Chapter 2
Behind one of the buildings in the village, a small wolf pokemon Poochyena was in a cardboard box and was trying to put out a fire that was lit onto it. Luckily for the little pup, someone came and helped put it out by patting on the fire. It was Keith as he picked up the Poochyena and carried him away.
It was some time after Ash and the others came to the village’s aid, helping the innocent bystanders, whether they were lost, trapped or injured. The village was almost in ruins as several buildings were burnt down; luckily for the injured, the hospital and the pokemon centre were still standing.
Apart from Black Jack who was resting with his back on the wall of one of the burnt houses, looked on as his associates were nursing the injured and calming the terrified. “Hey Black Jack,” Keith’s voice said, catching his attention. “Everyone’s safe now. I think this Poochyena’s the last one.”
Black Jack let out a small uncaring grunt still observing the chaos around the scenery. He thought up one particular suspect that would cause all this damage for their own personal gain. “Snappy!” a woman’s voice cried, catching their attention.
A woman in her twenties, wearing some casual clothing ran up to them and the Poochyena immediately recognised her and leapt from Keith’s arms onto hers. They both hugged lovingly as though they were mother and child.
She turned her attention towards them. “Thank you,” she sobbed. “I’ve been so worried. I don’t know how to repay you.”
“Er… no need, ma’am,” Keith said. “I’ve found it in a cardboard box. I guess it was playing there before the fire started.”
“We were taking a stroll in the streets until those villains came and frightened us,” the woman said. “Snappy got frightened and ran away.”
“Villains, eh? What did they look like?” Black Jack asked, still picturing the same villains he was suspecting.
“They were wearing some sort of red and black uniform, each one had a hood over their heads.”
“Keith,” Black Jack said to his student. “Sound familiar to you?”
“Maybe,” Keith replied turning to towards his mentor with his eyes narrowed and his finger placed his lips as though he was thinking. “Sounds like an old criminal organisation that were taken out five years ago, Team Magma…”
“You’re saying that they’re back together?”
“Most unlikely, there’s this other team that Team Ocean had been fighting against for a long time but it was a long time after the last time they fought. This team is opposite of Team Ocean, an altered version of Team Magma… Team Molten.”
“So Team Molten were the ones who set fire to this town,” the woman said. “Do you think they’ll be back?”
Black Jack showed an evil smirk on his face. “Put it this way,” he said. “I break necks for a hobby.”
The woman trembled with fear after hearing the evilness of his voice. “Don’t worry about him,” Keith said showing an arrogant smirk of his own. “He’s always in for a fight.”
“By the way,” the woman said. “I never heard of those Team Organisations. How do you?”
“I just know those things,” Keith said simply.
While they spoke, Black Jack walked away from them. After walking a small distance, he sensed a presence not far from his location, a familiar presence. He turned around and looked mountain close by. His eyes narrowed as he continued glaring at the same part of the mountain for a long minute until Tyranitar walked up to him, also looking at the same part of the mountain. He too also sensed a familiar presence nearby. “(Black Jack),” he growled to his friend.
“I know,” Black Jack replied still in his quiet state. “Now’s not the time or the place… unless he says it is.” With that said, he and the green dinosaur walked to the Pokemon Centre.
At the Pokemon Centre, Salamence was standing outside the badly damaged building after helping the injured Dragonair get there. He observed the chaos around him while thinking about the blue dragon and how they had a feeling that they’ve met somewhere before.
“(Hey lover boy),” Feraligatr growled jokingly, catching his attention. “(Still thinking about that cute Dragonair)?”
Salamence turned towards his blue crocodile and poison pin friends. “(For your information, I’m not a lover boy),” he growled. “(I’m just trying to remember where I have met this gal).”
“(Was it a long time ago that you met her)?” Nidoking growled.
“(Maybe… right now, she’s being checked on. I’d like to keep watch on her but I’m a little too big for those rooms).”
“(Keep watch, huh? Another exhibit of evidence that you like her),” Feraligatr growled trying to sound smart while Nidoking let out a small giggle.
Salamence became annoyed by his comment. “(Will you two shut up already)!?” he growled. “(I’m off to help the injured).”
“(Everyone’s safe but okay),” Feraligatr growled loudly as they saw the blue winged dragon walk away.
