Two things about this chapter 1: I had wayyyy too much fun with it. Just a fair warning.

2: It's pretty long. It was about 10 pages on google docs.

So other than that, we should be good to go! Read, Review, and Enjoy!

The Wailord dragged me all the way to a giant building with a small grate dock. I hopped off of it, followed by Pachirisu, and headed the only way I could, toward the building. Standing in front of a long ladder was a man in a red hat. He turned at the noise of my feet on the grate.

"Sparkette?" he said.

"Sven!" I exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"

"I had my suspicion about this place. Didn't think it'd catch your eye, though," he said.

"So is this where you've been the past few days?" I asked. "Wendy's pretty mad at you for ditching her, by the way."

Sven sighed. "I know. But hey, I found a Dim Sun lead, so I followed it! This might take some explaining though… but that's enough about me! What are you doing here? And why did you ride in on a Wailord?!"

"It wasn't exactly my choice to come here," I replied. "I kind of got dragged here by that Wailord. We were chasing an abducted Wailmer."

"I get it," Sven said. Really? Cause I'm not sure I did. "Anyway, after we split up I did some more investigating. I found the helicopter that carried the Shadow Crystal. I chased it, and it lead me all the way here."

"What is this place?" I asked.

"This is Altru Inc's oil rig," He replied. He walked closer to the ladder. "We're above an underwater oil rig right now. I heard this place had been shut down, though. I guess I heard wrong. This undersea oil rig needs investigating, but the stench of danger's strong here. Stronger than anything so far." He came back over to me. "This time, I'm serious. I need your help."

"But I need to go to the Haruba Desert!" I said. "Keith might need help!"

"Well right now I need your help," Sven said. "And this may be our best shot at breaking the case wide open! Keith is a lot tougher than he looks. He can wait." But I didn't want him to! Sven pushed a button on his styler.

"Voicemail, Voicemail!" he said. "Sven here. I'm at Altru's undersea oil field. I have Sparkette with me. Let me borrow her as a partner for a while." Didn't I get a say in this? Well, I guess I should rescue the Wailmer… and I didn't really have a way to get to the Haruba Desert anymore, anyway. "I'm declaring this place to be top priority for investigation," Sven continued. "Clear that with Chairperson Erma for me. Hurry it up, will you Linda? … Uh, right, sorry! I meant to say Rhythmi, darling." I snickered. Rhythmi mustn't have liked that!

"Thank you kindly, Rhythmi," Sven finished. "You tell Chairperson Erma that I thank you for her wisdom." He turned to me. "The Union cleared it. We're partnered up for this."

"Okay," I sighed. Keith would have to wait. "Let's just get this over with."

Sven nodded and I followed him up the long ladder into the oil rig. When we got to the top, We saw three people surrounding a man. I recognised two of them, Ice and Lavana. The third wore grey clothes with yellow accents, had blonde hair, and seemed to be a lot older than the other two. He was at least in his late twenties. He was also larger than Ice and Lavana, and had a darker skin tone. I'm guessing he was the third leader of Team Dim Sun I heard about. But I forgot his name. Probably because the only name in my mind right now was Keith's. This yellow man was blocking a fourth person from view.

"I apologise for our coming here without warning," The man who I couldn't see said. His voice sounded familiar… where had I heard it before? And why did it send a chill down my spine? "Terminate the production of the Miniremo units soon. Shift the staff over to our main project. See to those two items on the agenda."

"Consider it done, boss!" Mr. Kincaid's voice said. I couldn't see him, but his voice was unmistakable. "That also goes for the fine personages of the Sinis Trio! The design data for the incredible machine will also of the Incredible Machine will also be deleted shortly. It's been a great honor to have you visit us!"

Ice, Lavana, yellow man, and hidden man headed into a purple helicopter. The helicopter flew away as soon as they were in it. I also heard Mr. Kincaid talking to someone as he walked away. After making sure it was safe, Sven and I ran up to where the helicopter was.

"This seems to be Team Dim Sun's secret base," Sven said. "But what did they mean by Incredible Machine?"

"I have no idea," I admitted. "It doesn't sound good, though. What is Team Dim sun doing here anyway? Isn't this Altu Inc's oil rig?"

Sven didn't reply for a while. "Sparkette… are you ready for this?" Sven asked, avoiding my question. "We're going into the enemy's hideout. You rescue the abducted Wailmer. I'll investigate this Incredible Machine of theirs. Try to uncover the secrets of the base. And if there's a chance, destroy it! That's our mission!"

