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bard-of-worlds · 4 years ago

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Acullay this is a day late and it’s chapter 13, sorry all.

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Bonnie laughed as she ran ahead towards the café, Serena following behind her as Lilith and Nimue followed behind them. Lilith looked over her shoulder for a second before she followed her…friends into the café. If I was home I would be with my cousin or her trying to get away from that rich idiot waiting for a new mission or finding a Quest to do! But here I’m just out with friends and I don’t have a care beyond hoping those Bug users don’t come and make trouble! I have a sample to send home from Ash[At least I think it’s from Ash] so a few days off to fix my cover and then the worry.

“Come on Lilly, you don’t want to be left behind do you?” Nimue’s voice caused Lilith to look up and saw Nimue and Serena standing by the door waiting for her. She shook her head and sent a smile towards them.

“Coming girls, just give me a second.” She called out as she moved towards them. Above them a cloaked figure with two glowing eyes watched from on high.

“Taicho, how should we precede from here?” A voice behind it caused it to turn saw another cloaked figure. The first only looked at it for a few seconds before it turned back towards the girls.

“If he’s involved with one of those girls then when we take them we have to be fast. I��ve already instructed two of ours to get all evidence of our origins out of that place. He will most likely attack and destroy them utterly. All that matters is that we receive the data on the facility holding our leaders. We watch and when there’s a single moment we strike, take the blond and the black back to our client, our target is one of those two.” The one in front said as he watched the girls sit at a table outside the café, each carrying a plate of food and a drink.

“That match was amazing, I’ve watch a few Pokémon battles over the years, but it was so different, it was so intense watching a Gym Battle live!” Nimue said as they sat down and put their food down. Bonnie and Serena smiled at her and Lilith smiled as well, but inside she was worried.

“Back home I’ve seen a few tournaments, but that was something.” Lilith said as she smile masked her thoughts. Nimue’s hiding what she was feeling earlier, good. If I’m right about it then it might be like what’s wrong with Lady Delia. But if they are responsible, how did she get away from them.

“So you said you went on your journey because of your teacher, right Lilith? And where’s home?” Serena’s question caused her to look up and saw the question on Serena’s face. Lilith smirked and just sipped her drink

“Yeah, she taught me everything I know about training and living, but about where I’m from….As teacher would say. ‘A Secret makes a Woman A Woman’.” Lilith said as she grinned at her friends, to Bonnie puffing up her checks and the others started to chuckle.

“You’ll tell us eventual through, right?” Serna said as she ate her food.

“Maybe, probably. But like I said “A Secret makes a Woman….’” Lilith began before Nimue interrupted her

“…A Woman’, right? Man, she sounds like she has that woman of mystery thing going for her, hu?” Nimue said as she leaned back.

“She kinda does, she has this old group and she totally loves this old friend but she can’t even see it. And she’s very dependable, she always has been.” Lilith said with a smile.

“So there’s this boutique that has a dress that I think you’ll love Serena, and it’s near that fabric store that has what I need.” Niumue said as they finished their food.

“A dress?” Serena said only to start to blush when she saw the look of mischief in Lilith’s eyes.

“Yeah, I think Ash would love to see you in it.” Lilith said as she smirked, giggling with the others when Serena started to blush. Then Serena grinned at Lilith and a small grin formed on her face.

“What about you Lilly, didn’t you see anything that Clemont might like to see you in?” Serena asked and started to laugh when Lilith turned to the side.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Lilith said as the others started to laugh while Bonnie grinned.

Lilith frowned as she walked behind Bonnie and Serena as they talked with Nimue who was leading them towards the fabric store she wanted to shop at. Did she care about Clemont like that? She had only known him for a few days so why was she… Lilith stopped and her eyes went wide, Aura Link. Could it be possible, I mean could it really be possible that he’s mine? Lilith shook her head and walked after her friends. Serena looked over her shoulder and started to walk a bit slower until Lilith had caught up to her.

“You okay Lilly; I was just teasing you back there.” Lilith looked up at Serena and smiled at her when she noticed Serena’s look.

“Yeah, sorry but have you ever met someone that it seems like you’ve always known them?” Lilith said, but after the words left her mouth she said them. Stupid, stupid, stupid! I don’t want to think about what the seal’s doing to her because it’s blocking Ash!

“Ash, I felt like that when I meet Ash. Mom had moved to Pallet town because some rabid fan of hers had raided our garbage and he was the first person to treat me like a normal person in a while. Pallet Town was great! Pr. Oak kept the paparazzi away from town and we had teleported to move so we were safe from that, by the time we moved to Kalos they still hadn’t figured out where we moved. I was so nervous that mom sent me to a summer camp the Professor was running to meet the locals and that’s when I meet him. Of course the next winter was the Siege and then we moved again when the Racing Circuit died.” Serena said as she shook her head as she started to look sad.

Lilith shook her head as she mentally started to pull her hair. Fuck! She did meet Ash and might have sparked a link then, but if she left her Aura’s range then that might explain how she’s sane! When I find out who did it to the prince I’m gonna kick ‘em down under! Lilith sighed and stopped when she noticed something at the edge of her sight, a flash of green that caused her to walk faster, grabbing Serena’s hand and pulling her along moving towards Bonnie and Nimue.

“Lilly, what’s wrong? Is it them?” Serena asked as she looked around trying to find what had set Lilly off.

“Act natural. You have your naginata, right? I’m thinking we might need it. Why did I decide to have my team be given a full checkup today of all days?” Lilith moaned as she smiled as they caught up to the other two. Serena merely looked at her friend as she started to get scared.

“So there you two are! Anyway the shop I need to go to is up ahead, where’s….” Nimue trailed off as she saw Lilith’s eyes.

“Nimue, Bonnie act whatever you two do just act natural. Can that horn head of yours carry you, Bonnie and Serena away from here if we get to a river?” Lilith asked as soon as Nimue stopped speaking, her question causing Nimue to look at her and caused Nimue’s eyes to grow hard. Bonnie meanwhile looked at Serena and started to grow worried as she saw the look of fear in Serena’s eyes.

“One other person and maybe Bonnie, and that’s a maybe. I’ve never trained her to carry a heavy load, and I usually travel by holding onto a tow cable from a ring on a harness. And I think there’s a bridge over a river to the right, it comes out near the center.” Nimue said with a smile on her face.

“Nimue get Bonnie to the Pokémon Center, Lilly and I’ll make do and hold them off. Just get help if we can’t get away.” Serena said with a smile on her face.

“Serena…” Bonnie began before Lilith put her hand on Bonnie’s shoulder and squeezed it.

“We’ll be fine Bonnie, we just have to make sure you’re okay. So the fabric store is ahead of us, over that bridge there right?” Lilith said with a tone that seemed absent minded as the group moved on.

“Yeah, sorry about going this way but there’s supposed to be a sale and I need a bit of fabric for a new costume. And it’s better to shop with people I can talk about it with.” Nimue finished loudly as she led them towards a bridge. Lilith eyes went hard when she saw a few people wearing green jackets loitering around the opposite of the bridge. A quick glance around the area showed that that the a path between the buildings would lead away from the bridge and she spotted a few people in green jackets following them.

“When I say now jump into the river and get Bonnie away from here, Serena cover our back and I’ll give you cover. Just get her to safety. Serena we’ll head to the right through the back allies to get away” Lilith said softly as she smiled as they neared the bridge.

“NOW, RUN!” Lilith said as she drew her whip as she pushed Bonnie towards the river. She ran towards the bridges as the people in the green jackets looked towards them and started to react. Some of them drew out clubs or hammers and started to run at them, a couple of them hanged back and released a couple of Yanmas and a Beedrill that started to fire Silver Wind attacks at Nimue as she released her Samurott in the river, diving in after Bonnie who jumped ahead of her. Serena turned backwards and drew her spear and shot at the people behind them as she released her Fennekin.

“Fennekin, use Ember at any Bug type you can get a bead on!” At Serena’s command her Fennekin started to fire Ember at any of the Bug Types in its range as Lilith’s whip started to strike at anyone who tried to get over the bridge while Nimue and Bonnie jumped into the river, going under.

“Beedrill, Poison Sting on those bitches in the water!” Nimue had just swum up from under water when she ducked back down to dodge the white needles. She saw Bonnie nearby trying to move towards Samurott and swam to her, grabbing her in her arms and swimming towards her Pokémon. A cry caused her to look up and saw Lilith’s whip hit the Beedrill a second before an Ember from Fennekin hit it, causing it to jolt backwards. Nimue swam to her Pokémon, putting Bonnie between her and it as grabbed onto the spikes on its helmet and pushed her and Bonnie’s body close to Samurott’s.

“Samurott get us out of here! Stay down Bonnie, we’ll be safe soon.” Nimue said as Samurott speed through the water, Nimue hanging onto Bonnie as they speed away, noting that Bonnie was barely moving. The impact must have shocked her or she went in head first, hold on kid just hold on.

Lilith smirked when she saw Nimue’s Samurott speed into the distance and her whip hit a ganger member above his eyes while Serena was holding her own against one wielding a large hammer. She moved towards her and slashed with her whip, scoring a hit on the ganger’s head, running past him as she did.

“Come on, we gotta move!” Lilith called as she reached Serena who was looking at the gangers on the other side of the bridge.

“Hold on, Fennekin Ember on the bridge! Full burn!” Serena called out

“Fennekin!” Her Pokémon cried out as it breathed fire at the bridge, which swiftly caught fire as the gangers drew back, some of them calling to their Pokémon to fight the flames as the two girls ran off, Serena recalling her Pokémon as she did.

“You are evil girl!” Lilith said with a laugh as they ran through the alley. Serena merely giggled as she ran after Lililth, a smirk on her face.

“As my mother once told me, if you’re running from someone, make it hard for them to follow.” Serena said. Before they could move out of sight multiple glass balls hit the ground around them and they exploded into green dust that enveloped the girls. As soon as it hit them Lilith and Serena collapsed to the ground and two figures in dark cloaks landed around them as the dust dissipated. Lilith tried to get up as she tried to fight the spores and was able to see the

“Good advice, here’s another. When hunting thinking prey, give them a way out so they run into your trap.” The figure in front said as Lilith’s vision grew dark as she lost consciousness, the last thing she saw was a pair of glowing eyes.

Nimue panted as Samurott staggered out of the river dragging her and Bonnie out of the river. She snarled silently as her thoughts raced. We got away but the others, they might not have. I gotta keep Bonnie’s spirits up until we reach the Center and get help.

“Told ya we’d be safe Bonnie. Bonnie? Bonnie!” Niumue cried as she turned Bonnie around and noticed a white needle piercing Bonnie’s right shoulder. Looking at her Nimue saw that Bonnie was panting and seemed to be barely consciousness. Fuck! That Poison Needle attack must have hit her! No wonder she didn’t move, and here I thought she was shocked! Think Nim, think! The Center, their the people who deal with Pokémon related injuries out here and I don’t know where the hospital is. Nimue bent down and picked Bonnie up, running towards the Center with her Water type guarding them.

Clemont looked up as Ash sat down at the table he had claimed to do some repair work on his backpack, he had put off that talk Ash wanted as long as he was able to from the look on Ash’s face as he walked towards the table, Pikachu on his shoulder.

“So you want to have a talk with me?” Clemont asked as he polished some of his tools. Ash stayed silent for a few seconds as he looked around and Clemont noticed that they were far enough away from others that they wouldn’t be overheard.

“More like I wanted to ….” Ash began before Nimue’s voice echoed from the front of the Center.

“Help! She need some Help!” Clemont looked towards the door in confusion. The girls should be shopping but someone needs help… Bonnie! Lilly! Clemont shoot to his feet and ran towards the front, Ash following behind him as Pikachu raced ahead of them.

Clemont looked and saw Bonnie being loaded onto a stretcher as Nimue panted as her Samurott stood nearby, seeming to watch everyone moving closer. Clemont looked and started to grow pale when he realized that she was alone.

“Nimue, what happened to Bonnie? Where are Serena and Lilly?!” He demanded as soon as he and Ash reached her. Nimue looked soaked with water, dripping with water and a glance as Nurse Joy wheeled Bonnie away showed she was wet to. Nimue looked grim as she started to speak.

