Chapter Nine --- Toxic Burdens

Ivory might have looked stupid, but she didn't care. Her imagination had gone wild with what might've become of those poor pokemon those needles had embedded themselves into. She herself was a needle-phobic, but this really takes the cake.

Her forehead was chilled by the touch of the glass seeing out of the top box. Her eyes glazed over and fists clenched firmly over the bar provided beneath it.

Jasper and Dave began talking quickly yet quietly behind her about 'needle machinery' and Corey mentioned something about nidorans. However, even though her stomach was completely settled, Ivory still continued to feel sick from the thoughts of tortured pokemon.

I'm so glad I left my pokemon with Phor… she thought gratefully, she couldn't have shown her own pokemon what Team Rocket had done to their own kind. Like her, they were still too young, even younger…

BLEEP!

BLEEP!

BLEEP!

She leaped from the glass and landed on her rear-end five feet back. Corey, Jasper and Dave themselves leaped, but into action.

"What the hell?! Is Mt. Fiji erupting!?" Ivory cried as the ground shook slightly, she couldn't get up with quaking and falling to the floor three times.

"It's our call system! Someone's in trouble!" Corey shouted as the noise began to die down and he pulled Ivory to her feet once he noticed she was on the ground (around five minutes later). Jasper was pushing buttons and flipping switches and Dave ran to a screen and placed headphones and a mouthpiece around his head.

"You would think it would be a little less subtle, even if it was urgent." Ivory said under her breath as she fell to the ground again, Corey went to help her again but the sirens went dead. It caught all of them off guard, including Ivory who had no idea what it meant.

"Could someone please speak on my behalf, you know so I know I haven't gone deaf or anything?" Ivory growled sarcastically as she wobbled to her feet, her legs still bearing the shock of the sudden quake.

"It's coming from…wait, NO! The lethal target is coming at us from the west! Straight at us!" Dave shouted at the other three; Ivory peered at a very concerned Corey and a serious Jasper.

"We must send word to Lt. Surge! I trust you can do that Dave? Good, Corey, rally up Velma, Cortez and Nero! Ivory, come with me." Jasper ordered as Dave and Corey set out with their instructions, it took Ivory a minute to realize she was mentioned and took off after Jasper as he vanished behind the door they came in at.

If the tunnels were long before, they seemed even longer as she practically sprinted the way she came, Jasper was certainly in good shape for an old guy.

"We need to put you into the safety carriage, it's what we found the safest refuge for anyone here! You and your pokemon along with Phor will be safe down there!" Jasper spoke hurriedly as he quickened his pace; Ivory found it difficult to speak within rapid breaths.

"No-I…want-to fight!" Ivory cried out as she came to a stop beside Jasper and very well came close to collapsing on the floor, all that working out at Cerulean still didn't do much for her!

"No," he spoke firmly, as if pinpointing a child. He righted her shoulders and made her stare him in the eye. "You are to stay in HERE. You can't do much right now, maybe later. Just heed me please, even if we don't know each other well at the moment. Phor!"

Ivory's gaze shifted to the room she first saw of this bewildering place. Her pokemon were wrapped around the elderly pokemon, however Phor seemed unshaken compared to the other pokemon. Phor's eyes blinked at Jasper with utmost wisdom.

"Like I need to tell you what to do," Jasper said with a strained chuckle, Phor almost seemed to smile but gently began shaking Ivory's pokemon from his rigid frame. Jasper watched wearily as Phor than managed to walk and lead Kameko, Aldara and Panther towards them.

"All right," Jasper mumbled as he turned around and faced the wall behind them, he put a hand on it. A light burst from the wall and engulfed Jasper's palm, then went out, a rectangular piece of wall slammed back an inch then slid smoothly to the left. Revealing a doorway.

"Go inside and don't come out-"

"Jasper! It's speed is increasing!" Dave's voice shot out of something that Ivory now noticed a clear earpiece inside Jasper's ear.

"Keep it down you little-I'm coming! Go!" Jasper cried as he sped off, leaving Ivory and the pokemon alone in the room.

"Nido?" Phor seemed to question, looking up at Ivory. She blinked and looked up into space.

