Fluff The Altaria's Story

Zap said nervously "I don't have good feeling about this"


Glow and the other three arrived at the battle rather quickly. She ran over to the first Pokemon she saw. "What can we do to help?" She said, her paws trembling nervously.


When the ground had shook, beginning the battle, Ivy immediately knew something was wrong. She quickly scrambled her her cage that had been left open after a flood of panicking humans ran out the door. She quickly made her way to the first floor. A flood of panicked Pokemon shoved her put the door before she was fully out. She made her way to the battle.

The Fireknaught squad leader caught one of the pamphlets and laughed at it as he crumpled it up after he read it, "Maybe not right now..."

The squad leader then turned to watch the Miso Force fly off, "Those bastards.

"Squad, it's time to go after those aliens again. I hope you two aren't afraid to fly." The squad spoke into his communications.

The other two Fireknaught revealed themselves and walked over to the squad leader, "And why would be scared to fly?"

At that moment, the squad leader smirked beneath his helm. At that moment, Machamp grabbed the two soldiers and their two Pokemon. All four were in complete surprise and shocked, knowing exactly what was about to happen. Fireknaughts had done a lot of things, but there has been none thrown into the horizon by a pokemon yet.

"Sir! Please! Can't we just....AAAAAAHHH", before the soldiers could get their words out, Machamp had slung them into the sky to follow the Miso Squad.

Machamp then took hold of the squad leader and focused all his power into this throw to make sure he caught up with the others. As the Machamp fully released the squad leader, he made a split second retrieval of Machamp while flying off. It wasn't even seconds before the three Fireknaughts were hurling so fast through the air that everything felt normal.

"Sir, i'm sure we could have gotten a ride."

"Too late for that. I have no clue how we're going to stick this landing, but we should be fine, our bodies are much stronger than most. Might be flesh, but I still feel like stone!"

"Headquarters, focus on the aliens we're flying after. We're out of Nimbasa City and heading for the desert." The squad leader spoke.

"Flying?! How?!" The dispatcher spoke while setting a sensor that would follow the Miso Force from space.

"I'll explain if we survive this landing. Not much time to talk about it."

"Aye, sir. I've set the sensors and they've switched to scanning. Systems have locked on the Miso Force. Scanning their trajectory. Be careful sir, their ship is not too far ahead." The dispatcher returned.

A voice could be heard in the background of the dispatchers side, "Lower into the atmosphere and activate the High-Grav lift..." The rest of the orders were mumbled.

The dispatcher returned message, "Your squad is on to something, the Pharaoh is getting involved. Keep them busy, we have a plan!"

The communication was cut short and the squad leader mumbled over the comm system with his squad members, "If we land successfully, we have our orders. Do not let them leave the landing zone!"

Behind the Miso Force, the three Fireknaught, a Voltorb, and a Geodude were hurling forward. This entourage of sentient missiles remained far enough behind the Miso Force to not be seen. With no plan in mind, they just enjoyed the flight and would figure out what was next if they survived.

"I hope they don't expect us to clean up the mess," Touko grumbled as propaganda fliers came raining down over the stadium. They had to call off the baseball game...man, and just when it was getting good, too. 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth with Gurdurr up to bat and the bases loaded with one out.

"Alder was right. Everyone thinks theirs is the best way forward. That's exactly why we have to have these discussions with people, to open our minds to new ideas and possibly reach a better answer. But who the hell are these savages that think they have to settle their problems with...whatever the fuck this is? Did we learn nothing from the great Kalos war? Or the time the Musketeers showed up...that's it! Let's go, Dweller!"

The mighty Terrakion took one look at the scene and shook his broad head before letting out a mournful cry...or was it calling for its brothers in arms? Maybe Pokemon could come up with a solution where the humans had clearly failed.

The citizens of Nimbasa City cheered as the Miso Force was literally drove out of town. Many a trainer pumped a fist in the air and many a Pokemon followed suit in the miniature celebration. They did it. They banded together and saved their home.

