To the Reviewers:

Ar1502599-First let me say thanks for the review. Now, how the hell is Entei of all pokemon supposed to rewrite the Gym Leaders' personalities. Secondly, it is not as if the Leaders woke up one day and said "Let's be evil!" the change is happening slowly. They were tortured both physically and mentally and torture plus blackmail can do some serious damage to ones psyche.

Thebenjamin/Antithesis-Lol, you both said MissingNo. Antithesis you don't need to review every chapter, as much as I would like it if you did, just drop a line every now and then saying your still around.

JMK-Why would it be weird if it were him?

Ri2-They owe them A LOT. The stature was THAT old, and yes making fun of Bitch (I mean Butch) is quite funny. Maybe I should stop torturing Misty…NAH! You'll find out in this chapter weather Ash is in the Holy land or not.

Very interesting guesses and for right now I will say this about the pokemon's identity…

On with the story!

Of Dragons, Ice, Thunder and Fire

The pokemon stared each other down looking for any type of weakness in their adversaries. Ditto, at prompting from Gary, had taken the form of Aerodactyl and was now flying in the air facing the reincarnated rock-bird. Claire's Dragonite was confused as to what side to join. He only saw Gary as an intruder, but since he had aided him he figured him to be less a threat then the Rockets. He, Dragonair and Flygon joined the Ranks of Gary's pokemon and awaited any commands they might be given.

The Rockets still had an advantage however. All of them were using only one or two pokemon from their whole party while Gary and Claire had released all of theirs, or so they thought in Gary's case. They also had more trainers so they maintained the ability to issue orders on an individual basis without taking their attention off of another pokemon.

Gary was not worried about this fact however. He was confident that he'd trained his pokemon well enough for them to handle themselves. He gave only one order and all the pokemon assembled knew exactly what to do. "Attack!" He ordered.

Gary's pokemon leapt into action. Blastoise fired a powerful Hydro Pump toward Onix and Graveler. Nidoking and Nidoqueen opted to take the direct approach and thundered through the assembled pokemon knocking them over like bowling pins. Umbreon darted in and out using Faint Attacks whenever the opportunity presented itself. Doduo ran around firing Tri-Attacks and dodging any counters the other pokemon sent his way. Scizor took to the air and joined Ditto in assaulting Aerodactyl. The pterodactyl pokemon wasn't even affected by the pincer pokemon's slashes. This was until Scizor decided to use Metal Claw. The attack gouged a large chunk out of the fossil pokemon's wing. It wasn't enough for loss of flight, but it did cause the creature an intense amount of pain. It didn't help matters when Ditto slammed into it with an Aerial Ace.

While all this was going on the three dragon pokemon sent occasional Hyper Beams or Dragonbreaths where they were needed. Claire didn't bother giving her pokemon orders either. She only had them remain in front of the doors guarding the rookery.

Brock saw that their current strategy wasn't fairing to well. "Graveler use Earthquake on Nidoking and Nidoqueen!" He ordered "Onix bind that Doduo and then use Take Down on Arcanine!"

Onix stretched out his massive coils and managed to snake his tail around the running Doduo. He wrapped the bird up tight and began to squeeze. He then spotted Arcanine firing Flamethrowers at Jynx and went plowing toward the canine still holding Doduo.

Graveler had gone off to assault the two drill pokemon. He raised himself into the air a few feet and came crashing to the ground right behind them. They were too busy pounding Dunsparce and Raticate so they didn't notice the attack until it was too late. The earth cracked and trembled due to the powerful seismic waves. Nidoking and Nidoqueen were sent hurling into the air and came crashing down in a heap.

The former sensational sisters saw their opening and took advantage. "Dewgong, Jinx Ice Beam." Said Lilly and Violet.

They launched their ice attacks toward the two downed pokemon. Gary looked in their direction and warned his pokemon to move but they were still too weak from the Earthquake. The Beams hit and the two pokemon were frozen solid. Gary grudgingly recalled his two pokemon and turned his attention to the remainder of his forces.

