Surprisingly, I don't have every mission of Team Magma and Aqua memorized so I will use my imagination for the most part.

Feels weird to be re-writing this.

Yeah and most likely I will be combining Nate and Cassius together instead of them getting separate chapters.


Cassius watched as Leighton battled against another grunt in the gym. She wasn't bad, but he could tell that battling was not her strong suit. Her piplup was level 15, at best.

Nothing was her strong suit, except sassing Cassius off.

She was horrible at running the course, which was just running, jumping over some hurdles, and lifting a weight or two. She didn't even run, she walked. She walked around the hurdles, stared at the weights before saying 'no' and walking away. She was hopeless.

"Why do you look so hopeless? I won." Leighton said as she walked over to Cassius, who just stared at her. The brunette girl just looked at him back before the blond male stood up.

"Why did you join?" Cassius asked her bluntly, rubbing his face when she shrugged.

"I was boreddddd." She smiled and Cassius just shook his head, having his work cut out for him. He was going to look after his own ass, and hers, on missions from now on.

"You aren't anymore." Shelly said, interrupting the two. "We've got to head to Meteor Falls right away."

"We have to go on a mission? I've been training all day and I'm tired." Leighton complained, but Shelly just shot her a look before she walked off. Cassius grabbed Leighton's arm and pulled her along with him, like he seemed to do a lot lately.

"Leighton, she doesn't care. You're a grunt." Cassius explained as they followed the ginger commander down the hallway. "She's higher in the ranks so you listen to her. Even though I'm just a grunt, I'm her second hand, so I rank above you, meaning you listen to me too."

"I have to listen to the both of you?" She questioned. She hated taking orders.

"No." Cassius said, more hushed now so Shelly wouldn't here. "You listen to me. I've got your wellbeing in mind, Shelly has getting the job done in mind."


Meteor Falls was nestled up in the mountains just west of Fallarbor Town and North of Rustburo City. It was a large cave and one could get lost very easily in it, which is way Cassius insisted to Leighton that she stay as close as possible. The last thing he needed was her getting lost and him having to try and find her.

The mission seemed simple enough. Get in there and snag a meteorite from Professor Cozmo. The name of the professor made Cassius laugh, because really, Professor Cozmo? Who studied space? He was destined for that job with that name.

All their missions seemed simple though, and they never were. Shelly had the meteorite in her hands and had the geeks in lab coats shaking in their boats when out of nowhere, a mightyena ran up and snagged the meteorite out of her hands. "Go and get it!" She ordered, screaming. Cassius took off running after it, Leighton right behind him with the others.

The mightyena had to belong to Team Magma with the way it was trying to throw them off. It turned sharp around corners and went through narrow passage ways. It also ran past numerous Magma grunts, which was the reason why Cassius was now chasing it alone. The others went off to battle the grunts they passed until he was the only one left. He cursed them, and the pokemon, because he was getting tired and knew he couldn't keep up.

The pokemon took a sharp right turn and he missed it, resulting in him running into someone. "Oh, shit, I'm sorry." Cassius apologized to whoever he ran into to.

"I'm sorry." A female voice said and then he heard a groan. The cave was dim, but he could make out the outline of the girl's Magma hood.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"I'm fine, maybe you should watch where you're going, you stupid Aqua Grunt!" The girl hissed, obviously pissed at him. "Dammit." She looked around as Cassius dusted himself off. "Where the hell are we?"

"I don't know, I was chasing that damn mightyena and I ran into you." Cassius told her as she began to walk one direction. He ran after her, not wanting to be stuck alone. "Hey, wait, I recognize you! You're Tabitha's grunt, right? The one that's always with him on missions, right? The one with the espeon!" He asked, seeing her blonde hair.

"None of your business. Oh, wait, you're Shelly's grunt, aren't you? How great." Her voice was flat when she said this.

"I'm Cassius." He introduced himself, more excited than the girl was. He'd seen her on almost every mission that Team Magma had interrupted. She was a fierce opponent, and Cassius always enjoyed battling with her. If he wasn't so disinterested in Team Aqua, he would probably be trying to attack her for information or whatever, but he didn't care too much, and she was kinda cute. She looked at him like he was insane and continued walking. "I'm going to keep following you, so we might as well make it pleasurable. Don't be a sour apple, tell me your name."

