Nowhere to Run.

Author's note: Yes, this is yet another one that I'm starting, but this came just randomly in my head. Maybe this will be short, I don't know, but I wasn't satisfied with how Mega Evolution Special IV ended, but the idea did seem appealing.

I don't own Pokemon.

Chapter one: Understanding.

Ten year old Mairin lied in the bed in the Pokemon Centre in Lumoise City, having just returned to the Kalos Region with her partner, Chespie the Chespin, thanks for the Houen Region Champion, Steven Stone. While Steven was very nice, he did point out a few things that made Mairin think about. She would've gone after Alain who had returned here with Lysandre to the labs somewhere, but Steven's words continously echoed in her mind.

"He what!?" Mairin cried out, shocked as she found Steven the next morning after the epic deadly battle that nearly destroyed the world. She couldn't find Alain anywhere.

"He told me that he left you because if you were with him, it'd put you in danger." Steven told the young girl. "He went back to Kalos."

The young girl couldn't believe it. Alain left, because he was worried about her safety? Even after what she and Chespie had been through to help him, considering how he put himself in danger.

"Then I'll go back too!" Mairin decided, "I have to find Alain. I'm worried about him."

"Hold on, Mairin." Steven told her, "I can take you take to Kalos if you like, but, Alain also said that you shouldn't follow him."

Mairin blinked, "Why not?"

The young man sighed, then placed a hand gently on the young girl's shoulder, saying, "Because I think I understand why he did what he did. He wanted to protect you, and he felt that if you stay with him, you'll only be put into danger. He thinks that he could put you into harm and he doesn't want that."

Alain thought that he could end up hurting Mairin, and he didn't want that to happen? Mairin started to gaze down, trying hard to think about it, despite her desires to see him again. She cared so much about him, and had grown so much to like him ever since she first met him.

"I know that if anything happened to you, I don't think Alain would forgive himself." Steven continued, "He cares about you, Mairin."

Now that she thought of it, Mairin did remember Alain telling her how Professor Sycamore ment so much to him, even that tall man, Lysandre. Heck, Mairin knows full well how much Charizard meant so much to Alain, just as how much Chespie meant so much to Mairin. Now Mairin had become part of Alain's life as much as her had become part of her life. Still, she remembered when Rayquaza attacked, and how scared she was.

During it's Draco Meteor attack, Mairin tried to run away, but was caught in the blast, and Alain had risked his life to save her and got injured. He then went straight to battle Groudon and Kyogre despite his injuries. Mairin didn't want to go, and she didn't want Alain to go either, but he did anyway. She then had felt that it was her fault that he got hurt, so she had decided then, that she had to be brave to make sure that those she cared so much about weren't hurt. She and Chespie had snuck onboard, and had witnessed the entire calamity, which had terrified her.

Then, when Alain was knocked out when he went to save Charizard, Mairin never felt so scared. Without thinking, she rushed down with Chespie to save him, and had been so worried. She was relieved that he was still alive. After Rayquaza defeated the two other Pokemon, Mairin admitted that she had been scared, but she was also so worried about Alain who thanked her. The two then shared a hug, as Mairin had been on the urge to cry. It was then that she had a close bond with him.

But maybe...maybe Mairin shouldn't be with him. He got hurt because of her. She was deeply worried, but...maybe it was better this way.

"You understand?" Steven asked gently.

Mairin could only nod, not saying anything. Chespie gazed up at his trainer with worry, for she looked so sad.

Now, several hours later, Mairin had opted to stay in the Pokemon Centre to think things through, after saying her thanks and goodbyes to Steven who left to speak to Lysandre and also tell Alain the young girl's message to him. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that maybe she was a weakness. Tears formed in eyes, and no matter how hard she tried to keep herself from crying, as she held Chespie in her arms, it was a losing battle.

"I want to see Alain, but I don't want him to get hurt because of me." Mairin whispered. Finally, she was unable to hold in much longer, and squeezed her beloved Pokemon into a tightining hug, and sobbed, "Chespie, what'm I gonna do?"

"Chespin...Ches." Chespie muttered, now growing more and more worried for his trainer and human friend. But he didn't know what to do to cheer her up. So, he leaned in to try to embrace and comfort the crying girl as best as the small Pokemon could.

