Finally, I'm back home.
Toothless slowed down as he made his descent from the sky with me on his back. Snap followed his actions from where he is flying beside me. Fuzzy made himself comfortable from where he stuck himself in the side pocket of my bag. It was just big enough for him to fit himself in. I had completed my stay with Lilycove's LSDF and it is time for me to head back home.
We landed at the front of my house and I jumped down from Toothless's back. I haven't made two steps towards the front door when a black speck in the sky came flying towards us at a very high speed. Toothless growled for a second, but he suddenly stopped and made a confused tilt of his head instead.
The black speck crash landed near us and a big, black blur hastily made its way towards me and pulled me into its embrace. A humongous hydreigon nuzzled its three heads against mine, which is an unbelievable sight due to the fact that its species is extremely violent and volatile to everyone, including their trainers.
If Snap and Toothless made no moves to stop this hydreigon, it means that this hydreigon can only be him.
"Chewy? Is that you?"
The hydreigon purred in response and cuddled me. Why didn't Dad tell me that Chewy had evolved while I was away?
"Welcome back, Vel."
Dad greeted me as he opened and walked through the front door of the house with Fang beside him. Fang ran up to me and demanded a pat on his head, which I obliged.
"Dad, why didn't you tell me that Chewy evolved? And when did that happen?"
"It was on the night when I was supposed to send Chill to you. Remember how I suddenly told you that I have to send her to you in the morning on the next day instead? I had to delay sending Chill to you since Chewy was so close to evolving and I had to help him. We wanted to keep his evolution as a surprise for you, but I guess Chewy misses you too much to sit still when he sensed your presence."
Chewy gave another happy purr at Dad's words and then turned his attention to Toothless and Snap, who already seemed eager to battle Chewy.
"Toothless, Snap. No."
The two of them deflated at my words and Toothless even gave a little whine.
"We will be heading to the Battle Frontier in a few days, save your strength until then. You will be battling till you drop. If you two like battling so much, I am going to put the whole lot of you through the hardest challenges I can find."
The difference in their posture was immediate. Snap had perked up and made flapping noises with his wings that also produces the singing sound that their species is famous for. Toothless shot a cone of fire into the air in excitement.
"I am excited to visit the Battle Frontier as well." Dad admitted as he walked up to me and ruffled my hair like what he usually does. He and Mum are the only people who I allow to touch my well-combed hair in this manner. "I also heard that there are double battles in the Battle Tower where trainers can partner up and battle other duos."
I gave a smirk in Dad's direction.
"Are you thinking what I am thinking, Dad?"
Dad returned the same smirk back at me.
"Time to announce to the world how strong we Veras are. Should we set an unbeatable record?"
"We totally need to do that." I agreed as we both made our way to the farm so that I can release the bigger members of my team and let them relax outside their pokeballs. "We will be the first ones to set a record and then the record will stay there as the highest score for at least the next decade."
"I'm free now, want to train together?"
I nodded my head in excitement. I had never fought alongside Dad before and I really want to see how strong his pokemons are right now, especially Fang and tropius, since I had known them as a baby and yet I have never seen them in true combat.
"Let's go then."
Time to rock the Battle Frontier.
"Ness, Poison Fang!"
Ness gave a roar before she charged right through the opposing quagsire's Muddy Water and bit down on it with her poisonous fangs.
"Fang, Hyper Beam!"
Fang shot a Hyper Beam that is aimed slightly away from Ness. Ness released the poor quagsire from her jaws and threw it in the way of Fang's Hyper Beam. The Hyper Beam collided with the quagsire and blew it to the other end of the arena, taking it out.
"Finish the mightyena while it recharges! Magical Leaf!"
The opposing mismagius scattered a huge amount of strangely coloured leaves at Fang, but Ness dove in and unleashed an Incinerate, burning the attack down. Mismagius made itself intangible and then dove into the shadows when Ness counterattacked with a huge barrage of Poison Stings.
"Fang, Odor Sleuth! Seek it out!"
Nice thinking, Dad. Now we have a lot more options in dealing with this ghost.
Mismagius was forced out of hiding from Fang's Odor Sleuth and is now forced to actively dodge Fang's onslaught of slashes and bites.
"Fang, Scary Face!"
"Ness, Shadow Claw!"
Mismagius slowed for a moment when Fang hamper its speed with Scary Face, allowing Ness to slash at it with a Shadow Claw, taking it out.
Two more pokemons left from the opposing duo.
A starmie appeared for battle next and I recalled Ness. Ness can handle any water or psychic types, but the whole point of experiencing the Battle Frontier is to allow the newer members of my team to get more battle experience and satisfying the battlelust of the battle-hungry quartet. The other members of the team need to fight their fair share of battles too.
It didn't take long for Chill to officially join the trio, making the trio a quartet. My hair is definitely going to go grey even before I hit fifteen.
Dad and I are on our fifth set of battles. Each set consists of seven rounds of battles and we can choose to take a break or continue with the challenge at the end of every set. If we chose to take a break, our score will be saved in the Battle Frontier's database so that we can pick up where we left off the previous time. Basically, the way it works is similar to how it works in Pokemon Emerald when the world of pokemon was a game to me.
The Salon Maiden, Anabel, will not appear in the double battles segment, but that does not make the Battle Tower experience any less fun. My quartet had their fill in the first three sets, now I am using this chance to let my newer members get more experience in competitive battling.
The other pokemon that appeared together with starmie is an exeggutor, which immediately used a Sunny Day and spam Solar Beams at Fang, who hid himself with a Double Team as I sent out Archer to replace Ness.
"Bug Buzz!"
The super effective move hit the two psychic pokemons as Dad used this time to recall Fang and sent out the glalie which I had caught for him. His name is now Frosty. Dad had asked me to help think of a name for glalie and this name was what I had thought up for him.
Frosssty, the snowman! Was a jolly happy soul~
Definitely a jab at glalie's permanent grumpy attitude.
Frosty aimed a Freeze-Dry at starmie, who managed to use a Reflect Type in time to block the damage from the otherwise super effective move by converting its typing to the same as Frosty's. However, Archer is a steel type.
"Archer, Bullet Punch and Steel Wing on starmie!"
Archer shot forward and smashed starmie with his pincers. Since starmie is now an ice type due to its use of Reflect Type to mimic Frosty's ice typing, Archer's steel type moves are now super effective against it.
Archer wasn't done, and his wings glowed briefly before he used it to try and slam it into starmie, who had now resorted to using Minimize to momentarily shrink itself in size and to make its escape.
A miniature starmie is actually kind of cute.
Exeggutor uses a combination of Barrage and Egg Bomb and began its artillery strike on Archer and Frosty. Frosty used a Weather Ball, an attack which changes its typing based on the weather condition. Since exeggutor had kindly used a Sunny Day earlier, Weather Ball is now a fire type attack which can deal extra damage to exeggutor, a part grass type.
Frosty destroyed a portion of exeggutor's Barrage and Egg Bomb combo with that Weather Ball. Archer, on the other hand, simply ignored the damage as he powered up with Iron Defense and Swords Dance before dashing right in, planning to bring the fight up close to his foes.
