Hsi Wu was lying on his back on top of the water tower where he was first defeated by the Chan’s staring up at the night sky. Lying next to him was a scruffy looking black and gray dog, who was sleeping contently next to him.

‘I wonder how Jade is doing with her own family?‘ Hsi Wu thought silently to himself, as he continued staring up at the sky and sighed, ‘Hopefully a lot better than I will with mine.‘

He was still in human form, with his large wings folded underneath his body as a makeshift mattress as he laid down, looking up into the polluted night sky, and found himself already missing the world he and Jade had left behind a few hours ago.

‘Who would have thought after all this time of wanting to get back here, I’d find myself missing the Pokémon world so much? ‘ Hsi Wu thought as he sat up, a gentle wind caused his long black hair to fan out behind him in a loose ponytail, ‘If anyone told me I’d feel like this four years ago, I would have skinned them alive. Being back here is going to be nothing but trouble, especially when...‘

“HSI WU!!”

“GAH!” Hsi Wu exclaimed, nearly tumbling off of the water tower in surprise at the sudden intrusion in his mind, catching himself in mid air before he fell very far while using his hands to cover his ears, as he recognized as belong to his older brother Dai Gui. “Not so loud, Dai!”

“So the pup’s feeling a bit jumpy today?” Shendu said with an evil laugh, as he watched Sky demon’s antics, as a smirk appeared on his ghostly features, “You should be after taking so long to contact the rest of us.”

As Hsi Wu turned in the direction of Shendu’s voices, he watched as his older siblings astral projected floating heads appeared in front of him out of thin air, and Hsi Wu glowered angrily at Shendu’s head.

“Let’s see how jumpy you are, Shendu, after spending nine years without hearing the rest of you,” Hsi Wu snapped, his eyes narrowing angrily as he looked at his brothers and sisters as their astral heads appeared around him, “yelling in your mind everyday. One gets used to having a little peace and quiet after awhile.”

“I see the brat’s gotten cocky while he’s been away,” Shendu snarled as he glared at Hsi Wu, who only smirked at the Fire Demon.

“Now, is that anyway to talk to the only one who may hold the key to getting all of you out of there?” Hsi Wu asked innocently, as a fake injured look appeared on his features before he turned away from them, “Maybe I’ll just leave the lot of you in the Nether World for awhile longer.”

“You know of a way to get out of here?!” Tchang Zu demanded in his thundering voice, as his astral head hovered back into Hsi Wu’s line of sight, and gave the younger demon a dark look, “Hsi Wu as your older brother, I order that you to use it to let us out!!”

“Not before he lets me out first!” Bai Tsa exclaimed.

“No me!” Xiao Fung said.

“I’m the eldest so I’m going first!” Tchang said as he glared at his siblings, and a full out argument broke out.

“QUIET!!!” Hsi Wu shouted, after five minutes had passed and it looked like the others weren’t going to stop arguing any time soon, and in a matter of seconds his siblings were silent, “I said that I might have a way to get you guys out or not. But I need a little more time before I’ll know for sure.”

“Exactly how long are we talking about here, Hsi Wu?” Tso Long asked, his eyes narrowing a bit as he stared at his younger brother, “How much longer do we have to wait before you can release us?”

“Well I used up too much of the power source coming back home,” Hsi Wu explained, as he settled back onto the water tower with a bored look on his face, “That it’ll take at least a week for it to recharge enough to give it another go.”

“A week?!” Bai Tsa shrieked, as she glared at Hsi Wu who seemed completely unphased by the looks he was now receiving from his brothers and sisters, “Why should it take a week to get it working again?”

“If it needs a charge, I’ll more than be glad to charge it for you,” Tchang Zu growled out angrily, as sparks of lightning started to build up around him, “This way we’ll get it done sooner than later.”

“It won’t work like that, Tchang. It’s very delicate piece of work, and you’ll only wind up destroying it in the process.” Hsi Wu said, flinching a bit at the image of what one of Tchang’s electric attacks could do to Bijou if he was given the chance, “Besides I don’t even know if it actually will work in getting you guys out until it’s fully recharged. So I’m not making any promises that I probably won’t be able to keep.”

