This takes place shortly after Ash started to crawl through the air vents.

Ash has just started crawling through the air vents. He looks back one more time to his cell/bedroom. He quickly shacks his head and moves on. This is what he thinks is his last time to escape, before they move him somewhere else. His leg stills hurts, but he pushes on. He goes straight till he comes to an end. He sees he has two options, go left or right. He moves to the right and looks out a small air vent. He sees he is close to the elevators, but he knows from his last attempt of escape, he will not be able to use the elevators to his advantage again, so he turns left.

Few hours later, many dead ends, and back tracking, he believes he found a route in the air ducks he can use to escape in. Many of the areas he has gone down lead to areas where heavily used by Rockets. Many dead ended in rooms with people in them. He knows he is at least three floors up now, and it was hard to travel straight up in the vents but he managed it. He has come up to another vertical air duck and stands up in it. He is tired and his shirt and pants are sticking to him. His hair is flat against his face, and his right leg is throbbing in pain, but he knows he has to push on.

He leans against one side of the duck and places his left leg to the other side. He gets his right leg to corporate and places his elbows on the sides of his chest. He slides his back up and walks his feet up. As he gets to the top of the air duck, his pushes his back up till he can place his palms on the corner of the sheet metal. He grips the corners, and gathers his strength up and jumps up. He manages to pull himself from the duck and land with a soft thud. It took him twenty minutes, but he gets to the sub level four. He lies back with his feet dangling in the area he has just come out of. He now wishes he ate the oatmeal before he left, but it is the past.

Around four in the morning, he makes it to sub level one. He looks out one vent into someone's room and sees alarm clock. It is four twenty in the morning. He is surprised; he thought it was much later. He smiles to himself and moves on, for he knows he has one more floor to climb and he can get out of here.

As he was passing a vent half the size the one in his room he hears yells and screams coming from it. As he looks out into the room, he see Henry and the man that claims Ash as his father with another person, a woman wearing all back with her gray hair pulled back in a bun. She wears glasses and has a serious look on her face. Ash looks around the room and sees three people sitting/laying down on one side of the room. They have burses all over their body and one was bleeding very badly form his right thigh. One is knocked out and is not moving.

"Tell me, what information you passed to your boss now, before you wind up like your friends." Mrs. Crimson said

"I told you all I know. I was just assigned here three months ago." Frank said

Henry ran up to the man and picked him up and slammed him into the wall. They guy started to cry and tell his captors that he told them everything, over and over.

"Let him go Mr. Henry. They are no use to us now. We have what we need and you can have your fun with them now." Giovanni said

Henry allowed the man to drop back down to the ground. Giovanni walked out with Mrs. Crimson. Henry walked over to a table and picked up a bucket and flung the water over the three men. The one that was out woke up. All three look up at Henry as he cracks his knuckles with an evil grin on his face. He pulls out a gun and fires two shots at Boyd and Monty killing them instantly. He places the gun on the table and advances on Frank. Frank tries to fight him off, but he is too weak. Henry grabs an arm and breaks it. He does the same to the other arm and starts to stomp all over his body. He soon finishes and kneels down the man and whisper in his ear.

"Too bad I can make you suffering longer, but I have things to do."

He grab a hold of the mans head and quickly twists it, breaking the mans neck, killing him instantly. He got up and retrieved his gun and holstered it. He left the room. Ash was stun after this happen. He sees what the man did to them. He starts to shack and he moves off to throw up. He sits there to gather himself before he moves on, and is now glad he did not eat.

Down in sub level six, Bobbie is walking to Ashes room. He had just set his own luggage down in the hallway. He pulled out a key card and slid it in the card reader. The door slides open. He sees that Ash is still in bed, but finds the suitcase is in the floor open, but not with clothes in. He walks over to wake Ash up. He slaps what should be his back, but Bobbie felt something soft when he hit. He threw back the covers, and finds pillows and some cloths used to make it look like Ash was still in bed. Bobbie clenches his teeth. It is the last straw with the kid and he is now angry at Ash. He balls up his fist and slams it into the wall above the bed. As the hit reverberates throughout the room, the vent cover falls off, crashing into the dresser and landing onto the floor. Bobbie turns around to see the cause of the noise, and runs out after seeing Ashes escape route and to tell his boss.

Right before Bobbie slammed his fist into the wall, Ash was nodding off. He is tired, and he does not know where he is going, there are no air vents to let in light, so he does not see a vertical connection going down, just ahead of him. Just as Bobbie slammed his fist in the wall, Ash crawled up to the hole. One of his arms finds the hole. Not felling the ground Ash jerks awake and lost his balance and fell forward. He falls down half a story, falls through an air duck and falls hard on the ground. He lays their stun in a dark place. Within a few minutes, he comes to his senses.

