Pokémon: The Space Shield Crisis [Revived]

[Ninetales1]

OOC: Now that I started school again, things have been a bit busy lately... Heh, this RPG has been going on a long time, during which many things have changed about both of my characters in this RPG (especially Lupin)... So forgive me if either of them seem to be a little different than they were at the beginning of the RPG...

Gee, time seems to be passing by more slowly than I expected...
IC:
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--In the Space Plant--

T-Minus 20:05:00

The tunnel the Nightcraft was now moving through was very steep--it felt like at least a 50-degree incline. Up ahead was nothing but darkness, behind was a bunch of machine parts and the remains of the two Chaoses that had just been defeated, and around the Nightcraft was a blue glow that resulted from Umbra's telekinetic control of it.

As the Nightcraft slowly moved forward, Lupin smiled--glad that so far the Nightcraft had taken little or no damage at all. Had it been another kind of mech, maybe it would have taken more damage or, worse, been completely destroyed by this time. Anyways, in this little break between dangers, Lupin had time to reminisce about certain things. The first thing that came to his mind was when he was with a good friend of his...

Back in the Pokemon gym in Moondance Town, two people ran the gym: Lupin and some guy named Mike. Mike was a Pokemon trainer who specialized in Electric-type and mechanical Pokemon (one of his favourites being Electrode), and was good with machines in general as well. He and Lupin were pretty good friends not too long ago, in those times before Kelsey and Sabrina set foot in the gym. There were lots of fond memories of the two together. Whenever a trainer walked into the gym, for example, there were many times when they worked together in whatever battle or other competition took place in the gym challenge. Oh yes, the wonderful memory of Toadpike dancing atop Mike's Electrode then jumping up to use Petal Dance on an unsuspecting Quagsire... and at the end of the battle, Lupin and Mike chorusing "Sorry lad, no Mech Badge for you!" (No wait--actually Mike said "dude" instead of "lad". Details, details...)

Another fond memory of Lupin's times spent with Mike was the time outside of gym battles. During a lot of that time, while some of their Pokemon were wandering about the town in search of fun (Pencett usually bringing back money at the end of the day), they started working on some sort of unique aircraft--but it was meant to be a lot more than just that. The whole thing was Lupin's idea originally, and he was also the one who called it the "Haunter Nightcraft". But it was Mike who aided in the design and did most of the building. Anyways, it was a fun little project, a thing to the side...

Yes... Lupin thought, back in the present. little did we know how useful it would be right now.
<"Look, there's the end of the tunnel!"> Ninetales noted.
<"So far we're in luck,"> Umbra commented, his third eye glowing. <"The small room ahead is empty. And far up ahead, it looks like there's a tunnel that leads outside!">
"If my calculations are correct, that means we should be pretty close to our destination."
<"Hold on--that's only the good news. The bad news is that guarding the tunnel is... ... no..."> Umbra gulped at the thought.
<"Is something bothering you?"> Ninetales started to sound worried too, even though she hadn't a clue what Umbra was talking about. Meanwhile, Lupin decided that what Umbra was about to say was very important, so he let Nocturnelle out of her Pokeball again.

Umbra sighed. <"I see... four Laser Discs, a Surveillance Drone or two--ooh, those things are dangerous, and they're in the tunnel that takes us out of the next room--another Fire Chaos, and a Heavy Walker. And--a few scattered pools of concentrated energy. There are six of them, each of a different colour--but none of them are that silvery white like the one we were in earlier...">
<"Oh, I remember those,"> Nocturnelle replied. <"Good--those will be to our...">
"We can't be so sure of that," Lupin interrupted. "If the energy pools are a different colour, then they are certain to have a different effect. I surmise a more negative effect this time around."

By that time, the group was finally out of the tunnel. The sharp incline ended in a tiny storage room that was dark and empty. Another tunnel was up ahead, and an eerie red light shone from around the corner of it... Anyways, Umbra brought the Nightcraft to rest when the floor was level again. Lupin and Nocturnelle turned around to face the other two Pokemon.
<"You said there was another Fire Chaos up ahead?"> Ninetales clarified. Umbra nodded.
<"Now I'm feeling the burns from the last one... stronger than ever.">
<"I know... we've taken a lot of damage so far. So much that Toadpike got fried and Feralis and Pencett had to be left behind.">
<"But, luckily we were all healed by that energy pool from before. And other than leaving half the team behind, we did pick up Kelsey's Ninetales, despite not being able to connect to Kelsey herself. (Funny, we were before while we were fighting the Ice Chaos...) We didn't lose any other supplies, and the Nightcraft took no damage so far. None of us have died... or at least I hope not...">
"It really pains me to wonder how Toadpike is faring now... which is why I've got to keep it out of my mind for now... Anyways, what we've got to do now is figure out how to approach all these enemies at once."
<"Hey, I have an idea! You know how we dodged those Surveillance Drones before? Don't you think we can do that again?">
"Those were meteor cannons, not surveillance drones. Surveillance drones are much worse, from what I can tell. Sure, we'd all be tempted to dash through the tunnel to dodge them, but the blasts from those things are instantaneous. It's better if we just..."

Lupin looked at something in the room that gave him an idea.
"...avoid them altogether."
Lupin got out of the Nightcraft, keeping his focus on the part of the wall where he had seen that something seconds before. Then he walked towards that point, and knelt down to inspect it. He ran his hand along the surface of the walls, as if searching for something...
<"What's he doing..."> Nocturnelle whispered to the other two Pokemon. She would have asked Lupin herself, but she didn't want to break his concentration.

Lupin finally found something--a sort of dent in the wall that looked much too neat and specifically shaped to be a normal dent. So he held onto the edge of the wall through this "dent", and pulled it back. A hidden door in the wall opened to revel a smaller tunnel.
"Aha. Yes, quite sneaky indeed. This tunnel seems to lead directly to the room Umbra was indicating. Or, if we're lucky, it will pass right under the room, allowing us to avoid the Laser Discs and the Fire Chaos and... gee, Umbra, did you mention a Heavy Walker? And you didn't see this secret passageway?"
<"I wasn't... looking in that direction..."> Umbra looked surprised.
<"Haha, you're supposed to be psychic! Yet just now, Lupin saw something you didn't!"> Nocturnelle giggled quite a bit after she said this.
<"I'm not all-seeing--I just see things in a direction I so choose. But now that you mention it--hmm, Lupin's right. The tunnel does pass under the room. Then it loops around till it ends in a far corner of the room, not too far from the tunnel that will take us outside.">
<"So if we can sneak around that point, we can avoid all those robots and chaoses!">
<"Well, Lupin, does this sound like a good plan or what?">

Lupin said nothing for a while--he was deep in thought. Finally, with a somber look on his face, he turned to face his Pokemon.
"Oh sure, it's a lovely idea. But look at this room--it's in the middle of nowhere, with practically no access to the outside. Look at the pathway behind me--it's so small in places, I can barely fit through it..."
The three Pokemon said nothing--they stared at Lupin as if to say "And?"
"It's a good plan really, but you overlooked one fact. Okay, so Umbra was able to carry the Nightcraft through this steep tunnel. ...But there's absolutely no way the Nightcraft will fit through here. If we want to go this way, we'll have to leave it behind."
<"...And we'll come back for it!"> Ninetales suggested.
"And to do that, we either have to bring it back through the tunnel containing the surveillance drones, or retrace our steps all the way back to where we started."
<"Oh... hmm, and you really don't want to leave the Nightcraft behind, do you?"> Umbra noted. Apparently he had read Lupin's mind while he was reminiscing about Mike.
"Right you are..."
Lupin started to look around the room, as if seeking another way out of this dilemma. He glanced past Umbra, past Ninetales, past Nocturnelle... and then he looked back at Nocturnelle, keeping his gaze on her for a while.
"Hey wait a minute... it looks like there is a plan C..."

Just as he did while fighting the Fire Chaos, Lupin began a whispered conversation with Nocturnelle to discuss a plan. Only this time, he had a much more brilliant plan to discuss...

--On the way to the Space Plant--

T-Minus 19:55:00

"Go Vaporeon!" Carmen commanded. "Use Ice Beam!"
Vaporeon started to fire an Ice Beam, but it didn't come out that well. Gardevoir was easily able to dodge it. After this failed attack, Vaporeon felt pretty tired...
"Oh, are you still tired from the last attack?" Carmen questioned, in a babyish voice. "Would you like to take a rest?"
With that, Carmen returned Vaporeon to her Pokeball.
"Go Wigglytuff!"
"Wiggly!"
"Use Hyper Voice!"
"WIGGLY!!" Wigglytuff emitted a blast consisting of powerful sound waves, which headed straight for Gardevoir. Gardevoir couldn't do a thing about this type of attack except cover her ears, which only slightly helped. She still collided with the wall behind her.
Ohh, how I wish I didn't have to fight these people... I wish I could contact Kelsey... why in the world can't I??

"Kadabra, use your Psychic attack on Gardevoir!" Diego commanded.
Now why's he doing that? He knows I'm strong against... whoa!
Gardevoir was thrown back a little by the Psychic attack, but upon this event she used her own Psychic attack to hopefully hit Kadabra instead. And just like it had been with Umbra, this was now a "battle of psychics".
"Psst, Wigglytuff, how about a little cheat?" This was the exact thing Diego said to Kadabra in the battle with Lupin, but now Carmen was saying it to Wigglytuff. So Wigglytuff started waving her hands in the air--she was using Metronome!
"Wiggly wig, tuff tuff... Wiggly wig, tuff tuff..."

Gardevoir was putting up a fairly good fight so far. Something in the back of her mind wished Kelsey could be helping her out with this attack, but she knew that Kelsey was not there now.
"Tuff!" Wigglytuff finally came up with an attack--which happened to be Psychic, the same attack the other two Pokemon were using. Carmen and Diego's jaws dropped.

So now Wigglytuff, too, was engaged in this telekinetic tug-o-war.
That Kadabra's strong enough... but with the addition of that Wigglytuff... how much longer can I keep this up?
Gardevoir was trying her best, using her strongest Psychic attack possible, pushing herself to the very limit...

Gardevoir's mind began to wander again for a moment... to Kelsey again. She remembered a few of the battles where he used a Psychic attack on someone, and Kelsey backed her up with her own telekinetic power. Gardevoir remembered how that felt--it felt like a door that was usually locked tight was opened, a door to a completely new source of power. It made her feel, for a moment, that she could change the course of the whole world with this power--even if that was not the case. She felt it even as she thought about it--that same sensation. And...

"Wiggly!!"
"Kadabraaa..."
Wigglytuff and Kadabra crashed into the walls behind them, clearly knocked out.
How in the world did I do that?!? Gardevoir thought as she looked at the two Pokemon. Kelsey didn't do it, so...
"It's not over yet!" Carmen and Diego chorused. They took out both of their pistol-ish weapons and shot what looked like nets out of them. The ties that would hold the nets in place had a sort of electrical charge to them.
Eek, get back to reality already!
Gardevoir's Magical Leaf attack tore the nets to pieces. After that, it sought to tear Carmen and Diego to pieces...
"Whoa!" Diego gasped. "Kadabra, let's retreat!"
"Kadabra..."
With the last bit of his strength, Kadabra teleported Wigglytuff, Carmen, and Diego out of the rubble-filled hallway.

Oh, I wish I could teleport like that Kadabra. That way I could reach where Lupin might be right away...
Gardevoir was relieved that this battle was over, but she sensed some other kind of danger ahead...

--Pine's Island--

T-Minus 21:35:00

Kelsey continued to walk along the path through the jungle, staying alert in case any more Trapinch robots or other obstacles stood in her way. Hypno flew above by levitating herself telekinetically, already intimidated by the Trapinch robots. Clefable flew next to her, carrying Bellossom in her arms, and Banette flew close by as well.

Fortunately, Kelsey didn't have that far to go before she reached a very large clearing in the jungle--so large, in fact, that there was a lake in the middle of it. In that lake was an island surrounded by electrical poles. Five more Trapinch robots surrounded a small group of people and a couple of Arcanine. The Arcanine had bite marks on their legs that could very well have come from these robots.
Oh--I suppose they're looking for Professor Pine too, Kelsey figured. Looks like they could use some help... if I'm in any condition to help...

Kelsey did feel kind of awkward now that her psychic powers were disabled until further notice, but there was a point in her life before she even knew she had them, and there were lots of other obstacles she had to get through, dealing with the curse she was under at the time. So Kelsey continued walking towards the group in distress. But she didn't take too many steps before another electric pole shot up from the ground. She immediately jumped to the side to dodge it, but even she wasn't fast enough to avoid the pole completely. The top of the pole collided with her leg, stunning it momentarily as Kelsey fell onto the ground a foot or two away from the pole.

Hypno was looking at Kelsey at this point, but she remembered a situation like this before where upon being hit like this, Kelsey said something like "Don't worry about me, continue doing what you were doing!" This time, Hypno decided to take Kelsey's advice early.
<"Come on, let's continue on to the island!"> Hypno commanded. <"Now isn't the time to worry about Kelsey.">
Clefable and Bellossom were hesitant to follow Hypno to the island, but Banette wasn't. The two worriers just hovered there in the air...

"Ban!" Banette fired a Shadow Ball after another at the quintet of Trapinch on the island. Occasionally the Trapinch fired Sand-Attacks at Banette, but she either dodged these or closed her eyes to avoid them. A few moments later, Clefable finally decided to turn away from Kelsey, because Bellossom was now attacking the Trapinch robots with Petal Dance.This attack didn't do much damage to the metal robots, but it did drive them back till they fell in the water.
<"Ouch!"> Clefable cried out as she ran into an electrical pole and got herself zapped. She too fell in the water. While in the water, she could see a few Trapinch robots sinking to the bottom of the lake, motionless.
Just like real Trapinch, they're weak against water, Clefable thought as she resurfaced and flew out of the water. Bellossom shook herself dry and felt rather refreshed.
<"Ahh, nothing like a nice dip in the lake on a hot day like this.">

Meanwhile, Hypno landed on the island next to the Arcanine, looking at one of the electrical poles. She thought for a moment, then used her Psychic attack on it. Immediately, the pole glowed a piercing green.
Ah, I see...
Hypno again used her Psychic attack to lift the pole out of the water, though she had to squint to keep looking at it. Then she threw it towards the far edge of the lake, where it burst into a blast of electricity. Hypno smiled and walked over to another pole, where she made to do the same thing.

For a while, Kelsey couldn't feel her leg as she sat there next to the pole. After this numbness started to go away, she stood up--and noticed a boy with red hair and dressed mostly in black, with an Absol next to him.
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OOC: Whew, I knew it was unwise to start this post at around 11 PM... Lupin's part took two hours to write, Gardevoir's took one hour, and Kelsey's took a half-hour. But it was fun anyways--I couldn't help but stop and laugh.

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

I'm going to finish up Nived's trip through the Cosmic Gadget area in one large post, concluding this trip with a unique section. Also, before I continue, I have decided to add another location and another boss to the RP. Here's what I have added, wrapped in a spoiler tag.

Spoiler:

Meteor Base: This place may look like a massive meteor on the outside, but on the inside, there is a large laboratory complex. This place has a little history to it. Professor Hartache's wife, Yuriko Hartache, was working on a project here. However, there was an accident in the lab, and Yuriko was killed. Professor Hartache ended up shutting down the project and sealing the laboratory after this tragic incident. This place happens to be an elaborate facility consisting of corridors and large rooms composed of glass-and-steel floors, walls, and ceilings. Some parts of the complex have large windows that show space or the surface of the meteor. Hazards and defense systems that are still active here include laser grids, force fields, reactive doors, floating cannons, energy pools, and spheres that have their own gravitational pull, called Gyro Balls. There are also large, square rooms lined with large, reflective panels where lasers are generated between two surfaces and move around freely. Also, the only thing left here are the guard robots. We don't know if Team Rocket or the Shuttle Gang know anything about this facility, or if they have any use for it, but someone may have to make their way through here in this quest. A shuttle from the Star Maze can take you to this laboratory.

Mega Chaos: This happens to be a massive, multi-colored Chaos that is found somewhere in the Meteor Base. It has a large shielded head and an octagonal-shaped core in its center. It uses attacks from all the other Chaos variations as well as massive tendrils that it can lash out at you. Attacks used on it will push the blue/red/green/yellow liquid back to expose the core. When the core is hit, the Chaos will explode into a bunch of regular Chaos of various elements. As more regular Chaos are destroyed, the Mega Chaos grows smaller. When exposed, the core will also fire blue, red, green, and yellow laser beams, each with various effects.

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T-Minus 20:05:00

After the battle with the Ice and Fire Chaos, Nived decides to keep making his way through the Cosmic Gadget Area. Still riding the heavily damaged Heavy Skarmory II, he makes his down down the path some more, which makes a 45-degree left turn. Here, a group of about six Tier 3 Sentries block his way. Being a little agitated with all these hazards, Nived simply jumps out of his craft with his rocket launcher in tow and fires onto the robots, destroying them in a matter of seconds.

"I don't have time for this right now!"

With that settled, Nived gets back into his ride and continues down the pathway. At the end there is another Gravity Capsule, but nowhere else to go. Nived decides to juet play chances and break the capsule.

"Well, I guess I could just ram it."

Nived crashes into the Gravity Capsule, breaking it, and sending him falling upside-down to a Gravity Gate that sets him falling sideways forward. Landing on another speedway, Nived moves down the path a little more.

"Well, how much longer until I reach the end of this area?"

Coming Nived's way happens to be a group of Tier 2 Flyers. Noting that the blue flying robots are coming straight for him, he jumps out of the Heavy Skarmory II and pulls out his rocket launcher once more.

"My Pokémon are whipped from all you guys! Give me a break!"

Nived fires on the group of Flyers, destroying about three of them, but the others activate their shields, the fire rockets of their own at Nived. He manages to dodge them, but one hits the Heavy Skarmory II, damaging it even more. This message comes up from the craft's system.

"Speed drive damaged. Craft's speed reduced." -Heavy Skarmory II System

"All right! That's it! I've had enough of you guys!"

Nived fire a few more rockets at the Flyers. After the hits, one remains. This one fires another rocket at Nived.

"Give me a break!"

Nived fires a rocket of his own and the two collide, causing an explosion that sends Nived right back into his own craft.

"Ow! I'm setting you to tracking mode and finishing you!"

Nived fires another rocket and uses the control pad and screen on the side to direct the rocket straight into the last Flyer, destroying it. With this out of the way, Nived gets back into the Heavy Skarmory II and heads down the path, but at a slower pace this time.

"Those liquid things are wrecking my ride! At this rate, It'll have to be in the repair shop for a couple weeks at the most!"

After a right turn, Nived notices he might finally be reaching the mini space station ne needs to reach to get out of this area. At the end of the path, he notices a set of light rails going sideways to the left in the distance. However, with the Heavy Skarmory II's current speed, Nived needs a little speed boost.

"I think I know a way to catch the next train that passes through here!"

Nived gets out of the Heavy Skarmory II with his hoverboard in tow and starts to attach it to the bottom of the Heavy Skarmory II. After several minutes, success! Nives has just given his craft a little more speed, and just is time as a train comes down the rails.

"Well, we got only one shot! Let's make it count!"

Nived gets into the Heavy Skarmory II, backs up a little, and as the train comes down the rails, starts speeding down the path and goes off the edge, the Heavy Skarmory II drifts through the air towards the sideways train. As he nears it, the doors on the left side slide open and the Heavy Skarmory II is pulled into the train. Inside, the craft and Nived's gravity are adjusted to that of the train's.

"Gravity system matched." -Train OS Voice

"Wow! Looks like this train has its own gravity system! Now to check things out!"

Nived scopes the train car interiror. There are advanced computers and mainframes lining both walls of the train car and a square capsule-shaped object in the back. Nived gets out of the Heavy Skarmory II and checks up on the capsule.

"Wonder what this is."

Nived presses a spot on top of the capsule and that part rises to show a couple small screens and keypads. Before pressing anything, Nived realizes that this may alter the gravity fields of the train and decides to not press anything.

"Forget this! Let's just go!"

Nived goes back to the Heavy Skarmory II and moves towards the doors to his left, wide enough for the Heavy Skarmory II to pass through. The doors slide open and Nived heads into the next train car. In this train car, the setup is similar to that of the space station he went through earlier, with the glass tanks and the lines of computers.

"I wonder what they use these trains for anyway? Must be mobile research stations they use in here."

At the front of the car, there happens to be another square capsule, and the train doors happen to be upside-down on the ceiling!

"What the heck?! This place has gravity switches as well?!"

Nived gets out of the Heavy Skarmory II and operates the capsule here. This time though, he's asked if he can change the gavity fields for either the car or the whole train.

"I better just do it for the whole train to be safe!"

After pressing a few panels, the gravity changes and Nived and the Heavy Skarmory II are flung upside-down, landing on the ceiling, also prepared for upside-down travel, with some slope-sided computer panels on both sides. Nived gets back into the Heavy Skarmory II and goes through the next set of doors. In the next train car, Nived notices a hexagon-tiled glass wall blocking his way and a computer panel on the wall to his right. He presses a few buttons on the digital keypad and the computer screen starts saying "ROOF LEVEL OPEN". Suddenly, the roof opens up and moves downward (or should I say upward). Nived can now see back out into space and can notices a few sets of pathways pass him by below. There are also more of those arrow signs pointing in the direction of the train's route zooming by.

"Whoa! I wasn't expecting this!"

Nived makes his way down the raised roof pathway. In between two glass walls on the side at the end of the path, there happens to be another square capsule. As he makes his way towards the end of the path, thr train passes through a set of Gravity Gates and takes a 90-degree upward turn.

"Be careful with those!"

Nived makes his way to the capsule, seeing a sideways walkway zoom by him just a few dozen feet above. Eventually, he makes it to the capsule, gets out of the Heavy Skarmory II, and presses buttons on the capsule to set the train's gravity back to normal. Back in the train, there is another computer panel on the wall to his left. He presses some buttons on the keypad and the computer screen displays "TRAIN DOORS OPEN". The doors leading into the next train car open up, allowing Nived to progress through, which he does after getting back into the Heavy Skarmory II. In the next train car, there is a red-colored, diamond-tiled force field that spans the width of the car. Passing through the field, the left wall of the train car opens up and moves outward, with inner slanted sides and capsule-shaped pillars rising out of the wall. Also, another hexagon-tiled glass wall blocks his way and there is another square capsule.

"Well, here we go again!"

Nived gets out of the Heavy Skarmory II, presses the necessary buttons on the capsule, and gravity shifts to the side. Both Nived and his craft fall onto the converted wall. Being able to see space again, Nived notices the train is now sloping downward. Suddenly, a Thunder Chaos floats down onto the wall path, firing a Thunderbolt at the Heavy Skarmory II. The craft takes on more damage, but is still able to move. Nived gets out of the Heavy Skarmory II to disperse of the threat.

"Sunflora, come on out and use Solarbeam!"

Sunflora comes out of its Pokéball, still willing to do battle. It charges up a Solarbeam, then fires it at the Thunder Chaos's head, damaging it a great deal. The Chaos splits into cells, but Nived thinks his Pokémon can handle it.

"All right! Sunflora, Razor Leaf!"

Sunflora unleashes a potent Razor Leaf attacks at the plasma-like cells of the Thunder Chaos. The leaves rip through a bunch of them and oinly a few remain afterwards. The cells start to surround Sunflora and give off thunder flashes all around the Grass-type, but it surprises them with another Razor Leaf that takes out all of them.

"Wow! That was great! Now return! We still have a mission to do."

Nived gets back into the Heavy Skarmory II and heads down the pathway. A long, sideways speedway zooms by the train as Nived reaches the end of the path, where there is a computer terminal aside a wall at the end. Nived presses a few buttons on the terminal and "WALL RETRACTION ACTIVATED" appears on the computer screen. The wall goes back into the train, the sides, pillars, and terminal retracting back into the wall. Back in the train, there are sideways doors that Nived can take the Heavy Skarmory II through, and does so.

"How much longer until we reach the front of this train?"

In the next train car, there is another red force field like the one in the last. After passing through it, the right wall pulls out, with sides and pillars rising out of it. Also, part of the ceiling beyond another hexagon-tiled glass wall does the same thing.

"More of this?!"

There's yet another square capsule near the wall. Nived gets out of the Heavy Skarmory II and fiddles with it again, sending the gravity fields to the right side. Landing on the converted wall, Nived gets back in the Heavy Skarmory II. Here, the train passes through another set of Gravity Gates and starts going straight down. At the end of the path is another square capsule. Nived repeats what he did with the other capsule, in and out of the Heavy Skarmory II, and the gravity systems shift sideways again, this time, onto a T-shaped platform above the train. Here, a Solar Chaos appears. Nived's ready this time, though.

"Houndoom, let's finish this quick! Flamethrower!"

Houndoom comes out of its Pokéball and uses a constant Flamethrower on the Solar Chaos. The Chaos has no time to attack, and is quickly destroyed.

"That was quick! Houndoom, return!"

Nived continues on down the pathway where another square capsule resides. He does what he does with them again and gravity returns to normal. After this, he heads through the doorway and the train car here is very simple. It's just another reserach lab car. However, the doors here won't open up. Whenever Nived tries to go near them, this is what happens.

"Door systems deactivated." -Train OS Voice

However, there is another computer panel on the right wall. After exiting the Heavy Skarmory II and fiddling with it, a panel on the train roof opens up and a ramp comes down to ground level. Nived takes the Heavy Skarmory II up the ramp and onto the train roof. Here, Nived simply crosses onto the top of the next train car. There is another red force field here. After passing through it, a wall in the train opens outward and expands upward. There is a square capsule on top of the train. An upside-down walkway zooms right by the train here. After fiddling with the capsule, gravity shifts to the left and onto the platform.

"This will just never end."

No hazards appear here as Nived makes a left turn, and a computer terminal lies at the end of the path. He presses some buttons on it to make the path go back into the train. After passing through the sideways doors, Nived appears in a sideways research lab area. Here, there lies an Ice Chaos. Nived decides to finish it off quickly.

"Houndoom, come on and take this out!"

Houndoom decides to do battle again just as the Chaos fires an Ice Beam at Houndoom. Houndoom fires a Flamethrower back at it. Both attacks seem evenly matched, but Houndoom's flames push the Chaos's ice back and the creature is destroyed in a matter of several seconds.

"Good going again! Return!"

With the Ice Chaos out of the way, Nived fins another square capsule, fiddles with it, and sets gravity upside-down. Another set of doors leads into another train car. Here, another red force field causes the part of the right wall, part of the left wall, and part of the ceiling to open up and move outward. Nived navigates this quickly, fiddling with the first sqaure capsule he sees to set gravity to the right. On the path there, he does the same thing with another capsule to travel on the left path, and then uses the capsule there to go on the ceiling. Here, a Fire Chaos appears.

"Manectric, use Thunderbolt!"

Manectric comes out of its Pokéball and uses a Thunderbolt on the fiery Chaos, who retaliates with a near-molten Flamethrower! Manectric dodges the attack, though, and uses Thunderbolt again. After dodging another Flamethrower from the Fire Chaos, Manectric finishes it off with another Thunderbolt, but the Chaos splits into cells.

"Manectric, target all of them with Thunderbolt!"

Manectric sends Thunderbolt attacks all over the place as the near-molten cells give off heat flashes all over. In about half a minute, the Fire Chaos's cells have all been destryoed.

"Thanks again, Manectric! Return!"

At the end of the path is a floating plasma TV like the ones Topaz and Tsubasa saw. After pressing a few keys on the digital panel, this message comes up.

"HIGH SPEED RESEARCH STATION AHEAD"
"WANT TO RETRACT PATHWAY? YES/NO"

Nived says yes to retracting the pathway, which it does along with the others. Once all the paths are back in the train, there is one last square capsule. Nived presses buttons on it to return gravity back to normal, then heads through the doors to the final train car. Here, there are several large computer screens and maps on the walls and large energy capsules in the middle. At the front of the train is a set of computer panels and screens. As you may already suspect, this entire train is fully automated. What looks like a mini-space station is ahead, and the train stops in the trench on top of the train in front of a force field.

"Finally! We're here!"

Nived gets back into the Heavy Skarmory II and heads out of the train. On the side of the trench, there is a door. Nived takes the Heavy Skarmory II through the doorway and down an elevator to inside the station. Inside it looks similar to the place Tsubasa was in before reaching the Space Shuffle area, with several computers, mainframes, and console panels lining both walls of the area. It looks like this space station is both a high speed train station and a space shuttle docking station.

"Well, lets get out of here!"

Nived heads into the shuttle docking area, just in time for the next launch of the shuttles.

"Shuttle 1-1, destination Space Cargo Lanes, preparing to launch." -Station OS Voice

"Good! We can use that one!"

"Please clear shuttle vicinity. Launch in 10, 9, 8..." -Station OS Voice

"Let's get you into the cargo bay!"

Nived quickly pilots the Heavy Skarmory II into the cargo bay, then jumps out as the doors close.

"...7, 6, 5..." -Station OS Voice

The shuttle starts to rise in the air. Nived quickly runs to the doors of the shuttle and grabs onto the doorway, where the door slides open. He manages to get into the shuttle.

"...4, 3, 2..." -Station OS Voice

Nived climbs into the seat as the shuttle door closes and the shuttle engines start up.

"...1, shuttle ignition activated." -Station OS Voice

The launch bay gate opens vertically as the shuttle rockets fire up and the shuttle goes zooming out of the station. Nived examines all the control panels, screens, and monitors making up the shuttle's dashboard.

"Wow! This is some piece of work!"

"Video message recorded into shuttle memory. Would you like to read it?" -Shuttle OS Voice

"What? I guess I should check it out. Yes, read message."

On the main video screen, an image of Professor Hartache, sitting in his unique, wheel-less, hovering wheelchair (in case no one knows, Professor Hartache is crippled and uses a wheelchair). Professor Hartache starts talking.

"Whoever reads this message. If it has been activated, then I have been captured. I noticed that an armada of space shuttles stormed Star City and overran it. In case I could not stop them, I have recorded this message and designated it to this shuttle station. These invaders are probably after the Space Shield Network, something that could be very destructive in their hands. There is something I have hidden that can stop them. To make sure that no one finds this out, I am giving you this password. Present this password to the shuttle control system: Y, U, R, I, K, O. Yuriko. It will not only allow you to enter this place, but direct this shuttle to it. This place has been closed off for quite a while now. Use caution."

Knowing what information has just been given to him, Nived gives the shuttle system this command.

"Access password system."

"Affirimitave. Please enter password." -Shuttle OS Voice

"Y, U, R, I, K, O. Yuriko."

"Confirmed. Shuttle destination changed. Shuttle now headed for undisclosed area." -Shuttle OS Voice

Nived waits in the shuttle as it makes a change in direction and heads for an unknown area. Where he is headed for he does not know.

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T-Minus 20:05:00

Back in the Electrochemical Reactor, Topaz was saved from certain death by an unknown Trainer. That trainer referred to himself as Jay. Now that they're working together for the time being, they trek through more of the plant.

"My name's Topaz. Nice to meet you Jay."

"Nice to meet you, too, Topaz." -Jay

"What are you doing here anyway? I don't think you were signed up for this mission!"

"Well, let's just say I got here at the last minute." -Jay

"Until we get out of this place, I will be your superior! Understand?"

"Actually, no. I'll be more of your partner while we're together." -Jay

"You know what? I've has it rough here anyway, so why not?"

Topaz and Jay head through the electrochemical plant together from here on in. After exiting the large window corridor, they head through another set of doors and into a shaft area. In the middle of the shaft is a large platform like the one Topaz used earlier, but much bigger. Leading to the platform is a short bridge.

"I think this is some sort of an advanced elevator. We could use it."

Both Topaz and Jay get onto the platform. Short glass-like walls rise up from the edges of the platform and the platform starts hovering upward. It passes by a few floor markers depicting where they're going. The numbers on the walls depict 02-2, 02-3, 02-4, and finally 02-5. At 02-5, the platform stops in front of another short bridge leading to another set of doors.

"I guess this is where we get off."

Topaz and Jey get off here and head through the doors. They come to another large chamber with a pool of concentrated energy. This energy, however, is red and looks fiery.

"Whoa! This energy looks different! We better be careful here!"

"You said it! That stuff looks hot enough to melt steel!" -Jay

"We need to find a way to make it over to the other side!"

As Topaz is pondering how to cross the red energy pool, several flaming objects rise out of the energy. Upon closer inspection, the objects happen to be Fire Chaos, and four of them. They come straight for Topaz and Jay.

"Uh-oh! More of these! We better fight with an advantage here! Lanturn, come on out!"

"I'll help out, too! Blastoise, come on out and use Hydro Pump!" -Jay

Both Lanturn and Blastoise come out of their Pokéballs, ready for battle. Blastoise starts things off with a powerful Hydro Pump towards one of the Fire Chaos, but the near-molten lifeform fires a powerful Flamethrower right back. The two attacks collide and push against each other, creating steam all around the chamber.

"I can't see a thing! Venomoth, come on out and use Signal Beam!"

Venomoth comes out of its Pokéball and fires a Signal Beam forward, clearing some of the steam, but some of the Fire Chaos have split into cells and attempt to surround Venomoth giving off fiery hear flashes all over it. In only two seconds, Venomoth has been Knocked Out.

"I know I shouldn't have brought you out in a battle like this! Return"

Back with Jay, Blastoise's Hydro Pump ends up pushing the Flamethrower back, and destroys the Fire Chaos. The steam starts to clear, but there is still one solid Chaos and the other two have split up into cells that are headed for Topaz.

"Blastoise, use Hydro Pump again!" -Jay

Blastoise fires another Hydro Pump at the cells, which are quickly extinguished. The rest of the cells regroup into a Fire Chaos, which there are now two of. Topaz decides to use Lanturn to take down one of them.

"Lanturn, take down one of them with Hydro Pump!"

Lanturn fires a Hydro Pump of its own at one of the Fire Chaos, doing more damage to it. Jay has Blastoise do the same to the other Chaos. Both Fire Chaos take on damage and are eventually destroyed. After their destruction, several platforms rise out of the burning energy.

"Wow! Would you look at that?! Those things were linked to the path over this stuff!" -Jay

"Yeah! We better get going now!"

Topaz and Jay jump from platform to platform over the red concentrated energy. They can feel the heat coming from the energy as they pass over it.

"This energy is pretty hot."

After reaching the other side of the energy pool, Topaz and Jay head forward past large glass-and-steel energy pillars and medium-sized tanks containing more of thae orange liquid. Eventually, they come to another energy pool, this time one that is colored blue. This time, the energy looks cold enough to freeze solid anything that touches it.

"Another one of these?!"

"This stuff looks different from the other." -Jay

Just as with the fiery energy pool, several objects rise out of the frigid energy pool. This time, though, these are Ice Chaos.

"And it has more of those liquid creatures to match!"

"Well, I'll just have Blastoise take these out, too!" -Jay

Blastoise fires a Hydro Pump at one of the Ice Chaos, but the huge water streams are frozen solid before they even get neat the Chaos.

"What the?!" -Jay

"I think this Chaos is using an ice lens to stop any Water attacks!"

"An ice lens?" -Jay

"The Chaos is cooling all the air around it to to super low temperature, and that freezes water on contact!"

"Well, I have another way of taking these things down Arcanine, come on out and use Overheat!" -Jay

Arcanine comes out of its Pokéball, heats up, then fires a bright stream of red-and-yellow fire at one of the Ice Chaos, utterly destroying it and one next to it. With half of them already out of the way, the other two split into frozen cells.

"Looks like we have more touble! Lanturn, Thunderbolt"

Lanturn fires a Thunderbolt at the cells, zapping some of them, but the rest come straight for Jay's Blastoise and give off ice flashes all around it. Instantly, Blastoise is frozen solid.

"Blastoise, no! Arcanine, use Overheat again! It should still be enough to take down those cells!" -Jay

Arcanine heats up again and fires another stream of bright flames, but not as powerful as last time. The attack is anough to take down some of the cells. The Ice Chaos cells then regroup into one last Chaos.

"We better finish this one off! Cameru..."

Juast as Topaz says just that, the Ice Chaos fires a powerful Ice Beam at her. Before she can react, she's frozen solid.

"Topaz, don't worry! Arcanine, Overheat's gotten too weak! Take a rest and I'll use Delcatty!"

Delcatty comes out of its Pokéball, ready for battle.

"Delcatty, use Solarbeam!" -Jay

Delcatty starts charging up a Solarbeam from its flower-like tail. While this is happening, the Ice Chaos fires another Ice Beam towards Delcatty.

"Delcatty, dodge it!" -Jay

Delcatty magaes to jump past the Ice Beam just as it hits the ground, creating a small ice mountain and puddle upon impact. Shortly after landing again, Delcatty manages to fire a Solarbeam staight at the Ice Chaos's head, damaging it.

"Arcanine, while it's stunned try a Hyper Beam!" -Jay

Arcanine starts to charge up a Hyper Beam while the Ice Chaos fires another Ice Beam at it.

"Arcanine, jump out of the way quick!" -Jay

Arcanine manages to jump out of the way of the incoming Ice Beam, which creates another ice mountain and puddle thzt freezes to the touch. After landing, it fires a powerful Hyper Beam straight at the Ice Chaos, destroying it. With the Ice Chaos destroyed, more platforms rise out of the freezing liquid energy.

"Arcanine, use what's left of your Overheat to thaw out Topaz and Blastoise!" -Jay

Arcanien uses weak Overheat attacks to thaw out Topaz and Blastoise, who are both shivering from being frozen.

"Thanks, Jay. We better get going!"

"Got it! Blastoise, Arcanine, Delcatty, return!" -Jay

"You too Lanturn!"

After all Pokémon are returned to their Pokéballs, Topaz and Jay jump from platform to platform over the subzero energy. They can feel the extreme cold just by crossing over it. Eventually, on the other side of the energy pool, there is another set of doors. Both of them head through to the next part of the Electrochemical Reactor.

 

[Ninetales1]

OOC: I've been so focused on either college or other RPG's... Heh, turns out I've been thinking about Lupin much more often than posting here... Yes, he'll definitely appear in my fanfic when I get around to writing it. But now back to the RPG...

Hmmm... looks like I have a choice. Do I wait around for other Pine's Island people to post so my character can join them, or do I have her just go off by herself? Hmm...

Sunflorazumarill... You mentioned an Updates topic in a PM you sent me once. What exactly do you mean by that...?

IC:
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--On the way to the Space Plant--

T-Minus 19:45:00

Kelsey's lone Gardevoir had just caused the two Rockets to retreat and was on her way again. By this time, she had resorted to flying (rather, levitating herself with her psychic powers) in order to avoid tripping on any machine parts. Much of her attention was focused on keeping herself midair, and a part of her was focused on what might lie ahead. Yet another part of her was still impressed by what had happened in the battle she just fought minutes ago. Boosting her own psychic energies by merely concentrating on the sensation of Kelsey helping her?
It has been an exciting and phenomenal day, Gardevoir thought. And full of action. I can't imagine how Lupin and Kelsey are doing, what obstacles they may be up against... Hey, where is Ninetales? Isn't she supposed to be here in Star City as well? I haven't seen her since we split up back in the launch pad. I remember... we didn't stay with Lupin for too long. Before long, he and the two of us just split up, off to do separate things. I really wasn't prepared for that... why on Earth... er, Star City--did both Ninetales and Lupin want to split up? Aren't we all better off when we're together?

Gardevoir had devoted so much attention to thinking about Ninetales and Lupin and Kelsey that she had hardly noticed a change in her surroundings. So as her mind slipped back into reality, she noticed that everywhere around her was pitch black.
Drat... how can I tell where I'm going?
This lack of sight slowed Gardevoir down quite a bit. She slowed down to about a fifth of her usual flying speed and had to grope around to know where things were. Occasionally she telekinetically lifted objects out of her way--this was also a way of letting her know where the objects were because she could see the energy field formed around them. Using this process, she was able to see around a corner--perhaps she was entering another room.

<"Whoa!"> Gardevoir cried out. For as soon as she entered the next room, she felt the stinging pangs of a headache, and the force of falling to the ground.
<"What happened?!? Why can't I...">
Gardevoir tried to levitate herself again, but for some reason she couldn't.
<"What is this room?">
Gardevoir decided to take a look around. So she tried her usual technique of using Psychic in random directions... only to find out that she could not feel any sense of psychic control over anything.
<"What... Why are all of a sudden my powers not working? Great, just great... How am I supposed to know where I am now??">

Gardevoir grumbled and stood up, deciding to walk around a bit. As she did, she noticed that the floor was smooth--no machine parts littered it. Also, it was warm--as if heaters had been placed directly underneath the stone floor. And, it was wet--as if the sprinkler system had recently gone off. In fact, Gardevoir found herself walking in at least a few centimetres of water.

After a few more minutes of walking in the shallow but wet water, Gardevoir felt that the ground was dry again. And, she also began to notice the presence of more machine parts. Apparently she was in a hall of some sort...
Hmm... I wonder...
Gardevoir stared off into the distance--and as she did, a strange force tingled in her mind, followed by a machine part up ahead rising up and glowing with a familiar blue aura.
<"My psychic powers are working again!"> she gasped.
With that knowledge, Gardevoir took to flying through the hall again, and also to use her old method of navigation through the area. As she rounded another corner, she noticed a pink glow...
Alas, light!!
Confident, Gardevoir flew more quickly towards the source of the light.

At the end of the hall, Gardevoir halted as she turned to her left. There, ahead of her, was a glowing pink tunnel.
...I guess I'm supposed to walk through this??
So, cautiously, Gardevoir took a step forward into the tunnel. But as soon as she did, a force from within the tunnel thrusted her forward, feet first, through the tunnel.

At the end of the tunnel, Gardevoir sped through a gravity gate, followed by a ninety-degree upward turn. Apparently the gravity had shifted that way.
This can't be correct... According to my calculations, I'm falling upwards...
Within seconds, a startling sensation gave a greater incentive for Gardevoir to focus on reality. For at that moment, a train came speeding next to her, going the opposite direction. The train was so close to her that she felt a great whoosh of air as it sped past, and had she been a Snorlax instead of a Gardevoir, the train would have hit her.

At another point, Gardevoir went through another gravity gate, and the gravity shifted to her left. So then she was falling down a new passageway. And as before, a while afterward a train sped down the passageway. But this time, the train was going in the same direction that Gardevoir was falling, so it was kind of in free fall too. However, it was going quite a bit faster than Gardevoir was. Also, unlike before, when Gardevoir was falling feet-first, now she was falling on her side, to the speeding train collided with her legs and caused her to spin around several times while still falling. After she stopped spinning, she was falling feet-first again, and her vision was obscured by her skirt which flew up as a result of the air rushing past her.

A few moments later, some sort of laser beam struck Gardevoir while she was still falling. Right after she got hit, she went through another gravity gate, which shifted the gravity upward again. So then she was falling stomach-first. And as she fell, she glimped what had attacked her: some sort of robot. Anyways, this process repeated for a while. Gravity gate, hit by a train, shot by a robot. Gravity gate, hit by a train, shot by a robot. By about the seventh gravity gate, Gardevoir was bruised pretty much everywhere except her head. And she had crashed into various machine parts along the way. There was even one point where she was falling head-first towards a machine part, but she used her psychic powers to blast the obstruction apart. For she knew that if her head was injured, certainly her psychic powers might never function again, and worse, the impact would be much more fatal than if it were any other part of her body. Anyways, as she was worrying, Gardevoir was thrusted through another glowing pink tunnel, and her hands were folded behind her head. She was also curled up into almost a ball, and her eyes were closed tightly. So for a while she flew backwards through the tunnel...

BAM. Gardevoir collided, back first, into the wall of a tunnel. She would have cried out in pain had it not been for what happened next: she was thrusted forward again. For the tunnel had not ended; it had simply made a sharp U-turn. After that, it made a smooth left turn.
So there is a light at the end of the tunnel, Gardevoir noticed as she saw what was up ahead. There was, in fact, light up ahead. And soon enough, Gardevoir was launched clear out of the tunnel, and laded in a large, well-lit room. It was a circular room, filled with a few computers and other stuff. On the ceiling was a sign that read "Space Plant".

