Diamond

Pokemon-

Monferno (Punchy)

Buneary (Hoppy)

Hippowdon (Sandy)

Murkrow (Poopy)

Diamond's bad at nicknames…

Pearl

Pokemon-

Prinplup (Humpy)

Ponyta (Brokeback)

Staravia (Orgy)

Dawn

Pokemon-

Turtwig

Shellos

Drifloon

Jack

Pokemon

Chatot (Jesus?)

Riley

Pokemon

Gallade

Rhyperior

Regigigas

Lucario

Marley

Pokemon

Crobat

Arcanine

"Would you two stop that already!?" I shrieked. Riley and Cheryl bashfully pulled away from each other. "Fucking disgusting… And Riley! Why are you kissing her in the first place? You guys barely know each other!" Riley considered my question for a moment.

"Well… Let's put it this way. Let's say I go to Home Depot and I meet one of the Mexicans outside of it. I tell him 'Oye ese yo tengo algunos tubos en casa necesitado de la reparación. ¿Los podría fijar usted para mí?' which means 'Hey dude I have some pipes at home in need of repair. Could you fix them for me?' But lets say instead of fixing my pipes, he anally rapes me and-."

"Eww… What's your point Riley?"

"I'm getting to it. I know if Cheryl ever finds out something like that happened to me, she'd not only find and murder the Mexican that raped me but also find a way to nuke Mexico until it was decimated off the face of the Earth… just to make sure no other Mexicans rapes me again."

"So… You want me to nuke Mexico for you?" Cheryl asked. "I can totally do that! I just need to call up my Uncle Vladimir up at the nuclear weaponry department and-."

"No! What I mean is that I knew from the beginning that you'd do just about anything for me… And I want to have the opportunity to do the same for you," Riley said simply. Tears welled up in Cheryl's eyes again, but this time they were from happiness. She threw her arms around Riley's neck.

"You're the best Riley…" She said adoringly.

"The best there is," he said merrily. He looked down at his watch and frowned. "Hmm… It's taking Byron way too long to come back… I think the four of us should head over to Iron Island to see if anything's wrong with him."

"Four of us?" I asked. "There are only three of us."

"That's where you're wrong Diamond," he said poking me in the nose in the process. "Marley's still in town and we could use her help if a problem arises."

"Okay. Go get her so we can head out," Cheryl interjected.

"Umm… It's not that simple…"

"How come?" I asked.

"Well… Marley has a bit of an attitude... and the Team Galactic incident didn't exactly help her sense of generosity… Before she left to come here she told me 'I'm never helping you again Riley and if you, Diamond or Pearl ever come around asking for favors I'm going to have a pack a Houndooms with AIDS eat you furry twats'."

"Well she sounds friendly…" Cheryl said sarcastically. "Let me handle this one Riley. I'll get her to come around. Just tell me where to go."

"I think she might be still at the Canalave library."

"Okay. See you in a few minutes Riley," Cheryl said before planting a kiss on Riley's cheek and running (in heels, mind you) off towards the library.

"I told you she'd do anything for me," Riley said rubbing the spot where she kissed him.

"That's not exactly a good thing Riley… Watch. Nicaragua's gonna be underwater by next week…" I said. Cheryl came back with Marley about a half hour later. They seemed to be getting along well enough. They seemed to be having a conversation about Riley. Marley, however, never once looked away from the book she was reading.

"In all honesty Cheryl, I used to think Riley was gay. Or at least one of those ambiguous fruity guys like Willy Wonka, Nights or the Artist Formerly Known as-."

"Prince. I know…"

"Anyway, I'd wish you two the best of luck together but I'm not that kind of person…"

"Uh… Thanks?"

"There you are!" Riley exclaimed. He pulled me, Marley and Cheryl together into a group hug. "It's like we're all one big family!" He said merrily.

"How the hell are we a family?" Marley protested. "And get out of there you cheap pervert!" Riley's hug had pulled my face into Marley's um… chesticles… She pushed me off of her and gave me a punch in the stomach and an uppercut to Riley's jaw.

