Chapter 10
So, this is the 10th chapter now, and boy does it have action in it.
I'm currently working on chapter 14 and this fic is very close to being finished, so just bare with me for a while and you shall know what became of Cimi, Adan and their Pokémon after this adventure!
But, for now, here's the 10th chapter. 11th will be up soon enough. Thank you for reading!
Chapter 10 - The Rescue Plan B
Adan woke up. He was laying in a bed that was just about his size. It was clearly made for Pokémon. As he carefully looked at his surroundings, he noticed there were lots of other similar beds, too. They were all placed in a long room that looked almost like a hallway. Somehow it looked really familiar. He turned his head really slowly.
"Is this a Pokémon center?" he heard the sincerely curious voice of Kirlia from behind.
It sure looked like a Pokémon center. Kirlia sat on her bed and looked around. On the other side of Adan, Pichu slept in his bed. There were some other Pokémon laying on other beds further down the hallway. Pichu had electrodes taped to his cheeks, Kirlia had one on her forehead and Adan had one on his paw. Next to their beds, travel-sized monitors kept an eye on their vital signs. For a while, Adan watched how the green line on the monitor danced to his heartbeat.
"Where are we", he muttered. He still felt a bit drowzy from the sleeping potion.
Then, a door at the other end of the corridor opened and a Blissey pushing a trolley came in. On the trolley, there seemed to lay some Pokémon under a white cloth. Two Chansey followed the Blissey as it walked past beds. Occasionally either of the Chansey checked some monitors on their way. When the trio suddently saw that Kirlia and Adan were awake, they didn't get too suprised.
"Ahh. Our patients are awake", Blissey said and sounded very content. At first, Adan was shocked to realize he actually understood wht Blissey had said. Then he remembered that he was a Pokémon now.
"Marvellous", said one of the Chanseys, "I can take the trolley from here, so you can chat with our friends here."
"That'd be great", Blissey said and gave the Chansey a dazzling smile. As Chansey continued with the trolley, Adan started to get confused and Pichu started to wake up.
"So, how are you feeling?" Blissey asked Kirlia.
"I'm feeling fine", Kirlia said touched the electrode on her forehead, "So you can take this off, now."
"Oh, it's still too early for that", the other Chansey said and smiled, "I'll be getting some food. Do you have any preferences? We have a marvellous variety of delicacies here!"
As nobody answered anything, the Chansey left to get some food she thought would be most suitable.
"And you, my friend", Blissey spoke to Adan now, "How are you feeling? Your brain readings were a bit odd, so we were afraid there was possibly something wrong with you. Do you feel anything like that? No headace or anything?"
"No", Adan said, and started to get annoyed. What was this, anyway? First they shoot us and now they ask what preferences do we have with food. All Pokémon food sucks, except the one mom made, he thought to himself.
"Where are we", he asked Blissey.
"Oh", Blissey laughed, "How silly of me not to tell! You're in the basement floor of the Sheffield Building now. This is the private Pokémon Center of Sheffield Co. and I'm the doctor in charge here."
"Sheffield?" Pichu said a drowzy voice, "Isn't that a Poké food brand?"
"Oh, yes", said Blissey, "but lately I've heard we sell jade, too. Isn't that great?"
Chansey came back with the food. Adan had a million thoughts in his head. Were they rescued by Sheffield Co. or is the Poké food brand with a good image behind all this? Did Sheffield Co. kidnap Cimi? No, that couldn't be right, they had to be here because they were saved by the nice people of Sheffield Company.
"Ah, I forgot to mention", Blissey said with a huge smile, "You're all the property of Sheffield Company now. Isn't it great to have a food company as your owner?"
The Sheffield Co. really was behind this. Adan's heart skipped a beat. Property of a Poké food company?
---
In another room closeby Cimi woke up. She didn't receive even half of the treatment her Pokémon and Adan were enjoying. She was laying on the ground, her head hurt horrendously and her body had bruises all over. She stayed there, laying down on the chilly floor. It was pretty dark in the cramped room she was in. It seemed to be a storage of some kind.
"I wonder what happened to everyone", she mumbled to herself. After feeling sorry for herself for a while, she slowly stood up. She felt a bit dizzy, probably because of the damage her head had taken. She tried to open the door by the handle, but of course it wouldn't open.
"You can't blame me for trying", she said to herself. Then, she checked what else was in the room with her. Oddly, it seemed to be a small Poké food storage. She took a jar of food expecially designed for fire Pokémon - she had eaten that one before - and started eating it. She sat down munching her food and drifted away with her thoughts.