"Nya!" someone called.
"Rawwrf!" called another voice.
<"Huh?"> Gardevoir muttered, slowly sitting up. She ached all over, but knew it wasn't terrible. After all, she had been through worse pain than this, as she now remembered. It was a terrible memory, one which she often tried to keep out of her mind. But it was still there... The memory was about the time when Gardevoir was just a Kirlia. She had been traveling around with Kelsey when all of a sudden, a couple of Team Rocket members separated her from Kelsey and took her to their base.
Eee... Hey wait a minute! Those two Team Rocket members... I think I remember... they... They looked a lot like the two Rockets I was just in a battle with... No, they WERE the two Rockets I just got into a battle with! They look EXACTLY like them! I can't believe I didn't know this when I battled them, but I'm glad I didn't--otherwise I might have been scared out of my mind.
Continuing with the memory...
At the base, Gar--er, Kirlia--was kept in a small cage. It was in that cage that she was frequently tortured, drained of her energy, starved even... Unfortunately for her, the branch of Team Rocket that Carmen and Diego (the two Rockets mentioned) belonged to focused not on using Pokemon to do their bidding, but to experiment with them, even kill or harm them in some cases. Poor little Kirlia was part of an experiment to see how a Kirlia woud fare under extreme pain and stress. Anyways, as Gardevoir remembered the things she went through in that cage, she had a hard time doing so, as it all seemed like a swirl of insanity, depression, extreme nostalgia... But it got to the point where the present-day Gardevoir started to shudder and even cry.

Gardevoir felt someone pat her on the back. Quickly reverting back to reality, she turned around, only to see a familiar-looking Meowth standing there, with a familar-looking Mightyena nearby...
<"Pencett! Feralis! I can't believe it... you're here!!"> Gardevoir exclaimed.
<"Gardevoir!"> Pencett greeted. <"Wow, so you decided to follow us here?">
<"Yes... I sensed a bit of trouble in this area and decided to check it out...">
<"...I take it you were hurt by the Fire Chaos too?"> Feralis guessed.
<"No... actually, I was hit by trains and banged against walls and machine parts...">
Gardevoir winced as she said this.
<"Oh, that's right--you weren't with us, so you didn't have a Nightcraft to travel in.">
<"Ohhh... gee, I bet the Nightcraft got pretty beat up back there.">
<"Nope, that's because we had such a great driver with us. As far as I know, it took no damage at all... it was us Pokemon who got damaged--pretty badly. You see, we were attacked by a Fire Chaos back there.">
<"Ohhh, so that's why the floor was so warm.">

After a moment of silence, Feralis spoke, in a whimpering voice.
<"Well, unfortunately, we didn't exactly all come out in one piece... You see, Toadpike got burned to a crisp in the battle with the chaos.">
Feralis reached behind a beat-up desk and pushed out a cup with ashes and a sprout in it. Gardevoir picked up this cup, tears starting to fill her eyes.
<"Oh no... this is bad. Now all she is is this little sprout?">
<"Well, we're figuring she'll grow or something... kind of like a phoenix rising from its ashes and being reborn.">

Just as Feralis mentioned a phoenix, the contents of the cup started to shake. Gardevoir gasped at the sight of this, and pretty soon Pencett and Feralis were huddled around the cup...

Moments later, the cup burst apart. However, no ashes spurted out, no pieces of sprout dropped to the floor... Instead, Gardevoir was holding in her hands a peculiar-looking sphere. It didn't seem to be made out of glass or wood or metal or plastic, nor any familiar material. It was a dull, dark shade of blue, and not too much bigger than a Pokeball. This strange orb was resting atop a flower that looked exactly like the one on top of a Vileplume, except a lot smaller.
<"It looks a lot like Toadpike!"> Pencett exclaimed. She looked excited, to the point where she was almost completely ignoring her pain.
"Nyaaauuuu..." Whoops, spoke too soon. Pencett felt a sharp stinging on her chest, and once again remembered she was still severely burned.

Gardevoir looked around and saw a single working computer. This she saw of mild interest and thus sat at it. On the screen was a single window which apparently was left open by whoever used it last. It looked like a chat window, but nobody seemed to be chatting in it. In the top right corner of this window, there were a few words:
"Network Established Between
Space Plant Auxiliary
sent to:
Launch Pad 008"
At the bottom of the window was a space where messages could be prepared. Inside this space was a prepared (but not sent) message: "Launch Initiation Supervisor, this is POCE soldier Lu"
<"Who's Lu?"> Gardevoir muttered, puzzled. <"I never heard of a POCE soldier named Lu before... Lu who?">
Feralis thought for a moment.
<"Let's see. Lu... pin?">

Gardevoir's jaw dropped.
<"Oh, well... of course!">Gardevoir stammered. Yeah, makes sense... maybe Lupin just stopped what he was doing before he could finish typing his name.
<"Oh, where is he anyway? Certainly not in this room...">
<"He left..."> Pencett said in a fretful tone. <"Everybody left, except us. Lupin's out there still, beyond those doors, as are Umbra and Nocturnelle and Ninetales.">
<"Ninetales? You mean Kelsey's Ninetales? You mean she's with them?">
<"Yep, we found her fighting the Fire Chaos and decided to help her out. Turns out she was burned even worse then us... Don't ask how. Anyways, she's been unable to connect to Kelsey as well.">
<"Yet she's out there too...">
<"And in pretty bad condition. I think I remember Umbra was burnt pretty badly too. Nocturnelle and Lupin weren't hurt at all in the battle, though...">

The three Pokemon chatted away, happy that they were together again.

--In the Space Plant--

T-Minus 19:55:00

"Well, my love," Lupin said to Nocturnelle, "you think you can do it?"
The Misdreavus thought for a moment then said yes, though it wasn't a very certain yes. Then she looked around the small, dark room they were in, and at a tunnel up ahead filled with criss-crossing light beams, each glowing with a sinister-looking red colour, like the colour of a Ninetales' eyes.

Speaking of Ninetales, it was Ninetales who spoke next, walking over to Nocturnelle while doing so.
<"Need help with something?"> she asked Nocturnelle.
<"Well...">
"You don't have to do it all the time," Lupin reassured. "Just when crossing the light rays. I know you're good at staying there for a short period of time. I had a hard time finding you myself at first, back there when you went to look for Carmen's Vaporeon."

Nocturnelle smiled very slightly and wandered over to the tunnel containing the Surveillance Drones, stopping at the entrance.
Okay, I remember doing this successfully in a contest, Nocturnelle thought. I suppose I should ignite that creative spark Lupin often said I have, and when all else fails, I of course am a ghost Pokemon, and am not made of cloth like Kelsey's Banette.
If Nocturnelle was mortal, she would be taking a deep breath at this point.
Okay, here goes...

Nocturnelle paused for a moment to concentrate. And although she could not see it, Ninetales and Umbra and Lupin sure did: Nocturnelle was fading--becoming transparent. After a while, Nocturnelle looked down at herself to see that she could not see herself at all. Then she smiled broadly and flew a short ways through the tunnel. She passed right through several of the light beams coming from the surveillance drones, yet the drones did nothing in response because the light cut right through her without even bending.
Whoo, that was close...
Nocturnelle paused to rest at a point where she wasn't in the path of a beam of red light, and became visible again. At this point she was at a point right between the first two surveillance drones in the tunnel. She then looked at one of the drones and thought about attacking it, but this she feared would either send it flying, causing its light sensors to move around and possibly catch her, or would disrupt the other drones so they could find her more easily. So for a few moments she just stared at the drone, until she saw something that made her giggle (as softly as possible).

On the side of the drone was a slot that looked like a disk drive in the computer. Apparently this was where computer chips were shot out of--computer chips that would set up invisible fences. But it was not this sight that interested Nocturnelle--it was what was below it. Below the slot was a switch of some sort. Above and below the switch were two labels: "ON" and "OFF". Currently the switch was set to "ON".

Nocturnelle immediately had instinct to flip this switch. So she reached out with a part of her hair (she didn't have any hands) and made to do so, then stopped...
Ohh, I better not touch it... that might cause it to go off. Hmm... Oh I know!
Instead of physically touching it, Nocturnelle flipped the switch telekinetically. She was careful to do this as quickly as possible...

