"You sure you two are enough?" I asked as we all stood in the alleyway, the Ditto Corporations building across the street outside the alley.

Looker nodded and Anabel said, "Looker and I are the finest the International Police have to offer. Besides, most of the Kalos division are currently trying to locate the Cult at the moment. What we do have though are the operatives lined and waiting around the building. Any who try to escape will be caught."

"Sounds good enough," Alex said, looking at the building. "Can we be sure how many Dittos are in there?"

"No," Looker narrowed his eyes. "Anyone and everyone, including the Pokemon, could be Dittos. So it's essential we stick together."

"Robert?" I looked at my friend, who was tinkering with his Pokedex. "Any ideas?"

"Yeah," He looked up, holding up his device. "This."

"This?" Looker and Anabel both asked, but Alex and I both knew Robert enough to understand this would be game changing.

"I had Clemont make some modifications himself," Robert said proudly. "Then I made a few of my own. With this, we can scan anyone to see if they're a Pokemon or not."

"What about Pokemon?" Looker asked, keenly interested in the device.

"If I adjust the settings," Robert pressed a few buttons. "It can identify the true identity of a Pokemon. Dittos copy everything about a Pokemon, right down to their DNA. But it's all copies. So if I can isolate the gene that makes a certain species of Pokemon, say a Snorlax, then I can compare that gene to the gene of the Pokemon I'm scanning. There should be a telltale sign it's a copy. Research on Dittos have confirmed that. I even had Clemont boost the speed of the scanners themselves, so it'll take only a second to confirm the results, give or take."

Looker and Anabel both blinked.

"Just go with it," I advised. "We've been trying to understand how Robert can do all this ever since we met him."

"Say," Looker rubbed his chin. "Ever consider a career in Forensics? I dare say the International Police would love to recruit you."

"Nah," Robert waved his hand. "I would prefer to stay away from that kind of life. I want to use my brain for Pokemon Research and that alone."

"I see," Looker nodded, and I had a feeling he would still try to recruit our friend somewhere down the road.

"Enough with the needless chatter," Anabel spoke. "We have the authorization to go right in and take into custody any Ditto we find."

She held up a bag. "We have specially made Pokeballs in here that'll help in capturing the Dittos."

I held the bag open with my hands, my eyes widening. "Aren't these..."

"Master Balls," Looker confirmed, Robert and Alex both gasping. "Require a ton of money to make and a lot of resources. This is a good portion of the stock in the IP's care. We'll of course be able to reuse them once we release the Pokemon inside, so as long as they don't break, using them shouldn't be a problem."

"30 total," Anabel said, passing them out. "6 for each of us. If there turns out to be more Dittos than Master Balls, just faint them. We have another team coming in later either for back-up or clean-up. They'll handle everything then."

"Now before we go," Anabel stared each of us in the eye. "You're just trainers. This could get very dangerous. Your lives could be at risk. Are you sure you still want to do this?"

"Of course," Alex and Robert said before me.

Smiling, I said, "Yes. You both probably know what we've managed to do in Alola. Stuff like this is nothing new."

"So," I held up Frogadier's pokeball. "We're ready for anything."

"I swear," Looker shook his head, smiling. "Any more of this and we just might have to recruit you all."

"Move out," Anabel said, taking the lead, her Mismagius appearing and floating next to her.

"Frogadier," I let him out as we all followed Looker's superior. "Let's do our best."

He nodded his dark blue head, straightening the bubbles on his neck. Alex had her Litleo out walking alongside her and Robert his Quilladin. Good choice since Snorlax would probably easily break the building floors. Looker's Inteleon was waiting by the front door of the building, undoing his camouflage and giving us a thumbs up before disappearing again. We were good to go and we weren't expected.

Anabel burst through the doors. "Hands up! Everyone is a suspect until we've cleared the building!"

Office Workers froze as well as several Pokemon, a few scattered papers drifting to the floor.

"What's the meaning of this!?" A woman with styled blonde hair screeched from behind the service desk. "Who are you people!?"

