Delilah threw her ball violently onto the ground. "Go, Scaredo!"
The Snorunt escaped from the red light, and immediately screamed at the sudden release, pretending to be absolutely taken off guard. Ambrose smirked a bit at Edder. Delilah had made the worst choice for her defense, and she didn't even know it.
"Okay Scaredo, use Ice beam!" The Snorunt looked at its opponent and stopped, noticing that Ambrose and a small puppy clutching to his person was who he was to send the attack. He straightened himself and stood still. His eyelids dropped, showing his true personality. Edder curiously directly his eyes at the pup and looked quickly at Ambrose. He was asking subtly if that was previously the egg. Ambrose nodded his head very lightly, making sure that it was undetectable to someone not paying enough attention, which fitted Delilah's observational skills perfectly. Ambrose looked up at Delilah, who was started to become impatient with her unresponsive Snorunt.
"Hey! Scaredo! I said use Ice Beam!" Delilah demanded from the Pokémon.
The said Ice-Type turned around fairly slowly and sharply looked at Delilah with an intense expression.
"Wha- what? You're taking his side?!" Delilah said, completely at a loss for any other words. She pouted and was engulfed in more anger. "Fine! I'll use a Pokémon I know would never betray me!" Delilah unlatched another Pokeball from her belt and raised it in high in the air.
"Edder! Take the fox!" Ambrose asked him. Edder quickly turned his body to look at Ambrose.
"Are you sure you want to tackle this battle alone?" He asked.
"You've gone through enough." Ambrose replied. The Snorunt immediately ran towards the duo behind him and Ambrose watched as the red light behind his friend shimmered with glory and a giant crab started to come into form. It happened as if the world went into slow motion, and Ambrose took in all its excitement. He had to get full of energy, because if he failed....
Edder reached him and Ambrose unlatched the fox from his body, slightly tossing the fox through the air. Edder managed to have it grab onto him instead, and the Snorunt ran backwards to get out of the way of the approaching battle. It took a moment for the Zorua to realize it wasn't on Ambrose anymore. It started to freak out, but then it saw its father facing a giant red light as its eyes caught the action. It remained hooked onto Edder, frozen, with its head turned to the side.
Finally the red light vanished and the Crawdaunt stood in front of Ambrose. Without question of his opponent, Aquata took battle position.
"Alright, Aquata. Hit 'em with-" Delilah began to say, before stopping to look at Ambrose. Wha- what was he doing?
Ambrose was teetering back and forth quite frantically, like it was some sort of tribal dance. Delilah couldn't help but continuously stare at it. It captivated her.... the movements were just so magical in feeling. Her eyes fogged up and she instantly became confused.
When Ambrose stopped, he looked at Edder and the fox. Edder closed his own eyes and shielded the ones of the newborn, so they both were unaffected. They opened their eyes and the Snorunt smirked at Ambrose before a loud, enraged yell came from the Crawdaunt. Ambrose quickly turned back to look at the crab as his fox cried out at the sound, afraid, burying its head in Edder's head cloth.
The Crawdaunt had apparently closed his eyes and put his claws in front of his face to avoid the attack. He readied his claw and waited for his called attack.
....No response. Aquata looked back in confusion. Delilah was completely stupefied, drooling on herself a bit as she stumbled around.
"Delilah, call an attack!" Aquata yelled. Delilah only chuckled at the noise. The Crawdaunt's eyes grew wide as he turned his head back at Ambrose. The Crawdaunt's obedience finally betrayed him, and now he was a sitting duck.
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Delilah found herself down on her knees shaking her head to snap out of her trance. Once she returned to reality and realized what had happened, she growled in anger raised her head, shutting her eyes in frustration.
"Aquata! Use Crabhammer!"
....There were no noises, no yelps from either side, not even an affirming cry from her Crawdaunt. She opened her eyes quickly to discover the reason for this.
Aquata was slouching up against a wall, bruises everywhere, having his legs and claws frozen by Edder's Ice Beam so he couldn't move, even though he was too beat up to anyway. The Zorua was next to Edder, sitting and back turned to Delilah, finding intrigue in the move the Snorunt was using. But.... where was-
The black-and-white Spinda was right in front of her, hands in fists and huffing aggressively. The girl fell to the floor completely scooted back from the Spinda. The Spot Panda Pokemon walked slowly over to her as she found herself cornered as she hit the wall behind her. The pocket monster jumped onto her legs and walked all the way up until he was standing on her chest, looking down at her head.
"Wh- what do you want?!" Delilah asked frantically.
