A Little Bit of Family Time - Chapter 7: Pokeumans

(Day 7: ) "Wake up, David, today's the big day!"

SLAP!

"Ow!" I yelled as I woke up.

"Finally," I hear come from Josh.

I get up from my sleeping bag. I ask everyone if they're ready.

Daniel says, "We're all ready, it's just we're worried about you."

"I'm fine," I say as I pack up my stuff and head in the direction of the base. They follow.

We make it over near the base. I sneak over to a back door, and knock on it.

"What are you doing?!" I hear being whispered.

"Shh-" I mutter back.

The door opens, and a female head pops out. I back up within the small space between the door and the wall. She shrugs, and starts to close the door. However, just before she closed the door, and leaped out from the nook and performed Hammer Arm on her poor little body. Needless to say, she was knocked out cold.

"Come on," I mutter to the group.

We sneak into the hallways, I trying to hide the body somewhere, only to come into contact with another problem: the security cameras. 'Crap,' I think.

Joshua, as if he was able to read my mind, said, "Don't worry; I can disable these."

"How?" I ask.

He smirks, and suddenly transformed into thin air with the snap of tow of his fingers. We look wildly for him. I hear the sound of the camera moving around. I look over, thankfully out of its sight, to see it spontaneously spasm out. It stopped after awhile, then out of the blue, the Gengar reappeared.

"Feint attack," he says, still grinning.

I comment, "Nice," before checking our vicinity.

Only a man was strutting down the hallway. I shushed them quiet while I picked out the baseball bat from my backpack and handed it to Joshua. Luckily he got the memo. Josh teleported to behind his back, and backhanded him in the head with the bat. He went back to hand me back the bat.

"Nah, man, you're only one of three who currently have hands," I said, as I looked at Daniel, who currently, was almost a complete Ariados.

"Yeah, yeah," he commented as he noticed I was staring at him.

"Sorry."

We continued down the hallway, coming to a set of stair leading downward. I say, "I guess this is the basement."

"I guess you're right," Josh said. I was almost tempted to chuckle, but I realized that we'd already drawn too much attention to ourselves.

We continued to trek down the basement, coming into contact with- experiments? At least, that's what I though it was. Pokeumans, or maybe voluntary Pokextinction, in glass tanks filled with some type of green gel.

"This is really screwed up," Daniel says. You should have seen his face when we got to the Pokeumans in the cages. Lord knows what Pokextinction did to them, especially when they were begging for us to let them free.

"We'll let all of you free, just as long as you can keep quiet, okay?" I asked them all.

They all agreed, and we went to work trying to break the locks. They all thanked us as soon as we did. I looked at anybody in the group. Joshua volunteered to bring them all back to the outside world. "Thanks," I mutter to him.

"No problem," he whispers back. He walks off, a trail of different Pokeumans following his literal footsteps.

"Now it's just us," Nicholas said.

"Yup," I answered as I advanced onward. There were even more guards, thankfully most of them were just being lazy. 'Maybe if I could just get one of them to come and pick them off one by one?' I thought to myself. I focused on trying to lure one of the guards.

'Come here, you know you want. It won't hurt, I promise. Just come over here. Please!' I tried to use telepathy. Somehow, it managed to work. A random guard walked over to our location. He turned at walked over the T-intersection, now away from the guards' lines of sight. That was a bad idea for him: Nicholas performed Thunder Wave and paralyzed him.

That, unfortunately, roused suspicion with the other guards. I muttered a curse, and whipped out my Colt. I wasn't going to kill, but I was still going to use the element of surprise while I still had it.

They rounded the corner, and I leaped out, fired a bullet not at their direction as a distraction, and Hammer Arm'ed the ground to try and immobilize them for awhile. Nicholas paralyzed a few of them, Elizabeth use Ice Beam, and Daniel used a bit silk, as odd as those words come out of my mouth, to tighten up the last of them. However, they had already sounded off the alarm. The familiar red light started spreading throughout the corridor, and the speakers, on full blast, were ordering commands.

"Run! We'll fend them off! You go grab your parents!" Daniel yelled. I silently agreed by running.

Time seemed to have slowed down. I looked behind my shoulder. I saw the goons chasing after them. They were doing a good job defending themselves, but there were too many Pokextinctionists. I looked back forward.

I soon become dizzy, and almost drop to the ground. "Come on, not right now. Please, any time else but now," I mutter. I notice a fluctuation in my height, gradually. I remember. Sure enough, I hear my hoodie and the back of my pants splitting open. It was embarrassing, I'll admit, but I found that keeping the Pokextinction off was important. I continued running. And running. And running.

Finally, the only thing stopping me and my mother was this door. I ran towards it, and, using my new-found shield, burst into the room as a full-on Chesnaught. But I had been too late.

I look up from the left-overs of the door, to find my mother, father, and little brother all in despair, tied up with ropes in chairs. I move towards them, only to hear the click of a gun. I look over, and spot a man who I'd say was in his mid-thirties at least, walking up to me, but staying a good distance back.

