(Intro)

During a new mission, one our familiar heroes come face to face with a familiar friend. However this friend might have dire motives that could endanger!

(Ty Pov)

"Come on man, just hug me closer." I say to Grant, carrying him. I had my tailed wrapped around him.

"S-S-So cold." Grant replied as he did just that. Shaun was ahead of me carrying the branch of our fallen friend, while Sara was above leading the pack.

This is terrible, in fact it was the worse. It started out simple, make our way to reach a Snowflake Flower. A fetch quest, but it was easy. If only we knew it would be on the edge of Frostbite Mountain. When I heard that name, I of course laughed.

Well I wasn't laughing at all. It was so cold, and I hated every second of it. Still could be worse, we were at least together. Sara did a good job making her way through. Lucky fire type. It didn't even faze her, the cold.

For us three though, it was worse. Shaun had trouble, but he was cold blooded and could make it. Me and my fellow warm blooded friend using each other's body heat. As it seems, Grant had it worse off. Being a Grass type. Hence is why i'm carrying him.

"We can make it buddy! Not that far, stay with me!"

"I don't know if I can Ty. You will have to go on without me. Don't worry, the snow will cover me quick. So you don't have to see my... frozen face."

"Oh stop being so dramatic you two and..." Sara trailed off as she stopped, when suddenly she sprinted forward. "There it is! The Snowflake Flower!"

She was right, and she picked it off. We all looked at it as it was very pretty."

"I-I-I demand a T-Tip for this job." Grant said as I just rolled my eyes.

"Well, at least we can get out of this stupid place." I said to them, "Let's g-

"Fire Pledge!" A voice yelled as we all of course got alert. Jumping right back as a fire bomb landed down right near us, only for it to explode up into a column. A large column as it was an attack. I would fire back, but I did not really know where it came from, as well as Grant on my back.

"Let me go! I want to go to the fire!" He said shifting on my back. "Let me go!"

"Grant, that thing will burn you, and it goes out in a couple seconds!" I shout as it did just that, leaving only water in it's wake. "See."

"Aww..."

"Ember!" Sara said, firing it up and kicking it up to where it came from. You did not spot it, but it would seem she did it. A figured jumped over the flame, landing down right in front of us. Sara has passed the flower to Shaun, as she got ready to fight.

Only for a second though, as she suddenly started thinking. Started looking, and recognised.

"Fennekin?" Sara said, leaving her fighting stance.

"Scorbunny." The other said as they also left the fighting stance. Both of them got up and I got to see who this Pokemon was. It was not a Fennekin, but instead a Braixen. Still it seems that Sara knew her. How? Not really sure."

"No way!" She shouted. "It's been forever!"

"It has!" The enemy replied, before running in for a hug. The two met in the middle, with smiles on there faces and happiness in their laughs. Braixen spun her around a couple times, being much bigger before dropping her onto the ground.

"I can't believe it! Look at you, you evolved!"

"It was ages ago!" Braixen replied. "Surprise you haven't?"

"You know, i've been busy. Oh wait! I have to show my team to you! Come here!" She said grabbing her hand and leading the way. Braixen getting pulled.

While this has happened, Shaun got close to me. As the two fire Pokemon were ahead we waited.

"This is my team, Team Journey. I am the team leader. This is Shaun, Ty, and the one on Ty's back is Grant. You remember Grant right!"

"No." She said bluntly, to which Grant just gave a thumbs up.

"We were here this flower for a quest? What are you doing here?" Sara said so excited.

"Oh me? I was just roasting some of the Pokemon here. They are all ice so they go down so easily. I actually thought you were one of them." She said with a laugh. I heard what she said and paused.

"Wait, Why?"

"Why, cause I can. They are weaker than me, and it's fun." She said as with that, I disliked her. Frowning my brow as she crossed her arms over her stick.

"Pretty easy to pick on a Pokemon that you are strong against. Let's see how you do against me."

"Really, you think you can beat me. You must be pretty stupid." She said smugly, which got me to dislike her even more.

