Zoe was sitting in the Pokemon center drinking a nice cup of warm coffee. It was quite late and she was sure she'd be in bed and fast asleep in a few moments. For the moment, she was busy trying to think up a new strategy for the up coming Pokemon contest. She was the only person at the Pokemon Center asides one boy (and nurse joy) who called himself Garry, he was busy talking to his grandfather some "professor Oak" in Kanto... He seemed nice enough... Suddenly the door swung open and in ran a Miaouss, the nurse Joy looked at it with confusion.

"Yo! Get two beds ready pronto! We got two sick people!" Said the Pokemon.

"Ok... You can talk?" said the surprised Nurse Joy.

"Yeah so? Just do it already and get some blankets ready!"

"You're team rocket's Miaouss!" Said Garry rushing over.

"Oh no, another twerp! It's killin' me to say this but we need your help!"

Zoe watched, too surprised to say anything. Then two figures limped through the doorway. It took her a second to remember who they were, the first one was Reggie, the older brother of Paul, he seemed to be holding up the other man. It was the Pyramid King Brandon! He looked in a bad way, he was completely drenched and was shivering non-stop. His teeth were clattering, Reggie carried the frontier Brain to a couch and lied him down on it. Garry ran over with a cover.

"Reggie! What happened?" Asked Zoe finally able to speak.

"He fell through the ice... On the mountain..."

"Help... Roa..." He was shacking so much he could barely speak.

Zoe turned as to her surprise team rocket carried in carefully another man this time unconscious. Nurse Joy rushed over and took his pulse.

"Thank goodness you brought him here!" Said Nurse Joy. "This man is very hurt!"

"He fell down a rather large cliff and he's been outside for a while." Explained Reggie.

"Right, no time to waste!" Said the Nurse. "Follow me! Keep him warm if he gets any worse tell me! Oh and give him a hug."

"You what?" Asked Reggie. "You might as well order me to punch myself in the face! He hates anything even resembling a hug!"

"It'll warm him up!"

Reggie nodded as team Rocket carried the unconscious Gym Leader, following the nurse Joy. The Pokemon breeder turned back to the frontier Brain. He was a rather pale going on light blue, he did as the nurse Joy said and almost instantly was pushed gently away. Brandon had never ever hurt either of his sons but a push to them was as good as a fist in the face...

"How are you feeling?" He asked there was a long pause.

"Dreadful!" He moaned weekly. "I think."

"You think? Man you've got it bad!" Said Reggie. "Lets see what did we do two days ago?"

"That's easy." He said after a long pause. "Well... I... I dunno."

"Nurse Joy!" Reggie called out, a nurse joy appeared.

"Yes? He's not making much sense, is taking ages to answer and suffering from amnesia..."

"There all symptoms of severe hypothermia." Explained the nurse. "Warm him up as best you can."

Reggie looked worried. Zoe ran over with another few blankets and put them on the shivering Pyramid King. She wondered what on earth the could of been doing in the middle of the night.

"Excuse me but what exactly is happening?" Asked Garry.

"What do you mean?" Asked Brandon looking very confused.

"Well, at the moment, you've turned up with a Pyramid king suffering from hypothermia, a gym leader who you say fell off a cliff and all the gym leaders in Sinnoh have disappeared."

"Paul!" Brandon's eyes suddenly widened and he tried to jump up.

"We'll see what we can do!" Said Reggie forcing him down. "For the moment try to get over your brain freeze."

"I'm fine!.. I just need to dig a tunnel and we'll be out of this cell in no time." Said Brandon.

"If you could hear yourself..." Muttered Reggie.

He walked over to a computer and tried to call the police. He was greeted by a worried looking officer Jenny.

"Hallo." Reggie didn't give the officer time to say anything. "I'd like to report the kidnap of my younger brother, the pokemon trainer Paul."

"Are you sure he hasn't just walked off?" Asked the Officer.

"No my dad's pretty sure that's what happened and we found his Pokeballs."

"Can we talk to your father?" asked the officer, Reggie glanced behind him at the pyramid King.

"I don't think that will work... He isn't making much sense at the moment."

"Is this some kind of a joke?" Asked the police officer.

"What? No!"
"Stop wasting police time kid!"

The screen went black, Reggie hit the desk with his face. So much for the police! He turned to the other trainers who were looking at him in confusion before walking back over to Brandon's side. Zoe realised something that Reggie had been saying... But it couldn't be!

"Reggie Brandon's not your dad is he?" She asked him.

