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I awoke about an hour or two later, sitting up as I looked around in the dark.

"Um..." I said as I squinted, frowning as I sniffed the air. "Oh yeah, I'm at the colony..." I said as I shot off a few sparks, squealing and jumping backwards as Electra tried to tackle me.

"Aah! What the hell!" I said as I looked at her, frowning. "You scared me half to death!"

"I didn't think you'd jump THAT far..." She frowned. "You're funny when you wake up."

Not knowing what to say, I just smiled. "And you're funny almost all the time." I said, smiling.

"Am not." She laughed.

"Are too." I said as I poked her nose.

"AAH!" She said as she jumped to her feet and pawed at her nose. "No fair! You cheated!"

"Did not." I said as I walked out into the tunnel.

"Did too! You MADE me do something funny!" She said as she poked my tail. "Because I'm a meaaaaan 'Chu sometimes!" She laughed.

"I can be mean too." I said as we entered the main room. "I don't like being mean though."

"I do." She laughed as she stood up. "It's fun."

"How is it fun?" I Said, frowning as someone tapped on my shoulder. "Huh..." I mumbled as I turned around and faced the other Pikachu.

"Um... Hey... Dallas... I was wondering... Are you staying here for while?" he asked as he nervously fidgeted with his paws.

"Well... If the colony needs me, then I don't see any reason I couldn't stay for a while..." I said, smiling.

"Well, Mewthree is a reason you can't stay." Electra said, frowning.

"Yeah, but... Mewthree isn't a threat yet... I mean, it is a threat, but not a direct one..." I said, sighing. "It's not attacking us so we don't have to worry."

"True..." Electra frowned.

"What's that?" The other Pikachu asked as he tilted his head to the right.

"Oh, nothing..." I said as I made my way to the food storage room. "Nothing you've got to worry about..."

"Well okay Dallas." He said as he walked off. "See you around!"

"Mewthree isn't going to find us here..." Electra said as she sighed. "We'll have to find IT somewhere... There's no way it's going to look around your old nest for you..."

"Well maybe that's what it WANTS us to think." I said as I looked at her. "It wants us to think that we'll be safe at our old nest, and then BAM, that's the first place it checks." I said as I entered the food storage room. "From what I heard, that thing is smart, so... It's not going to be easy." I said as I squinted in the bright lights, frowning as my eyes adjusted to the light in the food room. "Why... Is there light in here..." I said as I looked around, making a face as I tried to find the light source.

"Look! Glowing sticks!" One of the Pikachu said as he walked up to me with one, shaking it in my face and giggling. "Now we don't have to make sparks!"

"Where did you get that?" I asked as I took it from him, examining it. "These are so cool..."

"I found them in the food! I bit one and it cracked inside and BAM there was light!" He laughed. "So I cracked it more with my paws and more light came out, and then I jumped up and down because I was happy, and shook it all up, and BAM, it got really bright!" He laughed as he turned around.

"That's cool, let me see!" Electra giggled as she took it from me.

"See, over here." He said as he walked over to one of the piles of things. "Well we put all the food in one pile and all the water and the milk and stuff that you drink in another pile." He said as he pointed to the pile of drinks. "And then we took out all the weird stuff, the human things that we couldn't identify," He said as he pointed to the pile of stuff in front of him. "And there are TONS of these lights in here! I don't know why everyone kept bringing them back if no one knew what they were..." He said as he looked down. "But they're awesome!"

"Yeah, I don't know why you guys bring back unidentified things either..." I said, frowning. "Rice brought back tons of green paper a while ago, and continued to bring it even though he didn't know what it was..." I Said as I looked down at the pile. "I don't get why either..."

"Well I guess these unidentified things are actually really useful things, but no one knows if they are or not so they bring them back anyway." Another Pikachu said as he entered. "And then you see, like now, when you mess around with them, you figure out how they work, and in this case, with the glowey sticks, the unidentified stuff becomes very useful. So we bring strange things here because they could be useful." He said, smiling.

"Well that makes sense..." I said as the room suddenly went dark. "Electra spit that out..." I said as I turned and faced her, making a face. "It's not food, we need it."

The room suddenly lit up as she spit it out, making a face as she pawed at her tongue.

"Eeeeewwwww it's so nastyyyyy!!!" She whined as she shook herself, as if she were wet. "Ew ew ew ew ewwww!"

Picking up the wet glowstick, I frowned. "Well it's not food, it's not going to taste good..." I said, sighing.

"Well, humans aren't food but THEY taste good!" Electra pouted.

"Well that's different..." I said, laughing. "Humans ARE food. They're meat."