“(Salamence and Dragonair sittin’ in a tree),” Nidoking sneered jokingly.
Salamence heard that, he cringed and shut his eyes tightly in an angry fashion thinking up numerous swear words.
Inside the Pokemon Centre, the Dragonair was in an operating room where she was contained inside a glass box. She was connected to a number of wires connected to a machine that was being controlled by a nurse. She was lucky to get help, there was so much damage outside and within the building that medical treatment was limited.
Despite that she was intimidated as she backed herself away from the nurse despite that she assured her that no one would hurt her. Alice was outside room in the corridor where she looked at the bewildered dragon through a window with concern in her eyes. “Time out, Alice,” his friend’s voice said catching her attention.
Alice turned towards him and saw that it was Ash calling to her. As usual, Pikachu was holding on to his head. He was holding two plastic bottles of mineral water, handing one over to her and she politely accepted his offer.
“So,” Ash said as he turned towards the Dragonair. “How is she doing?”
“She’s so nervous after taking this rough beating,” Alice replied with concern in her voice. “I think she may trust me and Salamence but I don’t think she’s not going to listen to others.”
“I’ve been in this situation before. There are pokemon out there that are being mistreated and villages being torn by people like those guys that did this. What ticks me off is that I can’t be there for everyone.” There was a hint of sadness in his voice. Pikachu cooed in response.
“I guess that’s the reality of things,” Alice said. “Uncle Jack taught me that.”
He let out a small sigh and silence followed as they continued looking at the Dragonair with concern. “Hey, Alice,” Ash said. “I asked a couple of people around here about who was burning the village. They said that they had red and black clothing with hoods over their heads. Does that mean anything?”
“Not really,” Alice said while thinking. “Before you said something like that I thought it was Team Ocean.”
“Team Ocean? Who are they?”
“In Uncle Jack’s words, they are a rip-off version of Team Aqua, a group that you and the other guys help disband years ago. Remember?”
“Boy, do I?”
-Flashback-
It was a few years ago, somewhere in the Kanto region, when Ash, Pikachu, May, Brock and Max were running though a forest with Ash carrying a green crystal orb. Alongside them was Ash’s old friend, Brendan Birch. They met for the very first time in the Hoenn League championship and had a valiant and epic tournament match with Ash winning it.
Ash was wearing a pair of blue baggy trousers, black fingerless training gloves, a cap and a black t-shirt underneath his sleeveless sweater. Brendan had silver hair with a black bandanna around his forehead, a red and black jacket and trousers and trainers. May was wearing her red jacket, white miniskirt over her tight black shorts and trainers. Max was wearing a pair of brown baggy shorts, green t-shirt and a pair of glasses. Brock was wearing a large brown jacket and grey baggy trousers.
This was the time when they found out from a television shop that a criminal organisation known as Team Aqua, whose goal was to increase the depths of the waters, found a blue crystal orb and Team Magma, whose ambition was to increase the mass of the lands, found a red orb and they were now searching for the legendary pokemon to control. Both orbs were from unknown places as far as Ash and his friends were concerned. The green orb was given to Ash from Brendan after he received it from a total stranger because of his knowledge to these legendaries and that he was told about the actions of both organisations.
Each crystal orb had the power to allow the user control three legendary pokemon. The blue orb had the power to control Kyogre, the legendary pokemon of the sea. The red orb contained the power to control Groudon, the legendary pokemon of the earth. And Rayquaza, the legendary pokemon the sky, can be controlled by the green orb.
Ash already knew about the red and blue orbs since he had dealt with Aqua and Magma involving those legendary pokemon before when both teams were attempting to control Groudon and Kyogre but to no avail because they were using the wrong orbs. This time they found the right way of controlling them.
They continued to run until they came across a beach where they saw an old tower nearby. “That’s the Sky Pillar! Where Rayquaza sleeps on the roof!” Brendan said.
“C’mon!” Ash yelled with determination in his voice as he and his friends ran towards their location. Upon entry, they noticed that there were a number of floors before they would reach Rayquaza.
They climb to the top was tiring and dangerous as some parts of the floors had large and small cracks that threatened they would break into a hole when stepped on. After their arduous climb, they spotted an enormous green snake-like dragon who sleeping peacefully. This creature was the legendary dragon…
“Rayquaza…” Ash whispered with enthusiasm in his voice as he began walking slowly to it.
