The museum was quiet... This was probably something to do with the fact that the guards were trussed up and dangling from the ceiling with an excessive amount of webbing. The web originated from a gigantic Ariados, named Aria, who silently scuttled around the room, keeping watch on the incapacitated guards and waiting for her master. The large spider-like Pokémon looked up; her heightened senses picking up the almost silent footsteps of the master on the roof above, Aria began darting around excitedly as she heard the slow steps turn into a flurry of footsteps followed by a smash as Shiro Reaves burst through the skylight accompanied by a blizzard of glass. THUD! Shiro landed in a crouched position, his brown trench coat flapping, making the dive seem effortless, where in fact a normal man would not survive such a leap, but then again Shiro Reaves was not a normal man. As he stood up he dusted himself off and began walking purposely towards a large glass cabinet surrounded by spotlights which all shone upon its contents. Inside was a brown, malformed object which seemed to command fear and awe; however Shiro showed none of these emotions as he proceeded to break into the cabinet, easily bypassing the electrical security system, in fact if one emotion was showing on his face it would probably have been boredom. The object itself was, according to his mysterious client, was called the Griseous Orb and was a unique artefact which held a great power and also a great evil, but Shiro took no notice of that superstitious nonsense. The only things that he believed in were money, Pokémon and a good drink, and he was content with all that. As he finished unlocking the cabinet and pulled the lid open, removing the Griseous Orb, a shot rang out across the museum and the Orb was knocked out of his hands crashing to the ground. Shiro looked to the right to see a tall red-haired woman sprinting towards him holding her sidearm outstretched, grimacing as she prepared to fire again. Shiro dived to the floor dodging the second shot and nodding at Aria , who unnoticed on the ceiling, began to scuttle across it growing closer to the woman.
"Aria! Electroweb!" Shiro yelled rolling out of the way of a third shot.
Aria arched her abdomen and shot a missile of electrified web at the woman, who was flung against a wall by the sheer force of the projectile and remained stuck there, struggling to get free. Shiro tutted as he strode towards her, while returning Aria to her Pokeball.
"Why are you here? Who sent you?" Shiro demanded angrily.
"I am here For the good of the universe!" The woman spat, glaring at Shiro.
"What! 'The good of the universe'! I'm only supplying my client with what he wants, now I don't think my theft of a simple museum piece is going to rip space in two, is it? Or am I going to break my employee's trust?"
"I would advise you to do just that. Your employee is much, much more powerful than you think..."
"Yes, I would hope he is. After all, the more powerful he is, the larger my pay check is, miss-"
"Mars. Not that my name will matter much, when your employer gets his hands on that Orb!"
"Well, Miss Mars. I would love to stay here and chat, but I have a package to deliver." He said, waggling the Orb.
"You're making a big-"
"Vibra! Go!" Shiro said throwing Vibra's pokeball, and from it emerged a tan dragonfly-like Pokémon with green, kite-shaped wings.
"Fly!" Vibra latched onto Shiro's back and flew up through the broken skylight, waving at Mars who was struggling against her web prison.
Hours later Shiro stood on a rooftop overlooking the city, his coat flapping madly in the wind and rain whilst holding his Pokegear to his ear.
"Do you have it?" questioned a mysterious voice.
"Yes, there was a little pest control to be done but other than that it went as easy as taking candy from a Togepi. It should be with you by say, Tuesday?"
"Good... Your payment will be transferred shortly..."
"Thank you, Mr.-"
"You can call me Cyrus... Goodbye, Mr. Reaves..." He said grimly as he hung up and his Pokegear beeped to recognise this. Shiro looked up into the dark sky, pondering Mars words.