Disclamer: Sadly I don't own pokemon or any of the cannon characters used in this fanfiction. Enjoy!

Chapter 1.

If there was one thing Mercury would love to change about the Team Galactic HQ, it would be the fact the floors where so horrifically creaky when she really didn't need them to be. If she was caught by the boss It would be fun explaining why she was in the only place the commanders were banned from, his Quarters. If plutos information was right, Cyrus was a very heavy sleeper and she would manage to get away with it, but concidering her luck of late it was best to take precations.

Her wristwatch beeped, indicating the time, 3:30am, forming a subconsious plan to catch up with her missed sleep in tommorrow mornings team meeting. Stealing this much needed information from Cyrus's computer was more important. As usual, the boss had forgotten to lock in when he'd fallen asleep. His private offfice was drecetly across from his bedroom, if she even made the slightest sound he'd catch her. Bending down beside the machine she gently inserted her portable harddrive, if it could even still be called that, considering how much she'd hacked it. She smiled to herself before setting it to download everything.

Leaning back against the wall she sighed, sneaking around stealing files wasn't why she'd joined this organization. She'd wanted to learn, to know more about the world. Her thoughts were suddenly interupted by the device signaling its finish.

If you asked her how long it took to escape from Cyrus's office, she wouldn't be able to tell you, her mind was to busy thinking about what the hell she was doing. It hurt, feeling anything hurt, which was why she wouldn't. And so the others called her emo, if one day she might dare to tell them it wasn't as if they would believe her. It wasn't as if she trusted them.

Mercury knew she was slowly slipping off the edge.

Balnced on a knife edge at 17 years old.

How long till she falls?

"So, you've got it?"

"wha!?….oh pluto, yeah, got it." She brandished the Drive at the older man, he promptly snatched it and walked straight into the nearest computer suite. The rooms where usually used by Grunts when insructed to research for Cyrus's latest great idea.

Pluto had already booted up the PC and opened her downloaded files before she'd even noticed.

"well, well, look at this!" Mercury did as she was told, scan reading the information presented on the screen, not quite able to focus. Not sleeping for almost 30 hours isn't good for anyones mind, the blurry text on the screen only started to make a little sense once someone else started reading it, hand on her shoulder.

"Some say the universe origanated from a massive explosion. Similarly, sinnoh is thought to have been formed by an explosion in ancient times. Needless to say, the explosion came from the power of a Pokémon. The Pokémon must have been the mythical creature considered a deity by the ancients. Our aim is not to capture the mythical pokemon, but to obtain its power….Goodness, what was the boss smoking when he wrote this?"

"Whatever it is, I need some!" Pluto smirked and carried on reading, Mercury daren't look up, why was Saturn there? Did he know she'd stole that information? Did he know what was going on?

…and did he know she loved him?

"I agree….And Commander Mercury, when did you last sleep?"

"A couple of days ago sir." His grip on her shoulder tighted, indicating he wanted her to look at him. Mercury didn't look up, concentrating on her hands was much eaiser.

"You seem tired."

"I'm…fine…." Unluckly for her defeance she yawned midway though speaking, Saturn sighed and smiled down at her.

"Oy you two, stop eyeing eachother up and listen to this. I swear to god that Cyrus is on crack!……..The Pokémon of the three lakes and Mt. Coronet are somehow connected. Capturing the Pokémon of the lakes will free the Pokémon of Mt. Coronet. From the Pokémon of the lakes, crystals can be extracted to create a Red Chain. Using that Red Chain, the mythical Pokémon can be summoned and shackled to do as we command..." Pluto took a deep beath and started talking again, his words were making little sence to Mercury, something was wrong. Her vision was bluring at the edges…making her head swim, a sharp pain through the right side of her chest… "…we?…he thinks we'll all comply to his ideas?….they'll comply?…" The rest of plutos lecture could have been about anything, because she couldn't hear him, or see anything, eyes tight shut and palms flat against the wall. Slowly…slowly she slipped onto her knees and the darkness had won, encasing her vision as a trickle of red seeped down her closed eyes.

"Mercury!?" He didn't realise in time, collapsing onto his knees and desparetly trying to catch her. His hand met something warm and damp on her cheeks; pulling it way he examined the ruby red stain on his bare hand.

Blood.

Her blood.

Running from the cut across her forehead.

She must have hit the corner of the desk when she'd fallen, causing the wound. Swearing under his breath, he picked her up, holding her close. If she'd know what was going on mercury would probably passed out from delight. Her accident had knocked the piles of boxes behind her all over the floor, making an almighty racket. The noise waking the young grunts asleep in the surrounding rooms. Saturn and Pluto exchanged worried looks, how would they explain this away?

"Get rid of them and I'll see to her."

"Deal." Grabbing the hard drive Pluto ran out of the door, yelling something incomprehensible down the hallway to the people already milling around. Adjusting his grip on her, Saturn ran off in the other direction, headed for matron's room. He honestly couldn't care less what she thought of him appearing at this hour in the morning. He just had to make sure the girl in his arms was alright.

He couldn't work out why her accident bothered him so much, if it had been anyone else it wouldn't have mattered like this. It wouldn't have made if feel as if the girl in his arms was the cause of his tears.

He hadn't cried since he'd joined Team Galactic.

"Emotions are a downfall of mankind. They cause problems. Don't allow them access to your mind. Men devoid of emotions become geniuses."

Cyrus's words had been the rules he'd been living by for the past two years, and they'd worked, promoted to commander and Cyrus's right hand man.

Could he throw it all away just because of her?

There would be time for thinking later. Right now Saturn had to stop this persistent blood trickling down her pale skin. He had to look after someone other than number one for once.