Chapter 8
Hoenn- Lavaridge Town
The bleached room was filled with bright lights, and the scent of sterilization was almost sickening. A tall streak of red slammed the door open and with a smile the woman spoke.
"Are you feeling good enough to talk now? If you aren't I can get a guy over here and place you in a nice cage."
The slender creature had just enough energy to sit up on what it thought was a bed, "I need to see Lady Miracle. It's a matter of life and death."
"Let me introduce myself then. My name is Carmen and Miracle is my daughter in law. So again, you need to speak. Let's start with who you are."
"I am a celestial paladin in the world beyond the moon. I was sent by my lord to seek out the one who will unite the worlds, a human who is also what you call a Pokémon."
"Well that's one of eighteen humans right now, including my daughter and their lover Sakinah." Carmen said.
"Yes but one is known as the uniter, and my lord sent me to seek her out after we were attacked."
"Who attacked you? Why did they attack you?"
"A group of hooded humans laid waste to our dimension; I think I'm the only one who was able to escape. And I was only able to do that because I was sent away before the final bombardment."
"I think I know of the group you are speaking of…Rest for now, and I will get you in contact with my daughters."
"Thank you Carmen. And you may call me Lilarosa; I believe your professors know me scientifically as a Pheramosa."
"Like I said, I know what you are." Carmen reassured the Pokémon with a smile before exiting the room.
"God help us all if I fail." Lilarosa said under her breath.
Sinnoh- Oreburgh City
With the early day behind them, the girls were finally on their way to the Oreburgh Gym to meet up with Rocca and her boys.
"What do you think Rocca has planned for us?" Saki asked.
"Something probably on the evil side I bet," Azula smiled, "And by that I mean boring and monotonous."
"Are you guys whining about something," It was Rocca as she stepped out of the gym, "I didn't take you all for the whining types."
"You don't know us that well Rocca, so I don't mind shutting you up any way necessary," Miracle smiled.
"Feisty, I like it. So since you are here I assume you are up for the challenge?"
"You are playing to a part of my makeup you remember from my father Rocca. Bring it on!"
"We are having a small issue deep in the mines. Our generators have gone off line and we have been unable to get a guy close enough to check out the problem. Knowing your strength, and the strengths of your girls. I have asked for this favor and in return for completing it you get a pretty strong Pokémon I have bred."
"You have my full attention now." Miracle said. At this point Rocca's boys appeared.
"Show the goods then Rocca," Azula heckled.
"Boys you get the Pokémon I asked for?" The pair handed her a ball and Rocca popped tossed it into the air; it opened and revealed a rock, "What the hell is that thing?"
"Hidey bug!" Harmony cheered.
"I'll be damned, it's a Dwebble." Saki said, "That is perhaps Harmony's favorite Pokémon in the world. Sorry Mira, looks like our baby girl finally gets her wish."
"That's right; Mira's Uncle Cilan had a few he bred off of his Crustle." Azula added.
Miracle couldn't stop laughing, "She spent hours playing hide and seek with those guys. Okay Rocca, Zula and I will look at these generators for you. And when we get back I'll actually trade you a Geodude I had caught a while ago for Dwebble."
"I accept those terms; here is a map to the faulty generators. We will see you two later tonight."
Harmony waved by to her mothers and quickly climbed onto the still hiding Dwebble, "Okay Zula let's get going." Miracle laughed.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say dear." Azula sighed, "As long as we are back for dinner, it's my turn to feed Harmony, and she will freak if the crazy train isn't at the station."
"Who knew motherhood would look so good on you," Saki said giving her a peck on the cheek.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever, let's get going."
Oreburgh Mine
The mine was as dark and cramped as Miracle and Azula thought it would be, it was also damp and surprisingly barren.
"Well at least they could have rolled out the welcoming committee," Azula said.
"They have been having issues with equipment, I would assume most workers are at home till it's all fixed."
"Well I am sensing roughly a half dozen people on this floor of the mine. But….there seems to be some sort of electrical interference on the second floor near the generators." Azula said, "Probably maintenance workers."
"Well from what my pokedex is saying, only Onix, Zubat and Geodude's live here….Oh and a stray Drilbur or two." Mira said.
"I don't think we should add one of those to our parties," Azula sighed, "They seem a bit generic don't you think?"
Mira smiled and gave Azula a swat to her ass, "Depends on so many things. Never say never dear."
As they made their way deeper into the cave system the pair came across the remaining miners, a few wanted battles while others laid information about the mine systems around the Sinnoh region.
"If you two look long enough you will find rare gems, and other items. And if you're lucky, then you can find fossils," One guy said.
"Really?!" Azula said surprised.
"Rocca's Pokémon are mostly fossils," another said, "Even her Steelix was brought back via the regeneration machines."
"I would love a Kabuto," Mira said, "But we are headed down to the generators."
"You are right above them," yet another Miner said, "But be careful there have been a number of power surges and glitching in the machines and none of us have been able to locate the underlining problem."
"Then I guess I'm lucky I brought her with me." Miracle smiled.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Azula demanded.
"You know exactly what I mean. And you enjoy it as well." It was at that moment that the power decided to surge and then shut off completely, it was then followed by a small tremor shooting through the ground.
"Okay this is new," The miner said, "We've never had power outages before." Several other miners came running past them all in a panic, nearly knocking them all over, "What's going on?"
"There was a cave in. We are headed out to get Rocca so she can help us get to the second floor."
"Any casualties? Or anyone caught on the other side?" Miracle asked.
"A group of engineers were caught behind the cave in. Now I think we should all leave till Rocca gets here." The miner said as they both decided to leave. Another tremor hit.
