Chris met up with Max and Taylor after her match on the first floor.

"Hey are you guys going to battle the gym leader here or not?"

"Chris, it's twelve at night! Shouldn't we kind of, sleep?" said Taylor.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that."

"Don't worry, we booked us a room at the pokecentre hotel. We each get our own room and bed and spa!!!"

"No, serious?"

"Yeah!"

"Wow."

"TOtally wow." agreed Max.

"Lets go now."

The elevator took them up to the twelth floor where they relaxed on a couch till another Nurse Joy (This time with black hair violet eyes) came to show them to their room.

Crystal's room was awash with colour, it was as if a rainbow was captured in the room. But too tired to appreciate all this, Chris muttered briefly, "Think how much this is gonna cost." before falling asleep on her bed.

In the morning Chris ventured out to have breakfast before finding Max and Taylor who were chatting on the porch of their rooms.

"Let's go find the gym leader then."

"Cool. When are we going?"

"Now."

"Hey chill Chris. We have a whole morning in front of us relaxing on couchs, working out in the gym, and you want to find some crummy gym leader?"

"Have you noticed how dark everything is?"

Taylor paused and peered out at the darkness.

"Yeah, but that's why its called Black City, nah."

"But Nurse Joy tells me it wasn't always like this."

Now they were listening.

"Go on." said Max.

"Well," Chris began, "It all started when Nurse Joy was little. She was playing with her toys when suddenly everything went dark. Going out to investigate, she saw Benjamin, the gym leader at that time, running around with his pokemon searching everywhere. THey even got the police's houndooms on the case. The gym leader kept fire pokemon. Lovely ones that all knew flash. That was what kept the city light. It was known as Black Town then only as a joke, but something went wrong. Terribly wrong. Someone stole the hm, Flash. And Benjamin didn't even get to teach his pokemon the move, only his dad's pokemon, Rapidash knew it. Rapidash had died just then and along with it any light. Black town now has no light at all."

"But you found the hm Chris!"

"Yeah but I dunno how to use it and- I think there's more to the story than just the fact that flash went missing."

"What could that be?"

"Well I've been noticing all the pokemon in this city are dark types. Dark types hate the light. If I bring back light into the city than it will force millions of pokemon into hiding. This is the biggest city in Rieto. A breeding ground for millions of dark pokemon. I think we should leave it like it is."

"Then we also leave the people in total darkness?"

"THat's basically the idea."

"That would be too horrible. No light at all?"

"Yeah."

"But the dark pokemon need the dark. They can't stand the light any more than we can stand broccoli!"

"She's got a point there."

"Definitely."

"So what do we do?"

"We totally do nothing!"

"Uh huh."

Crystal sighed. The twins were no help.

"Hey come out with me and take a look at all the dark pokemon in the streets. Imagine destroying their home."

Max was imagining the city coming back into the light. He wouild be a superstar! Surrounded by girls fanning him and feeding him grapes...

"Max?" asked Taylor.

"I think we should drag him along."

"Good idea."

Taylor grabbed Max by the ear.

"Hey! What's the big idea?"