The Eye of the Storm

Chapter 1: Return to Unova

Chapter 1: Return to Unova

>Aleksi<

"Hey, Aleksi, wake up!" Soleil shook me awake.
"Uh? Whatisit...?"
"Plane ride!" Emma popped up behind her. "Remember? Or did you forget already?"
"Why couldn't you charter us a private jet or something...?" I groaned, rubbing my eyes. "I've never been in an airport before."
"I can't always get a private jet, you know." Soleil frowned.
"YOU CAN GET PRIVATE JETS!?" Emma screeched.
Soleil's Zorua leaped into the air, startled.
"Um, yeah. My family is the one of the richest families in the world. If you want me to, I could also get you a smoothie machine."
"Nah. Although a smoothie sounds good. Why did we have to go to your vacation house in KILOUDE?"
For 2 girls that just came back from the dead, they both seemed pretty cheerful.
"What, you don't like the heat?"
"I'm a Sinnoh native. From Snowpoint. My family moved to Nuvema when I was 3."
"That explains a lot. Anyways we'd better hurry!" Soleil grabbed her messenger bag off of the table next to the couch. "Zorua! Let's go!"
Zorua hopped off of the pillow she was standing on and raced after Soleil.
"For a rich girl, she sure isn't that snottish."
"Snottish is the opposite of Soleil. Punctual? Soleil in a nutshell. She'll Night Daze us both if we don't hurry."
"Terrifying. I'll Blizzard her back. Right, Choo?" Her Beartic nodded as Emma clipped on her fanny pack.
I grabbed my backpack and ran for the door.
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I only had to be in an airport for 5 minutes to officially hate it.
"It's not THAT bad." Soleil said to me as the line for the boarding passes inched forwards.
"Yeah, well, I didn't expect it to be this CROWDED." I snapped back.
"Fair point. Most of the Kalos residents are already back, I think. Some are just arriving, though. And Geosenge residents have a lot of rebuilding work to do."
The line shuffled forwards a bit more.
"I'm going to say that the Sunnyshore City airport was less crowded." Emma frowned.
"It's been 9 years since you last rode on an airplane. Things have changed." Soleil said as another traveler accidentally jabbed her in the leg with their umbrella. "Ow!"
"Ugh. It's too claustrophobic here for my own good." I groaned as the line moved forwards a bit more.
"Oh, look, we're close to the front!" Emma chirped.
All our Pokémon were in their PokéBalls. Yes, even Dusk. Apparently, some airport security, blah, blah, blah. Stuff I didn't care about more or less.
"Why are we going to Unova?"
"We both want to visit." Soleil and Emma said at the same time as Soleil walked up to a counter and started talking with the lady in rapid French. They seemed to like to speak French more than English.
"Yeah, but-"
"Well, it's not like Arceus will strike you down for going to Unova." Emma shrugged.
"Yeah... But I saw Nuvema burn to a crisp in front of me. I saw everyone I knew dead on the street.
In an hour, my entire life had been destroyed."
Emma's look softened. "I have bad memories there too. But sometimes, it's better to focus on the good instead of the bad."
"Hey, stop talking about depressing stuff! You can release your Pokémon now. And, we need to start planning our entire trip. First, after..." Soleil started rambling as we headed towards our gate. I quickly let out Dusk, who flashed me an irritated look.
"Sorry, Dusk, but... Airport rules."
He shot me a glare that clearly said, Who CARES about airport security?
Soleil blinked.
"What?"
"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what? The TV's? The shopkeepers? Everyone around us?" Emma joked.
"No... Something else..." Soleil frowned for a second, then shook her head. "Never mind. I think I'm hearing things. Anyways, after we get to Nimbasa, Elesa wants us to rendezvous with her outside the Pokémon Musical..." She started rambling as we headed into security.
"Hello. Please place you shoes, carry-on bags, and PokéBalls into the bins. Electronics must be in separate bins."
I unclipped my belt and set it in a bin with my backpack, then dug my PokéGear and PokéDex out and set them, along with my Pokétch in a separate plastic bin.
"Please walk through the security scanner." A woman said, pointing at a rectangular gray archway with some flashing lights.
I stepped through. The lights flashed green.
"Dusk, come on!" Dusk sprang through the archway, and the lights flashed green again.
I grabbed my boots out of the bin and pulled them on.
