Chapter four is up! I'm starting to get writer's block...):

-Thank you first reviewer, I plan to continue this story until their first time travel then I'll start another story for what happens in the past.

Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon...

Chapter 4

An Unforgiving Punishment: The Unlawful Stockade

"Argh…Where am I?" Jasmine was lying on cold gray concrete, covered in chains. 'Huh a jail cell? What am I doing here?'She tried to stand but the chains tied around her were too heavy and she ended up falling back onto the cold ground. "Damn it! Stupid chains! Grrr...I need to get too the Temporal Tower!"

"But you are at the Temporal Tower, my dear." A familiar deep voice rang out. Jasmine knew who it was immediately and spun around to face him."Dusknoir… Just what the hell is it that you want from me?" She was fed up with being captured and abused that she almost couldn't summon enough anger or strength to retaliate.

"Heh-heh didn't we already do this, my dear?" Dusknoir sneered back.

"Stop calling me that!"

"Oh…you're no fun heh-heh!"

"Explain yourself, Dusknoir why do you keep capturing me? What exactly did I do wrong?" Jasmine tried her best to hide her fear and anger, but unfortunately her voice still cracked. She hated showing any sort of weakness, especially to her enemies. Though Dusknoir seemed to sense her fear right away, and smiled coldly at her attempts to hide it.

"What did you do wrong huh? Well nothing as of yet…"

"Huh?" 'As of yet? What is that supposed to mean?' "What are you talking about?"

"Heh-heh! It doesn't matter Dialga wishes to see you…" Dusknoir turned around and beckoned the Sableye over to the cell. "Sableye! Please escort this young lady to master Dialga's quarters.

"Heh-heh-heh! Yes sir!" The Sableye ran inside the jail cell and started to drag Jasmine out.

"Dusknoir wait! Where is my brother? Where is Walter? What did you do with him?" She asked in urgency.

"Don't worry about your brother he should be waiting for you with Dialga, now take her away!"

The Sableye grabbed her. "Ouch that hurts! Why can't you just let me walk? This isn't necessary!" She screamed, kicking with all the strength she had left and twisting to get out of their grip.

"Ah shut up! You're only making it harder on yourself!" One of the Sableye answered.

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"Good we're almost there."

"Gasp!"

As they entered the chambers Jasmine noticed the pillars inside had been completely severed, there were massive holes and trenches peppered all over the ground. The whole area was devastated beyond repair. "This is where Dialga lives?" Jasmine asked, nervously. If so it was hard for her to believe that anyone could actually live in these conditions.

"That's master Dialga, girl!" One of the Sableye barked back.

'This place is in complete shambles…The air in here is so tense that it's crushing my body more than these chains. But this place…I can't help but feel a sense of sadness.'

Jasmine was in awe by the sheer size of the chamber, the Sableye walked her to the very end of the passage way. Toward the end, there was a crevice, it was rather large in size and completely concealed in darkness. With each step they took the ground shook.

"W-What is this s-shaking?" Jasmine stuttered as she asked one of the Sableye.

"Uh lord Dusknoir, sir?" The Sableye was looking a bit nervous itself.

Dusknoir began making his way toward the dark crevice. When he got there he stopped just at the edge of the dark abyss. "Master Dialga! Here is the woman you have asked to see." He then turned and pointed at Jasmine.

"GRRR…WHERE IS SHE? WHERE IS JASMINE?" The voice boomed and everyone started trembling.

"Um she is right here sir." Dusknoir smiled, nervously, presumably to hide his own fear.

Jasmine's eyes widened. 'Y-you can't be serious!'

Two large red eyes appeared from among the crevice, it stared right back at Jasmine, and its stare was cold and unforgiving. "YOU…STEP FORWARD!" The Sableye pushed Jasmine toward the crevice, she didn't struggle or strain to break free of her bonds, as a matter of fact she seemed to be fixed in place.

'I couldn't move before…But now I'm completely paralyzed!'

"TELL ME SOMETHING…"

'Huh?'

"W-What is it master Dialga?" Jasmine was frozen in fear at the sight of Dialga so much so that she could hardly speak, it was like she had the wind knocked out of her the air was so tense.

"HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE DIMENSIONAL SCREAM?"

'The Dimensional scream? What is that?' "W-Wait a minute…Master Dialga where is my big brother?"

"TELL ME! HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OR EXPERIENCED THE DIMENSIONAL SCREAM?" Dialga's voice shook the ground! Making anything and anyone who wasn't pinned to the ground lose their bearings.

'I thought my brother had a big mouth…' Jasmine was still too nervous to move, she could barely speak anymore, her voice cracking on occasion.
"M-master Dialga…I am sorry but I just don't understand…What is the Dimensional scream? What exactly does it have to do with me?" Dialga's pressure was really starting to get too her.

"SO YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS THEN?"

"N-no sir!"

"THE DIMENSIONAL SCREAM IS A VERY UNIQUE ABILITY! IT ALLOWS THE USER TO SEE EVENTS FROM THE PAST AS WELL AS THE FUTURE! IT IS A POWER THAT LETS YOU SEE CLEAR ACROSS THE VERY DIMENSIONS OF TIME AND SPACE! HENCE THE NAME DIMENSIONAL SCREAM. NO ONE HAS EVER POSSESSED THIS ABILITY EXCEPT FOR YOUR MOTHER!"

"M-My m-mother?" Jasmine's face showed total and utter shock! "My mother really had an ability like that?"

"YES SHE DID, ONLY A SELECT FEW WHO ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD HARBOR THIS ABILITY THAT LAYS DORMANT IN THEIR SUBCONSCIOUS. THE INDIVIDUAL MUST HAVE A UNIQUE KIND OF AURA AS WELL.

'A unique kind of person, with a unique kind of aura, this whole thing the whole idea of this sounds so outlandish!'

"THIS ABILITY…IS A COMPLETE MOCKERY OF TIME!" Dialga's screech made everyone jump with fright.

"W-What? M-master Dialga..." Jasmine's body couldn't stop shaking; she was starting to worry that she might pass out.
"IT'S AN ABOMINATION TO HISTORY! SO ANYONE WHO HAS IT MUST BE TERMINATED!"

"M-Master Dialga! I…!"

"ENOUGH! I KNOW YOU HAVE THIS ABILITY BECAUSE OF THAT MOTHER OF YOURS! YOU HAVE INHERITED THIS ABILITY!"
"B-But I still don't understand! I haven't experienced anything like that!" Jasmine shouted now terrified of Dialga.

"Can you honestly say you haven't?" Dusknoir's question startled her, in all her shock she had completely forgotten that he was still there. "Master Dialga, this girl undoubtedly possesses the Dimensional Scream ability!"
"What? Dusknoir how would you know? You know nothing about me!" Jasmine shouted, if she hadn't have been chained up she would have made a beeline for the exit by now. The whole interrogation was enough to make her sick.

"Ha-ha-hah! My dear girl! You still haven't realized it yet?"

"W-what?"
"Poor thing...You don't even have the slightest inkling of what's going on do you?" His question apparently came out of nowhere because Jasmine was completely confused now.

"What are you saying?" She asked vexed by his sudden urge to speak.
"We tricked you my dear." Dusknoir said plainly. His answer caught her off guard.

"T-trick?"

"Yes we planned this from the start! We wanted to get rid of you. Well this wasn't are original plan, are first plan would have been a lot easier and quicker, you see we planned to simply capture you by using a trap in the Midnight woods, but! That horrid Grovyle had to intervene!
That plan would have brought you here sooner but...it wasn't a total loss, for this plan was a lot more unique.

'More unique?'

"You see for this plan...We used Walter."

"W-Walter? What are you saying? He was in on this?" Jasmine was now more angry then scared, she was also incredibly worried. What have they done with her brother?

"So we told Walter to make a note that would summon you too the Temporal Tower!"
Jasmine's eyes widened in disbelief, she lowered her head."N-no he wouldn't... I know he wouldn't do this, you must have tricked him or something!"She knew for a fact that Walter was very protective of her; there was no way he would do that, especially without putting up a fight.

"I'm not finished yet...Walter would leave the note for you and you would find it and go to the Temporal Tower right after you explored the treacherous Midnight Woods." When he mentioned the woods she remembered how tired she had felt there and how badly she wanted to go home.

