I have completed another bit to the story! :)

I found this chapter a bit hard to write so...yeah...

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon (if I did own Pokemon...well...I don't know. All I know is that I do not own it)

Previously...

"Hilda!" he shouted back as he kept on running. "Is that you? Please don't tell me it's you!" The boy was deeply wishing that it wasn't his good friend Hilda that was in the center of trouble, despite having the exact same voice. Unfortunately, his wishing didn't come true...

"Hilbert! Help me!" Just as Hilbert feared. One hundred and one percent Hilda.

"D-don't worry, I'm coming to rescue you!" he shouted hesitantly. There was a slight problem. Actually, it was a big problem. How was he going to save Hilda? Well...there was only one thing he could try.

Who was that...? was all Hilbert thought.

From the cover of the bushes, a boy with ebony hair walked out to reveal himself. "Great job Lucario!" he praised to his pokemon. All it did was grin in return.

"Hey, thanks for helping me," said Hilbert kindly.

"Don't mention it!" laughed the ebony haired boy. "You seemed to be in trouble there, so I helped you out."

"My apologies for not telling my name before. I am Jay, nice to meet you. And my partner pokemon over here is Lucario." The boy used his thumb to point at his aura pokemon. It just casted them all a smile.

"Nice to meet you too Jay. I'm Hilbert and this is my Eelektross," he pointed to his elefish pokemon, who weirdly waved back. Pokemon could greet in the form of waving now? That is interesting.

"Nice to meet you Jay. I'm Hilda," she introduced.

"Well it's nice to know your names!" smiled Jay.

Just then, a voice was heard. It appeared as if it was coming from around a few trees away. "Jay!" called out the voice. "Where are you?"

Jay knew that voice anywhere. It was Rose. Probably out to find him and get him back to hospital; it wasn't Jay's time to get out of hospital yet, he still had till tomorrow before he could go. To put it simply, Rose was out to find Jay because he was not where he was supposed to be.

"Oh, look at the time. I gotta fly! I hope I see you guys again," Jay quickly waved in valediction.

"But what for? Why are you leaving in such a hurry?" The question was ignored completely as Jay sped off into the concealing night shadows of the surrounding trees.

And now let the eleventh chapter begin!

"Welcome back to the world championships everyone! I am your host for the Striaton preliminaries, Chili, back to give you more action from the world championships!" The crowd cheered their hearts out. Chili waited for the cheering to die down before he continued. "Today, yes today, we will be holding the semi-finals right here! Our two matches, Team Pokestars vs Team Leader Force, and Team Lunar Victory vs Team Red Explosion. Both the upcoming matches will surely bring excitement amongst us!"

The crowd began cheering once more, louder than the first time.

"So, have you already informed a tournament organizer our team order?" asked Anna as Ash approached their cafeteria table. Even only having known Ash for about a few weeks by now, Anna already knew that he tended to be easily...sidetracked. Well, at least that's what the others told her, other than Iris of course. She insisted that he was a little kid.

"Um...can you repeat the question?"

Anna sighed. "Have you already informed a tournament organizer of our team order?" she asked once again.

"Er...did I?" Ash questioned himself. He thoughtfully placed a finger on his chin and gazed up at the ceiling, trying to remember.

Anna clenched her hands into a fist. Her face went furious red. Everyone knew that this was not something good... "Grrrr! Ash, it's a simple question! It's either a yes or a no! It's that simple!" snapped Anna. Her outburst scared Ash; he jolted back a little.

Iris stepped forward from behind Anna. "Well Anna, he is a kid after all," she remarked. "You can't expect a little kid to do anything."

Anna, heavily breathing in and out, gradually calmed down from her rage. "Well...I guess your right Iris...you can't really expect a little kid to do anything..."

"I remember now!" exclaimed Ash ever so suddenly. It was Anna and Iris' turn to jolt backwards. "I did already inform an organizer of our team order!"