"Don't let the scizor get close! Scald!"
The starmie shot a stream of scalding hot water at Archer, who used a Safeguard to protect himself and Frosty from potential status ailments for the duration of this battle and then dodged the Scald with a well-timed Double Team. A burst of speed from his Quick Attack brought him close to exeggutor before he connected an attack on it in the form of an X-Scissor.
"Synthesis!"
In response, Dad wasted no time as he commanded Frosty to sabotage exeggutor's attempt to heal.
"Frosty, Hail! Then Blizzard!"
Exeggutor defended itself from the Blizzard with Light Screen. However, with the use of Hail, the sunlight is now blocked out and the amount of health exeggutor can heal back up with Synthesis is drastically reduced. Archer is not as affected as the opposing pokemons in this weather condition, so it's fine.
"Archer, don't let up! Fury Cutter!"
Archer pressed on his attacks on exeggutor with Fury Cutter, who is now frantically trying to defend itself from Archer. Starmie tried to intervene but Frosty was a step ahead and smashed into it with an Iron Head.
"Sheer Cold!"
A blast of absolute-zero wave of coldness froze starmie in an instant, taking it out. Starmie was too close to Frosty, allowing Frosty to have the chance to ensure that his one-hit-KO move connects onto it. At the same time, Archer got a powerful slash of his Fury Cutter onto the exeggutor and finished it off with an overpowered Night Slash that was boosted by his prior Swords Dance.
Our fifth set done and dusted. I think we are the record holders for the fastest sweep thus far in the double battle segment of the Battle Tower. My quartet had helped a lot in this regard since they are stronger than most pokemons we encountered here. Chewy's strength is nothing to scoff at either.
Dad is also an extremely skilled trainer. Fighting alongside him is tremendously fun as well.
"Good job, Archer." I praised my scizor as he walked back to me with his signature poker face. I can never tell what he is thinking. Frosty floated back to Dad's side, completely ignoring me. I think he is still a little grumpy at how I captured him.
"You think your Mum and Flannery are done with shopping by now?"
"They should be." I commented as we both walked out of the arena with our pokemons at our side. Each trainer is only allowed to have one pokemon to be at their side the moment they enter any of the facilities in the Battle Frontier and they cannot exceed a certain size. This is to ensure that the place will not be exceedingly crowded. This is the first week of the Battle Frontier's grand opening, which took place yesterday. With Scott's approval Vance had gotten us a free three-day-two-night stay in one of the best hotels in the Battle Frontier since he is also a fellow Frontier Brain. Scott is grateful to us for giving him a huge discount when he bought the pokemons from our farm and so he gave each of us a personal Battle Frontier VIP membership card that lasts for a lifetime. Even Mum got one of it even if she isn't a trainer.
We spotted Mum and Flannery waiting at the lobby with Holly and Charlie, Flannery's torkoal and starter, at their side. Mum gestured for us to come to her side excitedly the moment she spotted us.
"We need to try this."
Mum shoved a brochure into Dad's hands and we took a look at what gotten Mum so excited.
"You want to try the Battle Pyramid?"
"Of course! I asked around when I was shopping and the trainers who had tried it out all had good things to say, we should try it out as a family!"
Why not? Nothing can go wrong while we are at the Battle Frontier anyway.
"Trust me, it is that way, my instinct that I retained from my ACE days is telling me so."
"Dear, it is definitely this way." Mum argued back as she pointed in the opposite direction that Dad is trying to bring us to.
This Battle Frontier is a little different from what I remembered about from Pokemon Emerald. Maybe it is because this is no longer a world from the games, but there are commercial elements in each facility that wasn't there when I played Pokemon Emerald in my previous world.
For each of the facilities, there are family-friendly segments and challenges that anyone can take part in as a group so long as they have pokemons with them. The one we are currently taking part in is the Battle Pyramid's version, where we are thrown into a dark maze and only allowed to use one pokemon each to find our way out. We are allowed to keep the rest of our teams with us, but they are not to be released in the maze unless we want to get ourselves disqualified. Since this is supposed to be family-friendly, we will also not be running into any pokemons here that will challenge us on sight.
Ignoring the strategic importance of the Battle Frontier to Hoenn's military strength, the Battle Frontier is also basically the pokemon's world version of the Universal Studios, created and tailored to the needs of trainers with how it is designed.
The opening of the Battle Frontier had also opened up a lot of jobs for Hoenn's trainers. Although we can also fight with fellow visitors in the various facilities, there are times where there may not be enough visitors or there is an uneven number of them. That is where the trainers employed by the Battle Frontier will step in to fill the vacant slots so that the visitors can have their fun. Basically, the Battle Frontier is taking the gym trainers system used in pokemon gyms and employing it here. Many of the employed trainers are part-timers who decided to take a break from competing in the gym circuit for a short while to improve themselves, like what I did in Petalburg even if another reason for it was the untimely relapse of my illness. There are full-timers too, and usually they will take part in the more difficult challenges.
I have to give it to President Lucas and Scott. The setting up of the Battle Frontier had increased the region's military strength by creating a bastion in the southern region of Hoenn. It also brought in economic benefits by creating a pokemon world version of Universal Studios and it is also a place where Hoenn's trainers can come to improve their skills and exchange ideas with each other. Hoenn can greatly benefit from this. Other than many Hoenn civilians who had flocked here to enjoy themselves here at the Battle Frontier with the many civilian-friendly challenges available for them, the Battle Frontier had also attracted many trainers from other regions, boosting Hoenn's revenue from the tourism sector.
Dolly gave a cackle as she emerged from my shadow. She loves the dark, so I decided to let her have some fun exploring the maze with us. Mum has Holly by her side and Fang is Dad's choice for the Battle Pyramid. Flannery had chosen her houndoom, Gavin, to accompany her.
"Vel, Flan, help me knock some sense into your father and tell him that he is going the wrong way."
"Vel and Flan will obviously agree with me. They are trainers, so their skills in navigation will agree with mine."
Actually, my pokemons are doing the navigating most of the time. My only job is to ensure that we are heading in the correct generic direction and they handle the rest. I have a few members on my team whose abilities makes them very good navigators and trackers.
"Dolly, which way is out?"
Dolly pointed her short arms in the same direction that Mum is pointing at.
Mum: 1, Dad: 0
Dad gave me a look of betrayal and turned to his long-time partner and starter.
"Fang, tell them that they are wrong."
Fang let his tongue loll out from where he is sitting on the ground and slowly raised a single front paw.
He is also pointing in the same direction Mum is pointing at.
Mum: 2, Dad: 0
Dad then turned to Flannery, who gave an apologetic shrug when Gavin mimicked Fang's action and confirmed that Mum was indeed right.
Mum: 3, Dad: 0
"See?" Mum said with a smug smile as she basked in her victory. "Everyone here agrees with me."
"Traitors." Dad mumbled under his breath as he gave in and let Mum take the lead in trying to navigate ourselves out of the maze. There are obstacles that can only be overcome if you have pokemons with you. They are not difficult for us since Dad and I are Elite trainers and Mum does have Holly, a fully evolved pokemon. Flannery is also a gym leader. However, the challenges are not that simple either. The balance in the level of difficulty for this challenge is just nice.
