It was a dark and stormy night. DigitalPokemonFan had nothing to do but wait for it to stop. When it cleared, he danced with cheer. And now, he will make this next chapter dark, just like the dark and stormy night. The end.

Like my Poem? Hope so. XD! Chapter 4!

Chapter 4: Zero's tough decision!

Everyone of the trainers defeated the first gym in success and won their first gym badge! Everyone won on their first try! Then they trained and trained, and Icess's scatterbug evolved into Spewpa!

"Alright, Chimchar, finish Treecko off with ember!" Zeke yelled, finally about to beat Yuki for once.

"Nice Try, but nope!" Yuki yelled. "Treecko use bullet seed to launch yourself high in the air! Then come back down with pound!" Yuki said as Treecko did what he was told. Chimchar took a lot of damage but survived the blow.

"Just what I needed!" Zeke said.

"Huh!?" Yuki said, stunned. Had he fallen into a trap he didn't see coming? Impossible! This is Zeke here! No way would Yuki fall into a trap made by Zeke! But Yuki realized, he just fell into one. "Chimchar's ability activates, and now his fire type moves power up when he's in a pinch!" Zeke said, ready to give Chimchar the final command.

"I won't let you!" Yuki yelled, ready to give Treecko a final command as well. This last attack would decide it.

"Chimchar use Ember!"

"Treecko use Bullet Seed!"

The two attacks clashed. The pokemon were giving it their all, and fighting along side their Trainers and getting more and more power from their fighting spirits. Adventually ember was superior over bullet seed, because of Chimchar's ability. Treecko couldn't stand the super powered ember, and fainted. "Treecko, return!" Yuki said. "Grr, that's almost exactly how I lost to Zero! If I don't train my Treecko to withstand powerful fire moves like that, I'll be a complete joke!" Yuki said staring at Treecko's pokeball. "At least I gave the battle my all." Yuki sighed at his defeat.

Yuki and Zeke weren't the only ones training together. Striker and Nate were battling non stop and each of their battles ended with a tie. Zero and Icess were training hard together aswell. Yoh watched all of their battles and even taught them usefull tips for battles.

"All this battling made me hungry..." Striker said as his stomach growled. Everyone else's stomach growled as well. "Let's go back to the hotel and order some pizza." he said.

Everyone went to the hotel room and waited for the pizza to arrive. In the meantime, Striker was playing Pokemon Black 2 with Zero.

"You've made me mad. Time to bring out Shiny CHaizard!" Striker said as he selected his Charizard with the A button.

" It's no match for my Blastoise!" Zero replied, sending out his blastoise with the A button as well.

"This battle would be a lot cooler if it was real..." Icess complained, bored. "I wonder when your egg will hatch, Striker." she said.

Striker turned off his handheld and looked at his egg he had placed under the covers of his bed. He really wanted it to hatch soon, but for some reason he felt like it would only hatch if he needed it the most. Maybe that was just his hunger talking. Once the pizza arrived the group ate as if they havn't eaten in years, then headed off to catch more wild pokemon.

"Woeuf, Woof!" A furfrou barked at striker and his froakie, then instantly attacked with headbutt.

"Froakie, dodge it and use water gun to push it into a tree!" Striker said. Froakie swiftly dodged the headbutt in time and did as he was told. The furfrou's thick coat reduced the damage he would have taken to 0. "It did nothing!" Striker said, stunned. "Froakie, let's try our new move we made up while training with Nate!" Striker said. Froakie charged something in his hands that looked like a ball of water, almost identical to aura sphere, but made of water. "We havn't perfected this move yet but it's worth a shot! Use Water Blast!" Striker said. It was a move he and his Froakie made up while training with Nate. It was meant to copy aura sphere, but with a little more power. And froakie being a water type powered the move up since it was a water elemental move. Froakie shot the ball of Energized Water at the furfrou. It hit the furfrou hard and the furfrou went straight through two trees.

"Woah. That was...So...Awesome!" Striker said stunned at the power of the move. However he soon realised that the attack missed, and it was the after shock that sent the furfrou flying. It looked like he and froakie needed to practice the move more. While the furfrou was struggling to get back up, Striker took the chance and threw a pokeball. The capture was a success.

