Intro:
Hey everyone, sorry for not posting last week things got too busy with homework and to me that is more important than this story but we are back on schedule. We are getting closer to Sinnoh remakes being released and I am super excited and can't wait. No more distractions let's get back into the world of Sinnoh!
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AND. HERE. WE. GO.
Guide:
Bolded Italics: Speaking to Audience or Out of Time
Regular Italics: Thoughts
COF: Character(s) of Focus
Team Galactic HQ, Veilstone City
Hunter "Looker" Langley/Farid Rome
Looker sat at his desk, he kept working on his camera disabling remote. He knew that this could come in handy if he needed a quick escape. While working, he got the thought of Lucas in his head, he hadn't heard from him in a while but didn't think much of it.
Lucas had become more of a target than a person of interest lately for Team Galactic. As Looker was working he noticed a sight that stressed him out. All of the Team Galactic admins, Mike, Cyrus, and Charon together walking into the Cybersecurity room.
The whole room went dead silent and stood up at attention at the sight of them.
"Easy everyone, we aren't here for any of you. I implore all of you to return to your work," Cyrus said.
"YES MASTER CYRUS," The whole room shouted, sitting back down.
Looker sat back down as well, the power that Cyrus had over everybody else here was something out of a story for Looker, it was frightening. Feeling the pressure, Looker shoved his device in his pocket and cleared his computer screen of anything suspicious. Just as he finished covering himself up, he felt a strong presence behind him. He turned around to see the group behind him.
"My apologies Master Cyrus but is there something I can help you with?" Looker said, standing up.
"Yes Farid, I have been told you are one of the very best cybersecurity members we have and a personal favorite of my dear friend Mr. Rollins," Cyrus said.
Mike gave Looker a small grin that made Looker feel sour inside.
"We have had some talks before, very interesting man," Looker said.
"As a group, we feel that you are someone we trust with this so you are going to have to come with us, if you aren't too busy please," Cyrus said, putting a hand on his shoulder.
That fucker gave me up, that two-faced son of a bitch.
Looker walked with the group with his heart pounding out of his chest. He felt that he was going to die, he even thought of a plan to kill at least one of them before they took him out. His hatred for Mike soared through the roof, he already didn't like the guy but now that Mike screwed him over, his hatred for Mike would be something he took to the grave.
The group led Looker to a room with multiple monitors where he was seated. He was confused, he sat down at the seat and kept his cool.
"Mike thought you would like to see this Farid so please pull up the camera feed for the prison area," Cyrus commanded.
Confused, Looker did as he was asked and pulled up the camera feed for the cells of the prison area. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary except for one cell and with one look, Looker's eyes widened. His heart dropped as he saw Lucas, tied up inside a cell, unconscious.
"I know how much you hate Lucas, Farid so I thought I'd show you what happened to him," Mike grinned at Looker.
"Quite a sight isn't it," Cyrus said.
"Y-yes sir, an a-amazing sight," Looker said, holding his anger in.
"And I did it," Mars said with a smile.
"I told you, patience and we would get him," Charon smiled.
"Our biggest thorn, under our control," Jupiter said.
"Let's not be animals here, we still need something from him," Cyrus said.
"What would that be Master Cyrus?" Looker asked.
"Well might as well make him tell us where his little friend is, Barry Platinum," Cyrus said.
"He's just as big of a problem as Lucas is," Charon said.
"Well you know he isn't going to just give it up," Mike said.
"I know and while I do not like brute force I feel that it is necessary for some instances such as this," Cyrus said.
Looker had to act fast, he needed to get Lucas out of there and fast, or else they were going to really hurt him.
"I'll take this one Master Cyrus," Saturn offered.
"No, I will do this myself, after all, he has wanted to see me," Cyrus said.
Mike was shocked by Cyrus's offer, Cyrus wasn't normally someone to resort to violence at least on the first try but he had a point. Lucas was never just going to willingly tell them where Barry was.
"Cyrus, may I offer something?" Mike asked.
"Certainly," Cyrus said, rolling up his sleeves.