“Why you impertinent little...”

“Your just lucky that you’re over there,” Tchang Zu roared out as he glared back “or else we’d give you a lesson you won’t soon forget on respecting your elders!”

“Come now brothers and sisters, all of us have been stuck in that dimension for centuries.” Hsi Wu said in a cajoling voice as he looked at all of his siblings floating heads, and saw that he had their attention now, “What’s one more week going to hurt? You don’t want any more mishaps happening while bringing you over here, now do you?”

The demon sorcerers became quiet as they digested that bit of information.

“Hsi Wu, I have a question I’d like you to answer,” Po Kong suddenly said, as she turned her gaze back towards her youngest sibling.

“What is it, Po?” Hsi Wu asked.

“Why are you in that weakling human form, Hsi Wu?” Po Kong asked as she looked over her youngest brother’s current body with concern, her eyebrows arching a bit when she saw him cringe at the mention of his current form, “Except for your wings, you’ve remained in that body the whole time we’ve been talking with you. Why haven’t you returned to your true body yet?”

“Now that you mention it, Po,” Tso Lan said as he stared intently at Hsi Wu’s human form in confusion, “That’s something I’d like to know too, Hsi Wu.”

Hsi Wu glanced up to see that all of his siblings now had their eyes on him, as they waited for him to answer Po’s question.

‘Drat, I was hoping they wouldn’t notice that until later...’ Hsi Wu thought silently to himself as he turned his attention towards the floating heads, and let out a loud sigh, ‘I guess it’s better late than never.’

“About that... I would if I could Po, but I’m currently stuck in this body.” Hsi Wu said, as he reached up to brush a strand of hair from his face, as he glanced over his shoulder at his wings, which disappeared back into his back. “As of now, my wings are the only part of my demon side that I’ve been able to summon since my little trip through dimensions.”

“WHAT?!” the demon sorcerers chorused simultaneously.

Jade was so deep in her thoughts, that she barely heard the sound of the bedroom door being unlocked and the door opening, or the sound of footsteps walking into the room.

“Jade?”

Jade’s head immediately snapped up at the sound of the familiar voice saying her name, to see the disheveled figure of her uncle Jackie standing over the bed, staring down at her with a disbelieving look on his face.

“Jackie!!!! you’re finally here!” Jade cried as she launched herself out of the bed and onto Jackie, giving the older man a near bone breaking bear hug, that was slowly turning him blue by the second, “I’ve missed you so much!”

“Jade!” Jackie gasped out as Jade continued hugging him, his face turning a light shade of blue as he tried to break lose, “Need... to... breath...”

“Oops, sorry. I forgot to be careful of that,” Jade said, immediately releasing him and pulling away, as a sheepish look appeared on her features, as she looked the older man over, “So when did you get back from Africa? Uncle and Torhu said you were there on a dig.”

“Captain Black arranged for me to fly back as soon as possible on a company jet,” Jackie said distractedly, as he stared at the young woman before in complete shock, “When I heard that you were back, I couldn’t wait. But they didn’t tell me that you were...”

“All grown up?” Jade said, grinning mischievously as she spun around to give Jackie a better look at her from front to back, before facing him again, “Well, it does happens when you spend nine years away from your family.”

“But how? You’ve only been gone two months?!” Jackie said, as he looked the young woman before him over, seeing all of the similarities in her features that reminded him of the little girl she once was, “It has to be a spell or something that’s made you like this...”

“Aw, not you too!” Jade exclaimed as she jerked away from Jackie and flopped down on her bed, arms crossed over her chest as she glared up at Jackie, “When are you guys going to accept that this is me, and not a spell? I got to be this age the old fashioned way, Jackie.”

“Jade this is just a surprise,” Jackie said, trying to placate the young woman, as she glared at him from the bed, “We didn’t expect you to come back all grown up.”

