Pokextinction! Challengers Approaching!

The pikachu sat with arms crossed across his chest as the others slowly trudged in and joined him around their meeting table. They waited for just a little bit longer until their leader, a cubone finally arrived in the room. "What the fuck was that?" he snapped cheeks sparking as he glared at their leader. The fluffy brown eevee sitting beside him rolled her eyes while their leader glared at him. "I mean seriously, not only did we fail to get the gem from them, they also took off with Yol!" he shouted and quickly had to jump to the side as Leon finally decided he'd opened his mouth a bit too wide.

"Shut up Zeke!" the cubone glared at him as he bared his teeth right back at the other Pokéuman.

"Can we get down to business please?" both boys turned to face the zorua who'd spoken. She rolled her eyes while the last member of their team a lampent floated serenely above her head. "So we failed this time... but we do have a bit of an idea of their skills right?" she asked and slowly the whole group nodded.

"Yeah, but it doesn't really help us at this point!" the eevee stated her own tail curled in front of her as she sat beside the zorua and observed the map. "Jessie, at this point we're not just one step behind but two. The next place they'll probably go is to the roamers! After all the roamers handle the trade system and generally keep tabs on the more supernatural elements that pop up!" she tapped one paw on the map and a hologram appeared above it displaying what looked to be an abandoned warehouse.

"Ella is right!" Leon stated bringing the attention of everyone back to him while Zeke crossed his arms across his chest once more and simply glared at the cubone. "At this point we're several steps behind those Pokéuman troublemakers. So we'll need to catch up!" the grins that crossed the faces of all the other Pokextinction workers would have caused shivers to go up the Pokéuman groups spines had they seen them.

Blade grumbled as they trudged through the darkness of the abandoned Pokextinction base, wondering why he'd been so eager to get there earlier. Tasha happily led them even though the only light was from Ryan's tail. The riolu finally stopped and her tail wagged causing the rest of the group to look hopeful for a moment. "Hey Tasha!" Everyone turned to see racing down the corridor a small grey furred chinchilla Pokémon, a minccino. "What brings you guys down here to the underbelly?" the minccino asked a mischievous grin crossing her face even as the figure of a human walked up behind her.

"Mischief! I was wondering where you were..." Tasha stated before paw bumping with the other Pokéuman. "Anyway, I'm here to get the treasure stone that we found before!" the riolu explained and Mischief looked thoughtful for a moment before flashing a thumbs up and looking at the human who had followed her.

"Sorry Tai! This is official Pokéumans business so we'll have to play later! Don't worry though, I'll be back!" she grinned and the human laughed before continuing down the corridor. The other Pokéumans stared, except for Tasha who had already been introduced to Tai once before. "So! Right this way then... oh, does anyone want an evolution stone, or booster item while we're here?" the minccino asked as she pulled open a door and ran ahead of the group leading them deeper into the abandoned base. Soon enough she stopped at a supply closet though and pulled it open, she took out the Dimension Gem that they were after and handed it to Tasha.

"So booster items?" Ryan asked looking at all the gems, stones and assorted other items in the closet. "Where did you even get this stuff from?" he wondered eyeing a bit of charcoal curiously while wondering about how it would boost his fire attacks.

"It's part of the job!" Mischief cheerfully stated. "Of course... it'll cost you!" that statement caused everyone to blink including Tasha who nervously laughed before speaking.

"Maybe later then... anyway, we've got more Gems to find. See you later Mischief!" she waved as they left but the minccino frowned and ran around ahead of them forcing them to stop.

"Hey! I want to help! It seems like it would be fun! And besides nothings been happening recently, not even at the school... so please?" Mischief clasped her paws in front of her and utilised one of the most devastating weapons in her nine year old arsenal the puppy dog eyes.

"Okay fine! Next stop?" Zachary sighed and looked over the group.

"Yinnar!" Mischief stated instantly causing them to all turn to face her. "There's something that I heard about through the grapevine, apparently the school has an odd air around it!" she rubbed the back of her head and they all looked at one another before shrugging, what harm could it possibly do after all.