"Natalie, if you insist. I don't really care to make this little 'walk' pleasurable at all." She spat out, but Cassius let it roll off his shoulders. Nate took a sharp left, but Cassius was right behind her.

"I like your name, Natalie. It's pretty." He started up again, refusing to walk in silence. "So, other than Team Magma, what are your hobbies? I like to surf and swim. That's expected of me though, right? It's pretty stereotypical that I, a Team Aqua grunt, enjoy water activities. I bet you hate them."

"I do."

"Called it." Cassius nodded his head and smiled, though the girl couldn't see it. The passage way they were walking through opened up, so Cassius sped up so he could walk beside her instead of behind her. He had expected Team Magma grunts to not be so….friendly, especially Tabitha's right hand grunt.

"Why are you still talking to me?" Natalie asked, looking at him from the corners of her eyes.

"Nothing else to do." He shrugged and took his bandana off his head and tied it around his wrist. "Besides, I wanna get to know you. We see each other all the time but we never really speak."

"That's because we're on opposing sides." She replied, clearly frustrated.

"Such a Romeo and Juliet feeling, isn't it? Except we're not 'in love' and I'm pretty sure no one will die." Cassius continued. "Well, I might die, that's always up in the air. I'm sure though that I won't commit suicide."

"Please stop talking." Natalie growled, wondering if slamming her skull into the rocky walls would be less painful than this conversation.

"Why? C'mon Natalie, lighten up a little bit. Look, I don't really care if you get the meteorite or not, I was just trying to get it so Shelly won't bitch me out later." Cassius explained. He knew the girl was confused as to why he was being friendly.

"You should care. You are her right hand grunt." Natalie told him, turning to look at him. His blue eyes looked back at her and she turned to face forward. "Not that I did not enjoy our chat, but I have business to attend to." She announced once they got to an opening in the cave that led them outside, just above the entrance. She ran off with ease over the rocks and disappeared before Cassius could say anything.

"There you are!" Leighton shouted from below. She looked relieved that he was back. He slid down the side of the cave and landed in front of her.

"Where the hell did you go? You didn't get the meteorite, did you?" Shelly asked, running up to the two.

"I was chasing that pokemon and got lost in the cave. Glad you know you're worried about my safety." He said flatly to Shelly who rolled her eyes and made the call to head back to the base. They all piled into the helicopter, tired.

"I was worried when I didn't see you with the rest of us." Leighton said, then frowned. "How dare you just leave me with them."

"Leave you in the safety of our teammates? I'm just awful." He replied sarcastically. "I didn't tell you to stay and fight Team Magma." Which now that he thought about it, he was pretty happy she stayed to fight. If she was with him, there was no way he would've gotten to chat with Natalie.

"That's not what I meant." She grumbled, pinching his arm. "Don't just disappear like that. Shelly started yelling at me asking where you were and why didn't we stick together."

"She should be used to it, I always disappear on missions. I come back in one piece, barely." He muttered the last part.


Natalie stared down the grunts that were on her team. They were training as she watched. She had just gotten back from the mission at Meteor Falls. Tabitha was mad at her because she had disappeared in the cave and he had no clue where she went.

She returned after the rest of the group did, and explained to Tabitha that she had taken a wrong turn and was stuck trying to navigate through the cave by herself.

She knew to be careful, she was on her toes the entire time she was with the Aqua grunt. He was friendly and that was strange. He should've been arguing and fighting her, not striking up conversations and telling her that her name was pretty! She kept her guard up though. His friendlies could've been a trick and Nate refused to be fooled by him. Team Aqua was evil, they had attacked her when she was younger and couldn't defend herself properly. She didn't trust any of them, especially not Shelly's right hand grunt. Cassius had told her he didn't really care about Team Aqua, and his blue eyes didn't seem to be lying, but Nate refused to be played.

"Natalie." A gruff voice next to her said, making her jump. "Relax."

