Well, would like to say sorry for the delay of the chapter, but I made up for it! It's very long, battles, and I've been, well, distracted. Sides, I think you guys will forgive me once you've read the chapter.

Gets hit by a Flame Wheel

Alright, never mind.

faints

As Damien tried to free himself, the trainer who stood next to Flygon stepped forward. He had on a forest green beanie on his head, a white sleeveless t-shirt, and wore blue jean pants. He, along with others around him, laughed at Damien's futile attempts to free himself from the vines. He stopped, and then said to him, "There's no way you're going to get out of this bind, Damien."

Damien gave up and fell to his knees. He looked up at the trainer and, with a disgusted stare, asked, "What do you want with me? And who are you?"

The trainer signaled the others around him to settle down. "The name's Chazz. And what do we want? Why, to turn you in and get the bounty that's on your head," he replied. "Don't you think that's a bit obvious?"

Damien merely turned his head away from the other trainers and looked out into the oasis and the desert, trying to think of a way to get out of this predicament. He stood back up, and trainers became quiet as the leader walked up to Damien. In a voice just low enough to where only Chazz could hear, Damien asked, "Do you really think you can actually take me in?"

Chazz let out a laugh as he turned around to the other trainers, saying loudly, "Do you hear this? He thinks we can't beat him! He really thinks he can defeat us all, even though we've got him outnumbered!"

"Numbers don't mean anything," Damien boldly said to them. "It's skill that makes the difference."

"It doesn't matter how much skill you have if you can't even use them!" Chazz yelled out.

"Oh really?" Damien asked.

Confounded by the statement Chazz asked,"What do you think you can do in your situation? You can't even reach your Pokéballs with your hands! How do you possibly think you can defeat us without your Pokémon?"

"Who said I needed my Pokémon?" Damien asked, an evil grin appearing on his face.

Chazz grew irritated of Damien by his statement. "What do you mean you don't need your Pokémon?" Chazz asked. "That's what we battle with here!"

"Let me prove you wrong, then," suggested Damien. Before Chazz could respond, Damien had jumped up and kicked upwards and hit Chazz's chin, knocking him up into the air and backwards.

All the other trainers quickly became nervous, as they ran over to their leader and picked him back up. Chazz, blood trickling down from the mouth, quickly shrugged his companions off and walked over to Damien. "Oh, you-are-so-dead!" he yelled out. He quickly gave a kick to Damien's side, and Damien stumbled over a bit, but a Pokéball had fallen from his sweater. Unlike Chazz, Damien had noticed this and quickly used one of his feet to roll it up onto the other. Using the free foot, he tapped the button on the ball, changing it to its larger form, and tossed it up into the air. Using it like a soccer ball, he kicked the ball straight at Chazz, hitting him on the back and releasing the Pokémon that resided in the ball.

As Chazz was turning around to see what hit him, his eyes quickly stared at the ball of light in front of him as the Pokémon started to materialize into the area; a small, orange lizard-like creature with a small yellow colored patch on its belly, having two short arms, ending with tiny, sharp claws, two small, stubby legs with three claws, and a long, thick tail with a bundle of fire endlessly burning on the tip.. When Chazz, along with the rest of his crew, was finally able to see what the Pokémon was, they all started to laugh again. "A-are you kidding me?" Chazz asked in between his laughs. "You're going to use a Charmander against our Pokémon? All of our Pokémon have already reached their final evolution, and yours is still in its first form!" he explained.

"So you think you can beat Char?" Damien asked.

"So you nicknamed it Char, eh?" Chazz curiously asked as he walked over to his Flygon. "Let's just see how your Char fares against Flygon. Flygon, Hyper Beam!"

The Flygon opened its mouth wide open, and a radiant blue orb was clearly visible to Damien and Char. As the Flygon was preparing itself to release its attack, Damien quickly yelled out, "Char, Blast Burn!"