Meanwhile, in one of the many sleeping courters in the Lysandre Labs, Alain was staring up at the ceiling, thinking about the progress and Charizard both made in battling ten Mega Evolution trainers in a row and having become stronger, even defeating one of the Elite Four, Malva. He thought about what Steven told him about Mairin, how the young girl had wanted to come and see him, but she must've understood why he left.

Still, to hear that made him feel bad. Alain shut his eyes, and tried to tell himself not to think about that. He had to focus on getting stronger...stronger to protect those very dear to him.

Mairin was no exception.

'Mairin. I'm really sorry. I only want to keep you safe.' Alain thought to himself. Despite that Mairin was only ten years old, she had risked her life to save him when the battle against Groudon and Kyogre nearly killed him and Charizard. Yes, she had been terrified, but her concern for him won over her fear, and that's what saved his life, along with Chespie's and Metagross's help. He supposed she did that as her dept to repay him or say that she was sorry, for he had saved her life from Rayquaza's attacks.

Alain then realised that the two them had grown so close to each other, and he actually missed her smile, her optisim, her kindness, her excitement, even though she was clumsy, but she wasn't stupid. Just young and still needs a lot to learn.

In a dark room within the labs, Lysandre was up late, and thought deeply on the progress Alain was making. Still, he couldn't help but notice young fifteen year old man wouldn't stop thinking about the little girl with the Chespin. That young girl, while kind and was indeed just an overly curious child, had made an impact with Alain's life, which could be problematic.

The screen then lit up, revealing a man in an ugly orange suit with his skin very milk white and ugly orange goggles, the room he is in revealing to be another secret lab.

"Sir," The man began, "The experiment is going according to plan."

"Excellent, Dr. Xerosic." Lysandre muttered, before questioning, "And the cells?"

"Still working on it, sir." Xerosic replied.

The tall man 'hmm'ed, and then told the scientest, "I'll be expecting results."

Within that lab, a single strange little green blog of a Pokemon, with a single eye and a pink dot on it's back, began to glow slightly, as it seemed rather scared to be trapped within this room. Still, it could sense something, and closed it's eye, and seemed to have fallen asleep.

It was very late in the night, or very early in the morning, for the Pokemon Centre was closed for the night. Mairin and Chespie were both fast asleep. But then, Mairin began to moan, and fidget in her sleep, as a nightmare began to take hold, or rather, several nightmares.

It first started on Mairin begining to restart her journey through out Kalos with Chespie, and had camped out for the night in the forest. But then she awoke in the middle of the night, to strange sounds. It was dark, and the clouds had covered up the full moon, blocking it's light. Chespie heard it as well.

"W-What was that?" Mairin asked, fear threatening to grip at her heart.

"Chespin, Ches?" Chespie muttered, clinging slightly at Mairin's leg.

Too terrified, Mairin and her Pokemon quickly packed up as she told her partner, "C'mon, Chespie. We'd better get going."

But as soon as they finished, they heard rustling from the trees and bushes, and Mairin froze. Within the darkness of the trees, red glowing pairs of eyes blinked open, scarying her and Chespie out of their minds. Gasping in horror, Mairin quickly scooped Chespie in her arms, and turned to run, but froze, as giant pairs of yellow eyes were on the other part of the forest, gazing and focusing only on both of them.

Terrified, Mairin, with her Pokemon in her arms, then ran down the path where they were going anyway. She continued to run as fast as she could, until she reached another part of the woods and dashed herself and the Chespin into the bushes and leaned against a tree, sliding down to sit, panting, as she and Chespie hugged each other, too scared to do anything else.

Just then, the two of them heard sounds of car tyres being driven on the path they came from, and headlights shining, through to the bushes. Mairin's eyes widened as she realised that someone was coming. Too scared to even know what was going on, she continued to hold Chespie in her arms and quickly hid behind the tree, and gently shushed her Pokemon to be quiet.

They both heard the car stopping, though the lights were now shined right right the tree, and Mairin tried her best to keep silent, though she shivered. She was scared.

Car doors opened and footsteps could be heard.

"Any sign of anyone who is a threat to our plans?" a man's voice questioned.

