I know I said this was in hiatus... it is... I just found this finished chapter laying around, but I am also trying to work out a few things in this fic too. After this chapter I'll take a long while for an update.

Chapter 13

The Power Of Fire

Mudkip saw himself surrounded by a ring of fire, panting and exhausted, the little mud fish tried to use a water gun attack to douse the flames, but his lungs started to hurt, overcome with exhaustion, he couldn't try to use his attacks. The heat became overwhelming to him, as sweat trickled down his forehead evaporating once it landed on the ground.

He couldn't do this alone...

Meanwhile...

Mags just opened the last mudkip cage and all the mudkip's surrounded her. the last mudkip was just a pup, mudkip number 060. He happily popped out of the cage and into Mags' arms. the other Mudkip's saw that mags was a friendly type of person so they all approached her.

'' Let's free any other pokemon here!'', Mags said.

All of the Mudkip's chattered with agreement. Mags got up and opened the door, but couldn't see anything, as a cloud of thick smoke made it's way through the open door. Mags coughed while struggling to breathe. Then she saw fire coming towards her. The Mudkip's could see the danger approaching.

Mudkip 030 stepped forward and into the thick smoke was where he disappeared. While he was in the thick smoke he could hear chatters of other pokemon in their cages in other rooms, struggling to brake free. No use. Mudkip 030 saw the flames fast approaching, and then backed away and used a powerful Hydro pump attack to douse the flames. Then he felt water soaking him, the sprinklers above him were drizzling out water dousing most of the flames. As the thick smoke cleared out, he saw a door in front of him, hearing chatters of other pokemon inside.

Mudkip 030 saw that the door was made of wood and part of the door was charred black, covered in black soot. He used an iron tail attack to cut off what was left of the door and saw different pokemon inside. Rattata's, Oddish's, Parasect's, Pidgey's, Poochyena's, Electrode's, and Vulpix's all inside their cages, cold metal cages. Neglect was very visible in that room.

Mudkip 030 had no time for sympathy, as he bolted out of the room, dragging Mags into the room, before pointing at the pokemon crammed inside the cages. Mags nodded as she took out the keys and opening some cages, as the pokemon stretched and watched Mags free the other pokemon.

She just finished opening a Pidgey's cage and went on to the next... but this was highly unusual... a Mudkip was in the cage... female.

'' Mudkip said that there were only 59 Mudkip... this must be...'', Mags gasped in awe and shock,'' I thought that... he told me... you know him don't you?''

She opened the cage to take a glance at the female mudkip. The Mudkip shivered as Mags' picked her up.

'' Don't worry we're gonna get you and your other pokemon friends out of here.''

The female Mudkip known as 061 smiled, as she sighed.

Meanwhile...

Mudkip (025) collapsed to the floor as the Houndour returned to him, with his paw over mudkip's exhausted body.

'' Doom doom doom!'' (Say your prayers!)

'' Mud kip kip!'' (I won't give up!)

Then there were fire alarms ringing out, and Rocket members rushed to the scene between the Houndour and Mudkip.

'' Look there's the Mudkip that escaped!'', a rocket member said, grabbing Mudkip by his radar fin, hurting the poor little Mudkip.

Mudkip cried out in pain, but after that the ground started to shake. The rocket members wondered what was happening, while mumbling in confusion. Then down the halls they saw hundreds of angry pokemon surround them. Mudkip smiled, as he knew mags set them free and didn't break his promise.

'' Stampede!'', the rocket member shouted.

But it was too late... alot of rocket members were surrounded by pokemon, all angry and ready to attack.

'' How many pokemon did we have in this base?'', a rocket member asked.

another sighed and listed out,'' We've had 61 Mudkip's, 70 Pidgey's, 30 Parasect's, 50 Poochyena's, 100 Rattata's, 45 Oddish's, 20 Electrode's, and about 29 Vulpix's.''

'' Don't you know how many we have all together, about to attack us?''

'' Not counting our pokemon, about 405 pokemon!''

'' 405 POKEMON!''

'' Shut up!''

Then the pokemon started to attack! All together with their attacks they went one by one. Mudkip's dosed the Rocket members with a water gun attack, Vulpix's attacked using ember, Poochyena's attacked using sand attack, Pidgey's attacked using gust, Parasect's attacked using Slash, Rattata's attacked using super fang, and electrodes attacked using self destruct.

Then there was a silence, then a huge explosion, as heavy thick grey smoke blew into the air. Team rocket members were thrown in the air and rained down upon the ground of the team rocket base. the building was completely destroyed but it was beginning to crumble.

Debris began to rain down into the places where the pokemon and Mags were standing. The walls suddenly began to collapse bringing up a cloud of dust. The pokemon and Mags had to get out fast, but they stopped seeing the electrodes all worn out from their powerful attack. Mags lifted one up, but she couldn't do this alone.

'' Help me! Mudkip, I need some help... we need to get all the electrodes out of this building to safety'', Mags called out.

Mudkip nodded his head and went up to the other pokemon chattering some words. Before Mags could say anything, the pokemon seemed to like Mudkip's idea as they nodded their heads while smiling in agreement.

Then all the pokemon lined up in a row, as Mudkip lifted up a fainted electrode and passed it to a nearby Rattata, and passed it to a nearby Mudkip, passing the orb shaped pokemon to others leading to the exit of the now destroyed building.

There were 19 more Electrodes to go. Mudkip passed another electrode to the pokemon, leading it out to safety, doing the same to the other 18 Electrodes until every single one was outside.

Mudkip saw the walls to the base collapsing as thick smoke and debris flew into the air and mudkip coughed out the chocking dust. Mags was ready to run, but there were alot of pokemon in the way, she let them go first, they deserve to be free. Then Mags heard a loud sickening cracking noise and looked above her, seeing a large piece of cement about to land upon her.

Frozen in fear Mags couldn't move, the only thing she could do was scream. Mudkip looked behind him, seeing Mags in danger. He leapt up into the air as his tail started to glow a shiny silver, ready for an attack. He jumped into the piece of cement and in a flash with his tail... cut the cement into small pieces. Mudkip landed on the floor quickly before the pieces landed, though still large enough to cause harm.

He opened his mouth and sprayed out a water gun attack, sending the pieces flying on the other direction, avoiding Mags and the other pokemon. Half of the pokemon watched but they had to get out quick, before the entire building collapses. They ran to the nearest exit, however Mudkip was occupied with the pieces of debris, leaving him behind. Mags was calling out his name, but the other pokemon dragged her out from harms way. There was no way that she could get in to retrieve her mudkip.

She watched as the entire building collapsed in front of her, Mudkip still trapped inside.

'' Mudkip!'', Mags cried out.

Full of worry she collapsed onto her knees and began crying... she never saw Mudkip, appear from the debris. She thought he was gone... forever...

TBC...