Welcome to chapter 43, anyways things are as they usually are drama, action and violence lol. Anyway's I'll let this chapter do its job and thanks to all those that read.

Chapter 43: Proving loyalty

Point of View Black

It only took flare a couple of minutes to finish his anecdote on the events of last night to this morning. Hesh was now finishing up on Nia's wounds and he was now wrapping a bandage that went over her shoulder, over her neck and under her chest and went back up above her shoulders, the bandage was wrapped around her many times and Hesh tied a knot so the bandage wouldn't come undone.

Hesh was speechless from the story Flare just told "S-So all of that happened when you went to look for Black last night" Hesh said in an unsteady voice. Flare and I both nodded our heads to confirm what he said.

"A-And a blaziken with a fire sword and ninja star's" Hesh then said and we just continued to nod and I couldn't help but feel he wasn't buying into this, although it wasn't often you heard of blaziken's kidnapping people in the night and then the blaziken turns out to be an ass kicking ninja with a fire sword and ninja stars.

"What you don't believe us or something" I then asked the rodent who had a baffled look stuck on his face.

"No it's not that" Hesh then responded as he tried wiping some blood off his hands, which made my stomach curl from the sight. "It's just kind of farfetched… Obviously I believe you since Nia is evidence of the story happening but you may want to work on your presentation of the story when you tell everyone else, and Black you should tell it not Flare… He was a little to energetic when presenting it" Hesh said as he wiped Nia's blood onto the ground. Flare just looked down at the ground in disappointment that Hesh didn't like his story telling skills.

"Oh and Black" Hesh then said and redirected my attention back to him again "You need a bath your covered in blood" Hesh then reminded me of what I tried so hard to forget.

"Yeah I know, I'm wanting some food right after that though" I then said as my stomach growled in agreement to the idea.

"Sure we can do that" Hesh replied with a small smile.

Nia then began to struggle to her feet even though her wounds were fighting her. "Hey take it easy and relax a minute" Hesh suggested as he gently made the umbreon lye back down on the wet ground.

"Seriously how long do you plan on keeping me here" she then whined.

Hesh then crossed his arms and gave Nia a funny look as his ears flicked up and he turned his head slightly "Just give it some time, those pokemon aren't going anywhere and you have better chances of finding them with us since their after us and not you" Hesh then said.

Nia just rolled her eyes at the suggestion "Listen will you just let me go I'm in no mood for this crap" She hissed as she tried to stand up again but Hesh held her down. Nia then let out a yelp of pain and instantly fell down as she clenched her eyes and teeth shut and blood began showing through the bandages that where just applied.

"I told you to be patient, now it's going to take longer to heal" Hesh said as he threw one of his paw's up into the air.

"Just be quiet" Nia then demanded as she coped with the pain she inflicted on herself.

"Okay Nia what can we do to get you to stay still so you don't make your wound worse" Hesh then asked with a kind voice.

Nia took a second to ponder the offer Hesh was kind enough to give "I need you to grab something for me… it's important that I get it fast" Nia said quietly as if she already regretted asking.

"What is it" Flare then blurted out. I myself was curious to what was so important that a pokemon like her would actually ask us to get it, I could already tell she wasn't the type to ask favors and I had no doubt in my mind she took no pleasure in asking us for help.

"It's a bag with my medications" Nia replied.

"Oh so is that why your in such a hurry to leave then" Hesh said as a imaginary light bulb went off in his head. Nia replied with a small nod that was hardly noticeable.

"Okay tell me where it is and I'll go get it" Hesh offered with a smile.

"It's in an alley right by the pokemon trainer supply store, the one that's on the east side of town. It's behind a dumpster in a brown sack you can't miss it if you look behind the dumpster"

"Okay you got it, I'll be right back. Flare keep an eye on her and Black take a freaking shower or something while I'm gone you're a mess and If Alex see's you like that he'll flip shit or something" Hesh reminded me of the blood that made me feel so uneasy and I was getting sick of being reminded and he also made me somewhat curious on where Alex and everyone else was, although I wasn't in a hurry to confront my trainer anytime soon.