Immediately upon flipping the switch, the sensor lights in the drone were extinguished, and the hovering drone fell with a clunk to the bottom of the tunnel. Then it rolled out and smashed on the floor below the tunnel, causing quite a ruckus. Nocturnelle reflexively shut her eyes with all this noise.
Oh no, now I'm done for... Surely the drones heard that...
After a while, Nocturnelle opened her eyes and slowly turned to face the rest of the tunnel. To her great surprise, the remaining two surveillance drones were hovering there as if nothing had happened.
Whoa, I guess they're deaf... thank goodness. Maybe they only use those lights to sense things.
Nocturnelle sighed with relief.
<"Well, one down and two to go!"> Nocturnelle called. A second or two later, she could hear a little bit of cheering coming from the room behind her. Nocturnelle smiled at this, and then proceeded to do the same with the other two drones as she had the first.

~~~

"Haha, well done!" Lupin congratulated as he started up the Nightcraft again, so it can fly through the now drone-free tunnel. "And who said 'it's best to avoid surveillance drones altogether'?"
<"You read that in the manual, didn't you?"> Umbra commented. <"Books are written by people, and people don't know everything. Now we know something the book doesn't!">
<"I just can't believe that whoever made those Surveillance Drones made the on-off switch visible and easy to access.">
Nocturnelle spent the next few moments telling the others about how she got rid of the Surveillance Drones.

Before flying into the tunnel, Lupin took his hands off the steering controls and turned to face the three Pokemon in or near the back seat.
"Okay, here's the plan," Lupin whispered to the three Pokemon. "Nocturnelle and Ninetales, I'll have you two go through that tunnel I pointed out earlier. Umbra and I will go through that tunnel up ahead. The bigger tunnel leads to the main entrance of the room with all the baddies in it, from which they are sure to see us. It is the smaller tunnel you two can sneak through. Then you can wait in the corner of the room--remember to keep hidden--until we begin to approach the tunnel that will lead us outside. When we do, you two can hop in--or fly in--and we can be off again."
This made sense to Nocturnelle and Ninetales, so the two of them left the Nightcraft and entered the small tunnel leading to the hidden corder of the room containing the Laser Discs, Fire Chaos, and Heavy Walker. Meanwhile, Lupin flew the Nightcraft through the other tunnel--the one recently emptied--and continued on. Umbra sat in the back seat of the Nightcraft, prepared for attack...

<"Come on let's hurry! We have to make it to the room before Lupin and Umbra do!">
Nocturnelle was floating through the tunnel, Ninetales running as fast as she could behind her. They headed down a relatively straight hallway that was dusty but contained no machine parts--or any obstacles, for that matter. At the end of this hall was a tunnel that twisted around to the right, and ended in the room with all the robots and such. But the corner the two Pokemon ended up in was hidden by a large pile of rubble. And as Ninetales and Nocturnelle waited, they saw the exact things Umbra mentioned. Four Laser Discs were circling about the room midair. A glow emanated from behind the pile of rubble, most likely coming from a Fire Chaos. Standing in the middle of the room and facing the main entrance was a Heavy Walker.

It wasn't too long before the Heavy Walker spotted the Nightcraft emerging from the tunnel leading to the main entrance. When it did, it sounded a sort of deep growl. This was more than a growl; it was a signal. For the four Laser Discs moved in front of the Heavy Walker and fired a bunch of red laser beams at the approaching Nightcraft.
"Fi!" The laser beams would have hit the Nightcraft had Umbra not used Protect to negate them.
Lupin then flew the Nightcraft around the perimeter of the room, headed for the upward-facing tunnel ahead. As he did, the Fire Chaos at the end of the room fired a stream of cells at him. This time, Umbra didn't have to use Protect (besides, it might fail if used twice in a row)--Lupin dodged this attack by flying the Nightcraft upward. While he was at it, he tilted it to the left as well.
<"You better tilt the Nigh..."> Umbra said right when the Nightcraft tilted. And it's a good thing this tilt happened, for even before Umbra could finish speaking, the Laser Discs spun around and fired some green laser beams. As they did so, the Heavy Walker jumped in front of the Fire Chaos and braced itself, in order to protect itself and the Fire Chaos from the laser beams. But more importantly, just as with the Laser Discs Lupin and his Pokemon had been faced with before, the bottom of the Nightcraft reflected these lasers without taking damage. But all Lupin saw of this was a flash of green light, followed by an explosion. Apparently some of the reflected laser beams had hit one or more of the Laser Discs.

Lupin smiled as he flew the Nightcraft closer to the tunnel. As he did so, Ninetales and Nocturnelle moved closer to the tunnel as well. (Along the way, Nocturnelle used her Shadow Ball attack to deflect a Fire Blast the Fire Chaos had fired.) Finally, when the two groups were close enough together, Ninetales leaped towards the Nightcraft (which turned right-side-up again), and Umbra leaped onto the right side of the Nightcraft. This was because the Espeon had foreseen something: more lasers and a stream of fiery cells coming for them! The Heavy Walker was running towards them as well. The attacks hit first, but Umbra was able to use Protect just in time to prevent any damage. While he was doing that, Misdreavus used her Psychic attack (though in this case it wasn't an attack) to assist Ninetales with landing in the Nightcraft properly. After all that, Umbra slid back into the back seat of the Nightcraft. Lupin pressed a switch that slid a window over himself and the back seat (so that nobody could fall out) and flew the Nightcraft into the tunnel. A second later, the Heavy Walker collided with the tunnel entrance and made a huge dent in the wall.

The tunnel was actually a gravity tube, accelerating the Nightcraft and everyone in it upward. This gave way to another gravity tube, and another... until the last one led outside. After exiting this tube, Lupin landed the Nightcraft in a nearby trench. A couple of seconds later, he, Umbra, Nocturnelle, and Ninetales could hear the distant sound of a shuttle taking off.
"All right, just a short break before leisurely flying down this trench. Could count as a longer break if you count the leisure."
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OOC: I didn't write anything about Kelsey here because A) nobody else posted anything about Pine's Island yet, and B) it's getting late.

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

OOC: What I meant by updates is edits to my most recent posts. I'm not going to continue things for Tsubasa now.

T-Minus 20:05:00

Tsubasa has been fired up from the Lunatone Planet with the large capsule cannon, heading towards a large, multi-tiered platform out in the distance. The capsule then explodes near the structure, and a sphere made out of cubic-trapezoid-shaped balloons drifts down towards the planetiod and lands on a large glass surface on the highest level of the platform. Several large energy lines move up, down, left, and right on the high-endurance glass, which also is covered in slight TV static. Upon landing, the balloons deflate, and the capsule opens up to reveal Tsubasa and her Pokémon. They all come out and look around at the platform.

"Well, we should be out of here soon!"

Tsubasa looks down at the glass and can see the Lunatone and Solrock Planets hundreds of feet below her. Even further down happens to be the meteor center, which looks very distant from up here. She heads forward to the edge of the glass path where she goes onto the steel portion of the tier. In the center of the area is a large raised area surrounced by a light rail. Two monorail platforms move across the rail.

"Let's see what's up there!"

Tsubasa sees an elevator platform on the side of the raised area and takes it up to the top of the platform. In the middle happens to be an enormous, metallic box with circuitry and lights crossing and in certain parts of the box sides. There's also another floating plasma TV in between the edge of the platform and the box. Tsubasa goes up to the TV to check out more of her area. The screen reads:

"SPACE PLATFORM
STORAGE AREA AND LAUNCH PAD
RESTRICTED AREA
WHAT ACTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE?
ACTIVATE PATH TO RING AREA A Y/N
UNLOCK ELEVATOR TO TIER 2 Y/N
ACTIVATE PATH TO RING AREA B Y/N
UNLOCK ELEVATOR TO TIER 3 Y/N
ACTIVATE PATH TO RING AREA C Y/N
UNLOCK ELEVATOR TO TIER 4 Y/N
ACTIVATE PATH TO RING AREA D Y/N
OPEN SYSTEM CONTAINER Y/N"​

"Let's see what's in the box."

Tsubasa presses a button on the system panel. However, the panel flashes red and on the screen in red it says:

"DEFENSE SYSTEM
DO NOT OPEN CONTAINMENT
PASSWORD REQUIRED"​

"Well, I guess we can do something else then. How about we check out the lower levels and paths here then?"

Tsubasa activates all the elevators and paths to open. The TV goes to a new screen which says this:

"PATH TO RING AREA A OPEN
ELEVATOR TO TIER 2 ACTIVE
PATH TO RING AREA B OPEN
ELEVATOR TO TIER 3 ACTIVE
PATH TO RING AREA C OPEN
ELEVATOR TO TIER 4 ACTIVE
PATH TO RING AREA D OPEN"​

"Wow. That was easy! Let's get going then!"

Doors on the side of the raised platform slide open to reveal an elevator. In fact, doors all four sides slide open to reveal elevators. Tsubasa and her Pokémon take the platform back down to the bottom and go into one of the elevators. Inside, the back wall of the elevator has a computer terminal consisting of a screen and keyboard. To the right of the elevator doors is a large, digital elevator keypad and screen. To the left is a small video phone for emergency purposes, an item transporter, and a string of emergency system panels below them. Tsubasa decides to check out the computer panel first.

"Let's see what this says."

"UNLOCK ELEVATOR TO TIER 5 Y/N
ACTIVATE PATH TO RING AREA E Y/N"​

Tsubasa decides to access the elevator and path leading to the lowset level of the Space Platform, but this message along with an error sound come up.

"ELEVATOR TO TIER 2 INACTIVE
SWITCH AND PASSWORD REQUIRED!
PATH TO RING AREA B CLOSED
SWITCH AND PASSWORD REQUIRED!"​

"They must be really secure about these kind of things. Let's just take the elevator down then."

Tsubasa goes up to the elevator keypad and presses the button that will take it down to the second tier. The computer screen in back changes to a digital map of the Space Platform with red areas marking the elevators and green areas marking the paths. A blue star indicates where Tsubasa is. The elevator's OS system comes on as well.

"Destination Level 2-1. Now closing doors." -Elevator OS Voice

The elevator doors close and the elevator starts going down to the first level of the second tier. Upon reaching that level, the OS voice comes on again.

"Level 2-1 now reached. Opening doors. Watch your step." -Elevator OS Voice

The doors open back up again and Tsubasa notices that she and her Pokémon are not on a lower section of the platform. They step out of the elevator and as the doors close back up, they look around the area. There are lots of steel crates stacked here and also up above are a couple of walkways and large moving crane rigs and stations with advanced electomagnets like the ones seen back in the Electrochemical Reactor.

"For a storage area, this place is quite advanced."

What Tsubasa doesn't see on the crane rigs happen to be some of Team Rocket's robots. They happen to be what can be called "camoflaged", since all we can see are glowing and fading yellow outlines. The outlines suggest the robots to be Swellow shaped. Suddenly, they lift off the rigs, theiur wings flapping, and go straight for Tsubasa and her Pokémon. In fact, several of them dash straight into her and her Pokémon, knocking them down to the ground.

"Ow! Just what hit us?!"

The robots decloak, revealing themselves to be Swellow Jets. They strongly resemble robotic Swellow with jet engines on their behinds and rockets on their wings, which are sharpened for slashing intruders. laser streams of electricity run between the Swellow Jets' "sticks". They start to come back at Tsubasa and her Pokémon.

"Funary, use Thunderbolt to stop them!"

Funary unleashes a powerful Thunderbolt onto a few of the Swellow Jets, zapping them out of the sky, but they don't go down just yet and fire missiles onto him and Tsubasa.

"Watch out, Funary!"

Funary manages to jump out of the way of the incoming missiles, which explode all around it. Seeing that the Swellow Jets are coming straight for Tsubasa and her Pokémon, she quickly sends them back to their Pokéballs.

"Everyone, return!"

Noticing the crane rig's station and the electromagnet, Tsubasa gets an idea on what to do. She quickly runs to one of the steel crate stacks and jumps up the large crates all the way up to the rig, where she grabs onto it and shimmys her way forward to the control station. The rig's control station happens to be pod-shaped with glass windows wrapping around thw whole upper half. Upon reaching the station, Tsubasa climbs up onto the rig entirely and goes to a steel door on the side of the station, which slides open. The interior of the station happens to be lined with sloping computer screens and panels and there are also more digital data and symbols on the interior of the glass windows.

"Now let's see what we can do here."

Tsubasa sees an option on the screens that says "OPERATE ELECTROMAGNET? Y/N?" She presses "Y" on the screen and some of the symbols on the screen change to green words saying "ELECTROMAGNET ACTIVATED".

"Now let's pick up some of these guys!"

Using controls in the station, Tsubasa moves the crane rig forward as the Swellow Jets come towards it. They end up getting pulled towards the electromagnet and hover around a little below the magnet. As more Swellow Jets are pulled to it, they form a spinning ball floating beneath the electromagnet. Eventually, the entire group of Swellow Jets are stuck beneath the magnet. At this point, Tsubasa gets out of the station and jumps back down to the ground and decides to take down the incapacitated Swellow Jets easily.

"Funary, come on out and use Thunderbolt again!"

Funary comes back out and uses Thunderbolt on the floating ball of Swellow Jets. He keeps up the electricity on them. Eventually, the robots start to explode one by one. After a while, the entire group of Swellow Jets are destroyed.

"Good job, Funary! Let's go check out more of this place!"

Tsubasa goes down the path ahead until she finds what looks like an invisible path with blue rectangular-shaped lights going forward down the path. She steps onto the path and a glow of blue light appears below her feet. She heads down the path until she comes to a large platform with a metallic top and bottom and hard space rock and metal in between the two halves. In the center of the platform is a holographic grid with arrows pointing left, right, and forward. Tsubasa checks the arrow going forward, which reads "SPACE CONTAINERS".

"Let's see. "Space Containers." Might as well check them out."

Tsubasa goes down a floating metal bridge with lights on the bottom leading to a series of large cargo containers. These containers are composed of reinforced metal and are two stories tall. There are four doorways into the container, two on the bottom half and two on the top half. There is a small outcropping on both levels allowing someone to enter the container. Tsubasa jumps to the left side and the doors there slide open. The interior of the container has a tiled metal floor and large glass screen lights on the ceiling. To the left are some research tanks like the ones Nived saw back in the Gravity Gadget area and to the right are large, shining metal boxes that open mechanically and electronically.

"They must store a lot of stuff here!"

At the end on the container is another set of doors to the right leading into the right side of the container. The doors slide open for Tsubasa to enter the next area, which has large computer equipment on the right side and cylinder-shaped capsules stacked to the left. However, near the doors leading back out happens to be another Artificial Chaos, an Ice one. It promptly attacks with an Ice Beam that Tsubasa manages to dodge the icy blast as it goes near one of the computers, freezing it.

"Whoa! That was close! Funary, come on out and use Thunderbolt again!"

Funary uses Thunderbolt on the Ice Chaos's head, doing some damage to it, but the subzero lifeform splits into cells once again. They come for Funary, who jumps to one of the capsules, which opens up. Funary goes right into the capsule and the cells follow. He then manages to Quick Attack his way out and the capsules closes up with the cells in it. Seeing that there's a way to defeat the Chaos quickly, Tsubasa presses a key on one of the computers and large lasers are fired from the top of the capsule in a cross, and desteroy the cells inside the capsule. After this, the Ice Chaos is finished.

"Whoa! That was quick! We better scope out this place some more!"

Something Tsubasa didn't see when she first entered the area was a panel near the doors she went through. She steps on the panel and short glass railings rise up as it rises to the second level of the container. Here, there are many more boxes left and right, but these look different and more life safes with electronic screen locks on the front. The screens display red minus signs, but several of the containers start to display green equals signs and from out of them come many various Chaos, free of their containment fields and go straight for Tsubasa.

"Oh no! Not this many!"

As the Chaos come out of the containers, Tsubasa quickly makes a run for the doors leading out of the container. After reaching outside, she jumps back down to the bridge as the Chaos just come flowing out of the doors.

"We need to find a way to take these guys down!"

Tsubasa jumps back to the large platform and takes the left path. As the does so, the Chaos fire streams of ice, fire, solar energy, and electricity. Tsubasa jumps to a square platform composed of space rock and bordered by light blue-colored metal. From there, she jumps to another platform and then another. Here, things are made even worse as three Attack Cubes, one red, one green, and one blue, spot her and come for her.

"Now I'm in trouble!"

Tsubasa makes a retreat back across the platforms as the Chaos fire more attacks at her and the Attack Cubes fire machine guns, missiles, and lasers at her. Back at the large platform, she heads back down the light path and dashes to the elevator. Back inside, the quickly presses the button to go down the third tier of levels.

"Destination Level 3-1. Now closing doors." -Elevator OS Voice

The elevator doors close as the Chaos come just a few dozen feet from the elevator, firing their respective beams at it. The elevator starts going down to the first level of the second tier. Upon reaching that level, the OS voice comes on again.

"Level 3-1 now reached. Opening doors. Watch your step." -Elevator OS Voice

Tsubasa quickly rushes out of the elevator and heads forward to another light path. She heads down it and to another large platform with a holographic grid. She quickly looks at the right arrow, which says, "METEOR CANNON".

"I think I know a way we can take these things down!"

As the swarm of Chaos and Attack Cubes come for her, Tsubasa heads down a floating bridge to the right and to another meteor rock platform that she jumps to. As the Chaos close in, Funary unleashes a Thunderbolt on them to hold them back. At the end of the string of platforms is a large meteor rock platform bordered by light blue, green, yellow, and red-colored metal. In the center of the platform on a metal panel is a large meteor cannon attached to the panel by a large, tube-like post. There's a triangular attachment on the end of the cannon and a green-blue electronic target screen near the front. In front of the large platform is a large field or meteors. However, Tsubasa notices she can use the meteor cannon for another purpose.

"All right now! Time to taste a little space rock, blobs!"

She turns the cannon towards the swarm of Chaos and starts firing large meteors at them. The meteors hit the Chaos's heads and destroy them instantly with their impacts and explosions. After the Artificial Chaos are attacked, the Attack Cubes arrive. Tsubasa simply turns the cannon onto them and continues to fire meteors. After only a couple meteors, the Attack Cubes explode and are destroyed. The remaining Chaos split into a massive cloud of cells and continue to come forward, but Tsubasa's aiming continues to destroy the cells by the bunch. Eventually, all the Chaos are deatroyed.

"Game over."

Tsubasa heads back the way she came and sees another large container. (For the record, all outer ring areas are lined with these containers, sometimes a lot, sometimes only a few.) She decides to jump from the platform she's on and onto the edge of the right side of the container where the door opens. She heads through and sees a long, capsule-like research tank to the right and more container boxes to the left, except these have glass windows on the sides. The windows are covered in slight blue static and have some digital symbols on them, including ones that say "LOCKED" and "ENTER CODE".

"Maybe I'll find something here that I need here."

At the end of the corridor is a pair of Tier 2 Sentries eqipped with rocket launchers and shields. They turn to face Tsubasa, but she's ready.

"Funary, try a Thunderbolt!"

Funary sends out a Thunderbolt at the Sentries. They raise their shields and the attack is directed back to Funary.

"Funary, knock it back with another!"

Funary uses Thunderbolt again and sends the first back at one of the Sentries, zapping it. The other goes for the other Sentry and zaps it, too.

"Good aiming! Just a few more!"

Funary sends out a few more Thunderbolts at the stunned Sentries to deal enough damage to destroy them.

"That was quick and easy, but you look whipped."

At the back of the container is another elevator panel leading up to the second floor of the container. Tsubasa takes it up to where there are large container capsules to the right and left. The right ones contain some sort of green liquid, the left ones contain a blue liquid. A floating plasma TV hovers in front of each row. Tsubasa goes to the left, which reads:

"HEAL BOOST
WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXTRACT SAMPLE
YES/NO"​

"How about I give this a try."

Funary says yes, and Tsubasa presses yes to extract some of the Heal Boost from the capsules. The screen changes to this:

"HEAL BOOST SAMPLE
BEING EXTRACTED
PLEASE COLLECT SAMPLE"​

In a metal clyinder-shaped capsule of the same size at the start of the blue line, a small video screen says "SAMPLE READY". A small handheld capsule containing the Heal Boost slides out of the capsule. Tsubasa picks it up and gives it to Funary. Funary drinks from it a little, glows a blue color a split second, and is fully healed.

"Wow! This is something! I think we all should drink from this!"

Tsubasa lets out the reat of her Pokémon and gives the Heal Boost to the rest of her Pokémon in this order, Kappa, Waka, Masqin, and Maw. After they're done, Tsubasa drinks from the remainder of the capsule, but is fully healed.

"Wow! That was something! I wonder what this other stuff is."

Tsubasa goes up to the right, which reads:

"ENERGY BOOST
WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXTRACT SAMPLE
YES/NO"​

"Now let's try this. I think we need it"

Tsubasa presses yes to extract some of the Energy Boost from the capsules. The screen changes to this:

"ENERGY BOOST SAMPLE
BEING EXTRACTED
PLEASE COLLECT SAMPLE"​

In a metal clyinder-shaped capsule of the same size at the start of the green line, a small video screen says "SAMPLE READY". Another small handheld capsule containing the Energy Boost slides out of the capsule.

"Now let's see what this does."

Tsubasa gives some to Funary, who then drinks it. After glowing green for a split second, he feels like he has the strength to use more Thunderbolts. Tsubasa passes the capsule to the rest of her Pokémon, who in this order, Kappa, Waka, Masqin, and Maw, drink from it. After they're done, Tsubasa drinks from the remainder of the capsule and also feels a little stronger.

"This is something that Professor Hartache invented! I wonder if he'll have this distributed around the world! It could do wonders for Pokémon!"

Now that everyone's healed up, Tsubasa returns all of them to their Pokéballs and heads through the set of doors at the end to the next side of the container. Here, there is computer equipment to the left and more clyinder-shaped capsules to the right. However, suddenly, something teleports into one of the capsules stacked.

 

[Loki]

OOC: I have found and seen absolutely no sign-up for Kelsey, so I will be very vague on her description- apologies in advance. And since your guys' posts are so long, it's kind of out of my time range to read it all- so apologies if I get a few facts wrong. I'll be sure to read them all the way through once my time limit is lifted!

IC: Zion's eyes slid to his right, and he blinked, Absol straightening up and examining the "intruder". Zion stood where he was, moving his head ever so slightly so that his eyes weren't straining at the very edge of his eyelids to see the girl, who was most likely another person who was sent to Pine's Island for this trivial chore. It wasn't as if Zion was glaring at her- just watching. Absol, however seemed as if he could care less that they'd finally found another living human being, as he simply jumped gracefully up onto the fallen tree that Zion sat upon and lifted his head up to smell the wind. He lowered his head again to sneeze, the metallic smell of robot's messing with his nose. Zion sighed and straightened up as well, unlatching his hands from each other and folding his arms.

He gave the girl a soft smile, and said lightly- not at all in his tone before that was heavy with boredom and disgust, "Ah, you must be another unlucky trainer roped into this mess. My name is Zion Elle."

Absol shot his trainer an odd look, that practically screamed, "What if she's not on our side?". That made little difference to his trainer though, who simply ignored the look. Who cared if she knew his name and wasn't on his side? Zion surely didn't. Names were boring, useless, and practically unesseccary, as far as the lean, ruby haired male was concerned.

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

Sorry if this seems much shorter than what I'm used to, but I'm low on ideas for the time being. I think that all the Trapinch robots have been defeated. If they haven't, let me know and I'll edit this post.

T-Minus 21:15:00

Back on Pine's Island, everyone has just taken down the Trapinch robots that have surrounded them. With them out of the way, the electricity between the poles drop and everyone can keep going through the jungle. Ayu, Alalia, and Nova get back onto Flaar while Kiro, Louinne, Scar, and Zion get back onto Arckee. It looks like everyone is ready to continue further.

"That was rough! We better get going now! We don't have much time!"

"If I didn't know any better, I think we may have had some help." -Kiro

"Well, whoever or whatever helped us, I'm glad it did." -Alalia

"If everybody's done talking, it's time to finally get going! Things might get a little tougher from here on in"

Both Flaar and Arckee make a large jump off the raised island and onto another strip of land bordered by large trees, plants, and bushes. As the land, far ahead, more metal posts rise up from the ground with laser grids in between them.

"This is nothing!"

Both Arcanine continue to move forward and jump over any laser fences they come across. At one point, some posts rise high into the air with lasers on the upper end. Being careful not to jump these posts, they run under them instead. Later on the path are posts that have lasers on two ends. Here, they have to quickly time their jumps so that they jump in between the lasers.

"Wow, this is easy!" -Nova

Suddenly, a pair of tall metal poles rise up from the ground with a full laser fence. Before they can react to them, both Flaar and Arckee end up running into the lasers and are knocked back. As everyone gets back up, another tall laser fence rises up from behind. From up above, three robots shaped like Vigoroth drop down and start to attack the Trainers. Looks like we're in for another fight.

 

[Ninetales1]

OOC: I have found and seen absolutely no sign-up for Kelsey.

That's because you were only looking on the first page. Kelsey's signup is on the second page, written in green, and has more of those Trozei smileys so it's easy to recognise. And if it helps, the date on the signup is the 31st of December.

IC:
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--Pine's Island--

T-Minus 21:00:00

"I'm Kelsey," Kelsey replied to Zion. "Kelsey... Murakage."
Kelsey blushed as she said her last name--she had always been embarrased by mentioning that name, as it was that name that put her under a curse for sixteen years.
"So I suppose you're on this mission too?" Kelsey continued to ask. "Hopefully it won't be that hard finding Professor Pine. I have heard that he is definitely not set on doing anything about the space shield crisis, but there are ways to convince people to go against their initial wishes... Believe me, I was in the same scenario a year or two ago, when Clefable here was just a Cleffa. I led a miserable life at that time--under a sort of curse cast upon me by my great-grandmother. And the way that curse would be free was if I won a Pokemon battle with her--with this Banette in fact."
Kelsey gestured to the Banette that now belonged to her.
"Anyways, at that time, I didn't want anything to do with that quest. I felt powerless, unable to continue, as if I would just sit on my own secluded island, to die in peace rather than face the conflicts across the seas. Yet something prevented me from staying that way... someone gave me a reason to keep going. And those someones are... sitting all around me."
Kelsey pointed to Bellossom, Clefable, and Hypno, and gestured to the sky to indicate Gardevoir and Ninetales.
<"Aww, you did have to mention that, do you?"> Clefable said this with a smile.
<"Well of course I did--if it wasn't for me, Kelsey would never have known she was telepathic!">

There was a pause. Kelsey stared at Hypno, as if an important secret was accidentally revealed.
"...What Hypno said is not true at the moment..."
<"Hold that thought, Kelsey,"> Banette commented. <"Now, remember everything you just said, and tell this to Professor Pine.">
<"You should be able to--you do have an excellent memory,"> Bellossom added.
"Ohh, don't say that... I doubt I'll remember it word for word, but I suppose it's the thought that counts. Anyways, Zion, shall we continue on?"

Two people and five Pokemon, continuing on to the forest, further along the path that would take them to where Professor Pine was thought to be hiding. The weather was sunny as usual, so the effect of the sunlight filtering through the canopies of the trees was rather interesting.
<"Are you kidding me? It's beautiful!">
<"...What she said.">
<"Yet quite a bit distracting,"> Absol commented.
<"We creatures of the night think alike,"> Banette said with a chuckle.
<"...What she said.">
At this present moment, the path appeared to be empty, and free of obstacles. However, various metallic noises could be faintly heard up ahead. To everyone except Absol and Clefable, it sounded like just an odd scratching noise. But Absol and Clefable had better hearing than everyone else, and they sensed or heard something more sinister going on up ahead...

--Near the launch pad outside the Space Plant--

T-Minus 19:40:00

A while later, the Nightcraft was flying rather slowly for the first time in a long while, down the trench near the launch pads on the outside of the Space Plant. Its occupants finally had a bit of time to relax and to see the light. In fact, Lupin's eyes stung a bit from the sudden brightness of the outside world, after hours in the darkness of the Space Plant.
<"Whew, that was a close one,"> Nocturnelle noted. <"That Heavy Walker nearly got us.">
<"And here we are, finally at a point where there's less action--at least not near us. But we shouldn't worry about the shuttles, right?">
Ninetales kept glancing at the shuttle that was now flying away into space.
<"Look, up there!"> Umbra announced. <"You get a very clear view of Earth from here!">
Well, Umbra was partially correct. Only half of Earth could be seen because the sun could still be seen on the side.
<"Gee, Kelsey's still down there. And now I can't help but wonder how she's doing now. I still... can't connect to her.">
<"Hmm, even after all this time? Gee, I guess then something must be really wrong with her...">
On the rest of the trip, Ninetales felt quite a bit worried.

Finally, the Nightcraft entered a building on the side of the trench, where it landed and everybody got out. The room was large enough for about twenty people to fit in. On the ceiling was what looked like a sphere that got stuck on its way to pass through the ceiling. On the floor were a few small scraps of metal, and a frayed wire.
Now there's an idea... Lupin thought as he looked at the wire. With that, he opened a little door on the side of the Nightcraft, which revelaed a similar wire coming out from it, and a strip of rubber next to it. With this, Lupin made to connect the two wires, holding together with the rubber strap. When this was done, a light on the Nightcraft's dashboard that was shaped like a battery came on. Above it was the word "Charging".

Also in the room was a single computer, which was already turned on. On its screen was a flashing image of an envelope.
"Now I wonder what that could be," Lupin muttered as he sat down in front of the computer.
<"Uhh... Lupin? I highly doubt that message is for you, and it doesn't look like a...">
<"Oh shut up,"> Nocturnelle interrupted. <"Lupin's not going to listen to you. First of all, what does he care about privacy? Second, it... looks... like... he... knows... what... he's... doing...">
Nocturnelle floated over to where Lupin was, looking over his shoulder at the computer screen. Ninetales did nothing in response except roll her eyes.

When Lupin clicked on the envelope on the screen, a dialog box popped up that said "New Message from 'Space Plant Auxiliary'".
"Ah, now we're on to something..."
Lupin clicked the OK button on the dialog box. When he did, the dialog box disappeared, and in its place was a chat window. But the window to the right of it said something:
"Network Established Between
Launch Pad 008
sent to:
Space Plant Auxiliary"

In the chat window itself, there was a message.
Space Plant Auxiliary: Launch Initiation Supervisor, this is POCE Soldier Lupin.
Hey wait a minute... "Hey look! This is awfully familiar... Remember when we were in that room before we entered the Space Plant? Well, when I was checking out the computer there, I came across a chat window that looked exactly like this one here. This message is one I typed in--looks like someone finished the message and sent it! And they were the exact same networks--'Launch Pad 008' and 'Space Plant Auxiliary'--as well!"
<"Interesting... Hey! Does that mean that we can communicate with Feralis and Pencett from here?!">
"Certainly I would think so--except that neither of them can type, much less read. This does look suspicious..."

With that, Lupin typed a message into the box underneath the chat window and clicked the "Send" button afterwards.
Launch Pad 008: Who's there?
At this point, Lupin hoped that sending this message triggered some sort of sound that got the receiver's attention...

About a minute later, a message appeared in the chat window!
Space Plant Auxiliary: Oh, I'm just... a Pokemon.
Launch Pad 008: Which one?
Space Plant Auxiliary: I'm a... Gardevoir.
Launch Pad 008: No way... Kelsey's Gardevoir? How did you get there?
Space Plant Auxiliary: Look, I don't know what kind of game you're playing, spy! How do you know my trainer?
Lupin turned away from the computer screen for a moment.
"Well would you look at that. Gardevoir thinks I'm a spy. How touching. Ah, it makes sense. She did always have a protective nature."

Launch Pad 008: I'm not a spy! It's me, Lupin!
Another long pause.
Space Plant Auxiliary: Lupin?!? Ohh, wow, I finally found you!! ..Oh, and how I got here? It was a rough ride, through this dark tunnel. It's a long story. Oh, and Feralis and Pencett say hi.
Launch Pad 008: How are they?
Space Plant Auxiliary: They look quite burnt still, yet bettr than they said they were before.
Launch Pad 008: And I thought you weren't in the mood for any quests today.
Space Plant Auxiliary: Well, I sensed a bit of trouble in the Space Plant, so I was a little worried.
Launch Pad 008: Hmm... Well, it is also impressive that you are able to type this message...
Space Plant Auxiliary: ...Hehheh, I learned such things from spending a while inside Kelsey's mind.
<"Yep, and the same applies to me!">
<"Well duh--you're a Ninetales, so you can understand human speech anyways. And come to think of it, maybe I can do the same if I probe around your mind a bit..."> Unfortunately, I can't read minds that well... arrgh.

While Umbra and Ninetales were chatting about, Nocturnelle watched the computer screen, and Lupin leaned back and stared at the ceiling for a while. After a while, though, Lupin noticed something strange about the half-orb in the centre of the ceiling, some sort of structure inside its semi-transparent surface.
...What is that device?
Lupin continued to examine the structure inside the orb. He saw what looked like computer chips and electrodes inside, a large platform in the middle, and... a short while later, all he saw was Nocturnelle's face.
<"Something troubling you?">
Lupin replied to Nocturnelle's question only after he turned back to the computer screen.
"There's something odd about that structure inside the orb on the ceiling..."
Launch Pad 008: Hang on a minute.
Lupin left the chat window for a while in order to check some of the other features on the computer. The first place he went to was a list of all the programs on the computer. But there appeared to be only two programs on the computer. One was the software that included the chat window. The other was something called "Control Centre". Lupin saw this as promising and opened the program.

The program didn't take very long to open, but when it did, it revealed a complicated-looking set of dials and buttons and screens, much like a virtual version of a control board of an airplane or spaceship.
<"Hmm... gee, it's going to be hard to figure out which button to...">
Before Ninetales could finish, Lupin had already clicked on one of the many controls.
<"...press.">
When the control was activated, a list popped up--a list of several different devices.
<"Oh my gosh, that is the most awesome stroke of luck I've ever seen...">
Ninetales stared wide-eyed at the computer screen as she said this. When Lupin heard this, he just laughed.
"It's not luck, Ninetales. It was shown quite explicitly in the section of the manual I happened to pay the most attention to! It's called a 'Device Check'. Located exactly where it would be on the average spaceship."

On the list, each device listed had a little picture next to it. Lupin scrolled down this list until he came to a device that looked exactly like the structure inside the orb on the ceiling.
"Teleporter", it read.
Ohh, so THAT's what it does... Yes, very promising.
Lupin clicked on the icon next to the listed device, which opened yet another control window. But what it also opened up was a dialog box which called for a password.
And as with anything else, my POCE Identification Number also serves as a password.
Well, not in this case. After typing in the number, the screen flashed the message "ACCESS DENIED" in bold red letters.
Erm, that is, if I am in the correct rank. Luckily...
Lupin typed in a different number for the password, and this one seemed to work. The dialog box and the flashing red message disappeared, and the control panel for the teleporter was now ready to manipulate.
...I know the ID number of my executive!
Launch Pad 008: All right Gardevoir, are you ready to reunite? If so, stand in the centre of the room with Feralis and Pencett. Don't ask why--I will explain everything later.
Lupin closed the chat window after typing this message. Then he went back to the control panel he just cheated into.

Unlike the first control panel, this one had all the controls labelled, and there were only three controls and a Confirm button. The first control was a dropdown menu labelled "To..."--this Lupin set to "Launch Pad 008". The second was also a dropdown menu, labelled "From...". This he set to "Space Plant Auxiliary". The third control was labeled "Size"--for this he had to type in the number 3. After all was done, he hit the Confirm button in the corner...

It was no more than a split second before the orb-enclosed mechanism on the ceiling lit up and enitted a humming noise. Then, the orb opened up and retreated into the ceiling. Four electrodes were clearly visible, and they surrounded a rectangular platform. All these then began to descend, to Umbra and Ninetales had to move out of the way to avoid being squashed by it. Finally, the platform was resting on the floor. Lupin and the three Pokemon waited... and waited... and waited... ...

ZAP! In a blinding flash of light, three figures of different sizes began to materialize atop the platform, surrounded by electrical sparks. When the sparks vanished, the figures became visible. They were Pokemon--specifically a Gardevoir, a Mightyena, and a familiar-looking Meowth.
"Pencett! Feralis! Gardevoir!" Lupin greeted. "Alas, you're here!"
<"Ahh, together again..."> Feralis seemed mildly pleased.
<"Lupin! I... oww!"> Pencett remembered she still had all those burns soon enough.
<"Ohh, and you're all okay too!">
Gardevoir walked over to Lupin and gave him a hug.
"No wonder they call you the 'Embrace Pokemon'!"

<"Hey Pencett, what's that? That flower thingy?">
Nocturnelle pointed to something Pencett had apparently dropped. It looked like a small, dull blue orb resting atop a small rafflesia flower.
<"Oh, this is Toadpike... or rather, what's left of her...">
<"She's looking... a little better...">
<"I don't know though...">
By that time, Gardevoir and Lupin had stopped their hugging and focused their attention on the remains of Toadpike. Lupin reached over to pick this flower/orb up. But the instant he touched her (Toadpike), she glowed and morphed into a sphere. For the next few moments, she just hang there in midair.
"Whoa, it's just like magic..."
<"Haha, now you're getting it.">

A while later, the ball-of-white-energy Toadpike turned a bright red. Also, a Pokeball rolled out from a pocket in Lupin's jacket. The Pokeball rolled along the floor until it stopped near Toadpike. Then it opened, sucked Toadpike inside, and closed with a familiar low beep.

Lupin waited a while, then carefully picked up the stray Pokeball. He gave it the usual gentle shake that would open it, but the Pokeball's round window just lit up for a second or two.
<"Maybe it's locked...">
Lupin nodded and put the Pokeball back in his pocket. Then he stood up and got back into the Nightcraft.
"What a marvelous reunion this was," Lupin announced to the six Pokemon. "I'm sure it filled everyone here with a sense of hope confidence, and the like. But, sadly... we must remember that we are still on a mission here. So... Umbra? Feralis? Are you feeling well enough to be comfortable back inside your Pokeballs? I know you would prefer not to... but I think Ninetales and Gardevoir would take up all the room in the Nightcraft..."
It was a fairly depressing decision, but nevertheless Lupin's Pokemon obeyed it. So moments later, the only Pokemon that were out were Ninetales and Gardevoir, who were now squeezed into the back seat of the Nightcraft. And Lupin had disconnected the wires that charged the Nightcraft up. And, a while later, the three newly united individuals were off again, into the outside world known as trench.

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

Well, I have decided to keep this going! We'll now see where Nived is headed and also see a little more of Tsubasa's trek across the Space Platform. For the record, at one point, Tsubasa's speaking and acting like she's insane; it's because of something that happens to her that causes that kind of behavoir. Also, I went and added one more area, two more robots, and one more boss to the RP. Check them out in this spolier tag I wrapped them in.

Spoiler:

Cosmic Flower: This place happens to be a large mechanical garden found within the stabilizer net area of Star City. Here, there is a center where enormous plants, fruits, and vegetables are grown and serves as an organic food system for the people of Star City. The robotic plants, however, are designed to drive out intruders from the biosphere-like facility. There are also a few large mazes and high speed warp tubes found in this area that lead to other parts of the "Flower". To make things worse, systems of various Star City robots guard the plants grown here and don't respond nicely to intruders.

Electro Tracker: Electro Trackers are robots composed of various shaped polygons that make the shape of a jet. They have the ability to enter and exit cyberspace through a system of cyber capsules and are capable of firing three different kinds of energy beams. The first is a yellow light wave that can short circuit electronics and other technology, the second is a red heat wave that can easily melt through various kinds of metal and the third is a green radio wave that can disrupt electronic signals and data. They can also fire energy balls and activate virtual shields that guard them from all kinds of attacks. While found in a few other places with computer systems and capsules for them to use, Electro Trackers mainly protect the huge sheet-like cyber databases found in the digital-like Star Database.

Nuclear Component: These are robots similar to Electro Trackers, except they aren't cyber-like and are more blocky than their semi-digital counterparts. They bear a little resemblance to an atom and are equipped with weapons that reflect the parts of an atom. Their primary weapon is small proton charges that they fire onto you. Their second weapon consists of small probes that lengthen and create a square barrier of electron beams to prevent your escape. Their final weapon happens to be a neutron wave that they charge up and unleash along the ground. These robots are found among the mechanical garden and maze systems of Cosmic Flower and also look after the digital storage units of the Star Database. As a final warning, Nuclear Components can combine with Electro Trackers to create a much more powerful automation.

Space Genesis: The Space Genesis happens to be a massive attack fortress hovering around the Cosmic Flower area. This center is fortified with advanced defense systems and houses hundreds of Star City robots. The mech consists of a center area with a raised head in the center and has four large, detachable arms where dozens of proton missile launcher arrays reside. There are four electron laser cannons on the bottom of the main hub of the Genesis and the core itself fires a neutron pulse at intruders. The large arms also open up to deploy such mechs as Laser Discs, Hover Launchers, Wire Satellites, and Nuclear Components. If one were to get on top of the Space Genesis, a particle beam cannon on the raised head will activate and fire on the person. Destroying this enormous robot will prove a mighty task.

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T-Minus 19:30:00

Back in the shuttle, Nived goes along a predesignated course to an unknown area. Several minutes later, the shuttle comes to what looks like a massive meteor out in space, somewhere near the edge of the stabilizer net surrounding Star City. As the shuttle flies closer to the meteor, Nived can see the top of the huge space rock, where in a valley-like depression, there are a few small structures and electronically-lighted roads going in between them.

"Wow! Exactly where are we?!"

In the center of the area is a large, titanium, octagonal-shaped platform. As the shuttle goes directly over the platform, it opens up and the shuttle then points directly downward.

"Now what's happening?!"

The shuttle suddenly spirals downward towards the opened platform at a high speed. The shuttle flies straight down the platform and into a large, spiraling, octagonal shaped shaft bordered by large panels of electronic glass and reinforced by large, steel beams.

"Just where are we going?"

At the bottom of the shaft, a large, octagonal-shaped, eight-sectioned door the width of the shaft slides open to reveal a docking bay. The bay itself consists of a large, octagonal platform in the center bordered by a bottomless pit on all sides. There are large sets of computer screens on all eight walls of the bay, which are composed of electronic paneled metal. Starting at the point below the platform the walls are composed of metal, diamond-shaped panels that go all the way down the expanse.

"So exactly where are we?"

As the shuttle starts to autolevel and hover down to the ground, the craft's OS system turns on.

"Destination arrived. Now inside Meteor Base." -Shuttle OS Voice

"So exactly what is this place?"

"The Meteor Base was once a research lab used by Professor Arkane Hartache. No other data on this location exists." -Shuttle OS Voice

"Well, I guess I better check this place out then."

The shuttle doors slide open and Nived steps out of it. He check out the docking bay in which the shuttle has landed in. In front of Nived on the far wall is a set of large doors with computer screens in the middle of the doors. From the ceiling, a set of long, sliding doors open up and a steel bridge floats down to the level of the platform and doors.

"Well, I guess we can check this place out."

Nived crosses the bridge and upon coming close to the doors, the screens on them display green plus signs and open up to reveal a long hall going upward. The hall itself is metallic and consists of square glass sections on the walls and ceiling. Nived runs up the hall and he notices laser beams shotting out of all surfaces, forming a grid.

"Whoa! They must have not wanted anyone coming here."

Suddenly, the vertical lasers drop and Nived slides under the horizontal lasers. After this grid, another one appears further on. This time, the horizontal lasers drop and Nived magaes to slip through the vertical lasers. In front of a third laser grid near the top of the hall, a large robot with a flat bottom, a square capsule-like upper section, two arms with large panel-like appendages, and a head with a single, large rectagular eye, hovers high in the air in front of the laser field. This just happens to be a Hover Launcher, and is responds by firing a multitude of glowing missiles at Nived as a blue-colored, green-outlined, square target appears on him.

"Uh oh!"

Nived manages to jump out of the way of the incoming missiles, but the target keeps a bead on him. Because of this, the missiles continue to follow him, leaving light trails in the process.

"Manectric, come on out and stop these homing missiles!"

Manectirc come sout and unleshes a Thunderbolt on the missiles, causing them to swerve a little off course, but another target appears on Manectric. Before it can react, two large laser beams are fired from the middle cannons on the Hover Launcher (the missiles are fired from the top cannon).

"Manectric, watch out!"

Manectric directs a Thunderbolt to the incoming lasers, but they're not stopped and the Electric-type is hit by the full force of the laser blasts. Manectric gets knocked a little down the hall.

"Manectric, you can do it!"

Nived moves more to keep the missiles off him. Eventually, he gets an idea on what to do. He runs up to the Hover Launcher and makes a jump to it. He grabs onto one of the sides of the mech and waits for the missiles to come towards it.

"That's it! Just a little more!"

As soon as one of the missiles touches the Hover Launcher, it explodes, damaging the floating robot, and Nived is flung off of it. Most of the missiles have already impacted the robot, causing it to explode. However, the targets on Nived and Manectric have not gone away, and the remaining missiles are still coming towards him.

"Manectric, help stop these last missiles!"

Manectric comes back up the hall and uses Thunderbolt on the remaining missiles, causing them to explode. The targets now disappear and the third laser grid does so as well.

"Well, that was easy!"

Nived and Manectric head up to the top of the hall where a set of octagonal doors with a computer screen of the same shape in the center opens up as a green plus sign appears on the screen. Beyond the doors is a short, octagonal-shaped hall consisting of what looks like to be blue-colored circuitry floors, walls, and ceilings. Energy can be seen flowing along the circuitry lines as well. In the center of the hall, an Ice Chaos awaits.

"These guys again?! Manectric, stop it!"

Manectric fires a Thunderbolt at the Chaos, hitting the head, but the liquid sentry fires an Ice Beam that pushes the Thunderbolt back. A splash of ice forms where the Ice Beams collides with the Thunderbolt.

"Oh no you don't!"

Nived gets out his homing rocket launcher and fires a tracking rocket straight at the Artificial Chaos's head, destroying it. Another octagonal door's computer screen goes from a red minus sign to a green plus sign and opens up.

"Now time to get going!"

The next chamber happens to be a larger tunnel-like room with massive, octagonal-shaped computer screens in both walls of the area. Lots of data and symbols appear on the screens. The chamber has no floor, but instead a bottomless pit. However, there happens to be metallic bridges lined with sloping glass sides floating above the long ravine. However, from large glass-and-steel pillars to the right and left of the bridges, more laser grids are being emitted.

"Okay. This lab was defenitely meant to keep out intruders."

Nived jumps off the balcont he enters the chamber on and lands on the first bridge. A squadron of Laser Discs come towards Nived, alerady charging up red laser blasts from the top. Several red lock-on targets have already appeared on Nived.

"Manectric, use Thunderbolt to stop these!"

Manectric fires a Thunderbolt at one of the saucers, manging to hit the center part and destroy it. Hovever, the rest end up firing red laser charges at Nived.

"Sunflora, use Light Screen to stop those lasers!"

Sunflora comes up and quickly brings up a Light Screen. As the laser blasts come towards Nived, they are deflected of the barrier and explode.

"Now Manectric, use Thunderbolt some more!"

Manectric uses Thunderbolt once more on another Laser Disc, hitting that one and causing it to explode. The remaining four start firing green laser bursts, a total of 64 at a time! They start to fire more green lasers in those sixteen directions. The lasers rain down all around Nived and his Pokémon, but Sunflora's Light Screen protects them from the shots.

"Manectric, don't give up and keep aiming for the middle of them!"

Manectric fires yet another Thunderbolt at a Laser Disc, causing it to be deatryoed as well. The remaning three continue to fire laser bursts, but this time, only about 4 dozen of them at a time. Sunflora's Light Screen keeps deflecting them, but some make it over the barrier. One even nicks Nived's shoulder.

"Ouch! They're getting too close! Manectric, you need to hurry!"

Manectric fires another Thunderbolt at one of the Laser Discs' center, destroying another. With only two left to go, the start firing blue laser beams from their lower sections. The lasers spin around, and it looks like the Light Screen could fade soon.

"Manectric, keep it up!"

Manectric fires another Thunderbolt at one of the Laser Discs, but one of the lasers deflects the Thunderbolt into one of the pillars. At this point, the Light Screen fades and Sunflora is struck by one of the lasers.

"Sunflora, are you all right?! Manectric, hurry, before we're all toast!"

Manectric tries again with Thunderbolt, hitting the center of one of the Laser Discs as they fly in ever closer. At this point, the lasers are spinning all around Nived and his Pokémon.

"Manectric, only one more chance."

Right as the last Laser Disc is about to swoop in, Manectric fires another Thunderbolt at the saucer just as it nears the group. With all the Laser Discs gone, Nived decides to keep going. While still hurt, Sunflora decides to do the same.

"Sunflora, you better return for now as to not endanger yourself further."

At the end of the bridge, Nived jumps to the next where several metallic and electronic boxes sit. There is a laser fence in the middle, but it drops shortly after. However, beyond the fence happens to be a large group of Fire Chaos, Solar Chaos, and Thunder Chaos. They just happen to notice Nived and Manectric and decide to attack.

"I've never been face to face with this many of these before!"

As the Chaos start firing Flamethrowers, Solarbeams, and Thunderbolts, Nived makes a hasty retreat across the bridge and jumps to the next. On this bridge, in the middle of a red glowing ring, happens to be a large, red, square-shaped bomb. Nived runs to the other side of the boms ring and has an idea.

"Let's not run any further!"

However, a Thunderbolt from the Chaos hits the bomb, causing it to explode and sends Nived flying back a little. Near the end of the bridge, three more Hover Launchers await. They are also intent on neutralizing Nived permeantly.

"I was hoping I could use that bomb against them."

As the Chaos come closer and several of them split into cells, another bomb suddenly is generated within the red ring. As it turns out, the ring keeps generating bombs in that spot.

"Whoa! That's something! Manectric, Thunderbolt!"

