The next morning, Ash awoke to the sounds of heavy footsteps, walking outside the door, he crawled off of the floor and stood in front of the door, he had to think of a way out! "You heard the boss, now give me that and get out of here!" Ash heard the boy from last night say, he backed away from the door and heard it unlock. His eyes fell upon the boy known as Dark Raven, "J wants you to have some of this and then, go and change," he said, placing a plate of food down on the table, Ash looked at the food, then at the boy, "I wouldn't be slow about it either, the boss doesn't have a lot of patience, but you already know that, don't you brat?" he laughed evily.

Ash glared at him and took a bit of toast from the plate and walked to the iron door, "Well…" Dark Raven then tapped a code in and the door slid open, revealing a corridor, he then led Ash down it until they reached a second door, Dark Raven shoved him inside, attaching something to his neck, Ash was unaware of this. He looked at the room; it was simple and plain. The colour scheme was grey and black. There was a small single bed on the left side of the room, there was also a table and a chair situated in the centre of the room, on the table, there were six Pokéballs, as well as the gadgets that J used, including a set of goggles and a canon, Ash's eyes fell upon a note, he walked over to the table and picked it up, skim reading it,

Dear Brat,

This will be your new home and these Pokémon will be your new team members, get to know them and try to bond with them, inside the wardrobe will be your new uniform, put it on and meet me in the control room at 12:00 sharp. Out the door, turn right, then left, then left again, you'll come to a large door, I'll be waiting in there. Test the gadgets out as well and remember, you betray me and everyone you know and love will suffer.

Your mistress

J

Ash slammed the note down in anger, he couldn't believe her. He decided to look at his uniform and opened the wardrobe doors, inside hung a blue short sleeved T-shirt and long black jeans with black clompy boots, next to the main outfit was a black leather jacket with a black cap and black fingerless gloves, similar to the ones Ash wore. He pulled the clothes out and chucked them on the table, he then thought about his team and was curious to know which Pokémon he had, so he threw the six Pokéballs in the air, 'Hmm, interesting team. Flareon, Weavile, Frillish, Bronzong, Galvantula and Flygon,' Ash thought as he stared down at them. "Hi everyone, my name is Ash and we are going to be working together, so say hi to everyone and don't run off, I'm just going to change, okay?" he said with a weak smile, picking up his clothes and locking himself in the bathroom.

After splashing his face with water and dabbing his face dry, he pulled on the new clothes and left the bathroom, "Well, how do I look, guys?" he spun round to show his Pokémon his new look, they all spoke in approval, well actually, all except Flareon, who simply nodded. Ash noticed her behaviour, "Okay guys, get some rest for now, we've got a long day ahead of us," he picked up five of the Pokéballs and returned the male members of the team, he picked up his goggles and other gadgets, placing them on his person, he noticed Flareon, she was giving him an evil look, "Okay, what's wrong, Flareon?" he asked, crouching down to her level, she rubbed up against him sadly, "I know, but listen to me. I promise that I will get you and the others out of here, I promise you from the bottom of my heart, okay?" she nodded and placed her paw on her Pokéball that Ash had in his hand, returning herself inside. Ash glanced at the clock that was on the wall, it red 11:30. He tilted his cap and left his room.

He reached the control room and the door immediately opened, he walked in to see J, sitting in her chair, along with Dark Raven, "Ah, Night Crawler, come and join us. The new uniform suits you," she said with a sly smile, thankfully Ash had his goggles on already so she couldn't see the evil glare embedded in his brown eyes, "Alright men, listen up. We need to capture a Seaking and not just one, but five. Set a course for the waterfall, just on the outskirts of Viridian City," Ash gasped. That was right near where Misty had hauled him out of the river, the first day of his journey, "Once we arrive there, Dark Raven, Night Crawler and I will deal with unwanted characters, whilst the rest of you find the Seaking, got it!"

"Sir!" all except Ash said, Dark Raven nudged him and told him to say it, but he refused, J clapped her hand on Ash's shoulder, twisting him round,

"Remember what I said, Night Crawler?" he looked down at his feet and walked away, J smiled sinisterly as she watched him walk towards one of the control operators.

