Okay, so here is another update. So, after looking at the first chapter again, I decided that I hate that fight scene, and I wanted to let everyone know this. I don't know why I'm letting everyone know this, I just am. Anyway, there is more fighting in here, and I hope that you guys find it to be good. Anyway, I have a review to reply to, so I shall do that first.

Diamondstor2: Let me start this off by saying, I feel like an idiot. I truly have no idea why I hadn't thought of Latios being a tomboy, but I thank you for suggesting it, as I actually used it. But, onto the rest of your review. I guess that I didn't portray Shelby as I had intended, and I apologize for that. She wasn't intended to be submissive, as submissive people don't normally insult the person that they are submissive to behind their back. She was merely tolerative, and when she went into heat and her emotions rose, along with her hatred for Entei fucking with her only friend constantly, along with Entei trying to physically harm Shane, sort of just sent her over the edge, and she went off. About the whole passage of time thing, that was most likely the only jump that will cover more than just a month or so. Anyway, I thank you for the review, the advice, and the idea for Latios.

Fun Fact: Bullets Hurt Like Hell

I landed on my feet, perfectly sticking the jumping kick that I had performed, just as the final few spinning targets disappeared. I looked up at the timer, causing Strife to disappear from my back at the same time, to watch mine and Darkrai's names moving from the bottom of the leaderboard to the very top, now showing off an impressive time of fifteen seconds.

"Wow," ESTR said, appearing next to me, "that's even better than last night."

"Yeah," I panted out, surprised by the score myself, "I honestly didn't expect to do this well."

"Well, your skill has been increasing greatly over the past month," she said, "so I guess it isn't completely difficult to believe."

I shrugged, before bending down and grabbing my bottle of water off of the floor. I unscrewed the cap, before draining the whole thing. While the score is absolutely something to be proud of, due to my desire for secrecy, it wasn't like anyone would actually see it. More importantly, this score finally convinced me that I was ready to put my latest plan into action tomorrow night. I grabbed my shirt from the floor, before heading for the door.

"I think that that's enough for tonight, ESTR." I said.

"Of course, Shane." ESTR replied, walking next to me. "Would you like me to follow our standard procedure?"

"Yes, thank you." I responded. I continued walking for the door, but stopped before leaving, and said, "Oh, and ESTR?"

"Yes?" The girl asked me.

"I think we're ready." I said. "I want to start, tommorow."

"Are you sure?" She asked. "Not that I doubt you, I just want to make sure that you are ready for what will be needed of you."

"Yes, I can do it." I reassured, nodding. "Just be ready, I'll be here at midnight."

"Very well." ESTR replied, before disappearing.

I left the room, and as I did so, the record time that I had just scored disappeared, followed by my ranking being moved back to the bottom of the leader board. I started back for my room, anxious to finally shower. As I was walking, I pulled out my phone and checked the time. Fuck, it's already five? I have to be up at seven for training tomorrow. Oh well, I'll get over it, I guess. I came to my door, and turned the knob, but, just before entering, I took a glance back and my eyes fell on Shelby's door. I don't know why I did this, I just did, and I couldn't explain it to myself. Shaking my head to clear it, I stepped into my room and headed for the bathroom. I stripped down, before turning on the water. After a few seconds, I stepped into the cold water, feeling it wash away the layer of sweat that was coating my body. As I bathed, I stretched into the air, popping my back.

"Holy shit, that felt good." I gasped out.

I looked down at my body and saw the muscle definition that had formed over the past month. Ever since my first run with the simulation, I had returned to the room to train every night, which had not only made me improve drastically, which I kept hidden from the others, much to ESTR's confusion, but it also allowed me to learn new things about ESTR. One such thing was that she could form more than just standard targets, having shown off by forming large buildings, some of which she even completely furnished, along with showing me an interesting advanced training program that she had been working on in secret, where she made actual human forms to fight against, and, after using that program during our secret meetings for the past month, we had concluded that it worked perfectly as it functioned like a real living being, learning your moves if you fought the same way repeatedly through multiple fights; this also allowed us to come to the conclusion that, after the training, I am actually fairly adept at fighting, as I can win fights against four at a time without even being touched. It also allowed me to learn that, by hooking up to her main power source, you could transfer her into any electronic device that you could think of, which would be beneficial to my plan for later. I has also discovered that she could erase things from the leader board, once given the proper command, hence how I was able to keep my awesome scores a secret. I stepped out of the shower, sighing. Well, I guess tomorrow's the night. I'll finally live up to my job. I quickly threw on a pair of jeans, not wanting to take the time to get full dressed, before collapsing onto my bed, hoping that I would actually be able to get at least one hour of sleep. I was tired as hell, but I was happy all the same.

