Chapter 15.5

Caleb was now with Eclairisse, laying low with their Pokemons at some bushes. They dragged bodies to the side, those with major injuries they couldn't do anything but to place them to a place that couldn't further injure them.

"Eclairisse, can you have your Fletchling survey around there? The huge log is blocking our view and we don't want to miss anything." Caleb suggested.

Eclairisse nodded nervously, then instructed her trusted flying pokemon to do so.

"Caleb, the Officer Jennys should have arrived by now... I'm scared, what if they won't arrive?" Eclairisse spoke with a terrified trembling voice.

Caleb tried to calm her down by assuring her. "Don't worry, they should be coming here and would arrive any minute now."

*Boom*

There were battles going on around them and Caleb also felt worried. He knew that Pokemon trainers were battling the people responsible for this, fortunately they were at a part where there aren't any activities going on since this was an area that was located at the very corner of the National Park where people don't visit often.

"Let's hope and pray to Arceus we won't be encountering bad guys." Caleb spoke.

Eclairisse was a nervous wreck, she calmed down somewhat when Caleb patted her shoulder and gave her an reassuring smile.

At the corner of Caleb's eye he saw an injured person, but he was quite far away.

He surveyed his surrounding, seeing that there were no person around, he risked it.

"Caleb." Eclairisse called out worriedly.

"Stay there, don't worry I'll be back."

He stood up with Magby, they slowly and surely made their way towards the person lying down and saw that he was a pokemon trainer indicated by the pokeballs hefted on his belt.

When he saw his face Caleb felt like he looked a bit familiar. "Sir, are you okay?"

The person lying down already felt his presence approaching. He opened his eyes and stared at Caleb's face. "Young man, help me get this log off my foot."

He was around thirthy, Caleb and Magby worked together to lift the heavy wood that was pressuring the man's leg.

They helped him stand up and Caleb braced himself from the heavy weight of the man and then guided him to walk by letting him lean and shoulder his weight.

This was the first person they found, well Caleb expected this seeing how remote this area was compared to other locations.

When they came back from the bushes. Eclairisse seemed to be panicking as she said to Caleb immediately as she saw him arrive. "Caleb, Fletchling told me there are bad guys over there that are looking around the area. We should leave."

Caleb tensed up and nodded to her suggestion.

The man was silent all this while, he was injured and wasn't in a mood to talk much but he still showed his appreciation to Caleb and his Magby.

With the new addition they came back to where they were at the beginning. When they arrived, Diantha and Eusine was already there with two people with them.

It was a woman and a child that seemed to be her daughter.

"Caleb. Who is this?" Diantha asked when she saw the man who was being helped by Caleb. She also found his face familiar, but the dirt and disheveled hair made it hard for her to point out who he is exactly.

"We saw him nearby getting his foot crushed by a log, but it isn't anything serious thankfully. Oh yeah, what's your name, sir?" Caleb asked after realizing he still hadn't asked for the man's name.

"I'm Augustine Sycamore. Thank you for helping me earlier young man. I couldn't reach for my pokeballs earlier because of my predicament, luckily you found me."

The three young kids, including the woman ND child pair blinked their eyes. Then they widened their eyeballs in shock. "What!?"

Now that Caleb and the rest took a closer look, he really resembled the image that was shown in TV frequently.

Magby scarched his head in confusion seeing his trainer's reaction. As did the other pokemons. Except for Ralts and Drowzee who knew of him.

They both filled in their ignorant friends, Fletchling and Magby on who Professor Sycamore was.

"What brings you here professor?" Caleb asked in a respectable tone in his voice.

"I was just enjoying the scenery of our National Park when this horrible incedent happened." The professor replied gravely while looking around the area where there was smoke and small fumes of fire ignited around that was caused by the explosion.

"Hays, I already contacted Officer Jenny and they are already handling the situation." He assured them.

"How did you contact them when there are no signal?" Eusine asked doubtfully. They already tried using their phones so their doubt was justified.

Augustine Sycamore smiled, not at all bothered by the doubt in their gazes that was directed at him. "I had my flying pokemon relay the message. She was already out of the PokeBall before the bombing so I had her send some help. Although, she left me with quite a heavy burden on my foot." He smiled bitterly remembering how she left off forgetting on helping him remove the log earlier.

"It's great that you are fine professor." Caleb said. The others also nodded in agreement.