" Alastor replied before a nearby demon went so far as to set himself on fire and ran off. "I'm guessing that you've got quite the reputation around here?" Nathan commented, seeing the frightened demons. "Indeed, Zestial happens to be the oldest and one of the most powerful overlords in all of hell!" Alastor commented. "If our luck doth hold, I do reveal in the screams!" Zestial added before they continued through the streets. "How are thou? It has been ages since thou hast graced us with thine presence!" Zestial asked as they continued with more and more demons running around in fear. "Some have spun wild tales of you fallen to… holy arms?" Alastor laughed upon hearing that. "Oh I just took a well earned subatomic that's all!" Alastor answered, checking his outfit in the reflection of a window. "Nothing serious. Though it's fun to keep everyone on their toes!" "There too have been rumor of thy involvement with the princess and her recent flight of fancy…." Zestial said before showing his demonic presence for a brief second. "TELL ME… how does thou fall into such folly?" "That is for me to know!" Alastor said cryptically, spinning his cane for a bit. "But please, do guess I love to hear the theories!" Zestial laughed. "To be a grander folly of the workings of your mind Alastor, thou has been an enigma since thou has manifested in this realm!" He replied. "Coming from someone as ancient as you I take that as quite the compliment!"

Soon after they went to a large building and near one of the elevators on the side. "So what are we doing here?" Nathan asked, confused. "Carmilla has requested that the overlords gather here for a meeting to discuss recent matters…." Zestial answered. "Carmilla? You mean Carmilla Carmine?" "I take it you've heard of her?" "Yeah, a friend of mine bought a bunch of parts from her…." Nathan answered before Zestial stepped into the elevator and ascended to the upper floor. Soon Alastor stepped in as well, and brought Nathan as well, the eggs tried to enter but were stopped. "No no! I have a very important task for you!" Alastor ordered, slamming his cane on the ground. "Stay here and guard the front until I return!" The egg boiz saluted before the elevator closed and the two ascended upwards. "Oh look, Frank is up there!" One of the egg boiz said, seeing one of them banging on the glass. "We have names?"

Once the elevator reached its destination, the doors opened and the two stepped in seeing more overlords as they stepped in. One of whom took notice and went towards them. She had grayish white skin white hair and pitch black pupiless eyes and wore a long crimson red dress and hat with large puffy feathers and a small skull with flowers. "Alastor! Where have you been? It feels like it's been ages!" She cheered, before noticing Nathan and pinched his cheek. "Oh and who's this little guy, is he your lunch?" "Excuse me?" "No unfortunately, this here's a human! Nathan, this is Rosie, one of the most charming overlords in hell, and happens to run Cannibal Colony!" "Ok nice to meet you Rosie, please don't eat me…." Nathan said nervously. "C'mon now, we don't wanna be late!" Rosie said before the group went off to the meeting, with Frank running behind.

In the meeting room everyone took their respective seats, while Nathan was sitting nervously. "Is he alright?" Rosie asked, concerned. "He's never been to an overlord meeting before…." Alastor answered before the host of the meeting arrived, Carmilla Carmine herself. A tall and slender, light gray-skinned demon, with long white ankle-length hair with bangs a set of hoop black earrings and black streaks, that were tied into two large horns and a darker-colored area that appears similar to a mask on her face which had similar eyes to the two other demons Nathan met at the hotel, she also had large white hands with black nails protruding from them. Her attire was similar to that of a ballerina, which consisted of an off-the-shoulder black dress with white buttons and white stripes located down the front and at the rim of the spiked skirt, which includes hot-pink lining. She also wore black waist-length stockings which were covered by white ballerina shoelaces, and her shoes were that of sharp metallic ballet slippers. Alongside her were the same two demons who gave Sir Pentious the parts for his machines. "Welcome hell's sovern overlords, I've invited you all here because you represent the controlling power of our city." Carmilla began, speaking with a Spanish accent. "Together you own millions of souls, souls at risk of the new extermination schedule, we need to discuss what can be done to minimize the impact to our interest!" Just as Carmilla slammed her hand down, Zestial took his seat. "Zestial, good to see you my friend." She said, "Enchanted as always, Carmilla." Zestial replied, taking a sip of tea. "Uh we could develop anti angel spray and douse the sinners in it!" Nathan suggested, getting the attention of the overlords. "J-Just a suggestion…." Carmila's eyes raised. "Who is this?" She said threateningly. "Don't worry he's with me!" Alastor said, and got Carmila's attention. "Alastor?" "Yes I know I've been absent sometime I'm sure you've all been wondering!" Alastor replied. "Not really, but welcome back in any case." Carmila said, earning a glare from the radio demon.

