Hello everybody and welcome back to Miracles! I'm gonna start going back and forth between Buneary's Quest for Love and this story from now on! Sorry for the delay, college midterms and then a loss of wifi the past month kinda hindered me. XD But all sadness aside, let's start the chapter!

ALSO, I will be rewriting some of this story, fix up some errors that either are minor or some of the absolute head scratchers I've done. Never write on mobile kids! XD I'm also gonna switch up the synopsis of my story as I realized I drifted horribly off track, however it does give me an idea for the end of this chapter, so stay tuned!

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Chapter 10: With Friends Like These….

Ryan blinked as Jane and him emerged from the burrow hole. They had walked in silence since the discovery of Jane's abandonment, not really sure what to say about the whole thing.

They continued out of the burrow into a more secluded part of the forest. Ryan let out a yelp at the sight of a large spider web they came across.

Jane shot him a look. "Not a fan of bugs?" She teased.

Ryan shuddered. "Not particularly." He replied. He jumped a foot as his leg brushed something.

Jane rolled her eyes. "Root, dummy." She told him.

"..Right." Ryan said, embarrassed. Jane sighed and turned away. Ryan let out another yelped as something brushed his shoulder.

"Bush." She clarified, not even turning around. Ryan looked away in humiliation, ashamed of how easily scared he was getting. However, dread started filling him as he swore he felt something crawling up his back. He tried to ignore it at first, but fear overcame him again.

"Jane?"

"Ryan, it's probably just a branch!" She yelled, exasperated. However, as she turned, the world's largest Spinarak was planted on Ryan, covering most of his back. She let out a gasp and immediately fired a Fire Punch attack. Unfortunately….said Spinarak was fast enough to shoot a web up and avoid the attack. Unable to stop her momentum she blasted Ryan in the back, sending his smoking body into the ground. She sweat dropped at her blunder.

"Sorry…..it was just a leaf." She said quietly, not admitting that the Spinarak surprised her.

"Ow, what the-" He was cut off as the world's cutest growling captured both of their attentions. They saw a small Poochyena, baring it's teeth at them.

"Back off intruders, this is our territory." She growled.

"Oh, you are just adorable." Jane gushed. "I love kids!" Ryan gave an awkward chuckle on how Jane was fawning over the small pokemon. It was kinda reminding him of something Gena would do.

The Poochyena twitched an eye. "I'm not a kid!. I'm fifteen you jerk!" She yelled.

Jane frowned. "Kinda old to still be a Poochyena, aren't you?" She asked, causing the undersized Poochyena to grow even angrier.

"Shut up! You still haven't answered my question on why you're here!" She yelled.

Jane made a motion. "Passing through." She replied simply. Ryan started to get uneasy. He wasn't sure if he could deal with a fight considering how weak he was compared to everything here. And what Jane said next made him more anxious. "Isn't your evolutionary line supposed to travel in packs?" She asked.

The Poochyena looked away. "They were scared away by the new Pokemon. It's only me, my father and a couple of his…..friends." She sounded unsure at that part, but soon got back to her glare. "We are not letting you drive us out." She snarled.

Jane was getting annoyed. "Do we look like the type of pokemon to drive a Mightyena and a undersized pup out?" She asked. Ryan flinched. Why does Jane have to be so sarcastic?

"Who are you calling undersized?" She growled, pressing up against Jane's face.

Jane pressed back. "Oh I don't know? The one I'm straining my back bending down so far to talk to?"

Ryan gulped as he heard approaching footsteps. "Uh...Jane?"

The Poochyena got into a stance. "I'm warning you….." She growled.

"Save yourself the pain, and let us walk." Jane said stubbornly. The Poochyena opened her mouth and as she did the most intimidating snarl sounded out, surprising Jane completely. Ryan would've been too,if it wasn't for the Mightyena he saw, ten feet away. The Poochyena recognized the snarl, and with an evil grin, messed up the fur on her head with some dirt.

She instantly ran to the Mightyena. "Daddy, daddy I'm glad you're here. Thesemeanpokemoncameandstartedtobeatmeupand-" Jane and Ryan twitched their eyes as the Poochyena started blubbering to the Mightyena. When she finished, he glared up at them.

Approaching them, he bared his teeth. "And to who do I have the displeasure of meeting?" He asked, circling them. He eyed Jane. "Odd, I haven't seen that many shiny pokemon before."

Ryan was rooted in fear while Jane showed none. "I'm Jane and this is Ryan. We are just trying to get out of this forest." She told him.

