Somewhere between Littleroot and Fortree City: A little girl names Kuruyo was hard at work examining the remains of an underground chamber seemingly dedicated to the Baltoy. As she listened to her portable radio blaring out music, her Baltoy was calmly removing rocks and blowing dust away with its Confusion attack so as to uncover more of the remains.

"I really think we're onto something here Baltoy," Kuruyo said happily as she jotted down some notes into her book. Baltoy nodded happily as a brief warm wind blew into the chamber stirring the leaves completing the idyllic scene…which was subsequently shattered as lightning bolts and heavy winds came flying from the massive circular device situated near the back of the room.

"Quick Baltoy, use reflect!" shouted Kuruyo. Baltoy raised its arms up and a defense barrier surrounded it and the girl as leaves and branches slammed against the barrier as a beam of energy shot out from the center of the ancient disc and expanded to cover the entire device, obscuring what was inside of it.

"Something's coming through the time device!" shouted Kuruyo over the loud winds. As more lightning bolts shot out damaging portions of the structure around them, Kuruyo began to feel anger towards whoever was doing this…until her anger quickly turned to fear as while she looked at the massive energy surrounding the circular disk, two very large red piercing eyes shot out at her.

"Oh my-," began Kuruyo before a loud explosion occurred in the center of the device blowing smoke everywhere.

Prime Minister's Office, Goldenrod City: The Prime Minister was busy at work going over proposals when suddenly smoke began pouring into the building. As workers inside the building began running for their lives from a fire they could not see. As they began pouring outside of the building several assailants, each with a red 'R' on their shirts and having gas masks began entering with armed weaponry. Several guards inside the building witnessed what was going on and began firing at the assailants only to either be shot themselves or collapse from smoke inhalation.

"Sir," said an assailant into his radio. "What should we do with the collapsed?"

"Shoot them," came the response on the other end. "And anyone else who gets in your way, reaching the Prime Minister is your top priority."

"Yes sir," said the assailant as he aimed his rifle down at a guard who was coughing heavily and fired blowing his brains all over the side wall.

"You heard the man let's move," said the assailant to his fellow members. The group moved on down the hallways where brief muzzle flashes could be seen piercing the smoke. Inside his office, the Prime Minister calmly pulled out a special briefcase and pulled out a key and used it to open the case. Inside were several documents, all of which contained various numbers, though pertaining to what they didn't say. However, all were stamped with the word 'Classified: To be destroyed if security becomes compromised.' The Prime Minister took the cigarette that he'd been smoking and tossed it into the briefcase igniting its contents.

"Funny," said the Prime Minister to no one in particular. "I was always told these would kill me. Guess no one thought about how many lives they'd one day save."

A gunshot went off blowing out the lock on one of the doors as the assailants strode in and looked at the charred briefcase.

"You're going to pay for that," said the lead assailant.

"Anything you plan on doing to me will be a lot less painful than if the contents of that briefcase ever got into Team Rocket's hands. Do your worst," said the Prime Minister crossing his arms. The lead assailant growled and picked up his weapon and slammed the butt of it into the Prime Minister's forehead knocking him unconscious. As the leader sat there deciding what to do next, alarms could be heard throughout the building, accompanied by sirens as police cars came to a halt all around the building.

"Settle in boys," said the leader cocking his gun. "We're going to be here for awhile."

Underground Chamber: Kuruyo was coughing from the smoke before her Baltoy began rapid spinning around and cleared some of it away from her.

"Thanks Baltoy," she said. "Now what just happened?"

As she began to collect her wits, a portion of the smoke mysteriously blew away as a creature advanced towards her.

"What the?" she asked confused. The creature was a Baltoy that was striding across the room with a purpose. As Kuruyo watched terrified, the Baltoy came towards her and then walked past her headed for the exit.

"Wait!" Kuruyo called out to it. The Baltoy turned around and glared at her.

"Who-who are you?" she asked frightened, forgetting that Baltoy couldn't speak human.

"Who I am is not important, what I am here to accomplish is," said the pokemon. Kuruyo fell backwards in shock.