The two Pokémon's eyes were at a dead lock, and Char's eyes glowed with a bright fire as embers were escaping from the lizard Pokémon. At once, a burst of flame erupted from Char's mouth, and the two attacks met, causing an explosion and sending smoke everywhere. While all the trainers were confused about the smoke, Damien was able to free his arms from the vines. He walked over to the panting Char, now slightly exhausted from the attack, and stood behind it. He stared straight ahead, unknown to what's ahead of him, and said to Char, "Sword Dance, Char."

At once, Char began to spin around, and the smoke was blown away, letting everybody see once more. All the trainers looked confused as they wondered what was blowing the smoke away, but Chazz, standing next to Flygon, was only staring straight at Damien, his eyes full of anger. "So your Char has a bigger bite than it shows," Chazz stated. At this point, the rest of the trainers were looking back and forth between Chazz and Flygon, Damien and Charmander. "But don't think it can take us on."

"Really?" Damien asked, a grin now shown on his face. "Do you want me to prove you wrong again?"

Chazz quickly barked out, "Flygon, Dragon Claw!" and Flygon's claws started to glow.

"Char, Metal Claw," Damien said to Char. Char's claws started to glow at once, and the two Pokémon stared at one another. Everybody's eyes were fixed on the two Pokémon, and nobody moved, as if waiting for something. Damien was calm and relaxed, while Chazz was fidgeting around. Then, Chazz took a step forward and yelled out, "Attack now, Flygon!"

Flygon merely nodded as it started to beat its wings and take flight, diving at the Charmander. As it was only a few feet away, it slashed its claws at the Charmander, but the Charmander countered the Flygon with Metal Claw. The two kept attacking each other, their Dragon Claws and Metal Claws stopped by the other. After what seemed like hours of concentrated watching the two Pokémon battle, Damien yelled out, "Flamethrower, Char!"

Char jumped back and let a stream of red fire out of its mouth, flying toward the hovering Flygon. "Flygon, use Dragonbreath!" Chazz yelled out. Blue flames gushed out of the Flygon's mouth and collided with the Flamethrower, smoke coming from the midpoint and enveloping the two Pokémon. Chazz showed signs of panic as he looked at the areas the smoke hadn't covered from his field of vision, looking for any sign of his Flygon, Damien, or the Charmander.

"Sword Dance once again, Char!" Damien yelled out. Char let off the Flamethrower attack and jumped back, letting the Dragonbreath hit where it was and started to spin around again, clearing the smoke once more.

As Chazz watched the smoke clear, he grinned as he saw his Flygon unharmed, but it soon disappeared as he decided to look at his opponent and saw Damien gone. He frantically looked around, and yet saw no sign of Damien. "Where did he go?" Chazz asked out loud, as the rest of the trainers were looking around for him.

It was only a moment later when one of the trainers looked horrified and yelled out, "Behind you, boss!"

Chazz turned his head around, but it was too late as he received another kick to the side of his head from behind. Chazz was kicked to the side and skidded, on his sides, to a halt next to one of his subordinates. Damien softly landed and looked back at the two stationary Pokémon and, with no honor, ordered to Charmander, "Flare Blitz."

Fire erupted around the Charmander, and it began to charge Flygon. Flygon, confused about what to do since not being given orders, only moved a bit and jerked its head around, hoping to hear something from its master; unfortunately, it never came. Char had tackled the Flygon right at the neck, causing Flygon to cough some blood. Flygon had fallen backwards and its back laid on the ground, unconscious. The Charmander had landed in front of the Flygon's head, facing toward Damien, panting from the level of fatigue it had.

Damien only walked over to his Charmander, glancing down at the Flygon when he reached it. No regret of his dishonorable act showed, and he turned around to the rest of the trainers that stood around him, no emotion could be seen on his eyes except the dark shade of cobalt on his iris. "Do you all dare to continue to fight? The Charmander that stands in front of me is the most experienced Pokémon that I have on my team. It may not be the strongest, but it is the most skilled Pokémon that I've ever owned. Here's the fact; you won't be able to catch me," Damien stated out to everybody. Charmander started to spray some embers around it, intimidating the trainers. "Now, do you really want to try?"