Mairin remained silent, and even Chespie kept silent. What plans? Who were these people? What kind of threat do they mean? Whatever it was, she suddenly had a feeling that it wasn't good news.

"Our scans say that someone who could have overheard us is a little girl with a Chespin, and she's very close." A woman's voice said.

The young trainer's eyes widened and she stopped herself in time from gasping in horror. They were talking about her and Chespie! Mairin didn't understand. She knew she couldn't move, or else they'll be captured by these strange and horrible people. They were trapped. She felt herself shaking, completely scared.

"She may be a smart little girl if she overheard us. Or why else would she run away?" the man's voice thought.

"Kids tend to run away." The female voice said, "Only she has no where else to go. Even if she runs very far, we will find her."

This only made Mairin's fear increase, and even Chespie's fear was increasing. The two hugged each other tightly, begging not to make a sound.

What they heard next made them terrified beyond belief. "When you do find her, either capture her, or else if she continues to resist...kill her."

Mairin's eyes widened, and she could hear her heart thumping, which seems to grow louder and louder like in a horror movie. Unable to handle it, she crept away further into the forest as silently as she could, looking back slightly as flash-lights scanned around the area. Avoiding collision with more bushes while hoping to stay out of sight, once she found a path again, and, hopefully away from the horrible people, with Chespie still in her arms, Mairin made a run for it.

Then suddenly, as they made it out into the clearing, Mairin and Chespie were shocked to discover they were right at the lower edge of a cliff of rocks, with the ocean thrusting and smashing onto the shore. In the ocean far ahead, were two familiar Pokemon in Primal forms, along with the Mega form of a familiar green dragon Pokemon who roared loudly.

On top of everything else, when Mairin looked back behind her, she gasped as the trees had turned into the wall from the high-cliff.

"What's going on?" Mairin cried out.

"Chespin!" Chespie cried out, alarming the girl. When Mairin looked to see what had her Pokemon point at to the left, she gasped as a few feet away, were the unconscious, heavily bleeding forms of Steven, even Metagross, Charizard who's Mega Stone was damaged with cracks, and...Alain, who's mega Keystone was destroyed.

"No!" Mairin gasped. She made to reach them, but then the ground cracked, forcing her and Chespie to back away to avoid in getting caught. To their horror, the others were pulled into the newly created chasem of rock and sea water, and pulled into the ocean, away from Mairin and Chespie.

When they looked again, Mairin gasped, realisation dawning to her. On the urge of crying as she was too late, she shook her head, before screaming out in devastation, "Nooooo!"

To make things worse, suddenly, a mechanical hand swooped down and snatched Chespie from Mairin's arms and pulled the small Pokemon away from her despite her attempts to reach for him. "Chespie!" she screamed.

Chespie had been captured by a man in an ugly suit with orange goggles who was grinning down at her evilly, with two women and some men in orange suits. Chespie was then trapped inside a glass cube, as the small Pokemon cried out desparetely towards his trainer.

"So you know about our plans, don't you, little girl?" The first man laughed, and Mairin realised he was the owner of the male voice she heard earlier.

"No! I don't know what's going on!" Mairin pleaded, "Please, let my Chespie go!"

The man laughed evilly, "There's no use in lying. We know you know of our plans, and because of this, it's your fault that your beloved friends are dead. Now because of you, YOU have re-started the calamity in the Houen Region, and caused the deaths of your friends."

"No!" Mairin shook her head, tears falling, "It can't be true!"

But then another quake caused her to lose her balance and Mairin fell forward. When she looked up, the strange people and her precious Chespie suddenly disappeared, as her Pokemon cried out, pleading. "Chespie! Chespie, no!" Mairin screamed out.

Three large shadows then loomed over her. When Mairin looked up, she screamed in terror as Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza loomed over her. Terrified, she crawled backwards away from them until her back touched the rocky wall. She was cornered and trapped, and terrified. Whimpering and quivering in fear, Mairin didn't know what do to. Was it really her fault that she caused the deaths of Alain, Charizard, Steven, Metagross and the kidnapping of Chespie?

