Here's Chapter two, we will be introducing the Siren(you'll see why she's called that) and getting to a very much needed reunion.

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Thorn POV

[Sinnoh Region]

"Hey, Petra?" asked Thorn as they walked out of the airport, Thunder on his shoulder and Persian walking alongside them, "Do you know exactly where the Pokemon were sighted?"

"The news feed was taken right outside of Eterna City," Petra tells him, "we can start there, it's about sixty miles away. A three-hour flight or a five-hour run on a Rapidash."

"Do you have a plan to find our partners?" Thorn asks Petra again.

She said, "No, do you?" "Oooh! Burn!" says Persian.

"Actually, Persian," Thorn says with a smile, "I do have a plan. While Growlith and Zoura sniff around on the ground with Petra, I can be riding Braviary and looking from up above with your Spearow, Petra."

"That's actually a good idea. But," Petra thinks for a bit, "All Pokemon that can track have to have something that has the scent of the Pokemon on it. And I don't have anything except Kiarla's Pokeball. But I doubt that it has a scent anymore. What about your Riolu?"

"Riolu was actually a wild Pokemon," said Thorn, "When I rescued him from a pack of Beedril, he just started hanging around the house without my dad seeing him-when he was Asher Ketch. After a while, we started battling together, but I don't have anything with his scent on it either."

"Well then,"says Persian, "Zoura and Growlith can just sniff out the scent of a large group of Pokemon. That's easy enough."

"Right then," says Thorn, "let's get going."

"I think we're going to have to look for them tommorow, however," says Petra, "The sun's starting to set. There's a Pokemon Center. We could sleep there."

After they check in and get some food for dinner, Thorn turns to Petra and says, "Hey, Petra, how about we have a Pokemon Battle after dinner? We really don't know each other's strength, and we should probably see it for Team Rocket. Expecially the Elites. My dad may have beaten twelve of them with a single Flamethrower from Charizard,"-Persian is gawking at him at that part-"but I know it will be harder for us."

"You know, I was about to suggest that," said Petra, eating her noodles, "oh, and by the way, does your Pikachu like ketchup?"

Thorn looks at Thunder, who is eagerly sucking the contents out of a bottle of Ketchup, and then says to Petra, "Yeah, Thunder likes ketchup."

Outside after dinner, Petra and Thorn do a Pokemon battle-a two on two-Petra yells, "Onix! Spearow! Come on out!"

Thorn thinks for a little bit, then yells, "Dewott! Braviery! I choose you!"

Petra wins-she separates Thorn's Pokemon from each other and uses her Pokemon on both of them-divide and conquer

"Okay everybody," says Persian, his mouth stretching into a yawn, "After you guys heal your Pokemon, let's head for bed."

(())

Fifty miles away, the large group of Pokemon, still headed by Thorn's glowing eyed Lucario, are traveling through the night, headed in the direction of the Pokemon Center that Thorn and Petra are in. The Pokemon are looking wearied and ragged. Even Lucario, who is carrying a Riolu on his back.

Lucario notices a stream up ahead, and he gives a bark-they would have a break. As soon as most of the water-type Pokemon see the stream, they head right in, while the rest of the Pokemon take a long drink. Several Pokemon, naturally or unaturally, set up a watch after they took a short drink.

Suddenly, Lucario looks up from his drink, sensing something, and is instantly alert. There is a sound of singing heard and all the Pokemon perk up as well. Soon, one by one begin to nod off and fall asleep.

Lucario forms an Aura Sphere and shoots it off into the woods into the direction of the singing. He is rewarded by a slight shriek, and the singing stops, but then it begins to start up again and get louder. A figure emerges from the surrounding woods, and the moonlight reveals a Team Rocket Elite holding a Net Cannon, which she starts shooting at the Pokemon.

