Khaos: Sorry 'bout the wait. Took me a while to think this chapter up. Here's the Magikarp - after Jasmine does the disclaimer, that is.

Jasmine: The following is a KhaosOmega fanfic. Though the Amethyst Angel name and appearance belong to Khaos, the girl portraying her, Anise Azeat, belongs to BROCCOLI, while Pokemon belongs to Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Incorporated, and Satoshi Tajiri. Please support the release.

Chapter 3: Random Problems in a Short Time

After a little looking around the trio found what looked like the mayor's place. Ryo calmly knocked, then walked in. Standing at a desk on one side of the room was a rather chubby man, Mayor Es Cade. Jasmine stated that she had fought two Cipher members off on her own after asking about the Shadow Makuhita now in Anise's possession.

"Trudly can be careless at times. Makes some big bloopers that his opponents usually take advantage of." Es Cade said. He was acting normal, then got a confused look. "Wait, did you say Shadow?"

"Yeah. According to what i had heard from Z29 before heading here, this is the earliest the name 'Shadow Pokemon' popped up. She would know, having once snagged one in GX halting another attempt from a then-Cipher-affiliated Alpha to kill an innocent ten-year-old for something she didn't do." Anise told him. "And as for that Makuhita Trudly had, i've now got it. Also, before you ask, that was one of several thousand Poke Balls i got on me thanks to Jet's Action Replay device."

"Well, how about you three try the Phenac Colosseum challenge?" Es Cade asked. The trio nodded, then set off. Once outside the colosseum they stopped.

"Ryo, you and Jasmine go in. Rochelle - that's the Z29 i mentioned - told me that after coming out of the colosseum here she managed to hold off three Snagem grunts who tried to ambush her. Never took a hit thanks to Solid Transparency and the fact none of those three knew the Omega Blitz technique - her now 3 trillion power level makes her immune to that move. I'll stand guard out here keeping lookout for those three." And with that, the two trainers native to that dimension - it was the GD system, Anise was an OZ native - entered. They walked out five minutes later, saying registration was closed. That's when three grunts from Team Snagem, Wakin in the lead - they looked far different than Ryo - turned up.

"Seriously, Ryo, you have a girl wreck the hideout, swipe a Snag Machine, and cause general mayhem while you're having lunch at that Outskirt Stand. Why i oughta -"

"It's not his fault you doofs couldn't handle the high speed and 8 quadrillion power level of XQ agent 07GA." Anise had interrupted the blabbing Snagem before he could say what he'd do to Ryo. The grunts were confused. Then something hit Wakin.

"07GA. That number sounds familiar. But where have i - oh you've gotta be BLEEPIN' me!" Wakin said, then the sound of another voice coming out of nowhere came out along with the thud of flesh on earth.

"RKO! Jasmine Mazaki just dropped Wakin hard!" Anise then walked up to the Snagems, held out her right arm charging an energy shpere, and told them to leave before she blasted one of them into oblivion. They didn't need telling twice, scattering before one of them was hit.

"What was that all about?" Ryo asked the two girls - he alone had stayed put during the confusion.

"He used one of Jet's lines. If we bump into him during this journey i'm tellin' him about that. Well, technically, Jet got that line from Ken Harrelson."

"How are we gonna get Poke Balls of our own?" Jasmine asked.

"Maybe the Outskirt Stand has 'em. Nice RKO, by the way - if me or Ryo had tried that our Snag Machines would have been damaged." Anise told them. After reaching the Zoomer (Anise pulled out her airboard) they were off, back the way they had come to Phenac.

"RYO, HOW FAST IS THIS CRAZY BIKE ANYWAY?!" Jasmine asked one minute in.

"I DUNNO! WANNA LISTEN TO SOME MUSIC?" Ryo responded. When Ryo said music Anise had already spawned the XQ Multitap System, Tech Unit 3536 - basically a system filled with various buttons. She pushed the one saying "Random Radio Station" and within seconds "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne started up.

"Man, Jet needs to re-work these "Random" series buttons - every time one's pressed something related to what was just said is the first thing to pop up." Anise said - Jasmine had called the Zoomer "Crazy Bike" and the "Random Radio Station" button on Anise's XQ Multitap System had turned to the station just starting to play Ozzy's signature song once the wine-red-haired OZ Rune Angel had pushed the button.

