Pokemon: Shattered Prism

Chapter Seven

ARAMAI CITY - ODREA REGION

"Manectric, I want to finish this quickly. Use Quick attack while performing Discharge at the same time..." Manectric started dashing at the Drapion while a streaming trail of electricity followed behind him.

The moment the quick attack met the Drapion's Cross Poison, Manectric's discharge followed right after intensely shocking the Drapion into an almost fetal position, "Gosh I'm awfully tired...Manectric I have faith in you..." Emmanuel laid down on the battle field as Manectric continued to go toe to toe with the Drapion.

"Uhm...did he really just fall asleep?" Aiden said looking at Emmanuel knocked out on the ground, "He really just fell asleep...." Every seemed confused as to why the Gym Leader fell asleep but their attention was drawn back to the matter at hand.

"Draaaa!" The Pokémon puffed its chest up holding its head back before launching it forward unleashing a deadly Fire Blast. Isaac, Aiden, and Esma's eyes all widened as well as Officer Jenny's.

"Did you see that Isaac?!" Aiden said hysterical.

"How is that even possible?!" Esma responded.

"No doubt about it...this Pokémon belongs to Team Delta," Isaac said as the flame scored the battle ground.

Manectric quickly evaded the attack and responded by glowing vigorously as a gem around its angle began glowing as well. Emmanuel touched his wrist in his sleep as if scratching it but at the same time touched a gem on his wrist as well. It looked identical to Manectric's. Within moments a bright light covered the whole area only to dissipate revealing a Mega-evolved Manectric.

"Maaaaaaaaannneee!!" The Manectric howled as it fired off another discharge. Multiple bolts of static electricity nearly sent the Drapion flying.

"Oh wow! Mega evolution!" Stars filled Aiden's eyes as the battle was keeping everyone's blood pumping. Manectric stepped back as the Drapion erupted from a mound of rubble. The look on its face was pure agony, almost as if it was in pain unrelated to fight it was in.

Manectric's mouth started to spark up as it snarled and scrunched up its knows, "Wait Manectric!" Isaac had called out as Manectric cancelled its next move to look at him confusingly, "I don't think Drapion is attacking freely. I think it's the opposite," Isaac point to the Pokémon's eyes that seemed to be glowing a horrific red color. Around its neck seemed to be a device that was emitting small spurts of electricity,

"That Drapion is being controlled!" Isaac shouted as Aiden took a second to look at what Isaac was referring to. His mouth dropped when he noticed the device.

"We need to get that device off of him," Aiden suggested.

"And...how exactly do you expect...we do that?" Emmanuel awoke from his nap on the hard-concrete floor stretching and yawning through his speech.

"Well its nice of you to finally join us!" Aiden shouted.

"Guys!" Isaac demanded attention as he handed his backpack to Aiden, "I'll get it off him."

"Wait are you insane! That Drapion would-" Before Aiden could finish his statement Isaac was already charging toward the Pokémon full throttle.

"Draaaaa!!" The Pokémon yelled as if the collar was hurting it even more. Isaac's eyebrows furrowed as frustration rested upon his face.

Team Delta...You guys are complete monsters...how could you do this to a Pokémon? to any Pokémon? The Drapion fired off round after round multiple Flame throwers and sludge bombs. Isaac ducked and dove left and right avoiding the moves scrapping and cutting himself all the while.

The moment he managed to get close enough to Drapion he lunged forward and managed to wrap his hands around the Pokémon's collar. Everyone stared at Isaac stunned by his actions, even Emmanuel showed some emotion in his tiresome face.

"Isaac!" Aiden yelled not entirely sure what to do other than, "You can do it!" those words surprised not only Isaac but Aiden as well. He had faith in his friend. Isaac began tugging at the collar as it began shocking not only Drapion but himself as well.

"Aaagghhh!" Isaac shouted in pain but his grip never loosened from the collar, it just made him want to pull it off more. After several tries a subtle crack could be heard, but the shocking intensified.

Soon thereafter with one more final tug the collar came clean off releasing one last surge of electricity that sent both Drapion and Isaac flying. However, the moment the two hit the ground they were both knocked out cold.

"Isaac!" Aiden, Officer Jenny, and Emmanuel ran to Isaac's aid. Officer Jenny crouched beside Isaac feeling his head and chest.

"He is going to be all right. Nothing seems broken, but just to be safe I say we need to get him to a hospital fast, as well as that Drapion over there. Poor thing," She stared at the Drapion trying to wrap her head around the incident that had occurred feeling sorrier for it now than she was before.

Nurse Joy arrived about 30 minutes later as officer Jenny headed to the Aramai City gates letting all the citizens back in. Nurse Joy rode off with both Drapion and Isaac in separate ambulances as Aiden followed making sure to check on his friend.

ARAMAI CITY - POKEMON CENTER- ODREA REGION

About an hour or so later Isaac finally came to in his hospital room, only to wake up next to a worried yet sleeping Aiden. Isaac's throat was extremely dry as he tried to muster up some words to wake up Aiden. Not saying anything he nudged him a few times and on the third try Aiden finally awoke.

"Hey there sleepy head!" He said after Isaac managed to wake him up, "How are you feeling?"

"I'm...okay-" Isaac erupted into a coughing fit as Aiden searched frantically for water to give to his friend. Locating a cup near a sink in the room, Aiden filled it to the rim with water and handed it to Isaac. Within seconds Isaac gulped all the water he could from the glass and sat it down on a nightstand right beside him.

"Feel better?" Aiden said laughing a little while Isaac weakly joined in on the laughter.

"I am all right what happened? Everything is still a bit of a daze to me."

"You single handedly save Aramai city from a raging Delta Drapion!" Aiden's voice boomed nearly startling Isaac. Isaac looked at his hands as they were bandaged up.

"I remember pulling off the collar from Drapion but after that not much else," After a few moments of silence a knock on the door would break the two's concentration as Emmanuel walked in the room with a bouquet of wilted flowers.

"I thought ...I'd give these to you for saving... my city," He placed them on the night stand next to the glass of water. Manectric was following behind Emmanuel as he walked beside Isaac's bed and began licking his hands making sure he was all right. Isaac smiled at Manectric and petted its head. Isaac scoped the room noticing that someone was missing.

"Hey where is Esma?" He had asked as both Aiden and Emmanuel had not a clue where she had gone.

"Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing her after you had gotten knocked out...I don't even remember seeing her after Manectric went mega...where did she go?"

"I'm sure she'll turn up. Hey, can you hand me my bag I want to make sure Kadabra and Eevee are all right," Aiden nodded as he went to go fetch Isaac's bag.

"Uhm...it's not here," Aiden said searching throughout the room lifting chair cushions and even opening cabinets, "I can't find my pack either!" He began panicking as he believes he lost the bags.

"Wait..." Emmanuel began, yawning again, "You don't think that girl...." Emmanuel, Isaac, and Aiden all looked at each other.

ERNA ROAD - ARAMAI CITY OUTSKIRTS - ODREA REGION
Esma and Bambi were walking in the opposite direction of the city both lugging Aiden's and Isaac's bag.
"Yay! I think we scored the jackpot Bambi. We were lucky that Drapion created such a great distraction," Esma said as her Granbull cheered and smiled, "Look's like there is quite a bit of cash in here. How about I treat us to some food," Esma and Granbull continued walking off as the sun began setting and night creeping around the corner.

Will Isaac and Aiden retrieve their items back? Will we get down to the bottom of Team Delta's motives in releasing a rampaging Drapion? Will Emmanuel ever be not tired? This and more next time on Pokemon Prism!