Episode 41: The Destined Meeting.

"The League is starting in two weeks!?" Anto cried out as he saw the video while the group was traveling down a subway in Tubeline Bridge to Opelucid City.

"Well that's what it says here in this Tablet." Ben explained after bringing out the mobile device for everyone to spot. It was video of Mayor Drayden declaring that the Unova League for this year would be moved up ahead of schedule.

"That is the first human I've seen without a mouth." Ben's Pichu, who had a small blue ukulele on his back, commented as he stared deeply into the tall man's face beard on the screen.

"Uncle Drayden is usually super serious. Things must be pretty bad if they're pushing up the date." Benga commented as he sat down.

"Missing Rangers, missing Gym leaders, things are not looking good." Summer mentioned.

Everyone remained silent as they let the news settle down. However, Benga was rather tired of all the sadness and woe.

"OK that's it! Anto! Listen up! We're going to start our training the moment this train stops!"

The mute blinked in surprise, making everyone in the train look towards the fiery teen.

"Our Next Stop: Opelucid City Subway Station." An electronic voice called out throughout the train.

Benga smirked.


"Benga, where are we going?" Wes asked as the fiery teen kept walking in a seemingly random direction across the humble town.

"You'll see, we're jjuuusssttt aaabbboouuttt… there!" Benga stopped at two statues of Dragonite Pokémon on both sides that were in front of a large and ancient looking house with a large open field behind it, it actually was a little out of the way of the City.

The red haired teen ran in between the two statues that were in front of building and then shouted, "YO!? Anybody home!?" he shouted excitedly.

To their surprise, two beautiful women walked down some stairs in surprise. Benga himself looked just as surprised as everyone else.

"Auntie Liza?! Auntie Clair!?" Benga pointed dramatically at the Liza, the woman wearing red with green hair, and Clair, the woman with blue hair dressed like a dragon master. "What are you two doing in Unova!?"

"Oh Benga!?" Liza exclaimed as she ran and the two held each other in an embrace. "I haven't seen you in years! My have you grown up! Are you still casuing your mother trouble?"

"What?! How could you say that!?" Benga let go off the hug with shock.

She gave him a questioning look. "Ben, you aren't denying it."

"… But it still hurts for you to say that…" Benga pouted and folded his hands as the older woman ruffled his hair.

"She is right though, you have grown quite a lot since we last saw you. But we were here on a favor from Lance since he was making his way here." The older lady, Clair, spoke out.

"Wait a second! Aren't you Clair from Blackthorn City in Johto?!" Summer pointed at the woman.

"Why yes; that's me." The blue haired woman smiled as she went towards the others. "I am Clair of the Blackthorn City Gym, a pleasure to meet all of you." She raised out her hand for Summer to shake with.

"And I'm Liza, Clair's best friend and the watcher of Charizard Valley." The green haired woman introduced herself with a wave.

"You've made a lot of new friends, haven't you Benga?" Clair commented as she turned back to the fiery teen. "So what brings you all the way here?"

Benga ran up to Anto and pushed him up a bit. "Anto here is going to the league, and challenge Uncle Drayden! But he needs one heck of a power boost before doing that, so I thought maybe training with the dragons could help him!"

"Say what now?" Said mute looked towards his wild friend with confusion.

Both of the women were surprised at that odd voice, but then Anto quickly explained to them that he was (technically) a psychic trainer with the ability to translate between Pokémon and human language and nothing else.

While impressed, Benga pushed back the idea that Anto needed to be stronger.

"Hmm, well first off it would be a good idea to measure how good he really is as a trainer. Oh! I think I have an idea, come out side. He should be there…" Liza spoke out as she led the group out.

Out on the field was a legion of powerful Dragon Pokémon all surrounding one area like they were watching something. Then a Dragonite was knocked down hard into the ground and fell from the sky. The group of new comers looked up and a powerful Charizard roared in victory.

"That is the strongest Charizard in Charizard valley, he also happens to be Ash Ketchum's Pokémon too!" Liza spoke out.

