Chapter 12: Breaking In

"Alright Emboar, break down this door!" Greg said to his bipedal, Chinese-like pic with a flaming beard and oversized arms. It punched the thick metal door three times, and it went down, completely bent and broken.

"Okay, we're in. Now, we'll probably encounter some of their grunts here" Skylar explained. "They're the easy stuff; we can handle them unless they come in large numbers. We're looking for their leader, who is likely deep within the building. Your friend is likely there, too."

"Okay" I said. "Do we have a plan?"

"Yes" Skylar said. "We are sticking together unless we are forced to separate."

"Sounds good to me" Kai said. "Now, let's all send out a Pokémon of ours to help us."

"I already have Emboar here" said Greg.

"Okay, I'll use Lopunny!" Hanna said, as she sent out a brown, bunny Pokémon with tufts of cream colored fur on its ears, arms, legs, and feet. Overall, an elegant Pokémon.

"Right" Kai said. "Go Mismagius!" Kai sent out a purple ghost pokemon. It looked like it had a large witch's hat on and it had lavender along its edges. It had no appendages, floated, and had a red jewel necklace around its neck.

"My turn, go Blastoise!" I said, sending out my turtle Pokémon.

"Alright, go Zoroark! Use your illusion to disguise us as Team Cataclysm members!" Skylar ordered. He sent out a gray, fox Pokémon with a large red mane in back with black tips. Its eyes began to glow as a mist settled over us. What this did, I had no idea.

"With Zoroark's illusion ability, we appear to be Team Cataclysm members. It works to an extent. As long as we don't make contact with another person outside of the cloud, we'll be safe" Skylar explained. "Now, be very careful as we search."

As we walked through the hallways, we passed by numerous cataclysm grunts. They seemed to be paying no attention to what the others were doing. I did notice something interesting about them, though. Every other villainous team I've seen, like Team Rocket and Team Galactic, have had cookie cutter grunts. I mean, they all look exactly the same and have the same personality. Plasma, Magma, Aqua, and even Cipher are guilty of this. Every grunt looks exactly the same. They all say the same nonsense that their leader has brainwashed them to say. They're all just… the same person in multiple bodies. They all even have the same hair and eye color! It's really creepy… But with Team Cataclysm, it's different. Every grunt is different from one another. Yeah, they all have on that same stupid jacket with that hourglass, but each person is different. I saw gingers, blondes, brunettes, people with pale skin, people with dark skin, tall people, short people, and all sorts of different people. They all seemed to keep their identity. They weren't those cookie cutter grunts. Made me wonder what… Never mind.

The five of us walked around shrouded by this mist that apparently disguised us. I knew Zoroarks were masters of illusion. Guess it was lucky we had one. We walked along the corridors for a while; it was a pretty darn big building. We passed several grunts on duty. They seemed oblivious to us, so I knew Zoroark was doing what he does best.

Everything was going smoothly until…. *Thud*

"Watch where you're… eh? You, you're not a member!" said a large, intimidating grunt. "How did you get in here?"

"I, uh, well, you see…" I sputtered. I was nervous, I totally blew our cover.

"Shit, let's go!" Skylar said, grabbing me.

"Oh no you kids don't!" said the grunt. "Let's go Tentacruel!"

"Alright, then, you wanna pick a fight?" asked Greg.

"Greg, what are you doing, we're supposed to stay together!" Hanna said

"I's alright sis" Greg said. "Trust me, he's gonna be easy, but he's also gonna call backup, I'll hold them off as long as I can, got it?"

"Okay…" Hanna said. "But you better be back outside when we're done here!"

"You got it sis, just get these two chicks' friend, ya hear?"

"We're on it" Skylar said. "Now let's move!"

"Alright, Emboar, just hang tight a moment, this isn't a good one for you. How 'bout Galvantula? Let's go!"

The last thing I saw as we turned the corner was Greg's electric spider battling the poison jellyfish. He looked back, flashed a smile, and gave us a thumbs up. More grunts joined the battle and soon he had his hands full, but he was fighting.

"Will he be alright?" Kai asked

"Of course!" Hanna exclaimed. "He's the Old Unova regional champ 6 years running! He'll be just fine!"

"Well, if you say so…" Kai said. "Guess we need to do him a favor and find Andrew fast."

