Blitz's head felt like it had been split open. He instinctively tried to rub his temple but found that his arm was incredibly painful to move.

Fully recovering from unconsciousness, he opened his eyes. He was lying on a bed. Its soft white sheet comforted him, if only for a moment. He quickly remembered the events of yesterday. Tellur Town had been attacked, and he faced off against a Garchomp and Suicune with…

Vix! Despite the pain, he looked around and spotted Vix on a similar bed to his side. He tried to sit up to get over to her but cried out in pain.

"Oh! Please, don't get up yet." He spotted a Gardevoir quickly stepping towards him. She motioned him to lay back down. "Don't worry, I will heal you and your friend in a moment. It will just take a small time to prepare." Blitz was going to talk but found it hard. "Your friend is alive, don't worry." This reassured Blitz somewhat.

He watched as the humanoid walked back to her table. She flipped through the pages of a book for a moment before rushing back over. "I'll heal your friend first, she'll need it." She raised her hands and Blitz watched as a bright light formed. Cupping her hands together, the maiden said a short prayer aloud, and watched as the light circled above Vix. After a moment, almost all of the noticeable injuries on her body had vanished. The Gardevoir looked her over before confirming that she had been healed. She then turned and repeated the process on Blitz. After, he tried moving his arm, and found that the pain was almost non-existent now, aside from a mild soreness.

He sat up, and was handed a small bowl of water. He took a sip and thanked her.

"Um… if you don't mind, where am I?" He asked.

"You're at my house. I live alone in the plains of Ferrum. I was going through Tellur Town to look for survivors, and I found you and your friend. Thank Arceus I found you when I did, who knows what could have happened if I hadn't."

Blitz was timid, he was still shaken by the attack on Tellur Town. His mind warped back to when the town was attacked. All the screams of terror, the bodies lining the streets, and the destruction caused by Carne, that Garchomp. Now that he knew there were Pokémon who wanted to kill humans, who knows what could happen next. Tellur Town was small, and its destruction no doubt would have a huge impact on Ferrum. What of larger cities like Old Ferrum Town? Or even worse, Neos City? With Pokémon that powerful working together, and possibly even more with them, who knows what kind of havoc they could wreak?

He hadn't realized he had been silent the entire time until the Gardevoir asked "Are you okay?"

He looked up at her. Her expression was filled with worry for him and Vix. He could tell, just from that one glance, all about her compassion for others.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just… a little shaken up after yesterday, that's all."

"Mm, I understand. Many people in situations like yours are like that."

"Wait, 'Many people?' Do you do this often?"

"Yes, I do. I was used as a search-and-rescue Pokémon when I was living with my trainer. I use my time to rescue people and Pokémon in similar situations now."

"You have a trainer?"

"Well, I used to."

"How come you're not with 'em anymore?"

"I'd… rather not say."

"Oh, sorry." Blitz quickly realized his mistake in pressing the question and decided to change the topic. "So, where are we in the plains right now, anyways?"

"We're around the mountains and forests, in-between Old Ferrum Town and Tellur Town."

Blitz looked out the window to the other side, he could spot a large, daunting mountain that loomed over the grassy expanse. It seemed like this Gardevoir was truly alone, living away from everyone else.

"Do you live alone?"

She nodded her head. "I have ever since I left Neos City a long while ago. Wild Pokemon and sometimes trainers come by on occasion, and I'm here to see that they can make it through whatever journeys they may be on." She started to gaze out the window as well, looking entranced by the beauty in the simplicity of the plains. "I haven't quite gotten out of my rescuing habits, and if I hear of anything big happening that's caused a lot of problems, I usually travel to try and find any survivors others might have missed."

Blitz nodded. "That's… very noble of you."

She simply nodded as well, seeming disengaged to the praise.

"Um, by the way, what's your name?"

"Mayari, or at least that's the name my trainer gave me. What about yours?"

"Blitz, it's the name I got from my trainer also."

"You have a trainer as well?"

"Well, I did but…"

"Something happened to him yesterday, didn't it?"

"Well, the thing is that I don't know. I didn't see him die in the attack, he could be anywhere, you know?"

"I understand. There's a chance he might have escaped. He may be still alive."

"Really?"

"I don't know for certain, but there's always a chance for anything to happen, with how our world is."

With this new information, Blitz was suddenly hopeful again. Maybe he could salvage one more thing near and dear to him out of the disaster. If his trainer was out there, somewhere in Ferrum, he'd need to find him.

"I'm going to find him." He said flatly.

Mayari was surprised at how direct he was, how sure he sounded. "You must really be close to your trainer."

Blitz nodded his head. "Yep, he's been my buddy since I was a Pichu, straight outta the egg."

