Have you imagine something that look, somewhat similar to what you have seen in the past? Oh, if you do then you are experiencing something called Deja-vu.
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------|Sewer North section 19/17/1967|------
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"Brother, look ahead!" Shout Lan to Yudi.
"Looks like we are more quicker than everyone else here." Said Yudi while slowing down.
"Do we really need to get down? I think we can cross this- oh God." Lan is heavily shocked of what have he seen.
"What? You didn't know yet?" Yudi said while look at Lan with his half smile.
"To be honest i am not expecting this sewer to be this big-" Lan reply, still in disbelieve of what he just saw.
"Better not waste any time Lan, we need to get this real quick." Yudi warn Lan to keep focus on what he once has target.
The duo now had their mount on their own pokeball. So they start to exploring the sewer to get into other side.
Meanwhile Qota was mesmerized by the green field that spread into the horizon and also the same route with Michelle.
"This place is amazing, but how do they grew? We are literally in the middle of a desert." Qota asking Michelle in quite a high pitch voice.
"I thought you've already know this?" Michelle also question in disbelieve about how do Qota won't learn anything about the history of Poke' Ball Run entirely.
"Do i really need to know that much?" While scratching her head.
Hearing this, Michelle was little bit pissed. But she just go into the flow anyway.
"OF- COURSE IT IS!" Michelle shout out loud, then went to activate something.
Antonio feel something is off with the field, then Antonio give another signal to Qota.
"Something is off, there is something crawling below the fields." Qota said to Michelle.
"Yea, i also think something is wrong too." While grabbing one of the flower on the fields.
While on the horizon they're going to, there was a seismically massive tree slowly appear towering into the horizon of roughly 3 Km into the sky. The tree also have a diameter around half miles long, heck this isn't because this tree is that old. Even tho it is-
"How is that tree is so massive?" Qota ask.
"You'll know it soon. But first, we need to know how exactly we cross that sewer." Michelle implied.
"Alright."
They both go into the root of the tree that sprout out from the sewer.
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------|Massive Tree 19/17/1967|------
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Qota was first to discover about this massive thing. Literally towering up more than a skyscrapper and yet it is still growing as fast as a bamboo. This is barely noticable because of the 1 cm growth per minutes is crazy, imagine how tall this thing is.
"You said i'll know it later? Or can you just explain?" Qota demand over what did she want to know.
"Fine, i'll tell you. It was the 2nd ever this race is started again, a competitor died in a tragic battle against another competitor. Yet they died in the field that we cross some times ago." Michelle implied while keep moving towards the other side.
"Fascinating, so you telling me. A competitor died and their pokemon somehow is still alive until now?" Nonsensical scentence to say but yet still connect to mind.
"That is exactly what am i telling you about. Now keep moving on!" Michelle say to be more clear and going half miles trough, they can't always use their mount. Yet they manage to rest a little and continue to get into that labirinth of root and get out quite easily. But the night is somewhat came earlier and they manage to make a camp in the base of the tree. Michelle assures that this place they're in is safe, yet still perpetually questionable. In the night they have to sleep properly.
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------|Sewer engine dissolver 20/17/1967|------
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This is a place where there is many cogs sit in, this place have a bunch like, bunch of them. Literally make this place a definition of steam engine revolution artifacts, tho this place was controlled by Klinklang that have a full control over this place.
Wonder why do i show you this? You probably think, a new character? Not exactly, just get back to the story.
With an originated face from an early wake up was really fresh, but not in the acid full sewer.
"Uhm, what just happe-" This isn't Qota, somehow Qota wasn't able to control the body for some times. For now we sit with Rita as a character.
"Oh, you finnaly awake. Don't just look to me like that! Run!" A grown man that was literally fulfill Rita's type of man exept his height tho, he is still taller than her. But that isn't matter anymore as that man she just met is also a competitor, he tell Rita to run because of an error of the "Acidic Antler" His biggest nightmare. Because it's antler can sometimes dissolves dna's and that is dangerous, you can't just try to capture it in ways. Tho touching it's skin is somewhat a death chance, this not even the worst part of it.
