Obviously, the title of this chapter means something; what does it mean? READ AND FIND OUT!

Disclaimer: All Pokémon featured in this fic belong to Satoshi Taijiri and Game Freak. The main character is still my OC.
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I woke up in an old-fashioned dungeon cell (gee, this sounds familiar). (Just as a little reminder: the bolded parentheses are MY comments; anything else in parentheses is the narrators comments, meaning that this bit of witty narration is Pikachu's, not mine.) I took a few glances, and noticed that each of us were individually locked in different cells; I guess whomever was in charge was paranoid enough to keep us relatively separated.

The others weren't awake yet, but I noticed that one cell held a familiar face.

"Meowth? What are you doing here? I thought I zapped you and your buddies to Kingdom Come." I asked him. Meowth looked at me with such contempt that it both terrified me and made me want to bust out laughing at the same time.

"Well, if you call getting locked up by a traitor to his kind in a dilapidated and," Meowth paused for a moment, taking a brief sniff, and then grimacing. "unsanitary castle dungeon 'getting zapped to Kingdom Come', then yes; you did." It took me a minute to process everything he just said.

"What do you mean 'traitor to his kind'?" I asked.

"That Arceus-forsaken trio's boss you've been searching for isn't entirely who he claims to be," Meowth began. "He's been scouring Johto searching for its Legendary Pokémon. He's already found Entei, Raikou, and Suicune; just recently he mentioned something about two 'Guardians'; and Arceus knows his progress in his search for Celebi."

I understood a good half of Meowth's speech; it consisted of a bunch of names I hadn't even heard uttered: Entei, Raikou, Suicune, Arceus? I felt like I was being left out of something important.

"I'm sorry, could you please slow down and repeat that for a moment?" I asked. Meowth looked at me like I was crazy; immediately after that, he caught on to my confusion.

"I forget; you're not from around here. All of those names I mentioned are extremely important in other regions; the former three in particular, at least in Johto." Meowth explained.

I took everything Meowth just said into consideration, and then started putting the pieces together: traitor, Guardians, capturing legendries, and somehow adding the Ghost Realm (whatever that was) to the equation. That was when it hit me like a tone of bricks. Of course, as soon as I came to my epiphany, a group of Dusklops came and somewhat violently escorted me and my friends out of the dungeon; there, I got a look at what the castle was really like.

When Meowth said that the castle was dilapidated and unsanitary, he wasn't exaggerating; the entire castle looked like nobody had been living here for centuries. The walls were worn, part's of several rooms had caved in, and there were several, decomposed, human corpses all over the place; yes, you heard me, HUMAN corpses.

Eventually, we arrived at the center courtroom (at least, that's what I perceived it as). There, I saw Noctowl and Tyranitar on opposite sides of an ancient throne, with their leader sitting between them.

"Welcome, my young friends," said Dusknoir. "I bet you didn't expect the most obvious suspect to be the actual perpetrator in your little 'investigation'."

"Why did you betray us?" Chikorita asked.

"You don't get it, do you? I didn't betray you; I've been working with Noctowl, Tyranitar, and Ursaring for about a year." said Dusknoir.

I noticed that Togepi was pretty angry at Dusknoir. (I just LOVE how Pikachu's narrative switched from actually decent to third-grade just like *snaps fingers* that.)

"Togepi, I bet you're ticked because Dusknoir double-crossed us, aren't you?" I asked her. (Dude, do you remember everything that just happened in the previous chapter? Specifically what they said about their boss? Apparently not.)

"No, I'm 'ticked' because Dusknoir sent my brother to that Ghost Realm place that Noctowl was talking about." said Togepi.

At that moment, I realized that Dusknoir was indeed up to something dangerous, and that he was probably more dangerous than his henchmen. (NO! Really! I never would've guessed!) If his goal was to become stronger (like Mewtwo's goal was months before), then he could very well be the strongest Pokémon in the world. (Oh Pikachu; if only you knew.)

"Now, what should I do with all of you, now that you know my secret?" Dusknoir asked.

"I suggest we bring out our 'special allies' to take care of them." said Tyranitar.

