2010-05-09, 11:05 AM
Spoiler
"Umm, hey, that room we're looking for is called the 'water control room, right?"
"Yes."
"Why is it called like that?"
"Basically, anything in the Battle Frontier that has to do with water is controlled in there. The fountains, watering the plants, you name it. The water from the fountains and such is also cleaned in there, it's a really big place." answered the employee who had been assigned to help them.
"How much longer until we're there?"
"About 3 minutes, if we don't run into anything that slows us down."
Left, right, right, left... along with the enless hallways his place looked like a maze. No maps, no clues. And now, after a long straight corridor, there's a dead end with one door on each side. This could better be the water control room, beause otherwise blowing the whole place up might be a better solution.
"Ok, we're here. Oh, what's this?"
"It seems like the lock has been broken to open the door." said one of the police officers.
Dan got impatient. "Ok, are we going to stare at this stupid lock or are we going inside to see if something's happened in there?"
Everything about this place seemed to take long. Long walks, and now this really high ladder too. Out of nowhere voices.
"Wow, you were right, this room's huge."
Ok, no time to lose now, if he was spotted the mission would fail, and he couldn't accept that. That and the boss would probably get him out of jail just so he could torture him for 48 hours straight, and get him infected with the virus, the same virus he was supposed to put in the water so it could spread trough the air if it ended up in the fountains, thanks to the special liquid it was put in, which didn't mix with water and should evaporate quickly. 4 feet left until safety.
"Hmm, it seems like someone changed the settings of the fountains. The amount of water they spray in one hour ha been tripled!"
Even if they set it back to the regular amount, if the virus was put in the tank, it would be too late. Even the bottle had a special design, in a way that it would rapidly sink to a point where the pressure of the water would be so high that it'd break.
"How many fountains are there anyway?"
"In the whole frontier, there's about a 100."
"Really, because I've only seen a few."
"Well, most of them are underwater, but with the regular settings you don't see them because the pressure with which the water leaves the system isn't high enough, which means is doesn't go above the water level. Right now the people at the frontier will probably see water spraying everywhere."
"Ok, what I forgot to ask, what kind of experimental product was stolen from Silph Co.?"
"Haven't you heard it, there just was a zombie attack on the Radio Tower of Goldenrod. Apparently Silph is responsible for the whole zombie thing."
"I HAVE JUST RECIEVED A MESSAGE WHICH SAYS THAT THE MAN WE'RE LOOKING FOR HAS A SPECIAL 'VERSION' OF THE ZOMBIE, ERR, VIRUS. ACCORDING TO ANOTHER INSPECTOR, LOOKER, THIS IS A LIQUID WHICH DOESN'T MIX WITH ANY OTHER AND ALSO EVAPORATES ABOUT 40 TIMES AS FAST AS ANY OTHER KNOWN LIQUID."
If this was a comic, Dan would probably have a lightbulb hovering above his head now.
"Ok, so we have the fountains and a quickly evaporating zombie virus." *turns around, looking right in the eyes of the man who is standing on top of the gigantic water tank labeled 'fountains'. "GO ARIEL AND PLUG!!! STOP HIM!"
The police men turn around, see the man running away while a Drapion appears, and send out their Pokémon too. 2 Growlithe and an Arcanine follow the Swellow and Porygon-Z towards the tank.
"Is there any way we can get up there quickly?"
"Yes, there's an elevator over there and is just turned on the spinner tiles." says the employee while pointing at a big tile with a red arrow pointing towards an elevator door. Dan jumps on the tile and is launched towards the elevator, which happens to look a lot like a launchpad.
"Is this safe?" he shouts from the other side of the hall.
"If you go trough one at a time it is!" screams the employee back, while inspector Gravys mimics a Walrein being fired by a cannon.
Dan steps on the tile with a spring mark and flies all the way up. A hatch closes under his feet and he's only a few steps away from the man, who tosses a bottle into the water.
"Crap!" he says, while the man ties a rope to the fence which was made to keep people from falling down and slides down along the wall.
"Is there a wa-" he starts, but then he spots a rope. He ties it in the way he learned on the boat from Slateport to Olivine, of which he got only 40 minutes ago, and jumps. Amazed by the soft landing, he let's go of the rope and jumps on the tile the man in black missed, landing right in front of him. Plug and Ariel knock out Drapion which is called back from a great distance.
"Go Sabre!"
"You're too late kid, the virus is in the water already. Pretty much anyone up there who inhales it is done for. And with anyone I'm talking about the estimated 54,000 visitors of the Battle Frontier anniversary."
"Maybe I'm not too late, Plug, hold on to Ariel and use Thunderbolt on the tank. Ariel, come back here quickly!"
With Plugs insane special attacking power the Thunderbolt looks more like a Thunder, and the steel of which the tank is made glows red, making all sorts of noises. Plug and Ariel return to their specially designed Pokéballs.
"Nice try, but as I said, you've lost already."
"AND YOU'RE COMING WITH US." Inspector Gravys lifts the man with one arm. At that moment the tank can no longer resist the combined force of the water and the heat that came of the thunderbolt, and a little hole appears, but 3 seconds later the size has doubled.
"Let's get out of here." Dan jumps on Sabre. The hole now has the size of a small Voltorb.
"We'll take care of him, you go try and see if you can warn the people outside in time." says the employee of the Battle Frontier, now handing out masks to block the virus to everyone after feeding Sabre two doses of X speed.
"Ok."
Screaming can be heard trough the ceiling. "I guess we're too late..."
"Soool!" Sabre stops in front of a door. The sign says 'Factory storage room'. The inspector riding Arcanine pulling a cart with everyone else in it passes by. "HURRY UP!"
CLANG!!!!!!!!! The sound of steel being ripped apart can be heard in the distance, along with the sound that normally is made by a waterfall.
Dan opens the door and sees a lot of rocks completely filled with Pokéballs. Sabre is starting to get really nervous now.
"Which one?!" he asks to Sabre, moving his hand past a row.
"Sol!"
"This one?"
"AB-AB-SOOOL!!!" Sabre seems to be getting angry now, but calms down a bit once Dan grabs the Pokéball his 'Sol!' was meant for.
"Ok, go!" says Dan as he jumps on Sabre. The water is getting really close. Sabre doesn't have to think twice about which way to take whenever there's an intersection. He blasts trough a door, jumps between walls rather than taking the stairs and they're outside. Zombie people and Pokémon are everywhere, but they don't pay attention to them and go back to Olivine as fast as possible.
"Plug, blow up the rock walls here to keep the zombies from getting to the city!" BOOM! The once peacefull beach is now covered with rocks. Sabre calms down a bit, and so does Dan as the man who talks about waves and the man who counts how many people visit the Battle Frontier appear to be fine.