Espeon: All righty, let's get right to it! JJ and Alex are busy with school and Holy Week, so they've left me and MLB in charge.
MLB: Yep, okay, let's begin.
# Chapter Four: In The Last 48 Hours. #
Mysteria's eyes adjusted to the darkness of the Hoenn warehouse fairly quickly. It had taken her more than a week to track down a Team Universe grunt, and about an hour to convince them she would make a good Team member.
"At what do you excel?" Asked a Team U leader.
Mysteria smiled sweetly before saying, "Master manipulator, battler, actor, and much, much more." She leaned forward, "I can get you into the High Places you only imagined about getting into before."
The leader, a young man named Liam, leaned in, interested, "Resumè?"
Mysteria slid a thick file towards the woman, "I've got some business to take car of, so you can get back to me on that. Here, tomorrow, eight o'clock.
Sharp."
She walked away, knowing that Liam would come. Not only was her resumè impresive, but the aura she emitted was a mysterious one, and she knew that's just what he liked. Of course, if he began to fancy her, that would be a problem but, one step at a time.
She let her mind wander, to the problems at hand, and then Zeck and their friendship, and Silver, her cousin, and Ash her best friend and all of them.
And the girl thought about Jeremy, the boy she had began to develop strong emotions for.
She knew that she was running away-something she was not accustomed to-but, she was scared. Mysteria was good at many, many things. Bur she sucked at love.
Her hand flew to her neck, and she touched the necklace that rested against her chest. It was shaped like a Crescent Moon, and had one charm-a trophy-mext to it. Jeremy had said he would add one charm every year.
The necklace was given to her two years ago, and the trophy a year ago. Jeremy had given it to her when she had claimed the title as Champion of Kanto.
She sighed wearily. After checking in to the Pokemon Center, she took a shower and went straight to bed, making sure her pokeballs were well hidden, and that her gun was safely placed on the night stand.
She fell asleep clutching the necklace, softy murmuring, "Good night, J..."
(In Sinnoh)
Dawn sat on a bench, watching her Mamoswine sleep lazily under a bare tree. Her Bunneary danced about with Pachuriso, and Piplup was desperatley trying to reac a Frozen Berry.
Dawn rolled her eyes, "C'm 'ere, Piplup!" She called, and Piplup waddled over. "Here," Dawn secretly handed the starving thing a poffin, "But don't let anyone see!"
Piplup nodded dutifully, stuffing the warm poffin in his mouth.
"But Crystal!" Dawn heard Gold whine, "I'm already in a relationship!"
"Aw, Goldy, you're so funny!" She heard a crazed girl say, "But, I know. It's you and me!"
Dawn giggles. She stands as Paul walks over to her. "That girl just can't get a clue." Paul jabs a thumb in Crystal and Gold's direction.
They hear Zeck run out after Gold and Crystal, "Hey! Leave Gold alone! He belongs to ME!"
They hear Crystal sigh, "Why don't we battle for him?"
A few minutes later, Zeck calmly states, "I won."
"You CHEATED!"
"I did no such thing." Zeck says, outraged.
No one seems to notice as M grabs Gold by the collar, dragging him away while whispering, "Time for a game of Truth or Torture!"
Paul and Dawn run to break up the fight, all the while thinking, 'I miss Mysteria.'
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Espy stands at a doorway, her hair blowing in an unsden breeze. "Hey," Sne hears a voice behind her.
Whizzing around, she's not surprised to find Jeremy, Ash, Misty, and Silver standing before her.
The rest of the gang is outside playing, or training.
The four people stood next to her, and finally Ash said, "The Glo-Wise, if only the Fione Region knew about it, then how'd Team U find out?" All the others looked at her, waiting.
Espeon knew this question would've come up sooner or later, and so, she answered without missing a beat, "Because they had inside intelligence."
Now, this was like saying that Fione's security was no good, and THAT was like saying that Espeon was a horrible Region Leader.
So, when she said this, she surprised everyone.
Even Silver.
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"That was risky, you know, walking away from a Captain without giving a proper good-bye." Liam said to Mysteria the next day. He smiles, "I like risky."
Mysteria smiles as well, and says, "So I take it you've accepted me?"
Liam holds up one finger, saying, "My, my, calm down, Joselyn!" He says.
The undercover name Mysteria had picked was her mother's name. She looks momentarly deflated until he says, "I'm just teasing." He grins, grabbing her hand. She has to restrain herself from slapping him. "You're in. C'mon, let's go."
So, that's what's happened in the last fourty-eight hours.
We just thought you would need some catching up.
4o4
Okay, four's up. Watcha think?