Okay, here we are. This is one month after the previous chapter took place, Leaf broke off from the Eradicators, and took everyone else with her. Now they are fighting a war against Spiritomb. Enjoy.

"We were attacked, I was the only one who survived. Spiritomb now controls the Scyther's forest."

I ground my teeth, and said, "Thank you, that will do, I suggest you go see a medic immediately." As the ragged Gardevoir left my office, I looked down at the various reports, and picked up the one I had been reading before the scout came up.

Supplies running low on Piloswine's Peak, request more berries. Reinforcements also needed, 15 died and 10 wounded from the last battle. Another medic needed, first one running himself ragged.

I ground my teeth again, the last report said the same thing, and the one after that, and so on. No matter how hard we tried, we just couldn't match up with Spiritomb's forces. A voice buzzed through the intercom, breaking my train of thought, "Leaf, Tails is here to see you."

"Send him up."

The door opened, and in stepped a Ninetales, I briefly looked up at him, "Yes?"

He grinned, "Hello? It's me, Tails."

"Oh, yes," I said, still distracted by the reports, and not really hearing the Ninetales, I pressed the intercom button and said, "Did you send up Tails yet?"

"He should be in there already."

"No, the only one in here is a Nine..." The rest of my statement faded, and I looked up at the Ninetales, who was sitting on the floor with a huge grin plastered across his face.

"Tails?" I leaped out of my chair and walked over to him, and he knelt down to look in my eyes. "When did you evolve?"

"Halfway through the mission," he said, "You sent me to recover some Water stones, right? Well, it turns out that our scouts got that wrong, that base was chock full of Fire stones."

I ruffled his hair, and said, "Mission accomplished, nice job. What do you have planned for the rest of the day? I thought I'd take the day off and have dinner with some old friends."

Tails shuffled his paws, his grin getting wider, and said, "Sorry, I have some other arrangements."

Adopting a look of shock, I said, "No. Way. You have a date? It's the end of the world as we know it!"

He punched me playfully in the arm, blushing slightly, "Shut up. How could someone with my," he swept his hair backward, "Natural good looks," I raised an eyebrow, "not get a date when now I have evolved? They were practically lining up outside my door!"

"Uh huh. Now, who is the, uh... 'Lucky girl'?"

"A Ninetales named Blaze." he said, and winked, "And she is hotter than her name."

I shook my head, "Poor, poor Blaze."

Flame

"Achoo!" I sniffed and rubbed my nose. The harsh weather of Piloswine's Peak was definitely not for me. Through my numbness, I noticed the smell of burning fur, and looked down. My sneeze had ignited my leg, and the orange fur was burning away. I quickly put it out, and stood up, hoping to get the feeling back into my limbs with a little walk. I was at the mouth of the cave when I heard the shout.

"The supply trains are here!"

I called back into the cave, "Cinder, get up!" and I ran down the hill, not waiting for him. I followed the stream of Pokemon, and eventually came to a Machamp team carrying huge boxes of supplies. One of them smiled at me and held out his closed hand, "From Leaf." He opened his hand, and there in the middle of his huge palm was a Fire stone. My breath caught, and I tentatively reached out for the stone. A bolt of electricity slammed into the Machamp, and he flew sideways, the precious stone flying out of his hand. "Attack!" I yelled, jumping back to avoid another bolt, which singed the snow inches in front of me. I searched the sea of white for the Fire stone, but found nothing, and eventually was stopped by a blast of water that narrowly missed me.

"Shit!" I turned away from the Machamp's body, rushed up the hill, and ran into the maelstrom of battle that awaited me. I blasted a Golem off of an Ampharos, and ran over to him. "You okay?"

He got up, wincing, and said, "I've had worse." He stiffened, and fired off a Signal Beam above my head, frying the charging Golem behind me. "Thanks, Spark." I said, "I guess we're even."

He grinned, "Not for long!" and jumped away, I turned, and ran forward, leaping onto the back of a Frosslass. She snarled, and dealt me a few punches, but I held on, and I imbued my paws with fire, burning her back. Yelling, she bucked, and finally managed to throw me off. I landed hard, and three icicles followed me. I rolled, but one impaled me in the shoulder, and I was unable to stop my rotation. The ground drove the Ice deeper into my arm, and I could feel it scraping against bone. I collapsed, gasping. The Frosslass floated up to me, sneering, and readied another group of icicles.