Before I knew what was happening, Politoed had shot a Hydro Pump at Tyranitar. As the move was super-effective, it sent him (you guessed it) flying into the wall, causing him to break open a giant hole. (I'm sorry, but it's a wonder the whole castle, with the state it's in right now, didn't collapse on top of all of them.) With an escape route open to us, we dashed toward our new exit.

"NO! Noctowl, get them before they escape!" I heard Dusknoir order to his henchman.

We ran for about half an hour, unsuccessful in finding a true exit. Eventually, we got tired, but Cyndaquil almost went into panic mode when he Noctowl pursuing us. We knew that we wouldn't stand a chance against Noctowl in our current state, so we ran until we encountered an old enemy: Ariados.

"We meet again, Croconaw. But this time, it will be you who is sent flying!" said Ariados. (HAHAHAHA! I completely forgot that he referenced how common people around here get "sent flying" in this fic! That's hilarious!)

"I don't have time for this." said Croconaw.

"Too bad. I want a rematch from last time."

"Let me handle this one." Cyndaquil said as he stepped in front of Croconaw; this made Ariados chuckle.

"You really think you can beat me after the last time we met?" Ariados asked him.

"I learn from my mistakes, and I'm sure I can beat you." said Cyndaquil. (Okay, Cyndaquil. You've done nothing but be a whining, jealous sidekick to everyone else (heck, even CHIKORITA has been a greater asset to the team than you have). Here's your chance to redeem yourself. DON'T DISAPPOINT THE OBVIOUS!)

Cyndaquil was right, though. After nearly dying at the hands of Ariados a while back, Cyndaquil had proven to be stronger than anyone of us had expected. I was pretty excited about what he was going to do during his fight with Ariados. Cyndaquil hit Ariados with Tackle about fifty times before hitting him with Flame Wheel. (Okay, I know that I can't really nit-pick about every inconsistency in this series to the games (particularly since there are no humans), but fifty consecutive uses of Tackle? What dark sorcery is this?) Flame Wheel hit Ariados with quite a bit of damage due to the fact that Fire Pokemon have a huge advantage against Bugs like Ariados.

"No fair, I'm fighting someone who's got a type advantage over me!" Ariados complained. (Whining individual who's parents were never married.)

"You've got to remember this stuff, Ariados. You're opponent isn't always going to fight fair." said Croconaw. (Except Cyndaquil is fighting fair (except for the illogical uses of Tackle).)

"Plus, it was your idea to fight our newfound powerhouse." I added. ("Newfound powerhouse" my sweet patootie. (Did I really just say that?))

"Touché." said Ariados.

But unfortunately for Ariados, Cyndaquil's Flame Wheel was only the beginning of his troubles. I noticed that Cyndaquil began to glow, the kind of glow I loved to see when it's happening to one of my friends. Cyndaquil was evolving! (FINA-FREAKING-LY!) Cyndaquil got taller, leaner, and was finally able to open his eyes, eyes that I thought he'd never open. Cyndaquil had become what Croconaw liked to call Quilava!

"No fair." I heard Ariados mutter. (Shut up. Just shut up.)

Quilava ran into Ariados, which lifted him off the ground a little, but it seemed that it was enough for him, because Quilava used a move that Chikorita later explained to me was called Eruption. This caused an explosion that created a massive hole in the castle's roof, and completely fried Ariados.

"Well, I don't think we'll need to worry about him anymore." Chikorita stated rather snidely.

"There they are, don't let them escape!" I heard Noctowl shout. We then found ourselves being (slowly) followed by a small army of Dusklops.

"We should go now." said Heracross.

"No." I said to the others.

"What?" the others asked me.

"I know it sounds like committing suicide, but we all know that this is never going to end until Dusknoir is defeated, once and for all!" I told the others, and they all seemed to agree.
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Am I the only one detected several parallels to "The Wrath of Mewtwo"'s Chapters 10 and 11

* The protagonists wake up in a type of prison

* The main villain is revealed after a certain number of chapters (though this one was a little more subtle, seeing as how the previous villain's name was in the title of his fic)

* When the heroes attempt to escape the main villain's headquarters, (Spoiler Alert) the Fire-Type of the group evolves

* Several walls are destroyed

Oh my Arceus! It's actually a copy-paste rehash! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I apologize for that. Remember to review, and I'll see you guys later.