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The girl outside of HQ carefully placed her hand on the outside of the structure and felt of it, wondering where it came from and just what it was. Knocking on the complex, it rang back to her with a muffled, but definitely hollow sound. "Huh?" she asked herself as she swam around it, now searching for a way in.

The girl outside saw Sport inside and managing to read his lips, just barely, she did as he instructed and what under the structure, finding an opening there. Swimming up towards the surface, her head soon popped up above the waves and bobbed there as she looked around curiously.

Sport runs over to the docking bay to stare at the creature poking its head above the surface. "Hello." he asks, panting. "Who are you?"

The girl looked up at Sport and cocked her head to the side. "Flair." she replied simply. Still, she remained bobbing in the water, her blond, four eared head being the only part of her that was visible.

MISSION: Nightmare on Oak Street
While taking a load off to sleep, you've fallen into a nightmare! This nightmare is like no other as you can't wake up from it! In your dream, you will face Archie, Leader of Team Tsunami, controlling a dark-purple Darkrai. You have none of your pokemon on you, so you will have to battle the oddly-colored Darkrai yourself... .

Pokemon:
None

Rewards:
Upon defeating the Darkrai, you will wake up. That's the best reward anyone can get with having Archie in their dream! 10,000pd and either a Lunar Wing or a Lunar Charm are also at stake.
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As he was walking back to HQ, a surge of pain shot through his head. It was starting again. He shook it off ad started to walk faster, returning his pokemon to their pokeballs and sticking them on his belt. All he wanted was to get back to HQ before it got worse. He remembered three days ago when he couldn't walk. He had completely lost all feeling in his legs. Then he closed his eyes. The purple Darkrai became a vivid image in his mind, but the man standing next to it still wasn't clear. The figure resembled someone from Aqua, but his body shape didn't match to any CURRENT Aqua member. Suddenly, another shot of pain was sent through Cody's skull and he collapsed. Hitting his head on the ground, Cody blacked out.

He awoke to loud rap music playing in the distance. He shouted, "CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TURN THAT CRAP OFF?", but there was no response. He shouted again, but still did not receive an answer. That is when he looked around and realized everything around him was white. There was no grass or mountains. No trees or sky or clouds at all. All of a sudden his new teammate Flareon popped out of her pokeball. She used Double Team and floated around Cody's head. Then, out of nowhere, she started to dance. Then came Totodile. He used Double Team and floated around Cody's head. He was also dancing. "Totodile... You don't even KNOW Double Team,” he said in awe. They quickly stopped dancing and the their copies disappeared. Cody stuck out their pokeballs to return them, but they avoided the light. The two started to run away and by human nature Cody followed them, trying to get them to return. He kept running and running until his legs got tired. He stopped and a bench randomly appeared next to him. He stuck his hand out to make sure it was real. After confirming this, he sat. All of his pokemon popped out of their pokeballs, looked at him, and vanished.

Cody looked up and saw a big purple vortex. It seemed to be some type of passage to another dimension. Out of it stepped Cody's clone, Archie, and a Tsunami member Cody had never seen before. The man looked too well taken-care-of to be a grunt. "What do you want now? Don't you guys ever learn?" Cody asked. He stood up and reached for his belt. He grabbed a pokeball without looking, hoping it was the one he wanted. "How about you guys meet the newest member of my team. “Flareon, come on out and show them what you’ve got!" he shouted as he threw the ball. Nothing happened. Cody stood up and stuck out his hand to the mysterious unknown Tsunami member. He was improvising from here on out. Without any pokemon, that was the best he could do. The man stuck out his hand and grasped Cody's. As soon as their skin made contact, a surge of energy was sent through Cody's body, forcing him to convulse and collapse. “That wasn’t cool. I was just trying to be nice,” he said. The man let go of Cody's hand and fused with Cody’s clone, then transformed into a purple Darkrai. Cody's energy returned to his body and he quickly stood. "Oh, now that REALLY isn't cool," he said.

