A/N: Okay! I know that it's been a long while, but I finally felt in the mood to edit and revise this chapter so that I could post it here without feeling too bad. And with vacation started, I'm not as busy as I used to be. This chapter was a bastard to write. but I consider it practice for me in writing action scenes. And it happens to tie into the storyline, as well as help explain some features that will most likely be prominent in this storyline. Normal typing is human language, italics are pokemon language.

I would like to give thanks to Cornova for helping me improve the descriptions used in the Champion Battle, this chapter. You rock man!

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or any characters from Pokemon. I do not own the Dimensional Scream. 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, Tunipor, the little boy, and the chaos badge.

Pokemon Battle VS Trainer Battle

Jack's POV.

The stadium is packed with people; all of them are looking forward to the next match. Ash Ketchum walks confidently to one side of the field, ready to defend his title of Pokemon Champion. On the other side is the challenger who wishes to become the next Champion.

Ash looks so awesomely cool as always! He's even wearing his old Kanto league hat! And his trusty pikachu is on his shoulder like always! The challenger has orange-blonde hair and is wearing clothes that are predominantly yellow, orange, and red. At his belt, instead of the traditional pokeballs, he has three green pokeballs with a yellow letter R engraved on it.

The announcer's voice is heard, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the moment you have been waiting for! A new challenger has come to challenge reigning Pokemon Champion Ash Ketchum to a Pokemon battle!"

The crowds roar and cheer before the announcer continues, "In the red corner is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, and in the blue corner is Mura Fireheart who is also from Pallet Town! The battle shall commence when the two combatants are ready!"

The crowds cheer again before silencing. Ash then asks the challenger a question, "What is it that you fight for?"

Mura easily replies, "I fight to get stronger so that I can help out my family and friends if they ever need my help. I fight in order to improve so that I can protect the ones I love. I fight because my Pokemon believe in me and I believe in them, and together we will overcome any challenge!"

Ash nods his head before saying, "I can see that you're determined. However, you are too overconfident. I am more skilled than and of the trainers you have faced before. Do you really think that your three Pokemon will be able to survive against my six?"

Mura smirks a little, "Yes, I do. I was going easy on my other opponents, but I cannot hold back against you. Luckily for me, use of the chaos badges is allowed in this tournament. In this televised event, I plan to show all of the trainers out there the possibilities of what Pokemon and Trainer can do if they discover the full potential of their chaos badges."

Ash smirks back, "I have a chaos badge myself you know. I may not have figured out many of its functions, but I do know a couple of good ones."

Mura nods in affirmation, "I would have expected no less from you Ash. However, I believe you've only practiced those abilities with Pikachu."

Ash starts to frown, irritatedly, before yelling, "Okay, enough talking. Go Heracross!"

Ash throws a pokeball and a heracross appears ready for battle. Mura throws out one of his own pokeballs and yells, "Okay Laura, time to go all out with the specials!" A female pikachu appears and puts her paw into a 'thumbs-up' sign.

"Okay Laura, get some speed with Agility!" The pikachu nods, disappearing and reappearing a few yards away. Laura zigzagged left and right, leaving afterimages behind her.

"Heracross use Megahorn!" The heracross watches carefully, aiming for where the pikachu should go. Heracross times it, launches forward from close distance at high speed. His horn goes through the pikachu as if there was nothing there.

"Grab some air and prepare to have a blast on my mark… Now!" The pikachu's body fades away, Heracross realizes that it only hit an afterimage. The bug Pokemon looks around, not noticing a shadow from above melds with the shadow beneath him. Out of seemingly nowhere, the pikachu jumps onto heracross's horn and uses it as a springboard to gain some more altitude.

Ash looks up in surprise, "Quick Heracross, follow it into the sky and use another Megahorn. She can't dodge the attack now!"

Heracross flies up, as the pikachu seems to be inhaling for an unknown reason. Mura smiles brightly.

"Great job Laura! Unleash the Fire Blast!" The pikachu unleashes an immense Fire Blast attack that totally envelops the poor heracross. Caught of guard, the heracross burns and tumbles to the ground. When the smoke clears it appears that he fainted.

