'…' is pokespheech

"Help!" A sandy blond curly haired girl shouted from the back of a truck. This girl had blue eyes and was wearing a yellow short sleeve t-shirt with baggy sleeves and a black long sleeve t-shirt underneath, a black mini skirt with white leggings under it, white sneakers with a yellow pokeballs symbol on it, a white scarf wrapped around her neck with a black pokeball symbol on the bottom, and brown leather fingerless gloves.

'Huh?' a small electric mouse's ears perked up at that noise, he recognized the voice and he knew his trainer, Ash, would too.

"Sarah!" Ash realized running after the truck, not even caring that his clone, Tai, he liked goggles instead of hats like him, was following or not. They were unable to catch the truck but they did, however, see where it was heading. So Ash knew exactly which way to go.

"Follow me Tai!" Ash shouted over his shoulder as he kept running. With Tai following of course as they came to a boat, the only one at the port at the moment.

"Cruiser Libra" Tai mumbled taking a look at the ship then seeing the truck aboard. "Ash the truck is there"

"Good, let's go get Sarah, right pikachu?" Ash asked.

'Definately!' Pikachu nodded so all three of them climbed up the ladder to the deck of the ship and Tai had Rio, his riolu, slash open the door of the truck with shadow claw. Suddenly a quartet of shadows leapt past them and Tai gave chase.

"Now to get Sarah" Ash said, ignoring Tai's chase, only he found the truck empty.

"Well that sucks, let's try some place else on the ship" Ash stated going the direction Tai went, only to find him standing in front of three pokemon, a charmander, a chespin, and a mudkip. There was a piplup standing in front of them protectively.

'You will not hurt these three!' The piplup growled but all Ash and Tai heard was "pip piplup pip"

'But we aren't going to hurt them' pikachu argued, hopping down from Ash's shoulder.

'Sparks? Wait no you're male so you're not Sparks but why do you have her sent?' Piplup asked.

'I'm sorta Sparks mate' pikachu said, rubbing his head sheepishly.

'You're THAT pikachu! I'm so sorry I didn't know!' Piplup apologized profusely, bowing frantically.

"Well a chespin, a mudkip, a charmander, and piplup, a mostly balanced mix if I do say so myself" Tai stated.

"Hold on Tai, we don't know if they have trainers" Ash said.

"Do you?" Tai asked the pokemon and all but piplup shook their heads no.

"You have a trainer piplup" Tai received a nod and made the shape of a present then pointed to Ash.

"Your a present for me?" Ash asked and piplup nodded.

"Who are you from though?" Tai asked, he was about to answer until they heard a "mmmf" from the closet. Ash opened it and there was the aforementioned girl.

"Sarah" Ash stated as he untied her.

"I see you found piplup I was on my way to see you with piplup in my arms, you see I caught another before so I was giving you the other, when I suddenly noticed the aura of a pokemon was all shadowy. When I asked the man training it about that he grabbed me and threw me in a truck and then dumped me in here and took my pokeballs as well as Sparks" Sarah said.

'The man took Sparks, someone will be surely shocked bad today!' Pikachu growled.

'I know where they went!' Charmander said suddenly.

"Where?" Sarah asked charmander.

'You just understood me' charmander gasped.

"I'm an aura guardian in training, I can understand all pokemon through aura" Sarah explained.

'Neato' charmander said in awe.

"Thanks, now can you lead me to my pokeballs?" Sarah asked.

"Wait, before we go can I catch you three?" Tai asked, almost begging. They nodded and Tai caught them with pokeballs and Ash caught piplup.

"Alright Baze let's help Sarah" Tai said, letting the charmander outta his pokeball.

'Me?' Blaze asked pointing at himself, wondering if he was Blaze.

"Yep you're Blaze" Tai nodded.

'Yay! I love that name!' Blaze cheered 'Now follow me to the pokeballs!' Blaze started walking in the direction of the pokeballs and Sparks, they made it there and Sarah grabbed her pokeballs and let Sparks outta her cage. She immediately started rubbing her cheek against pikachu then holding onto him she gave him a lick on his cheek.

'I missed you pikachu' Sparks purred.

'You too Sparks' pikachu smiled, licking her cheek.

"Ash what's up with your pikachu and the female one?" Tai asked.

"The female one is Sparks and her and pikachu are mates" Ash answered.

