The Dotted Hole Ruins

[Chibi]

"Right!" Chibi had shouted at Vyala. "Vyala, go help Skydive take care of that cluster of Marowaks and-WHAT THE HELL?!" She shouted as the ground began to shake. "Who in the name of Arceus is dumb enough to use Earthquake here?!" She yelled.

"Vul!" Vyala barked, pointing a paw upwards. Chibi looked up to see the friend of Cody, who had been crying at the Pokemon Center earlier.

"Oh." Was all Chibi said before she was picked up from the ground. Her first reaction was to scream, but she reconized the rocky texture of the claw on her back and relaxed, allowing Skydive to carry her up further. Vyala leaped into the air as if she had just grown wings of her own and was caught by Chibi. The trio watched as the Dark Pulse ripped open the ground below them as if a huge claw had just come down and gouged open the ground. "Sheesh. Aren't things getting a little out of hand?!!" She shouted at no one in particular, flashing an extremely annoyed glance at the trainer.

But apparently, that was not the only extremely stupid and dangerous stunt he was about to do. A bright flash of light was the only warning they got before chaos gained control of the situation. The Foretress that had caused the Earthquake unleashed a powerful Solarbeam, then began spinning around and around like a crazy wheel of death. The whitish beam tore up the ground more than the Dark Pulse. Things soon became deadly, when it hit a large rock from Skydive's Rock Tomb and began spinning crazily out of control. It cut through the sky and clouds alike, incinerating anything foolish or unlucky enough to get hit. Suddenly, Skydive let out an earth-shattering roar as the beam hit his wing and most of his torso, he dipped sharply and began to fall towards the ground. Chibi thought she saw it also hit a Sableye, but then matters turned to terrifying.

Chibi could not help but scream at the top of her lungs as the destructive beam slashed at the air inches away from her face, her skin was burned just by the sheer heat of it, and the end of her red hair began their own inferno as the beam singed them. Somehow, Skydive managed to rotate to where his back was pointing down, and crashed to the gouged ground, his passengers in his claws were unharmed. Chibi and Vyala were more shaken than hurt, but it was soon replaced by fury.

"HEY!" She screamed at the owner of the Foretress. "THESE DON'T GROW BACK OVERNIGHT!!!" She held out her still-smoldering hair for him to see. Before she could say more, the owner of the Sableye also exploded, putting everything Chibi was feeling into words. When he finished, he said something to a Starmie, which then caused roots to spring up from the cracked ground and take hold of the Marowak and hold them tightly in place. Chibi had seen the move before, even teaching it to Sapwood, she turned away from the effects of the Grass Knot and went to Skydive's side. The Aerodactyl was making moaning sounds, his purple and gray wings were crupled underneath his body like crushed paper, scorching burns covered almost two-thirds of his body.

It was impossible to tell whether it was rainwater or tears running down Chibi's face as she gazed at her injured friend. Vyala let out a whine and gently nudged a section of Skydive's neck that had not been burned black; she grieved along with her owner. Chibi slowly and gently unclipped Skydive's Ultra Ball from her vest, almost as if she were in slow motion. "You did great Skydive," she whispered, enlarging the ball, "I'll heal you at the Center." Skydive barely moved as the Ultra Ball returned its cargo back where it was safe from harm. Chibi whirled around, rage inflaming her jade eyes. She wanted to find the person responsible for this and wringe his little pencil neck. Vyala growled and spat out a few embers, where they sizzled on the wet ground. She scoured the area, looking for the trainer.

Lucky for the person responsible though, Daytime lopunny, Lala, came running up towards Chibi, snapping her out of her murderous thoughts. Lala stopped in front of them, looked around, behind Chibi, even picked up Vyala looking for something. Or rather, someone. "Okay Lala," Chibi said, clipping the Ultra Ball to her vest and taking out a Luxury Ball. "Hammy's not hurt in any way." She opened the ball and released the small electric pokemon again, who looked quite pleased to see Lala. In fact, he jumped onto her wrist, ran up her arm, and perched on top of her head between her two ears.

Vyala grumbled as she was put back down and glanced at Chibi, whose eyes looked faintly amused. Hammy stretched his neck and scanned the whole area, as if just remembering where they were. His black eyes took in the destruction, then glanced at Chibi with a "Whoa. What-happened-here?" look.

"I'll explain at a better time." Chibi said, also glancing around to see if anyone needed help.

(Yes, it is very typical of me to get pissed off about my hair before thinking about more important matters. And Kal's one lucky person...for now.)

 

[Kalseng]

The yelling was oddly gurgled. Kalseng's mind was damn near swimming. He could see everything, he could hear it all, but only the pokemon were important. He saw them all held down, he saw everything that got hurt. He saw that certain pokemon were more unhappy or upset than others. But Kalseng had a thought. He had left his Electrike at home, which left him with a sweet pokemon. He pulled out a heal ball from his bag, and tossed it in the air. He realized that that wasn't the only thing, and tossed another ball in the air. A Chimeco and Girafarig came out, each at a high level.

"Chimecho, please. Go check out all the pokemon that have been hurt, and heal them with heal bell." Kalseng kindly asked. The pokemon smiled and nodded, and ran off to tend to the injured pokemon aside from the Marrowak. "Girrafarig, please, use Wish on any trainers that are hurt, like Chibi." Kalseng said, gesturing to the trainer. Girafarig looked down at Kalseng's arm and closed his eyes, his feelers glowing. "Ah, ah, ah. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk." Kalseng said, placing his head on the feelers. "Not me. This'll be a reminder to not use Rapid Spin and Solar Beam on rugged terrain, kay?" His Girafarig hesitated, shifting from foor to foot before nodding and walking off to the trainers.

Chimecho first approached the Sabeleye and his trainer, chiming happily for the injured pokemon. The wounds almost melted away with the sound, his body's pain melting away. Chimecho chimed happily and flew hurriedly off to an Aerodactyl.

Girafarig's first concern was Chibi, who had totally wrecked her hair. It wasn't that much of an issue, but if Kalseng said it was, then Kalseng was right, and Wish would be used. Girafarig closed his eyes and his feelers glowed a purple color, and an aura surrounded Chibi. The aura faded, and girafarig made a noise of joy, and walked off to find another trainer. Wish was an odd attack. It healed trainers and pokemon, but in odd ways. Such as over-night healing when something would take weeks, or extreme luck at getting money for something to fix the problem. It was almost better than payday.

Chimecho hurriedly ran along and found Chibi as well. The pokemon had terrible injuries, according to Kalseng. Chimeco could feel the pokemon inside gritting it's teeth in pain. Chimecho quickly dashed to the Ultra Ball, and it glowed as Chimecho used Heal Bell. He could feel the pokemon inside slowly gaining its health back, and Chimeco floated away.

