VT: Well, this is nice, here is chapter 45. Hope you all enjoy it.
The Day After
The sun is high in the sky and is shinning on a small café in the Trainer section of Saffron City, a few tables are filled with four trainers to a table but they all seemed to be together for they would be shouting back to one another with quips and jokes.
"Hey Kirk, how is all that sci-fi reading coming?" A boy with short straight black hair said with a grin, sun glaring off a pair of sunglasses that would make most people is careful around, but Kirk who was the person that the kid in sunglasses asked seemed not to care that the kid looked intimidating.
"Why Ethan," Kirk said in a mock tone of surprise, "It's coming along nicely, why right now I am reading of a machine that could transport people and pokemon to other dimensions, very fascinating, in fact an accident occurs and the scientists along with a few others end up in a place devoid of Pokemon, only lesser versions of them, slaves really, and they have to work out a way to get back." Kirk then returns to reading, being dressed in a white T-Shirt that on the left pocket is sewn on a space cadet patch, and tan shorts that had a lot of pockets in them. The patch was something that Kirk is very pleased about.
"So, do they make it back?" Ethan had stopped eating for this story had intrigued him greatly. So much so that he had forgotten his meal of burgers and fries. Not only did he look on with interest but so did the others at Kirk and Ethan's table, Matthew Vixen, Becky Sparks, and Robert, who is the head of the Junior Police, a group of trainers that formed to protect one another back in Jhoto from Rocket and thieves, and when possible they would foul up a crime and turn the crock into the police.
Kirk only laughed at this, "Sorry, but I can't tell, it'll ruin the entire story, but you're welcome to read it when I'm done reading it." Kirk smiled and returned to reading, his plate empty of food, which were fries and a burger as well.
The others only groaned at his blunt rebuttal of their question, and the rest of the lunch meal was eaten in silence, all of them having a burger and fries, seeing how it was the trainer meal of the day, so it was free for trainers, and since money is very precious to a trainer, they are usually the ones at free give-a-ways, so they can stretch their money.
But they were distracted by a gasp that came from Becky, who right away tried to hide the paper from Matt who was reaching for it to read. She only shakes her head, "You don't want to read the paper right now…. why don't you go form some new battle strategy for Koga?" She was smiling but Matthew Vixen only smirked and shakes his own head.
"What is it? What more could be worse then what I have gone through? I mean, I was brainwashed, Attacked, and right now hunted for who I am by Rockets so I don't think anything else would be worse." With those words he snatches the Paper from Becky's hands and began reading. Ethan who was watching him noticed the first signs of something wrong, his hands were trembling, and then the paper began to tremble with intensity before Matthew folds it rather angrily and slamming it onto the table. On the headline it read, Morph's blamed for destruction of gym. He was glaring at it with a look of anger and spite, "Not one mention of Team Rocket being in control of the gym, not one mention of all the Grunts that were stolen, it angers me to no end. I could just walk up to that writer and give a few choice words." Matthew really did look like he would really attack something, but at the next moment he just spins around and walks away hands balled up into fists, behind him following out of concern were his team mates. He left an air of tension and an awkward moment of silence, before Robert cleared his throat and began to pick up his stuff, while Becky left to talk to Robert about plans, Ethan only looked at the corner that Matthew had disappeared around, and after a few seconds of hesitation he follows.
Matthew was sitting in a tree, looking out over the half built wall and just thinking mainly to himself he was looking at the horizon and knew that over it hide many more secretes and more danger that he could care about thinking, he was having a rough time, it seemed that when he had everything set and in order something would come up and destroy that, he was really thinking if running around would be such a safe idea? After all he was still a high target over here, he had heard of other targets in other lands, but of course, all of Kanto would someday be after him, so would it be better for him to just hide away in some cave and shun humanity? He would need to calm down, already his eyes had taken a reddish tint to them and his hair had become more like a Ninetales. He would have to calm himself down before walking around otherwise he could blow his cover.
Ethan soon walks over to the tree, having spent ten minutes trying to find his brother in the crowded streets of Saffron City, he notices right away that while Matthew is looking out over the wall, Matt, Firestorm, and Flare are feigning sleeping in the sunlight, while Stripes is leaning against the tree looking around at the sights and sounds. "Hey Matthew, What's the big idea? You seemed fine last night after all the attacks on us, yet the news story has gotten your hackles all rose to a dangerous level. Care to explain this?" Ethan was not in the mood to joke around nor to make light the situation, he knew it was serious, and with a Ninetales mind and instincts, it could be a disaster if he snaps.
