Captured twice in the same week. I'd say what are the odds, but in my life the odds are jerks.

So here I am, watching a ugly human pace back and forth across the concrete in front of me. And when I say ugly, I don't mean all humans are gross, but this guy looked like he fell off the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. He wasn't skinny or fat, but caught in a awkward place between. He had bad acne scars and greasy hair that was dyed blue and under a white beanie. His clothes were cheap punk goth rags, with a top that said, 'STICK IT TO THE MAN'.

Might as well said, 'I'M A RIPOFF OF EVERY ROCK BAND EVER MADE'.

In other words: he was a kid. A kid who thought the world was scared of stupid shirts and punk hair. The only thing serious about him was the Honchkrow that perched on his shoulder. Red eyes, savage beak, and black black feathers the color of tar and death.

"Now we could probably make a bunch of money if we put her up for ransom. Isn't the Champion looking for her?" Head Punk turned to look at his cohorts. There was a skinny wretched girl chewing bubble gum loudly and wearing clothes that barely covered her. She had on badly done makeup and her hair was done in scraggly pigtails.

"How do we know it's even the right one? There are like, tons of Eevees." She groaned from her spot on some unused pipes. Mike was resting under her arm, and I saw the similarities between the two.

"I heard it was magic or something." Cohort number three, a chubby almost lovable looking guy who was throwing a ball to Josey, piped up. The Vennipiede jumped up and caught the ball in his mouth, bringing it back to his trainer.

"It's got gold eyes you half-wits!" Punk Boss yelled and his Honchkrow cawed and flapped its wings as if in agreement. I attempted to move, but the chains tightened around my throat again and I gagged. Pretty ironic for someone with the title of Chainsmasher.

I started to thrash, then held still as I saw two hazel eyes staring straight at me.

A human kid, he couldn't have been more than eleven was looking at me in a scared way.

"All that golden eye crap was just internet rumors." The girl snorted. The boy had his hands and feet bound by rope, face dirty and scared, framed by brown hair.

"Plus we already got the kid back there. Maybe we could make it work for us?" Me and the human were locked in an intense staring match and neither of us were giving up. I took a step towards him and he flinched, making a small frightened noise. Punk Boss turned around and saw me.

"Hey! Watch it, Rat!" He snarled, gabbing one of my chains. I gagged and coughed up words.

"Bite me punk."

"HOLY ARCEUS!" He howled, dropping my restraint like it was red hot and jumping back several feet.

"We told ya boss." Mike said triumphantly, stepping forward to the Honchkrow. "She's the Eevee!" Boss ruffled his feathers.

"Jonny, something actually worked!" The girl squealed. Johnny slicked back his blue hair and stood up.

"Yeah, it did didn't it! Amelia, Thomas, go to the other warehouse and get the Xtransciver. I'll watch the captives." He said it like he was going to strangle a Luxray with his bare hands rather than watch a chained scrawny kid and Pokemon. "And leave you're Pokemon." The henchman and woman looked at each other reluctantly, then nodded to Mike and Josey, and ducked under the garage doors and escaped into the night.

Jonny smiled in triumph and sat back in a folding chair, lighting a cigarette and taking a long drag. I turned back to the boy, who looked even more fearful if that was possible. I laid down on my stomach with my paws out in front if me.

"I won't hurt you." I breathed, locking eyes with him again. He was still shaking.

"What's your name." I asked, trying to elicit a response. His eyes darted to Jonny and back to me, and he whispered so softly I barely heard it.

"T-Toby." I smiled.

"Hello Toby. I'm Eevee." I said, watching him relax a fraction.

"How can you talk?" He whispered, laying down on his stomach too. I hesitated before responding.

"I'm... different from most Pokemon. Why do these guys want you?" He nervously looked at Jonny again.

"My dad owns one of those Pokemon farms, like with Miltank and Bouffant and stuff ya know? So these guys got me and are holding me random, uh, or rain-dumb? It might be--"

"Ransom. They're holding you for ransom." I finished for him. He nodded.

"They asked for like, a lot of Pokemon, and I don't know if dad can pay up. What if he can't?" He looked at me with new fear. I automatically wanted to pat his head and say everything would be fine. He just reminded me so much of Kip... I wondered if they were okay.

Then I remembered why I was running: humans being stupid.

And here in front of me was one, and I wanted to cuddle up with it. "Don't get cozy with the enemy solider!" A voice that sounded distinctly like Snivy yelled in my brain.

"I'm scared." This voice sounded like Kip, but it took me a second to realize it came from Toby, shaking with his arms holding himself. So I used my voice instead.