"I'm ready!" I replied. Ready to get out of here! "Let's do this!"

Sven and I walked along the roof of the oil rig, followed closely by Pachirisu, until we found a door. Inside we found an elevator, and it took us down a floor. The elevator lead to another small room, which was empty. This door lead to a hallway.

"Sven, what do you think is behind the door?" I asked, leading him to a door that was blocked off by an electric fence.

"I don't know, but it must be important if Team Dim Sun is blocking it off," Sven replied. "We should try to get in there."

I nodded, and pointed my styler at it, then looked at the little screen. Electricity. Maybe if I could find a Luxio I could open it.

We headed into the next room. We would've gone further, but it was blocked off by an electric panel on the ground. In the next room a Team Dim Sun Minion was standing there. "This generator is for powering the electric panel in the corridor," He mumbled to himself. "It must not be turned off… Okay, noted and memorized!"

"Thanks for the advice!" I said, much to Sven's surprise.

The minion turned to me in surprise. "Gah! A Ranger?! Two of them, even?!" He nearly shouted. "I was just going over maintenance notes for myself. notes for myself! Pretend you never heard me! Otherwise, they'll give me the boot from Team Dim Sun!"

"We should be able to stop this with a Pokemon…" Sven said. He pointed his styler at it. "Another electric type… Sparkette let's try that door back there! It might have a good electric type in it!"

I nodded, and we headed through a door in the back of the room. There was an electric type in the room, a Luxio. I caught it without a problem. "That Luxio's not strong enough to break the generator," Sven said.

"But it is strong enough to break that electric barrier blocking the other door!" I said. "And Team Dim Sun is obviously hiding something behind it. Let's check it out!"

Sven nodded and we rushed out of the room and back through the hallway. The Luxio easily disengaged the electric barrier, and we were able to get into the next room. Inside we found another Dim Sun goon.

"Hey, you intruders!" He shouted. "Jolteon, get them!"

I readied my styler. "Sven, I'll take this guy," I said. "You go find whatever they're hiding in this room."

Sven nodded and rushed past the team Dim Sun goon, who pulled out a Miniremo unit. Soon, a Jolteon was facing me.

I captured the Jolteon pretty quickly, which caused the Miniremo to break. "What am I supposed to do now?" The grunt asked. "What are the procedures for this?" Sven returned from the other side of the room. A Luxray was following him.

"Sven, is that Luxray strong enough to break the generator?" I asked.

Sven nodded. "Let's get going, then!" I said. We rushed through the hallway again, returning to the room with the generator in it. Sven had his Luxray unleash an electric attack on the generator, causing it to stop.

"We did it!" I exclaimed.

"Let's move on to the next hallway," Sven said. "We've thoroughly checked this hallway."

I nodded and we stepped outside of the room. The electric panel had stopped, and we could continue. There was a door at the end of the hallway. We stepped through it to find a passageway through the ocean. It was a clear pipe, and you could see the ocean from all sides. It was really pretty, actually. There were arrows on the ceiling pointing in the direction that we had come from. At least we knew we were going in the right way!

When we stepped into the next floor, we saw the door directly to our right close. We also heard a Wailmer cry behind it.

"That must be where they are keeping Wailmer!" I exclaimed.

"Sparkette, I think we should split up for a bit here," Sven said. "I want to explore this floor more. You deal with the Wailmer."

"Okay," I replied. "Sounds like a plan. I'll come and find you when I'm done."

Sven nodded and ran down the hallway. I turned and walked into the door. Inside, I found about half a dozen team Dim Sun Minions.

"Intruder spotted!" They shouted as one. "Someone grab that Ranger! No way! I'm not as tough as I look! You go! When it comes to being wimpy I've got you all beat!" I sighed, tuning the minions out. I didn't have time for this! I needed to get this over with so I could go to the Haruba Desert! I started to walk toward the elevator in the back of the room.

"Charge!" One of the goons cried. What? Did I miss some conversation? That was so random! The seven minions charged at me, not even giving me a chance to react to what had just happened.

"Hey!" I protested as one of them grabbed my arms and pinned them behind my back. Wow, that was the second time I got grabbed by a minion today. Not really having a good day, huh? Another minion grabbed my Pachirisu. The man who was holding me shoved me out the door, where I feel flat on the ground. Soon Pachirisu landed on top of me. After I got her off of me, I flung myself at the door, but it didn't open. They had locked me out.

