(A/N: Please review, need to know what I'm doing right and wrong)

Disclaimer:I don't own Pokemon, only the characters in this story. Dun, dun, duuunnn...

"Yeah we found him, now what?" I asked, crossing my paws over my chest. I was actually a bit uncomfortable in this human dwelling. Every human that passed, stared at us. Like a Caterpie in the middle of a flock of hungry Starapter. I shivered at the memory of what I saw, those Starapter were not friendly.

"Even you can't be that dense, Minimus," Plusis scowling at me as she continued. "We're gonna split those two up. I have an idea, but I don't know what the outcome will be."

Varia stared at the Plusle, seemingly going over the pro's and con's in her head. After a moment passed between us in silence, she finally nodded her head and leaned closer.

"Go on then, what's your idea?"

?? POV

A black fox-like quadruped crept quietly through the shadows of the trees and undergrowth. Even though it was daylight, he was still invisible to the naked eye. The fox-like creature silently watched as a female trainer threw a poke ball out and caught a Rattata. Which he had been hunting. He quietly growled under his breath as he watched the Trainer head for a nearby pokemon centre.

"And now that we've 'saved' you. You have to hold up your end of the bargain," a cheerful voice stated.

The fox's eyes pulsed blood red with excitement as he watched a small group of pokemon move up the path closer to his hidden location. I have the perfect bargain for you. He thought, running his tongue over his razor-like fangs.

Plusis' POV

I suddenly dashed across the street, headed towards the human and Eseus. The Espeon turned in surprise towards me just as I jumped in front of the human. I charged electrical energy in my cheeks and stared at the trainer with a determined look. In a second, Minimus and Varia were behind me, also demonstrating their strength. Eseus stared at us like all three of us had said we'd escaped Giratina, but he didn't comment.

"You wanna battle, huh?" The trainer said in a cocky fashion. Grabbing a red-and-white ball from his belt, he released the creature inside. A blue crocodile-like pokemon with a yellow underbelly appeared and growled in content at being let out of the ball.

"Let's make this quick," he scoffed. I hope for his sake that he doesn't take me lightly.

"Croconaw, use metal claw." The water type darted straight at me with his claws glowing white.

I jumped high into the air and charged electricity in my cheeks. The Croconaw jumped after me. When the pokemon came close enough, I released a full powered shockwave from my body, knocking the Croconaw from the air and sent him crashing to the ground. I safely landed on my feet a moment later.

"Croconaw, are you okay?" the trainer called, trace of worry in his voice. The water-type grunted and shakily stood up. My electric shockwave obviously had a huge effect on the water-type.

"Aqua tail."

"What?" Was all I could say as hi tail was suddenly slammed into my side. I winced in pain and looked at the side that had been hit. It was wet but other than that, there was no evidence that I had even been touched. I glared at the Croconaw as I once again charged energy into my cheeks.

"Hydro pump, Croconaw."

A small orb or water appeared in the pokemon's mouth and when he fired, a large burst of water shot towards me. I sidestepped the attack and released my fully charged thunder into the water. The thunder shot up the burst of water and within a few moments, the Croconaw was getting the shock of it's life. No pun intended of course.

The trainer sighed in defeat as he took out the red-and-white ball from earlier. A red light shot from the ball and absorbed the pokemon into it, leaving no traces of it ever coming into existence. The human grabbed another red-and-white ball from his belt and pushed the button releasing the pokemon inside. A big white fox with nine tails appeared and I immediately stepped back a couple of paces.

"Y-your turn Minimus," I managed to stutter out. I hid behind Varia's mermaid tail and tried as hard as I could to be invisible.

"W-what?" He squeaked, clearly horrified. I could tell from his voice that he was as frightened as I was, after-all when it came to potential predators, me and my brother tended to act on instincts and try to get as far away as possible. And if that doesn't work, (like with the Houndoom earlier) then we rely on each other and, if possible, friends to knock them out cold. However in situations like us having the type advantage against a predator, (e.g. the Croconaw) then we grab onto that advantage like a life-line.

"Y-you can't be serious," he stuttered. I blinked at him, just now noticing he was next to me.

"I guess I'll go then." We both looked up at Varia only to see her a few feet ahead of us, sitting down in front of the fox. I guess I should be used to her no nonsense demeanour by now but it still surprises me.

The fox stared at Varia coolly, as if it wasn't at a disadvantage. But as usual Varia didn't let something as small as intimidation bother her.

"Ninetails, flamethrower." The fire-type yawned in response.

For a second it didn't look like it would do anything, then it suddenly jerked it's jaws open and a massive stream of fire burst from it's mouth, aiming towards Varia. Varia didn't even flinch as she was engulfed in the flames and after a few moments the fire-type stopped the attack. When the flames died down Varia seemed mostly unharmed. Minimus let out a deep sigh, he must have been holding his breath.

The Vaporeon lazily opened her mouth and let loose a ring of water which continually expanded. The fox's eyes widened in shock and it jumped quickly out of the way. I heard giggling next to me and I turned to see Minimus rolling on the ground, trying to stifle his laughter. I prodded him in his side.

"What's so funny?"

"His eyes, they were so big," He wasn't making any effort to stop his laughter now as tears flowed freely from his eyes. I think he was talking about the Ninetails, I imagined the look on his face as he dived out of the way of the water pulse. I cracked a smile, I had to admit, it was pretty funny.

