This is the one hundred forty-eighth chapter in Pokemon Heroes. Brendan and Dawn are the main characters in this mini arc, and an old enemy is to return (kind of). Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or any of the songs.

(Opening song)

The city was in the distance. They saw the large buildings and loved seeing the beautiful, glistening ocean that was flowing beneath their feet while walking on that large bridge. Cars drove back and forth from the city. There was not a cloud in the sky, making this a perfect day.

"When we enter, the Pokemon Center should be at least twenty minutes from where we'll be," said Brendan. "We should take a break there for at least two nights, and then get going."

"There's a Pokemon Gym there, right?" asked Ash.

"Hell yeah."

"Is battling the only things you guys think about?" asked Dawn.

"We also think about bunny girls," mocked Ash, but in a low whisper, but he was aiming for Dawn to hear.

"You wanna swim over there?"

"Speaking of swimming, I heard there's a water park open now over there," said May. "You are gonna bring me there, right Ash?"

"Why do I feel like I'm being threatened?" he thought, and he slowly nodded.

"We should be near the city's limit," said Brendan. "This is the only way in and out of the city. We're only going there to stop for supplies."

"I hear this city is heavily guarded by The League of Knights," said Dawn. "Why so?"

"This place is supposed to hold many of the technology that are distributed throughout Ransei. This is also the place where there's a port to trade things with other regions. It's like Ransei's trading center, and people who want to attack may aim here. You can easily get into trouble, so while we're there, none of you are to think about causing any type of trouble. And I mean any!"

"Come on, Brendan, I'm not that type of person," said Ash, but he was once again giving them that obnoxious sarcastic tone and smirking.

He now had to swim over there. May luck be on his side so he doesn't get accused of sneaking into the city.

Return of the Forgotten Face

After being let into the city, they were amazed at how busy-like it was. Cars were crowding the streets, and large buildings and advertisement signs hung all over the place. They could see the port to the north, seeing large Ransei ships coming in and out from it. The streets were crowded, and vendors called out for customers to buy their products. It was also clean. There was high tech cleaning robots that detected trash and threw them away themselves. It also fined the people it sees littering.

Policemen were guarding the city as well, some of them being Knights disguised to watch for any intruders.

After getting Ash from the police station and luckily avoiding them from calling his mom, who would've just gotten a heart attack realizing that her son has become a "delinquent", they headed for the Pokemon Center.

Understanding the security in the city, Ash walked like a solider, looking like he was normal, but all that did was embarrass him and his friends at the same time.

After so long, they reached the large Pokemon Center, which was built with three floors. They entered the large lobby, and waiting a while, they found a spare room. They took the usual: a room with two bunk beds.

When they opened the door to their room, all that was different was that the room was larger.

"I was expecting more luxury," sighed Dawn.

"Better ones cost money," said Brendan. "We won't be here for long."

May jumped onto the bottom bunk on the right.

"Even the beds feel the same."

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna be sleeping today," said Ash. "Wake me up when dinner's ready."

Ash walked over to the same bunk bed and proceeded to climb up to his bed on top, but May grabbed onto his leg.

"What are you doing?"

"Well, I was prepared to sleep."

"This is your bed."

"Why?"

"It's harder for me to climb up there in the middle of the night if you're going there."

Ash knew what she was talking about, and there was no need to question it. He went on the bottom bunk and lied down behind May.

"Why don't you ever sleep with me?" asked Brendan, turning to Dawn while walking toward his bed. If he hadn't moved, his balls would've been destroyed.

When Brendan got to the bed, he looked like he was pulling down something from his shoulders, but stopped. Seconds past, and shock was evident on his face.

"I left my backpack at the police station."

"How the hell can you fuck up like that?" asked Ash. "Even I don't fuck up like that."

"If you've got something to say, say it to my face."

"I can't. I'm tired."

Brendan sighed and prepared to walk out the door.

"I should be back within an hour," he said. "Don't cause trouble while I'm done."

"I'll watch over Ash," said Dawn.