"What facilities do you want to try out next?"
I stroked my chin in thought at Mum's question. Truth to be told, I am dying to try out a certain facility.
"The Battle Factory. I want to see how well I can adapt to using foreign or unfamiliar pokemons. It will be a great test of the knowledge I had accumulated thus far."
"Your quartet won't be happy about that since they won't be battling."
"I can deposit them in the Battle Palace. The whole idea of the Battle Palace is to let the pokemons battle without taking commands from their trainer, so I don't need to be physically there. Vance is the Frontier Brain in charge of that facility, so I know he will help me keep an eye out for them."
Spenser, the previous gym leader of Mossdeep in this world and the Palace Maven in the original Battle Frontier, had declined to be recruited by Scott due to his old age and also because Scott has an alternative candidate in the form of Vance. Thus, Vance is now the Palace Maven. Scott seemed very happy at Vance's addition to the Frontier Brains even if he was a little disappointed at Spenser's reply.
Despite his old age, Spenser is a very wise man and an even wicked battler. Back in his prime, there was a period of time when the Magmas and Aquas were very active and he single-handedly crushed them when they tried to spread their influence into Mossdeep. The terrorists made their escape before Spenser could flush them out and wipe them out for good, but they never reappeared in Mossdeep again. This held true even after Spenser's retirement and Tate and Liza took up the mantle of Mossdeep's gym leaders.
I really do want to meet Spenser though. He is a Generalist like me and he has experience in spades. I can probably learn a lot just by shadowing him, if he lets me.
Vance got the easiest job out of the seven Frontier Brains. All he has to do if any challengers reached him is to let his pokemons run wild. He can literally take a tea break at the side as his team battle for him. He can very literally do nothing, and still get paid for it.
On a more serious note, it takes a lot of skill and effort for a trainer to train their pokemons to the point where they don't need to take commands from their trainer during their battles. There are many cases of pokemons who lost all sense of direction in battle the moment their trainers stopped barking orders to them. The pokemons that were trained in such a way are too overly reliant on the orders from their trainers, which is not a good thing most of the time. Humans are not pokemons, we do not have the same physical capabilities to be able to make judgement calls faster than a Quick Attack. In the higher levels of battling, pokemons have to make their own decisions most of the time since their trainers will not be able to keep up with the pace even with their eyes glued to the battle.
We are only human and we have our own physical restrictions.
This is also the reason why some of the older generation of trainers claim that a mark of a skilled trainer is one whose team is able to fight effectively even without he or she commanding them. Vance definitely falls under this category. His experience in ACE had made him decide a long time ago to train his team in this direction. Each of his pokemons are able to handle themselves without him being there.
His achievement in this area is also something that I am striving towards. My trio had definitely reached this level of power and skill. Chill is out of the question since her judgement in battles can be a little questionable. Her battle style is actually very similar to Kratos since all she does is to overwhelm her foes with an unstoppable force. She will face problems if her opponents are on par or stronger than her. Kratos knows how to handle himself even in that kind of disadvantageous scenarios, but not Chill. She is still a little too inexperienced in this regard.
As for the rest of my team, they just lack the raw power needed even if most of them will reach there soon. Most of them are already very experienced when it comes to fighting on their own without me guiding them.
I need my team to be able to handle themselves considering the line of work that I will be joining in about slightly less than two weeks. With the exception of Joy since she is a newborn, the newer members of my team had all reached Elite level, even if they are at the bottom tier of it. That in itself is an achievement since they had only joined me for barely a month. Their progress is exceptional.
This also showed me the difference in growth for different pokemon species. A species that is born for battle do have a faster growth rate when it comes to combat. Taking Fuzzy as an example, he had joined me for a longer period of time, but yet he had not reached Elite level even if I feel that he is close. He is at a bottleneck right now. We will need to search for a way for him to go past the advanced level if we want to make him an Elite level pachirisu.
We will make him the first Elite level pachirisu in existence. We just need to find out how.
Somehow, it took us two hours before we made our way out of the Battle Pyramid.
I will skip the details, but long story short, Dad's sense of direction really sucks. He tried to take over in leading us out when we reached a crossroad after the little voting session.
He got us lost inside the maze. How did he even track people down when he was in ACE if he is that bad at navigation?
At least Mum, Flannery, and Dolly looked like they had a lot of fun despite the numerous times which we got ourselves lost. I don't really enjoy it that much since my body is starting to tire nearing the end of the duration. I had kept quiet since I don't want to dampen the mood and because I know that I can still hold on. It's just that I will feel a little uncomfortable for a short while after the entire ordeal is over.
If only I have a healthy body.
"Vel? Are you ok?"
"I'm fine." I reassured Flannery as I sat on a nearby bench that is located at the edge of the Battle Frontier. It is a little out of the way, but the view and the sea breeze is nice enough. "Just let me catch my breath."
"You should have told us if you are feeling unwell. We would have terminated the challenge." Mum chided as she starts to fuss over me.
"Mum, I'm fine, really." I reassured her once more as Dolly sat on my lap and went still. She is probably trying to fool the few passers-by near us that she is a real doll. It is a favourite prank of hers. "Don't let me spoil your fun. I will just wait here until you and Dad are done exploring the place."
"I can keep Vel company." Flannery added as she went to sit down next to me. "I am feeling a little tired too, I didn't get enough sleep last night thanks to work."
After much persuasion on me and Flannery's part, Dad and Mum went to explore the other parts of the Battle Frontier with Holly and Fang following them. Dolly got bored with waiting for people to walk past us, so she randomly clicked on a pokeball on my waist to find someone to play with.
Archer looked very annoyed when he came out, but he didn't do anything else as he went to stand beside me. Dolly tried to get him to play with her but he treated her as if she is invisible, much to her dismay.
"Dolly, don't irritate Archer even further. Not everyone is a born prankster." I called out to her as I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her close to me, saving Archer from a headache with how Dolly is trying to get him to play with her.
"Scizors can grow to be really strong." Flannery commented as she looked at Archer with an appraising eye. "Their only true weakness are fire type techniques. Have you found a way to counter that?"
"We tried a few ways. It is still a work in progress but there are some that works, depending on the scenario. Archer just have to grow stronger so that he can have the required power needed to pull off the more advanced defensive manoeuvres I had thought up for him."
"Want to test how good your methods are?" Flannery said in a big grin as Gavin gave a bark of excitement.
"Sure." I replied to Flannery's challenge in a cheeky manner. "We can battle each other all day everyday when you finally become my sis-in-law."
"Stop that, squirt." Flannery gave me a half-hearted swipe at my head, which I dodged with a laugh.
"Hey Flan, what facilities do you want to try out next?"
