"No, no, no this is not happening" Florian whispered to himself as he overlooked the school.

He wasn't the best with social interactions before but how the hell was he supposed to navigate this?

He enjoyed being a part of Team Star but he definitely didn't want to assault students and beat up their Pokémon.

He'd have to think this through but he was staring down the courtyard with a hoard of Team Star grunts being pushed by the crowd toward the school so thinking through wasn't an option.

Now that he was in the middle of the courtyard turned battlefield Florian felt it was best to try and slink off somewhere secluded and think of a plan.

So he turned a corner right into Arven.

Julianna didn't even notice anything was wrong at first.

Maybe that lack of sleep her friends were warning her about but she was only really focused on what Jacq was saying once he brought up her gym record.

"Wow very impressive Julianna" Jacq praised "You're the first person I've seen that's got Larry's badge that's not Nemona"

It was meant to be encouraging but it stung knowing the one person in front of her was the person who seemed like an unscalable mountain stung more than anything.

"Maybe if I trained more then maybe I'll get to Rhyme before Nemona does"

It was only then that she heard the screams.

Julianna rushed outside nearly getting hit by an Electro Ball straight to the face that broke the door behind her.

"Su it's her quick tell the boss!" somebody yelled scrambling down the pathway towards the basketball courts.

"Wait were they talking about me?"

Whatever the situation was Julianna pulled out Armarouge and Quaxwell, her best Pokémon for quick battles back to back.

As soon as Tulio and Rebelde were out of the Pokeball a group of Salazzle attacked with Venoshock that Armarouge and Quaxwell overpowered with Aqau Cutter and Psyshock.

She didn't see the Weavile aiming at her head with Triple Axle until it was late.

Julianna's vision went black when something cold struck the side of her head.

The sound of an attack whizzing by her was the first thing she saw when her vision came back.

"Que? Stay out of this you weirdo!"

A Sneasel lunched forward with Metal Claw the opponent Sylveon dodged the attack and knocked it out with Moonblast sending it flying back into its training.

"Low blows on someone's appearance if I recall that's not what Team Star stands for?" Julianna recognized that voice.

"Penny?"

"Julianna are you okay shit your head's bleeding"

"Oh ya something hit me in the head"

"We need to get you out of here Team Stars looking for you"

"Team Star!"

"Yes the fairy and fighting crew bosses want revenge for what you've done to them"

"Oh, diablos no I'm not gonna lay down and take that I need to stop them I'm not gonna let innocent people get hurt! Tulio, Rebelde lets go"

"Wait no Julianna come back we need to look at your head!" Julianna was already racing down the pavement to find these two.

"Wait Julianna stop come back I really need to work on my cardio" Penny panted as she chased after Julianna before having to stop and defend herself from a pack of Team Star grunts.

"Hay there she is!" another Team Star grunt yelled.

"Stunky use Sludge Bomb" Armarouge quickly overpowered the Stunky with Lava Plume before the grunt could leave Quaxwell got behind her with Aqua Jet cornering her.

"You tell me where is your boss?"

"Um ur the last time I saw them they were heading into the school"

"Good" Julianna dropped the grunt and stormed into the school.

"You, you're part of Team Star!" Arven shouted furiously.

That set Florian off anything accusatory like that always struck a nerve with him.

"Why do you care!"

"Because you're someone I know I'd like to think we know each other well enough to talk about something as big as this"

"We barely know each other I'm just helping you because it's the right thing to do!"

"Then what is joining Team Star is that the right thing to do huh? Do you know what some of them have said about me!"

"You don't know the first thing about Team Star. I don't know about your weird relationship with you're mother or Mabostiff so don't comment on my-" Florian had just gotten the words out when Arven's Cloyster was flung at him launching an Icicle Spear at his face.

Florian was flung onto the ground barely getting Naclstack out of her Pokeball to take most of the hit.

"Use Salt Cure!"

"Dodge it!" Cloyster was easily able to dodge the blob of salt.

"Use Shell Smash!" Cloyster surrounded itself in a white glow and then shattered it in a burst of energy.

"Use Salt Cure!" With Cloyster sitting in place Naclstack was able to land the Salt Cure.

"Now SmackDown!"

"Use Chilling Water!" the ball of cold water was easily able to overpower the SmackDown and knocked out Naclstack in one hit.

Florian throughout Tauros next although the bull charged headlong into Cloyster with Flame Charge letting Cloyster fire back with a Razor Shell dealing massive damage.

Enraged Tauros then fired a Stone Edge that Cloystr cut through with Chilling Water knocking Tauros out.

Half of his team was already down and if it weren't for Salt Cure Cloyster would still be near full health.

The lack of proper was really starting to show.

"Crocalor, Dolliv go!" Florian called in a desperate attempt to regain some control.

"Oh, so you want to use two Pokémon fine then Scovillian go!" Arven countered sending out Scovillian along with Cloyster.

"Use Fire Pledge and Razor Leaf!"

"Use Razor Shell" the boosted Cloyster was able to cut through the Fire Pledge and Razor Leaf with Razor Shell.

