The three grunts threw out a small army of Pokemon. The first one, Samuel, threw out a Tranquil and a Herdier. The second one, Steven, threw out a Solosis and a Whirlipede. And the last one, whose name I didn't know, threw out a Venipede.

"Herdier, use Take Down!"

Samuel's Herdier charged Servine quickly, but my partner dodged with a graceful backflip.

"Servine! Leaf Tornado!"

A cloud of leaves crashed into Herdier, knocking him out. Unfortunately for him, the Pokemon landed on the video call machine, cutting off the connection with Drago.

"No! Tranquil, use Wing Attack!"

Tranquil's wings glowed white and she swiped them at Servine. The attack was super effective and nearly made Servine faint. But my partner was strong and go back up.

"Servine, Tackle! Mini, Psybeam!"

Servine slammed into Tranquil and Mini launched a colorful spiral. The combined attacks were enough to finish the flying type.

"Whirlipede, Poison Sting."

"You too Venipede."

The two bug types shot venomous spikes from their tails. The spikes hit both my Pokemon hard, and poisoned Servine.

"Now Whirlipede. Rollout on the Servine."

"Venipede, use Poison Sting again."

Whirlipede spun quickly and crashed into Servine, but she endured the hit. Then the poison kicked in, finishing my poor grass type off. Venipede shot more poison spikes at Mini. This did hurt Mini but didn't poison her.

"Mini, use PsyShock."

Globs of purple energy appeared out of nowhere and smashed into Venipede. That finished the tiny Pokemon.

"Now use Zen Headbutt."

Mini's head glowed blue and she smashed into Whirlipede, causing it to faint. Unfortunately, Mini was stuck by one of Whirlipede's spikes and was hurt badly. She could barely keep floating.

Steven smiled evilly.

"Now Solosis. Use Telepor-"

Suddenly a man in a brown cloak with a brown fedora dropped down from the ceiling. Beside him dropped a Luxray.

"Lux, use ThunderFang."

The electric type charged Solosis with fangs cackling with electricity. It clamped its jaws down on the small psychic type, but somehow the Pokemon survived the powerful attack.

"Chris!" The stranger turned to me. "Free Musharna and destroy the machine!"

I stood frozen with shock. How did he know my name?

"Chris! Move!"

I snapped into action. I ran to the machine and started prying off the steel bars that held Musharna down, without success. "Mini, help me out!" Mini floated over to me and used Metronome. Luckily it came out as Flamethrower. Mini blasted the ties with flame, completely disintegrating them. Musharna then floated free.

"Lux, use Thunderbolt!"

A bolt of pure lightning blew the machine to smithereens. It also threw me to the ground. I hit my head and the world went black.

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I awoke on a cot in a white room, which I quickly recognized as a hospital room. I had startled a nurse who had been coming in to check on me.

"Oh good. You're awake! Someone sent you a note," said the nurse.

"Thank you. Can I have my Pokemon please? I think I'm ok to leave."

"Well, you seem ok to go. I'll get your Pokemon. Here's the note."

It was a fairly short note, just a few sentences.

DreamControl destroyed. Plasma on the move. Find PokeChasers.

-Nathan

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After many days of chasing, Chris finally found what she was looking for. In the Nimbasa City train station, Chris had finally found a familiar face.

"Looks like we're even again." Chase was saying to Sierra.

"What?"

"I saved your butt back there."

"Oh yeah, we're-"

A strange look appeared on Sierra's face.

"What? Shocked that we're even?"

"No, I thought I just saw-"

"Hey guys! I need to talk to you! It's about Team Plasma" I said.

I had found them.

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