Kates' P.O.V

I'd been given a month off to heal properly. May and the others had bid us farewell and ordered us to stay in touch. Erma had promoted us to Top Rangers/Operators. When we told her about Keith she ordered an immediate search for him, though he's still missing.

Three weeks had gone by since then. I spent every day at the Ranger Union helping to find Keith, though I had a pretty good idea where he was, I was in no shape to go in there half cocked.

The doctors and nurses of the Ranger Union have me exercises to do every day to build up my muscle and tissue from my wound. Rythmi cried herself to sleep every night. Barlow flipped when he heard about what happened.

My mom and dad were upset, my sister cried as much as Rythmi did. Hasting spent every day trying to track down Dim Sun, but nothing worked, he had no idea what to do.

Buizel had been depressed the past month. He had stayed with Glaceon down on Partner Farm for the entire month.

I sighed as I lay on my bed, I knew things were taking a turn for the worse, if we couldn't get Keith back…. I don't even want to think about what might happen.

Winter was rolling around quite quickly, things were going to be hectic with everyone doing Christmas shopping, but it was only the start of November, and the snow had yet to fall.

I rolled over on my bed. I frowned as I grabbed the necklace Arceus had given me, which was around my neck. He hadn't called me in the past month, maybe he was busy.

I shook my head, I needed answers, whatever he was doing could wait, Keith needs to be found.

I stood from my bed as the room began to disappear around me. Once it was gone, it was replaced by the stars in space.

"Kate," I looked at Arceus as he smiled sadly at me, "I'm so sorry," he added once he walked over to me. I frowned as I looked at him.

"You know where he is, don't you?" I asked, as I suspected, Arceus nodded his head as an image of Keith appeared in mid-air. I gasped once I saw the cuts and bruises all over him.

"You'll never be anything but a pathetic child," Max snickered as he advanced on Keith, I balled my fists as I watched him strike his own son.

"When I get out of this, I will murder you," Keith hissed as he spat blood onto Max's face. Max growled as he pulled a knife out of his back pocket, the image faded there.

"I think that's all you need to see, you know where Keith is, go and save him, but be careful," Arceus ordered, I nodded my head as my world began spinning again. Once it stopped, I was back in my own room.

I walked over to my mirror before taking my bandages off. I had been off for a month and my wound still hadn't healed fully, but that didn't matter right now.

I ran down stairs, Rythmi was sat with Remi; I have no idea when she came. My mom was cooking while my dad was reading the paper. I looked over to the far end of the room; Sven and Wendy were both talking on the couch. When did my house become our hang out?

"I'm going out," I said as I shrugged the feeling off, "You three should get back to the Union," I added as I looked at Sven, Wendy and Rythmi. They each nodded as they bid farewell to my parents before leaving.

"Kate!" my dad called as I walked over to the door.

"Yeah?" I asked as I turned to look at him. He threw my something in a black cover. I took the cover off to see it was a pocket knife.

"If you're going where we think you're going you'll need all the protection you can get," my dad stated, Remi gave me a tight hug as she wished me luck.

"Glaceon and Buizel are on Partner Farm, be careful," my mom ordered, I nodded my head as I ran out of the door. I was already in my Ranger uniform, all that was left was to find Keith and help him.

I skidded to a stop once I reached Partner Farm, Glaceon and Buizel ran over to me. I looked down at them with determined eyes.

"Keith's in trouble, we're going to save him," I stated once I saw their confused eyes. They nodded their heads firmly once they heard my words. I caught a nearby Staraptor and flew towards Altru Inc. since I was a Top Ranger now.

We landed in front of the building; I thanked the bird pokemon and sent him on his way before walking into the building. I walked over to the receptionist.

"Welcome to Altru Inc. how may I help you?" she asked with a warm smile.

"My name's Katherine Jones, the eleventh Top Ranger. I want to speak with President Blake Hall, it's an emergency," I explained, the receptionist nodded her head as she put a call through to Blake.

