Mienfoo was on his way to his usual training place. It was a nice place to train, at the foot of mount Kortus. There was a forest not very far away from the mountain, separated by a vast plain. When you were standing in the middle of the plain and looked up to the mountain, it was a breathtaking view and an excellent background for a shadowboxing fighting type like Mienfoo.

Mienfoo has always wanted to train hard to become stronger. He did not have an idol nor a certain goal in his life yet, but he figured that training hard every day would eventually get him somewhere. His training session usually involve going to the plain with a lunch package, eating it when the sun is at the highest place.

When he neared his usual spot, he saw an old friend of his. He had not seen Pancham for a long time.

"Hey, Pancham. It´s been a while."

Pancham turned around and saw that Mienfoo was standing before him, more ´badass´ than ever. Pancham always had much respect for Mienfoo, as he always trained hard.

Without saying anything, Pancham walked up to Mienfoo to do their usual greeting. A punch, kick and spin to each other´s hands and feet, respectively and a firm handshake paired with a friendly hug.

"Hey, Mienfoo. I missed you, man!"

"Yeah, me too. How have you been?"

"Ah. Well, I´ve been trying to make up my mind about what to do."

Mienfoo nodded attentively.

"I don´t know what to do. I´m bored out of my mind, actually."

"Well. Why don´t we train together?"

"I want to do something different from training, for once."

"The mountain?"

They both looked at the huge mountain. As always, the image of the mountain is impressive and beautiful. The signature silver colour is reflecting the sunlight, and near the top it seems to fade away into the sky in the background.

"Yeah! Let´s climb the mountain!"

"OK."

Climbing the mountain was hardly a challenge for the two fighters. Mount Kortus is, as always, serene without any dangerous Pokémon on it. Or so they thought. The hike seemed much more like a race of who might reach the top first.

There were near the top of the mountain where they were suddenly caught up in a violent blizzard. It literally came out of nowhere. Both of the Pokémon couldn´t see a thing. They were lucky to find an entrance to a cave inside the mountain.

Still blinded by the blizzard, the two were suddenly grabbed by the mouths and dragged behind a rock! The two very nearly wanted to hit the grabber, but they saw it was their friend Riolu! He was telling them to be silent and look over the rock.

"shh, be quiet! They don´t know we´re here!" Riolu whispered to them.

The three of them looked over the rock to see a group of Pokémon standing around a Garchomp, violently punching the wall.

"What the heck is he doing!?" Pancham exclaimed without alerting the others.

"He´s punching the wall... weird." Mienfoo calmly said.

"Ugh. You two, follow me." Riolu ordered them.

Riolu always had this uncanny ability to see much more than most of the Pokémon. He once tried to explain it to his friends, but they can´t understand fully. He utilises a power that brims within the heart of every kind of Pokémon: Aura. It is generally the energy of a Pokémon that can describe the pokemon´s personality, and mood.

Riolu could see much more than Pancham and Mienfoo possibly could. There were a large number of evolved Pokémon present in the cave. Gabites, Galvantulas, Gravelers, Fraxures and even a Rhyperior. The latter seemed to be especially evil, according to what Riolu sensed.

The reason Riolu think there is more going on than just a Garchomp hitting the wall, is that he saw something he´d never seen before. A bright, golden Aura that was much stronger than the rest of the cave. This confirmed two things: Garchomp was beating up a Pokémon, and the Pokémon being beaten up is getting hit without having done something bad.

They manoeuvred over to another well-hidden rock in the oval-shaped cave. When they had successfully repositioned, they once again looked over the rock stealthily.

"Oh, what the..." Pancham whispered in disbelief.

Garchomp was actually violently attacking a Pokémon. It was difficult to see what it looked like from this angle, but it could be heard sobbing. He was apparently stuck in the wall, and he couldn´t move. It was distressing, to see a Pokémon being attacked so violently that cannot fight back.

After a few more seconds of fierce attacks, Garchomp stepped backwards to look at his victim.

"I´m done. Rhyperior, finish it."

"My pleasure."

