The Beginning in Kalos RIP

by BardofWorlds

As Ash attempts to win the Kalos League, he reunites with old rivals, friends and meets new ones while threats he dealt with and ancient forces begin to awaken from slumber, heroes rise to face them. In the end everything is connected and the destiny of many is not what they expect but one that they will love. Ash/harem Clemont/OC muilti story plot/ many stories united at the end

21. Chapter 21

I am so Sorry! My muse died out for about a month and then this just wouldn't write and then….. I'm sorry I had to wework and add to chapter one for my muse to come back and here it is, a few hours before Turkey Day for everyone in America and well here it is. I promise I will try to have another chapter out before New Years and chapters for my other works. Enjoy Thanksgiven and Gobble gobble everyone.

Nicolas looked around as he walked through the base, the expedition was going to be sent out tomorrow and he was one of the people involved. "I mean I don't know what we'll find out there and me, one of the leaders? He said I did great on the hunt, I brought down a lot of hawks and boars and found that place with the big guy, but really?" He muttered as he walked through the halls, a sigh escaping his lips as he saw the damaged to the corridors. And then there was the fact that the hurricane came right up to our door. I mean this has to have an effect on those things. He thought as he moved through the hallway, only to scowl as he exited the mountain and saw the party as they moved about, Squires moving about as the various Knights and Ladies of the expedition prepared themselves.

"I still think this is nuts, I mean me in charge of a squadron?" He muttered as he looked about, never hearing someone come up behind him until a soft chuckle caused him to turn and see Sylvestre standing there with a smile on his face. "Sir Sylvestre, I didn't hear you sir. Are you here to take over, I would gladly stand down and let you….."

Sylvestre put his hand on Nicolas's shoulder and shook his head. "Nicolas you were chosen for a few reasons, the most important is that you've proven yourself. Trust in your skills young Knight, and they won't let you down."

"But still, a force this size will draw notice, if the League finds out about us sir…." Nicolas trailed off as Sylvestre looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "Not that I would ever second guessing our Queen my lord; I'm just worried this might bring down on us, I'm sure the queen considered everything but I'm still worried."

"Don't worry too much Nicolas, we'll handle whatever comes at us! No mater what happens or what they do, the unenlightened won't break us!" Sylvestre laughed and rubbed Nicolas's head and smirked when he saw him scowl in return. The kid's a good one, glad he joined me and not any of the others. Still the boy's right, if they notice us then it will be trouble, but she looked and this is the best time for the party to go out, any longer and they might attack and overwhelm us. Sylvestre thought as he looked at Nicholas and frowned. "You do understand the purpose behind this, don't you?"

Nicolas nodded and looked at Sylvestre with a blank grin. "Yeah, if all that we reasoned is right, those things have a 'main mind' that's controlling them. The range might be a problem but if we can even find where those things are laired and kill it, we could stop them in their tracks."

Sylvestre nodded as and looked towards the forest and frowned when he saw something glittering among the trees. "Those things are getting stronger, personally I'm worried that whatever is behind them might attack us while you're all gone."

"And given that it was luck we were out there and came back to the attack and were able to identify the command element…." Nicolas said as Sylvestre nodded.

"Constance said the same thing, I sent Dante out a few nights ago and he's found a place a few miles away to setup a secondary tunnel, it's behind a waterfall, we're be able to slip out and attack anything that tries to take us from behind." Sylvestre said with a smirk.

"So then their reactivating the Diggers?" Nicolas asked as they walked towards the party who looked at them as they passed.

"Of course, but besides the handlers a few Templars will be along for added security. And Dante found a few beautiful flower blooms for his lady…." Sylvestre trailed off when he turned and saw that Nicolas hadn't moved and was holding his head causing Sylvestre to look at him with worry. "You alright good knight?"

Nicolas shook his head as a figure of a laughing girl with blue hair in a ponytail in a blue dress laughing passed through his head, disappearing after a few seconds. "Nothing lord, just a head ache." Nicolas said as he forced a smile onto his face. Who was that, why did I just see someone I don't know, why do I feel love for her? He thought as he reached his Lupin Charger and started to feed some of his Aura into the power gem.

"Don't worry boss, I'll be along to keep the kid out of trouble!" The voice caused the two of them to turn and see Dante riding a Lupin Charger towards them with a smirk on his face.

"I thought you'd be tagged for additional security brother?" Sylvestre said as Dante shrugged.

"Funny thing that, the Templars came in and said they would be handling all the security, something passed between them but they didn't say anything, and that was after we found this strange rainbow crystal in this cavern we broke into." Dante said, causing Nicholas to wince, Dante frowning as he saw what hit Nicholas. "Sure you're alright kid, a strong man knows his limits.

"I'm fine sir Dante, just a head ache." Nicholas said as his Teddiursa looked up at its trainer with worry in its eyes.

A man in a grey tabard and black pants with short black hair stood by a Lupin Charger with a black hound dog like Pokémon with a wearing a skull on its head shook his head as he watched Nicolas, Dante and Sylvestre talking, a faint scowl visible on his face. Why does that stupid idiot Jacquelin think this is necessary, jokes on that bastard for once I finger the other scum he sent with us. He thought as he looked at a man in a grey tabard and black pants with a bushy red beard and mustache with short red hair sat on his own Lupin Charger next to a Lion like Pokémon with a predominantly red mane with gold streaks and dark brown fur on its body with light brown fur on its legs.

"Victor, keep looking at those two and we're going to give the game away." The red haired man said as Victor looked at him with a scowl on his face.

"Bryni you old bastard keep quiet about that! remember we're only to do that if we find a way to when all this is done!" Victor hissed quietly as he looked around at the knights, Pokémon and golems.

"Don't be too worried, all we have to do is stay back and keep our partners ready to blast 'em." Bryni said with a chuckle as Victor looked at him with a hidden note of disgust in his eyes. Why did I have to be paired with the burn 'em and burn 'em again! I can't wait until I can find a way to kill this one, but it will be difficult with those four along. He thought as he looked at four of the Templars who stood by Lupin Chargers as they prepared

"Warriors of Team Gaia, heck to me and hear the words of your Queen!" A voice from the mountain caused everyone to turn towards the Vice Chancellor as he stood there, an honor guard of two Templars standing by his side, he was holding a scroll he had opened and read from it. "You, the brave warriors of Team Gaia have been chosen to deal with those who attacked us so brazenly! May the blessings of Gaia and the strength of our enlightenment see you through this trial and your return to us! In the Queen's name, the crusade begins!"

A roar met this speech and as one the warriors of Team Gaia mounted their Lupin Chargers, the Knight Stalkers and Shield Shooters moved before them, charging at their maximum speed towards the forest farther north. Nicholas rode his golem at the front left of the army, he felt pride as he looked behind him, Dante was with him farther left and the others were spread out to his right him and behind, with the Templar as the fist at the center.

"You ready for this kid?" Dante asked as Nicholas laughed and turned to look at Dante and stopped when he saw a small stream with a boulder with a table set against it and suddenly he saw people….

"Come one Nicky!" A voice called out as a girl around ten years old a brown dress with blue hair pulled a boy with blond hair as two kids their age followed behind them, a girl with green hair and a boy with short blue hair with a girl with blond hair followed them, all of them were in overalls and shirts the color of their hair. They ran past the table and the boulder and were running parallel to the river, the girl at the front had a wild smile on her face as the blond boy tried to pull his arm free.

"Kimi, don't pull my brother so hard you tear off his arm, that's my job!" The blond girl called out as Nicky looked over his shoulder.

"Oh funny Holly, very funny! Now could you slow down Kimi and tell us what's the problem!?" Nicky called out as Kimi just laughed a little.

"No way! Come on, I found a pod of Polys with eggs and I think their gonna hatch soon! Their nest is right infront of that waterfall we found last year, so we can look over them from that ledge!" Kimi said before suddenly Nicky was pulling her along as the other increased their speed. "So now you guys want to go there?!"

"Keep up Fallsbloom, seing Pokemon hatch in the wild, that's not something you want to miss!" The green haired boy called over his shoulder as he passed her, a wide grin on his face. Kimi grew red in anger and exploded before running after them faster.

"I KNOW HEARTTREE, I KNOW! That's why I went and got you all!" Kimi screamed as they rushed towards a small looking hill ahead of them.

"You okay kid?" Dante asked as Nicholas shook his head. Dante frowned and looked around and tried to find anything out of the ordinary that could have set Nicholas off. What's wrong with the kid, I mean we all get bad days but really, what's wrong with him? Dantethought as he looked at Nicholas who smiled weakly back at him.

"Yeah I'm fine big guy, so the way into the complex is behind a waterfall over there?" Nicholas asked as he looked the other way. What the heck is wrong with me, what was that….Later, for now I'll deal with what I have to now first and then that later, stay focused on this and stay alive. He thought as the Dante looked at the boulder and back at him.

"Yeah, but you sure, there's nothing wrong in knowing your limits you know." Dante said as Nicholas nodded at him.

"Yeah, I'm fine really crusade moved into the forest, the riders spreading out as they waited for the Treemen to attack them with the golems leading the way. Dante frowned when one of the Knight Stalkers crushed a fallen tree and he saw a nest in the remains. Looking about he saw the signs of combat and broken trees ahead of the golems and started to curse.

"Dante?" Nicholas asked as he readied his weapon as his Teddiursa started to look around.

"The ground, those things were here and they weren't just after us! They must have been hunting when they found the base! And then they realized they needed a strong force….this means they can plan or something else." Dante said as he looked around at the woodland and cursed as he saw the results of battle all around him.

"All golems, defensive actions!" Nicholas barked as he looked around and swore when he saw what Dante had and felt fear as he tried to understand just what they were hunting. Why did they hunt them, for food? But why did they attack the base so hard if they can hunt wildlife…I mean what exactly are we hunting? He thought as he turned to Dante who had an angry look on his face. "What kind of creatures are we hunting?"

"Don't know kid, these things aren't following any pattern I can find. I mean they're not Golems or Pokémon, they come back to life if we kill them and they hunt for food or….resources? What are we hunting, some kind of organic golems?" Dante said as he tried to figure this out.

"But if the crystals are their 'fuel source' why would they need to hunt for food?" Nicholas asked as Dante nodded at him, bothered by that.

"Movement ahead! Prepare to recive attackers Knights!" One of the Templars roared out, causing the others to look forward and see Treemen shambling out of the forest towards them, their organic weapons ready to take blood. As Nicholas looked at the attackers he drew his weapon and prepared to set aside his doubts and let combat calm his mind.

The group of friends entered Luminous City and looked around as they moved towards the Pokémon Center. Clemont and Bonnie paid little attention to their surroundings and Serena gave a sigh as she looked around with a note of awe in her voice.

"The few times I was here, I don't usually have much time to look around, but this city must be the center of the fashion universe in Kalos. All the people are so well dressed. And Prism Tower is just incredible." Serena said as she looked around with awe on her face.

"You said it, and look at the restaurants, some of the best franchises have places set up here, and a few of them have waiting lists that are at least a month for the really fancy ones." Lilith said as she looked at the lines for a few restaurants.

"Yeah, I didn't pay much attention before but I can see what you mean. I've seen a few cities like this before but it's just amazing, there's more activity here then I usually see outside of a League's Conference!" Ash said as he looked around and checked his Pokédex for available quests and saw at least ten posted and claimed every few seconds. Bonnie looked at Clemont and both smiled as they looked at their friends but Bonnie could see the worry if he told them just who he was.

"Yeah, I guess it's okay. But if you guys think it's something now, wait until you see it during an event like the Pokémon League!" Bonnie said as she looked around as she put her hands on her hips and smiled.

"Maybe Bonnie but the Prism Tower is just incredible no matter when it is!" Serena said causing everyone to look at the Prism Tower, Lilith noticing that Bonnie and Clemont shared a quick glance.

"And the Lumiose Gym is inside that tower!" Ash said as he looked at the Prism Tower and

"Oh, so you've already challenged gym Ash?" Serena asked as Ash just rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, I showed up there and tried to but they threw me out, I didn't have the four badges that they said I needed to challenge it." Ash said as Serena frowned.

"Pika." Pikachu cooed as he looked up at the humans as

Serena looked at the tower as she frowned and a fire entered her eyes. What right did they have to do that to Ash She thought. "I had no idea there were Gyms where you need four badges just to be able to challenge them!" She said as Clemont rubbed his cheek.

"Some gyms are like that Serena; I remember hearing about a tournament that only allowed Flying types to be used." Lilith said as Bonnie released a sigh.

"Well, since that's the way it is here, why don't we get out of Lumiose City?" Clemont said causing the others to look at him and his sister.

"But I've been looking forward to exploring Lumiose City!" Serena said as she looked at him.

"Yeah and my contest is somewhere here, remember?" Lilith asked as Clemont looked at her and paled as he remembered.

Clemont looked at her and bit his lips, causing Ash and Lilith to frown as clues they had been given suddenly took on a more worrisome note before they heard someone from the street.

"Well, if it isn't my Clemont and Bonnie." A voice said causing Clemont and Bonnie to jolt and turn towards the road.

"Dad!"/ "Ampharos!" Clemont and Bonnie said as everyone looked at a man with a brown beard in blue overalls over a black shirt with helmet on as he sat on a motorcycle with an Ampharos wearing a helmet siting behind him. He smiled as he looked at the teen

"Huh, Dad?" Ash asked as he looked at the man on the cycle. So by his reaction he and Bonnie weren't running, then it's probably a mistake he made that he doesn't know how to fix. Ash thought as he looked at Clemont.

"Uh, let me introduce you." Clemont began before Bonnie finished.

"I want you to meet our daddy!" Bonnie said as the man smiled at them.

"I'm Meyer! I run an electronics shop in this city along with Ampharos here." Meyer said as he introduced his Pokémon.

"AMP!" Ampharos greeted them as it smiled at them.

"You and Ampharos Cool!" Ash said as he looked at Ampharos as it and Meyer got off their bike, wondered how it would do in a battle if it helped out in an electric store regularly, wondering what tricks it might have up its sleeves.

"Pika, Pika!" Pikachu said as he looked up the taller Pokémon, wondering the same thing.

"An electric shop owner with a fully evolved Electric type, I couldn't see that coming." Lilith said with a smirk as she looked at Meyer.

"And these guys here, they're our brand new, super nice, good friends!" Bonnie said as she stepped in front of Lilith, Serena, Ash and Pikachu as she spread her arms wide.

"Your friends? I'm so... I'm so overcome with happiness, I can't tell you! Thank you so much!" Meyer's said as broke down and hugged his children to him. Getting new friends is just what Bonnie needed and Clemont could do with not inventing every hour of the day! Meyer's thought as he cried.

"Oh, Pikachu! Nice looking electric cheeks!" Meyer's said as he stractched Pikachu's chin.

"This is Serena, an old friend of Ash's." Bonnie said as Serena bowed to him and he nodded back before turning to Lilith.

"And who's this young lady?" He asked as he looked at her

"Lilly Nightbloom, a pleasure to meet Bonnie's and Clemont's father." She said as she curtsied to him, causing him to smile.

"So Clemont's finally found himself a beautiful girlfriend. Gotta keep on eye on you, huh?" He said as he elbowed his son causing Lilith and Clemont to blush.

"Dad, its not like that!" Clemont said before the sounds of a Pokéball being released caused Meyers to turn to Bonnie and saw her standing there with Flabébé in her hands and Dedenne poking his head out of her bag

"Dad, I passed the exam to become a Jr. Trainer and these are my Pokemon Flabébé and Dedenne." Bonnie said as she looked at her father as he looked at them and smiled.

"So you're an Electric type as well! And a Fairy just as beautiful as my baby hu?" He said as he looked at Bonnie and patted her head. "Bonnie I'm so proud of you for passing that test, most people wait until their older to even think of becoming a trainer!"

"And Clemont." Meyer began as he turned to his son. "Now you listen to me, son. You should come to the house once in a while!"

"But Dad, you see." Clemont trailed off as he looked at his father as Bonnie started to sweat.

"Is there some reason you haven't come around?" Meyer asked as he looked down at Clemont.

"Well, Daddy, we've got things to do, so bye for now!" Bonnie said as she grabbed her brother and pulled him towards their friends.

"Wait, Clemont! I've told you this before... It's true you need to be tough on challengers, but that alone isn't going to help them become better trainers." Meyer said as he looked at Clemont. "You need to be a gym leader the Lumiose Gym can be proud of!"

"Lumiose Gym?" Ash asked as he and Serena turned their heads to each other.

"Gym Leader?" Serena asked back as Lilith chuckled lightly.

"Told you so Ash." Lilth said as she smirked as Clemont and Bonnie

"See you soon." Meyers said as he walked back towards his bike.

"Yes sir!" Clemont and Bonnie said as they saluted him as he got back onto his bike as his Pokémon did the same

"Ash, Serena, Lilith, please take care of my kids for me. And don't forget, come visit my shop later!" Meyer's called out as he drove off, leaving them alone.

"All right, what's this all about?" Ash asked as he, Serena and Lilith looked at Clemont and Bonnie who both looked ashamed.

As Clemont tried to figure out what to say Lilith put a hand on his shoulder and smiled at him. "Hey, we're your friends, if you need help I'm sure I'm speaking for the others in that we can help you."

Clemont looked at her and was about to say something when a someone called out to them.

"BOSS! What the heck happened to the gym, why's it locked down?" A feminine voice caused them all to turn and saw a girl with short brunet their age coming towards them. She was wearing a white vest over

"Let's get off the street, I'll tell you all everything." Clemont said as he sighed and looked around and at the people around them, noticing some people watching them in confusion. The vest wearing teen looked and chuckled lightly and blushed as

"Was that Bon-bon?" A child in a black robe asked another.

"Yeah, let's call Josh, I'm sure he'd want to know she back in town." His friend said before both chuckled darkly.

"First let me introduce my god-sister Tara, also she's my second in command at the Gym." Clemont said as he sat down at a fountain a few meters away from the street, Tara and Bonnie standing next to him.

"The truth is that I really am the gym leader of the Lumiose Gym." Clemont said as

"Why didn't you just tell us?

"The thing is, I really was planning to tell you eventually. I'm sorry it's a long story." Clemont said as he closed his eyes. "For the last few months I've been so busy with my duties as Gym Leader that I haven't had time to invent, research or spend time with Bonnie."

"And I'm usually there to help, but I just got back from my cousins wedding in Alola, then I stayed to help rework the telescope on Mauna Kea, then that hurricane hit and only emergency supplies could be sent in for two months and the trainers graduated and went on their own journeys or moved away." Tara said as she wrung her hands.

"It wasn't your fault; you did everything right and you were the maid of honor for A sake!" Clemont said as Bonnie nodded as Tara smiled.

"Thanks bro." Tara said as she punched Clemont's shoulder and he smiled. "So you finally made that didn't you? I'm getting a picture about what happened."

"My thesis that got me a scholarship was on Artificial Intelligence development, for the last few years I've being designing this Trainer Robot and AI so I decided to make something to stand in to give me more time for my personal desires." Clemont said as Tara just shook her head as Ash started to look concerned.

"Let me guess, when you activated it you put in a password by accident that you didn't know what it is, and it drove you out right?"