“Well when I came back with Hsi Wu, I didn’t expect to find that only two months have gone by since we left,” Jade said, as her trademark grin appeared on her features, momentarily replacing the glare, “so I guess we’re even.”

‘She looks and acts just like Jade would.‘ Jackie thought as he stared at the teenager before him, not wanting to believe that this really was the little girl they all had though lost, ‘How can that be? Could nine years have really passed since she last saw any of us...‘

“...stuff back, Jackie?”

The sudden sound of Jade’s voice calling him brought Jackie back to reality as he glanced over at Jade only to see her watching him expectantly, and quickly realized that Jade must have been saying something to him, but he hadn’t heard a word of it.

“I’m Sorry, Jade. I wasn’t listening,” Jackie said, as gave Jade a sheepish look, as he took a seat on the edge of the bed and looked at her, “What did you just say?”

“I said, I wanted to leave my room, and get my stuff back as soon as possible.” Jade asked as she looked at her uncle, a concerned look on her face when she saw the dazed look in his eyes as he stared back at her, “Am I even allowed to leave this room yet, or am I still in solitary confinement until you guys decide what to do with me? I brought a backpack with me, and I want it back.”

“I’ll talk to Captain Black about it,” Jackie said, as he stood up and heads for the door to talk with the others who were waiting outside.

“It seems that way, Torhu. I still can’t believe it,” Jackie said as he shut the door behind him and leaned against it with a sigh, as he reached up with one hand to run his fingers through his hair, “If it wasn’t for the difference in age, she looks and acts exactly like Jade.”

“Could time have really past this much for her since she left us?” Torhu asked as a thoughtful look appeared on his features, as he glanced back at the closed door, “She’s gotten so old in the past two months she was missing...”

“If she is Jade,” Jackie said “then time in the world she was in must have been moving faster there, than it was here.”

“Well she’s been very cooperative to say the least, Jackie,” Captain Black said as he looked at his longtime friend, “She knows things that only Jade could know about.”

“Did you do a spell to see if she’s under a spell or something, Uncle?” Jackie asked as he turned his gaze onto the elderly man, “She has been with Hsi Wu all this time and... OW!!”

“You think Uncle hasn’t already done it?!” Uncle exclaimed, lowering his hand after hitting Jackie upside his head, “Uncle spent hours with Jade using spell after spell to see if she was possessed by dark forces, and came up with nothing!”

“We took some blood samples and fingerprint from her, sp the doctors are still running some tests to see if her DNA matches up,” Black explained, “with the ones we already have on file, so we should have the results back in a few days and know if she really is Jade or not..”

“Well she has made a request.” Jackie said, causing the other three men to turn their attention back towards him, as Jackie turned his full attention on Captain Black, “Jade wants to be let out of her room, and her stuff returned.”

“I don’t know Jackie,” Captain Black said as a worried look appeared on his features, as he looked from Jackie to the closed door, “We don’t know for sure if we can trust her, yet you want us to let her out to run around free?”

“If she was a danger to everyone here, she would have done something by now. We can’t keep her cooped up in that one room forever.” Torhu said, causing the others to their attention on him now, “Think about it this way. If she really is Jade, she’ll be thinking up ways to get out anyway.”

“And who knows what kind of mischief she’ll be in,” Uncle added in, “before we even realize she’s gone?”

Captain Black visibly paled at the images that immediately sprang to mind at the reminder of what kind of trouble Jade could be capable of when she was left alone.

“Fine!” Captain Black said, throwing up his hands in defeat as he realized that they were right, before turning a stern gaze on Jackie, “But she’ll be on constant surveillance while in the base until we find out if she’s really who she says she is.”

“Hey, Captain Black, I have something to ask you that I’ve been waiting nine years to do.” Jade said as she turned her attention on the secret agent, and gave him her most winning smile ever, “And now that I’m back for the time being, I think now’s the perfect time to ask.

“What is it?” Captain Black asked, a suspicious look appearing on his face as he looked at the young woman in front of him, and not liking the look she was giving him.

