Chapter 46: The Battle of Lumiose City Part 1
Bonnie felt guilty about it right away, but she knew she had to do it. She knew that if she hadn't bolted away from the group as soon as they spotted Team Flare approaching, Clemont would have banished her to the Pokemon centre. He would have gone on about how she wasn't safe if she was outside fighting. She didn't care about that, though. Without Ash, they had little hope of winning. They at least needed a couple extra Pokemon, and Bonnie had Dedenne and, even more importantly, Squishy.
After she'd been running for a couple of minutes, Bonnie heard the sounds of fighting. The battles around Lumiose City had begun. She even thought she could hear Clemont calling out to her, but she didn't know if that was her imagination or not.
When she'd gotten far enough away, Bonnie decided she needed to get to one of the other entrances. She didn't run away just to let Team Flare come waltzing in. She ran so she could fight.
"Dedenne? Squishy?" Bonnie looked down into her bag. Immediately, both Pokemon responded. Dedenne hopped up onto Bonnie's head, while Squishy jumped out onto the ground. "Squishy wait-" Bonnie started, expecting that Squishy was going to run away, but instead he closed his eye, as if focusing. Lights immediately started flowing towards him and he glowed in a bright light. A moment later, and he was in his dog form.
Squishy looked at Bonnie and she suddenly realized he was looking fairly pleased with himself. He was actually trying to impress her? He then nodded to his back and looked at her again and she realized he wanted her to hop on his back. She did so, realizing she was slightly too big, but apparently it didn't matter to Squishy, as he immediately started running at an impressive speed.
It only took a minute before they encountered their first enemy. A fat Team Flare man, with patches of black hair spotted throughout his head, was trying to sneak into the city while the battling went on outside. He noticed Bonnie as she started to charge out, and apparently he didn't care that she was a little girl. Presumably, because of the rare Pokemon she was riding. He called out a Feraligatr and quickly ordered it to use hydro pump on her.
Bonnie just went with instinct. She didn't even know if Squishy was obeying her order or if he was doing it of his own accord, but he did it nonetheless. "Dragon pulse!" Bonnie shouted, and Squishy's jaw opened and he unleashed the dragon-shaped pulse of energy which smashed back the hydro pump and rocketed into the Feraligatr, who subsequently crashed into his trainer. As she and Squishy continued running, Bonnie felt a pretty big rush of satisfaction. If Squishy had indeed listened to her order, she had accomplished something only a handful of the top trainers throughout history had done. She'd commanded a legendary Pokemon.
Bonnie looked at her surroundings and her satisfaction quickly disappeared. The few trainers that had stayed in Lumiose City, were heavily outnumbered. There were countless battles of two and three versus one. Surprisingly, though, the Team Flare members weren't rushing forward. They seemed content to fight their outnumbered battles before gaining ground.
Bonnie then looked ahead to where Squishy was heading. She had no idea what he was doing, really. He definitely had some place in mind. She then looked up for the first time and realization hit her.
Perhaps it was the sounds of battling that had made Bonnie not notice the helicopters up above, but she couldn't believe she had somehow ignored that Zygarde was right there with them. No wonder the Team Flare members were taking their time. They had a clear backup plan in case anything went wrong.
Squishy barked and then Bonnie finally understood. His plan was to fight Lysandre. She felt her heart hammer against her chest. Why had Squishy decided she should come? Was he more comfortable with her? Was it because...he felt like she was his trainer? She shook her head. No, that was ridiculous.
Her eyes then widened with realization. Lysandre was probably near Zygarde. If he was, that meant Serena must be there. Bonnie focused on Zygarde and then saw that one of the helicopters seemed especially close to it. That was probably where they'd find Serena.
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Alain and Mairin were gone in seconds, both of them hopping onto Charizard's back. As soon as they took off, Clemont turned to where he thought Bonnie was, but his jaw dropped, seeing she wasn't there. He started spinning around in a circle, looking for her. He noticed that Greninja, Delphox and Palermo were also gone. Only Brock was there.
"Where's Bonnie?" Clemont asked, noticing the panic in his voice.
Brock looked back at him, looking confused for a moment, likely because he was distracted by the incoming Team Flare army. He then seemed to notice Clemont's panic, though, and the question apparently registered. "Do you think she went to the Pokemon centre?" He asked.
