Yayay, I hope you all have been enjoying the story so far! And thank you for the reviews! Here's chappy 13

Oh, and Zita, Larissa is an unusual Legendary poké, along with Fireburst, because they are both about the size of Fearows, instead of the huge ones we're all familiar with.

Disclaimer: Any original characters not in the animé are mine. No takies, k? Pweeze?

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~~~ Firestrike's pov~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Now, you're all next!"

I whirled around to the source of the voice, and saw a woman. She was saying how she knew Roy and Derek, and called them idiots. LO-freakin-L. Now though, she said, she'd catch all of us! I saw her throw a cage containing Shockwave against a tree.

"What are we gonna do?" Larissa asked Aquafire.

"We have no choice but to fight," he replied grimly, keeping his eyes on the enemy.

"My name is Rachelle! Unlike those two, I actually have pokémon to battle you, so I don't get my outfit mussed up," she said in an evil voice. "Machamp, Tangela, Victreebel, Hypno, go!" she yelled, hurling four pokéballs in our direction.

Out came a huge pokémon with four arms and huge muscles, a weird thing covered in wide vines, a big bulb thing with a mouth on top framed with teeth, and a strange pokémon with a long snout holding a pendulum. There were something wrong with these pokémon, though. For starters, they had blank stares, like there was no spirit or soul inside. A very horrifying sight, believe me.

"Everyone, be on your guard," I heard Aquafire say. "Something's really wrong here." I took up a fighting stance and bared my sharp little teeth at her. The dark fur on me bristled and stuck straight up.

"You pathetic pokémon think you're so tough," she said. "Tangela and Victreebel, wrap as many as you can up tight!"

The blank faced Tangela and Victreebel launched at least twenty vines in our direction. Some of us, like Arbiter, Fireburst, Flameheart, and Aquafire were able to burn the vines before they grabbed them. Some of the others were able to drive the vines back with their various attacks, but some vines got through and grabbed Kirin, Shadow, Lunar, and Larissa and held tight. Try as they did, they weren't able to break the vines' hold on them, and were pulled off their feet right onto the ground, or in Larissa's case, right out of the sky.

"No, they got them!" cried Calypso.

"We have to attack!" yelled Fireburst.

"HAHAHA!" crowed Rachelle. "See? I've already got four of you! Hypno, Hypnosis!"

The Hypno's pendulum started swinging to the right and left, while it was chanting, Hypno, Hypno, hypnotically. That psychic attack was extremely powerful, because Calypso, Arbiter, and Flameheart's heads all started bobbing, then they fell asleep!



"Tangela, Victreebel, grab all of them!" Rachelle ordered. The thick vines came flying for Calypso, Arbiter, and Flameheart. Aquafire was able to burn the vines to a crisp before they grabbed Calypso and Arbiter. I tried to shock the vines with my electric energy, but missed. The vine wrapped around Flameheart's midsection, carried him up, and dragged him back to where the others, Kirin, Shadow, Lunar, and Larissa were. The vines glowed yellow, sucking the energy out of them all five of them.

That left only Fireburst, Redyan, Aquafire, me, and a now-awake Arbiter and Calypso left to fight the Machamp and Hypno.

~~~Fireburst's pov~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I saw the fur on Aquafire's back rise up in anger and rage.

"Let them go!" he snarled.

"Ooh, are you saying that I should let your little buddies over here go, you little silver Growlithe? laughed Rachelle. "Not a chance! Machamp, Seismic Toss!"

The blank eyed Machamp grabbed Firestrike and Aquafire in its four hands. They furiously struggled, trying to escape its rock crushing grasp. It was just a futile attempt. The Machamp jumped high into the air, higher than I thought a pokémon that big could jump, and hurled both of them towards the ground. Both of them slammed nito the ground hard, creating a big cloud of dust which billowed into the air. When the dust cleared, it revealed a fairly deep crater, with Aquafire and Firestrike laying unconscious at the bottom, leaving me, Redyan, Arbiter, and Calypso left.

I was filled with a blind rage. I furiously attacked the Machamp with my most powerful attack, Fire Blast combined with the devastating effects of my Ice Beam. The sky blue-red-orange beam of fire and ice energy flew towards Machamp, striking it head on. The beam hurled the huge brute right smack dab into a tree. It didn't move from where it landed. Rachelle recalled it.

"Nice powers," she said, not impressed at all. "Now I see why you're just so d@mn important to the boss. Hypno, Psychic!"

The Hypno's pendulum started swinging again, and it was chanting again. This time, however, its entire body radiated a blue glow. the glow formed into a huge psychic energy ball in front of it, which shot right for the remaining four of us.

"Aaaah!" I cried, sending off a fireball equal in size to the psychic attack. Combine that with Arbiter's dark energy ball, the two powers over came Hypno's psychic energy and hurled it towards the cage in which Shockwave was in. The energies collided with the cage, busting it open. I saw Shockwave go flying through the air and smack his head on a tree. Ouch. Not.

"Now you got Hypno too," said Rachelle. "No matter, I have a pokémon guaranteed to defeat all of you! Charizard, go!"

The huge fire breathing lizard came roaring out, and had the same blank expression as the other pokémon. It charged at us with its head down, not driven by anything except pure, ruthless instinct.

The Charizard's gigantic head Headbutted Calypso right in the body so fast that we weren't sure where it was at first until we all saw Calypso's body go flying towards the edge of the crater where Aquafire and Firestrike was laying. Now all of them were unconscious.

Oh, shit! I thought. There's only me, Arbiter, and Redyan left!

The Charizard flew over to his master.

"Are you ready to give up now, you idiotic pokémon?" she asked, evil and victory glinting in her dark eyes.