"Operatives of the International Police," Anabel stalked up to her, flashing a badge. "We've been informed that this building holds Dittos disguised as humans and Pokemon. One of them is most definitely a murderer and the rest are accomplices. All will be under arrest."

"You have no proof!" the woman got face-to-face with Anabel.

A beep echoes across the room. All eyes turned to look at Robert, who was checking his pokedex next to the two women. "Huh, neat, so it does work."

He looked up and jerked a thumb at the Desk Lady. "She's one of 'em. Let's bag her and keep moving."

Anabel held up one of the Master Balls. "You'll be coming in for questioning, Ditto."

The Desk Lady's face was still twisted with rage, but then she calmed down, smiling sweetly. "Good luck reaching the top. You won't have enough of those to capture all of us. This is a 50-story building. Think of how many there are of us."

Everyone besides our group of five turned to face us. At least down here, they were all Dittos.

"So this is basically us trying to siege a tower, am I right?" I looked at the Desk Lady.

She nodded. "Not even you can win against all of us, Hero Born of Darkness."

"I beg to differ," I smirked. "Wanna know why?"

She didn't answer, so I spoke. "Because I happen to be an expert at sieging towers."

I snapped my fingers and Frogadier leapt into action, throwing down a smokescreen.

"Inteleon!" Looker shouted.

With a ping, the elevator doors opened, Inteleon having pressed the button.

"Get them!" someone shouted.

"In a desperate situation," I thought, running through the smoke and dodging bodies alongside Frogadier. "They will make the first move that comes to mind. That will be their mistake!"

Looker already had the doors opened to the stairwell, ushering us in. The Dittos in the room could try and escape into Lumiose, but there would be officers waiting.

Robert was next in, followed by Anabel, who was the last one.

"If we can't take them all out," Anabel said, her Mismagius guarding the door with Inteleon. "We'll just have to smoke them out and take out the ones we can along the way. Make sure to find their leader. Take them out and it'll be game over."

As we ran up the flights of stairs, I thought back to when Robert had told us of this information.

"Okay, the Ditto Corporations as its name is kind of a big giveaway," Alex said. "But do we have definite proof?"

"I staked the place out," Robert assured us, showing us the video on his Holo Caster, which he had gotten back from Clemont just for this. "I managed to hack into their security cameras and I got this."

In the video, it looked like normal business in the office, but then one of the people in suits transformed into a Ditto in front of everyone else and slipped beneath the door. Seeming as no one in the video reacted to that, they either must be with the Dittos or Dittos themselves.

"I did a bit more digging," Robert went on, shutting the video off and moving to pictures now of a room with a table with maps and drawings on the surface. "And I think I figured out what exactly they've been planning."

He zoomed in on the map of what we could now see was of Lumiose City, then a map of Kalos.

"I think they're planning to take over the region," Robert said. "From what I could see of some of their plans is that they're planning to get rid of important people and replacing them with Dittos."

"You know," I pinched my nose. "If this wasn't serious, I would laugh at how ridiculous all of this sounds. Dittos taking over the region? The world's next probably? This is just..."

"Yeah," Alex agreed. "But we should probably stop them. They could easily do this and start a Ditto Revolution of sorts."

"From what I've managed to gather," Robert made a different picture pop up. A new office was being shown, probably the one for the CEO. A single Dittos sat on the desk, staring down at the plans. "This is the leader. I'm not certain about this, I did a lot of surveillance checking, but I'm pretty sure he keeps a link with all the other Dittos. So take him out and there's a chance we take all them out. At least we'll take out their leader if nothing else."

"Indeed," I nodded. "I'll call Looker. He'll want to be in on this one."

"And here we are," I thought as a door above us burst open, people piling out onto the stairs."We just have to reach the top and stop the Ditto Revolution, as stupid as it sounds."

"Snipe Shot!" Looker shouted as we all had to stop.

Inteleon appeared, clinging to the side of the wall just ahead of us, aiming his finger upwards. He shot several shots, each one blasting into a person, purple goop blasting behind them as holes were left in their bodies as they were blasted backwards. One of the people pushed themselves forwards, transforming into an Electivire, electricity blasting down the stairs towards all of us.

