John stared at the large group of pokémon that was before him.
"You ... can't be serious," John said to Star.
"Well I am," said Star.
John then surveyed the group before him and stopped when he saw the linoone and murkrow. 
"What the hell are you two doing here?" asked John.
"Just like Star said we want to be part of your group," answered Ricky, "I've wanted to join from the start but ... we had some problems."
John kept staring at them. Henry then walked forward.
"Look," said Henry, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry for snitchin' to Jason about you. If only I knew how important it was. I would have kept my mouth shut."
John kept staring at them.
"We ... we heard you earlier on," Henry continued, "We were listening when you were talking about your past and everything. And we are very sorry for treatin' you the way we did. You of all of people, definitely didn't deserve it."
John remained silent. Henry started to look nervous.
"It's okay, John," Ken said breaking out of his meditation stance, "They are telling the truth."
"You heard me talkin earlier," said John.
"Yes," Henry answered.
"Under whose orders?"
"No ones, we did it for under our own consent."
"Did you do work for Jason under your own consent."
"N-n-no. We did this because we wanted to. Y-you could have Ken read our minds. Jason said nothing to us after your fight with him. We came here on our own accord. We even told these guys what happened. They also apologize for any trouble they gave you. Right guys?"
Henry quickly turned around nervously and the group began to nod their heads in agreement. 
"S-see."
".....Fine," finally said John, "Their rooms are being prepared right."
"Already sent that fool to get it done," responded Maraina.
"Okay," said John drearily, "Welcome to the family." 
He had his usual nervous expression on his face. He got up and walked past them.
"What's wrong?" asked Star.
"Nothing. I'm going to bed."
"Already?"
"Yeah."
"Fine. Good night little brother." She ran her claws through his long spiky black hair and rubbed it. John gave a little smile and walked away.
"What's wrong with him?" said Tidus.
"He always says he's fine when he knows we know he isn't," Star sighed, "We gotta try and teach him to be more open. He probably has been living most of his life keeping all his feelings in. It's quite obvious why he's upset."
"Hmmm."
"Imagine if you were him, Tidus. You just now told people that every family you lived with has died. Three times in a row. Four times if you include the orphanage. You just retold the past that you wanted to forget and practically relived the horrible events that were their deaths. And to make it worse, they were killed by pokémon. And now you have a whole family of pokémon living in your house and a whole lot more that wanna kill you on the outside."
"Yeah, I guess I'd be depressed too."
"I just want him to happy. He deserves it."
"Then let's be the ones to give happiness to him."
Star began to smile, "You took the words out of my mouth, little brother."
"Little brother?"
"Yeah. We're all family now. And you are only a little bit older than John, squirt."
"Squirt. One of these days I'll evolve and I'll be the one callin ya squirt."
"Calm down. I'm just teasing ya."
Sounds of conversation was going on in the living room.
"Well it sounds like everyone getting along in there ... big sis or should I be sayin nee-chan."
"Doesn't matter to me. Well then let's go." She put her arm around his shoulder and they walked back into the room.

John walked up the stairs and headed towards his room when he saw Cici suddenly walk out of Cody's room slamming the door behind her. Her face was filled with ferocity. John jumped backwards and landed on his buttocks. He began to sweat as well. When Cici saw this, she changed her face back to her normal, calm one.
"Sorry," she said as she walked over and gently pulled John back to his feet, "After hearing of your tragedy, it kinda got me even madder at Cody. I'm sorry for the pain he brought onto you."
"Don't worry about," answered John.
"No, I can't just not worry about it. It's serious. This is your feelings that these people are playing with." John started to look down again. Cici walked forward and embraced John in a hug. "I promise, I won't let anything happen to you."
"Thank you," replied John.
She then let go of John and smiled. "Are you going to sleep now?"
"Yeah."
"That's good."
"Why?" 
"We're having training sessions tomorrow. Erika's planning on working you into the ground as well."
"Why does Erika want me?"
"You have a low power level and you can't fly. And judging by the way you fought today, you have no martial arts experience. Besides, you forget that she was gonna make you train today when you got home."
"Oh, yeah."
"Don't worry. I'll make sure she doesn't go to hard on you. Well if not, Star will"
"Yeah, thanks."
He turned around and began to walk towards his bedroom door.
"Good night, little brother."
"I guess I'm everybody's little brother, huh?"
"Actually your almost everyone little brother. The only people you are older than are Eric and Frank."
"Oh, well that sucks."
"You'll be saying that tomorrow too."
"Huh?"
"Nothing. Have a good night sleep." She walked past John and went down the stairs. Wonder what's that all about, he thought. John walked in front of his bedroom door and opened it. He walked in and switched his clothes with his pajamas and slumped on his bed. He pulled the sheet covers over him and stared up towards the ceiling. I wonder if my life will get any better, he thought, soon I'll have to look for a new way to make money. I can't survive off of the money in the bank forever. He began to turn on his left side and hold on to the blue stone hanging around his neck. He slowly began to drift to sleep. 

He was sitting in the room from the last dream in the same crib. He quickly looked at the mirror and saw him back in the baby form again. He looked around and saw the same decorations all over the room. This time there were pictures in the room as well. The white woman who was his "mother" and the black guy who was his "father. They still had no faces. But now there were more figures. They were in a picture with another man. He had spiky black hair and was pretty tall. But the thing was. The guy had the same hairstyle that John has (in the present). And they were even more pictures with this man. He was in pictures with pokémon as well. In one picture the man was surrounded by a group of pokémon. They had no faces either, but their shapes made them easily able to be identified. There was an espeon, a floatzel, a houndoom, a ninetails, a zangoose, a lucario, a lugia, an absol, a sneasel, a weavile, and a swampert. The swampert had its massive arm wrapped around the man's shoulder in the picture. They were all huge pokémon. What could this mean, he thought, why am I having this dream again. 
"Aw would you look at that."
John turned around and saw his "mother". This time she was wearing a black and white dress. She wasn't alone. There was a sneasel standing beside her. They seemed to be the same height. She had a baby sneasel in her paws as well.
"Looks like Johnathan woke up from his nap," his mother said.
"Perhaps he would like his cousin ________ to join him," said the female sneasel.
Cousin, he thought, What is going on here. It's bad enough that I see my "parents" but now the sneasel is my cousin and the female sneasel's my aunt. That's impossible. The sneasel and John's mother walked towards the crib. The sneasel placed the baby sneasel down in the crib. The sneasel then scratched John's head softly with her claws.
"I can't believe we gave birth to them on the same day," she said, "_________ is older than John only by an hour and a half."
"Yeah, crazy isn't it," answered John's mother.
John began to stare at his cousin and to his surprise he could see his face. What the hell, John thought. The sneasel was five inches away from him. Didn't she put him down at the other end of the crib, John thought, how he got over here without me hearing or noticing? The sneasel was looking John's body over. But John was locked on one thing. The big red eyes of the sneasel. I saw those eyes before, he thought. The sneasel then began to lock eyes with him as well.
"Well there seems to be a stare down between our sons," said John's mother.
"Well, let's leave them to play," said the female sneasel. Both of the ladies left the area, leaving the two baby boys to stare at each other. He looks familiar for some reason, John thought. The sneasel started to sniff all over John's body. He then moved backwards and continued to stare at John. Why the hell he keeps staring at me, thought John. The sneasel then stood up on its legs. It began to wobble a little bit at first but soon regained his balance. The baby sneasel began to walk all around the crib. He then walked back over to Johnathan. He keeps moving back and forth, John thought, can't he make up his frickin' mind. When he finally got in front of John once again, he lifted his claw and swiped it at him. What the hell, John thought as he fell backwards dodging the slash attack. He used his left leg and kicked the sneasel away causing it to fall down. The sneasel began to growl as it hit back down in the crib. Suddenly, it began to grow. It exceeded two feet, then three feet, then four feet. What the hell, thought John as he watched the sneasel increase in size. The sneasel stopped growing when it was well over six feet tall. It used icy wind on John's baby body, freezing him alive. It then raised its claw with a wicked smile on its face and slammed it down on the frozen statue of Johnathan. Blood splattered all over the crib along with ice particles. All John saw was red.

John jumpstarted right out of his bed. His body was drenched in sweat as usual. It took him a few seconds to calm down. Why do I keep dreaming shit like this, he thought, First, it was my "parents". Now it's my "cousin" whose a fricking sneasel. And how come he killed me in the damn dream. John looked at his bedroom's clock. It was 7 o' clock in the morning. He went into the bathroom and did his normal morning routine. When he finished bathing, putting on his lotion, deodorant etc. He put on a white T-shirt and some long black and white basketball shorts. He then went outside of his bedroom. As he left the room he heard sounds of conversation going down in the dining room. It was louder than usual due to the slight increase in tenants last night. He began to descend down the stairs and entered the dining room. There were now, two long tables in the room to accommodate the amount of people in the house. Breakfast has already started and the large group of pokémon were already chowing down vigorously on the plates filled with food before them. He noticed an empty spot between the female exploud and the male lickitung and decided to sit down between the two new pokémon. He noticed that they were both gorging down the food in there plates. He began to wonder what was so great about it and examined the entrees on the table. His eyes widened in shock upon seeing the wide variety and massive amount of food displayed before him. There was a large glass bowl had a casserole inside of it. The casserole contained sausages, eggs, mushrooms, sliced potatoes and two layers of cheese. One large plate contained pancakes with 8" in diameter. Two large plates contained two sets of ten burritos stacked up. The burritos were all foot longs. There were huge trays filled with muffins, hash browns, croissants, crepes, French toast sticks, and biscuits. There also other plates filled with tacos (with mincemeat and melted cheese in them), tortillas, bread, hushpuppies, fried fish, steak etc.
John had never seen so much food at a table besides the times when he used to work at the restaurant. He turned around and examined the table behind him and saw the same things that were on his table. 
"Something wrong?"
John turned to his left and saw the lickitung named Mark staring at him.
"Something wrong?" answered John, "Where did all this food come from."
"What do you mean?" asked Mark who had a perplexed look on his face. He grabbed a biscuit off of one of the trays and shoved it in his mouth.
"I mean. Who made all this stuff?"
"What are you talkin bout? Hasn't Dan and Erika cooked for you before."
"What!" John got out of his seat and began to look up and down his table. The brelooms were nowhere to be seen. He then addressed his attention back to the table behind him and got the same result. Some of the pokémon stopped eating and started staring at John.
"What's wrong buddy?" asked Brock.
John looked at the machamp and said, "No one told me that the brelooms can cook."
"You never asked."
"Well. Okay, touché."
"How come you don't cook?" asked Nail while biting into his steak.
"Yeeeeeaaaahhh," said Elliot, "How come you don't cook?"
"Cuz I do it for living and when I come home I don't feel like it."
"Can't use that excuse anymore," said Nail.
"Why is that?" John drew his attention to the sandslash.
"Cuz you got fired."
"Oh yeah. Forgot about that."
"Your probably just lazy."
"Hey. That's not true."
"Oh yeah. Well how come you're not in the kitchen?"
"..."
"That's what I thought."
"Whatever." John moved from between the tables and walking outside the room in the direction of the kitchen.
"Where ya going?" asked Elliot. 
"I gotta see this for myself."

The kitchen was pretty large. John had it expanded into the type of kitchen you would see at a restaurant. It contained three rows filled with stoves, ovens, and sinks. John walked towards the kitchen entrance and to his surprise he saw his maids and butlers lined up against the walls looking inside the kitchen. John saw the two brelooms zooming back and forth, up and down through the rows. They were checking food on the stoves and in the oven while moving pretty fast. They were chopping and mixing ingredients, making soups and salad. They were sautéing fish and other meats. The skill and speed that they were doing this left John mesmerized. He also saw Eustace at the sink washing pans and pots as well. The Mr. Mime was washing them at great speeds too.
He then walked up to Bernard and asked, "What's going on?"
"Master Johnathan, these pokémon," he began to say, "Just upped and kicked us out of the kitchen. Those brelooms came in here and told us our cooking skills were mediocre. I told them if they were so good why don't they show us how to cook. And here we are."
"Damn! They been like this the whole morning."
"Yeah. They won't stop. They had us washing the wares at first but replaced us with this one man cleaning crew because we were 'too slow'. That Mr. Mime is ridiculous. He put all of my years of professional training to shame. And he's only one year older than you."
"How come you guys are still here."
"The arrogant bastards are making us watch and transport the food to the table."

"HEY!" shouted Erika, "Indian loudmouth and French pussy! Come here!"
Bernard and Bentley got off the wall and started walking toward the female breloom.
"My name is Bernard," said Bernard.
"And my name is Bentley," said Bentley.
"And I don't give a shit," Erika said mockingly. She shoved two trays filled with egg rolls and two pans filled with baked potatoes. The potatoes were sliced opened and had a creamy yellow color on the inside. Hints of spices were seen in them as well. She then placed a large bowl of soup filled with eddoes, sweet potatoes, yams, and cassava. Dan came around with a tray containing ten slabs of grilled magikarp sautéed in sweet onion sauce. He also had some steak in another tray that was drizzled with soy sauce. They seemed to be well done. He then turned around and walked over to Eustace. "These are the last dishes for today. Well for this morning actually. Bring these to the tables. Matter of fact, now that I think about it. Bring six more of those guys back there. I don't want you two idiots to stack these up." 
Two maids and four butlers came and helped Bernard and Bentley bring the recipes to the tables. While Bernard was leaving John heard him whisper the word "Bitch" under his breath.
"The rest of you are dismissed to your regular duties," said Erika. She observed the group of workers and noticed John standing among them. She pointed at him and brought her claw towards herself two times, beckoning him to come. Oh boy, John thought. He started to walk slowly towards Erika. She just stared holes through his body as he approached. He shrugged at her and looked behind her to see Dan washing his claws besides Eustace. He was staring at him as well.
"Uhhhhh, what's up?"
The brelooms remained silent.
"Uh, I didn't know you guys could cook."
"We didn't know you could either," said Dan finally. He was still washing his claws. "Until Tidus told us you were the assistant chef for the Tonberry International Restaurant. We thought you were a waiter. But then again, it wouldn't make sense that a waiter would have such a big house." He finished washing his claws and walked over to John. Now both of the mushroom giants were standing over him with their piercing glares.
"W-what's the problem."
"Your laziness and incompetence," said Erika.
"What?"
"You are a chef and you don't even cook for yourself. How do you cook for other people and not for yourself? It's preposterous. You don't even bother to at least improve the mediocrities of your workers. You've allowed the fact that you are rich to make you undisciplined and spoiled."
"Now wait just a minute. I am not spoiled. I have discipline. I did the work on rebuilding and creating this house. I had two jobs."
"And then everything stops there," said Dan, "You got fired two weeks ago. You don't clean your room. You don't cook. You totally rely on your workers."
"What do you think I pay them for. To watch the scenery?!"
"Humph. You shouldn't have had them in the first place."
"You see how big this house is."
"Eustace cleaned the whole place, excluding your room, this morning," said Erika, "His family is one of the richest families in Soronara City. Yet, he does this stuff by himself. If he can do it, so can you. You have no reason not to since you aren't employed."
"Hey who are you to order me aro-" John stopped when Erika narrowed her eyes towards him. He gulped from the sight.
"Fine. You don't have to clean," said Erika, "But your sure as hell gonna help us cook. That's your job for now on. Understand."
"Yes, nee-chan."
"Now come on. You need to eat." She grabbed his arm and pulled it upwards. "Jesus Christ, you're bony. You need to put some fucking meat on those bones. Come." She walked past John and headed outside the kitchen towards the dining room. Dan and Eustace then walked up besides John. Dan threw his arm around a sulking John's shoulder and began tugging him towards the dining room. Eustace followed them.
"Come on, lil' bro," said Dan, "Don't take it too personal. We may seem strict but we doin' it for the best of ya. You wanted nii-chans and nee-chans and now you got plenty."
"Yeah, I know," replied John.
"Besides we wouldn't do this to ya if we didn't care. And save all that sulkin' til after trainin'."
"What?" asked John.
Dan only responded with a smile.
"Today," Eustace finally spoke up, "Is gonna be the worst day of your life."

