Gray and Clair were communicating using aura. It was the same as talking normally, but the words traveled outward to the surroundings. Considering the amount of Aura Clair had, it was a good way to get her to reign it in. In time anyway. She was enjoying the experience of not damaging or hurting anything or the surroundings.

(a.s.sist as man Pokemon as possible u0026 find the disturbance.)

For the last few hours, the team had been removing Pokemon from the area. A lot had no problem leaving after the whirlpools were stopped. Clair had bashed an underwater current with her aura alone. Disrupting the entire flow to allow more weaker smaller Pokemon to leave.

Gray directed traffic and helped heal any small wounds the Pokemon had. The bigger ones, were pa.s.s to the Rescue team in the submersible.

"Gray." Clair called from the side. She swam closer and floated in place. "You think we can get them all out in time?"

The time was issue since a storm was heading their way. That is what the forecast said anyway.

"Yes." The two waited as the Gyarados in the area freed the collapsed rock Gray had been waiting to get to. Behind them about 200 hundred feet or so was Rescue Officer Abigail. The submersible she was in, doubled as an underwater ambulance. "Just need to make sure we are ready in case something happens. Because something always happens extra."

Reaching out, Gray took hold of the smaller rocks that would sink down. It was the main reason he didnt do the moving in the first place. That and the Pokemon were vary of him.

The remaining rocks were removed and a large opening gave way to several areas underneath. Inside were several Pokemon eggs. A few were cracked open. The large Gyarados started to cry, as the smaller moved in to get the others that survived.

Gray floated closer and extended his aura to the cracked ones. Gyarados watching intently from the side. His aura slowly sealed the crack of two of them. The third was a no go. Clair swamed down and picked up the two restored ones.

"We need to make sure everything is ok." She said to the Gyarados. Pointing at the ambulance, she swam to it slowly. The back hatch open and the pokeggs were placed inside. A young member of the Joy clan was inside. Freshly out of medical school to do the work her clan was proud of.

Gyarados watched outside in the water. A screen that allowed communication acted as a way to view in the operating room. It was the only thing keeping the Pokemon after Clair placed the eggs inside.

Rescue Nurse Joy explained while she worked. Abigail was at the controls monitoring everything. Clair translating to the Gyarados the medical terms of what was happening.

"There it is!" Gray called. Both he and the Gyarados swam towards the Seismotoad. The large pokemon swam with ease through the area. A few eggsh.e.l.ls travelled from its mouth. 'Aqua Jet!' Gray shot through the water like a torpedo. Honing in directly on the toad.

He used Double Team and made three additional copies. To help trick it up and practice even more in how to push the move.

Seismotoad opened its mouth wide. The water fluctuated from its move. It used Echoed Voice. Circle rings formed from aura energy and spread. Two of the copies were destoyed instantly. The last held long enough to strike back.

It wrapped around Seismotoad and used Self Destruct!

"Doom!" The attack was even less effective than Gray thought it would be. As a copy and all the pressure from the ocean worked against them. The Seismotoad's eyes glowed in multicolored fas.h.i.+on.

'Slight corruption. But not enough to do all this.' Gray used a new move he studied last night. 'Acupressure!'

"Vrrm vrmm!" The water vibrated from the intense energy released. Two hands made of aura energy appeared. One pointed at Gray's legs causing them the to glow white. The other pointed at his back.

"Grrr." Gray growled from the pain. His speed stat and special defense went up. The move stood true to acting randomly. Both worked in his favor.

"Blah!" Seismotoad felt the danger it was in. It fired a dark brown ball at Gray. It used Mudshot in these conditions! Gray was. .h.i.t directly in the face. Seismotoad immediately swam away. Deeper into a cavern.

After removing the gunk from his face, Gray was a little ticked off.

'Pursuit!' Gray immediately felt his body pull towards the cavern. Not fighting against the pulling made it even easier to catch up.

In a blur, he tackled the toad. The damage was minimal but it sent it towards the bank of the underwater cavern. Gray hopped out of the water and was almost blasted back in.

"Bleh!" Seismotoad fired another MudShot. It was twice as strong this time. Gray used his psychic power to float down. "Bleh!" It fired again causing him to roll into cover.

