The legendary Zapdos

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Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno are the three legendary birds of the Kanto region that maintain the balance in nature.

There are some ways that can be used to challenge the legendary birds to a fight. First is entering their domain and challenging them.

Second, if the birds find someone worthy, they will appear before him.

And the last is summoning the birds through their feathers.

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Saffron City Power Plant: Midnight

The entire power plant was surrounded by people wearing black clothes and face masks.

Each of them had a 'R' symbol on their clothes written in Red color.

The area that was usually in darkness was illuminated by the poles of light that were set up for the mission.

The environment could be said slightly tense as people had various reactions to this mission.

Some were excited as they would get to see the legendary bird Zapdos, some were scared for their lives while some were thinking about the benefits of the mission being successful.

There were various psychic and ghost pokemon present there acting as radars or escape routes in case of emergency.

At the tallest structure of the power plant, a yellow feather could be seen around which a lot of wires were wrapped.

From inside the power plant a man walked out slowly with his hands in his pocket.

He wore a long brown coat that reached his knees as a face mask not so different from the other grunts.

He was Luther, an executive of Team Rocket and one of its core members.

The man was around 6'5 with short silver hair covering one of his eyes.

By his face, he was in his 30s and carried a heavy presence.

Behind him walked a Rhydon released a very threatening presence.

"Sir all the preparations are done, we can start any moment " reported one grunt.

"Good, start immediately, " Luther said with a deep voice that matched his appearance.

But there was something that nobody could sense or see.

A little far away from the powerplant was Aoki standing on Pidgeot watching everything.

With the power of Darkrai, he had completely blended with the dark sky and was literally invisible to anyone.

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Roar!!

Five large Gyarados gave a loud roar as they started using Rain Dance.

A group of ten Fearows and Pidgeots used Hurricane while a group of Electric-type Pokemons started using Thunder to start a thunderstorm.

Within a few minutes, the entire area was enveloped in a thunderstorm with lightning crackling in the clouds.

One Team Rocket Member pressed a button and all the electricity of the powerplant was transferred to the yellow wing.

At the same time, all the electric Pokemons started using their strongest attacks on the wing.

Instantly almost half of Saffron City got enveloped in darkness as the sky got darker as some people got chills down their spine.

"It's here " muttered Luther as he looked at the sky.

Boom!!

With a loud explosion that would burst out a person's eardrums, lightning fell on the feather from the sky as the glasses in the Powerplant shattered.

Kaaaaa!!

With a peculiar cry, the part of the sky illuminated as a yellow bird appeared near the powerplant releasing an aura and making almost half of the people and pokemon present drop on the floor.

The bird was completely yellow with sharp eyes and large claws.

The wings of the words were shaped like stars with some shades of black.

Kaaaaaa!

The bird gave another roar as it carried a threatening feeling this time.

The legendary bird Zapdos was here and by the roar, it was pissed.

"What do you think, want to fight Zapdos, " Aoki asked Pidgeot.

"Sure…." Pidgeot replied.

"Unfortunately now is not the time, I will let you fight him when the time comes. " Aoki said as he looked at the legendary bird.

All the Team Rocket members called back their water Pokemon and started releasing rock, and ground Pokemons with electric types already on the field.

Luther tossed out three more Pokeballs and called out Elite rank Pokemon in addition to his already elite rank Rhydon. They were Golem, Marowak and Sleelix.

"Everyone attack"

All sorts of attacks started raining on Zapdos while the storm intensified.

Zapdos was very annoyed at being summoned and attacked as he was doing something very important.

Zapdos used to discharge and erased 80% of the attacks in one go and the rest that reached him almost did nothing.

The moves continued to shower while Zapdos was easily getting rid of everything.

Boom!

Another lightning bolt struck where the Team Rocket members were, causing casualties and permanent damage.

With one attack, Zados had made more than half of the team retire.

"Squad one stay, Squad 2,3,4 retreat, Squad 5 enter the powerplant to put the line back on.

I don't want interference" Luther commanded as psychic Pokemons started teleporting away leaving only around 10 men to fight Zapdos.

There were Pokemons like Vileploom, Espeon, Kadabra, Venusuar, Vileploom, Hypno, Umbreon, Flareon, Machamp, Scizor, Onix, etc. fighting Zapdos.

Zapdos was very fast and his attacks were lethal.

But seeing Zapdos, Aoki reached the conclusion that Zapdos was weaker than expected.

Its energy and powers were constantly fluctuating with was not a good sign.

The attacks that were hitting hard were now getting weaker.

Luther saw this too and had a smile.

'Seems like the chance is perfect '

"Steelix Dragon Breath "

"Golem Fire Blast "

"Rhydon Stone edge "

"Crobat Shadow Ball"

"Marowak bone rush"

Seeing that things have taken an unexpected turn that was in his favor, Luther decided to step in and do his part.

The problem with Saffron City's power line was dealt with so people will not come to investigate.

The clouds were already crackling with an occasional lightning strike due to Zapdos so people would assume that it was due to that.

Moreover, there were people like Sabrina who would ensure that there was no interference in the fight.

If a trainer decided to intervene, Luther could easily deal with them.

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The birth of a Pokemon was a very interesting topic among researchers.

There were many methods by which a pokemon was born. The first method was when two parents mate and the female lays an egg.

Almost all Pokemon communities followed this method, but there were some exceptions.