“Lilly noticed something was following us and had me lead us towards a river to get Bonnie out of there. Serena and Lilly stayed behind to cover us as I got Bonnie out of there, but one of the people who attacked us had a Beedrill it shot Poison Sting at us, one shot hit Bonnie and she’s been unresponsive since. I realized what had happened and I got her here, since the Center was the only place I knew of to handle Pokémon related injuries….” She trailed off as she saw the look on Ash’s face as he clenched his fists.

“Was it the people who attacked you before, the so called Buzz Lords.” Ash demanded and looked around when as soon as he said their names the people who had been milling around went quit and most of them started to leave the area. Ash watched them leave and just shook his head with a scowl.

“I’ve dealt with gangs with reputations before but this is something else, anything from the native?” Ash asked as he turned his head to look at Clemont. Clemont looked conflicted for a few minutes as he looked where Bonnie had gone before he shook his head with a scowl as he seemed to struggle with something before he spoke.

“My home, Lumiose City, is the place in Kalos that has melded the most with other regions so we’re a little different culturally from other parts of Kalos. I was born there and my dad told me to look out for myself when I went to another city, not to let anyone walk over me. I didn’t know what he meant until I noticed that some students let others go ahead of them, take first pick and other things. I later learned that those people were descended from old nobility; a lot of places treat people like that based on how their ancestors were ruled. I’m guessing the leader is descended from whoever used to rule this city state during the war.” Clemont said as Ash just looked at him, while Nimue merely shook her own head as she remembered her home and its own leaders. Ash turned and he put down his backpack and took his hat off and put it inside his bag, pulling out a battered looking black cloak that he threw over his body, raising the hood until a shadow covered his face, he then put his shield on his arm and put his sword into a scabbard he put over his right shoulder. He looked at the others and nodded to himself. It’s time to show the Kalos underworld that the Battler is here. That might bring a few bounty hunters after me and a few old foes, but I don’t leave any of my friends behind, ever.

“I’m going to try and find the others, and no Clemont you can’t come. I can move unseen a lot easier alone. Niumue where did you guys go after you left the gym?” Ash said as Pikachu jumped onto Ash’s shoulder. Clemont spluttered for a few seconds before he steeled his eyes.

“Good luck Ash. I’ll look after my sister, once I’m sure she’ll be okay I’ll wait for you, if you’re not back in two hours I’m going to Officer Jenny!” Clemont declared. Ash merely nodded and looked at Nimue.

“Good, now Nimue, where were you when you were attacked?” Ash asked as Nimue looked at him. For a few seconds she saw some kind of form behind Ash, chains all over it.

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A grey pokemon with four arms in armor with four gauntlets with gems glowing red led four Machoke clad in armor with swords and shields as they moved through the woods watching for anything that might threaten their charge, a Lucario with a collar with a diamond on the front that glowed purple. They were sent out by their leaders to meet the Poison pack and give them the missive. As they moved through the forest, animals and a few Pokemon would move out of their way, dashing for cover, hiding from the party as they moved, hoping that the Fighting Types were there to hunt for food. The Lucario dashed after the five Pokemon in front of it as its thoughts moved back towards the audience it had with its rulers before it left. It had to fulfill its master’s orders in the way they wanted. Lucario was so deep in thought it walked right into an arm barring its path. It looked up at the Machamp that was leading to see it gestured ahead.

“Machamp champ champ.” At the words that the Machamp spoke the Lucario looked forward and saw that they had reached their destination, fence broking the way, a swamp just beyond it. Farther in the swamp was an large island at the center that had been a dumping ground for chemical waste until the pack they were looking for had moved in and drive off enough humans that they had set trainers on them. A few Grimers spawning from a pool had caused the trainers to fall back and two Ranger had been called in and been driven off had but after they had found the dump site and that had caused the humans set up a fence a few meters. Lucario looked at the fence and noticed signs on the fence; humans often put them on places where they didn’t want others of their kind to travel through, nodding as its thoughts ran back to its orders. If the pack was strong enough to cause the humans to do this then my lord and lady were right. Their strength must either be theirs or dealt with.

“Champ, Machamp!” The Machamp’s sharp order caused Lucario to look up and Lucario shook its head as two of the Machokes to move forwards and destroy a section of the fence, creating a path forward. Lucario nodded to Machamp and the Machamp gestured and the party move into the swamp. The four Machoks went first, Lucario following and Machamp bringing up the rear. As the party moved along the sides of the swamp they never noticed what looked like a log floating in the much seemed to stare at them before it went under the water and shot away from them. Lucario stopped and looked out over the swamp before it moved on shaking its head, not noticing the ripples where the log had been.

Lucario swatted a fly or a mosquito away from it as the group moved through the swamp. They had been lucky enough to have found a raised path leading to smaller islands or abandoned structures that let them move towards their objective and so far they had been able to make good time. If Lucario had to guess they might run into territory markers in the next few minutes. It reached the end of the pathway they were on and walked on the deck of a platform that had railings at the edges overlooking the water. From the broken chairs, tables and abandoned building the humans had made this for a reason and as the four Machokes started to secure the site Lucario couldn’t see Machamp and frowned, turning around it finally saw Machamp farther back on the path looking into the water with a frown on its face.

“Cario Luc!” Lucario cried out. The four Machokes stopped and looked back and saw the Machamp standing there. Lucario started to get mad as it was ignored, it was about to walkover when the Machamp shot it a look and gestured to the others to get ready to fight, causing Lucario to look at the water and the Machokes to start to move in front of Lucario as Machamp picked up a piece of rubble from the path and threw it at a floating log with enough force to cause the part of the log it hit to break off. Machamp stared as the log bobbed in the water and looked at the chunk torn from the log before it turned and moved. As it nodded at the others Lucario fell into step with it as the Machokes moved ahead of the.

“Lucario?” Lucario questioned in a low voice as they moved.

“Champ, Machamp.” The answer Lucario received caused it to look at the water along the path and frown. A log had surfaced and seemed to be following them. Lucario looked over its shoulder and noticed other logs in the water that seemed to be moving parallel to the group and it felt its heart start to beat, were they Chimera? It noticed that the Machamp had coughed and made a few quick signs with its hands that caused each of the Machokes to nod and start to move towards the structure’s railing. One of them pointed its sword at one of the logs and as it started to glow blue a pink tentacle shot towards the Machoke and wrapped around its arm! As the tentacle started to pull the Machoke towards the water one of the other Machokes grabbed the tangled Machoke around its waist and pulled as another of their comrades sliced through the tentacle with its sword. Lucario tried to move forward when suddenly Machamp grabbed it and threw it away from the railings as the Machokes started to move away from the railings fast as eight tentacles shot at the railings and suddenly the sound of things exiting the water fast sounded before five shapes hit the floor of the structure.

The creatures were reptilian with four shot limbs, their bodies ten feet long and low to the ground with two long tentacles just behind their front legs. Their faces had three eyes on the top of a long snout that was all mouth. Lucario noise twitched as the creatures smell reached it, they were diseased, and these weren’t Chimera and that maybe it all the more deadly.

“Machamp! Mac Champ Champ!” Machamp ordered as the creatures{[Mutagator]} started to move towards them, their tentacles striking the ground as they moved towards them. The Machokes held their shields up. As Lucario watched the Mutagator’s started to cry and move closer to give their tentacles a closer target. As its soldiers fought back the Machamp commander looked around, trying to find a way out of this. Lucario meanwhile had jumped onto the roof of the building on the platform and noticed three more ‘logs’ moving towards them and noticed a larger wake moving in the water behind them. Turning around trying to find anything they could use to turn the tide Lucario saw a raised path that led deeper into the swamp away from the beasts, turning it saw the Machokes slash at the tentacles as the Mutagator moved closer and made a choice.

“Lucario! Cario Lucario!” It called down to the Machamp and when it looked up Lucario pointed beyond the four Mutagator, conveying that soon their enemies would have help and something even bigger was following them then Lucario pointed at the path behind the structure. Machamp merely gritted its teeth as it watched two of the Machokes kill one of the Mutagator and move onto the others. A yelp caused Lucario to look and stare as it saw one of the Mutagator in midair, three black tentacles around its body that was pulled towards the gapping mouth of a giant fish with a snakelike lower body and a crazed look in its eyes. Lucario noted a smaller wake speeding off into the swamp and cursed as black tentacles started to grab the railing.

“MACHAMP, MACHAMP!” Machamp screamed as it gestured to the Machokes to follow it as Lucario jumped form the building onto the pathway. As the other three Mutagators tried to follow the Pokémon the building started to give way. As the structure started to come apart tentacles grabbed The Machokes jumped onto the path as the structure gave way, Machamp brought its hands into a sphere and started to form an energy sphere that grew as it moved its hands apart while Lucario cupped its hands and the gem on its collar started to glow as a purple energy sphere formed. As the fish creature finished eating the Mutagators and looked towards the group Machamp fired the sphere as Lucario shot the purple sphere at the water around the creature, freezing it in place before the blast from Machamp hit the creature and blew it apart, chunks of it raining around the frozen water. Lucario watched as wakes in the water speed away from them and turned to the Machokes only to notice that they had gone still. Lucario turned and saw members of the pack they had been sent to find looking at them, four purple snake Pokémon behind two larger ones with hoods. Lucario looked at them and clasped its hands together and bowed to them.

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Deadeye grinned as it watched its seven followers as it led them towards the forest. Since it had secretly gained the power from that creature that held that sharp thing it had led five of its siblings on hunts and it had decided to attack the forest. No other groups had returned from that the area from what it had heard from the others and with the addition of the one with the oversized arm[ Brute] and the clawed one [Clawer] it decided that it could try that place. Deadeye grunted as the other five started to slow down but Brute and Clawer kept pace with Deadeye, causing Deadeye to grin as it saw that it was right to ‘recruit’ those two. As they passed the outlining trees Deadeye grinned as it saw deer and rabbits with more of the bug creatures here and there in a clearing with a small pond. Deadeye looked at its followers and gestured for them to take up positions in the shadows around the clearing one and waiting for one of the animals to move closer before it jumped onto the back of a deer and broke its neck with a savage crack. The noise caused the others to look at Deadeye getting off the dead animal and everything in the clearing bolted, two of the deer running into four of the Goblins while Clawer shot from a tree it had climbed at a purple Bug creature with wings and brought it down and slashed at into its head. Two green Bugs with bright red antenna tried to get away when they ran into Brute with the last Goblin grabbing and killing them. Deadeye looked towards the pond and upon noticing a fish jumping at an insect it grinned and walked towards the pond while dragging its kill with the others following, none of them noticing an insectoid creature with a light purple body flying away from the clearing with tears in its eyes.

The Venomoth flew through the forest, dodging trees as it tried to reach its leaders as fast as it could. The Goblins had struck without warring and it had to tell its leader what had happened. It finally reached its destination, a cave set against a two story hill that had two fang-like rocks in front of the mouth. Around the cave mouth six Pinsir stood guard as a steady stream of red dragonfly Pokémon carrying either fruit or fish wrapped in silk. One of the Pinsir noticed Venomoth flying towards the group and motioned to its fellows.

“Pinsir!” The Pinsir that noticed cried as it brought one of its hands up facing the Venomoth. Venomoth hovered and Pinsir was taking aback by the way it looked at it.

“Venomoth! Venom moth venom!” Venomoth chatted at the Pinsir who looked at each other before one of them nodded at the Bug-type and led it into the cave. As they moved deeper into the cave they passed other Pokémon moving about. The two of them finally reached an opening to an inner chamber guarded by three ape-like Pokémon with bodies of red, blue and green. The Pinsir merely nodded and the two were let in. They entered a large chamber with a rock pillar reaching the ceiling, two tiny white Pokémon holding onto two flowers, one blue the other black as the flowers move about the a space in front of a tall feminine Pokémon with a white face, a green lower body resembles a mermaid's tail with two large leaves blooming on either side of the flukes and a large bouquet of ornate blue flowers around its head was watching as the two white Pokémon spared with each other. Pinsir and Venomoth stayed where they were until the feminine Pokémon called a halt to the sparing and gestured for them to come to it. Pinsir walked forward and went to a knee while Venomoth hovered next to Pinsir and bowed its head. The two tiny Pokémon moved to hover by the larger feminine Pokémon as she regarded the two Bug Types.