'Go, t.i.tan!' Gray released the Nidorino into the air. 'Use Body Slam!'

"Grooo!" t.i.tan roared as it came belly down. Its aura pulsing out as it built up speed and power.

"Bam!" The weight was enough to startle the pokemon.

"Riibit!" Seismotoad croaked from the hard impact. t.i.tan horn started to glow as it kicked off it's back feet after landing. He was only able to stab at it twice, missing boat times. Recovering, Seismotoad's mouth open wide as it blasted bubbles at t.i.tan. "Brrbrbrbr!" It used the move Bubble Beam.

Gray appeared right in front. Instantly, a light s.h.i.+eld appeared. The bubbles curved with the s.h.i.+eld. Gray had used Reflect. The attack was more powerful than he thought. He was trying to turn it completely against the Pokemon. Settling for redirecting would have to do.

'Get it, use Poison Sting!' Gray ordered. t.i.tan open its mouth and fired a bunch of green needles out. The countless needles traveled through the opening between the bubbles and stabbed into Seismotoad. "Aura Sphere!"

Once the attack was interrupted, Gray pulled his aura into a little ball. Winding up for the pitch, he threw it like a fastball directly at the Pokemon's stomach.

"Ribit!" Seismotoad yelped as it was launched towards the cavern wall. Righting it self in the air, it planted its feet i nto the wall and launched itself towards Gray. Its mouth opened wide. It was getting ready to use Uproar again.

"Grrroo!" t.i.tan roared stunning it for a few seconds. Seismotoad stared at it. That was a mistake as it fell under the effects of Leer. With its defense weakend, Gray made his next move.

"Grrr Magnitude!" Grabbing hold of a few loose parts of the cavern, he pulled several parts free and launched them at Seismotoad.

The road used Water Gun! This destroyed the rocks as it tried to head furthur into the cavern.

"Bam!" t.i.tan rammed into it from the side. He used Body Slam. "Bing!" Seismotoad had hit the wall breaking it away from the rest of the place. A small metal surface was visible underneath.

"Gak!" Not even getting up, it fired a Mud Shot at t.i.tan.

"Gross!" t.i.tan balled up and took the attack. The shot carried him pa.s.sed Gray who was charging towards Seismotoad.

"Ribit!" Panicked, it tried to run away again. As Gray ran towards it, he felt a funny sensation so he stopped. Just in time as a small geyser erupted.

"Dus.h.!.+" The fountain of water was caused by another Pokemon inside.

"Raaaaarrrr!" Gray used Roar on the Pokemon. Never really getting a look at it. As it ran away in fear. "Humph, count yourself lucky that I cant make it to you."

"Bleh, Bleh!" Two shots of Mud Shot came at Gray. Dodging between the two, he used Psychic to deflect them into the caven walls.

"Woos.h.!.+" Gray then teleported right into the path of Seismotoad. Hand outstretched as he grabbed it by the skull, piercing it in the left eye and ramming his fist into its mouth with the other.

"Gurk!" Seismotoad gurgles. Gray's aura covered hand, had cut the Pokemon's throat mouth and throat. "Gaak!" Seismotoad tried to launch another attack. It failed as Gray pulled it and pushed his hand further down.

"I need to try spmething." Gray focused his power to one point. He released a bit of his anger, triggering the move Rage subconsciously. His fist inside the Seismotoad's mouth was covered in a corrosive substance. Controlling it was easier than he thought. "Hyper Beam." Gray said calmly. He pulled the power and stopped it, before it fully gathered.

"Boom!" Seismotoad's stomach inflated and it flew back against the wall. Gray floated to the ground and looked at it. The Pokemon was out cold. But no deep damage to it. A weird aura swirling around keeping the worst of the damage away.

Well.. the eye socket was damaged. But the stomach was something else entirely.

"Hmm that is not good at all." Gray stared at his hand. It was charred from the immediate cut off of power internally. But outward it was fine. "No blowback from it or any damage to my skin. Memo to never cut off a Hyber Beam. Damages the body internally." A few flex of his fingers and he took note of the damage level. "Recover."