"Yeah yeah just go get her stuff" I replied with an attitude and without any warning Hesh began making his way out towards the supplies Nia spoke of.

Hesh was right though I needed some form of cleaning myself that was effective and their was no way I was licking it off like some wild pokemon do when they have no form of water to clean themself "Hey Flare I got an odd question" I asked as I braced myself for Flare to laugh at me for my lack of modern technology.

"What would you like to know?"

"How do you work that shower thing humans always use" I asked in my awkward voice. Flare then let out a small chuckle to my silly question. Which I wasn't in the mood for since I was almost killed in so many ways today and me almost dying was starting to become a bad habit that I wanted to break so bad.

"You want to shower" Flare continued to laugh.

"Hey I'm covered in blood okay and I don't want to be seen like this" I yelled out in frustration.

Flare then stopped yelling and took a second to actually think of how it works "Umm I think you just turn the knob all the way to the side with the red on it" Flare said with an unsure voice.

Point of View Aiden

So I was now walking down the streets of Cyllage city being the badass I knew I was. It was now around nine in the morning which no living organism should be forced to get up that early and then on top of that it was sprinkling outside this not so lovely morning, which it should be noted that charmander's absolutely hate water, I shouldn't have to explain why... Accompanying me on my sucky walk in the morning was Juda the bulbasaur that I was forced to be on a pokemon team with by that annoying women Erica. Not that I had anything against the guy I just wasn't enthralled about the whole cliché journey of beating the eight gym leaders and putting up with a lot of physical abuse.

The bulbasaur and I continued our walk down the semi busy streets of Cyllage. Most of the people that did wonder the streets had umbrellas and along with the few people where very few pokemon that where going to their own destinations. Our walk was mostly silent since I wasn't quite too fond of talking to pokemon that abduct me.

"You know you haven't really said much since we've caught you" Juda said as he looked at me in an attempt to get some eye contact from me.

"Oh It diffidently not because you kidnapped me" I replied in a snide voice.

"Man you're a grouch. Calm down and be a little more optimistic and enjoy life a little bit" Juda said with a smile.

"Ha what a load of tauros crap, enjoy myself. Are you that brain washed where you actually enjoy being a hostage and maybe I was enjoying my life before you kidnapped me" I said which was a lie my life was hectic before I was captured by these morons.

"Listen buddy I'm no hostage and I actually love me life and at least I'm not constantly thinking of how much my life sucks like you when you actually have it pretty good compared to others" the bulbasaur snapped at me.

"You say something" I then replied in a snobby voice pretending that I wasn't even listening to the moron.

"Gahh just forget it" Juda replied in defeat.

A few seconds actually passed before I decided to actually socialize about something that wasn't offensive to the bulbasaur "So Erica said we were going to meet up with that one umbreon's team later right" I asked in an awkward voice. It was mostly awkward since I just talked down to him in a really poor manner and now I was just expecting him to be nice and talk to me.

"Yeah we were actually going to meet up with them tomorrow to train for the second gym, but didn't you and that umbreon have something against each other" Juda asked.

Thoughts of my argument with Ryder or whatever the hell his name was popped back into my head and the image of him being very aggressive was etched into my mind "Yeah he's kind of a douche" I replied to the bulbasaur.

"Well whatever you do don't be yourself tomorrow… You know so they don't see how much of an ass you really are" Juda said with words that had bite.

"Excuse me bub" I snarled.

Juda instantly winced a little as I snapped on him "Well I-I just want to get along with the pokemon where going to be training with and well how do I put this… You got a… snarky personality..." Juda said in a nervous voice that was inconsistent and full of stutters.

"The hell is that supposed to mean, you saying people won't like me" I barked at the lizard creature.

"N-No umm I'm just telling you to be c-calm and to watch your vulgar language a little" the lizard said in a nervous voice that was full of stutters.

