Samuel and Co.
Samuel coughed and hacked a bit as some smoke irritated his throat but as he looked around he could see shapes shimmering away and new ones appearing in their place. He glanced up at a Beheeyem and frowned, "It was an illusion." He murmured. He looked at Len, "Eh... your trainer is sort of moving on." He was silent for a moment as he looked around the area, "Lucia... Lucia.... LUCIA!" He shouted out. His eyes looked about left and right as he scanned among the faces.
"Do you see her anywhere!?" Samuel asked Len in a panic as he sniffed the air, "Lucia, Lucia!" He quickly dashed about as he looked aorund, "Where is she!?" He gasped out as he trembled for a bit. He was getting so tense that it looked like he was about to suffer a heart attack!
Len looked around desperately for any sign of Lucia but was starting to notice all of the Pokemon were turning back to their original forms before the supposed body swap. It turned out that it was an illusion the whole time. Commodore was back to his old Porygon self to his relief but for some reason, Valorie didn't seem to transform back into, well, Valorie. Lucia was a Porygon and she was still in Mark's arms. There didn't seem to be any changes with her though. Then... could that mean...no! Her original body had to be around here somewhere!
Snype was trapped in a big glob of goo so he was preoccupied. Len stuck around with Samuel to hopefully find any trace of Lucia. "Sam, she was a Porygon last I saw her... wasn't Lucia with Mark? She should have changed back..." Len said, feeling a little worried.
That only caused Samuel to wheeze more ase he fell onto his stomach. He managed to stand up, but in the process his breakfast left his muzzle and fell all over the floor. "I-I failed." He gasped out. "N-No... no... nononono...." He shook his head and stapped back, suddenly fearful, "T-They'll kill me... they'll kill me!" He stepped away from Len and shook his head, "No no no... I-I can't die!"
Len kneeled down to Samuel. "Calm down! W-we can fix this somehow! There has to be something left over in this base! Have a bit of hope!" Len said, trying his best to keep positive. Snype hadn't changed back either. He was still trying to attack whoever he could like a little maniac. What did those Rockets do?
Samuel only stepped back even more, "N-No... don't you get it! Look at this place! The machines are destroyed Len! Don't you f**king understand that!" He screamed out. He trembled a bit more and his legs gave in under him. "I... the Red Legion... I've seen it before. G-Gonna crush every bone... and drop me off to be eaten by ferals...."
Len took a step forward, holding out a hand. The Red Legion? Yeah Lucia kinda just vanished but still... killing him? That's awfully brutal of them. "T-there's other inventors out there! I-I'm sure they'll fix this somehow! Samuel please concentrate!" Len pleaded
Samuel just stared and burst into some, what could be considered to be, psychotic laughter, "I-I have my memories! They all have their memories! They'll see... t-they'll see it all. I... I let it happen. I'm responsible. I-I could have stopped her from coming." He shook his head as a few tears leaked down his cheeks, "I... I'm going to die..." He was silent for a moment and stood there, "I-I have to go. Let me by Len."
Len stood firm. "Your just going to give up like that? It's not over until its over! Nobodies going back until we fix this problem! Quit thinking about what they'll do to you and start thinking for yourself! Nobody saw this coming! Lucia wasn't the only one effected by this. I'm on the verge of losing my best friend..." Len glanced over to Snype. "...But I'm not quitting on him yet!" Len said
Samuel shivered for a bit and hung his head, "I... I'm scared Len. I know... I just know they will kill me."
Len placed his hand on Samuel's back. "Just... take some deep breathes for a bit will you? If you go back now then maybe they will. Maybe we can still find something in here! What about Lucia's other Pokemon? If we find them, maybe we could figure out something. Like Diana..." Len paused for a moment. Diana WAS with Lucia! "...Samuel we have to find her." He quickly added
Samuel shivered but slowly nodded, "Y-Yeah... m-maybe a storage of sorts." He croaked out. His eyes blinked a bit, "Uh... not sure... not...." He shook his head, "I... I can't think straight."
Len continued to rub Samuel's back. "Stop thinking for a second then. Just close your eyes and sit down. Relax. You Red Legion guys are always so tense..." Len looked around the destroyed machinery. Diana might have been deeper in. Maybe then they would find Lucia somewhere. Perhaps her original body? He didn't know how Team Rocket did it, but there must have been a way to reverse it.
Samuel did sit on down and wheezed a bit more, "J-Just need time."
"
But I can help!" A light hearted voice called out. The Golduck himself walked on over and looked Len up and down, "
Hehe, not a bad figure you have, but if you're looking for some balls... I could help with you there." He added in a sly wink. "
Hehe, no worries I'm sure they're around here somewhere sweet thing."