"Probably the Battle Dome." Flannery crossed her arms in thought. "Or maybe the Battle Arena. Those two appeals to me more than the other facilities, so I guess-"
Flannery's words were interrupted when Archer suddenly glowed a metallic shine with Iron Defense and stood in front of us protectively. Dolly immediately dashed out from my arms and flew upwards while charging up a huge Shadow Ball before flinging it in a certain direction at the sky. Gavin followed Dolly's example as he shot one of the biggest Flamethrower I had ever seen in the same direction as well. Their attacks collided with something up in the sky that I couldn't see in a fiery explosion.
"Dolly? Archer? What's-"
"Vel, get down!"
BOOM!
Flannery winced when her back impacted against the cold, hard ground. She had pushed Vel down and used her own body to cushion their fall the moment she spotted a huge ball of fire coming their way.
That is no pokemon attack. That was a bomb, bombs are raining down from the sky and there's too many of them to destroy them all before they land on the ground. Not only that, their area is not the only one that is engulfed in explosions. Someone is trying to stage an attack on the newly opened Battle Frontier.
But WHO?!
Flannery looked up and saw Velda's scizor standing in front of them, guarding them from any stray explosions as he fired concentrated blasts of Air Slashes, Razor Winds, Silver Winds, and even Vacuum Waves to destroy any incoming blasts of fire and tanked hits for them that he could not deflect. If it wasn't for Archer, they might both be severely injured from the initial surprise attack.
There are numerous psychic shields that were deployed around the Battle Frontier and the alarms are blaring at full blast. Flannery can make out numerous psychics teleporting around the place and bringing more psychics with them with each trip. The psychics are shielding the crowd with their powers and pulling the helpless bystanders out of the danger zone.
So this is how the Battle Frontier had planned to defend itself in cases of emergencies. Flannery can only hope that the number of casualties will be reduced to a minimum with how swift the Battle Frontier's psychics had responded to the sudden threat.
Flannery shifted herself to sit upright and gently lifted Velda from her body, only to find that Velda had been knocked unconscious from the sudden force of the initial explosion.
"Vel? Vel! Wake up!"
Flannery shake Velda worriedly, hoping that she had not gotten herself injured somehow. Velda wasn't feeling too well after exiting the Battle Pyramid. She should have paid more attention to her when they were in that maze.
Gavin had returned to guarding them with Dolly as they aid Archer to defend their trainers. Flannery and Velda are a little too isolated from where most of the crowd is, making it hard for psychics to help them since their priority is to save the majority of the crowd at another area. They are already having their hands full trying to keep everyone alive.
"Everyone, come out! Gavin! Seek the enemies out!"
The appearance of Flannery's main team immediately turned the situation around as the fire types charged through the explosions, their fire typing making them naturally resistant to fire-based attacks. Her camerupt (Mark), Magcargo (Mitch), and Flareon (Serene) stood by her in a protective manner as the rest of her team went in for the assault. Sarah, her charizard, had took to the air with Al, her infernape, riding on her back. Her starter, Charlie, led the rest of them as they took out the bombs that are currently exploding or have not yet explode. Gavin's and Dash's (her arcanine) Flash Fire ability are able to mitigate the fire from the explosions and they are capable enough to defend themselves from the force of the explosions.
Flannery immediately tap on the release button of every single one of Velda's pokeballs which holds her team. Velda needs all the protection she can get.
"Everyone, I don't know who is doing this, but you guys need to help protect Vel. I am not confident enough to protect her while she is unconscious and trying to figure out who is staging an attack at the same time. Is someone able to wake her up?"
Joy immediately jumped and landed beside her trainer. A wave of its little arms produced a soothing scent from somewhere and Velda began to stir.
Flannery's eyes widened a little as she recognised that move. Aromatherapy, a move that heals all status problems, including forced sleep. The reason for Velda's state of unconsciousness is probably enough to be considered as forced sleep, so Aromatherapy had somehow worked.
"Urgh… Flan? What-"
BOOM!
Flannery instinctively used her body to shield Velda again just as Bigblue and Kratos raised a massive wall of stone to protect the two of them. Thankfully, they are safe.
"I don't know, Vel. I sent out most of my main team to find out what is going on and stop the bombs from doing more damage than they should, but I still don't know what is going on. We need more information."
Just at that moment, the cracking sound of a Teleport can be heard. Griff and Hanna appeared with Holly and Fang. Hanna ran up to them worriedly and enveloped them in a hug the moment she saw them safe and sound.
"Thank Arceus! The two of you are safe!" Hanna breathed out a sigh of relief as she tightened her hold over the two girls.
"We are fine, but we need to get out of here ASAP." Flannery wasted no time in pulling the Veras back into reality. "Do you guys know what is going on?"
"No, we don't. The only thing we know is that although psychics can Teleport within the Battle Frontier with no problems, they cannot Teleport to anywhere outside it. The explosions are also making it too dangerous for us to fly out of here using flying types. Someone is jamming the place so that no one can get out of the Battle Frontier. Communications are down too. Scott and the Frontier Brains have already started on the evacuation plans to ship everyone out by the sea route. The LSDF stationed here are already starting to load as many people as they can on board. It is our only ticket out of here."
"Dad, comms are down?"
"Yes." Griff said as he released his team. "Someone wants to take down the entire Battle Frontier without the outside world knowing. We need to put a stop to this."
"I…" Flannery hesitated before she spoke her mind. "I need to be out there. I am a gym leader; it is my duty-"
"We understand." Hanna said gently as she squeezed Flannery in a tight hug. "Just come back to us safe and sound, alright?"
Flannery returned the hug before pulling away with moisture in her eyes. It has been a long time since an elder had cared for her in this manner that isn't her grandfather.
"I will. Mark, Serene, Mitch. We are joining the rest. Let's go."
Flannery ran into the thick of the chaos with her pokemons guarding her from harm. They are more than capable to defend her. Velda's frame shook a little as she clenched her fist and trying very hard to calm her breathing down.
"Vel. It's alright, we are here. This isn't Lilycove, you are not alone."
Griff's reassuring words managed to calm Velda down. She gave a thankful glance to her father before turning to Jarvis.
"Jarvis, get the comms up again. Once you do, send a message to all the Thirteen Pillars of Hoenn. We need their help. Include the President as well. See if you can do anything about the Teleport issue, we are counting on you. Dolly, get Jarvis to the nearest PC with Shadow Sneak and then get back to us. He needs to gain access to an available network."
Dolly and Jarvis acknowledged their trainer's orders and disappeared into the shadows. Vel got herself lost in thoughts as she commanded Kratos to raise walls of stone to aid the Battle Frontier's psychics who are incapable of learning Teleport and had opted to help defend the civilians by shielding them from the blasts of explosions. Thankfully, the explosions are slowly dying down thanks to Flannery's pokemons.
"Kratos, are you confident in using the Sand Platform?"
Kratos gave a big nod of approval at the sudden question.
"Good. Raise the sands and ship everyone out of here. Bigblue, Snap, and Lily will help out as well with Rock Surf if you need it. We are heading for the harbour."
Kratos gave a defiant roar to the sky as he denied the help from his teammates, confident that he alone is able to complete the task that his trainer had gave him.
The entire area they are at was raised by a platform of sand in matter of seconds. Kratos continue to use his sand to grab every single person in the area he could see in a rough manner and deposited them in a separate platform of sand beside the Veras.