"OW! What was that for you crazy skank?!" I yelled.

"To teach you some fucking manners you testicle farmer!"

"I'm more civilized than you, you emo whore!"

"I'm not emo! And you're about as civilized as a Primeape in heat!" If we were anything like a family then Marley must be my irritable, emo, misanthropic older sister…

"Okay, cut it out you two!" Cheryl said separating us. Marley gave me one last venomous glare before burying her nose in her book again. I looked at the cover and read the title in my head. She was reading 'Mien Kampf' By Adolf Hitler… She must want to find a way to kill Jews… Riley looked back and forth between Iron Island out in the distance and the Canalave Shipyard.

"It will take forever to get a boat regularly…"

"Wait here…" Cheryl said before sprinting into the Shipyard. A few minutes later she came out on a boat being driven by a very terrified looking sailor. Cheryl can be very persuasive when she wants to be. She let down a plank leading to the shore so we could come on.

"I love that woman!" Riley exclaimed merrily as the three of us ran up the plank. "To Iron Island Skippy!"

"Y-Yes sir!" The sailor said frightfully.

"Let me guess. She tried to break your arm and threatened to kill your family, right?" I asked the poor man.

"Bingo…" He got us to Iron Island in a matter of minutes. Once we had gotten off, he tried to turn back but Cheryl stopped him.

I'm feeling kind of lazy right now so fast forward to when we're inside Iron Island… Riley led us into a chamber filled with decrepit, rusty bulldozers half-buried in piles of iron.

"Byron! Byron! Where are you?" Riley called. "Damn. Where is he…? Everyone spread out." Cheryl, of course, went right to it but Marley and I were less than eager. Marley was still buried in 'Mien Kampf' and I just didn't care… Riley snatched the book out of Marley's hands.

"Stop reading Nazi books and go look Marley," he ordered. Marley sighed.

"Fine… It's not like I have a life to get to…" She said sarcastically.

"You go too Diamond," Riley said.

"Screw that…" I said. Just then a deep, drawling cackle rang throughout the entire cave. His voice seemed to bounce off the walls and echo throughout the chasm. Cheryl, Marley and Riley all stopped in their tracks. Each of them whipped out a pokeball, ready to strike at the mystery man at a moment's notice. I, however, wasn't much of a battler so I decided to let them handle what would come next.

"This is too funny… The blind leading the blind," The voice drawled.

"Who's there? Show yourself!" Riley demanded. The voice giggled once more.

"Someone of little importance…" The voice answered back in a mocking tone. "I don't find it necessary to reveal myself just yet…" Riley grinned.

"Well, I like to be on a first name basis. Do you mind if I call you Soli? It stands for 'Someone of Little Importance'." The voice giggled one more time.

"You truly are a strange one Riley… You may call me what you wish."

"Good. Now what do you want from us Soli?" Riley asked. Immediately after he said that the ground beneath us began to tremble. Immediately acting upon it, Riley released Lucario, Marley released her Sceptile and Cheryl released her Milotic. Soli began to cackle again.

"What I want…? I want… DIAMOND!" Soli shrieked feverishly. The ground beneath me trembled even more. In an instant, it exploded out from under me, sending me soaring into the air. "Catch him Magnezone!" A Magnezone levitated out of the hole made from the imploded earth. The flying saucer pokemon sent out jets of electricity from its magnets and antennae. They combined together and panned out into a globe of electricity that completely encompassed me.

"Holy shit!" I shouted. "What the fuck's your deal Soli!?" Neither Soli nor anyone else reacted to my shouting. "Guys? Guys! Don't just stand there! Help me you assholes!" None of them reacted again. They all just stood there paralyzed, staring with their mouths open at me and Magnezone. "They can't hear me…" I said to myself. I tried to reach out to them but the tips of my fingers singed when I touched the globe of energy around me. I was trapped…

"No one do any anything," Riley ordered. The heat of imminent battle had turned Riley into a much more serious person.

