To the Reviewers:
Ri2-Let me just say that I always look forward to your reviews. They are usually kind of long, but that is fine because you seem to have a lot of insight into my plot, a little too much insight sometimes ;). That is fine though because I am glad I can still throw some curve balls that surprise even you. I haven't decided yet how Brock's situation will turn out so for now he is gradually slipping away to the dark side. At least I didn't turn him into a moping lovesick zombie who will never be able to find a beautiful woman as long as he lives.
Thebenjamin-You wanted to know what May and Max are up to. Well their not that important to the over all plot of the story. (which is why I got rid of them early) I am not saying that they will never be back in it, but for now it is probably best if you forget they exist, j/k. They will be back in it eventually. Glad you're enjoying this fic so much.
Cdfe88-Let me assure you and everyone else that I WILL finish this story no matter what. (Well baring all natural disasters or my untimely demise anyway, which let me add I hope happens no time in the near future). Again Brock will be evil until I decide his fate.
Enough of my pointless banter…
Team Rocket Trouble
Jessie and James had been wandering around the mazelike interior of the cave for hours. After crashing through the wall they had been unconscious for some time. Now they were trying desperately to find their way out, and unknowingly going deeper and deeper into the cave.
"Jessie?" Asked James "Do you know how to get out of here?"
"Does it look like I know you moron?" She snapped sarcastically "First I get scooped up by some ancient monstrosity and then the twerp decides to play hero and sends us blasting off and now we're lost in a cave. The situation couldn't possibly get any worse."
Just then the ground above them started to crumble and they both ran to the side while holding each other and cowering in fear. An avalanche of dirt and rocks came crashing down on where they had been standing moments ago. When the dust cleared the duo was shocked to find Meowth lying on top of the rocks.
"Meowth, my head." He moaned
"What are you doing down here traitor." Said Jessie "Not enough room for you on the twerp's little pep squad?"
"Actually a big dragon came down and scooped him and all his pokemon up." Said Meowth "Then the dragon flew away after making dem two fighting pokemon fly away."
"You mean to tell me that one pokemon stopped those two monsters?" Asked James "That's amazing."
"No, what's amazing is what happened after." Said Meowth "After de sky cleared dat Wallace guy came out and said he beat dem pokemon with his Wailord, and get dis, dey actually believed him!"
"That is amazing." Said Jessie "But you still didn't answer my question. What are you doing down here."
"Well you see…" Said Meowth "I was hungry so I decided to take some food from dis wingull nest. Problem was de nest had more then just wingull. A huge pelipper came down and snatched me up. I used my Fury Swipes on it and it dropped me right on top of dis here cave. The ground caved in and then I ran into yous two." Then as an afterthought he added. "And who you callin' a traitor!"
"You of course." Said Jessie "You betrayed Team Rocket and joined forces with our arch-enemy."
"Hey Team Rocket betrayed me." Said Meowth "And the twoip gave me food and even helped a couple of friends of mine." I hope those kids are alright. "Yous two, who claimed to be Meowth's friends, left my high and dry!"
"He has a point Jess." Said James. This earned him a sharp rap on the head.
"Quiet James!" Snapped Jessie "Well Meowth since you destroyed the pathway leading from were we came from, I guess we'll all head the other way."
"Works for me." Said James
"Give me one good reason why I should fallow you?" Asked Meowth.
"Who wants a ball of yarn?" Sang James pulling out a ball of yellow yarn.
"Gimme dat!" Shouted Meowth snatching the yarn from James' hand. He was now content to follow his "former" friends around the cave.
The trio walked through the winding labyrinth of catacombs until they finally reached a large room that connected to several of the other paths. In the middle of the room stood a statue. It looked like a long snake with two short arms and a pair of wings on either side of its head. The beast looked as if it were roaring. In the dragons mouth was an orb. It glowed an eerie combination of orange and green. The statue seemed to be subduing the energy from the orb somehow.
"That statue." Said James
"It's made of pure jade and diamonds." Squealed Jessie "We have got to dismantle it and take the jewels for ourselves." She pulled out a pokeball and released her Dustox "Dustox use Supersonic on that statue!"
"Jessie no!" Said James
"You're gonna get us all killed!" Howled Meowth.