“Ash, wait a minute,” Brendan warned. Before he could say another word the green started glowing vigorously, much to the astonishment of Ash and his friends.
Rayquaza’s eyes slowly opened. At first sight, he saw Ash holding the glowing orb and saw intimidation in his eyes. “[Do not fear me],” sent a calm voice.
“What the…?” Ash asked in astonishment as he looked at the dragon. “You’re talking… to me?”
“[Yes],” it replied as it raised its head. “[You came because of the upcoming dangers from Kyogre and Groudon].”
Ash nodded in response. “But it’s not their fault,” he said. “Some bad guys I know are trying to take control of them.”
“[We must act quickly],” Rayquaza sent as it lowered its head to the rooftop so that Ash can get on its head.
“Ash,” May said running up to him. He turned around to see her. “If you’re gonna do this, I’m coming with you.”
His other friends followed her, saying that they would be coming as well. He smiled at the fact that he’s got some great friends. “I never said you can’t come,” he said with Pikachu letting out a loud squeak of happiness.
Suddenly, the glowing orb began to sink into Ash’s hand, much to everyone’s surprise. “It’s happening again,” Max said. “Just like last time with Pikachu and Archie.”
After the orb completely sunk inside his hand, his arms and face were showing some strange green pattern. Ash looked at them with awe.
“Ash,” May said with concern in her voice. “How are you feeling?”
“Nothing,” Ash said. “It was kinda scary at first because of what happened to them when they were using those red and blue orbs.”
“[There is not much time],” Rayquaza sent calmly. “[I sense strong dangers that are about to occur in this world].”
Everyone’s attention was caught as they quickly hopped onto the back of the legendary dragon and it flew off into the sky at a high speed. So fast that Ash and his friends had to hold on tight to it.
It didn’t take them long to get to their destination where a giant sea creature known as Kyogre was battling an enormous red and black dinosaur Groudon in the sea close to an island. The weather kept on changing after each second between the extremely bright sunshine with a high temperature and heavy raining.
Controlling Kyogre was a man named Archie, leader of Team Aqua. He was dressed in dark blue clothing and had bandanna around his forehead. He also had a glowing blue pattern around his body and his eyes glowing blue with a maniacal look on his face. He was standing on top of a gigantic submarine, where his crew members stood behind him to observe the battle.
Controlling Groudon was another man, whose name was Maxie, leader of Team Magma, dressed in a long red and black jacket, black shoes and trousers with red neck length hair. He too had a pattern around his body but coloured red while his eyes energetically glowed the same colour as his pattern; he also had the same look his opponent had. He was standing on a red submarine where his comrades were also watching the scene.
“There they are!” Max yelled as he pointed at the two teams and the battling pokemon.
Ash sensed that, unlike himself, Archie and Maxie were being controlled by the orbs. Despite that, he had no time to think. “Let’s take ‘em!” Ash yelled.
Rayquaza let out a huge roar catching everyone’s attention. They looked into its attention and soon noticed that both the bright sunshine and the heavy raining began to move away. The weather soon became a sunny day white clouds hovering in the blue sky.
“Rayquaza…” Both Maxie and Archie growled in unison. They both looked at each other and nodded, as though they were agreeing on a particular subject.
“Kyogre! Attack that Rayquaza!” Archie yelled as he pointed at the legendary dragon.
“Groudon! You too!” Maxie yelled.
Kyogre shot a blue beam out of its mouth towards Rayquaza while Groudon shot out a powerful lick of flame at the same target.
Rayquaza quickly shot out a powerful energy beam from its mouth colliding its attack with theirs causing a huge explosion on contact. Everyone covered their eyes to protect themselves from the blinding light and dust of the explosion.
Ash felt a slight drain of energy coming away from him after Rayquaza’s attack but he and his friends were too distracted from the explosion to notice that.
After the explosion cleared, everyone looked back towards the battle scene. Archie and Maxie wasted no time commanding their legendary creatures to attack Rayquaza. They blasted out their attacks numerous times while the legendary dragon dodged each one while fighting back.
Ash’s friends noticed that something was wrong with him when he wasn’t holding onto Rayquaza tightly enough as he was about slip off. “Ash! What’s wrong?” May cried out of concern.