"Uh huh...and attacked my daughter on the way?"

"Oh come on, she did that herself! She started yelling at us about territory or some crap-"

"Are you calling my daughter a liar?" He responded, anger flaring in his eyes.

Jane started to get angry herself. "And what if I am?"

Long, sharp claws unsheathed from his paws. "Then you better start running." He said.

Ryan held his hands up. "Listen, we don't want any trouble." However, his words fell empty as Jane hit her two ears together.

"Bring it." She jumped with a Fire Punch, striking the Mightyena in the face….or so she thought. Despite being caught off guard, he managed to snake his way underneath and deliver a slash to her midsection.

The breath left her and she hopped away to catch it. She stepped back as he fired a Shadow Ball, and watched it land at her feet. Blinded by the dust, she couldn't do a thing as she was gripped in a death-grip Bite attack. She got thrown like a ragdoll, landing hard. She yelled as she twisted her ankle on the landing, causing her to fall down when she tried to stand.

Ryan watched in horror as the Mightyena approached her with a killer intent. "Concede." He demanded.

Jane tried to shoot an Ice Beam, but he jumped over it with no effort. Trying to crawl away, she screamed in pain as he sunk his claws into her hurt ankle. Turning with a Fire Punch, she gasped he he caught it in his mouth and immediately shot a Shadow Ball, cancelling out her attack. She put her head back in defeat. She's never been beaten in the forest, let alone been wiped out effortlessly. She glared up at the Mightyena, not giving him the satisfaction of either fear or defeat.

She was surprised, however, when she saw respect glimmering in his eyes. "You're strong for a young one." He commented, almost to himself. He raised his claws on last time and Jane squinted as she anticipated the end. However, she felt the weight come off her and looked up to see the Mightyena bounce back, electricity shocking him.

Ryan was on all fours, off a fresh Thundershock attack. "You're not hurting her." He said determinedly.

The Mightyena rolled her eyes. "So you do have some fight….I thought you were going to let your mate do all the work."

Ryan blushed. "She's just my uh…."

Jane piped up. "It's not like that at all." She said bluntly. However, she was extremely surprised Ryan was risking his life for her instead of running off. She actually felt kind of touched.

The Mightyena chuckled. "Uh huh." He lunged at Ryan, who barely avoided a nasty Slash. "You're faster than the Buneary, but your attack was weak." He lunged again, but Ryan rolled to his right and sprang at him with a Quick Attack. He heard the Mightyena let out a breath as he was caught completely off guard by Ryan's strength. Ryan followed up with Thundershock attack that the Mightyena shooed away with a Slash.

He cocked his head. "Odd...Pikachu's aren't known for their physical strength. Yet your Thunderbolt attack is weaker than it should be." he noted.

"Thunderbolt? I only know Thundershock." He told him.

The Mightyena shook his head. "No, when a Pikachu uses Thundershock, they're using the hairs on their body to rub against each other to cause friction. You're using your electrical pouches, though, which means more power to form a Thunderbolt."

Ryan looked away sheepishly. "Know it all." He replied, embarrassed he didn't know that much about his own species. He felt pain as the Mightyena swiped a Slash attack as he wasn't paying attention. He fell next to Jane, unable to move.

"Darnit." He muttered.

The Mightyena moved towards them. "You guys tried at least." He muttered. Ryan closed his eyes as the stronger pokemon stood above him.

"Wait man, he's cool!" Ryan blinked open as he thought he recognized that voice. He saw the Mightyena's exasperated look.

Looking past him, he couldn't believe his eyes as he saw the Combusken and Ambipom from earlier.

Furu patted the Pikachu on the head. "This is the spy Pikachu we met earlier."

Norton made spooky noises, waving his arms. "He's on a super serious mission to find the pink bunny."

The Mightyena pointed at Jane's injured body. "You mean that one?"

Norton screamed and ran off. "She's going to kill us!"

Furu nodded, although apprehensive. "Yeah man, that was the one who beat me and Norton up to no end. We don't know about her but the Spyachu says she cool and if someone as cool as him says she's cool then she's cool." He said, crossing his arms.

"So….they don't mean us harm?" The Mightyena asked.

"Naw man, the Pikachu is as harmless as a Combee. Unless you steal their honey, then they get pretty mad." Mightyena closed his eyes and started putting the pieces together through his friends bizarreness. He glanced at his daughter who was nervously kicking some dirt.

"Piper...come here." The Poochyena walked over with her ears down in shame.