After breakfast the pokémon went outside. They seemed to be preparing for this training session that John kept hearing about. He saw pokémon pairing up in twos and fighting each other. He kinda laughed at some of the pairs too. Eustace was fighting Pierce (nidoking). Elliot was fighting Cassie, and Tidus was fighting Maraina. There were many other pairs as well, but these were the primary ones John was lookin at. 
"What the hell you laughing at?" asked Elliot.
"You guys gotta fight people who obviously been taking too much steroids," replied John.
"Don't laugh," said Tidus, "Yours is Star."
"Awww shit."
"She's waiting for you over there." Tidus pointed to Star who was meditating in front of a tree.
"Okay."
John began walking towards Star. He came in front of her and examined her. She had her eyes closed and was fixed in a cross legged sitting position with her five-clawed paws on her knees.
"Hello Star," said John.
Star remained silent.
"Heeelllllllllloooooo."
She still remained stationary.
John felt something dirty slip into his mind and he decided to get a stick. He then poked Star with it, but to his surprise. It broke upon contact with Star's body. He started examining the stick.
"I didn't even press hard. How the hell did that happen?"
He then addressed his attention back to Star. She was gone.
"What the-"
He turned around and came face to face with Star. She was hovering upside down in the air and he nearly came in contact with her face. He jumped backwards and landed on his backside.
"Whoa!" he exclaimed.
"You really need to work on your senses," she said, "Keeping your guard down like that all the time will get you killed."
She slowly turned her body around and landed on her feet.
"Do you know about ki control?"
"Well, sorta," answered John.
"What do you mean sorta?"
"Well I was sorta kicked out of the dojo when they were about to teach the class I was in."
"Well you need to practice it in order to fly."
"Really. So how does it work."
"Well it requires you to concentrate the ki throughout your body through a certain point of your body."
"Sounds simple enough."
Star turned around towards a tree. She then began to walk up the tree trunk. The tree was about 40 feet tall. When she was halfway up the tree trunk. She looked back down towards Johnathan.
"What the...?" said John.
"I have concentrated the ki from my body to my feet," said Star, "When more ki then necessary is transported to one part of the body. It leeks around the body part as excess ki. The excess ki that is now surrounding my feet has allowed me to cling to this tree. I can also use this to jump higher and farther. And in combat, it allows me to kick harder. The hardest place to concentrate your ki through is your feet and the easiest is your hands."
"Okay." John began walking towards a tree that was the closest to him.
"John."
"What?"
"It's better if you run. No one fully gets a hang of it the first time. Besides it's easier that way."
"Okay." John then charged towards the tree and ran up its trunk. He only made three steps until he slipped and connected head first into the tree trunk. He slid down the tree as pain ringed through his head, mostly his nose. 
Star jumped down towards him and asked, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah. So what did I do wrong?"
"You the amount of ki you added was too low." She picked John up from off the ground. "Keep trying."
"Yeah I know."
He moved a few yards away from the tree and started running back towards it again. This time, John made seven steps up the tree until the spot where his foot was began to break. He slipped once again and fell towards the ground headfirst. Before he made contact, Star grabbed one of his legs causing him to hang upside down.
"Thanks, nee-chan," said John as he looked up, "That would have been an unfortunate accident."
"Yes it would," said Star. She then let go of his foot causing him to drop to the ground. He landed headfirst into the ground and rolled backwards. He began to hold his head.
He looked back at Star and said, "Hey! You could've put me down softly y'know."
"Could have, but I didn't. You added to much ki this time. You need to keep the amount of ki in your feet balanced and to a certain amount. Otherwise, the outcome will only be disastrous."
"I see there's more to it than I thought."
After eighty-five more tries and falls. He finally made it up to the top of the tree.
"YES!" John screamed at the top of the tree. He had cuts and scrapes on his face, arms, and legs. "I finally frickin' did it."
"Alright, John!" yelled Star, "Come down here and do it one more time."
"You can't be serious?"
"Yes, I am."
John slowly descended down the tree and landed down in front of Star.
"Okay squirt, this time there will be a little twist to it."
"Huh. What do you mean Star?"
"Heh, you'll see. Now run up that tree."
"Alrighty."
John closed his eyes and concentrated his ki into his feet. They began to glow yellow from the ki energy surrounding them. He opened his eyes and ran towards the tree. He then rapidly began to run up the tree, but was surprised when a certain female breloom appeared before him. He lost his concentration and fell down backwards off the tree. He landed on the ground and began to rub his back. He looked up at Erika, who jumped down and landed before him.
"What the hell was that?" he asked.
"That was you losing your concentration from a distraction," answered Erika, "If you were my hit. I would have killed you in an instant. You may have discovered ki control. But you still need to work on your concentration. Again." 
Erika then disappeared from the scene. John then looked back at Star.
"You heard her," she said.
John sighed, walked backwards, turned around, and began to run towards the tree. He ran up the tree and soon saw Erika coming towards him on his right. He held his ground this time, but was surprised when she kicked him straight in his side. This sent him flying downwards diagonally. He rolled on his back while holding his right side and puffing his cheeks. Once again Erika landed in front of him with her arms crossed.
"Erika what was that for!" exclaimed John.
"Humph, you can't just focus on ki control. If I'm you're enemy. You have to have concentrate on your ki and on me at the same time. Again you would have died easily if you were my hit."
"Did you really have to kick me?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"To toughen you up. Plus, now that you know how hard that I hit. You'll most likely want to dodge my blows now."
"Did you really have to hit him that hard?" asked Star.
"Oh come on, that was a sissy kick," answered Erika, "I barely used any of my strength."
"Yeah, but comparing your power level to his. A sissy hit to you is a major blow to him. He's not even a super saiyan."
"It ain't gonna kill him."
"Whatever."
"Back to you, shrimp. Get up and let's go."
"Aw man," said John as he got up. Erika disappeared once and they repeated the exercise for the rest of the afternoon. By six o' clock, John had two black eyes, and a broken nose. He went super saiyan so that he wouldn't feel as much as pain as he usually would and to increase his chances against Erika. This backfired on him; because she started hitting him harder and faster. He laid on the ground in total exhaustion as his two sisters stood over his body. He immediately dropped from his super saiyan state back to his normal state.
"No ... more," gasped John.
"Lazy," replied Erika.
"I am so not letting you train him anymore," said Star.
"W-w-what?"
"I applaud the fact that you're willing to help, but we need to make him stronger. Not beat him to death."
"Oh whatever, Star. You're actin as if our parents didn't do the same thing to us."
"Yeah, but still-"
"Oh come on. You know what I'm doing is for the best. Besides he gets stronger the more we beat him up anyways. He's a saiyan. Did you forget that when you beat em up, their powers levels increase."
"So what, you suggest we beat the crap out of him everyday."
"I didn't mean it like that."
Star sighed and addressed her attention back to John.
"Are you alright?" asked Star.
"Yeah," answered John, "I just need ... a little bit ... more time ... to catch my breath."
"You think you'll be alright if we left you for a little bit? I wanna go check on the others."
"Okay."
"Alright Erika. Let's go."
Star and Erika's bodies disappeared leaving the saiyan to lie down in the opening by himself. After a few minutes he got up, stretched, and let out a big yawn. He then began walking in the direction of his house. When he reached the back of his mansion he saw none of his pokémon companions. That's strange, John thought, I thought at least some of them would have been fighting here. He began walking towards his backdoor when suddenly he sensed two massive power levels appear behind him. He rolled forward, turned around, and went into the Turtle-style fighting stance. There was a purugly and a skuntank behind him. They were around seven feet tall and both had a very define muscle tone while maintaining feminine shapes. The purugly had dark red eyes and deep purple and white fur. She looked a shiny version of her species. She had her tails wrapped around her waist but they didn't seem to be squeezing it. The skuntank had three ponytails on her head going left, right, and downwards with her tail on top of her head. She had red eyes as well. The skuntank had her arms crossed with her head cocked to the side. The purugly had her arms crossed as well. They were both staring at the saiyan. John dropped his fighting stance assuming that the two pokémon were not gonna attack him. When he did this, the purugly removed her tails from around her waist and back behind her. So she was preparing for me too, John thought. He placed his usual facial expression back on.
"Uhhhhh, I'm sorry," John said, "I don't believe I got to introduce myself to you."
The two pokémon remained silent.
"I'm guessing you two are independents."
"Why is that," the skuntank spoke up.
"Because you aren't tryin to kick my ass like everyone else."
"Humph."
"Well my name is-"
"Johnathan Ogami, we know." The skuntank walked over to John and began circling him for a few seconds. She then stopped herself in front of John and asked, "How does a shrimp like you be able to have a fight against Jason and hold your own?"
John began to rub the back of his head and said, "I was using technology and was pretty pissed off and lucky. But what's the point of talkin about it. I still lost."
"But you lasted longer than pokémon who have power levels higher than yours would have. Besides, most of the pokémon don't even have enough backbone to stand up to the fuckin' jerk. I find it amusing that a saiyan with a power level as pathetic as yours would stand up to him. It's plain suicide."
"Well, I guess you can say that. But I not really fond of fightin' and trainin'. I used too but that's was long time ago. Star' tryin' to get me back into it again."
"Humph, maybe you should."
John began to look at the silent purugly who simply just kept staring at him.
"What's up with her?"
"None of your business," said the skuntank firmly while narrowing her eyes. John held his hands up in defense.
"I'm sorry if I said something that caused me to look impertinent."
"Impertinent?"
"Impertinent means: not showing proper respect. It's just that ... she's been staring directly at me the whole time."
"What's wrong with that?"
"Nothing, it's just kinda ... makes me even more nervous than I already happen."
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, puruglies are in the top ten for most violent pokémon species and when you got one that is way over your height and way over your power level. How would you feel if all she would do is stare at ya?"
"I don't know. How do you feel?"
"I feel that if she makes a move towards me that I will piss myself on the spot."
The skuntank smiled at the comment and looked at the purugly. The purugly blinked a few times, shrugged a little, shifted her shoulders, and dropped her paws to her side. The skuntank began to chuckle a little bit.
"Is she mute?" asked John.
"No," replied the skuntank, "She just doesn't talk to or in front of people she doesn't like."
"..."
"What's wrong? Don't have a witty comeback for that?"
"How can just not like me. You don't even know me."
"You haven't given us anything to like you for, so why should we."
"But .., I saved your lives."
"So."
"Doesn't that mean anything?"
"Humph, for all we know you're working for them."
"... You guys believe the same thing as the rest of them."
"If you mean like that houndoom bastard then no. We are for more sensible reasons."
"Like what?"
"How come you were conveniently on the same beach that we were flying over."
"It's a hobby of mine. I go there every morning. The place is close by to my house. It's a good place to unwind and clear your mind."
"At 6:30 in the morning?"
"I need to be at school at 9:00. The bus comes in front of my friend's house that is a 40 minute walk from here. The beach is also located nearby. I woke up, went to the beach, and Speedy later on joined me out there when Tidus came behind us and here we are."
"Okay. How come you have such a big house at a young age? Matter of fact, how come you are allowed to live by yourself."
"I happen to have an I.Q. of about 219. 218.7 to be exact. I can cook and happen to have a knack for computer engineering. This house used to be an abandoned college facility. Well actually one of the fraternity houses. The other buildings had rotted and broken down while this one surprisingly remained intact. I happened to come across and notice that no one had ownership of the land. I registered for ownership and was given this house which I rebuilt from the inside out."
"How did you get the funding?"
"Remember that I said I could cook and was good computers. Well I became a chef at one of the restaurants in the city. I was the assistant head chef at the restaurant and had an income of over $130,000. I had later participated in a computer building contest for Megacell computers. Not only did I win the contest. The company employed and help me fix this house."
"How come you are allowed to work? From what I see, you're not even older than me."
"Well you know how some businesses are. When they see talent and a chance to make more money. They take it. My height could have been easily passable for an adult. So they slipped around the child labor laws by secretly employing me. Anything else you want ask me?"
"Yes. How come you haven't been a target yet?"
"Huh?"
"Come on, Johnny boy. You just picked up hardcore assassins from a criminal organization specialized on killing people. If you're not working for them. How come they haven't come for you yet."
"I ... don't know."
"Humph." 
"But ... I may be lot of things. A coward, a weakling, a nervous wreck. But I'm not a Harbinger. You've been around them for all. Do I act, react, or even have the same aura as a Harbinger"
"It could all be an act."
"..."
Whatever."
The skuntank turned around and began walking towards the purugly. When she got close to the purugly, she stopped and stared at it. The purugly nodded and they both began to walk out.
"Hey!" John exclaimed.
Both of the female pokémon turned back towards John.
"What?" replied the skuntank.
"What's the purpose of seeing me if you thought I was a Harbinger."
"For the fun of it." The skuntank began to smile.
"Well, could you at least tell me your names?"
"Why?"
"For the fun of it."
The skuntank began to laugh. The purugly gave a little smirk.
"Fine," the skuntank said finally, "My name is Sharon." She then pointed towards the purugly, "Her name is-." 
The purugly cut her off with a growl. The skuntank then nodded and said, "Well it looks like you'll have to earn the right to know her name, Johnny boy."
John began to walk towards the two pokémon. When he was six feet in front of them, he stopped, "If I can't know her name, can I at least give her a handshake."
Both females raised their eyebrows at John. Sharon looked at the purugly. The purugly gave a shrug. Sharon then looked back at John and said, "I guess it's okay."
John smiled weakly and began walking towards the purugly. But due to his carelessness of his surroundings, he tripped over a rock that was below him and landed face first on the chest of the purugly.
"Oh boy," said Sharon, who seemed to be holding back laughter.
John pushed himself off of the purugly and looked at her. The purugly's eyes were burning with fury and the ground began to shake. She cocked back her fist and thrust it straight into John's gut. John's feet left the ground in slow motion and his body curved around the purugly's fist. John's eyes rolled to the back of his skull. His body then shot backwards like a bullet leaving the area. The purugly was still puffing with anger while the skuntank seemed to be laughing her ass off.