She didn't like the thought of running out of a battle, especially since how she had been in the past few days. She wasn't a good actress; everyone seemed to know that now. And the more someone told her to stand aside the more she wanted to be in their way and prove she was a worthy obstacle. Next to that, it bothered her even more that people trusted she COULDN'T do MUCH now. She didn't have as much experience as those who had been here during Team Rocket's takeover, but now, she can make up for that.

She had enough regrets as it was she wasn't going to pile anymore if she could help it.

"I'm sorry Phor," Ivory apologized down at the old poison-pin pokemon. And with great understanding, Phor's eyes twinkled and he gave a toothy grin.

"Nidorino," "I accept your choice," He said, unbeknownst to Ivory, but with her pokemon beaming up at her, she had a good idea what he had said.

"All right, let's show them what we're made of!" she cried happily, knowing with the wisest member here at the base's approval, she didn't have to worry about feeling guilty.


"What's goin' on Dave?"

"I dunno! It sort of…stopped."

"Wha' do ya mean it STOPPED?"

"As in came to a halt, motionless, how many ways do I need to say it before you register it!" Dave snarled as he looked up at the screen where it gave live footage of Jasper, Corey, a nidoqueen known as Velma and two nidokings named Nero and Cortez. All three glaring viscously towards the greenery two miles out from the former TR base. Jasper and Corey had fighting stances ready, their poke'balls at the ready.

"Did you get Ivory and her pokemon to the refuge?" Dave asked, Jasper huffed.

"Ha, of course I did, and 'hey say mem'ry's the first to 'o! Or was i' hearing, or see'ing…somethin' along those lines, anyway, has IT moved yet?"

"No, it's just standing there." Dave replied clattering away at the keys fiercely, a smaller box up in the corner of the screen bore down on the target, revealing a bleary image.

"Here, I got a snapshot, let me enhance it." Dave said as he clicked a button repeatedly. Lines ran from the top to the bottom, clearing out the fuzziness. Dave's eyes widened with recognition.

"Jasper! It's a freakin' steelix!" Dave cried into the earpiece, making Jasper grasp his ear in agony.

"Calm down sonny! Oy, a stee'ix ya say? 'Ear that Corey? Eh, 'ow 'ig? The thin' was a goin' fifty miles an 'our!" Jasper growled a steelix in these parts? They have already seen the pokemon species mix into Kanto as it had one of the most advanced and challenging gyms and not to forget the Indigo Plateau! But something so wild and big out in the open, it was most definitely of Team Rocket's.

"Er…I guess around…whoa, wow…38"7'!! CRAP!" Dave shouted, Jasper let out a whistle.

"Some ma'or experitmentin' I see, let me 'ring their 'ecks…" Jasper said, then the once quiet forest whirled back into chaos.

"Wow…I mean – WATCH OUT!" Dave yelped as a mechanical, three-fingered claw burst from the ground, it launched into the air, grasping the chemicals in it.


"Is there an'thing you might wanna add sonny?" Jasper asked as he released his ear and prepared to throw a ball.

"Besides pointing out there's a claw coming out of the ground, like how big's the machinery it's attached to?" Corey asked, the ground began to quiver.

"I'm getting very strange readings…give me a min!"

"We 'ardly 'ave a sec'unt!" Jasper cried as chunks of dirt spurted from the ground as a giant sphere submerged from the ground. Corey, Jasper and the pokemon backed away instinctively.

"It's definitely Team Rocket's! But it's a new product; it's nowhere on our database! Be careful!"

"Like we haven't been in this kind of a situation before?" Corey asked sarcastically as he brandished a poke'ball. He stiffened as a small door slid open on the sphere; a bright mechanical red orb gazed out, rotating then stretching out on a thin neck.

"Oh gawd…" Jasper muttered as the ground quaked again, this time the rest of the sphere emerged and with it came another arm, it's claws also stretching out as if waking from a good night's sleep.

"What the hell…" Corey stuttered as the shadow engulfed all five of them.

The eye rotated again, mechanical squeaking emitting from it as it did and with a jerk, it turned onto Corey, it's beady pupil growing larger as if it were gazing at a priceless jewel.

"Remember! Don't destroy you completely! This is a new one!"

"Thank ya for 'emindin' us boy," Jasper replied quietly as the monstor of a machine stood silently.

It's waiting for us to make the first move, Corey thought with anger. This isn't the first time a machine with a bit of brain came crashing down on us, but for it to be so close to the hideout…is it possible Team Rocket actually remembers their old HQ? If so, were they coming out here for the location or did they find out about us? But now the question is…what can it do and how can we stop it? Corey thought with accurate precision.

