Right, I'll be posting another chapter soon enough.
CHAPTER ELEVEN:
Debunked Detonations
Cloak, having sent the others on their way, dashed forward . . . briefly returning Axilimili to his PokeBall after Cloak remembered Quagsire were not all that fast to begin with. Cloak looked around as he dashed forward. He didn't know exactly what he was looking for, but the impression he got was that it was a large, roughly cylindrical device . . .
There!
It looked like one of those Gigaremo devices used by Dim Sun criminals in Almia, only with a counter atop it and colored the vilest shade of green. It read "3:30" Realm Walker script, which means that he had plenty of time to try and disarm the thing. Which was good, he realized as he sent Aximili back out, because he didn't know anything about disarming bombs.
"Quaaag?"
"You don't know anything about disarming bombs, either, huh?" Cloak said to the Quagsire, with a small, rueful smirk.
"Sire?"
"Ah, that's right," Cloak said, setting to work, "you have no idea what I'm talking about."
"Quagsire!"
"Don't get uppity, I'm just teasing."
Eventually Cloak got nowhere with his work, and got so frustrated he fired flames around the accursed thing. He blinked in surprise and shock at the effectiveness that this had.
"Quag sire sire Quag!"
"Oh, stop gloating," Cloak snapped, "you didn't know that was going to work any more than I did."
***
Gaz had gone batty, carrying the Pokeball in her feet. She didn't think she'd be able to, but it turned out to be lighter than she thought. So, she flapped relentlessly and resolutely to the location Cloak indicated. She set down for a minute, reverting to her human form, because she needed to rest a bit. She held the PokeBall up, and dropped it accidentally.
Daisy came out full of vim and vigor. Then she looked around, but did not see Cloak, and she worried that maybe she was abandoned. Then she saw Gaz with her PokeBall. She tried to impress Gaz with her strength and ability -- which amused Gaz to no end. Daisy was always bit of an attention-hog, so she ate this up. But then she looked off into the distance, suddenly concerned.
"What? What is it -- hey, hold up!" Gaz said as Daisy started sprinting towards the source of her disquiet. Daisy would look over her shoulder to see if Gaz was keeping up. She was. Then, before them, was a bloodred Gigaremo bomb.
"There it is," Gaz said, "but here's the important question, how do I destroy it?"
Daisy looked at Gaz for instruction, but Gaz still puzzled. She noticed that area seemed quite arid, and wondered about that aloud. Daisy took this as a signal, a subtle command, to spray the device with water.
"What? What are you doing?" Gaz said confused.
Daisy stopped, looking somewhat ashamed, as if she let down Gaz. But there was an angry puff of smoke and the thing fell apart.
"Well, that was convenient."
***
"I
can run, you know, Helen," Parker said, petulantly.
"This is faster, hon," Helen replied.
"Are you implying something?"
"Don't take it so personally!"
And they continued to happily bicker until they came upon the Gigaremo bomb, colored school bus yellow.
"It's kinda pretty," Helen commented.
"Pity it's purpose is sinister," Parker said, brusquely. Then he set to work disarming the thing, as Helen fawned over Katara the Poliwrath. Katara seemed to like the attention, but took it more stoically than Daisy. It took him an hour and a half, but he accomplished it, and saw the structures basically evaporate into nothingness.
"Hmm . . . Cloak was right about the 'leave-no-trace' thing." Parker mused. Helen sneaked a kiss while he said this, and Parker blushed beneath his helmet.
***
"If we get outta this thing alive, you really got to go on a diet!" Blaze complained.
"Oh, shut up and keep flying." Aquilai snapped. Then added, "don't you dare drop me."
"Don't tempt me!"
Then, when Blaze could not fly anymore, he landed and unceremoniously dropped Aquilai three feet to the ground, where he landed on his posterior.
"Gee, thanks." Aquilai grumbled.
"Just find that stupid bomb and be done with it," Blaze snarled. Then he sent out Kermit, who seemed to believe Blaze to be some unknown Pokemon. This annoyed Blaze greatly.
"Stop attacking me, you stupid toad!" Blaze roared the the Politoed, who was playfully spraying Blaze with a jet of water.
They found the Gigaremo bomb, colored a rather nauseatingly shade of blue. Aquilai set to work at once with his trusty sonic screwdriver while Blaze "played" with Kermit -- and by "playing", he was constantly getting attacked and annoyed by the green menace.
"Aquilai, hurry up!!"
"Patience is a virtue . . ."
"Screw patience! Hurry up!"
"There . . . that should . . ." Aquilai said, before a plume of black smoke deposited soot on his face, which Blaze snickered at. "Oh, enough of this!"
Then Aquilai fired a blast of lightning into the bomb which burped a small streak of black smoke, then dissolving into nothingness.
"Oh, that's it!" Blaze said, seizing Kermit's PokeBall, "return to your PokeBall!"
Kermit did, allowing Blaze to breath a sigh of relief. Then Kermit popped out of the PokeBall five minutes later.
"This is so not funny," Blaze grumbled.
***
Noelle galloped toward the location described to her, she used her stalk eyes to see, one to pay attention to where she's going and one to watch her back, while her main eyes were gazing at the strange device she was carrying. Such an odd creation. Why did they capture these unusual creatures? These pokey-men? Cloak and Parker seemed sure that they would prevent the detonation of these devices.
Noelle came upon a Gigaremo bomb -- one blacker than night. Noelle set to work after letting Skippy stretch his legs. Skippy stood beside Noelle, curiously looking at her, as if he could help.
<Such a sweet thing,> Noelle commented affectionately.
Within a hour or two, the bomb was disarmed and disintegrated.
<That's done,> Noelle said, heaving a deep sigh. <Come on, Skippy, let's go.>