"Human meat... That's new..." One of the Pikachu laughed.

"New to me too." the other one said as he picked up a can of peanut butter and twisted the top off.

"Well I heard of other Pokemon eating humans before... I always wanted to try it, to see what it's like." the other Pikachu said as he looked down.

"I wanted to try it too, and I did." Electra said, smiling. "They taste really good actually..."

"But humans get mad when you bite them, don't they?" he asked as he tilted his head to the right.

"I didn't bite, I swallowed." Electra giggled.

"What..." He asked, frowning. "I don't get it..."

"I ate one whole." She giggled. "And alive."

"How? They're like, sooo much bigger!" He said as he raised his paws into the air. "It's not possible!"

"Ohhh, yes it is." I laughed as I poked Electra's belly. "You could only IMAGINE the things she's capable of eating..." I chuckled. "And the things she HAS eaten..."

"Like what?" He asked as he folded his arms, grinning.

"Try me." Electra grinned as she too folded her arms, her tail swaying slowly behind her as she stared at him.

"Um..." The other Pikachu said as he walked over to Electra with an apple covered in peanut butter. "Prepare for a really dry mouth..." He laughed as he held it out to her.

"I don't want that right now." She said, frowning. "I like my mouth wet."

"Well they drink something after." The Pikachu in front of her said as he unfolded his arms.

"No." Electra said, sighing. "I'm not eating that stuff right now."

"Fine, then I'll eat it." The Pikachu with the apple said as he walked over to the other side of the room and sat down against the wall, nibbling on the apple as he peeked at up from the corner of his eye.

"Um... How about this then?" The other Pikachu said as he turned around with an orange in his paws.

"Fine." Electra said as she snatched it from him, giggling as she stuffed it into her mouth and gulped it down whole, her tail wagging a little as she folded her arms again. "Happy?"

"Err... That was easy..." He said as he turned back around, frowning. "I bet you can't eat THIS whole." He said as he turned back around with a jumbo bottle of peanut butter in his paws.

"I told you I'm not eating that..." Electra sighed.

"But it's in the bottle!" He said as he frowned, holding it up in the air. "You won't taste it."

"Do you see the size of that thing? It's bigger than your head." The other Pikachu said as he stood up, licking some of the peanut butter off of his apple as he smirked.

"Exactly, there's no way she ca-" He started, but stopped as Electra snatched the container of peanut butter out of his paws, whining as her stomach growled.

"You just ate an Eevee... How are you hungry..." I asked, frowning.

"Dallas you fell asleep, remember? That was a while ago! And besides, you know I can eat a lot more." She said as she stared at the Pikachu in front of her. "You really don't think I can do it, do you?" She asked as she licked the side of the container.

"I KNOW you can't. Look at how big it is!" He said as he raised his paws into the air. "It's biiiig!"

Electra stuck her tongue out at him, then laughed as she stuffed the container into her mouth, closing her eyes tightly as she gulped hard. The Pikachu stared in awe as the bulge of the container traveled down her throat and disappeared just below her neck area. The Pikachu at the corner of the room dropped his apple and just stood there, staring at her with peanut butter all over his paws and mouth.

"What?" Electra asked as she tilted her head, frowning. "Why are you staring at me like that?"

"You wasted it all..." He said as he looked down. "All of it... Gone..."

"Well I didn't know she could really do it!" The other Pikachu said as he grabbed his ears. "That's INSANE! Wow!! Forget the fact that it's gone and focus on the fact that she SWALLOWED the thing! I really don't care that it's gone, what I'm worried about right now is HOW she did that! That was amazing!" He said as he jumped up and down. "Wow! And besides, we have more in the pile. And that container was almost empty. And it's not like it was wasted, because it WAS eaten, but... Wow...." He said as he leaned forward and sniffed Electra's nose. "H-how did you do it? I didn't think you were serious!" He said excitedly.

"She used psychic to crush it and then gulped down the small little crushed bottle." The other Pikachu said as he picked up his apple.

"No she didn't, we both SAW it go down! There was that lump in her throat from it, it wasn't crushed." he said as he reached out and touched her belly, then rubbed over it.

"Well I did it like you would normally eat... Just swallowed, it's not hard..." Electra said, frowning.

"Not hard? There's no WAY I could even fit that in my MOUTH!" He said as he leaped forward, hugging her. "You're awesome!"

"Um... Thanks..." She said as she hugged him back, sticking her tongue out at the Pikachu with the apple.

"Well I came here to eat... So..." I said as I walked over to the pile of fruits and began searching for something good.

