The morning came and the sunlight shining through a window made both Bosco and Twilight groan and wipe at their eyes, both were bandaged up.

"Ugh, what hit me?" The Umbreon said and coughed.

"Actually dear you hit the wall, not the other way around, of course I hit a wall too..." Twilight said in response, then both of them looked at each other as they remembered last night's events.

"Oh no, Amethyst!" Bosco shouted.

"M-my baby... They took my baby."

The door was pushed open and Claire walked in, Tripod came in next, both had their heads bowed. Scooter walked in next, his whole body trembling as he sobbed, the poor little Eevee looked very depressed at the loss of his sister.

"Listen, we are so very sorry, that Sandshrew, he caught us off guard and then blinded us." Claire said, gazing at her paws.

"Don't be so sorry, you had no way of knowing what was going to happen before it had happened. Besides, you did your best." The Spoink said and then she teared up.

Amanda walked in next, "Well, I called my sister, seems nobody tried to take the kits while they were there, she says that she'll be here in a little bit with the little fellas, so we can keep an eye on them in case the thieves decide to steal anymore of the kits." A car honked. "That must be her, I'll be right back."

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A few minutes later seven little Electrike/Meowth hybrids crowded inside, they had not heard of the incident so they frolicked and played with each other without a care in the world. Scooter stayed off to the side, not really wanting to talk or play.

One pup broke away from all of its fellow siblings, heading toward Scooter's position.

"Hey, Scooter, what's wrong?" A voice that suddenly made the Eevee feel even sadder asked.

"Oh, hey there Frict." he said, lifting his brown eyes to meet the Electrike pup's eyes.

Frict was the second oldest of Claire's offspring, he looked like a full blood Electrike, but he had a black zigzag stripe instead of yellow ones. Scooter knew how much the Electrike adored his younger sister, in fact, the Eevee even knew one of Frict's most sacred secrets: The Electrike pup had a huge crush on Amethyst.

"Hey, where's Ames at, she sleeping somewhere? I saw this pretty flower the other day and I know she'd love it, its a beautiful yellow colour. So, where is she?" He asked tilting his head.

"Uh, err, well, you see..."

"Come on, out with it! Spill the beans!" Frict said and gave a nudge with his nose. Frict was an impatient pup, always rushing in and never hesitating on whether he was going to get hurt or not in the process.

"Ames was kit-napped by three really strange Pokemon, alright! She's not here, they took her!" Then he started crying again, "They took my little sister..."

Frict stood there, thunderstruck. "K-k-kit-napped, Ames? No, no, no, no, no! Not Amethyst!" he said whining. Then he snarled, "They won't get away with this,"

Scooter sniffed, "How so, my mom and dad are too hurt to do anything and your parents have to watch over their kids so they can't go chasing after those kit-napping Pokemon."

"Well then, I'll just have to take matters into my own paws." Frict said, and Scooter almost laughed out loud, same old Frict, he'd never get anywhere if he didn't start thinking things through.

The Eevee shook his head, "What can you do? You're just a pup like me, we're too small and young to go after them ourselves..." Scooter froze, a grin coming to his face. "Or are we?" Frict cocked his head, "Ooh, Scooter's got a plan, what are we going to do?" The Eevee whispered softly into the Electrike's ear, "Here's the plan..." He said and tugged the Electric out of hearing range so their parents wouldn't overhear them.

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Amanda held the telephone up against her ear, she was talking to Officer Jenny. "What?! What do you mean you can't be chasing after a missing kit?" She said and Bosco shared a worried look with Twilight. "Oh, so there's been an outbreak of robberies? What?! Fires too! And you say that all you know about the offender is that it's a Ninetales... Hm, why would a Ninetales steal all that stuff? Okay, I guess you do have your hands full. Sorry to bother you, thanks for the info about that Ninetales. But still, could you at least make a note to look for the kit later on? You can? Good, thank you." Amanda hung up, she sighed and leaned against the wall.