Rhyperior slowly moved to his target, giving it a merciless look. The creature could be heard tossing and turning in the wall, but unable to get out. It was jammed into the wall so badly that he couldn´t have any chance of getting out.

Charging up his attack, Rhyperior gave the creature a cold stare. He was about to unleash a mighty Rock Wrecker to finish the creature off.

"No, No please..."

Its voice was weak and broken and was the very sound of desperation. Riolu tried to dash forward to the rescue, but Pancham and Mienfoo held him back. It would have been his death. Riolu could feel the creature´s pain...

Victini came into the cave with a huge bang. The entire cave was lit up and the entrance was set on fire. However, he came too late. The Rock Wrecker was a full-on hit. Zennox was lying on the ground, before Rhyperior. The entire cave was now silent. It was surprising how little Victini´s entrance mattered.

Riolu was standing on top of the rock he hid behind. Mienfoo and Pancham were both dashing towards Zennox, and Victini dropped down on his knees in disbelief. Rhyperior was standing there, immobilized. He realised the creature was not done yet.

The three fighters stood together, perfectly still. They noticed movement in the creature´s body, so froze instantly.

Zennox slowly stood up, keeping his eyes closed. There were black thunderbolts underneath his eyes. The collar around his neck was violently bursting with energy. The very air around Zennox was getting electrified. A yellow-white aura was around him and then... he finally opened his eyes. They were different. And not in a good way.

Rhyperior was not about to wait until Zennox recovered, so he used his arm for a mighty blow to his head. However, Zennox could easily stop Rhyperior´s arm in its tracks and used this opportunity to send a powerful electric current through Rhyperior´s body. The ground typing matter none: Rhyperior exploded and fell down to the ground, unconscious.

Garchomp reacted to this by using Dragon Rush to get to Zennox, but before he reached him he was tossed away by a psychic move. Garchomp yelled

"GET THEM, YOU FOOLS!"

After which Victini tossed him into the gap in the wall Zennox used to be in, followed op by a huge ball of fire that knocked Garchomp out. Zennox, in the meantime, went into a rampage. All of the Pokémon in the cave that were in his way, got violently slashed and paralyzed. In exactly 42 seconds he managed to take down all Pokémon in the cave, not including Rhyperior. Only Victini and the three fighting type Pokémon remained.

He turned towards Victini and stepped forward with a fierce expression. Victini was scared for a moment, but then he saw that Zennox recognised him and turned away. Then he went to the tree fighters.

"AAGGH!" Pancham and Mienfoo shouted.

Riolu grabbed his friends and shielded them from what he thought of as an incoming attack. Zennox, however, did not attack. Instead he stepped backwards and sat down on a rock, concentrating on something.

The cave was now silent. There were unconscious Pokémon littered all around, three shocked fighters and Victini trying to come near Zennox.

Zennox closed his eyes to take a few long, deep breaths. After a few minutes of silence, Zennox once again opened his eyes, showing that he came by his senses.

Victini immediately embraced Zennox and cried.

"Damn it, Zennox... I was so scared...That they might hurt you... and... and..."

"They tried to... to..."

Both Zennox and Victini were unable to talk properly. They both cried loudly, after which they decided to leave the cave together.

"Wait!" Riolu yelled.

All of the conscious Pokémon in the cave looked at Riolu, expectantly. Riolu was unsure about what to say.

"Well... um.." It was unlike Riolu to be nervous.

Zennox looked at Victini and dried his tears. He walked up to Riolu.

"Th-thanks f-for... caring about me..."

Without saying anything, Riolu put his hand on Zennox´ chest and let the energy flow through his arm. Riolu felt all of Zennox´ emotions, memories and pain at once, flowing right inside Riolu, which made tears come down from his eyes.

"R-Riolu? A-are you okay?" Mienfoo worried about his friend.

"he´s been through a lot..." Riolu calmly said, still with misty eyes.

Zennox was sincerely touched by the gesture. He could feel that Riolu was kind and thoughtful. Very much like Victini. The five of them decided to leave the cave together, to make sure everyone would stay safe. From now on, they would be friends for life.