Yay, another update! I can promise that you'll see familiar faces in this chapter (well duh, my own characters!), one you may recognize if you've read either Anomaly or Tales of Flame (respectively by Dark Magician Girl Aeris and Buwaro). I won't say where in either one because that would give everything away, but I can't really say it's all that hard to figure out. You'll know who by the end of the chapter, but in case you don't I'll state who. But, because of a review suggestion, I'm putting up exactly who has what POV (Point of View) at the time and when it switches! Unfortunately, this chapter is written entirely in Jack's POV so you only get to see things from his view. But, more on everyone else will come again soon, so on with the chapter!

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Jack's POV

The sun broke out again as I let out a loud yawn, right before I registered that everyone else was still asleep. After the Sharpedo attacked we actually ended up having a day of rest; just smooth sailing straight towards what the humans said was 'Dewford Island.' Honestly... this was just driving me insane; I hadn't had any Oran Berries for days! At his point I was just hoping that island had some...

It was still kind of dark when we stopped in the town; shadows were coming from the cave at the north of the island after all, the sun hadn't quite risen over it yet. Quietly Idiot, Greg, Mudkip, Ralts and I got off of the boat before nodding towards the older human and Peecko; they were going to stay on the main part of the island while we snuck into the base and did our dirty work, but the boat would stay ready to sail so that we could get out of there very quickly if we had to.

"All right... it might be best if you go back into your pokéball for now, Mudkip. Return," I saw Greg suck Mudkip into the orb using that red laser thingy, right before Idiot crouched down in front of Ralts and I. What the heck was he doing?

"Ralts, Jack... it might be best if you two go into the pokéballs as well, we're trying to sneak into the base and with less people it'd be easier-"

"Alexa needs us, we're coming with you! You can't make us not come!" I stared at Ralts as he began protesting about going back into the pokéball; I myself shook my head, but in all honesty I just wanted to make sure that I didn't have to take orders from Idiot at any point in this rescue mission.

He sighed at both of us before shaking his head, "Looks like Ralts and Jack are staying out with us, Greg. Let's scout the area then..."

We became a silent group again while reaching the north of the island; the entrance to the base was blocked off by a metal door, it seemed like whoever wanted to get in had to use one of those password things Trunk had always used to log onto his... what was it? Oh yeah, computer.

While the humans looked at each other and began to whisper, I noticed that there was something in the rock to the left of us; there was a little vent thing, I felt some air coming out of it. Something else I noticed was that both Ralts and I were small enough to fit though it. There was only one conclusion I could draw from it; without the password thing, this was our only way in, "Oiy, Ralts! Come and take a look at this!"

Ralts turned to me before floating over, right before his head tilted to me and he asked, "What is this?"

"It's our way in. The humans won't be able to fit but we should do just fine..."

Ralts looked at me again before he began to protest, "But, what if we need help? We can't do this on..." He stopped there, causing me to raise an eyebrow at him. What the heck was he thinking about? He was calm one minute, psychotic the next, needing attention the next one... really, it was irritating. Almost as if he had multiple personalities, but I wasn't about to press the matter as the psychic pokémon spoke again, "Let's use this way in, then. This is the fastest way, and hopefully the humans can find somewhere else. But if they can't... we're on our own."

I really had to wonder about what went on in that pokémon's head, but that was a subject to speculate later; now, there were only two things that were important enough to stay on my mind, and those things were finding Alexa and finding myself some Oran Berries. More of that 'wine' stuff would be great too, mind you.

I had to poke at Greg's leg before we got their attention at that point. I pointed at the duct before Greg looked to Idiot and nodded, "I'll send Mudkip down with them. The rest are going to stay with me and you while we try to find another way in, okay Norman?"

"I guess... you guys be careful, okay? We might not be able to help you if you get into a mess," Idiot nodded towards both of us before Mudkip reappeared; then, the two humans went out of sight before we started explaining things to Mudkip (or rather, Ralts did; I was too busy picking something out of my teeth).

"I'm going to levitate us down this hole, Mudkip. Otherwise we'll probably make too much noise and end up exposing ourselves to those humans..."

Mudkip nodded in agreement before Ralts began to work at getting the metal cover off of the vent; while he worked away at this Mudkip came over to me and whispered a question into my ear, "Jack... something seems different about him."

"I know, but honestly I'd rather not ask right now," I shrugged and shook my head before a satisfying clang was heard; Ralts had successfully removed the vent's cover before he nodded to us, "Time to go down a hole into the mine field, then..."

"What's a mine field?"

Right, Ralts wasn't savvy in the human language by then. I sighed and simply responded, "I'll explain when we're not risking our necks to save Alexa, all right? Let's work with what's in front of us first."

"Right," Ralts nodded to me before I noticed a purple bubble forming around Mudkip, Ralts and I; next thing I knew we were being lowered into the open vent rather slowly. It took a couple of minutes before I could see another vent below us; the bubble disappeared the moment we were down before I looked at it. Ralts pretty quiet before he began to work at removing this one too, "I don't hear anything moving around..."

"The humans would have security cameras, they'll know we're in here as soon as we get down there," Mudkip pointed this out in a whisper before Ralts and I both stared at her. I had heard of those things but didn't realize that humans actually used them to spy on people... but, then, it'd be too easy if these humans didn't have anything like that. That was something I kept to myself with an inward sigh as Mudkip spoke again, "We have to move fast; if we find your trainer we're probably going to have to fight our way out though..."