As he gets up to stand, motion sensor lights turn on. They emit an eerie orange glow, but Ash is able to see his surroundings. He is not in a room, but a hallway. It has a good layer of dust on the ground and spider webs in the corners. He hears a crackling sound by him. He looks down to his right arm. He sees that the part of the control device is broken open, and it is emitting sparks. He thinks to himself it must have short-circuit, and he will not have to be shocked again. He looks to his left, and sees the ground is inclining up. He looks to his right and see two huge metal doors. He walks up to the doors and finds a sign covered in dust. He wipes the dust clear and finds it states emergency evacuation tunnel. He turns around and starts to run/limp to his freedom.

Up in the office of the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni had been talking to Henry and Mrs. Crimson about some new security checks he wants to have in place, till he was interrupted by Bobbie running into his office. Bobbie tells that his son had just escape.

"How did he escape?" Giovanni ask

"Through the air vents and I don't think he got far." Bobbie said

Giovanni reached over to his computer and turn it on. He brought up a file with the file name of Control Devices. He types in thirteen and it pulls up Ashes location.

"Dam it, he is in the under ground escape tunnel heading to the Viridian Forest." he pushes a button on his keyboard to active the electrical shock, but a error pops up saying it is not responding. "The stun is not operational. GET HIM BACK!"

With that, Bobbie and Henry ran out of the room, by passing the fist set of elevators. They run down a long hallway, and got to a dead end. Henry pulled out a card key and Bobbie bent down to a fake tree plant and pulled out some of the dry moss. He uncovered a key card reader. Henry inserted the card and the wall slid open to show a hidden elevator. The two enter and Henry pulled out a cell phone. He called up the operations master.

"I need you to organize some of your tracker grunts and get them now."

The operations master quickly turned to his computer and pulled up his list of tracker grunts. He enters a set of numbers, and throughout the building, twenty pagers went off simultaneous. They quickly quit what they were doing and all headed to sub-level three. As they enter the floor, they go to a room located next to the operations masters office and to their lockers and pull out bags already pack for emergencies, consisting of binoculars (night and inferred), camouflage outfits, ration packs, fist aid kits, camping equipment, commutation headsets, a GPS system, and many more items. As they gather, the operation master tells them to change into green foliage camouflage and hands them their tracking pokemon. They are ready even before Henry and Bobbie make it to the room.

Bobbie and Henry make the group follow them to sub-level one and head for the emergency tunnel exit Ash use for his escape. Along the way they brief them on their target, and to bring him back unharmed. As they come closer, they see two metal doors. Two grunts run up to the doors and start to turn the wheel locks to unlock the doors. It takes them some time, due to they had never had to use the emergency exits and with time, they have rusted. Once open, the grunts take out dart guns and are at the ready.

"How in the hell did he get to this level?" Henry asks

"I don't know, but he could not have used the air duck system for his escape, and I don't how he got the screws off the vent." Bobbie said

"Sir, we found blood up ahead." one grunt said

The two captains follow where the grunt called from. They see where he had laid for a few minutes. They also find pieces to the control device, in the same area and also a sheet of bent up sheet metal. They look up to the ceiling and find a hole in air duck. They are stunned that he may have used the air duck system as his escape route.

"Move out and send out two tracking pokemon." Henry ordered

Two houndours were sent out and took off once their trainers gave the command to track.

Down halfway the tunnel Ash had to sit down to rest. As he was resting, he was nodding off to sleep, due to exhaustion. He is unaware he had broken open wounds on his leg, from crawling around in the air ducks and landing hard on the ground. He had just nodded off again till he heard creaking noise from where he had come from. He jerked his head awake and quickly got back to his feet. He calmed himself down to hear if someone has found him. He soon hears noise coming towards him. He tuned and started to run to the end of the tunnel.

A few minutes later, he has made it to the end of the tunnel. He is out of breath. The baking form the houndours are getting closer. He wills himself on and climbs up what looks like a sewer entrance. As he steps up to the third step, something grabs his foot. He looks down to see two hound ours below him and one has a hold of his foot. Ash shook off the houndour but lost his shoe in the process. He quickly ascends to the top. He tries to push it open but it will not budge. He sees it has a wheel handle. As he tires to turn it to unlock the door, he hears people shouting down in the tunnel.

The wheel finally loosens up for him to start to turn it, just as Henry and the others gather at the ladder.

"Come on kid, we got you cornered. If you come back down, I promise I won't hurt you, much." Henry said as he started up the ladder.