Blastoise had joined the dragons in guarding the rookery and was currently trying to fend off Vileplume. The flower pokemon kept sending Razor Leaf attacks which Blastoise avoided by withdrawing into his shell. The dragons were too busy dealing with Lapras and Piloswine. Blastoise finally had enough of the pounding his shell was taking and began to gather ice energy into his mouth. Vileplume was surprised when the turtle pokemon suddenly shot his head out of his shell and fired a powerful beam of ice straight at her. Evasive maneuvers proved fruitless because the flower pokemon was incased in a thick chunk of ice before she could even blink.

Meanwhile the dragons were having problems of their own. The two ice pokemon were resistant to their flames thanks to their secondary types. Whenever Dragonite would send a Flamethrower toward Piloswine, who was partially vulnerable to fire, Lapras would intercept the flames or fire a water gun at them. Whenever Dragonair tried to use Thunder to take out Lapras, Piloswine would take the attack which would have no affect on it. Flygon, who was weak against both ice and water, was trying to stay clear of this battle without leaving his post. He didn't want Team Rocket to get the dratini, but he didn't want to be frozen solid either. He would fire an occasional Hyper Beam, but these weren't very accurate.

Claire saw her pokemon's predicament and was contemplating orders which she could give them. She suddenly got an idea. It was risky, but it just might work. "Dragonite, Rage!"

The dragon nodded his head and let his fury consume him. Before the anger could totally overtake him he took it upon himself to use Dragon Dance. The technique increased both his defensive and offensive power. Once the Rage had totally settled in Dragonite roared and charged straight for the ice-pokemon. Using his superior aerial speed, Dragonite was able to dodge the Ice Beams and Blizzard attacks which the two pokemon sent his way. While they were distracted with the rampaging Dragonite, Dragonair finally managed to hit Lapras with a Thunder attack. This gave Dragonite an opening that he did not hesitate to take advantage of. He spewed a massive Flamethrower at Piloswine and the pig pokemon was engulfed in flames. Its long hair, which was used as an insulator, only helped increase the power of the flames.

Daisy and Butch, whose pokemon had just suffered the attacks, took immediate action. "Lapras, Rest." Said Daisy

"Piloswine get your lazy ass in gear and use Blizzard!" Snapped Butch

Lapras closed her eyes and began to regenerate her health. Meanwhile Piloswine struggled to his feet and let loose the most powerful Blizzard attack he could muster. The snow attack hit Dragonair full force but it didn't stop her from releasing one last Thunder attack on the sleeping Lapras. Both Pokemon went down and their trainers recalled them to their balls.

Alakazam had been mediating the whole time a few feet away from Gary. He'd been building up his psychic energies for one massive Psychic blast which he hoped would take out at least half of the enemy pokemon. Calling on all his psychic power he let loose a massive psycho-kinetic wave which thundered toward the enemy ranks. Piloswine was knocked against a tree by the force of the attack, Dewgong and Jynx were slammed into the ground, Raticate and Dunsparce were also hammered by the attack, Onix was forced to release Doduo and Graveler had to stop his pursuit of Umbreon because he to had been slammed into the ground. The only one not affected by the attack was Aerodactyl, this was because he was too high in the air and Alakazam didn't manage to hit him.

Gary looked around the field assessing the situation again. Arcanine, Nidoqueen and Nidoqueen were now within their pokeballs. Doduo and Alakazam were exhausted; one from having the life squeezed out of it the other from releasing such a powerful attack. He returned them to their pokeballs. He was now left with Umbreon, Blastoise, Scizor and Ditto. Claire only had Dragonite and Flygon.

Alakazam attack had incapacitated a few of the enemy pokemon. Piloswine was unconscious as well as Dewgong and Dunsparce. Raticate staggered to its feet and took its battling stance once more. Onix and Geodude pulled themselves from their self made craters and Aerodactyl continued to battle Scizor and Ditto in the air. With the prehistoric pokemon keeping two of Gary's pokemon occupied the battle was barely in Gary's favor.

Dragonite continued his rampage and started to assault Graveler and Geodude. He pounded them with Dragon Claws and Iron Tails flying around them like a blur. The two rock-pokemon didn't have time to mount any type of come back due to the dragon's incredible speed.

