Amy47101: Hey hey people's! Okay, I am so, so sorry for the delay. School has been holding me up lately and I DID happen to start publishing my own stories.

Malory79080: You guys better forgive her! Mostly because this chapter is in her hands! And I want to read it!

Disclaimer: We both do not own Pokemon.

Chapter 7: Trouble in the Dream Yard

Paul's POV

"Paul! Do we have to leave now?" whined Dawn for about the fifteenth time since we left the gym. I was surprised, actually. I never, in a million years, thought that Dawn, of all people, would win a gym badge.

"Yes. If we want to get to Nacrene City, then we have to hurry onto route two."

"But Paul..."

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"But-"

"For the last time, I said-"

"PAAAAAAAAUUUUUULLLLL! DAAAAAAAAWWWWWNNNN!" yelled the all too familiar voice of Bianca. "Guesswhatguesswhatguesswhat?"

She was running at is in a speed that was so fast, I was sure being the path of an Extreme Speed using Lucario would have been safer. I was about to jump out of the way, when she suddenly tripped, and fell flat on her face.

Dawn was the one to help her up first, while I stood there, comprehending what just happened.

"You okay?" asked Dawn as she pulled the blond to her feet.

"She'll be fine. It happens every time that she really gets going fast." said Cheren, who came up behind us, with his Purrloin on his shoulder and Bianca's Minccino on his head. I think Dawn was about to ask why Bianca pokemon was on his head, but decided against it.

"Guess what!" said Bianca, not even fazed by her fall. She pulled out a badge case, and opened it. "I won the Trio badge!"

"Great!" Dawn said with a grin. "Guess all that studying paid off!"

"I know! Even though I only had Minccino too!" she said happily. Geez, now that's two idiots who won. I think someone needs to toughen up the gyms a little bit. "Anyways, I heard that there's this 'mystery Pokemon' at the Dream Yard, just east of here! But Cheren says that I shouldn't go alone cause there were some 'suspicious characters' there." she said, while putting air quotes around 'suspicious' and 'characters'.

"I'll go with you!" said Dawn, before momentarily shooting me an evil grin. "We were just heading there anyways!"

"No we weren't." I said.

"Yes, we were." said Dawn, shooting me the glare of death. Then she went and linked arms with Bianca. "Let's go!"

Then they were both running off.

...

In the wrong direction.

"I guess we should go lead them in the right way." said Cheren with a sigh.

"Dawn and her stupid personality. Stupid Troublesome girl." I mumbled under my breath as I stomped through the Dream Yard.

Yeah, I got separated from everyone else.

First, Bianca and Dawn thought that they saw the mystery pokemon, which turned out to be a Munna, and ran after the pinkish pokemon, leaving me and Cheren in the dust. Then Cheren was surethat he saw Bianca's green hat, and ran after it. Leaving me completely.

Suddenly, I saw some sort of light. An attack, maybe? Were Dawn and everyone else signalling?

I followed the light, and saw... Some sort of machine.

It was pretty big, and had two panel looking things atop the tower it was supported by. There was a small computer attached to it, and several pokemon floated around it. They were like pink balloons, with a bunch of purple flowers spotted here and there across their bodies. They stared at the purple energy, as if mesmerized by it.

Two figures stood aside, watching the machine, and monitoring whatever the computer is searching for. They both had on black trench coats and hats. I could make out that one was male and the other female. The women had silver coloured hair, while the man, from what I could tell, was blond.

What the hell were they doing?

I saw a Munna float by my head, and saw it was going towards the machine. I grabbed it, but it didn't even seem fazed.

What was wrong with these things?

"Heeeeey! Munna, wait for me!" I heard Bianca yell as she trudged through the tall grass, following a Munna who was also dragged by the machines force. I saw Dawn close behind her, and mentally smacked myself.

Now here was a good question: What the hell were those two thinking?

"Sorry!" said Bianca as she returned the Munna to a poke ball. Guess she managed to catch it. "This lil' one got really frisky all of a sudden and..." she stopped for a moment, and took in what was going on. "Um... Whatcha doing?"