'T-that journey made me tired.'

"We knew you would be tired, after all you had no time to rest. Also getting to the Temporal Tower from where you lived was arduous in its own right. We made you tired purposely you know why?"

She finally knew what he was getting at and hated to admit it but it all made sense, why would they continue to hunt her down when they could just make it easier for themselves and catch her when she's tired. "To make me weaker..." She said dejectedly.

"Yes! The poison that Sableye can make becomes more potent and spreads through the body faster when the victim is tired. So using that poison would definitely make it easier to catch you."

"T-that's..." Jasmine was at a loss of words, was it really that easy to catch her?

"A pretty good plan wasn't it?" Dusknoir asked arrogantly, he was very proud of himself.

"S-So all of this was just a set up..." Jasmine felt nauseated, sick to her stomach. She didn't know what to do; if they were that efficient there was no way she'd be able to escape easily. She wanted badly to find her brother, to make sure he was alright, and to also learn more about what happened in detail. But considering the circumstances, her odds were slim.

"Now my dear since you know we watched you and anticipated your every move why not fess up? "

"..." 'He's talking about that dream I had.'

-Female voice: "W-wow! What is that?"

Male voice: "I-I can't believe this! That's a Time Gear!"-

'Was that really a Dimensional Scream?'

"Well can't tell me?" Dusknoir asked, smugly. He looked as though he had won.

"Dusknoir...you…"

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Dialga's roar made everyone fall to the ground in alarm.

"I HAVE HAD MY FILL OF THIS NONSENSE! JASMINE WE ALL KNOW YOU HAD A DIMENSIONAL SCREAM THAT IS REASON ENOUGH TOO BE RID OF YOU!"

"B-but...!" Jasmine suddenly lost her voice, Dialga's pressure had fully overwhelmed her, and she was even starting to have difficulty breathing. 'What's happening to me? I can't talk anymore?'

"DUSKNOIR TAKE HER TO THE STOCKADE WITH THE OTHERS! BE SURE TO TAKE CARE OF HER FIRST, I CAN'T LET SUCH A THREAT TO HISTORY EXIST ANY LONGER, KILL HER."

"Yes sir!"

'W-What? What's going on here? How am I a threat to history?'

"Sableye you know what to do."

"Heh-heh-heh!" The Sableye grabbed Jasmine and started dragging her back to the entrance. They seemed oddly amused by her silence.

"What's the matter can't talk?" One of them asked her.

'Grrr! Stupid Sableye! I wish I could talk right now!' She squirmed and kicked... One of them hit a Sableye smack in the face, nearly causing him to fall over backwards. He quickly recovered and viciously bared his fangs at her.

"Grrr...This broad is starting to get on my nerves!"

'Ha-ha! Served him right!'

Dusknoir turned around and looked at them, annoyed. "Just give her a sleep seed that should calm her down."

"Yes sir!" One of them pulled out a sleep seed and tried to shove it in her mouth.

'Hey get that away from me!' She tried to struggle but one of them managed to get her to swallow it.

"There! That should knock her out until we tie her to a stake."

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"Good we're here! Now hurry up and tie her to one of the stakes!" Dusknoir ordered.

"Yes sir!"

The stockade was very large. It was all divided into sections; pokémon and people would all be taken to different sections depending on what they did or how dangerous they were under Dialga's judgment. For the ones that were particularly dangerous they would be dealt with in a slow and painful way. While others would be tortured until they submit or die. Either way it was a very gruesome place. Well known for its barbaric ways. Jasmine was of course taken to the area for dangerous threats, that's where the Sableye tied her up. Jasmine was still asleep so they had no problems with doing so.

"Lord Dusknoir, sir are claws are dull can we go sharpen them?" One of the Sableye asked, waving one of his claws around.

"Fine but be quick about it! We need to get rid of this lot as soon as possible!" Dusknoir barked back. The sooner he could get rid of the prisoners the better. He couldn't afford to get on Master Dialga's bad side.

"Yes sir! But um...We forgot where the sharpening tools were…"
"Grrrr! don't any of you know how to use your brains!"

The Sableye's sweat dropped. "Uh..." They answered lamely.

