Author's note: It's been too long since I've had some fun. Let's hear a shout for the REGULAR RG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, so there's a bit of fluff...Good fluff...Very CUTE fluff. So...I like this chapter. You will too, but only if you like violence and CUTE fluff.

HAPPY SIX MONTH ANNIVERSARY TO ROGUE GENETICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"5!"

"Yes?"

"Are you ready? No mistakes this time, you must finish your mission without fail."

"Yes father."

"Then be off! Just follow the locator to 1."

"How are the ACT and the GAC coming along?"

"Fine. Now go!"

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Winter was fast approaching. All the group members were feeling the temperature drop slowly; Kip's Pokénav had been telling them that the temperature was down to seasonably low temperatures for the part of Hoenn they were in.

"Not too much longer, and it'll be as cold as Blackthorn," Gaby said. All envied her because she had a tolerance to cold and snow. Lily was especially pissed because winter meant one thing: Hiding.

"Where are we going to bed down for winter?" Lily asked. They looked confused.

"Oh, that's right, you're a Charizard. And I suppose you guys won't be able to take a good trip to Kanto or Johto."

"Is it warmer?"

"Maybe. It's hard to say. If we go to Blackthorn in Johto, we'll have a hell of a time keeping warm. But Cianwood Island should be pretty warm. Of course, you have to contend with vicious rainstorms..."

"No."

"Alright...I know! Azalea Town! They're pretty South..."

"Gaby, winter's only a few weeks away. We'll never get there in time."

"And how do you know all the best spots in Johto?" Seth asked.

"Hmm..." Gaby said sarcastically. "Look at my Pokémon. Notice that they're all JOHTO's and KANTO's?! If I could take a guess at which of these continents I came from originally..." Her eyes flashed quickly over at Kieran "...I'd bet I was from Johto."

"That doesn't solve my problem," Lily said.

"Um...Ok. How about we just find a nice Southern tip of Hoenn and stick around there. Maybe find a beach or something. Or an island!" Kip suggested. Gaby stared at him.

"You know Kip, I think that's the smartest suggestion you've ever made!"

"Shut up."

"No, that was!" Kieran said. Everyone laughed. Gaby tried very hard not to but had to smile.

They continued on, heading South. Progress was slow because the days were getting darker faster, and they could only continue on for a while before it got too dark. The scent in the air was fresh and cold. They decided to sleep in little alcoves in the side of a cliff that veered off to their left.

All was quiet and peaceful. The trees around them (Which were sparse) were rusting and dropping leaves. Very uncharacteristically, Kieran dropped off first, and Gaby soon after. Resting felt good. Almost too good...

A sharp crack broke the silence. The only one still awake, Seth, glanced around with one bleary eye. Something was very strange...This sleep felt too good. It was almost unnatural...

Then something caught his eye. A glittering, pinkish dust was outside his alcove. He stuck his hand outside to touch it and immediately lost all feeling to that hand. He withdrew it quickly.

Were they under a swarm of Butterfree? No, they didn't come this way this late in the season. Then why was there powder outside his window?

It's an ambush! Team Rocket!

Seth tried to yell out, but all he could manage was a small cry. Kieran heard this through his sleep and woke up.

"Hey Seth, what's-?" Kieran asked, trying to rub his eyes. But his hand didn't move. In fact, he didn't hear himself speak. And Seth didn't give him and answer.

Stun Spore and Sleep powder! We're under attack! And it looks like the others know it too!

He was right. They were all Paralyzed badly, so much that they couldn't move an inch. Kieran was the highest of the group, and he blended into the surrounding darkness. He doubted their pursuers could see him. He was also above most of the spore and wasn't as badly Paralyzed. But the others wouldn't be so lucky.

"Let's see..." Said an unfamiliar male voice. "Well, we've got a boy..." A thump was heard as Kip was dragged from his hiding place and brought to the ground. The sounds of someone shuffling to tie him up were heard, "and here's the Charizard morph, 002!" Another thump, followed by more shuffling. "Where's the...Oh, here's Dr. Sakio's son! Good, good! He'll be happy we found you. But where's the other one, the one..."