"Pancha!" A wild pancham said when Nate and chespin found it. "Chespin, hit it with vine whip!" Nate said. Chespin hit the pancham with vine whip, which sent the pancham flying. "Now use vine whip to pin it down on the ground!" Nate said as Chespin did what he was told. The pancham got angry and broke out of the vine whip. It's face turned bright red along with the rest of it's body. It was just like when Zeke became 'one with his pokemon.' The pancham was using Bide. Which is probably what Zeke's mudkip had used. It charged straight at Chespin with full power, nothing caring about anything in it's way.

"You've got this, Chespin! Use vine whip to jump out of the way! Then come back and hit trap it in vine whip again!" Nate said. Chespin flew up in the air with vine whip, but pancham karate choped the vines and made chespin fall down. Using this as a chance, Pancham karate choped it to the ground the low kicked chespin into the air. Nate panicked, chespin was getting hurt badly out there.

"Chespin, retu- -" Nate started to say, but chespin turned to Nate and shook his head as if he was saying "No." Nate didn't get it. Why was chespin risking himself? He was hurt badly enough, maybe he's trying to act like how Striker's torchic did in the lab. But that wasn't it at all. Chespin wanted to prove to Nate that he could handle a fight, without being return before the end of it. Chespin looked at nate, waiting for his approval. Nate put chespin's pokeball away and took a deep breath.

"Chespin. Let's get 'em!" Nate said. Chespin cheered and jump high in the sky with vine whip, then came back down hard on pancham using vine whip again.

"Finish him with tackle!" Nate yelled as chespin charged at pancham. He knocked pancham into a tree and the pancham fainted. "Now's my chance! Go, pokeball!" Nate said as he threw a pokeball at the pancham. The capture was a success.

After pancham was caught, chespin started to glow. He was evolving.

"Chespin...Why? Theres no way you have enough experience to evolve yet.." Nate said in disbelief. Why was chespin evolving? Could it really be a bond between Nate and Chespin? The light faded, and hiding in it was the newly evolved Quilladin.

"Chespin, you rock!" Nate said as he ran to quilladin and picked him up. They danced happily around the area, ready for anything. Almost anything.

"Eeeeeeek! Take it! Take it all! Take the money!" a woman cried as some people in Red suits surrounded her.

"Don't just take the money, take everything she has on her. If anyone sees us, make a break for it." said the one that looked like the leader.

"Yes, Admin!" the others in red suits replied.

"Someone, please help me..." the woman said.

"Don't even think about it!" a voice said. The people in red suits looked up. It was some kind of trainer flying on a Pidgeot.

"Get 'em, Blaziken!" The trainer said as he pressed what looked like a stone inside of a ring. The stone shined brightly and out came a Blaziken, then a light consumed it. Once the light faded a different looking blaziken appeared.

"I-it's m-mega evolution!" The admin said. "L-lets get out of here quick!" he commanded as he and the others in red suits followed him.

"They shouldn't be robbing from people if they run away so cowardly like that. Are you okay?" The trainer said as he got off of his Pidgeot.

"Yes, thank you for saving me." The woman said.

"No problem. I'm Yoh, and I just happened to be here with my brothers and their friends when I heard someone screaming. You'd better get going before someone like those guys come back again," Yoh said. The woman thanked him one more time then headed home.

"What's this?" Yoh said as he picked up a card off the floor. "Team Flare: Best Money Makers in Kalos." Yoh said, reading the card. "I'd better warn the guys about this," He said.

"No need, we're right here." Striker said as he and the others ran up towards Yoh. "Saw the whole thing. Came as fast as we could, we don't have any bird pokemon that can carry us yet like you do." he said.

"It was awful! I can't believe they would go robbing people like that!" Icess said. She was so mad she felt like she could use the Flamethrower attack right now. "If you're gonna shoot fire, shoot it at Yuki!" Zero said backing away slowly. "What!? Me?!" Yuki said.