Clemont shook his head, feeling frustration mix with his worry. "No...she ran off because she knew I would've sent her there." He clenched his fists. "Team Flare is probably going to target Squishy. That means Bonnie's in serious danger."
Brock nodded and then looked towards the battles that were beginning outside the city. "She's gotta be out there, right?" Clemont nodded. Brock pulled out three pokeballs and released a pink oval-shaped Pokemon with a pouch with an egg, a blue amphibious Pokemon with a toothy frown and a blue four legged fish-like Pokemon. "These are Chansey, Croagunk and Marshtomp." Brock explained. "We're gonna need to fight to find Bonnie, right?"
"Right." Clemont nodded and tossed out three of his own pokeballs, releasing Bunnelby, Chespin and Luxray. "Thanks for the help, Brock." He said, as they made their way out.
"No problem." Brock said, smiling. "I know what it's like to have little siblings." He laughed. "And I guess it wasn't that much different when I travelled with Ash, too."
"Yeah," Clemont agreed, "Ash can go a little crazy, sometimes."
"I guess his kind of crazy would come in handy right about now, though." Brock admitted.
"It sure would." Clemont muttered. He was about to say more, when a blast of flames hit the ground in front of them. Clemont looked for the culprit and saw two red-haired Team Flare members that looked like they were twin brothers. One had a male Pyroar and the other had a Diggersby.
"Croagunk, poison sting! Marshtomp, mud shot!" Brock yelled. Clemont was impressed with how quickly Brock had ordered the attacks, but unfortunately they were countered easily with Pyroar burning away the poison sting and Diggersby countering with his own mudshot.
"Diggersby, hit Marshtomp with hammer arm!" The one Flare member ordered. Clemont was stunned by the speed of the large rabbit-like Pokemon. He quickly closed the gap on Marshtomp and slammed the water-type with one of his ears, doing a lot of damage.
Clemont knew he had to get in the fight. "Luxray, thunder fang! Chespin, pin missile!" He yelled. Luxray ran hard towards Pyroar, his jaws crackling with electricity, and he chomped down hard on the fire-lion's shoulder. Meanwhile, Chespin's green missiles shot towards Diggersby, but were quickly countered by a mud shot.
Brock used Chespin's distraction to his advantage, though. "Marshtomp, water gun!" Marshtomp had managed to recover just enough from being hit with hammer arm a few moments before, and he fired off an impressive jet of water that slammed into Diggersby.
This battle had distracted Clemont too much, however, and he didn't even notice the trouble Luxray was in. His electric lion was now in a fierce wrestling match with his fire counterpart. They were swapping blows of thunder and fire fangs. "Bunnelby, help out with dig." Clemont yelled. Bunnelby nodded and was in the ground in an instant. A moment later, and the rabbit-Pokemon was emerging just behind where Luxray had managed to roll Pyroar to. Bunnelby slammed hard into Pyroar and then Luxray finished it with one more thunder fang.
"Good work." Brock complimented, as their Pokemon all came back and stood in front of them.
Clemont nodded to acknowledge, but he watched the two Team Flare members carefully. They looked angry at their loss, but overall, not too concerned. The two of them nodded to each other and then threw out two Pokemon each. A Gengar, a Clauncher, a Manectric and a Machop.
"These guys won't give up, apparently." Brock noted.
"They're waiting for us to give up." Clemont pointed out. "And with how many Pokemon they have," he said, looking around at the huge numbers of Team Flare members swarming around the city and doing battle with the few trainers defending it, "I don't know how long we'll last."
"We have to try." Brock growled, bracing himself for the next part of the battle.
"Yeah..." Clemont said quietly, still looking around the battle-heavy fields around Lumiose City. He then shook his head and looked at his opponents. "No!" He said more forcefully. "No, we won't give up! We won't lose!" He realized how angry he was. "Luxray, wild charge!"
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"How do we get up there?" Bonnie asked, not really knowing if Squishy would really be able to answer or not.