“Don’t worry about me!” Ash yelled after shaking away his dizziness.
“Guys! I forgot to you something!” Brendan yelled. “Every time Rayquaza attacks, the energy will be drained from the user of the green orb!”
“You didn’t tell us earlier!?” May yelled angrily.
“Sorry!” Brendan yelled nervously.
“C’mon! We got think of something to help Ash out!” Brock yelled.
“I got an idea!” Brendan yelled as he took a pokeball of his belt. “I’ll use Swarmpert to distract one of the teams! I’ll get him to punch a hole in one of those submarines!”
Max’s eyes widened with shock. “Brendan!” he shouted “That’s stupid, crazy and… it might just work!”
“Swarmpert!” Brendan yelled as he tossed out his pokeball. “Use your Mega Punch attack! Slam a hole inside one of the submarines!”
A blue mudfish like pokemon materialised after being released from his pokeball. He looked down on the blue submarine and quickly dived down spinning like a drill, aiming his punch to it.
“These guys are crazy!” yelled one of the Team Aqua grunts in fright as he looked up towards the Swarmpert. Everyone also looked up and became frightened of what would occur to the ship.
“Abandon ship! I mean submarine!” another one yelled as they jumped off the submarine apart from Archie who was still standing on it, still focused on Rayquaza.
Brock, noticing how effective the plan was, quickly took a pokeball off his pokeball belt and tossed it out. “Forretress! Rapid Spin and Explosion!” he yelled tossing out his pokeball.
A dual steel and bug type pokemon materialised after being released from the ball and begun to spin around while aiming towards the red submarine where Team Magma were standing. They heard a whistling noise and looked up to see Forretress diving down towards them while glowing vigorously.
“Two of them! Abandon ship!” one of the Magma grunts yelled as he jumped off the vehicle. He saw Swarmpert attacking the blue submarine earlier.
Everyone also looked up and reacted quickly as they also jumped off the submarine except Maxie who was still under the orb’s control.
Soon, Swarmpert and Forretress crashed into their targeted ships, smashing a hole inside them. Both ships exploded, forcefully sending both leaders of their respective teams flying into the sea distracting both Kyogre and Groudon, the pokemon they were both controlling.
“We got them now, guys!” Max yelled.
“Go for it, Rayquaza!” Ash yelled. “Give them your best shot!”
Taking advantage of the distraction, the sky dragon quickly powered up his Hyper Beam attack and fired the gigantic energy beam out of its mouth. Kyogre and Groudon turned around and the beam collided unto them, causing an explosion upon impact. Everyone closed their eyes to protect them from the light and dust of the explosion.
After the explosion cleared, everyone opened their eyes and saw Groudon and Kyogre floating motionlessly on the sea surface. “Yes! Ash! We did it!” Ash’s friends yelled.
But Ash, out of exhaustion, lost his grip of Rayquaza’s back and fell a great height, much to everyone’s shock. His friends looked down and saw Ash splashed into the sea. Sensing the danger, Rayquaza quickly dived down to save him.
Soon, many people and pokemon were on the island after the battle between Kyogre, Groudon and Rayquaza. On one side of the island, Ash was lying unconsciously on the ground while his friends tried to wake him up. Ash was not longer had green patterns on his body but Brendan was holding the orb.
Ash slowly opened his eyes and saw his friends around. “Hi guys,” he said weakly. “Did we win?”
“Heck yeah!” Brendan said. “Kyogre and Groudon got beat. Rayquaza’s checking up on them. My Swarmpert and Brock’s Forretress are safe, back inside their pokeballs.”
“What about Team Aqua and Magma? Did they make out okay?” Ash asked. Despite that he hated the evilness of those team, Ash was a compassionate side of him.
“Yeah,” Max said in a down tone. “And they’re coming this way.”
Everyone looked at Max’s direction and saw both teams coming their way. “Hey! Where’s our boss!” One of the Team Aqua members yelled demandingly.
Many of the members from both team started complaining about the whereabouts of their leaders. One of them soon noticed that their leaders were now on the island shore. “Guys! Our leaders are here!” he shouted.
The two leaders were also unconsciously lying on the shore and they had the orbs lying next to them. Their teams ran over to them and tried to wake them up. Maxie and Archie slowly opened their eyes and were shocked that Kyogre and Groudon were no longer there.