"Why am I singled out?"

Brendan then walked out. He exited the Pokemon Center, and walked down the steps toward the police station. He didn't remember where it was, so he brought a map of the city with him, but this map was confusing.

He walked within the crowd of people. The only way to single him out was by looking at his white hair.

From on top of a building, without using binoculars or anything, someone sat at the edge, staring at that white hair. This person too had white spiky hair that flowed down to their back.

That person singled Brendan out, and that certain person made a smirk, a smirk that would bring back so many memories to that kid.

Ash, May, and Dawn were playing some kind of card game while they all sat on the boy's bed. They had found the cards from within a drawer that was stationed in that room. At first, the girls played, but they then forced Ash into playing as well, making him lose his opportunity to sleep. Cards were stacked on the middle of the bed.

Ash stared at the cards in his hands with confusion.

"Um...checkmate."

"Ash, that's not the game we're playing," said May, and she placed another card on the stack.

Dawn looked over at the digital clock on that certain drawer. An hour and a half had passed since Brendan left.

"He said he was going to be here in an hour."

"Maybe he got lost," said Ash, and he picked a card and placed it on the pile. "It is a large city."

Dawn looked at the card he placed.

"You can't put it there."

"What? Then how is this game supposed to make sense?"

"You can try putting that one," said May as she looked over at Ash's cards.

"Oh, thanks May. Wait a sec...you just looked at my cards?"

Dawn looked back at the clock.

"You think I should go out and look for him?"

"I don't think you should," said Ash, and he picked a card from his hand. "You might get lost, too. We'd have to go searching for you, then."

Ash slowly moved the card to the pile, and when the girls gave their nod of approval, he placed it on top.

Dawn looked back at the clock.

"Hey, Pikachu, you've got Brendan's scent, right?"

"Pika!"

"Then I'll be taking Pikachu."

"But Pikachu," said Ash as May prepared to point at the card she wanted from his hand. "are you sure you want to go and hang out with Dawn, or would you rather watch your best friend kick ass at this game?"

Pikachu was already on Dawn's shoulder after she left the bed and was now putting her boots on.

May chose the card she wanted, and when she looked at it, she squealed with joy and threw the cards up in the air while falling back. Ash dropped his cards and looked away.

"I hated this game anyway."

Dawn headed for the door now.

"I'll be back. I've got my Pokemon and Pikachu with me, so I'll be fine. If Brendan comes back before me, tell him I went out to check out a store."

"Alright!" squealed May, who was still overjoyed about winning the game.

Dawn opened the door and left. She closed it behind her and took out the key to lock it.

"So...we're alone," she heard May say slyly. "What do you want to do now?"

"Sleep."

"Nope. I've got an even better idea."

Dawn nervously chuckled, and then left.

The sun was down, and night fell on that city. Buildings lit up the night, and cars with their headlights on sped past better and spacious roads. The crowded people on the sidewalks had also decreased. The noise hadn't decreased though, and the same amount of excitement mirrored the feeling during the day.

But Dawn wasn't walking within the city's bustling atmosphere.

She instead was walking on the boring side of the city.

This part of the city had many abandoned buildings, a garbage dump, and it was far more quiet. This part could be considered the dark side of the city. Gangs walked around at this time, so it was dangerous to be walking alone.

Because Pikachu couldn't completely track down Brendan's scent due to the large amount of things and people in the city, it could only bring Dawn into the vicinity of where he was.

"Why-why the hell would Brendan even be hanging around this part of the city?" asked Dawn. "Are you sure it's him?"

Pikachu nodded, and then it tried tracking him down again.

It's eyes widened, and it looked up.

"Pika!"

Dawn followed its gaze, and her eyes widened when she saw him.

But he was not alone.

High above the air away from them, almost like they were flying, Dawn was fighting against someone.

"W-What?" said Dawn, only being able to let out those words.