Anna sighed with relief. "You could've just said that before...it's really not that hard."

"Sorry...I kinda forgot until now," spoke Ash as he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"So anyways, if the order you told them was the one we agreed on, Jay should be the first one to battle," mentioned Anna.

Iris began looking around the cafeteria, because she realized Jay wasn't with them now. "Where is Jay anyways?" she inquired.

"I don't know. Haven't seen him on the way here," stated Ash as he shrugged his shoulders.

Anna looked around as well, and ended up failing to find him. Great! Where was he now? His battle was coming up and he still isn't here yet? This shows just how much he cares about the world championships thought Anna.

The PA voice then spoke. "May the first trainers from each team head over to the battle arena now! The battle is starting in two minutes!"

"You've got to be kidding!" said Anna.

"Nah. That's Ash's job." Iris began to laugh, although she immediately stopped when Anna gave her a glare.

"Seriously! We've got to find Jay before the battle commences!" said Anna.

Just then, the cafeteria doors opened. The three of them turned their attentions to the direction. They saw Jay and Cilan enter through, chatting to each other about something they both seemed really interested in. Typical Jay, sidetracked once again.

"Jay!" Anna yelled as she stepped up in front of Jay. "You're almost late!"

Jay raised an eyebrow. "Almost late? For what? Someone's death ceremony? I'm pretty sure my schedule was free today!" Jay spoke as if he actually forgot his upcoming battle, the reason why he wasn't so pumped on battling. Anna knowing Jay, she knew that he probably did forget his upcoming battle.

Anna casted Jay a dangerous glare, as if she was trying to intimidate him. She most likely was trying to though. "Jay. If you don't make your way over to the battle arena now, we're going to be holding a death ceremony for you soon!"

Jay backed away a bit. "Whoa! Calm down Anna!" gestured Jay. "Besides, why do I need to go to the battle arena for? Am I going to be rumbling against someone?" Seriously? He still doesn't remember? How forgetful can Jay possibly get?

"Jay! Your match for the semi-finals is beginning in two minutes! If you don't make your way there now, you're going to be rumbling with me instead!" Anna said firmly, but more calmly then before.

Iris then began laughing out loud. "Yeah. You two will be rumbling in bed!" Once again, she fell dead silent as Anna gave her a glare.

"Some mind you have there..." remarked Cilan.

Anna faced Jay again. "Anyways Jay, you should just go already!" She shouted the last bit in an ordering tone. Immediately, Jay sped off to the direction of the battle arena, disappearing from view within one second flat.

"He sure is speedy..." commented Cilan. "When he wants to be."

"And so, here we are with another match beginning really soon!" announced Chili into his microphone. "Firstly, I would like to say that these teams have been performing outstandingly so far in the preliminaries! So even if one of them loses, we know that the other team did equally as good!"

The crowd began cheering loudly.

Chili continued once they were silent again. "Ah! I can smell it in the air! It's the fiery hot aroma of the semi-finals! I will introduce to you people the ones that are emitting the powerful scent!"

"Cilan. Your brother is talking like some sort of smell-obsessed aroma lady," remarked Anna.

"Eww! Chili smelt Jay..." said Ash. "I hope he doesn't smell me too when I go to battle."

"Ash, you're such a kid." Iris gave him a mocking smile. "He didn't actually smell Jay...he just said that."

"But why? It doesn't even make sense." Ash's facial expressions were all twisted, showing her that he was utterly confused.

Iris felt like facepalming herself very hard and wanted to do it really badly, but resisted the urge to. She knew that even if she explained, Ash still wouldn't get it. He was that stupid.

"Don't worry..." sighed Iris.

"Excuse me guys, but do any of you see where Rose the others are?" asked Anna as she glanced around the cafeteria. "I don't see them anywhere."

Iris just noticed this as well. Max and the other girls weren't sitting with them at the table, which was what they did last time when they watched the tournament together.

"Yeah, where are they?" asked Iris as she raised an eyebrow.

