"KY, I have help! We're coming to help protect the base with the Skyscrapes and Polar Magnets!" I yelled in my headpiece. I was flying on the back of a togekiss. Korado was in the lead. He had sent a ninjask back to get backup in case we needed it. The base was in sight.

"What? Why are they helping us?"

"We agreed to give them back their flags! It's the only way we can take them on!"

"You're absolutely insane! Well hurry up then! Fort's protect only has twelve seconds left!"

"Korado hurry!" I yelled.

"Faster, everyone!" He yelled. The groups speed picked up, but we weren't going to make it in time. I saw the shield go down.

The gangs rushed forward, but were struck by an enormous wall of pink flower petals. I saw Hana walk out of the emporium, the petals coming from her. Petal dance. "You will leave if you know what's good for you!" She yelled. The gangs charged forward. "Fine then!" The storm of pedals started moving faster, now being mixed with leaves. Leaf storm.

I saw a bunch of dragon types move forward, breathing fire through her attack. "Korado, protect Hana!" I yelled.

"I'm on it! Dragon busters, let's go!" I jumped onto the back of a staraptor, and the tokegiss I was on, along with a bunch of other pokemon, dove down, engaging the Draviathans.

I heard a loud song come from the ground. I looked to see a bunch of pokemon singing. It was a fast paced battle theme. The music seemed to make the air shake. The Harmonics. "Where are the Polar Magnets?"

Just then, a large explosion rang from in the middle of them. "Polar Magnets, go!" Dendy yelled. The polar magnets, screaming at the top of their lungs to drown out the noise from the Harmonics, ran in, swamping them in a wave of electric and steel types.

I saw a froslass move in towards Hana, with a flower looking pokemon and a nidoqueen close behind. The Kimonos. "Down there!" I yelled to the staraptor. "I need to get down there!"

The froslass let loose an ice beam at Hana. She jumped out of the way, only to be hit by the nidoqueen's sludge bomb. The staraptor dived.

"You pitiful child." I heard the froslass say to Hana. "You won last time, but not now. Time to go to sleep."

I leapt of the back of the staraptor, letting loose a strong toxic. "Stay back!" They were all struck. "Korado!"

The dragonite dove down, grabbing Hana and flying her to safety. I was feeling pretty good, until the Nidoqueen ran forward. She was a poison type, so my toxic didn't affect her.

Auroc landed in front of me, slamming his ice cover fists into her stomach. Ice slowly formed around her until she was frozen solid. "Keep fighting, Hydra!" He yelled, running off to help fight the Draviathans.

"You meddling brat!" The Froslass yelled. "Diantha, let's get her!"

The flower looking pokemon raised her hand into the air, a pink ball of energy forming. I didn't know what this was. I didn't care. I formed a shield of trump cards and shot a shadow ball at her. She was hit, and the attack died down.

The froslass flew forward, but then was knocked to the side by a pokemon who had jumped on top of her. It was Lilly. "Don't touch my gang!" A shadow ball formed in her mouth, and she blasted the pokemon at close range. I wonder what she replaced shadow ball with, but I ignored it for the moment.

Mark, Elric, and Eriff came running over as well. "Quite the battle," Elric said. "I can't believe they didn't invite us."

"Well get battling!" Lilly yelled. Elric nodded, and was gone in a flash. Mark was about to run off, but then disappeared in a flash. Kykis had teleported him somewhere.

KY came flying out. "Bad news! All of the minor gangs are here too! And the Geoaxes are coming as well, along with the Shadow Eaters and Volcs! Every flag in the game is going to be in this one battle!"

"Then let's get a few and get out of here!" Lilly yelled. "Get Fort over here as fast as you can!"

KY nodded, and soon Fort came running over with him. "What do you need?"

"I need you to form a protect around all of us except Eriff. We need to makes some space for us."

He nodded, and we became surrounded in a shield of energy. There was a couple of flashes, and the rest of the gang, excluding Mark and Kykis, were safe as well. Eriff smiled at me from outside the shield. "Ready to see my grass attack?"

He turned to face the pokemon, which were all getting really close to us. He closed his eyes, and a violent storm of petals flew out from him, striking pokemon in all directions. It was way too thick and violent to be petal dance. "What move is that?" I asked Lilly.

"Petal Blizzard, Eriff's unnatural talent."

The pokemon were being pushed back by the sheer force from his attack. Soon there was a ring of empty space around us. The shield went down. "Unnaturals," Lilly yelled. "Attack!"

