Wow it's been over a month since I updated. Sorry about that. I wanted to wait until I had chapter 5 done. But if I do that then it would've been forever til I put this chapter up. So I'll put this chapter up and try to get chapter 5 finished. School has been torture this past two weeks. With end of term and all I've had project after project to do. That plus writers block, procrastination, and down right lazyness has made me not work on the story for a while. However since spring break is coming up and I don't think I'll be doing anything big I should get a big chunk done, hopefully. I'll stop talking and let you read the story. Hope you like it! :)

I don't own pokemon!

"Normal speech" "Pokemon speech" 'Thoughts'

Oh! Almost forgot! This story takes place in Johto. (Just incase you didn't read the authors note at the end of chapter 3) Not sure when though ^u^;

While they were talking Torch was keeping his promise to protect Jen by watching over her. He was lying on the night stand next to the bed. He saw that she was smiling a little bit, but then she started to frown and toss and turn. Because of sleeping in a small cage for years, she developed a habit of sleeping very still. The only times she would move were when she was having a nightmare, but Torch hadn't seen her move around this much. He went over to her and tried to wake her up. Torch looked at her face and was shocked to see her crying. "What kind of nightmare are you having!?" He said. Then he shook her even harder desperately trying to wake her up.

(Jen's Dream)

Jen was walking in a forest. For some reason it seemed so familiar to her. 'Have I been here before?' She thought. She continued on until she reached a clearing. It was so beautiful. The trees and bushes where covered in so many flowers and the small pond was so blue it looked like a piece of the sky. She closed her eyes, taking it all in. She felt so at peace here, but she couldn't help but feel like someone was watching her. She then heard some rustling in the bushes. She turned and got in a fighting stance, ready to take on whoever or whatever it was. Just when she was about to blast whatever was in the bushes a little boy walked out.

"Man Jen would it kill you to slow down. I know this is your favorite place in the forest, but that doesn't mean that you have to leave me!" The boy complained. He looked about five years old. He was wearing a blue shirt with a white stripe on his chest going through a pokeball symbol, blue shorts, green shoes, and his black hair was all over it looked like he just got out of bed. The boy finally noticed that Jen was in a fighting stance and asked "Hey what are you doing?"

Jen got out of her stance. 'How does he know my name?' She thought. She was really confused. She had never seen this boy in her life, right? "Do I know you?" She asked.

Now it was the boy's turn to be confused. "Of course you do. We're best friends! Did you hit your head or something?"

Jen was still confused, but she decided to go along with the boy. "Sorry. You're right I did hit my head, but I'm fine now."

The boy smiled. "That's good, now come on let's play!" He went over to her and started pulling her hand. He started running around and said "Bet you can't catch me!"

Jen smiled and said "We'll see about that!" She started chasing him. As they were chasing each other pokémon started to join in.

By the time they were done playing the sun was setting. They said goodbye to the pokémon. "Why don't we start heading home?" The boy nodded and took her hand.

They started out of the forest, but then Jen saw something out of the corner of her eye. She turned around and saw a string shot coming right towards then. It was so fast she couldn't react and it tied the boy to the tree. Jen went over to the boy and tried to get him out when he suddenly yelled "Look out!"

Jen looked and saw a thunderbolt coming at them. She hurried and put up a shield. The bolt hit with a big explosion. When the smoke cleared she dropped her shield and again tried to get the boy out of the string shot. He was staring at her in shock. "How did you…?" he couldn't finish. Right when she got him free she heard clapping. They looked to see people coming out of the bushes. It was Team Rocket! Jen took a step back.

"It seems that the doctor was right about you. You are strong." One of the Team Rocket grunts said. "Now why don't you come with us?" He held out his hand.

Jen looked at the little boy who was now clinging onto her. She bent down and picked him up trying to comfort him. She then glared at Team Rocket and said "I will never go back to Team Rocket!" With that she ran into the forest. Team Rocket chased after her.

Jen was able to get a good distance before she tripped and fell. The force of the fall made her drop the boy also. She went over to the boy and asked if he was alright. "Yeah, I'm fine. What do they want from you?"

"Trust me you don't want to know. Come on we need to keep moving." Jen started to get up, only to find that she couldn't. She started to panic and tried even harder. The boy saw this and started to get scared. Jen felt like it was hopeless, but then remembered something. She put her pointer finger and thumb into her mouth and whistled. She whistled in a type of code. When she was done an Abra appeared. "Abra can you take teleport us to Professor Oak's?" 'Wait! Who's Professor Oak? And how did I know that code?' Jen decided to deal with that later. The Abra nodded and grabbed the boy's hand. It was about to grab Jen's hand when a thunderbolt landed right next to them. They turned and saw Team Rocket standing there with proud smirks on their faces.

"Well, well, well, seems like we have someone trying to escape. We can't have that now can we? Raichu use thunderbolt!" One of the grunts commanded.

