Heh… Guess it's time for another chappie huh? Well on with the story, please R&R!

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'Run. Just keep running and you'll be fine, they can't match your speed, and they can't see well with no moon out. You're almost out of sight.' Touko reassured herself as she turned to look behind her, the lights of the Plasma grunts flashlights were only barely visible, and their voices sounded more like muffled cries than words. She shifted her attention to the sack that held a couple of files and a flash drive she had downloaded some data into from the tents laptops. She was sure what she grabbed might have been nothing too important but anything on these guys was better than nothing. The only reason she did not go for the Dragon there and now was because that was Lenora's and Burgh's need, Touko wanted to help them but she realized it was their fate to do not hers.

Finally, when she realized she was out of danger, she retracted her powers from around her and her black clothing dispersed, leaving behind her usual drapes. She jumped from branch to branch, keeping to the highest parts of the tress canopy without exposing herself to the open air above the tree line. She knew she needed to get back to camp before either of her gym leader companions woke up and realized she was nowhere near, that would be difficult to make an excuse for. Lying… she hated the very thought of it, the act and the guilt that came with it always made her sick, sometimes she really wanted to either run away from it all or just out with the truth to all she knew.

Later at dawn

"What do you mean they got into the information tent?" Lucian asked with quite the shocked look on his face as he heard the news he questioned, Simon and Kurai were behind him with similar looks. A grunt nodded in regret but then he added some additional news that was known to be brighter with relief shown in his eyes.

"But the culprit only took some rather old data. Whatever reason's she was here for, she obviously did not know what she was looking for, but we are still searching through the computer systems to find out what she took, at least once the virus she slipped into the database is taken care of." He finished, but his explanation startled the three of them. Lucian looked at Simon, hinting to go help with the computer systems, and then he and Kurai walked off to their shared quarters.

The two slid inside and the fireworks started. "The Renegade powers we sensed, the attack being on the night of a New moon, and the culprit being a girl?! Lucan, only experienced Renegade's like the four of us know that attacking when there is no moon out at night is the perfect time to do things like last night's events!" Kurai whispered in a worried tone as he walked over to his bed and collapsed on it. He was not taking the news well, the look on his face was not helping Lucian either, but Kurai did have a tendency to overthink things.

"Calm down alright? Once things settle down I will call Touko and find out where she is, depending on her location I can find out if she could have made the distance here from wherever she is." He subtly explained in an attempt to relieve his comrades' agitation, it seemed to work considering Kurai's shoulder's appeared to relax and slump. Lucian took his seat on his own bed across from his friend and he placed a hand on his shoulder, "I'm sure it was not her, maybe it was a young passerby, most of our kind when in their youth are doing that nowadays to make a quick buck for their survival." He reassured even more.

"You're so adamant; how you always manage to keep it up?" Kurai questioned as he leaned up and placed his elbows on his knees.

"Call it a survival technique for my sanity, how else could I live with you and Simon for so long?" He nudged his teammates shoulder in an attempt to soften the mood, it worked considering the goofy smile that started to pull across Kurai's face. However, all that ceased when the Sage in charge of the project walked in; Sage Rood. They stood in attention and replaced their cheery faces for monotone expression's that held not even the smallest micro-expression.

"Ghetsis is demanding your presence," He said as the two of them both began to step forward but Rood stopped them with a lift of his hand that made contact with Kurai's chest. "YOUR presence, Shadow Triad leader Lucian." He spoke in almost a regretful whisper before turning away and exiting without another word. Lucian turned to Kurai who was giving him a tensed look, something not-so-good was on their- Lucian's doorstep.

The hours passed, Kurai and Simon waited impatiently for the return of their leader but nothing in the slightest signaled his return. In the time they were waiting Kurai had taken it upon himself to bring out his weapon, the Aquatic Spear as it is called, and start polishing it. Simon just watched him irritably as he took out different polishes and oils and applied them up and down the stick with a pocket knife blade stuck on the end of it; Simon wondered how something like THAT was a weapon. His Infernos Whip however, now that was a weapon to behold on the field, but not the seven foot long twig in front of him.

