Jake and Sabrina left the infirmary after stitching up Static, and 
putting him into a pokeball. 
       “Jake?” Sabrina said quietly as they stopped to listen to footsteps. 
“Why did you stop coming to me for help?”
       Jake looked back at Sabrina who was eying a possible place for grunts 
to emerge and ambush them. “My father passed away last year. After that I 
didn’t feel like any kind of treatment or anything like that would break this 
curse.” He said to more to himself than to Sabrina.
       “The nightmares are getting worse aren’t they?” Sabrina asked knowing 
the answer. “Sometimes I can feel your pain from hundreds of miles away.”
       “Yeah, they’re gettin’ worse. It used to be that I wouldn’t have a 
nightmare but once every two or three weeks. Now days, it seems like I can’t 
even close my eyes without having another one.” Jake glanced back to a 
doorway, where he heard a sound. When he decided it was nothing, he said, 
“Let’s move.”
       
       Cinnabar Island
       
       Ben’s Charizard touched down onto the rooftop of the Titan IV. Just 
when he planned to enter he saw a glint in the distance. The silhouettes got 
closer and closer until Ben saw that it was Red and Cable. 
       Red’s Aerodactyl landed close to Ben, and Red said, “Ben, where’s 
Jake?”
       “Why don’t you tell me?” Ben said as he tossed Red’s badge to him.
       “I dunno; he left us about three hours ago.” Red clipped the badge to 
his belt. “He came here to find this battleship”  
       “You mean he’s still alive?” Ben was in disbelief.
       “Yeah; I guess you heard we were killed too, then huh Ben?” Cable said 
with a short chuckle.
       “That’s right.” Ben was happy to hear that Jake wasn’t crushed to 
death.
       
       Inside the Titan IV
       
       Jake moved slowly through the hallways with Sabrina close behind. Then 
he heard the evil laughter of Nikolai Kruschev. It sent a chill down his 
back. 
       “Why don’t you come on in Jake?” Nikolai taunted over the intercom. He 
could’ve been anywhere on the ship. “Or are you afraid?”
       “I don’t scare easily you coward!” Jake yelled to the darkness. 
       “Of course not… that’s why you hide from your own dreams!” Nikolai 
replied. 
       “He’s in a large room on the middle deck.” Sabrina had located Nikolai 
with her telekinesis. 
       Jake turned and ran to the stairs and started climbing. He climbed 
them in four bounds, and found himself in an arena.
       “Hello Jake. Long time no see. You’re just in time to watch the 
destruction of Cinnabar Island! Blackheart, now!” Jake looked out the window 
and saw Blackheart charge up a mass of energy, and fire it at Cinnabar 
Island.
       
       Ben felt the entire ship rock as they came down the stairs onto the 
first floor. 
       “What the hell?” Cable said loudly.
       “That doesn’t sound good at all.” Red added to Cable’s outburst.
       “We’d better find Jake and get the hell outta here.” Ben called back 
to Red and Cable.
       
       “Blackheart, take us to our… prepared special place.” Nikolai 
commanded. 
       “My God…” Jake said as he looked down and saw his body fading away. 
When he finally could see his body again, he was no longer in the arena. 
Jake, Sundance, Blackheart, and Nikolai, were all floating hundreds of miles 
above the earth. 
       Jake held his breath, knowing there was no oxygen in space. He looked 
at the map on his Pokedex just to be sure, but there was no signal. “Space?” 
       Nikolai grinned wickedly. “Yep, like it?” 
       Jake looked over and saw the two pokemon that saved him from Darkrai’s 
Dark Void. They were both bound by chains made of ruby. “Pretty, if only 
there weren’t pokemon in pain.” 
       Nikolai laughed. “Soon your Lugia will join them. And then the ‘Mighty 
Ones’ will fall.
       Jake growled his anger but couldn’t move.
       “Now Jake, We do what we should have done years ago. Kill you!! 
Blackheart Aero Cannon!” A mass of energy like the one that destroyed 
Cinnabar, began to form. Blackheart fired the energy at Jake, but Sundance 
moved to block it. 
       Darkrai appeared in front of Sundance and caught the beam in his 
hands. “Tut, tut, tut Nikolai. That’s not very nice.”
       “You!” Jake growled angrily. Did the whole world intend to show up 
here?
       “Yes, Black. Me. For the last time. I’ve made… a deal with Arceus. 
He’s the one looking out for you. I’ll help you out.” Shadows formed around 
Jake and Sundance and then they were gone.
       “Now, Blackheart. I believe we’ve got a time old grudge to settle with 
each other.”
       