"Did you lie about them attacking you?"

"...Yes, daddy." Piper admitted, unable to lie to her dad again.

"What have I said about lying young lady? Apologize to these two right this instant young lady." He demanded sternly.

Piper's face heated up. "I'm sorry." She said, bowing her head to Ryan and Jane. Jane just laid silently, perplexed by the events that just occurred.

"It's okay." Ryan said, getting up. He ran over to Jane. "Are you okay?" He asked, worried.

"Yeah, peachy."

"You don't look like a peach?" Furu commented.

While Jane stared at him, Ryan sweatdropped. "Yeah, you get used to it." He whispered.

The Mightyena bowed his head. "I suppose I must apologize for my daughter's behavior as well, it was unacceptable. Although, if it's any consolation, I was not going to kill you, rather knock you out."

Could've fooled us Jane thought bitterly.

Ryan held up his hands. "It's okay, mister…."

"Slash." He told them. Fitting Jane thought. She tried to stand, but her ankle gave way under her weight.

Ryan caught her as she fell. "You're not okay." He scolded her.

Jane gritted her teeth and pushed him off. "Shaddup, I'm fine." She got on one leg and hopped a bit. "See, perfect." She said painfully.

Slash cocked his head and examined Jane's ankle, much to her protest. "You have a bad sprain." He told her, feeling no breaks. "It'll heal fine, but you won't be moving for a couple days." He informed her.

"But we have to get out of here, I have to find my family." Jane protested. She grunted as Slash let go of her with a deadpan expression, and she fell when she tried to stand on her own.

Ryan caught her again.

Slash sighed. "Listen, you can stay in our den for the next few days until your ankle heals. It's another mile until you reach the end of the forest and between the predators and such, I don't think you're making it on that ankle."

Jane was about to open her mouth to protest, but was cut off when Ryan spoke. "Jane, we need you healed if we are going to make it. I'm not nearly strong enough to protect us if anything attacks us." He told her, his body screaming that Gena would wonder where he was.

Jane looked at Ryan and the latter quickly turned away, realizing how close their faces were. "Thank you, Ryan." Was all she said. "We'll accept your offer, thank you very much."

Slash dipped his head. "Of course. Why doesn't Piper take you back and I'll take Ryan to get you some water and berries?" He offered.

Ryan was going to accept when he remembered the device in his arm. "I would….but we sort of are stuck to each other." He told him.

Norton smirked. "Aw the lovebirds can't leave each other."

Furu clasped his hands, tears falling down his face. "It's so cute, man."

Ryan sweat dropped. "No, we mean we are actually stuck to each other." He said, holding up his wrist. "Some pokemon who captured us put some device in our wrists that knocks us out if we get separated."

Slash blinked, interested.

Jane continued for Ryan. "We are trying to get back to his trainer so we can get these things out of us."

Furu scratched his chin. "Sounds like something Tracii might be able to fix, yo!"

Slash glanced at him. "That's not a bad idea, actually." He commented, surprised his dimwitted friend made a good point.

"Who?" Jane asked.

"He's a Zangoose that lives out on Marsh Island. He likes to fiddle with human technology. He actually seems to know a lot about it." Slash told her.

Ryan gave a quizzical look. "Where?"

"An island out on the pond…..near the old abandoned building." Jane informed him.

Furu spun. "Oooooo, can we pass the club, man! I'm done to partyyyyy!" He cheered.

Norton jumped excitedly. "Beich'll be down to let us use his boat man, pleeeeeease." He begged Slash.

"Club?" Ryan asked, finding it odd that a human place to be in this forest.

"Our man Beich found some human music equipment just….abandoned-"

"He stole it." Slash interrupted.

"Borrowed some equipment from a place in Eterna City and made a hangout by the pond. It's super secluded and no mean pokemon could find us there." Norton finished, him and Furu clinging on Slash's legs.

"Pleeeeease can we go." They whimpered.

Slash sweatdropped. "Arceus, Piper is more mature than you two." He muttered, causing Ryan and Jane to chuckle. "But, if you two want to make the trip, it's a lot shorter and safer than trying to walk all the way to the outside. We can leave once her ankle heals."

Ryan and Jane looked at each other, unsure what the other was thinking. Jane was the first to speak. "I know you want to get back to your trainer." She told him.

"Yes." He admitted. "But I think our priority should be getting these things out of our arms. Besides…" He hesitated, shuffling in the dirt. "You probably want to get to finding your family….I shouldn't hold you back from that." He told her.