Manectric uses Thunderbolt on the new bomb just as the cells come towards it and causes it to explode, destroying most of the cells and a couple of the whole Chaos. The remaining cells end up remerging into a single normal sized Chaos in red, green, and yellow colors, but seems to be acting wildly.

"Manectric, another Thunderbolt!"

Manectric fires a Thunderbolt straight at the multi-colored Chaos's head, destroying it instantly. Only one of each of the three vareities attacking remain. The Hover Launchers to coming forward fire laser beams and homing missiles at Nived and Manectric as targets appear on both of them. Manectric, decides to run up to another generating bomb and stand next to it.

"Manectric, what are you doing?! Get away from there!"

Manectric refuses to move and the homing missiles from the Hover Launchers come straight for it. The robots and Chaos start to come closer to Manectric. Nived feels he has no choice but to get out of the way, hoping Manectric will do the same. Nived runs past the Hover Launchers and just as the missiles converge on Manectric, they cause the bomb to explode, destroying the remaining Chaos and the Hover Launchers in one go. Manectric, however, is very badly wounded. Nived runs up to it after the explosion and picks it up.

"Manectric, I get what you just did there. That was something! You could of got killed doing that! I'll try to find something to heal you with as soon as possible, but for now, take a rest!"

After Manectric is retuened to its Pokéball, yet another bomb is generated in the ring, but there's no use for it right now. Nived heads across the bridge, waits for another laser fence to disappear, and heads forward where he jumps to another balcony. A pulley there pulls him up to the upper level where there's another set of octagonal doors. Upon walking up to them, a green plus sign on the computer screen come up and the doors open, leaging into another short circuitry-surfaced door. Nived's trip through the Meteor base is just getting started.

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T-Minus 19:30:00

Back inside one of the containers in the Space Platform area, a computer capsule has just opened up. Inside the capsule now happens to be some sort of robot conposed of polygons making up its shape. This robot created by Professor Hartache happens to be known as an Electro Tracker. It can enter and exit cyberspace through capsule systems linked to computers.

"What is that thing anyway?"

Before Tsubasa can get an answer, the Electro Tracker fires a red wave-like beam towards her Pokémon. They happen to dodge it, but the beam ends up quickly melting one of the computers in the area. Suddenly, more Electro Trackers teleport into more of the capsules and come out towards Tsubasa. One of them fires a yellow beam at Waka, who ends up severely shocked by the attack somehow.

"There's more of them?! Funry, use Thunderbolt quick!"

Funary unleashes a powerful Thunderbolt one one of the Electro Trackers, but the cyber-like robot fires a green beam at the Thunderbolt, making the two attacks collide. Apparently, these robots fire beams of three different kinds of frequencies. The yellow beams are light waves, the red beams are heat waves, and the green beams are radio waves.

"Well, let's take these things down! Waka, Rock Slide!"

Waka slams down on the ground and sends several pieces of the floor up into the air towards some of the Electro Trackers, hitting them and doing some damage, but they respond to the attack with more of their frequency beams. Kappa ends up getting hit by one of the heat waves and is set on fire instantly.

"Waka, use Water Gun to help Kappa!"

Waka fires a Water Gun onto Kappa and saves her from the flames she was engulfed in. Two more Electro Trackers fire light waves and radio waves at Tsubasa's Pokémon. Maw responds by jumping up and using Bite on one of them, causing it to be knocked down to the ground.

"Good job, Maw! Let's keep this up!"

Since none of the Electro Trakers have been entirely defeated, Tsubasa decides to keep using large, ranged attacks.

"Waka, another Rock Slide!"

Waka does the Rock Slide routine once more and damages a large group of the Electro Trackers once more, causing a few to explode, their polygonal pieces flying all over the floor. A few still remain and fire all three kinds of waves at Tsubasa and her Pokémon.

"Kappa, Mach Punch them!"

Kapps goes flying forward with one of her fists golwing and slams one of the Electro Trackers into totaled submission. Funary decides to fire a Thunderbolt at another, but its light waves push the Thunderbolt back. However, the Heal and Energy Boosts from earlier gives Funary the strength he needs to zap the Electro Tracker, taking that one down as well. Only two more remain. One fires a heat wave that sweeps the area, leaving a melted trail along the ground and melting some of the computers and capsules. The second fires a radio wave right a Tsubasa, zapping her and causing dire confusion. Her hair also ends up standing on end.

"(Really dazed and confused.) Dun giv upe. U cn du dis. Furee, oose Tunderbot dere."

Tsubasa seems to be pointing at one of the capsules. Knowing his Trainer is in a deep state of confusion, Funsry ignores her orders and Thunderbolts the Electro Tracker that caused her to lose her mind.

"Gud joob, Kope. Kep eht uhp."

Tsubasa runs into one of the computers and falls down. Because her mind has been warped by that radio wave, she doesn't feel a thing.

"Mo Mo. Ue Bit un da ruboht."

After one of the Electro Trackers is destroyed by Funary's Thunderbolt, a Bite attack from Maw does the last one in. While all the Electro Trackers have been destroyed, Tsubasa is still in a heavy state of confusion.

"Gu jobe. Gu joob. Yu gud geyse."

Funary gets an idea on how to help Tsubasa. He goes back through the doors to the Heal and Energy Boost room. He goes up to the floating TV in front of the Heal Boost tanks, jumps up to the TV's panel, and presses a button. This comes up on the screen:

"HEAL BOOST
WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXTRACT SAMPLE
YES/NO"​

Funary presses yes to extract some of the Heal Boost from the capsules. The screen changes to this:

"HEAL BOOST SAMPLE
BEING EXTRACTED
PLEASE COLLECT SAMPLE"​

In the metal clyinder-shaped capsule at the start of the Heal Boost tanks, the small video screen says "SAMPLE READY". A small handheld capsule containing the Heal Boost slides out of the capsule. Funary jumps off the TV and goes up to the capsule, jumps up, and picks the smaller capsule up. He then goes back through the doors to where Tsubasa is and gives the Heal Boost to her. After drinking some of it, Tsubasa's hair goes back down and she feels normal again.

"Just what happened?"

Funary explains to Tsubasa that she got disoriented by one of the frequency waves from the Electro Trackers and that he went and got a Heal Boost for her. He also gives her the capsule, which still contains a good amount of the Heal Boost.

"I think I'll keep this in case we need more of it."

Now that everything's settled, Tsubasa and her Pokémon head down to the doors leading out of the container, which slide open. Back outside, they jump down to the meteor platform near the container and from there head back to the large platform and go down the light bridge back to the main Space Platform. Being done with this tier of levels, Tsubasa decides to enter the elevator once more and head down another level. Back inside, she presses the button to go down the fourth tier of levels.

"Destination Level 4-1. Now closing doors." -Elevator OS Voice

The elevator doors close and the elevator starts going down to the first level of the second tier. Upon reaching that level, the OS voice comes on again.

"Level 4-1 now reached. Opening doors. Watch your step." -Elevator OS Voice

After heading back out the elevator, Tsubasa notices more large crane sets on the ceiling and more box stacks, but there doesn't seem to be anything hazardous out here.

"We better get going."

After heading down the light path, Tsubasa reaches another large platform and notices a group of longer containers, about twice the length of the others, in front of her. However, because of how they're positioned, she can't enter them currently. Tsubasa decides to go to the left and crosses another floating bridge to reach another string of meteor platforms. Here, there's a Chaos floating over each platform; one Fire, one Thunder, one Solar, and one Ice.

"Not these guys again!"

Funary steps forward and fires a Thunderbolt at the Fire Chaos's head, but it uses an air lens to refract the attack. Waks decides to fire a Water Gun while the Chaos is distracted and destroys it. On the next platform, Waka uses Rock Slide to send several meteor pieces at the Thunder Chaos and Kapps sends a Mach Punch at it, destroying that one. On the third platform, Maw jumps up and uses Bite to stun the Solar Chaos, then Masqin follows with a Silver Wind to destroy it. On the final platform, Waka uses Rock Slide again and Funary uses Thunderbolt, also destroying the Ice Chaos.

"Whoa! That was great teamwork! We're getting the hang of these things!"

To the right of the last platform happens to be what looks like a block structure consisting of large teal, blue, indogi, and violet blocks. Seeing ad there's no other way to get through, Tsubasa decides to jump into an opening in the structure and heads through. It's at this point she realizes just what this small maze is built of; Attack Cubes! From below, they fire large laser blasts upward.

"Uh oh! I thought these cubes looked familar!"

Tsubasa and her Pokémon quickly run through the small corridor and climb up the wall just as the Attack Cubes forming them fire missiles and machine guns everywhere. On the upper level, Tsubasa runs down and makes a left turn as the Attack Cubes start firing neutalizer charges from above. After the left turn, there is a drop point where the Attack Cubes fire railgun blasts at her. At one point, there is a hole in the maze that leads straight down into space with the lower areas far below.

"Better be careful (Noticing missiles coming towards her.), and jump!"

Tsubasa and her Pokémon jump the small expanse and continue forward to where the maze goes upward. They climb the Attack Cubes as the fire machine guns at them and reach the outside. Here, they quickly run across the Cubes as they fire electrical blasts until they reach a meteor platform at the end. From there, they jump to the upper level of the fourth tier of the Space Platform. At this point, the Attack Cubes split up into numerous ones and are poised to fire onto the young soldier.

"This could be the end!"

Masqin suddenly picks up Funary and flies him upward to where the meteor cannon is. Back at the cannon, Funary mans the controls and starts firing meteors at the large group of Attack Cubes. The incoming meteors hit several of the Cubes, causing them to explode.

"Whoa! good job, guys!"

Funary keeps up the meteor firing at the Attack Cubes as they fire machine guns, missile launchers, lasers, neutralizers, electricity, and railguns all around the place. Tsubasa and the rest of her Pokémon end up threatened by the attacks as are Funary and Masqin. Eventually, after more meteors, the rest of the Attack Cubes are destroyed, and Masqin brings Funary back down to Tsubasa.

"That was great! Good thinking!"

There happens to be a string of floating bridges and meteor platforms leading to one of the long containers. They cross them and when above one of them, Tsubasa drops off the last platform and onto the top of the container. From there, she goes to the left edge and drops down onto the top outcropping. From there, she goes through the doors into the container.

"Why do I feel the need to check these places out?"

This room happens to be filled with more Chaos containers on both sides, and just as they're seen, they open up and many more Chaos come out of them, heading straight for Tsubasa and her Pokémon.

"Guys? RUN!!"

Tsubasa and her Pokémon quickly run down the corridor to another set of doors. Tsubasa's Pokémon hold the Chaos off as they head through to the next corridor, which just happens to be filled wth stacks of bombs behind long, electrical shields There is an elevator platform at the end of the hall, and Tsubasa gets an idea on what to do as the Chaos come flying through the door.

"Funary, when I says so, use Thunberbolt on one of those bombs!"

Everyone gets to near the platform. As the Chaos close in, they get on the platform.

"Now, Funary!"

As the platform starts going down to the next level, Funary unleashes a Thunderbolt on one of the bombs. The attack causes a chain reaction that causes all the bombs to explode, deatroying all the Chaos in there. On the lower level, the entire container shakes from the explosions.

"Whoa! That was something!"

In this corridor, there just happens to be more large tanks. However, this time, the ones to the right contain a kind of red liquid and the ones to the left contain a sort of yellow liquid. Once again, a floating plasma TV hovers in front of each row. Tsubasa goes to the right, which reads:

"POWER BOOST
WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXTRACT SAMPLE
YES/NO"​

"Well, let's give this a try."

Tsubasa presses yes to extract some of the Power Boost from the capsules. The screen changes to this:

"POWER BOOST SAMPLE
BEING EXTRACTED
PLEASE COLLECT SAMPLE"​

In the metal clyinder-shaped capsule at the start of the red line, a small video screen says "SAMPLE READY". A small handheld capsule containing the Power Boost slides out of the capsule. Tsubasa picks it up and gives it to Funary. Funary drinks from it a little, glows a red color for a split second, and feels like its power has risen.

"Well, let's all drink from this!"

Tsubasa gives the Power Boost to the rest of her Pokémon in this order, Kappa, Waka, Masqin, and Maw. After they're done, Tsubasa drinks from the remainder of the capsule, and also feels stronger.

"Now to check out the other stuff!"

Tsubasa goes up to the left, which reads:

"SPEED BOOST
WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXTRACT SAMPLE
YES/NO"​

"Now let's try this."

Tsubasa presses yes to extract some of the Speed Boost from the capsules. The screen changes to this:

"SPEED BOOST SAMPLE
BEING EXTRACTED
PLEASE COLLECT SAMPLE"​

In the metal clyinder-shaped capsule at the start of the yellow line, the small video screen says "SAMPLE READY". Another small handheld capsule containing the Speed Boost slides out of the capsule.

"Well, Funary. Here you go."

Funary drinks from it a little, glows a yellow color for a split second, and feels like it can run faster. Tsubasa gives the Power Boost to the rest of her Pokémon in this order, Kappa, Waka, Masqin, and Maw. After they're done, Tsubasa drinks from the remainder of the capsule, and also feels the speed boost.

"If I didn't know any better, I think all of these "Boosts" are special super versions of the stuff we use to heal Pokémon, replenish their energy, and make them stronger and faster! It also looks like they have a similar effect on humans as well! I wonder if they also affect robots."

With their Boost drinking out of the way, Tsubasa and her Pokémon head down to the other end of the hall and head though another set of doors ahead. In the next room, which has more steel and electronic boxes stacked, lots of Lairon-shaped robots roam the floor. These happen to have the Team Rocket "R" on them, and they just noticed Tsubasa and her Pokémon.

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T-Minus 19:30:00

Back in the Electrochemical Reactor, Topaz and Jay continue their trek through the massive energy plant. In another hall, they hide behind a stack of large steel and electronic boxes as they see a small group of about four Artificial Chaos, two Fire, one Ice, and one Thunder.

"So miss commander, what do you think we should do?" -Jay

"Don't call me "Miss Commander", and I think I know what to do."

Topaz reaches into her Pocket and takes out one of her Pokéballs.

"This is an empty Pokéball we use for catching violent Pokémon that are causing trouble. The military did a lot of this in the Jungle Crisis caused in South America a few years back. I'll just throw it to cause some distraction."

Topaz throws the Pokéball forward at one of the Fire Chaos, who quickly responds with a Flamethrower on the ball.

"That was good!" -Jay

Suddenly, the stack of boxes next to them starts to slowly melt.

"Ow! Exactly when did these boxes get so hot?!" -Jay

As it turns out, the other Fire Chaos spotted them and started to melt the boxes with a Flamethrower.

"Looks like we've been spotted!"

"Looks like it's time again! Blastoise, come out and use Hydro Pump!" -Jay

Blastoise comes out and uses Hydro Pump on one of the Fire Chaos, who being too busy with melting the boxes gets hit right in the head with the attack and is destroyed shortly after. The lone Ice Chaos responds with an Ice Beam that freezes all the water as it comes towards Blastoise and freezes it as well.

"Blastoise, no! Arcanine, come on out and use Overheat to stop these creatures!" -Jay

Arcanine comes out of its Pokéball and uses a powerful Overheat to instantly destroy the Ice Chaos. At this point, the Fire Chaos and Thunder Chaos split into cells and start towards the male Trainer and military woman.

"Exactly what are these things?!" -Jay

"I'm not exactly sure! But Dragonair can stop them!"

Dragonair comes out of its Pokéball, ready for battle.

"Dragonair, Water Pulse!"

Dragonair charges up and fires a Water Pulse at the cells. The water surge crashes into most of the cells, destroying any Fire ones, but the Thunder ones still remain and start to form a ring around Topaz. They then give off electrical flashes, trapping her in a lightning bind.

"Jay! Don't just stand there! Help me!"

Before Jay is able to, Dragonair trusts its instincts and fires a Dragonbreath at the Thunder Chaos cells constantly. In a matter of several seconds, the cells are all destryoed and Topaz is freed.

"Thanks Dragonair! Now to finish these off! Another Water Pulse!"

Dragonair fires another Water Pulse at the remaining cells, destroying them.

"Arcanine, use Overheat to thaw out Blastoise!" -Jay

Arcanine uses a much weaker Overheat on the frozen Blastoise to thaw it in an instant.

"Blastoise, Arcanine, return!" -Jay

"We better get going!"

Topaz and Jay head through the hall until they reach another set of doors that slide open. They enter a shaft smaller than the one they went in earlier. A small platform floats in the middle of the shaft with a small bridge leading to it.

"Well, we know what to do."

Both Topaz and Jay get onto the platform as short glass-like walls rise up from the edges of the platform and the platform starts hovering down a couple floors. The platform stops in a square hole in the floor at the bottom. The sides drop and the two head down another hall until they reach another set of doors. On the other side, there is a pool of violet colored liquid energy below and two tube-like railings leading from the floor above the energy pool, over the pool, and to the other side.

"Now what do we do?" -Jay

"I think that TV can get us an answer."

Another floating plasma TV floats to the right of Jay and Topaz. Topaz goes up to it and presses some keys on the digital panel. This screen comes up:

"ENERGY REGULATOR SYSTEM
WHAT OPTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE?
DRAIN ENERGY FROM POOL? Y/N
TRANSFER ENERGY TO ANOTHER AREA? Y/N
SHUT DOWN ENERGY IN POOL? Y/N
OPEN ENERGY VALVE IN PATH RAILINGS? Y/N"​

"Send energy into path railings? Let's see what this does."

Topaz says yes to the fourth option on the TV, which goes to this screen:

"ENERGY FLOWING INTO PATH RAILINGS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE
WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE ANOTHER OPTION? Y/N"​

Suddenly, the violet energy starts flowing through the railings and suddenly, an blue energy path materializes in between them.

"Whoa! That's something!" -Jay

Both Topaz and Jay run across the new path, feeling some sort of extrasensory presence as they do so, but suddenly, Ice and Fire Chaos, four of them, rise from the liquid energy, poised to take out these two intruders.

"Not more of these! Camerupt, Lanturn, come on out and use Eruption and Hydro Pump!"

Both Camerupt and Lanturn come out of their Pokéballs and use their respective attacks. Camerupt's Eruption hits all the Chaos, destroying the two Ice ones, but the two Fire Chaos absorb the volcanic fallout. After doing so, Lanturn's Hydro Pump hits one of them, destroying it, then the other, destroying that one as well. With all four Chaos out of the way, Topaz returns her Pokémon to their Pokéballs.

"Well, time to get going!"

After reaching the end of the path, Topaz and Jay reach another set of doors. They head through and wind up in another large open area.

"Whoa! This place is something!" -Jay

Far on the other side of the area, a large floating cargo platform is moving upward, carrying large tanks filled with various kinds of concentrated energy. In fact, there are six different colors of energy in the tanks; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.

"I wonder where all this is going?"

Topaz and Jay cross the long platform connected to the wall until they come to another floating platform they can use. They both board the platform and topaz presses up on the contron screen to make the platform rise.

"So where are we going?" -Jay

"Up, of course! I think we msy need to reach the top of this plant!"

After going up a little, Topaz presses forward on the control screen and the platform moves forward. They pass by some more electromagnetic crane systems on both sides. Eventually, Topaz presses up again and the platform moves upward again. They eventually come to a loading platform. Here, the platform's control screen goes to a flashing screen with red-and-black borders and in the middle of the screen in large red letters "LIMIT REACHED". Topaz and Jay have no choice but to step off.

"Um, what just happened?" -Jay

"For some reason, I think the platform has stopped for some reason. Jay, did you see Team Rocket or the Shuttle Gang around here?"

"Well, I saw a Team Rocket robot sometime before I met you." -Jay

"Then maybe Team Rocket set limits to the platforms here. Looks like we'll have to go on foot a little more."

Suddenly, two large tank-like robots with large sawblades lined up in slots on the top and tank treads drop down. These are more Shuttle Gang robots called SG-Cutters. Mainly used in places like jungles, these robots can launch their sawblades at things near and far.

"Well, I'm not waiting for these guys to attack first! Metang, come on out and use Meteor Mash!"

Metang's right claw starts to glow and it sends a meteor-like glow at the SG-Cutter to the left, doing some damage to it, but the robot launches two of its saws towards the Steel/Psychic-type.

"Metang, use Dynamicpunch quickly to knock those saws out of the way!"

Metang's claw starts to glow and it sends a large punch towards both saws as they converge, knocking both of them flying through the area.

"Now for another Meteor Mash!"

Metang uses Meteor Mash on the SG-Cutter once more, this time destroying it. However, the other launches two more saws at Topaz.

"Metang, turn quickly!"

Suddenly, a large blast of water knocks both saws out of the way. Apparently, Jay decided to step in once more with Blastoise's Hydro Pump.

"Let me help out! Arcanine, Overheat once more!" -Jay

Arcanine comes out of its Pokéball and fires a weak Overheat at the Cutter, but it launches another saw towards the attack and deflects it.

"Looks like Arcanine still needs time to recharge!"

"Okay then! Blastoise, use Hydro Pump then!" -Jay

Blastoise fires another Hydro Pump at the Cutter, doing some damage to it. Topaz decides to lend a hand with another attack to go with it.

"Metang, Shock Wave!"

Metang fires a spiraling stream of electricity at the Cutter, which soaked in water, takes on even more damage and is destroyed.

"Well, no time to cheer! We need to get going! Metang, return!"

"You too Arcanine and Blastoise!" -Jay

All Pokémon are returned to their Pokéballs. Looking up at the machinery, Topaz gets an idea on how to climb higher.

"Metang, come back out!"

"What do you think you're doing?!" -Jay

"Grab on and watch!"

Jay grabs onto Metang and all three move towards the edge of the platform. They end up going off the edge, but Metang hovers in the air. Suddenly, it gets pulled upward as a column of magnetic energy envelops them.

"What's going on?!" -Jay

They are pulled up to one of the electromagnets, where Metang stops a few feet from the magnet itself. The electromagnet then moves around to the other side until it's over a large bridge floating in the air.

"Metang, return!"

Topaz returns Metang and she and Jay drop down to the bridge, where they land harshly.

"Ow! That hurt!" -Jay

"Well, I needed for us to get up higher! And I think we did it!"

On the far wall, it reads "03", which means they have reached the third set of floors in the energy reactor. At the end of the bridge is a floating platform like the one they used earlier, but this one's control screen only displays yellow forward and back arrows and moves back and forth on its own.

"Well, this platform should be easy to use."

Topaz and Jay get onto the platform when it comes to the bridge, then take it to the other side where another wide walkway sits. This walkway leads to another set of doors that slide open. Both of them head through to the other side.

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T-Minus 20:45:00

Back on Pine's Island, out group of Trainers have just ran into another trap, this time with a group of robotic Vigoroth.

"Well, looks like we better get these things out of the way! Flaar, Flamethrower!"

"You too, Arckee!" -Kiro

Both Arcanine fire Flamethrowers at one of the Vigoroth robots, quickly destroying it. However, the other two quickly head for the Trainers. One of them slashes Arckee, causing everyone on it to fall off.

"Ow! What was that for?!" -Scar

"I'll help take care of these! Cacturne, come on out and use Pin Missile!" -Zion

Cacturne comes out of its Pokémon and starts firing a barrage of needles at one of the Vigoroth robot. Some hit it, but the robot dodges and from its claws fires claw-like missiles that go straight for Cacturne, hitting it.

"Whoa! That's something!" -Zion

"Well, maybe I can handle one of these, Orny, come on out!" -Louinne

Louinne's massive Steelix come sout of its Pokémon, ready for its first battle in a while.

"Orny, Iron Tail them!" -Louinne

Orny goes to work with Iron tail as its tail starts to glow. It slams it down right onto one of the remaining Vigoroth robots, destroying it instantly. There is not only one remaining.

"Cacturne, get in close and use Faint Attack!" -Zion

Cacturne starts to glow a dark color and suddenly starts flying towards the last Vigoroth robot, hitting it hard and doing some more damage. Suddenly, the robot fires another round of claw missiles at Cacturne, hitting it once more.

"Arckee, use Flamethrower again!" -Kiro

Arckee fires yet another Flamethrower at the Vigoroth robot, finally destroying it. At this point, the laser fences drop and everyone can continue further into the jungle.

"Cacturne, return!" -Zion

"You too, Orny!" -Louinne

"We better hurry! We don't have much time!"

Everyone that fell off of Arckee get back onto it, and both Arcanine are ready to make their way through the jungle again.

"Well, here we go again!" -Nova

Both Arcanine take off further through the jungle. They manage to outrun electrical fence after electrical fence that rise out of the ground. Eventually, they come to a large, fallen, hollow log. The only way past it is through it.

"I hope there aren't any creepy Bug Pokémon here!" -Kiro

They pass above and by large webs woven in the inside of the log. Eventually, they come back outside where near a cliff leading into water, make a right turn into another log. After reaching the other side of this log, they reach a wider path in the jungle where large, tall posts reside at both sides of the path. horizontal laser fences are moving up and down these posts.

"Okay everyone! Get ready to jump and duck!"

Flaar and Arckee manage to jump the first laser fence as it lowers, run under the second as it rises, jump the third as it starts rising, and run under the fourth as it lowers to the ground.

"Just so you know, this isn't as easy as it sounds!"

After jumping a fifth laser fence as it lowers, they come to a large, hollow tree. Both Pokémon dash inside where it seems they might be in a dead end.

"Well miss Locke, where are we going next?" -Nova

"Well, we're going up of course!"

There are some thin, spiraling paths going up the interior of the tree. Flaar, manages to jump to the first, then the second, the third, the fourth, and finally the fifth! Arckee magaes to do the same until they have both reaches an opening in the tree.

"Now that was easy!"

There are huge vines leading from the tree to the ground. Both Arcanine decide to run across the vines to the ground below. This way, they have also passed over another water inlet. The path continues ahead, and everyone is raring to keep going.

"Let's follow that trail!"

Both Pokémon continue to run forward down the jungle path as electrical fences rise up from the ground ahead. They manage to jump every single one they come against. Eventually, there's another wide path where large vertical laser fences move along metal belts in the ground. Looks like more risky manuevers are needed to get past here as both Arcanine come to a halt.

"Well, we better plan this out a little first."

"Yeah. I don't want to end up as laser shichcabob." -Nova

As the laser fences move towards the sides of the path, action is taken. Both Arcanine decide to speed along the ground while they still can. At one point, the laser fences start to close in on the area.

"We better jump now!"

Both Arcanine manage to jump the laser fences at just the right time and avoid the entirely. At the end of the long path, they're out of the lasers once more. The path become much more narrow once more. Everyone starts heading up a hill where more electrical posts start to rise up from the ground.

"Get ready to jump once more!"

Both Arckee and Flaar manage to jump the electrical barriers as they rise up and make it to the top of the hill. Here, more tall laser fences rise up as well. They end up having to jump through the middle of the lasers to get through. After about five of these, they reach a gorge with a large river and jagged rocks at the bottom. There happens to be a metallic bridge going across the expanse.

"Well, what are we waiting for?"

The bridge seems to be able to hold both Arcanine, so Flaar goes first, followed by Arckee. However, as they cross onto the bridge, an invisible laser next to the bridge activates and the bridge starts to shake.

 

[Ninetales1]

OOC: I feel bad for not waiting for Bijou to post, but... Anyways, I can't think of anything for Lupin now, so I'll just focus on Kelsey this time. Yes--the girl in the green (at least text-wise...) Ah well, if Sunflorazumarill can partially control other characters, I suppose I can... (gee, that's the second time I copied him)

*reads Zion's signup*

Bijou, you may have Zion go off on his own at any time.

EDIT: *reads a few posts* Ermmm... Okay, I'm confused. Where exactly was Zion before this post? Bijou's posts suggest that he's by himself or with Kelsey, but in Sunflorazumarill's posts, Zion suddenly appears in the group with everyone else... There can't be two Zions in this RPG...

Umm, for now I will guess that he was by himself, so the following is kind of a tentative post until then... (I actually typed it before noticing the Zion confusion.)

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The two trainers (mostly) dressed in black, and the five Pokemon among them, continued along through the woods, through the point where sunbeams shone down through the trees. As they did, the metal clanging and scratching grew louder, at least to the only two who could hear them: Absol and Clefable. Clefable actually led the group at this point, curious about the noises she heard.
<"Hello fairy bell,"> Banette greeted in an over-friendly tone, startling Clefable. <"What seems to be troubling you?">
<"Would you stop doing that!?"> Clefable replied--whispering, yet still freaking out. <"You're creeping me out--as usual! Oh, and... I hear these strange noises up ahead, like scratching and metal clanging... Ohh, I hope they're not robots...">
<"Why, allow me!">
Banette chuckled and leapt forward, gliding right through the trees. Clefable stared in her direction, not being able to supress feelings of worry for the poor puppet.

A while later, growling and trumpeting could be heard in the distance, and some occasional little explosions or squeals of pain.
"It sounds like a herd of Donphan," Kelsey figured, while looking at Zion. Zion merely nodded in reply.
"And I heard people say I was quiet..."
At that point, Kelsey was looking in the direction of the Donphan noises.

After passing by a few more trees, some of the group's members indeed saw a group of Donphan. However, it was pretty apparent that they were robotic Donphan, as their trunks resembled large hoses. One of them was lying on its side, and a couple more were burnt, but the remaining three were standing strong.
<"Attack,"> their robotic voices chorused. And also in unison, they crouched down and began to charge at the intruders.
"Bell!" Bellossom crouched down too, but in preparation for a jump rather than a charge. And jump she did, clear over the robotic Donphan. She landed next to Banette.
<"Hey zippy. Nice work with the other three.">
<"Night Shade and Will-O-Wisp are quite the deadliest of attacks. Oh, and I dare you to call me Zippy one more time, pincushion.">
Banette held up a pin and tilted it toward Bellossom as she said this.

Absol did the same thing Bellossom did in avoiding the charging Donphan, except he didn't talk to Banette afterwards. Clefable flew over the Donphan to dodge the attack. But Hypno and the two humans couldn't fly nor jump that far, so the Donphan still came at them.
But not for long.
For Hypno at that point used Confusion on the three Donphan robots. The attack threw the two on the sides off-balance, causing them to veer off sideways and crash into trees. The one in the middle was rotated upward, lifted in the air, and released, landing on its back.
"Let's run for it!"

The Donphan that had fallen on its back had to roll over and get back up again, but nevertheless it rolled up into a wheel-like mechanism and rolled along after the intruders. Clefable carried Bellossom and flew through the woods away from the Donphan robot. Banette and Absol wandered separately through the trees. Kelsey and Zion ran alongside each other, at the same time either glancing behind at the approaching Donphan or looking at the Pokemon which were running or flying ahead. Kelsey had to return Hypno to her Pokeball because she couldn't run that fast.

After a while, Kelsey and Zion came to a wide, swiftly moving river that flowed to the left. The four Pokemon were standing at its edge, and Bellossom was scratching her head.
<"Uh, we have a problem...?">
<"How do we cross?">
None of the rest of the group noticed Zion taking out a Pokeball.

A while later, Zion, Kelsey, Absol, Banette, and Bellossom were riding on a Lapras down the fast-moving yet rock-free river. (Kelsey had returned Clefable to her Pokeball to reduce the weight load.) Up ahead was a long metal bridge that appeared to be shaking a little bit. A group of people and Pokemon were on the left side of the bridge near the end, facing the other side. All of its members were riding on two recognisable Arcanine.
"My-my, that's the rest of the group!" Kelsey noticed. "I don't know about you, Zion, but I think they could use a bit of help again..."

With that, Kelsey re-released Clefable, who flew up to the bridge. But when she got close to it, something struck her in the back. It felt a lot like a laser.
<"Ouch! Ee, better use a bit of protection...">
So Clefable used Light Screen to prevent any other lasers from firing at her. Then she used Psychic to hold the bridge still.
<"If you want to cross this bridge,"> Clefable announced as she struggled a little bit to hold the bridge in place with her mind, <"you might want to do it quickly...">
If they take too long, I might lose control of the bridge, or I might lose sight of Kelsey and Zion around the riverbend... and then I'd have to stay with this group for a while. Which I kind of don't mind, but... ohh, gotta stay focused... I'm clearly not as good at psychic attacks as Hypno and Gardevoir and Banette...
As Clefable thought this, the bridge swayed a little, but not as much as before.

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[Sunflorazumarill]

Good going, Ninetales! I just hope more people continue their posting here! Anyway, here's more on Nived in the Meteor Base. I've also finally finished up with Tsubasa's journey through the Space Platform and we have finally have had out first boss battle. Check things out!

T-Minus 19:00:00

Back in the Meteor Base, Nived continues his way through the inactive laboratory. Inside of a circuitry-surfaced door, there doesn't appear to be anything dangerous or hazardous. After passing through another set of octagonal doors, Nived goes into another upward-sloping hall where more laser grids activate. As the horizontal lasers disappear, Nived moves between the vertical ones. On the other side of the grid, two Fire Chaos await Nived.

"Not these guys again! Swampert, come on out and use Hydro Pump!"

Swampert comes out of its Pokéball and quickly fires a Hydro Pump at one of the Chaos, doing some damage to it, but then both of them split up into cells and go straight for Swampert.

"Swampert, don't give in! Use Rock Slide!"

Swampert slams the ground hard and rocks in the form of floor pieces rise up into the fiery cells, destroying many of them. The remaining cells reform into one single Fire Chaos, who attacks with a flamethrower hot enough to instantly melt steel.

"Swampert, Hydro Pump again!"

Swampert fires another Hydro Pump at the Flamethrower, causing both attacks to collide and cause a thick steam cloud to envelop the area. However, Swampert's Hydro Pump pushes through and destroys the molten-like liquid creature.

"Good job, Swampert, but I can't see well right now. Let's wait until this steam clears."

A few minutes later, the steam clears and Nived can see the tunnel again. Both Nived and Swampert head up the tunnel until another laser grid shows itself. This time, the vertical lasers disappear and Nived is able to slide under the horizontal lasers. Shortly after passing these ones, two Laser Discs fly down for an attack.

"More of these?! If I didn't know any better, these robots were programmed to activate once this research complex was opened up again after so many years! Swampert, another Hydro Pump!"

Swampert fires another Hydro Pump at one of the Laser Discs, but the UFO-like robots swerve past the attacks and start firing bursts of green lasers from their center sections. The lasers rain down everywhere, and several of them hit Swampert.

"Swampert, you can do it! Try another Rock Slide!"

Swampert sets off another Rock Slide and manages to hit both Laser Discs, but the saucers continue to swerve and start firing blue laser beams from their bottom sections. The lasers spin all around the place.

"Swampert, one more Rock Slide!"

Swampert creates a Rock Slide once more and manages to hit the Laser Discs in the center, destroying them both. With both out of the way, a laser field further up the tunnel deactivates. Both Nived and Swampert head up the tunnel to the end where another set of large doors appears. The computer screens on both doors display green plus signs and open up.

"Let's see what's on the other side here!"

Nived enters a large observation room two or three stories tall. The room is octagonal-shaped and has two upper platform levels of the same shape around a large pcolumn of the same shape. There are tall computer screens on four sides of the pillar, each displaying certain kinds of data. There are more square and rectangular computer screens on all the walls of the chamber, some of them displaying screens of halls and other places of the lab. Above the screens happen to be computer-like dark octagonal panels where electric lines of all colors can be seen flowing across it. There are also small rectangular-shaped electronic stations next to the walls where energy can be seen flowing through the lighted sides of them and grid-like energy lighting up the tops. There are doors on all four sides of the room, including the one Nived entered from and balconies above the floor on the other walls where even more doors reside. Fnally, the top of the large room has inward-sloping windows where sloping edges of the meteor can be seen. Also, many metallic spheres float all around the room.

"Wow! What is this place?"

What Nived doesn't see in the back of the room are two Heavy Walkers, both activating and starting to walk towards Nived.

"Not these guys again!"

One of the Walkers fires its heavy chainguns at Nived. The large, spiraling streams of mega bullets come straight for Nived, and it seems it could be his end. Nived and Swampert decide to try jumping to avoid them, and when in the air, they are each somehow pulled onto the spheres. As it turns out, these spheres have their own gravitational pull and are known as Gyro Balls.

"Whoa! What just happened?!"

Nived notices Swampert is on a seperate sphere, and it looks like they could use them to their advantage.

"Swampert, Hydro Pump!"

Swampert fires a Hydro Pump towards the attacking Heavy Walker, damaging it, but the large tank is not done yet. It starts firing a load of mini bombs from its underside. Swampert runs onto the back side of the sphere as one hits, and the explosion sends the Gyo Ball flying through the room. Upon reaching the second deck, Swampert jumps off the sphere and onto solid ground. Here, four Hover Launchers scope out the area.

"Salamence, come on out and use Flamethrower!"

Salamence comes out of its Pokéball and flies in toward the other Heavy Walker. It then fires a Flamethrower up close and constantly, doing some considerable damage to the robot tank. However, it then flips over its guns and prepares to fire cluster bombs at the Dragon/Flying-type.

"Salamence, watch out!"

Salamence manages to dodge the cluster bomb fired at it, which crashed into a wall and creates several explosions that send several of the Gyro Balls flying through the room, including Nived's. Nived ends up going to the ceiling, where the sphere bounces off and onto the top level. Nived ends up falling off the Gyro Ball, but four Artificial Chaos, two Ice, two Solar, appear along the wrapping platform.

"Not more of these!"

One of the Ice Chaos fires an Ice Beam straight at Nived, causing a small ice mountain to form where the beam hits. Looks like this will become quite a battle.

"Houndoom, come on out and use Flamethrower on these!"

Houndoom comes out of its Pokéball and is ready for battle. It fires a Flamethrower at the attacking Chaos, hitting it right in the head. A few seconds later, it explodes. One of the Solar Chaos decides to charge up a Solarbeam to fire, but Houndoom manages to fry that one, too. Eventually, the remaining two Chaos split into cells and attempt to converge on Houndoom.

"Houndoom, don't give in!"

The Solar Chaos cells form some a net, trapping Houndoom. After making a solar bind around it, they start giving off solar flashes as the Ice Chaos cells come forward as well. Those ones start giving off ice flashes then end up freezing Houndoom. With Houndoom out of comission, the cells regroup into their normal forms and decide to take on Nived.

"Salamence, I need your help!"

Salamence decides to fly up to the final level, where it fires a Flamethrower at the reformed Chaos, but they both fire their respective beams, which merge into a Solar Ice Beam that has bright, spiraling green and blue strands wrapping around each other. Salamence dodges the attack, which then hits one of the Gyro Balls, causing it to be deflected to another, which then deflects it into one of the Heavy Walkers, not only damaging it, but freezing it as well.

"Whoa! That's something! Metagross, come on out and use Meteor Mash to finish it off!"

Metagross comes out of its Pokéball and drops down to the bottom level where a sphereical object appears on one of its glowing claws. It then crashes that arm into the frozen tank, destroying it. Back on the second level, Swampert sends out a Rock Slide against one of the Hover Launchers, but a square target appears on it, and the robot fires large meteors from its bottom cannons. Swampert uses Hydro Pump to deflect one of the meteors, causing it to go towards the other Heavy Walker, and hit it, causing a large explosion and doing serious damage to the legged tank.

"This just keeps setting better and better!"

However, the other meteor hits Swampert, causing it to be flung right off the level and down to the floor, knocked out.

"Swampert, return! Metagross, use Meteor Mash once more on that tank!"

Metagross goes to work with Meteor Mash once more, and slams it into the Heavy Walker, destroying that one as well. At this point, two Laser Discs drop down from above, and start charging up laser blasts.

"They just don't know when to quit! Sunflora, come on out and use Faint Attack!"

Sunflora come sout of its Pokéball, still a little weary from Laser Discs it earlier defended against. As one of the Discs fires a large, red laser charge at the Grass-type, it somehow disappears as the blast hits, causing an explosion. Suddenly, Sunflora appears next to the Laser Disc and hits it, doing some damage. Back on the ground, Metagross decides to take on the Hover Launchers. It tucks in its legs and hovers upward to the second level where they reside. Upon reaching that level, it drops down and charges up a Shadow Ball, which it then fires onto the Hover Launcher Swampert already damaged.

"Good going, Metagross!"

Salamence keeps up its fight as well. It fires a Flamethrower onto the Solar Chaos, doing some damage to it, but the lifeform splits into cells once more.

"Salamence, use Flamethrower to free Houndoom!"

Salamence quickly fires a Flamethrower at the frozen Houndoom and frees it. The Fire-and-Dark-type fires a Flamethrower of its own at the Ice Chaos, hitting it and destroying it.

"Salamence, Flamethrower once more to stop that other one!"

Salamence fires another Flamethrower at the Solar Chaos cells, hitting several of them and destroying them. The remaining cells regroup into a whole Chaos, who starts to charge up a Solarbeam. It then fires it a Salamence, who fires a Flamethrower straight at the Solarbeam, but the Grass attack manages to push the flames back. Houndoom joins in with its Flamethrower and holds the Solarbeam back, then pushes it back straight into the Solar Chaos, destroying it.

"Good job! Now let's take care of the rest!"

Salamence flies down to the second level and comes right up to a Hover Launcher, then uses Dragon Claw on it, sending the hovering robot into one of the Gyro Balls, pulling it in. Houndoom jumps down as well and uses Flamethrower on one of the other Launchers, doing gamage to that one as well. Back on the top level, SUnflora's petals light up and it starts charging a Solarbeam. As the Laser Disc starts firing green laser bursts, Sunflora gets hit by the laser rain, but doesn't stop and fires a Solarbeam straight at the Disc's center, destroying it.

"Good job, Sunflora! We're almost there!"

A lock-on target appears on Sunflora and another appears on Salamence. Suddenly, one of the Hover Launchers fires missiles towards Sunflora while the other fires large laser beams at Salamence.

"Salamence, try pushing those back with Hydro Pump!"

Salamence fires a large stream of water at the lasers, but they go through the water and Salamence is hit. Salamence looks like it's about to fall, but flaps its wings and goes back up to the Hover Launcher. It slashes it with a Dragon Claw that almost splits the robot into two. This attack destroys it.

"Sunflora, keep running from the missiles!"

The second Laser Disc starts a descent towards Nived's other Pokémon, firing blue laser beams. Houndoom fires another Flamethrower at one of the Hover Launchers, destroying it. It turn sees the lasers and turns to fire another Flamethrower at the Laser Disc's center, destroying it.

"Keep going guys!"

One of the remaining Hover Launchers fires missiles as another target appears on Metagross. Sunflora jumps off the top level and gets pulled onto one of the Gyro Balls. The missiles following it continue to do so. It charges up another Solarbeam, then fires it onto the missiles, destroying every single one of them.

"We can do this! Only two more to go!"

Metagross manages to hover past the missiles, then uses Meteor Mash on the Hover Launcher that fired them, destroying it. The missiles trailing it still follow, but Sunflora fires another Solarbeam at them, destroying those ones, too.

"Good going, Sunflora!"

Houndoom manages to finish the final Hover Launcher off with a Flamethrower to the head, destroying it. As it turns out, by deatroying every single robot in the room, thr red minus signs on the screens on all the doors of the room urn into green plus signs and the doors all open up.

"Good going guys! Return so you can get a good rest!"

Once all of his Pokémon are returned to their Pokéballs, Nived scopes out the bottom doors to figure out where he should go. He chooses the door to the right of where he entered the room. He jumps off the top lavel and manages to land squarely on the second level, then jumps down to the floor. From there, he then heads towards the right door and heads through, unaware of what he'll run into next.

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T-Minus 19:00:00

Back on the Space Platform, Tsubasa's gotten into more trouble in one of the large cargo containers where several of Team Rocket's Lairon Rovers have just spotted her. They have just begun to charge at her.

"Funary, Thunderbolt them!"

Funary unleashes a Thunderbolt on the closest Lairon Rover, zapping it, but the robot continues to push forward.

"Kappa, try a Mach Punch!"

Kapps goes straight for the charging Rovers and hits several of them with subsequent Mach Punches. Maybe due to type-like advantages, they all are quickly subdued. More still come forward, however.

"Kappa, keep it up!"

Kapps keeps using Mach Punch on the remaining Lairon Rovers and destroys the rest of them. With all of them out of the way, Tsubasa and her Pokémon walk through the scattered remains of the robots and out the doors. Back outside, there's another meteor platform they jump to. From there, they go across a floating bridge going diagonally to the right.

"Wonder where this leads."

After the bridge, there is another meteor platform where an Ice Chaos floats nearby. Funary quickly subdues it while Kappa lends a Mach Punch to the head, thus destroying it. After another meteor platform is another floating bridge. After crossing this bridge, Tsubasa has come to some sort of large teal-colored block platform near the corner of the area. (If you remember the Block Fort from Mario Kart games, these platform are very similar to those blocks.) There are inclined sections on the inner sides leading up to the second level of the block.

"Well, let's check things out!"

Tsubasa heads up the incline and reaches the top of the block. From there, she can see that there are three more blocks in the other corners of the Space Platform area. These ones are blue, indigo, and violet. There are long, thin metal bridges connecting each of the blocks to form a square. Tsubasa also takes a look up, and there are four more of these blocks in the corners of the second tier area. These ones are colored red, orange, yellow, and green.

"Well, we better check things out!"

Tsubasa goes onto the bridge linking the teal block to the blue block. Here, several of the Shuttle Gang's Jet robots decide to make things tougher on Tsubasa and her Pokémon.

"Funary, stop them with Thunderbolt!"

Funary unleashes a Thunderbolt on the Tier 2 Jets, doing some damage to them, but others activate their shields and more of them fire rockets at Funary.

"Funary, Quick Attack then Thunderbolt again!"

Funary uses Quick Attack to escape the incoming rockets and uses Thunderbolt once more, destroying a few of them.

"Keep going, Funary! Those Boosts we had should help you!"

Funary keeps using Thunderbolt and the rest of the Jets have been destroyed. With that out of the way, Tsubasa and her Pokémon continue on the really long bridge until they reach the blue block. Here, more Ice Chaos blend in with the blue surface. As soon as Tsubasa and her Pokémon reach the block, they open fire with Ice Beams, creating a large ice wall that blocks their path leading back across the bridge.

"Uh oh! We got more company! Waka, Rock Slide!"

Waks slams down on the block top and blue pieces fly up and hit and fall onto two of the Chaos, destroying them, but the last one splits into cells and start giving off ice flashes. The flashes create ice on several parts of the block. They then surround Waka with an ice ring and give off more flashes. By the time they're done, Waka is completely frozen in a mountain of ice.

"Waka! Funary, use Thunderbolt! Masquin, use Silver Wind!"

Funary shoots out a Thunderbolt onto the Ice Chaos cells, destroying some of them and Masqin finishes the rest off with a strong Silver Wind. After they're done, Funary and Masqin use their attacks on the ice mountain, shattering it, but leaving Waka intact.

"We better get going!"

Everyone continues across the next bridge linking the blue block with the indigo one. Here, a squadron of tough flying robots belonging to Team Rocket, known as Ninjask Drones, come towards Tsubasa at incredible speeds and almost knock her off the bridge, which she manages to hang on to.

"Whoa! What just hit me?!"

The Ninjask Drones come to a stop and begin an attack. Thye give off spiraling light rings they hit every one of Tsubasa's Pokémon. Funary tries Thunderbolt on them multiple times, but the robots swiftly swerve out of the way. Waka even tries a Rock Slide, but the same thing occurs. Masqin tries an Ice Beam, and spins around wildly with in, hopeing to hit one of them Ninjask Drones. It manages to hit one of them, freezing it in midair. Tsubasa manages to get back up onto the bridge.

"Funary, use Thunderbolt!

Funary unleashes a Thunderbolt on the frozen Drone, destroying it instantly. Masqin tries an Ice Beam once more, and freezes another. Funary follows up with Thunderbolt, destroying that one too. They keep this up until all five of the Drones are defeated.

"Good job, guys! Now to get going!"

Tsubasa continues along the bridge to the indigo block, where a group of Solar Chaos reside, but Tsubasa can clearly see them. She has Masqin fire a Silver Wind to stun them, then Kappa finishes off each of them with a Mach Punch. With all three Chaos out of the way, everyone heads down the bridge linking the indigo block to the violet one.

"What are we doing here anyway?"

Along the bridge, three Fire Chaos decide to attack with Flamethrowers that leave a large part of the bridge way too hot to step on. Waka simply intervenes with a Rock slide that destroys two of them, but the third splits into cells and Waks fires a Water Gun at each of them, destroying them before they give off any fiery flashes. It then uses Water Gun on the burned part of the bridge to cool it off.

"Defeating these things gets easier and easier each time!"

On the violet block, a set of Thunder Chaos reside. Tsubasa notices them in advance and decides to have Masqin use Qilver Wind on them once more, stunning them. Kapps sends out Mach Punches on the first two electrical Chaos, but the third splits into cells and surrounds it in a sphere. From there, they constantly discharge electrical flashes.

"Masqin, use Mud Shot to help out Kappa!"

Masqin sends out several Mud Shots onto the cells, destroying several of them. The remaining ones reform into a full Chaos, but Masqin fires one last Mud Shot at its head, destroying it.

"Kappa, are you all right?"

Kappa's fine, and everyone walks down the incline on the violet block where they find another computerized switch like the ones on the Solrock and Lunatone Planets. This one displays elevator data and a map of the fifth tier on all four sides. Tsubasa presses down on the switch and the screens change to this:

"ELEVATOR TO TIER 5 ACTIVE"​

There is a string of meteor platforms and floating bridges that lead to a large platform and light path back to the other side of the Space Platform. They cross every single one of them and land back on the fourth set of levels. From there, they head back into the elevator where their next destination is the fifth tier of the Space Platform. Back inside, she presses the button to go down the fifth tier of levels.

"Destination Level 5-1. Now closing doors." -Elevator OS Voice

The elevator doors close and the elevator starts going down to the first level of the second tier. Upon reaching that level, the OS voice comes on again.

"Level 5-1 now reached. Opening doors. Watch your step." -Elevator OS Voice

After exiting the elevator, Tsubasa notices there's no light path active since she was unable to turn it on.

"If I remember, we need to find a switch for this path."

Tsubasa looks around the lower level of the tier, hoping to find the switch. Along the way, she runs into a Solar Chaos that Masqin and Funary quickly destroy with Silver Wind and Thunderbolt, an Ice Chaos that Waka quickly defeats with Rock Slide, a Thunder Chaos that both Masqin and Waka defeat woth Silver Wind and Rock Slide, and a Fire Chaos that Waka finishes off on his own with Water Gun. On the other side of the platform, there is an elevator platform that Tsubasa and her Pokémon get onto, and all are levitated to the second floor of the tier. Wrapping around the Platform more, they face an Ice Chaos (Waka defeats with Rock Slide), a Thunder Chaos (Masqin and Kappa defeat with Silver Wind and Mach Punch), a Fire Chaos (Waka defeats with Water Gun), and a Solar Chaos (Masqin and Kappa defeat with Silver Wind and Mach Punch).

"That was good battling, guys!"

On the other side of the Platform, the find another another computerized switch. This one displays data and a map of the fifth tier on all four sides. Tsubasa presses down on the switch and the screens change to this:

"PATH TO RING AREA E OPEN"​

Suddenly, a blue light path appears leading to the outer area of the Space Platform. There is also another elevator platorm Tsubasa and her Pokémon use to go back down to the lower level. From there, they cross the path until they come to a meteor platform. From there, they can see a large ring of more platforms around the edge of the lowest point of the area.

"Wow! I wonder what we'll find here!"

Suddenly, a blue Attack Cube rises up, electrical systems pointed at Tsubasa.

"Not again! Guys, follow my lead!"

Tsubasa jumps onto the top of the Cube, followed by her Pokémon. As the machine guns on top prepare to fire, the Cube moves forward towards one of the outer platforms. From there, they jump to the platform where a set of red, orange, and yellow Attack Cubes have formed a 3-dimensional plus shape.

"Ready to do this again?!"

Everyone jumps to the set of Cubes and run across it as they start firing missiles. The blue one turns to another side and starts firing rail guns. At the next platform, there's a green Attack Cube, a blue Attack Cube, and a Violet Attack Cube.

"Keep, going! We don't have the power to stop these things!"

Tsubasa and her Pokémon jump from Cube to Cube to yet another platform. From there, there's a set of green and blue Attack Cubes forming a long L shape. After avoiding the lasers on this one, they reach another platform, except this one has a metal, circuited surface and yet another another computerized switch. This one displays data and a video screen of the huge container on all four sides. Tsubasa presses down on the switch and the screens change to this:

"SYSTEM CONTAINER OPEN"​

"I think that large box on top of the place has just been opened!"

Tsubasa notices a string of red, green, blue, and violet Attack Cubes leading to another platform neat the Space Platform. She and her Pokémon jump from Cube to Cube, avoiding all the attacks they fire at them. Upon reaching the platform, they cross the light path and go straight into the elevator. Back inside, she presses the button to go back to the first tier of levels.

"Destination Level 1-1. Now closing doors." -Elevator OS Voice

The elevator doors close and the elevator starts going up to the first level of the first tier. Upon reaching that level, the OS voice comes on again.

"Level 1-1 now reached. Opening doors. Watch your step." -Elevator OS Voice

After exiting the elevator, Tsubasa runs out of the elevator and then takes an elevator platform on the raised side and goes to the top of the platform. Here, lights and circuitry on the huge box start flashing and suddenly, the whole container glows.

"What's going on now?! We better get back!"

Suddenly, the container explodes and where it once stood, a massive Attack Cube, more than twice the size of the others, floats upward. This one also has a different color for each side. The colors are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet. Also, the paneled sides of this one are different, and the weapons are larger and arranged differently.

"What have I just uncovered?"

Suddenly, the Super Attack Cube fires high-powered gattling guns from the lower array of weapons. The vulcan fire from the guns rains all around Tsubasa and her Pokémon.

"We better run!"

Suddenly, the top array of weapons are pulled into the Super Attack Cube, and a different set appear in its place. These lones looks lile large laser cannons, and fire high-powered laser beams straight at Tsubasa.

"Keep going!"

As the lasers create constant energy explosions, Tsubasa and her Pokémon take the elevator platform back down to the lower level. Here, the Attack Cubes that they ran into back at the bottom of the Space Platform have made their way up.

"We better turn back!"

Tsubasa runs back the other way, but the laser blasts from the Super Attack Cube force her to make a quick right turn. Here, the weapons on the right side of the Cube activate, and neutron neutralizer dishes appear on the top array. They start charging up, then fire large neutralizer spheres that head for Tsubasa's Pokémon. Funary and Waka are both hit by the spheres, which creates large shockwaves, and become instantly immobile.

"Guys, we need to keep going!"

Tsubasa picks up both Funary and Waka. She puts Waka on her back, despite the fact that her back could break and carries Funary in her arms. Red-outlined, yellow-colored square targets appear on Tsubasa and her Pokémon and the Super Attack Cube brings out large missile launcher sets on the lower array and begins to fire multiple large homing missiles.

"Waka, sorry for this but return! It's better this way!"

After Waka returns to his Pokéball, Tsubasa and her Pokémon keep up the pace to outrun the missiles. Some of the other Attack Cubes start firng weapons of their own at Tubasa. At this point, She and her Pokémon reach another elevator platform and ride it up to the Space Platform's top. Where the large box once stood, there is now a meteor cannon.

"Whoa! I think we can stop these things!"

This meteor cannon also happens to be equipped with a large panel shield for protection. Tsubasa goes up the the end of the cannon and points it at some of the Attack Cubes. She then fires meteors at the Cubes, destroying four of them. The Super Attack Cube begins an assault of large rail cannon charges that split into four blasts. The rail cannons fire all around Tsubasa.

"Well, I hope you like this!"

Tsubasa starts firing meteors at the Super Attack Cube, which starts firing gattling guns again. The cannon's shield blocks the vulcan streams, though. After several meteors, the weapons on that side of it explode and the side bursts. It now glows in a critical flash fashion, indicating that side's been destroyed.

"Now I know what to do!"

Tsubasa decides to open fire on a few more of the regular Attack Cubes, destroying more of them. The Super Attack Cube flips sides and fires a quad stream of electricity at Tsubasa from the higher array. The beams hit all around her and form a large electrical field that traps her. Electricity sparks all around her.

"I won't let this block win!"

Tsubasa fires meteors upward towards the Super Attack Cube, but it fires more lasers that shatter the space rocks. Masqin decides to fire Mud Shots at the electrical cannons. By doing do, it blocks them and Tsubasa is freed. She decides to fire more meteors at the huge Attack Cube. After several of them, that side is destroyed as well.

"Only four more to go!"

The Super Attack Cube flips to another side and starts firing more of its neautralizer dishes. The spheres come straight for the meteor cannon. Tsubasa had no choice but to run from there. Due to the blasts, the cannon has become temporarily disabled.

"We'll need to wait until we can use the cannon again!"

Tsubasa runs as the Super Attack Cube begins firing more laser beams that sweep the whole area. She and her Pokémon jump back down to the lower level and decide to try the elevator. However, the computer screens on the doors indicate red minus signs and will not open up. The Super Attack Cube also activated a large teal laser fence that surrounds the entire edges of the tier, making going down impossible.

"Looks like we're stuck here!"

More of the Attack Cubes start an assault on Tsubasa. She then gets an idea on how to quickly get rid of them.

"The weapons in that big Cube look really powerful. Maybe if I can get those to hit the smaller Cubes, it'll destroy them!"

The Super Attack Cube switches out its upper array to more homing missile launchers. It then fires them towards Tsubasa and her Pokémon after more targets appear on them.

"Everyone, go near one of the small Cubes! When I say so, flee!"

All of Tsubasa's Pokémon go to one of the Attack Cubes. Tsubasa herself does the same, jumping onto one and grabbing onto the side. As the missiles near their targets, Tsubasa gives the signal.

"Everybody, now!"

All of Tsubasa's Pokémon run from the Attack Cubes and Tsubasa drops off the one she's on. The missiles collide right into the Cubes, destroying them instantly. All that's left now is the Super Attack Cube.

"I don't think we can destroy this with meteors alone! Hey! What's over there?!"

As it turns out, four small capsules have risen out of the metallic corners of the platform. Tsubasa runs up to them and sees that there's a glowing object floating in it. It happens to be shaped like a spiky ball and is giving off energy. This object is called a Star Shard, a piece of a star that Professor Hartache has managed to collect. There's a small video screen and keypad on the side of the capsule that displays this:

"STAR SHARD CONTAINER 1-A
STAR SHARD IS VERY ACTIVE AND HOT
DON'T COME IN CONTACT WITHOUT PROTECTION
WHAT ACTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?
OPEN STAR SHARD CONTAINER Y/N
LOAD STAR SHARD INTO METEOR CANNON Y/N"​

"Load Star Shard into the cannon? All right!"

Tsubasa says yes to loading the Star Shard into the meteor cannon. Suddenly, the Star Shard teleports out of the capsule. The video screen on the capsule not changes to this:

"STAR SHARD NOW IN METEOR CANNON
PLEASE USE STAR SHARD WITH CAUTION"​

"Well, let's get going!"

As the Super Attack Cube once again prepares to fire, this time, more rail cannons, Tsubasa and her Pokémon run back to the elevator platform leading back up to the cannon. From there, she runs up to the cannon and sets her sights on the Super Attack Cube.

"Okay! Let's see how this works!"

Tsubasa fires the cannon right when the massive Cube focuses one of its sides at Tsubasa. The Star Shard blasts right out of the cannon in the form of a minature comet, causing a light ring shockwave on the cannon's front. The comet goes right into the side of the Attack Cube, creating more light shockwaves that make the form of an atom, and instantly destroys that side of the Super Attack Cube.

"Whoa! These are great! Looks like mini stars are the way to go!"

Realizing that she has just found a great way to destroy the Super Attack Cube, Tsubasa quickly runs as the Cube fire more lasers towards the meteor cannon. She jumps back down to the lower level and runs to tne next Star Shard capsule. At this one, the video screen displays the same data as the first:

"STAR SHARD CONTAINER 1-A
STAR SHARD IS VERY ACTIVE AND HOT
DON'T COME IN CONTACT WITHOUT PROTECTION
WHAT ACTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?
OPEN STAR SHARD CONTAINER Y/N
LOAD STAR SHARD INTO METEOR CANNON Y/N"​

"Let's do this!"

Tsubasa says yes and the Star Shard teleports out of the capsule. The video screen on the capsule changes to this:

"STAR SHARD NOW IN METEOR CANNON
PLEASE USE STAR SHARD WITH CAUTION"​

At this point, Funary is ready to fight some more since the immobilzation effect of the neutralizer blast has worn off.

"Funary, you think you can man the other capsule? Kappa, same thing with the other?"

Both Funary and Kappa respond and head for the other two capsules.

"Maw, go help Funary! Masqin, go help Kappa!"

Maw and Masqin go to help out Funary and Kappa. Taubasa runs from the capsule since the Super Attack Cube begins firing more electrical barriers at Tsubasa, who gets out a Pokéball.

"Waka, I hope you're better! Let's go!"

Waka comes back out of its Pokéball, also cured of the immobilization. Both of them run back to the elevator platform and go back to the meteor cannon. Tsubasa mans the cannon and points it at the Super Attack Cube. She then fires another star comet at the Cube, hitting another side, destroying it. There's now only two more sides to go. The Super Attack Cube flips to another side and activates more missile launchers.

"Get ready guys!"

More targets appear on Tsubasa and every one of her Pokémon. Back at one of the capsules, Funary presses some keys and the screen displays this:

"STAR SHARD CONTAINER 1-A
STAR SHARD IS VERY ACTIVE AND HOT
DON'T COME IN CONTACT WITHOUT PROTECTION
WHAT ACTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?
OPEN STAR SHARD CONTAINER Y/N
LOAD STAR SHARD INTO METEOR CANNON Y/N"​

Funary presses yes and the Star Shard teleports out of the capsule. The video screen on the capsule changes to this:

"STAR SHARD NOW IN METEOR CANNON
PLEASE USE STAR SHARD WITH CAUTION"​

At the same time, Kappa is trying to load another Star Chard into the cannon. This is what's on the screen:

"STAR SHARD CONTAINER 1-A
STAR SHARD IS VERY ACTIVE AND HOT
DON'T COME IN CONTACT WITHOUT PROTECTION
WHAT ACTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?
OPEN STAR SHARD CONTAINER Y/N
LOAD STAR SHARD INTO METEOR CANNON Y/N"​

Kappa says yes, but the vidro screen becomes bordered woth red-and-black caution strips and this is displayed in red:

"ERROR WITH METEOR CANNON!
STAR SHARD ALREADY IN METEOR CANNON
CANNOT LOAD STAR SHARD INTO METEOR CANNON"​

As it turns out, only one Star Shard can be in the meteor cannon at a time. As the missiles near, Funary and Maw run from the ones coming for them while Kappa and Masqin do the same.

"Guys, watch out!"

Funary uses Thunderbolt to destroy the missiles coming for him and Maw, and Masqin uses Silver Wind to do the same with the missiles coming its and Kappa's way. Waka creates a Rock Slide to destroy the missiles coming for him and Tsubasa.

"Now to get back to destroying this thing!"

Tsubasa runs back up to the meteor cannon and points it at the side of the Super Attack Cube. As the Cube switches back out to gattling guns and fires them, Tsubasa fires another star shard at it. Vulcan cannon fire raind down everywhere as the comet goes for the Cube, destroying that side. There's now only one more side to deal with.

"Kappa, load it now!"

Kapps tries again with the Star Shard. The video screen goes back to this:

"STAR SHARD CONTAINER 1-A
STAR SHARD IS VERY ACTIVE AND HOT
DON'T COME IN CONTACT WITHOUT PROTECTION
WHAT ACTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?
OPEN STAR SHARD CONTAINER Y/N
LOAD STAR SHARD INTO METEOR CANNON Y/N"​

Kappa says yes and this time, the Star Shard teleports out of the capsule. The video screen on the capsule changes to this:

"STAR SHARD NOW IN METEOR CANNON
PLEASE USE STAR SHARD WITH CAUTION"​

"All right now! One more to go!"

The Super Attack Cube flips to its final active side and switches out to more missile launchers on the lower array and laser cannons on the higher array. It starts firing both as a target appears on Tsubasa and Waka and fires the last Star Shard from the cannon. The comet cruises through the lasers ans hits the side of the Super Attack Cube. Suddenly, the Cube starts spinning on its lower-right axis as it rises up into the air. It starts spinning faster and faster until it explodes into a large explosion.

"Yes! We did it!"

The missiles from the Super Attack Cube continue to come forward, but Waka destroys them with another Rock Slide. At this point, the laser fences disappear, the elevators turn back on, and the meteor cannon sinks back into the floor. Suddenly, the floor itself opens up to reveal a shuttle launcher bay in the Space Platform.

"Shuttle bay now open. Shuttle 1-1, destination Space Plant." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

With the bay now open, all the shuttles in there are preparing for their predesignated launches.

Shuttle 2-3, destination City Area 2-A." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

"Whoa! They're already starting up!"

Shuttle 3-4, destination Laser Station." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

"Not the one I'm supposed to take."

Shuttle 4-2, destination Space Pathway." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

"That's the one I need to use!"

As all of Tsubasa's Pokémon also gather near the bay, Tsubasa's shuttle is ready for liftoff.

"Shuttle 4-2, destination Space Pathway, preparing to launch." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

"Guys, we better get on!"

Tsubasa and all of her Pokémon drop down into the shuttle bay as their shuttle is ready to take off.

"Please clear shuttle vicinity. Launch in 10, 9, 8..." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

Tsubasa and her Pokémon run to the shuttle, where it starts to rise into the air.

"...7, 6, 5..." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

The shuttle doors slide open and Tsubasa makes sure all her Pokémon get on first, once they're on, she gets into the shuttle herself.

"...4, 3, 2..." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

Tsubasa all all of her Pokémon get into the seats as the shuttle engines start up.

"...1, shuttle ignition activated." -Shuttle Bay OS Voice

The shuttle starts to rise into the air above the shuttle bay. The shuttle rockets then fire up and the shuttle goes zooming out of the area of the Space Platform. Tsubasa once again examines all the control panels, screens, and monitors making up the shuttle's dashboard.

"Well, we're finally on out way to the next area!"

The shuttle cruises through the area of space within the Star City area. Several minutes later, the shuttle starts to near an area of twisting pathways, platforms, and stations out in space.

"Shuttle approaching Space Pathway. Please prepare to dock." -Shuttle OS Voice

 

[Loki]

OOC: No worries~ ... By the way... is that my Absol that's talking? \B| (BTW, that emoticon is the perfect representation of Zion's expression for most of this post. xDD) Isn't that powerplaying? I don't really mind but um. Absol probably wouldn't have said any of those things. < <;; But that's okay too.


SUPAH EDIT: HOLY crap. WHAT is going on? *missed like, ten thousand posts*

A) I don't think I gave anyone the right to powerplay Zion OR Absol.
B) Zion was with Kelsey. No where else.
C) What the heck is going on?

IC: Zion listened patiently, staring at Kelsey as if she were the weirdest person he'd ever met. And she was, at this point in time. Lot's of talking... lot's of weird pokemon. Even Absol had an unimpressed, half asleep expression on his face as the duo listened to the long conversation between human and pokemon. Zion's eyes slid to meet his own pokemon's gaze, both of them rather bored. Zion however, simply followed Kelsey when she asked if they should go on. (He still wasn't particularly interested in this troublesome mission.)

"I don't really believe in humans and pokemon powers and stuff like that." Zion said nonchalantly, pointing to his head, "Just stay out of my head and we'll be dandy."

<'Zion.'>

"Yep." Zion replied when they heared the scritching sound, "You want to go check it out?"

<'... And be a sacrifice? Not really. Get Shuppet to do it. The minute she see's something we'll know for sure.... As if anyone could not hear her noisy screeching.'>

"Or," Zion looked to Kelsey, "If you've got a pokemon more suited for scouting..." He looked at her pokemon line-up at the current moment. Hypno. Nope. Banette. Same as sending Shuppet, except, probably a slower reaction. As far as he could tell, Shuppet might as well go. With a sigh, Zion sent out the timid Shuppet, who freaked out the minute she heard the scritching sound, hiding underneath Absol's white belly.

<'Well. That tells us what we already knew.'> Absol said sarcastically, as he used an iron tail on his own comrade, sending Shuppet flying forwards, her unmistakeable shriek being heard even before she reached whatever was making that sound.

It was deathly quiet for a moment, after Shuppet's screaming had been cut off in an eerily abrupt way.

<'AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" Shuppet's earsplitting shriek pierced through the tree's as she flew back at top speed, phasing through everything and white as a ghost.

OOC: So until this is cleared up, my post is going to be cut out. *not deleting it in case I'm the one that's on the right track.*

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

OCC: Sorry, but I'll take the blame for putting Zion with the rest of the group. I just assumed he went with everybody else. Anyway, from now on, Zion is with Kelsey for the time being. Also, in this next post of mine, Ayu going to get into a little trouble, and there's a little PG-13 content near the end as well. Don't worry! Ayu won't take kindly to what happens. Now on with two more parts from me!

T-Minus 19:00:00

Back in the Electrochemical Reactor, Topaz and Jay head through the third set of floors in the reactor. However, things may seem easy as they pass through a short hall. There's a holographic map station that displays a large chamber ahead and large glass strips on the walls where yellow colored concentrated energy flows downward. The two stop at the holographic map to figure out where they should head next.

"Well, how much farther do we have to go?" -Jay

I'm not sure. I don't know where the reactor's core is exactly."

"Well, only one way to find out!" -Jay

Jay heads down the hall to another set of doors.

"Hey! Wait up!"

Topaz follows Jay as the come to the set of doors, which then slide open. The next area looks large and empty. There are large energy lights all over the walls of this room. Suddenly, the reactor's OS system turns on.

"Activating cooling liquid! Activating cooling liquid! Sealing off doors! Sealing off doors!" -Reactor OS voice

"What the?!"

"I think we need to get out of here!" -Jay

Too late. The doors have sealed and Topaz and Jay are trapped. From large square grate vents all over the floor, an orange liquid starts flowing in. It floors the entire room and starts to rise. Topaz and Jay are taken up with it.

"What is this stuff?!" -Jay

"It's probably part of the reactor cooling system!"

As the liquid continunes to rise up several levels, a few Artificial Chaos, two Solar, one Fire, and two Thunder, float above.

"It looks like we got company!"

"Blastoise, come on out and use Hydro Pump!" -Jay

Blastoise comes out if its Pokéball and lands in the liquid. It dives down for a sec, then quickly swims upward. It goes bursting out of the liquid, then sends a Hydro Pump straight at the Fire Chaos, obliterating it. The liquid rises past the rest of them, who decide to do an aquatic assault.

"Where'd they go?" -Jay

Suddenly, a Thunderbolt is shot up from under the liquid. The attack hits Blastoise.

"Blastoise, don't give in! You need to finish them off!" -Jay

Blastoise dives back under the liquid, searcing for the rest of the Chaos. The Thunder Chaos have managed to partially blend in with the orange-colored liquid, making it a little difficult for Blastoise to find them. One of the Solar Chaos fires a Solarbeam right for Blastoise, but the large turtle Pokémon manages to dodge it. It then lowers its head, then charges the Chaos at full speed.

"I can't see very well, but I think Blastoise is using Skull Bash!"

Blastoise rams the head of the Solar Chaos, sending it right into a Thunder Chaos. Suddenly, the two fuse together into a larger green-and-yellow Chaos with a larger head.

"Uh-oh! Is it just me, or did those two things merge together?!" -Jay

At this point, the liquid has risen to the ceiling. Topaz and Jay reside in a long sloping alcove in the ceiling where they can still be above the liquid.

"Maybe it's time I handle this! Dragonair, go!"

Dragonair comes out of its Pokéball and dives down into the depths of the liquid. It goes towards the Solar Thunder Chaos and fires a Dragonbreath at its head, doing some more damage to it. However, the liquid creature charges up, then fires a Solarbeam with a Thunderbolt wrapped around it. The Thunder Solarbeam whizzes right past Dragonair and bursts out of the liquid near Topaz and Jay.

"Whoa! That's some attack!"

Dragonair decides to fire an Ice Beam next. The frigid beam freezes some of the orange liquid around it as it goes towards the combined Chaos, hitting it in the head and destroying the Solar part of it. Now that it's only a Thunder Chaos once more, it splits into cells and decides to rise upward.

"Looks like we got more trouble!" -Jay

Dragonair decides to use Dragonbreath once more on the Thunder Chaos's cells, hitting a number of them, causing them to fizzle out. Seeing the other Solar Chaos nearby, the cells decide they can merge once more. The Solar Chaos also splits into cells to do the same thing.

"They're going to combine again!"

Dragonair decides to use Dragonbreath once more. By doing so, it hits the reat of the Thunder Chaos cells, deatroying them. With nowhere else to go, the Solar Chaos cells regroup into a whole Chaos. Dragonair slams it with another Ice Beam to the head, freezing it. It then uses Dragonbreath to finish it off, shattering it into pieces.

"Whoa Dragonair! That was something!"

There's now only one Thunder Chaos left. It retaliates by firing another Thunderbolt towards Dragonair. The Dragon-type ends up getting hit by the attack, but can still go on. It fires another Ice Beam at the Chaos, freezing it and then uses Dragonbreath to finish it off.

"Yes! Dragonair took care of them!"

With all the Chaos out of the way, Dragonair and Blastoise swim back up to the surface.

"Topaz, I think Blastoise will allow us to get through here quickly!" -Jay

"You might be right, but Dragonair will help out, too!"

"Well, we should get going now if we want to make it! Grab on!" -Jay

Both Jay and Topaz grab onto Blastoise, who then dives under the liquid. Dragonair follows as well. They come to a tunnel opening in the wall below. They go through the tunnel, which seems safe, On the other side of the tunnel, they come to another room. There's a pool of red colored energy below, and because of its heat, it's heating up a large part of the liquid. Blastoise swims up to avoid the damaging heated part of the liquid. At the top of the room, there's another tunnel, which they head through. At the end of this tunnel, which slopes down halfway through, they come to a wider area with surface above. They swim up to the surface.

"Whoa! That was something!"

"Yeah, but I didn't know any better, we're still not out of here!" -Jay

The whole group of them decide to dive under again after catching their breath and find another tunnel ahead to the right. The next tunnel has laser fences above and below, but Blastoise manages to slip by them. At the end of the tunnel, they come to a wide shaft-like room. In here happen to be three Ice Chaos, and they don't look happy. Everyone quickly swims downward as the Chaos fire Ice Beams around them. Dragonair manages to hold them off with Dragonbreath. At the bottom of the room happens to be a pool of blue energy, and the frigidness of the pool is making the liquid above it almost frozen. However, the tunnel leading further in is within the freezing part of the liquid.

"(Mouthing.) What should we do?!"

"(Mouthhing.) We'll just have to brave it!" -Jay

Blastoise dives down into the freezing part of the liquid, which is so cols that some ice is forming around both humans and both Pokémon. As they near the tunnel, a good amount of ice has formed around them. They make it into the tunnel, where vertical laser fences appear on the left and right sides of the tunnel. The tunnel also makes a left turn partway through. On the other side, they emerge in a laser-filled shaft and quickly swim up past them until they reach the surface at the top. Gasping for breath, they wait until they stop before talking again.

"Whoa! How do you like that?!" -Jay

"That was something! I just hope it doesn't happen again!"

Everyone swims to shore, where there's a short hall going to the left. At the end of this hall happens to be another Heavy Walker, and it activates just as Topaz and Jay approach it.

"What's that?!" -Jay

"I've seen one of those earlier! Get down!"

The tank robot ends up firing its spiral chainguns, which thw two of them barely manage to duck. The bullets instead hit Blastoise, who withdraws into its shell, but the bullets' impact still knock it all the way back into the liquid. As it turns out, Blastoise has been knocked out.

"Blastoise, return!" -Jay

Blastoise goes back into its Pokéball.

"Dragonair, Ice Beam!"

Dragonair fires an Ice Beam at the Heavy Walker, freezing the upper main part, but it quickly breaks out of the ice and starts stomping forward.

"Just how tough is this thing?!" -Jay

"About as strong as an armored tank!"

Topaz gets out her laser rifle and starts firing onto the robot, doing some damage, but its still far from finished. Suddenly, the Heavy Walker flips its guns over to culaster bomb cannons and fires two of them forward.

"Jay, GET BACK!"

Both Jay and Topaz run to the liquid, where Dragonair is waiting, and dive back in. The cluster bombs explode over the liquid, creating several large explosions. The explosions penetrate the surface. Will Topaz and Jay survive this attack?

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T-Minus 20:15:00

Back on Pine's Island, the bridge that everybody's on is shaking. Suddenly, the bridge shatters into the panels making it up and everybody falls down into the river below.

"Just our luck! A booby trap!"

All the Trainers and both Arcanine land in the tropical river below. Ayu ends up going under and bangs her head on a rock at the bottom. She ends up unconscious.

"Hey! Where's Ayu?!" -Kiro

"I don't see her anywhere!" -Nova

As it turns out, Ayu's being swept under the surface of the river. From further up the river, a group of about three large robots resembling Kingler come down the river.

"We've got company again!" -Alalia

The Kingler robots fire octagonal-shaped bombs from their claws, and the bombs go straight for the group of Trainers.

"Arckee, Flamethrower!" -Kiro

Arckee, a little hurt by the water, but still able to battle, fires a Flamethrower at the front Kingler robot and keeps firing it. In several seconds, the robot blows up, but the bomcs continue to come forward.

"Arckee, keep using Flamethrower!" -Kiro

Arckee keeps up the Flamethrower to destroy the bombs before they come too close to the Trainers. After the explosions, however, Arckee doesn't feel too good, and neither does Flaar.

"Arckee, return!" -Kiro

Arckee returns to its Pokéball. Louinne decides to try to help out.

"Chinue, come on out and use Light Beam!" -Louinne

Chinue comes out of its Pokéball and lands in the water. It then fires an electrical beam from its angler antennae. The beam goes straight for one of the Kingler robots and hits it. The attack also paralyzes it.

"That was good, Louinne!" -Alalia

"Oh, I am so sending out CJ!" -Nova

Nova's Feraligatr come sout of its Pokéball, also ready to battle.

"CJ, Hydro Pump!" -Nova

CJ fires a Hydro Pump at the paralyzed Kingler robot, destroying it.

"Chinue, another Light Beam!" -Louinne

The Lanturn fires yet another Light Beam at the last Kingler robot, also paralyzing it.

"Now for another Hydro Pump, CJ!" -Nova

CJ fires a Hydro Pump once more and destroys the last Kingler robot. With them out of the way, there's still a matter of Ayu, who's been underwater for more than a minute.

"What about Ayu?! If we wait any longer, she'll drown!" -Kiro

"I think we better hurry, because of that fence up ahead!" -Nova

Up ahead on the river happens to be a fence composed of red energy being generated between two large metal posts. This happens to be a plasma fence, and if Ayu is swept into it, it'll kill her. Not only that, but the plasma fence is right in front of a waterfall.

"Look! There's some vines we can use!" -Alalia

"Yeah! There's a lot of thick ones coming up!" -Nova

"Coco, go and save Ayu from that plasma fence!" -Kiro

Kiro lets out her Corsola, who dives under and swims out towards the unconscious Ayu. As she nears the plasma fence, which extends underwater to the river bottom, Coco catches up to her and gets under her bare back. Coco then pushes Ayu back upstream to where everyone else has grabbed onto large vines that make a diamond grid above the water.

"Thanks, Coco! Here, let me take her! You need to return!" -Kiro

Kiro returns Coco to her Pokéball. CJ does the same with Feraligatr and Louinne with Chinue. Everyone, including Flaar, manages to climb up the vines to a strip of land on the right side. Back on dry land, Kiro lays Ayu down on her back. Nove then comes up and puts his ear to her mouth to check if she's breathing. As it turns out, she is not breathing!

"We'll have to give her mouth-to-mouth!" -Nova

"You're not serious, are you?" -Alalia

"Yes I am! You want her to die?!" -Nova

Nova holds Ayu's head back so that her mouth is open. He then positions his head over her mouth.

"Well, here goes nothing!" -Nova

Nove takes a deep breath, then exhales into Ayu's mouth, making a tight seal. The breath lasts for five seconds. After the breath, Ayu is still not breathing. Nova ends up undoing part of her shirt so that her bra is exposed. He then puts his hands over her chest and presses down five times. Everyone is watching this happen, a few of them questioning some parts of the procedure.

"(Pressing down on Ayu's chest.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

"(Pressing down on again.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

"(Pressing down on again.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

"(Pressing down on again.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

"(Pressing down on again.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

After five more breaths, Ayu still isn't breathing. Nove puts his ear to her chest to see if her heart's beating. Sadly, it's not.

"(Almost crying.) Is Ayu dead?" -Kiro

"I hope not! We need her!" -Nova

"Don't give up, Nova! You can do it!" -Alalia

Nove decides to keep going, hoping that Ayu hasn't died from this mission.

"(Pressing down on Ayu's chest.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

"(Pressing down on again.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

"(Pressing down on again.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

"(Pressing down on again.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

"(Pressing down on again.) 1! 2! 3! 4! 5! (Breathes into Ayu's mouth.)" -Nova

At this point, Ayu starts coming to! She coughs ans spits up water. She starts breathing rapidly, but heavily. Nivs puts his ear down on her chest to see if her heart's beating. It is once again. However, now that she's back, Ayu doesn't approve of how Nova in on her chest or that her shirt's open. She pushes Nova right off her.

"Just what do you think you're doing?!"

"Hey, I just saved your life!" -Nova

"But decided to do a little exploring in the process?!"

Ayu redoes her shirt. She still looks at Nova discretly.

"Sorry, but I don't like jerks who think they can get a look at me whenever they feel like it!"

"Sorry. By the way, what about your Arcanine?" -Nova

Ayu looks to Flaar, who looks quite weak from landing in the water. As it turns out, Ayu's Arcanine needs a good rest.

"Flaar, return. I guess we'll have to go on foot for a while unless anyone has any other means of transportation."

"Orny will be able to carry all of us! How about it comes out for a little fun!" -Louinne.

Louinne's Steelix comes out of its Pokéball and lands on the ground hard. Everyone then gets onto it and are all ready to continue forward.

"Hey! How about we dig our way through this jungle?!" -Louinne

"I don't think that's such a good idea!"

"Too late, because here we go!" -Louinne

Orny starts burrowing downward into the ground, creating a massive hole. Where our Trainers are headed, no one knows.

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T-Minus 18:30:00

Back in the Meteor Base, Nived has just passed through another set of doors into another room. As it turns out this one contains a large pool of violet-colored concentrated energy spanning to both ends of the room. There are large, rectangular computer screens on both walls here with lots of different data moving on them. There's a short floating bridge above the energy ahead.

"Now what's al this?"

Nived jumps to the bridge and a swarm of three Laser Discs come down. They already start by firing green laser bursts all around the room.

"All right now! Let's do this the easy way!"

Nived gets out his homing rocket launcher and points it towards the nearest Laser Disc. He then fires a rocket straight into the Disc's center, destroying it. The other two start charging up red laser blasts.

"No you guys don't!"

Nived fires another rocket, which he steers right into the center of the second Laser Disc, destroying that one as well. The last remaining one fires its laser charge at Nived, which he manages to dodge at the last second, but the exlosion almost send him right over the edge. He ends up hanging onto the glass railing of the bridge. He ends up feeling some kind of force from the energy pool below.

"Whoa! Just what is that?!"

Before he ends up falling off, Nived pulls himself up back onto the bridge, where the last Laser Disc starts firing blue laser beams.

"Let's finish this once and for all!"

Nived fires one last rocket and controls it to go right into the Disc, destroying the last one for now. With them out of the way, Nived decides to go to the end of the bridge, where there's another in front of him turned to the right. He jumps to this one as well. Suddenly, another target appears on him. There's another Hover Launcher in the room, and it fires laser beams towards Nived. The beams sweep the bridge, and Nived decides to open fire again.

"Enough of this! My Pokémon are wiped!"

Nived fires a rocket at the Launcher, hitting it. He then fires another while the robot is stunned, destroying it. With that one out of the way, Nived goes to the end of the bridge, where another bridge floats to the left of him. He jumps over the raiing and onto the next bridge. Notcing there's no danger, he crosses the bridge to the other side of the energy pool. From here, he jumps to safe ground, bt two Solar Chaos rise out of the liquid energy, poised to attack.

"Wait a minute! I see you!"

Nived turns back around and fires another rocket, which goes right into the head of the Solar Chaos, and the explosion destroys it. While the second Chaos is busy charging a Solarbeam, he fires another rocket into that one, also destroying it.

"Now that's more like it."

With the two Chaos out of the way, Nived goes through another set of doors into anoher tunnel, this time one sloping downward. In here, there once again appear to be laser grids. As the vertical lasers from the first go down, Nived slides under the horizontal ones. Suddenly, a Flamethrower is fired at him. It happened to come from a Fire Chaos further down the tunnel.

"Another one of these?!"

Nived fires another rocket back as retaliation, destroying the molten liquid lifeform. At the next set of lasers, the horizontal ones disappear and Nived slips in betwee the vertical ones. Here, a second Fire Chaos s poised to burn Nived, but is met with another rocket.

"These things are relentless!"

With that Chaos out of the way, Nived comes t the third laser fence, and once the vertical lasers have gone, Nived slips under the horizontal ones. Comeing to an octagonal door, Nived heads through into another octagonal circuitry hall. From there, he simply heads through the next door and enters a wider hall with no floor, but floating platforms moving all around the hall and some large balcony outcroppings in both walls of the hall.

"Well, I'm poised for more jumping!"

As the first platform comes to him, Nived jumps to it and lands on it. The platform then moved forward to an outcropping to the left. He jumps there, but a Thunder Chaos is waiting for him. It already sends a Thunderbolt his way, but Nived dodges it.

"All right now! Let's do this!"

Nived fires a rocket right up at the Chaos's head, destroying it. Another platform moves towards him, and he manages to jump to it. This one takes him to another platform moving left and right. He jumps to this one and takes it to anther outcropping to the right in the hall. As it turns out here, there are more Gyro Balls floating around the hall, and another Thunder Chaos floats among them. It fires a Thunderbolt that sends several of the spheres flying around the hall. In fact, one of them hits Nived, causing him to be pulled onto the sphere.

"Whoa! Not this again!"

Nived runs along the Gyro Ball until he can see the Thunder Chaos. As the sphere goes towards a wall, he aims his rocket launcher at it and fires one right into the Chaos's head, destroying it. Seeing that he'll be pulled from sphere to sphere due to their gravitational pulls, he jumps to another Gyro Ball, then to another, and then another, until he reaches an area where the hall turns right. There's an outcropping in the corner here he reaches. Suddenly, a large, flashing shot is fired towards him and explodes, sending out a multi-colored light upon impact.

"What was that?!"

Nived looks down the hall and sees an array of four large cannons floating in the hall. The second cannon fires another flashing bomb at him. Nived manages to jump to another Gyro Ball to avoid the blast, then jumps to another sphere, and anoher, and another. Another floating platform moves left and right below the cannons. Nived manages to reach the platform and it takes him to another outcropping to the right. This one has a few steel and electronic boxes on it. Also, another platform moves towards him, and he manages to jump to it.

"Now exactly why would they guard such an abandoned place like this?"

Here, Nived can see a large group of Gyro Balls forming a cluster. Suddenly, a blast of ice causes the cluster to explode and send all the spheres flying around the hall. Nived manages to jump to one as it flies towards him and is pulled onto it. The sphere then bounces off and whizzes above what causes that blast, an Ice Chaos.

"More of these?! Exactly how many did they give guard duty to here?!"

Nived prepares to fire another rocket, but as it turns out, he's all out. Looks like he'll have to bring out an old friend.

"Metagross, come on out and use Meteor Mash quick!"

Metagross comes out of its Pokéball and hovers in the air. It then senda a Meteor Mash right into the Ice Chaos's head, destroying it instantly. Metagross continues to float in the air, but Nived doesn't want to test its strength in a place like this.

"I'll keep to the spheres and platforms!"

Metagross kicks another Gyro Ball towards Nived for him to use to get though the hall. Nived jumps to it and it bounces off the wall towards another set of floating cannons. The third cannon fires a flashing bomb towards Nived, but Metagross's Meteor Mash impacts it, destroying both projectiles. Nived reaches another outcropping to the left and lands there. Here, the Gyro Balls come to an end.

"Looks like we're done with these things for now!"

Metagross doesn't think so. It sends one of them towards Nived's way, causing to be pulled onto it ad bounce around where the hall makes a left turn near an outcropping in the corner. In this part of the hall, there are large laser fences and more floating platforms.

"Good thing I'm on this sphere!"

However, the sphere ends up bouncing towards the first laser fence, thus giving him no choice but to abandon Gyro Ball. He jumps off the Sphere and falls down towards the first platform in this part of the hall. He manages to grab onto the railing and pull himself onto the platform. As the platform itself moves towards the lasers, they go down, but only for a few seconds. The lasers come back up as the platform passes by their emitters.

"Whoa! That was close!"

Nived reaches another platform moving up and down. He jumps onto it and sees an Ice Chaos in front of the second laser field. It responds by firing an Ice Beam straight at the platform. Suddenly, the beam glows with a blue color and is deflected back into the Chaos, but it absorbed by it. As it turns out, Metagross used Psychic to stop the Ice Beam, and it's already heading for the Chaos with a claw ready to use Meteor Mash. It slams the Ice Chaos with the attack in the head, destroying it.

"Good going, Metagross!"

At the platform's peak, there is another one moving left and right. He jumps onto it as it moves left and reaches another one going back and forth. Even with this platform's height, it's not enough to go over the laser fence, but the lasers go down at just the right time, and the platform moves between their emitters before the lasers com back on. Another platform moving up and down comes up, and Nived jumps to it. However, near the octagonal door and its balcony at the end of the hall, two Hover Launchers activate and fire meteors at Nivedwhile two targets appear on him.

"Not more of these!"

Metagross once again intervenes and uses Psychic on the meteors, sending them back to each of the Hover Launchers and doing damage to them. It then charges up another Meteor Mash and hits one of them, destroying it. It then uses Meteor Mash on the other one, destroying that one as well.

"Whoa! That's great!"

The platform comes down to one more moving back and forth, which Nived jumps to, this one takes him to the balcony in front of the door. Nived has finally traversed this large hall. Both him and Metagross head through the door into another short circuitry hall. They pass through the next set of doors and into another large room. This one happens to contain a large energy pool of blue energy this time. There are more of those rectngular computer screens on the walls and on the other side of the room, there's a wide, massive window looking out into space.

"Whoa! Look at that view!"

Nived sees a long bridge floating above the liquid energy and jumps to it. Ne can felel the intense cold coming from the energy pool. However, everything seems fine for now.

"Whoa! This fluid is freezing! If we fall in there's we'll probably become fozen!"

Nived continues across the bridge until he gets to the other side. There, he jumps to another area of solid ground, where the window is on the wall several feet above the floor. However, Nived's not alone, as two Fire Chaos, two Solar Chaos, four Laser Discs, a Hover Launcher, and a Heavy Walker are all in this area. Looks like Nived is in for another big fight!

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T-Minus 18:30:00

The shuttle carrying Tsubasa has just reached an outer space area n Star City knows as the "Space Pathway". There is a small shuttle station at the start of the area.

"Shuttle approaching station. Opening station doors." -Station OS Voice

"Looks like we're finally here!"

The doors of the shuttle station start to slide open and the shuttle flies right in. There are several more shuttles docked in te docking bay as well. There's an open area here where the shuttle floats down. Upon landing, the shuttle doors slide open and Tsubasa steps out. She gets out a small device and brings up a map of the entire area.

"The only way to my nest destination is a transport platform at the very end of this area."

Tsubasa walks out of the docing bay and into an area lined with computers and mainframes on both walls. There's nothing else here, so she walks ut of the main doors and onto a wide walkway in space. Outside, he area is amazing. There are more walkways, platforms, and mini space stations everywhere she looks. There are even other space structures here, such as large spinning discs, large glass-and-steel satellite dishes, space facilities, and many other things.

"Whoa! This place is something!"

Tsubasa happens to suddenly remember the hoverboard she was given. She pulls it out and gets onto it.

"Wait! I still have this to use! This should help make getting through here a lot quicker!"

Tsubasa starts off down the pathway. There are large, four-winged, octagonal arrow signs floating on both sides of the path, pointing in the direction Tsubasa is going. Eventually, the long path comes to an end as there are several large, rectangular platforms moving far left and right. Tsubasa knows she'll have to cross these.

"I know how to jump these!"

Tsubasa puts her left foot on the back of the hoverboard, and makes it jump into the air onto the first platform. She does it again to reach the second, then the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth. After the platforms, she comes to another walkway.

"That was easy!"

Tsubasa keeps going down the walkway as she passes through several massive floating glass, steel, and electronic octagonal-shaped rings the pathway is going through. The rings constantly spin left or right, emitting light waves within the rings. Suddenly, Tsubasa ends up feeling a major speed surge and is suddenly thrusted forward through the rings.

"What the?! This is way too fast!"

At the end of the path, Tsubasa is blasted right off the edge and goes flying forward, only barely drifting downward. She lands on another walkway going to the right and crashes right into a large steel wall railing on the right side.

"Ouch! They should give a warning about those things!"

As Tsubasa decides to pick up her hoverboard and get back on, a blast of electricity shocks the board, electrifiying it. As it turns out, a Thunder Chaos just opened fire on her. Behind it are two more Thunder Chaos.

"More of these?! I thought I was in the clear!"

The second Chaos splits into cells and starts to converge in Tsubasa, who decides to fight her own way.

"Waka, come on out and use Rock Slide!"

Waka comes out of its Pokéball and slams down on thw walkway, causing another Rock Slide. The rocks end up hitting the cells, destroying a few of them, and one of the Chaos, but suddenly, the cells surround Waka and regroup around him, trapping him within the Thunder Chaos's plasma body. Despite being part Ground, Waka is constantly taking on heavy damage from the high energy of the liquid creture.

"Masqin, come on out and use Mud Shot!"

Masqin comes out of its Pokéball and immediately fires a blast of mud towards the Chaos that Waka is trappe in. The attack hits the Chaos, causing it to split back into freeing Waka, who still has electricity running through it.

"Waka! Are you all right! Can you still use Rock Slide?"

Waka feels all right and use Rock Slide one more, hitting the Thunder Chaos and the cells. One of them is destroyed by the attack and so are several more of the cells. Masqin uses Mud Shot once more on the remaining whole Chaos, hitting it in the head and possible blinding it.

"Good job, Masqin! Now use Silver Wind to finish it!"

Masqin uses Silver Wind this time, hitting the rest of the cells and destroying them. The attack then hits the last Thunder Chaos, destroying it.

"There we go! Better get moving!"

Tsubasa gets back on her hoverboard, which still has som static from getting hit by that Thunderbolt. Waks also gets on and so does Masqin. The hoverboard takes off down the pathway.

"Let's just hope nothing like that happens again!"

At the end of the path, there are large, green-colored graphic-bordered cubes with blue-colored electronic circuitry running through the sides. These cubes turn and spin at regular intervals every few seconds and are arranged like stairs. Looks like this won't be as easy as the other platforms.

"Whoa. Get ready for this!"

As Tsubasa nears the cubes, she does the "board jump" once more onto the first as soon as it stops turning to the right. She then jumps to the right onto the second right before it spins backward and jumps to the third on the left. This one almost spins to the left, but Tsubasa jumps to the fourth and before that one turns forward, she jumps from that one onto a higher walkway.

"Now that was something"

Tsubasa keeps to the pathway as she passs through a pair of those speed rings she went through earlier. She is once again boosted down the path to the end. It may look like Tsubasa will fall to her death, but there is a large glass, square, grided panel in the walkway at the end. Suddenly, the panel glows and a large laser fan is generated in the panel. The laser fan emits a strong energy wind shaft upward. As Tsubasa reaches the panel, se is suddenly swept up into the wind shaft and spins around as she goes up into some sort of tall space tower with four large wings on both the left and right sides of the tower and massive girder beams extending from between the wings ending with massive solar panel arrays. The interior of the tower consists of a large shaft consisting of green glowing metal borders, blue diamond-shaped flashing tiles behind glass walls, and large computer screes on all four walls up the tower in these colors; red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, indigo, and violet. There are also red lighted bordered patforms with yellow light waves going across them. These platforms are about a third of the width of the shaft and are found all over the place in the area. Tsubasa ends up being repeled to the first of these platorms after the wind shaft. She now wonders how to make it up the shaft,

"We ned to make it up here, but how?"

Tsubasa decides to try and "board jump" her way up the shaft. She starts going for the edge and does the jump up. MAsqin helps her float up from the jump along with the low gravity. She makes it to the next platform to the left. From here, Tsubasa can see what ppears to be a group of about three Hover Launchers further up the shaft.

"Exactly what are those things?"

Tsubasa decides to do anothet jump to another platform on the left wall. From here, she gets a closer view of the robots, but a green-outlined, blue-colored target appears on her, another appears on Waka, and one more appears on Masqin.

"Now what's happening?!"

Suddenly, one of the Hover Launchers fires large laser beams at Waka, hitting him and almost knocking him off the platform. However, Waka is knocked out, probably also due to the "getting trapped in the Thunder Chaos" incident.

"Waka, return! Funary, I'm counting on you!"

Funary comes out of his Pokéball and fires a Thunderbolt straight up at the first Hover Launcher, doing some damage to it, but that one fires missiles at Tsubasa, its intended target.

"Funary, help out here!"

Funary fies another Thunderbolt at the homing missiles, doing some damage to them, but they are not destroyed, due to them probably being armored for just in case of such a ploy against them. Masqin uses Silver Wind to finish them off, but one of the higher ones fires a large meteor towards Masqin, hitting him and knocking him out instantly.

"Masqin, return! We should try and get closer to them!"

Tsubasa does another board jump to a platform above the ones she jumped from earlier. From there, she is in closer range to the first Hover Launcher.

"Funary, now!"

Funary launches a Thunderbolt at the hovering robot, destroying it. There are now only two more to deal with. Tsubasa makes another jump to a platform to her right. From there, she can see the second Hover Launcher further ahead.

"All right Funary. Take it down!"

Funary launches another Thunderbolt at the Hover Launcher, stunning it.

"Kappa, come on out and use Sky Uppercut!"

Kappa comes out of her Pokéball and launches a Sku Uppercut high into the air onto the robot, destroying it. Now there's only one more to deal with.

"We're almost there!"

Tsubasa manages to jump to yet another platform on the right wall, and the makes a jump to another on the other wall. Nearing the top of the tower, she can see the final Hover Launcher.

"Let's do it again!"

Funary sends out a Thunderbolt onto the robot, stunning it, but it then fires laser beams at Kapps, hitting her and almost knocking her out.

"Kappa, can you keep going?!"

Kappa feels all right, and she uses Sky Uppercut once more to destroy the Hover Launcher. With all of them defeated, Tsubasa continues up the shaft, doing a jump to a platform to her left, one of the left wall, one to the left, one of the back wall, another to the left wall, another to the right, one on the front wall, and then one more to the right. There happens to be another laser fan panel here, which turns on, creating another energy wind shaft. Tsubasa gets on the fan and is swept up out of the tower. she goes high above it until she reaches another walkway going to right and lands there.

 

[Loki]

OOC: It's fine - But are you referring to Ayu as in.. Ayu Locke? xDD (My old character?)

I don't mind, but I find that scene rather funny.

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

Well, I keep this RP going with more from Topaz's mission through the Electrochemical Reactor. Also, I'm continuing with the Pine's Island campaign as well. There also happens to be a little more innuendo with Ayu, so be careful.

T-Minus 18:30:00

Where we last left off Topaz and Jay in the Electrochemical Reactor, they have just come face to face with another of the reactor's defenses. Fighting another Heavy Walker, the two had to dive back down into the orange liquid to avoid a cluster bomb the robot tank fires at them. As the explosions clear, Topaz, Jay, and Dragonair surface, having managed to survive the attack.

"That was close!" -Jay

"You said it! That's the second time I was almost killed!"

"Well, how are we going to handle this thing?" -Jay

"The only way I know how! Camerupt, Eruption full power!"

Camerupt comes out of its Pokéball and upon doing so, sends out a powerful Eruption attack that spreads fire and lava all over the place. Topaz and Jay dive back under the liquid to avoid the strong attack. The Heavy Walker wobbles as it gets hit by the large pieces of magma falling onto it. Before it has a chance to use its huge chainguns again, it explodes. Topaz and Jay resurface.

"Told you I knew what I was doing!"

"Yeah! I guess you're right!" -Jay

"Camerupt, return! I'll bring you out again when needed!"

Camerupt returns to its Pokéball as the locks on the doors turn off and the doors slide open. Once again, Topaz and Jay head straight through. In the next area, there is a long, bottomless area the width of the hall. Over the area happens to be massive windows with orange-colored liquid energy flowing behind them. There's a floating platform moving back and forth over the gap and two more tube railings going directly up at the back of the hall on the other side of the gap.

"Well, let's keep going!"

Topaz and Jay get on the platform as it comes towards them and they take it over to the other side. Suddenly, two Fire Chaos rise up from the gap below and begin an assault of Flamethrowers at the two.

"Lanturn, use Hydro Pump quickly!"

Lanturn comes out of its Pokéball and fires a Hydro Pump straight at the first Fire Chaos's head, deatroying it. The other Chaos splits into cells and goes for Topaz and Jay.

"Lanturn, use Hydro Pump on the head!"