"Kratos, be gentle."
Kratos gave a reluctant grunt but he did as he was told. He really couldn't care less if any humans not related to his trainer live or die, but if his trainer wants to save them, he will do it without complains.
"Thank you!" One of the civilians who were brought to the safety of Kratos's sand thanked the Veras as Kratos began to command the sands and transport the entire group towards the harbour. Any stray explosions that got too near were swiftly handled by the rest of the Veras' pokemons.
"Don't worry about it, it is our job as trainers." Griff replied in a calm tone as the bombs stopped raining from the sky. He took a peek at Velda's direction. She is a little shaken by the sudden turn of events and is no doubt being reminded of the horrible experience she had been through back at Lilycove.
Griff clenched his fist and subtly felt for the pokeball that houses the fifth member of his team, Torch. This pokemon is currently his strongest pokemon and he had kept his existence a secret from everyone except for his wife. He had begun to train it ever since his daughter's sickness got better when she was nine and did not need as much attention. Torch is a total recluse and dislike interacting with humans in general, but he respects him enough to listen to his command. Torch's reclusive nature is the main reason why Griff had decided against introducing him to his children among other factors. Not all pokemons are friendly towards humans even if they are raised in captivity.
If possible, Griff doesn't want to call Torch out at all since he knows Torch doesn't want to have anything to do with humans in general. However, the both of them may not have a choice now. Another invasion in Hoenn is taking place and they have an obligation to stop it.
It is their duty as Veras, one of the most noble and ancient family in Hoenn. It is carved into their family crest and written out in their family's motto and values. His children, Vance and Velda, had in a way taken up this duty even without them realising it the moment they got themselves a regional starter. Torch knows about his duty as well. His species has been with their family even before Hoenn was founded and they too know that they have a duty to Hoenn that they are entrusted with. This same duty was passed down to Torch from his ancestors just as Griff received his from the very first head of the Vera family that was passed down through the generations for more than 500 years.
Every Vera will receive a regional starter, it is a secret tradition of theirs. Griff's father had a sceptile that Vance and Velda never knew about since it decided to live with its species in seclusion in their farm after his trainer passed away when Vance was very young. Vel wasn't born yet at that time and Vance was too young back then to remember about his grandfather's sceptile, so he had always thought that the only pokemon his grandfather had was good old Whiskers, who is a constant presence in their lives until he too passed away from old age.
It is every Vera's duty to protect Hoenn in their own way and the regional starters know this. Torch knows this. Vance's sceptile knows this. Bigblue knows this. The three pokemons were all taught about their duties from their parents the moment they are all old enough to learn. Each of the three species are entrusted with a duty that they will fulfil no matter which trainer they are given to. Given the current state of the world, Griff might have to reveal the true duty of the Vera family towards Hoenn to his children soon, although he wishes that they never knew. It is a heavy burden to bear.
Griff mentally prepared himself for the upcoming fight. Whoever is staging this attack will pay.
He swears upon this as a member of the Vera house.
Edited: 1/6/2019
I only just realised when reading this chapter on my phone that Ness taking mismagius out with Drill Run is impossible since mismagius's only ability is Levitate. I changed Ness's attack to Shadow Claw for this revision. I also changed Chewy's species from zweilous to hydreigon after one of you had kindly pointed out what I had missed.
Content-wise, there's no change in this chapter. Just letting you guys know that I had corrected some mistakes in this chapter that shouldn't have been made.
AN: Hope you guys didn't get a heart attack from reading about another invasion, but it is what I had planned a long time ago after I finished writing the Sootopolis gym challenge. This chapter isn't that exciting in my opinion and is a little bland, but I think it will help pave the way for subsequent chapters.
Also, I think you guys know by now what Griff's secret fifth member is. I gave too many clues. If you somehow don't get what that pokemon is, don't worry. It will be making its appearance soon.
I have to admit I was initially planning to write and finish up the half-done chapter for my other story, WOTI. But when I happen to read one particular not-so-polite review on IJWTTTW that demanded me to focus on TAOFT and WOTI, I suddenly found myself having a lot of motivation and inspiration to write something for IJWTTTW. So, here it is.
I won't say anything else about this chapter since I want to keep the suspense for the next chapter. So stay tune. I should be able to get it out within a day or two, provided nothing unexpected pops out from nowhere.
As usual, hope you guys enjoy the story.
Character and pokemon list:
Velda Vera, Age: 13, Female, Pokemon Trainer, Runner-up in the 528th Ever Grande Conference
Pokemon on hand:
1) Rapidash (Flamel), male
2) Swampert (Bigblue), male
3) Banette (Dolly), female
4) Flygon (Snap), male
5) Absol (Kelsa), female
6) Charizard (Toothless), male
7) Cradily (Lily), female
8) Espeon (Rena), female
9) Pachirisu (Fuzzy), male
10) Tyranitar (Kratos), male
11) Cleffa (Joy), female
12) Nidoqueen (Ness), female
13) Pangoro (Hulk), male
14) Porygon-Z (Jarvis), genderless
15) Scizor (Archer), male
16) Lapras (Chill), female
Griff Vera, Age: 42, Male, Owner of Vera Pokemon Breeding Farm, Husband to Hanna Vera (formerly Springfield), Father to Vance and Velda Vera
Pokemon on hand:
1) Mightyena (Fang), male
2) Tropius, male
3) Hydreigon (Chewy), male
4) Glalie (Frosty), male
5) ? (Torch), male
5) Ninjask (deceased)
6) Ludicolo (deceased)
7) Zangoose (deceased)
8) Ursaring (deceased)
Flannery, Age: 21, Female, Lavaridge Town Gym Leader, Ex LSDF Member
1) Torkoal (Charlie)
2) Charizard (Sarah)
3) Houndoom (Gavin)
4) Camerupt (Mark)
5) Magcargo (Mitch)
6) Flareon (Serene)
7) Infernape (Al)
8) Arcanine (Dash)
9) Chandelure (Lighter)
38
The harbour itself is a chaotic battlefield.
I left the civilians that our family had picked up to the LSDF and let the officers direct the civilians to safety. The LSDF are doing all they can to create a sense of order. The women and the children are given priority to board the ships and get out of here. The trainers employed by the Battle Frontier are also doing their best in defending the crowd from attacks from feral pokemons of various types together with the officers from the LSDF.
"Dad! Mum! Vel!"
Vance ran up to us and grabbed us in a hug.
"Thank Arceus! You are alright!" Vance muttered before letting us go, pulling Mum and I along. "Mum, Vel, you two need to get out of here right now! It's too dangerous here!"
"Vance, we can wait." Dad interrupted Vance as he put a hand on Vance's shoulder. "The civilians need to go first. We can at least defend ourselves."
"Dad!"
"We are the Veras, Vance." Dad cut in before Vance can protest any further. "We have a duty to protect Hoenn."
"Griff? Is that you?"
A bald and elderly man walked up to us with the help of his walking stick. A crobat hovered by his side without making a sound.
"Master Spenser? You are here too?"
