Three Years

Chapter 16 part 2 - The Twist Mountain

Hello guys!

And here we go for the chapter of the week! Little announcement, due to some reasons, the next update would not be before the 20th June! I'm sorry for the delay-

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the end of the 16th chapter!

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     The day was one of the typical days of the beginning of the summer, one of those days where you either went out with your friends to do refreshing activities or you stayed in your room the whole day, windows opened and shutters closed in an attempt to keep a rather cool temperature. A day with a clear sun, only a few clouds, and no winds.

     Which meant no rain to end the fire. Which meant no wind to disperse the fog.

     Some people compared Twist Mountain to a gigantic bowl for a reason. The different faces of the mountain did indeed create a kind of bowl. Humans and Pokémon could easily come and leave with the light wood footbridges and the caves, but this artificially dug creation trapped everything else. The stones. The fossils. The coals. The fog. The fire.

     From their refuge, in one of the higher wood platforms, X, Green, Whi-two, Shauna, and Cilan could do nothing but shiver at the sight of the terrible spectacle that was happening in front of their eyes. The Testsuch's laboratory they only saw in pictures before was now consumed by a huge and devastating fire. The black fog spread and could not escape from the bowl, not without any wind, and so it kept turning and turning around, becoming thicker as the fire kept producing it. The rest was entirely hidden by both fire and smoke.

     When they first smelled the burned odor, from the entrance they guarded on Route 7, at first, they had exchanged a suspicious look. And when they eventually saw some smog and heard someone yelling about an attack and a fire, they did not need to speak to each other to decide that they had to go to check the situation. But they were not expecting this to happen. They did not expect the terrorists to be that heartless to threaten the lives of so many people by setting fire to what used to be the lab.

     Green's brain was thinking of a solution as quickly as possible. Should they try to end the fire? Surely, his group was in a good position to try something like that. However, his Golduck would clearly not be enough, and none of his teammates owned any Water-type Pokémon. If it had been another group, it may have worked out, but not with them. Should they try to get rid of the fog? No, the situation was already complicated with the fire and the fog, and the two Pokémon that are powerful enough for this task, the duo of Charizards, might end up making the situation worse. Should they try to get closer to the laboratory? But if they did that, they would put themselves in danger, and they would lose their advantage of seeing what was happening. Plus, according to the sounds he could hear, some people were already here. Their presence would be nothing but useless.

     His train of thought was interrupted when he heard some footsteps coming from near him. He turned his head, and his teammates turned towards the direction of the footsteps as well, looking for who was coming.

     A cloak that was starting to become terribly familiar for Green, X, and Shauna. A man with a Roman nose and a cruel smirk. Another man, probably a bit older, the shadow of his hat completely hiding his face, except for two gleaming and focused eyes.

      Three familiar silhouettes. Three familiar walks. Three familiar people, tensing when they saw the group, their hands automatically reaching for their Poké Balls, preparing to release their creatures, ready to fight.

     Three terrorists, they had already seen too many times.

     Them.

     THEM.