"And it didn't help that I tied it to the security system for when Tara came back so we'd have a quite notification." Clemont said as Tara nodded at him.

"Getting one around Dariss, great idea. I mean I can understand how this happened but man

"Darris?" Lilith asked as she detected the hatred Tara's voice had when she mentioned him.

"The person who was considered the runner up to be the next Gym Leader, see the pervious leader left to take care of his grandson after his son died so he had a tournament to find his replacement." Tara said. "And while Darris is strong he's….scum."

"One of the worst people in town really, and a lot of people thought that if he'd become the leader the town would suffer, so Tara, Clemont and a few of our friends went in specifically to block him, at the end it was him or my brother and well my brother won!" Bonnie said with a smile.

"And while I don't mind being the Gym Leader, I went into the tournament hoping to just block him and because of city ordinances I'm stuck as it for another year or two." Clemont said as he sighed. "Tara wants to be the gym Leader so I brought her in as my second and we had a great system for the last two years before….well this happened."

Lilith reached over and squeezed Clemont's shoulder as Ash shook his head and looked at Primsion Tower. "This robot, does it have another way to reset it?"

"No, I have to beat it in battle then give the password, but getting in, that's the main trouble." Clemont said as he hung his head. "The first thing I did was make that place the most secure shelter in the area, there's hundreds of ways to set off the alarms!"

"And you know everyone, don't you?" Serena asked causing everyone to look at Clemont as he gained a shocked look on his face. He took off his backpack and activated his computer, calling up data. We can use that to get in, but for it to open we'll need to but that would. He thought as his eyes went from everyone around him to the screen and back again before taking a deep breath.

"There's a way in, but to do it I need everyone's help." Clemont said. "And by everyone I'm counting Bonnie in too."

"No pain no gain bro." Tara said with a smirk

"I'm in, what do you need?" Ash said as Pikachu jumped onto his shoulder.

"Do you even have to ask?"

"Of course!" Serena said as she grinned.

"What do you need?" Lilith asked as she looked at him.

"Thanks everyone, it's a complicated plan and for this to work everyone has to do the plan down to the last detail." Clemont said as he looked around.

Tara looked at Prisom Tower and threw out two Pokéballs that released a tiny white, rodent-like Pokémon resembling a flying squirrel with black eyes, a tiny nose, and yellow cheek patches and a minuscular yellow furred tick like Pokémon. As she looked up she remembered what Clemont had said before she had left.

"There's and emergency exit in the sewers, it's normally mag locked when the power is off it'll be easier to open. So to get it in opened we need to turn off the power that's where you and your team comes in Tara, Joltik hasn't evolved yet, right?" Clemont asked as he looked at Tara as she nodded.

"No, I caught two new Pokémon at Alola and I've been training them, she has a new move though." Tara said with a smirk. Clemont nodded and looked at his screen before looking up at her.

"Good. The power transmitter on the roof is where the solar energy is collected and fed back into the town grid, Emolga needs to carry Joltik to the roof; once they're there they need to destroy first the junction box that's connected to the power-line then the junction box connecting the solar panels to the same transformer." Clemont said as he looked at her. "But once that's done Clemonbot might unleash some of the Magnemite and Magneton, they'll track your Pokémon so you'll need to defend yourself."

"Well that's not too bad, there were what, at most five or six of them there before right?" Tara asked as Clemont and Bonnie shared a look. "Wait, the old man evolved all of them into Magnetons, where'd the Magnemite come from?"

"The Magneton had babies, they had at least six eggs each, at least two of them had as many as ten. And we've kinda made them part of the defenses." Bonnie said as she tapped her pointer fingers together. "My idea, it seemed like a good idea at the time really"

"So we have to deal with as many as sixty-four Magnemites and Magnemite, okay I think we can handle that." Ash said causing Serena to look at him.

Tara shook her head and looked at the Tower before turning to her two Pokémon. "Listen I need you to go up there and shock the junction boxes connecting to the power line and the solar panels, Emogla do the solar ones after Joltik does the box connecting to the . Once you're both done your done get back down here fast, you'll probably have Pokémon after you."

Emolga and Joltik cued to their trainer as Joltik got onto Emolga before Emolga climeb a nearby power pole and Tara looked around and tried to find a place to hold off the attackers she knew would come at her. As soon as they reached the roof top Joltik jumped off Emolga and crawled to the junction box that led off the roof as Emolga went to the box connected to the solar panels and waited until Joltik fried the box it was on before sending a blast of electicity into its box. As the dim of the transformer died Emolga rushed to Joltik as a panel dropped away and a mixed group of Magnetons and Magnemites came out of it, fifteen in total.

Joltik jumped onto Emolga as it passed and Emolga jumped of the building and glided downward as the Magnetons and Magnemites followed it, firing blasts of electricity as Emogla dodged. Tara looked up and drew her weapon, a tonfa with a yellow stone on the part facing away from her and looked up at the swarm. "Electabuzz, Electrike lets battle!" Tara said as she threw her last two Pokéballs. As a yellow biped with two antennae with bulbous tips where its ears should be, two long tufts of fur on top of its head, small eyes, and two large fangs in its upper jaw a large lightning bolt-shaped stripe on its chest and a black V on its head and marks on its arms and legs. Next to it was a small green quadruped Pokémon with a large head crest with angular, lightning-like markings on the side of its head.

"I really hope I bought you enough of an opening guys. Electabuzz, use Focus Blast, Electrike use Bite! Emolga, get over here, Joltik fire Electro-Web at the largest grouping!" Tara command as she readied herself for the battle.

In the sewers bellow Ash, Clemont and the others rushed down the tunnel, Ash looking at the tunnel in confusion. "This is too dry,"

"This is only used when theres heavy rain, it leads into the purification planet at the far end and a grate before the plant to let people who fall in not drown." Clemont said as he looked around with a smile. "The upgrade…it was the last project mom did, she was a safety engineer."

Ash stayed silent and looked at the tunnel and nodded. That explains a few things, this is the perfect escape passage if they need to leave the gym in an emergency, and since his mom made this he could check on this place whenever he wanted to, smart. Ash thought as Clemont led the way, and after a few minutes they all stood before a section of the tunnel with a light set against the wall not in the middle like the rest of the tunnel. Clemont looked at the wall on the opposite side and nodded when it died. "That's it, right across from the lights!"

"Got it, Pikachu Iron Tail!" Ash commanded as Lilith threw out a Pokeball and released her Nidorina.

"We'll help, Nidorina Double Kick where Pikachu hits!" Lilith called out as her Nidorina appeared, it watched Pikachu hit the wall with a steel grey colored tail and dodged back as Nidorina jumped at the wall kicking it in the same spot. With a crash a dust cloud appeared that drifted away swiftly, revealing a hole opening into a darkened corridor and Clemont led the way in. Ash shared a look with Serena as they stood outside, remembering what the next part of the plan was.

"Confidence is good and all but that's a lot of Pokemon to deal with, how will we handle them all?" Lilith asked as she looked at Ash who walked around to look at the screen Clemont was manipulating. "If we get bogged down then they WILL overwhelm us, no two ways around it."

"Clemont, do you have a copy of the tower's blue print….thanks." Ash said as Clemont brought it up and Ash looked it over, his eyes mapping the route they would need to take. "Yeah, the corridors inside are small enough to let us bottle neck them in places, once we get there, but no matter what Clemont has to make it to Clembot."

"So we three hold the line until Clemont gets back in control. Wait could you order the Magnemite to let us pass?" Lilith asked only for Clemont to shake his head.

"The Magnemites and Magnetons are there to defend the gym, they follow who's in charge and right now that's Clembot." Clemont said with an embarrassed tone.

Ash and Serena shared a look with each other before they followed the others, Serena pulling out her weapon with its blade capped and Ash holding his sword with its scabbard still on, both ready for what might happen next. As the group entered the lower level of the Gym they never saw six eyes looking from the darkness of the sewers and hear a chitterling drone before the eyes disappeared in the darkness of the tunnel.

Clemont led the way throught the gyms corridors, looking everywhere as they moved swiftly towards their goal. We just have to go a few more yards and we're at the battlefield. So let's just hope we don't! His thoughts died when he heard a monotone drone ahead.

"Magnemite!" A voice droned caused them to look ahead and he saw three Magnemites hovering with their backs to them. Clemont went still and paled when he one of the Magnemite rotate until it locked its eyes with his.

"Magnemite! Magnemite! Magnemite!" it bellowed as the others turned and their magnets started to spark.

"Go on, I've got this! Froakie, I choose you!" Ash cried as he threw a Pokéball and released his Froakie. As it stood there Ash looked at the three Magnemites and decided how to handle them. "Use your Frubbles to stop them from attacking!"

Froakie jumped and put its hands on its frubbles and threw three balls at the Magnemites and mucked them up as they dropped to the ground. I hope they haven't learned Flash yet! Clemont thought as he looked at the three Magnemites band before they suddenly they released a flash of light causing him to pale in freight.

"Move, they signaled the others!" Clemont cried as he ran past the Magnemites towards the battlefield. Just a few more feet! Clemont thought as he ran, leading the way through two more intersections and final he saw a doorway and when he tried to open it he saw it was locked. He tipped away at the keyboard next to the door and after a few failed attempts he put his backpack down and connected a wire from it the keyboard and started to type in. "Clembot changed the passwords, I'll need a few moments to hack the doors!" Clemont called as the others released their Pokemon and looked towards the last intersection as a mixed group of ten Magnemites and Magntons came charging towards them.

"We'll buy you time, Pikachu Iron Tail Froakie use your Frubbles! Ash said as Pikachu shot at one of the Magntons and Froakie fired its Frubbles at the Steel Electic tpyes and sent some of them to the ground while Pikachu batted a Magnton into a few of the Magnemites.

"Help out Fennekin, use Protect and defend Clemont!" Serene called prompting Fennekin to form a Protect between Clemont, her trainer and Bonnie with Lilith and Ash outside it.

"Nidorina use Blizzard and keep them back!" Lilith called out, Nidorina cried and a snow storm suddenly formed and froze the Magnemites and Magntons, sending more of them to the ground as Pikachu and Froakie dropped back to stand next to Nidorina.

Clemont typed as fast as he could and after a few seconds got the door open and shot a look over his shoulder at the others and Ash pushed him and Bonnie throught the door before he could say anything.

"Go, we've got this!" Lilith said as more of the Magnemites and Magntons appeared at the end of the corridor.

"Welcome to the Lumiose Gym." A robotic voice said causing Clemont to turn to it as the lights came on revealing a blue humanoid robot with a head that looked like it was wearing a helmet with a yellow thunderbolt on the front with a Pikachu tail on the back and a dent on its right side, it had two small spheres for shoulders connecting to skinny arms ending in hands and two legs connected to its body by large yellow screw heads.

"Now, Clembot, activate master recognition battle mode!" Clemont demanded as Clembot looked at him.

"First, voice code will be needed for recognition activation." Clembot intoned.

"There must be some way you can remember!" Clemont said as he thought back to how he activated Clembot and went still as he realized what the code had to be. "The voice code is "you can start today, I'm Clemont, the gym leader!"

"Code recognized. Master recognition battle mode activated" Clembot said as it reached for a Pokéball

"All right, way to go, Clemont!" Bonnie cried as Dedenne peaked out of Bonnie's bag as Bonnie ran towards the stands and stopped near Clemont.

"Dedenne!" Dedenne cried out in joy.

"Okay, Bunnelby, let's go!" Clemont said as he threw out a Pokeball and released Bunnelby.

"Bunnelby!" it cried as it stood proudly ready for battle.

"I will use this Pokémon!" Clembot said as it looked at Clemont, raised it's right arm and its hand retracted before a gun came out and shot out a Pokéball from which came out a Heliolisk, a bipedal Pokémon that resembles a yellow lizard. Its head is mostly black with a yellow lower jaw and around its neck is a black frill with orange spikes around the rim. This frill can be raised to frame its head if needed. Its hands and feet are black with three digits each and there is an orange band with triangular markings around each leg. It has a long, tapering tail that is orange and then black at the tip.

"Heliolisk!" it cried as it looked at Bunnelby and readied itself for battle.

"Heliolisk, Thunderbolt!" Clembot intoned, Heliodisk charging at Bunnelby.

"Clembot's starting out using Thunderbolt! And that's just what I programmed it to do..." Clemont said before he did a double take as he realize he had programed how Clembot would fight, he could use that and turn this battle around. "Bunnelby, use your ears to defend!"

"Bunnelby!" It cried as it sent its ears into the floor and used them to send a giaser of dirt into the air intercepting the electricity.

"Bunnelby, Double Slap!" Clemont commanded, promting Bunnelby to shot forward at Heliodisk with its ears glowing.

"Use Dragon Tail!" Clembot called out. Heliolisk shot at Bunnelby with a green glowing tail and spun around, its tail hitting Bunnelby's ears. Bunnelby moved its ears and broke the lock with Heliodisk and moved under it as it started to fall and jumped up and Heliodisk's back, sending towards Clemont and making a duskcloud as it hit the ground.

"Now, Bunnelby, Dig," Clemont commanded and Bunneldy dug into the battlefield and disappeared from sight in a few seconds.

"Use Bulldoze!" Clembot commanded and Heliodisk stomped the ground, causing the ground to act like a wave that forced Bunnelby into the air.

"Hold on, I never taught Heliolisk that move!" Clemont said as he went still and looked at Clembot. It taught a Pokémon a new move, but how? This is so beyond what I programed it as a battling robot….could 'he'? Clemont thought before shaking his head, getting his focus back on the battle.

"Use Dragon Tail!" Clembot commanded before Heliodisk shot forward and jumped, spiining around and hitting Bunnelby with its glowing tail at the apex of the spin, sending Bunnelby to the floor.

"Bunnelby, you okay?" Clemont called and released his breath as Bunnelby got back up, he looked at the battlefield and tried to think of a way out this. Having Heliolisk use Bulldoze like that was a surprise, but it'll be the same for them dealing with a new move from us! He thought as he made a choice "Okay, now it's our turn! Bunnelby, use Double Team!"

"Bunnelby, By, By!" Bunnelby cried as it shot into the air and made copies of itself until Heliodisk as surrounded by Bunnelbies in the air, but it stood there not moving.

"Bunnelby, Mud Shot!" Clemont said with a smirk. Each of the Bunnelbies started to generate the attack when Clembot reacted.

"Parabolic Charge!" Heliodisk raised its frill and started to glow yellow and shot a bolt of electricity with a ball in the center that rose high above until it sent out sparks that hit each Bunnelby and dispelling the fake ones while shocking the real one.

Clemont stared at Heliodisk as it glowed green as it shocked Bunnelby. Parabolic Charge. It attacks all opponents in the area, while restoring energy at the same time. I was never able to train Heliodisk in that move, how was Clembot able to do it? Clemont thought with shock

Heliodisk dropped its frill as the attack died and Bunnelby dropped to the floor.

"Bunnelby?" Clemont questioned before Bunnelby got back up.

"Bunnelby!" Bunnelby said as it looked at Heliodisk.

"Use Thunderbolt!" Clembot commanded.

"Heliolisk!" Heliodisk cried as it sent send a bolt of electricity at Bunnelby.

"Come on, Clemont, you have to win!" Bonnie called out as the bolt raced towards

"Now, Bunnelby! Dig, let's go!" Clemont said as he finally created a strategy that might work.

"By, Bunnelby!" Bunnelby said as it jumped into the air and dove towards the ground ears first spinning as it hit the ground, drilling into the loose dirt.

"Use Bulldoze!" Clembot commanded.

"It's all finished now!" Bonnie wailed as she closed her eyes.

"Don't worry Bonnie, one thing I learned while we traveled was to think outside the box. Now, Bunnelby! Use Double Team while you're still underground!" Clemont said with a smirk, hoping his plan would work. Heliodisk stomped the ground, sending a wave of earth and from the hole Bunnelby made multiple Bunnelby's shot out of it, stunning both Clembot and Heliodisk.

"Now use Dig!" Clemont commanded.

As the Bunnelby's started to spin Clembot's program unfroze and looked at the battle and made a command. "Use Parabolic Charge!

Heliodisk fired off the Parabolic Charge and the sparks destroyed all of the Bunnelbys, shocking Bonnie.

Heliodisk looked around and suddenly it shot into the air in a geyser of dirt.

"Error, error!" Clembot said as it spasmed and smoke came from its head.

Clemont watched smiled, "Let's finish this up. Bunnelby, Mud Shot!"

As Bunnelby flew upwards it fired a Mud Shot at Heliodisk as it fell and to the ground, knocked out.

Clemont ran to his fallen Pokémon with Bunnelby following behind. "Oh Heliolisk, are you okay?"

Heliodisk raised its head and smiled at its trainer.

Clemont released a sigh of relief and looked at his Pokémon, proud of how strong it had gotten. "Thank goodness! But, I'm so sorry this happened."

Clembot walked off and stood before Clemont as Bonnie rushed from the stands to her brother. "I recognize you now, sir. Welcome back to the Lumiose Gym. Currently the defenses are dealing with two separate attackers, orders?"

"Stop all defensive messures and call back all Magnimites and Magntons, unlock all doors and stand down, also prepare to repair emergency exit." Clemont ordered.

"Complying with commands"

Outside the battle field Ash stood behind the Protect with Pikachu, Lilith, Serena and their Pokémon as ten more Magntons moved towards them. "Get ready, Pikachu break down the door, and we'll fallback, we'll….?" Ash began only for a siren to sound causing the Steel types to stop and move backwards, the door behind them unlocking and opening.

"What happened?" Serena asked as Fennekin dropped the Protect as they looked around.

"My Brother won!" Bonnie said as she came out of the doorway behind them, causing Lilith to smile.

Outside Tara had handled ten of the defending Pokemon when Jenny drove up and started to help her.

"Mind telling me why this is happening Tara?" Jenny asked as she

"It's a long story Jenny, Clemont will tell you once we get out of this, we just need to hold on for a bit more….." Tara stopped as a siren sounded and the Magnet types moved away, levitating their fallen as they went. Turning towards the gyms doors, Clemont came out and winced as he saw Officer Jenny and the state of their Pokémon.

"Aaaahhh Jenny. I guess it was too much to hope that you didn't hear about the trouble Tara was having." Clemont said as he looked at her, only to receive a scowl in return.

"There better be a good reason for this Clemont, and how the gym has been acting lately!" She said as Clemont only laughed.

"…..and that's how it happened Officer Jenny, I can only apologies for my actions." Clemont said as he bowed to her.

Jenny just face palmed and looked at him as Ash and the others came out of the Gym.

"Next time you want some more free time, how about you schedule a day off when the Gym is closed for the day or something." Jenny said as she got back on her bike and drove off. As they watched her leave Lilith looked at her Pokégear as it beeped and smiled to herself as she read the message. So that's what their using to mask her coming here, good. And I need to give a report about the Buzz Lords, something is really rotten in Kalos. Lilith thought as she looked at the others.

"How about we go to my dad's home and have a nice meal?" Bonnie said as the others nodded their agreement when Lilith spoke up.