Matthew only looks down from his perch in the tree and smiles a ghost of a smile, "Because, they are not even mentioning that Team Rocket was behind it, almost like they are trying to force feeling upon the rest of the town, as if the Morph's are the problem, not those that created the problem, so what do you thing? Do you thing that you would be angry as well if you know that you were the one behind such an attack and they mention not a word about those that forced you into it?" Matthew then returned to watching the scenery from his spot in the tree.
"Well," Ethan said with a sour note to it, he wasn't really happy with the question fired at him, because he knew that he would most likely be in the same boat. "Are you going to sit up their till that attack again? Or better yet, until another story comes out that makes you loss control? Or are you going to cause Team Rocket to exert more energy trying to catch you, along with exposing Team Rocket to the press? That would be energy well used on our part, right? Now wouldn't that be a wiser choice to do? To try and get the press to admit that there is more to the news then they had reported before?" Ethan by the end of this seemed a little ticked at how Matthew was in a self pity mood, "I have never seen you like this, you were always happy go lucky, always willing to take one for the team, even when you heard you couldn't go off at ten years of age, you didn't moan and complain, you just took it like a man, something that I find impressive even today, Now, even if it's just for me, can you try and continue onward?"
Matthew Vixen wasn't moving now, he was just staring out over the wall, yet in a way that said that he wasn't really seeing anything, he was in his own world, Matthew then sighed and smiling looks down at Ethan, "You know what, I needed that, I needed to be chewed out, I guess you are learning how to be a good brother, now watch it, I'm coming down." With that Matthew jumped down from the tree with only the grace that a Ninetales could perform, he landed next to his brother and smiling he ruffles the black hair that Ethan now sported instead of his red curly hair that he had before his battle with Dark Tail. Matthew's team also got up and glade that Matthew was out of his strange mood, and the two brothers walked back to the Pokemon Center falling into jabbing jokes at one another at how the other looked more Pokemon then the other. They were soon laughing full force as they turned a corner and into the main street of Saffron City. From the shadows of where Matthew and Ethan spoke a small child dressed in green walked out of the shadows and smiling a smile to himself run the opposite direction towards the city gates.
Soon the entire group of trainers were all standing in front of the Pokemon Center, they all having checked their supplies and packs and were trying to get organized, since they were nine people all together, it was a little chaotic a few minutes ago, but now the group of nine were split up into two groups to decide on what would be happening now. Robert was talking to his own group, who consisted of six personal. They all having different colored packs but all seemingly to know what was what, the other three, our Morphs were already ready in their walking order. Soon the other six were ready and the two messed together, Ethan taking up a spot near Kirk, and Matthew and Becky, taking up a spot near Robert. Ethan had Eve out, and Matthew had Matt and Firestorm out, and the Becky had sparks out, the Pikachu walking next to her.
They soon exited the west gate for the trainers and then they headed south towards Fuchsia City and another adventure, but of course a route is between the two cities and a lot can happen in a small route no matter what one does to try and keep things cool and collected. This of course held true even to our adventurers who were still trying to only reach the next city and the Gym Badge that would await them.
The group of kids is now off the beaten path and bush whacking through the tall grass hoping to see or maybe catch some new Pokemon, especially for Ethan, since he has only three Pokemon, even though one of which is a Charizard, the other two are a Murkrow, and an Umbreon, who at the moment was out and walking next to Ethan staying in his shadow, both of them were beginning to look ill at ease in the sunlight.
Matthew looks around and sighs "I hate to mention this, but Dark Types do not do too well in the sunlight, maybe we should walk beneath some tress for shade, that way they could maybe travel more at ease?"
His question was met with an excited voice of Sarah. "Yes, let's do that, then we can have a small break, I am getting a little tired from all this walking." Sarah it seemed was one who had joined up late in the Jhoto tournament, she was mainly traveling so she could see the world and practice at becoming a new reporter, but their was one thing that she was in need of work, her endurance, she would get tired after a half hour of walking, but Matthew didn't mind, he was looking forward to a break, he was pushing himself a little bit as is, so they began looking for a groove of trees in hopes of a break, soon they spot one, and it was in fact still south, but a little to the east of them at the moment.