"Scott gave me a free ticket here since we hit it off pretty well." I watched as the previous Mossdeep gym leader chatted with us as if a war isn't happening in the background. "Nice guy, that one. I was enjoying myself at the Battle Palace too, then this happened."
A slaking destroyed a nest of angry sevipers while he was talking before making its way back to Spenser. From what I know, Spenser's slaking was pretty famous back in his heydays, but Norman's slaking is probably stronger since training the slaking line is Norman's specialty.
"Vance, Vel, this is Spenser, my mentor. He taught me many things during my gym circuit, although I wish we can all meet under better circumstances."
I nodded my head politely in acknowledgement although my thoughts are elsewhere. Who is staging this attack? And why? Is there something in the Battle Frontier that cannot be found elsewhere?
"MAGMAS! IT'S THE MAGMAS! EVERYONE LOOK OUT! THEY ARE COMING FROM BEHIND US!"
"THE AQUAS TOO! THEY ARE COMING FROM THE SEA! MAGMAS AND AQUAS ARE COMING FROM TWO DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS!"
The shouting got everyone on immediate alert as submarines suddenly appeared from the sea not too far from where the harbour is. Packs of sharpedos and gyarados emerged and started to make their way towards the harbour.
They are trying to kill everyone on the ships. By taking out the ships, no one can escape. We will all be trapped here.
"CHILL! STOP THE AQUAS! PROTECT THE SHIPS!"
All hints of her playfulness vanished as Chill jumped down from the edge of the Battle Frontier and landed on the sea with a huge splash. A massive wave of Surf rose and pushed a huge number of the Aquas' pokemons back.
At least she is sensible enough to recognise the severity of our circumstances, she is not fooling around as she usually does.
"Nice lapras, pretty well-trained too." Spenser complimented calmly as he retrieved a pokeball and threw it in Chill's direction. "Let's join forces, it will be easier this way."
Spenser's lapras made its appearance known as it immediately call upon a raging snowstorm, freezing the gyarados into ice. Our lapras went to defend the ships as per our orders together with other water types that some of the other trainers had released to help in defending our only means of escape.
"From our back! The Magmas!" One of the Frontier Brains, who I recognised to be Pike Queen Lucy, shouted out from where she is trying to defend the crowd at the opposite end from where we are.
"I'm on it! Tucker!"
"Got it!"
Vance ran to the frontlines and blew a whistle. Immediately, his pokemons who were stationed around the perimeter regrouped around him. Vance jumped onto his salamence, who began to fly up into the sky with his metagross. I see Tucker (who is now dressed in that outrageous outfit I remember from the games) joining him in the sky as well with his own salamence and metagross.
"DRACO METEOR!"
Vance's and Tucker's salamence unleashed the first big salvo at the approaching group of magmas. Some of the magmas were taken out, but most of them had actually managed to defend themselves from the attack and continued their charge.
"Kratos! Snap! Toothless! Help Vance!"
"Chewy, you too."
Our four pokemons immediately charged into battle and aided the two Frontier Brains in decimating our enemies. My trio fought with a vicious streak that I hadn't seen since the Lilycove invasion. None of us enjoyed that particular experience. Seeing another invasion happening right in front of us had made them extremely angry.
They may be bloodthirsty, but even they do not like senseless violence.
I quickly ran through my mind the various possible reasons on why the magmas and aquas will want to combine forces to invade the Battle Frontier. Just what is so enticing to them that they are willing to stage a full-blown assault? What does the Battle Frontier have that other places don't?
Why here?
'Mistress, another group of these heinous villains are heading towards the west of this island out of our sight.'
I looked towards the west of the Battle Frontier and spotted the Battle Factory. It is the facility that is situated at the far end of this island at the west side.
That's it.
"DAD!" I immediately shouted and pulled on his shirt to grab his immediate attention. "The magmas and aquas are after the large number of pokemons here! They are trying to rebuild their forces by stealing the pokemons from the Battle Factory! This whole attack is a smokescreen to lure our attention away from there!"
"WHAT?!" Scott yelled out as he suddenly appeared near us out of nowhere. "HOW DARE THEY!"
It is a common practice for terrorist groups to steal pokemons from trainers and then break them down mentally. The pokemons usually will be left as nothing but an obedient yet broken tool with a mentality of destroying everything around them once the process is over. It is how the magmas and aquas build up their strength and I am willing to bet the various villainous groups around the world uses the same process as well.
The aquas and magmas have suffered a severe blow after their main forces were wiped out a few months back. If they could get their hands on a large number of pokemons from somewhere, they can easily rebuild their strength.
They can make a comeback and terrorise Hoenn once more.
They could have just aim for our farm as well, but our farm has been there in Petalburg in the last 500 years and no one had succeeded in stealing our pokemons and get away with it. Our defences and security are just that good. The Battle Frontier, on the other hand, is newly opened. There are bound to be security gaps that had not been found. The magmas and aquas are exploiting this fact.
Scott immediately tried to dial Noland's number, but any form of telecommunication is still down. Jarvis must be trying his best, but he needs to settle this issue fast before things take a turn for the worst.
"I cannot contact Noland! He hasn't appeared yet too, he may need help!"
Scott turned around towards his Frontier Brains, but all of them are busy trying to defend the crowd together with LSDF officers and other trainers who had volunteered to help. We are seriously lacking in terms of manpower. There are too many civilians to protect and we do not have enough trainers right here at the harbour. There are many others who are still scattered haphazardly around the entire island and we don't know where they are. Through Rena's telepathic link, Flannery had told us that she will be looking for any survivors and help bring them to safety at the harbour while taking care of any magmas and aquas she met along the way. This situation is also too chaotic to properly organise the trainers so that we can fight in a more effective manner. Some of the trainers have to board the ships as well to protect the passengers just in case the aquas gave chase to the departing ships. The first wave of ships had begun to sail out of the Battle Frontier while our water types defend the harbour to buy time for the remaining people to board the ships.
Maybe I should have sent Bigblue with Chill to help out, but I have a feeling that I will need him later at other places.
"This old man is better suited to protect the ships from where he is." Spenser added in as he released his entire team. I spot an arcanine, a dusknoir, an azumarill, venasaur, shiftry, blissey, and a claydol on top of his already released slaking, lapras and crobat. They immediately split up to defend the ships and also to fight against the magmas. The aquas and the magmas are trying to take us out in a pincer attack.
"Dad, we need to head to the Battle Factory. Most of the pokemons there were from our farm. We cannot let them fall into the wrong hands."
"I agree." Dad said with a nod. "Let's go together."
"I'm coming too!" Scott said adamantly as he waved his hands in agitation. "There are some places that cannot be accessed unless you are authorised personnel. You guys may need me there."
"I'm not letting the two of you going in alone, I'm coming too." Mum put her foot down as Holly hovered at her side. "Holly is good enough to heal up whoever gets themselves injured later. We won't be a burden."
"BRANDON! WE ARE MOVING TO HELP NOLAND! YOU GUYS TAKE CARE OF THINGS ON THIS SIDE, YEAH?"
