Viva la Deviants

by PokeSpeBanette

Everyone is born different. It's a fact of life- accept it and move on. But sometimes a person is born too different. Sometimes a person deviates from the thing you call 'normal'. My name is Green Oak . . . and I am Deviant.

1. Chapter 1- City of Deviants

Renny: Hey everyone, and welcome to the remake of Redemption, Viva la Deviants!

Green: Well the good news is at least I don't die in this.

Renny: Aren't Ghosts already dead?

Green: *pauses* I . . . I have no clue, actually.

Renny: Yeah neither do I. Well, okay, how about this- technically you don't die.

Green: That'll do.

Renny: Awesome. I'll be putting myself into this, as a girl named Toni Lithium, because for some reason that name is now officially my taken name or something (if you haven't read Skulduggery Pleasant, you will never get that reference) so that's what I'm calling her. She also has my team from HeartGold because I wanted to put them in, but I can't have them as Green's team because yeah.

Green: Also apparently you've been spelling legendary wrong ever since you started spelling it.

Renny: Yeah I literally found out last night- I looked in a dictionary and found that it was legendary, not legendry. I'm an idiot.

Green: Are Red and Blue still gonna have the roles they had in Redemption or what?

Renny: Well the plot's entirely different, so probably not. But if I can get them in somehow, they'll be how they were meant to be, not . . . whatever weird versions I made them into. Anyway, do the disclaimer and we'll get on with crap.

Green: Renny doesn't own pokemon.

Renny: On with the show!

OOOOOO

Everyone is born different. It's a fact of life- accept it and move on. But sometimes a person is born too different. Sometimes a person deviates from the thing you call 'normal'.

Most people would call these people mutants, like from the X-Men or something. But no, their talents, these things that make them too different, are much more specific than the variations that mutants are known for.

They are the Deviants.

Unlike in the X-Men, they're a well-kept secret. When a Deviant is found, they are taken away from their original life to live in a mostly-underground facility (it's more like that Zion, the underground city, from the Matrix actually) with the above-ground part acting as a cover-up in the form of an engineering company.

Most aren't happy with how they get uprooted, because they were happy where they were- but they understand the need for secrecy. Others . . . are actually glad to get away from their lives.

I suppose comparing Deviants to mutants isn't really the right thing to do. Like I said before, they're different- more specific. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that they're more like human pokemon than anything else.

Why? Because Deviants have types. You know, like Fire, Water, Grass, Ground, whatever.

So, what is this? I guess it's my story.

My name is Green Oak . . . and I am Deviant.

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Swoosh.

"Stop! Making! Me! Miss!"

"Aren't you a Fighting type?"

Swoosh.

"Yes!"

"So . . ."

Swoosh.

"Whatever you throw at me won't work. I'm immune."

Pause.

The heavyset man stepped back, unclenching his fists. He blinked.

" . . . Oh." he said.

The small boy with bright green eyes gave him an unimpressed look.

"It's basic type disadvantages." he said dissaprovingly. His body was slightly translucent, but as he spoke, he switched back to being tangible, his body becoming opaque as he did so. "You should know this."

"Well I'm sorry, but I don't have a photographic memory like you!" the heavyset man snapped.

The green eyed boy rolled his eyes and stepped off the fighting mat, and crouched down to take a hold of the shoes outside of the edge of the mat. He made no move to put them on, though.

"I don't have a photographic memory, my abilities just allow me to sort through my memories like photos or movies." he corrected the man.

That only served to make the heavyset man glare at him harder, but the green eyed boy just gave the man half a smile and raised eyebrows, and he walked off towards the door- where a large, red dragon with a flame at the tip of its tail sat waiting for him.

"That went well." the dragon commented with a smirk.

"He's an idiot."

"A powerful idiot, but you could have easily just Psychic'd him across the room." the dragon rumbled. They went out the door and walked down a lit corridor. There were no windows in the walls, mostly because they were underground and the sight of rocks would bore everyone, and the boy was once again reminded of his slight taphophobia.

They passed a few people, some of them kids like him, some older kids, but mostly they were adults- many of them wore the suits that were mostly associated with being in the government and all that, but some didn't.

"I didn't want to insult his intelligence by pointing that out. I'm smarter than he is, that . . . whatever it was proved it." the boy shrugged. He wasn't going to call it a fight, it was barely even an exercise.

"Smarter." the dragon repeated flatly. He looked down at the boy and rolled his wings. "This coming from the kid who named me after a black Flygon from a CGI animated movie."