"Why don't you guys go ahead, I've got to go talk to someone." Lilith said causing the others to stop and turn to face her. "It seems my cousin Felicity decided to take that vacation she's always talking about and decided to hit Kalos, guess her fame was getting to her more than I thought."

"Why don't you go get your cousin and meet us at Prism Tower Lilly? The kitchen there is perfect for a nice meal." Clemont said as Lilith looked at him as the others waited for her replay.

"Yeah and this bum deserves a little pain based on the trouble that he gave us for activing his bot without an override and us being gone!" Tara said with a laugh as she smirked.

Lilith looked at him and smiled. "I'll ask her and I'll contact you guys if she wants to just have a meal together, see you later!"

As Lilith ran off Bonnie smiled at the group. "Then I'll go get a few things from the store, be back in a bit!" She called as she ran off before Clemont could stop her just shaking his head as he looked after her.

"Some sister you got chief." Tara said as she laughed. "Still it's not like this other dude that tried to challenge the gym and got thrown out before I found you. Saying he's gonna sue us or something as he ran away."

Ash went still and shook his head before he followed after them, chuckling as he did so. There's no way its him, no way at all. I mean the chances are like. He thought as he followed after the others, a strange feeling going through him.

Lilith smiled to herself as she walked through the city, after all that excitement at the Gym she would finally have a chance to give a proper report. And since its Felicity I get to tell her all about what's happened since I came here and everything, I can't wait to tell her about the gangs

"Hey Li, how's Kalos been?" A voice from her right caused her to turn and see her cousin, Felicity dressed in her traveling cloths, a white shirt that exposed her navel and black pants with knee high boots, on her head were sunglass above her blue eyes and she smiled at Lilith with only a little red lip balm on with red and white streaks in her black hair in. She was standing at a table outside a modest looking dinner with a few people inside and a waitress moving about. Walking over Lilith gave Felicity a hug that was returned with a smile.

"Hey cousin, how's home?" Lilith asked as she sat down, a smile on her lips as she looked at Felicity.

"Your teacher went to a party that went crazy cuzz, really crazy. The trained animals, yeah real animals went mad and the hire servers turned out to be assassins." Felicity said with a laugh as Lilith cursed not being there to help out. "But it was kinda good you weren't there, she said that your favorite stalker made an appearance looking for ya."

Lilith only put her head onto the table and moaned as she cursed in her mind. "What do I need to do to get him to realize that I can't stand him!" She demanded as Felicity only looked at her with and opened her mouth before putting her hands up and winced at the glare Lilith sent her.

"Fine Li, fine. I've heard a bit more about why you're like that with him and…." Felicity began before going silent as the door opened and the waitress Lilith saw popped her head out.

"You alright miss…oh your guest made it, do you want anything else?"

"Just bring out that tea and cookies I told you to get ready and we'll be fine thanks!" Felicity said as the waitress nodded and went back inside.

"So your teacher told me what mission she gave you before I went out….think it's really him?" Felicity asked quietly as she looked at Lilith who nodded and looked around before she reached into a pocket and put a small black gemstone that had a beating ball of white energy in its center and nodded.

"He's just like the boss and with the seals he's got on him, I think so. He's as brave as his father and maybe just as good a fighter as they say the boss was when he was Ash's age. And he has five aura links!" Lilith said as Felicity just stared before she clamped her hands around her mouth to muff the exclamation that burst out of her, Lilith only looked on with a smirk. "I know, I reacted almost as bad as you did."

"Five Aura Links, are you serious?! To have one is something but to have five of them…. I can't even imagine it." Felicity said as Lilith nodded. "I mean, never in the history of our home has a person had five Aura links!

"The Founder, he had more." Lilith said as Felicity stared, remembering the founding of their culture on their current home from her history lessons. He can't be a hero like the Founder was, if he was then is that prophecy coming true? Felicity thought as she started to sweat before Lilith gestured for her to control herself as she heard the door open behind her as the waitress came and pushed a cart with a teapot and a pair of plate and a covered tray.

"Here you two go, some of our Flame Tea and a plate of our Shadowed Pastries, a house specialty…" The waitress said as she lifted the cover off the plate before she trailed off as Lilith looked at her with a gleam in her eyes.

"Shadowed?!" Lilith demanded as she looked at the waitress before looking at the cookies, seeing that they were black and grey fox heads. "Why are these called Shadow Pastries? Please its important." Lilith asked with a hard look on her face Felicity looked on.

"It's because they're in the shape of Zoroark heads miss." The waitress said as she tried to figure out what the teen was asking and why

"Zoroark?" Lilith demanded as she looked from the cookies to the waitress

"Yeah, the Zoroark was considered the Shadow Pokémon during the old war, the way it was able to mask its self in illusions. In fact there was a great battle when a raiding force attacked the city and a training patrol bumped into them.

"Where was the battle?" Lilith asked as she started to grin. This is what the clue meant, pieces of Kalos's past! But why….wait the Showcase why isn't it…its only for females, is there a connection between that and the war? Lilith thought as she looked at the woman who looked back with confusion.

"It was in what used to be the abandoned industrial park, they were going to set up a railway there years ago but then the Chimera attacked the ceremony and then well." The waitress said as Lilith paled as she realized where she would have to go to get her Grand Ribbon. Bonnie I'm sorry but it looks like you won't see me get that first victory after all. Lilith thought as she realized she would have to talk to Clemont about the attack that took their mother.

"How many years ago did the attack happen?" Felicity asked as she saw Lilith pale and frowned.

"A good seven years ago Miss, that was one of the only two attacks the city suffered in the last fifty years, and the worse one of them." Lilith breathed easily as she realized that it wasn't the attack she thought it was and smiled as Felicity looked at her.

"Thanks, you might have just saved me." Lilith said as the waitress walked back inside as Felicity turned to her cousin.

"What was that all about, I know you don't fear Chimera cuzz, and saved you, what the hell!" Felicity demanded as Lilith sighed.

"The contest circuit here, you need four Grand Ribbons to complete in the final, they only advertise regular Ribbons, you have to find the Grand Ribbons, that lady gave me the location and the final clue to where my first one is. And two of the people Ash and I are traveling with are an older brother and younger sister, they lost their mother in the second Chimera attack she talked about and then a few years latter some scum started to attack her!" Lilith said as Felicity looked at her before sighing a little.

"Why would anyone attack a little girl?" Felicity asked as she scowled as she

"They were three kids her age, each one was paid a hundred and twenty each to bother her each day for about twenty days, Clemont never said why they did, don't think he ever found out why." Lilith said as Felicity whistled.

"Nice chunk of change, think it might have been a Shadow Quest, but why, what could the kid or her brother?" Felicity asked in shock that anyone would pay that much to bother a child.

"Well I learned that besides being an inventor smart enough to make a battling robot with a learning AI he's also the city's gym leader." Lilith said as Felicity stared in shock before she shook her head and looked at her cousin.

"So then that means there might be two reasons I can see to her being attacked, one someone wanted revenge against her brother or wants to put pressure on the brother to get him to work for them." Felicity began and held a hand up. "But forcing a scientist that smart to work for you by attacking their family is never smart and then there the resources wasted on the attacks, yeah this is as strange as the attack that hit your flyer as it tried to get home?"

Lilith looked up as and stared straight at her cousin who went still when she realized what she had said. "What happened to my Murkrow?"

"It was attacked by Flying Frankenmon, we don't know what they were after, and they were perfect. There was no sign on their bodies that they weren't alive." Felicity said as she handed over a Pokéball as Lilith took it and looked down at the table.

"Could there be a connection to my mission? No I haven't seen anything like that even with that gang kidnapped me…." Lilith trailed off as she slowly looked up at her cousin.

Felicity's face turned red as she stared at her cousin. "When they what?"

Lilith sighed. "Long story short, me and a friend were captured by this Bug gang, they were led by this noble descendent and were trying to recruit Ash. They used an Alchemical powder to try and brainwash me but I broke free and while that happened Ash came and attacked their base."

"Alchemy, here?! That's insane, you need to be Aura active to make Alchemy work…did anyone show the ability during the battle?" Felicity asked only for Lilith to start to shake her head before stopped and started to think.

"I might have seen something, the gang leader fought in armor with spikes that could have channeled a recreated Pin Missile and he fought with two lances so…. But he never used anything like that." Lilith mused as she thought back to the battle with Rex. Could someone have done something to him, a Psychic could have sealed the knowledge of what he could do…but if they did that what else did they hide? Lilith shook her head and looked at her cousin. "Enough about that Felicity, how about you join me. Clemont, that is the brother I told you about offered to have you join us for supper. And this way you can meet Ash and Serena, one of the links."

"I don't know, I was just supposed to deliver you're 'mon then spend a few days wandering around the city….." Felicity said as Lilith looked at her with a smirk.

"Did I mention that Bonnie loved that new video you made, even did the dance semi right." Lilith said causing Felicity to grin.

Bonnie smiled as she walked through the city, her brother had regained control of the gym, his second and Clembot were handling it so she and her brother could keep traveling with her friends, everything was perfect!

"Hey Bon-Bon, long time no see!" Bonnie went still when she heard that and slowly turned her head and felt terror when her eyes caught sight of a boy her age standing nearby. He had short green hair and was wearing a combat robe with a black belt, the symbol of a clenched raised fist over his heart.

"What are you doing here; I thought you three were sent to juvenile hall!" Bonnie said as Dedenne pocked its head up and its checks started to spark. The boy snickered a little and threw a Pokéball up and down as he caught it, Bonnie paling further as she realized he had become a Jr. Trainer. This is insane, I thought they were going away! And if he's one then all of them are, but how'd they become trainers, I thought they might not be allowed to join the League because of what they did!? Bonnie thought as she moved her eyes around, trying to find out anything to help her without letting him know what she was doing.

"Yeah, about that; it seems they lost the paperwork on their end so we were set free. And then it was easy to slip back into the city." He said with a snicker as he caught the Pokéball and looked at Bonnie and started to grin darkly. "What's the matter Bon-Bon, no one to protect you? Tyrogue come one out!" He cried as he threw his Pokeball and released a small pale purple humanoid Pokémon with brown skin on its hips and feet that looked like it was wearing pants and shoes. Its head had three blunt protrusions on top, yellow eyes and circular sections on each side of its head that resemble protective padding. "Don't worry, he's just out so I can have a nice talk with you Bon-Bon." The teen said as he walked over to Bonnie and grabbed her dress; however a sound caused him to look down at her bag.

"I don't need anyone to protect me Josh, Dedenne tackle!" Bonnie cried before Dedenne shot out of the bag and hit the boy's head, forcing him to let go and grab at Dedenne before it shocked him and Dedenne jumped back to Bonnie who grabbed her Pokemon and ran down an alley.

The boy's Tyrogue poked at the boy's body before he got back up and charged after Bonnie, his Pokémon falling into step behind him. As he ran he activated a Local Gear and activated a group talk app. "She's running and she's got a freaking Dedenne with her so we need to take it out first!"

Bonnie ran through the back alley, hoping to find a way back to a main road to get away from the trainer and his Pokémon. I just got to get back to the main road; once I'm there I can find a way back to the gym or to the nearest police box! Bonnie thought as Dedenne sticking its head out as Bonnie dashed. Ahead of her she saw a break in the alley, causing a smile to form as she tried to change her speed when she heard something that filled her with dread.

"Mankey let's slaughter her!" A voice ahead of her caused her to dash down a side street as a white monkey like Pokémon came out of the alley, behind it another boy in the same combat robe as Josh as his Tyrogue ran past by him and joined the Mankey, Josh falling into step with the second as they ran after Bonnie.

"He is not going to like this Josh, not one bit!" The second said as his blond ponytail flapped as he ran, Josh gritted his teeth as he tried to ignore him

"I know Ralph but we can't let her get away, he'll be madder if we do!" Josh snarled as Ralph started to chuckle lightly as they ran.

"We're lucky then that Kaleb is ahead of the little brat." Ralph said with a snicker causing Josh to grin darkly.

"Dede Dedenne?" Dedenne asked from her pouch, causing her to look down and smile at him.

"Don't worry, we'll get out of here Dedenne, all we have to do is get to back to an area where the police are and we'll be safe!" Bonnie said in an effort to reassure her Pokémon. Bonnie looked behind her, trying to figure out where she was and why her pursuers had slowed down. What are they doing, they can't have given up. They had to have gotten in trouble for what they did to me but why are they still after me…wait where's the third one!? Bonnie thought as she looked ahead.

"Pancham let's get em!" A voice from the side caused her to dodged down a side street as a small skinny humanoid panda like Pokémon charged as a third boy in the same combat robe as the others with brunette hair came after his Pokémon.

Max smiled as he walked through Lum City, so this was Kalos. And maybe we'll be lucky enough to make it back to civilization before the League Confrance, that way we can see Ash battle in person again. I know my sister will love to see him, and maybe we can score a few tickets for the ball that their rumored to have before the start. Max thought as he moved, going along the side of the street to get by a group of teens May's ages, all of them looking like Queen Bee types or from old money, looking around with a pompous look to them. And to think no matter where you grow up somethings never change, that's one of the few things you hate and love. Max thought as he looked after them and snickered quietly.

"Get her Mankey, get her!" A voice from the alley he was passing caused him to turn and see a blond girl his age running past, a few seconds later a Mankey, a Pancham and a Tryrouge followed after her with three boys in combat robes following them.

Max just stared for a few seconds, unsure what to do. On one hand I don't know what that was, but if it was what I thought it was then I'll hate myself if I don't help her. And I don't know where the nearest police box or station is. Max thought as he looked around the street before turning and looked down the alley for a few seconds before he was off, reaching for his Pokégear and activating a tracking program he had gotten so he and May could find each other.

"Why did Ash have to set such a good example?" Max said as he reached for his partner and his weapon.

Bonnie ran and looked over her shoulder, scowling as she did so. Why can't they leave me alone, why do they have to attack me? She thought as she ran through the back alleys. Looked over her shoulder and tripped over an overturned garbage pail and fell to the ground as she tried to get up her blood went cold as she heard a dark chuckle behind her.

"Time to finally pay you back Bon-Bon." Josh said as he picked up a discarded pipe before raising it to hit her. Bonnie turned and held up her hands as he brought it down at her before it stopped as it gained a blue outline. "What the?"

"Is this what's normal here in Kalos, three people ganging up on a single opponent?" A voice demanded behind them. They all saw Max standing next to a small white biped Pokémon with thin arms and green hair in a bowl cut with two flat, red horns on top of its head: a large one toward the front and a smaller one at the back.

"Stay out of this punk, this isn't your business." Josh said as Max looked at him as the Pokemon next it him horn's glowed red before sending a look at him, causing Max to nodded.

"Normally I would, and my sister would probably give me an earful about jumping in without knowing what's happening, but I really can't leave this alone." Max said as Bonnie climbed to her feet and started to move backwards a little.

Ralph snarled and looked over his shoulder at Bonnie and did a double take. "Hey she's trying to get away while we're looking at this punk!"

"Ralts; Psy-Jump and Carry!" Max suddenly commanded and his Ralts gained a blue outline and jumped straight up, the boy and Bonnie both gaining a glow and following it up! Bonnie looked at the boy as he smiled down at her heart fluttering as the sun reflected off his glasses. Bonnie shook her head and looked at him as they reached the roof tops and smiled at him.

"Thanks about that I don't know what I would have done if I had been alone, I'm Bonnie." She said as she offered a hand that he shook as Dedenne

"Max, and I couldn't let a pretty girl be attacked when I could help." Max said causing Bonnie to fight down a blush before a cry caused them to turn.

Down below Josh snarled as he looked up. We can't let her get away, no choice have to do plan B!. He thought as he looked at the three Pokemon before him. "Mankey, Pancham throw Tyrogue up there! After that Mankey you throw Pancham and then get that fire escape down so we can all follow, we'll chase them to the place where the boss taught us that lesson! Kaleb call the boss and tell him we're trying to chase her there and she's got help!"

As the Pokemon leapt to do what he said Kaleb looked at Josh as he got a Pokégear out. "Are you sure, I mean the boss will have our hides!"

As the Pokémon moved to carry out his orders he looked at Kaleb and scowled. "I know but we don't have choice, we can't let her get away without the police knowing about it!"

"TYROGUE!" A bellow from below caused the two kids to move away from the edge as the Tyrogue shot up wards and landed on the roof before charging at Ralts, who dodged to the left and Max looked towards the edge and saw Pancham soar from the ground before he heard a clang. Max dashed to the fire escape and saw Mankey had dropped the ladder connected oto it and the three below were climbing upwards, turning back he saw Tyrouge move back to block them from going beyond it. Great, their coming after us, I bet their trainers are right behind them! Max thought as. Bonnie looked around and noticed that she was to the south of Prisom Tower and she felt hope.

"We gotta move, their coming after us and Ralts need some time to build up a Carry!" Max said as he cursed the fact he didn't have another Pokémon as Ralts dodged a blow from Tyrogue as Pancham shot at it. Bonnie looked down at Dedenne who nodded at her and she smiled as she reached into her bag and threw out a Pokéball as Dedenne jumped out of her bag.

"Then let my team buy the time! Flabébé, Vine Whip on Tyrogue! Dedenne, Nuzzle Panchan!" Bonnie called out as Max looked at her in surprise.

"You're a JR. Trainer, wait why did you run from them?" Max asked as Bonnie reacted to her commands.

"Those three always attacked me together, and their favorite tactic was to hit me from behind. I knew I had to get away and to a safer place." Bonnie said as Dedenne charged and shocked Pancham as Flabébé formed a green vine it used as a whip and hit Tyrogue, forcing it away from Ralts who smiled at them as they got between it and the Fighting types.

"Smart, Ralts drop back and carry us all to the east!" Max barked as Mankey shot upwards from the fire escape moments before they had been psychically carried to the next roof as Josh and the others joined their Pokémon on the roof.

Josh smirked as he saw Max, Bonnie and their Pokémon moving in the direction he wanted them to and for a few seconds he imagined the payday he would have once this job was done. "Come on after them! Tyrogue Focus Blast, keep them from the Tower!"

Tyrogue shot a Focus Blast as Bonnie tried to move to towards the Tower before Max grabbed her and pulled her towards the right, away from Prism Tower and towards the next building's roof, their Pokémon following her. Looking over his shoulder Max saw Josh lead his group after them and reached for his Pokégear and pressed a button, hoping that she would make it to them.

"We gotta get to the ground; once we're there we'll have more options!" Max said as he looked around and saw an empty lot many piles of trash in it and smiled. Perfect, a lot of things to use as ammo, and if we have to we can try and cause and avalanche. He thought as he looked towards the ground and looked at Bonnie. "Ralts, there, take us there!"

As they all were carried through the air Bonnie looked over her shoulder and saw the smirk on Josh's face and her blood went cold as she realized they had been led just where he wanted them to go.

"IT'S A TRAP!" She called before a dark energy ball suddenly shot from the junk yard and hit Ralts, causing him to cry out in pain and drop its Psychic and drop them to the last five feet to the ground. As they go back to their feet they saw a Houndoom in the shadow cast by one pile and Max cursed himself for falling for such a simple plan. Perfect, they fired at us to make me think they wanted us away from the Prism Tower, and then a junk yard was the perfect to get back to ground level and they had something waiting to blast us. Max thought as Josh and his friends got to the ground and took up positions to keep their targets from getting by them.