"Don't be." He looked up at me. It must've looked ridiculous, a human boy looking up to a chained Eevee.

"The worst thing anyone can do to you is take away your freedom. We hit rock bottom kid. We can take on anything now. These chains won't hold me forever. Nothing can hold anyone forever. That's why people are scared of me. Nothing can break me anymore." I laid down next to him and stared directly into his eyes. "But they can take your freedom away if you don't fight for it. I will always fight for that. How about you?" Slowly, Toby nodded.

"I wanna set the Pokemon free." He blurted suddenly. I snorted in half surprise half amusement.

"Sorry kid, but I already beat you to that."

"No, Dad's Pokemon. All the Miltank and stuff." My ears swiveled up in shock.

"You said that taking away their freedom is bad. I don't want them to be sad. Besides thanks to the Release, everyone's been giving us trouble anyway. Breeders, trainers, those weird robe guys--"

"Robe guys?" I interrupted.

"Hey, keep it down back there!" Jonny yelled, puffing on another cigarette. Toby leaned in closer and whispered to me.

"Yeah, these freaky guys in red robes who said they came from Northeast of the city. They talked like robots and we're asking about getting a LOT of MooMoo Milk and stuff. They smelled like they hadn't bathed in like, a REALLY long time and their eyes were--"

"Gold." I breathed. "Their eyes were good weren't they?" Toby nodded, looking confused.

"Yea. How'd you know?" Thugs one and two chose that moment to burst into the warehouse, panting and sweaty like they had run all the way here.

"Boss we got trouble!" Thomas panted, hands on his knees.

"Some maniac driver is on the loose! Tried to run us over." The girl, Amelia I think, gasped.

"Impossible! There's no power! All electric types left the power plant days ago, and all vehicles are ordered off! Someone would have to break into a car, had hot wire it, and see without all the street lights!" As Jonny continued to list the reasons it was 'impossible' I quietly placed a paw on Toby's head and pushed him down.

"Wha--"

"Trust me kid you want to be down when stuff like this happens." I said, counting to three in my head.

One, two and--

HOOOOONNNKKKK.

A car's horn howled before the garage door of the warehouse crumbled under the black and red van that had crashed into it, leaving all the thugs shocked and covered in a thin powder of smashed brick. A purple head poked out the window.

"S'up Eevee! Can your man drive or what?"

***

It took about three seconds for the human's senses to kick back in, and the same amount of time for my friends minus Zoura and Pidgey to pile out of the stolen van and get ready for a showdown.

"Attack!" Jonny yelled and his Pokemon took jumped into action. Except Josey.

"She was right!" The bug type wailed from beneath a chair. "The Eevee's forces are gonna kill us!"

"Don't be an idiot!" Mike grunted, trying to drag him by the tail out from his hiding spot. Before I knew it, Charmander and Kip were next to me, Charmander slashing through my chains with his claws and Kip pulling the locks off. The little blue water type tackled me in a hug as soon as I was free.

"No one's gonna take you away from me either." He promised and my heart kinda melted. I turned back to Toby who looked like his eye balls were about to pop out of his head.

"Toby I know things look crazy but I want you to trust me and let my friends help you." I said, looking directly into his eyes again. "Can you do that for me?" Toby nodded slowly and Charmander leaned down and began to saw through the rope around is hands.

I turned back towards the fight to assess the situation.

Snivy was going one on one with Mike. "Stupid, crazy, idiotic, insane, stupid--" she angrily hacked at Mike's Iron Tail.

"What did you call me!?" He challenged angrily. "I'm not talking about you!" She yelled back and flung him across the room. "I'm talking about you!" She called up to the ceiling where Ace and the Honchkrow flew around in circles. The black feathered bird screeched and dived at Ace, who dodged circled back around.

"I'm touched, Princess, but it's not helping!" He said Princess in a more sarcastic way than a title, but Snivy seemed okay with it.

Josey was frantically scuttling away from Psyduck who was waddling after him and saying things like, "Yeah! You better run!" while Jonny was grabbing stuff and shoving it in a bag, while his cohorts were trying to drag him out the back door.

"Forget it Jonny! We need to go!" Amelia yelled, tugging at her leader's jacket.

"Not without our stuff!" He yelled back. Charmander finished cutting through Toby's bonds and the kid stood up shakily.

"Char, help Ace!" I yelled pulling Kip up onto my back and grabbing Toby's sleeve in my teeth. Charmander nodded and ran to the Taillow's aide while I pulled Toby in the direction of the van.

