Well welcome to another chapter. Now I actually liked writing this chapter because it has a lot of juicy info, I'll be interested to hear what you guys/gals make of the info. I really love the beginning and I do hope that everyone likes it as much as I liked writing it because its just awesome (Or so it felt awesome in my head lol). Anyways... This chap will also have some good spicy character bulding, but I'll let you read for yourself. Anyways enjoy the chap and thanks for reading!

Chapter 36: The Near Future?

Point of View Flare

I was now slowly waking up and I discovered that I was lying on the cold ground in an unfamiliar area. My vision was intensely blurred and I could hardly see anything besides bright lights off in the distance that appeared to be scorching flames. I strained my eyes to make it out but my vision refused to cooperate with me.

I then felt something wet trickling down my chest, I took my paw and swabbed the wet substance that was on my chest and held my paw up in my sight and my vision then stabilized finally and revealed blood on my paw. I then shifted my gaze down and saw blood flowing out of my chest. I had a minor gash in my chest and I was slowly loosing blood at a steady paste.

Now that my vision was back to normal I looked out to the distance and I saw blazing flames covering multiple building and I heard the sound of people yelling in terror off in the distance and then I heard a creaking noise from one of the buildings that was on fire, then all I could hear was the loud crashing sound of a building collapsing on itself and a big wave of debris covered the whole area and it was all I could see besides the lights of flames through the debris. My ears were now ringing from the loud crashing noise as I tried to get a grip on myself and all I could now hear besides the ringing in my ears was the pounding of my heart and my heavy breaths.

"W-What's going on" I then asked myself in a weak voice that I could hardly hear from the ringing in my ears.

Then I heard a loud fierce roar that would make any pokemon cower in fear off towards my left, I hesitantly looked in that direction afraid of what I was going to see and my jaw dropped at the sight of a dragonite blowing flames everywhere around the unknown city I was in. It appeared that the dragonite was the source of the chaos in the area and possible my current injuries. I then noticed that I was quivering in fear, I tried to take a deep breath to calm myself but nothing seemed to help neutralize my emotions.

I then realized that this was beyond serious and I started looking for someone that could help me and then I saw Kana lying on the ground unconscious or… dead. All I could focus on was the pool of blood forming around her and my imagination instantly assumed the worst scenario possible.

"Kana" I called out in terror to the jolteon but she didn't reply, but the dragonite noticed my words and stopped using its flamethrower on the buildings and looked at me with a dark glare that only seeked to destroy everything in its path. The dragonite then began to make its way towards me as it took giant steps that made a loud stomping noise as it got closer to me. As the dragonite got closer I then began to notice its size difference compared to how a normal dragnite was. This thing was easily twice the size of an average dragnite and was no doubt twice as deadly and a small pokemon like me wouldn't even stand a chance of scratching a pokemon of that size.

Seeing the dragnite coming towards me I instantly realized that this was like or death and I began to struggle up to my feet in an attempt to fight for my life. Around when I was halfway up to my paws I suddenly felt a strong tearing feeling and I then felt blood burst out of my wound along with a sharp pain and I fell down with a loud screech of pain as I cringed from the excruciating feeling. I then looked up once my pain subsided a little and I saw the dragonite charging up a flamethrower that was directed straight towards me.

I then realized that this was the end for me and I closed my eyes to shield me from the terror and prayed that the flames would at least kill me instantly so I wouldn't suffer. I waited a few seconds as I shook in fear but my death never came, I then opened my eyes and saw Black standing right in front of me in a defensive position as he stared at the dragonite and let out a vicious growl that set my teeth on edge.

The dragonite was still charging it's breath of hell as Black and the dragonite stared each other down. Black showed no sign of fear towards his foe and stood his ground. Black then began sprinting at light speed towards the dragonite as it released its flamethrower straight towards Black. My eyes were instantly blinded from the heat and bright colors of the flame as I clenched my eyes shut. All I did manage to make out was a fiery inferno that was covering everything where Black was and I was hardly even safe from the flames.

"Black!" I yelled in terror as I tried to open my eyes but couldn't make anything out through the inferno that the dragonite released.