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As the last piece of food disappeared in Pichu's hungry mouth, Adan shot his vines towards Blissey as he had decided minutes ago. They had to escape and their only chance was to knock out Blissey and Chansey. This Blissey was, however, clearly better trained for battles than any normal Pokémon Center Blissey would be, as she dodged the hit. Unfortunately for her there were three desperate Pokémon against her and her under-trained Chansey partner. In a very short amount of time, Chansey was hit by Kirlia's confusion, Pichu's thunderbolt and a series of razor leaves by Adan.
That left Blissey all alone in this fight. She was mad. She loathed fights, expecially when there was no trainer and therefore no merit involved. She was very career-minded: she wanted to have her own hospital where she could help lots and lots of Pokémon, and now she had it. She would not tolerate this kind of rioting in her hospital. She grabbed her egg and threw it at Adan, who seemed to be the mastermind behind this mutany.
"Adan", squealed Pichu.
Kirlia threw herself in front of Adan, and just as Adan was about to shove her aside, Kirlia teleported them both behind Blissey. The egg bomb went off and shook the whole room. A couple of monitors let out an alarm, but they quikly went off. A patient Pokémon could be heard moaning somewhere. The smoke from the bomb remained in the unventilated room.
Blissey turned over and when she noticed Ivysaur and Kirlia, her face turned red and she was about to take out another egg bomb. Just when she was about to throw it, a thunderbolt hit her from behind. She dropped her bomb, which exploded on the spot. After getting over the noise and the shock, Adan, Ivysaur and Pichu hurried away before anyone would come and seize them. They had now escaped, but they still had to find Cimi and a way out. They busted open a door and started to search for a prison of some sort so that they could find Cimi.
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Cimi had her ear glued to the door. She was sure she had just heard an explosion, or maybe two. She tried to listen if there were any noises outside her prison. There were no footsteps to be heard, no alarms going off, no shouting voices, no nothing. She felt really disapointed. If nobody was panicing, those explosions were completely intentional, not the sounds of a rescue team coming to get her. She leaned her forehead on the door and let a couple of tears roll out her eyes.
If not for that stupid fight, none of this might've happened, she thought to herself. How did they end up in this mess anyway? All she ever did was to help an injured Bulbasaur... She started to cry for everything there was to cry for. She had never felt more sorry for herself, which made her feel rather annoyed. There were better times to act like a fool, but her head had chosen this moment for some unknown reasons. The more Cimi tried to cheer up, the more she felt like crying. After all, she was hungry and not in the best physical condition. Minutes dragged on and she felt like a thousand years had passed after the explosions.
Suddently, she heard voices.
"I said, she can't be here. We should head for the lower floors", a familiar voice said.
"Why would she be any lower than we are now? Let's search this floor first!" mumbled another very familiar voice.
"Because that's where they put prisoners!" the first voice said in an annoyed way. There was only one person Cimi knew who used that tone when annoyed. Adan! Now that she had recognised Adan's voice, she recognised Pichu, too.
"Pichu! Adan! Kirlia!" Cimi started to yell and bang the door with all her might. It hurt a bit, but well, it was the only reasonable thing to do. She could almost hear how shocked they were able to find her so fast.
"Cimi?" It was Kirlia.
"I'm here! In a closet", Cimi yelled with all the air she had in her lungs. She could hear running paws getting closer to the door she was leaning on. Suddently she realized that Adan would propably open the door by pushing it in, and she withdrew in the furthest corner of the closet.
"You there, Cimi? Are you near the door?" The one to speak was Adan.
"No, I'm not", Cimi answeared. Her head hurt. Oh, how much her head hurt! She heard some rustling behind the door, and then something slammed very hard against it. The first slam wasn't powerful enough, so more followed. After some smashes the door started to give in. Flakes of wood flew off the door as it started to bend under the force used against it. The next slam then finally made it break. Adan rolled inside the closet and the air was full of dust, wood and flakes of paint from the door. Cimi coughed and shaded her eyes from the sudden light.
"Are you all right, Cimi?" Adan asked.
"I think I am", Cimi said and smiled in a way that looked like she was everything else than all right. Either way, she stood up and stepped away from the closet that had been her temporary prison.
"How long were they going to keep you here", Pichu poundered and took a peek inside the closet, "How awful! What about your head? Is it all right?"
"I'm fine, so let's get out of here! Where are we, anyway?" Cimi asked and tried to forget her terrible headache.