Time didn't seem present at this event, the most-likely-lethal-machine was positioned to attack and the opposition was stock-still.

When this battle will begin had already started, almost two years ago…


"You call this a short-cut?" Ivory asked, though she was sure that's what Phor was hinting at when he motioned for her to follow him through a hidden door.

Ahead of her, Phor grunted, as if saying 'I'm older and I can still out-pace you?' Ivory gave a displeased sigh, she was sure she was crawling through a vent. Actually, they probably WERE going through a vent.

"Are we almost there?" she whined.

"Nidorino, rino." "Stop complaining, we'll get there when we get there." Phor grunted as he came to a fork. From behind him, he heard her give another sigh.

"Nido," he took a right, and once they reached a dead-end, Ivory about collapsed until he nudged it with his horn, the dead-end became, well, a not so dead end.

Sunlight streamed through, but there wasn't much of it. Phor went through the exit with Ivory on his heals; though she wasn't too close, she didn't want to be stabbed by his barbs.

"I was only down to there for a few hours, but man, can someone turn off the sun?" Ivory asked as she attempted to get to her feet. Phor was sniffing the air as she rubbed her eyes.

"What is it Phor?" she asked calmly. Phor's left ear twitched, and then he jerked his head to his left. His eyes narrowed, Ivory was all for a battle at the moment and her hopes were screaming for it to be a Rocket so she could kick some butt and prove her worth to this expedition.

She was however, not disappointed.

"Yo, brat, what're you doing out here in the middle of nowhere?" oh yes, a stupid, lesser Rocket. A grunt. Which was perfect, seeing as she wasn't ready for an executive yet.

But he wasn't alone, as a man around his twenties climbed out, two others joined him, one female and the other a male. All bore the 'R' and wore the black outfit of a Grunt.

Fortunately, the vent they just took to the outside world was covered by an abundance of grass that somehow didn't bother Ivory as she climbed out.

"I could ask the same of you?" Ivory retorted, not about ready to lose her confidence, the three grunts smirked. The one male, the first she spotted was lanky, but probably around five and a half feet with tuffs of brown hair coming out from under his hat. The other male was bigger with dark skin and dirty blonde hair. The woman had short violet hair and a pale complexion.

"Nidorino! Rino!" Phor snarled as he stepped towards the trio.

"Now, now, we're only a scouting trio." The woman Grunt said with a sneer, Ivory frowned.

"You sound smart for a couple of inferior Rockets." Ivory replied, smirking a smirk that rivaled the woman's. She snarled, Phor rolled his eyes.

Kids these days…

"I don't know what you're doing out here, but you were caught with a pokemon and that in it's self is a crime, I also see poke'balls in your hand." The brown-haired male Rocket said, pulling and maximizing a poke'ball of his own from his belt.

"Really? The last I checked there was only one, see, it's singular." Ivory pointed as she flashed Kameko's ball at them. The tiny turtle stuck out her tongue at the three.

They growled.

"You aggravating little brat! You'll regret that! Go! Venomoth809!" The male cried, Ivory reconsidered and switched Kameko for another pokemon.

"I choose Aldara!" The spearow cried out as she joined the battlefield, glaring menacingly at the giant purple moth.

"Venomoth." The moth clucked, Phor peered from the bug pokemon to the bird.

"Poisonpowder!" The Grunt ordered.

"Venomoth!" The purple pokemon shuttered its wing, creating a haze of violet powder. Ivory was ready however.

"Blow it away Aldara! Flap your wings!" Ivory cried.

"Spearow!" Ivory knew that the wings of a spearow were weak and were hardly strong enough to keep the bird airborne, they always had to flap hard to keep in the air but when Aldara blew the dangerous fog back at its user, she couldn't have been prouder of her little bird.

"Way to go Aldara!" Ivory cried as the venomoth cried out in agony as the substance terrorized its skin, the grunts screamed as the powder came in contact with them too. The three were clutching their faces, seeing as it was the only skin visible to the powder.

Aldara crowed happily, but when the venomoth crashed to the ground and blood oozed from between the Rockets' fingers, both trainer and pokemon stopped and watched. The venomoth's skin was turning an ugly crimson and the Rockets were in as much pain as the pokemon.