"And here I was hoping for another day off," It seemed that they both got the sarcasm because they didn't say anything afterward. Just as Ralts finished opening the vent though, something caught my eye; a way-too-familiar Houndour had just appeared below, "Ah... I have some business to take care of; you might have to go ahead without me-"

"Don't you dare," I almost shivered at the dangerous tone Ralts had used, right before mentally coming to the conclusion that the pokémon in front of me was definitely psychotic and I was suspicious of him having more than one personality, "We're here to rescue Alexa and then get out. I will blow you to bits if you blotch it up, it's your fault that she got kidnapped in the first place!"

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to say anything in response; Ralts was shoved into me by Mudkip while she fought off the sudden burst of flame that had come up into the duct. Apparently we weren't as quiet as we thought we were. It was something that came to bite us before I heard the damn mutt barking; our cover was blown then and there.

"All right, let's get moving!" Mudkip shouted back to us once the stream of fire was halted, right before she jumped out of the vent. I followed her and landed gracefully on the ground as Ralts floated down behind me; I might not fight often but something in me was preparing me for a scrap, especially with the bloody Houndour. Revenge probably didn't taste as good as Oran Berry 'Wine' but it would still be sweet.

I saw the mutt staring at me for a split second before he shook his head, "You had to come for her... I'm sorry for-"

"We'll see just how sorry you are," Damn, was Ralts ever being creepy. I had the feeling that I was missing something though as Ralts began to furiously try to move the Houndour; unfortunately, his effort was wasted, for some reason he couldn't move it at all. The mutt blinked at this before Ralts found a working alternative; even if this was a human base, the ground was still littered with rather large rocks, and because they were loose Ralts was able to chuck them at the mutt with his psychic powers.

After getting hit by the first few rocks and yelping the mutt dodged the rocks before beginning to run away; that struck me as odd, why wasn't he staying and fighting against us? Unfortunately, the answer to said oddity was coming up; the woman who owned the mutt was coming forward with the other one, followed by a girl dressed entirely in black with that funny red human letter on the front of her shirt. She seemed familiar but with her hat so low on her head I couldn't tell why.

"So, we have mini intruders here? This won't do..." The first woman was shaking her head before she made way for the second one, "But, I recognize you, lizard. You're that Treecko my Houndour trounced at Petalburg Gym," No need to tell me that, "And I'm guessing you and your friends are looking for your trainer, right? I hate to be the one to tell you," Yeah right, I thought venomously before the woman smirked at us, "But to you, she's already dead."

I felt a strange numbness come over me when the woman had said those words, dimly looking towards Mudkip and Ralts, both seeming as shocked as I felt. Dead? No way, the star thing wouldn't have sent us here if she was dead! Why I cared didn't matter at that point, what mattered was what that woman said...

There was no way that Alexa was dead. She was too strong to let those bastards do her in.

"Like hell she's dead! You humans wouldn't be able to do a thing to her!" It seemed like Ralts realized how ridiculous his words sounded when the Houndoom beside the Houndour laughed at us; again, the Houndour's reaction was surprising to me as it was just looking away and looking more guilty by the second, but I didn't care at the time, "You're lying!"

"She isn't actually dead you moron," I blinked as the Houndoom stopped laughing long enough to say that, and then she stopped again to smirk at me, "What Master means is that your precious trainer is with Team Rocket now. She'd kill you without a second thought if we ordered her to."

Ralts was in too much shock to be prepared for what happened next; the Houndoom had tackled him to the ground, causing both Mudkip and I to move. But, just then, the terrifying words that would cause Mudkip and me to stop in midair (quite literally) rang through the corridor, "Dustox, use confusion and stop them."

I couldn't believe it. As Mudkip and I were suspended in midair my full attention was on the grunt behind the woman; said grunt was finally taking off her hat. Bright green hair that had been tucked away in the hat tumbled down as I could finally identify the grunt; Alexa had ordered that Dustox to do that. She really was with Team Rocket...

There was some metal thing around each of her ears though. I couldn't tell what it was, but whatever it was it couldn't be good at all. What was really scary was her eyes though... Her face, her eyes, they held no signs of life. Even her voice was lifeless as she spoke to the woman again (and to me this was actually scary, don't you laugh!), "Kujaku, did I do well?"

"You did superb work, kid," The woman smirked at us before giving a nod, "Now, do the honours. Houndour, listen to the girl's command; Houndoom, hold fire until the girl gives her command."

Both of the mutts nodded (although the Houndour seemed to do so regretfully, just what the hell was wrong with that pokémon?) in response to the woman's words, right before Alexa turned her cold eyes onto me. I still couldn't believe it as I heard what I was almost positive were fatal words.

"Houndour, use flamethrower and eliminate the Treecko."

I winced, feeling the heat coming closer as I braced myself... but, the blow never came. What the...

"Time to crash this party," There was another psychic pokémon around here? It wasn't the star-shaped hallucination or Ralts that much I could tell; this one's voice was different. I blinked and saw this pink cat thing in front of me; Mudkip was seeing it too so either we were both insane or this thing was most definitely real.

"You're the help the star pokémon called for?" I could hear Ralts squeaking as the steam began to clear; it was impossible to see the humans before the steam started to rise up; apparently this cat thing had used water to stop the stream of flame from hitting me.

"Were you expecting the Easter Bunny?"

After all of this was done and over with I'd have to ask him about what the hell an Easter Bunny was.

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There you have it, chapter 11! By the way, if you couldn't already tell the pink cat thing is Mew. That's right; Mew's helping out if you haven't already guessed. And, if you haven't already, go read Tales of Flame and Anomaly already! They are great, and you get to see the chaos that goes on when Mew isn't around. Also, keep tuned into this fic so that you get to see how everything turns out! And, trust me, not EVERYTHING is predictable! It's my job (as well as Buwaro's and Dark Magician Girl Aeris') to keep everything as weird as possible! Until the next chapter, farewell all of you faithful readers!