Aura wrapped around him as Gray restored the little damage. Gray then released Pyron to check out the cavern.

"Dood!" Pyron landed happily before slowly walking forward. It was practicing for something. What, Gray had know idea.

"Hmmm, well learning to fight in confined s.p.a.ces will help for the future." Gray released Bedrill to go with. "Keep each other safe."

"Mm!" Bedrill nodded and floated off. t.i.tan walked over under Gray's left hand. His right hand went onto Seismotoad.

Gray linked himself and t.i.tan on Seismotaod and read its mind. Several twisted things pa.s.sed through.

"Grr evil Pokemon." t.i.tan growled angrily. It kept contact with Gray to keep going. Its immunity to the Arceus infection was making Gray even happier yo train it even higher. "So many suffered because of this wicked Pokrmon."

This Seismotoad had started running amok the last few months. Gorging on the eggs of other Pokemon to make itself stronger. The rockslide and the terrain disturbance had been done by it. It movement in the water caverns coupled with the Blessing from Arceus made it a deadly Pokemon to deal with.

With Gyarados, and the other guardian Pokemon having to look over their nests and the bad weather lately, it turned bolder and more cruel to get even more power. A good bit info about a collapse area let Gray know he needed to look at the location the Gyarafos were at earlier closer.

"You have not been a very good pokemon." Gray stared down angry at the toad. All around were broken off sh.e.l.ls from various Pokemon. He stopped counting at a 100. "Everyone has to pay eventually." Kicking the Pokemon in the chest and then thras.h.i.+ng its body till it died. The small trace of corrupted aura was destoyed afterward.

"Bwoop." The cleansed aura was held onto for later.

"Umm Gray, what do you think is going on?" t.i.tan the Nidorino asked from the side. When Gray was thras.h.i.+ng, it searched the cavern and brought back a trainers backpack. "What happen to the trainer?"

"I believe the Pretender is exciting problems across the globe. Its purpose, mostly likely to create unrest that it will fix itself to look better. About a year or two maybe." Gray spoke in a dual tone as he scratched his chin. "It is a plan that has been done before."

"That is just wrong." t.i.tan looked at him quizzically. "I need to get to the stage of a NidoKing. A King protects all." the Pokemon's determine expression made Gray change his policy on how he raised it. "Hmm?"

Gray kneeled down to get eye level with t.i.tan. His hand brus.h.i.+ng its head gently as he spoke next.

"A group creates terror and another group that has been around for years has the way to fix the problem. What do you think of that?"

"People and Pokemon can not be that foolish to fall for it." t.i.tan said. "Right?"

"Yes. Fear is good way to control things." Gray stated. "Acting the savior even more so. I hope the Elite League can figure it out in time. We need to find out where the strong hold is located, but I also need more strength."

Clearing the area and returning his Pokemon, Gray moved back out. The amount of dead Pokemon and destroyed eggs had grown to dangerous levels in one section. The body of the trainer was found by Pyron.

Supringsly, he still had a pulse. But his limbs were missing and he was in a coma of sorts. Only thing to be done was try a simple procedure to grow them back. But the trainer would need to be awake for it.

-Back at the nest-

Gray swam down and caught sight of something metallic. It matched the vague memories of Seismotoad. Looking inside, he came across a few mechanical pokemon. As in. actual Pokemon made from mechanical parts. Closer inspection revealed they were the man made imitation Pokemon, Magearna.

Gray reached inside and took the cores out of them. The dim little "soul-heart" produced a little boost in aura energy. The rest was tucked into his inventory to use as parts.

"Hmmm?" Seeing a large dome underneath Gray landed on it. 'It is dead?' Gray checked over it and ran his aura once more.

(Rebirth or turn into a fossil?)

Seeing the bubble appear, Gray choose to do rebirth. He did not want to do the process of fossil work. The large dome shrunk down and was encased in aura power. With a tap from his pokeball, he captured the new pokemon.

(Canion pre-form of Volcanion. Due to the age of the Pokemon it was reborn as a lesser form. Raising to level 30 will return it to normal.)

