"Hello?" Ruby glanced at his pokegear uninterested. He was trying to ignore the brunette making faces behind him.

"Hey! Ruby!" It was Crystal.

Ruby focussed on the screen, fully ignoring Sapphire as she scurried over to his side. "Crystal? What's up? Are you alright? Where's the danger," he asked.

The black haired girl sighed. "Fifth person who assumed we were in danger. Anyhow! Is Sapph with you? I'm trying to tell everyone tha-"

The girl at his side perked up at the mention of her name. "I'm here! Nice to see ya senior," Sapphire shouted jumping up and down. Her head would appear just above Ruby's with every leap. She was basically using Ruby's shoulders as a springboard.

Ruby fell forward a bit, not ready for the extra weight. "Ah! What the heck!?"

Sapphire snorted and jumped backwards. "What? Can a priss like ya not even hold up somethin'?"

He turned on her. "Of course I can! At least my strength is normal unlike your barbaric amount of strength," Ruby snapped.

"What did you say?!" Sapphire's eyes glinted menacingly. "I will-"

"AHEM!"

They turned back to the pokegear to see Crystal's angry face. Seeing she had their attention once more, she went from angry to serious once more. "As I was saying, we're all going to Sinnoh to investigate something... and you guys have new juniors. You better not do anything like that around them."

"What?!" Both Ruby and Sapphire's mouths dropped open.

"Yes, now meet us at..." She paused and looked down. "At the Old Château in Sinnoh tomorrow, if possible. There's a ferry from Hoenn leaving at 8:00."

They both nodded.

"Okay!" Crystal gave a small wave. "See you then. Bye!"

"I wonder how the others are doing. We haven't seen them in a while." Sapphire leaned against the railing of the boat, not caring about the spray getting her wet. Ruby on the other hand...

"Ew! who knows how dirty that is! Get away from it!"

"Calm down ya priss! It's just water," she said with a giggle. Ruby cringed as she pulled him closer to the tail. "Its Sinnoh! Aren't ya excited?"

Some of the tension in his body relaxed. "Hopefully it will be a good experience. And they have contests!" He looked at the shore with new hope.

Sapphire rolled her eyes. "Oh. My. Arceus," she groaned, emphasizing each word. "You're such a s***!"

This made Ruby snarl. "Says the barbaric p-"

A voice sounded over the intercom and interrupted what would have turned into a shouting match. "We are now docking in Canalave City. We hope you enjoy your stay and thank you for using our services!"

"Yes!" Sapphire didn't wait before leaping into the water. She was swimming to the shore before the boat had even gotten to the dock.

A girl raced to the spot where Sapphire had been standing. "Is she okay," she asked, looking over the railing. Her light blue eyes were wide. "Why would she..." the girl trailed off.

Ruby nodded. "I agree.."

They sat in silence for a few minutes, watching Sapphire walk onto the shore and start shaking herself out like a dog. The girl next to Ruby shrugged. "Well, you two see like a weird couple, to say the least-"

"We are not a couple!" Ruby shifted his gaze around nervously. "What about you? You must have came here with someone."

"What? Nooo." Her face was dusted with light pink. "Um… Well... besides the retarded pokemon addict over there." She pointed to her right. To empty air. Wait! Where'd he go? She jumped in surprise. "What?! Where the hell is he?"

Ruby spotted a figure at the edge of his vision, standing on the beach.

"MY NAME IS BLACK AND I AM THE CHAMPION OF THE UNOVA REGION!"

Ruby practically fell backwards. Whoever it was, they sure were loud. His ears were ringing. Even though they were far from his location, he had heard it as clear as day. "Found him," Ruby mumbled, though he couldn't hear himself say anything.

The two figures on the beach turned to each other, before sending out two pokemon.

"SAPPHIRE," Ruby called.

"BLACK," the girl shouted.

This wouldn't be pretty.

Sapphire caught Rono's pokeball out of the air. "Hahaha! I beat ya! Are all trainers from Unova that weak?"

Black recalled Reshiram. "How were you able to beat Reshiram like that?!"

The girl smirked. She wagged a finger at him, as if he should already know the answer. "It's easy if ya have a weak opponent!"

This made Black bristle. He rolled the sleeves of his jacket up and started stomping towards her. "Oh you're asking for-" Black felt the back of his shirt get tugged as he lunged at the girl.

White slapped Black lightly. "You do not scream and battle!"

He struggled in her grip. "But White! It's my passion!"

In the meantime, Ruby had walked up to Sapphire. He sprayed the spray bottle at her. "Bad girl! You do not battle and provoke people!"

She hissed at him. "At least I don't squirt people with spray bottles!" She grabbed his arm, tossing him over her head and into the water. She ignored his girly shriek as he plunged into the waves. "HOWS DOES IT FEEL?"

White stared at the place Ruby had disappeared into the waves. "Will he be okay?"

She shrugged. Her nose pointed in the air as she turned her back on the water. "Who knows?"

Ruby dragged himself onto land, sopping wet and dirty from his ordeal. Then he promptly collapsed on land. "Well, we have to go. Nice seeing ya," Sapphire said rolling her eyes. She turned, picked up Ruby, and ran. Many people watched their retreat in concern.

White tilted her head. She wasn't quite sure what to think about the odd couple. "They were something weren't they?" No response came from Black. Her palm hit her forehead. "Oh come on."

