Me: A-A-ACHOOOO!

Gardevoir: Ugh. *throws away tissue* This is so nasty.

Me: I'm so sorry my readers. *cough* I appear to have a very bad cold at the moment.

Gardevoir: Bad? This is horrible! You're a mess!

Me: *narrows eyes* I know. This is the worst way to start out a new story, but I was determined to post this new chapter for you guys!

Gardevoir: Yeah, yeah. Here's some soup.

Me: *takes bowl* Yay! *sneeze*

Gardevoir: *sigh* I'm gonna be busy for a while. Disclaimer: Eon doesn't own Pokemon in any way. Just her OC's and the plot of this story.

Warning: If you have not read Eon's story It Just Takes One, then this one will probably not make any sense whatsoever. I recommend reading it before starting this chapter.

Prologue

"Have they arrived yet?"

"Yes, sir," replied a young woman from her seat in front of a large monitor showing camera images of many different rooms in the building.

The dark man tapped his finger on the arm of his chair. "Did they retrieve the girl?"

She nodded her head slowly, unsure of how her master would react.

Instead of becoming a fuming mess, he simply remained silent, placing a hand beneath his chin. "I'd have preferred that we had her early so preparations for Phase One could begin…but I suppose we have enough time to try again." He looked up at his assistant. "What exactly prevented the success of her capture?"

The woman's hand moved the mouse icon across the computer screen toward the video folder where she opened one of the many files. This certain one from earlier this morning around midnight, the picture began moving, showing the inside of a helicopter as the camera's owner moved along. The image changed to a separate room where the cargo hatch was open, revealing a diminishing figure falling through the trees far behind.

The dark man had her pause on the frame, and he took a closer look, recognizing the shining red hair that flowed behind a boy in black.

"Is that the one that infiltrated our ranks last week?"

"Yes, sir. Unfortunately, we have no knowledge of his current location."

The man ran a hand through his spiked hair. "We'll have to solve that first. I'll send in the field agents. Those two have been doing quite well. At least the girl has. The boy…" He chuckled a little. "Well, I assume you know the reason for his reluctance."

The woman nodded. "Yes, sir."

"Why don't we check in on them?" He suggested. "Where are they at the moment?"

Her fingers started flying over the keyboard as she raced through the security cameras and mission info. "If I had to guess, he's most likely sticking to his end of the bargain."

"Wouldn't surprise me," he said softly. "I'd do the same thing in his shoes."

The dark man was quiet as the woman continued looking for the correct security image. He certainly didn't enjoy harming the boy's Pokemon as they currently were, but there was no other way to get her to use her powers without force. Besides, she was a stubborn Pyschic type and could easily get on his nerves with her audacious nature.

"Here they are, sir."

He turned back to the monitor, watching as the camera connected to the power lab appeared. And along with it, two people making their way down its hallways.

"How much longer?"

A white-blonde haired girl huffed in slight annoyance as a number padded steel door came up ahead. "You can stop the pestering. We're here."

The black-haired boy only gave her a grim frown, waiting for her to slide a black card through the slot and punch in the password to head inside. The entire area was made of tall glass walls and large control panels that were currently unoccupied. The same could be said for the clear laboratory rooms except for one, which the boy immediately dashed for.

The door opened quickly, and his silver and black shoes clacked on the ground as he rushed to the single bed set against the wall, various machines that blinked and made beeping noises surrounding it. And connected to those machines was a single Gardevoir, its flowing white body and blue arms sprawled all around.

The boy sucked in a breath and stopped beside the bed, right near the Pokemon's weak head. The entire being was emitting an exhausted aura, its blue hair slightly disheveled and white cheeks beginning to sink in. He knelt down, bringing himself face to face with its closed eyes that were the same amber color as his own.

"What did they do to her?" He asked tautly to the girl behind him. She'd been leaning on the wall watching him the entire time and remained still at his question. "What happened to Samantha?"

The girl shrugged with a frown on her face. "What they said they'd do. This is just the effects of it."

"They never told me it would be this bad!" He shouted. "Only if I didn't comply which I've done nothing but!"