Brock saw the plight of his pokemon and again acted accordingly. "Underground now!" He called.

His pokemon did as they were told and endured Dragonite's assault as they dug into the ground. Once they were deep enough Dragonite couldn't attack them. He settled for joining the fight against Aerodactyl. The prehistoric pokemon had endured a lot of punishment from its doppelganger and Scizor. However it had dished out its share of punishment. Scizor had been the unfortunate victim of a close range Hyper Beam and was struggling to stay in the air. Ditto had been on the receiving end of quit a few Steel Wings and Take Downs itself. Both pokemon were heavily damaged, and besides their initial assaults, they had been unable to give Aerodactyl anything but superficial damage. This changed however when Dragonite crashed into the fossil pokemon and sent it spinning through the air with a thunderous Tackle. Ditto followed up the assault with a Steel Wing and Scizor chased it as well slicing it with a Metal Claw.

Creig watched his pokemon getting battered and finally had enough of it. "Aerodactyl, Ancient Power!" He ordered.

The stone bird started glowing with a red aura and several rocks around the valley were levitated and began to circle around the pokemon. More and more boulders were brought up to surround the pokemon and with one mighty shriek the stones were sent in all directions. They hammered Dragonite relentlessly and slammed into Scizor. Ditto folded its wings trying to protect itself but it was no use. The three pokemon went crashing to the ground all taken out by the awesome attack. Unfortunately for the Rockets Aerodactyl had expended too much energy with that attack and it too went crashing to the earth below.

"Useless pokemon." Muttered Creig as he returned Aerodactyl to its pokeball. He took out the Master Ball he'd been given by Giovoni and prepared to release his Trump Card.

While the battle against Aerodactyl had been going on Umbreon and Blastoise had been dealing with Jynx and Raticate. Since the two pokemon had suffered a great deal from Alakazam's attack it didn't take long for Gary's two strongest pokemon to take care of them. Two Faint Attacks to Jynx and a Hydro Pump to Raticate was all it took to send the two pokemon to dreamland.

Claire's Flygon had watched the battle intently waiting for an opening. Since it had found none it remained at its post by the rookery entrance. The dragon watched in awe as a flash of red light came from the field and a large blue bird came fourth from its Master Ball prison. Articuno flapped its wings several times and caused the air in the temperature in the valley to drop several degrees. Clouds began to roll in over the horizon and snow began to fall. Flygon shrunk back into the rookery and folded his wings over the pool of Dratini. He knew that if he was getting cold the smaller dragons had to be almost freezing. He used his internal fire to try and warm the water and keep the dratini warm. Unfortunately this took his attention away from the battle outside. Articuno had not been the only pokemon released. A Forretress had made its way into the rookery and was right behind Flygon. Claire, who had also been tending to the dratini from the other side of the pool, yelled a warning to her dragon, but it came too late. Forretress glowed a brilliant white and with a brilliant flash unleashed his Explosion attack. The attack caused the rookery to blast apart leaving the small building exposed to the elements. Flygon was lying face down beside the ruined pool and the dratini were all huddled together in what little remaining water there was.

Gary saw the explosion from the rookery and he and his pokemon rushed in that direction. He was stopped by Creig and Articuno. "I have to admit I didn't expect to see you here Oak." Said Creig "You should have learned your lesson about interfering with out plans by now."

"Your plans always involve hurting people and taking things that don't belong to you!" Spat Gary "You make me sick. Claiming to be strong when all you do is hide behind Giovoni and use drugged up pokemon. I bet you've never caught a single pokemon the way their meant to be captured."

Creig took the insults in stride. He could care less what some punk kid thought of him. "You may have a point with that statement." Said Creig "But I don't see it. I would offer you the chance to surrender, but I'd rather let Articuno freeze you to death."

"That overgrown pidgey isn't freezing anything." Said Gary He pulled a pokeball off of his belt and tossed it into the air. "Raikou you're up!"

"Raikou!" Said Creig confused "So you've got another Ditto that knows a few tricks."