Announcer guy says, "And the first round goes to Mura Fireheart for that splendid display of Elemental Soul tactics!"

Ash looks shocked, "That move was legal? Man, this is going to be harder than I thought. Okay Swellow, you're up!"

Swellow appears and looks down at its opponent. Mura curses and then directs his pikachu, "Damn, this isn't good. Electric attacks are out. Okay Laura, use a Fire Spin to buy us some time!"

Small flames appear on the pikachu's ears and tail. She breathes out a stream of fire that traps the surprised swellow. Instead of ordering another attack, Ash asks Laura, "What's the matter? I bet one well-aimed Thunder would make Swellow faint for sure! Why are you bothering with fire attacks?"

Mura counters, "Don't listen to him Laura! He wants you to use Thunder so that his swellow can get Thunder Armor. Instead, find Swellow and use a Flamethrower on it."

His pikachu breathes again and a blast of flame hurtles towards the swellow trapped in the Fire Spin. It hits directly, but Ash has already given a new command, "Use Aerial Ace!"

The tornado of flame is sliced in two for only a moment, giving Swellow enough time to escape through the gap. Swellow ducks under the river of flame from the pikachu's mouth, flying so fast the air noticeably splits behind him before slamming his beak into the pikachu's stomach.

Laura tumbles to the ground. Ash shouts, "Good job Swellow! Now try a Wing Attack on her!"

The swellow approaches with wings glowing brightly. The pikachu stands up and glares, she also starts to glow red. Mura yells, "Overheat!"

The pikachu let's out a blast of fire at full power. The swellow slams full force into it and hits the ground hard. He manages to pick himself up, but he looks really injured. Ash yells, "Use a Quick Attack!"

Swellow once again slams into the pikachu, but she manages to grab a hold of the bird. Mura suggests, "Well, it's a little risky, but try releasing and then fire a Charge Beam at him."

The pikachu nods, spinning the swellow before throwing him and releasing a bundle of electricity at the bird. Unprepared for an electric attack, the swellow fails to convert it into Thunder Armor. The swellow ends up fainting upon impact with the ground. Laura is panting and looking slightly bruised.

The announcer says, "The second round goes to Blue trainer Mura Fireheart for his quick thinking!"

Ash returns the swellow, "I was beginning to wonder if you had managed to disguise a fire-type Pokemon as a pikachu. Well, let's see if you can take on my Donphan!"

Ash releases his donphan and Mura curses again, "Damn it! First an electric absorbing flying type and now a ground-type. Laura, stick to fire attacks for now, but be ready to switch over to your secondary elemental soul when necessary."

Ash goes first, "Okay Donphan, start off with a Rollout attack!" The donphan transforms into a rolling wheel of doom, aimed right for pikachu.

Mura commands, "Laura, springboard into the air and use Fire Spin on the battle field to heat the place up!" The pikachu launches into the air with her tail and starts firing flames at the ground indiscriminately while reaching the apex of her jump.

Ash shouts victoriously, "All right Donphan, use Hyper Beam!"

The donphan starts to charge up the beam while Mura shouts wildly, "Laura! Switch Souls and dodge quickly!"

The Hyper Beam fires off into the sky as the sky flashes yellow. The Hyper Beam fires harmlessly off into the sky and another shape descends to the field.

Ash gasps aloud, "A Lugia? What's going on here?"

Mura shouts, "All right Laura, use Aeroblast!"

The beam collides with Donphan, the explosion soon revealing a large crater with Donphan in the epicenter of the blast. Donphan quickly yelps and stands back up, rubbing his underside. Ash orders, "Since we can't really hit them right now, use a Defense Curl!" Donphan tries to curl up, but winces and uncurls. Ash groans, "Oh no, your underside got burned?"

Mura takes this time to attack, "Okay Laura, use… um… oh Hydro Pump!" The lugia glares a bit at Mura before unleashing a torrent of water onto the donophan. The ground begins to steam and after it fades, and an unconscious donophan appears. The lugia lands on the ground again and glows yellow. After the glowing fades, a pikachu appears and stumbles to keep herself up right.

