Watchers Of The World

Chapter 4: Removing some liabilities

Zak: Well the forth chapter has landed. I hope you all looked at Seren's Deviant art page and if not, why have you not opened another tab yet? I was watching Seren attempt to play Red Dead Redemption and laughing at him playing on undead nightmare, so yea.

Seren: Fuck you its this stupid Zombie horse (Runs into water and dies) aaaarrrggghhhh!

Zak: Seren is in all caps rage at the moment so we'll join him later, until then enjoy the chapter

I do not own any characters from Pokemon or are part of any company related to Pokemon I only own my OC's

Team Rocket headquarters: Kanto

"Boss please just give us one last chance" Jessie shouted, tears running down her face as her, James and Meowth were handcuffed by other members of Team Rocket, with large cuts and bruises over every part of the trio they had clearly been interrogated and beaten.

A large man in a black suit with golden buttons and red shoulders was pacing in the same room as the trio. That man was known as Giovanni, the leader of team rocket (He's wearing the same suit as he is in the best wishes series) "I've given you three many chances but this is the last straw" he shouted at the terrified trio "You cost me money to create machines that a child could operate with more efficiency, you cant even steal a child's Pikachu and when you actually find a Pokemon worth stealing you still go for that pathetic excuse of a Pokemon, if you had done your jobs this wouldn't have to happen but payment for past failures MUST. BE. MET" he continued to shout

"Boss you don't have to do this" James cried as he tried to free himself from the grasp of the Rocket executive only to be thrown to the floor in front of a large Arbok.

"Kali, dinner" Giovanni said with a wicked smile while pointing at James.

"Boss please NO!" Meowth shouted before Giovanni kicked him in the face causing him to yelp

The Arbok named Kali smiled evilly and repeatedly bit James in the chest injecting large amount of venom with every strike as her fangs tore into his flesh.

"JAMES!" screamed Jessie whilst Meowth just stared In horror

James writhed and screamed in agony as the poison coursed and burned through his veins and vital organs, slowly paralysing him. James looked up slightly to see the evil face of the Arbok "Jessie..." was all that could be heard as the Arbok brought its mouth over James's head, and then his body as he was slowly eaten alive. He screamed as loudly as he could but his screams of horror were soon muffled as the Arbok consumed more and more of his body, until he was gone. Jessie and Meowth were both in tear drenched heaps on the floor, Giovanni simply smiled wickedly at the state they were in.

"Now...what to do with you two?" Giovanni said with a look of unspeakable evil on his face

Meowth looked up at Giovanni "I don't care what you do now" he said quietly as he attempted to comfort a sobbing Jessie.

"Well then this will be most entertaining" Giovanni said before looking at a nearby female admin, the admin had long deep magenta coloured hair that covered a part of her face "Give them to the failures" he said with a smirk, a smirk that was shared by the admin as she and a grunt dragged a grieving Jessie and Meowth away. As they were dragged through the metal corridors of the lower HQ Meowth mustered the strength the speak.

"Jessie?" he whispered

Jessie sniffed, held back more tears and looked at Meowth

"I'm sorry" he said

Jessie, with tears in her eyes looked at Meowth and smiled weakly as if to say "It's not your fault"

They were now in the lowest depths of Rocket HQ, Jessie and Meowth's heels were bleeding heavily from being dragged for a large amount of time. They came to a stop in front of a huge, heavily guarded room that was foggy on the inside so nothing could be seen apart from a few trees. The admin and the grunt dragged Jessie and Meowth to the entrance of the room. The two guards that were holding a large firearm each stepped aside and the large heavy duty door opened, as it did a truly fowl smell flowed forth from the room. The admin and grunt violently threw Jessie and Meowth into the room and the door closed. The two lay on the dirt that was covering the room for a moment before Jessie crawled her way Towards Meowth.

"Meowth...I'm scared" Jessie said as she pulled herself closer to him whilst crying

"Me to Jessie...me to" Meowth said quietly

As the two held each other strange noises started to come from further in the room. The ground seemed to shift and contort as large shadowy figures raised themselves from the cover of the dirt and the hight of the trees.

The creatures that appeared were Pokemon except that something was...wrong. The Pokemon had some sort of cybernetics fused onto their body's while some parts of their bodys seemed to have melted away which caused Meowth to forget his fear for a split second and wonder what Team Rockets intentions truly were after all. Meowth was quickly forced back into reality at the sound of Jessie bawling into his shoulder.

"Meowth p..please d..don't let them get me" she sobbed as the strange mutated Pokemon got closer with every second, snarling and eyeing the two creatures in front of them with hungry eyes.

