Sorry, I don't own Pokemon, nor any of the characters in this Fanfic

I Stared at the Vulpix on the other side of the room, and he stared at me. Neither one of us moved an inch.

Then, his paw shifted, as if to take a step. Before he knew it, I had zoomed over there with Quick Attack, and hit him with a powerful Slam.

His legs left the ground, and he flew through the air, but the force of his Ember propelled him back to the ground, and he landed on his feet.

He barely had a second of rest before I was on top of him again, I landed on his back and pinned him down. He struggled, and his paw lashed out and hit my face.

Growling, I blew a puff of embers onto his hair, and it was ablaze.

"Flare! Tails! That's enough!" I jumped off the Vulpix, who was rolling around, trying to extinguish his shock of red hair.

I turned to see Magmortar, our training supervisor grinning at me.

"Hey, now." he said, "no need to get Tails killed. Save some energy for the battlefield, alright?" He ruffled my fur and walked away.

Tails had finally extinguished his head fur, and walked up beside me.

"Geez!" he said, giving me a playful shove, "go easy! I wont be as popular with the ladies without my attractive hair."

I snorted, "what ladies?"

"Hey, you never know, Flare, I could get lucky someday."

"Yeah, right, on what planet?"

"What d'you mean?" he said, adopting a hurt expression. "Well," I said, indicating his head, "you are missing some hair now, and-"

He tackled me, and we rolled about. "Come on," he said, "where's the fight you usually have?"

I grinned, "if you insist."

Ten seconds later, he was rolling on the floor again, his hair ablaze.

"Is that really the best you have?" I said, "you'll need to do better than that if you want to take my place as squad captain."

There are four squads in The Eradicators, a secret force of pokemon mercenaries.

There's Team Inferno, which I'm the captain of, on it is me, of course, Tails, a Vulpix, Flame, a Growlithe, and Cinder, a Quilava.

Team Deluge has Kingler, Seadra, Floatzel, and Croconaw. Team Forest has Leafeon, Tangrowth, Sunflora, and Bayleef. And Team Discharge has Raichu, Electabuzz, Manectric, and Luxio.

We may have to be merciless at times, but our teams are still like family, or at least, they are to me. The leader of Team Deluge treats his team like scum.

When he had put out his hair again, we started fighting. I have to admit, Tails had definitely gotten much better.

Tails is the second in command, and if anything happens to me, he's the one to take over.

When I pinned Tails down for the third time, I looked over at the Magmarizer on the wall, and it was glowing with heat.

"All right!" I called, "it's time for Dinner!" My team and I walked out of the training room and into the cafeteria, where the other teams were eating.

Leaf, a Leafeon, the leader of Team Forest, waved at me as I entered. I nodded, exasperated, and she blushed and turned back to her berries.

"Oh come on," Tails whispered to me, "Leafeon likes you, give her a chance." I shook my head. "Life isn't just about training, you know." I didn't answer.

When I was just a baby Eevee, I stumbled into the camp. Half-dead with starvation and exhaustion, Spiritomb, our leader, took me under his wing.

He was glad to do it, he always told me, but that was because I was an Eevee, not because he felt for me. I was incredibly valuable, as I could evolve into 7 different types. When I was only three years old, I was subjected to radiation from a Fire Stone.

When other pokemon, such as a Jigglypuff, are subjected to stones, it feels fine, almost good, to evolve, but an Eevee's DNA is irregular.

There are cells of all the evolutions in an Eevee's DNA, and when one is exposed to radiation from only one stone, it must first wipe out the other cells of different types, before the pokemon can evolve.

The partial destruction and re-growth of DNA is excruciating, but I took the stone without complaint, because it was Spiritomb's wish, and without his protection, where would I go? I had to make it up to him, so I trained as hard as I could every day.

Cinder reached our table first, and called, "hey! They're serving Sitrus berries today!" "Really?" asked Flame, and ran over with Tails and I.

Cinder was right, in our lunch basket were nine Sitrus berries.

The other teams looked over in shock, Those kind of berries were almost never served.

"Yup," called Magmortar, as he left the training room, "a little present for the splendid job you did on your last mission."

After we had each eaten two of the delicious berries, I caught Tails' eye, there was one berry left. Slowly, I stretched out my hand to take it, Tails slapped his paw down on mine, and scooped up the bowl.

I whacked it, and the berry went flying up. All the other teams watched as Tails jumped, but I jumped too, up onto his head, and pushed off, propelling me into the air.

Tails was pushed back to the ground, as I grabbed the berry, flipped, and landed on my feet.

I looked back at him, popped the berry in my mouth, and said, "I win."

Everyone laughed, and left the room, to go up to their beds. We tried to follow them, but Magmortar stopped us.

"What's up?" Flame asked,

"you guys have got another mission," he replied quietly, "go up to the Boss's room, he'll give you the details."

We walked into the training room again, and up to the Magmarizer.

"Inferno" I said, and the wall in front of us moved to the side, revealing an elevator.

Once we had walked in, the doors closed, and we went up.

There was a small ding, and we stepped out of the elevator, into an office.

Spiritomb was staring through the one way mirror, looking into the cafeteria, windows surrounded his office, looking into every training room.

"Yeah?" I said as I stepped out. He didn't turn around, he never did, just spoke to us as if we weren't there, as if he was talking to himself.

"I was watching your training, Flare." he said, in that expressionless, odd voice of his, "you are doing well, well enough to give you a harder mission." I exchanged exited looks with Tails.

Harder missions were only given to supervisors, we were moving up. "And Tails," he said, Tails snapped to attention, "try to care more about training than about your looks."

Tails blushed, and grinned sheepishly. "Even so," he continued, "you all are brilliant fighters."

All of us straightened slightly, compliments from Spiritomb were few and far between.

"So, to business, a well known fighter's mansion has been raided by a thief. Meanwhile, a pokemon in the same village has suddenly gotten rich, we think he is the suspect. You are to go to the village in disguise, and meet our client at his mansion, understood?"

"Yes,"

"Alright then, good luck." He vanished, and, recognizing the dismissal, I left along with my team.

Name Guide:

Flare: Because of his name, Flareon

Tails: Because of his 6 tails

Flame: That was Growlithe's original name

Cinder: Because of it's pre-evolution's name

Leaf: I don't think this one needs explaining