'I really do hear that name a lot. He must really travel everywhere.' Anto thought to himself as Liza called out the Charizard, making the giant flame dragon come closer towards them and breaking up the dogfight amongst the dragons, but some of the dragon types watching simply turned over towards Anto as they watched the winner fly over to them.

"Alright then, everyone with me, you all get something else." Clair spoke out as she corralled the others away from Liza and Anto.

"Well that's interesting." The Charizard spoke out as he looked at Anto from head to toe.

"What is?" The boy nervously asked.

Before the dual type could respond, Liza asked him something. "Charizard, Anto here wants to be stronger, and I need your help to see how good he is."

A smirk appeared on the powerful fire starter. "Alright then. I guess that wasn't just a coincidence. And for your previous question… you have the same eyes of my good friend."

The Charizard spread his wings. "But show me what you've got." He flew hard as Liza stepped back, giving Anto battle space.

This Pokémon felt different from all the other ones he met so far. There was a strong presence to this Pokémon and even Anto could just tell that from just looking at him. Was this what Benga and Wes felt when they stared down the green Dragonite?

So there was only one Pokémon he thought he had that could battle him.

"Tear the Battlefield asunder! Rise up, Ohko!" Anto snatched his Great Ball before throwing it out.

"Yo what up? You look really tough!"

Charizard stared at the lack of arm Ohko had. A smirk appeared on his face as he inhaled—before unleashing a devastating flamethrower.

Ohko quickly summoned a Focus Blast and launched it on the ground in front of the large fire, causing a shockwave to blow away the attack.

The Charizard flew into the air and used a Dragon Pulse attack from high in the sky. Ohko jumped out of the way and the beam started following after him as he ran away. Ohko ran, picking up a rock as he did and then jumping and throwing the rock as hard as he could, smacking Charizard in the head and stopping the attack.

The one armed Sawk spun mid air and landed back on his feet in one fluid motion. Not only that, he was already gathering energy for his next Focus Blast, nearly a second after he stood upright, he was already reclining his arm and throwing the Focus Blast right for Charizard.

Clutching his head, Charizard still heard the sound of a fast attack coming right for him. He shielded himself with his wings as the Focus Blast made contact. However it didn't do much as the flying fire type spread out his wings with a roar.

"Not bad! But you're going to have to do better than that!" Charizard exclaimed before firing an Air Slash.

Anto quickly scanned the area, not much they could do to bring Charizard down.

Huh.

So what about brining Ohko up there?

But how could he do that?

Ohko fired an elemental fire Focus Blast at Charizard's Flamethrower. However, the combining clashes, caused a huge explosion that blew Ohko and Anto away back somewhat as they tumbled back.

"I thought for sure fighting fire with more fire was a good idea." Ohko got back up and scratched his head. "Kay, then I'll just go for ice!"

He swung his right arm in circles as he fixed his limb. He summoned a focus blast, but this time it had an icy-blue glow to it than the orange red. The Sawk gripped the sphere hard, making it burst with bright light before he threw it at Charizard.

The mighty dragon knew something was off and quickly shot an Air Slash to cut the attack in half. However, it didn't quite work the way it expected.

The two attacks collided, and the entire Air Slash was completely frozen solid! It quickly fell to the ground and shattered into a million tiny pieces that sparkled in the grass.

Anto looked over to Ohko in surprise. "Ohko, how did you do that!?"

"Huh? Whatcha mean boss? I can focus on the hot fire, so all I gotta do is do the opposite of that and I get ice, right?"

"Ohko, I am not so sure that's how it works," Anto shook his head as he looked back at the broken Air Slash then back up towards Charizard. His amber eyes widened as well as a smile that appeared across his features. "But screw it; you just gave me an idea how to bring him down!"

"Tight! What's the plan boss!?" Ohko turned back up to his opponent with much fiercer and determined eyes.

Charizard recognized the look on both trainer and Pokémon. He couldn't help but laugh.

"Was that how everyone else looked when he had a plan?" He reminisced, but this meant that the battle was now going to get even more intense.

