Mars stood in the trashed office, growling angrily. While her grunts had wasted time busting down the door, someone had gone into the vent inside. Those idiots better have caught the person before they escaped, the Team Galactic Executive thought to herself, or else there will be hell to pay.

Mars had been pulled out of her thoughts when the doors opened. She turned to face the grunts that were cowering near the door. They better have brought good news.

"We're sorry ma'am," one of the female grunts whimpered. "Whoever that was in the vent managed to get away before we could intercept them."

Mars growled. "You fools!" She briskly walked towards the terrified grunts. "Do you not understand the importance of our mission? We can't afford any outside interference. The police may already-!"

Just then, Mars' tirade was interrupted by a loud, harsh laugh. A laugh that, to Mars anyway, seemed so obnoxious at that moment. Mars looked towards the person who continued to laugh like a maniac.

"The police Mars?" Charon giggled mockingly. "Are you really so concerned about those pests? The old man sat in a chair in front if the computers. "If so, then maybe we should actually begin the authorities come our way."

Mars growled angrily. She hated Charon with a passion; he always was so creepy to be around. It got on her nerves that he didn't seem to hold any loyalty for her boss at all. That alone was enough to hate him, but now was not the time to address those issues. Unfortunately, Charon was right. It was time to compete the mission. "You know what to do Charon." Mars left the office.

Charon took his glasses off and wiped them clean in his lab coat before putting them back in his face. He looked at the scientist that had been inside the office before they had broken it.

"Hello," Charon greeted. "You must be Dr. Jiri. My name is Charon and I've followed some of your research on renewable energy sources quite fascinating. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Dr. Jiri raised a skeptical eyebrow. "If our meeting were under different circumstances, I would probably feel the same about meeting you."

Charon giggled. Then he began to laugh quite loudly, everyone in the room nervously wondered about the man's sanity. Charon eventually stopped his chortling and smiled maliciously at the man. "Yes, I suppose we did meet under less than desirable circumstances," he admitted lightly, "but there really is no reason for this to be difficult for all of us. All my colleagues and I want is your recent research on alternative energy sources. Once have what we came for, you and that security guard will not be harmed."

Dr. Jiri wanted to refuse this man. Whatever he and these goons wanted with his research could not be good. These people were criminals who were holding him hostage.

But he knew he couldn't; he wasn't the only one who was being held hostage. Ben was a really nice guy. He and the Magnamites didn't deserve this. The doctor knew he had to comply, so he nodded his consent. He would do whatever it took to get through this. He still needed to stall for enough time for Adley to find some help. He nodded.

Charon, with his Cheshire grin, clapped his hands in demonic glee. "Excellent! Now why don't we get right down to business?"

"We need a plan," Lyssa said urgently. Everyone nodded. Adley, who was being carried by Diana, just silently cried on the older girl's shoulder.

"Well I say that we go over there and stop those guys!" Kori exclaimed. Chimchar and Oshawott nodded determinedly in agreement with their trainer.

"But Kori," Diana said, "I don't think this is something we can handle ourselves. We need to get Officer Jenny." Lyssa nodded in agreement.

"She's right Kori." Lyssa pointed towards the little girl. "It's too dangerous to bring Adley or Drifloon."

Kori slumped her shoulders in shame. In all of her eagerness, she hadn't thought about Adley or Drifloon. They couldn't be put in such a dangerous situation, but they were wasting time just standing here. They had to get Officer Jenny but that would take too much time to go get away.

Just then a lightbulb came on inside of the girl's head. Of course! Why hadn't thought about that sooner? Kori threw a pokéball in the air.

"Altaria!" Kori called. "Time to enter the fray!"

"Altaria!" The flying-type was released into the sky. Kori knelled in front of Adley, making herself closer to the little girl's level.

"I need you to get on Altaria's back."

Adley violently shook her head.

"I know that you're scared," Kori said. "Scared about what's happening to your dad. But you need to go find Officer Jenny."

"But I want to help Daddy!" The girl cried.