"Believe me, I know," she said softly. The tone made him turn to find her standing behind him.

"Am…"

The boy whipped around at the faint sound in his head. He'd know that voice anywhere.

"Sam?"

There was a small mental cough that only he could hear as the Gardevoir slowly blinked open her eyes. Their bright color caught the light from the fluorescent bulbs overhead before closing again.

"…yeah, it's me. Been awhile hasn't it?"

He almost laughed at her usual impudence although she was right. He hadn't seen her in person like this for a long while. "Even stripped to your core, you don't change."

"Somebody's gotta keep the fight going. But don't worry. I'll never succumb to those imbociles."

This time the boy did chuckle. The Gardevoir smiled weakly before noticing the girl standing behind him. She winced from her sore muscles as she got to her elbows on the small bed. Turning her gaze to the blonde, she projected her thoughts out loud so that the girl could also hear them.

"…t-thank you."

The boy looked at the Pokemon in shock as did the girl though for different reasons. She came up beside the boy, her deep blue eyes wide. "You can talk?"

The Gardevoir's mental laugh could be heard by all. "Of course. Why else do you think the scientists go to bed with bleeding ears?"

This earned a soft snicker from the girl, but the boy rounded on both of them. "What's going on?! Sam!" He turned to the Gardevoir. "Why are you thanking her?! Don't you know who this is?! She's the one that brought us here in the first place!"

She only shook her blue-haired head. "Am…there's so much you don't know…"

The boy's eyes widened in alarm as the Pokemon suddenly gave a soft sigh and fell back down unconscious. The machines around her began whirring, and the girl pulled the boy away much to his despair.

"Time's up," she said quietly.

Soon she'd brought him back out into the hallway, the number pad automatically locking behind them. The girl started walking down the dark passage, but the boy jerked her back around.

"Melany! Tell me. Now! What have you done to Samantha?! You must have brainwashed her or something! She'd never thank you!" He growled slightly. "Not after what you did to us."

The pixie-cut blonde sighed and leaned against the wall. "You have no idea what I've been doing for her, Amber. I'm the reason she's on a comfortable bed now instead of that dreadful white lab table." She narrowed her eyes and lowered her voice after a look at one of the security cameras perched on the wall. "It's because of me that she's not worse off than how she is now."

He stood there, shell-shocked at her statement. What could she possibly be doing to help Sam? All she'd brought her so far was pain and misery.

The girl pushed off the smooth wall and placed a hand on her hip. "There's so much you don't know."

He stared after her as she stalked down the hall. She hadn't heard Sam say it in his mind, but the girl had repeated her exact words. The fact that the Gardevoir had said the same thing only confused him more, and he shook his head before going after the girl, his face set as he went to find out his next mission.

Chapter One: Blue

Saffron was actually a really pretty place at night. The bright lights and faint stars gave the city a warm glowing halo. And it was thanks to that alluring glow that no one saw us stealthily creeping along the shadows. But by the off chance that somebody actually caught a glimpse of our little group, that person would probably go home making sure they hadn't had too much to drink.

Then again, it wasn't every day you saw a Cheshire, Latios, Latias, and lab assistant following a tense-looking boy down the street at four in the morning.

"How much farther, Red?" I asked quietly, watching our backside to make sure no one was coming after us.

"I'm not sure," came his tight voice from ahead. "But Silver said it was around here."

I nodded. Soon, the spikey-haired boy had led the five of us to the front of a small hotel, our faces illuminated by the light of the city for a moment as we entered. There weren't too many people in the lobby, save for the receptionist and a single maid here or there, and that helped keep us from attracting attention.

In a few minutes, we were heading to the top floor in the elevator, Black and White watching each other hopelessly since they had no idea what was going on, and me standing there watching Green who was watching Red who was watching the door with stressed eyes. He was probably afraid that they'd caught up with Silver, but I wasn't worried in the least. I had faith in my boy.

As soon as the elevator had opened far enough, Red shot through them like a bullet, leaving the rest of us to jog behind him. Coming up to his side, I tried to catch his eyes, but he wouldn't allow it.

