Novien Adventures: Phoenix Rising

[Calefrun]

As it turns out, Calfrun was around. He was following behind Xadc, who was tracking Wraith. Whatever his teammates were doing, he wanted in on it.

[Xero]

Michael cogitated over this.

"Hmm... That does sound like a good plan. But how are we going to spark the rebellion? Are we going straight for Magma members, or are we going to drop hints to make Magma think Phoenix doesn't have its back, or what?"

"Hello?" came the voice of Nurse Joy. "Excuse me." The famous nurse of Pokémon Centers all over the world walked up to the cluster of couches where the group was sitting. She was holding a Ditto in her arms. "A trainer came by here earlier with this Ditto. Have you seen him? He seems to have forgotten it here."

"No, I'm sorry, ma'am," Michael replied.

"Oh, this is not good." Nurse Joy was clearly very worried, but whether it was for the Ditto or for her reputation, it was not clear.

"Chansey!"

A Chansey waddled up to Nurse Joy with a phone.

"Hello?" Nurse Joy said, taking the phone. "Yes? Yes, I do. Oh, my! He has? That's terrible! Well, thank you, Officer Jenny. You've been a great help. Good bye." She pressed a button on the phone and handed it back to Chansey, who waddled away again. "It seems," Nurse Joy said, "that the trainer of this Ditto is notorious for catching Pokémon and releasing them if he thinks they are not useful. Now I've got a loose Ditto on my hands."

Michael didn't know what to say. He would have been happy to take the Ditto, but he didn't want to seem rude.

As if reading his mind, Nurse Joy said, "Would any of you like to take this Ditto? It seems very friendly, and I'm sure it would be happy to join you."

Michael unhooked a Pokéball from his belt and held it out to the Ditto. "Sure," he said. "I'll take him along with me." The Ditto happily stuck its hand... blob thing... out and touched the button on the Pokéball. Ditto disappeared inside the ball, and the ball clicked shut without any trouble. Michael grinned. "Alright! I got a Ditto!" Nurse Joy walked away, glad she didn't have to worry about the Ditto anymore.

[Xero]

Wraith was now in the control room. He knocked out the Magma officers in the room with another Shadow Sneak, then advanced toward the main computer. Several screens filled the wall, showing the different parts of the base through security cameras. He pressed a button and froze the screen for the Regenerator room. Then he pulled up a document that was minimized on the screen of the main computer. It was titled "Regnerator: Top Secret." Making sure no one else was in the room, Wraith punched a button and printed the document. He grabbed the sheets, then returned to the computer to close the window. When a pop up appeared saying, "Would you like to save Regenerator: Top Secret? All unsaved changes will be lost," a mischievous grin spread across his face, and he clicked "No." Then he slipped out of the room and headed toward the exit.

[Xelwes]

Wes thought deeply.

"We must get more recruits. They must not be grunt level weaklings like Phoenix and Magma. I've heard it said a team is as strong as its weakest member. We may not be a team...but it applies to us. We must be strong, but there is also a strength in numbers." A mailman ran in.

"Is there a Wesley in the room?"

"Here!"

"A package from a Candace of Snowpoint." The mailman handed Wes a package and left. Wes opened the box and found a note and a Pokeball.

Hey Wes!

How is my favorite rockstar doing? I'm fine. Your Dad won't stop talking to me about how restless Regigigas is. I miss you! When will you come visit? Well send me a message when you can!

Love Candace.

The Pokeball opened and out popped a small little blue puffball.

"Spheal!"

[Major Xeno]

Xeno came to in a heap, covered by huge amounts of dust. He shook rapidly, trying in vain to get the dust out. It didn't work, and now he was gold-colored completely, not a speck of brown anywhere.

Xeno sighed. The two trainers he had witnessed were gone. How long had he been out?

Xeno trudged for a few feet, then remembered that this was a region he had never been to. He didn't know where anything was!

He resigned himself to following the well-worn road.









"Hey! A golden Sandslash!"

Xeno grew a tic mark on his forehead spontaneously. One quick slash, and the annoying trainer found himself without a belt. Another, and Xeno stole his backpack, running off gleefully as the bewildered trainer yelled at him in vain.







"Hey! A golden Sandslash!" Oh... this is going to be annoying.

[Monika]

Ryan watched as everyone else seemed to mysteriously obtain various Pokemon. He wasn't envious at all; all he needed was his Dratini and he would be set. Still, it wouldn't hurt to get another Pokemon.

"Ryu. What's your favorite type of Pokemon?" Ryan asked, even though Ryu couldn't very well reply back.