"Guys this is serious. Stop playing around," Nate said. "Than ran by foot, so if we can catch a ride we can somehow catch up to them."

"Good plan. But Lumious is the only place in Kalos with Taxi Cabs. Who else is gonna drive us somewhere?" Striker said.

"Good point..." Nate replied.

"Hey, I know! Let's rent a gogoat for each of us!" Nate said.

"Great Idea! Let's go!" Yoh said as he and the others went off.

The team easily caught up to team flare once they rented the gogoats.

"You already threatened us with Mega Evolution! What more do you want!?" The admin said trying to run faster. "Just leave us alone! I beg of you!"

"What you're doing is not cool, so we're gonna stop you and make sure you never rob from anyone ever again!" Yoh said. "Mega Blaziken, use blaze kick!" Yoh said as blaziken shot a blaze kick in the air to threaten Team Flare. They stopped in their tracks.

"S-stay back! We have pokemon!" one of the grunt's said.

"Yoh, you go and find their secret base. These guys look like a bunch of begginers to me. We can take 'em!" Striker said to Yoh.

"There's a grunt for each of us. The one who wins their match the fastest fights the admin. Deal?" Nate said.

"Deal!" The others replied.

"Poochyena, go!" A team flare grunt said.

"Pikachu, let's go!" Striker said.

"Pikachu, hit it with Thundershock!" Stiker exclaimed. Pikachu charged up an attack and then released a strong thunder shock, which sent poochyena flying. "Poochyena, land on your feet!" The grunt said. Poochyena landed like it wasn't hurt at all.

"What!?" Striker said with a shocked look on his face.

"Quilladin, use rollout!" Nate said. The grunt he was facing used a pidgey. "Pidgey fly above to dodge it!" The grunt said. Pidgey dodged the attack. "Ha! You missed!" The grunt said.

"Who said I was aiming for Pidgey?" Nate said with a smirk. Quilladin rolled himself all the way up a tree and then jumped off of it while still using rollout. "P-pidgey look out!" The grunt said, but pidgey was hit hard with rollout. "Super. Effective." Nate said as the pidgey fainted. "Looks like I'm facing the admin," Nate said, but then he noticed zero was already fighting the admin. Zero must have won against his grunt fist.

"Spewpa, slow that machop down with String Shot!" Icess yelled. Spewpa didn't just slow the grunt's machop down, but it trapped it in string shot as well. "Finish it with bug bite!" Icess Exclaimed. Victory was hers.

"Mudkip, use mudshot once more!" Zeke yelled. The grunt he was facing used a geodude. "Now, finish it with water gun!" Zeke said as mudkip delevered the final blow.

"Pikachu use Iron tail!" Striker said as pikachu hit poochyena with iron tail, sending it flying. "Poochyena land on your feet again!" The grunt said.

"That trick won't work twice! Pikachu use thundershock on it before it hits the ground!" Striker said. Pikachu used thundershock and the poochyena fainted.

"Squirtle, use withdraw quick attack!" Yuki said as squirtle hid in it's shell and hit the opponent's litleo with full power. "Good, now use water gun on it!" Yuki said as squirtle blasted the litleo. "Finish it with one more water gun!" Yuki yelled as squirtle finished the battle.

"It's up to me," Zero said. "Admin or not, you're going down! Charmander, let's go!"

"Go, Poliwhirl!" the Team Flare Admin said.

"Woah. Poliwhirl isn't the best match up for Zero and his Charmander," Striker said.

"Charmander, use metal claw!" Zero said as charmander ran at a fast speed towards poliwhirl. "Poliwhirl, water gun." The Admin said. Poliwhirl took little effort as it stood still and shot water gun at charmander. Charmander took a lot of damage but it got back up. "He's trying to mock us! Charmander, let's show him what we can do!" Zero exclaimed.

Striker's phone rang. "Hello?"

"Hey, it's Yoh. I found Team Flare's base but a bunch of them have me surrounded and won't let me in. Think you can come and stall them?"

"Yeah, I'll tell the others."