They didn't answer. Their hats shaded their eyes, giving them both a somewhat menacing appearance.

"Not very talkative?" said Bianca. "We were just leaving. So continue with your, uh, research, I guess?"

The two began to back away when, suddenly, a Liepard whizzed by them, barely scratching them with its claws.

It went strait to the two mysterious figures, and attempted to attack.

Was it one of theirs? No, their expressions said everything. Cheren's, maybe? But his Purrloin was barely ready to evolve.

"You evil fiends!"

Okay, who says 'fiends' nowadays?

"How dare you hurt these Pokemon?!"

Three Team Plasma grunts stepped forward and confronted the mystery duo. They each had a different a Liepard beside them, and were glaring daggers at the two people. They threw out poke balls. The women had a Zoroark and the man had Gurdurr. And, like that, a battle erupted in the dream yard.

Dawn's POV

"BIANCA! GET DOWN!" I yelled as attacks came flying our way. This was disastrous! If we get up, we'll be hit!

"What are we gonna do?!" yelled Bianca in panic. She was practically pulling her hair out of her head.

"Does any of your pokemon know a protecting move?"

"No!"

I looked over my shoulder, at the attacks coming to and from every direction. Whoever those two cloaked people are, they're a hell of a lot stronger than us. Battling would be no good.

"Sneak around into the bushes. Maybe then-"

There was a large cracking noise, and Bianca let out a shriek. She dove out of the way as a huge piece concrete fell towards us.

I, on the other hand, was in frozen shock. It was like someone took some soap and a rag, and completely wiped my mind clean. I couldn't walk, couldn't grab my poke balls, and couldn't hear Piplup trying to break the concrete with Drill Peck. All I could do was open my mouth, as if to scream, but nothing came out. Like my vocal cords were shut off, I was screaming a silent scream.

I felt someone grab my arms, and drag me away and into the bushes. The concrete smashed town, breaking into tiny little pieces. I looked up at my saviour, and realized that it was Paul.

I regained my composure as Paul grabbed my by the shoulders and shook me roughly.

"Why the hell didn't you move?!" he yelled. "You could've been crushed!"

" You know, a 'Hey, are you alright?' would've been nice." I said while glaring at him. "Yes I'm fine."

"Where's Bianca?"

"I think she dived for the bushes." I looked up, and saw a Munna floating over Pauls head. "Did you catch one?"

"No."

"You should. I think it likes you."

"I am not catching such a girly pokemon."

"It isn't girly."

"Yes it is."

"...Jerk."

He face palmed, and I snickered in my mind. It was fun to irritate him!

"Any ideas on how to get out of this?" he asked.

I thought about the situation. Three Plasma grunts are fighting two people who were obviously strong. Bianca and Cheren aren't here, so Paul and I are on our own. Torterra and Piplup might be able to stand a chance, but there was no way of knowing if the mystery duo had any more pokemon. So, the best way to get out of this was to either leave and let them continue with what they're doing, or get the mystery duos machine to malfunction.

"We have to get the computer to malfunction." I mumbled to myself.

"What?" Paul asked.

"The computer. If we get their machine to malfunction, then the duo might leave. If they leave, then Team Plasma will either follow them or leave them alone." I tapped the ground thoughtfully. "Now to figure out how to do that..."

Paul grabbed a poke ball and let out the creature inside. I shrieked at the sight of the shiny Galvantula.

"Why the hell did you capture that thing?" I hissed, my eyes never leaving it. Paul shrugged.

"It was strong."

"You know that I don't like spiders!"

"And you know that I hate troublesome girls who has a name that starts with 'D', ends with 'N', and has an 'A' and a 'W' in the middle!"

"Jerk!"

"Troublesome!"

Several minutes later…

I was meant to be a distraction. Paul was hiding in the bushes closer to the machine with Galvantula.

"Let's do this." I mumbled. "Eevee, Covet!"

