Thanks to Martyn, Blue Kitten, and joycewu333 for reviewing!

Martyn, thanks for the idea! I didn't use it this chapter, but you're right, the story does need some humor.

Sorry, Blue Kitten, the battle's still not here yet! I really like planning things, so today's just the plan. And Sky isn't a clone of Blue, she's a clone of a random Sinnoh girl. So Sky looks like the Sinnoh girl, and she trained to be like Blue in skill. Thanks for everything!

joycewu333, thanks so much for the compliment! I love Rick Riordan and you have no idea how much that means to me! Also, I definitely see what you're talking about with the problems in the story. I'll have answers for you soon! And yeah, the Antis won't have personalities similar to the Dexholders. Also, I want to clarify something for you: Tianna doesn't exist. She's just a name the Anti-Sapphire made up for the whole group, so they would have a name to represent them. If you rearrange the letters in "an Anti", you can get Tianna. That's all she is, so she won't have any motive or affiliations. Thanks so much for your suggestions!

Thank you, everyone, for reading! And as promised, this chapter is actually on time!

I jumped out of my sleeping bag, hand on Ninetales' Pokeball, as a Butterfree gently set down a person and a Pidgeot dropped a whooping passenger unceremoniously on the ground in a flurry of feathers. Dittos melted off their frames and became purple blobs again, revealing Silver and Gold. The other Dexholders and I relaxed when we saw who they were.

Gold leaped off the ground and puffed out his chest. "Fear no more, because Gold is here! With my awesome strength and dashing good looks, I'll- Yo, pretty lady! What's your name?"

Crystal immediately kicked him and I pulled a Pokeball out of my bag. "Call me Sky," I said, as I threw the Pokeball at him. It hit his chest and exploded into purple goo that formed a chair around him and sealed his mouth shut. He tried to protest by waving his arms and making unintelligible sounds, but my Ditto absorbed his body into the "chair" until only the top of his face showed.

"Anyway, now that Gold and Silver are here, I can tell you the plan."

"The plan for what?" Silver asked.

"Wait, haven't you guys been attacked by the identical guys with Mantines?" Crystal asked.

"No, what are you talking about?"

We quickly explained about the organization trying to kill us all and how I had a plan to help defeat them.

"Okay… So what is it?" His eyes studied me and I could tell he hadn't decided to trust me yet. But Blue was going with it, so I counted on her to keep him in the plan.

"Well, I was waiting until you and Gold came, so I wouldn't have to repeat it again, but here it is. Gardevoir, sweetheart, could you help me a little?"

My Gardevoir popped out of the Pokeball and used Psychic to move sticks and leaves into the shape of the plane I remembered so well. "The hatch in the back of the plane here," I said, gesturing to the sticks, "is always open. I think it broke some time ago and the master hasn't repaired it yet, for whatever reason. So that's where we'll fly in and disguise ourselves as grunts. We'll go up through here," I said, pointing at a small stairway, "and then come up on the second floor. I'll leave you there and you'll go to the end of the hallway, where you'll find a battle room." The sticks rearranged into a floor plan of the battle room. "There's ten battlefields, two rows of five. The Antis will come out and challenge you all, except for Blue, because I won't be there. Each Anti will choose whichever one of you they have trained all of their lives to defeat. Don't argue, just go along with their choices. They might think something's wrong if you try to battle someone different. Defeat them, but treat them as you would any other opponent. They've been mislead to believe that you're evil, and they're trying to save the world. You'll have to be the kindest you've ever been to start breaking that belief," I said, with a pointed glance at Gold, who started his muffled protests again.

"I'll teach you how to defeat each of them, despite all of their advantages. So today, we're going to train and tomorrow, we'll set out. Any questions?"
"What will you and Blue do?" Emerald asked.

Blue and I shared a glance and smiled. "Blue will be at the door of the battle room to make sure no one comes in and I'll be on the third level, battling my master," I said, pointing at the top of the sticks, which had gone back to the plane model. "There's only one room up there, so you won't have a hard time finding me. Blue and I will stay in contact the entire time, so if you need me, tell her. Also, keep calling me Sky. The Antis hopefully won't suspect that it's me you're talking to."

"So when we beat our Anti, we just go up the stairs and help you?" Crystal asked.

