Chapter 19

Floral Paradise Lost

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"Lee! Flay!" Miles commanded as two blurs erupted from the nearby bushes, their tails glowing brightly. "Iron Tail!"

"Huh?" Zane and Chase stated before the small Riolu and Poochyena appeared before them, spinning around to slam their tails directly into the chests of the two operatives of the Venomous Fang Order. "ACK!"

The force sent the two grunts flying into the fountain with two large splashes, allowing Flay and Lee to land on the ground, both of them striking dramatic poses, "-You were right Lee dood! That was awesome!-"

"-Gets better every time, my friend!-" Lee laughed as the four called out pokemon rushed to their trainers' sides.

"Now are ya glad you followed my plan?" Vincent asked as the four pokemon began to pull their trainers from the fountain.

"Well… Don't you have your own pokemon?" Miles asked with a sweatdrop. "And I thought it was kinda illegal…"

"Only if you don't have a license or have permission from an officer of my status," Vincent replied pulling out his own pokeball from the back of his belt. "Now then, I think it's time we finished this… I've got some questions for these three…"

"Unfortunately for you… This battle hasn't even started yet…"

Vincent, Miles, Lee and Flay turned towards the side, seeing Turner pulling down his glasses as he lifted up his pokeball. "And you two just dug your own graves…"

There was an odd silence as Turner glared at Miles and Vincent… His jaw clenched tightly when he noticed that the Seviper, Skorupi, Beedrill and Grimer were helping their trainers (Zane and Chase) out of the fountain. "… Fools…"

Miles was frozen stiff.

Sure, this wasn't the first time he'd felt fear… But this was different… It was almost as if this glasses wearing, white haired man was dripping with venom from his very eyes – And it seeping directly into Miles' very soul, causing him to gulp in fear…

But, it seemed that whatever was plaguing Miles had no effect on Vincent. "So… When'd you get up?"

"I was drugged and dragged here apparently," Turner answered rubbing the back of his head, ignoring the question completely. "I just woke up when some water splashed on my face… And what do I find when I wake up?

"A pair of losers and a pair of morons duking it out while I'm dreaming of French toast."

And just like that, the poisonous aura that this man was giving off was gone and Miles couldn't help but sweat drop. "Uh… Vincent, who is this joker?"

'… Joker?' Turner thought with a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his head.

"From the reports, I'd wager my badge that he's Admin Turner of the Venomous Fang Order," Vincent answered with his eyes narrowed. "One of the top three trainers to be precise, right after the boss himself."

"Oh, so you know?" Turner cackled tossing the pokeball that he had up and down a few times. "Then you know of my track record then… I haven't been beaten by anyone other than the boss himself since I joined the Order. After all, I am top admin…"

"Indeed, I did know that," Vincent answered holding his left hand up, allowing a small cybernetic bar to erupt from his sleeve. Holding the bar in his hand, Vincent flicked a switch on it, creating a holographic screen to appear in front of his face, Turner's picture flashing on the screen along with a large amount of data scrolling down the electronic page.

"In fact, I've got a file for all three of you Admins."

Turner scowled.

Then with a snap of his fingers, Chase and Zane stepped behind him, their four pokemon appearing behind them. "Chase. Zane. You deal with the runt and his little annoying furballs…"

"-Hey! I take offense to that!-" Lee barked with a blood vessel appearing on the side of his head.

"-Ya gotta learn to chill out, dood,-" Flay yawned scratching his snout with the end of his paw. "-Don't let every little comment get you out of shape… Dood.-"

'… Personally, I'm not really sure what to make of these two…' Miles thought with a sweatdrop rolling down the side of his head as Vincent and Turner walked over to the side.

"Sir, yes, sir!" Chase and Zane shouted with a salute, their pokemon imitating them.

"Miles," Vincent said clenching the pokeball in his grip. "Can you handle dumb and dumber over there by yourself?"

"HEY!"

"… Well, I was lucky the first time," Miles muttered with a cold sweat appearing on the side of his head.

