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Chapter 2: Raiden's Determination

Raiden's POV

The Next Day…

Pain. That's all I could feel at the moment. I had just woken up mere moments ago to see my team battered, bloodied, and defeated. Oh, command is not going to be pleased about this. Then I realized I was higher up than usual and couldn't move. I looked down to see a stone pillar keeping me on the roof. "Wha… What happened?" I asked. No response followed as my team was still unconscious from last night. I looked to see the severity of the damage. Volk, the Jolteon by the sofa, seems to have the most terrifying wounds of us all. There was a deep bite mark on his neck with the skin and fur around it charred to a crisp. Jade, the Lilligant that was lying next to Volk with a deep gash on her stomach and had a small pool of blood under her. Jacob, the Machamp that was slumped against the closet door, had more cuts and gashes along his chest and arms. Lastly was Alabaster, the Hypno who laid face down by the kitchen door. I wasn't able to see his wounds, but I can guess he didn't fare any better.

I sighed and mentally berated myself. "I failed…and now my team could be dead because of me. Arceus, I'm an idiot…" I thought. Before I could berate myself further. A shadow passed by the open roof on the Worn-down mansion. Who could that be? Was that the Braviary from yesterday? Are they here to finish what they started? I was panicking and jumped as soon as I heard a voice behind me. "Sergeant Raiden, are yo-what the hell happened here?!" said the voice. "Who's there?!" I asked. I still had yet to recognize the voice. The voice sighed and flew into my line of sight. The Figure turned out to be a Pigeot with a HAA uniform. "Sergeant Raiden! It's me, Tom. Look, I'm going to get an ambulance for you and your team. Just uhh, hang in there." Said Tom as he flew out of the open roof in a hurry. "Yeah, like I could go anywhere…" I said in a defeated tone before my vision faded to black.

A few Hours later, I had woken up in the hospital in Castelia City. I had looked down to see my chest covered in bandages. Thankfully, all of us had survived, the attack last night. However, Volk will need a little time off to heal his more severe wounds. I was good to be checked out today as well as Jacob and Jade. Alabaster apparently had suffered major damage from the Night Slash from the Zoroark last night. At least everyone is ok… I thought, looking at Jade who's waiting for the others to come out. I turned my attention to the door when I heard yelling. Oh damnit… I forgot about my boss. Lieutenant Anton Heller, a Houndoom and my boss, stormed through the door with smoke and flames coming from his mouth. He was not happy. "Sergeant! Why the hell is your team in the hospital!?" yelled Anton, fury dripping from his words as he stalked up to us. "Sir! We were ambushed by a Human trainer and his Pokemon. They were expecting us and had overpowered and outnumbered us." I said, not daring to move an inch for fear of being back in the hospital room. Lt. Heller looked shocked at what he heard. A trainer with his Pokemon? How could this be… all of the Pokémon should have left their trainers yet, these ones decided to stay. Lt. Heller dropped his shocked look and looked back at me, a snarl on his face. "You and your squad are on medical leave for a few days. Until then, do what you can to learn about this human and his team." Said Heller in a dangerously low voice, venom practically dripping off of each word. "Yes Sir!" I said, not wanting to be on the receiving end of his anger. The Houndoom stormed off, probably to get back to his paperwork.

No POV

Raiden sighed, how was he going to do this? With the Human's Pokemon helping him, it would be difficult to even make a dent in his defenses let alone get to the human. And with the array of weapons he showed last night, it looked like he could put up a fight as well. This was not going to be easy. Jade had put a petal on Raiden's shoulder, causing the Luxray to look back at the worried Lilligant. "What are we going to do? It's obvious the Human wants to be left alone, and if the Pokémon that were with him weren't even trying to fight us. What could they do if they were serious? What shou- no, what can we do?" Asked Jade, her voice was quiet and sorrowful. Raiden took a moment to think. That's right, they looked as if fighting us was child's play. The Human even had to call them back before they had knocked us unconscious. "I don't know, Jade. We can't risk being attacked like this again. We're on medical leave until all of us are fully healed. Lt. Heller said that until then we should learn all we could about the human we're hunting." Said Raiden, leaving the Lilligant uneasy. "How are we going to do that?" asked Jade, unsure of how they were going to pull it off. "Let's gather the others and see what we can come up with from the information we currently know." Ordered Raiden. Jade

nodded before walking off to the others who were currently awake.

