Worthless Necessity: Project Pokemon [HitoZuku]

Chapter 4 - The Beast's Forest

"Sorry, I came as fast as I could!" Tensei panted, as he surveyed the area around them. The lights had been fixed, and the caves were now brightly lit, and Tensei frowned, "What happened? You kids aren't hurt, are you?"

Shu leaned down to nuzzle Iida, and Shinsou shook his head, "I don't... think we're hurt..."

"Alright." Tensei nodded, "I would tell you guys to get out, but we're pretty deep into the cave, and I don't know if there are any other villains lurking around. Follow me, closely, and don't touch anything."

Tensei threw out another two Pokeballs, revealing an Alolan Sandslash and a Bisharp, "Stay on the lookout, okay, ?"

The two Pokemon nodded, and Tensei started walking deeper into the cave, with the four teenagers following behind him.

After walking for some time, Tensei came into a large cavern within the cave. There were a ton of machinery and heavy duty cages, but they were all broken and dented, some even melted. There were also a couple of hikers and other trainers that were standing around, exhausted, as a large Dragonite towered over some tied up and knocked out villains.

"Ryukyu!" Tensei called out, waving and the pro trainer's head snapped up from where she was observing one of the broken machines, and she grinned, "Ingenium. What brings you here?"

"My little bro." Tensei chuckled, leaning on Iida's shoulder, much to the younger's chagrin, "Got an alert about villains, so I came over, though it seems like everything was resolved before I got here."

"Yep." Tatsuma nodded, as her Haxorous sniffed at the exposed wiring, "I'll explain more once we get out of here. I'll need to bring this back for the Commission to look at it, though. I'm no good with tech."

All of a sudden, the Abra appeared out of nowhere, much to the teenager's surprise. They sniffed the air, before turning towards Koda, "You seem nice."

"Hi." Koda meekly raised his hand to wave, before he took out some food from his backpack. The Abra floated around, clearly curious, teleportating the snacks out of Koda's hand, before he munched down on them eagarly. After a few minutes of eating, the Abra slowly reached out, patting one of the spare Pokeballs on Koda's belt, letting the sphere suck him in.

The ball didn't even shake, and the red light on the button of the Pokebal faded away as the successful capture "ding" rang out almost instantly.

Koda just held up the Pokeball in bewilderment.

"Well... if only catching Pokemon were that easy." Iida blinked, and Uraraka let out a laugh.

"It seems like you kids have had an eventful day." Tensei smiled, "Come on, let's get out of here."

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"So, what do we have?" Aizawa crossed his arms, as they all stood in Tatsuma's office. With Tatsuma and Tensei's help, the four teenagers had made it all the way to Hosu City without any other problems, and the second that Tatsuma heard from Plasma that Aizawa, Yamada and Kayama had been contacted, she had sent out her Dragapult and Dragonite to pick them up from Musutasu Town and Naruhata City respectively.

"Basically, same old things. Villains who are trying to capture Pokemon to make a profit, mining rare stones for the black market, stuff like that." Tensei replied, "But what is more intriguing is the one that took these villains out."

She showed some images of some broken machinery and cages, "These were clearly broken apart by some really powerful pokemon. These heavy duty cages are made to withstand large impacts and high temperatures, and they're pretty commonly used by villains since wild Pokemon usually aren't strong enough to break out of them. Heck, even most trainer Pokemon would have trouble even making a dent in these things, and these were melted and sliced up like butter. It's definitely not a wild pokemon, that's for sure. None of the Pokemon native to these caves have strong enough claws to do this."