I was jolted from my sleep by a knock on my door. I groaned, before rolling out of my bed. I hit the floor, landing face first, and I let out a quiet gasp of shock and pain. I rose from my position and went to the door, rubbing my nose. I opened the door to find Shelby standing there, bouncing on the balls of her feet. I expected her to speak, but she instead seemed to be distracted, her eyes focused on my chest. I looked at her face, and I could clearly see that her eyes were clouded with lust. Yep, that figures. Arceus, I fucking hate her heat.

I snapped my fingers in front of her face, saying, "Yo, Shelby. Come back to reality, please."

She shook her head, before staring at me, saying, "Oh, what? Right, sorry."

"Don't be." I said, moving over to my dresser and grabbing a shirt from it. I threw it on, saying, "After all, I should have known better than to do that in the first place." I turned to her, and said, "So what's up?"

"Darkrai wanted me to tell you that she's had to push off training until nine." She said. "Something about a meeting, or some shit."

I breathed a sigh of relief, before saying, "Awesome. So, since we actually have time, do you wanna grab some breakfast?"

"Sure." Shelby said, nodding. "I'll get it, you can just go wait outside."

"Thanks." I responded, before she turned and started down the hall.

I put on my boots and started to lace them up. Ever since Shelby went off on Entei, she sort of abandoned her as a Champion, so, after some convincing on my part, I had gotten Darkrai to accept her as a second Champion, and we had all agreed to tell no one, especially Arceus, as we had no idea how she would react. I left my room, shutting the door behind me, and started for the exit of the Hall. Now that the metaphorical cat was out of the bag, Shelby and I saw no need to hide our friendship, so we had started openly spending time with each other, which included eating together. Although, that was slightly hindered by my existence. I couldn't exactly enter the cafeteria when it was a normal time for a meal, as the other Champions, obviously, made no attempt to cover up there heat, and I simply couldn't handle the sheer density of the scent with multiple Champions in one room. So, after it almost caused a scene, which ended up with me having to lock myself in my room for a day to calm down, Shelby and I had decided to start eating outside, in the fresh air, and she went and got our food from the cafeteria. Unfortunately, some of the others had noticed the effect that the heat scent had on me, so they used this to their advantage to fuck with me even more. Some of the Champions who saw me as less of a piece of filth and more of a pet began wearing tight and skimpy clothes, obviously hoping that I would fuck up and go after them. Meanwhile, the others, such as Chelsea, had decided that it would be much more fun to torture me in a different way, using mine and Shelby's relationship to their benefit, which elicited comments to myself, such as 'disgusting horny beast' and multiple comments about how they would rather suffer through the heat, rather than have sex with a male; along with comments directed at Shelby, such as, 'whore' and 'trash fucker'. And then there were the Eon twins. Latias and Latios. Fuck them. They were by far the worst, as they not only insulted myself and Shelby, but they also discovered a new, advanced, and even sicker way of fucking with us. They used Shelby as their weapon. Since they are legends, they obviously didn't have their own heat scent, so they used Shelby's against us. They used her to try and get me aroused enough to go after her, by doing everything from sneaking up on her while we were alone in the forest and cutting or ripping her shirt off before we could stop them, which made both of us happy that she wore a bra, to stealing all of her clothes, which the only thing that we could see they would gain from that is that they hoped that she would walk around in only her underwear, but, after the first time this happened, we had met with Darkrai and she had agreed to keep some of Shelby's clothes in her room, without letting anyone know, so that had prevented any mishaps.

I yawned loudly as I exited the Hall, but my attention was caught when I heard a voice yell, "Hey, male!"

Speaking of those assholes. I turned to my right to see Latias and a woman with short and spiky blue hair walking towards me. Yeah, none of us really understood why, but Latios had some weird thing with constantly wanting to be in human form.

"Yes?" I asked, sighing, as they reached me.

"Oh, nothing." Latios said, smirking. "We were just worried about you. Y'know, you've appeared to be extremely tired the past few days, so we wanted to make sure that you were okay."

Bullshit.

"Well, as you can see," I replied, "I'm quite fine."

"Oh, did you hear that, Latios?" Latias said. "He's quite fine. I bet I know what that means."

Son of a bitch. Fuck my choice of words.

"Ah," Latios said, "I assume that that fire whore finally sunk low enough to have you claim her?"

"No," I said, "nothing like that has occurred."

"Oh?" Latios inquired. "I find that hard to believe."

"Yes, and I find it hard to believe that I haven't ripped out your vocal chords and used them to jump rope yet." I growled out.

"Oh, getting feisty are we?" Latias said. "Well, I bet that I know a certain Flareon who benefits from that."

At this, I had to suppress the urge to knock both of them out. Hell, I could probably do it, should I actually attempt to.

"Listen," I said, sighing, "I'm really not in the mood for this today, so just get out whatever insults you have so I can be on my way."

"Aww, poo." Latias said, pouting. "You take all of the fun out this."