"President Hall will see you, just wait at the bottom of the lift and Mr Ice will take you up to him," the receptionist ordered, I nodded my head as I walked to the lift with Glaceon and Buizel.

We waited for a few minutes until Glaceon started growling.

"Down girl," I ordered, she did as told as a quite handsome man in a dark blue top with matching trousers. He wore a blue trench coat with a white pattern on it. His eyes were blue as was his hair.

"I'm guessing you're Ice?" I asked as I looked at the blue haired man.

"That I am beautiful, who might you be?" he asked with a flirtatious wink, I almost gagged.

"Kate Jones, eleventh Top Ranger, I'm here to speak with President Hall," I answered as I stepped into the lift with Glaceon and Buizel. Ice entered behind us as he entered a password. The lift then began to ascend upwards.

Once it came to a stop I stepped out. To my surprise I saw Isaac heading into a different room, while Ice lead me down the corridor. I heard a scream come from a different room, a scream I knew all too well.

Ice showed me to Blake's office. As we entered I saw two more people, a large man, very tanned, with yellow hair. He wore, what actually looked like, a yellow Ranger uniform. His face was stern; he appeared to be glaring at me.

Across from him was a pink haired lady, caked in makeup. She wore what looked like a pink Ranger uniform. She also appeared to be glaring at me.

"Katherine Jones, how may I help you?" Blake asked as he spun around in his chair, my eyes narrowed at him.

"I want Keith, I know he's here," I answered as Ice moved around me to stand next to the pink one. Blake raised an eye brow at me.

"Heath, Lavana, Ice, do you have any idea what she's talking about?" Blake asked in a sickeningly innocent tone. I just placed my hands in my pockets.

"I'm not stupid, I heard him scream, I want him back," I hissed as I glared at him.

"Well that's not happening beautiful," I didn't need to turn at the sound of the voice, I knew it was Kai, and if Kai was here, then so was Max and Phantom.

"So, you'd rather beat on an innocent boy instead of Summerlands' Gift?" I asked. Kai laughed slightly.

"Yeah, actually we would," he answered.

"You sicken me," I hissed, I still hadn't turned to me. "No matter though," I added as I turned to him, "You won't be able to stop me from getting him back," I stated as Glaceon froze everyone in the room, except for Blake.

"My, aren't you a feisty one," he stated, I banged my fists down on his desk.

"Unless you want another bruise on your face give me Keith back," I hissed. Blake just waved his hand.

"He's down the hall, the third door on you left, I have no use for him," he stated. I studied his face for a second before turning to leave; I failed to notice the smirk that was on his face once I turned my back.

Glaceon and Buizel followed me out of the room. We ran down the corridor to the third room before slamming the door open. Buizel quickly ran to his partner while Glaceon froze the chains holding him. To my surprise, Keith wasn't actually injured that badly.

"I'll kill you if you let me go," he hissed, I don't think he realised it was me.

"Keith?" I asked, his head shot up once he heard my voice.

"Kate?" he asked back, I smiled as I broke the chains holding him. He looked at me with a shocked face. "This can't be happening, it's just a dream," he whispered, I grabbed his shoulders as I looked at him.

"Can you feel me touching you?" I asked, "I'm real, Keith, you're coming home with me," I added in a whisper.

"Heh, I don't know, you're not touching me in the right place," I looked at Keith with shocked eyes.

"YOU'RE SUCH A PERVERT!" I yelled, "EVEN AFTER I SAVED YOUR ASS!" I added as I hit him lightly on the arm. I felt Keith's hand grip my wrist as he twisted it back to far. I hissed in pain, "Keith, that hurts," I stated as he twisted it further.

"KEITH!" I yelled before he released my wrists, he looked at me confusedly.

"Are you ok?" he asked as he took my hand. I pulled it back, something was wrong.

"I'm fine, let's just go before the idiots unfreeze," I answered as we walked to the door.

"What do you mean?" Keith asked in confusion.

