Blaise listened to Zakar's introduction and watched as he handed the snag machine with Metagross to Gonzap. As soon as Zakar and Gonzap began conversing, Blaise followed her urge to interrogate the Cipher goon who Dratini tied up. Blaise grabbed the goon by the collar and faced him eye-to-eye.

"You, do you know anyone by the names of Claude and Laura?" She asked with a menacing tone.

"Wh-What the heck are you talking about?" The goon stuttered, and it aroused suspicion.

"Tell me what you know about Claude and Laura!" Blaise demanded as she began shaking him vigorously.

"I really don't know!" The goon cried in confusion. Cyndaquil tugged on Blaise's shirt in an effort to get her attention. Blaise shook him off, but he erupted flames from his back on her leg. Blaise yelped in pain and angrily spun toward Cyndaquil.

"What was that for!?" She questioned loudly. However, Cyndaquil crossed his arms and shook his head. She sighed heavily and dropped the goon. "He's useless." She dragged her feet to the other trainers and former Snagem Leader. Completely ignoring her interrogation and regaining her composure, she began to introduce herself. "My name is Blaise..." She smiled and scratched the back of her head nervously, "Cyndaquil and Dratini are my two Pokemon and I've had them since I was little, but I've only recently began battling with them."

Zakar looked at the rest of the group and then looked over at Gonzap who was leaning against the side of the outskirt stand. He was still watching them but he seemed to be less apprehensive and the fear from his eyes was gone. He approached Zakar and offered his hand.

"Any enemy of Cipher is a friend of the resistance." He said as he looked over the at the rest of them and began to look them over. The one's named Zakar and Blaise seemed to be enemies of Cipher as well but he didn't know about the other one.

"We need to leave the area now." He said as he tucked the PokeBall containing the Metagross into his belt and looked over at his Hover-cycle which had been hit by one of the attacks and looked non-operational.

"I'm heading out but I have an offer for you: Come with me and you'll see what we're doing to stop Cipher. There's only a few of us fighting against them and we can use all the help we can get." Gonzap said as the Bartender walked outside with the case. "I'm not ordering you to join us, but if your interested you might want to come with me to one of our last hideouts.

He took the case from the Bartender and let a grin appear on his face as he looked over at the Hover-cycles left by the Cipher members. "Consider these hover-cycles a gift from the resistance for helping me."

He turned to look at the downed Cipher Peons.

"And what shall we do with them?" He wondered aloud.

Blaise listened to Gonzap's offer and thought about it. This is probably the best chance I'll have at finding my parents. Professor Krane will be worried if I don't contact him though. Blaise turned to the Bartender with a request.

"Can you send a message to Professor Krane that I'm going?" Blaise asked. The Bartender crossed his arms and smirked.

"Sure, I'll let him know. You've gotten better at battling since the first time you came here." The Bartender replied with a chuckle.

"I'm not going to keep losing to Cipher, you know. Cyndaquil and Dratini are much stronger now." Blaise glanced at her Pokemon who were teasing the Cipher goon who was still conscious. "Those weren't premiere balls that Professor Krane had me deliver, were they?"

"Haha, nope! Krane couldn't let 'them' get this." The Bartender answered with a smile. Blaise returned his smile as she walked to her delivery bike.

"I won't need one of 'their' bikes. Mine is more than enough." Blaise pressed a button at the end of the handle, and the bike's wheels opened sideways and began floating like a hover bike."We could just let these Ciper Peons get buried in the sand. It'll be like we were never here." Cyndaquil crossed his arms and shook his head again as Blaise sighed, "It was just a joke."

"That was a pretty dark joke." The Bartender smiled wryly.

Blake walked up to Zakar his houndoom followed closely not letting up from his protective growl. "You seem to know a lot, so who are these people?" he asked as he petted the houndoom's head. "And, no funny business my Houndoom here can smell trouble and a lie a mile away." He said in a warning fashion. "shadow Oder sleuth around here and see if you can pick up any items." He said circling the area with his hand he placed his hand on his ultra ball with the blue flame cap seal. The Houndoom walked off reluctantly but he did and he got busy sorting through the wreckage and what was on the cipher pegion..

"We could just let these Ciper Peons get buried in the sand. It'll be like we were never here."

The Bartender looked over at the group of downed Peons and smiled. "I think I know what we can do with them. I have a few spare spaces in the stand that I can stash them. Don't worry about it, I'll figure out what to do with them."

"You seem to know a lot, so who are these people? And, no funny business my Houndoom here can smell trouble and a lie a mile away."

Zakar narrowed his eyes. "First off, watch your mouth and your tone..And second, how can you not know who these guys are? Cipher has been in control of the region for around five years now. Are you new here or something?"

Gonzap turned to look at the group. "So, what's the deal? Are you going to come with me and have a chance to make a difference? Or are you just going to stand around here?" He asked Zakar and Blake/

Zakar turned to look at him. "I'm in." he said as he looked at the Larvitar and Totodile. "What about you two? What do you think."

Both Pokemon nodded and Zakar grinned. "I guess you can count these two in as well."

Blake thought for a second his houndoom walked up behind him a potion in his mouth. "I guess but no one is to touch my stuff." He said grabbing the potion and placing it in his bag. The ultra ball fell out of its holder on the outside of the bag and gengar walked out from the dark blue flame. "Gen gen." He said. he looked at the others and a smile spread across his face. "Oh ,yea this is my gengar he is a trouble maker but he is a great Pokémon." He said putting gengar back in his ultraball.

Blaise plopped onto her transformed hover-bike and clicked her helmet on. She signaled to Cyndaquil and Dratini to take their usual positions on the bike with her. Cyndaquil jumped and crawled onto her lap. Dratini slithered into Blaise's delivery pouch and snuggled inside.

"Shouldn't we get moving? Cipher will send reinforcements when they don't hear back." Blaise suggested.

"She's right. I'll handle things here. You guys go ahead." The bartender insisted. Blaise pulled on her goggles and revved her engine. Gonzap took a seat on one of the hover bikes left from the Cipher Peons.

"Whenever all of you are ready." Gonzap started up his bike and began leading the way for everyone.

Zakar looked back as he jumped on one of the Cipher goon's hover-cycles and saw the Bartender begin dragging the out cold goons into the outskirt stand. He motioned for both totodile and Larvitar to jump on the back of the cycle. He took off after Gonzap's cycle and noticed that he was heading deeper into the desert. He paused for a moment as he studied the controls and immediately took off after Gonzap.

Gonzap looked back at the group as he continued heading deeper into the desert. "Our HQ is deep in the desert!" He shouted over the sound of the cycle. "I can't give you the exact coordinates but it's about an hour and a half away from here. Be careful while driving these things and stay close! If you get lost out here it's going to be very hard to find you!"

As Blaise was following Gonzap in the swealtering heat, she began to wonder how much longer until they reached their destination. She let out a sigh and something in the distance caught her eye (Is that a person? He looks like he's waving in this direction).

"Hey! There's someone over there! I think he needs our help!" Blaise turned toward the person who was waving for help. She flew toward the person and saw that he had Pokemon with him. Blaise stopped and climbed off her bike. "Are you okay?" She asked as she noticed some filming equipment and a run down buggy.

Blake walked slowly following them lingering around looking around. "Maybe I'll find something." He whispered to himself. He caught up with Blaise fifteen minutes later houndoom following closely by my side. "heh, another person needs help." Blake said shaking his head slow houndoom copied. Blake looked at the filming equipment. "what seems to be the problem? Lost your star?" He asked jokingly.