Another day, another chapter. I just want to say that I haven't forgotten about the other characters, and they WILL be appearing again! Also, this chapter is definitely the darkest one so far. Anyway, enjoy chapter 30! ^_^


Ever since her boss yelled at her several days ago, Pandora became more and more suspicious about the activities of TDS. She had only been with them for a week and she had already seen a multitude of captured pokemon, legendary pokemon, and that strange robotic creature that Typhoon had unleashed. What on Earth could they be planning?

It was early morning, while the main group were entering Maroon Village, Pandora decided to do some research of her own.

Her Squadron had to lay low for a while, Omega Squadron took over her Squad's until the heat was off. Simon, Max and Sandra had been busy practically 24/7 working on their assignments. In her free time, Pandora decided to do some looking around the building.

That's when she began thinking negatively.

'What if I get caught? Will I get sent to the boss again? If I do, will he react the same way he did last time? What if it'll be worse than last time?!'

She needed some advice, since Simon was busy she picked up her PokeNav Plus and decided to give someone a call using its, recently created, Match Call feature.

"Pandora! Great to hear from you sweetie! What's going on?" The voice on the other line greeted.

"Not so good Uncle Sidney, I'm... going through some troubling times right now..." Pandora answered, fiddling with her Rubix Cube again.

"I'm always here if you want to talk Pandora, what's wrong?" Sydney asked.

Pandora began to tell her uncle everything that had happened ever since she had joined Team Dark Star. From her being scolded by the TDS boss to the captured legends she saw to the RM-24i (the robot she saw yesterday). When she had finished, Sydney spoke up.

"You should try to find out what this 'Team Dark Star' is doing. Whatever happens, just know I will always support you, ok? Call me back whenever you need me."

"Thanks Uncle Sydney." Pandora said, smiling a bit, she then ended the call. After taking some time to think, Pandora decided that she would take a look around the building, trying to be as quiet as possible, she had a few Smoke Balls and her Nuzleaf's new move.


At around 8 p.m., Pandora began her research, she had seen a map of the entire building and memorized the location of a computer detailing all of TDS' plans. She entered the air vents in her room (she closed them to make sure nobody found out she was gone) heading to the computer room, it was rather dark in the air vents and it didn't smell to pleasant, but Pandora managed.

It wasn't very long before she managed to find the computer, before she actually used it, she checked the door to make sure nobody was coming. Seeing that the coast was clear, she made her move.

There were a number of projects that Team Dark Star was working on. Pandora was admittedly surprised at how many there were. She looked at a list labeled 'Current Projects', in this list were several operations called 'Project Chimera', 'Excelcus Project', 'M.D.', 'RM-24i', 'Shiny Project, and 'Missing Number'.

Pandora clicked on Project Chimera first.

It had a list of specific pokemon, Beldum, Pinsir, Jynx, Machamp, Magmar and Gallade. There was also a figure of a strange creature, it seemed to have traits of all of the pokemon previously listed, there was also an arrow pointing away from this creature but it just pointed to a question mark, which had two more arrows pointing to two more question marks. Apparently, this project was 45% complete.

Pandora just started her investigation and she was already stumped. She decided to go click on the next project the Excelcus Project.

This page had the schematics of a large machine, it had 6 legs but that's all that seemed to be finished as of now. It was 30% complete.

The next one was 'M.D.', the only thing Pandora saw there was a Dragonite, it's eyes were red. This page didn't show much information. It was already 80% complete.

The RM-24i was already active, it's page on the computer just reaffirmed it. From what Pandora could gather, this machine was made using the Poochyena that Typhoon had captured about a week earlier (it had since evolved) and a chainsaw. What it was exactly, Pandora didn't really know for sure.

The 'Shiny Project' appeared to be an experiment to change a pokemon's coloration. This page didn't have a percentage complete, but it instead had a Success to Failure ratio. This project was apparently successful 65% of the time. The other 35% were failures, according the page, 10% of the failures had ended in a mortality. These experiments had a 10% chance of ending the pokemon's life! Pandora was thoroughly shocked, self control prevented her from screaming. Hesitantly, she clicked on the final experiment.

The 'Missing Number' experiment used half of the pokemon that TDS had captured (the other half went to the Shiny Project). According to the computer, the rest of these pokemon were being genetically spliced together to form some... thing. Pandora wasn't sure if it was a pokemon or some sort of monster. It looked like a computer virus threw up.

Before she got a chance to take a good look at the page, she heard someone coming. She began to turn the computer off, but she saw one thing before she did.

The Missing Number experiment gave the Virus creature it's own brain, this brain wasn't made up of the brains of the other pokemon. Meaning that TDS is taking the lives of these pokemon to build up this... abomination.

The next sound Pandora heard was the sound of the door being unlocked. Acting quickly, she sent out her Nuzleaf.

"Nuzleaf, use Umbrage!" Pandora ordered. Nuzleaf grabbed Pandora's hand, the two then became enveloped in a dark cloud and then phased into the air vents. Once inside there, they went back to normal. As quietly as she could, Pandora Pandora made her way back to her room.

The door to the computer room opened, a female TDS member walked in. Her uniform was much more fancy than those of the regular grunts. This was the 'Empress' that the grunts in the zeppelin had been going on about. She went on the computer, checking the data that Pandora had just seen.


Back in her room, Pandora was trying to calm herself down but nothing was working. How could she be calm when she was working for an organization that was killing innocent pokemon?! She decided that she would tell the boss that she would quit. As for now, she called her uncle Sydney again. She needed someone to get her mind off of what she had just seen...


Meanwhile, on the Route 9 entrance to Rock Tunnel, Snow, Sinead, Gareth and Styles Kaizu were resting up for the night. Styles would have prefer staying alone, but they were a bit far from the Pokemon Center, and it was too late to keep moving. They had just finished eating their food when a wolf like creature ran past them, it was the RM-24i

"W-what was that?" Sinead asked in shock.

"I don't want to know." Gareth replied.

"That didn't look like any pokemon I've ever seen!" Snow added. Styles remained silent, he was stunned, just like the others.

'That wasn't a pokemon, it couldn't be, there aren't any pokemon with a chainsaw on their back. This isn't good...' Styles thought to himself.


End of chapter! Looks like the drama is building up! Will Pandora quit Team Dark Star? What is the RM after? You'll have to wait and see...

New Move:

Umbrage: Dark Type Move

Effect: Protects the user from any damaging moves (basically a dark type version of Protect or Detect)