She thought about it for a moment. It was surprising, to her at least, to see a Pokémon so dedicated to its trainer. Gardevoir were normally like that, but Mayari had a few… barriers to fully trusting trainers. A thought crossed her mind. "If you're planning on traveling the entire Ferrum region looking for him, you're going to need some help."

"Yeah, 'course I'm gonna. That's why I got Vix with me, her and I are a great team."

Mayari looked at the fox resting behind her. Even with just having met them, she could tell that the two were very close as well. However, their injuries showed that they weren't invincible together. The two must've fought against who or what destroyed Tellur Town and lost. They'd have a long way to go, and would certainly take a long time to fully reach that way's end.

"You two have each other, and that is certainly a good thing." Blitz grinned, proud of his friendship with Vix. "However, and I apologize to bring this up, but your experiences yesterday show that, while you two are great together, you're not invincible."

"What do you suggest then, huh?" Blitz, admittedly, felt a bit insulted, even if it was true.

"I suggest that you find more allies to accompany you two. There is strength in numbers, I can assure you. It's the same reason why trainers catch as many Pokémon as is allowed for use in battles."

"Well if that's your suggestion, where do you suggest we go to get some allies, then?"

"You needn't look anywhere right now, as your new ally is right before you." She said without hesitation."

"Wait, hold up. You wanna join us?"

"Yes. I believe that traveling with you to find your trainer will give me a better understanding about the relations between trainer and Pokémon." He eyed her suspiciously, trying in vain to read her expression. She was as blank as her skin was white. "I can understand your suspicions. Not every day do you have a person you just met want to go on big adventures with you. However, I hope you can see past those suspicions and see that I am genuine in my desires. I would never wish to bring harm to two already wounded and young Pokémon."

He couldn't tell what it was, but it did feel overwhelmingly like she was being honest. Perhaps it was the softness in her voice. Or her sympathetically gorgeous looks. He just didn't know.

He sighed. "I guess you can join us, you don't seem like the type to be a turncoat."

Mayari brightened up. "Many of my thanks go to you. I cannot express my gratitude enough."

"Hey, I think saving my life is thanks enough." He took another sip of the water.

"Shall I start packing my items?"

He quickly slapped a hand to his mouth to keep himself from spitting his drink out. "Wait, you want to leave today!?"

She nodded blankly. "Is there something wrong?"

"W-Well, no, I guess not. It's just that I thought you'd wait at least a day."

"There's a problem with that."

"What is it?"

'We're being watched.' Her eyes sparkled purple for a moment as her voice resounded in his mind. He looked at her in confusion. Apparently reading his mind, she nodded.

Looking around, he scooted closer to the window and gazed out, taking in as many details as possible.

"I don't see anyone-" He quickly drew in his breath as he saw it. Two blurry figures standing in the distance. He turned from the window and looked at Mayari, who had already begun setting up supplies and putting them in a dainty picnic basket.

"Wake up your friend and get your bandages off, because we're going to be leaving soon."

Blitz ripped his wrappings off of him quickly and went to get Vix up.

The three were done packing moments later. Mayari had cooked food packaged up for them, their travel was going to take a while, and they would need it.

Rapidly double checking everything, Mayari placed a large sun hat atop her head. "Are you two ready to go?" Blitz and Vix nodded their heads. She took a deep breath. "Okay." She opened the door, and the three were off.

It was hard to keep their eyes away from where the two figures had been. Until they were out of sight, they remained standing atop a distant hill. Vix could have sworn she saw their heads following them. She was probably right.

"So, Mayari, where are we headed?"

"I have a friend in Old Ferrum Town that could help us in the search. He's a trained fighter and used to work on the search and rescue team with me."

"How long is it gonna take for us to get there?" Vix asked.

"At our pace we'll get there sometime... late tomorrow."

They were silent for a moment before Vix spoke once more.

"So, Mayari, tell us about your friend in Old Ferrum."

"He's been a Ferrum League competitor for a while after he and his trainer retired from search and rescue."

"Has he won anything?" Asked Blitz, suddenly intrigued.

"He's made it to Semi-Finals before, but hasn't won a tournament yet. But I know he's going to try once more this year."

Blitz felt envious, he wanted to join the Ferrum League, but with what had happened that wasn't going to be possible.

'Maybe after this is over.'

A hand shot out in front of him, stopping him in his tracks.

"…They're ahead." Said Mayari.

Blitz and Vix both looked forward, into the wide expanse of the plains. There they saw the two figures from before, and they were moving towards them.

Blitz could now make them out clearly, one was a Blaziken and the other a Weavile. They were clearly not from the plains, as the Pokemon that were local around here weren't related to either of them.