Skylar stopped.

"Andrew? You mean to tell me that little brat got himself captured by Team Cataclysm?"

"Skylar! Don't be like that! Drew's in trouble, and you know he'd help you if you were in the same predicatment!"

"Shut up Hanna! He should've thought about all this before getting himself captured, the little dumbass!"

"Skylar, you are being really immature! Our little brother is in danger!"

"Little brother!?" Kai and I said in unison.

"Hardly" Skylar spat. "He needs to grow up a little. Get out of this himself."

"Skylar!" Hanna's voice was getting louder. "You are being really immature! If you're not going to help, fine! Just leave! But good luck getting out of here by yourself!"

"I don't need any of you anyways" Skylar said, going in the opposite direction, his Zoroark following him.

"Excuse me…" Kai interrupted. "I don't know what Andrew did to you, but he's in trouble now, so we would greatly appreciate it if you two stop bickering and help us find him! He needs you, and that's that. He is also your brother, which should add importance to this rescue operation. Do you understand me!?" Her voice was intense, scary even. I had never heard her this mad before.

"Screw it" Skylar said. "You all can do this without me." And with that Skylar and his Zoroark walked off. They turned the corner and we didn't see them again.

"Ugh! That Skylar! What an arrogant little… ARGH!" Hanna screamed.

The three of us, now, all started rushing down the corridor to find the heart of the building where leader would be. We turned and turned. Oddly, we didn't see any more grunts. I guess Greg was doing a good job at holding them off.

Finally, we reached a steel door at the center of the building. It was locked tight and needed a pass code to get in.

"Great…." I moaned. "We can't get in…"

"We just gotta use our Pokémon!" said Hanna

"How so?" Kai asked.

"Simple. Okay, first, Kai, tell your Mismagius to go through the door. Having a ghost pokemon go through it will temporarily cause the key pad to malfunction."

"Got it. Mismagius, go through the door"

The ghost passed through the door with relative ease. When she did, it suddenly shut down.

"Next, Lyss, I hope your Blastoise is well trained, because that door needs to come down."

"He is, he can use Skull Bash quite well"

"Good, have him use it while I weaken the door with Lopunny."

"'Kay! Blastoise you heard her, Skull Bash!"

"Lopunny, Hi Jump Kick!"

Blastoise's head lowered as he began charging up power. Lopunny hit the door with a powerful kick. Then again. And again. The door was heavily dented now. Blastoise's attack was ready. Lopunny delivered one final kick. Blastoise came in and bashed the door with his head, knocking it clean off its hinges. Mismagius was on the other side, looking triumphant. Two grunts were there, looking scared for their lives.

"What do you two think you're doing?" asked a voice. "Dispose of them."

"Y-yes Master B-black!" They both said, sending out two Pokémon. Sawk and Throh. Seemed appropriate for the moment.

"Haha!" Hanna laughed. "This is nothing! We must be getting close! Kai, Lyss, go on, I'm pretty sure he's just behind that door there. These two will be nothing!"

"Are you sure, Hanna?" Kai asked. "I'll be more than glad to assist you in this…"

"No no, please!" She giggled. "Allow me, this ought to be fun!"

"Alright then, c'mon Lyss!"

"Right!"

"Okay boys…" Hanna said, turning to the grunts. "You're dealing with me and my Pokémon now. Lopunny here is no push over. And, since this is a double battle, you're dealing with my queen, too. Vespiquen that is!"

Hanna had her bunny and her queen bee fighting the red and blue karate themed pokemon. She was winning with relative ease. She had on a big smile the whole time. It was nothing for her. Kai and I quickly made it to the door on the other side, miraculously, I might add, without getting hit by any attacks.

We busted down the door. On the other side we saw a man dressed in all black. Black slacks, black suit, black shirt, black tie, black gloves, black boots, black mask. The only thing on him that wasn't black was the hourglass insignia on his mask, representing he was a Team Cataclysm royalty.

"You must be Master Black" I said.

"Indeed, I am. I commend you on finding me here" he said, calmly.

"Cut the crap!" Kai yelled. "Where's our friend! We know you have him!"

"Oh? You mean, this friend?"