As the Houndoom moved away from the shadow cast by the pile of trash it had attacked from four Machamps came out from all around them behind other piles before four teens in black robes like the ones the younger boys were wearing stood there looking at Max and Bonnie before they parted and a figure came that caused Bonnie to stare at in total rage.

"Darris, I should have known you were behind these three!" Bonnie said with a she glared at a teen about Clemont's age; he was wearing a dark overcoat over a black tee-shirt and pants, a medallion of a raised fist on a chain around his neck. His black hair was in a wolf's tail and he had a sneer on his face as he looked at the two children and their Pokémon before looking at Josh and his two bookends.

"Bro, there you are! We were handling her when…." Josh trailed off at the three Jr. trainers paled as Darris stared back at them with a hard look in his eyes and a sneer on his lips before he started speaking.

"What, it took a brat to hold you three back, what have you been training for anyway?" Darris demanded as the kids cowered as Bonnie held the arm of the glasses wearing kid. He was strong enough to almost beat my brother before, how much stronger is he now? And why are those three with him and those others all wearing the same symbol there has to be a connection! Bonnie thought as she looked at the teens. Max's arm moved a little and she looked up at him, he was looking at her over his shoulder and he smiled at her as his Ralts got back to its feet.

"Don't worry, we'll get out of this." He said as Bonnie smiled back as her two Pokémon moved to gather with Ralts in front of their trainers.

"I'm sorry you got involved with this." Bonnie said as Max laughed, an action that caused her to shiver for some reason.

"Hey, I used to travel around Kanto and Hoenn with a friend of mine, he had this bad habit of always getting in things like this, get ready to run when I say so, we have to get to a more populated area." Max said as a few lessons Ash had given him over their journey about handling attacks in cities. As he moved his foot a little Darris turned and froze him with a look.

"Houndoom, use Dark Pulse on the Ralts, then Bite on that bitch's Dedenne, the rest of you stay back!" Darris said as the Machamps stepped backwards as Houndoom opened its mouth and fired at the Psychic type.

"Intercept it!" Max barked causing Ralts to gain a blue outline and a piece of trash was suddenly between the beam but it exploded, sending Ralts backwards and Bonnie caught him as Houndoom charged at Dedenne, its mouth open when suddenly…..!

"Blazikin, Agility Flare Blitz combination, then Close Combat!" A female voice called out. A large ball of fire crashed into the ground before Bonnie, Max and their Pokémon incepting Houndoom and before it could react to the fire it was thrown backwards as something from within the fire struck out with a fist. The fire died down to reveal a powerful looking Blazekin that stared down the Houndoom as the glasses wearing boy looked up and smiled as from the right came a yell.

"HEY! LEAVE MY BROTHER ALONE YOU SCUM!" Bonnie turned to where the shout had come from and saw a girl her brother's age with brown hair with a single fringe at the center with three edges secured by a green kerchief wearing a sleeveless orange tunic with a black collar, white gloves with black fingertips, and white pockets and stripes over black cycle shorts standing at the mouth of a side street. The Blazekin jumped backwards and spun in midair before it landed in front of her as from behind her a powerful looking Venusaur stomped out and stood flanking the Blazekin as the teen stared at Darris.

"May!" Max said with a smile on his face as his Psychic type got back to its feet and

"So he's your brother hu. Well beautiful I'm feeling generous so here's what I'll do; you take your brother and leave the blond and we'll let you go and I won't knock you out and sell you to a brothel." Darris said as May looked at him with disgust as the others Darris had brought started to snicker.

"If only Ash or any of the others had come with me." Bonnie said under her breath as she looked at Darris as he looked at May with a leer. Max heard her and went still and reached for his Pokegear.

"Ash, you mean Ash Ketchum? You're traveling with him, he's in the city?" Max whispered to Bonnie as May looked at Darris.

"Yeah he is, why do you know him?" Bonnie asked as she looked at Max in shock that he knew Ash. Max grinned and slowly tipped his Pokegear.

"You and yours don't look like much, so how about you walk away?" May said as she felt her watch vibrate. She moved her arm and saw the words ASH IS HERE and smiled. "You know about this instead. Venusaur, Signal Blast, red!"

"Venusaur!" The Venusaur roared as it's flower started to glow red before a blast of crimson light shoot into the air.

"What's that supposed to do?" Josh asked dumbly as he looked up

"Call for help, Max get her over her! Blazikin Flame Flower, Venusaur Wild Growth, make some kindling!" Max barked before her Pokémon roared and green glowing thorny vines suddenly shot from the ground around the Machokes before Blazikin fired a blast of fire at the vines and set them aflame as Darris and the others covered their heads as Max grabbed Bonnie and pulled her towards Max with their Pokémon following behind them.

Ash looked around the outside of the Tower as Clemont finished the last of the updates to the programing for the doors as Pikachu stood next to him. "That's everything Clemont?"

"Yeah, that's everything, now a hologram will let everyone know that they need four badges to get in and they'll have to face the vice leader first." Clemont said as the doors behind them turned and Serena and 2N came out. "So the kitchen is ready for when Bonnie gets back with the food girls, I can't wait to start cooking!"

"Yeah, I'm starting to get worried you know, shouldn't she have gotten back by now?" Serna asked causing Clemont to look up at the sky and frowned before looking at his watch.

"Say Clemont, those people who attacked Bonnie, they were handed over to the police, right?" Ash asked as Serena started to get a sinking feeling.

"They should have been, but how would they have even…" Clemont began before going silent. "What in the world is that?"

Ash turned and paled when he saw a red pillar of energy rising in the sky in the distance and stared. Wait, that looks like, but wait….MAY! He thought before he and Pikachu dashed towards, the others only looked at each other before running after him.

"Ash wait, what is it?" Serena called as they ran, Serena cursing she had left her weapon in the gym. The way he's running is like when we saved Lilly back in Town, I think I need to find a new way to carry it. She thought as she fingered her Pokéball.

"It's a signal I taught a friend's Pokémon a few years ago! We made it so that if we lost track of each other in combat we could find the others! Red means drop everything and they're in trouble." Ash said as the others ran after him. "And I really hope the fact that Bonnie is missing isn't part of this but I really doubt it!"

Clemont stumbled a little before Serena grabbed him and pulled him back along with her. "Thanks Serena, Ash you think something is happening to my sister?" Clemont asked with an edge to his voice.

Ash only laughed darkly and looked over his shoulder; show the two of them a dark grin on his face. "May you live in interesting times, I think I was born with that blessing and pass it on to my friends!"

A few miles away Lilith had started to feel something was wrong for a few minutes now and started to run towards the gym when she saw the pillar of light she had changed course and ran towards it with her cousin flowing behind her.

"Li, slow down!" Felicity called out as she ran after Lilith, some part of her wanting to have brought her gauntlets and greaves, but some part of her was wondering what was causing Lilith to move so fast.

"Slow down, something's wrong and Bonnie's there, I just know it! I'm not going to let anything happen to her." Lilith snarled over her shoulder and some part of Felicity was taken aback at how furious Lilith was and how sure she was that Bonnie was in trouble. If anyone even touches a single hair on her head then I'll strangle the bastard! Lilith thought as she ran, her hand dropping to her whip as she moved.

Felicity saw Lilith's hand and scowled, some of her actions causing her to worry about Lilith. Why the hell is she acting like this, I mean I've never seen her like this and the only….oh my god, she found him. Then Bonnie has to be! Felicity thought before she channeled a little of her Aura into her legs and increased her speed until she was running right next to Lilith.

She looked at Lilith's face and saw the look in her eyes and nodded, she was right. She doesn't even know why she's reacting like this; this is perfect, just perfect! I can't wait until I can needle her about this! Felicity thought as she speed up and looked over her shoulder with a smirk at Lilith. "Well come on cous, I wanna meet the kinda person who can get this reaction out of you!"

Lilith looked at her and shook her head. I don't know what she's talking about, but I know she's not that straight forward. Whatever, I don't want to let Bonnie get hurt! She thought as she speed up until she was right next to her cousin as they ran towards where they thought the light had come from.

Venusaur had formed a domed Protect that blocked Josh and his cronies from getting at May and all of them as behind them Blaziken fought against a large stocky humanoid panda bear with a long cape of this dark gray fur hangs down behind it that gave it the look of wearing a long coat and trousers. While this happened Ralts had kept the burning Frenzy Plants striking at the Machokes as they took them down, all the while May locked eyes with Darris as Bonnie yelled at Josh who yelled back as Max looked around for a way for them to escape, the Pangoro having attacked them from behind, the look Darris had sent it the only warning that they had, enough for May to order Blaziken to intercept it.

Bonnie looked at Josh as he directed his Pokemon to move around the Protect and try to attack it from all sides she just looked at Venusaur as it tried to keep up the Protect, growing scared as she saw the stain it caused her. She can't last long, I can only hope that whoever saw that signal of hers, and I really hope Ash or my brother saw it. Bonnie thought as she looked around and Max grabbed her hand and squeezed it. A cry caused her to look up and pale as she saw that the Machokes had broken down the last of the burning Frenzy Plant and moved towards the Protect when a cry startled them all.

"Rocker, Roller lets' go! Skyball Special and Close Combat!" A musical sounding voice called out before a rolling grey ball hit the Fighting types from above and unfolded into a grey quadruped wolf Pokémon that bit one of the Machokes before a red blur appeared and kicked another of the Machokes into another, knocking three of them down all told. The blur was revealed to be a red biped wolf like Pokémon stood next to the grey one and Bonnie could tell that both of them looked like their breeds were related.

"Who the hell, wait….Tyrouge jump!" Josh cried out before something else attacked the three of them.

"Liepard the Mankey, Night Slash! Skorupi Poison Sting the others!" Lilith's voice cried out as blur shot through at Mankey as white needles flew and hit Pancham but Tyrouge jumped and dodged the needles. Turning Darris saw Lilith and Felicity standing with her Skorupi standing before them as her Lipard attacked Josh and his cronies Pokémon.

"How many people are going to get in my way!?" Darris snarled as he clenched his hands.

"Count on three more, Pikachu Thunder Bolt!" Ash's voice called before a yellow blur suddenly dropped from above and landed between the Machokes.

"Pika." Pikachu cried cutely before it grinned evilly and released an extreme bolt of electricity that fried two of the already injured Machokes and caused them to pass out and the others two to step backwards as two of the trainers recalled the fallen before they all turned to the north and saw Ash, Serena and Clemont standing there with their Pokémon out. Clemont stepped forward and looked at Darris who looked back with a glare.

"Ash." May whispered as she looked at him as Max jumped with joy as he saw them as Bonnie smiled as she saw her brother.

"I should have known you would be behind this Darris! Leave my sister alone!" Clemont demanded as Darris just looked back at him.

"What the inventor can't figure out why I'm doing this, that old fool never should have given you the keys to the gym brat, I'm just showing you the results." Darris said as he looked at him with a smirk. So the genius thinks I'm behind this, great. This way the boss will love it and the master will like this for our rep. He thought as his Houndoom moved to stand next to him as his Pangoro moved to stand behind him as the others moved together, Josh and his cronies moving backwards as they saw that this was between those two now. Bunnelby jumped forward and looked at the Houndoom and remembered the battle between them as the Houndoom growled at it, both of them wanting to defend their trainers. "How about we have another match, just you and me, right here, right now. I win I walk, you win you call the cops on us."

Clemont looked at him and before he could say anything a roar sounded from above them and suddenly balls hit the ground and smog suddenly engulfed the junk yard!

"Next time punk, next time!" Darris called out from within the smog as Clemont coughed and covered his mouth.

"Fletchling, blow it away!" Ash called out as Fletchling trilled and the smog was blown away and the junk yard was revealed to be empty of Darris and the people with him. A few minutes later a siren caused them to look as a police car drove up with Jenny leading the way on her bike. Ash looked around and shook his head. They had to have had a lookout, I don't know why who is after Bonnie, but I won't let them have an easy time. He thought before something

"Ash, man its great to see you! I almost didn't believe that Bonnie said you were in the city. " Max said as he hugged Ash's legs.

"Hey Max how've you been? And May, what the heck are you all doing here, I thought you were with the Doc in Hoenn at that dig?" Ash said as he rubbed Max's head as May and Bonnie walked over to them as Clemont rushed by him and hugged Bonnie.

"Bonnie are you okay, what happened?" Clemont demanded as Bonnie looked at him and started to cry. "Oh Bonnie."

"I was walking around town when I saw her being chased by three kids and their Pokémon, I couldn't let that stand so I tried to get her away from them but they herded us here." Max spoke up as he stepped back from Ash as Pikachu jumped onto Ash's shoulder as Clemont looked at Max then looked at May as Lilith ran up and dropped down to look at Bonnie as Felicity walked up as Serena joined them.

"Thank you. I'm Clemont and this is my sister Bonnie, but I think you already know Ash." Clemont said as Ash just laughed a little.

"Yeah these are some old friends of mine, May and Max Maple. Max, May this is one of my oldest friends, Serena. This is Lilly and her cousin I guess?"

"Felicity, glad to meet ya!" Felicity said as Jenny and the officers final reached them.

"Allright, what happened here, what was that pillar of light….Gym Leader Clemont, what are you doing here?" Jenny asked as she looked over the teens and paled when she saw Ash. "Oh no, not you!"

Ash, May, Max and Pikachu started to laugh as the others looked on as Felicity and Lilith just looked at Ash with expected looks.

A few minutes later they were walking away from the police, Jenny promised to look into how Josh and his friends had been released and the group had walked off. May looked over at Serena and Ash and tried to think of what to say as Max looked at her and chuckled.

"So….?" May began as she looked at Ash who looked at her.

"What brought you to Kalos, I thought you'd hooked up with an archeologist of some-kind." Ash said as May giggled a little as Serena looked at May.

"Eh, Dr. Eve okay, I can't really say why we're here but let's just say that we're looking for something." May said in a noncommittal manor as Bonnie looked at Max rubbed the back of his head.

"I still can't thank you enough for helping me, how about you and your sister join us for dinner, I was out shopping for ingredients, still have to do that. I mean would that be okay Clemont?" Bonnie asked as Max looked at her with stars in his eyes.

"They probably have other plans Bonnie…." Clemont began before Max interrupted.

"Not really, we have a room at the Center but you know how that is, and having something Ash cooked is always a treat!" Max said as Ash grinned at them.

"You can cook Ash?" Bonnie asked as May, Serena and Max started to laugh.

"Oh yeah, your mom still runs Pallet House, doesn't she?" Serena asked as Clemont turned to her sharply

"Pallet House in Kanto, the place that all the guide books say you have to visit if you ever go on vacation in Kanto, the place with ten stars on a nine star scale, that Pallet House?" Clemont asked in shock while Ash grinned at him.

Jessie sat in a chair dressed in a short blue dress and a black hat and looked about the outdoor café as James stretched in his teal pants and black shirt. "How long until whoever's supoosed to meet us here James, I don't want to lose the twerps!" She said as James sighed and looked at her with a smile.

"We were early Jess, so sit back and relax. Besides, with the bonus we've earned with what we're handing over we can enjoy a good meal for once." James said as Jessie just huffed and looked away as a waitress in a maid uniform that hugged her figure with flowing hair that went to the small of her back pushed a small cart.

"Now the madam had a strawberry tart and the gentleman had a slice of apple pie. Will that be all?" She asked as Jessie looked at the uniform the waitress was wearing as she put the food down and fought down a bitter smile, remembering a few jobs and uniforms that she had done over the years that she had hated. I hope the pay is good at least, I mean to act like that wearing something like that when I was her age, but still this is a pretty nice city, nice job to get some money for school at least. And that outfit might bring in the dates if the right people see her in it. she thought as she chuckled as James spoke up.

"A pot of black tea and an extra cup please, and our compliments for the service." James said as the maid walked off pushing the cart back into the kitchen. James just shook his head as he speared his apple before taking a bite of it and suddenly went still before he forced himself to swallow and reached for his drink. That was… I have to let Jessie know, she hasn't had my training to resist this stuff, but why is it in a civilian café? He thought as he tried to get Jessie's attention.

Jessie just started to cut her tart when she saw him discreetly make a sign with his left hand hidden from view by anyone in the café and she slowly put down her fork. "You know, maybe we should wait for our friend to get here, it's only proper."

"I suppose but do forgive me; you know how I feel about apples." James said as he looked around the street with an impatient look on his face as Jessie tried to look pompous. "When will he get here you think?"

As the waitress pushed the cart back and put the tea down James poured himself a cup before offering the pot to Jessie who poured herself as James drank it and sighed and his eyes relaxed a little, causing Jessie to relax as well. So whatever set him off isn't in the tea, good. But what's wrong with the food, I guess we'll bring back a sample and see what's up here, just another wonderful problem we're having here in Kalos. Jessie thought as she drank her tea and sighed. "So how do you think the company will do by branching into Kalos?"

"Given the problems the cooperation might see in competition, finding competent enough staff and then there's logistics." James said as he sighed and looked about the café and tried to look for anyone that might be trying to listen in.

"Still you know what they say, the best victory is always the one that's the hardest to win." Jessie said as a light chuckle came from behind them.

"Nice to see that you two haven't changed much." A voice caused them to turn to see a man with dark blue hair in a blue raincoat over a black shirt and pants sit down at their table.

"Pierce!" James gasped as he recognized who had had sat down. The boss sent him here; it's just a simple pick up right? James thought as he looked at Pierce as Jessie poured him a cup of tea.

"We haven't seen you since that think in Unova, how've you been?" Jessie asked as Pierce calmly drank his tea.

"Come to think of it; aren't you a bit higher up for a simple meet and greet Pierce?" James said as Pierce nodded back at him.

"Well it is my vacation, I do this and I get a few days off in Kalos; all in all a good deal I have to say. I heard that you two made contact with a few old employees of yours that had to be let go a few years back before you transferred, how were they and their families?" Pierce asked as he looked at Jessie and James as the two tensed for a few seconds before forcing themselves to relax.

"They're just fine, they had to move like but when the neighborhood goes down what can you do? Say how about we go see them, they've only heard about you before I'm sure they'll get a kick out of finally meeting you." Jessie said as she discreetly tor off a piece of her tart from the bottom and slipped it into one of her pockets as she flagged down one of the maids. "We'd like our check please, and we'd like two carry out boxes."

"That's something we do for you miss, give me a minute and I'll have this back with your check." The maid said as she moved away with the food, causing Jessie to frown and share a look with James as Pierce looked on. Now what is this, just what is the problem here? I saw that, now why would they take a sample of their food, is there something about it? Pierce thought as he watched, something about this interested him.

A few minutes later the maid returned carrying two small boxes with a piece of paper on top of them and put them on the table and bowed, the tops of her breasts showing as she did so. "Thank you for your patronage, I hope to see you all again."

Jessie nodded as she got up with James and Pierce following, with James picking up the boxes. "Well the reports are back at our rooms, come on." He said as he led the way out of the café, stopping to pay and after a few moments of small talk as they were out of sight of the café he opened the boxes and saw that the piece of apple pie didn't have the mark he made on the back of it. "They gave us new pieces, five to one they don't have what set me off."

