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Legends of the Elemental Ones

Franklin had been in a daze for a long while. Seeing his boss outside, he wondered, Goodwin? Why would he be here? He knew he certainly hadn't told him there were elementals. He didn't even know there were elementals. Then the horrible realization struck him: He didn't know, but that didn't mean nobody else did. Somebody else must have tipped him off; there was a meeting of elementals going on the whole time!

Snapping out of his reverie, Franklin went to action. He looked around for an escape route with Goodwin's Pokemon blocking the door. Everything was in a frenzy. He couldn't look two feet in front of his face without seeing a Pokemon, or a flame, or something else. He was caught in a complete war zone. Running to the side of the church, he ran back and forth looking for something to escape from, when he saw Lucille half-hanging out of a window. "Hold on!" he shouted as he pushed her, then jumped out after her. "Sorry about the roughness," he apologized. "Run away from the church, and fast! Don't stop anywhere until you get out of Hearthome, this is where the Government's headquarters are. I do work for Goodwin, as I assumed you guessed by now. I have to go around front now and attack or else I'll probably be fired. Don't worry, if anyone is still in there, I'll do a royal job of screwing up." With a wink, he said, "See ya later, Lucille," and ran to the front of the church.

Reaching his boss, he said, "You do realize I was in there, right? Why did you attack? And who tipped you off? I didn't even know they were elementals. Well, I guess it doesn't matter. Go! My Pokemon!"
 
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"Thank.. you," she said, not knowing if he heard her. The whole time Franklin was speaking to her, her vision slowly returned to the way it used to be. Although, she couldn't take his advice. He was very nice though, and she had a strange feeling inside her. She shook it off. She saw the Metagross that was nearing towards her, but as she looked inside the church, she saw Illiamna's limp body, as she had either fainted or was extremely weak. "Illi," she muttered, a bit sadly. She grabbed a Pokeball and withdrew her, a red aura enveloping her body back to the ball. Then she took out a Great ball, and let out her Nintales, Seven.

"Seven, help Andrew!" The Ninetales responded by rushing through the window frame and over to the boy.
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Among the chaos, Hailey saw that Fira had managed to pin down one of the Elementals. "Excellent!" she exclaimed. However, Seven unleashed an inferno from his mouth at Fira. He was sure to be careful that Andrew wasn't in the blast range. Fira didn't respond to being attacked at well, as she immediately got off Andrew to dodge Seven's move. She growled, about to unleash a power of her own at the Ninetales.
 
Running inside the church to attack, Franklin saw that Ice elemental wrangling with a Houndoom. Hailey's Houndoom, he realized. And Lucille sent in a Ninetails to fight it off. "No, Lucille!" he shouted. "You HAVE to get out of there! I'll tell everyone else the same thing! Don't risk it! I can go free everyone on," raising his fingers and making quotes in the air, he said, "accident." He continued, "Goodwin won't attack me, I'm on his side, remember? You all just get out of there. You could get hurt or captured!" Sending out his own Cerberus, he shouted, "Get that Houndoom! I'm sure that some elemental is making it or something! Go!"

Sitting back at his office, Jack wondered what was happening at the church. If only I was young enough to go in the field again, he mused.
 
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((Mewtwo, I'm going to bring up the other thing I was telling you about in PMs))

"I was aware of such a thing," Goodwin calmly said, "but there was a large number of Elementals meeting at that Church. I knew that if I were to launch an attack, now would be an optimal time.

"Now then, I believe I must finish this. Iowa, ready a Magnet Bomb. Delaware, Meteor Mash. The time has come to-"

He was cut off by yet another screech from Arizona. The Yanmega had found an Elemental, one that Washington couldn't handle on his own.

"Never mind that," Goodwin calmly said, "only Iowa needs to attack. Everyone else..." he signaled for them to return to him. Even Arizona, who flew over and hovered by the Director's shoulder.

Once that happened, Iowa gathered energy in front of him and unleashed a blast of steel. The attack flew through an opening in the Church, and...
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Andrew thought that the end had come, but he felt the Houndoom knocked off of him, and Andrew saw that this was thanks to the Ninetales of Lucielle.

She helped me... she's the first person that's helped me since I've become what I am... even if it was only done because I told Eltanin to protect her...

He knew what he had to do.

