Chapter 41: Chapter 38: Valiant Redemption

        Turo came to, but he had a terrible throbbing in his head, and it wasn’t just from hitting it. “Joy,” he said, rubbing it, and he held his hand out to her, “give me that remote.”

        “Now why would I do that?” Joy pointed the device at Infrared and then Miraidon. “I suddenly have so much power. Consider this your punishment for treating us so poorly, Turo.”

        “I made a mistake, and I’m sorry,” he apologized.

        “Sorry won’t cut it. Your mistreatment is now mine. I own Infrared.” Joy mashed in a button on the device, but as soon as she did, her entire hand Terastallized. Joy was too in her head to notice it. “Hee, hee, hee,” she cackled when Miraidon’s eyes flashed infrared. “I can control the Legendary Pokémon! Get them, Miraidon! Turn them all into holograms!”

        “Run!” Kenji insisted. Just like Joy, he started to Terastallize.

        Noticing him, Arven helped Turo stand and asked, “Why are all of them Terastallizing, Dad?”

        Turo rubbed his arm and explained, “It happens when they act against their code.”

        Joy pressed Infrared’s button on the device. “Open the space-time rift, Infrared,” she ordered.

        Turo stared into Infrared’s face. He couldn’t see it well, because of the crystals and eyes, but his gut told him that she was scared.

        “Please, Turo,” he almost heard her beg. “Please destroy me.” Out of the blue, her right hand shot out, but she did not move her left one at all.

        At her command, Arven’s holographic Cloyster and Nemona’s Meowscarada leaped out from behind her and joined Miraidon.

        Arven, Turo, and Scarlet recalled their Pokémon before they and their friends backed away from the danger zone. Halfway to the lab’s exit, Arven, Turo, and Celebi stopped and examined Joy and Infrared.

        “The space-time rift, Infrared!” Joy ordered again. “Open it!”

        “No!” Infrared cried out. Not after all the trouble she and the others got into in the past. She launched for Joy and grabbed the hand she held the device in. Her eyes began to glitch again.

        “You little—!” Joy snapped. “No wonder Mastermind Turo had so much trouble with you. You’re a hassle.” Using all her strength, she twisted Infrared’s left arm and shoved her off her.

        While she went down, she cried out. The crystals on her left arm smashed into the floor. Bits and pieces of them broke off.

        “Sada!” Turo, sweating from the sideline, shouted. “Stop, Joy!”

        Joy faced him. “You were the one who wanted to hurt her in the first place.”

        Turo clenched his teeth. He regretted it, but it was the truth. He ran his fingers through his hair and then chewed on his nails.

        Arven looked from his twitching mom to him and asked, “Dad, we have to destroy her, don’t we?”

        Turo nodded. “It’s the only way to shut down Infrared and stop Joy.”

        Arven whispered under his breath, “The power of acceptance.”

        Turo removed the Violet book from his pocket and handed it to Arven. “Arven, here. Take the Violet book to the control room. There’s a 3D printer there. I used it to create the book.” He bore his eyes into Celebi’s big, blue ones. “Celebi, go with him.”

        “Bi,” Celebi said. It remembered the day it went to the past to retrieve the Scarlet book from Sada. Celebi dropped her and Koraidon off in the future, and then it jumped back to the present.

        Celebi, under Poco Path’s full moon, which covered the lab’s roof with a luscious glow, flew through an open window. It saw Arven fast asleep on the couch—and Mabosstiff sleeping at its base. Quiet like a Tatsugiri, Celebi set the Scarlet book down on the coffee table next to the couch. It would deliver the Violet book when it was time.

        The Pokémon shook the memory away and landed on Arven’s shoulder.

        He hugged the Violet book to his chest. “What will you do, Dad?” He didn’t want to lose him, too.

        Noticing the fear in his face, Turo encouraged, “Don’t worry. Once I get AI Sada, your friends and I will be right behind you.” He glanced at Celebi. “Take care of him, Celebi.”

        “Bi,” Celebi said, saluting. It tugged on the tuft of hair Arven wore over his eye.

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        He hesitated, but he eventually found the guts to go with it. On his way out, he pointed at Turo and said almost humorously, “Don’t die.”

