Pikachu seemed happy and nearly content after he ate, so did the rest of our pokemon. Gengar and Scizor took off into the forest to play with the other pokemon shortly after eating. Knowing Gengar he would teach the ghastly to scare the younger pokemon and Scizor would teach the Scyther how to chase them away.

I leaned back on my hands to watch the sky while the others chatted away about something-I didn't pay much attention to it. The clouds rolled lazily, morphing into different things and pokemon and painting the blue canvas of sky in a never-ending journey of their own.

Something thick and slimy snaked its way around my arm and pulled me toward the water. I didn't have time to scream before the sky was underwater as well. The astonished faces of Ash and his friends circled around the pool.

I turned to see a greninja and a diver I've never seen before. He had bright, unnatural red hair and the insignia was of a flaming F on the front of his diver's suit. I tried to punch at the tongue but the water slowed down my hand. I needed air. My lungs burned for air. We were moving quickly and soon we went up to the surface.

I gasped and scrambled desperately on the shore. My lungs felt heavy with the water I accidentally gasped in just before breaking the surface. I coughed and gagged it out.

"Hurry up," the diver was impatient as he ripped off his suit.

I coughed up more of the water and stood too quickly. I nearly fell over but the greninja caught me before I could. Maybe I could make a run for it but as I started to put action into the plan I saw that the greninja still had a tight hold on my wrist. Who were these people?

"The boss said not to push her too hard!" I heard a screechy voice over the man's intercom.

"It isn't my fault. I didn't expect her to lose air so quickly."

My legs felt week and it forced me to sit. Decidueye, where are you? Usually he was right here by my side but now I felt lost, like when I lost Oaky.

In the shadows of the trees I saw a pair of eyes of different color, one bright red and one completely black. The sun was starting to set so I had a hard time making out the shape of a greninja that put a webbed finger to its lips before it disappeared.

"Oaky?" I asked allowed by accident. Didn't Oaky have one completely black eye? Grandma said the egg had been damaged and so he must've been partially blind but he never acted like it.

"What did you say?" The man growled.

I jumped out of my skin. "Nothing."

"The helicopter will be here shortly. Just don't…do anything." He folded his arms.

What was there that I could do? Run? It took all my energy not to laugh.

Decidueye…where are you?

The man's greninja flew forward and dragged me with it. I screamed briefly before it stopped. By the marking's in its back I suspected it was hit with a shadow ball. The man ran to be by his partner's side. "What happened?"

"How should I know?"

The tongue was loose enough now. Now I could run.

I stood and ran toward where I saw the greninja, into the shadows of the trees. The sounds of a pokemon battle followed me into the darkness until I bumped into a shadow. It grabbed me with webbed hands and I immediately fought against it.

"Let go!" I yelled.

It pinned me to a tree and I couldn't move. I stared into the black and red eyes of the greninja I saw hiding in the shadows. Around its neck was a very thin metal chain that had a blue marble-looking stone. My body immediately relaxed. Maybe this wasn't Oaky but the thought that maybe it was made me feel safe.

It let me go.

"Thank you," I whispered.

Greninja tilted its head one way then the other, as if listening for something. Then it disappeared.

"Oaky, wait!" I yelled out his name with the hopes that he would come back.

"Alice!" Ash's voice echoed and a fire came into view. He had several fire pokemon surrounding him along with his greninja and his friends. "You're okay! What happened?"

"I don't know," I whispered.

Rain was unexpected in today's weather even nurse Joy was shocked at how quickly it came. "Stay here until the rain passes," she insisted and turned back to the officer beside her.

"Anyway, they had more activity recently," Officer Jenny continued her story.

"So, who are they?"

I sat on the couches as close to them as I could be.

"Just a band of pokemon, I guess. They're kind of like Kanto's Squirtle Squad except they didn't start out as a band of criminals. They're vigilantes. Supposedly, they've been hanging round Paradise Ranch for a while now. I don't know why, though. They've always been in the cities where they're needed most."

Nurse Joy tapped her chin in thought. "Well, you know I overheard a Greninja is run by that group."

Officer Jenny nodded with a questioning look.

"You know, the Froakie that's been lost for ten years? If that's the one then there is a connection. It's waiting for its lost trainer to come home."