"I guess we'll just come back later then." Latios said, as they started inside. "Bye. Have fun being that whore's sex slave."

As they left, I heard them start laughing loudly. I sighed and closed my eyes as I stood there on the steps, massaging my temples in annoyance.

I was snapped out of my annoyed state by Shelby's voice saying, "Hey, you alright?"

I opened my eyes to see the Flareon standing there holding two plates of food, with a worried look on her face.

"Yeah." I said, sighing. "Sorry, it's just those two assholes."

"Well, c'mon, let's go eat." She said, handing me one of the plates.

I nodded and she led the way into the woods. We ended up walking for at least ten minutes, before we sat down in a clearing.

"Are you sure that you want to eat all the way out here?" I asked.

"Yeah." She said. "Why, do you not like this place?"

"No, it's not that." I reassured. "It's just that, we haven't been this deep since you started your heat, and, um-." I trailed off at the end.

"You're worried about all of the wild Pokemon out here, aren't you?" She said, seeming to read my mind.

"Yeah." I said, nervously.

"Well, don't worry." Shelby said. "I doubt that any males will be around, and besides, I'm pretty sure that once I explained that I wasn't interested, they would lay off."

I just shrugged, saying, "If you so."

"So," She started, as we began eating, "what's been up with you recently?"

"What are you talking about?" I asked, already knowing what her response would be.

"Well, recently you've just been extremely tired constantly," she said, "and I'm starting to worry about you."

"Don't worry," I reassured her, "I'm alright. I've just not been sleeping very well recently."

"Are you sure?" Shelby asked. "You don't seem to be concentrating as much, and I'm slightly worried about how that will affect the whole heat thing."

"Trust me, I'm fine." I said. "I don't know, I guess that training's starting to fuck with me some, or something."

"Well, maybe you could request a day off from Darkrai." She suggested. "I mean, if your sleep deprivation starts affecting your skill level, than I imagine that she would absolutely allow you a break to catch up on your sleep."

"No, I wouldn't want to ask that from her." I said. "It'd be way too unfair to take a day off just because I can't keep my shit together."

Shelby sighed, saying, "Whatever. I just worry about you."

"I know," I said, "and I thank you for it, but, I promise, I can handle myself."

"If you say so." She replied, shrugging. Changing the subject, she said, "So, what did the Eons want with you?"

"Oh, the usual." I said, offhandedly. "Mocking me, calling you a whore, calling me your sex slave. Y'know, nothing new."

"Arceus, they piss me off." Shelby said, sounding annoyed.

"Well, look at it this way," I said, "at least you don't have to put up with them going after you constantly. They just use you to go after me."

"Yeah, I guess." She said. "I always feel so bad about that."

"Don't." I said. "I don't care about it. My life was a shitty pit of loneliness, but you've kept my death from being the exact same thing. I'll deal with whatever they throw at me."

"Okay, just as long as you can take it." She replied.

We continued eating and talking, until I got a text from Darkrai saying that training was about to start. We hurriedly went back to the hall and ditched our dishes in the kitchen, before heading to the clearing in the woods that we use for training. When we got there, we saw Darkrai waiting, her signature scythe in her hands.

"Alright," she said, as we entered, "who wants to go first?"

"Do you want me to?" I asked Shelby. "I mean, you did go first yesterday."

"Sure." She replied, before going to the edge of the clearing and sitting down.

"Okay, go to your side." Darkrai said.

I went to one edge of the clearing, while Darkrai went to the other one. I spawned Strife, and held him with the blade going across both of my shoulders, behind my head. Darkrai took her own battle stance, holding her scythe, which she had name Black Rose, in a classic ninja movie katana stance, holding the handle with the blade pointing behind her, just reaching her head.

"Shelby, if you will." Darkrai said.

"Begin." Shelby said.

Okay, I have to remember; I cannot use my skills. No one can know. Darkrai took a step back, before dashing towards me. As she reached me, she swung Black Rose forward at me, aimed at my head, but I quickly ducked under the blade, showing off the only thing that they knew that I was good at: dodging. As the blade passed over my head, I pushed out with the side of Strife, knocking her back. She caught herself and came to a sliding stop, halfway across the clearing. It was my turn to switch to the offensive, so I readied Strife and countered her attack by running over and stabbing at her, purposefully making it sloppy and slightly inaccurate. She easily parried the attack and hit me with the handle of her weapon, returning the knock back. She quickly swung her scythe out and hooked it behind my feet. She pulled back roughly on Black Rose, knocking my feet out from under me. My back hit the ground, and I looked up to see Darkrai place the blade of Black Rose at my throat, signaling my defeat. She sighed, removing the weapon, and I got to my feet, picking up Strife as I did.

"Damn it, Shane!" She yelled, extremely exasperated. "What the hell?"