All the pokémon that were training were gathered in a circle with Elliot, Pierce, Eustace, Maraina, Ken, Tidus, and Star in the middle. Elliot was rolling back and forth with laughter in front of an angry nidoking. The nidoking had a handprint on the left side of his face. Eustace was sitting down in front of Scar with a black eye, swollen cheeks, and a broken nose. The other three pokémon were standing behind Star.
"What happened?" asked Star.
"Eustace ... gave Pierce ... the slap of the century," said Elliot between laughs.
"I mean how did the whole thing get started."
"Well," said Ken, "I was watching the match so I'll tell you what happened. Pierce was using his strength to overpower and overcome Eustace to the point that he was just toying with him. After awhile he started taunting Eustace. He had clubbed Eustace down to the ground and started telling him how inferior he was to him and-"
"Eustace got up, cocked his hand waaaaayyyyyy back and smacked that muthafucka straight in tha jaw," interrupted Elliot who began laughing again, "The handprint is still there."
"Shut up ya little-" said Pierce.
"Pierce!" shouted Star.
Pierce jumped at the sound o her voice.
"What you did was inexcusable. This is supposed to be a training exercise, yet you mercilessly beat down your fellow ally as if he was your enemy. You let your anger get the best of you. That's 200 laps around the estate."
"What!" Pierce exclaimed, "You can't be serious."
"I am."
"Jason wouldn't have made me do this."
"You're right. Jason wouldn't have made you do this. Jason would have laughed and gave you a pat on the back. Good job decimating people who are weaker than you. But unfortunately for you, I'm not Jason. So start running."
"Wait! Can I have an alternate punishment? I'm not really about runnin."
"Well since you like fighting and you want something else. How about you fight me."
"You know what. I think I could use the exercise." Pierce turned around and was about to start running when all of a sudden, a small body burst from the bushes before the group. Most of the pokémon dodged the accelerating body except Pierce. When he turned around the body nailed him right in the gut knocking him off of his feet. Pierce and the unknown body landed 30 yards from the group. The pokémon rushed to Pierce's aid and discovered that the unknown body was Johnathan's. He and Pierce had xs on their faces where their eyes were supposed to be. Pierce quickly recovered and grabbed John (unknown to him) and lifted him up. He was about to clobber John when he realized who he was holding and placed him back on the ground. John had blood slowly coming out of his mouth. The group of pokémon quickly surrounded the two. Star and Tidus walked over to John's unconscious body.
"What the hell happened to him?" asked Tidus.
"I don't know," replied Star as she sat down beside John, "I left this kid for five minutes and he comes shooting out of a bush."
She took her claws and shoved them into his right side. John's body did a jerk reflex and shot up.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" screamed John as he held his side. He then looked at Star. "What was that for?"
"You came flying through the bushes in our direction and you collided with Pierce over there. You were unconscious." 
"Unconscious?" John said. He then started brain storming and remembered that the purugly had cuffed him. The pain surged all through his gut again and he began to hold it. A little more blood started coming out of his mouth as he did this.
"What happened?" asked Star.
"I received the hardest punch of my life," answered John, "That's what happened."
"From who?" asked Tidus.
"A frickin purugly."
"Damn, you got punched by that Angel bitch," said Elliot.
"You shouldn't be able to move considering her power level," said Ken.
"I can't get up. Does that qualify as not moving?" asked John.
"No."
"Okay, then I'ma lucky bastard."
"So ... Angel punched you," said Star.
"So that's her name. Angel. She wouldn't tell me."
"She doesn't talk to anyone but that skuntank bitch, Sharon," said Elliot.
"Did she PUNCH you?" asked Star sternly.
John jumped from the sound of her voice and stared at Star. Her eyes were fiery red.
"Y-yeah," answered John.
Star got up and turned around. John quickly grabbed her arm. Star slowly turned back around and glared at John.
"Wait!" exclaimed John, "I know what you are thinkin. She didn't do it out of spite. I kinda ... infuriated her."
Star changed back to her usual calm demeanor and gave John a quizzical look.
"You ... infuriated her?" asked Star in disbelief.
"Uh, yeah. It was kinda an accident."
"John, how the hell do you accidently infuriate someone?" asked Elliot.
"Well, me and her were talking and I approached her. I had tripped over a rock and accidently landed in..."
"In ... where?"
"In ... her ... chest area."
"Awwwww John," said Brock, "I know she looks like she got some big tits hiding under her concealment jutsu. But you went about it the wrong way. You wait till after they use the jutsu to 'accidently' land in her chest area. But to hold a cuff from landing in her chest area period. Is worth it." Brock began to nod his head. This brought some laughter from the males of the group. Unfortunately the females weren't too pleased. Sarah (ninetails) ran up to Brock and kicked him straight out of the group. 100 feet in the air and 70 yards away. She soon addressed her attention to John.
"Wait a minute, Sarah," said John in his defense, "I didn't say I did it intentionally. And besides, you know I'm not a pervert."
"Your T.V channels say something different," said Elliot.
"Ell I told you that was friggin' Speedy-"
"Suuurrreeee."
"Look I-"
"Don't worry I know you aren't a pervert," answered Sarah.
"So you landed in her chest area and she got mad and punched you?" asked Star in a calmer tone than before.
"Yes. So you don't have to kill anybody."
"Okay. Well that's training for today. Everyone inside!"
The large group of pokémon began heading towards John's house. Star was about to leave when John called out.
"Uh, Star. I could use a little help. Kinda can't feel my legs here."
"I gotcha," said Tidus as he slung John's arm around his shoulder and lifted him up off of the ground. Star smiled and began walking towards the house. Tidus hauled John's body right behind Star. Star examined the group of pokémon and saw Pierce trying to sneak inside.
"Pierce!" she yelled, "You're not allowed inside until you give me my 200 laps!"
"Aw shit!" said Pierce as he left the group and started running.

John was sitting in one of his living rooms between a group of male pokémon. The group consisted of Tidus, Elliot, Mark (lickitung), Rico (golduck), Eric (He was fully healed ever since Jason beat him up), Joel (dragonite), Tyler (quagsire), Eustace, and Ken.
"You're a legend now, man," said Tidus.
"What are you talking bout?" asked John.
"He's talking bout the facts that you've stood up to Jason and took a body blow from Angel," answered Ken.
"Only two other people have done what you did man," said Rico, "Star and Angel. I mean sayin that shit to Jason. And considerin' you're power level and the fact that you aren't dead. You're a fuckin' hero, man."
"Angel did too?" asked John.
"Yes, kinda like the same pissed off way you did. She blew up like a volcano on his ass. Cursin' and then fightin' him like a feline raised from hell. She never spoke to anyone after that. Anyone besides Sharon."
"She's sound like a mean person."
"She wasn't always like that," Mark spoke up, "When she was a glameow. She have that nice, goody goody little girl attitude. It was after she evolved that everythin' went down the drain."
"You mean she evolved and became nasty."
"No."
"Then how come she is what she is today."
"Well," said Ken, "As you noticed her size is quite intimidating. And she is a purugly. First came the name calling. They used to call her an ugly instead of a purugly. They made fun of her fur which made her look fat. She got a few Garfield jokes because of that. But soon after the name calling, came the bullying. The other pokémon started beating her up. Mainly the pokémon in Jason's crew and Jason himself. He used to give her derogatory remarks like; her breast milk was as good as liquid from a sewage pipe. The only person that would have sex with her is Frankenstein. So on and so on. Girls like Shina and Kimberly really lowered her self-esteem. Let's not talk bout the comments that they used to tell her. All you need to know is that they were worse than Jason's. She lost all her friends and soon, they started insulting and beating her up as well. Well actually she didn't lose all of her friends. Sharon was still there for her. She defended her as much as she could. They evolved around the same time too. But one day, something just snapped in her mind. She was walking with Sharon when Jason came out and started his usual name calling routine. Sharon told him to fuck off and Jason replied by saying "just like her pops did". Angel's father died shortly after she was born from a heart attack. Jason said that he probably saw what his daughter would become and got a heart attack from the sight. And with that, Angel lost it. I never heard so many curse words come out of someone's mouth in less than a minute. She went ballistic and beat the living shit out of Jason. She's been like that ever since then."
"Wow, did this happen when y'all were still with the Harbingers?"
"No. It happened back at home before we were abducted."
"Yeah, but you see the difference between her and you is," Rico said, "That you got him to back off when he had a power level way higher than yours. Now that's fuckin' impressive."
"I got lucky," responded John
"But' it's still pretty fuckin' impressive."
"I wish I got to see it," Eric spoke up.
"I got it on camera," said Eustace.
"Camera?" asked John.
"Yeah. I'm gonna put the whole thing on my YouTube account. I'm going to display the cuff you gave Jason and place it separately from the original footage as well. I'm gonna call it, "The Punch Of The Century"."
"Yeah," laughed Rico, "You should rewind and fast forward between the collision. End that shit in slow motion."
"So, what are you planning to do about the others?" Mark suddenly asked.
"What do you mean?" asked John.
"Well you obviously started something that has caught the attention of the others."
"Yeah John," said Tidus, "You just took members from their crew without even trying. They all have seen what happened yesterday. They know now that you are a serious threat."
"How am I a threat? All I ask for is friendship and they consider me a threat."
"Well, yes. Just like he said, you took valuable members from their te-" said Ken.
"Bullshit!" exclaimed Tyler. Everyone started looking at him. "We're nothin but useless nerds to them."
"What was that?" asked Ken.
"You really think that they care about losin' us. They probably are sayin good riddance and all sorts of shit."
"Wait a min-"
"He's right," spoke Mark, "We are nothin but dead weight to them. We were just a part of the group because we were just part of the group. Some of us were part of different groups because they made us. Some of us were there because we had no choice. They only let us in their groups out of fuckin pity. Zangoose bastards."
"Us leavin there groups don't mean a damn thing," said Tyler, "Who cares bout a bunch of friggin' losers like us."
This brought silence among the group of male pokémon. 
"Being called a loser ... can be pretty degrading. So is being called pussy, coward, good-for-nothing, invalid, worthless piece of shit. I've dealt with this sort of stuff for a few years. And I can understand all of your anger towards these people. You have every right to be. But sometimes you gotta sit down and think. Are they tellin' the truth and do you believe them?"
"What?"
"Do you believe that you are a loser?"
"No."
"Good. That's all that needed. As long as you know what they're sayin' ain't true. You'll gain immunity to their comments after awhile. Being stressed out and mad about it is exactly what they want you to be. Most of times the reason why 'cool' people insult people like us is to make themselves feel better. They pick on the defaults of others in order to compensate for their defaults. By ignoring them the only loser that is gonna be left standing is them."
"... I guess you're right."
"Now on to better things."
"Like what?" asked Tidus.
"Anything besides the pain that I'm feeling in my stomach."
"That's still hurting you?" asked Ken.
"You ever get hit by Angel?" asked Rico.
"No."
"Exactly. I haven't either. And I don't fuckin' want too. Woman nearly knocked his ass around the world. You see how fast he was movin when he shot into Pierce? "
"Yes I did."
"Too damn fast if you ask me. Shhiiiittt. And that's all I need to see? No offense John, but you got knocked the fuck out." Rico then looked at the dragonite that seemed to be twiddling his thumbs. "How come you so fuckin quiet. Come on, Joel. Show us that you are alive."
"Because ..," said the dragonite shyly, "I don't have anything to say really."
"Okay. Let's switch the topic."
"To what?" asked Elliot.
"Girls."
And as if on cue, Brock walked into the room and sat down.
"Man, that nine tailed bitch needs to stop bein' so friggin' aggressive," he said. He then surveyed the group. "What you guys talkin bout?"
"Girls," replied Rico, "Well we just now started actually."
"Well let me start it off. I don't know about y'all. But it's open season in this muthafucka. I mean sexy, teenage, single women are all over the place. Maaaaaaannnn. You got nice girls like Emma and Katy. Awwww shit. Exploud and bayleef. Man, Emma got to be the most beautiful exploud I ever seen my life. She doesn't even look like a normal exploud. She isn't fat and stubby. She'd tall and got a feminine shape unknown to explouds. She got that coca-cola bottle shape. And her ass is over medium-sized, I bet her tits are too. And Katy. The way she's shaped. Fat ass too. Man tapping that all night long."
"Don't forget Cici."
"How can I? Oh my God, she has everything. Shape, face, HUGE ass, and she's shy. She's the perfect girlfriend and she gotta get it. She gotta."
"But then, that's it," said Elliot.
"The hell you mean that's it." said Brock.
"Man be real, Brock. You know those are the only options we have. Then it's all over. All the other girls in here need to have anger management classes."
"What'chu talkin bout?"
"What the hell you mean what I'm talkin bout. Have you not been in a room with these women. Let me tell you what we workin with. Sarah. Normal shape, medium ass, pretty face. Yet she kicks yo ass if you stare at her in such a way. You know Brock. You're her main victim. Belle. Big girl, big ass, normal face. Come to her and she'll give you a backbreaker. And if she doesn't. Pierce will. Cassie. Big ass, sexy shape, pretty face. She's the perfect girlfriend just like Cici. Except she's one of the tallest pokémon and she's strong as hell. She has the mind of an eleven year old boy, not girl, boy! And she happens to love beatin the shit out of other boys. Erika-"
"Ah man," said Rico, "Those legs, that ass. She got me mesmerized."
"She'll have you hospitalized if you come to her with that shit. She's one of the three non-dateables."
"Who are they?" asked John.
"Erika, Maraina, and Star," replied Eric, "Our nee-chans."
"Erika is just plain anti-social," said Elliot, "It's not even possible to have a relationship with her. Maraina is always friggin angry and has a fuse the size of a friggin atom. And Star. Let's not talk bout Star."
All of the male pokémon started giving uneasy looks. John, however, didn't understand.
"Why not go after Star?" asked John.
"Well big bro," said Eric, "When we were with The Harbingers. There was this manectric that was tryin' to holla at Star-chan. First, she told him that she wasn't interested, but the guy wouldn't take no for an answer. She then got pissed off and began to threaten him. He took the threats as jokes and kept on annoyin' her, poor bastard. She had turned around and he had poked her with his hard-on. All we saw was blood and his screams filling the hallways. Star had her paws soaked in blood and the manetric was rolling on the ground, holding his crotch area. His penis, scrotum and all were laid out in front off his rolling body covered in blood. It was quite obvious what her views were on having an relationship. The next guy who even thought of asking her out would probably share the same fate as the manetric."
"She castrated the manetric?" John asked.
"Yeah," Mark spoke up, "Ask Joel. He was walking right past them when she did it."
John looked at Joel.
"I rather not talk about it," said Joel.
"... Okay," said John as he got up. He let out a big groan from the pain in his stomach. "You think I'd be used to feeling pain now." He started moving towards the door of the living room.
"John," said Tidus, "You going to sleep?"
"Yeah."
"Ken, what time is it," asked Brock.
Ken closed his eyes for a few seconds and then opened them and said, " It's 8:54:38."
"8:54:38?" asked Tidus.
"The last two numbers mean seconds. You know how Ken is. He used to put it in even more complicated terms. He loves his shit to be accurate, and that is the least accurate that he is willing to go." Brock addressed his sight back to John. "Nigga, you are going to sleep at this time. What are you? An eight year old."
"No, but I gotta go to school early in the morning."
"Man fuck that. Get yo ass back over here. We'll just have Eric wake yo ass up that's all. You don't need to be goin to sleep at no fuckin 8:54:38."
"It's 8:55:41," replied Ken.
"Man I don't give a fuck. Point is you ain't goin to sleep."
"Yes, I am."
"No, you not."
"Yes, I am."
"The hell you is," said Rico, joining in on the argument.
"What, I'm being double teamed now."
"Ya damn straight. Goddamn we just started talkin' and shit. We havin' a good time. How you gonna fuck that up? I'm just startin' to get familiar with this nakama. And we yo big brothers. Part of the Big Brother Association. And as you big brother I say you is not goin' to sleep."
"Man .., fuck the Big Brother's Ass-ociation."
"What?!" said Rico. He turned around towards the machamp. "Let's beat his ass, Brock."
"Damn straight," responded the four-armed pokémon.
They jumped out of their seats, tackled Johnathan, and started beating him up. Tidus, Elliot, Ken, Eric, and Eustace started cracking up from the scene. The other pokémon looked on with confused faces.
Just then, Cassie and Erika walked into the room and examined the spectacle. Cassie ran over and kicked Brock and Rico off of Johnathan.
Rico rolled backwards and said, "What the hell, Cassie!"
She flashed her teeth and said, "No one, and I mean no one. Beats up my little brother."
Ahh, John thought, good ol' Cassie.
"No one except me." She turned around towards John. Awww shit, John thought as Cassie jumped in the air performed an elbow drop on him. She then put him in a headlock noogie.
"What were you beating him up for?" asked Erika with an emotionless tone.
"He wanted to go to bed," answered Brock.
"What? It's just became 9:00."
"9:01:2-," said Ken.
"Don't fuckin correct me," she said sternly. She then addressed her attention to Cassie. "Let him go, Cassie. He just wants to go to bed."
"Oh really," said Cassie while releasing John. She got up on her feet and pulled John up along with her. "Okay then, Go to bed."
"No problem," said John as he walked towards the door. 
"Good niiiiiiigggghhhtttt, toddler."
"What?!" John turned around with a surprised look. Cassie's muzzle opened to reveal a toothy grin.
"You wanted your nappy wappy time, little baby. And now you got it. Time for beddy bye."
"You think you're funny huh?"
"Nothing's funny little Johnny wohnny."
"You know what screw this. I'm going to bed."
As he walked out the room, the pokémon behind him started to sing in chorus, "Hush little baby. Don't you cry. Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird." Laughter soon erupted inside the room as John headed towards the stairs.