Ohko created another Focus Blast, but instead of attacking right away he was gathering more energy to it.

Quickly, Charizard started launching all of his long range attacks at the fighting type.

Ohko started to run, avoiding the beams, slashes and wide flames as he held on to the increasingly growing ice-Focus Blast.

It came to a point where it was twice the size of a disco ball before Ohko started running towards Charizard and threw the large sphere with all his might.

Quickly, Charizard dove and spun out of the way of the attack and quickly flew back to face his opponents. He smirked, what exactly did that do.

However, his smirk got quickly replaced with a confused look as Anto started running away while Ohko looked prepared in a running position towards him.

"EVERYONE, YOU BETTER START RUNNING NOW!" Anto cried out as everyone down below looked up with gasps before starting to run away quickly.

Charizad felt something off coming right behind and above him, so he looked up and gaped at what he saw.

The giant cloud he was under was completely frozen solid! And it was falling down fast on him!

'They weren't aiming for me, but for the cloud behind me!?' Charizard mentally shouted in surprise. Clouds were made out of water, and the purpose of that giant Focus Blast wasn't to hit him, but to freeze the cloud so it could start falling on him! That's why everyone started running!

'Is this kid crazy!?' Charizard thought as he quickly inhaled all the energy he could muster and launched a Dragon Pulse at the falling cloud.

The frozen cloud cracked and eventually split into many falling debris.

Then a Focus Blast attack hit Charizard in the back and exploded on contact. It didn't do that much damage, but Charizard had to move out of the way of the falling debris as large chunks of ice started falling towards the ground.

"Yo!"

After jinking to right of a falling debris, Charizard looked up and was surprised to see Ohko already preparing a Twin Dragons (Kick)! How did—

BLAM!

Ohko connected with the Axe kick on Charizard's head and the mighty dragon type fell down like a meteor in to the ground.

The one armed Sawk flipped and spun mid air before punching the ground to lessen the gravitational pull and land on his two feet.

As the dust settled, everyone started to come back towards the battle.

Liza looked at Anto. "How did your Sawk appear above Charizard? He was a good ten feet up in the air at least!"

"I actually had some help from Charizard on that one. Do you remember the frozen ice cloud? I knew that Charizard would be powerful enough to destroy it since he couldn't risk water pouring all over himself by using a Flamethrower on it, so when the Dragon Pulse destroyed the cloud, that left a lot of falling debris… or platforms for Ohko to start jumping on and climbing higher above Charizard."

"You used falling ice debris as platforms to get your non flying Pokémon up there!?" Clair, who was watching from the side with everyone else went up to Anto with an exasperated look on her face. "That is either the craziest or most brilliant thing I have ever seen! And I've battled with both Ash and Gold!" The Blackthorn gym leader cried out.

Everyone turned to the battle field, as the clouds parted and Charizard roared with renewed flame.

Ohko was gasping for breath from all the quick movements, but he was smiling excitedly and ready to go fight again with Charizard.

"That's enough. I've seen what I've wanted to see." The Kanto Fire starter declared as he folded his wings.

"Wha? We ain't going to tussle?" Ohko asked in surpise.

The mighty Pokémon laughed. "As exciting it would be to battle you, I was asked by Liza to evaluate you and your trainer. I have my evaluation. We can continue our fight later."

Ohko titled his head, but stood back up from his fighting stance.

Liza and Anto were the first to come back as everyone, even the watching dragon Pokémon followed after them.

"These two are good. They've already got a great bond and obviously know how to work together."

"I punch things and he tells me what to punch!" Ohko spoke out, making Anto blush and rub the back of his head.

"There are just two things I don't see that could just use some work. You are a wonderful battle planner, but I think you actually lack that much power to begin with. You are strong, but trust me, you're going to need to be stronger in order to start winning the league. The second thing is drive, before we battled, you didn't seem so sure of yourself. In a battle you have heart and soul, but I'm guess you have some doubts outside of this?"

