Summers' P.O.V
Dear Summer and Ania Cress,
It would be greatly appreciated if you both could join us here at the Ranger Union. We have been monitoring your work and are thoroughly impressed with the both of you. Summer for her bravery and Ania for her skills and being able to keep her composure, even when the Rangers are in danger.
These are two skills that we must have at the Rangers Union. We have spoken with one of our Top Rangers and he would be delighted to have a partner with him.
We hope to see you first ting tomorrow at the Ranger Union in Almia, just west of Altru Square.
Best regards
Chairperson Erma and Professor Hastings
I couldn't believe it; did I just read that right? The Ranger Union wanted us? I re-read the note, but the words never changed, not like I expected them to though. Quickly I got from my seat and rushed to Ania, who was behind her desk. We had been stationed in Summerland with Cameron after graduating from the Ranger School.
"Ania," I spoke calmly as I walked up to the desk, she smiled at me.
"Sup sis?" she asked, I smiled widely.
"You won't believe it," I smiled, she cocked a brow at me, I just handed her the letter. Once she stopped reading she screamed, quite loud at that.
"Oh my Arceus, NO WAY!" she yelled, I smiled at her, I was glad we quit Team Darkness, we made new friends, gained a new family and now, we would be having bigger adventures.
"Cameron!" Ania called, Cameron walked over to the desk, Ania handed him the note, his mouth dropped wide open.
"Ok Ranger, line up," he ordered, this was the very rare time that Cameron showed his 'Leader Side' as everyone called it.
"It is a sad day when I have to lose one of my best Rangers and Operators, but also a happy day, when we know they are going to the Ranger Union," he spoke, everyone looked at Ania and I. I smiled widely at her.
"For this, we bid you good luck and thank you for your help around Summerland over the past few months," yes you heard right, months, we had only graduated about three months ago, but we showed potential.
"But for now," Cameron started, "LET'S PARTY!" he yelled as he began to dance, we all sweat dropped at him but soon Ania placed a CD in the stereo and we were all celebrating.
The next day, Summers' P.O.V
"I can't believe this," Ania breathed as we walked up the steps to the Ranger Union, our bags were packed with what little things we had.
"Tell me about it, the last time we were here, well I think you remember," I stated, the last time we were here, we were getting our soldiers back.
"Yeah, I do," Ania stated as we walked through the doors, we were met by Murph, least I think it was Murph.
"Hello there, my name's Murph, I'm the PR of the Ranger Union," he started, yeah Murph, "Hey, you're Summer right?" he asked.
"That's me, surprised you remember," I stated as I looked at him, "This is my sister Ania," I introduced, Ania smiled at him.
"Nice to meet you Murph," she said, Murph looked at her as he stuck his hand out.
"You too," he answered as they shook hands, "Come on, I have to take you to Erma and Hastings," Murph said, we nodded as we followed him up the steps and to the Operators' floor again. The other Rangers were there, Kate, Keith, Sven, Wendy and Ben.
"Ah, here are our new comers," Erma smiled as she looked at us, Ania and I both smiled, Kate looked at us.
"Hey, you're Summer right?" she asked, I nodded, "How you been?" she asked, I shrugged.
"Meh, fine, you?" I asked.
"I've been good," Kate answered.
"Who?" Keith asked, I looked at him, as did everyone else; Kate hit him over the head.
"You remember Summer right, she wanted to be a Ranger," she said it slowly, like she was talking to a child.
"Oh yeah, I remember," Keith smiled at me, I nodded to him.
"Well, this is Ania, she's my sister," I introduced, Ania smiled at everyone.
"I'm Kate, this idiot's Keith," Kate answered.
"Hey, you know you love me," Keith wink at her, Kate rolled her eyes.
"I'm Sven," Sven smiled, Ania nodded her head.
"I'm Wendy, the flying Ranger," Wendy introduced, Ania smiled at her.
"Cool," she answered.
"I'm Ben," Ben introduced, though he was mainly looking at me, I smiled at him.
"Now that introductions are out of the way," Erma spoke up; we turned to her and Hastings, who was stood next to her.
