Hello again! I'm back. Holiday things are rolling around so that's why I couldn't update sooner. Sorry, but here is another chapter!

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Deserax was falling through the air in pitch blackness. He wouldn't have seen his hand jabbing his own eye. It felt like he was falling a thousand feet.

"Is this how it ends? Before it even begins?" Deserax's life flashed before his eyes. Not to many pictures flashed before his eyes, considering he hadn't done a lot. Right as Deserax was about to except his fate, he landed on a huge inflatable mattress. When he landed a massive cloud of dust erupted from it. Deserax just laid there, stunned by the fall. He saw his hat gently float down and land on his face. Deserax took the hat off of his face and then tried to get off of the dust mattress. He managed to do it, while coughing up a storm. His eyes watered from how much dust was now in the air.

"What a fall!" Deserax looked up from were he fell, but couldn't see the top. Deserax thought for a moment before cupping his hands together.

"Mikaela!"

Up top, Mikaela was calling out for Deserax, but either he couldn't hear her or...

"No, he's not dead!" She looked at Lucario with a look of determination. "Use aura sight to see if he's down there please!" Lucario nodded and hummed. His vision revealed a faint source of aura from the bottom of the drop. He stopped humming but kept his eyes closed.

"There is a faint aura coming from the bottom, but aura lingerers even after death. It's up to you if you you want to go-" He was interrupted by the wall closing suddenly.

"Come on!" Mikaela was getting irratated. She started to look all over the wall to see if she could find the button to open the wall.

Deserax finally gave up shouting. It was obvious that she couldn't hear him. He finally decided to get a good look around him. The only thing he was able to see was part of the huge mattress and a door with a light at the end.

"Well, it's a start." Deserax started to walk down the dark hallway toward the light. It got brighter as he got closer, and soon he was at the light. He went through it and found himself in some kind of storage area. He started to look around. First thing he noticed was that the storage area was not in the best kind of condition. There was a computer was in the corner of the room with a cracked screen, but it looked like the computer could still work. There were various crates and everything all over. There was also a door that probably lead to another room, but he wanted to search the crates and boxes. Deserax went over to one of them and started to open them. First one he opened; Drugs. Second. Drugs. Almost every single box he opened had something illegal in them. From drugs, to huge guns, even some pokemon skin.

"These guys are SICK!" Deserax went back and closed all the boxes, eager to get out of there. Right as he was about to leave, he heard some noise coming from behind the door.

"Crap, I forgot about the extra room!" Deserax was looking around, panicking and trying to find a hiding spot. His eyes fell to under the desk of the computer and making the chair hide him. He rushed over to the computer and got under the desk, and made sure that the chair would be able to hide him. It was a big chair, so it looked like it would work. He got himself situated and not a moment to soon, because there was a shady looking man carrying a Growlithe, but his color seemed different from a normal one. Then it hit Deserax. This was a shiny Growlithe!

"A shiny Growlithe! Cool!" Deserax was snapped out of his thought by a cabinet door slamming shut. Deserax managed to peer around the chair to see what the man had. He had some kind of board. He slammed the Growlithe down on to it, and Deserax winced. He hated to see a pokemon get treated to badly. The man then started to slip something out of his pocket, but the Growlithe tried to run away. The man easily held the poor pokemon in his grasp as he got another item out of a different pocket. The man slid it out and smiled as it went closer to the pokemon. Deserax stared in disbelief. The next thing that could be heard was a cackle of electricity, mixed in with the horrible sound of the Growlithe screaming in pain. Soon it's yells were silenced as it passed out. The man snickered and went back to getting something out of the first pocket. Deserax's eyes popped out of his head when he saw it was a switch blade. The man went closer to the Growlithe's neck. For Deserax, that was the last straw. Sure he didn't have Kodiak to help him out, but at least he could do something. Deserax leaned back against the desk, then launched his feet in front of him to propel the wheeled chair at the man. The man then jumped out of the way and looked at who did that. Then out came a young boy only about 14. Did that mean that the man wasn't going to try and kill him?

"Nope." The man thought as Deserax crawled out.

"Kid, do you know what your doing?" The man asked. Deserax stood up and dusted himself off.

"Yeah I do! I'm stopping you from hurting this Growlithe any further!" Deserax sized up his opponent. For one, he had about a foot on Deserax, he looked a little stronger, and he had a knife.

"Oh boy..." Deserax thought. The man just laughed.

"Do you really think you can take me on?"

