A/N: Sorry guys about the delay and the coding error. No idea what happened there… This time it should work!

It took a while to get through the thick forest. Lucario had to keep going up and down trees to guide the group in the right direction, always landing beside Ace in the same fashion before turning around and leading onward.

"Why does he keep doing that…" Zweii wondered.

They finally arrived at the large house. Another ear-splitting scream echoed from inside the mansion. Zweii looked around us, noticing how creepy it was, and the sudden amount of fog that rolled in.

"You can't even tell if it is night or day right now…" Zweii mentioned.

"You're right. This place gives me the creeps," Ace said.

They walked up to the doors, and each laid a hand on the door. With a glance at each other, they threw the doors open. Lucario dashed through the doors as they flew open, ready for anything inside. The trainers slowly made their way inside, being as quiet as possible, which suddenly became very difficult to do when the doors flew shut with a loud bang. They looked at each other, obviously freaked out, and made it to the beginning of the stairs, where Ace stopped.

"Do you hear that?" Ace asked.

Zweii stopped and listened but could barely hear, what sounded like, a refrigerator running.

"I hear a fridge. So?"

"According to this," he said, looking at a guidebook. "This house has been abandoned for a long time, and is supposedly haunted…"

"Great, let's just head back…" Zweii said and turned to leave.

He stopped, and froze in place, a horrified look on his face.

"What?"

"We did come in that way, right?"

Ace turned around, only to almost drop his book. The door they came in from was gone.

"Please tell me we got spun around and ended up somewhere else in the house…" he said.

"No, we are literally a few steps in."

"Okay, there has to be a reasonable…"

"Shh, listen."

They stood there listening. Ace looked at Lucario, who shrugged with equal confusion.

"What? I don't hear anything."

"Exactly, where did the fridge sound go?"

Suddenly a loud crash came from upstairs. All three jumped from the sudden noice, and spun around. With a glance ant one another, they ran upstairs and through a door into a large hallway with even more doors.

"Which door?" Zweii asked.

"Why not…" Ace started.

"Don't you DARE say to split up. Nothing ends well in this situation when people split up."

Suddenly a washing machine was sitting at the end of the hallway.

"Was that always there?" I asked.

"Uh, no…" Ace replied.

The machine took a step in our direction, and the trainers took a step back. The machine took another forward, and opened the front. A pair of underwear flew out at the group, and hit Lucario in the face. He slowly pulled them off, clearly angry. A blue glow began to form in his right hand. A blue transparent bone formed, and he charged forward with it.

"Lucario, wait!" Ace tried, but was too late.

Lucario destroyed the possessed washing machine until only a pile of parts remained. As Lucario finished his outburst, Ace watched as a small spark of light flew into a nearby fan, and it began to fly. Lucario glanced at the flying fan and made quick work of that appliance as well, still enraged. The ball of light sat there, hovering a ways above the floor. Zweii heard a slight click sound, which drew his attention to his hip, noticing the sword was an inch out of its sheath. He placed a hand on the hilt and started to draw it from its sheath.

"That's odd…" Zweii thought.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightening shot out of the ball of light. By sheer reflex, Zweii threw the blade in front of himself to deflect the attack. He parried the lightning bolt, which flew and hit the wall to the left. Ace and Lucario dove behind a nearby doorway in the wall as a barrage of lightning was being fired from the orb. Zweii continued to parry each bolt as it came, his sword changing to a dusty brown color.

"At least I know I would be good at playing tennis."

"Bagon, Snivy! I need some help!"

He glanced at his belt, only to find all of his pokeballs were missing.

"Ace, my Pokemon are gone!"

He checked his belt, and his were missing too. Lucario only stayed because he was outside his pokeball.

"Crap, I can't keep this up."

"Lucario, help…"

"No, don't send him out. He is part steel-type, it is too risky."

The last bolt that hit the blade bounced off a lamp and hit Zweii's backpack. He braced for an electrical jolt, but nothing happened. The orb stopped firing, apparently wondering why he wasn't hurt. Suddenly, a cracking sound coming from the backpack broke the silence. A beam of light burst from behind, and shot in front of Zweii. When the light faded, a sword fitted in a sheath was hovering in front of the confused trainer. The blade looked very strange, and the sheath even stranger. What's more is the red and purple cloth that attached to the end. The cloth wound down, grabbed the center of the sheath, and appeared to draw itself. Now hovering in front was a blood red blade "holding" its own sheath. It gave off a strange metallic sound before disappearing in a puff of shadowy smoke.

"What was that?" Zweii thought, noticing his backpack was considerably lighter.

The orb started to charge another bolt. Zweii braced for impact, hoping the last of his stamina would hold up. Suddenly the sword came back in another puff of smoke, but behind the orb. It slashed through the air like someone was swinging it, with a dark residue of energy trailing behind. The hit landed with a small burst of energy. The orb flinched, the attack stopped, and it retreated down the hall into the neighboring room. Zweii dropped to a knee from exhaustion, leaning on his blade to for support.