Bosco whined, he had watched Amanda pace back and forth across the living room for so long and now, even the police couldn't help them at the moment.

"Poor Ames... I'm sorry I failed to save you..."

"Don't worry hon, we'll find a way to save her." Twilight replied, patting Bosco on the shoulder.

"No! She's probably crying for us right now... Why, why did they take my little Amethyt?!" Bosco said, tears forming in the corners of his red eyes.

"I don't know why. But the real dilemma is that neither of us are well enough to go after her."

Bosco 'hurrumph'ed, "I bet I can manage enough strength to-omph!" The Umbreon groaned, he had tried to stand up and walk to the end of the bed when, his legs gave out from underneath him. "Well," he sighed, his ears drooping. "Maybe not."

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"Okay, so here's what we do, we both wait until dark, then, late at night we sneak out the doggy door together and track down my little sister. You are with me, correct? You won't chicken out, right?" Scooter asked.

"Of course not! Amethyst is probably ten times more scared right now, I've got to be brave, for her." The Electrike said and Scooter nodded. "You are a true friend."

Then Scooter began to think about the problem he'd failed to say, how would he get his sister back the Pokemon? They were bigger, stronger and meaner than he was. His mind pondered this, a pensive pool of thought. I can't just wing it as we go... We'll just have to train along the way. he thought, rubbing a paw against his head.

"Something wrong?" Frict asked, eying the Eevee suspiciously.

"No," Scooter replied, "I was just thinking."

"You think too much sometimes." Frict said, flashing a rather toothy grin.

"Hey! you know very well that it's my brilliant plans that end up saving your hide every time you mess up." The Eevee replied, tackling the Electrike and tussling around with him. They both rolled under the couch, laying on their sides panting for breath.

Suddenly Scooter got quiet, his ears drooping and his tail between his legs. "This is where I was sleeping when they first came in, I woke up when the Ninetales stepped on my tail." He perked up instantly, "But we're going to get her back, right Frict?" he asked.

"Of course! We both care about Amethyst too much to simply stay home and wait."

"Frict, where'd you go, pup? Come on, it's time for lunch." Tripod said, and the Electrike pup scurried out from under the couch and went running up to his dad. "There you are, hungry yet?" The Manectric asked, nuzzling the pup, before walking off. "Come on, let's go eat." he said. Frict nodded and looked back, his eyes twinkling that adventurous twinkle that he occasionally got in his green eyes. He mouthed the words. 'See you tonight' and then he went into the kitchen with his father.

Scooter stretched out, yawning widely before sniffing the air. "Bacon!" He yipped, scurrying towards the kitchen. Upon stepping foot inside he saw Tripod and Claire, eating and watching their seven children frolic and play. He saw something catch his attention, turning he spotted the place where the gaping hole had been in the floor, it had been covered up, all the dirt swept away and a large plank of wood was screwed down to the floor, Amanda would call somebody to redo the tile later.

He dipped his head down, drinking from the water dish. Watching as Amanda walked in and smiled weakly, she went over and patted Tripod on the head. "It's a good thing you guys aren't too badly injured." she said, turning to scratch behind Claire's ears, the Persain looked up and purred at the attention.

Amanda went to the table, picking up a dish with some bacon and Poke-chow and then another that held some water. She went towards the room where Bosco and Twilight were at.

He whined as he grabbed a piece of bacon from his dish and chewed on it half heartedly. He saw that Frict wasn't very interested in his food either. Well, we won't get to eat food like this after we're gone, I should eat up, we won't get another chance to eat this well until we get back. With that thought he started eating his food faster, finishing it as quickly as he could.

Frict seemed puzzled, but he too ate as much food as quickly as he could. He'd always known that Scooter was the brains, while he was the brawn. So if Scooter did something strange, he usually had a good reason for doing it.

he looked up at his father, "Can me and Scooter go play now?"

"Sure thing, Frict. If it's okay with your mother, right Claire?"

The Persain nodded, "Alright, run along now Frict." she said and gave him a motherly nudge with her nose.

