"Are we sure we can even find her here?" I asked, staring at the massive portion of the city that was the Freeland Stele. We left for the place just after sunset. It was dark now, the street lamps lit. Though there was more than street lamps here. Lights hung from everywhere, all different colors. They covered broken buildings, debris, and I even saw a swimming pool with no water in it. Just lights.

"I know where she will be," Hana said. "I may not know a lot about Kasuai, but I know she spends a lot of time in the steel factory, Which is at the north of the Freeland."

We walked down the streets, and sure enough, there was a huge factory, smoke rising from the large chimneys. There was a bored looking Vespiquen in front of the door. She looked a bit surprised when she saw us. "Oh, members of a gang? What business do you have here?"

"We are here to talk to Kasuai," Hana said. "It is rather important."

She stared us down. "Urgent, huh? Is it private urgent business?"

"Yes. We won't be long."

"We promise we won't cause any trouble," I said. "Can we please see her?"

"It isn't regarding the tournament, is it?" She said, getting rather close to us.

"No, ma'am."

She pulled back, and sighed. "Fine. Just watch where you walk. It can be a bit dangerous in there."

We thanked her, and walked in the front door. Then we stopped, completely awestruck by what we saw.

Loads of pokemon were running around, all working. The thing that I noticed most was the huge amount of steel poles. All stacked in different shapes and sizes. They were being stacked by cranes, which pokemon were operating. There were huge forges, in which huge pieces of scrap metal were being dropped into. I even saw a huge pile of rock, which was glowing from the heat underneath it.

We saw Kasuai on a huge forklift, but she wasn't working. She wore a yellow hardhat, which had a hole in it for the jaw that came from the back of her head. How she put it on was a mystery. She seemed to be cheering. "All right, everyone! Keep working! You're doing great!"

"Kasuai!" The vespiquen, who had ended up following us in, yelled. "You have visitors!"

She looked down, and then smiled. "Hana! It's been so long!" She didn't even lower the forklift. She just jumped off, landing nimbly and running over, giving Hana a big hug.

Hana seemed a little uncomfortable. "You do remember that we only met once, right?"

"Yeah, but it's still been a long time." She smiled at Ore and me. "You two are in the Unnaturals, right? It's nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too," I said. "I'm Hydra, and this is Ore!"

She just seemed to radiate pep and happiness. "Wow, those are such awesome names!"

A golem came rolling quickly over. "Kasuai, ma'am, but we can't get the rock to melt."

"Aw, why not?" She frowned. "Do we need more fire?"

"I don't know ma'am. We just can't get the stuff to combine."

Ore looked at the huge pile of stone, and walked over. He put his hand on the rocks, which seemed to have cooled a little. It glowed white, and when we looked back, it was one huge slab of stone.

Kasuai jumped up and down. "Wow, that was absolutely amazing!" She grinned, her eyes gleaming with excitement. "Alright, destruction crew, turn it to rubble!"

A huge barrage of attacks rained down on the stone, and before we knew it, the stone had been turned into a fine powder. Ore looked horrified, then something dawned on him. "Oh, you're making cement."

"Yep!" Kasuai said. "That was really impressive. How did you do it?"

"It was something I was born able to do."

"Well it was really cool. Thanks for your help." She smiled at him, and he smiled back.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"This is our biggest plan ever!" Kasuai said. "The RRR Program! We are recycling old stone, metal, wood, pretty much everything, remaking it into new construction pieces, and hope to one day help rebuild the city!"

"You really think you can do it?" I asked.

"Of course!" She winked at me. "I believe we can do anything we set our minds to! So we will keep up our good work! Right guys?" All the pokemon that were working cheered.

"Didn't you say that you had urgent business?" The Vespiquen asked.

"Oh, don't be so stiff," Kasuai said, smiling at her. "Why don't you take a break for a little bit?"

She huffed. "No thank you. I'll just be getting back to my post." She left, resuming her station at the front door.

"Well we do have something urgent to discuss with you," Hana said.

"Sure! How can I help you?"

"Well," I said. I wasn't sure how to ask it now. It felt like a bit of a personal question. But we had to know. "What is your relation with the Geoaxes, War in particular?"

She looked a bit startled by the question. "What do you mean?"

"It's a long story," I said, "but we need to know everything you know about him."

She hesitated. Her smile was gone. "We can't talk about it here. Let's go somewhere else."