Their warnings came too late however because the bug-pokemon started emitted waves of super-high pitched sound. The resulting noise caused several rocks to come down and some struck the stature. Cracks started appearing all over the chamber and along the statue itself. There was a brilliant flash of light and everyone was momentarily blinded. When the light dimmed the group found the statue totally disintegrated and the room's stalactites and stalagmites were now gone. The only thing left of the statue was the weird orb that had been in its mouth.
"I'M FREE!" Shouted a very happy yet sinister voice from seemingly nowhere. "And now you humans belong to me."
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Richie walked along a street in Mahogany Town. He had to pass through the area to get to any other part of Johto whenever he came from his hometown. He had checked out all his pokemon at the Pokemon Center and they were all now in tiptop shape. The Joy on duty had been very surprised when she scanned Richie's Ultra Ball. He had had to answer quite a few questions as to why he had such an extremely rare pokemon. "He attacked me and I caught him." Was the simple but true answer had given.
During one night while he had been training his pokemon, he had asked Entei where he should go. Although he originally wanted to return to Hoenn and earn enough badges to qualify for the league. It seemed he had something more important to do now. The beast told him to travel to the east. He wouldn't elaborate just saying he felt a strong presence that way.
As he was walking by an alley he heard a voice call out to him.
"Psst, Hey kid!" The voice said in a loud whisper. "You gotta take a look at this."
Richie looked to see a very suspicious looking man wearing a long brown trenchcoat. "I don't think I'm interested." Said Richie
"You won't know until you at least have a look." Said the man. He had a distinct Hispanic accent. "Just take a look." He was slowly walking closer to Richie
"Look, I told you I'm not interested." Said Richie. Sparky was sparking electricity from his cheeks warning the man not to come any closer.
"Woah, woah." Said the man backing away "I just wanted to sell some vintage Rolex watches." He opened his coat to reveal several very nice looking Rolexes. "Cheap too, only $50, if you act now."
Richie's attention was now on the watches. He knew they were probably stolen, but they were really nice watches! He'd be a fool to pass up an opportunity like this.
("You are not buying one!") Said Sparky ("Don't you watch any TV? Every time someone buys something from a guy like him it's always defective!")
"What's he saying?" Asked the man trying to keep Richie's attention while a group of black clad men with R's on their chest snuck up behind him.
"He's just saying how nice the watches look." Lied Richie, He spotted a particularly nice watch with diamonds all along the face and band. "Hey is that one 50 too?" He said pointing.
When the man looked down to inspect the watch Richie caught a glimpse of a reflection behind him on one of the silver watch bands. He moved to the left just in time to avoid the blow to the head from one of the Rockets behind him.
"Damnit Carlos!" Hissed the man "You're supposed to keep them looking at you the whole time!"
"Hey man he wanted one of the really nice ones." Countered Carlos "I coulda got at least 200 off him before you knocked him out and stole his pokemon."
"Idiot." Said the other man "If we'd have knocked him out you could have stolen all his money."
"Good point." Said Carlos "Sorry guys."
"Who are you guys?" Said Richie "He had managed to trap himself on a dead end street so the only way he was leaving was by going through the Rockets.
They all looked at him and in unison took ridiculous poses. Carlos had his arms and legs stretched out to their limits giving his body an 'X' look. The man who tried to knock out Richie was standing on one foot with his other knew bent and he had his arms folded across his chest. The last guy had decided to take a handstand and was in between Carlos and the other guy.
"To scour the night and do what's wrong." Said Carlos
"To make the grip of evil firm and strong." Said the one on the opposite side of Carlos
"To make you suffer and cause you pain" Said the one in the middle
"To take from you and ensure our gain!" They said in unison.
"Carlos" Said Carlos launching himself into a series of cartwheels and landing in a squatting position.
"Reece" Said the other man. He suddenly jumped into the air pushing off the foot that had been off the ground and did a series of flips and landed opposite Carlos mimicking the other mans position.
"Mitch" Said the last man. He opted to do a series of back flips and landed with one leg on each of his squatting team mates' shoulders.
"Team Rocket circling the Earth day and night." They said together "Surrender now or you won't live through the night!" A pokeball on Mitch's belt twitched and out popped a delibird.
"Bird Bird" ("That's Right") He chirped.
"Wow," Said Richie "That motto was a lot different than the last time I heard one."