"Watch how I talk, everything I say is freaking poetry and poetry is art and you don't change art kid" I yelled in a cocky voice. The bulbasaur didn't even respond to what I just said and he even stopped walking as he looked at me as if I was some crazy charmander that had an ego too big to ram down my own throat.

I then became self-conscious of what I said as I realized how silly it sounded "I was kidding and you know that" I quickly replied to the confused bulbasaur who was in shock of my poetic words, not everyone can handle my touching words of art.

"Yeah… right" Juda said in a confused voice as he continued walking down the streets of Cyllage city with me.

To be honest though I really could have escaped so many times since I ran into that umbreon on the beach but the truth was they planned on meeting up again and it was my perfect chance to do that stuff for that white espeon and once I'm was done with that I'm am so going to bail from these losers.

"So what kind of torture do we have to endure tomorrow" I then asked curious to what I was going to have to undergo in order to make everyone happy so I could get their trust and then later betray them and that kind of stuff.

The bulbasaur just sat there and thought to himself for a few seconds as he tried to come up with an accurate answer "I'd imagine stuff like running, drills maybe some duels."

"Perfect I'll try and not incinerate you this time" I added in. I never told Juda this but I found our last team battle with Ryder's team absolutely hysterical, that fennekin pulled an awesome move and Juda was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Point of View Stark

I was now on my way to regroup with Vincent after we split up for quite some time to run personal errands, although since I was recently brought back as a reanimation I didn't really have many things to do other than to try and plot my escape from Genesis which was practically impossible since I'm supposedly under twenty-four hour surveillance. I was now walking down the streets of Luminose towards a scrapyard Vincent wanted me to meet him in along with Merrick. Rain was now pouring down on Luminose city and the rains unwelcoming temperature did a good job at keeping people inside their homes and off the streets and most importantly away from me.

After around a half-hour of me walking down the empty streets of Luminose I finally reached my destination. Chills ran down my spine as I entered the scrapyard. There were piles of junk everywhere and the dirt on the ground was now nothing but muddy slop that was very unpleasant to walk through, especially when the majority of your fur is white and it did nothing but absorb the filthy colors in my fur, but the thing that set my teeth on edge the most about this place was the fact that this was where I lost someone very important to me a year ago and not only that this was where everything went downhill for me and later led to my untimely death.

"Vincent, Merrick" I yelled out as I walked through the scrapyard with uneasy feet that didn't want to step foot in a place like this.

"Where here keep your voice down" I then heard the white espeon call out from a distance. I looked around for a bit until eventually and I spotted the white espeon sitting on top of the hood of an old ran down car that was rusted to the bone. Merrick was leaning against the car with his back flames flickering from the cold rain that fought to put out the fire on his back.

"Out of all places you choose to meet why here" I said to the espeon with a small growl in my voice.

"Why are you so tense, do you not like scrap yards" Vincent said followed by a yawn.

"No it's just a bad meeting spot" I replied while trying to hide my true emotions. I wasn't going to get into what happened here with Vincent of all pokemon, especially not the pokemon who killed his entire family for some sick twisted plan.

"Stark if you'd prefer we can change locations if scrapyards bother you that much but if not can we just get down to business" Vincent proposed as he got up and stretched and jumped off the car he was comfortably rested upon.

I truly did want to leave but I wasn't going to show any sign of weakness in front of someone like Vincent and Merrick since I did consider them enemies since I wasn't truly on their side and that doesn't mean I'm on Genesis's side either "Just say what you got to say."

"Excellent then I won't waste too much of our time" Vincent said and he waited for someone to say something but no one said anything so he took his chance to speak "Stark the reason where here is because we want to know if we can truly trust you and we want to know what your truly willing to do to prove your loyalty to us" Vincent said in a serious voice as he stared me directly in my blue eyes with his blood red eyes.

"What do you mean, I haven't proved myself yet" I replied back with a calm voice trying not to set him off that I was actually doing exactly what he was wondering.