"Yep!" Answered a rather annoyed Reggie.

"That means Paul's his son?" Said an astounded Garry.

"Right... Now if you haven't got anything interesting to say please shut up!" He snapped.

"Reggie! Don't talk to your grandparents like that!" Said Brandon.

"Grandma and grampa are dead paps..." Sighed Reggie before turning back to the other teens. "I'm sorry... I'm just a little bit worried."

"No need to explain... I'm sorry about your grandparents..." Said Zoe.

"It's ok..." Reggie looked somewhat sad.

The three teens waited with Brandon occasionally speaking nonsense, Team Rocket eventually joined them but as neither side really liked the other they weren't saying anything. Brandon whose brain was still melting was under the impression that team Rocket was his long lost cousins... About two hours later nurse Joy joined them, she looked tired and drained but she was smiling.

"He'll be ok... That hard hat saved his life..." She said.

"When will he wake up?" Asked Reggie.

"He's actually awake at the moment, he's asking for someone called 'Gardienia' but otherwise he's fine..."

"Could you please look after my dad? Uh... I think he's hallucinating or something so don't worry if he says something stupid."

Reggie sped down the corridor with Zoe, Garry and team rocket following. Lying on a bed was Roark he was bandaged up. With a broken arm, a broken ankle, several broken ribs and a concussion he wasn't exactly enjoying himself... He looked over at his visitors not recognising one of them.

"Uh hallo?" He muttered.

"Hallo." Said the tallest. "I know you probably want to rest, so I'll keep it brief but what exactly happened to you?"

"They weren't supposed to know... There were too many... We fought them... The ice broke... I fell..." He said. "Where's Gardinia?"

"The Eterna city gym leader?" Asked Reggie, Roark nodded painfully. "I don't know... Who were you battling?"

"Team Galactic." Said Roark.

"Thank you." Said Reggie. "You get some rest."

He left Roark and walked off back to his father who was sleeping peacefully on the couch with a hot water bottle. Reggie smiled and sat down in a chair. Zoe and Garry both imitated him.

"Who's team Galactic?" Asked Zoe.

"They're a group of bad guys who stole a meteor in Veilstone city..." Explained Reggie. "I don't know much more about them. Other than they're trouble..."

"Those fashion freaks always ruin our plans!" Said James.

"You three are lucky we haven't handed you over to the police!" Said Garry.

"You wouldn't arrest your dad's dear cousins would you?" Said Jessie.

"Yeah..." Reggie said. "I'd stop saying that cause he won't find it so funny when he gets back to his senses..."

"What are we going to do?" Asked Garry. "If Roark's right, it's a fair bet that the Gym leaders, Elite four and Champion have been captured as well as your brother and I'm willing to bet that Ash has followed..."

"Yeah, we've got to do something but what?" Said Zoe.

"We need an army!" Said Reggie.

"Who needs an army boy!" Said Brandon who had suddenly woken up. "You got your family behind you!"

"What are you going on about? It's just me and you, Paul's been captured!"

Brandon raised an eyebrow knowingly, his son and the others looked at him in confusion before smiling. Reggie rushed over to a computer and started tapping in phone numbers. Zoe and Garry stared at him in confusion.

"What are you doing?" Asked a confused Zoe.

"Dad's right... I might not have much in the way of blood relatives still alive but with me and Paul it was different, growing up the way we did... We didn't know any other kids our age so our only friends became the people around us... But we became more than that... We always used to call ourselves 'The B.F.F'!" Said Reggie getting excited.

"The B.F.F? is that some kind of organisation?" Asked Garry.

"No. B. F. F. The Battle Frontier Family!" Reggie smiled as the screen turned on.

Almost instantly on the screen appeared a young man with brown hair and some kind of odd hat. He looked puzzled. Another person appeared but she seemed to be calling from another area. Eventually six people had all appeared on the screen.

"Uh Hi? Could you please keep it quick kid it's 2 in the morning!" Yawned the man with the red hat. "Who are you anyway? You shouldn't have all our numbers!"

"Come on Noland it's me!" Said Reggie smiling.

"Well... Well... If it isn't just a pyramid Prince!" Smiled Lucy. "It's been a while! How are you doing?"

"Not great..." The frontier Brains looked worried.

"What's up? You fallen out with your dad again?" Asked Annabel.

"No."

"Well then how is your old man?" Asked Spencer.

"Not great..." Replied Reggie sadly. "He fell in to a frozen river and he's got a really bad case of hypothermia, it's not doing his head any good..."