"Red, calm down," I sighed. "She's perfectly fine."

"You don't know that," he muttered lowly, quite unusual compared to his normally lively behavior. But he hadn't exactly been himself very often the past few weeks so maybe it wasn't all that strange. "He could've been ambushed and fled here as fast as he could."

"Red!" His gait paused almost imperceptibly in shock at my harsh tone. "Enough!"

It had taken a large portion of our flight here for me to convince myself that everything was okay, and I was not about to let him drag me back into a sea of anxiety again. He looked at me a moment before nodding his head softly and continuing to search for the right room number. I let myself fall back a bit until I was next to Green.

"Still sane?" He asked doubtfully.

I scoffed a little. "Still insane. I wish he'd stop worrying already."

Green shrugged as we rounded a corner. "You can't exactly blame him, though. Right now, it's hard to tell if she might have been—"

"Stop!"

He gave me a concerned look before realizing he was doing it and turning away—a bit sharply I might add. I was starting to get that empty feeling in my stomach again and forcefully shook it away. She'd be here. My Yellow would be here. I'd almost lost her once right after her very first commercial shooting. I wasn't going to allow that to happen again.

"Um…?"

Both Green and I glanced behind to see White nervously holding up a hand beside Black.

"Could you tell us why we're in a hotel at this hour?" Black asked us. "White and I are really confused."

I saw Red finally stop at a door and knock on it. "You'll find out soon enough."

There was a moment of silence before the door was slowly opened, and a wary Silver dressed in his black ninja suit appeared. Once he saw it was only us, he relaxed and stepped out of the doorway. Red immediately rushed in, and the rest of us followed, albeit more calmly.

There was a small front hallway that led to a main area with two rooms that branched off. Silver followed after us as we paused in the living room and looked around, or in Red's case, frantically searching with only his eyes.

"Where is she?" His voice sounded taut and fearful, and every single one of us glanced at the nerve-wracked boy.

Without a word, Silver pushed past us towards the curtains on the far wall. Sticking his head behind them a moment, he parted the cloth to reveal a window seat already occupied by a certain blonde-haired Greek goddess.

She was propped up on a pillow, the rest of her body spread out on the cushion. There was another set of curtains behind her covering the windows so that no one outside could look in and see her there. And with the other curtains blocking any view of her from the front door, it was a great place to put her without having to hide her in one of the bedrooms.

Red beat us all there, kneeling down next to her and grabbing her hand. His fingers sought out a pulse, and he sighed in relief when he found one.

Silver sweat dropped. "Did you seriously think she was dead?"

Red glared at the redhead. "You know, I haven't been sure of what's happened to her for the past four hours. So, yes. Yes, I did."

The younger boy's eyes widened as his senior turned back to the girl. I skipped up beside him and touched his arm, pulling him away from dark-haired teen. "Don't mind him right now, Silver. He's been like that for a while now."

He only nodded. Green and the two Unova natives found seats on the couch and chair in the living room, and Silver and I settled down on the floor.

"Okay, now would somebody care to tell us what's going on?" Black questioned a little irritated with a slight frown.

"Why not start at the beginning?" Silver suggested harshly.

Black and White eyed him cautiously, and I began. "See, none of us even knew about Amber until he suddenly showed up on the night of the Reunion." I flashed back to the first time Yellow had almost been kidnapped, and we'd met him at Pokemon Center. I'd been quite shocked to learn that Red had a twin brother, and I think everyone else had been thinking the same thing.

"And without reason," Green muttered. "I don't know why none of us saw it."

"Saw what?" Black asked quickly.

Silver crossed his arms. "Last night while the lunar eclipse was going on, Amber attempted to kidnap Yellow and make off in a helicopter with Melany."

White's gasp was loud enough for us all to hear. She and her employee stared ahead in disbelief.

"He was good," I murmured darkly. "Slowly weaving himself into our lives until it was like he'd always been there."

"Guys, I don't think it was like that at all," White suddenly said nervously. We all looked at her in surprise which only made the girl shift on the couch uncomfortably in her Latias costume. She shook her head. "Look. By now, I should be able to tell when someone is acting or not."