My eyes instantly shot open and I quickly stood up on all four of my paws in nearly a split second. I then looked around and the first thing I noticed was the lack of fire and chaos everywhere and instead that the area was peaceful. It then snapped in my head and I realized that it was only a dream and no one was in danger and for a matter of fact everyone appeared to be sleeping serenely. My vision was then redirected off into the distance towards the ocean where I could see the sun starting to peak over the horizon and begin its cycle over the world we inhabited.

"Whoa that was… interesting" I said to myself as I reflected on that odd dream that still had me shaking slightly in fear. I knew that it was only a dream but I was still shocked from how realistic the dream was, most dreams were vivid and hard to even remember, but this one felt like reality.

I then looked over at Kana who was breathing gently as she rested her head on her paws. I was so happy that it was only a dream and none of it was true. I then counted my blessings and walked away from the sleeping jolteon.

'What was that' I asked myself. I just prayed to Mew that that wasn't any kind of vision or I was not looking forward to my future and I think everyone else could easily agree without second thought.

"You look like you had a good dream" I heard an acquainted voice call out from behind me. My head then cocked back and my vision revealed Black standing behind me with a bored expression on his face as the umbreon looked at me with groggy eyes that were barely open.

"Oh hey Black and what would possibly make you think that" I asked as I tilted my head a little in a curious manner as I awaited a logical response from the tired umbreon.

Black then let out a small smirk "Oh nothing I've just had enough nightmares to recognize someone waking up like that."

"Well no I was just sleeping funny and I just got up really fast" I then said quickly in my own defense, although I realized that I replied so fast that it made it more obvious that I was lying.

"Uh huh right" Black then teased.

"And what about you, you said you had nightmares" I said in an attempt to redirect the subject.

Blacks face then went to a serious look as he stared me in the eyes, then shortly after his face relaxed and revealed a small smirk "I constantly dream about magikarp taking over this world and enslaving us land pokemon" Black said in a fake disturbed voice.

"What is it with you and magikarp" I then asked as I pondered why he was so obsessed with them.

Black's head then tilted a little at my question as he wore a confused look "I don't know honestly."

"Of course you don't." I replied.

"So what was your nightmare then" Black asked me.

I don't know why but I didn't want to tell him about my dream mostly because of how bizarre it was "You know, I don't even remember. I just remember it being peculiar" I said with a fake laugh at the end.

"You're a dirty liar" Black said with a frown on his face.

"Okay Ryder" I said jokingly as I gave him a small nudge with my paw.

"Hey! why you calling me that now" Black yelled in an annoyed voice.

I just replied with a small laugh at the umbreon's frustration.

"Well your small" Black said as he gave me a nudge and sent me down on the sandy ground. The umbreon then looked at me as he winced a little bit "Ugh whoops" Black then said awkwardly as he realized his mistake.

"I'm not short, the whole world's just tall" I then shouted as I got back up on my paws.

Black just let out a small smile at my joke and said "Your logic is flawless."

"When are we leaving by the way" Black then asked me.

The question then processed through my brain as the neurons in my brain connected and made a logical answer "Eventually" I bluntly said with a toothy grin showing on my face.

Point of View Stark

I was still in Luminose city with Vincent and Merrick and we were now outside a warehouse that appeared to have been condemned long ago. The outside of the warehouse had cargo crates scattered all around and were pretty worn down and I was really questioning why we were wasting our time here out of all places in Kalos.

Merrick was walking with us along the warehouse on his two legs and he held a big bag in his hand which he was twirling around to amuse himself. I constantly wondered what was in the bag but I could only assume my anticipation would be cut short by a creature with a primitive mind like his.

"What's the purpose of coming here" I asked in hope that one of my two colleagues would reply.

Vincent then looked at me out of the corner of his eye as we walked along the side of the warehouse "We are here to destroy something of Genesis's" Vincent said with a sly smile.

"And what would they possible have here" I asked with interest.

"Genesis bought out this warehouse long ago for the sole purpose of storing data and small amounts of money."

Shortly after walking along the warehouse we eventually came upon a door that led into the warehouse. Vincent didn't even bother to open the door and instead smashed it open with his psychic powers and sent it flying into the warehouse.

