The next morning the sun is brightly shining into the room from the window, and as Alexander opened his eyes, he noticed a few things. First thing he noticed was that nick was mostly under him at that moment, alexander thought, 'wait, what?' then he noticed he had his arms and legs wrapped around nick, in a spooning position, he sat there in peace for a moment before feeling his throbber. his eyes opened and he looked down, his fully erect penis was sticking out of the front hole in his boxers and was halfway down nicks boxers, already between his cheeks. alexander tried moving and realized he had came on nick, and they were both covered in his precum. alexander stiffened as nick moved a little, a small sound escaping his mouth, he looked at nicks sleeping face, it was both calm and worried, and it was red as a tomato. alexander started thinking, 'shit. shit, what do i do if he wakes up!?' alexander remembers talking to taper last night and thinks, 'taper? can you hear me?' taper floats over, and starts laughing hysterically as he sees what was going on. alexander thought, 'this so isn't funny! you know how you said you were as much his as mine, well since you do what he asks that means you need to help me out a little' taper huffs but doesn't say anything, then alexander says, 'i need you to keep nick asleep while i clean this up 'taper floats close and says, 'thats what ive been doing for an hour, you have been sleep humping at him and he would have woken up from the start if i hadn't intervened' alexander blushed and said, i also need you to teleport the cum and stuff off him, please?' alexander carefully gets off of nick, leaving him alone under the blankets, nick looked up with sleeping eyes and whimpered at the loss of whatever had been his dream, brought down by alexanders leaving. alexander grabbed a sock a wiped off the cum and pre from his dick, then turned to nick and saw taper teleport the cum off of nick and his boxers.

alexander sighed in relief and said, 'you can wake him up now' he turned to put his pants on when he noticed his boxers were still soaked from pre; he ripped them off and when through his bag, his balls swinging as he squatted at his bag. he turned with his extra pair in his hands, as he turned he felt something hit his still fully erect dick, he looked down and saw it had been nicks face, his dick still resting just above his mouth. nicks eye were wide open and his face was a dark shade of red, and to make it all the worse, his mouth was wide open. (purely from shock i assure you) alexander went a pinkish red. nick opens his mouth and says, "um.. alexander?" taper says into both their minds in a way that reminded them of nicks mum when she told them to go do something together, 'that sure looks like fun...' taper then teleports outside the door. nick looks down at alexanders 8 inch meat stick, still resting on his face, throbbing quickly, nick says, "yeah, that sure is.. uh" alexander rubs the back of his neck and says, "yeah well.." nick interrupts as though he hadn't really heard alexander, "yeah.. big" they make eye contact and then nick sits up and Alexander quickly puts his boxers on; nick starts getting his clothes on too, making sure to go fast to hide his own erection. they walk out of the room, a heavy blush on not only nick and alexanders faces, but bellossoms too. taper falls in line over nicks head and says to him, 'really? did you even try in there?' nick swats at him and says, 'oh shut up'

Brock meets them outside and says as he walks up, "oh good, you haven't left yet, i just wanted to give you guys this map of the tunnels, it's going to make traveling through them much easier." alexander grabs it and looks at it slowly, saying, "thanks brock" brock says, "well i just sorta felt the badge didn't really repay you for saving the town, the tunnels, or the people and pokemon who lived in both" nick looked up from the map and said, "well, i mean we really didn't do it for any reward, but thank you for the map, it's going to really help us" they waved as they started walking away. they passed the destruction caused by yesterday's battle between alexander and cindy, then went straight into the cave. alexander led the way as he looked over the map by lap light, but he wasn't thinking about the map or the cave, he was thinking about that morning. he thought as he walked, 'i can't believe myself, he does so much, and i let him down, then i he saw that and .. i don't know what was going through his head. why do i have to be so..' taper finished his thought with, 'terrible? mean? torturous? supreme lord of douche bags?' alexander frowned and thought, 'i just wish i could have a chance to say i was sorry'

