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Chapter 2: The Battle of the West Gate
The wind in front of the village gates began picking up, and the waves continued their normal smashing and crashing against the shoreline, the Wingull began picking up speed as well, the wind allowing them to glide better, the wind blew as the clearing between the jungle and the wall, was seemingly bleak white. The ground is covered with salt form the sea, and it covers the ground, making it uncomfortable to touch, but it's been heavily covered up, but it's still disturbing to walk around, especially to Water Pokemon. The trees of the jungle were various, but mostly palms made up the trees, while small shrubs and undergrowth covered the bottom, along with leaf litter. The clearing has no plant,s the salt in the ground makes it impossible to grow here. It isn't the most dramatic scene in the world, but a battle was taking place, Cody stood forward to the bands of infected that were incoming. He held his paws out forward, waiting for the next brunt attack. Somebody was watching him.
A hill, near the Root Village, there was an Eevee waiting at the top, the Eevee was a Shiny Eevee, the package completed with a necklace on his neck, with a piece of glass in the middle of it, it seemed interesting enough, but the Eevee, Lord watched below with interest, he saw that a fight had woken him up. It was bad enough he was sleeping outside the village like this, but was woken up like this as well, I might as well watch whatever the hell this is. Remember Lord, just don't get involved. Don't sacrifice for anybody. The Eevee thought to himself, named Lord, watched below as the fight continued. He appeared interested, but at the same time fearful of infected coming up his little hill. He should probably be hiding, as his cowardice told him to run. But his curiosity told hi mto stay. And his curiosity won. Lord watched the Lucario carefully prepare himself.
Inside of the walls of Root, the streets were still populated with the villagers, but with os many of them being military, and being in the assembly, the numbers on the street were cut, but not too drastically. Running through the streets, Blade, the Grovyle, was leaping form the houses, his gracefully long leaves fluttering through the wind as he lept, the Raichu quickly dashed across the streets towards the gate in which they needed to defend, they didn't really notice they were close to each other, they only wanted to get to the wall in time before it gets out of hand.
Lord continued to watch from his perch high up, he saw that two new Pokemon had entered the bashing fray, an oddly colored Raichu, and a bladed Grovyle, it was hard to tell from the distance Lord was, and began thinking what would happen. Wimps. Those Pokemon are going to break these walls. Help? Nah, it's not worth it. Lord watched in curiosity, specifically on Cody. Who the hell was he?
“Don't worry! We got your back!” Sparks said, joining Cody as he wrestled with the enemy, a Pidgeot dashed straight towards Sparks, it's beak was ready to pierce Sparks, since it was using peck, Sparks needed to do something, and fas,t he closed his eyes, his cheeks began generating static, and a burst of electric energy shot out and and hit the Pidgeot electrocuting it's life out of it, Lord saw in amazement, and began letting go of his darker mood, and looked down again, but can I do anything to help? He shook his head, and continued to watch, and saw the full brunt of their abilities at work. A Grovyle, Slash, looked at Sparks, fighting off many flocks of Pidgey and Pidgeotto. How could senseless, diseased rabid Pokemon use such advanced swarm tactics? He didn't know, but although he saw Sparks was doing well for himself, would he really leave an ally hanging? He rushed over to Sparks, but was knocked off his feet by a tremor in the earth.
“What the hell? An Earthquake? In the jungle?” Slash said.
Suddenly, the ground where he had stood cracked open, and a Dugtrio, infected, was hiding under there, and rushed towards Slash, Slash stepped back, and as Dugtrio went in to use Slash, Slash quickly countered with Leaf Blade, a green shine enveloping his now blood covered wrist leaf, the Dugtrio, fell into the earth, wherever it was going, it certainly would not come back, not after that.
Cody was meanwhile fighting a large Machamp, it apparently had some kind of superiority to the other Rabid Pokemon, as they would often follow and surround him, the Machamp was probably somewhat important, maybe it was something that could be called an infected leader? Whatever the case, it was tough for Cody. He tried fighting in close, but was easily knocked back. Ugh, whenever I try and hit him with my fists, he blocks it and counters, very strong. A long range attack oughta do the trick. Cody stood, back, charging an Aura Sphere between the space of his hands, the Machamp charged towards Cody, and just before it could grab him, he stood forward, the Aura Sphere now at it's greatest potential, jabbed the Machamp in the stomach, and sent it flying into a tree, there was a huge mark on it's belly, a nasty reminder of an attack like that, it would probably not live to remember it, as it was coughing up blood, Cody knew it was badly hurt, and left it to die. Cody stood, his bitter eyes were unfazed by what had happened so far, he did not mind killing others, he in fact enjoyed it to some extent. Cody looked around, and knew he didn't like what was happening.
These things. They're smarter than they're supposed to be, they're getting more strategic, bold, intelligent, maybe, it's as if they're playing with us, is this a game with them? Testing us, then finishing us when we've had our limit? This can't be good, not good at all. I need to start searching soon, After the battle. Cody turned his attention to a gracefully powerful Grovyle, as if it was dancing, with it's wrist blades slicing into the enemy and cutting them like butter, Cody knew he might have just found a new recruit for his mission, he ran over to the Grovyle, and began fighting along with him, helping him to fend off the new group, which was painfully large, while the Raichu had things under control with the aerial attacks, Cody turned to the Grovyle, and finally spoke.
“Need help? Keep your guard steady, a scout was sent off to report any possible movement in the jungle, so get ready for whatever happens next.” Cody said as he blew off the head of a Nidoking, the Grovyle barely noticed what Cody had said, and looked at him, he simply responded llike he didn't know what he'd said,
“Hey, name's Slash, what's yours?” He said, cutting the stomach of a Rhydon, Cody stabbed one of the Ekans he was wrestling with his wrist spikes, and plainly replied, since he was still fighting.