She saw Brendan throw a punch, but that certain person moved to the side and punch Brendan on his gut hard, and Dawn could feel the pain that must've been coursing through that boy's body. She then saw the mysterious figure grab Brendan's foot, inhumanly spun around in the middle of the air at a fast speed, and then toss Brendan toward a building's brick wall, breaking through it. Then in midair, Dawn saw that person place their foot on something, like how a foot positions itself when you're about to propel yourself from a wall, and then launch right at Brendan. Dawn saw smoke coming from the hole on the side of the building.

She wobbled about, but then stood up straight so that she wouldn't fall. Before jumping, Dawn saw the white spiky hair. She placed her hand on her face and took deep breaths.

"What am I thinking? It couldn't be...there's just no way."

Dawn looked toward the building, and then she broke into a run toward it.

Brendan moved his legs frantically while touching his back, feeling the sensation of the intense pain that coursed throughout his entire body. The room he was thrown toward had collapsed and metals and debris were everywhere. Dust covered his clothes.

He slowly sat up while the pain soothed down, and then he looked around. His emerald green eyes were fiercely looking for his opponent. He forced himself to stand. He felt like falling, but if he did, that would mean certain death.

"My, my, what a persistent boy."

Brendan's ears felt like curling up, hearing that damn sound.

"I can't believe it. Someone like you having that type of power. It makes me sick to my stomach."

Brendan moved back, but then he felt hands touch his shoulders.

"So sick it makes me want to throw up."

He was viciously thrown toward the wall. He broke through it, but he got to his feet quickly, and raced toward his foe. He threw his iron hard fist, but there was no one there.

"It even seems like you haven't mastered it yet. Such a shame. A powerful power gone to waste."

"My father passed this down to me!" yelled Brendan.

"I wonder if he feels completely sorry now."

Brendan's fists angrily crashed down on the ground, destroying the floor and the walls of the building. By making his body slick and sticky thanks to Marshstomp's power, Brendan placed his foot on a piece of falling debris as he fell and launched himself back up to that floor.

Now that the wall were broken, Brendan could see what was going on with the little light he got back.

But when he got up there, he still found nobody.

"Such a shame. Such a shame, indeed."

An uppercut caused a tooth to be knocked out from his mouth. He was launched upward, and he broke through the ceilings of many floors until he flew up into the night sky. He then crashed down against an iron pole and gave out a painful yell.

He fell to the ground shaking with pain. Unlike Ash, his body still wasn't completely ready for battle yet. If he hadn't caused his back to be iron hard every time he crashed against something, he would've already been dead, but his power can't prevent all of the pain.

He heard footsteps.

He rolled aside before a foot crashed on his head. He looked up and readied his fist to strike his foe.

Only that smile caused his focus to break, and his fist missed the face.

"The fuck is wrong with you?"

A knee collided with Brendan's gut, and then a hand forcibly held onto his neck. Their faces were brought closer together, and Brendan looked into those completely yellow eyes.

"You look like you've just seen a ghost."

Like a doll, he was flung to the ground. Brendan rolled around on the floor until he came to a stop. He wanted to stay down, not having the slightest bit of energy to stand back up.

When he found that energy, his arms helped his upper body get up. Blood was falling from his mouth. He just didn't have to energy to quit.

He just couldn't quit.

He placed his hand on his knee and tried getting out but stopped when he saw that person standing over him. The person was shaking the aching hand that had thrown the boy.

"I have to admit, though, you do have some guts. I understand why he was so interested in you now."

The shaking hand turned into a fist, and then it crashed down on the boy's head. He fell to the ground and cracks formed below him. Brendan grabbed onto that person's ankle.

"Fuck you!" he yelled, and he used his strength to take the ankle and knock that person to the ground. He then rolled to the side and took one of the steel pipes that lay on the ground near them. He took it and crashed it against that person. That person had gotten up already and didn't even think about moving while the steel pipe was coming.

The only defense used was just by pulling an arm up, and the steel pipeline had broken into many pieces. Brendan, shocked, turned to strike with the sharp end of the pipeline, but it was already grabbed and ripped from Brendan's hands. It was taken and spun around on that person's hand.