"I won't" Meowth said as he stood up in front of Jessie and drew his claws, desperate to protect his friend, it didn't last. Meowth screamed as he was seized in the mouth of a large Arcanine, blood spilled from his body as he was shaken back and forth by the powerful jaws of the Pokemon. A second Arcanine took Meowth's top half in its mouth an the two Pokemon pulled on him like a tug of war eventually ripping his screaming form in half. They shook the separate parts around as if they were a toy, spreading blood and organs onto the floor, and onto Jessie who was frozen with a look of pure terror in her eyes as she was thrown to the floor and brutally attacked by a large Primape. The Primape continued to attack her for a few minutes before it stopped and observed her, both her legs and arms were broken and some of her ribs was protruding from her chest. When the Primape stopped Jessie prayed to the gods that it would have some sort of heart and kill her quickly...it didn't. The Primape had a murderous look in its eyes as it threw Jessie onto her back and stood over her. It then leant down and forced both of its thumbs into her eye sockets causing Jessie to let loose a blood curdling scream as her eye sockets pooled over with blood and other Pokemon tore her arms and legs from her body.

Giovanni was sat in his office watching what had just transpired and smiled to himself, he then looked to Kali in the corner of the room who's body was moving from James struggling against the digestive juices of the Arbok's stomach.

Giovanni smirked as he heard James's muffled screams, he then stroked his trusty Persian on the head before rising from his chair and turning to face a large blank screen on one of the rooms walls. The screen suddenly turned itself on and a blacked out shadowy figure with a distorted voice appeared on it.

"Giovanni, What is this about?" the figure demanded

Giovanni smiled nervously, but the nervous smile was soon replaced with a confident one "Sir, I wish to report that some of my less reliable workers, or...liabilities may have had a confirmed sighting of the two trainers that you mentioned"

This seemed to catch the figures attention "I see, what makes you think this?" asked the figure

"While we were interrogating them they mentioned that one of the two owned a Latias and a Gyarados while the other owned a Mightyena. They also mentioned that one of them seemed to be a proficient fighter, they also said that they were heading for Oreburgh city" Giovanni said with a cocky grin on his face, a grin that soon disappeared when the figure spoke again.

"You truly believe that this is suitable information Giovanni? Did it ever occur to you that these so called workers may have simply seen trainers with the same Pokemon and that the trainers may be good fighters?" the figure questioned

Giovanni began to look uneasy "Well...I...but" he stammered

"Unless you can provide positive identification of our targets and their whereabouts you are not to disturb me further...is that clear Giovanni?" the figure asked in a threatening voice

"But sir one had a Lati..." Giovanni tried to speak but was cut off

"IS THAT CLEAR GIOVANNI" the figure shouted causing Giovanni to cower back into his seat

"Y..yes sir" he said as the screen turned off. Giovanni sighed to himself and called in the same admin that had dragged Jessie away. "Radio all of our contacts at Oreburgh city in Sinnoh, tell them to be on high alert for our priority targets" Giovanni said.

"Yes sir" the admin said before saluting and exiting the room. Giovanni sat down in his chair and smiled lightly "At least I still have some authority" he said quietly

Oreburgh city: Sinnoh

"Welcome to Oreburgh city!" Ash shouted as the group of friends entered the highly industrialised yet also very natural city on a beautiful, bright sunny day.

"Wow...this place smells really bad" Diablo said as he turned his face in disgust at the smell of the fumes rising from factory's around the city.

"It's not that bad, must just be your sense of smell showing another disadvantage" Will said

"I'm so sick of it" Diablo moaned

"Well then stay in your ball until I need you" Seren said

Diablo nodded appreciatively as Seren returned him to his ball

"So, where do you guys want to go first?" Ash asked

"Well" Seren said before he was interrupted by a giddy Luceat

"Oh daddy, daddy can we go and get some food I'm really hungry" he blurted out

"Oh for...I would actually like to get to some serious battling eventually you know" Seren said

"Come on Seren he hasn't eaten since this morning...none of us have" Bayleaf said

"Fine" Seren huffed

"Yay" Luceat shouted as the group walked around Oreburgh trying to find a Restaurant that served Pokemon as well as humans, which eventually they did. Walking through the city was all kinds of awkward, with people walking up to us and asking why Luceat was so different, he didn't mind, he liked the attention. The group walked into a huge, luxurious restaurant/hotel which was clearly designed for all Pokemon to eat there no matter how big.

"I don't think I can afford this place" Ash said with a nervous look on his face

"Me neither" Seren said sharing Ash's expression

"Just as well I'm paying then" Will said which gave the rest of the group confused looks as they all walked up to the receptionist to book rooms and tables"

"Greetings, how may I help you this fine day?" the receptionist asked with a smile on her face

"We would like a private eating room if you have any available?" Will said

"He seems to know what he's doing" Pikachu whispered in Seren's ear

"Yea, I don't like it" Seren said

The receptionist looked down at her computer and pushed a few buttons before looking up with a smile.