The purple Darkrai fused with Archie, giving him all of its moves plus whatever Archie could already do. "You realize I created this right? This whole dream belongs to me and soon so will your mind."
"Archie, you and your team are nothing but punks and I will bring you down. "Cody replied
"Whether you want to admit it or not my team will destroy everything you have come to know and love. All of your pokemon will belong to me and your precious teammates will suffer. Unfortunately, I chose to try and take over the strong ones first, but now I have found a weakling. I will take over your mind and destroy the team from the inside."
Cody shuddered at the thought. "I won't let that happen," he shouted as he shot out a String Shot from his hands. "Now I'm Spider-Man?" Cody asked himself. "This works." Cody rushed at the now trapped Archie and stuck out his hand. A bolt of lightning came out this time, but Darkrai somehow appeared and used Dark Pulse to block it.

Cody realized what was happening. The thought of fire came into his head and he stuck out his hand. A Fire Blast attack formed and shot straight at Darkrai. It dodged and used Disable, causing Cody’s arm to become numb and useless. Cody shot an Ice Beam out of his mouth and hit Darkrai directly, causing it to become frozen. Another Dark Pulse broke the ice and Darkrai appeared stronger than before. It used Double Team and came at Cody with a Quick Attack. Instead of one pokemon hitting him, all the duplicates hit him causing Cody to drop to his knees. Darkrai took advantage of his handicap. It attacked with Pursuit, then Quick Attack again. Cody was hit hundreds of times by all the clones of Darkrai. He lifted his useable arm to his bruised face and felt his nose, then his lip. Both were bleeding.

Suddenly a cry was heard and Cresselia appeared in front of him. Darkrai shuddered, but continued his onslaught of attacks. Cresselia took the damage for every one and disappeared before she fainted. She left behind a strange object. It wasn't close enough for Cody to reach so he used focused all his strength into his one arm and made an attempt to "crawl" close enough so he could grab the item. "I'm so close..." Cody was out of energy. He was pissed now. He had worked so hard to stay out of this position. He had worked too hard to lose to ARCHIE, of all people. Cody decided he would do whatever it took to win this battle. "This is MY LIFE DAMNIT! GET OUT!" Cody shouted. He realized his arm wasn't numb anymore. Disable’s effects had worn off. He tried to stand. A familiar voice came from behind him and helped him up.

"Now, why are you trying to fight a pokemon with no defense of your own?" It was Richard. Ike appeared behind him, then Ginji, then Thard, and then Maddy. "What are you guys doing here?" Cody asked in awe. "We came to help," Richard responded. "Thanks," Cody said as he stumbled over to the mysterious object and picked it up. It was a Lunar Charm. Darkrai rushed at Cody with Quick Attack again. He couldn't take another attack. Cody tensed his body, closed his eyes tight, and held up the Lunar Charm in defense. He didn't feel anything after that. “Wow, maybe this thing actually works.” Richard had sent out Froslass, Maddy had sent out Empoleon, Thard had sent out Dusclops, and Ike had sent out Typhlosion. All their pokemon were attacking Darkrai, keeping it busy. Cody had regained strength in his legs and ran over to Archie.

He didn't know how, but somehow Cody had caught a second wind of energy. Archie swung at him, but Cody teleported behind him and punched him in the kidney. Archie quickly swung around and made another attempt to hit Cody. He teleported back and kicked Archie in the ribs. He then teleported behind him and grabbed his hand. He twisted it and forced it behind Archie's back. "You know I can break it." Cody said, now unafraid. "I want you out of my head, NOW DAMNIT!" Cody looked over at the pokemon fighting Darkrai. Only Typhlosion and Empoleon were left. Archie attempted to call off Darkrai, but it wouldn't listen. A sword appeared in Cody's hand and he thrust it through Archie's back. He collapsed immediately. Typhlosion sent off a final attack and Darkrai fainted. Cody looked at the Lunar Charm and then at the gang. Everything was starting to fade. "Thank you," Cody said. Then everything went black.

"Flareon? Flareeeon?" is what Cody heard next. He opened his eyes to see Flareon out of her pokeball, licking his face. "OK! OK!" Cody laughed as he tried to stop Flareon. He got up and picked up his new friend. "Thank you buddy." he said to Flareon. "Time to go home." Flareon just licked his face and smiled as they made their way back to HQ.

Reaper: *walks over to sport to see that strange figure*
"Hey sport who is this person?"^_^

The strange girl simply smiled at Sport as she treaded water, slowly making her way to the edge of the water and tried to climb up onto the ledge. As more of her became visible, it became apparent that she was wearing very little, mostly just a few strips of old fabric for the sake of decency. What was more alarming though, were the spines protruding from her body in various places.