AN: Yes, I know that all legendaries are genderless for some random reason, but this is my story!Legendary pokemon have emotions like regular pokemon and are forced to have genders like regular pokemon!
Part 7: Umbral Agent
Police detective Xian, the Pancham. He still hasn't evolved despite the fact that he's been mingling with shady types occasionally, but honestly he just thinks that having a branch in his mouth will be annoying.
The sun was slowly and steadily dropping below the horizon. Soon...
"So Reed, have you seen any Shadow Pokemon lately?" Xian asked.
The Ludicolo wasn't paying attention. He was texting three other Ludicolos and a Dragonite about a Siesta. "Wh- wha?"
Xian and Reed were just sitting at some table in a cafe. For some indiscernible reason. "I said, have you seen any Shadow Pokemon lately?" He said, leaning in closer with a bit of hostility.
"Don't you need some special glasses for those?"
Xian thought about the briefing for a moment. ("Make sure that you use this special Shadow Detector to check if anything is suspicious." Lionel said, holding up a pair of shades.) "Nope."
"Oh, so they're just radiating an all evil aura all the time, then?" Reed asked, sending the same paragraph of text to the third ludicolo.
"Yes! You can tell because they act extremely and blatantly evil! They do evil things like evil laughs!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! YES!" Reed and Xian turned their heads to the nearby Volcarona holding a phone somehow. "I leveled up."
"Boss, what're you playing?" Reed asked.
The Volcarona put the phone away. "None of your business. Get back to work." Reed walked away with a Yessir. "And you, Xian!"
"Yeah?"
"Aren't you supposed to be searching for those shadow pokemon?"
"Yeah…"
"Then you get lost too."
"Jeez, what a killjoy." Xian mumbled, standing up and also walking to the streets.
I wonder what Erin is up to.
He tried calling Erin… but no response.
"Xian."
Volcarona was right next to him. "Wah! Whaddya want?"
"You've only moved like… 9 steps. I think you should stop lollygagging."
Nasty plot. "You just don't want me to see that beauty contest app that you've been using, huh?"
"Very funny." Volcarona said. He leaned in closer to Xian's face to intimidate him, then hit his leaf on fire.
Xian tried pinching the fire, but it didn't go out. "Ow!"
Ugh, why do you have to be such a nut?
"Alright, fine, i'm going!" Xian walked a distance until the fire stopped.
Xian walked some more distance. Yunno, because walking was good exercise. Better than running.
Someone ran into him, knocking them both down.
"Oh! Sorry, mister! This might sound crass but can you give me 3 pokecoins please!?" it was a Smeargle, holding a bunch of painting equipment. Well… just a color palette.
Xian stood up, rubbing his head. "Owww… that kinda hurt… What was that again?"
The smeargle looked more desperate as the time passed. "I just really really need 3 pokecoins, please please please!"
"Okay…" Xian patiently gave the smeargle 3 pokecoins. "Why do you need 3 poke- oh okay you're gone." He ran after the smeargle who was dashing in another direction.
…
"Ladies and gentlemen… please give a roaring cheer, for Vic 'Vicky' Victoria!" a crowd of people screamed and cheered for some short figure in a stage, situated in a special theater. He could hear the voices while standing outside.
That would probably annoy anyone that lived lived nearby.
The smeargle bought a ticket from the Bidoof and ran into the theater excitedly.
Xian bought a ticket for 20 pokecoins(because the Smeargle is special for some reason) and casually walked into the theater.
Honestly, I would've liked to watch Robin Hoopa instead.
The stage was dark, with the only person that was illuminated by spotlights was the star of the show, a Victini.(I have no idea what the theater with the stage with the theater is called. Was it Ambitheater? Ampitheater? Ambipomber?)
Vic 'Vicky' Victoria was doing intense magic tricks magic tricks of the likes that nobody has seen before.
The smeargle was painting Vicky's moveset somehow, changing pages within a few seconds.