Squishy stood still for a moment and glared up at the sky. He then glanced back at Bonnie, before staring straight ahead and bending his head down, as if focusing hard. He started to glow brightly again, as green lights began shooting towards him from their surroundings. Bonnie felt herself rising higher as he changed shape. In a few seconds, she was now on the back of Squishy in his giant snake-like form. Unfortunately, it was a little more difficult to stay seated, but she managed to hold on as he jerked his head back and fired a dragon pulse up towards the helicopter.
For a moment, Bonnie was sure it would hit, but then Lysandre's Zygarde suddenly moved into action and shot his own, clearly stronger, dragon pulse. The attacks smashed into each other with a massive explosion, causing everyone battling to stop and stare up in shock. Bonnie smirked as she saw Lysandre's helicopter almost lose control from the blowback.
Everything seemed to freeze in the moments after the two Zygarde attacks collided. Clearly neither side knew whether their battles on the ground really mattered if the two Zygardes were about to fight, but then, Lysandre's voice boomed out from a speaker likely being held up in the helicopter.
"Fellow Team Flare members, this is your leader, Lysandre. In case you haven't noticed, there is a child playing at war with Z-1." His voice was chilling. Bonnie was terrified of what he was going to order his team to do now. "Celosia, Bryony, Mable and Aliana. Move in. The rest of you, it's time time to stop fooling around."
With that, Lysandre's helicopter and his Zygarde quickly began moving towards Lumiose City. Bonnie realized he was heading towards Prism Tower. This really frustrated Bonnie. Prism Tower was pretty much her home. How dare Lysandre think he can just take it.
Bonnie's frustration was going to have to wait, though. As she was watching Lysandre go, she hadn't notice herself get surrounded by the four female Team Flare members. She recognized Celosia and Bryony from when she beat them in Geosenge Town and she was surprised seeing Mable and Aliana, thinking they were in jail from when Ash had beat them in Anistar City. She supposed Lysandre likely easily busted then out or they were able to break out like Malva had in Geosenge Town. They each had a Pokemon in front of them. A Drapion, a Bisharp, a Weavile and a Druddigon.
"You're gonna pay for your rude behaviour in Geosenge Town." Celosia snarled.
"No one insults us like that." Bryony agreed.
"And Z-1 is ours as well." Mable added.
Aliana smirked. "Looks like we got a fun little mission here."
Bonnie noticed Squishy was looking around rapidly. Whether he was strong or not, being surrounded wasn't good. She also knew he was concerned about her from the glances he made towards her.
"Leave us alone!" Bonnie yelled. "Squishy and I haven't done anything to you." She realized that wasn't exactly true in her case, considering she'd humiliated Celosia and Bryony. However, they had definitely deserved it at the time.
Celosia ignored her. "Don't have Ketchum's Pokemon to save you now, do you?" She sneered. "Once we're done with Z-1, you're learning some respect."
"Respect?" Bonnie's jaw dropped. Could this woman actually be serious? There was no way. "You're a criminal."
"We're advancing the world into a better era." Bryony said seriously. "No more tolerance for disrespectful little children like you and your friends."
Bonnie wasn't going to let them continue with this nonsense. She could see that their Team Flare pals were starting to be more aggressive and were advancing closer to Lumiose City. She knew she needed to get Squishy into the battle, otherwise they had no chance. "Squishy, use dragon pulse!" She yelled.
Immediately, the four Team Flare women surrounding Bonnie, backed away, seeing Squishy's mouth forming a dragon pulse. However, just as he was about to unleash, one of them, Bryony, pulled out some kind of gun and shot an orange beam of light towards him that caused him to rear his head back in pain and shoot the attack into the sky.
"Squishy!" Bonnie yelled in concern. Mable then copied her fellow Flare member and shot Squishy with another laser. This caused him to flail in pain and Bonnie was thrown off of him. She landed right in front of Mable and her Weavile. She wasn't out of options, though. "Dedenne, thundershock!"
The little hamster-like Pokemon immediately leaped up from Bonnie's head and unleashed a jet of electricity, straight at Weavile. It didn't do much, but it at least caused it to stagger back and even distract Mable. This distraction gave Bonnie just enough time to get close to Squishy, who was wincing in pain from the jets of orange light attacking him.
Bonnie stared around in panic. She could see that the Team Flare members could sense their incoming victory. They knew they were going to get Squishy. They knew that the rest of their team was going to win the battle going on around them. Bonnie felt her eyes begin to water. They needed Ash. They needed his confidence. His battling skill. His battling spirit.They needed something.