The announcer puts in, "Round three to the challenger once again, this time for having access to a Legendary Soul!"

Ash comments, "I never realized that the chaos badges had so many different abilities. I'm also very surprised by your pikachu. She's defeated three of my Pokemon, and they're all extremely high leveled. What's your secret?"

Mura replies, "Several things, but I'll just state the two obvious ones. First, our synchronization rating is fairly high, about 70 percent. Second, all of my Pokemon are over level 100 and working towards the fabled level infinity. However, we still have a ways to go, if ever, before we reach that level."

Ash nods, "So you use synchronization as well? No wonder your Pokemon are so powerful. I'm really beginning to regret not trying things out with my other Pokemon besides Pikachu. Still, it looks like your pikachu is about to faint. This next one should take her out, go Snorlax!"

A snorlax appears and stands awake and ready for battle. Mura orders, "Okay Laura, this is your final attack. Use Advanced Technique: Summon Volt Dragon!"

The pikachu releases a humongous amount of electricity that eventually forms the shape of a dragon. The attack then takes a life of its own and flies up high into the sky.

Beads of sweat slid down Ash's face, "Okay, that was weird. Snorlax use Mega Kick!"

The snorlax runs up to the pikachu and throws a foot out to hit her. She doesn't even make an effort to move and lands on the ground unconscious. Mura returns her to her pokeball. "Thank you Laura, this should help out our team immensely."

The announcer says, "The fourth round goes to Ash Ketchum, breaking Mura Fireheart's winning streak!"

Mura puts Laura's pokeball away and brings out a new one. "Go Karpy! You're up!"

The pokeball opens and a… magikarp comes out. Unlike a normal magikarp that would remain flapping on the ground, this one hovers in the air as if it were swimming in it.

Ash comments, "Wow, I've never seen a magikarp with the Levitate ability before."

Mura yells, "Okay Karpy, use Bounce!" The magikarp ends up high in the sky.

Ash smirks, "Snorlax, prepare to Headbutt as soon as that magikarp comes into view." The snorlax readies itself when a bright flash of light hurtles down from the sky. A tower of lightning slithers to the earth, its gaping maw open, revealing dozens of teeth. Its jaws easily fit around Snorlax's body, crunching together. While not physically piercing Snorlax with its teeth, an enormous flash of electricity erupts from the scene. A slightly charred Snorlax falls to the now blackened ground. Currents of electricity snake across the ground, away from the fallen Pokemon. Once far enough they spring into the air and reform above Snorlax, reforming the volt dragon that then roars to the crowd as it coils into a ring in mid air. It then transforms back into light and hurtles upwards into the sky again.

Ash asked the question in many people's minds, "What just happened?"

Mura explains, "Remember a little while back my Laura used the move Summon Volt Dragon? What happens is a huge amount of electricity gains temporary sentience and flies up into the sky. After every turn it uses Volt Tackle on the enemy Pokemon. Depending on how much energy was charged into the Volt Dragon initially, the attack could last anywhere from two to five rounds. And on the final round, it does a different attack."

Ash and his pikachu gape at him. "You mean to say that my snorlax could possibly be hit by five Volt Tackles while it's fighting a bouncing magikarp? Oh man! Okay Pikachu, after this battle we have to figure out how that move works!" His pikachu nods his head enthusiastically.

The snorlax starts to push his head out of the ground when a magikarp hits his head back into it. The magikarp then hovers back where it started, waiting for the next command.

Ash yells, "Get up Snorlax and use Mega Punch on that fish!" The snorlax climbs out of the ground and throws a glowing fist at the magikarp. The magikarp seems to take damage but is still in fairly good shape.

A flash of light attacks snorlax from behind before disappearing into the sky again. As the snorlax falls forward Mura yells, "Karpy, use Tackle!"

The magikarp smashes into snorlax, making a noticeable crater in Snorlax's stomach. It takes a while for the momentum to kick in before the Snorlax is sent back with an incredible amount of speed. Snorlax slams into the ground, causing the ground to shudder. The ground beneath him is undamaged, the fat from his body cushioning most of the blow. Ash yells out desperately, "Snorlax, use Rest to recover you energy!"