"You have proven to be resourceful but how do we know that you are not just one of Genesis's pawn's and your conspiring against us with them" Vincent said as he began to pace circles around me and Merrick just continued to lean against the car while he stared at me and watched every muscle on my body.

"Are you accusing me of being a spy" I asked in an annoyed voice.

"There isn't any proof that you are not a spy and if you truly want to join our organization and contribute to the new world you are going to have to prove it" Vincent said in a dark voice as he continued to circle around me like a shark circle's around its prey waiting for them to make the wrong move.

"Don't let up your ground and don't fall for his mind games" I heard Zero say from the earpiece that was invisible to the average eye and probably within my eardrum. Obviously I knew not to let up my ground without him saying that so now I was going to have to weasel myself out of this situation and pray to Mew he wasn't as smart as I thought he was.

"I can sit here and try and talk my way out of this all day, so let's just cut to the chase. What do you want me to do" I said as my eyes followed the white espeon.

Vincent's eyes then lit up as he gave out a small smite "That's what I like about you Stark, you know these games and you already knew what I was hinting."

"What do you want?"

"I want your consent to check every single memory in your head to see what has all happened to you since you were reanimated along with some previous memories, it should only take a few hours" Vincent said as he stopped circling me and stared at me and awaited my response. The quilava then got off the car he was leaning on and he looked as if he was ready to jump me. I could already tell they didn't have a lot of faith in me, which they shouldn't.

"Do it" Zero then said from inside my head "You should be safe just trust me" Zero said. Now I have no idea what the hell was wrong with this pokemon, I had memories that would compromise everything and there was no way around that and I knew for a fact that if they found those memories they'd try to kill me without hesitation. I mean I'm dealing with a guy who killed his family, I doubt he'd care about killing me.

"Well" Merrick then said in an inpatient voice.

"Well… I would but… you are aware that its impossible for psychics to invade an umbreon's mind right, were only vulnerable to certain psychic abilities and you going through my mind isn't one of the few that works on us" I said and I prayed that I just talked myself out of this.

"Impossible for average psychic's but my abilities surpass even some psychics that you would see in the elite four" Vincent replied and that's when I realized that Genesis just killed me.

"And how is that possible, I've never heard of that before" I said truthfully, I was curious about it but it was also a good way to stall before he actually tried forcing an answer on me.

"It's very complicated. Some pokemon you can read their memories and thoughts like an open book, some you have to do a lot of digging and searching. Now an umbreon has a firewall around their brain and that makes it very tricky and complex to break into." And that's when Vincent lost me.

"A firewall" I said in a confused tone probably taking what he said to literal.

Vincent then let out a sigh "It's a human technology thing, but I'll put it like this. Umbreon's have a giant barrier around their brain which I'd have to intercept, there is many different ways to intercept the barrier but there is very few ways to intercept the barrier without causing severe brain damage. Most pokemon try and break that barrier by forcing it open and when that happens it usually ends up frying their brain and killing them or leaving them mentally disabled" Vincent said and I took a deep gulp not liking the idea of him breaking this barrier he spoke of.

"So you want me to risk you scrambling my brains" I barked out in a defensive tone.

"No I said that's how most pokemon do it. I will enter your mind with a different and safer method, assuming you don't resist me that is."

"And your method is…" I asked.

"I'm going to search around the barrier and find the weakest spot and then I'm simply going to send psychic waves into your brain that will manipulate your brain into weakening the barrier enough for me to breach it and then I'll mentally enter your brain. Then I won't have to risk damaging your brain, there is a lot more to the process but you don't have to worry about the rest" Vincent said with a small smile "Now I need your answer."

"Say yes" Zero said from inside my head.

"If you do anything to my mind I'll-" I started to say before Vincent stopped me "You have my word" he said as he extended his paw to shake on it.

I extended my paw out and shook it and with that I agreed to have the sanctuary of my mind invaded "I just warn you, you may find some unpleasant things within the domain of my mind."

"It's not like I'm an angel myself" Vincent replied.

