A/N: Well, I'm not sure if you could tell but I'm trying to make Jack's personality as close to Ash's as possible. Brent on the other hand is not based off of anyone in particular. Normal typing is human language, italics are pokemon language.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or any characters from Pokemon. I don't own the "Valzoa" from Aedis Eclipse, although I have used some of his traits for my own character. I do not own the chaos emeralds from Sonic the Hedgehog or any Sonic character. However, I have altered the purpose and powers of chaos emeralds to suit my fanfiction stories. I do own Jack (one of many I'm sure), Brent, Muragal, Valzoa, Bartholomew, Dustin, Charlotte, Golden Rise, Gold Feather, and the chaos badge.

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Many Discoveries and One Disaster

Unknown POV. Viridian City Pokemon Center, 2 a.m.

It's show time.

My partner and I drop to the floor of the Pokemon Center lobby. We quickly make our way to the vault that contains all of the pokeballs filled with people's Pokemon. I bring out my sack and start stuffing the pokeballs in, my partner takes the other aisle.

In record time we clean out the vault and head back towards the lobby to make our get away. What we didn't expect was a boy to sleepwalk right in front of us, knocking all three of us over.

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Jack's POV

I woke up in pain. I try to stand up and take notice of the situation. There are two shady looking people on the floor surrounded by piles of pokeballs. Both appear to be wearing blue sweatshirts with their hoods on. The hoods obscure their faces; the only other thing that stands out is a pale yellow letter 'H' on the front of their clothes.

I shout out loud, "Hey! What do you two think you're doing with all of those pokeballs?"

The pair ignores me and ditches the bag of pokeballs, both heading towards the front exit. I chase after them, and much to my surprise Brent and his Squirtle and Spearow are blocking the door.

He says, "Sorry, but you two aren't going anywhere!"

The pair backs away from both of us. The taller one mutters, "There goes our new record."

The shorter one replies, "They're only kids with low level Pokemon, we can take them!"

They each bring out a pokeball and shout, "Go Rattata! Go Ekans!"

I reach for my belt and grab Charlotte's pokeball. "Go Charlotte!"

Brent commands, "Go Dustin! You're up!"

Looks like this is going to be a double battle. The taller male calls out first, "Rattata use Quick Attack and knock the charmander into the squirtle!" The rattata rushes to the side and bashes into Charlotte, sending her into Dustin.

The shorter female commands next, "Now, while their together! Use Poison Sting on both of them!" The ekans releases a storm of needle-like projectiles at our Pokemon.

It looks like they took some damage, "Hang in there! Charlotte use Ember on the ekans!" She aims and fires, but the ekans dodges to the left.

At the same time, Brent says, "Ok Dustin, use Bubble on the rattata!" He starts shooting bubbles, but the rattata dodges to the right. The two enemy Pokemon end up dodging into each other and they collapse.

Dustin nods at Charlotte and she nods back. Brent yells, "Ok guys, use Combo 1!" Combo 1? What the heck sort of attack is that?

Dustin jumps into the air and withdraws into his shell. Charlotte spins a bit to build up momentum and then smacks her tail hard at Dustin's shell, which sends him hurtling towards the other two Pokemon. He collides with both of them hard and they end up fainting. Dustin rebounds back and stands on his feet once more.

The shady people recall their Pokemon. The female is amused. "It's been a while since we've had so much fun. Let's see if you can beat-."

The male interrupts her, "Forget them, I can hear the police are on their way." He turns to face us, but we still can't see his face. "Well twerps, you haven't seen the last of Team Hurricane!" He throws down a couple of round objects that explode into smoke. When the smoke clears they're both gone.

I ask Brent, "What the hell is Team Hurricane?" Brent just shrugs in return. We hear sirens outside and an Officer Jenny enters the Pokecenter.

Nurse Joy approaches her, "Thank you for coming Officer Jenny. A pair of thieves broke into the center and tried to steal all of the Pokemon, but these two young trainers managed to stop them." She then points at us.

Officer Jenny walks up to us, "Good job you two. You managed to stop the thieves from taking the Pokemon!"

I rub my nose, "Aw it was nothing. We took care of those two easily, didn't we Brent?"

Brent gives me a look, "Jack, we're lucky that Officer Jenny showed up when she did. We only have two Pokemon each, and they had six pokeballs on each of their belts. I don't think our guys would have been able to beat all twelve of their Pokemon."

I fold my arms over my chest and frown at him, "Yeah, whatever. Still, we beat that Team Hurricane good!"

Jenny says, "D-did you say… Team Hurricane?" I look over at her.

Whoa! Her face has turned really pale! Why is she so afraid? They weren't all that tough. "Um, yeah. What's the big deal though Jenny? They weren't that difficult to beat."