"And you think he wasn't," Black concluded for her.

The dark brunette nodded. "He was only being himself the entire time."

"But that doesn't make sense," I said, putting a finger beneath my chin. "There's no way that nice boy could be the real him. Criminals just aren't like that!"

"Maybe he's not really a criminal," Green said softly from his position above me. I glanced up at him and met his forest green eyes. They were swimming with thought, and I knew it well enough to know that he had a theory.

Before I could open my mouth to ask, the look was gone, and Silver started talking again.

"From what I can tell, he certainly is one," he muttered. I watched in surprise as the redhead suddenly paused, and his face screwed up in light confusion and doubt at his words as something ran through his mind.

"He made up a crafty plan to use the lunar eclipse as a distraction and almost got away with Yellow," Black said angrily. "That seems proof enough to me."

White still looked unsure. "I don't know…"

The five of us sat in silence as she trailed off.

"…so what happens now?" Black asked, releasing the question that had been on all our minds.

"I think we should hide out for a little bit," Silver told everyone. "Let things blow over and get them off our trail."

I shook my head at him. "That sounds good. It'll give us a chance to wrap our minds around this and try to make sense of it."

The others nodded before we all gave a giant yawn in unison. White started chuckling as soon as her mouth clamped shut. "Maybe it's time we got some sleep. Sunrise will be coming here soon."

"Agreed," I cheered wearily. Glancing at the girl, I saw that in only a few seconds, the opposite gender had already fallen asleep on her shoulder, and she was close behind with fluttering eyes. I giggled at their adorable Eon twin forms as I stood up with the other two boys. Cracking my back, I checked on Red and saw that he was also out, his hand still on Yellow's as the two slept.

I turned back to Green and Silver who were eyeing the other rooms in hesitation. Looking back at the already asleep Black and White, an idea came to mind, and I smiled slyly before pulling the only two still awake behind me as I headed for the larger room. They both stared at me in surprise, and I winked.

"They'll need somewhere to sleep when they wake back up," I reminded them. "We'll leave the other room open for those two."

They both sighed in annoyance, catching onto my little plan. Neither of them tried to argue with me though and just went along with it, passing through the doorway to the other room. I went after them, and we stood there looking at the single bed. Seeing our confused faces, I decided to make this easy and grinned in a way that went perfectly with my costume.

I strolled over to towards the small window seat that was in this room and sat down shrewdly. "You guys can have the bed."

Their eyes bugged out of their heads. "Huh?" Green asked unbelievably.

"Yeah," I told him cheerfully. "It'll give you both a chance to have some bonding time." I clapped my hands. "Doesn't that sound great?"

Green quickly dropped to the floor, and Silver dashed for the window seat, pushing me off and lying down.

"Good night!" The two of them said quickly.

I giggled quietly, throwing them each a blanket from the foot of the bed and settling down on it. Too easy. Snuggling under the covers in content, I let my sleepy eyes close and relaxed into the pillow. They popped open in a second however as my familiar feeling of suspicion kicked back in at the reminder of that look in Green's eyes a few minutes ago.

As quiet as I could, I rolled over the bed and moved onto the floor where Green was lying, his back to me as I snuck up on him. I was right at the edge of his blanket when he suddenly rolled over and glared at me with narrowed eyes.

I chuckled nervously, caught red-handed. "Eheh…"

He sighed. "What is it Blue?"

I dropped to my stomach so we were at eye level and whispered, "I saw that look earlier. You've got an idea about Amber don't you?"

His face perked in surprise before smoothing over again. "That's why we're chattering like Pidgeys instead of sleeping?"

"Come on," I pouted quietly, trying not to disturb Silver on the other side of the room. "I want to know!"

"Can't this wait until morning?" he grumbled irritated.

"Just tell me!"

He rolled his eyes and tried to sound like me. "You're right, Green. This can wait until morning."

I crossed my arms. "I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what it was you were thinking."

He shrugged. "Fine by me. Have a nice sleep."