"So how do we do this" I then asked. I have actually never had someone read my thoughts before or intercept the privacy of my mind since umbreon's are blessed with that nice little perk of having a mental barrier which I just learned about.

"Just relax and close your eyes and before you know it, you won't even know that it's begun" Vincent said in a really soft voice and I followed his instructions and closed my eyes.

"Just relax and clear your mind of reality and have an open mind and don't fight it" Vincent said in calm and relaxing voice.

"Don't think of anything just have a blank state of mind and know that there is nothing to worry about" Vincent continued to say as I began to grow impatient with him trying to make me fall asleep with that voice trick human's use on each other.

"It's not working" I said in frustration and I opened my eyes. The first thing I noticed when I opened my eyes was that I was in a black void of darkness and I instantly looked down to see what I was standing on but to my surprise I found out that I was just floating around in darkness. It turns out it was working…

"Do not panic Stark your just inside your own mind, think of this as a lucid dream" I heard Vincent's voice say from an unknown location and on top of me not knowing his location I had no idea what the hell a lucid dream was and part of me didn't want to know.

"Right now I'm making your brain weaken the barrier and right now you are in a blank state of mind due to the fact that I'm hypnotizing your brain to let down its barrier so I can enter, so you are temporarily in empty brain space so you don't mess anything up for me" Vincent said from an unknown area and for some reason I began feeling this tingling feeling in my head that made my brain feel numb and I just prayed that he wasn't damaging my brain in anyway or all hell would be let loose.

"How long is this going to take" I then asked the disembodied voice.

"A couple hours at least" Vincent replied bluntly.

"Hours" I yelled back in frustration "Your telling me I have to sit here for a couple hours in a dark void."

"It may go faster if you let me concentrate, you are in a blank state of mind just play with yourself."

"Gross" I replied in an uneasy voice since he'd even mention something like that.

"No what's wrong with you… you are in your own mind right now, just imagine something to entertain yourself, like I said your basically in a lucid dream" Vincent said in an annoyed tone.

"Okay and what the hell is this lucid dream thing you speak of" I questioned.

"Being self-aware that you are in a dream and basically you are in a dream right now, it's just everything is blank so just imagine something to pass the hours and let me concentrate on this so I don't harm you" Vincent said with anger beginning to show in his voice along with a descent reason to why I should let him concentrate.

What Vincent just told me was actually pretty interesting and honestly I've never heard of anything like this before so I was interested in giving it a try and plus I never did really get to do anything fun nowadays since I had such a grim life and maybe this would be something that'd make me at least a little happy.

I then stared off into the dark void and wondered how the heck this would even work "Umm I want a floor" I said bluntly as I realized how stupid I sounded. I started imagining the floor and before I knew it a floor was appearing out of nowhere and then I had something to stand on finally. I actually couldn't believe that worked and honestly I was impressed with this dream thing Vincent told me about.

Then I thought about a tree. I tried specifically thinking of specific details on the tree such as the rough tree bark and the leaves that heavily populated the top of the tree. Then before I knew it a tree appeared out of nowhere in front of me, the tree looked too perfect to be real and it was obvious that it was fake, although I didn't care this was actually pretty cool and I almost couldn't believe it.

"Oh this is going to be a fun few hours" I said as I revealed a big toothy grin. This was interesting in my opinion and if Vincent did find something to hold against me at least I could say I enjoyed my last few hours alive before he fries my brain to the point that I'll be drooling all over myself for the rest of my days.

Chapter End

Author Note: So the end of this chapter may have been a little weird to some of you but I'm looking forward to continuing stuff around that subject. Hopefully It all made sense and didn't sound silly or to far fetched with the mind stuff and Vincent intercepting his mind, I think it sounded good but if it sounded a little weird don't hesitate to tell me because I'd actually like to know. Anyways everything seems to be compiling nicely so far in this arc and I'll look forward to writing the next chapter. Thanks to all the viewers/fav's/follow's and reviews I appreciate it.