"Yes, as it happens we have a large private eating area available"

Will smiled "How much?" he asked

"50,000 Pokedollers" the receptionist said

"I'll help pay, I mean I still owe you that money from the gym battle" said Ash

"Don't worry about it. I only made the bet to make you battle that little bit harder, I'll pay" Will said as he took a small green card from his clothes and handed it to the receptionist who inserted it in her computer, luckily Seren was talking to Bayleaf at the time.

"Thank you your private room has been paid for...however I must ask you to remove you weaponry as it is not permitted in the building" the receptionist said

"I think you'll find that won't be necessary" Will said as he took yet another card from his clothing and gave it to the woman.

"Very well, you may continue. Have a nice day" She said as another waiter walked up to them and lead them to their table. As they walked through the restaurant Will could see many people looking him and Seren with strange, almost scared looks "I guess armour and weapons really make you stand out" he thought as they reached the door to their private room. The waiter at the door bowed slightly and opened the door revealing a large room that seemed to be mostly made of marble, with large pools of water on one side of the room, an area with burning coals on the other and a patch of plant life at the back of the room, there was something for everyone here. The group all released their Pokemon and asked them which ones wanted to eat, the resulting Pokemon being left out of their pokeballs were...

Will: Luna, Luceat, Latias and Flora.

Seren: Diablo and Garuda

Ash: Staraptor, Bayleaf and of course, Pikachu

"Wow look at this place" Luna said as she looked around the place with her mouth open

"It's really something" Staraptor said blankly as he took to the sky and started to race Garuda and Latias around the higher parts of the room while everyone else took a seat at the table, except for Luceat who just coiled up on the floor. Seren placed his egg on the pile of hot coals on one side of the room.

"Wow the food looks delicious" Bayleaf said as she held a menu in her vines and scanned the pictures

"Sure does, I cant wait to try some" Ash said as his mouth watered

"Typical" Pikachu muttered

"I heard that" Ash said

Just as they were about to order a loud crashing sound was heard from the side of the room, Latias and Staraptor had both got in a fight and flew directly into a wall while Garuda laughed her ass of from above.

"That was clever of you" Seren shouted at them

"Yea yea" Staraptor said as he and Latias flew, if not weakly to the large table.

"So much choice" Latias said as she looked over the menu

Everyone eventually chose what they were going to eat and decided to simply talk until their meals arrived, one group in particular seemed to get along well, Latias, Garuda and Bayleaf.

"So what's it like travelling with trainers who don't age?" Bayleaf asked clearly bustling with questions

"Well, its interesting to say the least" Garuda said

"It definatly has its benefits, you make some great friends...but you also lose them" Latias said sadly

"What do you mean?, I thought you and Garuda were friends" Bayleaf said

"We are, just...friends who don't travel with Seren or Will for a long time will still age" Latias said

"We've been to more funerals than I care to remember" Garuda said with a sad look on her face

"That's horrible" said Bayleaf

"There's no use dwelling on the past, that's what Will says anyway" Luna said as she walked over to the group

"Yea, I guess, How are things with you and Ash then Bayleaf" Latias asked with a cheeky smile

Bayleaf took a moment to think "It's nice, I really like being able to talk to him, even if I cant show him any affection here at least I can still say how I feel without others noticing" she said before everyone's food arrived. ~Luceat had ordered possibly the biggest pizza I have ever seen, seriously this thing was huge, it was at least the size of a small car and was covered in different berries. I had a smaller version of the same pizza Luceat had while Seren and Diablo had some sort of curry. Flora and Bayleaf had a salad as I expected and Luna and Garuda attempted to eat a fancy burger, all meat in the Pokemon world is synthetic but you definatly wouldn't think it if you tried some. Staraptor had the rather generic birdseed while Pikachu ate some high class pokemon food and Latias ordered a truly ridiculous amount of pancakes, Ash had a huge bowl of stew and ate it in ten seconds flat, not that I expected less.~ The group spent the time they had after their meals telling each other story's about their past until the waiter approached them with the bill.

"You bill sir" The waiter said to Will

"Ah yes, here you are" he said handing the waiter some loose money and a bit extra for a tip

"One more thing sir" The waiter said

"Yes?" Will asked while stroking Luna on the head making he purr softly

The waiter pulled out a large revolver and quickly aimed it at Will's head "Any last words?" asked the waiter, he was about to pull the trigger but took to much time talking, Will shot up from the chair grabbing the man's arm and violently twisting it making an audible snapping sound as a large piece of bone protruded from it making the man scream, Will then violently threw him down onto the table where Flora pinned him down with her vines and Luceat looked at him with pure rage. Seren at this point had brought out his oversized buster sword and was ready to slice the man, and most likely the table in half. Ash and his Pokemon just stared in shock over what was happening. Will unsheathed on of the strange swords on his back and pointed it at the man's throat.