Lanturn fires another Hydro Pump at the second Chaos's head, but the cells surround it and form a shield using heat flashes. The heat manages to evaporate some of the incoming water, but the Hydro Pump breaks through several of the cells and hits the head, destroying all the cells with it. At this point, orange energy starts flowing through the railings and suddenly, an blue energy path materializes in between them.

"Well, how are we going to walk up this path?" -Jay

"I'm not sure."

Topaz goes up to the path and is suddenly pulled onto it.

"Whoa! What just happened?!" -Jay

"I think we'll be able to go up this path after all!"

Jay walks up to the path and is pulled onto it as well. They both walk up the path to another hall at the top where the path flows onto the floor. Here, Topaz and Jay step off and check out the area. At the end of the hall is another set of doors. After heading through, they enter another large shaft with a large platform floating in the middle with a short bridge leading to it.

"This plant is huge!" -Jay

"I know! We'll reach the core of the reactor soon!"

Both Topaz and Jay step onto the platform. Short glass-like walls rise up from the edges of the platform and the platform starts hovering downward. The numbers on the walls depict 03-4, 03-3, 03-2, and finally 03-1. At 03-1, the the platform stops in front of another short bridge leading to another set of doors.

"Why did we go down?" -Jay

"We'll find out later!"

After going off the platform and through the doors ahead, Topaz and Jay enter a wide hall with countless large fireballs floating throughout the area.

"Whoa! What are these?!" -Jay

"They look like some sort of fireball. Maybe this reactor's energy output is so great that these are just a byproduct of it."

"So what do you suggest we do?" -Jay

"Go around and get rid of them, that's what! Dragonair, Water Pulse!"

Dragonair charges up another Water Pulse, then unleashes it across the hall. The water surge crashes into many of the fireballs, evaporating them. With the hall cleared, looks like Topaz and Jay can keep going.

"Whoa! That was cool!" -Jay

Further down the hall happens to be another holographic map station. Topaz quickly checks the map to see what's ahead. Beyond it happens to be another set of doors. Through these doors, there is a large room with a pool of yellow concentrated energy making up most of the floor. Endless fireballs are constantly rising upward from the liquid energy and another large floating TV hovers in front of the pool.

"Well, how are we going to get past that?!" -Jay

"With that, of course! I know how these TV's work! They control a lot of the reactor's mechanisms! I'm sure this one has a purpose, too!"

Topaz goes up to the TV and presses some keys on the digital panel to make this screen come up:

"ENERGY REGULATOR SYSTEM
WHAT OPTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE?
ACTIVATE ENERGY PLATFORMS? Y/N
DRAIN ENERGY FROM POOL? Y/N
TRANSFER ENERGY TO ANOTHER AREA? Y/N
SHUT DOWN ENERGY IN POOL? Y/N
OPEN ENERGY VALVE IN PATH RAILINGS? Y/N"​

"Well, activate energy platforms. Let's do that!"

Topaz says yes to the first option on the TV, which goes to this screen:

"ENERGY FLOWING INTO PLATFORMS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE
WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE ANOTHER OPTION? Y/N"​

Suddenly, rise-like platforms rise out of the energy pool. There is more of the yellow energy flwoing through all the clear sides of the platforms. On the back wall of the room, there happens to be what looks like a large maze of tube-like railings.

"Hey! Maybe you could activate those as well!"​

-Jay

"I guess I should!"

Topaz says yes to taking another option and the screen goes back to this:

"ENERGY REGULATOR SYSTEM
WHAT OPTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE?
ACTIVATE ENERGY PLATFORMS? -/-
DRAIN ENERGY FROM POOL? Y/N
TRANSFER ENERGY TO ANOTHER AREA? Y/N
SHUT DOWN ENERGY IN POOL? Y/N
OPEN ENERGY VALVE IN PATH RAILINGS? Y/N"​

Topaz now says yes to the fifth option, which goes to this screen:

"ENERGY FLOWING INTO PATH RAILINGS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE
WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE ANOTHER OPTION? Y/N"​

Suddenly, the yellow energy starts flowing through the railing maze, lighting the maze sides up, and suddenly, an blue energy path materializes throughout the path maze.

"Well, let's get going!"

Topaz and Jay jump to the first platform, but watch out for the energy fireballs floating upward out of the pool. Thye can feel electrical static all around them as they're over the yellow energy. When some of the fireballs in front of them have risen up, they jump to the second, and then the third. As they jump to the fourth platform, a fireball nicks Topaz's arm and explodes in a tiny explosion, but singing her arm and almost knocking her off.

"Ow! That was close!"

There happens to be a large, solid platform in the middle of the energy pool where the path of platforms end. Here, Topaz and Jay step off and decide to take a short rest, but among the fireballs rising out of the liquid energy, about four Thunder Chaos also surface in the energy pool. One of the fires a Thunderbolt straight through a line of fireballs ands hits Topaz before she reacts.

"(Screaming.) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Topaz, becoming paralyzed from the extreme shock, falls to the ground unable to move. Jay looks out towards the energy pool and sees the Thunder Chaos amidst the rising fireballs.

"More of these!" -Jay

Knowing that the Chaos will go for him next, Jay decides to get out a Pokémon he believes is up to the challenge.

"Delcatty, use Solarbeam to stop these things" -Jay

Delcatty comes out of its Pokéball and the flower-like tip of its tail starts glowing. One of the Thunder Chaos fires another Thunderbolt near the platform, causing a large energy splash to hit delcatty. The Normal-type Pokémon feels a bit of electrical shock from the liquid energy.

"Delcatty, hang in there and don't give up!" -Jay

Delcatty manages to finish charging its Solarbeam and fires it. The attack hits the Thunder Chaos, square in the head, doing some samage to it, but it and another split into cells and go for Delcatty.

"Delcatty, use Blizzard to stop those cells!" -Jay

Delcatty charges up, then fires a large blast of ice and snow all around the area. The Blizzard hits several of the energy fireballs, slightly freezing them, but they continue to float upward. The Blizzard goes through many of the Chaos's cells, destroying them and also hitting the other two Chaos, doing some damage to them. However, the remaining cells reform into a single Chaos, who once again fires a Thunderbolt.

"Delcatty, try another Solarbeam!" -Jay

Delcatty starts charging up another Solarbeam while running around the platform. The three Chaos group together and each fire a powerful Thunderbolt. The three attacks merge together, forming a huge blast of lightning that goes straight for Delcatty. Suddenly, Dragonair comes and fires a Dragonbreath straight for one of the Chaos, destroying it, but gets hit by the Hyper Thunderbolt and faints.

"Whoa! Looks like Delcatty saved your neck!" -Jay

Delcatty finishes charging up Solarbeam and fires it onto one of the Chaos. However, a fireball floats up in front of the Solarbeam and the beam hits the fireball, nullifying the attack.

"What?! Delcatty, maybe you should try Blizzard!" -Jay

Delcatty charges up and fires another Blizzard at the two remaining Thunder Chaos. The attack goes through several of the fireballs, freezing them, and manages to hit both Chaos. One of them even becomes frozen by the attack. The other splits into cells for a group attack.

"Delcatty, try Blizzard once more!" -Jay

Delcatty charges up and fires yet another Blizzard at the Chaos, deatroying all the seperate cells and sending the frozen Chaos right into a fireball, destroying it. With all the Chaos destroyed, Jay runs up to the paralyzed Topaz and sees if she can get up.

"Topaz, are you all right?" -Jay

Topaz manages to get up, but is still quite shocked from the attack.

"What happened to Dragonair?"

"Dragonair pulled a sacrifice and blocked a huge Thunderbolt that was coming for Delcatty." -Jay

"Well, thanks Dragonair. Return for now. When you're healed you can come back out."

"Delcatty, you return, too. You did great out there!" -Jay

"Well, we should get going!"

There are more energy platforms going to the other side of the energy pool. The cross these as well, being careful of the fireballs rising out of the pool. After crossing five more of these platforms, they come to the other side of the pool, where the maze of energy paths begins. They walk onto the first path and start making their way up.

"You know how to reach the end of this?" -Jay

"Certainly. I think we'll get through here in no time!"

Topaz and Jay run up the path. At their first junction, they take the right path and at the next junction, they go up. At the next junction, they go left. They go through the maze like this; forward, right, dead-end, backtrack, go up, left, down, left, up, right, up. At the top of the large room, the energy paths go onto the ceiling.

"Whoa! Now what?!" -Jay

"We keep going, that's what!"

They continue to cross the energy path maze, but due to being over the energy pool, the fireballs are rising up towards them, exploding on the ceiling. While dodging the energy fireballs, they take the paths in this direction; forward, right, left, right, right, left, left, left, right, reach a dead-end, backtrack, go forward, left, and then right where a balcony sits in the wall below them.

"How do we get down?" -Jay

"I think we need to jump!"

Both Topaz and Jay jump off the energy path and flip over right side up. They land squarely on the balcony. From there, there is another set of doors ahead. Once again, they head through the doors and continue their journey though the energy reactor.

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T-Minus 20:00:00

Back in the jungles surrounding the center of Pine's Island, out band of Trainers have just burrowed underground thanks to Louinne's Steelix. The massive Steel/Ground Pokémon creates a large tunnel as it burrows through the ground.

"Exactly where are we going?"

"I'm not sure. We'll just have to find out." -Louinne

Several minutes later, Orny and the Trainers emerge through the wall into an underground cavern. The texture of the cavern happens to have a slight jungle green color to it, and there are thick vines all over the walls of the cavern. It's here that our Trainers can take what could be a shortcut through the jungle.

"Wow! This is something!" -Kiro

"We should get through this place in no time!" -Nova

"Let's just hope that's the deal."

"Right. On forth, Orny!" -Louinne

Orny continues moving through the cavern to a tunnel that slopes downward. This tunnel leads to a small pool of water at the bottom, but Orny keeps onto the wall to get over it. At the end of the tunnel, there is another cavern with a larger pool. The pool happens to be the width of the cavern, with spiked rock colums all over it, and there are small waterfalls coming out of the walls.

"We might be under that lake we heard about."

"I'm not sure. Didn't he say that water goes electric?" -Alalia

"Should Orny try and test it out?" -Kiro

"I don't think so! Orny's weak to water!" -Louinne

Suddenly, more large metal posts rise out of the water. Also, the exit out of the tunnel they just went through is lined with metal siding that create a wall of lasers. The posts in the pool start firing lasers all over the place.

"What?! They put these things in here, too?!" -Kiro

"Of all the luck! It looks like we're not safe anywhere here!" -Alalia

"Well, we can quickly cross! Jecht, come on out!"

"CJ's comeing out, too!" -Nova

Both Feraligatr come out of their Pokéballs and land on the rocky ground. a laser blast ends up hitting Jecht and downing it.

"Jecht, are you all right?!"

Jecht feels fine and is able to keep going.

"Orny, return! Chinue, come on out!" -Louinne

Louinne returns her Steelix to its Pokéball and brings out her Lanturn instead.

"Coco, come on out again!" -Kiro

Coco comes back out of her Pokéball. Ayu and Alalia get onto Jecht while Nova and Scar get onto CJ. Louinne gets onto Chinue and Kiro hangs onto Coco. All four Pokémon enter the pool and start swimming to the other side, dodging the lasers shooting everywhere. Kiro ends up getting hit by one of them in the shoulder, however.

"OW! I just got hit by one!" -Kiro

Other side of the pool, Ayu decides to take a look at Kiro's arm.

"Where did it hit you?"

"Right here!" -Kiro

Ayu checks Kiro's right shoulder, which is bleeding. She then pulls out a small medical kit from her skirt (had to put it somewhere). She opens it up and gets out a bandage and wraps it around Kiro's shoulder. She then closes the kit and puts it back.

"Exactly why do you keep that there?" -Nova

"Well Mr. Bra Checker, I need somewhere to put it!"

"We should get going!" -Alalia

"Return, Jecht!"

"You too, CJ!" -Nova

"Thanks, Coco!" -Kiro

"Return, Chinue! Come back out, Onry!" -Louinne

After all Water Pokémon have retuned to their Pokéballs and Orny has come back out, everyone gets back on the Steelix and start a path into another tunnel. This one goes forward, then curves to the left. The tunnel then empties into a long cavern with a large pool in it. There are numerous more metal posts in the pool as well. From the posts' tops, blue sparks send electric rings down the posts into the water, where they then expand, electrifying the water. Once a ring has electrified the whole pool, the electric flash in the pool fades and another ring spark moves down towards the water.

"Now how are we going to get through here?!" -Nova

"We can't use our Water Pokémon again! They'll get zapped!"

"You'll have to use Orny to cross! It's immune to electricity!" -Kiro

"But the water will hurt it!" -Louinne

"It doesn't matter! Flaar still battled when we fell into the river!" -Kiro

"I guess you're right! Everybody, hang on!" -Louinne

Orny ends up going into the constantly electrifying water. It roars and struggles a bit in the water, but the expanding electric waves from the rings only create sparking where Orny's body goes into the water.

"You can do it, Orny!" -Louinne

Orny keeps making its way through the pool. After a while, it finally makes it to the other side.

"Wow! I think Orny made it just fine!"

"It was almost like it could surf across water!" -Kiro

"Yeah! I guess it was all right! I just hope it doesn't need to do this again." -Louinne

There happens to be yet another tunnel straight ahead. Orny presses through the tunnel, which eventually slopes upward. At the top of the tunnel, it empties out into into a large, bottomless, cavern. There happens to be large, metallic pipe-like emitters coming out of the walls below and electric beams shooting out of them.

"Now where are we?!" -Scar

"How are we going to cross this?!" -Kiro

"Orny's going to have to keep to the wall!" -Louinne

"Are you sure?"

"There doesn't look like we have any other choice!" -Louinne

Orny gets itself onto the wall to the right. The large spike-like appendages on its body allow it to stick to the wall a little easier. It makes its way onto the right wall and keeps moving on the wall. Everyone ends up looking down from here.

"I don't think you'll ever land if you fall here!"

"I just hope your Steelix can do this!" -Scar

"Don't worry! Orny's done this before! It can do it!" -Louinne

Eventually, Orny makes it to the other end of the cavern, where yet another tunnel begins. From here, everyone heads down this one as it slopes downward. At the bottom, there is another small pool and in the pool happen to be more metal posts. These are also the same ones that shoot electrical rings down into the water, electrifying it.

"Orny should be able to get past this as well!" -Louinne

Orny once again hugs the wall here and makes it all the way to the other side of the pool. Here, the tunnel slopes back up and levels off. At the end of the tunnel, there is another cavern, but this one has a floor. It looks empty at first, but as soon as Orny is all the way out of the tunnel, another laser fence blocks the way out. Then, metal posts burst from the ground all over the cavern and create a maze of green lasers.

"Another one of these things?!"

"Louinne, there's a chance Orny can go through the lasers, but we'll be sliced up by them if you try to go through them!" -Nova

"You can make it through here!"

Orny snakes its way through the maze. It looks like the Steel snake Pokémon is easily making its way through, but suddenly, the posts fire laser walls in different directions, and one of them goes right through Orny, who cries out in pain from the lasers.

"Orny, move in more!" -Louinne

Orny manages to move the rest of its body in front of the lasers.

"I hate to ask you of this, but can you keep going?" -Louinne

Orny's able to keep going, and it continues its way through the maze, but has to take a different path since the maze has rearranged itself. On the left side of where they entered, there is another tunnel. Orny makes its way into the tunnel before the laser maze changes once more. In the next tunnel, more laser posts rise up from the ground in the middle of the tunnel and fire laser bursts everywhere.

"Keep going, Orny!" -Louinne

Orny dodges the lasers and continues through the tunnel, which opens up into another large cavern. This one happens to be bottomless like one from earlier with the same setup underneath. However, this time, laser fences are constructed on the left and right walls of the cavern, preventing Orny from scaling them. There happens to be another metal paneled bridge leading to the other side of the cavern, and there are two pairs of short metal posts sticking out of the walls beneath the laser fences. These posts create two sensory lasers that as everyone may guess, trigger the bridge to collapse.

"Remember when we fell into the river?" -Nova

"And you breathed into my mouth after opening my shirt?"

"Well, it looks like here, if this bridge collapses, we're done for!" -Nova

"Louinne, return Orny! It's too big to get past those lasers! We'll just have to each jump them instead!"

"Okay then! Orny, return for now!" -Louinne

"We should go one at a time! I'll go first!"

Ayu makes her way across the bridge as the lasers move back. As they move forward again, she jumps over them, barely making it over the second one, and runs to the other end of the bridge.

"My turn next!" -Nova

Nova goes next when the time is right. As the lasers come back towards him, he manages to jump them, but just barely. After the jump, he quickly runs to the other side of the bridge where Ayu is waiting.

"I should go next!" -Alalia

Alalia runs across the bridge and jumps the lasers as they come back towards her. After landing, she stops for a little, but remembers the lasers comeing back the other way. She makes it to the other side.

"It's my turn now!" -Louinne

Louinne runs across the bridge as the lasers come towards her, but jumps them as they come close. However, they quickly come back the other way and Louinne ends up sprinting to the other end.

"Be careful doing that!" -Scar

Scar's up next, and when the lasers move back, he runs across the metal panels and jumps the lasers as they come back towards him. He ends up making it to the other side just as the lasers move back once again.

"Finally! It's my turn to go!" -Kiro

Kiro runs across the bridge as the lasers move back once more. As they move forward, she makes her jump, but trips a little and almost doesn't make it over the lasers. Landing on the ground, the lasers start coming back, bue she gets up and makes it to the other side.

"That was close, but we're all here! Louinne, want to bring Onry back out again?"

"Sure! Onry, let's get going!" -Louinne

Louinne's Steelix comes back out of its Pokéball and extends into the tunnel. However, it ends up tripping a wall of sensory lasers in the tunnel, which causes the lasers to turn red and the bridge to collapse. The metal panels fall down the expanse, the electricity from the emitter pipes hitting them, and fade out of everyone's sight. Looks like there's no going back now.

"Good thing we were already on the other side!" -Kiro

"Yeah! We got more of this place to explore! Let's get going!"

Everyone gets back on Onry, who cruises through the tunnel once more. The tunnel slopes down and makes a right curve. After the curve, there is another long pool of water. Everything looks fine from here.

"Orny, ready to go on the wall once more?" -Louinne

Orny gets onto the left wall and cruises across it. Suddenly, more metal posts rise up and down from both the water and the ceiling, laser fences already in between them. Looks like things are a little more difficult after all.

"Orny, watch out!" -Louinne

Orny moves up and down on the wall to avoid all the laser fences that pop up. Some of them even move up and down, making things a little more difficult. At one point, a laser fences moves so far down that Orny ends up having to skim the water to avoid the lasers.

"Whoa! That was close!"

"You said it!" -Nova

"I hope we get off this island alive!" -Kiro

Orny reaches the end of the pool and the tunnel slopes upward once more. After the tunnel levels off, it empties into yet another bottomless cavern. This one, however, has a large, metal platform in the middle. The platform is lined will tall fences and two short, but stable bridges leading to the platform hold it up.

"Now what have we found?"

"Orny, maybe you should go back just in case you cause this place to fall." -Louinne

Orny goes back into its Pokéball and everyone goes onto the platform. Upon them reaching it, four metal posts rise up from within the platform's corners and create tall laser fences that go up to the ceiling. In the ceiling happen to be four large, metallic panels. Those panels slide open and from each one, a massive Donphan robot, ones more than twice the size of the ones Kelsey and Zion faced earlier, drop down. It looks like out Trainers are in for another fight.

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T-Minus 18:00:00

Back inside the abandoned Meteor Base, Nived has just come face to face with several tough Star City robots, having reactivated upon the reopening of the laboratory. The two Fire Chaos begin the assault with powerful Flamethrowers. Nived just barely manages to dodge them before thye hit the ground near the energy pool.

"Metagross, take them down with a Meteor Mash!"

Metagross decides to intervene and both its claws glow. It then manages to send out two meteor Mash attacks at once onto both the Fire Chaos's heads. While some samage has been done, they're far from finished. Suddenly, the two Chaos split into cells and start coming for the Steel/Psychic Pokémon.

"Metagross, use Psychic to stop them!"

Metagross glows a blue color and so do the Fire Chaos cells. Suddenly, large blue swirls envelop a lot of them, destroying half of them. However, the rest are not finished and move towards Metagross, forming a ring of fire around it. To add to its dismay, the Heavy Walker flips over to its cluster bomb launchers and fires two of them, one for Metagross and one for Nived.

"Metagross, get out of there!"

Too late. Nived has no choice but to run to the left side of the chamber while one of the cluster bombs hit the ground, creating a huge area of several explosions. The other one goes straight for Metagross and explodes near it. The explosions destroy all the Fire Chaos cells, but Metagross happened to survive the blasts.

"Good going, Metagross! Use Shadow Ball to stun that tank!"

Metagross fires a large ball of shadow energy straight for the Heavy Walker. The ball hits just as the robot flips over its cannons and starts firing its super chainguns. The Walker almost looks like it would fall, but as it turns out, it's quite sturdy for its immense weight. It resorts to firing mini bombs from its underside. The bombs go straight for Metagross.

"That's it! Use Psychic to send those bombs back!"

Metagross uses Psychic once more and catched the bombs. It then sends them back one by one towards the Heavy Walker, doing considerable damage to it every time. While the tank robot doesn't fall, it looks like just a little more damage will do it in.

"All right now! Use Psychic to stun it once more!"

Metagross uses Psychic once more, enveloping the Heavy Walker in a blue swirl, but the robot fires off its chainguns right onto Metagross. The power of the gunfire is enough to send Metagross flying back. As it turns out, machine has defeated machine Pokémon.

"Metagross, return! I need more backup! Houndoom, finish it off with Flamethrower!"

Houndoom comes out of its Pokéball and promptly fires a powerful Flamethrower at the armored tank. It keeps the flames going and eventually, the Heavy Walker explodes from the damage. At this point, the Solar Chaos each start charing up Solarbeams.

"Houndoom, go for them now!"

Houndoom fires a Flamethrower at the first Solar Chaos's head and before it can fire a Solarbeam, it blows up. The second one gets its Solarbeam out, which hits Houndoom, knocking it near the edge of the energy pool. However, Houndoom can still battle.

"Good! Use Flamethrower to stop that one."

While Houndoom gets back up, the second Solar Chaos splits into cells, which go straight for Houndoom. They form a spinning veritcal ring and give off constant solar flashes, creating rings of flashes that severely brighten the area. Houndoom firea a Flamethrower, but it goes towards the huge window instead.

"Houndoom, try focusing where the flashes are coming from!"

Nived can hardly see because of the brightness. He has no choice but to cover his eyes with his arm. Houndoom tries to see the flash rings coming towards it and the Solar Chaos cells coming behind them. It sees the edge of one of the rings and decides to fire another Flamethrower there. By doing so, all the cells spin right into the flames and are destroyed in only a matter of seconds. The brightness they caused slowly fades away.

"Houndoom, that was great, but we're only halfway there!"

From out of the brightness, two of the Laser Discs start swooping downward, charging up red laser blasts. Nived can see the UFO's coming down as the brightness has faded away.

"Sunflora, block those with Light Screen!"

Sunflora comes out of its Pokéball and creates a wall of light in front of Houndoom just as the Laser Discs fire their laser blasts. The Light Screen deflects the blasts and no harm has been done.

"Good going! Now use Flamethrower once more!"

Houndoom fires another Flamethrower at one of the Laser Discs, but both fire off green laser bursts before they do so. The laser bits rain down evrywhere, but the Light Screen prevents them from doing harm. Houndoom's Flamethrower hits the center of the second Disc, destroying it. Now there happens to be the matter of the other one.

"That was great! Sunflora, try a Solarbeam to stop the other!"

Sunflora starts charing up a Solarbeam while the Laser Disc fires spinning blue laser beams all around the chamber. Eventually, Sunflora finishes its Solarbeam and fires it at the Laser Disc, hitting the center and destroying it. At this point, the nearby Hover Launcher decides to take action. Targets appear on Nived, Houndoom, and Sunflora. They have all been marked for attack.

"Guys, watch out! That robot's going to attack!"

The Launcher fires two large laser beams, their atrget happening to be Houndoom. Houndoom runs around in order to keep the target off its tail, but it keeps up and so do the lasers. Houndoom fires a Flamethrower straight into the Hover Launcher before the lasers hit it. The impact ended up being enough to subdue Houndoom.

"Houndoom, return! Sunflora, use Solarbeam to finish it off!"

Sunflora starts charging up another Solarbeam, and the Hover Launcher fires two meteors at it. Sunflora quickly jumps to dodge the meteors and their explosions. It then fires a Solarbeam right at the robot's head, but not before it fires off a flurry of homing missiles, who are locked onto Nived. The Hover Launcher is destroyed, but the target on Nived has not gone and the missiles are still coming for him.

"Looks like I'm still in trouble!"

There happen to be two more Laser Discs in the area as well. They start by firing green laser bursts at Nived. As it turn out, the resulting laser rain hits almost all the missiles, destroying them. Nived happens to have another idea on what to do with the rest!

"Sunflora, use Faint Attack to try and send it down here!"

Sunflora fades out, then reappears on top of one of the Laser Discs, hitting it. It then jumps off and goes for the missiles. The Laser Disc follows in pursuit. Nived then goes for the Laser Disc, causing the homing missiles to do so as well. Nived ducks out of the way of the Laser Disc along with Sunflora. The missiles go right into the UFO robot, destroying it. With the missiles gone, the target on Nived vanishes.

"Good! Now there's only one more! Use Solarbeam to stop it"

Sunflora starts charging up Solarbeam once more while the last Laser Disc starts charing up a red laser blast. The laser is charged up first, and is fired towards Sunflora, who manages to dodge it and the resulting explosion. Sunflora then unleashes its Solarbeam right on the saucer-shaped robot's center, destroying it. With that gone, the red minus signs on toe computer screens of doors to the right change to green plus signs and open.

"Good going, Sunflora! You should take a rest for now! When I get the chance, I'll heal you and everybody else!"

Sunflora goes back into its Pokéball and Nived heads towards the doors on the right side. He ends up reaching a shaft on the other side and looks down. There are lasers moving all around the walls of the shaft. There happens to be a floating platform in the middle of the shaft as well.

"Well, here goes nothing!"

Nived jumps off the balcony and onto the platform. Upon landing, the platform starts hovering downward. The platform moves through and by the lasers filling the shaft. The platform's timing happens to be perfect, as the lasers don't touch it or Nived. At the bottom of the shaft, the platform stops near the floor and hovers there. To the right of Nived happens to be another set of doors. These ones open up into another octagonal-shaped circuitry paneled hall. Nived steps off the platform and heads into the hall.

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T-Minus 18:00:00

Back in Star Flight or the Space Pathway area, Tsubasa keeps going down the path she has landed on. At the end of the long path, she comes across a large group of flat moving platforms These platforms consist of a glass center with an octagonal emblem in the middle and steel border sides. There is grphic green circuitry and static that can be seen flowing through the glass and the borders and emblems are either circuit red or electric blue. While moving around left and right or up and down, each color of platforms flip periodically. After the red platforms flip, the blue ones do so. In other words, corssing them will not be easy.

"Well, guys. We better jump these platforms as quickly as possible!"

Tsubasa jumps to the first red platforms as it comes towards her. She manages to land on it as soon as it stops flipping. From there, she and her Pokémon jump to a blue platform coming from the left after it stops flipping. From there, they jump to another red platform going left and right. They then notice it starting to flip. Because of this, they have no choice but to jump to the next blue platform going back and forth. Upon landing on this one, it begins to flip and everyone has to reach another walkway on the other end. They successfully do so.

"Whoa! That was close, but I think things should be easier now."

Now that they're back on solid ground, Tsubasa keeps riding the hoverboard down the path to another set of large speed rings that the path is going through. Upon going through the first one, a sudden speed surge overcomes Tsubasa and her Pokémon and are thrusted through the rest of the rings.

"Whoa! Hold on tight!"

Having gained an incredible amount of speed from the rings, Tsubasa goes straight for a 45-degree left turn with another speed ring pointing in that direction. The turn transition consists of a triangular piece of pathway with glass on top and energy sparking beneath the glass. Tsubasa goes right into the speed ring and it sets her down the rest of the path.

"Wow! Looks like the guy who built all of this was smart!"

There is then a 45-degree turn to the right and another speed ring around it. After going through this one, Tsubasa's speed is incredible.

"There's no stopping this thing now!"

Down the path, she passes by two Solar Chaos who start pursuing her. As more floating arrow signs appear to the right and left of her, the path suddenly ends and a long, rectangular shaped object the width of the path starts from there. The path constsntly spins clockwise and consists of lightning yellow borders with graphic green energy flowing beneath the glass making up the surfaces of the rectangle.

"Guys! Get ready to jump!"

Tsubasa manages to make the jump right onto the rectangle. As the path turns to he right, it seems as if Tsubasa will fall off, but as it turns out, the path has its own magnetic and gravitational pull, so Tsubasa keeps sticking to the platform. The two Solar Chaos she passes are catching up with her.

"Better just outrun them!"

However, halfway down the path, there are laser grids forming an octagonal barrier around the path, making getting past them impossible. The two Chaos catch up and start charging up Solarbeam attacks.

"Kappa, try another Mach Punch!"

Kappa swiftly goes for the first Solar Chaos and hits it just before it fires its Solarbeam, which goes right by Tsubasa and through the lasers.

"Whoa! That was close! Kappa, go at it again!"

Kappa goes with Mach Punch once more, hitting the same Chaos and destroying it. The remaining one decides to split into cells and try to overtake Kappa, which it does by forming a solar cluster around her, which they do. Suddenly the cell cluster give off very high solar flashes that brighten the entire area.

"Funary, use Thunderbolt and save Kappa!"

Funary fires a Thunderbolt at the Solar Chaos cells cluster, but a flash deflects the Thunderbolt right out into space. Funary then decides to go with Quick Attack and slams the cell pack hard. Causing some of them to disperse, but Funary is hurt by a flash they gave off.

"Funary, use Thunderbolt to get rid of thos cells!"

Funary fires another Thunderbolt at the stray cells, destroying them, and the rest of the cells disperse from Kappa, who while not knocked out, is near fainting.

"Wait! I still have that health boost I got earlier!"

Tsubasa pulls out the small capsule containing 5/6 of the Health Boost they got earlier and goes up to Kappa with it. She gives her the capsule and Kappa drinks from it. After another sixth is gone, Kapps fells fully healed.

"Good going! You knwo what? After we deal with this menace, I should give this to Waka and Masqin, as they need it even more! Now Kappa, use Mach Punch!"

As the Solar Chaos reforms, Kappa fires another Mach Punch towards it. After the hit, the solar energy lifeform starts charging up another Solarbeam attack.

"Funary, use Thunderbolt to stun it! Kappa, finish it off with a Mach Punch when I give the word!"

Funary fires a Thunderbolt straight for the Solar Chaos, hitting it in the head.

"Now Kappa, Mach Punch!"

Kapps goes straight for the Solar Chaos and hits it in the head, destroying it. With the second Solar Chaos gone, the laser fences turn off. As it turns out, the two Solar Chaos were tied to that fence.

"Wow. Now we can go forward!"

Everyone goes across the rest of the path, where more lasers are set up, but not all around the path, allowing for them to pass by them. After 4 of these laser fields, the spinning rectangluar prism finall comes to an end and another pathway begins.

"Well, I think I should get Waka and Masqin healed up!"

Tsubasa gets out Waka's Pokéball and holds the Health Boost capsule next to it. The Pokéball glows a blue color and emits a small blue light field as another sixth of the Boost is depleted.

"Now it's Masqin's turn!"

Tsubasa now gets out Masqin's Pokéball and does the same. The Pokéball glows a blue color and emits a small blue light field as another sixth of the Boost is depleted.

"Now let's see how you guys are doing!"

Tsubasa lets out Waka and Masqin, who now appear fully healed.

"You guys are okay! You're okay! Well, we still have a mission to do!"

Tsubasa gets back on her hoverboard and so do her Pokémon. They continue across the path as they continue their trek through this area of space.

 

[Ninetales1]

OOC: Well, Bijou, you already know what the source of the scratching noise came from--I revealed that in my last post (even though that's going to be cut out). And I recall having Absol only say five words, and Zion none...?

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Pine's Island

T-Minus 20:15:00

<"Slow? SLOW?!? How DARE he call me slow? At least I wouldn't have chickened out if I had gone!">
Banette sounded perhaps a little too offended by Zion's remark. Then she grumbled and headed off into the trees--the exact spot where Zion's Shuppet had gone. By that time, the scratching noises had changed to a chorus of trumpeting.

Kelsey giggled to herself at Banette's over-reaction.
"Oh don't mind her. She's just mean like that--she would have to be in order to have put a whole bunch of curses on me in the past... And really, how could you have possibly known that I usually have a telepathic connection to my Pokemon? You're so much more psychic than I am, especially right now. You don't have to worry about it though--I can't use that, um, ability... right now, for some reason."

A few moments later, a few explosions could be heard from past the trees. More trumpeting cries occurred with them, and hints of purple smoke could be seen through the trees. Then the group could see flames from that spot, followed by a sort of dust storm. After a while, Banette emerged from the dust and went back to the group. She looked a little dusty, and even had a few scratch marks on her body. Her right arm also appeared to be singed.

<"What went on in there?"> Bellossom asked.

<"I taught... those Donphan... robots... a lesson..."> Banette replied through gritted--or rather zipped--teeth.
<"Ah, so that's what they were,"> Hypno commented. [color=darkred<"I thought those sounded like Donphan. And you used Shadow Ball on them, am I right?">[/color]
<"And a nice dash of Will-O-Wisp.">

<"Umm,"> Clefable suggested, <"can we get out of here before they attack again?">

"I suppose we should continue on, if we are to ever find Professor Pine..." Even though the other group's way ahead of us.

Outside the Space Plant

T-Minus 19:00:00

Lupin was off in the Haunter Nightcraft again, along with Kelsey's other two Pokemon, Ninetales and Gardevoir. Everyone else was rested inside their Pokeballs.

"Well," Lupin said to the two passengers, "what I vaguely know about this place is that there are far fewer robots and hazards out here than back inside the Space Plant. The only real 'threats' are those shuttles that randomly take off and land. Another threat, of course, is being seen by Shuttle Gang troopers that may be hovering around in space. Luckily for us, you see that shadowy area over there?"

Lupin pointed to an area outside the trench where in the distance, it gradually became darker.

"You see, at that point it starts to become night-time. And since we are completely past the range of the moon, we will have total darkness on our side if we get over there. Minus the stars, of course. Now, first, let us..."

Lupin released Nocturnelle from her Pokeball. And just as before, the two of them had a secret, whispered conversation about their plans. When they were done, Nocturnelle felt a little uncertain, but in the end she nodded and turned as invisible as she could. Lupin could still just barely see her, but any scanning eyes from high above would probably be unable to make her out. So with that, she flew out of the trench.

While that was being done, Lupin turned on another unlabelled button on the dashboard of the Nightcraft. When he did, the screen showed a lightning bolt with a red circle around it and a red line going over it.
"That would be an Anti-Scan Shield. It negates the impulses from any radar signals that should hit us."

The next few minutes were spent by the Nightcraft and its occupants making its way through the trench, and Nocturnelle scouting from above. But a while later, Nocturnelle floated back down to the Nightcraft.
<"OK, I think I got it... A while from now, this trench will end. You reach the end and go left, make your second right into another trench, make a left underneath a broken shuttle, then go immediately right into another trench. Then go to the end and go left, and the resulting trench-way should lead right into the dark zone.">

As Nocturnelle dictated the directions, Lupin pictured them in his mind.
"One can only hope you and I don't forget this..."

<"If you don't, I probably will. End, left, second right, under broken shuttle, right, end, left. Not too bad.">
<"Yes, Gardevoir, you probably will. See, I probably already forgot!">
<"End, left, second right, under broken shuttle, right, end, left,"> Gardevoir repeated.

So they went on (except for Nocturnelle, who returned to her Pokeball), the Nightcraft flying at a quick yet steady speed through the trench. Below and to the sides of them were nothing but rocks, and above them was nothing but starry skies. Occasionally the soft boom of a shuttle taking off or landing could be heard. It was a relaxing experience, finally being out in this open space after hours of trekking through the tight and dark spaces inside the Space Plant. And not to mention there was now an absence of all the Laser Discs, Artificial Chaoses, Heavy Walkers, Surveillance Drones, and any other hazards they may have come across down there.

"Ninetales, you're still occasonally looking up to watch for suspicious activity in the skies, right?"
<"I suppose... Kelsey often said I have good eyes. But yeah... so far I see nothing.">
"Well, I must say that this trench is coming out to be very long. So yes, take the time to relax and such." Though this is more relaxation time than I had imagined. But in this case, more is better than less.

When shuttle activity was at a minimum, the scene was pleasingly quiet. Even the sounds the Nightcraft made were quiet--just a soft whirring that signified the electric current needed to keep it aloft. This relaxed everyone further, even Lupin, who had much of his attention directed to piloting the Nightcraft through the jagged path of the trench. Ninetales kept gazing at the stars, largely impressed that she could see so many more from here than from Earth. She also saw a few nebulae and beautiful dust clouds in the sky, that which could surely never be seen through a thick atmosphere spoiled with electric lights. But everything in the sky remained still--no moving or flashing lights could be made out. That meant that no surveillance ships--at least with their lights on--were watching from above. As for Gardevoir, she felt the most relaxed of all three of them, despite the previous injuries she had suffered from the tunnelways before the Space Plant. Colliding with walls and even trains... ouch. Still, even though her body wasn't, her mind was completely relaxed. Her state of mind was almost meditative, but it was clearly immensely happy.

I am so glad I decided to go on this mission after all, Gardevoir contemplated. It's absolutely beautiful here, so much that I can cry. The supernatural rays that emanate from space's vast reaches are so real, so strong... so much that they seem to be singing. I can sit here forever and listen to that wonderful melody. And though they seem to be showing it less, Ninetales and even Lupin seem to feel the exact way I feel about this situation. Ahhhh...

This tranquility lasted what seemed like twenty minutes, and was mildly interrupted by the sight of a T-intersection of trenches. This was the point Nocturnelle was talking about, where the trench ended. There was more trench to the left and to the right of the ending point, though, kind of like a fork in the road.
...And I'm supposed to go left, Lupin remembered.

This trench, like the last one, seemed to continue on forever. In the distance, it just kept going straight and extended all the way to the horizon. However, it wasn't too long before Lupin spotted another trench leading off to the right. As soon as he saw that, he kept his focus on the right side of the trench, watching for any new trenches to branch off. For the next branch-off was where he was supposed to make his turn.

It was less than a minute before Lupin found the other trench, and thus the Nightcraft tilted to the right to enter it. This trench was definitely not straight--it kept curving left and right, and various points and angles. As the group flew on, it became clearly noticeable that their surroundings began to grow darker. It was as if they were running away from the sun. Gardevoir occasionally looked behind her, and each time she did, she saw the sun descend a little bit further towards the horizon.

A few minutes later, the Nightcraft entered an open area where many different trenches branched off. The area was deserted, and glowed orange from the setting sun. But it wasn't completely deserted. In the distance to the left was a shuttle taking off. And closer to the left was what looked like a collapsed shuttle resting in a trench.
That's the path we should take.

So Lupin directed the Nightcraft over to the shuttle. There was just enough space to fit under it. Past the shuttle was another trench that branched off to the right--the next trench they were to take. But what was more interesting at this point was the area underneath the shuttle. The door to the interior of the shuttle was hanging open, and a flckering white light shone from it. At first, Lupin didn't see this as anything more than a light, thinking it would be safe to just pass through it, but he second-guessed himself the second he saw a flurry of green sparks flying from the door with the light. Perhaps this was some sort of energy field that could have some sort of consequence if touched. So therefore, Lupin landed the Nightcraft just behind the eerie, spark-filled light.

<"What are those sparks coming from?"> Ninetales asked as she got out of the Nightcraft and started walking towards the light.
<"Umm, I wouldn't touch it if I were you... I don't know where the sparks are coming from, but my instincts tell me they're some sort of bad news...">
"And never doubt the instincts of a psychic Pokemon. Speaking of which..."

Lupin then let Umbra out of his Pokeball.
"...Fi?"
"Umbra, do you see anything... suspicious... inside that shuttle?"

Umbra, as usual, closed his eyes, and the red gem on his head glowed. A while later, he frowned and opened his eyes.
<"Hmm... wow, it's getting dark already, what happened? Anyways, there's something... not right... about that light over there.">
<"We figured as much,"> Gardevoir and Ninetales chorused.
<"Well gee... There's nobody inside that shuttle, but it seems that there's a computer or something inside the shuttle that emitting that light. And for some reason, when I try to inspect the light, by third eye goes blind for a few seconds.">

"Well you know what that means. There's probably some sort of psychic signal coming from the computer. ...But wait, how can a computer emit a psychic signal if it's not a living thing? Unless it's either an invisible electromagnetic field that blocks psychic waves, like the one we encountered before, or a teleportation device, I can't tell what it might be. I have a sneaking suspicion though. I think that signal is waiting for a response, for someone to enter that beam of light. Then, after whatever happens, the light will disappear."
<"Come to think of it, that's exactly what happened in the entrance to the Space Plant. The beam from the teleporter stayed there until Feralis and Pencett and I entered it.">

"...Which leads me to think that the only way to get rid of the light is to test it out... but judging by its neutral effect on the rocks, it has to be something that emits an electrical signal. So it has to probably be either my very innovative weapon--Volbeat's Nightmare--the Nightcraft, or one of us. I don't know about you, but I am not willing to give up any of..."

At that point, Ninetales decided to turn around to face Lupin and Gardevoir, but as she did, her tails got caught in the light. As a result, her whole body glowed and turned white. Then, as predicted, the beam of light vanished, but sparks gathered around Ninetales, eventually causing her to vanish into thin air.

<"Ninetales!!"> Gardevoir gasped. <"Ninetales! Where are you?!? What happened to you?">

"It appears she was teleported somewhere... where is not certain though. All we can do at this point is hope she's somewhere safe..."

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OOC: I really want to continue this, but I have to leave now... If nobody replies by the time I get back, I'll just edit this post to continue on.

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

Well, I'm going to continue this RP even more as well. Also, I made one last addition to my most recent post involving Tsubasa, so remember to check it out. First, up, we go back to Topaz and Jay. Later, we'll go back to Pine's Island for more with what's happening there. Note that something unexpected will happen amongst the Trainers.

T-Minus 18:00:00

Back inside the Electrochemical Reactor, Topaz and Jay have just entered yet another hall. Here, there are large glass strips on the walls where red colored concentrated energy flows upward. Also, the hall is filled with more floating fireballs. At tne end of the room, there's a wall with a set of doors above it and some square indentations indicating platforms that should rise up after something happens.

"Well, do you see any floating TV we can use?"

"Not one. Maybe there's another way to make it up there." -Jay

Suddenly, a stream of flame shoots through some of the fireballs, destroying them. As it turns out, there's a Fire Chaos at the other end of the hall. It starts coming for Topaz and Jay.

"Oh yeah! Lanturn, come on out again and use Hydro Pump!"

Lanturn comes out of its Pokéball and fires a Hydro Pump straight for the Chaos's head. The water blast also evaporates any energy fireballs in the way before hitting the Chaos, utterly destroying it. Suddenly, rise-like platforms rise out from the floor. There is more red energy flwoing through all the clear sides of the platforms. The platforms form stairs leading to the doors.

"Good going, Topaz!" -Jay

"We need to get going!"

Topax an Jay climb up the platforms and head through the doors at the top. They come to another short hall. Through the doors here, they enter a huge, bottomless shaft with a massive, octagonal shaped platform in the middle and violet energy streams going down from near the corners of the platform. The platform also happens to be around a large tube with green energy flowing through it. A bridge leads to the platform.

"So, what do we do now?" -Jay

"Let's check things out here first."

Both Topaz and Jay walk across the bridge to the platform, where to the right side, another floating plasma TV resides. Topaz goes up to it and after pressing some digital keys, this comes up:

"ELEVATOR TRANSPORT SYSTEM
WHAT OPTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE?
MOVE PLATFORM UP? Y/N
MOVE PLATFORM DOWN? Y/N
DRAIN ENERGY FROM SYSTEM? Y/N
OPEN ENERGY FLOW INTO SYSTEM? Y/N"​

"So this is an elevator. Looks like we can use to to move up this shaft."

Topaz says yes to the first option. Suddenly, the bridge floats down and the platform starts up and starts moving up the shaft, slowly spinning to the left. The floating TV spins along with it while this messge appears on the screen:

"ELEVATOR PLATFORM NOW MOVING UP
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE
WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE ANOTHER OPTION? Y/N"​

As the platform moves up several levels, it suddenly comes to a stop at an area of the tube where the energy is not flowing up it. The platform still spins around the tube, though. Suddenly, several Ariados-shaped robots drop down from above. There are Team Rocket robots and are known as Ariados Webs. They start by firing wire-like webs toward Topaz and Jay.

"Topaz, watch out!" -Jay

It's too late, as both Topaz and Jay are caught underneath the webs, which stick to the floor, trapping them. Suddenly, a small red charge flows through the webs, hurting Topaz and Jay.

"Ow! What's going on now?! I feels like some sort of electrical charge!"

"There must be someway we can break free!" -Jay

"I think I know how! Camerupt, come on out and use Eruption!"

"Are you nuts?! Even I know that's too dangerous!" -Jay

"Yeah! You're right! Venomoth, come on out and use Psychic to break us free!"

Venomoth comes out of its Pokéball and uses Psychic on Topaz's web. A blue glow envelops the entire web as it's suddenly thrusted out of the ground and goes back to the Ariados Web that fired it.

"Good going, Topaz!" -Jay

Venomoth uses Psychic on Jay's web, doing the same thing and freeing him in the process. The web goes back to another Ariados Web. However, one of the other robots fires a Signal Beam-like laser from its mouth. The beam hits Venomoth, knocking it back.

"Venomoth, try your own Signal Beam!"

Venomoth, covered in some light-like electricity, fires a Signal Beam right back at the Ariados Web. However, the attack only fazes the robot. However, it ends up confused by the attack.

"Now Venomoth, try Psychic!"

Venomoth unleashes a Psychic attack onto the Ariados Web. A blue glow envelops the spider robot. The blast is so powerful that it rips the robot into scrap metal. Now there's only the problem of the rest of the Ariados Webs.

"Well, I think I know what I can do! Arcanine, come on out and use Overheat!" -Jay

Arcanine comes out of its Pokéball and fires an Overheat blast towards one of the downed Ariados Webs. However, after a few uses, it's not as strong as it should be, but its enough to do a lot of damage to the robot.

"Well, let me pitch in some as well, Psychic once more!"

Venomoth uses Psychic on the downed Ariados Web, destroying it. Now with only six more to go, they increase their efforts. Another Ariados Web fires a web at Venomoth. This one ensnares the moth and gives off a small blue charge that paralyzes it.

"Arcanine, use Overheat again!" -Jay

Arcanine fires another Overheat blast, but it's even weaker than the last. The Ariados Web is hit by the attack, but still fires a signal laser back at Arcanine, hitting it and knocking it back a little.

"Wait a minute! I know a fast way to end this! Camerupt, come on out and use Eruption!"

As Topaz brings Camerupt out of its Pokéball, another Ariados Web fires another web at Arcanine, ensnaring it. This web gives off a small green charge that starts sapping Arcanine's health.

"Camerupt, use Eruption to finish them off!"

Camerupt erupts, sending fire and lava everywhere in the shaft. It rains down on all the remaining Ariados Webs, utterly destroying them. Because of this, the webs around Venomoth and Arcanine are also destroyed.

"I hate to say it, but Arcanine's Overheat is no good right now. It should take a rest until I really need it." -Jay

"Yeah, and I'll bring my two Pokémon back in as well."

After all Pokémon are returned to their Pokéballs, energy starts flowing through the rest of the tube and the platform starts moving up again. Several levels later, the platform reaches a large, octagonal room with large pillars with circuitry flowing through them all around the area in the center where the platform stops. Here, there are several more stacks of steel-and-electronic crates all over the room. Topaz and Jay have just reached the upper levels of the reactor.

"Well, we might be nearing the top soon."

"Yeah! Exactly what are we doing here again?" -Jay

"This reactor is the city's central energy source. If we shut it down, we'll also shut down every other power plant and station in the area and may also shut everything else down in the city. We don't want Team Rocket or the Shuttle Gang firing off the Space Shield satellites, now do we."

To the right of where the platform ended is another set of doors. Both Topaz and Jay head through and enter another fireball filled hall. Here, there's another holographic map station that could be of use.

"There's only a few more sets of levels before we reach the reactor's core."

"And what about all these fireballs?" -Jay

"Well, since Dragonair's out of comission for now, I can't use Water Pulse."

"I guess we'll just have to get around them." -Jay

Topaz and Jay head down the hall, dodging the energy fireballs all around them. Where the hall takes a left turn, there's a bottomless ravine in between two glass walls. More orange liquid can be seen on both sides of the glass. There are also two energy tube railings that would mean an energy bridge can be formed between them. There's a floating plasma TV here, but it's all the way on the other side next to the wall where the railings go up.

"So, how do we get ahead of this?" -Jay

"With the help of Venomoth! COme on out and go activate that computer!"

Venomoth comes out of its Pokéball and promptly flies over to the TV floating over the gap. Using its "fore feelers", it presses some of the keys to bring this message up:

"ENERGY REGULATOR SYSTEM
WHAT OPTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE?
FIND ENERGY CONTAINMENTS? Y/N
OPEN ENERGY VALVE IN PATH RAILINGS? Y/N"​

Venomoth manages to say yes to the secon option and green energy starts flowing through the railings, a blue energy path materializes between the railings behind Venomoth. This message also comes up on the TV:

"ENERGY FLOWING INTO PATH RAILINGS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE
WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE ANOTHER OPTION? Y/N"​

With all that done, Venomoth flies back to Topaz and Jay.

"You know what? I'll keep you out here for a little longer."

Topaz and Jay run down the energy path and go up it when it shortly slopes to a vertical position. It then flows onto a floor above. Here, another hall goes right. While there doesn't seem to be any fireballs floating here, two Heavy Walkers, an Ice Chaos, a Fire Chaos, and a Solar Chaos all stand guard in front of the locked doors. Looks like Topaz and Jay could be in for their biggest battle so far.

