Ch. 8: A Chance Meeting

 

Deep underground in a long dark tunnel Liam walks down the path holding onto the wall trying to find his way, with his Pokémon floating by his side.

            “Okay then, the only clues we have to the location to the professor’s private lab are that the only way to get to it is through the Gnome Tunnels and that odd key on Kairi.” Liam says explaining things to his Pokémon while wrapping his own head around things.

Suddenly he stops and his Pokémon float to his side curious about his sudden stop.

            “This is hopeless, we’ve been wandering around in this place for months and we have no clues what so ever.” Liam says panicking. “Well, let’s get moving we can’t just stick around here.” Liam says dejected with his Pokémon following behind him.

 

Suddenly the group finds their way to an odd clearing in the cave with the roof wide open and the night’s sky fully visible and a large garden in the center of the clearing.

            “Tres Bien.” A voice says on a cliff above Liam. “Looks like I’ve found myself into a strange new land.” The voice says amazed by the sight.

Liam cautiously starts attempting to find the source of the voice to find a girl suddenly a Floette to float down into his face causing him to grab it surprised by the sight.

            “Floe? Where’d you go? Are you hiding again?” The girl says looking around for the Pokémon.

            “What’d I do? I grabbed this Pokémon and now she’s looking for it, I just can’t get caught.” Liam says resolving himself.

Unbeknownst to him Klefki flees up to the girl and looks at her curiously.

            “Huh, a cute little Klefki.” The girl says looking at Klefki. “Have you seen my cute little Floe, she should be around here somewhere.” The girl says looking for Floette.

            “I have it right here.” Liam says stepping into the open, with Floette in his hands.

            “Ah, Floe.” The girl says looking at Floette.

She jumps down and walks up to Liam with Klefki following behind.

            “Ah, Floe there you are why’d you float away from me?” The girl asks the Floette who looks at her angered by the accusations.

            “Um, can I ask why you’re here?” Liam asks the girl curiously.

            “I don’t really know.” The girl says looking around the area. “Last thing I remember I was in the flower garden with Floe, but now I’m in this amazing place.” She says looking around the area.

            “Wait so you just wandered in here?” Liam asks curiously.

            “Yeah, I do that a lot; I wander around from place to place finding lovely places to visit.” The girl says happily. “In fact a while ago I found this odd building in the Gnome Tunnels, it looked like there was something interesting inside, but I couldn’t get in.” The girl says explaining things to Liam.

            “Wait, you found a building, did it look like a lab?” Liam asks curiously.

            “I guess it looked like a lab from the outside.” The girl says answering him.

            “Could you show me…” Liam starts asking before he’s cut off.

Suddenly a large Salamence flies down from above before unleashing a massive blast of energy destroying the area below.

            “What the?” Liam says at the sight before noticing an odd device on the Salamence’s forehead. “That device it’s similar to the one form that Onix.” Liam thinks to himself at the sight.

            “Ah, the garden.” The girl says at the sight of the destroyed garden. “I won’t let you destroy the garden.” The girl shouts out to the Salamence with Floette crying out alongside her.

            ‘Hey wait you can’t take on a Pokémon that strong with just a Floette.” Liam says trying to convince her.

            “Floe, Moon Blast.” The girl says to Floette ignoring Liam’s pleas.

Floette floats up and gathers energy before focusing it and blasting Salamence with it, but the attack seemingly has no effect.

            “She has no hope of fighting this thing; I have to get out of here.” Liam thinks to himself as he tries to run away. “But, I can’t leave her alone here, I just can’t abandon someone.” Liam says turning around looking intensely at Salamence. “Albert Thunderbolt.” Liam says to his Elgyem.

Elgyem unleashes a large burst of electricity at Salamence who barely feels the attack.

            “I see, this Salamence is incredibly tough we can’t fight it normally.” Liam says analyzing the situation.

            “Well it’s tough but we can take it.” The girl says seriously.

            “No we can’t but we can disable it.” Liam says to the girl. “Do you see that thing on its forehead, aim for that spot and it should stop attacking.” Liam says explaining things to the girl.

            “Okay then, Floe give us a marvelous Moon Blast.” The girl says to the Floette.

Floette gathers a large amount of energy before blasting Salamence but focuses the attack on the device on its forehead. The blast hits the device blowing it off causing Salamence to fall down exhausted from the attack.

            “That was amazing Floe.” The girl says to Floette.

            “That was an amazing sight, but now can you answer my questions?” Liam asks the girl before noticing she’s disappeared. “What the where’d she go?” Liam asks looking around for the girl unable to find him.

Liam continues to look around before giving up.

            “Oh, well I guess we have to keep looking, maybe I can find her again.” Liam says thinking about things. “Okay then let’s keep going.” Liam says to his Pokémon looking around.

 

A while later two people in black outfits arrive looking over the Salamence.

            “It looks like this one failed.” One of the figures says looking at Salamence.

            “The apparatuses won’t be of anymore use, we have to move up the enhancement project.” The other figure says picking up the destroyed device.

            “Okay then, I’ll inform command, but what should we do with this?” The figure asks looking closely at Salamence.

            “Bring it along; we always need new test subject.” The other figure says pulling out a Poke’ball. “Now then, let’s hurry this up and follow the target.” He says looking into the tunnels.