"This is the Sheffield Co. Building", Adan said with a face as serious as you can get as an Ivysaur, "And we think the Pokémon from the cave was brought here, too."
"Sheffield..? This is worse than I thought", Cimi said and was rather shocked about the news, " but if the Pokémon's here, we must find it first, don't we?"
"I think we should get out first", Kirlia said, "I think Radeem and Ivysaur might be looking for us."
They went where they thought the exit would be. Cimi opened a door and they came into a new hallway. There, close to the ceiling, there was a small window.
"Man! Why didn't anyone tell we're underground?" Cimi muttered and ran to the window. She tried to decide if it was possible to get out trough it or not. Pichu and Kirlia would be easy to get trough the narrow window, even she herself might've been able to squeeze her body through it. But there was no way Adan could get out that way.
"We could escape trough this window", she said and looked down on Adan and his enormous bud, "But you can't fit trough, can you? Aah, why do you have to be so massive?"
"It's not my fault! My normal body would go trough that with no problem at all", Adan claimed and looked offensed.
"Yes, I'm sorry", Cimi calmed him down and tried to ignore the fact her headache was getting worse by the minute.
"Um, I can get him trough it", Kirlia said and smiled, looking very confused. "I can use teleport, you know, but not for long distances or with many passengers yet. This, however, is not difficult for me, so I can teleport outside with Adan."
Adan, Cimi and Pichu all looked at Kirlia in great amazement. They had almost forgot that she was there, and nobody remembered that she was a Pokémon, too, and therefore capable of using moves. She had now solved their problem and freedom was just a footstep away. Cimi opened the window as much as it could be opened and Pichu went easily through.
"Nobody here", he said after looking around for a while, "you can come, too, Cimi."
Cimi jumped and was about to grab the window board and start to crawl trough, when three suprising things happened at once. First of all, Pichu saw Radeem galloping on the other side of the fence that surrounded the Sheffield Company Building. A more disturbing thing was that the door behind Cimi, Adan and Kirlia suddently opened and a man in a uniform appeared. He stopped and stared at them, and then took out two Pokéballs. The third thing was that Cimi, before noticing any of these two things, passed out and fell on the hard floor before Adan could catch her.
So, this is the 10th chapter now, and boy does it have action in it.
I'm currently working on chapter 14 and this fic is very close to being finished, so just bare with me for a while and you shall know what became of Cimi, Adan and their Pokémon after this adventure!
But, for now, here's the 10th chapter. 11th will be up soon enough. Thank you for reading!
Chapter 10 - The Rescue Plan B
Adan woke up. He was laying in a bed that was just about his size. It was clearly made for Pokémon. As he carefully looked at his surroundings, he noticed there were lots of other similar beds, too. They were all placed in a long room that looked almost like a hallway. Somehow it looked really familiar. He turned his head really slowly.
"Is this a Pokémon center?" he heard the sincerely curious voice of Kirlia from behind.
It sure looked like a Pokémon center. Kirlia sat on her bed and looked around. On the other side of Adan, Pichu slept in his bed. There were some other Pokémon laying on other beds further down the hallway. Pichu had electrodes taped to his cheeks, Kirlia had one on her forehead and Adan had one on his paw. Next to their beds, travel-sized monitors kept an eye on their vital signs. For a while, Adan watched how the green line on the monitor danced to his heartbeat.
"Where are we", he muttered. He still felt a bit drowzy from the sleeping potion.
Then, a door at the other end of the corridor opened and a Blissey pushing a trolley came in. On the trolley, there seemed to lay some Pokémon under a white cloth. Two Chansey followed the Blissey as it walked past beds. Occasionally either of the Chansey checked some monitors on their way. When the trio suddently saw that Kirlia and Adan were awake, they didn't get too suprised.
"Ahh. Our patients are awake", Blissey said and sounded very content. At first, Adan was shocked to realize he actually understood wht Blissey had said. Then he remembered that he was a Pokémon now.
"Marvellous", said one of the Chanseys, "I can take the trolley from here, so you can chat with our friends here."
"That'd be great", Blissey said and gave the Chansey a dazzling smile. As Chansey continued with the trolley, Adan started to get confused and Pichu started to wake up.
"So, how are you feeling?" Blissey asked Kirlia.
"I'm feeling fine", Kirlia said touched the electrode on her forehead, "So you can take this off, now."
