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Runaway

Sinnoh Region, Jubilife City

7:00 PM

Pearl ran across the street and dove over a bench and into a nearby alleyway. He finally took some time to catch his breath. He then proceeded to take off his scarf and fanned himself.

'How did it end up like this?' He thought to himself. But before he could do anything, he held his breath once more as he saw Green's pidgeot flying in the sky in the vicinity of the alley. Pearl stayed completely still not moving a muscle as waited for pidgeot to pass by. He then looked out at the street and saw two familiar bodies coming to his area. Pearl then proceeded to put his hand in his pocket and out came a walkie-talkie.

"I got two of 'em on my back at 4 o'clock. Backup required," he whispered into the walkie-talkie. Pearl kept his gaze with the two people that were coming his way. Then the walkie-talkie made another sound.

"Roger that. I'll be getting there in about 5." Pearl felt relieved as he heard the sound of Gold's voice with help on his way. He then started to take out a huge device from his backpack. But before he could go any further, a hand was placed on his back. Pearl froze.

'Ok don't panic. Stay calm,' he thought to himself. Thankfully, he prepared himself in case he got ambushed. Pearl then elbowed the person behind him as hard as he could and then, with quick hands, took out a pokeflute he kept in his pocket. He then turned around to face the person and swung the pokeflute with all his might.

Meanwhile

Lack-Two and Black were hiding in an alley keeping a close gaze to Blue and Crystal.

"Any minute now," Lack-Two sighed as he looked at his watch.

"You sure about this?" Black replied. "I think it'd be better if we find a new target."

"You kidding? We've been tracking them down for the past couple of hours. To abandon them means to throw away all our hard work and time we wasted."

"We don't even know if we'll be able to stand a chance against them," Black said as he shook his head. "They're way older than us. Its too risky to put ourselves in that position."

"Oh come on. We could always request for back-up. Besides, I say we teach them a lesson for all they've done to us."

Black sighed. "Whatever happens, it was all your idea."

Just then Gold approached his two juniors from behind.

"What're you guys doing back here?" He whispered.

Black and Lack-Two jumped in surprised as they turned around to see Gold behind them.

"Oh my god Gold! Don't scare us like that geez!" Black hissed as he exhaled.

Lack-Two kept his composure and replied back to his senior, "Nothing much. We've just been keeping close eye to those two over there. We're planning an ambush right now."

Gold looked out from the alley and spotted Blue and Crystal. He then gave a short chuckle. "You think you two are able to ambush them? More or less even be scary and fight them back? Haha."

Black put his palm on his face. "See? What did I tell you. We don't stand a chance against them."

"I mean now that we have Gold here we could definitely do something right?"

Gold shook his head. "Sorry dudes, but I don't plan on helping you guys out at the moment. I just got a call from Pearl requesting back-up so I'm headed his way. In fact, it would be better if you two came along with me because then we would outnumber the others and be able to get rid of some of them."

Lack-Two looked at Black then looked back at Gold. "Sorry but we're staying here. We can help you guys out after we're finished though."

"I appreciate the help, but there's no use for you guys to come and help after I save Pearl. I suggest that you go help the others on our team, wherever they are after you finished what you guys are doing."

Lack-Two nodded, "Roger that."

Black looked down in disgust. "Man, why did I have to get stuck with you?"

Gold started to walk away from his juniors. "Well, good luck on your task. Hope we meet again soon."

Lack-Two saluted to Gold as he walked away. "Aye-aye Captain!" Gold then jumped onto his Mantine and flew away.

Lack-Two and Black then averted their gaze back to Crystal and Blue. They both looked at each other.

"You ready?"

"Let's just get this over with already."

Lack-Two and Black then prepared their miniature air soft guns they were given and proceeded to walk out of their hiding place.

Meanwhile

Emerald and X followed Green's pidgeot and then stopped as it neared an alley. They kept watch outside of the alleyway, making sure that Green would have backup in case things get out of hand.

"Who do you think Green's caught this time?" X asked Emerald.

"I don't know," Emerald replied. "Could be another senior dex holder maybe. But if that weren't the case, he wouldn't be needing us to help him eliminate a junior dex holder."

"Yeah, that's true. After this elimination, our team should be leading and that'll get us closer to victory."

"And safety."

Just then, Green's pidgeot made eye contact with the two dex holders and gave a loud shriek. This was the signal for both Emerald and X to draw closer to the victim.

"Hear that? Let's go!" X exclaimed.

Emerald and X both took out their poke balls. Emerald with his Sceptile and X with his Chesnaught. Then, they slowly walked to the dark alleyway. Just then, they heard noises coming out from the alleyway along with two voices.

"Don't resist, or else its gonna be even more painful."

"Or what? We end up having the punishment for losing? Yeah no thanks."

Emerald and X looked at each other. 'So it was Pearl that Green was fighting with' they both thought together.

"Well it should be an easy fight then," Emerald remarked.

X nodded and followed him as they went through the alley. But at this moment, they were ambushed by someone and their flying pokemon. The person on the pokemon pushed both Emerald and X from the back and into the alley where Pearl and Green were fighting. As the three flew into the alleyway, Pearl and Green stopped their fight looked as they saw a huge Mantine fly in. They both jumped out of the way as Emerald and X both went flying onto the wall after being pushed by the Mantine. The Mantine then landed and someone familiar jumped out.

"Looks like I came right on time," Gold said as he began to wipe the dust off of his clothes.

"Took you long enough, but I'm glad that you made it," Pearl replied as Gold helped him up.