-A few heals and Wishes later...-

Kalseng was riding his Honchkrow back to the pokemon center, his face heating with tears that rolled down in streams from his face. Kalseng felt his sense of time and placement roll back into perspective, and all the shouting had scared the crap out of him. That area would be torn up for good, but Kalseng was more concerned about the two trainers. The one trainer had screamed about not being able to control, but it wasn't his fault. Kalseng hadn't seen any rocks jutting up from his Earthquake attack, and the field looked clear. Foretress was even levitating. Klaseng didn't understand.

Chibi had screamed about her hair, and Kalseng had felt so bad about it. Hair was an important thing, and without that Wish attack, I don't think it wouldn't have grown back for months, maybe even years.

Kalseng wiped away another hot stream of tears as he approached the pokemon center. He returned his Honchkrow to its dusk ball, and he trudged inside, until he found his room. Kalseng turned on the hot water in the shower until the room steamed up. He stripped down and stepped into the shower. It was nice and hot, so Kalseng sat down in the shower, hugging his knees.

How could water be so hot, yet so cold?

 

[Cody]

Cody just stared. A beacon of pure solar energy had shot-no ripped through the sky, tearing clouds and Pokemon. Worst of all, it was Kalseng. If Silver hadn't leaped back onto Cody's shoulder, he would have taken a solid hit from it. For this, Cody was truly thankful.

"Silver....let's go..." Cody mumbled. He took one last look at the ravenged area, and walked up the cliffside. He saw what could have been Chibi, but kept on walking. The rain continued, and the skies seemed grayer. The mood on the field went from excitement, to anger when the attack had gone wrong. He pulled an Ultraball out of his pocket, and threw it into the sky. A fierce dragon appeared, Dream, ready to fly back to the Centre.

Cody sat on the lone bed of his room, and flipped the T.V. on. He managed to find the local channel for Battle Network, and kept it on there. It appeared to be the Semi Final round of a local Kanto Tournament. He pulled his laptop out from his backpack, and dragged it across the pale blue comfortor of the bed. The screen was quickly loaded, and he logged onto his Pokemon Storage account. He placed several Pokemon back in, and took a few out.

Cody reached for his PokeGear, and tried to call Kal, but there was no answer. Deciding it was best not to worry, Cody turned off the laptop, and focused more on the battle on the T.V. A Purugly agaisnt a Skunktank. At the moment, it was about even it seemed.

Silver went back to sleep, rather tired from the battle before. He was curled at the foot of Cody's bed, slightly hugging Cody's extened leg.

 

[Sem]

Sem watched as his Sableye's Dusk Ball glowed with healing power, provided by the chimecho of the same trainer who had caused the injury.

The Psychic-type gave off a hollow and melodic sounding chime before hovering away to other wounded. Sem's eye twitched again as he watched it go. "Well, at least he's trying to fix things." he murmured as he pressed the red button at the center of the green-spotted, black ball. The dusk ball expanded and opened, releasing dark-energy that formed into Sableye's figure.

The Ghost-type shook his head a bit before looking around with his enormous eyes, no smile visible on his face. "Welcome back." Sem said as he looked down at his friend. Sableye cackled as if he were threatening against the whole of the world itself and then perched himself upon Sem's right shoulder.

The trainer took a look around, adjusting his goggles a bit before walking out towards the rest of the trainers, making sure he stepped around whatever rubble he could, making hardly a sound. Other trainer's seemed to be doing the same, and some were leaving the war zone towards the center, or so Sem assumed.

He heard sloshing up ahead and looked up to see a female trainer with striking white hair and a vaporeon as well as a sneasel walking beside her.

"Hey, everyone in your party ok?" Sem asked as he approached her.

 

[Kalseng]

Kalseng stepped out of the shower and dried off, water still dripping from his bangs. He took the blow drier from the table and dried his hair, examing the scar forming on the burned flesh covering his arm. He tied a bandana round it, flinching as the bandana touched his skin. He might talk to the nurses later. It was a small burn, maybe two inches long. It was no more than a centimeter across. Kalseng hovered about his clothing before dressing himself.

His pokegear rang, and he glanced down. It was Cody, calling from his room. Kalseng noted the location, and traversed the ahlls, until he came upon thee spoken room. Kalseng stood a few moments in the hallway before knocking on the door. He wated a few moments before the door creaked open. "Kalseng?" Cody asked, his face puzzled.

"Cody... I'm so sorry..." Kalseng sort of fell, his brain still swimmy from the battle. Kalseng made an attempt to stand, but still fell into Cody softly. He was conscious, but his brain swam. Cody didn't fall over, combined from how light Kalseng was and how very little he actually fell.[size=10pt][/size]

 

[Cody]

"Must it come to this EVERY time I see this boy?" Cody thought to himself. He didn't meen it really, it was a light-heareted thought.

Cody pushed Kal upright. "It's fine, come in, sit down..." Cody sighed slightly, walking back to the bed, and pulling a chair over for Kal. "Everything's fine, I'm sure." Cody said, wincing as he accidently hit his left arm with hir right, trying to grab a soda. He threw one at Kal, not even thinking to offer.

"What'sup?

 

[Plapti]

Both Jet and Sophia noticed the Grass Knot attack. With the effect of their eyes, they found the source of it. A trainer that was blind in one eye and had a Starmie that knew the attack. They knew that the Starmie wasn't to be toyed with. He was one powerful trainer. The attack from the Starmie tied all the Marowaks down, effectively ending the battle.

Two trainers left, one left right after the Chimecho healed some of the injured Pokemon, both on flying Pokemon.

Sophia noted that neither of them would be able to help her on her mission.

"That's that," said Jet, as he looked over Fachion, Buizel and Blade's injuries. "Well, that out of control attack was the most pointless thing ever." Jet put emphasis on most pointless.

"It was interesting to say the least, Jet," replied Sohpia as she looked over Golduck, Matris ,and Weavile's injuries. "It's been a long time also Jet. What have you been up to?"

"Nothing much, but really, I'd like to see the injuries taken care of. I don't think I'll have enough medicine to do that," said Jet. "Anyway, what are you up to?"

"Working on a case. Y'know that explosion? I was suppose to take care of that. And I was going to, until I dropped by here. Anywho, it's the same group from before," replied Sophia.

"You're joking. Not those annoying Black Hand Ops dudes again. They really got to stop trying anything. They'll be run into the ground quite quickly," remarked Jet. "Last time I saw them, I knocked out about three of their Commanders. And their Pokemon sucked too. Couldn't dodge a single thing or launch an effective attack."

"They're better this time. A lot better. The only reason I'm still here is because my eyes went past the first stage. Way too exhausting though," she said panting, with heavy sighs in between each sentence.

"Agreed," said Jet, who began to sound tired as well.

And with that, both of their eyes changed colour again, back to the one blue and one green eye again.