"Who sent you?" Will asked calmly as he returned Luceat for the man's own safety, he then returned Latias to her ball with Ash and Seren doing the same with their Pokemon not wanting them to be hurt.

"I'll never tell you inhuman scum" the man hissed

"Wrong answer" Flora said coldly as she tightened and increased the force of her vines on the man making him groan.

Will looked at the man and then nodded at Luna who jumped onto the table and started to attack the man's broken arm causing him to shout in pain.

"How about now?" Will asked in the same calm voice

"You'll have to do better than that" the man coughed

"Ok then, Luna get away from him please" Will said as he released a fuming Luceat from his ball.

"YOU TRIED TO KILL DADDY!" Luceat roared in a monstrous voice as he lunged for the now terrified man only for Will to stop him.

"I'm going to make you a deal, either you give me the information I want and I let you go...or you don't tell me and I set Luceat on you, and trust me when I say it won't be quick" Will said gesturing towards Luceat. It look a few minutes for the man to speak

"Ok...I'll...I'll tell you" the man said

"Good..now who sent you?" Will asked as he returned Luceat to his ball

"G..Giovanni...the head of team rocket" the man stammered as he still had Will's sword at his throat

"Why?" Will asked

"I don't fucking know, I'm an assassin I don't get paid to ask questions" the man shouted

"I'm surprised you get paid at all, your obviously not very good at your job" Seren teased as he inspected the assassins revolver before putting it in his cloak.

The assassin didn't respond, instead he just stared blankly at Will as he brought his sword away from his throat and Flora released him.

"This is the only chance I'm giving you, try anything like that again and I will kill you...is that understood?" he said

"Yes...thank you" the man said as he gingerly shook Will's hand and tried to leave, but Will didn't let his hand go

"One more question, where is Giovanni?" Will asked in a serious voice

"I don't know, I was contacted by a messenger...now can I go" the man said wincing as his arm swayed

Will nodded and released the man's hand and he ran out of the door, probably to find a hospital or Pokemon centre. Will turned round after returning Flora to see a still speechless Ash and Pikachu, along with a angry looking Seren.

"I still think the best solution would have been to cut the fuckers head off" he said as he went to pick up his egg which shook slightly.

"Seren that's your solution to everything...did your egg just start shaking" Will said asked

"Yea sure looks like it, took its damn time" Seren said before both him and Will turned to Ash who was trying to get their attention by coughing.

"What was that about?" he asked

"I don't know, but what I do know is that we have a gym battle to win" Will said

"Finally" moaned Seren

"I'm surprised that you guys can recover from that so quickly" said Ash as they all walked out of the room and informed the buildings security what had happened. Ash ended up releasing Bayleaf as soon as they were out of the building much to her delight, the group wandered town for short while until they found Oreburgh gym. The gym seemed to have been built into a large rock/cliff and wasn't near any visible plant life.

"At least the gym leader has style" Will said

"Your just saying that because your gym was inside a cliff" Bayleaf said with a smile

"Yea well...I can't think of a comeback so lets just go inside" Will said as they opened the large doors of the gym. Inside it just looked like a blank room with a rocky battlefield in the centre.

"Oh...well that's disappointing" Will said

"Not everyone has a friend who can make other dimensions you know" Ash chuckled as he stepped forward "Hey Roark you here?" he shouted

"Hello?" echoed a voice from another room

"Roark? Its Ash" Ash shouted

"Ah Ash" said Roark as he walked into the centre room "I was hoping for a rematch against you eventually...who are these two?" he asked looking at Will and Seren

Will walked up to Roark and shook his hand "The names William, nice to meet you" he said

"Likewise, and you are?" Roark said as he extended his hand to Seren who shook it

"My names Seren, how do you not know us, we are the leaders of..." Will cut him of

"Ahahahaha yea that's Seren so anyway are we going to battle?" he shouted giving Seren a stern look

"Well, yes but what was Seren saying?" Roark questioned

"I will tell you after our battle" Seren said

"Well...ok then, do you have any other gym badges?" Roark asked

"Nope" Will and Seren said in unison

Roark laughed slightly "This should be over quickly then" he said as he went to one side of the field

"I was about to say the same thing" Will said, he took his place on the opposite side as the others cheered and a referee walked onto the side of the field.

"This official gym battle is between gym leader Roark and the challenger Will, BEGIN!" he shouted

"I'm Roark the rock, I don't lose" Roark shouted as he sent out his first Pokemon "GO GEODUDE!" an eager looking Geodude appeared of the field.

