Chapter 789: Axel's Plan
"Sir, isn't that too much?", asked Hector as Axel was entering his office.
"What is too much?", asked Axel.
"There are more than 8000 Pokemons that we have to replace. And even if we only have to pay 50%, that is a huge loss. I don't think that we can earn that much to pay all those people.", said Hector.
"Sir, Hector is speaking the truth. We will be losing a lot. We need the money for the future too.", said Ashmita.
"You guys are not thinking this in the right way. First of all, think about the rewards that the prince is offering us. Even if we cannot save all of the soldiers, we will be earning a lot.
And if we were to do a good job, we can get tide battle recommendations from the prince himself.
Secondly, if you think that we are giving powerful Pokemons like Dratini's egg to each of them, then you are very wrong."
"So, we will be giving them caterpie's egg?", asked Ashmita.
"Of course not. But Pokemons like Pidgey will be appropriate. Thirdly, before I left, I did say that some conditions would be applied to those who want to get their Pokemons that way. Those conditions would make it easier for us to reduce our expenses.", said Axel.
"Sir, have you thought about those conditions?", asked Ashmita.
"Yes, some of them. These Pokemon eggs cannot be retrieved from the league but will be provided by us personally and that will take time. The soldiers need to wait for a maximum period of 5 years to get that egg. The longer he/she had to wait, the more outstanding the Pokemon will be."
"Sir, won't we still be losing a lot? I mean we are promising them a good Pokemon if they had to wait for 5 years. A good Pokemon egg will cost a lot.", said Ashmita.
By this time, Mia and other had also arrived. Arbiter was also there. She was also shocked by the sudden announcement. Although, the one that was complaining was her men, Axel's sudden announcement also made her face some loss.
Because she was also getting a share of resources and money after the tide battle.
"You are not thinking it right. It had only been 3 years since I started my Pokemon journey and look where I am.
5 years is a long time and like I said, when I say that they would get good Pokemons, I don't mean pseudo-legendary Pokemon like Dragonite or Salamence.
They will get relatively a good Pokemon. And since there is going to be a waiting list, those soldiers that are not from our mercenary team will get later turns and in turn get good Pokemons."
"Hey, that is not fare to my men.", complained Arbiter.
"It is fair because I am paying all of these from my own pocket," said Axel, shutting up Arbiter.
"Plus, I have another way to further decrease our losses in this and actually make a profit. I will share this with you in the future. Right now, we have to deal with ghost-type Pokemons as fast as possible.", said Axel.
Axel didn't want to discuss his plan with an outsider. So, he quickly changed the topic.
"Sir, the only plan I have is to secretly infiltrate their base and kill their powerful Pokemons like before.", said Alon.
They had done this before and Alon was confident to do it again.
"No, that is not going to cut it. I don't want to reduce the overall difficulty of the night raid, I want to completely eliminate it.
There will only be 3 of us. Alon, Mia and me. My Shedinja and Mia's Gengar will be focused on killing tier 1 and tier 2 king-rank Pokemons, while you will be responsible for killing the young Pokemons.", said Axel.
"Killing young Pokemons?"
"Yes, even though ghost-type Pokemons don't have a strong parent-children relationship like others, there are always some of it. So, you will target those young Pokemons that are sleeping near the powerful Pokemons and you will attack them.
This will anger them to no end and they will all attack us at the same time.
This is a very risky mission. First, none of our Pokemons could get injured in this mission. Secondly, we had to be close to each other cause only my Alakazam could teleport us out of there.
And the most dangerous hurdle for this is the time of attack. So, what do you think that the time of the attack should be?", asked Axel.
"Sir, we have observed their sleep cycle and learned that normally ghost-type Pokemons wake up at night. So, the ideal time of attack would be a day.
But during the day, other type Pokemons will be alive. So, we just cannot get in there cause others will notify them.
Also, there is a good chance that some of the ghost-type Pokemons had not slept at night but in the day.", reported Alon.
This was going to be a problem. They could not infiltrate the enemy base during the day cause it would be heavily guarded and ghost-type Pokemon would be vulnerable during the day.
Everyone was brainstorming and trying to come out with a good solution. Finally, Tory spoke.
"Sir, why don't we infiltrate their base at night?"
"But we will be fighting them head-on at night. How can we attack them at night?", asked Alon.
"Sir, why don't we finish the night battle as soon as possible and attack them at night? If we were to do so, the only thing that we will have to worry about will be ghost and dark-type Pokemons. Especially ghost-type Pokemons.