“Florges, florges flor?” Florges asked as it noticed at Venomoth had been crying tears. Venomoth hovered before it started to speak.

“Venomoth, venom moth venom venom.” Venomoth said as it lowered its head. Florges looked down at the Buy type before a hard look came to her face. Chimera attacked her domain?! That Mountain Ogre dared to send a hunting group at her lands?! She turned towards the Pinsir kneeling before her and barked a command at it. As it looked up she began to tell it what to do.

Deadeye laughed as he looked over just what he had gathered, three horned animals, two of the bug creatures and from the pond a large fish creature with a horn and a white water creature. It would have to come back with a larger group, this place had such food to gather and that wasn’t even taking in to account the humans or plants they could gather, for once its sire might have given good advice. A rustling in the bushes at the edge of its vision brought a smile to its face, more food. Brute and Clawer moved towards the bushes with grins on their faces when suddenly a rain of white needles shot at them at them from above! Deadeye stood as it watched 10 Pinsir charge into the clearing and noticed at least 20 Beedrills hovering behind trees farther back.

“Ragil!” Deadeye barked to the other five as it ran towards Brute and Clawer. The other five started to grab what they could of their kills and ran as Deadeye looked at the creatures before it. It noticed that that Clawer looked like it had been poisoned, and with the way it was backing away Brute was stunned by the how they were attacked so fast, perhaps it could use that to gain their loyalty.

Deadeye charged towards the Pinsir and picked up a stray branch and started swinging at the Pinisr when it passed Brute and Clawer. It roared at the two and Brute snapped back to its senses and grabbed Clawer and ran in a different direction then the others had run, perfect. Deadeye looked at the Pinsir in front and let the organs in its arms release the electricity as they charged at each other. Pinsir’s skin flashed a white pulse and raised its right arm and broke the branch as it struck Pinsir’s arm. Pinsir’s arms glowed white and it struck Deadeye quickly muiltiple times, pushing back Deadeye to the edge of the clearing. Deadeye looked up and saw that the others in its party had retreated with half the kills, and the Beedrill had moved above the rest and knew it had to leave if it wanted to live, but it looked at the Pinsir and sniffed deeply, it would remember the scent of this one, and Deadeye would have revenge. It punched a tree to the left and ran backwards as the tree fell, cutting off the Pinsir from following as it ran after Brute and Clawer, it had to find them, there was a way to get them under its banner and against their sire.

Pinsir looked at the fallen tree and jumped on it and saw Deadeye moving too fast for them to catch it and shook its head. They had thrown back the Chimera but hadn’t killed any of them, they might be back. From where it stood Pinsir gestured toward the remaining kills and pointed towards the branches on the ground, they would burn the remains and hopefully the Chimera wouldn’t be back for a while.

Florges sat at the mouth of the cave and worried for the future. Her daughters had finished the Final Battle and soon one of them would be leaving her. This forest had gone through so many changes, ever since that Ogre in the mountains and those strange humans had started to prowl around the outskirts of the forest she had known sooner or later something would have to give and the balance would topple, but that didn’t account for those two and their forces. They would have to get stronger and gather the other groups in the forest to survive if the Ogre was some sending its forces out again, if what had happened when she was younger was happening again then the only way for them to survive would be to join together, only then would they be able to defend their home. She looked up when she heard noises and saw the party she had sent and was startled when she saw the Pinsir leader come back with a proud look on its face and smiled when it nodded at her, Florges nodded back, perhaps they would survive here after all.

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Lucario walked after the Poison Pokémon as they led them through the swamp. The presence of those…diseased things were a good omen, it could use that as a plus to get them to follow its leaders, that would please its masters. As they moved through the swamp they started to pass dead trees and water that had started to gain a dead smell. At the edge of its vision Lucario saw what looked like amorphous purple blobs moving, if this was their territory then the offer to serve might be better received then it thought when it received its assignment. Lucario looked up when he heard mutterings that didn’t sound like the snake like Pokémon and saw more of the snakes and floating purple balls with faces and muiltiple geyser-like protrusions while larger spheres with identical features pulse a smaller sphere with eyes and a mouth attached to the larger sphere connected by a thin tube floated here and there over the water, some watching the party others looking out into the swamp. At the end of the path they had followed was the island they had been looking for, and more of the spheres and snakes Pokémon were watching the party approach Machamp fought to keep its arms down as it noticed the kill zone they had walked into, why did that stupid Lucario agree to come and meet the pack’s leaders?! This was just asking to be killed and eaten; giving the swamp’s condition they had to represent a good meal.

“ARBOK!” A cry caused Machamp to look ahead and this caused it to signal to the others to silently get ready; here were the pack’s leaders. Two powerful looking Pokémon, an Arbok and a Wheezing stood on a hill before them. Machamp looked and saw other Arboks and Wheezings standing or herding younger looking Ekans and Koffings away as the two leaders watched Lucario walk forwards and bow to them.

“Lucario, Lucario cario.” Lucario greeted the two Pokémon. They looked at the party before them and Wheezing tilted forward.

“Wheezing wheeze zing?” Wheezing questioned as the Pokémon around them started to conversion to themselves. Lucario hid a smile as it heard the mutterings around it, there was no way that it could fail.

Lucario, the Machokes and Machamp walked out of the hole they had made earlier and Lucario just starred in shock, so out of it that Machamp had to lead it by holding one of its paws. The pack was leaving, the territory was so dead that the pack had voted to move on and split up into family lines to survive. They had actually come when they were splitting and the leaders, the ones the Lady wanted most of all were going to find their old trainers, a few migrates said they saw two humans who looked like them. And worst of all none of the smaller packs had opted to journey back to follow the Lord and Lady, and Lucario worried what that would mean to its masters. Lucario looked around, hoping to find a chance to slip away, it had seen what happened to those who failed the masters for all they acted where others could see them, it didn’t want to be the next one to ‘leave in shame’, let the others take the blame. Then all he had to do was out run the Slayers, maybe find a trainer.

“Arbok.” The voice caused Lucario to look up and saw an Arbok lead three other Arbok and ten Ekans after it towards them. Once it reached them they bowed deeply to Lucario who fought back tears, it seemed on family line had decided to throw in with Lucario’s masters. Now all it had to do was get them back to base and mission accomplished, nothing could go wrong now!

Protector smiled as it sat up the tree and watched as the others gathered Berries and fish from around the river bed. It watched with pride as Gazer showed Weakling how to spear fish and how excited it was when it speared one. It looked like bring Weakling into the pack was a good thing, and while it was weak, there was something about its energy that made Protector look at it and how it acted proved it was a fit for their pack. All Protector had to do now was find a few creatures to bring back to their sire, it couldn’t let Deadeye prove superior, then the others might look to it to emulate and if that happened! Protector rubbed its scare and promised that this time it would prove better. Protector turned its head as it felt something from across the river and moved down the tree, banging on it as he went. Five small gray skinned creatures in armor charge from the other side and suddenly a knife that hits Gazer in the chest before Protector could reach them. Gazer’s right hand went to the knife and clasped it before it crumpled to the ground.

Protector went still before a snarl formed on its face as the other four goblins with them charged at the creatures before Protector charged and passed them; roaring as it jumped at the creatures, determined that it would lose no one else. Protector hit the one who had thrown the knife and slashed downward with a claw strike that left glowing trail as it slashed through the air. Protector’s slash caused blood to rush from the deep cuts as the Machop feel to the ground bleeding out as Protector released a roar and charged at another one before something hit Protector’s body and sent it flying through the air for a good five feet before it hit the ground and rolled back upright. The figure standing in front of it was a large grey creature wearing armor and holding a metal stick with a ball on the end in its right arm and the left one was empty. This was the one that threw the knife and it was grinning; a smug grin that showed Protector that this was giving that thing pleasure. Protector flexed its hands with a growl and its claws started to glow blue, sparing a glance at the others it noticed that they were holding their own with their makeshift spears and turned all its attention to the four armed one and charged, hoping to take it out before it killed anymore of its fellows.

Weakling tried to help Gazer, crying tears from all its eyes as it tried to slow the blood from the wound after it removed the knife. As it watched it looked over its short life and how Gazer had shown it how to fish, how Protector had giving it food and how proud Gazer looked when it killed its first fish and the look Gazer had when it realized it was hurt. Would that be the last memory they had together? There had to be something it could do, there just had to be some way to heal Gazer! Suddenly Weakling felt something and looked down and saw that its arms were glowing pink, pink energy was flowing from its hands to Gazer and Gazer’s wound was closing! Trying to keep what it felt going, Weakling kept pouring on the energy and soon Gazer opened its eyes and looked at {[Healer]} and looking at the battle Protector was having and scowled and picked up the knife.

Protector had been able to dodge the blows the Machoke was throwing at it and noticed the others had killed some of the smaller ones and were helping those who hadn’t and lucky enough the bigger one hadn’t noticed yet. All it had to do…. Suddenly the Machoke stopped and looked around, gaining a scowl when it noticed the way the ambush had gone for its side and suddenly raised its right leg and slammed it down, causing the area to suddenly shake as it brought its leg down again and again until Protector stumbled and fell. Looking up Protector was terrified to find the Machoke swinging its arms back to slam both maces into it. It had lost, it wouldn’t be able to save its fellows, but hopefully while it finished Protector then the others could escape from it. Protector gritted its teeth to meet its end with dignity when suddenly something hit the Machoke’s back and a knife was plunged into its left arm. It dropped its weapon and it started to twist and buck and finally it threw a goblin off its back, revealing it to be a healed Gazer!

Protector stared for a second before it got back up and noticed the others had finished their opponents and that Gazer had grabbed the mace and was looking at the Machoke with a scowl as it looked around, noticed that it wasn’t in the best shape to continue the fight and raised its foot again, then it dashed into the woods when the Goblins braced themselves for an Earthquake that never came.

Protector looked into the woods for a few minutes before it turned and swept Gazer into a hug. Gazer just patted Protector’s back until Protector looked at the wound and its wondering eyes followed Gazer’s sight, turning Protector saw Healer putting a pink glowing hand on a hurt Goblin. Protector watched with shock as Healer helped the hurt Goblin and its wound started to heal.

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The Machoke cursed as it ran through the woods, that mission had ended in total failure! This vengeance mission had failed, its top right arm dead, the team it had been leading were dead, and it looked like it would join them when its Lady found out what its leadership had caused! It had to find something to prove its worth, there had to be something that would let it live. It stopped when it heard a branch snap and saw two unusual looking Goblins crossing a clearing ahead of it, one of them had a larger arm then its other and the other one had prominent claws that looked like it was sick. This was going to be easy, and bringing back the corpses of such might save its skin.

Brute snarled as it watched Clawer move with a dazed look on its face. That hunt was nothing more for that old one to see how strong the forces there were! That damned old one had used them as bait to draw out the forces of that place. Thankfully the one who had lead the group had stayed and let them escape from the battle, if it was still alive then that one would…. Suddenly something flew through the air and hit Brute in the head, causing it to fall to the ground. It fought to stay awake and looked towards the direction the hit had come from and saw a grey creature with a limp right arm and a savage grin on its face as it walked towards them. Clawer moved forward shakily as it raised its arms to defend the one who got it away from the ambush in the forest. The grey creature started to chuckle when Clawer stumbled towards it and when Clawer shot one of its arms at Machoke it grabbed its wrist, picked it up and threw it at Brute who was trying to get up. As Brute groaned under Clawer it saw the Machoke walked closer, snickering as it did. Just when it was about to strike at the two of them, something jumped over the two Goblins and kicked the Machoke away, it was Deadeye.

Deadeye looked at the two on the ground and threw a purple-pink berry at Clawer which bounced off its head. Clawer looked at the berry and realized it’s sent carried a hint of cure, this would help heal it. Clawer looked at Deadeye’s back and felt tears from its eyes as it realized that Deadeye had gone out of it way to find them and to find a way to cure it. Deadeye smirked when it heard the tears, with this Clawer was further under its power. Deadeye looked at the Machoke and smirked when it saw that one of its arms was damaged, this might be easier then it thought. Machoke snarled as it watched its opponent and charged, sending a devastating left hook at Deadeye who dodged it and put its left arm on Machoke and released a powerful electrical shock that sent Machoke to its knees as it tried to fight as its muscles clenched up! Before it could do more than glare at it Deadeye sliced through its neck with its right claw.

