Kodi POV

I kept my face blank as I watched Jack's turn red. Kate was talking to me. Apparently Luke, the new kid beside me, had some kind of plan.

Telepathy can be damn useful sometimes.

"Release your Pokémon," Jack snarled. "I want them electrocuted, burned, deep freezed and anything else you zombies can do."

He used to be the sweetest guy, too. I released Chingling mechanically, adding to the flashes of red lights calling out the hypnotized creatures. Waves of dark satisfaction rolled off Jack.

Then he saw Luke. Stupid boy hadn't gotten the gun away from his head.

"What, did I stutter? Call out your Pokémon to destroy them."

Then the traitor was looking down the wrong end of a barrel.

"Paul's busy. But I'm sure he'd want me to tell you to **** off." Alarms started going off in the building. Smoke detectors. "Guys, we should get out of here."

Kate nodded at Luke. I still didn't know how she could hear when she went deaf, and she let me into her head enough to catch her real name. Kodi? A little help would be appreciated.

I nodded and sent a mental command to Chingling. The room disappeared and Ling lead us down a tunnel of impossible colors, taking everyone to safety. I love teleporting and can't help pity those who can't experience it like this.

Outside, the smoke poured out of the windows and an army of people ran out any door they could find. The street was veiled by a screen of the smoke, making seeing anything difficult.

Kate watched the people who were running away. Kodi, their eyes aren't glowing! Whatever's going on stopped!

What do you mean glowing?

No, you wouldn't be able to see...Just trust me, it happens when you're being controll-shit, grab Jack!

I couldn't reach him in time and he broke out of the circle and found refuge in a circle of Drowzee coming out of the haze. "It's not done yet!"

"Yes it is," the purple haired girl behind Kate spoke with ice as her voice. "Seven elephant-faces don't compare to what we have."

Jack smirked and I felt my hope drain away. I remembered everything I had seen over the weeks and knew what was coming. "I have so much more than Drowzee." The wind began to blow, clearing the smoke.

****ing shit. Kate sent a mental image to me of the glowing eyes around us began calling out her dragons. Our team frantically did the same; in total we had 18 Pokemon to battle Jack's army with.

"We can do this!" I spoke Kate's words to the team. "Just like back in the old days! Defend each other and play to your strengths!"

It always was a game to her.

JJ POV

The army of Glowymon converged on us. "How are they still controlled?! Luke?!"

"I don't know! Maybe Paul couldn't find the Pokémon that keep hold on this bunch!"

"No," the girl with the Chingling cut in. "I don't sense any bonds attached to them, the Drowzee must be the closest thing they have to trainers. They can't break free like the others did."

It made sense. Except… "Wait! Who the hell is Paul?!"

A blast of fire shot up in front of my face, burning the vines of a Venasaur that was attacking.

"I'd guess The Chimchar that just saved you is Paul," Des shouted over her shoulder.

Of course it was. I saw Des's Houndour go down and then she took the full force of a Mach punch, making her crumple in on herself. Dragons were shot down from the sky through the smoke and the other trainers' Pokémon were retreating back to us. A razorleaf cut my forehead open and Feraligatr fainted battling a Blitzle

I called him back just as the ground shook and knocked all of us down. "Damn Earthquake! Someone needs to use Disable!" A Magmar landed directly in front of me, kneeling down so our eyes met. My blood went ice cold as I sensed it getting ready to attack.

"JJ!" I heard Luke shout. His Chimchar was knocked out before it could help. The Magmar opened its beak and I saw the fire in its throat. The dark markings near its eyes distorted as it narrowed its gaze.

It whirled around and a torrent of fire burned through every enemy I could see.

"Whose is this?" I called to the others as the Magmar continued to protect me. Its power was so ****ing far beyond anything I'd ever seen.

"I don't know!" The girl from before was cradling her Chingling in her arms and sending out her own waves of Confusion. "We've never seen it before!"

I stared, mystified. No one would be able to be mistaken about that. The marks around its eyes really ran down its entire body. Magmar was joined by an Arbok and Venomnat with similar marks. More and more Glowymon were going down as more and more marked Pokemon appeared.

"Don't hurt the weird looking ones!" Luke shouted, catching on to what I was thinking. "I think they're on our side! ….No, you two switch opponents or you're toast!"

I finally had a chance to run over to Des. Her Houndour had woken up and was trying to help her stand. "Desiree, careful! That thing almost knocked your lungs out." I made her lean on me, and began looking for somewhere safe.

"Don't you dare dump me anywhere."

"I wasn't going to!"

"Liar... Hey, look at the new guys. I remember them.."

I tried to figure out what she meant and my eyes locked on a pair of Squirtle battling it out. One marked and one glowy.

"Holy-"

The ground shook again at that second and sent all but the marked Pokémon to the ground. They'd all jumped, like they'd known. Were they connected? I could hear finishing moves all around me but I was looking around the sky and rooftops.

"There!" I pointed it out to Des. "There's a blue sphere on top of that building."

"What's inside it?" The fights around us had ceased to exist for the moment. The bubble flickered and I saw three figures. A giant purple one and two humans.

"...JJ, I think we won."

I looked away for less than a second to see, I swear. But they disappeared in that fraction of time. "I think we had a lot of help, Des."

She smiled weakly. "I saw. I can't believe she let him out of the house."

"Desiree, JJ, Luke," the psychic girl called us over to her and the other trainers. "We aren't done yet. Time to get instructions from our fearless leader." She pointed down the street. Kate was sprinting away from us. I could see the group of Drowzee teleporting down the streets bit by bit. They had to be exhausted. The green haired jack*** was running after them.

One of the guys of Kate's old group sighed. "Hayley, go grab her. She won't catch Jack and detain by herself, there are bigger Magikarp to catch than him nearby and there's no way she's getting out of clean up again. Now who exactly is going to explain this to Officer Jenny? And all the other Jennies for that matter..."