Disclaimer

I do not own pokemon.

Oh, and I should probobly put all the ages here (I am only listing relevant characters... ):

Ash - 20

May - 18

Silver - 15

Lark - 15

Ein - 24

Venus - 23

Wes- 19

Rui - 18

Jesse - 32

James - 34

And... thats about it. The bad guys ages dont really matter, do they?

Shadow Games
Chapter Three - The Battle, Pt.1
Ash and May were sitting across from each other on a small table in the hotel bar. Ash was eating a hamburger, and May was re-reading the files about the strange pokemon that she and Ash had been sent.

"Hmm, that's strange," May said. "Look here, Ash! The reports say that the strange pokemon - shadow pokemon namely, have had their hearts artificially closed-"

May was cut off by Ash. "I know. I've read the files a few times. Right now, let's not worry about it. We're going to be here in Orre for quite a while, I think. Tonight lets just relax."

"All right," May said.

All of a sudden, May heard footsteps. She thought the bar would be deserted except for her and Ash, after all it was three in the morning and no one else was around. The footsteps got faster,and Ash turned his head up from his burger also.

"Who's that..." He started to speak, and three people appeared in the entrance of the bar. Silver and Lark were there, and so was one other, a boy apparently in his late teens with sandy hair and golden eyes.

"Ash, May! Come, quickly. We don't have much time," Lark said. "A Team Cipher vehicle was spotted outside the hotel."

"Team Cipher?" Ash asked.

"They were in the file," May said. "They're the bad guys!"

"Yes," The sandy-haired boy said.

"Ah. You must be Wes," Ash offered his hand. Wes declined the offer.

"Ash. I've heard about you," Wes said. "Now, hurry.They'll attack the town with their shadow pokemon if we don't hurry. This time I don't think that they'll be as sneaky and underhand as before - this time they'll go for an all-out attack."

"Right," Ash said. "Lets go."

The group of five started towards the door to the hotel, when all of a sudden there was an explosion behind them!

Ash and May, the farthest behind of the group, were knocked back by the explosion.

"Oh, are you hurt, cuties?" A feminine voice said in a bittersweet tone.

"Not that we care," a more masculine voice stated. "Ah, Wes. It seem's you're still in top condition."

"Ein, and Venus. What an unexpected and unwanted surprise," Wes drawled, watching the two figures emerge from the smoke. The man was tall, and wore a white lab coat. He had a large hair coming out in front of him. Ein looked no different from when Wes had first met him three years ago. The woman, however, was dressed completely different. Instead of wearing the elaborate jewled dress, she wore a black leather jacket and black jeans. She had a white cape on her back and a white belt.

"Well, I guess our old friend Wes remembers us," Venus said. "Now, we don't want to deal with you people. We're here to take over the town. And there's nothing you can do to stop it.

"Want to bet?" Ash was recovering from the explosion and was helping May up. "You're not going anywhere until you go through us."

"Really?" Ein said, interested.

"Yeah, really." Wes said.

"Then, I don't think you five would mind a battle. Venus and I will battle all of you at once." Ein said.

"You're crazy," Silver said.

"Silver's right. You don't stand a chance," Lark said.

"Actually, you have that quite backwards!" Venus said. "We have two of the most powerful pokemon in the world."

"Then you wouldn't mind showing us!" Ash demanded.

"No, we wouldn't. Go, Raikou!" Ein said. He held up a black pokeball and let out the large yellow tiger.

"Suicune, you too!" Venus exclaimed. Her blue and white dog came out of its pokeball and faced the five trainers.

"No..." Silver said, looking at the two pokemon that had just emerged. "Those... are shadow pokemon!"

"Heh. You think you can beat me with those? I defeated them once, I can do it again! Go, Espeon!" Wes declared. His pink fox-like psychic pokemon emerged from its pokeball.

"Glalie, I choose you!" Ash said, his black and white rock-like ice pokemon emerged from its home. May sent out Blaziken immediatley afterwards.

"Go, Yanma," Lark said. His dragonfly pokemon started to dart around the enemy pokemon.

"Finally, go, Metagross!" Silver exclaimed. The robot-like steel pokemon emerged from Silver's pokeball.

"Heh heh heh. Puny trainers, we will take care of you right now! Raikou, use Thunder!" Ein exclaimed. Raikou's eyes glared red, and a thunderbolt shot from the ceiling, breaking the roof, into Yanma's back, making it faint.

"Unbelivable... Yanma!" Lark ran up to his fainted flying pokemon, suprised that his best pokemon was destroyed in one attack. Venus's Suicune, however, stopped him in his tracks.

"Suicune, use crunch!" Venus yelled, and Suicune bit down on Lark's back, and he fell unconscious.

"What?" May was stunned. "That woman just ordered Suicune to attack Lark!"

"You'll pay for that," Silver said. "Metagross, use Thunderpunch on Suicune!" Metagross's arm began to glow yellow, and it dug into Suicune's side, giving the Suicine impulses of electricity throught its body. Suicune, however, was unphased, as it pursued to shoot an ice beam not at Metagross, but at Silver! Silver, unexpecting the attack, fell to the ground, unable to breath with the ice over her face.

"They're to strong..." May said. "We have to retreat..." But before May could finish, she was knocked into a wall and paralyzed by Raikou's thunderbolt attack.

"MAY!" Ash yelled as he ran to see if hisfriend was still alive. He was struck in the back with another thunderbolt, and he fell to the ground before he could reach her.

"No... such power..." Wes said. "We cannot hope to win..."

Ein and Venus smiled menacingly at Wes, and his four companions laying injured on the ground...

OOC Section!

OK, I lied. At least I got one more review, and was added to a C2, so, yeah. I can't stop writing this.

Edit: Changed the ages a little and one word in the chapter.