Ugh, I'm just too busy this weekend, it's killing me! Since I have a lot of stuff to get done, that's why I didn't update yesterday (which I apologize for) and why I'm getting this chapter up as early as I can. So, going in the more normal direction, hey guys! Here's the next chapter! Enjoy!
Chapter 4: Misadventure at the Mall pt 3
Link quickly ran through the mall. Okay, if I were a girl from the real world in the form of a pokemon, wondering in a mall in the world of Nintendo, where would I be? He then skidded to a stop and approached a lady. "Excuse me, but have you seen any pokemon wondering around?" He asked.
The lady thought for a moment then answered. "Yes, I saw a buneary walk into a Game Stop a little ways down." She said.
A buneary. Lilac! Link smiled brightly. "Okay, thanks!" He began to head where the lady said the Game Stop was. When he got there, he entered and looked around. In the midst of all the people in there, he saw a large group of teens crowding around something and talking excitedly. Link walked up to them curiously.
"Um, what's going on?" He asked one of the teens.
"This girl is playing a "Call of Duty" demo and she's a pro at it!" They said. Link peeked through the crowd to see, but went wide eyed when he saw that the girl was a buneary.
"Lilac!" He shouted and pushed his way through the crowd.
"Yeah?" Lilac responded without moving her eyes from the screen.
"We have to go, now. I've been looking all over for you."
"Yeah, sure, whatever. Just until this game's done."
Link gave her an incredulous look. "What do you mean 'until the game's done'? We're leaving now!"
Lilac just carelessly waved her paw at him. "Just hold on, I'm getting pretty far on this and I don't want to stop." Link sighed and face-palmed.
"Fine! Finish the game, just be quick about it." He muttered. Lilac nodded and resumed to playing as he sat there and watched her. But after a moment, Link's annoyed expression turned into an interested one. "Wow...you're pretty good at this game."
The buneary smiled proudly. "I know." She replied. "And this is my first time playing it and I have no idea what I'm doing."
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Falco frantically ran past the many shops and stores. He had asked someone if they saw any of the girls and one person said they saw a wondering vulpix who was looking for either a place to get ice cream or cookies. Immediately knowing it was Mighty, he headed toward where the person said he saw her go. After a couple minutes of searching, he finally found a frozen yogurt stand with Mighty standing at the front of the line.
"I want some chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, you can throw in some mint chocolate chip as well-" She said, speaking her order. Falco then ran up to her.
"There you are! I was worried I wouldn't find you!" He scolded. "C'mon, we're going home now."
"Hold on a minute please." Mighty told him. The employee walked up and handed her her frozen yogurt. She took a spoonful of the yogurt and shoved it in her mouth. "Okay, let's go." The two now began to head away when they spotted a certain sylveon and pichu enter a bathroom.
"Warrior Kitty and Pichu!" Falco said and he and Mighty headed to the bathrooms. "Mighty, go in and get them." The vulpix nodded and walked in. She looked around and soon spotted Warrior Kitty waiting outside one of the stalls, drinking some coffee that she probably purchased.
"Warrior Kitty." Mighty said and approached her friend. "Falco's waiting for you and Pichu out there. I think we're in trouble for walking off."
"Damn, I had a feeling we would." Warrior Kitty muttered. "Okay, but hold on, I'm waiting for Pichu." The two waited quietly, the sylveon sipping at her coffee and the vulpix eating her frozen yogurt. A relieved sigh was heard followed by flushing. The stall opened and Pichu walked out with a disgusted look on her face.
"Man, that is the last time I eat a burrito from that mexican restaurant in the food court." She mumbled and walked to the sinks. Warrior Kitty and Mighty froze in their actions and took in what she just said.
"...You didn't have to share that with us..." The sylveon finally said. After Pichu got washed up, the three exited the bathroom and came up to the waiting pilot.
"Alright, let's get going." Falco said and he and the three girls walked off.
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"You need to learn to be more responsible! I sware, if something were to happen to Frost, it'll be the end of your life!" Snake said to Sonic. The two were doing their part of the search for the girls.
"I know, I know." Sonic replied. "I'm just as worried for Light as you are for Frost and I know what I did was stupid. Now can we just drop it and get on with finding them?" The two continued their walk until they passed a destroyed, burning store. Snake and Sonic stopped and slowly walked backwards and approached the store, staring with wide eyes. It took them a while to realize that the store they were looking at was a weapons store.
Snake turned to a security guard that was standing outside. "Um, excuse me, but what happened here?" He asked.
"There was a fight between two teenage boys and a gabite and mega absol." The guard responded. "Apparently, they ended up blowing the place up."
Snake and Sonic slowly glanced at each other nervously. "Uh...About those pokemon, were they female and wearing a creeper toque and a gray bandana?" The hedgehog asked with unease.
"Yes, in fact, they were." The security guard replied. "The mega absol was wearing the creeper toque and the gabite had the bandana tied around her arm."
Sonic groaned and face-palmed. "For the love of Maria..."
"Yes, we're the, supposidly, guardians of those pokemon." Snake said. "Can you tell us where they are?"
"They were sent down to the mall's holding cell, where we keep troublemakers."
"Thanks."
And with that, the soldier and the hedgehog quickly ran to the said location.