        Turo tilted his head to the left. “I won’t. I promise. Just get to the 3D printer.” He made sure Celebi and Arven were safely on their way before he turned to Joy again. All of this was happening because of him. He had to make it right.

        Turo freed a pokéball from his pocket. “Iron Valiant, cover me while I get Sada!” he announced.

        Iron Valiant, a mechanical Pokémon that resembled both Gardevoir and Gallade, soon appeared. It was primarily green and white and held a double-sided, pink scythe in its hand. It moved quickly on its long legs. The whole time it ran, the cape/skirt-like feature it had behind its legs whipped like a kite on a beach. Every time a Pokémon launched for Turo, Iron Valiant slashed at them with its scythe. Eventually, it reached Joy. Its scythe glowed up, and with one strike, it cut Turo’s device in half.

        “No!” Joy shouted. At once, she caught the top part of the device and tried to put it back together.

        Now was Turo’s chance. Joy couldn’t control Infrared without the remote.

        Infrared attempted to stand, but she didn’t get far before she fell over again. The pain… It was too much. She rolled onto her back and reached for Turo.

        He rushed to her and picked her up, closing one eye when she sparked some. Nevertheless, Turo refused to drop her. He had to redeem himself.

        Bumping foreheads with Infrared, he said, “I’ve got you, Sada.”

        She clutched either side of his face. Her eyes glitched to their normal cyan color, and she begged, “Please… destroy me,” before they switched back to infrared.

        With her snug in his arms, Turo gestured for Kenji, Nemona, Scarlet, and Penny to follow him. “Follow me!” he called.

        Miraidon, whose eyes returned to normal, roared at Joy. He, Slither Wing, and Iron Valiant hurried after Turo and the others, but Meowscarada and Cloyster remained with Joy.

        “I don’t care what you do,” she said to them and the rest of Turo’s AI and Hologram Pokémon, “but I’m your master now, and you will stop them from destroying Infrared.” She was going to find her way past the group and make a new device. Turo had mistreated her and the rest of the AIs long enough. It was time to give him a taste of his own money.

        Meowscarada and Cloyster took the lead and went after Arven’s party. The AI and Hologram Pokémon accompanied them.

        Scarlet, Penny, and Nemona sent out their whole Pokémon teams to take them on. The battle ensured, and it was no different from battling the Future Pokémon in the past.

        Koraidon pulled off a few AI Varoom who managed to latch onto him. He and his partners launched a wide array of attacks at a group of Hologram Pokémon.

        Scarlet ducked and covered her head when one move smashed into the wall of the lab. “Go!” she shouted at Turo and Miraidon. “We’ll cover for you!”

        “On it,” Turo said, looking at Miraidon. “Lead the way, Miraidon.”

        “Gias!” Miraidon gestured for Slither Wing and Iron Valiant to stay behind. He cocked his body forward, so he could move faster, and made his way for the barracks.

        Turo tightened his grip on Infrared and followed him.

        Scarlet yelled when another Pokémon attack soared over her. She found that she suddenly could not move; she was so scared.

        An AI Pokémon came for her, but Penny’s Leafeon jumped into the fray and knocked it back with a Bullet Seed. The fast-moving seeds, which were reminiscent of machine gun bullets, punched holes into the AI’s body. Electricity coursed from them, and it fell over.

        While it was down, Penny hurried to Scarlet and lugged her to her feet. She scrolled through the computer app on her phone and said, “What we need to do is break as many AIs as we can. You can do it, Scarlet. You’re the bravest of us all.”

        “I-I’ll try,” Scarlet said in a shaky voice.

        Off to the side, Kenji released Iron Bundle. He tucked his fingers into his palms and surmised, “Iron Bundle, if we can break parts of the robots, we can probably pull out their motherboards.” After all, motherboards were what computers ran on, and that was all the AIs were. Kenji’s motherboard was in his neck, and Sada’s was in her upper left arm.

        She clutched the broken Tera crystals on it and felt Turo tighten his grip on her. Sada brushed off a whole layer of the gems. They fell through the crack between her arm and Turo’s tummy.

        She knew what she had to do.

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