"You okay?" Ace asked.

"Go, hurry, it went into that room!" Zweii called, pointing down the hall.

Ace and Lucario dashed down the hallway and into the dining room. Zweii looked at the hovering sword, and noticed it had an eye where the hilt met the blade.

"Are you… a Pokemon?" Zweii asked, scrambling back to his feet.

The sword almost…bowed. Zweii took out his pokedex from his satchel and pointed it at the strange Pokemon.

"No data found."

"Why did you help me?"

The Pokemon fitted itself back into its sheath, and hovered over to the trainer. The cloth coming from it moved like an arm toward him. Three of the four splits at the end curved back, the remaining one pointing to his hip.

"You know who this blade belonged to…"

The extended split pointed upwards like a "thumbs up" gesture.

"Then that stone, was an egg?"

Another "thumbs up." A loud explosion broke the bonding moment.

"Let's go help Ace."

Zweii and the new Pokemon made their way down the hall and into the doorway of the dining room.

"Zweii, watch out!" Ace yelled.

Zweii barely dodged an incoming blast of snow and ice. He looked around the room to see a destroyed oven and what used to be a lawnmower.

"What is going on?" he called over the sudden frigid winds.

"That orb can take over various appliances. The type and attacks also change when it does. Best guess is this fridge is the last its got." Ace replied. "Let's go Lucario, take this thing out!"

Lucario shrugged off the frigid winds as he prepared another bone rush. He dashed forward, and took one of the refrigerator's doors off. The orb dashed out of the appliance just before Lucario destroyed it. The icy winds died out, and everyone was back staring the orb down. The orb grew two bolt-like wings, a face, and a needle-like form on its head. Both Ace and Zweii took out their dexes and scanned it.

"Rotom: Electric/Ghost type: Plasma Pokemon"

"It also says it can change form depending on the appliance it takes over," Ace said.

"That would explain a lot, and have been nice to know before…" Zweii replied.

"Not like we thought to scan an appliance. Lucario, let's see if we can catch it."

"With what?" Zweii asked. "All our pokeballs are gone."

He reached into the inside of his shirt, and withdrew a pokeball.

"Always carry a spare."

The strange smile on Rotom suddenly faded. It threw a lightning bolt at Ace, which Lucario blocked with his bone rush.

"Aura sphere!"

Lucario put his glowing blue bone away, and started to charge a glowing orb in his hands. Rotom charged another bolt of lightning. Both let their attacks lose simultaneously. The aura sphere met the bolt of lightning, and slowly started to cut through it. The Rotom froze, shocked, and took the aura sphere to the face. It began to laugh, but Lucario followed up the attack with a swift roundhouse kick that trailed orange.
"What was that?" Zweii asked.

"Insurance, a little something we have been working on. Great job Lucario, almost got it down!" Ace called.
Rotom fell to the floor, its wings jolting as if it was shorting out. Ace threw the pokeball at the shorting Pokemon, which hit Rotom, beamed it inside, and started to rock. It was an intense few seconds as everyone stared at the flashing and rocking ball. Finally there was a click, the red light went out, and the ball stopped moving.

"Yeah! Awesome job Lucario! We got Rotom!" Ace cheered.

"Good for you, now all we need to do is find our Pokemon," Zweii said.

The sword Pokemon vanished.

"Where did it go?" Ace asked.

There was a loud metallic clang, followed by an inhuman shriek. Shortly after the sword reappeared unsheathed. Seconds after, another Pokemon appeared.

"A Haunter. That makes sense," Ace said.

"A Haunter?" Zweii asked, pulling out his dex once again.

"Haunter: Ghost/Poison type: Gas Pokemon."

"Haunter are devious tricksters. I bet this one was the main cause of the hauntings," Ace said.

The sword Pokemon prodded at the Haunter. It looked disappointed, and strangely, scared. Haunter took each hand and withdrew both trainer's Pokemon and extra pokeballs in its hands. It gave them back, and vanished. Both trainers attached all of the pokeballs back to their belts. Zweii noticed the sword Pokemon was pointing at his belt after re-sheathing itself.

"You want to come with us?" Zweii asked.

It bowed.

He withdrew one of the remaining empty pokeballs and tossed it to the sword. It caught the ball, tossed it up, and beamed inside, only taking a few seconds to settle.

"I can see we are going to be a good team," Zweii said, picking the ball up and attaching it.

He heard a beep coming from his watch as the new Pokemon's data was added.

"Honedge? According to this, that is what his name is. That's strange his data is not in the dex."

"We should head to Sandgem Town and talk to Professor Rowan," Ace suggested.

"I agree, now let's get out of this creepy place."

They turned around to see the doors reappeared. Everyone exited through them, made their way back through the forest, and headed to Sandgem Town.

"What does all this mean? Does Honedge know my parents? One mystery leads to many others. Will the first ever be solved?" Zweii wondered as they walked.