It was daytime. Everyone doing their thing. I just stayed with Shinx, he was still asleep. It was about 2:30 PM, I was just reading something I found. When I heard the door. Looking over, I saw Zorua walk in. He looked at me then Shinx.

"He's still asleep? Is he okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, he's just tried. Been up all night." I lied.

"How'd you know? You know, that doesn't matter. I just wanted to check in, we're almost ready..." He said.

"Okay. I'll make sure to pack our stuff." I replied back.

After he left, I grabbed two large backpacks and started packing our things. I tried waking Shinx up, but he remand unresponsive. I tried pouring water on him. Still asleep. I did check, he was still breathing, it was strange. Once I packed all our stuff, I placed them by the door. Once the did that Shinx decided to finally wake up.

"Ugh… My head..." He said.

"Finally, are you okay?" I replied.

"What… Happened?" He said.

"It doesn't matter, come on. We need to go. We're all ready. Can you get up?" I said.

"Yeah." He said, getting up.

We grabbed our bags and walked out. After all of us grouped up, we headed out to the city.

-Liepard-

"Fire in the hole!" We heard a scream. Then an explosion.

"Keep your heads down. We're near where the military set base." I said.

"Good, what are we gonna do to them?" Absol said.

"Not sure yet. Just keep an eye out. If you get caught, use your smoke bomb." I replied.

We stayed behind cover, waiting for an opening.

-Tepig-

I continued walking the empty roads. I'm so lucky to not encounter any of those shadows thing. It took a bit, but I finally found my way to a nearby city. It looked really nice and defensive. It was still pretty far to determine if it was, Crystal City or Nano City. I continued trying to reach it.

-Emolga-

"Ugh… This walk is gonna kill me..." I complained.

"Huh, you too?" Shinx replied to me.

We continued to walk to the city, I didn't knew how far this place was. Hopefully it was close by.

-Unknown-

"Are you sure, Litten?"

"Yeah, I really want to meet them!"

"Uh, are you sure, sure? I know their your heroes but, I think it's safer here."

"But I always looked up to them, I really want to meet them. I want to know how they got here."

"Fine, let's try and get to them quickly. Thing is I don't even know where they are..."

"I heard from other survivors, they're at Emerald City."

"Ugh, fine… Let's go search for them, I still think this is dangerous."

"Yay! Let's get going!"

-Riolu-

We finally reached the city. The Furfrou was sitting up in a tower. Once she saw us, she called down to open the gates.

"Whoa, this place does look a lot better then ours." Shinx replied.

"Yeah, I told you." I replied.

As we walked in, Furfrou greeting everyone. She seemed excited to get new survivors for this community. We had bags and bags of stuff, it was killing us. Sitting our stuff down, everyone besides me went around. I was just sitting there to guard our things. Glaceon and the Eevee walked up.

"So you did have more survivors..." Glaceon said.

"Yeah." I replied.

"Are they good? Because I still don't trust you fully." The Eevee said.

"Yes… They are good. You should start trusting us. If I was bad, I would've did something when we first met..." I replied back.

"He does have a point. Give him a break." Glaceon said to Eevee.

They both walked off, and I started relaxing. It was nice being around other survivors. It was getting kinda lonely over there, so it's refreshing meeting all these new survivors. After half an hour, everyone regrouped. They all seemed happy with the choice. But we still hadn't got settle in. Furfrou finally showed us to a pretty big house. Enough to fit all of us. Sixteen in a house, it's pretty strange. But I didn't question. We dragged all our things in and started chatting a bit. Looking over, I saw Shinx. He was just on a bed, away from everyone. I got up and started talking to him.

"What's wrong?"

"This place is nice… But I wanted to stay in the place we grew up in..." He said.

"I want to also. But it's safer here, just give it a few days. Why don't you come join us?" I asked.

"I'd rather stay here for now..." He said back.

I just nodded my head and walked back.

-Tepig-

I finally reached the city. It was indeed, Crystal City. Getting close, I heard the gates open. Three survivors walked out all with AK-47's pointing at me. I used all my strength to lift my arms. They advanced towards me, once getting to me. They grabbed the only thing I had, a knapsack. Once searching it, they threw it back and rushed me in. The leader who I thought was a Furfrou wearing a heart band around her head.

"Welcome, survivor. Strange seeing a Tepig here." She said.

"Thanks… Please, do you have a medic…?" I asked.

She looked me down and saw the bullet hole.

"Oh no. That's not good, yes we do have a medic. Just came in yesterday, I'll take you to him." She replied, leading me to this medic.

-Liepard-

"Now's our chance!" I whispered loudly.

We all ran through an opening we saw. Now we were in the camp. We just have to be careful, we'll stop them from interfering with us.

-Riolu-

We were still chatting, when I heard a knock on the door. Wondering who it was, I got up and answer it. It was Furfrou.

"Sorry to bother you already, but aren't you a trained medic?" She asked.

"I had some advance training, yes..." I replied.

"Well we got a hurt survivor. Bullet through the stomach..." She said.

"Uh… I never done bullet stuff. But I'll see what I can do. Where is this survivor?" I replied back.

"He's coming up, he's a bit slow. Probably pain. Do you need any medical things?" She asked again.

"No, I'll be fine. I already got my first aid kit in my bag." I said back.

"Okay, good." She said.

When the hurt survivor came in view, I froze. Tepig was standing there. I hadn't seen him in forever, I thought he didn't make it.

"Riolu…?" He said.

"Tepig…? How?" I said.

"Uh, you two know each others? That's nice..." Furfrou said, walking off.

Tepig walked in, and I cleared an area out. He took off his shirt and unwrapped his bandage. It was a pretty nasty hole. Came from a pretty big sized bullet. I started working on the wound. I forgot to even tell the others, before I heard talking.

"Riolu? Everything alright?" Braixen shouted.

She ended up walking into the front room, and saw Tepig.

"Hey, Braixen..." Tepig waved.

"You gotta be joking… I gotta tell the others!" She said, running into the next room.

Moments later everyone walked out and saw us. Snivy ended up pushing pass everyone, and saw Tepig as well. He looked at him, and Tepig at him.

"Hey, old buddy. Been a while… How long? Four, five months?" He said.

"I forgot to count… I'm so glad your safe..." Snivy replied, rushing to his side.

I continued working on his wound, while everyone watched. After a stressful two hours, I was finished. Covered in blood, and tired.

"Ugh… I wonder if they have working water… Could really go for a shower now." I said.

"Oh, I'll go ask." Shinx said, walking outside.

"So how is he?" Snivy asked.

"Well, I gave him some sleeping pills. And worked the best I could. He should be fine, once he awakes." I said to him.

"You the best! I thought he got lost… And you know..." Snivy said.

"Well, you should be glad he's safe here..." I said back.

"Yeah..." He said.

Everyone walked away and I watched over him. He looked fine, fever down. No signs of infection. I was surprised, an open wound like that in a place like this. Not good. But I tried my best, and now he should be fine. I just continued sitting there, resting after all that. I should really work on that, it took two hours for a bullet hole wound. But it's gonna be hard, in a place like this. I'll try and train in my free time. I just sat there, waiting...