Chapter 1 (mainly the first part) has been revised to be more... ehm, logical. Like always, let me know if I'm doing something wrong.

Kenji

All we were doing was playing basketball…

Then the van pulled up.

I was in a bush, getting the ball back because I fumbled. It was all the way down here because I was just standing there dumbstruck for two minutes, watching it bounce away before I actually started running to get it.

On my way back, a few black vans pulled up on the blacktop. I dashed behind the bush, watching from a distance. I couldn't really hear what anyone was saying, but I saw the others getting into the vans. I saw one van pull away, but I snuck behind the last one, latched myself onto the ladder, and hitched a ride.

Long story short, that one ride was the single worst thirty miles of my life.

I saw the road turn into sand, wondering, Why isn't this van stopping?

When the van stopped, I was close to falling asleep, which would cause me to slip off of the van. But when the van stopped, I saw my brother get off first. I dropped onto the ground and hid under the van when the door to the lab slammed shut, I made my move. Making sure nobody was on my tail, I opened the door ever so quietly, and found a weird kind of lab. I grabbed the first means of self-defence I could find - a syringe - and moved on.

I had successfully subdued a few laggards who tried to expel me from the facility when they saw me. I saw that he strange men were guiding my friends into a room, and guiding these strange creatures out through another hallway. I couldn't find my little brother. I wouldn't know what to do if I lost him.

I tried my best to sneak past the room, but it was small, and too well lit. Some of the guys shot at me, but I was able to disable one and get his gun, which I used to incapacitate the other.

Now I need to find my way out before somebody finds out I'm here and sets off the alarm on me.

The red lights suddenly switched to red-blue. Yep, that meant alarm, all right. The alarm started shouting, "INTRUDER ALARM ACTIVATED. EVACUATE FACILITY. ONE HOUR." Great. Just what I needed to make my day.

I grabbed all the kids I could, including the creatures, and ran them through the maze of the facility, but it took about fifty-eight minutes of winding corridors, staircases, and one kid's epilepsy attack.

But then, just my luck, a masked man pulled in, driving a truck just large enough to fit all of us in. "Get in if you want to live!"

There was no time to question it, so we just rushed in. Just when we were half a mile away, I saw a faint cloud coming from the facility.

Man, I sure do love having friends I never knew I had. In the jeep, I picked up a knife that was a little rusted, and etched the word "Promise" into the blade as clearly as I could.

"Promise" was my promise to take down those psychos in black suits. For good.

A child that closely resembled Sandshrew was next to me, who I almost didn't recognize as Pat.

Okay, I didn't recognize him at all. He had to tell me. And then I forced him to prove it.

I'm a terrible brother.

Ryaku

Diana and I are twins, even though you probably would never guess it.

No, it's not our hair color that makes me think that way…

It's sort of a species thing. Diana is part-Latias, and I'm down here full-blown human.

Well, not completely. I do have some special abilities that no human could ever dream to acquire. I can shoot lightning out of my hand.

How that works? Well, it's very simple. I concentrate a bit, then a lightning bolt comes straight out of my palm. So we both have our own special something that makes us EXTRA unique.

Also, we take turns saving each other, because the spawn of the devil, James Moldox, wants us both dead. He says it's part of his "business enhancement program." Yeah, who calls a business enhancement program FilBEx?

Diana had been shipped off to some kind of facility. It was up to me to get her back. Moldox thinks it'd be the perfect trap, but he doesn't know me.

In her cell, the ceiling dropped quickly. I used my right arm to prop up the ceiling, and my left arm to grab Diana by her hand.

The ceiling was crushing my arm. I actually believed we weren't going to make it out before we were turned into pancakes.

Two seconds after we escaped, the ceiling slammed onto the floor. Just then the ceiling turned blue, then red, then back to blue. Guards had appeared on both sides, carrying AK-47's, shooting like crazy. I used my lightning to stun the guards on one side, dodging bullet trails from the other side. I held Diana to where I acted as her shield from incoming bullets, causing me to sustain a few hits from gunfire.

As soon as I managed to escape, she came to. She whispered something in my ear, but I couldn't hear anything over the revving of my motorcycle.

I left that city the next week. No more Starion. I'm not going back to that hell.

But Moldox is still chasing me.