Rolling over, his back was to me again, and I laid there glowering at it. I wasn't moving until he flipped back around and talked to me. As the minutes went by though and he stayed motionless, my eyes gradually began to close, and I shivered slightly on the cold of the floor. Refusing to go back to the bed, I continued to lay there until I actually did fall asleep and drifted off to dreamland.

I woke up sometime later, shifting lightly and blinking rapidly against the bright sunlight coming in through the window. When I could finally see, I stifled a gasp at what met my eyes. I was covered in Green's blanket, said boy's nose only a few inches from mine. He was breathing softly, and I smiled to myself at the gentle look on his sleeping face.

Not caring what time it was, I moved closer, the warmth radiating from him washing over me. Closing my eyes to go back to sleep, I gently leaned forward until our foreheads were touching. The sudden motion caused him to jolt awake, and I did my best to feign unconsciousness. I could sense the alarm from him and held in the laugh that attempted to escape from my lips.

Waiting for him to scoot away and resume napping, I was quite surprised when he let out a breath and placed his head back in the same spot. Snapping my eyes open, I found him watching me intently with his deep green ones and smiled.

"Greeny loves me."

Not realizing that I'd been awake, he flew away from me, slamming into the wall as I started laughing. I was still chuckling from the ground as the boy got to his feet grumbling with rosy cheeks.

"Could have told me you were up," he muttered, swiping the blanket from my legs and beginning to fold it.

Standing up, I took the other side and helped him. When we came together with the ends of the material, I smirked at him only to be met with his signature glare. "It's not as fun that way."

He just rolled his eyes and set the blanket back on the bed as Silver began to stir. The redhead slowly came to, rubbing his eyes as he sat up. "What time is it?"

Green grabbed his Pokegear that he'd set on the bedside table sometime last night and clicked a button. "About three in the afternoon."

"We slept in good," I commented, stretching out my arms before skipping out to the living room.

The room was full of filtered light, and I could tell Black and White had slept in the other room as the couch was empty. Sneaking over to the door, I peeked inside and squealed when I saw the two of them lying on the ground together. The bed was ruffled and had obviously been slept in, but my guess was that White had dropped down to the floor to join Black in the middle of the night. I put my fists to my cheeks and couldn't stop myself from grinning. They were just too cute! But so innocent too! I had a strange urge to pinch their cheeks, but settled for giggling softly. Like a pair of little kids!

Forcing myself to go back to the living room, I saw Silver on the couch still trying to wake up, and Green switching on the television. I raced over and turned down the volume, and he looked at me weird. "What's the problem? I'm just seeing if anything's popped up on the news."

"There are people sleeping!" I scolded him. He glanced at Black and White's door, but I shook my head and pointed to the window seat. He moved his gaze and saw Red and Yellow as they were last night, both of them still out.

Green scoffed and returned to the TV. Settling down beside Silver, I watched Black and White emerge, their costumes slightly rumpled and scrubbing sleep from their eyes.

"Hey," Black mumbled. He plopped down on the floor next to Green, his chocolate brown eyes slowly focusing as the morning news started up.

White just trudged in my direction and claimed the final space on the couch for herself. "I'm hungry," she complained softly.

I smiled at her and nudged her arm. "Don't worry! Silver's gonna go out and snag us some food in a bit."

"Then what?" I glanced over at Silver as he propped himself on the arm of the couch on my other side. "Are we just going to keep ourselves holed up here 24/7?"

"Of course not!" I protested. That would be horrible! I don't think I'd be able to stand having nothing to do but roam this little hotel room. "We'll have to go back to Pallet to get our clothes. I'm not sure we could go walking around inconspicuously with these costumes."

He nodded, and Green hit the remote to click off the TV. "Nothing. Not that I was expecting there to be something."

"They're too good to let themselves get caught," I said. "Besides, they're most likely hiding out right now. Looking for us."

"Which is why we need to stay here for a while," Silver stated, cracking his fingers. "We don't want them figuring out where we are."

"Which is why we need to get out there and look for them," I explained to him. "If we can find them before they find us, we can drive them away."

"But where would we even start searching?" Green questioned.

"In the city first. Then spread out if we don't find anything."