Anto nodded in confirmation, wondering how he could have noticed that from their fight.

"I don't know what you've got on your chest, but it's best to face it head on. As for your Pokémon, bring them out. I've got some ideas from a 'dear friend of mine' showed me when I was still traveling with him. They're bound to work for your Pokémon as well."

Anto sighed and took out the rest of his Pokémon. "If only it was that easy…"

[Meanwhile]

She was staring at the picture of her prey, but at the same time she was not looking directly at him. She was always paying attention to the other boy next to her prey as if…

She shook her head.

"Mam!" One of her man snapped her out of her daydreams and delusions. "I'm here for a report."

"Go on," She placed her new Battle AR on her face as it started to take in a lot of data.

"We've located the boy nearby Opelucid from our hacked cameras and facial recognition software. However, there's a problem."

The image of a large area with a Dragon Icon on a nearby statue appeared in a picture on her scouter.

"He's with the Dragon Clan…" She muttered and rested her cheek on her hand. All across the world, the Dragon Clan are a group of people who have lived with dragon Pokémon. Some branches are not as famous and well known as Lance and Clair, but are sometimes hidden and secret like the one she knew off in the Hoenn region. Regardless if they were all connected or not the fact remained that they were all very powerful.

"Send some scouts for long surveillance. I don't want to risk anyone noticing us and alerting our presence. Also, prepare as many anti Dragon Counter measures as possible. We'll need all of our big guns for this."

[Back with Anto]

Anto sighed as he sat into the chair he was sitting on. Liza was kind enough to pour some tea for him. "Have you tried tea before?" She asked after pouring him a cup.

The two were all alone back in the house. Benga roped everyone else to train with the dragons, Charizard, and himself about their Pokémon.

Honestly, Anto didn't recall anything about tea and spoke out his thoughts through his powers.

That little comment made Liza wonder before Anto tried a sip before he recoiled and put the very, very bitter tea down.

"I guess that one was a little too strong for you. So what was that comment you made about the tea? You said that you didn't know if you did try it before?"

The mute paused for a second before deciding to tell Liza everything. He saw no reason to hide and talking about it felt better even though he could do nothing about the situation.

The tale was… surreal to say the least, but Anto tried his best to sound as honest as possible, but it still didn't stop Liza's (and eventually Clair's) eyes from widening and jaws from dropping.

"You're… immortal?" Clair finally asked.

"I can even pull out a knife right now and stab myself. Though the thing is that soon after I will heal from it, and Summer told me not to do that again because it was disturbing."

Everyone fell silent at how seriously calm Anto spoke that.

The mute then smiled. "It's definitely not the best party trick to show to others."

"I'm so sorry though. It must be hard on you that you want to go back to your family, but you don't even know if they'll accept you." Liza spoke out with great empathy.

"Do you want to know something? Even though I know it's them, and there's literally physical proof that they are my family, there's this odd and tiny voice I hear every time I think about them saying… they are not your family."

"What?" Liza and Clair asked with surprise.

The amnesiac explained that he secretly had a feeling that his family isn't really his family even though it matches so perfectly. He didn't know why, but it felt like a primal, lingering instinct telling him something was wrong about this and it was the immortal part.

"I have no idea what you must be going through." Clair admitted.

The mute shrugged. "Actually…" He looked out the window and saw everyone else listening to Benga.

"I'm having a lot of fun."


"This isn't fun." Wes complained as they all watched their Pokémon get tired easily at the training regimen Benga, Ferland, and Charizard were implementing. To be honest, only Takezo, Ohko, Delta Wartorle, and Sentinel was actually seeming to keep up with this type of training and that was basically just battles focusing on their specialization.

Charizard was still battling Ohko, Ferland was trying to let Sentinel embrace his dragonic side; while Takezo was playing 'tag' with Delta Wartortle. And by tag, Wartortle kept vanishing into the shadows and popping up to attack Takezo while the samurai stayed in the center and either dodged or blocked the attacks.

