Hello! Thanks so much for reading this story! It will be a wild ride but I plan on seeing this through til the end. A review would be nice to let me know how you feel about what I am doing. I will go Teen rating for now but that may change because I speak the language of a salty sailor.

Note: Pokemon is not my intellectual property, nor are the characters.

The ground beneath her quaked as Zekrom took heed of her command.

"Fusion bolt!" She instructed the mighty dragon in their time of weakness.

N sat cooly on the other side of the battleground, as if he already knew the fate of the heroine.

"N! Dammit, N! This isn't about you, this is what your father wants! Think about what you have to lose: Pokemon who love their owners, your Pokemon, Zoroark... Me," she admitted bashfully.

"Who said he wasn't right? Pokemon are our equals, just as you shall be mine," he countered her argument with a sinister smirk.

She knew that wasn't N, that wasn't the one she had so playfully ran around in pinwheel forest with, or viewed the world from the Ferris wheel with. N wouldn't hurt a butterfree, let alone another human. If he would listen to her then he would know why he was acting like this.

"Arceus, N, you are a puppet! There, I said it! Ghetsis has been controlling you from the beginning!" She screamed at the top of her lungs over the biting winds.

"Kill her," whispered a stoic Ghetsis.

The Bisharp were pleased at the command and took to their target swiftly. She would have been obliterated if it hadn't been for her pokemon jetting out of their balls to her rescue. They were all slightly worn at this point from the previous battles but were set on defeating the horde that stood before them.

"Thank you," she whispered to them. "Now, Fusion Bolt on Reshiram!"

The Zekrom had now sprung to offense as it was defending itself earlier when White gave the first command. Zekrom threw a giant thunderbolt into Reshiram and ended it's reign of terror. It was a critical hit.

N fell to the ground, lost in the mix of emotions. "I... I just don't get it," he admitted.

Cheren and Alder had begun to fight off the Bisharp that the Plasma team members were sending out so rapidly. Plasma was closing in with ease.

"I knew you were a monster N. That was plain to see, but now I know that you are also a failure. All my work, my life has shriveled up to near nothing. Pathetic," the looming man spat over N.

"N, this isn't you! You aren't pathetic, or a monster! Ghetsis is just trying to-" Ghetsis swiftly turned to White and punched her, knocking her to the ground.

"Father.." N said with much hurt in his voice.

"Father? Hah! In order to be a father I would have to love you. That, of which, I don't. Unlike this girl, you disgust me. You are dead to me... But don't be discouraged. I have already thought of a repurpose to give both of you," Ghetsis smiled sickly.

A Bisharp snuck up and knocked out the two teens, and they fell face first onto the cold marble floor.

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There were two basic things that she knew: her head hurt and she didn't know where she was. Well, she did in a sense. It was a medical room of sorts with bleached and sterile everything.

"Hello, Mrs. White," said a very formal Anthea

"Anthea! Thank Arceus you are here, we must get rid of Ghetsis! He has gone insane and-" her phrase drifted off as she realized how unresponsive Anthia was being.

"What... Happened?"

"Ms. White, Ghetsis is here to speak to you," the normally wise Anthea left the room with little expression showing on her face.

The door closed softly and she waited a minute before picking up the clipboard at the end of her cot. "Concussion with head trauma," she read to herself as it all came back.

The door swung open with a screaming man barging in.

"I don't give a damn what the press thinks! It is your job to warp their views, and you better do it!" the man bellowed at a few Plasma grunts.
He then slammed the door behind himself and turned around on his heels to meet White.

"Hello, I bet you have many questions currently and I will answer all of them with an explanation even you will be able to understand," the crooked older man grinned as White rolled her eyes.

"You may have won but that doesn't mean you are now in power. Winning that little battle was more of a display than anything. People won't care who wins or loses because the dragons both obey me right now. Who isn't to say I am the hero and neither of you were worthy?" The girl's jaw dropped upon hearing this.

"No... No! I caught Zekrom so he will only help me!" White was ready to break at this point.

"Our team has returned both these pokemon to their stone form. Do I actually command them? No, this would be a lot more simple if I did though. I just need to fool the people into believing I do control them," Ghetsis came close to White's face.

"This is where you come in," he whispered in her ear. "You and N shall be the... Ambassadors for Plasma. The public in large is willing to listen to you support me but will be troubled if I randomly emerge."

"I think it is obvious I am unwilling to help," she said dryly. She knew that there would be an incentive and it would most likely be negative.

"Your pokemon, where are they?" He asked. She first checked her hips, but the hospital robes had no pockets. She looked to the side table but already knew they were in Ghetsis's care.

"They are fine for now, but a step outta line and they are better off dead," he stated in a final tone.

She wasn't surprised nor really horrified. White knew this was coming and knew she was going to hate it.

"I am better off dead," she mumbled as he backed off.

"Yes, indeed you are," he admitted. "Nonetheless, I will need you in the up coming days for my plan to work. Get yourself stable again or one of your pokemon shall suffer a cruel fate."

She shuddered as he left the room. White knew it was never his intention to liberate pokemon, but it was to gain power. Numbness to the situation surrounded her every thought.

She shut her eyes and did as Ghetsis told her for once. The next time she woke up she was being carried somewhere but was too fatigued to care and slipped right back into sleep.