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Chapter 8: Don't Drop the Soap

Extra Notes:

"Human Speech"

"Telepathic Speech"

[Pokemon speech]

"Thought Speech"

"Uhh…" Jared was awaking from the little nap given to him by Daryl's Darkrai, Dark. "Where am I, and why does everything hurt?"

He found himself in a burning clearing. The forest in front of him was a blazing inferno, nothing seem to be left alive except for a gigantic entity wading through the sea of flames. The entity itself was a disgusting blob of limbs and heads of multiple pokemon; it appeared to have caught on to Jared's voice and turned in his direction. Yet it was not the only thing it had noticed. Standing between Jared and the roaring fire were the same five girls from his previous dream, all of them protecting him from what is to come.

"Quick… get out of here… you'll all gonna die if you don't move." Jared said with as much strength he could muster. Whether Dark's punch was too powerful for Jared to handle or his strength is quickly being sapped away, either way, he didn't have any strength left.

"We know." The girl in the middle replied. Suddenly, the gigantic entity fired its dark energy beam, and all of them were wiped away.

"Holy shit!" Jared had awakened once again form the same nightmare that haunted him so. "What's with that nightmare?! And where am I this time?"

He was in a small, rectangular concrete room. The front of the room was made of metal bars, including the door. A small window at the back of the room with its own set of metal bars illuminated what Jared believed was his jail cell. The starry sky, full moon, and soft chirps of Kricketots that filled the air indicated it was night time. The sounds and smells of the dark invigorated Jared, probably due to his new powers of a dark type pokemon. He got up and walked to the metal bar door to see what else is around.

There weren't many other jail cells, and his friends weren't in any of them either. To his right he saw a lone guard in a chair asleep, with keys hanging off his belt. If Jared focused his vision, he could see the guard's name tag, which said "Frank". The only weapons the guard had was a stun gun and a few pokeballs. To the left of Jared's cell were a blank wall with a security camera watching his every move.

"Not much I could do in a situation like this." He thought to himself. Sighing, he walked to the back of the room to think of a means of escape. "Could take the guard's keys with shadow sneak, but the security camera will probably catch me. There's always the power of illusions, but I'm not sure it could fool a machine… I've got it!" In a few moments of reviewing his plans, he quickly sprang into action.

Meanwhile at Daryl's location…

"I can't believe that guy was working for them! I mean, I saved him from those two thugs, but they were probably working together to infiltrate my base!" Daryl was grumpily pacing at the fact Jared had betrayed his trust, or so he thought. He was in his room, which was about the size of any normal hotel room. It had a single bed, two bedside tables with a few pictures and an alarm clock, and a second door that led to the bathroom. All of a sudden, the bathroom door opened with someone coming out.

"Come now Daryl, he's locked up in the dungeon, there's nothing he can do now." Dark said coming out of the bathroom.

"But what if he escapes?!"

"We have the best security money can buy. Now come sit next to me and calm down." She sat down on the right side of the bed and patted next to her. Daryl willing did so and breathed in and out large breaths to keep calm.

"You mean Frank, the only guy on guard duty?" He asked.

"No, I mean the other stuff behind the door he's guarding."

"Oh yeah, now I remember. All the-" He yawned abruptly. "Man, mindless ranting can make a guy tired. Good night Dark." He got under the covers of his bed and closed his eyes.

"Good night Daryl." She also got under the covers, and snuggled next to Daryl.

"Hey Dark…"

"Yeah Daryl…"

"Why are you sleeping with me?"

It took Dark five seconds to realize what she was doing and quickly screamed, "OH MY ARCEUS WHAT AM I DOING! SORRY DARYL!" She rapidly bolted out of the room with a huge blush on her face.

"The heck was that about? Aw well… to… sleepy to… care…" He was knocked out cold. When he awoke, he was in a large white room with a single stair case leading up to nowhere.

"Where am I?" He asked himself.

"You're in my domain, Daryl Ready." Said a feminine voice.

"Who are you? Where are you?" He asked.

"Walk up the stairs, and all your questions will be answered." The voice replied.

Daryl hesitated at first, looking at all those stairs, it would have been easier to take an elevator. A ding behind him startled him and he quickly turned around. Just as he wished, an elevator appeared with doors opened inviting him in. He gladly entered before the doors closed. As they did, cheesy elevator music played, and the elevator started moving. In a matter of moments, the elevator had stopped and the doors slowly opened to reveal Arceus herself.

"Welcome Daryl, to my humble abode." Daryl was in awe, before him was the god of all pokemon, the creator of the known universe. But what does she want with him?

