Pokemon Heroes: Sinnoh Saga [Book 1]

Chapter 83: To Lake Verity!

"By the time we got to Lake Verity, the defenders there were already with their backs up against a wall. We showed up with enough time to prevent their capture, and even got to meet Professor Rowan's sons, but we couldn't prevent the capture of Mesprit. The Legendary Pokémon that gave humans emotion fell into the hands of Team Galactic that day...and what was worse, we found out why they were capturing people up at Lake Acuity. At the end of the day, all we could do was regroup, and take the fight to Veilstone City. We were able to get a hold of Looker finally, shortly after the attack on the lakes, and he was able to begin planning the beginnings of our infiltration of the Team Galactic Headquarters, but that's a tale for later."

Their arrival at Lake Verity was sudden and hectic.

Abra had kept them out of the way of most of the fighting, and it allowed Sam and Alyssandra to take a look at the damage.

There were armoured Spiritum transports, and several operatives were battling against Professor Rowan, Valentina and Cynthia.

Rowan had six Pokémon out ripping through hordes of grunts and their Pokémon as they tried to dogpile on the trio defending the island cavern.

Sam could see a Luxray, a notched and battle-worn Empoleon, a Moltres, an Abomasnow, an Absol and a Dragonite.

Those had to be Rowan's Pokémon as they moved at his commands.

Cynthia had her Spiritomb, Roserade, Togekiss, Lucario, Milotic and Garchomp out. Her Pokémon were raining terror and hellfire down upon Team Galactic, but even that didn't seem to stop them.

Valentina had her Infernape, Luxray, Drapion, Vespiquen, Garchomp and Staraptor.

"Is that a Shiny Staraptor?" asked Sam, noticing the odd colouration of Valentina's Pokémon.

Alyssandra nodded.

Looking down they could see Dawn, Lucas, and the Gym Leaders Byron, Roark, Fantina, Wake and Maylene battled the leader of the attack, whom Sam and Alyssandra recognized as Mars, from Eterna City.

They were still pressed with their backs against the shoreline, but they were doing a bit better than the slowly overwhelmed Rowan, Valentina and Cynthia.

Sam looked at Alyssandra as the Abra disappeared.

"I'll go back up those at the island, do you want to help the Gym Leaders?" asked Sam.

"You don't want a rematch with Mars?" asked Alyssandra, smirking.

"Not this time," replied Sam.

Sam released and mounted his Garchomp, while Alyssandra got atop her Rapidash.

Both Pokémon were spurred forward, and Garchomp took off like a jet, bringing Sam towards the middle island.

There was a small crash as Sam and the Pokémon landed, Garchomp roaring in the faces of the Galactic Grunts who were now caught on both sides.

Sam released his other Pokémon.

His Empoleon sliced through crowd and Pokémon alike.

His Rampardos trampled anything stupid enough to get in her way.

Sam's Luxray loosed bolts of electricity upon its unsuspecting victims, dipping his tail in the water to shock anyone trying to swim to safety.

Sam's Lucario had joined his sister, Niya's Lucario, who was there fighting alongside the ex-Champion, Valentina the current Champion, and Professor Rowan.