"Holy…does poisonpowder hurt that bad?" Ivory asked Aldara, she shrugged.

"PLEASE-HELP US!" Ivory would've snorted out of cockiness had it not been for the savagely damaged skin hanging from the face of the Grunt that released the venomoth. Ivory narrowed her eyes.

"Why should I!?" Ivory cried, the man howled.

"The toxins in the powder have been artificially advanced! It's ten times powerful than the average venomoth's poisonpowder! IT'S EATING OUR FLESH!" The man spoke the truth, but what really struck a cord in Ivory was the venomoth, it didn't choose this fate.

As it lay cringing on the ground, the wings practically molting from the body, she quickly released Kameko.

"Water Gun 'em Kameko! Enough just to wash off the poisonpowder!" Ivory cried, the tiny turtle swiftly nodded and launched her attack, yet in a softer version.

Moments later, the water gun died down till it completely ebbed away. Kameko and Ivory gazed sadly at the four, Aldara's wings were the only thing making sound by this time. The venomoth was by far, the worst of the four. The wings had been slashed and seemed to have been eaten away at every edge. It's body brutally harmed, it was subconscious.

"Hey…" Ivory didn't give much interest in the humans as she cautiously approached the bug pokemon. It didn't even try to move as she crouched near it.

"Sssh, it'll be all right." Ivory cooed as she went out to stroke any unharmed skin she could find. She found none, and once she tapped its flesh, a speedy parade of images and sounds shot through her head. Tanks, bubbles, people in white coats and Team Rocket grunts, needles, tanks, blood, needles…

Then, as quickly as it had come, it vanished.

"What…the…?" Ivory couldn't form a sentence, sure she was shocked, but her body made no reaction to this strange experience. The venomoth gave a slight twitch of its oddly bent antenna. It's eyelids drooping.

"Was that…your past?" Ivory had to ask the curiosity bubbled within her. The venomoth, it didn't need to reply. Its answer bubbled to the surface through giant tears it was shedding.

"Veno…moth…" the venomoth squeaked. Unconsciously, Ivory knew Phor was there beside her.

"Phor…is she dying?" Ivory asked, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Nido." It was a sure yes; Phor was brutally honest too.

"W-Why…she has kids…south in the Berry Forest…they need her…so why..?" Ivory's shoulders shook, if the venomoth was dying, then the humans were dying. The two races were dying. This endless violence and road of torture…it kept on killing those that were needed to balance out the powers of Nature.

"Because to Team Rocket, it's just another experimental failure." She recognized that voice, and by God she wished he would've come later. When she wasn't about ready to bawl her eyes out. He had seen her cry so much, she was certain she was a petty, little, naïve girl in his eyes by now. "But then again, Nature probably wills it to, to die and go on in a better place."

She felt Ryuu crouch down and reached for the venomoth. His hand found a good sensitive spot, as the venomoth gave its last happy vibration of a purr before its heart finally gave out.

Ivory was on her knees now, entranced by what Ryuu had done. To pokemon, he could be tougher than nails, but what he had just demonstrated, was great kindness as a farewell gift from this world. If Ryuu could be strict to humans, could he be nice too? However, these thoughts welled up deep emotions she thought never to exist. Tears, big and fat tears slowly walked down her cheeks.

Venomoth… after a long life that went from a short-lived happiness to the anguish of every-day experimentation, its life was finally at peace and restful. It seemed asleep, well; it would if it weren't so…dead.

A choking sound surfaced, as she thought deeper into it. The heat her body radiated of instantly felt cooled by the touch of Kameko's paw; a light peck on her knee from Aldara tore her up inside. It was because of the order she gave Aldara that gave them this result. The venomoth could've lived if she just gave a different order…

"Do NOT look back into the past and start thinking about what could've been done Ivory." Ryuu stated, as if reading her mind. It was like a lecture he was giving her again, but unlike before, he was kinder in a way, his voice almost…understanding.

"Rino…" Phor brought her head up with the tip of his muzzle, an elderly grin bestowed upon his features.

"No regrets…"

"Don't think of it." Ryuu said, obviously straining to keep his tone level, when she turned away slightly and looked down he lost it.

"Kami! Damn it all Ivory! Drop it!" Ryuu yelled as he pulled her into a tight embrace, his heart racing against hers, each trying to understand the other with all their might. Ivory did stop thinking and sobs racked her body, while Phor, Aldara and Kameko sat and waited patiently.

