I don't own Pokemon, or this story would have become a reality. Credit for the storyline goes to Christopher Nolan for the production of 'Inception'.

Prologue

There wasn't really much to see in the wild crashing ocean. It was just not the type to get caught into. Contradictory to that, there was a massive desert island in the middle of the ocean, and on that island was a pretty big building. It had a sinister appearance with a label outside reading a large 'G'. What was it for?

Among the waves there lay a Pokémon Trainer who washed on the shore. He was completely exhausted, like he wanted to lie down there... forever...

The Trainer was dressed in a blue coat. He had eye protection for use in the desert and on his arm was equipped with the infamous Snag Machine. Perhaps now was the time to use it. But how could he? He didn't have the strength...

The Trainer looked up and saw the shape of a building in front of him... and near the beachhead was a girl with red hair tied back into two ponytails. She looked at him and gave a small wave and then she turned away and ran. He knew who she was, but he didn't have the strength to rise. Thinking of her, he slipped away into unconsciousness...

A Team Galactic grunt saw the Trainer. The grunt got closer and examined the Trainer. He found that the Trainer had two Poké Balls with him and a blue coat, but when he saw the Snag Machine, he called out for other Grunts to bring him away.

Inside the Galactic building, the Galactic commander Cyrus was looking at a map of all possibilities of eliminating other Teams who might be competing with him including Team Plasma, the most recent.

With the present Team Galactic left to ruin by Charon, Cyrus might as well consider new options of another career...

"Master Cyrus?" a grunt came into the room. "We found a Pokémon Trainer outside the building. He was wearing this..." the grunt placed the Snag Machine on the table. "This..." and he placed two Poké Balls. "This," the grunt placed a PDA on the table. Cyrus walked to pick it up and examine it. He showed no expression whatsoever and turned back to his map, but the grunt wasn't finished, "And this," the grunt finished by placing a book on the table.

Cyrus paused. He touched the book gently and said to the grunt. "Show him in," and then he sat down on a chair.

Two grunts came and dragged the limping Trainer onto the chair. He had sand-colored hair with a dark tone and his eyes were golden yellow. A streak of white paint stretched over his face that fit his eyeglasses.

"Who are you?" Cyrus demanded. "You don't need to say that... I've seen this book before..." he held up the book. "A man I've met years ago carried this book within dreams. In fact, I've seen this once within my own dreams..." Cyrus opened the book, the pages were not made out of paper, but they were rather electronic graphs and grids. "I remember a very long time ago that when he opened it, he had a small item of some sort and he spun it on a centre square. I don't know how much it meant to him…"

Cyrus stared off into space, trying to retrace memories of what had occurred before.

The Pokémon Trainer looked at Cyrus in the eye, lost for words.

Chapter one

"Tell me, Cyrus, how much do you suppose an idea can do? Get it?" said the Pokémon Trainer, who was now dressed in a blue suit and tie, minus the jacket.

A Pokémon Ranger was now present with the Trainer, "Uh... Mr. Cyrus? Wes here is or is trying to explain is that–"

"An idea," Wes cut in. "Is where it's taken a grasp in your mind. Once it's in there elimination is practically futile. It's there. No matter how hard you try. Right, Kellyn?"

"Exactly," Kellyn nodded. "The amount of impact an idea can do to your mind is unimaginable, or at least something secret. There will be times when that idea or secret will be lodged inside somewhere in at that point." Kellyn tapped his head.

"And... while you're sleeping," Wes explained. "You're mind's defenses are reduced to a smaller scale because it's weaker. That's when you're exposed to an unsuspected theft within your subconscious. It's called extraction."

"Mr. Cyrus. We can prepare your subconscious to mount defenses that can stop extractors from stealing your secrets so that your mind's always safe no matter what."

"Do you think it's possible?" Cyrus glanced.

"It's been done before," Wes nodded slightly.

Cyrus got up. "Have a pleasant day, you two, while I reason with your offer."

As Cyrus left the room, Kellyn looked at Wes. "We have to move."