As the massive group of people began to divide into large packs to discuss what had just happened, many a Pokemon was recalled into their Pokeballs. However, a surprising numerous amount of Pokemon stayed out. The AXIS Peacekeepers ship still loomed above them. Now that the threat dissipated from the entertainment hub of Unova, the fleet should at the very least follow suit towards the Miso Force and the Fireknaughts, who had proceeded to the desert. In all honesty, the Ruulans were hoping that the big scary ships would at least go away with hope that they would never be seen again. Until the sky was clear and blue once more, many a trainer was reluctant to call the fight over yet, although no one was attacking.

Overlooking the spectacle, the group of Pokemon continued to bicker among themselves.

"Where did they go?" Siena was looking down the path they had come from, "Didn't they follow us?"

"Do I even need to comment on how silly that statement sounds?" Skyball leaned against the wall of a building laxly. Lumi chuckled a bit. Siena shot daggers at the two of them.

"No, I mean where could they have changed direction? And why? And why did they bring Sabre with them?"

"Cause they offered to carry Sabre before," Gambit offered as an explanation, "And I don't see Radegast letting him go anytime soon...not after what we saw from him in the desert."

"Yeah, that was a break from the calm exterior he always wears," Siena muttered under it's breath before a large galloping sound began to make it's way closer to them.

The next thing anyone knew, a large Rapidash was running in blazing circles around them. Pitch cowered in fear instantly, but the others recognized this Pokemon immediately, especially the two electric fuzzballs.

"RUBIRA!" Lumi and Skyball cried in unison as they both ran towards the fire horse and proceeded to hug it. Rubira reared back a little bit.

"Hey, watch it!" she exclaimed, "Don't you dare accidentally Nuzzle me again!"

Siena approached, a coy smile on the Shaymin's face, "Hey Ruby. Haven't seen you in a little bit, huh? I see you're keeping the hooligans in line." She added that last bit with a tiny smudge of sarcasm in her tone.

Rubira caught onto it immediately, "It's not my fault! I don't know if you knew this or not, but wild Rapidashes running rampid through a city doesn't exactly help out an incognito mission. I've been looping around the outskirts the whole time."

"Speaking of the incognito mission," Dee looked towards Lumi and Skyball accusingly, "They let the Nidorina escape."

"Dee!" Lumi's jaw dropped open in protest, "You weren't supposed to tell them that!"

Dee just shrugged in response.

Lumi let her eyes drop. "Yeah, she ended up getting away," she admitted, "But how was I supposed to know she's protected by some friggin' gang who set up camp in Nimbasa?"

"Wait, hold up," Gambit hovered lower, brows furrowed, "Gangs? Human run gangs?"

"No, Pokemon run gangs," Skyball replied, "We stumbled onto an all-out Turf War. Lumi got knocked out and I got poisoned, but I did end up defeating the Nidorina. I just had to save Lumi. She was my priority to me."

Siena nodded understandingly, "I am grateful you two made it out okay. And we can always deal with the Nidorina later. For right now-"

A mournful cry erupted through the conversation, shaking every wild Pokemon present to their core. Everyone looked out near the baseball fields where the sound seemed to come from. It was a call...a summoning for them.

"W-who do you think made that call?" Pitch backed towards Glow, apprehension settled in his gaze.

"I don't know," Siena answered, "But we need to strategize and formulate a game plan here."

And then Radegast appeared, apologizing for bailing towards the sewer tunnels and following orders and the like.

"It's alright," Siena answered back, hoping Radegast could understand well enough to know what the Shayin was saying, "So long as you came back safe and sound...and with our little prickly friend in tow. We kind of need him."

Sabre said nothing. He just continued to glare and sulk.

"I see he may have stumbled across some old friends," Gambit whispered to the Shaymin, looking towards Margriet and Logan nervously. The last time the three of them crossed paths, a fairly decent sized fight broke out. Siena recognized them too, but held a blank face.

"If they were acting hostile, I don't think they would've come with Radegast," Siena reasoned. Gambit nodded in agreement.

