Pokemon The Wandering Scientist - Chapter 11 Chapter 11

“How…?” Out of nowhere, William thought of the table beside her earlier.

He wasn’t sure if it was just a minor injury or a severe one. He wasn’t a biology major. One thing for sure though, at this rate of blood loss, she won’t make it until they get rescued and sent into hospital.

Gengar popped out of Alex’s shadow, it immediately went ahead and scavenge Alex’s bag, searching for medical items.

William saw a shadow close in as he was treating Alex, out of anxiousness, he didn’t exactly saw Gardevoir’s shadow’s pose.

“Gardevoir! Great! Help me heal her with healing pulse!” William quickly held Alex’s head up.

Suddenly, out of William’s expectations, Gardevoir knelt down quickly, her right hand holding a dagger made out of psychic powers, jabbing it right towards Alex’s neck.

Out of surprise and disbelieve, William shouted.

“Gardevoir!!!”

Just as Gardevoir’s dagger was about to stab Alex, a flash of white light went by. A pokemon in her belt came out. The light successfully blocked Gardevoir’s dagger, just an inch above Alex’s neck.

Seeing her attack failed, Gardevoir’s psychic blade grew along the light, and quickly down towards Alex.

The light finally condensed, revealing a Lucario that was holding a spear made of energy. Possibly aura energy as it was glowing blue. It was this exact spear that blocked Gardevoir’s dagger.

Lucario pushed his spear upwards, destroying the dagger that was growing around it, and knocking back Gardevoir.

Gardevoir retreated, she placed her right hand on William and teleported backwards, then, she and Lucario were staring at each other.

Lucario formed another spear in his other hand, a shorter one compared to the former one. He stood a stance, facing against Gardevoir.

William, recovered from the shock immediately realised that the situation went out of control. He glanced at the Aura pokemon, who was focused on the Emotion pokemon. He noticed that it didn’t take him as a threat, but rather only against Gardevoir.

Gengar, who too recovered from the shock quickly stood beside Alex, strangely not by Lucario.

Gengar looked at Gardevoir in disbelief, as if she betrayed it and Alex. But it also turned towards William, with teary eyes as if it was begging William to do something.

But this wasn’t a noticeable factor for William. He was too busy trying to get things right in his mind.

Lucario suddenly rolled to the side, a sudden burst of Psychic energy struck its original location.

As soon as it stood up, it threw a spear towards Gardevoir and rushed towards Gardevoir.

With nowhere to dodge in this tight alleyway, Gardevoir teleported the spear behind her, which flew straight into a door, annihilating it in the process.

With Lucario following the spear, the cube on her left hand morphed into the shape of a shield, which quickly expanded and solidify with purple light. The faint cage that was always surrounding them disappeared.

The two pokemon then started a close quarters combat. None of them could use an energy projectile to attack, as it would be too hard to target an enemy that could move quickly in relative angle.

Close inspection shows Lucario having good combat skills, as it could use its spears as if they were an extension of its arms. And it was able to force Gardevoir onto the defensive side.

But Gardevoir was able to keep up, although with moves that looks amateur, she could always place her shield and the now enlarged dagger, which is basically a sword right at the exact location to counter everything Lucario threw at her.

Though, William knew that she couldn’t last long, because such performance is just merely thanks to her super calculative abilities, which allowed her to act as if she predicted Lucario’s attacks. Yet difference brought from training isn’t that easily taken away, especially when Gardevoir never trained in close quarters combat.

William was right, as slowly, wounds started appearing over Gardevoir, she started bleeding as the fight went on.

Thing is, even though Gardevoir could predict Lucario’s movements, she wasn’t able to keep up. Also, there was too much variable to each thrust. It wasn’t possible to defend against each possibility.

Gardevoir used her shield to slap Lucario’s spear away, and retreated once again next to William, standing beside him.

A necklace appeared over her, which started giving off smoke like energy. Gardevoir started absorbing it, her eyes glowing bright purple.

Suddenly, William received an immense amount of information. Every possible move, in percentage was displayed in his mind. Tens of hundreds of possibilities fading in and out of existence. This is Gardevoir’s signal, a signal for him to watch out for himself, a signal that she alone wasn’t enough to win the fight and a signal to be prepared for anything.

William now needed to quickly analyse why did Gardevoir took hostile actions towards Alex. He needed to stop this battle as soon as possible.

He quickly rethought everything he could about Gardevoir and Alex, and their relationship.

Nothing could be discovered. He quickly thought about other possibilities, yet he couldn’t concentrate due to Gardevoir and Lucario fighting literally next to him.

But as the fight slowly moved away from him. He had a thought.

Firstly, Gardevoir was doing this for his good. She didn’t betray him, not by any chance.

Secondly, This meant that it wouldn’t be personal grudges, nor anything emotional, since Gardevoir is now in a pure rational form.

Thirdly, as Gardevoir is in a pure rational form, everything she does is predictable by understanding her view and information. This also meant that emotional influence had to be removed, as she is in a pure rational form.

Combining the above, William tried his best to see what good would Alex’s death give him.

Soon, he got Gardevoir’s idea. From the performance William and Gardevoir gave in the mission, Team Rocket is likely to give him a certain degree of self control. This meant that even if William lost his partner, they are likely not going to replace someone into there, meaning William could be a unique agent.

Also, this would get rid of any possible problems that may be left behind from Alex. Seeing as she had the ability to give gifts that were expensive in a way, she was a mysterious person. And mysterious is mostly dangerous. Her performance and knowledge also doesn’t suit what would seem like a normal family, as seen from her unique knowledge and dressing.

That would mean she had a troublesome background. And one that may prove too trouble for William.

These were the reasons Gardevoir would believe that getting rid of Alex was a good idea. It was shown before as Gardevoir glanced at Alex as she heard William wanted to discuss about a new theory.

But why now?

Because they are in a sinking cruiser, if anyone was lost in the cruiser, no one could seek for answers. And any dead would only be considered normal accident loss. Plus, she fainted and has a wound on her.

That was why Gardevoir had take this chance.

This two factors combined, and William now knew, why Gardevoir wanted to get rid of Alex.

Now that William knew the reason, he had to think of a reason to combat Gardevoir’s thoughts. He couldn’t just let Gardevoir get knocked out by Lucario or stand aside doing nothing, since as stated, Alex was wounded with blood literally gushing out of her head. Without proper treatment, she is guaranteed death from loss of blood. And the only one who could treat open wounds here is Gardevoir, who learned healing pulse.

He had to think of a way to convince her so that she heals Alex.
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