"Toothless is awesome, I don't see the problem!" the boy cried indignantly.

"He has retractable teeth. He is also a Flygon. He also does not exist. I have teeth that aren't retractable. I am a Charizard. I actually exist." the dragon listed.

"Well if you prefer I could change your name to Scales . . .?" the boy trailed off suggestively.

"Toothless is the best name I have ever heard."

"That's what I thought."

"Smug little mother fu-"

"And we're stopping right there."

They kept going until they came to a four-way corridor, and then Toothless and the green eyed boy took the one to their left. This took them to a curved corridor with one side made from glass, showing the interior of the underground facility- luckily, not a bunch of rocks and instead a giant open space.

They followed the corridor to a lift that was big enough to fit ten humans and a few large pokemon inside comfortably. Toothless pressed the button reading 'floor 68' and under the floor number were the words 'Deviant dorm floor'.

Currently the lift was lit up on floor 59, which was the gym/dojo floor- well, one of them anyway. There were actually several, since it would be silly to have just one entire floor dedicated to training and stuff, also slightly impractical since one floor couldn't have everything a gym/dojo would need.

The green eyed boy turned around and leaned on the railing in the back of the lift. He looked out of the glass wall of the lift.

Outside the lift was one of the most impressive underground facilities anyone would have ever seen- it was also the largest and the only one able to house all those that it was home to. If the boy had to compare it to anything, he'd say the facility was less like a . . . well, facility, and more like a giant underground city (like the one from Matrix) with a hell of a lot of different floors.

In the middle there was just an empty space, but there were perches and hovering platforms. Even as they looked out of the windows, the green eyed boy could see a few Flying pokemon and Deviants going to and from the perches, hovering platforms and the platforms attached to the metal walls of the city (the higher ups had tried to stop people from calling it a city, but it made more sense than facility, so they just gave up after a few years).

Eventually the lift dinged softly, and Toothless and the green eyed boy got off. Seconds later the lift doors closed and it went off downwards to pick up some other people who wanted to use it. That lift wasn't the only one, but it was one of the most used ones.

"Have you seen Tiago lately?" Toothless asked.

The green eyed boy didn't answer. His eyes flashed a strange purple colour. As the two walked down the corridor, the glass walls showing the city to their left, he was silent for several seconds. Then he blinked, and suddenly the purple was gone from his eyes.

"No." he answered. "I've looked, but I can't see him anywhere in my memories."

"What has that bird been doing . . ."

The green eyed boy shrugged.

As they had been walking, the boy and Toothless had gone past doors with numbers on them. This was the dorm floor, so each of the numbered doors led to a different dorm common room that was home to eight Deviants- two to an individual dorm, and four indiviual dorms in the common room in total, two dorms on each side of the room.

There were five rooms in the individual dorms. The living room was basically the front room, as it always had the front door in it. With your back to the front door, on the left wall there was a door leading to the first bedroom, and on the right was a door leading to the second. On the opposite wall was the door leading to the kitchen, and beside that, the bathroom.

They eventually came to a door that read '15', and the green eyed boy pushed open the door to the warmly lit common room. If he had to compare it to anything (like how he, and many others, compared the underground city to the city from the Matrix) he would say it sort of resembled the Gryffindor common room from Harry Potter, only a bit more spaced out since there was only eight people living there.

Currently, six out of eight of the dorms occupants were lounging around on the armchairs, sofas and pillows/cushions/whatever-the-hell-the-large-fluffy-things-were. Most were watching the TV, which was a flat screen that was attached to the wall opposite the common room front door. The last two were reading a book and ignoring everyone, or playing a DS in the corner.

"Hey, there he is!" one of the three (now four, since the boy had walked in) males in the room cried out upon noticing him walking in with Toothless. He stood up and grinned down at the green eyed boy.

He was a tall man, lean, built for running. That didn't mean he wasn't strong, he was just really fast. His hair stood up like it had been shocked recently, though it wasn't smoking, and it was a weird yellow colour that reminded the boy a little of live electricity.

"Was there something going on?" the boy asked. Toothless detached himself from the boy's side to mingle with the other pokemon littered around the room, whose chatter rose to a happy pitch as he was greeted with warmth.

"Uh yeah, Toni just broke through the Kanto League's firewalls." the electric man informed him.

Instantly the boy was alert, and slightly pissed. "What?" he demanded. "Why the hell didn't anyone call me?"