"This is how you'll help," Kori said firmly. "You need to get Officer Jenny so she can help too. We'll also help your dad."

Adley sniffles. "You promise?"

Kori nodded.

"We all promise," Diana said earnestly.

Lyssa grinned. "Yeah. We'll take care of the bad guys and Officer Jenny can haul 'em off to jail. No problem."

Adley slowly smiled. "I'm counting on you!"

After that, Diana carried Adley and put her on Altaria's back. Once Altaria and Drifloon had flown away, the three girls ran towards the Valley Windworks.

"Alright so what's the plan?" Lyssa asked. They were now standing in front of the Valley Windworks. Everything looks so peaceful; as if a bunch of crazy criminals hadn't just broken in and started taking hostages.

Kori shrugged. "What's wrong with just going in there and kicking their asses?"

Lyssa felt sweat drop from their temples. "Diana do you have a better plan?"

Diana pointed towards the top of the building. "There's a vent over there. It has to be the same one Adley said she and Drifloon escaped through."

Kori raised an eyebrow. "Yeah?"

Lyssa looked confused. "I'm not really following..."

Diana smiled. "If something were to attack from there, no one would expect it."

Kori and Lyssa's eyes widened and then they both smirked knowingly. Oh, they saw where Diana's mind was headed now.

Chimchar and Oshawott on the other hand, shared very confused stares. Just wondering, what their humans were thinking.

Mars growled impatiently. "When is Charon going to be done already?" She asked impatiently. Since she really didn't have the skill sets necessary to actually complete this mission, she had just surrendered herself to boredom. She was sitting in a seat just outside the office where Charon was hacking the data.

Charon. How much I despise him, she thought to herself. The man may have his uses within Team Galactic, but there was something wrong with him. He wasn't nearly as loyal to their leader as she was, yet he was given the same level of authority within Team Galactic as her... it made her blood boil. "He is such a nuisance," Mars growled, petting her number one partner. "Isn't that right Purugly?"

"Purug," answered a large, gray and white cat creature with yellow eyes and a spring-tail. Purugly purred deeply as Mars continued to pet her.

Suddenly, as Mars started to think about how bored she was at that particular moment, a loud bang could be heard. Purugly was on high alert. Growling, Mars had already gotten on her feet when one of the male grunts ran towards her.

"Ma'am," the grunt called urgently. "Intruders are breaking in to the building!"

"What?!" She growled angrily at the grunt. Then take care of them. Squash them like bugs!"

The grunt nodded in understanding. "Yes ma'am!" The grunt then quickly ran towards hr entrance. Once he was out of sight, Mars and Purugly shared a secret smile.

"Finally things are starting to get interesting around here," Mars said gleefully. "This is exciting, isn't it Purugly?"

"Purr."

The three girls ran into the Valley Windworks, each one sending out a pokémon.

"Chimchar be ready," Kori said, calmly to her partner. Chimchar nodded, then jumped off of Kori's shoulder to ready herself for the fight that was sure to come. Kori pulled out a pokéball off her bag strap. "Cherrim! Show 'em what you got!"

"Cherrim!" The grass-type was released and stood right next to Chimchar.

Diana threw one of her pokéballs. "Shinx! Please come out and help!" The flash pokémon was soon released.

"Shinx!"

"Now you come out too Bidoof!" Lyssa called, releasing her first Sinnoh caught pokémon.

"Doof!" The plump mouse pokémon came out of a ball of light. They all continued to walk deeper into the building, waiting for Team Galactic's ambush. After a while of nothing, they all began to relax.

"Is it just me or does security seem a little lax around here?" Lyssa asked, half- joking. Seriously, where was everyone? As soon as the thought made it to each one of their minds, a large group of people ran over to meet them. The girls immediately recognized the strange green hairstyles, the alien grey, black and white uniforms with the gold 'G' on the shirt. Team Galactic had finally come out of the woodwork.

"What do you brats think you're doing?" A female member growled angrily. She seemed to be the one leading the Galactic mob.

"We're stopping you," Kori answered calmly. "You don't belong here, so stop whatever it is you're doing here and leave or else."