"Why don't you take our little friend here with you? After all, he hates Lucas I'm sure Farid would love to see up close Lucas being interrogated," Mike grinned.
Looker held his fist to the point of his knuckles turning white.
"I don't see why not, come now Farid," Cyrus said, leaving the room.
Looker got up and slowly walked out of the room but not before giving Mike a "fuck you" look.
Mike grinned, while Mike couldn't give Looker's position up he wasn't going to stop him from making his life a living hell in Team Galactic.
Chapter 23: Captured
COF: Lucas Diamond
Lucas slowly came too, he tried to move but was met with his hands and feet tied to a chair. His hat and scarf were missing and he felt blood on his back, probably from the blow to the head.
"Oh shit," Lucas said to himself, trying to move around.
Lucas could see marks on his wrists from the restraints and he tried to find something to help him free himself. It was no use, deep down he was scared, this was the scariest moment of his life. As Lucas continued to try to free himself he heard footsteps coming towards the cell.
"WHO'S THERE!" Lucas shouted.
"Easy now, Lucas," Cyrus said, walking to the cell.
Lucas stared right at Cyrus, then his face changed from anger to confusion when he saw Looker next to him.
Looker gave Lucas a look saying "go with it" and Lucas understood, he remembered that he was undercover.
"We meet at last Lucas, well we met before but that seems like ages ago doesn't it?" Cyrus asked, entering the cell.
"Fuck you," Lucas hissed.
"Damn boy you didn't even blink," Cyrus said.
"Since I'm still alive, you must want something from me," Lucas assumed.
"They did say you were smart, bravo isn't that right Farid," Cyrus said, looking over to Looker.
"Yes Master Cyrus, very smart for a kid," Looker grinned, keeping the role.
"Lucas we have two paths we can go down, one path where you are not harmed and one where you are," Cyrus said, leaning down to Lucas.
"Go on," Lucas glared.
"I have you where I want you, I have Professor Dawn's Pokedex," Cyrus said, looking around the room.
"We're just missing your obnoxious, loud, and mildly irritating friend, so tell me where is Barry?" Cyrus asked.
Lucas responded by spitting on Cyrus's face. Cyrus wiped the spit off and looked right at Lucas.
"Thought so Lucas I don't know what your problem is with us but just remember you asked for all of this," Cyrus, sending a punch across Lucas's jaw.
Lucas grunted in pain, spitting up blood but kept his mouth shut. He would never put anyone in danger and especially not his best friend. While the description Cyrus had about Barry was right, Lucas would die before he told Team Galactic where to find him.
"Come on Lucas, just tell me and this can end," Cyrus taunted.
Looker stood in the back and watched, every fiber on him wanted to stop this but he knew he couldn't, he had a plan but he couldn't execute it with Cyrus in the area he needed to be alone with Lucas.
"Farid, wanna take a hit?" Cyrus asked.
Looker didn't want to, but he had to remember he was someone else at the moment. He walked up to Lucas, Lucas looked at Looker with a "do it" face, Lucas knew there were no hard feelings between the two.
"Where is Barry?" Farid asked, slamming his fist on Lucas's knee.
Lucas grunted in pain, it hurt but less than getting punched in the jaw. This continued for an hour. 60 long minutes of Cyrus interrogating Lucas with punches, kicks, and threatening but Lucas never gave anything up.
"You are one tough son of a...," Cyrus said, panting and rubbing his fists.
Looker was both angry and proud, angry because of what was happening to Lucas and proud that he was taking all this pain and keeping his mouth shut. Looker thought he would make a great agent with this resilience.
"I need to get something, Farid, come with me," Cyrus said, taking Looker out of the cell.
Lucas spat out the blood that pooled in his mouth, his whole face hurt and his wrists were sore from the restraints. His whole body felt like garbage, he needed to get out of there but there was no hope anywhere. He felt his determination slipping from his body but he held on to whatever he had left.
"I need to go ice my hands and get some water, make this kid talk while I'm out," Cyrus said.
"Yes Master Cyrus," Looker said, watching as Cyrus left the area.
