Yay new chapter! Fianlly i've been getting more time to write finally after having a bust week last week and this week. On top of that when ever I did have free time I was just so tired and slothish that I didn't want to do anything besides sleep and blow off my responsibilities lol. Anyways here is an awesome chapter that is only from Stark's point of view. Also I will be introducing someone that I think many of you have been waiting to be revealed. Thanks for reading and as always thank you everyone who has read, followed, fav and reviewed this story! You guy's and gals are awesome and sometimes your review really do motivate me to get off my lazy ass!

Chapter 30: Mandus

Point of View Stark

The helicopter I was in was now at a high altitude in the air now and I could see the world around me perfectly from up here. The area directly below the helicopter appeared to be some kind of rocky wasteland with no sign of plant life at all. Far off in the distance in the opposite direction we were heading I could slightly see the light from Luminose city lighting up in the night sky.

I had probably been in this helicopter now for around fifteen minutes now and I was really getting tired of being in such a small space for a long period of time. Zero was just leaning against one of the walls of the helicopter while the man with the scar on his face known as Ghost just sat on a bench that was integrated into the helicopters wall along with those two there was also a few men in the helicopter sitting on the opposite side of ghost in the helicopter, the men appeared to be armed and from the look of them they had a good body build and probably had their work cut out for them.

"Alright listen up Stark" I heard zero say in a firm voice from behind me. I quickly stopped looking out of the helicopter window and directed my full attention towards Zero.

"Okay I'm going to start telling you everything you need to know so listen carefully because I don't want to repeat myself" Zero said as I listened.

"As I already told you, you are going undercover and will be acting as a spy to get info for us" Zero said.

"What do you need me to find" I said quickly before he could say more.

"I was getting to that. Now you will be finding info that could lead to Crimson's destruction and anything that can help us bring them down" Zero said with a pause after his words "There is one more important thing we need you to try and figure out and this is essential" Zero said as he stared at me with a serious gaze.

"What" I asked.

"We believe that Crimson has something of ours and if they do have it, it could be a disaster for all of Kalos."

"And what would that be" I asked in an attempt to learn more.

"It's not one hundred percent confirmed but we need you to keep an ear open for something called project Kurokami. Since it's not confirmed that they for surely have it I can't get to in-depth about it. But since we will be monitoring you twenty-four-seven we'll tell you more if we have our suspicions" Zero said.

"Project Kurokami?" I said in a confused voice.

"Just remember that it's important and we'll tell you more as time goes on. It's better to send you in oblivious that way they won't suspect anything from you, since you won't know much" Zero said as he walked towards me.

"Another question… How are you going to contact me if I'm undercover? More nanotechnology" I asked.

"Correct" Zero said in an impressed voice.

"Landing in five minutes" One of the soldiers yelled to us.

"Okay now before we land it's important that you remember that you are supposed to be our hostage and you want go with Mandus's team. So don't be surprised if we aren't too polite to you once we land" Zero said.

"I'm already your hostage" I said in a snide voice. Zero just ignored my comment and waited for us to land.

As the soldier said we would be landing in five minutes and we did. The instant we landed one of the soldiers that was with us pointed his gun at my head and I quickly went into a defensive position out of natural reflex that I've developed over years of dealing with stuff like this.

"Stark this is part of our operation" Zero barked at me in annoyance. I then quickly remembered what he told me from earlier and I let my guard down and faced the door out of the helicopter. Ghost then stood up and one of the other soldiers opened the door of the helicopter. The instant the door opened I instantly felt a strong breeze of wind from outside and I could see a strong wind outside carrying a lot of debris in it powerful gales.

Ghost didn't waste any time and instantly walked out of the helicopter paying no attention to the wind as two soldiers followed exactly two steps behind him in an organized order. Shortly after Zero and I exited the helicopter along with the last soldier who was still pointing his gun at my head. I wasn't really a fan of people pointing guns at me and in the past I made it a habit to kill anyone who even made me feel slightly threatened in any form possible.

Once I stepped foot outside I instantly felt the wind blowing aggressively against me and debris hit me constantly from the strong wind. I wasn't really bothered to much by the wind it was just slightly annoying since it made it hard to keep my eyes open. I continued walking with squinted eyes as I held my head low to avoid getting small little rock chunks in my eyes.

"There they are" I heard Zero say in a low tone. I suddenly forgot about the sand and looked up to see the people we were meeting out in this Celebi forsaken wasteland. At first I couldn't see anything but after a few seconds of focusing my vision I was finally able to make out a few figures that were standing in a group. In the group their appeared to be a white espeon with red eyes, a geninja who appeared to have a samurai sword on his back, there was also a quilava and standing in the middle of the group was a lucario who stood a few feet ahead of his group with his arms crossed as he looked at Ghost with a death glare that could kill. Despite the death glare Ghost continued walking towards the group of pokemon in a non-hesitant manner.

