Me: Welcome back! If you read my other stories and noticed I hadn't updated my stories for a while it was because school kept distracting me and kept me really busy. But let's not talk about that, here's chapter 2!

Rules Revealed

Satoshi sighed, setting his I-pad in his pocket. Sliding onto his bed the black haired teen thought about his battle with Gary.

He sure has become stronger. Satoshi gave a sad smile. Too bad I can't show him it's me, not yet. That's when he remembered. He waited a moment before his fellow yellow mouse jumped from his spot on the window and jumped onto the bed and faced Satoshi, cocking his head in a cute way.

"Hey buddy, what'd you think of the battle?" During their battle the little electric type walked up to the window observing the battle between his master and the youngest Oak.

The little mouse smiled and nodded, "Pi Pik!" Satoshi patted his faithful mouse on the head in recognition.

"Thanks buddy. And I'm sorry for whacking you upside the head this morning. I was just shocked that Giovanni would do such a thing. Oh, Infernape come on out." He grabbed a poke ball from his belt and tossed it into the air. A crack emitted from the opening ball and a white light came out and rematerialized when it hit the floor. A few seconds later the light dispersed and the fire monkey appeared with a small grin on his face.

"Nice job out there Infernape. Think anybody noticed anything familiar about you?" The monkey with fire as hair shook his head.

The blue eyed man nodded, "Let's try and keep it that way, at least for not until I meet Giovanni." He sneered. Both his pokemon nodded in grit determination before they all heard a knock at his door. Quickly returning Infernape Satoshi motioned Pikachu to get under the bed. Complying the little mouse quickly scampered under, using his nocturnal vision to help see.

Satoshi opened the door, revealing Gary, "Hey man. I just wanted to thank you for the amazing battle. Can I talk with you for a moment?" Satoshi raised an eyebrow but let Oak in. Sitting on his bed Gary heard a squeak when he plopped down on it. His eyes widened a little hearing the squeak. Immediately dropping to the ground he brought the sheet of the bed up and saw the eyes of the pokemon that made the squeak.

"Pika!" The mouse dashed backwards deeper into the dark.

Gary popped his head up, "Is that you pokemon?" He asked the older of the two.

Satoshi nodded and kneeled, "Pikachu, come out." He sighed, giving a mental sigh. The little mouse hesitated before crawling out and jumping into his masters arms.

"You have a Pikachu. Hi little buddy, I'm Gary Oak." He patted the mouse's head. Pikachu contemplated for a moment: should he zap Oak as revenge or just smile and wait till later. Felling the glare of his master burn a hole in the back of his head Pikachu just smiled and gave a small "cha", a hidden grin combined with an ingenious plan imbedded in the back of his head.

"How long have you had him?" Gary asked, a hint a familiarity in his eye. Satoshi saw that glint and tensed a little but relaxed.

"I've had him for a while. I remember meeting him in the Viridian Forest, where most of these little guys resided." He came up with lie. Well it technically wasn't...

"Where did you start your journey?" Oak kept pondering where he'd seen the little mouse.

Satoshi bit his tongue, "I started out in Kanto." Suddenly Gary's eyes widened and his mouth dropped. Satoshi's stomach shot up to and shattered his ribcage. But before Gary Oak could answer a call from downstairs broke the teeth chattering silence.

"Satoshi, Gary come down here!" Leaf's voice echoed through the silent room. Seizon took his chance and set Pikachu down and dashed downstairs. Gary glared at the mouse for a second before going downstairs as well. Both meeting downstairs they saw Leaf, Dawn and May watching the T.V. which held a white background and standing in-front of it was a familiar face to all.

"Mr. Goodshow!" They all yelled, shocked.

"Hello, I'm Mr. Goodshow in-case you were wondering. I am here to tell all who are participating in the Survival Tournament the rules and regulations about it."

Gary gave a frustrated sigh, "He hosted the Indigo Plateau Tourney and Silver Conference! What's next, hosting the Survival Tournament?" An answer soon appeared...

"I am also hosting the Survival Tournament and the next Hoenn and Sinnoh Tournament!" He grinned and gave a peace sign causing everyone who was watching this to fall on their face.