Jenny then snaps to attention and coughs, "Sorry, I was… Never mind. Thank you for your help. I need to report this to HQ." She runs out the door and jumps onto her motorcycle.

Brent and I run out to her, I yell, "Jenny wait! What is so dangerous about Team Hurricane?"

She pauses and looks at me for a moment, "Its classified information. I'm sorry but I cannot tell you anything specific. Just try and stay away from them in the future. The two you fought might have only been fanatics. Real Team Hurricane members are extremely dangerous."

With that, she zooms off into the distance. I turn around and look at Brent. He's staring at the chaos badge.

I hear him mutter, "I wonder if clearance is one of this thing's special abilities…"

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Officer Jenny's POV.

As soon as I got back to the police station I made a phone call to the Pokemon League Research Division. At least there's one person I can contact to get the answers I need.

The video screen turns on and I sit looking at a smiling charizard wearing a lab coat. Well, maybe smiling isn't the right word, but it's the closest thing I can think of. "Officer Jenny! What a surprise, what can I help you with?"

I reply tersely, "Dr. Muragal Fireheart, I have just investigated a crime scene and the suspects identified themselves as members of Team Hurricane. What is the meaning of this?!"

Muragal's smile turns into a face of shock, "What? I don't understand. Valzoa disbanded Team Hurricane two years ago during the Hellpassus Incident in Saffron City. He hasn't authorized the resurrection of the old Team Hurricane yet." He pauses a moment, thinking probably, "So what did your suspects try to do?"

I answer, "They were trying to steal Pokemon from the Pokemon Center, here in Viridian."

The charizard scoffs out loud, "And those thieves have the nerve to call themselves members of Team Hurricane? Hah! They sound like Team Rocket rejects!"

He abruptly sobers, "Now then, there's no need to be worried. Valzoa has not broken his Bargain, I can assure you of that. Someone else is trying to use Team Hurricane's reputation as a means to instill fear into the League force. Rest assured that once I notify Valzoa of the situation he'll most likely get on the case."

I nod my head in acceptance, "I'm glad to hear that the Bargain is still in effect. Do you think one of the other ex-Admins could be responsible for this?"

The doctor shakes his head at first, but then looks at me. "Well maybe, the only one I could think of being responsible would be Admin Bartholomew. Due to a glitch while he teleported, we can no longer find him. He's disappeared from all radars. However, if he is in the picture… All the more reason for Valzoa to find him."

I sigh and nod, "Thank you for your time doctor. I just hope that there won't be a repeat of the Hellpassus Incident."

Dr. Muragal chuckles, "Not to worry, I've always had a cure developed for the retro-virus. If you do find any infected with it I can save them."

I look at him in disbelief, "A cure for a retro-virus?"

He looks at me seriously, "It was a real complicated pain, but yes there is a cure. Anyways, goodnight Officer Jenny."

The monitor shuts off and I hang up the phone.

Valzoa, Leader of Team Hurricane. The extremely powerful and insane pikachu that held the city of Saffron hostage with his retro-virus. At least he's sane now. Is someone trying to pull off a repeat performance of two years ago? I suppose we'll find out soon enough if any Hellpassus appear.

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Brent's POV

We're heading through Viridian forest now. It's kind of gloomy and dark, but Jack is still in high spirits. He's marching off at the front to the group, along with Golden Rise on his shoulder. Charlotte and Dustin are in the middle chatting away about pretty much anything. Gold Feather sits on my shoulder as I bring up the rear.

I turn my head towards her, "You know, you're going to have to learn how to work as a team with our other team members. If we ever run into trouble, we have to be able to help each other out."

She turns her beak away, "Gold Feather may be part of this new tribe, but Gold Feather refuses to work with archrival!"

I start to argue, but then I hear Jack yelling something and pumping his fist into the air. Golden Rise raises one of his wings into the air as well. Charlotte and Dustin pause in their tracks and sweatdrop. I sigh a bit and reply, "All right, fine. You can help out Dustin and Charlotte though, right? They seem normal enough."

She nods her head and chooses not to say anything else. I walk up to Dustin and Charlotte and ask them, "Hey, what's up?"

Charlotte turns and smiles at me, "Nothing much. Just enjoying the scenery, really. I'm glad you're tagging along with Jack, it's nice to have somebody to talk to."

Dustin also smiles, "Yeah, it's so cool that you can understand us, and that you treat us so well. I've heard stories where trainers treat their Pokemon like slaves but you're not like one of them."

I'm not sure exactly what to say, but he continues, "Sometimes I wish you were a Pokemon. You're a really nice human, but there's still a part of me that doesn't like humans that much. I think I'm getting over it though so don't worry."

I smile back, "Thanks Dustin. You wish I were a Pokemon? I remember wishing for the same thing when I was younger…huh?"