'Meh, a win is a win.' Gray dug a little deeper just in case. A few trinkets and old weathered doc.u.ments were found.

Tucking everything in his inventory, it was time he swam out. Wondering if Clair was alright with those Pokemon, he decided to just Teleport.

"Dus.h.!.+" The water spread in the back of the submersible. Clair was sleeping in the corner with Wimpod at her feet and Kommo-o behind her. She was very happy with the mutated Pokemon.

-Back on s.h.i.+p-

Gray had settled in nicely and started to meditate to clear his mind of things. He also felt it was time to help Dianchie. Officer Abigal was to meet with him to help.

"Knock, knock!"

"Come in." Gray called out. In walked Abigal and Clair. "So my offer, what do you think?"

"I think... it will be fine. But will you take the Nurse Joy that worked with us today?" Abigal asked. Gray gave her a nod. "Great, then we will both join your team and work on Rescue operations with you. This will also help with any of the charges that might come up. I will evaluate you in the field and see how things go more."

"Right. But you will need a little more strength for the future." Gray had her sit and offer her hands. "I am going to transfer this Pokesoul to you. You must understand, she has been through a lot, and can not seperate from you unless you give up your aura conpletely."

"I understand!" Officer Abigal said confidently. 'I can make more of a difference now!' She gripped Gray's fingers so tightly, he had to circulated his aura to keep her from breaking it.

'Are you sure about this Dianchie?' Gray asked the Pokemon one last time. 'My path is very dangerous to tread.'

'Yes. But I will miss my time here. I am ready to help more.' Dianchie then relaxed as Gray transferred her to Officer Abigal.

"Ughh." Officer Abigal groaned as she felt the aura seep into her. She received two Blessings. One of Gold Gate and the other of Yvetal from Gray. "It is so warm." With rosey cheeks, she started to shudder a little.

It took an hour to do so. It helped both were willing and nothing was going on to intefere.

"Yeah..." Gray blinked looking at her. "go and rest. I hope you two get along." Officer Abigal and Clair left Gray alone to himself. "I feel slightly stronger from doing that. Hmm food for thought."

'No food for thought. It is part of our power.' Giratina thought to him. 'It is time we do more to increase our forces. I will connect you to the others.'

'Ehh alright. It beats sleeping right now.' Gray responded back. He could feel the Yvetal was already out cold. 'At least that one is happy.'

"Bab.u.mp! Bab.u.mp!" His heart beat fiercely as it grew in power. Gray painted right on the spot. He was pulled into his own body.

"Rude much?" Gray looked to Giratina.

"We are the same, so it does not matter." Giratina dismissed his annoyance. Turning, it gestured towards the sleeping form of a Charizard and that of Jolteon to the side.

Jolteon was completely covered by aura. It looked like a giant yellow ball. So much concentrated aura, you could barely tell anything was inside.

"Hmm, it is ready." Gray walked over and placed his hands against it. "Ohx it is actually just sleeping. No reason to wake it for no reason." He turned to Charizard sleeping form. "What a mess."

"Someone tampered with our arrival. Giving Saint Peter incorrect information. Why is not important. It made things more intresting in the long run." Giratina shrunk to a human form. Splitting image of Gray but slightly older at around 30 or so. "I think it best we do not pry and allow Saint Peter to deal with it."

"Meh, whatever we do have enough on our plate already." Gray could feel the power of Black Gate burning in Charizard. It wanted to wake up and do its design. "Soon, do not worry."

"Grrro!" Charizard grumbled in its sleep. Gray and Giratina turned to a visitor. It was Growlithe looking quite worried.

"You are ok?" Growlithe had a concerned look on its face that look almost adorable enough that Gray wanted to laugh. He held it in however and gave a nod. "That is good. So that Charizard is you, and Giratina and Yvetal are also you?"

"Yes." Gray nodded.

"But the Yvetal smells like a female kind of." Growlithe gave a sniff and didnt understand why it smelled both from it. "Giratina smells like us though."

"It is developing those characteristics. But it will not go furthur than what it already has." Giratina answered. "If I was to die however. then yes it would. Side effect of certain things happening of late."