"Wait, really?" Tai asked.

"Yep, and me and Ash are boyfriend and girlfriend as well" Sarah added.

"I didn't know you had a girlfriend Ash" Tai said in a teasing tone.

"Yeah well I do and she likes to announce it to the world" Ash playfully glared at Sarah. That's when the ship rocked hard and slammed them into a wall, knocking them out. When they woke up again, they were in a cage and their pokeballs gone.

"Great! They took my pokemon again!" Sarah growled.

"Well looks like we're in the same boat because they took mine too" Tai sighed.

"Same here" Ash said, sadly.

~with the pokemon~

'Ash?' Ash's Oshawott asked, popping out of his pokeball.

'Sarah!' A oshawott by the name of Mystery shouted.

'So beautiful!' Ash's oshawott said, handing her flowers that appeared from nowhere.

'Thank you' she blushed, but was hiding it behind the flowers.

'Hey you two we should find our trainers right?' Blaze asked.

'Yeah let's go find them' Mystery nodded, dragging oshawott with the flowers put away right towards their trainers.

"Mystery" Sarah smiled as her pokemon, another oshawott, and Blaze walked up.

"Oshawott, I have an idea, Blaze use ember on the cage for me then oshawott use water gun and repeat that process and when I say stop Mystery will use razor shell, okay?" Ash asked the pokemon and they nodded doing so for five times. "Stop" Ash said and Mystery sliced open the bars.

"Now lead us to the others" Sarah ordered Mystery, who saluted leading them to the others and them taking their pokeballs back while returning the others and letting Sparks, pikachu, and Rio out of their cages.

"Let's go" Sarah whispered.

"So the snag machine is complete?" A man behind a door asked.

"Yes Gonzo and Wes is currently wearing it right now" another man said.

"Psst you three this way, I was just about to free you three but I guess your pokemon did it for me. I'm Wes, I was formerly a member of team snagem but now I won't be anymore. I can't stand the fact that they've teamed up with people who close the doors to pokemon's heart. I plan to free all of those pokemon by catching them from other trainers with this machine. Yes, it can do that but I only plan to use it on trainers that have shadow pokemon, the pokemon who's had the door to their hearts closed. I have to help those pokemon no matter what" a silver haired pokemon trainer whispered with the three of them walking over.

"I can tell the shadow pokemon from normal pokemon, I can see aura and shadow pokemon's aura is all shadowy instead of the normal blue" Sarah said.

"That's great, now I can help them, will you help me identify the shadow pokemon please?" Wes practically begged.

"I'll do it if you allow Ash and Tai to come and help as well as myself" Sarah stated.

"Deal" Wes agreed. "Now come on my car is this way, it can carry up to six people and its too bad I can't take my motorcycle. I've set this place to blow hurry" Wes said as they all took a spot in his car, Tai was up front Ash and Sarah were in the back. Soon the car rushed off at top speed and team snagem members came out of the base just as it blew. Wes and the others were long gone by then, now at outskirt stand.

"There's a drawing for some awesome clothes, and an awesome hat I'm going to enter" Ash said as he wrote his name down on a piece of paper and stuck it into a box.

"But we need to be going now" Wes whined.

"We need some new clothes, Wes, if you hadn't noticed ours are all torn up" Sarah pointed out.

"I guess you're right" Wes sighed as they announce Ash Ketchum was the winner, Tai took clothes, then Ash, then Sarah.

"We'll be right back after changing I promise" Sarah swore to Wes who nodded saying "I'll be waiting right here"

Tai changed into a black short sleeve t-shirt with a violet pokeball symbol in the middle of it, a pair of violet rimmed goggles around his neck, black jeans, and white sneakers. Ash now wore a white short sleeve t-shirt, a blue long sleeve jacket left open, black jeans tucked into brown boots, and a white hat with a blue half pokeball symbol on it. Sarah wore a red tank top that showed her belly button,a white short sleeve hooded half jacket, light blue skinny jeans that were ripped and faded here and there and only came up to her waist, black fingerless biker gloves, and a black scarf that hung tightly around her neck and was about one and a quarter inches wide that came down to her lower back over her shoulder on both sides with the bottom part looking like a red flame that came up a three inches from the bottom on both ends.

"Okay Wes we're ready to go" Sarah stated and Wes nodded with all four of them leaving and hopping into Wes's car to go to professor Krane's lab.