Looker walked back in and kept yelling at Lucas, asking him where Barry was. This was his chance, Looker reached his hand into his back pocket and pressed the button on his device. To his surprise, the camera shorted out and died. Lucas looked up confused, at this point one of his eyes was swollen shut so his vision was limited.
"That won't stay like that forever, they'll come down here any second now," Looker said, quickly freeing Lucas.
"What the hell was that?" Lucas asked, weakly trying to get up but falling to his knees.
"It's a device I made, we don't have much time right now all the camera's in this building are dead, this is your chance to get the hell out of here," Looker said.
"What about you?" Lucas asked.
Looker grabbed a large stone on the ground and gave it to Lucas.
"I need to stay here but this needs to look like an escape, listen to me very carefully, once you leave the prison area you'll see an elevator take it to the roof and take the fire escape down, nobody guards it normally but because you've escaped you'll have a limited time to leave before they cut you off," Looker told Lucas.
"Leave the area, take the elevator to the roof, escape through the fire escape got it, but again what about you?" Lucas asked, helping himself up.
"I need to stay here, I'm still working and to get me off the suspect list," Looker said, turning around.
"Hit me in the back of the head with the rock," Looker said, pointing to an area on the back of his head.
"I can't do that man," Lucas said, looking at the rock than at Looker.
"Lucas I need to be off that suspect list if you hit me in this area it will knock me out but not damage my brain we learned this in the academy, hit me hard and fast...I'll be okay, get out of here if they catch you a second time, I don't think they'll keep you alive," Looker said.
"You sure about this?" Lucas asked.
"Yeah just do it, and good luck, get out of this city and head to the nearest hospital," Looker said.
"I will, thanks Looker," Lucas said, hitting Looker in the head.
Looker fell to the ground and Lucas made his move, he slowly made his way through the prison area. He stopped every so often to relax his body, he found it incredibly hard to walk around. His wrists hurt, his face hurt, he had half vision. His ribs felt broken from the kicking and felt he had cuts on his face. It was truly the worst day of his life. He made his way into what seemed to be a contraband room.
"Finally some stuff I could use," Lucas said, limping into the room.
There he found his hat, scarf, bag, and something he never thought he would see. Lucas found one of his pokemon, in this shitty situation Lucas found some hope.
"HA, Luxio, thank god you're okay," Lucas said, hugging Luxio's Pokeball.
Lucas made his way through the area, his heart always beating. The prison area was dark and had a feeling of dread in it. The walls were concrete and soundproof probably to contain screams. The whole area made Lucas even more on his toes. He found the elevator Looker was talking about and had a sigh of relief, he made his way into the elevator for a much-needed rest.
Cybersecurity Room
Michael Rollins
"Can you fix it?" Mars said.
"I'm trying, give me a second," Charon said, trying to work the computer.
"We don't have time for this, Mike go check on Lucas, Mars and Jupiter find Master Cyrus, and make sure he's okay, Saturn, stay with me and try to get these cameras working," Charon commanded.
Mike ran out of the room, how did their cameras go down it made no sense. He felt as if something was going wrong.
"Rogue, come on out," Mike yelled, releasing his pokemon from his ball.
Rogue came out and floated alongside Mike.
"Head downstairs and make sure nobody leaves the prison area, I'll meet you down there," Mike said, running.
Rogue went through the floor. Mike ran as fast as he could, he knew he couldn't let Lucas escape the building, if Lucas was let loose on this building he could really screw something up. Mike made his way to the door guarding the back entrance to the prison but had a lock on it. Mike, not having his keys, tried to bust down the door but to no avail.
"Shit, Flare, get out here," Mike said, releasing Flare.
"Burn this door out of the way," Mike ordered.
Flare released a roar of fire from his mouth that melted the door off the hinges. Mike was always impressed by his Pokemon's strength and how powerful they got over the years of training them.
"Good work buddy, let's go," Mike said, running into the area.
Mike made his way to Lucas' cell to see he was gone and Rogue roaming the area.
"FUCK!" Mike shouted, looking down at an unconscious Looker.
"You son of a bitch, you helped him," Mike said, shaking the unconscious agent.
