Chapter 9

"What do you mean?" Amos shouted from behind the older trainer. White didn't answer as she leapt over another fallen branch.

N was right. Team Plasma was back. The pokemon she just heard was a Patrat, a pokemon used often by the Team Plasma grunts. From the sound of it, Team Plasma was going to target Leia and Hugh.

"How much farther?" she asked Amos anxiously.

"Not to far. We were training in front of a farm, but what's this all about?" He repeated anxiously.

"I will explain later, but we have to hurry!" said White, slowing down a bit.

"White, your acting strange!" Amos puffed, still trying to catch up.

"What does that mean?" "

"How do you know that they're in trouble? I didn't hear or see anything suspicious."

White ignored his questions, not wanting to give away her secret.

"Riolu, Force Palm!" a voice cried in a clearing ahead. Tiny ran next to White, standing tense.

"The Leia person is battling a Mareep with a Riolu. Whatever we heard is gone. It could be a bit further back." the Espeon snarled, clawing the ground ferociously. 

"Come on, White! Please tell me what's going on!" Amos begged impatiently. White made a snarling noise at him and ran toward the clearing. Amos's Oshawott huffed and jogged after them, followed by his trainer

Leia was battling a wild Mareep, like Tiny said. But Hugh wasn't there.

"Leia!" hissed White, which made Leia jump.

"White! What are you-" but Leia was cut off as her Riolu used Force Palm and sent the Mareep flying.

"Have you seen a Patrat? Not a wild one, but a trainer caught one?" White asked sharply.

Leia gave her a confused and answered, "No, why?"

White looked down at Tiny, ignoring Leia. "Search the forest. We can't let them get away." she told her quietly.

Tiny rolled her eyes, but didn't object. She flicked her tail and ran off.

"Ok, listen to me!" White suddenly said to the rookies, who both jumped. "I think Team Plasma is in this forest, and in case you didn't know, Team Plasma is an organization that steals and releases trainers' pokemon! So I want you to stick close to me! Do you understand?"

Amos nodded, but Leia looked terrified.

"Hugh is out there, and I don't know where he is!" Leia said anxiously. "We will find him, but for now you have to stay with me! I don't think you guys should wander around here alone!"

"Why would Team Plasma be here?" Amos asked.

"Probably to steal pokemon, I don't know! Just follow me, and tell me if you see anything or anyone!" White snapped.

She put the hood of her coat up over her head, trying to hide her face. Team Plasma knew how she looked too well, so she didn't want to show her face to them. They would catch her if they saw her, that is if they don't kill her.

"Follow me, and return your pokemon to their pokeballs." White muttered as she started walking back into the forest. Amos and Leia exchanged looks and returned their pokemon.

White had no idea how strong Team Plasma had gotten since their defeat, so they had to be extra careful. She could feel Leia walking very closely to her, her eyes darting around the forest. Amos was a bit farther behind and looking around cautiously.

They walked for ten minutes in silence. White was slightly sweating. Then Leia suddenly grasped White's arm.

"I hear voices!" she whispered frantically.

"Where?" Amos asked nervously. White held up her hand to silence them.

Leia was right. She could hear faint voices from her left. White moved her hand toward one of her pokeballs, and beckoned the two other trainers to follow her.

"A trainer? Here? Well, keep your eyes open for more." a voice said, as they got closer. "I have heard that one of the trainers from two years ago was around here."

A man in a dark gray uniform was standing in a small clearing, talking into a walkie talkie. He had a gray bandanna over his mouth, and had orange hair.

"The other three should have gotten enough pokemon by now. Try to move out of the area after about half an hour. Over and out." the man said, and turned off the walkie talkie.

"Beat it." White snapped at the man, stepping out of the trees.

The man yelped and whirled around. Leia gripped White's arm tighter, and stepped next to her.

"Get out of here." she repeated.

"Who are you, Queen of the Forest?!" the man growled.

"What are you doing here?" Leia squeaked.

"None of your business!" He snapped. "That is our own business, so scram!"

White turned to Amos. "I want you to take him down. It will be good practice for the future." she told him.