"Summer, Ania, welcome to the Ranger Union. As we said in the letter, your skills are skills we need at the Ranger Union. Ania, you will be working alongside Rythmi," Rythmi stood up, "Marcus," a brown haired boy stood up, "And Linda," a blue haired woman stood up, Erma then turned to me.
"Summer, you will be working alongside, Kate, Keith, Sven, Wendy and Ben," she stated, I nodded my head, "But for now, we shall let you get settled in. Ben show Summer to her room, Rythmi, show Ania to hers please," Erma ordered, the two nodded as I followed Ben, Ania followed Rythmi in the opposite direction.
"You'll be staying in here," Ben stated as he flipped a light switch, the room was quite large, two desks, a few chairs, two beds, two wardrobes, a door to the bathroom, woah back up, two beds?
"Erm, mind telling me why they're two beds?" I asked, Ben smiled as he jumped on one of them.
"Simple, all Rangers have a partner, take Sven and Wendy for example, they share a room, Kate and Keith share a room so me and you share a room," he answered, I looked at him.
"I take it you're my partner then?" I asked, Ben smiled widely.
"Yep," he answered popping the 'p' at the end, I rolled my eyes.
"Whatever, can you like turn around or something?" I asked, Ben looked at me confused, "Unless you want to see my underwear collection, turn around," I ordered, Ben blushed as he quickly turned around.
"T-tell me when you're done," he stated, I smiled widely.
"Will do," I answered, I quickly put everything in my wardrobe before putting my Puzzle Piece and Team Darkness uniform, yes I still had them, under my bed.
"Ok, I'm done," I stated as I looked at Ben, who smiled at me.
"What's going on?" I looked around the room for the source of the voice, my eyes landed on Bens' Pichu, I looked at it them Ben.
"Did…..did that pokemon just…talk?" I asked, Ben looked at me, then smiled a little.
"I'm surprised you could hear it, most people can't, but yes he did in a way, every Ranger here has a Partner Pokemon that talks to them, only he or she can hear it sometimes though," he stated then looked around.
"Where's your Partner Pokemon?" he asked, I shrugged.
"Don't have one yet," I stated as I sat on my bed, Ben frowned.
"Well, you'll get one soon, I'm sure of it," Ben smiled at me, I smiled back, he was different when he wasn't trying to convert people.
"I'm gonna go take a shower," I stated as I stood up, Ben nodded his head.
"You better not put your bra over the top of the shower," he called, I turned to him.
"Why in Arceus' name would I do that?" I asked, my face a light shade of red.
"I don't know, Kate does it, so does Ryth and Wendy, so why should you be any different?" he asked, I flushed again before walking into the bathroom.
Once the water was running I stepped in, the water hit my skin hard as it lightly burned me. I sighed as it did so; I allowed my mind to wander around what had happened in less than a year.
We quit Team Darkness, entered the Ranger school, got sent to Summerland, made great friends and then got Promoted to Top Ranger. I was jolted from my thoughts as a knock came from the door.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"Erm, Erma wants to see us, as soon as possible," it was Ben, I shut the water off, grabbed a couple of towels, put my hair in one, while my other went around my body. I placed my clothes in the wash basket and walked into the room.
Ben was sitting on his bed playing with his Pichu. When he heard the door open he looked at me, only to look away quickly.
"D-don't you get dressed in there?" he asked, his face was red, I smirked a little.
"My clothes weren't in there, besides, the hairdryer's out here," I stated as I grabbed the hairdryer and began to blow dry my hair. I heard Ben sigh behind me as he pick something up from one of the desks, he placed it next to me.
"It's your new uniform, just hurry up, Erma wants to see us," he said again, I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, you already said," I answered as I placed the hairdryer down, my hair was still damp, but that didn't matter. I walked over to my wardrobe, pulling out a bra and pants, a grabbed the uniform and walked back into the bathroom.
When I emerged again, I was fully clothed and ready to go; Ben looked at me, then frowned a little.
"I like it the other way, go back to wearing jus the towel," he said, my face flushed as did his, "Did, did I say that out loud?" he asked, I nodded my head as I turned to get my styler.