"What?" I asked, defensively.

"It's been seven fucking months, yet I can still beat you as if it was the first day!" She responded. "What the hell are you doing?"

"I don't know." I said, shrugging. "I guess I just haven't been getting better."

"Well why the hell not?" She yelled back. "I've been working my ass off teaching you, yet you still fucking suck!"

Starting to get angry myself, I replied with, "Well, I don't fucking know why, but I just haven't been getting better!"

"Well you should have been!" She yelled. "Are you just not concentrating? Are you just too fucking lazy to do anything now that you don't have to live on the streets?"

"That's not it!" I yelled back, insulted.

"Well then, what is it?" She questioned. "Do you just not care about the thousands of innocents that die every day?" I stood there, too shocked by the statement to reply, so she continued, "Hell, maybe the others are right. Maybe a male doesn't deserve to be a Champion."

I froze, my anger sharply increasing. What? I clenched my fists, my right one closing tightly around the handle of Strife, and I had to resist the urge to lash out at her.

"Darkrai," Shelby said, walking over to her and grabbing her arm, "calm down. You don't know what you're saying."

"No, I know exactly what I'm saying." Darkrai replied, knocking Shelby's arm off. "You don't fucking deserve this. I saved you and gave you a chance to do some good, seeing as you wasted your life, but all you've done is throw away everything that I've done for you. Maybe I should have just let you die."

I had had enough of this. I turned on my heel and started out of the clearing.

Shelby dashed in front of me, stopping me with her arms on my chest, and said, "Shane, please stop."

I just glared down at her and pushed her aside, before disappearing through the trees. I made Strife disappear and started walking in a random direction, too pissed to care about where I was going. I don't care? I've spent the past month staying up until five in the morning or later, sometimes not even sleeping at all, just to train with ESTR for the sole purpose of helping the world. How the hell can that bitch say that I don't care? I quickly remembered that no one knew about our training, but it did nothing to calm me. I turned and started back for the Hall, still seething.

I flipped over in my bed, reaching for my phone. I picked it up and saw that it was close to midnight. I should probably get ready. I got up from my bed and reached under it, pulling out small wooden chest with two metal latches on the front. I opened it to reveal a completely black hooded jacket.

"Well, let's go." I said, taking it from the box.

I took black sleeve off of my arm, along with the shoulder pad, and set them on my bed, before beginning to put the jacket on, reflecting the events of the day. After I had gotten back to the Hall I had gone straight to my room, too pissed to do anything else. I locked myself in my room and just laid on my bed, dead to the rest of the Hall. Shelby had come by twice, once when they got back from training and another time at dinner, offering me food. I just kept silent, ignoring her and the pained tone in her voice. I didn't like making her feel like that, and I hated myself for ignoring her, I just felt too pissed to actually talk to anyone after what Darkrai said to me. I still couldn't believe how she treated me, but it wasn't even what she said to me that angered me. What she said just cut me deeply, and I could barely suppress the urge to start tearing up when I got into my room earlier. It emotionally and almost physically hurt me to know that Darkrai, my mentor and the one that had had faith in me since before day one, had turned on me, siding with the others. I hated myself for it, and I wanted to just spill everything to her and tell her about all of the training, about all of my hidden progress, but I couldn't. I didn't want anyone to know about what I've done recently, and tonight would only increase that desire. That is, if I can actually go through with it.

"Arceus, I hope that I can go through with it." I said aloud, sighing.

I zipped the jacket up and threw the hood onto my head, hiding my ears, before tucking my tail down into the back of my pants. I reached into the box and pulled out the last piece of my disguise. My mask. The mask was a jet black, which, post getting it and showing it to ESTR, had been confirmed to be made out of the same material as Strife, obsidian. On the mask was a large red X, which stretched from the corners and went across my nose. The only holes in the material were two holes just large enough for me to use for my eyes, but not enough to allow any of my face to show. I put the mask on, covering my face and completing my uniform.

"Well, here I go." I said, my voice muffled by the mask, which caused it to sound uncharacteristically deeper.

I left my room, shutting the door behind me quietly. I started for the training room. I entered and found it silent, as usual.

"Hey, ESTR," I said, "let's go."

She appeared next to me, a worried look on her face.

"Are you sure, Shane?" She asked.

"Yes," I replied, "why wouldn't I be?"

"Well," she began, hesitantly, "I sorta heard about what happened between you and Darkrai."

"Your point?" I asked.

"Well, I was just worried whether or not you're alright." She said.

"Trust me," I replied, "I'm perfectly fine. Now, can we go?"

Without waiting for an answer, I started for the balcony to my right, where ESTR's mainframe was located.

"Have you tried patching things up yet?" ESTR asked, following me.

"No, not really." I said, climbing the ladder.

"You really should." She advised. "Darkrai cares for you, and I'm sure she wants to continue training with you."

