...do your own disclaimer, the rightful owner's should know already from reading the previous chapters, no real reason for me to write it again.

Here's a quick summary, a question mark signifies unrevealed information.

Name of Trainer - Name of pokemon(Type)

David - Weedle(Kakuna), Ee-ee(Mankey), Ducky(Farfetch'd) Emily - Rex(Charmander), King(Growlithe), ?(Magby) Anna - Daffodil(Totodile), Sunshine(Magikarp), ? Dante - Molly(Eevee), Polly(Eevee) Spence(Strikerfox) - Clamp(Feraligatr), ...?

The four teenagers marched along the trail in the dark to the next city on their pre-planned trip. The sun was nearly gone, but they hadn't yet noticed. Such is the result of drifting into the zen state of mind where one thinks of absolutely nothing. This is a common trick of long- distance hikers to pass hours of walking in what seems a few minutes. Only a disturbance or the arrival of a destination will snap the person out of it.

Daffodil stopped, sat down and began to shriek. This had an effect on the teens in two ways. First, a shriek isn't pleasant to the ears and second, Daffodil was leading and caused everyone behind her to trip. Anna quickly scooped her up and began to nuzzle her while Emily looked around trying to find the source of the disturbance. Quickly fading into the distance of the road ahead was a small glowing light. A quick look at Daffodil, revealed she was missing her new toy, the weird yellow rock.

Emily ran after the nearly gone light screaming, "Stop! Come back here, thief!"

Anna came to the same conclusion as Emily upon hearing her words and took up chase as well, a little behind Emily.

David and Dante shrugged their shoulders and took off after them in a quick trot. As far as they were concerned, they bandit was so far ahead already that if Emily didn't catch him they wouldn't either.

Swerving through trees the Tyrogue paused a second to catch its breath and second-wind. That hysterical girl wouldn't stop following him. He wished he had never grabbed the stupid glowing thing. He had thought it might be some new fighter training tool, but it had turned out to be a stupid, stupid rock. Well, he couldn't just give it back now, at least without a chase and a fight. If they couldn't catch and beat him, then they didn't deserve the stupid rock. He started off again when he heard barking from behind, and clutched the rock in front of him to give off less light. He saw a familiar grove of trees. On the other side of the grove was his special shortcut. If he could make it there, then even the growlithe wouldn't be able to track him. He spotted a nearly hidden stump that was familiar to him. Chuckling at how this pursuers would trip over it, He hopped over it without slowing down, only to smash face first into a branch that he swore hadn't been there a few seconds ago. His eyes reeled momentarily as he lay flat on his back. The few seconds before he hit the branch replayed in his head and he realized the branch had been an arm. He looked straight up and saw a face. He balled his fists.

Emily followed the barking of King to a small clearing. She nearly tripped on a short stump before she saw it. She looked around and determined that there wasn't much light left. Coming from the clearing were some loud thudding noises. She began forward only to get slammed from behind by Anna, who hadn't seen her. She tripped over the stump and the two girls went down in a pile.
Anna saw a small glowing and hurried forward to scoop up the stolen rock . She looked for Daffodil to return it, but she was wandering towards the strange noises.
Emily walked stepped forward again, this time nearly tripping over a casually thrown messenger bag.

The Tyrogue couldn't believe it. It hadn't been a pokemon that had stopped him, it had been a human. He had thought dispatching the human would be easy, but this one had blocked or dodged most of its punches.
The young man caught one of the Tyrogue's fists and drove a knee into its chest, driving the pokemon backwards, stumbling into a tree. The pokemon dashed out, swinging wildly, but the human swivelled behind it. When the Tyrogue faced him again, he grabbed the pokemon's outstretched arm and threw him into the same tree as before. The Tyrogue manages a twin jab to the human's stomach, but wound up with both arms pinned against the human's sides. The man gripped the pokemon by the shoulders lifting him off the ground, then head butted the pokemon sending it for a third time into the tree. The Tyrogue dropped to the ground, barely conscious, trying to catch its breath. The young man motioned at the girl kneeling next to his bag, "Throw me a ball."

