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I don't own Pokemon or any of it's subsidiaries. The only thing I own is the following characters I list: Jake and Anna Redfield, Zack Dragoon, Dusk Fredrick, Daniel and Jordan Vellars, the mysterious pokemon trainer with sunglasses (dubbed shades)

The Changing of the Guard

When they got back to the bunker, everyone was panting. They had to keep moving to avoid the patrols. Luckily, it is almost impossible to detect the entrance. They looked at each other and began celebrating. The rest of the members at the hideout assumed it was a successful mission and joined in.

Shades smirked at everyone as they gathered around a table. "Alright, everyone lay the shadows on the table." Jake looked around as 8 pokeballs were put on the table. Everyone looked at Jake, and shades said, "Jake, put your recently acquired shadow Pokémon on the table." Jake set down three pokeballs.

Shades seemed surprised at this. He said, "Three? I knew you captured Articuno and Salemance, but who's the third?" Jake pushed the button on one pokeball, releasing Eevee.

"Alright, good job everyone. Jake, this is the part where we divide up the shadow Pokémon to be trained. You may keep Eevee and Articuno." Jake picked up the two pokeballs, and said, "What will happen to Salamence?" Shades looked at Jake and said, "I'll be taking him to Sinnoh. I'm actually a temporary cell leader here. Your true leader is on his way, and will be here tonight."

Shades picked up the pokeball, then had everyone gather around, "Everyone, I was only here for a couple months, but I enjoyed fighting beside you every second. Keep up the good work here, and keep fighting back."

Everyone watched as Shades opened a pokeball, revealing a Gardevoir. Jake said, "Wait, before you go, what's your name?" Shades looked at him and said, "That, you do not need to know. See ya kid!" Gardivoir and Shades glowed, and then they both disappeared in a bright light.

Other trainers went to the table, and began picking up pokeballs. In a matter of seconds, there were no pokeballs on the table. Hours passed, and Jake got bored fast. He needed to get out, to do something. Suddenly, there was a commotion within the base. He got up and walked to where everyone was speaking. Another trainer and an Alakazam had appeared. The new trainer shook hands with everyone present, asked how things were going, and was getting up to date with everyone going on.

He said to anybody, "Who is this guy?" One trainer, a young girl, said, "Don't you know? This guy is the one of the two who defended Mt. Battle in the early war with Cipher. He also led the armies in Indigo, Saffron, and Cinabar Island. He's a legend, a genius, and kinda cute." She blushed as she said the last bit, but Jake ignored her.

The 'legend' turned and looked at Jake. He said, "And who's this? Not one of the ones I remember. Sure new trainers come and go around here, but usually their fellow trainers introduce them." Jake smiled and said, "I'm Jake Redfield, Shadow Pokémon Snagger who trained under Wes himself." The trainer's eyes opened wide, "Wes, as in Cipher's number one fugitive Wes? My goodness, are you the one he's been training a little under a year ago?" Jake thought for a second then said, "yep, that was probably me."

"Well, this is a pleasant surprise. My name is Zack Dragoon, Shadow Pokémon Snagger. I'm not quite as high on the bounty list as Wes, but I'm getting there. Have you gotten any shadow Pokémon?" Jake nodded and threw out two Pokémon. An Articuno began cooing, and Eevee shook its fur. Zack smiled and said, "Starting big I see. Articuno and Eevee. Why did you go after Eevee? You could have gotten the admin's Salemance." Jake started chuckling to himself. Soon he was straight up laughing. Someone elbowed Jake, which caused him to stop laughing for a second, but only just, "Excuse…me. The thing is…Cipher just…a short laugh escapes…gave it to me." He started laughing for a second time.

Soon, everyone joined in the laughter.


Dusk was at his desk, his hands on his forhead. They'll kill me…yeah they'll kill me if they find out I let one unknown kid steal Articuno. I need to get it back, but he's taken refuge with them…Crap, Dusk thought to himself.

A Cipher Peon walked into the office and saluted, "Pardon me sir. I have news to report." Dusk didn't look up but said, "Tell me, and it better be good or else you just forfeited your life."

The Peon took a step backward. At this point, the smart thing would be to run, but being the idiot he is, the peon didn't realize this. "Uh, They made a clean getaway, sir." Dusk Fredrick looked up and began standing up. The peon looked at the closed door and began regretting not running when he had the chance.


The next morning, Jake rose earlier than anyone else. He wanted another swipe at that Chikorita, and this would be his chance. He made his way out of the building and into the forest. Zack watched as he left. Luckily, the Cipher peon who had the Chikorita was still patrolling the town. Jake threw a rock at a tree, causing the peon to turn and run at the forest.

Suddenly, A cyndaquil appeared in front of the Peon. He threw out a regular charmander and shadow Chikorita. The peon thought, Perfect. A chance to capture a hard to find Pokémon. "Chikorita, shadow leaf." Razor sharp black leaves surrounded Cyndaquil, preventing Cyndaquil from even moving. Jake saw this and smiled. "This chikorita would definitely be perfect for my team." Cyndaquil watched Chikorita with a bored look on its face.

The peon gave an evil smile and said, "charmander, slash, finish it off!"