Green got up and went to his two junior to help them up. "I expected better from both of you. Now we have more work to do," Green shook his head in disgust as he looked at his juniors.

Gold took out his billiard cue and stood his ground with Pearl right behind him holding his pokeflute. Green held a pair of handcuffs in his hands and stood comepletly still waiting for Gold to make his move. Emerald put his sceptile's pokeball away and then pulled out an air soft gun with rubber pelllets. X took out his walkie talkie and spoke into it to request for backup.

"Whenever you're ready senior Green," Gold spoke aloud.

Green let out a small chuckle. "How nice of you, but don't regret it."

Then Gold and Pearl charged at Green, Emerald and X.

Meanwhile

Red was in the control center, monitoring the whole fight scene through cameras placed around Jubilife City. Red sighed as he watched another elimination go off in the front of his eyes. He watched on a screen as Sapphire was being double-teamed by Ruby and Silver. The boys didn't hesitate to go through whatever means necessary to out Sapphire. Red picked up the microphone in his hands and spoke into it. "Sapphire is now out, that leaves 2 members left in Team Gold. Team Green is now in the lead." He then shut off the microphone and stood up from his seat to take a quick stretch.

"Uh Red, how long do we have to wait in this place?"

Red turned around to reply to his junior dex holder. Currently, everyone who was eliminated was teleported into the jail cell, that Red was also monitoring, and it was slowly getting full.

"You see Black, I get that you feel pretty cramped back up there with the 7 other people who got eliminated. But I don't trust anyone to get out of this cell until the game is over."

"I just need to use the bathroom, or at least get me something to eat."

Red grabbed the extra apple that was sitting on his desk and threw it to Black. Black caught it and gorged down on the apple in less than 3 bites. Red sat back down in his seat and went back to monitoring. But just as he sat down, his eyes grew wide in surprise.

"Woah woah, what do we have here? How did this happen?"

Meanwhile

Red's voice traveled through the alleys of Jubilife City.

"Silver, Ruby, Yellow, Emerald, and Sun are now out. Team Blue and Team Yellow are now eliminated."

Gold and Pearl faced Green and X. It was the final battle leading down to two teams.

"That was a smart idea Gold. I've gotta give you credit for that," Green said. Moments before the two teams got eliminated, Gold sent out a message on his walkie talkie to the other dex holders on the opposing teams to come to where his location was so they could all gang up on Green.

Gold smiled at him. "Yeah well, I didn't think that you had the power to be able to take on more than one opponent at a time. Other than that, I'm glad that its now just us two teams now."

"I hope you look forward to losing," Green replied. He then grabbed his mini paintball gun from his back pocket and took aim at Gold and Pearl. Gold held his billiard cue high and kept his guard. X panicked as he was digging around his bag to find someting useful to use in this fight. Pearlstayed close right behind his senior and kept his hand is his pocket with his Infernape's pokeball inside.

"Third times a charm," Gold said as he charged towards X and Green. Pearl followed behind him. Green slowly walked backwards and got ready to shoot.

"And times up!" Said a voice that came out of nowhere.

Green, Gold, X, and Pearl looked dazed as they stared at each other. Then they averted their gaze to where the voice was coming from. It was Red. He was hovering above them on his jetpack holding a paintball gun.

"You guys failed to eliminate each other with the given time, so its my turn now to end the game," Red announced as he loaded his paintball gun.

"Not unless I shoot you first," Green replied as he took his aim off of Gold and Pearl and aimed at his new target, Red. Pearl and Gold looked at each other and slowly backed off and turned to run out of the alley. Just as Red shot one paintball at Green, Green grabbed X, who was the nearest object for defense, and kept him in front to block himself from getting hit. The paintball hit X directly in the chest and X fell down.

"X is now out," Red announced through a loudspeaker he held in his other hand. Green then took off the other direction out of the alley.

"Oh no you don't," Red said in an evil voice as he followed Green out of the alleyway. Green dodged a couple of the shots that Red had shot at him and was ready to turn the corner and right back. But before he could unleash his next move, Gold's billiard cue came into his sight and hit him straight in the face knocking him backwards. Red wasn't able to react fast enough and was also knocked backwards after running into Green. Both Red and Green hit the ground and dropped their weapons. Gold and Pearl came out from each side of the alley and looked at the "mess" they made. They then high-fived each other and Gold reached for the loudspeaker in Red's hand.

"And Team Gold is the Winner!" Gold screamed as loud as he could into the microphone. Pearl celebrated by doing a victory dance. Gold joined him right after his short speech. Gold went to say something else in the loudspeaker when someone called his name.

"Gold."

Gold turned. It was Green. His forehead was swelling up from the hit he had received from Gold and his face showed no emotion whatsoever. Gold and Pearl dropped everything that was in their hands and started to panic.

"You have 3 seconds to run."

Pearl started slowly backing up but then felt as he if he needed to apologize first and stopped. He then was about to bow to his senior when Gold grabbed him from the right and took off.

"He's gonna kill us, but that was so awesome," Gold exclaimed. Pearl shook his head in disgust. Hopefully he wouldn't have to receive the punishment that Gold was getting. Gold and Pearl turned around as Green was slowly gaining on them while riding his Charizard. They started to run faster. Gold laughed out loud as he ran down the streets of Jubilife City, avoiding his angry senior and the wrath that he was about to unleash.

"What a game that was," he said.

And that's it! The continuation of the last chapter (aka Performance Time) will probably be out in the next update or the chapter after that. Otherwise, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and see you all next time!