As John headed towards his bedroom. The door to Cody's bedroom opened up. He looked like he was in a depressed state. He glumly walked towards the stairs and met John while he was ascending.
"Oh," Cody said, "Hey John."
John gave him a weird look and said, "Uh, hey Cody."
"What's the matter."
"Well that's the first time you called me by my name."
"I ... guess there's a first time for everything." He then, gave a weak laugh. They began to engage in eye to eye contact. But Cody broke it and looked down at his feet. John continued to stare at him. This continued for a short period. John then, walked past Cody towards his room.
"Wait!" Cody suddenly called out.
This startled John and made him jump. He turned around and looked at Cody. He seemed to be struggling to say something.
"What is it, Cody?" asked John.
"I just ... wanted to say ... that ... I'm sorry. I treated you with total disrespect. I betrayed your trust. I was ... kinda hoping ... you'd forgive me."
"Okay."
Cody then gave John a surprised look. "Just ... like that you forgive me?"
"Yeah. Why not?"
"John, I had dishonored you in so many ways. I defiled you with insults. I made fun of your accomplishments. I literally spat in your face over and over again. And you forgive me so easily."
"Well yeah."
"How? HOW?!"
"Well I never used to have anyone to tell me shit like that anyway. The townspeople hate me way more than you guys do and all they do is stare and walk away. I am completely ignored by this society. Children and adults. Yet, you guys always have something to tell me. As crazy as it sounds. Even though I ignore it most of the times, I kinda enjoyed being insulted every now and then."
"What are you talkin about. How can you enjoy being insulted?"
"Because it lets me know that you at least acknowledge my existence. I rather have a pokémon tell me some shit about me everyday then one that just stares at me without saying anything. It may not make sense to you. I may not show it, but I kinda enjoy the fact that there are all these pokémon living with me and even more outside my house. I don't care that the pokémon outside there want to kill me; I don't care about what they say as long as it is about me. Whether it's bad or not, I'm happy. It's better than living in loneliness."
"I ... can't believe this. I can't believe you. I never met anyone like you in my entire life."
"Yeah, I guess I'm a strange person. Does this mean you don't hate me anymore."
"I shouldn't have in the first place."
"Well that's one more life enlightening thing for me. Guess that makes you my nii-chan according to Cici."
"Nii-chan?"
"You know. Nakama."
"Oh yeah. So now we are all one big family huh?"
"Yeah. It's the one thing that I just can't seem to keep."
"... Sorry."
"It's not your fault. Matter of fact, I'm glad that you guys are here."
Cody smiled, walked up to John and embraced him. John was nearly lifted off his feet from the strength of the hug.
"Thank you .., little brother."
"Don't mention it," John said with a strained voice, "The only thing I could ever want is to breathe."
"Oops. Sorry." He quickly let go of John. John began holding his chest. "Oh, crap. Did I hurt you."
"Naw, it's just that when you hugged me. My chest started aching again."
"Again?"
"I got punched by a purug-, Angel."
"You got punched by Angel?! And you're still standing."
"Yes."
"Wow. That's amazing."
"Yeah. I'm goin' to bed Cody. What about you?"
"Oh, I'm going downstairs to eat. Then I'm coming back up."
"Okay, then see ya."
"Alright goodnight."
"Goodnight."
John opened his bedroom door and it closed behind him. He goes to sleep not knowing of the troubles to befall him the next day.

John woke up around 6:30 in the morning and did his usual routine. He was fully clothed by 7:00. He walked out his room and heard the usual noise within the dining room. John entered the room to see both of tables filled with pokémon with only four empty seats.
Elliot turned towards John and said, "You betta get in the kitchen befo Erika come out here and kick yo ass."
"Man, forget that," answered John, "I have school to go to."
"It's your ass, not mine."
"I ... suggest you do it, John," Tidus spoke up.
"Man, I don't need to be makin no breakfast." 
"Man, get'cho lazy ass up and go in the kitchen." hollered Rico.
"Screw you man. You don't know the sort of concentration you have to put in high sch-"
"Nigga please. You can make fuckin' computers and you're at the top of the class. Majority of the time you be sleeping in that bitch." 
"Now-wait a minute. How the hell did you know that."
"With the help of Ken, we red Speedy's mind."
"That is not right. What happened to respect for Speedy's personal thoughts?"
"Muthafucka, we are assassins. Like we care about privacy."
"Thank God, I'm immune to psychic powers."
"But you ain't immune to ass-whuppins so you better get yo ass in the kitchen."
"Man, whatever." John turned around and started heading towards he kitchen.

Like yesterday, the servants were lined up against the wall waiting from orders from the two grass pokémon that were moving around in a cooking frenzy. John walked past the workers and into the cooking area. Dan noticed John, quickly opened up a cupboard and gave him an apron and a chef's hat.
"Hurry up and put this on," he said, "We have a lot of work to do and you're late. Come on let's hustle."

John spent almost an hour and half cooking and later eating breakfast. By the time we were finished with breakfast it was 8:45. The school bus was long gone and school started in fifteen minutes.
"Just great," he grumbled at the dining room table, "Now I'm late for school and I gotta run."
"The exercise will be good for ya," said Maraina.
"Exercise. What are you talking bout."
"He's right nee-chan," said Cassie, "He can't get any scrawnier than he already is."
"Scrawny! What the hell are you talkin about?"
"This." Cassie walked up to John and moved his shirt sleeve up his arm revealing nothing but skin and bone. "What you need to do is start doing push-ups, and lifting weights."
"Ain't nothing wrong with me."
"You're a fuckin' walkin' skeleton, Marilyn Manson."
"Okay. Now you're over exaggerating. My cheeks aren't even sunken in."
"About to be," Brock spoke up, "I can't believe you took a punch from Angel."
"Why is that so hard to believe?"
"Compare her size to yours and you'll see what I mean. You make her look like the Incredible Hulk by how small you are."
"Whatever." John turned around and began walking out the dining room and towards the front door. But was stopped when Ken appeared before him.
"I heard you complaining about walking to school," said Ken.
"Look, I'm not getting into that subject again," John answered.
"No, I actually was going to say you don't have too. I can teleport you there."
"Okay. Wait. How do you know how to get there?"
"Speedy."
"I ban you from reading his mind ever again. Well actually I can't ban you because now you are my older brother. So I'll get Star to ban you."
"What's so wrong with reading people's mind? It can be very interesting and entertaining at some times."
"Why you psychic bastard. You enjoy it. You are entering a person's mind for god's sake. That's their privacy. How would you like it if someone red your mind."
"Not possible. I have put up psychic defenses all throughout my brain. If people didn't want their minds infiltrated they would do the same."
"Not everybody has an I.Q. over 1,000, Ken. How the hell would they know?"
"Read."
"Oh come on, Ken."
"You would do the same thing too."
"No, I wouldn't."
"You say that now, but if you were a-"
"Alright, Ken. I get the idea. Could you please teleport me to school."
"Alrighty."
Ken put his hands on John but before they left, Star came towards them.
'You leavin', John?" she asked.
"Yes."
"Well have a good day at school."
"Thanks. At least one of the females around here is caring."
"Try and get here before five. I want four hours of training from you."
John's changed from being happy to nervous when Star finished her statement.
"Four ... hours?"
"Yes. We'll be doing it everyday for now on." She then went into another room leaving a distressed John. Ken smiled and put his hand on John's shoulder. They both, then disappeared from the area.

John felt his body surge with energy all over as he was being teleported. When they arrived in front of the school, John dropped to the ground. Ken quickly grabbed his arms and pulled him onto his feet.
"Kind of a jump isn't it?" asked Ken as he pulled John up.
"Yeah. Woooo. That's crazy."
"It feels like that the first few times. See you later." Ken then waved John off and disappeared.
John looked around and noticed he was getting a few stares from his students. One of the school buses pulled in and children started getting off. Speedy was one of them. Speedy noticed John and walked over to him with a surprised look on his face.
"How the ... hell did you get here before me."
"I missed the bus, so I called an alakazam."
"Ken teleported you here. You told him where the school was."
"Actually, no."
"What? Then how did he bring you here."
"He got the location from you."
"How? I didn't tell him anything."
"He red your mind."
"He red my-? Son of a bitch. When I see him next time I'm gonna kick him square in the nuts."
"Well you can save that for later."
John and Speedy looked around and they noticed that they were still being looked at.
"Guess everyone's still shaken up from what happened last Friday with you and Ted's gang."
"It probably even worse than that if anyone's been on YouTube lately."
"What you talkin bout?"
"Eustace taped the fight that me and Jason had and put it on the computer."
"You serious."
"Yeah."
"Hey let's go inside and see the results."
Both of the boys then walked through the front door of the school.

School went by pretty fast and John and Speedy were out before they knew it. They then headed towards John's house. John began his excruciating training with Star and Erika, once again. She even made Speedy join along. It was 8:40 by the time they were done and Speedy went home black and bruised from the kicks that Erika delivered. John wasn't to well off either. John needed to put some money on his cell phone so he decided to go to the gas station that night. Star wanted to send someone with him, but John said that he'd be alright. The gas station was a one hour walk. But he got their in 2 minutes because he ran instead. He put 200 dollars on his phone, bought a Gatorade and walked out of the gas station. He walked a good distance while gulping down the energy drink. He was about 100 meters from the gas station when he finished drinking. He started to run again when suddenly, he was hit in the back and sent flying 80 yards down the road and into the forest area. He bumped off of a tree and landed on the ground. He held his back while he got up off the ground. He turned around to meet his assailant and got himself pummeled in the gut. He flew 500 yards backwards through the forest. He broke through eight trees along the way. The trees collapsed giving off large quakes, awakening the sleeping forest. Sounds of pokémon waking up filled throughout the area. John slowly got up once again he was now bleeding outside of his mouth. He heard the foot steps of his unknown assailant rapidly approaching him from in front of him. He immediately went super saiyan hoping that the large amount of ki given off from the transformation would stall his attacker. It did. The unknown body was shot backwards a few feet and landed on the ground. It then back flipped off of the forest floor and stood up on its feet. The moonlight showered over the body revealing the identity of the attacker. It was over six and a half feet tall. It had light yellow fur and large round ears that curved forward. It had six long whiskers, three on both sides of its face. Moonlight reflected off of the red gem in the middle of its forehead and the wide sharp toothed smile that it was now giving off. It was a persian. It had a normal sized upper body while its legs were thick and muscular. 
"Humph," it said, "They did tell me you weren't normal. But it seems they didn't know you were a saiyan." The voice sounded feminine.
"Well," said John, "A lot of people make mistakes. So let me guess. You're from The Harbingers right."
"All you need to know is that you are gonna by my hand."
"Die? That's a very strong word. But I don't think my date with death is now."
"You have no choice."
She rushed towards him, flipped forwards, and slammed her heel forward. John quickly slipped out an impact dial (never leave home without one) and blocked the attack with it.
"There's always a choice," answered John. 
The persian flipped backwards and stared at John with cold eyes.
"You sound like you're around the same age as me," continued John.
The persian sent a thunderbolt towards John who slipped out an absorption dial and absorbed the attack.
The persian growled and said, "How the hell are you doing this."
"Technology."
"That's cheating."
"Well the rules pretty much went out the window when you said you wanted to kill me. Are you part of the group that was taken from Soronara?"
"What's it to you," she said as she charged towards John at high speeds. She threw punches and kicks towards John who dodged them all. She was starting to become frustrated. "Stand ... fuckin' ... still ... you ... little ... shit."
John then back flipped five times away from the assaulting persian.
"You know why they sent you to kill me?"
"Don't fuckin care."
She released a hyper beam which John narrowly escaped by sidestepping.
"It's because I rescued the pokémon from an airship crash who also lived in Soron-"
"I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!"
She shoved her paw in John's direction and her paw and eyes began to glow blue. John's body was covered in blue light for a second and then suddenly the color disappeared. The persian had a surprised look on her face. She then brought back the angry look on her face, pulled both of her paws back, and thrust them forward towards John. Her arms were totally covered with blue energy. A large wind passed by John but the only thing that moved on John was his clothes which were flapping. A tree behind John was uprooted and shot in the air from the invisible attack.
"What the-," the persian began.
"Your special ability gives you the powers of psychic pokémon?"
"How did you-"
"Elliot told me that y'all had special abilities that you get from your bloodlines. And if yours is psychic abilities. Then they will have no affect on me. Cuz like you, I have my own special abilities and one of them include negation of psychic energy."
"Fine, guess I'll have to resort to this" She dropped her hands to her sides, revealed her claws and charged towards him. I hate fighting cats, John thought as he watched the feline come towards him. She began swinging slash attacks towards John who started dodging again. 
She soon flipped backwards and said, "I'm gettin tired of you dodging me." She used double team making four copies of herself.
"Two can play that game," said John. He used shadow clone jutsu creating nine clones of himself.
"You're ... just annoying."
"Say what you-" John was interrupted when three of his shadow clones were taken out by one of the five persians in front of him. The other four used thunderbolts which took out four more clones. Leaving John with three of his clones. Shit, he thought, she distracted me. The five persians than ganged up on the four Johnathans. The shadow clones were quickly destroyed leaving John to fight the five persians. He took out his absorption dial and released the thunderbolt taking out two of the persian's double teams. But two other persians appeared beside him and kneed him in the stomach sending him flying in the air and soon crashing back down to the ground. 
"Gotcha," said the real persian as she made her two double teams disappear. She slowly strolled up to John's downed body as he struggled to get back on his feet. John slowly stood up and coughed blood out of his mouth. The persian charged John with five night slashes. He dodged four of the slashes but the last one struck him across his left leg. The clothing of his jeans was ripped off, revealing four big gashes which were oozing out blood. John jumped backwards from the persian. He winced in pain when he landed on the hurt leg.
"Well it looks like you've slowed down from before. Heh heheh. Now you're mine."
She ran forward and threw six quick punches which John dodged, but was nailed in the gut with a kick. The persian lifted John off the ground with her foot and slammed him back down. When he was trying to get back up, she gave him a spin kick to the face which sent him spinning and straight back into the ground. She had her foot claws out so it slashed him across his left cheek. He rolled backwards onto his knees and gritted his teeth as he stared at the persian. Blood was coming out from the slashes across his cheek. She ran forward and used a night slash. John dodged by bending his body backwards. The persian smiled, grabbed John by the shirt and backhand slashed him across his right cheek. Now both sides of his face were torn open. She then threw him in the air and hit him with a night slash. This time it struck home. She slashed horizontally across his chest with this one. John shot backwards from the force of the dark attack and went straight into a tree. John then leaned against the tree while seated on the ground.
"I gots to give it to ya," said the persian as she approached John, "You're one tough customer. Despite all the slashes, you didn't scream once."
"I've ... felt worse than this," said John as he began to breathe heavily. Blood started flowing out of his mouth as he said this.
"Humph. It doesn't matter that you felt worse than this. All you need to know is that this will kill you."
When she was two feet in front of John, John suddenly slipped out the impact dial from before and thrust it towards the persian's stomach. But the persian saw it coming and grabbed his hands before he touched her. She began to squeeze John's left hand until it began to break. He then dropped the dial in agony, but he still didn't scream.
"Fightin til the end," said the persian, "Almost a shame that you have to die." She grabbed John by the throat with her left paw and lifted him in the air. She retracted the claws in her right paw and cocked it backwards. "Nighty night, saiyan."
John closed his eyes and braced himself from the hit that would take his life from him. But was surprised to see that it didn't come. Instead, his body was dropped to the floor. He opened his eyes to see what happened. In front of him was a yellow body with brown spikes on its back. The spikes were flickering. John looked to his right and saw the persian holding her left side while on her knees fifty yards away from him.
"S-Star," John sputtered out. 
Star began to walk towards the persian.
"Star," the persian said as she got up, "Is that yo-"
Star silenced her with a mega punch to the jaw which sent the persian spinning and flying 30 yards away from Star. The persian rolled back to her feet and glared at Star. Blood was starting to come out of her mouth.
"Star, what are you-?" the persian began to ask, but stopped when she saw Star's eyes. They were bloodshot and filled with anger. The persian quickly gathered psychic energy in her paws and tried using psychic on Star. But to her dismay, Star used dig and went underground.
"Shit!" exclaimed the persian who took flight. She flew a hundred feet in the air and looked down at the ground to see where Star would pop up. Suddenly the ground started shaking and a couple of large spikes shot out of the ground and started shooting towards the persian. The persian used psychic on the spikes and shot them towards John's downed body. Before the spikes were even thirty feet in front of John. Some more spikes shot out of the ground and formed around John and covered him like a force field. The spikes broke off of the spike shield leaving John unharmed. After this, the spikes that were covering John went back into the ground.
"How the hell is she see-" the persian was then cut off by ten spikes that were approaching her. They were moving too fast and were too close for her to use psychic so she went into a defensive stance. She dodged four of them but five of them hit home. Two slashed past her right arm. One went through her left thigh, spouting blood from it. And the other two grazed her left and right sides. The persian screamed in pain as these spikes hit her, especially the one that went through her leg. The last spike zoomed towards her, but suddenly was converted to smoke which an angry sandslash flew out of. Star shot towards the persian and met with it face to face in the air. The persian's face was filled with pure fright as she gazed in Star's relentless eyes. Star raised her paw and slammed it down using crush claw on the persian's skull. The persian shot like a bullet towards the ground. When she landed , a crater that was 30 feet in diameter and 10 feet in depth was created. Star slowly descended into the crater over the persian. The persian's skull was cracked from the crush claw. Blood was starting to rapidly flow from her mouth and forehead. The persian looked up at Star with pleading eyes.
"S-Star ... please ... don't kill me," it said weakly.
"It's too late for that now," responded Star coldly.
She lifted her large five-clawed paw, preparing to shove it through the persian's skull, finishing it off.
"Star!"
Star broke her concentration to see John standing right before the crater staring down at her. He had a small ball in his right which was lifted over his head.
"John! What are you doing?!" asked Star.
John pressed a button on the ball which enlarged revealing to be a pokeball. He threw the pokeball into the crater which landed on the persian's head. The pokeball sucked her in and quickly sealed her inside.
"John, what the fuck are you doing!" said Star.
"Capturing a slave is what I'm doin'," responded John.
"John. That persian was gonna kill you."
"Yes. She was. Because she was forced to do it just like you were forced to kill other people before you."
"But John-"
"She's no different than you or everyone else, nee-chan."
"John she tried to kill you. Why would you capture someone that almost killed you."
"That question kinda went out the window when I got you guys."
Star began to stare at John with utter surprise on her face.
"And just like you guys, I'm gonna deliver her from those bastards. She tried to kill me. So what. Let her die for something that she was forced to do. Something she didn't want to do."
"You don't know that John-"
"You don't know either. Not for sure. But now." John slid down into the crater and picked up the pokeball. "We got a chance to know. I am not gonna let her die without giving her a chance. You didn't asked to be kidnapped by The Harbingers and she didn't either."
"..."
"Now let's go to the pokémon center. We can't let her die in this damn ball."