Grinning a bit, Jade reached out with both hands and clasped Captain Blacks hands in her own, stepped forward so that she was now looking him in the eyes.

“Since I’m not a little kid anymore,” Jade said, still smiling as she looked Captain Black in the eyes, as her own eyes became serious, “Can I please become a secret agent now??”

Captain Black, Jackie, Uncle and Torhu all stared in shock at Jade, for a few seconds before they all simultaneously shouted:

“NO!!!”

“Aw... No fair!” Jade whined as she snapped her fingers in disappointment, a dark scowl appearing on her face as she turned away to start walking down the hall to the labs, with the guys right behind her.

“I can’t help but think these balls look familiar,” one of the scientist said, as he examined one of the pokéballs, holding it out in front of him as he looked at it from every angle, “I know I’ve seen these things somewhere before...”

“Don’t be silly, Warren, we’ve never seen these things before,” his partner, Alexa said, as she wrote down notes on a clipboard as they examined the multiple balls on the table, “and they look like normal, if not odd looking, balls.”

“Alexa I’m serious,” Warren said, as he picked up one of the strange balls and looked at it, as a focused look appeared on his face as he looked the ball over from top to bottom, rolling it around in his hands as he examined it, “If I didn’t know better, I could of sworn that these were pokéballs.”

“Poké-- what’s?” Alexa asked as she looked at Warren curiously, as she continued writing, “What are those?”

“Pokéballs. But that’s impossible. These balls must be toy replicas or something,” Warren said, as a small blush crept up to his cheeks, as he saw the curious look he was now getting from Alexa, “One time, I watched this cartoon show with my kid when he was sick. It was called Pokémon or something similar to that.”

“Sounds like you’ve watched this ‘Pokémon’ show more than once,” Alexa said, her smile widening a bit when she saw the blush deepen in his cheeks, “if you remember what these ‘pokéballs’ look like, Warren.”

“Hey I’ve heard of that show.” One of the other workers said, as he came over and examine the balls himself, “My daughter’s a fanatic about that show, and collects the stuffed dolls and playing cards, along with the video games.”

“So exactly how do these ‘pokéballs’ work?” Alexa asked, sounding a bit skeptical as she watched the two men examine the balls.

“Well if this was the real thing, you use them to capture these creatures called Pokémon,” Warren said as he did a demonstration and tossed the ball into the air, “and the only way to get the Pokémon back out of the ball, was to toss the ball into the air like so, and say come on out...”

Suddenly, to everyone’s surprise, as soon as it was airborne the ball suddenly popped open with a loud dinging sound, as a red beam of light shot out of the ball and hit the floor.

As everyone watched, the beam slowly formed into a huge hulking gray skinned figure with four muscle bound arms, wearing black shorts and a gold belt around it’s waist.

“Ma?” the creature said as it looked around in confusion as if in search of something, before it’s eyes settled on the group of humans in lab coats standing in front of it, and narrowed it’s eyes menacingly on the group, “MACHAMP!!”

“Oh crap.” Alexa said as she started backing away, as the creature started looking around for any sign of something she could use to fend off the creature before her, as everyone in the room scattered in different directions. “Somebody call security down here!!”

As one of the workers ran by the table holding the pokéballs, he accidentally jostled the table, causing one of the balls to start rolling along the table and fell to the floor with a clang.

POP, DING!

Everyone still inside the lab, immediately turned their gazes back towards the lab floor when they heard that now familiar sound of a pokéball opening, as a red beam of light shot off the floor and shooting a few feet away, and forming into a creature resembling a human sized chicken with white and red feathers.

“Blaizeken!”

“Oh come on!” Jade whined as she walked down the hallways with the others, walking backwards so that she could face them as the argued, “I’m not a kid anymore so why can’t I start training to become an secret agent, Captain Black?”

“Jade, even if you are of legal age to join up, Jade, you can’t just join up out of the blue.” Captain Black said, “You still need to go through years of basic training to become a secret agent, and then actually be assigned to Section 13, before you can become an operative here.”