"Will you become weaker?" Growlithe asked. It moved away and sniffed at Jolteon. "I know this Pokemon!" Growl6hopped around happily extremely excitied.

"No we wont." Gray answered grabbing the pup. "We are all the same so no. As for this Jolteon it is sleeping."

"Gray that Jolteon is the Jolteon from my place. It is really old! It fought during the primordial era. It is the first of its kind!"

"Ok, ok. Settle down and explain." Gray set him down and stepped back to listen.

- Arceus Hideout Johto Region -

"Commander Blaine, I think we have what we were looking for." A front handed over a cracked orb. "The others have already been recovered by the other teams."

"That is good." Blaine grabbed the orb and could feel its power. But the large crack made it impossible to control the Pokemon tied to it. "I am going to have to visit and old colleague to see what can be done."

Blaine was both a scientist and Gym Leader. One of the oldest ones alive. What people didnt know however, is that he was a devote archaeologist of Arceus forces. But what the Arceus forces didnt know. is that he was not loyal to them. But to himself and his ideals.

"Are we moving out?" Another Grunt asked. Receiving a nod, the grunt turned to get to work with the others. "Alright, we need this done asap!"

"Good worker there." Blaine said lowly. He turned around as someone Telported near him. "Fool!"

"Fwiis.h.!.+" With a snap of his fingers, a large Flamethrower shout out. The person that just arrive was co pletely covered.

"Ahhhh! You old b.a.s.t.a.r.d!" A young man yelled. Rolling around the ground till he was put out was current priority. The others kept going their tasks. Even Blaine himself ignored the burning man. "s.h.i.+t! s.h.i.+t." Putting out the last bit of flames he's stared with hatred at them.

"Leave!" Blaine said with authority.

"Come on grandpa just.." The young man was cut off as he had to dodge another flame thrower. "Woah!" Barely managing it, he floated up into the air. "Come on and hear me.."

"Fwis.h.!.+" Several Flame Throwers were shot at him this time. Getting the hint, the young man Teleported away.

"Tch!" Blaine sucked his teeth angrily. Arceus had switched his grandson out with, whatever that was at one point. 'Think I wouldnt know a fake, such a stupid Pokemon it is. I will make you pay for touching my family.'

"Hey Commander!" Another Grunt came running up. He was covered in dirt and looked a mess. "We found something really major!"

"Hmm?" Blaine followed the Grunt back to the location that was discovered. "What in the World is this!?"

In front of Blaine and company was a large mountain. The wall was conpletely missing revealing a opening. However it kept s.h.i.+mmering.

"Ding!" A ringing went out as the s.h.i.+mmer revealed a bunch of Pokemon. The Pokemon Unknown and its various forms constantly s.h.i.+fted about.

"Get the entire crew here!" Blaine ordered. The grunts shot off getting everyone over. "What is this power?" stepping forward, he felt the orb light up. "Huh!?"

Blaine looked at it unmoving. As his team finally arrived they were spell bound as well. Slowly ghostly hands reached out and pulled them inside. The entire area was then surrounded by a dense fog disappearing from sight.

-Ash u0026 Company-

Brock was out gathering supplies. He stopped after receiving a phone call.

"h.e.l.lo?" No one answered on the other end. A few minutes he hung up and went back to shopping. Reaching the counter, he was suprised at the beautiful woman behind the counter. "Well h.e.l.lo there!" Brock laid down the charm as he asked for her number.

"Hehe, your a cutie." The attendee flirted back. The more they talked, the more Brock was ensnared. If any one was with him, he would have noticed the shop was completely empty. "I tell you what, how about we finish up here and we go on a date? As you can see we are extremely slow today."

"Yeah you are. A date sounds fine." Brock said charmed. The influence and the right words made it even easier to get him away from ant type of doubt.

After making the purchase, the two left. Around that time a young lady groggily walked from the back. She brushed of some blue dust from her clothes.

This was the actual shop attendee. Dazed and still sleepy, she walked over and flip the sign back over trying to wake up fully. It would not accur to much later that something bad happened to her.

"A nap in the middle of the evening, what was I thinking?" Settling back into her routine, she watched as customers started pouring in. "On second thought I guessed I really needed it."