The Lucario forms a large Aura Sphere and shoots it off into the direction of the singing. There is a kind of muffled shriek, the singing stops, but then begins to perk up again. Then, a person wearing Team Rocket Elite regalia appears from the woods surronding the river and starts shooting nets at the sleeping Pokemon and capturing them. After about four or so Pokemon are grabbed, Lucario barks out an order, and the rest of the Pokemon, led by a glowing eyed Gardevoir, forms the rest of the Pokemon into a barrier. The Elite unleashes several Pokemon; an Explode; a Gallade; and a Zororark, who forms cages around the Pokemon. Lucario's eyes golw as he senses that it's an illusion and shoots a couple of Aura Spheres at the Zororark, knocking it out.

The cages vanish, and the Lucario starts to fight against the Pokemon of the Team Rocket Elite. The singing has completely stopped, and the Elite orders her Pokemon to attack. The Pokemon that are free are either freeing the captives or fleeing. Once the last of the Pokemon is free, the Pokemon fade into the woods. Lucario is blasted backwards from an attack by Exploude, then runs, pursued by Gallade.

The Elite's Gallade manages to catch up to Lucario and strikes his back with one of his blade arms, knocking him flat. As the Gallade picks up one of Lucario's legs, it is suddenly blasted off it's feet by a Psyshock from the Gardevoir. While it is distracted, Gardevoir and Lucario manage to escape into the woods, Gardevoir slightly supporting Lucario.

(())

Back at the Pokemon Center, Thorn wakes up suddenly and feels his back, which feels like it has been struck. Persian wakes up and asks, "You okay, kid?"

"Felt like something hit me hin the back," says Thorn, grimacing.

Persian gets up from his spot on one of the beds, comes over and says, "Let me take a look."

Thorn asks him sarcasticly, "Are you a doctor?"

"I looked after Jessie and James after every time your father blasted us off! Humans are far less durable than Pokemon it seems." Persian shakes his head as Thorn turns his back to him and lifts up his shirt.

Persian stares at Thorn's back for a few seconds, then remarks, "Not a single mark." He prods the area and Thorn says, "Whatever you did, the pain's gone."

Persian says, "I didn't do anything." Thinking for a bit, he asks, "What were you dreaming about?"

Thorn says, "All I remember is a sense of being hunted."

"Must have been some dream," comments Persian.

"But it felt so real. The pain, I mean."

"I'll take your word for it. In the meantine, get some sleep," advises Persian.

"I'm not tired anymore," says Thorn as Persian hops off his bed.

"I was talking about myself, kid." With that, Persian curls up on his bed and falls asleep, with Thorn looking at him a bit confused.

(())

The next morning, they've already left the Pokemon Center and are heading towards towards their destination. Thorn is flying from above on Braviary with Thunder on his shoulder. Petra is riding her Rapidash. Persian is hanging in Braviary's claws. He calls up to Thorn, saying, "This is very undignified! Why can't we just ride in a hot-air baloon?"

Thorn calls back, grinning, "Cause hot-air baloons are for dummies!"

So they keep on traveling for a little while. Around noontime, Thorn suddenly feels aware of something below him. He calls out, "Hey, Persian! Can you see anything down there?"

"Trees, trees, more trees, oh, there's Petra! Other than that, nothing! Why?"

Thorn tells Braviary to fly down. They land in front of Petra, who asks, "What's going on?"

"I felt something strange," explaines Thorn as he gets off of Braviary, looking around at the surrounding trees as if expecting something.

"Strange as in an empty stomach?" asks Persian, "Cause that's what feels strange to me. I'm hungry."

"Lunch actually sounds like a good idea," Petra says as she hops off of Rapidash's back. "Everyone out!" She launched her Pokeballs, revealing her Onix, Spearow, a Milotic, and an Eevee. Rapidash stands beside the team as Thorn unleashes his Pokemon-Zoura, Growlith, and Dewott-Thunder and Braviery are already out.

As they enjoy a lunch made up of sandwiches, juice, and Pokemon food-made from the night before-Thorn still looks a little bit uneasy, often casting a few looks at the trees as if expecting to be attacked. "Hey, Thorn, are you okay?" asks Petra after he looks at the trees again.

