The mid-morning sun beat down on Driftveil City, in the west side of the city stood a market. People rushed through, but one lone woman in her early twenties was taking her time. The man in the tan leather duster gazed at her, she seemed quiet, careful, someone who may notice things. Looker approached the long scarlet haired girl, "you haven't seen any suspicious persons about, have you miss?"
The familiar voice made Margret 'Mars' Wilson jump in response. 'No! Not now!' She thought to herself. She had been dodging the International Police in Sinnoh for a year and a half before coming to Unova and hiding out for two years. She thought they had given up; no one had tried to find her. She had kept up on the news though and it was confirmed that Cyrus and Jupiter were captured and the elusive 'Commander Mars' was still to be found. Luckily Cyrus wasn't talking. But now, she had their best agent next to her. The international police had finally found her.
She sighed, "Alright you caught me." she turned and held her hands out, expecting to be cuffed and dragged away. She mentally cursed herself for being so stupid as to think that they wouldn't find her here.
"Miss? Are you alright?" Looker raised an eyebrow.
Mars blinked. So they weren't after her? She pulled her hands back, "sorry, just got a little worried that I had done something." she lied, realizing that he was clueless to her actual identity.
Looker chuckled, "No, I'm sure you are a standard good citizen."
"Ha-ha, yeah, let's go with that."
"All matters aside, I am looking for some people called the Seven Sages; I trust you have heard of them?" Looker turned serious.
Mars frowned, "Yeah, the Team Galactic wannabe's," Of course she had heard of them. They tried to steal her Purugly before she beat up a few of the grunts.
Looker nodded slightly, "More like Team Rocket if you ask me. Anyway, we are missing four of the sages and we need to find them and bring them into questioning. I am trying to ask the public to report to me if they see any."
Now was her chance to mess with him, "Nope, haven't seen any of the sages around here, just the occasional grunt running from the city police. Honestly, I'm surprised you're not looking for that missing Team Galactic commander; didn't they try to destroy the entire universe? That seems a bit more serious than just stealing pokemon. I even heard she held some scientist hostage in his own home until he worked for her," Mars replied, putting on her best acting face.
Looker sighed and started to walk to a nearby café table, motioning for Mars to follow him. He sat down with a heavy sigh before placing his hands on the mahogany table, "Honestly, I don't think we'll ever catch her. We had her in several times, Jubilife, Eterna, the Survival Area, and then she just got through our fingers."
Mars nodded her head, "Yeah, I heard about that. She seems pretty good at escaping you guys and laying low. Gotta give credit where it's due, right?"
Looker closed his eyes as his hand curled into a fist. "Ain't that the truth, We even asked her old boss, Cyrus about her and he told us that she was going to probably hide in obvious places. So we tried the old Team Galactic building in Eterna and the Valley Windworks. Nothing, we knew she was there. It was like she knew we were coming, she deliberately picked places where she could see us coming at her."
"That actually seems like an obvious choice, I mean, if you're a criminal, it makes sense to know when they're coming for you," Mars giggled, remembering when they came at her in Eterna City and vaulting out the window before they were within half a mile.
"It's actually pretty infuriating. She should really just give up and turn herself in." Looker groaned, remembering the several times they arrived too late
Mars grinned, how oblivious could he be? She knew grunts that could have been better officers than him. She could probably put a flashing neon sign over her head and he'd still most likely miss it, "Maybe she's been closer than you think, toying with danger or something like that."
The policeman shook his head, "No, she wouldn't be that stupid, she's known to be very intelligent, so it wouldn't be like her."
"She's not stupid if she is able to evade the entirety of the International Police. I mean, come on, you caught Jupiter how quickly?"
"That is true," he extended a hand out, "Looker."
Mars shook it, withholding a grin, "Margret."
"It's nice to meet you Margret. Say, have you actually seen her before?" he pulled out his pone and pulled out a grainy photograph of her from three and a half years ago, back when her hair was shorter and she was wearing the Team Galactic commander uniform.
Mars thought for a second. Should she tell him? Get them back on her tail? Life was going good for her, tipping off the police on other crime syndicates anonymously every now and then, but it lacked the adrenaline of a chase, "Yeah, I think I might have, about six months ago, I saw someone that resembled in Castelia City. She wasn't wearing those clothes though."
Looker shot to his feet, bracing his hands on the table, "Castelia! She made it to Unova? We thought she was in Kanto! Geez, we've been looking in the wrong place all this time!"
A server came up and handed the two menus, "I guess so, she has tricked you a few times. Then again, she is probably highly adaptable," Now for the truth, "She must have had a hard child hood, especially if she joined Team Galactic."
Looker leaned back, "how so?"
Mars took in a breath, "Okay, so I used to live in Sinnoh when Cyrus was making his recruitment speeches. Now imagine someone like Mars, possibly in a bad home environment where emotions in her home must have been abusive. Now, along comes Cyrus promising her a world that could be created where she doesn't have to deal with that. Fast forward to her joining Team Galactic, she was most likely too fascinated to leave." Mars paused, "Still following here?"
Looker seemed lost deep in thought, "Go on."
Mars struggled to keep up the charade, "So she joins Team Galactic. But then it all comes crashing down. Now this is a girl who is very emotional state of mind, she is angry at losing to this kid, so over and over again she beats herself up about it. Then, at Lake Verity, when the Galactic Bomb went off at Lake Valor and Mesprit came out of the Verity cavern, maybe the reason she was able to capture it so easily is because it could identify with her. Mesprit being the being of emotion sensed someone filled to the brim with it, Now take Spear Pillar, the man who promised her a new world is gone, leaving her a wreck. She knows she is in trouble, so she flees. At Stark Mountain, when she quits Team Galactic and eventually finds Cyrus in the Distortion World, he tells her that she is pathetic and that she should give up. He hits her. Now imagine her view on prison with him."
Looker lifted his head to look at Mars, "Any chance I could get your number, I think the international police could use you in this investigation. You seem fairly good at profiling."
"Sure, I just have to go; I have a few errands to run," Mars smiled as she wrote something down on a napkin before sliding it to Looker folded in half, "It was nice to meet you Looker."
He sat back down, information that he might be able to use, "You too, oh, and Margret?"
"Yes?" Mars was already walking away before she turned around.
He quickly got up from the table to hand her a card, "Call me if you hear anything about Team Plasma or Team Galactic," he asked before sitting back down as the drinks came.
She lifted the card to wave farewell, "Oh, I think you'll hear something very soon," She said as she walked away, a grin plastered on her face, her scarlet colored hair flowing down her back. Wait a second, the scarlet hair, knew a lot about classified information, he looked at his phone while he pictured the girl in his head. Looker unfolded the napkin quickly.
Catch me if you can Looker. -Commander Mars
Looker started laughing. She was right there, within arm's reach. And she was just hiding in plain sight. Looker looked up at the sunny sky, "Eventually Mars, eventually I will."
She even left him the bill.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Authors note: Inspired by the movie 'Catch me if you can' You guys can decide if this stays as a one shot or is multi chapter. See you next time! -Jay