Both needed to vent from the past few events.


"Dag gone it 'tall!" Jasper cried as he jumped around another attack made by the claw. The red orb of an eye shifted left to right, then with a quick jerk, the claws and arms were pulled inside of its shell, the eye followed and the door shut with a 'click'.

Corey panted, but knew it wasn't over. Nero and Velma helped pull a wounded Cortez to the side and Jasper shouted orders over to Dave.

"Send out a few more nidokings Da-"

"No! Wait! Go! Sandslash!" Corey cried, releasing one of his own team.

"Slash!" the pokemon squeaked, trying to sound as mighty as it could with its high-pitched cry.

"What do you plan on doin' sonny?" Jasper cried, Corey winked in his direction.

"I have a plan!" Corey seemed to say as he then turned somber and turned to his pokemon.

"Let's Dig Sandslash!" Corey cried, "You know what to do!"

"Slash!" the sandslash gave a nod in agreement as it leaped into the air and spun like a drill back into the ground.

Although Jasper has known about Corey and the depth of his friendship with his team, he was always amazed with just how 'deep' that connection was, to where Corey didn't even have to speak to get his message through.

I hope you see the end boy, Jasper thought as he then got down to business.

"Forge' that Dave! Jus' get Cortez en and treated!" Jasper cried.

"Right!"

"All righ'! Leave Cortez be! We need ya two!" Jasper cried Velma and Nero shown reluctance but ran back into the action as the sphere began to move.

"Now it's literally on da roll!" Jasper cried as the sphere spun and gained momentum in Corey's direction.

With a whistle, a rhyhorn dashed out from the bushes and Corey mounted it as it ran by, Jasper caught on to the strategy.

"'Urry! He's gonna need 'elp!" Jasper said, as he led Nero and Velma towards the rolling sphere and the rhyhorn.

"Keep it up Rhyhorn!" Corey shouted over the roar of the machine against the earth.

"Ggggrrrr!" Rhyhorn replied as it too quickened its pace.

As they headed towards a cliff, Dave grew frantic.

"You're going to ram right into the main deck!"

"It's no ship boy!"

"What do you suppose I call it then!? I'm sorry, but that's all I can think about right now! But if he does what I think he's going to do there's going to be one heck of an explosion!"

"Keep yer pants on sonny! Corey kno's what he's a doin'!"

"Wow, don't hear that one everyday."

"Can it you twit!" Jasper cried as Rhyhorn took a massive leap out of the way as Dave predicted the sphere crashed head-on into the cliff. Almost instant, as it shifted into a different direction, Velma and Nero took either side and managed to keep it from turning.

"That ain't gonna hold for long Corey!" Jasper warned, and as if on cue, the compartment for the eye slid open and the red eye gleamed, but as it climbed out, a massive flame melted it down to a mere wire.

The flame struck the openings of the claws and managed to seal them shut as well.

"Ah! It's Blaziken!" Jasper cried as the firebird landed beside the old man. "Where migh' Ryuu be eh?" Blaziken blinked without a response further than that, the sun lowering down behind its brave figure.

"Blaziken." Blaziken growled as he looked to his left.

Rhyhorn with Corey still mounted halted beside Jasper.

"Yo, Blaziken! Where's Ryuu-" Corey stopped as he followed Blaziken's gaze, he broke out a grin. "ABOUT TIME KOUKA!"

A broad, young man stood with a powerful, dominating aura radiating from him, his front features dark because of the setting sun behind him, however you could a see a fine line of bright teeth as the man named Kouka gave a grin in return.

"Hey! Didn't start the fun without me eh! Whoa! Watch out!" Kouka shouted as the sphere managed to escape Nero's grasp, where Velma then decided to slip.

"Rhyhorn! HURRY!" Corey cried as he leaped off, at that instant Rhyhorn bolted and head-butted into the sphere, knocking the sphere further into the cliff, Velma neighed.

"I thin' that there thingy caugh' 'er foot!" Jasper yelled, Kouka hurriedly unsnapped a ball from his belt.

"Go help 'em out Cotton!" Kouka shouted, releasing a sparking ampharos.

"Ammppphaa!"

