Here is part four of Back Home. Please don't refrain from leaving a handy comment to help me. Or just enjoy the story.

"There it is! Sinnoh!"

I woke up. I was still on Pidgeot. That was a relief. I sat up and looked out to the horizon in the direction that we were going towards. There was an island and I could tell by the distinct shape of Mt. Cornet that we were, indeed, approaching my home region.

"Yes!" I cried. "I'm coming, Medicham!"

It seemed to take ages to get to the shores, but that could have just been the anticipation of getting there. I saw familiar Pokémon there; Shellos and Wingull and even a Luxray.

"We should be at Mt. Cornet within an hour, if you'll wait tha- SQUAWK!"

The squawk that Pidgeot had made had been in response to the bolt of lightning that had hit his belly. He fell suddenly limp and dropped to the ground. I used protect on the two of us so that we wouldn't get badly injured when we hit the floor, but Pidgeot had already fainted.

I brought down the shield and tried to wake Pidgeot. I got a small groan out of him.

"Are you OK, Pidgeot?" I asked.

"Uh... no... don't worry about me... I'll survive... you get back to your girl..."

And Pidgeot fell unconscious again. I decided to obey his wish. I couldn't help the bird and he didn't need help, just a rest. I dragged him toward a tree and lay him underneath it, safe in the shade.

I looked around to see what had shot us. I saw a fleeting glance of something blue, and it looked familiar, though I didn't know where from. It dashed away quickly, but I was on its tail.

"Hey! Come back!" I yelled. I ran after it but it was very fast. We ran into a forest and the Pokémon disappeared. I stopped, panting for breath. That Pokémon could only be one thing. The star shaped point of its tail and the three golden rings on its front legs... it could only be the Luxray that I had seen on the beach earlier.

I knew I was heading in the general direction of Mt. Cornet so I kept walking through the forest. I was starving, having only eaten some sitrus berries in the last twenty four hours, so I took the chance to grab any berries or rogue poffins that a clumsy trainer may have dropped.

I was painfully aware of where I was – I was in Eterna. I wished I had never had to visit this place again, for the memories of what happened here were too sad to even contemplate.

I walked on and tried to avoid the place where my old home lay in ruins, but eventually I couldn't avoid it. I walked into a massive clearing which was less grass and trees and more giant crater.

The sight of the area that my parents and friends had died almost brought me to tears. Memories that I had spent years trying to prise from my mind's grasp were haunting me once more; the sight of the two legendary Pokémon battering each other above the city, possibly unaware that they were destroying the homes of hundreds; my mother's face as she told me that I had to evacuate; the sight of my father and the elders all huddling together to do one last good deed and save the whole of Sinnoh.

I spied something at the bottom of the crater. For a crazy second I thought it could be something that I could use to revive my village, but it was a crazy dream that would never come true. Still, I was rather intrigued and I walked down the crater and toward the figure.

As I drew closer I saw it was a Pokémon. It was white with a yellow head and what seemed to be two long, yellow tails on its back.

It seemed that I had just stumbled upon a Jirachi.

But that wasn't all I had stumbled upon. The mythical Pokémon was surrounded by a pack of Persian. Nasty creatures – sometimes they torture other Pokémon. I couldn't just let them pick on Jirachi so I ran to help.

One of the Persians saw me and pounced, trying to get a Fury Swipe on me. I dodged it and batted the Pokémon away with an aura Sphere. This distracted the attention from the Jirachi and onto me. The Persian tried to attack me but I was too fast and too powerful for them. They tried to get a claw in but I always had some sort of retaliation for them.

It was a matter of seconds before they all lay in a heap on the floor. I ran towards Jirachi and picked it up. The Persian would soon wake up and they would surely want revenge. I sprinted to the other side of the crater and back into the safety of the trees.

"Are you OK?" I asked the small Pokémon when I was sure that the Persian weren't going to find us.

"Um... yeah. Thanks," it said.

"No problem," I said. "Why were they attacking you? You didn't do anything to them, did you?" It wasn't beyond the realms of possibility that this tiny Jirachi could have attacked first. I've heard accounts of when Team Magma of the Hoenn Region had tried to resurrect Groudon – the Doom Desire attack which Jirachi had used to destroy the resulting fake entity had been extremely powerful, and this was proof enough that Jirachi isn't as sweet as it seems.