“It’s those kids’ fault!” Archie snarled turning towards the children and picking up his blue orb. “Why can’t you see that we need more water?! We are doing this for the good of the world.”
“Hey! Don’t you know why we had stop you!” May yelled. Ash wanted to stand up but he was weak of his drained energy during the battle. “If you did something like that, you’d kill us all! There would be no land to live on!”
“Correct,” Maxie said confidently. “That is why we, Team Magma, are intending to increase to mass of the lands.”
“What? And have no water around?” Brendan yelled. “How are we suppose to drink? Where will the water pokemon live if you take their water away? Tell us!”
Both Maxie and Archie showed angry eyes, struggling to answer their questions. “The sea kills all!” Maxie yelled as he held his orb into the sky.
“You imbeciles!” Archie yelled angrily. “With the help of Kyogre! We’ll increase the depths of the sea and kill those who intrude!
Suddenly, three different roars were heard simultaneously catching everyone’s attention. It was Rayquaza, Kyogre and Groudon staring down at the two maniacal leaders. “Er... the pokemon are thinking otherwise, pals,” Brendan said with a small smirk.
“Obey me and attack!” Archie yelled but Kyogre let out a loud roar in response.
“I don’t think so,” Brendan said. “You guys have used up all of the power of the orbs. Without them, they’re useless. You should wait for them to recharge for, say... a long time.”
“Useless!” Archie yelled out of anger and frustration while throwing away the blue orb towards the children, as did Maxie. Max and Brock quickly picked them up.
Both leaders and the rest of their teams became intimidated at that news and backed away from the pokemon. “We must escape!” Maxie yelled.
“I don’t think so,” Brock said. “Did you guys forget that you’re submarines are smashed?”
They then heard a siren coming from afar, much to both teams’ dismay while Rayquaza quickly flew towards the children, signalling them to get on his back. Members of Team Aqua and Magma begged to be rescued but the legendary pokemon refused to let them leave the island, letting out their loud roars before leaving the scene.
Sometime after getting back to the shore of the Kanto region where no one would find them. Kyogre and Groudon were first to leave the scene as they travelled back to their resting places while Rayquaza stayed afloat. The green orb Brendan was carrying began glowing again, much to everyone’s surprise.“[The balance of nature has been restored],” Rayquaza sent. “[The world couldn’t have been in better hands].”
With that sent, the orb stopped glowing and Rayquaza flew away until he was out of sight. “Hey Brendan,” Ash said. “How come I was able to control myself after the green orb got inside me?”
“I haven’t studied on that part yet,” Brendan said.
“Well, you did save the world more than once, Ash,” Brock said knowingly. “Maybe you have a knack for doing that.”
Ash and his friends looked down on the orbs, wondering they should do. They decided to throw them away but in different parts of the sea so that no one corrupted would stand a chance of finding them.
Soon afterwards, Brendan parted ways from his friends knowing that they would meet again.
-End flashback-
“I can’t take all the credit for that. I’m not the guy who did all the work,” Ash said. “I had Max and the other guys with me.”
“Why is it that things like these happen to us?” Alice asked out of curiosity.
“I don’t know,” Ash replied with a shrug. “I guess things like these happen.”
Suddenly, they heard someone barging into the corridor, falling to the floor in the process and turned their attention to see Jerry lying, face first, on the floor. He was holding a newspaper. “Something wrong Jerry?” Alice asked.
“Ash!” Jerry said sounding desperate as he quickly got up on his feet. “It’s Misty! She’s… she’s gone missing!”
“What!?” Ash yelled in shock, as did Pikachu but in his own language. Ash quickly snatched the newspaper from Jerry and read the front page, immediately reading the headline ‘Water Pokemon Trainer Netted’. He continued reading the news that Misty was missing after a number of trainers found the Cerulean gym empty with a number of damages to the walls and floors and missing pokemon. The gym and her sisters were placed under high security by the police until further notice.
Ash’s hands shook with anger after he finished reading the news. “When I find out who did this, I’m gonna rip them apart!” he snarled.
“Pikachu,” Pikachu growled, also angry at the criminals.
“I do have one suspect in mind,” said Black Jack as he entered the corridor catching their attention.
“Who is it?” Ash said demandingly.
“Team Ocean.”
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