It was around 1:30 am at night and all 5 of them had gathered. Axel came at last cause he had bigger Magikarp to fry. Everybody straightened their backs when Axel arrived. For them, Axel was like a king, a god that could do no wrong.
They had been on this journey with Axel and they had seen the impossible happen.
"Alon, introduce me to these 3 gentlemen.", said Axel.
"Yes sir. The 2 of them are from my team and one of them is from Sam's team. I have chosen them with every necessary thing in mind.
First of all is Riku. She has a Gengar and Gardevoir. Her Gengar is trained to make the Pokemons sleep. It also has a very good defense while her Gardevoir specializes in fast attacks and teleportation.
Next is Sumitra. She has a Bastiodon which is unusually good for defense."
"Unusually?"
"Yes sir. It had learned a new move that could not only protect itself from all the attacks but also its allies. It also knows a new move that could speed up the stamina recovery of its allies. It is very good in tide battles.
Finally, we have Deva from Sam's team. He has a Luxray that is very good in speed type of attacks and also moves like 'Thunder wave' and 'Eletric terrain'.
All of these Pokemons are king-rank Pokemons. Also, my Zoroark has learned a new move that would decrease the overall aura of the allies including itself. This is very helpful in keeping us hidden. Riku's Gardevoir also knows a move that would make us transparent and almost invisible during the night."
"Good. Alon you have done a great job. All of you, Alon must have given you the brief about tonight's mission but I will say it again.
There are 5 king-rank Pokemons that have not been discovered till now. My instinct tells me that something is wrong and if we can't find them then it will create problems in the future.
Our mission is to identify all those 5 Pokemons and also see if there are any pseudo-champion rank Pokemons around."
"Sir, are there really any pseudo-champion rank Pokemons?", asked Riku cause they had not heard about it till now.
"Till now we have got no information on it. Even though the information provided by the league's responder is considered reliable, it is still not 100% accurate. So, we must be ready for it.
We can handle a couple of more king-rank Pokemons in the tide but pseudo-champion rank Pokemon is a different story. For this, we need to plan a lot. So, if there is a pseudo-champion rank Pokemon then we must know about it.
We have also used the device from the Venu family made by Mark and it works better than the responder and it also has not found any aura of a pseudo-champion rank Pokemon but we must still be on alert.
If we are able to find out about these 5 unknown king rank Pokemons without being noticed, then we will start with the second part of the plan."
"Second part? Sir, can you tell us about it?", asked Alon cause even he was not informed about it.
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Everyone was riding their own Pokemons. Axel was riding on his Gogoat.
"Sir, we have searched on the sea and there are no unknown Pokemons in the sea. So, we are only planning to search in the forest. Also, it is extremely dangerous to go to the sea right now at night and we don't have enough Pokemons to go there inside.", said Alon.
"I understand. If we find those 5 Pokemons in the forest then it is well and good but if we don't then we will also have to plan for the sea journey.", replied Axel.
As they reached the start of the forest, they slowed down their speed and now they were all walking without making any sound. Gardevoir and Zoroark had already done their job and they were now almost impossible to be detected.
Axel and others avoided the ghost and dark-type Pokemons' area and wandered around the forest.
Alon started to point out all the past locations of king-rank Pokemons that they had found but none of them went near to that place. They didn't want to disturb them at all.
It took around 2 hours and now they were very deep in the forest. It was already 4 am right now and now they were running out of time. The sun will start to rise up at 6 am. So, they only had 2 hours to do all the investigation.
Axel had also called out Lucario and Alakazam to sense the strong fluctuation of aura around them but none of them were able to find anything.
Finally,
"Hmm, that way? Ok, we will go there. Guys, Alakazam had found a strong aura of a king-rank Pokemon that way. Let's go there.", said Axel and all of them started to go there.
After walking for 10 minutes, they reached a very big cave. Alakazam pointed out inside the cave and said, "I feel a very powerful group of Pokemons inside."
"Hmm, Zoroark, you will go inside with Gardevoir and come out and tell us what is inside there.", said Alon.
It was very risky for all of them to go inside the cave. Who knew what was inside there and they didn't want to be discovered. Those 2 Pokemons were the best ones that could go inside and come out without being detected.
