Disclaimer: I still don't own Pikachu, or pidgey or rattata for that matter.

The raticate bowed and stroked his whiskers.

"We have enlisted the help of other free colonies of pokemon to our side. The sandshrews have agreed to help us and so have the geodudes. We will soon claim the Pikachu land for our own!"

All the pokemon cheered very loudly. Swift looked around quickly and scurried away to the control room where she was sure to find the pidgey's main computer.

Swift saw two pidgeottos guarding the tent. She was about to shock them when she realised that if she did she would set off another alarm. She saw on the wrists of both of the birds a devicewhich she quickly identified as an alarm that didn't have any batteries. Instead, if you used electricity you would switch the alarm on.

"Smart, huh?" she said sneakily, "Well they'll have to do better than that!"

SHe stood in front of them and they just smiled at her. SHe ran up quickly and bashed their skulls together beofre slamming them with her tail.

THey were surprised only for a split second before they both flew up high. Knowing that she couldn't reach them using electricity she was forced to wait until they plummeted down at top speed straight towards her. She stepped out of the way calmly and they both hit the ground.

Swift smiled and deftly used cut on their beaks and poked it through their foreheads.

"On second thoughts..."

She took them out again and put them in her backpack for trophies.

Swift then strolled into the tent. A laptop was sitting on the desk.

"Primitive." she said.

She sat down on the office chair in front of the laptop and inserted the disk into the computer. SHe opened a few files, then decided to download it all. It contained lists of possible allies and meetings in the future.

When it finished downloading she took it out and put it in her backpack.

Swift walked outside and saw that Stormtail and Strike were being held in the tent beside her. She walked away and set up camp just outside the pidgey base.

After erecting her tent (that was also in the backpack. You'll be surprised at all she carries) she unrolled her sleeping bag (remember, pikachus are small so their tent is tiny and ditto with their sleeping bag) and went to sleep.

She woke up to hear some rattatas talking outside her tent. She crawled to her backpack and took out a knife and the bottle of ketchup. She poured the ketchup all over herself then got the knife and put on a ferocious face. After chucking the bottle outside and leaning against the centre pole that held up her tent, she went totally limp. She managed to perfect her snarl just as the rattatas burst in.

"Freeze with your paws up!"

They saw Swift and backed away.

"I think we should leave him..."

Swift managed to keep herself from lashing out at the rattatas, because it was crucial that she appeared dead, so they would tell their commander.

"Should we take his knife?"

"No! Pay your respects to the dead!"

"We better, y'know, cover him up?"

"Yeah, got any clothes?"

"Just this thin cloth. Almost a scarf."

"That's good enough."

THey placed it over Swift then ran out leaving her in the tent.

Using the cloth to wipe the blood off her, she had an idea. SHe rapped it around her head like a ninja and looked at herself in her pocket mirror, (also from her bag).

She grinned at the image she saw then put her knife away, then ate the apple.

***

The next day she heard the rattatas reporting to the raticate.

"And we saw a dead pikachu! With a knife! He was snarling at us with blood smeared all over him! He was definitely dead."

THe raticate grinned.

"Well, Twotoes, you've done well. Report to the cook and say the general commands her to give you an extra lump of cheese."

The raticate then turned to Strike and Stormtail.

"It looks like your friend won't save you now."

Strike started crying and Swift almost rushed out to him, but she didn't.

"Hey, mate. ITs tough. I lost my wife too. I know what death is like."

"SILENCE!" screamed the raticate, "You'll join the pikachu soon enough, tomorrow at noon!"

--Hey how about that? Review again and I might put up the next chapter...--