BACKDRAFT! THE LAB'S DESTRUCTION!

Hoenn Region: Forest

Pyramia and Arcanine slowed down into a clearing, where the forest stretched for miles as she saw Pokemon running around the area. She sighed as she turned towards Arcanine. Arcanine looked at her and backed up a bit.

"I should have trained you more mentally, Arcanine, right?" asked Pyra as she approached her partner. Arcanine just looked at her with a confused look on his face. "So, Arcanine, tell me, what is it that you like about me?"

"Um…Is this a trick question?"

Pyramia's left eye twitched. "Say again?"

"I mean… Um… your beauty?"

"Uh…huh… That all?"

"And… Um… your cruelty?"

"Right…" Pyramia's left hand became engulfed in blue flames. "I really hate to do this to you, Arcanine".

Arcanine, moving and whimpering behind a boulder, nervously opened his mouth, "Wh-what... mo-move is... th-that?"

Pyra quickly grabs Arcanine by his mane, "I can shove my hand into your head and burn away your mind, leaving a mindless puppet for me to remodel to think all the things that isn't NEGATIVE!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!!"

"Say goodbye in 3... 2... 1..." She counted as something fell from the struggling Pokemon. Picking it up, she let's go of the Pokemon. "What's this? A disk?" Chris. Ortega: Arcanine: Where did that come from?"

"I don't know. Must've picked it up when we were fighting that Alakazam".

"Hmm…" hummed Pyramia as she snaps her fingers and brings up a laptop from flames and loaded the disk, "Ah, how technology is wonderful!"

"You're not going to kill me?"

"I wasn't going to kill you, I was gonna make myself a much more nicer and loyal Pokemon".

"Um... Okay".

Pyra gasped as she read her screen. "No! This data…" She smashes her laptop onto the ground as it burst into flames, "It contains the translated scroll!"

"Really? What's it say?"

"I'll tell you about it later, first, we must find Hydrotide. He'll be at the meeting point".

"Good. Hopefully, he'll train you better... Uh…"

Pyramia held her blue, flaming fist at Arcanine's nose, "Any last words?"

"Well, I did wanted to start off with a better life".

Pyramia grunted as she hops onto Arcanine, tells him where to go, and speeds off towards the rendezvous point.

Hoenn: Unknown Location

Arcanine sped from the forest into the mountains, where Pyramia pointed towards a cave opening. As they entered, they see Blastoise and Hydronix, sipping tea.

"You're late, Pyra," said Hydronix as he put his cup away.

"Sorry, but I've spent 30 minutes doing something to my Arcanine," she responded.

"Don't tell me," said Blastoise, "You rewrote his mind!?"

"Pyra, my dear," said Hydronix, approaching the Arcanine, "Do you believe rewriting a Pokemon's mind would make them stronger? Obedient, yes, but strength, no".

"At least he's much nicer, right Arcanine?" said Pyramia.

"Of course, Mistress!" replied Arcanine with a smile.

"You completed your mission then, Pyra?" asked Hydronix.

"Yes, but unfortunately…" Pyramia explains to the elder Knight about the computer, the battle, and the disk.

"I see," Hydronix stroked his whiskers as he turns to her, "Pyra, you better make sure that the professor doesn't have a back up copy, and then, I'll meet you in the Atlantis Haven. You do know where to find it, right?

"Yes".

"Good. Come, Blastoise. Atlantis Haven awaits!" Hydronix looks at Pyra as he disappears within a whirlpool. "Be sure to eliminate all traces of it!"

"Understood, you old cod!". Pyra jumps onto Arcanine as she holds out a Dark Ring, "Let's go, Arcanine. Let's make sure our 'Plan B' will obey this time".

Ninetalesuk .: Pyra: Remind me... who was our 'Plan B' again?

She laughs as Arcanine races off into the forests of Hoenn again.

Littleroot Town: Birch Laboratory

Professor Birch was busy on his computer, while Isabel was on the phone.

"Yes. Yes, we… I mean he… No. I… Understood". Isabel sighed as she hung up. "Mr. Pegasus isn't too thrilled about the scroll being destroyed, but at least he's glad that we're both okay".

"Done!" said Birch, wiping his forehead. "I've sent copies to Pegasus and other Pokemon Professors".

Isabel went towards the computer, "Really? What does the translation say?"

"It says: When Atlantis was created, other nations were envious of its paradise. In order to keep it safe, Ironheart created the Atlantis Haven, located underwater, almost fifty miles away and almost a half mile deep...

"It also states that it was a second Atlantis, holding a vast community of Warriors. When Atlantis was in trouble, the Haven sends its finest warriors to help out. These warriors were trained in the art of the... Elements".

"Is it the Elemental Knights?"

"Possibly, but there's no more information, just says how to get there. Hmm, if I put our map over this one," he types in and, "There! Just fifty miles away from…"types on computer and a close up shows, "Duel Academy Island".

"The place made by Kaiba!"

"Yes! Kaiba didn't know since this place was underwater! We have to tell Pegasus about this!"

"I knew it! There was a backup file," sang a voice. Birch and Isabel look back as Pyramia stood there, her Sais by her side.

"What?! She's back?!"

"Yes! Now then," she begins to spin her Sais as they become engulfed into flames, "FIRE ROSE!" She throws flaming Sais towards Birch's machine, destroying it.

"NO!!" shouted Birch as his machine caught fire.

"What have you done?!" yelled Isabel.

"Fixing things," laughed Pyramia as she readied her Sais again, "And now…" she jerked as her body became frozen, "WHY HAVE I FROZEN AGAIN?!"