"And so did your mate right? Hey, what's the most you can eat?" He asked as he let go of her, wagging his tail.

"Well I don't know... I never found that out because I can never seem to get full... But the most I've eaten was a bag of Pokechow, um, another bag of Pokechow, a Vulpix, a Charmeleon, a Meowth, and a human." She said as she smiled, wagging her tail. "And I was still hungry."

"Um... That's insane... Where does it all go?" He asked as he tilted his head.

"Right here." Electra giggled as she patted her belly. "Dallas asks me the same thing when I eat."

"You're weird..." The Pikachu with the apple said as he nibbled on the core of the apple.

"Am not." Electra said as she made another face at him.

"Are too." He said as he stuck his tongue out.

"Whatever." She said as she turned to me, smiling. "Are you done yet? Dallas?"

I sighed as I finished the last bite of my banana and handed the peel to the Pikachu that was just standing there, smiling as I nodded. "Yep."

"Well we'll be going now..." Electra said as she grabbed one of the glowsticks. "And I want a glowy stick."

"Me too." I said as I grabbed one of the short ones, doing what the other Pikachu said and cracking it, then shaking it.

"Wow this is good light..." I said as I stuck it in my mouth sideways to hold it while I walked down the tunnel into the main room.

"I'm going to save mine." Electra said as she followed me, smiling.

"Yeah, we can use it in our room." I mumbled as I walked over to the tunnel that lead to the rooms. "We can crack it now and leave it there so that the room is always lit up."

"Yeah!" Electra giggled as she cracked it, then shook it up, giggling as she tossed it into our room.

"AAAH WHAT THE HELL!" Came a booming voice from inside the room. Frowning, I walked into the tunnel, laughing as Thunderpaw stood huddled against the wall, his cheeks sparking as he started at the glowstick.

"Dallas what the FUCK is that!?!" He yelled as he inched away from it, growling.

Spitting out the glowstick I was carrying, I replied. "It's a glowy stick... It makes light... So we don't have to make sparks." I said as I picked mine up and walked toward him. "What did you think it was?"

"I don't know! A human weapon or something! I thought I was being attacked by a bright light thing that would cook me alive or something!" He said as he snatched the glowstick out of my paw, growling as he examined it. "Bright..." He said as he placed it back in my paw. "Jeez, warn me before you throw glowing sticks of light into my r- DALLAS!" He yelled as he snatched me up, hugging me tightly as he spun around. "Ohhhh I'm so glad to see you!!! Where have you been?" He asked as he put me down.

"Well we moved to a new nest so it's harder to get here." I said as I smiled. "But I'm here now, and I might stay for a while..."

"Yes, that would help out a LOT!" He said as he looked at Electra and smiled. "Hello Electra."

"Hello Thunder." She said, smiling.

"So... I guess I'll give you back the title of colony leader until you decide to go off again." Thunderpaw said as he shook my paw, smiling. "Welcome back mister Dallas."

"Well you don't have to treat me any differently..." I said as I shook his paw, smiling. "And what are you doing with my paw?"

"Oh, sorry." He said as he let go. "Um, never mind." He chuckled.

"THUNDER!" Someone yelled from outside, tripping and falling as they entered the room, panting.

"Bright light..." He mumbled as he stood up on all fours, his tongue hanging out as he panted. "Thunder... One of our Pikachu... Almost killed... In the main room... Need your help..." He panted as he flopped onto his belly.

Why is he so tired? It's not like the run from the main room to here is five miles... It's only a few... Steps... Um... A short distance. Whatever it's called. Unless he was running from whatever almost killed his friend... And if he was, then he must have carried him, so yeah, that could explain why he was so tired...

"WHAT?" He yelled as he dashed out of the room. "Predators?"

Frowning, I followed him, picking up my glowstick as I ran.

So what happened to migrating all of the leader stuff to me? I thought to myself as I slowed down to a walk, sighing as I entered the main room and dropped my glowstick. There, in the middle of the room, lay a Pikachu. His right side had bloody slash marks in it, and his leg was all bitten up. It wasn't too bad though, I mean, it was nowhere near enough to kill him... So then why did he say he was almost dead? It was just a couple wounds...

"How did this happen?" Thunderpaw asked as he looked down at the Pikachu, sighing.

"Not predators..." He said as he panted. "We were... At the training area... And... When we got there, we saw... Well..." He said as he flopped down into a sitting position, his tongue hanging out of his mouth.

"Saw WHAT?" Thunder demanded, his tail swaying behind him as he growled.