"Just hurry up!" Came a voice. This one was also male. It sounded like it belonged to a 17 year old. "I want to get this over with as quickly as we can. Find the girl!"

"Got her! She's a feisty one...Ow!!" A man said. Gaby was forcefully dropped from a great height. Kieran could tell by the scent of blood and the cry that Gaby had bitten the man. "Ouch! Damn girl..."

"There you are, my Rival!" 005 said, looking down at Gaby. She looked up at him. "Long time no see! I hope you've enjoyed your days free? Of course, you're likely to break out again." Gaby made a muffled attempt to answer. "You! Give her a healing dose! Just enough for her to talk."

"Nice to see you again 5!" Gaby said. So she knows him? And he knows her? "So why did you come to get me if you knew you wouldn't have a chance of containing us?"

"Simple. We have to disable you. That's the whole purpose to my mission."

"Disable me? And where's that sister of yours?"

"She's at the lab."

"And the disable? What are you gonna do, cut my leg off or something?"

"So simple-minded... No, we're not cutting a limb off. I suppose we should do this now. Unfortunately, this will only work for one attack, but we've figured which to get rid of."

"I don't understand."

I get it! They're going to use a device to get rid of one of Gaby's abilities...But which?

"Get the other two!" The boy snapped. Kieran heard a Pokéball being released and the sound of another thump.

"So, this is the creature you've dubbed 'Silversong'?" The boy said, observing the paralyzed Lugia. "And this...What's your name?"

"Damn you! Leave them alone!!"

"I simply asked your name. But I'll call you..."

"Seaflyer. Any name given by you would coat me in filth."

"So poetic for a trapped creature," 005 said. "Now that we have all three of you...Move the others. Set them next to each other."

Dragging sounds were heard, as well as muffled cries. Kieran felt his limbs regaining some form of life; He found he was able to move over enough to see what was going on below him and still blend into the dark. He was regaining feeling much more quickly.

Gaby, Silversong, and Seaflyer were laying next to each other, the others tied to a tree and gagged. Lily had a restraint over her neck, blocking her powers and immobilizing her.

The boy he guessed to be 005 was holding a small cylinder shape in his hand. It looked like a baton or wand or something of the sort. An inscription was on it, but it was too dark and too far away for Kieran to make it out.

Why haven't they gone after me? Wait...They don't know I'm here! I better use that to my advantage...But there's no way to help them. Not yet...I can't move that much yet.

"What the hell are you doing?" Gaby asked, eyeing the stick-thing with fear. 005 smiled.

"This won't hurt...Ok, I lied. I'm going to erase a move from each of you; a move you all share. No, not Aeroblast. That would be a waste. No, the move you're all losing is Recover. You see, it's a never-ending battle against you if you all can just heal yourselves and anyone else whenever you want. Sure, Aeroblast is a powerful attack, but dodging it and setting up barriers only takes practice. But healing yourself...That's a tricky thing to counter. So..."

He held the baton-thing up, then pointed it at the three. They immediately glowed. Gaby, the only one having voice, screamed. Kieran knew Seaflyer was screaming too, although he couldn't hear it. Silversong was enduring it, but even it was getting to him. This continued for a minute. The three tied to the tree were struggling fiercely to get free. But that wasn't working. When if finally subsided, all three were breathing heavily.

"Now let's see...Ah, yes. I'm only supposed to take one of you back with me. Come on, Seth. Your father's anxious to see you again."

Kieran found that his immune system had countered the Paralysis and he could move again. Whoever this guy is, he knows everyone here. And he wants to take Seth! Not on my watch!!!!!!

He quickly transformed into his Mightyena form and jumped down, landing lightly beside the tree. Fortunately, no-one was looking in his direction at that exact moment, giving him a second to use his claws and free his friends. He bit off Lily's restraint.

"What the...?" 005 said he saw them all free. Unfortunately for Kieran, 005 had enhanced sight, and was able to make out a dark form among the rest of the black. "Get it!"

"Uh...Get what?" The rest of the men asked. They could not see what 005 was talking about.

"The thing that just let these...Oh, I suppose you're a bit busy...." 005 cut off as he saw Lily, Kip and Seth either using Pokémon or themselves to attack the team of 50 Rockets and Aqua. "Fine, I'll just take care of this myself!"

