A.N.: Happy Amourshipping day. I wanted to make this chapter longer, but I didn't have time and I didn't want to miss on this date. Maybe for some of you I already did. After all, time zones. I hope you enjoy.

No POV

Ash and Pikachu looked up the three figures standing in the light of the moon, casting longs shadows over him. That went over the edge of the cliff.

Pikachu looked down at his trainer and noticed his hands were shaking. "Pika." Ash turned to his buddy worried voice.

"It's alright Pikachu. I am scared, but I won't let that stop us." Ash said with smile. But he dropped it once he had to dodge the flying dagger thrown at him.

"I wished to test that if your so called new strenght was real or not. I guess the information wasn't that wrong." spoke first shadow. He played around with the pokeball he held. "Don't worry. The rest will join us. They are just checking around for any unwanted company."

"What did you do with Clemont?" Ash asked, look to where his opponent came from.

"Nothing. Yet." He spoked, standing firmly in one spot. "We will, once we finish what we started two years ago."

As he finished his sentence, two pokemon lept at Ash. One Bisharp from right and one Greninja from left. They both had clashed their attacks, but not with Ash. From his pokeballs came out Frogadier and Lucario, Lucario clashing with Greninja and Frogadier with Bisharp. Frogadier deflected the glowing claws with his glowing blade. Lucario focused his strenght and with strong uppercut forced Greninja fall back with the dark blade.

Pikachu's tailed changed to iron as he deflected the small needles. It wouldn't work this time.

Finally, next to each other stood the whole Triad. Before them their pokemon, Bisharp, Accelgor and Greninja. On other side stood Ash with Frogadier, Pikachu and Lucario.

In that moment, both sides looked at each other. Waiting for other to make the next move.

The moment a far cry of a wild Murkrow started it.

The pokemon attacked even without command, water, electricity, aura, poison and steel clashed in large explosion.

Bisharp lept out of it through, running straight for Pikachu with dark glowing claws. But Frogadier got in its path again with glowing blade.

Pikachu looked around, looking for his opponent. But Accelgor was gone. Only Greninja and Bisharp staying where they were suppose to be.

Lucario went in with lightning around his paw, going for Greninja. But it jump up in the air and added to the smoke with its own one with black one out of its mouth. "Lucario, use bone rush. Get rid of the smoke!" Lucario listened to his trainer and created the glowing bone. With fast rotation, he managed to displace the smoke.

As that was happening, Pikachu noticed in the smoke a movement behind him. Ash noticed it too. "Use thunderbolt Pikachu." the lightning went through the smoke, hitting ground. But out of it jumped out Accelgor with what looked like remnants of poison effect.

Ash tried to think of reason why, but there was no time. They were already leaping for another attack. Greninja used Hydro pump, aiming for Lucario and Pikachu. Frogadier was first to react with Water pulse, followed with cut. Lucario followed behind with glowing bone.

But as the water disperced, out of it came out Accelgor using Bug buzz and Bisharp with glowing Brick break. Accelgor send Frogadier flying back, hitting Lucario. Lucario looked confused until they were both send back flying by Bisharp.

Pikachu started to glow and ready to run out to help them, but next to him came out Greninja with dark blade. Pikachu tried used his speed to jump away. Greninja continued, making Pikachu to back away until Pikachu stumbled due weakness and was hit. Pikachu landed next to both pokemon.

Ash noticed how they pressed them back to one place and then he noticed it. Although Lucario wad fine, Pikachu and Frogadier weren't. Their faces were going slowly purple.

It happened in that small moment they didn't see Accelgor. It prepared poisoned field.

"You never learn. You once again walked in situation we have completely under control. Once again, in our trap. Thinking you can fight us. Beat us." Second shadow spoke, looking over the succesful plan. Ash watched with anger, not realising his brown eyes went in corners purple. Clenching his fists and teeth

And then pink leaf flew over his face. He calmed down.