Luna hadn't slept a wink last night, her brain had been working overtime. She looked at her Piplup clock and threw her covers off. She quickly pulled her clothes on and did her hair into a plait, she along with Pichu and Pikachu snuck out of the house at 10:00. She had to get to Professor Oak's lab and inform him of the news, she had Pidgeot, Aerodactyl and Gallade's Pokéballs on her as well. She reached Oak's laboratory and banged on the door, "Alright, alright, sheesh," she heard Samuel grumble, "Luna? What's with the…" he trailed off when he saw Pikachu perched on her left shoulder, "Why is Pikachu -" then his computer began to make noises, which drew his attention. Luna scooted over and tapped in the password, Tracey's face appeared on the screen,

"Professor? Oh hi Luna," Tracey said, realising that he was talking to the new assistant, "Someone needs to get over to Viridian City as soon as possible, there is a mysterious group of people here," Professor Oak joined the trainer and Tracey continued, "Misty and I will investigate their actions, but we will need backup," he said, hanging up. Samuel scratched his head, deep in thought.

Luna noticed this and shot a look at the two mice Pokémon, Pikachu who was sitting on the side next to the computer, started talking and pointing, even though Luna couldn't understand him, she could guess what he was saying, "Alright Pikachu, let's do it! You in Pichu?" the baby Electric type nodded and swapped shoulders, she slowly pushed herself up from the chair and ran to the door, "Pidgeot, let's go!" she shouted, tossing a Pokéball into the air, releasing the Bird Pokémon, she climbed on his back and was about to take flight when, Professor Oak stopped her, "I'll explain everything later, Professor, I promise," he nodded and waved her off as she took to the air.

Meanwhile, just on the outskirts on Viridian City, Misty and Tracey were following the mysterious group of men, they were heading towards the river that Misty had scooped Ash out of, long ago. It had been Misty's idea to tail them, "Are you sure we shouldn't wait for backup?" he said for about the fifth time,

"Your going to need more than just backup! Ariados, String Shot!" commanded a woman's voice which caused the two kids to turn and jump, "Dark Raven! Night Crawler! Take care of these fools!" the woman flew towards the river, leaving the two apprentices to deal with Misty and Tracey.

Night Crawler couldn't believe his unfortunate luck. He was faced with his oldest friend and Professor Oak's assistant, then something flew above the four trainers heads, "You take care of these two, I'm going to take care of whatever that was. Flygon, let's go!" he gently kicked the Pokémon in the side and he took to the sky and found a girl, riding a Pidgeot, "Use Flamethrower!" he shouted, causing the girl to turn round and dodge it quickly. She turned to face him and that was when he noticed Pikachu and Pichu on her shoulders, 'Its her, the girl whose name I didn't get yesterday,' Ash thought to himself,

Luna glared at the strange boy and glanced at Pikachu who nodded, "I don't know who you are or what your doing here, but I think you should leave before you cause a problem," Ash heard her words and told Flygon to use Dragon Pulse, "Quick, dodge it Pidgeot! Pikachu and Pichu, use Thunderbolt!" Luna said, as she was flown higher as to avoid the Dragon Pulse. Unfortunately, Pichu knocked itself unconscious and fell from Pidgeot's wing, "Pichu!" suddenly, Aerodactyl released herself from her Pokéball and swooped under Pichu, saving her, "Nice save Aerodactyl,"

"Pika pika?" Pikachu asked in a worried tone, Pichu smiled warmly. Pikachu joined her on Aerodactyl's back and growled at the boy.

It broke Ash's heart to see his best friend turn on him, but he tried not to show his pain and looked at the girl, "So tell me, what's your name? Lowlife? Pathetic loser?" she spat in hatred,

"Names Night Crawler, now get out of here if you don't want to get hurt!"

Suddenly, J appeared behind Luna and Salamence used Dragon Pulse on her and Pidgeot, sending them to the ground, Pikachu, Aerodactyl and Pichu were still airborne and Pikachu used Thunderbolt out of pure anger on Salamence, allowing Night Crawler to rescue Luna before she impacted the ground, he pulled out Pidgeot's Pokéball and returned him inside. He and Flygon landed and he gently placed the unconscious girl down on the grass and quickly retreated back to join J, "Mission complete Sir, we have acquired seven Seaking in total," rang the voice of Dark Raven through J's headset,

She smiled evily and then radioed back, "Good, transport the targets, we are on our way," she then turned to Night Crawler and grinned slyly, "I thought I told you -"

"Not to help my friends, yeah, you did, but you seem to be forgetting that I told you not to hurt my friends, plus, she doesn't count, I don't even know her name," he snapped, gently kicking Flygon in the side, causing him to fly towards the ship, J and Salamence followed.