"Sorry, we got a bit excited." one of the females in the room- a woman with wavy brown hair- grinned sheepishly. She glanced at the TV, which, now that the boy had a chance to observe it, looked like it was playing some sort of high-tech Space Invaders game. "Toni and Sparkless have actually gotten into the mainframe, but right now they're having some issues. Mostly because some weirdo decided that the last firewall is a really intense game of Space Invaders."

"And I thought the city's firewalls were weird." the boy muttered.

He made his way through the sea of cushions and pillows (because for some reason the dormmates he shared the common room with really, really loved having pillows and cushions everywhere) and found a seat on a dark blue and white pillow that was probably large enough to fit half the room's occupants on it.

The boy sitting next to him- with pure white hair and deep pink/red eyes- gave him a shy smile and then turned his attention back to the screen.

The electric man who had first noticed the boy was called Zoran, or as he was more commonly known as, Zo. He was an Electric Deviant, and his hair certainly showed it perfectly. He occasionally never knew when to shut up, and he was also the second-fastest of the group.

The woman with the wavy brown hair was Ashley. She was probably the most intelligent of the dormmates, and wasn't afraid to give people or pokemon shit if she thought they deserved it. She was a Water/Flying Deviant.

The boy with the albino hair and the pink/red eyes was Kai, and he was generally seen with the little golden Vulpix that never left his side. Her name was Zorina. They were both a little shy, but they fit together perfectly because they were both Fire types.

A man sitting in one of the armchairs, reading a book that the green eyed boy didn't even understand (it was in Russian), barely even glanced up as the disruption became a bit louder (mostly because of the pokemon in the room). He had long black hair and a dark scowl to match, and he was Russian- there was also a Weavile settled on the top of the armchair with a few nicks and scratches on his body. The man's name was Adrik and the Weavile was just Weavile. Adrik was an Ice type.

A silver haired girl was sitting nearby, on one of the two sofas in front of the TV. She was called Anna, and she was a Steel Deviant- and for some reason she chose to have her bones permenantly made from steel. Some Steel types could do that, but no one really knew how, and the Steel types couldn't describe how they did it. Probably instinctual or something.

A young woman that was keeping apart from everyone (and this was even counting Adrik the Russian) in the corner had long black hair. She was called Kiara, and she was a Dark Deviant who mostly surrounded herself with her Dark types. There was a Darkrai settled next to her, his ice blue eyes watchful- his name was Dark.

The last of the room's occupants was currently inside of cyberspace, in other words the TV, playing Space Invaders with her partner. Or breaking into the Kanto League database, whatever.

"How far has she gotten?" the boy asked.

"I told you, she's on the last leg." Ashley reminded him.

"I mean how far has she gotten through this firewall?"

"Well . . ." Kai spoke up quietly. "Zo thinks she's gotten halfway through. Adrik says she only just got past level 2."

"Level 2?" the boy frowned.

Anna answered him this time, nodding. "According to Adrik, there should be about eight levels in total for this. She's gotten past two, so that means Toni and Sparkless aren't doing well."

"How does he know there's eight levels?"

"I just do." Adrik muttered, not even bothering to look up from his book. "You English do not understand how I know things, and you do not care."

"I'm Scottish," Ashley frowned. "Not English."

"Do I look like I care?"

"Hey Green, think you could try and help Toni out?" Ashley asked.

The boy- Green- glanced at her. "Maybe." he said. "If she can get me into the game, I should be able to help her with blasting these things apart. Uh . . . wait, does the League know we're breaking in?"

"No," Zo grinned. "Ashley managed to keep them on the trail of a ghost virus, so Toni's able to just go wherever she wants to."

"Awesome. Toni!" Green called.

One of the two digital shapes facing off against the bunch of alien ships paused. The second one continued blasting things apart merrily. Words appeared on the screen.

What? they read.

"Get me in, I'll help out."

Bit busy- Sparkless and me aren't doing that well.

"Well then, it'll be a relief to have a Psychic type, right?"

That . . . yeah actually you might be able to help. Okay, switch on the Ghost Phase thing, I'll grab you.

Green himself was a Ghost/Pyshic type- as far as anyone knew, there was no other Deviant with that type combo. As such he was pretty powerful, and it also allowed him to get into places most people couldn't, and that also included getting pulled into cyberspace with Toni and her partner.

He turned slightly translucent as he turned on the ability that most people called Ghost Phasing, and then the TV started to crackle with blue electricity.