Silence followed Kori's statement. After a few moments, laughter began to echo through the building. Kori became very ticked off when she realized that Team Galactic was laughing at her. "What the hell is so funny/'

"You are," the same female answered. She and her other comrades pulled out pokéballs off of their belts. "You actually think you can threaten us little girl? We're about to show you how wrong you are." All of the Team Galactic members behind the woman released large, blue bat-like creatures with huge fangs. The loudmouth older woman who spoke the whole time released a completely different pokémon. A metal disk with yellow eyes that floated high off the ground, Kori and Diana pulled out their pokédex; because they were outnumbered, it was really important that they knew exactly what they were dealing with.

Golbat- the Bat Pokémon and the evolved form of Zubat. It has four sharp fangs and emits supersonic waves more powerful than Zubat's.

Bronzor- the Bronze Pokémon. Implements shaped like it were discovered in ancient tombs. It is unknown if they are related.

"Time to deal with these children," the woman grunt sneered. "Bronzor use Hypnosis!"

"Oh no you don't!" Kori yelled. "Chimchar use Ember!" Before Bronzor could attack, Chimchar opened her mouth and spit out bright, red flame at the other pokémon. Causing Hypnosis to fail. The steel-type was very tired.

"What?" The female grunt asked stunned that her pokémon was already so weak. She pulled out another pokéball out of her belt and threw it, releasing another Golbat. Kori wasn't surprised, bad guys never play fair anyway.

There are too many of them. We need to attack first, to have the advantage, Lyssa thought. "Bidoof use Hyper Fang!"

"Doof!" Bidoof launched himself into the air, at one of the other Golbats, biting on it with its large fang.

"Gol!" It yelled in pain.

"Enough!" A new voice, male said. "Golbat use Air Slash on that annoying rodent!" The Golbat that had been attacked flapped its wings. A blue orb was formed and it hit Bidoof, throwing him into a nearby wall.

"Doof!" Bidoof cried out in pain. Lyssa ran towards the downed pokémon to check to see if he was okay. The Golbats all began to Air Slash in their direction.

No! Kori thought. They would not hurt her friends. "Chimchar use Flame Wheel! Cherrim use Magical Leaf!"

Diana had exactly the same thought. "Shinx use Thundershock!"

Flames came out of Chimchar's mouth, engulfing her in the flames, just like a normal Flame Wheel at first. Suddenly, Shinx's Thundershock hit the Flame Wheel. Both Kori and Diana had panicked at first; they couldn't afford to take out their own team after all.

But the Flame Wheel, now surrounded by the blue electricity from Shinx's Thundershock, still managed to attack the swarm of Golbat. The Golbats cried out in pain as they were burned and electrocuted at the same time. They were not able to recover by the time Cherrim's Magical Leaf came to deal them damage. Those Golbat that didn't faint right away had taken too much damage to be very effective in battle. The Team Galactic grunts growled in annoyance. How did three brats manage to overpower them? They all thought as they returned their pokémon.

Good Kori thought. That meant that the only pokémon left to deal with was the Bronzor.

Except the Team Galactic were grinning. No one understood why until they released more pokémon. Crap. The girls pokémon were tired already. They could see how Chimchar's fur was a little singed. Kori just wanted this crap to be over already, but these bastards had more pokémon. Some sent out more than one pokémon. The girls gasped when they noticed the miniature army that was in front of them. How the hell did four pokemon stand a chance against that.

The new pokémon that came out were different from the Golbat. Along with some more Bronzor, there were some pokémon that they had never seen before.

Stunky- the Skunk Pokémon. It protects itself by spraying a foul smelling liquid from its hindquarters which lasts for twenty-four hours.

Croagunk- the Toxic Mouth Pokémon. Croagunk has poison in its cheek sacs and can spray poison from its fingertips. It also makes noise by expanding its poison sac.

"End of the line children," The woman leading them said. All three girls and their pokémon braced themselves to do combat, when they all heard the explosion. All of the grunts turned their attention to it. The girls smiled. At least the plan was working.