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T-Minus 19:30:00

Back in the caverns beneath the jungle on Pine's Island, out group of Trainers are trapped on a cargo platform as four massive Donphan robots converge on them and attack. One of them fires a large flamethrower out its metallic trunk.

"Jecht, come on out and use Hydro Pump!"

"You too, CJ!" -Nova

Both Feraligatr come out of their Pokéballs and fire Hydro Pumps onto two of the Donphan robots. Jecht was good using one on the robot firing a Flamethrower. It manages to push the flames back and send water surging up its trunk, causing it to explode in mere seconds.

"Wow! That was cool!" -Kiro

CJ's Hydro Pump also does the job, taking down another one of the mecha Donphans. However, another slams down on the platform, causing an earthquake that not onlt shakes the platform, but causes one of the holding beams to come undone. Pieces of the ceiling are also coming down as well from the shake. Also, the other Donphan rolls up into a ball and starts slamming into the walls, shaking up the platform even more!

"Jecht, stop them before this whole platform falls down!"

Jecht fires another Hydro Pump at the Donphan robot that caused the earthquake. THe water ends up going up its trunk and eventually destroying it. Now with three out of the way, there's only the problem with the last one, as it rams one of the fences so hard, another holding beam is shattered. At this point, one of the corners of the platform starts to lean downward and some of the boxes slide down to the edge as well.

"We're going to fall, aren't we?!" -Kiro

"No we're not! We're going to take this thing down once and for all!"

The last Donphan robot gets out of its whell position and slams the ground, causing another earthquake that snaps the last two holding beams. At this point, the bridges are the only thing keeping the platform from falling down the bottomless chasm.

"CJ, Hydro Pump it fast!" -Nova

CJ fires a Hydro Pump at the last Donphan robot's trunk, causing the water to go through it and blow it up. At this point, the lasers go down and everyone can now quickly run to the other side of the cave.

"Everybody, hurry before this platform collapses!"

"Yeah! What she said!" -Nova

Everyone heads across the bridge. At this point, two more large Donphan robots drop out of the metal chutes and onto the platform. They slam it so hard that the bridges snap and the platform starts falling down the chasm. One of the electrical beams down there hits a Donphan robot, stunning it. In the next tunnel, it looks like Orny can come back out to speed things up.

"Orny, come back out!" -Louinne

Orny comes back out of its Pokéball and everyone gets onto it. It immediately starts heading down the tunnel, which starts sloping downward. After a long descent, everyone reaches another body of water. Here there are metal posts on the ceiling and at regular intervals, a post generates an electric ring on its tip and that ring drops down to the water, electrifying it. This time, it won't just be about crossing the water, but doding the rings as well.

"Now how are we going to get past this?" -Alalia

"We can just go on the wall again!" -Louinne

Orny gets onto the wall and starts moving across it.

"I think we should all get as close to the wall as possible so as we don't get hit by those rings!"

Orny keeps pressing against the wall and eventually makes it to the other side. In the next tunnel, a left curve turn is made and the tunnel slopes up a little. Here, there are electric fences that go up to the ceiling and block the way. The metal posts for them are deep within the walls and thus can't be destroyed that easily.

"Now how are we going to get past this?" -Nova

"We'll burrow! That's what!" -Louinne

Orny burrows beneath the electrical fields and shortly emerges in a deep, narrow cavern beneath the tunnel. Another body of water rests far below, possible at the lowest point in the caverns. On the ceiling are more metal posts, but these are laser firing ones and immediately start to fire on the massive Steel/Ground Pokémon, which is partially sticking out of the ceiling.

"I think we should go back up!"

"I agree! Orny, burrow back up!" -Louinne

Orny burrows back into the ceiling and emerges back in the tunnel above, but on the other side of the first electrical grid. There are four more they need to get by, and they know just how to get by them.

"If we keep burrowing like this, we can get past those electric beams!" -Alalia

"Yeah! Let's do it!" -Kiro

Orny burrows back into the ground and ends back up in the cavern below. Here, the lasers are still firing everywhere.

"I changed my mind! Maybe this is not such a good idea!" -Kiro

Orny burrows back up into the tunnel and is past the third electrical fence. It goes back into the ground and is back in the lower cavern. Here, one of the laser shots ends up hitting Orny, and Ayu ends up falling off the Pokémon. While she manages to hang onto one of its segments, she'll likely fall down into the water below.

"Somebody help me back up here!"

Nova reaches his hand out to her and pulls her back up as Orny keeps going and burrows back up through the ceiling.

"You didn't need to do that!"

"I thought you said you needed help! Remember, I saved your life once before!" -Nova

"Well, at least you didn't kiss me or anything like that!"

"(As Orny comes back up in the tunnel.) Kiss you?! I was breathing into your mouth! Your heart was not beating! If that didn't start up as well, I would have had to pound your chest or something like that as well!" -Nova

"(As Orny comes back down into the lower cavern.) If you mean pound my chest you mean open my shirt up to see what's underneath and maybe even go a little further than that while you're at it!"

"Let me guess! If you had to choose between me giving you mouth-to-mouth and getting your heart back on track or just lie there and die of drowning and heart stoppage, you'd choose to die!" -Nova

"(As Orny comes back up in the tunnel, past the laser fences.) You know what?! After what you just said, I'd rather have someone like Scar or even Kiro or Alalia put their lips on my mouth to save my life than you!"

"STOP IT! JUST STOP IT!!" -Kiro

Suddenly, as the tunnel slopes up once more, things get uglier. Ayu gets out a Pokéball and throws it.

"Posei, keep her out of this!"

In a selfish move, Posei fires a Dragonbreath at the intervening Kiro, paralyzing her.

"Just what are you doing?! Sly, tell her not to do that!" -Nova

Sly, a Sneasel, comes out of its Pokéball and uses Ice Punch on Posei, freezing the Dragonair in a block of ice.

"Zeph, teach this pervert a lesson in etiquette!"

Ayu's Skarmory comes out of its Pokéball and proceeds to use Swift on Sly. While some of the attack hits it, the rest hits Orny just as the sloping in the tunnel stops and everyone enters a cavern with solid ground. Here, Orny's tail starts glowing and by using Iron Tail to hit both Zeph and Sly, everyone is throws off the Pokémon. Coming out of the paralysis, Kiro is not happy either!

"what is wrong with you guys?! You argue amongst yourselves, then attack me when I decide to have a say is what you two are doing! Chuchu, use Thunderbolt on both of them!" -Kiro

Kiro's Pikachu comes out of her Pokéball and fires a Thunderbolt onto both Sly ans Zeph. As a result, Sly rushes Chuchu with a Metal Claw attack, who dodges the attack and hits Louinne hard, knocking her to the ground.

"OW! What was that for?! Orny, use Earthquake to shut them up!" -Louinne

Orny slams the ground hard, causing an Earthquake that shakes up every other Pokémon out, especially Chuchu, who gets knocked out. Rocks also fall down. One small one even hits Scar.

"All right! You've just incured the wrath fo Scar! Raichu, use Thunderbolt!" -Scar

Raichu launches a Thunderbolt towards Sly, hitting it, but some of the shock also hits Alalia, which cause sher to drop her Pokéball containing Chikorita, who comes out and pretty angry itself, launches a Razor Leaf onto Raichu and also nicks Orny a little.

"Stop that! Orny, Iron Tail them all!" -Louinne

Orny's tail glows again and it whacks both Posei and Raichu with its large tail. The ice holding Posei breaks and it uses a Flamethrower on Orny, hitting it hard.

"If I'm going to have to stop this, I'll just use all of my Pokémon! Chinue, Milleh, Flaria, Chumee, come on out!" -Louinne

Louinne's Lanturn, Miltank, Altaria, and Smoochum all come out of their Pokéballs and start fighting the other Pokémon.

"No fair! MeX, CJ, you handle this, too!" -Nova

Nova's Metagross and Feraligatr come out of their Pokéballs and also start battling the others.

"You guys hurt Chuchu! Coco, Arckee, Mimi, Umbreon, Kirlia, stop all them from fighting!" -Kiro

Kiro's Corsola, Arcanine, Beautifly, Umbreon, and Kirlia all come out of their Pokéballs and take part in the big fight.

"You're all going too far! Pidgeot, Houndoom, Stantler, Jolteon, Gyarados, let's put an end to this!" -Alalia

Alalia's Pidgeot, Houndoom, Stantler, Jolteon, and Gyarados all come out of their Pokéballs and also get into the fight.

"You've all gone too far! Charmander, why not you join in this, too!" -Scar

Scar's Charmander comes out of its Pokéball and joins in the fight.

"You are all out of control, and this is all your fault, Nova! Dart, Jecht, Flaar, come out and stop them!"

Ayu's Ariados, Feraligatr, and Arcanine all come out of their Pokéballs and join in the fight. As of now, all of their Pokémon are engaging is a massive fight amongst each other, attacks can be seen flying all over the cavern as a result. Suddenly, metal compartments in the ceiling open up and hovering camera devices float down to tne middle of the room. From there, they start emitting some sort of holographic light with a tall, thin grid at the end. These grid scanners start moving around the cavern and pick up each of the trainers. One of them ends up picking up Ayu, and from the camera's point of view, we see a video screen of the battlefield and a cursor-like square of smaller digital squares appears on Ayu. This info comes up on her in the upper right hand corner while small pictures of spinning images of Ariados, Skarmory, Dragonair, Feraligatr, and Arcanine appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: AYU LOCKE
CLASS: POKéMON TRAINER
AGE: 19, HOME: JOHTO, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: DART, SPECIES: ARIADOS
POKéMON 2: ZEPH, SPECIES: SKARMORY
POKéMON 3: POSEI, SPECIES: DRAGONAIR
POKéMON 4: JECHT, SPECIES: FERALIGATR
POKéMON 5: FLAAR, SPECIES: ARCANINE​

After identifying Ayu and her Pokémon, the same camera's holo-scanner goes onto Nova and now the cursor appears on him. This info comes up on him in the upper right hand corner while small pictures of spinning images of Feraligatr, Metagross, and Sneasel appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: NOVA DUARTE
CLASS: POKéMON TRAINER
AGE: 14, HOME: JOHTO, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: CJ, SPECIES: FERALIGATR
POKéMON 2: MEX, SPECIES: METAGROSS
POKéMON 3: SLY, SPECIES: SNEASEL​

While this is happening, another one of the hovering cameras shines its holo-scanner onto Kiro. The cursor appears on her and info comes up on her in the upper right hand corner while small pictures of spinning images of Pikachu, Corsola, Arcanine, Beautifly, Umbreon, and Kirlia appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: YUKISHIRO KIZUE
CLASS: POKéMON TRAINER
AGE: 14, HOME: KANTO, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: CHUCHU, SPECIES: PIKACHU
POKéMON 2: COCO, SPECIES: CORSOLA
POKéMON 3: ARCKEE, SPECIES: ARCANINE
POKéMON 4: MIMI, SPECIES: BEAUTIFLY
POKéMON 5: UMBREON, SPECIES: UMBREON
POKéMON 6: KIRLIA, SPECIES: KIRLIA​

The same holo scanner moves onto Louinne and the cursor appears on her. Info comes up on her in the upper right hand corner while small pictures of spinning images of Lanturn, Steelix, Miltank, Altaria, and Smoochum appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: LOUINNE FEYD
CLASS: POKéMON TRAINER
AGE: 18, HOME: JOHTO, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: CHINUE, SPECIES: LANTURN
POKéMON 2: ORNY, SPECIES: STEELIX
POKéMON 3: MILLEH, SPECIES: MILTANK
POKéMON 4: FLARIA, SPECIES: ALTARIA
POKéMON 5: CHUMEE, SPECIES: SMOOCHUM​

Another one of the hovering camer's holo-scanners goes onto Scar. The cursor appears on him and info comes up on him in the upper right hand corner while small pictures of spinning images of Charmander and Raichu appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: SCAR
CLASS: POKéMON TRAINER
AGE: 15, HOME: ORANGE ISLANDS, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: CHARMANDER, SPECIES: CHARMANDER
POKéMON 2: RAICHU, SPECIES: RAICHU​

The same holo scanner moves onto Alalia and the cursor appears on her. Info comes up on her in the upper right hand corner while small pictures of spinning images of Pidgeot, Houndoom, Chikorita, Stantler, Jolteon, and Gyarados appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: ALALIA ARONATO
CLASS: POKéMON TRAINER
AGE: 17, HOME: JOHTO, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: PIDGEOT, SPECIES: PIDGEOT
POKéMON 2: HOUNDOOM, SPECIES: HOUNDOOM
POKéMON 3: CHIKORITA, SPECIES: CHIKORITA
POKéMON 4: STANTLER, SPECIES: STANTLER
POKéMON 5: JOLTEON, SPECIES: JOLTEON
POKéMON 6: GYARADOS, SPECIES: GYARADOS​

Since the hovering cameras have picked up all six of the Trainers, in an unknown area, the images of the entire battle surrounded my smaller screens of the information picked up on the Trainers, including pictures of them, appear on a large, multi paneled screen. Even though we can't see him, there's a man watching the screens.

"So exactly what are these kids doing on my island?! They shouldn't be here! If this is the work of that military again, someone's going to have to pay! I've closed myself from humanity forever and I won't exclude kids from my list of people I'll stop at nothing to get off of here!" -Mysterious Person

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T-Minus 17:45:00

The inside of the short octagonal hall holds nothing special, so he just heads through the other set of doors to reach a massive room with a large singular maze of glass-sided metal bridges and pathways floating above a bottomless pit that makes up the entirety of the room. There are more large, octagonal computer screens on all the walls in the room and large panels on the ceiling.

"Well, better get started here!"

Nived jumps onto the first path of the maze and heads down until he reaches a three-way intersection going left and forward. In the middle of the intersection is another glowing red ring and a large bomb in the middle. Suddenly, to the left, three Fire Chaos come down and attack using Flamethrowers. One of them hits the bomb and sets if off, causing a large explosion that Nived barely jumps out of the way of.

"What was that?! More of these things?! Salamence, come on out and stop them with Hydro Pump!"

Salamence comes out of its Pokéball and fires a Hydro Pump attack at the first Fire Chaos. It keeps up the water as it hits the magma-like lifeform in the head, eventually destroying it. The other two Chaos split into cells and start going for Salamence, creating a cylinder-like formation intended to trap it in. At this point, another bomb materializes in the bomb ring.

"Wait! I have an idea! Salamence, use Flamethrower on the bomb!"

Salamence waits until the Fire Chaos cells are near the bomb, then fires a Flamethrower at it, setting off the explosive and engulfing all the cells in the explosion, destroying them. With the Chaos out of the way, Nived decides to cheat a little bit in the maze.

"Salamence, maybe I should fly you! That way we'll be able to reach the other side of this maze in no time!"

Salamence comes down to the ground and Nived gets onto it. Now they'll be able to quickly reach the end of the maze. They start by going forward since the doorway is in that direction. It also looks like they'll reach it, but to the left and right along the paths are more floating cannon arrays like the ones they saw in the tunnel a while back. This time, the arrays are each arranged in 2-by-3 formations and start by firing more flashing bombs their way after targets appear on Nived and Salamence.

"More of these things! Exactly what's here that Professor Hartache doesn't want us seeing?!"

There's no time for questions, as the bright bombs are coming for Nived and Salamence.

"Salamence, use Flamethrower so stop those things!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at the left set of bombs homing towards them, hitting them and causing them to explode in multi-colored lights, but the other set of bombs are still coming towards them. Before Salamence can react to the other set of bombs, they hit it and cause it to go falling towards one of the maze paths. While it still can battle, one of Salamence's wings was damaged by the bombs, preventing it from flying.

"Sorry, Salamence. I didn't notice those things. We better continue on foot."

Salamence decides to follow Nived on the ground and the both of them run under the left cannon array as it points downward and prepares to fire more bombs at them. They take a left turh at a left-and-right junction since the right path is a dead end. Along the left path are several piles of steel-and-electronic boxes and a right turn. After the turn, though, there's a large laser grid blocking the way at a dead-end. Here, a Heavy Walker sits and two Hover Launchers float over the railings.

"Well, we won't be able to sneak by them."

That happens to be right, as the Heavy Walker spots them immediately and starts firing its massive chainguns at them. Without command, Salamence jumps right by the huge gunfire with one of its claws glowing and fire forming around it and slashes the mech tank's leg with a Dragon Claw, causing it to topple to the left a little. It then slams its jaws right into it and proceeds to use Crunch on it.

"Salamence, I'm not sure those two attacks will help!"

Looks like Nived is right. Dragon Claw and Crunch weren't as effective as Salamence had hoped. At this point, the Walker flips over to it cluster bomb launchers and point them upward, ready to destroy Salamence.

"Salamence, watch out!"

Salamence jumps out of thw way and fires a Flamethrower just as the cluster bombs are fired, causing them to get caught in the explosions and take on severe damage. It's at this point the two Hover Launchers really swing into action. Targets appear on both Nived and Salamence and both Launchers fire meteors at them.

"Salamence, use Hydro Pump to deflect those Meteors!"

Salamence fires another Hydro Pump at the first meteor, sending it right into the way of the Heavy Walker, hitting the tank robot and doing some more damage to it. The Hydro Pump then hits the Hover Launcher and goes on to damage it. The second meteor's still going for Nived, and it doesn't look good.

"Salamence, what about this one?!"

Salamence turns around to notice the second meteor going straight for Nived. It fires another Hydro Pump at it to send it flying down the metallic abyss, where it explodes after a few seconds. The Heavy Walker's still intact, and it plans to fire mini bombs.

"Salamence, use Flamethrower to take it down!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at the Heavy Walker and keeps the flames turned on the tank mecha. Several seconds later, it explodes due to all the huge damage it took. Now there's only the matter of the two Hover Launchers, who now begin preparing to fire their large laser cannons.

"Salamence, finish off that one with Flamethrower!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at the damaged Hover Launcher before it fires its lasers. After several seconds, the hovering robot explodes. Now there's only its partner left, whose lasers go off and sweep the ground towards Nived.

"Salamence, finish if off quick!"

As Nived jumps the lasers coming for him, Salamence fires another Flamethrower at the Hover Launcher, hitting it hard and constantly doing damage to it. After several seconds, the robot explodes and the lasers go down. Also, from one of the panels on the ceiling opens up and a long, metal grate with green-and-blue lights flowing down the long edge sides floats down into the room. It sets itself horizontally above the gap between the path and another on the other side and floats above them.

"Whoa! Now that's something! We better cross it!"

Nived jumps onto the grates and hangs on them from underneath. He then shimmys across the grates to the other side and drops off. Salamence follows, having to jump and cross the grates since its ability to fly has been disabled. On the other side, there is another junction going left and forward. It's quite apparent the left path is a dead end and has nothing more than a wall of more steel-and-electronic boxes and another bomb ring and bomb. Down the forward path, there are forward and right paths at another junction. Nived notices that while the forward path turns right, it's a dead end.

"We better go to the right."

Nived heads to the right and reaches a four-way junction, but there are laser fences on all of the other three paths. Here, four Laser Discs fly down from above each path and start attacking with blue laser beams.

"These again?! Salamence use Dragon Claw to quickly stop them!"

Salamence jumps up towards one of the Laser Discs with one of its claws glowing and fire forming around it, and hits it right in the center with a Dragon Claw, destroying it. The other three Discs decide to start firing large packs of green laser bursts that rain down everywhere. Salamence gets hit by a few, but is all right.

"Salamence, try using Flamethrower again!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at the second Laser Disc, hitting the center and destroying it. Now with only two left, they start charging up red laser blasts.

"Salamence, try two more Flamethrowers!"

Salamence fires another Flamethrower at one of the remaining Laser Discs' center and destroys it. The last one fires its red laser blast at Nived, who manages to dodge it and the explosion. Salamence hits the last one with another Flamethrower right in the center, destroying it. Wth all four of them gone, the lasers fields drop and forward, another grate floats down from an open panel on the ceiling. This one has a metal square at the end and anothe rpart of the grate folds out and turns to the left once the grate has aligned itself horizontally to the left.

"Well, I guess we can get out of this maze!"

Nived heads down the forward path and jumps onto the grate above. He then heads down ti to where it makes a left turn and heads that way. At the end, there's a balcony with another octagonal door Nived can drop down to. Salamence takes an easier way to the door, and heads down the left path and makes a long jump to the balcony from there, surprising Nived with its shortcut.

"Great shortcut, Salamence."

Both of them head through the door and into another octagonal blue circuitry hall. There are two Ice Chaos floating in here, but Nive dknows how to easily get rid of them.

"Salamence, Flamethrower!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at the first Chaos's head and keeps it going, eventually destroying the bio-robot. The second one splits into cells, but Salamence fires a Flamethrower through all the cells is several seconds, destroying them. The door on the other side opens up and reveals another hall on the side. This hall is wide and has glass walls on both sides with light waves flow across them and some digital squares and rectangles with data moving and appearing on them. On the other side of the glass walls happen to be stacks and rows of the metal boxes that hold Artificial Chaos. There doesn't seem to be anything dangerous here.

"Well, this place seems all right."

Suddenly, a laser beam forms between the glass walls and starts coming for Nived and Salamence. another forms between the floor and ceiling ahead and a diagonal one formes betwwn the right wall and the floor. In fact, several more lasers are being generated.

"I guess I spoke too soon."

As the lasers go straight for them, Nived and Salamence jump, run, and even slide under all the lasers coming for them. They slide under the first one, run by the second, and slip past the third. The fourth laser starts off horizontal, but becomes vertical and moves onto the floor and ceiling. These lasers are also smart and move up, down, left, right, and even forward and backward in infinte directions in order to hit intruders. There are then two lasers forming an "X" cross ahead.

"Salamence, we better slide under these!"

Nived and Salamence slide under the lasers just as the move down to try and trap them. Eventually, they can see a vertical laser forming in front of the set of doors on the other end. They manage to pass this one and head through the doors right before it moved toward them and expands into a large diamond grid of lasers that is impossible to pass. Looks like Nived and Salamence are all right, for now.

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T-Minus 17:45:00

Back in the Star Flight area, Tsubasa and her Pokémon have just made their way past a long rectangular prism and are back on a normal path. Further down the path, they come to a right turn. The transition in the path here is the same as in the 45-degree right turns, except the turn piece is a full square. Further down the path, Tsubasa can see what looks like a large, glass satellite dish floating out in the distance. Energy waves can be seen flowing across the glass away from the dish's antennae, which is firing a large teal energy beam further into space. Energy rings can be seen within the beam.

"Wow! This is such a place! I wonder what this is up ahead."

Before Tsubasa can continue along the path, a techno teal holographic cube consisiting of millions of micro cubes flowing down the sides suddenly materializes in front of Tsubasa and her Pokémon. In the center of the cube seems to be a holographic projection of a young woman's head. The woman's eyes light up and take readings on Tsubasa. From the holo-cube's point of view, we see a video screen with numerous data running up and down the sides. A cursor-like square of smaller digital squares appears on Tsubasa. This info comes up on her in the upper right hand corner along with a picture while small pictures of spinning images of a shiny Breloom, Quagsire, Masquerain, Plusle, and Mawile appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: TSUBASA DAKATO
CLASS: ELITE POCE SOLDIER
AGE: 24, HOME: HOENN, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: KAPPA, SPECIES: BRELOOM (SHINY)
POKéMON 2: WAKA, SPECIES: QUAGSIRE
POKéMON 3: MASQIN, SPECIES: MASQUERAIN
POKéMON 4: FUNARY, SPECIES: PLUSLE
POKéMON 5: MAW, SPECIES: MAWILE​

Once the data readings are done, the cube's eyes stop glowing and the cube starts talking to Tsubasa in a female voice.

"Tsubasa Dakato, my name is V.E.R.I.C.A.S., Virtual Electronic Robotic Intelligence Computer Automated System. I was sent here by the request of one Topaz Amethyst." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Whoa! Exactly what are you?"

"I already explained what I am. I'm a Virtual Electronic Robotic Intelligence Computer Automated System; "V.E.R.I.C.A.S.". Do you know of a Topaz Amathyst?" -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Yes I do. She's partners with Nived. Now how did you get here?"

"I was created by the renowned professor Arkane Hartache as Star City's artificial intelligense system. I have the ability to go anywhere and control anything in Star City." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Well, then what are you doing contacting me?"

"Topaz Amethyst wanted me to go and contact one Nived Harem, but he can't be reached due to a system barrier where he is. Instead, she told me to contact you, Tsubasa Dakato. Here is where Topaz Amehyst is right now." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

The the front side on V.E.R.I.C.A.S. change to make a screen of Topaz and Jay in the Electrochemical Reactor. They are riding a large floating platform upward through the reactor. V.E.R.I.C.A.S. goes on to tell Tsubasa what they are doing.

"Topaz Amethyst and Jay Christian Valentine are in the restircted main energy reactor in Star City. Due to Professor Arkane Hartache's abduction, he asked me to seek out other help if possible. Topaz Amethyst was who I found there. She asked me if I could take back control of the Star City robots, but some sort of device is preventing me from doing so. She then requested to contact Nived Harem, but he can't be reached, so she asked me to contect you." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

At this point, the front side goes back to V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s "face".

"So exacatly did she want me to do?"

"She did not say. I can help you on your way through this place. May I be of assistance?" -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Sure! Welcome aboard!"

At this point, Tsubasa and her Pokémon keep going along the path with V.E.R.I.C.A.S. following them.

"So you're some sort of A.I., huh? I was expecting some sort of robot, not a hologram!"

"Professor Arkane Hartache has developed infinte kinds of new technology. I just happen to be one of them." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

Further down the path happens to be more of those graphic green and electric blue turning cubes they saw earlier, except these ones are also moving left and right in addition to turning at regular intervals.

"V.E.R.I.C.A.S.? Can you help me out here?"

"Would you like to me to deactivate the turn cubes?" -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Yes. V.E.R.I.C.A.S., deactivate the turn cubes."

"Affirmitave. Deactivating turn cubes." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

Suddenly, the moving cubes stop moving and flipping. Now just floating there, Tsubasa notices she can quickly reach the other side.

"Thanks, V.E.R.I.C.A.S."

"You're welcome, Tsubasa Dakato. Please be careful." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

Tsubasa uses her hoverboard jumping abilities to cross the cubes to reach another pathway on the other side. Here, there are more large speed rings that the path is going through.

"Tsubasa Dakato, these rings give off a speed burst when passed through. Use caution with them." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

Tsubasa heads through the speed rings and her speed increases almost tenfold upon passting through the last one. At this point, she is zooming across the pathway. V.E.R.I.C.A.S. is struggling to keep up with her.

"Please slow down, Tsubasa Dakato." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Sorry, but I can't!"

At one point, there is a 45-degree right turn, but no speed ring to help Tsubasa safely turn on it. Seeing no choice, she quickly activates the braking fuction on the hoverboard with her left foot. The hoverboard starts slowing down, but it's not until right on the turn it finally stops altogether.

"That was close! Why didn't you do anything?"

"I can only operate technology in Star City. That hoverboard of yours is not from around here." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Oh. Sorry. Well, at least it couldn't get worse."

Unfortunately, it does get worse. There are large quad laser cannons floating along the left and right sides of the pathway. These cannons consist of a large block-shaped main section about the height of an adult human and four large spaceship caliber laser cannons arranged in a 2-by-2 fashion coming from the side of the block. Suddenly, the first one notices Tsubasa and her Pokémon and starts turning to face her. A square aqua blue target appears on Topaz and suddenly, the lasers fire. Large, jungle green laser beams shoot from the cannons and impact the pathway all around Tsubasa. The impacts shake the pathway itself and create large green explosions.

"I guess I was wrong! V.E.R.I.C.A.S., please deactivate the lasers!"

The cannons start firing on Tsubasa again, so she has no choice but to go along the path to avoid them. Because of this, the rest of the laser cannons fire on her as well as more targets appear on her.

"V.E.R.I.C.A.S., this is urgent! Deactivate laser cannons!"

"Affirmitave. Deactivating laser cannons." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

At this point, one of the quad lasers is about to fire on her. We see from the cannon's point of view a blue-colored 3-D video screen of that the cannon sees, which is Tsubasa and green targets on her. Just as the targets flash, the lasers are shut down.

"Thank you, V.E.R.I.C.A.S.!"

"You're welcome, Tsubasa Dakato." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"V.E.R.I.C.A.S., I actually have someone else that maybe you should go and contact. His name is Lupin."

"I don't understand that name." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Well, his full name is Edwin Tasselbury."

"Edwin Tasselbury." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s eyes light up as she looks up data information on Lupin. V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s front side starts to show a video screen with numerous data running up and down the sides. This info comes up on Lupin in the upper right hand corner along with a picture while small pictures of spinning images of Espeon, Meowth, Mightyena, Vileplume, and Misdreavus appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: EDWIN TASSELBURY
CLASS: POCE SOLDIER
AGE: 23, HOME: HOENN
WEAPONS: VOLEAT'S NIGHTMARE, MECH: HAUNTER NIGHTCRAFT
POKéMON 1: UMBRA, SPECIES: ESPEON
POKéMON 2: PENCETT, SPECIES: MEOWTH
POKéMON 3: FERALIS, SPECIES: MIGHTYENA
POKéMON 4: TOADPIKE, SPECIES: VILEPLUME
POKéMON 5: NOCTURNELLE, SPECIES: MISDREAVUS​

"Edwin Tasslebury is currently located in the Space Plant." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s front side starts to display an image of the outside of the Space Plant, located outside in space.

"The Space Plant is a fully automated factory where space stations are constrcuted and released. The Space Plant systems are intended to create a long line of space stations to provide passage for space travelers. Once released, automated shuttles are launched from the launch pads on top of the Space Plant to guide the space stations to their destinations. The Space Plant is also a production site for concentrated energy for fueling the space stations and where thousands of mini-satellites are assembled for various purposes." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

At this point, the front side goes back to V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s "face".

"Wow. You know a lot about Star City."

"Of course I do. Professor Arkane Hartache programmed me with every piece of data on this city and everything in it. I'll go and try to find Edwin Tasselbury. If you ever need to contact me, you will need to put this password into an electronic handheld device: V-E-R-I-C-A-S; V.E.R.I.C.A.S." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Okay. I'll remember that."

At this point, V.E.R.I.C.A.S. vanishes into thin air, meaning she has gone to look for Lupin. Tsubasa and her Pokémon continue along the path once again on their own, not knowing what dangers lie ahead.

 

[Ninetales1]

OOC: Since Bijou doesn't want me controlling Zion and has not been posting lately, and also since Zion doesn't seem to be getting along with Kelsey anyways, I think I'll split them up for now...

Yes, and I've been gone for almost two weeks... Well, tonight and tomorrow I should have lots of time.

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--Outside the Space Plant--

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T-Minus 18:25:00

The group that was out (Lupin, Gardevoir, and Umbra) took a moment to stare at the place where the light had been--the light that caused Ninetales to vanish. Gardevoir had her hands over her mouth and looked to be on the verge of crying. Umbra seemed disappointed and was looking at the ground. Lupin was deep in thought--a part of him worried about Ninetales, but at the same time he knew that there was still a mission to complete out here in Star City. What he really wanted was to just continue on with the flight towards the dark zone of this outside world, and so he started walking back towards the Nightcraft...

But he was interrupted by Gardevoir finally bursting into tears. It was the sort of tears she would cry if she was suddenly thrust into a world where everything was cruel and there was no hope left--kind of the way she felt when she was being tortured as a Kirlia by Team Rocket. For back then she felt more than anything the loss of everyone she cared about--especially including Kelsey. Now, that loss was of Ninetales. And in turn, that feeling of detachment magnified the fact that Gardevoir still missed Kelsey, who was still on Pine's Island at this moment. Anyways, at this point Lupin walked over to Gardevoir and knelt down next to her.

"I know--you grew quite fond of Ninetales over time, eh?" Lupin asked Gardevoir, trying not to sound anxious or impatient.

Gardevoir said nothing and just continued crying.

"I can say that I'm worried myself... just a little bit, perhaps. But you know... we do have other things to do here, and I'm sure all that happened was that Ninetales was just teleported somewhere. She's not in any sort of harm. Worse comes to worse, if and when Kelsey regains her telepathic connection, we'll all know exactly where she is. And of course, now Team Rocket and the Shuttle Gang are nowhere near us, and of course you're not alone... why, who do you think is right next to you now? And Umbra too."
Lupin patted Gardevoir on the back as he said this.

<"I don't know... I don't know where everyone is..."> Gardevoir finally spoke. <"I want them... back... I want them... Oh pleeease, don't let them get me again... Ke... Where is Kelsey? Sh... sh... ohhh... and now, a-a-and now...">
Gardevoir then started to stand up, trembling as she did so. But a few seconds later, she just collapsed all of a sudden, falling forward as if she had fainted. Then she just remained catatonic.

<"...What is wrong with her?"> Umbra asked. <"Why'd she just faint all of a sudden? It really isn't that bad--I'm sure Ninetales is somewhere safe. I don't think she's harmed in any way...">

"I do know that sometimes traumatic experiences in the past can lead to overreactions when similar problems arise in the future... perhaps we just saw an example of that. Anyways, I know I won't be able to carry Gardevoir back into the Nightcraft, so would you be willing to..."

Lupin didn't even need to ask--Umbra automatically lifted Gardevoir into the Nightcraft telekinetically.

"...I truly apologise for asking you these favours..." Lupin mentioned as he got into the Nightcraft and started it back up.

<"Oh, well I suppose it's good practice if not anything else... And I suppose you want me back in my Pokeball, right?">

"I was thinking that... but which would you rather do: take a rest inside the Pokeball or do what Ninetales did before--watch above for signs of intruders, and maybe look after Gardevoir as well? Again, I don't wish to... impose anything on you."

Minutes later, Lupin was flying the Nightcraft down the trench that veered off to the right of the broken shuttle under which Ninetales was teleported. Gardevoir was lying down in the back seat, seat belts strapped awkwardly around her. Umbra had decided to go back into his Pokeball after all. As a result, Lupin found the Nightcraft slightly easier to fly, as it now had less weight. Anyways, the trench curved a little bit, but not as much as the last one he was in. It was significantly darker in this trench than the first one, but light still shone from what was left of the sun. This trench continued on for another few minutes or so, until it ended and made another T intersection.
...And I go left.

This trench curved to the right, but afterwards it seemed to be perfectly straight, continuing on infinitely. In the distance, it was nearly impossible to see the trench because it was so dark over there. But that was proof that the dark side of this outside zone was growing nearer. And so the Nightcraft flew on, carrying a young man and his girlfriend's Gardevoir, towards the world of night that lay far ahead, taking a long time despite the high speed at which it was flying.

--Pine's Island--

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T-Minus 20:00:00

For the next few moments, Kelsey and Zion just stared at each other.
Whoops, Kelsey said to herself.

But still Zion didn't say anything to Kelsey's request. Kelsey looked around at Absol, Shuppet, then back at Zion... and finally started to speak.

"I know this is, um, hard for me to say, but... well, I was thinking that... we should... just go our separate ways... toward, um, Pine. I know it... sounds sudden but... well, sorry if I frightened you with the whole telepathy thing and all... But really, nothing to worry about, and if it bothers you, fine, and..."

Kelsey was feeling embarrassed already, so she took Hypno by the hand and started walking along the path that Banette had taken towards the Donphan. Clefable and Banette followed behind her, and so did Bellossom after saying goodbye to Zion's Pokemon.

<"Bye Absol! Bye Shuppet! If you need us again, call me!">

~ ~ ~

A while later, Kelsey and her Pokemon were out of the forest, and were now standing on the banks of a river. But this wasn't a little stream. This river was wide, deep, and seemed to be moving quite steadily to the left. The path seemed to end at the edge of the water, and didn't appear to continue to the other side nor along the edge of the river.

<"Does this mean we reached a dead end?"> Clefable asked.

<"No, it means we have to swim along the river till we reach something promising,"> Banette suggested.

<"...But I can't swim!"> Hypno commented.

<"I like getting sprinkled with water, but not being submerged in it...">

"It would take too long to build a raft or something, so I guess swimming across might be our only choice..."
Kelsey was standing on the very edge of the water, looking left and right to see what was there. First she looked left to see that the river seemed to curve around to the right up ahead. Then she looked to the right--and gasped in surprise. For coming slowly towards the group was what looked like an old ship.
"There's our answer, right there!" Kelsey pointed out. Soon, all of the Pokemon could see the ship.

<"I don't know... don't you think there might be...">

<"What, ghosts?!?"> Banette had to laugh at Clefable's remark. <"What are YOU afraid of, powder puff?">

"All right, the ship's coming closer. On the count of three, let's all jump on. You all ready? ...One... two... ..."
Kelsey looked around to see that all the Pokemon were ready. By that time the ship was almost directly in front of them.
"...three!"

The ship didn't really appear to be in bad shape, except for the sails which were burnt and torn. It wasn't too big--no more than fifty feet long, and it had a small cabinlike compartment in the centre that seemed to lead down to a lower level. In front of the cabin was a door, and light seeped through a crack underneath it.
"Oh... does this mean that someone is on this ship? I wonder who... Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to disturb them, so I think I'll just wait... out... here..."
Kelsey then walked over to the front of the ship and held on to the steering wheel. And she was just in time--for the river was about to curve right. So Kelsey started to turn the wheel to the right, only to find that the wheel wouldn't budge.
This can't be good--that turn's coming up!!

But for some odd reason, just before the turn, the wheel turned by itself, so that the ship pulled smoothly through the turn and continued along the river. Then it began to speed up, as if there was a motor attached to it. Further up ahead, there was another turn. Just as before though, the ship steered itself through the turn--and moved even faster afterward.

<"Either this ship is haunted, or someone below deck is steering this ship...">
By that time, Bellossom was cuddled up in Kelsey's arms.

After a few more turns, the ship was moving faster than a car down a highway. But that was not what the group aboard it was worried about. For up ahead, the roar of a waterfall could be heard, and a waterfall could be seen in the distance. Yet this waterfall seemed to be coming from a river that was flowing the opposite direction, and was higher up than the river the ship was on. It almost seemed like the two rivers would crash into each other.

"It looks like we're going to either drop or crash into the other waterfall at some point," Kelsey announced to her four Pokemon. At that time, Clefable was leaning against the cabin, Banette was at the very front of the ship looking ahead, and Hypno stood to the side of the steering wheel. Bellossom was still being held by Kelsey.
"I think what we might need to do is... Banette? Hypno? Clefable? I think you three had better prepare to all use your Psychic attacks on this ship, should we be about to fall or crash into the other waterfall. And all of us better hold to something..."
Kelsey and all of the Pokemon grabbed hold of the nearest mast they could find (Bellossom grabbed onto Kelsey's sweater), all the while looking ahead at the ever approaching waterfall...

Finally, the dropoff came. The ship was beginning to fall. Below it were two waterfalls that seemed to lead straight into a dark abyss with no bottom. And since the ship was traveling at such a high speed, and also because the river sloped down before ending, the ship was falling rapidly, nose first, towards the abyss. Wind whipped past everyone's faces as they held on to the masts for support...

"I... think... we... can... fall... a... lot... slower..." Kelsey shouted. Then, it wasn't a few more seconds before the ship started to fall more slowly, and also started to glow blue. That was the sign of a triple Psychic attack being used on it. However, not even a Banette, Hypno, and Clefable combined could completely stop the ship from moving. Meanwhile, Kelsey looked around for signs of caves or something behind the waterfalls. By that time, the ship had entered a sort of canyon, but the bottom of the abyss the waterfalls converged into was still nowhere to be seen. Yes, converged... for the water droplets from the waterfalls were so spread out slightly below the ship that they were more like a heavy rain. As the ship neared this all-water spot, Kelsey began to close her eyes. Before she did, she thought she saw something cream-white fly overhead, but maybe that was just her imagination...

Moments later, a heavy shower washed over the entire ship and all its occupants. This distracted the Pokemon so much that they ceased their psychic control of the ship and instead focused on holding on to the ship. As a result, the ship began to fall faster. What followed was a few more moments of heavy, icy water droplets and mist engulfing all that was aboard, wind whistling past as the ship accelerated towards the unknown bottom to this abyss...

But moments later, it all ended with a rather graceful dive on the ship's part into a deep pool of water.
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OOC: Ehheh, I shall continue this tomorrow, hopefully... Yes, I did leave a cliffhanger on Kelsey's part. Oh, and another thing to note is that the smileys above the T-Minus on each of my posts from now on will indicate the Pokemon in the person's team (anything in parentheses is in a Pokeball).

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

All right! Ninetales, if you noticed in Tsubasa's part in my most recent post, you're to meet V.E.R.I.C.A.S. It's best you check that part of the post so you know what V.E.R.I.C.A.S. is. (It's basically similar to V.I.K.I. from "I, Robot", but check anyway.) I'm going to do more for Topaz and Jay. This will also explain how we're introduced to V.E.R.I.C.A.S. since it meets Topaz and Jay first.

T-Minus 17:50:00

Back in the Electrochemical Reactor, Topaz and Jay are up against not only two Heavy Walkers, but three different elemental Artificial Chaos as well. They happen to be in what could be a major fight.

"Camerupt, come back out and use Eruption to take these out!"

Camerupt comes out of its Pokéball and uses Eruption. The large attack rains fire and lava all around the area, drenching the Heavy Walkers and Chaos. Both Heavy Walkers take on some major damage and the Ice Chaos and Solar Chaos do so as well. The Fire Chaos ends up absorbing the fire energy and is thus not harmed. However, none of the robots are defeated, and all three Chaos split into cells. The cells group into a large cloud and plan on going for Topaz and Jay.

"Not more of these! I wish Blastoise was still around!" -Jay

"Well, Camerupt can take these down with another Eruption!"

Camerupt prepares to fire another Eruption, but the cells converge on it. The heads of the Ice and Fire Chaos fire an Ice Beam and Flamethrower, which form into one attack and create a large ring on burning ice around Camerupt. Then, the cells all form a triple-decker ring around the large Fire/Ground Pokémon and start giving off freezing, burning, and solar flashes that combine into potent flashes.

"Camerupt, you can withstand both the fire and ice! Don't give in!"

Another problem rises. The two Heavy Walkers point their chainguns at Topaz and Jay and prepare to fire.

"Metang, Venomoth, come on out and use Psychic to stop them!"

Metang and Venomoth both come out of their Pokéballs just as the guns fire. They both use Psychic and end up stopping most of the powerful bullets coming their way. In only a matter of seconds, a large cluster of hundreds of bullets forms in midair.

"Now send those back!"

Metang and Venomoth send the massive bullet cluster into one of the Heavy Walkers, causing the hyper armored tank to wobble, but it still stands even after all that damage.

"Whoa! That was something!" -Jay

"But I don't think they'll be able to do it again!"

While this is going on, Camerupt is still being attacked by the Chaos cells and could almost fall.

"Camerupt, you can do it, use Eruption to break them off!"

Camerupt manages to pull off a very weakened Eruption, but the attack blasts the cells off of it and even destroy all the Ice and Solar Chaos cells, causing their heads to go down with them from the attack. The Fire Chaos cells still haven't suffered any damage and reform into a whole Chaos. The Heavy Walkers are still causing trouble, so Topaz decides to shake things up for them.

"Camerupt, use Earthquake to stop them!"

Camerupt slams the ground down hard, so hard that a large shockwave is generated and sweeps the entire room. The shockwave blasts both Heavy Walkers, but neither of them are destroyed or even fallen down. At this point, they decide to switch to cluster bomb launchers and prepare to fire.

"This is not good! Arcanine, come on out and try using Extremespeed to knock them down!" -Jay

Arcanine comes out of its Pokéball and immediately rushes the more damaged Heavy Walker with a burst of speed so fast, it manages to push the robot tank right into the wall hard.

"Now Venomoth and Metang, Psychic!"

Both Venomoth and Metang use Psychic, and a large blue swirl envelops the Heavy Walker, finally damaging it so much that the 15-ft robot tank blows up. Now there's only the matter of a Fire Chaos and one more Heavy Walker.

"Venomoth, Metang, return! Lanturn, I choose you! Use Hydro Pump!"

Lanturn comes out of its Pokéball and promptly fires a large blast of water at the Fire Chaos's head. The Chaos fires an equally powerful Flamethrower and both attacks collide. While it seems that we're at a standstill, the Hydro Pump pushes the Flamethrower back and hits the Fire Chaos's head, destroying it in a matter of seconds. The Heavy Walker is not finished yet and fires a cluster bomb.

"LANTURN, USE THUNDERBOLT, QUICK!!!"

Topaz, Camerupt, Jay, and Arcanine all get to the back of the hall just as Lanturn's Thunderbolt hits the cluster bomb, causing it to explode. Lanturn manages to flop back out of the way of the explosions from the bomb. Once the smoke clears, everyone is all right.

"Now Lanturn, use Hydro Pump!"

Lanturn fires another Hydro Pump at the Heavy Walker, causing the tank robot to take on more damage and become soaked in water.

"Now finish it off with a Thunderbolt!"

Lanturn now fires a Thunderbolt at the robot, and because of all the water, it takes on even more damage. At this point, the Heavy Walker explodes and the battle is finished.

"Topaz, that was cool! Now to return Arcanine!" -Jay

"Yeah, and I'll return Camerupt and Lanturn!"

After all Pokémon are returned to their Pokéballs, a cube consisiting of millions of micro cubes flowing down the sides suddenly materializes in front of them. This cube is teal colored and looks to be a hologram. In the center of the cube seems to be a holographic projection of a young woman's head.

"Whoa! What is that?!" -Jay

"I don't know!"

Topaz decides to go up and try to touch the cube, but her hand goes right through it.

"Wow! I think it's a hologram of some sort!"

The woman's eyes light up and take readings on both Topaz and Jay. From the holo-cube's point of view, we see a video screen with numerous data running up and down the sides. A cursor-like square of smaller digital squares appears on Topaz. This info comes up on her in the upper right hand corner along with a picture while small pictures of spinning images of Dragonair, Sunflora, Camerupt, Lanturn, Venomoth, and Metang appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: TOPAZ AMETHYST
CLASS: POCE SOLDIER
AGE: 20, HOME: ORANGE ISLANDS
WEAPONS: LASER RIFLE, MECH: POCE CARRIER
POKéMON 1: DRAGONAIR, SPECIES: DRAGONAIR
POKéMON 2: SUNFLORA, SPECIES: SUNFLORA
POKéMON 3: CAMERUPT, SPECIES: CAMERUPT
POKéMON 4: LANTURN, SPECIES: LANTURN
POKéMON 5: VENOMOTH, SPECIES: VENOMOTH
POKéMON 6: METANG, SPECIES: METANG​

Now that the readings on Topaz are done, the digital cursor moves onto Jay. This info comes up on him in the upper right hand corner along with a picture while small pictures of spinning images of Delcatty, Blastoise, Butterfree, Miltank, Arcanine, and Milotic appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: JAY CHRISTIAN VALENTINE
CLASS: POKéMON TRAINER
AGE: 19, HOME: ORANGE ISLANDS, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: DELCATTY, SPECIES: DELCATTY
POKéMON 2: BLASTOISE, SPECIES: BLASTOISE
POKéMON 3: BUTTERFREE, SPECIES: BUTTERFREE
POKéMON 4: MILTANK, SPECIES: MILTANK
POKéMON 5: ARCANINE, SPECIES: ARCANINE
POKéMON 6: MILOTIC, SPECIES: MILOTIC​

Once the data readings are done, the cube's eyes stop glowing and the cube starts talking to Topaz and Jay in a female voice.

"Topaz Amethyst and Jay Christan Valentine, my name is V.E.R.I.C.A.S., Virtual Electronic Robotic Intelligence Computer Automated System." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"So exactly what are you?" -Jay

"I think that it's a hologram."

"Yes. I am a hologram artificial intelligence system created by the renowned Professor Arkane Hartache, creator of Star City." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Exactly what are you doing here?"

"I control everything in Star City and have the power of freely move throughout the Star City area. When the city was attacked by outside forces, they took control of all the robots and for some reason I could not use them to protect the city. Professor Hartache immediately gave me the consent to initiate a mass evacuation for all the civillians. However, Professor Hartache and his daughter, Alicia Hartache, were captured by (An image of Giovanni and data about him below appears on the left side of V.E.R.I.C.A.S.) Giovanni Rocket, leader of Team Rocket, and (An image of Mr. Shuttle and data about him below appears on the right side of V.E.R.I.C.A.S.) Mr. Amadedus Shuttle, leader of the all robot Shuttle Gang. Before their capture, Professor Hartache told me to evacuate from the tower and find help." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"That's quite a story."

"Since there was no one else I could turn to, I first tried taking down the invaders myself using Star City's technology. I couldn't just defeat them all because I'm still part of the Star City system and didn't want to threaten the lives of Professor Hartache and his daughter. Eventually, a group of soldiers and robots from the Peacekeeping Organization of Commanding Elites, or POCE, a group you are a part of, Topaz Amethyst, came here to try and stop Team Rocket and the Shuttle Gang from using the Space Shield Network to dominate the world." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"So can you explain more about what happened?" -Jay

"As it has been known and televised on all communications media, an alien race known as the Ralethans attacked Earth four months ago and almost decimated the planet. After their defeat, Professor Hartache still feared that more aliens and terrorists are still out there. Because of this, he has developed the Space Shield Network, consisting of 240 satellites, each armed with six super lasers. One blast of a super laser has the power to completely annihilate a major city, but the purpose would be to protect the Earth from aliens, meteors, and all other threats." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"But Team Rocket and the Shuttle Gang somehow found out about the project and decided to use it for their own evil gains."

"Precisely, Topaz Amethyst. Because of this, I tried looking for anyone that could help me. After pinpointing your location, I immediately came here to see if you could be of assistance or know anyone that could be of assistance to me. I see that you're not the commander of this mission. If you would be as to specify who you're boss is and to tell me where to contact him or her." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Well, my superiors are Nived Harem and Tsubasa Dakato. I know Nived better. Could you find him for me?"

"Let's see. Nived Harem." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s eyes light up as she looks up data information on Nived. V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s front side starts to show a video screen with numerous data running up and down the sides. This info comes up on Nived in the upper right hand corner along with a picture while small pictures of spinning images of Swampert, Houndoom, Sunflora, Manectric, Salamence, and Metagross appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: NIVED HAREM