Everyone else was tripping over each other and sometimes smashing into each other. Well, except Jamie's Pokémon and Wes' two Eons.

"Are you doing alright Flow?" Summer asked her Delta Pokémon.

"I'm fine, but Kryx keeps staring at me." The two glanced to the Delta Ivysaur's left to see Kryx floating a little too close at her and staring at her like a television screen."And the fact she doesn't have eyelids bothers me more…" She whispered.

"Ppppprrrooooobbbbeeee…." Kryx muttered as she stared at The Delta Pokémon from the Torren Region with her giant eyes in her big head.

Flow and Summer took a step back. Kryx floated closer to them.

"Well that reminds me of how I met you, or is it you guys now? Have you solved that whole two are one thing yet?" Wes looked over to his Zwelious.

The two heads looked back and tilted their heads… in the opposite direction from each other.

"Two are…"
"One?"
"Whoa!" The two heads spoke at the same time. "Me never thought of that!"

Wes petted the head closest to him. "Glad to help." For some reason the other head looked to be happy from the petting.

"How come I don't feel anything?" The head Wes was petting asked.

Wanting to test something out, Wes petted the other head which then the first head felt it.

"Huh, looks like Anto isn't the only one with weird Pokémon." Wes noted before looking to Elektross. "So anything you'd like to share about yourself?"

"Well… I can float?" The electric type offered. "I guess I'm really not that special huh?"

"Hey, we could use more cool headed people. Don't sweat it." Wes complimented.

"That reminds me, Wes, have you seen anything weird while I was gone?" Summer asked as she walked over to Wes. She was also unaware of Flow softly whispering not to leave her alone with Kryx.

Wes gave her a look. "Well for one, I met Anto so…"

"You know what I mean." Summer folded her arms.

"Well be more specific then." Wes countered.

"Hey! Don't be so rude to Summer!" Ben, hearing the conversation, walked up and spoke up.

Wes just looked at him strangely before looking back to Summer. "Huh, I honestly thought you would complain a bit more about me, so why does he not know?"

"If you must know, I think there is some good deep down in you, so I've been telling everyone you are not that bad." Summer responded.

"Well you're wrong on that front, Nerd. I'm not a good person." Wes spoke out before walking away from the group his Zwelious followed after him while the other Pokémon were still being trained by Benga and Charizard.

"Geez what's his problem?" Ben asked.

Summer sighed. "It's complicated." Then she scratched the back of her head.

Jamie walked to them and spoke up. "Uh hey, I don't mean to eavesdrop, but I overheard about Wes?"

"Why is he so hard to deal with?" The male ranger asked.

"… I don't know myself, but I think I can make a few guesses. It might be about his dad." Jamie spoke out.

Summer quickly turned to Jamie. "Wait, he told you about his dad?"

"What? No!" Jamie quickly said before being surprised and catching what Summer spoke out. "But what did you mean by his dad?"

"That's something Wes should be the one telling you about. It was a long time ago when he told me." The brown haired Pokémon ranger explained.


"Mam, we are directly above the Dragon Clan estate. It appears we haven't been detected." A hired hand spoke out as he saluted to the silver haired bounty hunter. "Also, we've detected two Pokémon Rangers and a gymleader from Johto to be here as well."

She paused at that. All these dragon Pokémon and the fact there were people here to protect them? Still there wasn't much of a window if their target was heading towards the league like their worker informed them, and by then it would be very hard to capture him at all afterward.

If it wasn't for her new gift, she probably would have cut her losses and hoped for a better time to show itself. But if she played her cards right, this would be the mother lode: a group of powerful dragon Pokémon from the Dragon clan? She would be set for life with just selling half of those off.

"Get all your fairy and ice types ready! We hit them hard and fast that they won't know what hit them! Show no mercy!" She yelled out to all of them.

Meanwhile back below, Flow was still backing away from Kryx who was still floating less than paw distance away from the Delta.

"Umm could you uhh please not umm stare at me like that? It's very unnerving."

"I'm not staring. I'm dissecting you with my mind." Kryx leaned in forward.