"Okay, new plan!" Siena seemed to work like a commander amongst the group, "We have three interest points. Follow up on that call near the baseball field, follow up on the alien invaders who went off into the desert, and taking Sabre back to the rendezvous point. To do this, we're going to have to split into groups."

"Rubira," the Shaymin looked at the Rapidash first, "Because you're the fastest here, I want you to go after the ones that were driven out of town. Do not engage unless they attack first. Keep an eye on them and make sure they leave for good. Any odd behavior they exhibit or action they take while on the planet must be made note of. Hopefully, they're heading towards a space ship of their own to leave. If not, record their behavior and report back."

"Coolio, more running," she grumbled before turning around and galloping towards the desert with incredible speed. The citizens wouldn't notice or even care about a wild Rapidash running out of the town, not after they day they had.

"Next, Lumi, Skyball, and Dee. I want you three to head towards the baseball field and discover the source of that call. Find out why it was called in and figure out how we can help them." Siena turned towards Glow and the company she led. "If you guys want to help out, you can join those three on that expedition. If not, I understand. If you'd like, we can introduce ourselves later." Siena turned it's head to rest it's eyes on Sabre.

"And finally you. Gambit, you and I are going to take this little rascal back to the rendezvous point so we can get it out of Radegast's hands and he can move on with his own quest."

"Sounds like a plan," Gambit began to circle the troublemaker, realizing a patch of wet fur on the Sandslash's front, "Were...were you licked?"

"Alright team, let's do this!" Siena shouted before leading Radegast back to the warehouse building from where they had come from, Gambit taking the rear while Siena took the lead. Lumi, Skyball, and Dee all bounded with incredible speed towards the baseball fields to answer the call. Pitch stepped forward and looked back to Glow, "I think we should help them. They seem to be doing something important."

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Rubira had made her way just to the outskirts of the city and was now looking for the aliens in the open when he spotted another figure running not too far up ahead. Curious, she galloped harder and caught up to the other Pokemon running. It appeared to be a Meganium...not the fastest creature to walk the land, but certainly determined.

"Hey!" Rubira called up to the Meganium, "You after these aliens too?"

Skyva walked into what she thought was Nimbasa city. All her pokemon in their balls, she stood at the entrance and looked around. It looked more like a war zone, but despite her gut feeling she kept on walking. Some of the streets were messed up and the deeper she went in the more she saw flyers on the ground. "What the hell happened here?" She thought and she made her way down an okay street. She found where the flyers were coming from, they were raining down from the sky. "Good gosh.." She sighed. The town seemed abandoned and a sense of fear made her go tensed.

"What if I just walked into a damn war?" She thought. Skyva scrambled to grab a flyer. It read:

We are here to help! We are AXIS Peacekeepers! This is not an invasion! Please flee to shelter! We will protect you!

Gripping the flyer in her hand she looked around to where she could hide. "Buildings would be stupid...and I have no idea what they have here! Bomb shelters?!" She frantically thought. She ran around town looking for something that could resemble an entrance to underground. It was when she got to the last street that Skyva heard voices, lots of voices. Without thinking she ran towards them. Just past a large building she saw them, a guy bent over picking up the flyers and the rest seemed happy.

"Hey! HEY! Can you he-FUH!" She ran and shouted at the same time, not looking around or being careful. Her foot slipped on one of the flyers and she fell face first.

Ivy nodded "Uh, yeah." She just wanted to get away from the crowd, from the loud noises, to see what those strange aliens were up to. She glanced at the Rapidash. "Where are you from?"

Glow sighed. "I really don't know, Pitch. But whatever it is, must mean trouble. And I've had so much more than my share of that for the last few days to last me a year." She smiled after that. "But I'm glad I have you guys to help me get through it."

Aurora sighed. "Glow, I think we all have" He paused. "I do wonder what that sound was though."

Zap's tail swished back and fourth as he added "All of this is kinda weird for me. Where did those aliens come from anyways?" He shook a paper off of his paw. "And why the HECK did they have to leave these freaking papers everywhere?"

