Plasma

Chapter 8: Fire and Ice

  Brian opened his eyes. His head was lying on the table in front of him. He lifted it up and intense pain struck the back of his head. "Ow! Dangit," Brian yelled. Someone outside heard him and quickly walked inside. The person looked about Brian's height and age, and was wearing a strange looking Team Plasma outfit.

  "Finally, you're up," the person said in a feminine voice. Brian looked at her, annoyed. "Who are you? I'd prefer not to talk to anyone," he said.

  "I am Sharla, a member of the Plasma Revolution, and I'm here to get you out of here," Sharla said to Brian. She uncuffed his hands and ankles.

  Brian started to ask questions as he walked out of the room. "What's the Plasma Revolution? Also, how did you know where I was?" He asked.

  Sharla spoke again. "The Plasma Revolution is a large group of ex-Team Plasma members trying to stop Ghestis's plans. We found you by-" BOOM! The path in front of Brian and Sharla exploded with a bright blue color. The duo flew backwards down the hallway. In the center of the explosion radius, a ice-blue sphere of energy was forming.

  Sharla jumped back up and continued, yelling over the sound of broken pipes and machinery. "We found you by detecting Kyurem's energy! This ship was powered by it's energy! We noticed energy spikes, so we tried to save anyone inside this ship, but we're too late! Kyurem is breaking out already!"

  Kyurem appeared in the center of the blue energy sphere, and the remaining hallway started to frost over. Brian and Sharla ran up the stairs to their right, and arrived on the top deck. "Go! Pidgeot," Sharla commanded. The giant bird Pokémon burst out of its pokéball. "We need to get out of here, fast! We're being chased!"

  Brian and Sharla hopped onto Pidgeot's back, and the bird Pokémon flew off of the sinking ship. Behind them, the ship was completely coated in ice. All of a sudden, the center of the ship lit up in flames, and something flew out of the fire. It was headed straight toward the flying duo. Brian saw, opon closer inspection, a crudley mutated Kyurem surrounded in flames. This must have been created by those 'DNA Splicer' things. That means... "Sharla, we need to get as far away from the city as possible! That pokémon can destroy all of Unova!"

  "Don't worry. We're headed towards an inhabited island far south from here," Sharla said. The mutated Kyurem suddenly shot a beam of Ice at the Pidgeot, and struck its left wing frozen. The bird pokémon, along with its passengers, plummeted down towards the vast ocean. "Agh! Pidgeot return!" The bird pokémon retreated into its pokéball, and Sharla grabbed hold of Brian. She pulled a string on her Team Plasma outfit, and a parachute deployed. The two trainers glided down onto the inhabited island, Kyurem closely in pursuit.

  Sharla and Brian landed in a dense forest and ran forward, attempting to escape the superpokémon tailing them. The forest burst into flames all around the trainers. Kyurem was hovering right above the two.

  Kyurem's attention caught something else and it turned to look. A brown figure much smaller than Kyurem attacked it with a giant glowing horn. Kyurem was knocked back quite a bit, reverted back to its standard form, and then flew away. The brown figure landed next to Brian and Sharla, who were both jaw-dropped. The brown pokémon was about the same height as Keldeo, was many shades of brown and tan, and had orange eyes.

  "I am Terrakion; one of Keldeo's mentors. I was told by Virizion about you, and I sensed your presence near Kyurem. As a sword of Justice, I needed to protect you." The pokémon said.

  "Oh, you're friends with Virizion?" Brian asked.

  "Yeah, I guess you can say that," Terrakion said. "Anyway, I'll contact Virizion at once." After a bit of time, Keldeo could be seen galloping across the huge body of water from Castelia City with Frankie on its back. It shot water from its hooves and flew up the tall rockface to reach Brian, Sharla, and Terrakion. Followed behind Keldeo and Frankie was Virizion, scaling the cliff by jumping from ledge to ledge. Soon, everyone met up on the inhabited island.

  "Since you all are here, we might as well camp at my village for the night," Terrakion suggested. "I'll go prepare the beds."

  The group followed Terrakion. "So... I heard from Virizion what had happened. Are you OK?" Frankie asked.

  "Yeah, I'm fine. Just a bit of head pain," Brian replied. "By the way, Frankie, this is Sharla. Sharla, this is Frankie." The two introduced themselves to each other, and the group talked until they reached a massive tree with a door-sized hole in the front. By the time they got there it was nighttime. The whole group entered the tree. Inside, there were platforms all along the side of the trunk, attached by long wooden rope bridges. They all claimed their own platforms to sleep on, and rested.

  Brian had a strange dream that night about Kyurem taking on many different forms and attacking Unova. The last form was a fusion of Kyurem, Reshiram and Zekrom, and its roar sounded realistic. Too realistic.

  Brian opened his eyes, now awake and still heard the roar that was in his dream. He looked out a small hole in the tree to see the forest alight with flames and lightning striking everywhere. Brian spotted Kyurem headed towards the tree at full speed, but in a different form than before. This time, Kyurem was colored black and blue instead of red and white.

  Before Brian could alert the others, Kyurem smashed into the side of the tree, and caused massive destruction. A whole segment of the tree was blown out, and Kyurem was setting the tree alight with fire breath. It landed on the bottom floor and the ground collapsed. Kyurem fell, and the tree began to crumble. By now, everyone was awake. The tree shifted downwards a bit, and Keldeo lost its balance and began to fall. Brian, attempting to save his friend, jumped down and caught up with Keldeo. "Brian!!!" Frankie yelled. "You idiot!!!" Sharla added.

  "Keldeo, get back up by shooting water from your hoofs!" Brian yelled next to him. Keldeo was paralyzed with fear, so the trainer and his pokémon fell. Together, they were awaiting what would meet them at the bottom of the deep pit.