Jane blinked, astonished. "That means a lot to me Ryan...but I'm probably never going to find them." She said, defeat sounding in her voice.

Ryan shrugged. "You never know. I found you, isn't the encounter rate like one in a thousand for a shiny?" He asked.

Jane huffed in amusement. "One in six thousand actually." She replied.

Ryan laughed. "See, and what are the odds of two shiny pokemon meeting up anyway?"

Jane smiled at him, before pulling him in a hug. "Thank you so much Ryan." She said happily. Ryan just returned it.

Meanwhile Furu whispered to Norton. "Brother, I bet half our next meal I get these two together before we get to Marsh Island."

The Combusken looked at him. "What makes you think you can do that?"

"Man, I am like the love doctor with these things." The Ambipom replied, crossing his tail arms.

"Fine, but I'm helping because these love birds deserve each other. I'm already shipping it." He said.

"The ships setting sail!" Furu yelled, making boat noises. The other pokemon gave them confused glances, but ignored it, not understanding what the two were on about.

"Anywho." Slash responded. "I'll show you two where we sleep, if you'll follow me."

"Wait, can you have Piper take Jane to the den….I need to ask you something."

Slash nodded to his daughter. Jane gave Ryan an equally confused look, but nonetheless hopped alongside Piper to the den, Ryan and Slash following as to avoid setting the devices off.

"Well….what do you need?" Slash asked, curious.

Ryan took a breath. "I need you to train me, I'm horribly weak." He said rather bluntly.

Slash raised a brow. "Kinda harsh thing to say about yourself." He responded.

Ryan shrugged. "It's the truth. Next to you and Jane, I don't want to be useless on this quest."

"Didn't your human train you well enough?" Slash asked.

Ryan felt miffed by the comment. "Gena did nothing wrong training me at all." He responded angrily.

"Relax, man. I meant nothing malicious by it." He told him, the Pikachu calming down. "I'll train you."

"You will?"

Slash nodded. "Of course. I'm sure I can get you a bit stronger than what you are now. We just need to find out how far those things go." He responded.

Ryan nodded. "I think he said like thirty feet." Slash nodded and backtracked a few steps before making a mark.

"Alright, then. As long as you don't go past around here, you should be fine." He informed the shiny Pikachu. "Furu, can you get some berries and water?"

The Ambipom saluted. "Yes sir!" He said before running of in sort of a goofy motion.

Slash then motioned Norton over. "I'm gonna have you help us."

Stars shone in Norton's eyes. "L-like a teacher?" He asked.

"Really?" Ryan asked.

Slash nodded. "Yeah, Norton's a bit stronger than you, so in between sessions I'll have you battle it out. If anything, the experience will be great."

Ryan nodded and got into a battle stance. "Right!" A smile crept on his face.

Slash caught the smile, one of his own creeping up. "Then let's begin!"

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Phew, a couple of months TO THE DAY!

Furu and Norton: WOOOOOOOOOOO

Thanks for the read ya guys, if ya liked it leave a review or favorite. If not, criticize me if you must, I've got hoses for any flamers. XD

Stupidity aside, it's time to introduce a new segment I will be introducing to my stories, is a fun fact thingy. Basically, I'll give little things about my stories, like inspirations, things I originally was gonna do, and character depths. You know the such. :D

FUN FACT OF THE DAY: As I pointed of, I'm changing my story's synopsis, because if you see before I change it, it is in no way relevant to my story. The thing is Jane was originally supposed to be a trainer's partner…..Pedro's. *shocked gasps, quiet murmurs*

Yes, our lovable "Pink Psychopath", was going to be the partner of Pedro, a boy living in Eterna Forest on an undercover mission to find who sent the mean pokemon.

Furu gasps: Like a spy!

Exactly! The plan was to have Jane and Ryan get separated from Gena and Pedro in a Team Blood attack….however there were some issues with my approach.

I didn't like Pedro's "wildman" character, it was too sloppy and such. I also couldn't really give Gena a lot of depth as a struggling trainer. However, with the approach of Pedro is a sophisticated, arrogant prick, I was able to work in Gena's depth, as well as give Pedro more character as opposed to having a talking version of the brother from the wild Thornberry's show. XD

It also would have meant turning our Pink Psycopath into a Pink Scaredycat! So in the end, no regrets!

Thanks for reading everyone, I'm going to try hard to update this every Monday and Buneary's Quest for Love every Wednesday, so until then I shall see you all later!