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Legends of the Elemental Ones

"Er..thanks" He noticed three people, including the government guy, trading phone numbers. "Eh, doesn't matter. Don't have one anyway." He shrugged. "Bouncer, Verdian, good job. Do either of you know what happened to Boom Boom and Bannanaphone? They are Exeggutor and Tropius respectively."

What Jake didn't notice was the Dragonite flying just behind a cloud, watching all that went on.
 
"Okay, then," said Franklin. "Hope I see ya soon. I gotta go now. As to why I took the job, It was really the money. I'd gotten fired from two jobs before. I was moving out. You can't get fired from a government job. It paid well. Before today, I'd never met an elemental, so I believed Goodwin that they were all evil, but I don't anymore." Suddenly, his PokeGear rang. Seeing the caller ID, he waved and threw a couple bandaids from his pocket at Lucille. "That Pokemon looks hurt. Bye."

Franklin walked away from the church, stopping only to retrieve Cerberus, and headed toward the government's headquarters. Deciding that his boss would probably be mad at him, he walked in and issued an apology. "Sorry about going off after you said to retreat. I had to go get my Pokemon that I had sent after Elementals."

Stepping in yet again, Jack said, "No matter what the circumstance, you disobeyed orders. You keep this up and we may fire you."

"But I had to disobey orders to obey them! I had sent Blatal after the Ghost one," Franklin protested.

"No buts. Stop the insubordination."

"Fine." Leaving Goodwin's office, Franklin went to his own apartment and cooked himself a hearty meal, preparing for another long day tomorrow.
 
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Blake looked over at the surrounding streets and let Fantom out of his Pokeball. Fantom, help us find the rest of the Elementals, can you? The pokemon nodded and began to float about the reckage while seemingly invisible.

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Zack was about to knock on Goodwin's door but lowered his hand and walked back to his office instead. he stepped inside and locked the door behind him before walking towards a wooden panel on the wall, he pulled it down to reveal a bed. he returned Blade to his pokeball and lay down on bed. He muttered to himself, "Where are you?" before falling asleep.
 
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Goodwin once again waited until Franklin had left before turning to Jack.

"I continue to worry about that one. While I admire his eagerness to obey some of my orders, he seems to keep forgetting when one order stops and another starts. Now that I have actually found the Elementals and captured one of them, I believe the time for discontented Employees has come to a close.

"In order to stop this, Jack, I want you to begin secretly surveying Franklin each day. Find out what exactly he does while he works, and while he isn't working. I do think that this could perhaps teach us why he is so... eager."

He got up from his chair. "I am going to go check on our recent catch. CT and Arizona will be staying here." As he said this, the Starmie and Yanmega obediently flew to Goodwin's end of the room, while Washington unobtrusively floated behind Goodwin.

Let's see what makes these Elementals tick...
 
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((Alright, my final post for the night.))

Lucille dug in her pocket, looking for something to help Lycis. She found one Max Potion and one regular Potion. A sad pang hit her when she remembered Illiamna was hurt still. Seven padded up to his trainer and nudged her arm. She took out Illiamna's Pokeball and let her out. The Vaporeon was still weak, her breathing a little shallow. Lucille took the Max Potion and used it on Lycis, then took the regular Potion and used it on Illiamna.

After a few moments, the Vaporeon slowly moved her head and licked Lucille's cheek. She was regaining her strength, and her trainer couldn't help but smile. "I think this should be good for now, don't you?" she asked, looking at the other Pokemon.
 
((Wow I go to sleep and you guys post a page or more I'm way behind on my own RP >.> <.< I'm never making the plot move later in the day again! BTW, Ellie is still in the church [Which, I only skimmed the posts, but I think is collapsed now] to make sure everyone got out allright. I, as the DM, am going to do a bit of 'timetravel', if only to catch up.))

The distractions were working; she could sense everyone leaving one by one as the building was shaking. She saw Andrew, the Ice Elemental, talking to Goodwin. What is he up to...? she thought as she went a little closer to hear.

"...catch one Elemental, and let the rest go, or you're not guarunteed to catch any at all."
"Very well then." That was all she heard before she decided it was enough. An Elemental, betraying its own kind? But then again, it was giving them a head start.

She stayed in the collasping church until she knew everyone was out and safe, then teleported out. She noticed a Government official talking to the rest. But he seemed... friendly. Like a spy or something? As he was leaving, she noticed him talking about his Pokégear. Gary, her older stepbrother, had just gotten her one, but she never thought she woud need it. She floated up to the officer, statched his Pokégear, and entered her number.

<Now you have contact with the leader. May your ways be pure, and your heart clean.> she telepathed to him before handing it back and going back to the group. <So, it seems we have a Government on our side. I overheard Andrew and Goodwin talking, and apparently he's given himself up to give us a head start.> She paused for a few seconds, letting everyone soak that in. <What we do with this head start is vital. Hearthome is near Mount Coronet, so I'm thinking we could head there and hide in the mountains. Anyone oppose?>
 
Lycis, having just received the Max Potion slowly began to get up.

"Eltanin? Where... where are we?"