As he said that, a large, blue eel pokemon slithered out. It had yellos spots, red eyes, claws, a gaping mouth, and Andrew in its arms. Through some of the spots, I could see electricity running through the body of the eel thing. I tried to get closer.

"Ah uh uh!" Master black cautioned. "Any closer, and your friend here is going to get it from my Eelektross. Thousands of volts just waiting to surge through his body."

"You wouldn't dare!" Kai exclaimed.

"Try me!" The man dressed in black said.

"Mismagius, go, Shadow Ball"

"Eelektross, Discharge."

Mismagius prepared her attack, when suddenly the Eelektross let out a large amount of energy. Andrew took a good amount of it. It let go of him and he lay on the floor. I could see sparks still coming from him occasionally.

"Why you …!" Kai began, but Master Black was out the window now.

"We're done with him" he explained. "He was put to sleep by Darkrai anyways, he won't be getting up for a long time. We needed him to study the effects of Darkrai's nightmares, and it worked splendidly! He have now captured Darkrai and know how to use his nightmares effectively! Good luck waking the boy up! Haha!"

…and with that, he was gone.

I rushed to Andrew's side, tears welling up in my eyes. I held him up. He trembled. I couldn't tell if it was from the electricity or his nightmares. He was still breathing. I held him close and cried.

"C'mon, we need to go" a familiar, male voice said.

"Bu-but…" I sobbed

"It's okay, he's coming too" Skylar said, pulling me to my feet. He lifted Andrew onto his back and begn to carry him out the door. "You two coming or what?"

"Y-yeah…" I sobbed

"O-of course" complied a shocked Kai. I don't blame her. Skylar left in a fit about rescuing his brother, and now, here he was, helping us carry him out of there. How odd.

"Well, it may not be as effective as the Lunar Wing or Cresselia, but I think it can work on a smaller scale." Greg said. We had all gotten out of there alive, and that Team Cataclysm hideout was now abandoned.

"You think?" Skylar asked. "Let's go through with it, it's our only shot."

"'Kay then, Musharna, c'mon out!"

Greg sent out a weird pokemon that was curled up like a ball. It was pink on top and purple on bottom. It had a short, pink snout and its eyes were closed. There was a pink mist coming from it.

"This…" Greg explained "is Musharna. She's good with dreams and stuff. She can wake anyone up. She hates the taste of nightmares, but, I'm afraid, for Andrew's sake, she'll have to go through with it for a bit."

""Mush!" Musharna chimed

"'Kay, ready Musharna? Use Dream Eater on Andrew! Get him out of Darkrai's spell!"

Musharna was extracting something from Andrew's head and eating. She kept going for a long, long time. Eventually she stopped. She shuddered. Her mist suddenly displayed several images, some I couldn't make out. Others I could. These Included Andrew falling from a large skyscraper, a man covered in blood, an image of Team Cataclysm, the image of Marcus dying in Andrew's arms, and finally, a picture of Skylar sneering. It was all very confusing, but this must have all been included in Andrew's nightmare, which was now finally coming to an end.

We sat there waiting to see if we would get results. It seemed endless. Finally, Andrew woke up.

"Wha-hey…" he said sleepily

"Andrew!" I exclaimed. I jumped right on him and gave him a big hug. I kissed him on the cheek, but then got back up, noticing how red he, and, surprisingly, me, got.

"Drew! You're okay!" Hanna jumped up and down in joy.

"Good on ya man!" Greg said

"Thank goodness…" Kai breathed

Then Skylar stepped up. Silence. He looked Andrew in the eye.

"Don't get yourself into another predicament again" he said, and walked off

"Well, I didn't think I was asleep for that long…" Andrew began

"Oh goodness, do we have a lot to tell you…" I began. And with that, we all recounted to Andrew what happened after Darkrai attacked him.

A/N: Whoo, yeah! New chapter! Hope you guys like! Okay, so, now I've gotten female ocs to balance out the male ones, so now, any, male OR female Area Leader guys! Also, I now have Dragon, Bug, Dark, Water, Electric, Ice, Fighting, Steel, Psychic, and Flying! So just seven more Area Leaders! That means I still need Fire, Grass, Rock, Ground, Poison, Ghost, and Normal! So far I have 6 male and 4 female, so let's keep it mostly even in gender for the area leaders! Hope you guys enjoy this chapter!