A Vacation, an Adventure, and the Story of a Lifetime

Chapter 76- Terror-Stricken

Let's check up on Luna, shall we? It's been a few days since she disappeared in the woods with Lunalox and Hida, Chuka, and Migiki. I wonder who's behind this operation...

        -Luna the Space Fox

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Disclaimer: If I owned Pokemon, this wouldn't be a Wattpad fanfiction and the Sun/Moon anime would've had the same animators as X/Y~

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Luna woke up with a pounding headache, her whole body feeling unnaturally heavy. She slowly cracked her eyelids open, wincing as the bright lights made the aching in her head worse. Quickly remembering where she was as she regained her sense of sight, Luna's heart skipped a beat.

Oh no...

The room was rather tiny, the four walls seemingly like they were closing in. There were a few tables too far away to reach, some empty cages, and various other objects that would be useless even if she could reach them. She looked down, still in her Pokemon form, as she realized she was chained to the floor- by all four paws, both wings, neck, and her tail.

Come on! Did nobody think this was overkill!?

Across the room in separate corners, maybe a dozen feet away (possibly more), Lunalox and the combined entity of Hida, Chuka, and Migiki were both in similar predicaments as her, except they were all still out cold from the tranquilizer.

She attempted to call out to her Pokemon and newest friends, but found she couldn't. A muzzle was fastened tightly around her face, preventing her from opening her mouth at all. It was so tight, in fact, that Luna couldn't even bare her teeth in a low growl as she heard her captors nearing.

"-diculous! They've already been out for almost three days- how much tranquilizer did you use on them!?" A voice demanded, Luna's ears perking up and angling to better catch the sound. We've been out for three days!? Oh shit... Raven's gonna kill me if I even make it out of this alive! Not to mention how worried the rest of my Pokemon... my family... my classmates... everyone must be!

She didn't have much time to dwell on it, however, as her captors got closer and ever closer to the shut- and no doubt locked- door. "Sorry 'bout that, the darts are made for much larger Pokemon. They should all be waking up within the next hour or so," the one Luna hazily remembered as Steve assured them.

"They had better," the first voice, likely that of a woman, said dryly. "The boss was especially interested in two of them, and we have a schedule to keep."

I feel like I recognize that one, Luna thought, trying to remember where from as the sound of a door unlocking suddenly jolted her from her thoughts. What do I do? Pretend I'm still knocked out or act out?

She didn't have time to play dead before the two walked in, the woman before Steve. She held a tablet in her hands, the screen held outwards while the device itself was pressed firmly against her stomach. With her head still spinning, Luna couldn't make out who it was, but managed to growl from the back of her throat.

It didn't take long for the two to realize their hostage had regained consciousness, both turning to look at Luna's limp, tied-down form. Her cover blown, Luna made no effort to hide as she growled again, louder this time, and glared at the figures she still couldn't quite see properly. Apparently the look was sharp enough to cause both to hesitate approaching, though they both did- Steve stayed a good ten feet back, just in case, while the woman walked over until she was standing over Luna completely.

"It looks like the feisty one finally woke up," a slightly-static-tainted voice said smugly, the sound coming from the tablet the woman held. "Maybe we can stay on schedule after all."

With both the red-haired woman and the man on the tablet so close and blocking out the glare from the lights, Luna was finally able to make out their faces clearly, her blood running cold as she realized who they were. Any plans of trying to talk or transform her way out of this, and by some miracle escape despite revealing her secret to such terrible strangers were instantly out of the question as she stared, shell-shocked, at the cruel grin the man on the screen wore.

(Had he been anyone else, she still would've been intimidated by the sheer evil feeling she got by looking at the malevolent glint in his eyes, but because he was the one person Luna would've killed to never see again, she could hardly breathe through the fear coursing through her body and numbing her mind. She had seen many of the things that that... monster of a man was capable of, and now she was at his mercy again with no way to escape... and no one that knew what had happened.)

Oh Arceus...

(A/N: Guess who!)