Machoke collapsed as its left hand went to its neck as it bleed out before the light left its eyes. Deadeye looked over its kill and turned towards Clawer and Brute. It looked over them and turned to its kill it puffed out its checks and spat a large amount of a black liquid onto the corpse. It tor the legs away from the body before throwing the chest towards Brute while it throw the legs towards Clawer.

“Wrogli.” It said as Brute and Clawer started to slobber as it looked and with that word they leapt onto the meat, each biting and tearing at their feast. As soon as the first bite passed its lips Brute staggered backwards as a burning swept through its body as it saw a phantom image of what it had eaten, it looked and saw muscles, additional limbs, a left arm the same size as its right and a punch covered in fire and a poison spit. It felt that it could only chose two and it chose the left arm and the muscles. As the burning swept through its body its left arm started to glow black as did two points on its lower sides. Its left arm grew to match its right and the glow stopped when both arms were the same size. Brute’s muscles all over its body seemed to have changed while staying the same. Brute started to throw multiple punches and smiled, it didn’t even feel the least bit tired.

Clawer meanwhile chose the shaking and muscles and as the burn stopped it looked at a tree and slammed its left leg down and laughed when the shaking caused the tree to fall. Deadeye looked at them and smiled, with this it had them, once they understood what Deadeye had done they would know that their Sire had lied about everything it had told them.

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Brock just sighed as he finished setting up the tents. Yuji and Kunz had been gone to long for his taste; they had to have found something. And he was worried that Yuji might let the suspicions he had about Kunz and Agalia keep them from working together if their attacked. He looked up as his Steelix looked at him and trilled.

“I’m alright partner, just worried about the others. They should have been back by now.” Brock said as he rubbed Steelix’s jaw.

“They be back when they’ll back. Kunz isn’t one who would be taken out without us knowing about it.” Agalia voice caused Brock to turn and look at her before he sighed. Since Yuji had told Brock about his brother and the policy, he had been keeping an eye on the other two and he had more questions then he thought he would.

“With the way that pack reacted I’m still worried. We have to find what is happening on this mountain and then we have to get home safe.” Brock said and he hid a frown as he noticed Agalia fists tighten for a few seconds. So Yuji might have been right about them. They do have another reason for being up here. I can’t tell what it is but I have to trust that they’ll fight with us against the Chimera! Brock kept his face blank as he turned towards the campsite and started to walk towards the fire, deciding to let his mind wander as he cooked dinner.

Agalia looked at Brock and turned away from him, a frown forming as soon as she was sure he couldn’t see her face. What is taking that simple minded idiot so long! Do a quick search with the other idiot and then come back here! What’s taking so long…. Wait what’s that! Agalia whipped her head towards the right and flinched as she sensed a powerful Aura moving towards them. She looked towards the direction where what she sensed was coming from and then quickly looked towards Brock, nodding when she saw his back was towards her. He didn’t notice, good. I don’t know what’s coming towards us but if I position myself so he’s facing the brunt of it then then I might be able to deal with him if I have to when it’s done. Agalia thought to herself as she moved towards the other side of the camp.

Brock looked behind him as he heard Agalia move about camp and turned back when he saw her moving towards the left side of the camp. He shrugged and turned back to fire and soup he was making and looked at the supplies they had brought and started to try and work out how long he could stretch them. He had expected to be able to find some food up here in the wilds but so far the pickings had been slim to none, whatever was active up here was very hungry. And that’s not even counting how damaged the eco system is up here, that Paras pack had to be moved because of how scarce the food was for them. Brock thought with a scowl as he looked over the mountain. He would have to send a report to the Rangers after he returned, they would need to do a full survey of the mountains to see just what would need to be done to get this area back in order. He didn’t want to think about how hard that would be but the effort would have to be done before the before something happened to destroy the path to Indigo Plateau.

“You know for being the capital of the Kanto League, it sure is hard to get there on foot. And if the land lines are destroyed.” Brock muttered to himself as he finished get the soup ready to boil. A sudden motion from his Steelix caused him to look up and notice it was staring into the distance to the right and he slowly reached for his other two Pokéballs. He caught Steelix’s eyes and swore when he realized what it had seen.

“Croagunk, Swampert, time to fight Chimera! Agalia! Thery’e coming!” Brock called out as he threw the balls, releasing a dark blue, bipedal frog like Pokémon and a cobalt-blue quadruped with two fan-like black fins on its head and a black fan-like tail fin. Agalia released a quadruped, leonine like Pokémon with a blazing mane that stood protective in front of her as she readied two swords.

Brock rushed to his bag and pulled out his two hammers and readied himself for battle as he prepared himself. As trees and bushes at the edge of his vision stated to move he greeted his teeth and cursed that there were only two people here.

“Croagunk, Swampert, no limits, use your best judgments and stay alive! Steelix, hand back and go pure range but strike if you have to! Agalia, watch out!” Brock was able to get out before 2 Alphas came charging at them leading 20 Warriors, it was all Brock could do to notice what they looked like before he started to swing his hammers at two of the Soldiers that came at him, breaking the head of one while the other dodged his strike.

Agalia started to strike at anything that came at her as her Pyroar started to breath fire at the Chimera, killing two of them in one blast as his trainer sliced the head of another one before she dodged a large energy needle that one of the Captains fired at her. She looked at them and noticed that one was looking at her and the other was looking at Brock, and with a start she realized that the two were direction the other Chimera.

“Brock, the two with the horns, their the leaders!” Agalia called out before she parried one of the stingers of a Soldier. Brock slammed one of his hammers and broke the stinger limb of the Soldier that had dodged his earlier strike and notice that Croagunk and Swampert had dealt with 2 of the Chimera and were on watch for the next one that would try to kill them. Steelix had been firing green blasts over the heads of the others and Brock had a few seconds so he followed the beam’s path and saw another 5 Soldiers, wounded but moving towards the battle. He looked around at what the Chimera were doing and let his experience decide what actions to take.

“Steelix, keep it up! Croagunk and Swampert, target the horned ones!” Brock called out as he slammed a hammer down on the Soldier with the broken limb. Agalia smirked as Pyroar slashed at another Soldier as she slice off one Soldier’s right arm just behind the stinger. She watched Brock charge a grouping of four Soldiers as she caught her breath. Hmm. Maybe I should bring Rock boy back for recruitment, it would do to have a doctor in the gang and he is easy on the eyes. She thought before a charge of one of the Soldiers facing her forced her to dodge and take her eyes off Brock as she fought to stay alive.

Croagunk charged ahead of Swampert and tackled the Captain that was observing Agalia and jumped backwards; dodging the limb it sent backwards at it turned to face Croagunk. Swampert blasted a stream of water at the other Captain and sent it backwards into a tree then it fell to the ground. Swampert snarled at it as the Water type stared the Chimera down as it got back to its feet. Croagunk dodged the glowing horn of its opponent and shot multiple purple darts from its mouth as, each hitting the Captain as it tried to defend against the attack, raising its stingers trying to block the needles. Croagunk used the time when the Captain lost sight from raising its stingers to move right next to its head and delivered a savage jab with a purple covered hand, breaking the Captain’s head and pulling its hand away from the Captain’s head, Croakunk’s hand dripping with black blood as it turned and looked towards the battle and noticed that the Chimera attacking Agalia had lost their cohesion, fighting as wild animals. An explosion suddenly sent Croagunk flying! Swampert saw the remains of the Captain that Croagunk killed was the source and started to move backwards, firing a stream of dark brown mud that pushed the Captain back. Croagunk weakly started to move when it noticed three Soldiers about to kill it, it looked at Brock who was staring against and smiled a weak smile at its trainer.

“Croakunk, NO!” Brock cried stared at what was about to happen and felt something give within him as he suddenly felt stronger. He started to glow brown, causing Agalia to stare before she hardened her eyes. Feeling something, not even noticing he was glowing he slammed one of his hammers into the ground, and suddenly three pointed rock pillars pierced the three Soldiers. Brock stared at what he had done looking at his hammer then at the three pillars. Did I do that? I know about Aura because of what happened in the Kingdom but this is beyond what Ash’s did. What was that and why do feel so strong? Brock wondered as he looked at the battle.

Agalia absent mindedly sliced the head off a Soldier as her Pyroar bit through the neck of another one as she kept her eyes locked on Brock. He woke his Aura, now I have to kill him! We can’t let the knowledge free. Too bad, he coulda been something in the Order. She thought as she killed two more of the Chimera with quick strikes. A Soldier charged at Swampert and forced it to stop firing at the Captain, paying attention to the Chimera attacking it, wincing when the stingers hit. The last Captain standing shook itself and suddenly gave a shrill cry that echoed over the battlefield. Brock stumbled and when he looked up he noticed the bumps on the remaining Soldiers body start to glow and with horror he noticed they were looking at Swampert.

“Swampert, Protect!” Brock called as he reached down and helped "back to its feet. Swampert formed a green half circle around it and started to tank the white energy darts that the other soldiers fired at it, winching when the Captain stared to fire large energy needles at the shield. As cracks started to form Brock looked about and noticed that the Chimera had stopped attacking Agalia and were attacking him and his Pokémon and quickly looked at the last Captain, noticing that it had its attention on them.

“Croakunk, I need you to handle that one, I’ll try and get the others attacking Swampert.” Brock said softly as he gripped his hammers tightly. Croagunk looked at the Captain and nodded before it lunged at the Captain, forcing it to direct its attention at it as Brock charged the other Chimera as Pyroar started to fire blasts of fire at the other Chimera as the Protect shattered, causing Swampert to be blasted by at least 20 energy needles.

Brock snarled as he killed another Soldier as he looked heard Swampert whimper softly as it stood back up diffidently as it looked from Croagunk to Brock before it barreled into a Chimera lining up a stab at Brock, slamming its fists into the body of the Chimera, forming cracks with each hit. The Captain gave a fierce whistle and suddenly the other Soldiers turned their heads at Brock and fired streams of silk that quickly covered his arms and body, sending him to the ground just before Croagunk kicked upwards and snapped its neck, picking up the body and throwing it at the other Chimera, killing three of them when it exploded. The other two Chimera looked down at Brock but before they could do anything Steelix was there, slamming its body down onto the Chimera, splattering Brock with their black blood as it raised its body, dripping with parts of the dead Chimera while Swampert threw the body of what it had just killed to the side. The three remaining Chimera turned and ran, leaving the battlefield as their opponents watched. Brock suddenly felt so tired he could barely move as his Pokémon started to surround him and give off soft cries.

“You can’t move can you?” Agalia asked from his left as Brock strained the webbing holding him. He looked up and was able to take stock of his team condition and gave a bitter laugh.

“No I can’t and these guys might be on their last legs, it’s a good thing the survivors fled when they did, I don’t think they could hold off another attack. We might not have found the source but bring” Brock said bitterly.

“No they won’t. Pyroar, Incinerate on the Steelix and then handle the others!” Agalia cried out to Brock’s shock before Pyroar shot a beam of black, red, orange and yellow fire that hit Steelix, causing it to cry out as it fainted before the Pyroar tackled Swampert into Croagunk, using one to knock out the other.

“So I was right, you aren’t League Hunters.” Brock said as he turned his head to glare at Agalia as she spun her swords around.

“Yep, sorry about this Dr., it’s too bad really; you might’ve gone far in the organization. But then you had to wake up your Aura, and that sealed your fate.” Agalia said as she moved to stand before Brock.

“My Team?” Brock asked as he desperately tried to get any bit of energy. How am I so weak? Just what is affecting my body so much? Brock thought as he tried to break the webbing.

“I’m sorry to say they will have to be victims of the same Chimera that got you; it just doesn’t flow right without that.” Agalia said as she raised one of her blades. Suddenly a shot rang out as her blade broke half down from the tip.