"Thanks we worked on it for ages." Said Carlos
"Quiet doofus!" Snapped his team mates. Mitch even decided to kick him in the head since they were still in their pyramid position. They separated and each of them drew out a pokeball.
"Hey three on one's no fair." Said Richie. "Of course I'll give you all a chance to leave quietly, but you don't have to take it if you really don't want to."
("Don't be over confident.") Warned Sparky ("You don't know what kind of pokemon they have.")
"Relax Sparky." Whispered Richie "I'm just trying to get them riled up so they don't concentrate as well on the battle."
("Good idea.") Complimented the pikachu ("Who are you using to fight them?")
The Rockets called out an Ampharos, a Mochamp and Farfetch'd. The three new pokemon and Delibird took their battle positions. \
"Well they've got two flyers." Said Richie to his pokemon "You're the obvious first choice. They don't look very strong so you and one other should be able to handle it."
("Sounds good to me") Said Sparky ("Who's coming with me?")
"Kyra, I choose you!" Said Richie. He threw one of his patented star-embroidered pokeballs and out came a kirlia. "Sparky, Go!"
Sparky leapt off his master's shoulder and took his battle position beside Kyra. Their four opponents glared down at the two little pokemon. Their trainers trying to hold back fits of laughter.
"That's all you're sending out?" Asked Reece "We shouldn't even waste our time trying to steal such weak pokemon."
"We'll see whose weak" Said Richie "Kyra hit that Mochamp with a psychic, Sparky Thunder those two birds!"
Before the Rockets could even issue a counter command their pokemon were pounded with the vicious attacks. The Mochamp immediately fainted and Carlos returned him to his pokeball. The two bird pokemon didn't fair much better and they too were returned by Reece and Mitch.
"Okay, Now I'm mad." Said Mitch
…
Aquaria was desperately trying to distance herself from the rockets that were following her. If she had just minded her own business this wouldn't have happened. However, when she saw a group of Rocket Grunts harassing a young trainer and tried to steal her pokemon. She couldn't just sit there and do nothing. She had sent out Gyarados and told the kid to run. The young trainer had complied immediately and that left Aquaria to face two Rockets alone. This usually wasn't a problem, but these grunts were very well trained. They had sent out Electrodes and Gyarados only managed to take out one of the explosive pokemon before he was knocked out by a very strong Thunder Bolt. The Rockets then sent out two Magnaton to aid the electrode. Aquaria figured that Suicune could handle the pokemon since she wasn't sure her others could. But sending out a legendary pokemon in front of two Team Rocket members was like rolling around in honey and standing near a Beedrill hive. Therefore she took the only sensible option. Run.
She peddled her bike as hard as she could trying to get away from her pursuers. When she judged she was a fair enough distance away she pulled out Suicune's pokeball. She released the water guardian and gave him his orders. "Suicune there are some really tough Rocket Grunts behind me." She said "They're using electric-types and you're the only one who really has a chance."
"Very well" Said Suicune "You should get yourself to a safe place. Things might get a bit chilly." With that he bounded off in the direction of the Rockets.
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Gary had opted on not going through the front door of the Gym. He decided that as a fugitive from the law the first thing someone would do was call the cops on him and try and collect the reward. This was why he was trying to sneak in the back way, through the Dragon's Holy Land. The place was surrounded by high cliffs and steep embankments and normally the only way to get in would be to go through the passageway behind the Gym. Gary however, had other plans.
"Raikou, I choose you!" He said as he released the thunder beast from his pokeball. "Would you mind giving me a lift over those cliffs?" He asked. Raikou nodded and Gary climbed on his back. The beast shot off at top speed. He was up and over the cliffs in mere seconds and Gary found himself inside the beautiful valley which was the Dragon's Holy Land.
He didn't get long to enjoy the scenery though. Not even a minute passed from the time he recalled Raikou to the time he came face to face with a very large and very angry Dragonite.
…
"We what!" Yelled Jessie "I don't know who you think you are, but no one owns Team Rocket."
"Pathetic creature." Said the voice "Did I say you had a choice?"
"You're nothing but a voice." Said Meowth "You can't hurt us."
"That's what you think." Said the voice again.