"Hi guys!" Said a confused Brandon

"Right... Nice shade of blue Brandon!" Laughed Greta. "Otherwise is everything else ok?"

"If only... Paul's been kidnapped by an evil organisation going by the name of team galactic... They've got him and all the gym leaders as hostages..."

"That's awful!" Said Annabel.

"Yeah and there are a lot of them so I was wondering..."

"Have no fear, the battle frontier attack force is on it's way!" Said Noland.

"Great we're in the Pokemon Center at the bottom of Mount Coronet!"

...

Ash and his friends were tied up in a corner currently watching team galactic's plans is motion. Cyrus and some sort of professor were busy running around with the orbs and stuff. Nobody was saying much if anything. There wasn't much to say and if they did they were soon made to be quiet. Byron was crying the loss of his son in a corner. Then there were noises of a struggle coming from down one of the cave's entrances. Ash lifted his head, he recognised the voice... But it couldn't be...

"Get the hell off of me!" Yelled Paul.

The Paul was dragged in by two galactic grunts accompanied by Jupiter. The galactic commander and her friends seemed to be struggling with the teen who was putting up quite a fight. Cyrus turned around surprised by their new guest.

"Right that's it!" Roared Paul.

With quite an effort the boy lifted one grunt and threw him into the other using some kind of karate move. He smirked at Jupiter who called out her Skunktank.

"Nice moves!" Said Mylene.

"I had a good teacher..." Said Paul, Ash wondered who he was talking about.

"Who's this?" Asked Cyrus.

"None of your business." Replied Paul with his typical cold tone.

"We found him walking around in the mountain." Said Jupiter.

"I was camping! The last time I checked it wasn't a crime!" Snapped the teen.

"What's your name?" Asked Cyrus.

"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" Yelled Paul.

"Search him!"

Paul oddly stood still as they searched him then rummaged through his bag. Ash looked on in astonishment had he come to save them or something? There seemed to be a lot of food, a map and a compass but then Cyrus pulled out an envelope.

"What's this?" Asked Cyrus looking at the envelope.

"Leave that alone!" Yelled Paul.

He tried to rush Cyrus but was stopped by at least ten Galactic grunts. He looked on helplessly as Cyrus opened the envelope and looked at the letter.

"Well this is interesting..." He said smiling and looking at Paul. "Do you want me to read it out?"

"Don't you dare!" He yelled.

"Oh, I think they'll find it interesting..." He turned to face Ash and his friends. "Listen to this, looks like you weren't alone :

Dear Paul

I'm sure by the time you read this, we'll of gone our separate ways and you most likely won't want anything to do with me any more. I can't fault you there boy... I know that I can never make up for all my failures, as you have often pointed out they are many. I also know that no words of mine will ever fix the gap that I have caused and made grow ever larger... I would just like to explain why I behaved as I did, I know there is no good explanation, yet I will try.

The reason is very simple... I am a coward. When your mother disappeared I didn't know what to do at the time you were not yet walking and your brother was only three. I would of probably not been able to cope without you and your brother, for that I am ever grateful. I guess I was also jealous of your innocence. You and your brother were always able to keep on going easily, I was unable to do the same and for years, I started to grow apart from you and the pain was growing inside of me. As you know I'm not very good with my patience and temper, hence the sudden outburst all those years ago. Unable to face up to that I ran away and hid... Metaphorically...

Pathetic isn't it? If it helps, I have regretted it ever since and I'm afraid our last encounter was again my fault, I had decided to apologise to you but when we met I realised you hadn't forgiven me (I suspect your brother hadn't either) and again I was afraid of your anger and that you wouldn't forgive me...

All I can say is : I'm sorry, for everything... I wish I could go back in time and fix everything but as you know that is impossible. I'm so sorry... I also want you to know I do love you and your brother and I think of you every moment of every day...

Goodbye.

Love your father.

"How touching..." Said Cyrus coldly. "Put him with the others."

Paul was tied up tightly and thrown by Jupiter onto the ground next to Ash. The boy didn't even react.

"Paul are you ok?" Asked Ash.

Paul looked like he was in shock. He was starring blankly into space as if his entire life was flashing in front of his eyes. Ash had no idea that he had a past like that... Ash noticed that his leg was bleeding, it looked as if he was cut.

"Your hurt Paul." Said Cynthia. "Paul?"

"He... He... He really does care..." Muttered the shocked teen.