Once Team C-12 had left for their starting spot, Sasuke had walked over towards the line that the leaders had formed to get their starting spots and item bags. It was only a minute before Sasuke had come back and held a piece of paper. He slowly smiled and nodded to us.

"All right, we got our starting spot," he said to us.

"So, where is it?" Zev asked.

"According to the paper, it says that we're starting at the Pelipper Post Office," my brother looked at the paper and said.

"All right, then. We better head out there as quickly as we can," Batsu said as we all nodded and hurried to our starting point.

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It had been five minutes since we had gotten to the starting point, and all we did was wait for the siren to start us off. We had not even said a word since we got there, but wait patiently for it to go off. But then, King slowly started to fidget with his arm and then turned to Sasuke. It was then I started to deduce King hated silence…

"So, Sasuke," he said, catching everyone's attention, "How are we going to go about doing this hunt?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" Sasuke said, looking at him.

"You know, how are we gonna find the items, are we gonna attack other teams, that sort of stuff," the Charmeleon explained.

"Hmm, that is a good thing to bring up, and it's best we start to figure out before we start. Well, I guess we start with finding items. We need somebody to hold the item bag and collect them when we find them. While they do that, we all protect him," Sasuke said.

"I think Zev should be the item collector," I suggested, "I mean, he's the faster one and he can get items if they're in hard to reach places for the rest of us. Not to mention, he's the fastest and more agile out of all of us."

Zev smirked as he offered to take the bag and said, "I guess I'll be your almighty item collector if you want me to."

Sasuke smiled and gave the bag to him, "All right, Zev, we're counting on you. We'll give you the proper defense and protection as you go get the items."

"All right, now onto enemy teams," King asked, "What's our plan on them?"

"Well, are we talking about them attacking us, or the other way around?" Sasuke asked.

"Let's start with other way around," Batsu said, "To be honest, I feel that it's a waste of time battling other teams for their items. Sure, that may give us more than just scouting and we might need to near the final minutes, but other teams will be scrambling to get their hands on the free items. I suggest we focus on the items hidden, and then if need be, fight other teams."

"I agree. That's the best thing than wasting time with other teams," Sasuke nodded and agreed, "Now, our strategy for teams attacking us. King, Batsu; you two are the front lines. You're in charge of keeping them away. My brothers and I will be the next defense and Zev our last line. Since you two are massiver powerhouses of strength and speed, we shouldn't have anyone getting through at all."

"Sweet! I'm already getting pumped now!" Naruto said, wagging his tail.

"Oh, but you're gonna be major to us, Naruto," Sasuke explained, catching the Poochyena off guard, "We may need your nose through this whole stage; not only for finding items, but for the lookout of nearby teams."

"Okay! You can count on me!" Naruto proudly stood up and wagged his tail, grinning his little head off.

"And the last thing, what are we gonna do for items? What are we aiming for?" King asked.

"To be honest, I think that really we shouldn't worry about points for the first few minutes," Zev said shrugging, "We should just cram what we can find in the bag. If it comes down to it, we can split up and look for items faster."

"No, we're not splitting up AT ALL," Sasuke said emphasized, "We don't know how powerful any of the other teams are, and I don't want to risk one of our members falling to a trap, especially you Zev, since you're the bag holder."

"But what if we become one big target?" I said, "I mean, it might not be a good idea for all of us to just stay in one area together the whole 20 minutes."

Sasuke said, "If that happens, we'll think of something then, but for no-"

It was then the siren went off loud and clear. We all stopped immediately and looked at Sasuke who nodded as the adrenaline went through all our bodies.

"All right! Let's move!" he yelled as we all bolted towards the square.

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We basically entered the place and saw teams frantically start to grab items and heck, even attack each other. We looked as the battles were chaotic, even though they didn't attack the building and the teams controlling the chaos were there to keep order.

"We'll have no hope in getting points if we rush right into there, not to mention we could get lost," Batsu said.

"Then we'll have to go along the walls and borders for now!" Sasuke said, as he grabbed two blue crystals and a black one.

"Look, I found a red crystal!" Naruto exclaimed as I found a green one.

"Well, don't hang onto them! Put them in the bag!" Zev said, as he held it open wider for us.

We slowly went to the right and started to continue "scrapping the edges" of the place when we came across many blue, red, and white crystals. (Reminds me of that country called 'America' that Tucker said the teacher in Pokéschool claimed existed.) Anyways, Batsu and King went first to protect the group movement, Naruto and I followed them in order to attack or defend, and Sasuke stayed behind with Zev to protect the bag. We started to keep grabbing more and more until we started to get yellow crystals, which greatly improved our item total. It wasn't even seven minutes until we stopped to see a plush doll.

"All right, we found a plush doll!" Naruto said happily as he grabbed the Mudkip plush doll in his mouth and quickly shoved it in the bag.

"All right, sweet!" King said happily, "We've gotten more than half of 300 points and it's not even 'halftime' yet!"

"Hey, don't get cocky! We can get attacked at any moment, so be on guard," Sasuke warned us as he found another blue crystal.

"You're right! You should be on guard!" We heard a voice say to our right.

As I turned, I saw a Ivysaur fire Vine Whip at us at blistering speeds. King immediately stepped in front of the attacked and burned it back with a simple Ember. He grinned at the Ivysaur, who gritted his teeth at the pain as a Marowak, Gastly, and Spearow slowly appear behind him.

"We'll be taking those items you got right now!" Marowak yelled as it slowly readied its bone.

"Oh, is that right?" King grinned as he slowly advanced at him, "Well then, you better be prepared to back up that loud of a mouth."

"You… so you're King, C of Team A.C.T's brother… this will be such an honor taking away your items away!" the Marowak said as he charged at him.

"So you know who I am and you still wanna challenge me? Bad decision," King grinned as he readied a Fire Punch.

But just as he was about to strike his fist with Marowak's bone, Batsu had run right behind our teammate and kicked the back of his feet, knocking him off balance. King immediately yelped and slowly went down, dramatically missing his target, yet at the same time, causing Marowak to miss and be completely open. As King went down on his back, the Riolu swiftly charged an Aura Sphere and fired multiple shots, forcing the ground-type enemy back. The Ivysaur shot a Razor Leaf attack at the last Aura Sphere, causing it to explode and us to have a stand-off.

King gritted his teeth angrily at Batsu and with a hilariously angry face yelled, "H-HEY, BATSU, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR!?"

Batsu stayed in a fighting stance and kept his sights on the other team as he replied, "You know as well as I do that you're useless against ground-type. Please stay back."

King's head dropped in defeat as I rubbed my head, "Oh, right, fire-types aren't really effective against ground-types, aren't they?"

King glared at me and mouthed 'shut up' as he jumped up and was ready next to Batsu.

"Doesn't matter if you're strong. We're still gonna take those items whether you like it or not!" Spearow said grinning.

"Can't say that until you've done it! Let's do this!" Naruto said, as we all got ready to rumble.

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