He nodded and stood up. "Alright. I'm heading out then. You guys stay here. I'll be back in a little while."

Before anyone could argue with him, he aimed for the door and quickly shut it behind him. Close to bristling, I ran out after the stoic boy. "I'm going, too! It was my idea!"

Back in the room, Silver shook his head with a sigh, and Black and White simply stared in confusion, still not yet awake enough to fully comprehend the hectics of the morning.

I put my cat ears and other accessories with Green's lab coat in the room service closet before running after the boy who hadn't waited for me. The morning summer sun shone on my pink and purple striped shirt, my pink shorts making it easy to run in the purple converse and catch up.

"Would you slow down?" I panted once at his side.

His eyes were busy searching the crowd as we made our way down town, and his lips barely moved as he said, "You're the one that wanted to tag along."

"It was my idea," I grumbled.

He didn't respond, only continuing to scan the people that walked by. When we passed a coffee shop, he quickly pulled us inside to a window booth so we could watch safely from afar without being spotted.

A lady in a polo shirt the shade of pumpkin spice came up to us with a notepad and pen. "Good morning! What can I get you?"

"Tall latte with two shots and a thick layer of cream. And a black coffee."

Pen scratched on paper, and I looked at Green curiously as she walked away. "How'd you know what kind of coffee I like?" I smiled suspiciously.

He turned away from the window where he'd been looking out intently and narrowed his eyes into a glare. "Because I'm always the one buying it."

I stifled a giggle and shrugged innocently. "I don't know what you're talking about. I only accept the kind offer whenever you give it."

He scoffed. "So that's what forgetting your wallet means nowadays."

I bit the smile on my face as the lady brought our coffees over. After she'd gone, I took a sip of my hot latte and leaned back into the seat. "Okay. It's morning now."

He glanced up from his bitter drink.

"Tell me what it was."

The brunette just looked at me a moment before sighing. "I don't doubt what White said about her intuition last night."

I nodded. "We may not have known her long, but it's quite obvious she's got that talent."

He stirred the dark coffee in his cup with a spoon. "Because of that, we know Amber was never acting or trying to lie to us."

I scrunched my eyebrows. "Yeah, I don't get it."

Clanging the utensil on the glass's edge, he set it down and took a drink. "Exactly. So the question arises, why was he doing it?"

I leaned forward on my elbows dumbfounded. "I…I don't know."

"That's what I was wondering about last night. Maybe he's not actually evil. Maybe he's just being used unconsciously."

I nodded slowly, thinking back to his happy, caring nature. "He seems like the kind of person who would do that."

"So it might not be his fault," Green concluded. "He might not even realize what he's doing."

I thought about it for a while until Green had drained half his cup. "But it still doesn't make sense. He's not that dumb, Green."

He stared out the window again and set his back against the seat. "I know. But you had to consider it."

"But what other explanation could there be to prove him innocent?" I pondered.

Green's face perked up. He looked at me and smirked. "Maybe he was blackmailed."

I tilted my head. "What gave you that idea?"

His eyelids dropped halfway. "Look at who I'm sitting with."

I giggled and downed a good quarter of my cooling coffee. "Hey now, my blackmailing is totally different. Mine doesn't hurt people."

"Physically," he retorted.

I mock-glared at him as he turned to the window. "So now there's only one thing missing." I set down my coffee. "What is he being blackmailed with and why?"

Green waved his hands at me to be quiet, his eyes growing wide. Scooting to the window, I peered outside at the pedestrians and searched for any signs of danger. Finding none, I frowned and turned back to his frozen form.

"I don't see anything," I told him.

"Let's go," he said quickly, leaving a tip with the bill on the table as he slid out of the booth and stood up. Taking my arm, he pulled me with him through the front door into the street.

Irritated at his needless worry, I tugged away from him and broke free of his grasp. "Calm down! We're perfectly fine!"

I could see him clench his jaw in frustration as he whipped around to my planted form. My arms crossed, and my feet stayed rooted to the sidewalk when he attempted to tow me along again.

"Blue," he hissed. "We don't have time for this! We need to get out of here!"

"There's no one coming after us!" I whispered harshly.

