C26: I'm gonna try to kill off every gym leader in this from R/B/Y unless no one had noticed.

Chapter 5: XG

Misty

Alone in the darkness…waiting for him to break that door down and flense me with knives, but that wasn't Birch's style. He'd chained me up in his own personal torture chamber two days ago hoping I'd go mad through tension.

I wasn't thirsty, a fact the probably linked to when Birch had sliced my tongue out of my mouth the day before. I could still taste the blood seeping from the bleeding stump of what used to be a tool for eating with. I sighed, waiting for him to come.

He eventually entered the room accompanied by two huge praying mantis-like creatures known to most as Scyther; these weren't ordinary though, not anymore.

The green exoskeleton, the huge razors protruding from the arms and the devilish smile fixed in place below the deep blood red eyes, it made me sick to think anyone could get away with this.

"Misty, I think you've suffered enough" I could tell he was being sarcastic; his voice had a cruel edge to it. It was obvious what was coming.

"You want this to end?" asshole, he knew I couldn't answer, if I still had salivary glands I would spit at him. I attempted and he ended with a spout of blood hitting him in the forehead. He giggled to himself childishly and moved closer drawing a penknife slowly and drawing it across my face from one check to another so I could feel the blood meeting my already mangled lips.

"It's a shame" he stated as he turned to leave "I would have happily accepted an offer to join me".

As he reached the door the Scythers advanced gradually, waiting for the command.

"Kill her"…

Bruno

I reached the bridge with my mind still on Koga so I tried to distract myself.

Lance and Loreli had to be so destructive didn't they? They knew I wasn't one for the clambering along a rope suspended to the ceiling to the other side of a bottomless gap which used to have a bridge there, well they probably didn't, but I did.

I was losing my grip, but was about ten feet away from the end, when I felt two sharp objects stick into the back of my neck. I cried out in pain and clasped it with one hand, one more move from the other hand and I was dead. I clenched my teeth from the pain and brought my hand back to the rope, don't make stupid mistakes Bruno.

Then something flew past my line of vision ahead, it was a massive flying rat on wings, AKA Golbat, purple wings spanning ten inches out, two foot long razor sharp fangs.

I couldn't move, but then I told myself, hopefully if I didn't harm it, it wouldn't harm me. The Golbat closed in on me, in for the kill, screw my plan, I took the biggest risk of a lifetime, and flung myself off the rope to the end of the gap. As I flew through the air in the ten seconds I had, I prayed to god that I'd flushed the drugs two months ago!

I let out a great sigh of relief when my hand clasped the metal girder hanging from the edge. The Golbat swerved for me, I drew my gun, still clinging on, I fired two magnum shots at its face. The Golbat spun away in the pit, falling its way to death at the bottom.

Feeling proud with myself, I heaved myself onto the edge, not pausing for breath, I made for the door.

30 minutes later

Lance

I stepped into the circular room. It was around the same size as any normal arena, but bare, it had a door one side, a metal grate on the other, as though a battle arena, or somewhere for the traitors of the company to be "taken care of".

Loreli was visible in a control room behind a glass window to the right, at a computer terminal trying and failing to bypass the door lock to the one opposite the grate.

That was when the door I had entered through opened with a creak, I immediately swirled round bringing up my berretta handgun, and in fear it was a Pokemon.

It was Bruno.

"Bruno?" I greeted him surprised "what happened to Koga?"

Bruno didn't have much time to reply, because the moment he closed the door, we heard a click of a lock. We instantly ran to the door to try and push it open, it was sealed shut.

"Er guys," Loreli said very timidly "we have a slight problem" slight was a very large understatement.

"We may have found what XG is" the metal grate rose up, and out of it came something that would've made my heart stop in fear. It was a Kabutops, six foot tall, its claws long as swords drenched in flesh and blood from its previous victims. Its eyes were a blood red, ready to kill, its triangular head turned for us.

Then it vanished.

"Lance! Bruno! Keep moving, I'll explain this!" Loreli yelled, not in the mood to argue, we started to run in opposite directions around the circular room.

"XG can slip in-between reality and its own dimension through a psychic element implant, if you move around then it might be enough to confuse it"

We did as we were told, I took one side of the room, and Bruno took the other. It passed back into our dimension right behind Bruno!

"Bruno look out!" I yelled in panic, but it was too late, he swirled round bringing up his magnum, but the Kabutops brought its claws into a scissors shape, crossing them ready to chop Bruno's corpse into pieces…

C26: …and….cliff-hanger