The Raichu obeyed his master and attached. The little boy and the Abra braced themselves for the attack. Making a split second decision Jen jumped in front of them and took the attack. She tried to hold in her scream, but a little shriek still came out.

The little boy heard this and saw Jen taking the attack. He yelled "JEN!"

He was about to go to her aid when Jen yelled "Abra take him and go! Hurry before it's too late!" The Abra obeyed and grabbed the boy. He fought against it as they started to teleport. The attack finally stopped and Jen fell to her knees. The attack was more powerful than she thought.

The boy continued to fight and right before they completely teleported he yelled "NOOO!" then they were gone.

Team Rocket was a little shocked that Jen would just let them leave without her, but they got over it when they saw her starting to get up. The one with the Raichu yelled at the other grunts "Don't just stand there grab her!" They hurried and did what they were told.

Jen was still a little dazed and weak from the thunderbolt. When the grunts grabbed her she tried to fight them off. It worked because the grunts let go of her and stepped back.

The leader (the one with the Raichu) growled and said "You guys are hopeless. Go after the boy and Abra while I take care of the girl." The grunts left leaving the leader alone with Jen.

Jen started to panic. She knew firsthand how cruel Team Rocket could be. She started to run after them, but was cut off by a thunderbolt. Jen turned around and saw the leader was still there, but then he started to wripple. He started to change into the man she had feared ever since she was a little girl.

Jen stared wide eyed at the man. She involuntarily took a step back. The man just smirked and walked closer. Jen wanted to fire every attack she knew at him, but she was frozen with fear. The man went to her ear and whispered "No matter how much you run I will find you." And that was all it took to break her.

She collapsed to her knees and started to sob hysterically. She knew Team Rocket would never stop looking for her; she also knew they would do anything to get her back. Even kill her friends. This truth hit her like a million snorlax's. Then everything started going dark and she felt like someone was shaking her.

(End of dream)

Jen slowly opened her eyes. She could feel that she was lying on something soft and that her checks were wet. Just when she was going to sit up Torch jumped on her chest and said "Jen you're awake!"

She smiled at her friend. Jen held him and sat up, only to feel a sharp pain in her head. Jen put a hand to her head to ease the pain. Torch looked at her with concern. "I'm alright, I just got a headache." Jen looked around and could see that they were in a room made of wood and that she was on a bed. She noticed there was a nightstand and that her vest, shoes, and gloves where on it. She also noticed that she had a bandage on her shoulder.

"What happened and how did we get here? The last thing I remember was teleporting off of that cliff and seeing Team Rocket running back into the forest because they couldn't find us." She asked Torch.

"You passed out and Kirla and Eve got some trainers to help us. Then all of us went to this cabin to let you rest and recover. Everyone's outside waiting for you. I think they were going to talk about why you're injuries healed so fast." Torch explained.

Jen was shocked and surprised that her pokémon would ask complete strangers for help. She pushed it aside and thought about her dream. Who was that boy? He looked really familiar, but she didn't know why. It also felt so real, as if she had done that before, well at least until the end. Torch saw that Jen was staring into space "You sure you're alright? Maybe you should rest some more."

"No I've rested enough. Let's join the others. I need some fresh air anyway." Jen said with a reassuring smile. Torch was still worried, but he let it go. He jumped onto the floor and walked to the door with Jen right behind him.

Jen opened the door and saw that they were all laughing. She smiled at how happy her pokémon looked. She noticed that there were three other people with them. 'Wait! Those are the trainers we helped over at the cliff. So those are the trainers Torch was taking about.' Jen thought to herself. She also noticed that Torch was about to go with them. Jen stopped him and told him she wanted to listen to the conversation. Torch nodded and they listened in.

Jen and Torch were able to learn all of their names. "So your trainers name is Jen." The trainer known as Ash said. Jen was a little shocked that they didn't know her name until now. She was proud of her pokémon for protecting her, but she was a little angry at them for using telepathy. She would have to talk to them later about that.

"Hey can I ask you guys a question?" Ash asked.

"Sure. What is it?" Kirla said.

"Do you know if Jen lived anywhere before Team Rocket?" 'Huh? Why would he ask that?' Jen thought. There was a pause. Kirla was probably thinking of a way to respond.

"I think she did, but I don't know where she lived. She didn't really talk about it." Kirla finally said.

Jen grew a sad. 'That's right, I did do that.'

"I wonder why," Ash said. 'Why didn't I talk about it? It was because…because…because'

"Because it was too painful to talk about." Jen said.

I had to show what was happening to Jen, so I promise that in next chapter she'll interact with the pokemon trio. This chapter was a decent length, about 2020 (XD) words long. Hope you liked it, again sorry for taking so long, school and lazyness are the devils.

Please tell me what you think. Like I said before ideas, questions, constructive critizium, etc., is welcome. Nobodies done this yet, but just in case please don't swear. I don't like them.

May be a little bit till I update again. I get writers block way too easily. Plus I get easily distracted. I was trying to update earlier, but I got distracted by vocaloid videos on youtube. They're just so good.

Anyway see you next time :)