Groudon then reached out it's massive claws forward, Kyogre opened it's jaws wide, revealing it's throat, and Rayquaza did the same. Realising that, strangely, these Pokemon were attempting to eat her, like they would've tried to eat the giant Mega Stone, Mairin screamed and did her best to shield herself with her arms, screaming in horror, as she didn't want to be eaten by either of these Pokemon.

It seems that Groudon got to her first, as Mairin could feel the pressure of being scooped up by it's claws, and felt like she was being squashed by through jolly people. She screamed and squirmed as she tried to free herself...

"NO! Let me go!" Mairin screamed as she wiggled and squirmed, crying out as tears began to fall.

"Mairin, please! Wake up!" A gentle voice cried out.

Hearing the voice and feeling that it was familiar, Mairin gasped as she opened her eyes, and then jolted up right, panting, confusion and fear taking hold at first, then she gazed up and saw a very worried Nurse Joy having had her hand on Mairin's shoulder, and Chespie standing on the bed, also very worried, and she realised that she was awake, back in the Pokemon Centre, in the real world.

Realising that she had just had a nightmare, Mairin tried her best to calm down, but, that nightmare...it was so horrible. Unable to hold it in, she brought her knees to her chest, hugged them, and buried her face in her arms, as she began to cry. The fear and guilt rising inside her very own body, threatening to consume her and swallow her up.

Nurse Joy and Chespie both grew even more worried, before the former gently sat on the edge of the bed, and rubbed her hand onto the crying girl's back to comfort her. Eventually, after ten minutes, Mairin's sobs rendered to sniffles. She lifted her tear-covered face, her eyes having turned red from crying, before she gazed at Chespie who jumped up and she caught him in her arms. The two then embraced, their bond stronger than ever.

"Are you alright?" Nurse Joy asked gently.

Mairin sniffled, "Y-yeah. I had a terrible dream, but...I-I'm okay." as she tried to calm down. But deep down, the memory of the nightmare couldn't go away. Even worse, she was afraid...afraid that it might come true. "U-Um, Nurse Joy...could you, give us a moment, please?" she asked, almost in a whisper.

"Yes, of course." Nurse Joy nodded, "If you need anything, let me know." before standing and leaving the room, leaving Mairin and Chespie alone again.

Chespin gazed at his trainer, the worry increasing. Whatever kind of dream Mairin had, it must've been so terrifying that now she was shivering. The small Pokemon decided the best thing to do was lean into the embrace again.

"She may be a smart little girl if she overheard us. Or why else would she run away?"

"Only she has no where else to go. Even if she runs very far, we will find her."

"When you do find her, either capture her, or else if she continues to resist...kill her."

"So you know about our plans, don't you, little girl?"

"There's no use in lying. We know you know of our plans, and because of this, it's your fault that your beloved friends are dead. Now because of you, YOU have re-started the calamity in the Houen Region, and caused the deaths of your friends."

The voices of those people echoed in her mind, and Mairin couldn't stop thinking about the dangers that happened. What if they were right? What if she ends up sending those she loved to their early graves if she was with them? Even worse, as paranior took it's hold, there could be bad people out there doing something, and even worse, might think that she could be a threat, and that would only put Alain in danger.

Even more worse, Kalos might be in trouble if she stayed. Mairin then remembered, back in the Houen Region. Those people in the white coats worked for Lysandre, and because they overworked their computers with the large Mega Stone, it caused Rayquaza to react, and even, for what reason, she still didn't understand, that Groudon and Kyogre attacked as well. Alain almost died twice.

Maybe Lysandre might have something to do with it, despite him being a very nice man. Still...maybe Mairin was better off leaving. But she couldn't leave Chespie behind. She tried to think of where she could go, to make a fresh start. That's when she remembered. There were other regions in the world. Ash Ketchum, the boy with the Pikachu who had saved the Pokemon who had went crazy, came from the land of Kanto.

Kanto. That might be her only option. It was a hard decision, but then, Mairin didn't want to put her family and friends in danger, and she didn't want to leave her Pokemon behind in case something happened, and she might never have the chance to say goodbye to Alain, but it was the only way.

"Chespie." She began, and with more tears in her eyes as her Pokemon gazed up at her, Mairin then said, with her heart aching, "We're going to run away. To Kanto."

To be Continued...