Emily stared blankly for a second before understanding that he had been talking to her. She grabbed the bag and began searching. Anna thrust her arms in, trying to help.
David and Dante walked up at this moment and asked what was going on.

"Come on, it's not that hard. It's a pokeball. Y'know...round...about the size of a baseball." the guy said before turning his attention to the rising Tyrogue.

David and Dante reached over to help too, and since four sets of arms don't have much room to move in an already crowded bag, the bag was upturned and all the contents spilled out. The four teenagers grimaced and began feeling around for a pokeball amongst the mess.
The Tyrogue charged, aiming a tackle at the human's legs. It had had no idea that humans could be this good at fighting. This thought was temporarily erased as a double fisted uppercut halted its charge. It staggered backward, then forward, trying to maintain balance. The human brought both fists down in an overhead arc smashing the pokemon's shoulders, dropping it to the ground again.

"Look, I'll just get it myself." And he began walking over to the four staring teens, who had stopped searching to watch the action. Their attention immediately turned back to the spilled contents on the ground. Amidst it all a large black, metal pincher reached down and picked up a small round object. The teens looked at the scizor that had just appeared there, and the pokeball it was holding. The scizor lightly tossed the ball to the person, who in turn spun around quickly, heaving the ball at the once-again charging Tyrogue. The ball struck it in the middle of the forehead, and both the pokemon and the ball hit the ground at the same time. A red light flashed and the Tyrogue was gone. The scizor picked up the ball as the person walked over to the four teens.
"I should have guessed it was you four. Did you get back whatever it was that the Tyrogue took?" Strikerfox asked.

Four sets of eyes just stared. Two pairs in awe, one pair sizing up the scizor and one pair in tears. He turned to the girl that was crying. "What's wrong? I thought you would have been happy to see me."
Anna glared at him, trying to stop the tears. "Y-Y-You hit that pokemon! How -could- you?!"

He closed his eyes for a second trying to find the best way to explain. He opened them and called out, "Ginsu, the tree," and gestured at a nearby tree. The black scizor walked over and with one jab felled the tree. "And you've already seen Clamp. If I had let them fight the pokemon, they might have accidentally killed it. Fighting it myself seemed the most humane way. Also, I've proven to it that I have techniques and skills worth learning, which will make it much easier to tame. "Okay?"

Anna looked unsure for a moment, but after looking at the broken tree she smiled.

Emily grabbed his attention next by inquiring, "It's a scizor. It's name is Ginsu, like the knife. I got that, however it should be red. It's black. Explain." She continued to examine the scizor.

"Simple. You guessed right on the name. I named it Ginsu because it was a scyther and scyther's have blades for forearms. That should explain it: I am its original trainer." He bent down and began picking all his stuff up.

Emily looked at him, the first time her gaze had left the scizor. "That doesn't explain anything!"

"A scyther becomes a scizor when it undergoes certain trauma while equipped with a metal coat. Typically, the trauma comes from being traded. Subconsciously, the scyther thinks 'I'm not good enough', so the body reacts absorbing the metal coat and the scyther evolves. The same trauma that causes the scyther to evolve, is the same that gives it the rebellious attitude. It was rejected by its previous trainer, thus hates all trainers. It becomes red from the anger it bears. Ginsu evolved differently. It was still the metal coat. And still the 'I'm not good enough' feeling that caused it, but the situation was much different. We were fighting a tough battle, my whole team had been hurt badly, myself included. Ginsu saw the life-threatening danger and underwent the trauma, the difference being that he evolved in my defense. I didn't even realize it was him until a little bit after the fight. I had had no idea that he would evolve."

"Hmm, so is there any difference between the two? The red and black."

"A few. Ginsu is smaller than other scizors, however he's also stronger, faster, and more agile. His armor is stronger than other scizors even though he's lighter. Through rigorous training he's built up a resistance to the normal metal-type weaknesses. Most importantly, he actually listens and works with me, not having the attitude problem most scizors suffer. I don't know if it is because he's black that he's that way, or if it's just my raising. I've never seen another black scizor to find out."
Emily seemed to decide something. "Well, they may not be a fire type, but next scyther I see is mine. You just wait, you'll get to meet another black scizor some day!"