005 turned to the black shape. Even straining his sight he could not make out what it was. 005's eyes started to glow around the edges as he used telekinesis. He would throw this thing in the air and bash it into the ground for what it did...But...

My powers! They're...They're not working!!!!! What is this...?

Kieran realized it. A Latios morph! And most of his attacks involve telekinesis! That means he won't be able to hit me that often!! And that also means I do double damageto him!

Kieran leapt out of the shadows onto the frustrated and confused morph, biting hard into his shoulder. 005 gave a yell of pain and tried to throw the still unidentified Pokémon off of him. He wasn't very successful. Kieran put his front paws onto 005's shoulders and latched himself onto his back. But before he could snap his neck with his jaws, a Rocket who managed to separate himself from the all-out war came to help 005 and dislodged Kieran by hitting him forcefully with 5 inch-thick branch. The sheer force of impact snapped the branch clean in two. That sent Kieran flying, along with both pieces of the broken branch.

Gaby, Silversong and Seaflyer had all entered the battle, attacking with as much force as Lily (Which was saying something, seeing as most of the men were now afraid to go near her). But Rockets and Aqua rarely fight fair. While Gaby was attacking an Aqua, a fellow team member came up behind her and stabbed her in the back with a dagger. Gaby stopped mid-strike and fell down, the blade still in her. The two then started kicking the defenceless girl, causing her a lot of pain.

The others were too far away or too absorbed in a destructive state to help her. Kieran was battling furiously with 005, Lily was taking on 8 men at once in hand-to-hand combat, and Seth and Kip were both in triple Pokémon battles and kicking some serious ass. Seaflyer and Silversong were both having problems of their own, trying to cope with 10 Rockets at a time.

That left poor Gaby to be attacked brutally by these two. Their Psychic inhibitors were rendering her powers useless, with the wound in her back, she couldn't fight back at all.

Finally, Seth and Kip noticed. They were getting really frustrated. Rockets kept appearing out of nowhere, along with Aquas and now Magmas. Seeing Gaby being beat up finally made them crack.

"Ok, I'm pissed!!!!!!" Seth said. He took his remaining three Pokéballs and threw them into the air, releasing his remaining three. Kip did the same with his remaining two.

"Immobilize them, knock them out, kill them if you have to! I don't care what you do, just keep them busy!!!!!!!!!!"

The Pokémon started attacking the new wave of fiends fiercely. That left Kip and Seth free to help Gaby. But it was mass hysteria in front of them. Lily was now taking on 12, and Seaflyer and Silversong were dealing with 15 or more. Kieran and 005 were facing off, and they were getting more and more violent.

They bolted the scene, trying to dodge the battles. Right when they were about to make it, Kieran and 005 flew past them. Kip saw this before Seth did. He tackled Seth, forcing him to the ground as the battling pair soared over their heads. Another second and Seth would have been killed.

"Thanks," Seth said as they jumped up and continued their desperate run across the battles to Gaby. The two still beating upon a semi-limp Gaby were unaware of what was going on around them. Kip bolted forward and tackled one of the men, followed by Seth. Gaby was aware that she wasn't being kicked anymore and that the two boys were now trying to take down the adults twice their size. And that for some strange reason they were winning.

Seth was kicking madly at the man, choosing his strength over speed. In most scenarios, this wouldn't have worked, but it didn't really matter in this case because he was putting so much effort into the fight that he was winning.

Kip chose speed over strength, probably because he was smaller, younger, and less experience then Seth. Or because his opponent had incredible strength, but was too slow and stupid to do much with it. He rolled out of the way as the man lunged at him. He flung his leg out, tripping the man. Kip jumped back up again, and jumped on the man full weight in the stomach.

Seth was having a harder time now. The man was moving faster and overpowering him with his size advantage. The man threw a punch that knocked Seth clean off his feet. He landed and slid on the ground. The punch had left a big red mark on the side of his face that stung. Seth got to his feet again, facing the laughing man.

"Not so tough now that you've been hit, boy?" He said mockingly. Seth simply grinned.

"Oh...I don't know...Maybe you'd like to look behind you."