“Infernape, Lucario, Close Combat on the Pyroar! Cameron get Brock free!” A voice called out as someone charged from the trees as an ape with reddish-brown with sections of white fur on its chest, head, and lower legs and with a large flame trailing from its head, a powerful looking Lucario. Brock whipped his head and stared as Riley came charging right behind his two Pokemon and Cameron and his Lucario ran towards him as Riley shot forward and tried to punch Agalia, only for her to dodge and pointed her one of her hand at him and shot a fireball at him. Riley stayed still until the fireball was near him before he backhanded the fireball with a glowing blue hand and sent the fireball to the side. Her Pyroar moved as it dodged the strikes from the two Pokémon and moved to stand next to its trainer, snarling as it looked at the others

“So a Wilder dares to stand against me? I don’t know what your think is happening but you don’t know what you’re up against.” Agalia said as she started to form two fireballs in her hands as

“I know exactly what you are. The Order of the Protectors of Humanity.” Riley interrupted her as he looked at her with a hard stare. Brock looked at Agalia as she actually stared at him.

“Who the hell are you to know who I am, a wilder might have killed a team that was sent against you but how do you know our full name? It doesn’t matter, a lowly wilder…” Agalia began as she slowly moved one of her hands behind her before interrupted her.

“I am one who is a Guardian.” Riley declared in a firm voice causing Agalia to look at him in shock as she started to splutter.

“You can’t be one of them! We killed them all years ago. You’re all dead!” Agalia said as she starred. To think one of those survived all these years, I have to tell them, everyone needs to know! She thought as she moved backwards with a shocked look on her face

“You all failed, but I will have a long talk with you about that.” Riley said before Agalia threw a ball infront of him that released a smoke screen that blocked Agalia and her Pyroar from sight. Riley braced himself when he heard a colossal roar that echoed off the mountains but when the smoke cleared they were gone. Carmeon finally finished getting Brock freed from the webbing. Brock got to his feet and scrambled to his Steelix and started to look over its wounds as he recalled his other two Pokémon.

“It’s okay partner, you’re gonna be just fine. Let me just get you back into your ball….Riley, is that you? Brock said as he recalled his Steelix and saw a red haired woman walk into the clearing putting a gun away at her side.

“I’m Master Riley’s student, Carmeon. This here is a friend we made yesterday her names….” Carmeon began before he was interrupted.

“Rosette Zargo of the Kanto Guard. A please to meet a former Gym Leader sir, but what are you doing on the mountain, those things over whelmed me at the cabin I was stationed at and the League should have gotten my message before I had to escape. Hey what’s the matter?” Rosette asked as she saw Brock staring in shock at her. Carmeon looked at Brock when she said he was a gym leader. A Kanto Gym leader with a Steelix, I wonder if he knows Ash. He did say he knew a few leaders in Kanto well. Carmeon thought as Riley came to stand by them.

“My group found your cabin and a corpse of a Chimera like these things, but there was no record of a call on to the League when I set out on this expedition a few days ago.” Brock said flatly causing Rosette to stare then start to curse. Riley only shook his head as his thoughts raced, he hoped was worried for nothing.

“We need to get back to Viridian, we have to get off this mountain and tell people the Chimera.” Riley began only to stop when Brock caught his eye.

“I can’t, I still have two more people up here; one of them came with Agalia, the person you just drove off.” Brock said causing Carmeon to stare and look at his teacher who anserwed his student’s look by shaking his head looking grim.

“We have to get off this mountain, we’ll head to where they might be and then start heading down. We’ll try to find them but we have to get away from here and defend Viridian, the swarm is getting larger.” Riley said as he looked towards the mountains peak, knowing that a horde was even now being born and readied to strike.

“Stupid, stupid! How the hell did some of the Guardians survive and why’d they have to turn up on one of my ops?!”Agalia screamed as she rode her Pyroar away from the campsite, heading into Johto. She had to get to a safe house and tell the others about what she had found out, the Guardians were still alive! And she had to get the information about the Doctor as well; he would have to be dealt with soon. All I can do is run and hope that Kunz gets away. The roar Pyroar gave off should tell him that I had to escape and he’ll wait for an opportunity to finish off that gym trainer. But how the hell did the Guardians survive the ambush, no one survived that, the whole island was destroyed! She was so deep in thought that as she and her Pokémon moved through the mountain away from the battlefield she never noticed a metallic saucer was following her from the sky as she rode her Pokémon, nor did she realized that she had been marked as a target by the saucer’s masters, that soon her destiny would change in ways she would have expected.

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Yuji ran through the woods silently, Kunz behind them as they followed the lines of webbing. He looked over his shoulder at Kunz as he led the way through the wood, he did have a few reservations about him and his sister but something about the webbing he was following was a concern for him, he couldn’t explain it but he had to find out what was at the end of the line. I know there’s something wrong with their story but this might be more important than that, I just have to watch him and hope I’m just wrong. I guess that maybe in Johto things in the League might be different then here in Kanto, but I doubt it. Yuji thought as he looked ahead as he moved, paying attention to everything around him. A roar suddenly echoed off the mountain, out causing him to stop and looked about as Kunz stopped.

Kunz looked about while inside he was screaming. Something happened back at camp, she had to leave and my luck she did so after trying to kill Brock. I just need to wait until there a chance to kill him and slip away, if I’m found I’ll blame it on the Chimera. Kunz looked at Yuji and adopted a flat look.

“That roar might have been from the camp, shall we return and come back here with others or should we continue?” He said robotically as Yuji looked around the trees around them, trying to find what had made that roar. After a few seconds Yuji looked at Kunz then turned and looked at the webbing.

“You can if you want but I’m going on. I can’t describe it but this is important, we…I have to find out what laid this; I can’t describe why it’s important. Like I said, go back if you want to but I’m going on.” Yuji said as he walked alongside the cable, confident in his choice. Kunz looked at him and followed behind him with a frown on his face. ‘Some people get feelings, you can’t explain it but sometime they will sense somethings you can’t, trust them until you have to put a knife into their back.’ Teach you had to be right didn’t you, this is why I prefer destroy missions only.

After a few minutes they came across a few more lines that joined at a large glowing sphere that continued as a larger cable along the same heading as the first line they had followed. He looked at a tree closer to the boil and saw that it was practically dead with brittle leaves. Quickly looking at the other trees he frowned as he saw the upper branches were barren and light was passing by the dead branches. Suddenly he noticed multiple lines of webbing connected to the boil that looked dead for some reason that was connected to a large cocoon by a farther back and walked to it, drawing a knife that he used to cut the webs, cursing when he saw the bones of a wolf within it.

“Whatever these things are their stealing the life from the trees and animals in these cocoons, I don’t want to think what these things will do to a human or Pokémon.” Yuji said with a scowl as he looked at the skull of the wolf. Kunz merely looked at the skill as he thought what he had seen over the years, kills that made this look like a day at the beach. He noticed that none of the legs were broken and wondered just how that they had been put in the cocoons as he looked around, finally making a decision.

“We should release out Pokémon now and ready our weapons. If this is the result of the Chimera we’re up here for we need to be ready to fight.” Kunz said flatly as he released his Combusken and drew forth his axe. Yuji looked at him and nodded, pulling out his mace and released his Rhydon.

“Partner we’re investigating this webbing, I think its connected to the Chimera we’re tracking up here. Keep an eye out and get ready to blast anything you sense, okay.” Yuji said to his Pokémon.

“One thing. A while back the two of us heard a loud roar echo from somewhere. So it is advisable to be on guard.” Kunz said flatly as he looked behind them. Yuji nodded but never noticed that Combusken had picked up something its trainer had said that Yuji didn’t and started eying Rhydon.

“I have point and the right, Kunz, you two watch our back and the left.” Yuji said as he walked forward, his Rhydon falling into step between him and Kunz as they moved on. Kunz watched the Ground type as it walked behind its trainer and started to watch the left side and moved after Yuji.

The party moved along the line of webbing, after a while they discovered other boils that had line of webbing that moved alongside the cable they had been following the same size as the first but surprisingly they didn’t merge together but run in parallel. Finally they came upon a cave that the lines went into and when Kunz was going to walk into it, Yuji grabbed him and pulled him behind a tree. Kunz was startled and looked at Yuji, seeing him put a hand over his mouth and point to the right. Following Yuji’s hand he saw a party of 1 Alpha, 6 Warriors and 8 Workers walking into the cave. Kunz looked on in shock, that so many Chimera were working together and the way they were moving showed that they were doing something routine, and that scared him more then he thought he was capable of. Yuji moved his face closer to Kunz and started to speak.

“Some of those were more of what we recovered at the cabin, the others look similar enough to have come from the same source I think, I haven’t seen many Chimera.” Yuji whispered in a low voice.

“Yeah, most Chimera in Kanto are loners, you rarely see a swarm built up like this by one of them spawning. In scenarios like this long range combat is usually the best thing to do, set up a killing field or find a way to immobilize the prey or strike to kill them in one shot, to save on ammo at the very least.” Kunz whispered back as he eye’d the cave the Chimera had entered.

“Any advice… wait something’s happening.” Yuji said as the Alpha walked out of the cave leading 2 Warriors and 4 Workers, the Workers carrying a cocoon of something that released a blue glow from within. Yuji watched them and stayed quite until the Chimera were out of sight before he turned to Kunz.

“So do we turn back or try to find out what inside there first, there are a lot more Chimera then I thought there would be. And let’s not forget that a lost less came out then went in there. In an enclosed space up against creatures with capabilities is not smart.” Kunz said as Yuji silently touched a button on his Local Gear, a motion that Kunz didn’t notice. He’s right, I don’t know what that procession was about or what they took from the cave but.

“Your right, it is time for us to leave, we can return with help later.” Yuji said as he turned before he noticed that Kunz had gone still and turned back to the mouth of the cave. Three Alphas were walking out of the cave, leading thirty Warriors. Two Alphas led ten Warriors to the left and right of the cave’s mouth as the last Alpha stood in the center as something started to leave the cave. 10 Workers carried a large arachnid like Chimera, it had no legs, instead its legs would be were instead mouths that were closed. Its head had compounded eyes and a two horns above its eyes while it mouth was a dripping maw.{[Gather]}.

“What the hell is that, why the hell are they carrying it?” Yuji muttered as he looked at his Pokémon as he brought up his Local Gear and snapped a quick picture of it, not noticing Kunz was walking backwards away from him. The sound of a Pokéball caused Yuji to whip his head and saw Kunz releasing his Rapidash and sneering at Yuji.

“I have no idea, maybe it’s their spawner. Whatever it is; good luck surviving them. Combusken, HYPERBEAM ON THE CAVE!!” Kunz roared as Combusken fired an orange be that passed over the Chimera and hit the mountain, causing rocks to fall on the creatures leaving the cave, covering the back half of the Gather and crushing the Workers carrying its back half.

“What the hell?! I knew you two weren’t what you said you were!! I’ll kill you ya scum bag!” Yuji snarled as Kunz recalled his Combusken and rode his Rapidash away from the. SCUM! FUCK! Those things are gone come…we gotta get out of here. He saw two of the Alphas move towards the Gather and take charge of the Workers there but the last Alpha was….looking…right…at…them!

“Oh fucker! Rhydon, we’re running! Use that Protect variant we developed, the traveling one!” Yuji screamed as he turned and started to move, running away from the area his Rhydon right behind him forming a green domed energy shield behind it as it followed its trainer. We should have turned back when we found the webbing but I had to go on, I had to investigate but damn it I never thought that Kunz would have done that. I knew that something was wrong with those two, I knew something was wrong but I had to trust that scum to watch my back, should have paid more attention, I should have kept a better eye on that traitor! But I had to trust that he would have fought with me against the Chimera, not use them to kill me! Why the hell did he…that roar, it had to have been a signal from her, did she kill Brock, did he run her off. I have to get away, what that thing they were carrying, it has to be important to those things! Yuji thought as he tried to think of a way to survive and get the information he had discovered back to his Gym. His Tauros wouldn’t be able to handle the mountain and build up enough speed to stay ahead of the Chimera, he didn’t know how fast they were but he had to find some way to survive against them, he had to make it back home!