I sighed. "I guess I should go and find Sven now…" I murmured. I rushed through the long winding hallway and went all the way to the very end. I walked though the last door in the hall, where I found a control room. All of the guards seemed to be asleep. Nothing I needed to worry about.

I continued to the end of the room where I found another door.

"Wha-What are you doing?" I heard someone cry as I stepped through the door. That voice… it couldn't be!

But it was. I turned to the opposite corner of the room where I found Sven and a familiar blond, mushroom haired boy. "Sven, stop!" I cried. He turned to me.

"Oh, hi Sparkette," he said calmly. "I got blueprints for the machine from this mushroom boy."

"Isaac, are you okay?" I said running up to the two boys. "Sven didn't hurt you, did he?"

Isaac shook his head. "I'm fine."

"Sparkette, you know this person?" The two said at the exact same time. Before I could reply to either of them, a team Dim Sun minion stepped into the room.

"You creepy Rangers!" He shouted. "You're not getting off lightly!" He ran over to where we were standing, and pulled out a Miniremo unit. Two Mr. Mime pounced on us. Sven caught them as I took Isaac away from the minion. I didn't want him to get hurt.

"Sorry if Sven scared you," I said. "He thought you were with Team Dim Sun."

"Well, I am," Isaac replied. "Why is that a problem?"

"Wait, what? But you told me…" I started.

"So who is this kid anyway?" Sven asked, walking up to us. He had finished his captures and sent the Team Dim Sun goon packing.

"My name is Isaac," Isaac replied.

"We went to Ranger School together," I explained. "We were in the same graduating class."

"Whoa, so what's going on here?" Sven said. "How does a Ranger School graduate end up working in Dim Sun's hideout?"

"That's what I was wondering, Isaac," I said, staring at Isaac. "What are you doing here? I thought you were working at Altru Inc."

Isaac opened his mouth to reply, but Sven didn't give him the chance to. "Look, we don't have time to chat. We'll take this kid back to the Union. Professor Hastings will be happy with this catch."

"Really?" Isaac replied, excitement in his eyes. "You'll let me meet Professor Hastings? I'll go! Please, take me!" That was easier than I had expected! Isaac looked around the room. "I don't mind working here because there's plenty of books and the people are nice." The people of team Dim Sun were nice? "But the appeal of the Ranger Union is very strong. If I can lose myself in research, I'm willing to go anywhere!"

"Then it's settled!" I said. "Let's get going!"

"Before we leave, I'd like to say goodbye to Mr. Kincaid," Isaac said. "I think I owe him that courtesy." Wait, Isaac was still working with Mr. Kincaid? Why? Didn't he leave after we graduated? Didn't Isaac work for Altru Inc? This makes no sense…

Before I could say anything, Sven stepped in. "Well, why don't we all go together and give him a call, courtesy and all." Was Sven crazy? Who knows what Mr. Kincaid would do to us if we literally go looking for him!

"Really?" Isaac said, excited. "You two will come with me?" I nodded, reluctantly. Isaac smiled. "That's great! I'm sure Mr. Kincaid will be happy to see you!" I didn't think Mr. Kincaid has ever been happy to see me, even when I was still a student.

"Hey Sparkette?" Sven said. "Did you manage to rescue that Wailmer?"

I shook my head. "That's actually why I came looking for you in the first place, Sven," I replied. "I kind of got locked out of the room they took Wailmer through."

"They must've taken the Wailmer to Mr. Kincaid," Isaac said. I turned to him. "That's where they take most of the Pokemon."

"Isaac, can you lead us to where Mr. Kincaid is?" I asked.

"Of course," Isaac replied. "Come with me."

Sven and I followed Isaac back to the hallway. We continued through the hallway, heading back toward the room I was locked out of.

I tried the door again. It was still locked.

"So this leads to Kincaid's room?" Sven asked.

"Well, sort of," Isaac replied. "It's definitely the fastest way to get to Mr. Kincaid though."

"How can we get in, though?" I asked. "The door is locked, and we don't have Barlow to do his Target Clear."

"Remember the Chroma Ruins?" Sven asked. I nodded. "We could do the same here. 'The revoltingly rancid yet scientific method' to drive them out?"

I smiled. This should be fun. "Sounds like a plan to me!" I said. "Isaac, is there a Skuntank anywhere in this base?"