"Haha, good one guys." Sara said getting in between with a fake laugh. "We are actually done here, you should come back with us Braixen. You can stay at our home for a while."

"Yeah, I just might." She said with her eyes to me. When suddenly she smiled "Actually, I know a shortcut down the mountain. Let me lead and we can get down there in no time."

"Really!" Sara said happily. "Okay, we will go!"

"Wait a sec," I say to her. "We can just get down normally."

"Grant is freezing, so it would be best for us to take the quickest way down. It's a shortcut after all."

"Yeah Ty," Braixen said casually. "It's a shortcut.

There was a long pause, until I replied. "It better be."

(Shaun Pov)

"At least she is meeting up with her friend again?" I say trying to convince Ty. "She's happy."

"Something about that Pokemon I don't trust, I don't know what though. What I do know is I don't like her." He said. Currently, the fire types are leading the way while the rest of us in the back. Well Ty carrying Grant, and I staying back with him.

"She does seem a bit... rude." I say with the quietest voice I could muster.

"Hey Grant, Apparently you two knew each other, what was she like?" Ty questioned as I wanted to know this answer pretty well too.

"S-She D-Didn't really talk to me. M-Mostly only Sara." he said between breaths. I was worried, but so was Ty.

"Hey, where is this short cut!"

"Right up here, calm down normie!" She said as I could see the pure anger in Ty's voice.

"Whatever Furry face!" He shouted back, before muttering under his breath, "I'll come up with a better one."

We all got together and Braixen turned to talk to Sara, not us.

"Okay, so this cave right here has a long shortcut. From there it's an easy path not to get lost, okay."

"Yeah fine," Ty said walking in. "Let's get down quick, and you two, try to heat up Grant."

"Sure!" Sara said as she was then stopped by her friend.

"Sorry, but can't. In case there are ice Pokemon in there, we need to have our PP stored and ready."

"But... isn't Grant more important."

"Hm... what was that Shaun was it? Sure, we can keep your friend from freezing, only to run out of moves when real threats come, then we can freeze up here. Is that you want Shaun, is that what you want?"

I of course felt really bad, as I apologised. "Sorry, it was stupid!"

"At least you are right about that." She said harshly turning into the cave. "Let's just go. Make sure not to get lost."

So we made our way in. Much like how we were before, with the fire types in front and the three of us in the back. Sara doesn't seem to care that much. She was simply catching up with her friend. Nothing to get mad about, at least in my case.

For Ty though, he did not like this Pokemon. "She shouldn't of done that. That was pretty rude of her."

"S-She was just convincing me." I said to my friend. "I t was a bad idea anyway."

"With two fire types, I say we have flames to spare. That's what I'm not talking about though. The way she talked to you, I hated it." He said as I looked forward to the Pokemon.

"I... didn't like it either."

"I don't like her." Ty said bluntly.

"Y-You said that already?"

"Well, that's how much I don't like her." He said with a smile, which did get a good giggle out of me.

"D-D-D-Ditto..." Grant managed to murmur out. We all had a good laugh about this, until Sara came back. Leaving Braixen to lead as she walked with us.

"What's so funny guys?" She said with a smile as we looked among ourselves.

"Uh... nothing, just a funny joke."

"Yeah a joke, Like what do you get when you cross an annoying witch and an annoying fox?"

"What?" Sara said as Ty snickered.

"I don't really know, but she is no doubt annoying." He said as Sara did not laugh, and I had to hold back mine.

"Got her." Grant added from his back as they laughed.

"Not very nice!" Sara yelled, "She's trying to help us and-"

She got cut off from a loud boom. A very loud boom that got us aware.

"What was that?"

"No!" Braixen said as we all made our way to her. "I thought he would be sleeping!"

"Who's he?" I questioned as we joined her. Suddenly there was another loud boom, when finally a Pokemon dropped down. dropping down as he towered over all of us. His fur being pure white and icicles coming from his mouth. He did not look happy.

"What are you doing," The Beartic said. "In my cave!"

"Run!"