"Mismagius!" Anabel shouted.

Her Ghost Pokemon floated between us and the electric move, blasting it with her own Thunderbolt.

"Get up there Quilladin!" Robert shouted. "Needle Arm!"

"Help him!" I ordered. "Cut!"

"Flamethrower!" Alex yelled.

Litleo fired a blasts of fire upwards, blasting the Electivire back, but two more Dittos took its place, transforming into a Seismitoad and Heatmor.

"GO!" Robert and I shouted.

Frogadier slashed Heatmor across the chest as Quilladin scraped his needles along Seismitoad.

"Water Pulse!"

"Seed Bomb!"

"Shadow Ball!" Anabel shouted.

Frogadier landed and leaped off the wall, slamming the sphere of water into Heatmor's face as Quilladin launched huge seeds into Seismitoad. As the Electivire shot forwards, fist crackling with electricity, Mismagius's Shadow Ball exploded against his face.

"We have to keep moving," I said, running up the stairs. "Frogadier, with me!"

He nodded, leapt backwards, then ran alongside me, forming a glowing blade in his hand. I kicked off the wall and slammed my foot against the side of the Electivire's head, only angering it. Frogadier was there, slashing across the Pokemon's face, making it stumble backwards, transforming back into a Ditto.

"Push Forward!" I roared, sending one of the people tumbling down the stairs as Quilladin and Frogadier dealt with the Heatmor and Seismitoad.

Suddenly another Ditto Person transformed into a Doublade, swinging both swords at me. Quickly, I withdrew my knife, the one gifted to me by my family, and deflected one of the blade as I ducked low. I rolled along the flat floor and rose to my feet near the next flight of stairs. I swung my blade, a metal clang ringing out as I tried to hold my own against the Ghost and Steel type.

"LITLEO!" I heard Alex shout. "Help him!"

The small four-legged Fire type raced up the stairs, body glowing bright. A full mane grew around his neck as he let out a huge roar, a noise that echoed up and down the building, causing every enemy Pokemon to shrink back in fear. He sunk his fangs into Doublade and blasted him away with a Flamethrower.

"Thanks," I breathed, looking at the other Ditto People, all of them transforming into Water types. I heard a bang below us as more Ditto People began heading up the stairs our way.

"Go!" Looker shouted to me. "We'll hold them off here!"

"Frogadier, return!" I shouted, then let out Arcanine. "Let's go, buddy."

I leaped on him and he zoomed up the stairs, blasting past the Water types who tried to form a wall. We moved in a circle pattern, the constant turning making me dizzy. I gripped Arcanine's fur tighter, bearing the unsettling feeling.

Arcanine eventually reached the top and burst through a door and into a hallway. I tumbled off of him, squeezing my eyes shut as the motion sickness set in. I was used to fast travel, but this was something else entirely. I heard Arcanine growl and rocket forwards as I hauled myself onto all fours and emptied my stomach onto the blue carpet. Gasping after a minute, I looked up to see singed walls and several Pokemon and People already on the ground, Arcanine's breathing heavy as more Pokemon stood in his way. Wiping my mouth, I stood on shaky legs, holding onto the wall for support, trying not to look out of the window next to me which overlooked the city.

Suddenly, Arcanine was blasted back by a wave of water from a Milotic, which had a Goodra and Trevenant by its side.

"Arcanine," I held up his pokeball, my hand shaking slightly. "Return."

With a red light, he was sucked back into his pokeball.

"Alright then," I grimaced. "Let me pass. Doesn't your leader want to see me. He and I go way back."

It was just a guess, but if what that Ditto back on the Coumarine Express was true, then I knew who exactly was wanting revenge on me. He had also once mentioned to me that he had plans of world domination. It had to be him.

As I had expected, the Pokemon backed off and moved aside, making the way towards a door at the end of the hall clear for me.

