Author's Notes: First off, this is the longest chapter I've ever written. Four completely full pages, 13 KB. It took a while, but I got it done.

Also, what's special about this chapter is that the entire action scene, was musically influenced. I listened to the same song over and over and over, and the ideas for the chapter just came flying in. I don't want to reveal what song it is, as the lyrics do actually give surprisingly large hints as to what happens in this chapter. But don't worry, the song is posted at the author's after-notes. Enjoy.

Chapter 30

"YES! Thank god. Where is it?"

"It's smack dab in the middle of the southern forest in Hoenn. The plant is expected to be one of the smaller ones, used for making Alpha chips and chips only." She tried to sound serious, but she was still jittery and excited by the news I told her.

"That's great! So how do I take it down?"

"Well, I took the liberty of getting everything you need, ready for you. It's all right here." She pulled out a large backpack from under her desk and softly placed it on the table. "Take a look inside."

I walked towards the backpack and jumped back in surprise. I immediately recognized what I saw from the various video games that I played back on Earth.

"C4!? You want me to blow up the plant!?"

"They're doing something illegal. We've got the warrant to do whatever we want." She gave out a rather devious smirk. "Besides, we're not blowing up the entire plant, just the energy generators, and the chip manufacturer."

"Sounds tough. But why send me."

"Well, A) you've got the most practice dealing with the rockets. B) We are well aware that there are chipped pokemon in the building.. We figured that you could do some dechipping in the process. Oh and one other thing. The plants scramble the organizations area tracking signals, but it doesn't scramble the recruit signals. We've detected someone to back you up on this mission." she said with her eyebrow raised. It was good to see that the bands were already in heavy use.

"So, Nick, it's time for your mission briefing." For the next twenty minutes she showed me what the organization had guessed what the chip manufacturer looked like. She showed me where to place the charges and when to charge them. I was only more scared to find that the place was being guarded. She finally explained the plan of entry and the plan of escape. It looked complex but I hoped the backup would help, whoever he, or she was. Karen handed me the blueprints.

"Oh, one more thing. The plant, as I said before, scrambles our signals, so you won't be able to contact me until you shut down the plant. I felt a rush of fear and nervousness.

"No contact, now you've scared me."

"It's ok, Nick. The backup will be a huge help. You might just recognize him. Now get Dallin, it's time."

After ten minutes of explaining to Dallin and Terra what was going on, and Terra becoming very nervous, worrying that I wasn't going to do good without her to protect me, I was finally ready to go with Dallin. Terra being concerned both touched me and annoyed me a little. I was happy she cared about my well-being so much, but I was good enough to fair on the field.

"So, are you ready?"

I sighed, "Ok, let's do this." She opened the portal to my side. I took my first step in but Karen stopped me for a quick second.

"Nick... good luck."

I smiled "Thanks!" I took a step in and took in the warm air of the southern area. It felt refreshing after the cool winter air of Chokoto. With Dallin at my side, and a backpack full of equipment, I was pretty confident.

I was a top a not-so-steep hill. From the top, I could see a the plant off in the distance. It was a fairly plain looking, industrial building. The beige building stood out from the forest. The plant had a giant ten foot wall surrounding the building, for protaction. I wondered how you could miss it. But, it was the middle of the forest, there wouldn't be much air traffic, and the plant did scramble the satellite signals. I started to make my way to the plant, when the ground suddenly started to vibrate.

'What's going on here,' Dallin speculated. The ground started shaking at a tempo, as if someone was taking giant footsteps.

The tempo of the footsteps suddenly, drastically increased. The ground shook stronger and stronger until I could here the footsteps from behind me. I turned around and jumped out of the way of a charging aggron.

I could here the thoughts in it's head, 'Kill the rockets, kill the rockets,' said a deep manly voice. It slid on the ground, stopped, turned, and snorted at me. It started racing towards me and Dallin.

'HEY, HEY, stop it. We're not rockets!' The aggron tried to come to an immediate halt but slid several meters. He stopped inches in front of me. He bent down and looked me in the eye. There was a brief pause. Finally he spoke.

'IT'S YOU, thank god, it's you! I've been waiting to meet you for a while now, Nick.'

'You know my name!?'