However the progress of the group was being closely watched by from the same cluster of trees that they were approaching. Soon the first part enters, those being Sarah and Richard, Richard was complaining of all the grass and rocks that he was tripping over and that they hadn't seen a single wild Pokemon since they left the path. Sarah came back telling him that of course they hadn't seen any Pokemon, he was scaring them off.
Then Matthew, Becky and Robert entered the groove of trees and the branches seem to explode with feathers as Spearow dive upon the new comers, however they are mainly focusing their attacks upon Matthew and Becky, they were screeching things that no human could even begin to understand. This caused the others that were still in the back of the group to rush forward and into the grove of trees. This caused some of the Spearow to tear away from Matthew and Becky and began to attack Ethan showing that they seemed to be attacking only three people. The Spearow were even ignoring Matt, Firestorm, Sparks, along with Eve, they would only attack the four Pokemon or any others if they were attacked by the other six, or their Pokemon, and at the moment, the air seemed filled with Spearow and they seemed to be fight themselves as well at the three, as if they were enjoying the beating that they were dealing out to the three.
"Go, get going, they are after us, not you. We can hold our own, just get going, you sister's freedom is riding on at least some of us getting to Fuchsia City." Matthew ordered before he dived into the underbrush as his only two Pokemon were also fighting them off.
Robert was torn but the moment that they stepped back the Spearow ignored them and were focusing totally on the threesome. But when he tired to step forward with Pokmeon reinforcements the flock it seemed, to grow and then split and while one half stayed to deliver continuing attacks upon the three, and now their Pokemon since they had gotten out to combat the Spearow, the other half began to drive not only Robert and his Pokemon back, but the others as well, so while he was still being forced "We'll send help back as soon as we can, but Do you require…." He didn't finish his sentence, for the Spearow seemingly knowing what he was planning attacked with even more force then what they had been giving them before and suddenly they were out of the trees and back on the grass lands between Fuchsia City and Saffron. Robert and the gang were mystified at the actions of the Spearow, only those that provoke a flock of Spearow would get such wrath, and yet here were three people being attacked and all they did was to enter the grove of trees.
The group however only stayed stunned for about a second before they look at one another and took off running glancing backs every once in a while hoping that they might reach help soon, or that Matthew, Becky and Ethan would get out safely.
Back in the grove the three Morph's were not having the greatest time, already their Pokemon were driven into a small area and being watched, they were too weak to attack, Flare was in his Pokeball never even getting a change to fight. But still the other four Pokemon, Matt, Firestorm, Sparks, and Eve were all staring angrily at the flock of Spearow that were attacking their trainers and they had been trying to get sand out of their eyes for so long that they were watering, they knew that their accuracy was so low that it would be lucky to hit their target and not hit their trainers, they were really angry at them at the moment.
Then the Spearow stopped their attack as Ethan losing his temper so much that he spun around and amazingly sent a Shadow ball from his hands, only a moment later he was on all fours and growling at the Spearow, those that had been hitting Ethan suddenly stopped and went after Matthew and Becky. Matthew not seeing Ethan change also got feed up and spinning around using hearing that had gotten more attune to the Spearow's wing beat suddenly lunged and hit the Spearow into a tree who seconds later had a Ninetales on his chest, but he was grinning.
Becky seeing that the Spearow were now focusing their entire focus on her went into her Ninetales form as well, the moment she did the Spearow sent up a cawing of excitement and victory, almost as if they were hopping to do just what they did.
"You are no longer human… why do you go human when Pokemon way is better?" A Spearow asked as he landed in front of the three Pokemon as they began to reorient themselves as their Pokemon began to slowly creep to their sides. "Stay Pokemon, see as we see, live a little like us; tell me where were you going?" The Spearow was asking in a way that made it feel more like an order then a question.
Matthew Vixen a Ninetales now only growled at the offending bird that had seemed happy that he was causing annoyance with the group of three. "I was human so I could get through the route without being seen or thought as a wild Pokemon, as to where I am going… I am going to battle Koga and get the Soul Badge so I can be one more step to becoming closer to my goal, totally conquest of the world." The way Matthew said the last part it was more because he was irritated at the Spearow then a truth or fact.
"You really want control of the world? You wish to shape land in own image? We support idea, we like, and we help." The Spearow said this with a glint in his eye; his voice also showed that he saw the sarcasm in Matthew's tone of voice.
