Yeah yeah, shut it, I know it's been a while.
Adult life, Writer's Block, as well as some light depression prevented me from writing, but I'm better now.
Probably.

More importantly, The Pokemon Anime, I am pissed...
Ash deserved that win, also there are quite a few Hawlucha/Noivern moments in it 3
But the biggest crime now, is that in the Sun/Moon anime, ash looks freaking retarded.

Rant aside, here's the next chapter.

Pokemon isn't mine, otherwise Hawlucha and Noivern would have kissed already.

Anyway...

Running to the beach, I was met with a sight I would have never thought I would see.

Looking around, there was a large amount of people lying unconscious on the shore, as well many who were being picked up by some of the gathered people, and I assumed that they were being taken to the hospital.

The waves were silent, as was the wind when I saw what surprised me the most.

One of the cloaked figures were standing by the shore, and a few of my friends were gathered around him.

"No way…" I muttered as I ran towards my friends. "Did this guy cause this scene?"

As I approached the small group, Turbo happened to stop me before I could get any closer to the hooded guy.

"Stay back Al." He said. "This guy is dangerous, go help the people on the beach."

"No way." I replied.

"Fire storm!"

That voice came from the cloaked man, and the Swampert pushed me out of the way before a large burst of flames shot up from below him, knocking him backwards.

Now he's done it.

"Fire Lance!"

Shouting back, two flame lances were fired towards the the stranger, who dodged them at the last second by rolling sideways in the sand. I took this opportunity to rush in and strike him in the chest with my fist drenched in poison. He staggered back, but soon retaliated with a swift Torrent Punch, knocking me down for a few seconds as well.

Looking up at him, I saw poison bubbles coming from his hood, meaning that I had successfully poisoned him.

Awesome.

Looking more at this guy, it seemed that we shared the same height and build. He was clearly one of the smaller guys of the four, and not only that, but judging by that Fire Storm move he just used, there was no doubt that this guy was the one who took down that train I was in when coming to town.

I have a bone to pick with this guy

"What, nothing to say?" I taunted.

Another swift Torrent Punch was his reply, and I blocked it with my Poison Jab this time. A second later his arm was covered in flames, and this time he was trying to strike me by delivering some fiery slashes; dodging those by repeated sidesteps, I covered my own arm with the flames of my Fire Lance, and was able to counter and cancel his own fire attacks.

In the midst of fighting, I looked at the both of our arms, and it looked like we both had fiery tattoos attached to them, but they looked different.

His resembled explosions while mine had lances on them. Obvious facts aside, they both shared the same red-orange glow, as well as the flames surrounding them.

Now that I thought of it, I had only been able to do this since I watched this guy do it first.

Who knows what else these powers can do.

Back to the battle, the two of us jumped backwards in opposing directions, interrupting this little stalemate we had going on, and I was beginning to get a little sweaty from all this heat. The next best thing I could do was attack from a distance, so this resulted me in putting out the fire on my arm, then summoning my Thousand Arrows, firing them in the direction of my assailant.

I knew that dodging them all would be nearly impossible, so I watched as he did his best, his cloak getting torn in various areas.

A chuckle left my lips as I began hearing the guy painting.

I assumed all of that poison damage was beginning to rack up.

The next thing I knew, a large Water Pulse was fired my way.

I chuckled once again, crossing my arms in front of me, blocking the ball of water before splitting it with a Poison Jab.

"H-How?!" The assailant finally spoke. "How are you blocking all of my attacks?!"

I was a little surprised that he had spoken, but since this guy wanted to talk now, a plan formed in my head, and I needed a little time to pull it off.

Crossing my arms again, I grinned.

"Somehow you knew my name before, but you don't know who I am?" I replied. "I am Aladar, the Grass-Normal Delta Zangoose!"

I shouted that as if I was in some sort of video game, and it felt kinda silly.

"Go ahead, try to hit me if you're able." I continued. "Your water attacks won't do much to me, and since you can use that fire magic, I can cancel it out with my own. Though I'm not too skilled with my fire magic, I am a skilled Team Magma member, and I know my way around a fight."

"Oh right, I forgot." He replied with a growl. "Had I remembered that you were a Delta Pokemon, I would have killed you the day I destroyed that train. How you survived that blast, I will never know."

Now that I think of it, I don't know exactly remember how that happened either.

But I'll think about that later.

Oh yeah…

"While we're here, care to enlighten me on why you destroyed that train in the first place?" I asked. "It wasn't because I was on it right?"

The guy huffed, more poison bubbles leaving him.

"We're on a mission to eliminate pokemon that are unnatural, but while we were doing that, I saw someone who needed to be eliminated enter that train. I had been following him for a while and I took my opportunity to do so." He explained. "That man was none other than Tocaro; you should know him."

I almost wanted to fall back after he said that, as well as all of my friends who were watching us.

They must have had some faith in me, seeing how I've been the only fighting while they've been watching.

But that was certainly news to me.

Tocaro… dead? For real?

Well, it's not like I saw him after the train was destroyed.