Knowing there was nothing Mike could do about Looker, he had to act fast. Mike knew that Looker probably gave Lucas a solid way out of the building. With 12 floors in the Team Galactic who knows where he was.
Lucas Diamond
Lucas leaned on the side of the elevator and was about to go to the roof when he saw that the 10th floor of the building was labeled Laboratories. Lucas thought that the rest of his pokemon could be there. Lucas pressed the button and watched as the elevator made its way to the 10th floor.
He hid behind the door until he knew it was clear. After he slowly made his way through the floor. It had a complete opposite feel to the prison, it felt clean and almost friendly. The walls were white and the floor was shiny. Lucas thought he was in the Hall of Fame. Lucas made his way through the lab and found himself in what seemed to be a secretive area of the laboratory.
"What the hell do they have planned here?" Lucas whispered to himself.
Lucas hid underneath desks and anywhere he could to avoid detection when he saw someone approaching. Lucas had only one goal in this area. Find his other partners. Lucas was not leaving until his pokemon were safe with him.
"Come on guys where are you?" Lucas asked himself.
At this point, the pain his body was in was almost unbearable but he had to keep going. He needed to make sure nothing was happening to his pokemon, even Gabite. Eventually, Lucas found his way to what seemed to be Charon's personal desk. It was massive and had junk on it but among the junk, he found Dawn's Pokedex, Pokeball, and other files Team Galactic stole from her.
"I forgot about these," Lucas whispered, grabbing the Pokedex, Pokeball, and files and putting them into his bag.
Lucas also found some other files labeled Operation Reshape. He stared at the files as the word classified was marked on them. They looked important and Lucas thought that maybe it was time to plan some payback. He stole the files, every one of them he could find.
"Let's see what you people are hiding," Lucas said, putting the files in his backpack.
Lucas crept his way through the rest of the laboratory and finally, he saw something that gave him another sigh of relief, it was the rest of his team. Safe and stored in a cabinet. Lucas was about to grab his pokemon when he heard someone coming right in his direction.
Lucas dived underneath a desk and held his breath.
"Charon, Lucas has escaped," Saturn said.
"I know I know Mike told me, how did he get past Farid?" Charon asked.
The two walked right by the desk Lucas was hiding under. They stood there for what Lucas thought was forever.
"I don't know but Farid was found unconscious, I think Lucas got free and knocked him out when the cameras died," Saturn said.
"Maybe someone hacked into our cameras and helped him escape, we need to get these cameras back on and find him," Charon said.
"Farid's computer was our best bet but we couldn't figure it out," Saturn said.
"Make sure Farid is helped and in our medical facilities when he wakes up he'll get 'em back up, have grunts all over this building by the hour," Charon ordered.
"Yes sir," Saturn said, leaving.
Charon left with Saturn and Lucas grabbed his pokemon and made his way back to the elevator. He had everything he needed, just one more thing was to escape.
Lucas made his way to the roof where he felt that he was free, his body was just about to give up on him too. Luckily Lucas thought that he was so close to the end of this hell.
Lucas limped to the ladder only to be met with Mars.
"Hi there," Mars grinned, grabbing Lucas and punching him back.
Lucas fell back and dropped his bag that was grabbed by Mars.
"Found ya," Mars laughed.
Lucas tried to crawl away but was met with a swift kick to the ribs. That was it, Lucas couldn't even stand anymore.
"I have to give it to you kid, you really got this close to getting out, how's that kick feel," Mars said, circling Lucas.
"M-much bet-better," Lucas said, grabbing his ribs.
"You son of a bitch," Mars said, grabbing Lucas by the collar.
Lucas headbutted Mars that sent her back.
"OW YOU, I hated you before but now holy shit," Mars said, holding her nose.
"How's that h-headbutt feel?" Luas mocked.
Lucas had one more hope, and it rested inside his sweatshirt. He reached in and rolled out a Pokeball and out came Luxio.
"Fine, we'll go down this route," Mars said, pulling out a Pokeball.
Mars released Golbat and Luxio glared right at him.
The battle was tough, Mars had three pokemon and Luxio had beaten two of them, a Golbat and a Bronzor. But Purugly was tough and Luxio was getting worn out.