Ash looked at Anna and Cilan, to see if they knew anything. Anna showed just as much cluelessness as he did, but Cilan winked at him.

"Well..." began Cilan. Iris and Anna turned their attentions to him. "You see...the others...they..." He began uneasily fiddling around with his green bow. With Cilan's actions, Iris could already tell some sort of surprising news was to come. What she wasn't expecting though, was something very extreme.

"Well you see...the others..." Cilan sniffled once before burying his face in his hands. Iris knew that this meant bad news. Really bad news. She could already tell.

"Why are you crying for?" Iris asked.

Cilan answered, his voice very wobbly. "The others...they died...they died ok."

Iris felt like she was just punched in the gut. "They...died..." said Iris. The news shocked her completely. More than she ever thought she would be from someone other's deaths. The others died...

"I hoped that I wouldn't have had to say this to you guys, but I was foolish to think so. I'm sorry I haven't told you guys earlier...but I didn't want you guys to be sad." Cilan then covered his face completely by hiding it on the table, continuing to sniffle and sob.

Anna just remained silent, taking in all she just heard. "You've got to be joking..." mumbled Anna as a tear fell from her eye. If she had just heard Cilan right, that means that Rose had died...her best friend dead...she felt as though someone just ripped her heart out from her body.

All the memories of Rose flooded through her mind. How they grew up together as a child, how they were always by each other's sides when needed, how they always stuck up for each other. Many memories of her just zoomed by in her mind.

Weirdly, they heard Cilan's sniffles and sobs immediately halt. He lifted his face from his hands, a wide smile on his face.

Anna was surprised. Why would someone be happy over someone's, actually, a group of people's deaths? She thought. Maybe he was the one that killed them...

"W-why are you smiling like that?" asked Iris slowly.

"You see...the reason I'm smiling...is because I just fooled you girls!" Cilan's smile grew an inch wider. He seemed really proud of his 'convincing' efforts, succeeding in making Anna and Iris believe that the others died.

Anna and Iris, they couldn't believe it. They were just fooled by Cilan, the most mature one out of them all. Not in a million years, would they have seen this cruel trick coming. In fact, they wouldn't have seen it coming in a billion years. And here they thought he was not childish. Seems like they were wrong.

"You guys really fell for my convincing trick recipe! I would've expected the task to bit harder, but it seems as though I overestimated you guys." Cilan dusted both his hands together smugly. "Did you two enjoy that?"

Anna flared up inside. She was angry. Really angry. The flames that were in her insides were burning bright and irate. So hot that even the legendary Kyurem would melt before her. How dare someone pull such a mean trick on me! she thought.

"Damn you Cilan! You totally fooled me! You actually made me think that the others were dead!" yelled Anna. This attracted the attentions of every single stranger currently in the cafeteria. Yeah, things like this always does.

Cilan smirked. "That was the point of the recipe." He proudly adjusted his green bow. "I even gave it so much spice, it made you cry. I never expected such a reaction coming from you."

"Grrr!" Anna hammered the table angrily with her fists. The table vibrated violently, tossing off all the drinks that were on top. Thanks to that, now the floor was full of spilt soft drink and littered with plastic cups.

Cilan attempted to curl himself up on his seat. "Aren't you going to clean that up?" he squeaked as he pointed at the ground.

Anna got up from her seat and placed a palm on her fist. "I'm going to clean it up after I'm done with you! I'm a black belt in karate you know!" She cracked her fingers loudly. All Cilan did was stare and gulp fearfully.

Iris began laughing. "Ha! After she's done with Cilan! I wonder what they're going to do?!" Iris fell backwards from her chair, but instead of moaning in pain, she continued to laugh, ignoring what the wet ground was doing to her clothes.

"Ok..." Ash looked as though he just saw a freak. Wait...he did. Ash averted his attention away from the scene and went back to watching the screen.