Interrupting my thoughts, the guy was now coughing violently, spewing out blood and poison from his mouth.

Looks like my plan worked.

"Hey!" He grunted with realization, and fell to his knees. "You were stalling this whole time!"

"Well duh." I replied. "Sure, I was wanting to know what was up with you and the train, but letting all of that poison damage rack up without having to fight too much was also part of what I was going for. Also let's just face it; judging by how you were battling, I don't think you would have been able to beat me anyway. You seem to be able to kill people by using your magic, but I guess battling isn't really your thing."

I think I must have struck a nerve saying that, because I could tell that he was about to jump back into action, but soon fell to the ground, unconscious.

Looking around me, I let out a little sigh of relief.

What I just said to him wasn't exactly true. I think it must have just been a bad match-up, me and him.

Also, I was glad I was able to distract him long enough before he realized that he could just use his Great Magic spell to kill us all.

Speaking of, time for the moment of truth.

Approaching the cloaked guy, I turned him onto his back and pulled down his hood…

Just to gasp and fall backwards in the sand, and once again, it wasn't just me, but almost everyone gasped; Terrakion, Turbo, Cobalion, and Chester.

Even Cuatro gasped, but I assumed that was just because everyone else was doing it; he didn't even know the guy.

But we did.

Keldeo...

xXOOOOOXx

The next hour of my life was spent taking care of the people stranded on the beach.

After Keldeo was taken out, Terrakion and Cobalion took him into custody, and the rest of us helped out with taking people to the hospital. After seeing a few of the people unconscious, I eventually ran into someone I never expected to see again, so soon after parting that is.

Right now I was sitting in a hospital room with none other than Hiro, the Seviper pirate I had gotten acquainted with, and was now reunited with.

The people who were being treated here were the pirate crew that had just left a couple weeks ago. It seems that Keldeo must have been after Hrist, and the reason they all washed ashore was because he blew up the ship they were on.

The doctor said that most of them were just in shock, and that few of them had any serious injuries, but that was the least of my concerns.

What worried me was that neither Hrist nor Slasher were anywhere to be seen, and that only made me assume the worst.

Also, I was worried about Terrakion too.

Terrakion had told me that he was fine with me choosing Michael, and that all he wanted was for me to be happy, but with Keldeo back, I was wondering what he was going to do. I don't think that they'll be able to just make up and everything would be back to normal. Keldeo alone also had much to answer to for before personal relationships as well.

The next thing on my mind was Tocaro.

Though he may be dead, I have this lingering feeling that he's not the one behind all of this. Tocaro was after shinies, not Delta pokemon, and if Tocaro had put Keldeo and those other three up for this task, then it would make no sense for Keldeo to have destroyed that train I was on. Keldeo could have been lying to me, but something told me that he was telling the truth about killing Tocaro.

Someone else must be pulling the strings for this one.

Also, something told me that even though Tocaro is dead, I don't think that he'll be out of my life just yet.

Then the next thing…

If Keldeo was one of the cloaked figures going around killing Delta pokemon, then there is a high chance that Ice and Zero could be in on it too.

Apparently both Ice and Keldeo left around the same time, so it couldn't be impossible that they were together, and as for Zero, I haven't seen him around since I've gotten here, and there wouldn't be a reason why he wouldn't be with Ice.

As for the last person, I really had no idea…

Out of all the things on my mind though, what bugged me the most was the motive.

I couldn't think of any reason why those guys were going around killing delta pokemon. Keldeo and Ice were pretty chill guys when I first met them, and though I knew them for only a few days, I could sense no evil or anything in them.

Hell, they were in the Swords of Justice after all.

"Al?"

I jumped a little as I turned to the door and saw Ratchet there.

"Sorry, did I scare you?" He asked.

"Just startled me." I replied. "Got a lot on my mind right now. Both Keldeo and Hiro are back, but I would be lying if I said that this was how I wanted to be reunited."

The canine chuckled a little.

"Well, both of them should be fine in a few hours. Hiro was just really exhausted, and Keldeo just fainted from poison like a normal person; once he wakes up, we'll give him a few pecha berries to snack on."

Normally I would be a little amused, but right now I just wanted to think.

"Oh yeah, are you yourself feeling alright?" He then asked. "Any injuries?"

"No, I'm good." I replied. "Keldeo couldn't really do much to me, all I did even was just poison him. We fought a little, but I ended up stalling him until he passed out."

The sound of the door opening again made the two of turn our heads again.

This time Cuatro came in.

"Hey Al, time to head back." The Metagross said, waving at me.

"Call me when Hiro wakes up, maybe he might know something." I said to the medic, hopping off the chair.

Ratchet nodded, and I made my leave out the door with Cuatro.

My mind still raced, and right now I kinda needed to prioritize on what I wanted to deal/think about first.

I guess maybe I should think about this new foe of mine.

Might be a tad bit shorter than the last few chapters, but I think I did good.
I'm not the best at writing battle scenes, but I found some nice inspiration from some awesome music.
This chapter is dedicated to my good friend Firezol.

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