"What's the next part? We're taking them down right?" asked Jet.

"You got it. If we get the help of the others...well it'd be somewhat less challenging. But, are they willing too? Otherwise, it's just you and me," replied Sophia.

"Well, we could explain what is going on and see if they're willing to. Some of them sound like they are." responded Jet.

"Let's see," responded Sophia. "We'll have to catch up later."

And with that, the two went to round up the trainers that were still left to gather in a big group, so the two of them could explain the situation.

 

[Pheonix]

Things had blown way out of proportion at an alarming rate. It seemed that as more trainers arrived, more and more large scale attacks were thrown out. First ice, then fire, then rock, then ice again, water, and it ended with a crazy dive-bombing Forretress that tore up the battlefield with what looked like a massive Earthquake/Dark Pulse combo.

Burlane had been holding his own, but things were getting a little to hectic for him. Too much was going on for him to worry about anything but his little corner of the battlefield. Argent, Screech, and Alysandra were holding back the tides with well placed Waterfalls, Hyper Voices, Avalanches, Ice Beams, Psychics, and Magical Leafs. When another enormous Flash went off above the battlefield, Burlane figured there had to be something big coming. He couldn't hear anything over the rain and the sounds of battle around him. Just to be safe, it was time for a full on defense.

"Argent, Screech, overlapping Protect now! Ali Wish just in case!" It was a good thing he had gotten those commands out because not a second later, a huge careening Solarbeam was fired off, spinning crazily and sweeping across and through the battlefield then up into the sky and back down again. As if flashed past his trio, the duo Protect just barely held, both Argent and Screech straining with the effort of not letting the attack through. It ended almost as suddenly as it began, but the effects were immediately apparent. There were still a few very angry Marowak around, but the area was completely torn asunder. It looked like a bomb went off, and then an earthquake, and then another bomb. Burlane stood there stunned, not quite believing how things looked. His Pokemon just stared about sadly in wonder, completely ignoring the remaining battle (which by this time looked to be finished by an impressive use of widespread Grass Knot).

"How can we have been so careless to let something this extreme happen? All we needed to do was calm down the Marowak, not destroy their home in the process. Seems like some of the trainers here just want the glory of a victory, no matter the cost." Burlane mumbled to himself. "I just hope we can do something to fix this, both for the Marowak and for my conscience." He noticed the remaining trainers slowly gathering themselves together to do something about the aftermath. He slowly plodded over while recalling his pokemon.

 

[Plapti]

"Since we're all here, and the Marowak coming down and attacking us brought us together, I've got a request of you all," started Sophia, with Jet standing beside her. "The explosion earlier that sent the Marowak down the cliff, was cause by an organization. They're not well-known, but they are very dangerous. They're known as the Black Hand Ops. As of right now, they're after one thing. The Emerald Plate. It has incredible power, and if they get it, they'll be able to wipe out all of the Sevii islands, and the Orange Islands as well," finished Sophia.

"On top, they are very strong now. They have multiple bases. Their biggest one is on Six Island. If reports are right, their main base is by Altering Cave, but they have a field base but the Dotted Hole Ruins, right by the site of the tournament," added Jet.

"Oh yes, the tournament is canceled as of right now. The agency I work for closed the tournament. Professor Oak and Professor Elm were taken to One Island, where Celio and Professor Ivy are researching and analyzing the relationship between between the Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald Plates," Sophia noted. "I have a favor to ask of you. I've got a plan to shut them down, but I'll need all of your help. Plus the duo that left earlier, we'll need someone to alert them. It will be a two pronged attack. We'll have four people take out the headquarters by Altering Cave. The rest of us will take out the base close by. Once that is done, the rest of us will all gather and look for the Emerald Plate......and then destroy it."

"If any of you don't want to participate, I ask that you step back now. Otherwise, we need to get the operation started. Time is of the essence. We need to hurry before the Black Hand Ops find the plate and wipe out the islands and kill everyone here," said Jet.

"And don't worry, all the preparations if you choose to accept, have been made. The terrain here has been damaged, both Jet and I know. The agency I work for will deal with the environment here. They'll restore the environment. They'll deal with the Pokemon as well. My job is to eliminate the Black Hand Ops. I've been somewhat successful at that too. The bases on Six islands are the last two strongholds of the organization. That's it. Like Jet said before, if you don't want to help, the choice is up to you. Otherwise, I'll assume you'll be helping," finished Sophia. "Oh yes, if you really want that tournament, I'll see what I can do about that," added Sophia after she finished her rundown.

And with that, a couple helicopters suddenly appeared with supplies for the operation. It also dropped off a few squads of men to help restore the landscape here.

"Make up your minds now people. We don't have all day," nagged Jet.

 

[Carmen Lopez]

Giselle had just gotten the words "Oh, yes, everyone is fine" out of her mouth before Jayce's sister, Sophia had begun to speak and everyone listened attentively. By the time she finished, Giselle was shocked. It didn't feel real, rather it felt like something right out of a TV show. Of course she wanted to help, but she wasn't sure if she actually would be of any help. But as she took a look around at the ruined land , at the once beautiful valley, she made up her mind to do it. Maybe this organization was the real reason all of the Pokemon in the valley were so agitated. Giselle turned back to the trainer only just realizing who he was.

"Oh! Wait! You're the trainer with the Starmie!" said Giselle, excitedly. "That was awesome what the two of you did back there. I'm very grateful that you ended it all that madness."

The helicopters overhead, which were slowly lowering to the ground, were kicking up a lot of wind in the darkness (OOC: I'm going to assume it's still dark). Giselle looked up and saw that the night sky was the only beautiful thing here right now. She took a Sinnoh style (meaning it's far more high tech than it needs to be) flashlight from her bag and turned it on to see her surroundings better. The damage in the valley was thrown into sharp relief by the LED flashlight but she also saw some men who were discussing ways to try to reverse the devastation.

"Oh," said Giselle to the trainer, remembering. "What's your name? And will you be helping out here?" She was secretly hoping he'd say yes.

 

[Sem]

"Oh, yes that was me," he blinked. "Thank you." he said kind of awkwardly with a bow of his head. "And I'm happy it's all over... well, the marowak ordeal anyway, seems like we have new problems now." he turned and faced the female trainer who had approached them and started thinking about all she said.

Sem shielded his eyes as the helicopters descending onto the wasteland, dropping off men to take care of the marowak and the ruined area.

"Oh," started the white-haired girl. "What's your name? And will you be helping out here?" she asked.

"My name's, Sem" he held out his hand. "Nice to meet you." he shifted his gazed to miss-matched-eyes-girl saying, "As for your request for help... sure, I'll help." Sem said. He hadn't heard of these Black Hand Ops before, but he's had history with another criminal organization, due to his parents. "I'll volunteer to go to the Altering Cave location, as well as stop by the center along the way to notify the the two that had left, Starmie needs a healing anyway."