"You can talk?" she asked bewildered. The Baltoy didn't dignify that with a response it just continued on its path.

"WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULAR STATION PROGRAMMING WITH THIS LATE BREAKING NEWS STORY!" the radio suddenly blared. The Baltoy stopped in its tracks at the stairs leading to the outside.

"Just a few moments ago the Prime Minister's Office was overrun by armed assailants. While details are still sketchy at the moment what is known is that smoke bombs forced most of the people out of the building while the assailants entered and dispatched of the remaining guards before entering into the Prime Minister's office where he is now being held hostage. Though who these people are is as of yet officially unknown, it is believed that they are part of the organization known as Team Rocket. While their motives remain unclear we will continue to keep you updated on this situation as it develops," came the voice over the radio. As the radio then went back to normal music, the Baltoy sighed.

"It never ends," it said sadly.

"What's going on?" asked Kuruyo scared.

"Go home little girl," responded the Baltoy. "And stock up on whatever you can, food, water, everything you would need to survive a prolonged period of time and bring it back here. After that, study these ruins as best you can because the time may come when you are this world's only hope for survival."

"What are you saying?" asked Kuruyo.

"A war is brewing between pokemon and the humans. But this war is nothing more than a lie propagated by one madman's quest for domination. Prepare yourself," said the pokemon simply. A bright light then emanated from its body as the Baltoy seemed to take on a more humanoid shape and then there was a gust of wind and it was gone. Kuruyo sat there in silence wondering if what she had seen had really occurred and if so what to do about it.

"C'mon Baltoy, you heard what that pokemon said, let's go home," said Kuruyo decisively as she and her Baltoy left the ruins behind.

Goldenrod City: Police cars, fire trucks, and news vehicles all surrounded the Prime Minister's office.

"Okay," said the police chief who was consulting with members of a SWAT team. "We've got teams located at this entrance here and this entrance here and when I give the signal we'll fire tear gas and smoke bombs into the hallways and then the teams will enter headed straight for the Prime Minister's office."

"I agree. I'll also be staging my men in the underground parking garage and they'll cover the vehicles in the lot to pick off any members of Team Rocket who try and escape that way," said the SWAT leader.

"Okay then on my mark. Three…two…"

CRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!

The SWAT leader and the Police Chief looked up as swirling clouds suddenly appeared out of nowhere and lightning began furiously streaking out of them.

"There wasn't supposed to be any storm today!" shouted the Police Chief over the loud cracking sounds of thunder. The wind soon began picking up as well and began tossing people off of their feet as everyone ran for cover. The Police Chief and SWAT team leader were promptly thrown off their feet as well as a lightning bolt came crashing down and blew up a vehicle near them.

"Damnit, call off the attack!" shouted the Police Chief. "We'll have to try again later!"

The SWAT team leader was about to respond when a loud sonic boom was heard. As the SWAT team leader and Police Chief watched in astonishment, a beam of light streaked by far overhead and slammed into the Prime Minister's building blowing out a large chunk of the wall.

"What the hell is going on?" asked the Police Chief totally and utterly confused.

Prime Minister's Building: The Leader, who was looking out the window of the Prime Minister's Office, was watching the storm when he and his team felt the building shake under the impact of whatever it was that had hit the building.

"Go see what that was," said the leader to his minions. The other assailants nodded a little nervous before instantly becoming all business as they snapped in new clips into their weapons and left the office.

"Don't worry PM, this'll all be taken care of shortly," said the leader to the Prime Minister who had just regained consciousness.

"I'm only going to say this once," began the PM angrily.

"What? That if we don't let you go right now we'll all be killed?" asked the leader laughing.

"No," said the PM shaking his head before displaying an evil grin. "I just wanted to say that it doesn't matter what happens to me now, you are all going to die. I'd make peace with yourself now before it's too late."

The Leader scowled at him before grabbing some duct tape and taping the PM's mouth shut.

"We'll see who has the last laugh," said the leader confidently.