Oshawott, Turtwig and Corsola continued on their way inside the office. They had to be ready for what was about to happen. Oshawott turned towards his two friends, wondering if they were ready for what was about to happen. "Oshawott?"

Turtwig nodded. "Twig."

Corsola smirked. "Cor." They were all ready to follow their trainers' plan. Oshawott, satisfied worth their answers, led them through the air vent. After a little while, they could finally hear voices.

"Honestly Doctor," a voice said. Oshawott thought that the voice sounded male, very gravelly. "How long should it take to upload your complete research? My patience is wearing thin."

"Most of this has multiple security protections. And the different computers. It's difficult for even me to access it."

"My, my," the first voice said, "That is quite a lot of security." Oshawott didn't like this voice at all. The person speaking just seemed too... what was the word Kori said one time... smug? Whatever the word was, Oshawott just didn't like it at all.

The other voice sounded more... defeated. "I wanted to make sure it was protected from thieves like you," he responded angrily.

"So much good it did you." The three pokémon walked where the voices were coming from. Oshawott could see light coming out of some gated opening below them. Oshawott looked down. The one who spoke last seemed to be a very old, human man, wearing some sort of while coat with some sort of white coat with some skirt of strange symbol. Oshawott also noticed that there were a lot of other humans and pokémon behind him. And they all seemed to be ganging up on one human who was sitting. Oshawott really didn't like that at all. Time to put these bullies in their place. After signalling to the other two Oshawott opened the vent and jumped down, attack one of the pokémon. It was purple, with yellow eyes, orange cheeks and white wrappings. After Oshawott hit it with his Razor Shell, the other pokémon cried out in pain.

"Cor!"

Corsola came down and attacked the human and pokémon Galactic members with Water Gun. Turtwig hit a few of them with a powerful Energy Ball, hitting a group of large Zubat like pokémon.

The older man, standing in front of the pokémon who had began attacking his men. For the first time since this mission began, the man was frowning severely. The trio of pokémon all felt their blood run cold when Charon began to growl on anger, "Take care of these pests." The Galactic members and their pokémon charged at them.

"OSHA!" Oshawott hit them all with his strongest Scald, burning them.

"Cor!" Corsola followed with a Water Gun, forcing them all to retreat.

"Twig!" Turtwig flipped and starter cutting them all with his Razor Leaf. All three pokémon were ready to do battle.

"What the hell was that?" One of the Galactic members asked, after hearing the explosion.

Lyssa carried Bidoof back to the group. All of them sporting very big, foxy grins. It seemed that their plan was working.

"You idiots!" Everyone turned towards the female voice. It was a young woman. Probably in her late teens or early twenties. Her red hair was cut in a short and strange hairstyle. A strange black and white dress with a striped white skirt. Her blood red eyes sent a horrible shiver down Kori's spine when they looked at her. "Trapped by children?" The girl whispered almost to herself. "Pathetic." She spared a glance at the grunts. "Go help Charon! Our mission can't be jeopardized!" The grunt gulped nervously. "Yes ma'am!" They saluted and ran. The girls and pokémon tried to follow the grunts, but a large, striped cat pokémon got in their way, taking a battle stance. Kori pulled out her pokédex.

Purugly- the Tiger Pokémon and the evolved form of Glameow. By rounding its tail around itself, it can appear to be bigger, and when locking eyes with another, it can stare forever.

"You're not going anywhere children," Mars said menacingly.

That's what she thinks, Kori thought. "Chimchar use Flame Wheel!" Chimchar performed the attack and she had made her way towards Purugly.

Mars smirked. "Dodge Purugly."

"Pur." Purugly dodge the attack with a lot more grace than Kori had thought it capable of. Surprised that she missed, Chimchar reverted back to her original form.

"Now use Body Slam."

Purugly came down, very hard and very fast, nailing Chimchar right under itself.

"Chimchar!" Chimchar cried out in pain. She tried to get out from under the overgrown cat, but no matter what Chimchar did, it didn't work.

"Cherrim use your Tackle!" Kori yelled.

