Chapter 40

After a moment of silence clapping and shouting could be heard from around me. Trainers and pokemon of Motostoke are celebrating the fact that the Elite trainers are here to save us from Team Mafia.

Then the intercoms came on again," Team Mafia retreat for now since we can always come back and finish the job. Inhabitants of Motostoke be warned Team Mafia will come back to finish destroying Galar starting with Motostoke once again. Goodbye for now."

Mass panic seeped through the crowd. People panic over the thought of Team Mafia coming back to destroy Motostoke and the uncertainty of when they would do it.

While that is happening Team Mafia retreats out the front gate into the wild area away from the crowd of civilians and trainers of Motostoke.

Then Aper the last Team Mafia member stops at the gate smiling," Here is a last present from me. Hope you enjoy the loss of your gym. Until next time when Motostoke and Galar shall be nothing but ash beneath Team Mafia's feet"

Aper pulls out a trigger and pushes the button. Behind me I feel the explosion from the stadium gym being blown up. Several people and pokemon where knocked into the ground from the force of the explosion.

When I lift my head I see Aper waving then running out the front gate. Motostoke lost this fight with Team Mafia and payed the price. The city is in ruin with only a few buildings left standing. The gym that has been here since the Pokemon League took over Galar is destroyed. People and pokemon are dead their bodies litter the streets. Some of their bodies are burned beyond recognition of who they once were.

There is nothing I can do and it is all my fault. If I did not create Team Mafia in the first place none of this would have happened. If I was prepared I could have helped prevent this.

I felt something gently touch me causing me to hiss in pain. I lift up my head to see a man wearing a combination of the bug and electric type specialist gym uniform reach their hand out to me. Blood drips down my face onto the ground.

The I see the man has short black hair and stormy blue grey eyes smiling," Kid let's get you to the makeshift pokemon hospital."

He lifts me up into his arms and carries me away from square to the makeshift camp that is further into the city. I feel shock that the current Galarian champion Bisck is carrying me out of here instead of his brother Rain. That is proven true until Bisck found Rain a few feet away from me.

He rushes over and puts me onto the ground. He then grabs Rain and hugs him," I am so glad I made it to make sure you are okay. Now let's go meet up with Chairmen Rose."

Rain huffs," Okay but we better hurry before the Elite trainers arrive." That seemed to be the signal since a flood of Elite trainers rushed past us to go out the gate to chase Team Mafia.