"Actually, yes," Isaac replied. "I've been using one for research. Why?"

"Can I borrow it?" I asked. "It can help us get into this room."

"Sure," Isaac said, confused at why we would want a Skuntank. Honestly, I didn't blame him. Skuntank were really annoying. And smelly. "Follow me."

Isaac lead us back through the hallway and we stopped at the second to last door. "This room is my lab!" Isaac said. "I'm keeping this a secret from Mr. Kincaid, but I'm trying to use foul smelling substances to develop perfume. That's where that Skuntank comes in. I've been keeping him in here."

Isaac walked up to the door and disengaged to lock. "Thanks, Isaac," I said as we walked into the room.

"Oh, remember to keep your noses pinched," Isaac added. I had definitely already figured that out! This room smelled almost as bad as the Chroma Ruins when we unleashed the Skuntank. I caught the Skuntank quickly, because I did not want to stay in there longer than I had to. No wonder Sven wanted to stay outside!

Sven and I ran back down the hallway, leaving Isaac to speedwalk after us. We stopped in front of the locked door. Isaac nearly crashed into Sven due to our sudden stops. "You know what to do, Sparkette," Sven said.

I nodded, and turned to Isaac's Skuntank.

"Okay, I want you to go into that room through the hole there and use your special ability," I said. Isaac stared at me, confused.

Skuntank nodded and ran through a hole into the elevator room. Pretty soon we heard the door click and six Dim Sun people ran out the door, screaming about how bad it smelled. Sven and I laughed.

"That wasn't very nice!" Isaac protested.

"I'm sorry," I replied, before Sven could ruin it. "It was the only way we could think of the get them to unlock the door."

Isaac sighed. "Okay," he said. "I feel kind of bad though…" Why did he feel bad for Team Dim Sun people? What was going on here?

We continued through the elevator room. There was still a Dim Sun in there, but he was in a daze due to the bad smell. The smell lingered in the room, but Isaac's Skuntank had already left so it wasn't too bad. We went down a long elevator that lead to another floor.

"Hey guys?" Isaac said as we stepped out of the elevator. "That trick we played earlier was necessary, I understand that. But don't you think we are going a bit too far?"

"What do you mean, Isaac?" I said.

"Well, these people were so nice to me," Isaac replied. "Why are you playing tricks on them?" Neither Sven nor I knew what to say to this. Why was Isaac even with them?

"So how do we get to Mr. Kincaid," I asked, avoiding Isaac's question.

"Mr. Kincaid's quarters are at the back of this floor," Isaac replied. "But there are three sections laid with electric panels in the way. They're powered by separate generators. You can't get through this floor unless the generators are turned off."

"Okay, can you lead us to the generators?" Sven asked. "My Luxray can stop them."

"Wait, Sven, you have a Luxray?" I asked.

Sven nodded. "He's my Partner Pokemon," Sven replied. So that's why a Luxray had been following us! I thought Sven had just caught it earlier!

"Then why…" I started. Then I sighed. "Never mind. Less work for us to do."

"Wait, are you planning on breaking the generators?" Isaac asked. We nodded. "I know how to turn them off. Wouldn't that be simpler?"

Sven and I glanced at each other. "That would work," I replied.

"But Sparkette..." Sven started.

"Lead the way, Isaac!" I said, interrupting Sven.

Isaac nodded and lead Sven and I through the hallway. It was great to have someone who knew their way around the base. The first door we came to was a few rooms down and to the right.

"Professor?" A Dim Sun minion said as we walked into the room. "Did you betray us? I don't know what's going on, but it's my duty to protect the generator!"

He pulled a Miniremo out and soon Sven and I each had to catch a Mothim. After we had caught them, the minion's Miniremo exploded.

I smiled. "Isaac, can you turn off the generator now?" I asked. Isaac nodded and walked over to the generator. He stopped it by putting in a password.

"Sparkette, why aren't we destroying the generators?" Sven asked.

"Isaac can turn them off," I replied. "We don't need to destroy them, we just need to stop them."

"But they could turn them back on!" Sven protested. "Besides, the kid's with Team Dim Sun, how can you trust him?"

"He's my friend," I replied, realising this was true. Even though we never talked, and I only just started trusting him a while ago, Isaac was my friend, and he had been for a while. "Besides, we need him to like you. He seems to like these people, and in order for us to take him back to the Union we need to be nice to him."