It was too late for the unfortunate trio when they realized that the voice had been coming from the orb which was now floating directly over Meowth's head. The orb began to glow an intense shade of orange and suddenly a beam of green and orange light shot out and stuck the talking cat right between the eyes. He stumbled back and fell to the ground unconscious.
"Meowth!" Yelled James "What did you do to him!"
"Why I merely borrowed this useless pokemon's body." Said the voice which now seemed to be coming from the fallen feline's mouth. "You see in my last battle against that dragon, who was holding my orb, my body was…separated so to speak. You three are going to help me get it back."
"And if we refuse?" Asked Jessie
"This" Said the possessed Meowth. His eyes began to glow a ruby red color and Jessie and James suddenly screamed in pain. Images of brutal and painful torture racked their brains and intense pain protruded through every orifice of their bodies. "Agree to serve me without question and your pain will end."
"We agree! We agree!" They screamed through their pain.
Meowth's eyes stopped glowing and the two Rockets slumped to the floor in a heap. "You're first duties as my new subordinates is to find my servants Groudon and Kyogre."
"What!" Asked the two Rockets flabbergasted
"We just got away from them." Whined James
"I am not going anywhere near those two beasts again." Announced Jessie.
"Do you require another demonstration of my power?" Asked the being. "I would be more then happy to torture you once again."
"We'll go!" They said.
"Good I see we're making progress." Said the being "Now to get us out of this accursed cave." He snapped his fingers and in a flash the group was transported outside of Sootopolis City. "I know that Groudon has moved to the south and Kyogre is somewhere to the north. You three will seek them out and I will do the rest." He then closed his eyes and when they opened again the confused orbs of Meowth stared back at the Rockets
"What just happened?" He asked "How'd we get outta dat cave?"
"You were possessed by that voice and now we all have to do his bidding to avoid horrible torture." Explained James "You know our usual run of the mill situations."
"Great." Said Meowth "I'm stuck wit' yous two again."
"It's not all bad." Said Jessie "At least now we don't have to report to the boss that we failed out mission and as long as we do what this guy says we won't get tortured."
"So how are we getting off of this island?" Asked James
"Your account still has money in it doesn't it?" Asked Jessie "We'll do what we always do. Use your money to buy a new balloon and take to the skies!"
"I was afraid you'd say that." Moaned James. He made his way to a conveniently placed pay phone and made a call. "Yes this is Morgan; I need an industrial strength Meowth-head hot air balloon with all the usual equipment." He paused "Yes that's credit." He paused again "Yes I know I owe you all a lot of money already." Pause "What do you mean this is the last time!" Pause "Alright send it to Sootopolis City." Pause again "Yes I'll pay for special super-fast delivery. Thank you, goodbye."
"It'll be here in one hour." He said "Now as long as we avoid the twerp at all costs the balloon should last a pretty long time."
Well at least things are back to normal Thought Meowth Oh no little cat they are far from normal Said another voice inside of his head. Meowth began to sweat profusely and decided to ignore the voice. Maybe if he didn't acknowledge it, it would go away.
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"You don't mess with us kid!" Said Reece
"Ampharos use Take Down on that pikachu!" Ordered Mitch.
The light pokemon headed straight for the electric mouse intending to slam him viciously into the pavement.
"Sparky stop it with Thunder Wave!" Ordered Richie. "Kyra use confusion once it's paralyzed!"
"No you don't." Said Carlos "Sneasle Go!"
"Glalie, Go!" Said Reece.
Sparky did manage to stop Ampharos by paralyzing it, but Kyra was unable to use her confusion because the Sneasle was in the way.
"Faint Attack!" Ordered Carlos
"Blizzard." Said Reece
The Sneasle slammed into Kyra and sent her crashing into the pavement. Glalie charged up its Blizzard and launched it at the two pokemon. Sparky managed to move away in time but Kyra didn't fair as well. She was hit full force by the snow attack and could take no more punishment.
"Kyra return!" Said Richie "I'm through playing with you clowns. Zippo I choose you!" He threw another pokeball to the ground to reveal the towering orange form of a charizard. Zippo let out a mighty roar and the Rocket's pokemon backed away. Ampharos who was still paralyzed simply whimpered in fear. "Zippo, Fire Blast!"
