Days began to accumulate. Axel didn't train his body during this time and entirely focused on the training of his Pokemons.
In the Seafoam islands, the soldiers were not feeling good as they had not even seen the leader after the first meeting. The presence of the leader was important. But Axel had to train his Pokemons if he wanted to get a better result in the trial.
His Pokemons started to develop and some of them even had completed their goals. Axel was on a regular talk with Hector and other members of the team. He knew all the information about the progress that they had made. Axel had also made some battle strategies for his Pokemons which would become very helpful during the tide battle.
Slowly 3 weeks passed and now it was time for Axel to go to the Seafoam islands.
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"Brother, are tide battles difficult?", asked Agnes.
"Yes, it is a different kind of difficult. You will understand it when you grow older."
"When will I grow older? I am already 9 years old now. I still need 4 years. This is so frustrating.", sighed Agnes. She wanted to go on a adventure like her big brother but she was too young to do so.
The minimum age to go on an adventure was 13 years old and she had not even reached 9 years old. Still, some months were left to get to 9.
"Agnes, the outside world is very difficult and filled with dangers. You are just not ready. In the mean time, why don't you concentrate on training yourself and also your Pokemons? Your Squirtle is nearing its evolution."
"I know but the training is so boring.", said Agnes.
"When you lose horribly, you will realize the value of training. Now, go and train your Squirtle.", said Axel.
Axel spent some time with his family and then it now it was time to collect all of his Pokemons.
He first got Shedinja and then went to the Aeus island. Axel directly used the talisman to get Charizard.
"Axel, you have finally returned. It is good to see you again.", said Ninetales.
Charizard was training in the intense environment and Ninetales was helping it.
"I will now need Charles's help in the tide battle. How is its progress?"
"Well, it had only been training here for 3 weeks. So, the progress is not much but it has achieved something in these 3 weeks. Why don't you see for yourself? I believe that it would be more helpful to you in the tide battle than before.", said Ninetales with a smile.
Axel called out Charizard and it flew towards it.
"How are you? Are you ready for the battle now?", asked Axel.
"Yes, father. I am ready."
Axel looked at Charizard's status page and was mildly surprised by its progress. He nodded his head and then went to pick up Pidgeot and then Salamence.
All of them had made some noticeable progress even though they had only trained for 3 weeks. Axel could tell that Salamence was very near to reaching rare rank and its rank-up condition had also arrived.
This was done in a single day. Axel had now collected all of his Pokemons for the battle. It was now time to head to Seafoam islands.
"Light, are you ready?", asked Axel.
"Yes, Axel. Be ready."
SWOCHH
The reason why Axel took Alakazam to the Seafoam island was due to its teleportation ability. Alakazam could make a mark and then teleport to the mark. Of course, there were restrictions and it cannot do it to move anywhere in the whole wide world. The restriction was it could only do it if the distance didn't exceed 500k miles.
Now, 500k miles might seem like a lot and it was a lot but it could not even cover the distance of 2 regions.
So, Alakazam had to make multiple checkpoints. It had already done that and now both of them were traveling through those checkpoints.
After 5 hours.
"BLureerrrr"
Axel was vomiting out of his stomach. He had emptied all the food that he had eaten just a few hours before. The teleportation would mess up with the mind and the body. It was literally crossing into space and since Alakazam was not as good as Oak's Alakazam or Red's Alakazam, the space that they were traveling through was not so stable as them.
So, right now Axel was vomiting cause he could not help it.
"This is even worse than the plane ride.", said Axel to himself but they had finally reached the Seafoam islands.
It took some time but Axel arrived at the Honshu island. Axel was defending the north side, the hardest side. He quickly went to the office on the north side.
"Sir, you have arrived. You didn't inform us.", said Ashmita in a surprised voice.
"Yes, all of you were busy. I just didn't want to disturb you. So, how is it all going?"
"Everything is going well, sir. We have completed all the trap setups. The new members of the north side are also educated about this and about all the teams that will make a difference.
Miss Arbiter is focusing on the teleportation team and coordinating with them. All of us are ready for the tide battle now."
"Good. I am happy that you have made all the preparations for the tide battle. Give me all the details of the tide preparation and set up a meeting in the evening. The meeting will be short and after that, I want to meet with the captains."
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It took some time but Axel went through all the details of the tide preparation. He was more focused on the trap setups as they would be vital for the tide battle but it looked like the team had done an excellent job on it.