"What's with all the security? Jeesh, it's like they think we're all Team Flare or something." I clipped my belt back on and strapped my Pokétch around my right wrist. The PokéDex and PokéGear went back into the bag.
"The security does look a bit tighter. Oh, well. We need to get to the gate!" We started running towards our gate.
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"10:30, not 9:30!" Emma laughed.
"Hey, I was panicking! And better to be early than on time, right?" Soleil snapped back, flopping into an empty armchair.
Dusk snorted.
I sighed. "So, now we have an hour to kill. Lovely."
Soleil muttered something incoherently under her breath. Emma just rolled her eyes and headed over to the nearest vending machine, Choo and Essy strolling along behind her. Well, Essy on her shoulder.
Yeah, I'd given her Essy after all that crazy nonsense. They liked each other, and I didn't want a team of 7.
I pulled out my PokéGear and brought up the holographic screen to full size. Dusk was lazing around next to one of the large windows in the sunlight with Zorua.
"Anything interesting?" Soleil asked me at 10:15. Emma was slouched in the chair right behind me, and she turned around.
"No..." I scrolled through the the news, reading all the headlines.
"All Citizens Returning to Kalos... Team Flare Members Being Hunted Down... Kalos League to Be Held... Man, should've gotten all the badges! Then I could've competed in the League! Anyways... Devon Developing New Pokémon Transporter... Sinnoh Dexholders Kidnapping... Professor-"
"Wait, WHAT!?" Emma snatched the PokéGear out of my hand and scrolled to the previous page.
"Hey!"
"How is the headline "Sinnoh Dexholders Kidnapping" not interesting or important!?" She pointed at the holographic screen.
"What!? My friend was kidnapped!?" Soleil yelped. Emma tapped the play button.
"On July 6, Sinnoh PokéDex holders Platinum Berlitz, Pearl Damion, and Diamond Lucas disappeared from Twinleaf Town. We just received footage from a witness at the scene where they disappeared."
The screen switched to a fuzzy video. Probably taken from a out-of-date recorder device.
There was a path with trees and streetlights lining it. In the middle of the path, some people were fighting. I could hear voices shouting.
"Empoleon, Vacuum Wave!"
"Dodge, and strike back with Cross-Poison!"
"Chimler, Fury Swipes! Chatler, Mirror Move!"
"Stunky, use Poison Gas!"
"Tru, use Wood Hammer!"
"Raticate, Scratch!"
Explosions racked the path. Dust and smoke billowed into the air.
There was a yell - probably from the person recording - as 2 figures jumped out of the smoke. A Stunky and an Infernape. The Infernape shot a blast of fire at the Stunky, who summoned a glowing blue dome - Protect.
"Chimler!" A young man with a Chatot flying above him sprinted out after the Infernape.
He had blonde hair sticking up at the ends, an orange and white striped jacket with a green scarf. He was wearing gray pants, brown boots, and an orange Pokétch, although it looked like an old version. A brown bag was slung across his shoulder
Another figure leaped out of the smoke. This one was wearing a cloak - What? - so we couldn't see their face.
"That's Pearl!" Emma yelped.
"Yeah. So?"
On the screen, Pearl narrowed his eyes at the Stunky.
"Intercept with Close Combat!"
The Stunky shot a ball of purple sludge from it's tail. The Infernape leaped forwards and punched it to pieces. Sludge flew everywhere.
"How the-"
"Pearl's ability to tell a Pokémon's next move by looking at their body language." Soleil cut in.
One flew towards the screen. There was a yelp before the sludge hit the screen and it fuzzed out.
"As you can see, it seems the 3 Dexholders were captured in the fight portrayed in this video. If you know about there whereabouts, or any info about them or the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, or Kalos Dexholders, please contact us. Sinnoh News, signing off."
"Well, that explains a lot." Soleil said after a few seconds.
"What?" Emma frowned.
"Well, if the Dexholders had been kidnapped, they couldn't have come and helped us."
"Yeah, but why would someone kidnap them? And I didn't hear Unova on that-"
"BOARDING FOR GATE 15 HAS BEGUN. PLEASE LINE UP WITH YOUR BOARDING PASSES READY. THANK YOU."
Soleil jumped.
"Come on! We'll discuss this later. VACATION!!!"
Soleil dragged us towards the line.

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