A Rose Made of Shadows

Chapter Five

Silence. That's all I heard while inside the ship. Aside from the faint hum of the ship's engines, everything else was dead silent. I must've passed out when the net hauled me into the ship because I awoke on the cold floor, thinking I had some sort of bad dream. But as I got up and looked around to see where I was, my thought of a bad dream was met with the shattering reality.

I was in a huge room, apparently a hangar of sorts, with lights around the top edges of the walls and with symbols on each wall. They were the same symbols as the one on the bottom of the ship: a badge with two swords set on it with the letter B on top of them.

The hangar was also filled with what appeared to be fighter planes and drones. The drones looked a bit similar to TIE Interceptors from Star Wars only that there were a pair of blades on both sides of each drone. The drones were jet-black in color with a purple stripe down the bottom of the wings, and they were neatly ordered in multiple rows. I counted around 150 of them but suspected there were more elsewhere onboard the ship, an armada of drones and planes ready for war.

Regardless, I couldn't really do much about any of it as I was trapped inside a glass cube in the middle of the hangar. The cube also seemed to prevent me from using my attacks via an electric current that ran outside it.

I was all alone.

"Where the heck am I?", I said, looking around. My voice echoed throughout the hanger despite me being inside a thick layer of glass. "And now I can't get out... great. This is turning out to be the best day ever. And the worst part? I haven't eaten anything!"

Meanwhile, the ship got out of warp-drive and arrived right where Darkrai King predicted it would go: the Plain Vanilla mountains. It stopped over a huge basin in the middle of two mountains and hovered for a while. Below it, a huge gate opened up from the basin and the ship began to descend down into the ground until it vanished from view. The gate slowly slid shut.

I felt the ship descend and finally touch ground. And that's when the next thing came to mind: who the heck are the people who did this to me? The only assumption I could make was from the symbols on the walls. They looked like a logo.

A team's logo.

[So I got kidnapped by a group? What would they want with me? Sure I'm a uniquely-colored Gardevoir and all that, but I don't really have anything else special...]

Then, a pair of doors opened up on the other side of the hangar, and from it I could see the silhouettes of two people. But it was a sight short-lived because one of them held up something that had a red laser and pointed it at me...

I blacked out. Again.