He turned to face Giselle again, "You wanna come with?" he asked.

 

[DayU]

Daytime caught wind of what was going on, since Kalseng and Cody left before Daytime could work his way over to them, he tried to get to Chibi, but was stopped by Jayce and the girl Daytime had a bad past with asking for other trainers' help. He thought it over for a few seconds, then remembered the only reason he came here was for training, and this seemed like a great opportunity.

Since Lala seemed to be playing with Hammy by Chibi, he knew it was safe to leave her with Chibi until this operation or whatever Jayce was talking about. Since he didn't get the full gist of this, as usual, Daytime asked, "So will this simply require our participation and complete attention, leaving us to do as you tell?"

 

[Kalseng]

Plopped down in the chair that Cody had pulled up. He looked up at the man. They had been friends for almost three years now, watching Kalseng grow from age 12 on up. Kalseng knew that he could talk about anything, but it felt weird, y'know? This guy had watched him shift from his practically bipolar identity to this one person, but it still felt funny. He could at least explain why he felt unhappy. "It's because," Kalseng started. "I hurt so many people today. I hurt so many pokemon, and nearly obliterated the home of over 3 dozen pokemon. Moreover, my Foretress hurt herself fighting for me." Kalseng looked away from his twiddling thumbs and back up at Cody. "All because I didn't see some stupid rock, y'know?" Kalseng stood up and walked over to cody's sink, pulling out a pair of hot-chocolate packets.

After mixing the drinks, Kalseng wandered over to the window, taking small sips of the chocolate as he walked. "I mean, I saw you and Silver nearly get obliterated by my solar beam. How can I not feel bad?" Kalseng asked, a short, depressed sigh following the sentence.

 

[Chibi]

Only a minute or two ago time had slowed down to almost a complete stop, and now it suddenly seemed to have gotten its act together and sped up to an abnormal pace. First a Girafarig had trotted over to her and surrounded her with a purple aura, her hair suddenly grew back and looked a little glossier than it did before. Her face itched and she carefully laid a hand on her cheek and noticed that the blisters that had formed on her face as a result of the close encounter with a Solarbeam were no longer there. Then a Chimecho had come over and sang over Skydive's Ultra Ball, a move Chibi reconized as Heal Bell. As proof that she probably was very close to her pokemon, she could practically feel Skydive's injuries fading. The pokeballs on her vest twitched, the others were worried, they knew something was wrong.

"At least he's making up for it." Chibi muttered, as she shrunk the Ultra Ball and carefully clipped it back to her vest, as if making a move too careless could harm the pokemon inside.

Daytime seemed to be heading towards her, probably to reclaim Lala, when a trainer that Chibi had seen earlier whom she thought bore a strange resemblence to Jet began to speak. She explained about something called the Black Hand Ops, and how they wanted something called the Emerald Plate, and how they could wipe out all of the Sevii Islands and the Orange Islands as well. Chibi frowned as the girl continued her narrative, even playful Hammy stopped to listen.

The rapid beating of a helicopter caused her, Vyala, Hammy, and Lala to all look up at the darkening sky. The sillouette of a helicopter could be seen in the distance, coming closer with every second.

"Make up your minds now people," Jet said or rather, nagged. "We don't have all day."

"Of course." Chibi said instantly, along with some of the other trainers. "If it weren't for them, this whole thing would have been avoided. Trainers and pokemon have been injured by this, one of them being my own."

Now the helicopter was right above them, it dropped some supplies and some men began hurrying out, probably to help out. Hammy went back t running up and down Lala's body, tickling her sides with his tiny paws. Vyala made an inquisitive noise at Chibi. In response, the human shook her head and looked at the men, wondering what they were doing.

 

[Carmen Lopez]

"Oh, sure, I'd love to!," answered Giselle immediately. She breathed a sigh of relief. Sem looked uncomfortable with her compliment was glad that he wasn't angry with her. Giselle thought about waiting for Jayce, but he looked as though he was preoccupied with the mission at hand. If he wanted to know where she went, he could find her easily. Giselle white hair was finally starting to dry.

"You know, I never introduced myself," said Giselle. "My name is Giselle Valentine and these are my Pokemon Lluvia and Alano," she indicated her Pokemon. Lluvia was still surveying her surroundings while Alano, at home in the darkness, was showing off his claws.

"By the way," Giselle voiced what was on her mind to Sem. "There's also an Altering Cave in Hoenn. Do you think it's connected with the Altering Cave we're headed too now?"

 

[Plapti]

"Yes, Daytime," answered Jet

"Very good then. So Giselle, Sem and myself will take out the HQ with the pair that left early. The pile of boxes over there are full of supplies for us. They include some random stealth gear, rations, and most importantly, enough medicine to stock a shop for a day," stated Sophia, who began to issue orders.

"It'll be best if you move in small groups, no bigger than three, when you get there. It'll be faster and much more effective." said Jet.

"The rest of you will head to the Field HQ by the Dotted Hole. You've got the other pile of boxes to use," reported Sophia.

"Now, before we go, who has a Reflector? I know Daytime and Giselle have one. So, that just leaves that pair that left early without one. Each group should have one Reflector. It will come very handy for the operation," stated Jet.

"Expect some battles along the way, they won't go down without a fight. Report your status every ten minutes or so once you arrive, it'll be easy for us to keep track of our progress," Sophia said.

"Giselle, Daytime, if you would hand me your Reflectors, I can program something useful to them, the voice activated recognition system. Once it recognizes your voice, that auto computer will run things just by your order. And only you can use it. Only Sophia and myself have override codes to bypass the voice recognition system," explained Jet, as he pulled another Reflector out so it could be given to one of the people from the other pair.

Sophia shouted to some random men, "You guys brought the portable Pokemon healing machine right?"

"Yes ma'am!" a random guy shouted.

"Very good then," Sophia replied to the worker. 'These guys have to loosen up a bit. I'm not that old.' She looked back to the group. "It's a portable Healing Machine. It will heal your Pokemon right here. Once they're healed, move to the designated area, and begin," she explained.

 

[Sem]

Sem nodded to Giselle and her pokémon as she introduce herself and them, and then shrugged at the girl's question about the Altering Cave in Hoenn. "I dunno. I bet they very well could, but at the same time they could be totally unrelated."

The boy listened as the two mis-matched-eyes trainers explained what would be going down. After they were done Sem went over to the crates as instructed, and took whatever equipment was handed to him. He then made his way to the "portable pokémon healing machine" with Starmie's dive ball in hand and placed it into the machine. It whirred for a moment before humming down back into silence, dive ball popping out of it.

"Well that was fast..." Sem mubbled as he put the ball away. Turning to Giselle and Sophia he asked, "Shall we be off then?" He took out Foul's pokéball and released the fearow. Once he had situated himself on the bird pokémon as before and Sableye was positioned well, Sem gave the signal and the fearow took off into the air, away from the rubble, helicopters, and people rushing about.