Eltanin bent over the Weavile. "We're on the outskirts of Hearthome," he aid, "We all managed to escape the Church before it collapsed."

"Oh, good," she said, weakly. Struggling to her feet, she looked around before saying: "So... where's Andrew?"

Volantis and Eltanin exchanged a glance. That was what told Lycis that something was wrong.

"Eltanin? Where's Andrew?"

Volantis started to say something, but Eltanin cut him off. "Andrew.... gave himself up to Goodwin in order to buy us time."

Lycis' eyes widened. She stumbled backward, and looked at Eltanin.

"We have to go back," she said, "we need to go back to find him!"

"We can't do that," Volantis pointed out, "we have this grace period to flee from the Government. I suggest we take advantage of it."

"That doesn't matter!" Lycis yelled, "Do you think Goodwin's going to completely give up just because he got his hands on one Elemental?! He'll start looking for us again, and I don't think anyone will give themselves up again."

"So what are you suggesting?" Eltanin demanded, "That we rescue Andrew just so we can use him to stall time again?!"

"No, I..." Lycis started to say, but then she just shook her head, "we need to get him back. They'll kill him!"

"If that were true, Goodwin wouldn't have put out the Dead or Alive Law," Volantis noted, "the man may be our enemy, but I do think that he's civilized enough to keep Andrew alive-"

"Until he runs out of uses that Andrew has and kills him!" Lycis screeched, "so if we start to flee now, we're giving up on Andrew!"

The Weavile then turned to face the other Elementals. "What do you think we should do?" she asked, "flee now and abandon one of our own, or go back and save one of our own?"
 
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Having eaten himself full, Franklin looked at his PokeGear and tried to memorize the number the kid had given him. 878-56...2-74... "Ugh, I keep forgetting!" he yelled aloud. Checking his PokeGear again, he noticed something he hadn't seen before; there was a number after the Elemental's. Certain he hadn't programmed it in there, he decided to figure out who it was. Steeling his nerves, he dialed the number. When the phone was picked up, he took a breath, then, "This is Franklin speaking," he said. "Who is this?"
 
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((Dropping out of this temporarily. I have planning to do, plus I have to focus on PC1-U and PC2-V among other things, so I'll rejoin later if I can.))
 
((Make an exit post or something then.))

Ellie's Pokégear rang. She picked it up. She listened to what the person on the other line said. "This is Ellie. You were talking to Lucille earlier, and seem to be an ally."
 
Lycis heard the telepath's plan to flee into Mt. Coronet, and hissed in fury.

"You're just going to give up on Andrew?! I can't believe this!"

Eltanin bent down to face Lycis. "I don't think any of us wants to give up," the Dragonite said, "but we don't know how long Goodwin's head start is. We need to take advantage of it; it's what he would've wante-"

Lycis furiously struck Eltanin across the face with Ice Punch.

"Don't you dare think you know what he would've wanted," she snarled, "if one of us were captured, Andrew would have-"

"Done the right thing," Volantis cut in, "and that would be continuing onward. We all knew the risks of putting ourselves into the open. Andrew was no different. Lycis, I'm sorry, but Eltanin is right. We have to keep going."

Lycis hesitated for a moment, then slowly, downtrodden, turned around and began the walk towards Mt. Coronet.

I'm sorry, Andrew, she thought, but don't worry. I haven't given up on you yet.
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Andrew slowly woke up, vision blurred.

Where... where am I?

He tried to rub his eyes, but found that his hands wouldn't respond. All that happened was a strange clicking sound.

He had made a good six unsuccessful tries when he realized that his arms weren't going to move, because they had been restrained by some sort of shackle. Whatever it was, it was resisting all attempts to freeze over, and Andrew couldn't see anyone that would help him, except a Magnezone.

A Magnezone... that's when it all came rushing back to Andrew. He had voluntarily surrendered to the Government, and now he was clearly incarcerated by them.

By now, the Magnezone had noticed his movements, and floated over to him.

"Prisoner designation E-01 has awakened. Prisoner E-01, how is your health?"

Assuming that the Magnezone meant how he was feeling, Andrew said: "I'm fine, I guess. My head still hurts from when you shocked me, and I'm a bit exhausted from everything that's happened, but other than that, I'm fine."

"Excellent. Master Goodwin will be pleased by this. I must now signal Master Goodwin that you are awake." At this, the Magnezone floated out of the derelict chamber that Andrew was imprisoned in, only to come floating back.

"Master Goodwin is already on his way. There was no need to signal him."

A few quiet moments passed, the only sound being a set of footfalls outside of the chamber. This noise got louder, and soon, Goodwin himself entered the prison chamber, his Metagross right behind him.

"Hello again, Elemental."
 
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Franklin was surprised when he heard the girl say her name was Ellie, as he didn't know anybody with that name. But when he heard her say he had been talking with Lucille, he realized she must have been another elemental. "Ah, yes. I work for the government, but i helped you guys escape the church. I was wondering, do you know where my Xatu is? I sent it with one of the elementals to help her escape, but he never came back."