We all dove into the battle, attacking every pokemon in sight. The battle raged, every pokemon gang in the game crammed into one street, battling for a flag. I didn't know how long it lasted, but it went on for a long time. I had a few close calls. An ursaring nearly hit me with a strong Hammer arm. Then I nearly got put to sleep by a Harmonic's sing. It was complete chaos.

Soon, the battle died down, and the attacking forces started to diminish. Soon we were done, only us, the Skyscrapes, and the Polar Magnets left.

"We did it!" I cheered. I did a flag count. I had lost most of them in the battle, but I still had a few. Most importantly I still had the Skyscrapes and Polar Magnets. I gave them both back to Dendy and Korado. "Thank you so much for your help."

"A pleasure," Korado said.

"Yeah. That was pretty fun," Dendy said, grinning.

Lilly walked over. "I was wondering why you all were helping us. It appears our social butterfly made a few temporary alliances."

I looked down. "I'm sorry I didn't get confirmation from you before making that decision. I didn't get any sort of agreement from anyone. It was wrong of me to make such a rash decision."

"Hey, whatever you do, do with confidence." She smiled. "Besides, we still have three flags, ours included."

"Alright folks!" Samantha called from above us. "You all probably lost track of time in that battle, but it is finally seven o'clock! The capture the flag game is over!"

"Now let's look at the final score!" Akiah said cheerfully. "In third, with one flag, we have a five way tie between the Polar Magnets, the Skyscrapes, the Draviathans, the Estuaries, and the Infestations! In second, we have a three way tie between the Harmonics, the Geoaxes, and the Kimonos! And, in first place, there is a three way tie between the Shadow Eaters, the Volcs, and the Unnaturals!"

There was a loud cheer from all the gangs who made it to the next round. "We got first!" Lilly yelled, jumping excitedly. "Perfect!"

"Nice job," Korado said.

"You aren't mad you got third?" I asked.

"What matters is we all made it to the next round," Dendy said. "Besides, we signed up for this chaotic battle. It's what we get for being crazy."

I saw Kan and War walking over, War's hands full of belue berries. "Hey, Hydra!" Kan yelled. "Nice job. You guys put up a serious fight!"

"Let's not leave out the other two gangs here!" War said. "Still as strong as ever, Korado." He threw him a berry. "And your Dendy, right? Gotta hand it to you, you Polar Magnet's were trouble, even with my gang having so many ground specialists."

"Now," Samantha said, breaking up everyone's cheering, "For those of you who didn't have a flag, there will be a small contest to see if any of you can move on. Nine gangs didn't have a flag. The most that will get will move on will be six of you, but if you can't complete the challenge, you will not move on. The contest will happen outside the city in three days. Enjoy a nice break!"

"Well, it looks like this is where we part," Dendy said. "Though don't think this means were going to let any of you win." With that, the polar magnet's left. The Skyscrapes left as well, only Korado staying behind.

"Well, guess it is time to be heading out," War said.

"Hey, War," I said, needing to ask him a question. "Have you been attacked lately?"

"No, but we can't drop our guard. None of you let your guard down either. Remember, come get us if you are attacked." He threw us all a berry, and left.

"I do need to return to my gang," Korado said. He smiled at me. "You did good. I think we'll have to look out for your gang in this competition." He flew off in the direction the other Skyscrapes had gone.

"He's not wrong," Kan said. "Nice job, you guys. If we don't win, my money is on you." He left as well, leaving us all alone.

"Well done, gang," Lilly said. "Is anyone injured?"

"We're fine," Gani said. "Can we just get back to the base? I'm exhausted. I did not sign up for that sort of chaos."

Lilly nodded. "Yes, let us be getting back. And congratulations to Mark and Kykis for evolving."

I looked over and noticed Mark had in fact evolved. He was now much bigger, with a larger tail and main. He still had a scar over his eye, though. "So there was a fire stone in the emporium?" I asked.

"Yeah. Looks like Kannin knew what he was talking about."

We all walked back to our base. "Everyone get some sleep." Lilly said. "While we do have a break, we aren't going to just relax. Tonight is when Hydra, Hana, and Ore will visit Kasuai. Elric, while they do that, keep an eye on the Geoaxes, and take Kykis with you."

"No rest for the wicked," Hana sighed. "We should be ready to leave by sunset."

We all went to bed, exhausted from the games. I fell asleep, so happy that we had one, and so excited for the rest of the games.