Behind them the Alpha that had seen them thundered through the woods, leading 4 of the Warriors as it chased after them. It had seen a human and a creature and it was after the ones who dared to attack them. Still if they were strong enough to wound they would be an excellent source of food. The tracks they had left were of a human and a larger creature, it was fast and heavy, it would give much strength to the swarm. Perhaps the Queen would give it the strength first as a reward? Would it be passed onto the Princess, strength for the new hive? A flash of green

Yuji frowned as he heard the noise from behind them, they would have to turn soon, and try and fight them off. He needed to find a large enough place to stand against their pursuers; he couldn’t just let them run them down! He remembered a spotting a meadow a few meters ahead of them that they passed when they followed the line of webbing and maybe he could hold there, that place gave him a line of sight that would let him have some control of the battle. It increased his chances a small amount, but he had to try.

“Rhydon, we’ll try and hold them up ahead, use your instincts to hold them off!” Yuji commanded as they ran, hearing their pursers closing on them. When he reached the right place he turned and ran into the clearing and stopped at the center turning to meet the charge as his Rhydon circled him, the both of them ready to meet the charge of the Chimera.

The Alpha stopped at the edge of the meadow, the Warriors passing their leader and charging at their prey. Rhydon spun around, it’s tailing glowing green as it hit the first Warrior, sending it flying backwards as its trainer sliced down with his mace at another Warrior that got close to them, breaking its head. The other two dropped back and opened their mouths and sent white needles at them, only for them to hit a green energy shield that blocked the attack. Yuji clenched his teeth as he tried to keep his eyes on the battle, but the way the Alpha was just watching the battle was making him worried, something about its gaze was causing him to want to charge it and kill it.

Shadow cursed as he watched the battle, it would have been smarter to go after the Order member but the Viridian trainer was an innocent and he had seen that large Chimera, if it was important to swarm then Viridian and the League had to be warned, and he couldn’t do it without them finding out he had been up here, he had to make sure that that the trainer made it down the mountain. He noticed that the kid was keeping his eyes on the Alpha and he started to reach for his throwing knives, it wasn’t good when a Chimera stayed back, that means it could think and that was always trouble.

The Alpha looked at the battle and began to fall backwards, it would attack from behind and strike at the bigger creature and then it and the other would be food. Its mouth stated to water as it looked at the creature, imagining its abilities added to the swarm. Suddenly it sensed something and turned, just as a knife hit penetrated its head, killing it in one-shot. Shadow smirked under his masked before the dead Alpha started to glow and exploded!

Yuji looked up at the explosion and something told him to dodge to the left, narrowly missing the thrown Warrior striking with its stingers at him, it was back and had circled around to their back but had charged at the same time the other two charged at Rhydon, dropping all pretense of strategy and charged like starving animals after a bit of food. They hit the Protect with their bodies, snapping their mouths as Yuji and the third surviving Warrior circled each other. What was that explosion, why the hell are these things acting like this, I don’t get it. They acted like Pokémon before, now their acting like wild animals! Their barely using any moves, their just using their body parts. Yuji thought as he dodged the stabs of the Warrior he was fighting.

“Rhydon, treat them like those wolves we dealt with a few weeks ago, their just animals now!” Yuji cried when he dodged to the left and destroyed on one of the Soldier’s chitin stingers and watched as it moved backwards, snarling as it did so as it back away from him and turned, running into the forest in the opposite direction of the cave, which Yuji was between it and the Soldier. Turning back to his Rhydon, a smile formed on his face as he noticed that it held one in its claws while the other was crushed under its foot.

“Hold it there partner, I’ll kill it and we’ll bring it back.” Yuji said as he walked towards it and drew a knife that he quickly inserted into the Warrior’s head, killing it painlessly. Looking towards where the explosion happened he saw the Alpha’s body was in tatters. That thing was the source of the explosions, something killed it. Wait, they started to act like animals after the explosion…. I have to get this information back, if we target the leaders then we can make the others act like animals, well those things with stingers at least. Yuji thought as he looked back towards the mountain and turned towards Viridian then looked around the meadow.

“We’re leaving partner come on. We’ll head back to camp, if Brock is alive we’ll grab him and head home, these things have to be the source, if they aren’t we still gotta tell the boss about what’s up here.” Yuji declared as he walked out of the battlefield, his Pokemon following behind him and unseen Shadow followed from the treetops, a meeting in their future but not now.

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Ash moved quickly and silently along the river Nimue and Bonnie had used to escape from the ambush. As soon as he had reached it he had released Fletchling and Froakie and had had them shadowing him from the sky and water as Pikachu ran after him. He had been making good progress so far and hadn’t run into anyone which was starting to worry him. No one’s looking for Bonnie or Nimue; no lookouts at the Center so they weren’t the targets. Then was it Lilly or Serena? Why, what reason do they have to go after them? This better not be like the Spector and May damn it! Ash cursed in his head as he and his team moved silently.

“Fletch!” Fletchling cried out above Ash’s head. Ash looked and saw a bridge ahead of him that looked burnt. He started to look around the area as his Pokemon started to spread out, Froakie and Pikachu looking around as Flectling hovered on over watch. He noticed a few spots with dried blood here and there. So Serena fought back here while Lilly held the bridge. Then they moved this way down this alley. Ash walked a bit down the alley in question as Froakie and Pikachu followed, with Fletchling guarding their back. Ash stopped when he noticed green dust on the ground near the remains of a few pieces of glass. Ash spent a few more moments looking over the alley, noting a few marks that showed that two people jumped from a high location. Sleep spores, a Bug-Type could have used it but this glass and the tracks from jumping down to the ground; the tactics look familiar for some reason, where have I seen like this before.

“Pika?” Pikachu asked as it used its tail to push a piece of glass around. Ash sighed and looked at his partner as he took out his Pokédex and opened a special app.

“You’ve seen this before to, hu Pikachu? Where I can’t remember, but this was a professional job. I think it might be a good idea to talk to the local Joey.” Ash said as he recalled his other two Pokémon.

“Straight House, Aces High! Read ‘em and pay up gentle folks!” Harley chuckled as he spread his hand on the table. As he grabbed the chips the other three started to curse as Harley laughed. A few days to decide what direction I’m going in and I’m gone. Maybe setting those bug users on Ashey was a waste of time but I still came out ahead here. Harley stopped when he saw a few people stand up from their tables and look towards the door. He went pale when he saw a figure in a battered looking black cloak walk into the room.

“The Battler!?”

“What’s he doing here?! I thought he was in Kanto!”

“I heard that he slaughters Chimera to wake up in the morning!”

The people around him muttered to themselves as Harley sank lower into his chair as he looked at the Battler. He had escaped from Sinnoh with a small bounty for a few actions he done in the Eastern part of that region and he had noticed the Battler moving about the docks when he had gotten on a sea plane so he was worried that he was the target. When the Battler passed by and walked towards Joey behind the counter he gave a sigh of relief. Maybe I should leave once he’s done, yes I think I’ll go over to Lumiose City, yes that’s what I’ll do. Harley thought as he stared at the Battler in horror.

Ash walked towards the bar as he heard the murmurs around him, cursing a few bounties he had brought down over the years and the fact that one or two mob boss’s had fallen to him. The blond man behind the bar looked at him and silently kept cleaning a glass. As soon as Ash reached the counter the man behind it looked at him with a deadpan look.

“So what brings an infamous person like you to my Den?” Joey asked as Ash reached slowly into his cloak and brought out a black coin. Joey merely looked at it before he picked it up and bit it before nodding at Ash.

“Your office.” Ash said, causing Joey to walk towards a door that he opened and Ash followed him into. As soon as the door closed half the people in the room started to run for the exit, Harley was one of them.

“So what do you want to use a coin to pay for? Possible locations of a bounty you’re tracking? The list of Black List Chimera? Or maybe it’s the location of Team Plas…” Joey began as he sat behind his desk before Ash interrupted him.

“Your silence on my request and all you can tell me about the gang in this city that uses Bug Types and where I can find them.” Ash said as Joey leaned back and gave a short laugh.

“Wasting a Coin on them? Eh, who am I to tell what to spend it on. The boys you’re asking about are call the Buzz Lords, their leader is Rex of the Tristo family, the bastards who ruled this area back during the Great War. And unlike a lot of other nobles they were more like tyrants than anything else.” Joey said as he removed a folder from a file cabinet that he handed to Ash who started to look over reports on the Buzz Lords activity and a few on what the Tristo family had done in ancient time.

“No resistance against them?” Ash asked with a surprised tone as he read about the people the family had killed, looking up as Joey just sighed.

“It was around that time that they started that the forces from around where Laverre City started to step up their spy craft and did such damage that they were used as an excuse at least once a year until the end of the War for the family to get rid of the people in their territory who gave them the most trouble. Fun fact, about ten years after the first time they used that excuse the patriarch at the time killed the boyfriend of his daughter, and when she learned the truth she started a civil war between the family that lasted for the next three generations, they only remarried into each other about four generations ago.” Joey mused as he watched the Battler.

“Current affairs of the family?” Ash asked as he put the folder down.

“The family gained a fortune the real estate business after the war and own most offices between here and Snowbelle City. Going through records Rex Tristo has two siblings, a twin sister who was sent away to boarding school and since she’s come back she’s been seen about town with another young woman her age and then there’s the younger brother, he recently took part in the Pokémon Contest and was disqualified. The parents died a few years back, their bodies were found in a Chimera den but they were just bones and a few scraps of clothing so how they died is a mystery. Funny thing is that happened a few weeks after Rex was passed over to be the Gym Leader around here, and that was a month before the Buzz Lords started up.” Joey snickered as Ash looked at him.

“Where are they?” Ash asked, prompting Joey to hand over a piece of paper.

“This has all the properties that the Tristo’s don’t have on the market. One of them probably is their hideout, and personally I would try the ones at the edge of town. Don’t know why you’re after them but good luck to ya, they have so cut into my profits lately, but get outa here before you drive off the rest of my profits.” Joey said as he gestured to the door. Ash nodded and walked out into a much more empty room.

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Rebecca smiled to herself as she walked down the hallway back towards her chambers. She had retrieved the Key of the Lord, and her brother didn’t know just what he had lost! The symbol of leadership in their family, she was now the Lady Rebecca of the Tristo Nobile family! Everything was going perfectly! All she had to do now was help Claudia and then get out of this wreck. She stopped when she noticed members of the gang standing guard outside the security room and moved forward, wondering what was the cause. As she approached, the LT in charge noticed her and moved towards her.

“Lady Rebecca, greetings.” The Lieutenant said as he bowed. Rebecca noticed the way his eye were on her and gave a small smile while on the inside she glared at him. Just wait, a few more days and then you’ll have plenty of dates in prison you pervert!

“Greetings LT, what is the meaning behind the guard?” Rebecca asked as she gestured towards the other two gang members. The Lieutenant looked ashamed as he looked at her.

“Last night the watch staff was killed, we didn’t discover it until the shift change. We don’t know who did it and to make matters worse the computers were destroyed and it looks like a virus destroyed the cameras so it’ll be a few days until we can finish repairs. What with the mission the boss sent those shadows on…” The Lieutenant muttered, causing Rebecca to snap her head towards him.

“What mission for the shadows?” Rebecca asked dumbly as she stared. He didn’t, please tell me he didn’t do what I’m thinking of… She prayed as she waited for a reply.

“He sent them on a kidnap mission; I heard they came back with two girls about ten minutes ago. One of them was to be sent to his personal chambers and the other was to be sent to recruitment. Are you alright m’lady, you’re looking pale” The Lieutenant asked as Rebecca leaned against the wall of the hallway.

“What were the girl’s hair colors?” Rebecca asked barely breathing as she prayed she was wrong.

“The girl sent to recruitment had black hair and the other was a honeyed blond I believe.” Rebecca moved past him and walked faster back towards her section of the building, it was time to leave. As she moved higher she cursed to herself. It had to have been that Gym battle that caused Rex to do this. This is bad, this is really bad! I was planning on giving a tip to Jenny about this but with what I know about him he’ll be here soon, no choice I have to finish this and get out with just my girls. He’s probably coming soon! She thought as she moved through the hideout, not paying attention to who she passed in her hurry. When she finally reached her area she whistled sharply, gaining the attention of all of her followers.