'Of course I do. Here's why.' He raised his right arm and showed me the white band around his wrist. 'I'm a member. But that's not the only reason I know you.'

'Oh really?'

'I can still remember that day that I was in the middle of that city. I had no idea what was going on and for some reason you were riding my back. You look a lot older than you did the last time I saw you.'

It only took me a second to realize what was going on. 'YOU! You're that aggron that tried to take me down, just when I first arrived in this world.'

'That's right. But,' he lowered his voice to a wispy whisper, 'that, uh, typhlosion isn't still around, is he?' I gave the aggron a sarcastically stern look.

'Hey, Terra's a she.' I said while grinning.

'Hehe, right.'

'You know, you never told me your name that day. That tranquilizer dart interrupted our discussion.'

'Oh, right. The name's Ferrous.'

'Oh, interesting. Anyway, do you know the plan?'

'What plan?' I sighed and started to explain the plan to Ferrous. The further I went into the plan, the more frustrated he became.

'No, no, that's too complicated. I think we should use my plan.'

'WHAT!? This plan was made by experts. You can't just throw it away like that.'

'HEY!' He kneeled down and looked me straight in the eye. I tried to keep myself in order, but I was staring something that tried to kill me in the eye. 'Either you use my plan, or I don't help at all. I've been hanging around this plant for months now, you're friends weren't the only people to have a plan.' As stubborn as he sounded, he was the best defense I could have. I had no choice

'Ok, and what would that plan be?'

'Hop on.' He signaled me onto his back. I gave him a worried look, but I started to get on anyway.

'Hold on, Dallin.'

'Dallin?' Ferrous turned around and spotted Dallin, on my the ground for the first time. 'WHOA!' He backed away several feet. It made me chuckle and Dallin laugh, to see a five ton, seven foot tall aggron be scared of a little pikachu. I had to remind myself that most aggrons had a natural fear of most of nature's elements.

'Don't worry, he's not going to hurt you.' I said, smiling smugly. The look on Dallin's face right now was priceless. He had on the most wry smile he could come up with.

I jumped up onto Ferrous's back. The metal was warm from being heated in the sun. 'So what exactly is your plan?' I said with a hint of worry.

'I'll tell you when we get there.' As he took his steps, he walked smoothly as to not knock me off. I had to hold onto his two smaller horns to keep myself up.

It would of taken me and Dallin almost an hour to get through all the forestry, but as Ferrous walked at a faster pace, and just walking through heavy branches and small trees like they were nothing. We were outside the plant wall withing 15 minutes.

Still holding myself onto Ferrous's back, I asked, 'So, what's your plan?'

'Hold on tight.'

'What?' Ferrous suddenly took off with a burst of speed. The wall was fast approaching.

'Watch out.' I immediately let go of Ferrous's horns, and held onto his shoulder pieces. I held onto Dallin as tight as possible.

Ferrous burst through the wall with brute force. The force of crashing into the wall shook his body, but he burst through the wall like he had done it all his life.

We were now inside the walls but outside the plant. I looked to my sides to see grunts fast approaching with guns drawn. Ferrous suddenly burst through the wall into the plant and we were in.

'HOP OFF! We can both run easier that way.' I jumped off Ferrous and started running beside him. With Ferrous's high weight we both ran at the same speed. 'Where do we go?'

'Don't know. The blueprints are for the manufacturer and not the actual plant. Just run.' We ran as fast as we could. As we rounded the corners of the endless hallways, I could see the rockets right behind us. They were catching up at a huge rate. Just as we rounded a corner, they came out and drew their guns.

'Get in front of me,' Ferrous said. Without thought I moved in front of him while we ran. I could here the guns firing behind me, but the bullets simply bounced off of Ferrous. As the bullets were hitting him, his armor rang louder and louder with ever bullet.

We rounded another corner only to find a mightyena and a houndoom waiting at the end of the hall. The jumped forward and charged for us.

'Dallin, NOW!' As we ran, Dallin shot out two lightning bolts, and the dogs tumbled over. When I looked back I saw Ferrous stumbling a bit too.