"Forget it Tracey, we've been stuck in this gooey stuff for ages," Misty complained, struggling to free herself. They had both taken on a character known as Dark Raven and they had won the battle, but he had pulled a sneaky move, using Skorupi. At the end of the battle, he had released the Poison/Bug type and had told him to use String Shot on Tracey, Misty and their Pokémon, they had been helpless to stop him in stealing seven Seaking.

Then Tracey had an idea and began to fumble in his pocket for his Pokéball, "Scyther, use Cut on these threads," he said, barely throwing the ball, Scyther appeared and used its command, freeing the four of them from their binds, "Thanks Scyther, now return," Tracey and Misty then placed their other Pokémon back inside their balls,

They began to wander down the path when all of a sudden, "Pi pika?!" Misty sprinted in the direction of the cry and eventually, came across a Pichu, Pikachu and Aerodactyl, all standing over a girl. Misty coughed to get their attention and the three Pokémon turned, Pikachu bounded over to her, jumping into her arms, "Chu pi pikachu!" he nuzzled her face happily and quickly jumped back onto the floor, pointing at Luna,

"Luna? What happened? Can you hear me?" Tracey said, shaking her shoulders gently, she moaned softly, "She's waking up. Luna, are you okay? Say something please?"

Misty noticed that he was bombarding the girl with lots of questions, she placed her hand on his shoulder, "Let the kid breathe Tracey," he looked round at the red head and nodded.

Luna's eyes bolted open and she came face to face with Pikachu, "Pikachu! Girls! Your all okay!" she said as they bundled on top of her, as they removed themselves, she saw Tracey and Misty, "Tracey? What happened? Whose this? What did those guys want?" she stood to her feet, but collapsed again. Gallade's Pokéball fell to the ground, allowing him to be released, he saw his trainer on the floor and scooped her up in his arms and jumped into the treeline, followed swiftly by Misty, Tracey, Pikachu, Pichu and Aerodactyl. Aerodactyl flew the two Pokémon towards Viridian City which was where Gallade was taking Luna. The two humans were out of breath and panting heavily, Misty told Tracey to stay with the three Pokémon whilst she went inside to find Luna.

Nurse Joy smiled warmly at her and indicated to the room on her left, Misty thanked her and walked in to see Gallade, standing over her protectively, Luna was lying on top of the bedsheets, with her left ankle bandaged, she was awake and looked at Misty, "Hey, your that girl from the path who was with Tracey? Wait, where is he and my team?" Misty laid a reassuring hand on Luna's and smiled. Misty told her that Tracey was outside with them, "Thank goodness… Oh, where are my manners? I'm Luna,"

"Misty, I specialise in Water Pokémon and I'm currently the Cerulean City gym leader," Luna looked at her in shock and said how awesome it had to be, "Yeah, its pretty cool I guess. Do you mind telling me who those guys were earlier?" as Misty said this, Tracey walked in with Pichu and Pikachu, Aerodactyl had moved round to the window.

Luna put her hand to her head, she didn't know herself, then she began to tell them about Ash's disappearance, which had Tracey in shock and Misty close to tears, Pikachu tried to comfort her. "Well, I'd better get home, my mom is probably going out of her head with worry, if I see or hear anything about Ash, I'll be sure to let you guys know," she said, pulling the gym leader in for a tight hug, who gave a fake smile, Luna extended her hand for Tracey to shake, which he took,

"I guess we had better spread the word," Misty sniffed, propping herself on the bed, Luna glanced at her, "Well, its not just me and Tracey who know him, there's May and her little brother Max and I'm sure there's more that they know, I'll give her a call tomorrow. You take care of yourself Luna, I'm sure we will meet again, oh and one more thing," Luna turned on her heel as Misty spoke, "Promise me you'll take care of Pikachu," Luna winked at the redheaded girl and left the room, with Gallade and the two mice Pokémon.