Pink hearts and silver sparkles formed around Eevee and shot at the pokemon. Two of the Plasmas pokemon fell from being hit with the unexpected attack while the third was unaffected. The duo was affected, but not by much. In fact, they seemed more irritated then hurt.

"Zoroark, Dark Pulse!"

Darkness formed around Zoroark's paw, and it slammed it down into the ground. The darkness rippled across the ground, destroying concrete, barrels, plastic cones, and other forms of rubble. Worst, it destroyed my hiding spot.

Oh crap.

I scrambled to stand up as Zoroark speed towards me. I got out of the way just in time.

"Snivy!" I yelled as I let her out. "Leaf tornado!"

Zoroark wasn't even fazed as the flurry of leaves hit it. It crossed its arms.

"Is that's all you got?"

Wait did it...talk? No. No, Pokémon don't talk!

"Snivy! Leaf Tornado! Eevee, Covet!"

"Disable." the women smirked. "There go's two of your strongest attacks. I've seen 3-year-old boys battle better."

"Vine Whip! Tackle!"

"Pointless! Bite the both of them!"

Zoroark's fangs closed around Eevee's forepaw and Snivy's vines. Both screamed in pain. Snivy shook it off, but Eevee was thrown in the air. While she came back down, Zoroark flew up, and clamped its jaw around her middle.

"Eevee!" I yelled as Zoroark spat her out. There was blood. A lot of blood. Her breathing was laboured. Oh, Arceus. Oh God, oh God.

I dug through my bag for potions.

"It's gonna take more than a few measly potions to fix that." said the women, her smirk never once leaving her face. "This is what happens when you meddle in the affairs of grownups."

The Zoroark grinned, and blood lined its mouth, dripping down its chin. Oh God, please tell me that isn't flesh and fur.

"You're a witch." I said, and for the record, I did not say 'witch'.

"And you're an irritating brat! Dark Pulse!"

"Focus Blast!"

I looked over to see the attack came from. N. Zoroark screamed in pain before fainting.

"Thundershock!"

Paul attacked the machine, and it was surrounded by static. The Munna's around it saw the danger, and scrambled to leave the area. Smoke began to arise from it as a few mini explosions erupted from it.

"Get down!" yelled N as he pushed me down. I shielded Snivy, Piplup, and Eevee as the machine violently exploded.

As soon as the explosion subsided, I got up, and looked at Eevee. It was worse then I originally thought. Blood stained the entire front of my white tank top. N came over, and looked at it.

"This is bad." he said as he dug through his pockets for something. "I don't usually use human-made products on pokemon."

He pulled out a rainbow coloured bottle, and sprayed it all over the wounds before wrapping gauze around it.

"But this is an emergency."

He grabbed a small pouch, and pulled out several small tablets. He popped a few into Eevee's mouth, and they dissolved.

"What was that?"

"A secret potion that my sister made. She swore that it was one-hundred percent natural and was proven to heal any pokemon wound. Those tablets were natural painkillers that I bought."

"Thank you." I said as I returned all my pokemon, but Piplup.

"I suggest taking her to a Pokemon center, just to make sure." said N as he walked into the shadows.

"Is everything okay? I saw N and..." he trailed off as he saw the blood on my shirt. "What happened? Did N do something?"

"He saved Eevee. S-she almost d-died..." I sniffled, and felt a few tears drip down my face. I felt a hand on my shoulder.

It was Paul. He actually looked concerned.

"Dawn, lets get to the pokemon center." said Paul as he helped me up.

We began to walk, and I realized something.

Paul didn't call me irritating, or Troublesome, or whatever else he wanted to call me.

He called me by my actual, honest to God name. He called me Dawn.

Amy47101: Sorry about the delay! Also, people, I heard that some of you are getting angry at Malory for the late updates. Next time, please just yell at me.

Malory79080: Yes. Please don't take it out on me. Actually, I'm writing the next chapter so if I take mega long to write it THEN get angry at me.