And then suddenly that electricity was shooting towards him, and then he was inside of cyberspace.

The game looked completely different when he was inside of the TV. The only thing that was mostly the same was the fact that they were currently 'floating' in space (or cyberspace, whatever), and the rest- even the aliens- was nearly totally different. The aliens were more like cyber bugs or something, and everything looked vaguely normal except for the whole 'being in cyberspace' thing. There were also three shield-type things above him, which looked more like giant balls of flames rather than the pixelated stuff that Space Invaders normally had.

"Welcome to the party." someone said.

Green turned around. A girl was floating in cyberspace with her arms crossed, a grin across her face. She had dark red hair and wore a black bandana, and for some reason she was still wearing that weird Umbreon hat she'd gotten a few months ago on her birthday.

A Rotom was zipping around past the fire shields, which Green assumed were supposed to represent the firewalls or something, and was going after everything that moved and wasn't human or pokemon.

"Adrik says there's eight levels." Green informed her.

Toni shrugged. "Yeah, I heard him. Sucks, but hey, that's life right? Sparkless!"

The Rotom glanced down at them, grinned upon noticing Green, and let out a high-pitched shriek of glee.

"Hey Sparkless." Green greeted him as he zipped down to say hi.

"Hey how's it going Greenie oh yeah Toni I think these bug thingies are dying out you might wanna do something before I eat them all BYE!"

He zipped off, leaving a trail of faint lightning in his wake. Green looked at Toni, who shrugged.

"He's feeding off the bug things, I think. He's gone a little bit nuts."

"A little bit? He's bouncing off the walls." Green told her.

Toni shrugged again and looked back up at the bugs that were rapidly being . . . wow, they actually were being eaten by Sparkless. That was so weird, even for them.

Toni was a Ghost/Electric Deviant- hence why she and Sparkless got on so well. Sometimes that happened, actually. A Deviant would find a pokemon that they were specially connected with, who would then become their partner. Zorina was Kai's partner, Weavile was Adrik's, Dark was Kiara's and, obviously, Sparkless was Toni's partner.

The others, including Green, had yet to find their own partner. But no one wanted to rush things, because that would just force the connection and probably screw it up completely, and they'd never find their partner. Occasionally the partner pokemon wasn't the same type as the Deviant, but most of the time they were. That was the main reason why most connections were made in the first place.

"Might have been an idea to have Erwin or Needleless with us. You know, since these things sort of need to be Cut down to size." Toni commented.

Green looked at her.

"What? It was a good joke! Oh come on Spangles."

"Stop referencing Avengers Assemble, I'm not wearing a spangly outfit."

Toni rolled her eyes and looked up at Sparkless and the bug alien things. "Shall we play a game?"

"Stop it. And don't you normally check for EMPs first?" Green frowned.

"Already did that, like, three times so far. Hi, Tony Lithium- paranoid bastard, nice to meet you." Toni grinned at him.

"Stop referencing Supernatural and start ripping those stupid things apart."

"Yes sir." she said. Toni mock-saluted and sped off into the fight, her hands and feet spread out as beneath her if she was wearing a battle suit.

"And stop pretending you're Iron Man!" Green shouted after her.

His only answer was maniacal laughter.

Green watched her for a second, joining the fight with as much enthusiasm as her partner. They both zipped around each other perfectly as if they'd been born as fraternal twins or something, and Green could scarcely believe that they'd only known each other for somewhere over three years.

After a few seconds of just watching them, he decided to get a move on. Mostly because he could practically feel the confusion from the room he'd left behind, most likely wondering why the third shape on the screen wasn't moving.

He shot off into the battle and grabbed a few of the bug things using Psychic, and smashed some together while he threw the rest he'd grabbed at the firewalls.

His guess was that the bugs were the defenders, and the firewalls were the shields- that meant he, Toni and Sparkless were the invaders. So they'd have to break the firewalls before they could destroy the bugs- that would probably make the bugs scatter because they wouldn't have a clear objective beyond 'protect the firewalls'.

Toni and Sparkless hadn't thought of this yet, obviously. Sparkless didn't because he was having too much fun literally eating the bugs, and Toni couldn't because her thinking pattern was too confusing to allow her to focus on solving more than one issue at a time. Toni was focused on getting rid of the bugs.

So that left Green with the job to get rid of the firewalls.

He'd already gone past the giant shields to get at the first lot of bugs, so he turned around, trusting Toni and Sparkless to have his back even if they didn't know what he was doing, and focused his Psychic on the three firewalls.