Gold Feather lands on the ground and we all look at the glowing badge on my coat. "Huh, so I unlocked a new ability? I wonder what this one will do."

The yellow glow from the badge starts to spread over my body. The next thing I know I wake up, face down, on the ground. I mutter to myself, "Okay… what exactly happened here?"

I look up at my Pokemon's shocked faces, so I ask jokingly, "Hey guys, what's with the faces? Did I grow a tail or something?"

Dustin recovers first and then smiles joyfully, "Not just a tail, but a shell as well! Although, your shell is as blue as your old jacket was."

What? I take a look at myself and discover that it's true! I've been turned into a Pokemon! A squirtle to be exact. "Whoa, just whoa. This is so cool! Huh, so this is what having a tail feels like. Its really strange to me since I never had a tail before." I look around for Jack. "Hey where's Jack?"

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Right on cue, Jack comes back into the clearing, "Guys what's taking you so… All right! You guys found a shiny Squirtle! Now I'll have a squirtle on my team, too! Come on Golden Rise, use Tackle!"

Oh crap. I dodge out of the way and try to reason, "Listen Golden Rise! I'm not a wild squirtle! It's me, Brent!" I'm forced to dodge again as he makes another pass at me.

He starts hovering in the air and responds, "Jack says to Tackle, so I Tackle. If I beat you, I'll be Jack's number one Pokemon and he'll take me all the way with him when he becomes a Pokemon Master!"

I feel a sweatdrop on me. I start blowing out of my mouth, hoping I can create some bubbles or something… As Golden Rise dives at me again, bubbles burst forth from my mouth and pelt him. He takes damage and backs up.

I hear my friends cheering in the background, "Yeah! Show them the true power of us Squirtles!" "Gold Feather knows that Warrior Brent shall defeat pathetic High Riser!" "Be careful out there!"

Jack makes an order, "Try a Sand-Attack to stop him from dodging!"

That doesn't sound good. Sand whips into my eyes and I cannot see. Something, probably that bird, knocks me to the ground. Since I can't see anyways I spit some Bubble liquid into my hands and wipe my eyes. It worked and I can see again!

The pidgey heads towards me in another Tackle attack. By this point, I'm just extremely frustrated with this whole thing. I feel energy moving towards my fist, and I'm struck with inspiration. I've seen a Pokemon use this move before, so maybe I can too now.

I cock my arm back and my fist glows white. I slug Golden Rise hard, just as he comes within range. He gets hurled to a tree and is knocked unconscious. Jack returns him.

Jack then exclaims, "A squirtle that knows Mega Punch? That is so totally cool! Okay Charlotte, you're up!"

Charlotte folds her arms over her chest, "I'm not helping you catch Brent! He's one of the few decent humans around!"

Jack asks in a hurt voice, "Charlotte, why don't you ever listen to me?" He stands up straight again, "Fine! Let's see if you were weakened enough. Pokeball go!"

I'm too tired to move, so the pokeball hurtles towards me. I brace for the weirdest experience in my life. However, after the pokeball rebounds off of me it disintegrates. Literally… Its like it got turned into sand and was blown away by the wind.

I think we all sweatdropped on that one. Jack says what we're all thinking, "What just happened?" Then he looks around. "Hey, and where's Brent?"

Taking that as my cue, I start jumping up and down making happy noises. Jack turns to me and says, "Oh, so now you want to be my Pokemon?" I face palm.

Then Jack tries again, "Oh, you mean you belong to Brent? Aw man, what does he need two squirtles for anyways?" He walks off in a huff while the rest of us follow with more sweatdrops.

Gee thanks Jack, you care about me sooooo much… I could be lying in the forest dying for all you know. Seriously, you're walking on through the forest as if the human Brent was still here. Or maybe you just have confidence in my survival skills without Pokemon? Nah, you don't think that much.

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As we're walking, Dustin, Charlotte, and Gold Feather talk with me. Dustin first, "You were great in your first battle! You performed like a real natural out there! You even figured out how to do a Mega Punch!"

I chuckle a bit, "Aw, thanks Dustin. It was really exciting! Oh yeah, how about I teach you how to do a Mega Punch?"

Dustin's eyes light up, "Oh man, that would be so cool! Come on and show us! Maybe even Charlotte can learn!"

I agree to, "Okay then. Now how I did it was I tensed up my fist and felt energy start flowing into it. Then I pulled back my arm and I think it started glowing. Then you just slug your opponent with all your might. You guys try now."

Both Charlotte and Dustin start practicing excitedly. Gold Feather takes off into the air and does some crazy aerial flying. I guess she's a little bored?

Just then, I notice that both Dustin's and Charlotte's fists start glowing. They attack a nearby boulder together and shatter it into smaller pieces. They cheer out loud and happily.

Dustin says, "Your Mega Punch looked awesome Charlotte!"

