DFoC- I'm on chapter five, HEY, I'm on chapter five, HEY! Loki your turn for disclaimers

Loki- DFoC owns nothing but the plot and some characters, and I am one of the characters she does own. Oh and no flames please! Gracias!


"Nice to meet you, Loki," Max said.

"Igualmente," Loki replied. The teens stared at the girl with confused looks. "Oh, I'm sorry. That means 'same here' in Spanish," Loki explained. "I'm part Spanish, from mi mama." Loki had strawberry-blonde hair, and crystal blue eyes. Her outfit was a dark blue T-shirt with a sleeveless white vest over it. She also had on some black wrist gloves. Her cargo pants didn't have many pockets, and were black. They had a belt on them, which hung loosely around her waist. Her white skater shoes were brown from mud. Loki looked at her Pokemon, who stood next to her. "This is Dark, my Houndour. And this is Stick, my Ralts," she explained. "I've also got a Cyndaquil. His name's Cameron." Mel gestured to her Pokemon in turn.

"This is Kari, Adra, and Sparkles," she said, giving Kari a hug. Max did the same with his Pokemon.

"Meet Ponyta, Pikachu, and Poochyena." All three of them lined up in a row and sort of bowed to the girl. Then Max called the Ponyta and Poochyena back, Pikachu hopping onto his shoulders. "So, where are you heading?" Max asked.

"Whichever town is next. Oldale Town at the moment," Loki replied.

"Mind if we travel with you?" Mel asked. "It starts getting lonely after some time with just two people." Loki looked surprised that anyone would want to join her. But she smiled quickly, nodding her head.

"Si, si. I would like that very much." 'I can't believe it,' Loki thought. 'They want to travel with me. I finally found some amigos!' Loki returned Stick to its ball, and the three started going through the forest, Mel getting a dreaded feeling in the pit of her stomach. After an hour of not finding a trail, Mel voiced her concern.

"Damn," she said in a slight whisper. "Guys, I think we're lost. It's been over an hour and we still haven't seen a trail of any kind. Do we have a map of some kind?" The others just looked at her, and slowly shook their heads. Mel sat down on a tree stump and looked ready to break down. "We're lost!" she started saying over and over. "I can't believe we're lost!" Max sat down next to her and tried to cheer her up.

"Don't worry. I think I know where we are, and that's why we're lost," he told the girls.

"Okay Mr. Smart Boy," Mel said sarcastically. "Where are we then?" Max looked at Loki.

"We've missed Oldale Town because we're now in Petalburg Woods. That's why we're lost," he explained to them. "Didn't you wonder why it got so dark all of a sudden when it's only three in the afternoon?" Mel looked around and noticed he was right.

"Actually I never noticed that before," she said in wonderment.

"Get away from that Bulbasaur, you dumb Tailow!" The kids heard another voice in the distance.

"What the heck…." Mel started. She ran off without finishing her sentence. What she saw amazed her. There was a single girl with two Pokemon, a Torchic and a Spheal. She was running towards a Bulbasaur that was being attacked by a giant flock of Tailow.

"Torchic, use ember attack on those Tailow!" The Torchic did, and some of them left. "Spheal, icy wind, go!" The Spheal breathed out an icy cold wind at the Tailow group, and they started to freeze up. Before they completely froze, they all flew off again, trying to thaw their cold wings out. "Yeah, that'll teach you to mess with innocent Pokemon like that again!" The girl walked over to the Bulbasaur that was lying on the ground. "Hey, are you okay, little buddy?" she asked it. The Bulbasaur got up, looked around, and saw that the Tailow were gone. Then it looked at the girl, and threw itself into her arms. "You're welcome! Here, eat this berry, it'll help." The girl handed a blue berry to the Bulbasaur, which ate it in one shot. Then, quick as a flash, it used one of its vines to touch one of the empty pokeballs on the girl's belt. "Oh!" The girl was surprised when the Bulbasaur flew into her pokeball, and stayed there. Then the girl stood up, and laughed. "Well, guess I've got a new part of the team! Spheal, Torchic, return!" She called back the other two Pokemon and put them on her belt as well. Before she walked away, Mel ran out to meet her.