"Thank you," he whispered. He slowly got up, recalled Kalhai, and turned to Eltanin. "Get her out of there, and take these with you" he said, placing all six of his pokeballs, three of which were empty, in Eltanin's arms, next to Lycis. "Volantis, go with Lucielle."

Volantis was taken aback, "But how do you expect to-" he was cut off by another Bullet Punch from the Metagross. This one sent him sprawling back even further. Just as he got up, the Magnet Bomb struck him, and he was knocked to the ground again.

"Just go!" he yelled, several ice crystals building around him as he said this, "we don't have time to argue. Lycis is in pain, lest you forget, and we don't know what happened to the others. We need to buy time."

Eltanin then realized what Andrew was about to do. "No," the Dragonite said, "Andrew, you can't-"

"Go!" Andrew yelled.

Knowing that nothing would deter him from what he was about to do, Eltanin turned to find one of the exits, and quickly flew out of it, just as Franklin arrived in the Church.

"Well, you backstabber," Andrew hissed quietly, "you'll get what you wanted for coming here."

With that, he slowly staggered out of the Church. The moment he exited, he was surrounded on all sides by Goodwin's pokemon.

"Well, now, what have we here? An Elemental that decided to escape in the wrong direction?"

That was from Goodwin. Andrew looked defiantly at the leader and said: "No. An Elemental that knew where he was going... and one that wants to make a deal with you."
 
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Blake moved his arms and found he could atleast see partially. he looked about and saw the boy who had said he was an ice elemental laying on the floor, Arctica, Fantom, follow me. Blake took a breath and jumped down the hole that Sable had dug and followed closely behind his pokemon.

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Zack moved his hand away from his face and shook his head, spots danced in his vision, he saw one of the elementals jump down a hole, he the fastball from his belt and released his Luxray, "Spark, follow him" he rubbed his eyes again as the Luxray ran into the church and leapt down the hole.
 
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Cory was just beggining to enjoy himself when his cellphone rang. He opened it up and a text appeared
Structural foundations weakened. It's going to collapse
"Ah..that might be a problem." He muttered. "HEY BOSS, WE NEED TO GET OUTTA HERE, IT'S GUNNA COLLAPSE!" He yelled.
His Pokémon, thankfully, all heard him and retreated through wherever it was they were guarding and made their way around the church to where he was. Draco crawled through a hole moments later. "Guys, stay back. When it collapses, we need to search for any survivors, and capture them, ok?"

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Jake grimaced. "Verdian, Bouncer, go that way. Boom Boom and Bannanaphone go that way and Disco and Plume stay here with me."
The Pokémon split up. Bouncer noticed a human girl outside the church, judging by the rips in her clothes, it looked like she'd crawled through a window. "Hey, she's the one with the Vaporeon!" Verdian said.
"Lets go then." Bouncer nodded, and the two Pokémon headed over to the girl.
 
With the success of distracting Fira enough to make her stray away from Andrew, Seven quickly fled back to Lucille. Her window of opportunity to escape was running out, but she had to stay just a bit longer. She was waiting for Andrew to escape, but... he didn't? "W-What is he doing?!" Lucille asked aloud. It was too late for her to do anything, Andrew was surrounded, so she did what she absolutely hated to do: she gave up. There was nothing she could do for him now. Lucille felt dampness on her arms. She had been so emotional that she didn't realize she was making water fall on her.

Then she noticed two Pokemon, a Breloom and that Leafeon from earlier. "Pokemon that were separated from their trainer? Come on, we need to find him or her for you," she started, as she went to turn away to escape.
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Seeing that Fira was no longer needed in the capture of the Elemental, Hailey called her back. She was mentally kicking herself, because she knew she wasn't going to get any credit from her superiors. Oh well, she mused, I'll get my chance. Even she had a smile on her face when she realized this Elemental was surrounded. "Finally..."
 
Bouncer shook his head. "No, not seperated, finding other people who escaped!" At that, he grabbed her arm with one arm and pointed the way they came with the other. "My trainer is around there!"

((Short post is short, but I can't really do Jake or Cory for a while, so...

Also, I'm assuming that all elementals can understand all Pokémon?))
 