Loads of workers looked really concerned. "Kasuai, are you alright?" The golem from before asked.

"I'm fine. I'm leaving you in charge until I get back." She led us out the door. We walked down the street until we got to a rather nice looking building. We walked inside, and there were tables everywhere. It was a coffee shop.

She ordered us all a cup, and a smiling blissey brought us our drinks. Kasuai thanked her. She didn't talk for a long time. I noticed she had a necklace on, with a stone a bit like Auroc's and Absolum's. Hers was pink, with a yellow and black inside. She was playing with it. Then she finally broke the silence. "I want to hear this long story of yours. Why are you learning about War?"

I looked at Hana, then Ore. They both nodded. "Well, you see, when I first joined the gang, before Hana and Ore had joined, we didn't have enough members to enter the tournament. We went looking. I found Ore, and when we brought him back to the base, Other members of our gang came, carrying a severely wounded absol. They said the Geoaxes attacked them with weapons. Then Hana's Freeland was attacked by the Shadow Eaters. They claimed they hired the Geoaxes to kill Lilly, our leader. Then, a bit later, we went to Glacial Tower in hope of recruiting another member, Auroc, the lucario. While we were there, the Geoaxes attacked. I fought War myself, alongside Auroc. He tried to kill Auroc. He stabbed him with a spear, but I managed to force him back."

Kasuai was gripping her cup extremely hard. "What does this have to do with you learning more about him?"

"Because I don't think they did it," I said. Kasuai looked up in surprise. I continued. "I talked to War after the first part of the Tournament. It was like he was a completely different person. He didn't remember me, and he claimed to never have gone to Glacial Tower. He also said they had been being attacked recently. I believe someone is trying to frame them. Kan said that you had some relation with him. Can you please talk to me about it? I want to stop whoever is trying to make him look like a bad guy."

There were multiple expressions on her face, none resembling the cheerfulness we had seen earlier. "I can't tell you my relation to War, but I can tell you that he would never attack unfairly or without reason. And he would never side with the Shadow Eaters. The Geoaxes already get a bad rep, when they haven't done anything wrong."

"But loads of people see them destroying buildings," Hana said.

"That's because War is extremely reckless. I asked him to help me gather metal and stone for the RRR Program. They had soon gathered all the scraps from their territory. Then War came up with an idea. He would note all the buildings that were completely empty and abandoned, that were too broken to serve any purpose, and break them down, giving me the scraps. I told him not to, that people would hate him for it, but he didn't care." She seemed close to tears. "I don't know who attacked you, but it wasn't War."

I nodded. "Then we need to work on finding that imposter."

"Hydra! Hana! Ore!"

We all ran outside to see Elric and Kykis running over to us. They looked horrified. "They Geoaxes are under attack, and they are losing! The enemy is using real weapons!"

I looked at Kasuai. She looked horrified. She turned into the direction of the factory, took a deep breath, then screamed at the top of her lungs.

It was like she started a stampede. All of her workers ran out of the building, led by the golem and vespiquen. "Kasuai, what's wrong?"

"The Geoaxes are in danger! I'm going ahead to help them! Everyone follow! We have to save them!"

"But ma'am," the golem said, "his wishes."

"I don't care! I'm not letting him get hurt!" She turned to face us, an extreme fire in her eyes. I now saw why she led these people. "Take me to them now!"

Kykis nodded, and in a flash of light, we were in the Geoaxes territory. The battle raged on. We could see knifes and spears flying, along with the occasional sound of gunfire.

I saw War fending off three pokemon with swords. He had stolen a shield which he was using to protect himself. Kasuai looked murderous. "Hey!"

They turned to face her, only to get punched in the stomach. Hard. Her fists were glowing purple slightly. Sucker punch. She stepped in front of War. "Don't you dare touch my little brother!"

We stared in shocked silence.

Little brother?

Soon the rest of the Unnaturals had joined up with us. They had also heard what she said. "Is that even possible?" Auroc asked.

"Yes," Eriff said. "Both mawile and nidoking belong to the field egg group. It is possible."

War looked horrified. "Kasuai, why are you here? Get out of here! It's dangerous!"

"No way! I'm not letting you fight without me!"

He scowled. "Fine then, are you ready?" She nodded. He held up his right fist. On the far left claw was a ring I had never noticed before. It looked a lot like the bracelet on Lilly's tail.

"Go, mega evolution!"