"Dra. Dratini." Ryu wrapped its tail...body...whatever Dratinis have...around a book in Ryan's backpack. He didn't have a a Pokedex as he couldn't afford one and never got to stay with one professor long enough to get one, so he used the book his mother wrote on the hundreds of species. Ryu knocked the book open and flipped the pages using a small Twister, pointing out some of his favorite Pokemon. Charmander...Larvitar...Magikarp. All surprisingly dragon like, save for the last one.

"Figures." Ryan laughed, putting the book back in his pack. "I'll be sure to add to the team and include your favorites, Ryu." Ryu nodded in appreciation and fell asleep again. The previous battle and massive twister had drained his energy.

"Why don't we just pit every team against each other? Let's go call up Team Rocket, and Team Galactic, and Team Noonegivesacarp. By pitting them against each other the conflict would only escalate to a point that might be unstoppable." Ryan said insightfully.

[Calefrun]

(lol, two teams not in this story and one that could be any of the three that really are in)

[Xelwes]

"It may work, but unseen consequences may come of it. Such as one Team absorbs the others and becomes on super team. Or instead mass murder falls upon various regions as an all out war happens." Wes said thoughtfully. "But it may be our best bet."

[Calefrun]

(lol now that I'm no longer the only one controlling team phoenix I've kinda lost my purpose in novien)

[Xero]

(Not really. You can still do stuff under Eric's command. You can wander off and do stuff without him knowing... plus, Calfrun is still inside the Magma base, and Eric isn't leaving without him. Hint: Do something dumb, but redeem yourself so that Eric will appeal to HQ for your promotion.)

Wraith turned around when he thought he heard something scuttling over the floor. He thought he saw a shadow move, but maybe he was just imagining things. Either way, he was a Ghost-type Pokémon, and he could easily slip out of anyone's grasp at a moment's notice. He continued on his way, finally seeing the light of the sun shining on the entrance to the cave.

[Calefrun]

Calfrun walked over to the computer Wraith had used. The pokemon may have only been here for the Regenerator files, but he was here to find anything that Team Magma had that Phoenix could use. He didn't expect what he came across.

He found a file detailing Magma's top secret plan to eliminate Phoenix. It wasn't even password protected. Idiots.

The plan was shockingly accurate, and it was supposed to begin once the two teams had taken over all of Novien. That was predicted to be within the next few days. Calfrun saved the file to a flash drive he just happened to have, but didn't delete the one on the computer. If Magma didn't know that Phoenix knew of the plan, they could easily launch a counter attack when the time came.

There was a noise in the hallway, and Calfrun snuck out and followed Wraith out of the cave. Zac walked in a second later and saw that the file was open. "What the?" He looked to see if anything else was amiss, and found that the Reggenerator's file was missing. "Probably just a mechanical error..." he said, and loaded the backup file. "Probably..."

[Major Xeno]

Xeno snuck slyly into the town, using his masterful skills of evasion to avoid trainers and members of any team.

"HEY LOOK! A GOLDEN SANDSLASH!"

Oh shit.








RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

Xeno dodged through the swarming mass of trainers, stabbing the annoyingest ones and the belts of the lesser annoying ones.

[Xero]

Wraith emerged from the cave and into the light, finally revealing himself. He looked around and saw Eric sitting on a rock with Yolanda at his side and Renegade in his lap. He floated over to Eric and dropped the items he had picked up: first the two Ultra Balls, then the Potion, then the Pokéball, then the file on the Regenerator. Eric stuffed the Potion and Ultra Balls in his small pack that clipped to his belt, then set the Pokéball aside. Handling the papers carefully, he flipped through the pages, finding charts and diagrams for the Regenerator, as well as many calculations to operate the machine. Satisfied with Wraith's work, Eric tossed a Pokétreat to the floating Duskull. He then turned the file over and found exactly what he was looking for: the codes to lock all technology in the Magma base.

About that time, Fang returned. No sign of Team Aqua anywhere. No matter. They had what they had come for. Eric gave Fang a Pokétreat and returned him to his Pokéball.

Eric stood up from the rock and hefted his new Pokéball in his hand. He tossed it and waited to see what would come out. To his delight, a Quilava emerged from the ball, it's fires already lit. Quilava was perfectly alert, taking in his surroundings quickly with short, jerky glances. He soon decided that he was safe, although he was now in the hands of an unknown trainer.