“You guys are no fun, you know that, Captain Black?” Jade commented as she walked in front of the men, as they made their way to the labs, an angry pout on her face as she walked towards the labs to retrieve her things, “I’m now old enough to join Section 13, and your going to let something like ‘inexperience’ stop you from hiring me?”

“Jackie, unless the law has suddenly changed in the two months while I was gone,” Jade said as she glanced over her shoulder at Jackie with a frown on her face, “I’m now past the age where I need your permission for anything.”

“Jade as long as I’m your legal guardian, I have to watch out for your safety, no matter what your age is,” Jackie explained, as he watched an angered look start to appear on Jade’s face as she gazed at him, “What would your parents say if something else happened to you? We’re already going to have a hard enough time explaining your current condition to them.”

“Why not tell them the truth? The way I see it,” Jade countered, shrugging her shoulders a bit as she glanced over her shoulder as Jackie, with a slight smirk visible on her face, “they were going to have to find out anyway.”

“Oh yeah, she definitely sounds like Jade,” Black said to the guys, as they followed after Jade, shooting the others an amused look as they listened to Jade rant for the last ten minutes, “Who else but her.”

“I’m starting to see it too,” Jackie said as he kept his eyes on Jade, watching her worriedly as she continued walking ahead of them, “I don’t know how I’m going to explain this latest development to her parents.”

“Hopefully, if we can find a way to the world young Jade was sent to,” Uncle said, “maybe we can bring her back before too much time has gone by there...”

“Hey. I can hear you back there!” Jade called back glancing over her shoulder at the bickering men, “And you guys can forget about it.”

“I’m 18, going on 19, Jackie!! I’m not a nine year old kid anymore.” Jade exclaimed as she spun on her heel to glare at her uncle, “I wonder why I even bothered coming back if your still going to treat me like a little kid!”

Before Jackie has the chance to respond, the alarms suddenly went off, as red lights started flashing all over the building, and a computerized voice came onto the loudspeaker.

“INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! THIS IS A CODE 356. I REPEAT! THIS IS A CODE 356. ALL SECURITY PERSONNEL ARE TO REPORT TO LAB 10! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!”

“Captain Black, what’s going on?” Jackie asked, worry filling his voice as he stepped up to Captain Black, who was now busy talking into a cell phone he pulled out, while the alarm continued to repeat itself over and over again, “What’s a Code 356?”

“A Code 356 is a ‘Hostile Inhuman Creatures in the Base’ alert.” Captain Black said, covering the mouthpiece of his cell phone, before turning back to the call he was making, “This is Captain Black speaking. What’s going on down there?! Are we under attack?!”

The group waited impatiently as Captain Black listened to whatever was being said on the other end, and watched as Black’s eyes widened in disbelief at whatever was being said.

“There’s a what down in the lab?!” Captain Black was yelling into the cell phone, as the sounds of yelling voices could be heard through the phone, could be heard through the phone, “I must have heard you wrong. Can you repeat that?”

“What? What’s going on?” Jackie demanded.

“They’re saying that some scientists are being attacked by what appears to be a giant chicken shooting flames around the lab,” Black said, as he finally clicked off his cell phone and turned back to the others while dialing another number, “and a huge gray, muscle bound, four armed monster in lab 10..”

Everyone was so busy waiting to find out what was going on, that nobody noticed Jade stiffen up at the mention of what the code meant, along with the description of the ‘intruders’, and quietly snuck away from the rest of the group while everyone was distracted.

“Aiyah! This sounds like the work of demons! Good thing Uncle bring along his trusty blowfish,” Uncle exclaimed as he held up his blowfish already for battle, “Let’s go!”

“Jade, you stay here and stay out of danger...” Jackie said, as he turned towards Jade, only to find her missing, “Where did she go?!”

The group looked around for Jade, but didn’t see her anywhere in sight, as realization slowly seeped in.

“She wouldn’t dare...” Jackie said.