"Let's make this more familiar." First shadow spoke up and pulled out a dagger. He ran for Ash to which his Bisharp followed with dark claws attacking on Pikachu.

But at that moment, they noticed a dark shadow from above. Bisharp had to make hard break and jump away as large pokemon landed on ground before them.

First shadow's dagger made a loud dull sound. Before him stood Sanpei with katana clashing the dagger. From the cloud of dust came out Venusaur with Nihei on top.

"You misunderstood. I was here to stall."

An hour ago

"We are not letting him out." Ippei said as they all stood before Ash's cell.

"And I am telling you that is easy trade. Hanzo for doomed person." Shinobu argued back.

"How about we just get rid of them ourselves? We know everything that we need

Sanpei watched as they argued over each other and then he noticed Bonnie. He knew she was putting on brave face, but one can do much when their beloved sibling is kidnapped and in danger.

He looked in Ash's direction. He was clenching his fists, or atleast he was trying to. He couldn't due to restrains.. He knew Ash was thinking of way to get out just to save Clemont.

Sanpei took deep breath and did what he as ninja shouldn't do. Defy his higher ups.

"SHUT UP!" both brothers and Shinobu looked in his direction. "We will get nowhere by arguing with each other. Every second, we loose chance to think of something that they haven't anticipated yet. With what Ash told us and from what we know, they are already prepared for both scenarios."

Ippei eyed him for a moment. "What do you propose then?"

"I say that we make a plan with Ash. One where we all work together." Sanpei answered looking at everyone in room.

"And what makes you think that he won't run away the next moment he is free?" Nihei countered.

"You know that is lie. All of you are just looking for reason not to trust him because of our rules. Nihei, Sanpei. Both of you saw he puts himself above others. Especially his friends." Sanpei said with strong voice. "If we don't work together, we will certainly fail."

Ippei paced over the cave, thinking over. He finally stopped. He gave one quick glance at Ash. He still remained silent. "Even if we do plan to ambush them together, it won't work. They stand on mountain cliff that gives them advantage. They will spot us even if we try to follow Doomed... follow Ash to the spot. And if we try to go from further distance, we won't make it in time."

"What if you followed me from above?" everyones heads turned to chained Ash.

Presence

Shadow triad watched with annoyance as from the sky landed bunch of Skarmory carrying Shinobu . She threw her pokeball and revealing Liepard.

"Who is in control now?" Ash talked back at Shadow Triad. Before Shinobu, Sanpei and Ash stood Liepard, Greninja, Lucario, Frogadier and Pikachu. Next to them all stood Venusaur with Nihei.

He expected for them to run away as they did last time, but that didn't happen. Instead, they started to laugh.

That got to Nihei. These murderers killed multiple people from their village and innocent people. "Do you think that is funny!" Nihei yelled as charged at them with dagger while Venusaur followed with petal dance. Both him and Venusaur's attack went past Ash's pokemon at the opponent.

Sanpei's eyes widened. "Nihei don't!" second Shadow smirked, as he pulled out a small whistle and blew it.

Beneath them all were more ninjas, hiding against the wall of the mountain. They could see the crowd of mind controlled people before them.

Ippei looked up, seeing that Shadow Triad's attention was now away. He looked at the few of the men he with him. He motioned with his hand, giving signal to go move forward to the crowd. He already noticed Kagetomo standing there.

As he was about follow the rest of his men, he heard something move in the mountain. He grabbed Riku before he could follow others. He signed him to follow him. He walked to where he heard noise and found a small crack. He knocked on it and the dull sound made him realise that it was fake wall. Ippei nodded his head at Riku and both of them moved the fake wall.

As Riku pushed the fake fall, he could see what the moonlight revealed. It was a big pile of dynamite and on top of them was lying Pineco.

As Kentaru was binding the hands of people in crowd to prevent them from attacking, he noticed that they weren't there all. He looked around and his face went ice cold and even more when they heard the sound of a whistle.