"Rice..." He mumbled as his ears flattened to the back of his head. "I saw Rice... And he said he knew that Dallas wasn't here to protect us... So he attacked us... And he said he was going to... Reclaim his place as leader... Because Dallas went away... I think someone is giving him outside information, because he knows Dallas is g- DALLAS!" He yelled as he tackled me down. "Ohhhhhh I'm so happy to see you!!!"

"Heyyy!" I said as I pushed him off of me and stood up. "What's this about Rice being back?"

"Yeah Dallas killed him, I remember it. In the lake." Electra said as she looked down at the Pikachu.

"He was training... He said by the time I got help he'd be gone... So..." He said as he looked down at the fainted Pikachu on the floor.

"You go Dallas... You're the leader... And besides, you're much stronger than us..." Thunderpaw said as he picked up the fainted Pikachu. "I'll take care of this guy."

"Well... Okay..." I said as I walked out of the tunnel, frowning as I followed the Pikachu that was out of breath.

"At... The training area... He thinks you went away, he's not prepared for you... We can catch him off guard..." The Pikachu said as he exited.

"Do any of you smell that?" I asked as I wrinkled my nose, frowning.

"Smell what?" Electra asked as she sniffed the air.

"Maybe it was something carried in the wind... But it smelled like... Fake flowers... Like the stuff humans make to make themselves smell like nice things..." I said as I sniffed the air again. The wind was blowing in the opposite direction now, and I couldn't smell it anymore.

"No..." Electra frowned.

"Guys come on! I need to show you Rice!" The Pikachu said as he took off walking again.

"Right..." Electra said as we continues walking. "Anyway, we don't need to catch him off guard... We can kill him without a surprise..." Electra said as she rubbed her paws together. "He tried to kill me in the past... And I never got my revenge..." She growled.

"But... I'm sure I killed him... We were underwater... I sliced him with my claws... I hit him with a full force iron tail and I heard something break..." I said, frowning.

"Well maybe you only badly hurt him, and he's been hiding out somewhere and recovering..." Electra said as she growled. "And if that's the case, then I'm ready for him..." She said, growling.

"He's been training... I caught him at the training area..." The Pikachu said between pants.

"He's not the only one that's been training..." Electra said as she growled under her breath. "And MY trainer is Dallas, you can't get any better than THAT." She said as she punched the air.

"Well that's true, but... He's a Raichu... You're only a Pikachu... And yes, I understand so is Dallas, and if he can do that stuff why can't you, blah blah blah, not every Pikachu is strong, even with tons of training, some just can't get stronger. And I'm not saying you're weak, or can't get stronger, I'm just saying you can train all you want, even with Dallas as your trainer, but I don't think you'll ever be able to take out a Raichu like Rice... Dallas is a special Pikachu, for whatever reason, he gets stronger without having to train, and when he does train, he gets MUCH stronger. He's a lot stronger than any of us in the colony are, even Rice, it's just who he is. You're just a... Well... Not normal, but... Average... I guess... Pikachu that's overdetermined. If you ask me, I don't think you can take him down." He said, shrugging.

"Well I didn't ASK you!" Electra snapped as she grabbed him and threw him to the ground. "Overdetermined? Abnormal? Now you listen to me BUD, I am NONE of those things. That asshole was an INCH away from KILLING me! If Dallas hadn't shown up, I'd be DEAD! Now I don't give a SHIT what you think about me, because whether you like it or NOT, I'm going to at least TRY to take him out. You DON'T understand what it feels like to almost DIE, you DON'T know what I went through, the anxiety, the nightmares, the TORTURE!" she yelled.

Wow, she's using words I've never even heard of!

"You don't know what he did... He tried to steal Dallas away from me... And almost killed me when I told him off..." She growled as she dropped down onto all fours, pressing her face against his. "He deserves to DIE." she growled as she got to her feet, looking at me.

"What?" I asked as I shrugged. "I agree."

As the other Pikachu got to his feet, Electra whipped around and grabbed him, spinning around and flinging him back to the ground as sparks shot off of her cheeks.

"Oh, and don't you EVER tell me what I can and can't do. NO ONE tells ME what I'm capable and incapable of! NO ONE!" She yelled as she shot a bolt of electricity into the air. I could tell she really wanted to hurt him, and it wasn't natural for her to hold back like that. Maybe she didn't want to hurt him because he was a Pikachu. Or maybe for another reason, I don't know.

"Geez, quit throwing me... You make ME feel weak..." he said as he got back to his feet. I could see him shaking, obviously afraid of what Electra was going to do next. "Well I didn't know you were that strong... And mean..." He whined as he looked down. "If I knew you meant it I wouldn't have said anything... But I still kind of think... That even with your strength..." he said as he looked down.