"Cher!" Cherrim charged at Purugly, collided with it and pushed the tiger cat pokémon off of her friend.

"Good now use Magical Leaf!" Kori commanded. Cherrim attack with Magical Leaf. Kori finally noticed that Diana and Lyssa were still standing, looking unsure about what they should do. "What are you waiting for?" Kori exclaimed. "You have to help the other pokémon. We'll keep them busy!"

Mars grinned. "That's what you think. Purugly use Fury Swipes!"

Purugly's claws glowed when it attempted to unleash the attack on Cherrim.

"Chimchar use Iron Tail!" Chimchar got up off the ground flipped and hit Purugly with her glowing tail. Diana, Lyssa and their pokémon took it as their queue to leave. "Cherrim use Magical Leaf again."

"Purugly use Shadow Ball!" The dark, purple-ish ball collided with the glowing green leaves, somehow canceling out the attacks. "Now use your Iron Tail!"

"Pur!" Purugly jumped high in the air and flipped. Before Kori could even give a command, Purugly had already hit Cherrim on the head with its own glowing tail. "Gly!"

"Cher!" Cherrim cried out in pain. The blossom pokémon felt very weak from that attack. It felt like Purugly's entire weight was brought down upon her. Cherrim struggled to get back up again.

"Cherrim get up!" Kori yelled, in encouragement. "Chimchar help out!"

Chimchar struggled to get over there to help her friend, but it was difficult. Ever since she had been hit with Purugly's Body Slam, she had been feeling odd. And using Iron Tail has only made that feeling worse; now she could barely move. Something, like electricity, sparked around Chimchar. Kori gasped.

Mars smirked. "It seems that your Chimchar is paralyzed. Purugly hit Chimchar with your Shadow Ball!"

Purugly opened its mouth and fired the attack at Chimchar, whose eyes widened. She couldn't even dodge.

"Cherrim use Magical Leaf!"

Cherrim released the leaves. Mars just continued to smirk.

"Purugly dodge and use Body Slam!"

Purugly jumped into the air to dodge. The glow I g leaves went under it at first. Mars smirked in triumph, the she became confused when she saw Kori smirk as well. Mars finally understood why when the Magical Leaf seemed to follow her precious Purugly in the air, causing damage to her pokémon, before it could use Body Slam. Mars growled in frustration. "What?"

Kori continued to smirk. "Magical Leaf can't be dodged. It'll just follow you that way."

Mars growled more angrily. "You must think you're pretty clever... Well I'm about to wipe that smirk off your face! Use Body Slam again!" Purugly jumped into the air, ready to slam onto Cherrim.

"Cherrim dodge!" But it seemed much too late, Purugly was coming down too quickly and Cherrim was too tired to dodge. Chimchar growled, frustrated by her paralysis. She couldn't move her body, let alone use Flame Wheel. Chimchar breathe in deeply and blew, hoping that the Ember attack would still work. Once the attack began, Chimchar got the biggest shock of her little life.

Instead of the small, orange little embers, a large stream of flames came out of Chimchar's mouth. The flames were so powerful, it caused major damage not only to Purugly, but it also caused Chimchar to be thrown off balance and fell hard into the ground.

"Purugly!" Mars ran towards her pokémon, concerned. She turned towards Kori. "I'll make you pay for this."

Kori became very concerned. Cherrim had been seriously winded and Chimchar, although performed a powerful Flamethrower, took a lot of damage. When Mars returned her Purugly to its pokéball, she realized that no one works be able to help her if the older, bigger, STRONGER LOOKING girl got physical with her. The thought kind of scared. She gulped when Mars got closer to her. She was done for...

"Mars!" Both girls turned towards the voice. An older man had just come out of the office that Lyssa and Diana had just come out, along with a large posse of Team Galactic members. "Stop playing with this child! The mission has been completed and now it is time to leave already." The man and his group just walked past Mars, Kori and Kori's pokémon.