"Hello, your majesty." Daryl took a bow to show formality.

"No need for formalities Daryl. For all I ask is for your help."

"My help?" He asked. "Why do you need my help, aren't you a god?"

"I may be a god, but the only way I could influence this world is through my creations."

"I see. So what help do you need?"

"I need your leadership and your explosive personality…"

"And?"

"With the army you mustered, I'm sure you can take down The Company."

"But someone from The Company had already infiltrated my base, they'd probably know of my strengths and weaknesses by now!"

"Oh you mean Jared? He's not with that vile corporation, he's with me."

"Wait, what?"

"Yes, he's on our side."

"But what of his powers?"

"Truth is, I kinda sorta, made him that way…"

"Hold on, you mean he's born that way?! Why couldn't I get that kind of power!"

"No, no. That's not what I meant. What I mean is…"

One explanation later…

"So let me get this straight. Jared is from a different dimension where technology is slightly more advanced than ours, and is sent to our dimension to become one of your champions to fight The Company. And the reason he has these powers is because he shares them with Zach, who is a creation of The Company, through a magical necklace."

"That about the just of it, yes."

"Then why am I here?"

"It's because, one champion cannot do it alone. I sense the enemy becoming stronger every second, so to counter this, you Daryl Ready, must become a champion as well."

"Wow… so how do I become a Champion?"

"Just walk a little closer, and I shall grant you the power as my one." Daryl did as he was told and walked till he was about a few yards away from Arceus. As he did so, Arceus closed her eyes and focused some of her power into a glowing orb. The orb was transparent with an orange tint; it was as small as a pearl from the deep sea. It floated down to Daryl's eye level.

"If you take this now and smash it against your heart, it will brand you as a champion." Daryl was unsure if this was necessary, but the one last look at the god told him to go on. He grabbed the orb and with a quick slap to the chest, the orange orb broke and an explosive force of power was emitted from it. Energy seemed to condense around him, and light glowed from the floor in the shape of the symbol of Arceus. The glow intensified, almost blinding him. Then, he awoke.

He found himself back in his bed, the light was off, and outside was completely normal. It was still night time, with the moon up high in the sky, indicating it was midnight. Daryl thought back to himself, "The fuck was that all about? Was it all a dream?"

All of a sudden, his right arm started stinging. He quickly looked it over to see a huge mosquito sucking the blood out of him. "Taking my blood are you!" He yelled at it.

He reached for the emergency knife he keeps underneath his pillow and proceeds to slice the mosquito in half. He was successful; the bug was cut effortlessly in two, the blade he used was a bit bloody but was cleaned off his shirt.

His left arm started to sting as well, but when he looked, there wasn't another mosquito but a faint glow burning onto his skin. He threw away the knife to see what was happening without cutting himself. Lifting his shirt sleeve, the symbol of Arceus had singed itself to his skin. "Guess it wasn't a dream after all," he muttered.

"Daryl!" One of Daryl's guardsmen had busted through the door. "The prisoner escaped!"

"What!"

Before Jared escaped…

"Time to get this plan in motion…" Jared thought. "Yo guard dude!" Frank woke up with a startle, and fell out of his chair face first. He angrily lifted his head and yelled, "Da fuck do you want!" He received no answer.

"Well!" Still no answer.

He got up to see what antics Jared was pulling. He walked up to his cell to see no one was there. "What the fuck?" He immediately opened up the door and walked inside to see that Jared was nowhere to be found. "Da fuck did he- *thud*"

A floating, disembodied hand had chopped Frank in the neck, knocking him out, away from the field of view of the security camera. The hand moved closer to the fallen Frank, behind it an arm, then a torso, followed by the rest of Jared. He whispered, "Looks like turning myself invisible worked, now to get out of here, and I'm gonna need a disguise too."

In a few minutes, he stripped Frank of his stun gun, money, clothing, employee name tag and the keys to the cell. He dragged the body to the end of the room, so if anyone looked inside, they'd think it was Jared sleeping in his underwear. He soon left the cell wearing Frank's guard clothing and walked out the door Frank was guarding without looking suspicious to the camera.

The next room he entered was a long corridor with lights coming off the walls as well as the ceiling. Small rays of red light came from the far end of the hallway. From what Jared could tell they were lasers. The lasers crossed over each other making a net. Then a small buzz filled the air; a fly had somehow found its way into the room and headed towards the lasers. To Jared's surprise, it had disintegrated into dust. "I best not touch those." He said.

