I warn you now, my dear, dear reader that this chapter shall be in two parts. Part I which you shall be reading now, and later, Part II. I have made a partition between the two parts, but I still emphasize that there are TWO parts. Part I is told from the viewpoint of one of the five known characters, and Part II from the viewpoint of my two OCs.

PART I

Brock looked down, despite the warnings he had been giving himself for the past five minutes, which was since when they had gotten out of the place where they were held. He remembered vividly the way they had been captured.

(Flashback)

They had been sitting in a field, listening to Drew recount why he and May had decided to travel together. Just as his story had finished, he felt extremely cold and numb, all over his body, save for his head. He managed to look down, to say that his body was covered in a casing of ice. He was shocked to say the least, and even more so when he saw that the same had happened to the other four.

He then heard a chuckle from behind them. He attempted to turn his head so as to see who was behind them, but couldn't. However, he could see the pokemon in front of him. They were two Skarmory, looking at them venomously. The person behind them then spoke to someone else, someone who Brock had no idea where they were.

"Nice shot Linn. There are more, but we can carry them on that Salamence of yours."

Brock was now calling out for help. He was late in doing so, he realised, for by then Ash, Dawn and May were all shouting. He stopped after a while though when his attention was drawn to a large pokemon that landed a few feet away from him.

"Scream all ya guys want. You're not getting' any help if we can help it. A' Kadabra?"

Brock then looked around for the named pokemon. He could not find it, though he did manage to see something else. He saw the tree which Dawn had been sitting against. At a certain height, there was a faint yellow line. It took him a moment to register what it was, but he eventually realised it was Light Screen. They had used it to make sure their voices would not reach unwanted ears.

One of the men picked up the frozen Dawn, and placed her on Salamence.

"Now ya don' wanna struggle much baby. Ya don' want ta fall down to yer death do ya?"

Dawn, however, continued struggling and screaming, which resulted in the kidnapper to tie a gag on her. He then proceeded to do that to the other four. Brock had not even tried to resist as Ash had, but then again he managed to get through without having his jaw punched, once again unlike Ash. But the person who mainly caught Brocks' attention was Drew. Drew had not once attempted to call out for help and he seemed the most relaxed of the captives. He did not even seem to panic, yet when Brock looked carefully, he could see that Drew had managed to defrost his left hand, and was now trying to get into his left pocket.

Unfortunately, one of their captors had seen the movements as well, and had asked Salamence to once again freeze Drew, and after that punched his jaw. He then placed Ash and Brock on the Salamence, then placing Drew and May on a Skarmory each.

He then lost consciousness due to the cold, and he was sure the others had succumbed to it as well.


Brock woke up to see that he was sitting next to Dawn and Drew. He tried struggling, and was about to attempt to stand up, until Ash beat him to it. Ash had then proceeded to trip on his own feet, and hell back down, slamming his head against the wall. He attempted to struggle a little more, until he saw Drews' movements from the corners of his eyes. Drew was attempting to position himself for something, as he struggled with his binds. Brock saw his struggles for a moment, but then allowed sleep to overcome him.

(/Flashback)

He was pulled out of his flashback by a sudden change of angle in Tropius' flight path. It had moved towards the ground at an amazing speed, heading for a clearing in the forest underneath. As suddenly as it had started, their decline ended, with Tropius standing full stable at the ground. As he slipped down, he looked up at Drew, who was holding Ash by the arms. He slowly lowered him to Brock, who then took him towards a tree to lay him down.

Evidently the night had not yet finished with providing strange and confusing situations. Once he and Ash were at a straight distance, Drew had ordered Tropius to fly once more, yet this time back from where they had come. He was too shocked by Drews' eccentricity, that he hardly noticed Drifblim land a little distance from where he was standing.

"Drew! What are you doing?!"

Drew looked down towards May, frustration apparent in his eyes. "Do you really think escaping would have been so easy if we were the targets?" Without waiting for a reply, he motioned for Tropius to fly back, at full speed. Brock watched his figure suddenly disappear in the darkness. He turned his attention to Dawn and May. Dawn was staring shocked at the sky. Anyone would be at the events that had transpired over mere hours. Yet Mays' reaction scared him to say the least, she had tears in her eyes, yet the rest of her expression did not show that she was going to cry.

She seemed angry rather. "You idiot! Drew! Come Back!"

They had been sitting in the same clearing for five minutes now, with no sign of Drew or the two who had rescued them. Brock was sitting up against a tree, staring at another one, contemplating what had happened, but he couldn't make heads or tails of it. Dawn was sitting in somewhat the same position as his; however, she was looking at the grass. Ash was still unconscious, and May was the only one standing. She had her eyes on the sky, waiting for the slightest hint of movement.

They did not see anything though, rather hearing it, as a giant explosion ensued, from somewhere to the left of where they were, from where they had arrived. It caused a chill move up his spine. He felt so…unsafe and insecure, that he did not know what to do at all. He wished he had his pokemon, yet they only one they had between them was the Drifblim that had carried May and Dawn.

He waited for any sign, any clue that the three back in their short term prison were faring well. He got better.


Fin for Part I. Right then. Sorry for the unbelievably late update. I did something really stupid not worth mentioning. I will mention something else however. When some of my friends read this, they thought I was off my rocker. They knew me to be an avid ContestShipper, but also a supporter of IkariShipping, over any other Dawn or Paul ship. So they were surprised, to say the least, to realise that the first chapter gave some hints at PearlShipping.

I am sorry for anyone who thought that this is the secondary ship…it isn't. It isn't even on the list of ships I have for this story. To avoid further confusion, I'll add the list here and now.

ContestShipping{Drew x May} – PokeShipping{Ash x Misty} – IkariShipping{Paul x Dawn} – StrandedShipping{OC x OC(made it up)} – WinstraiteShipping{Max x Vivi}

There are many others, but I'll right them in when I reach a suitable point…the appearance of either:

1. Misty

2. Paul

3. Max

4. Vivi

5. Cynthia

6. OC #3

Put into a review who you want in FIRST.

~TSreh out