When I came to, it was raining. I looked around. We were no longer in the lab, but on a deserted street in the city somewhere. I shot to my feet. Where was everyone else?

I saw Auroc lying a distance away. I ran over. His arms were still bleeding. I started to panic. Then I shook my head. No, I had to help him. I looked around, trying to figure out where I was. I then noticed a bent stop sign on the side of the street.

I knew where we were.

I ran into the alleyway right next to the stop sign. In the alley was a doorframe with a curtain over it. It was a cafe and inn. I burst into it. Everyone in the room looked at me.

"Hydra?" Jack, the Hitmonchan who was behind the bar, said. "Boy, it's been a long time."

"I need help moving a pokemon," I said. "He has two huge cuts on his arm and is bleeding badly."

Jack's eyes widened. He ran to the doors to the kitchen. "Zubel, get out here! We got an injured pokemon!"

An electabuzz wearing an apron and covered in flower came running out. "Where is he?" Jack said.

"This way." We hurried back out into the street. They both grabbed Auroc and hurried him inside. We took him up the stairs and into a room, then laid him down on the bed. We had to stop the bleeding. It was still coming.

"Zubel," Jack said. "Are the healers still here?"

"Yes, I will get them." He ran off. Jack grabbed some cloth and started trying to stop the bleeding.

Soon Zubel was back with the flower pokemon from the kimono's, except this one was blue instead of red, a chimecho, and a lickilicky.

The flower pokemon looked horrified. "Good lord, what did he do?" She raced forward. "There is a lot of blood missing." She folded her hands together, closing her eyes. In a few moments, blood started flowing more prominently. "Quick, Alberto. Clean the wound."

"Are you sure, madam?" He asked.

"Yes. You there, hitmonchan, help me hold him down."

They grabbed Auroc's hands. He walked over, looking a little worried. His hands were shaking slightly. "Okay, here we go. This will sting a bit." He rubbed his hands together, and then rubbed them along the wound. Auroc screamed in pain.

"What are you doing?" I yelled. The lickilicky, Alberto, looked so nervous and horrified, but was soon done. He stepped away. All along the cut were tiny white crystals. Salt. He had been using smelling salts.

"Good job," the flower pokemon said. "You did great." She turned to me. "To answer you, smelling salts, while normally used to cure paralysis, does wonders to clean an open wound. How did he get these cuts?"

"I don't know. We were in a fight with a gardevoir, and she had jumped on top of him. We didn't see how it happened, but the next thing we knew, there was those cuts."

"Well that isn't going to help us know anything, but I think he'll be fine. The wound is clean and all we have to do is wrap it." She grabbed some gauze out of her bag and gently wrapped his arms. "There. He should be fully awake soon."

Sure enough, Auroc finally became fully conscious. He bolted upright. "Where am I?" Then he put his hand to his forehead, and laid back down.

"There is a reason we tell you to stay lying down," the flower pokemon said. "Now I might as well introduce us. I am Lola. The lickilicky is Alberto, and the chimecho is Amy."

I couldn't keep thinking of her as the flower pokemon. "What kind of pokemon are you?"

"Well I'm a florges, of course. Have you never heard of them?" I shook my head. "Well, I'm glad I informed you."

Auroc looked at me. "Hydra, where are we?"

"We are on the east side of the city, in the local cafe. It's okay, we're safe. I used to live around here."

"It's not us who I'm scared for," he said. "It's the others."

_Mark p.o.v_

I woke up on a large bed. I sat up as fast as I could. Where was I? Where was everyone else? Where was Bell?

I saw a doorway, and quickly dove through it. I came out in a huge power plant, with generators everywhere. Electric pokemon were all working. I must have ended up at the power plant that kept the city's electricity running.

Sure enough, Mr. Denik was here, and so was Kasuai. She seemed to be arguing with him.

"I don't care! This is bigger than appeasing Freeland residents!" She yelled. "We have to take action!"

"It isn't our place," he said. "We should not get involved."

"It is our place! This is our city!"