"Don't bother, you'll get the symbol of a Top Ranger from Erma when we see her, now come on," Ben said as his Pichu jumped onto his shoulder.
"If you're sure," I answered as I walked next to him out the door. We walked through hallways, Ben greeting everyone we saw, some of the girls in the Union making heart eyes at him, blowing him kisses.
"Gag me," I stated, Ben looked at me.
"You have no idea," he stated as we walked into the conference room.
"There you two are," Hastings said, Erma shook her head.
"First thing's first," she said, as she walked towards me, "Summer, dear, here is the symbol of a Top Ranger, the Fine Styler," she said, I looked at it.
"Cool, how dya put it on?" I asked, Erma laughed a little as did Hastings, "No seriously, how do you put it on? I'm no good with technology that I haven't seen the blueprints to," I stated, Ben shook his head as he took the styler then my hand, he then placed it on my arm, I smiled at him.
"Thanks," I smiled; he nodded as we turned back to Erma and Hastings, the door opened once more to reveal Ania.
"Yo Summer," she smiled, I nodded as I high fived her.
"Now that all three of you are here, we will get to business," Erma started, "Summer you and Ben are partners that is why you share a room," Erma said, Ania looked at me with wide eyes, I glared at her, "Next thing, Ania, will be your personal Operator while you are on missions or quests, however if another Operator answers your calls, don't be worried, she will be busy with something else," Erma explained, we nodded our heads as we listened.
"Now, down to the reason you two are really here," Hastings said, we turned to him, "I called you both here because I have en extraordinary mission for the both of you-,"
"An extraordinary mission?" Ben repeated, Hasting looked at him and nodded his head, though you could tell he wasn't happy about being interrupted.
"Yes, an extraordinary mission," Hastings answered, "I'm sure you've heard of this, there is a group of people who control Pokemon and take them from their homes," Hastings stated, Ben thought for a minute, while I cast a worried glance at Ania, who looked at me with equal worry.
"Yeah, I read something about that in the papers," Ben stated, Hastings nodded his head as he looked at me, I masked my worry behind a blank mask.
"Sorry, I haven't heard anything about it," I stated, Hastings nodded his head before continuing.
"Well, they are called Pokemon Pinchers," Ania and I both flinched a little at that, but we quickly cooled ourselves down, we looked at Hastings as we continued to listen, "Up until recently, the members worked individually, but now these Pokemon Pinchers are becoming a unified outfit. The question is why?" I looked at Ania we already knew the answer, to do what Team Darkness couldn't, to finish what we started and what Ania and I stopped.
Hastings began pacing the room; once he stopped he turned to us.
"In any case, they're probably up to no good," he stated, I almost rolled my eyes, but I do have respect for the elderly, "I want you, Ben, Summer, to head to the Oblivia Region, investigate their plans, and, if necessary, stop them," Hastings ordered, we nodded our heads as we waited for the information on the Oblivia Region. Ania looked at me with worry in her eyes; I looked at her with a reassuring smile.
"Woah, what, wait a minute," Murph then ran onto the scene, I sweat dropped along with Ben as he began huffing for air.
"If you need an explanation of the Oblivia Region, leave it to me," Murph suggested, Hastings turned to him, he looked at little pissed.
"Murph, I will take care of the explanation myself," Hastings huffed, Murph looked at him pleadingly.
"Please Professor don't take away any more of my remaining few responsibilities," Hastings calmed down a little after that, Murph smiled widely, "Well then, let me give you a brief explanation of the Oblivia Region," he started, Hastings shook his head at the boy, while I tried my best not to laugh at him, "In a sense, it is a place the rest of the world has forgotten about. It's a carefree and peaceful paradise," Murph explained.
"You may be right, it is a peaceful paradise. That is, however, exactly what the Pinchers are after. The area is so peaceful that we only have one Area Ranger stationed there," Hastings explained, my mouth dropped open at that.
"That's a little, erm, idiotic, isn't it?" I asked, Hastings and Murph turned to look at me, "I mean no matter how peaceful a place is, there should always be more than one Ranger, I mean, Summerland's peaceful, but there were about five Rangers there," I stated, Hastings sighed.