"Oh Come on! Hurry up!"

"Yes sir!" With that, Dusknoir and the Sableye left the court.

"Hey girl..." A familiar voice said, it sounded like it was coming from right next to her.
'Huh...W-what's going on?'

"Hey wake up...Come on just open your eyes."

"Oh! Ouch...W-What is this place where am I?" Jasmine opened her eyes, though she was still a little drowsy from the sleep seed.

"This is a stockade."

It took Jasmine a good minute to realize who she was talking to, but when she did she was surprised to find that same grass type pokémon she'd seen in the woods. "Huh? Oh it's you again! You're that Grovyle!"

"Shhhh! Please not so loud." He whispered back in alarm.

"Sorry..." 'Phew...I'm glad I can talk again.' "We're in a stockade?"

"Yes their trying to get rid of us for good..."

'Oh! That's right! Dialga and the others want me dead...Wait a minute!' "Where's Walter! Where is my brother?"

"Your brother? Wait a second, I think I saw a Sableye tie up a man with green hair, He was knocked out."

"That's him! Where is he? Do you see him?"

"He's off to the side tied up with other pokémon" Grovyle said leaning his head toward the side trying too point him out.

As Jasmine looked around she noticed four other stakes beside her, each were holding a pokémon. The one next to her was a Spinda, the one beside it was a Marril and by the Marril was an Absol. She had never seen so many pokémon in one place before.

"There are so many pokémon here...Are they all master Dialga's enemies as well?" It was hard for her to believe because none of them looked bad or evil in any way.

"I suppose so...Master Dialga really isn't picky is he?" Grovyle answered.

"W-Where...Oh! There he is!" Jasmine said, excited to find her green haired brother. Walter was way over on the other side of the court unconscious and trussed up to a stake. Seeing him made her want to rush over there and break him free, she was angry when she realized she couldn't even reach her weapon to free herself.

"Grrr! We need to get out of this somehow..."

"Yes but how? We can't even move...How are we supposed to break out of these chains?"

'Hmm...Is there a way to at least free are arms?'"I have an idea Grovyle!"

"Really what is it?"

Jasmine eyed her sword which was on her waist. "Do you think you can use leaf blade on the chains around my arms?"

"Yeah...I think I can, why?"

"If you can cut at least a part of it, maybe I'll be able to reach my sword."

"Ack! These chains are tight! But..."Grovyle managed to get one arm free, the leaf on the end of it started to glow.

" Leafblade!"

Clink!

Half of the chains around Jasmine were completely cut off. "Alright! nice shot!...Got it!" She grabbed her sword and sliced off what was left off of her, she landed swiftly on the ground.

"Alright hold still..." Jasmine slashed at Grovyle chains, freeing Grovyle!
"Phew! Thanks! Alright let's go free your brother, we need to leave here before Dusknoir and his subordinates come back!"

"Yeah you're right...But what about the other pokémon? We have to free them too!" Jasmine shouted pointing at the unconscious pokémon still tied up; she'd feel bad if they couldn't be rescued too.
"Yeah…Alright I'll free them and you free your brother, hurry they can be back at any second!"

"Alright then let's make this fast!"

As Grovyle was freeing the three pokémon, Jasmine ran over to her brother and slashed at the chains bonding him.

"Walter! Walter! Come on wake up!" Walter was passed out in her arms, but he was still breathing, to her relief.

'Oh good he's just sleeping.'

"Alright, we need to get out of here now!" Grovyle shouted. "I can hear them coming let's move it or lose it!"

"Did you free the pokémon from the stakes?"
"Yes they all ran off as soon as I freed them! Now do you have any of those escape orbs left?"

"Yeah they're right here in my bag." She opened her bag and started digging through it. However to her dismay, she was completely fresh out of them, out of all times…

"Oh Great!" She shouted in annoyance.

"What? What is it?"

"Those Sableye took almost all the things I had out of my bag...Including my escape orbs!"

"...You got to be kidding me..."

Just then the Sableye appeared out of nowhere; they were shocked to see them free from the stakes and immediately started to run after them, shouting "The prisoners have escaped!"

"Oh no! Come on Jasmine! Grab your brother let's get out of here!"

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