Don't say it... If you value your life don't say it... I screamed in my head as I held my breath.

"Well, Rice is strong too, he's been training... And he's a Raichu... I don't think you can take him out, even with your str- AH!" He yelled as Electra grabbed him and threw him to the ground, growling as she jumped ontop of him.

"SAY IT AGAIN!" She yelled as sparks flew from her cheeks. "Say it AGAIN!"

"S-s-sorry!" He choked out as he wiggled underneath her. "Y-you're c-c-crushing me!"

Electra growled as she stepped off of him, her ears flattened to the back of her head as she walked, her tail glowing a bright silver as the other Pikachu got to his feet. As soon as he stood up, he saw her tail, and ducked, just in time too, as Electra whipped around and swung it right over his head.

"HOLY SHIT!" He yelled as he dashed away on all fours. "What the hell!!!"

"You got lucky..." She growled as she ground her teeth.

"I'm outta here!" He whined as he took off running, looking back every couple of seconds to see what Electra was doing.

"Now I'm mad..." Electra growled as she turned to me, sparks flying off of her cheeks.

"You're going to attack me?" I asked as I perked up one ear, surprised.

"No... That would be stupid..." She growled as she walked past me. "For more than one reason..."

"Well you can..." I said as my own tail began to glow a bright silver behind me. "This would be a good opportunity to train a little more... While you're angry..." I said as I took a step back, taking note that her tail hadn't gone back to normal yet.

"Fine..." She said as she turned around. As soon as she turned around, I raised my tail up along my back so she couldn't see it.

"Hit me with it... I can take it..." I said as I lowered my ears.

"No... I can't..." She said, looking down. "You'll kill me... And I don't want to hurt you..."

"Nonsense, I won't kill you..." I said calmly as I tapped my right foot. "I promise..."

"No..." She growled as she looked away.

"Yes." I said, smiling.

"No..." She said back, growling.

"Yes..." I said back, my right ear twitching.

"NO..." She said louder, her footclaws digging into the dirt, a sign that I was annoying her. But it's exactly what I wanted to do, so I kept going. This was the only way I could calm her down.

"Yes." I said as I wiggled my tail. She must've seen it because she perked her ears up and gave me a surprised look.

"N-no..." She said as she turned away.

"Electra... DO it..." I growled, pretending to be angry with her. "Hit me..."

"NO!" She yelled as she grabbed her ears and began walking.

"DO IT!" I yelled as I shot a little bolt of electricity just left of the right side of her face.

"NO!" She yelled as she whipped around and swung her tail at me. "I SAID NO!"

I was ready for this however, and I hopped into the air a little as I spun around, swinging my iron tail right at hers. There was a loud clank as our tails struck each other, except mine was a lot more powerful, and as I hit hers, it sent her into a backwards spin, opposite of the way she spun when she attacked. She squealed as she spun backwards a couple times and fell over, her tail returning to normal as she was sent into a roll. I walked over to her when she stopped rolling and chuckled as I held out my paw, smiling.

"See? You feel better now, don't you?" I asked as I helped her up.

"Yes actually..." She said as she sighed, smiling. "Thanks..."

"No problem." I chuckled as I scratched my right ear. "The only thing is... You shouted "NO" while you attacked..." I laughed.

"Well I was angry!" She laughed. "You're so strong! You sent me flying with that iron tail! And I weigh like twenty times more than a normal Pikachu!" She laughed. "Imagine how far I would have went if I weighed only nineteen mounds instead of two hundred!" she giggled.

What are pounds? Does she mean the move pound? Or... Like how many times you pound your fist into something? No, she said weigh... So that means how heavy she is, right? So maybe pounds is her weight number... And she said it's two hundred... And a normal Pikachu is nineteen? That's a big difference!

"Wow... I hadn't thought of that..." I said, frowning.

"And plus, I swung at you and you spun me in the other direction... Against my spin..." Electra said, smiling. "And I have a powerful spin! Because you trained me! So you went against my spin and still sent me flying! If you did what you did to me to a normal Pikachu they'd go flying into the air!" She said as she held her paws up in the air. "And if you hit a Pokemon with it, you'd slice them in half!"

"Well... Yeah..." I said as I scratched my right ear. "I guess I would..."

"Well you know what I want to do? I want to be able to recover from strong hits like your iron tail really quickly. There's no way you're hitting me directly with that thing, unless you want to slice me in half, so we'll just have to use iron tail together and hit our tails together again. I want to be able to stop myself from spinning and be able to counter attack really fast." She said as she smiled. "With what you did, you spun me out and had plenty of time to strike again. I figure if we train a little more by doing this iron tail thing we can build up my resistance, and I'll be able to recover from the inertia of big hits." She giggled.