"What did you taste in that piece of pie anyway?" Jessie asked as Pierce looked at them and listened in.

"A poison I know from my childhood; if a woman eats it, they gain a craving for it and if too much is eaten then they become….suggestive." James said evenly as Jessie looked over her shoulder and scowled at the café. "Of course if men eat too much of it they become well… let's just say it was used as a fertility drug on wedding nights and leave it at that."

Jessie looked at him and shook her head. "Your parents and the way rich people raise their children."

"Actually it was poison resistance training with my grandparents." James said causing Jessie to stop and look at him in shock, he could only shrug and look at her. "What can I say, they have a strange history. Of course that's all they would ever say on the subject."

Meowth longed on a bed and looked around the room with a smirk. Let those two have all the fancy stuff, give me fish and meat and I'm a king. Course a few berries isn't bad either. He thought as he looked around the room as Weezing and Arbok sleep while the newbie Inkay slept on Arbok, with Wobbuffet leaning against him, a snot bubble moving from its noise as it slept. A knock at the door caused the sleepers to awaken and Meowth moved towards the door, his claws extending as he waited for a reply, ready to use them if he had to.

"Yeah, that the room service I called for?" Meowth lied as the others prepared to strike.

"It's us, we've got our guest." James called as the others relaxed and Meowth sighed.

"Great it's you guys. So who'd the boss send…Pierce, he sent you?" Meowth asked as the Team Rocket members entered the room.

"Mostly so I can make an inspection of that sanctuary you all mentioned in you report." Pierce answered Meowth's question as he looked around and nodded as he saw the Pokemon had been ready to attack if they had to.

"Enough about that chum, do know where that chemical identifier is in our supplies, I have to check something." James said as he moved put the boxes on the bed and started to rummage through their bags.

"Oh that thing, under the region guide we picked up at the airport, about four or five things down. What's the deal?" Meowth asked as he looked at James.

"James detected a taste at the café, something about an upper-class accumulation aphrodisiac/ brainwash thing." Jessie answered as she put the piece of crust onto a small plate and James pulled out a small 5 inch deep metal contraction with a small screen on it.

""Your own work I take it?" Pierce asked as he looked at the machine. Smaller than the one in the lab, it has to be slower but a field unit, I have to add this to my report on these three.

"Yeah, it was for one of our personal adventures, you know the rules." James said as he put the piece into the machine and activated it. As beams passed over the piece of food Pierce turned to Meowth as his eyes sweeped over Weezing and Arbok.

"I don't like to beat around the bush so I'll get to the point, I need you to tell me everything the sanctuary, particularly where it is." Pierce said as they waited for the machine to work.

"Arbok bok arb." Arbok said as he raised his head and looked at Pierce as Weezing floated next to him.

"Weezing weeze zing weezing. Weezing weeze Weezing zing." Weezing said as it nodded its body.

"So it was within a day's travel to the town where we meet up again hu, so it's near Santalune City hu, and the prey was basically fish or alligators, and the alligators grew tentacles." Meowth said as he nodded and looked at Pierce. "What do you want to know anyway….you're not planning to go there are you?"

James looked up as his machine beeped and he turned towards the machine as he listened to Pierce. Whatever it is Pierce can handle it, let's see the chemicals are…but that works to! So not for taste then. James thought as he looked

"Yes, my mission is to infiltrate the sanctuary, get a sample of the water and anything else I can." Pierce said as James looked up from his machine and frowned before sharing a look with Jessie.

"Well good luck, we've dealt with mutants before and it never good, my advice is try to track a loner or make a trap to draw one in. And before you leave we need to talk about the gangs around here, their too large and connected." James said as he looked at Pierce.

"How large?" Pierce asked as Jessie laughed darkly.

"All the eggs were from their breeding program, we stole them and a truck from the police. And those who escaped being arrested then fought a, I don't know civil war or insurrection? Yeah Kalos seems to be really weird." James said as Pierce looked at him as he handed over a key. "Here, the eggs are in a long term garage, passcode 'Type-Thief' connected, it's in Odyssey Village."

Pierce looked at Jessie, James and their partners and nodded. "Good luck, this should give you all a good bonus on your next if we're lucky I'll see you all again." He said before leaving the room, Jessie looked at the door and turned to James.

"So what did I almost eat James?" Jessie asked, causing James to look at her and sigh.

"Enough chemicals to make people come back there and if another is if the person takes enough of it they become very suggestible, thankfully you'd have to have at least half a pie to have. I think their using to recruit people, maybe even brainwash. Like I said, Kalos is very weird." James said as she fell back onto her bed. "Let's just get some room service and eat it after I check a sample."

Jessie waved him off and held a hand to her eyes, hoping that whoever owned the café didn't own the hotel. That made no sense, was that place just a shot in the dark to get people to join them, if people are taken from that place then even the worst cop would track them down. Jessie thought as James went to order their food.

A woman in a cloak walked through a darkened chamber until she stood at before a fire pit with a power blaze going in it, as the woman knelled before the flames from above a voice boomed down at her.

"Who comes before the Central Unity, what family do you represent?" The voice asked as the woman looked up and pulled down her hood, revealing the figure to be Rebecca.

"I, Rebecca Tristo, stand before the Central Unity, and I am here to become the Lady of the Tristo clan." The woman said revealing herself to be Rebecca Tristo as she lowered her hood.

"Your brother was a thug and he lived down the expectations of being one of us. Will you act as with the honor your position demands?" The voiced asked as she heard murmurs above her.

"My brother was a thug and an idiot beyond account, and most likely a kinslayer! I used my wits and my bravery to win my family's headship from him!" Rebecca declared as she kneeled and looked upwards.

"So you used deception to tricked him, but how will you be different from him, what will you be in his place?" The voice asked concernedly as the mutterings continued.

Rebecca sat there and bit back her words and thought deeply. He's trying to get me to say anything, he's just looking for any chinks in my armor. I have to stay calm and focused, I can't let him even think he's having an effect on me. She thought as she gathered her strength and looked upwards into the darkness beyond the fire and spoke loudly and clearly. "I used what I had to take back my family from one who in his ignorance and disloyalty was nothing more than a traitor to his family! As the Lady of the Tristo's clan, I pledge to stand for Kalos with my life and honor. I pledge to not make the mistakes that my brother did and hold to the high standards of my office, I swear to act for the battlement of Kalos and the great plan that this fellowship commands be done, so that the correct course of history returns!" Rebecca declared as she stood up and removed her cloak and threw it into the fire. She wore a green ballroom gown with light green lipstick on and lite green bug symbol earrings.

"Then stand Lady Tristo, stand and be among your peers. For a Noble Return!" As she looked up she saw representatives from the other family of the Central Alliance as they started to clap as they looked down at her. A door opened behind the flame and as the representatives moved away from the railings she walked through it as music started to play as she walked into a large ball room with food set up along the walls. Looking towards a staircase to the right side of the middle of the room she saw a staircase as people in formal cloths walk down, talking to each other as they moved.

"That was wonderful my lady, it was like looking at your grandfather again." A voice behind caused her to smile and turn towards Alexandr who stood there in a black tuxedo with a green scarf, his green hair was slicked back and he stood there with a look of pride on his face as he looked at her.

"Yeah Beccy, that was amazing!" Claudia said as she stood next to him a black cocktail dress with a white shawl with black lipstick and eye shadow, her hair in a bun Rebecca grinned at her friend and inside she was jumping for joy that her 'sister' was back to normal. I would have killed dad myself, say what you will about kin-slaying but when your own are betrayed by family you have to handle it yourself. Rebecca thought as she looked at her sister.

"Thanks you two, I barely was able to handle that. And now comes the more important job, socializing." Rebecca said as she looked at the people moving about the room, some of them moving towards the dance floor in search of partners.

"I never understood why your father never looked at this the right way my lady, I thought your grandfather would have told him why this kind of thing is important." Alexandr said as he looked on the festivities with a somber look.

"Father his grandfather's creature; I just hope the curse is broken. As grandfather said, 'a party is a place to look for information like a fisherman does his trade'. With how my brother was broken out we have to find out if any of the others had anything to do with it." Rebecca said as she led the others towards a food table and grabbed a glass a server had brought her with a nod to him as he moved on. If someone is trying to use him to cause a problem with the Family I need to know. If anyone is trying to absorb us I need to know. If he's dead then I can celebrate later. Rebecca thought as Claudia grabbed her own glass and smirked.

"Then I'll see if I can snag any fish sis, good luck." Claudia said as she sent a playful smile at her and moved off, a swing in her steps as she tried to draw in anyone who wanted to dance with her, Rebecca giggled as she watched her move away.

"It's a good thing you broke the psychic programing that scum Rex had put in her my lady, I had wondered where the playful side of her had gone." Alexandr's comment caused Rebecca to turn and hide a wince. Sorry Alexandr but it's better for you to think that Rex did it instead of dad doing it to Claudia. She was always more loyal to me than anyone else and I really didn't like what he told me dad was planning when I was away. Rebecca thought as she sipped her drink. Looking about she saw Palvo walking towards her and smiled.

"Lord Palvo, how are you?" Rebecca asked with a smile that she hoped enchanting.

"Oh I could be better my dear, but what about your family? With the shame Rex brought to your name I wonder if you weren't behind his escape, a way to keep his punishment in house so to speak? And then there's the fact that his thugs weren't all captured by the authorities." Palvo asked as Alexander bristled as Rebecca kept her temper down.

"My brother will find no help from us, I will see him punished in the light. As for those fools who followed him, I expect that sooner or later they will be brought to justice, but how have you been Lord Jarlson, if I remember right haven't your own family lost a few customers lately?" Rebecca asked as Palvo only smiled back at her as Alexandr fought a smirk as he watched.

Claudia looked back and sighed as she saw Rebecca talking with the Lord of the Jarlson family and forced a wince down. That old bastard, if he wasn't in lust over that racer then he might have been one of the old man's targets. Still I have to say if this is the party they throw when a new family ruler comes around I can see why they like to talk shop. She thought as she moved about, hearing parts of conversations as she passed by.

"….Have you heard? The Battle Chateau in Cyllage City has a new leader, an Electric Specialist and he has a Golem that's an Electric type!"

"….and they say that the Korrina left on a training journey to master Mega-Evolution, about time in my opinion."

"….The street racing league started up again and I heard the TechZappers even dealt a real upset at the first race."

"I heard from a guy that he saw the Battler in a Den, the Battler! If anyone can get his loyalty….."

"….Grace opened the Jr. League and with all her victories she's not in the league this year so I wonder what she'll do this year to kill time until the next season?"

Claudia kept moving, doing everything to keep from reacting as she absorbed what she heard, her mind racing. The Battler is here at the same time Ash is in Kalos. A battle between those two, I mean that would be something to see! Still I can't wait to tell the girls that he's here, the finals this year are going to be something else! She thought as she moved through the crowd as she blushed.

"Claudia, Darling! I haven't seen you in a few years, how are you?" a voice caused her to stop and force a smile onto her face as she turned towards the speaker. She was a girl her age with a curvy figure in a purple dress with blond hair in ringlets and covered her left eye, red lipstick and a hint of blush the only makeup with a ruby dangling above her breasts with a fancy looking fan in her right hand.

"Lizzy, how are you, how's that twin of yours?" Claudia asked as Lizzy kissed her right check.

"Oh Clair is trying the Corodator experiment they have up, something about seeing what the big deal is. Just as well, it's my turn to try the Performance circuit this year anyway." Lizzy said with a smirk.

"Oh my, I didn't think she was looking for a husband that badly, something wrong?" Claudia asked as Lizzy laughed.

"No, nothing like that really, it's actually simple." Lizzy said with a smirk. "And her favorite target left town a while back so she was just bored. And I can't believe that Rex was such a bore, it must have been such a surprise to discover that he had become a gang leader."

Claudia looked at her with an embarrassed expression as she tried to figure out what Lizzy and her family knew. What do they know; were they one of Rex's suppliers or customers? No, the Atonia family isn't involved in the drug trade so they couldn't be….Did Rex try to move on one of the Atonia markets or attack them? Claudia thought as she tried to formulate a reply. "Yes well he did say he was making a security force to protect the family's property after his attempt to become a Gym Leader didn't bare the fruit he wanted to. And then there was the death of the Lord and Lady, to think Rex would have had a hand in that!"

Lizzy only nodded as she laughed. "Well I always knew that Rex was a bit off, but that much? I guess some people are just trash. I must know dearie, has the younger brother been told what happened or is he unaware of it?"

"Well I know my lady didn't talk to him about it, but he'd have to have heard about it by now, but what about you, have your family done anything new lately?"

"Oh let's just say that one day soon the rankings will change and high families will have a new member, I guarantee it." Lizzy said with a smirk as she hid her face behind a fan.

"I hope so, your family has tried so hard to go up the ranks. And you'll never guess who broke Rex's boys!" Claudia said with a grin. Lizzy looked interested before a voice called out from behind them.

"Ahh Madame Elizabeth, I was wondering if you made it here. Do you have a moment to talk shop as it were, I would love a few moments of your time to discuss a business opportunity I believe that both of our families can profit from." A voice caused them to turn and see a man in a black suit and a grey over cloak walking towards them.

"Of course, I 'm sorry Claudia we'll have to finish our talk later, tell Rebecca I'll join her next garden party, give my best to her!" Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Atonina said as she moved towards the man. "Of course my lord, if you would explain farther?" She asked with a giggle in her voice as she took his offered arm and Claudia looked on with a smirk.

"Nothing changes, she's still the best student of the Charm course." Claudia said to herself as she walked towards a table with food, a sway to her steps that she knew would draw in her targets.

A hush caused the party to stop as the lights dimmed, everyone looking towards a balcony on the second floor as a man with black hair in a mask was bathed in light. He looked over the ballroom and seemed to exceed a sense of pride and leadership as the people looked at him. "Once more our fellowship is whole again. Since the war we have fought against ourselves and then we lost the line of our king, but the line will return!" He bellowed as the people below start to cheer and clap as he looked over them all. "Our ways and traditions are stronger than ever before, one day we return our nation to the proper course! It will be us that does it my friends that is a promise! We will save our land, for a Noble Return!"

"For a Noble Return!" Rebecca called out with the others as the lights came back on and people started to leave the room, some of them talking to others as they left the gathering. "Well that wasn't as terrible as father's notes would say, wasn't it Alexandr?"

"Indeed Madame and may I say; that you handled yourself perfectly!" Alexandr said as he looked at Rebecca with a smile on his face. She was able to make ten appointments for the legitimate interests of the Family and was able to track down a few possible opportunities for growth. My lord if you could only see how strong she is! He thought as he looked at her as she looked over her shoulder and smiled.

"There you are, find any fish Claudia?" Rebecca asked as Claudia walked towards them, a spring in her step and a swing in her step that caused Rebecca to giggle a little bit as she saw the smile on Claudia's face.

"A few sister, and I was able to get a few dates for the next week! Oh, and I had a little talk with Elizabeth, she said she'll be at the next party." Claudia purred as she fell into step with Rebecca towards the exit, Alexandr following behind them.

"There you are Lady Tristo, I'm sorry but I need to bother you for a few moments, we have to talk to your brother." A voice said causing Rebecca and her party to turn. Walking towards them was Lord Regan Portoflora and he had a concerned expression on his face. "There's a small meeting room that we can use since everyone is leaving, if you don't mind?"

A few moments later Alexandr and Claudia stood behind Rebecca as she sat at one end of a long table as Regan took a seat at the other end.

"This isn't going to be easy but….the things that took him, we have no idea who or what they are." Regan began as a hologram of the attacked police transport with Scythers with metallic wing coverings and their right arms being replaced with saw blades and Toxicroaks with two purple liquid gas tanks on it back with tubes leading to nozzles on the arms where their spikes would be around the cut open door, a Dragonair with two sets of Fearow wings and metallic pincer like legs coming in for a landing with a girl with pink curled hair in black halter top and black mini skirt and purple knee high boots and two energy like horns on her head with her back to the camera.

Claudia looked at the woman in the picture and hid a frown. Who the hell is that, I know her…where…wait. One of the new girls before Ash attacked the base, but then did she come to spy on us? Claudia thoughts died at what Alexandr said next.

"I wonder why anyone would be at nearby enough to get this Lord Portoflora?" Alexandr's question caused Claudia to look at Regan for a few minutes before looking at Rebecca who looked at Regan.

"My guard's question is quite prudent monsieur, do you have an answer?" Rebecca asked coldly as Regan shrugged his shoulders.

"The picture came from an anomalous source, one I didn't get the name of. I would think it was from someone who wanted to pay back Rex. That doesn't matter, what matters are those…things. I've sent an Alpha level message to all the Family heads, but since whatever these things are took your brother, I felt it was necessary that I tell the Tristo family head as soon as I could." Regan said as he looked at her , keeping his face blank. I don't want them to know that Parvlo is behind this, I can still use his lust for Grace to my advantage. He thought as Alexandr looked at him as Claudia and Rebecca had a whispered conversation.

"Thank you for this information Lord Protoflora, I trust if you learn anything else the Families will know as soon as you do?" Rebecca said as she got up and Regan threw a disc at Alexandr who caught it. Rebecca kept her face blank as her part left the building and got into their car, Alexandr got into the driver's seat. "Claudia I want you to start looking into everything that seems like this might have even a slim connection, use the guard. And did you tell her about him?"

Claudia chuckled and shook her head. "No, but that's why she said she'll come to the next garden party, we'll just have to tell them all at the same time!" She said before she started to laugh, Rebecca joining in.

Annie looked around the room she and her sister had been taken to after they had gotten to the Rocket base, a table and two chairs with a black glass window on the other side of the table from them. How the hell did they find out about us, we were clear, how did they figure out what we were doing? She thought as she looked around the room with a scowl as she tried to figure out an angle to get away.

"I told you we shouldn't have done that sis, I told you." Oakley said as she sat at the table and sighed as she looked down at the jumper she was wearing. After the ship had reached the base the two of them had been escorted to a shower and given the jumpsuits to change into before being escorted to the room they were in.

"You went along with it sister, don't second guess yourself now. And we did nothing that would have resulted in them doing this, nothing at all!" Annie looked at her sister and forced a scowl down. If they know about what we did in that damned city then could they know who we are? If they really are connected to those bastards! She thought as she paced.

"I went along with tracking down those tow Legendaries sis, not the rest!" She said as she slammed a hand down onto the table and just scowled.

"We did nothing that Team Rocket would have captured us for sister, nothing! As long as we don't move against the team, we can do what we want, that's what draws so many people to the team after all." She said as she looked at Annie

"This is all because of that plan for what we did in Alto Mare sis. You always had a hard on for that city." Oakly said flatly as Anne looked around the room looking for anything she could see as Oakly looked on with scorn.

"I think the walls have ears so let's stay quiet and maybe we'll make it out in one piece." Annie said as Oakly scoffed.

"They don't need to listen in on us sis, they have us dead to rights! As far as the rest of the world is concerned Team Plasma or Galatic took us, we have no rights and they have no need to treat us to the standards of any government or treaty!" Oakly spat, Annie only looked at her before turning away from her. "The only thing we can do is tell them what they want to know and maybe we'll have a future with the Team."

