"Let me get this straight. You want me to fight their garchomp?" I asked.

Derek nodded. "Yes. It will use draco meteor right of the bat. You use sketch, copy that, and then the plan goes on."

I sighed. "Fine. Let's get this over with." I walked into the training room, ready to start our outrageous plan. The training room is just one large metal room in which there are cages for pokemon. You select what pokemon you want to fight, they release it, and you battle.

I walked up to the pokemon selector. It was just a basic computer in which you pick which pokemon you want to fight. Scrolling down, I selected the mach pokemon. I heard its cage open, and turned to face it. These pokemon were untrained. They were ruthless and, well, evil. They only think of one thing: how to kill the person their fighting.

It roared at me, and I swallowed. I was actually quite scared of dragon pokemon. My old trainer had me fight a dragonite, and it had nearly eaten me. Now, even the sight of a dragon pokemon was enough to make me want to faint.

Just as Derek said, it shot a glowing orb of orange light into the air. This was it. I stood up on my hands and pointed my tail straight up. It started to glow white.

The orb exploded, and smaller spheres started to rain down. I stayed there, not moving a muscle, even when a couple of them hit me. When the attack was finally over, I went back to my feet. I could now use draco meteor.

That was when the other three jumped out. Zack, his gloves off, was shooting green orbs of energy at it. His fingernails were red on his right hand, blue on his left. Delilah was jumping up and smacking it across the face, and Derek was sending beams of fire flying at it. It was only a matter of minutes before it went down.

"Good," Derek said. "Let's roll." We all ran out of the room, and instead of going back to our small prison, we went to the large metal door that sealed us off from the rest of the lab.

I held my hands out, where an orange sphere appeared. Derek and Zack held their hands out as well. A green orb appeared in front of Zack, and fire started to appear in front of Derek. We let our attacks loose at the door. My attack hit the door and exploded into the smaller spheres, which hit the hinges of the door. Derek's attack expanded out into five points, where it hit the door and hung there. The door started to glow red from the heat.

Zack let his attack loose his orb, and it hit Derek's square in the center. The door exploded. We were able to escape.

An alarm started to sound. "Run!" Derek yelled. We all took off down the hall. We wove in and out of hallways, seeing guards chasing us and going to get reinforcements. We needed to find an exit fast.

We turned a corner, and found a window. At last, we could escape.

That's when Jared appeared.

He came around the corner by the window and smiled at us. "Good evening. I must admit, this escape plan of yours was quite impressive. Unfortunately, now it comes to an end."

Derek growled and shot fire at the evil creature. Derek didn't even try to move. "Now, now, there's no need for violence."

A large jet of water intercepted Derek's attack, and it disappeared. We all stared as a new pokemorph appeared.

It was a woman with long crimson red hair that seemed to split at the top of her head and fall down opposite sides of her back. She had red eyes topped with thin crimson eyebrows. She held a fan that seemed to be made of scales from a milotic tail. She wore a sparkling cream shirt and designer jeans.

She was a milotic pokemorph.

She fanned herself and sighed. "My, my, what a hot night it is. Why would you do this to poor Alice? I was sitting in my room, applying my bedtime makeup, and then the alarm goes off. What could that be, I wondered. Then Jared shows up and tells me that rebels have escaped. Alice doesn't approve of this escape attempt. Now, why don't we throw you back into the pit you crawled out of?"

Delilah smiled evilly. "Why, if it isn't Airhead Alice. You look smarter than last time we met. Did you finally reach one I.Q. point?"

Alice blushed. "Yes, if it isn't Dopey Delilah. Still can't do more than sing and slap, can you? At least I can learn more than two moves."

Now it was Delilah's turn to blush. "At least I have natural beauty. You wear more makeup than all of Johto."

Alice smiled. "Let us stop this silliness." She moved away from the window. "If you wish to leave, by all means, do so. Unfortunately, I have recently filled the gorge with water. I just love a beautiful lake. Don't you, Derek?"

Derek ground his teeth together. His face had paled.

"What's wrong?" I whispered to Delilah.

"Derek was originally a flareon. He absolutely hates water." I still didn't get it. Delilah sighed. "He can't swim."

Alice laughed. "Facing a dilemma, aren't you? I suggest you hurry. The guards will be here in about a minute."

I leaned over to Derek and whispered in his ear. "Are you able to float?"

He shook his head. "I sink like a rock."

I thought about it. Then it hit me. "I've got it. Get ready to run towards the window." He nodded.

Alice fanned herself some more. "Tick-tock, you four. Only thirty seconds left."

I looked at the others. They nodded. We all took off towards the window. Alice and Jared stepped in front of it, but I sent a draco meteor at them. They jumped way, and it broke the window.

"Delilah," I called, "grab hold of Derek." She grabbed his arm, and we all jumped out of the window.

Out the window, it was a straight drop down into a lake. I hoped this worked. I sent another draco meteor straight down at the surface of it. It sunk without exploding.

We all landed in the lake. Delilah was struggling to keep Derek up. "What now, genius?" She yelled at me.

I waded in the water. "Just wait a second." Come on, my plan had to work.

Then, I felt a shock go through the water. My attack finally exploded, and the water erupted under us. We were shot into the air and towards dry land. Unfortunately, I didn't really come up with a way to land.

We all flew, screaming like crazy, into a bunch of trees. We all tumbled through them, and landed ungracefully onto the ground.

I stood up. "Well, I guess that kind of worked."

Derek was on his knees coughing up water. "Yes, an amazing idea," he said sarcastically.

Delilah stood up as well. "Well, at least we made it out."

Zack helped Derek to his feet. "We cannot stay here. We must get away from the lab tonight."

We all nodded, and started off into the forest. It was slow going, due to Derek having to throw up about every five minutes, but we eventually made it out of the woods. We faced a large range of mountains. Great, now we get to go rock climbing.

"Looks like you four could use a lift."

We looked up to see two dragonites, a charizard, and a flygon decend. The charizard stepped forward. "You all are quite the sight. What exactly are you?"

We looked at each other. "We're experiments from the nearby lab," Derek said. He then ran back to the forest to hurl some more.

The flygon looked at us sympathetically. "I remember flying by that lab and saw some of their experiments. It was awful."

Delilah nodded. "It is awful. Do you guys think you could give us a lift over the mountains?"

The first dragonite nodded. "Sure. There's a town just beyond here. We were going by there anyway. Hop on and enjoy the ride!"

We all thanked them and climbed onto their backs.

"Now, if you are going to throw up again, make sure you warn me first so I can lean sideways a bit," The flygon said as Derek climbed unsteadily onto it.

Once we were all mounted, the pokemon took off. I was on the back of the charizard. I didn't even have to hold on. All I had to do was stay right between his wings.

"You can go ahead and rest," he said to me. I nodded, leaned against his back, and was out in a matter of minutes.