Raikou appeared from his pokeball and roared thunderously. Electricity sparked all around him and the rampaging snow storm was now mixed with a powerful lighting storm. "This one's no fake." Smirked Gary "I won't let you destroy this place like you did Pallet!"

"There's not much you can do to stop me." Said Creig

Raikou glared up at the ice-bird in contempt. He was still very peeved about being left in a block of ice for almost a week. If he couldn't take his revenge on Suicune, Articuno was the next best thing.

("Richie the weather's starting to get dicey.") Said Zippo ("I need to land soon or else-") He was cut off when an extremely strong bolt of lighting struck him and his passengers. Zippo went hurling toward the ground and Richie had to jump off and do a front roll to avoid being seriously injured. The charizard landed with a resounding thud and made a crater in the ground. Richie heard a deep chuckling behind him and turned to see the smirking face of Lt. Surge. Richie had thought this man was dead and was shocked to see him all decked out in a Team Rocket uniform.

Surge had been stationed near the entrance to the Holy Land and had been waiting for someone to try and get through the cave entrance. He'd seen Richie's charizard flying and assumed it was one from Charicific Valley. It was common knowledge that Lisa, the proprietor of the valley, made regular visits to the Dragon's Holy Land. The fact that it was Richie who his Raichu had blasted out of the sky was highly amusing.

"Going for a joy ride kid?" Asked Surge still laughing. "Sorry I cut your flight short, but I can't have you going any further."

"Why are you doing this?" Asked Richie "I thought you were dead and now you're in Team Rocket!"

"Is that what the news said?" Asked Surge "I was wondering how our boss pulled that off. As for 'why?' I'm doing this. I have my reasons. At first it was because my pokemon were being threatened. But now its for the power and to get back at the government that wronged me out of my rightful place as general!" He seethed "I was suppose to get the promotion, I had the best qualifications, I had the most experience! But do I get it? NO! They give it to some rich ass punk who bribed the sons of bitches into giving him the position! So you wanted to know why? That's why!"

Richie was taken aback. He hadn't expected such an outburst. Surge was crazy. That much he could tell. The man's eyes seemed to be out of focus and his brow was knitted with fury. "Sparky, get ready." Said Richie "I don't think we're just going to be able to walk away from this one."

As Articuno's storm continued to increase the battle between Sparky and Raichu began. Sparky jumped off Richie's shoulder and hit the larger mouse in the stomach with a Volt Tackle. Raichu gasped in pain unprepared for the sudden attack.

"Raichu, don't let him get away with that!" Screamed Surge "Wrap that runt up with you're tail and Slam him!"

"Agility!" Countered Richie

Try as he might Raichu couldn't get his tail around Sparky. Finally Surge got frustrated and ordered a Body Slam. This too proved to be pointless since Sparky's superior speed allowed him to easily dodge the attacks.

"Sparky Thunderbolt." Said Richie.

The pikachu stopped running and let loose a fairly strong electrical attack. The shock managed to paralyze Raichu and left him completely vulnerable.

"Raichu shake it off!" Yelled Surge

"Sparky Quick Attack!" Ordered Richie.

Sparky moved at lightning speed and slammed into Raichu's open chest. The larger pokemon went tumbling and landed in a heap a few feet away from where he'd been standing. Surge recalled his fainted pokemon and sent out two Magnaton. The magnet pokemon sent off Thunder Waves as soon as they were out of their balls. Sparky didn't have time to dodge and he too was inflicted with paralysis. Unlike Surge, Richie knew when his pokemon couldn't take anymore. Sparky hadn't had much of a rest from dealing with the Rockets earlier that day and after dodging all of Raichu's attacks there was no way he could shake off the paralysis. Richie grudgingly recalled Sparky to his ball. He knew Sparky didn't like it, but he wasn't as adamant about not going in as Ash's Pikachu was.

Richie weighed his options. He had two electric-steel pokemon to deal with and only two flying pokemon to beat them with. The only choice he had was to call out his other fire-type pokemon. "Entei I choose you!" he said as he tossed out the Ultra Ball.

"What!" Yelled Surge "There's no way…" He was stopped mid speech when the Fire beast appeared from within the confines of the Ultra Ball.

