Author's note: Sorry, I haven't updated in a while. I forgot all about this fanfiction, actually, and when I remembered, I was busy with school, so I haven't had much time to work on it. I hope you can forgive me and enjoy this chapter anyway.

Zoroark headed deeper into the cave, until his ears picked up the sounds of crying Pokémon, voices calling for help in the darkness, and clanging as some of the prisoners pounded against the bars of their prison cells, trying desperately to escape.

The Dark-type laughed at them. "You won't escape. Give up."

"Never!" shouted a Zangoose, slicing at the bars of his cell again.

Zoroark grinned. "Then we'll just have to take you first."

He pulled a tranquilizer gun out of his pocket and shot the Zangoose, before unlocking the cell door and dragging the prisoner to a room further down the hall.

"Ferdinand!" A Seviper started slamming her tail repeatedly against the bars.

"Oh?" Zoroark turned around. "Do you want to go as well, Toxic?" Without waiting for a reply, he swiftly pulled the tranquilizer gun out of his mane and shot the snake, before unlocking her cell and dragging her with him.

"So, we know that their base is to the northeast," Sky muttered. "And we know that they have a Zoroark and a Mandibuzz on their side... and they need Jade for some reason. Anybody know what that reason might be?"

William shook his head. "I have no clue why they would need a Snivy, and I don't know why they needed Jade in particular."

"Whatever the case, we have to save her," Kyo said determinedly.

"Sylvia?" Cloud asked, tugging gently on the bottom of Sylvia's robe. "Do you think you could teleport us to their base?"

Sylvia shook her head. "I'm sorry. I know what direction we have to go in to find them, but I don't know how far, so I can't teleport us."

Black sighed. "Then we'll have to go on foot…"

Comet raised her eyebrows. "Ironic you should say that, since you don't have feet."

Black glared at her. "I meant we can walk – or levitate, in my case."

Sylvia shook her head again. "No, I don't think we should walk. I mean, I don't know exactly how far it is, but I know it's pretty far. It could take us more than a month."

"Then find some form of transportation," Carracosta snapped. "I don't think there are any buses that go out that way, so hire a bird Pokémon or something. I can't go, because I doubt any bird could carry something as heavy as me. You lot are all going, though, whether you like it or not."

There were a few complaints from the police officers, but they knew what they had to do.

A few hours later, the seven of them were meeting up at the meeting place they had decided on when they had searched for an hour or so. None of them had had any luck.

"I guess we'll have to search harder," Comet said. She glanced around. "Hang on. Where's Cloud?"

Cloud was completely lost. He couldn't even find his way back to the meeting place. "Hello?" he called. Since he'd gotten lost, he hadn't seen or heard another Pokémon for half an hour.

"What are you doing here?" asked a cold voice from the rooftop.

The Jolteon looked up to see an Espeon standing up there, a Flygon hovering in the air next to him, her green scales shining in the sunlight.

"I got lost," replied Cloud. "Can you please help me find my way back to –"

The Espeon narrowed his eyes. "Impossible. You can't get to this place just by getting lost. There's a portal."

"I might have walked through it without realizing."

"…Yes, I suppose so."

The Espeon leapt down. "My name is Solar. Yours?"

"Cloud," replied Cloud. "Nice to meet you."

"Do you want us to take you back to your home?" asked the Flygon, who Solar quickly introduced as Mika.

The Jolteon shook his head. "No, not to my home. I'd like to find my friends, the other members of the YPD."

Solar raised his eyebrows – well, he didn't have eyebrows, but you get the point. "So, you're a member of the YPD?"

"Yeah."

"Alright. Mika, take us to the other YPD members. They should be pretty noticeable."

About five minutes later, Mika landed in front of the Yifinnti Police, who all wore expressions of relief now that they had Cloud back.

Solar jumped onto Mika's back. "Well, goodbye, then. Glad I could help."

"Wait!" Sky dove toward him and grabbed Mika's tail before she could fly off.

The Espeon looked annoyed. "What now?"

"The Flygon!" Sky cried. "She could carry us to that mountain where Zoroark and Arianna went!"

This caught Solar's attention. "A mountain? Zoroark? Arianna the Mandibuzz?"

"How did you know Arianna is a Mandibuzz?" William asked suspiciously.

Solar ignored his question. "Did you meet them? Did they come here, to Carat City?"

Both Pokémon nodded in unison.

The Espeon looked grave. "So it's true. He really has created the Dark Army…"

"He?" asked Sylvia.

"My brother," the Espeon answered. "His name is Shadow the Umbreon. When we were Eevee, I would always beat him in battles, and even after we evolved, I could still defeat him because of Signal Beam. He became annoyed, to say the least. He left a few years ago, saying that he would form a Dark Army along with a legendary Pokémon called Darkrai."

"Did he form an entire army just to defeat you?" asked Black, appalled.

Solar shook his head. "No, even I'm not worth that much trouble to him. His main goal is to defeat the legendary warriors guarding the Nightmare Temple, allowing him to claim the Nightmare Crown hidden deep in the temple and give it to Darkrai – who is already incredibly powerful, being a legendary Pokémon – making him a thousand times more powerful. He will then wipe out this whole city along with everyone who lives in it, and turn the rest of the world into his slaves. Anybody who refuses to comply will be killed."

Kyo's pencil was flying across the page of his notebook. "I've gotta write this down…"

Solar still went on talking. "I never really doubted that he would be able to form an army, to be honest. He always had more friends than me. Probably because of my attitude and the way I always assumed that I was superior to everyone else. Actually, I still do that quite a –"

"Can you tell us why they kidnapped Jade the Snivy?" Sylvia asked, struggling to keep calm. This guy was getting annoying.

"Jade the Snivy? Ah, I think I heard my brother mention her once. She has a bigger leaf on her tail than that of a normal Snivy, so she is able to absorb more light when using Solarbeam. They need that much light to get into the room where the Nightmare Crown is kept. Only, err… it's a very powerful attack, and normally Pokémon can't handle that much power, so… if Jade uses that attack… well, she'll die."