His irritability grew with each moment of Kurai treating the coat rack pole as if it were a baby and when Kurai started to hum a melody he just snapped. "What the hell do you think you're doing?! The hell do you think comes out of it if you treat that damned pole as a child?!" Simon hollered as he shot up from his seat on his bed and fumed with a disgusted look on his face. He did not know though what happened next, except him flying out of the tent and skidding hard onto his back into the moist dirt outside.

Simon only laid there in complete and utter bafflement as Kurai emerged from behind the tent flaps and gave him the most terrifying stink eye he had ever seen, the Spear still in Kurai's hand and appearing to be ready to be shoved up Simon's-

"What the hell is going on here?!" Came Lucian's voice from a distance, he was already by Simon's side and lifted him to his feet. "Why were you on the ground? And YOU," he pointed to the irritated Kurai, "Put THAT away before someone sees it, and before you hurt Simon any more than you have." He commanded as he sped walked into the tent, the other two following, but Simon stopped Kurai just before they entered.

"Why did you fling me?!" He whispered loudly as his chest heaved in anger. Kurai had still yet to put away the weapon and so used it for effect to show his seriousness.

"You should know better than to stop me when I'm doing something out of anxiety. If you would learn to control that temper of yours and make it so every little thing someone does doesn't annoy you, we could get along better. Now I believe little Simon has learned not to mess with Kurai when he's anxious, Capiche?" He threatened while holding the blade of his weapon to the base of Simon's neck, only to lower it and unsummon it.

"Didn't I tell you two to bring your asses inside!" Lucian yelled and they followed suite. They took their seats on their respective beds and watched as their leader sat cross-legged in the middle of his bed waiting for them. Once they were situated Lucian began his report to them. "Haa… Ghetsis is not pleased in the least about last night, but that's able to be read on his face anyway. The real news is… he wants us to find out who the culprit is and bring them to him personally should we succeed…"

"But what if…" Kurai began.

"I called her once I left the room, but it was out in the open so I couldn't use the visual settings." Lucian explained.

"So then…?" Simon asked impatiently.

"She told me she was training in the fields outside of Nacrene before the entrance of the forest, too far for even us to attempt to make it from start to finish in one night." He stated, relieving his teammates of any more suspense. Kurai and Simon simultaneously sighed and fell onto their beds, and their arms and torso's leaning over the sides. Lucian merely had a 'oh-good-Arceus-these-two- and-their-drama' look on his face with a stressed smile.

Hours later outside the camp~

Rood stood in the middle of an open area under the thick canopy of the tree's; several grunts surrounded him to protect him from any danger should it come, and a cart with the large Dragon Skull was right beside him. He listened to the sounds of footsteps ebbing slowly towards him and the knights; soon a woman of dark skin and a man with an exotic display of reds and greens on his outfit came from the thicket. "I trust you made it here quite alright?" Rood asked rhetorically considering neither of the two had any real marks on them.

"Just fine. Now the Dragon Skull if you please or must we take it by force?" Burgh questioned as a pokémon that looked like a praying mantis hopped to his side from somewhere in the forest; a Leavanny.

"No no, such effort is unnecessary, we have unfortunately not received anything of value from this cranium. It is yours to take back." He stated as a one of the grunt's by his side took the skull off the cart and walked halfway across the grass patch to set it down, Burgh walked up once the grunt was gone with Leavanny by his side for his own protection, and then he picked up off the grass and walked back to Lenora's side. Without another word, but some unsteady looks from both parties, each side abandoned the grassy area.

"How did it go?" Touko asked Lenora and Burgh as she tightened the binds on a sleeping bag, the last piece of equipment she packed and loaded while they were just returning. The two of them looked around and saw that nothing was out of place, their bags were by a stump already prepped for the go, and anything else such as their tents and cooking utensils were as well already put up. They merely stood stunned by how fast she had packed everything; the two of them were only gone for maybe an hour, not nearly enough time for even one of them to pack up a camp for three plus pokémon.