A few minutes later…

Raiden's team all gathered together around Volk's bed. Said Jolteon was awake, but was still bedridden for the day. "Okay, we know that the human must've been a trainer previously." Said Raiden. "What else do we know?" "He has a lot of knives" Said Volk with a smirk on his face. "His Pokemon are strong, could he have been a Gym Leader?" Asked Jacob. "Not one with any of the regions that I'm familiar with." Said Raiden, a thoughtful look on his face. "What if we looked at the Trainer Records for anyone with a team like that?" suggested Volk. Alabaster nodded "That just might work." He said. Raiden got up and went over to the nurse at the front desk and showed her his badge. "Excuse me, do you mind if I borrow the computer for the Trainer Records? We're looking for a specific human." Asked Raiden. "Of course, officer. Good luck." Said the nurse with a smile. Raiden quickly got on and put in the Pokemon team from last night. "…and an Absol. Ok, let's see the results." Said Raiden as he searched the records. He scrolled through the list before stopping at the one with the human's profile. "Felix huh? Only a first name… There's barely any information on here." Said Raiden with a shocked expression. Felix's profile only had the bare minimum of information. A name and a region and a starting town. At least it's something. Raiden thought. He had walked back to his team, who were playing cards while Raiden was away.

Alabaster looked up and greeted their sergeant. "Hello Sergeant, what have you found?" asked the Hypno. Raiden sighed, "Unfortunately, not a lot. Felix, the Human, kept the amount of information on his trainer's card to a bare minimum. The only thing that's on there was his name, hometown, and what Pokémon he had on him." Explained Raiden. Jade shot up. "What if we go to the mansion they stayed at? Maybe we could find something that help." Suggested the Lilligant. The others agreed as they started to come up with a plan, send a few of the healthiest of the team to go to the mansion, to find anything that could provide any information. They nominated Alabaster and Jacob, as their wounds were already fully healed. The two HAA officers prepared to go back to the mansion to scout out for anything they could use to help find out more about Felix.

Jacob's POV

At the mansion

Well, this didn't go as expected. It looked like the place was completely emptied while we were gone. Or was it while we were unconscious? I don't know, but there was nothing here. Not even the Vault in the basement had anything! Speaking of which, we had a close call with one of the various traps in the house. The stairway that lead to the vault had a tripwire that Alabaster detected before I stepped on it. Thank god for that, this trap made what happened to us look like a small cut on the knee compared to it. Alabaster explained that when the tripwire was stepped on, it would launch a handful of nails and other sharp objects into the intruder's legs! And the other traps around the house were a lot worse than that?! God, this human, Felix, was a brutal human. Why would anyone make something like this? What could be so important and who could they be wanting to stop? Before we left, we went up to the rooms, careful of any other traps that could be around. I was ready to go into the last room before Alabaster sensed more traps in the room. He used Psychic to disarm them before I had entered in, checking for anything that Al could have forgotten. The room looked empty aside from a few papers sprawled out on the floor most were burned and couldn't be read, however, there were a few that were somewhat intact. Al picked up one of the papers and read it aloud. "Arms deal by the Dreamyard, disrupt the deal. 7500 poke reward. - Grim Collective" Said Alabaster. He looked confused at the last part as we both thought of the same thing. Who are the Grim Collective? We returned to the hospital with the piece of paper and our findings.

No POV

At the Hospital

"Why would the house have traps this dangerous? Something like this could permanently put someone here." Said Raiden, a worried tone evident in his voice. Alabaster had brought back the disarmed nail trap for the vault and brought it back for the others to see. "We don't know, but it might be connected to the people who wrote this bounty." Said Alabaster, handing the bounty note to Raiden. He read over the note, also confused when he got to the signature at the bottom. "The Grim Collective? I've never heard of them." Said Raiden. Volk shot up at the name. "I doubt anyone would've, to be honest. We should just let this human go, especially if they're involved with the Grim." Said Volk, a slight hint of fear in his voice. This didn't go unnoticed with Raiden as he questioned further. "Who are they and what makes them so dangerous, Volk? How did you hear about them?" questioned the Luxray, he was starting to get suspicious as Volk cleared things up. "I heard of them when my partner was interrogating a group of Team Rocket Grunts who were running from something a few months ago. Apparently, they're an underground Empire of humans that rule the underworld away from the human Teams. They regulate what happens in their underworld and have been known to commit crimes of various degrees from murders to arms deals. They've also had a grudge on most of the Teams since the beginning of the war" "Why haven't you told anyone about this before, Volk?" asked Jacob, confused as to the Jolteon's motives of secrecy. "I was scared that they would find out. Fearing for my life, I kept quiet about it. They said the Grim are about as powerful as legendary Pokemon when they're just playing around. None of us would stand a chance if they were trying to fight." Said Volk. The others shivered at the thought, all except the Luxray. He looked out the window a thoughtful look on his face. This has just gotten a lot more complicated. But no matter, I have to bring Felix to the HAA.