One of the demons then handed Carmila a clipboard. "This year's extermination was brutal…." Carmila began, before the glasses demon displayed on the monitors a chart of the results of the extermination. "Far more even than years passed, we've estimated that about 16% of the population was lost." Those numbers shocked Nathan, who knew angels could be that murderous. "With the angelic legions now returning twice as quickly. I think it prudent that we…" Before Carmila could finish her sentence, Velvette, now sporting a pair of twin ponytails for her hair, busted through the door with her phone in her hand. "Yes I got it handled Vox are you doubting me? Me!?" She questioned over the phone. "That's what I thought… yes I know they're all a joke! Thank you V see you soon kisses darling!" Velvette then hung up and took her seat, with her legs on the table. "Nice of you to join us, Velvette." Carmila said emotionlessly. "Will your… colleges be joining us?" "No, they have better s#!t to do than listen to an old windbag who thinks she's top s#!t! I'm here to represent!" Velvette answered smugly, earning a glare from the 'windbag' before noticing Nathan. "Holy f!(k! Is that a human!?" She called out, standing up and running to Nathan. "Uh hi, you must be one of the Vees?" Nathan asked nervously. "You know, you little bastard! Name's Velvette!" Velvette replied, introducing herself. "When Vox heard about what happened to his little spy, hoo he blew a f*(king gasket!" "Can we save this human discussion for another time Velvette…?" Carmila asked, irritated. "Ok! But this still calls into question!" Velvette laughed before taking her seat. "Charming…." Carmila said sarcastically, while Velvette pulled out her phone camera and put a poop filter around Carmila.

"So as I was saying we need to discuss…" Velvette raised her hand. "Yes Velvette…?" "On the topic of discussion…" Velvette said before throwing something on the table that shocked everyone, the decapitated head of an exorcist angel! "Oh tasty!" Alastor commented, "I'm sorry but, is that a freaking exorcist head?!" Nathan asked, shocked. "Damn right kid!" Velvette said, proudly. "Where did you get this?" Carmila asked. "We found it during extermination day!" Velvette explained. "If these holy rollers can be killed, the game has changed! We can take the fight to them! The boys and I came up with a full assault plan…" before she could finish her sentence, Velvette was interrupted by the sound of Zestial sipping his tea rather loudly. "If it be true me and my colleagues desire to go to war with such meager proof." Zestial argued. "Thou art far more… foolish than I be thought…." "Meager proof? It's a dead f*(king exorcist!" Velvette argued. "I say that's pretty f*(ken definitive! You going blind, old man?" "We not know how this perished! Mayhaps it was not by a demon's hand at all!" Zestial retaliated. "If we rush to war without knowing anything, they'd purge all of hell for damning an uprising!"

The overlords began to speak amongst themselves, while this was happening, Velvette noticed Camilia being silent and looking away, she soon smirked wickedly. "Oh I get it!" She said, "So grampa is too p*$$y to fight! So I guess there's no point!" Zestial was simply silent as Velvette closed in. "What's the matter, fossil?" She insulted. "To senile to make a REAL power grab?" "You better SHOW SOME RESPECT!" Carmila growled. "Check your behavior, no one speaks to Zestial that waaaay! Did you expect us to sit back and take your inselet brazen displaaaaay!?" "You got it twisted!" Velvette laughed. "I'm not the one who needs a new attitude, maybe you missed it. But I'm the #B!(H and I will do nothing less than what I please, I'm the backbone of the Vees, not that I'm actin' respectless it's cuz nobody can respect this!" Soon velvette turned to the other overlords. "Sorry group attending, since when are overlords too scared to fight? You're long past trending. Sorry babe but. I. Ain't. Swiping. Right!" She took multiple pictures of herself. "You've lost your relevance!" "We can't act without more intelligence!" Zestial argued to which Velvette groaned. "No wonder I'm so respectless! I could eat you up for breakfast!" "You and the Vees are inane and uniformed!" Carmila growled. "Smug wannabes who don't head when you've been warned!" "Oops! Did I strike a nerve?" Velvette replied smugly, pulling out the angel head and tossing out on the table. "Cuz when I brought out the angel's head! Couldn't help but observe that your wrinkled face was turning red!" Velvette then marched right to the weapons dealer. "Why are you avoiding war?! That's what the guns you sell are for! Thanks to me being respectless, one thing I'm starting to suspect is do you why this angel's headless? Do you have a disclosure?" "THIS MEETING'S OVER!"

