Ch. 102: The City of Hot Springs pt.2

 

In the middle of a large hotel room the group sits around with Vera laying on the ground stretched out and the others sitting around a table.

            "So then what exactly is going on?" Jaden asks curiously.

            "Well then where should we begin?" Celes asks curiously. "Even I don't really know where this actually began."

            "If you don't know then how am I supposed to know?"

The group sits around pondering before Vera sits up looking on them curiously.

            "Why don't we draw straws or something to decide who goes first?" Vera asks curiously before she digs into her bag.

The group looks on surprised at the suggestion before Vera pulls out a set of straws and a few markers.

            "Okay then if we don't have any other suggestion." Celes says seriously grabbing a straw and a marker.

The group soon follows suit as they pick the straws and color the ends before handing the straws back to Vera, before she puts them in a cup.

            "Okay then everyone has a color and when I pull your straw out you'll speak." Vera says explaining things. "Okay then let's go."

Vera pulls a straw out of the cup pulling out a straw with a red end.

            "So who had red?"

            "That was mine." Liam says seriously. "So I'll start."

The group moves around with Liam sitting at the front of the table and the others sitting around staring at him.

            "So then, I was originally a junior scientist and research assistant at one of the hidden labs run by the Signus Corporation." Liam says explaining things. "Me and my mentor Pr. Hojo were researching the bonds between people and Pokémon while trying to find a way to strengthen the power of Pokémon, our research was going along well until a new director came and changed the direction of a majority of the research and while the Professor opposed her he eventually died in a lab accident."

Liam looks down stunned holding back his emotions with the group looking on seriously.

            "Okay we'll come back to Liam, so let's let someone else go on." Vera says holding up the cup.

Vera pulls out a straw pulling a straw with a blue end.

            "Who had blue?"

            "That was mine." Aire says nervously.

After a second the Aire and Liam switch places with Aire looking on the group nervously.

            "So then, I am a member of the Aura Knights the defenders of the Aevum Region." Aire says nervously. "I had decided to leave the group to go on a journey to become stronger, but along my journey I found a group of people who we're doing something to some meteorites and had something, something incredibly powerful."

            "Something powerful?" Celes asks curiously.

            "I don't know what it was, but it was incredibly powerful and I barely got away from the thing."

            "I think I might know the people who you're both talking about." Celes says seriously. "I'd like to go next."

            "Well only if your color get's pulled." Vera says seriously.

Vera pulls out a straw with a green colored end.

            "Who had green?"

            "That was mine." Jaden says seriously.

            "Wait, why are you going?" Celes asks annoyed.

            "Well I figured if everyone else was going I might as well go." Jaden says happily. "Besides I might have something to say."

Jaden and Aire switch places with Jaden looking on the group happily.

            "So then where should I start." Jaden says thinking about things. "So then I'm on a journey to win the Pokémon League, but along the way I noticed something odd about the Region."

            "Something odd?" Aire asks curiously.

            "Yeah, there's an odd feel about the Region and one of the Gym Leaders mentioned that an odd energy flows through the Region every so often and now a days it feels stronger than ever."

            "Is that all you have?" Celes asks curiously.

            "Yup."

The group moves around with Vera sitting around at the front of the table pulling out a straw with a green end.

            "Okay it's my color." Vera says excitedly.

            "Okay then go on, so then I can go." Celes says slightly annoyed.

            "Okay then, so I generally just traveled around until I found this weird stone that was super compelling."

            "I was there for that." Celes says slightly annoyed. "And you lost the thing right?"

            "Yeah it got stone from me by a thief that steals stones, but after that I was taken care of by Pr. Root but one day his lab was attacked by this group of people who were after these stones he had."

As Vera talks Celes looks on seriously.

            "We're they stones like the ones in your hair pin?"

            "Yeah, they were similar."

            "I'm going now!"

Celes moves to the front of the table looking onto the group seriously.

            "Okay everyone, I think everything that all of you have said is connected to a large conspiracy going on throughout the Region." Celes says seriously. "The thing that connects them all is the Signus Corporation!"

            "Signus Corporation?" Jaden asks curiously.

            "Their a corporation that pretty much controls the Region, they rebuilt everything after the war and took ownership of it because of that." Liam says explaining things.

            "Anyway, they control the Region via a monopoly and their beginning something that'll hurt everyone."

            "Does it happen to involve Xerneas and Yveltal?" Liam asks curiously.

            "Why?"

            "The reason I left the lab was to find the Professor's hidden laboratory and when I found it there was a message that said that Yveltal's energy is flowing throughout the region and causing damage to everything."

            "I don't know if it involves them, but I wouldn't doubt it." Celes says seriously. "Everything is connected to them and I'm part of the resistance trying to bring them down."

            "So what does that have to do with me?" Jaden asks curiously. "I'm just a simple trainer who wants to fight the Champion."

            "That's exactly why." Celes says seriously approaching Jaden. "The Champion of the Aevum Region Pokémon League, is the CEO of the Signus Corporation and the one responsible for everything, Gaius Signus."