Okay here is a new chapter. Before I say anything I would like to address a small typo I made last chapter that may have mislead some of you. (I did fix it pretty fast but I'm not sure who all read the chap by then) When crystal died last chap I accidentally used ebony's name and it kind of made it sound like ebony died and not crystal. Many of you prob never even saw the typo or if you did you probably put the pieces together but I just wanted to mention it. Anyways onto the story. A lot is going on as everyone looks for the missing pokemon without even knowing Black is one of them. Things are going pretty grim for Black as he must find a way to survive this whole situation. Anyways enjoy the chapter and thanks for reading!

Chapter 23: Circumvent

Point of View Gray

It was now late at night and I decided I was going to take a night walk and enjoy the nice weather. I was now on the beach at the bottom of the mountain following the beach. The almost full moon reflected on the water and lit the area around me just to see where I was going. After about a half hour of walking I came across a few abandoned houses that followed along the beach.

I decided it was kind of interesting so I decided to get a closer look. I was now in front of one of the beach houses. The house looked pretty worn out and it seemed as if no one has maintained these houses in years. I decided to go inside and see how bad it was inside the crap hole in front of me. I slowly walked through the door of one of the houses and entered in. The house reeked of the smell of dust and it was almost too much for me to handle and I felt like I was about to sneeze. The house had normal furniture like most houses, it had a couch along with a table, some counters in the kitchen and the paint was peeling right off the walls.

Then I heard a creaking noise from above me and I saw some dust fall from the floor boards above me. Then I heard a loud snapping noise and the floor above me collapsed. I quickly jumped out of the way and avoided any serious injury. I looked towards where the floor had collapsed but I couldn't see anything due to a big cloud of dust. In the cloud I could hear someone coughing. Then the cloud of dust faded away and I saw a small figure standing in the shadows of the house.

"Who's their" I asked in a serious tone. Not that I was scared or anything I just was in a shady area and you can never be too safe in area like this.

"oww, that hurt" I heard a male voice call out in a pained voice.

"I said who is their" I asked again with a louder voice.

There was silence for a few seconds before I heard anything from the unknown figure again. "Jeez don't worry about my health, I'm just fine" The voice said towards me in annoyance as the unknown pokemon walked out of the shadows. Then I saw the pikachu that ran into me earlier come out of the shadows.

"Hey your that pikachu that ran into me earlier" I said with slight annoyance since I still owed him for that.

"Oh umm you again, sorry about that" the pikachu said as he stretched his body out and cracked his back.

"Its fine I guess. Are you able to walk fine" I asked him. I guess I wasn't going to make a big deal out of him running into me since it was an accident and I wasn't really in the mood for an argument or a fight at the moment.

"Yeah I'm cool, I just landed a little funny that all" the pikachu said as he continued stretching out his body.

"You mentioned you were looking for someone before right, who?" I asked curious why he was in such a hurry.

The pikachu's face then went to a saddened look "I was looking for a friend that was possible abducted" he said in a slightly sad tone. "Not just him though six other pokemon went missing before him and I was just trying to find them" the pikachu said with a look of regret covering his face.

"Pokemon missing huh, I'm great at tracking you know I can possible give you a quick hand tonight but then I got to leave in the morning" I offered him. I wasn't usually the type to offer strangers help but something like this was actually pretty serious and if I could at least help point him in the right direction then I'm sure that would be enough.

"I don't think you should, my friend I was looking for was just helping me and he was abducted."

"Don't worry about me I can take care of myself" I said with a confident voice.

"If you must help me fine, but don't put yourself in danger okay." The pikachu said with a serious voice as he looked me in the yes with a serious glare.

"Oh and my name is Hesh by the way" the pikachu said as he extended his right hand.

"My name is Grayson, but people call me Gray for short" I said as I extended my right paw and shook his hand.

"Great then let's get started" Hesh said with a smile on his face.

Point of View Black

It has now been many hours that I have been sitting in this cage. Crystal's body was still decaying on the floor. I lied facing away from her blood corpse because I couldn't stand to see all the blood or her eyes that were frozen in fear. In the background I could still here Ebony crying, she wasn't crying as much as before but she was still crying. I felt so horrible for her, it was my fault that she lost her sister and I just sat there too weak to do anything but watch her die.

I had no idea how long I was going to be in here, but I was sure as soon as they confirmed those test they would probably relocate me and do horrible things to me. I wish there was a way for me to escape this place but I had no way. The bars were too strong on my cell for me to even blast them off with a shadow ball. I had no way to escape or help save those around me and pretty soon Stark was going to kill another pokemon if I didn't tell him where my friends were.