       “Kadabra, use Slash!” Sabrina ordered her Kadabra. Kadabra used the 
spoon he held in his hand to slash through the engine’s core, and blow it up. 
“Three to go.” She said to her self as she turned to search for another 
engine. 
       Sabrina came around a corner and bumped into Jake, followed by Kim. 
“Kim?” She couldn’t believe Kim was back. 
       “Yes.” Kim said with a smile. Static stood next to her, and that’s 
when Sabrina noticed, Static’s pokeball was missing from her waist. 
       “But how?” Sabrina said.
       “Jirachi appeared to me, and granted me three wishes. I wished that 
Static was healed and with me. Then I wished that I was healed. And then I 
wished that I was here.” Kim explained.
       Jake was more concerned about the engines. “How many did you take 
out?”
       “Just one.” Sabrina replied glancing back at the smoke and debris.
       “Okay, I’ll take out one, Kim can take one, and Sabrina, you can take 
out the other one.” Jake decided.
       Kim and Sabrina nodded, and started in different directions. Jake 
turned and went his own way which led to the engine room on the starboard 
side of the ship.
       As he prepared to blow the engine up he was caught off guard by a 
Cloyster’s Aurora Beam. The attack laid him out flat on the ground. 
       Jake could see Giovanni walking into the room. “Heh, heh, heh. You 
don’t appear to be as quick as your friend Red. He would have heard me coming 
a mile away.”
       Jake stood up slowly. 
       “You’re coming with me.” Giovanni said.
       Jake was in no position to object. Besides Sundance, who was outside 
the ship, Jake only happened to have Ditto and Rascal with him at the moment, 
and Giovanni’s Cloyster could easily take Jake out before he could get to 
either pokeball. 
       Jake threw his hands up into the air. “What can I do? You’ve got me.” 
       Giovanni released a Machamp from its pokeball. “Now, make him 
uncomfortable.”
       One of Machamp’s four massive arms reached out and picked Jake up off 
of the ground. It began to slam him into the wall repeatedly until Jake’s 
body felt like it was breaking into pieces. “This is so you can’t try to 
run.” Giovanni sneered as Machamp did its damage.
       Jake fell unconscious. 
       He woke up again on the roof of the Titan IV. Machamp was still 
holding him, but now Sabrina and Kim had shown up.
       “I want you off of my ship now, or it’s a watery grave for the 
cowboy!” Giovanni called to the girls. 
       =Sundance, be ready to catch me.= Jake said to Sundance, who was 
apparently still out there.
       =Okay, Jake.=
       Jake thought quickly for a moment. He needed a way to open Giovanni up 
for an attack. The idea came to him. “Don’t listen to him! He won’t throw me 
over the side.” Jake yelled. He looked at Sabrina and winked.
       “Don’t test me boy.” Giovanni said glancing at Jake.
       Kim took a step forward angrily, but Sabrina put her arm out and 
stopped her.
       “Throw him over! He means nothing to me.” Sabrina called hoping Jake’s 
plan would work. She could see a smile spread across his face from under his 
hat.
       “So be it.” Giovanni said as Machamp threw Jake over the edge. On the 
way down, Jake could hear Kim’s screech of horror. Just in the nick of time 
he was caught by Sundance.