Namine Rose25- Thanks for the review. Yeah some of the most fun I had was with taking Yellow and warping the character so much and having Fire back is always fun. It is a lot of fun to give everyone else a chance to shine through.

Also fixed something back in chapter six that I missed. It said chemical weapon instead of bio weapon. I mention it so that it doesn't cause confusion later.

Chapter 8

/A/

Ace walked through the port city of Vermillion looking about himself curiously.

Sometimes he really did have to marvel at what could be done. A little over two years ago this place had been the sight of an utterly devastating terrorist attack and now it was almost completely rebuilt.

Ace had been pretty surprised when after two months of training Leaf said to pack it up.

"Seriously?" Ace said as Leaf cleaned up their camp. "It's been two months…" The look on Leaf's face stopped him.

"Yeah but…" Leaf shook his head "In the first few days you figured out the big lesson and since then we've just been training" Ace nodded.

"Yeah so?"

"Ace… We could keep just training forever but it won't help us" the younger boy folded his arms "it's actually left me with a question for you" Ace raised his eye brow "You can already fight Ace… And it doesn't seem like a recent thing so why haven't you ever come to the Pokémon league? Because that seems to be your goal" Ace shrugged.

"I guess because in the end… I had preferred to watch" Ace explained

"Then why are you actively getting involved in a situation where you will have to fight someone like the Elite Four?"

"What can I say? I'm running out of patience" the look on the Kanto Champion's face was exactly what Ace had expected after the boy heard his musing, utter confusion. "Maybe I've spent the most time with Fire but I've seen you guys run head first in to a lot of situations. I've run out of patience watching and figure it's time for me to have some fun" he grinned back at the champion.

He really should have expected Leaf's reaction to the fact that his team was at the very least adequately trained.

Ace walked down the street with Strike in front, the Pokémon seemed a particularly sober in this city.

It was then something caught his eye. There was an older woman talking to a younger man, something like that on it's own wasn't odd… However it was rather noticeable the two didn't look at all alike, meaning the chance of them being related was incredibly low.

He also took into account that they were in an alley off to the side. Not suspiciously so but this didn't look like two neighbours talking.

There was also the way the man would after every word glance about nervously while the old woman was so calm and collected. After the conversation seemed to be finished the man walked away past Ace.

Looking up the next thing Ace noticed was the fact that the old lady had already disappeared. He quickly walked over and checked the alley only seeing disappearing smoke, which was… odd.

Ace left it at that though, chasing after the woman looked virtually impossible while the man seemed to be having trouble disappearing in the crowd…

/L.G/

Leaf had come to the city with Ace but had quickly left the older boy by himself. Thing was there was a place that Leaf wanted to visit.

On the shore there sat a statue. The thing was small made from some left over scrap iron that had been warped into the shape of a Dratini. He could remember when it was placed up here as a memorial to Draty….

"Fire really has a way with names" he chuckled to himself.

"Yes…" Leaf froze, he hadn't heard anyone come up behind him "I never would have expected her to name him something like Draty" the snicker was barely audible, Leaf turned his head, his fingers inched towards the pokeballs on his belt.

Standing behind him almost relaxed was Lance of the Elite Four. His red hair stood spiked like a dragon fangs and he was smirking. Leaf's eyes narrowed at the man.

"Why are you here?" He asked already working on a strategy that might work against such a trainer. Lace laughed again.

"What would make you think you would even have a chance in hell?" Lance moved swiftly, he elbowed Leaf in the stomach winding him. After that he kicked the boy and proceeded to stand with his foot on Leaf's chest with slight pressure. "Are you going to say because you are the Champion?"

Leaf glared up at him but did not speak, he grabbed some dirt off the ground throwing it in Lance's face before moving to stand.

Lance kicked him to the ground again this time though he held a gun pointed at Leaf's head.

/A/

Ace noticed the man's attempts to lose anyone following. He was surprised at how obvious the man was, he'd think that from how he acted someone would be following out of suspicion of just seeing him. The man jumped about ten feet at every sound, moved at something in his jacket and dodged about.

