Darkness clung to Flareon's soul that night, during her time of unconsciousness. Thoughts of pain, grief and death stuck to her mind. Words were flowing through her mind and they were always the same ones 'Tonight I will die and join my child, but I will have died in vain.'

Then a new word came to her, one that would fuel her need for existence and would ultimately alter her fate. Flareon would not die tonight…

Revenge…

Revenge…

Revenge…

Xx_xX

Loud crunches of leaves could be heard, hurried footsteps were moving the vegetation of the forest in a flurry. Rushing through the forest at top speed was a slim, four legged Pokemon with a sleek white fur coat with black tail, claws and side horn. This Pokemon is known as Absol, the Disaster Pokemon. Currently Absol's instincts were on fire, he was alert and his extreme sense felt an ominous danger near his location.

Soon Absol made his way out of the forest, at the edge of the forest, which was on high ground, lead to the beach of the area. Once on the forest edge, Absol's sense of smell was flooded with the pungent smell of blood, and there was a lot by his senses. Without hesitation, Absol leaped off the high hill and made his way to the beach, in order to find the source of the smell of blood.

Within seconds, thanks to Absol's keen sense of smell and fast speed, he was able to find the body of the unconscious Flareon. Absol's eyes widened up seeing the state Flareon was in. Most of her fur was cut at uneven lengths; large cuts were present throughout her body especially her paws and face and there was a large open wound on her back. On top of that Flareon was lying in a pool of her own blood.

Immediately Absol took action, by carefully manoeuvring Flareon so she ended up on his back without causing too much more damage. Unfortunately Absol had to travel slowly and carefully back to his den so Flareon would not fall and damage herself further. Luckily for Absol, his den was not too far off.

After taking Flareon back to his spacious den, a cave that was carved into the side of a hill, Absol stepped outside in order to gain aid. Absol made a call to a Pokemon, who he hoped was not too far away.

"Chansey! Chansey! I need your help! Are you there?!"

Within seconds the sound of a soft voice returned Absol's call.

"Yes, Absol, I am here!"

Followed by that voice came the rustle of leaves and out appeared a feminine pink Pokemon by the name of Chansey. Chansey bore a soft, kind face who's eyes held many years of wisdom.

"Chansey I need your assistance, I found a Flareon unconscious along the beach. I haven't seen a Pokemon in that bad shape in such a long time, I don't know if she'll make it."

Immediately Chansey's eyes became focused, a determined look coming into her eyes.

"Okay Absol, I'll go in and take a look. You should go gather my herbs, you know where I keep them."

Absol nodded in response before leaping past Chansey in order to gain her herbs that she used for medical purposes. Chansey made her way into the den, located at the back of the cave was Flareon on a bed of gathered leaves and hay that was obviously Absol's bed.

Chansey carefully looked over Flareon's body before uttering,

"Whoever did this to you….are criminals. I won't let you die, I haven't lost anyone yet!"

Xx_xX

Hours had passed by since Chansey declared there was nothing more she could do for Flareon.

"Chansey…could your move soft boiled not fully cure her?"

"I already tried using it multiple times, the first time I did it, the worst wounds were healed but after that it seemed to have no effect. I'm going to assume there aren't just physical wounds but also mental. I say this poor thing was tortured before you found her, these wounds are just so extreme I'm amazed she was still alive when you found her."

Absol remained silent for minutes, just simply looking at Flareon, sympathy began emerging as he tried to imagine the ordeal she had been through.

"When will she wake up?"

"That simply depends when she's ready herself to wake up, I say her body is somewhat stable but that was only because I was able to attend to her, the other damages, she'll have to face herself. So all we can do is wait."

Xx_xX

Sleeping in that cold cage had been hard; during her attempt to sleep Flareon had been continually interrupted by the opening and closing of the door to the room. It was merely scientists looking at all the different Pokemon. The scientists would look at one Pokemon, attempt to get a response by talking to it or poking it. Once a response was given they wrote down words on their clip boards and then either went on to the next Pokemon or simply left.

Luckily for Flareon, Eevee and herself had been left alone, most likely because they were new and Giovanni himself had already inspected them. Usually when facing someone she hated Flareon would out right attack them but round Giovanni it was a different story. She had to play her cards carefully, one wrong move and all of Team Rocket's grunts would happily move in to eliminate them.

If she were to unleash a Flamethrower on Giovanni when he first entered the room, more than likely her life would be taken by the nearest grunt. Also Team Rocket had an advantage, if she pulled a wrong move, they would go for Eevee so ultimately Team Rocket had leverage on her, in her current situation they would win.

Despite the odd interruptions, Eevee remained asleep. It was most likely because she was still so young and already extremely tired from the events that had occurred. Currently Eevee had unconsciously moved in her sleep so she was lying against the cage door, still lost in her slumber.

Suddenly the door was opened again.

CLICK…CLICK

Two scientist entered the room, both were in a deep discussion as they entered. Following the scientists were two grunts, now that was definitely different, there had been no grunts since Giovanni entered. One of the grunts was carrying a small black case that looked suspicious.

Flareon listened carefully to their conversation in order to possibly gain some insight as to what the Rockets were planning.

"I believe Giovanni's plan can be successful, but we need to be careful with the specimens, one wrong move and it's done for."

"Yes, yes you are correct but that's why it's a bonus that we have the other one, it too will give a good source of specimen."

"I suppose you're right, so now Giovanni wants us to look at the top 3 species of Pokemon in this room, aside from the specimen cage of course, in order to get the best DNA, we need the best for the plan to go a step further."

One of the scientists turned towards one of the grunts before instructing,
"You there! Take that injection and use it to knock out the specimen, but don't damage it or Giovanni will hear about this!"

Immediately the grunt nodded in response and turned to the case, he placed it on the floor before taking out an injection with a frightfully long needle. The grunt made his way towards the cages, more specifically Flareon and Eevee. The grunt made to inject Eevee due to the angle he had the injection at but due to instinct Flareon grabbed Eevee and moved so Eevee was in Flareon's former spot and Flareon ended up being against the cage door. However due to her quick actions Flareon was stuck by the injection.

The content of the injection flooded into Flareon's body, the grunt's reaction was not as quick as Flareon so her body was the target of the injection. Within seconds Flareon's body became heavy, her vision soon became blurred.

The last thing Flareon could remember was hearing the grunt say, "Dammit, wrong one!" Then Flareon drifted into unconsciousness, the drug that was in the injection finally taking over.