"-And we can beat them again!-" Leo roared holding his paws up into a martial art stance that looked sort of like the double knife stance… Only the Riolu's tail was curled behind his head to act as a third fist. "-Look alive Miles!-"

Miles couldn't help but blink a few times at his pokemon, "… Sometimes I wonder who the trainer is and who's supposed to be the trainee…"

"Zane… Ya wanna tag team this runt?" Chase asked cracking his knuckles a few times.

"Hmm, an interesting proposal," Zane muttered rolling his eyes. "Especially since you were the one who came up with the idea… But, this suit is a rental…

"And I just lost the deposit!"

Zane threw his hand up into the air, making his Seviper and Skorupi charge from behind him, "So I call dibs on him first! Seviper - Poison Tail! Skorupi – Vicegrip!"

Both poison type pokemon seemed to cackle before both of them shot forward at surprising speeds, both of them charging their attacks. The Seviper's tail-blade glowed a deadly light purple as he spun around while Skorupi's two pincers glowed a bright white color, both attacks aiming towards both of Miles' unleashed pokemon.

"Ur… Lee!" Miles blurted out snapping his arm to the side. "Force Palm! Flay! Iron Tail!"

"-I was hoping you'd say that!-"

"-You got it dood!-"

Lee charged towards the scorpion pokemon, both of his paws basking in a blue energy slamming both of the paws into the glowing pincers, both pokemon in a dead lock as they both tried to push the other back in order to land their attack successfully.

Unlike his fighting peer, Flay simply turned around to slam his glowing tail into Seviper's tail-blade, effectively blocking the attack, making both pokemon snarl and hiss loudly at each other.

Neither of the pair were willing to surrender…

"Hey… What am I supposed to do then?" Chase asked turning towards his two pokemon… Who only shrugged back in confusion.

Two flashes of light flew through the air, crashing in between both as the light began to build up.

"You're quite famous as well, Vincent," Turner chuckled as the light in front of him shot into the air, turning into a large bird like figure. "After all, I keep tabs on the big four in our country, especially those who happen to have a job on the side with the police…"

The light in front of Turner dripped to the ground to form into a rather large black bird that was almost three feet tall with red feathers at its white tail and under wings while underneath its straight yellow beak was a large feathery collar that gave the bird a beard like look and had a feather crest that resembled that of a fedora hat.

And with a loud screech, the bird landed atop of Turner's shoulder. "Isn't that right, Honchkrow?"

Shaking his head, Vincent could only smirk as the light began to form into an extremely large, dark-gray dinosaur that had resemblance to a raptor with several blue stripes racing down it's body. Around the dino's neck was a large blue collar that had two spikes on it and on its head were spikes on its dome-shaped head.

With its red eyes narrowed, the raptor roared loudly. "I dunno," Vincent chuckled. "Rampardos thinks that right now… I'm an ordinary trainer about to kick some tail."

"Tough guy, eh?" Turner commented throwing his hand up high into the air, making Honchkrow fly off his arm like a bullet from a guy. "We'll see how tough you are after this! Steel Wing!"

Both Rampardos and Vincent growled loudly as the large dark bird pokemon flew towards the two, it's two wings glowing with a silver light from the feathers reflecting the sunlight "Toughness has nothing to do with it! We're head strong!

"Head Smash!"

Then, using it's powerful legs, the dinosaur launched itself into the air like a rocket flinging right at the large crow monster…

CLANK!

Both attacks collided with each other, and time almost stood still, sparks flying from the Honchkrow's wings and Rampardos' domed head, neither of the two releasing their attacks.

Then time returned to normal having both pokemon fly past each other, with the crow diving towards the ground with the raptor sailing high into the air.

"Honchkrow!" Turner commanded as the black bird narrowly missed the ground and flew back into the air.

"Rampardos!" Vincent shouted when the raptor whipped its tail around in order to spin back through the air.

"Dark Pulse!"

"Thunderbolt!"

