Pokemon Ranger John ran as fast as his feet could take him, along with his fellow Pokemon rangers that ran beside him while a few were behind him. Miya, one of his colleagues that ran beside him, breathed heavily before speaking as the contingent of Pokemon Rangers did their best to make it to the altar of Jirachi, "Who do you think went ahead of us!?" she shouted over the sounds of a very loud and destructive battle between the remnants of Team Rocket and whoever else was able to handle their own against a numerical disadvantage.
John spoke back to Miya while the walls trembled and ceilings cracked from heavy combat just beyond the stone hallway. "I don't know, I didn't have the chance to call the local gym leaders or Elite Four!" he shouted over the sounds of furious howls and roars from a rather large pokemon.
"We can't take it down!"
"Damn it! Someone get Admin Kelly here now, or else we'll lose the artifact-Gurk!"
"Fuck! The Pokemon killed Jack!"
As the pokemon rangers continued to rush to the exit of the stone hallway, John spoke aloud after realizing something did not add up, "It does sound like a trainer or anyone is attacking Team Rocket." he hollered out.
After several more yards, the team of pokemon rangers eventually reach the exit to the outside to the altar; what laid before them were bodies of Team Rocket members with gashes, along with some of their pokemon that laid beside them.
From out of the sky, landed what looked like an armored pokemon, but more shockingly, it looked like the largest Mightyena anyone had ever seen. The pokemon was in the midst of finishing a pile drive on another pokemon, A Lairon no less, before leaping off from it into a backflip, and landing back beside a black blade.
The massive looking Mightyena, beneath its armored head, gazed with its eyes towards the rangers with some measure of hostility and caution, while placing a firm grip onto the handle of the nearby blackblade with what looked like a very dexterous hand unlike its normal canine Mightyena counterparts. "Proclaim thy intentions, interlopers, for this is my fight and my fight alone." The pokemon growled out in a very articulate deep masculine tone, before glaring over at the very surprised rangers.
"Speak, or thou shall find thy blade at thou throats!" The pokemon barked out with anger in his eyes.
John, while a bit shocked and a bit frightened at how massive the Mightyena looking pokemon was, swallowed down his nerves before braving forward to speak up, "We-, We came to put and end to Team Rocket that was attempting to do nefarious deeds with Jirachi's egg…none of us expected this." he looked around at the disaster the pokemon wrought upon the dead, dismembered, and very few team members that were clinging to life with their pokemon.
The pokemon hunched over a bit before standing up on his hind legs to give the rangers the impression that he was ready for a fight at any moment, he gripped hard onto the handle of his blade and stabbed the end into the stone floor before glaring at the rangers, "Then you are too late, I hath disposed of these cretins, for the trespass and kidnapping of my pack. A recompense I delivered in return!"
"...Were you able to find your pack?" A nervous voice asked from one of the rangers in the back behind John, who looked back at Dave in question with a wide eyed look.
"Da-" John was about to tell his colleague to be quiet, only for the large Mightyena to speak with full authority.
"By the time I hath arrived at their base, my pack was already shipped off." The pokemon growled with anger in his town, his deep baritone voice vibrating echoes from the open air. "So now I lay waste to their plans, my wrath shall be known to all their ilk!" he barked out with heavy disdain, before the pokemon pulled out his black blade and bounded off to land atop a pillar with ease, "I care not for what you do with the rest, but be warned, humans, stay out of my way, or feel the wrath of I, Maliyena, Pack leader of a thousand strong!" he howled out, before bounding off once more to disappear from the scene of the havoc he caused against the altar.
John looked around to see pocket marks riddled with black marks, deep gouges with blood and viscera in them, bisected members of team rocket, some were even indented against various pillars.
"I didn't know Mightyena had an evolution beyond it…" Mita spoke aloud with some awe in it, she had just recovered from puking her guts out after seeing the revolting mess and devastation of the newly identified evolution of Mightyena.
John looked over to his colleague with worry, it was her first time in actually seeing such carnage, and it wouldn't be the first time for her as a pokemon ranger. The world they lived in beyond civilisations was more hazardous than one would think; and with such dangerous pokemon existing, one would be a fool to believe the world was anything but sunshine and rainbows.
"There's still so much we don't know about pokemon, Miya." He said to his colleague, before looking back at the lone egg of Jirachi that had seemingly sat unharmed on the altar. "But for the time being, this is going to be a long night of writing a report." he remarked before stepping forward to grab the egg and bring it back to headquarters.
"Like our eyewitness account of seeing a first ever Maliyena that could speak human?" Dave asked with some snark to his tone, idly cringing at seeing all the mess that was made from the pokemon in its battle against Team Rocket and their pokemon.
"More than likely, we'll need to call in professor Birch, and a few others." John concluded as he hefted the egg into a protective grip and walked back to the group with it in his hands.
"Right." Dave nodded in agreement.