I scoffed, replying, "She cares for me? She fucking insulted me and said that I don't deserve to be a Champion. I don't know what your definition of care is, but that doesn't match mine."

"Shane, she was just angry with you." She said. "She just felt like you don't try as hard as you should."

"Whatever." I said I response.

I went over to the wall and found the right location. I found the small seam in the wall and slid my fingers under it slightly, opening the hidden panel. In it was a few dials and switches, which were used to do things such as shut ESTR, open up the hidden door to the complete mainframe, along with multiple other things, and a small black chord, with a few USB looking ends on it. I took my phone from my pocket and plugged the proper one into it. A window popped up on my phone and, after entering the correct password, it started downloading. After a minute or so, the download was complete, and a much smaller version of ESTR popped up, hovering just above my phone's screen.

"Alright, take up your disguise, E." I said, using her code name.

"Very well." ESTR said, before disappearing.

We had decided to give a code name so that I could speak to her in the field, while she would just refer to me indirectly, without using a name. After a few seconds, a small hologram of a boy popped up on my phone, red, rather than blue.

"Alright, let's go." She nodded, and I closed up the mainframe.

I clipped my phone to my belt and descended the ladder and left the room, knowing where to go. Shortly after I came up with this plan, I started looking around the Hall to try and find something to help me, which I quickly did. Contrary to my prior belief, there was no special power that had to be used by a legend to teleport you somewhere, they merely used a portal in a room in the Hall. Darkrai had neglected to show me the room when I first got here, with reasoning that remained unknown to me. I entered the room, and saw the large, circular portal at the opposite wall. I went over to the multiple cabinets on the wall and opened it, revealing small disks. I grabbed one, careful not to press down on the button, and put it in my back pocket, before going over to the small computer next to the portal. I started typing on the keyboard. ESTR and I had messed around with this multiple times, and I had discovered that, to teleport somewhere, all you had to do was put in the proper coordinates, or just the address for it. We had used this scope out where we were hitting prior to this night, memorizing everything about the place. I had also used it to obtain the items for my disguise. When I finished putting in the coordinates, a blue swirl appeared in the empty portal frame. I stepped in, bracing myself for the spinning sensation. After a few sickening seconds, I felt my feet hit the ground. I opened my eyes to see that I was in a forest, with the full moon shining down on my clearing.

"Fuck, I hope that I get used to that." I said, resisting the urge to throw up.

"You should," ESTR said, her voice slightly different, as she appeared on my shoulder, still a male, "at least, according to the others, you will."

I sat on the ground for a minute to let my stomach calm down. When it did, I got back up and began heading for the camp. We eventually came to a small rise in the land at the end of the trees, and I went up it, crouching down at the top. I looked out at the camp. The main building was large and made of gray stone, with no windows and only a front door. It looked to be at least four stories tall, and, I knew, full of abused and emaciated people. Alright, there's the prison. As there were no other buildings, I assumed that all of the guard barracks were in it, as well. Surrounding the perimeter of the building, along with the large yard, was a tall wire fence, with electrified wires braided through the fence, and it was all topped with barbed wire. There was only one entrance, a large gate that was in the fence on my side, with a guard tower on each side, both manned by snipers. The yard was populated with patrols of soldiers, most seeming to be teams of two, and there were spotlights on the roof of the building, each one sweeping over the yard and outside of the fence, manned by a sniper as well. There were random stacks of sandbags and equipment that could serve as cover from gunfire, should things get out of hand.

"Alright, let's go." I whispered.

I slid down the other side of the hill, and, dodging spotlights, silently moved over to another cliff, this one much closer to the fence. I got to the top and faced the camp. I took a running start, before leaping into the air, launching myself over the fence and onto the ground on the other side. Alright, so far so good .I quickly moved over to the guard tower nearest to me, avoiding the lights. I climbed the stairs into the tower, and slowly slid open the door, trying to be silent. I saw the sniper standing there, focused on the ground outside of the fence. Okay, I can do this. I snuck up behind the person, and stood up. I reached by hands around him, placing one hand over his mouth and the other on his forehead. I quickly gripped his head and sharply moved my arms, resulting in a satisfying cracking sound as his neck snapped. The body fell to the ground, making a quiet thud. I bent down to inspect his body. Deciding that I would need a weapon, I reached over to his sniper. Deciding that a rifle wouldn't be of too much help at this moment, I went to his waist. There, I found two completely black Desert Eagles. Guy seems to like my color. I think that I'll these. I unhooked them from his holsters and put them in my pockets. I left the tower, vaulting over the stair's guard rail, and landing on the ground silently. I went over to the other tower and repeated my assassination, before leaving again. I started across the yard, avoiding the spotlights and patrols. I eventually reached the door, and saw it to be unlocked. I began reaching for the knob, but froze as I heard someone yell. Fuck. I whipped around to see a patrol, a guy with blonde hair and a Gengar, behind me.