"I will never go back." Ash said

He looked down and saw Henry climbing the ladder. Ash quickly grabbed his other shoe off his foot and chunks it at the man. Henry not able to see in the dim light did not see the shoe flying at his face. The shoe hits him in the face. Henrys only reaction is to grab his face with both of his hands, causing him to lose his balance and falling down half a story. As the man fell to the ground Ash heard a wet crack and a thud. Not wanting to find out if he killed the man, he finished turning the turn handle open. He had to throw his weight against the door, but on the fourth try, it open. He surfaced, and shut the door behind him. He found he could not lock it back, so he took off running into the forest.

The group watched as Henry climbed the ladder, and heard the interaction between Ash and him. They heard as Henry cried out in pain when he was hit in the face. As he fell, one of his legs caught on a step and he broke his leg. Once he hit the ground he blacked out. Bobbie quickly ordered the group up and had four take Henry to the emergency room.

As the group surfaced, Bobbie ordered them to split up in four groups and to spread out. Each group let out a fearow a growlithe and a houndour to track for Ash.

Ash ran as fast his legs could take him. He stumbled over fallen branches and rocks. It is not long till sunrise and he wishes it would come sooner. His path he has taken, leads him to a small river. He quickly drinks some and takes off his shoes. A memory comes back to him from watching a movie. Someone escaped from jail and had used a river to their advantage. The person had walked in the river a good distance and then crossed to the other side of the bank to throw off the people who where tracking him. He steps in and finds it goes up to his knees and goes with his ideal. He took off his socks and threw them across the river, hoping it will cause them to head in that direction.

Bobbie was with the group that had picked up Ashes sent. They soon came to the river. The pokemon quickly find that his sent had disappeared and they found his socks. Bobbie smiles to himself as he pulls out his own PDA and pulls up the tracking file.

"He is in the river heading south. He thinks he can throw us off his trail he has another thing coming. Tell the others where he is."

So they start after Ash in the direction he went, and they are quickly gaining on him. Ash has finally decided to exit out of the river for he is getting his feet cut up by the rocks, and it is quickly making him tired, and he also is getting cold. As he exits he hears shouts behind him. He thought he was well away from them. He quickly resumes his running. The four groups meet up and start to follow him east of the river.

The sun is barely starting to rise now. Ash is able to see where he is going now, but still trips over obstacles when looking behind him. He is running out of steam, but he knows he has to push forward to escape. He can hear distant yells behind him along with barks and calls from the pokemon. He stops at tree to catch his breath. His cloths are torn in many places. He has scrapes and cuts all over his body and his feet are cut up. His hair in plastered to his head by sweat hiding his face. He sets his head against the tree. He looks to his right to see if anyone is behind him, as he does, his eyes focus on the device around his wrist. He looks in from the broken area, and to his demise, he finds a computer chip labeled GPS 13. It hits him all at once. This could be the way they have been tracking him since his escape, and how Henry found him so quickly from his first escape.

He quickly looks around him to find something to break the device off his wrist. He finds a large rock and a smaller one close to him. He lands on his knees roughly and pick up the smaller one. He starts to hit the device. It gives out a small shock, but he shakes it off. About fifteen hits later, and many misses he manages to break it off. He hears his pursuers are closing the gap between them. He gets up and runs into a clearing.

"Shit." Bobbie said

"What is the matter sir?" a grunt asks

"The tracking single went dead. Move, before we have too of a large gap."

As they moved on, they quickly came across where Ash had stopped. Bobbie finds the device broken in many pieces and ordered the grunts to move.

As Ash runs into a clearing he is able to see the sun coming up in the horizon. He is able to pick some speed up in the flat terrain. He looks back one more time and sees as people dressed in green camouflage run out of the forest with Bobbie in front of them. He sees a large group of pokemon on the ground and three fearows flying above them. He heard shouts from Bobbie telling him to stop running, but Ash turns around and ran on. A hyper beam is shot in front on Ash and he stops to cover his face from the flying debris. As the dust clears he looks in front of him. He see he was about to make a bad choice, if he kept on running, he would had falling down a steep hill. He looks up and sees the fearow are now flying in circles above him. He looks back, and sees that his pursuers are now walking at a slow pace towards him with their pokemon growling at their sides. Bobbie is smiling an evil grin and looks proud of himself.

"That is as far as you go kid. Your father is not very pleased with your action these past few months. I personally do not want to see what he does to you when we get back."

Ash looks to his right and left and back to the group in front of him. His mind is racing of what should he do and what will happen if he is captured. He does not know what to do. He sees he has a chance of running back in the forest either right or left of him, but he does not know if he has the energy to do it. He breaths in deeply when he sees they are in the middle of the clearing. He has to think of something before it is too late or his efforts are proven useless. He gives up and makes his decision, hoping it will not be his last.


Oh, I just left everyone hanging again. I guess I am going through a cliff hanger phase and like to keep people hanging at he edges of their seats. I was too when writing this.

Till next chapter, watch how close you are at the end of your seats, it just may hurt when you land.

Green Gold Fox