"I understand now whay do you tell me to runnnn!" Rita implied.
"Glad to hear you agreeee-" He summon his pokemon, a Rapidash and he tell Rita to get into his Rapidash.
She tried her best to summon Torana out, but she can't do it right now. 'What if the pokeball slipped?' Is a plenty of words that came trough her mind.
Yet they manages to get away from the "Acidic Antler" yet the most possible thing to happen is obviously knowing what they're facing right now.
"A-khm, your name?" Rita ask with a little too shy, first time she only with another male exept her dad.
He stare at Rita with his glowing green eye and then look on another direction, stating that he knew that Rita is a girl. Yet he also had to be a bit embarassed to tell, because he won't ussually be with another female exept his family member.
"La- no, Orla-, i mean Oreland! Yea, thats- my name. So how about yours?" He clearly stated this conversation as an akward one. With him that stiffly look back at Rita, but now with maintaining a little poker face.
"M- mine is HotPants. It is just a nick name, you know." Revealing that she can also don't easily trust person she like, yet still revealing some truth.
"In that case, i have the same issue." He came besides Rita and sit still thinking at his next plan to escape from this place.
Now we know that Oreland is a guy type that was quite perfect for their life partner, yet he can still maintain his poker face when he, himself was nerveous and embarassed at the same time due to he sitting very close to Rita. Yet Rita is still bamboozled by her mind, we clearly know what she thinking about right now. Well, then Torana awake from his sleep.
"I think i have already know what is going on herE." Torana pull out a domain because he wanted to.
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---<|Irreversable Cog|>---
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"Torana! What are you doing right now?!" Rita shout out loud yet Oreland still in his mind that a pokemon is talking like it was originally a human, quite strange yet the talking pokemon isn't rare tho. The dialect caught him off guard.
"Don't worry, i just do this because of upcoming danger. So chill on, also i think 'she' went missing somewhere." Torana stated that this domain is harmless, yet the outter layer is really hard.
"Thank god- i thought you would extinguish this man into an ashes." Relax a bit, because she previously think the domain is something harming.
Let me tell you how the domain look, the domain is just an endless desert with many massive cogs that stick into the sand. Also with clear galaxy night sky that have many things happened once, andromeda slowly collide with Milky way, four eclipse happen at fast speed. And a repeatable process of black hole, is just a visual yet so detailed, more than HD. But Torana sacrifice half of his energy just to make this one out of his memories.
"That is quite a bit exhausting than i expected." Torana confirm that he indeed just use copycat overly this time. As he just sits down and start to Refill his energy again.
"Huh, maybe not quite look like what i have expected." Oreland stated, wasn't completely shocked by the fact that Torana can speak. Tho it is common that pokemon can speak just like human, but they have their own dialect. But Torana is a little bit interesting, because he speak just like a human.
"Umm, thankyou for saving me that time." Rita smile while look at Orelands face. "Yea, good to know you are still alive." Orelands eye look at Rita's, then he stare at the sky completely stunning scene and very complex one.
Torana is undoubtly know what is happening right now, so he just waited and keep the domain open. Right before the domain collapse due to Torana's lack of control, but they ended up in a room that was controlled by a klinklang. This klinklang have an extraordinary size, a size of a tank should i say. Yet, it has it's own mechanism that was considered a [psychic-steel] than [electric-steel] due to it's complex structure.
"What is this place?" Oreland question and yet Rita have no idea where they're at.
But Torana know where they are. "We are exactly at the core of the sewer engine, so no doubt about reaching the e-" He, unsupisingly fall off because of burn out.
Rita can only hear Torana's thought about reaching the end using this Klinklang's control.
It was very friendly nonetheless, really aware of it's surrounding. Keep an eye at everyone to make sure it's promise to it's trainer was done correctly, yet the klinklang is barely rusted by the time. But it's surrounding is full of plant and rust everywhere.