"I feel wierd," he says, nibbling on the edge of a sandwich as he continued to look at the trees.

Persian says, "Do you feel as if you're gonna be sick? Cause if you are, do it over there."

"Not a sore stomach," replies Thorn, "I just feel like there's something nearby."

About a minute later, Thorn's head jerks up. Thins time, he knows where whatever's causing him to feel uneasy is. Everyone watches as he calls Zoura and Growlith to him, and then, they stand up and run off. Petra and the rest of the Pokemon soon follow after they pack up lunch.

When they finally catch up to Thorn, they find that he's stopped and Growlith is sniffing in the direction that they were heading. "This had better be good, Thorn!" says Persian, panting.

"Growlith's got something," says Thorn, "There's something over there. Or someone." Then there comes a sound of a lot of people, or Pokemon, running down the path.

A bunch of Pokemon burst out of the trees and are darting towards them. "Scatter," yells Petra. Everyone quickly scrambles to the sides as they rush past. Then, one of the Pokemon, a Lucario, stops and gives a bark, causing the rest of Pokemon to a stop. The Lucario turns to where Thorn is hiding. Thorn stands up, as do the rest of his Pokemon, all of them staring at Lucario.

The presence that Thorn had been feeling seemed to be direted at the Lucario. "Is it really you, Riolu?" he asks the Pokemon, using the name of the previous evolution.

Lucario looks himself over and says something. Persian comes out of the bushes then and says, "He says it's him."

Petra steps out of the bushes with her Pokemon and is approached by a Gardevoir. "You...evolved," murmured Petra. The Gardevoir hugs Petra, who returns it happily.

Thorn's other Pokemon come forward to meet Lucario and Petra's Pokemon come out into the open to reunite with Gardevoir. The Spearow lands on Gardevoir's shoulder and starts lightly pecking at her face.

Lucario looks at Thorns team, then turns to him as if to ask, where'd these guys come from?

"Uh, long story old buddy." Turning to the rest of the Pokemon, he asks, "but, where'd these guys come from?"

Lucario gives a couple of grunts, and Persian translates, "They're Pokemon like him; they were kidnapped by Team Rocket, some from their trainers too."

Thorn's face darkens in anger. "Don't worry, guys," he says to the Pokemon, "I'll make sure that Team Rocket pays for what they've done."

A new voice suddenly says, "Team Rocket pay for taking what's rightfully theirs? I don't see how that will work, little trainer."

Out steps the Team Rocket Elite that had attacked the Pokemon the night before. She has long, light blue, wavy blue hair and wears a TR uniform. She has pure black eyes and her Pokeballs are on a strap around her shoulder. A Mega Stone is pinned at the end of her hair, whch is in a braid.

"Who are you?" asks Petra, protectively standing in front of Gardevoir and the rest of the Pokemon.

"I am the Siren," says the Elite, smiling coldly. Thorn looks at her teeth and realizes that some of them are pointed.

Persian jerks as if he had just ben hit by a Thunderbolt. He says in a shaky voice, "Guys, we need to go. Now."

They don't pay attention to him as Thorn asks, "What do you want, Siren?"

"Please. The Siren is my official title. As for why I'm here," she says in a silky voice laced with poison, "I was sent to re-capture the test experiments that had escaped from our experimental labs. So, I suggest that you pay attention to Persian and go. Now."

Upon hearing this, Petra looks into the eyes of Gardevoir, to discover that they're glowing faintly. She whispers, "What did they do to you?"

Thorn looks into Lucario's eyes as well and sees that Lucario's eyes are glowing also, as well as all of the other Pokmon that were with Lucario and Gardevoir. They all have glowing eyes.

"What did you do to them?" Petra demanded from the Siren. The Siren just says, "We made them stronger."

That made Petra snap. "Milotic! Use Ice Beam!" Milotic sprang forward, unleashing a beam of ice at the Siren. The Siren pulls out a Pokeball and says, "Exploude. Supersonic." The Exploude appears in a flash of light and unleashes a supersonic wave at the Ice Beam, destroying it and hitting Milotic.