Inertia? What the heck is that?

"Yeah, we could definitely do that!" I said as I wagged my tail. "You've got really good ideas of getting stronger!" I chuckled.

"Well you've got good ideas that make me come up with MY good ideas!" She laughed.

"Hehe, well thanks..." I said as I hugged her. "But you have good ideas without my ideas sometimes too!"

"Hehe, I know." She said as she licked my cheek. "How about we train a little before we go out looking for Rice?"

I nodded, smiling. "Well that's fine with me!" I said as I got down onto all fours and wagged my tail.

"Okay, what do I need to work on first?" She asked as she looked at me.

"I don't know, whatever you feel you should improve." I said as I lowered my tail, resting it on the ground.

"Well how about my electric attacks? I could improve on those a little." She said, smiling.

"Well okay," I smiled as I crouched down low, digging my claws into the dirt to ground myself, not that I really needed it, because I was a Pikachu, and electricity didn't do anything to me anyway. But I took extra precautions to prevent paralysis.

"Okay, here I go." She said as she stood up tall, her cheeks sparking as she smiled at me.

Just then, a weird scent washed over my nose, and I stood up as I curiously sniffed the air. "Electra wait..." I said as I crouched down low, sniffing the ground. "Do you smell that?"

"What? What is it?" She asked as she walked over to me, frowning as she sniffed the air.

"I smell humans..." She said as she flattened her ears to the back of her head.

"Exactly." I said as I stood up tall, my ears perking up as I listened closely for any noises.

"Trainers... Coming for us..." She whispered as she too perked her ears up. From in the distance, I could hear the sound of leaves crunching under footsteps, and the sound of bushes rustling as they were walked through.

"Electra... This way..." I said as I took her paw and lead her in the opposite direction, towards the colony. Oddly enough, as we got closer and closer to the colony, the smell of humans somehow got stronger, even though the noises were coming from the other direction... Maybe there was just a walking Pokemon the other way and not a human... But there could be a human too...

"Dallas!" Electra yelled as she grabbed my paw with both of hers and pulled me toward her, just as a net fell where I'd previously been walking.

I need to stop thinking! I almost got caught there!

"Run!" She yelled as she dashed in the direction of the colony, panting.

"Electra wait!" I yelled as I ran after her, the human that was hiding behind us was now running to catch up with us, and I could hear his footsteps.

"They're on the run!" I heard him shout. "The ones with the collars!"

"ELECTRA!" I yelled. "They can't understand us, they speak differently!" I said as I caught up to her. "They want US for some reason, don't let them get you!" I said as I ran alongside her.

"Not a chance in the WORLD they're catching ME again!" She said as she sped up a little.

"ELECTRA DON'T GO TO THE COLONY!!! You'll lead them to us ALL!" I shouted as I ran ahead of her and turned left. "This way!" I said as I dashed into the tall grass. Electra followed me and I ran until we got to the alternate entrance to the colony, and we both dashed inside, panting as we turned left and ran down the tunnel to our room. When we turned the corner and ran into the brightly lit room, I immediately shot off a powerful bolt, spreading it across everything in the room.

"Why'd you do that?" Electra asked as she ran in ahead of me.

"Well I used discharge in case something was inside waiting to capture us!" I said as I looked around the room, sighing with relief. "Okay, who the heck were those humans and why do they want us?" I asked as I frowned.

"I don't know! Maybe they're Team Onyx members trying to reclaim us! Or maybe they're... I don't know!" Electra said as she grabbed her ears and tugged on them.

"Well maybe t-"

"THUNDER!" Someone shouted as they ran into the room. "There's h- OH! Heya Dallas! Since you're back I guess I should tell YOU this instead of Thuder... But there's human outside the colony! They're all talking about stuff right outside the bush! I went to exit and just as I went to hop out of the bush I smelled them, and then they came towards me!" He said, whining.

"Out... To the main room." I said as I walked out into the tunnel. "No one is to leave the colony until I say so, now run around and spread the word. Tell them that DALLAS, not Thunderpaw, told you that no one is to leave. It could compromise the safety of the whole colony if ONE Pikachu is seen leaving." I said as I pointed down in the other direction. "And don't make too much noise!"