"Hey, Flame!" I turned to see Stripe, our Kecleon spy, running toward me, and holding something red and shiny. The stone! With a mighty hurl, he threw it across the battlefield. With a massive effort, I rose and leaped for it, but I forgot about the icicle. My arm broke. I squeezed my eyes shut from the pain, and opened my mouth to cry out, but something flew into it. Energy surged through me, white hot and blazing. I fell to the ground, but I didn't collapse, I didn't feel a thing. I looked at myself, and a big smile spread across my face. I had evolved. I turned back to the stunned looking Frosslass, "Get ready, here I come." I ran forward, ramming into her and continuing forward, through several others, and ended at the end of the clearing, four Pokemon had been taken out at once. Let's see how this works. I summoned up the fire in my stomach, and it was added to by the Fire stone's energy.

I let loose, and fire spread everywhere, bending around my teammates, and burning up everyone else. I stood in the center of the carnage, looking around at my stunned friends. "Just be glad I'm here, or we would have lost." I walked around the bodies, slapping Spark in the back, "You owe me one again."

Tails

I picked up a berry, and ate it slowly, first the skin, then the inside, then nibbled around the pit. I glanced over at Blaze, and our eyes met. She blushed slightly, but held my gaze, and I took that opportunity to sneak a berry from her plate. "Hey!" she said, grinning, and slapped my paw, but I popped it into my mouth before she could take it. "And my last one too! Come on." I dropped some Poke onto the table and followed her out of the restaurant. As we walked, I looked over at her, and she at me. She smiled, and I reached over with one of my tails and put it around her shoulders. We walked up to her house, and when we reached the top step, I turned to her, and said, "Tonight was great, I hope we can do that again."

"Yeah," she replied, and shuffled her paws. When she looked up at me again, I could see what she was going to do, and I did the same. We both leaned forward, and our lips met. Our tails reached out toward each other and tied together. This was the most amazing sensation in the world, the feel of Blaze's lips on mine, one paw on her back, the other running through her hair. Finally, we parted, and she said, "Good night, Tails." She blushed again, leaned forward and whispered in my ear, "I love you." Slowly, she walked into her house and closed the door. I took one last look at her house, and set off down the street, pure happiness welling up inside me. Finally, things are looking up!

I woke to the sound of sirens. I rushed to the window, and saw flames, an endless mass of flames. The city was under attack. I threw open the window and jumped out, breaking into a run the moment I hit the ground. I followed the trail of smoke to the city square, and saw dozens of fire types burning everything around them. I ducked behind a building, and inspected the attackers. Here's where my training would come in handy.

Leaf

I ran around the corner, and saw them, around two dozen Houndooms spitting fireballs at the surrounding buildings. As I was about to give the command to attack, Tails jumped out from behind a wall and yelled, "Hey, you bastards! Stop burning the city!" When they all had turned to him, and to my great surprise, he shot a simple Ember at them, and it missed. I watched, dumbstruck, as the Houndoom in front sneered, and leaped forward. Three things happened at once. The other Houndooms suddenly started fighting amongst themselves, the one who had leaped fell right into a circle of previously invisible Will-O-Wisps, and burned to a crisp, and the fountain in the middle of the square that had been hit by Tails' ember exploded. Water splashed everywhere, breaking around the Protect shield Tails had put up around himself. I stared at him, He took out two dozen soldiers by himself. If only we could have one Eradicator at each location, then we could at least hold our ground. I thought back to the most recent report I had received, how Flame had swallowed a Fire stone and was now extraordinarily powerful. Suddenly, the answer clicked into place. The answer to our forces problem, this is how we would defeat Spiritomb! I flipped open my radio and called Sunny.

"Yeah, Leaf?"

"I want you to take every Arceus-damn radar we have and look around for stones. bring whoever you need, this mission takes top priority. Hurry, your speed could determine if we win or lose this war!"

"I'm on my way."

I turned off the radio and looked at Tails, I had a big question to ask him. I walked up to him and congratulated him on his victory, then said, "Sorry, I know this is a bit abrupt, but I have a mission for you."

"Sure, what?"

"I want you to find Flare's body."

Well, well, well, another cliffhanger. Sorry, guys, I know I'm really late. I'm moving my posting date to Sunday, I just need more time. So, yeah.

Issac: Hi!

Yeah, he can sort-of talk now.

Issac: Pickle!

Uh... okay...