"Guys, we need to run. NOW! We can't fight her!" Persian repeats again, louder.

"Persian! Take everyone to the Pokemon Center and tell Nurse Joy to get help. We'll hold her off while you guys get away. Thunder! Use Thunderbolt!" Thunder leaps off of Thorn's shoulder and shoots a bolt of lightning at Exploude.

Lucario and Gardevoir refuse to move from their tainers sides. "fine, you can help," says Thorn when he notices that they don't move.

The Pokemon follow Persian, and they flee. "Milotic! Return. Rapidash! I choose you!" yelled Petra

"You wish to battle children?" asked the Siren. Her mouth turned into a half-playful, half-scornful smile. "Then I will give you a battle to remember. Zororark! Appear!"

"Rapidash! Use Quick Attack!" ordered Petra. "Thunder! Use Volt Tackle!" orders Thorn. The respective Pokemon rushed forward, Rapidash surrounded in a pale white glow while Thunder was blanketed in yellow lightining as he struck Zororark.

A.N. (Forgive me here, everyone. I'm not that good at describing battles that I have to make up)

As the battle continued, Rapidash was knocked out by Exploude when it used Hyper Beam, and Spearow was defeated by a Seismic Toss. The Exploude was eventually defeated when Petra's Onix used Dig and Slam. So the Siren called out Hypnos.

Thunder nearly gets beaten by Zororark, so Thorn calls him back into his Pokeball and calls out Zoura, who attacks her evolved form with a will of fury. Zororark, however, manges to knock her out with a Shadow Claw, so Braviary is called up and manages to knock Zororark out with Brave Bird, but is hit by Zororark's Poison Jab and is later defeated by the Siren's Jigglypuff.

Petra's Onix faces against Hypnos. Hypnos defeats Onix, so Petra brings out Eevee,but is left unable to because of Hypnos's Psycic. When Hypnos tries to Knock Out Eevee, Gardevoir steps forward and uses Protect and Moonblast to defeat Hypnos.

Thorn defeats Siren's Jigglypuff with Growlith, so the Siren pulls out Gallade and Mega Evolves him. Then, Gallade knocks out Growlith with Brick Break, then fights Dewott and Gardevoir. Dewott is knocked out, so Thunder comes out. He isn't knocked out, but gets confused and gets unable to battle.

Gallade pretty badly defeats Gardevoir, and just as Gallade is about to knock her out, Lucario uses a Aura Sphere on him, blasting him backwards.

"You want to fight too, Lucario?" asks Thorn. Lucario nods as an affirmitive. "Alright then, Aura Sphere!" Lucario unleashes a blue sphere as Petra orders Gardevoir to use Moonblast. Gallade manages to dodge these attacks.

"Thorn, does Lucario know any physical attacks?" asks Petra, "I've got an idea."

"Yeah, he does actually. What's the plan?"

Petra doesn't answer, instead yelling, "Gardevoir, use Phsycic!" Gardevoir's eyes glow, and Gallade is soon trapped in a bright blue aura. "Now, Thorn!"

"Lucario! Bone Rush!" Lucario forms two glowing blue bones in his paws, then dashes forward and starts striking Gallade over and over again, untill he drops back and Gallade switches out of his Mega-evolution form.

"Impressive," says the Siren as she retrieves Gallade, but then suddenly stops. Petra and Gardevoir turn to see Thorn and Lucario bahted in red auras. "What the?" Petra starts to say, but then, Thorn and Lucario give joined yells. The red energy starts to come off the two of them, turning into red trendils and reaching for each other, as if to join. But they waver, and then fall. Thorn and Lucario also fall to the ground in exhaustion, as if they had both been fighting something.

The Siren lookes intrieged, "Yes, very impressive. But I can do better. Primarina! Let us battle together now!" Instantly, a seal-like Pokemon appears as Thorn and Lucario stagger upwards.