“Time to clear out ladies! Have Claudia and our friend join me in my chambers and the rest of you begin to clear out all evidence of our presence here, we’re leaving in one hour!” Rebecca said as she walked to her room and put the Key on her bed as she started to pack away all her things. That idiotic bastard! Why did he do this, just what does he gain by forcing a confrontation with Ash? What did he see in that battle that gave him the single idea that this would… Ash’s tactics. That has to be it. The one time he listened to me about the plans to take over the town and he does this? I don’t know what I was expecting anything else from him but it would be nice if he was at least constant! She thought as she looked around the room and cursed under her breath.

“Has something happened M’lady?” Claudia voice caused Rebecca to stop thinking and pulled her back to the present.

“Indeed, the girls are packing up and I saw a few of them preparing cuttings from all the plants and gathering seeds while having their Pokémon move or destroy the furniture. I know your plans were to leave this place soon but has something happened to accelerate them?” Damian asked, not bothering to disguise her voice. Rebecca sighed and finished puttering away her clothing before she stood and turned to Claudia in her maid uniform and Damian standing next to her in the doorway.

“Rex sent those people he had on retainer to capture two of the girls who watched Ash’s gym battle in person, they returned a few minutes ago. I believe he will be paying this place a visit within the next hour or so.” Rebecca said before Damian just looked blankly at Rebecca before she exploded.

“He did what? That stupid idiotic buffoon! You don’t tickle the sleeping Pyroar, you move silently by it! I knew he was an idiot for taking everything at face value when he lost the Key but this, I can’t even.” Damian said as she shook her head at Rex’s stupidity.

“This will have to change our plans. When you deal with Rex do blunt his memory of Aura use would you? That would make the battle with Ash a more even match.” Rebecca said. Claudia looked at her mistress in confusion as Damian nodded.

“Rest assured I will deal with it. This could help make Pikatrainer more believable and my assassin is already deployed. And don’t worry; I’ll blunt his skills, what small amount he has.” Damian’s words caused Claudia to stare in confusion before she spoke up.

“M’Lady what does she mean by that? Why would you act against your brother?” Claudia’s question caused Rebecca to sigh and look at Claudia firmly. Claudia stepped backwards only to bump into Damian who smiled through the bandages.

“Yeah, I’m going to have to unlock you first Claudia.” Rebecca said as she picked up the key by the head and pointed the key at Claudia.

“Unlock? Mistress what are you talking about?” Claudia said as the key started to glow green as Rebecca pointed it at her. Rebecca frowned as her eyes started to glow green as the Key fed her some information. Release all locks? How many did Rex make, wait how old is this, then……… dad, you did this to sis? Why did? Rebecca steeled her eyes and decided she’ll ask Claudia about it when her memories are back.

“Oh Key of the Lord, whose might seals away that which your owner desires from their subjects, release the lock!” Rebecca chanted as a beam of light hit Claudia, causing her to gasp and fall down onto her knees. Rebecca smiled and released a Vivillon that hovered before a blue glow covered Claudia’s body as she started to float. Rebecca turned to Damian with a scowl on her face.

“Go do what you have to do and I’ll see you with my girls back at the mansion.” Rebecca said shortly as she walked out of her room. Rebecca frowned as she stalked out of her…. former room. Once she returned back to her family’s mansion and started to consolidate her new empire, then she would deal with what happened to Claudia.

Damian looked as her friend walked away with Claudia’s body and the Vivillon following and frowned. What had Rebecca sensed from that Artifact? No matter, she had a job to do now Damian thought to herself as she drew forth a Pokéball.

She walked down the stairs leading out of Rebecca’s section and smiled when she saw two gang members and one of the maids she threw her Pokéball and released a yellow furred small biped with a coin on a string in one hand. The sound of the release caused the people to look up before Hypno’s eyes glowed blue and they gained a blue outline and their eyes went blank.

“Good job Hypno. Now then, lets erase all the memories of Rebecca, her followers and myself from their minds, and don’t let them struggle and we’ll put them to sleep until I’m done.” Damian said using her real voice as her Hypno obeyed her commands.

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“Frank Isolod. Twenty years old; a trainer who failed the Gym Trainer exam of the Santalune Gym. Was seen about town for the next two months doing Quests before disappearing the weak after the Santalune Gym Tainer Viola became the Gym Leader last year. Was seen leading an attack on a convoy the next month and has since then been assumed to be the leader of the Scolipede Riders.” Jenny said as she read from a folder as a teen in black pants, a white shirt with a green jacket over and wearing a jade green bandanna around his neck. He leaned back with a sneer on his face as he watched Jenny over the table, his arms folded.

“So you know who I am, what am I supposed to be impressed?” He sneered as he looked at her. Jenny just glared back at him, wondering if she should have tried to get around the limitations about interrogations and had a Psychic on hand.

“It’s to make you think! I have enough on you to put you away for years, decades even! And I will unless you deal with me!” Jenny snarled as she slammed a hand on the table. All she received for her words was a laugh that’s bitter edge caused Jenny to stare at him.

“There’s only one thing you can do with me, ship me out of the city. And then my boys will be there to bust me out and I’ll be back where I was before the months out.” He sneered as she glared at him, knowing that he was right. Damn the Commissioner’s policy that all gang members are to be sent to prison outside the city their captured in. ‘Make it harder for them to break out’ my ass!

“Regardless your crimes as the leader of the Riders will still send you away for a long, long time. Enjoy the next few days, there’ll be the last days you spend in this city for a long, long time!” Jenny said as she exited the room, leaving the ganger smirking as he sat there as she slammed the door, not noticing two eyes in the vent in the room looking at the ganger.

Jenny stalked down the hallways, the look on her face causing the others in the hallway to stumble out of her way as she walked through the station. That bastard! And damn the commissioner for stupidly announcing that policy at that party! We might catch them but at least fifty percent of those scums either escape or are broken out and those that don’t are usually broken out when the prisons are raided after at most a year! And the Pokémon they have are usually taken back by the gangs before the people are. Jenny moved in the central area of the station and moved about the hustle and bustle of the station and walked into her office. She closed the door and sat behind her desk and leaned back in her chair and sighed, that person knew exactly what restraints she was under and how far he could push her hoping to spark a reaction from her. A the sound of her phone caused her to look up and smiled when she saw it was from the station in Snowbelle City and smiled, she would call about today. She picked up the phone and smirked.

“Hey cousin, how the temperature up there, hot yet?” Jenny asked with a total deadpan tone.

“A balmy 22 degrees, the suns out and I’m in a grass skirt, how are the bugs down there, swarming?” A playful voice asked, causing Jenny to laugh.

“Don’t mention bugs, we finally got the Scolipede’s leader but the brat knows what we have to do with him and he’s not breaking. And what’s worse he was caught with members of the Buzz Lords with him so how far they’ve been working together I can’t say, but this is really going to give me trouble.” Jenny said as she turned the chair around and looked out her window.

“I would give anything for a gang like them up here; it would be so much more easier to deal with then what’s happening.” Jenny sat up and started to look worried.

“Why did you say that, what’s happened?” Jenny demanded in a rush. She heard a sigh and what sounded like something being put down.

“In the last three weeks patrollers have found blood remains of animals, Pokémon and as of today three humans. I think a new Black Mark has been born around here.” Jenny went white as soon as the words registered.

“Are you serious!? A new Black Mark!?” Jenny demainded as she stood up and sent her chair rolling against the wall.

“Again we’ve only found remains. I’m having our corner look over the human remains for any marks that are constant, and some officers are hoping it’s just a human sicko but I’m not.” Jenny reached for her chair and forced a laugh.

“Maybe that gang you’ve been talking about will run into it and they’ll take each other out.” Jenny joked and heard a laugh from the phone.

“I’m not that lucky cousin. Still if something does turn up like I’m dreading I might be calling on you for help.” This caused Jenny to grin and chuckle.

“As long as there’s nothing happening here I’m always up for helping out family.” Jenny said with a smirk before a sudden commotion from the interrogation room caused her to look up

“Sorry got to run, something’s happening stay safe you hear me?” Jenny said as she put the phone down without waiting for a replay. She rushed out and saw people milling about a doorway, every one of them had looks of shock, anger or looked like they were going to be sick. She went still when she realized that they were in front of the room she had used with the captured ganger and she pushed past them to stare into the room and went white. The body was her suspect, Frank Isolod, dead. Something had thrown a knife made of what looked like ice into his throat and clawed out his eyes and torn away his lower jaw. Jenny’s eyes noticed one of the vents was missing with the surrounding metal partially frozen over and pieces of ice on the floor. Jenny turned to the others mulling about and looked towards the officer in charge of the cellblock.

“The other gangers?” Jenny asked, already knowing the answer before she even asked, not surprised when he shook his head.

“I was bringing them their supper when I discovered them dead from a blow to the neck; it was fast and quick at least. I can’t understand how they died, the wounds small enough for a knife but I can’t even tell where the knife went.” The sergeant said with a scowl on his face as he scowled.

“Ice. The wounds were made from something made of ice. The assassin was a Pokémon, something small enough to get through the vents.” Jenny said as she pointed at the frozen metal before she turned and moved toward the front. As soon as she reached the squad room she started to give out orders.

“This is bad but we will find some way around this! I want people outside looking for anything small enough to fit through the vents and can use Ice moves! I want at least two people going over every sighting of the Buzz Lords to try and find their base or where they might have someplace they’ve been seen often! And someone call Viola, I need to talk to her about failed Trainers! I’ll send a request for help from national!” Jenny barked as she moved towards her office, the people who heard her moving to carry out her orders.

Meowth looked at the police station from across the street and threw a rock covered in a piece of paper up and caught it as he thought about what he was doing. His team was changing, they had proven more than the rank and file years ago and there was that thing with Looker but that was against Team Plasma so it could be excused, but this was taking a stand, and he prayed that the Boss never found out. Or if Butch and Cassidy ever find out, that’ll be trouble. Those two have been acting capgy last time we saw them. But they ain’t got anything on how Domino’s been lately. Meowth thought as a shudder as he thought about the look she had in her eyes the last time they had seen her. Forget everything about how some of others acted, there was just something wrong with her. Thankfully she was mostly in headquarters so they hadn’t seen her much but there were rumors among the team about her that had been going about, and Meowth didn’t like them one bit. But this was something else, no matter how he’d justify it this was just one more way Jessie and James were starting to pull away from Team Rocket, if they ever decided to say no to Team Rocket then he’d have to make a choice. But that was for the future, this was the present, he had to stay focused.

“Still, we’ve all got our reasons for being here, but we’ve also gotta act according to what we can live with ourselves.” Meowth muttered as he looked at the windows, wondering where he should throw the rock through when he noticed movement on the roof. Meowth ducked down behind the wall at the roof’s edge and sneaked a glance over the edge and saw a Weavile get out of a vent on the station’s roof. Meowth’s eyes went hard when it noticed it throw a small piece of meat into the air before it swallowed it, did the meat have something hanging off it? Meowth watched as it jumped off the roof onto the next building, heading towards the north of town, the opposite direction of the Buzz Lord’s base. Commotion by the station’s entrance caused him to look and notice as police poured out, running every which way and looking for anything that looked out of place. The local Officer Jenny came out a second latter and looked like she was ready to kill something.

Meowth snarled as he realized just what this meant. That Weavile had killed someone in there and now the plan was so much scrap! If he threw it now they’d think it was a trap at best, them being screwed with at worst. This is just perfect! I can’t think of any way to get this information to them that they’d believe it! I can’t not pass on this information and there’s no way that won’t have Jess and James in hot water with the Boss! There has to be a way…ello, what’s this? Meowth wondered as a sandy blonde woman with a camera around her neck was running towards Jenny.

Jenny had a scowl on her face as she tried to get her emotions under control as she tried to get some control over the situation. That stupid, arrogant bastard! ‘The security of the station is the responsibility of all officers stationed there and no others. We shall not escalate or give the criminal element an excuse to even think about doing the same.’ Whose side is he really on, the law or the lawbreakers? An assassin sneaks into the station, kills people in custody and when I request some help to handle a raid he shuts it down the same hour I make the formal request.