"I froze everyone in Blake's office so I could get you out safely," I answered with a nonchalant shrug. Keith just nodded his head as we stood in the lift, taking Keith back seemed a lot easier than I thought, like they wanted me to so it.

I shrugged the feeling off as Buizel jumped around on Keith's head, I could see he was trying to keep calm, but with the rate Buizel was going at I think he'll blow any minute.

The lift came to a stop; luckily Keith still hadn't blown his top. We walked out of the lift, out of Altru Inc. and started on our way to the Union.

"Rythmi and everyone's missed you," I stated as we walked, the silence was killing me.

"No shit," Keith replied as we walked, I furrowed my brows.

"Rythmi got promoted to Top Operator, I'm the eleventh Top Ranger and you're the twelfth," I stated, Keith looked at me in shock this time.

"But why me? I've been gone for almost a month," Keith stated, I shrugged.

"And I've been off for almost a month," I replied, Keith gave me a confused look but then seemed to remember.

"I'LL KILL THE FUCKERS!" he yelled as he turned in his tracks walking back to Altru Inc.

"KEITH!" I yelled as I ran after him, I grabbed his arm but before I could say anything he had turned to me, a deadly glare in his eyes. I backed up as he advanced on me. I stopped once I felt a tree behind me; Keith just smirked in a twisted way as he grabbed my wrists.

"There's no stopping what's coming, you can't stop it, no one can," he whispered into my ear, digging his nails into my skin as he did so. I yelped in pain, causing him to let go of me. He gave me another confused look before picking me up.

"We're heading to the Union right?" he asked, I nodded my head, something was definitely wrong.

The rest of the walk was spent in silence. Once we entered the Union and walked towards the Operator's room, Keith still hadn't set me down, but we were bombarded by questions from Erma.

"Oh my goodness, Keith dear," she said, Keith just smiled his signature smile at him. At the mention of Keith's name Rythmi turned to us before running over to us. She hugged us both, since I was still being carried by Keith, who seemed to have gotten taller.

"Keith, thank Arceus you're ok, but why are you carrying Kate?" Rythmi asked.

"I'd like to know the answer to that as well," I spoke as I agreed with Rythmi.

"You kept collapsing, so I carried you," he answered with a shrug. Erma looked at him, before telling him about how he was a Top Ranger, what he was expected to do and filled us both in on sharing a room together. Which neither of us seemed to mind, since we shared one in the Base.

"Now, we have two more Top Rangers coming in, let's go welcome them," Erma ordered as we walked towards the conference room. Rythmi pulled me to the side along the way.

"What's up with Keith?" she asked, "He seems a little-,"

"Creepy?" I asked as I cut her off, biting her lip she nodded her head, "Trust me, if I knew I would tell you. He's been like that since I got him back from Dim Sun," I stated with a frown before we caught up to Erma and the rest. I had failed to notice Keith listening to everything we had said.

Once we entered the conference room we waited for about five minutes until the doors opened again.

"We're sorry for being late; we had to stop some Dim Sun Grunts, was it? And this one wanted to go after them, it took me a while to drag him off," I knew that voice well; I just couldn't put my finger on it.

"Hey, not my fault they made off with some stupid machine thingies," I knew that voice too, but I still couldn't tell who it was. I shrugged it off as nothing before listening to Erma speak. She told them the same things she had told me and Keith. What she expected, who our enemies were and where they would stay.

"Incidentally, haven't any of you noticed?" Erma asked as she turned to Rythmi, Keith and I, we gave her a confused look before she flipped the lights on.

I allowed my eyes to adjust to the light, but I didn't even get a good look at who the other two Rangers were before I was tackled to the ground, along with Rythmi.

"It's great to see you two again," I opened my eyes after the pain subsided from my back and looked at a black haired girl with blue eyes.

"SEREN!" Ryth and I yelled as we hugged her back tightly. I looked at Keith to see him high fiving Kellyn before Kellyn dragged Seren off of us. He gave Rythmi a hug while I high fived him like Keith did. Seren then walked over to Keith before high fiving him, a goofy grin on her face as she did so.