"Please don't."

It was then the two psychics felt something in the air. Kryx had a light beeping in her arm before she teleported a 3DS into her limbs and opened it up.

"What was that?"

Kryx quickly floated up and shouted out mentally for everyone. "GUYS THERE'S A CLOAKED SHIP DIRECTLY ABOVE US!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked above where a out of the sky, over a dozen giant, metal rods shot out and surrounded the entire area and created a large dome around the estate.

Just near the inside of these pillars, Wes and Zwellious looked up and saw a large ship de-cloak mid air.

"Never a dull moment huh?" Wes muttered as he ran back towards the center of the dome: the back yard where all the Pokémon were.

Anto, Liza, and Claire ran out of the house and looked around the surrounded area.

"No! That's can't be! What's she doing in Unova!?" Claire screamed out as she looked up.

The large hangar of the plane opened up—with a large amount of Pokémon charging their attacks!

"Everyone down!" Claire barked as some of the Pokémon there erected barriers surrounding some of them, but not all nearby Pokémon.

The combined attacks hailed down from above and exploded on the make shift forcefield.

Wes and his Zwelious, while making their way, saw the attack land and then were both blown away from the shock wave of the blast back towards the edge of the force field.

Hunter J and her Mercenaries descended from the sky with legions of parachutes and fairy and ice Pokémon. Some of the other Dragon Pokémon started waking up from the force field that (Kryx, Lily, Super Nut, Espeon, Umbreon, and Flow) put up before trying to attack their assaulters.

Hunter Jay pointed her Gauntlet at a Haxorus and Flygon heading right towards them and fired two shots that turned both dragons into golden statues. A Dragonite charged in, but then it got stomped in the head and crushed into the gorund by Hunter Jay's Salamance that was now wearing a gorgeous looking jeweled necklace.

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Out of the frying pan and into the fire. There really had to be some kind of lesson Anto was just missing if he was put into one life threatening adventure after the other. He may have just figured out he was immortal, but seriously he did not want to test how durable he actually was.

After the blast hit, the mute quickly looked to see if everyone was alright. Their enemy, Hunter J—A name that instantly popped into his head as another split second of quick information filled into his mind that all rounded into one word.

Dangerous.

"First Secret Agents now high tech bounty hunters. What next? Demons?" Anto thought to himself as he helped everyone get back up.

Hunter J was using her Visor to pick up her target. Even as a fight started breaking out, the signal stood out in this new dog fight.

She was warned that her target was special, but none the less, a target was a target.

So why was she scanning around for something that wasn't her target?

"Everyone it's Hunter J!" Clair spoke out as she threw a Poké Ball for her Dragonair. Quickly, the blue snake dragon launched a powerful blast all the way up to the ship, but a force field stopped the attack and was revealed to be protecting the ship.

"Clair! The field is blocking all calls! We're trapped!" Liza screamed out with a phone that wasn't working in her hands.

"And that ship must be keeping the field up…" The blue haired woman gripped her fist as she looked up.

A painful sound of hurt dragons made everyone look and see Hunter J quickly making their way towards them. She was leading her team towards the group by freezing any Pokémon willing to attack her while her underlings were using ice and fairy types to dispatch any nearby dragon types.

"Oh no you don't! Sylveon Dazzling Gleam!" Jamie declared as her eeveelution unleashed a powerful blast of light towards J's Salamance.

The hunter simply smirked and pressed on a beautiful brooch she wore on her jacket.

A giant orb surrounded the dragon Pokémon as the attack made contact and blocked most of the attack with amazing energy. As the cocoon cracked Mega Salamance appeared with a ferocious roar.

Hunter J quickly activated a new function on her visor that was adapted from the Battle Augmented Realizer, or Battle AR, she received. It linked with her Mega Salamance and she started seeing data flow as the new function of the machine scanned Pokémon by Pokémon.

More of Hunter J's men and Pokémon pushed forward, but Charizard ascended to the sky and unleashed a heavy flame thrower to ward off the fairy and ice type Pokémon away. However, Charizard was body checked by Mega Salamance in the sky and slammed into the ground before the mega dragon flew back up like a jet.