Samuel just groaned at Lirum's antics, but didn't even have enought energy to both trying to fight him on his words.
Len just stared at the Golduck when he started to compliment his figure. "Oh... well I'll take all the help I can get. Samuel, please promise you'll stay put. If anything, stay near Mark and Lucia. She might be a Porygon but she's still your trainer. It might help if she knows her Pokemon are still by her side." Len said. He continued to look around, rubbing his head a bit.
"So uh... Lirum right? I don't think we've met. I'm Len." He said.
Lurim eagerly grabbed his hand and tugged the Poliwrath along, "
Hehe, I'm sure a good looking guy like yourself needs all the company he can get." The Golduck said with a nod, "
There SHOULD be a center around here, rows and rows of pokeballs. We get in and find her, no worries right? So you like to work out I take it. Hehe, I must say that muscles do stand out on a guy."
Len simply blinked as the Golduck took his hand. He was oblivious as usual so he didn't really have any idea just what the Golduck was on about so he just let the Golduck hold his hand as he pleased. A center huh... well, whatever got him to Diana sooner.
"Oh uh, yes. My trainer puts me through alot of different types of training and teaches me all sorts of techniques. I evolved kinda recently but I guess its good that my strength kinda shows!" Len said.
Lirum just nodded and let go of his hand, only to quickly turn about and squeeze those biceps, grinning a bit as he turned about and continued to lead forward, "
Well well, that is QUITE some muscle you have. I bet you have a tight grip eh?"
Len gave off a small blush once his biceps began to be squeezed. he supposed that the Golduck was just interested in how strong he was. Len was rather focused walking around the ruined base but keeping a conversation going was calming Len down a little bit. "Um... yeah! I've been practicing throwing my opponents around so uh, I guess I do have a pretty good grip!" Len said.
Lirum just turned about and walked backwards, still grinning at the Poliwrath. Seeming as the Poliwrath wasn't up in arms against him yet he decided to go for some more questions. "
So, I see you're calming down. How about you show me how strong." He eyed a piece of rubble, "
Can you lift up that metal there? I bet you could muscle boy."
Len looked over to the piece of rubble. Well he didn't have any other sense of direction or any idea where to find Diana so he figured he may as well start picking things up. Who knows? Maybe the Pokeballs rolled off or something. He nodded and walked over to the metal, placing both of his hands under it and lifted it up fairly easily.
"Hah... nothing under here..." Len said, acting nonchelant and all as if picking up this big piece of rubble was easy.
Lirum looked all over him and grinned, "
Hehe, that is quite some strength you have! We just HAVE to get to know each other better." He said with a widening grin, "
But for now, you want to find your lady friend no?"
Len nodded. Get to know each other better? A simple conversation seemed to do that easy enough. "Yeah. I don't want to get sidetracked. You see anything around here? She was an Larion last time we saw each other..." Len said
Lirum shrugged, "
No, didn't see a Lairon out. But you know... " He glanced over at the male currenlty riding Valorie, "
While I was in the back making sure no one escaped I did overhear a rather... exciting conversation. Seems that there is a boy that can speak our language. We could always shimmy up to him and ask him sweetly hm?" He said with a snicker.
Len looked over to Kale, rubbing his head. "Y-yeah. Maybe he could help look around... there's gotta be more inside of this building you know? Anything at least..." Len said with a sigh.
Lirum noted his sigh and came up behind him, letting his hands slowly rub at this shoulders and along his muscles, "
Easy there. I happen to be a trained massuer you know. Seems that Samuel over there isn't the only one that is tense." The Golduck cooed as he let his webbed hands run back up to the shoulders and along the Poliwrath's back, "
And what did you tell him? To sit on down and just relax for a bit? You should too. Just let Lirum take all your cares off of your mind."
Len ended up sitting down as Lirum started to rub his shoulders. Oddly enough, this was starting to feel very nice... Maybe he did have to relax... "B-but Diana... w-we have to find her..." Len said, feeling a bit anxious now.
Lirum rubbed along those muscles and tsked, "
And if you go in all tense something bad is likely to happen. Easy... just relax."
Len sighed. Maybe Lirum was right... Len did need to stop and think about this stuff for a second before just rushing in and all of that. So he decided to let Lirum do his thing. "Yeah... y-your probobly right Lirum... I'll think of something surely..." Len said.
Lirum rubbed his fingers in deep then pulled away, "
Now don't go anywhere. Hold on for a second." He made his way across the war torn battlefield, surprisingly managing to move around attacks until he finally got to the boy with that disgusting gooey dragon. "
Yo! Human boy!" He cried out, "
Uh, just saying, we need some help in gathering stolen mon still in their balls.