"Look here," Ethan Growled seeing that the situation could escalate into a full fledge feud that would leave everyone bloodied. "We have had a hard time here, we are trying to save human lives from the fate that we are now living, so let us go." Ethan was sounding irritated and mad at all that is happening to him at the moment, along with the attacks that he has gone through just minutes ago.
"No." The Spearow cawed out in a smug look. "You will trek this route and into the next town as you are, you must really learn how to be more Pokemon, we do control the world after all, without our willingness to help humans, the humans would have been killed long ago." The Spearow was very, very, annoying to Ethan and Eve, but Matthew only sighed.
There is nothing that will change your mind? Like us never returning to this grove? Or that we will not attack another Spearow on this route? Anything at all that would help change your mind to let us get to the next town as humans? We would be finding it kind of hard to go into Fuchsia City and try and exit it as humans." Matthew was looking to make any type of deal with the Spearow, any sound and non crazy deal that is.
"No, you will stay Pokemon till next town, Pokemon only town so you will fit in." The Spearow then flapped his wings and with that the others took flight as well, they then began to push the group of Pokemon forward and towards another event in their lives.
Meanwhile the group of six were still searching for help, they didn't know what would be happening, but still even though the squawking and caws had finished and the grassland was once again silent, they felt an uneasy calm over it, as if something was coming, something that wasn't good. So they still pressed forward hoping to come across anything that might help them with the small Spearow problem.
"Hey Robert, how many of those birds did you count?" Kirk asked, he seemed perplexed about something, and that something was jibbing with his knowledge.
"I don't know, about fifty or more? Why the suddenly interest about the number of Spearow? You know as well as I do that even a flock of twenty good ones can give even an experienced Trainer grief, especially if they target a human." Robert yelled back he was in the lead and Kirk was lagging behind trying to wrap his head around the problem, a problem that Robert was thinking he invented just the keep his head from going crazy with worry.
"Oh no real reason, except if I recall their was no high Spearow warnings in the Saffron City Pokemon Center, either meaning that the authorities don't know about them, or it was an ambush set up for those three, and since we were with them, it messed with the plan and they goofed, allowing us time to think this through…. Now who wants those three in their control?" Kirk with those words had stopped the progress of the group for the second and his words gelled and they all digested the new information.
Ethan growled and ducked his head and growled annoyingly at the guard of Spearow that were over his head, a few of them would do a fake dive raid at him and he would try and attack them back, he was getting angry and he was also beginning to envision some ways of cooking and eating a Spearow. But then they all started to caw and chatter to themselves so fast that even a Pokemon that knew the language all their life, unless another Spearow or bird would be having difficulty understand, but then they all peeled away from the group leaving them exposed and in the open, the land grew quiet and a strange calmness settled over the land, suddenly the Spearow returned and with gestures of the wing and a few choice caws they forced the three and their Pokemon friends forward. They soon reached a ridge in the land and when they got to the top of it, all seven of them took an intake of breath, There set into the small cliff, about as tall as a two story building, is what looks to be a entrance to an underground bunker, milling around it were what looked to be humans at first but as the seven focused in, they were really Hybrids, not Morphs, for a Morph could hid his or her appearance while a Hybrid could not, he or she would a permanent mixture of both human and Pokemon.
The lead Spearow takes off and makes a graceful landing in which process he becomes a humanoid Spearow, he was walking on the hind legs still which were more bird like feet, the legs disappear into shorts a tan in color, which had a hole in the rear to allow his tail feathers room to move about, his chest was also cover by a short sleeved tan shirt, the shirt was ripped at the arm pits as to allow the wing feathers room to fit through the shirt, his neck and head were both bird like and his face was more Spearow then of a human shape. Right away the flock around Matthew, Becky, and Ethan erupted into squawks of praise and joy. However, the seven Pokemon were not too pleased they were beginning to edge away slowly, all trying to look for a way to escape when a silky voice sounded behind them. "I wouldn't want to leave now would I? It would be bad taste to scoot before saying hello to the hostess of this little party, so I insist stay for a while." The voice even though it contained a smooth and soft feel to its presence, it also held an undertone of danger and a touch of power as well to it.