"Guys, Yoh needs some back up over at the Team Flare base." Striker said. "What about Zero?" Icess asked, worried.

"Don't worry, sis. I'll be fine. If anything bad happens, give me a call. I won't let anyone hurt you." Zero said to Icess.

"Thanks," she replied. "Let's go kick some Team Flare butt!" She said, fist pumping into the air. Everyone except zero hopped on their gogoats and set off to help Yoh.

"It's you and me, now." Zero said to the admin. "Charmander use metal claw once more!" Zero said. Poliwhirl used water gun again and the same result happened. "We won't give up charmander! Let's do it!" Zero said as his necklace started to glow. "100% full power ember!"

Charmander used flamethrower just like when he was fighting Yuki's treecko. This time a little spray of water gun wasn't gonna do well. Poliwhirl made his water gun stronger. Even with zero and charmander working as a team, the water gun still proved stronger and hit charmander once more. "That was too close. Poliwhirl, no holding back. Finish that charmander before it becomes a threat!" The Admin said. Poliwhirl used attacks like tackle and bubble and water gun. Charmander dodged a few attacks but got hit by a majority of them. If it took one more hit it would faint for sure.

"It can't end like this..." Zero said.

"Char..." Charmander, on the ground weak, agreed.

"We can't let the others down..If we don't defeat this guy he'll just call more Team Flare members to go and attack Yoh and the Others. But how can we defeat him alone?" Zero said, thinking hard.

"Char!" Charmander said looking at Zero seriously. "Char Char!"

"You're right...We're not alone...Even though our friends aren't physically here, they still fight alongside us!" Zero said. "We're not giving up 'till the very end!" Zero exclaimed.

"W-what!?" the admin said.

"Charmander launch your self high in the air with a barrage of embers! Then come down hard with scratch!" Zero said. Charmander did as he was told and hit the poliwhirl with amazing power. "I learned that one from Yuki," Zero said. "Charmander, unlock your hidden ability! Now charmander's fire type moves are powered up! Use ember!" Zero said as charmander hit poliwhirl with a strong burst of ember. "That one's from Zeke!" Zero said.

"Charmander, use Metal Claw and Ember at the same time! Metal Flame Claw!" Zero said as charmander used metal claw and ember at the same time. "That trick is from Nate!"

"And time for the final blow! This one is from Striker! Charmander, use one final Ember with all of your power and mine!" Zero said. Charmander shot out one more massive ember.

"You won't beat me! Never! Poliwhirl use Water Pulse!" The admin said.

The two attacks clashed, and even with Water Pulse having the elemental advantage, the Ember was stronger and hit the poliwhirl with full force. Poliwhirl fainted.

"Charmander, you rock!" Zero said.`But all of that power made charmander fall asleep.

Zero's phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey, it's Striker. Team Flare Grunts just keep coming and coming. Think you can come and help?"

"Yeah, I'll be on my wa- -"

"Oh no ya don't!" The team flare admin said. "I just called in a lot of team flare grunts! Their gonna destroy the nearest town and rebuild it into a team flare city! There are Grunts with pokemon and other weapons camping out right now ready to destroy every single building! If you go help your friends, the town and it's villagers will be gone forever."

Zero panicked. Should he help his friends or save the town? His only pokemon was charmander, he released his weedle out into the wild. And charmander was pretty beaten up. What would Yoh do? He had the most expierence out of the group of friends. But zero wasn't Yoh. Theres no way he would know what Yoh would do. Sweat dropped franticly down Zero's face.

"Time is running out," the admin said.

Zero closed his eyes and clenched his fists tight. "I'm sorry...But I guess I can't be the hero all the time. I hope some kind of Miracle happens to you villagers." Zero said looking at the soon-to-be-gone town. "But I made a promise to my sister, that when there was trouble I would always protect her."

Zero hopped on his gogoat and went to go help his friends. He didn't look back at the town- -He didn't want to look back. The town was going to be destroyed.

And there was nothing he could do about it.

Can you believe it took me 2 days to write this!? XD. Anyway read, review, and maybe even a favorite! Bye!

~DigitalPokemonFan