"Hey, you," the Gengar said, pointing his assault rifle at me, "freeze."

No sooner had the words left his mouth, than had I reacted on my instincts, whipping my Desert Eagles from my waist and aiming them at the soldiers. I pulled the triggers, and a loud bang sounded, as the bullets left the chambers, before colliding with the soldiers' chests, punching a large hole in their chest cavities. Their bodies dropped, and all of the spotlights focused on me. I was quickly surrounded by multiple other soldiers, their rifles aimed at me. Without thinking, I launched myself into a flip, spinning in a circle and letting bullets fly. When I landed, I was the last one standing, but an alarm quickly started sounding. I counted off how many bullets I had fired and came to the conclusion that the guns were empty, so I put them back in my pockets. I dashed over to a soldier's body and picked up his weapon. Let's see. An M16A4 assault rifle, thirty round clip, 5.56x45 millimeter NATO rounds. Semi-automatic and burst action. Let's get fucking started.

"Thank you." I said, walking back over to the door.

As soon as I kicked the door open to find more soldiers in the small entry room, their guns pointing at me. I dashed back out and took cover in the wall, as gunfire rang out in the room. When the noise stopped, I stepped out and began firing, placing precise bursts in the soldier's chests. As the final body dropped, I stepped over them, enter the narrow walkway that went to the back wall of the building. On all sides of me were prison cells filled with people, most of them at the bars watching me, the others seeming to be too sick, too tired, or, as I noticed in some, too dead to move. Some cells had only one or two people in it, which seemed to fit the small rooms quite well, while some had anywhere between five and ten people packed in them. The people were of all ages, the youngest appeared to be about five, while the oldest looked to be in her seventies. I continued down the hall, until I came to a set of stairs. I ascended these, to find a similar room, which I went down, to find yet another set of stairs. I went up these to find myself in another cell room. Holy shit, do they really have this many people here? When I reached the other end of the hall, I, once again, saw a set of stairs. I ascended them to find myself in what appeared to be a set of guard barracks, filled with soldiers, some pointing weapons at me, while others had taken cover behind their beds or chests.

I laughed lightly, and said, "Let's go."

I opened fire on a line of soldiers, and they all dropped. I continued through the room, ending life after life. At the back, I saw a large switch labeled "Cell Release". I went to pull it, but was stopped as a bowie knife stabbed into the wall, inches from my hand. I turned to see a Bisharp standing there, more knives in his hands.

"That was rude." I said.

"Yeah," the Bisharp replied, "well let's see how rude it is when I cut you open."

He dashed at me, waving his knives at me. I delivered a punch to his stomach, stunning him, before knocking him back. He flew through the air, but caught himself, before landing on his feet. He charged at me again, but I sidestepped, and nailed him in the jaw with my fist. He flung himself at me once again, and I grabbed his knives, before ripping them from his hands, and flinging them across the room. I swung his fist at me, but I caught it. I gripped his arm and quickly snapped it, bringing him to his knees. As he fell, I gripped his head and snapped his neck. His body fell to the floor, and I stepped over it. I pulled the switch, and a loud buzzing filled the building. I left the room to see people quickly piling out of the room and down the stairs. I followed, until we reached the yard. The prisoners dashed over to the un-electrified gate and pushed it open, leaving. I looked over and saw a group consisting of an Espeon, a Delphox, a Lopunny, and a Mightyena running over to me.

"Are you the man who saved us?" The Espeon asked, her voice layered with worry.

"Yes." I replied. "Is there something wrong?"

"Yes." The Mightyena responded. "It's our daughters."

"What of them?" I asked.

"The captain still has them." The Espeon said. "He's recently started taking teenage girls back to his own quarters, an underground bunker behind the prison, and they haven't been returning."

"Don't worry," I said, reassuring her, "I'll go and get them."

The Espeon nodded, and I dashed around the building. Why am I almost positive that I know what I'm going to find? I found a small hatch at the back of the building, and I opened it, revealing a ladder, leading down. I climbed down it and found myself in a bedroom. Had I had no prior knowledge as to what this place was, I would have assumed it to be a normal master bedroom, as it had a large bed, a dresser, a closet, and a door, which I assumed led to a bathroom. It looked almost normal. Almost. Chained to the wall to my right were an Eevee, a Buneary, a Braixen, and a Poochyena. I quickly ran over to them. I saw, in horror, that all of them were completely nude, with red and white stains in their fur, and all of them but the Eevee had their eyes closed. The red is obviously blood, and I would prefer not to confirm my suspicions about what the white is. I knelt down in front of the Eevee and reached for her chains, but she struck out at me with a kick, her foot connecting with my stomach. I looked at her as I regained my breath and saw fear plastered to her face and filling her eyes.