“My name is Cody.” He said sternly, and kicked off Nidorino to the ground, he jumped up and shot it with an Aura Sphere, and continued to fight, the two did not speak for a while, until the advancement was over in the air, the Raichu, Sparks, was still ready to go, many charred Bird Pokemon lying limp on the ground, electrocuted to death, Sparks ran over to the others and himself began helping out everyone, they were no longer surrounded, and then they relaxed for the moment, Cody realized the battering ram and it's Pokemon holders were dead somewhere in the jungle, had something happened to them, killed them, suddenly, a Pidgeot burst through the trees of the jungle, wheeling in the air, it spun to the ground hard, it had apparently been battling, a Honchkrow bursted forward right after, his right wing was completely encased in dark aura, and it stopped, the Pidgeot had some mark on it's back, like it was slashed, Commander stood on it's body, still breaking, but it's wings were broken, Commander stomped on it once.
“Death to you, infected scout!” Commander said with pride, he flapped over to Cody with good news, and bad news, and he settled next to Cody.
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Elsewhere, inside of the village, the streets were now very thin with people, inside of the auditorium, the Elder Grumpig sat on his rump, the meeting was about to begin, he sat down and took a breath, coughed once, and cracked his knuckles, and stood up, and everybody stood up as well, honoring the Elder, Grumpig opened his eyes.
“You may sit.” The Grumpig nicely and politely said, and he sat down as well, a look of sheer worry in his face clouded his normal happy old look, he spun around to turn to the people of the auditorium, patiently sitting, waiting, he cleared his throat, as if trying to waste time, he finally spoke up, with the news.
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“Ah, Cody, I've been looking for you. I have both good and bad news.” Cody sighed when he heard that, and Commander stiffened his stance and stood up firm, and continued. “The bad news is that there is another new advancement, larger and stronger than the previous.” Cody only seemed more disappointed when he heard the attack wasn't near over, but it wasn't over, “The good news is that it won't arrive in some while, so we may rest until then. However, scouts will be coming soon.” Commander said again, Cody seemed less, but still heavily worried, they barely managed to fight off the last assault, let alone what was to come for them, they were halted by the Waterfall Ruin labyrinth, a system of ruins which rabid had to cross if they were from Branch to reach Root and beyond, Cody sighed, and saw a little Eevee running towards him.
“Excuse me, but who might you be?” The little Eevee said, he was not jolly, alright.
“Who the hell are you?” The Lucario harshly answered to the little Eevee, raising his fist, and ready to attack, the Eevee jumped back.
“No! Please! My name is Lord, is there anything I can do to help?” He said meekly, he was a little shy, and knew that this could be a costly mistake. Lord sat back, a little frightened, but Cody let on his anger, and stood up correctly, offering his kindness, Cody knelled down.
“Easy there, fella, after the fight, the village leader will judge you if you are to stay or if you are to be kept out, is that clear?” Cody didn't seem so strict right now, maybe had kindness leaked form his heart, whatever left he had for the world? Cody was not normally this gracious or kind, had something stimulated him to be so dedicated? Cody then looked at the little Eevee, and sighed. Commander looked at the sky.
“Here comes the catch of the day, ready Cody?” Commander said, taking off, Cody looked at the incoming threat...
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Inside of the hollow auditorium, Grumpig began his speech.
“As all of you know, for the last four straight months, our sister village, the Branch Village, to the west, has not been heard from, or have we made a successful contact in that time. The Branch Village lockdown, as far as we knew for some time, was a complete mystery, all that was to be noted is that any scouts that went up into the air or walked near that place was never heard from again. At first, this was a complete mystery to everyone, and everyone was too frightened to go there themselves, not that I blame them, as going there, out of all places around this part of our lone island, may be the greatest mistake we can make. One that we could end up paying for with our lives. However, recent evidence suggests that the infected of the are,a the rabid Pokemon, are “fanning out”, in a shock wave pattern, fro the Branch Village, or what is left of it. That could possibly mean it was taken by the infected.”
The moment Grumpig had said the first part of the speech, the room lit up with conversation, yelling, and uneasiness, people were instantly debating, hording their fear, and other things in this room, it was frightening, simply frightening, Grumpig stood up and put up his hands to try and signal them to calm down.
“Pokemon, we are all concerned about this, but please, let me continue, for I have a proposition to end this madness!” Grumpig shouted loud across the room, coughing soon after, he was an old man and not used to outbursts in such big places for EVERYBODY to hear. But, regardless, everyone quited down, and Grumpig sat back down. He took a deep breath.
“Now, as I was saying, this could be troubling, as if this is true, we now know how dangerous the Infected really can, and possibly is. However, because of this, despite the uncertainty, villager,s lives could be trapped in that village, any possibly survivors, plus the fact we need to absolutely wipe out the enemy, I have decided to send the Head Border Guard, one of my finest warriors, Cody, along with a few members of his choosing, will lead an expedition to Branch Village, rescue any survivors, and kill any infected Pokemon they see in their quest. I believe in Cody, and know how powerful he really is, he's not all bad, he means for the well being of everybody here. There is nothing to fear. Remember, we are in good hands, remember that my people.” Grumpig coughed at the end again, but didn't afterwards, and he left a room that went straight form silence to full volume in a matter of seconds.
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“Get ready...” Cody said, he readied himself for the next advancement...
“Let's show our stuff!” Slash said, readied himself for whatever was coming...
“I'm gonna beat em' all!” Sparks said happily, charging his cheeks as the first advancements began...