Within minutes the soft glow of the island's town shone on them as they descended to the Pokémon Center in order to inform to two who had left earlier. Sem did not know their names so he could not ask the good nurse to tell him which room, but that wasn't an issue.

"Find them, Sableye." Sem said, turning his head slightly to see the Dark-type on his shoulder. The Sableye grinned big and rushed into the wall of the center, phasing through it as if it simply were not there to begin with. Sableye was a stealthy thing, but not invisible, and he was incapable of rendering himself as such. Though most of the rooms were dark, so he might as well have been invisible anyway. He maneuvered with ease, not being hindered by walls and doors, searching each room for signs of life while his trainer and the other trainers waited outside.

A few minutes passed and Sableye reappeared out of the exact spot he disappeared into.

"Any luck?" Sem asked. Sableye flashed a pure white grin as he climbed back onto his spot on his trainer's shoulder. "Great." he responded and walked through the sliding glass doors of the medical center.

He walked past rooms and through hallways, guided by his ghostly companion, until Sem reached a specific door. He thought he heard voices inside but wasn't sure. He knocked softly three times before leaning against the wall opposite the door, right hand clutching his left arm. "Let's hope this goes smoothly." he whispered with his head down, dark hair obscuring his face.

 

[DayU]

Daytime listened to Jet and Sophia's instructions as best as he could. Since this sounded important, Daytime wanted to help more than before. After all, he did owe gratitude to Jet for giving him a Reflector, even if Sophia took his Rainbow Pass. The mission didn't sound to complex, so no one seemed to reject it.

When Jet asked, ""Giselle, Daytime, if you would hand me your Reflectors, I can program something useful to them, the voice activated recognition system." Daytime did as told and asked, "by any chance, is there any weapons of any kind enabled in the Reflectors? Like some kind of energy field or laser?"

While Daytime waited for Jet's reply, he quickly returned Lala way over from Chibi, to Hammy's dismay, and put her, Flygon, and Sealeo's balls in the healing machine. They all deserved to be healed after the trauma that took place only a few minutes ago.

 

[Plapti]

"Thank you Daytime. And there are some form of weapons. Experimental ones. Highly unstable and drains the battery quite quickly though. The Force Barrier is at the point of almost being ready for testing. All it does is it reflects Pokemon attacks and thrown objects so you don't get injured, otherwise, the other options are experimental," explained Jet. "There's a powerful laser pointer though. It should be seen from about 1 kilometer away."

Jet began to work on Daytime's Reflector and hooked up his own Reflector to Daytime's in order to do it.

"Jet, let me and Giselle teleport to Altering Cave with Tripudium. It'll be faster that way. She can teleport back to you once she teleports us there," asked Sophia. "Also, give this box to Daytime. He'll understand when he opens it," asked her once she pulled a box out.

"Of course, sis," replied Jet.

"Giselle, once our Pokemon are healed, we can pick up our supplies from the box, and pick up your Reflector from Jet," said Sophia.

Sophia turned to Sem before he left and mentioned that Giselle and herself would be right behind him.

OOC: Forgot to write something to reply to Day's answer.

 

[Chibi]

Hammy squeaked as Lala was returned to her pokeball and Daytime walked away. He squeaked a second time when a similar red matter surrounded him and sucked him back into his Luxury Ball. Chibi put the blackish ball back onto her vest and held out Vyala's pokeball.

"You need to get healed." Chibi said as Vyala gave her a "You're-kidding-right?" glare. Vyala snarled, more in agitation of Chibi having a better point and grudgingly allowed herself to also be called back into her pokeball. Following Sem, Chibi also took whatever was handed to her and went over to a giant machine that was most likely the portable pokemon healing machine. She dropped Vyala's pokeball and Skydive's Ultra Ball into it. You could never be too sure about your pokemon's injuries. In what seemed to be seconds, the two balls were deposited out of the machine. Chibi released Vyala and clipped both balls onto her vest.

It would have been useful for Chibi to have brought her lime green bookbag with her that had a total of forty-eight zippers on it, but she could manage this load. She situated her load and turned around as she heard two more balls inserted into the healing machine. She turned around to see Daytime. "Shall we go then?" The words were out of her mouth before she knew who spoke them.

 

[Pheonix]

Burlane had listened to the crazy explanations by the (what looked like) siblings. "So it is all the fault of an evil organization. Huh, how cliche can you get?" he thought to himself. "But they do need to be dealt with and I'll be damned if I am going to stand around and do nothing."

"I am in for whatever you need me to do." Burlane heard the incoming helicopters before he saw them in the darkening sky. The rain had finally started to abate. It was clearing up and all that was left was a soggy mess on the ground. The helicopters landed and several teams of men sprang out and started unloading equipment and what looked to be a large portable healing machine. He walked over and stood in line while others healed their injured pokemon. Burlane put his three normal pokeballs in the machine when it was his turn, waited a short moment for the inevitable Ding, then retrieved them from the bin they had been spit out into.

He then started rummaging through the supplies and equipment piled around, not really knowing what he would need, but figuring that he should at least know what his options are. Hoping that one of the two in charge could at least give some directions, he turned and asked, "So... what exactly is the plan for the rest of us? What all do we need to worry about here?"

 

[Plapti]

Landscape wise, nothing. The crews were dispatched to deal with it. We have to finish off the organization," said Sophia.

"As for the actual plan, I'll be explaining it when we get down there," replied Jet.

"Any unused supplies can be teleported through via the Reflector. And any goons or Pokemon you meet, you are authorized to eliminate them, by death if necessary. I really don't think we'll need to kill them, so disabling them should be fine. Everything you might need, should be in those boxes. From headsets to backpacks to medical supplies, it's all there. Stock up, 'cause once you get there, there will be no breaks and little time to rest," explained Sophia.

"Pretty much, espionage, followed by chaos and mayhem in taking them down and then a cup of tea to top it off," remarked Jet, to Sophia's chagrin.

"Jet, you like the chaos in mayhem, but the sup of tea is stretching it a little, isn't it?" asked Sophia, who sounded like she heard this one before.

"You know it. Isn't that why we're siblings?"

"Yeah, I know. Just hurry up and finish those modifications!" cried Sophia.

"Fine, fine. Just quit nagging," said Jet while he finished tuning up the Reflector.

 

[DayU]

As Jet and Sophia continued to pretty much repeat the same stuff, Daytime was gathering supplies. The bag he had was designed to explained or shrink to accommodate any amount of items, rarely requiring a second bag to carry things in. Basically Daytime took a couple more Full Restores, some Max Elixirs, and a few Max Revives, leaving more than enough for the others.