As Ippei was about to look into the cave, Riku saw Pineco started to glow. Riku reacted quickly by pushing Ippei with all the strength he had. Ippei's face changed from shocked to horrified when Riku disappeared in the fire of the explosion. The shockwave send Ippei flying even further with rocks flying next to him.

On bottom of the mountain were girls watching and their eyes went wide as they heard the explosion.

Bonnie looked at others and they almost weren't there anymore. Serena was about to rush out, but Korrina stopped her.

"Serena, you can't rush in there. We promised them that we would stay away." Korrina held on to her.

"And you heard what Ash told us. If the plan isn't going as they intended, it means that Shadow Triad could be already beating them. And they need any help they can get." Serena replied back with determined look.

Korrina groaned and then looked at Bonnie. She shared the same look. Korrina chuckled. She was arguing against herself anyway.

The explosion shook with the mountain on which battle went on. Shadow Triad lept back from the cracking ground. Their pokemon lept away with them.

Nihei fell down through the rocks. His Venusaur reacted quickly by shooting out vine whip. But under Venusaur cracked rocks as well and went down. Sanpei watched with fear until he heard Nihei. "Don't worry about us. You finish it!"

Greninja and Lucario looked to the side and saw Frogadier with Pikachu breaking ground. "Greninja, catch them!" Sanpei yelled out. Greninja unrolled his tongue and shot it out to both of them. But before reaching them, the ground fell through. Both Pikachu and Frogadier were still feeling the effects of the poison.

But that didn't Frogadier to spin around and send Pikachu flying up to hit Greninja's tongue. "Pika!" Pikachu yelled out as he was holding on to the tongue and watching Frogadier fall down.

"Frogadier!" Ash yelled out to his pokemon. His fear over Frogadier vanished once he saw Frogadier giving him thumb up.

Ash looked at Shinobu and Sanpei. They both looked back and then at their opponents.

Both sides exchanged glances until calling out their attacks and going for attack.

Meanwhile, Frogadier fell down through the air with Venusaur and Nihei. Frogadier looked down and ready to throw down his frubbles to soften the fall. But that changed when felt whip around his torso. He looked to side and Nihei gave a smile. Both of them landed on top of Venusaur before Venusaur let out the pink pallets to stop them from taking hard fall.

As they were almost at the ground, Frogadier looked up and used cut to break any falling rocks on top of them.

When they finally landed, Frogadier ran past Nihei straight for the wall of the mountain they fell from. He attempted to run up using his bubbles. But as he was about to go higher, the poison went through him. Frogadier stumbled and fell back on the ground.

Nihei was about to help him, but then his eyes landed on person leaning against a wall. "Brother!" Nihei ran straight for barely conscious Ippei.

Ippei was slightly bleeding from his head, his hand on other hand was crushed under a boulder. As Nihei ran to him, an ice cold air hit him against the wall. He looked to the way the attack came from. There stood Kagetomo with mask and Weavile standing against Ippei's Greninja.

Nihei heard the silent groan from Ippei. "Nihei, g-go help others. I will deal with Kagetomo."

Nihei turned to him swiftly. "Like you can now. You can't even move. We will deal with Kagetomo together."

"Ice wind." Spoke Kagetomo in absent voice. Nihei turned around to see Weavile use another attack.

"Venusaur, use petal dance!" Nihei quickly reacted back. Venusaur managed to let pink storm of leafs clash against the cold wind.

"Greninja, use Water shuriken!" the big shuriken flew through the clast of the attack, hitting Weavile. Weavile lept out with scratches over his body, but still strong enough to fight. "Since you are stubborn as I am, we will fight him together." Nihei turned to Ippei with smile.

Meanwhile, Frogadier once again landed on the ground. He was heavily breathing. He stopped counting about how many times he fell due to the poison. But every clash of the attacks he heard from above, each scream and yell made him that much more determined to push through it. So he went for it again.