taper thought to himself then heard nick thinking to himself, 'did i do that to him... it wouldn't be the first time i forced someone like that in a wet dream.. but, maybe..' taper sighed and said to himself, 'maybe this would work' taper tripped nick and he stumbled forward, gasping as he went, alexander had turned and nick landed on his chest, they looked up at each other and just as nick was trying to push himself up, alexander pulled him in, embracing him. nick thought to taper, 'you tripped me, what's going on' taper mentally slapped him and said, 'just shut up and pay attention' alexander breathed down at nick, and after a moment of lost thought, he said, "i am so sorry.. i didn't mean to do that to you back there" nick feels a slight push from taper to respond and says, "no, it wasn't your fault.. i probably shouldn't have stared" alexander looked down at nick his face slowly getting closer to nicks, "i should have just changed in the bathroom-" they both start as a sandshrew screams, "Shrew!" it had walked by but hadn't noticed them until it was right at their feet, he ran off into a crack in the tunnels and they both laughed. alexander let nick go and said, "c'mon, lets get that next badge!" he starts running and nick runs after, taper lifting bellossom as they both watch with increasing interest.

they could see sunlight and soon the hard stone ground turned to white sand. they burst from the cave and stop abruptly; the sun was high in the sky, a completely clear sky; the water splashed onto shore lightly, the sand was a bright white with small tufts of grass higher up, a cool cross breeze flowing through their hair. nick took a step and said in awe, "we can't just let a day like this pass us by.." alexander ripped his shirt off and tossed it in nick's face as he ran to the water, kicking his pants off as he went. nick smiled and teleported, leaving his clothes behind, he materialized at the shore in just his boxers and alexander jumped, tackling nick and after a small struggle, ended with himself sitting on nick's chest in two inch deep water. alexander kissed his arms and nick said, "bleh bleh!" lifting alexander with his psychic abilities and throwing him into the deeper water, running after him. alexander and nick dive deeper and deeper, and alexander taps nick shoulder, and points up, nick laughs and holds out his hands, bubbles from above start to float down to him and it forms two large bubbles that he puts over both their heads, alexander shakes his head and starts swimming again, the bubbles getting smaller with every breath. they get forty feet down when the bubbles finally run out of air, nick smirks and holds his breath, alexander crossed his arms and rested against a rock.

after a minute, they were both blue in the face and nick teleported them about ten feet above the water, they gasped for air before they hit with a thud, nick on his back, alexander on his chest. they surfaced and looked at eachother, then started laughing. they caught there breath then started laughing harder, bellossom was sun bathing with her vines out to make a hammock, and then just stared at the castle taper had made, it was huge and had an open drawbridge, they walked in and found it was just as realistic on the inside as the out. taper said to them, 'oh no, i dont think i can hold it up' he said this with as much sarcasm as he could muster as he dropped large chunks of sand at them. nick saw it coming and lifted an arm, exploding the sand outward, a second fell and alexander ducked this time, nick put up a shield and then the whole castle collapsed, multiple tons of sand pressing down on nicks shield. nick struggled and said, "fuck" taper laughed and teleported them both out. they looked at him but he just whistled casually in their minds, nick lifted some sand and pushed his ball to the ground, forcing him lower and lower. taper thought up to them, 'fair enough' then teleported back up. nick and alexander both collapsed in the sand and nick yawned loudly, alexander said, "this was a lot of fun" nick said, "yeah.." he quickly nodded off.

alexander looks at the clear blue sky and remembers what taper had said the last night, he thought, 'hey taper?' taper floated over and said, 'sand fights aren't fun if nick is asleep, i'd just end up killing you' alexander sighed and said, 'i thought you were supposed to be psychic, yet you don't know what i wanted to ask?' taper huffs, dropping the sand he had floating around himself and said, 'the thing i said' alexander nodded and asked, 'why are you as much mine as his?' taper used the sand to create a small platform, then landed on it and said, 'do you want the short or long story?' alexander looked around and said, 'doesn't look like i have anywhere to go to right now' taper begins, 'it has to do with nick second field mission, the one that made him hate fieldwork. ya know this is his third ever field mission, and i'm glad to say he is enjoying this one much more than the other.' alexander smiles as nick snuggles over closer to him, taper continues, 'we were sent out the day i got the psychic dampeners on for accidentally destroying the pokemon center'