Fluff looked at the group, a sad sigh held in her mind. "Well, um, I guess I'll see you around" She said as she stretched her wings out, about to take off.

Glow glanced at Fluff. "Don't go!" She said quickly, before she had a chance to think. "I'm sorry!"

Fluff paused. And let her wing fall back to her sides. "I-it's okay."

An awkward silence arose between the two.

Zap glanced from Glow to the altaria. He said "Is there something I missed while Pitch and I were in the vents?

"I'm glad you're all with me too," Pitch gave a warm smile to everyone who he had bonded with over the past couple of days. Specifically, Glow and Zap had the biggest impact on him. He'd like to get to know Mud and Aurora a bit more in the future, but that could happen at it's own pace. Right now, there was too much going on. It was hard to even think coherently at the chaos erupting around them. Pitch could barely keep track of any of it.

It was then that he noticed the Altaria for the first time and turned to Glow with confusion. The Eevee had to agree with Zap on this one. He had no idea what possible beef the two may have had with one another while they were in there. He guessed it was time to find out.

"Who are you?" Pitch stepped forward a bit, staying by Glow's side, "What's your name?"

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Fluff looked down mattresses, then at Glow. "I'm Fluff." She said blatantly.

Mud and Aurora were quietly whispering in the corner.

Glow looked at Fluff, then looked at Pitch and Zap.

"Fluff," Pitch repeated, his eyes brightening a bit as he chuckled softly, "That name sounds a bit silly."

He turned to Glow, "Well, she doesn't seem threatening, at least. Do you guys have history?" He was curious as to why she would act the way she did.

Fluff looked at the eevee, slightly annoyed. "I can hear you, you realize that, right? And my name is not silly!"

Glow looked at Fluff, then Pitch. She stepped in between the two, trying to stop thing from escalating further.

Pitch took a retreating step back, "Alright. Sorry if I offended you. It wasn't my intention to." He sighed as he took a glance to Glow.

"So where should we go? I guess my home should be pretty clear of life since everyone hightailed it. Wanna try there again? Or should we follow those three Electric-Types to whatever called them?" Pitch took note of how the Umbreon took the mediator approach and stepped in between the two. He smiled warmly.

Glow sighed. "Right now, we should probably get rest and food"

Zap nodded in agreement with an unusually loud rumble from his stomach.

Aurora looked around, knowing that most food stands would be abandoned, and he was right. There was a stand, but there were only a few berries in there.

Mud looked at Aurora, who was gathering up a few remains from a deserted food stand.

Fluff just sat, then said to Pitch "It's alright"

Pitch looked around at the emptiness of the streets, an unusual sight for Nimbasa City, especially on such a bight and sunny day. Then again, this wasn't a typical day in Nimbasa City. He was thinking along the same wavelength as everyone else was.

"Alright, I guess we can loot the stands before the people start returning to normal," he sighed. It what he would've done in this situation. He didn't make it on his own in this city without doing some thievery, but it was all necessary...for survival.

The Eevee walked behind a stand and started picking out puffins and fruits and seeds of all kinds. To him, this was a gold mine. With the six of them gathering, they could probably pack enough food to last more than a month. He'd never packed so much in his life.

"How you guys holding up?" Pitch called out, getting his bearings as to where everyone was at.

Glow quickly found a stand. She started to grab some cloth to hold food in. It read "I heart Nimbasa" She grabbed a few of them and handed a few to the others.

Zap took the cloth and stuffed it with bedding material. He knew it would be needed. He also shoved some cupcakes in it because why not?


Fluff looked around and thought Okay I guess I'm helping She took the cloth and flew, looking for an abandoned shop. She swoops down, and she flew into a shop, breaking a window, and getting glass stuck in her fluffy wings that she used for cover. Quite a risky entrance. She thought. She gathered up boxes of strange human food and grabbed a basket of fruit.

Aurora grabbed as many berries as he could get, he grabbed the umbrella, accidentally breaking it in half. He sighed, and filled the umbrella with berries. It was very awkward to carry, but he could still carry it. He went to find more, lugging the umbrella behind him.

