Ok guys chapter 4 is ready to roll. Before we begin I just want to say thanks for being patient and not murdering me with reviews just yet. To most it's a sign that no ones' reading their story, but to me it's a sign no one hates me just yet.

So, today's mission was a more unusual beginning to it. Why is that you ask? Well I had a conversation with fellow Ranger Shawn earlier today this is how it went

Shawn- hey Will , got a problem over in my district
Will- oh, do tell?
Shawn – The gym leader retired and his replacement is an ex-Team Galactic member
Will- what?!
Shawn- he says he's righted his wrongs, and that he actually used his knowledge of space when making his psychic themed gym, but I'm not sure about this, he seems pretty on the level
Will- is he league approved?
Shawn- yeah,
Will- be there ASAP, just finishing up some training with my new Espurr
Shawn – alright, see you in my office, alright?

Now to be fair, I have some bad experiences with Team Galactic so this was a pretty big shock. Shawn was one of our graduating class members (who always tried to hit on Alyssa) and so I respect him. His "forte "as we call it, or our special skill was judging one's character (Alyssa's was gathering Intel and gossip and mine was fieldwork and stealth) I was actually teaching Rose how to use a teleport with help from our local Move tutor. When I heard the news I went to pay the Tutor but she shook her head saying "it's free-of-charge for 1st time users, and besides, you're a Ranger!" I reminded myself to slip in some extra Poke in my monthly review of the towns services (another of our chief duties, in addition to maintaining balance in the League as well as upholding the law.) I considered using the teleporter units for each Ranger office, but decided to stretch my legs and walk, throwing out my 3 Pokémon besides me, and making sure that the mysterious egg didn't hatch while I was out.

About half-way on the trip, we saw a young boy walking along the street, and something about him looked familiar "hey, kid" I asked calmly "so do I know you form somewhere?" He looked a little disappointed saying "it hasn't been that long since Pince evolved has it?" I stood in shock as I realized this was Daniel, the young boy who helped us defeat an Ursarang with his Drapion. "OH MY ARCEUS" I shouted and went to hug the boy. "So what are you doing out here" I asked "it's a long way from home." He nodded and said "Ma and Pa let me go out on a journey all by myself! This year was a good harvest so they could spare the loss of a helping- hand, we even got a guy from a village nearby to help us out, he's pretty cool" it looked like he had more to say but I stopped him and asked politely "Daniel , why don't' we set up camp while you tell me about everything" I said a smile on my face, this will take a while ,I thought but Shawn did say to be at his office by tomorrow.

During dinner, Daniel threw out Pince and had him play with the other Pokémon, Rose was a little hesitant at first. It wasn't long however, before I convinced her to play. Daniel than began his story , apparently he's been out on his own journey for about a month and along the way has become a lot stronger , and he said Pince got an award from Arthur ( our region's dark type gym leader) on how powerful his dark type energies are. I congratulated them both saying from experience I know Arthur's a hard critic. After dinner we noted is was getting late so we decided to rest up for tomorrow. We each had a small 2- man tent and before I as able to fall asleep , Daniel came up to my tent and asked " Will, what are you doing away from your district anyways" I said " on a mission to head to Soken city" Daniel seemed to perk up at that "oh really? " he said, with a new chipperness to his voice "I'm going there for my 1st tournament" I smiled and said " that's great, I could use some back-up on the mission" He smiled , and crawled out of the tent, I then laid my head down in the small pillow and fell off into sleep.