I lied on the floor only thinking about the death's that would soon come. I wished I could just die and let it all end here. But sadly that wouldn't stop everything and my friends would still be in danger.

"Hey umbreon how are you holding up" I heard the squirtle known as Blue call out to me. I just sat there in silence and said nothing. A few minutes passed until he called out to me again "Hey Black come on talk to us" he shouted at me.

"Leave him alone Blue he's probably now realizing were all dead" The rattata said from his cage.

"Shut it, no one is dying" The charmander who went by the name Connor yelled in a pissed off voice. Then everyone in the room started arguing right away and I just wanted it to stop.

"Shut the hell up!" I yelled in an aggressive voice. Everyone stopped arguing and looked into my cell. I was still lying on the floor of my cell refusing to even look anywhere near that dead body.

"Just please let me have some quiet" I said out loud for everyone to here.

"And why in the hell would we do that" The rattata yelled from his cell in the corner of the room.

"Because I'm thinking of how the hell I'm going to get out of here" I snarled towards him. I then heard the rattata laugh obnoxiously at what I said "You can't get out of here we all tried at one point and we all failed. Even if we did get out we'd all get killed right away" the rattata said.

"Well were all dead in here" Connor said in my defense.

"He does have a point" Blue said in agreement. I then heard the rattata make some kind of scowling noise in his frustration of losing the argument.

"Well Black what do you have in mind" Blue asked curiously.

"I don't know yet. I'll probably have to have to make my move when Stark takes me out of my cage to torture me. Problem is I don't know if I can do anything that can stop him then" I said.

"Well you better start strategizing everything completely through because you will only get one chance because if you screw up they'll kill you instantly" Blue said.

"They won't kill me. There is something about me that they want and they will refuse to kill me no matter what" I said. And then an idea came into my head that may actually get us out.

"Actually I think I may have a plan that may work. But it will require a little team work" I said as I then began to tell my cell mates my brilliant plan.

Point of View Flare

Well I completely failed at what that pikachu from earlier told me to do. Gray was now gone and I had no clue where he was. Luckily for me Alex and Kana were asleep at the moment so I would have until morning to find Gray. I then had the brilliant idea of waking up Kana and making this her problem as well. I jumped up on the bed Kana was happily sleeping on and I began tapping her obnoxiously in her face repeatedly. I then saw her eyes slowly nudge open and she looked at me.

"I'm going to kill you Flare" Kana said in a scary voice. I seemed to have forgotten that Kana becomes a demon when you separate her from her sleep and she is literally terrifying.

"Kana I need your help" I asked her nervously.

"Go away or I'm going to fry your brain with electricity" She said in a grouchy voice as she repositioned herself so she wasn't facing me and she attempted to go back to sleep.

"Kana, Gray is missing and I don't know where he is" I said. Kana's head then shot up instantly as soon as she heard those words.

"Gray's missing are you sure" Kana asked in a concerned voice.

"Well I don't know where he is and someone told me pokemon have been getting abducted lately and I don't want to find out he was added to the collection of missing pokemon.

"Well let's go then" Kana said as she jumped off the bed and headed towards the door. I followed her and we quickly left hotel and began our search. I had no clue where to even begin and I didn't even know my way around this place.

"Kana" I said awkwardly.

"Yeah" She replied.

"Where in Mew's name do we even start" I said as I then began to notice how big this area really was. Kana just looked at me and sighed in slight annoyance. She obviously thought the same thing as me since neither of us knew where to even begin our search.

Point of View Black

Blue shot a big stream of water straight towards me from his cage. The water hit my shoulder really hard and the water cut my shoulder right open. I winced from the pain and quickly fell over. I lied on the ground in pain as a small puddle of blood started forming around my wound. I stood back up and then Blue launched yet another stream of water towards me that hit me exactly in the same spot from last time. It instantly made my wound even deeper and I fell back down. Blood was now pouring down from my wound as a steady paste and it hurt like hell.

"Hey someone help. The umbreon is injured and it's lethal" Connor yelled at the top of his lungs. No one came to help me and I lied on the ground slowly bleeding out.

"Seriously the umbreon known as Black is bleeding to death" Connor yelled again at the top of his lungs. A few seconds passed by and then Zero ran into the room in a big hurry. He quickly ran over to my cage and inspected my wound.