Entei snorted in contempt when he saw the Magnaton in front of him. Without being ordered he roasted them with a Flamethrower. The pokemon immediately fainted due to the intense heat of the attack. Surge was flabbergasted. Never in a million years had he thought a legendary fire pokemon would actually be in the possession of a kid.

"You…you…" He couldn't find any words to say after such a crushing defeat, so he did the only thing a hardened military man like himself should do in a situation like this. He ran like hell!

Entei prepared to run after the fleeing human but Richie stopped him. "Let him go." He said "There's something else happening over there." He pointed to the direction of yellow and blue flashes.

("I smell…") Said Entei ("…Raikou…")

Entei ran toward the direction he sensed the other beast leaving Richie standing bewildered for a few seconds. Once the fact that his pokemon was gone sunk in he took off running after the beast.

Raikou dodged an Ice Beam which Articuno had sent his way. He countered with a Thunder bolt, but somehow the bird was able to dodge every attack he threw at it. Getting fed up with Articuno's constant evasion the thunder pokemon used Shock Wave. This attack was almost guaranteed to hit its intended target no matter what. A screen of electricity lanced out from Raikou's body and shot toward Articuno. As it traveled through the air the wave of electricity expanded and started to look like a net. Articuno tried to move but the attack was covering such a large area that evasion was impossible. The bird screeched in pain as the electricity lanced through its body and it started to descend toward the ground.

Raikou didn't get a chance to capitalize on the bird's predicament however, because a pair of hands suddenly snaked up from beneath him and grabbed each one of his legs. Then a giant rock-serpent burst through the ground behind him and slammed into him at full force. The hands around his legs didn't let go however. The pokemon underneath of him used the momentum generated by its partner to perform a Super Seismic Toss which slammed the pokemon into the ground and caused a tremendous crater.

"Looks like those pokemon of yours aren't useless Slate." Commented Creig

"You'd be surprised." Said Brock Fucking bastard He added mentally cursing Creig.

Gary watched in horror as his pokemon was pounded by a three-way assault. Onix had wrapped the beast up and was slowly squeezing him to death. Meanwhile Graveler had floated up to the rear of the beast and was using Mega Punch over and over again on the thunder pokemons backside. Articuno opted to fire pinpointed Ice Beams at various places along Raikou's front. Gary needn't have worried long however. A Hydro Pump slammed into Graveler and Onix. The rock-serpent immediately released Raikou and Umbreon caught the thunder beast before he could hit the ground. Raikou was much bigger than Umbreon so the moonlight pokemon had to drop his load quickly. Umbreon started glowing a faint silver color as he started absorbing what little moonlight was seeping through the clouds. The battle had started a little before sunset and now it was very dark. With the snow and the clouds the only light that was being shown was from the lighting cloud which was still mixed in with the snow storm. Once Umbreon had a sufficient supply of energy he used Helping Hand to transfer it to Raikou. The thunder pokemon slowly got to his feet and charged back into battle.

Blastoise had made short work of Onix and Graveler, taking them out with massive Water Gun attacks from his cannons. Now that left him facing Articuno while Umbreon took care of Raikou. He dodged the Ice Beams that were being fired his way and shot back with Water Guns that were also dodged. This stalemate continued for some time until Blastoise felt a large amount of electricity being generated behind him. He moved to the side just in time to avoid being hit with the Zap Cannon Raikou had been charging. The beam of electricity hit Articuno head on. The bird had been so focused on Blastoise that it didn't even see the thunder pokemon behind him. Once again electricity sizzled through the bird's body and once again Articuno screamed in pain. This time Raikou was ready and launched himself toward the bird with a Volt Tackle. Articuno couldn't dodge the attack and was brought to the ground with colossal force. Raikou slashed at the bird's chest over and over again. Articuno finally collapsed into unconsciousness unable to endure the pain.

Creig was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected that Raikou to be the real thing and he had been sure that Articuno, with its training and enhancements could handle the task of defeating the thunder pokemon. He glared at Gary and recalled Articuno. "Don't think this is over Oak!" He called "It's too bad your family's going to have to suffer for this!"