"Guys?" Touko asked as she waved a hand in front of their faces.

"How did you-?" Burgh did not finish because he was still too amazed, but with him holding his finger to the empty space where the camping equipment once was, was all Touko needed to understand his unfinished query.

"I've been camping before with my older brothers and my friends and I would sometimes have sleepovers in our back yards when we were younger." She explained.

"But that doesn't completely explain-" Lenora started.

"Black would always break something off the tents whenever he tried to pack it up, Cheren and Belle would somehow get themselves injured with the tent's structure wires, and so that left me to the packing up. The one who could pack everything up without breaking anything, hurting myself, or taking sooo long in the process." She again told the two adults as she walked over to the stump, sleeping bag in hand, and pulled out her messenger bag from behind the stump and shoved it in. She then grabbed their backs and slung them over her shoulders to walk towards them and hand the bags to their respective owners.

"Was the skull in any bad condition?" She asked, this snapping the two gym leaders out of their trance. Lenora smiled as she pulled from behind her the untampered skull. Touko smiled in relief and soon she and the others were walking through the forest. "How long should we walk before we set up camp again?" Touko questioned.

"Actually we need to head to the nearest clearing in are general location, I managed to get a signal on my X-Transceiver last night and called Hawes, I sent him our location coordinates and he's having a helicopter come to pick us up in about two hours." Lenora stated.

"That should mean we have enough time to get to the clearing and wait?" Burgh asked and Lenora nodded her head to confirm. The time passed quite swimmingly as they amused themselves with games like 'I Spy with my Nincada Eyes' or 'Guess Hoot-Hoot' to pass the time. Burgh picked out the oddest things in the forest for the spying game and Lenora came up with the most factual and academic things to think about for questions, but either way Touko had fun. Finally there was a break in the forest and light fluttered in through the branches more for every moment the three of them walked to closer to the opening in the forest.

Being inside the woods where very little sunlight penetrated through the thicket, Touko did what any other over-dramatic teenager would do, ran out farther into the field a couple of yards ahead, stretched out her arms and called out to the open sky, "OH, GLORIOUS SUNLIGHT!" Then she plopped into the grass on her back and began basking in the sunlight like a photosynthesizing plant. Burgh and Lenora simply chuckled at the hilarious acts of the brunette as they walked over to her, Burgh taking it upon himself to lie beside her.

"Can't you just feel the warming embrace of nature all around you?" He asked starting to sound drowsy. Touko merely answered with a mumble. She realized after some silence that she still had the files from Team Plasma's camp shoved away in a zipped up pocket in her bottomless pink messenger bag and she had not yet hacked into the National Unova Police Database. That was one of the main reasons she went to Nacrene! Suddenly a humming sound was heard in the distance, 'That must be our pick up…' With that Touko rose from her comfortable position and stared at the mechanized bird in the distance.

As it grew closer she thought she could hear something, several something's actually. "Touko!" Cried the voices of… Cheren, Black, and Belle from the chopper, what a reunion, those crazy teens. As Touko smiled and waved a hand patted her shoulder, Burgh… "Well, well Touko. You're quite the remarkable trainer, same goes for your friends, and it makes me wonder how all your challenges against me at my gym will commence." He chuckled with leisure as he removed his hand from her shoulder and strode alongside Lenora to the landing helicopter.

I have no idea what happened to the last paragraph if it looks weird. It looked weird on the file. Anyway, I'M SO SORRY FOR THE LATE WAIT! (Hey that rhymed!) And more bad news, I'll be taking a break from writing Brotherhood for a bit to work on one of latest works for a Manhwa called Noblesse. Please forgive me, I know it sounds a bit unfair but I'm so confused with two fanfics right now, please regard me with kindness. Any review please, and if have any questions (NO COMPLAINTS/ FLAMES PLEASE!) PM me about it. Well bye-bye, I hope you enjoyed!