20 minutes later they arrived at the pokémon center. Most of John's wounds healed along the way except for the ones across his chest and his leg. He was limping when he came in. When Nurse Joy saw him, she nearly jumped out of her seat.

"Oh my god, John!" she exclaimed, "What happened to you?"
"Oh the usual," answered John, "All in a day's work. I would like it if you could heal this pokémon."
"You have ... another one." She then began to look at Star who glared back at her. She quickly addressed her attention back to John. "Let me see it."
John handed the ball over to Nurse Joy who scanned the ball in one of the machines behind her. When her analysis was done her eyes popped open.
"Oh no! We need to get her in the ER right away."
She talked into a microphone behind the desk, calling out a few names to come down to the front immediately. A few seconds later, two doctors and three chanseys burst out through some doors leading further inside with an operation table. Nurse Joy released the injured persian out onto the table and the doctors and chanseys quickly escorted her back through the doors. Nurse Joy told John to wait outside as she quickly pursued the others through the door. John and Star then turned around and sat in the waiting chairs.

"Well hopefully she's alright," he said.
"John," said Star, "How are you so forgiving. This persian nearly killed you."
"Oh don't tell me we are gonna start this again."
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Cause it's ... hard to believe ... hard to understand. It's not something a normal person would do."
"Well I don't care about being normal right now."
"It just doesn't make any sense. This goes against everything we were taught from ..."
"From who?"
"..."
"The Harbingers. Well like I told you before. I'm not a Harbinger. So I probably won't do anything that you would expect them to do, Star. And my state is quite different than a normal person. I just want to do the right thing. I know you'll tell that it will get me killed. But I just think everyone deserves a second chance. You guys get yours, so why let someone else get one too."
They remained silent for a while after this. The only noise that invaded the room was the constant ticking of the clock positioned high on the wall before them. 
After a few minutes, John finally said, "What's the persian's name."
"Sasha."
"She's your friend."
"No. She used to be one of those snooty rich kids on the block before we were kidnapped."
"You would have killed her that easily."
"Pretty much if it wasn't for you."
"How come?"
"She lived by the same morals as Jason. And you already know how I feel about Jason."
"Yeah. I do. How did you find me."
"Ten minutes after you left the house, I started to feel a little uneasy. I told everyone that I'd go out to catch up with you. You don't know how uncomfortable I was about you leaving here at that time of the night, alone. I knew something like this might happen. I remember the patterns and ways of The Harbingers like the back of my paw. They didn't like to send us at the daytime so I knew if they sent anyone for you. It would be at night. That's why I kinda ordered you to come home early all the time and always had someone watching you if it wasn't me. So I just followed your scent to the gas station. I began to hurry when I started to smell blood."
"I was actually starting to think you were becoming overprotective of me. I'm glad you came out when you did." He looked back at the clock, but then remembered the fight that Star had with Sasha. "Hey, Star, what was that technique you were using when you fought Sasha."
"It's my Kekkei Genkai. Spike Manipulation. I can control the spikes on my body and use them in any way that I want. They regenerate just as fast they are removed from my body. Sorta like Jason."
"Yeah. But yours was pretty cooler."
Star smiled and ran her claws through his hair. 

A few minutes later. An arcanine, a gulpin, a marshtomp, and a scizor ran into the pokémon center.
"It's about time you guys showed up," said Star.
"Where the hell were you?" asked Tidus, "What the hell happened to John?"
"I'm right here you know," John spoke, "You can ask me."
"What the hell happened to you?" said Elliot.
"Guess."
"Those fucking Harbingers wasn't it," Maraina answered.
"Yes."
"Star, you were right."
"That's it," said Cassie, "I'm never letting you out of my sight again. Even if you have to take a shit, I'll be right there watching."
"What happened to my privacy," said John.
"Fuck your privacy. You look like you almost died tonight."
She sat in the chair next to John and began to nuzzle against him. Well that's the arcanine instincts kicking in, John thought, they are always known to be overprotective. But I wonder whose more overprotective. Star or Cassie.
"Who did they send?" asked Tidus.
"Sasha," answered Star.
"That persian bitch," said Elliot.
"Yes."
"You killed her."
Star looked at John and said, "No."
"Wait," said Maraina, "Don't tell me he stopped you."
"Yes, he did."
John began to hold his head. Not again, he thought.

1 hour later, they were all sitting in the pokémon center. Waiting for Nurse Joy to return.
"This is taking too damn long," yawned Elliot, "I'm bout to go in there and pull the plug to save us the trouble of waitin'."
"What did she do to make you guys hate her so bad."
"She's a bitch. She's a snooty, naggin', braggin', pompous bitch"
"All those words for one persian."
"Yes." 
The doors besides Nurse Joy's desk opened finally with a stressed out Nurse joy walking straight through. 
She walked straight up to John and said, "Your persian will be fine. You'll have to come back for it tomorrow. We will need to keep her under close observation before giving it back to you. Do you mind if I ask what happened to her and what happened to you."
"Yeah John," said Elliot, "Tell Nurse Joy what happened."
John looked at Elliot and then looked back at Nurse Joy.
"You wouldn't wanna know."
"I have a right to know."
"You do. But you don't wanna know."
"Try me."
"Well, the persian you just now healed just tried to kill me."
"Oh ... well, I guess they can tend to be very aggressive over their territories and-"
"No, Nurse Joy. No territories in this act. She was sent."
"What do you mean 'sent'?"
"I mean she was sent to kill me. She's an assassin."
"Oh ... just like-"
"Yes, just like them."
"Do you know who?"
"No, I don't."
The five pokémon began staring at John.
"Do you mind if I ask. Why would you capture someone that was trying to kill you?"
John then explained the situation to Nurse Joy in the same manner that he did to his pokémon family.
"Wow ... John. You are one of a kind," said Nurse Joy
"Yep," answered John, "They tell me the same thing." John got up along with the rest of the pokémon. "Alrighty then I'll be here tomorrow. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
And with that John and his nakama left the pokémon center and returned home.

John woke up the next day at 7:15. Well I'm definitely won't be going to school today, John thought. He got from his bed and did his normal routine. He went downstairs and went straight in the kitchen to be cursed by his breloom brother and sister. After breakfast, John decided that he would have a walk around the forest area behind his house. When John came home and told the story to the rest of his nakama. Ricky and Henry flew out and retold the story among the rest of the pokémon in the forest. Surprisingly, they were unscathed when they came back. Star told him not to leave within 500 meters of the house. If he was to exceed that limit she would send Cassie for him. And he definitely didn't want that. She would keep locked on to his power level to make sure that he would obey the rule placed upon him. John began to walk through the forest areas examining trees and bushes within the area. Finding caterpies, weedles, spinaraks and many more bug pokémon. He saw bird pokémon like pidgeys, murkrows, and taillows sitting on branches chirping songs which filed the forest, giving off a melancholy feeling. John continued to walk through trees and bushes until he came to a clearing where the purugly and skuntank from two days ago were standing. It was almost as if they were waiting for him. John turned around and looked behind him and than back at the two females before him. He shoved his hands in his pockets and walked towards. He kept walking until he was a distance of fifteen feet between them.

He then finally said, "So, is there anything else that I need to do to show that I'm not from the Harbingers."
"What happened last night means nothing, Why did you save Sasha."
"The same reason why I saved you two."
"And why was that?"
"Because ... it was right thing to do."
"Bullshit. I may understand the bringing us to the pokémon center part. But taking us in after 'learning' about our, oh so colorful past. That's something that a normal person-"
"Well, I'm not a normal person."
"That's almost you're answer to everything."
"It's the only one I know."
"Well it's gettin old."
"Look I've done all that I can. I'm not gonna sit here and argue with you about this anymore. I'm not a good arguer you probably found that out by now. But to say that you still believe I'm Harbinger after all this. Why would I have someone attack and deal severe damage to myself. Why go through the pain. Why send Star to come and save me. Why don't I just capture the persian, put a few scratches on my body and say that I struggled and fought with it. That seems a whole lot easier than what happened last night."
"Takin' the hard would cause less suspicions."
"... Fine. I am a Harbinger. I enjoy takin' the lives of innocent people including woman and children. I cheated my way into the rich-style life. I'm conniving slime who takes pleasures in the misfortunes of others. I mislead people into thinking that I'm trustworthy so that I can use them. Cause I live a lie. With all due respect, fuck you."
John began to turn around.
"Wait!"
"What is it now, Sharon?"
"I'm sorry."
"You're what?"
"It's just that ... through our experiences of meetin' other saiyans. They were all pretty much ... unfriendly. Harbingers or not. Majority of saiyans that we killed and saw was a bunch of power hungry, relentless bastards. We just wanted to be sure of who we were dealin' with."
"Well that's kinda of a harsh way of doin' it."
"Well like I said we gotta be sure."
John began to look at Angel. She still had that blank look on her face. Her eyes were half closed and her arms crossed. Her tails were waving lazily behind her left to right.
"What about her?" John asked.
"Don't worry about her," Sharon said, "She's alright."
Sharon looked at her purugly friend, who began to shrug a little, and make signs with her paws, her eyes opened fully and she pounded on her chest. She then went back to having her eyes half closed and arms crossed.
"What the hell?" said John.
"Oh," Sharon slowly turned back towards John, "She says she's sorry for the, y'know, punching you in your gut thing. It was an accident and she shouldn't have let her anger get the best of her."
"Yeah. It's okay. No real harm done."
"So how about it."
"How about what?"
"Lettin us join your crew."
"Really. Alright. But ... one thing"
"And what's that."
John shoved his hand in the air, brought it back down, and pointed his finger at Angel.
"Would it be too much to ask her to tell me her name ... with her voice?"
Angel narrowed her eyes at John and began to growl. John jumped back, remembering what happened two days ago.
"Uhhh," he stammered, "You know what. I like the way my ribs are right now. Intact. So I think I'm goin' to drop that request for my good health and walk away very slowly."
"Come on," said Sharon as she thumped Angel and placed her arm around her shoulder, "He's a nice guy. An insecure sissy. But a nice guy."
"It's not like he's one of those other jerks. C'mon tell him."
She began to give Sharon a strange look.
"No," said Sharon suddenly, "I'm not tellin him. You tell him."
Angel let out a big sigh and stared at John. John had his hands in his pockets, rocking back and forth on his feet with anticipation.
They stared at each other for awhile until finally the purugly opened her mouth and said the words, "Angel."
"You sure about that? Cuz you don't punch like one," John said smartly.
"You want another one?" Angel growled.
"I got a sentence out of her this time."
"Your about to get a foot up your ass next."
"And they just keep comin and comin and, uh-oh." 
John turned around and began to run with the furious purugly close behind him. Sharon began to laugh and walk in the direction that John and Angel just now ran through.