Vincent didn't waste any time and walked in along with the quilava, I also followed in as I looked around cautiously. The warehouse had long rows of cargo everywhere and they were rusted and covered in dust as well. I couldn't also help but noticed that some of the cargo crates appeared to be melted slightly and have burn marks on them and it almost looked like a battle went down here.

"Hard to believe we were here not even to long ago" Merrick said as he reflected on recent memories.

"What were you doing here" I then asked.

"Merrick and I were here and we had a little fun with Vincent's brother" Merrick responded with a big smile on his face.

"Wait why didn't you do what you needed to do here back then" I then asked with slight annoyance as I tried to understand there thinking method.

"Because back then Genesis was our ally, they just let us barrow this warehouse as a headquarters while we were on that mission, back then our two organizations had a solid truce and we would have never imagined us going against them, although we never really liked them, just the benefits we got from them" Vincent replied.

"And how did you fail to apprehend Ryder, it's not like he is strong or anything" I questioned. I mean he wasn't the only reason I failed was because Zero had

Vincent then exchanged a glance with Merrick and then looked back at me "It's not that we couldn't beat him, it's that we choose not to" Vincent replied and I then completely felt confused on their logic and why the hell they would do something so stupid and counterproductive.

"What, why" I then asked as if they were morons.

Vincent then let out a small sigh "We simply wanted to just remind Ryder that we were still out there, things still need to be done before Ryder is where we need him and for our plan to be done effectively a lot of things must be met and we can't quite capture him until things are ready or our plan won't work and everything would have been done in vein."

"Then why send me after him" I then asked.

"We told Genesis to create you as a reanimation and not to have you go after him yet, they almost caused us a lot of trouble because of that misunderstanding" Vincent said. Then confusion over took my brain. Genesis told me to go after Ryder and that one black scyther who was with Crimson even assisted me.

"That scyther, what was his name Kane?" I asked as I tried to recall his name.

"Yeah" Vincent replied.

"Why was he trying to help me capture Black then, he may have not fought him but he was helping me capture him, isn't he on your side?" I then asked as confusion continued to take its course in my mind.

Vincent flinched at the question "hmm that's odd, he knows better, so why would he do that. I can't help you on that one. I would talk to him but the guy never talks."

"So back to the original subject though, what needs to be done before Black or Ryder or whatever his name is needs to get captured" I asked as I looked the crimson eyed espeon dead in the eyes.

"Mandus wants to be sure we can trust you before we tell you more about project Kurokami" Vincent said and my ears then pricked up a little from hearing those words. Then a memory of Zero telling me to keep an ear open for something about project Kurokami came into my mind. That diffidently confirmed that they had something to do with this Kurokami project and I was honestly intrigued. It sounded interesting and it had to be if a business as big as Genesis cared so much about it.

"Then what can you tell me of project Kurokami" I asked cautiously.

"Kurokami is many things. Just know that project Kurokami will change this world forever and justify everything bad that we have done to help try and complete it" Vincent said as he looked towards the ground.

Then I felt slight annoyance that the espeon actually thought there was atonement for pokemon like us "Does that justify the slaughter of your family and all the lives you ruined" I then asked with spite in my voice.

"If everything goes as planned we'll save more lives than we took. It will be the dawn of a new world, a world of peace, a world without violence or hatred. A world full of equal pokemon" Vincent said as he held his head up with pride as he enlightened me on his motives.

Then a thought came into my head "And what about human's" I asked as I noticed they were left out from what he said.

"That is a matter that is still being debated actually" Vincent said.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Let me explain" Vincent said as he sat down and prepared to give me a lecture "It's not secrete that humans are the cause of everything bad in this world. Humans created a world that revolves around a government and an economy. Now for there to be an efficient economy there has to be a lower class a middle class and then an upper class."

"What are you getting at" I then interrupted as I failed to see his point.

"I'm getting to that now pay attention" Vincent said in annoyance "Now this whole world revolves around an economy and what runs an economy" Vincent then asked.

"Money?" I replied.

"Exactly money, if you have money your somebody and you can do anything and have whatever you want, but money causes greed and corruption. The world is being destroyed by the economy humans have created. Think about the environment's, the pokemon being hurt and the oil the humans love so much and let's not forget war and that alone could destroy our planet and it is all done to make profit or to benefit another man's greed" Vincent said as I began to understand what he was getting at.