When they got back to the Outskirt Stand and walked in the trio stopped in their tracks. Kevin the Espeon quickly popped out of his Poke Ball with the three trainers staring at the jukebox. An unknown figure with upward-aimed spiky gold hair, green eyes, and silver ballet flats on was looking at the track list. This figure was angled so the back of his head (this was to Anise only, who recognized his power level; Ryo and Jasmine both thought this person was female from the front) was hidden. He eventually backed up and started playing an air guitar as the version of Blue Oyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" that became the signature track for the Star Hawkz started to play. 4 3/4 minutes in his left arm shot skyward so that the air guitar was held vertically and the fingers on his left hand suddenly became encased in cyan flames; another identifying factor to Anise. 'it's Jet, all right; only he can induce that color flame effect on a Star Power activation' she thought. Three minutes later the flames died down as the song ended and the XQ captain, in his Super Saiyan form due to lack of a lock of hair aimed downward (the identifying feature between that and its next level) looked at the trio watching him. Anise was able to read his first thought: 'Darn, left my Super Saiyan form on again. Don't know why i keep making that bloop.' Jet then cancelled the form, turning his eyes brown and his now all-over-the-place hair black. Also, he then pulled a blue Mario Bros.-based baseball cap with a blue J inside a white star on the front seemingly out of nowhere and put it on top of his head.

"Hey, Anise, how's ya know it was me first glance from the front side?" Jet asked the Amethyst Angel, who responded that she recognized his power level and that her two allies had originally believed he was female. "Yeah, almost everyone makes that assumption considering Ice Star made me dual-gendered."

"Why the heck were you angled so we saw the majority of your head's front side?" Ryo asked. Jet then turned a bit to his right, revealing three vertically-aligned green spikes under the bottom of his cap in the back of his dark hair, which reached his shoulders. "And what's this 'Ice Star' you mentioned?"

"XF Series Power Suit model, ice affinity, best option for dealing with Metroids as it kills 'em on contact." Jet told the two GD natives alongside his OZ native agent - Jet himself was from GX.

"That Metroid-related best option bit was due to their weakness to extreme cold, and isn't the XF Series the group of winged Power Suit models?" Jasmine asked Jet, who said "Right on both counts, miss."

"By the way, your name reminds me of two other XQ agents." Jasmine was confused on this one - she knew a GX native Pokemon trainer was one of her links but didn't know who exactly. Jet then revealed the two he meant as his older sister Hollie's friend Jasmine Bray - the GX Pokemon-related link Jasmine knew was one (Anise then revealed Hollie, the XQ second-in-command also known by her nickname Brazelica (which Jet had come up with) had been the one to teach her the Solid Transparency technique, which with her speed level enabled the speed training that occurred with it) and the other link was to an alternate name to agent Kyra Baxter's OZ counterpart - Anzu Mazaki.

"Oh, one other thing Anise." Jet said suddenly.

"What?"

"Cipher's got two girls you should keep a look out for. Both of 'em should be easy to locate as their Cipher thigh highs have Height Gap Factors a full inch over the normal three and a half inch limit. One of those two's heels have a two inch platform to them, the girl wearing them is a bit of a platform heel specialist. In fact, thanks to you she eliminated the original Imperius Amulet of D60's design, which ended up leading the creator of it to implement force barriers into the current ones, though thanks to Georgia we know they can't withstand an electric current entering the wearer's body from somewhere else."

"So i take it Stacy's one of them. Who's the other?"

"Here's a hint: Her hair color is the same as Natsume's."

"YOU FOUND KARA?! AWESOME!"

Two days later the trio made it to Pyrite, having headed off a possible attack on Es Cade by three mystery troopers (Jet had procured a third left-arm-mounted Snag Machine for Jasmine as the one he used was a right arm model due to being a lefty), the two potential kidnappers had Jasmine not kicked their seats, and a gold-suited, side-Poke Ball-afro'd man, Miror B.. Jasmine's Snag Machine was well-timed, as the three mystery troopers (Rosso, Bluno, and Verde) blocked the three exits out of Phenac. Wes chose Verde, Jasmine took Bluno, and perhaps the most dangerous of the trio in Cipher's eyes, the OZ native Amethyst Angel, Anise Azeat, battled Rosso. The troopers' names reflected which stage one Johto starter pokemon they had in Shadow form (Anise had called dibs on Rosso due to Jet having a preference for the Cyndaquil line, and Rosso had a Shadow Quilava (Cyndaquil's evolved form) on him). All three Shadow Johto starters were Snagged by the trio, Anise quickly downing her opponent because of higher-leveled Pokemon (Ryo's were in the mid-20s in level, as were Jasmine's; the ones Anise used were at least level 55).

While in Pyrite all three trainers Snagged two Shadow Pokemon each - a nearby chaser had been the butt of several Shadow Pokemon attacks and as they had been scammed into having them by Miror B., they wanted someone to take over possession of them. They would then learn, after Ryo snagged Cail's Shadow Furret (with the same scam story from before) that Miror B. had taken Duking's Plusle hostage.

"I'm sensing a really powerful trainer's gonna be in this next colosseum challenge, so i'll just sit out." Jasmine then asked if Anise had any Psychic powers, which she said she had. Upon looking at the bracket for the tournament the two entries from the trio were on opposite sides of the final round marker, but on the matchup at the other end from where Ryo saw his name was only one letter, identifying the powerful trainer Anise had mentioned.

X.