Jim looked down on the small trickles of blood dripping from his cut cheek in surprise. His whole world had just become one of flying glass and loud noise, and he was struggling to get to grips with it.

Sandra reacted far quicker though. Diving behind the sofa she reached down to her belt and threw 3 pokeballs into the air. All 3 flew open, smoke releasing from them, followed by Pokemon bursting through in a bright light – the effect made if very hard to focus for a moment.

Instantly she called out to the deep purple Gengar who had emerged from one of the pokeballs

"Shadow, plan 3".

The Gengar nodded its head and faded into nothing, slipping from site. The other two Pokemon, a Xatu with a huge wingspan and one of the most beautiful Pokemon Jim had ever seen, a very pale looking Ninetails, stood ready to attack.

Jim's own Pokemon, Sandy the Growlithe and Secard the Shinx, jumped in front of him as well... sofa still between them and the window that had been shattered moments before.

As the smoke from Sandra's pokeballs drifted Jim was able to start making out shapes outside the house. As he was squinting through the slowly dissipating smoke a huge gust of wind rushed through the now empty window frame, forcing Jim to duck down in front of the sofa.

The gust cleared the smoke from the room, and once the job was done the wind stopped. Jim risked a moment to poke his head above the sofa and look outside, where two humans stood, dressed entirely in black, covering them from head to foot. Above them hovered a Skarmory, huge steel wings beating slowly, improbably managing to keep its giant weight airborne.

In front of them stood the very large mouthed Pokemon – Loudred. This Loudred looked especially menacing, being a least a half again the size of any of its type that Jim had seen on TV.

The Skarmory gave a large screech of noise from its shiny metallic beak and swooped down at the window. It's wings were far too wide to get through but rather than bounce off the wall, as Jim was hoping would happen to the bird Pokemon, its razor sharp wings tore through the bricks and window frame like they weren't there.

Sandra was quick off the mark though, and as the bird smashed through the wall her Ninetails leapt forwards

'flamethrower' she called, and her Ninetails responded instantly, a huge rush of searing hot flames rushing from its mouth and smashing into the metallic bird.

The Skarmory gave out a screech of pain but continued, slamming into the fire Pokemon, sending it reeling. But the confines of the house, and the burning attack it had taken, were too much for the Skarmory and, as it flew upwards to try escape, it smashed into the ceiling and fell down to Earth, twitching but obviously not able to take part in any sort of battle.

However the Loudred had taken advantage of the confusion its battle mate had caused and had leapt through the now destroyed window area and as Jim and Sandra turned their attention to it the loud voiced Pokemon lived up to its name by issuing a huge sound of deafening proportions.

The sound was so great Jim was unable to think. Hitting the floor with his hands over his ears all he could do was writhe in agony, his two Pokemon next to him. Sandra was fairing little better, herself down on her knees whilst both her Ninetails and her Xatu were also forced from their feet.

Eventually though the Loudred had to stop for breath and, oddly as far as Jim could see, started stamping its feet in what he would, in other circumstances, have called a comic way. It was in that moment Secard, his Shinx, surprised him. Reacting quicker than even Sandra's Pokemon he leapt forward, fur again sparking with electricity, and hammered into the Loudred, sending it stumbling backwards, off balance.

Sandra saw her chance,

'Falto' she called 'physic'. The Xatu didn't move from its position on the floor, but its eyes started to glow an odd purple color. Suddenly the Loudred squealed in paid and collapsed to its knees, hands holding its head.

At that moment the door from the hallway where the two policemen were burst open, and through it ran three more black clad people, gender almost impossible to tell under the loose fitting black clothing.

'Come on' Sandra shouted to Jim, ears still not right and making her voice far too loud 'quickly, we need to get out of here'.

She took a few steps towards the bewildered Jim, grabbed him by the collar and yanked him around the sofa and towards the gaping hole in the wall. He finally cottoned on to what Sandra was doing and started running of his own accord, Secard and Sandy following close behind.

From her own point of view Sandra recalled her Xatu and Ninetails into their pokeballs whilst running at full pace. As they got through the hole in the wall Jim remembered that the two that they had battled were just here, but Sandra was aware and turned sharply once through the hole and sprinted to the side gate, with the two previous opponents shouting and chasing after them, followed closely by the 3 that had just appeared in the house.

Jim and Sandra, as well as Jim's Pokemon, made it through the side gate ahead of the chasing opponents and Sandra led him down a side alleyway, before ducking through what looked to be a solid wall.

'shh' she told him, indicating not to make a noise...