"All of you, get ready for combat. If something happens, then Gardevoir will teleport here and Light will teleport all of us to the base. Get ready."
Sumitra also called out her Bastiodon. She had not called it out yet cause it was va ery heavy Pokemon and it was also very loud. Before she called it out, she had already told it to be as quiet as possible.
After 5 minutes, Zoroark and Gardevoir came out.
"There is a family of Ampharos inside. There are 2 tier 2 king-rank Pokemons and 3 tier 3 king-rank Pokemons. All of them are inside and one of them is even taking all the resources to reach pseudo-champion rank."
This was bad. All 5 of them were from the same family. This meant that they could coordinate well and fight together. The Pokemon in the Tide lacked coordination but they didn't.
This was already hard and now one of them was trying to reach pseudo-champion rank.
Normally, Pokemon could break through the ranks with enough training, manipulating their core to the limit and also taking resources. This was the ideal way to do things. But Pokemons could also shorten the time but take an excess amount of resources.
This would decrease the time and they would reach the next rank but their foundation would be shallow and they might not be able to reach the next rank. So, trainers would not let their Pokemon do such things.
But these were not trainers' Pokemons. These were wild Pokemons, for wild Pokemons reaching pseudo-champion rank was already a dream. So, taking excess resources for it was very ideal cause it may not even be alive to reach that stage. And since the tide battle was coming along, this was the right decision.
If that Ampharos reaches pseudo-champion rank, then only Krishna's Blastoise could fight it evenly and Blastoise was weak to electric-type attacks. This was getting harder and harder.
"Sir, we have already found those Pokemons and completed our mission. Should we start the second part of our agenda?", asked Alon.
"No, we cannot do it here. This place is very far away from the base and even if Alakzam could teleport all of us, we cannot kill those 5 king rank Pokemons in a short amount of time. We have to try somewhere else."
The second part of the plan was to attack as many king-rank Pokemons as possible to lessen the burden oonthe team in the future. They had to deal with 40 king-rank Pokemons and this was already very heavy on the team.
But trying to kill these 5 king rank Pokemons was not a good decision. These Pokemons were at least tier 2 king-rank Pokemons and it would take a lot of time to finish them off and time was something that they didn't have.
"Zoroark and Gardevoir. Do one thing. Try to steal all the resources of these Ampharos and then run away. If you cannot steal all of them, then it is also okay. But try to be as discrete as possible.
Both of them made 2 trips and carried a number of resources. Most of them were related to electric-type Pokemons. Deva was salivating while looking at all of them.
Axel was able to store them and now they had to plan who to kill.
"We will only try to kill tier 1 king-rank Pokemons. Alon, you know the location of these Pokemons. Try to find those tier 1 king-rank Pokemons that are living alone or are in a small group. We need to be careful.", said Axel.
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The first Pokemon that they targeted was Lapras. Axel was a huge fan of this Pokemon but this was real life. There was a group of Lapras that was living on the edge of the beach of the sea. They had already reached this place and among them, there were 5 Lapras. Of these 5 Lapras, one of them was a tier 1 king-rank Pokemon.
"Ok, Marcus and Zoroark, use 'Hypnosis' to make them fall into a deep sleep," said Axel.
All of them were sleeping but Axel didn't want to take any risk on this. So, he told them to use 'Hypnosis'.
After using 'Hypnosis' 2 more times, Axel was sure that all of them were in a deep sleep now.
Then he told all of them to call out their ghost-type Pokemons to use the moves like 'Dream Eater' and 'Nightmare'. Shedinja's 'Dream Eater' also had a chance to take all of them in a very deep sleep and also cast illusions.
After using the move for quite some time, some of these Pokemons had been permanently injured and the king rank Pokemon's health was now at an all-time low and it was still sleeping due to multiple 'Hypnosis'.
"Marcus, use 'Night slash' and finish it."
The difference between a tier 1 king-rank Pokemon and a tier 3 king-rank Pokemon was huge and the poor Lapras was already very injured after taking all those hits. The worst part was that it didn't even know what was happening to it cause it was still asleep.
"Sir, we have killed the first king-rank Pokemon. Do you want us to get to another?"
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