“Jenny, hey. Woah, what died around here?” A voice caused her to turn her head and look at Viola who was looking around in confusion. Jenny just sighed and shook her head, knowing just how Voila would react about what she was about to tell her.

“Three people died, more to the point the three were the people who were caught outside your gym after they assaulted those two girls.” Jenny said as she braced herself for the eruption. Viola only stared in shock before she started to go red in the face.

“WHAT, THE, HELL. How the devil did they?!” Viola demand as she started to flex her fingers, grasping an invisible throat. Jenny just sighed and locked eyes with Viola’s.

“Something that could use Ice moves and move through the vents of the station. The two lower ranked were killed quickly, the leader’s body was desecrated. Do you know of any Bug types that that can use moves that could create a small weapon and throw it at a target?” Jenny asked only to watch Viola shake her head.

“Nothing that could move through the vents, if they were frozen solid then I could think of some Bug types, heck I have one on my team!” Voila said as Jenny cursed. There goes the hope that she would know something the general public doesn’t, I admit it was a long shot but I had to try. A commotion from the sides caused both of them to turn their heads.

“Look kid I’m telling you….!” The speaker was one of the patrolmen who was arguing with a blond boy in blue overalls wearing glasses and wearing a large backpack.

“And I’m telling you I will be speaking to your boss or so help me!” Clemont began as Viola noticed who was arguing with the policeman.

“Clemont, is that you? What are you doing here?” Viola called out as she gestured for him to be let in.

“Voila, it’s good to see you but I’ll get to the point, a few hours ago my sister and three of my friends were attacked and only my sister and one of them was able to escape. Ash went to find them and he sent me messages that he followed the tracks to an abandoned theater where people wearing the same clothing as the people who attacked Lilly before were.” Clemont said in a rush, causing Jenny and Viola to look at him.

“They attacked them? You’re sure about that?” Jenny demanded as she grabbed Clemont’s shoulder. Clemont met Jenny’s eyes with a hard look in his and replayed to her question.

“My sister was brought to the Center because a Beedrill poisoned her. So yes I’m sure about it.” Jenny looked at him for a few minutes before she turned to her men.

“I want all force ready to go in five minutes! We have a lead and I am not letting it slip through our fingers this time! Gym Leader Viola, would you mind assisting us on this?” Jenny asked as she turned back to Clemont and Voila.

Meowth just smiled to himself as he absorbed over what he had heard. I guess Jess and James are going to get a front row seat for the Twep’s next rage. It’s always something to see if you’re not on the receiving end! But I guess stealing form them will be easier with ‘help’ from him and the law. Sorry I couldn’t get here in time, hope you’re okay girls. Meowth thought to himself as he started to make his way back to his friends. He could only hope that they had arranged the disguises they would need for after the raid.

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Ash looked at the ‘abandoned’ theater and frowned when he saw all the people in green outside it. As soon as he had discovered the base of the Buzz Lords he had sent a message to Clemont and he hopped that it took a while for him to bring the Calvary, he wanted a few minutes to ‘talk’ with this gang’s leader, preferably over weapons. So five people outside, two Beedrills and a Pinsir as backup. So Pikachu for the guards and Froakie and Fletchling to handle the Pokémon until Pikachu can help them.

“Pikachu, like when we raided that place in Kanto. Froakie, Fletchling handle the Pokémon that remain moving after Pikachu leads off, I’ll handle the people.” Ash said as he put his cloak back into his bag and adjusted his shield and sword as he looked at his Pokémon.

“Froakie.”

Flechtling!”

“Pika!”

“Thanks guys. Pikachu give me a 50 count to get closer. Once that’s done Thunderwave and then melee the Pokémon until their knocked out.” Ash said as he moved down the alley, getting closer to the theater as he moved, counting down in his head as he went. When he reached 35 he had crept close enough to overhear the guards talking to each other

“Did ya see the new girls that were brought in earlier? They were both lookers.” One of the guards with a broken tooth asked another wearing an eyepatch.

“Did ya see the rack on the black haired one, can’t wait to have when she’s trained up a bit.” Eyepatch said.

“Blonde’s more my style mates, can’t wait until the boss is done with her.” One wearing glasses said with a laugh as Ash started to greet his teeth.

“Pika?” A cute sound voice caused Ash to smirk.

“Hey, ain’t that a Pikachu? What’s wrong little guy, want some food?” Another one asked.

“Pika Pikachu!” Pikachu cried as it unleashed a devastating Thunder Wave that caused the guards and their Pokémon to cry out and when it ended, all but two of them were on the ground as their Pokémon struggled to get up. Before one of the Beedrills could do more then start to get up, a sphere of water hit it, sending it back to the ground unconscious.

“Where’d the hell did that come from!” The leader asked as he struggled to steady himself.

“Up there boss!” Glass’s cried as Froakie, Pikachu and Fletchling attacked the other two Pokémon. As the two guards stared at the battle Ash darted behind the leader and bashed him with his shield, knocking him out.

“So let’s have us a talk about where those two girls are, shall we?” Ash said with a smirk that caused Glasses to start to pale and stumble backwards, pulling out a short blade that he pointed at Ash. Glasses looked at the battle between Ash’s Pokémon and paled when he saw Pikachu use Iron Tail to slam the Pinsir against a wall of one of the other buildings as Fletchling shot silver crescents at Beedrill as Froakie threw another water sphere at Beedrill.

“Call those three off, call them off now!” He demanded as Ash swung his sword and took a stance.

“Make me.” Ash said with a small smirk.

“RAAAGGGHH!” Glasses cried as he ran at Ash and sliced down with his sword, Ash parried the blade with his sword and locked eyes with his opponent, seeing the fear in them and mentally went over his plan. So just another bully when he’s with a group, hu? I just need to disarm him and then he’ll sing like a canary once I’m in a position where he’s weaker than me. A bit of intimidation and then I’m in. Ash thought as he led Glassess backwards, away from the theater as he tried to isolate his opponent.

Glasses stared at the person who had attacked the gang, he was falling back like cowards always do, all he had to do was disarm him and he could force his Pokémon to stand down. He thought what the boss would do when he walked into the base with someone who’d attacked the gang, and as he slashed at the attacker he started to fantasies about what he’d get for this. Suddenly he saw his opponent smirk grow and stopped and looked around, paling as he did so. The guards Pokémon were all on the ground and he was surrounded by the attackers Pokémon and the attacker had stopped moving backwards and was staring at him.

“So you figured out what I was doing too late, so you have a choice to make.” Ash said as he watched Glasses paling face as his hands started to shake and he looked around. Glasses dropped his blade and raised his arms above his head.

“Don’t hurt me please! I never did anything more than scare a few people and collected some money from people we offered insurance to!” Glasses stammered as he watched Ash.

“The girls, where are they?” Ash demanded as he watched the stammering fool.

“The black haired was brought to what’s called General Initiation, I’ve never been there. The blond was to be brought to the boss. That all I know I swear!” Glasses said with a quiver to his voice. Ash looked at the theater and saw no movements from within and thought. No signs that they know that anything is happening out here, so maybe I’m lucky, but I have to move on.

“Right, you’ve been a big help, so I’m going to do you a favor. I’m only going to knock you out, not paralyze you.” Ash said as he knocked Glasses out with his shield. He walked towards the doors to the theater and saw that the doors were locked. Just like that time hu, so we went quite but now it’s time to go loud.

“Pikachu break the door down.” Ash said as he stretched and gripped his shield and sword as Pikachu gained a smirk as the others moved to stand by Ash.

Inside the lobby 10 members of the Buzz Lords milled about. Ever since the others that had returned with the girls the base had been on lockdown and the group had been ordered to move to their squads bases and go dark and prepare for a big announcement and those at the main base were those who hadn’t join one of the squads yet. With the guards who had been killed in the monitoring room the whole base was on edge, and with the lockdown a lot of them were nervous that something might happen.

“So you decided what ya going to try out for yet?”

“The say that the boss of the ‘Riders was caught by the cops, guessing their Vice is going up in rank.”

“I heard that the reason the boys were killed was because one of the other gangs around here are planning to move on us and they were taking out our eyes.”

“There’s no way any of the scum around here coulda done that, if they were they’d been here by now….” One of them scoffed right before the doors exploded sending the remains of the door flying towards them, some of the pieces knocking out four of the gangers in the lobby and causing wounds on the others. They looked towards the remains of the door and saw Ash walk through the smoke and stood defiantly with his Pokémon by his side.

“Evening all, a lady I know told me that you guys found two friends who were wondering around the city and I’ve come to pick them up. I told a friend of mine where we are and he went to see Jenny for help in rewarding you all for taking care of them. So want to wait nicely or do we have a nice spar beforehand?” Ash asked with a smirk. The gangers stared at him in shock as some of them drew forth weapons or Pokéballs. Ash just shook his head and stepped backwards, while Pikachu blasted them with a bolt of electricity!

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Rex snarled as he heard the explosion from the front of the building. Perhaps it was one of his enemies coming to talk with him. He looked up and saw Damian walking into the room with a Hypno walking behind him and his Weavile.

“What are you doing here? I didn’t call you, did you handle the problem at the station?” Rex demanded as Damian started to chuckle before he replied

“My friend made sure that the captured fools wouldn’t speak anymore. It was the least I could do as a last request for an idiot like you. A fool who couldn’t even tell the truth of someone right in front of him.” Damian said with a feminine voice. Rex dropped his mouth as he realized what Damian had said, more what Damian sounded like.

“Who the…what the….Who the hell are you!?” Rex demanded before a blue glow outlined his body and he lost control of his body.

“Allow me to reintroduce myself.” Damian said as he reached up and grabbed his bandages and another hand grabbed his cloths and spun around, disappearing from sight as he twirled. As the clothing and banadages started to move off Damian’s body a feminine shape appeared, revealing that Damian was a woman.

“The name is Darcy, master assassin of the Returners.” The woman said in a seductive tone of voice. Her long white hair flowed in waves down her back and she wore a black short corset dress that ended at her knees and she had on black knee high boots. Her lips were painted an abyssal black and her eyes were the color of ice with blue eyeliner above them. She had an hourglass figure and as she strutted towards Rex he felt a wave of desire hit him before his rage killed it. She gave off a musical chuckle when she looked into his eyes and saw the emotions in them.

“So you fought it off, I need to change the makeup of my special perfume to work better. Ah well, this has been a great relationship Rexie-dear. Your sister is now the head of your family, the rage you felt at being passed over will be the perfect answer to why you did this.” Damain…Darcy to Rex’s confusion. What the hell is this broad talking about, what’s her endgame. This can’t be the will of the Regent, it can’t be! Rex thought as he struggled to reach one of his Pokéballs as Darcy laughed.

“Oh, you didn’t know? That paperweight is actually the symbol of your family’s headship; by losing it you lost all rights to lead your family.” Darcy said with a musical giggle at the end as Rex reacted, feeling pleasure as she saw the rage and anger in his eyes at the fact his sister had pulled one over on him.

“I’d love to stay and chat, but it’s time for you to sleep and forget. It has been anything but a pleasure to have known you.” Darcy said as Rex’s eyes grew heavy as he fell asleep as Darcy put both her hand parallel to his head.

“My Lord, My Lord wake up!” A voice said as someone shook Rex awake. Rex blinked and saw one of his Lieutenants shaking him. Rex looked around and heard the sounds of battle farther towards the front of the base

“I’m awake, what the hell is happening!?” Rex demanded as he looked around and saw five of his followers around him.

“A trainer with a sword is slaughtering us! His Pikachu strikes our Pokémon and his other two finish them off! And his Pikachu is knocking our guys out or paralyzing them!” Rex stared in shock before he slapped himself. So he’s brave enough to challenge us on his own, prefect. I know he’s a great trainer since he beat Viola’s strategy but this is great! Once he’s under my command I’ll finally have a worth second. But still, why did I have to recruit this guy the hard way without trying the soft way first? No other choice then to handle this myself since those people already left.

“You! Bring that new blond and somebody get me my armor and weapons, I’ll handle him here.” Rex ordered as he stood up. He could still handle this, his conquest of this city was still on track, and once he had conquered this town he would march on his families estate and take it back from his sister, and prove that he and he alone should have been giving his families leadership in the first place no matter what his father thought before he and his mother thought about him.

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