Prologue

For Team Snagem, life was simple. Wake up. Eat. Steal Pokémon from unsuspecting trainers and ship them off to another criminal syndicate named Cipher who turns them into Shadow Pokémon. Go to sleep and then wake up and do the whole thing all over again. Yes, everything was going smoothly, until some jackass blew up their lab and made off with the device that allowed them to steal Pokémon and uses it to dismantle the organization. To make matters worse, it was their top Snagger. And because of this event, the most powerful criminal syndicate in Orre now has their full attention focused on him. Wes soon finds himself in a battle against Pokémon with virtually no weaknesses, and with little means to stop them, he is hard-pressed to succeed, until something within Wes causes the tide of the battle to turn giving rise to a power that Cipher wasn't prepared for, and a romance that Wes didn't count on.