Amos looked nervous and protested, "Why can't you? You're strong!"

"I told you. It will be good for you."

"I don't think you have a choice." said Leia quietly.

Amos frowned at them, and tossed a pokeball into the air.

"Packs!" he cried, as a Patrat leapt out of the pokeball.

"Patrat!" the man yelled, and he too threw a pokeball into the air. Another Patrat appeared, and glared at his opponent.

"It's a jerk with a fork for a tail!" the man's Patrat sneered.

"You must be one of the jerks with a big mouth!" Pack's spat, his tail swinging back and forth.

"Packs, Tackle!" Amos ordered.

"Dodge it, and use Leer!" the man commanded.

The Patrat growled and jumped aside as Packs tried to slam into the other's side. Patrat snapped his jaws and glared at Packs.

"Leer lowers the defense stat! Use a move that will raise your Patrat's attack or lower the other Patrat's defense!" White instructed Amos.

"Mine only knows Tackle!"

"Then switch to Oshawott! He has higher attack, and knows Water Gun!"

"Packs, come back!" Amos called, and Packs returned into his pokeball.

The man laughed and jeered, "Chicken!"

"Oliver!" commanded Amos, and his Oshawott jumped out of the new pokeball. "Water Gun!"

"Patrat, Bite!" the man ordered at the same time.

Oliver nodded and a stream of water shot out of his mouth The attack actually hit Patrat in the face. It spluttered, but it started to chomp down on the Oshawott's tail. Oliver yelped, and shot another beam of water at his opponent.

"Get him to stop that, or he is gonna get in a mess of trouble." White growled at Amos.

He nodded and yelled, "Oliver, stop!"

But Oliver didn't stop. White could catch the words that the two pokemon were saying.

"Get off my tail, you monster!" Oliver snapped.

"Not unless you stop spraying water at my face!" Patrat growled through his teeth. "No can do, bub!"

"What are they doing?" Leia asked Amos, looking like she was trying to keep her face straight.

"I don't know, but he won't listen to me!" Amos snapped.

"Seth!" White suddenly cried as she threw a pokeball into the air.

Seth the Serperior appeared, and he swung his tail at Patrat, missing Oliver by inches. Patrat gave a screech, and was thrown against a tree by Seth's tail. The opponent's pokemon gave a final screech and fainted.

"That's cheating!" the man burst out angrily.

"That battle was getting no where." White said.

"I agree..." she heard Amos mutter under his breath.

"Who are you?!" the man demanded as he stepped backward.

White smirked, and put her hood down, revealing her face. His eyes widened in shock.

"It's you! You stopped us last time!" he said in shock.

"I'm flattered. Now tell me, are you a grunt from Team Plasma?" White asked sharply, Seth flexing his tail next to her.

"Let me rip him!" Seth hissed, but White ignored him. The man didn't answer.

"What are you gonna do?" he finally said, looking at her.

"Leave this route. Go away from here. But tell your boss to watch his back, because this isn't the last time you'll be seeing me." White threatened.

The grunt glared at her, and picked up his Patrat. Then he ran off.

"What was that about?" Leia asked uncertainly when the grunt left.

"That was a Team Plasma grunt. One of the remaining members that brought back up the evil organization that threatened Unova last time." White explained, turning back towards Amos and Leia.

"It sounds like there is more grunts." Amos pointed out, picking up his Oshawott.

"It sounded like there is five in all. We got one down, so there is four more." Leia pointed out, but then looked at White curiously.

"What did that guy mean about stopping them last time? He seemed to have recognized you from someplace." she said.

White didn't answer. Seth twitched and looked up at her.

"I helped defeat Team Plasma last time. I didn't do anything extremely major." White said, pulling the hood over her face again.

"You never told us that!" Amos said, amazed.

"Well now I did. We don't have time to talk about Team Plasma history right now, so let's go. There are four grunts to get rid of." White growled. She started to walk back into the trees, with Leia and Amos behind her.

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(Previous A/Ns were deleted to save space. In a way, this is the first A/N.)

I changed the A/N mark to ~ instead of *

Flashback is the star, and the A/N is a squiggly line :P

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