”Galvin Oak, am I correct?”

“Maybe. You’re the admin from Saffron City?”

“Maybe,”

“Good enough for me.” Galvin released his fully evolved started. Daisy roared loudly, launching itself at the admin. She quickly swapped places with her Pokemon, flattening and knocking it out instantly.

She simply recalled the Pokemon and replaced it with a Vileplume who immediately launched plumes of paralyzing spores. Galvin counter reacted with his Ninetails, who burned the spores in midair. On his ordered Ninetails launched another flame attack, knocking out it’s opponent. No matter what pokemon the woman swapped Galvin easily counter attacked until she was down to zero.

His newly obtained Scizor pinned the woman to the wall and placed it’s giant claws around her neck.

“You are defeated, so at least go down with grace and tell me where Simon is.”

“Is that all? The only reason why you bothered to come?”

“Partially,” Galvin admitted

“So, you’re really going to fight Hilda then,”

“Of course.” the woman sighed.

“I don’t know if I should thank you or call you insane. More time that passes the more it seems like she’s losing it.”

“You’d still go to jail.”

“If the authorities could catch me.” Galvin rolled his eyes.

“Whatever, where’s Simon.”

“Just go down the hall, you’ll see a big iron door. He’s in that room.” Galvin and his Scizor retreated down the hall and as they were told, an iron door stood there. Galvin reached to the doorknob, he pulled open the heavy door as his faithful partner took a defensive stance. There was nothing but darkness waiting on the other side. Was that kid really trapped in this room for the last two months?

“Sim-” a small body stumbled forward before he could finish calling out the boy’s name. A moment passed before the realization hit him this mess was Simon. The kid looked so ragged and tired, malnourished and unkempt.

“Y…you’re Steel’s friend…”

“Yeah. We’ve come to save you and stop Rune.” The little boy seemed so relieved. Weariness took over, stumbling forward and into Galvin’s arms. He shifted the boy in his arms and carried him off. He returned to the fork in the hall where he found Brass and Steel waiting. Brass sighed.

“Gee, did you really have to kill that admin? I mean, I know she was rude and, well, evil…”

“Kill? I didn’t kill anyone.” He brushed passed the two to get a look at the admin. With the wound in her stomach she was indeed dead but with the look on her face it was rather obvious she did it to herself. “‘If the authorities could catch me.’ huh…”

The police couldn’t catch the dead. Gavin shook his head.

“Alright, Simon is here but he needs medical attention. The sooner the better, he was locked in some room, I assume the whole two months.”

“I’ll-“

“I’ll do it.” Brass interjected. “As a protector, its something I should do. You and Glavin go ahead Steel, I’ll meet up with you two as soon as I get him the medical attention he needs.” Steel hesitated for a moment before nodding. Brass opened the nearest window, with that task completed Galvin handed off the child and he jumped out the window. Flames engulfed Brass, bringing no harm to Simon, and he took off into the air. Galvin pulled an ID card from the pocket of the diseased Rune. He looked over the hunk of plastic for a moment before sliding it through the small black box next to the elevator. The silver doors slid open to reveal a rather normal elevator. He threw the card aside and looked to his friend, offering her a hand.

“Ready to go?” She nodded, taking his hand.

“Yeah,”

——

Hilda was well aware of what was going on in her base. The question was did she care?

The answer was a simple no.

If those kids didn’t beat them up, giving them a chance to live, she would of killed them herself.

The elevator opened and the woman didn’t look up from the paperwork on her desk. Once she felt the power of the two soul users did she look up. Much to her surprise they were allied with birds of the legendary bird trio.

“Well, I’ll have to admit I’m surprised with who your partners are. I was expecting your pathetic first pokemon.”

“We’ve come to put an end to you,” Steel stated firmly. “Extract Mewtwo from you or ultimately kill you. It’s time to put an end to Rune.”

“Free Mewtwo?” Hilda laughed, rather amused, finally standing up. “KilliNG ME?!” The desk suddenly flew in the direction of the two preteens. Steel quickly formed a blade crafted from ice and sliced the table in half as the windows rattled and items flew around the room. Galvin crafted a shield to keep the items at bay.

“THAT’S CUTE!! CUTE I SAY!! KILL ME! HAHAHA! SUCH SILLINESS!! YOU BRATS ARE A MILLION YEARS TOO YOUNG TO WIN THIS MATCH!!!”

Articuno and Zapdose VS Mewtwo!!

Items began to fly around with more ferocity, making Galvin’s shield give away sooner than he anticipated. A random paper weight hit him in the head. He was going to get a black eye because of that… He rubbed his eye before launching a thunder bolt, sadly the attack bounced off a shield and into the wall. He scowled.

“A shield, this is trouble…” Galvin tapped his chin. “It’s a psychic shield without a doubt.”

“I’m gonna break it!” Steel shouted rushing forward. Galvin tired to call her back but she did not listen. Her blade made contact with the shield and she was rebounded in an instant. She crashed rather painfully on her back, her blade tossed aside.

“Okay… I cant break through it…” Galvin approached her, returning her blade to her.

“I’ll distract her, try again then.” she nodded. Galvin used his powers of thunder to conger up daggers and tossed them in Hilda’s direction. She knocked them aside but Galvin fired back with yet another thunder bolt. It’s reflected off the shield as he planned and Steel made her attack. With a swing of her blade she left a rather huge gash on Hilda’s back, allowing the shield to falter and Galvin to attack once more, this time hitting dead on.

The two ducked aside as Hilda dragged herself to her feet. She looked at the blood at her hands and slowly, she began to laugh. Low and tiny slow escalating to madding chuckles.

“CONGRATULATIONS!! YOU MADE ME BLEED. YOU’RE THE FIRST TO DO SUCH A STUPID THING! YOU MUST DIE!” A stream of psychic balls pelted the duo, Galvin dived in front of Steel, taking the blunt of the attack. In the middle of the dust and haze there was a sudden cry of pain. A whirlwind cleared the room of dust what remained brought a smile to the face of the two preteens, Brass had returned and left a rather deadly burn on her left leg. Steel made a move before she could, encasing Hilda’s right leg and torso in ice.

“You alright?” Brass called. Galvin dragged himself to his feet and nodded.

“Hit her hard before she gets up!!” Steel barked. The boys nodded, getting into a triangle formation around Hilda. Each pointed their fingers at Hilda as if it was a gun.

“Trio,”

“Finale,”

“Launch!” Elements of fire, ice and thunder collided with Hilda in an explosion of pure power and elements. An audible shattering sound followed and a thud of a body. Minutes passed before Brass loudly asked;

“Is she dead?”

“I don’t think so, she’s breathing.” Steel gave the woman a kick, in return she groaned.

“So we have to drag the corpse to the authorities?”

“She’s not dead. There is no corpse.” Galvin sighed. He made the first move to approach the body when a light suddenly came from it. The light soon took shape of a pokemon, the true form of the Cerulean Cave monster. It looked down at the three Soul users and vanished without even thanking them.

“Rude.”

—-

After tying Hilda up the trio left the base Galvin took Hilda to the mainland while Brass took Steel to the nearest island of the Sevii Islands archipelago, where Brass left Simon in the care of an aged doctor. Hilda was thrown onto the doorstep of a police station with a note that had the co-ordinates of the Rune base to capture any straggler members that had remained. After that he promptly returned home to be greeted by his sister at seven in the morning. She helped her tired, battered and bruised brother to bed and kissed him on the forehead. Galvin rolled onto his side and quickly fell asleep that Christmas morning, something that surprised his grandfather when the man woke up.