~~~Redyan's pov~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What a day. First, I get some leaves to help revive the weird silver Growlithe, Aquafire, then along with Rokon, I was supposed to help lead these strange pokémon to the entrance at the end of the valley. Then, we're attacked by a couple of guys who want these pokémon, and Rokon stays behind with the Scyther to try and help. Now, this crazy lady's trying to do the same thing as the two guys, capture them all. Geez, today was supposed to be my relaxation day!

"Are you ready to give up now, you idiotic pokémon?" asked the lady.

I was thinking, Ehhh, you wish, lady! I shot out a stream of sticky string at her, tying her up and holding her immobile.

"C-Charizard, barbeque that ugly bug!" she yelled.

Who are you callin' ugly?! I was thinking. Look at yourself in the mirror lady, now that's ugly! I laughed inside, but was barely able to dodge the Charizard's vicious Flamethrower attack. Fireburst shot an Ice Beam at Charizard, and Arbiter shot a psychic orb at it, the Ice Beam freezing its wings, and the orb stunning it long enough to allow me to scurry to safety. It bellowed in pain at the ice covering its broad wings. Now, though, Charizard was seriously pissed. It shot a pillar of fire into the air in rage. It Slashed at me, and connected. Damn! I thought. That hurts like hell! The wound opened up, spilling my blood all over the forest floor. I almost fainter, but quickly used my silk to make a temporary bandage to stop the bleeding. I staggered over to a tree.

"A-Arbiter, Firestrike, save...the others," I managed to say before I fell unconscious due to loss of blood.

~~~Shockwave's pov~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I awoke with my head throbbing. Who was I? Where am I? I didn't remember anything. All I could remember was a group of friends, among them a silver Growlithe and a dark wolf pokémon. I looked across, and saw a huge Charizard against a little dark colored Charmander with a stripe down its back and a weird pikachu/dragon cross. The Charizard had a blank look on its face, like its very soul had been sucked out of its body long ago, and now had no will of its own. As I looked, the Charizard charged at the Charmander and pika/dragon, and headbutted them right into a tree. A woman was laughing over this. I couldn't bear to see any of this happen to any pokémon, so I staggered over in front of the Charizard.

The woman looked at me, and laughed even harder. I didn't know what was so freakin' funny.

"Is that the best you can do?" she laughed. "Charizard, Fire Blast!"

The Charizard's mouth was filling extremely quickly with flames, getting ready to attack me. I suddenly realized that I had some sort of energy, and so I released. It was a huge electric bolt, which struck the huge fire lizard and blowing it back to its owner. I was still filled with power, so I released this too. It came out not as an electric bolt this time, but a bluish-purple orb of energy. The energy struck the lady, the Charizard again, and a Tangela and Victreebel that I hadn't noticed before. The blast sent all of them flying into the sky, and disappearing far away near a tall mountain in a little blink of light. The pokémon around me were slowly reviving and getting up from the ground.

"S-Shockwave?" said a lightly tinged yellow Vaporeon. "Why did you help us?"

"Hey, I don't even know who you are," I replied, mildly confused. All of them gave questioning looks at each other.

"He must have gotten amnesia from that hit to the head," said a lightly tinged blue Flareon to the Vaporeon.

"Ouch," said a dark Pikachu.

"Whoa, whoa, who the heck are all of you and who am I?" I asked, getting agitated.

"Oh!" said the grey bird, which was lightly tinged red. "I'm Larissa!"

"I'm Calypso, an electric/water type," said the Vaporeon.

"Do we really need to go though this again?! Man.. anyway, I'm Lunar."

"Shadow."

"Arbiter."

"Kirin here."

"Fireburst."

"I'm Firestrike."

"Flameheart here!"

"Redyan," said a creepy looking bug near my leg.

"And I'm Aquafire," said a silver Growlithe who stepped out from behind Kirin. "You're Shockwave, a psychic/electric Jolteon. We got here after escaping from some labs in a city called Saffron."

"I think some of my memory's back," I said, after hearing some of these details. I suddenly got a memory surge, and now I remembered everything. "Where the hell are those jerks, Roy and Derek? Ooh, I wanna rip them apart limb by limb!"

"Looks like he's back," sighed Kirin.

Everyone groaned.

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One danger down, but it looks like more to come! Yikes! See ya tomorrow!