Three Years

Chapter Seven - Blackout

Hello guys!

Guess who post late again- Sorry for that, I wanted to wait to come back from my internship abroad to post it, and when I finally arrived at my home I discovered that my family did change the router and I did not have internet access for a whole week, I am really sorry.

Once again, thanks to Hilda from the Pokespe Amino to have beta-read this chapter.

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    When Y crossed the door, the city plunged into darkness.

     It happened suddenly. A little whistling, and the City of Light became the City of Night. From the top of the Prism Tower to the five different gates, the famous capital became a sea of darkness. The only oasis of light, far away, was, ironically, the Power Plant. But this night was not silent. From everywhere, cries, horn blasts and sirens resonated through the city. And like the tiny sound you heard in your room when the lights were off, the sounds resonated, got bigger and slowly became frightening. You jumped at each sound, each shadow, each move you believed to see in the dark, afraid that Darkrai would visit you.

     Inside the room of the Prism Tower which welcomed the trio, the atmosphere was the same as it was in the rest of the city. Confusion. Wandering. Chaos. What happened? Nobody knew. What was the reason behind it? Nobody knew. What should they do? Nobody knew. In the darkness, humans were lost, all alone, and revealed how breakable they were. Darkness was the stage of the darker scheme, where the shadows laughed at the misfortune and the despair of the actors, the little and breakable humans. The night was not for humans, but for the hidden monsters. The old legends explained how the night was the theater of fear, but with the progress, the science and the electricity, they forgot it, and believed they were more powerful than the night and the nightmare themselves. But now that the light was gone, they were all alone, lost in the darkness.

     X's hand reached his Pokéball. He frowned. The room was too little, and between the sofa, the furniture and Y and Clemont, he could not let Salamé go out, in order to light the place. It was too risky. It was the same for Y. Fletchy did not produce fire naturally without using a Fire-type move, unlike Salamé, and if Y ordered Fletchy to use one of her attacks in the room, what would be the consequences? It was too hazardous. The better choice would be to get out of the Tower, and to release their Pokémon. But how could they go out? Without electricity, it was hard to move inside, and it would take a lot of time. And worse was: the major part of the Tower used Clemont's inventions, which needed electricity. The elevators they used to arrive also used electricity. Was there even an exit which did not need electricity? This blackout did not arrive at a good moment.

     And suddenly, he realized. The night was the time for the ones who act in the shadow. And the terrorists who attacked Testsuch in Shalour City, who planned to attack their laboratory in Lumiose City, weren't they the kind of people who were hidden in the shadows, and attacked when nobody thought they would? For who this blackout would be advantageous if it was not them? They made the mistake to think that the attackers would attack later, and then it ended up with the terrorists taking them by surprise. He thought as fast as he could. They probably caused the disappearance of the light and would use the confusion to attack the lab. So they needed to have at least one person to cut the electricity, while the others would attack the laboratory. There were not many places where it was possible to cause a blackout in all the city. A short-circuit in a private building would only cut the power supply of the building, so it was a public one. And even in this public one, it was a necessary one which had an impact on the power supply in the city. And which building fulfill the task best...