“Are you kidding? This is Jade we are talking about here, Jackie. She’s always pulling stuff like this,” Uncle said in an exasperated tone, closing his eyes as he rested a hand on his forehead, “Just because she’s older doesn’t mean she no longer jumps right into trouble.”

“Your right about that...” Jackie sighed, shaking his head ruefully, as he gave the area one final look around in hopes that Uncle was wrong, before letting out a loud sigh, “But you’d think she’d learn by now not to rush into things after what happened to her the last time.”

“I think I understand why Jade must of taken off. The agent I just spoke to said that the scientists that managed to get out of the lab,” Captain Black said as he cut the connection on his phone and put it away, and turned his full attention towards the others, “told them that the creatures their fighting came out of some of the things we confiscated from Jade when Uncle and Torhu brought her in.”

“Now let’s go before she gets herself into more trouble.” Jackie said before taking off running down the halls towards where he knew where the labs were, with Captain Black, Uncle, and Torhu right behind him, “Come on let’s go!”

‘I hope I’m not too late to stop something bad from happening,‘ Jade thought as she pushed open the main doorway leading into the labs.

As she stepped into the room, she could see a few dozen men and women dressed in protective gear and armed with guns were stationed outside the door she guessed must have been Lab 10. In the far back corner of the room, she could see people dressed in lab coats watch what was going on as they whispered amongst themselves.

“All right men. So far we have two hostiles in that room holding hostages.” The leader of the security force was explaining to the group in front of him, “Our job is to neutralize them as quickly as possible before anyone gets hurt...”

“STOP!!!!!”

The arms men stopped dead in their tracks as they turned to look in the direction of the voice to see a teenage girl sprinting towards them from down the hall.

“What the hell...”

“Who’s she?!”

“Does she have clearance to be here...”

“Drop your guns now!” Jade exclaimed as she came to a stop a few feet in front of the door leading into the lab with her arms spread eagled to block the way in, as she glared defiantly at the armed men. “Don’t you dare open fire!”

“Young lady get out of the way. You are in danger of being hurt if you stand there.” the head of security said, his eyes narrowing uncertainly on Jade as he made a sweeping motion with one hand to one of his men, “There are hostile life forms inside that room and...”

“Those hostile life forms as you call them, are with me! And there’s nothing hostile about them,” Jade exclaimed, as she glared at each of the armed men, the anger filling her as she saw all kinds of weapons in the men’s hands, “unless they think I’m in trouble, which is the only reason they attacked the people in there, until I call them off.”

“Jade! What are you doing?!” Jackie called as he and the others finally caught up with her, “It’s dangerous to be here. Get away from there and let them do their jobs.”

“Uncle Jackie, I’m not letting them anywhere near this door unless they drop their weapons,” Jade countered, not taking her eyes off of the group in front of her for a second “Captain Black call them off!”

“Stand down for now everyone,” Captain Black said, waving the armed men off, as he turned his full attention on the young woman before him, who hadn’t moved from the door, “Jade there are possible demons in there. We need to deal with this problem before anyone gets hurt...”

“Their not demons. They’re my... their my pets, that I brought home with me,” Jade said, finally breaking off eye contact with the security force to glance over at Jackie and the others, “Their harmless, though a bit overprotective of me. The only reason their causing trouble now is because I wasn’t there when they came out.”

“What kind of pets have four arms and breath fire?!” Jackie exclaimed, his eyes widening shock, as he listened to Jade’s explanation, disbelief evident on his features.

“See I was right! If she claims unholy creatures as her pets.” Uncle exclaimed as he stepped forward, holding his blowfish in front of him as he approached Jade, “then that means that Jade is possessed by the forces of darkness. Uncle must prepare a Chi spell to...”

“Hey, their not unholy! Plus only one of them breathes fire,” Jade said, shrugging her shoulders, in a dismissive gesture as she glanced over her shoulder at the closed door, “it’s the second one’s the one with four arms.”

“Oh, like that sounds so much better,” Jackie said sarcastically, as he eyed the closed door worriedly, afraid of what might be waiting on the other side, “We’re going to have a talk about these ‘pets’ of yours later, Jade.”