Apparently they were underestimating just how much Murphy's Law was in effect, especially considering just how odd their group was. Tasha was swearing as she dodged another bolt of electricity that came hurtling towards her curtsy of Zeke and the rest of the group weren't doing that much better. This time they'd been much more off guard, and who they were battling against was just a bit more random. Leon and Cole were squaring off somewhere behind her, out of the corner of her eye she saw Mischief fighting a machop desperately jumping to avoid the fighting element Pokéuman's thrusts. She growled and sent a blazing kick towards the pikachu's side only to have him jump over it.

Zeke grinned as she stumbled caught off guard and he slammed his paw down as hard as he could on her. She was sent bouncing across the concrete ground and only just barely avoided been tossed into the conflict between Ryan and Ella. She got back to her feet and glared at the grinning pikachu. "Toxic..." she growled and the purple glow stretch between them both causing the electric type to flinch as she dashed forwards and thrust out her palm slamming him right in the chest and sending him flying. "Not so tough now are you?" she asked ducking down under a shadow ball that had been sent by either Jessie or Zachary, she couldn't really tell the difference between the two zorua.

Of course Zeke couldn't take that one lying down and shot towards her electricity sparking around his fist, she quickly jumped to the side and under Blade's aqua tail that just barely missed her. She grinned and dodged a blast of fire that Justin the lampent threw her way while Blade glared at Zeke. It looked like they'd just swapped battles, she glared irritably at the ghost element Pokéuman before dashing forwards fire blazing on one leg as she spun it around to smack the floating Pokéuman into the ground.

Mischief bounced off her head throwing off her balance and both girls tumbled to the ground surprised. Cole jumped in front of them with a green leaf blade on one arm chopping a shadow ball in half to protect them both. "This is going nowhere fast!" Zachary stated landing beside the group as Blade ambled over and Ryan dashed to them hiding behind Cole. The Pokextinction agents seemed to agree as they glared irritably over at the group, the machop standing along with them baring his own teeth at them. "We can't beat them and they can't beat us... this is so stupid!" the zorua stated and Tasha rubbed one paw over her face.

"Wait! I know!" Mischief grinned and jumped out in between the two groups before she pulled out a microphone. Winking she began to sing to the Pokextinctionists eventually putting them all to sleep. "Now come on! Let's go check out what could be causing the spiritual resonance in the air!" she ran off and the other Pokéumans shook their heads but slowly followed after her to the tree stump that she seemed to be so interested in. "Oh... just another one of those strange gems..." Mischief's ears drooped as she handed it over to Tasha who smiled and ruffled her friend's hair.

"This makes the whole mess worth it!" the riolu stated causing Mischief to smile while the others sighed. "Okay then, so let's go check out the next spot of note!" Tasha stated and looked over to the Pokextinction group. "Preferably before they wake up okay!"

"Yeah!"

"This fucking sucks!" Zeke shouted throwing his arms up in the air and glaring around at the other Pokextinction members and the machop who had joined them just to get back at the minccino. "How the fuck did we fail to capture the gems that time?" he asked glaring around at everyone while Leon simply stared in thought at the map laid out in front of them on the table. "This is fucking annoying, can't we simply kill them and be over..."

"No!" everyone froze and stared at Leon who glared at the pikachu who gulped and took several steps back. "We'll allow them to collect as many gems as they can, and then. Once they have enough! We'll strike and take them all right from out under their noses!" the cubone spoke slowly and clearly and Zeke blinked along with many of the other members of the group.

"Okay, whatever..." Zeke stated slumping down in his seat and crossing his arms across his chest, glaring at the map in front of them.

'It makes perfect sense to me!' He tensed and ignored the looks that he got from his companions. 'No, really. Not to mention imagine the face that little upstart will pull once you triumph over her and get the gems for the big boss!' he grinned picturing the face that Tasha would pull if that did happen and relaxed with his arms behind his head and eyes closed.

