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"Blaze, Zephyr, hurry up!"
Two female figures ran across the rooftop of a large building, the light from the moon behind dark clouds only able to show some of their features.
One girl was quite a few inches taller than the girl running in front of her. She had short chocolate brown hair that was tied up in a high pony, although most of the hair framing her face wasn't long enough, so it just stayed framing her face. The bottom half of her face was covered, only leaving her sapphire eyes showing. She was wearing a black long sleeve turtleneck with long black leggings and black converse with red laces. Around her neck was a flash drive necklace.
The girl in front of her was about 4' 10", and had caramel hair with a light brown under layer. Her hair was up in a high pony, which reached to just above the base of her neck. The bottom half of her face, too, was covered, leaving her vibrant green eyes showing. She was wearing a black long sleeve turtleneck with a black over the shoulder T-shirt over. She had black leggings that stopped at the knee, where black high top boots with orange laces took over.
That was when it started raining.
"Oh, lovely," Blaze hissed as the two continued to run. "Petal, we're trying, how is it holding up over there?"
"I'm doing OK, but please hurry up! God, this would be so much easier if Aqua and Shadow Princess were here."
Zephyr snorted. "Tell me about it!"
Then they heard it. A bunch of gunshots from behind them.
"Dammit!" Blaze cursed, and pulled Zephyr down, the rain still beating down on them. They finally managed to reach the edge of the building, and in between the next building was a large gap, the only thing that they could possibly use to go across was a metal wire, that wasn't as thick as the two would like.
"Blaze, go first, you have the data," Zephyr ordered, pushing her companion towards the wire, all the while pulling out her own gun, and attempted to shoot at the many men behind them, the gunshots being slightly muffled by the pounding rain. Slowly, Zephyr started backing up along the wire, well aware of how risky it was, especially going backwards. A yelp from Blaze made Zephyr turn her attention. "What's wrong?"
"We're trapped!" Blaze replied shakily as she pulled her own gun out. Suddenly, pain erupted in her right shoulder, and she screamed in pain.
Zephyr took a nervous step backward, only to misplace her step and slip on the wire. She let out a surprised yelp as she grabbed onto Blaze to try and stop herself from falling, only to bring her down too. Zephyr winced as she held onto the wire with her right hand, and Blaze's left hand in her own, suspending them above the high drop that would kill them.
Blaze grit her teeth and looked up, trying to ignore the rain dropping on her face, and saw the men at the edge of the buildings, pointing their guns towards them.
"Petal, help! Red forty-two!" Zephyr managed to think as she gripped onto the wire that was starting to cut into her skin. To try and avoid getting shot, Zephyr started to rock herself and Blaze back and forth, so they started swinging.
Finally, she couldn't take it anymore, feeling the fresh wound and blood drip down her arm. "I'm sorry," Zephyr whispered as the grip on the wire loosened, and soon the two were free falling down to the pavement below.
Zephyr and Blaze shut their eyes tightly as the ground neared them, only to not hit the ground. The two hesitantly opened their eyes, and glanced at each other before looking up, hearing a maniacal laughter from above.
They hadn't even noticed the whir of a helicopter from the heavy rain pounding down, but they were relieved to see their other associate, Petal, with her trusty Chikorita beside her, using it's vines to keep Zephyr and Blaze from falling flat and killing themselves.
Petal was a little taller than Blaze, and had long brown hair that was tied in a tight braid and extended to the small of her back. Her grass green eyes were shining, a hint of a smile showing under her black half sleeved turtleneck. On her arms were green fingerless gloves. She was wearing long leggings with black high-heeled boots.
Slowly, Zephyr started getting pulled up to the helicopter as it slowly moved away from the building and the gunmen. Petal pulled her into the helicopter.
"No, no! You should have pulled May up first! She was shot!" Zephyr said, her eyebrows creased with worry. "Leaf, help me!" She said as she grabbed Chikorita's vines and started tugging.
Leaf quickly grabbed onto the vines, then spotted some blood on the vine and her eyes widened. "Ari, you're bleeding!" She tossed her head back and shouted, "Solidad! We need to get some medical attention, ASAP!"
"We just have to get May," Aria said, ignoring the burning pain in her hand, and reached down to help the bullet-wounded girl up. Once May was safely in the helicopter, Chikorita retracted her vines, and waited for further instructions as Leaf and Aria studied May.
May's face was pale, and she was breathing heavily. Aria quickly ripped the turtleneck off of her mouth and nose, to allow more air to come to the short haired brunette. Blood was pouring out of the bullet wound in her right shoulder, and her chest was heaving.
Aria pressed her hands against the wound as Leaf continued to call for Solidad, who rushed over with a rather large medical kit. The two quickly moved out of the way so May could be tended to.
"Aria, you need to be tended to as well!" Leaf hissed, trying to grab the caramel haired girl's hand, who continued to refuse.
