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ToT Chapter 2 - Part 3: How to catch a witch

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After they recovered their strength, they all headed right into the Darkhowl woods.  They walked for some time, without any trace of Peach, Molly, the children or even Morgan. Alex and Zack were prepared to fight her and they’re only waiting for her appearance.  Then, they heard a scream.

 

“Alex, there’s someone up ahead” Marth said.

“If you want to check, you can do that, but wait for backup if Morgan is there” Alex suggested.

“Thanks” Marth said and went up ahead as fast as he could.

“Where is he going?” Horace asked.

“To the Pokémon who screamed, better start moving faster” He said and they all on the move.

 

When they’ve reached where Marth was, they saw an eevee with strange clothing, badly injured and unconscious. Alex told them to make a circle, in case they’re still in danger and approached to Marth, who for some reason, he has some injuries, too.

 

“What happened?” He asked.

“Some Pokémon were attacking her. I rushed to save her, but I underestimated their force” Marth answered.

“We have only one first aid kit with us, want to use it?”

“Sure”

“You want any help?”

“No”

“You’re not going to tend your wounds?”

“They’re no threating my life”

“Understood” Alex said, sensing what he’s up to. “Make sure you see a healer when we get back”

“Got it”

 

Marth treated her, while the others waited. Alex stayed close to him, in case something happens. When he finished, he gave back the first aid kit to Alex and waited. After some minutes, she started to open her eyes.

 

“Uh…”

“Can you hear me?” Marth asked.

“Yeah, I think so” She answered weakly.

 

She took a paw to her head and rubbed against it. Then Marth asked again.

“What’s your name?”

“I- I don’t remember” She answered.

“What happened to you?” He asked again.

“I don’t even know that”

 

He looked back to Alex.

 

“It’s possible that she is shocked, so she won’t remember anything until her calm down. That’s the only thing I can come up with” He theorized.

“Sorry for interrupt, but can you help me to exit the forest? I’m not in a good shape and can’t do much, please” She said.

 

Marth thought for a while, divided of helping to catch Morgan and helping her, then he looked back again to Alex for assistance.

 

“It’s up to you, you’re her rescuer. You know I won’t put any objections” Alex assured him.

 

He looked again to the eevee and said:

 

“I’ll help you get you out”

“Thanks, I really appreciate it” She said.

“Someone is coming!” Horace shouted from a tree.

“Everyone, come here!” Alex ordered and the entire group went to where Alex and Marth where.

 

The sound of bushes was getting louder and then a fennekin with a plusle, a minum and a shiny woobat appeared, running towards them.

 

“Peach?” Alex asked.

“A-Alex!” She responded.

 

She stooped, panting and trying to recover some air. Then Zack spoke.

 

“I see that you found the missing children and Molly, but what happened?”

“M-M-Morgan is c-coming this way” She said.

 

Everyone got shocked, except for Alex and Zack, who saw that their opportunity has come.

 

“Okay, this is what we’re going to do. Everyone here is going to hide in the bushes. For nothing in the world you make any noise. Zack and I will receive her and weaken her. When she’s exposed and try to escape, we’re going to hunt her. Since Peach has the missions and Marth is injured, some of you are going to help them to get back to Mooswood” Alex explained.

“I-I’ll go with them and s-say that you h-helped with the missions to Resin and Lydia, too” Yang offered.

“If you go, I’ll go with you” Sonya said.

“Alright, what about the others, you’ll stay?” Alex asked

 

They all nodded. When they’re hiding in the bushes, Marth called Alex.

 

“Alex, can I talk to you for a moment?”

“Sure, what is it?”

“I’m – I’m sorry I can’t help you”

“Don’t even think about it. Right now you need to get back to Mooswood”

“I promise I won’t let you down next time”

“Marth, I want you to listen to me. For me, you haven’t let me down, you did a lot of things this day with us and that’s more than I can ask of you. But now, you’re injured and you need to help that eevee. People in need are always first and I don’t want you to be worse than you are, is that clear?”

“You speak with wisdom” Marth recognized.