"Ok then, go Luna" Will said as Luna appeared on the field in a veil of dark purple smoke as she was inside a dusk ball. Luna looked at the Geodude with a confused face and turned to her trainer.

"Is this a joke, this is a joke right?" she said

The look on Will's face said it all, Luna sighed

"Fine" she said strutting further out to the field

"Geodude use rollout" Roark shouted as his Geodude began to spin rapidly and shoot towards Luna

"Luna quick dodge it then us rock smash" Will shouted. Luna easily dodged the speeding Geodude and brought down a powerful rock smash directly into its skull, resulting in an instant K.O.

"Geodude is unable to battle, Luna is the winner" the ref shouted

"YES!, fantastic job Luna" Will shouted as Luna ran up to him and nuzzled his leg

"Next time find me a challenge" she said cheekily before walking of to join the others who congratulated her on her win.

"Good job Geodude, take a rest" Roark said "You got lucky that time but your lucks just run out, GO ONIX" Roark shouted as the huge rock/snake Pokemon appeared on the field letting out a loud roar.

"Hmm, GO LUCEAT" Will shouted as Luceat appeared on the field and tackled Will to the floor

"Daddy I'm so happy your ok, I thought that nasty man was going to hurt you and..." Luceat was cut of by Will talking

"Yes yes I know, but we are in a gym battle at the moment" Will said with a smile

"Oh, sorry" Luceat said as he got off Will and returned to the field

"What a strange looking Gyarados" Roark said before shouting out a command "Onix use screech then follow it with slam" he shouted. The Onix let out a high pitched screeching sound which caused everyone, including Roark to cover their ears. Luceat shouted in pain as he could do nothing to cover his ears (Gyarados have ears right?), he collapsed on the floor leaving him open to an attack. The Onix, now finished with its screeching raised its tail into the air before bringing it down on Luceat's body, hard. Luceat was sent skidding across the field coming to a stop in front of Will.

"Son! Are you ok" he unknowingly shouted

Luceat winced as he looked at Will "Y..yes...I'm fine" he said as he returned to the field.

"Still standing eh? Well not for long, Onix use double edge" Roark commanded. The Onix's entire body glowed gold as it threw itself at Luceat, but this time Will was ready.

"Luceat use Aqua pillar!" he shouted. Luceat roared incredibly loudly and swung his tail upwards, as he did an enormous pillar of moving water erupted from the ground underneath the charging Onix (Like the second movie when Lugia comes out of the water). The Onix's attack was abruptly stopped as the raging pillar of water consumed it and started to violently spin. The water subsided after a few minutes and Roark's Onix smashed loudly into the ground, barely conscious.

"Onix use one last move, stealth rock" Roark said. Onix slowly produced several strange looking rocks and threw them to Will's side of the field before passing out from exhaustion.

"Onix is unable to battle, Luceat is the winner" the ref shouted

"Crap" Roark muttered

"All right, great job Luceaaaaaaah" Will couldn't continue his sentence as Luceat had charged into him knocking him over.

"I won I won I won I won" Luceat quickly cheered

"Yes I know, but I would like to continue the match, go and stay with the others for a while" Will said

"Ok daddy" Luceat squealed as he went over to the others who praised him, much to his delight.

Roark sighed heavily "You tried Onix" he said as he returned the Pokemon and looked back to Will who had a cocky smirk on his face "Ok, I'll admit you know what your doing but you'll have to be even better to defeat this next one, GO RAMPARDOS!" he shouted as his third and final Pokemon appeared, the Dinosaur like Pokemon Rampardos.

Will took a moment to think before he took a pokeball from under his cloak.

"One last round, lets do this Lucario!" he said loudly as Lucario materialised onto the field in a meditation pose, he slowly opened both his eyes, rose to his feet and took a battle stance. "was the dramatic entrance really necessary?" Will asked to which Lucario simply looked at him and smiled but then shouted in pain as the strange rocks scattered around the field levitated and smashed into Lucario who took a moment to recover.

"You could have warned me" he hissed

Will smiled "Consider it payback for the aura sphere incident" he said

Roark was staring at Lucario "A talking Lucario? Interesting" he said before shouting "Rampardos use zen headbutt"

The dome on Rampardos's head began to glow a bright blue and it charged at Lucario at the speed of freight train.

"Try and dodge it then use close combat" Will shouted. Lucario managed to dodge most of the attack but was caught on the leg by part of it head making him wince, when the Rampardos had to stop Lucario started throwing punches and kicks at various parts of its body causing it to grunt with each strike. Lucario jumped back to Will's side of the field to inspect the damage he had done, which was a considerable amount.