Genderless Pokemon like the Metagross line and Magnamite line produced offspring by dividing their energy and body. They use this method to evolve too.

Magamite divides its body into three equal parts and combines with them to form Magneton.

Ghost Pokemon like Gastly are born from the souls of dead Pokemon and humans or a place full of dead bodies.

Pokemons like Koffing and Grimer are born naturally where garbage or industrial wastes are dumped.

The most mysterious of offspring being born is the legendary and mythical Pokemon.

This topic was totally unknown but a researcher around 10 years ago found that Articuno had given birth to a new offspring without the help of any mates.

Although they are born from eggs, the parent Pokemon sacrifices a significant part of their strength to give birth, unlike normal Pokemons that only get a minor weakened state.

Seeing the Zapdos, both Aoki and Luther reached the same conclusion that Zapdos had already given birth and was in a weakened state.

If it had not given birth, it would not have appeared in front of them.

And Pokemon like Zapdos can regain some strength from a large amount of electricity, so the bait of the power plant was perfect.

Luther was completely prepared to catch Zapdos this time as owning a legendary Pokemon was a very big thing for him and his organization. He was well prepared for the battle.

Grass Pokemons like Venusaur and Psychic Pokemons like Kadabra were trying to bring down Zapdos to the ground and putting them to sleep not letting them escape while the other Pokemons like Onix, and Rhydon, Golem, Onix, Machamp were responsible for damaging Zapdos.

The battle continued as Zapdos slowly started losing his advantage in the battle. As Zapdos was fighting away from the power plant, Team Rocket members in the power plant set up a device aimed at Zapdos.

Zapdos'e energy started falling from Champion rank to Master rank but the endurance of a champion body made him hold on.

Boom!

Zapdos crashed to the ground as Sleelix slammed his tail against Zapdos. In an instant, the grass-type Pokemons fired Solar Beam at the fallen Zapdos while psychic pokemon tried to put her to sleep.

Crobat used X scissors creating large cuts over the body of Zapdos and flew away before Zapdos's attack could hit.

Steelix's tail threw Zapdos like a ragdoll again Golem hit him with a rollout followed by Self Disctruct ending the battle.

Kaaaaa!!

The legendary Pokemon Zapdos was defeated.

"Don't stop using sleep powder and Hypnosis, we can't fail here " Luther ordered calling back the Pokemons that were out of service.

The Psychic pokemon teleported some wired rods near Zapdos that were stuck to the ground around Zapdos creating a very strong magnetic field.

Zapdos could not move anymore and was completely defeated. She was boiling with anger but could not do anything. She felt his consciousness fade away as regret flashed in his eyes.

Without him, her child that would be born would be vulnerable to predators and at worst would not survive a few days.

After coming here Zapdos knew that it was an ambush as there were a large number of Pokemons there. Even in the phase of weakness, Zapdos's pride as a legendary did not allow her to run away. If he was not weakened, she would have fried every creature present there.

Responding to the call of Challenge from the feather, her desire to quickly gain back power and her pride led to his doom.

"Seems like you are in pinch….I can help you." a menacing deep voice rang inside Zapdos's head but she could not sense anyone nearby.

"I know the people who have defeated you…with them, you should forget ever seeing the light again as you will be used as a mere lab rat".

"I can help you get safely get back to your nest….but that would come at a cost" the deep voice said.

At that moment, Zapdos had completely abandoned her pride as wanted to survive more than anything else.

"Who are you? " Zapdos asked.

"I am someone who was forgotten with the passage of time, what is important is that now I serve someone that can save you and guarantee your safety but with a price, " the deep voice said.

"What do you want? If your master is a human, I can give him wealth or treasure I collected over the years but I will not offer him myself or my offspring" Zapdos said.

"Alright but my master has an additional demand"

"What?"

"He needs a favor from you when the time comes, of course, if would be something within the scope you can give him"

"I agree, " Zadpos said.

"Well then, take a good sleep…by the time you wake up, everything will be done, " Darkrai said he used Dark void completely putting Zapdos to sleep. The talk only took around a minute which was enough for Team Rocket members to catch their breath.

Dark void is the strongest move for putting targets to sleep that can be only used by Darkrai.

After verifying that Zapdos was asleep, Luther threw an Ultra Ball successfully capturing Zapdos but before he could celebrate, the Ultraball was dragged into its shadow and disappeared.

Luther widened his eyes with shock. There was no way a ghost Pokemon could enter the area undetected in the presence of so many psychic Pokemons.

"Wha-"

Boom!

A Hyper Beam so strong hit the Pokemons that most of them fainted leaving only a few Pokemons like Machamp, Steelix, Venusaur, Rhydon, Crobat, Scizor, and Umbreon.

Luther was thrown away a few meters from the explosion and was caught and saved by Crobat. But the other members were not so lucky and got into the range and became unconscious from injuries.

Bang!

Bang!

Bank!

One by one the poles of light that were used to illuminate the area exploded leaving the only source of light the flames from battle and the devastating Hyperbeam.

Flap!

Flap!

At that moment, a human riding on a golden Pidgeot landed near the place where the Zapdos once rested as an UltraBall appeared in his hand from the shadows.

His blue eyes looked at Luther who was gritting his teeth in anger and frustration. It was clear that the guy in front of him was the one who ruined his perfect mission.

His hard work was in the hands of a third party but everything would be resolved if he got rid of the guy in front of him.