"No! Not until May is finished! She's in a critical state right now, we need to be glad that she was shot on her right, and not her left," Aria growled as she looked over at May once again, who's face contorted in pain and her breathing became harder. "Chikorita, use Aromatherapy to calm May down!"
The Pokémon quickly complied, even if Aria wasn't her trainer, and May seemed to calm down slightly.
The rest of the helicopter ride seemed to go slowly as May was still being tended to. Aria finally allowed Leaf to check out her hand.
Leaf grimaced. "Oh god, Mari, this is really bad!"
It was true. Aria's palm was ripped to shreds, some skin just bloodied and flapping loosely, and only some skin actually still stuck to the hand. It was bleeding heavily still, and her arm was stained with her blood.
"Alright, Leaf, help me move May onto the cot," Solidad said. Leaf nodded and quickly went over, ordering Chikorita to use her vines to hold May's waist up while Leaf and Solidad took her legs and shoulder blades. Carefully, they moved the girl onto the cot.
"Now you need to tend Ari," Leaf said motioning towards the short girl.
Aria winced as Solidad checked out her hand. "Mariana Roxy Maple! You're damn lucky you're ambidextrous, because this is going to need to be sewed up, and wrapped up for a while!" Solidad scolded, while Aria grimaced, and leaned back to brace herself for the pain.
….
"So, how ya feeling?" Aria asked.
May gave her an incredulous stare. "We're on a rock climbing wall, thirty feet in the air," she deadpanned. "What the hell would you think?"
Aria pouted, and continued to struggle with climbing with one hand. "Gah! How do people do it?" Aria's hand hadn't healed completely, and the scars were really starting to annoy her whenever she wanted to outstretch her hand.
May on the other hand, had healed up quite well. There was only a small scar where the bullet wound was, and if it bothered her, May definitely didn't show it. "Where'd Leafy-poo say she was going again?"
"Uh…" Aria looked at her with a blank face. "I think to the garden…" Momentarily forgetting that her right hand had the scars, she placed it on a rock with all her weight, before quickly retracting and cradling it with her left hand, causing her to slowly fall down the wall, thanks to the safety rope. "OOW!"
May just laughed at her antics, which earned her a glare. With a huff, Aria unstrapped herself. "I'm going to help dad analyze the flash drive. Laterz~"
May watched her quickly run out of the room and gaped. She quickly slid down the wall and unhooked herself, then chased after the caramel haired girl screaming, "HEY! I called helping dad analyze the flash drive! I got it!"
Aria's hysterical laughter could be heard as May chased her through the halls of the mansion. As she rounded a corner, however, May stopped short to find Aria leaning against a wall casually with her Lucario next to her. Aria smirked, and pushed herself off of the wall.
"So, what do you say we have a race? Blaze and Zephyr?"
May grinned, before putting two fingers in her mouth, and whistling. "It's so on!"
A couple seconds later, May's strongest and most trustworthy Pokémon appeared. May quickly jumped on Blaziken's back, so she was having a piggyback ride. She glanced over at Aria, and found that she did the same with Lucario.
"Okay, we're going to find dad to help analyze the flash drive," Aria explained.
"Alright! Ready, set…GO!"
In a flash, the two Pokémon took off, only looking like a blur to the human eye. Blaziken quickly took the lead, and May caught a glimpse of Aria's mouth moving, but couldn't hear. That didn't matter though; May could see what was happening. The Lucario gained speed, then jumped up over May and Blaziken, causing them to slow down so they wouldn't get hit when Aria landed. May watched as Lucario easily did a flip, then put on an extra burst of speed as soon as he touched the ground.
May's eyes narrowed. "Blaziken."
The fire type Pokémon didn't need any other command to know what to do. In an instant, Blaziken and May copies were made, and each used Quick Attack to surpass the caramel colored girl in front. Now, May was in the front with a bunch of copies behind her, blocking the way.
"Hey!" Aria whined. "That's cheating!"
May just turned her head around and stuck her tongue out before she rounded the corner, and gained more speed, leaving Aria and Lucario.
Aria shot a stink eye and May's retreating figure. "Well, poo."
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When Aria finally arrived, May had stolen her position of leaning against the wall.
"Took you long enough."
Aria stuck her tongue out. "Whatever." She jumped off Lucario, then thanked him before the two fighting Pokémon went back to the dojo. "So, let's go analyze that flash drive!"
The two girls hooked their arms and walked up to a closed door with a keypad by the handle. May typed in the password, and the door clicked. Aria then opened the door, and the two walked in.
"Hey dad," the two chorused. Then they noticed a long haired brunette girl standing behind the man in the chair, looking at the screen with interest.