Hallway: The members of Team Rocket stealthily made their way down the hallways outside the PM's office headed for the source of the disturbance. They finally found it as a portion of the outside wall had been blown inward exposing the outside where wind, debris, and now rain began pouring into the opening.

"Must have just been a lightning strike," said one of the minions feeling a little bit relieved. "Let's head back."

As the team turned back, a thud echoed from down the hallway. The team looked at each other bewildered as another thud was heard followed by yet another as the sound seemed almost to be coming closer to them.

"Defensive positions now," said one of the members. Part of the team dropped down to their knee and squatted forward aiming down the hallway while the others simply aimed.

"What's going on?" demanded the leader over the radio.

"Something is in Hallway B," said one of the members, the second in command, quietly into his radio. Another thud echoed down the hallway.

"Fine," said the leader after having heard the noise. "Take out the hero and then get back here."

"Roger," said the second in command. And just as abruptly as that the lights died leaving the team in pure darkness.

"What the hell?" said a member. Another thud echoed down this hallway but this time the entire hallway seemed to shake as pieces of tile came clattering down the ceiling. Some of the assailants began to feel themselves shiver as another thud echoed even louder this time and the whole building began shaking.

"Here it comes!" shouted one of the members. And then just as abruptly as that the sound died, the ceiling stopped shaking, and the lighting came on full force.

"This is just too bizarre," one of them said. As the team considered what to do, a shadow fell over them from behind as each of them heard an inhuman guttural growl emanate from right over their shoulders. Some of the members began shaking involuntarily as a wisp of air passed over their necks, likely being exhaled from whatever stood behind them.

"On three, duck and roll," said the second in command. The team nodded and prepared themselves.

"Three!" the second in command shouted. As the team plunged forward, the lights abruptly died again and the team crashed into each other in a pile before freeing themselves and swinging their rifles at the disturbance. But what they saw chilled each one to the bone as the only thing visible in the darkness was a pair of glowing crimson red eyes.

"Fire!" shouted the second in command. Flashes of light erupted from each of their guns as the unit trained their weapons on the eyes and fired. Round after round after round was fired at the eyes and yet they remained unwavering at the onslaught taking place around it. After a couple moments of firing, the team found themselves out of ammo from their current clips and each stood there quaking in fear at the fact that the eyes were still visible. Then the lights came back on yet again and the eyes were gone, in fact nothing was there at all, only the bullets that lay all over the floor.

"Let's get outta here," said a member. The second in command was about to suggest the same thing when each of the spent bullets began shaking due to some unseen force. As the team looked on in horror, the bullets tore themselves from the ground and came straight at them only to peel off at the last moment and ram into the ceiling right above them. As the team stood there mesmerized at the spectacle, it soon became startlingly clear that the bullets were causing the ceiling to become more and more unstable.

"Run!" shouted the second in command finally, but by then it was too late. The portion of the ceiling suddenly tore itself loose from the ceiling and came crashing down on top of them squashing every member of the team to a pulp. Then from the hole in the ceiling a creature, humanoid in nature, slowly descended. It looked at the death and destruction in passive silence before silently gliding off by some invisible force headed towards the PM's office. Inside, the leader heard the loud noise outside before quickly reaching for his radio.

"Team 2 report," said the leader. "I said Team 2 report!"

Static was all that erupted from radio. The leader growled angrily.

"Everybody take up a defensive position around the door!" the leader shouted to his remaining team. The members of Team Rocket each stood aiming their rifles at the door. As the Leader stood there contemplating his options, the PM began laughing through his duct taped mouth. The Leader scowled at the PM before ripping off the tape and holding his gun to the PM's head.

"You're going to call off this attack right now!" said the Leader angrily. The PM began laughing even harder, his laughter bordering on maniacal.

"You stupid fool," said the PM darkly. "If you think I can control him then you're sadly mistaken. He's going to kill us all and there's not a damn thing any of us can do to stop him. I told you, you weren't going to make it out of this alive and quite frankly neither will I."

"What is out there?" demanded the Leader.

"I am!" came a guttural voice. The Leader and his team looked around frantically but could find no speaker.