Matthew Vixen turned around and only growled, for standing in front of them was a person that he wasn't even wanting to see ever again, someone that he had hoped to have fallen off the face of the earth, but there she was in the black fur, Dark Moon, looking even more Mightyena then ever before. "You again, I had hoped that I saw the last of you in the last failed attack in my home town." she only wrinkled her noise bridge the way only a canine could do to show a sign of disgust, a small growl escaping her muzzle.
"Please you think I would have been defeated so easily back then? All you did was to send me back to my den to lick my wounds." Dark Moon looked at the three and only smiled, "This is amazing, it shows that we are superior to our creators, we have overthrown them and started anew and already we have achieved the one thing in Kanto they could not achieve, the capture of the great Matthew Vixen and pack." She gave a bark like laugh which only achieved to make the Pokemon standing around a little more afraid then they had been before. Dark Moon scared many people. She then moved a little closer to Matthew and smiling as she moved her tail twitching in a certain way. "Now then… tell me, why is it that you hang around such small fries when I am as powerful as a queen?" She then as she moved morphed into a Mightyena and began to move to Matthew's side and as she walked by him, tapped his noise with her tail.
Becky snapped, along with Matthew who both growled, Matthew stepped back and looked very angry, where as Becky took a forward step and looked like she could rip something apart.
Becky right away lunged as well as Dark Moon and they met in the middle of the lunged and they right away separated. They began to circle around each other growling and waiting for a moment of opportunity to attack, Becky made a faint move to the left and then lunged to the right and soon the two were tussling and really getting into the fight.
Matthew began to slink away and muttered a question to Firestorm. "Is it normal for two ladies to fight one another for the male?" Matthew seemed a little perplexed at this, he never had anyone fight over himself before ever.
Firestorm only shook her Vulpix head. "Well, usually I think so, but you see I had a stalker of a male, even though I had chosen Matt as my mate, he wouldn't let it go, and so he would attack every once in a while at Matt to try and prove that he was better then Matt, but he never learned just what I like about him." Firestorm then returned to growling encouragements at Becky as well as a few insults at Dark Moon.
Ethan and Eve during this entire escapade only slinked away and soon found a shadow and jumped into it, since most of Dark Moon's guards were standing around and watching their leader fight off another female, and they having been getting board from only doing routine work and not having much escape time to unwind, as such they all were enjoying themselves as they yelled encouragements at their leader, thus allowing Ethan and Eve to escape.
The Six trainers lead by Robert were now resting, they had tried to talk three different trainers into helping them, but they all had refused, they were getting frustrated, when suddenly Kirk yelped from his spot in the tree that they were sitting beneath. "I see two more trainers, male and a female, maybe they can help, and they are coming our way." Kirk as soon as he said this began to climb down from the tree and by the time he had reached the ground the others could see the two trainers that Kirk had spotted.
Robert directs his group of friends and allies to fall back behind another natural rise they had found… you find a lot of interesting things if you go off the beaten path, and this time it was a little depression that they were in, meaning that a rise was around the lone tree that Kirk had just vacated. Robert goes up to the two and launches into a speech that he was becoming quite good at telling. "You've got to help us," he began his voice calm, but urgent in voice, showing that he was trying to tell the facts in a clear and precise manner. However he was noticing that these two were dressed semi strange compared to some of the other trainers he had meet so far. The female was dressed in blue pants, jean like material, a white shirt, purple gloves, and a bandana with all the colors of the rainbow, her fanny pack was also rainbow in color. The male was on the other hand dressed in faded blue, almost white clothing, he also had on faded jeans, and a T-shirt, but his glasses, they were the one thing that set him apart, he had horns at the two edges that curved a little up, and reminded Robert for a second of the masks around a Lugia's eyes. He however shocks his head and belittled himself for staring along with losing his focus mid sentence, so he restarted his sentence. "You see, three of my friends were attacked by a flock of Spearow, and considering that they had been attacked in the past by people, I fear that the flock of Spearow were not really wild, but part of some person's will to conquer my friends can you help us? I can show you the direction that they forced them in." Robert was of course leaving out that his friends could take the form of Pokemon; he would most likely loss any support that he might gain if he said that, he would be called loco or loony or something.
The two teenagers look at one another a strange look passing between them, the female only sighed and spoke for what seemed to be the two of them, "Which way… it seems we just can't have a quiet day can we Luke?" The female smiled almost like she was telling an old joke.