Wes' face was slightly blank, after that he exited the room to the outside balcony where Kellyn joined him.

"The secrets are somewhere in the building not outside Cyrus looked at its location for a second. We need to know where it is," Wes said. "It's definitely upstairs."

Kellyn looked up. "We'll need our Pokémon to help us here," he directed to his side. "Pachirisu! We'll need help here!"

"Pachi?" squeaked Kellyn's electric-squirrel, and leapt on Kellyn's shoulder.

"Good idea," said Wes. He took out his two Poké Balls and called. "Espeon! Umbreon! Go!"

The two Pokémon burst out of Wes' Poké Balls, one was a Psychic type and the other a Dark type.

"Stay together and look for that safe," Wes instructed.

They nodded and divided up. Wes looked to the right of the balcony and there was the red haired girl from earlier. It was –

"Rui?" Wes whispered. He turned to Kellyn. "Give me a minute."

"Okay... but be quick! We can't waste too much time!" Kellyn loaded up his Vatonage Capture Styler and looked around carefully.

A big tremor shook the island. What's going on right now? He thought.

In a hidden cave, the Pokémon Ranger Lunick heard explosions coming from outside. It was the sound of marching grunts from renegade squads armed with their Camerupts, using Earthquake and Eruption. Laid down in front of him were a sleeping Wes, Kellyn, and Cyrus. All with needles punctured into them for sedation, and where the needles led to, a case containing the sedative and Wes' Poké Balls. The Poké Balls were linked to Wes' sedative the same way as Kellyn's Pachirisu did. As Lunick looked outside, the Camerupts were about a kilometre away and were closing in on them. While he still had his Minun, along with Kellyn's Grotle and Kirlia, to guard them it wasn't enough to overpower the renegades' Pokémon nor was it a lot a lot of time...

Wes approached Rui. She said, "Long time no see, Wes!"

Wes' face was emotionless as usual, "Rui... what are you doing here?"

"We haven't seen each other for so long that I thought I might drop by."

"I'm still trying to see you for real."

"Really?" Rui brightened up. "That's great! When?"

Wes lowered his head, "When I find a way home... when Cipher stops convincing the Orre Region that I'm a criminal, I'll see you again."

"Yay!" Rui squeaked. "By the way, Gonzap's over there."

And there was Gonzap, the tough muscleman of the then-Team Snaggem, his eyes looking as evil as ever. "I'll come back for you, Rui. I promise," Wes said.

"Bye!" Rui waved.

Wes turned away from Rui. He knew that she was just a projection of his subconscious, but talking to Rui was just something he enjoyed, and it would be reality sometime.

Espeon and Umbreon led Wes around the building, sniffing around for Cyrus' secrets upstairs of the building. Room by room, Wes looked around each one for no more than a few seconds. He opened his book. Inside it were a few pages as thin as paper, but they were as tough as discs, each page showing a grid and a graph. If Kellyn had found the secrets he would have notified Wes through his book.

He saw more Galactic grunts with their Golbats. Wes commanded silently for Espeon to use her Psybeam on the Golbats and for Umbreon to stealthily assault and knock out the grunts. Since there were only three the attack was quick and easy.

In the third to last room of the corridor Wes perked inside, turned off the lights, and used Espeon's Psybeam attack to split open the walls easily. Suddenly, he found it: a safe with a lock on it. Ensuring that there was an alarm on it to prevent Pokémon from cracking it, Wes chose to quietly open the safe. 26... 16... 7... 39... 25... 6! He did it! Wes excitedly opened the safe and inside it were two black envelopes with the Team Galactic emblem. Wes took them, put them in his suit, and prepared duds...

TAP.

Wes jerked behind him. The lights were on now. At the doorway was Cyrus, accompanied with a Granados, "Turn around!" Cyrus barked.

"What do you want, Cyrus?" asked Wes.

"That depends... on what do you want?" Cyrus snapped his fingers.

Behind Cyrus, Wes gulped, was Gonzap and two grunts. One grunt was dragging the limping body of Kellyn, the other dragged Kellyn's Pachirisu.