"So what happened to you and Christian," Tidus asked.
In front of him was a male riolu, a female lucario, and a female mew. The mew was the same height as the lucario and had light green eyes. Everything else about her was normal. Elliot, Star, and Maraina were beside Tidus.
"Nothing happened between her and that jerk," said the mew.
"Wait," said Elliot, "What the hell are you doing here again. Where's Jeri."
"She's with Jason and his crew now."
"How come you didn't go. Isn't she like your twin sister, Kari."
"You know that saying bout twins think alike."
"Yeah."
"It's bullshit."
"Okay, Well then how bout you Jesse? You've been quiet the whole time."
"I ..," the lucario said, "Kari convinced me to leave."
"Did you wanna leave?" asked Maraina.
"Yes."
"Something is seriously wrong with those Williams," said the riolu, "And Christian is just plain mean. Jesse's scared that they might come and try to kill me and Derrick for leavin' their group."
"Well you don't have to worry anymore, Jesse," said Star, "No ones coming here to kill no one. Not under our watch."
"You think ... Johnathan would let us stay?" asked Jesse.
"Of course he will," Derrick said jumping up and down in front of his big sister, "He's a super nice and super good guy." He then turned around to Tidus. "Right?"
"Yeah, just like ya lil bro said."
Jesse gave a nervous chuckle from this statement.
Suddenly, a multi-colored blur shot right past them.
"What the hell?" said Elliot. 
Then, a purple and white blur shot past them.
"What the hell?" repeated Elliot.
"Was that Johnathan?" asked Tidus.
"Yes and it appears that Angel is chasing him," Maraina said.
"Damn!" exclaimed Elliot, "I know he said he was fast, but shit I never seen anyone run so fast in my life. He actually might be faster than Chris and Sean."
"What would you do if Angel was chasing you?" asked Tidus.
"Hmm. You gotta point there."
"They're coming back," said Maraina.
"Good," said Star in a deep voice.
"Awww shit," said Elliot as he slid backwards, "Something bout to go down."
"What's that?" said Kari.
"You'll see."
John flashed past the group again. Angel was coming too until Star stepped into her path. Angel skidded against the ground and came face to face with Star. They both locked eyes, each trying to stare down the other. John skidded against the ground to slow himself down. He then turned around and ran towards the two females.
"Hold up, now!" John screamed as he approached to Star and Angel, "Violence is not necessary."
Star and Angel still kept staring in each other's eyes refusing to break contact.
"Now she wasn't tryin to kill me. She just has a poor sense of humor and when I said a certain joke that she didn't take very well. She kinda came after me like the juggernaut. Remember what happened two days ago. I decided that she would have to catch me if she wanted to punch and here we are. There are no hostile actions here. Besides she's willin' to join our nakama, Star."
Despite all this, the two former assassins till kept eye to eye contact. If this keeps up, someone's going to hit someone, John thought. 
At that moment, Sharon walked into the area. Sharon examined the scene and gave a big sigh. She walked off beside John.
"Thirty seconds of joining the family and you already starting a fight, Angel?" she said.
Angel gave a shrug but kept eye contact with Star.
"Uh, I think we should pull them apart," John said.
"That would be a good idea."
Sharon went behind Angel and started pulling her backwards. John went behind Star and tried the same thing with no result.
"What the..." John said. He then wrapped both of his arms around Star's waist and began pulling. But to his dismay, Star wouldn't even budge. This got wide eyes from everyone besides Derrick, who began to point at John and laugh. John walked in front of Star and spit in both of his hands. He began to rub them both together. He then placed his hands on Star's stomach, grinded his feet in the ground and began pushing. But Star remained stationary. John's feet however, kept grinding and sliding against the ground as he walked forward struggling to push Star backwards. He then let out a war cry and started to push the hardest he could muster against Star. Star moved from the force of John's push by only one inch. This got the whole group laughing. Star and Angel finally broke eye contact and started looking at John, who was on his knees in front of Star, breathing heavily.
"What happened to you?" asked Star.
This got the crowd laughing even harder.
"You didn't feel or see that I was pulling and pushing you," said John.
"You were?"
John head's dropped down from hearing this. Star stared at John with a confused look on her face. John then stood back and looked up at his big sister.
"Angel and Sharon are part of our nakama now," said John.
"Really?" said Star. She began to look towards Sharon and Angel.
"Yes," said Sharon sternly.
"Humph, well John it seems we got five new members because these three are joining too."
"The more the merrier. Welcome to the family." John extended his hand towards the lucario. He had a big smile on his face. Jesse looked at his hand and then at his face with a nervous glance.
"What's the matt-" At that moment Kari floated in front of him. She floated around his body, examining it. She then stopped in front of John and stared at him.
"What?" he said.
"You're pretty short for a saiyan," said Kari.
"How many of you guys are gonna tell me about my height."
"It's weird. You should at least be 6'5"."
"Well I'm not okay."
"I have a question."
"What?"
"How come I can't read your mind. Better yet, how come I can't use my psychic abilities on you?"
"My body negates psychic energy. You guys have special abilities. I have some too."
"You're weird."
"Oh, just because you can't read my mind, huh."
"No, You're weird on a whole nother level. You take in and try to befriend pokémon who want to kill you. You can't fly but you have a power level of 195,000. You're rich, have a job, and you haven't even exceeded my age. And now to put the icing on the cake, you saved the life of a pokémon that almost killed you. You're weird."
"I'm just tryin to do the right thing."
"Doing the right thing is gonna-"
"Get me killed. I know. But I rather die doing the right thing than live doing nothing at all. Besides they can only kill me once."
"Well you are officially the weirdest person I ever met."
Derrick pointed at John and said. "Hey! You have got be the coolest weak guy I ever seen."
"Thank you for the compliment." John looked at Star. "Where's everybody else?"
"Inside," answered Star. 
"Well then, let's go."

"Hey John! Could we have a talk with you for a minute."
It was the aipom named Joey. He was one of the new additions to the nakama. Behind him were Ricky and Henry. The aipom spoke with a highly distinguishable Italian accent. John walked over to them to see what this was about.
"What's goin on?" asked John.
"Well, John. We've been watchin you for awhile. And we have to say you ain't doin too good. You makin yoself an easy target. I mean walkin bout the place unprotected and a power level as small as yours you could be takin out just like this, boss."
"What are you talkin bout."
"Last night is what I'm what talkin bout, boss."
"Oh ... right. Man that was just durin' the night time. I ain't even goin' out at night time no mo. You ain't gotta worry bout me."
"No it's not good enough, boss. These Harbinger cocksuckers don't give up easily."
"What you talkin bout?"
"He means that Sasha didn't report back to The Harbinger base," said Henry, "They have probably assumed that she is either dead or imprisoned. They'll be sendin more .., boss."
"You're gonna need a bodyguard, boss," said Ricky.
"What's up with this boss talk."
"Well you are the leader ain'tcha, boss," said Joey.
"Well, actually-"
"Exactly, so we would propose that you have one of the pokémon here to be your bodyguard everyday. It's the only way we can ensure your safety. Forget about it."
"Man don't worry about it. The only time I'll leave the house is to go to school."
"And that's where they'll be lookin to hit you."
"In broad daylight in front of all those people."
"They would take out a whole building just to get to you, boss. You don't realize the damage that you have done to them. You took their most valuable assets. Us. And now you're about to take Sasha, boss."
"Oh, shit!"
"What the matter?"
"It's already 4:00. I haven't gone to the pokémon center yet."
He walked into the living room where Cassie, Mark, Tyler, Tidus, Joel, and Elliot were sitting down. The three Italian pokémon were tagging close behind him.
"Hey guys, where's Star?"
"Out meditatin," answered Elliot, "What's the problem."
"I need to go pick up Sasha."
"Well let's not bother her. C'mon."
Elliot began to slide past me towards the front door.
"Uh..." John stammered.
The rest of the pokémon (Cassie, Tidus, Mark, Tyler, and Joel) followed Elliot as well. The Italian trio was following too.
"You don't need Star for everything," said Tidus.
"...Okay," John finally said.

They arrived at the pokémon center 20 minutes later. Nurse Joy was doing some paperwork at her desk when John walked through the glass doors of the center. She looked up towards him with a stressed look on her face.
"It's about time," she said, "I almost thought you weren't coming."
"Yeah," answered John, "I almost forgot."
"What's with the group of giants behind you?"
"Security. Ever since last night they've kept me under close surveillance. They're not happy with what I'm doin' now. But if I don't, no one will."
"You've became that sorta guy now."
"Yes. I guess I have."
"You know your way around here right?"
"In my mind like a Polaroid picture."
"She's in ward E, room 9."
"Okey dokey."
John turned around and signaled his pokémon to follow him. They were about to go in the elevator when John suddenly stopped.
"What happened?" asked Tidus.
"I don't think we all can fit in there," John replied.
"Man don't worry about it," said Elliot, "We can fit."
Elliot then shoved John in the elevator and the crowd of pokémon stuffed themselves in.
"We could be exceedin the weight limit," said John.
"The only heavyweights here are Joel, Tyler, and Cassie," Elliot informed, "We'll be fine."
"I'm not that heavy," scoffed Cassie.
"You're an arcanine dammit. You're all fuckin' heavy."
John pressed the button for the third floor and elevator doors closed and began rising. The usual elevator music came on while the group ascended.
"See, John. No problem."
"I wish I could see the ceiling."
He looked up to find himself towered over by everyone except Tidus, Elliot and Henry. 
Mark looked down at John and said, "Grow a few inches and maybe you will see the ceilin'."
"You guys just can't seem to get enough of these short jokes can you."
"The fact is you're short for a saiyan. Saiyans match our height group. And you're a good few inches below it making you short."
"What happened to-"
The elevator doors suddenly opened, revealing a bald, fat, white guy in his late 40s standing in front of them. He had on a plaid shirt and long khaki pants. He was wearing glasses as well. He was about to walk in when he saw the large group of pokémon in the elevator. Unknown to John, they were giving the man the death stare. The fat man froze and a large stream of piss came down his left pant leg, showering his shoes. The floor read to be the second floor. They still had one floor to go, so they remained in the elevator. The elevator doors then slowly closed.
"What just happened here?"
"Nuthin', boss," said Joey.
"Oh no. That man looked like he was about to have a heart attack."
"Well ... boss. You can't trust anyone these days."
"You gave him the death stare huh? Oh yes, I know the death stare. He pissed himself for God's sake."
"Lessens the chances anyone else will approach you."
"You guys are startin to become paranoid."
"The more paranoid we get," said Cassie, "the better for you."
The elevator doors then opened. John and the group of pokémon exited the elevator and headed towards the main desk on the floor. A nurse was sitting down in front of desk looking on towards the approaching group.
"I'm here for my pokémon. She's supposed to be in ward E, room 9."
She gave John's pokémon a long stare and then finally said, "We've been waiting for you. Mr. Ogami. Stacy! Escort this young man to the persian."

Why am I still alive, Sasha thought, Didn't Star kill me. She was lying down in a hospital bed. She had an IV in her veins and a machine hooked up to her as well. It was measuring her heart rate which read 130 over 100. Did somebody save me, She thought, who could it be. Was it The Harbingers? No, this is a pokémon center. She looked out towards the windows to see nothing but cloudy skies and a few pidgeys and taillows flying about. The door suddenly opened and a nurse with a name tag that read "Stacy" on her chest.
"Oh, you're up. Well you're just in time. You're trainer came to pick you up."
Trainer? Sasha thought, I was captured? By who? 
To her horror the same boy that she tried to kill last night walked through the front door with a bunch of familiar faces that weren't so happy to see her. Her eyes went wide with shock.
Oh shit! she thought, I gotta get outta here. He's gonna kill me.

"Are you okay," Nurse Stacy asked.
The persian kept shivering at the sight of Johnathan.
"... Hey, Nurse Stacy!" exclaimed John, "I think I know the problem. Could you give us a few minutes?"
"I'm not too sure about-"
"The boss says he wants some time alone with this two timing fuckin' whore," said Joey, "He's gonna get some time, capisce."
Nurse Stacy soon had the same horrified look on her face that Sasha did.
"Judging by her face you were speakin' in English not pokespeak," said John.
"Yeah, that wiseass Ken taught us a few days ago."
"Well don't use it threaten people. I don't wanna force no one to do anything. This woman is scared out of her damn mind." He turned towards Nurse Stacy and said, "I'm so sorry for my aipom's behavior."
The nurse stopped shivering and said, "It's okay. I'll be right outside then."
"Yeah, we'll call ya."
The nurse quickly opened the door to the room and went outside. When she left, John and the group addressed their attention back to Sasha. This made her feel even more uneasy.

"So," John began to say, "How are you doi-"
"Please don't kill me!" burst out Sasha.
"Bitch, if he wanted to kill you," said Elliot, "Yo ass would have been in a mortuary, not a hospital."
"Shoulda killed you though," said Cassie.
"Please let's not start this again," said John.
Cassie let out a grumble and looked to the right.
"What are you going to do with me?" asked Sasha frantically.
"Nothing," answered John.
"I ... I don't believe you."
"What the hell I could do to you anyway. Do I look like a murderer?"
Sasha slowly looked towards the other pokémon.
"They ain't gonna do anything neither," said John, "You have nothin to worry about. You'll be alright with me."
"Wh-what are you talkin about."
"You forgot that I caught you. Remember?"
"Oh ... yeah."
"You're free from The Harbingers just like everyone else."
"Yeah. And now I'm under your control." The shakiness in her voice was replaced by the boldness and demeanor that she had when she fought John the previous night.
"Oh no. You're free to do whatever you want."
"Bullshit!"
All the pokémon then began to glare at Sasha, but this time it laid no effect on her.
"Huh?" said John in a perplexed tone.
"The only way I can truly do whatever I want is if you released me," said Sasha, "That's clearly not on the agenda isn't it?"
"Well, uh no."
"Humph. You saiyans are just like humans. Fuckin bunch of opportunists."
"Wait a minute now. I did that not only to save your life, but to protect you as well."
"Oh, really."
"Yes. Or would you have preferred Star to shove her claws straight through your skull."
"Better than living with you."
"You don't know that."
"I don't want to know either."
"..."
"Well I guess it wouldn't be for long anyway."
"The hell are you talkin bout," spoke up Mark.
"Well if it isn't the long tongued degenerate. You still Keisha's little bitch."
"Man, fuck you."
"You wish."
Mark lunged towards Sasha, but was held back by Joel and Tyler.
"What are talkin about, Sasha," said Tidus sternly
"If you must know blue boy. When The Harbinger's sent me to kill this saiyan, they had a back-up plan."
"Back-up plan."
"Yep. The Harbingers noticed that saiyan boy over there wasn't killed by any of you. So they assumed either two things: Either he is keeping you guys encaged or he has a higher power level than all of you. I was sent primarily as a test. If I killed the saiyan, then it would have meant that the saiyan was weak after all and you guys were probably locked up in his home. But, if I didn't return by today they would assumed that you have either killed me or captured me. But most likely from the rumors we heard about you. You were going to capture me. You know what that means, don't you Tidus."
"Who the hell are they sending now?" asked Tidus. His voice carried an unsteady tone.
"The Fatal Three."
"What the fuck!" Elliot exclaimed, "You can't be serious!"
"Oh my God," said Cassie.
"Who are The Fatal Three?" asked John, "They sound like a happy bunch of people."
Nothing but silence covered the room. Sasha had a wide smirk across her face.
"The Fatal Three," said Henry breaking the silence, "Is a high risk assassination unit consisting of three lucarios."
"Vahn, Reeve, and Stryker," Ricky spoke up, "Three male lucarios. Highly skilled in fighting and obviously killing. These guys are usually one of The Harbingers last resorts. But if they want to sic those guys on ya. They must really want you dead. They have higher head counts than any of us."
At that moment, Nurse Stacy opened the door and said, "We have to do one last check-up on your persian before we give her to you. May I ask you to wait downstairs?"
"Sure," said John.
"I wonder saiyan," Sasha spoke up, "What you would look like when you die."
"Sometimes ... I wonder too," John replied.