The snorlax falls asleep and a glow bathes its body in healing light. After the glow fades, the Volt Dragon smashes into the sleeping snorlax, then it rises again. Mura calls out, "Go ahead and Tackle it for now."

The magikarp Tackles snorlax in the face once more before returning to its original position. Snorlax keeps on snoring and the flash of light impacts him further into the ground before soaring into the sky again. Mura gives his next command, "Okay Karpy, use Bounce again!"

The magikarp bounces into the air again, like last time. The snorlax wakes up, not feeling much better, and stands up groggily. Ash says, "Well, not much we can do snorlax. Just brace yourself."

About a second later, the Volt Dragon falls out of the sky one last time. Instead of charging into Snorlax, it coils around Snorlax with the entire length of its body before snapping its jaws over his head. An audible click from the dragon's teeth is the only thing that is heard before a flash of light engulfs the area, threatening anyone who is watching the fight to go blind. The announcer probably had to open his eyes, and see past the purple dots invading his vision. I know I did, and I'm watching from a television screen! Snorlax remains standing, its legs quivering and threatening to fail, about ready to faint. The magikarp falls from the sky veiled by the sunshine, tackling Snorlax so hard that the announcer can't help but wince. Snorlax is knocked off his feet and onto his back with a loud thump.

The announcer says, "What an exciting fifth round folks! Mura Fireheart used an Advanced Technique to win!"

Ash mutters to pikachu, "Yep, definitely need to teach you that move." He turns back to the field, "Charizard, I choose you!"

The charizard roars upon release and then examines his opponent. Then his jaw drops and he gives Ash a look that suggests 'are you kidding me?'

Ash replies to his look with, "Don't let your guard down, this is the challenger's second Pokemon, and only you and Pikachu are left!"

The charizard raises his eye ridges and takes a second look at the magikarp hovering in the sky. Mura takes this opportunity to make the first move, "Karpy, use Confuse Ray!"

An eerie purple glowing light shoots towards Charizard, confusing him. And then…

And then the big screen flickers off!

Charlotte's POV.

The gym leader announces apologetically, "Sorry guys, but it seems that we're having some technical difficulties. Stick around and maybe we'll get the screen up and running again before the battle's over." A collective groan is heard throughout the crowd.

I only partially pay attention. Brent's talking to my trainer, "Hey Jack, I'm going to go get a breath of fresh air. You going to stay here and watch?"

My trainer replies, "You're going to leave now? I can't believe you! I'm staying right here until I see Ash Ketchum defend his title successfully!"

Brent nods his head before he turns to Dustin, Gold Feather, and I, "If you guys want to, you can stay with Jack and watch the rest of the show. I'm going to go outside, so who wants to come with me?"

Eagerly Dustin and I say, "I do!"

Gold Feather looks at Brent and says, "Stuffy in here. Gold Feather needs to feel the cool breezes outside."

My trainer shoos us off, "Well, see you guys! You're going to miss out I'm sure!"

We follow Brent outside behind the gym. He stops and sits down on the ground so that we can look at him easier, "Okay, I kind of wanted to talk to you guys. That championship battle looked pretty intense. But what really intrigued me was all of those new techniques they used! Did you see how Laura turned into a Lugia? It was just like when I turned into a squirtle! Do you know what that means?"

As I pondered the answer, Dustin responded immediately, "Ah! I get it, if a human can turn into a Pokemon, maybe a Pokemon can turn into a human? Hey, let me try that right now!"

Dustin closes his eyes, after a few seconds he begins to glow yellow. When the light disappears, a Brent with Blue hair appears.

Blue-haired Brent says, "Whoa, it totally worked!"

Brown-haired Brent says, "Yeah it did Dustin, but why do you look like me, but with my hair dyed?"

Blue-haired… I mean, Dustin, replies awkwardly, "Uh, I dunno. You're my inspiration for what I wanted to look like as a human?"

Brent crosses his arms in disbelief, "Of course."