“I prefer to call it common sense, now go, that’s an order” He said, joking at the end.

 

Marth reunited with the rest of the group. Zack approached to Alex with some bottles.

 

“The children said that these potions belong to Morgan. Perhaps with them we can have a conversation topic” He explained.

“Good one, you have the orb ready?” Alex asked.

“Yes”

“Nice, now we wait”

 

They didn’t wait for too long. Morgan appeared from the bushes, with an angry and evil face. ‘She makes potions and she didn’t think to do one to make her a more presentable vulpix? This burns my eyes’ Zack thought for himself.

 

“Where are they?” She asked with a malicious voice.

“Who?” Alex asked back, showing ignorance.

“The witch and the others; I know they passed over here”

“I didn’t see anyone, you?”

“Not really, but I found something on the ground” Zack said and he showed one of the bottles.

“That’s mine! Give me that back!” She ordered.

“Why? There’s no name on them” Zack objected.

“It could be from another witch, there are a lot of them out there” Alex added.

“You want to anger me, is it, guild members?”

“And you want us to waste our time with a cranky and crazy witch?” Zack provoked her.

“I’M NOT CRANKY, NOR CRAZY!” She shouted.

 

‘That is not helping you to prove your point’ Alex thought. She threw the fire weaker potion; but Zack used Psychic to stop it in midair. Morgan wasn’t expected that response.

 

“Now you resigned to throw bottles like a drunk” Zack said, bringing the bottle behind him.

“Besides, you’re not very special of making them. I mean, everyone can do that with the right ingredients and a book” Alex said.

“And from our point of view, you’ll be considered as nothing more than a pathetic criminal” Zack finished.

 

If they wanted to piss her off beyond the limits, they did it.

 

“You messed up with the wrong witch” She said in a dark tone.

“Actually, is the right one” Alex commented.

 

She didn’t want to hear anything more. She started attacking with a Fire Blast against Zack. Without moving, he used Heat Wave to block the attack. Morgan changed the strategy and tried to approach him and use Tail Slap. He let her and when she was about to hit him, he used Psychic again. Grabbing her, he threw her against a tree. She crashed with it, but recovered quickly. Since Zack was giving her a lot of trouble, she changed to Alex as her target. She decided to use Dig, because without a bad status condition on them, Hex wasn’t going to help her that much. Instead of moving, Alex sat down with one of his katanas out, closed his eyes and waited. When he felt that Morgan was approaching, he stood up, channeled a Thunder punch and nailed the blade into the ground. At the exact moment, she touched the katana, receiving a good pack of electricity.

She went out just a few meters of them. She was literally enraged and injured. She couldn’t land a single hit on them, but they managed to do it without even moving. Then Zack spoke.

 

“Well, it was a good warming up, but now where going to end this game” Then he extracted the orb he was hiding behind his left wing.

“For your information, this is a power up orb, with the additional function of use a move that is super effective against the opponent and I only need to activate it squeezing it a little” He explained “Anything else you want to say before we beat the hell out of you?”

“Take this!” She said as she launched another Fire Blast.

 

Zack acted as he wasn’t expected that and evaded the attack, while he threw the orb to Morgan. She saw the orb coming to her way and when it landed near her, she picked up.

 

“You fools! Now I have the power to destroy you! You’ll bodies will serve me well in my potions”

 

The others thought it was their end. She squeezed and the orb began to glow. When it was too bright, it disappeared. Then she extended her paw to use a rock move against Zack, but nothing happened. She thought on a fairy move, but nothing happened. She tried every move that is supper effective against them, but nothing happened.

 

“Why this thing won’t work!?”  She asked to herself.

 

Zack began to laugh and Alex followed him.

 

“What is so funny to you?” She hissed.

“Is just that you ended as the fool; you see, that orb was actually a trapburst orb with an action ratio of 500 meters and the additional action was to nullify any kind of magic at the same range. In other words, you cannot teleport, if you can, or use your traps to protect you”

 

The face of Morgan changed to complete fear. They managed to trick her and left her without escape. She gave one step backwards, then another, while she was trebling.