"I'm not that stupid. I won't fall for a cheap trick like that."

"Suit yourself," Seth said casually, shrugging. "Go ahead, Ironfight."

The man turned around and yelled as he saw the giant Aggron looming over him. With a bop on the head, the man was out cold. Seth pointed to Kip, who was having slight trouble with the man. He had lured him to the wall, and now Kip was trapped. Ironfight ran over, picked up the man just as he was about to make Kip see stars, and threw him into the throng.

"Great job! Now, let's go and help the rest. Ironfight, you and I will go help Lily. Kip, go help the Lugia."

"But what about Gaby?" Kip asked, looking for her. To his surprise, she was nowhere to be seen."

"There's nothing we can do about that now. Just go!"

Seth and his Pokémon ran off to help Lily, who was now practically buried under a pile of men. Ironfight charged through, scattering them. Lily jumped up and went back into a battle stance.

"Great idea!" She released her Pokémon to help. "Go get 'em, guys!" Lily's Pokémon charged off into the battle, taking most of her opponents away from her.

"What happened? Where's Kip and Gaby?" She asked Seth.

"Kip's fine, but Gaby's in real bad shape. We have to finish this now."

"That's not going to work. They're just teleporting more of them over here. At this rate we'll be battle for hours, maybe even days."

"We're not going to hold out that long."

"I know!"

"So what are we going to-"

"Look out!!!!"

Seth was cut off as one again Kieran and 005 flew past, blood flying. Lily pulled him out of the way to safety. Lily and Seth watched as the battle ensued. Kieran would be thrown repeatedly to the ground, but would disappear in Faint Attack and appear behind 005, attack, and send him flying. 005 would counter attack by whacking Kieran with his tail.

"It looks pretty even, doesn't it?" Seth said.

"We've got to help him!" Lily said.

"I don't think we can," Seth said, "But dark Pokémon might help!"

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Meanwhile, Kip had went to help Silversong and Seaflyer. They were having a hard time, and Seaflyer would have been captured or dead already if it hadn't been for her brother. Of course, Seaflyer had helped out Silversong a lot too, but when they were each contending with 25 people at a time, it's hard to keep up.

"Seaflyer! What the hell are you waiting for?!?! Use Whirlwind! You too, Silversong!" Kip said. The two Lugia blinked and wondered why they hadn't thought of that.

Kip ran quickly through the men, dodging their attempts to catch him and jumped onto Silversong. Then the two Lugia flapped their wings madly, creating little tornadoes and carrying all the men away. They smiled at each other and Kip got down.

"So...Why didn't you do that before?" Kip asked.

"Well...Uh...If you hadn't noticed, we had PEOPLE hanging off our wings?"

"I guess that would be kinda hard...But how did you get them off?"

'I guess they were startled by you. Or maybe the fact that we've been biting them off.'

"Oh..." Kip said. He pitied the poor men that had been bitten off. Though he didn't see any limbs on the ground... "C'mon! Let's go help the others. Quickzap's having a good time. Look, he's zapping them! Ooh...That one isn't getting up... Oh, and Aurora's having fun! Hope they can swim!"

Lily and Seth were looking for their Dark Pokémon in the hundreds of Rockets and Aquas and Magmas. Finally spotting Lily's Murkrow, who was being attack with sticks and rocks since he was flying so high, Lily whistled for him to come down. Blackbeak came immediately. Then they continued, Blackbeak flying up above the rest in search for the Pokémon. It cawed when if found Darkfaller, who was viciously taking down multitudes of men and Pokémon in the defence of Kip's hurt Espeon, Psylight. Lily ran forward and took down a wave of men using her tail, either hitting them or scorching them away. Darkfaller stopped.

"How bad is the Espeon?" Seth asked. The Houndoom stamped and growled. "That bad?" The Houndoom nodded.

"What's up with the Espeon?" Lily asked.

"It's been hurt really badly...It needs to go back inside a ball."

"That's not an option. Just carry it or something! We need to help Kieran!"

"Right."

Seth picked up the fainted Espeon and carried it back to the battling pair. Kip riding on Silversong alongside Seaflyer arrived about 3 seconds after them.