"You may be right about that Summer," he said.
"This is the Oblivia Regions motto-,"
"Oblivia, islands of ancient ruins and legends," Murph, Ania and I chorused, Murph looked at us in shock.
"What?" I asked, "We've looked into Oblivia before," I added on, Murph nodded his head.
"Not listen you two, it may be peaceful, but don't let your guard down," wouldn't dream of it.
"Now for the rest of my explanation of the Oblivia Region," Murph spoke up again, "There are nine parts in all, so make yourselves comfortable ok?"
"That's enough Murph, if you're that desperate for work, I'll find you something to do," Hastings almost yelled, I held my ears as Ania did the same.
"Note to self, don't piss professor off," I muttered as I removed my hands from my ears, Ben snickered at me; I turned to him before sticking my tongue out.
"Our discussion has gone slightly off track," Hastings spoke again, I raised an eye brow.
"Slightly?" I asked, Hastings glared at me, "Shutting up," I said as I held my hands up in defence.
"Depart immediately for the Oblivia Region. Cooperate with Pokemon and foil the Pokemon Pinchers plans, defend nature and peace for everyone," Hastings ordered.
"Yes Sir," Ben and I said at the same time before we walked out with Ania, who pulled me away from Ben for a moment or so.
"Be right back Ben," I said as I walked with Ania somewhere where no one would hear us.
"This is bad, this is very, very bad," Ania started, "The Societea know what you look like as you know who or as you are now, what do we do?" Ania asked, I sighed as I held up a mobile phone, it was a universal phone, in other words it always had a signal.
"I'll contact you if anything goes wrong, ok?" I asked, Ania looked at me worried but nodded her head.
"Alright, now go, you've got to leave immediately," Ania reminded me; I nodded my head as I ran towards the front of the Ranger Union. Ben was stood there with Kate, Keith, Sven and Wendy.
"Sorry about that, now let's head out," I stated, Ben nodded his head as we caught some nearby Staraptor, Keith smirked.
"Good luck Ben, don't do anything I wouldn't do," he said with a wink, I glared at him while Ben tried to use a tree branch as a weapon to hit him with.
"Good luck Ben, you too Summer," Kate smiled, I nodded my head.
"Yeah, remember, don't be afraid of failure," Sven stated, I looked at him but nodded my head.
"If the Staraptor get restless, just pet them, it should calm them down," Wendy advised, "Good luck," she added on once we took to the skies.
"So, which way's the Oblivia Region?" I asked, Ben stopped his Staraptor.
"I have no idea," he stated, I sighed as I pulled my styler out.
"How the hell do you use text on this thing?" I asked, Ben laughed.
"You don't, press the button that says 'Voicemail'," he ordered, I did as told, sure enough Ania popped up on the screen.
"Hey Summer, what's up?" she asked, I sighed.
"Can we have a map to the Oblivia Region, and while you're at it, GET ME THE FRICKNIG BLUE PRINTS TO THIS STYLER!" I yelled, Ania laughed at me.
"Sure thing, but the blue prints, don't think I can," she stated, I sighed as she ended the transmission.
"Receiving map to Oblivia Region," my styler said, I would have jumped a mile high if I weren't on a pokemon.
"What the?" I asked as I looked at the styler.
"I am Voice Nav. I will be your new styler, if you have any questions please ask me, but for now, please enter your name," it ordered, I did as told as I entered my name into the styler, "Processing, processing," I looked at Ben, who just gave a thumbs up, "Processing complete, welcome Summer," Voice Nav. said, I almost sweat dropped, "Oblivia Region is to the West of the Almia Region," it said again, I smiled.
"I already love this thing," I stated as we took off west, Ben shook his head as we flew through the skies. This new mission would be totally awesome.
Chapter one done, you know the drill, I don't own pokemon that goes to…..whoever created it, also this is the sequel to Team Darkness, in case you didn't figure it out, now REVIEW and I will get the next chapter up ASAP, please REVIEW :D