"Hey, calm down." I whispered, moving back to her. "I'm here to free you. I've already freed the others, and your mothers are waiting up top."

"Really?" She asked me, her voice sounding dry. "You're here to help?"

I nodded, and she relaxed. I reached for her chains and, seeing that I would need a key to quietly unlock them, I got up and dashed over to the dresser. I searched through it, hunting for the key. I eventually found it, so I ran back over to the Eevee.

"So," I asked, kneeling back down and beginning to free her, "where's is this captain?"

"I imagine in the bathroom." She replied. "He got drunk, used the others for his own purposes, and then muttered something about needing to piss, and then he stumbled into the bathroom. Granted, that was about two hours ago, so he probably passed out like always."

I finished getting her shackles of, and she leapt up, wrapping her arms around me.

"Thank you, so much." She said, burying me in a hug.

"It's nothing." I said, returning the embrace. Releasing her, I handed her the key and said, "Here, you start freeing the others and waking them up, and I'll go deal with our drunken friend."

She accepted the key and nodded, before going over to the Buneary. I went over to the closed door and, deciding to be done with subtlety, I kicked it open, revealing a Typhlosion, holding a pistol.

"Stay back, damn you!" He demanded. "Get out now, and no one needs to die."

I just laughed, and said, "I've already killed all of your men, and you'll surely follow."

He seemed to go in minor shock, before saying, "You've killed them all?" I nodded, and he flung himself at me, shouting, "You bastard!"

I easily flung him across the room, near the ladder. As he still had the gun, he raised it and aimed, but not at me. I saw that he had the barrel of the weapon aimed at the Eevee, who had already freed the Buneary and Poochyena , who were also awake, and was now moving on to the Braixen. Without thinking, I tackled the Eevee down, just as the gun went off. I felt a sudden pain in my left arm, and looked down to see a hole in my jacket at my upper arm, with blood slowly starting to come out of it. Shit! Deciding to end the fight quickly, I dashed over to the Typhlosion, ignoring the pain in my arm, and coated my right hand in an Iron Claw, before sinking it into his throat. Crimson blood started to pour from his neck and onto my hand, as I removed the claw and his body fell to the floor. I got rid of the claw and turned to see the Buneary and Poochyena staring at me in fear, while the Eevee had gotten back up and was currently trying to wake up the Braixen. I dashed over to the unconscious fire type, and knelt down next to her.

"Is she alright?" I asked the Eevee.

"I don't know," she responded, "she won't wake up."

Fearing the worst, I checked her pulse, to find that, thankfully, she was alive, just unconscious.

"She's alive, just knocked out." I said. "Now, c'mon, we need to leave."

I started to left the Braixen up into my arms, but I was stopped by the Eevee putting her hand on my shoulder and saying, "Can you carry her? I mean, you did just get shot."

"Don't worry," I replied, "I can get her. Granted, I may need help getting her up the ladder, but I should be able to get her the rest of the way."

The Eevee nodded, and she followed the other two up the ladder. I held the Braixen I my arms and started for the ladder, ignoring the pain and stress in my left arm. I reached the ladder and, with some help from the Eevee, got the Braixen up, followed by me. When I was at the top, I picked up the Braixen and the Eevee and I started around the building, the other two having already gone to their mothers. When we turned the corner, I saw the Poochyena and Buneary standing with their respective parents, while the Delphox and Espeon were pacing worriedly. As soon as they caught sight of me, the two mothers rushed over to me, the Espeon scooping her daughter into her arms, not caring about her soiled fur, and the Delphox paused in front of me.

"Is she okay?" She asked me, stroking her daughter's head.

"Yes," I replied, "she is merely unconscious."

"Here, I can carry her." The Delphox said, reaching under the Braixen.

I moved my arms away, and the Brixen dropped into her mother's arms, who promptly moved back to the other mothers. At this point, the Espeon and Eevee approached me, smiles on their faces.

"Listen," the Espeon said, "I want to thank you, on behalf of the others and myself. Their just too wrapped up in being back with their daughters to care about anything else, I imagine."

"It's quite alright." I said, nodding slightly. "I understand. I would be this was as well, should I be reunited with a missing family member."

At this point, the Espeon wrapped her arms around me, but pulled away as I winced in pain when she put pressure on my gunshot wound.

"Arceus, you're hurt." She exclaimed, inspecting it. "Please, allow me to help."

"Don't worry about it," I said, "I can fix it myself."

"Are you sure?" She asked. "I mean, I'm a nurse, so I imagine that I could help."

"Trust me," I reassured, "I can take care of it myself."

"Alright." She said. "Anyway, I can't thank you enough, but we truly should be leaving. We really need to find somewhere to hide out, as I can't imagine that our house would be safe anymore."

"I understand." I said, nodding. "Goodbye."