"What?" Ty said to Braixen. "I thought you said you would handle the ice Pokemon.

"Not this one, now run!" She said running. This got us all to run after her. Fear in our eyes as he chased us. He was a slow Pokemon admittedly, but for Ty who was carrying Grant. He was even slower.

"Ember!" Sara yelled, kicking a flame to the Pokemon. Beartic took the hit, but It did not hurt him. Honestly, all it did was annoy him. Something that worried us all.

"You are all gonna pay!"

"Back to my original plan, run!"

(Sara Pov)

As we ran through the cave, I was the first one to see it. A small hole, far too small for Beartic to escape. Since I could hop the most, I did just that. Hopping up and making my way out of the hole through the ceiling. Turning I reach down.

"Up here guys!"

"Right!" Shaun said, moving over and looking up.

"Water Gun!" He shouted, shooting the bottom and propelling himself up. He reached up to me and I pulled him up.

"Hey, get ready to catch me!"

"Wait," Ty said beside my old friend. "Take Grant with you."

"What, why should I?"

"Cause you can, just do it!"

"You don't tell me what to do!"

"You are just the worst you know th-"

"Icicle Crash!" A voice shouted, as Beartic jumped right to them. Getting them to separate.

"You two, stop arguing and just get up here!"

"I-I don't think I can jump that high!" Braixen said worried

"Sara, do something!" Ty shouted as well as I saw the Beartic chase them around. They made sure to stick around the area, but it was far to dangerous. "You stupid fox, at least try something!"

"I am you Normie, I bet I can do a lot more than you can!"

"Oh right!." Ty said as he suddenly got an idea. I could see his face as he took a step forward.

"Don't you dear try Fire Punch!" I shout down to him as he frowned.

"We got to do something!" He shouted back.

"Sara?" Shaun said beside me as I could tell the situation has gotten to everyone. Well everyone but Grant, who has frozen to the point where he is just a frozen husk. I think about this, think about it hard. Everyone is relying on me, and I need to come up with something. Until finally I get the plan.

"Ty, Give Grant to Braixen! Then with your tail launch her up here. Then Braixen, you will use your psychic powers to lift him up."

"Got it!" Ty said as he moved and got to Sara. The Beartic still chasing them.

"Once I catch you two, you are done!"

"Then you won't catch us!" Ty said back opening his tail, Braixen obviously was a bit against it, but did what she had to. Carrying him on her back with the stick holding him. They moved around for a while, dodging the Pokemon until Ty got into position.

Braixen wasted no chances, as she ran over and put her foot down onto the tail. With power from both, she got lifted up.

Grabbed as she was pulled up with the hole. On the mountain side as it was cold. I wasted no time and grabbed Grant, creating a flame that hopefully should bring him back to normal.

(Ty Pov)

Now with not carrying Grant, it was much easier to move. With a smile I dodge around as I looked Braixen above.

"Okay, hurry up and grab me!" I shout her way, ducking under a swing from the more powerful Pokemon. I kept dodging as I looked up again. "Hey, what are you waiting for Braixen, just do it!"

Once again I got no reaction, and I was forced to dodge once again. The Beartic getting much faster though. Dodging a heavy charge from him.

"Seriously! What are you do-" I trailed off, when I noticed the devious and devilish smile on her face. One that gave me no confidence. She isn't going to help you, not at all.

"Icicle Crash!" He shouted as I looked back to his charging form. He was coming and since Braixen won't help. I did what I had to. I ran away. I ran and sprinted away, cursing this fox.

(Sara Pov)

"Braixen, what are you doing!" I asked her as she stood up. She was wearing a very big frowning face.

"H-He didn't accept my help. Instead he ran down the cave. Saying he can handle this by himself." She said as I was lost.

"I... we got to keep moving. Get Grant to the ground, I'm sure he is fine."

"But Sara!"

"We have got the flower, and I have faith in my friend. Let's go.."

(Outro)

What a fiendish ploy by the fox! Now with Ty separated, What will this fox do now, and can Sara see through her friends deception