Floss was scared. Jason was gone. She couldn't find him anywhere. She saw a group of pokemon, a Raichu, Eevee and an Altaria, the Raichu was placing Cupcakes in cloth. She wanted help, but couldn't pluck the courage to go and ask for it..

She was so spooked. The thought of being alone haunted her.

She heard a loud screeching noise. She looked left to see a car coming to her.

She realised she was on the road but it was too late.

It hit her hard...

As Flasire looked around, he wondered to himself, how would he survive?
He wasn't ready to be on his own. But he had no choice.

He was unique. He had a slit in his skin that was like a pocket. He could use it to store stuff! Food for example.

He just saw a Jigglypuff get flattened!

He wanted to group up with other pokemon, he will.

He will.

Pitch visibly cringed as he heard the sound of squealing tires followed by a massive THUMP! Quickly peering over the stand he stood behind, the Eevee surveyed the area fearing that one of his companions had been run over. Zap was the first one he spotted, carrying a large T-shirt filled to the brim with cupcakes. Glow wasn't too far from him, a large bundle of similar T-shirts on her back. He looked right next to see Fluff looking out the broken window towards them. He would think for a split second that she had caused the noise, but then would realize that an Altaria couldn't make squealing rubber sounds.

Aurora was also fine, carrying a broken umbrella filled with his own goodies. Mud was right by him. So then...who got hit?

Another look around gave Pitch the answer. He spotted a Jigglypuff, flattened on the side of the road, eyes closed. The truck had come to a stop in the middle of the road, the driver and two passengers getting out to survey what they had done. Pitch bounded in between the Jigglypuff and the owners of the vehicle, teeth bared. The driver threw his hands up in the air in surrender and told the two girls to get back in the car. They obeyed and he followed suit. Pitch watched as the truck tore away from them, rounding the corner and disappearing from sight.

Now that they were alone and away form human contact, Pitch looked at the Jigglypuff concerned. He felt for a pulse and found one, though it was faint. Thinking quickly and deciding that it was worth it, the Eevee reached into his pack and pulled out the one revive he had. He'd kept it for so long and only used it for emergencies. Had this Jigglypuff been hit by that truck a week ago, Pitch would've left it to natural selection and walked by. But his newer companions had given him a heart...a strong and powerful one. They gave him something to fight for and taught him the importance of vitality. And he wasn't going to stop anyone from living that way.

"Come on, buddy. Get up," Pitch held the revive over the knocked out Jigglypuff, watching the crystal dissolve in front of his eyes as it absorbed into him. In a moment, the Jigglypuff would open its large, sparkly eyes. It definitely wouldn't feel in tip top shape, but it would absolutely feel better. And most importantly, it would be alive.

Glow heard the squeal of wheels, a sickening thud, and then dead silence. Hopefully not DEAD dead. She grabbed her bag which she had filled with soft materials, and some medical supplies. She scrambled over the others right behind her. Fluff was already to far into the Wal-Mart to hear what happened.

Zap scrambled over, lugging his t-shirt filled with cupcakes. "WHAT was that!?" He yelled. Who was hurt?

Aurora ran over towards Pitch. "What happened?"
Mud ran after the others, slightly slower. By the time they had gathered, Mud had to squeeze in between Glow and Zap.

Fluff trotted around the shop, cheerfully stuffing her makeshift bag.

"It's this Jigglypuff," Pitch called back to Glow, "She's been hurt. I gave her a revive, so nothing to worry about. From the looks of it, she'll come to in a moment." Hopefully, she will. He thought secretly in the back of his mind, but he tried to remain optimistic.

The Eevee began nudging the unconscious Jigglypuff into the alleyway, out of the way so that no one would step on her but visible enough so that either her owner or a PokeCatcher can find her and help her. He gave the Jigglypuff one final pat on the head before rejoining Glow on the other side of the street. "I think she'll be fine," he told her.

At this point, enough supplies had been gathered and they began making their way back to Pitch's lookout area.

Glow looked nervously back. "Are you sure they will be okay?"

Fluff flew over the city, following the group.