"Alright, on the right side of me, we have our first Team Pokestars representative, it's our very own Jay!" announced Chili.

On cue, Jay stepped into the battle arena, waving to the crowd as they cheered. He walked up to his spot on the battlefield and pulled off a confident stance, crossing his arms with a smirk on his face.

"Being a little confident there Jay!" yelled a voice from the crowd. Despite the crowd's cheers mixing in with the voice, Jay recognized it immediately, turning around to see the person. Just as he expected, it was the all-familiar red head. "You can be confident, as long as you're not being overconfident!"

Jay gave a light chuckle before replying back. "Don't worry Misty, I won't be overconfident."

The girl seated beside Misty stood up from her seat, leaned forwards and shouted, "Jay, you are acting a bit overconfident! Just look at the way your standing right now!"

Jay stared down at his crossed arms and then stared at the girl. The ebony haired boy just realized who that was. "Rose? You're watching from there as well?" He raised an eyebrow as he asked the question.

"It's not just her you know," piped up a voice from the other side of Misty.

Jay turned to the person. "Dawn? You too?" His eyes then drifted off to the seat beside her. Another familiar person. "And May?"

"Yeah! We're all here to cheer you on!" the brown haired girl shouted out above the noise.

"Hey! Don't forget about me!" hollered the person on the seat beside May.

"Max? You too? Just how many of you guys are cheering me on from the stands?"

Rose stood up from her seat and counted. "It's just us five."

"Er...you realize that question was kinda rhetorical right?"

"And our other competitor!" Chili's voice silenced the crowd and drew Jay's attention away from his friends and to Chili himself. "Our other competitor," the red haired host repeated. "She is a well known woman from our neighboring town Nacrene City. She's smart, she's talented, and she's also the gym leader of the aforementioned place! Welcome to the semi-finals stage, the normal type warrior herself, Lenora!"

The crowd erupted in roaring cheers, comparable to the deafening sound of an actual erupting volcano.

A woman stepped out onto the field and waved to the crowd as she made her way to her position on the battlefield.

"Lenora! Lenora! Lenora! Lenora!" the whole crowd chanted.

"Jay is facing off against a gym leader! He might not win!" spoke Rose.

"Well Rose, just because he's facing off against a gym leader, doesn't mean that he's going to lose!" commented Max. "Like us, we had a gym leader on our team." He pointed a finger at the red hair girl. "And we still lost."

Unfortunately for Max, the pointing was somehow spotted by Misty. Well it wasn't that hard, Max wasn't doing it discreetly. "Hey! What are you talking about? It doesn't count because I didn't even get a chance to battle!"

The host's sudden voice cut off any chances of an argument. "Ladies and gentleman! I will now hand over to the referee to start off what is expected to be an explosive match!" Chili put down his microphone, but quickly picked it back up. "Literally!" He added to it.

"Now, may both challengers please send in their first pokemon!" requested the ref.

"Lenora, you may go first!" said Jay with a smirk. An obvious sign of confidence.

"Hey, I think I know you! You're Jay aren't you?" smiled Lenora. "I knew I recognized your face from somewhere. I still remember your little gym challenge against me like it was yesterday." She then reached for her pokemon belt and grabbed out a pokeball. "Anyways, since we're battling here today, I might as well take my revenge." The normal type gym leader smirked with a little hint of playfulness.

"Yeah, like that'll happen!" Jay's smirk grew even wider.

"Ha! Always sure of your own skills! It's one of the things I like about you!" The pokeball she had in her hands enlarged. "Enough talking though, I think we should start our battle. What do you say?"

"It sounds perfect to me!" responded Jay.

Lenora smiled. "Come out Stoutland!" She tossed the ball onto the battlefield. It split upon contact with the ground, releasing bright light that materialized into a big brown dog-like pokemon with a long white mustache growing from its face and two different shades of blue thick fur coating its giant body.

"Stoutland!" growled the normal type. The face it had on, the pokemon was definitely prepared for a battle.