"So then... they're going to do all the work, but we'll be the ones to come out on top of things?" Jessie asked and received an affirmative nod from Leon before she burst into laughter. "That is just too rich! Okay, looks like they're heading towards the Gardens then..."

Disguised as humans the group wandered around the gardens looking for any sign of the gem that they felt was in the area. Of course, to anyone looking over at them it was quite an odd sight, Cole was the oldest of the group but he still only just barely looked older than 25. Sixteen year old Zachary alongside the two thirteen year olds of the group Tasha and Blade who seemed to be arguing, while Mischief ran ahead of them in all her nine year old glee. Finally of course was Ryan the 14 year old of the group.

They were all also following along behind Mischief, since her Spirit Sight was able to be used both in her Pokémon form alongside her human form. Eventually they stopped by a bed of roses and Mischief smiled as she sniffed them before she dropped down and slipped her hand under them trying to locate the gem. The rest of the group looked at one another and tried to keep her from been seen since you weren't supposed to touch or mess around with the plants.

"Got it!" Mischief cheered pulling her arm back with the rather dirty gem clutched in it and she grinned at them causing them to let out relieved sighs. "So now what?" the kid asked after tucking it away in Tasha's backpack. "Oh wait I know!" she grinned and caused many of the others to frown even as she spun around and ran off forcing them to follow.

"Who thought that this was a good idea again?" Tasha asked as they stood knee deep in snow and followed the happy and laughing Mischief across the snow covered mountain. She shivered and grumbled, of course what she was experiencing was nothing compared to Cole who hadn't even stepped out of the plane due to his weakness to the cold.

Blade wasn't that much better, been a water type he was that much more aware of all the ice around him. Ryan was fine, his hooded jacket keeping him warm along with the fact that he was a fire element Pokémon. The only other member of the group who was fine with the situation was Zachary, who upon seeing the area had grinned and dashed out tossing up the snow as he turned pretty much into a small child.

Tasha froze in her tracks though as her aura flared and she felt something. Mischief had also frozen just a bit ahead of her and they met each others eyes before the riolu nodded and she closed her eyes and instantly tapped into her aura. The whole area lit up in blue, with the others personal auras just within range, and beneath the snow... was nothing.

She opened her eyes and frowned. "Nothing..."

"Huh... that can't be right!" Mischief bounded over "I saw something, it was more of a shade than anything else though... possibly a ghost element Pokéuman... but still..." the minccino stopped mid-sentence her ears flickered and she looked up one of the trees. "Up there..." she pointed and the whole group looked up, to see a blue gem floating in the air as if held by a psychic element Pokéuman.

"How is it... how's that possible?" Tasha stumbled and landed on her tail in the snow with an eye twitch while Mischief rolled her own eyes before bounding up the tree.

"Hey, give it here shade!" she shouted at the figure that apparently only she could see, confusing her PRT companions and their rescued friends. The grey ghoul growled at her and it's claws curled further around the gem while she growled. "Give that here! We need it to save the world!" the minccino shouted jumping towards the spirit, that disappeared leaving her and the Dimension Gem to tumble all the way back down to Earth.

"Mischief!" everyone shouted in unison unable to move even as she slammed into the ground due to gravity's pull on her body. Tasha was the first one to react afterwards dashing over to her long time friend and sometimes charge. "Come on... don't you dare die now..." the shiny Pokéuman shook the minccino tears welling up at the edges of her eyes.

Ryan walked forwards slowly while Blade and Zachary both stood to the side stunned their breath visible in the air. He paused and picked up the dropped Dimension Gem off the ground and that was when one of Mischief's ears twitched. His jaw dropped and the shiny charmander rubbed his eyes before he simply blurted out what everyone was thinking.

"You're alive!"

"Of course I am!" Mischief stood slowly and flashed a grin and thumbs up. "After all... I'm simply making mischief!" the minccino laughed before dropped back into the snow unconscious.