"Well, now we have the best team from the Ranger School here, Dim Sun won't stand a chance," Erma smiled.

"We're one short," Seren and I stated, Erma gave us a confused look before smiling.

"Ah yes, Isaac, well I'm afraid I can't get him here considering he's working for Altru," Erma frowned, I really hated that place.

"Anyway, for today why don't you all get some rest, then we'll start up with your missions in the morning," Erma smiled as we all walked out of the room. We walked towards the mess hall to grab a snack to eat.

"I absolutely cannot believe we're all back together," Seren said as she gave us all another hug. Rythmi and I nodded our heads as we all caught up on everything.

Nightfall actually came around too quickly for me, but I was glad to be getting back to work, even though I still had another week off. I needed to work.

Glaceon lay with Buizel in a small bed I had made for them in the middle of the room. Keith was stripping down into his boxers while I wanted to take a shower.

"I'm gonna take a shower, I'll be back in a few," I smiled as I walked into the next room, Keith didn't answer me, he just watched me walk into the bathroom.

I had a quick shower, I managed to dry my hair with the hair dryer and leave it down before I walked into the bedroom, Keith was nowhere in sight.

"Keith?" I asked as I walked in, both Buizel and Glaceon were sleeping. "Keith, you're really creeping me out," I stated as I took another step into the room, I heard something fall behind me. I quickly spun around, only to have both my hands grasp and to be flung onto the bed.

I opened my mouth to scream but something, or someone covered it. I began struggling under the person but froze when I felt their hand hover over the wound on my stomach. I looked up in fear only to see Keith's eyes. My fear turned to confusion before turning to frustration. I moved my head so his hand wasn't covering my mouth anymore.

"This is getting less and less funny," I stated as I put my hands on his chest to push him off. He didn't budge. "Keith, get off," I ordered as I looked at him, his eyes…were black. The fear sunk back into me as I froze in place, he moved his head down to my neck.

"Like I said, you can't stop this, and I don't appreciate being spoken about," he whispered. Confusion filled my eyes before I realised he must have heard mine and Rythmi's convo.

"Keith, all I said was that you were acting creepy, and this is just proving my-," I was cut off when I felt Keith's fingers sink into my stitched up wound, causing blood to seep out as he broke through the partly healed skin. I screamed as he did so, but no one would hear, no one would hear, the rooms were sound proof.

"The end's coming for you Kate, you and all you precious friends, including Keith," Keith said, he was speaking in third person, but why? The blackness left his eyes before being replaced with an eerie redness. This wasn't Keith; something was inside of him, making him do these things.

I gasped when I felt his fingers move in the wound, I bit my lips to stop from screaming before I saw Keith's eyes turn back to their natural colour.

He looked at me in confusion before looking at what he had done, his eyes filled with shock, horror, confusion and sorrow. He quickly removed his hand, which didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, before he grabbed some bandages and bandage me up.

"Kate I'm-," I cut him off by holding up my hand.

"Who are you?" I asked, he gave me a confused look, "Just answer the question," I ordered.

"Keith Dazzle," he answered.

"Who am I?" I asked.

"Kate Jones," he answered.

"What happened when you were captured?" I asked. Keith opened his mouth to speak but closed it again as he thought.

"I don't…remember," he answered in a quiet tone, before I could ask him anything else, I felt myself getting light headed.

"Kate?" I heard Keith ask, but his voice sounded so far away. The last thing I remember was being taken into warms arms before being laid down, the warmness never left me.

Ok, so let's get this cleared up. Keith isn't evil, if you think back into the story he had blackouts. What's happened is Darkrai's managed to take control of the black out, therefore taking control of Keith. Kate will bring him back to his normal self though; it should happen in the next two chapters. I can't keep Keith evil for too long, so REVIEW and I'll update ASAP….REVIEW!