Yet another surprise met Jared's eyes and ears. The door behind him closed shut and locked itself, and the laser grid started to move slowly closer. Jared had nowhere to go; no place could he escape to. One way to get out was locked and the other way was behind a disintegration laser grid. But a question quickly formed in Jared's head, "How did the fly get in here anyways?"

His question was quickly met with a cool breeze from a vent. "The vents, of course! I could crawl through aaaaaaaaand… too late." The time it took to think of a means of escape was too little, for the laser net had just passed the vents. He started to freak out. "Oh my Buddha, oh my Buddha, oh my Buddha. I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna…" In a few moments the deadly lasers were a few inches away from Jared's face. He huddled as close to the locked door behind him as possible, preparing for inevitable death. He closed his eyes to not see his skin being charred off by a simple security system. And then, the lasers stopped moving. He slowly opened his eyes to see the lasers had stop on his stolen employee card. An automated voice from a speaker said, "Employee identified: Frank Johnson. Security level 5. Have a nice day."

All the lasers had disappeared and the doors had unlocked themselves. Jared just stood there, dumbfounded on the fact that he didn't die. To make sure, he searched his entire body to see if anything was missing. Of course, nothing was missing, well maybe a bit of sanity, but other than that, he was perfectly fine. He calmed down a bit before continuing his escape.

The next room was a storage room, where they kept all the prisoners' stuff. Being a prisoner himself, Jared found his backpack and supplies, but still no Zach and Gem. He looked around to see if he could find anything else to take. Other than a few clothes and cash, nothing was of value in the room. So Jared just moved on to the next one.

The third room he entered was an infirmary, which was almost completely filled will trainers and their pokemon. Some of the trainers had a few scrapes and bruises to limbs being broken, or worse. The pokemon on the other hand seem to be considerably healthier than most of their trainers. Of course, there is a machine that just instantly heals pokemon in their pokeballs, so it makes sense they're in better condition. No one seemed to notice Jared yet, but just in case, he quietly transformed his face into Frank's so no one will know who he really is.

He searched around the infirmary to see if he could find Gem or Zach. Considering on how hard they battled, they would obviously be there. Jared found Zach in one corner of the room and quickly got to him as fast as possible. He looked okay, no sign of injury anywhere. According to some papers that were on the table next to them, Zach just need to rest. Jared was relieved that Zach was okay, but he had yet to find Gem. "I'll find Gem soon," he thought. "Just need to wake Zach first so we can search for her together."

Jared gently shook Zach to see if he could get him awake. Zach mumbled a little and slowly opened his eye to see a stranger trying to wake him up. "Who are you?" He asked softly.

"It's me, Jared." Jared transformed his face back to its original form to prove it was him. "I'm here to get you out of this place."

Zach got up and looked around. "Where am I?"

"You're in the infirmary," Jared replied. "You battled pretty hard to defeat a legendary."

"Yeah, I remembered that… wait, where's Gem?"

"I don't know, after they knocked me out-"

"Hold on," Zach interrupted. "Who knocked you out?"

"It was Dark…" Jared started to explain what happened right before he was put to sleep. He explained everything from the jail cell to the weird security to the conversation that they were having right then. Zach was a little shocked to hear some of this, and thinking it was somehow his fault. But Jared just promised him it wasn't him but his own, for showing off his powers to people who would probably kill hybrids like them. They only laughed about it and started to plan on how to escape the base.

"Okay," Jared began. "Here's how it's gonna go down. You look around the base, finding an escape route while I go and try to find Gem. Once I find her, I'll contact you via telepathically and we'll all go with the best escape route you found, got it?"

"Yes, but one question."

"What is it?"

"Can we get lunch first? I'm kinda hungry."

"Uh dude, it's practically the middle of the night."

"Okay, then can we get a late night snack then?"

"Fine, let's go." Jared helped Zach out from his bed, but a nurse noticed the two and tried to stop them.

"I'm sorry, but he must remain in his bed sir." The nurse insisted.

"My apologizes," Jared said. "But-" The nurse suddenly interrupted him.

"Wait a minute… you're the prisoner! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" She ran away screaming, and probably alerting the guards near the area.

"Well, fuck." Jared said.

"Now what?" Zach asked.

"We'll continue the plan, but we need to be sneaky and-"

"There he is!" Random guards busted into the room. "Get him!"

"Zach, go!" Jared yelled. The two split up to try to escape the guards. Zach ran past all of them with his speed and dexterity, none of the guards could lay a finger on him. Jared on the other hand started to run at the guards but turned invisible at the last second, confusing them.