They both waved at me, as everyone left, leaving me standing alone. As soon as they left the gate, I let out a gasp of pain that I had been holding in.

"Are you okay?" ESTR asked me, appearing on my shoulder.

"Yes, I'm fine." I said. "I'll just need to fix it up when we get home."

She nodded and disappeared, and I started for the gate. I exited the camp and went back into the woods, before pulling the small disk from my back pocket. I pressed the button on it, and it expanded. I dropped it on the floor, and it started glowing blue, similar to the portal. I stepped on the disk and felt myself spinning, before my feet touched the ground. I was back in the portal room in the Hall. I picked the return pad up from the floor and went over to the console at the portal. I cleared the coordinates from the screen, and the portal grew blank and silent again. I put the disk back in the cabinet, as it had reverted back to its original size. I started for the infirmary, as I could feel myself getting dizzy from blood loss. As soon as I got there, I found a pair of tweezers, a needle, some thread, and some antibiotics. I used my minute amount of medical skills, along with common sense, and pulled the bullet from my wound, before cleaning it up and putting antibiotic on it, and stitching it back up. When I was done, I felt like I was going to throw up from the pain. I flopped back onto the bed that I was on, letting out a sigh.

"Well, that was successful." I said, removing my mask.

"To an extent, yes." ESTR said, appearing next to me, now in her normal form.

"Fun fact: bullets hurt like hell." I said, laughing slightly.

"I imagine." ESTR replied. "So, what are you going to do with those guns?"

"Shit." I said, facepalming, "I forgot that I had those. I don't know, I guess all I can do without raising suspicion would be to keep them hidden with my gear."

ESTR seemed to stand there, thinking, before saying, "Maybe you could find some way to use Heatran's forge to make it to where they have infinite ammo. I mean, she does use that to make the Champion weapons."

"Do you know how to work it?" I asked.

"To an extent." She replied. "But, I imagine that I could find some way to find out."

"Alright then," I said, "you find out how, and we'll do it."

"I will on one condition." She said. "I want you to patch things up with Darkrai."

I sighed, saying, "ESTR, I can't do that, at least not yet. I'm still angry over how much she insulted me."

"Fine then," she said, "at least stop being so rude to Shelby. You know that she cares for you, but you just continuously blew her off today."

"Alright," I agreed, "I'll do that."

"Okay then." ESTR said. "Now, I advise that you get me back to the training room. After all, it is almost sunrise."

"Seriously?" I asked. She nodded, and I sighed, before getting up and saying, "Alright, let me clean up in here and we can go."

I cleaned the mess that I had made, and found some painkillers while I was at it. I took some, which seemed to help my arm, and decided to pocket the bottle, just in case, and started for the training room.

"So," ESTR said, as we were walking, "how are you going to hide your wound?"

"I guess I can always use my sleeve." I said. "I mean, it does cover my whole arm."

We reached the training room, and I transferred ESTR back to her mainframe.

"Hey, Shane?" She said, as I started for the door.

"Yeah?" I responded.

"You were really heroic today." She replied. "You truly proved that the others are wrong."

"Thanks." I replied, leaving the room.

When I got back to my room, I put my jacket and mask in the wooden crate, followed by the two guns. I took a quick shower, careful not to upset my stitches, and put the crate back under my bed. I looked at my phone and saw that it was almost seven by now. I was about to lay down to try and get some sleep, when I remembered my promise to ESTR. I got dressed and put on the sleeve and shoulder pad, careful not to rub against the wound, and left my room, heading for Shelby's room. I knocked on it, and she came to the door immediately.

"Hey."I awkwardly said, as she opened the door.

"Hey." She said. "Would you like to come in?"

"Thanks." I replied, as she moved aside, allowing me to enter the room. "Listen," I started, as she closed the door, "I'm sorry for how I treated you yesterday. I was just angry with Darkrai, and I didn't want to risk me lashing out at you."

"It's alright." She replied. "I know that you probably weren't in the best state of mind after that."

"Thanks." I said, letting out a sigh of relief. "I was actually scared that you wouldn't accept my apology, or that you would be angry with me."

"Trust me," she said, "nothing would make me be angry with you."

She wrapped me in a hug, and I winced as she put pressure on my stitches.

"What's wrong?" She asked, pulling away.

"Nothing," I replied, "I think I just pulled something yesterday in training."

"Oh, I'm sorry." She said. "But, that reminds me. You really need to try and patch things up with Darkrai."

I sighed, and said, "Shelby, you know that I can't do that, at least not yet."

"How did I know that you would say that?" She replied, with a sigh of her own. "Anyway, do you want to go and get some breakfast?"

"Sure." I replied, and we left the room.

Okay, so this was fun. Fight scenes, gun fights, and, of course, drama. But, I hope this was a good chapter, and I'll see you guys later.