"Of course we do!" Chazz yelled out. All of the trainers, excluding Damien, turned their attention to Chazz, surprised to see standing. His hand on the area where Damien had kicked him, Chazz said, "We can't just give up now! Not with our families, who need the money to care for everybody else.

Damien, feeling little sympathy for him, said, "Your attempts for trying to take me into the government will only be in vain if you succeed. The government is too blinded by their way of stopping this war, and it's only worsening the damage dealt! Who cares if they may starve for a few days without the money! They're gonna die if the government keeps this up! What you need to do is stop this already and let me continue! I will use force if you dare to stop me!"

All the trainers looked at the panting Charmander, and let out a laugh. "Look," Chazz started to say. "Even if you are great, we outnumber you greatly with strong Pokémon. You may have a strong team, but face the facts! You won't be able to defeat all of us."

"Will I really have to defeat you?" asked Damien. "You guys need to defeat me to bring me in, but whoever said I needed to beat you guys to escape?"

One of the trainers asked, "And how do you think you're going to be able to do that, with all of us here?"

"Well, I've put some thought into it, and it's really quite simple; it's called speed, boys," Damien explained. At once, he pulled out a Pokéball from his sweater and threw it up into the air, and out came a burst of energy that materialized itself in front of Damien; as Damien caught the ball, the energy started to change into the Pokémon released, a Pidgeot. A large Pokemon that looked very much like an eagle, only almost five feet tall. It was a light beige, and its beak was small but curved, and incredibly sharp. A colorful mane of what appeared to be feathers extended gracefully from the top of its head, flowing just near the start of the tail. It had a wingspan of nearly six feet; its legs resembled an eagle's as well, with short, gray legs ending in very sharp, curved talons. Its tail was short, with the coloring of the top part of the Pokemon's body a light brown hue. Damien soon pocketed the first Pokéball and took out another, recalling the Charmander that stood in front of him. "Now as you all may have guessed," Damien said as he climbed onto Pidgeot's back, "Pidgeot is one of my strongest Pokémon, and one of my fastest too. So it'll be pretty hard to stop me now."

Many of the trainers, fueled with motivation and eager to prove Damien wrong, started to call out their own flying Pokémon. Chazz, now mostly recovered, recalled his Flygon and called out another Pokémon, one called Dragonair. A long, blue and white dragon, about thirteen feet long, having no legs or arms, with a blue crystal ball below its head. Having amber eyes, and two feather-like fluffs that was on the area of its ears, and a horn at the midpoint between and above the eyes. At the end of the body were two more blue orbs, stacked on top of one another. The Dragonair flew around Chazz before hovering in front of him, giving him the time to climb upon the Dragonair. By the time he had finished this, Damien had already gained much altitude and being chased by other pursuers.

Damien had just done a barrel roll to evade a Quick Attack when he noticed Chazz, but he made no change of his movement as he continued to escape from capture. At once, a group of five trainers on their Pokémon charged Damien. Damien, seeing this, said to Pidgeot, "Double Team," and at once, several copies of Pidgeot with Damien on the back appeared around them, confusing them. All of them had attacked a separate copy, but they all proved to be fakes as the real pair was escaping at high speed.

Chazz saw the pair use Double Team, and raced off on his Dragonair to an area that was ahead of them, assuming that they were going to use the distraction to escape in that direction. Dragonair had arrived in front of the fighting, waiting for Damien to come out. When Damien finally charged forward, Chazz yelled out, "Dragonbreath, Dragonair!" and a blue flame had materialized at its mouth.