"Who are you?" demanded the Leader.

"I have been called many things over the years," said the voice. "From the Grim Reaper to the Boogeyman to just about everything that goes bump in the night. Every horror story you have ever heard is true, it was based on me and the things that I have done."

"And you would be?" asked the Leader dreading the response.

"The Legend," responded the voice. Horror crossed the Leader's eyes as dozens of sparkling lights began filling the air in the PM's office. Then from those sparkles erupted countless bullets that came flying out and struck ever member of the team save the Leader. Blood soon splattered across the room and the Leader stood there stunned as his team members dropped dead all around him. The Leader shakily held his gun to the PM's forehead as the door to the office blew inwards and a creature emanating pure rage stepped in.

"No!" shouted the Leader not wanting to believe it. "You're dead! Giovanni said he killed you!"

/Flash/;

The Legend collapsed on the ground, bruised and bloody, as his prolonged fight with the League of 12 had finally taken its toll on him. Laughing evilly, Giovanni stood over him with an aging futuristic weapon left over from some war that had never happened, a war that had been nothing more than a bitter lie.

"Now that you know the truth," said Giovanni. "I can no longer allow you to live, Legend. I will admit that it has been fun over the years but now your meddling in my affairs is at an end. See you in Hell, pokemon!"

Giovanni fired the weapon at The Legend.

/Flash/;

"I've been dead before," responded The Legend. "And if Giovanni thinks that he can somehow kill me for good then he's gravely mistaken."

"But…but…" began the Leader.

"I am only letting you live right now until you deliver a message to your leader. Tell him that I have returned and I am not amused," responded The Legend darkly.

"No," began the Leader.

"TELL HIM NOW!" shouted The Legend. The Leader put his gun to the PM's head.

"If you don't let me leave right now I'll kill him," the Leader stuttered. The Legend stuck out his right hand and the PM's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he collapsed onto the table.

"Now will you tell him?" asked The Legend lowering his hand.

"B-but you're the good guy! You're not supposed to kill the good guy only the bad guy!" The Leader said shocked.

"I AM NOT THE GOOD GUY!" shouted The Legend. "Now you can either tell him yourself or I will reduce your mind to a vegetable and psychically coerce you into telling Giovanni I have returned. Either way it's your choice."

"G-G-Giovanni?" the Leader stammered into his radio.

"What?" came the embittered response. "You are not to use my name over this line!"

"Sir, he-he's back!" said the Leader.

"Who's back? Make sense!" shouted Giovanni. The Leader suddenly began contorting his mouth into a weird shape.

"He has returned!" said the Leader in a close approximation of The Legend's own voice. Then the Leader screamed in terror as a massive hyperbeam of energy slammed into his body vaporizing it and leaving a gaping hole in the far wall. As the beam subsided, the PM suddenly sat back up again and looked at the carnage around him.

"That was…messy," he said simply as he straightened himself up.

"I make no excuses for what I have done," responded The Legend.

"Nor would I expect you to. Now where have you been for the past four months?" asked the PM.

"That would be a long and complicated story," responded The Legend.

"I've convened a meeting of the War Cabinet for 20:00 hours. Can I expect you to be there?" asked the PM. The Legend tipped his head at the PM.

"I will," came the response.

"Good. Now get out of here before the military or the media come bursting through that door. I'm already going to have to concoct quite a story for what happened here and your presence isn't going to make things any easier," said the PM. The Legend simply vanished in a puff of smoke as several armed guards burst into the room.

"Mr. Prime Minister you're okay!" said one of them happily. The PM plastered on a fake smile and left the room with the escort of his guards.

"Giovanni is going to pay for this," he decided grimly.

Team Rocket HQ: Giovanni slumped down onto his chair in shock.

"Impossible," he said. Domino appeared.

"What's wrong?" she asked confused.

"He's back. I thought I got rid of him but he's back," said Giovanni oblivious to her question.

"Who is back?" demanded Domino. Giovanni looked at her through terrified eyes.

"The Legend. He's back and he knows…everything."