A blast suddenly struck Aliana's Druddigon and knocked it to the ground. Bonnie felt Dedenne hop up onto her head, clearly trying to get a look at where it had come from. Bonnie also looked around, but it was hard to see with the beams of orange light shooting near her and the Pokemon surrounding her. Not to mention there was a massive battle going on, as the small number of trainers defending Lumiose City, tried to keep out Team Flare.
"What was that?" Aliana snarled, turning around letting her anger at being attacked, distract her from holding her beam on Squishy. Bonnie noticed Squishy twitch. He was still restrained by the other four beams, but maybe if they could stop one more, he could get out.
Something seemed to be reading Bonnie's thoughts, because another blast shot out and slammed into Celosia's Drapion, which staggered back and knocked her laser gun out of her hand. "Argh!" She glared around. "Where is this coming from?"
Bonnie understood her confusion. It was hard to tell, with all the fighting going on. The battle seemed to be really heated now. Explosions were happening all over the place as attacks almost seemed like Team Flare was even backing up a bit. Bonnie had no idea how that was happening. She knew their side was pretty heavily outnumbered.
And then she heard it. "GOODRA!" The roar of an old friend. It was only a moment later that the two-legged white and purple dragon-Pokemon appeared. He slammed aside Druddigon, Weavile and both Pokemon's trainers with his tail, which was glowing in a green light. A couple seconds later, a blue Florges appeared next to him and struck Drapion and Bisharp with a perfect moonblast. Bonnie noticed that behind her two saviours, a few dozen other Pokemon from the Wetlands were all starting to engage in battles, ferociously forcing the Team Flare trainers back.
Squishy slumped forward, panting, but he managed to right himself pretty quickly. He looked at Goodra and Florgest gratefully. Dedenne was next, jumping up onto Goodra's head and happily chirping away. Finally, after staring at Goodra in shock for a moment, Bonnie ran forward and hugged him. He couldn't have shown up at a better time.
"Goodra, you're the best." Bonnie said. "You saved us." She turned to Florges. "You too, Florges. Thank you."
A man then came running up to them, a Bellsprout and a Wooper with him. Bonnie instantly recognized him as Keanan, the caretaker of the Wetlands. "Bonnie!" He yelled out in concern. "Are you alright? I noticed you were surrounded, just as we arrived. Goodra and Florges immediately ran to you."
"I'm ok." Bonnie said. "It's all thanks to you guys."
"Well, I knew Goodra would want to help." Keanan said. "And his friends from the Wetlands were more than willing. Ash gave us a call and asked for Goodra's assistance, so we got moving as fast as we could."
Bonnie smiled. Ash might not be there yet, but he'd already had a huge influence on the battle. He'd managed to bolster their forces by a huge number. "You showed up at the perfect time." Bonnie said. "I don't know what would have happened-" Bonnie stopped as she turned and noticed Squishy whipping away towards Lumiose City. "Squishy, stop!" She yelled.
"Where's he going?" Keanan asked. Apparently he was deciding he could ask about the unusual Pokemon at a different time.
Bonnie knew exactly where Squishy was heading. "He's going after Lysandre. He's gonna try to fight that." She pointed up towards the Zygarde, hovering above Prism Tower. Her eyes widened as she noticed something else above Prism Tower. "Is that the Sundial?"
Keanan narrowed his eyes and looked for a moment. "Incredible...why is it glowing like that?"
Bonnie hadn't noticed, but she realized it was glowing. It looked like one of those laser guns, or something like them, was holding it in some kind of orange force field, but other than that, it seemed to be pulsing in a all kinds of colours. One second it was blue, then it was yellow, then it was orange, then green. It was changing in all kinds of colours.
They might have continued to stare at the Sundial for a lot longer, but the Team Flare women that Goodra and Florges had attacked, were now struggling to their feet. They looked around, presumably looking for Squishy, but then their gazes all rested on Bonnie, Keanan and the Pokemon with them.
Bryony spoke up. "You three, split up and look for Z-1. I'll stay here and deal with the brat and her friends. Destroy any of Ketchum's friends you see on the way. If he gets here, we want his spirit crushed." The others nodded and quickly ran off. Bonnnie wanted to stop them, but she didn't really seen any way she'd be able to get past Bryony.
