"Speaking,"

"Thoughts,"

"Telepathy"

Somewhere off of route 101

We see Ash and Aurora are are rushing through the woods to make sure they're new friends are okay.

"How far did they head into the woods anyway?" Ash said, starting to feel a bit tired.

"I don't know, but I sense Quartz nearby. She's right up ahead from what I can tell, but..." Aurora said before Ash started to rush forward. "Ash, wait! I was about to tell you it might be dangerous!"

As Ash ran got closer and closer, he started to notice he heard other people. Soon after that, a clearing came into view, and Ash noticed Alfred and Quartz on the ground, and four people in uniforms kicking them. Before Ash could help Alfred and Quartz though, the four others ran off, so Ash decided to go over and check on his friends. Before Ash could check on them though, he was suddenly pinned down by someone in a cloak.

"Ow! Get off of..!" Ash said before he felt like he couldn't breathe.

He tried to get the cloaked figure off of his back, but couldn't move at all.

Ash then noticed some bright light and then a dragon pulse landed a few feet from his face, catching the attention of the cloaked figure. Ash then barely was able to move his head and noticed Aurora, figuring it was her who used dragon pulse.

"Get away from my boyfriend!" Aurora said angrily, surprising the figure. The cloaked figure then jumped off of Ash and ran away.

"Ash, are you okay?" Aurora asked.

"Other than the fact I felt like I was being crushed from all sides until you helped me, yes I'm fine," Ash said, feeling a bit winded. "More importantly, we need to get Alfred and Quartz to a pokémon center to make sure they are okay."

"Right," Aurora said, starting to carry Quartz, while Ash carried Alfred.

As they started to head off to the closest Pokémon center, Ash couldn't help but feel as if they were being watched.

When they reached the Oldale Town pokémon center, Ash and Aurora entered to get help.

"Nurse Joy!" Ash said, getting the nurse's attention.

"Oh my, what happened!?" Nurse Joy said in shock.

"There were four people beating up are friends here for no apparent reason," Ash said.

After hearing this, Nurse Joy and her chancey sprang into action and rushed them both to the emergency room, while Ash and Aurora stayed in the waiting room. Seconds turned into minutes, and minutes felt like they became hours. Eventually, Nurse Joy came out of the emergency room.

"Are they going to be okay?" Ash asked.

"Yes. There wasn't any major injuries, we only had to treat some cuts and bruises, so they just need some rest," Nurse Joy said, followed by Ash breathing a sigh of relief. "Now that I think of it, I never got your name."

"What do you mean? I've been here before for the pokémon league," Ash said feeling confused.

"I only started working here recently, so you must be thinking of the last Nurse Joy to work here," Nurse Joy said.

"Oh... Well I'm ash Ketchum, and this is my partner Pikachu," Ash said.

"Pika!" Pikachu said, waving hello.

"And I'm Aurora," Aurora said.

"Well it's nice too meet you three," Nurse Joy said, getting a confused look from Ash. "Why are you looking at me like that? Is it that I wasn't surprised that Aurora could use telepathy?"

Ash nodded his head yes.

"Well, we've been getting quite a bit of telepathic pokémon in recently, so I've gotten used to it," Nurse Joy said.

"While I'm thinking of it, I want to reregister for the pokémon league, seeing as I forgot my gym badges," Ash said.

"Okay. Let me see your pokédex," Nurse joy said before Ash handed it to her. She then walked over to the counter and put the pokédex in a machine., and after a few seconds, it popped back out.

"Alright, Ash Ketchum, your all set," Nurse Joy said, giving the pokédex back to Ash. "If you want to see your friends, they're in room 29."

"Thanks," Ash said before heading down the right hall, cutting Nurse Joy off.

"Aurora. Can you let your trainer know they went down the wrong hall and go down the left one? I was going to tell him to go to room 29B," Nurse joy asked.

"Alright, I'll let him know. Thanks for helping us!" Aurora said.

"I'm just doing my job," Nurse Joy said.

It didn't take long for Aurora to find Ash, as he was halfway down the hall, ready to open a door, so Aurora went over to him.

"Ash, I think you have the wrong door," Aurora said.

"This is room 29 though," Ash said, wondering what Aurora was talking about.

"Yeah, but it's room 29A, while Alfred and Quartz are in room 29B, which is in the other hall, like nurse joy was about to say before you cut her off," Aurora said.

"Oh... Well let's head over there then," Ash said, feeling like he was relieved for some unknown reason.

While Ash and Aurora headed into room 29B this time, back in room 29A, a walkie talkie could be heard turning on.

"Hey, it's me. Someone said Alfred was here. Should I follow them?" An old man said into a walkie talkie.

"No. We can get him next time. Stay where you are," Someone on the other end said.

In room 29B, we see Ash and Aurora chatting with each other as they wait for Alfred and Quartz to wake up.

"So there were four people in uniform?" Aurora asked Ash.

"Yeah, and from what I could tell, there were no emblems on the uniforms either, unlike people like Team Rocket," Ash said.

"What about that person who attacked you?" Aurora asked.

"I don't know, though I've got a feeling that they were not with the other four," Ash said, scratching his head in confusion. Ash's stomach then let out a barely audible groan. "Man, I'm starving."

"I really could go for some jelly donuts right now, " Ash said.

"What?" Aurora said, not knowing what Ash was talking about.

"You know, those triangles made of rice with the salty filling?" Ash said, confusing Aurora even further.

"Ash, that sounds like a type of rice ball to me..." Aurora said, making a mental face palm.

"Oh. I thought they were donuts because Brock always called them that," Ash said, now feeling like Brock might have a few screws loose.

Suddenly, Ash and Aurora heard rustling coming from the other side of the room, so they looked over to the beds and noticed Quartz had woke up.

"Ow! My whole body still hurts..." Quartz said, feeling weak. Quartz then got up and tried floating to the door, only fall to the floor.

Ash and Aurora then went over to Quartz and helped her up.

"Those guys will pay for this!" Quartz said angrily.

"Calm down Quartz, you still need more rest," said Aurora, trying to calm Quartz down.

"Yeah, you're right..." Quartz said reluctantly with a sigh.

Somewhere in Kanto, near the undisclosed location of the International Police Headquarters, We see a gold van speeding away, being chased by multiple police cruisers. Soon enough, the van is sotounded with no way to escape.

"Come out with your hands up!" An officer said into a megaphone.

The van then started to rev it's engine, and took off towards one of the cruisers, only to appear as if it jumped over it. A man then appeared on top of the roof of the van, holding a large rocket launcher, and shot something out of it.

"Voltorb, use explosion!" the man said as the voltorb went flying.

The voltorb then used said move, destroying all but one cruiser. That cruiser than took off and went back to chasing the gold van.

In the cruiser, we see Looker in the passenger seat, speaking to the driver.

"Get me closer to that van!" Looker said, the driver following his command.

Once the cruiser was close enough, Looker got out of the sun roof and shot the lock on the van's back doors. The doors then swung open, revealing a human and a darkrai tied up inside.

"What in the world?!" Looker said, only to be interrupted by the sound of something falling behind him. He turned around and saw a man standing behind him on the cruiser as well.

"Wait, you're..!" Looker said before getting kicked off of the cruiser. The man placed an odd bomb on the cruiser, then appeared back in the van and detonated the bomb, laughing maniacally as they got away.

Looker then reached for his walkie talkie, only to pass out before being able to call for back up.