I looked back to the battle. The Ninetails was soaked and gasping for air as it ran around Varia, shooting off various fire attacks. Varia sat in the midst of it all, taking all the attacks without a hint of her attempting to dodge or protect herself, yet she seemed mostly unharmed. The Ninetails was just about to start a new lap around Varia, when she suddenly fired off blue lightning at the him. Because the fox's fur was soaked, the fox was frozen in a block of ice in seconds.

The trainer recalled the frozen one back into it's red-and-white ball before grabbing another. He released the pokemon inside. A green chameleon like creature with a red underbelly and a darker green tail appeared and stretched it's limbs.

Varia walked over to us and she gently nudged Minimus, "Your turn, Minimus" she said, careful not to startle the mouse. He looked up at her and when their eyes met he immediately turned away. He slowly moved closer to the gecko creature cautiously on all fours, watching for any sudden movements.

By now I had just noticed the small crowd of humans and pokemon alike around us, waiting for Minimus' battle. Why I didn't notice them before I'll never know, running away would be a lot harder now.

"Treecko, use dragon breath"

"What?" Was all Minimus could say. He was suddenly engulfed in a bluish purple flame. He shrieked in pain and when the flames stopped, he dropped weakly to the ground. That has got to hurt. He shakily got on all fours, glowing for a second, then he jumped forward with a glowing paw. He smacked the gecko across the face with it, but it looked like it did nothing.

"Treecko, recover the damage you took with mega drain."

The Treecko was suddenly surrounded in green energy then a moment later the green energy extended itself and absorbed Minimus into it holding him in mid air. The energy quickly turned red and released Minimus from the grip, all of the energy was then absorbed by the Treecko.

Minimus crashed into the ground but he managed to pull himself up onto his paws. He dashed towards the Treecko with both his paws glowing. He swiped them into the Treecko's face and managed to get three hits in, but the Treecko looked mostly unaffected, although the third looked like it did hurt.

I smiled as I finally realised what my brother was doing, but that smile turned into a frown a second later, he would need luck to survive the next few moments.

"Treecko, leaf storm."

The Treecko summoned hundreds, maybe thousands of leaves that continually swirled around him. He aimed his paws at Minimus and in response to his actions the leaves flew forward at a blinding speed.

Minimus shrieked in agony and even more so when the force of the leaves lifted him up and sent him crashing into a building, leaving a small indent in the stone.

"Minimus!" Both me and Varia cried out. I was too taken at the sight of my brother to even find the look on Varia's face amusing. If I did pay more attention though, I would have noticed the completely drastic change in her demeanour.

"I'm… ok…" He groaned, getting up off the ground. He made standing look like it took intense concentration. Which for him right now, it probably did.

"Finish with crush claw."

My eyes widened in shock and surprise as the Treecko darted towards where Minimus weakly stood. The grass-type jumped into the air with his right paw glowing silver. Suddenly a warm glow enveloped Minimus for a moment then it disappeared taking his pain and exhaustion with it. A look of pure determination crossed his eyes as his paw began to glow again. One thought crossed my mind as he leapt into the air towards the Treecko, ready to end it.

"He's so lucky."

Normal POV

An hour later, Minimus was happily gripping Varia around the neck as they walked through the forest they had originally come from. They had saved Eseus from the trainer (even though the trainer was too busy worrying about his three fainted pokemon to care about Eseus grabbing Minimus and running off with Varia and Plusis in tow) and the four of them were well on their way on finding the missing magnet. Even though Minimus had won the battle with the Treecko, he found it hard to walk on his own for some reason. So after they had gotten a fair distance away from the city, Eseus had willingly passed Minimus over to Varia who simply let him lay on her back.

The four were currently discussing what they would do next, seeing as how they never thought about what to do after they saved the Espeon.

"I have an idea, how about we go and find our magnet," Minimus mumbled. He was comfortable but whilst both his and his sister's magnet was still out there, he couldn't afford to mope around.

"We don't even know where it is, Minimus" Varia stated, calmly.

"Didn't you say earlier that it was in the city?" Plusis asked, walking next to Eseus.

"Yes but you two didn't sense it, did you?" She pointedly looked at Minimus when she said this. Suddenly he remembered something he had passed off as nothing at the time.

Flashback

All the humans tried to avoid us after that. On a stranger note, I was able to charge more electricity as a certain trainer walked by but I took no notice of it, I was probably just being cautious.

End Flashback

"So your telling me, we were basically next to the magnet and you passed it off as nothing but caution," Plusis shouted, pointedly ignoring a female trainer who looked at her strangely as she ran past, heading for the nearest pokemon centre.

"It's okay Plusis, we'll get that magnet in no-time, now that we have a psychic-type on our side-"

"Who says I'm going to help you find a stupid magnet? I don't even care," Eseus said, pointedly staring at Minimus.

"He did help save you, you know. And he only did it once he found out you said you'd help look for it" Varia growled, stopping in her tracks to glare at Eseus.

"And now that we've 'saved' you. You have to hold up your end of the bargain.," Minimus said cheerfully, obviously enjoying that Varia was clearly on his side.

"Erm… guys?" Plusis called out. The fear she felt was rivalled only by her expression.

"What is it, Plusis?" Varia asked, slightly annoyed and slightly curious. She turned to the shaking mouse besides Eseus, then noticed the direction she was staring at was behind them. Varia, Eseus and Minimus turned around to see a black quadruped, with a smirk on his muzzle, walking slowly towards them in the middle of the path.

"Why is there a dark-type walking slowly towards us during the day?"