Chapter 3: Black Trailer

"Your hopes have become my burden. I will find my own liberation."

It was midday...it was a day where the half shattered Moon could still be visible, despite the sun being out. It was a beautiful sort of a lighting, that illuminated the Forest of Foreverfall perfectly. Sitting in a small clearing, on a rock, were two beings. One, a girl wearing black, staring up into the sky with a look of deep conflict on her face. The other, a black rabbit-like creature with glowing rings upon its body. The Umbreon was strewn about on the girl's lap, it's head slowly being stroked by its trainer.

The Girl was thinking of something...something so life changing, she didn't know if she could go through with it. From the trees, a person emerged.

"Blake", a young man wearing a mask and all black clothing said from nearby, "It's time."

Blake Belladonna was stirred from her thoughts, and looked back at him. Her eyes showed a hint of worry, and regret. Her Umbreon companion nuzzled her stomach comfortingly. Blake gave the creature a small smile before looking back up at the man and nodding, "Okay…"

The three figures sped past at blinding speeds towards their destination, zipping through the gorgeous trees and stopping on a cliff overlooking a set of train tracks. A train could be heard off in the distance.

"Remember Blake, only use your Pokemon as a last resort." the man said. He then leaped off the cliff, followed by Blake, both of them speeding down the mountain and landing on the train. Blake's Umbreon however, knocked it's Ultra-Ball away when Blake attempted to return it.

"Umbreon…" Blake sighed, landing on the train's top.

"Bre!" the loyal friend replied, shaking it's head at her. Blake sighed...and decided to leave him out for the time being.

They ran across the roof of the train, the man opening up a hatch. He climbed down in, followed by his accomplices.

After they landed, she heard the man say behind him "Looks like we're doing this the hard way."

She didn't have to wonder for long what he meant, as several figures began to jerk and start glowing around them. With Red Light, they started moving, approaching the trio.

"Don't be so dramatic" Blake said nonchalantly, preparing her blade, Gamboul Shroud.. Her Pokemon began charging a Shadow Ball from its maw.

"Intruder! Identify yourself!" one of the robots said after turning both of it's hands into machine guns. The man didn't even flinch. He simply stared down the bot who had given the order and watched as his katana launched out of it's sheathe like a javelin, the hilt of the blade smacking it in the face. He rushed forward and grabbed his sword, chopping the robot's head off and slicing it's torso in two. The surrounding drones grew their hands into blades and ran at the two.

Blake leaped at an oncoming attacker and sliced it half. Both Blake and her Umbreon sliced and shot Dark attacks at their attackers, taking them down one by one. One opened fire on the man, who impressively deflected each bullet with his katana. Blake leaped forward and did the same, except she was running full speed ahead at the robot.

She sliced one's head off, then her Umbreon used a Shadow Ball to blast a hole through another's chest. Then, Blake sliced off a larger robot's legs, after which she proceeded to chop through an entire legion of robots with little effort. The last on she knocked into the air was headbutted by her Pokemon, sending it up to the roof of the speeding train.

As the Bot came back down, Umbreon and Blake sidled up to one another, and both fused their attacks together, Blake's bullets combining with Umbreon's Dark Pulse and vaporizing the Bot on contact. The two grinned and Blake patted her partner's head. Her Human companion, walked over to her and told her,

"Good...Set the Charges. Then we move to the next car."

Blake froze up at those words and looked at her partner incredulously. His tone...it was so...emotionless….

"But...what about the station workers?" She replied, protest laced in her words.

His next words froze her internal organs with anger and sadness.

"What about them?"

Before Blake could respond, a large robot, bigger than the rest they had seen, descended from above, aiming at the two intruders.

"Adam…" Blake said.

Adam simply rushed at the robot, dodging several laser blasts that came flying at him. Blake ran in front of him, dodging blasts just the same, and attempted to slice the assailant, but wound up being damaged by it instead, flying back with a scream and landing on her back. The robot was about to continue its attack on the girl, but was interrupted by Adam furiously slashing at it with his katana. He landed on his feet, but was kicked away by the robot soon afterwards. The giant drone attempted to crush Blake under its foot, but Adam saved her just in time. Suddenly, a large Shadow Ball struck the drone in the side of the head. It stumbled back, distracted for a moment.

"We need to get out of here!" Blake said with slight shakiness in her voice.

The robot morphed it's body into a large cannon, and began charging up a shot that would definitely do a lot of damage. It did exactly that, blasting them all out the back of the car they were in and back on top of the train.

"Buy me some time!" Adam shouted as the two were getting up.

"Are you sure?!" Blake shouted back, with doubt in her mind.

"Do it!" Adam shouted back, and Blake ran forwards at the robot, who was walking out from the car the 3 were shot out of. Blake's Umbreon was soon at her side, and the two performed multiple attacks on the enemy, trying their best to distract it while Adam prepared himself. The Robot looked towards the masked swordsmen, and charged yet another blue laser to shoot the man. But, the masked swordsman was not ready to go down without a fight, and threw his ace in the hole towards the ground. With a Pop, his preferred Pokemon entered the fight.

"Giga Impact." Adam commanded.

The Tauros stomped it's foot, and dashed forwards, running alongside the roof and charging with glowing energy. The Robot fired it's powerful beam, but the energy from the Giga Impact, and the Pokemon's need to help it's master outclassed the strength of the beam, and Tauros shot through it, ramming into the Robot and shattering it upon impact. The piece fell off the train, and burning fire erupted into the sky.

Tauros stomped the earth and let out a loud bey. Adam smirked and returned it, silently congratulating it's victory.

He turned, ready to continue his mission, and ran to see Blake standing on another train car. Her eyes showed off her somber mood, and her Umbreon couldn't meet Adam's eyes. Adam knew what was happening...but he didn't want it to be true.

"Goodbye…" she quietly said.

Adam didn't say anything in response. All he did was toss her the Pokeball that contained his Tauros. She was confused, but accepted the gift. What choice did she have? She caught it, and added it to her pocket, where her other teammates resided.

She then cut the connection between their two cars, causing them to split apart. Blake's car chugged off into the distance, tearing the two former partners apart. Maybe they would meet again someday…

Blake collapsed onto her bottom when she lost sight of the other train cars, and felt hot tears begin to leak from her eyes. Without a word, her Umbreon was in her arms, and nuzzling her. Blake was reminded of meeting Adam...she could only remember the good times...and it tore her apart. But this...it had to be done. There was no stopping it. For now...she'd start her new life.

Blake Belladonna had a new mission.

Bring Humans, and Faunus together, once and for all. With the Petals falling around her, Blake disappeared into the forest.