"This guy have been here since the first Century." Orelands stated clearly notice about the room is indeed the place where one of the prophecies have done.
"Indeed, this klinklang live more than 2 millenia." Rita further confirm that the klinklang is more older than the calendar itself. This isn't it's full body, it's full body spread across the world being really strong to even endure the cold winter. Some are spread across the sewer, yet some are spread trough places. They are quite a mistery themself, moving on to the klinklang we have Ecounter.
It emerges from it's case and begin to move in other control case, it have a really hard time but still steady to do that with just a pure desicion.
"It still can move-" Orelands Saw in disbelieve.
Torana imply while half sleeping "You know that pokemon loyality can determined their life choice right?" Which indicates that depends on wether they truly loyal to you and they want to do it rightaway, which is depend on their nature and who they really are as an individual.
Then Orelands just like "Huh, i don't clearly expecting that." while the Klinklang was attached into the 2nd control in this room, which is lead to it opened the exit.
Klinklang insisted them to go away, yeah Torana is still asleep. But Rita grab Torana and piggybagging him on her back. While Orelands thanking the opposing Klinklang that it allow them to escape the room they are in, but actually this room behave just like a domain of this klinklang. Just you know this domain behave just like other domain, but this domain steals the atribute that the surroundings have or functions like.
They get out of that domain real quick. Thus Klinklang went to close the escape to prevent the outter world from these dangerous 'mutating' pokemon with their broken DNA and one of them is, Acidic Antler. Which is one variant of alpha sawsbuck that somehow get trapped there, or they lived here? Likely needed to be concerned even more.
"I will remember you. Orelands, let's moving!" Rita goes on full mode trantitioning that Qota already have a control back. 'Finnaly! I can finnaly get out of that stupid seal Shell!' Qota stated happily, she notices that she was behind Rita's control.
Orelands look back at Rita and gradually slowing down and go check Rita, because she was stood silently while still carrying Torana in her back. All of sudden, Rita's pupil changed colour drastically from pink-blue pupil to deep blue-black with a pizza slice taken from both of the pupils. Thus, that's how we can really recognise who is in charge that time.
"That's is a really long time i guess." Then she looked around her and noticed. "Where is Antonio? Also who are yo- hold on, i think i recognise you."
"Wait, you don't remember me? I literally with you that time! And who's Antonio anyway?" Then he look straight at Qota's eye, but he soon realized that "This, you're not Hot Pants."
{He do know how to differenciate us.} Qota then further know that this guy spend hours with Rita in that sewer. "Hmm, your name is Orelands right? And do you affilitate even a single bit with the Plasma Organization?"
"Hm? I can't give you the information. That's secret." He kinda like the way Hotpants spoke, but he more like the time when they're in the sewer. {How did she know i have a relation with Plasma Organization? Do i look like one?} Then he try to get off that idea.
"Then i would recognise you as one of them, you Made a big blunder Orelands." Qota then look away and saw Antonio when the sun also rose from the west. "Guess we'll meet again on the next checkpoint. So, arivederci." With the problem has fall off, Qota get into Antonio's back then proceeds to get into Michelle's place.
"I mustve been dreaming." He stare at the rising sun feel that something is off about Hot Pants, but he don't think about it too much.
"Where'd you have been Lan?" Yudi came towards Orelands that revealed to be Lathn.
"That's a complicated one." Lan said with a so not great face.
But Yudi slightly gigles and said "You better get into your mount real quick. It is the time we'd get into that place."
"You're right brother, let's go!" He threw a pokeball that have Sparta inside. But now, instead of act really harsh like that time. He was slightly gentle towards Sparta tho he still get kicked on the stomach because this isn't really him. "Oh, you choose it that way aren't you?"
"Oh, here we go again. Come on, we'd gonna be in the last place if we won't get into there." Yudi insist that this isn't any joke. "We still have one problem before we can get into that place."
Then Lan immediately get serious and imply like "Of course. We still have one thing to do left."
[To be continued]