And was promptly thrown back by an invisble force from all three of the firewalls.

He hit a couple of bugs and ended up angering several more, but luckily Toni zipped past and short-circuited them all by going through one and shooting off the effects to the others with a stream of electricity.

"What're you doing with the shields?" Toni called to him as she threw a few of the dead bugs at some others that were trying to sneak up on them.

"We need to take down the firewalls- the shields, that is." Green quickly explained. "Once we do that, these things will most likely scatter, they won't have a clear mission anymore."

"So they'll be easier to kill!"

Even if her thinking pattern was confusing, she was quick enough to get what he meant.

"Got it!" Toni nodded. "Me and Sparkless'll keep the damn things off you, just break the shields. And go for them one at a time, I felt them blast some sort of EMP at you when you tried to take them all at once."

So that's what that blast was.

"One at a time." Green repeated, and then he shot off back to the shields.

This time he gripped just one firewall with a Psychic blast, and it came apart like some glowing, burning jigsaw puzzle. The other seemed to acknowledge the loss of the first firewall, and they glowed more brightly in response. That would probably meant it was gonna get harder to get rid of the firewalls.

Well, he did like a challenge, and this was gonna be so much more fun than that stupid training session with Aaron earlier.

Green tried grabbing a second firewall, but somehow they'd seemed to learn from how he'd taken the first one apart, and it resisted his pull. The firewall, along with its buddy, sent another EMP at him but Green quickly Teleported through the blast before it even reached him.

Instead of just pulling the second one apart, he shot a blast of Psybeam that was charged up by a bit of Psychic, which pretty much incinerated it to tiny pieces upon impact.

The third firewall hit him with an EMP he'd been too busy to notice, and Green was shoved back into more bugs- and this time he could feel the damage done.

"Stop playing with it and break the damn thing already!" Toni shouted.

"I can't!" Green shouted back. "It knows what to expect from me by now!"

Toni frowned for a second, got distracted with a few dozen bugs which she Thundered away with such ease it would have made Green laugh if he hadn't been trying to figure out what the damage from the EMP did to him, and then turned back to him.

She was silent for a few seconds.

And then-

"SPARKLESS, ZAP IT!"

Sparkless stopped eating one of the bugs and spun around, his electrified face grinning. Green quickly Teleported out of his range, and Toni shoved a few of the bugs into the blast range with a sadistic grin.

Sparkless used Thunder Beam.

The bugs were vaporised by just being within ten feet of the blast, and the swirling, twisting and sparking beam of pure thunder and lightning blasted right at the firewall.

The Thunder Beam hit the shield dead on, but it did almost nothing- at first, anyway. The firewall was pushed back a few feet, and then Green started to see it turning redder than it already was. The Beam started to pulse and intensify, and then it broke through the firewall.

And then the Thunder Beam started to burn the rest of the shield up, and suddenly it was gone entirely.

"I see you've finally gotten Thunder Beam working." Green commented.

"Took forever. I'm gonna try and learn it next- I can already use Thunder and Charge Beam, so I got that bit down. Sparkless says it's basically combining the two equally instead of charging one with the other." Toni shrugged.

The bugs that were left were happily eaten, short-circuited and pulled apart duly.

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"Try the next file, this one's boring as fuck." Ashley said. "And hack it faster, please, the ghost virus might not work for much longer."

"You try clicking it then, I'm tired." Toni retorted.

Green rolled his eyes and hit one of the files that were floating around in the cyberspace. Now it looked less like actual space and more like digital space, so Green guessed they were in the mainframe or the main database or something.

It came up with a red UNAUTHORISED and he blasted the words with Confusion, and then the file was open. Green sent it over to the little window where he, Toni and Sparkless were basically Skyping with the others.

"There, now stop complaining and start memorising." he ordered.

Ashley was the only one out of all of them who had a photographic memory. A lot of people assumed that Green, Adrik and Anna had a photographic memory, but Green could just shift through his own memories to find what he needed, Adrik was generally so damn mysterious that for all they knew he might be some sort of genetic weirdo, and Anna just had a good memory.

So it mostly fell to Ashley and occasionally Adrik to memorise things so they could write them down in their Database, which was a little private website that the group of eight had created. Toni and Sparkless, with the help of Ashley, had made it completely unhackable, and only those who had been biologically filtered into the passcode system could access it. They'd even Transform-proofed it.