Arcanine growled as he saw Alakazam, his spoons held in front of them. Pyramia laughed as she pointed her Sais towards the ceiling.

"No use!" she shouted, "I grew immune to this Psychic prison! Flame Bullets!!" She fires mini fireballs from the tips of her Sais, hitting the ceiling, causing debris to crumble down.

"Alakazam, Teleport the debris!" shouted Birch.

"ALA-KAZAM!!" yelled Alakazam as he swings his arm, causing the debris to disappear.

"Nice," said Pyramia, freed from her Psychic imprisonment, holding her Sais up again, "Teaching Alakazam to do so many things. Flame Bullets!!

Alakazam dodged the incoming fireballs as it hit more machinery behind him.

"Careful!" said Birch, "These machines are very important!"

"Tough!" shouted Pyramia as she approached Birch. Alakazam stood in front of her, but she snapped her fingers as Arcanine tackled him.

"What is your purpose?!" asked Isabel, standing in front of Pyramia.

"That is none of your concern!" Pyramia lifted her Sais and blasted more of the equipment away, causing sparks and a fire. "I guess that should do, unless you have more?"

"Alakazam!" shouted Birch, "Use Shadow Ball!"

Alakazam blasted Arcanine off with Shadow Ball, then launched it again at Pyramia, who swatted it away like nothing.

"Enough!" shouted Pyramia as she blasts Alakazam with her flames. She then approached Arcanine and hopped on. "Well, it's been nice meeting you. Arcanine, use Overheat!"

Arcanine fired its Overheat. Its intense flames heading straight for Birch, Isabel, and Alakazam. Alakazam quickly used Protect to create a green barrier, shielding himself, Birch and Isabel.

"What are you people?" shouted Isabel.

"We are the Elemental Knights!" shouted Pyramia, "That's all you need to know! Arcanine, Extremespeed!" A blur of speed and Arcanine was gone with Pyramia.

Alakazam lowered his shield as Birch looked around his lab, mostly everything was destroyed. "Who was she?"

"The Knight of Fire," replied a voice.

Birch and Isabel turn to see a young man, around mid-twenty and having a large brown coat and a device on his left arm, leaning against the lab wall, looking at the debris. "Name's Whyte, Sir Conan Whyte".

"England's Pokemon Champion?" excitedly said Birch.

"Yes," said Whyte as he points to another person in his twenties, but wearing a black and red blazer jacket and cap, "And this is-"

"Chris?" interrupted Isabel as she saw the man.

"Isabel?" answered the man.

"You know one another?" asked Whyte.

"She's my sister," said Chris as he looked around the area, "Sir, it looks like we missed her".

"Great!" said Whyte.

"She's brainwashed her Arcanine into a more serious, loyal Pokemon," said Birch, "I noticed it acted different the second time they came".

"We know. They've been doing it for centuries".

"What?!"

"Those Knights have existed since the Era of the Great Pharaohs, or even before. We don't have much information since most of the books about them were destroyed by them".

"Just what have they been up to?"

"No idea so far, but we've been trying to stop them for a while, but to no avail".

'Whyte, what about the Knight of Fire?" asked Chris.

"Oh her!" said Birch as he pulled out a CD, "She thought she has gotten rid of the data of the scroll, but she's wrong"

"Scroll?" asked Whyte.

"The Scroll of Atlantis Haven! It's more like a map and directions on where to find it".

"Tell us about what you found out about it".

"Very well," Birch looked around as he saw sparks coming out of the broken machinery. "Um, do you have a laptop?"

Birch showed Whyte and Chris about the map and the location and the original purpose of the Elemental Knights. Whyte typed and saved a copy of them map onto his computer.

"So this is where the Haven is located at?" said Whyte, looking at the virtual Atlas.

"Yes," confirmed Birch.

"By the looks of it," said Chris as he traces it with his finger, "Its only southwest from Duel Academy. You think the Knights are going there?"

"We don't know," said Whyte, "All we know is that we have to stop her at all cost. We need to bring down the knights before... they do it again!"

"Do what?" asked Isabel.

"A few years ago, the Knights sent their followers, called Squires, to look for a certain Vulpix. If anyone or anything got in their way... They were to be eliminated. There were reports of them, killing any Pokemon who has given birth to Vulpix pups".

Chris. Ortega: Whyte: More like slaughtered

"Why?!" asked Isabel, her eyes full of tears, "Why would they do such a heartless thing?"

"From what little information we obtained, they're looking for the Master Key to the ultimate gem, The Rainbow Emerald".

"The Rainbow Emerald? And how many have they killed?"

"Hundreds," shuddered Whyte.

"How many Vulpix pups did they captured?"

"Around a hundred, but... they weren't it. We discovered their bodies, slaughtered, inside a cave in Mt. Coronet".

"Those... those... Monsters. E...Every Vulpix pup?"

Whyte nodded sadly, "Except, they were all Ninetales. The Master Key is a White Ninetales with blue tips".

"Those monsters. Just what are they planning when they get the Rainbow Emerald?"

"I only a hunch, but right now, we need to stop Pyramia, the Knight of Fire".

"I wish you luck," said Birch, "And avange the Pokemon that the Knights have killed".

"Thanks, Darkraptor, let's go!"

"Darkraptor?" asked Isabel, looking at her brother.

"It's my nickname!" said Chris, aka Darkraptor, as he left the room, "I'll get the Skarmory!"

"I better report to Pegasus about this," said Isabel as she left too.

"Good luck," said Birch as he says farewell to his friends, leaving him with the mess. Birch sighed as he looks at Alakazam. "Come on, we better get to work".

"Ala!" said Alakazam in agreement.