And hour later, John walked through his front door to find Star, Maraina, and Erika staring at him.

"What happened?" said John. 
"Where have you been?" said Star.
The other pokémon entered the house.
"I went to go get Sasha," said John.
"Nee-chan, you won't believe what just happened," said Cassie.
"We just got the greatest news possible," said John with his nervous expression on, "The Fatal Three are comin after me."
"What?" said Maraina.
"You can't be serious," said Star, "They're already sending them."
"According to the persian bitch, yes," said Mark.
"What are we gonna do?" asked Tyler.
"Buy weapons of mass destruction," said John.
"Does this look like a big joke to you?" said Star.
"No, I'm just tryin to liven up the place," said John.
"We're talkin bout your life here, John."
Star looked at Cassie and said, "Where's Sasha."
"Here," said John as he brought out a pokeball and released Sasha. "Ricky, do me a favor. Place this ball along with the others in the transporter room."
"Sure, boss," said Ricky as he snatched the pokeball and headed out the room.
"Stop callin me boss!" John yelled.
"No can do," said Ricky as his voice faded away.
"So," said Sasha, "How are you gonna spend your last days on earth?"
"Shitting on a toilet," said John.
"What?"
"Hey you wanted an answer. I think my diarrhea is kickin' in."
At that moment Dan, Pierce, and Cody walked in the room.
"Man, why you let this bitch in our house," said Dan.
"Population control for fag boys who are afraid to break their claws from punching."
"Just say one more thing bitch. I will send yo ass straight up to fuckin Arceus. Say one more thing."
"Fag boy."
Before Dan could jump towards Sasha he was held back by Pierce and Cody.
"Where's Jason. He's one of the only sensible pokémon around here that wouldn't bow down to this saiyan."
"Outside," Star responded, "And you can go there if you want too?"
"So that's how you work. Don't obey and you get kicked out of the house. Humph."
"Shut the fuck up, bitch," Cody said letting go of Dan, "You don't know shit!"
"So you're one of his slaves too, Cody. I used to think you were at least a little respectable."
"That was when I used to be a cunt like you."
"Cody," said Star.
Cody furrowed his eyebrows and turned around.
"Now Sasha, if you still think so highly of Jason why don't you go and join his group."
She stared at Star for a little bit and then yawn.
"Unfortunately, I'm gonna by staying in this wretched house. I'm more of an inside girl."
"Well if that's the case, then I'm going to have to ask you not to use blatant remarks like that in this house."
"You can't tell me what to do."
Star began to glare at Sasha.
"Hey," said John as he walked in between the two females," Let's not fight in here."
Star looked down at John and then back up at Sasha and said, "This is what is going to happen. We have a nakama system going on in this house. You have two choices: A. Be John's older sister or B. Be his pokémon like the rest of the pokémon outside. You being here was his decision and his decision only. If it was mine you already know you wouldn't be breathing right now. As much as I can't believe his decision, I will respect it. But I'm not going to let you cause havoc here. We will resort to putting you in your pokeball if you do. And if you even think about starting a fight with anyone in this house. I WILL kill you. John may have saved you last time. But that's it. I'm not going to be merciful next time."
John began to rub his head. Sasha merely shrugged under the relentless tone in Star's voice.
"Bernard!" Star called out switching from poketongue to English. 
The Indian butler rushed into the room, bowed his head, and said, "Yes, Madame Star."
"We have a new guest in the house. Prepare a room for her." 
"Another member of the nakama?"
"That's for her to decide."
Star locked eyes with Sasha who quickly broke eye contact.
"Follow me madam," said Bernard as he ascended up the stairs.
Sasha quickly pursued Bernard wanting to escape Star's gaze.
"Well .., the tension was incredible there."
"Me and you need to talk," said Star as she grabbed John's arm and pulled him toward the living room. The rest of the pokémon quickly followed.

"Stay in the house." said John.
John and all the other pokémon were gathered in a large assembly in the living room.
"Wait a minute, nee-chan," said Eric, "How come big brother can't go outside."
"Because they are sending Stryker and them for him," answered Elliot.
"What!"
"Oh no!" exclaimed Jesse as she brought her paws up to her face.
"Their sending nii-chans for John-kun?" asked Derrick.
"Big brother?!" said John with a surprised tone, "You guys didn't tell me they were from Soronara," He said as he turned towards Tidus and Elliot.
"Stryker, Reeve, and Vahn are all my brothers," Jesse spoke up.
"What!"
"It doesn't matter right now, John," said Tidus, "Star's right. It's too dangerous for you to go outside."
"How many more of you guys belong to these bastards?"
"That's not the question that you should be asking," said Maraina, "What we need you to do is stay here."
"I'm ... not gonna allow this situation to alter my life in anyway. If these guys are as good as you say they are. There can still be chances that they will slip past you guys anyway. Why make it easier for them to plan. If I stay here. I'll be in one place all the time and they would have a chance to co-ordinate a scheme to get to me."
"We know the way they operate. We know their routine. We know how they kill. The safest place you can be is close to us and that is here."
"Listen to her, John," said Jesse, "If you step outside this house, my brothers will find a way to get to you."
John began to look down in the ground.
"What are you thinking," said Tidus.
John turned towards Tidus with a surprised look on your face.
"I have been close to you long enough to know how you are, John. I can practically hear the gears grinding in your head. If you even think about sneakin' outside this house. I will barricade every fuckin' window and door in this house. I'll fuckin' nail you to the bed if I have to."
John looked at Tidus and began scratching his head. 
"I actually had something else in mind."
"What's that?"
"Remember when we were talking a few weeks ago about leaving the house."
"Yeah. Why?"
And with that John let out a big sigh.

It was 7:45 on a Monday morning. Speedy stood in front of the bus stop looking up in the sky, watching the clouds slowly pass over him. Man I wish I had Jeremy back, Speedy thought, Even though our conversations were filled with insults. They were still something. I think I'll ask Mom if I can sleep over at John's house. Shit is always happening over there. He started to hear footsteps approach him from his right. Speaking of John, thought Speedy as he looked to his right. John was walking to the bus stop but he wasn't alone. He was walking with Erika and Cassie on each of his sides. Speedy looked at John and then at his two escorts. 

"What's going on?" asked Speedy.
"Well, Speedy," said John, "This business has gotten a lot deeper now."
"Really. How deep?"
"Well, let's just say they sent a pokémon to kill me a few days ago. That's the main reason why you haven't seen me for awhile."
"Shit! Fo real."
"Speedy we don't need you goin' around tellin the whole fuckin' world," said Erika curtly.
"Oh, you ain't gotta worry about me Erika."
Erika scoffed when Speedy said this.
"So they are here to protect ya?" Speedy asked John.
"Well like I said, it's getting' even deeper now," answered John, "The Harbingers are sendin' a group of three pokémon. The group is named The Fatal Three."
"They sound like a bunch of politicians."
"Maybe yes. Maybe no. Right now all I know is that they are lucarios and they mean business. At first, my nakama wanted to isolate me into the house. But I came up with this instead. They also made me install a panic button on this." John slipped out his black pokedex and showed Speedy the back. "There was a small round black button placed on the pokedex. "When I press this button, a signal is sent to my transporter machine. I had recently installed an alarm in the machine which is hooked up to the house. When the signal reaches the transporter, the alarm goes off. They hear it and a mob of pokémon will be seen running on campus."
"They are comin with you to school?"
"Yes."
Speedy started looking the two pokémon over.
"What's the problem, Speedy?" questioned Cassie,
"You guys are gonna scare the shit out of everybody."
"Do we look like we care what they think. John's the main issue right now."
"You bring their pokeballs?"
"No," John responded, "It wouldn't really make sense to, Speedy. They wouldn't allow me to do it. And I quite frankly don't want to put them in their pokeballs. Besides if these lucarios come towards me while they were in their pokeballs. I don't think they would let me call them out."
"You're so nice and smart, little brother," said Cassie as she nuzzled her body against his, "That's why if anyone says anything negative to you, I'll rip their heads off."
John started looking at Cassie.
"I'm just kidding."
"Yeah ... right," said Speedy.
The bus started to slowly pull towards the bus stop.
"I wonder how this day will go," John said as he entered the bus with Speedy, Erika, and Cassie closely behind him.

All throughout the week John was escorted and protected at school by his pokémon family. At first, the teachers were reluctant to have John walk around with his pokémon out.
But after some friendly persuasion from Cassie and Erika, They let them stay. On Tuesday, Star and Maraina took up bodyguard duty. Wednesday, Ken and Brock. Thursday, Tyler and Joel. Today was Friday, and Tidus and Elliot were on bodyguard duty. It was 4:00 and school had just now finished.

"Hey, John, we leavin yet?" asked Elliot.
"Naw. Waitin for Speedy. He has to get something out of his locker."
"Well, he needs to hurry his ass up."
At that moment, Ted Jackson and his group walked past John and noticed Elliot and Tidus.
"The fuck you lookin' at," said Elliot converting from pokétongue to English, "You wanna start sumthin muthafucka. I'll beat the shit out all y'all muthafuckas. Walkin round lookin like Kool G and The Gang gone white."
This surprised Ted and his group. Upon hearing this, they hurriedly moved past the buses toward the parking lot.
"Yeah, that's right! Run sons of bitches!"
"Was that really necessary?" asked Tidus.
"No, it wasn't. But it felt pretty damn good. I'm startin' to realize why niggas like Christian and Jason be doing this shit."
"Cuz their assholes."
"That too, but its kinda fun."
Tidus began to shake his head, "Wait, John. Was that Ted?"
"Why?" asked John.
"He fits the description you gave us."
"Yeah."
"Fo sho?" asked Elliot, "Man I shoulda kicked his ass."
"We've done enough to him already, Elliot," said Tidus, "You forget that Star and Maraina made him piss himself in class."
"I wish I was there."
Speedy then went through the front doors of the school. His book bag seemed to be bulging with school books in them.
"What happened," said Speedy.
"You're lucky the school bus was experiencing some engine trouble otherwise we would have left. We're gonna have to wait for them to send another bus. Tidus preferred that we go to the bus stop and catch a public bus. We were just waiting for you."
"So we're gonna catch a public bus?"
"Yeah."
John was about to turn around when Tidus shoved his arm in front of John.
"What's wrong?" asked John.
Both Elliot and Tidus had stern looks on their faces. Then suddenly their eyes began to bulge.
"Get down!" ordered Tidus. 
Elliot tackled John and Speedy to the ground. There were four teenagers, three girls and a boy standing in front (the right side) of the school bus. Tidus knocked them down and stomped on the ground. Rocks started rising out of the ground in the form of a shield over Tidus and the four teenage children. All of a sudden, the school bus flew forward and bounced off of the rock shield that Tidus made. The yellow bus then bounded off the ground over John's, Speedy's, and Elliot's bodies and over the two-story school building. An explosion was heard behind the school. The rock shield covering Tidus and the four kids went back into the ground. Tidus then got up and looked at the four teenagers.
"Get out of here!" he exclaimed.
They all nodded their heads, got up and ran off the school grounds. They were students running all around the school's campus. Some ran into the building while others ran off of school grounds.
Tidus then looked outwards from the school. Elliot soon got up and went by his side.
"Johnathan," said Tidus, "Now is the time to press the button. They're here."
"The fuckin Fatal Three?" asked Speedy frantically from the ground.
John shoved his hands in his pocket and slipped out his pokedex. It was snapped in half. Probably from the tackle that Elliot gave him.
"Shit, it's broken!" exclaimed John.
"What?!" said Elliot.
"From the fall."
"Shit!" said Elliot.
"Shit indeed," said Tidus, "Here they come."

Suddenly, 100 yards in front of Tidus and Elliot appeared three lucarios. One was over seven feet tall, and the others were past six and half feet going on seven. The tallest one was heavily muscular from top to bottom. Half of his left ear seemed to be mangled. The middle heighted one had a large amount of fur growing on his head. It descended down his back in the same fashion as human hair. Some of it curled over the front of his face with most it covering his left eye. The shorter one had a more slim shape compared to the other two. It had a large scar descending down the left side of its neck. They all had green eyes just like Jesse and Derrick. They were walking towards the school and John's group. They stopped 10 yards in front of Tidus and Elliot.
"Humph. Never thought I'd see you two again," said the large one.
"Same thing here, Stryker," answered Tidus.
"Where's that shitbag trainer of yours," asked the middle height one, "Is it the shivering brown-haired human or the black haired human."
"None of your fuckin business, Reeve," answered Elliot.
"Oh it is our business, midget," responded Reeve, "Me, Vahn, and Stryker are all business and you know it."
"We're here to take you and rest back," said Stryker, "And to kill the person who captured you."
"So tell us who it is," instructed Reeve, "If you don't. We'll just have to kill those two and everyone in that fuckin building until we get a reaction from you two. So what will it be?"
Tidus began to growl and clench his fists. Elliot seemed to be copying the same method as well.
"We'll give you til the count of three," said Stryker, "1 ... 2 ..."
"Hey!"
Everyone turned around and saw John standing and looking in their directions.
"My name is Johnathan Ogami. I am the one that you are looking for. There's no need to put the lives of innocent people in danger."
Elliot and Tidus shook their heads in fear towards John.
"Don't worry," said John, "Everything's gonna be alright. Be strong, believe."
"Humph, are those your last words," said Reeve.
"No, they're not. Throughout my past I've come through situations like this. I'm pretty much convinced. If I'm to die, it's gonna be of old age. Not by assassins."
"Unfortunately for you, you never came across us."
"Unfortunately for you, you never came across me."
"Well, it's a shame such a person has to die," said Stryker.
"You don't have to do this."
"What?"
"You don't have to kill me. You realized the reason why they sent you for me. I can give an option. I can free you from the binds of The Harbingers. Just like I did Jesse and Derrick."
Silence spread among the area.
"You ... have Jesse and Derrick?" asked Reeve.
"Yes."
"As your slaves just like the rest of these human and saiyan bastards!"
"What! No. That's not wh-"
"I've heard enough," said Stryker, "You're dead."
Stryker ran forward, but was stopped when Tidus ran in front of him.
"Tidus ... so you and Elliot are here to protect him. Humph. I don't know what trickery he used on your mind to get you two to do this. But if you're going to protect him, you'll die with him." 
Stryker brought his paws backwards and threw two force palms towards Tidus. Tidus rolled backward dodging the move.

Reeve and Vahn ran towards John. Elliot jumped up and head butted Vahn but missed Reeve who ran head-on towards John.
"Speedy!" exclaimed John, "Go in the building and call the house now! HHHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
John body became covered in golden ki. His eyes turned green and his eyebrows and hair turned gold. His hair began shooting upwards in the air. Reeve approached him and rapidly began throwing force palms at John who began rapidly dodging them. Speedy turned around and ran into the building.