"Charizard!" Gonzap growled and hurled a Poké Ball, out it came. It took its aim to Kellyn, who was forced to stand up.

"Turn over the plans, Wes," Cyrus demanded.

Wes ignored him and looked at Gonzap, "There's nothing you can do to kill him. You know that? No point killing him either."

"Whatever you say, Wes, whatever you say," Gonzap snarled. "I've still got Snagem grunts looking around for your friends and as for Kellyn... I know what you're saying. Killing him would just rouse and awaken him. But there's more and Cipher can do than just that... Charizard! Dragon Claw!"

The Charizard's claws flicked with a fiery flame, and slashed it with Kellyn's side.

"ARRRGGHH!" Kellyn screamed and fell on the floor. "ARHH! AH... AH..." Kellyn kept gasping for breath while he struggled to stop the bleeding.

"Physical and emotional pains are among some of the best I can describe, Wes. As I always say, it's all in your head. Based on the amount of ocean here, we're in your dream, aren't we Kellyn?"

Kellyn kept trying to gasp, he was dying...

Cyrus was getting impatient, "Turn over the plans, now!"

Wes reluctantly tossed the envelopes in the air and let Espeon float them away to Cyrus. But Wes had other plans...

"Umbreon! Now!" Wes shouted as he picked up Espeon and threw himself towards the door. Umbreon leapt toward Kellyn, used Faint Attack on his head, and rejoined Wes. Kellyn was knocked out instantly...

Kellyn and Pachirisu woke up in the cave with a start, where Lunick was looking at them with high concern.

"How'd it go? You do realise that there's a lot of time on the clock!" Lunick said while Kellyn was hastily removing his needle and Pachirisu'. Wes and his Pokémon were still sleeping.

"Very badly: the dream's collapsing."

"We better wake him up, they're getting closer."

Indeed, the renegades' Eruption attacks were closing in on the cave, including a Heat Wave attack from an airborne Ho-Oh! The heat brushed against Wes...

Immediately after Wes had attacked Kellyn, the ceiling fell to pieces. Large chunks of metal came crumbling down on top of Wes, but with quick reflexes he rolled aside and made a run for it.

Gonzap said to Cyrus, "At least you got your plans back."

Cyrus opened the envelope and looked at the papers, each of them were blank. He shrieked uncontrollably and yelled. "Seize him!"

Wes saw the building's walls melt away instantly. Even the floor was cracking apart, but he needed time to read Cyrus' secrets. With his Pokémon, he used Psybeam and Faint Attacks to make himself a clear path from the grunts.

However, he had limited time as the walls were turning into plasma. Molten metal began to fall with the chunks of metal that came crumbling down.

He turned to Espeon, "Psychic me up to that stone ledge, okay? Then you and Umbreon wake yourselves up, got it?"

Espeon and Umbreon nodded.

Umbreon blasted away a grunt and looked at his Trainer.

Wes made a leap in the air and gave Espeon a split second to react.

Espeon focussed her aim and airlifted Wes to the upper level. Then she and Umbreon dashed to the nearest balcony and leapt...

...and, like Kellyn, woke up with a start. Stretching themselves, they found themselves facing the two Pokémon Rangers.

"Is Wes alright?" Kellyn asked.

Umbreon shook his head.

"Wake him up," Lunick said with worry because the renegades were getting closer now, about half a kilometre.

Umbreon pushed Wes around, but it did no good. He was still sleeping. Kellyn shook his head, "We'll need something stronger than that, Umbreon."

The walls of the cave were starting to crack, Lunick tried to help Umbreon by shaking Wes' head but he still didn't wake up. He said, "It's no good, give him the kick."

"Let's do it," Kellyn agreed. "Espeon! Psychic!"

Espeon's eyes began to glow, and lifted Wes a few inches off the ground...

Wes opened the two envelopes and briefly looked at Cyrus' plans. One showed the ideas of forming a new Team Galactic, and the other maps of every other Team Galactic remnant. But there were a few more grunts and members of Team Snagem right across from his position. The grunts used several Seviper and fired away blasts of poison. The blasts made contact with Wes' neck.