"Right!" He said as he took off down the tunnel. "There's a code for that. If I run down the tunnel flashing my sparks it means there's an emergency and everyone should stay in place. Thunderpaw came up with it while he was the leader, and once someone else sees my sparks flashing, they'll flash theirs too, and then more and more will see flashing sparks, and soon the whole colony will know that there's an emergency, while keeping completely silent." He said as he took off running again, his cheeks sparking in a flashy pattern as he ran.

"That's smart..." I said as I turned to Electra. "Flash your sparks then." I said as I let my sparks loose in short pulses, making my way to the main room. When I got inside, everyone was already sparking their cheeks in a flashy pattern.

It's amazing how fast news travels in the colony. It wasn't even a minute ago that I told him to flash his sparks and already it's gotten past ME through an alternate tunnel and to the main room... Amazing..."

"Okay everyone..." I said in a calm tone as I stood up on the rock in the back of the main room, clearing my throat as Electra stood beside me.

That smell I smelled earlier... There must have been a human at the colony entrance too waiting to catch us! Maybe they know where we are! Or maybe it's a coincidence...

As I thought about this, all the Pikachu, and even the Raichu began gathering in the main room, keeping almost completely silent as the Raichu made their way to the front and stood behind and to the sides of me.

"Hey, you're not supposed to be here, move back with the rest of the Pikachu." One of the Raichu said as they nudged Electra from behind.

"Leave her alone, she's my mate..." I said as Electra dug her claws into the dirt, growling.

"Oh... Sorry..." He said as he scratched his head. I waited another minute until the room looked pretty much full, and then I began to speak.

Wow, an emergency signal sounds, or rather flashes, and everyone automatically knows there's going to be a meeting... So far so good...

"Okay everyone..." I said as I looked around the room, then at all the Raichu behind me. "So I understand that there are humans outside of the colony, so I'm going to say this quietly. There's no need to yell anyway, all of us have really good hearing. We're Pikachu, we you can all hear me right? Raise your paw if you can hear me." I said calmly in a normal tone of voice, smiling as everyone raised their paws.

"Okay good." I said as I cleared my throat again. "I have more than one thing to announce to you... But before I break the news on the second thing, I'd like to introduce the first problem... We need to get rid of these humans." I said as I pointed to the front of the room, where the exit tunnel is. "You..." I said as I pointed to the Pikachu closest to it, nodding as he raised his paw. "Yes you, I need you to go about halfway up the tunnel. You and about three others. I want you to listen to what the humans outside are saying and tell the Pikachu behind you, and then I want you to tell the one behind YOU, and then... Just keep the information traveling backwards until it comes to me." I said as I pointed to the tunnel. "And WHISPER!"

He nodded, and I watched as he, and three others, entered the tunnel. About ten seconds later, I perked my ears up as I heard whispering from the back of the room.

"They said they need to find the ones with the collars on." One of the Pikachu in the middle said.

"The Pikachu with the red collar is important." said another Pikachu.

Well that's true... I AM pretty important...

"There's a signal coming from around here." Said another.

"Look in the trees around here, they're up in the trees." said another Pikachu.

"The signal is stronger here but then when I move it weakens..." Said another.

"Try... I forgot..." Said another, frowning.

"Electra what are the humans talking about?" I asked as I whispered in her ear, frowning.

"I don't know what they mean..." She said as she sighed. "It doesn't make sense..."

"Look up." Said another Pikachu.

"Dallas! I think I know what they mean! The signal from our collars! Kevin uses them to find us so what if they are too!" She said as she jumped up and down. "Take it off take it off take it off!!!!"

"OH!" I shouted as I practically jumped ontop of her, not even unbuckling it as I sliced and sliced at it with my claws, growling. "I can't get it off!"

"Like this!" She said as she took mine and squeezed it. In a second, it popped off, and I made a face at her.

"How'd you do that..." I asked as I examined it closely.

"Take this part and squeeze." She said as she pointed to the buckle.

"Oh." I said as I took it in my paws and squeezed hard, sighing with relief as it popped off in my paw.

"Okay, now we need to destroy them!" Electra said as she hit the one in my paw with a bolt of electricity. I dropped it as it crackled and sparked, and then I watched as she did the same to hers. Again, it crackled and sparked, and a little puff of smoke came off of it.

"Now we have to get rid of them for good." She said as she picked them both up.

"I need someone to run these out of an alternate exit in the colony, and then run really far and drop these somewhere, then come back." I said as I motioned for Electra to give me the collars.

"I'll do it." One of the Pikachu said as they stepped up to the rock, holding out his paw.

"Electra I need the-" I said as I looked at her, frowning as she stood there with her paws over her mouth.

"Collars..." I mumbled as she took a huge gulp, and I watched as the little bulges traveled down her throat. "Oooorrrrr you can do THAT..." I said as I turned to the Pikachu. "Nevermind..."