"Search the room," The guard leader said. "They might be still here." Unfortunately for the guards, Jared and Zach had escaped out the room and are in different ones. Zach found his way to the kitchen, and being as hungry as he is, started to raid the fridge. Jared on the other hand found himself in the storage room of the infirmary. Inside as far as the eye can see were shelves upon shelves of pokeballs. The pokeballs were on trays that were ordered by which trainer owned them, giving Jared the idea that Gem may be inside one of them. All he had to do was to find his tray.

Jared began his search, looking high and low for the tray that had his name on it. He thought more on how the trays were ordered. They started with the first letter of the last name so Jared looked for the D aisle. As soon as he found it, he looked around to find his name. "Let's see here. Deuermeyer, Deuink, Deuman, Deupree, Deur… found it!"

A tray with a single luxury ball and his name stood alone in the light. He picked it up and released Gem. "Hey Gem, you okay?" He asked.

"Jared is that you? Where are you?" She replied.

"Oh, right." Jared forgotten he was still invisible, so in a puff of smoke, he revealed himself while startling Gem.

"How did you do that?!" She yelled.

"Ow, not so loud. It hurts when you yell telepathically." Jared rubbed his temples to ease the pain.

"Oh, sorry." She said softly.

"It's alright, I forgive you. Anyway, to answer your question, I'm part Zoroark. So I can turn myself invisible or into anyone else."

"Oh okay. So where are we?"

"We're in the back of the infirmary room."

"Why are we in the infirmary room?"

"Well it all started when…"

One explanation later…

"Wow, sounds like you've been through a lot."

"Yeah, we've all have. Anyway, I got to contact Zach that you're safe. Zach you there?"

"What?" Zach replied.

"Have you found a good escape route yet?" Jared asked.

"Well I would say 'good', more of either this one or something else." He answered.

"If it's the only good route you could find, we'll have to take it."

"Okay, so where do you want to meet?"

"Just find a good place to hide. Gem and I will teleport to your location."

"Okay, over and out."

"Uh dude, we're not on a radio."

"Oh right. Well… see you later." When the connection ended, Jared asked Gem to teleport them to Zach's location. She nodded in response and closed her eyes to focus her powers. It a quick flash of light, the two disappeared and reappeared to the desired destination. They found themselves at one corner of the iron fence outside; no guards seem to be around and the area was away from anyone else's view.

Zach was leaning against the fence, waiting for the two to appear. "Good to see you guys are okay."

"Yeah, you too. So where's that escape route?"

"Right here." Zach pushed the on gate and a chunk of it fell over. "Had to make one, no other choice."

"You know, we could of just teleported to the other side." Gem suggested.

Zach thought for a second. "Oh right. Well too late now, let's go." The three had escaped into the forest with no one noticing… except Daryl.

"Hello everyone." Daryl said.

Daryl! What are you doing here?" Jared retorted.

"Relax, I'm on your side, see?" Daryl lifted up his sleeve to reveal the symbol of Arceus.

"Wait, you've meet Arceus!" Zach shouted.

"Yep, she told me your whole story. Some of which is you being from a different dimension and you having extensive knowledge of this world. Oh and I've already told all my pokemon and everyone in the base about you so don't need to worry about them."

"He's telling the truth." Gem said.

"Well, I guess I believe you." Jared said. "But what are you gonna do to us now?"

"I'm gonna follow you on your journey. By the way, what are you gonna do on your journey other than stop The Company?" Daryl asked.

"Since I'm in the pokemon world, I guess I'll go defeat all the gym leaders of this region and then the elite 4, all the while getting new pokemon to add to my team, or something like that." Jared explained.

"Cool. If you're gonna do that, then let's head to Sandgem Town first. My cousin, professor Juniper, is there with professor Rowan. I'm sure we can get a pokedex there to help on your journey."

"Sweet. Let's go then." The four of them continued deep into the forest to begin the journey of a life time, starting where many great trainers are born. Or at least the town next to it.

A/N: Okay everyone, that's a wrap. I'd like to say thank you to all the people who have followed/favorite my story I really appreciate, I really do. And I would appreciate it more if you would kindly review on what you like about my story. But if you don't like it then tell me how to improve it instead. I don't mind a little criticism as long as it helps me along the way. So yeah, I'd also like to say I'm sorry for not uploading as often as other writers it's just that my mother had cancer for the third frickin' time. I mean seriously, that stuff is obnoxious, it caused my mom pain and in makes me have to visit her in the hospital. But fortunately, it's gone for the time being by the time I upload this chapter. So that's it, everyone thank you for reading and hope to read more of my stuff later in the future.