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Jack stood in Goodwin's office, watching as he left. He wondered what to do about surveillance of Franklin. His only Pokemon, FishStick, certainly wasn't up for the job. Franklin would definitely notice being followed by himself. He decided to give the matter a rest until morning, and headed down after Goodwin.
 
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<I'm sorry, Weavile, but we can't go rushing headfirst into a trap like that. We'll have time to rescue him later. For now, we mst make use of the head start Goodwin has given us. I see no one has opposed yet, so we shall start to Mount Coronet, tonight, when it gets dark. By the position of the sun, it should only be a couple of hours. For now, we can hide in an alleyway or something. That is option number one. Option number two is we haul ass right now.>
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"No, no, no, no..." Gary muttered to himself after finding out Ellie was an Elemental. How? Why? Why did she have to lie to him, to keep it a secret? Well, that was a bit redundant, as Elementals all knew secrecy was the most important thing. Gary still hated the Elementals, but the hatred for them had no effect on his step-sister, whom he thought of as flesh-and-blood, as they did look kinda similar.
 
"If we're going to go, then let's go," Lycis snarled, "we'll probably have a higher chance of being discovered if we stay in the city."

Without another word, she turned and continued walking toward the route that lead to the mountain.

Volantis turned to Eltanin. "I'm going to return to my pokeball for a while. Take care of them for me, okay?"

Eltanin nodded quietly. The Manectric walked over to his pokeball and tapped the button, and was recalled in a flash of red light. Eltanin picked up all six pokeballs carefully, and was especially careful not to touch the button on his.

"I really should find some way to deal with this," he said to himself, "but I can worry about that later."

Without another word, he followed Lycis.
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"I should be honored," Andrew muttered, "David Goodwin himself has come to visit me."

Goodwin stared coldly at Andrew. "Boy, do not think that just because you gave yourself up means that you will receive any sort of ease while in here. You are an Elemental, an enemy of the region, and you must suffer for it."

Andrew was taken aback by the "enemy of the region" part of that sentence. Some of his surprise at that statement registered on his face. Goodwin did not miss this.

"Did you really think that you would be anything except an enemy? Humans with the abilities of Pokemon are not meant to honored nor vindicated. Rather, they are feared and despised by the public. That's why I was pressed by the public to decree anti-Elemental laws. Those like you... are monsters."

Andrew glared at Goodwin. "Monsters? Some of those Elementals looked like they had led ordinary lives before today. Lives that are now ruined because of you."

The tone in Goodwin's could've belonged to one speaking of the weather. "They only led ordinary lives because they could hide their monstrous power. The moment that any of them were revealed as Elementals, they lost any hope of a normal life. This is not unusual, you know.

"For instance, around the time that I first signed the law against Elementals, a report immediately sprung up about someone had seen another person that had used an ice power on an innocent home. I acted on it, but I never did find out the cause. That was one of the few true-sounding reports, however, for those in witness reported a great deal of panicked shouting before and after the ice attack. Whether it was an Elemental or a rogue Abomasnow has never been revealed, but if it is true... well, it was an instance of an Elemental being driven away by his or her family... now tell me, boy, does that sound like one that could have a normal life?"

Andrew did his best to retain his defiant composure, but it was failing.

After all, Goodwin had just told him that the night he was driven away by his family had been reported to the Government.

The Director didn't miss Andrew's slipping composure, but Andrew couldn't tell if he knew the real reason behind it, as the Director said: "I didn't think so. I will soon return, boy, and you will find your experience here will become... very unpleasant."

Without another word,he and his Metagross departed from the chamber, leaving Andrew only with the silent, floating Magnezone.
 
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Franklin wondered what had happened with Ellie, as she wasn't answering the PokeGear. Putting his mouth right up to the receiver, he asked, "Hello? Are you still there? Did anything happen? Hello?"
 
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"Oh, sorry, we were also discussing our next step in what to do with the head start Goodwin's given us." she paused for a second. "So, why'd you call?"
 
Jake got up to go, but he noticed that Ellie was still talking on the Pokégear and he also noticed a Dragonite struggling with a Pokéball belt "Here, I'll take it." He took the belt from the Dragonite and slung it over his shoulder like a bandolier. "So, shall we go?"
 
'I called because I saw your number on the PokeGear and didn't know what it was," explained Franklin. "So I decided to call to find out to whom the number belonged." He paused for a second. "But now that I'm on the phone with you anyway, where are you guys planning to go? I should be able to lead Goodwin in... your... direction, if you see what I mean."
 
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Lucille had to admit, Lycis was right. She didn't want to give up on Andrew that easy either. "I guess one is of lesser value than all of us going to rescue him and getting captured," she whispered, shaking her head. She didn't want to believe the words coming out of her mouth. Illiamna got up, hearing what Lucille said. "He gave himself up so everyone else could escape."

Closing her eyes, Lucille sighed. She really didn't like giving up, especially on someone. No, someone who was just like her. Sure she didn't know Andrew that well, but when it came down to it, they were all the same. She looked at Ellie, who had mentioned her name to the other person on the PokeGear. "Is it Franklin?" she asked, a little bit more loudly than she had wanted to.
 
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