There wasn't many options to avoid them, there wasn't any Forest to hide in. They would be forced into meeting the two directly.

The three held their position as the two stalkers neared. Once they were close enough they began to call out to the trio.

"You three! Over there! Stay where you are!" Called the Blaziken.

They were right upon them, the Weavile initiated a conversation. "What're you all up to in the plains?"

"I could say the same to you two. There's nothing of interest here, so I don't know why you two would be here either."

"What've you got in there?" Asked the Weavile, eyeing Mayari's basket.

"Just food. We do not intend to share."

"Food, eh? Were you all just out here pickin' berries or somethin'?"

Vix quickly conjured up an excuse. "Yes, actually. We were running out of them and we needed to get more."

Blitz was staring at the Blaziken, who occasionally glanced back. Something about him, and the Weavile too, rubbed him the wrong way. Mayari and Vix obviously felt the same. He watched as the Blaziken casually put his hands behind his back, hiding them from the three. The conversation between the Weavile and his two partners droned out as he focused on the fiery bird.

"You keep sayin' that, but I ain't believin' that all you three did was pick berries. Besides, there ain't a house anywhere near where yer headed."

"I'm sorry, but we really need to be going." Mayari said, trying to kill the conversation before it got big.

The three stepped past the Blaziken and Weavile and continued on their way.

The Weavile bumped the Blaziken's leg with her elbow. He silently nodded.

Blitz looked back just in time to see two huge jets of fire blast out from the Blaziken's wrists. He threw a punch, and his arm seemed to extend farther than it should have towards Mayari.

Springing into action, Blitz slashed his tail into the Blaziken's face, knocking him back.

"Blitz, what the heck're you doing!?" Cried Vix.

"He tried to attack us! Didn't you see him try punching you, Mayari!?"

Mayari nodded and then quickly dropped her basket. Reluctantly, Vix pulled out her stick, setting it ablaze.

The Blaziken kicked Blitz off and readied himself. The Weavile did the same and sharpened her claws.

"That's how you wanna play, huh? Let's rock then!"

Vix quickly shot two blasts of fire at the Weavile, knowing her advantage. She quickly jumped out of the way of both, with the Blaziken countering by kicking Vix's side. Mayari retaliated by slapping him across the face twice, her hand covered in psychic energy, then knocking him away with an uppercut, shooting psychic energy from the ground. He recovered in mid-air and released two strong kicks, shooting out flames at them.

"Light Screen!" Vix cast up the shield, which dispersed the flames. She launched it at the Blaziken, and she and Mayari jumped at him.

The Weavile slashed at Blitz with her claws and Blitz threw multiple punches, kicks, and tail whacks at her. They both dodged each other's attacks. Blitz attempted to sweep his tail under her, but took to the air to avoid it. Blitz readied to attack her as she came down, but her fall was suddenly stopped by a huge ice block that formed beneath her, with icicles hanging from its underside.

"Icicle Crash!" She jumped back up, kicking it downwards. The ice shattered, and Blitz flinched from the particles of ice that slashed at him. Blitz guarded as she ran in, but she quickly ran right behind him, catching him off guard. She started slashing him multiple times with her claws, and upper cutting him into the air.

"ELECTRO BALL!" He generated a large ball of electricity on his tail, then flipped around and flung it at his attacker. She threw a huge ice shard from her claw, which flew right through the ball at Blitz. He quickly smashed it to pieces with an iron-coated tail. Rolling through the air at his opponent, he smashed his tail into her head. She impacted the ground, but quickly flipped back up. Blitz dove at her.

Blaziken kicked at Mayari, who blocked and spun him around her with psychic energy. She slammed him into the ground. He jumped up and upper cutted her into the air, his fist glowing a light blue.

"WATATATATATATATA!" He cried as he unleashed a flurry of lightning-fast kicks upon her. "WATAAAAA!" He flipped around and delivered a final powerful kick, launching Mayari to the ground. "BRAVE BIRD!" Huge wings of fire sprouted from his back as he began diving towards her.

He was suddenly wrangled down to the ground by something wrapped up around his leg. Vix had conjured up a flame-whip, and used it to rapidly attack him, flailing it around and cutting him in multiple places. Mayari got up and then fired a bright, pink blast at him, knocking him away.

He got up once more. He drew in air and then blasted a huge wave of flames onto his legs. He started moved faster than ever, speeding towards the two in a blink of an eye. He started by kicking Vix's twig out of her hand, he then rapidly kicked her. He jumped up and finished off by dropkicking her into Mayari, who was knocked down.

Mayari quickly formed a protective bubble around her and Vix. The Blaziken kicked and punched it exceedingly fast, cracking it in multiple places. Mayari placed her hands together, and started to charge up a powerful psychic blast.