This Quilava had known no previous trainer. It had lived in the wild as a Cindequil until a Team Magma member found him in the forest and captured him with a net. He escaped the Magma Grunt and evolved soon after, only to be caught once again, this time by a Magma scientist. The scientist had hoped to experiment on Quilava, but what he would be doing was a mystery. Now Quilava was happy to have a real trainer who appeared to be less impulsive than the members of Team Magma.

"Well, well," Eric said. "Nicely done, Wraith." Wraith did an ecstatic flip, then poked his Pokéball, retreating inside it. "Quilava, huh? You'll be a nice addition to my team. Come here, Tiberius." Quilava did not recognize the name, but his new trainer seemed to be talking to him, so he approached. "I'm Eric," Eric told Quilava. "Nice to meet you."

The Quilava comically thrust his paw out to shake Eric's hand. Chuckling, Eric shook Tiberius' paw.

"Alright!" Eric exclaimed. "Now all we have to do is secure the base and head back to HQ." He held out Tiberius' Pokéball and said, "Tiberius, return!" Tiberius shot back into the Pokéball in a beam of energy, then Eric began walking toward the entrance to the cave.

Seeing a keypad at the entrance, he took out his file again and punched in the numbers: 35482. There was a clicking sound and a short beep, and a steel door dropped from the top of the cave entrance, barring the way. Soon, the entire base was locked down. Another code — 10486 — and all computer systems in the base were shut down. Finished with the mission, Eric walked back to the rock to rejoin Yolanda and Calfrun (who I'm going to say already left the cave just so I don't have to worry about him being locked inside).

"Everything's set," he told them. "Let's get going. We were supposed to be at HQ half an hour ago."

[Mizagium]

"Marill!" Tyler jumped then looked donw, it was Mary.

"No, Mary. I don't know when Janie will be back." THen he turned to Wesley and the others. "

"I'm sure there are no shortage of Phoenix-haters out there, the trouble is getting them to speak up. ANd then we have to convince them that we are worth supporting."

Archie barked in agreement.

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Yolanda looked up as Eric returned. "Got the Regenerator Papers?" Shadow Claw clung to her heels. He was unendingly loyal to her, which was why she kept him out of the Poke Ball most of the time. ANyone who even looked like they might threaten her got the claw.

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Darrien fumbled around with his pack before finding the right Poke Ball. "Alright, come on out." Pinkie, his Jigglypuff popped out with an excited squeal. He handed her a microphone and said, "I've hooked up some speakers all around the city. I need you to Sing into the microphone and put everyone to sleep so that we can get rid of Team Phoenix. Okay?"

"Jigglypuff!"

He stuffed some cotton in his ears and retuned Mouthy to hsi Poke Ball. "Okay, go for it!"

"Jigglypuff, Jiggly-oh-lypuff!"

Everyone in town was suddenly sleepy, and passed out where they were. Darrien removed his cotton and stifled a yawn. "Good-Ah-work, Pinkie!"

[Xero]

Michael, slightly annoyed that he was becoming more and more of a minor character as the story progressed, stood up and said, "Well, this is nice and all, but shouldn't we be doing something? I don't think just sitting around here is going to do much good. So I'll leave you all to get things running with Paladin. I'll be off exploring. Probably heading back to the Durgood Forest, then I'm going to Darangonind and Burlain to check out Phoenix's latest attacks." He walked out of the Pokémon Center and started toward the Durgood Forest and his secret base.

[Mizagium]

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[Xero]

Eric nodded at Yolanda and held up the file, showing her the label TOP SECRET.

"It's all here," he said. "The designs, the calculations... The purpose. We've got all we need and more."

He gave Renegade a look, and the Sableye scurried up a tree. When he reached the top, he jumped to the one next to it and to the next and the next. He quickly ascended up the volcano and was soon high enough to see over the woods and into the city of Helios below. He used Confuse Ray, and a beam of red, purple, and black light shot into the air. He let the light die down, then returned to Eric down at the entrance to the base. Minutes later, the sound of helicopter wings cutting the air could be heard approaching. A large airplane-like ship with chopper wings appeared over the peak of Solaris. It was time for Phoenix to leave Helios.

[Mizagium]

(I forgot you controlled Eric, lol)

Alianna stormed out of her room and out of the Pokemon Daycare, Bartimus at her heels and her Vulpix (Leora) in her Poké Ball. She was furious now, and Bartimus mewled sympathetically.

"Not now Bartimus. We're on a mission."

"Eevee?"

"Yeah. We're gonna take down Team Phoenix and my sister."

"Eevee!"

[Calefrun]

(im going to edit my post from earlier since it happened before Calfrun left the cave)

[Mizagium]

(K...wat?)