I'm back! I enjoy this, getting praise for the things I was never good at. But fortunately for you, I made a good story! (Somehow) I'd like to thank my reviewers, and all reviews have been read. No OC requests yet, but we'll get through. I am doing random shoutouts too. Completely random. I may put it at the end of the chapter if I remember to. But first, I think it's time to get this chapter started!

She smiled at me, the room seeming to get the slightest bit brighter. She took back her elegant pose and giggled. She looked me in the eye and telepathically pronounced in a regal tone that echoed in my mind.

'Well then, let's go find her, shall we?

"Indeed we shall. Lead the way."

She walked us across the city and into a thick forest. It was like a rainforest, the trees had such thick foliage that there was barely any sunlight. The Bug-types scattered as we walked through the brush. All of a sudden I felt a strong breeze, coming from behind. I turned my head and saw a swarm of 23 Beedrill, all 89 stingers at the ready. I took off running, but after around 50 feet I realized Anne hadn't budged.

"What the fuck are you doing?! Get out of there!" I screamed, but she remained, so she either hadn't heard or was completely ignoring me. I had a bad feeling it was the second reason. Her fist caught on fire as she quickly slammed it into one of the Beedrill and sent it flying about thirty yards away. I gawked as she took them out one by one, punch after punch. And then, six of the remaining Beedrill flew around to her back and stung her all at once, making her scream in pain and collapse. I ran back, releasing Feraligatyr as I ran as he released a Hydro Pump the washed most of the remaining Beedrill about twenty yards away.

I ran up to Anne, who was already poisoned badly and crippled. I grabbed the last remaining Beedrill and repeatedly slammed it into a tree, not caring about the aching that was going to come to my fist later. I threw my bag off of my shoulder and dug through the mess. I had some Potions in there somewhere, but I didn't know if I had Antidotes. That was the problem. Without an Antidote, the Potions wouldn't do anything except fend off the pain for an extra five minutes. And it was at least two miles in either direction before a Pokemon center. So I did the obvious. I ran.

I retreated Feraligatyr and picked Anne up. Then took of running. Naturally I ran the way we came. I ran as fast as I could, and everytime I wanted to stop, I ran faster. I was at the point of collapsing from exhaustion and throwing up a few times by the time I got to the Pokemon center. I burst through the glass double doors, leaving a crack in one of them from my shoulder. I fell almost immediately, hearing a crack as my jaw hit the ground and losing consciousness immediately.

I awoke to a meditating Anne, floating a few centimeters above the chair that was under her. I sat up groggily and wiped the last bit of sleep from my eyes . I finally realized what I was seeing and jumped up in surprise.

"Are you alright? Did the Pokemon Center heal you okay? Did the-"

My incessant worries were cut short by a telepathic message of:

'Yes. I am quite alright. My strength feels renewed, and to think this came from the humans the males so much dispise.'

She gave a small twirl if her dress followed by a small giggle. Although it was good that she was okay, the thing was that we were back where we started. It would take us hours, maybe even days in my exhaustion, to get there. Which made me worry what they've done to Raylee. I shivered and dismissed the thought.

"When do you think we can head back out? Anytime soon?"

'Yes. We must go to save your friend. You ready?'

"Yep. I'm ready to go save Raylee. You?"

I got no response, just a march forward. We walked about to the point where we were attacked by Beedrill, and Raylee stopped. She got a surprised look on her face and then vanished. She disappeared right into thin air. I sighed, and wIted. And I waited for 15 minutes. I was about to walk on and try to find the place, but as I turned I heard Anne reappear.

"What's wrong?" I asked, concerned about her disappearance.

'As you humans tend to say, "none of your buisiness."' She said in a playful tone.

We laughed for a bit, then we forged ahead. About two hours into the forest, we came to a small abandoned factory building. But after a bit of squinting, I realized that there was a mirage up to make it look abandoned. But it was streaming with Kirlia, and a few Gardevior. Not to mention what they were doing with the Kirlia...but that's besides the point. We had to go in and save Raylee.

"You ready?" I asked, already knowing what the answer was.

'I am, but are you?' She asked while playfully poking at my abdomen, rather low too.

"Yep. Let's do this." I ran forward to the doors and rammed into them as hard as I could, hoping to make a dramatic entrance. Instead I yelped like a dog as my bad shoulder hit the door. My arm was filled with searing pain, and Anne began to laugh, snort even.

"You laugh at misery?!" I yelled, pissed off that she was laughing at the pain in my arm.

'No,' She snorted. 'Look at the sign.'

I looked up at the sign and it read 'Pull'. So much for a dramatic entrance, not to mention I hurt my arm. But I had to save Raylee. Funny how quickly you bond to a Pokémon, right? But at that point we had to go. Who knew what they were doig to Raylee right now. I heard a huge scream, almost like a banshee, and then I heard Raylee scream. I quickly grabbed the doors and opened them. (By pulling this time). I ran down the pitch black hallway, following my friends screams for help.

So, I remembered, and this is my system for the random call outs. I will look at the number of reviews, and have someone pick one of those numbers. So I tell them to pick a number between one and however many, and whatever they pick is who gets called. Fair? I thought so. But I will be taking mine out. It's no fun if I know I'm being called out.