"Don't worry I'll get you help" He said in an urgent voice. I guess he used telepathy of some kind because right after two scientists with medical equipment ran in the room and made their way to my cell. The scientist quickly opened my cell and dragged me out. I then let out a small smirk and jumped up and head butted the scientist between his eyes. The other scientist body began shaking and I bet if I could see his face he'd be crying right now. Zero looked at me in a disappointed look as he nodded his head. I then quickly charged towards the other scientist and jumped in the air like a rocket and head butted the other scientist in the gut. He went flying on the ground and began moaning in pain. He then tried standing up again but then vomited all over himself from the blow he received in his gut and passed out in his own body fluids.

"I can't believe you actually fell for that" I said towards zero. "This is one of the most cliché escape tricks and you fell for it" I said in a taunting voice. The kadabra then pointed his hand at me as if he was trying to use some kind of psychic attack on me but I felt absolutely nothing. Luckily for me I was an umbreon and psychic moves didn't work to well against me.

"No luck" I said as I gave him a death glare. I then charged up a shadow ball and launched it right at the kadabra's face. He didn't even have the reflex to blink in time before it made solid contact with his face. He was sent flying back and smashed into the scientist who puked all over himself and he was now covered in puke as well. I would have actually felt bad for the guy if he wasn't holding me hostage and experimenting on pokemon.

I then quickly remembered the plan and that I was slowly bleeding to death and I ran over towards the first scientist I knocked out and grabbed the keys off his unconscious body with my teeth and I ran over to blue's cage and slid the keys through the cage bars.

"Nice job Black" Blue said with a smile on his face as he began unlocking his cage from behind the bars. I would have unlocked it myself but you know umbreon's don't have thumbs. After a few seconds of Blue rustling around with the lock he finally unlocked it and kicked the door open. Blue didn't waste any time and began unlocking everyone's cell. After a few minutes everyone was free and was happy to be out of their cells.

"Sorry about the wound Black, but we need to heal up your wound or you will bleed to death" Blue said in a serious voice. The plan was that he was supposed to injure me with one of his ranged attacks so one of the scientist would be dumb enough to open my cell and then I would beat the living hell out of them. So far everything was going awesome.

Blue ran up to one of the scientist and ripped off a huge section of his lab coat and ran up to me. He then began wrapping the cloth under my arm and over my shoulder multiple times and then eventually tied a knot so it would stay in place. The pressure that was now on my wound hurt but I knew it was for my own health.

"It won't stop the bleeding but it will slow it down enough until we can get you some help" Blue said with a small smile. I then had something I needed to do before we went any further. I walked over to Crystal's dead body. Her body was covered in blood and it did make me feel uneasy but I had to fight my fear of blood to do something quick. I looked into her fearful eyes one last time and I gently put my paw on her eyes and gently closed them so Crystal could rest in peace.

"I'm sorry. I promise I will save your sister at all cost" I said to Crystal. I then walked back towards everyone.

I looked into ebony's eyes. It was obvious she was still emotionally devastated from losing her sister. "Ebony I'm so sorry about your sister. I'm going to get everyone out of here though so we can all live for her" I said. Ebony just gave a small nod towards me as a small tear left her eye.

"Let's get started then" Connor said excitedly.

"I concur" Blue said. The rattata just stood there and waited for things to get started. The door that led outside the hall was still wide open and I was the first one to make the first step towards our freedom. I peeked my head slowly outside into the hallway and thankfully for us it was empty as of now. I looked back and nodded my head at everyone to indicate the coast was clear and we all began moving like ghost down the hall.

Blue then snapped his finger and got all of our attention before we went too far "If I remember correctly from my observations the hallways in this building all go in a loop that forms a square. Around the hallways obviously there are rooms for things such as experimenting and there is also a cafeteria and equipment rooms everywhere. I do think I remember where the exit is from when I was captured" Blue said with an intellectual voice as well all listened carefully.

"Alright then you lead" Connor said. Blue then began leading us down the hall. We all ran down the hall as silent as possible but we tried to keep a steady paste. Then once we reached this end of the hall we turned left and began heading down the hall. The hallway looked like something out of a horror movie that humans would watch. It was dark and gloomy, the lights were dim and they flickered along with a cold chilling atmosphere and then to make this a legit horror movie we had creepy masked scientists roaming around and if they caught us it would be all over and they would possible kill everyone but me.

We moved down the hall as fast as we could without making a sound. Everyone was silent except the rattata who was breathing heavy due to his adrenaline probably being up. After about two minutes of silently running down the long never ending hall we finally came along another turn and we went left since it was the only way to turn.

Then everyone was petrified when they saw a black scyther that was waiting for us behind the corner. The scyther just looked at us with cold eyes that made me feel uneasy. Everyone except for me inched back a few steps. I wasn't going to stand down when I was this close to freedom.

"Think we can take him" Connor asked as smoke left his nostrils from the flame he was charging in his mouth.

