Ok, guys this will be the first update I've made in months! xD I'm extremely sorry the long gaps in-between updates...just a lot of stuff going on...college, writers' block, and

laziness! ^_^ But here it is...I decided to cut it here, since it was already really long...so even though I said the Academy would appear in this chapter, it didn't...but no need to

worry, it will definitely appear in Chapter 5! :D Please enjoy, and most importantly, REVIEW!


Chapter 4

~Later that night~

"Any sign of him?" Jenny asked her subordinates.

"We're afraid to report that he's managed to escape yet again," one of the men said bravely,

Before Jenny could start yelling at them again another guy came up and said, "But we did manage to trace where he's headed!"

"Where?" she asked.

"Veilstone City!" he replied.

"Tell our men to report to Veilstone, and to block all entrances and exits. We're completely blocking off the city, until he is found," Jenny commanded.

"Yessir!" the men answered.

'Why is capturing him such a hassle? At this rate, that man is going to be dragging me all over Sinnoh,' Jenny thought to herself.

~Meanwhile~

Cyrus walked along the river he escaped through and looked around for a place to rest. He would never, ever take refuge in anyone's house again. Also, he now held a grudge against all Nurse Joys. They were nothing but trouble, to think they help. More importantly, he had spent too much time dillydallying around; he needed to put his plan into action. First of all, he would need to establish a base to hide away from the authorities. For now, he would head to Veilstone, just as long as he was not seen. He called Dragonair of its pokeball.

"I need you again," Cyrus said to it.

Dragonair responded cheerfully, and Cyrus smirked.

'Such a docile pokemon, if only people were that way too,' Cyrus thought as he gently stroked the Dragonair.

Suddenly, a bright white light was being emitted from Dragonair's body.

Startled, Cyrus took a step back and said, "No way! Are you…?"

Cyrus had just witnessed the Dragonair evolving into Dragonite.

"Sweet," Cyrus exclaimed. "There's my ride to Veilstone."

Cyrus climbed atop Dragonite and took off. The fresh, nightly breeze brushed against Cyrus' face. He smirked.

"Just try and find me now, Officer Jenny."

~The next day, Veilstone City~

"Can I please have your attention," echoed Jenny's voice out of the megaphone she was holding.

She was on a platform in the center of Veilstone City addressing the matter of Cyrus and the blockade.

"As many of you know the fugitive, known as Cyrus, is still on the loose. Our investigations have led us to believe that he is heading here next. As a result, we will be blockading the city to prevent him from either entering or leaving the city. Therefore we need as much cooperation as we can get. For now, we are assigning a curfew to this town, and there will be hourly patrols on the streets to make sure that we succeed in capturing the fugitive. There are posters being handed out and posted throughout the city to show you what he looks like. If you see this man, alert the authorities immediately. He is a dangerous man, and is capable of harming. Thank you, that is all." Jenny stated.

As Officer Jenny walked off the platform, many of the townsfolk were yelling out their many questions and concerns.

"We will address any questions down at the local station. If you wish to go now, please proceed in an orderly fashion." Jenny told them.

Jenny decided to walk in the park to relieve a little stress; the whole Cyrus thing had been blown out of proportion. The chief blames her for not watching him carefully. Capturing that man was no longer a matter of pride or justice, her future now depended upon capture of Cyrus. After getting an earful from her chief, her options were to either catch Cyrus in a timely manner or face demotion in rank and humiliation. Amongst the crowd back at town center, three young adults made their way to a local café, unfazed by the sudden news of Cyrus coming towards Veilstone.

After the waiter took their orders, one of them said, "That cop lady sure has it in for our boss."

"Cop lady? That's a brilliant choice of words you have there, Mars," the second one said.

"Shut up Saturn!" Mars snapped. "You're such a nerd!"

"I am not! I just thought that a woman of twenty-something should have a bigger vocabulary by now, that's all," Saturn retorted.

"Just for your info, I'm nineteen!" Mars yelled at him. "And are you calling me stupid?"

"Well, if the shoe fits…" Saturn answered as Mars glared at him.

"Play nice, you two," the third person said at once.

"I will, if he does," Mars huffed.

The third person looked over at Saturn for his response.

"Sod off, Jupiter," Saturn replied.

"You first," she replied. "And aren't we supposed to use code names? We all could've blown our cover by now."

"It was Saturn's fault," Mars called out.

"Was not! And you so aren't nineteen, even if you do act childish," Saturn angrily replied.

Mars glared at him and was about to retort until Jupiter said, "Look, the two of you knock it off! No more arguing over simple-minded matters. We are to address each other by code name, got it?"

"Yes, ma'am," the two responded.

"Good," she said as the waiter came back and served their orders.

"Wow Jupi, you're starting to sound so much like the boss." Mars said impressed.