"Oh, it's still too early for that", the other Chansey said and smiled, "I'll be getting some food. Do you have any preferences? We have a marvellous variety of delicacies here!"
As nobody answered anything, the Chansey left to get some food she thought would be most suitable.
"And you, my friend", Blissey spoke to Adan now, "How are you feeling? Your brain readings were a bit odd, so we were afraid there was possibly something wrong with you. Do you feel anything like that? No headace or anything?"
"No", Adan said, and started to get annoyed. What was this, anyway? First they shoot us and now they ask what preferences do we have with food. All Pokémon food sucks, except the one mom made, he thought to himself.
"Where are we", he asked Blissey.
"Oh", Blissey laughed, "How silly of me not to tell! You're in the basement floor of the Sheffield Building now. This is the private Pokémon Center of Sheffield Co. and I'm the doctor in charge here."
"Sheffield?" Pichu said a drowzy voice, "Isn't that a Poké food brand?"
"Oh, yes", said Blissey, "but lately I've heard we sell jade, too. Isn't that great?"
Chansey came back with the food. Adan had a million thoughts in his head. Were they rescued by Sheffield Co. or is the Poké food brand with a good image behind all this? Did Sheffield Co. kidnap Cimi? No, that couldn't be right, they had to be here because they were saved by the nice people of Sheffield Company.
"Ah, I forgot to mention", Blissey said with a huge smile, "You're all the property of Sheffield Company now. Isn't it great to have a food company as your owner?"
The Sheffield Co. really was behind this. Adan's heart skipped a beat. Property of a Poké food company?
---
In another room closeby Cimi woke up. She didn't receive even half of the treatment her Pokémon and Adan were enjoying. She was laying on the ground, her head hurt horrendously and her body had bruises all over. She stayed there, laying down on the chilly floor. It was pretty dark in the cramped room she was in. It seemed to be a storage of some kind.
"I wonder what happened to everyone", she mumbled to herself. After feeling sorry for herself for a while, she slowly stood up. She felt a bit dizzy, probably because of the damage her head had taken. She tried to open the door by the handle, but of course it wouldn't open.
"You can't blame me for trying", she said to herself. Then, she checked what else was in the room with her. Oddly, it seemed to be a small Poké food storage. She took a jar of food expecially designed for fire Pokémon - she had eaten that one before - and started eating it. She sat down munching her food and drifted away with her thoughts.
---
As the last piece of food disappeared in Pichu's hungry mouth, Adan shot his vines towards Blissey as he had decided minutes ago. They had to escape and their only chance was to knock out Blissey and Chansey. This Blissey was, however, clearly better trained for battles than any normal Pokémon Center Blissey would be, as she dodged the hit. Unfortunately for her there were three desperate Pokémon against her and her under-trained Chansey partner. In a very short amount of time, Chansey was hit by Kirlia's confusion, Pichu's thunderbolt and a series of razor leaves by Adan.
That left Blissey all alone in this fight. She was mad. She loathed fights, expecially when there was no trainer and therefore no merit involved. She was very career-minded: she wanted to have her own hospital where she could help lots and lots of Pokémon, and now she had it. She would not tolerate this kind of rioting in her hospital. She grabbed her egg and threw it at Adan, who seemed to be the mastermind behind this mutany.
"Adan", squealed Pichu.
Kirlia threw herself in front of Adan, and just as Adan was about to shove her aside, Kirlia teleported them both behind Blissey. The egg bomb went off and shook the whole room. A couple of monitors let out an alarm, but they quikly went off. A patient Pokémon could be heard moaning somewhere. The smoke from the bomb remained in the unventilated room.
Blissey turned over and when she noticed Ivysaur and Kirlia, her face turned red and she was about to take out another egg bomb. Just when she was about to throw it, a thunderbolt hit her from behind. She dropped her bomb, which exploded on the spot. After getting over the noise and the shock, Adan, Ivysaur and Pichu hurried away before anyone would come and seize them. They had now escaped, but they still had to find Cimi and a way out. They busted open a door and started to search for a prison of some sort so that they could find Cimi.
---
Cimi had her ear glued to the door. She was sure she had just heard an explosion, or maybe two. She tried to listen if there were any noises outside her prison. There were no footsteps to be heard, no alarms going off, no shouting voices, no nothing. She felt really disapointed. If nobody was panicing, those explosions were completely intentional, not the sounds of a rescue team coming to get her. She leaned her forehead on the door and let a couple of tears roll out her eyes.