Dark and electrical energy flew through the air, crashing into each other in mid-air, the energy surging about and crashing into the ground causing large amount of explosions that scared most of the people who had gathered at the battle sight, but the combined energy grew too much and exploded into a large cloud of smoke and dust that soared high into the sky.

"Wow…" Miles admitted.

"Wow…" Zane gasped.

"… Killer light show, man," Chase chuckled lifting up a lighter into the air. "Now all we need is some KISS music and we're all good!"

"-Hey Miles,-" Lee asked while still pushing against the Skorupi's Vicegrip attack. "-W-What's KISS?-"

"… It was a band from a long time ago," Miles answered quickly before he snapped his fingers. "But enough of make-up wearing Rock-stars, use Iron Tail while the shorty is distracted!"

"I'M NOT SHORT!!!"

WHAM!

Unfortunately, that was enough of a distraction to allow Lee to leap backwards, allowing his silver hued tail to slam the scorpion right between the eyes, sending it skidding backwards.

"-Boo-Ya!-" Lee barked pumping his arms up into the air. "-I rock and roll!-"

Miles wasn't even going to waste his breath.

However, that gave Zane an opening, "Seviper! Bite attack!"

Flay's eyes widened as the poisonous viper snapped its head right for the dark pup, its red fangs gleaming brightly as it brought the fangs down on the Poochyena's back…

"Quick Attack!"

… Until Lee slammed his foot directly into the side of Seviper's head, sending the viper flying through the air to the side of the battle field.

"-Whoa… Thanks, dood,-" Flay chuckled with a gleeful look on his face.

"-Hey, no worries!-" Lee laughed with his paws at his hips. "-I'll have your back!-"

If anyone else could understand Lee, then what happened next could've been accompanied by the line 'But who's watching your back?' The moment that Lee finished barking, the large three needled Beedrill flew behind the fighting pokemon…

"Twin Needle!"

Time seemed to slow down as the two needles jutted towards Lee who began to turn around with his eyes widening…

"Roll out!"

… To see a large sandy brown rolling orb crash into the Beedrill, sending it through the air.

The orb spun around Lee and Flay, making Miles blink a few times until the orb uncurled into a familiar shrew like pokemon, "Sand!"

"A Sandshrew?" Miles questioned as the Beedrill and Grimer helped Seviper and Skorupi up.

And with a casual shrug, the Sandshrew wagged his tail in a disapproving manner at Miles, "… I think I know who owns this Sandshrew…"

"Herr Miles!"

"Great… I was right," Miles mumbled under his breath as he turned towards the other side of the nearby fountain.

And there stood none other than Vayne with Kris standing right behind him, and with his Mudkip, Daigo, resting on his shoulder. "About time we found ya!"

"… He was right behind the fountain," Kris growled as the two ran up next to Miles. "How long were you here?"

"Uh… Five, ten minutes?" Miles guessed with a shrug of his shoulders.

"… Idiot…"Kris spat.

With his Honchkrow landing on his arm, Turner scoffed to the side with a roll of his eyes, "Great, more roaches join the fray… Just what we didn't need."

Rampardos snarled as Vincent pumped his fist in front of his face, "The same could be said about your group…" The detective retorted. "You guys are always recruiting and placing your grunts all over the place, I wouldn't be surprised if you got this entire city crawling with your filth."

Turner furrowed his brow.

He wasn't going to admit it to this flatfoot, but Vincent was right. Thanks to the recent events that were plaguing Gardner City, the shadows of the Venomous Fang Order were starting to wrap around the city's lifelines in order to choke out the vermin of Team Atmos.

But, it was highly unlikely that Vincent would know this, and Turner had no intention of alerting the detective to these facts.

"Enough talk," Turner yelled as Honchkrow flew off his arm, its wide wings glowing brightly. "Steel Wing!"

"Again?" Vincent questioned before the raptor ran forward, its head lowered to slam it into the black bird. "You'll just get the same result! Head Smash!"

Back with the main group…

"Wow, looks like you're getting quite popular, Herr Miles," Vayne chuckled slapping his hand against Miles' back a few times.

