-Chapter 5-

-VS. Zubat!-

Orange stirred. What had happened, again? He couldn't move his arms. He moved his eyes a bit, but found he couldn't quite get them open. Why was he so weak? He couldn't even open his eyes! And so he lay there for a few moments, gathering energy, until finally he did. His vision was blurred, and it felt like everything was trying to move different directions at once. It was dizzying, and so he closed his eyes again. He blinked a couple times, until everything slowly became clear; He was in some sort of jail cell. He was propped awkwardly against a cold steel wall bolted together. Lemon lay to his side, still unconscious, and in front of him were steel bars placed mere inches apart from each other. Maybe he was still recovering from whatever it was that got him here, but was the room swaying? He tried to wake up Lemon, but found that his arms, too, were still limp and weak. A few moments later he slowly rose his arm and gently prodded Lemon's arm. She stirred. Orange opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out. He tried again.

"Uhp-L-Lu… Lemon." He formed the words with his mouth and tongue slowly and clumsily. It became more smooth and flowing. "Leh-Lemon. W-Wake up." Orange saw Lemon's eyelids flutter. He smiled. She was going through the exact same thing he did. Orange helped her sit up next to him against the steel wall. That was hard work.

"Wh-What happened?" said Lemon. Orange smiled.

"I dunno, but we're both really, really weak. Let's get some sleep," he said.

"Is… Is the room… swaying?" asked Lemon, slowly looking around. Orange didn't respond. She slowly turned her head toward him, and his eyes were closed. Somehow he had gathered enough strength to snore loudly and constantly. Lemon smiled. She closed her eyes. She slowly placed her head on Orange's shoulder. And they slept.

Orange awoke again, feeling not weak and deadish, but refreshed. When he awoke, Lemon was already up, pacing the room. She glared at him when Orange woke up.

"Oh, you're finally up, you idiot! Are you aware of how loud you snore!?" she snapped. She had her finger right in Orange's face. He laughed.

"So have you figured anything out yet?" he asked. Lemon nodded, but looked grim.

"As you can tell from the swaying… We're on a boat," she said. "And we're in the brig, and my mother and Professor Oak are not here, and they took our Pokémon and gear," she finished. Orange wigged out, and started patting himself down looking for his Pokéballs. He spun around several times, as if expecting Lemon to have missed them sitting in a corner, but alas, she hadn't. ZPING!

"Waah!" yelled Orange. Something had soared inches from his face. He looked at the steel wall of the ship. A card was stabbed into the wall as if it were clay. "What on earth is this?" asked Orange to himself. He pulled on the card, but it wouldn't come out. He looked nervously at Lemon. "Heh, my hands are sorta sweaty…" he mumbled. She raised an eyebrow. She strolled over to the wall and effortlessly pulled out the card. She handed it to Orange, smirking. He scowled. "I loosened it."

"Oh suck up your pride and read the note," said Lemon, laughing. Orange looked down. He hadn't noticed a small piece of paper taped to the card. He read it aloud.

"This is the key to the cell. Your Pokémon and equipment are down the corridor in front of you and to the left. Get out of here, and do it quickly, carefully, and silently. From, a friend." Orange finished. He looked up at Lemon. "I dunno about you, but I've never had a friend who's knocked me out, stolen my stuff, and locked me in a cell on a boat headed towards God knows where."

"Can you be serious for just one second?" asked Lemon. "Don't answer that!" she added, as Orange opened his mouth. She took the note for Orange and flipped it over. "It doesn't say anything about my mom or the professor…" she said sadly.

"Don't be a greedy," said Orange, "We're lucky just to get this. Now lets do what it says and get out of here."

"Are you sure we can trust this 'friend'? It's like you said, I doubt anyone who did this to us is a friend…" said Lemon. Orange put his hand on her arm.

"I know, but it's the best chance we got," he said. Lemon nodded. "Then let's go."

Orange slid his wrist through the bars, and managed to slide the keycard through the lock. Orange pulled his hand back out as the door creaked and slid out of their way. The captives tiptoed as quietly as they could to the end of the corridor. Orange peeked around the corner into a very dimly lit hall. Sure enough, lying on a small metal bench at the end of the hallway, was their gear and Pokéballs. Orange was about to dash over and grab them, when Lemon grabbed his hand to hold him back. She pointed next to their stuff, with her finger over her lips. Orange followed her eyes, and hanging upside-down in the rafters above the bench, was a Zubat. Orange very slowly and very quietly tiptoed toward the bench, and picked up his Pokémon and slowly reattached them to his belt. He tossed Lemon her backpack and Pokéballs, one of which she dropped. Orange winced, then cautiously looked up again at the Zubat, and noticed it had no eyes. "Oh, it's blind!" he shouted.

The Zubat's ears twitched. It opened its mouth wide, then suddenly; all Orange felt was pain. He would have done anything in the world to end the pain that seemed to be splitting his head. "RUN!" he tried to call, though he wasn't sure if Lemon could even hear. She too had her fingers jammed into her ears, trying desperately to end the relentless Supersonic attack. He turned around and grabbed his back, which he quickly discovered was unzipped. The two eggs Orange had found his Elekid Buzzgo protecting fell out with a crash onto the floor. Orange feared for a moment that they would smash, and was relieved when he saw they were unharmed. Lemon scooped up one in her arms and ran, as Orange turned around to grab the other. He stopped abruptly. Skidding around the corner was a small team of the uniformed men, with the Zubat flying above them.

"They're escaping!" one called. "Get them!" called another. Orange kept going to grab the egg, when Lemon grabbed his hand.

"Come on! We don't have time!" he could vaguely hear her say.

"But the egg!" Orange shouted back. She grabbed him and they ran. Orange looked back as he ran, and saw a boy with a shadow over his face snatch the egg as they chased after the escaped prisoners. They came to a fork to the end of a corridor. "Uh, this way!" Orange shouted, and they took the left path. Orange had noticed that the Supersonic had died down a bit. Had they escaped their captors? Orange and Lemon ran up a small flight of stairs, and down another corridor, until they finally saw light leaking through the cracks around a small hatch in the ceiling.

They opened the hatch, and met a dazzling flash of sunlight. They were surrounded on all sides by deep blue ocean. Normally the ocean was a place of comfort for Orange, but now, it made him feel isolated and hopeless. Lemon closed the hatch behind them, and the pair ducked behind the cabin of the ship. Orange removed his two Pokéballs from his belt, and looked sadly at his Pokémon through the transparent red dome tops. Slowgo's eyes were wide and frightened, and Buzzgo's were distant and depressed. "I'm sorry buddy," said Orange to Buzzgo, "We lost one of the eggs." Buzzgo lowered his head sadly. "But we saved the other one," Orange said, looking at the egg Lemon clutched in her arms. Suddenly, there was a crack. A deep ridge made its way down the egg in Lemon's arms. Smaller cracks branched off, until the egg was covered with cracks. The egg fell apart, revealing the small monster inside…

-Chapter 6-

-VS. Lapras!-