The charmander ran in and brought its claws through the leaf storm. Cyndaquil merely brought it's front paw up, which began glowing white. The slash attack was blocked by the paw and the attack stopped in an instant. The peon was stunned, No way, slash has never failed to take it down. Cyndaquil pushed the claws up and brought its own claw down upon charmander's exposed stomach. The attack sent Charmander reeling. Jake dropped out of the tree and said, "Cyndaquil, flamethrower on chikorita." Cyndaquil's back began burning, the flames shot out of its mouth, encompassed the Chikorita, and then went out. Chikorita looked down for the count.

A snag ball went flying, hit the Pokémon causing the Pokémon to turn into energy. The pokeball absorbed the energy. It stopped moving immediately.

Jake ran over, slammed the peon with his shoulder, and grabbed the ball. The peon dragged himself up and went running. Jake ran down the peon and dragged him to the ground. The Cipher agent went down, banging his head on the ground. He was out cold. Suddenly, someone walked out of the shadows, clapping. Jake turned to the clapping and there was Zack in his white coat. "Excellent, excellent. That Chikorita was one of our targets to take out, including the Salemance and Articuno. You've taken all three targets."

Zack put his arms around Jake. "However, please be sure to inform people of what you are about to do before doing it. If Cipher takes you prisoner, they may try to break you. Several of our people have been taken over the last 4 years."

He led Jake back to the base. Most people were still sleeping. Zack took a seat at the table, with Jake taking the seat opposite him. Zack said, "I have a plan to give us some men to take the city, but I'm going to need your help." Jake's eyes opened wide and said, "Sure, what do you want me to do?"


The underground Pallet was an impressive sight for those who had never seen it before. Some people had questioned whether he was actually a member of the resistance, not that he could blame them. However, one of his previous charges, a trainer who had received assistance in escaping from a Cipher prison vouched for him.

Under Daniel's help, the resistance had accomplished several extremely difficult missions, including: Stealing shadow Pokémon, breaking people out of Cipher prisons, capture of Cipher agents, locating Cipher Strongholds, and lastly locating shadow Pokémon caches.

However at this moment he was no longer a Cipher Employee, and no one to keep tabs on them. Daniel shook his head of the thoughts. If Celebi had fallen into their hands, the world would be a good as gone, he thought. He walked down the cavern street to where a large white building, reminiscent of the one 2500 feet above. He walked in and waited. An elder man in a white coat with a red shirt underneath walked to the doorway and said, "Hello! I'm sorry, I don't think I met you before. I'm professor Oak, Your name is…?"

Oak put out his hand, which was met by Daniel's, "Daniel Vellars, Sir." Oak said, "Well Daniel, come in and have a seat at the table. What do I owe the honor young man?" They both took a seat at the table. Daniel set a pokeball down in front of Oak. "Professor, this is a particular powerful shadow Pokémon I came across. What do you think?" Daniel had a very serious face on. Oak's smile dropped into a concerned look. He picked up the pokeball and pushed the button.

Celebi materialized in white light, but said nothing. Oak put his hand to his mouth and said, "Oh my word…Celebi…you…did you say shadow Pokémon?" Daniel nodded his head and said, "That's right. I need to further introduce myself a bit." He explained his story to his fellow Professor. Professor Oak nodded his head. The story went for about ten minutes, then Daniel said, "Professor, we need to purify this Pokémon, or else we have little chance of stopping Cipher."

Oak closed his eyes and lowered his head. "Unfortunately, there's been a problem with our shadow Pokémon purification machine. You probably don't know about it too much, but Eagun, the Pokémon master of Orre, managed to get us a sample of Celebi's relic stone before it was sealed away." Oak recalled Celebi and handed to pokeball back to Daniel. Daniel followed Oak as he walked out of the room and into another private workshop area.

"The trick is," Oak continued, "The Celebi Relic doesn't respond in the same way it once did. I don't know why, but the relic stone has become inert, and won't purify shadow Pokémon. Maybe the reason is Celebi here has become a shadow Pokémon and has forgotten it's own happiness, or there may be another factor here. We've been stalled for two years on the project. We did have a minor breakthrough when another professor gave us some information on the purification process." Oak smiled at the younger professor, "However, we now have something of another lead. We now have Celebi."

Oak looked at Daniel, then sized him up. "Say, are you willing to take a job for me?" Daniel nodded his head. "Good, I would like you to take that Celebi to Professor Krane, he should be downstairs in the other laboratory examining the rock once again. See what he thinks."


News had begun to spread to other regions. Pewter had been raided. The other Admins were laughing their heads off at Dusk. "He was always the worst among us," "What sort of idiot loses the legendary bird of Ice to some nobody trainer," "What a disgrace to Cipher," and "I hope he's removed from that position shortly enough." One particular Admin was watering her flowers that day. She looked at each flower, enjoying every moment she had with them.

She never did like Cipher too much, but somehow she was caught up in the organization. She never participated in the organization when she could avoid it. The only reason she joined was her Pokémon. Her parents forced her into the program once they saw just how good she was at training Pokémon. She wasn't even interested in the position, but ultimately blackmailed into doing it by holding her Pokémon hostage.

When she heard about the Pewter incident, she smiled, her heart rising a bit.


Eh! What do you think? Thank you everyone who's been catching the errors I've been making. I do my own beta-reading, so I sometimes don't always catch my own mistakes.

Question: What attack did Cyndaquil do to take down Charmander? Also, What do you think of the new shadow attack, shadow leaf?

next chapter: Pewter: Prison raid

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