"Is this all you've got, son of a bitch!"

It was then brought down on Brendan. He used Pelipper's power and jumped out of the way. While he was in the air, he crashed down on the pipeline, destroying it completely. He prepared to fight his enemy, but his enemy had already appeared in his face, punching him and pushing him back. He wiped the blood from his face and threw a fist at his enemy and it connected.

But his enemy didn't seem much affected by the attack though. Only that hated smile was present.

"What's wrong?! That didn't pack as much power as before! You're done in already?! ARE YOU?!"

That person punched him across the face again, and he punched that person. They punched each other over and over. Brendan's eyes were filled with rage, and that person was filled with crazy happiness.

She punched him for the twentieth time, and he fell to the gerund. He was breathing heavily, and he didn't have the strength to get back up.

That person stared at him, and then smirked.

"That's it then, huh?"

The slightest noise caused that person to jump out of the way as ice arrows and a thunderbolt rushed past her. That person landed one foot on a tiny piece of metal and looked at the attacker. Brendan forced himself to look up, and then his eyes widened.

"Shit!"

"Who the hell are you supposed to be, young lady?"

Dawn stared at her enemy with rage. This was the person who hurt Brendan in the past and now. She wasn't going to let it continue anymore. She was sure that Brendan ended his life, but him being here right now disproved that.

The bounty hunter looked the same. He still had on that gray jumpsuit with long sleeves. The skin was painted with white and blue lines. He still had those yellow eyes.

Dawn knew that this person was none other than Lee, the bounty hunter that killed Brendan's father and caused him pain.

"I won't allow you to get away this time!" Dawn thought. "I'll beat you to the ground myself you..."

Then she noticed the chest area.

It was larger, and it was evident that this person was not wearing a bra or a t-shirt, so if you removed that jumpsuit, that person would be completely naked. Dawn had also noticed that this person was taller as well. The hourglass figure also made it evident that this was not a male.

It was a woman.

"Wait, what the hell..."

"What's wrong?" asked the woman. "You're giving me that same expression that kid gave me when we saw each other."

"Sh-She's a woman! This isn't that bounty hunter!"

"Dawn, run!" yelled Brendan as he quickly got up. "I'll hold her off for you to go!"

"But-"

Brendan had already gotten up, and he was running at the woman to punch her.

"You still have energy to fight?" she asked. She deflected a punch from Brendan with her palm, and then rose her other fist and rammed it against Brendan's face. The boy was stumbling back, but he straightened up and went for another punch.

Dawn froze. She watched Brendan throw every punch, only to be blocked, and then he was punched across the face. Dawn couldn't bare to watch the blood that fell from his face, but she couldn't do anything. Confusion clouded her mind completely. She didn't know what to do or say.

"Dawn, I said run!" he yelled, and then a fist was swung downward, knocking his body downward, but he didn't fall, because he placed his foot in a way to let him propel himself at his enemy, head-butting the woman.

"Getting serious now?"

"I'm always serious!" yelled Brendan, and then he threw fast punches by using the powers of his Mightyena and Shiftry. The woman was taking all these hits with a smile.

When Brendan was done, she moved back, but she didn't fall. She straightened up and smirked at him.

"Can I have a turn now?"

She then proceeded to do the same thing to Brendan. Dawn watched in horror as Brendan fell to the ground. His breathing was slow, and blood now fell from his forehead. He looked a step away from being completely unconscious.

"That's it!"

Dawn let the ice bow and arrows crumble, and then she placed her fist on her palm and molded two ice swords on each hand. She ran at the woman and swung one, but the woman got out of the way. Dawn swung the next one, but the woman dodged it as well. She jumped away and stood at the edge of the roof with her back toward the streets below.

"Why bring a weapon to a fist fight?" she asked. "That's just unfair."

"Who the hell are you?" asked Dawn.