(flashback)

oak finished locking the 6 odd clamps onto the floating pokeball that was taper, a much younger nick in a black lab coat sitting across from them. Oak said, "alright, these are for the most powerful psychics in the world, and they only need one, they should bring you o normal levels and keep you from destroying anything else" taper grunts and nick sighs and says, "this isn't what i wanted, we were only trying to see if we could help" oak nods and says, "i know, and im sorry, but the police won't let me do anything else, taper is too strong and too wild" nick watches Taper float over and he asks, 'do they hurt?' taper said, 'no, but they are weird, i want them off as soon as possible' nick nods and asks oak, "so what's this thing you wanted us to look at?" Oak pulls out a moon stone and says, "this is a moon stone, it evolves certain pokemon" nick facepalms and says, "i know that, i mean everyone says i have field work, i just want to know where and when" oak nods and says, "you will be going to mount moon to find out why moonstones are only found there, and collect data on the sediments around the stones you find" nick says, "alright, sounds easy enough... how are we getting there? neither of us are strong enough to teleport there" oak laughs and says, "welcome to field work, you get to walk"

taper floats steadily along as nick walks casually through the last of the trees outside mount moons cave enterance, its two days later, and they are both tired from the long trip. taper yells in nicks mind, 'i just don't see why i need these! we didn't mean to do it' nick stops and says, 'well even if we didn't mean to do it, we still did it, so suck it up, besides, oak said he will take one off for every feild mission we do' taper thought for a moment and said, 'the equipment up there is every bit as strong and good as whats at oaks lab right?' nick nods, and taper said, 'and you know how to work all of it right?' nick sighs, 'they require an anti-psy key, and oak has it around his neck' they both jump as a deep voiced man says from behind them, "hey pip squeak!" they turn and see he is in mostly leather; leather jacket, leather pants, leather boots, leather gloves and a pair of thick black shades. he says, "What do you think you're doing in a place like this?" nick is about to speak when 20 men with similar brutal outfits on, each with 6 pokeballs, then 9 came from the cave enterance, they formed a thick circle and nick continued, only slightly daunted, "we're pokemon researchers, we were heading to the lab at the summit to learn more about the moon stones" a second man says, "not anymore you're not.." a third man takes a step forward and hold out a whip, saying, "what a strange looking pokeball.. whats in it kid?"

nick focused his energy and his eyes started to glow blue. the man said, "because i want it" taper lifts the man and says, 'yes, but you're not really my type' he trys to throw the man through the tree but finds he hardly even hurt the man. the first man said, "looks like we aint just gonna take your pokemon, we are going to have to beat the shit out of ya" nick focused harder and another guy said, "and if we accidently killed ya, who would care?" the man who was thrown runs up at them and whips out at nick, the whip stops and is forced from his hand, he continues to run at nick and nick covers his hands in psychic energy, hitting the man in the stomach then grabbing him by the neck and throwing him into four other guys who had started running. nick was loosing energy fast and taper was weaker than him at the moment, but still had more skill. nick says, 'want to borrow my energy and focus so you can maybe help?' taper said, 'doesn't matter, we're going to lose' nick realizes taper is right, the men start to send out their pokemon, all of them looking weak or low leveled, but with their sheer number there was no way they could lose. nick said, 'get us as high up the mountain as you can with this much' taper says, 'wont be very far..' nick gives taper all his energy and they teleport about ten feet into the tunnles, the men look around , not noticing them in the dark caves. nick picked up tapers ball from the ground and started to run, but stumbled on some loose rocks. taper yelled at him, 'you fucking idiot!' the men turned and started running after them. after a few minutes nick realized they could have caught them long ago but had just kept a constant distance, nick pointed this out to taper who was still in his hand. taper said, 'they're trying to tire us out so we won't be able to fight back'

nick saw a deep looking crack in the wall just as he turned a sharp corner, he skidded to a stop and side stepped into it. taper asked, 'what are you-' nick blocked him out a moment and focused, bringing the dirt and sand from the floor up to make a fake wall over the crack. the men kept running for a moment, then stey all stopped, through the wall nick heard one of them say, "its a straight shot from here, were did he go?" another said, "it doesn't matter, you lot, head to the top, we'll stay here in case he fools ya and heads back down" nick heard a rush of feet and then nothing. 8 men had stayed and they sat in a circle just outside the wall. the largest, a tall and muscular man in jean pants, boots, and an open jean jacket without its sleeves, sat against the fake wall, forcing nick to use extra energy to hold it in place. nick sat down and focused, he lost all other train of thought other than holding the wall up. taper lightly says to nick, 'they are asleep, we must get to the lab' nick mentally nodded but taper continued, 'nick.. i can feel them.. the dampeners are leaking into the ball, if we don't hurry i'll be weakened whenever i'm in the ball even with them off, it.. it hurts so much' nick opened his eyes and knows he must do something drastic. first he lifts the man and the wall, lightly placing him so he didn't even stir. nick picked up taper and started walking very slowly, and very quietly, along, heading for the lab, knowing they would need to fight, also knowing he could bust open the dampeners with the equipment if he needed to. after getting farther away, he started walking faster, then jogged, then ran. he burst from the cave, taper in his hand, and merely thought someone had tricked him, the entire lab was in rubble, it had been destroyed from top to bottom, and it had to have been done long before they got there. nick hears static and sprints to the destroyed building, he found a cracked screen of a video phone, it was oak on the other end, blinking in and out.