Zippo reared back his head and gathered flames into his mouth. He shot the flames out in a five-pointed star and sent them hurling toward the Rockets and their pokemon. Glalie and Sneasle ran around franticly trying to avoid being burned. Ampharos just closed its eyes and waited for the burn to come. Due to the enclosed area the Rockets' pokemon had no chance of dodging the high-powered flame attack. They all roared with pain as the flames cascaded over their bodies. Once the attack had ended three very charred pokemon were lying on the ground.
"I'd suggest you guys give up now." Said Richie. This time his confidence was genuine. These Rockets had some pretty strong pokemon, but they were all poorly trained. "I'll give you ten seconds to get out of here." Said Richie as he began counting down "10…"
"Who does this kid think he is?" Asked Reece "He beat all our pokemon with only three of his!"
"7…"
"I don't know who he is, but he's obviously way better than we thought he was." Said Mitch.
"5…"
"He's at five!" Stated Carlos "What do you think is gonna happen if he gets to one?"
"3…"
"I think we're about to find out." Said Reece
"1…"
"Maybe we should run guys." Said Mitch "That Charizard looks like it could toast us all were we stand."
"…Times up." Said Richie "Sparky, Thunder!"
"PIIIIKAAAA…" Chanted Sparky his cheeks brimming with electrical energy.
"Oh shit…" Moaned the Rockets
"…CHUUUUUU!"
The ground trembled when the horrific thunder bolt struck the ground where the Rockets stood. All the mechanics inside of Carlos' Rolex knock-offs sizzled and fried as the electric current shot threw them. He just happened to be carrying a flash bomb under his trench coat as well which exploded due to the powerful electric attack. The explosion sent the trio shooting off into the horizon.
("Hey Richie I got an idea." Said Zippo. He inhaled deeply and shot a Flamethrower at the flying Rockets.
"Now they really look like their blasting off." Laughed Richie. "Hey Zippo you want to stretch your wings for a bit?"
("I don't see why not.") Said the charizard.
"Well give me a lift for a few miles. I 'm heading toward Blackthorn."
("No problem, hop on.") Said the fire pokemon.
Richie climbed on his back and they started heading toward the east. Little did they know what awaited them once they arrived.
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"Where'd that little winch go?" Asked one of the Rockets who was chasing Aquaria. "I know she went this way!"
"Well if you hadn't let her get away we could have gotten rid of her and those weak water pokemon of hers." Said his partner.
"Well we did manage to take out that nasty Gyarados of hers." Said the other grunt "That thing was really vicious, I'm glad we stole so many Rare Candies."
"We'll get her eventually." Said his partner again. "She can't get very far in a forest using that bike of hers."
The two Rockets were shocked when it suddenly got extremely cold and their pokemon were frozen solid by a snow storm that seemed to come out of nowhere. They gasped when they saw a blue silhouette through the sudden snow storm. The beast shot a rainbow colored beam at the two rockets sending them and their pokemon flying away in the distance.
"This never happens to us!" Cried one
"We never fail a mission!" Cried the other
"Now we're blasting off!" The cried together as they flew into the distance.
…
Suicune let the ice storm dissipate and returned to where Aquaria had been. The young trainer was huddled over a camp fire.
"You were right Suicune it did get pretty cold." She said "Did you get rid of the Rockets?"
"They won't be bothering you again." Said Suicune "Those pokemon were not that strong, why did you have such trouble?"
"They were electric-pokemon there was no way I could win." Said Aquaria
"You have beaten that type of pokemon before." Said Suicune "I have seen you battle several times Misty, I know you can handle pokemon as weak as those."
"Don't call me that." Said Aquaria "Misty Waterflower is better left dead. I'm Aquaria Tsunami now."
"As you wish Aquaria"
…
Gary strafed to the side as the guardian Dragonite swiped at him with a Dragon Claw. The attack caught his cloak and ripped a large piece of the fabric out. Gary had no time to call out a pokemon because he was constantly dodging attacks by the ferocious dragon. He was quickly growing tired from avoiding the sharp claws which were trying to eviscerate him.
There was an explosion in the distance and the dragon momentarily took his attention off of Gary. This was the opening the trainer needed. He pulled a pokeball at random, not really caring what pokemon came out. He threw the ball to reveal the small two-headed form of Doduo.