"What!" Called Gary "My family's dead, you killed them when you attacked Pallet. I heard the news. NO SURVIVORS."

"That's were you're wrong." Said Creig "Your grandpa and sister are currently our 'guests'."

"They won't be for long." Said Gary "I'm going to get them out. And don't think you can threaten me with my family. My Gramps and May wouldn't want me selling out to the likes of you!"

Something about Gary's words stirred something in Brock, but he quickly pushed it back down. He and Gary were two different people and saw things different ways. If he betrayed Team Rocket now Brock saw it as also being responsible for his family's death. He couldn't live with that, it was too much to bare.

"Creig we got what we came for let's go!" Said Fiona

Gary looked into the distance and barely made out a large blimp. The snow was clearing now and he could see that the rest of the Rockets were aboard. He looked toward the remains of the rookery and saw that Claire and her pokemon were still unconscious as but the dratini that had been there were now gone. He put two and two together and looked at his pokemon. They were all tired from the battle and it didn't look like they would be able to make it over to the blimp in time. Creig and Brock had already started running and Gary ran after them.

"Guys we can't let them get away!" He called.

He needn't have worried though. A huge fireball suddenly engulfed the blimp and a figure came running from the southeast. Richie had barely managed to catch up to Entei and when he saw the blimp and the Rockets he automatically made the correct assumptions. The Rockets had something in the blimp that obviously didn't belong to them and were trying to make a clean get away. He had asked Entei to use a Fire Blast on the blimp and the volcano pokemon had obliged. Now All Richie needed to do was get whatever was onboard off of the blimp before it exploded. "Happy, Rose, I choose you!" He said. His Butterfree and Tellow appeared form their balls finally seeing some action in this day filled with battles. "Happy use Psychic to keep the fire from hitting the fuel tank. Rose fly in and find what the Rockets are keeping. Entei follow her and see if you can't get it out of their. Hurry!"

The pokemon quickly started following orders and set off to do their respective tasks. Happy's eyes started to glow blue and he started to hold the flames back with his Psychic attack. Rose flew through the air like a dart and went into the flaming blimp. She used her gust attack to blow away the smoke and flew through the zeppelin in search of something out of the ordinary. She wasn't sure what that was, but she figured she'd know when she found it. Entei followed the bird into the flames not bothering to go around them. The fire felt good on his body after being cramped up for so long inside the pokeball. He saw that the bird was circling around something and went up to it to see a crate full of dratini. Entei went to one side of the crate and began pushing it toward a hole in the side of the blimp.

Meanwhile Gary had made it to the blimp and was standing at the hole that Entei was pushing the crate toward. Gary didn't know how another legendary beast was here but he was glad for the assistance. He had Blastoise stand under the hole and catch the crate as it was pushed out of the side. Once the dratini were secure the pokemon quickly vacated the blimp.

"Their getting away with out pokemon!" Roared Butch "Creig do something!"

"What do you want me to do!" Yelled back Creig "We can't worry about those pokemon right now, we gotta get off this blimp befor-" He didn't get to finish because Happy had released his hold over the flames near the fuel tank and a huge explosion ripped through the zeppelin. The Rockets were sent hurling toward the horizon leaving the Dragon Holy Land in failure and completely empty handed.

I always wondered what this felt like. Thought Brock Well only one thing to do now…

"Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaaaiiin!" Cried the entire group.

Several hours later Claire came around to find herself staring at two concerned male faces. She recognized one as Gary Oak and the other was…Ash Ketchum? No, it wasn't him although he did look similar.

"So you're finally awake." Said Gary "I have to admit I wasn't expecting a Rocket ambush when I came here."

"I wasn't even planning on stopping here." Said the other trainer. "That bastard Surge hit Zippo with a Thunder attack and he went crashing to the ground."

"Well Richie it's a good thing you did stop here." Said Gary. "You're the reason Team Rocket didn't get away with the dratini."

"The dratini are alright!" Asked Claire relieved. "I was sure they were goners when that Forretress exploded in the rookery." She then remembered her other pokemon that were in the rookery. "Are Flygon and Dragonair alright? What happened to Dragonite?"