Running around the church, Franklin took advantage of the frenzy to try and help people get out. Noticing an Elemental jumping down a hole, he released Blatal. "Follow him down," he commanded. "Help that guy get out!" He grinned with pride as he saw his Scizor skim under the belly of Zack's Luxray and get into the hole. "That's how to go," he whispered to himself. Checking that his houndoom was still engaged with Hailey's, he set off to find others, and quickly ran into the Psychic type. "You called this, didn't you?" he asked. "Well, know that Hearthome is the home to the government's headquarters! Now GET OUT!" Sending out Wonderbird, he said, "You're Psychic, she's Psychic. Use your psychic power together or something but I don't want to see you in here again!" Discovering a hole in the back of the place, he sent out Grenadon. "Go, explode that hole!" he said. "That way not only will it be bigger, bu it should attract some good attention away from the elementals." Seeing his Pokemon moving along at a sluggish pace, he picked up his Forretress and hurled it. "Get over there and do it!" Wheeling around, he was horrified at what he saw. Andrew, the Ice elemental, was talking to Goodwin. Examining what remained on his belt, he saw the PokeBalls for Fatty and Electro, neither of which would be good at what he was about to do, but he had to do it anyway. Picking the yellow and black Pokeball, he released Electro. "Go, Thundershock on him!" he said. He watched yellow electricity arc from the Ampharos, but it missed. Deciding he had no time for a second chance, he headed toward the back of the church again. He felt a vibration when he was about halfway across the church. "Good, he did his job." Reaching the now much bigger hole, he recalled the fainted Pomemon. He then went back to Goodwin, hoping he still maintained a somewhat good standing. He announced, "I have pokemon after the Ghost and Psychic. Other than that, one is fighting some clone of itself and another is fainted. I gotta go, I'm not fit to battle anymore." and with that, he headed to the side of the church, where he saw a nasty scene. Goodwin's Metagross was trying to attack Lucille. Oh, Lord, he thought Here goes nothin'. Sending out his last Pokemon, he shouted, "Go, Fatty!"
 
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((Pwnemon, Andrew's not knocked out. He's about to make a deal with Goodwin))

Goodwin was about to ask Andrew what sort of deal we was about to make, when he heard someone else yell that it was going to collapse.

"Washington, get out of there!" he yelled, "It's going to fall apart!" While he knew that this would alert the other Elementals, he could not under any circumstances lose Washington. Washington was vital to his success.

A moment later, he allowed himself a small smile as the Metagross shot out of the Church. Knowing that he was out of harm's way, Goodwin turned to the still surrounded Andrew.

"Now then, what sort of deal did you want to make? And before you answer, I would like to remind you that I am a busy man, since I need to still find other Elementals that aren't doing what you're doing."

"Well, that's just it," Andrew said, "those others are your end of my deal. Let them go."
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Volantis heard Goodwin yell that the whole thing was about to come down, and turned to follow Lucielle as she was leaving the Church.

The Manectric paused for only a moment to look back at the surrounded Andrew. He knew what his trainer was planning, but he was furious about it. He didn't want Andrew to endanger himself, even if it was for...

No. He couldn't stop to think about that. Not right now. Volantis turned back around, and ran out of one exit. He needed to find Eltanin and the other Elementals.
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Goodwin would have killed Andrew right then and there if he wasn't so shocked by the audacity of his demand.

"Why..." he paused to compose himself, "why would you demand such a thing? What could you possibly have that would make me want to do such a thing."

Andrew stared calmly at Goodwin, and simply said: "I have myself. Let them go, and I'll stay."

Goodwin began a small, slow laugh, something that he rarely did.

"Interesting. Tell me, boy, what makes you think that I would take such I deal?"

Andrew gave a sickening grin. "I look at it this way," he said, "either you are guaranteed to capture one Elemental and let the rest go free, or you're not guaranteed to capture any Elementals. How does that sound to you?"

Goodwin chuckled again. He then said: "Very well. We have a deal. Iowa, you know what to do."

Andrew wondered what he meant when suddenly, he felt a numbing feeling in his entire body. He was able to turn his head just enough to see that the Magnezone had hit him with Thunder Wave, and as he collapsed to the ground, he could feel the Yanmega trapping his arms and legs with String Shot.

Right before he completely blacked out, he heard Goodwin say: "Fear not, boy, I am a man of my word. I will give your comrades a fair start... but what they choose to do with that start is up to them."
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Goodwin watched as the Elemental collapsed to the ground, still being hit by String Shot. Once he was sure that he had been secure, he turned to the other Government members and their pokemon.