He sighed. "I will help in what little ways that I can, but we do have a lot of work to do here."

She looked furious. "Fine then." She stormed my way. "Good, you're awake. We're leaving for Gani's house."

We walked out of the power plant, getting hit by the rain. "What was that all about?"

"I told that idiot what was going on, but he's too interested in making people feel safe than doing something to keep him that way. He's a great person and all but he needs to know when to take action." She took a deep breath, releasing most of her frustration. "I'm being rude. Are you okay?"

"I fine. What about you?"

"I'm fine as well. Do you know where Gani lives?"

"Enough to get us there. She lives in the forest outside the city."

"Then let's move."

Just as we were about to leave when alarms sounded from the power plant. We turned to see smoke coming from the far side of it. There were a few explosions, and then the lights went out everywhere.

"We have to help them," I said, running back that way.

I saw Kasuai running next to me. "I really hope that's Bell. Let's beat the snot out of her."
_Lilly p.o.v_

I shook my head, clearing the fuzziness from it. All around me were trees. I could hear rain hitting the top layer of leaves. I was pretty dry. I saw War leaning against one, unconscious. I sprayed him in the face with water. "Wake up!"

He shot to his feet. "Where is Kasuai? Where am I? What's going on?"

"Calm down," I said. "We are safe for the time being."

"Lilly. Where are we? Where is Kasuai?"

"I don't know. Since we are together, I think he teleported everyone in pairs, so don't worry. She isn't alone."

He relaxed a little. "Do you know where we are?"

"From the looks of it, we're in the forest, which is where we need to be to get to Gani's house."

"Good, then let's get moving."

Before we could do anything there was the rustling of leaves, and we were surrounded by a ring of pokemon. Before we could attack, or even see what kind of pokemon they were, they jumped us, knocking me unconscious.

_Absolum p.o.v_

I woke up on a soft bed, the smell of soup and cookies filling the air. I looked around. It appeared I was in some sort of house. There was only one official "room" but it was so large it was easily subdivided into different areas.

Gani was by a pot on a fire, which I guess had the soup in it. "Good, you're awake. How do you feel?"

"Fine. You?"

"I've been better." She got me a bowl of water. "Drink."

I did as she said. "Are we in your house?"

"Yes. Kykis was kind enough to drop the two of us off directly here. That probably took a lot of energy out of him. I'm really hard to teleport because I'm so reluctant to do it. It makes it harder."

I looked out the window. It was raining. "What kind of house is this?"

"Oh, just a simple one. It's carved into the trunk of a huge oak tree. It's so big in fact it can survive with this in it."

"Amazing," I paused for a moment. "Where is everyone else?"

"They were probably teleported randomly somewhere."

"Should we go look for them?"

"No. The best thing we can do is wait, and hope they all find their way here."

_Eriff p.o.v_

I woke up in the safe room we had used earlier that day. I sat up, shaking my head. It was raining outside. I had hoped to use my fire and try to signal the Geoaxes, but that wasn't going to happen now.

I looked around, and my eyes widened. Ore was lying face down. I ran over, lifting up his hood. There was a large burn, definitely third-degree. I ran around the room, desperately looking for water, medicine, anything to help him. There was nothing.

I ran over to him. "Ore! Ore, wake up!"

His eyes opened slightly. "Where are we?"

"The Geoaxes territory."

"Is everyone else okay?"

"I don't know."

He gritted his teeth and tried to sit up. "We have to go find them."

"No, we have to get you help. Can you get on my back?" He nodded lightly. I got my head under his arm, and he surprisingly managed to swing his leg up, laying himself across my back. I hurried to the door, moving as smoothly as possible.

I stopped. I could hear voices outside. "Why would they come back here? They aren't stupid."

"Which is exactly why they would come back." I tensed. Dahk. "I'm going to check the other areas. Make sure if you see them, you leave them living." I heard him walk away.

"Ore, I need you to get down."

I took him over to the corner of the room and sat him at an angle, so his burn wasn't touching the wall. "I'll be right back."

