Author's note: I do not own Poke'mon, it does not own me. What a deal.

Chapter 1: Trouble

I woke to the sound of creaking wood and I was up without a breath. A cool night breeze pushed my short blue hair back, revealing a full moon surrounded by stars. My hazel eyes scanned my surroundings. It was dark, all around me, my fellow orphans slept soundly, not a shadow twitched.

There it was again...the creaking of wood. I stepped quietly to the window and looked out, and sure enough he was sitting outside my window in the tree, looking utterly relaxed. I scowled and crossed my arms.

"Cue ball, you nearly gave me a heart attack!" I hissed.

Sean flinched at the mention of his childhood nickname. When he was five he shaved his hair off because he thought it was cool. Probably why he wasn't adopted for a while. He started to climb down again.

"Go wake up rabbit." He said, gesturing towards Alice's bed. "We're gonna have some fun."

"What kind of fun?" I inquired.

He smirked, "you'll see."

"This better be worth it." I stated teasingly

"Oh, it will be." He replied and jumped down from the tree

I shook my head, what are they up to tonight? I walked cautiously over to Alice's bed. I shook her slightly

"Rabbit, wake up!" I whispered.

"Not...tonight." She whined and rolled over

"O, yes tonight." I snapped. "Now get up you don't want to keep Red waiting."

"Red can shove off." She growled lazily and sat up. "Let's just get this over with, but for the record I'm only doing this because I want to get drunk."

"Whatever." I stated while shoving a black hoody on. She put on a dark blue vest and a beanie.

We climbed silently out the window and into the tree. When we were both on the ground Sean and Red grabbed us, shocking us both. Sean and I embraced shortly while Alice screamed at red for being so stupid. He shut her up with a kiss. She glared at him evilly.

Alice cleared her throat, "so what did you guys drag us out here for?"

Sean threw Alice a bottle of rum, "Relax a little, Rabbit."

Alice took a swig and passed the bottle to me. I happily chugged some of it down. I passed it back to Sean, he had some and passed it to Red who took it in like water. After a few more rounds, Red spoke up:

"We're gonna play a little prank on ol' judge Hoffman."

"Like what?" Alice hesitated.

"O, just a little art work." He responded with a grin.

I sighed, taking another swig of rum, knowing I'd need it later.

"So what do you have against this one?" I asked.

"You don't know ?" Sean seemed surprised, "he's the one taking kids from good families and sticking them in the Orphanage."

"O yeah, those new kids were talking about him." Alice recalled.

"Asshole" I huffed, "so what's the plan?"

"Don't worry, you girls will be on guard while Sean and I sneak in and do the dirty work." Red instructed.

"Aww..come on!" Alice whined.

"Hey, you girls can pick the next place we vandalize." Red assured.

"Fine!" She exclaimed, "but no more favors from me tonight."

"We'll see about that." Red laughed and slapped her butt playfully.

She continued to yell at him as we made our way to the court house. Sean wrapped an arm around my waist, which was comforting, but made it hard to walk. I looked up at the clear starry sky and wished that this wouldn't go wrong, wished it would be like every other prank we pulled.

The court house loomed over us and I shuttered in it's shadow. I hated this place, more than the Orphanage. I'd been here too many times. Sean gave me a tight squeeze, they all had been here before...they all knew of the horrors of this place.

"Alright girls, you keep watch out here, anything suspicious happens, get us out." Red ordered.

We agreed with a nod and they silently crept through a window. We sat in silence for a while, listening to the nights quiet song. We both knew what we were scared of, sometimes we hated when the boys did things like this. I felt the court house was a little far.

Alice decided to break the silence, "did you see the Poke'mon match this afternoon?"

"Yeah, it was great." I stated, every kid had glued their eyes to the TV earlier, watching the intense battle. "That kid had some serious skill."

"Yeah." She replied, "I can't wait till they let us go...let us be free. Then we can become trainers and travel together."

"That would be great." I said dreamily, "we'd have so much fun."

"Definitely." She whispered, "I just wish we didn't have to wait so long."

Suddenly she was up in a flash, her eyes darting around in the night. I stood and pricked my ears but no sounds came to me.

"What's up rabbit?" I asked.

"Someone's coming, I'll go warn the boys. Go make a distraction!" She was off into the window in a flash.

Quickly I raced off toward the approaching threat. It was a couple of guards in a deep discussion of the latest criminal. I quickly ran across to a store and broke the window to set off an alarm. Then, silent as a shadow, I slipped back to the court house. To my surprise they'd left the window open. I shrugged and leaned in to shout to them.

"Freeze!" I heard a voice from behind me shout. I whipped around to see one of the guards. My eyes darted around, there were squads everywhere. "I said freeze!"

Suddenly Sean, Alice, and Red were dragged out by police officers, all of them cuffed. They struggled hard against their captores, refusing to give up, only to have more cops surround them.

"Shit." I mumbled.

"Fox!" Alice shouted as one of the cops tried to cuff her. She struggled to get loose, but failed. "You're the best friend I ever had! Remember our promise! Don't forget!"

"I won't forget Rabbit!" I called. "I promise."

I watched as all three of them were thrown into separate squads and taken away. I wondered what she meant, why was she talking like that? We'd see each other again, we'll always end up back at the Orphanage.

The guard handed me to a cop who dragged me over to the other side of the street where other squads sat waiting, lights flashing sharply against the old stone walls. Soon the sirens could be heard singing away in the distance, singing a sad, hollow song. The song that matched my mood so perfectly, matched the cops tone as he read me my rights.

heehee, hoped you liked that one. Let's you see the bad side of her world.