"Yulie!"

"I'm ok!" Yulie looked up at the hole she had fallen through. A head was looking down at her.

"You want me to get you back up?"

"No." Yulie stood up and rubbed her back. She had dropped her flashlight, and now was standing in darkness. She plucked a pokeball from her belt.

"Cho!"

A raichu appeared in front of her, at least she hope.

"Cho, use flash."

"Rai! Rai!"

Sparks emitted from her cheeks, a weaken flash attack, just enough to allow light. She looked around and saw Micah being lowered down via vine whip.

Micah had dark bronze colored skin, short raven black hair. He had a large build, and was about a half a head taller than Yulie. His eye were slanted, and were so black, they sometimes flashed blue.

Micah looked up and held out a pokeball.

"Return Bayleaf!" He said.

"Bay!"

Raichu walked farther down the chamber.

"What level of the cave are we on?" Yulie asked looking in the room she had landed in.

"I think you just discover a new room in the Granite Cave." Micah said looking at a map with his flashlight.

Yulie did a little dance.

"Oh yeah, go me. And how many times has the resident of Dewford discover a room?" She said smiling at Micah.

"Shut up, you fell into a bubble of air in the middle of granite stone."

"Rai! Rai!"

Yulie look over to raichu. The room was pretty big, so she had to half jog over to raichu. The closer she got to her, the splashier her steps became.

"I think we are at a very low level of the cave." Micah said as he followed.

The water got to her ankles when she stopped. She looked at raichu half submerge in water, she was now using flash at a very low level as to not electrify the water. Beyond her the granite rock turned blue in several spots. Yulie waded through the water which now reached her knees. She got over to raichu and almost laughed. She turned over to Micah who had followed. This was one of the time his eyes turned navy blue.

"A bubble of air huh?" She shifted her feet a little, "I think the water got through my boots."

"Told you that the black ones sucked." Micah went through his bag and grabbed another pokeball. He held it in his hands.

"And maybe you accidentally came across a gold mine." He said bouncing the ball back and forth between his hands. It was a shade a of dark green, the part where it opened was brown and the bottom, white.

"Thank you." Yulie said placing her hands on her hips. "And we are not selling all of them."

"Fine, fine. Treeko, come out."

Treeko appeared in front of them, and was startled by the depth of the water.

"Treeko, use bullet seed."

Treeko began to shoot at the wall of rock. Some blue stones fell with little plops in the water. Raichu shifted nervously, she wanted to go get them, but didn't want to shock anyone.

Micah waved his flashlight around.

"Cho, you can go get them. We have enough light."

Cho smiled and dove into the water. Yulie took out a small black pouch. Cho remerged with a few stones and placed them in the pouch.

"Keep going treeko, just a few more." Micah told treeko. Cho dove under water again, and Yulie tried to help as well.

The last of the blue stones fell with a light splash. Yulie picked it up.

"That's the last of them." She said examining the wall. She turned around and kiss treeko lightly on the nose. "Great job."

"Tree-ko." He said blushing a bit.

"Yeah nice job, return." Micah said, making him disappear in a flash of red light. He walked over to Yulie who was still holding the stone. He looked in the bag, and whistled.

"That's a pretty nice haul. 60-40?"

"Haha, 50-50 like always." She said holding up the stone to her face.

"That's the runt, I guess you would call it." Micah said, counting the stones in the bag.

"I like it, it's the right size." Yulie bent down to raichu, "What you think?"

Raichu sniffed it, then gave an approving nodded.

"Chu!"

"Then I'm keeping this one." Yulie said, slipping it into her jacket pocket.

"Project Stone?" Micah asked

"Yep." Yulie said returning Raichu to her pokeball.

"Will I ever know what "Project Stone" is?" He said, starting wading back out of the water.

"Someday- shit!" Micah heard a splash behind him, he closed his eyes and turned around. Yulie was lifting herself out of the foot deep water. Micah walked over and helped her up.

"You didn't drop any of the stones did you?"

"Oh, no. Don't worry 'bout me, I'm fine." Yulie said sarcastically, wringing her hair. She had been wearing rubber black boots, her bermuda length shorts were soaked an even darker blue than they were, her matching navy blue jean jacket, and red tank top were soaked.

"I kid, you know me." He bent down, "Found your flashlight."

"Thanks," Yulie said taking it back. "Wait, this isn't mine…" Her flashlight was a yellow. This one was a silver and black.

"No, I believe that is mine." A cool female voice spoke.

Micah and Yulie snapped there heads toward the entrance.

"So you followed me all the way from Sinnoh?" Yulie said smirking.

"Yulie…" Micah said giving her a sideways glance.

"Only because you have something of mine. Actually a few things of mine."

"Were they really yours?" She asked innocently.

Micah reached into a side pocket of his backpack with one hand and moved the flashlight with the other. A woman holding a yellow flashlight appeared in the ray of light. She had waist length blue hair, her eyes were a lime green. She was wearing a gray dress, the straps hung off her shoulders, giving it an elegant look. Underneath it she was wearing a tight back turtle neck, long sleeve. The dress that barely covered her crotch, black panty hoes emerged and covered her entire leg. She had sleek gray boots that reached all the way to her knee. Around her left leg there were three silver bands around her thigh. They were an opaque silver color, and there reason for being were unknown.

"Team Galactic does not like being stolen from."

Yulie took on a mocking baby voice.

"Team Galactic can't handle a little ity bity fifteen year old?"

"I will say this once, where is she?"

"Who?" Yulie asked.