Ace really didn't have to do much other then walk looking at the ground and return Strike, the Pokémon was becoming even more antsy as they walked. Vermillion was pretty loud at that time, Ace took a quick look around and realized that they seemed to be heading into an even more crowded area.

It might have been the man's best plan, it might be possible for even him to be lost in a crowd as large as the one that seemed to be gathering. Was it just the best time to go shopping or something?

"Well who do we have here?" Ace turned seeing a woman walking over to him. She was dressed in a white bomber jacket and a pair of jeans, nothing unusual.

"Nothing really" Ace shrugged.

"Oh no… you were following him" Ace narrowed his eyes "that's something I cannot allow!" the woman threw a pokeball in the air releasing a Growlithe.

"Who the hell are you?" the boy asked dodging a flame thrower the woman had sent out not worrying that he hadn't released his own Pokémon. The crowd quickly moved into a circle around them keeping distance.

"My name's not really of consequence" the woman said but looking at the crowd surrounding them she smirked. "I can tell you all this" now she was yelling. "I am a member of Team Rocket, no not the one you all knew. That was a pathetic excuse, a shell of what it could be! I belong to a new Team Rocket, the White Rockets!" She threw off her jacket revealing a white high collared shirt with a large red 'R' on it.

"What the hell is the difference?" Ace asked and the look on the woman's face told him that was exactly what she had wanted.

"We don't have Giovanni and his inability to…" The woman stopped as a loud boom sounded and they all turned.

Not too far away, still in the shopping district a bomb had obviously gone off. The woman began to laugh. Ace raised an eye brow.

"So your friend blew up a building, you got to tell us who you are… anything else?" the woman stopped laughing.

"You think that's it?" she looked around the crowd "I suggest you all start running that wasn't just a bomb and what it released might just be heading this way"

It almost seemed to go in slow motion, the people around Ace looked at each other. Some started running straight away, others it took a moment for the panic to set in.

Ace watched as they ran past him as fast as they could not caring if they hit him. Soon it was just him and her.

"Not going to r-cough-un?" she asked though soon she began to cough and splutter. She collapsed under her own weight. The Growlithe looked at his trainer concerned.

The boy clapped.

"Congratulations… you fanatical idiot you are going to die" Ace started to walk away when he heard her pathetic moans. He released Magic the Kadabra and Ti the Paras. "Ti sleep powder" the Pokémon obeyed and soon both woman and Growlithe were asleep. "Now Magic use dream eater, let the fool dream her last few moments away"

With that Ace walked away.

/L.G/

Leaf heard the sound and Lance allowed him to stand and look at the cloud of smoke.

"Probably took out a few people" the Kanto champion turned back to the Dragon tamer. "But the poison it released? Those nearby will get enough to die almost instantly but those a little further out… It's a lot longer and a lot more painful"

"You did this?" the boy's voice shook with anger "why the hell would you do something like this?" the man shrugged.

"You should be highly familiar with Scarlet Red correct? She wants to create the perfect world by killing the scum" Lance smiled, the disturbing part was it almost seemed fond "she talks about it as if she's pruning a rose garden. I on the other hand realized that humanity is the scum and it all needs to die"

"That's insane!" Leaf yelled "I won't let you do that!" Lance began to laugh again.

"So what? You will stop me? Please Leaf you couldn't even win the title of Champion without someone bowing out. I at least won it fair and square"

"What does that mean?" Leaf yelled at Lance who was moving to leave.

"I would suggest asking Erik" the Kanto champion attempted to follow the man but instead ran only into mist that had been growing during the last half of their conversation.

Giving in Leaf punched a tree out of anger. He needed to call Erik apparently. He also needed to find Ace and he hoped like hell he hadn't anywhere near the blast zone.

Finished off my third semester of higher education. So I've got a week before my intensive course to play some games and write a little more.

And I explained the weapon this chapter! I'll explain it more near the end of the story.

And remember folks don't flame unless you have an extinguisher!