The lucario had an expression on his face that showed no fear and I could see power glowing in his eyes. The blue fur on the lucario's body was a darker tone of blue than the average lucario and it was almost as dark as the black fur on his body. lucario's naturally have three spikes on their, one on the chest and one on each arm, the spikes on his body though were a jet black that was shiny enough to see your own reflection in the darkness of the steel spike. One of the things that threw me off about the lucario though was how he was wearing a black cloak over his body, the clock wasn't the kind you put your arms in sleeves like a shirt, it was one of those cloaks you wear around your neck and wraps around your body and shields your entire torso. The cloak also seemed to have a hood on the back but the lucario wasn't using it at the moment. I could only assume that he was using the cloak for the big gale storm we were experiencing right now but it did make him look more intimidating and the look did fit him well.

Ghost stopped walking towards them once there was about five meters separating our two parties. Both of our groups just stared at each other with high tension between us. After around thirty seconds of awkwardly staring at each other Ghost then held up his hand as if he was gesturing for his men not to follow him. Shortly after he started walking the lucario started walking towards ghost alone as well. Once the two where only separated by a meter of ground they both stared at each other with high tension and everything fell silent and the wind even stopped for a few seconds as they faced each other.

"Mandus" I heard ghost say in a cold voice. The lucario just stood there and gave Ghost a cold look that was full of spite and hatred. I was actually surprised that the lucario was the pokemon known as Mandus. I always expected something more. I wasn't sure of what to expect, I just didn't expect a lucario.

"Ghost" Mandus replied with a voice that showed no sign of being nervous or any form of fear.

Right after those small words were exchanged the wind instantly picked back up and almost blew everyone off their feet as we all struggled to keep our balance as Ghost and Mandus were unaffected by the wind.

After a few seconds of having wind and small chunks of rock beating against my body a thought just occurred to me that I didn't notice until now "Wait a second did that lucario just speak to Ghost directly" I said in a confused voice.

Zero shifted one of his eyes towards me as he tried to cover his eyes from the heavy wind blowing us around "Yes, that lucario is something different. Don't let his appearance fool you" Zero said as he shifted his gaze towards Ghost and Mandus.

"So you are now choosing to go against us even though we had a mutual pact between our organizations" Mandus said in a serious voice. Ghost didn't even bother responding to the lucario and instead reached into his jackets pocket and pulled out a cigar and a lighter. Ghost then lit the cigar up with a lighter and put it into his mouth and inhaled its toxic poisons and took it out of his mouth and blew out a big gust of smoke right in the lucario's face as a sign of disrespect.

The instant the puff of smoke hit the lucario's face he instantly smacked the cigar right out of ghost's hand faster than my eyes could process his precipitous speed. Ghost just let out a grumble of irritation and let the hand he was holding his cigar up with drop down with an attitude.

"You will take me seriously Ghost" the lucario said in a dark tone that would have sent shivers down my spine if I was normal.

Ghost didn't even looked fazed by the lucario's demand and he just reached back into his pocket and pulled out another cigar

"Yes we are going against you" Ghost said as he lit up another cigar.

"Pity I actually believed that both of us would have benefited from our pact but instead you choose a death wish over an alliance" The lucario said as I could see him crossing his arms under his cloak.

"Death wish? Are you threatening me or maybe you are oblivious to what your against" Ghost said with a small intimidating chuckle.

"Think of it as you please but know this. I will not tolerate you interfering with our objective and you've already got in the way once and believe me there won't be a second time" the lucario said in a powerful voice that made some of the soldiers by me take a step back.

"What you mean your mission on capturing that umbreon" Ghost said as if Mandus was crazy "I'll have you know that the only reason we didn't capture you precious umbreon when we could of is simple because we have its DNA and we are working on altering the DNA of other umbreon's to be just like him" Ghost said with a slightly confident look on his face.

The lucario just nodded his head at Ghost "Oh and where is this perfect umbreon you have produced. Obviously you have nothing to offer me since a greedy corrupt pig like you would have already tried selling me something like that the moment you got off your helicopter" the lucario said with some bite in his words.

"And how would you know it's not the umbreon with us" Ghost said as he looked at me out of the corner of his eyes.

"Because he's not" Mandus said bluntly.

Ghost then chuckled a little at what Mandus said and then looked to the ground as he laughed "Okay you got me there. But we have experimented with some umbreon's and we are expecting to figure out how to make an umbreon with split eevee evolutions like the umbreon you are after."

"Well until then it's not worth mentioning so quit howling about achievements you haven't achieved yet" Mandus said in a serious voice that showed annoyance towards Ghost.

"You're a hard pokemon to please" Ghost said with a sigh.

Zero and I waited patiently with the other troops as we all eased dropped on their conversation. Every one of us was on guard since we expected a fight to break out any second now between the two. I had my money on the lucario if it did come down to that and if anything I'd probably help him kill the bastard.

"Well it's obvious we didn't come here to try and work things out so let's just get down to business" Mandus said in a serious tone.

"Very well."

"Before we finish our business though, I think it is safe to say there is too many loose ends between our two sides and if we do plan on settling things between our organizations we should spend time to tie up loose ends between us" the lucario proposed.

"That sounds logical" Ghost replied.

"Then let's take care of any liabilities first, after all remaining invisible to the world is both of our organizations top priorities" Mandus said.