Roark was starting to look nervous "Rampardos shake it of and use flamethrower" he shouted

"Oh crap" Lucario muttered as the Rampardos spewed a stream of flames from its mouth hitting Lucario directly in the chest causing him to fall to one knee, meanwhile the group on the sidelines were looking nervous

"I can't say this looks good, not for Lucario anyway" said Ash as Bayleaf nodded in agreement

"Don't worry, Lucario's tough, I'm sure he'll come through" Luna said

"Well this is quite the battle" a familiar voice spoke from behind them

"Cynthia?" Ash said as Cynthia walked up to them "Um...I was going to try and find you but I got...caught up" Ash quickly added causing Cynthia to chuckle

"It's fine Ash you don't have to explain, lets just enjoy the match, who is that trainer anyway? he seems very familiar" she said

"you'll see" Ash said with a smirk

When the flames finally broke away from Lucario there was some clearly visible damage, his coat had been blackened and singed in multiple places and small streams of smoke were rising from his body.

"You ok to go on Lucario?" Will asked in a clearly concerned voice

"Of course, a little flamethrower isn't going to stop me, you should know that" Lucario said with a smile

"Ok then my friend, the rest of the match is yours" Will said smiling

Lucario smirked "Just the way I like it" he said

"Ok that's it I'm ending this now!" Roark shouted, obviously frustrated that someone with no gym badges was giving him such a hard time "Rampardos use head smash" he shouted. Rampardos became cloaked in a veil of blueish white light and charged towards Lucario. Lucario smirked and leapt high into the air and landed gracefully of the back of the charging Rampardos, charged and aura sphere and fired it directly into the back of the Rampardos's neck causing it to smash face first into the ground creating a large cloud of dust, when the dust cleared and exhausted Lucario was seen with one foot placed on the defeated Rampardos like a knight who had just slain a dragon.

"Rampardos is unable to battle, Lucario is the winner, so therefore the victorious competitor is Will" the ref announced, cheers and roars sounded from behind Will from everyone's cheering, it felt nice. Roark sighed as he returned Rampardos to its ball and walked up to him.

"I'll admit I underestimated you, but one thing, what was that move your Gyarados used?" Roark asked as he handed Will the coal badge

"Aqua Pillar? Well I help my Pokemon practice their own...improvised moves, its good for confusing opponents, and there damn powerful if you get them right" Will explained

"Huh, I'm assuming Seren has done the same?" Roark said

"that he has, and now you'll find out what he's made of" Will said as he waved Seren over.

"Finally, wish me luck" Seren said as he walked past Cynthia who turned to Ash with an amazed expression

"That was...that was one of the eternity gym leaders...does that mean?" Cynthia's question was swiftly answered as Ash took the eternity badge from his pocket.

"I'm impressed Ash, very impressed" Cynthia said as Will joined the group

"Hey Cynthia, long time no see" he said as he hugged her and returned Luceat to his ball

"Will what are you on about you came to see me a few weeks ago" Cynthia said

"What?" Ash and Pikachu both shouted while Seren and Roark, who had returned from a healing machine took up their positions

Roark eyed Seren suspiciously "I underestimated your friend, I won't make the same mistake twice" he said as the ref shouted the usual introduction

"This official gym battle is between gym leader Roark and the challenger Seren, BEGIN!"

"Ok Geodude lets go!" Roark shouted as his Geodude once again appeared on the field.

Seren smiled "Snorlax your up!" he shouted as his Snorlax appeared on the field scratching its belly

"Oh, is it lunch already?" Snorlax asked

"No its a gym battle, I'll give you some food afterwards ok" Seren practically begged that Snorlax would agree, luckily he did.

"Ok Geodude us rollout!" Roark shouted as his Geodude once again started spinning rapidly then shooting forward towards Snorlax who simply stood there. The Geodude hit Snorlax directly in the belly doing nothing other than making himself fly backwards to Roark's side of the field.

"Our turn, Snorlax use Giga impact!" Seren shouted. Snorlax's body became cloaked in a strange purple aura with orange streaks as it charged surprisingly quickly at the Geodude and slammed its whole bodyweight onto the unfortunate Pokemon, knocking it out.

"Are you freaking serious" Roark muttered

"Geodude is unable to battle, Snorlax is the winner" the ref shouted

"Good job Snorlax" Seren said with a happy voice

"Does this mean I can eat now" Snorlax asked before Seren swiftly returned him to his ball. Will was having a awkward time talking to Ash on the sidelines.

"Wait wait, you knew Cynthia would bring me to the gym?" Ash asked

"Umm...yea kind of" Will said as he scratched the back of his head

"Does that mean you gave me the badge for no reason?" Ash asked now getting slightly annoyed

"Of course he didn't, he gave it to you because of how you treat your Pokemon" Cynthia interrupted " and with that badge you can automatically enter any league you want" she added

"And since you came so close to winning the Sinnoh league I wondered if you would like to give it another try" Will said with a smile

As Ash soaked up the information that had just been handed to him Seren and Roark sent out their next Pokemon.