Those ghost and dark-type Pokemons that had not attacked, most of them would be resting and only some of them will be on guard. Or, they will be busy with some other things.
They will not expect us to attack them at that time. This will give us a good competitive advantage.", said Tory.
"You know what? That is a very good idea. We just have to fast in this mission.", remarked Arbiter.
All of them agreed to this plan.
"Good, but sir, can't we increase the number of people in this mission? 3 is a very low number.", said Alon.
"No, we cannot do it. Only 3 of us have powerful ghost-type Pokemons and we are not going to exterminate all of them. We are just going to rile them up so that they will attack us at the same time. Decreasing the time required for us to complete this mission.
Now, let's make a plan for this mission."
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It took them 2 hours and the plan had already been made. Alon, Mia, and Axel were not participating in the day battle. They had a mission to complete today and they needed a good rest.
The day battle was not as active as yesterday. There were also no king-rank Pokemons that attacked them at day time.
Till now 5 king rank Pokemons had died that were in ghost and dark type categories. Among them, 4 of them were in tier 1 and 4 of them were in tier 2. As per the information, there were 5 ghost and dark-type Pokemons that were in king rank.
So, they needed to deal with 5 more.
"Sir, Do you think that our plan would work?", asked Mia because the plan was a bit obscured to even think about.
"Don't worry, I trust Light on this.", said Axel with a smile. If this plan were to work, then they would not have any teleportation team problem from today.
"Let's start the mission.", said Axel.
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Night came and except for Alon, Mia, and Axel, others got ready for the night raid. Axel was hoping that there would not be any king-rank Pokemons in this night raid and his wish came true.
Dealing with pseudo-king rank Pokemon was not a big deal for the current team. Each of the captains at least had a king-rank Pokemon and other commanders like Kane, Mary, and Dorton.
They were told to finish the battle as soon as possible and within 3 hours, the whole battle was finished.
Now, it was already 10 p.m. at night.
"Sir, at what time do you think that we should proceed?", asked Alon.
"Have patience Alon. We will proceed after midnight. Is your Pokemon ready for the strategy?"
"Yes sir. All of them are ready."
"Good."
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Most of the ghost-type Pokemons were not born in a normal way. Like Gastly was not born from an egg but from poisonous gases and the soul of the departed.
But the quantity of Pokemons born in this way was normal very rare. So, the ghost-type Pokemons would care for these young Pokemons immensely. On the other hand, dark-type Pokemons were born normally except for a few exceptions.
In the deep part of the forest, where everything looked dark, there was a female Gengar who was given the responsibility to care for 2 Gastly. This was given by their leader as this Gengar had performed very well. The responsibility of taking care of these 2 Gastly was something that this Gengar took seriously. This Gengar was a powerful tier 1 king-rank Pokemon.
As it was looking at its 2 lovely children, it suddenly felt that something was missing. It was already on the verge of falling asleep when it noticed that something had moved.
It quickly turned around and looked around and found nothing. So, it went ahead to see if everything was okay.
BOOMM!!!
There was a massive explosion enough to scare the Gengar. It hurriedly tried to protect itself by using some defensive moves and then it realized something.
The sound of the explosion was coming from the place where those 2 Gastly were sleeping.
It turned around and started to run to its 2 children and to its horror, it found an unusual shape Pokemon holding the 2 dead Gaslty in its hand.
It was not an emotional Pokemon but since it had been taking care of these 2 for 2 months, it had grown attached to it.
ROOOARRR
It gave a painful roar from the top of its lungs. It started to chase that weird-looking Pokemon but that Pokemons was faster. But it didn't give up and to its delight, it was running towards the place where the leader was sleeping.
That intruder was going to die today.
It chased the intruder for more than 5 minutes. The intruder had some fast reflexes as it was able to dodge multiple 'Shadow balls' of Gengar but its luck had ran out when it reached the place where the leader was staying.
When it reached the place, it felt that something was just not right. It felt that something bad was going to happen.
It saw that 2 tier 2 king-rank Pokemons (its friends) had also come chasing some other Pokemon and when all of them gathered, they noticed that the leader was somehow sealed in some weird thing that it could not understand.
Surrounding the leader, were 3 humans and a bunch of their Pokemons. All of these Pokemons radiated a powerful aura, especially Shedinja which surprised it.
And then all of them vanished including the leader.
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