Dustin puts a hand behind his back and chuckles nervously before flashing yellow and changing back into a squirtle.

Brent begins to speak again, "You know, I've always known that Pokemon were intelligent, but you guys are beyond more intelligent than anything I've ever dreamed of! I never expected I'd get a chance to get to know my Pokemon as well as I know you guys. This is like a dream come true."

Dustin speaks, "And you're better than any trainer I could have ever hoped for." I nod my head in agreement.

Brent scowls a bit before replying, "Trainer… It doesn't really feel right to call myself a trainer. I'd rather just be your friend… I almost can't believe that people would still want to try and become a Pokemon master! With all of these new abilities, there seems to be no limits to what we could accomplish!"

Brent's chaos badge flashes momentarily, stunning all of us into silence. Then we all start to feel very odd. It's in a good way, but it's still a little odd. I decide to ask, "What did your chaos badge do, Brent? I feel kind of funny. Like… Like I really could take on anything!"

Brent replies, "I don't know. Give me a second to check."

He remains quiet for a minute before responding, "Apparently, I'm giving off an Aura of Inspiration. Everyone around me will feel more inspired to do whatever I suggest. That sounds a bit devious. Oh, there's a footnote here. It says that the aura also affects chaos badge users unless they specifically choose to block out the aura. Hey, there are a few other Auras listed that I can try out."

The feeling of inspiration disappears, and is replaced with a feeling of happiness. All feels right in the world, I embrace Dustin in a hug to show it. Brent speaks, "Happiness Aura, gives happiness to those all around you."

The feeling of happiness changes into something slightly different. I end up holding Dustin closer to me than before and we start to move towards Brent and Gold Feather who happen to be huddled together. Brent says, "Aura of Comfort, makes those around you feel safe and comfortable with each other while near you."

Once the feeling of comfort fades, I feel something that's like a mixture of the three previous Auras. I'm surrounded by friends who love me and I'm comfortable with. Together, I know we can face anything and survive. Brent says, "Lastly is the Aura of Hope, it gives everyone around you a feeling of optimism, mixed in with some happiness and comfort. The last note here says that when multiple chaos badge users use the same Aura, the affects are felt even more strongly."

The final Aura fades, but I still feel very content to just stay sitting where I am, sitting in Dustin's arms with my back up against Brent's leg and my tail surrounding Gold Feather. I double check and my tail still isn't lit yet, so it's still safe to sit in this position.

We sit there for a few minutes, just enjoying the scenery and the quietness. Which was unfortunately interrupted by a snotty young human who ran up to Brent and shouted at the top of his lungs, "I challenge you to a Trainer Battle!"

Brent gives a sigh before replying, "Aw, you totally just ruined the moment here. Hey now, aren't you a little young to be training Pokemon? You seem like you're only eight years old."

The little boy replies with a snarl, although coming from him it sounded so adorable, "I said that I challenged you to a TRAINER Battle, not a Pokemon Battle. Don't you know the difference? New rules state that a Trainer Battle is when the trainers fight each other, not the Pokemon. Although, you can assign one of your Pokemon to act as your Trainer while you fight."

Two humans are going to be fighting each other? That little boy is going to get hurt though. Brent asks, "One of my Pokemon can act as my Trainer while I fight? Whoa, wait a sec kid. I don't want to battle with you. What if you get hurt?"

Now the kid is throwing a tantrum, "Oh come on! The chaos badges can heal up any injuries after the fight. Are you dense? Your badge says that you know about fighting in a 'costume' so let's suit up and get down to it. I really want to gain some levels before I get my first Pokemon. It's really helpful for training!"

Costume? Brent replies a little ashamed, "Oh, right costumes. Sorry, I completely forgot that's what transforming into a Pokemon is called. I'm a little new to this whole experience. Well, okay. Since you challenged, how about you change first?"

The little boy grins and replies cockily, "Get ready to lose!"

Yellow light totally envelops the little boy. The yellow shape begins to grow bigger, his body grows larger, his neck elongates, his arms turn wider, he grows a hooked tail, and his head becomes more beak-like. As the yellow fades, his coloration is mostly gray with purple wing-arms. He towers over all of us, including Brent, and glaring at us he growls, "Your turn, Shorty."

