So, here is the fourth chapter. This is a very important chapter, and you will soon see why. Lately, I have been thinking about having the readers become more involved by accepting OC's. It's a tough choice…

Chapter 4: The DNA Splicers

Sakura and I decided that we would go meet Eddie, who said he would land in Celadon City. I was not a big fan of Celadon City. Not anymore. It was now a ruinous city with a thick coating of smog. I knew that it had a pollution problem, but it just got ridiculous after the Poké Virus outbreak and Team Plasma took over the world. We walked into the city, and we knew we did because we heard the squishing of the grime beneath our feet. I held my tail high, so it would not get stuck in the filthy grime. Sakura had done the same thing. Grimer and Koffing filled the streets and the open air between the buildings. Empty bottles, both glass and plastic covered the streets. So did cigarette butts, soda cans, plastic bags, wrappers, forks, you name it! The city had gone into an unforgettable panic when Team Plasma had come around. We went to the south of town, where the old Gym was. It had burned down. Sakura and I were waiting for Eddie by a heap of charred rubble and long dead plants. A gray plane with the Team Plasma insignia on it descended right by the rubble. Eddie hopped out of the cockpit and was holding a small steel box. I began, "Is that…?"

"Yep. The DNA Splicers," Eddie nodded. "We have to sabotage the plane, and fast. Otherwise, Ghetsis could be able to track my plane." With that, Sakura dashed past Eddie, hopped into the cockpit, and jammed a hidden knife into the controls. Eddie approved, "Yeah. Like that." He tore the Plasma insignia off of his uniform. He opened the box and Sakura looked inside. I looked, too, and found myself looking at some sort of oddly shaped needle. I thought of what the gray needle was capable of. It had the power to fuse Kyurem to Reshiram or Zekrom. My fur stood on end. I glanced over to Sakura, and I noticed she was shivering at the thought of Ghetsis having the Splicers in his hands. I squeezed her hand and gave her a smile of reassurance. She smiled back at me. Eddie looked at us and said, "Okay, save the Morph love for when we get back to Saffron." We both blushed, and Sakura gave him an angry glare. We all ran back to Saffron City. Eddie was not a particularly fast runner, so every now and then, Sakura and I had to stop and wait for him. We continued like this all the way to the hideout.

"Hey, Eddie," Ziggy greeted as we walked in. "What's in the box?"

"A piano," Eddie told him sarcastically. Ziggy swiped the box from him.

"There's no piano in here. Ooh! A popsicle!" Ziggy picked up the Splicers.

"No! That object is the DNA Splicers!" Sakura panicked. "It's funny, though. 'Splicers' sound plural, but this is only one thing."

"Oh! Okay. Sorry," Ziggy put the Splicers back in the box. I gave him a pat on the head and realized that Ralph would have done the same thing. I suddenly really missed the Sceptile Morph. I walked over to the couch to find Dawn curled up on it. She was staring at something in her hand. It was a gold heart attached to a chain, and the chain was around her neck. I then realized that she was staring sadly at a locket that Lucas must have given her before Team Plasma took him away. She was humming a song—a country song, I believed. Every three to five minutes, she would alternate songs, but there were only two that she would hum. When she was done with one, she would hum the other, and when she was done with that one, she went back to the first one.

"The poor thing," Misty mumbled softly, so Dawn could not hear her.

"Yeah," Ash quietly agreed.

"Who is that?" Eddie whispered into my ear. I realized that we had found Dawn after he left for the Sevii Islands.

"This is Dawn, the first ever Poké Morph, and Ash and Misty's old friend," I explained quietly. Dawn may have only been humming, but I could tell that she had a beautiful dinging voice. She switched songs again. This song was a little faster than the other.

"She was humming these songs earlier. She even told me the names of the songs," Leon stated proudly. "The faster one is 'Mine' by Taylor Swift, and the other one is 'Enchanted' by…Taylor Swift. I just realized that they are by the same artist."

"They're on the same album," Sakura stated. "They must remind her of…you know."