"But Riley-." Cheryl interjected.

"We can't risk it Cheryl! If we attack Magnezone then it might drop Diamond!"

"Very astute of you Riley…" Soli drawled. Magnezone turned towards the source of the voice. Soli was sitting on the neck of one of the bulldozers. He was a tall, extremely thin man. He wore a long black cloak and his face was hidden by a hood, concealing his identity from us. "I've heard many rumors about you Riley. They praise you as the strongest trainer in the country that will stop the dark forces at work in Sinnoh. They say you're a hero… Well, I think otherwise…"

"You're wrong Soli. I'm the best there is," Riley said confidently. Soli cackled once again.

"The best there is? You? You're too funny Riley! There's nothing I hate more then liars. I think it's up to me to teach you your place!" He shouted, his voice dripping in a strange mixture of animosity and feverish mockery, like an animal toying with his prey.

"I know my place fine, thank you. Lucario! Use focus punch!" Riley ordered. Soli leaped off of the crane and released a Golem to take the blow. Golem caught the focus punch in one hand and delivered its own into Lucario's chest. "Shit he's fast…" Riley thought to himself. Lucario fell to its knees. "Lucario use-."

"GOLEM USE EXPLOSION!" Soli ordered.

"What?!" Riley shrieked. Golem glowed bright white for a moment before expelling all of the energy in its body. The blast spread out in all directions, decimating anything in its way. Once the dust and rubble cleared, Golem and Lucario were both left knocked out in a crater caused by the explosion. Lucario seemed to have gotten the worst out of the attack. It looked as if it was just an inch away from death… "LUCARIO!" Riley yelled out of concern for his partner. Soli cackled at Riley and Lucario's pain. "I'll kill you!" Riley said returning Lucario to its ball.

There were no signs of that happy-go-lucky dimwit master of mine anymore. Riley's eyes were consumed with fury and enmity towards Soli. He neglected releasing another pokemon and charged straight towards Soli. Soli backed up into the wall behind him as Riley advanced. Riley tried to punch Soli but two thick blackish gray arms extended out from the wall behind Soli. One of the arms caught Riley's arm, the other found its way to his neck.

"Riley!" Cheryl and Marley exclaimed. Sceptile and Milotic were still unable attack. They couldn't risk hitting Riley. The owner of the black arms pulled itself out of the wall and revealed itself to be a Dusknoir.

"That was a really stupid move Riley… Seeking a vendetta on an enemy you know absolutely nothing about… and with no weapons or pokemon out either… You must have a death wish…" Soli taunted. Dusknoir tightened its grip on Riley's neck.

"Ngh!" Riley grunted. He tried to use his free hand to get Dusknoir off of him but to no avail.

"Do you still wish to kill me Riley? But how can you kill someone you can't even touch…?" Dusknoir suddenly released Riley. The mouth on its stomach eerily creaked open. For a moment I thought it was going to eat Riley but Soli climbed inside of it instead. Dusknoir clamped its mouth shut again and disappeared back into the wall.

"Come back here and fight me you coward!" Riley roared. Cheryl and Marley pulled him away to where they were standing before.

"Calm down Riley!" Marley said. "Whether you like it or not he's right. It was stupid to charge in after him without a pokemon out! We need to work together on this one!"

"You're right… Go Heracross!" Riley released the blue beetle pokemon in front of him. It, Sceptile and Milotic formed a triangle around their trainers.

"Why did Soli willingly let himself get eaten by Dusknoir? It doesn't make any sense!" Cheryl said.

"My guess is that he's not getting eaten. I think he just stepped in there so we won't hear him giving out orders to Dusknoir," Marley explained.

"But that means we won't know where, when or how Dusknoir will attack…"

"That means we have to be ready at a moment's notice…" Riley said. Everyone tensed up and anxiously went on the defensive. I suddenly felt, I don't know, smaller than everybody else. I never realized how much stronger my friends were than me before. Here they are, fighting for their lives while I was helpless in this stupid electric bubble. I doubt I'd be much help in this fight anyway…

Suddenly, Dusknoir reappeared out of nowhere in the center of their triangle. It gave a quick series of punches to Sceptile before sinking into the ground. It reappeared behind Heracross and Riley and gave them both a few rounds of punches before sinking back into the ground.