"What a bunch of wimps," Azula sighed, "I'll head over to the other side of the cave in and assess the damage. You see what you can do from this side."
"Sounds like a plan, see you in a few moments." Mira said. Azula walked over to the wall and place her hand on one of the giant wires running across it. She shifted into her electrical form and phased into it.
"Now my turn, I need to find a way to open that passage without causing another tremor. Dhelmise, Escavalier!" The pair of Pokémon appeared and were at Miracle's beck and call. Okay guys we need to clear that door way. Escavalier I want you to use drill run and make your way through the softer spots while Dhelmise uses anchor shot to pull away the large boulders."
The two Pokémon began to work on the entrance while Miracle continued to look around for more she could do.
2nd Floor
Azula popped out of the electrical wires and started taking stock of what was around her, "There are the generators, and looks like the trapped engineers are hanging over by the blocked passage."
"Hey! Who the hell are you?" One of the engineers yelled, "What are you doing down here?"
"Dude, shut up before I break your jaw," Azula yawned, "Just know I'm trying to help, and so is my wife on the other side of the wall. "Dude, shut up before I break your jaw," Azula yawned before a third tremor shook the cave, "Just know that I'm trying to help, and so is my wife on the other side of the wall."
The guy quickly quieted his mouth and let Azula get back to her work. She walked over to the generators and started examining them. One of the female techs walked over to her and pointed a few things out, "Those are the energy input and output meters. And those over there are radiation, and carbon dioxide detectors."
"It looks like these are taking in way more energy than they are made to," Azula said, "It's like its taking in residual electricity in the area."
"That's not possible," The other female tech said, "These generators are the same as they've always been and so is all the equipment we use."
"What about Pokémon? Any new Pokémon with electric attacks move into the area?" Azula asked.
"Not that we can tell. We are not allowed electric Pokémon down here for just that reason." The male growled.
Azula reached for a ball on her belt and released her Pikachu, "Okay Zuzu, I'm going to siphon the excess energy out of these generators. I want you to try and locate where the extra electricity is coming from." Zuzu took off like a bullet, then Zula placed her hands on the console.
"What are you doing now?" The tall tech asked.
Azula ignored them and continued to siphon the extra power, "Levels are decreasing….We are almost out of the critical…..How are you doing this?" The smaller female tech asked.
Azula laughed, "I'm a being that can create and control electricity….Right now I'm just taking the added electricity out of the generators so that we can work in a safer environment."
"Pika, Pikachu!" Zuzu came speeding up to her lags and crashed.
"It looks like you found something buddy," Azula chuckled while she picked him up, "Take me to it."
1st Floor
Miracle's Pokémon had finally broken through the initial hard layers of the caved in tunnel, and she quickly decided it was time to use a slightly better Pokémon for the job.
"Hey you two, come over here." She told her Pokémon, " I think it's time to bust this out as quickly as possible." Her Pokémon floated to her just as another quake rattled the cave. Miracle then place a ball on her pokegear and switched it with another.
"What do you have in store Miracle?" It was Rocca coming up from behind her.
"Oh, I was wondering when you were gonna show up. You are going to love what I have in store for this."
At that moment Saki came running up, she had Harmony on her back, "Miracle is that who I think it is?"
"Steelix! Yes it is."
"Is he gonna burrow the new tunnel?" Rocca asked. Miracle smiled with a nod, "The radius will be a bit tight don't you think?"
"You've never seen Miracle's Steelix at work?" Saki asked.
"It's just a Steelix, what it can do that mine couldn't."
"Let's see then….Come on out big guy!" The poke ball was thrown high and opened to reveal the massive iron snake Pokémon.
"Holy shit he is huge!" Rocca yelled.
"He is twice the size of a normal one. Okay Steelix I want you to dig out that tunnel, speed is not needed, just be careful."
"Steelix!" The big Pokémon pushed into the tunnel and then his vertebrae began to corkscrew the dirt out from behind his head.
After ten, fifteen minutes, Steelix bursts through the other side and allows Miracle, Rocca and Saki to reach the second floor.
"Oh thank god," The male tech cheered, " A person with a brain is here."
"Where is my wife? She should be down here with you." Miracle asked them.
"She ran off after her Pikachu." The tall female technician said.
"Oh, Zuzu must have found something then." Miracle said.
"He did, and was it a bit of a surprise." Azula choked out a laugh, as she came back from wherever she was. She was covered in dirt and had a few small gashes on her hands and face. But it was the poke ball Zuzu was carrying that had everyone scratching their heads.
"What happened?" Saki and Mira said at the same time.
"I caught the culprit. Simple as that…..Well not that simple, the bugger was a major pain in my ass." Zuzu hopped up onto her shoulder and dropped the ball into her hand. "I came across a Pokémon that does not appear in this region."
"What Pokémon is it?" Rocca asked.
Azula tossed the ball up and released the Pokémon, "Geodude. Alolan form."
"How the hell did that get here?" The male tech yelled.
"I've seen that little guy around; just thought it was another Geodude." The small female said.
"Except this guy is not just a rock type…..He is also electric, which means he was unknowingly messing with your equipment. And when he collects too much energy he would bash the ground creating small earthquakes."
"Well, I think that qualifies as a successful mission don't you Rocca?" Mira laughed.
"Agreed, my Dwebble for your Geodude. How the…well a deal is a deal."
"You are all crazy!" The male tech screamed as he stomped away.
"Hidey bug!" Harmony cheered from her secured place.
"That couldn't have ended better." Miracle and Azula said to each other as they all walked out of the mines laughing.