She replies, "Yours looked really good too Dustin, good job!"

We all look up as we hear Gold Feather shriek in fury. We watch as she dives down, beak first, spiraling at fast speeds, one of her talons glowing white. At the last moment she drastically changes the direction of her body, her beak now faces up, and her glowing talon smashes through a relatively strong looking branch on one of the trees!

We look at her in shock. Dustin comments, "Spearow can learn to Mega Kick?"

Charlotte makes an even better one, "It shouldn't even be possible for anything to fly like that. Doing a 180 degree turn in mid fall?"

What I just saw seemed impossible. Then again there was that rumor that Ash discovered how to make it so that his swellow wore a Thunder attack as armor. I heard it surprised gym leaders everywhere! So I suppose if Ash could discover Thunder Armor, it would be possible for my spearow to learn Mega Kick?

Oh well, who cares? It's possible so I'll go with it. I gather the Pokemon around, "Great job everyone! Let's have a group hug for a job well done!"

Granted, it wasn't necessarily the most comfortable thing in the world, but they're my friends and I'd do anything to make them feel proud. "Well, I guess we'd better catch up to Jack before he does something stupid."

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It turns out that saying that was equivalent to the saying 'how could things get any worse'. I'm not sure exactly when we passed Jack, but we did. He ran past us from behind yelling, "Everybody run!!"

We look behind and see a swarm of Beedrill quickly flying towards us. Everyone runs and screams, "Aaaaaaaaah!!"

After what seemed like hours of running we finally spot the exit to the forest! "Hold on guys, we're almost free!"

After we leave those horrible trees I risk a glance back to see if the beedrill are going to follow. Oh no! It looks like Charlotte tripped on a tree root and she's getting jabbed viciously by the stingers. Dustin turns around and races towards the fallen charmander, "Charlotte no!"

Damn it Jack! Where are you and your pokeball's return function when we need you? Both Gold Feather and I race back to fight off the beedrill so that Dustin can rescue Charlotte. I pulled back a glowing fist and slammed it into one of the bugs, knocking him into some of the other drones. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Gold Feather furiously attacking with her beak as well as doing crazy flying maneuvers that ends up slamming a glowing talon into the bugs.

Dustin yells, "I got her clear of the forest! Get out of there!"

No need to tell us twice. The two of us tear it out of there as fast as possible. The beedrill refuse to follow, perhaps too beat up to care. We make it over to where Dustin and Charlotte are.

Charlotte doesn't look good at all. In fact, it looks like she's dying. She's covered in scratches and punctures, her tail flame is dangerously low, and it looks like she's been poisoned multiple times. Dustin's muttering, "No, Charlotte please be all right. Please, Arceus, Mew, whoever's out there please! Please save her!"

It's cool being a Pokemon, but right now I wish I were human. I know that I have potions and antidotes in my backpack, but I don't know how to access them as a squirtle. Not that potions and antidotes would really help Charlotte in such a critical condition, but at least I wouldn't feel so useless! Jack, where are you?

Charlotte weakly opens her eyes, "Dustin, Brent, Feather? I'm so glad you're here. I was scared that I was going to die alone in a scary place like that forest. But now, I'm surrounded by the friends I care about. And Dustin, thank you for being the best friend I ever…"

She stops talking, the flame on her tail is almost invisible, and her eyes unfocus. Even though it defies logic, we all hold onto her like we could keep her in the realm in the living if we just tried. Tears fall from my eyes; I can't believe that this is really happening. Dustin cries the worst, "No, Charlotte… I would trade anything to save you. Even my life if need be. Please, don't go. Charlotte. Charlotte!" The flame on the tail goes out."Noooooooooooooo!"

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A/N: I'm debating about whether to post the Hellpassus Incidentas a separate story, or to just include it in this one in separate parts. And yes, Valzoa would be a bad guy in that story. The Bargain would also be explained in that story line, and maybe later on in this one. So what would your guy's opinions on that be?

So anyways, yeah. I decided to try out a cliffhanger for this chapter. Although, this may not impact you that much. I haven't exactly explained a lot about Charlotte so you guys might not care too much about her. In your reviews you can say whether you want Charlotte to live or die. I already have a plan set in case nobody reviews, but I'm interested to find out what others want. Of course, what that means is I'm going to go with my plan unless I can get really good reasons for why I should or should not kill off Charlotte. There is a 20 percent chance that her life is in your hands!

Of course, this means I'm going to have to rewrite major parts of the story in my head if I don't follow my plan. Oh and as for where the hell Jack is? I have no idea. As of right now, he ran out of the forest and I lost him. I hope he comes back, he is supposed to be a main character after all. I also feel a bit sorry for him because he hasn't discovered any badge abilitys yet. Maybe that will be remedied next chapter.