Stand by You part 2 of 4

Chapter 57: Trust Me

Jessie, James, Meowth, Lucy, Rumika, Annastasia, Duplica, Ash, Misty, Dawn, May, Max, Drew, Bonnie, Clement, Serena, Bianca, Barry, Forrest, Harley, Iris, Cilan, Brock, Tracey, and Gary spent the next ten days at the Pokémon Center in Fuchsia City so that they could enjoy the two week-long festival. On the first day of the festival, James managed to win the Pokeringer contest with the help of Meowth and Jessie's Swoobat. He was awarded with a year's supply of Pokeblock. Later on Misty won a water Pokémon race using Golduck, and Serena won a Pokémon fashion show contest using Sylveon. They all got to try all different types of food from all over the Pokémon world and went to panels discussing Pokémon health, breeding, training, and bonding. Brock ran into his old friend Autumn, and spent most of the time at the festival with her.

It was now the day after the last day of the festival and everyone was getting ready to make their next move. Ash and Misty were out on a walk while Nurse Joy tended to their Pokémon.

"This has been the most fun I have had in a while", Ash said to Misty.

"I'm sad its over. This is the first time since I was a little kid that I got to celebrate this holiday", said Misty.

"Same. Let's plan on coming here next year at this time", Ash replied.

Ash and Misty held hands and walked downtown. The city was almost entirely empty, as the street vendors, performers, coordinators, and game officials had already left. Ash wouldn't be surprised if they were last tourists in the city.

"Do you hear that?" Misty asked Ash. She stopped in the street to listen.

"It sounds like...a helicopter", said Ash.

"No, it sounds like multiple helicopters", she responded.

They both looked up at the sky. Though it was late in the afternoon, it was not yet dark out. They saw at least a dozen black helicopters coming towards the city.

"I have a bad feeling about this", said Misty. "Let's head back to the Pokémon Center.

Meanwhile, Rumika looked out the window of her room in the Pokémon Center. She was sharing it with Serena and Bonnie, who were in the corner playing cards.

"Why did it get dark all of a sudden?" Bonnie asked as she noticed the natural sunlight filling the room had gotten dimmer all of a sudden. "It isn't that late".

"I don't know", Serena responded nonchalantly.

"Shit", Rumika cursed aloud.

"What's the matter?" Serena and Bonnie asked together.

"Come here", said Rumika as she put down her binoculars.

Serena and Bonnie looked out the window and saw the black helicopters.

"Who are those people?" Bonnie asked in a scared voice.

"De ne ne ne", said Dedenne, who was equally frightened.

"Its Team Firestar", she told them.

"No way! Are you sure?" asked Serena.

"Positive. I can see the FS written on the side. They must have seen us on television. I bet they waited until the festival was over so that it would be easier to attack us", she explained.

"What do we do?" asked Bonnie.

"We need to get everyone together right away. And we need to call Giovanni. We are going to need him to send us some agents. I have a feeling this is going to get ugly", said Rumika grimly.

Serena and Bonnie began text messaging everyone who was with them while Rumika dialed Giovanni.

Two rooms over, Jessie and James were waking up from an afternoon nap.