"Scovillian use Fire Fang" Scovillian bit down on Dolliv throwing her to the ground.

"Chilling Water and Energy Ball!" before Dolliv could be struck Crocalor got in the way to absorb the blow inadvertently swallowing the attacks in the process.

Crocalor began thrashing wildly as an intense white glow began to envelop his body.


Once inside the school Julianna, Armarouge, and Quaxwell had their guards up.

The school hallways were quiet despite the chaos outside.

It felt too quiet, Julianna knew something was up.

So when the Kingambit and Revavroom came at her with Kowtow Cleave and Spin Out the blow hurt slightly less.

Julianna recognized them as the Ace Pokémon of the previous Team Star bosses.

With a loud war call, Kingambit attacked with a Sucker Punch sending Armarouge slamming into a locker well Revavroom went for Gunk Shot firing a ball of purple poison at Quaxwell.

Julianna quickly threw out Tinkatuff blocking the Gunk Shot letting Quaxwell attack Kingambit with Low Sweep slowing it down.

Kingambit slammed into Tinkatuff with an Iron Head sending her flying into Revavroom's Flame Charge knocking her out but it gave Quaxwell the opportunity to strike with Aqua Cutter launching it into Kingambit.

Before the pair could get up again an Armor Cannon came out of nowhere and launched the two of them into a locker thoroughly burning it behind him.

"Julianna" Mela appeared from one of the other hallways with her Armarouge and Ceruledge.

"Mela, what are you doing here?"

"I came to get my Armarouge back Ortega and Erie stole them for this little scheme"

Kingambit got back onto his feet and slammed into the ground with Stone Edge that Armarouge and Ceruledge cut through with Dragon Pulse and Shadow Claw.

"Go find those two for me I can handle these. Last I heard they were in the gymnasium go find them!"

"You got it!"

Julianna raced to the gym seeing a crowd of people gathered by the doors.

"Julianna there you are!" her friend Cherry yelled pulling her to the front of the crowd.

"Oh, there you are what's happening?"

"That!" Nashi was standing in the middle of the gym his Yanmega, Sunflora, and Houndstone staring down Erie's Annihilape.

"Bulk Up!" Annihilape became surrounded by a red aura increasing its attack and defense.

"Megayanma Air Cutter! Kimawari Petal Dance!" the two attacks Annihilape bulked through the two attacks.

"Rage Fist" gathering a purple energy around its fist Annihilape smashed its fist into Nashi's two Pokémon instantly knocking them out.

"Hakadog Last Respects!" two balls of lavender aura for the fainted Pokémon formed around Houndstone launching the orbs at Annihilape, still the Rage Monkey Pokémon took the powerful ghost attack and one-shot Houndstone with Rage Fist.

"That's it I'm going in there!" Julianna began to walk towards the changing room door.

"What no Julianna you gonna get killed!" Cherry tried to stop her but the smaller girl was overpowered as Julianna snuck through the changing room door.

Nashi's Dudunsparce was last up thankfully immune to Rage Fist.

"Nokokocchi Glare!" Dudunsparce fired red beams from its eyes paralyzing its opponent.

"Drill Run!"

"Facade" Annihilape's boosted Facade overpowered Dudunsparce sending it rolling back.

"Close Combat" Annihilape rapidly punched Dudunsparce back into Nashi who went flying back into the wall.

"You need to train more if you want to stop Team Star," Erie said coldly as Nashi stumbled back onto his feet blood trickling down his nose.

Julianna threw her Toedscruel and Clodsire and ordered all four to attack.

Unfortunately, the yip of Ortega's Dachsbun gave her away.

Armarouge attacked first with Psyshock but knowing it was coming Annihilape blocked most of it knocking him out with Rage Fist.

Toedscruel and Clodsire attacked with Mud Shot slowing it down the Rage Monkey countered knocking both of them out with a max power Rage Fist.

"Tulio stop!" Julianna ordered to avoid her Ace getting one shot.

"Alright, now Aqua Cutter!" Quaxwell side-swiped Annihilape with Aqua Cutter.

"Facade"

"Dance around it then Acrobatics" Quaxwell was easily able to dance around the super-slowed Annihilape striking it multiple times.

Before Dachsbun tackled him to the ground with Thunder Fang.

Before Julianna could do anything she was pushed to the ground by Ortega's cane.

"Well, well, well so this is the Julianna I've heard so much about" Ortega smirked.

"I don't know what the others were talking about you don't seem like a very strong trainer" Julianna felt her back being stepped on by Erie.

"Typical you're just like all the other people who try and get in our way you act like you're strong hm but it's all a facade when the time really comes to defend what you believe in you crumble like an old building"

"Finish it off with Rage Fist" Erie ordered.

Dachsbun released Quaxwell from its jaws, and Julianna could only watch as Tulio took the full brunt of the Rage Fist.

But as the Rage Fist struck a strange light began to envelop Quaxwell.


End Credit Song-Red Desert by 5 Seconds of Summer

Ending on a cliffhanger because this plotline ended up going a lot longer than I thought it would.

Part 2 should hopefully be out soon because after that is the next Ash chapter so stay tuned