Xian made a suspicious hand motion. "You must be Shady the smeargle, who travels around the world, sketching the moves of everything you can."
Shady didn't falter in his artistry. "Oh wow, how'd you get my name?"
"I pickpocketed you." Xian said nonchalantly, holding up a wallet.
"What!?" Shady turned around and swiped his wallet back. "That's it, I'm calling the cops!"
Xian shrugged. "And ruin this fantastic show?" Vicky was now throwing around fiery dragons. "You can't possibly do that. Plus, i'm an undercover cop."
Shady had at least 14 more papers to go. He pocketed his wallet and resumed his sketching. "Some cop you are."
Vicky did a lot of things. Create dragons out of fire, stand on those dragons, fly around with those dragons, mimic blast burns, walk on fire, mimic selfdestruct, and then use Calm Mind.
Xian thought of the possibility of the audience accidentally getting burned, but the audience was probably being protected by a psychic water barrier.
This lasted for an entire 30 minutes. Vicky leapt down to the stage off one of the dragons. "Thank you for coming all my adoring fans! I'll see you all next time!" With a few last fireworks and a puff of smoke, she left. Backstage.
Xian's phone got a message.
[We have some strange readings in the building you're in. You need to check it out.]
Sighing, the pancham walked up to the nearby Ursaring with the security cap. "Hey buddy, which way leads to backstage?"
"What's it to you?" he responded in an intimidating tone.
Xian held up his badge. "This is all I gotta say to you."
The Ursaring motioned in another direction. Xian gleefully went that way.
After showing his badge to another security guard, Xian fumbled around the hallways of the theater, finally finding the room Vicky was in. He just knew somehow.
*knock, knock*
"Who is ittttt?" Vicky sounded a little annoying for some reason.
"This is the doc- *ah frik* -police. We think there's a shadow pokemon here." Xian wore his shades.
He heard Vicky using a Contest App on her phone. "What's a shadow pokemon?"
Xian sighed with some frustration. "Just open the door."
"I need to get dressed firrrssst!"
"No you don't."
"Well aren't you such a dear?" the door opened. Xian thought that Vicky wore ugly makeup for some reason, but he was wrong. "Okay, what's a shadow pokemon?"
Xian gave the best description that he possibly could. "They're evil pokemon that like harassing and harming people."
"Like that poochie that's been stalking me in all my shows?" she gasped with a slight hint of sarcasm. "And you're here to take care of him for me? Ooh, you're such a sweetie!"
Please shut up… your voice is so annoying!
"Can. You. Please. Take this seriously?" He noticed that Vicky wasn't even looking at him. "Hey, can you pay attention for at least ten seconds?" And furthermore, he noticed that Vicky was suspiciously looking at the ceiling.
He looked at the ceiling too. It was a Yanma, radiating a purple aura of evilness.
"Hey, why does he look like he got lit on fire by a Chandelure?" Vicky asked.
Xian slowly took off his shades. "That's a shadow Pokemon…"
"HEY!" Vicky yelled. "This is MY dressing room! Get lost!"
"Naw." the Yanma said.
Vicky charged up an ember. "You asked for it, then!" The Yanma quickly used a poison sting on Vicky's face. She stopped using the ember and started registering what just happened. "Oh second thought, be right back!" She opened the door and ran out of the room.
Wow… no wonder you're famous.
Xian tried jump punching the Yanma, but it just clung to the ceiling. "Get down here you oversized pest!"
"Eheh. Loser."
"Grrr! HIGH JUMP KICK!" Xian did a slow motion high jump into the air, then struck down the shadow Yanma with a kick.
"Damnit! I'll kill you now!" The Yanma hit Xian with a wing attack, which was kind of lame, and then followed up with a U-Turn.
Xian dodged. "Ha! You missed!" The Yanma started breaking through the walls with shadow rush and leaving.
"Catch me if you can, shorty!" his voice echoed.