"Their all fine." Said Gary "A bit beaten up but fine."

Claire sighed in relief and started to relax until she remembered who was in the room with her. "You!" She said pointing to Gary "You're the one who burned down that town in Kanto!"

"Do you honestly believe I burned down my hometown?" Asked Gary "That was Team Rocket. Although it is partially my fault that it was burned down."

"What do you mean?" Asked Claire "You said you didn't do it so how could it possibly be your fault?"

"It was because I tried to expose Giovoni." Said Gary "Me and a friend of Ash's went into the Veridian Gym and tried to get evidence of Giovoni's crimes against pokemon and human alike. We did manage to get several pictures, but Giovoni was on to me. He sent out a Lugia of all things and almost whipped the floor with me and my pokemon. My Alakazam just managed to get us out of their and me and Todd had to part ways. Just before we teleported I heard Giovoni say I'd pay for what I did. The only way he could make me pay if I escaped was to destroy what was important to me. So he took my family and my friends away." He said sadly "I tried to get back in time to warn everyone but all I had that could fly was my Scizor. We were attacked by a flock of spearow and their leader, Fearow, while we were over Tojo Falls. That's how I ended up in Johto."

"I see." Said Claire "I always knew Giovoni was up to something. Then after my brother and the Elite Four were killed he was the first one I suspected. Then when the Kanto Gyms were destroyed and the only two remaining were his Gym and the one in Fuschia I knew something was really wrong. Him being elected Prime Minister only helped fortify what I already thought. I have to ask you though Gary, why did you come here?"

"Elm told me you were against Giovoni." Said Gary "I thought that if I came here you might be able to help me."

"Help you do what?" Asked Claire, she had an idea of what he probably meant, but she needed to hear it from him.

"I want to take him out." Said Gary his temper rising. "He took everything away from me. First most of my pokemon, then my home and now he's taken my family, my only family, hostage. I can't let him get away with that. I won't!"

Richie whistled in amazement. He'd known of the events of the past few months but he had no idea they ran this deep. Seeing the look in Gary's eyes Richie could tell he was telling the truth. "I don't know if Claire can help you, but I'm willing to give it a try."

"Yeah, you and your pokemon would help out a whole lot." Said Gary "Especially Entei."

"What!" Asked Claire. Hearing about the legendary pokemon reminded her of Articuno. "Is that what took out Articuno?"

"Articuno was here!" Asked Richie. Things were really starting to get weird.

"No Raikou did." Said Gary

"I think you two have some explaining to do." Said Claire.

It took almost an hour to explain the events which led to the "capture" of the legendary beasts. Claire had asked many questions and only been given a few answers since Gary and Richie didn't know much about why the beasts had chosen them anyway. All they knew was that something important was about to happen and that all three legendary beasts had needed to choose trainers. They had no idea who Suicune had chosen and neither did Entei or Raikou. It was decided that the two trainers stay in Blackthorn for the time being. Gary could stay in the Holy Land and help protect the dratini in case Team Rocket came back again. Richie would help and both of them would aid Claire in rebuilding the damaged rookery. They also decided to make preliminary plans for overthrowing Giovoni's regime. The first step in those plans was tracking down Todd. So with their plans in order they all settled down for some very much needed rest.

A/N: Woah dude! This chapter was almost as big as the one with Misty's little 'mind voyage' I am tired now so I am gonna stop. This was my first time trying to write a massive battle scene. Please let me know how I did and if you have any HELPFUL suggestions on how I can improve on scenes like these (which would greatly be appreciated since this one was the first of several) I implore you to put it in a review. And if you don't have anything in the line of advice leave a review anyway. I'll get the next installment up when I can. The daily updates are going to come to an end soon unfortunately. I am enjoying writing this fic, but I have to start classes on the 19 of this month and after that I can't tell you how long it will be between updates. I'm glad so many people are enjoying this fic, I have gotten way more reviews then I expected with much more positive feedback than I could have hoped for. With that said I will stop my ramblings.

Until Next Time…