The rest of the overlords and Nathan were surprised and confused by all this. "That was a productive meeting!" Alastor said sarcastically. "Are overlord meetings always like this?" Nathan asked. Velvette then shrugged her shoulders. "Fine! Safe travels back to the nursing home, f*(kers!" Velvette said, leaving the meeting. "Kiss my ass!" Carmila however was silent. "Mother?" One of her daughters, the demoness, Odallia, asked, concerned before Carmila waved her hand and walked away with Zestial in tow. Soon the other overlords left the room, except Alastor, who had his eye on the weapons dealer. "Hmmm that's interesting…." He said curiously, before turning to both the egg boi and Nathan. "You Nathan and the little egg creature!" "Oh yes boss!" Frank said. "What is it Al?" "Follow them!" He ordered pointing to both the other two overlords. "You want us to spy on them?" "Of course!" "I can't believe I'm gonna do this…." Nathan groaned as he and the egg boy followed both Carmila and Zestial.

Meanwhile, one of the overlords, one with a flaming skull and antlers, seemingly left the elevator, but instead noticed Nathan and the egg boi headed to see Carmila and Zestial. His eyes narrowed before turning left and right to make sure the coast was clear. Once it was he pulled out a small wrist communicator and contacted his boss. "Did you learn anything?" "I may have found out who killed the angel sir, but it appears that Nathan is here too." He reported. "Perfect, bring them to our base hidden in the city! We'll kill two fletchlings with one rock throw!"

Inside her office, Carmila poured a glass of wine while mumbling in Spanish before drinking the whole bottle. "Carmila… what troubles thou?" Zestial asked concerned, "Losing thy composer is unlike thee!" "It's nothing Zestial really…." Carmila sighed, as this was happening Nathan and the egg boi eve's dropped from near the front entrance. "The fallen angel? 'Twas was by thy hand was it not?" That perked up Nathan's ears, Carmila killed the angel? But how? "Let's not talk about it…." Carmila said before walking to her desk. "Mom, maybe he should know!" Carmila's other daughter, Clara, said. "Nobody should know!" Carmila argued, slamming her hands on the table before sitting down. "I did what I had to do! I am not discussing this!" Suddenly, as this was happening, Nathan's phone rang in his bag. "Oh of all the times to go off!" He whispered, trying to hang up. Unfortunately it was too late and was grabbed by Zestial. "Uh… heeey Zestial!" He said innocently. "Now I know how this looks but…" Zestial immediately threw Nathan on the ground where Carmila and her daughters surrounded him. "You have 2 seconds to tell me what you're doing here…." Carmila growled. "Well miss Carmine mambe. I can explain." "1 second." "But look I didn't even want to do this but…" Too late…." Carmila then raised her shoe and was about to stab Nathan with it before the trainer dodged before running away to the door but was stopped by an overlord he met at the meeting. "Uh excuse me sir but I gotta run!" "Not any more you don't… CROBAT GAS THEM!" Soon a large four winged bat emerged and sprayed a purple gas that caused them to cough before falling unconscious. But the last thing Nathan saw was the overlord revealing his true identity, a familiar overweight scientist. "Dr… Xeosect…."

By the time Nathan woke up he was in some kind of dark room and handcuffed to something, he turned to see Carmila waking up beside him. Once she regained consciousness she looked at her predicament as Nathan smiled nervously. "Tienes que estar bromeando….." She grumbled. "I see we enjoyed our nap!" The two saw that in front of them was Dr. Xeosect. "Now let's get down to business…." "What do you want Xeosect?" Nathan demanded. "Answers really, answers regarding how this sharp bladed ballerina was able to kill one of the angels!" Dr. Xerosect revealed. "Wait, you knew about the angel's death?" Nathan gasped. "Of course we did!" Dr Xeosect answered. "When we found out it proved to be a problem to our plans, so I naturally had to blend in with the overlords at the meeting, unfortunately that social media loving b!mbo completely derailed the whole thing before I could get any information. So I had to move to plan B." "Kidnapping us?" "And forcing the information out through… 'advanced interrogation techniques'." Both Nathan and Carmila were struggling under the cuffs' strength. "Don't bother, those things are made of angelic steel, not even your strength could break them." Xeosect explained. "Tata for now!" The scientist then left and shut the door.