"The economy of this world promotes greed, thus giving birth to businesses like Genesis who will do anything for money. Money is also the cause of your pain as well Stark" Vincent said as he stared me dead in the eyes and I then felt myself become more interested in the conversation.

"Think about it. Your old trainer was a hit-man and would do anything for money. He then got a pokemon like you and trained you to be a vicious killer and made profit off your sins, not once did he care about your personal feelings. It all came down to money and he would do anything to get it even if it caused you your life, which it did" Vincent said. Thoughts then came into my head about the horrible things my old trainer made me do just to make a small profit. All the lives I ruined and all the blood I've spilt just for paper with numbers on it that held no value to me. My whole life I worked for that sack of shit and never once did I benefit from it, it was all for him and I was just his slave.

"The reason we are debating on whether humans should live or not is that if humans are allowed in the new world they'll just recreate a world that is fueled by greed and they will create a civilization similar to todays, a world that is slowly decaying without a hope of light" Vincent said as his words began to make sense to me.

"We want a world where pokemon and humans can live as equals, we are tired of being at the bottom of the classes, we have no rights and humans will make us work tirelessly for them to get money. Pokemon don't have a place in this world so we must create a new one that we can all coexist, but at the same time we don't know if that is possible, we truly do want a world where we can live as equals but it may not work out" Vincent said with a small frown on his face.

"So you seek a world where everyone can be equal" I then asked.

"Yes and we are afraid that it won't be possible with humans" Vincent then said.

"What about the pokemon we fought yesterday, they were trafficking their own kind to make money, pokemon can be just as easily be corrupted" I then said in an attempt to contradict his argument.

Vincent then began nodding his head at me "Yes corrupted by the money that humans made, studies have shown that area's with pokemon only have nothing like pokemon trafficking, simply because everything goes off the worlds natural cycle of life, not an economy or a government that is corrupt" Vincent retorted.

"I understand but how is it possible then to get rid of civilization" I then asked.

"I promise if you can earn our trust I'll explain everything to you as much as you want, but we are on a mission so let's start by finishing that up" Vincent said as he turned towards the quilava who was kicking a rock around on the ground.

"Merrick we're ready" Vincent called out towards the quilava and he then kicked the rock as hard as he could and sent it flying and he looked at Vincent with a smile. "Let's go then, this'll be fun" Merrick said with a toothy grin. Merrick then reached into the bag he was carrying and revealed a couple sticks that were in a bundle and appeared to have a timer on it.

"Go set the charges, I'd like to show Stark something" Vincent said as he directed me to follow him. Vincent had me follow him to the middle of the warehouse in an opening. In the opening I could see a small blood stain on the floor along with tools scattered everywhere as if there was a chaotic fight here at one point.

"There" Vincent said as he pointed at a crate that looked a lot newer then the other crates. The crate had a big lock on it which was chained around the crate securely so no one could get in it without the right tools.

"What's in it" I then asked as I observed the massive cargo crate.

"Look for yourself" Vince said as the red gem on his head flashed a bright red and the lock on the cargo crate exploded and the chain slid off the cargo crate. The door then slowly cracked open and revealed stacks of money stacked on top of each other that filled the entire crate up. My jaw instantly fell at the infinite sight of money that must have been millions at least.

"H-How much is in their" I said in amazement as I rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn't just seeing things.

"More than anyone could ever count. I'd estimate at least ten-million dollars and there is also a few other crates like this hidden throughout this warehouse as well" Vincent said as he looked at the money in disgust.

"How do they make all of this money" I asked.

"They make pokemon like you that are superior to others and then they sell them on a black market for a lot of cash" Vincent said as he continued to eyeball the money with spite "Money that is used to make pokemon suffer when they should be with their families and friends enjoying their life."

"The dark science's Genesis does is taboo, that is why they are an underground business but that is also why they get paid so much got their specimen" Vincent then said.

Merrick then came out of nowhere and walked up to the crate that was filled with money and gave a big smile "Oh I've always wanted to do this" Merrick said as he eyeballed the money and licked his lips as if he was looking at a tasty meal.