"Say your prayers!" Xian ran through the holes in the wall after the Yanma.
…
"Never fear, Vicky is here!" Vicky swiftly opened the door, now with a bandage on her face. Her face wilted when she saw that the pancham and yanma were gone, with two holes in the wall. "Aww man… I wanted to be the hero…"
The security Ursaring's face leaned in from one of the holes in the wall. "Hey, Mrs. Victoria? The guy that attacked the theater left."
Vicky gave the security guard an angry look, from the ridiculousness of what he just said. "Gee, thanks a lot, Captain Obvious!"
…
"Hey, Cap! I got a suspect here and i'd like some backup pronto! He should be heading towards Erin's post!"
"Negative." Lionel said, as if that was completely fine. "All our other units are busy."
If it didn't waste his energy Xian would've facepalmed. "You useless idiot!" He put his radio away.
He ran a pretty annoying distance, past several citizens… a random spritzee, and into some spooky abandoned house.
Almost knocking over that random spritzee, by the way.
Spooky. As if. Xian could destroy the dark easily, and ghosts? He IS the dark.
"Come on out you doofus, I haven't got all day."
"I'm right here, idiot!" the Yanma came out from behind a support beam and throw a molotov at Xian.
Xian ran away, because if he wanted to beat this sob story, he'd need to live first. He dialed up Reed's number. "Reed! REED! I need the fire station at spooky abandoned mansion now at the southeast quadrant of town!"
"What? What's happening?"
"One of those damn shadow pokemon is trying to burn me along with the house! It's a firebug, and it's not your boss!"
"Oh, okay! I'll be right there!"
The Yanma came from behind. "Where do you think you're going?"
-Battle Transition Fade Through?-
Shadow Yanma would like to battle!
Yanma used Villainous Taunt! "You think you can beat me? You're gonna burn here, pal!"
It wasn't very effective.
"Quit sucking!" Pancham used Punch!
It wasn't very effective.
Yanma used Annoying Wing Attack!
It was super effective!
Pancham used High Jump Kick!
It missed…
Yanma used Poison Sting!
Pancham was poisoned.
"That's it, that's it! Now you've gone and done it!"
Pancham used Molotov Cocktail!
"Wait what-"
It was super effective!
Yanma fainted!
Shadow Yanma was defeated!
Got 14 Pokecoins for winning!
"Ungh……"
"Wha?" Xian heard someone's voice. He ran around until he found what he was looking for. Something that wasn't orange, brown, or black, but green. Buried under some rubble.
"Erin? Is that you?" He moved all of the planks and debris off, and indeed it was Erin. Bruised all over her body and badly injured. "Oh no."
He panicked for a moment, but calmed down quickly. "Reed, you there?"
"Loud and clear."
"I…" Xian hesitated for some odd reason. "Bring an ambulance over. Erin's hurt." He ended the call, and then picked up Erin's limp body.
Aw s@#%. This isn't gonna be fun.
The fire was spreading at a hazardous rate. It'd probably engulf the building within two minutes. Damnit, shouldn't have thrown that bottle. Xian tried any way out, but either the building was too big to move through or debris was blocking the way.
Move as close to the entrance as you can, Schenze. With luck, the fire team will have arrived. Xian ran towards to where he thought the entrance was, which was being burned to ashes. "Reed! If you are out there, call out to me!"
...no response.
"Reed!"
"That, you, Xian!?"
"Yeah! I'm in here!"
"Lionel just called me. He says that if I try to extinguish this fire, the house will collapse!"
"I don't care! If you don't extinguish this fire it'll still collapse!"
"But-"
"DO IT, REED!"
Reed shot a torrent of water at a section of the burning house. It started to crumble from all the pressure, ready to collapse at any moment…
"Alright Erin, you're gonna have to trust me on this." Xian sprinted forward, and slammed through the wall. Blackness covered his vision as he collapsed on the floor, the sounds of fire clouding his thoughts, except for one.
Thank you.