"I want you to know my name." the Spinda replied. Delilah cowered, shuttering her words as she tried to interpret what that meant. The Spinda simply smirked at himself, noting that it was still useless to communicate with the human. He looked into the girl's eyes.
"Ambrose Flannigan."
With that, he took his fist and punched the girl as hard as he could. Blood sprayed from her nose and mouth, telling that he broke plenty of bones in her face doing that. Her head was to the side, and she was completely unconscious. Ambrose turned back to Edder. He had just finished icing Aquata to the floor. The Crawdaunt had his eyes half open, glancing at Ambrose before looking down at the floor. Ambrose took all the Pokeballs from Delilah's belt and released Fluffy and Sweetheart. They looked around, confused, and saw Delilah lying on the floor.
"Delilah!" the Vulpix cried out before scampering over to her trainer. The Vulpix, tears in her eyes, looked at Ambrose. "What did you do to her?"
Ambrose didn't answer. Simply, her picked out his Pokeball, opened it, allowing a little of the red beam to manifest, and pulled it apart, snapping it completely. The red light broke apart and faded as quickly as it appeared. Ambrose dropped the remains to the floor. He did that to each and every Pokeball, before putting his paws behind his back and spoke to the group as a whole.
"You are free." Ambrose simply said, facing the crowd of a smiling Snorunt, a regretful Crawdaunt, a surprised but delighted Chimecho, an absolutely horrified Vulpix, and of course, his oblivious Zorua. Ambrose closed his eyes and turned around to walk out the door. As he re-opened them, he stopped completely and his eyes grew wide with shock.
There was Nurse Joy, standing in full view, her mouth wide open upon seeing the unconscious Delilah. Crap.
"Help! Somebody help! Violent Pokémon are on the loose!" She screamed while she ran off and hit a button on her desk. The entire building started having red lights flash all throughout it with a loud, ear piercing siren, and a black barred gate shut on the door.
"Seriously?! Can nothing work out perfectly? Am I forbidden to let anything good happen to me without some kind of horrible twist?!" Ambrose ranted.
Zorua ran to its father and jumped on him, wrapping its little arms and legs around him and crying, being scared of the horrible noise and sudden loud noises of the gates being dropped.
"Does anybody here know teleport?!" Edder asked throughout the room.
"I can!" A trapped Kirlia said. "If you can get me out of here, I can also transport all the beds here, too. The chemical coating is only on the inside, so the bed itself and the Pokemon inside can come with us."
"Great! Monlon, get her out of there!" Edder said the Chimecho.
Realizing that she was being called by her real name, Monlon went over to Kirlia and used Psychic to rip the plastic box. The Kirlia calmed herself and did what seemed like a tiny ballet act before Ambrose noticed that it was raining on them now. He scanned the area. They were all outside, in a forest clearing. The thunder cackled through the sky.
"Come on,... Monlon, was it? Let's get these Pokemon out of their cages." The Kirlia said. The duo started performing psychic attacks to get the tops off. Edder approached Ambrose. He didn't say a word, but there was a huge grin of his face. Ambrose grinned back. Another lightning bolt crashed from the sky. The newborn fox tightened its grip on Ambrose and yelped. Ambrose rubbed its back to give it reassurance. Edder chuckled.
"Best getting that one to shelter." he said.
"I owe you a lot." Ambrose said back.
The Snorunt looked at him with a bigger grin then before. "No, you don't." Edder walked away and disappeared from the woods. Ambrose put his arms around his new fox monster as if he were hugging it and looked around the clearing. There were few Pokemon actually rejoicing. Most had been brainwashed to the point where some were even trying to smell their way back to the PokémonCenter.
Ambrose noticed that Aquata, or, Pozzi as it now should be- wasn't there. He walked over to the Kirlia.
"Hey, did you see a Crawdaunt come with us?" he asked.
"No, but he should've come with us unless something was pinning him to the ground."
Oh no.
The Pokémon in the clearing all seemed to scatter to hide in the brush, afraid of a sudden sound. A loud police siren rang through the sound of the rain as they were probably approaching the PokémonCenter to restrain the monster that hurt Delilah, and euthanize it for the protection of many. Delilah wouldn't be conscious by the time they killed Pozzi to say it was actually Ambrose.
For some, justice never comes.
Ambrose was feeling a bit guilty. But, he shook it off and left the clearing to finally find his teammates. I wonder what's happened to them since I've been gone?
(OCC: Literally was about to post this when PC went down. Pth. XD;)