"I thought you'd go for a Stoutland first!" grinned Jay. He grabbed out a pokeball and it enlarged in his hands. "Well Lenora, you revenge won't be fulfilled! I beat all your pokemon with just this one!"

With the pokeball in his hands, Jay prepared to pitch the ball in like a baseball pitcher. "Lucario, let's do this thing!" The boy even threw in the pokeball like a baseball player. The red and white sphere split upon contact and released bright light. The light hit the ground and materialized into his partner pokemon.

"Are you ready for this Lucario?" asked Jay. All the aura pokemon did was bow his head in response. That was all the ebony haired boy needed to know.

"Ok! This will be a three on three pokemon battle between pokemon trainer Jay, and gym leader Lenora. Each person can substitute their pokemon anytime and to win the battle, all the opponent's pokemon must be unable to battle. Is that clear?"

Jay and Lenora both nodded at the same time.

"Alright then! The battle shall now begin!" the referee announced.

Jay started off as fast as he possibly could. "Lucario, Aura Sphere!"

The aura pokemon complied by placing its two paws close together and forming a ball of blue aura in between them.

"Stoutland, use Roar!"

"Oh no! Not this tactic again!" exclaimed Ash. Having battled Lenora in the past, Ash has been the victim of her famous tactic before, and even lost to it once. Now that he has seen it being executed once again, Ash feared that the battle was going to be lost.

"That stupid Jay! Didn't he say he gathered eight badges around Unova as well? If so, he would've battled Lenora already in the past! He should've already seen this trick coming!" shouted Iris irritatedly.

Cilan just remained silent and pondered about things. "Hm..."

Stoutland became outlines by red energy. It took a deep breath and let out a huge, forceful, resonant roar for the whole arena to hear. The powerful sound waves that emitted from the big-hearted pokemon's mouth travelled through the air and affected its opponent Lucario. The aura pokemon was forced back into its pokeball, and different pokemon was dragged out from another pokeball.

The pokemon that had just entered the battlefield, it was a chandelier-like pokemon with yellow eerie eyes and purple flames burning from various places.

"A Chandelure huh?" Lenora then glanced at Jay, and saw a small smirk on his face. She didn't expect that. Now why would Jay be smirking for...?

Chandelure, who has just suddenly realized that it was on a battlefield, began to scan the area cautiously. Jay just chuckled. "Don't worry Chandelure, there are no incoming attacks for you." He then looked towards Lenora, and met her smug gaze with his own. Let's see how she'll deal with a ghost type!

"It seems as though I'm up against a ghost type now!" mentioned the normal type gym leader. "I know very well that normal type attacks won't work against it so...Stoutland, use Shadow Ball!"

The big-hearted pokemon opened its mouth wide and four orbs of shadow formed in a formation similar to the side representing four in a die.

"Wah! Watch out Chandelure! Dodge the attack!" Jay ordered hastily.

Chandelure kept its entire focus on the four orbs of shadow as they were launched towards him like round missiles. The ghost type attacks were closing into Chandelure quick, every second being about ten metres closer.

The luring pokemon zoomed to the side just before the attack even touched it, meaning that his dodge was a success. Now with the opponent's attack gone, the pokemon wanted to strike back, and as if Jay was a psychic, he commanded it. Well...Jay wasn't really a defensive battler, so the attack order was bound to have been called anyways.

"Chandelure, lets him them back with Flamethrower!" the ebony haired boy commanded.

The luring pokemon complied with the orders. Its body became engulfed by its own fiery flames and fired some of the hot combustive stuff towards Stoutland, its opponent.

"Stoutland, use Protect!" ordered Lenora.

Stoutland tucked its head down a little, and with its powers, formed a magical bluish-green semi-spherical barrier around itself to intercept the attack. When the attack came, the protection Stoutland formed did just that, repelling away the powerful flame attack so it wouldn't take any damage.