"Well, well, well, look at what we have here; A teenager, trying to be a good Samaritan and save his family. How very courageous of you. But unfortunately, your time ends here," said the raspy, old-man voice from which I assume the boss.

"What in the hell is going on in here?!" my dad inquires.

"Shut up!" the boss replied, "You'll get out of here soon enough."

I stand there, calmly. Somehow, I just know it, I'll get out of this along with my family. Then, just as I suspected, I heard- wings flapping? I turn to the door, just as everyone else did. Then, all of a sudden, my face becomes engulfed by millions of different Pokeumans. 'Alright, now what?' I think. Once the crowd escapes my face, I see Joshua, yet again. "Thanks," I say back to him.

He smiles, and says, "No problem."

Elizabeth, Nicholas, and Daniel soon appeared too. We all turned back to the Pokextinction boss. We clearly knew he was overwhelmed, but he didn't give up. He still held up his gun and threatened, "I can still shoot this thing, with or without any of you lot!"

I smirk. "Let's see you do that."

He taunts, "Careful of what you say."

He pulls the trigger. Time yet again slowed down. I saw the bullet coming straight for me. I knew its exact location, and therefore I could easily dodge it. I leaned my head over the left, and time went back to normal again. the bullet flew right past me. As soon as I turn back however, I whip my gun, and point it at his knee.

I reluctantly put my finger into the trigger. I squinted. Is this a good idea? If I didn't pull the trigger, I would die. If I did pull the trigger, however, I would be possibly guilty for murder.

I pinched my teeth together, and tightened my grip as I hesitatingly pulled the trigger.

He fell to the ground in agony. As awkward as it was I rushed to his side. I plugged his wound with my hand, stopping the blood flow. "Someone get stitches, band-aids, anything!" I pleaded. Everyone, realizing the severity of this situation, began scrambling to find any medical supplies. Elizabeth managed to find thread and a needle. Hopefully this stuff is bio-medical. I, obviously grossed because of my squeamishness, stitched together his wound. Once it was done, I got up and headed to my family.

"Why, did you do that?" he asked, "You know I can just kill you, so why not kill me, right here, right now?"

I stopped walking away from him. I clenched my fists, and started walking away from him yet again. I bent down to untie the rope. Unfortunately it was a lot harder than it sounds with claws. Wait, I have claws; I could rip through these lickety-split. I cut off the rope. They all rose up to me. My mom looked at me, straight in the eyes.

"Son?" she questioned.

I blushed a bit. She totally knew it was me after that, and she showed that she knew by giving me a hug.

Dad gave her a look like she was insane. But we all heard what the boss still had to say: "Bah, you may think you've all won, but I've still got at least one trick up my sleeve."

We all turn and stare at him. We pulls out a device with only a red button on it. I get a chill down my spine; I knew what he was going to do. He grins, and says, "Sayonara." He pushes the button.

The alarms went off yet again, only this time inside this room as well. "CALL FOR EVACUATION! THIS BASE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN: FIVE MINUTES!" the speakers say.

"Break a leg," he says.

We all look at him with distaste, then we realized we should get running. I picked them up thanks to my new arms, and sprinted out of the room quickly.

The alarms are going off like crazy. Everyone, even the few survivors of the Pokextinction, were running to the exit. I see the unconscious laying there. Even though they are bad, I still felt bad literally leaving them for dead. Knowing my subconscious would eat away at me if I didn't, I grabbed as many of them as I could. The other Pokeumans saw me, and a few of them started dragging along the bodies as well.

"THIS BASE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN: 3 MINUTES! ...2 MINUTES!"

I ran even faster with the adrenaline I had just gotten. We already had made it up the stairs, only to be lost in a completely different floor. We followed the Pokextinction to the door.

"1 MINUTE... 30 SECONDS..."

We were so close to the door.

"10, 9, 8..."

We slammed open the door, only to be greeted by a Flygon, a Pidgeot, and a couple of other winged Pokeumans.

"Get on our back!" they cawed. We didn't have time to argue, I just laid the bodies on one of them, and hopped onto the Flygon along with my family.

The other Pokeumans were already being held and on the backs of the Pokeumans, and the PRT already took flight. The Flygon, took a running start, however, we could still here the countdown.

"4, 3, 2..."

"FLY!" I screamed to him.

He soared through the sky. Just as I looked back, the entire inside of the building had been consumed by the flames, and the ring in my ears was undescribable.

We were flying through the skies. I was busy comtemplating what happened to the boss. Perhaps he had already made it out of there. I mean, he knew the base at the back of his hand. At least, I hope.

"Now, normally I would take you right back to the base this instant, but instead since you've got, you know, your parents-" the Flygon was interrupted.

"Hey!" my little brother shouted, "I'm here too!" I was surprised that he didn't even talk until now. But it was a lot to go through, I knew that, and I was proud of him for that.

The Flygon continued, "-and your little brother, I was going to take you fellas home. Where is it you live?"

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My mom told him the address, and we sailed through the open blues. I slowly shut my eyes, and smiled: I was going to have a story to tell everybody.