"Hey," Leaf and Norman said as he typed something in on the keyboard. A large X appeared on the screen and he groaned. Leaf rolled her eyes and leaned over the man to type something. A couple seconds later the screen became white and made a pleasant sound, before it turned black and a bunch of code started popping up on the screen.
Aria and May ran over to the screen, and scanned the contents. The three girls' eyes widened, while Norman called for Solidad.
"Norman," Leaf started. They only called him by his first name when they were on business. "This is looking bad!"
"LaRousse Academy for Geniuses…isn't that the academy you stationed Dawn and Misty at?" May exclaimed, while furrowing her brow. "The one with the secret Spy School?"
Norman looked at them and nodded with a serious look. "Yes, I stationed them there because we heard that the Giovanni organization was going to do something, but now that we know exactly what, I need to send you girls over there. You will give Dawn and Misty a briefing there. We leave at three hours, I'll have Solidad call the school. Now, go pack. Hurry!"
The three girls nodded, before dashing out of the room and towards their shared room.
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After they finished packing, they went to the elevator and pressed the last button. A couple seconds later, the door opened to reveal a large underground room with every single Pokémon you could imagine, legendaries included.
May put her fingers to her mouth and whistled once again, catching every Pokémon's attention. They all lined up.
"Alright, we've got a sudden mission," Aria started. "A serious one, too. We're taking our strongest, one legendary, and the rest ones that we can use to disguise us, that are also powerful. May, you're up."
The short haired brunette nodded and took a step forward, all the while scanning the crowd of Pokémon. "Blaziken is my obvious choice," Nodding, the Pokémon stepped forward. "Next I'll take…Suicune, Skitty, Beautifly, Glaceon, and Charizard." Each Pokémon stepped forward, and May returned them all into their pokeballs before clipping them onto her charm bracelet.
Leaf stepped up next. "Okay, Gallade, Celebi, Chikorita, Salamence, Ivysaur, and Wigglytuff." Each Pokémon stepped forward, and like May, Leaf returned them and clipped them onto her charm bracelet.
"Okay, Lucario, uhm…Victini, Altaria, Luxio, Mudkip, and uh…Eevee?" The six Pokémon stepped forward, although Eevee slightly hesitant.
May looked at her sister. "Are you sure you want two baby Pokémon on your team?"
Mudkip and Eevee looked down, ears drooping slightly, then started to take steps backwards.
"Yes, I'm sure! This'll be good for them. They need experience they can no longer be deemed as baby Pokémon!" Aria declared, grinning towards the two Pokémon before returning them and clipping the pokeballs onto her charm bracelet.
"Alright, the rest of you! Don't start another Civil War while we're gone –and Munchlax and Snorlax, don't eat all your food in the first five minutes! Alright, wish us luck!" Leaf ordered before the three went back into the elevator.
They quickly arrived at the ground level floor again, before heading back to their room. "What's the time, Leaf?" May asked.
Leaf checked her watch. "We've got about forty-four minutes until we leave on the private jet to LaRousse."
"Kay!" Aria grinned as they opened the door to their room, before stopping short.
On each of their beds were a uniform. A white dress shirt with plaid colored cuffs, and a colored ribbon. The skirt plaid and colored as well. May's and Aria's color was yellow, while Leaf's was blue. Each had a black blazer, except for Aria, who had a black sweatshirt type sweater.
"Oh, so just because I'm short, I don't get a blazer?" Was her comment as she went to inspect the uniform.
"Mari and May are in Uxie yellow, while Leaf and Misty are in Azelf blue, and Dawn is in Mesprit pink." Norman explained as he stood in the doorway. "Uxie is the normal skill level, Azelf is advanced, and Mesprit is special."
"Wait, so they divide the students by skill level?" May asked. "Great way to get bullied, isn't it?"
Norman rolled his eyes and turned. "Just get changed, and we'll leave."
The girls quickly got changed, and grabbed their suitcases before heading out to meet Norman in the back yard, where the runway was. They quickly loaded their luggage and boarded the plane.
"So," Norman started after they had taken off. "Since the Spy School is secret, most of the students at the Academy are just there to develop their gifted talents. Aria and May will be in the gifted music program," The two high-fived. "While Leaf will be in the art program," She grinned. "Misty is in the athletics program, while Dawn is in the fashion design program. You will all have some classes together, and in the mornings and after school, you will be in Spy School. Solidad will go there, posed as the athletics teacher and school nurse for both the Spy School and regular school.
Also, you will not be bearing the last name 'Maple' seeing as it's quite known with because of our company, so Dawn and Misty came up with the last name of 'Green'. Aria and May will pose as fraternal twins, seeing as they are closest in age, while Dawn is the oldest, Misty being the second oldest, and Leaf being the third. You may say that you are all adopted if you wish, and please don't use your full skill while in Spy School." Norman finished.
Each girl nodded, and prepared for the long plane ride.
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~Aly