The Electrike woofed a 'thank you' and took off, tackling Scooter and grabbing the Eevee's grey ear. "So, how do we go about getting past all of the others?" he asked, tugging Scooter's ear.

"Well let's cross that bridge when we get to it." The kit replied, batting a paw at his best friend's legs, knocking the Electrike off balance and making him callapse atop his furry grey body.

"You sure about that?"

"Yeah, trust me, I've got it all figured out." Well, most of it anyway... But I'm not giving up, one way or another I will rescue Amethyst.

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Meanwhile in an area far away from Amanda's house...

A truck slowly drove uphill, occasionally hitting a pothole every once in a while, each time the truck bounced a growl escaped the throat of a Ninetales that was riding in the back.

"Damn lousy drivers, have to hit every bump in the road." Cinder growled out. Her red eyes glowing in the dark and making her look demonic.

A small Eevee whimpered and trembled in fear as it tried to make itself invisible, tried to think of a way to escape from the Pokemon. It was backed up in a corner as far away from the others as possible.

"Dusty, Stealth, one of you two better do something to get that brat to quiet down, I'm sick and tired of its whining. So either shut it up, or I'll take my anger out on you two."

"Yes ma'am!" They both shouted, fearful of the female's wrath.

Stealth approached the Eevee kit who glanced around wildly in the pitch black darkness unable to see anything around her. The Kecleon leaned down and reached a hand out, touching the Eevee's head, "Hey now, you need to calm down little on-" he was cut off as Amethyst sunk her small teeth into his arm, causing the male to bite back a shriek. "Get her off of me, get her off!" he yelled and Dusty scoffed, "Typical." he said, rolling his eyes.

Stealth glared at the Sandshrew. "Oh yeah, I bet you can't do any better."

Dusty growled and stepped over to the Kecleon, grabbing Amethyst and prying her off from Stealth's arm. He held the Eevee out away from him by her sides so that as the kit struggled, she could not harm him. "Hard to believe that you made it this far." Dusty snorted. The kit stopped squirming and Dusty brought her closer. "See, all it takes is patienc-" he stopped right as Amethyst's claws dug into his nose, biting back tears the Sandshrew started screaming in pain, releasing his hold on the Eevee only for it to continue to scratch at his snout viciously before running into another corner and started trembling once more.

Stealth snickered and then barely dodged the shrew's incoming fist.

"Stop it both of you or I'll show you what I do to those who bicker with their fellow team members." Cinder said, her red eyes glaring angrily at the pair, her nine tails glowing at the ends as she prepared to send a volley of Willow-wisps at the two.

Stealth immediately froze, and Dusty began taking deep breaths in order to calm himself down.

"Very well, now then, out of my way." Cinder said, pushing the two off to the side as she made her way to the cowering kit, her red eyes narrowed as she gazed down at Amethyst. "Now listen, you behave yourself or I'll make sure that you will find this trip unpleasant. And don't think that just because you are a kit that I'll take it easy on you, and nobody else will either. So what are you going to do? 'Cause if you keep misbehaving you'll find this whole ordeal very very unpleasant."

The Eevee stared up at the Ninetales, her whole body quivering as she tried to understand the fact that they would not hesitate to hurt her. What kind of Pokemon were they? She shuddered and nodded her head weakly.

"F-f--fine, I'll behave, just don't hurt me." Amethyst squeaked, her green eyes fearful as they began brimming with tears.

"Good, now what's your name little one?"

"Amethyst." Came the meek reply.

"Well then Amethyst, my name is Cinder." The Ninetales said, her red eyes gleaming viciously in the darkness.


Not the best chapter, but trust me, the next one will have some action. I will try to keep each chapter around the same length. Each capter will be around two thousand five hundred words, just so you know.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, but if I did I would totally be happy. However, I do own the characters mentioned in this fic and the plot.

Oh my goodness! I just found out that school starts for me in two days. -Starts hyperventilating-

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