Brandon yelled out an affirmative reply to Scott's order from where he is trying to prevent the magmas from getting too close to the harbour. I send an order through Rena to my quartet to continue what they are doing. My trio are strong enough to handle themselves even without my help. Besides, Vance is with them. Chill is with Spenser's lapras and Spenser is taking the lead in helping to defend our ships. Many trainers had recognised the elderly ex-member of Hoenn's Thirteen Pillars on sight and had moved to engage the aquas with Spenser leading the assault. My quartet will be fine.
"Recall back your pokemons and only leave out those we need. Holly cannot Teleport so many at once."
Upon Mum's instruction, I only left Archer and Rena out with me as Dad let Fang remain by his side. A flash of psychic energy later, we are brought to the outside of the Battle Factory, where a large group of magmas and aquas are trying to force their way in through the main doors.
"Bigblue! Lily!"
I released the two best defensive battlers on my team as they immediately raised spikes of stones and killed a number of the unsuspecting terrorists instantly. Dad released tropius, who is now raining his own attacks from the sky to help them out.
The number of magmas and aquas here outside the Battle Factory is large, but also not that big. The three of them should be fine on their own.
'Mistress, Bigblue and Lily say that they can handle things here. We need to go if we want to prevent the vile humans from completing their plans.'
I looked back at Bigblue and Lily, who are now systematically destroying their opposition with practiced ease. The two of them work great together and I sent them out for double battles many times because of it.
I need to have faith in my team. They will be fine. They are strong enough to fight the battles on their own. I had trained them to be capable of doing so.
"Over here! Quick!"
Scott gestured for us to enter through a side door that he had opened with a special access card he has on his person and we all enter it before Scott sealed it shut again. The four of us ran towards the heart of the Battle Factory, where the unmistakable sounds of battles can be heard.
I immediately called out Flamel and Hulk the moment I saw what is happening.
"Flamel! Flare Bitz! Hulk! Body Slam!"
My two pokemons charged through the mass of aquas and magmas who had somehow found their way in from another entrance, giving the trainers trapped in the Battle Factory some breathing space.
"Frosty, Blizzard!"
Frosty froze a group of these terrorists in ice as he joined in the fray the moment Dad released him for battle. Scott went up to one of the trainers who is also employed by the Battle Frontier.
"What happened here? And where's Noland?!"
"He is at the main room trying to prevent the magmas and aquas from stealing the pokemons away! We got separated and trapped here. We do not have enough firepower to help him until you guys came!"
I looked around the room. The space is big enough for pokemons of Hulk's size to fight, but it is also small enough to use a huge AOE attack to its greatest effect. It should be easy enough for Hulk to box everyone in.
"Hulk, Flamel, Furnace combo!"
Hulk immediately raised walls of stones with Stone Edge and box the combined group of magmas and aquas in it. They have nowhere to run. All I need to do now is to give the order.
Flamel gave me an encouraging whinny. We can do this.
I am no longer the helpless girl back at Lilycove who can do nothing but sit by and watch as innocent people and pokemon die around me in a senseless slaughter. I am a lot stronger now. My team is a lot stronger now. We can make a difference.
Even if it is done by staining our hands in blood.
"Flamel, do it."
Flamel heeded my words with a loud cry and unleashed a massive Overheat into the huge box of stone, burning the trapped occupants alive. This is why I named it the Furnace combo. It works in almost the same way a furnace does.
It is a brutal combo to use, but a necessary one that I had invented in case we ever need it.
I can feel Dad giving me a supporting squeeze on my shoulder with his hand. I don't know what Mum thinks about this, but this isn't the time to debate about ethics and morals.
"The lot of you should head for the harbour." Dad said to the group of trainers that we had just saved. "Your pokemons are too worn out and tired to be of much help here. We alone are strong enough to help Noland."
"Just listen to his advice." Scott added when one of the trainers was on the verge of protesting. "Your pokemons are obviously not in a condition to continue battling for any longer."
My mind was still a blur when we finally moved to continue our search for Noland. The interior of the Battle Factory is spacious enough, so I rode on Flamel's back with Mum sitting behind me. I had also released Fuzzy and Kel who are now running alongside us.
'This way.'
We followed Rena's lead as she blasted a door down with a Signal Beam. Hulk immediately charged in and knocked every enemy in sight away with his arms. Rena, Kel, and Fuzzy provided ranged support as we let Hulk rampage, his species is a scary opponent to face in battle if trained right. Especially so in close combat.
"Noland! Are you there?!"
"Scott? Over here!"
Noland waved us over as his mawile stood by his side protectively. My pokemons joined in as we went to regroup with Noland. Noland is typing furiously in front of a huge computer-like thing.
"It's no use! I cannot send the pokemons here out! Someone just brought down our entire network! How?!"
"Why don't we just use the pokemons here to help us instead?" I asked curiously. Having a small army of pokemons on our side will be a great help, so why aren't they doing it?
"If we had more time, we could do it. Due to the nature of the Battle Factory challenge, these pokemons are trained by me to take orders from anyone. That includes those bastards if they get their hands on them. I haven't gotten to training them to differentiate between a good human and a bad human and who not to take orders from. I could do it if I have another month or so but we don't have the time. Right now, I don't want to take the risk of the magmas and aquas scums somehow turning our pokemons against us if we use them to battle. These assholes are after the pokemons here, we need to protect them."
I looked at the large number of pokeballs around us. So that's why Noland is in such a pinch. It is a wonder that he managed to hold out for such a long time by himself while defending the pokemons here from the magmas and aquas.
Jarvis, you need to hurry.
The whole of Battle Frontier is counting on you.
[Running through databases 104 through 218… Analysing… All clear]
[Running through databases 219 through 315… Detecting errors… Fixing bugs… Checking for other issues… All clear]
[Running through databases 316 through 452… Source of problem found… Initiating combat plan #156… Analysing foreign entity…]
Jarvis zipped through the virtual network as he finally found the source of the problem that brought down the whole telecommunication network in the Battle Frontier. Vel had given him an order to fix it as soon as possible and that is what he will do.
[Downloading data to combat foreign entity… Unknown entity #1 escaping… Using Agility to prevent escape… Analysing unknown entity #1 escape pattern… Solution derived: Lock-On]
Jarvis used a Lock-On to fix his aim onto the foreign entity that is also able to enter the cyberspace like him. He doesn't have actual confirmation yet, but he has a feeling that he knows just what he is facing.
[Initiating combat plan #156… Nasty Cannon: Fire]
Jarvis used a Nasty Plot to increase his offensive power before shooting a massive Zap Cannon at the foreign entity. There is a huge distance between him and the foreign entity in the cyberspace, but such distances between them is meaningless the moment he used a Lock-On.
His Zap Cannon will find its target.
Like he had calculated, Jarvis's Zap Cannon found its mark onto the foreign entity. With that, the telecommunications in the Battle Frontier should be up and working again. Upon getting a closer look, Jarvis realised that his hunch was correct.
Someone had found another of his kind and had used it to hack the Battle Frontier's network.
Jarvis used one of his arms and touched the unconscious porygon 2.