Still, 7 days were left before the start of the tide battle. One could not say that the tide battle would start on the same date. It may start a couple of days before or a couple of days after. That was why Axel came so soon. He also had to look at the current progress of the north side.
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"I have gone through with all the papers. What I am worried about is the king-rank Pokemons that we will be dealing with. We are dealing with 40 king-rank Pokemons.
10 of them are ghost-type and dark-type Pokemons. Among them, 4 of them are tier 2, and 1 of them is tier 3. So, they will be attacking at night. 10 of them are flying-type Pokemons. Among them 6 of them are tier 2 and 1 of them is tier 3 king rank.
Finally, there are 5 ice type Pokemons (1 tier 2 king rank, 1 tier 3 king rank Pokemon), 5 water-type Pokemons (all of them are tier 2 king rank), 2 grass-type Pokemons (2 of them are tier 2 king rank Pokemon) and 3 of them are fire type Pokemons.
Of the remaining 5 king rank Pokemons, 3 of them are tier 3 king rank and 2 of them are tier 2 king rank. But the details of these Pokemons are unknown. Can anyone tell me how could they be unknown when we know for sure that they exist? We even know their power levels."
"Sir, the reason why we know their power level is due to the responder of the league. The responder doesn't give us accurate details of the species of the Pokemon.
All the details that you have, we have gathered ourselves and we have still not been able to spot those 5 Pokemons.", said Ashmita.
"How accurate is this responder from the league?", asked Axel.
"It is pretty accurate sir. The entire tide battles are done based on its research."
"But there might be a chance that it could be wrong?"
"Yes, there is a tiny possibility that it could be wrong. But that is a very rare case. Such a thing normally doesn't happen."
"Hmm, I have a bad feeling about these 5 unknown Pokemons. I feel that they are hiding something.
North is the hardest direction. Even the wild Pokemons also know about it. So, their main force will be from the north direction. So, I believe that they must have prepared something extra.", said Axel.
"Sir, the Pokemon that are participating in the tide are not attacking in different directions with proper planning. Some of them are following their leaders, some of these leaders are just hungry for the dead body of Articuno or for some other reason and some of them just want revenge.
I don't think that they have a united alliance like us."
"That is where you are wrong, Hector. Something feels off about this whole tide battle. It feels a bit too easy. And I am not saying that all of the Pokemon leaders are in the alliance for the tide battle. I am not saying that.
I feel that some of the high-rank Pokemons are doing this. I just feel very unsafe not knowing about these 5 unknown king-rank Pokemons. 2 of them are tier 2 king ranks and 3 of them are tier 3 king ranks.
Who is doing the investigation on those 5 unknown king rank Pokemons?", asked Axel.
"Alon is taking the lead with his Zoroark. There are also other members of the team. Most of them are ghost type and psychic type Pokemon.", said Hector.
"That is good. I will also join the investigation tomorrow."
"But sir, since the days of the tide are near, their security had been tightened a lot. It will be very difficult to infiltrate their base now. We have stopped going there a week ago.", said Alon.
"We will do this just one time. Gather your best men. We don't need a whole team. 4-5 capable people will do including you and me. If there are any problems then my Alakazam could handle it.", said Axel.
"Ok sir, I will gather the people around. At what time should we go there? Normally we go at night time.", asked Alon.
"We will do the same this time too. We will set off here at 2 am and reach there before 3 am. You must know the place where ghost type and dark type live?", asked Axel.
"Yes sir. We know about them."
"Then we will avoid them at first. We don't want to discover very soon. We will set off at night today. So get your team ready.", said Axel.
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"Sir, you mean to say that we are going on a secret mission with the leader?", asked a man to Alon.
"Yes, this will be a very dangerous mission but I believe that with sir Axel, your safety is guaranteed. But if you want to back out, I can understand. But you cannot back out once you say yes.
I need 3 people more people in this team. I need a teleporter, a Pokemon that could defend the whole team, a sleep specialist, and a fast Pokemon. If any of your Pokemon fulfill one of those requirements, then step forward. Remember, your Pokemon that specializes in these must be a king-rank Pokemon.", said Alon.
Alon was talking to the captains that were on his team. Alon wanted to gather the best, so he thought to not go with the existing team but to have more options.
The captains started to discuss this new secret mission. They were surprised that they could finally see Axel in action.
A number of people raised their hands and Alon selected 3 of them for the mission.
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