[X] My Assistant

[Douken Sota]

All bunnying has already been pre-approved with the characters in advance.

Flying with the Aerodactyl made a major difference when it came to travel time compared to flying above the Arcanine. Unless there was a pile of Snorlax rising higher than Mount Carello or the original size of the meteor that could of killed them, there was very little that could slow them down, let alone stop them. However, sometimes you do get some funny reactions. Like Sabre passing by another flock of Skarmory and his jaw dropping as one in the other flock cawed like crazy, as if laughing.

"Don't tell me that was the Skarmory you were trying to replace back at the farm." Bullseye as Sabre cried like crazy, throwing Douken off his back before catching his shoulders in the bird's talons. "Okay, okay, I get it. Nice set up for the Sky Drop though. You seemed to of been doing some practice."

Raising up, the bird let go of Douken before looping quickly and catching the human on his back again. That damn Xatu, Sabre thought. I'm really going to get that bitch...

With the sun quickly falling, Douken called to Pan, "Looks like night's coming. Might be a good chance to land and make camp while we can still see land this easily." The bird's have been flying nonstop anyways, so they must be exhausted as well. However, camp seemed to of found them as a rotating spotlight caught the trainers, which made Douken see what was going on.

Out on the mountainside was a light purple, four story building, stretched as long as 26 rooms (as seen by the windows) The top of the building seemed to of had a greenhouse touch to it, as all he could really see was green through the glass roof. Each end of the roof, however, had four rotating spotlights on each side and the center was set up with a helipad.

"Wonder what that is..." Douken muttered. "Hey Pan, wanna check it out?"

[Yzarc Drowsnam]

Pan seemed so nonchalant about Douken's apparent situation, and even mentioned that she was mad at him. Douken wasn't a small guy by any means, so he had to wonder what the hell Pan did to knock him out.

"Things," Justin nodded. "Things are good. I guess. You know, I'm-" He paused and just looked at her oddly. "No, I'm not that fine. I'm fucking scared, Pan." He grabbed her hands as he spoke to her. "I'm scared that you wanted to talk to me in person to tell me something bad. I'm scared 'cause the last time we-" he paused as a strange yet familiar feeling fell over him.

"Oh thank God," he stepped back, releasing her hand. "It's just a dream." A goofy smile overcame his face as he fell face forward, directly into where Pan was standing. Of course, his thoughts were very immediate. It wasn't too long before that he, Nate, Tag and other Team Deception operatives were locked in a series of nightmares orchestrated by Darkrai. At the end of each nightmare, the world crumbled and every surviving person fell asleep.

Justin hoped against all hope, for just that moment, that this was one of those nightmares. Pan wasn't about to tell Justin that she was pregnant. That clenching feeling in his gut, it was all just one big Gotcha by Darkrai. He was saved.

Then, he opened his eyes. He was standing at the shore of a small pond. He looked over his shoulder to see the familiar and terrible city of Lenoilia. Then, he remembered that this being another nightmare was not a good thing. It was a bad thing. How could he possibly think being stuck in Darkrai's realm of terror a better fate than being a father?

"Justin?" He heard an entirely unfamiliar male voice from in front of him. He looked down at the water to see an Octillery crawl slowly out of the water. "I never dream about you."

"You-" Justin began. "Wow, this is weird. I sure did give you a weird voice. My subconscious or whatever."

"What are you talking about?" Octillery asked, somehow enunciating his words perfectly. "You didn't give me shit."

"Uh huh," Justin nodded, still thinking it was his dream he was in.

"Wait, are you-" Octillery began. "You're actually Justin, aren't you? You're in my dream."

"What?"

"You're in my dream. There are some psychic pokemon who can bring you here and allow us to communicate."

"Shit," Justin cursed. "Darkrai!"

"No," Octillery said. "It's not Darkrai. Darkrai made us a promise, remember? We got out of that."

"And what if that was all just part of the nightmare? Faking us into thinking we were safe, just to-"

"Damn, Justin, you're dumb. Think about all the stuff we did since Darkrai. You asked us if we wanted to leave, and we all stayed. You and Nate decided to turn on Team Deception. The zoobreak?"

"That stuff-" Justin began. "It actually happened."

"Yeah," Octillery nodded. "So you're back here for another reason. Also, I don't think Darkrai would put you in all of your pokemons' dreams. That would take forever. Also, I don't think Ninjask even knows what a nightmare is."

"Hah," Justin forced a laugh, now realizing that Pan's urgency was still there. He sat down next to Octillery and wrapped his arms around his knees. "This is where I caught you,"

"Mhm,"

"You dream about home very often?"

"Yeah," Octillery nodded. "I do miss it."

"You coulda gone back. I'da brought you back."

"I know," he sighed. "I don't really have anything here, though."

"You were being protective of a Remoraid when I caught you."

"Just a kid I knew," Octillery seemed to shrug. "She reminded me of my daughter."

Justin sank a little. "You have a daughter."

"Sort of," Octillery said. "She was captured when she was really young by a trainer. Some Lenoilian kid, probably grew up to be a gangster."

"Fuck," Justin sighed. "I'm sorry, man."

"Not your fault. Obviously, I didn't like the idea of being captured myself. But it didn't take me long to realize you're a good guy." Justin disagreed and sighed. "No, you are. I know about Team Deception and all that, but I know there's a difference between who you are and what you do."

"I'm no better than the trainer who captured your daughter," Justin said. "I didn't even consider that you had a family when I caught you. What if she was still there, and I took you away from her?"

"Then I would have definitely requested you bring me back here," Octillery said. "But that's not the case, so don't dwell on it. You know, I don't dream about this location for no reason. I dream about the past, when she and I would swim together. You wanna come swim with us?"

Justin smiled. "Yeah."