"Wait!" He said, stopping. "I have to go back. To my dad, and the ranch. I have to set them free." I looked at him in awe. I was in shock he would do something this brave and selfless--and then I realized that was exactly what I would have done.

"Okay." I said and he gave a scared smile. Ace suddenly crashed into the ground a few feet from me and sat up groaning.

"Boy that Honchkrow means business." He groaned, rubbing his head with one wing. I suddenly got an idea.

"Ace, I need you to go with Toby back to his home, and then go back to Freedom Island." I said, and the bird sat up.

"What! But what about you guys!" He asked, and I noticed his eyes darted to Snivy who was currently beating the stuffing out of Mike as he said it.

"Toby wants to set some captives free, so this would be an offical Freedom Fighter mission, and you get to report the progress of our mission to the Home Base." I pointed out.

"What'd I miss?" Snivy asked, running over to us. "Eevee's making Ace go home." Kip piped up from my back.

"What are you guys saying?" Toby whispered in my ear.

"You're going back to Freedom Island?" Snivy asked in shock. Ace attempted a smile and shrugged his wings. They shared a look.

"When you guys get back, maybe you could show me around the island?" Snivy smiled.

"Only because you'll probably get lost without directions." The car honked again and Pidgey poked his head out the window.

"We don't have all day guys! Hurry up!" He yelled. Ace turned and started to guide Toby towards a exit, but a thought struck me.

"Wait!" I said, and the human boy kneeled down. I jumped up on one knee and touched my nose to his quickly, then looked into his eyes. "Toby the human of Unova, I now pronounce you an honorary Freedom Fighter. Now go." He looked at me with awe, like the words were magic. Which they kinda were. Just a little, just enough to give someone purpose.

"Was that a blessing?" Kip asked in awe as the human and Ace ran away through the smoke and debris. I shrugged. Snivy watched them go with a frustrated expression and Kip smirked.

"Missing your boyfriend already?" He teased and Snivy whipped her head towards him.

"Shut it." She snapped as Mike launched himself at her in a final attempt of attack. Snivy grabbed his skull and slammed his face into the ground without looking away. The car honked one more time and I caught a fleeting image of the criminals escaping before I dashed to the van and jumped through one of it's doors. It slid shut behind Psyduck, Snivy, Charmander, Kip and I as we landed in the chip bag littered interior.

"Drive!" Pidgey yelled from his perch on the wheel. There was a screech of tires as the van roared forward, and the Honchcrow that had been diving towards the car hit the windshield with an audible THUNK.

"Reverse! Reverse!" Pidgey yelped, reaching out with a talon and pulling the stick shift back. I jumped into the cockpit as the van squealed backwards out of the wall and into the street.

"How did you guys steal a VAN!?" I cried, claws gripping the seats as Pidgey turned the van on a dime and we sped down the street at top speed. Zoura poked his head out from the gas pedal area.

"Good to see you too." He smirked.

"BRAKES!" Pidgey yelled, twisting the wheel to avoid a trash can in the street. I heard my friends in the back hit the right wall of the van.

"It's either the gas or the brakes my paws can't reach both!" Zoura yelled, going back to his job.

"We commandeered this vehicle through some--woah!--unsavory methods-- slow down!" Pidgey steered the van haphazardly, occasionally yelling about obstacles.

"He means we hot wired it." Zoura piped up. Pidgey winced and flapped his wings to steady himself.

"Yes that's about right. Where's Ace?" He asked finally taking note of our missing comrade.

"He's helping a human on a mission!" Charmander yelled from the back.

Pidgey nearly lost his hold on the wheel. "WHAT!?" He yelled, and the tires squealed again.

"Not important, but I got the location on the cult. You're gonna want to go Northeast, towards the woods. Toby said some golden eyed freaks came from there." I told him, nodding in the direction.

"Perfect! I can get us there in two hours... Maybe one." Zoura mused from his position. The vehicle sped up and Pidgey yelped from the wheel.

"FOR THE LOVE OF ARCEUS SLOW DOWN!" He howled, flapping his wings and sending up a cloud of air.

"Hey, can you turn up the radio?" Charmander asked from the backseat.

"I will turn this car around!" Pidgey yelled back.

"Eevee, I feel car sick." Psyduck groaned.

"Woman up and close your beak." Snivy snapped.

"Are we there yet?" Kip asked. I sat down and closed my eyes.

"Never mind the radio, I'll just sing. 'We're on the highhhhwaayy to hell!'"

"Guys I'm gonna yak!"

"Eevee, Snivy's being mean!"

"He started it."

"I AM TRYING TO DRIVE!"

It was going to be a long ride.