"Come on Luxio, you got this," Lucas yelled.
Luxio ran at Purugly only to be met with multiple scratches. Luxio was sent to the ground, not getting back up.
"No...," Lucas said, crawling over to his fallen friend.
"Enough games, Purugly, get him," Mars commanded.
Purugly rushed at Lucas, Lucas closed his eyes waiting for the strike when all of a sudden he felt full of static. He felt a zap go through his body. He opened his eyes to see Luxio standing in front of him. But he was bigger and more electric. Luxio had evolved into Luxray.
"What the hell..," Mars said, backing up.
Lucas smiled, finally, Luxio had evolved.
Luxray roared and sprinted towards Purugly and bit down on her with electricity in his mouth, the Electric Bite.
Purugly was shocked until she went down. Mars was shocked, she had never seen Purugly go down that quickly.
"How did you...," Mars said in disbelief.
Luxray sent a zap into Mars, knocking her out.
"Thank you, buddy I'm so proud of you," Lucas smiled.
Luxray smiled at both his trainer and his new form. He helped Lucas up on his back and walked over to the ladder.
"You rest now buddy, I'll take it from here," Lucas smiled, putting Luxray back in his ball.
Lucas climbed down the long fire escape and was immediately grabbed by Grunts at the bottom, hiding from sight.
"LET GO OF ME!" Lucas shouted.
The grunts laughed and pinned Lucas down, one of the grunts reached for a knock-out serum. As they were about to inject it into Lucas. A pokemon seemed to scare them off as a couple of them were blasted by water.
"That's it Lucas, every time you get captured I'm fining you," His savior said.
Lucas knew that voice, he looked over to have a smile of relief on his face. It was Barry.
Barry ran over to Lucas and helped him up. At this point, it was a miracle he could even support half his body weight.
"How did you find me?" Lucas asked.
"Dawn told me after you didn't come back she called me, you look like hammered shit," Barry said.
"Yeah thanks, just get me out of here," Lucas laughed.
"Got it, I'll take you to the next city they have a hospital there," Barry said.
"Oh and I'm serious about that fine as well 10 million," Barry said.
"Shut up Barry," Lucas said.
He was happy to be alive at this point.
Outro:
And chapter 23 is history. Again sorry for not updating last week but again I just got too busy with school so don't kill me lol. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. It was fun to write. As always leave a comment telling me what you liked, dislike, etc. PM with any questions or if I should jump off a bridge LMK! I hope you all have a great day or night and I will see you in the next chapter!
-Don't forget to smile!
Shocker
Question of the Chapter: What do you think of Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, and Legends: Arceus? Also, what was your favorite moment of the chapter?
For me, I have been looking forward to a Sinnoh remake for years now. While I haven't actually played a Pokemon game since Black 2 I really look forward to playing this. I think they should have just remastered Platinum (Polished Platinum) and called it a day but oh well still hope for a third version. I just hope they fix what was wrong with Diamond and Pearl that was later fixed in Platinum (Pokedex, Battle Frontier, slow gameplay, etc.) and I hope they take some stuff from newer games (Permanent TM's) and I hope to god we get a remastered Distortion World. For Legends: Arceus, I think it's a cool concept but I gotta see more first.
Important Events/Ideas (Spoilers):
-Lucas is interrogated
-Looker frees Lucas
-Lucas steals secret files from Team Galactic
-Luxio evolves into Luxray
-Lucas beats Commander Mars
-Barry helps Lucas escape
Lucas' Team (5/6):
-Infernape: Flamethrower, Mach Punch, Flame Wheel, Cut, Leer, Burning Mach Punch
-Luxray: Electric Bite, Charge, Tackle, Bite, Flash, Spark
-Bibarel: Water Gun, Headbutt, Rock Smash, Yawn
-Staraptor: Fly, Aerial Ace, Quick Attack, Tackle, Brave Bird, Defog
-Gabite: Slash, Dragon Claw, Dig, Take Down, Iron Tail
Next Chapter: Out of Cover
Looker reunites with the rest of the IP!