"Yep!" Deserax then charged at the man, who lunged right at Deserax's head with the knife. The man slashed at Deserax's face, but Deserax side stepped the attack and sent a fist in the mans gut. The man doubled over, then got a knee in the face to land him on his but.

"Come on! A foot taller then me and I can still kick your butt?" The man spat out some blood and stood up.

"Kid has a death wish..." The man lunged at Deserax again. He slashed at Deserax's face again, but Deserax avoided that attack. However, he failed to see the right hook come to his face. The punch sent Deserax stumbling back, but he refused to back down. Deserax lunged at the man, who slashed at his face once again.

"He's just going to side step it, then WHAM! I got him." Deserax instead of sidestepping the slash, ducked down and did a leg sweep on the man to make him fall on his back. Deserax jumped back and tried to jump right on the mans back, but the man caught his leg and threw him on the ground, effectively stunning him. Deserax rolled over on to his back, groaning in pain. The man spat out a little more blood and picked up Deserax off of the floor and held him by his shirt collar.

"Kid, you put up a good fight, but it ends here." The man put his blade up to Deserax's throat. "Die!" Right as he was about to put some force on the knife, he got hit with a force palm in the side. It sent the man to the ground quickly. Deserax fell onto his back, and looked up to see who saved him. He focused his vision and saw Lucario, Kodiak, and Mikaela. He saw Kodiak run up to Deserax to see if he was ok, and saw Mikaela and Lucario head over to the man.

Mikaela stepped on the mans chest.

"Now why would you go hurt a kid who's a foot smaller then you?"

"Go to hell!" The man spat.

"Now, that's not the way to talk to a person who has you beat."

"What makes you say that you little-" The man was cut off with Lucario lifting up the man by his shirt.

"This is why. Now, judging by the unconscious pokemon, and the various boxes that smell like blood, I say your working for some one. You going to tell me who."

"If I don't?" The man grunted out. Lucario glanced at Mikaela who gave a nod. Lucario then sent a force palm in the mans gut without letting go of his shirt. The man yelled out in pain then looked at Mikaela once more.

"That's what happens. Now tell me who you work for."

the man, not wanting to feel anymore pain, started to talk. "There is a whole group of us working all over Johto. The big boss lives somewhere, but I don't know were. The man I deliver pakages to, so he can give them to the big boss, lives some where in the second half of the region." The man was lying about the second part, but Mikaela didn't realize it. At least, not until the man passed out. Lucario let go of the mans shirt and let him fall to the ground. Mikaela went over to Deserax and stuck a hand out.

"Either you're really brave, or really stupid, because taking a man who's a foot taller then you is ridicules." Deserax grabbed the hand and got help pulling himself off the floor. As soon as Deserax recovered balance, he went over to the knocked out Growlithe.

"He doesn't look well." Mikaela commented as she walked over there.

"We need to get him to a pokemon center." Deserax then picked up the poor pokemon and held it in his arms. He was about to take off running, but then relized he had no idea how to get out of here.

"How are we going to get out?"

"Ri Ri Riolu!" Kodiak began to jump up and down and pointed back to were they fell from.

"He says that while falling down here, he noticed a latter leading back up." Deserax crouched down and patted Kodiak on the head.

"Nice job!" Deserax then motioned towards his head. "Climb on, but hang on tight!" Kodiak eargerly jumped on his head, while Deserax got out his back pack. He carefully put the Growlithe in the bag and zipped it up to were the Growlithe could still breath, but wouldn't fall out with excessive climbing or running. Once done, he put the bag back on him and turned to the door. He started to run off, then called back to Mikaela.

"Come on!"

Mikaela nodded and started running after Deserax. Lucario was close behind.

As the group left, a small beeping could be heard. It was coming from the mans belt. It was a small communicator, and it was on.

"Did you hear all that?"

"Yeah. It looks like the old hidden were house is no longer up and running since our guy just got creamed."

"So what are we going to tell the boss?"

"You tell him!"

"Why?"

"You know the temper sir Bryant has, if he finds out, were DEAD!"

"If we don't tell him, and he finds out on his own, then we will be more dead!" One of the men sighed.

"Fine will tell him..." The communicator then clicked off due to low batteries.

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Sort of a smaller chapter this time around, but some plot develops! Along with introducing the villain! Sorry I didn't update sooner but with the holidays right around the corner, your family doesn't like you spending all the time you have on the computer. I'll update when I can, so till then, BAI! -waves furiously-