Satoshi got up and rubbed his head, "Well that answers that I guess."

Mr. Goodshow coughed, clearing his throat, "Well, moving on. Only trainers who are 20 and under may enter the tournament. Reasons are so young trainers can face their own kind and build up to be masters, not be defeated easily against other masters. Now, where the tournament will take place. Due to the new idea the makers of this had about this it will be taking place on the..." He suddenly stopped, and the T.V. went fuzzy. Everyone shot up suddenly, confused and suspicious.

"What was that?" Gary asked, gripping his starters poke ball. An explosion was heard outside and a large vibration echoed through the surrounding area.

"It came from outside!" Seizon shouted, dashing out into the large field of dust. Everyone soon followed and the sheet of grains disappeared and a large machine was soon seen rolling though the area. It stopped and the teens saw that it was a tank. The top popped open and three figures dramatically appeared, concealed by the shadows.

"Prepare for trouble!" A female voice echoed.

"And make it double!" A male voice synched with the females'.

"To protect the world from devastation!" The female continued.

"To unite all people's within our nation!" Male.

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!" Female.

The male continued, "To extend our reach to the stars above!"

The female jumped off the tank and into the sunlight in an over dramatic fashion, "Jessie!" She proclaimed.

The male followed suit, and was shown holding a single red rose, "James!"

"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

A cat pokemon joined his teammates and grinned evilly, "Meowth that's right!"

A large vein popped on Gary's, Dawn's and May's forehead, "What are you three doing here?" They all screamed in unison.

Satoshi face palmed, "Why are you three still singing that motto? Team Rocket was disbanded three years ago." He mumbled to himself quietly enough so no one heard him.

Jessie waved a hand in dismissal, "No need to worry twerps and twerpettes (sp?). We just came by to say hi. But I don't remember you." She pointed to Leaf.

"The names Leaf Green."

A though popped into James' head, "Oh yes, I remember hearing something about you." He glanced between Green and Seizon. Satoshi's face flushed a little remembering a conversation he had a while back.

"Shouldn't you try to take our pokemon but ultimately fail and get blasted into the sky screaming: "Team Rocket's blasting off again...?" Dawn's voice trailed off as if she were disappearing in the sky causing Gary to chuckle.

A vein appeared in Jessie's head but Meowth waved it off, "Cool it twerpette. We know Team Rocket disbanded. In-fact we helped your little buddy..." The cat paused for a second, "Ash I think? Yeah, that was it. We helped Ash destroy the Team Rocket base." He noticed everybody tense and saw Satoshi hide the pained look in his eyes.

Meowth flinched, "Oh yeah, sorry what happened about your friend." He bit his bottom lip as a silence washed over.

Satoshi suddenly shook his head, "Enough. Why are you three here anyway if you know Team Rocket was destroyed and disbanded?" He asked, letting the pain vanish from his face.

Jessie nodded, "Yeah, about that. We found a job selling antiques and what-not here in Olivine. We stopped by here to tell you since I over-heard that you all are participating in the Survival Tourney thing while I was out picking some berries."

May eyed the large vehicle behind them, "And the tank?" She snapped her fingers in the direction of the destructive 'toy' as Team Rocket would've called it back then.

"We use this as transport from thugs and poachers and we're going to have a huge contest soon to see if anyone can get this bad boy." James patted a hand on his old friend he created.

Gary scratched the back of his head, "Well... Good luck with that I guess?" He shrugged, not knowing what to say. The former members of Team Rocket nodded before jumping back in and started rolling their way through the small forest back to their store when everyone heard a familiar alarm.

"Crap it's the cops!" Team Rocket yelled in dismay causing the group of teens to chuckle quietly. They all went back inside and saw the T.V. flicker back to life and saw Mr. Goodshow scratch his head in embarrassment.

"Sorry about the delay: technical difficulties. Now, back to the rules. So far we have about 2,954 competitors. What we decided is when we get about 4,000 trainers entering we will have to cut off the sign-ins. We deeply apologize for everyone who wanted to join. What we decided to do for the preliminaries is we set 200 trainers in 20 different islands," Everyone's eyes widened: 4,000 trainers all trying to win: 20 different islands filled with 200 trainers each.