Brent gulps before replying to the little boy turned monster, "An aerodactyl? How the heck did you find a way to change into an aerodactyl?!" Brent gulps again before turning towards us, "Dustin, do me a favor and guide me while I fight, eh? I think I'm going to need some help."

Dustin nods nervously as Brent transforms into his blue-shelled squirtle form. The aerodactyl then turns to me and I yelp. He says in a low voice, "We'll need you to start the battle. Just tell us when to begin."

I gulp and ask nervously, "Are both sides prepared for this fight?" The aerodactyl nods aggressively. Brent nods his head nervously. I take a deep breath and let it out before shouting, "Begin!"

The aerodactyl lunges forward in a vicious Bite attack. Brent dodges clumsily and shouts, "Dustin, any ideas? How am I supposed to fight that thing?!"

Dustin stutters, "Well, it's a rock-type right? Maybe try a Bubble Attack. Just take a deep breath and blow it all out!"

Brent sweatdrops and begins to blow furiously. After a few seconds some bubbles come out and smack into the aerodactyl's face. He howls in pain, "Ouch! Not the eyes! I'm going to make you pay ya little squirt!"

The aerodactyl whaps Brent in the face with a Wing Attack. Brent flies to the dirt, but gets right back up. He has an irritated face on when he says, "Okay, no holding back now!"

Brent jumps into the air and brings down a glowing fist down onto the aerodactyl's skull. The force drives aerodactyl's beak into the ground. As the aerodactyl struggles to get its head out of the dirt, Brent uses this extra time to launch another attack. He lands on top of the monster's back and fires bubbles at it from point-blank range. He then jumps back onto the ground as the aerodactyl's head resurfaces.

The monster growls angrily, "Very clever, learning Mega Punch. Fine, I guess I'll have to use my ultimate attack! Prepare to be annihilated!"

Dustin yells, "Withdraw into your shell Brent!"

Brent quickly retreats inside his shell as the aerodactyl unleashes a glowing orange Hyper Beam into him. Dust flies into the air in the resulting explosion, and our field of vision is obscured.

As the dust begins to settle, a battered blue Squirtle jumps into the Aerodactyl's face with a glowing white fist. Bam! The aerodactyl collapses to the ground, fainted. I call off the battle, "And the winner of this fight is Brent!"

We crowd around Brent and give him congratulations for fighting such an excellent battle. He thanks all of us before turning to the fallen Aerodactyl, "Hey, you okay there?"

The Aerodactyl glows yellow before shattering! The little boy is revealed inside and he sits up apparently unhurt, "That was a great battle! You were pretty awesome! I guess I'll have to go practice more."

Brent looks at him and asks, "How did you transform into such a big aerodactyl anyways?"

The little boy replies with a laugh, "Oh, the museum here has the bones of one, as well as some cool looking pictures. I also asked some of the people there about them. I know it's not quite what a real aerodactyl looks like, but it was what the chaos badge came up with when it finished analyzing all the data."

I gasp before asking, "You mean that you could actually turn into anything you wanted to as long as the chaos badge has a rough idea of what you want?"

The little boy thinks a bit before replying, "I think so, but you need to have a lot of data in order to make battle-worthy costumes. Otherwise they would break at the first hit, or they wouldn't be able to attack. Why do you ask?"

I reply a bit embarrassed, "Well, I kind of wanted to know what it would be like to fly as a charizard, but I don't want my personality to change any. Do you think it would be possible to take a little preview of our evolutions?"

I waited with hope in my heart, thankfully not too long since he quickly replied, "Well, I never thought of it that way, but if you wanted to you can. Heck, you don't even need to limit it to your own evolutions. You want to know what its like to be spearow? Go ahead and change into one, like your friend there. But I will say this; don't try changing into legendary Pokemon. It really drains the chaos badges quickly. I think there's a way around that, but you might need to get permission first."

Dustin asks him with a scoff, "Permission? For what?"

