A few minutes had now passed, and now the car was flipped upright. It was badly bashed up, and some even began to wonder if the car would even work after what it had been through. While some of the others were thinking about the car, Tobias had one thing on his mind, and that was the dead bodies in front of him. They were the bodies of the people from the jeep, and as he searched through them, a few more queries came up in his mind. 'They were wearing plain clothes, no slaver jackets, no insignias, possibly mercenaries. Or possibly slavers wearing plain clothes. Or more likely, criminals funded by slavers from one of the nearby cities.' he thought to himself before standing up and heading back over to the beaten up car.

Bruce threw away a soaking wet backpack filled with broken bottles and made his way back into the car. "Have to get shot at while sober now." Bruce sighed to himself.

Kiara then looked at him. "Something's are better while sober." she said before giving him a little wink which brought a smirk to his face.

While Bruce and Kiara were talking dirty again, Owen switched on the engine of the car, which thankfully came on without any problems. "This is one toughly built car." Owen said to himself as he heard Tobias enter and close the door. Robert was sitting upfront with Owen and his Gardevoir friend which meant there wasn't a single seat left unfilled in the car. The Gardevoir felt kind of bad by not saying she could have used her powers to flip the car, but they had flipped the car over before she could even suggest it. Owen started driving, he didn't know where to, he just decided that out in the open and on the road wasn't the safest of places.

Owen had decided on traveling to the closest city, he didn't know where he was heading but he didn't really care. There were some things eating away at him. Suddenly, he heard Rhea's voice through his earpiece.

"Owen, I'm sorry." Rhea quickly apologized.

Owen sighed before saying, "I never expected you'd be the one to lead me into an ambush."

"I'm sorry, but people are starting to think that the vipers are already listening into our conversations. We couldn't let them know that we already knew about the ambush they set up by informing you." Rhea informed him.

"Just promise me you won't lead us into another trap, I don't trust that many people as it is." Owen told her.

"I'll try not to, bye Owen." Rhea said before the conversation was cut short.

Owen thought Rhea was not telling him something. He had known her long enough to tell when she was keeping a secret. She'd tell him what she was hiding, she always did. At least that's what he thought.

While Owen was thinking of Rhea, Tobias was wondering about the vipers and the two newcomers. He only looked at them for a while whilst they were getting out of their ghillie suits but it was enough to get a good look at them. The female Gardevoir was different from most, she had blue hair. But other than that, she seemed normal. The male human besides her, Robert, he had blackish-brown hair, green eyes, and was about the same size as Richard. The thing that struck him most about Robert was his cheek bones; they were quite high and well formed. To Tobias, Robert seemed like more the more agile and cunning type. But he only thought that because of his body shape. It was easy for him to tell that Robert was the military type. Tobias could usually read people pretty clearly, but he knew there was something about Robert that wasn't so clear.

Tobias got his mind off Robert and the Gardevoir and began thinking about the vipers. He didn't like the possibility of vipers just watching every little thing they do, he wanted to destroy them as soon as possible. He was planning to try and pull Richard and Owen to the side and inform them of a plan he had been thinking about for a while. A plan to draw out the vipers and force them to attack. He knew there was the very high chance that one or more of the team could die whilst doing this, but he thought it was better than waiting to be blown up by few well positioned charges in a road.

Sometime later, Owen found himself driving around a city. He had been thinking about certain things, about the mission and the people he had been traveling with, and had previously traveled with. He felt like he was steadily warming up to them. He remembered the first time he met Richard and Tera, he didn't think he was very friendly with them at first. And the same with Robert, he remembered he threatened to have him discharged if he didn't follow his orders to get on that helicopter. He regretted that now after seeing the company he now had with him. He wasn't usually that unfriendly to people he first meets, but he just seemed to adopt a bad attitude towards other people since about one year ago. He knew the reason why, he just didn't want to think it. It was the same reason he sometimes felt like he was losing his mind, and why his hallucinations had started popping up again.

Tobias was now looking at the smashed up window of the car. He could see shops and hotels, he wasn't interested in the hotels, but some of the places they passed gave him an idea. "Find us a bar and pull over." Tobias said to them.