He raised an eyebrow and frowned. Bringing himself forward, he murmured in my ear, "Don't look at them, but there's two guys steadily approaching. Both of them have a pendent."

Discreetly twisting my head to the side, I pretended to observe a store, using my peripheral vision to look through the crowd. I froze as it landed on a pair of guys making their way through the flood of people on the sidewalk, black bracelets with dark pendants hanging from their wrists.

Rapidly returning my eyes to Green, I saw him smirk and almost hit the smug Gym Leader as we started pushing through the crowd again.

"We've got to get them off our tail," I told him, jumping out of the way in time to avoid colliding with an elderly man. "We can't lead them back to the hotel."

"You think I don't know that?" He replied curtly. "We've got to disappear somehow."

"Let's get into an alley and fly off," I suggested, one of them coming up ahead.

"No," he told me. "They might having Flying types with them and follow."

I started to panic as the hotel came into view a few blocks down. Looking behind us, I saw the two guys still there, the brunette pointing at me and leading the blonde one after us. "We've got to hurry!"

Green was frantically looking for anything we could use when he spotted a large group of kids about our age striding down the street. "Quick! Let's get merged before the hotel comes up!"

Catching on, I ran up to the edge of the group and rushed in. There were a few protests, but I was able to talk my way through the teenagers and get to the middle where I would be most hidden. Glancing around the bobbing heads, I quickly found Green and helped him get to where I was. Walking next to him, I realized he was much taller than the others, and his head popped out above the rest.

"Why do you have to be so tall?" I muttered. Thinking fast, I pulled out Ditty's Pokeball and released it. Giving it a command, the Pokemon jumped onto Green's unsuspecting face, startling him as it started to change form. In a few seconds, our junior Platinum's head was sitting atop Green's body.

"Okay, what did you do to me?" His voice was hard and annoyed even with the threat of capture still present.

I held back a laugh. "J-just helped disguise you."

He flashed a glance in a shop window and grimaced. "It had to be a girl?"

"T-they haven't seen her yet," I managed to say. "They d-don't know what she looks like s-so it was an ideal choice."

His eye twitched at my restrained laughter. "I'm so going to get you later." Platinum's chrome-colored eyes gazed out above all the heads and looked for the two guys. "They're still coming."

I heard the slight panic in his tone and refused to let myself feel it. Concentrating on the crowd, I searched for the smoothest way out that wouldn't attract the guys' attention. Finally, I saw a break right in front of the hotel doors and made a beeline for it, latching onto Green/Platinum and bringing him/her with me.

We pressed ourselves against the wall of the building as the crowd passed before rushing into a side alley and spying from inside. The two guys were stopping at the hotel, spinning around in an attempt to find us. We ducked back into the shadows when they looked our way, and after a few minutes, they shrugged and went on after the teenagers.

The two of us sighed and showed ourselves to the light, Ditty jumping off Green's face and revealed his brown hair and forest eyes once more. He stretched his jaw and glared at me. "Never do that again."

"I won't have to as long as they stay away," I told him.

He nodded, and we stared after the two men, their feet and suspicion continuing to move farther away from us in the wrong direction. Letting out another deep breath, I followed Green inside as we headed back upstairs to the others. We'd just finally gotten Yellow safe and away from the people who wanted to kidnap her.

And they just might've already found out where she is.

Me: *sniffle* And so begins the Second Chapter of the Old Grudge Series. If you've just randomly discovered this story, I hope you read my other one first. It'll make a lot more sense. After that, I hope you liked it and continue to stick with me.

Gardevoir: Enough talking. You need to sleep this off so that I don't have to watch out for you anymore.

Me: *narrows eyes* Glad to know you care so much.

Gardevoir: Yeah, not really. *grabs cough medicine* Open up.

Me: *swallows horrid tonic* Bleh! Hate that...*crashes*

Gardevoir: *Looks at bottle* May cause drowsiness. *Looks back at collapsed person and shrugs* Oh well. Hope this chapter was entertaining enough for you readers. Return for Eon's sake. She'll want to know what you guys thought. See ya soon!