"Doduo use Tri-Attack!" Ordered Gay
Both the bird's heads opened their mouths and gathered energy. One had blue and red energy while the other held blue and yellow energy. Since the bird wasn't evolved the Tri-Attack wasn't as powerful as it could have been. But it was effective none the less. The tri elemental energy slammed into Dragonite causing him to stumble backwards. He looked back at his original opponent and then toward the rising smoke on the other side of the valley. He decided it was best to leave this intruder for later and deal with the more immediate danger. He dodged Doduo's Drill Pecks and slammed the bird with his tail. He then took to the air and headed toward the other disturbance as fast as he could.
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Claire had been in the rookery looking after the newly hatched dratini. She was in the process of feeding them when suddenly there was an explosion and part of the wall came down. Through the smoke Claire could make out several figures standing beyond the ruined wall.
"Security here really needs to be upgraded." Said a woman's voice.
"Like, whatever can we just get this over with." Said another woman's voice. This one sounded younger then the first.
"Quiet!" Yelled a very awful male voice. It sounded like someone took a frog and gave it laryngitis before letting it inhale a large quantity of helium.
"He has a point." Said a suave male voice "We really should be taking these dratini and getting out of here."
"You're not taking the dratini anywhere!" Said Claire. "Dragonair Go!" She through a pokeball and the long form of Dragonair coalesced in front of her. "Send them flying with a Twister!" The dragon prepared to use its attack but stopped when it heard its trainer gasp.
To Claire's horror they all pulled out pokeballs and released various ice and rock pokemon. There was an Onix, Graveler, Dewgong, Jynx, Piloswine, Lapras, and even an Aerodactyl. How they had an Aerodactyl was beyond Claire.
"You can't hope to defeat Team Rocket." Said one of the men. Now that the smoke had cleared Claire actually recognized some of the people. Five of them were Gym Leaders like herself. Brock, the Waterflower sisters and Erika. All were wearing Team Rocket uniforms and their faces showed none of the former zest they had shown when she'd seen them last. The other four looked very smug and pompous. There were two women; one had blonde hair and purple eyes while the other had blue hair and bright green eyes. They wore matching Team Rocket halter/skirt combos except that the blue-haired woman had a blue uniform and the blonde had a black one. The two men were similarly dressed except they wore full shirts and pants. One had Green hair and eyes while the other had red hair and purple eyes.
"You can't win so you should just give up the dratini and we might let you live." Said the green-haired man with the horrible voice.
"You'd better listen to butch." Said the blonde haired woman "I'd hate to have to force you." Her tone showed that she would love nothing more than to force Claire.
"I am not giving you these dratini!" She pulled out another pokeball and released a Flygon. "Now both of you blast them with Hyper Beam!"
"Protect!" Cried all the trainers in unison.
The beams smashed harmlessly against a wall of energy. The trainers wasted no time in calling out a counter attack.
"Rock Throw!" Cried Brock and Creig as they gave their pokemon orders.
"Ice Beam!" Ordered the remaining trainers to their ice pokemon.
The attacks headed straight for Claire's pokemon and would have surely hit them had it not been for a massive Flamethrower which melted Ice Beams and turned the rocks to cinders. Dragonite had made it just in time to save his trainer's life. He roared at the Rocket's pokemon and fired another Flamethrower. This time the group was ready and their pokemon quickly dodged. The group was not ready however for the Earthquake attacks delivered by a Nidoking and Nidoqueen who came charging from the direction Dragonite had come from.
Gary had also made it in time to aid in the battle. The rockets saw that the tides were starting to turn and released even more pokemon. Fiona released her Dunsparce. Erika let out her Vileplume and Cassidy released Raticate.
Gary fallowed suit by letting out the remainder of his pokemon. All except Raikou. He had decided to save him as a trump card. Now Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Blastoise, Umbreon, Ditto, Alakazam, Doduo, Scizor and Arcanine were all assembled in front of their trainer. The real battle was about to begin.
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A/N: Damnit just when it was getting good to. I am tired of writing for right now so I decided to break this chapter up. In my opinion it is already pretty long. Luckily by the time I post this chapter the next one SHOULD be done. I hope I answered some of the questions out there, even though I know I created a lot more with this chapter, lol. One guess as to what pokemon is contained inside that orb . Anyways leave a review or two or three or however many you feel inclined to leave. I love opening my mailbox and seeing with review alert for the subject
Until Next Time…
