A Second Chance

Chapter 4

Blytz here. Please comment, it will make me very happy. And we all know it's easier to write quickly when you're happy! Lol, I don't think I could stop if I wanted to, at this point: I need to keep telling the story! Enjoy, please!

Lance had Dragonite land behind the house Yellow and her friends were clustered by. He figured it must be Red's house, especially since he heard the occasional cry of "Red" and "kidnapped" coming from Yellow's friends. 

Dragonite lifted Lance up to the highest room, the one with the window smashed out. Lance carefully squeezed through the hole in the window, making sure not to cut himself on the jagged glass. 

Everything was in disarray, from the posters on the walls, many of which were singed or torn, to the floor, where books, games, and other items of Red's were scattered. Lance followed the trail of destruction downstairs. 

Someone had just waltzed right in, defeated the Kanto champion, and walked out with him as a hostage. But why would anyone want to kidnap Red? It made no sense. Perhaps someone wanted revenge for Red defeating them? Someone like. . . Agatha. Agatha and Lorelei would definitely want revenge. Red had thwarted their plans, after all. 

But why target Red, and not Yellow? Of course. It all clicked then. By targeting Red, it would cause more commotion. The league champion missing, versus a mystery girl almost no one had heard of missing. Also, Red's house was positioned correctly for all of the Kanto dex holders to reach it quickly, but they would have to wait for backup to arrive. 

Professor Oak would provide useful intelligence, and if need be, leverage to get the others to do what Agatha and Lorelei wanted. The trainers had all helped thwart their plans, so they would all pay. Finally, the other girl there would spread the word. Once there was enough publicity, the twosome could use the hostages as a diversion while they tried to summon Lugia or Ho-oh again. 

That meant that right at this moment, they could be ready to make their move, and kidnap the group outside. No one would be able to fight back, what with the risk of harm befalling Red. 

Lance had to go warn them, no matter what it would mean for him. 

"Who?" asked Green, fury building in his eyes as he prepared to fight whoever had kidnapped his friend. 

"Lance", said Blue, "It's got to be Lance."

"No", said Yellow, before she could stop herself. Everyone turned to look at her. "I mean. . . I don't think so. I think he changed, after our battle."

Green sighed. "Yellow, you can't just think the best of everyone you meet. It has to be him. Can you think of anyone else it could be?"

Yellow hesitated, and Green took that as acceptance of his words. "See, Yellow? There's no other person it could be. It's got to be- "

"You need to leave!" Lance said, slamming open Red's front door. "They're coming, you have to leave now!"

"Lance!" cried Yellow, taken aback by Lance's sudden appearance, but not as much as everyone else. "I thought you didn't want anyone to know you were here."

"This is too important. Agatha and Lorelei, they're coming for you, all of you. Yellow, you have to convince your friends to run!"

Unfortunately, Yellow was the only one listening to him. The others were too busy getting out their poke balls to focus on Lance's words. 

"Yellow, what's going on?" asked Blue. 

"Everyone," Yellow said, "Meet Lance. Don't worry- we can trust him. Also, we need to leave. Now."

"What makes you think we can trust him?!" Blue demanded. "He tried to kill you- he tried to kill all of humanity!"

"He saved my life", Yellow said quietly, "twice. He's been staying at my house for almost a week now. If he were going to hurt me, he'd have done it by now."

Everyone stared at her, slack-jawed. Even Blue, for once, didn't have anything to say. Lance did, though.

"Professor, get to Blaine's gym. He can protect you and her", he said, gesturing toward Daisy. "Yellow, Blue, Green, come with me. We need to get out of here before they arrive."

"Before who arrives, Lance?" came a taunting voice from the sky. As they all turned their gazes upward, Lorelei and Agatha came into view. . . riding the legendary fire-bird pokemon, moltres.

"So that's how they beat Red", Green said.

Lance released all of his pokemon, sending Dragonite to take the Professor and Daisy to Blaine's gym on Cinnibar Island. 

"Not so fast", said Agatha, and she sent out a gastly to intercept Dragonite. A bolt of electricity brought it up short as Yellow and Chuchu joined the battle. 

Lance nodded gratefully at her, but Lorelei brought out her devestatingly powerful ice-types, and Agatha sent out all of her ghost-types as well. 

"Now", said Agatha, "we could stop here, and you can all come peacefully with us, or we could battle, and I tell my accomplices holding your friend captive to. . . ah, put him down."

Yellow gasped. Green glared. Blue frowned. . . and turned into Agatha. 

The Agatha on the ground ordered gastly to attack the one in the air, claiming that one was an impostor. The Agatha in the air ordered gastly to attack the one on the ground. Gastly floated in the middle, unsure of who to target. 

Lance had Gyarados use hydro pump on Agatha and Lorelei, soaking them head to toe. Yellow, catching on, used Kitty to lift Chuchu onto moltres's back, where it used used thunder bolt on the soaked duo. 

Yellow grinned at Lance, before explaining to Agatha and Lorelei exactly why their kidnapping scheme wasn't going to work. "We just fried your electronics. Now, there's no way you can contact your friends holding Red captive."

"Do yourselves a favor and give up now", Lance finished for her.  

Blue let her ditto flow off her face, revealing her true self again. "Thanks, Dittie", she said to the little pink pokemon. 

Agatha and Lorelei were far from defeat, however. Lorelei's dewgong used ice beam to form handcuffs on Blue and Green, trapping them together. Agatha's driftblim then picked the two of them up, carrying them toward moltres. 

Agatha and Lorelei's other pokemon fought off Lance and Yellow's attempts to get Blue and Green back.

Lorelei ordered Walrein and Weavile, two of her strongest pokemon, to use their ultimate move, sheer cold, on Lance and Yellow. 

Lance threw himself in front of Yellow as the attack hit them. When the smoke had cleared, Agatha and Lorelei were gone, and they had taken Blue and Green with them. 

That didn't matter to Yellow, however- she was bent over Lance. He wasn't breathing.