"Agh!" Wes grunted. He forced himself to keep moving forward and kept reading the files.

Kellyn looked at Espeon, "Drop him."

Espeon did that.

Wes slowly fell to the ground…

Wes suddenly felt like sinking. The world was sinking. Everything was sinking. Like it was being thrown into a black hole...

Oh, come on! Wes thought. He knew what was going on, and knew it wasn't preventable at all. The only thing remaining was falling down.

It looked like Cyrus, too, was falling away...

Wes woke up and used his hands to stop himself from hitting the ground. The cave was still in one piece, although there were larger cracks in the walls now.

"Kellyn? You there?" Wes looked around.

"I'm right here. Lunick's brought Cyrus to a deeper part of the cave," Kellyn said and guided Wes into the deeper cave. "We're running out of time, we'll need to make this quick," Kellyn elucidated and put his Pachirisu, Kirlia, and Grotle on guard.

Upon entering the cavern, Wes saw that Cyrus was already being interrogated by Lunick and Minun (who was trying to scare Cyrus by twirling around with small shocks).

"How did you know about this place? It's only me who knows about this place for Team Galactic. In Mount Moon..."

"Stop it," Lunick spat angrily. "We know that you've actually managed to elude a part of the idea somewhere, Wes, especially. Since that–"

"Wes already has the ideas, why bother, huh? Who employed you, Wes?" Cyrus looked around.

Kellyn stood to confront Cyrus, "Cyrus, our employer... we'll tell him what we found from you, and then we'll see what happens."

But Wes said, "Don't forget, Kellyn, that Cyrus still has authority with Team Galactic. Even so..." Wes faced Cyrus. "You got to tell us what else you're hiding."

Aboard a hi-speed train in the Kanto Region, the Trainer called Michael was watching Cyrus, Kellyn, Lunick, and several Pokémon sleeping in the compartment. He consulted his watch, the seconds hand was ten seconds away from approaching the half mark. Within those precious ten seconds Michael placed a pair of headphones on Lunick's ears. When the ten seconds had passed, Michael pressed the play button.

In Lunick's ears, the Pokémon main theme was playing...

Lunick heard the familiar tune and made eye contact with Wes, who glared.

Wes took the direct approach and knocked Cyrus to the ground, "WHAT'S LEFT OF TEAM GALACTIC THAT YOU KNOW OF! TELL US!"

Cyrus did nothing more than a chuckle, "You've played well, Wes. But I know this place much better than you do. You would have killed me now, but I know better..."

Kellyn looked at Wes, who was stunned.

"You're trying to get something out of me, and you seem very desperate. In that case, I know what's going on. Because of your haste, and that I'm still playing for time, we're still dreaming."

Cyrus got up, "A dream within a dream, huh, Wes? Impressive. Sadly, it wasn't impressive enough. Here in my dream, you obey the iron rule."

Kellyn raised his eyebrows, "Some iron rule you've got, Cyrus. But–"

"We're not in your dream," Wes finished for him.

Lunick looked up, "Cyrus; we're in mine."

In that split second after Lunick said those words the walls burst open with lava. The renegades and the Camerupt had gotten through and seized Lunick...

Michael consulted his watch with the sedative, the timer had hit zero.

An alarm began to sound from the case, Wes, the two Rangers, and all their Pokémon woke up from the dream.

"How'd it go?" Michael asked.

"We... half succeeded," Wes answered. "I'm getting off at Celadon."

Lunick handed Michael ten thousand Pokédollars and said, "Well I'm getting off at Saffron. ASAP. Minun, come with me."

Kellyn said, "Lunick, we should hide in another car." And he, Lunick, Pachirisu, Grotle, and Kirlia moved to another compartment.

"We'll rendezvous at Vermillion, okay guys?" said Wes.

And the threesome separated quickly in spite of all their Pokémon.

Cyrus woke up to find a young Pokémon Trainer sitting across him. But when he found a needle puncture in his wrist, he wondered what that was all about.