"Ok Onix, time for round two" Roark yelled as the huge snakelike Pokemon materialised on the field in a white light.

Seren took a second pokeball from his belt "Diablo its your turn" he shouted as Diablo appeared and started to growl loudly

Roark took a moment to observe the opposing Pokemon as he started to think to himself "This shouldn't be to bad, but that's what I said last time" he thought before shouting "Ok Onix use double edge". Roark's Onix began to glow gold as it charged at Diablo with incredible speed.

"Diablo counter it with dark pulse" Seren shouted. A small dark purple sphere formed in Diablo's mouth and quickly grew in size before exploding in a stream of purple rings which carried enough force to stop the Onix dead in its tracks.

The power of the dark pulse may have been great but as Diablo began to weaken so did the attack, the Onix slowly moved closer and closer to where Diablo was stood forcing away the dark pulse.

"Keep up the attack Onix!" Roark shouted as the Onix inched closer and closer

"Diablo cut the attack and dodge to the side" Seren shouted. Diablo looked at him as if he was deranged

"I'm going to regret this" Diablo thought at his stopped the attack and quickly attempted to dodge the huge Pokemon. The Onix slammed into the ground with so much power that it created a huge crater in the battlefield which caused large amounts of dust to form. The dust cleared and what Seren saw caused him to get very nervous, Diablo dodged a majority of the attack but his leg was now pinned down under the immense weight of the head of the Onix which looked very happy with itself.

"Diablo are you ok?" Seren asked

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK?" Diablo shouted

"This round is mine, Onix use slam!" Roark shouted. The Onix's tale hovered over Diablo as if it was aiming.

Seren had to think of something, fast "Diablo use hyper beam" he shouted. Diablo looked confused for a moment then smiled as he fired a full power hyper beam directly into the head of the Onix. The Onix roared in pain as it was flung into the air, hit the ceiling of the gym then came crashing down onto the floor, unconscious.

"Onix is unable to battle, Diablo is the winner" the ref shouted

"YEAAAAAA SUCK ON THAT BITCH!" a Diablo shouted while panting

"Good job Diablo" Seren said as he returned his friend to his ball

Roark let out a incoherent grumble as he returned Onix to its pokeball and quickly threw his last onto the field "GO RAMPARDOS" he shouted as the pokemon appeared, stomping its feet in anger and eagerness.

"This shouldn't be a problem, GO GARUDA!" Seren shouted as Garuda appeared on the field and stared down her opponent with a serious expression on her face.

"Bring it bitch" The Rampardos huffed

Garuda's temple pulsed "OH IT IS ON!" she shouted as she took to the air

"Rampardos start of with flamethrower" Roark shouted. Rampardos roared and belched a controlled stream of fire which surged past Garuda's wing making her wince as a part of her wing was lightly scorched by the heat.

"Time for a one hit K.O Garuda, USE SAND CRYPT!" Seren shouted

"Oh crap not another one" Roark said

Garuda quickly flew up to the Rampardos and punched him as hard as possible in the face causing him to become dizzy, she then landed in front of him grabbed him by the shoulders and stamped on the ground. As Garuda's foot hit the floor the earth of the of the area around them seemed turned into sand, she looked at the now recovered Rampardos with a smug smile.

"You shouldn't have called me a bitch" she said as they both started sinking into the sand. The Rampardos could only struggle and shout as the sand slowly engulfed them both, shielding them from sight. Roark couldn't have possibly looked more nervous than he was, while Seren had a massive smile on his face. A few moments passed and then the whole battlefield started to shake, this continued for a few seconds before Garuda shot out from the floor and threw an unconscious Rampardos hard to the floor, Seren could have sworn she spat on him a little.

"Rampardos is unable to battle, Garuda is the winner, the victorious trainer is Seren" the referee shouted

"Damn it, good job Rampardos" Roark said as he returned his pokemon and walked towards Seren

"Nice job Garuda" Seren said

"You expected less?" Garuda asked with a smile as she turned into a red silhouette and returned to her ball. Seren then walked up to Roark, shook his hand and took a coal badge for himself.