He shook his head and finished putting his stuff back into his bag. He noticed something was missing and looked around. Daffodil had apparently found a new toy. A glowing prism rock set into a holder to be worn on a string as a necklace. "Um.."

"Oh. Sorry," Anna began and rushed over with the recovered yellow rock, but Daffodil turned her nose up on the yellow rock and gripped the one she had tighter. "I don't know what to do, she doesn't want to give it back."

"Do you know what that is?"

"What? Is it bad?"

"That's an everstone. It once belonged to Clamp. He had wanted to stay a Totodile, so I gave him that. Same battle that Ginsu evolved in, Clamp tossed the stone away, evolving straight into a feraligatr, completely skipping the croconaw stage. He gave up his favored form to help save my life. Come to think of it, a few more of my pokemon evolved during that battle. Anyways, she can keep it if you want. Just understand that she won't evolve if she wears it."

"Really?! That's wonderful! Quick, Daffodil, put it on!"

He shook his head. "Why do totodiles even -have- evolutions if they all prefer their first stage?" he asked noone in particular. He noticed the other glowing rock. The yellow one. "Do you know what that is?"

"What? This?" Anna replied holding up the yellow rock "No."

"It's a thunderstone. I'm doing an experiment on evolutions. A friend of mine asked me to do it. Eevees as we know, have multiple elemental states. The question is if other pokemon that have more than one evolutionary chains are likewise affected by these stones. I just got a Tyrogue. Would you mind if I have that thunderstone. A lightning-type fighter might well work."

"Sure. Seems a fair trade."

Just then, Emily yelled out, "A vulpix! Back off Spence, even if you are the so-called Strikerfox, this fox is mine!"

Spence chuckled that chuckle that one gives when he knows something that someone else doesn't, but wants to make sure everyone else in the area does. "Try catching it. It might work."

"Go! Double-team it! Rex, King!" Emily called as her two pokemon that had been already released charged the vulpix that was just sitting in place.

"Hey, I've heard about that pokemon. That's-" Dante was cut short by Spence's hand.

"Shh, don't ruin the surprise" he whispered.

"Go Overlord!" Emily yelled as she released her magby that her uncle had sent her from the tropics. As one, the three fire pokemon reached the vulpix. The vulpix sucked in a short breath before releasing a flamethrower that engulfed the attacking pokemon. When the smoke cleared Emily's pokemon lay on the scorched earth coated in soot. The vulpix was no longer there. Emily reluctantly recalled her pokemon into their balls and turned to face the others dejectedly. Her face lit up in horror as she saw the vulpix curled up in Anna's lap, nuzzling her. "Hey! What! No! Uh-uh!"

Spence chuckled the same chuckle as before and said "My turn to catch it," he snapped his fingers and the vulpix rushed over and leapt into his open messenger bag.

Anna looked at Emily puzzled, "Kindle was with him at the training camp we went to. Didn't you see her? She was always with him."

Emily shut her gaping jaw and stuttered.

"How could you not know Kindle?!" Dante exclaimed, "His oldest and most powerful pokemon!...But I thought she was a ninetales?"

"Kindle was my family pet," Spence began, "I've had her since I was little. She always favored me above my parents so she became just mine along the lines sometime. I've known her long enough that I understand everything she says. You will here barks, growls, and yips, but somehow I know exactly what it all means. She is -not- just a ninetales. She is a -true- ninetales, the kind in common legends. I would explain right now, but it's already dark." He turned his attention to his messenger bag. "Kindle, could you light the way with a little foxfire?" The pokemon leapt out of the bag and raced through the darkened woods, leaving a string of fire lining the sides of the trail.

"Um... isn't that dangerous? Won't it start a forest fire?" David asked.

"No, it's foxfire, it'll only burn what she wants. It will do no damage to the forest." Spence replied. "Just like the other pokemon you've met of mine, she too, evolved through unordinary means during the very same battle." He began following the nicely lit trail, motioning for the others to follow. "I'll explain while we walk. We have awhile before we reach the city, and for Kindle, there's a lot to explain."