If not for that stupid fight, none of this might've happened, she thought to herself. How did they end up in this mess anyway? All she ever did was to help an injured Bulbasaur... She started to cry for everything there was to cry for. She had never felt more sorry for herself, which made her feel rather annoyed. There were better times to act like a fool, but her head had chosen this moment for some unknown reasons. The more Cimi tried to cheer up, the more she felt like crying. After all, she was hungry and not in the best physical condition. Minutes dragged on and she felt like a thousand years had passed after the explosions.
Suddently, she heard voices.
"I said, she can't be here. We should head for the lower floors", a familiar voice said.
"Why would she be any lower than we are now? Let's search this floor first!" mumbled another very familiar voice.
"Because that's where they put prisoners!" the first voice said in an annoyed way. There was only one person Cimi knew who used that tone when annoyed. Adan! Now that she had recognised Adan's voice, she recognised Pichu, too.
"Pichu! Adan! Kirlia!" Cimi started to yell and bang the door with all her might. It hurt a bit, but well, it was the only reasonable thing to do. She could almost hear how shocked they were able to find her so fast.
"Cimi?" It was Kirlia.
"I'm here! In a closet", Cimi yelled with all the air she had in her lungs. She could hear running paws getting closer to the door she was leaning on. Suddently she realized that Adan would propably open the door by pushing it in, and she withdrew in the furthest corner of the closet.
"You there, Cimi? Are you near the door?" The one to speak was Adan.
"No, I'm not", Cimi answeared. Her head hurt. Oh, how much her head hurt! She heard some rustling behind the door, and then something slammed very hard against it. The first slam wasn't powerful enough, so more followed. After some smashes the door started to give in. Flakes of wood flew off the door as it started to bend under the force used against it. The next slam then finally made it break. Adan rolled inside the closet and the air was full of dust, wood and flakes of paint from the door. Cimi coughed and shaded her eyes from the sudden light.
"Are you all right, Cimi?" Adan asked.
"I think I am", Cimi said and smiled in a way that looked like she was everything else than all right. Either way, she stood up and stepped away from the closet that had been her temporary prison.
"How long were they going to keep you here", Pichu poundered and took a peek inside the closet, "How awful! What about your head? Is it all right?"
"I'm fine, so let's get out of here! Where are we, anyway?" Cimi asked and tried to forget her terrible headache.
"This is the Sheffield Co. Building", Adan said with a face as serious as you can get as an Ivysaur, "And we think the Pokémon from the cave was brought here, too."
"Sheffield..? This is worse than I thought", Cimi said and was rather shocked about the news, " but if the Pokémon's here, we must find it first, don't we?"
"I think we should get out first", Kirlia said, "I think Radeem and Ivysaur might be looking for us."
They went where they thought the exit would be. Cimi opened a door and they came into a new hallway. There, close to the ceiling, there was a small window.
"Man! Why didn't anyone tell we're underground?" Cimi muttered and ran to the window. She tried to decide if it was possible to get out trough it or not. Pichu and Kirlia would be easy to get trough the narrow window, even she herself might've been able to squeeze her body through it. But there was no way Adan could get out that way.
"We could escape trough this window", she said and looked down on Adan and his enormous bud, "But you can't fit trough, can you? Aah, why do you have to be so massive?"
"It's not my fault! My normal body would go trough that with no problem at all", Adan claimed and looked offensed.
"Yes, I'm sorry", Cimi calmed him down and tried to ignore the fact her headache was getting worse by the minute.
"Um, I can get him trough it", Kirlia said and smiled, looking very confused. "I can use teleport, you know, but not for long distances or with many passengers yet. This, however, is not difficult for me, so I can teleport outside with Adan."
Adan, Cimi and Pichu all looked at Kirlia in great amazement. They had almost forgot that she was there, and nobody remembered that she was a Pokémon, too, and therefore capable of using moves. She had now solved their problem and freedom was just a footstep away. Cimi opened the window as much as it could be opened and Pichu went easily through.
"Nobody here", he said after looking around for a while, "you can come, too, Cimi."
Cimi jumped and was about to grab the window board and start to crawl trough, when three suprising things happened at once. First of all, Pichu saw Radeem galloping on the other side of the fence that surrounded the Sheffield Company Building. A more disturbing thing was that the door behind Cimi, Adan and Kirlia suddently opened and a man in a uniform appeared. He stopped and stared at them, and then took out two Pokéballs. The third thing was that Cimi, before noticing any of these two things, passed out and fell on the hard floor before Adan could catch her.