Chapter 4- Pokemon theft
"What do you mean theft?" I asked getting back on track of what really mattered theft was no joke.
"It was horrible just unimaginable someone broke in while all the workers were on lunch and when we got back two out of three of our pokemon were missing. Those were for new trainers." He sounded so frantic so I couldn't help but to feel pity for the man I would of felt the same in his shoes. I moved as fast as I could back to Newbark with Totodile right behind me.
"I'll be back as soon as I could don't call anyone else until I get there." What was I talking about? I wasn't a pokemon detective I had no authority over the professor to tell him what to do I was fourteen he was at least thirty-five. I expected police to be surrounding the lab as if it were a murder scene.
Thump! I tripped over a large boulder and fell off of my feet. Totodile charged at me, tripped over the rock and flew a few feet in the air then landed right next to me. It looked at me and I imagined he was saying
"What's so interesting about the ground? I've been here before." I laughed and picked up Totodile and we rolled down a small hill on the route. We laughed as we had some fun tussling around.
But then I remembered "Oh wait I'm supposed to go help with the theft." I picked Totodile up and we ran as fast as we could.
I soon passed Cherrygrove the man I had previously met was sitting at the front of his house. He watched as I ran in the shoes he gave me. He was so proud he stood up and cheered "Go girl go!" And man did I run but I did also attract plenty of pokemon finally but I had leave because I had no time or pokeballs to spend any time trying.
New Bark town wasn't that far away and when I got there I wasted no time getting to the lab. The outside was nice and quiet and from the outside it looked like nothing had happened. But when I stepped inside the nice peace and quiet was exchanged for mayhem as several assistants to the Professor were running around with their heads cut off like chickens. Where was the professor? I looked around for some sort of answer but it became to loud to even think I had to step outside.
I looked outside it was nice, peaceful and silent it was like nothing had ever happened but when I stepped in it was mayhem. I sighed as I heard "Oh no we're going to get fired!" and "What if the thief returns?" from the frantic assistants and workers. The only one who was silent was the janitor.
"Hello what are you looking for?" he asked me as I approached him. He in this mess was probably the best to talk to.
"Where is Professor Elm?" I asked looking around the room making sure I didn't just miss him.
"Ya he's in the room where you normally receive your pokemon." He pointed to a room snug in the corner. The reason I didn't know was because I had never actually gone into the lab this was all new territory to a novice like me.
"Professor Elm what are you doing in here?" I opened the door to find Professor Elm but also someone else was with him. A rather tall grim looking lady was talking to Professor Elm.
"Who is this child that thinks she can just barge in and-" I stepped back as her nasty finger tried to nag itself at me. "Who do you think you are?" I retorted back.
"This is Leif our new assistant manager here." The women looked away and I did to there was no way we were going to look at each other as long as we had a free will.
"And who do you think you are kid? A trainer? Must be new." She coaxed my angry side to come out and it worked.
"I bet you haven't discovered anything new about Pokemon. You probably just studied how magikarp swim in the water." I retorted angrily.
"Actually Desiree. Ms. Leif has discovered several new pokemon beyond the Kalos region and we now have them in the archives. The only problem is we can't show them to the public yet. She also has a few other jobs like" Professor Elm was cut short by a evil glare from Leif who basically told him to be silent.
"And what do you do? Probably run around getting beat by every little twig you and your weak excuse of a pokemon you come up against." I kept my inner emotions in I didn't want this to add insult to injury or anything. Besides she hadn't seen my special Totodile maybe if she did I would be receiving praise instead of insults.
"Anyway let's get back to the theft issue." Professor pulled us back in by that comment. "We know no one was here when this happened or no one will admit it. But if I know anything about crimes is that the criminal will always return to the crime scene."
As a sudden response we were shaken off our feet and hit the ground. It was an earthquake or, maybe the thieves were back. My theory was blessed when we heard several screams for help that went silent. We all went down the stairs to see what had happened. Every assistant was tied to a post holding the lab together.
"Don't move anyone. I can't see where they are." Leif ordered and I actually obeyed.
In a few seconds in response a set of smokescreens attacked. I coughed and was grabbed from behind. I was lucky it was Professor Elm who somewhat hid me but I could still see. We could see several silhouettes pop out of the smoke. But we could not see them clearly.
One of them spoke "You will not have to hide that child we can see her." I walked out scared out of my mind I had no idea why they would return.
"What do you want?" Leif yelled out.
"What we want is far from what you would understand Leif." The voice spat he knew Leif apparently somehow I thought that was a little bit more than a coincidence. 'What could Leif have to do with these thieves?' I thought
Leif whispered "Desiree quick use your pokemon to attack them."
"Go Totodile." I called out in the smoke.
"Fool sending a child to do your work. Fine this should be fun." I heard a scoff somewhere in that comment.
I watched as a shadow lunged at Totodile. "Water gun quick!" but it was too late because the shadow had made its move on top of Totodile's and I was force to retreat my pokemon. But to make matters worse the shadow pokemon lunged at me!