Daytime didn't care for Jet and Sophia's acctions toward each other. He not only rarely came into human contact that was kind, but hated siblings. It wasn't just because he was picked on by people who were normally brothers or cousins, while trapped on Five Island, but he also had a little brother that his parents had when he turned ten. That's why they were more than edger to kick him out when he was eleven. That is why of all the kinds of living interactions, siblings were his least favorite.

Even though Daytime had obtained a Reflector from Jet, he still wasn't too sure how well he trusted him. He'd be a very nice person so far, and even requested help from Daytime, but still, he didn't trust Jet as well as he could have because of Sophia. Last he saw her, she took his Rainbow Pass and left Five Island with the other trainers he was traveling with. None of them ever came back for him, which made him hate people even more. The only living creatures he trusted were anything he could get into a PokeBall, and the fact they don't speak English made it hard to understand them most of the time.

 

[Cody]

"Kal, it's fine, Silver's gone through much worse." Cody's voice began to trail a bit at the end of his sentence. His door had been knocked on three times. Softly.

"Silver." Cody said softly. The monkey understood, and leaped onto Cody's shoulder. The two walked to the door, and glanced through the peephole. He recognized the person, someone he had seen earlier, both at the center, and the battle not long ago. He wuickly swung the wooden door open, careful to leave his foot in, as not to be locked out.

This was the first time Cody noticed something truly unique about this boy, besides the fact he had a Sableye, something many trainers chose to stray from. The boy had a blind eye, something that for a brief moment, Cody wondered how it could have come about. He saw the look on the boy's face, and quickly decided this thought wasn't important.

"What's going on?" Cody's arm had begun to hurt, but he had a feeling that whatever this was, was much more important.

 

[Carmen Lopez]

Seeing that Sem had taken off to the Pokemon Center ahead of her, Giselle hastened and gave her Reflector to Jayce, who was still talking to his sister. In the mean time, she decided to recall her Pokemon.

"Lluvia, Alano, time to return for a good rest in your Pokeballs," Giselle told them, as she pulled out Alano's Pokeball and Lluvia's capsulated ball.

Both Pokemon went in compliantly and Giselle just waited until Jet was done. This would be her first time being fully involved in something like this. Sure, there were a couple of incidents in Sinnoh, but those situations were already in the hands of professionals so it had nothing to do with her. This time, she would be in the thick of the action. It gave her a heady feeling, a feeling she often got when she was starting something big.

 

[Plapti]

"Thanks, Giselle," replied Jet, as he took the Reflector from her.

Jet then finished tinkering with Daytime's Reflector. "Here, Daytime. Catch," Jet said as he tossed it back to Daytime. It should be fine now. And the Laser Pointer and Force Barrier is programmed. If there's anything new that comes out, plug it into a PC and it will update.

Jet then began to work on Giselle's Reflector quickly, and finished in half the time than Daytime's.

"It's finished, Giselle. It's all yours," replied Jet. He tossed it back to her.

"Very well then. I'll just heal my Pokemon and we'll be off Giselle," said Jet to the white haired female.

Sophia ran to the machine and healed her Pokemon. "Let's go Tripudium. Teleport to Altering Cave. Key in on its abnormal energy pattern." She turned to Giselle. "Giselle, are you ready?" asked Sophia, as she stood by the floating Gardevoir, who looked ready to teleport at any moment.

 

[Carmen Lopez]

"One second," said Giselle to Sophia as she took her Reflector back. Secretly, Giselle was hoping to fly on Jaylen over the water, but the situation was urgent, she did what she had to. She had also wanted to meet Sem at the Pokemon Center and Giselle hoped Sem didn't think that she had abandoned him. After all, he said he was coming to Altering Cave so they would probably see each other anyway. Right now, however, Giselle had to heal Lluvia and Alano.

She opened her bag and discovered that two full restores were sitting right on top to her relief. Giselle administered them both to her Pokemon. Of course, she could've used a potion of some sort but Full Restores didn't burn as they did. However she did pull a couple of berries out of her bag.

"Here guys," she said as she handed to Hondew Berry to Alano and the Rawt Berry to Lluvia. "We're in for something big guys." She recalled them both as they were happily eating. Giselle wanted them to be in good spirits for the beginning of anything that could happen.

Giselle thought about what would happen when they got there and took a deep breath.

 

[Sem]

In only a few moments the door flew open, revealing the injured boy Sem had met earlier that day; Cody, if he was not mistaken. The purple monkey was perched on his shoulder just as before; Sableye rapped his fingers together with a discreetly dark smile. The other trainer wasn't in sight.

"What's going on?" Cody asked as he looked at Sem.

The younger boy looked up and brushed his hair away from his eyes with his hand. "Well, apparently something big is going down on this island. To make it short; a group of terrorists called Black Hand Ops have two bases on this island. There's two trainers who apparently know of these people asking for help from us, saying they'll need all the help they can get." He paused a moment to allow the boy to process the information. "If you want to help you'll have to head out to one of the locations. One is by the Dotted Hole; the other is one Altering cave, which is where I, Giselle, and another girl are going. If you want more details you'll have to find the two people coordinating this operation, there'll be one of them at each location." Sem nodded to mark the conclusion of his long-story-short.

As he turned to walk away he looked back at the aipom-boy, saying, "Make sure he gets all that too." Sem nodded towards the room and then walked down the hall.

Outside the center Foul was still waiting. Sem got onto the large bird and made sure he had a secure grip before telling the fearow to take off towards the Altering Cave.

 

[Chibi]

Chibi was cracking her knuckles, for they were a little sore after the long Marowak battle. Jet had fixed the little thingamabobs called Reflectors, which Day and Giselle both had. Apparently Jet and the girl, Sophia, had them as well. she had her backpack slung over her shoulder, which Vyala was perched upon, and was resting her head on Chibi's right shoulder. It had become an occasional habit, which Chibi really didn't mind.

The bag had thankfully contained some Super Poitions, Full Heal, Full Restores, two Max Revives, and four Revives. She knew that they would all come in handy, but she would mostly likely need her own backpack if she wanted to survive againt those Black Hand Ops. If they were as powerful as Sophia said they were, then Chibi would eventually need the backpack. But not now.

"Daytime," she sai, walking up to the Umbreon-clothed trainer. "When are we heading out?" Vyala yipped, both were impatient to get going, since none had been born with much patience.

(Most likely I won't be on for all night. Many intresting TV shows.)

 

[Cody]

Cody stared for a moment, nodding on occasion as the boy went on about some terrorist group. Just the thought of this kind of action got hs energy up, and the pain seemed to leave. "Right." He managed to spurt, before charging back into the room,

"Kal, I need to go. If you want to help, get back to the Dotted Hole, it'll all be explained there." Cody had no time to explain. He quickly did some Pokemon transferring on his laptop, removing his Ursaring and Dragonair, Apollo and Venus, respectively. He lunged for his jacket, which had been previously thrown onto the bed quite sloppily. He nodded quickly at Kal, is hair flopping a moment behind. On his way out the door, he grabbed his old tattered backpack from the hook. Silver still perched on shoulder, he walked out the door into the corridor.