"You did good" Roark said

"Thanks, but do you want some advise?" Seren asked

"Um...sure" Roark said

"Evolve that Geodude" was all Seren said as he walked of to join his friends who were in the middle of a conversation

"Just don't tell Seren ok, I want it to be a surprise" Will said quietly

"Ok" everyone said

"Hey you guys, oh hi Cynthia its been a while" Seren said

"It has, that was a great battle by the way" Cynthia said as everyone else nodded in agreement

"Yea great job" Ash said

"Thanks, so what now?" Seren asked

"Well first I want to know what Seren was going to say earlier" Roark interrupted as he walked over to the group

"I can answer that" Cynthia said as Will and Seren walked away and both started looking at their coal badges "these two are, or were the leaders of the eternity gym" she added gesturing towards Will and Seren who were comparing each others badges, despite them being exactly the same.

"Wow, they look really young" Roark said in a confused voice as Seren shouted how his badge was shinier than Will's causing Luna to face palm.

"They look it, but they are actually older than us three combined" Ash said

"Huh...well tell them I said thanks for the great battles" Roark said as he walked of further into the gym

"He took that well...hey you two" Cynthia shouted at the arguing Will and Seren "Lets go" she said. The group slowly made their way out of the gym, when they all got out of the gym Cynthia started talking again

"So you three" she said looking at Seren, Will and Luna "do you have a place to stay tonight?" she asked

"I have that covered" Will said winking at Luna and Ash as Seren looked really confused

"Oh...well that's good I'm of back to the league, maybe I'll see you all at some point" she shouted as she released her Togekiss jumped on and flew away, waving at the group.

"Bye Cynthia" everyone shouted waving back at her as she disappeared from sight.

"Well what now?" Seren asked

"Well as much as I would love to keep traveling with you guys I think I'm going to go back to Kanto until the Sinnoh league start" Ash said

"How come?" Luna asked

"I want to tell my mum about...me and Bayleaf, just to see if she's ok with it" Ash said quietly

"Well, I wish you the best of luck my friend" Will said as he and Luna gave Ash, Bayleaf and Pikachu friendly hugs, and surprisingly Seren did the same.

Ash returned Bayleaf to her ball and released Staraptor "Bye you guys, who knows maybe I'll see you both at the league" Ash shouted as he jumped on Staraptor and soared of into the distance leaving Will, Seren and Luna stood outside Oreburgh gym.

"I hope his mum takes it well" Luna said in a concerned voice

"I'm sure she will" Will said as he walked up to Luna and scratched her behind the ear

"What did you mean by I have that covered?" Seren asked suddenly remembering what Will had said

"You'll see, lets go" he said as they walked in the direction of the city gates with Seren shouting "But I want to know now!"

Team Rocket headquarters: Kanto

Giovanni was sat at his desk with the same female admin from before talking to him "Thank you Cyleen, you may leave now" Giovanni said. Cyleen saluted to Giovanni and left his office. Giovanni looked at the contents of the file that had been handed to him, inside were photos of Zak and Seren from around Oreburgh, and during the gym battle.

"Perfect" Giovanni said as he pressed a button on his desk, after a few moments the screen at the side of the activated and the shadowy figure appeared.

The figure spoke in an annoyed tone "Giovanni I thought I told you not to disturb me unless.."

"I have a positive I.D of the targets you mentioned, I also have irrefutable proof of their location" Giovanni interrupted as he pointed towards the pictures on his desk. The figure didn't say anything for a few minutes which made Giovanni rather nervous.

"Would you mind telling me how you accomplished this?" the figure asked

"First I had an assassin attack them, the assassin confirmed that they both use strange bladed weapons, also one of our contacts who works as a referee in Oreburgh gym confirmed some more pokemon that you said the pair should own" Giovanni said smugly

"You realise that if the assassin had killed them then your mission would have been a complete failure" the figure said in an slightly angry voice

"Well sir...the assassin didn't kill them, so clearly it was a success" said Giovanni

there was a moment of silence before the shadowy figure spoke one again.

"You have done well Giovanni, but just in case you Intel is false we will only send a small squad to investigate your claims. If the targets are truly who you say they are then we will take action, until then you are to continue with you operations in Kanto, we will update you on anything that needs doing" the figure said

"Thank you sir" Giovanni said

"Continue the good work Giovanni and we will consider cancelling your...removal" the figure said before disappearing. Giovanni sighed and wiped a considerable amount of sweat from his brow before sitting back in front of his desk. He put his face in his hands, praying that the Intel given to him was correct because if it wasn't, he didn't even want to think about it.

Zak: Wow the beginning was much darker than what I was intending, I guess that's what happens when you write with a massive hangover. What is this secret foe eh? You'll just have to wait and see. Oh and this is my longest chapter yet, YAYZ

Seren: YES! I finally found WAR111oneoneone

Zak: War is a horse you can get on undead nightmare, the more you know!

The game freezes and Seren didn't save it.

Seren:...

Zak: Seren?

Seren:...

Zak: I'm going to end this before Seren breaks my laptop, please give constructive criticism and till next time you lot, stay safe out there.