Blitz had gotten a hold of the Weavile and held her in a chokehold. He electrocuted her as she struggled to tear away from him. She finally wriggled herself away and slashed him in the back. She jumped on him and began stomping on his spine, making sure to put pressure on where she had cut him up just moments before. Blitz wailed in pain. He tried getting up, but was constantly stopped by being pushed back into the ground.

He charged up his cheeks, and then surrounded both of them in a huge bubble of electricity. The Weavile screamed in agony as she was electrocuted. Through the pain, she managed to start slashing violently into Blitz. Even if he was hurting her, she would kill him before he could do the same. He quickly rolled over then kicked her away from him.

"Moonblast!" Mayari shouted as she fired the beam of psychic energy. It broke through her barrier and slammed into the Blaziken.

Vix ran over and recovered her stick. She then ran up and kicked the Blaziken, whacked him with her stick, and then twirled around and gave him another hefty hit. He staggered as his stance straightened out. Mayari responded by taking ahold of him. She struck him in the back with a fierce psychic jab.

"CROSS PSYTHE!" She called as four waves of psychic energy launched themselves into him.

Noticing that her partner was in trouble, the Weavile rushed over and swung at Mayari, her claw covered in a poison she had spat out.

"Poison Jab!" Her claw dug itself into Mayari's side. She shouted in pain, but then brought out her hand and blasted the Weavile in the face with another bright pink blast. The Weavile pulled her claw out and was launched away.

Blitz quickly ran up and delivered two kicks into the Weavile's back launching her back towards Mayari once more. She was knocked back and forth between the two multiple times. Finally, Mayari grabbed the Weavile by her throat and chucked her up. She generated a bright pink twister, throwing the Weavile all around the place.

She rose up through the fierce winds, and grabbed the Weavile's foot. She spun her around, and then threw her out of the tornado. The Weavile blasted downwards, hard enough to cause the ground to rumble.

Vix conjured up her flame-whip once more, and wrangled it around the Blaziken. She smashed him against the ground multiple times.

"Hey Blitz! Catch!" She said as she threw him towards her partner.

Blitz's electricity ran wild, and he ran across the fields to meet his target half-way. He jumped up and jolted around the air at speeds incomprehensible.

"ELECTRIC SKULL BASH!" He shouted as he delivered a fierce head-butt to the Blaziken.

The Weavile struggled to get up. She leaned on an elbow and shook her head.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Screamed Blaziken as he catapulted and smashed straight into her.

Blitz, Vix, and Mayari stood over their defeated opponents, ready to beat them again if need be.

The Weavile flipped up, sliding the Blaziken off of her.

"RRRGH! FINE! You guys win! None of you are worth as much trouble as you are! But I swear that the next time we meet, I'm gonna tear your insides out!" She kicked the Blaziken in the face to get him up, and the two walked off, with the Weavile showing them a vulgar hand gesture.

Mayari picked up her basket, still in perfect condition, and straightened her hat back up. The three were back on their way to Old Ferrum Town.

Night had fallen and the sky was enveloped in inky blackness. Blitz was watching the night sky, gazing at the stars glowing in the sky.

"I guess we're really on an adventure now, huh?" Asked Vix.

"Hm?"

"You heard what I said. Don't you remember how we always wanted to go on adventures when we were younger?"

Blitz chuckled at those memories. He didn't think he'd ever remember how he always wanted to be a hero as a Pichu.

"Yeah, I guess so." He turned his gaze to the small campfire Vix had started. "Hey, Vix?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think those two we fought today were with that Suicune and Garchomp?"

"Who knows? They could be, or they could've just been trying to steal our food."

"Iunno, if they wanted to steal food, couldn't they had just stolen from wherever they're from? Seems kinda stupid to go all the way out here to steal someone's food."

"I guess you're right. Honestly, I also think they're with those two." She said, proceeding to yawn loudly. "Well, I'm gonna be off to sleep. G'night Blitz." She immediately flopped over, lying down on the grass, and went to sleep.

Scratching the back of his ear, Blitz looked back up to the stars. He didn't know what this new adventure had in store for him, Vix, or Mayari. All he knew was that it's how things were going to be from now on. He didn't know how long it would take, but one thing was certain. No matter the time, he'd find out what happened his trainer, no matter where he had ended up.

Hey there, readers! I'm the author, and I just want to say thanks for reading this chapter!

With the release of Pokken coming today with the posting of this chapter, I'm going to need a bit more time to get the next chapter out, as I'm going to be playing that game as much as I can.

Along with this, readers of my Splatoon story are gonna have to wait a bit for chapter 2 to come out for that story as well. Sorry for making you guys wait like this, especially with how rocky the situation on my Splatoon story has been.

Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!