"Silver, run ahead and meet me outside. Grab a few berries from any nearby trees, anything will be helpful." The Tiny monkey looked at Cody for a moment, then leaped off his shoulder, and landed on the carpeted floor.


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As he got out the door of the Center, Silver was atop a nearby tree, knowing not to fool off. "C'mon." Cody said. His usual childish persona had left for the moment, as it was time for buisiness. Cody had instructed Kal to go to the Dotted Hole, Cody was going to Altering Cave. Despite the friendship, he couldn't deal with him right now.

"Dream, let's go." Cody simply rolled the UltraBall out of his hand, and carefully climbed aboard, trying not to further his injuries. "Silver!" The monkey rushed over at the call of his trainer, eager to help with whatever. On his tail behind him, two Sitrus and one Oran berry. Not much, but it would do well enough if things got dire. Fore a moment, all seemed well. The calm before the storm, Cody kept telling himself. The rain had stopped, but more then likely that meant nothing. Parts of the sky still looked grim. Before a minute had passed, Cody Dream and Silver were up in the air, on the way to the island that Altering Cave inhabited.

Cody held a Fast Ball in his hand. Mars was a vicious battler, but that's what was needed right now. Backpack slung on shoulder, and jacket ruffling in the wind, Cody was ready.

 

[Plapti]

"Tripudium, teleport now," ordered Sophia, with Giselle at her side. Gardevoir surrounded the duo in Psychic energy, and faded out of view, as she teleported to Altering Cave's abnormal Psychic energy.

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The pair soon arrived on the shores by Altering Cave. "Well, we're here Giselle. The base should be up ahead, inside of Altering Cave," explained Sophia. "Sem should be hear anytime now," said Sophia, looking into the sky, trying to spot him in the air.

"We'll just have to wait around for a bit. If you want to, you can explore the area a bit, but please turn on the GPS beacon, Giselle. If anything happens, I can find you. Just be careful. If anyone is to get hurt, it has to be me. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anyone but me got hurt," she told Giselle.

Sophia turned away and sat down on the beach, looking into the sky, and pondering something. Something about the boy. The boy that looked like an Umbreon.

"Tripudium, you can teleport back. Thank you for your help," replied Sophia as she told the floating Gardevoir. With that, she vanished away, back to its trainer.

OOC: Fix'd a typo and added an extra two lines.

 

[Kalseng]

Cody had hastily ran out of the room, toting his backpack and pokeballs. Kalseng looked down and found his pokeballs strapped to his belt, and turned out onto the balcony. Kalseng stood a moment, and tossed out a ball. A small noise was heard two balconies below, and Kalseng hopped the balcony fence, landing on top of his Honchkrow. The Dusk Ball was nessled atop the pokemon's neck, and Kalseng reclipped it to his belt. "Go." Kalseng commanded. His Honchkrow knew where to go, almost by telepathy.

They flew swiftly around the pokemon center, and Kalseng spotted Cody walking quickly out of the center. Kalseng waved to him, and his pokemon hit a boost of speed. Kalseng smiled and ran a free hand through his hair as he scanned the horizon. He spotted a helicopter, gently hovering in midair. Kalseng smiled and patted behind his Honchkrow's left ear, a silent signal for "Speed up". The forest soon disappeared, showing Kalseng a way into the familliar area where they had fought off the Marrowak. Kalseng scratched the bottom of Honchkrow's neck, another silent signal, this one signifying "Land".

As Honchkrow landed, Kalseng tapped Honchkrow with his dusk ball, and the pokemon returned. Kalseng turned to the people standing in front of the helicopter, and shook his head a little, and attempt at shaking his hair into place.

"Erm..." Kalseng stuttered. "I would like to come with you guys..."

 

[Carmen Lopez]

Giselle took in Sophia's words and sighed. "You know, Sophia, you shouldn't put so much pressure on yourself." Giselle smiled and continued on "....we'll be fine." She did as Sophia said and turned on the beacon and walked away.

Just by judging the name, Giselle thought that Altering Cave would have a mystical feeling, rather like the one at Mt. Coronet in Sinnoh had or the one Mt. Moon in Kanto was supposed to have. Instead, Giselle really couldn't feel anything pertaining to the cave itself. She merely had adrenaline for the upcoming events. However the ocean crashing against the cliffs on which the cave the stood was an almost lonely sound. The mysterious cries of wild Pokemon occasionally punctured the sounds of the ocean.

Giselle looked into the cave itself and saw nothing but inky darkness. Though a flashlight would be sufficient, Rayo would be spectacular in this situation. She pulled the Heal Ball from her waist and released Rayo from within.

"Ready to put your eyes to use?" Giselle asked him quietly.

The Luxray's eyes flashed gold for the briefest of instance as an affirmative answer. Rayo was a Pokemon of few words but was an excellent tracker because he moved just as silently. Rayo followed along beside Giselle like her silent protector. He was an intimidating Pokemon and the scar beside his nose served to make him look more menacing.

Now it was a waiting game. Giselle kept her senses sharp for any alert from Sophia or Jayce for that matter or for any reinforcements as she walked, occasionally looking up at the star filled night sky. Instead of the Reflector, this time Giselle pulled out the map she had bought back in Canalave City so long ago. According to it, they were on Outcast Island.

"Oh," murmured Giselle, "Maybe I'll come back to do some exploring when things die down." Though she didn't get any mystical vibes from the place, it still sounded very interesting at the very least.

 

[DayU]

As Jet tossed the Reflector back to Daytime, almost repeating the scene he got it in the first place, Daytime looked at it and started fiddling with it like a child with a new watch. He found out where the new functions where and how to work them pretty easily, along with how it can connect to a PC. Unknown to Daytime, the Reflector could do more than he though. Pokedex, PokeNav, PokeGear, all silly toys compared to the sleek and advanced Reflector.

As Daytime pointed around with the laser pointer, which at the rate it was being used on and off would be jammed into always being on, he overheard Chibi ask him about when we would be departing. He replied, "You know, I don't think Jet said so for us yet. I know that girl I can't remember the name of and that horrible Sophia who took my Rainbow Pass are off somewhere now, but Jet never said when for us."

Being this the new subject, Daytime turned around to Jet, pointing the laser pointing into his eye, by mistake, asking, "When do we get a move on?"

 

[Sem]

A great caw echoed from Foul's bill as they neared Outcast Island. The waves rolled gently in the shadows beneath them, the moon sparkled on the surface, reflections danced from wave to wave in harmony with the symphony of roars from the crashing waves. The ocean was always perfect.