"It's our only option. I'll go in close and you use fire based attacks since they are effective on him" I said as I began charging towards the black scyther. Before I was even close to him he swung his arm towards us and sent an air slash towards us. The air slash cut through the air at a high velocity and everyone jumped out of the way without hesitation. I continued moving towards the scyther and he then turned his attention towards me and swung his blade towards me at light speed. I quickly moved out of its reach as Connor shot an ember straight towards the scyther. He just cut straight through the fire ball and caused a mini explosion of flames. The scyther just jumped back away before he was damaged and I felt the explosion of heat against my skin as everyone else shielded their eyes.

Then Blue sent a jet stream of water straight towards the scyther. The scyther then jumped over the jet stream of water and stuck his bladed arm into the ceiling and used his arm to swing himself towards us as he flew through the air at light speed. Connor then sent out a huge flamethrower but the scyther then jumped to the side and continued running towards them not even losing the slightest bit of speed.

Once he reached them he then began swinging his bladed arms quickly towards everyone. They all barely got out of the way in time. I then saw my chance and sent a shadow ball towards his back. The scyther quickly turned around and ducked under it and then began charging towards me at light speed. He sent another air slash towards me and I jumped to the side in a sloppy motion. By the time I hit the floor he had already caught up to me and landed a solid kick on me and sent me sliding along the cement floor. The wound in my shoulder was now aching and I knew if I kept moving like this I was going to undo the bandage that was barely keeping me from bleeding to death.

The scyther now redirected his attention towards the rest of the group and began making his way quickly towards them. I quickly followed behind him in an attempt to help fight him. Blue sent out another stream of water towards the scyther but he just moved out of the way and kicked blue right in the face and sent him flying. Connor released a massive flamethrower that would have turned anything in its path into cinder. A cloud of smoke covered the area and I slowly made my way towards it fearing what I would see once it cleared up. Once it did clear I saw Connor lying on the floor groaning in pain and the black scyther standing unharmed.

The rattata just cowered in fear away from the scyther while Ebony stood up strong towards the scyther. The scyther then readied his blade and charged towards the defenseless eevee who closed her eyes and accepted her imminent death. Luckily for her I was just fast enough and I jumped in front of her with a very strong shadow ball charged. Right before I could launch it towards the scyther, he stabbed me in my left hip really good. I then released the shadow ball right as he withdrew his blade out of my body. The shadow ball violently exploded and sent the scyther flying into the wall and I could tell he was unconscious for now.

Everyone quickly got back up and regrouped around me. "Good job Black you saved all of our asses just now" Connor said. I just gave out a small smile and I then tried taking a small step forwards. My whole body then screamed in pain as I fell to the ground. I quickly realized that the stab wound I received in my left hip was a lot deeper than I thought and I may have been seriously injured now. Everyone gathered around me and Blue and Connor both helped me back up to my feet carefully.

"Come on Black don't stop here we are literally next to the exit" Blue said with a reassuring voice. They both helped support my weight as we all slowly made our way down the hall. Everyone was fine except for me. Ebony was safe thanks to me saving her and the rattata probably nearly shit himself from the stress of that fight.

Blue and Connor slowly helped me down the hall as everyone else followed while keeping an eye on our back. When we were halfway down the hall we came by a door.

"This is it this is the exit" Blue said with a big smile on his face.

Point of View Kana

Flare and I aimlessly wondered around this mountain almost all night until we finally found Gray wondering around with a pikachu. We were both confused on why he was with the pikachu but we were just happy to find him.

"Gray!" Flare yelled in excitement as he ran towards Gray. Gray quickly noticed us and walked towards us with a lot less enthusiasm. We were now on the side of the mountain on a random trail that led to an unknown location.

"What are you doing here" Gray asked in a slightly surprised voice.

"We were looking for you dummy" I said in reply to Gray.

"Why" Gray asked.

"Because you were missing and this area has had a lot of pokemon gone missing lately" Flare said in a serious voice. The pikachu Gray was roaming around with then decided to intervene.

"That's what we were looking for" The pikachu said to Flare. It looked like Flare recognized the pikachu from the awkward expression on his face.

"Why did you let him help you when I offered to help earlier" Flare said in an offended voice.

"Because your friend was already out wondering around and he offered to help and I had a change of heart I guess" The pikachu said while scratching the back of his head.

"Well now we can all search together" I said out loud. I actually wouldn't have minded helping out a little myself since this was just horrible to even here about and I always looked forward to helping people and pokemon.

"Well fine just stick together and no matter what don't travel alone" The pikachu said in a slightly annoyed voice.