The quilava then took in a deep breath and launched a big flamethrower inside the crate and cremated the money completely as he let out a hysterical laugh as he watched the money burn in bright orange flames.

"Oh that felt good, I love pissing on Genesis's profits" The quilava said as he laughed.

"Are the charges planet" Vincent then asked in a serious tone.

The quilava then stopped laughing and looked at the espeon with a serious glance "Yep, we got about seven minutes to get the hell out of here before this place goes boom" Merrick said as he started walking towards the exit. Vincent then followed and I did the same since I didn't want to end up like the money he just burned into nothing.

Once we reached the exit my eyes burned from the sunlight that I could never get used to, Merrick and Vincent continued walking away from the facility as I continued to follow them. Once we were across the street from the facility Merrick then signaled us to stop walking and the quilava turned around and stared at the facility with excited eyes.

"Light the fuse bitches" Merrick then yelled out with a lot of enthusiasm.

A few seconds passed by and nothing happened and I started to wonder if he set the bombs up right. Then my eyes were blinded by a bright flash of light as the facility had a huge explosion go off in it that caused the entire left side of the building to collapse to the ground. Then a few seconds after that another one of the bombs went off in the center of the building and started a domino effect as they all set off each other in fiery explosions. The building completely collapsed on itself as it was engulfed in flames. Merrick let out a hysterical laugh as I heard civilians in the area scream bloody murder and run for their lives at what they probably assumed was a terrorist attack.

"We should leave" Vincent said as he began to walk away and didn't bother to wait for us. I agreed with him and followed and Merrick followed us with his hysterical laugh that made me want to just punch him in the nose until he realized how annoying his laugh was.

Point of View Flare

Everyone eventually woke up and Alex got us all going with his usual peppy attitude and we were now on our way towards Cyllage city. We continued to make our way down the beach of route eight as everyone engaged in entertaining conversations. Gray and ebony appeared to really be the only two who weren't talking. I always wondered if Ebony was going to ever socialize with any of us or if she was going to just stay like that forever. Although I decided I would give her space since she was going through a lot at the moment and I didn't want to bring up her sister again or any other harmful memories.

Hesh was now educating Black on all the movies that he had watched in his days although Black looked really confused on the subject and just made sarcastic remarks to everything Hesh said. Obviously Hesh knew Black's humor so he wasn't offended by his odd humor.

Kana on the other hand was just trotting along with Hesh and Black and she added her insight to the conversation here and there. And then that left me, I didn't really have anything to do other than remember my dream from last night. It was so realistic and it could have even been mistaken as real.

It was just so bizarre and real and I just couldn't help but want to make something of it. I mean could it have been a vision of some kind or was it just my imagination being overly active. In rare cases fennekin's have been known to unlock parts of their brains that allowed them to use psychic abilities but never before has a fennekin predicted the future.

"It doesn't make sense" I then blurted out loud in frustration and everyone just looked at me as if I was insane.

I then realized how much of an idiot I sounded like and I instantly just wanted to undo that "Sorry… Go back to doing your things" I said as I put the palm of my paw on my face and attempted to rub off the embarrassment. I then just continued walking in silence as I pondered the thoughts

Chapter End

Author Note: Well this chapter had some things I could only imagine would have been interesting, or so I'd hope or I'm a failure as a writer XD. Now Flares dream can mean many things and I'm always a strong believer in dreams meaning stuff. We'll all have to see how things roll out later on with that.

Now on to Vincent and Stark's discussion on the economy and stuff. First I'd like to state that I'm not leaning this story towards Government conspiracies and stuff like that, but I'm more getting into how humans (That's US!) play a huge role in destroying the world (Also I'm not a hippie XD) and I thought that topic was interesting for a pokemon who see's no value in money and economies and see's humans as creatures who are destroying the world they all live in. I do hope all of that made sense and it will most certainly not be the last time that topic come's up. Maybe now more of Crimson's motives are revealed and you guys/gals can start to make out what kind of pokemon they are. Well I think that was a chap with a lot of content and hopefully you all loved it because I sure as hell did lol. Thanks for reading and thanks to all of those who support my story in any way, and I know I say this after every chap but I have to since I don't want to sound ungrateful ;P.

Thanks Again and if you got any questions about stuff you don't understand feel free to ask.