"Yeah, too bad its with crazy guys and people who want to kill me," Miles sighed before he took a side glance at Kris. 'And I think I know which one she falls under…'

"What?" Kris spat out taking note that Miles was looking at her.

"Hey!" Chase shouted getting the three teens' attentions. "Evil people here who want to rip you to shreds! We're not going to go away if you just ignore us!"

"… Trust me," Zane advised rolling his eyes. "I've tried ignoring the big guy here on several occasions… But he just keeps coming back even stupider than before."

"Heh! You better believe it!" Chase cackled with a few slams to his chest…

… Until it sunk it. "Hey!" Chase yelped narrowing his eyes at Zane. "Was that a shot?"

"What do you think?" Zane retorted throwing his hand up into the air.

"Hmm… These two guys aren't too smart, Herr Miles," Vayne chuckled running a hand through his hair. "And you're having trouble with them? Herr Muscle and Herr Klein over there stronger than they look?"

"I don't think I was having trouble," Miles mumbled rolling his eyes. "Besides, its not like I was going to lose to these losers, I managed to beat the short one before."

"S-Short?!?!" Zane snarled with a dark aura appearing over his body, making his Seviper and Skorupi stagger away from their trainer. "SHORTY!?!"

"… Someone's a bit touchy about their height," Kris snickered with a cocky smirk on her face.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING AN ANT THAT'S ONLY DESTINED TO BE CRUSHED UNDERNEATH YOUR SHOE!?!" Zane roared, even making Turner and Vincent stop their own battle to look at the short Venomous Fang Order grunt.

"Nobody said anything like that," Miles pointed out.

"-I like this guy,-" Lee chuckled adjusting his red scarf. "-He's just as fun to mess with as Miles.-"

"LIKE I GIVE A RIP!" Zane snarled throwing his arm to the side. "Skorupi! Seviper! Operation plan Vega!"

Taking a moment to look at each other, the two poison pokemon nodded towards each other before they shot across the field at once.

"Lee! Flay!" Miles yelped as both of his pokemon leapt back into their fighting stances, just as Seviper and Skorupi were about to charge them…

… Only to blink in confusion as the two pokemon sped past the two of them… They weren't aiming for the pokemon, they had set their sights on Miles himself!

"Herr Sandshrew! Herr Daigo!" Vayne shouted as the two poison pokemon were getting closer and closer to the trainers, prompting the Mudkip and Sandshrew to leap off the Vayne's shoulder and ground (respectively) at the two attacking pokemon…

"Don't think so!" Chase shouted as the Beedrill and Grimer slammed into both of Vayne's pokemon, making the Rockstar like trainer chase after his pokemon.

But that still left Miles with a problem of his own to deal with, a pair of problems actually, with the Seviper and Skorupi leaping up into the air in front of Miles.

"-Miles!-" Lee shouted turning about face.

"-Dood!-" Flay barked as well.

'… This will sting…' Miles thought, about to run, but his legs were frozen…

… No one noticed that Kris had already reached for the back of her belt, a small click popping from her hand as she prepared to throw the item she just drew…

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Lux-Nero: Heh… I love cliff hangers.

Lee: -… Who the hell are you?-

Lux-Nero: I'm the author…

Lee: -What's an author?-

Lux-Nero: Um… 'Damn it, I've already broken the fourth wall by being here, but if I give him a straight answer, I'll get into deeper trouble!'

Lee: -Is it something you can eat?-

Lux-Nero: … Do I look edible to you?

Will Lux-Nero break the fourth wall in the story line? Will Lee become an 'author'? Find out next time on Lux-Lee: The Masterful Master of Mastering the Masterful Art of Mastering Writing – Final Episode: The Masterful Master

Lee: -W-Whoa… I'm all dizzy…-

Next time:

Chapter 20: Revelations On The Battle Field?

Lux-Nero: Anyway, sorry about the short chapter, but for the next chapter, you will all be amazed by the three simultaneous battles, each of them with their own twists and turns!

Lee: -… Sweet!-