"You startled me." Nate said to Tabitha, who took a seat next to her.

"I could tell. I was calling your name, guess you got lost up in there again." He pointed to her head. "I don't see how you get lost when it's so empty." He teased her and she frowned, smacking his finger away. "I'm just teasing with you."

"You're the one that shouldn't get lost in thought." She replied, rolling her eyes.

"I know you're mad that I lectured you earlier, but that aqua grunt could've hurt you. It was just you and him deep in that cave." Tabitha said, hoping Natalie would understand.

"I was fineeeeee." Nate grumbled, shrugging it off.

"Yeah, but what if you weren't? I don't want him taking advantage of you." Tabitha continued as someone sat down behind them. Tabitha always got onto her for stuff like that. Just because she was a little short (only 5"2!) and she was a girl. Yet, she was the strongest grunt on his team and her blaziken could kick the shit out of anything!

"No one is going to take advantage of me, Tabitha. I can take care of myself." She muttered, frowning at him.

"Pretty sure you said something along those lines when I first met you." Tabitha recalled, thinking back to the first time they met. "It's hard to believe it's been four years."

"Please don't remind me." She grumbled, embarrassed.

"You haven't changed one bit. You still follow me around and harass me." Tabitha chuckled and she blushed, looking away.

"Harass you? You're the one who harasses me!" She exclaimed, biting her lip and glaring at him.

"I dunno, I remember you when you were shorter, if possible, and you'd follow me around all day. So cute! What happened?" Tabitha teased again. "You grew up so fast. Now you're just a little bit taller and you still follow me around."

"I'm heading home. You're getting sappy on me." She playfully punched his shoulders and climbed off the bleachers. She headed to the locker room, changing into her normal outfit and strapped her go go goggles around her neck.

She took the cable car down Mt. Chimney and headed towards the desert. She pulled her go go goggles over her eyes to protect them from the sand that seemed to always be blowing in the desert. That's the only thing she hated about the desert, the constant blowing wind. She hadn't even gotten to go into the desert until last year when he mother gave her the go go goggles as a birthday present.

The desert didn't appeal to too many, but Nate loved it. It had great archaeological sites for her to explore and not a lot of people were there. It was quiet, despite the raging sandstorm, and people left her alone.

"Hey!" A voice called out and Nate inwardly, and probably outwardly, groaned. She turned towards the person, who was hiding behind some rocks with another person. She walked over to them and saw that neither of them looked prepared to be in the desert.

"You guys aren't from around here, are you?" She asked, feeling a little sorry for the two boys. One was blond, with blue and black streaks of hair near his face. His hair was spiked up like a faux Mohawk style and his bangs were blowing in his face. The other one had black hair that went past his ears. He had green eyes that were squinting to look at her.

"You could tell, huh?" He asked. "Yeah, this sandstorm wasn't raging when we came in here earlier, so we figured it was safe."

"We figured wrong!" The blond one exclaimed in a whiny manner.

Nate was only mean in Team Magma and she wasn't going to leave the two males here. "Follow me." She said and the blond boy held onto the black haired male, who held onto Nate's bag she had. She led them out of the desert in no time at all.

"Thank you." The black haired male said, shaking the sand off of him. "I'm Jordan and this is Mikhail. We're from Kanto."

"Natalie, but call me Nate. I grew up around here. You gotta be careful in the desert. You should buy some go go goggles down in Mauville City before you decide to venture out into the desert again." She advised, shaking the sand off of herself.

"I'm never going back in there." Mikhail muttered and Jordan rolled his eyes.

"Thank you again, Nate." Jordan repeated before the two went South towards Mauville City, leaving Nate to go explore the desert once more.

This was the only alone time she really ever got when she was living with her mother for the week. Her mother was very…..loving. Her father was more like her, and the two could spend the whole week together and barely speak and be perfectly fine. It helped that her father knew she worked for Team Magma. Her mother didn't.

"Ringggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg!" Her phone cried and Nate sighed when she saw the caller I.D.

"Hey mom." She greeted, knowing her short time in the desert was up.


It's going to get far more action-y, I promise