(Page Break)
In the security office, Light, Frost, and the teenage boys sat sulking in the holding cell. A moment of silence passed until the gabite sighed. "This sucks..." She mumbled. The door then opened and a guard stood in the doorway.
"They're in here." He said to someone outside the room. Then, Snake and Sonic entered and looked to the two pokemon in the cell.
"Light! Frost!" They shouted in unison. Said pokemon quickly ran to the front of the cell and faced them.
"Snake! Sonic!" They said as well.
"Quick! Tell them it wasn't our fault and to let us out!" Light pleaded.
"Well if you hadn't argued with us, we wouldn't have started the fight!" One of the teens said to them with narrowed eyes.
"Then you should've just let us keep the poket knife, we wouldn't have argued with you!" Light snapped back.
"You two, be quiet!" Snake said to them, glaring. "You're in a whole lot of trouble, so don't talk!" The pokemon closed their mouths and directed their gazes to the ground in shame. "We're gonna take them home." Snake continued, turning to the guard.
"Of course, but you have to pay for us to let them out and for the damages of the store." The guard replied.
The soldier sighed and pulled out his wallet. "Okay, how much?"
"Exactly eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents."
"WHAT?!" Sonic shouted in disbelief as Snake just stared back with wide eyes and dropped his wallet. "Isn't there a cheaper way to resolve this? I mean, they saved Nintendo! Isn't there like a discount for that?"
The guard only shook his head. "No, there isn't. Social staus doesn't justify your punishment. So pay up or there will be severe consequences." They all were silent for a moment until Snake chuckled.
"Okay, we don't exactly...have that much money." He said. "But, I have another way to pay to get them out."
The guard crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow skeptically. "Oh. And would that be?"
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"So...what's gonna happen when we get home?" Mighty asked quietly as she, Warrior Kitty, Pichu, and Falco walked through the mall to find the others.
"Don't know yet." The pilot replied, crossing his arms. "We'll decide a punishment for you guys when we get back to the mansion."
Pichu groaned. "Dang. When Pikachu finds our about this, I'll never hear the end of his lecture." Before any of them could say anything else, loud alarms started going off. The four stopped and looked around in confusion. Just then, Sonic came running from a corner and sped past them with Light riding on his back.
"Sweet Nova, this is awesome!" The mega absol shouted as they zoomed by. Snake and Frost showed up and frantically ran after them.
"RUN!" The soldier shouted at the four as they went by and disappeared within the mall. Falco, Mighty, Warrior Kitty, and Pichu stared after them in confusion. Suddenly, a bunch of security guards ran up and two of them stopped in front of them.
"Are you with the soldier, hedgehog, and the pokemon?" One of them asked.
"Yeah..." Falco replied nervously. The two guards then pulled out tazors and handcuffs.
"Then you all are part of the culprit too." The other said. "You're under arrest."
"Wait, WHAT?!" Warrior Kitty shouted in panic and she, Mighty, and Pichu hid behind the pilot's legs.
"Whoa! Whoa! The hell is going on?!" Falco asked as he began to back away.
"Screw this! We're outta here!" Pichu said. She hopped on Warrior Kitty's back and the sylveon used Quick Attack and sped off in the direction where the other four ran. Before any more questions could be asked, Sonic and Light came back to them and the hedgehog grabbed the pilot and the mega absol grabbed the vulpix and they ran off again.
"After them!" The guards shouted and gave chase. Sonic, Falco, Light, and Mighty caught up with Warrior Kitty, Pichu, Snake, and Frost and they continued to run for their lives.
"Can someone please tell me what's going on?!" The pilot demanded.
"We blew up a store and got in trouble." Light answered.
"We had to pay a butt load of money to get them out of trouble and fix the damages to the store." Sonic added.
"And I blew up their cell with my grenades and we made a run for it instead." Snake finished. Mighty stared at all of them with a terrified expression.
"Why would you do that?!" She asked. "Now we're all in trouble for it!"
"Don't ask questions, just focus on escaping!" Frost said to her. The group continued to run from the security guards until they finally reached the exit to the mall. They quickly ran out to the parking lot down to Falco's Landmaster and entered it. Falco quickly started it up and sped out of the lot and away from the mall, leaving tired mall guards staring after them in defeat.
"That...was scary." Warrior Kitty finally said after a long moment of silence.
"I'm just glad we got outta there." Snake sighed with relief.
"Ya know, there's a moral to this predicament." Light said. The group looked at her, waiting for her to say something, but she just stayed quiet.
"And the moral is...?" Sonic asked.
Light just shrugged. "I dunno." The others sweatdropped in response, but suddenly, Warrior Kitty gasped.
"Wait!" She said. "Where are Lilac and Link?"
(Page Break)
Back at the Game Stop in the mall, Lilac continued to play the "Call of Duty" demo and, this time, Link was now playing with her. The two were quiet for a moment.
"Ya know, I have a weird feeling that something bad just happened." The buneary finally said. The two thought it over then they just shrugged.
"Eh, whatever." Link said, and the two continued to play.
Wow! This took long to type! There is a moral somewhere for this issue...whatever it is. But anyway, thank you all for reading! The next chapter will be up soon! See ya!