"Great absolutely f*(ing spectacular!" Carmila shouted. "I'm stuck in a cell, my own friend and my family are in danger and I'm handcuffed to you!" "Don't worry, I'll have my Pokémon…" Before Nathan was able to finish his sentence, he noticed something was missing. "He took my bag… great…." "And now I'll be trapped with some kid I don't even know." "Don't worry, I'm sure something will come to help us!" "I highly doubt it." The two then rested on the cold ground, Nathan looked at Carmila. "So how'd it happen anyway…?" "The angel…?" "Yeah, to be honest, I was surprised when I saw that you managed to kill one of them!" "Well, I suppose, since you won't get off my back cuz of it." Carmila began. "It happened during a salvage run. Shortly after the extermination, my daughters and I were grabbing weapons left behind by the angels, but then some decided to get a few more deaths in for the fun of it. But, one thing about being a weapons dealer, is that you always have some on hand." Carmila then showed her shoes, revealing that they were also the weapons. "Wait, I get that they're sharp enough to tear something up faster than a Pokémon using acrobatics but how were they able to cut through an angel?" "Simple, the metal they were made of was angelic steel, the same material the exorcists use during their exterminations." Carmila explained before voices were heard outside and suddenly the door opened, the two rose up and readied themselves only to find that on the other side was Frank the egg boi. "Heya!" He said innocently. "Wait, how did you even get here?" "One of those Tom fare grunts were taking you to some place and I hopped on for the ride!" The egg boi explained. "And how did you manage to open our cell?" "The grunt outside thought I was your dinner so he let me through! Then I head-butted him!" "Then let's move before more show up!"

The three left the cell and went looking for an exit. As they continued through, they found themselves hiding behind a wall, where a pair of Team Flare grunts guarded their path. "Is everything set for the plan?" One of the grunts asked. "Yeah, and now that we have the kid who's f*(ked us over last time!" The other grunt replied. "S#!t! The boss is gonna love them!" As this was happening, both the human and weapons dealer were eavesdropping on their conversation. "How are we gonna get past them?" Nathan whispered. "Keep them distracted is how." Carmila replied before taking out a small coin from her pocket and throwing it across the hall. The sound caught the guards' attention as they rushed over to the disturbance while the three snuck past them and entered a nearby door.

The room on the other side appeared to be a surveillance room where a single grunt was observing through the security monitors, only to be knocked out by Carmila. "Let's see if we can find…" Carmila stopped to see that on the monitors, a pair of grunts were opening a cell and dragging both Clara and Odallia out! Her eyes widened by this and immediately rushed out the door and into the halls. "Whoa, Carmila slow down!" Nathan hollered but his words fell on deaf ears.

By the time Carmila arrived at the cell, however, it was already too late. She fell to her knees and screeched in anger, before slamming her fists down. "Don't worry, we'll get them back…." "WILL YOU STOP TALKING!?" Carmila roared, her eyes gleaming bright red for a second before she breathed heavily. Nathan stood still before looking away as Carmila tried to look for any means of tracking her daughters, but she stopped, feeling somewhat guilty. "I'm sorry it's just…." "No no, I understand, you want your kids back." Nathan interrupted. "If I ever lost one of my Pokémon, I would probably go nuts trying to look for them as well…." "It's just that they're the only family I have left…." Those words took Nathan by surprise. "What about your husband?" "He perished… and me and my daughters were next, but I wouldn't let that happen and fought back, that's how I found out the angel's weakness." "I'm so sorry…." "Thank you… but that's why I wouldn't tell people about the dead angel, because stuff like that leads to war, and war leads to casualties… especially those that are close to you…." Nathan sighed and leaned his hand to the weapons dealer, who smiled and accepted. "Let's find your daughter…."

Suddenly they heard a scream from across the room as they turned to see a Team Flare grunt standing there in front of them. "Prisoner escape! Repeat we have a prisoner…" Before the grunt was able to finish his sentence, another cell door burst open and the grunt was ensnared by a large spider web. On the other side of the cell however was Zestial, who calmly stepped out. "Thou are quite irritating if thou must say…." He said calmly. "Zestial! Good to see you're alright!" Carmila thanked, hugging her friend. "Thank you Carmila, if thou wish to find your kin, the scoundrels that took them went down there. Zestial pointed to a door on the lower floor. "Oh and Nathan…" Nathan turned to Zestial. "Thou had heard that you wish to help, despite thy previous actions, thou have proved to be more kind hearted than thou first thought…." Zestial then handed a coin to Nathan. "For that, thou have earned thy respect." "What about you?" "Thou is going to find a way to free the other prisoners, but thou shall most likely meet again in the near future!" Zestial said before disappearing into the darkness.