The Database was their own private information site. It had been filled with every single bit of pokemon data they could find, on both the internet and the databases of every agency they could find and a few more they probably shouldn't have been able to find, but then they got bored of just having a pokemon Database. Or, well, Ashley and Toni got bored.

They decided to make it into a Database for whatever they could find, and the better protected it was, the harder it was to get to, the more they wanted the information in the Database.

And all this was going down onto their Database.

And Green didn't even know what half of the stuff he was grabbing even was. Oh well, so sad, so bad, nevermind.

Sparkless flitted around between him and Toni, still sort of hyper on the probably hundreds of bugs he'd eaten a few minutes ago. He wasn't that hyper that he knew not to touch any of the files, because otherwise he'd either break them or short them out or something else. Green guessed he was spending the leftover energy on the dashing thing.

"Hey, have you ever seen 11 Drunk Guys Play?" Toni suddenly asked.

"Uh . . . can't say that I have, why? And what are they playing?" Green asked her.

"It's a really really funny YouTube channel video thingy it's basically 11 drunk dudes play terrifying games our favourite is 11 Drunk Guys Play Slenderman because it's hilarious you should watch it dude." Sparkless pretty much squealed.

"What he said." Toni nodded.

Green had to take several seconds of sorting through his memories to figure out what it was that Sparkless had even said in the first place.

"Oh, uh, okay? Why are you bringing this up now?"

"What's the hold-up, you sissies?" Ashley called. "Helloooooo?"

"Here, have another one." Green threw an unlocked file at the Skype screen and she squeaked happily upon discovering something Green didn't care about. He turned back to Toni once Ashley was occupied for a few seconds. "Why bring it up now?"

"Conversation, I get bored of awkward silences." Toni shrugged, already in the process of breaking apart a few locks on some really top-secret file.

"It wasn't awkward."

"To you."

"Guys stop being boring and hack stuff I wanna see red words go BOOM." Sparkless broke into the conversation . . . or whatever it was.

Toni broke a couple more locks, even as she spoke. "I just wanted to know if you'd be interested in it. I mean, Zo's seen it, Ashley's seen it, Kai's seen it, Anna's seen it, Adrik's seen it, hell even Kiara's seen it. You ain't though. That is sad."

"So you want me to get on the wagon?" Green raised an eyebrow as he found a couple more unlocked files and threw them at the Skype screen.

"The Drunk Guys Wagon rocks, dude."

Green rolled his eyes.

They spent the next few minutes finding and blasting apart locks, and then sending thins over to Ashley, who had by now started to just copy the entire file onto one of their own so they'd be able to get more stuff faster.

It was going great, or as great as hacking into one of the Leagues could be, until . . .

"Hey, you."

Green heard the voice but he didn't register it, and only noticed that something was wrong when Toni stopped picking apart the CLASSIFIED file she was working on.

He turned around.

" . . . Shit." he muttered.

In front of them was another Rotom, obviously not Sparkless because this one wasn't zipping around like it was on a sugar rush, and also obviously not Sparkless because there were two guys in suits standing on either side of it.

"How'd you get into our system?" the younger of the two Suits asked.

"Uhhh . . ." Toni blinked at him.

The Leagues didn't know about Deviants, because they were mostly seperate divisions of the government. So if they said anything that would compromise their own safety and that of the city's, they were dead.

Luckily, they had a Rotom of their own, so their presence could be explained away easily.

But what they were doing was harder to lie about.

"I'll ask again, how did you get in here?" the younger Suit demanded.

"We . . . got lost." Green tried. Even as the words left his digital mouth he knew they were flimsy.

And yep, there we go, the two Suits exchanged flat looks that clearly screamed 'we don't believe this boy'. Dammit.

"Kids, you'd better answer him immidiately." the older Suit said. "And no lying."

Green bit his lip and looked to his side, as if he was ashamed of being caught- but really he was checking that the Skype box was gone. Ashley seemed to have gotten it down just in time, because the Suits didn't ask why there was a woman in a little box. Thank Mew for that.

"We're doomed aren't we we are so gonna get arrested but hey at least we had some fun right?" Sparkless said.

Toni and Green didn't answer him. If they answered Sparkless, the Suits would wonder how they understood what Sparkless had said- and to be honest, neither of them knew how to explain that away, other than them both being psychics (which were totally different to Deviant Psychics), and that might make the Suits try and take them away to be tested or something like that.