"Actually, I don't," Eddie reminded her that he just met Dawn and did not know her story. Ash took him upstairs to explain.

"Do you remember we were sitting there by the water? You put your arm around me for the first time," Dawn sang softly, almost inaudibly. She was flipping the locket over and over in her palms as she sang.

"She told me they were two of her favorite songs," Leon told us. It was clear in my mind now. Leon was the one out of all of us who Dawn would talk to most; who she felt most comfortable talking to. He had somehow made it clear to her that he was a good listener. He was her friend. We all were her friends, but Dawn was talking to Leon more than she was talking to Ash, who she had known for years. She went back to humming.

"You're doing a great job, Leon," I commended him for doing his best to comfort her.

"That's it," Eddie marched downstairs and said firmly. "I hate Team Plasma more than ever, now. I'll see to it that fighting them from the inside will get me somewhere."

"You already did," Misty claimed and gestured to the steel box that had been put on an arm of the couch. I looked at the needle in the box. The thought of what it could be used for was almost as chilling as Kyurem itself. I could not describe how scared I would be if I was face-to-face with Ghetsis and Kyurem. Rather than thinking about it, I looked over at Leon, and the Shinx Morph was leaning on the back of the couch, watching Dawn play with her gold plated locket and listening to her hum.

"Hey, Hyron," Ziggy called out my name. I faced the Zigzagoon Morph, interested in what he could have to say. "What are we going to do with the DNA Splicers?"

"I don't know," I answered honestly. Now that we had them, what could we do with them?

As if she heard my thoughts, Misty suggested, "We could lock it up in a safe."

"Nah. Ghetsis would just have a team of top scientists or burglars use stethoscopes to crack the combo. We need to do something that will make sure he will never get them," Ash objected. "What can we do that Ghetsis can't? Where can we go that he can't?"

"Hmm…" everyone's minds were being put to work. We all thought long and hard.

"We should throw the Splicers into the ocean!" Ziggy suggested with excitement. That was it!

"That might not be a bad idea," I supported. "We just need to find a trench deep enough to throw them in. Deep enough so he can't fish them out. Any ideas?"

"Well, there are some really deep spots in Undella Bay in Unova," Ash began.

"There are plenty of deep trenches in the Hoenn region," Ziggy added.

"And there is plenty of open sea surrounding Four Island," Sakura continued. We had a lot of good options. But some equally good ones stuck out in my mind.

"What about the underwater caves in Oblivia?" I asked.

"Any of those could work," Leon supported my idea.

"We could toss them anywhere, but we have to make sure Ghetsis does not get his hands on them," Eddie said to us. He had a point. We had no idea where Ghetsis was capable of reaching.

"Where can't he go? Team Plasma has major control over the whole world," Ziggy asked, absolutely clueless.

"Well, there has to be some place!" Leon insisted.

"Let's just burn them," Eddie sighed.

"That might be a bad idea, either. There is a place Ghetsis can't go and return: oblivion. If worst comes to worst, we may have to destroy the Splicers," I claimed. There was some murmuring among my friends, but not of disapproval. They knew I had a point. "Do they even know we have them?"

"No. At least, not specifically us. By now, they have probably guessed that the DNA Splicers were stolen," Eddie shook his head.

"Then, that means we are safe for the most part, right?" Leon asked. I nodded to him, and his face lit up. He touched Dawn's shoulder. "Dawn, we're going to be okay!" Dawn just continued humming, as if she didn't hear him. She might not have. Ash had commented on how much she had changed as far as mentality was concerned. She did not seem as "all-there" as she used to. The trauma with Lucas' abduction must have had the worst affect on her. My ears drooped when I looked at her. I could not help but pity her. She seemed so…sad and, well, alone. There was a lingering pang of sorrow for her in my chest. I was sure my friends felt the same way.

Okay, so the team has the Splicers. What will they do with them? Who will step up and lead with Ralph out of the picture? Why am I asking so many questions when I (should) already know the answers? Oh, and I am sorry that this chapter was shorter than the past three.