Jupiter blushed at her comment and said coolly, "It's only natural, after all, we are top operatives. We spend almost every waking minute with the boss."

"Right," both Mars and Saturn replied unconvinced.

"What?" Jupiter shouted at her friends flustered.

"Nothing," the two replied in unison yet again whilst smirking.

"So what? What if I do like the boss? He's a very intelligent man. But what about you two? As much as you argue, you know you love each other," Jupiter sneered trying to change the subject.

The two blushed, and tried to retort, but Jupiter cut them off.

"Look! There's a horde of policemen over there, it could be the boss!" Jupiter said.

"You right," Mars said. "Let's go."

The three quickly made their way down an alley hoping to meet up with their boss after all this time.

~Meanwhile~

Cyrus was running for his life as about 20 policemen were on his trail.

"Bloody hell! I just landed in Veilstone, they could've at least given me a second to breathe!" Cyrus complained.

He quickly ran down a very narrow alleyway, hoping to at least hold the cops up, for a chance to slip away. He then jumped the fence, and took refuge in a nearby dumpster.

"Where'd he go?" one of them asked.

"He went this way, over the fence," answered one guy.

"But it's way too far up, how the hell could he have jumped it?" another guy asked.

"He had a pokemon with him, that's he got over the gate. Jumping over would take him towards the harbor, so he must've been planning to leave the town via boat," the leader deducted. "I want all squads to the harbor now," he yelled into radio transmitter.

He and the other cops ran back out and made their way to the harbor. Cyrus then poked his head out of the dumpster and smirked.

"That was the most stupidest deduction I have ever heard, policemen are idiots," he commented as he hopped back over the fence with the help of Dragonite.

He then made his way out of the alleyway happy and triumphant, that is, before he was grabbed by three people in trench coats, hats, and glasses. Cyrus, who had not seen who grabbed him, was now scared out of his mind.

'There's no ruddy way I've been captured so easily, I had only just escaped,' Cyrus thought angrily.

He tried to fight his way out of the strangers' grasp, but they had just knocked him out with a Sleep Powder, with cooperation from an Oddish.

~One hour later, in an abandoned warehouse~

Cyrus stirred from his quick, if not enjoyable, afternoon nap. He felt himself strapped to a chair of some sort. He made a soft, pitiful chuckle.

'If I've been captured by the police, I must be in some sort of electric chair,' Cyrus thought pathetically.

He heard whispering around him, and opened his eyes, deciding once and for all to see the mess he's in now. Cyrus was shocked to see his top operatives, staring him down in the face.

"You three?" Cyrus said confused.

"And a hello to you as well," Saturn replied.

"What's going on?" Cyrus demanded.

"We saved you," Mars said cheerfully.

"Actually, once we heard news of your escape, knowing you had something up you're sleeve, we decided to follow suit. Once we found you, then you were being chased by the police, and we quickly acted and saved you from their grasp." Jupiter explained.

"Thank you for the lengthy explanation, Jupiter, but DID YOU THREE REALLY HAVE TO KNOCK ME OUT AND STRAP ME TO A CHAIR? IS THAT HOW YOU TREAT YOUR BOSS AFTER SO LONG?" Cyrus shouted at them.

"It was her idea," Saturn and Jupiter said pointing over to Mars.

"No fair! It was your idea to stun him, Saturn!"

Cyrus' deadly glare then turned over to Saturn.

Saturn avoided his gaze and responded, "You were struggling so much, we might've gotten caught."

"Fine, whatever. GET ME OUT OF THIS CHAIR, NOW!" Cyrus commanded.

Saturn quickly undid the straps and waited for further orders.

"As you should know, I have come up with a plan, to rebuild Galactic. It will be renamed Stark."

"Stark?" Saturn questioned. "Isn't that sort of depressing?"

"Yeah, how about something like the Resistance?" Mars suggested.

"The Resistance?" Jupiter said. "Now that makes it sound like we're a group of bandits."

"Will the three of you SHUT UP?" Cyrus shouted. "Has jail messed with your minds? You're all questioning my authority a little more than usual, by which I mean YOU'RE QUESTIONING MY AUTHORITY! The name will be Stark, no ifs, ands, or buts about it!"

The three remained silent as their leader continued to talk.

"Our first order of business is to establish a base," Cyrus stated.

He looked at his operatives to see if they were to question him, they didn't. They stared and listened attentively.

'Looks like they have brains after all,' Cyrus thought. He continued, "We set up here until we can find a better setting. After that, we need to build up some capital. We are penniless as of this moment, and we can't go anywhere without funds. Suggestions?"

"Car wash!" Mars exclaimed.

The three looked at her as if she were crazy.

"Whaat? I like cars," Mars said.

"Any others?" Cyrus asked ignoring Mars' comment.

"Rob a bank!" Mars suggested randomly.