Annie looked at the window, trying not to let her sister know what she said had affected her. She's right; they have us dead to rights. But why have they, nothing about this makes any sort of sense, what the hell does the boss want from us. Annie thought as she looked at the window.

The door opening caused her to stop thinking and look towards it and saw Carr float in on one of his Forretress and stop on the other side of the table, a smug smile on his lips.

"I hope you two have enjoyed the accommodations, a good upgrade from your previous residence I'm sure." Carr said smugly as Annie's face went hard.

"What's the meaning of this?! As long as we do our missions we're able to do our own jobs on the side and command doesn't mind what agents do, isn't that the rule?!" Annie demanded as Oakley looked at her sister as Carr just chuckled and grinned at them.

Carr chuckled and looked at her with a patronizing gleam in his eyes. "Yeah that's the rule but we reserve the right to talk to you about them if we receive reports on your activities from other operatives and when you took over Alto Mare, well I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this can't you my dear?"

Oakley cursed and Annie's mouth dropped open. "There were other operatives in Alto Mare when we did that?! But why'd you wait so long to get us?!" Oakley demanded as Carr just started to laugh.

"Who the hell was there and could identify us, we had the entire city locked down!" Annie managed to splutter as Oakley nodded.

Carr just looked at them as they tried to identify just who had been in the city. I won't tell them that the report was filed into the database without anyone looking it over! Still I never thought that those three would find anything like this, guess I can't judge those three like I thought when I saw their training! Carr thought as he smirked before replaying. "That's need to know, and you don't need to know. And you know I found something very interesting when I was looking over what we know about you, you never put down anyone as next of kin beyond your sister Oakley. Now I'm not a betting man, but I think that something about what you did was personal, am I right?" Carr asked as he saw Oakley flinch before Annie turned and looked at her sister.

"Personal, sis what's he talking about?" Annie barked at Oakley who only stayed silent and glared at Carr who only smirked back at her.

"Your silence is telling and the fact that your sister doesn't know what I mean, does she." Carr stated as Oakley only looked back at him. "Now what is the connection, something about you no…..something about your parents."

Annie jerked and looked at Oakley who looked at Carr with a hard look on his face. "Sis, what happened to our parents, didn't they die in a fire caused by a Chimera, that's what you told me when I got back from school!"

"They were attacked by a Chimera first." Oakley said as Annie sat down and Carr looked on. "Than people came and attacked after mom killed the thing. I was in the offsite panic room and I overheard them through Dad's gear after they killed them, they sent the Chimera."

"Why the hell didn't you ever tell me, they were my parents too, I had a right to know what happened to mom and dad!" Annie exploded as Oakley only looked at her before continuing.

"Your boyfriend at school, he was one of them." Oakley said as Annie sat down and stared at her in shock. "That's why I always hated him, not me being overprotective, but because I knew that he connected to them, to these….whoever they are."

"I doubt that you let them go, so what do you know and how does it connect to the Alto Mare?" Carr asked as Annie looked at her sisters as she looked defeated.

"I don't know who they are but I've learned that their diffused all over, for a time I thought Team Rocket was one of their fronts. After we got high enough I learned what Team Rocket is really gathering strength for and why, the way those people acted, that's when I knew I was wrong." Oakley said as she sat there.

"Abusers then?" Carr asked as he patted his Forretress as it purred.

"Yeah, and the plan I had was to destroy Alto Mare's Defense system by overheating it, a few small fire bombs here and there and it would have been destroyed beyond all work, and the connection is that our ancestors were the people who made it." Oakley admitted as Carr and Annie looked on in surprise.

"But why did we have to steal a book if we made it, shouldn't the family have known all about it….the fire, it was destroyed in the fire." Annie said with shock as Oakley nodded.

"Dad's death set off a dead man's switch; it's why they sent me to the the panic room. I heard them curse him for it before they were ordered to throw the Chimera's and our parent's bodies into the flame, cover their tracks." Oakley admitted with a defeated look. "We stole the book because it was the only other copy on the planet that the family knew about, I needed it to decode a diary."

"Book Code, of course." Carr muttered as he shook his head. Of course, book code needs specific books to decode right, especially the handwritten ones! If she needed an exact copy of a book to figure it out…then the data in the book might have been lost forever, good plan if someone came for it. He thought as Annie looked at Oakley

"But why

"I made that plan because I learned that those people, including that scum ex of my sister was seen moving towards Alto, if I could use the system to attack them, to finally get answers

"Was this them?" Carr asked as he clicked a button and the symbol of the Order appeared on the wall. "We've captured a false Chimera Hunter recently, and he's been quite troublesome to question. I wonder if we could learn anything about what happened to your parents and why? Of course if you want us to ask that then you….." Carr began before Oakley interrupted him.

"Where'd you catch him?" Oakley asked flatly.

"Kanto, why?" Carr asked, a sinking feeling growing in him as she shook her head.

"Then he doesn't know anything, I learned early on in my investigation that their split apart, a lot of little factions that jockey for leadership. I learned the people who killed our parents were from Unova." Oakley said flatly as Carr looked at her with widening eyes, taken aback at this. I really wasn't expecting that, I know that the boss thinks whoever these scum are they aren't that big. Carr thought as he listened to what she was saying.

"That's interesting, very interesting. I think I need to contact the people holding our prisoner and use that against him. As for you two….The boss left me to decide what to do with you….you two aren't our prisoners anymore." Carr said as he looked at the sisters. "However I will be confining you to the base until we can get you orders from the boss."

"Thank you commander, I don't know if you know what happened to our Pokémon?" Annie asked before Oakley could say anything.

"We sent another team to recover them, the docs are looking over them but the report I saw they were put in storage and let out for a day or so every two weeks." Carr said with a weary look on his face. "The doc said you can have them back after another day or so, I'll have somebody come and bring you to better quarters and get you back your Rocket accounts."

Oakley nodded as Carr floated off and looked at her sister who was looking at her with a look of disbelief. "Go on, what's wrong?"

"What's wrong?" Annie asked with an exasperated tone. "Our parents were killed and you never told me, that's not talking about my EX!"

"I couldn't sis, how do I tell someone that her first boyfriend might have helped plan our parent's murder?" Oakley asked as Annie at her before dropping into a chair and sighed.

"I get it, but you should have told me. So we get out of here and then what?" Annie asked. "Because I really want to give some payback of my own to those bastards."

Oakley looked at her sister and smirked. And that's another reason I hid it sis, you are so like me it's not even funny. She thought as she shook her head. "Let's see what the Boss will do, maybe I can trade some of my own information about them to join in on any command he sets up to deal with them."

A teen in a red cloak moved through town, looking all over hoping to spot anyone following him. At last, I thought they would keep the lockdown for another few days! I got away from the Protectors without telling them everything, and the others are still asleep last I heard. All I need to do is get to the boss and tell him about what I saw; he'll know what to do. He thought as he slipped down to the back streets started to run, never noticing that he was being followed by something or someone on the roof tops. He stopped when he reached a downward stairway to a doorway and saw three teens his age lounging around the door and he sighed when he recognized them. As he approached one of them saw him and nudged the others who all looked up and saw him.

"Well look what the Meowth dragged in, thought you'd be still talking with the Protectors man!" One of the three said as the runner reached them and gripped his arm.

"Yeah brother you won't believe the trouble that those scum gave me! Anyhow are sir Charandas or Khadim here, what about master Aagha?" The runner asked as the guards snickered amongst themselves.

"Master Aagha is back at headquarters and sir Khadim is by the river port, he's looking into something the master gave him." Another of the three said as the runner cursed.

"Charandas went back to base with the take from this place during the lockdown, might be able to catch him if you go now." The last one said as the runner turned towards him

"Thanks brothers, see you when I see you." The runner said as he moved away from them, the three guards waiting until he was out of sight to start talking.

"Think the boss will make him disappear, I mean he did talk to them?" The last one of them asked with a chuckle.

"Nahhh. Our boys were taken out and most of them are still asleep or unconscious. I want to know what did it as well." Another replied as the first chuckled a little before smiling evilly. "But I never said we couldn't have the snitch in pain after telling us what got our boys, did I?"

The others looked at him before they all gained dark grins and started to laugh darkly. As they laughed they never noticed someone had overheard them as they had watched them and had slipped away following the runner, never noticing that a mass of shadows were watching the stairs and two of the shadows slipped away to follow the both of them.

Charandas whistled a little as he moved along the backstreets, a spring in his steps as he walked, a bag over his shoulder as he put away his Pokegear, the message from his brother causing him to smile. So the order for those Ride Chimera are due in soon like we thought, the lockdown didn't affect our needs to badly. Once we have those things and with a few things from that Aura-smith we'll be able to pay a few visits to the camps and spread our power far and wide, a few attacks on their convoys if they don't play ball. Charadas thought as he

"Sir Charandas, wait up!" A voice caused him to turn back and saw the runner moving towards him. Wait a second, that's the survivor! He thought as he looked at the person as he ran to him.

"I know you, you were with our boys when they were attacked out there, the Protectors let you out already?" Charadas asked as he looked at him as he panted. Nodding the teen looked up at his superior.

"Yeah, and I was able to keep a few things back about what happened, I figured if they knew anything real about how it happened they might look into the gang sir." He said as Charadas looked on with a neutral expression.

Charadas looked at the ganger before turning and walking away, gesturing to follow him. So the punk has some brains, good. And who ever dared to attack our boys, a good beating and then we'll take everything they know about the Devouring Style and make this whole region ours! Still if Bahadur has anything to do with it, the boss will kill 'em. Charadas thought as he looked at the runner. "Good, come on, the boss will want to know everything that you can tell him about who attacked our boys!"

"It wasn't a who, it was a what." The runner said causing Charadas to stop and look at him, a shocked look on his face before he hardened it and ran off, and the runner following behind him trying to keep up.

Aagha walked about his backyard and nodded to his followers as he moved about, a grin on his face as he moved about, planning about what he would do now that the lockdown had been lifted. Once I get that brat Bahadur I'll find out what he knows about the attack on my boys, and then I'll make him pay for everything he's done to keep me down. He thought as he chuckled as he looked around

"Aagha!" A voice caused him to look up and saw Charadas coming towards him with someone following behind him. Wait, isn't that the survivor that the Protectors grabbed? Aagha thought as he looked at the teen following Charadas. "Thought your brother would be back first, who's your friend?"

"He's who you think he is, but we've got to debrief him, he said that what attacked them wasn't a who but a what."

Aagha went still and eyed the runner and turned and walked towards the building he used as a meeting place for his gang, the others following behind him. Entering the building he led the way into what he used for his office. The room had a desk and posters of the Elites on the walls, Aagha sat down, activating a rune that caused an energy wave to move about the room, the posters being replacing with maps of the Doman with the camps near the city highlighted, one poster had a picture of Badahur with stab marks on it.

"Talk, now

The runner looked at his leader and nervously tried to figure out how to say this. "Well boss we ran towards the next bridge and didn't find anyone, but then we came across what the leader thought was a lone traveler. He decided to shake 'em down, and that's when it happened. They threatened 'em and then it attacked back, when they were down it just left, out into the wildernesss."

"One traveler, wait it so what was it a Chimera or a Pokémon?" Aagha asked as the runner paled and looked at him before replaying.

"Boss, it was….it was a golem." The runner whispered as Charandas and Aagha looked at him before sure Aagha exploded.

"A golem, drained the energy of my boys and their Pokémon?!" Aagha snarled as he looked at the runner and turned his chair away and started to think. A golem does what it's programed to do, their a one off weapon or guard… is there a way around that? That would be a game changer, a real game changer. He looked up at his two followers and made a decision. "Get out of here, now. No not you Charandas, stay. You wait outside and tell Khadim to get in here."

The runner bowed and moved away from the room, leaving Charandas and Aagha alone. Charandas stood there and grabbed a chair and sat down and looked at Aagha for a few minutes before speaking. "What are you thinking?"

"Golems are things that have a single command programing, they can't have a reaction to outside commands, that's why Homunculus are so wide spread, they can. If there's a way to make Golems reacted to new commands or situations, we need it." Aagha said as he chuckled. "The strength of a golem and the commands of a Homunculus and the ability to drain Aura form humans or Pokémon, we could rule."

Charandas looked at his friend and started to snicker. "You want to track it down and take it apart, find out just how it works. As usual boss you make the craziest plans."

"If when we send our people out there to…visit the camps if they find any sign of its tracks, I want it." Aagha said as Charandas just shook his head.

"My brother messaged me; the Rides will be here in a few days. So the next stage of our plan can begin." Charandas said as Aagha chuckled.

"Good, once we get them how about that one leads the first attack group out?" Aagha said as Charandas continued chuckling. They never noticed a small Rattata wearing a vest with a microphone on it had been listening in from within a vent against the floor, staying there before moving towards the exit at the top of the structure.

The Rattatta moved out from the vent and jumped to the wall and dashed towards Sadashiva as he hid in an alley. He reached down and rubbed his Pokemon's head and looked at the wall, frowning as he went over what his Pokémon had overheard. So it wasn't a human but a Rock or Ground Chimera that ate a Devourer then, wonderful. And he didn't tell the Protectors because he knew Rex would want first crack at it. I think I can sell this to B, he'd want to know what Rex is up to and the fact that he's after Ride Homonculus for his boys is something that he'd want to know. Rat thought as he recalled his Pokemon and moved off, never noticing the shadows that had been trailing him and Maulers divided, one following him the other staying there.

Bahadur charged with his scimitar raised high and brought it down at Farbod short swords met the blow and pushed Bahadur's blade off and shot forward, slicing with his blades. Bahadur moved backwards, blocking or dodging the blows with his blade before he jumped back. Farbod made to chase after him when the sound of a gong caused them both to stop and put their weapons away. Bowing to each other the two of them moved off the makeshift battle field they had made in the damaged warehouse Bahadur and his friends used as a hangout.

"You're getting better with those swords of yours Farbod, but try and block me from escaping!" Bahadur said with a smirk as Farbod sighed as he grabbed a bottle of water his sister threw to him.

"Course for him to do that my brother has to think beyond cutting up his oppents, that's why I love to bash them up!" Etana said as she and Ruchika giggled a little.

"I'm sorry sis, was that ' I want to fight my brother next?' it sure sounded like that to me?" Farbod said as he grinned at his sister crookedly.

"Sorry, but we've got the next dance." Ruchika said as she go off the crate she was sitting on and moved towards the center of the room, the light from the damaged section revealing she was wearing a green fighter's gi and Etana followed after her wearing a white gi like Bahadur and Farbod were. As soon as Etena and Ruchika bowed the two flew at each other and started to exchange blows as Bahadur and

"Still think it was great of your dad to let us use this place, can't believe it's in such good shape after those raiders attacked a few months back." Farbold said as Bahadur nodded.

As they watched the girls spar Bahadur's mind went to the recent troubles he had with the Mauler's. They had to have been looking for us, that has to be why they were out there, but was it a real one that attacked them? And where did they learn it, I mean Devourer's first, wait where did the first Devourer learn that damned art, when did they learn it? Bahadur thought as he tried to think.

"So of course Bahadur I mean….Bahadur you there bro?" Fabold asked as he shook Bahadur's shoulder, causing him to look up at this and saw Farbold looking at him and smiled a little at his friend, looking up to see that Ruchika had caught Etena's foot and threw her over her shoulder.

"Sorry, I was lost in my thoughts, say do you know where the first Devourer came from, where their name was first recorded?" Bahadur asked as Farbold opened his mouth and then frowned.

"No, I mean I've seen it in a lot of movies here and even in novels and history books but I don't know where the term comes from, that's kinda weird now that I think about it, you know?" Farbold said as he looked into space. "Why'd you even start to think about that?"

Bahadur waved a hand and looked at his friend. "It's what happened to those idiots that caused the lockdown, you know they had to have been hunting for us. We went back to town and broke through the ones he left to watch the bridge so I'm wondering what really happened to them."

"Wanna buy that info Bahadur, I'll even give you a discount because I already sold some intel to the Maulers that caused this." The voice behind them caused Farbold to scream causing Ruchika and Etena to turn towards them, Bahdur only drank from his bottle and sighed.

"So your why they knew I had my partner at last, I thought so." Bahadur said as he turned to see Sadashiva sitting behind him with his hood down. He grinned at the others and chuckled.

"Hey cut me some slack, I thought he would just challenge you to a battle, not ambush you like that." Sadashiva said as the girls walked towards them "If I knew anything like this would happen then I wouldn't have bothered, do you know how much info I lost because of that Lockdown? OW!" He exclaimed as Etena bopped him on the head and sent him to the floor.

"I should throw you in the river for that you little weasel!" Etena snarled as he rubbed his head. Bahadur just looked at his friends as Etena started to rant at and sighed before get out a small pouch of coins.

"Okay, full price but tell us about Aagha's 'dolls' and you don't tell him you told us anything." Bahadur said as he threw the pouch to Sadashiva who caught it and looked through it before sending a look at Ruchika.

Sadashiva looked around before starting to grin. "Well they're Maids types with hair the same shade as wind girl, so there's that. As for the attack on the knocked out brats, he said it was a golem that did it!"

Camellia walked through the city as the sun shinned down, dressed in a black robe covering her body with a scarf around her face leaving only her eyes exposed as she walked through the crowds, looking about she heard snippets of conversation as she moved.

"….and I still say Squall would have won this year again, giving who will be in the tournament."

"….so there I was, just fishing for supper when I heard a horn blow and there was one of the lords cargo ships being pulled into port!"

"Twenty credits for a single octopus tentacle, are you mad?!"

"Heard that that blowhard Francisco is recreating for his new ship? Saw that ball of lard Demetrio walk into a dive by the dock last night with a stack of papers, think he'll go after his rival once he's on the open sea?"

"I heard that Nightsprout is really working for those scum who attacked us years ago, a false flag op!"

"….and get this, they say the lord is looking for a certain Homunculus crafter, something about his last party."

"I heard that an old cave was found that was the sight of an old Frankenmon maker's lair. A Pyroar with Dragonite wings was activated and attacked the party that found it before they caused the mountain to collapse and burry it."

She smiled as she walked, a chuckle escaping her as she moved. No matter where you are, you can learn anything by letting the crowd 'talk' to you. Still it's only been a day and they already know that he's after the maker, or is this from before, something to talk to someone about. Camellia thought as she walked through the streets, stopping at a at an open air café to read a menu, listening in on group of people that she remembered seeing at the party the other night and listened in as they talked.

A man with red hair in a wolf tail snorted as he looked down at a map on the table as the group he was with looked at it. "I mean sure if he makes it it'll cut time off travel by a lot but really, don't you think it would have been done already if it could be done?"

"You don't study history much, do you?" A man with short brown hair asked as he laughed. "It's been tried at least three times that I can think of by others lords, and each time something happened to stop it."

"Like what?" A woman with black hair in pig tails asked as the brown haired man laughed.

"Well if I remember right….the first time it was a Chimera attack that destroyed the work site before the Dessert Campaign, and then they tried it from the other way during the reign of Highlord Tukorvo and then there was a migration of Camerupt that destroyed the train they were using to carry supplies." The brown haired man said as the red head laughed.