The little boy replies, "Well for starters, while Pokemon can naturally get up to level 100, Trainers with chaos badges can only level up to 50 without permission. It's not that they won't let you get higher, it's that your chaos badge can't harness enough energy to power such a strong costume. I think that once you get permission, the league people give you something that let's the badges harness more energy, allowing you to use costumes up to level 100. Maybe even beyond!"

He continues, "Another thing to keep in mind is that a costume's attacks won't be as powerful as a natural Pokemon's version unless the trainer has an Elemental Soul Crystal. It's the Soul Crystals that give the attacks their true power. I don't have any Soul Crystals yet, so my Hyper Beam was really weak. You don't seem to have a Water Soul either, which I found a little odd since you have a squirtle, much to my benefit since I wouldn't be too weakened against your water attacks. What really threw me for a loop were your Mega Punches! They really hurt at the time."

I wasn't sure how to respond to that, but Brent asked, "Maybe because you don't have a Rock Soul, you aren't as resistant to normal attacks?"

The boy answers, "Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. Without an Elemental Soul, you retain the weaknesses of the Pokemon you copy, but you don't get any of the immunities or resistances. So if I mimicked something like a sandshrew, I would probably get shocked by electric attacks even though I looked like a ground-type."

We all sit there to digest all of this new information. Then Brent asks, "What caused the world of Pokemon to change so much? The rules have become much more complicated, and there's so much more that can be done on a Pokemon adventure now. I mean, I like many of these changes, but a part of me still wonders. Why did this happen?"

The little boy looks all around us before answering in a low voice, "I'm not sure, but sometimes I hear about something that happened in Saffron city two years ago. My cousin lived there, and she said how the sky grew dark and stormy. Monstrosities were seen terrorizing the people that lived there. They seemed to be like a bunch of new Pokemon, but they all chanted the same name, 'Hellpassus'. In the past I used to ask the grown-ups what a Hellpassus is, but they won't tell me anything. They say I'll find out when I'm older."

Brent asks, "Hellpassus… Are they related in any way to Team Hurricane?"

The boy replies, "Yeah, those were the people who released the Hellpassus in the first place. My cousin isn't sure what their goals were. In fact, nobody knows except for Ash Ketchum. Reporters managed to find out that he had stopped Team Hurricane's leader from doing whatever evil plan he was up to."

Dustin replies, "Well they're back now. Two grunts attacked the Viridian city Pokemon Center. What could be their plans now?"

The boy starts to walk away, "I have no idea, but it doesn't sound good. Anyways, it was nice talking to you. Maybe I'll catch you around. See ya!"

Brent yells after him, "Wait! We didn't even exchange names!"

The boy calls back, "I'm sure you'll figure it out soon enough, Brent!"

I think we all sweatdropped at his retreating figure. I pipe up, "I think I'll remember him as little Aerodactyl Boy."

Brent glows yellow before turning back into his human form. In some part of me, I feel sad and disappointed but I'm not sure why. He turns to us and says, "I guess we should go back to the gym and see how Jack is doing."

As it turns out, we didn't find my trainer at the Gym. We didn't find him at the Pokemon Center either. Brent decided to give up on searching for him and got us some food to eat, as well as something for himself. Just as we finished eating, my trainer walks in through the door and struts up to our table.

He shouts, literally, in Brent's face, "I got a Boulder Badge!"

A/N: The reason why challenger Mura wears yellow, orange, and red? There are two reasons. One, his pikachu is yellow. His magikarp is red. Who do you think is orange? Reason two is sorta tied into his orange Pokemon and himself, although shall not be explained in this chapter. If you've been paying attention, you should be able to deduce a logical conclusion.

Okay, I will admit, Jack is a tad bit OOC. But to make full use of Cornova's descriptions I had to tweak him a bit. Still, the main focus of this chapter isn't on Jack anyways.

"Aerodactyl Boy" in this story, I sort of based off of Max, May's little brother, who seems to be a sort of know-it-all little kid to me. If you guys want to, you can give me a good name for him.

Also, anyone want to imagine what a Hellpassus is? It's not obvious yet, but it will become more obvious in later chapters.