I hesitated. "No, the battle will have to be between me and my master. Heal your Pokemon and guard the way to the top level so no grunts try to get me. And send my friends up when you've defeated all of them."

"Why, you want more opponents?"
"No, I want to start challenging their beliefs. If I beat up the master, then hopefully they'll start to realize that he isn't all that he's told them he is. Anything else?"

No one said anything, so I moved on. "Let's start training, then."

I wasn't very worried about the Dexholders as I walked among them and watched them train with each other. Yellow, Crystal and Ruby all had huge advantages over their Antis because their battling skills weren't exceptional. So, the Antis had slacked a little, training their Pokemon only just enough. But if Yellow merged her spirit with that of her Pokemon, and Crystal trained under Green for a while, and Ruby actually battled instead of worrying about his Pokemon's fur, then they'd be okay. The Anti-Red was convinced that only training would help defeat Red, so basically, he took Green's approach to battling. Red had defeated Green enough times that he would know what to do with the Anti-Red. Green's opponent had taken Red's approach to battling: be friendly to your Pokemon and battle often. However, the Anti-Green didn't put much importance on training, so Green's levels were much higher and his Pokemon were much stronger. Those Dexholders would probably win their battles.

I was worried about Sapphire, Emerald, Gold, and Silver, though. The Anti-Sapphire was a formidable opponent. She might not be as athletic as Sapphire and she had no gym badges, but her Pokemon were tough. Considering Sapphire's low win to loss ratio, which was significantly lower than many of the Dexholders, the Anti-Sapphire probably had the upper hand in a battle. If Sapphire could turn her physical strengths into battlefield strengths, then she would win. Her only hope lay in the luck of the battle and on her quick thinking. Emerald's bond with his Pokemon wasn't as good as it could be, he still tended to treat his Pokemon like robots instead of living things. I paired him with Red for a while, then switched him to Yellow so he could see how close bonds between humans and Pokemon could get. Hopefully that would help him, along with his level head and innate skill. Gold was reckless, and as a result, the Anti-Gold was prepared for anything Gold might come up with. He needed to be unpredictable and yet not lose his head during the battle. Silver's opponent had stronger bonds with his Pokemon than Silver did with his, and the Anti-Silver had stronger Pokemon.

And of course, all of the Antis had Pokemon specifically picked and trained to defeat each one of the Dexholders' Pokemon. The Dexholders had overcome greater obstacles than type advantages and strong opponents, though, so I told myself I wouldn't worry about that.

Yet I still worried. Everything hung on my part. I was sure the Dexholders would win at least a majority of their battles, but if I didn't win mine, what use was their victory? Their battles would have been fought in vain and they'd still be threatened with death. Besides, the fate of the Antis who lost would be far worse. We learned early on in our lives not to displease the master.

Blue called me over for a sound check. "Here, you'll have an earpiece," she said, handing me a tiny black circle. I put it in my ear, and she kept talking. "I'll have a mic, and your Gardevoir will do the rest, right?"

"Yeah, that's how it should work," I said. "Gardevoir will let you know if anything changes."

"Okay, go stand over there," she said, pointing to the other side of the clearing while fastening the mic to her shirt. I understood immediately. She wanted to test the mic system not to see if it worked, but to see if it worked at a distance with a lot of noise. Blue positioned me so that all of the training (which was incredibly loud between Sapphire, Gold, and everyone else) would be between us.

I walked carefully, dodging a laughing Sapphire and Ruby's brush, the only thing fast enough to catch up with her. Then I hopped away as Ruby came through, chasing Sapphire and yelling at the top of his lungs, stopping only to pick up his brush. Eventually, I made it through the chaos of the Dexholder training grounds.

I gave Blue a thumbs up, and she immediately turned away so I couldn't read her lips. "Can you hear me?" she asked. I let Gardevoir out and we talked back and forth for a few minutes. Then she told me, "Silver's coming over to talk to you."

"Hmm? What does he need?"

There was a moment of silence on her end of the line and she sighed. "You know he doesn't trust you. He has some questions that he didn't want to ask in front of everyone else."

"That's okay," I reassured her through Gardevoir. "I wouldn't trust me either, but I'm glad you guys did."

"Well, I can't say I'm unhappy we trusted you. I'll wait till the battle to decide whether this was a good idea or not."

I laughed just as Silver appeared beside me. "Can I ask you something?"

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