"Well if it works this time then think of all the profits if it can be expanded! With the capital being at the center of the rivers, all the resources from the deep desert only has to travel there and then it can be transferred by rail!" The red head said as he looked at the others. "Think of it, we'd only have to pay shipping fees and we would save so much time!"

The brown haired man snorted and looked at the red head and just shook his head and sighed as Camellia moved away.

"If it hasn't happened yet I doubt it will happen this time, something will cause the project to fail, history has shown that only the Great River is safe for us to travel the desert. And like the others before him, this will be the project that ends his reign with this plan his final mistake." The brown haired man voice carried to Camellia as she walked away, her eyes locked on her destination as she moved, giving off no sigh that she had been listing in as she departed the area.

Camellia dodged the people as she moved through the crowd, a frown hidden behind her scarf. That was informative, maybe I when I call the boss about this I should recommend for Mordred to provide security for the work, at the very least that Magnus sends an Earth Caster to help make sure the ground is suitable for any work they do. Still this is not why I'm still here, I think I've giving them enough time to cover up connections they have, so I should go there now. With a mischievous look in her eyes, Camellia moved towards the city's town hall.

Sadri moved about his office as he tried to figure out what he could do. The deal was that I wouldn't track her down sure they followed her but I called them back! But was my order only a part of their plans to kill me or did someone else hire them? And then there's Nightsprout whore, if my special products aren't replaced within the next two months, I don't want to think about my finances for the rail line! and then there's the reception for the highlord tomorrow night, I have to work something out! He moved towards his desk and pressed the intercom and sighed when he heard Orchid answer

"Ms. Orchid, I need the estimate on the repair work on the mansion as soon as they come in, also how is the work finding actual servers for tomorrow night? Oh and while I'm asking, how is the rest of the prep work coming along?" Sadri asked before he stopped and waited for a reply.

"Yes sir, in order then. The contractors have only reached the mansion as of an hour ago and they told me it would be at least three hours to go over everything, I contracted a catering company and arranged everything, the reception hall was painted and its drying, by lunch the tables will be set up and I'll have samples for the table cloths for you to go over by tonight. Also a few people have contacted us for the possibility of buying shares in the rail line and offered support for it." Orchid said as Sadri sighed.

"Thank you miss Orchid, please hold my calls for the next hour unless it's important." He said as he grinned as he looked out his offices window over his city and smiled. Perfect, once the rail line get to the proper point I'll be able to find it and activate it, then with my daughter in tow and that thing I'll be able to take over this land from that fool of a Count! I am descendent from a ruler and I will rule as my ancestor did once!

As Sadri smiled and dreamed about his future for a few minutes before a beeping from his intercom caused him to turn to it with a frown, wondering what had happened to cause Orchid to call him. "My apologies sir but your daughter is here, shale I tell her to leave?"

"No, tell her to come in, I have a bit of time for my princes." Sadri said as he looked towards the door. Nudara walked through the door in a simple purple dress with her hair in a ponytail. "Angel, how are you my dear, what brings you to visit your dear father?"

Nudara looked at him with a chilly look and spoke frostily. "I would be a lot better if you tell me why I can't leave the city father or call out!"

Sadri looked at the scowl on her face and inwardly sighed. "I'm sorry dear but I need you to stay in the city for a few more days, at least until I'm sure this wasn't part of a larger plan to kill either of us, and if you call anyone someone could intercept it. Just please give me a few days for my peace of mind. I have no doubt in my mind that that witch Nightsprout has something to do with that terrible attack."

Nudara looked at her father and scowled at him. Of course 'I' was part of the attack, not the result of anything that you've done to people to become the lord or you're 'other' business. I wonder if the Homunculus attack was because you doubled crossed someone, I mean I've seen you do that too many times over the years. She thought as she looked at her father and kept what she really wanted to say down. "Fine but I want to be able to leave again once you feel better, and I want to be able to call out of the city!"

Sadri looked at his daughter started to think. That's probably the best I can expect from her, and that's fine. I need those days to as window dressing so I could probably give her phone access today but I need to make a good showing so…that could work. He thought as he looked at her and nodded. "Thank you angel, no more than five days at the most, I promise. You can make your call in three days, I'm sorry but that's the best I can do."

"I can accept that daddy, will you be home for supper?" She asked as he nodded at her.

"I'll try, I won't promise but I will try." Sadri looked at her and smiled. He was about to continue when his intercom signaled him and he gave her a bitter smile and activated it. "Orchid what is it?"

"I'm sorry sir but the Lady Camellia is here, she wants to speak to you in the name of her station." Orchid stammered as Sadri palled as he looked at the door, his heart beating loudly as he swallowed. What could she want to talk to me about, she couldn't have gotten in touch with him and gotten orders to stop my plans, could she? Could they know the truth about what I'm doing? Sadri thought as he tried to keep his composure and swallowed before pressing the intercom.

"Send her in Orchid, please." Sadri said as his daughter looked on with a blank stare.

Camellia walked into the room with a sense of purpose and authority in her walk that almost caused Nudara to bow down and she saw her father move his body and inwardly scoffed at him. So you can act so tough and powerful when you are 'talking' to those you considered lower then you but when you meet someone with real power, then you cave in. And this is why I'm going to expose you, and take advantage of 'that' law when I do! She thought as she looked at her father with a hard look in her eyes, never noticing that Camellia had seen it.

"Lady Camellia, what can I do for one of the Count's Elite? Is this because of the attack last night, because I can assure you that….." He trailed off as Camellia looked at him and smiled, a single fang revealed that caused him to swallow.

"Lord Sadri, rest assured this is has nothing to with the attack, I merely wanted to talk to you about your railroad." Camellia said as she sat down in a chair as

"My railroad…. Of course! Now we're only in the survey portion of the project and for only at least ten miles out so far, but it looks good. Advanced since the last time this was done with seals will enable us to keep Pokémon from damaging the tracks and will allow us to know the state of them at all times." Sadri said as he felt relief that this was why she was here. "Rest assured before I gave the go ahead to even attempt this I went over all the previous tries and looked into how each part of the project failed then, this time we will succeed and usher in a new era for this Domain."

Camellia looked at him as he talked, her mind wandering to the man's daughter. Something about her was familiar to her senses.

Nudara looked on as her father talked, and did all she could to keep a frown off her face. He's not telling us anything, he has another reason behind this… there's no way that he could use this for that so why…I need to talk to the Spiderling, get the girls to start looking into when his next shipment is and have her integrate the people we capture. She thought as she listened.

"….and I am convinced that this will allow the Domain to be much more profitable." Sadri finished as he smiled and looked at her. Camellia smiled and nodded as she got up.

"The only thing left to talk about is the attack; do you have any leads yet?" She asked as Sadri started to sweet a little.

"Not yet, I have a few people who I think could be behind it. I am looking into an unknown Homunculus Maker as the source, the mastermind I have a few leads, based on previous investigations and the like my Lady." Sadri said as he scowled. "My personal bet is on that with Nightsprout, she's always attacked my interests!"

"'Nightsprout'? Camellia asked as Sadri blushed before Nudara interjected.

"Lynda Nightsprout, a pirate that has been attacking my father's shipments for a while now. Most recently she attacked a ship and took everything but the engine from it." Nuderea said as the others turned to her, her father paling as she kept speaking. "No one knows who she is or where her ship came from, she came out of nowhere and started to make a name for herself."

Camellia looked at Sadri before turning towards Nudara. "Perhaps your daughter can tell me some more about her, she seems to know just who you think was behind the attack."

"I would be happy to my lady, but would you mind if I ask for a few pointers, I'm a pretty good amateur Performer and I would love some tips from the current champion's couch." Nudara said as she curtsied to Camellia who smiled in return.

"I would love to my dear, come I believe that there's a good restaurant nearby that has privacy curtains, at least according to the guidebook for the city." Camellia said as she smiled at the younger teen and turned towards the door, Nudara following behind her.

Sadri waited until the door closed before dropping in a chair and had a clutched his chest as he fought to get his breathing back under control.

"Your father seemed to be…." Camellia trailed off as she tried to find a polite word to use when Nudara just scoffed.

"Overbearing, controlling and full of himself?" Nudara asked with a complete dead tone. "My lady I was dealt with that my whole life, it's really nothing new."

"My apologies, I was trying to be polite. But this plan of his do you know anything, is he serious

about them?" Camellia asked, seeing ways from publicity, a PR or banking on it failing for some reason for him to go to the effort behind his project.

"He sprung it on everyone, I knew he has been trying to amass a lot of financing for the last year or so, I never even saw a single ripple of this." Nudara said with a chuckle as she inwardly winced. I have to look at the spies I set up here and there about the house, if he's planning those off site then I need to find out where, if he arranges an ambush then this might be over. She thought as she tried to figure out what she could safely tell Camellia. "But I do know that my father's plans are never as straightforward as it seems."

Camellia looked at her as she said this, detecting another point that his daughter at least had a good head on her shoulders. As they passed an old woman being helped by a younger teen she saw the old woman look at her and nod to her, Camellia doing everything not to react. So their going for that route, good they might find something. Still a good meal while I talk to a young Performer is just what I needed. Camellia thought as she looked about.

"So, what kind of questions do you have my dear, I have nothing but time.

"I was wondering why Lilith isn't on the circuit this year, I was looking forwards to seeing what she has." Nudera asked as Camellia forced a smile onto her face.

"Oh my girl went out to try the way out there; if I remember right she went to Kalos to try the contests there, something about a petition to let males perform." Camellia said as she shrugged at Nudera's look. "Something about something called the Pokémon Showcase being opened only for girls, I'm not sure she really choose the region at random."

As the two walked off they never noticed someone had overheard them and ran off, a manic look on his face as he ran, hoping that his master wouldn't react to badly about what he had learned about Lilith.

A helicopter flew towards the lake and as it came in over the trees something dropped from it and landed in a tree and moved as a shadow towards the dock which was a hive of activity. The helicopter landed and a woman with Lilac hair in a long ponytail that went to the middle of her back got out. She had on sunglasses that hid her eyes and looked around the area, a frown on her face as she observed the port. She saw the remains of the sunken ship and saw row boats moving from the island to the shoreline, a line of officers directing people getting out of the boats into either a tent or vans, and moved towards the tent at a brisk walk. An officer was standing outside the tent and went to attention when he saw her walk towards him, saluting as he did so.

"Ma'am! I'm the officer that was in charge of the relief effort! The warden's inside getting a head count of everyone, you'll want to talk to him I take it?" He asked as she reached him. As she nodded, he opened the tent flap and let her in. She stepped into a mad house as people talked with each other as they rushed about. After a while she noticed a bald man with glasses in a brown suit stood in the middle cleaning his head with a handkerchief and was looking at a guard who had a radio before a map of the island in the lake.

"….I can't believe this, how, just how? I want someone to explain to me how the hell something like that could have been on the island for so long without anyone finding it, I mean we have patrols!" The bald man demanded of the guard and the guard only looked sheepish as he shrugged.

"I just can't tell you boss. I mean I went that way about a week ago and I saw boulders in front of where the tunnel is. I guess sometime in the past a battle caused the tunnel to be sealed on our end, the only way it makes sense." The guard said as the woman walked towards the warden.

"Problems Warden?" She asked, causing him to jump and turn to him with an angry look on his face.

"Who the hell are you, we're in the middle of a situation here!" He demanded as she only reached into her suit and withdrew the badge of the International Police causing him to pale as he realized who she was. "Ahhhh. You must be the agent they said that would be sent here, how do you do? I'm the warden, Jared Torix and we just found out how Team Galactic made their attack on us."

"Agent A, explain how you think they did it." Agent A said coldly as the Warden started to sweet.

"Well first we believe that they were behind the two attacks of the Water packs. A disposable chemical dispenser was found in the bilge of the ship that released what we think, what we know was a chemical lure." Warden Jared said as he watched Agent A and swallowed before spitting out what had gotten him so made. And while they attacked from the ship they attacked from behind."

"How did they get on the island without anyone noticing, shouldn't that be impossible." She said as Jared shot a glare at a guard before sighing and dropping his shoulders.

"Ahhh yes about that. it seems that when the surveyed the island they didn't quite check on a rock formation that hide a tunnel."

"That went where?" Agent A asked as she looked at the Warden looked away.

"A cliff face to the north of the lake from the prison island overlooking the dock. The second force used that to slip a force that attacked the prison as the ship force attacked from the front." The warden said as he watched the agent's face go stormy as she stood there until she seemed to stare at him through her glass and made him want to cover.

"A tunnel that leads from the mainland to the island, I won't make noise but this will affect if the prison will remain active." Agent A said as she looked at the warden who only nodded. "But have you been able to identify all the prisoners, who was taken?"

"Well we don't have complete records yet, a lot of them are still round the island, the attackers set it on fire before they left so the people all escaped into the wild." Warden Jared said as he looked at her. "But we know that at least the people we had in one of our solitary cells."

"And who was there?" Agent A asked as she looked at him. he swallowed and looked at her before speaking.

"Two members of Team Rocket captured in Johto, the Phantom; international crime boss; Colorless and Geist, both leadership tier of Team Plasma, which is who we believe was behind them." Jared said as he looked at her, somehow know she was glaring at him through her glasses. "We think that they hired Team Galactic's remnants to buy time, not knowing that we had a shift changing coming in an hour after resupply for the day after, we leave that up to the local police to coordinate."

"That's something that I will recommend stays the same no matter what, but I need to talk with the convoy leader, I have to get his expressions of the incident." She said as he nodded at her.

"Of course my lady of course. Please don't let me keep you, I'll just stay here and keep count of the prisoners, I've already issued orders that some of the guards to watch the tunnel on both ends." Jared said as Agent A walked way. Jared gritted his teeth and forced down a snarl. That stupid bitch, all I need to do was to bribe the agent who came but not the famous Agent A! I just can't believe this, if they find out that I knew about that tunnel and kept it as an unofficial escape route, not even that I let gangers buy data about transfers. He thought as he looked after her before turning to the guards watching him. "What the heck are you all doing, get back to work! I want numbers of how many more trips we need, I want to know how the packs are behaving and I want numbers on total recaptured prisoners now!"

Agent A smirked as she walked towards a cafeteria where the truckers had been sequestered. She looked towards the trucks and saw a few mechanics going over them and he just knew that this was going to cost them but the contracts called for the repairs if they were attacked by criminals on the way to and from the prison. And to think that the warden thought he was so smart to make it that the area that was for this was before the pass, he never thought that it would happen. She thought with a smirk as she entered the room and suddenly two people stood in front of her and looked down at her.

"Well, well what have we here? Do you need one of us for a scapegoat?" One of the people growled, Agent A looked at them and inside she knew that this was something that would go on her report.

"Oh you two, let her in she's not with those bastards with the warden." A voice from behind caused them to look at each other and step aside to see the truckers were all against the walls with the leader in the center.

"I hope you will forgive my boys, they mean well but we don't know if they'll gonna use us as scapegoats or not." He said as he gestured to a chair across from him.

"I completely understand but I have to ask how you came to that conclusion." She asked as he looked at her before nodding.

"When the guards came back and we helped get the emergency boats into the water and sent a few to help the prison out, after the warden and his personal guards came we were told we weren't needed and put here." Zed said as he shrugged as the truckers looked on. "Some of my people are a bit security concerned so they upgraded their trucks with a little surveillance tech and then well…. We heard a few of his boys talking about buying them after they were impounded and we were set up as accessories."

Agent A looked away with a scowl on her face. That is so going on my report. Well warden I think you and yours are going to be some of the only people who understand what it feels like to be on both sides of a cell. She thought as she looked back at him. "On behalf of the International Police, I promise that only the guilt will be punished for this. But I need to know everything you can tell me."

"Fine then little lady, that's just fine! The name's Ariados Zen, call me Zen little lady. Well to start off I had a bad feeling about the replacement crew, something just rubbed me wrong about them." Zen said as he offered her his hand. She shook it and activated a record before nodding at him. "Any how once we started to leave I felt something was wrong so when we made it to the pass and that feeling intensified I ordered the convoy to circle the wagon so to speak and then we were attack from the tress by Pokémon, the trainers had to have stayed out of sight."

"The species of Pokémon used were?" Agent A asked as Zen nodded at her and scowled.

"Yeah, once I saw their line up and saw their uniform I knew that something was wrong. They used Raticates, Golbats and a few Beartic." Zen said as Agent A looked at him and nodded, understanding that with the exception of Golbat those weren't Pokémon that Team Galactic or Team Plasma used in the past, but the types canceled out the guards Pokémon so they could have made their teams for that reason. But who got that Intel, that's a large clue into who is behind this. It could have been gathered by someone watching the prison, but how long did the attack take to plan, that's the real question. She thought as she tried to understand what she had just heard.

"So you held them off until their airship came and they retreated then. How long were you there before the guard shift came?" Agent A said as Zen smirked.

"We were there for about an hour before their cars found us, told them about what we saw and offered to help." Zen said as he shrugged.

Agent A looked behind her in the direction of the tent the warden was in and silently promised to make his life hell.

Jared looked about as he got the last bit of information from the island and started to pace around the room. Besides a few stragglers and the people from the solitary confinement, we were able to recover everyone and I expect that I'll have the last few besides them in a few hours. He thought before a cleared throat behind him caused him to turn and see a man with a black goatee into the same uniform as his guards but wearing a black armband around his right arm.

"We went through the tunnel and found nothing; the tunnel goes straight from the cliff to the island, no side tunnels or off shoots leading anywhere else. Basic animal life, a few signs of Pokemon hunting there but nothing that would have told us about." The man said as he looked at Jared. Jared sighed and gestured for him to follow him out of the tent and away from the people towards the trees.

"We have trouble, the Internation Police sent the great Agent A herself." Jared said when they reached the tress. The man with the black goatee whistled and looked at the dock, looking at the building and smirking when he saw a few truckers looking out the windows, a thoughtful look in his eyes as he tried to figure out how to use this, a grin slowly growing on his face as he looked at the building.

"Perfect boss; all we have to do is send the rest of the lower guards to the island, and then get the bitch to the wilderness." Benard said as Jared looked up at him, a look of confusion as he listened. "Once she's taking out, we can kill the truckers and say they tried to escape and fought to kill us, killed her and say they were Team Galactic fanatics all along, buying time for their leaders to try and escape."

Jared looked at Bernard and started to chuckle. "That could work, it will work! We can get rid of her and the truckers trucks don't have to be repaired; we can sell them for scrap!"

As Jared and Bernard walked back towards the tent, they never noticed a figure in the trees had been watching them.

Yellow looked around the people as they gathered to the entrance to Route and sighed. I know that we all talked about it between each other and we decided that this was for the best, but I still don't like this, I mean with what could happen when we leave….but we can't let this chance slip by. She thought as the hustle and bustle died down and she looked towards the front as Giovanni walked to the front where a small stand had been set up.

"I won't introduce myself because you all know me, you wouldn't be here if you didn't. We're attacking what could cause another Siege and I remember the last one, all the lives we lost because of those things." Giovanni said as the people around him started to yell and Yellow felt a shiver go through her, part of her wanting to go with them and attack the Chimera but she couldn't, she had to help her friends. "But don't lose heart; we are going to stop this! We will go into the mountains and we will make that their death grounds! Today, we live and they fall!"

