"Bravo. I must say, James Bond himself couldn't have done better." Confused by that statement, he raised an eyebrow in question but the girl simply smiled. "What are you talking about?" Once again the girl smiled in a most seductive way but he was almost oblivious to the nature of her wicked smile. "Your escape from the hospital. Very nice indeed. You could swear you were a talented spy."

Her flattery was of no use on Ash at the moment. Curiosity and about a dozen questions prevented him to feel anything else but confusion. She walked right past him and as the air blew in his direction he picked up the smell of her perfume which was indeed dazzling and mesmerizing. Perhaps if he weren't so confused at the moment he probably would have been claimed by the perfume's delight.

The girl walked up to the edge of the building and looked down on the town. Ash for some reason walked over to her and stood next to her. As they both looked down at all the lights she spoke up once more.

"You can tell there's something wrong. Can't you? You can feel a change inside of you even as we speak."

"Ho—how'd you know that?" Ash was all ready puzzled by the events but when she said that he was even more puzzled than before.

"It's my job to know."

"Who are you anyways?" The girl simply smiled yet again but Ash noticed no intensions with that smile. It was only a cocky smile from which he could tell she had plenty of answers even if his questions would be bizarre.

"My name is Eriscordia. But you can call me Eris. Nice to meet you Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town." Just as she said that she extended her hand to shake his hand in a rather courteous way. But he was in such shock that it wouldn't be unexpected if he dropped his jaw in shock. He stared at her for several minutes studying her face and eyes. He finally shook her hand and Eris smiled.

"Would you stop smiling and tell me what the bloody hell is going on?" His words stopped cold as he analyzed what he just said. The words" bloody hell" were not part of his regular dialogue but he blurted them out as if it was normal. But then again nothing seemed normal to him. Eris tilted her head back and let out a small laugh as he stood there and looked puzzled.

"I know what is happening to you. And I can help you with those changes."

"How?"

"All in good time, cutie. First off, you might want to get out of here." Eris extended her index finger and planted it in the middle of his chest and pushed him away from the edge of the building and literary pushed him towards the middle of the roof.

"Well? Get us out of here." Ash wondered if this Eris girl was either crazy or if this was a strange dream or perhaps even a hallucination. They were on the roof of a 6 floor hospital and right on the roof this girl told him to get them out of there and he knew she did not mean walking out the front door.

"Um…I donnu if you noticed but we are on the roof of a building."

"So what? You can get us out of here in the blink of an eye."

"How the heck am I going to do that?" Ash's curiosity was being replaced by anger. Nothing she was saying made sense and it was really starting to irritate him to no end. She shook her head and calmly said as she placed a hand on his shoulder. "Like this." Once she placed her hand on his shoulder both of them began to glow in a faint white color. Ash may have been lost in this entire ordeal but he knew exactly why they were glowing.

For a split second Ash had closed his eyes and when he opened them again he saw that he was in an alley. He stood there almost frightened. How they got off the roof of a 6 floor building? By using Teleport, a move only certain Pokémon could use. Eris walked out of the alley and as Ash tried as much as he could to make sense of what he just saw he stumbled after her. He was about to blur out a bunch of questions but before he could make a sound Eris began to talk.

"Was that what I think it was? Yes. That was Teleport. Do I have any Pokémon that know that move with me? No. I do not have any Pokémon with me. Are you finally loosing it? No. Your mentality is very healthy. Is this really happening? Yes, it is. Will I explain and stop scaring the crap out of you? Yes, I'll explain right now."

Ash was completely dumbfounded since the questions she just asked and answered were the exact ones he was about to ask. He stopped in the middle of the road and lifted his finger as he was about to ask another question but he figured she knew what he was going to ask so he left it at that.

Eris sat down on a bench and stared into the park. She inhaled and then looked up at the Cathedral that was right across the park. Ash was feeling a bit strange but he walked over and sat next to her. Both remained quiet for several minutes but then Eris turned towards him and said something that left him in a bigger shock.

"The sphere you found wrapped up in a torn cloth was wrapped up for a reason. Any human that made direct contact with it would be blessed with tremendous power. You of course touched it with your bare hand and thus have the gift."

Ash was almost afraid to ask the question he had in mind but he needed to know for certain. "What gift are we talking about here?"

"A gift given that could make all your enemies and rivals quiver with utter fear. A gift that could make all your wishes come true. A gift that could have you in power in the blink of an eye, the snap of a finger. Think of an attack, any attack."

Ash wasn't sure of what would happen but he thought of an attack just to see what she was talking about. He was overwhelmed with the idea of having power for some reason. After he thought of an attack he sat there quietly and looked at Eris with question. About a minute later it began to rain. Eris looked up at the sky and saw nothing but heavy rain clouds as far as the eye could see. She looked back at Ash and said. "Of all attacks you had to think of Rain Dance?"

Ash lifted his shoulders in question and Eris laughed in a sweet kind of way. Eris moved her hand above her head and the rain stopped completely. "Did I do that?" Ash Asked in an almost shy way afraid of the question sounding stupid. Eris of course knew it wasn't a stupid question and so she said.

"Congratulations. You pulled off your first attack."