The ring started to glow, as did the gem on Kasuai's necklace. She became incased in a pink circular cocoon of energy, and when it broke apart, Kasuai looked like she had evolved. She was bigger, more pink than cream colored, with two huge, super scary jaws coming from the back of her head.

"Can we do that?" I asked.

"I don't know." Lilly said. "Auroc, Absolum, do you want to try?"

"Of course!" They said in unison.

"Then let's do it. Go, mega evolution!"

The same thing happened to the bracelet and gems, then they both looked like they had evolved as well, Auroc looking taller with black web looking designs across his body while Absolum looked like an angel of death.

"Take them down!" Lilly yelled. Everyone darted forward, ready to engage the enemy.

Kasuai was beating us to it.

We got to the enemies close to us, but she was taking them down like they were nothing. They didn't even see her coming. She would hit most of them with sucker punch, and some she would pounce on, surrounding them in clouds of dust. Play rough. "Leave my brother and his gang alone!"

Someone threw a spear at her. "Look out!" I yelled.

War was there in a flash, putting up a protect, which the spear deflected off of. "Don't touch my sister!" He ran forward, his fist glowing purple, but when he struck opponents, they would appear poisoned. Poison jab.

Despite our best efforts, more pokemon would flood the area. Even when Kasuai's workers arrived we were having a hard time. I came face to face with a tauros, who was trying hard to stomp on me, and I remembered something. It took me a few tries, but I managed to release a few pink hearts, looking cutely at the pokemon. Good, I remembered how to use charm.

He didn't look like he wanted to attack, which allowed Auroc to hit him hard with an aura sphere. "Nice job, Hydra!"

"Thanks!" I didn't know what it was, but I felt kind of funny, like I was getting really hot. I ignored it.

I looked in the direction of Lilly and Eriff to see a tyranitar bearing down on them. "No!" I yelled. I went to form a shadow ball, but it felt different inside. When I let loose the attack, it was pink, not purple. It struck him, and he was thrown back.

They stared at me. "When did you learn that trick?"

"I don't know. Just now?"

I saw Kasuai and War surrounded by a ring of pokemon. "Time to put these punks in their place!" Kasuai yelled.

"Allow me to help you!" He put his hand on her head, and she became covered in a colorful aura. Helping hand. They both raised their hands up.

"Double rock slide!"

Large rocks started raining down. It was really cool since it covered pretty much the entire street. The bad news was that we were included in the attacks. We frantically dodged the rocks, but soon the whole area was covered in dust, and I had lost track of everyone.

After what seemed like forever, I climbed up onto the rocks and surveyed the area. I couldn't see anyone. Then I saw War walking over. "Hydra!"

"War, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, and so is Kasuai. She headed back to Stele."

I nodded, but then something came to mind. Kasuai would have never left so quick, and War seemed like he wouldn't want her out of his sight right now. Something was off.

"Well that's good. Hey, you got any more of those pamtre berries from the party? After all this fighting we could all use a break, and aren't they your favorite?"

"Sorry, but I already ate them. They are my favorite, so I just couldn't resist."

I scowled. "Wrong answer!" I blasted him with an up close trump card. I had already used it a lot in battle, so it did massive damage.

"Hydra, what are you doing?" Lilly yelled, running over with the rest of the gang.

"That's not War!" I yelled. "That's the imposter!"

Kasuai exploded out from under the rocks. "Where is he? Let me at him!"

The pokemon scowled, and took off down the street. I ran after him. "Stop right there!"

To my surprise, he froze in mid run. I stopped running. I wasn't scared. Why had I used psyche scream? I looked at everyone else. They had frozen too. "Unfreeze."

Nothing happened.

I started to panic. "Unfreeze!" Still nothing. "Unfreeze!"

There was no reaction. I quickly ran over to where Kasuai was and started frantically moving rocks. If War was frozen, he wouldn't be able to free himself.

I managed to get his head free. "Unfreeze!" I yelled again. Still, nothing happened.

I started to panic, and sat down, tears falling from my eyes.

Not again. Everyone was always so impressed with psyche scream, but there was a reason I considered it a curse. I couldn't always control it. Sometimes they would just freeze, and I couldn't get them to move again. Last time it had happened, someone had nearly died.

"Unfreeze!" I commanded again, tears falling from my face. They stayed as still as statues. I fell down, put my face in my paws and cried, overcome by the feelings of helplessness and loneliness.

"Unfreeze!"