Just then a loud crash could be heard coming from inside the room, followed by loud cries of alarm from the people still inside. The security force immediately raised up their weapons, and would have ran the door if Jade hadn’t taken up her stance in front of it again.

“It’s okay! They’re not hurting anyone. Their just scaring them a bit.” Jade pleaded, as she looked over at Captain Black and the others, giving the four men a ‘just-trust-me-you-guys’ kind of look, “You guys, I know them. They won’t hurt humans unless they have to, and only when protecting themselves or me. It’s one of the main rules that I taught them.”

“Look Jade if your sure you can handle these... creatures,” Torhu cut in, as concern filled his voice as he heard the barely concealed urgency in Jade’s voice as she spoke, “then why don’t you just show us?”

“I’ll handle these guys. All you guys have to do is cover your ears for a minute,” Jade said as she turned around, and brought both of her hands up to her lips and let out a loud, shrill whistle that echoed throughout area, and the noise inside the lab came to a stop.

“Feh. What good is whistling supposed to do?” Uncle demanded, removing his hands from his ears.

“Easy, Uncle. It’s my signal to let them know that I’m here and for them to stop what their doing.” Jade said simply, as she turned back to the door and started yelling, “BRUISER! MANIC! You let those people go and come out of there this second!” Frowning a bit, Jade started tapping her foot impatiently as she glared at the closed door, “And I better not see a single bruise or burns on anybody! Or else you both are spending a timeout in your balls for a week!”

After a few seconds of silence, a loud shuffling could suddenly be heard from inside the lab seconds before the door was flung open and 15 people ran out of the room, followed shortly by a now contrite looking Machamp and Blaizeken peeking out from both sides of the door, who looked at Jade with worried eyes.

“Machamp?”

“Blaize?”

“Come on you guys, I’m not mad, but you couldn’t wait a bit longer for me to come get you?!” Jade said, in a cajoling voice, as she gestured for the two Pokémon to come out, “Now both of you come on out and show these nice people with guns that you’re not a couple of evil monsters.”

The security force immediately raised their weapons at the sight of the strange creatures, only to be stopped by Captain Black once more.

“Let Jade handle this, for now.” Captain Black said.

Jade nodded her thanks to Captain Black before making her way to the door.

“Blaize?” Blaizeken said as he took a step out of the doorway and looked at Jade curiously, his gaze moving from Jade to the armed men cautiously, then to the four strangers who had followed after Jade and were standing too close to his mistress.

“Manic, quit giving the Death Glare look at my family,” Jade scolded as she as she walked towards Blaizeken and Machamp, and took hold of their paws, and led them over, “You’re not making things easier for the two of you with that look on your face.”

“Blaize...” Manic said, looking properly reprimand as he dropped the glare.

“Jade, are you even sure these two are safe,” Jackie asked, as he saw the menacing look that appeared on Blaizeken’s as it stared at the four men, “They look dangerous for you to be around.”

“Jackie, I’ve had these two since they were babies, I raised them myself, so they know that what I say goes,” Jade said, as she shot the two Pokémon a look, before turning to face the others, “I’d like you to meet my best Pokémon bodyguards in my arsenal, Manic the Blaizeken, and Bruiser the Machamp.”

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Author’s Notes:
Sorry everyone for taking so long in updating this story. But I’ve been busy thinking up other stories to write. I’m writing yet another fanfic, this one’s going to be a ‘Charmed/Angel crossover’ involving baby Chris. My first non-cartoon/anime based fanfic.

Another thing you guys. QUIT asking me to update this story in the reviews of my other stories!! If ‘update Forbidden Love’ is ALL your going to be saying in the review meant for one of my other stories, then I may cancel ‘Forbidden Love’ all together.

If you put a review for my other stories, I expect to read what you guys think of the story in question, not read a review that’s ONLY demanding that I update one of my other stories. If you want to ask for an update for another story, ask it while also commenting about the story your actually reviewing on.