"I what?" That was the end of the line. Eris made it sound as if he were a Pokémon, but soon he would find out everything he needed to know so he decided to stick around, no matter just how crazy it sounded. Eris lifted her right arm, her palm up right in a way as if motioning someone to stop. What Ash saw next left him in complete awe. Several inches from the middle of her palm a small blue and gray orb appeared and it shot out at a small tree and as soon as the beam hit the tree it froze.

"No…freakin'…way…" He stammered as he stared at the frozen tree. Eris had just used Ice Beam to freeze that tree in front of them. He looked at his right palm in both awe and fear.

"No, you use your left hand." Eris grabbed his left hand as she said that and pointed his hand at the frozen tree and softly said. "Melt it."

With that Ash concentrated on a fire type attack. Just like Eris a red and yellow orb formed just inches from the middle of his palm and right out of it a huge flaming fire star shot out of the orb and hit the tree melting it in a matter of seconds. Ash was completely stunned and awestruck by the events that had unfolded before him. He looked at his left hand and then back at Eris and said.

"Who are you? For real."

"Think of me as your guardian angel."

Ash looked back at his left hand in awe. He couldn't believe he just used Fire Blast to melt a frozen tree. All his life he knew Pokémon were the only creatures capable of performing devastating attacks such as those but for some unexplained reason him and this girl could pull off any attack by just thinking of it and willing it to happen.

Eris rose from the bench and stood in front of him. She placed her hand under his chin and lifted his face to get a look at his eyes. She could feel his emotions, all consisting of fear, curiosity and wonder. Eris smiled and said. "You are now something beyond explanation; something of power and fearsome greatness but along with greatness comes a few flaws. If you wish to live gather your friends and leave this place and never return."

"What happens if I stay?"

"They'll kill you."

Some of his questions were partially answered but he still had many that needed answers. While lost in his train of thought he barely heard the sound of the clock that had been placed in a tower on the Cathedral. It was 5:00 o'clock in the morning and visiting hours began at 7:00 am so he had two hours to hang about, although he did not want to return to the hospital knowing that his life was in grave danger. He sighed deeply while thinking what to do about the entire mess he had just fallen into.

Meanwhile back at the hospital, Tanya had not gotten a single drop of sleep. She was convinced her newest patient was far more than he seemed to be. She sat at the front counter and wondered for a few minutes but she couldn't stand the feeling anymore. She picked up the phone at the counter and dialed a number rapidly. The phone rang for several minutes but she would not hang up.

After almost waiting ten minutes the phone was finally answered and a groggy and sleepy voice answered. "The town had better be under some sort of attack because if it's something stupid I will walk to the hospital and pound the crap out of you." Tanya sighed deeply and said. "Girl, you couldn't beat me even if you tried."

"Oh, I think I could manage. Why are you calling at…5:40 in the morning?"

Tanya looked away and as she answered she played around with the phone's cord by wrapping it around her finger. "Listen, I think you'd better call your brother and ask him if the White Sphere is safe."

"You're being paranoid. That thing is safely tucked away where no one can touch it."

Tanya thought for a minute that she might have been acting a little paranoid but she was not a person who would risk anything so she snapped back and said. "Just do it! I wanna be sure that damn thing is tucked away. Just call your brother and ask him if things are all right."

The girl in the other line stayed silent for a few minutes and finally spoke up. "Tanya…I haven't seen Dante since the other night."

Tanya felt sheer panic and fear rising up her spine, she began to breathe heavily due to the fact that things were not going so well and the fact that things could turn to a disaster in a matter of seconds made her more ill. "Karin, check the spheres and call back here as soon as you do. I'll try and find dad."

Both hung up and Tanya raced to the cafeteria where she had last seen her father. Once there she saw several of his co-workers but he was nowhere to be found, she ran towards one of them and asked where he was. The doctor told her that he was called into the OR for an emergency. She cursed silently and stood there thinking for a minute when a receptionist called her through the PA system.

"Tanya you have an emergency call. Please come by the front counter."

As soon as she heard the word emergency the color faded from her face and her breath froze. For that split second it felt as if time froze. Everything was falling apart and in only a few seconds, just like she had feared. She snapped out of her shell and ran towards the front counter.

Once there the receptionist was holding the phone out and Tanya grabbed it and answered in a panic. "What happened?"

"Tanya, they're gone, both spheres and Dante are gone! What do we do?"

"Try Dante on his cell phone, I'll try to fix things here. Oh and call Petrov!"

Tanya threw the phone and cursed angrily and loudly. She ran to the elevators and punched in the third floor. Being that is was 6:00 o' clock in the morning there was barely any activity besides nurses and doctors tending to their patients. Once on the third floor she raced as fast as she could to room 236, the room where Ash was in. She literary broke in and looked around only to make a horrible discovery. The room was empty. She felt her breath leave her lungs and her head become filled in panic. She checked the bathroom and it was empty as well.

"Shit!" Tanya ran back to the elevators and back down to the front counter. Once she got there she saw one of the receptionists and said. "Hey, I need to go out for some time if you see my father tell him there's been an emergency if he asks what emergency tell him it's a code TE Break out. He knows what it means."

The receptionist agreed and Tanya ran out of the hospital to search for Ash. She stood outside the hospital doors and looked around; she knew just what kind of trouble the entire town was in with Ash on the loose. Ash should have been the last of her worries but with Eriscordia lose, as well it would prove to be disastrous.