"We've gotten what we came here for. Now let's go. CT, Arizona, and Iowa, take the prisoner back to the HQ yourself. Everyone else, come with me."

Without another word, he recalled Delaware and Oregon, and began the walk back to the main building.
 
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Cory returned his Pokémon, except Torchie, who's Pokéball rested somewhere in the water underneath Pacificlog Town in Hoenn, and jogged to where his boss was. "Are you sure we should leave, sir? There are several holes in the walls and floor where Elementals could have escaped from, so shouldn't we look for them?"
 
Suddenly Sable broke the surface just ahead, "Well done sable, return." Sable returned to her pokeball and Blake stepped out of the hole, just ahead was the water elemental and two pokemon. He started to walk over there when a low growl came from behind him, he spun around to see a Luxray had followed them through the hole. Arctica used ice beam and Fantom swung at it with a shadow punch but both attacks missed and the Luxray tackled the Froslass. She hit a tree and collapsed to the ground, He returned her to her pokeball and looked back over at the luxray, Fantom continued its assault and eventually managed to land a blow sending the Luxray flying back towards the front of the church. Suddenly a Scizor flew out of the hole and stood inbetween Dusklops and the Luxray.

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Spark flew past zack and crashed to the ground nearby, "Return," the luxray returned to its pokeball and Zack turned to Blade, "You know where to go?" Blade nodded and took off at a run down the road. "Go, Night." Zacks oldest friend appeared from its pokeball and stretched its black wings. Zack hopped on his back and Night took off towards the HQ.
 
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Goodwin looked over at Cory. "We will not be pursuing them," he said, "I am a man of my word, and the deal I made was quite simple: I stop the pursuit for now, and I get the voluntary prisoner. I would prefer to not go back on my word for today."

He then turned to face Franklin, but he had already ran back to the side of the Church, likely oblivious to the signal of retreat.

He is... a loose cannon. While I admire his devotion to my cause, I have my limits; I certainly cannot have someone that disobeys orders in my Government. It would be... unpleasant.

Not that he matters right now. I have priorities to take care of, namely, coaxing whatever secrets I have from this new prize, and testing that other project of mine...

Goodwin smiled again. This battle might not have ended the way he wanted it to, but the encounter hadn't been a total loss. After all, he had indeed found what he had been looking for.
 
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((My god. Three pages in one and a half days. I need some serious cacth up posts.))

While all the excitement was going on, Wallace was no where to be found. When the earthquake had begun, he returned Shadow and sent out Reaper, and turned them both incorpreal and they slid through the walls near him. He hid in the forest outside the church.

<So.> he telepathed to all elementals near him <What do we do now. We just got attacked. We need to regroup. Then we go after 'em and have Pokémon use Explosion on their HQ.> Idiot. responded Shadow from his Pokéball.
 
Seeing a red flash pull away Metagross, Franklin laughed and recalled his own Fatty. "Well that was... Anticlimatic," he said. "I guess Goodwin called off the attack." But I have less than good news. I know exactly why." His face growing somber, he explained, "He got Andrew. I was so busy trying to help people get out that I didn't notice until too late. I turned around and I saw him talking with Goodwin. I didn't know what was happening, but I guess he was trading himself for all of you guys. Or something. Anyways, get out of Hearthome! Never show your face here again! But before you go, can I have your PokeGear number? I'd like to keep in touch." He gave her his number, then turned when he heard a crash, seeing Blatal entangled with a Luxray. "Go back to Zack," he yelled at the electric Pokemon. "The attack was called off." Returning his own Pokemon, he said, "Sorry, what was your number again?"
 
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Lucille had watched the church fall to ruin and watched the rest of Andrew's capture. It looked... painful. Water was dripping from her hands and the Breloom had grabbed her arm as they went over to their trainer. Then Franklin had come back, and when he said, "Never show your face here again", she thought he was threatening her. She frowned, more water dripping from her palms. But when she heard the rest of what he had to say, Lucille's face once again lit up. She half-smiled, still not completely happy because of Andrew's capture.

"I have a feeling that... you're going to see me much more often than you think," she said, as she calmed herself so the water would stop. "Thank you for helping, it means a lot." She secretly hoped he hadn't seen her using her power, so she tried hiding her hands. I must look like some kind of freak to him. And I've never exposed my power before, it's somewhat, relieving in a way.