Being in high speed, Damien, after seeing Chazz and his Pokémon, could only pull off a steep dive, the Dragonbreath only hitting Damien's legs and the end of Pidgeot's hair and leaving it lightly singed. As Damien dive bombed toward the oasis, many streams of fire, water, and lightning were flying toward him, forcing the Pidgeot to swerve around to avoid being hit. Damien, noting the oasis, quickly started to pull Pidgeot up, succeeding to do so when only mere feet from the surface of the water. Damien looked up, and he saw a bombardment of attacks coming towards them, seeing little room to evade them. "Gust!" yelled out Damien, and Pidgeot quickly came to a halt, starting to beat its wings swiftly and strongly. Soon, its efforts started to produce as a wall of water appeared, blocking the attacks. As steam started to replace the water, Pidgeot flew through it and started to escape when another Dragonbreath shot forward in its path, forcing Pidgeot to fly up and around, but that was proven useless as well; the rest of the trainers had completely surrounded him, giving him no openings. Trainers on the ground had their Pokémon aimed toward Damien, and all around him flying Pokémon were hovering above, below, and on level with him.

Dragonair floated down until it was in front of Damien, and Chazz stated, "Looks like we proved you wrong, Damien. There's no escape now! We've got you cornered once again! All possible escapes are blocked! And there's nobody to help you out this time!"

Damien was about to say something when he looked down at his Pidgeot, finally noticing Pidgeot's heavy breathing. "I know I shouldn't do this, but I need to get out of here," Damien said under his breath. He looked back up at Chazz and said, "You're not bringing me in."

Chazz started to laugh after saying, "Do you hear this? After seeing the position he's in, he has the nerve to say that we're not going to bring him in!"

Damien, while everybody was laughing and not paying attention, bent down over to Pidgeot's ear and whispered, "I know this is a lot to be asking in your condition, but we need to escape. Can you do an Aerial Ace?" Pidgeot gave a short nod as a response. "Thanks. Go on my signal, ok?"

Damien bent back up as people started to let off the laughing. "So," Chazz continued to say, "do you really want to continue your fruitless efforts?"

"You don't understand," Damien said. "None of you fully understand what's happening in this war."

"Like we care!" Chazz yelled back. "We'll fight for out planet, even if we die! Do you not have the same loyalty to your own planet?"

"I have as much loyalty as you, but I, unlike the majority of this planet, actually think instead of acting on the impulse. That's the problem here; the people in charge of the army are just sacrificing lives, hoping that the Tetrites will just leave!"

"So what? The government said it's working," Chazz quickly replied.

"They've been saying that for fifteen years," responded Damien. And, at that time, Pidgeot charged toward Chazz and his Dragonair.

Chazz closed his eyes and quickly braced for impact, but it never came. Pidgeot had gained altitude and was rising at an alarmingly fast pace. "Dragon Rage!" Chazz yelled out. A ball of blue fire accumulated at Dragonair's mouth, and it shot toward Pidgeot at a speed faster than the one Pidgeot was going. Damien could only look back and his eyes widened a bit as he saw the approaching Dragon Rage only too late. He gripped the feathers on Pidgeot tightly as he prepared himself for the attack, but something else caught his eyes.

Above him, many air sickles were flying toward the attack and hitting the flaming ball, the air dispersing the fire into nothing more than floating embers. Pushing off his curiosity, Damien yelled out, "Mach two, Pidgeot!" and Pidgeot flew forward with great speed, disappearing from everybody's sight in the matter of seconds.

Chazz and his Dragonair flew forward, but a four winged green flying Pokémon lowered itself in front of him, stopping him.

A cloaked boy moved his head from behind the Pokémon, allowing Chazz to see him. "I don't think you'll be able to get him now," he said, and started to fly up.

Infuriated, Chazz followed the boy and flew in front of him, stopping his path. "Boy, whoever you are, you're about to get the punishment for messing in our affairs," Chazz told him. A stream of fire shot forward from Dragonair and hit the other Pokémon, knocking the boy off and sending the Pokémon falling toward the oasis. A splash was heard, and Chazz flew to the surface of the water, inspecting the area, before saying, "Guess he wasn't so tough after all," and went back to the rest of his gang.