"Dragon Pulse!" Cheryl ordered of Milotic. Milotic fired a blast of blue energy at the spot Dusknoir disappeared. The ground erupted from the blast but Dusknoir was nowhere still was nowhere to be found. "Huh? How come we didn't hit them?"

"Because they're not hiding under the ground or in the walls… They're hiding in our shadows!" Marley realized. "They're using Shadow Sneak!" Immediately after she said that Dusknoir climbed out of her own shadow and gave Sceptile an uppercut to the stomach. Before anyone could react it sank back into Marley's shadow. Sceptile fell to its knees from the pain.

"Aqua Ring!" Cheryl ordered. Milotic released a giant fluorescent ring of water that encompassed them all. The water had cast an eerie blue light in all directions. "There. The light from the Aqua Ring will dispel our shadows and as long as they stay in it, our pokemon will stay healed," Cheryl explained. Sceptile and Heracross' injuries instantly started to fade away. Riley hugged her around the neck.

"Absolutely brilliant!" He said.

"Not quite…" Marley muttered. "Our shadows may be gone but not his." Marley pointed up at me and Magnezone. When our shadows passed over them Dusknoir came out once more.

"Dragon Pulse!" Marley and Cheryl both commanded. Dusknoir spiraled out of the way of the beams and grabbed both Milotic and Sceptile's necks.

"Night Slash!" Riley yelled. Heracross slashed at Dusknoir's back but didn't seem to do any damage. Sceptile and Milotic tried struggling out of Dusknoir's grip but they seemed to get weaker while Dusknoir was getting stronger. "Soli must be making it use Pain Split!" Riley thought. He quickly switched Heracross for his Machamp. "Foresight then submission!" Two beams of light came out of Machamp's eyes and hit Dusknoir in the back, making it solid in the process. Machamp then tackled Dusknoir off of Sceptile and Milotic and into opposite wall. Dusknoir laid there motionless. Its mouth creaked open again and Soli fell out of it.

"Yes!" Riley roared in triumph. "Have you given up yet Soli?"

"Don't think for an instant that you've won Riley… Steelix!" Soli tossed a pokeball over Riley's head. Steelix released itself out of the ball once it was over Machamp's head. It wound its tail on a stalactite. "Use Crunch!" Steelix came down on Machamp, its fangs bared, trying to bite down on its enemy. Machamp, even with its four arms, was barely able to keep Steelix from crashing down on it. Marley and Cheryl tried to help Riley out but Soli was more then ready for them.

"Forretress! Use Explosion!" Soli released his Forretress right between Riley and the others. Like Golem, it imploded itself with its own energy. Marley, Cheryl, Riley, Sceptile and Milotic were sent flying backward. Machamp wasn't hit by the blast but the ground crumbled out from under it. Steelix finally succeeded in clamping down on Machamp. They both fell into the chasm created by Forretress' explosion.

"MACHAMP!" Riley shrieked as he watched his pokemon helplessly fall into the hole. It was so deep that the bottom wasn't visible.

"Come back to me Steelix!" Soli ordered. Steelix burrowed through the ground and came back up on Soli's side. Riley was frozen to the spot. His eyes were wide open in horror and his mouth was agape. "Nothing but rock or steel type pokemon could survive a fall like that Riley. Your Machamp is gone."

"…" Riley didn't respond and continued to stare into the abyss. His spirit had been shattered… Soli cackled for what seems like the umpteenth time.

"Whoever heard of a hero without any words for his enemies? Face it Riley. Your legend is a lie. It is time for that legend to be buried… just like that Machamp! IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO KNOW YOUR PLACE!"

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I know I said that I'd be putting up a 300 chapter but I changed my mind at the last minute, so this came much later then I said it would. Oh well... -.-