Then she turned to the guy who telepathed to them. "I honestly don't know what the plan is, but you're right. We do need to regroup."
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Hailey followed Goodwin. She couldn't wait to hear what the boy had to say. This was exciting! They had never captured an Elemental before.
 
Blake recalled Fantom and turned to the man behind him with the water elemental, 'I think I heard someone say her name was Lucille...' he walked closer keeping his hand on the pink ball on his belt. "I still don't completely trust you, but if another one of the elementals trusts you then I will trust in their judgement." He wrote down his pokegear number and handed it to him, "Dont cross us." he walked past him and around the back to where the Grass elemental stood, "Very well played I have to say. My name is Blake."

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As Zack approached the roof of the building he saw Blade already standing there awaiting his arrival, "Damn, Blade. You are way to fast." he landed and watched as Goodwin's pokemon delivered one of the elementals. He would have to visit him at some point so he could get a description of the others. 'Although Goodwin's probably already thought of that.' He returned Night to his Pokeball and walked through the doorway and climbed down the stairs to Goodwin's office.
 
"Is that your power?" asked Franklin. "You can make your hands drip? You can wash your hands without a faucet," he teased. "Best power ever. I mean, here I was thinking you could do something awesome like cause tidal waves, but now that I look back, nothing is more important than practicing good hygiene." He stopped for a second, then said, "Ah, you know I'm just teasing. I'm so freaking jealous it isn't funny." He was interrupted by the second elemental, whom he had sent Blatal after, stopping to give him a number. Chuckling, he said, "Can somebody please explain to this kid the phrase 'teen romance'?"
 
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"Ah." She realized he had noticed her power. "Well, this is only a little of my power. It's more impressive when I'm near bodies of water." She actually started smiling more. Lucille guessed that it was important to keep people's spirits up in a situation like this. "If you don't want to hurt Elementals, then why did you join the Government?" she inquired. And as she saw him refusing the other Elemental's number, she decided to grab the slip of paper for herself. Then she grabbed Franklin's hand and put the paper in his palm.

"You should take it. I don't have a PokeGear of my own because, well, I ruined it. You know, water and all," she explained. "And this way, the group of us can communicate with you if need be."
 
Volantis and Eltanin had reached the spot where some of the Elementals had been gathering. Eltanin had seen Andrew's voluntary capture, and filled Volantis in on what had happened when the two met up before seeing the others.

Upon seeing the Government member, Volantis immediately began to gather electric energy around his mane.

"You," he snarled, "I don't know why you're here, but I do know that you're part of the Government, and I know that you're the ones that captured Andrew. So I'm going to give you five seconds, and then I can't be held responsible for-"

"Calm down," Eltanin said, gently placing down Lycis as he did so, "he probably can't understand you, plus I don't think he's completely on the Government's side. Besides that, Andrew gave himself up to the Government so that we could get a head start over them. Do you want to waste that head start?"

He then placed all six pokeballs on the ground, and turned to Lucielle. "Do you have any sort of healing item?" he asked, "Lycis is hurt, and I don't like her chances of going on unless we can get her some help, and fast."
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Iowa, CT, and Arizona took the unconscious Andrew to a through a hidden staircase in the HQ and into a chamber deep below the surface of Hearthome, and some ways away from the space below the Government HQ. It would be here that the Elemental would be kept, here that Master Goodwin would be able to do whatever it was that he intended to do to this boy.

CT unceremoniously dropped Andrew onto the ground of the chamber, and then indicated several shackles hanging from the upper and lower parts of the wall furthest away from the entrance. Iowa then took charge, using his magnetic abilities to maneuver the restraints onto Andrew's wrists and ankles. These would ensure that the boy's Elemental abilities would be completely subdued.

With Andrew properly incarcerated, CT and Arizona flew out of the prison and back to where Goodwin and Washington were (which was right back outside,) whereas Iowa floated at the entrance to the chamber as a guard, just in case anyone came to cause trouble, unlikely as that seemed.
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Goodwin had just entered the HQ when he saw CT and Arizona fly back toward him. The absence of Iowa indicated that they had managed to successfully imprison the Elemental.

Now then, I must take care of one final loose end before I check on the prisoner, he decided. Taking out his Pokegear, he called Franklin.

"Franklin, while I appreciate your devotion to hunting the Elementals, I am a man of my word, and that is why I called for the retreat. I hereby order that you return to base for further instructions."
 
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