"Fine" Ghost said as he smoked his cigar "One more thing, take your artificial umbreon with you. We have no need for him. After all we originally made him so he could capture that other umbreon you were looking for" Ghost said as he signally me to come towards him with a wave. The soldier next to me then took his gun off my head right away and I began cautiously walking towards Mandus.

"How do I know that it's not a trap" the lucario said in an untrusting voice as he looked at me out of the corner of his eyes.

'Shit' was all I could think as I began pondering a backup plan that didn't involve me dying.

"You don't have to take him I'll just have to dispose of him after were done her" Ghost said as he looked at me. The instant those words came out I just stopped dead in my tracks and death stared Ghost with a serious glare.

"Stop talking about me as if I'm expendable" I snarled at him as I reached my limit of being talked down to. Ghost just stared at me for a second and looked back at Mandus and completely ignored me.

"I'm talking to you" I yelled in frustration at Ghost even though he couldn't understand a word I was barking at him. Even after I yelled Ghost failed to notice me and I then began contemplating on whether I just wanted to say screw it and just kill the bastard really quick before I died.

"Fine I'll take him in" Mandus said as he stared at me as if he was evaluating me. Ghost then just looked at me and gave me a nod as if I was supposed to go with him. I then cautiously walked towards the group of pokemon that were with Mandus. The instant I reached their group I immediately felt out of place. Not that I minded since I was used to being alone and I honestly preferred others to just not socialize with me. After all I was anti-social since I was a trainer killer who didn't really care for having friends or anyone to care about.

Once I reached the other side I looked back and saw Ghost extend his hand towards Mandus in an attempt to shake his paw "So we agree on everything we talked about" Ghost said.

Mandus just looked at his hand and just turned around and started walking towards me and his colleagues.

"I'll play along with you for now. Just remember that a new dawn will be coming soon, a dawn that will only come through bloodshed and you and your colleagues will be the origin of this new dawn" Mandus said as he walked towards me and his group of minions.

Ghost then began walking back towards his group as well and continued smoking his cigar up as the helicopter's blades began spinning. I then looked back and looked at my new team of pokemon and I just waited for them to say something first.

"Stark, welcome to the Crimson Dawn" I heard the lucario say as he began walking in the opposite direction of the helicopter and didn't even bother making eye contact with his team.

The lucario just kept walking as his cloak fluttered in the gusts of wind and everyone else followed the lucario's lead and when I looked back in the distance I could see the helicopter I came in taking off and heading away in the opposite direction.

"Don't be too bothered by Mandus. He is a very serious individual" I heard a voice say from behind me. I quickly turned my head and saw a white espeon with crimson eyes standing behind me. I didn't even bother responding to him and I just turned my head back in the direction I was walking and ignored him.

"Not to social are you. I'm not surprised. I'd imagine you resent everyone here for putting you in this situation and I would also bet you have trust issues" the espeon said in a sympathetic voice. Then something clicked in my head and the espeon's face became familiar to me.

"Wait your Black's brother. I remember seeing your picture when Genesis was briefing me on everything I needed to know about him" I said in slight surprise.

"Yes I am his brother. But I prefer to refer to him by his real name and not his new name" the white espeon said.

"Whatever works" I muttered.

"Anyways I don't know how they treated you in Genesis but most of the pokemon in our organization is mostly pokemon who dream of a better future that doesn't need violence and everyone can live as equals. A world free from hatred and those whose hearts are corrupted with greed" the espeon said.

"What about you. I've heard about what you've done to your family and I can't see you as the type of pokemon that has good motives" I snarled at him in annoyance.

The espeon flinched a little at my accusation and then tilted his head down a little "Nothing I've done was in vein and it is for a better future… I don't expect anyone to understand my motives and why I've committed the sins I've done" the espeon said in a bitter voice.

"Do you have regret" I asked.

There was a few seconds before the espeon responded "No it has to be this way" he responded.

I out of all pokemon would know about killing other living beings and walking away unfazed. Yet I knew it was wrong so whenever I heard someone else talking about murder as if it was nothing it just kind of bothered me that there was other monsters out there like me.

In the end I guess there will always be others that were broken like me, others that haunt this world, others living beings that commit sins every day, others that shouldn't be alive after what they've done to those around them.

Chapter End

Author Note: Well we finally get to see who Mandus is. Now much was really revealed on Mandus obviously but from what you may have noticed is he is very serious and is portrayed as a powerful individual. Like most characters he will have a unique background story and I can say out of all the characters he will add some interesting things later on in the story as you learn more about him and his motives. You may also notice the the crimson dawn always talks about bringing peace to the world. Well I am a strong believer that their is really no such thing as a true bad guy (unless they are mentally fucked up in the head and go around torturing people) Villains are mostly defined by an individuals opinion on what is evil and in-moral, while the other individual will look at their actions as a good deed and for the better of the world. I hope what I just explained made sense lol. Anyways please tell me what you think of this chapter I'm interested to see what people think about our two antagonist (Ghost and Mandus). And I say this at the end of every chapter and I am always going to say this, Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next chapter!