Ten

N's POV

"Sir, all of the grunts have been placed and ready for ambush."

A Team Plasma admin reported their progress to his king. The plan was going well. The Shadow Triad had delivered the letter forcing White to come to the tower. And most importantly, Black knew nothing that was going on. N was sure to keep it that way.

N stood at the summit of Dragon Spiral Tower. Thoughts and plans for the new Unova raced through his mind. Pokemon will be free and the humans will suffer, except for him and Black. The two of them would live peacefully forever in their castle. They would play the games N used to play by himself as a child. They would do everything together. Never, never again will N be alone.

Ugh, I'm beginning to sound like father. The beautiful thoughts of his future with Black were interrupted, instead horrible memories of the torture he went through with his father took their place. The distant voice of Ghetsis rang in his ears.

"I've told you a thousand times, N. There's no way you'll learn how to do this if you're still wearing clothes." Young N felt his bottom sting in pain as Ghetsis smacked it repeatidly , yet, that was only the beginning of the true pain.

Fear ripped through N's body as he felt the touch of a cold presence meet his arm. Instictavely, N pulled away; he was overtaken with goosebumbs.

"I'm sorry to startle you my lord." Anthea's calm voice made a rush of relief fall over N, "Chili of the Triad wishes to speak to you through this..X..trans..ciever thing." Anthea handed the gizmo to the still startled N.

"How's Whites progress? Did she get the note? Is she on her way?" N sent a flurry of questions to Chili through the device. He just wanted to hurry up and finish the plan so he could return home quickly and begin his new life.

"Yes sir she's well on her way. Unfortunantely we couldn't stop the gym leaders from arriving…" N noted that Chili's usually bursting-with-energy personality was being dimmed by something.

"What? Half of the mission was to make sure no one interfierred. Please do explain how this happened."

"Well, ya see," Chili leaned closer to the device and his voice lowered to a whisper, "Cilan kinda has a thing for White so after he heard what you wrote on the letter, and saw her run out all pale and such, he said he felt like he had to do something to protect her. I know. He totally screwed things up, but I beg of you my lord, please cut him some slack."

N wasn't too surprised. He could understand how easily it is to fall in love with a face like hers. Personally N felt nothing for White, but she looked quite similar to her handsome brother. But wait, N didn't write the letter. One of the Triads were supposed to so who could of…

"Tell him not to worry. I won't let anybody find out of his misshap. Who knows, maybe White will want to join us in the New Unova. For now, I want the three of you to head over here as fast as you can."

"Aye aye captain. I'm sure glad things are almost done. " And thus the X- transceiver conversation ended. Everything was right in place. It's unfortunate the gym leaders decided to come but N figured he'd just send out the sages to deal with them.

The flame-headed one is right, things are almost complete. N lifted a large uncomfortably heavy pure white stone from his bag.

The wind began to howl as it, picked up speed and lightning streaked across the sky. N lifted the stone into the sky. The final storm, was approaching.

"Awaken Reshiram! It's time to begin a new era!"

Whites POV

White applied potion to her Archeops, instantly healing its wounds.

"We have got a lot of flying and battling ahead of us. I need you now more than ever Archy." The pokemon nuzzled its self against its trainer. The bond between White and her pokemon was at its peak. She was taking in her Archeops, Gigalith, Samurott, Darmanitan, and Ferrothorn. She had other pokemon in her PC, but these ones were her strongest, in strength and in friendship.

"Hey," Cheren cautiously walked towards White. The two had been really close friends, even before they met Bianca, but him and Black were like brothers. Even though most of the time it seemed like they were arguing, the two were as close as White and Black. Yet, White never stopped to think of how Cheren, or even Bianca, felt through all this. Were they as in as much pain as she was?

"Oh, hi Cheren. Bianca's still asleep?"

"Yeah but," he scratched his head before continuing, " Listen White. I know you must be going through a lot, but, you don't have to separate yourself. Bianca and I are here for you, we've always been. We're going to defeat that bastard N, and bring your brother home."

White was astonished. She felt every vessel in her body surge with blood. It was as if a new found strength suddenly found its way inside of her.

"Cheren…"

He turned his head to the side, a smirk grew on his face.

"Besides, he promised he'd go to the Pokemon League with me, and I'm going to make sure he does."

Whites hazel eyes were blurred with tears. She lunged herself towards her friend. He was caught off guard and stumbled a bit, but he gladly returned the hug.

"Yay group hug!" A drowsy Bianca threw herself onto them, sending the trio crashing to the floor. The three friends burst into laughter. White could barely remember the last time they all laughed so freely.

If only Black were here. That's right. She had a job to do. They were half way to the tower, there was no stopping now.

Briiiiiing Briiiiiiing

"What? My transceiver….hey it's a call from Iris! What….huh….slow down I can't understand you!"

"Dammit Cheren what is she saying?" Bianca anxiously asked.

Cheren pointed his finger towards the sky. Looking up, White saw eleven grey figures flying above them in a V- formation.

"Grab your pokemon guys, we have to fly up and meet them there." Cheren quickly began gathering his stuff. He released his unfezant and got on top of it ready to fly.

"Wait a minute? Who's them?" Bianca asked, quickly trying to fix her hair.

"The gym leaders!" Cheren said before soaring off to meet up with them.

"C'mon Archy lets go too!" White hopped on her pokemon.

"Swanna lets go too!" A beautiful white pokemon carried Bianca as she flew next to White.

It wasn't long before the three friends got in front of the formation. The gym leaders were right behind them, all flying on magnificent dragon types from nearly every region.

"Check it out! Isn't this flygon just the coolest thing ever? Haha, flies smoother than some of my most advanced jets!" Sklya seemed to be the only one who didn't think this whole situation was serious.

"Chill out! Don't move too much or you'll freak out Salamance!" This was the first time White ever heard Iris sound, irritated. She turned around to get a better view of the gym leaders behind her.

It was amazing, all the gym leaders, including the Straiton triplets, were aboard a magnificent variety of dragon types. And on either side of White, flying ahead of the leaders, were her best friends in the entire world, Cheren and Bianca. And in her bag was the Dark Stone, inside of it held a powerful legendary pokemon. White felt like she had the force of an army at her side.

Don't worry Black, we're all coming to save you.