"Why?" Owen asked.

"Do it." Tobias firmly ordered.

Richard didn't like Tobias' tone, but he knew that Tobias must have a good reason to stop at a bar. "I don't have a problem with stopping at the bar." Richard said to Owen.

Bruce smirked as he muttered. "Neither do I."

Kiara frowned at him. "You're not going to be sucking away at those beer taps are you?" she questioned him.

"No, no... I'll go for the vodka." Bruce replied with a devious chuckle. She could see she wasn't all that pleased by his words, but that was the reaction he wanted. She looked so cute to him when she was angry. Just before she was about to say something, he leaned in and whispered a few words. "Don't worry, I could always suck away at something else, preferably something on your body." he quietly said to her.

"I'd like that." Kiara responded, sounding a little seductive to Bruce.

Tera could hear everything they were saying, she tried not to but some words caught her attention. She was beginning to wonder if all male humans had the same effect on female Pokémon because she had never really thought about mating, until she met Richard. Then there was Lucy who fell in love with Ethan, but she wasn't sure if they had mated or not. Now there's Bruce and Kiara. 'Maybe we just kind of attract each other.' Tera thought to herself with a smile on her face.

Owen parked the car up a few meters away from a bar before saying, "I'd like to know why you told us to go to a bar."

Tobias had already begun to exit the car ahead of the others before saying anything back. "I can't tell you, but I suggest you head to the bar and stay together." he replied before walking away from the bar.

Everybody was confused, but they did as they were asked. They went straight to the bar, with Bruce and Kiara leading the way.

Just under half an hour had passed, and Tobias was now deep in the city. He had a plan, it wasn't a very clever one, but at this point, he was just desperate to do something. He felt utterly useless, just traveling around and sleeping in the forest or hotels. He guessed Owen must have been waiting for something. He was used to waiting, but he always knew what he was waiting for when he did so. That's why he was now out on the streets and walking through numerous back alleys. He was doing this for a reason, he knew the vipers were already all over their trail, and they probably even knew that he was trying to draw them out. They probably even knew what he was planning to do if he did successfully draw one out, which he now thought he did. He only caught a few glimpses, but he saw a man in a brown suit, quite expensive looking, with a black tie. Tobias didn't get a good look at his face, but he didn't need to. He had seen him five minutes ago, and a two more times before that. Tobias knew the chances of that happening with a stranger, was slim. Unless, they were being followed by him.

Tobias briskly walked down another back alley, there were a few dumpsters and a load of trash just scattered around. Some of the bin bags he saw looked like they had been torn open, most likely by the homeless and desperate. There was a door to his left which led into a building, which he then entered after learning the door opened outwards into the alley.

A few seconds later the man in the brown suit came walking down the alley and immediately looked towards the door. The man, who had shoulder length light brown hair, then attempted to open the door. As soon as the door was open by a couple of inches, it was suddenly flung outwards with great force. The door had struck the man to the side of the face, on his cheekbone which felt as if it had been broken. He stumbled backwards a few feet very quickly before tripping and hitting the back of his head against a hard metal dumpster. He was sprawled on the floor, his head resting against the dumpster, he felt like he was going to pass out. Even though he was dazed and in serious pain, he tried to scramble up feet but only ended up with backing up into the dumpster he hit his head against. He looked up to the man he had been tracking, but only saw his face for one tenth of a second before he felt the man kick the side of his face that had been struck with the door.

Tobias could see the man was in agonizing pain, but this man could handle pain well, so well in fact that he was now reaching into his pants pocket for something, but one more kick to the side of the head stopped the man in the suit from doing anything. Tobias sure hoped that this man was a viper, he had no idea how he could explain all of this if he wasn't a viper. He looked around for any potential witnesses or threats as he grabbed both legs of the man he just knocked out, and dragged him into the building he had walked into. He could see the man was bleeding from his mouth, he didn't want him to drown in his own blood, and he hoped he didn't damage his face too badly. Tobias needed him to talk.


Author's notes: Thank you to hironada and BigBossSonic for editing this! Oh, and thank you to everyone for reading! Oh! And expect a new story from me to be up some time this week!