Mars growled. "That Charon... how I hate him. No one gives me orders..." Mars whispered, more to herself than for Kori. Once she was done, she glared at Kori. "Next time you won't be so lucky." With that, Mars walked past Kori and left with the rest of them. When Kori was sure they were all gone, she went to check on her two very tired and injured pokémon. It really scared her, to know how outmatched they had been.

Diary entry, July 1st, 2007

Officer Jenny and her reinforcements eventually made it to the Valley Windworks, but it was already too late. Team Galactic was already gone; including Mars and that strange old man who carted her away.

They ended up taking our statements about what happened in the Valley Windworks. The police first took us all- Diana, Lyssa all of the pokémon, Dr. Jiri and me to the Pokémon Center back in Floraroma Town. Right where we had started just this morning. Can't believe it has been less than twenty-four hours.

While most of our pokemon were being taken care of by Nurse Joy, I was reunited with my Altaria and Dr. Jiri was reunited with Adley. We all got comfortable in the lobby when Officer Jenny and other police officers started asking us all of these questions.

"What happened?"

"How did we get involved in this?"

"How many assailants were there?"

There were other questions asked. All I did was answer to the best of my ability. When they asked me what happened inside of Dr. Jiri's office, I said that I didn't know. I had been busy with Mars and never actually went into the office myself.

As soon as I said the name Mars, a middle age man walked over. He was a man with black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a brown suit, purple tie and brown trench coat. The man made some hand gesture to the officer taking my statement and the officer went somewhere else. The man introduced himself as Agent "Looker" (an obviously made- up name).

Anyway, Looker asked me a lot of questions about my "involvement" with Team Glactic. I angrily told him that I wasn't involved with them at all.

Looker quickly apologized for offending me, he explained why he was interested in Team Galactic. Apparently they are a very ruthless organization, who believed they can somehow bring the two legendary pokémon: Dialga, the controller time, and Palkia, the controller space, to use their power for some nefarious scheme. It sounded too crazy to me. How did they even think they would accomplish that?

Anyway, Looker works with the international police to stop them. And Mars and the older man, whose name is Charon, were two of the four commanders of Team Galactic. They were basically the higher ups of the organization. Lookers says we were all lucky that we weren't seriously harmed.

I can't help but agree. Cherrim and Chimchar were seriously outmatched by Purugly. If it hadn't been for Chimchar learning Flamethrower, I don't think Purugly would have been caught off guard and defeated like it was.

It seemed like no matter how many of our attacks hit Purugly, it was able to get up and give my two pokémon a hard time. Apparently, Diana, Lyssa and the pokémon who were in Dr. Jiri's office had as hard a time as we did. They were outnumbered, and between them, the pokémon were all pretty injured. Corsola had been poisoned, Oshawott was burned. The injuries were numerous and what did we really have to show for it? Team Galactic got away with whatever they were after. Plus we ended up in the same place we started!

But at least Dr. Jiri is safe and sound. That means that Adley doesn't have to worry about her father anymore. She and Drifloon can go back home. And once the pokémon recovered, we can finally get to Eterna City. And if we ever run into Team Galactic again... we'll be ready for them.

-Kori

Kori's Pokémon

Chimchar (female): (FLAMETHROWER, ACROBATICS, IRON TAIL, TAUNT, FLAME WHEEL)

Altaria (male): (SING, STEEL WING, AERIAL ACE, COTTON GUARD, MIRROR MOVE)

Oshawott (male): (SCALD, AIR SLASH, RAZOR SHELL)

Cherrim (female): (MAGICAL LEAF, PETAL DANCE, SUNNY DAY, TACKLE)

DUSKULL (male): (MEAN LOOK, DARK PULSE, NIGHTSHADE, WILL-O-WISP)

Lyssa's Pokémon

CORSOLA (female): WATER GUN, ROCK BLAST, BUBBLE)

BIDOOF (male): (HYPER FANG)

Diana's Pokémon

TURTWIG (male): (RAZOR LEAF, EARTH POWER, BITE, ENERGY BALL, SYNTHESIS)

SHINX (male): (SWIFT, TACKLE, THUNDERSHOCK, SCARY FACE, SPARK)