"Be careful," he said.

I nodded, and headed to the door. I was ready. No one messed with our gang.

_Hana p.o.v_

I woke up, my body feeling cold. I was on a floor of ice. I stood up, noticing Elric by me. I hurried over. He was out cold. I tried to wake him, but he wouldn't. I checked for a heartbeat. He was good, just really unconscious.

Ita came flying around the corner. She jumped when she saw me. "Hana! What a nice surprise! What are you doing here?"

"I was with the Unnaturals and we got into a really bad fight," I said. "Kykis, one of our members, teleported us here."

Elric started stirring. He sat up, shaking his head. He looked a bit confused. Ita scowled. "Still always causing trouble, huh? This is why I don't trust you."

I shrugged. "Well, we need to leave anyway. We have to get to Gani's house. Right, Elric?" There was no response from him. I turned to face him. "Elric?"

"Who's Elric?" He asked. "Who's Gani? Who are you?"

_KY p.o.v_

I woke up on a soft bed. It was okay except for a few holes in them. I flew into the air. Where did everyone go? Kykis must have teleported us all to different locations. Props to him for the escape.

A chansey walked in. "Oh good, you're awake."

"Where am I?" I asked.

"The old pokemon center. You appeared on our doorstep in a bright flash of light. Your greninja friend was in really bad shape."

"Kedo. How is he?"

"He should be fine. We got his wounds wrapped up."

"Good. Can I see him?"

"He's sleeping right now. You'll have to wait until he wakes up." She left the room, leaving me to sit there impatiently.

Finally she came back. "We have a slight problem. He has a fever now. I think he has pneumonia."

"Well can't you give him some medicine?"

"We our out at the moment. We've been waiting for a delivery for quite some time now. Until it gets here, you nor your friend can leave." She left, and I threw my hands up in the air. We should be on our way to Gani's house, but I knew there was nothing I could do.

I looked out the window. I analyzed the buildings and streets, checking it with my memory of the map of the city I had memorized. I think we were on the southwest side. I vaguely remembered something about this side of town in the news that was run by one of the Freelands.

I thought hard about it. Was it the food production rates? No, wait, that was the north, near the middle. Was it the attempt to rebuild currency? No, that idea had been shot down since we had nothing to back it up. What was it?

Then I remembered. I flew out of the room. The chansey had been reading a clipboard. She looked up. "Is something wrong?"

"You're medicine guy, when did you last see him?"

"A few weeks ago. He dropped off the supplies we ordered and left like he always does."

I swallowed. "A few weeks ago, there were kidnappings and attacks reported, all of them happening to supplies deliverers."

"What do you mean?"

"You're deliverer has been kidnapped."

_Kykis p.o.v_

I woke up in my room at the base, lying on my bed. I sat up and looked to my side. Good, Fort was there. I just hoped that all the others had been teleported okay.

I walked over to Fort. "Wake up."

He groggily opened his eyes and sat up. "What happened?"

"I was able to teleport us away. We have to get to Gani's house, remember?"

"Oh yeah. Can't you just teleport us there?"

"No. What I used is something KY and I have done extensive research on. I call it teleport wave. I can teleport anyone within range of the light I give off. But there are specific rules. The first rule is that another pokemon must be present. If I try to do this purely on myself, or on an inanimate object, it won't work. I can use it on myself if another pokemon is around, though. This corresponds with the second rule. Everyone I teleport will be teleported in pairs. If there is an odd number, then it will put the final person with a random pair, unless I direct it otherwise, but that takes a lot of energy. The third rule is I can't teleport again for the number of people teleported divided by two in hours. Since I teleported all of us, including Bell and X, I can't teleport for another nine hours."

"Well that's inconvenient. Looks like we're walking."

We left our room, heading down to the bottom floor and out the door. "Where did you send everyone?" Fort asked.

"I don't really know. Wherever I find important in my subconscious is where they get sent. Though I know that Gani is at her house. I made sure of that."

"So how do we know if they are safe."

"We don't. We hope."