"Me? You wanna know who I am? You're the third person I've met who's asked me that, and the second today. That boy beat you to it. My name is Chun-Li, and I am apart of the Tenrou Clan. My goal is to obtain The White Inheritance, the power that boy holds. I have to kill him to do that though."

"I-It's the same as Lee," thought Brendan, and his cloudy vision focused on Chun-Li.

"I must understand why you guys are looking at me like that, though," she said with a smirk while she rose her hands. "You must've already met up with Lee. You must be shocked to see the shocking similarities between us. This is no coincidence, for Lee was my older brother!"

Shock shook Brendan's body on the ground. His mouth was open, he was wide eyed, and he was just staring at the sky. His breathing quickened as well.

Dawn noticed this, and she felt herself shaking as well.

"This fight has become personal, actually," said Chun-Li. "I didn't just come for The White Inheritance. I also came to avenge my brother. We know you killed him and Riku. I can't just let you go by murdering my own flesh and blood, right?"

"He tried to kill us!" yelled Dawn.

"Doesn't matter," said Chun-Li. "This is revenge."

She then laughed. It was the same laugh Lee gave to him all the time. It made Brendan grind his teeth together.

"Then do it."

Chun-Li stopped and looked back at Brendan. Dawn turned and saw Brendan getting back up, even though he was struggling.

"Kill me. Just try and kill me. But just remember: I WON'T JUST LET YOU! I'm not going to throw away my life even when so many people helped me live it! Just try and kill me, but I'll be the one beating you down first!"

Chun-Li smirked, and then she turned around.

"Too bad," she said, "but I can't do it right now."

Brendan fell on his stomach. Dawn crumbled up the ice swords and ran to Brendan to check if he was okay. He was still breathing hard.

"I'll admit it," continued Chun-Li. "I charged at you without thinking. I knew you were gonna be in this city. I was to attack you tomorrow at 4:15 PM. I then saw you and was like, why not just tussle with you for a while? I did take it too far, though. I was just having too much fun. Ha!"

"Get over here and fight me!" yelled Brendan, struggling to speak. His eye color was slowly going back to normal.

"I can't. I need something first. I kind of...forgot it. My mistake. So you get to dream for another night. I'll see ya tomorrow. Don't think about leaving though. I'm only here for you. The others I can't give two shits about. As long as you don't run, I won't kill them. If you do, I'll find you guys and kill you all."

"I won't...run."

"Good."

She gave a peace sign without turning back.

"Bye."

She then jumped off the roof. They knew that she didn't die from that.

They were now quiet. They didn't say anything. They were just quiet. The only thing that they heard was the wind and Brendan's heavy breathing and grunts. He tried getting up, but he fell. Dawn just stared at him.

"What are we gonna do?" she asked.

Brendan stopped and looked at her, and he gave a happy smirk.

"I'm gonna kick her ass. I don't plan to kill her though."

He used his arms to get up again, and he didn't fall this time.

"In order to create my future, I have to shatter every bit of that past."

Chun-Li jumped out into the broken, open window.

This was her hideout for now. It was just an abandoned building.

She went toward the broken desk that was there. She pushed it aside, and there was a silver colored suitcase with wheels and a handle. She stared at it and smirked.

"No, this is not for the Tenrou Clan or my brother."

She pushed the desk back in front of the suitcase.

"The White Inheritance will be mine, and mine alone."

(Ending song)

Next Time on Pokemon Heroes: There is no easy way to reach happiness, and Dawn wants her friends to smile forever, but that seems like a far fetched dream. The sadness and guilt Brendan experienced haunts her mind, and with her power, she swears for it never to happen again. How will the kids deal with this new threat, and what does Dawn plan to do about it? Next Time: Undying Happiness.

That was that chapter. The Tenrou Clan returns once again to cause problems, and Brendan will have to fight once again to keep his power. Now that Dawn has powers now, she will be a important in this arc as well. I just want to showcase her power since she just got it, and I love writing about it. I hope you all had a nice Christmas and continue to have nice ones in the future. See you next chapter!

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