With the location in mind the three descended down the stairs and went to the door. On the other side was a large machine with multiple electrical devices around it. As they observed the place, they heard a familiar voice. "For the last time, I want to know how your mother killed that angel!" It was Dr Xeosect, the three hid near the machine as they saw the scientist interrogating Camilla's daughters, who were tied up in chains. "And for the last time we aren't telling you anything!" Odallia growled, to which the Dr slapped her in the face. "You will tell me or I will make you suffer worse than anything in this infernal pit of anarchy can dish out!"

While this was happening, Nathan noticed something else, his pokeballs! "Ok here's the plan," he whispered. "Carmilla and I will distract Xeosect while Frank will deactivate the machine and hands over the pokeballs, to which I will battle Xeosect, giving Carmila enough time to rescue her daughters!" With the plan in play, Nathan and Carmila rushed in and struck Xeosect in the back, "What the!?" Carmila's children's eyes widened as they saw their mother had come to rescue them! "No one harms my daughters and gets away with it!" She growled before picking up Xeosect. "You're not leaving here alive!" Xeosect gagged before unleashing his crobat. "Crobat! X-scissor, now!" The crobat immediately unleashed a powerful x shaped attack, the two immediately turned to different directions but the blast managed to destroy the cuffs keeping them together. "S#!t!" Xeosect growled. "No matter, crobat dark pulse them!" The crobat then unleashed the dark pulse that managed to strike them down, but as this was happening, Frank managed to get the pokeballs free and tossed them to Nathan, who immediately caught them in his bag and readied himself for battle. "Oh great… fine then you want a fight? I'll give you one you'll never forget!"

Xeosect unleashed his crobat on Nathan, who retaliated with his tyrantrum. "Crobat strike with sludge bomb!" The crobat formed a ball of poisonous sludge and threw it at Titanasaur who immediately was hit and resisted well. "Quick stone edge now!" Titanasur slammed his foot once more but instead of an earthquake a bunch of sharp rocks erupted from the ground and struck the crobat from below. Crobat fell to the ground and was instantly knocked out before being returned to Xeosect, who sent out his next Pokémon, Mightyena. "Mightyena! Use ice fang!" The mightyena immediately rushed and took a bite out of the tyrantrum with cold fangs that dug into its stony skin. It managed to damage him greatly and caused him to fall to the ground. "Return Titanasaur!" Nathan returned Titanasur to his ball. "You did good, you're up next Kineticx!" Nathan sent out his Gardivoir who managed to strike a dazzling gleam attack, damaging the enemy. "Now we're talking!" "No way you're beating me! Quickly! Use snarl!" "Kineticx! Dodge and use another dazzling gleam!" Kineticx immediately ducked under the attack and spayed another dazzling flash, this time finishing off the mightyena.

"That's it! Now I'm mad!" Xeosect growled before retracing mightyena and sending out his next Pokémon, a large skeletal seahorse-like Pokémon with multiple strains of what looked like seaweed. "Dragalge!" "Huh! Looks like he's been stocking up on Pokémon since our last bout!" Nathan said, pulling out his Pokédex on the new encounter.

Dragalge, the mock kelp Pokémon and the evolved form of Skelp

A poison and dragon type

Using a liquid poison, Dragalge indiscriminately attacks anything that wanders into its territory. This poison can corrode the undersides of boats.