Charizard got up and quickly fired a dragon pulse, only for the Mega to quickly dodge out of the way.

"Yo, Tak!" Ohko cried out as he placed his only arm out to Takezo while his body was facing the direction towards Charizard and Mega Salamance.

The samurai nodded before jumping into the Sawk's hand and being thrown at high speeds. The Patrat's eyes glowed bright blue to indicate it was using Detect before hitting the Mega Salamance right in the face with a stab from his wooden sword.

The two Pokémon fell mid-air, but Takezo screamed to Charizard, "Now! While he is incapacitated!"

Charizard didn't waste a second and quickly readied a Dragon Pulse.

It wasn't fast enough as Hunter J encased Charizard in solid gold from a blast from her gauntlet, freezing the mighty starter mid attack.

Takezo and Ohko widened with surprise while Hunter J aimed right for Takezo and fired again.

Kryx then appeared right behind the falling normal type and disappeared in an instant.

"No Charizard!" Liza and a female Charizard with a bow cried out with grief as the powerful Pokémon was already captured.

"Liza, look out!" Clair spoke out but then she was surrounded by more of Hunter J's group.

The others tried to fight back, but they were all over whelmed by the numbers surrounding them, and with the other dragon Pokémon froze solid, there seemed to be no way out—

"Ahh! My Slurpuff!"

"What the heck!? My Glaile!?"

"Hey what happened to my Dewgong!?"

"Klefiki, where did you go!?"

Suddenly everyone heard other members of Hunter J's team scream out with horror as their Pokémon suddenly disappeared from their sides.

One mercenary was standing right next to his Weavile, when a bright light—almost shaped like a hand—snagged the Weavile away into thin air.

"No! Weavile!" The merc cried out before following the direction of there the 'hand' was grabbing from. Then he was quickly blasted by a Dark Pulse attack.

Hunter J followed the attacked man towards this new… person…

Wes strode in with his visor on, preparing another Snag (Ultra) Ball in his Snag Machine in his hand with Zwelious shortly after him.

"Wes!" Summer cried out as she kept a merc in a strangle hold.

"How is he doing that!?" Ben asked as he saw Wes stealing away another fairy type Pokémon by throwing a ball that literally grabbed away the Pokémon even as the man tried to recall back the Togetic.

Hunter J strode forward, making the mercenaries back off as Wes also walked closer to Hunter J.

Everyone froze—and those that were turned into statues remained statues—as they saw the two silver haired people stare down each other behind their visors as both of their… coats… trailed behind them…

Odd when Wes and Hunter J were put in the same exact place as each other, they looked strangely similar to each other.

What are the odds of that?

Wes sighed and removed his visor. He slowly stared at Hunter J, who removed her visor and also stared back at him.

"So… you're Hunter J." Wes said as if it wasn't a fact, but rather a confirmation.

"Wes? Do you know her?" Anto asked as he was frozen mid way on stomping on a unconscious mercenary Sentinel and Lily knocked out cold.

Wes turned nonchalantly at the mute then shrugged. "Kind of hard not to hear about the woman who gave birth to me."

"SHE'S YOUR MOTHER!?"


{Author Notes}

OOH! Cliff Hanger! (No spoilers in reviews please! If you want to mention something just PM me pls.)

You have NO idea how long I have been playing with this idea and now that it's finally out, I'm all giddy like a young child in Christmas morning!

I made Hunter J Wes' mom in this fic. I mean have you even SEEN those two together if you imagine them in the same room!? They look soooo much alike! Heck they even have similar themes! How could they not be related!? (I'd like to imagine those who were designing Hunter J took a lot of inspiration either directly or indirectly from Wes.)

Hopefully this teases you all to read the next chapter!

See you all soon! I can't wait to show you guys what I have planned for this battle between Snagger and Hunter! Mother VS Son! It won't be just attacks but fists and kicks will fly as well!