Keanan nudged Bonnie. "You go with Goodra. Florges, Bellsprout and I will fight her." Bonnie looked at him like he was crazy. She couldn't leave him without Goodra, who was probably the strongest Pokemon in the entire battle, besides Squishy, Zygarde and maybe Alain's Charizard. Keanan seemed to understand why she was hesitating. "Remember, Florges nearly beat Goodra before. And Bellsprout and Wooper are quite capable as well. Go."
Bonnie took a deep breath and nodded. "Ok." She looked at Goodra. "Come on Goodra, let's go. We need to find Squishy. Maybe we should try to find Clemont as well." Goodra nodded and they set off. Bryony tried to attack them, but Florges deflected it easily. The next stage of the battle had begun.
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Alain covered his face, as smoke from the flames smashing together blasted up towards him and Mairin. He and Mairin were both on the back of his Mega Charizard. They'd been fighting from the sky since the battle started. Mairin had been taking pot shots with Chespie and Bebe, while Charizard and Alain focused on enemies in the sky. They were currently in a fierce struggle with three Altaria.
"Mairin, have Bebe use fairy attacks. Altaria is weak against them." Alain yelled. He didn't look to see if she had heard, instead keeping focused on the battle. The three Altaria were surrounding them, so they had to be careful. He took a quick glance to the ground and immediately noticed what looked like the trainer. "Get Chespie to attack down there." He pointed down to the trainer. "Distract him." Now it was time for his own attack. "Charizard, dragon claw! Attack the middle one."
Charizard launched forward, his claws glowing in a green light. He lunged forward with green light surrounding his claws and slashed forward at the middle Altaria. Altaria easily dodged the attack and prepared a dragon pulse quickly in its mouth. It then opened and shot the blast forward. Luckily, Mairin had heard the strategy moments earlier, and Bebe deflected the attack with fairy wind, while Charizard continued using dragon claw to shield from the shock wave.
As good as the deflection from Mairin was, though, she and Alain had now allowed the other two Altaria to get behind them. They started to each prepare a flamethrower. Alain felt panic start to grip him. He'd made a mistake, rushing in with a dragon claw on one Pokemon. Now he'd put Mairin, her Pokemon and he and Charizard in danger.
"Dragonite, use dragon rush!" A female voice yelled. Out of nowhere, a Pokemon bathed in a blue, dragon-shaped light. It slammed into the two Altaria that were preparing their flamethrowers and sent them flying through the sky.
Alain would have thanked his saviour, but he had to focus on the third Altaria. "Charizard, thunder punch and then dragon claw!" Charizard rushed forward once again, but now Alain noticed that Altaria wasn't as relaxed now and it just stared in fear as Charizard slammed his electricity-covered fist into the blue Pokemon's chest. Immediately after, he slashed upwards with his green coloured claw. Altaria seemed to freeze in the air for a moment, but then dropped down towards its trainer, who was in the middle of dodging a pin missile from Chespie. A couple seconds later, the Dragonite that had saved them, sent the other two Altaria down as well, with its own thunder punch.
"You two alright?" Alain looked over to the person speaking. There were two people on the Dragonite's back. A dark-skinned girl with extremely long, violet hair. Behind her, was a green-haired man, with a green monkey-like Pokemon Alain recognized as a Pansage, who was the one who had posed the question.
"Yeah. Thanks a lot for the help." Alain said, smiling.
"You saved us." Mairin added.
"It's a good thing we got here in time." The girl said. "We got a call from a girl named Dawn, saying our friend Ash needed help with some criminal organization called Team Flare. We came over right away. I'm Iris by the way. And this is Cilan." She pointed to the green-haired man.
Mairin laughed. "Ash is helping us win the battle even when he's not here."
Alain nodded, looking at the battle below. A group of Pokemon, that had arrived a few minutes before, were helping hold off the wave of Team Flare members rushing towards the city. He'd noticed Clemont, who was with Brock, look at the Pokemon with recognition, and he got the feeling that Ash had been involved with their arrival as well. "He sure is." Alain said quietly, still knowing they had a lot of work to do and that Ash being here would be a much bigger help.
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