Sven sighed. "All right," he said. "Whatever you say, Sparkette."

"I finished!" Isaac said, cheerfully walking up to us. "The next generator we should go to is back toward the entrance."

"There's a specific order we need to stop them in?" I asked, as Sven and I followed Isaac out the door.

Isaac nodded. "The generator I just stopped and the one we are heading to control the electric panels blocking the last one," Isaac replied. "So if we stop these two first, we can get to the third and get to Mr. Kincaid's quarters."

"That's overly complicated," Sven said. "Why does this Kincaid guy have so much protection?"

"Mr. Kincaid doesn't like intruders," Isaac replied. "So he set the floor up this way so not many people would come through."

"Let's just get this over with," I said, not wanting Sven to anger Isaac. We continued on to the next room in silence, and I was the first one in the door.

"Huh? Professor?" A Dim Sun person said when Isaac walked through the door with Sven. "They've taken you prisoner?" Before Isaac could reply the guy said, "I'll save you!"

This guy also pulled out a Miniremo, and sent two Skuntank on us. Since I was obviously not keen on this capture, I let Sven take care of them.

"I don't understand why you guys are being so mean to the Team Dim Sun people," Isaac said to me. "They've been so nice to me, what could they have possibly done to you?"

"Ummm…" I replied. "Let's just say that we don't really get along." I couldn't tell Isaac the truth! He trusted these people! I don't know why, but he did!

"Hey, kid!" Sven shouted. He had already captured the Skuntanks. "Can you turn off the generator now?"

Isaac glanced at me, knowing that I wasn't telling him the full story, then nodded. He turned it off as quickly as he could, then walked out off the room.

He lead us through the hall and then over to a third door. What Isaac said was true, there were two inactive electric panels on the ground in front of the door. If we didn't target the other generators first we would've had a problem.

The Dim Sun in this room was singing. Very badly, actually. "Gigaremo's gone out of style!" the man sang. "Heavy, big, and antique for a while! Miniremo's where it's at! Light high performance, that folds flat! Gigaremo was made by a scientist! An old-school Altru elitist! Miniremo's maker is no hack! His name rhymes and it's…"

"Isaac…" I said, not even realising I had spoken out loud. "You invented the Miniremo?" Was that the invention he wanted to show me back at the park?

The Dim Sun guy turned to me. "What's the idea of bothering me while I'm singing our factory song?" He pulled out a Miniremo. I stared at it as Sven caught the two Machoke the guy had sprung on us.

"Isaac… invented that?" I whispered. "But why? It's caused so many people and Pokemon trouble!"

"Hey Sparkette?" Isaac said. I turned to him. "Are you okay?" He hadn't heard anything I had said.

"Yeah…" I replied, still lost in thought. "Are you ready to shut off the next generator?"

Isaac nodded. He walked over to the generator just as Sven finished his capture and blew up the Miniremo.

"Sparkette," Sven said, not loud enough for Isaac to hear. "Are you sure it's safe traveling with Isaac now? He did invent these things, he might be leading us into a trap."

"You know what? I don't care if Isaac invented them," I replied, at the same volume of Sven's voice. "He's my friend, he wouldn't do that to me. Besides, Isaac isn't like that. He's really nice, and he works for Altru Inc. That's good, right?"

Sven sighed. "Fine," he said. "I believe you Sparkette. Let's just keep moving."

"Isaac, are you ready to move on?" I asked, my voice louder as I turned to him.

"Yep!" Isaac replied. "Let's go see Mr. Kincaid!"

For the first time in my life, I actually saw Isaac run. Indoors. He ran out of the room, eager to see his teacher. Sven and I smiled. Finally, some excitement! We had gotten sick of just walking everywhere! We ran after Isaac. He was waiting for us in the next room, his face bright with excitement.

"After we see Mr. Kincaid, we can leave through that door over there," Isaac said, gesturing to the door on our right. "That leads to the emergency exit. The other door leads to Mr. Kincaid's quarters. Let's go!"

Sven and I followed Isaac through the door on our left. It lead to a long underwater tube, much like the one that Sven and I went through earlier. About in the middle of the tube, my styler beeped. A voicemail? Now?

Everyone stopped as I checked my styler. Keith was calling me! Maybe he found the gem!

"Vicemail! Vicemail!" Keith said. Vicemail? "It's me Hea… Keith!"