We all then began searching together for the missing pokemon in the area for the remainder of the night.

Point of View Black

Blue slowly got the door to our freedom open. The door slowly opened and we all waited in excitement. Connor and Blue helped me through the door and Ebony and the coward rattata followed behind us. We were all shocked once we were outside because we were in a normal house. The house itself looked pretty clean and well maintained. There was clean carpet throughout the house along with furniture and the mother of all flat screens mounted onto the wall. The house was also at a comfortable temperature.

"The hell" Connor said in a confused tone. We all walked through the normal house and slowly went towards the front door. Then I noticed something that was bad. I noticed a camera watching us from the ceiling.

"There is a camera watching us there" I said as I pointed at the camera with a shaky paw. Then we all heard and alarm start going off and we all knew it was time for us to run like hell. We all made our way quickly towards the front door and opened it. Once we were outside I took in a nice breath of fresh air, I could tell by looking at the sky that it was night, but I could also tell that the night was practically over and within the hour the sun would be coming up. We were now on the mountain and I looked back at the house that the lab we were in was connected to. The house literally just looked like a normal house that no one would think twice about looking at.

"That house must have been a disguise for the evils within" Blue said with an angry voice "After this is done I'm exposing them for what those monsters are."

Connor and Blue then continued helping me escape as Ebony and Danny the coward rattata followed behind. Every step I took I felt as if I was being stabbed again by that scyther. I really felt like stopping here but I knew I had to push on and fight the pain.

After about thirty minutes of slowly making our way down the mountain we could see some of the people from the facility we were in following us. They appeared to now be armed with heavy duty fire arms and they still wore the creepy masks to protect their identity. Connor let go of me for a second and launched a fire ball up towards the armed hunters. They jumped out of the way right away and we all began moving as fast as we could. Every few seconds Connor would let go of me and launch a few embers towards them to try and take them out. Eventually he got a hit on one of them and the scientist fell down with smoke sizzling above his body. The other scientist helped his fallen comrade and grabbed a radio out of his pocket and probably began radioing in for some backup.

We had lost the scientists who were hunting us for now but there was a blood trail following us, so it wasn't going to be a challenge for them to find us. I was now breathing really heavy and every step I took the pain got worse and worse and I was reaching my limit. After about thirty minutes of walking I then reached my pain capacity and I would have fell down if Connor and Blue weren't holding onto me.

"Stop, please just stop" I said in a pained voice. Connor and Blue quickly yet gently set me down on the cold rocks we were on and gave me a second to rest from the pain I was experiencing.

"Are you okay" Blue asked me in a worried voice. I looked at him with my crimson eyes.

"I can't go on like this" I said in a pained voice. Blood was slowly making its way out of my wound and I was in no way thrilled about that.

"You have to" Connor said. Off in the distance we could here a few gun shots from the people looking for us. They were most likely just blind firing hoping to get a lucky shot on us.

"No you guys need to get the hell out of here. It's me they really want. And if they capture me they will most likely settle for that" I said with a shaky voice as I breathed really hard.

"We can carry you if we have to though" Connor said in a desperate voice.

"Yeah and I'll slow you all down until you get caught with me. Just leave me. Go to Amberette town and look for a pikachu named Hesh, he will help you all" I said. Everyone looked at me with saddened expressions. Blue and Connor just looked at each other and nodded. Ebony looked like she was about to cry and the rattata that has been of no help just sat there not really looking like her cared to much about me.

"Alright Black we are going to go and find help for you" Connor said with a small smile. Ebony then decided to walk up to me and say her goodbyes to me while I was still alive. She looked like she was about to break down crying again but I wasn't going to blame her, she was young and she was going through a lot right now.

"Black thanks" Ebony said in a faint voice followed by a sob. I just nodded at her and Connor grabbed her shoulder and began directing her in the direction they were running. I watched as everyone quickly ran to safety and left me like I told them to. Despite the fact I was screwed I was a little happy since I at least got to do one thing right with my life.

Chapter End

Author Note: Well their is the end of chapter 23. You guys can expect a awesome finale to this part of the story. (This part not the entire story lol) Anyways a lot is going on as the missing pokemon try to escape and Black choose to stay behind so they can have a better chance of escaping. Black is also seriously wounded and is barely able to move at this chance and he will need medical assistance asap. Also I hope i didn't rush the escape to fast. I just didn't want to waste a lot of time writing about how depressed Black would have been if he was stuck their and write about the others wondering around. Anyways I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter and I promise things are about to get good again. Also the reason I have been updating so much lately is because I'm on spring break and I've had a bit of time every other day lol.