"Poison and dragon type? Let's see what I can do!" Nathan said, putting his dex away and readying himself. "Kineticx use Psychic!" "I don't think so! Use Smokescreen!" The dragalge then generated a large cloud of smoke that obscured the Gardivoir. "Now poison tail!" Out of nowhere, the Gardevoir was immediately hit with a swipe of the venom enhanced tail. "This won't do… return Kineticx!" Nathan immediately swapped his Gardivoir for his Noivern. "Fine then, dragalge! Use dragon pulse!" Dragalge immediately fired a blast of energy that managed to hit the Noivern but Echo countered with a dragon pulse of her own. "You're not getting out of this one you little bastard! Dragon tail Dragalge!" "Dodge and use Draco Meteor!" "Draco what?!" Just as the Noivern ducked underneath the swipe she spawned several meators that immediately hit the dragalge, knocking it out cold. "You were saying?" "I hate you so much right now…." "Why thank you! I have a habit of that!" Nathan replied smugly, making the mad scientist growl even harder. "Time for the big guns! Go Klefki!" Dr Xeosect sent out his last Pokémon, a small key ring Pokémon with several keys attached to it. "Klefki huh? Ok! Use Flamethrower!" The Noivern then shot a burst of fire that heavily damaged the klefki. "This calls for some extra firepower! Klefki! Play rough!" The klefki immediately jumped onto the Noivern and tasseled with her, damaging her greatly in the process. "One more flamethrower! Finish it!" The Noivern blasted a strike of fire that finished off the klefki.

"Now then, let's get you healed up…." Nathan said before reaching into his bag and pulling out a large spray bottle full of green liquid. "Ugh can this day get any worse!?" Dr Xeosect growled as he retreated his klefki. "Maybe she can help with that…." Nathan said rather cryptically. "Her?" The mad scientist asked confusedly before a familiar weapons dealer grabbed him by the neck and pinned him against a wall. "Listen here, fat man." She said threateningly. "If you ever pull anything like this again, I will tear you apart and use your corpse as a warning to ANYONE who dares harm my daughters. Got it?" "Y-Yes maim loud and clear!" Carmila then threw Xeosect aside as she comforted her children. "He didn't hurt you too badly, right?" She said concernedly. "No, just a few scraps here and there, but I'm glad you and that kid were there to save us." Clar answered. "Well I guess he's not a bad person after all." Carmila replied, smiling At Nathan. "So how are we going to get out of here?" Odallia asked. "Leave it to me!" Nathan then sent out Yveltal, who's appearance left them in shock. "ay dios mío…." Carmila gasped.

"Yveltal, make us an exit!" Using his signature move, oblivion wing Yveltal managed to make an exit through the roof. "But wait there more! "Kineticx! Hit him with one of everything!" Kineticx then emerged from the great ball, cracked his fingers before flashing Dr Xeosect in the face. "Gah! How the f*(k does that hurt!?" He growled."Yeah, I taught him dazzling gleam!" Nathan said, dusting himself off. "I also taught him Thunderbolt!" "Thunder what?" Soon the scientist was struck with electricity. "And energy ball." Nathan added before Kineticx blasted him with a green ball of energy. "What the f*(k DIDN'T you teach this thing?" "Well there's psychic!" Xeosect responded with a sigh of relief. "He taught it himself…." Kineticx then flashed his eyes blue, and mentally picked up the scientist. "Don't you f*(king dare!" He growled before the Gardevoir immediately spun him around, gave him a nasty weegie and threw him out the exit. "Well, I think our work is done here, don't you think?" Nathan asked, whilst the others were shocked. "Damn! This kid's got a s!#t ton of moxie!" Clara said, surprised. "Thanks, he gets very protective of me!" Nathan thanked, pointing to the Gardivoir.

After returning the Gardevoir, Nathan got on his Noivern, while the others got on Yveltal. "Hang onto something!" Nathan said smugly before they rushed to the open skies, where it turns out they were in a mist of a turf war between demons, but ran off upon seeing Yveltal. "Well that surely was something!" Nathan commented. "You want a ride home?" "No thanks, we can make it on foot from here." Carmila replied before she and her daughters got off Yveltal. "And Nathan?" Nathan turned. "I know you're gonna tell Alastor about… what happened but….Thank you for your help, here's a token of my appreciation." Carmila then handed Nathan a coin just like Zestial did earlier. "Thanks, I'll make sure to cherish it!" Carmila responded with a smile before leaving.

"Nathan?!" The trainer turned to see that both Angel and Sir Pentious were in the midst of the battle for some reason. "Where the f*(k have you been all day!?" "I'll tell you later but how about a ride home first?" Nathan replied, before turning to Yveltal. "While we're here Yveltal mind if you would…" Nathan whispered something to Yveltal that made him smile wickedly before flying away, Frank falling off into Nathan's hands. "What did you say to him?" "Just something he really likes…."

Back at the hotel, Nathan and the others dismounted before they went inside, but while the others did, Nathan was stopped by Alastor appearing in front of the doorway and startling him. "Gah! Again, please stop doing that!" He yelled. "So what did you learn?" Alastor asked. "Well, Carmila was the one that killed the angel, and apparently they're weak to their own weapons…." "Fascinating… let's keep this between us… shall we…?" "Yup, silent as ever!" Alastor then stepped aside as he and the rest of the eggs joined in.

