Fumbling slightly as he tried to grab at the small objects in his pocket he decided it best to talk while finding Weezing to fill in the silence.

"Ok, what do you need him for?"

"I have an idea, I'll explain more once we find the pokemon till then just get him ready" accepting the cat's answer he pulled out a small ball pressing a button on the front making it grow.

"He's ready" a smirk crossed Meowth's face at James' words he kept his eyes trained on the spot the noise came from and sure enough movement caught his eyes.

"Now, throw him" he whispered across to the boy who nodded quickly throwing the ball towards the darkness guessing that was where the pokemon was. Bursting from the ball was a strange shape three uneven balls attached to one another. The shape was surrounded in white light and as the light faded it showed a purple creature, presumably another pokemon.

It hovered in the sky a gloomy look on both of its faces.

"Weezing" James called over to it in a quiet voice. Turning at the sound of the familiar voice it waited for a command. Looking down to the cat he silently asked what to tell him to do.

"Get him to use smoke screen." Before he could ask what it was for he added "we can't see who it is but we can see the surroundings, so can they, if we block out their surroundings and make it difficult for them to breathe we can grab them both" nodding to show he understood he whispered across the command.

"Weezing you heard him, use smoke screen."

"Weezing" it answered before a cloud of black poured from its mouths.

"This is going to work I can feel it" James told Meowth as Jessie punched his arm coughing into her hand.

"You idiot, I can't breathe" she choked out as she stepped back.

"Pikka" the small pokemon asked her as it looked up at her the smoke surrounding them, trapping them, cutting off the little they could see.

"I'm ok, come on we have to hurry" as she was about to move the creatures little hand stopped her as it grabbed at her shirt.

Its big black eyes bore into hers as she looked down at him.

"It's ok, don't worry they won't get you." Seeing it was still scared and the smoke was closing in on them she added "I promise" she had her doubts that it would work but the baby seemed to accept it curling into her and burying its head under her head. With the baby content to cuddle into her, allowing her to protect him, though she doubted she would be much good.

Looking around trying not to get frantic she managed to find a spot that had the thinnest amount of smoke. Taking a deep breath on the only clean air that she had left she dropped to the ground crawling on one hand and knees towards the clean air. She could hear movement behind her and was silently thankful that with the loss of her sight, the smoke was blinding her, her hearing had improved.

Keeping her eyes down on the ground to reduce the amount of smoke filling her eyes she crawled along trying not to cough or breathe in anyway. If they were giving off the smoke then they could most likely see better than her in the smoke, though she wasn't too sure.

Clamping her eyes shut after finally realising they were only causing more harm open she kept crawling hoping with everything she had that they were having as much trouble as she was. If not then she was in trouble.

"Pikka?" He asked again.

"Shh, it's ok, just stay quiet" she shushed him as she cradled the small pokemon closer, feeling it grip her even tighter and wedging his head further under her head "just stay quiet" she muttered, more to herself than the small pokemon.

"Pikka" he answered his voice muffled against her neck.

Speeding up slightly though not letting herself get careless she rushed across the floor, careful to not break any twigs. She guessed they would hear even the smallest of sounds.

"Stay calm, I promise it'll be alright." The first part was directed more to herself as she almost head butted a tree, only just skimming her arm with it. The second to the frightened baby in her arms, she should have just let it stay then none of this would have happened and she wouldn't have to worry about being kidnapped.

"Meowth, I think I just heard something" Jessie whispered to the pokemon by her side.

"Where?"

"Over there in the direction Weezing is facing" she answered before staring into the smoke more focused on one spot, the spot she knew the sound came from. "I think I heard talking, and I think it was a girl" the idea that it was a girl made Meowth think.

"That makes it more likely that she knew the pokemon," he stated looking into their confused eyes, he explained further. "If it was a boy that would make it more likely that they had just been wandering around and came across the pokemon and decided to have it as an exotic pet. A girl though would mean that she had found it before but somehow it left and she felt guilt in a way"

"How'd you figure?" James asked not understanding how he had come to that conclusion.

"Humans from this world seem to behave a lot like the humans from our own world" he started "it's only natural I suppose but the simple explanations are the ones that are right most of the time" as he explained the two seemed to be connecting the dots and nodded their head once he had finished.

"That makes sense, but do they react the same way as the humans from back home?" James asked as he motioned to Weezing to move around a little so he could see, nothing but black smoke.

"No way to tell, but by process of deduction I can guess that it will be very possible for them to behave like our humans, if that is true then we can catch them all the easier. We'll be able to tell how they behave." With the reassurance that this could be more straight forwards than they had initially thought they started to move in, enclosing the spot they were ninety per cent sure the human girl was hiding in.

She had barely passed the first line of trees when she heard the distinct sound of twigs snapping; they weren't being quite as careful now. They must know where she was. Giving up on trying to make it through the easiest part she stood changing her plan from smart and slow to using nothing but pure speed and her one free hand to feel her way around.

Her lungs were burning from being unable to breathe thanks to the thick smoke that engulfed them. Trapping them though also shielding them.

She was blind and airless, though she kept running banging into trees and making more than a lot of noise. Clearly showing where she was but she didn't care the Pikachu was terrified, it was but a baby. As she looked down she hadn't noticed the thinning in the smoke, and it wasn't till she had made it to a completely clear spot did she finally take notice of her surroundings.

She let out the breath she had been holding and started to fill her lungs, taking but a moment to breathe before she realised that they would have heard her. They already knew where she was, the general direction, and with the amount of noise she had made they probably were only a few feet from her.

She stayed still for a moment, listening as well as she could with her irate breathing.

"I heard her Meowth, this way."

"I know you heard her we all heard her, she wasn't exactly quiet. She must be panicking, getting sloppy, shouldn't be too hard now" they were really close now, only a meter or two away from her.

Looking around once more she could catch a faint glimpse of whiskers sticking out of the smoke. There they were. If it had been the day they would have already gotten her in their grips. Giving the terrified pokemon one final glance she started to run, with her new found visibility, partial, she could see the outline of the trees.

Not going for her run blindly strategy she stared into the darkness, staying quiet, easily able to hear the whispers and small snaps. Not letting it faze her she found the clearest path she could see. The furthest distance between the trees and the one in the longest line.

"There she is!"

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