CLASS: ELITE POCE SOLDIER
AGE: 24, HOME: HOENN
WEAPONS: HOMING ROCKET LAUNCHER, MECH: HEAVY SKARMORY II
POKéMON 1: SWAMPERT, SPECIES: SWAMPERT
POKéMON 2: HOUNDOOM, SPECIES: HOUNDOOM
POKéMON 3: SUNFLORA, SPECIES: SUNFLORA
POKéMON 4: MANECTRIC, SPECIES: MANECTRIC
POKéMON 5: SALAMENCE, SPECIES: SALAMENCE
POKéMON 6: METAGROSS, SPECIES: METAGROSS​

After bringing up the data on Nived, there happens to be a problem, and the screen goes back to V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s "face".

"I'm afraid that Nived Harem is located in a place that is shielded by a system barrier, meaning for some reason, Professor Hartache has prevented me from being able to enter there to bring up any information on the location. If you could point me in the direction of another superior." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Well, I wonder where Nived could be. Try Tsubasa Dakato."

V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s eyes light up as she looks up data information on Tsubasa. V.E.R.I.C.A.S.'s front side goes back to the video screen. This info comes up on Tsubasa in the upper right hand corner along with a picture while small pictures of spinning images of a shiny Breloom, Quagsire, Masquerain, Plusle, and Mawile appear on the bottom of the screen:

NAME: TSUBASA DAKATO
CLASS: ELITE POCE SOLDIER
AGE: 24, HOME: HOENN, WEAPONS: NONE
POKéMON 1: KAPPA, SPECIES: BRELOOM (SHINY)
POKéMON 2: WAKA, SPECIES: QUAGSIRE
POKéMON 3: MASQIN, SPECIES: MASQUERAIN
POKéMON 4: FUNARY, SPECIES: PLUSLE
POKéMON 5: MAW, SPECIES: MAWILE​

"Tsubasa Dakato is..." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

The front of V.E.R.I.C.A.S. changes to show a screen of Tsubasa making her way through the Space Pathway. She is battling an Artificial Chaos on a spinning rectangular prism path.

"...currently in the Space Pathway area. The Space Pathway is a cargo supply passage that connects to several of the city domes in Star City. It looks like she could be of some assistance. Should I go to her?" -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Yes, you should."

"If you ever need to contact me, you will need to put this password into an electronic handheld device: V-E-R-I-C-A-S; V.E.R.I.C.A.S." -V.E.R.I.C.A.S.

"Got it."

With all that done, V.E.R.I.C.A.S. teleports out of the area. Topaz and Jay at this point decide to head through the set of doors that are now unlocked and keep going with their mission.

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T-Minus 19:00:00

Back in the underground tunnels on Pine's Island, our group of Trainers have gotten into a fight... with each other! During this incident, floating security camers have gotten information on everyone and now someone knows of their presence. The battle still rages on and a blast of flame from Flaar (Arcanine) hits one of the cameras, burning it and causing it to spark. At this point, the Trainers start to realize what has happened.

"Everyone, stop fighting!"

Everyone continues to fight. Ali's Jolteon shoots towards Coco (Corsola).

"I think we've been spotted!"

The fight still goes on. Orny (Steelix) uses Iron Tail on Flaar.

"I SAID TO STOP ALL THIS FIGHTING!!"

At this point, Flaar fires a Flamethrower into the crowd, and everyone comes to a halt.

"Jeez, girl! What's the problem?!" -Nova

"Look at what we're doing! We're not getting along when we should be! We should be trying to get out of this place, but instead we fight each other! Is this what we've become?! A bunch of rogues?!"

"Rogues?! Where did you get that speech?! Some movie?!" -Scar

"Hey! Shut up! I don't want your opinion! We're acting like a bunch of wild Primeape!"

"I'm with him! Primeape?!" -Nova

"What we're doing is fighting and dividing ourselves! What we're supposed to be doing is working together and finding Professor Pine! I don't think we've made much progress!"

"You know what? I understand what Ayu is trying to say! We shouldn't fight! We shpuld be working together trying to get out of here!" -Kiro

"Hey! You started this fight! And now you're telling us to make up?!" -Nova

"Yes! What I did was stupid and I'd like to call a truce!"

"Well, on one condition! Stop complaining about what I was doing when I was giving you mouth-to-mouth!" -Nova

"All right, fine! I'll put that behind me! Let's just keep going and get out of here!"

"Guys, there's still the problem with these cameras!" -Louinne

"What?"

"They won't let us out of here!" -Louinne

As it turns out, all eight hover cameras have extended small poles from theit top and bottom and are emitting laser grids over both ways out of the cavern, four cameras for each passage. The amount of lasers is too great to be able to get through the passages at all.

"Well, let me take care of this! Flaar, Flamethrower again!"

Flaar fires another Flamethrower at one of the hover cameras, but it emits an energy shield that blocks the attack entirely. As it turns out, it also used this shield to block the Flamethrower before and the sparks were only a result of the flames.

"We're trapped in here!" -Ali

"No we're not! I know a way to get us out!"

"How?!" -Kiro

"Louinne will use her Steelix to burrow us out of here!"

"That's your way of getting us out?!" -Nova

"Well, It's probably the only way we'll get out of here!"

"Well, I think you're right! First, we should return all our Pokémon!" -Louinne

"Right! We should do that first!"

Ayu returns Dart, Zeph, Posei, Jecht, and Flaar to theit Pokéballs. Once she's done, Nova returns CJ, MeX, and Sly to their Pokéballs, then Kiro returns Chuhu, Coco, Arckee, Mimi, Unbreon, and Kirlia to their Pokéballs. Louinne returns Chinue, Milleh, Flaria, and Chumee to their Pokéballs and Scar returns Charmander and Raichu to their Pokéballs. Ali returns Pidgeot, Houndoom, Chikorita, Stantler, Jolteon, and Gyarados to their Pokéballs.

"Good going! Now let's get out of here!"

Everyone gets onto Orny, and the Steelix now starts to burrow through the ground. While the burrowing is successful, they end back up in the cavern below and are hanging from the ceiling.

"Looks like we're doing this again!" -Nova

As Orny heads back upward, it ends up in the tunnel to the left of where they came in, but the cameras have floated over there to trap them again. The other four cameras have done the same, sealing off the cavern from behind.

"Looks like they don't want us to leave!" -Kiro

"Well, they'll have to try harder than that because we can make it through here!"

Orny goes back down through the ground and back into the cavern below. The metal posts continue to fire lasers everywhere, forcing the Steelix to head back up to the tunnel above. Back up there, the cameras continue to move forward as well, using their lasers to block both ways.

"Wait! I got an idea! Orny burrow to the left!" -Louinne

Orny burrows down into the ground again, this time to the left. Back in the cavern below, they pass by several more laser posts before burrowing back up. This time, the upward burrowing is much longer and they eventually end up in another cavern cut off from wheret they were.

"Wow! Where are we now?!" -Kiro

"I think we're... just in another cavern. Let's just keep going from here! The cameras can't follow us now!"

Think again. All eight cameras have followed them through the tunnels that Orny made. Four of them create a laser fence as wide and as tall as the cavern behind them and the other four plan to do the same.

"Orny, hurry! They're trying to trap us!" -Louinne

Orny quickly gets out of the ground and moved forward, hoping to get past the cameras, but the other four beat it to the cavern end and make another laser fence, blocking them.

"Louinne, have Orny burrow underground again! We need to find a way back to the surface!"

"Right! Orny, head back down!" -Louinne

Orny burrows into the ground once again in order to escape the cameras and their lasers. The Steelix burrows to the left and keeps burrowing until they see a spot that they can burrow upward.

"I think Orny's almost reached the surface!" -Louinne

Eventually, Orny breaks through the ground back in the jungle. Once the Pokémon is completely out, everyone gets off.

"Louinne, return Orny to its Pokéball! We need something much faster to escape those cameras! Flaar, come back out!"

"You too, Arckee!" -Kiro

"Both Arcanien come out of their Pokéballs while Orny returns into its Pokéball. Ayu, Louinne, and Scar get onto Flaar while Kiro, Ali, and Nova get onto Arckee. At this point, the cameras come out of the hole and proceed to make a laser cage to trap everyone.

"Flaar, go now!"

Both Arcanine take off just in time and rush down the jungle path. The cameras start following them at a fast pace of their own. At a left bend, they come to a tree with several platform-like outcroppings that they cal climb.

"We'll need to climb up there! Right?!" -Kiro

"Right! Let's go!"

Both Arcanine quickly make high jumps up the tree platforms as the cameras make a large horizontal laser fence while they rise up as well. At the top of the tree, there's a cliff and another path going along it.

"There! Guys, hurry!"

Both Flaar and Arckee jump onto the path and run along the wall to their left. Along the path, two of the cameras gain a burst of speed and form a laser fence in front of everybody.

"JUMP!!!"

Both Arcanine manage to jump the lasers and keep going doen thw path. As the cliff ends, more laser fences can be seen up ahead moving left and right.

"We better be ready to jump these!"

As they pass through the laser fences, any that come towards them they manage to jump. The path consists of about fifteen of these fences, making things difficult. Eventually, the lasers end and the path makes a right turn. Here, the path slopes downward as more metal posts rise out of the ground. These are the ones that shoot lasers, so things are not easy.

"Looks like we're in trouble here!"

"Just keep going, Ayu! We can make it!" -Nova

"Thanks for the encouragement."

Both Arcanine manage to make it past the laser posts and as the path evens out, the trees start to look clearer and it looks like they might finally be at tne end of the jungle.

"Look guys! We've made it!"

"We're almost out of here!" -Ali

"I can't wait to smell fresh air again!" -Kiro

"It'll be great to finally reach Professor Pine and leave this island!" -Louinne

"Well, maybe we shouldn;t have fought after all." -Nova

"I wonder what comes next!" -Scar

About a minute later, everyone has exited the jungle, but now they have come to a large body of water. Beyond the water water happens to be Professor Pine's main compound.

"Well, maybe we can use our Water Pokémon to get across!"

Suddenly, the water flashes with intense electricity. Some electricity can be seen shooting out of the water and almost hitting our Trainers.

"Looks like Water Pokémon are not a good idea." -Nova

"Yeah. We need to find another way across this!" -Ali

"We better take a look around then! We might find a bridge or something like it to cross!"

Both Arcanine veer to the left to look for a way to cross the body of water. The cameras have also come out of the jungle and follow them. Back in an unknown location, the same man from before is watching everything on the multi paneled screen in front of him. The main image is surrounded by smaller screens of the information picked up on the Trainers, including pictures of them

"So they survived the jungle. Well, my private lake is filled with electricity that will prevent them from crossing. Exactly what is their reason for coming here? I know that they haven't come here by accident. Also, what should I do with them?" -Mysterious Person

 

[Ninetales1]

OOC: As I said in the other thread, happy late birthday, Sunflorazumarill! You know, a tarot reading I did said that someone under the sign of Aries would be of influence--I guess it was talking about you, and specifically this RPG! (It makes sense, as this RPG did have a significant impact on the development of Lupin's character.)

Yes... I wanted to make sure Lupin was in a safe spot before being confronted by V.E.R.I.C.A.S. And I haven't forgotten about his Vileplume; I just decided not to show her because she's still locked up in her Pokeball and nothing but a ball of energy.

I think in this post I will reveal the whereabouts of Kelsey's Ninetales. Be prepared for a neat surprise...

IC:
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Outside the Space Plant

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T-Minus 18:10:00

As always, the trenches on the outside of the Space Plant were safe and straightforward. And the Nightcraft flying down one of these trenches was just about to be hidden by the cover of darkness. As it and those traveling in it moved forward, it grew steadily darker, till it was getting pretty hard to see what was around. Still, Lupin dared not turn on the bright red headlights on the "Haunter eyes" of the Nightcraft. The whole point of coming out this far was to avoid being seen by any spies that happened to be flying overhead.

<"It's getting pretty hard to see..."> Gardevoir complained.

"That's a good sign, actually," Lupin replied. "Means the spies won't see us either."

<"...But are YOU going to be able to see anything? I know you can see pretty well in the dark, but--no offense--you're not a Noctowl, and we can't be sure exactly how dark it is over there.">

"Haha, Gardevoir! Do you honestly believe that Mike and I might have designed this Nightcraft to be virtually invisible at night? It wouldn't be called a Nightcraft for nothing. I'm sure I showed Kelsey this button--maybe you failed to read that part of her mind. Oh well, no matter. Here goes."

With that, Lupin pressed a button on the dashboard--one that was shaped like a bat. When pressed, a soft, high beep sounded from the Nightcraft itself, and the screen on the dashboard showed a silhouette of a Zubat and some sound waves, and the words "ECHOLOCATION ACTIVATED" on it.

<"Oh, um... Okay, now we shall call it the 'Zubat Nightcraft' instead.">

Occasionally, the Nightcraft emitted more of those nearly inaudible beeps to check its surroundings. The screen on the dashboard showed a virtual image of the trench, as if the Nightcraft was seeing the world around it with its own eyes. However, the shapes of the walls of the trench were basically white silhouettes--no details could be made out. Meanwhile, the world around the group itself was pretty much fully dark at this point. The only light came from the faint glow of the screen, and the very last sunrays that could be faintly seen in the sky.

"I suppose now it is officially night-time."

And for the first time, Lupin flew the Nightcraft out of the trench. Though he didn't stray far from it--he kept right above the trenches so as to avoid any collisions with shuttles. But surprisingly, the image on the Nightcraft's screen showed no shuttles taking off or landing in the distance. Moreover, the trench they had just flew out of had apparently ended a while back, and all that was left was a flat surface. Above them were a few strange lights among the stars that signaled either passing shuttles or spy crafts. Around on the ground was the occasional faint line of blue light scattered about--maybe this meant that there were cracks in the floor through which concentrated energy seeped. Therefore, it was probably unsafe to land and just coast along the ground.

For the next few minutes, the Nightcraft flew on through the darkness, protected from both sight and radar detection. Gardevoir continued to scan the skies for spies, though occasionally feelings of worry for both Ninetales and Kelsey crept to the surface of her mind. Lupin, meanwhile, scanned the ground for any signs of another entrance to the Space Plant. Spots of pink light that indicated tunnels, huge projections that indicated doors, and even pools of white energy--the type of concentrated energy that seemed to heal rather than harm. After all, Pencett and Feralis had yet to be free of the burns they suffered an hour or two earlier, and Gardevoir of the damage caused to her by the train collisions. (Actually, the only two Pokemon that seemed to be fully okay were Umbra and Nocturnelle. Nocturnelle had not taken any damage since the start of the Space Plant mission. And Lupin and the Nightcraft had not taken any damage since the start of the entire Star City mission.)

But a while later, Lupin spotted a light coming from a small building that lay ahead. It drew his attention immediately because it was a white light, but he soon realized that it definitely was not a pool of concentrated energy. But, it looked to be more of a control room, so Lupin directed the Nightcraft over to the building. The Nightcraft landed right behind the door, folded its wings, and entered (Gardevoir had to open the door for it).

"Why... is it my imagination or..."

Lupin immediately stared in awe at what was in the centre of the room. There was a circular hole in the floor, with a fence around it. In the hole was a pool of white concentrated energy. With that, he started to walk over to it.

"You don't have to deactivate that energy pool," said a voice to Lupin's left. "It heals rather than harms. Go ahead, take a dip."

"I know that. I was in one of them before. I was just surprised, that's all."

Lupin looked to his left and saw a floating teal box with a whole bunch of cubes flowing down the sides. In the centre of it was a holographic projection of a woman's head. Next to this head is a large screen that at first is filled with streams of data, but soon transforms into a message:

NAME: EDWIN TASSELBURY
CLASS: POCE SOLDIER
AGE: 23, HOME: HOENN
WEAPONS: VOLEAT'S NIGHTMARE, MECH: HAUNTER NIGHTCRAFT
POKéMON 1: UMBRA, SPECIES: ESPEON
POKéMON 2: PENCETT, SPECIES: MEOWTH
POKéMON 3: FERALIS, SPECIES: MIGHTYENA
POKéMON 4: TOADPIKE, SPECIES: VILEPLUME
POKéMON 5: NOCTURNELLE, SPECIES: MISDREAVUS​

"Oh, and who are you?" Lupin asked the cube-thingy.

"My name is Virtual Electronic Robotic Intelligence Computer Automated System. Just call me V.E.R.I.C.A.S. for short."

Lupin, at that time, was looking at the words on V.E.R.I.C.A.S's screen. He was puzzled by one line of it...
"Wait a minute, that screen... How could you have known about Toadpike? She's not even a full Pokemon yet--all she is is a ball of energy!"

"Yet she's still in the Pokeball. And why are you asking me about an unfamiliar Pokemon, when you have one standing next to you?"

"Oh, this Gardevoir is not mine. She belongs to my good friend Kelsey."
Gardevoir waved.

V.E.R.I.C.A.S. then closed her eyes and beeped a bit. Again, the screen showed streams of data.
"...Kelsey Murakage?"

Lupin was again surprised.
"How do you know her?"

"I know the names, information, and whereabouts on every person who is or was on this particular mission during the past three days. So Kelsey Murakage is still just barely on file, and will be until the critical moment."

"So her friend Sabrina is also on file?"

"Hmmm... nope, negative. I do not recognize any Sabrina."

"...I wonder if it has anything to do with Kelsey wishing she could go on this mission..."

Now, the screen showed a different set of information:

NAME: KELSEY MURAKAGE
CLASS: POKéMON TRAINER
AGE: 18, HOME: KANTO, WEAPONS: PSYCHIC ABILITIES
POKéMON 1: GARDEVOIR, SPECIES: GARDEVOIR
POKéMON 2: BELLOSSOM, SPECIES: BELLOSSOM
POKéMON 3: CLEFABLE, SPECIES: CLEFABLE
POKéMON 4: NINETALES, SPECIES: NINETALES
POKéMON 5: HYPNO, SPECIES: HYPNO
POKéMON 6: BANETTE, SPECIES: BANETTE​

Lupin had to laugh at the third line of the screen.

"What's so funny?" V.E.R.I.C.A.S. asked.

"It just is funny how psychic abilities could be called 'weapons'. And plus, Gardevoir here tells me that these such powers are currently disabled, or worse, not exist anymore."

"...But she did have them at the time the mission started."

"Yes, and in fact she was able to effectively communicate telepathically with Ninetales and gardevoir for a while, but... Oh, and why are you here anyways? Who sent you?"

"Well, I was sent by Professor Arkane Hartache to seek out help. I just got done talking with Topaz Amethyst, Jay Christian Valentine, and Tsubasa Dakato. Topaz and Jay are currently in the Electrochemical Reactor, and just came out of a battle with two Heavy Walkers. Tsubasa is in the Star Flight area. However, I was not able to contact Nived Harem--it appears his position can't be detected at this moment. Tsubasa requested that I talk to you next and also knows where you are. Believe me, it took quite a while to find you. I knew you were somewhere outside the Space Plant, but lost any radar signal from you after a while. It is a very lucky break that you saw the room I decided to wait in."

"Ehheh, yes, I had to block all radar detection just in case there were any spies. I truly apologise for that. Anyways, do you happen to know where Kelsey is too?"

V.E.R.I.C.A.S. beeped and searched for a while, the screen becoming streams of data again. It took quite a while before she spoke again. A picture of Pine's Island showed on the screen.

"Kelsey Murakage is currently on Pine's Island. It took me quite a while to get a signal from there, so forgive me for any mistakes or interference. She is currently in a cave at the bottom of a waterfall. She has five Pokemon with her."

Lupin paused for a moment to count Kelsey's Pokemon out. After a while, he frowned in disbelief.

"Wait a minute, that can't be right. Did you say... five?"

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Pine's Island

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T-Minus 18:40:00

Kelsey gasped for air at last. She had just swam out from the now sinking ship. The roar of the two waterfalls was still good and loud, and their heavy rain still fell upon her. As a result, she soon had to go back underwater again, swimming out as far as she could swim before she had to rise for air again. This happened a couple more times before she was finally free of the downpour of the waterfalls. As a result, she now flipped over onto her back and looked around. She was now in some sort of cave. The walls of the cavern glowed with a strange ruby light, and up ahead was the very waterfall that had poured down from high above. Kelsey surmised that she had fallen about a mile down before reaching here. Anyways, at that point, Kelsey swam backwards, away from the water. A while later, she saw rocks around her, so she flipped around again to see land up ahead. So within the next few moments she was able to get out of the water and try her best to shake herself dry.

The land Kelsey was standing upon was rocky and dimly lit. The only light came from either the opening through which the waterfall came, or a light that shone from around the corner of a tunnel up ahead. Kelsey had an immediate instinct to walk towards that mysterious light, but then she remembered her Pokemon--and even panicked a bit. So she spun around and called out for them.

"Clefable? Hypno? Banette? Bellossom? Are you there? Can you hear me? Hello?!?"

"Ba-an!"
Within a few seconds, Banette came into view, dripping wet and floating towards Kelsey. She too started to shake herself dry.

"Cle... fay... bull... blub blub blub... Clefffff!"
Clefable splashed around for a bit, but then started flapping her wings as fast as she could. Before long she was out of the water and flying towards Kelsey and Banette.

"...NO!"
A ring of psychic energy burst from the middle of the lake, and out rose Hypno, glowing with that same energy. It was with the help of that energy that Hypno, too, floated towards Kelsey and the other two Pokemon.

"Hello everybody!" Kelsey greeted, kneeling down and facing the three Pokemon. "You're all safe! Wet, but you're not hurt or anything. Banette, Clefable, Hypno, Bel... wait..."

All of a sudden, Kelsey was panic-striken. She sprang back up, turned around, and ran straight for the lake, jumping into the water afterward. Then she looked around for any signs of her beloved flower Pokemon. Uncertain, she swam forward, and could faintly see the ship in the distance. Moments later, she felt the need to go back up for air. She started to rise again, only to glimpse something green and yellow barely visible beneath a wooden board. Recognizing this as Bellossom, she stopped swimming upward and continued forward, until she lifted the wooden board aside and picked up Bellossom. Right when she did, she found herself unable to hold her breath any longer, and thus opened her mouth and inhaled a bunch of water as she rose to the surface with Bellossom. When she got to the surface, her nose stung badly, but she still swam towards the shore again, keeping both her head and Bellossom's above the water.

Moments later, Kelsey was lying on the ground, barely able to breathe, and holding Bellossom loosely by her side. Then she coughed a few times and sat up, holding the limp Bellossom close to her. Bellossom did open her eyes a while later, though slowly--and didn't move otherwise.

"...Are you all right?" Kelsey asked Bellossom, sounding as if she had a cold.

"Bel..." Bellossom muttered, then closed her eyes again.

"That really was a close one... I really... thought... we... would..."

Kelsey kept coughing mid-speech, and was breathing quite heavily afterward. She also started to shiver a bit, having been submerged in cold water and sitting in a chilly cave. But what she also soon felt was someone touching her on the back. It was a gentle, reassuring touch, and seemed to come from some sort of... paw. At this realisation, Kelsey froze for a while, then cautiously turned around to face whoever was touching her. Something furry and creamy-white in colour came into view. The figure looked so familiar that Kelsey smiled broadly at the sight--and even turned that into a hug.

"Ninetales!!! I can't believe it's you! How..."
Kelsey then pulled away from Ninetales and resumed a normal tone of speech.
"...How did you get here? I thought you were with Lupin!"

<"Well, it's a funny story, really. You see, we were all facing this strange beam of light... and I guess I accidentally touched it, and somehow got teleported here. To tell you the truth, I was shocked at the sound of your voice. What a weirdly fortuitous event--to end up in the exact same place you were! So yeah, if you're wondering where that light came from, it was me lighting a fire. Come to think of it, why don't you all follow me there? Then we can all discuss what happened so far. And you can warm up.">

For the next few minutes, Kelsey and all her Pokemon (except Gardevoir, obviously) were gathered around a fire in a small cavern further along in the tunnel. In that space, Ninetales told Kelsey and the other Pokemon about what happened on Lupin's journey so far. After that, Kelsey told Ninetales what happened with her and the other Pokemon on the island.

"...Yes, and that brings us to where we are now. Now, about that psychic power stuff... Everything was fine at first. We were all going along just merrily--Sabrina teleported us to the port and all, and we were doing just fine, and keeping in contact with you and Gardevoir... But then, as we were walking through the forest a few hours later, I felt this sharp pang in my head, one that gave me this terrible headache... It really was so painful that I felt like I... might not survive it... I did, but I felt really dizzy afterward. I tried to connect to you, Ninetales, because I knew vaguely you were in come sort of trouble--but every time I tried, the headache came again... until one time when I went unconscious. Though I do remember, some sort of dream I had... where I did connect to you again... you were in some sort of healing pool of energy... Which you told me you were actually in! I guess I really did subconsciously talk to you there..."

<"Yeah, I thing that headache occurred when I called out to you for help--this was when I was fighting the Fire Chaos. I felt that headache too, but I guess not as badly as you did. Honestly, I don't know why whenever something bad happens, you always seem to take the toughest blow...">

"...Maybe that was something innate... something that Celia's curse did. I think that curse still affects me somehow..."

<"Oh, it always will. That Celia told me herself. The curse was intended to be permanent, and it was meant to make you stronger. It seems hard to believe, but... hey, I'm just some dumb plushie, what do I know?">

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Back at the Space Plant

:t282: ( :t196: :t262: :t052: :t200: )
T-Minus 17:50:00

"Yes," V.E.R.I.C.A.S. confirmed, "Kelsey has five Pokemon with her. Bellossom, Clefable, Hypno, Banette, and Ninetales."

"No way... so that means Ninetales is with Kelsey?!? Why... excellent! What a lucky break! Of all the places in the universe, Ninetales had to end up very near where Kelsey was. Interesting..."
Lupin turned away from V.E.R.I.C.A.S. for a moment to speak to Gardevoir.
"See, Gardevoir? Nothing to worry about. Ninetales is somewhere very safe--in fact, she is with Kelsey at this very moment."

<"Well good for her. Gee, I kind of wish I was with Kelsey too, but that teleporter worked only once...">

Lupin nodded and turned back to V.E.R.I.C.A.S.
"Well, now that I know where everyone is... maybe you can tell me where there might be another way into the Space Plant, maybe towards the control complex?"

"Hmm... Well, just up ahead is the normal entrance to the Space Plant, which I am very surprised you didn't come in through. That way is a much easier way to the control complex."

"But... wait, you're talking about the main entrance? Well, my boss told me that the main entrance was damaged by Team Rocket... if that's the entrance you're talking about."

"Oh it is, is it? Well you see, I am built in with a virtual map of all of Star City, but that map dates back from when Star City was first completed. So I am sorry to say that I am unaware of any damage caused to the city itself. Well... there is another way into the Space Plant somewhere near here, but it is kind of hard to find. Now listen carefully..."

...

"...Oh, well, I might be able to pull that off. And besides, I have five Pokemon--hopefully six--to help me out!"

"Well, I'm glad you are confident in yourself. Anyways, I must be leaving now. I think I have gathered all the help I need, and thus must return to the Professor who created me. Good luck to you and your fellow soldiers on this mission, and be sure to rest in that energy pool before continuing on..."

And with that, V.E.R.I.C.A.S vanished, leaving Lupin and Gardevoir alone in the room. But it didn't stay this way for long. For at that moment, Lupin let all his Pokemon out of their Pokeballs. Again he tried Toadpike's Pokeball, but still it didn't open.

"Rawwr!"
"Meeeow!"
"Miss!"
"Fi!"

"Hello everybody! Look what we found!"

Moments later, Lupin and the five Pokemon were all sitting in the energy pool, as if it was a hot spring on a cold snowy day. The effect was exactly the same as the last one was; everyone immersed in the pearly liquid began to feel refreshed and revitalized. Feralis and Pencett's burns seemed to melt away, and Umbra's mind was clear after the exhaustion of using all those psychic attacks. But even this refreshing soak didn't last long, for there was still a mission at hand, and an important place to head to.

"Come on everybody, let's go."

A while later, the Nightcraft was flying again, outside the room where V.E.R.I.C.A.S. was. Lupin was driving as usual, and Gardevoir was sitting in the back seat, but this time Pencett was sitting on Gardevoir's lap. She was feeling much better now that those burns were gone. Anyways, the Nightcraft was flying over the blank spot of the top of the Space Plant, but soon the screen on the dashboard which showed silhouettes of their suroundings now showed that the floor of the deserted launch pad seemed to just end. However, this wasn't too much of a problem--it simply meant that the roof of the plant ended here. So Lupin durected the Nightcraft over the side of the Space Plant, then flew down a ways and then turned to face it. In front of the group was a huge sign that read "Space Plant: Main Entrance". However, the doors that led to the interior of the Space Plant were crumpled and rusted, and the entryway was stuffed with rubble and machine parts. It would be pretty much impossible to bust through all this junk. So therefore, Lupin flew the Nightcraft further down, until it reached the floor of the Space Plant. Then it flew directly under the huge building. As it did, Lupin kept his eye out for the other entrance V.E.R.I.C.A.S. told him to find.
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OOC: Yes... I don't know if this is the right time for Lupin to re-enter the Space Plant, but at least that's a better option than wasting time outside of it, right...? Please correct me if anything is wrong here... I kind of made up a lot of features of V.E.R.I.C.A.S. especially... and a wild guess on where the other entrance to the Space Plant is.

 

[Sunflorazumarill]

As of now, I'm going to continue with Nived and his trek through the Meteor Base.

T-Minus 17:30:00

Back in the Meteor Base, Nived and Salamence have managed to get through a tricky laser hall and have gone through another set of doors. Beyond the set of doors, they enter a massive room with long floating bridges criss-crossing left and right level after level. A couple levels down happens to be a pool of green concentrated energy and more large octagonal computer screens line the walls of this room. The first bridge is with in jumping range for Nived.

"Well, Salamence, let's go!"

Both Nived and Salamence manage to jump onto the bridge and head towards the middle. At the middle of the bridge, there are two floating platforms, one on each side. Nived jumps onto the right one and Salamence jumps onto the left one. Both platforms hover down to the bridge below. However, down here are two Solar Chaos and an Ice Chaos, all wanting to attack Nived. The Ice Chaos proceeds to fire ice laser cannons from its eyes at Salamence.

"Salamence, watch out!"

Salamence manages to jump out of the way of the ice lasers and lands on the bridge. At this point, the two Solar Chaos decide to rush it.

"Salamence, use Flamethrower!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at one of the Solar Chaos's head and keeps the flames on it. Eventually, that Chaos blows up and the other fires solar lasers at Salamence.

"Salamence, be careful!"

The lasers hit Salamence, but not much damage has been done to it. At this point, the Ice Chaos decides to attack again.

"Salamence, watch out and use Flamethrower!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at the Ice Chaos, tbut the lifeform generates an ice shield that blocks the attack entirely. After the shield goes down, it fires an Ice Beam straight for Salamence.

"Salamece, try again, quick!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at the incoming Ice Beam, making the two attacks collide. However, the Ice Beam seems to be pushing the Flamethrower back towards Salamence.

"Sunflora, come on out and use Solarbeam to stop it!"

Sunflora comes out of its Pokéball and starts charging up a Solarbeam. As its petals light up, the second Solar Chaos decides to split into cells and attempt to stop Sunflora. At this point, the Artificial Chaos's Ice Beam has almost reached Salamence.

"Sunflora, please hurry. Salamence needs your help!"

At this point, Sunflora fires a Solarbeam that joins with Salamence's Flamethrower, wrapping around it and turning it into a "Solar Flamethrower". The attack pushed back the Ice Beam and hits the Ice Chaos in the head, destroying it. Now there's only the matter of the Solar Chaos cells, which start to give off flashes that light up the entire area.

"Salamence, stop those with Flamethrower!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower towards the flashes, hitting several of the cells, but the remaining few regroup into a single Chaos, who decides to charge up a Solarbeam.

"Salamence, again!"

Salamence fires another Flamethrower at the Chaos, hitting it in the head and destroying it. With alll threats down, Nived sees the condition of his Pokémon and knows they need help. He gets into his bag and pulls out a capsule containing smaller capsules. The smaller ones containg Max Revives. He opens the capsule and gets four of them out. He then gets out four of his Pokéballs.

"Why did I wait so long to do this?"

He holds the first capsule up to one of the Pokéballs, and both the Pokéball and the capsule glow. He then does the same with the other Pokéballs and Max Revives.

"That's all I have for now. I just hope you guys can make it through here."

Looking at Salamence and Sunflora, he knows they need a little help as well. He gets out another capsule, this one containing Super Potions and decides to use them. He gives the first one to Salamence and the second to Sunflora. He then gets out some bandages and wraps them aroudn Salamence's damaged wing. With everything in hand, he returns his supplies to his bag.

"Salamence, that'll take time to heal. Eventually, you should be able to fly again."

There happen to be two more floating platforms here as well. Nived jumps onto the left one while Salamence and Sunflora jump onto the right one. Both platforms go down to a lower bridge. Here, there's only one more brdge floating below them.

"Well, I wonder what's down there."

Before Nived can get an answer, a blast of flame shoots by him. As it turns out, there are two Fire Chaos and a Thunder Chaos coming towards him.

"More of these things?! What is this a liquid lifeform convention?! Time to come back out Swampert! Use Hydro Pump!"

Swampert comes out of its Pokéball and fires a Hydro Pump straight at one of the Fire Chaos, but it turns on a red color fire shield that manages to block the attack entirely, causing steam to flood the area.

"Whoa! These ones must be more defensive! Swampert try using Rock Slide on the whole bunch of them!"

Swampert slams the ground, causing pieces of the bridge to come up in the form of rocks, which hit the two Fire Chaos and the Thunder Chaos. The Thunder Chaos retaliates by firing two electric lasers from its eyes at Swampert, which manage to do some damage to it.

"Whoa! Exactly what was the purpose of these robotic creatures?!"

Back to the Fire Chaos. It decides to split ito cells and try to overwhelm Nived's Pokémon. The cells immediately form a net and go towards Nived.

"Oh no you don't! Swampert, Hydro Pump again!"

Swampert fires another Hydro Pump, hoping to hit the Fire Chaos cells, but the Thunder Chaos comes in front of it and fires a Thunderbolt that collides with the water, nullifying both attacks. It then splits into cells and the Fire and Thunder Chaos cells regroup together.

"I think we're in trouble now!"

The cells from both Chaos regroup into one larger Chaos with a head twice the size as before and a red-and-yellow liquid body. It tries out its new power by firing a powerful Flamethrower with a Thunderbolt wrapping around it.

"Salamence, dodge and use Dragon Claw!"

Salamence manages to dodge the Thunder Flamethrower, which goes all the way to the far wall, sending out flames and electricity upon impact. It then manages to slash the Fire-Thunder Chaos's head with a glowing claw, doing some damage to it.

"Now Swampert, Hydro Pump!"

Swampert fires a Hydro Pump at the stunned Chaos's head, doing enough damage to destroy the fire half of it. The Chaos goes back to a regular-sized Thunder Chaos with a regular-sized head.

"Salamence, now use Crunch!"

Salamence lands its jaws right on the Thunder Chaos's head, doing enough damage to destroy it. At this point, the second Fire Chaos splits into cells and decides to attack using intense heat flashes.

"Swampert, use Rock Silde to do them in! Salamence, follow it up with Hydro Pump!"

Swampert slams down on the bridge again, causing more rocks to shoot up into the Fire Chaos cells, destroying most of them. A Hydro Pump from Salamanece manages to take out the rest. Also, because of this the controls on two more floating platforms near the bridge unlock, allowing Nived to use those ones.

"Well, let's go!"

Nived jumps onto the left of the two other platforms and Sunflora and Swampert jump onto the right one. Both platforms hover down to the lowest bridge in the chamber while Salamence floats down with them. Here, they're maybe only a dozen feet above the energy pool, but they call feel solar energy waves coming from it. Everyone steps off the platforms and notice a set of doors at the end of the bridge.

"Well, looks like we found something here!"

Nived and his Pokémon run across the bridge and jump at the end of it. Right when they jump, the doors open up and they land inside a short hall-like room with four large square computer screens on the back wall. The screens here are displaying various videos of the inside of the Meteor Base. There is also a switch in the middle of the room. The switch has sloping sides that show a 3-D green virtual map of the chamber they were just in, with blue and red marks indicating the moving platforms.

"Well, should we push this switch?"

All of Nived's Pokémon say yes, and Nived Jumps onto the switch. The map turns blue and the red marks turn green along with the blue marks. Suddenly, the base's OS system comes on in the room.

"Transport platforms activated." -Base OS Voice

"Well, let's go outside and see what's up!"

Nived and his Pokémon head back through the doors into the massive chamber they were just in. As they jump onto the bridge again, suddenly, several Solar Chaos rise from the green energy pool below. They immediately start attacking.

"Not these again! Swampert, Sunflora, return! Salamence, we'll need to fly all the way up there!"

Nived returns Sunflora and Swampert to their Pokéballs, then gets onto Salamence, who proceeds to fly back up the chamber. After once again reaching the first bridge they were on in here, they continue upward to the second one. All the platforms in the chamber are now moving up and down. Several of the Solar Chaos on Nived's trail fire solar laser cannons at him. On the next bridge, there happens to be a Heavy Walker in the middile, and it activates.

"Now we're in trouble. Salamence, use Flamethrower quick!"

Salamence immediately fires a Flamethrower straight at the Heavy Walker, doing a little damage to it, but the tank starts firing its large chainguns a Nived and Salamence. In fact, a few of the Solar Chaos coming towards him are hit by the bullet streams are are destroyed is maybe only a second. A few more bring up solar shields that deflect the bullets hitting them.

"Salamence, now maybe try a Hydro Pump on it!"

Salamence now fires a Hydro Pump on the Heavy Walker, doing some more damage to it and also causing it to wobble slightly. Some Solar Chaos reach the bridge and float neat the Walker.

"Houndoom, come on out and use Flamethrower to help us out!"

Houndoom comes out of its Pokéball and fires a Flamethrower right onto one of the Chaos's head, destroying it in just seconds. Some of the other Chaos split into cells and form a massive cell cloud. The cells get close to each other, then create a solar flash so large, it intensely brightens up the entire area and Nived, Salamence, and Houndoom are actually blated back by the enormous flash.

"I can't see a thing! It feels like my eyes have been burned out!"

WHile Nived and his Pokémon are blinded, the flash was powerful enough to confuse the Heavy Walker as well. It starts firing its chainguns all over the place, hitting many of the cells and destroying them. We can only hear what's happening but to the intense brightness.

"Houndoom, from where you're standing, fire a Flamethrower! You should hit something!"

Houndoom fires a Flamethrower straight to whatever is in the path of the attack. Surprisingly, the Heavy Walker is hit and takes on more damage. It switched over to cluster bomb launchers and fires one in a random direction. The bomb goes away from Nived and his Pokémon and actually blows up amidst a group a group of whole Solar Chaos, explding everywhere and destroying them instantly. Several more of the Solar Chaos cells are destroyed along with them.

"I wish we could see what's going on, but it's still too bright!"

At this point, Nived realizes something he has with him.

"Wait I think there's soemthing I can use!"

Nived manages to get put a pair of high-tech goggles from his bag. It tskea him a little while to get them and put them on. He then configures the controls to "Bright Vision", which will allow him to see through the brightness. He can now make out the Heavy Walker and remaining Solar Chaos cells, which regroup into three Chaos. He also notices something behind the Heavy Walker, another large bomb within a red light ring.

"There's something I can use to take down that tank!"

Nived manages to run by the Heavy Walker, who fires mini bombs all over the place. Nived finds the bomb and lifts it with his two arms due to its size and weight. Nived walks a little towards the Heavy Walker, then throws the bomb towards it, exploding and damaging the Heavy Walker even more. At this point, The tank robot notices him and turns to face him.

"Houndoom, Salamence, fire Flamethrowers at it!"

Both Salamence and Houndoom start firing a Flamethrower in what they hope is the direction of the Heavy Walker. Both attacks hit it and start doing damage to it constantly. After several seconds, another bomb generates in the ring. Nived goes to it and picks it up.

"Time to end this!"

Nived gets close to the Heavy Walker, then throws the bomb at it, once again exploding. This and the Flamethrower damage being done to it is enough to take down the Heavy Walker, which explodes. At this point, the brightness starts to slowly fade, and Nived takes off his goggles.

"Finally. That was some flash!"

There's still the matter of some of the remaining Solar Chaos. They start to charge up Solarbeams at Nived.

"Houndoom, Salamence, use Flamethrower to stop them!"

Both Houndoom and Salamence fire a Flamethrower at a Solar Chaos's head, deatroying that one after only a few seconds. The last remaining Chaos fires a Solarbeam at everyone.

"Now go for that one!"

Houndoom and Salamence both fire Flamethrowers, which combine into a single super Flamethrower and collide with the Solarbeam, pushing in back into the Chaos and destroying it.

"Finally! Let's go guys! We're not done yet!"

Nived goes to and jumps onto one of the two platforms going up as it comes down. Houndoom jumps onto the other. Both platforms then go up to the next bridge while Salamence flies up there. Here, there happen to be four Hover Launchers floating along the bridge. As Nived comes near the bridge, a target appears on him, meaning one of the Hover Launchers is ready to take him down.

"Guys, we got company!"

Nived sees that this area of the chamber has lots of Gyro Balls floating about. He jumps to the nearest one and is pulled onto it. Houndoom fires a Flamethrower at one of the Hover Launchers, doing some damage to it, but a target appears on it and the Launcher fires a group of homing missiles.

"Houndoom, use Flamethrower again to wipe those out quick!"

Houndoom fires a Flamethrower at the incoming missiles, destroying several of them, but two more come towards it.

"Houndoom, run and use Flamethrower on the robot!"

Houndoon runs in a circle on the bridge while firing a Flamethrower at the Hover Launcher. The missiles try to keep up wth it, but can't reach it. Eventually, the Hover Launcher is destroyed, but the missiles still continue to track down their target. Salamence takes care of that with a Flamethrower of its own, destroying them and making the target on Houndoom disappear.

"Good going, guys!"

There's still the matter of the target on Nived, and another of the Hover Launchers fires a meteor towards him.

"I forgot about the one on me!"

Nived jumps off the platform just as the meteor comes towards him and hits the platform and exploding. The platform is not destroyed by the attack.

"Metagross, come on out and use Meteor Mash to stop these robots!"

Metagross comes out of its Pokéballs and upon landing on the bridge, its right claw starts to glow shile a meteor-shaped energy mass forms on it. Metagross then goes flying towards one of the Hover Launchers and smashes it with a Meteor Mash, destroying it instantly. The target on Nived disappears.

"Good going! Now take out the other two!"

Metagross uses Meteor Mash once more on another Hover Launcher, destroying that one as well. Now a target appears on Metagross and the last Hover Launcher fires homing missiles towards it. However, Metagross uses Psychic and envelops the missiles in a blue glow, then sends them back right into the Launcher, destroying it and making the target disappear. Nived then jumps off the Gyro Ball he was on and back onto the bridge.

"Good going, Metagross! Just one more bridge to go!"

Two more platforms come down and Nived jumps onto one, Houndoom onto another, and Salamence flies up with them. Metagross manages to hover upward with them as the platforms start going up. At the final bridge, there are four Laser Discs flying in a circle.

"We got these, too?!"

One of the Laser Discs notices Nived and his Pokémon and starts firing green laser bursts everywhere, the huge rain of lasers comes down all over the bridge and hits Nived, Houndoom, and Salamence.

"Salamence, use Dragon Claw to stop them!"

Salamence's claw glows again as it flies into the air and slashes the Laser Disc's center, destroying it. The second Laser Disc starts firing blue laser beams that spin all around the chamber.

"Salamence, use another!"

Salamence uses Dragon Claw again on this Disc's center, destroying that one, too. The last two start charging up red laser charges to fire on Salamence.

"Keep going at it!"

Salamence gets another Dragon Claw out of the third Laser Disc's center, destroying that one. The final one fires a laser charge at Salamence, but it dodges it and the blast hits the bridge, causing a red explosion upon impact. Salamence uses Dragon Claw one more on the final Disc, hitting the center of it and destroying it. With all threats against them gone, Nived decides to give his Pokémon a rest.

"Guys, return for now! I'll bring you back out when I need you!"

Nived returns Houndoom, Salamence, and Metagross to their Pokéballs, then heads towards the door here, which is octagonal-shaped. At the bridge's edge, he jumps to the balcony and heads through the doors. Inside another blue circuitry lined hall, there happens to be a Hover Launcher floating about the center of the area. Looks like Nived may have a little more touble and he decides to send Metagorss back out.

"Metagross, come on back out and use Meteor Mash!"

Metagross come cout of its Pokéball and immediately flies towards the Hover Launcher, hitting it with a powerful Meteor Mash attack and sending it flying backwards.

"Now just use one more to finish it!"

Metagross uses Meteor Mash once more on the hovering robot, destroying it. With that out of the way, Nived decides to keep Metagross out just in case there are any more threats against him. Both of them head through the next octagonal door and enter another massive hall like the one they were in earlier. This time, though, the entire pathway is one massive floating bridge arranged in a large maze setup. The paths make bends around the large posts and laser grids can be seen almost everywhere along the maze's paths.

"Well, let's get to it."

Nived jumps to the start of the large maze bridge and heads forward. There is already a two-way junction a few dozen feet from where he begins. Seeing as the right path leads down a path with three standby Heavy Walkers, he decides to head left instead.

"We should head this way. It's safer."

Nived and Metagross head down the left path, but shortly after taking that path, three Ice Chaos rise from the bottomless pit below and start firing Ice Beams everywhere. In a matter of seconds, the entire section of the maze is coated in ice and several large-and-tall ice spikes burst forth from the frozen ground.

"I guess I was wrong about what I said."

The first Ice Chaos decides to split into cells and form a horizontal ring. Once the cells start spinning at an extreme rate, they give off a large ice flash that sends an ice ring spinning outward.

"Metagross, duck!"

Metagross almost ducks, but instead rises up out of the way of the incoming ice ring. The other two frigid Chaos use this to their advantage and fire ice lasers at Metagross, hitting all four of its legs and freezing each of them, hindering its hovering progress.

"Metagross, use Meteor Mash to break out of that ice and destroy them!"

Metagross's right leg starts to glow and the ice around it shatters. It then goes straight for one of the Ice Chaos and hits it in the head, destroying it.

"Now go for the other two! Get all your legs free!"

The rest of Metagross's legs glow and break free of the ice. It then goes zooming for the second while Chaos, but it kicks up an ice shield and not only deflects the attack, but part of Metagross becomes frozen once again. This time, both its front legs are frozen in a single block of ice.

"Metagross, not again!"

Metagross tries to break free, but it starts lowering towards the ground. The Ice Chaos cells spin once more and give off an ice flash the shoots out as another ice ring. This time, Metagross is hit and becomes frozen solid.

"I guess I'll have to bring out some assistance! Salamence, come and use Flamethrower!"

Salamence comes out of its Pokéball and fires a Flamethrower at the Ice Chaos cells, melting each one of them as they come by on their hyper spin. Now, there's only the threat of one last Chaos.

"Salamence, get rid of it quick!"

Salamence fires another Flamethrower at the last Ice Chaos, hitting it in the head and doing damage to it until it blows up.

"Good job, Salamence! Now free Metagross!"

Salamence fires a constant Flamethrower at the massive ice block that is Metagross. Several seconds later, the ice starts to melt and Metagross breaks out of the ice.

"Metagross, glad you're okay! We're losing time here! We better get going!"

Nived and his Pokémon continue down the path where a slight left turn occurs. From there, the path keeps moving forward and then makes a right turn. Here, the path ends and there is a gap between there and another part of the maze. There is also a massive laser fence blocking the way, but a moving platform can be seen moving up and down in front of the fence.

"I could use that to get up there! You two can fly over it!"

Nived waits for the platform to come down as low as possible and then jumps to it. It then goes upward to where another platform moves from right to left. He jumps to that one when it comes near and it takes him to another platform moving up and down. When this one is at its lowest, he jumps to that one and as it goes up, it goes higher than the laser fence. Another platform here moved back and forth over the fence.

"Well, better wait until it comes here before jumping to it."

Nived jumps onto the next platform when the time is right and after it goes over the fence, there is yet another platform moving up and down. He jumps onto this one and it takes him down to another part of the path. Salamence and Metagross easily made their way over the gigantic laser fence without the use of the platforms.

"Well, I see you have it easy when it comes to this stuff."

Nived heads down the path to see that it then makes a right turn and slopes downward. There is also another junction here and another large bomb in the center. Also, the bomb is in the middle of a regenerating ring, meaning that the bomb can be used an infinte number of times.

"We don't have any use for this right now."

Looks like Nived is wrong, as from down one of the other paths, a squad of five Laser Discs comes flying forward, creating a laser storm in their wake.

"I guess we do need this bomb then! Salamence when I give the word, use Flamethrower on it to blow it up and them with it."

Nived and his Pokémon get far back from the bomb and the Laser Discs that are coming forward start firing blue laser beams that spin all around the place. As they get close to where the bomb is, Nived decides to let them have it.

"Now, Salamence!"

Salamence fires a Flamethrower at the bomb just as the Laser Discs get close to it, charing up red laser blasts in the process. The bomb explodes, and destroys the whole group of them. With them out of the way, Nived decides to keep going and take the left path for safety.

"We should go this way. It should be a little safer to take."

Nived heads down the left path and hopes for an easy route. The path slopes downward to where it ends and another floating platform moves back and forth under another massive laser grid. Nived jumps onto it when it comes near and takes it under the lasers. On the other side another moving platform goes up and down. Nived jumps onto it when it comes near and takes it up to another part of the path.

"I've been wondering. Exactly why was I called to come here anyway?"

As Nived contines aloong the path, which makes a right turn and slopes upward, there happens to be a large group of Gyro Balls floating about. However, in the center of the group at the next junction in the maze, which three laser fences block progress down, a Heavy Walker resides. It alreayd activates and begins to fire its massive chainguns at Nived.

"Metagross, use Psychic to stop all those bullets!"

Metagross starts glowing a blue color and the lerge bullet streams coming for them stop and start to form a large cluster. In only a few seconds, thousands of the massive bullets have already formed a large sphere.

"Now send it right back!"

Metagross sends the massive sphere of bullets right back at the tank robot, creating thousands of micro-explosions all around it and doing serious damage. At this point, the Heavy Walker is through playing things the hard way and decides to switch over to cluster bombs. Before you know it, it fires two of them straight for Nived and his Pokémon.

"Guys, watch out! In fact PULL BACK!!!"

Nived and his Pokémon start back down the path in order to dodge the massive explosions of the cluster bombs. They go wall the way back to the edge of the path. At this point, the cluster bombs explode.

"GUYS, WATCH OUT!!!"

The resulting explosions from the cluster bombs flood the place and send Nived flying backwards from where he was. He goes zooming beneath the laser fence and it looks like he's to fall to his death.