Black already had Mush out of it's pokeball. Did he really have to let Musha chomp on his head now?

A moment passed before he pulled the musharna off his head. "Okay. We have to get to Sandgem. Right?"

White nodded. She grabbed her vullaby's pokeball, letting it out. "Barbara! I know you haven't been there befor,e but can you fly to Sandgem?" The pokemon nodded, getting ready to fly.

Black grabbed Brav's pokeball. "Brav can you follow Barabara?" The pokemon nodded.

"Let's go," they cried, and took off.

"It's you from before!" Black stared at Sapphire as he entered the lab. He had recognized her instantly.

Sapphire smirked and rocked on her heels."I could say the same about you."

"Wanna battle again sometime," Black asked. His eyes twinkled. She wasn't a bad opponent.

Sapphire lifted one thumb up. "Anytime. Anywhere."

Crystal glanced at Ruby. "So these were the kids you met earlier?"

"Ya..." he said sheepishly.

A small smile appeared on Crystal's face. She almost wanted to laugh. At least they were already acquainted. "Well, they're your juniors. Unova dexholders, to be exact."

She could see the surprise in his eyes turn to dread. "Oh God."

"That's exactly how I felt when you guys came along," a new voice cut in. It was Silver. He walked in, followed by Gold.

Ruby glanced at Silver. "What?"

Silver didn't answer. Just stared back with narrow eyes. Could Ruby really not get what he meant? Crystal decided to fill the silence. "We have had many reports of disappearances inside the château as of late, so we would like you guys to check it out. Considering how much all the dexholders had to handle in the past, we are the most capable after all."

Diamond shrugged, continuing to eat the cookies being served. "Dia! No, I mean Diamond," Pearl shouted. "You need to stop eating!" He smacked him with the wok he seemingly pulled out of nowhere.

Diamond rubbed the lump forming on his cheek. "But Pearl," he whined. "I'm hungry."

"Well our manzai -and this crap- comes first! Now come on!"

The boy sighed. "Fine..." Frankly, the Diamond didn't want to practice. He wanted to talk to the others. They were in a room full of heroes and pokemon masters. How could Pearl not want to get to know everyone? But he couldn't say no to Pearl. The boy was his best friend after all.

"So this is it huh? Wow! I would've expected it to be way scarier." Gold surveyed the interior of the building.

"What did you expect it to be," Blue asked.

He shrugged. "Ya know. More ghostly looking. I mean, enough to make it seem haunted." To make his point clear, he pulled back the skin near his eyes and stuck out his tongue to make a scary face.

Pearl and Diamond glanced at each other. "Well, senior..." Pearl started.

Gold let his face fall back to normal. "What?"

"It's said that a little girl and butler's ghost haunt this place," Pearl said proudly. "No one knows how they died, or why they're haunting it but-"

"Ha!" Gold doubled over with laughter. "What a load of b***! I-"

Crystal slammed her foot into Gold's back, making the boy stumble. "Gold! Do not speak like that to our juniors!" Diamond backed away from Crystal. kind of... scared by her actions. "If anyone's doing anything bad, it's you," she added.

Gold lifted his hands in surrender. He tried standing back up but she continued to loom menacingly over him."Really, Crystal, I-"

"If it would be okay Seniors, would you continue this inside?" The ever so blatant Platinum said, cocking her head.

"Platinum's right," Crystal said with a nod. Gold was steaming at the cut off. "It's getting dark."

They walked into the deserted building, looking all around. "Wow! This would be a great place to make a secret base! Right Silver," Green asked, turning to the redhead.

The boy glanced at his "sisters" happy face. "Yeah. I guess it would." He reached to grab his ursarings pokeball. "Huh?" His hand swiped empty air. "What the?" He looked around frantically.

Green frowned. "Silver? What's up?"

"I can't find my ursaring pokeball..."

Crystal grabbed his shoulder. "Don't you remember, Silver?" she asked reassuringly. "We were supposed to leave our pokeballs at the lab. Professor Rowan said-"

He brushed her hand off his shoulder. "Well screw that. I brought them along." Silver walked toward a room on the left side of the living room. "I'm going to go look for it. I'll be back."

"Shouldn't someone go with you?" Green cried. "I mean. if people actually disappeared here-"

He waved Green away. "Nah. I'll be fine. I have Feraligater after all."

"Okay. Be careful!"

He shrugged and left the room. Shelves curved around the wall. Most were lined with cooking utensils: knives, forks, spoons, you name this must be the kitchen? He scanned the floor for the pokeball, actually quite worried about his Pokémon. Hopefully he wasn't stolen. Or anything like that. God. hopefully Gold won't tease me about this. He would never hear the end of it.

He absentmindedly swiped his hand over the table, feeling something sharp cut into his hand. He gripped his hand, feeling blood seep through the cloth. "S***!" Backing up, he bumped into the wall, sending everything clattering. Smooth move.

Now he had to fix his mess. The cut was probably the most pressing issue, so he looked for something to help stop the bleeding. He stepped over to a must have a first aid kit somewhere.

He opened the cabinet with his good hand, before feeling something sharp punch through his back. He screamed in agony. "What the-" A black figure raised a hand, before bringing it down on the boy's head.

That was all.