At first my legs felt weak, but with each footstep, I felt more strength course through me. My queasiness faded and I walked with a clear purpose. When I reached the door, I felt my bag get ripped off my back, the Master Balls spilling onto the ground. My plan out the window, I grasped the handle, opened the door, and stepped inside a large office. The walls were all glass, giving us a clear view of Lumiose City. Sitting behind an oak desk in a leather chair was an ordinary looking man in business clothes with short black hair.

The door closed behind me as I met his gaze. "It's you, isn't it, 'George'."

He transformed into the dark-skinned police officer I had dealt with back in Konikoni City on Akala Island. "I've been eagerly waiting for the day we would meet again. I'll admit, I never expected it to be this soon. Once I heard of your arrival in Kalos, I knew our paths would cross again."

He chuckled, tipping his officer's hat at me, grinning behind his mustache. "You nearly killed me you know, blasting me into the ocean. Luckily I reformed myself and washed up here in Kalos."

"And you decided to make a business corporation so you could begin your plans for world domination," I said drily. "You know, calling it the Ditto Corporation is a little bold, don't you think?"

"Not at all," the Ditto transformed back into the business man as he stood and turned to gaze out at the city. "We're hiding in plain site. It's pretty funny actually. But one day soon, we will expand our reaches to all of Kalos, then across the world. Dittos will replace every human and Pokemon alive."

"How do you even plan to do that," I asked. "There isn't enough Dittos in the world for that?"

"Tell me," he asked. "Do you know how Dittos breed? All we have to do is split ourselves in half and there you have it. A brand new Ditto is born."

He turned to face me. "But, we can't do it constantly. That's why I made this business. I needed the resources to make a serum that would allow us to multiply infinitely."

He held up a vial. "This is what will begin the Ditto Revolution. You're actually on time, believe it or not. This was just created by my science team. I call it, the D-serum."

"Very creative," I folded my arms. "You realize telling me your plans is just going to allow me to know how to stop it, right?"

He grinned. "You can try, Hero Born of Darkness."

He popped open the vial and before I could even take a step forwards, he drank it. He licked his lips, apparently savoring the taste. "Oh yes, I can feel it!"

His eyes were huge as purple ooze bubbled out from the sides of them. His body grew smaller until he was just another regular Ditto. Then he split himself in half, two Dittos forming. They both transformed into the business man and the police officer.

"AHA!" they shouted in unison. "It works! The world shall be ours!"

They both looked at me and stepped out from either side of the desk, both splitting in half as they did so, two more people forming, each a different person. Then they all split again. Now there were eight total.

"Don't you see, Zeno," they all spoke together, making it sound like some weird choir of voices. "This is what we can do now. There is no stopping us. We will take over the world and make it a world only for Dittos."

I took a step backwards, all hope fading. So much for Chaos. This was might actually be worse...

I chuckled.

"What's so funny?" they glared at me.

"Oh, nothing," I wiped an imaginary tear away. "It's just, how are you going to decide the leader of this 'new world'?"

That stopped them.

"I mean," I rubbed the back of my head. "I guess you're all technically the same Ditto, so you're all the leaders, but shouldn't there be someone who controls the rest, since you all do have independent thoughts."

"It would be me of course," all them said, then they looked at one another. "No, me! It should be me!"

"Obviously me," the business man said, stepping out of the crowd. "I am the original."

He took a step backwards as all eyes were on him now. "But we are you! But better!"

They all lunged for him, gripping and clawing, becoming a mess of purple goop.

I opened the door and looked at the Pokemon outside. "You should probably stop them."

They burst past me and entered the fray, but were only dragged into it.

"Alright," I let out all my Pokemon. "Let's end this. Take them out!"

Arcanine blasted a Heat Wave, Frogadier a Water Pulse, Lucario an Aura Pulse, Mawile a surge of Fairy Wind, and Corvisquire Air Slash. The moves blasted into the pile of half formed humans, Pokemon, and goop. The resulting explosion blasted them apart, scattering them. All of them stayed down, except for one.

The business man stood on shaky legs, half of his body purple goop. "You! You did this!"