"Thundarapunch!" Kouka ordered, Cotton raised a fist, a sizzling orb sparked around it giving off a bluish, orange light and gave a battle cry as it ran at the rocking sphere, then with a lunge, its fist crushed the first few layers of steel to its soft core. Melting its insides and completely disabling the machine.

"How?" Corey managed to ask as the sphere went limp, smoke rising from its body. Cotton removed his paw and attempted to help Nero to his feet as Rhyhorn checked up on Velma along with Jasper.

"I've actually been studying these guys for the past three months, back then Ryuu informed me about them when he raided a base and spotted these new duds. He told me to go and check it out, so yeah, been busy, it's amazing I was able to get back for that little act. How is that girl anyway? Ivory right?" Kouka asked, Corey shifted his weight to one foot.

Now that he was up close, not only was Kouka broader, but he had gray almost silver eyes that didn't contain the coldness they had when facing Ivory as Sam Kingfischer. He had a mop of slightly spiky blonde hair, his muscles as large as they had been before, but with a tight, navy blue tank top complete with a black vest and green sweats and black boots, he was more intimidating than he was in a Rocket uniform.

However, those close to him knew he was as gentle as a motherly goose. A sense of parental energy to him.

"She and Ryuu hadn't talked much since of course, Ryuu's being indifferent as usual. But I can tell he's trying." Corey said with a huff. Kouka sighed.

"Really? Can't say I'm surprised, especially what happened to his sisters."

"So…anyway, did you decide to drop in to help or do have something else?" Corey asked, ready to drop the subject.

"Uh huh, Cassie has told me some news about Pallet Town. Turns out it's under arrest." Kouka said, Corey looked at him blankly.

"What part of Kanto isn't?" Corey asked.

"Well, they were threatened to be bombed if they ever found out a Pallet citizen (alias Ivory) was given a pokemon illegally." Kouka said.

"I'm shocked that they haven't destroyed the town without a reason. Didn't you hear about Cianwood?" Corey asked.

"Yeah, Chuck was a good guy." Kouka said, his tone sad.

"I see you got here in time." The two trainers jumped and whipped around, it was Ryuu.

"Hello Ryuu, I was wondering where you went off to." Corey said.

"Goo' timin' Ryuu! Now get cher' asses over 'ere and help me! That thing crushed 'Elma's foot!" Jasper shouted, his form bent over the weeping nidoqueen's foot.

"Just what I want to hear the moment I step onto a battlefield." Ryuu said.

"Be glad that's the worst we've got." Kouka replied.

"Hey, wait a minute, where's Ivory?" Corey asked, Ryuu gave him a quizzical look.

"I didn't leave her in the middle of the forest," Ryuu said, "well, not helpless that is." He smirked as he went to aid Jasper and the injured pokemon, leaving Corey and Kouka to their pondering.

"He wouldn't…do anything reckless would he?" Corey asked cautiously, Kouka gave a nervous shake of his head.


I'm so tired of being here

Suppressed by all my childish fears

The trees' leaves shuttered and whispered among each other as the last of sun's light went under the blanket of earth. The grass whistled worriedly as the breeze swam through their blades. The moon's crescent smiled softly down on the pale girl that slumbered against an aging oak, her chest rising and falling quietly.

And if you have to leave

I wish that you would just leave

Her pokemon were resting within their poke'balls, leaving Ryuu to his word. Phor sleeping soundly next to her, his heartbeat fading…

A clawed paw protecting Ivory's young form, its presence the pure sign of tragedy. Its eyes vibrated of blood, its white fur illuminated by the moon's petty smile.

"Absol…"

It felt strange as the girl gave a light smile in her sleep, making the pokemon think of what she could be dreaming of that gave her such small reassurance in this tough time.

'Cause your presence still lingers here

And it won't leave me alone

The evening gave Ivory peace for once, with her tragic guardian at her side, foretelling her many deadly wrongs will come, and there was no way of stopping them, even at the cost of her life.


A/N:

Hello! Yeah, I know it's been a while since I have updated this, but lol. I had a bit of a writer's block, now I have a good idea of how to start the next chapter, but the rest of it's kind of blurry. All well, Halloween is coming so I might have an idea. Also, the end of my first quarter's coming up so I'm going to be busy. If anyone has any ideas please give them! And don't worry, I'll be my evil self and give out for questions to the plot before I answer any of them. Okay, I need to get ready to drive. See you guys later!

?Question?

Where did that steelix go?