Ch. 19: Odd Duck

Inside the Gnome Tunnels Liam searches around pecking out of the various corners for anything is sight.

            “Okay the coast is clear.” Liam says signaling for his Pokémon.

The trio quickly follows behind him as they make their way into a large cavern with a nearby pool.

            “Okay everyone; let’s relax here for a while.” Liam says sitting down.

As he rest the Pokémon start to look around the cavern looking at various things. After a while Aerodactyl starts flying around the cavern looking at the caverns ceiling.

            “Aerios, what’s wrong with you?” Liam asks looking at Aerodactyl.

As Aerodactyl looks around it starts screaming out at something Liam can’t see.

            “Aerios, what’s wrong?” Liam asks again.

Suddenly a blast of water comes out and blast Aerodactyl knocking it down, and suddenly something jumps out of the pool and jumps towards Liam.

            “Aerios.” Liam yells out to Aerodactyl who wakes up and starts flying over to Liam yelling at the figure.

As water falls from the figure it’s revealed to be a Golduck with an odd device strapped to its back yelling out at Liam and his Pokémon. As it yells a pair of Ducklett flies down to its side and start yelling as well.

            “What’s with these Pokémon, they seem so hostile.” Liam says looking at the Pokémon.

Soon the Golduck charges at Liam only for Elgyem gets in the path and blasts it back with energy. While this happens Liam notices the device on Golduck’s back.

            “That device, it’s one of the Pokémon enhancement devices; it looks like a prototype though.” Liam says looking at the device. “You must’ve been one of the first test subjects.” Liam says thinking about things.

As Liam says this Golduck yells out and the Ducklett start to charge at Liam, but Aerodactyl gets in front of them and yells out scaring them and stopping them in their path.

            “Aerios, keep the Ducklett busy, Albert take down the Golduck.” Liam says commanding his Pokémon.

As he says this Aerodactyl stares down the Ducklett, while Elgyem floats around Golduck blasting it with green energy balls. Golduck in turn takes a defensive stance taking the blows, before it notices an opening and gathers a large ball of shadowy energy and blasting Elgyem with it.

            “Albert, Thunderbolt.” Liam says ordering Elgyem.

Elgyem then blasts Golduck with a large blast of electricity, frying it and knocking it out.

            “Now then to business.” Liam says walking up to Golduck.

A while later Golduck wakes up and notices Liam, jumping up and rushing towards him. Suddenly it’s lifted up before noticing Elgyem behind it.

            “Your awake, that’s good, I managed to get this off of you.” Liam says holding up the device. “And we were just going to destroy it.” Liam says looking at Klefki.

As Liam throws the device in the air Klefki gathers energy and blasts it destroying it before it falls to the ground.

            “Okay, hopefully you’ll stop attacking people passing by.” Liam says looking to Golduck as the Ducklett fly to its side.

A while later Liam and his Pokémon start leaving the cavern with Golduck and the Ducklett looking back at them.

            “Okay then, let’s get moving.” Liam says to his Pokémon. “Golduck must’ve been in the beta test, just what exactly going on at the lab.” Liam says thinking to himself concerned.

Meanwhile in the lab the red haired woman meets with the man in the odd outfits.

            “Miss, we’ve brought the orb.” The man says holding the woman the orb.

            “Thank you for your efforts, now we have a power source.” She says holding up the orb. “Inform the boss, we can move to the next stage of the research.” She says ordering the man.

            “Yes main, should be hire Ciggma again for this plan?” The man asks curiously.

            “Yes, the thief will be quite useful; we still have a few stones to acquire.” The woman says happily. “But the day is soon upon us.” She says staring at the orb happily.