The flames soon stopped coming, and the barrier disappeared. Lenora just smiled to herself, knowing that it was her efforts and her intense training with her pokemon that made the successful defense possible.

"Now Stoutland, let's go on the offensive again! Use Thunder Fang!"

And with that, her normal type took off like a rocket. It had its mouth opened real wide and it was seen that the fangs that were in there were shrouded by yellow electricity. The attack would no doubt be majorly damage inflicting, if it landed that is! Jay was going to make sure that wasn't going to happen.

"Chandelure, use Double Team!" the boy ordered.

The ghost and fire type flashed white and began creating numerous copies of itself in a wide circle formation. As soon as Stoutland realized, it was already surrounded by the army of Chandelures. It dropped its attack straight away and just stood there, not knowing what to do next.

"Now Chandelure, use Flamethrower!"

Every single copy of Chandelure engulfed themselves in their own fiery flames, and then they all fired the flames straight at their target, who was all alone in the middle with no way out.

"Stoutland!" shouted Lenora with worry.

Her pokemon became swallowed up by a barrage of fire attacks from every horizontal direction. The flames just looked so intense, there was no way on Earth Stoutland would be able to get out not fainted. Or it'll at least sustain massive damage. Lenora was hoping for the second one. Come on Stoutland...please don't be done yet...

The fire attacks soon halted, and what was left revealed in the center of the battlefield was good news. Well, at least for the gym leader Lenora it was. Despite the damage it had obviously taken, Stoutland was still standing with its own four legs. The pokemon looked weak, but really determined to win.

Any other ordinary pokemon would've been already down on the ground with swirls for eyes, all limp and defeated. But Lenora's Stoutland, it was different. Having been raised by the impressive normal type specialist, Stoutland learnt to endure many harsh attacks being dished out by others. In fact, it was one of the areas Lenora put the most work and effort into.

"Stoutland!" Lenora called out. "Can you still go on?" She asked the question just to make sure that the pokemon could still continue battling. After all, she knew that pushing pokemon too hard could be bad. But doesn't everyone know that? Well...certain people don't.

"Stoutland!" growled the big-hearted pokemon. Its voice sounded like a mix between a struggling one, while also being a determined one. Lenora decided to think hard about the battle. Should Stoutland stay in battle, or should I sub it out? Her mind was really undecided.

"Chandelure, let's finish Stoutland off! Use Flamethrower full power!" shouted Jay.

It was then that a wicked feminine laugh rung through the arena.

"Who was that?" asked Jay as he glanced from side-to-side around the vast arena.

"Look! Up above!" shouted someone from the crowd. And that's just what everyone did, even the broadcasting camera was faced upwards to see what it was.

There they were, two people with 'R' on their shirts and a Meowth flying on jetpacks overhead. All it took was a second of looking at them and Jay already recognized who they were. The same villains who had attempted to steal his Lucario several times in the past. He could never forget the faces.

"Team Rocket!" Misty stood up and gazed at them with angry eyes.

The three up above looked down at her. "Hey twerpette! Listen up! We're not called Team Rocket anymore you hear?! Our boss disbanded that organization a couple of years ago, and because of that, we joined a new and better organization!" spoke the magenta haired woman of the trio.

"Then why do you still have those silly Team Rocket uniforms then?" asked Misty with a raised eyebrow.

A grin formed on each of the trio's faces. "Well you see," began the lavender haired man of the trio. "They're just there to cover our current uniforms. We were informed by our boss that no one is to find out the name of the organization. Not now at least."

"And because of that," the Meowth with the ability to talk piped up. "We cannot recite our new motto."

"Whew, lucky us!" spoke Rose as she brushed her forehead with the back of her fingers, as if removing sweat.

"Whatever! We just came to fulfill our mission anyways!" spoke the magenta haired trio member.

"What mission?!" came a voice from behind. Everyone present turned their heads around and spotted Ash standing with his Pikachu at the entrance to the battlefield, the one that Jay went through earlier.