'HEY, you shocked me! I'm going to kill-'

Dallin started to emit sparks from his body. 'Are you sure you wanna do that?' Ferrous backed away from Dallin, nervously. Dallin smiled, wryly again. He enjoyed being able to intimidate someone so much bigger them him. Ferrous grunted in annoyance.

'Calm down, I'll heal you later.' I ran to the dogs, who were in a daze from Dallin's shock.

'You're in danger, no time to explain, just get out of the building,' the dogs looked at me in confusion, 'NOW!' The dogs came to their feet and ran.

I ran forward and caught up with Ferrous. After running through the halls for a few more seconds, Ferrous was finally fed up. 'OK, that's it, HOP ON!' I jumped onto Ferrous's back, clutching Dallin in my arms. He ran at top speed and burst through the thin wall. He crashed through the walls, the sound rang through the building, we were bound to get attention.

We burst through two more walls until we arrived in a room with a large machine. The chip manufacturer! The machine resembled a standard, factory conveyor belt machine. The chips came flying out a section of the machine at an alarming rate. It made it look like the chips were easy to make, which baffled me. I looked around the room and saw one entrance.

"FERROUS, DALLIN," I was yelling their names like a commander. I had to admit is was a little fun. "Cover the both sides of the entrance! Make sure nothing comes around the corner of the hall!" I removed the backpack off my back and took out all the charges. I ran around the room holding the blueprints and the charges, desperately trying to get the right charges in the right places.

Five minutes later I saw Dallin keeping a careful eye on the hallway, but Ferrous was nowhere in sight.

'Dallin, where's Ferrous!?' While shifting his head back and forth he pointed me to the machine. I walked over to see exactly what I didn't want to. Ferrous was smashing his hands and horns into the main part of the machine.

"FERROUS! What are you doing!?" I found myself yelling instead of thinking. I often did that in a moment of action. He continued to smash the machine.

'This is what makes the chips. These things have ruined my life. I have to destroy it, NOW!'

"Ferrous, they're just going to-" My attention shifted to a red flashing screen, on the main part of the machine. It read 'Warning, Invalid use.' The screen scrolled over, revealing a new message. 'Self-destruct initiated.'

"RUUUUN!!!" I screamed. Ferrous grunted, turned around and ran beside me. I grabbed Dallin on the way out of the room. I ran around the corner of the entrance and sprinted as fast as I could.

Within three seconds of leaving the room, a loud heavy explosion shot out of the door. The force caused me to trip forward a little, but I kept running. Another explosion came from the room, and burst a hole through the hall. Red lights were flashing everywhere.

"The whole building's coming down. We got to-" I was interrupted by another explosion behind me in coming from the chip room.

'HOP ON!' Ferrous yelled. I immediately jumped onto his back and he sprinted through the oncoming wall. We crashed through wall with great force, and then through another wall. He was running through the place like the five ton linebacker that he is.

We burst through another wall and we were outside. We broke down the last wall and ran up to the top of the hill I was on before. I jumped off Ferrous and looked down the hill, panting from the excitement and adrenaline.

I could see smoke protruding from the windows of the plant and I could hear the explosions within the plant. After a few more seconds the building collapsed and a cloud of smoke filled the air from the plant.

We did it.

I looked at Ferrous who was just as out of breath as I was. I started to think about the consequences of what happened.

'Do you think anyone died in the explosion?'

'You saw and heard those emergency lights and sounds. There was no way they couldn't of escaped that.' I could detect the frustration in his voice. He wanted the rockets in the building to die.

It was time to tell the Organization the good news. I hit the communicator button on the data-brace.

"Karen?"

"Nick!?"

I panted into the microphone. "One down... four to go."

Author's After-notes: If you want to listen to the song that I listened to, to come up with the action scene in this chapter, I can't give you a direct link or even a close one sorry. But you can still listen to it if you follow my instructions. It's easy, just go to Youtube and search up: pod boom .The song will be the first thing that comes up. You might not recognize it at first, but it's actually a well known song.

Another cool thing is that, I couldn't come up with a name for Ferrous, but I had a certain feature I wanted to the name. I had to ask my sister for a good name and Ferrous suited perfectly thanks to its description. I want to see if you guys can figure out why Ferrous is a spacial name for an Aggron, there's two reasons.