[Running diagnostics… Virus found in porygon 2… Installing antivirus programmes into porygon 2… Wiping out all traces of foreign data… Error… Recall earlier action… Download data from porygon 2… Team Magma and Team Aqua Operation Clean Strike… Need to send acquired information back to Vel… Analysing possible actions Vel will want me to take after knowing acquired information… Probability of her commanding me to send it to Thirteen Pillars is at 95.26%... Analysing best candidate to send to… First option: Steven Stone, Second Option: Wallace, Third option: Winona, Fourth option: Norman… Sending to Steven Stone… Sent…]
Jarvis began to run his diagnostics as he began to send the newly acquired information about Team Aqua and Team Magma he had retrieved from the unconscious porygon 2 to the aforementioned trainers. Steven Stone is the best possible candidate since his location should be nearer to the Battle Frontier geographically, followed by Wallace, Winona, and then Norman. These four supposedly have enough experience in handling a situation as chaotic as this. They will know what to do.
Oh wait, there's Juan too. Sootopolis is nearby, Jarvis will need to send it to him as well.
Actually, that is a foolish idea. Why not just send it to everyone in the Thirteen Pillars? Vel had always said the more the merrier.
[Erasing all data from porygon 2… Copying and installing new software… converting porygon 2… New Loyalty: The Battle Frontier…]
Using his more advanced and sophisticated technological skills available to him instead of porygon 2 thanks to his evolution, Jarvis reprogrammed porygon 2 and changed its loyalty to the Battle Frontier. Their kind were created to help mankind, not to destroy it.
Jarvis felt a foreign feeling swelling through him. Are these emotions? Is this how being able to feel emotions felt like?
If he has to put a word to the feeling that he is experiencing, it would be anger.
He will not allow his kind to be misused.
He is a porygon-z, a species of pokemon invented to help mankind maintain the delicate balance between humans and pokemon and to help explore unchartered territories.
He will make Team Magma and Team Aqua pay for doing the unspeakable to one of his kind. They had forcefully installed a virus into porygon 2 and forced it to do their bidding. This is unacceptable.
[Initiating order #2 from Vel… find the reason behind the inability to Teleport outside the Battle Frontier…]
The reprogrammed porygon 2 had regained consciousness by now after Jarvis gave him a reboot. The porygon 2 used a Recover to heal itself and began to silently aid Jarvis finding the cause that had hamper psychics' ability to Teleport outside the island that they are currently at.
[Source found… Checking coordinates… Located outside Battle Frontier… Unable to take it down from the inside… Need external help…]
With porygon 2's help, Jarvis had managed to find the cause in a much shorter amount of time than expected. Still, the fact that no one can do anything from within the Battle Frontier to help psychics regain their ability to Teleport outside the island is a cause for concern.
What will Vel do?
[Analysing possible actions Vel will take… Probability that she will ask for external help since telecommunications are now available is at 80.31%… Best candidate to solve this issue… Analysing Vel's known acquaintances and their respective specialty… Tate and Liza…]
Jarvis wasted no time in sending the twins a message. The twins will do. They have a deep understanding of what can aid and hamper psychic type techniques. With their psychic pokemons, the gym leaders can come over and help the Battle Frontier immediately.
Vel wants to help protect the world, the same mission and the reason he is created for. He will help her every step of the way.
[Analysing best possible spots for external help to Teleport to… 27 locations found… Strike off 9 locations due to collateral damage… 18 locations left… Sending message for help to Hoenn League… Hacking into League's database so that it is easier to broadcast message…Access denied… Finding alternative ways to login to Hoenn League's network… Use ID of Lucas Foster… Password: LFluvHoenn666!... Access granted…Sending message to all seventeen companies of Hoenn ACE…]
Porygon 2 blinked a reply to Jarvis. Someone had responded to his plea for help.
[Message received… Drake: Elite Four member… Glacia: Elite Four member… Sidney: Elite Four member… Phoebe: Elite Four member… Status: Teleporting to Battle Frontier… Estimated time of arrival: 60 seconds at the maximum… Finding best possible spots for Hoenn Elite Four to Teleport to… Sending coordinates of best possible locations based on current known data…]
The power of the Hoenn Elite Four should be enough for now until more help arrives. And OH! Steven had replied too! So did the twins! And many others that he didn't even know existed! Did he just accidentally mass send a plea for help to the entire Hoenn?
Oooops.
If Vel asked, errors do happen sometimes, even for an A.I. as sophisticated as him. He must have tapped into the wrong virtual network by accident.
Wait a minute. It's the porygon 2! The porygon 2 had decided on its own that the best course of action is to get the WHOLE of Hoenn involved!
See? It's not his fault now. Of course, it has to be the porygon 2, why will he make such an amateur mistake like tapping into the wrong network? He is a porygon-z. Porygon-Zs will never make such a rookie mistake, that is for newly created porygons.
In any case, someone among the many who responded should know how to enable psychics to Teleport in and out of the Battle Frontier once again.
What else can he do here before he exits the cyberspace with his fellow porygon?
[Tracking entry route of Team Magma and Team Aqua… Analysing invasion route… Backtrack the possible ways they could have possibly used to come here… 458 possible outcomes found… Narrowing search results…]
Vel will not only want to win this battle, she will want to win this war to put down the villains for good. In that case, Jarvis will use his ability to find the den where Team Magma and Team Aqua had made their homes in.
It's time to get rid of the cancerous tumour in Hoenn.
With style.
AN: This feels like a good place to stop for this chapter. I had wanted to write a big battle in, but I guess that can wait for the later chapters.
On a side note, in the previous chapter, I had written that Ness had took out the mismagius with Drill Run, which should be impossible for her since the only ability mismagius have is Levitate. I had changed it to Shadow Claw. One of you had also kindly pointed out that I haven't updated Chewy's status from a zweilous to a hydreigon, so I did that too. The content doesn't change, but I thought that I should let you guys know.
Hope you guys enjoy this chapter.
Character and pokemon list:
Velda Vera, Age: 13, Female, Pokemon Trainer, Runner-up in the 528th Ever Grande Conference
Pokemon on hand:
1) Rapidash (Flamel), male
2) Swampert (Bigblue), male
3) Banette (Dolly), female
4) Flygon (Snap), male
5) Absol (Kelsa), female
6) Charizard (Toothless), male
7) Cradily (Lily), female
8) Espeon (Rena), female
9) Pachirisu (Fuzzy), male
10) Tyranitar (Kratos), male
11) Cleffa (Joy), female
12) Nidoqueen (Ness), female
13) Pangoro (Hulk), male
14) Porygon-Z (Jarvis), genderless
15) Scizor (Archer), male
16) Lapras (Chill), female
Griff Vera, Age: 42, Male, Owner of Vera Pokemon Breeding Farm, Husband to Hanna Vera (formerly Springfield), Father to Vance and Velda Vera
Pokemon on hand:
1) Mightyena (Fang), male
2) Tropius, male
3) Hydreigon (Chewy), male
4) Glalie (Frosty), male
5) ? (Torch), male
5) Ninjask (deceased)
6) Ludicolo (deceased)
7) Zangoose (deceased)
8) Ursaring (deceased)