"Right Mars, out of anything, we should draw more attention to ourselves by robbing a bank, genius!" Jupiter said, her words dripping with sarcasm.

"Stocks?" Saturn suggested.

"Nerd!" Mars commented, which received an instantaneous glare from Saturn.

"That's not such a bad idea, Saturn, unfortunately, we can't do stocks without startup money," Cyrus said knowledgably as a past businessman.

"True," Saturn commented.

"For now, I guess we'll have to go with Mars' idea," Cyrus said finally after reaching an impasse.

"We're doing the car wash?" Mars asked enthusiastically.

"No! You dolt!" whacking Mars on the head with a newspaper. " The robbing the banks idea, or maybe we'll hit a house or something, I'm going to need a laptop.'

"For what?" Mars questioned.

"Saturn's idea," Cyrus said patting him on the head, "So far, he's the only one who hasn't given me idiotic ideas."

Saturn stuck his tongue out at Mars.

"And you call me childish," Mars muttered angrily.

"That's why you two will be hitting the houses," Cyrus said.

"What? Why us two?" Mars asked.

"Yes, exactly. She will be the reason for any failure that does occur," Saturn stressed.

"Well for one, it's not like you two can stay. You'll never get anything done, and as you all know, I am easily recognizable," Cyrus explained.

"What about Jupiter?" Mars asked.

"She's staying here to help with the base, she's the most competent out of you three anyway," Cyrus answered.

"Fine, let's go Saturn," Mars said smirking.

"Right," Saturn agreed.

After the two left, Mars came back and shouted out, "By the way boss….JUPITER HAS A HUUUGE CRUSH ON YOU!"

She quickly ran off giggling, high fiving Saturn as they left to start their mission. Jupiter blushed a bright red, and grew incredibly angry.

'Is anything sacred with that girl? I'm going to murder her!' Jupiter screamed in her thoughts.

Jupiter turned, Cyrus was staring at her. She tried her best not to blush and keep a straight face. Cyrus, then, let a small smirk creep up his face.

'Oh no. My life is over.' Jupiter thought.

"Jupiter, as interesting as that tidbit of information is, you know that personal emotions are to be repressed or better yet abandoned. It's not li—"

"It's not love, it's more of admiration," Jupiter interrupted blushing still.

"Whatever it is, try not to let it get in the way of work." Cyrus directed her.

"Yes, sir," Jupiter answered awkwardly.

~Meanwhile~

"You know, that may have been a bit mean, Mars," Saturn commented as they left out the back entrance of a corporate building that was thankfully empty.

Saturn leaned against the outer wall as Mars lugged all of their loot out of the building.

"Aren't we lucky all those businessmen went out to lunch?" Mars said happily.

"Straying off the subject are we?" Saturn asked her.

"Well, I was a bit mean when I said that, but now I feel it was good for her. I mean she was never going to confess her feelings," Mars declared.

"So, you would do it for her? Haven't you ever considered her feelings?" Saturn berated her.

"Hey, enough with the questions! Why are you defending her so much, it's as if you liked her," Mars said sourly.

"Maybe I do, jealous?" Saturn replied wittingly.

Mars blushed at his comment and replied, "No! I am not!

"You know Mars, anger is a denotation of jealousy," Saturn sneered.

"I'm not jealous! You're such a nerd!" Mars stated.

"Yes yes, we all know that my intelligence far surpasses that of anyone in this region.

Mars stuck out her tongue at Saturn.

Saturn smirked before saying, "I know why you did it."

Mars blushed before saying, "I already told you why I did it, there was no more to it."

"Or so you wanted me to believe. Do you enjoy making me jealous, Mars?" Saturn asked bittersweetly.

"What?" Mars asked still blushing. "What are you talking about?"

"I know how you used to fawn over the boss, I know you wanted to tell him how you feel, I know you chose not to tell him. That's why you told him about Jupiter's crush, you didn't want her to go through the same emotional pain you did." Saturn explained staring at Mars with intensity.

"Why do you know everything?" Mars asked sincerely looking into his eyes and then looking away. "You're such a nerd..."

"So what? Aren't I the same nerd you fell in love with?" Saturn asked lifting her chin up with his finger.

Mars averted his gaze.

"Because, you're the same childish, vocabulary-inept, imprudent woman I fell in love with," Saturn stated before swiftly grabbing her around the waist, and kissing her.

When they finally diffused their embrace, Mars, then, kneed Saturn in his stomach.

"How many times do I have to tell you? I'm not childish!" Mars shouted as Saturn fell to his knees clutching his stomach.

"Ok, violent?" Saturn sputtered.

"Well, I'm just the violent women you fell in love with, sweetie." Mars said with a smile.


^w^ I'm very satisfied with chapter! I hope you all feel the same...I'll try to work at a quicker pace, but genius just doesn't come to me served on a platter...Hope I have you

looking forward to the next chapter, see ya!