I felt someone tugging at my arm saying softly "wake up , wake up" I managed to slightly get up and saw Daniel, eyes wide with terror and asked " Daniel , what happened? He then gestured to his arm which was burnt and had some sort of brand on it. I couldn't tell what it was at first so got up and went outside of the tent, I could see a group of men in uniform al with guns and one even riding in a small tank towards the path on the city. I stood baffled as it appeared as though a small army was approaching the small town I then saw the mark on Daniels hand as clear as day. The team Galactic symbol "your next" he said and looked up, his face a different one than the one I remember, this face showed pain, someone trying to amend for their sins , but was paying for it.

well that was weird I thought to myself, then went over to Daniel's tent and saw he was ok. I breathed a sigh of relief and woke him up "Daniel, come on we got a lot of ground to cover." Used to early hours form his farming days, he shot up quickly and we began cooking a light breakfast. After the scrumptious meal (Daniel's words, not mine) we gathered all of our Pokeballs and supplies, set off and reached Soken city in about 5 hours. During out trip I heard a small cry behind us and saw Rose waddling along the path I could've sworn I put you in your pokeball I mused before hearing Rose make a small mewing noise as I returned her to her ball.

When we reached Soken, there was a rather large billboard saying " WILL , GET OVER HERE ALREADY" and other words that I had to cover Daniel's eyes while I read it , under the vulgar dabble is read "love Shawn" I face palmed myself mentally before moving on , uncovering Daniel's eyes afterwards. When we reached his office he was in the middle of some paperwork and welcomed us in" uhh Willy?" he asked politely "who's the kid?" I told him about the farm and everything that had happened. Once I finished he quickly said "well kid , wanna help us out?" Giving Daniel his hand. The boy eagerly got up and said ' OH MY ARCEUS I GET TO BE A RANGER!" he was jumping up and down with joy at the news. I ruffled his hair jokingly and said "let's get out Pince, we need to do something." Shawn raised an eyebrow at me inquisitively while Daniel released Pince form his ball , the Drapion emitting a loud "DRAPPPPPPPIIIIIIIOOOOOOON" before settling down. I then pulled out a small Ranger pin and put it on Daniel shirt, then a Pokeball capsule which, when thrown should emit the Ranger logo , a Black pokeball with a green stripe. Daniel made a sound which sounded like a small child who had inhaled helium trying to an Oswald the lucky Bunneary impression. I smiled to myself and said " let's go check this guy out."

The Soken city gym was about 15 miles away from the Ranger office. During the walk, Shawn gave us a quick debriefing "so basically what happened was this guy, his name was Neptune when he was in team Galactic although his real name is Phillip , he was the organization lead psychic type expert and according to him , joined because they presented themselves as a research devoted to discovering lore concerning Palkia. Being a Sinnite, he quickly signed up. The team used him as a researcher for their study into using Psychic types as a source of power, a method of gaining new members. He tried to escape but never got a chance to, until the team got disbanded. He was shunned because of the mark on his arm, marking him as a Galactic member, however he quickly underwent surgery to remove it as well as returning his hair to its original red hair, which is considered extremely offensive. He let it stay on his records, however. His reasoning was that 'there were some of us who were good people, they were lied to and given this burden to hold, I am trying to prove that some of us were... are good people"

He stopped and we reached the building and saw the famous Gym leader symbol, a pokeball with a lightning bolt decal behind. However there was something different about it. The building was built to look like an observatory, with a large telescope on the ceiling, and stars and planets pasted on the building's exterior. The door was what caught my eye, it looked like it was forcibly opened, I looked at Shawn and he gave me a nod of understanding. We went in hesitantly, aiming our PMP pulses. When we entered, the lights were off and we could hear a muffled noise and I found the switch and flipped it on to make sure we were the only ones here. Lights flashed and we saw a lone man in a chair, the man was bald and with that realization I noticed the various red streaks all over the floor and wall, some of it was blood, other pieces were locks of red hair. When I walked up to the man, he was ductaped and had a brand on his hand, the team galactic symbol, and words reading "your next" written in black marker on the duct tape.


Well then, the reason why I'm leaving this on a cliffhanger is because I'm leaving for the weekend to my aunt's house for her daughter's engagement party. I wanted to put this out there before I left. May the light of malor flow through you, and I'll see you later

Houndour: Flash Fire (Charlie): bite, ember, smog, leer

Bliztle: motor drive (Tug): discharge, tackle, flame charge

Espurr: Own Tempo (shiny, Rose) psybeam, mean look, confuse ray