"What's...PSYLIGHT!!!!!!!" Kip said, looking at his Espeon in horror. "Give her here!" Seth Obediently passed the pitiful Pokémon up over to Kip. He returned her.

"She would have been dead or captured if Darkfaller hadn't protected her so fiercely," Lily said.

"Great job, Darkfaller!" Kip said, looking at his Houndoom. "But...Why are you here?" Lily had forgotten: It was so dark outside, Kieran was nearly invisible to humans. That's why none of the Rockets were helping 5.

"Kieran's fighting 5, and we brought Dark Pokémon to help him."

"Great thinking. I'm coming too. You guys ready?"

'Yes.'

"Let's bring that bastard down!!!!"

They bolted in, Kip and Silversong crashing directly into 005. That sent him flying, but he levitated mid-air and righted himself.

"Well, if it isn't our soon to be 006!" 005 said, regarding Kip. "And the little runaway and...Oh, you have a girlfriend now! Congrats!"

"I wouldn't get so cocky if I were you, bastard!"

"Ah yes, little poetic Seaflyer. You've seemed so much cuter before!"

"That's it, you're going DOWN!!!!!!!"

"Seaflyer! No! Wait!" Kip tried to caution, but to no avail. Seaflyer lunged forward at that exact time, which was fortunate because the two other darks leapt at that instant as well. 005 was taken aback by the attack and was brought down. Seaflyer whacked him with her tail with so much force that 005 was sent 2 feet down into the ground. Blackbeak scratched him on the face, making a deep gash in his cheek. Darkfaller bit hard into 005's leg with Crunch, causing 5 to let out a strangled cry. They all cleared away as Kieran came bounding towards them. He pounced on 005 before he could make a move. 005 clenched his teeth as the pain hit him. He threw Kieran off of him and stood up, though how he was able to they couldn't figure out. He glared menacingly at them.

"This isn't over!" He said. Then, touching something on his, he and all the Team Members disappeared.

"Yeah!!!!! We did it!!!!!!!" Lily said, hugging Seth. Seth seemed somewhat surprised and Kip even more so. Seth hugged back. Lily broke away from Seth and turned to a panting but happy Mightyena. "Great job, Kieran! I never knew you could fight so well!" Kieran un-transformed so that he could answer.

"Thanks!" Kieran said. Lily gasped. He was in horrid shape. His face was covered in blood, as well as most of the rest of him. He was breathing heavily and his clothes were in tatters. A very large cut was across his torso, stretching with ease from his shoulder to his opposite hip.

"Kieran! How are you even still alive?!?" Kip asked. Kieran shrugged.

"I'll probably pass out in a minute or two."

"Wow...Look at the mess we made..." Lily remarked, looking at the battlefield. The once pleasant valley now resembled an abandoned war site.

"Wait...Where's Gaby?" Kieran asked. Lily noticed as well.

"Yeah, where is she? I thought she was with you!"

"Two guys were beating her up...Kip and I went to help. But when we knocked them out, she was gone."

"I'm r-right here, guys," Said a very soft and weak voice from behind them. They all wheeled around. There was Gaby, standing there, smiling faintly, every inch of her bruised and bloody. She fell to her knees and fell forward onto the ground. They all ran over to Gaby.

"G-Gaby!" Lily said. All the Pokémon had worked their way over to them, some carrying the unconscious of injured bodies of their comrades. Now there were all standing beside their severely injured friend. Gaby was breathing heavily. The blood was staining the white t-shirt she was wearing a horrible red-ish black colour, and they could tell that the knife wound had gone very deep.

"We need to get her into a cave or something," Lily said. "This looks bad..."

"Lily, this isn't just bad," Kieran said. "That's really, really deep. Another half inch and it's right into her stomach."

Why are they so worried? Gaby asked from her unconsciousness. Only Silversong could hear.

'Gaby, you're not fine,' Silversong said. 'You're in serious trouble. This is the worst I've ever seen you.'

Oh, come on! It can't be worse then when I that giant Gyarados 'bumped' into me?

'Oh Gaby, I'm afraid it's much worse. Much, much worse.'

Oh.

Things had been going well for the group up until this point. Now their fortunes had taken a deadly turn: A turn that might kill one of them.