Team Nova - Episode 13: Rebirth

Riley blinked in confusion.

"...Why Molly, I don't think anyone would believe me if I did," Riley commented in response to her comment.

Then again, there's been all kinds of weird things these days.

"So you're Blue Oak," Marley observed. "...Not as tall as I imagined."

Riley stepped through the portal. Marley followed.

"By the way, don't forget this guy's pills," Riley called back to Blue.

Austin takes a breath, not wanting his nerves to show.

He takes his Drive off hus belt and clips it onto his wrist.

He presses a button and activates Victini's invisibility. Then he puts on two double teams just in case. He gulps silently, and then proceeds into the patrol zone, as stealthily as possible.

Xerosic plopped himself down on his swivel chair, stretching his arms out in front of himself as he spun toward one of his many computers. On the desk next to the monitor sat the red Zygarde core, munching away by a small bag of Pokefeed, surrounded by crumbs.

"Now!" Xerosic announced. "It's--"

A wheel caught itself on one of the many cables strewn throughout the floor, tipping the chair and sending its occupant colliding facefirst to the ground. Zygarde simply stared and kept eating its food with half-lidded eyes. The self-proclaimed scientist picked himself and his seat up and manually walked to the computer, not plopping back down on it until he was in front of it.

"Now!" he announced as if nothing happen. "It's time to locate your other half, Zygarde! You can sense precise geographical locations, correct?"

The Zygarde chewed for a bit, swallowed its food, and gave a slow nod. "Yeah man. We have, like, a spiritual connection, y'know. We're like a Weezing, except the connection is... you know, a metaphor... and minus a third head."

"Excellent!" Xerosic leaned forward and inputted a series of commands on the keyboard, opening a satellite view of the world on the monitor. "Now, just guide this view so that we may pinpoint the destination of our objective!"

"Will do, gramps." Zygarde began talking some exasperatingly deep breaths before closing its eyes and hanging its head low. "Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..."

"...Err, can you perhaps hurry?" Xerosic asked. "It's only a matter of time before Nova would realize that one of their satellites has been hijacked.

"Relaaaaaax gramps. Take a chill pill or whatever," the meditating Zygarde said. "Our connection requires me to be all, like, Zen and junk. Being one with the earth, y'know?"

"But--"

"Sssssssssssshhhhhhhhh. I'm starting to feel the euphoria. Consuming it. Being molded by it. Becoming one with it. Ascending to a higher plane..."

Xerosic crossed his arms impatiently, wondering how the Order Pokemon -- a being possessing the power to overwhelm the living embodiments of life and death, whose duty consists of keeping the ecosystem from disarray -- could be so...stupid.

It's as if he were dropped as an egg!

...Come to think of it, he was!

"Ahh! I have it!" Zygarde exclaimed. It turned to look at the monitor. "Okay, so right now, it's looking at... Alright, look east."

Xerosic scooted his seat closer and panned the image.

"East-er... Eaaaaaaaast-er.... No, not that east... Wait, where are we-- no, okay, I know where that is. Okay now south... south... Yeah, that big building to the right."

"This Nova base?"

"Hmm... Preeeeeeeetty sure. Positive, actually."

Xerosic clasped his hands. "Aha! Just as I suspected! Of course, it comes as no surprise, as my genius is never wrong! OHOHOHOHOhno...."

Xerosic slammed his head down, burying it in his hands. "I had hoped that I would've been mistaken, just this once..."

Location: Mirage Island

"What? No, I'm not hungry. Are...you hungry?"

Celebi's mind decided to kick in.

"Of course you are. I'm at your- never mind. Um...message! For you. Right."

She gave a quick glance to Carleen as she got up and fluttered in to the air, at about eye level to save people form having to look down at her.

"Oh, hey Meloetta."

And then she began.

"Soooo...first of all, sorry for taking so long to actually greet you all in person. But you aren't supposed to be here, and we're running a pretty tight operation...Anyways point is, you're been wonderful guests so far, so thank you."

"I'm here now because we are about to get some new visitors to the island. And I think it's best you meet them, since they will also be your ticket off this island. And while it's less trouble for me if you leave, I've been watching and...yeah you're basically good people, so I'll give you a choice."

"I'm assuming you have a lot of questions, but there are a lot of people who are going to have a lot of questions. So if we're all good, I'll head off and bring everyone here as you're having your meal. We good?"

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Location: Partway between Mirage Island and Realgam Tower

Blue's Alakazam began telekinetically breaking Eusine's restraints, gathering the relevant medical supplies, and floating him off towards the portal.

Molly grunted, psychic strain wearing down on her.

"This...is tougher..than I imagined..." she said through gritted teeth.

"Shut up...I have to field the temporal...urgh..."

Eusine went through.

"We're clear!" Blue called out, "Let's move!" 

Molly and Celebi both dashed into the portal after everyone else, and then it slammed shut. The next thing she knew, she was on a sunny beach. Blue, Celebi, Riley, Marley, and an unconscious Eusine had all landed nearby.

Blue was knelt down, attending to some sort of small machine, currently whirring like a maniac. It seemed to be drawing power from a collection of odd artifacts and keystones. Celebi just lay back, catching her breath.

"For the uninitiated, that was a psychically generated wormhole through time and space." Blue said, matter-of-factly. "And it doesn't always work, so let's consider ourselves lucky."

Blue appeared to think something at the device, and suddenly a Porygon-Z emerged. It was quickly engulfed by a red light and was returned to Blue's pokemon storage pack.

"Celebi, please go brief our other guests."

The time-travelling pokemon shook herself. "Yeah...yeah alright, on it..." she muttered quickly, before travelling back in time.

Blue extended a hand to help Molly up, and afterwards extended one to Marley and Riley, who landed on their feet.

"Marley, Riley, thank you for coming. If it wasn't obvious, I'm Blue Oak. Save your questions for later. I hear there's some others on this island who will need the same explanation..."

Nearby, Eusine lay in the sand. He was face-up and breathing, so he's fine.

"Er...  Wh...  OK?"  Jude stammers.

"We'll just... erm..."  Vern scratches his head.  "Wait, I guess?"

"I'll go get some extra plates," Cassandra suggests.

Austin stays as far as possible, keeping a safe distance from what he suspects to be a trap of some kind.

Knowing what he had to do, he sigh and takes a few deep breaths before gulping. Psyching himself up.

Finally, he begins to focus on the dolls, staring intsensely at them. They begin to glow a light blue as he activates the move.

He feels a gentle tug in his mind, as he lifts them ever so slowly off the ground.

After a moment, the tug begins the feel more like a pull, that's getting stronger and harder to fight, threatening to make him lose his grip on not just the dolls but reality. He starts to sweat a bit, keeping himself as grounded as possible, ignoring the far-off creatures starting to swirl around his eyes, and focussing on levitating the dolls towards him.

Austin physically jumps forward a small step at the noise, caught off guard. His concentrarion falters, and an image He feels an image flash in his mind of an angry Giratina charging towards him flashes through his mind, causing his heart to skip a beat, and the dolls start falling.

In an instant, Austin regains his balance, reactivating the psychic and catching the dolls just before they hit the ground. He turns, vigilant to see what enemy snuck up on him.

He notices it's just a Pokemon, a Mismagius it seems, and is a bit confused. He focusses, his head feeling like a hammer is beating on it. He keeps his cool, and asks, "What do you want?", to the Pokemon, as if it could reply.

Austin stares up and down at her. He drops the dolls. He rubs his eyes as his headache starts to fade. Nope, still covered in blood. He sighs, and then stares at her.

"I took the fastest route possible without setting off any alarms", He says, not bothering to apologize for making her wait.