"Umm… Hi Keith…" I said. "What's up?" Sven and Isaac were staring at me confused.

"I call you about yellow gem!" Keith's voice replied. "You remember it? Big crystal? Yellow?"

"I remember it," I said. "If that's all you have to say, I'm kind of in the middle of something…"

"No!" Keith's voice exclaimed. "You are my friend, yes? You take care of it, okay? Okay!"

"Wait, but aren't you in the Haruba Desert?" I said, confused. "Isn't getting the Yellow Gem your mission?"

"You see, friend," Keith's voice said. I didn't like the way he emphasised the last word. "I remember I have another important mash-up I must do!"

"Mash-up?" I repeated. "Don't you mean mission?"

"I don't care what it's called!" Keith's voice shouted. "I don't have time to look for stupid rock. So you come to Haruba Desert now, please! Hurry, hurry, hurry, right away!"

My styler beeped again. "Keith" had hung up.

"Sparkette, when did Keith become such a jerk?" Isaac asked. "Why was he being so rude to you?"

"I don't know… Sven, somethings wrong," I said. "I need to go to the Haruba Desert! Keith needs my help!" I shouldn't have stopped in the park. I shouldn't have stopped to rescue that Wailord. I shouldn't have come to the oil rig. Now it might be too late to help him.

I started to run out of the hall, but Sven grabbed my wrist, effectively stopping me. "Sparkette, no," Sven said. "We're so close to finishing this mission, you can't leave now!"

"But-" I started, pulling my wrist away from him.

"Sparkette, don't even try arguing with me," Sven said. "I won't let you go. We need to finish this mission first. Besides, do you even know how to get to the desert?"

Oh right. Forgot about that. "But Sven!" I whined. "Even you were confused by that call! Something was obviously wrong!"

"Keith was probably just messing with us," Sven said. "You know how he is." Yes, I did know Keith. And I also knew the person who just called me was not him. I opened my mouth to say something, but Sven silenced me. "How about this. You rescue the Wailmer, Isaac gets to see Mr. Kincaid, then I take you to the desert on my boat. Keith will be fine until then."

I sighed. I guess I didn't really have a choice. There wasn't another way for me to get to the desert. "Okay," I said, reluctantly. "Let's go rescue the Wailmer and see Mr. Kincaid."

We continued down the tube in silence. "Is everyone ready?" Sven asked as we reached the door.

Isaac and I nodded. "I'll do anything in order to get to Keith sooner," I said.

"Then let's introduce ourselves!" Sven said, walking through the door.

"What is the meaning of this exactly?" Mr. Kincaid shouted. He hadn't even noticed we entered the room. "What compelled them to capture a Wailmer? Did they honestly think this tiny thing could take the place of our cargo ship?" Mr. Kincaid sighed.

"Hi, Mr. Kincaid!" Isaac said, cheerfully walking up to Mr. Kincaid. Sven and I followed him.

"Oh, hello Isaac," Mr. Kincaid replied. "How can I…what is she doing here?" Wow, I just walked in the room and he was already glaring at me! Usually he fake smiles first! "I thought I disposed of you at the cargo ship! Are you going to kidnap Professor Isaac?"

"Oh no, Mr. Kincaid!" Isaac replied. Had he not heard the part where he tried to dispose of me? Or was that just normal for Mr. Kincaid? "That's not true! Sparkette has offered to take me to the Ranger Union! I'm going to get the chance to see their research lab!"

"Besides, why would I want to kidnap my friend?" I asked, smiling. "Don't you remember me? I went to school with Isaac! I was in the class next door!"

"Remember?" Mr. Kincaid said, taking a step back from me. "How could I ever forget what you did to my cargo ship you little… what? You, behatted Ranger! That data disk in your hand… that contains our blueprint data!"

"Isaac gave it to me!" Sven said cheerfully.

"Wha… What is the meaning of this?" Mr. Kincaid shouted. "Not only Isaac, but the design data as well?"

"Oh, I'm sorry," I said, a look of fake concern on my face. "Do they really mean that much to you? I guess we could give them back… but it'd be more fun if you tried to take it from us!"

Mr. Kincaid glared at me. "You heard her! Get Isaac and the blueprints back!" He shouted to two admins I hadn't noticed before.

They nodded, and charged at Isaac. Sven rushed over to protect him. "Take back the blueprints to your Incredible Machine?" Sven said. "It'd be incredible if I let that happen!"