"For victory," says the Siren, and then, they combine. Primarina is surrounded in a veil of black water, which forms into a black crown on top of her hair. Her hair is in the same style as the Siren's, but her shoulders, back fins, and flippers are spiked, and the starfishes on Primarina's body looked more thinner and spiky.

Then, the Siren says in a calm voice, "Aqua Jet." Primarina shoots forward, crashing into Lucario and then Gardevoir. Both of them are left unable to move, and just as Primarina is about to use Hyper Beam on Lucario, a group of Pokemon suddenly appear from the trees, knocking into Primarina and the Siren. It's the Pokemon that had followed Persian to safety, apparently wanting to come back and save them.

Persian, in question, appears with five other Pokemon and says to Thorn and Petra, "I thought I told you kids to run! You can't stand against her! Now, let's get out of here!"

As the Pokemon and Trainers start to run, the Siren gets up and shoots a net from her net launcher at Thorn, which tangles around his feet. Persian, noticing this, launches himself at the Siren with Fury Swipes, giving her a few cuts on her face. "Move it!" yells Persian as he cuts the net holding Thorn with another Fury Swipes. Primarina starts to get up again, but Lucario blasts her down with another Aura Sphere. Then, they haul Thorn up and run.

But before they get out of the trees, the Siren comes to and yells at Primarina, "Separate the trainers!" Instantly, Primarina shoots a Water Gun between Thorn and Petra, causing them to separate. Primarina keeps on shooting at Thorn and Lucario, and Thorn realizes that they won't be staying.

"Looks like they won't keep us together! Petra!" yells Thorn, "we'll catch up with you later!" Lucario launches several Aura Spheres at the ground behind them, and when the dust clears for the Siren, both of the groups are gone. But she smiles to herself. She pulled out a communicator and says, "The Siren reporting in. Dagan, sir? I believe yet another of our experiments were sucessful. The leading Lucario had a trainer, and the two of them did something very interesting..."

(())

A while later, Petra, Persian, and the other Pokemon arrive at the Pokemon Center that they were at before. As some of them colapse on the ground, Petra asks Persian, "You knew the Siren. Who is she?"

"I thought that she was a rumor honestly," replied Persian, "Never actually met the Champions of Team Rocket. Giovanni kept them secret, very hush-hush. Nobody knew about them except the Boss. The Siren has Pokemon that can lull people and Pokemon to sleep with their singing. Lately, I've been hearing more rumors about the Siren, possibly spread by Team Rocket, that has spread fear into their enemies."

"How do we beat her?" aks Petra.

Persian looked up at her and says, "You can't. From what I've heard, the Siren always has one Pokemon that is always impossible to defeat. But that has to be a rumor. Or so I thought." He swallows nervously. "That Primarina kept on getting hit by Lucario's Aura Sphere. But then she was soon up and counter attacking! No Pokemon is able to shrug off that amount of damage like nothing! And if the Siren is able to bond with that Primarina like Ash with his Greninja, then we're in big trouble."

Petra asks, "Is that what Thorn and Lucario nearly did? Bonded with each other?"

Persian frowns, "I didn't arrive on time to see that part. What happened to them?"

She explains about the red energy that nearly connected between Thorn and Lucario. Afterwards, Persian says to her, "Sounds like bonding. But it seems like Thorn and Lucario weren't able to achieve it. They almost were, though." Then it strikes him, "That's what they did!"

Petra says, "Uh, excuse me? Who what did?"

"Team Rocket has been experimenting on Pokemon to make bonds!" exclaims Persian, "If the Siren's bonding with Primarina is any indicator, then Team Rocket has been sucessful in her case!"

A new voice says, "In who's case?"

The two of them turn to see a blond-gray haired women wearing a long black jacket, large, black earings, and had a Garchomp by her side. "Oh boy," says Persian, "It's Cynthia. The Sinnoh region Champion. Just who we need right now."

Yup. Cynthia is here! I hope that you enjoyed the chpater! See you in the next one, where we will get to Ash chasing the Resstless!