Sem looked out on the moonlit beach and saw a dot, which represented a person. Foul descended steadily until he was skimming over the crests of the waves. Sem let the salt air fill his nose and he closes his eyes as the wind lashed out at his hair. In only moments Foul cawed once more and landed softly on the beach.

"Thank you, Foul." Sem thanked the bird and returned him to his ball. He walked through the sand as he moved his hair back into place and greeted the girl. "Here I am." he nodded. "Told the two boys what's going, so we should probably wait a few in case one or both of them come our way." he finished.

The boy peered in the inky abyss of the cave, wondering what was within. He felt well prepared for what was ahead, he had supplies, and his team was ready, and there were others with him. But it was them against however many in the base; they'd need luck.

 

[Plapti]

"You'll have to try harder if you want to blind me Daytime," said Jet jokingly. He already had the Force Barrier up already. "Override command Jacye Fachion, code 724569. Disable," said Jet, and with that the laser was turned off. "I told you I can override it. Try to use the voice commands. They're much more efficient."

Jet walked towards the people remaining and pulled out a map. "I know I'm using a map instead of the GPS, don't ask why. It's just easier for now." He pointed to two locations on the map. A plateau and a flat plain area. "One pair will head to the Plateau and attack from the North. The other pair will come from the South through the open plains," said Jet. "Find a way in, and take out as many machines as you can. The machines will be the first part. The second part is to defeat the admins and leader. Then we can destroy the building completely. Then we are finished. That's all to it," explained Jet.

"Now, who's going...?" Before he could finish his sentence, he saw someone walk up to the group.

"You...you should be with your friend not here...," exclaimed Jet, looking at Kalseng. 'Shoot...well, Sophia...your plan just got a lot harder.'

Jet though it over. "Chibi, Daytime. You two are paired up. The rest of us will go from the South. You take the North. You can leave when you're ready," said Jet.

Jet walked up to Daytime and gave him the box Sophia asked him to give Daytime. He whispered into his ear, "My sister, Sophia, said that you'll understand when you open it. That's all she said to me. It sounds like that there may be a note, but search me. She said it was for you."

And with that Jet got his stuff ready and waited for Kalseng and Burlane to get their preparations done.

 

[Pheonix]

Burlane had only gathered a few things from the crates of supplies. It seemed it was mostly a standard fare of potions, elixirs, and revives. But there was one crate that looked to be full of exciting looking gadgetry. There were mini headsets for long range communication, combo goggles that let you see from infrared to night vision, smoke grenades, flash bangs, even mono-filament cable attached to grappling hook guns and the requisite climbing gear to go with it. Burlane felt like he was gearing up for a spy movie with all the neat gear he picked up.

Gathering it all he started to methodically add it to his already stuffed duffel, adding things here and there to the outside pockets and strapping them on when they were too big to go inside. He then pulled out his rather large collection of berries and started organizing them by types and affects. When he was done, he had condensed them down to several smaller sealed containers that still took up a good chunk of space in his bag, but Ali would be incredibly disappointed to find that they had to leave ANY of the berries behind, as she seemed to eat her weight in them every day.

After getting everything squared away, he turned back to the group to see how long it was going to be before they headed out. Jet had quickly gone through the plan, a simple double pronged attack. Burlane then noticed the young man who had caused all the trouble at the end of the last fight and then had almost immediately ran off again after some quick reparations with healing moves approach.

"You...you should be with your friend not here...," exclaimed Jet, looking at Kalseng. He seemed to quickly mull something over in his head and then said, "Chibi, Daytime. You two are paired up. The rest of us will go from the South. You take the North. You can leave when you're ready."

"Well, I am ready when you are, but is it really a good idea to bring him along after what happened last time?" Burlane had jerked his head in Kalseng's direction. "I know you said we needed all the help we can get, but he wasn't exactly... subtle," Burlane quickly whispered to Jet.

 

[Plapti]

Jet whispered to Burlane, "I know, but I thought he was to be with Cody. I noticed the two are good friends, so they should have gone together. What did that kid do..."

"Don't worry about it...not a lot of people notice the subtle change...but I think I can handle him," continued Jet. He'll be with me. We'll be fine."

Jet grabbed a backpack and filled it with some gear. He also filled his fanny pack of battle items and quick medicines. Other medicine was put into the backpack.

Tripudium then appeared. She just got back from Altering Cave. She floated over to Jet and sent a telepathic thought message, "Sophia and Giselle are there Jet. They will be starting anytime soon now.

"Thank you, Tripudium," said Jet. "Return." With the command, she disappeared into light and back into her green Pokeball.

"If you want to come, hurry up over there. We're leaving right now," shouted Jet in Kalseng's direction.

'We need to make this quick, otherwise it will be a longer battle and I don't want to risk everyone's lives,' thought Jet.

 

[Kalseng]

"Darn," Kalseng cursed. He walked over to the boxes, and pulled out a few hyper potions, a few repels, and a couple of berries tyhat were nestled in. He smiled happily, and wandered over to the group. Cody wasn't there yet. He had to hurry. If he wasn't there soon, Kalseng and the otehrs would end up leaving without them. Kalseng bit his lower lip as he walked over, and turned to Jet.

"Jet..." Kalseng said. "I'm ready and all... But Cody isn't here yet..." Kalseng looked down at his feet unhappily. "Can we wait?" Kalseng jammed his words together at the end, and stuck an "I'm sorry" at the end in an attempt to soothe the anger that would no doubt be caused by any further delay.

 

[Cody]

Following closely in suit to the boy over the moonlite ocean, Cody continued traveling for Outcast Island. The reflection of both the moon and the stars danced on the ever changing ocean, clear of any light pollution. It was a beautiful night out. If something like this wasn't going on, Cody would probably be out on the soft sandy beaches of 6 island. Seeing a moment of oppurtunity, Cody sent a quick text to Kal,

"Don't wait for me, not able to go. Arm and side hurt. Good luck." He hit the send option on his Pokegear, and decided this was the best option to go. And, technically, he wasn't lying. He wasn't able to go to the Dotted Hole, and his arm and side really did hurt. Cody sighed one last time, and looked up at the beautiful shining moon. In larger cities, it looked more pale then white. Here, over the ocean and a small island, it was white. White, and glowing, a beacon of radiance for all around.

As he landed, Cody quickly pulled Dream's Ultra Ball out of his pocket, and returned her to her home. "I'm all that's coming, Kalseng went to the Dotted Hole." He said breifly and quickly, "I pretty much know what's going on, he" Cody motioned to Sem, "was helpful in that. A little more info could be helpful though." It was now Cody noticed the other two girls here. Giselle, who he had seen earlier, was back and exploring the island a bit. He couldn't see her that well, but could tell it was her by her striking white hair. Cody didn't recognize the other girl, who had dual-colored eyes, something Cody could see only in the intense shine of the moon.