"Hey!" she called out. The other girl turned around, reaching for one of her pokeballs. "That was awesome, what you just did!" The girl dropped her hand and walked toward Mel, taking a little curtsey at the praise she just received.

"Thank you!" she said. "I'm trying to help any Pokemon that's in trouble that I come across. That Bulbasaur was the first one, and now it's a part of my team." Mel was amazed at the girl's courage. Then she held out her hand, which the girl took.

"I'm Mel," she introduced. She turned and saw that her other friends were entering the clearing too. "And that's Max and Loki. And this is Kari!" she laughed out, when the Eevee jumped onto her head. The girl laughed too, then introduced herself.

"The name's Allexandria, but you can call me Lexie," she told them with a little wink. Her hair was in a sort of pixie haircut, and it was a really light purple color, and her eyes were almost amethyst purple, but more violet than anything. She had on a light pink skirt that almost reached her knees, but not quite. Her top was an icy blue baby tee with a little cat on it, standing on a bridge that was over a dog. The little caption on it said, 'Cats will rule the world…with me as their leader!' Mel giggled a bit at it because it was so cute. Her shoes were white sandals that didn't look at all like she had been walking through a forest, and they were almost sparkling. She had on some dangling earrings, and they were different size stars grouped together on a series of chains that led up to one chain. Her necklace was a little locket in the shape of a Mew silhouette. She also had on a cute headband with a Pikachu, Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur on it, with the little phrase 'Friends till the end' in traditional Japanese. Mel saw a little logo on Lexie's shirt below her left shoulder, a small Jigglypuff with a microphone singing. She knew the girl's outfit was from the famous label 'Puff Enough' and was amazed the girl could afford it.

"You must be wicked rich to be able to afford those clothes," Mel said, suddenly realizing that she noted that out loud. "I'm sorry. It's just…I've seen their stuff, and it's way expensive." Lexie waved her hand at the girl.

"No problem. And actually, I got this stuff for free. You see, my full name is Lexie Shiko, of the Shiko family, owners of the 'Puff Enough' clothing design," she said. Mel was surprised to hear that.

"Wow, you're really nice though, compared to all the other snobby, rich kids back at my home town." Lexie laughed and took that as a compliment.

"Thanks, I guess." Then her eyes widened a bit with an idea. "Hey, would you mind if I traveled with you?" she asked. "The group my parents made me go with kinda ditched me, they thought I was slowing them down by helping Pokemon instead of catching them. So I told them to go on ahead if they wanted and that I was going to help Pokemon. Unfortunately for me, they decided to leave me when we were in these stupid woods, and they have the only map I could find." Mel looked at her and wondered why anyone wouldn't want to travel with the girl. She was nice, funny, and her heart was into something other than trying to be the best trainer.

"Sure, you can travel with us," Mel said. "As long as you don't mind traveling without a map some more. We don't have one either," she explained in a sheepish voice. Lexie smiled.

"No problem. Honestly, I don't like traveling with a map all that much, but only when I need to, like being lost in some woods." Mel turned and called out to the others.

"Hey guys! Lexie's gonna join our group!" Suddenly, out of nowhere, a giant crane-arm(like those games that are rigged and you can never win the toy you want) grabbed Kari off of Mel's shoulders.

'Vee!'

"Kari!" Mel yelled. Another crane came out and grabbed Pikachu.

"Ahh! Pikachu, use your thunder bolt!" Max said. 'Pika-chuuu!' Pikachu shot a bolt of lightning onto the crane, but it didn't work.

"Haha! Your attacks won't work on our new machine," a voice said.

"Wait," Mel said. "That voice….it's coming from underground?" She was puzzled until a tunneling machine suddenly came out of the ground.