"I do not like playing games."

Yulie frowned.

"Really, cause I love playing games."

"I shall give you one more chance. Return Fire19 and the plans you stole."

"Vulpix is not an experiment, and no, I think I'll keep everything." Yulie said, dropping the mock in her voice. Micah enlarged a pokeball behind his back.

"Then I shall take her by force." She took out a black and silver pokeball.

"Bronzong!"

"Bring it." Yulie said enlarging two pokeballs. "Are you really that eager to see Charm and Cody again?"

"Two against one, that's not fair."

"When have you ever played fair Neptune?"

Neptune laughed softly,

"Yulie, you would make an excellent agent, return Fire 19 and I assure you, I will recommend you to the boss."

Yulie smiled and minimized her pokeballs.

"Even if I wanted to I couldn't, vulpix isn't with me." She unclipped her belt and held it up. All the pokeballs were her custom design. Black on top, white on bottom and red where the part was. "And never would I join Team Galactic."

"Where is Fire 19!?" Neptune screeched.

"Gave her away." Yulie said clicking her belt on.

"Fuck you." She whisper. "Bronzong attack!"

"Alakazam, teleport!" Micah shouted.

They disappeared, leaving Neptune alone in the cave. They reappeared in front of the Dewford Pokemon Center. Micah turned to her and looked at her seriously.

"You pissed some people off?"

Yulie smiled.

"Maybe some." Yulie said sincerely

"You gonna go missing for a while?"

"Not missing, just gonna have to keep moving." She sighed. "Guess I'm not going to Sinnoh."

"How do you get into so much trouble?"

"Hey, trouble finds me."

"Your moms going to be worried."

"I won't tell her. I'll tell her I want to wait for Briana to finish the Grand Festival. "

" And I guess I'm coming with you"

"I'll call you too- What?"

"You are going to get serious trouble one of these days." He muttered walking toward his neighborhood.

"I think those days are here." Yulie said chasing after him. "You don't have to come with me."

"Yes, I do." He returned Alakazam to his pokeball.

"You didn't do anything to them."

"Actually, I just helped the 'thief' they're after, get away. What did you take?" Yulie smiled and took the small stone out of her pocket.

"Project Stone?"

"Project Stone."

Micah shook his head.

"How do you manage to get in so much trouble?"

About an fifteen minutes later Micah was packed and ready.

"What pokemon you brining?"

"Blastoise, bayleaf, treeko, mantine, noespass, and the new one."

Yulie smiled.

"Ok, let me go switch off pokemon."

"Your getting the newbie pokemon aren't you?" Micah said looking over her shoulder.

"Yeah, your pokemon are strong. And I'm keeping Charm, Cho and Eevee so we should be ok."

Micah shook his head.

"Got'em, Flames, Bubbles, Bonzi, Cho, Charm and Eevee." Yulie said clipping her belt to her waist. "Could I get a ride on your mantine?"

"Yeah, It's not like your gonna swim all the way to Petalburg City,"

"Not the city, just the beach. I'm gonna check up on Chelsea, she should be heading to Rustboro City."

Micah's eyes widened.

"You didn't…"

"What?"

"Did you give me a stolen pokemon too then?"

Yulie walked out of the house, Micah followed.

"And what about Briana, is she carrying a stolen pokemon too?" Micah shouted as he followed Yulie. Yulie stopped and turned around.

"Look, I would have returned them to there original owners. But I think they were hatched from eggs under Galactic's supervision. They were using them as experiments Micah!" Yulie began walking toward the beach again. "They aren't that mad that I took gibble and buneary. They want Fire 19. One of the main six they need." Yulie stopped when the beach was in view. "I couldn't save the others. Do you wanna know why her name was Fire 19?" Yulie said, trying to control her voice.

Micah heard the lump in her throat.

"Why?" He asked not sure he wanted to know.

"Out of twenty eggs, she was one of five that hatched." Yulie began tearing up. "And out of those five they picked the three strongest. They killed the weaker babies. They were going to kill gibble and buneary just because they were weaker."

Yulie fell to her knees and began sobbing.

"Vulpix was strong, she is one of the ones they need."

Micah came up to her and hugged her.

"Am I a bad person? I stole, battled unfairly…" The rest was lost in tears.

"You're a good person, your just forced to do 'bad' things."

Yulie stood up and wiped her tears.

"Weak…" She whispered.

"Tears are not a sign of weakness!" Micah shouted at her. "You love pokemon! And you feel their pain, and that's what makes you a good person." He hugged her. "That's what makes you a great person." He whispered. Yulie smiled.

"Thanks."

Micah let go of her and smirked.

"Well come on, we gotta go catch up to Chelsea." He opened his bag and took out a pair of black commando boots.

"Oh, Micah?"

"You are horrible when it come to shoes, so I took the liberty of buying you some everything proof boots."

Yulie hugged him again.

"Oh, Thank You!" She took the boots and stared at them. They had silver buckles, black laces, they were really top of the line stuff.

"How much did they cost?" Yulie ask breathlessly.

"Just put them on." Micah said retrieving two pokeballs.

Yulie took off her the crappy boots, that didn't look like they would last much longer anyway. When she had finally got them on, Micah was already in waist deep water. In front of him was a Blastoise and a mantine. Yulie waded over to him and got on top of the nice big healthy mantine. Blatoise floated on his stomach as Micah positioned himself on Blastoise shell. They both looked toward the sea. Micah smiled.

"It's gonna be a long ride."

"Then I think it's time you found out what Project Stone is."