I wasn't even listening to what the Pikachu were telling me about the humans, and as I stepped back up onto the rock, I heard exactly what I wanted to hear.

"We lost the signal." One of the Pikachu whispered.

"You idiot you lost them." Another said.

"There's nothing we can do. Standing here isn't going to help anything, we'll have to try again whenever the signal comes back on." Another said.

"Yeah, let's leave. Tell everyone I'm not waiting for anyone. Everyone better be in the car when I turn it on or you're getting left behind." Another said.

"Let's go." Someone else said.

And that was the last message that was delivered. As soon as that message was delivered, the three Pikachu in the tunnel returned to the room, and I cleared my throat again.

"Okay... Now that the humans are gone... Let's wait a minute or two." I said as I sat down, sighing. After a minute or two, I stood back up, and so did anyone else that sat down.

"Okay..." I said as I looked at Electra, who nodded.

"How do I put this..." I sighed as I scratched the back of my head. "We have a problem that some in here can say is a bigger problem than humans... Well... Let me just get to the point... Rice is back... He's been spotted in the training area trying to get stronger, and he attacked someone in the colony and tore them up pretty badly..." I said as I watched everyone's facial expression. There were two seconds of silence, and then all of a sudden the room broke out in a loud chatter, of everyone groaning and talking all at once. But it was mostly moans and groans.

"But, you killed him! Didn't you?" Someone shouted.

"Yes, I thought so too... He must have only been paralyzed or something, and badly hurt... It was underwater, I couldn't see well... He could have recovered somewhere secretly, and now he's training to kill Thunderpaw..." I said as I looked back at Thunderpaw, who made a face at me.

"But... You can kill him right? I mean, you defeated him before, you can defeat him again, right? You're stronger now! You've been away for so long!" Someone shouted, to which everyone cheered.

"Yes, I can, but here's the thing. Rice thinks I left the colony, so SOMEONE has been keeping Rice up to date..." I said as I looked around the room, sighing as everyone gasped. "BUT... There's also the possibility that Rice has been lurking, and listening in on everything everyone that walks by is saying... Or he could have overheard someone call Thunderpaw the leader... Or he could have seen you all when you take the Pichu out to walk, the list is endless." I said as I looked at everyone, smiling. "But I assure you, Rice will NOT become the leader again." I said as I raised my paws into the air, making fists with them as sparks flew from my cheeks. As soon as I got done saying that, everyone, including the Raichu behind me, all began jumping and cheering.

"Okay everyone, settle down." I said as I lowered my paws. "The bottom line is, he's still out there somewhere, and now that you all know he is, no one is going to rest until we get rid of him, no?" I asked as I perked my ears up.

"Exactly." Someone shouted as they held up our paws.

"SO... With that said, you all only have to suffer ONE night." I said as I smiled. "It's late, and there's no point in searching in the dark, even if we CAN see in the dark. There are plenty of predators at night that ONLY come out at night. And I know, we can stay up at night and be fine, blah blah blah, but that's not what I want to do. I say we get up early when he's still sleeping and assemble a team, fan out and get rid of him once and for all." I said as I stomped my foot on the rock. "Like I said, he does NOT know I'm here, so he doesn't know that there's a GOOD leader in charge. Not that Thunderpaw is a bad one, but I'm back now so it's time I changed some things for the better, starting with the presence of Rice. That needs to be changed immediately, and I assure you, that with me, the strongest in the colony, in charge, I WILL... Lead you ALL to victory! And with that said, you're all dismissed!" I said as I shot a sparkly ball of sparks into the air. Everyone jumped and cheered as I stepped down off of the rocks, the ball of sparks exploding and showering the room in a pretty light, a little trick I learned a few weeks back. "Oh, and one more thing." I said as I stepped back onto the rock. "The lock down is officially over, you may all resume leaving and entering the colony as you normally would." I said as I stepped down off of the rock, smiling as everyone continued to cheer.

"Dallas, Dallas, Dallas!" Everyone cheered as they all began walking out of the room, everyone scattering into all the different tunnels. I smiled to myself as I made my way to my room, walking into the brightly lit room and laying down on the cushion. I smiled as Electra walked in and tossed the glowstick into the hallway, frowning.

"No way I'm sleeping early with THAT thing in here." She said as she lay down next to me.

"Eh... I guess so." I said as I smiled, leaning over and kissing her cheek as I closed my eyes. "Now hurry up and go to sleep, we've got a big task on our paws tomorrow morning..."

---END Chapter Three.--