"So I see you had a very eventful day today!" Nathan said join in on the conversation. "Damn right we did!" Angel commented, "Charlie had Vags up there try to take hold of the whole 'trust building' thing and we ended up at a f*(king battlefield! Especially when that buff guy started beating the s#!t out of Pentious here!" "Yess with a dismembered arm!" Sir Pentious added. "That was… particularly unpleasant!" "I really like that part!" Nifty giggled. "Well at least you can take a beating like a champ, you did good, new kid." Husk said proudly, tapping Pentious' shoulder before drinking a bottle. "Really? Well I suppose I did well getting into the old ruff and tumble today huh?" Sir Pentious laughed. "Ssso what were you up to with Alastor?" "Well I went to a meeting with other overlords, one of which was where you bought your parts from!" Nathan began, "And me and Carmila ended up getting kidnapped by Team Flare, but we whooped the butt of their admin and Carmilla and Zestial gave me these!" Nathan then pulled out the coins that made them gasp and Husk to spit his drink. "Holy s#!t! Do you even know what those are!?" Husk yelled. "Uh, coins?" "Not just any coins, Overlord Tokens!" Nathan looked at tokens in surprise. "This doesn't mean they own my soul right?" "No, that's a whole other thing, but if you have Overlord Tokens, that means they became your friends, which is a very rare thing for overlords to have." Husk explained before taking another drink.

Nathan looked at the tokens and smiled, guess not all overlords are bad after all…. "Say where's Charlie?" "She's up with Vaggie." Husk said before Nathan went upstairs. "Hey, heard Vaggie had a field day with the trust seminar huh?" "Well it wasn't what I expected but I appreciate you taking them home!" Charlie said, before looking at the overlord tokens. "And it looks like you made a few new friends." "Let's just say I helped them out of a tight spot!" "Hmm seems like you learned something about trust after all!" Vaggie said before the door opened and Alastor stepped in. "Alastor!" Vaggie hollered, getting the radio demon's attention. "Failed to get rid of the eggs I see?" "True but these little fellas proved to be rather useful…." Alastor said cryptically. "Why don't you give them back to Pentious?" Vaggie suggested, making Sir Pentious' eyes widen. "Really…?" "Yeah, but seriously though. No. More. Weapons." Vaggie said before the snake demon immediately hugged the eggs with glee. "He would not shut up about them!" Angel commented. "Oh while you're here Nathan I've got a couple of surprises for you!" The snake demon said gleefully, peaking Nathan's interest.

After gathering everyone up in the lobby, Sir Pentious stood beside something covered in a white sheet. "So what's this surprise all about?" Asked Nathan. "Well since your Pokémon get injured every ssso often and when you told me about Pokémon centersss…." Sir Pentious replied before pulling the sheet back and from it a mechanical structure with a computer, and six cups to hold balls of some kind. "I decided to make one myssself!" Nathan's eyes widened and ran up to the thing to get a closer look. "Cool!" "It cannot only heal your Pokémon, but it alssso has a pc to take out and put other Pokémon in your boxes!" "Oh that gives me a great opportunity!" Nathan then accessed his pc. "Since you've helped me with my current situation, there's something I've been meaning to give all of you!" "What's that, kid?" Angel asked. "I wanted to give you all some Pokémon I caught during my journey so you can have your own! Think of it as new buddies for you to play with!" Everyone gasped upon hearing those words as Nathan turned with various pokeballs in his hands.

He first gave two balls to Vaggie, a luxury ball and a great ball. "Here are two for you Vaggie!" Vaggie then took the balls and opened them, where two beings emerged, one was a small panda cub Pokémon with a leaf in its mouth, and the other was a large mantis-like Pokémon with large scythes for hand, mosquito wings and a large thorax. "This is pancham and this is scyther! They're really good hitters!" The two immediately looked at Vaggie before cuddling up to her. "Looks like they really like you!"

Next Nathan handed two to Angel, a nest ball and an ultra ball. "Here's some for you Angel!" Angel took the balls and out came two Pokémon, a small spider-like Pokémon and a tan and black striped crocodile Pokémon. "This is spinarak and sandile! Pretty cute huh?" "Heh! I could get used to them!" Angel replied as the two Pokémon snuggled up to him.