"Prepare for trouble!"

"Make it double!"

"To protect the world from devastation."

"To unite all peoples within our nation."

"To denounce the evils of truth and love."

"To extend our reach to the stars above."

"Selena."

"Strider."

"Wherever there's peace in the universe."

"Team Rocket will be there."

"To make everything worse!"

"Meowth, now get ready for the hurts."

"Not again," Mel complained. Loki and Lexie looked confused.

"Who are they?" they both asked. This time, it was Strider who answered them.

"Do people even listen? We're Team Rocket!" he yelled. Then he spotted Mel trying to hide behind the others. "Oh darling, I've come back for you!" he said in a sing-songy voice. Mel groaned and slumped down even lower. "Come out, my little sakura blossom." Mel was getting tired of the boy, so she got up, went over to him, and punched him square in the jaw.

"Shut up!" she said, shaking her hand out, since she had never done that kind of thing before and it hurt…a lot. Strider stumbled back a few steps, clutching his jaw in his hand. He was staring at Mel with a hurt sort of look.

"Strider, will you forget her?" Selena yelled at him. Then she turned back to the group. A tube came out of the machine and started sucking in everything in its reach. Everyone's pokeballs flew from their belts and were sucked into the machine.

"Oh no! Dark!" Loki called out, running toward the machine. Selena stopped her by using one of her Pokemon.

"Slowpoke, use your psychic and knock those twerps against a tree!" A pink Pokemon with a spacey expression on its face came out. Its eyes glowed a purplish-blue color, and so did the kids. Everyone except Mel, who managed to avoid the attack, was thrown against a tree trunk and couldn't move. Then Strider pulled out his Weedle.

"Weedle, use string shot to keep those brats where they are!" 'Wee dal!' The group was suddenly covered in a sticky, white string and was unable to get away from the tree. "Haha! It's useless trying to get out of that string!" Max was the only one who noticed Mel going toward the machine. Suddenly, all of Mel's pokeballs were forced off her belt, and she tried to reach for them.

"Kari, use your bite on that clamp!" she called out. The hand dropped Kari, and she ran over towards Mel, but was sucked into the machine in the process. "No, Kari!" Mel reached to grab the Eevee, but was lifted off the ground instead. "Turn off this stupid machine!" she yelled out, but to no avail, and she was sucked into the hose as well.

"Mel!" Max yelled out, still trying to get out of the string. The machine suddenly turned off and the hose went back into the machine. As the machine was starting to go underground, the clamp that was holding Pikachu went back into the machine as well. "No, Pikachu!"

"So long, twerps!" Meowth said from inside the machine. The machine turned around and went back underground and out of sight of the group. Inside the machine, Mel was having as hard a time as the others outside.

"Ow! Man, why do I always have to land so hard?" she asked no one in particular. She looked up and saw Kari falling down towards her. "Aah, Kari!" Mel stood up and caught her Pokemon, then set her down when she heard another voice falling down. "Hold on Pikachu!" She caught Pikachu easily, then set him down as well. "Well, guys," she said. "I guess we're stuck in here for a while. Then she went over to all the pokeballs on the floor and released them all.

"Okay, you all," she started. "We have now become captives of Team Rocket! Lucky us." She said the last part with complete sarcasm. "I don't know where we're going, but in order for us to get out of here quickly and without losing anyone, we're gonna have to cooperate." All of the Pokemon nodded their heads. Mel got out her Pokedex and started looking up all the Pokemon's attacks, knowing she would need them for later. When she was finished, she sat down, leaning against one of the walls. "Okay, we're all set. Now everyone, get some rest. We're gonna have a long battle later. I can tell." Everyone laid down around her, Kari and Pikachu in her lap and Sparkles and Torchic snuggled on her head. "Night everyone!" And with that, she was out like a light, only waking when she heard the machine stop moving. She knew her plan was going to happen now, and she was ready for whatever was waiting on the other side of the door.