nick bent down and landed on his hands and knees as he said, "prof!" oak said over the screen, "nick! what has happened -couldn't get anything from the building" nick said at the screen, "thirty or so men, they destroyed the lab, i need the key to tapers dampeners now!" oak looked at him with extreme shock and then yelled, "run!" nick rolled to his right and just avoided a rock throw that destroyed the phone entirely. the attack came from 3 geodudes that one of the men had. nick saw them come out from almost everywhere, stopping them from getting away by the way they came. nick starts to focus again as the first man said, "so there you are pip squeak. we been looking all over for ya!" nick noticed the mining hole for the researchers, he started running that way, losing some of his psychic focus, and then 12 more men came out from there, blocking the way in. nick stopped and said to them all through his mind, 'you are making the biggest mistake of your lives to fight us' they all started for a moment then laughed, 10 of them came running, nick lifted the sand from their feet and sent them flat to their backs, 5 more came running and nick held his hand out to one and slammed it against his chest, sending him flying back into two more of them, teleporting behind the last two and lifting them up, slamming their heads against each other. nick started panting, his eyes starting to lose their glow as he ran out of energy. taper said, 'into the mine, we might be able to get out through there' taper gave all his energy to nick that he had been storing up, and nick teleported into the entrance of the mine, he stumbled as his legs went numb, but kept going, seeing a time lock iron door. nick jumps in and slams it shut, reloading the timer lock.

nick turns around and sees its just a stone storage room, no way out. nick gets to his knees, tears in his eyes and screams, "god fucking damn it!" the men outside start slamming on the door saying, "we gonna kill you now you little bastard!" nick brought tapers ball to his face and said, 'how fast do you think you can fly by yourself right now?' taper said, 'about 17 miles an hour.. why' nick says, 'when that door opens, i want you to run, fast.' taper stops and says, '.. but what about-' nick forces a fake smile and bites back his sobs, 'i'll think of something.. but i want to you to go to alexander, you find him and tell him you belong to him now, no matter what. say i gave up on pokemon and that i left the region, and dont you dare let anyone have the chance to say otherwise' taper slowly says, 'but nick.. thats not thinking of something, thats giving up' nick nodded and said, 'you told me you would stay so long as i didn't give up, well im not giving up, not on you. you can make it out of here, and you can make it to alexander? then i haven't given up, and so you are still free' the doors upper half of the door dents out slightly and nick can see his death right in front of him. he stands up and looses all other thought, he focuses, but his eyes barely glow, his energy at its limits, 'don't look back' taper floats up and says, 'i understand..' one of the thick hinjes comes free and then the pounding stops, nick listens, and then hears one of the men scream, "crap, run for it!" nick kept his focus, not knowing if it was a trap, but fter a few minutes the door was unlocked by its key, and on the other sidewas prof oak and three research guards. nick releases his breath and his eyes go dull, no longer glowing, and falls to the ground.

(end flashback)

the sun had almost completely set, and nick had fully snuggled into alexander, with alexanders arm firmly wrapped around nicks back and shoulders. nick quietly slept while alexander thought over every detail of the story. taper finished with, 'my dampeners were removed, the men flead and haven't been found, and now i am permanently weakened inside my ball, not as much as before, but still enough that my true power is unusable from inside here' alexander asked, 'but why me? why did nick think i could be your trainer?' taper said, 'i asked that same question when he told me to do it that day.. at first i thought it was because he thought you were a good trainer, but then it hit me.. and if you give it time, i think it will dawn on you too' alexander closed his eyes and smiled a little, thinking, 'He thought of me first, even in the face of death.. nick..'