35 Is he ... the Flash?! (1/2)

”Mr.Mime, Reflect!”

A translucent screen appeared above Atiqo, right before the storm of stings could have hit him!

The stings hit the screen one after another and got stuck in it:

*Ching Ching Ching Ching*

When all the stings were let lose and none followed after, the screen vibrated slightly and a humming tone sounded out through the woods:

*Hummmmm*

*Boooooooom*

Suddenly an explosion made Atiqo open his eyes wide, just in the nick of time to see several stings fly towards the Zubat!

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”E-escape, you have to-”, Hazel called his Zubat out but it was already too late.

The stings hit the Zubat hard, and no matter which way it tried to flee, the damage it received was still very harsh. Some of the stings hit its wings, piercing through the skins and preventing it from a steady flight.

It tried controlling its fall pathetically but still moved like a kite with its strings cut loose!

”Who was that?! Show yourselves!”, Chestnut roared loudly.

”SHUT UP!!!”, an even louder roar was thrown back at him, and left Chestnut standing speechless. It even caused him to shudder slightly, as the shout was still resounding in his bones and veins!

”Arthur, are you ok?!”, the same person asked with a worried quiver in his voice.

Atiqo looked towards the origin of the cry.

He couldn't believe his eyes at first, but the red-orange fiery hair was all the prove he needed.

”You sure came ... at the right moment, haha ...”, was the only reply he could bring to Gary. Atiqo knew that Arthur had secretly sent a message to Gary via his Pokedex. But Atiqo didn't know if he would really get it and arrive on time. Well, luckily it seemed to have worked out!

Gary stood farther away from them with a Mr.Mime by his side.

At first his face was filled with confusion but he only needed little time to assess the situation, the condition of the surroundings as well as the lifeless Pokemon bodies told him everything he needed to know. The worst was seeing Arthur's beaten up body and his torn up clothes.

”YOU Motherfucker's have really done it now!!!”

He dashed with full force towards the criminals and reached them in the blink of an eye!

Atiqo's sight was weakened a bit but he felt like seeing sundering flashes of light following Gary's fist all the way throughout his movements ...

”Is he ... the Flash?!”, Atiqo instantly connected the mysterious show of lightning with one of his favourite comic book heroes.

Sparks and cracking sounds as if the air was ripped apart, filled the area around Gary's entire body. Every step he took left black burned footprints on the grass and his fists seemed to be made of pure light!

Seeing that one enemy was down for now, Gary stepped in front of the shrimp like Hazel and gave him a ruthless roundhouse kick! No, that wasn't enough to vent his anger, Gary followed the flying Hazel with super speed, grabbed his foot and threw him into the same tree his partner had been sent into!

*THUMP*

*Crrrrrrkakakakakaak*

The tree either couldn't handle Gary's overbearing force or the criminals weight anymore, it caved in at first but then burst apart into thousand pieces!

Storming fury filled Gary's thoughts and even though he wanted to beat these pieces of scum even more up, he was able to focus on the more important things right now. He turned around and swiftly moved towards his friend and asked carefully:

”Arthur, how do you feel?”

”Gary, I-I am ok, Sniebel, he saved me, he needs help, please!”, Atiqo quickly showed him the Sniebel and recounted the events up until now.

Gary saw that 'Arthur' was stable at the moment, contrary to his outward appearance so he didn't waste time and took a look at the unconscious Sniebel. Of course, hearing the horrible tale right from the boy's mouth made his heart feel even heavier and his face paler and he couldn't help apologizing:

”Arthur, I am sorry, it's my fault. *Gulp* I shouldn't have let you go alone like that ...”

”Forget that, we can talk later, Sniebel's condition is more important.”, Atiqo shrugged Gary's worries off like it wasn't worth mentioning and maintained a serious air, much to Gary's wonderment.

When did he get so mature? If his 12 year old self had been put through this much terror, Gary wasn't sure he could have kept his calm like that!

”Hmm, the right claws are heavily injuried, I think I can see some bones sticking out, that's not good.

A lot of cuts, the head is fine, but there is soo much blood here. Thank god it's still breathing ...”, Gary heaved a sigh of relief seeing air getting sucked into the Sniebel's body.

”Is this your partner? I didn't think you had one.”

Atiqo wasn't sure how to respond, it might take even more time to tell Gary about Sniebel escaping from Arthur's house, so he just nodded. There was time for questions later.

Seeing the wounded boy nod weakly, Gary didn't press further onto the matter and asked something else:

”Do you still have the ball? You should put it in immediately!”, Gary urged him slightly.

”Ah, yes! It was just there, when the Zubat shot it away ...”, Atiqo looked around a little and found the ball a small distance away from him. Luckily the metal cover was sturdy enough to withstand the sting attack from Zubat and remained undamaged.

He hurriedly pressed the button while holding it in Sniebel's direction, a red light shot out and transformed the Pokemon into tiny bits of particles that got sucked into the ball ...

”Hmm, haven't I seen this somewhere before?”, it felt like a deja vu, but he couldn't get the right memory to it,

”Wait, that's just like ... like when that old man turned into light!”, it's been so long, but the memory was still vivid once he recalled it again. Cornelius, turning into light and getting sucked into the wristband, wasn't this just like a Pokemon and the Pokeball?

”Gary, is it possible for humans to get sucked into objects? Just like Pokemon?”, Atiqo asked Gary, as far as his memories from Arthur went, Gary was an actual scientist. He also wasn't sure about the current level of technology in this Pokemon World. For one they were able to keep physical mass in the form of Pokemon in such small vessels, but on the other hand they were still driving with fossil fuel cars ...

”Huh? Where did this suddenly come from?”, Gary was surprised and didn't respond at first. Was this how children were supposed to react after having been assaulted and getting almost killed?

Waking up from his little daze he still answered though:

”No. Well, the latest paper that I read about Pokemon Conversion technology was about inanimate objects and that Pokemon in contact with them could be transfered into the ball as well, but only under certain conditions.

Humans, I don't think it's possible, not with our current technologies. That's something that could be possible in the future, or in Sci-Fi novels maybe, hehe.”

”The future .... ”, Atiqo breathed out silently.

”You see ...”, Gary got instantly hooked when the topic switched to science,

”the underlying principle that Pokeballs are based on is known as 'Wave-particle duality' ...”

”You mean the fact that matter can either behave like particles or waves?”

”Yeah ... huh? How do you know about that?”, Gary got baffled.

”I, eh ... I watched a video on the ... internet?”, he couldn't tell Gary that this theory was quite wide-spread in his own world, right?

”Oh, internet, that's cool.”, Gary didn't know kids these days were so much into sciences.

”Well, yes you're right. Lots of scientists contributed to finally discover this phaenomenon, but most importantly it was one specific person in the last century that made a connection between this theory and the composition of Pokemon!

I have told you about Infinity Energy before, well Pokemon are full of that, at least in the form of particles, Infinity particles! And these little miraculous balls are capable of re-transforming the particles into an energy form and keeping it sealed up!