Green might be able to pass as a psychic, but Toni had no abilities like that at all. They would reveal the existance of Deviants in the process of the Suits testing them for psychic . . . ness . . . and then the public would know, and it'd be just like the X-Men- only worse, because Deviants were technically a hell of a lot more powerful.

Sparkless looked between the two of them and then at the Rotom that was between the two Suits.

"Hi!" he cried. "How're you doing I'm Sparkless!"

"Hello." the other Rotom said. "I believe your humans are tresspassing."

"We're just playing aren't we just playing we're having so much fun hey there was a Space Invaders game and it was really fun wasn't that fun?"

The other Rotom looked confused.

At least his weird babble comes in handy sometimes, Green thought. If the other Rotom thought they were a threat, it would attack them, and the Suits would follow it. If it was too confused to attack, they wouldn't do anything.

Sparkless might have been a hyper little weirdo of a pokemon, but he was smart when it counted.

Green quickly came up with a story, mostly based on what Sparkless had just told the other Rotom.

"Uh, we were just playing." he said, forcing an innocent smile on his face. Toni glanced at him and tilted her head like she normally did when she was confused, but in this instance it made her look like a little girl- perfect (if he didn't mention this later, no one would blame him). "Me and Phoebe and Roro were on some website that let us play Space Invaders. We . . . well, we thought this was a new level or something."

Please let them believe that.

"Oh?" the younger Suit raised an eyebrow. "And why were you blasting apart the classified files? How were you blasting apart the classified files?"

"We thought it was part of the game." Toni told him, catching on quick enough. "You know, we get superpowers to hack into the alien's files and take them down from the inside or something? Space Invaders can get really intense sometimes."

Green snickered slightly. "Yeah, remember that time you got mad at the game 'cus you kept getting killed?"

"Not my fault, the stupid aliens kept shooting me!" Toni cried.

If they kept this up long enough, the Suits and the Rotom might let them go with a warning or something.

And it looked like it was working. The younger Suit rolled his eyes and muttered something to the older Suit, but Green concentrated on their minds instead of their words- or, well, their digital minds- and heard little bits of what they felt.

The younger Suit felt like he'd wasted his time, and the older Suit felt like he was better off doing something else. Neither of them wanted to deal with a couple of kids who thought they'd gotten into a really intense game of Space Invaders. It helped that Toni and Green were both twelve, too.

"We'll let you off." the older Suit finally said, looking back at them. "But if we see you here again, we'll have to assume you're here stealing our files for an enemy agency. Alright, kids?"

"Oh, okay sir." Toni nodded slightly. "We won't go onto the next Space Invaders level next time!"

"You do that." the younger Suit told her.

"Okay Roro, take us back to our bedroom." Toni said, turning to Sparkless.

Without these guys watching them, Sparkless would have normally gone on ahead back to the real world without them, and Toni would have pulled Green back on her own. But they couldn't do that with the Suits right in front of them, so Toni and Green each took a hold of one of Sparkless's lighting hand things (Toni called them hands) and waved bye to the two Suits-

And then suddenly they were back in the common room with everyone except Adrik and Kiara crowding around them.

"Oh my Mew, are you two okay?" Ashley cried, pulling them both up to their feet almost painfully. Sparkless zipped over to the group of pokemon who had by now stopped chatting and were watching the screen- and then the group of Deviants- tensely.

"We're fine, the Suits bought the 'lost little kids' trick." Green informed her.

"Thank Arceus you're both okay." Anna sighed. She was cuddling her Aron, Tank, who looked really uncomfortable at this point. It really said something about her strength when a Steel/Rock type was uncomfortable in her arms.

"Yeah, next time you want government secrets, get them yourself." Toni told Ashley.

"The next one I'm hoping for is the CIA or the FBI."

"Comment retracted, I'm in." Toni grinned and clapped her hands happily.

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"And they bought it." Needleless said flatly. The Beedrill was sitting on the sofa of Toni and Green's living room in their individual dorm, listening to their recount of what happened in cyberspace, and currently she looked a bit more than pissed at them.

"Uh yeah, why wouldn't they?" Toni asked.

"Perhaps because they're Suits and they know bullshitters when they see them."

A Scyther spoke up carefully as he walked in with a few plates of food balanced on his blades. "You do realise Deviants may have been discovered if they had tried to take you in?" he told them.

Green took the plates in his Psychic grip and floated them over to everyone in their living room before answering.

"At least we did get away," he said. "And Deviants remain a mystery and a secret to the Leagues."

"Yeah Erwin lighten up stop being like Erwin you're actually not him you know." Sparkless giggled.