Up came Husk, who was handed a normal pokeball and a dive ball. "Here you go Husk!" The cat demon took the balls and out came two more Pokémon. A cat like Pokémon and a piranha Pokémon. "This is glameow and carvana! They can help you with the bar, especially if you're dealing with crazy customers." "Well I'll give them a go!" Husk replied as the glameow cuddled up to him.

Up next was nifty, with a love ball and a premier ball. "Here you- oh!" Nifty immediately snatched the balls and out came two Pokémon, a small chinchilla Pokémon and a small brown and tan bird-like Pokémon. "This is Minccino and this is pidgy. They'll be a great help with cleaning, especially Minccino, they really love to clean!" Nathan said as the Minccino hopped on the table and cleaned it with its tail. "I think I'm in love…."

Next up was Alastor, who was handed a dusk ball and another ultra ball. "Here you are Alastor, I know you're already powerful but they could help with your broadcasts!" Alastor took the balls and opened them where inside was a small bat-like Pokémon, with features similar to Nathan's Noivern, and a small pink and yellow Pokémon with sound-like features. "This is noibat, Noivern's pre evolution, and this is whismur! Just don't eat them please…." He looked at the two Pokémon, who laid on his shoulders. "Hmm, we'll see…."

And then was sir Pentious, who was handed another pokeball and a great ball. "No thanksss I already have a team…" The balls opened with a fox-like Pokémon and a black white and yellow flying squirrel-like Pokémon. "These are eevee and emolga! As you were saying?" Sir Pentious immediately hugged the Pokémon with glee.

And finally was Charlie, who was handed a quick ball and an ultra ball. "I-I'm not sure if I can really use one of these…." "Don't worry Charlie, we can see them together!" Charlie smiled as the quick ball opened. The first Pokémon was a small one shaped like a wax candle with a large purple flame atop its head, Nathan pulled out his Pokédex and inspected it.

Litwick the candle Pokémon

A ghost and fire type

Its flame is usually out, but it starts shining when Litwick absorbs life-force from people or Pokémon.

"Awe, it's adorable!" Charlie said, cuddling the litwick. "I'll call you, phantom flare!" The litwick smiled upon its nickname. "So what's the other one?" "Have a look for yourself!" Charlie then opened the ultra ball and out came a small, yellow fox with large ears with big red tufts of hair in them. Nathan pulled out his Pokédex again and looked at it.

Feniken, the fox Pokémon

A fire type

This Pokémon gets worked up easily. Its body can also overheat, so it uses its ears to dissipate the heat and calm down.

"Ooh! She reminds me of one of the dogs my dad owns! I'll name you… flamefox!" Charlie cheered, rubbing her feniken's belly. "Looks like everyone is enjoying their Pokémon!" Nathan said proudly, before looking at the pc. "But there's one more present I need to give…."

Meanwhile back in Carmila's office, the weapons dealer was on the phone. "I'm glad to hear you made it out, Zestial… yes I understand… don't worry, I'm sure he'll be able to control him. Ok goodbye." Carmila then hung up before a video was posted on the internet that caught her interest. She played it to her surprise, seeing none other than Velvette hanging over the top of the Vee tower by her hair, which was tied up in a bow. "God damnit! Someone get me the f*(k down from here!" She screamed, the camera then turned to see none other than Yveltal holding it, who was laughing at her expense. Carmila smirked knowing full well that Nathan was the one who did it before Odallia entered the room. "Mother, it appears that a package was delivered to you." She said with a small box in her hand. "Did you…?" "We made sure that it's 100% not a bomb." Odallia answered before leaving the box with her mother. Carmila then hastily opened the box, but no explosive device or severed appendage was inside, but a small silver topped ball with blue bumps, a necklace with a rainbow stone, and a small gemstone laid inside, alongside a note.

To Carmila,

The box inside here contains something that might be able to help, I'm not 100% guaranteed it's foolproof but it's a start.

If Team Flare or anyone might try to harm you or your family, maybe this can help.

I got it from when I was on my first journey, but I never got around to using it.

Maybe you can try it though, it's said that it eventually becomes a pseudo legendary in my world.

Here's hoping it will bring you some extra protection.

Your friend,

Nathan.

Carmila then turned to the ball and opened it, and out came a small ball headed being with one red eye, and a three pronged claw attached to its back. "Beldum!" "Who's it from mother?" Carmila smiled, knowing her friend is looking out for her. "A friend."