Slumping against the metallic wall. My arms went limp across the floor. My eyes glazed from the site of that grotesque man and his massive three cut scar across his face. He certainly was a familiar person. I knew him well, Ensign Drake's lackey. Known to the locals as Hanz Kaiser. Who worked alongside me when I was about seven years old as a member of the Fourteen Apostles.

I watched as this man and Solress walked up the ladder toward the ceiling hatch. Shutting it tightly as my tears continued flowing endlessly from the vanquish of the light above.

The man was a trained spy, and would work undetected to either subvert his enemies or stop them in their tracks. This man was no ordinary individual. In fact, he was referred to what we call The Spade, an elite Trainer. A member of the Fourteen Apostles and at the head was none other than Drake or whom they refer to as Joker.

Every time I looked back on those events. My mind goes numb. I witnessed Hanz steal peoples Pokémon forcefully, and with many occasions it involved violence. Which was what I was against from the beginning. Even before I was kidnapped and made a member of their organization against my will.

This was a dark period of my life and I remember a time when I would steal under peoples noses without them even noticing me. I learned new techniques and new skills in the art of ninjutsu and Pokémon battling. And I would use these skills to cloak myself without being detected. That was why I was referred to as Viridescent or The Black Clover similar to my original name.

My croaking eyes gazed upward towards the ceiling. As thoughts continued to race inside my mind. I realized, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

What have I done?

I knew it wasn't my fault. However, Pokémon were in trouble and it's quite possible that Red and Yellow may have be taken captive by Hanz's hands.

I don't know where they are at? With Hanz here, I am useless.

Luckily I wasn't alone in this cell besides Jigglypuff. Because as soon as I turned to face the corner. I saw a young girl a few years older than me but not by much. She had on a black outfit with an 'R' symbol across her shirt. The outfit also had a cut for a skirt along her waistline. Wearing white boots, she wore two pigtails for her beautiful brown hair and a black hat. Staring from across the room with her big shifting brown eyes.

She's cute. I admired in thought from a distance.

I looked into her eyes as I wiped the tears off of mine. I then turned away and looked down at the floor. Contemplating the mess that I got myself into in the first place.

"You a criminal?" She asked nonchalantly.

I nodded in response to her question anyways. Knowing I gave up criminality a long time ago. I still found myself in a precarious situation. But decided, responding to her question with a lie would be sufficient enough for her to remain silent.

If I am being taken away after the Moon landing is finished. Then I have no choice but to go back with Kaiser and submit to Joker and become one of them again.

How could I escape? I had no powerful Pokémon. My friends aren't around to help. That was their goal in the first place anyways.

To take me away.

"Same actually." She paused after witnessing my horrific confrontation with Hanz. I could tell she was concerned and wanted to break the ice a little.

"My name is Virginia. What's yours?" She asked while reaching across the room for a handshake.

"L-leaf." I sniveled while clasping hold of her warm gingerly hand.

"Leaf is it?" She asked.

I nodded, forgiving her pronunciation with sincerity.

"Well, if you are a powerful member of the Fourteen why don't you try to escape?"

"It's not that simple" I responded hastily.

"Hanz has more training and experience even after the time I had left LOVE."

"What does LOVE mean exactly?"

"Live onto virtue eternal. The organization initially used to be a place where people and Pokémon could work together to build on a virtuous and accepting society. It was a place where we could build a community and help govern the affairs of people."

She batted her eyes from my response wildly. Scooting in closer, she listened intently as she could about my story.

"Is that where it went wrong?"

I nodded from her inquiry.

"LOVE had been given far too much bureaucratic power over the decisions of world policy that it had become a thorn on the side of the Pokémon International Government."

She smiled with strange excitement. Giggling wickedly from the answer that proceeded me.

"Haha! I see, power begets corruption."

"As soon as they became known in major regions like Kalos. They declared war which subverted their power and drew them underground after their defeat from the Pokémon International Military."

"Then what happened?" She asked, mocking my story with dense curiosity.

"LOVE continues to exist in the mountains between Tohjo Falls and Indigo Plateau."

"Dang." She responded with a rude tone.

"Well none of that surprises me, we run into gangs like that all the time." She said with excitement in her voice as she played with her dark fingernails.

"Giovanni has had a run in with this group before."

Giovanni... Gio—

Turning swiftly towards her; I had the sudden realization that I knew immediately who was in front of me.

"Virginia! You don't happen to be with Team Rocket do you!?" I shouted with exasperation. Raising my PokéBall toward her direction just in case she would respond.

"Took you long enough, can't you read the R?" She asked while pointing to her chest grinning widely.

I gritted my teeth from her lousy sarcasm.

Is she making fun of me?

"Answer the question!" I threatened with the tug of my PokéBall.

"Puff!" Joined Jigglypuff as she puffed in air like a balloon. Furrowing her brow towards her. Readying up to defend me at all costs.

Waving her arms gently she discouraged against the necessity for such an ultimatum.

"Now-now, if I wanted to battle you; I would have done it a long time ago." She batted with a sly grin.

"I want you to help me to escape. In return, I won't tell a soul that you and I met. Deal?"

Virginia reached her pinky out to swear the vow. I of course, did not trust her one iota.

How did she get aboard this ship in the first place? What's her motivation for being here?

Unfortunately, Virginia may be the only link I have left to find my friends and escape this prison.

It's like making a deal with the Devil all over again. I relented in thought.

"Deal!" I shouted.

Interlocking my pinky around hers. We both swore an agreement that we would escape Haunebu and be free from the clutches of LOVE's members.

Suddenly we felt a loud boom and sensed the saucer come to a complete stop. Both of us including Jigglypuff looked out through a small rectangular porthole to see where we were and sure enough. We could see a massive base.

To the left of that base was a big mountain range. The sky was dark and the minerals on the ground glowed with a brilliant white across the landscape.

For now, it seemed, we had finally arrived toward our destination.

The Moon.