Played during all fight scenes.
Papa Roach- Alive (N Out Of Control) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFaX6VNG2M&feature=related

Tidus sent five mud shots towards Stryker who dodged the attacks. Tidus then jumped up and used earthquake. Stryker jumped off the ground and shot ten small aura spheres towards Tidus. Tidus quickly brought up a rock shield deflecting the aura spheres. Stryker used this distraction to his advantage and focused blast straight through the shield nailing Tidus in the head. Tidus rolled backwards fifteen feet and landed on the ground. Stryker ran towards Tidus for a kick but was surprised when Tidus slammed his paw straight into the ground, sending a pillar out of the ground and into Stryker's gut sending him flying 20 feet in the air. Stryker recovered in the air, floating above, holding his stomach. Tidus got off of the ground, blood was already coming out of his mouth. 
Stryker gave a smirk and said, "Taking a hit like that and getting back up like that. I have to give it to you. You've became tougher than the little crybaby I knew a few months ago."
"I learned from the saiyan," answered Tidus.
"Saiyan?" Stryker looked over towards John and Reeve. Reeve was sending force palms rapidly at John who was dodging them. Stryker noticed John's features and began to growl. He looked down to see Tidus put his paws together and point them towards Stryker. Four spiky pillars started shooting out of the ground towards him. Stryker used an explosive wave, covering his whole body in blue ki, deflecting the approaching pillars. 
"Let's continue," said Stryker.

Vahn was rapidly kicking Elliot all over his body with no avail. The attacks were having no effect on Elliot. 
"Forget that I'm a gulpin, ya mute asshole," said Elliot.
Vahn kicked off of Elliot's body and sent an aura sphere towards Elliot. Elliot opened his mouth and swallowed it. He then, reopened his mouth and shot the aura sphere back towards Vahn with twice the original force and size. Vahn dodged it with a side roll and stared at Elliot. He then stomped the ground causing an earthquake. Elliot quickly shot up in the sky. Vahn disappeared and reappeared over Elliot. He flipped forward landing his foot atop Elliot's skull sending him crashing back down towards the ground. A crater 15 feet in diameter was formed where Elliot landed. Vahn landed on his feet and crossed his arms. A smirk began to spread across his face.
"Smirk at this, faggot!" said Elliot who shot a solarbeam which nailed Vahn straight in the chest. Vahn rolled backwards from the blow and began to hold his chest. 

John was on the defensive, dodging moves constantly from the violent lucario. Reeve then used jump kick which John side stepped. Reeve twisted his body in mid-air and swiped his foot at John's head. John rolled forward dodging the blow. Reeve then, disappeared and reappeared in front of John. He grabbed John by his T-shirt and force palmed him straight in the chest. John flew backwards 50 yards and skidded against the ground an additional 25 yards. Reeve began to run lazily towards him. His arms flapping back and forth off his sides as he approached John. He then jumped for a running kick. John quickly got up and blocked the kick with an impact dial. Reeve bounced off the dial and landed ten feet from John.
"What's that you got there shorty?" asked Reeve.
"An impact dial," said John, "I made it. It absorbs physical attacks."
"Humph."
Reeve then shot a dragon pulse towards John, who sidestepped it.
"Shadow clone jutsu!"
John split into 9 bodies and charged straight towards Reeve. Reeve took six of them out with an explosive wave. Three of them jumped over Reeve and started doing some hand signs. The three then suddenly shouted out, "Shotgun Blast Jutsu!" They slammed their fists down towards Reeve. Twelve round balls shot towards Reeve and began to explode releasing fire energy. Reeve quickly dodged the majority of the exploding balls. One nailed him on his foot paw leaving a burn there. But Reeve landed on the ground with no signs of pain. John rushed towards him at an uncontrollable speed and crashed straight into Reeve with a head butt. He slid backwards 12 feet and rolled back onto his paws. Two shadow clones ran towards Reeve but were destroyed by two quick bullet punches. The real John began doing some hand signs again. Reeve quickly sent a vacuum wave towards John who quickly dodged it by bending backwards and straightened himself back up. How did he dodge an attack as fast as a vacuum wave, thought Reeve. John finished the hand signs, jumped in the air, cocked his head back, and thrust his head in Reeve's direction. "Inferno Jutsu!" John puffed his cheeks and a large stream of fire came out of his mouth. It looked similar to a flamethrower. It spread out fifteen feet in front of John covering the lucario. He stopped blowing after 10 seconds to see what happened to Reeve. To his dismay, Reeve was unharmed and had his paws pointing in John's direction. 
"Humph maybe you are not so pathetic after all," said Reeve, "It seems that you know quite a variety of moves. You could of dealt some damage if I hadn't have used protect."
John quickly used another shadow clone jutsu, separating his body into fours. The clones began running towards Reeve. Two of them approached Reeve with punches. Reeve easily blocked them with his paws. Another clone shot towards him with the same momentum as before, but was stopped when Reeve slammed his foot in its skull. 
"You're gonna have to do better than that," said Reeve.
The moment he said this, John ran forward and placed the impact dial in his chest and released it. The energy surged through Reeve's body making his eyes bulge. His body started to curve over the impact dial. But suddenly, Reeve let loose a growl and released an explosive wave covering 15 yards, sending John and the clones flying backwards. John's clones disappeared while he shot back a good thirty feet, bouncing off the ground. John looked at Reeve who was floating in the air and was glowing with blue ki all over his body. His eyes wee closed as well. He soon glided down to the ground and opened his eyes.
"I admit. It was kinda fun playing with you. But now you have to die."

Tidus was frantically using mud shot and sending rock pillars at Stryker, whom was starting to deflect them with his paws.
"It's over Tidus," said Stryker, "You can't beat Jason nor any of his other friends. How do you expect to beat me."
"I won't ... let you ... kill ... Johnathan," said Tidus between attacks.
"You don't have a choice."
Stryker then clapped his hands together and a large amount of blue ki began surrounding his paws. He then spread his arms out and created a large two handed sword made of blue ki. It was just over six feet long, two feet wide, and three inches thick. He took the hilt of his sword and thrust it into Tidus's stomach. He then threw Tidus's body in the air and slammed the side of the sword into his head.
Tidus body began flipping in midair and flew 30 feet to the right. Stryker disappeared and then reappeared in front of Tidus's body and slammed the side of the blade on top of Tidus's body and into the ground, making a crater 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet depth. Tidus's eyes rolled to the back of his skull. His skull was cracked and blood was coming from it and out of his mouth. Stryker examined Tidus's body and let out a big sigh. He turned around to see Reeve rapidly punching into John's chest. He began to head towards him when he felt something latch onto his leg. He turned around to see Tidus with his arms wrapped around his foot paw.
"Please ..," he said weakly, "... Don't kill him ... he's not like the others ... the scars on his body ... the pain ... he doesn't deserve it ... he's better than us ... please ..."
And with that Tidus passed out. Stryker stared down at the marshtomp for awhile. He then shook off Tidus's grip, placed and held the two handed sword on his shoulder and walked towards Johnathan.

Elliot was sending shockwaves toward Vahn who kept deflecting them. Vahn then rushed in with a bullet punch. But the move dealt no damage on the gulpin.
"Still trying to beat me with those moves," said Elliot, "It's a waste of energy."
"That's not what I want to do," said Vahn.
Elliot's eyes bulged at the sound of his voice.
"This is what I wanted to do." 
He took the spike at the back of his paw and slashed it across Elliot's face. Purple colored blood began to ooze out of Elliot's cut. Vahn then ran circles around Elliot's body and kept rapidly slash Elliot with his paw spikes until he was a wavering bloody mess. Elliot breathing was out of control and his movements became more sluggish. He shot a sludge bomb at Vahn without thinking. Thanks to Vahn's steel attribute, the poison attack slid off of his body.
"Pathetic," scoffed Vahn, "You and Tidus were always nothing but weaklings. A complete waste of my time."
He raised his right paw and pointed it at Elliot. Vahn's paw began to glow blue along with Elliot's body. Elliot body shot up into the air and then back down into the ground. Vahn was using psychic. He grinded Elliot's body back and forth across the ground, scraping off some of the green skin on his body. He soon became a large purple mass flying around and oozing in the air. When Vahn was finished with Elliot, he slammed him down into the ground. Elliot was lying down on his side and was breathing heavily. Vahn turned around and started walking towards John.

Reeve was putting the pressure on John with rapid punches and kicks. John was still dodging all off Reeve's moves. Reeve then did a back flip kick which John dodged by rolling backwards. Reeve quickly shot an aura sphere the size of a basketball towards John. It was moving too fast to dodge, so John had to catch it with his hands. The sphere began pushing John backwards until he hit into the school building. The sphere then, began pushing him against the wall. John began grunting under the strength of the aura sphere. The wall started cracking behind him as well. John then quickly deflected the ball upwards into the air. His hands were smoking from the large amount of energy that he was holding. John began to shake them in pain. 
"What's wrong saiyan," teased Reeve, "Can't keep up with the heat."
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" John separated into ten bodies.
"That's getting boring."
Two shadow clones started running toward Reeve. But to John's dismay, Reeve wrapped his arms around one shadow clones neck and his legs around the other and snapped both of their necks. He then twisted his body making both shadow clones flip and used force palm on both of them causing them to both fly 50 yards apart before disappearing. Three more clones approached Reeve. Reeve backhand slapped one of the clones and broke its back with a mega punch. He rent another clone to pieces with fury cutter until it disappeared. He grabbed the last advancing clone and rapidly kneed it in its stomach. Reeve then, used hi jump kick, planting his knee into the clone's skull. He quickly held his knee in the clone's face with his paws. The clone fell backwards with Reeve's knee breaking through its skull straight into the ground. He then started taunting John to come to him. John still had two clones standing beside him. John stayed his ground.
"If you don't come to me," Reeve began to say, "Then I'll come to you."
He shot aura spheres at the remaining shadow clones, eliminating them, and charged towards the real John. Reeve ran forward with a force palm. John quickly slipped out an impact dial, blocking the attack. Suddenly, Reeve began to rapidly hit into the dial with force palms. John's body began to shake under the force and velocity from the blows. Then, something unexpected happened. Reeve brought back his right paw and thrust towards the dial. The dial broke in half and the blow went straight into John's stomach. John's body then, curved over Reeve's palm. John opened his mouth and spat out blood.
"I knew I could break your toy," said Reeve, "Weaklings make weak machines."
He began lifting John's into the air and brought him to eye level. 
"Goodbye, little saiyan."
Reeve began to rapidly thrust his palm into John's stomach. 20 blows. 40 blows. 60 blows. He then turned John's body around in mid-air and began to rapidly jab at random points on John's body as it spun. His legs, his sides, his shoulder, his arms, his neck, his skull. And then finally he brought back both hands and used focus blast on John's chest, sending him flying into the school building straight through the wall. Reeve began staring at his masterpiece. John had blood streaming from all points of his body.
"Is he dead?" asked Stryker as he walked behind his brother.
"He will be nii-chan," replied Reeve, "His aura and power level are rapidly decreasing." 
Johnathan's body then dropped the super saiyan state and went back to normal.
"Well, now that's over with," said Stryker, "Let's heal those two and get them back to base."
"Do we have too?" asked Vahn.
"Yes we have to, it's part of the mission."
"Ugh."
"HEY!"
A group of trainers with their pokémon were gathered in front of the three lucarios. There were two boys and a girl. The girls was in front of the group with her ninetails. It was Jessica.
"We called the cops," said Jessica, "We are not gonna let you get away with this."
There were also a vaporeon and a magmar standing beside the ninetails.
"You guys friggin killed that kid!"
The lucarios turned to their right and saw Ted and his gang. They all had their pokémon out. A houndoom, a hariyama, a feraligatr, an electabuzz, a hitmonlee, and a hitmonchan.
"This is so ... boring," said Reeve. He shot three aura spheres knocking out all the pokémon in Jessica's group.
"NATILIE!" screamed Jessica.
"Shuddup," said Reeve as he charged an aura sphere and shot it towards the humans. It didn't hit them, but landed right in front of them. The force from the blast sent them flying backwards and unconscious. Stryker brought back his arm and made a swiping motion towards Ted and his group releasing a large vacuum wave. The move knocked out all the pokémon and the trainers in one shot.
"JOHNATHAN!"
The lucarios turned to the left where Johnathan body had gone through.
Speedy was seen sitting in front of John's body shaking it. He then turned around and ran towards the lucarios with his fists clenched.
"You killed my best friend you sons of bitches!"
Vahn walked towards the approaching Speedy and back hand slapped him to the ground. The three lucarios then approached and stood over Speedy's downed body. Nothing but fear was in his eyes as he looked up at the lucarios. 
"If you like him so much," said Stryker as he charged an aura sphere.
"We'll be happy to let you," continued Reeve as he charged an aura sphere as well.
"Join him," finished Vahn, also charging a sphere.
They all began pointing their aura spheres in Speedy's face.
"Leave him alone you fucking bastards!"
Reeve then looked to the left and said, "I don't fuckin believe this."

John's vision began to fade out as he laid against the wall. He could hear talking inside and outside the building, all addressing the lucarios. Suddenly, he felt his body being shaken. This brought him back to life. He saw the frantic face of his friend, Speedy. He was screaming John's name. He quickly got up and ran towards the lucarios, screaming at them too. Images began to flash in his mind of him and Speedy. Images of them playing blitzball on the beach, at Speedy's birthday party, and The Christmas that John spent the night over at Speedy's house. Those images were then broken when Vahn smacked Speedy to the ground. John looked further out to see Tidus's body bleeding and unconscious. I can't die now, he thought, Not after all this has happened. I can't leave these guys. They are my best friends. I will not let these fuckers kill them. I will not let it happen again. John's body began to surge with ki. He got up off of the ground and walked through the damaged wall. Some of the school students inside the building stared in complete awe at the spectacle.
He turned towards the lucarios and saw them charging aura spheres towards Speedy.
"If you like him so much," said Stryker.
"We'll be happy to let you," said Reeve.
"Join him," said Vahn.
"Leave him alone you fucking bastards!" screamed John.
Anger began swelling up inside of John's body at the sight. Unknown to him, his power level began to rise rapidly and his body was engulfed in golden ki.
Reeve looked towards Johnathan and said, "I don't fucking believe it. This is impossible. How is he even able to stand after what I did to him."
"His power level is increasing rapidly," said Stryker in a surprised tone, "The amount of aura his body is producing is unreal."
"What the hell is he?" said Vahn with a voice filled with panic.
The ground began to shake under the power that John was producing. All of the hair on his body was flapping upwards. Small thunderbolts started circling John's body. Speedy used this distraction to run from in front of the lucarios and ran over to John. 
"Johnathan!" Speedy exclaimed.
"HHHAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Speedy quickly got up and ran towards John.
"HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
John brought his hands together and formed a triangle.
"BLAST CANNON!"
John released a blast cannon larger than a two story building (the school for example) straight towards the three lucarios.
"Holy shit!" exclaimed Reeve.
The three shot there aura spheres as an attempt to stop the monstrous ball of ki to no avail. The ball engulfed their bodies and dragged them 40 yards away from to school where it finally exploded leaving a crater 50 feet in diameter and 25 feet in depth. The three lucarios were lying in this crater with their eyes rolled back in their skulls. John began walking slowly towards the crater.
"John!" exclaimed Speedy, "Where are you going?"
John did not answer. He simply kept walking towards the crater he made, until he was standing over the crater. He was staring at the unconscious bodies of the lucarios. He put his hand in his pocket and slipped out three pokeballs.
"No," Speedy began to say, "Johnathan don't!"
But before Speedy could finish the sentence, John threw the pokeballs capturing the three lucarios.
"Speedy," John said suddenly with a hoarse voice, "Did you call the house?"
"Yes," Speedy, "Star and the others are on their way."
"Can you do me another favor?"
"What is it?"
"Call an ambulance."
The moment John finished saying this; he fell down into the crater unconscious.