Aerodactyl gave her a ride home and dropped her outside Oak's laboratory, "Thanks Aerodactyl, you were a big help today, now return," she said with a small smile, she then turned and walked into the lab and immediately spotted Samuel, sitting on the sofa, "Professor Oak, are you okay?" she approached him slowly, until Pikachu jumped down from her shoulder and ran over to him, startling the old man, "Professor?"

Samuel looked up and stared at the black haired trainer, "Ah, Luna. You wanted to tell me something?" he said, beckoning her forward.

Ash slumped back onto the bed. 'What an awful day,' he thought to himself as he removed his goggles and carefully placed them in the table, he had come into contact with two of his many friends and had nearly fought against them, but instead, he had faced the girl without a name and she had nearly ended up dead, "How could J do that?" he whispered angrily to himself. KNOCK KNOCK! "Come in," he forced himself to sit up, he took his cap off and ran his hand through his messy black hair, "Dark Raven? What do you want?" Ash didn't meet the boys eyes. He wanted nothing to do with any of J's team, let alone her or her other apprentice.

He did however take in the boys appearance; pale skin with short scruffy blonde hair and bright blue eyes, his uniform was similar yet different to Ash's, he had a long sleeved navy top on with a non sleeved jacket on, he had brown pants with murky green shoes, his canon was still attached to his arm, he folded his arms in annoyance, "Oh come on now, that's no way to treat your best friend," he sneered, advancing towards Ash. Flareon, who had become Ash's favourite Pokémon, heard the second boy and jumped up from where she had been resting on the bed, bearing her teeth at him, which surprised both Ash and Dark Raven, "Actually, I wanted to commend you on a job well done today," he said, trying not to look intimidated by the female Pokémon, he turned away and walked to the doorframe, "By the way, names Luca," and he left Ash and Flareon alone.

Ash scratched the Fire type between the ears and smiled thankfully down at her, "Remind me never to get on your bad side," he said, sighing deeply and pulling his jacket off, along with his canon.

"I see, well there is nothing we can do now, I assume Delia and Rebecca have reported it to Officer Jenny?" Luna shrugged. They said they were going to but whether they did or not was another story as she hadn't been home, "I'll get in touch with Gary, he left for Sinnoh just after you and Ash left last night. I'll see to Pidgeot too while your here," the black haired girl handed him her Pokéball and he placed it in a scanner, "There, your all ready for tomorrow. Oh, Luna child, you may need this," Professor Oak produced two airplane tickets, they were for the Kalos region, she stuffed them in her backpack, but wore an expression of confusion, "I want you to head to Kalos tomorrow and meet Professor Sycamore, okay?" she nodded and left the lab.

When she finally arrived home, she heard her mother talking to someone, "Are you sure? I mean, you don't have any proof that -"

"It was. Just make sure she stays out of the way, got it?" it was a male on the other end, but Luna couldn't tell who, she had never heard a man be so abrupt with a lady, especially her mom,

Rebecca sighed and nodded sadly, "Its not going to be easy Frank and you know that, Luna is the type of kid who won't give up, I'll try but I'm not making any promises," and the screen went blank.

Luna, still outside was disgusted with the guy, 'How dare he talk to Mom like that,' she thought crossly, 'What did he mean by "stay out of the way?" I'll have to ask Mom,' she opened the door, surprising her mother, "Hey Mom, did you report Ash's disappearance to Officer Jenny?" her mother didn't reply, "Who was that?"

"Who was who dear?" Rebecca asked, trying to sound causal,

Luna shook her head, Pikachu and Pichu both noticed a change in the young girls eyes, they both jumped from her shoulder and onto the staircase, "That guy who was giving you a mouthful like two minutes ago, why did you let him speak to you like that?" she went to the cupboard and pulled out a box of Pokémon food, putting some down for the two Electric types, again Rebecca didn't answer, "Mom, is there something your not telling me?"

"Luna, you wouldn't understand,"

'This is something pretty big, normally Mom would tell me everything and anything,' Luna tried to shrug her mom's attitude off and decided to busy herself by cooking some food.