"Are you back to get my Pikachu? Because if you are, well you're not going to have such chance!"

"Pika!" The mouse pokemon sparked up its checks threateningly.

"No way!" spat Meowth. "We're not here to get your Pikachu! We're here for somethin' else!"

"What are you after then?" questioned Ash with a raised eyebrow.

Jay spoke up. "Hey! You know what? I'm just going to blast them off! Whatever they're here for is probably not good anyways! That's all they ever do!"

He then gave an order to his ghost and fire type. "Chandelure, hit them with Shadow Ball! Make them go away!"

The luring pokemon focused its power in front of itself to form an orb of darkness. After that, it fired the attack straight towards the airborne trio.

They three in the air dodged the attack with ease. "Hah! An attack like that won't get us!" said the magenta haired woman.

"Yeah! You need to try harder!" said the lavender haired man.

"Alright! I think we've had enough time muckin' around already! We'll just do what we came here to do!" spoke the Meowth. It pulled out a remote seemingly out of nowhere. "Now prepare to be captured!"

Meowth pointed the remote to a random member of the crowd, and was just about to hit the button but was stopped by a voice.

"Wait!" spoke the lavender haired man with a loud whisper. The Meowth froze, and then turned to the man.

"What is it James?" the pokemon whispered back.

"Aren't we meant to capture one of the twerps? That's the reason we came here was it not?"

"Oh yeah! I almost forgot!" The Meowth redirected the remote and was now pointing it at Dawn.

Jay looked closely at where the remote was pointed, and gasped when he realized who the target was. "Watch out Dawn!" the ebony haired boy shouted at the top of his lungs. It was also at that moment that Meowth hit the button on the remote. A net began speeding down towards the intended target.

Dawn grew wide-eyed when she finally realized the net coming at her. By this time though, it was to late to do anything.

The net wrapped around Dawn, and left her helpless and trapped inside it.

"Oh no Dawn!" shouted Ash.

"Dawn!" shouted Misty, May and Rose at the same time. They all gathered around the restricting net and began to try and break Dawn out.

"Ha! And now all we need to do is to grab her!" said James.

"And I've got just the thing!" Meowth grabbed out another remote out of seemingly nowhere, and immediately pressed the giant red button on it.

A powerful 'BOOM!' was heard and the ground began shaking wildly. Everyone on the ground felt the effects of it, some also losing their balances and falling onto the ground.

James swiftly zoomed down to where the netted Dawn was. He took a hold of the net, and then carried it back up to where his other two allies were.

"Let me go you clowns!" Dawn was inside the net, wriggling about to try and free herself from it. It was failing so far.

The magenta haired woman gave her wicked laugh once again.

"Now people! Since we did what we came here to do, we'll be leavin' now!" spoke Meowth.

The villainous trio, with Dawn captured in their net, flew out from the stadium and disappeared from view, going south. "Hey, wait up!" Ash stood up from the ground and grabbed a pokeball from his pokemon belt. It enlarged in his hands.

"Alright Staraptor, I need your help now!" The raven-haired boy threw his pokeball into the air and it split, releasing light that materialized into a mainly grey coloured bird pokemon.

It spread out its wings and cried, "Staraptor!"

"Now Staraptor, I'll need you and Pikachu to follow Jessie, James and Meowth! Can you do that?"

Staraptor flew down and Pikachu leapt onto its back. "Pika/Staraptor!" cried the two pokemon. So then Staraptor, with Pikachu sitting on its back, flew off the direction the ex-Team Rocket members went.

Pikachu...Staraptor...I'm counting on you two...

Surprising turn of events? Just a random track switch I threw in to try and make the story less predictable :D

I think there are some bits in this chapter that could've been written better...so yeah...I might go back and redo this chapter...

Reviews anybody? They will be appreciated :)

One more thing...if anyone thinks that I have not written a part in this story well enough, do not hesitate to inform me. I will go back and try to improve them.