"Not, I know it might be shocking but it's the best we could do. Your objective: You will be given the necessary supplies that can help you last. If you meet another trainer, you must battle him. Yet you may only bring 3 pokemon with you. Cameras will be monitoring your progress. If you defeat the trainer; he or she will be teleported to the pokemon center. If they lose, they're out of the tournament. This cycle will continue until the island has 100 trainers left. The last of the people on the island will be teleported, courtesy of our Alakazam's, to the main arena where they will wait for further instructions. Rules on the next round will be said there. Of, almost forgot; the tournament starts July 5th! Have a pleasant day contenders and good luck!" The T.V. faded black when Leaf shut it off. Everyone was surprised at the rules. And that was only the preliminaries.

Satoshi craned his neck and sighed, "Ok, we know the rules and we have about a month to train. I don't know about you but I'm gonna get my three pokemon I'm gonna use and train them for now. See ya in a little." We waved them off and walked out, heading to the Pokemon Center.

Gary sat down on the chair and closed in his eyes, "There's something not right about Satoshi Seizon." He mumbled to himself quietly.

May suddenly leaned down on the chair and her head was next to Gary, "What's not right, his last name?"

Gary rolled his eyes and shot the chair backwards making May fall on her butt, "That. And also I feel like I've seen him before. What does Seizon mean?"

Leaf plopped down on the loveseat, "Seizon means Survival."

A though shot it's way to Gary's brain, One year ago Ash Ketchum's body was found in the rubble of Team Rocket's base, yet he held no blood or scratches. Doctors are baffled on how this young Pokemon trainer had died with no blood seeping through the outside of his body. A few days later his body had disappeared from the emergency room at Viridian Central, one of the main hospitals in Kanto, the tubes keeping him in the world were disconnected; the only thing left was a drop of blood, Pokemon Blood...

Gary's eyes widened, "I have to get to the Pokemon Center!" He flew out of his seat, almost making the chair fall onto the dizzy May.

Leaf raised an eyebrow, "What was that about?"

Dawn shrugged, walking to the kitchen, "He probably figured out the Mystery of Satoshi." She tried to sound dramatic bust failed when hearing her newest of her two friends snort.

"Yeah, yeah. You know, when was the last time we had a battle?" May asked and sat up, her headache gone.

Leaf grinned, "You're right. How about a Triple Battle?" Her two friends nodded and they all headed outside. After forming an equilateral triangle the three girlfriends grabbed a poke ball.

They threw them into the air, "Go Venasaur/Blaziken/Empoleon!" Their starters were released, all in a bright white light.

May noticed something different about Dawn's starter, "So, Piplup finally decided to evolve into it final form?" Dawn nodded. With their pokemon now ready to test their skills they launched towards to each other, ready to strike.

Gary ran towards the Pokemon Centre as fast as his legs could carry, making them look like spinning wheels. He flew through the Pokemon Center doors and almost crashed into Satoshi while he was at it. As he fell into the floor he grabbed the attention of everyone in the Pokemon Center who was waiting to be registered and/or wait to have their pokemon healed.

Satoshi knelt down beside him, "7.5" Gary looked up and saw Seizon holding a large piece of white cardboard with the number 7.5 painted largely in red. Suddenly Gareth Oak shot up and grabbed the mystery man by the arm and dragged him outside.

When his arm sleeve was let go off Satoshi grabbed his twitching wrist, "Why in the world did you do that?"

What Gary answered with, gave a shock to Seizon that froze his nervous system, "Where the hell have you been ASH KETCHUM!"

A/N: There's the end. I'm sorry this chapter was shorter was the last one but I thought it ended well here. Well, Gary has found out that Seizon is Ash. How will Seizon counter? And if you noticed that I haven't updated any of my stories it was because of my god damn school life. I'll update them when I get some ideas and I'm starting Chapter 2 of Pokemon Assassin's. Oh well, see ya next chap!

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