The male called Luke only rolled his eyes but smirked, "No Holly, we can not have a normal day, we never have a normal day," Luke then focused on Robert's face, "Which way did they go? We can handle it so you can stay here… keep the area clear, just in case any of the bad guys try and slip past us okay?" Luke was trying not to have more people follow them; however Holly smacked him in the back of the head.
"Luke, they are the ones following the three, do you think they can handle themselves? Besides, they want help in Fuchsia City so be nice." Holly then smiled and turned to face Robert, "Sorry bout my brother, he only likes certain people around…. Well so do I, but you are the type, anyway, show us the way, and call your friends from their hidings spots, I don't like it when I am spied upon." Holly then laughs as she steps back and looked around as Robert took his hat off and waved it in the air, his signal that he had gotten help, Kirk jumped back out of the tree that he was hiding from. Sarah and Dirk get up from the part of the ridge that was behind Robert, Dirk right away runs up to stand beside him, Robert smiles and rubs the eleven year olds hair.
"Are they going to help us big brother?" Dirk, who was Robert's youngest sibling asked in an excited voice. Robert only nodded and Dirk laughed, "Good, Matt still owes me some explaining about why his has two Vulpix." He laughs again as Robert only rolls his eyes.
Richard and Della come from the left and right of the Robert, hiding on opposite sides of each other, in fact when they fell in the two keep Robert between them, almost like the only reason why they were even in the same area was a common goal they want to achieve. What it is, well, it wasn't apparent at the moment.
Holly smiled and nodded to Luke, "Well, we are wasting daylight, so let's get going, we don't want to let down these kids now do we?" Holly wasn't at all condescending with her words or tone of voice only stating a fact that she saw needed to be addressed.
At that moment however an Umbreon fades into existences from the shadow of a tree and Ethan stumbles over the ridge having gotten out a little ways away and taken back his human form. Ethan stumbles into the small depression and right away tells Robert and those around Robert just what was going on, too tired and worn out to care if Holly or Luke overheard, but since Robert didn't know what to say, and since Ethan was the one talking, he let it slide thinking that Ethan had already met the two before, which he had, Luke had given him the Ocarina before the Saffron incident.
Luke and Holly only look at one another and shake their heads they both knew that Dark Moon was going to give those troubles and they knew that it wasn't going to be an easy thing to go into the front yard of her front base, but they felt that they could handle it, one way or another.
The group of nine humans and one Pokemon that was out at the moment crept forward in the direction that Matthew and Becky were taken, Ethan guiding them through the area, of course they were forced through some bushes that was blocking their path now, so they were taking more of a round about way through the grassy fields of the route.
Back at the entrance of Dark Moon's base the two Pokemon had separated and were once again panting, both had scratches and a few tears in their fur from the fight and both were still looking upset and angry that the other was still trying to catch glances at Matthew. Of course Matthew was only looking at Becky, he was a little embarrassed at all the fighting that had happened was due to him, of course, when it came right down to the point, he was more worried of Becky was hurting herself and that she would need more time to recover, he was about eighteen now, and he was more concerned about the Team Rocket threat right now then girls.
Dark Moon growls and lunges only to miss her target of Becky and hit the dirt instead, right away Becky pounces and in on top of Dark Moon she is growling in her ear and was not letting up on her stance. "Thought you could win against a two hundred year old Ninetales? Well, think again, I know more moves about canine combat then you could imagine, and don't think that you are superior because you have human thought patterns because I have them too." Becky then smirk a fox like grin on her muzzle and sits down atop Dark Moons back making sure her body weight was positioned in a way that would keep Dark Moon from moving.
Dark Moon being part canine and Pokemon could feel the menace coming from Becky and being one to save her own pelt before anyone else, she sighs and puts her head to the ground, "You can go, you win, I will not follow you any more nor will I try to hurt you." Dark Moon was of course keeping to herself that she was forgetting to mention any names, but she was also not knowing that another presence was watching, one that was seeing just how much of a trickster she really was.
The group of two Morphs and their Pokemon after making sure they had the Mighyena's words that she would not follow them left the clearing and as they reached the crest of the hill that they were forced down earlier that day they found themselves face to face with the rescue team that had regrouped. As Pokemon, Matthew and Becky looked at Holly and Luke and blinked for they thought they were seeing things, or at least their minds in overdrive so much that they were not thinking straight, so they shake their heads and look again.