Erwin frowned at him. He really did act like the character he was named after, Erwin Smith that is, and for some reason everyone saw it but him. "I have no idea what you're talking about, now be quiet."

"What about my food don't I get food I want food."

"You ate like a ton of those bug things," Toothless snorted. "How is that you're still hungry?"

"He's a bottomless pit!" Toni cried, grinning.

"Perhaps you should have called him Bottomless, instead." Needleless said.

"Sparkless sounds better."

"It makes just about as much sense as Needleless." Needleless deadpanned.

"Well, yeah, it's contradictory."

"Do you even know what that means?" Green asked curiously.

"Not a clue." Toni smiled.

Before anyone could say anything to that, they were interrupted by someone knocking on the door.

" . . . Were we expecting anyone?" Erwin eventually asked.

Whoever was on the other side knocked again patiently.

"Can't be one of the others, they'd just barge in." Toni muttered. "Someone open the door."

No one moved, so Green just grabbed the handle and opened it from his spot on one of the fluffy cushions he was sitting on.

A man who most would have said was old walked in. 'Would have said' because, despite his age, he actually looked younger- kinda like Gibbs from NCIS. In fact, if the man didn't have dark brown-black hair, Green might have said he looked almost like Gibbs' twin or whatever. The man was the Director of the Deviant branch of the government- his name was Max Neron.

A Pidgeot trailed after him grumpily.

"Whatever Tiago did, I had no part in it." Green said instantly.

" . . . I was going to say I'd found your Pidgeot, but if you immidiately assume he did something wrong, I would like to know what it was he was doing in the cafeteria." Director Neron raised an eyebrow.

"Nothing." Tiago said indignantly. "I wasn't doing anything!"

"Oh really." Green said flatly.

"I find that hard to believe." Toothless told Tiago.

"I find that hurtful." Tiago retorted.

Neron barely raised an eyebrow. He wasn't a Deviant, so he couldn't understand what the pokemon were saying- but he seemed to get the gist of the conversation.

"Moving on," he said. "I didn't just come here to bring back your troublesome Pidgeot."

"Hey!" Tiago snapped.

The old man ignored him. "Do you mind if I sit down?" he asked, gesturing to the sofa that Needleless was still commandeering.

Needleless glared at him for a second, but she nodded and shuffled over to one side. Neron sat down and looked at Toni and Green.

"So uh . . . what is it?" Green asked. Did Neron know about the League hacking they'd done? He pulled the door shut absently, almost completely focused on Neron. Tiago grumbled but he shuffled further into the room and settled down nearby Toothless.

"First of all, I want to ask you something." the man said. "How much do you know about Johto?"

Green almost cheered. He wasn't going to ask them about the little misadventure in cyberspace they'd had earlier, thank Mew- but that left Green sort of wondering why he was here and why he was asking about Johto.

"Uh, not much." Toni frowned. "I know the Kanto League has a joint League with Johto, but that's about it really."

Green knew a lot more, but he said nothing because Neron already knew that.

"Well," Neron said, leaning forward and putting his elbows on his knees. He laced his fingers together and looked at Toni and Green over the top. "It looks like you're going to get the oppertunity to learn much more about it, Toni."

"Um . . . what."

"Kids, pack your things." Neron smiled at them and leaned back. "You're going to Johto."

OOOOOO

Renny: I kept on changing what was being said during the last scene because I had no clue what to say. So I just changed it to that and ended it here because I'm kinda itching to put this up, like, yesterday.

Green: I have to say, I didn't expect you to show off their powers so soon. I sort of expected you to wait until chapter 2 or 3 or something.

Renny: Establishing character moments need to be established, so whatever. If anyone didn't get the teams that Green and Toni have at the moment, they are as follows:

Green

Toothless- Charizard, male, hardy, somewhat of a clown

Tiago- Pidgeot, male, naughty, likes to fight

Erwin- Scyther, male, serious, thoroughly cunning

Toni

Sparkless- Rotom, male, naughty, impetuous and silly

Needleless- Beedrill, female, adamant, quick to flee

Renny: Sparkless is Toni's partner, in case anyone missed that. I'm still trying to figure out what Green's partner could be, and whether or not it could be one of the team from Johto.

Green: It'll be something else entirely, you watch.

Renny: Hush you. If anyone wants to know who Green's team are named after, just ask! But if you don't already know then shame on you for not knowing some of the most popular films/TV series ever. Read and review, and please let me know if this is good so far!