"It's... it's Team Rocket! They are trying to take me to experiment on me!"

"Team Rocket? The Pokémon thieves from Kanto?"

"Yes!" Jirachi said. "I don't know what they want from me but they sure want it bad!"

As it spoke I heard a rustling in the bushes behind us. I turned as quick as a flash, an Aura Sphere already forming in my paws. Jirachi hid behind me and I felt it shiver with fear.

Suddenly something leapt out of the bush and hit me with a scorching Blaze Kick. I was knocked backwards but I did a back flip and landed back on my feet, already charging forward. I launched the Aura Sphere at my foe, who couldn't dodge it. However, it was strong and I didn't quite knock it off its feet.

This gave me time to analyse my foe. A Blaziken. A powerful one. The long hair said male. Probably my age, possibly older by a year or two. It opened its mouth and let out a Flamethrower but I realised that another powerful fire type move like the last could finish me and I jumped out of the way.

I ran toward it with a Thunderpunch in my fist but the Blaziken was fast. It used Sky Upper Cut and sent be flying, but not before I grabbed its hair and brought it with me. We both went crashing into a tree, knocking it to the ground.

I tried to remember Blaziken's types. Fire and Fighting. That gave me plenty of choice of what I could use against it to be super effective. I quickly used psychic and lifted it off me. I threw it to the ground and used Bone Rush, creating a light green bone of energy. Blaziken got up and I smashed the bone into its face before it could realise what I was doing.

It lay on its back, unconscious. Thanks to Medicham, I know every trick in the book. Not even this titan of a Pokémon could outwit or overpower me.

"Jirachi," I called, softly. "Where did you go?"

"Up here," Jirachi called from a tree nearby – fortunately not the one that Blaziken and I had just destroyed.

"Well, you can come down, now. I defeated that Blaziken. We should get as far from this place as possible, just in case the Persian have our scent or the Blaziken recovers quickly."

"I'm afraid it's option two," said a voice from behind me. I quickly tried to swing my bone at the Blaziken, but it jumped out of the way. I was just about to attack it again when it said "Hey, stop, I just want to talk!"

"And I'm supposed to believe that after you just attacked me?" I said.

"I was just trying to see how powerful you were, see if it was worth asking for your help," Blaziken said. "Evidently you're even more powerful than me."

I was cautious but intrigued. "What do you need help with?"

Blaziken went to the tree that had fallen and picked up some sticks. He lay them on the ground and blew an Ember at them, causing them to set alight. "Come and sit down and I'll tell you."

I sat by the campfire and Jirachi joined us. I had not been aware that it was already night time, but now that I was I felt cold and still a bit wet from my brief spell underwater. "I am not a wild Pokémon," Blaziken explained. "I have a trainer. His name is Noel and he is very good at training us, as you saw when I battled you. I was his starter Pokémon in Hoenn, and he caught a Poocheyana and a Wingull when he travelled the region, both of which have evolved. We are an almost unbeatable trio.

"But then... but then a few days ago he got caught in a cave. We were on a holiday here and Noel wanted to catch a Machop, so we got into this cave. But when we were in there we were ambushed by Zubats and Golbats. I got separated from the others and I couldn't find my way back to them. I decided that the only thing I could do was to ask for help.

"But as I exited the cave the entrances all blew up and caved in. Someone had deliberately trapped Noel in that cave and I suppose that he was also separated from Mightyeana and Pelliper. So I need help to find Noel," Blaziken concluded. "And so far you're the only Pokémon that I have come across who is powerful enough to help me. So will you?"

I was in two minds here. On one hand this Blaziken needed some help, and desperate help. But on the other hand, this would be another diversion from my journey home. And who was to say that it wasn't just a trap?

"Well..." I could see Blaziken looking at me expectantly and I knew that it was the right thing to do. "OK. I'll help you. But as soon as we're done I'm heading straight for Mt. Cornet. Your trainer had better not try to catch me."

"Don't worry," Blaziken said. "Noel only catches basic stage Pokémon. He says it shows true greatness when you can train a weak Pokémon to be strong."

"Good." I looked at Jirachi. "Do you have any plans to do anything else, or will you come with us?"

Jirachi hesitated for a second, seeming to be deciding something. But the she said, "I'll go with you."

"Alright, let's go. Lead the way, Blaziken."

And so we set off to find Blaziken's trainer.

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