 

“Now, you can come with us peacefully, or we use team brutality to drag you, your choice” Zack proposed to her.

“Y-you can’t d-do that. You’re j-just only two” She said.

“Only us? Guys, why we don’t show her that she is wrong?” Alex called.

 

Then the entire group moved out from the bushes and stood beside Zack and Alex. Morgan couldn’t stand the sight and she started to run as fast and far away as possible. Then the teams MAGIX, Emblem’s flame and Pathfinders went back to Mooswood, while the teams Shadow foxes, Electrophilic, Harvester and Fallen hunted the witch. Without the traps, it was easier to follow her, but she knew the terrain well and she evaded them at some points, even launching Fire Blasts to stop them. When she thought she lost all of them, Alex and Zack found her and began the chase.

 

“Come back here, you wuss!”  Alex shouted

“You’ll never catch me alive!” She said.

“Tempting” Zack mentioned.

“SHUT UP!”

 

At some point she was started to getting away. Alex thought of stop her, using a Focus Blast, but when he was charging it, he felt a rush of adrenaline, travelling through his body. Then, he started to glow and instead of launching a Focus Blast, it was an Aura Sphere. The impact was too strong, that it made Morgan flies away.

 

“Ups, I think I overdid it a lot. We lost Morgan” Alex said, a bit disappointed.

“Umm, Alex, I think you have to check your body” Zack suggested.

“What do you mean…” Alex started, but he looked his right paw. It was with a black color instead of the blue.

“I evolved?” He asked, looking to his body, not believing what happened.

“Seems like it” Zack answered.

Alex saw that all of his gear was on the ground. “Now I’m too big to put all of these things, even my katanas look like big knifes”

“We just have to wait to get to Tabira; then you can change to the lucario gear; good thing we brought it with us”

“That’s right” He saw that something on his arm was out of place “Well, I found this odd”

“What?”

“I was supposed to have sharp spikes, but instead, they’re smooth”

 

Zack looked at him and he was right. There where small in height and smooth.

 

“Mmm, Nya mentioned that there are some riolus who evolved into lucarios with smooth spikes” He said.

“And what does that mean?” Alex asked.

“It means that you have Psychic naturally, without need to learn it”

“Well, that’s a thing; I wonder what other moves I have, besides of the Aura Sphere. Man, we have this close to catch her, but evolution went up and this happened”

“Calm down boy, we’ll have other opportunities. We have to be proud of sending her back like a baby”

“Heh, yeah; let’s rally the others and head back to Mooswood. I want to do the last mission, so we can have a good rest”

“I agree, and try to do things slowly for now; the adrenaline is helping you to still standing, but when it finishes, you’re going to feel like a snorlax in his nap time”

“Yes sir”

 

They found the other teams and together, they headed back to Mooswood. They were impressed of how they disarmed Morgan, felt a little ashamed that she got away and congratulated Alex for evolving. When they reached Mooswood it was almost night time. They looked for the teams who went back and found them in the hospital. Marth was patched up as well as the eevee. Sonya and Yang stayed with them and Peach was on the other side of the room. When they got in they all looked at them.

 

“A-A-Alex?” Yang asked, looking to the lucario.

“The one and only” Alex answered.

“You evolved!?” Sonya asked.

“Yup” he answered again.

“Did you catch Morgan?” Marth asked, too.

“No, and it was my fault” He recognized.

“How?” Sonya asked again.

“I tried to use a Focus Blast to stop her, but evolution appeared and it was an Aura Sphere so strong that I sent Morgan flying away”

“What a downfall, I guess this was the first time we were so close to get her”

“There will be another chance” Zack assured. “For now, we rest and go to Rivercross Acres to finish the last mission tomorrow. If anyone wants to go back to Tabira, you can do that”

“I guess we can handle one more mission” Horace said “What do you think guys?”

“Well, this guys make the missions way more easy than they look, so we can stick around a little longer” Stella said and Stephan nodded.

“I’ll damn myself if I leave you after all that happened this day, we’ll go too” Sonya said.