The crowd roared before quieting down as Giovanni raised his hands and resumed speaking. "We are not alone! As I speak Bruno is leading a force from the Plateau! We will crush them between us and save our families, are you with me?!"

At the final roar all the trainers and volunteers released their Pokémon and Giovanni smiled and turned to Lance, Brock and Yuji as they stood behind him.

"Well what do you all think; good motivational speech?" He asked as he released an Onix as the others looked at each other.

"Not bad Gio, not bad. Think we'll draw the short straw or will Bruno?" Lance asked as Giovanni chuckled and shook his head.

"If we're lucky then Bruno will but I think it will be us, unless their attacking the Plateau. Got any eyes for strong trainers doctor?" Giovanni asked Brock as he got on his

Brock released his Steelix and sighed as he made sure his two hammers were secure on his back as he looked around and noticed Riley and Rosettestanding together back in the center of the trainers, all of them getting on their Pokémon. "The plan is the same as we discussed earlier?"

Lance nodded at him and released his own Pokemon, a Salamance he got onto its back. "Yeah; we find and attack the Chimera, using an opening a small group breaks off and attacks their den. If anyone from Bruno's group can do the same then both groups will meet up and together they hit the 'mother', that's why we have those modified Gears, so we can meet up."

Brock nodded, the local gears they had been given were modified to connect to any other modified gear, all they had to do was get close to them and they would detect each other. Lance was smart to add those to the plan, never even knew it was possible to do that with tech. And this might be the best plan to deal with the 'mother' we have but I still don't like this one bit. Brock looked at the others and felt he had to bring up his concern before they left.

"I still think there are too many parts, if those things have even one of them escape, then who knows what could happen." Brock said as his Steelix moved down to let him get on. "If they can make a comeback!" Lance Giovanni and Yuji all shivered at Brock's words as they thought about all of the terrible history and legends about Chimera and they imagined what could happen.

"That's what we have to prevent, and striking now is the best thing we can do, with Bruno oming down one of use will be able to slip behind them and strike at their hive mind's source." Lance said as he got onto his Salamance and looked at Brock. "Giving how they act after we kill the Alpha strains, logically if we kill the source-mind then we can kill them all."

"Still." Yuji said as he got onto his Tauros and looked at the trainers, his eyes catching Riley on his Salamence and Rosette on her Arcanine and knew those two would most likely be part of the secondary attack team, if only to find out how they were released from the seal the guardian's setup to deal with the Chimera in the first place. "What do you think our chances are to pull this off right are, really?"

"Good enough, once we met the Chimera we have to look out for any kinds that might be plant-like, they have to be the source of the spores, good thing they don't work on humans, and I right or not?" Lance asked with a chuckle as Brock nodded, a spike of fear hidden as he felt his new abilities just below his skin and wonder if he would affected by the spores now. "All we have to do is make sure that we don't get bogged down and they don't have any more surprises to throw at us, then we can deal with permanently."

"With what we saw up there doc, you gotta admit we need a force like this just to handle what those things can put between us and their nest. We tried the small approach, now we've got no choice but to go the heavy way." Yuji said as he looked at Brock before looking around at the trainers. This might be for the best; Salma is staying behind to help Jenny out and talk to her about becoming that girl's guardian. I just hope that survivor they found talks, I don't like the fact that someone was around the city to make a base and I didn't hear about it. Yuji thought as he sighed and looked at Giovanni as he rode his Pokémon to the entrance to the Route and turned to look at the trainers and Pokémon.

"YOU ALL KNOW WHY WE'RE DOING THIS, SO HEAD 'EM OUT!" Giovanni screamed and pointed forward and with a roar those who had joined the assault squadron moved out.

Rosette reached down and petted her Arcanine head as it whimpered a little and stood still as the other trainers and their Pokémon moved by the two. "Don't worry partner, this time we're going to have some help to deal with them."

"And you shouldn't have to deal with them at all, they did fire you and use you as a scapegoat remember." Riley said to her left, causing her to smile a little as Cameron stood next to his teacher and nodded.

"Yeah, once the all of them see how hard it is to fight these things you'd probably get that dishonorable discharge overturned easily!" Cameron said as Rosette just chuckled and shook her head.

"'To Defend and Protect', that's the oath I took when I graduated and joined. This is a threat that killed my outpost, I need to help put it down, and you need somebody to watch your back." Rosette said as she looked at Riley as Cameron clenched his hands and looked at Riley who shook his head.

"No Cameron." Riley cut off Cameron before he could even open his mouth. "We talked about this, you know why you have to stay here, and you know why."

Cameron looked at his teacher and turned his head. "I still think I should go and help you master, do you really think….." Cameron trailed off as Riley nodded and Cameron just sighed. "Good luck then master, come back alive, I can't carry on alone."

Riley nodded as his Dragon Type took off before Arcanine started off, never noticing the look Rosette sent him, wondering what the exchange master and student was about.

Yellow stood with her bow over her shoulder on the wall and watched as the trainers rode their Pokémon towards the mountain. Good luck warriors, if everything goes like you planned then me and my friends can slip away with no problems. She thought as she watched, never noticing someone behind her.

"So when are you kids going off and why?" Pakwa asked, causing Yellow to spin around clutching her heart.

"Must you always do that appearing garbage all the time!? And how'd you know?" Yellow asked as the group left the city as the two of them watched the army leave to head towards the mountain Chimera to defeat them.

"Let me have a little pleasure girl, at my age you gotta take what you can get." Pakwa said as she looked into her past as she smiled. "I'm sure when you get to around my age you'll have

"I saw you grab my granddaughter at the gathering and saw you talk on the march to Viridian. Haven't figured out the why, figured the best thing to do was wait a little but you'll all not going with them so what are you all doing?" Pakwa demanded as Yellow looked at her.

Yellow bit her lips as she looked at the Matriarch of one of the three biggest farming families in the Viridian area, a woman who had weathered two Sieges and killed Chimera with ease, a former Pokemon League member who was once on the list of people who could have been one of the Elite. It might be good to tell them what's happening. Yellow sighed and looked at her.

"When I saw those plant things, I saw them attack Team Gaia, and I saw someone who's missing fight on their side." Yellow said as Pakwa went still and nodded.

"And it was someone who my grandchild knows and she's going with you to pull 'em out so not someone who would be with the bastards." Pakwa muttered and nodded as she thought. Has to be a friend to both of 'em, but who? Someone who all of them want to help. Pakwa thought as she looked at Yellow.

"Sure they just didn't join up with 'em, bastards are convincing, I mean I almost got suckered by em you know?" Pakwa asked and Yellow started to laugh.

"Him be pulled in by them, never! They had to have done something to him, that the only explanation that makes sense!" and she nodded at the younger girl. So someone who wouldn't join them normally; then does that mean Gaia using brainwashing to control their 'recruits'. Pakwa thought as she sighed.

"I can't figure out who it is but are all of you going to leave soon?" Pakwa asked as Yellow looked at her sternly.

"We were planning to wait until we were sure that the Chimera didn't get a group around the attackers, so sometime tonight." Yellow said as she looked at Pakwa who huffed and looked at Yellow.

"You all think that this is the best thing to do, go and maybe fight, if people see

"We're just going in force to make sure we can fight our way out if we have to, if our friend is who we think. We're planning to Of course if someone makes a stink about it!" Yellow said as she looked at Pakwa with a deadpan look to her eyes before Pakwa sighed and nodded.

"Fine, fine. I won't make any noise about it, I owe you for the how you saved me grandnieces during the plague, but just come back and you better leave where those fools are hiding for me." Pakwa said as Yellow raised an eyebrow before Pakwa continued. "If you get captured then we, I need to know so I can get the Rangers and League to come and save you young whippersnappers."

Yellow nodded, never noticing Cameron moving towards the hospital to guard it from the outside, his head looking at the attackers over his shoulder as he moved. I'm glad Yuji told us about what the police called the gym about, but I wish I could have gone with Master. But if the Order sends a kill team, if some of their precious 'Sanctified' or Inquisitors are part of the attackers, the way they could tear through the police, I gotta be here to back them up if that happens. Cameron thought as he moved closer to the hospital, wondering just where he would hide when he got there.

As all the Chanesy moved about and harvested berries as a Machoke in armor looked on as Machops in armor wielding swords moved about the clearing as the Chaneseys did their work. He sighed as he thought about what he had done to earn this 'gift', leading an attack on the enemy. The attack on the Old Ogre when they had killed the Tropius, he could agree that he had acted without telling command but that thing's creatures had already killed his sire, didn't the Queen and the Champion think of that!? His sire had served for years and broken rebellions and led campaigns that gave them the domination of their territory, he had found another of the ancient bases and a tree with a Power Fruit in the name of the creator! So one of the Ogre's things had attacked and taken that site, the guard had to be

A pat on its leg caused it to look down at Chanesy holding a yellow berry for it to eat. He took it he nodded at the Chanesy who smiled and moved back to the bushes and went back to work. At least some mon appreciated his work. He reached down and picked up his double sided axe and let it rest on his shoulder and moved, might as well do a patrol, keep moving and all that. As he walked he saw most of the Machops diligently walking around, most but not all. One of them was just sitting on a log and looking away from the Chanseys as they worked.

"Machoke!" The Machoke barked at the Machop which turned its head to look at him, a scowl on its face as it stood up and saluted. "Machoke Mach oke Machoke!"

"Machop, Mac hop!" The Machop barked back and picked up its spear and pointed towards a tree farther out, indicating three scratch marks on it. … Machoke looked at it and went still, the marks were from one of the Ogre's followers and it was fresh, but the berries were still there, why hadn't that thing taken them….this was a trap! As soon as he realized what they were planning he looked at the Machop and saw that it had returned to looking into the direction the claw marks were…it had been standing guard in a non-threatening way in case they were being watched. Looking at the Machop it shook its head at him and gestured absently, there weren't anything at this time but they should hurry.

"Machoke! Macho Choke!" He barked at the Pokemon in the clearing and the Machops stood still for a few seconds before nodding and held their weapons tighter and nodded, each of them looking about and moving closer to the Chanesy as each of them moved to fill the remaining baskets as fast as they could. Machoke looked on with pride as his soldiers moved about and protected their charges as the spear wielder looked back at him and nodded before looking around quickly. Machoke looked at the spear wielder as it stood up and looked around, a strange feeling growing in its heart. What's wrong, wait…it couldn't have, could it? The Machoke thought before a roar caused him to turn and curse.

Machoke looked towards where the roar had come from and stared as fifteen Goblins charged at them. He grinned and pointed his sword at the attackers bellowed a war cry that was answered by his soldiers and ten of them charged with him as the Chanseys ran in the opposite direction of the attackers and he scowled as the spear wielder stayed when he was. He would deal with that one after the battle and ran towards the attackers when a roar came from behind him, stopping him cold. He turned and stared as five more of the Goblins charged, shocked at what he was seeing. They charged at the Chanseys as he stared shocked, the markings had been a trap, first let them see it and then attack from the opposite direction of the main push, all to let them ambush the Chanseys, it couldn't let the larger force kill his soldiers, but it had to protect the non-combatants; what could he do.

The spear wielder merely got up and took a stance and suddenly shot forward and with an aura comet trailing it as crashed into the Goblins and killed one, speared through its head before using the momentum to swing in a circle and drive back the rest of them as the Chanseys huddled by the log.

"Machop, Ma Chop!" The Spear wielder called out as it looked at Machoke with a grin on its face as Machoke stared at it in shock. Deal with the first group and let it handle these four?! As Machoke stared the spear wielder kicked its legs out and rotated its arms as the remaining Goblins looked at it with shock before it charged at them, swinging its weapon as it drove them back. The other Machoke stared before laughing and charged at the other force, smiling as it saw its soldiers had killed two of them. When it reached them it swung out with its sword and cut the head off on another one and broke the guard of another one letting another Machop slice into its head and kill it. The Machoke nodded at its soldier before he roared and charged at the Goblins, a savage joy filling its heart as it fought and killed.

The spear wielder looked back at his leader and kept a sigh down as he fought against the Goblins, wounding another of them in the right eye before clubbing another as it tried to get by him to get at the healers; he was starting to see just why the Champion had sent him to watch over that one, after losing some of their forces to attack the old Ogre and its spawn after they killed a Tropius and feasted on their kill, it was smart but it would have been better to follow them and finally find the Ogre's new lair. As another of the four Goblins charged at him the spear wielder jumped backwards and slashed its top eye and as it screeched in pain and the other three charged at the spear wielder and he grinned, his own battle lust coming up.

As Machoke cut a Goblin in two it saw that its soldiers had killed another two and were starting to double team the remaining Goblins, stepping backwards he saw the spear wielder kill another of the Goblins and the last three stammer backwards before they broke and ran from the battle. The spear wielder turned to look at him and he gestured towards the Chanseys the spear wielder nodded and turning back to the battle he saw that only four Goblins remained he laughed as he charged at the remaining four. Two of the Goblins looked at the other two before looking at each other and they roared before charging at Machoke. The charging two ran at him jumped at him and he laughed and sliced one in two and kicked the other to the side into a tree with a lightning quick movement. Turning back he saw the last two Goblins running away and he laughed as his soldiers cheered. As the Chanseys moved to pick up the dropped fruit Machoke gestures to five of his followers to help them as the rest of them looked around, waiting for an attack by anything else.

The three Goblins ran until they couldn't, finally stopping their flight before a small creek and one roared and slammed a hand against a tree "WAAGRELA!" It cried as one of the others slumped down and shook as the last one splashed water on its face. The one at the water looked around, hoping to find anything that they might bring back as tribute to the Ogre. It saw the expressions on the others faces and knew that they were thinking it as well. Since a large amount of the others had been killed by those traitors who betrayed the old one and the one with the dead eye was bringing back smaller and smaller food with the other parties bring back more, they needed to find a better food source and the plants might have been a good source but the creatures were guarding it.

"C'Vorlog." A deep voice behind caused them to turn and see the Ogre looking at them with a look of concern. The one by the water stared as the others started to tell the Ogre what had happened and the Ogre nodded and walked towards them. The one by the stream looked at the old one and moved backwards slowly, something in him telling him that this was wrong, that something was very wrong. As one of the two Goblins turned and pointed towards the berries the Ogre suddenly thrust its right hand through the Goblin's body and held it's still beating heart before crushing it. Looking at the Goblin closest to it the Ogre opened its mouth and sent a blast of a black liquid at it, covering its face and causing it to scream as the poison burnt the Goblins face. The remaining Goblin stepped backwards and turned and started to run before coughing out blood as the Ogre's arm speared the Goblin before the Ogre tore the Goblin's head from its shoulders. The Ogre looked around and started to eat the corpses, hoping that the flesh it returned to its body would fuel the birth of stronger slaves once it was done. A sound caused the Ogre to stop and look around before seeing a small rabbit run away from a bush and it shrugged and went back to eating before washing off and walking back to its lair.

Deadeye looked at the two Goblins who were staring with wide eyes it he kept its hands over their mouths before removing them after the Ogre left and watched as they reacted to what they all had seen. As one of them threw up Deadeye grabbed its shoulder and squeezed it, both of them looking at him with shell-shocked expressions on their faces, Deadeye looking at with a worried look on its face but inside it was happy to have more 'pawns'. Deadeye cleared its throat and smiled at the two of them, prepared to get them to follow it.

Later on Deadeye brought them through the passage way to the castle it had claimed and it saw the others waiting for them, Left and Right both had their spears in hand and for saluted with their free hands as the others welcomed the Goblins to the castle. Left started to chat at Deadeye and Right grabbed Deadeye and pulled it towards the castle the others followed after them as the two Goblins were passed a few plants as food. Deadeye looked at the castle as they neared it and saw that they had started to repair sections of it. Good, their keeping busy. Still if that one is willing to eat our own then everything it told us was a lie. That weakling is gone so that's good but the Old one has gone crazy! But what could those two have found that's made them so…excited. Deadeye thought as it followed the others into the castle, never noticing a shadow with wings for arms had landed on the castle wall.

Deadeye followed Left and Right into the castle, the others following until they reached a doorway that the two opened to revealed a room full of weapons. As Deadeye looked about a two short swords caught its eye and picking them up it grinned and started to slice imaginary enemies. Deadeye laughed and the others cooed until they stopped when a deep chuckle came around before sparks hit them from the rooms Window.

[Well, is the idea of a new weapon so much o great one?] They heard before Deadeye looked around as they tried to figure out where the voice had come from. Deadeye growled until another spark hit it.

[Oh my, are you not able to understand how I'm talking with you?] Deadeye looked around and snarled before the sound of something caused all of them to turn towards the door and see a shadow move away from it. Deadeye charged after it and suddenly four feathers shot at it. Deadeye blocked the feathers with the swords and saw a shadow move up stairs, Deadeye charged after it with the others following. As Deadeye charged onto the roof of the castle a chuckle before a mass seven wet masses of flesh suddenly hit the roof in front of Deadeye as the other Goblins made it onto the roof before sparks hit all of them.

[Here, eat and know what you are and what you can do.] The voice 'said' before Deadeye looked at the others before one of the new Goblins grabbed one of the masses and ate it. It went still before it looked at the others and a spark of blue energy shot from it to the others.

[Eat, eat and know all that the Old One kept from us.] The others 'heard' before Deadeye ate the masses, going still as knowledge. Deadeye saw everything that it didn't know, how the blessing was the birthright of their entire kind, how they were all its spawn and how it denied all of them even the right to converse with their kindred. As the others started to growl at the ways that the Ogre had controlled them and with a snarl on its face it turned around and tried to find the source of the messages. The sound of a figure jumping caused them to look up and see a humanoid figure with wings for arms, a beak and four talons on its feet, its body covered in black feathers. Deadeye looked at the figure as it sent a bolt of energy at it.

[Greetings, I am would be known to you as Shadow-Wing, oh Lord of this place.] Deadeye looked at the Chimera and sent a bolt back at it.

[I thank you for the gift you have given me and mine Shadow-Wing, but I would ask why?]Shadow-Wing looked at Deadeye and chuckled before it sent a bolt back.

[We're the same you know, we both have leaders who would destroy us, I believe that you would want to live. My proposal is that we destroy them first, I would help you and then you would help me by killing those who would block my own ascension, and the commanded might would be under your control.] Deadeye looked at Shadow-Wing and thought hard and looked at the others before sending bolts at all of them, telling them what Shadow-Wing had told it. Right and Left looked at each other and had a conversation of quick bolts while Brute looked into nothingness while Clawer had a look of complication as it thought about what it now knew, the other two looking around surprise. After a while Right sent sparks at the others before they all nodded and it sent a bolt at Deadeye.

[Lord, you brought us here and gave us a new beginning, what you desire we shall do.] Deadeye looked at them and turned back to Shadow-Wing and grinned before sending a bolt at it.

[Then let us plan how we will kill the Ogre, perhaps by letting our two problems kill each other?] Shadow-Wing r returns Deadeye's grin, both of them thinking out to use the other to their advantage.