Officer Jenny shook his head. "It's unlikely, Joy. Even you know that there are plenty of pokemon with his unique features and…even if you're right he probably doesn't remember its trainer."

My heart dropped to the floor.

"You're right," Nurse Joy sounded sad and then sighed.

"Hey, are you alright?" Bonnie's touch was cold and made me flinch. I nodded but she wasn't convinced. "Hey I know." Dedenne came from a satchel she kept on her person. She picked up the cute mouse-type pokemon and presented him to me. "Dedenne can cheer you up!"

Dedenne was cute but his smile didn't look nearly as mischievous as Oaky's. "I'm fine, I promise." It wasn't nearly as convincing as it could've been but I didn't need it to be. I needed to be fine.

"So, if you come from Alola," Clemont cleaned the rain water off his glasses and held it up in the light, "then what did you come to Kalos for?"

I sighed and leaned against Decidueye. "Well, I actually come from here. I came to find my friend Oaky. I lost him a long time ago when we were attacked."

Everyone stared at me. "Who's Oaky?" Ash asked finally.

"He was a froakie. I got him when I was four and for some reason I always dropped my F's so Froakie became Oaky over time." I picked at the dirt underneath my fingernails and looked out the window, at the rain. "There's a cliff behind grandma's house and we were playing too close to it. We used to get threats from all sorts of people because of how much money we have but this time we really were attacked. It was a small gang of people with ghost and dark-type pokemon and instead of attacking the house they saw us and decided to kidnap me instead. Oaky was thrown off the cliff when he attacked a Dusknoir. We were never able to find him."

The clouds started to part and allowed the moon to shine through.

"Shortly after that my parents and I moved to Alola," I stood. "And ten years passed."

Everyone else stood too. "I'm so sorry," Serena whispered.

I shrugged. "I came back to track him down…but…I don't know if he's even a wild pokemon or if he's on his own adventure. You just…never know."

We walked outside in silence. I turned to them. "You all should stay here for the night. Hopefully we all meet each other again soon. Decidueye, you should stay here with them and I'll be back for you soon. No, don't give me that look! I'll be fine I just need to be alone."

Decidueye gave me a sad look but I turned away quickly before I could change my mind and ran back to Paradise Ranch. I needed to see that greninja again.

Every pokemon except for the ghost-type were asleep. I stopped to ask a ghastly if he's seen a greninja with only one red eye and one black one but it didn't see anyone. I brought out Gengar to help me in my search. However, we came up with nothing. An hours search led to nothing.

"Maybe it wasn't Oaky after all," I sighed as Gengar and I hung out in a tree. Gengar looked a little sad so I smiled. "Do you remember how we met, Gengar? I think about it all the time."

Gengar was part of a gang of ghost-type and dark-type pokemon. In his gang were a ghastly, houndoom, honedge, and chandelure. In Alola they attacked and played pranks on pokemon trainers in order to steal their backpacks for food. I was the only one who offered my bag outright and used that opportunity to let my then Dartrix attack them from behind. Apparently they had an unspoken rule that if one was defeated by a trainer they would offer itself up as a partner. I think in truth Gengar wanted to come with me to become stronger and our bond only grew from there but he was a very jealous pokemon.

When Dartrix evolved into Decidueye Gengar was the first to attack him and became very sad when he was unable to defeat Decidueye three times. Sometimes he still randomly attacks him and usually Decidueye only dodges until he becomes bored enough to defeat Gengar again.

Gengar smiled.

I smiled and hugged him. "I know I haven't been very good with our bonding recently but just hang in there." I patted his head. "Hey, after we travel through Kalos lets go back to Alola so you can show off to your friends how strong you've become." I poked his belly and he laughed and nodded. Gengar was probably the best pokemon any trainer could've wanted even with his mischievous attitude.

I grabbed a leaf and blew into it the sad tune. Gengar closed his eyes as if to listen better. I looked up at the moon and the song came to a slow end. The wind carried the tune back to me and when I squinted I saw at the top of a distant tree was a pokemon that looked a bit like greninja but I didn't go after it, I closed my eyes and listened to the tune being played back at me.

"Ready to go?" I asked Gengar finally and he nodded. It was time to go.