A Lucario sat in a small chair in front of a laptop computer. She wore a leather jacket that went down to her wrists, and concealed all but a narrow strip of her yellow chest fur. Her paws flew over the keyboard, typing frantically, looking for something.

Then, she stopped. On the screen, a red message flashed. The Lucario cursed and jumped up.

The computer screen said DEFENSIVE MATRIX ACTIVATED. SECURITY NOTIFIED. BROADCASTING VISUAL FOOTAGE OF INTRUDER.

The Lucario backed away from the chair and looked towards the room's door. She had locked it, but still, she closed her eyes, the sensory bundles on the back of her head flaring outwards as she monitored the outside for any intrusion. Zeta. The hack was detected. The Matrix got into it again.

We'll have to try something else, Zen. But not now. They're already outside the building.

Zen could sense a group of humans and Pokémon standing around the building. I can probably take them. Are there any Regis?

There was a long silence. Yes.

Zen cursed again. She looked outside and noticed three Aura-strong Pokémon standing outside. She readied an Aura Sphere.

The three Regis burst out of the ground behind the police barricade. One of them, a male officer, greeted them. "Sirs, we have the intruder cornered inside."

The Registeel's lights flashed its beeping transferring into human speech. "Have you sent any in?"

"Yes, sir. They're bringing it down now."

The Regice looked back as it and the Regirock approached the building. "No, officer, your men are already dead."

Zen looked around at the five police officers and Dog Pokémon scattered across the floor. None were breathing. She also looked at the hole in the wall that she had created before they had burst in. She ran through it just as the door crashed off its hinges and Regirock appeared in the doorway. Zen turned a corner just as a Hyper Beam slammed into the wall, down the path she had been running. She then ran up a staircase onto the roof, then began jumping from building to building.

She was passing a vent as Registeel's arm burst through the metal, swinging around and tearing the vent off of the roof. She jumped over a gap as Registeel rose from the vent and fired a Hyper Beam, blowing a chimney beside Zen apart. She threw up her arms as shrapnel flew at her, cutting her face and drawing blood. Zen ran around the chimney's ruins, and as she came to the edge jumped off of the roof. She felt heat over her head as another Hyper Beam flew over her as she fell into a dumpster below. As she jumped out of it, Regice rounded a corner, charging for an Ice Beam. She ran, running towards a radio center as the ice broke across the dumpster's surface.



Zen burst through the door and looked around frantically for a computer. Seeing one, she lunged at it just as Regirock burst through the floor close to the door. She looked for a certain key and pressed it as a Hyper Beam slammed into the table the computer was at, obliterating it, and the computer with it.

The Regis looked down at the ashes of the table and the circuitry of the computer. The scorched body of the Lucario that should have been there, however, was absent. Regice looked at Registeel. "She escaped."

"It doesn't matter," Regirock said. "She will draw the rest out."

Registeel looked at the wreckage again. "The informant is real. That is the important thing."

"Do we have any intelligence?" Regice asked.

"It is a Lucario. The name is Sen. Programs are in pursuit of him now."

Regirock nodded. "Good. Return to base."

The three Pokémon left the building, walking down the street into the night.