"Look," I raised my hands. "You thought it would be a great idea to replicate the leader. Of course there's going to be strife."

He growled and transformed into a younger body. Raven black hair and clothes that matched the hair color. A black trench flowed behind him as he ran forwards. I raised my arm, deflecting the blow from a younger Me. The Me from Alola.

He grinned. "This body! I can see why have made it this far in life."

He swung his leg around and I caught it and twisted him away. He leaped backwards on both feet, whipping out an eerily familiar knife. The knife I used to kill Hauntings.

"I will end you!" he shouted, the anger in the voice that sounded like mine making me fall back a step.

Arcanine stepped forwards, but I held out a hand. "I got this."

I ran forwards, dodging to one side to avoid the knife, and kicked his knees out from beneath him. As I went for his head, he twisted around and kicked his feet into my stomach. I landed on my back, groaning from the impact.

"So this is what it's like to fight me," I thought as I leaped back to my feet.

He lunged again, driving his knife towards my throat. Quick as a flash, I deflected the blade with my own knife. I grabbed his wrist and twisted, the knife falling out of his hand. With a yell, he swung his foot up, slamming it into my side. Grunting, I slashed his stomach, purple goop spilling, but he quickly fixed it.

I put my knife back into its sheath. "Looks like I'm going to have to beat you down with my own fists."

We both yelled and charged. I slammed my fist into his face, driving it in as hard as I could. He gripped one arm with both hands and attempted to break it. Wishing to avoid an injury like that, I jabbed my other hand into his throat, causing him to stumble back, gasping for air.

I jumped and swung my leg into his head, slamming him to the ground. I brought down my fist, but he rolled to avoid it, and jumped up. He twisted and flung off his trench, using it to tangle me up in it. I flailed and was brought to the ground, gritting my teeth.

"Now," he grinned above me, my own eyes staring back at me with anger. "You die!"

An intense heat nearly burned my face as a stream of fire literally blasted the Ditto's head apart. The body stumbled away from me, a new head already growing. Mawile was there, her back jaw ripping apart his stomach. Lucario had leapt into the air and brought his fist down onto the newly formed head, knocking the Ditto out.

He lay there, his body forming into me once more, but he stayed down.

"Thanks," I said as the trench coat on me collapsed into a pile of goop.

I walked over to my body lying on the floor. "I must say, I'm harder to fight than I expected."

...

"That clears everything up then," Looker said as we all watched them cart the Ditto/Me away in a glass container, his hatred-filled eyes locked onto me. "Good job."

"What was it like fighting yourself?" Robert looked very eager to know.

"Painful," I rubbed my head. "He got some good blows in."

I looked at Looker. "He should be the only one with the D-serum in him. But, just in case..."

Looker nodded. "We'll be taking all the necessary precautions, don't worry."

"In the meantime," Looker looked at the three of us. "Get back to your journey. Let the adults handle the Cult. We'll find them. I hear they got the Lumiose Gym back up and running. Maybe go and get another badge."

"Sure," I said. "But we won't stay on the sidelines. We'll still help fight the Cult and anyone else out there causing trouble."

Alex nodded. "This is our fight as well. Plus, we have a good track record."

Looker sighed. "Can't argue with that."

He smiled. "Call me if there's ever any trouble too big for you to handle. We'll be around."

He waved and left to talk with Anabel, who was overseeing all the Dittos getting taken into captivity.

"Let's head to the Pokemon Center," Alex said. "It's nearly night. We'll need rest before we take on Clemont."

Robert nodded. "We'll also need to see if he managed to fix those Holo Casters for us as well."

With that, we headed off to the nearest Pokemon Center, the next badge right around the corner for Alex and I.

I rubbed Frogadier's pokeball. "We'll win this, together."

Sorry for the late update. I may have procrastinated a little working on this, but I feel it turned out good in the end. Plus, I somehow got it over 4000 words. Didn't think this chapter would honestly. Okay, so the reason why it took this long (aside from a little procrastination), was because I was working on side projects. Nothing more will be said for the moment. Until next time. Toodles