I groaned. "Really, Sven?" I said. "We don't need another Crawford."

Sven laughed feebly. "Sorry. The opportunity was too good to miss," he said. "Anyway, Sparkette, you deal with Kincaid. I'll take these goons!"

I nodded, and took a step closer to Mr. Kincaid. I was glaring at him with a look of pure hatred. He took a step back, causing him to almost run into his chair.

"Oh, come on Mr. Kincaid!" I said, a fake smile plastered on my face. "Are you scared of a little girl?"

"N-no!" Mr. Kincaid exclaimed. "I'm just getting myself ready to teach you a lesson!" He pulled a Miniremo off of his chair. "Do you think you can befriend this, Sparkette?"

He punched some keys on the Miniremo, and soon a Gliscor flew down from the sky. It charged at me, and I readied my styler.

Mr. Kincaid's Gliscor had three different attacks, and it used all of them against me. His first attack shot tornados at me, his second shot poison spikes, and his third left a glob of mud that damaged my styler lying on the ground.

I started drawing circles around it as quickly as I could in between attacks. It got really tiring after a while, but I couldn't let my styler get damaged! I didn't have any Pokemon that could recharge it with me!

The Gliscor took a long time to capture. It moved relatively quickly, and attacked every few seconds. It also took a lot of loops to befriend it. Even with my power charge ability and the help of Pachirisu, it took at least three minutes to capture the Pokemon. I was panting by the time the golden light engulfed the Gliscor and Mr. Kincaid's Miniremo exploded. Mr. Kincaid fell down to his knees and stared at me in horror as I walked up to him.

"But… how?" he said. "How could you beat me? You're just a little delinquent!"

"Mr. Kincaid," I said. "Even though it pains me to say this, you were a great teacher and are very gifted, why are you using your talents for evil? You could be doing so much more with your life."

Mr. Kincaid didn't reply, he simply stared at the ground. After a few seconds, he smiled, and then burst out laughing. He got to his feet slowly, laughing maniacally. I took a few steps back. "It doesn't matter anyway!" He shouted, still laughing. "Who cares if I lost! You're already too late, and I don't say that out of spite, either!"

"What do you mean?" I said, taking another step back.

"The Incredible Machine in those blueprints are already ninety nine percent complete," Mr. Kincaid replied, his creepy smile still plastered on his face. "When the boss switches on that machine… Team Dim Sun's future will shine with the colors of darkness! I made it all possible! Dim Sun's future is built on my sacrifice! I did it by posing as the Ranger School's teacher and recruiting a boy genius! We couldn't of done any of this without you, Isaac!"

Isaac, Sven and I could only stare in horror as Mr. Kincaid started laughing again. We were about to leave, but suddenly the entire oil rig shook.

"What was that?" Sven asked. "Did something hit the rig?"

Everyone, except Mr. Kincaid, rushed over to a window. Outside, we saw the giant Wailord ramming into the side of the building. "It's a Wailord! It's trying to destroy our base!" one of the Admins shouted.

"No!" Mr. Kincaid shouted, his inhuman laughter finally stopping. "I'm a man with a FUTURE! I cannot drown here with the likes of you!" He pushed a button on the armrest of his chair and it was engulfed by a giant capsule as it sank down into the ocean. The admins followed him down the shaft, along with the Wailmer. At least it got back to the ocean. Isaac stared at the newly formed hole in the ground.

"Mister… Kincaid?" he said, his eyes wide. "The Incredible Machine? It's not a machine for promoting peace between people and Pokemon?"

Sven and I walked up to Isaac. "Hey, are you okay?" I asked. Isaac nodded, but didn't reply.

"We should keep moving, then," Sven said. "Let's go, guys." He walked out of the room and went back into the hallway.

"Come on, Isaac," I said, starting to follow Sven. Isaac nodded and walked out with me. We found Sven waiting for us in the hallway.

"I'd say this day was pretty good!" Sven said. "We got the blueprints, we rescued the Wailmer, and Isaac even got to say goodbye to Kincaid! I'd say that's Mission Clear, Sparkette!"

I smiled, but didn't have the heart to do my Ranger Pose. Not when Isaac was this upset. "I don't think we should start celebrating, though," I said. "It sounds like this machine of theirs is almost done."

"Isaac, can you open the door to the emergency exit?" Sven asked. Isaac nodded and walked out of the hallway, leaving Sven and I in his wake.

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