“I think one more won’t hurt and I think Hybris wants more action” Diego said.

 

Marth kept quiet for a while, and when they started to leave the patient’s room, he called to Alex again. He went to him.

 

“You want to talk of something?” Alex asked

“Yes, but she asked first” Marth answered and looked to the eevee.

“Thanks Marth” She said.

“How are you feeling?” Alex asked.

“Much better” She answered.

“You remember now?”

“Yeah, my name is Robin and Marth let me join him. He told me about you” Robin said.

“About what?”

“About your personality, your capabilities and your way of thinking. He also told me that you’re looking information of a mentor”

“Yeah, that’s why we’re trying to catch Morgan” Then Alex guessed something. “You’re a witch?”

“That’s right. He told me that you trained with them and you know some of them. He suggested me that I provide some help, since you covered our escape”

“I really appreciated”

 

Then Alex told her about who the mentor really was and what she look like.

 

“I know who you are referring. That’s not much I know, but rumors said that she was in the Darkhowl woods and Morgan encountered her” Robin explained.

“That’s a big clue. Thanks for the information” Alex said.

“I’m glad I could help”

“That reminds me. Marth, what are you going to do?”

“I want to know if I can do the last mission with you” Marth said.

“Are you sure? You’re not in a good shape now”

“We all agreed that we’ll do them together. And I’m not going to fail that too”

 

Alex thought for a while. He knew that Marth won’t surrender, but he cannot risk him in letting him doing anything by himself. He sighted and talked to him again. “If you’re going with us, you’ll have to stay with the group all the time, even if it is an easy mission, okay?”

“Understood” He agreed.

“You know I’ll accompany him, right?” Robin said.

“Yep, you have to stay together. What are you capabilities?” Alex asked.

“I’m skilled in magic, ranged and closed attacks. I’m also a good strategist” She responded.

“That means you two will be fine, as long as you’re staying with us. I’m going to the bed, rest up and I’ll see you tomorrow”

“See you then” Marth said.

“Good night” Robin said.

 

When Alex was about to leave the room, he saw Peach still in the same place. He approached to her and softly asked:

“Peach, are you okay?”

She slowly turned her head to him. “Y-yeah, j-j-just a little tired, t-that’s all”

He gives her some time before he could speak again. “Are you coming with us tomorrow?”

“I-I’m not s-sure yet”

“Remember what Zack proposed, besides you won’t have to do any fighting where we’re going”

“Y-You sure?”

“Of course, you only have to help in the acres by collecting, moving some things, easy work; the bandits are our concern. You can also look for your mother there or any trace, Zack and I can cover you”

A little smile appeared on Peach. “T-thank you. Y-you know w-where your f-friend is?”

“As far as I know, Morgan has that information. We just have to wait, until the opportunity comes again”

“Oh. B-By the way, t-thank you for p-protecting me back there”

“No problem, I’ll leave you so you can rest”

“O-okay, bye”

“Bye” And Alex exited the room and went to sleep. The tiredness hit him like a boulder, leaving him sleeping like a trunk.

And they still comming.

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Lots of action in this part!

The parts with Marth and Robin...aren't quite what really went down, but what you had them do worked well enough for your story, so I guess I don't mind a bit of a continuity break. However...if you were curious, Marth gets hurt in Darkhowl woods while looking for Molly. She ends up growing giant with one of the potions and sends him flying with a swat of her wing, resulting in him badly injuring his leg on landing. He's unable to walk without assistance from Falchion (and therefore unable to fight), and the reason he takes care of Robin's injuries first instead of his own, despite how crippling it is, is because he recognizes her (or at least her coat) as something very important from his past. He helps Robin by leading her out of the forest while she helps him walk. Robin doesn't remember she can use magic until she sees Morgan perform it...after which she uses a healing spell to restore Marth's injured leg. While Robin does remember certain things like her name and her skills, she still has no memory of anything else...unless something triggers her memory. Marth actually would be initially anxious around Robin due to what she reminds him off, but he settles down quickly enough and lets her join him when she asks as she has nowhere else to go.

Anyway...thanks for the cameos!