Chapter 167 - 47 : aerial battle preparation

Next day,

The tide has arrived and all the abled people are currently at the Frontline. Alex too has left the office and arrived at the Frontline. He hasn't joined the battle personally but his Pokemons has joined the battle.

Golbat, Pidgeotto and vespiqueen has started to give aerial support. They only help the other people while providing support when needed.

He let them preserve as much energy as they could because the battle will be long. Onix meanwhile took care of the underground burrowing Pokemons to prevent them from by passing the defense line.

Alex was really busy now and couldn't get even a bit of time to breathe. He was getting emergency message as well as casualty report from the north front and had to provide help and reinforce people wherever the need was.

Even with Jean and some other people's help, he still couldn't handle the things in time as he was on lookout for the main force of the tide,ie, the pseudo king pokemons.

Who knows when they will arrive. The tide has reached the town wall about six hours ago and they all have been working continuously since then.

This is tiresome especially for Alex who has never faced such conditions. And not to mention, the calls of the mayor every hour to know if they needed help or request to reinforce certain places was irritating.

Soon Slowking by Alex's side sensed something and opened his eyes while waking out of the makeshift tent out of town, where the new command center of the base was situated.

This attracted Alex attention and he left everything and followed him outside.

Jean who was surprised by this said to Alex," Sir, there are still many things to look at. The traps and pitholes did manage to slow down the charge of the tide but this doesn't mean our troubles have ended.

We still need to keep sending medicines and weapons to the other fronts to face them and the distribution should be enough so they could last for a longer time instead of their stock ending in a moment." While following Alex to get him back to work.

The surrounding people just glanced at them and then went back to their work.

Alex ignored her calls from the back and asked," What is it that you find, Slowking?"

He just pointed to the dense cloud heading towards them. It was nighttime so they couldn't properly see what it was, but Alex saw it clearly.

It was a very big group of flying types heading for the town. Since the beginning of the tide, only occasional flying pokemons attacked but after the sunset the intensity of their attacks increased.

Now, we know what was going to happen. They are using the cover of the night sky to attack the camo and cause greater damage.

" Jean, call Jim now. I need to talk to him." Alex shouted at Jean.

She was perplexed but seeing his expression she did as he asked.

" Hello it is the command base. Call second lieutenant Jim immediately. The captain wants to talk to him now." Jean dialed at Jim's place.

" Command center, Second lieutenant is busy. Is there anything important. Tell me, I will pass it to the second lieutenant." The person who picked the call answered.," If not then can you can later, we are busy."

Alex was angered that his order was ignored and he took the radio in his own hand and shouted angrily,"I am the captain speaking. Call your commander now or I will feed you to the Rattata out there."

Hearing the angry shouts of the captain , he ran towards his commander Jim and called him back.

He reached Jim and wanted to talk to him.

" What did you call me for? Don't you know I am busy? Why did you call me now?" Jim thundered at him

He was saddened. Both second lieutenant Jim and captain Bart was angry at him and he was scolded by both.

" Sir, Captain Bart wanted to talk to you about something important. He immediately wanted to get in touch with you." He said.

" Then why don't you say it earlier. What happened that he wanted to see me now." Jim told while telling his seeing in command to look after it while he went to the radio to see what Alex wanted.

He picked up the transmitter and said," Sir what do you wanted to see me for?"

" Second lieutenant Jim, a large amount of flying pokemons are heading towards the town. Make sure to take care of them. My pidgeot, pidgeotto, butterfree, golbat, claydol and vespiqueen will be there to hold them for a while.

You prepare to deal with the aerial attack. If you cannot take care of them,then make sure that most of our people are evacuated away.

I will do with them on my own. " He ended it gravelly.

" How long can you hold them back?" Jim asked how long he have to prepare

" Since it is a long battle, they won't be going all out so they can hold then back for fifteen minutes but prepare yourself in ten minutes. " Alex told him

" And what about the people still left out there?" Jim asked even though he knew what will happen to them.

" If they cannot escape in time or are still there, they will join the list of casualties in the list." He said.

" Yes, sir." Jim replied understanding that some things need to be done to get overall victory.

And he put the receiver down.

" Call all the aerial attack unit. We are going to the sky. Be prepared. We have five minutes to get ready and head out in the sky or there will be danger." He told his second in command who dashed of to prepare.

He looked at the sky and only now he see the spreading darkness in the sky. He mumbled to himself," It was a good thing that the captain noticed it or else we will be caught off guard."

In the command tent,

" Jean, tell the long range attack units to prepare for the attack from the sky while I will try to hold back these pests." He told.

" Sir can you really hold back these many pokemons. They can turn the world dark showed just how many of them are there. It is dangerous for you to fo out there. And we still need you to issue orders here." Jean tried to reason with Alex and it worked.

" Fine. I will just send my Pokemons out there. "

He left the tent and then sent out a shiny pidgeot, pidgeotto, butterfree, golbat, claydol and vespiqueen .

"There are a large number of Pokemons heading towards us. Your job is to hold them back for about fifteen minutes.

Don't go all out. Now isn't time for it. We haven't located where the strongest of them currently is. So this battle will drag on until he is out.

You all make sure to stop them midair while pidgeot will take care of the strongest of them along with vespiqueen if a pseudo king is found there.

I will have Slowking look at you in case of emergency. And Piloswine will be at ready too." He told his orders to the Pokemons and they flew away to take on the cloud of flying Pokemons.

The aerial battle begins soon. Stay tuned

To be continued.