Chapter 4: Pure Water or Tainted
Reminder: I do not own Pokemon... Nintendo does.
Much thanks to people who have read this story I do wish for some comments from people
They were walking pass several fountains that kept the air nice and cool compared to the desert outside when Wes started a conversation "So Yuki You have any pokemon of your own"
Yuki shook her head slightly "No… not really" She smiled "But I always loved watching Pokemon Battles and cheering for those that are good trainers and from what I heard it sounds like yours are very powerful"
Espeon barked slightly "Esp"
Wes nodded "I've had them since I started my journey a while back" He paused for a second "They are my only two" he finished
Yuki asked "Did you ever compete in Leagues or Tournaments?
Wes shook his head "No… I never had the time to do stuff like that. My Job kept me busy"
Yuki got curious and asked in an innocent manner "What do you do?"
Wes was silent for a moment as tried to come up with an answer but then Umbreon barked "Umbre Umbreon" and pointed his body in the direction of the mayor house
Wes said "huh…oh… hey we're passing it"
Yuki turned and said "Huh… oh yeah"
They turned and headed toward the Mayor house which was just inside the west wall of the city. As they approached however a tall silver haired man in a purple suit exits out
Umbreon gave the guy a look of interest and growled slightly
The man noticed Wes and Yuki "You must be some traveling trainers"
Wes nodded slightly "Yeah" he showed a small smile "I am"
The man smiled slightly "I like your expression" He commented "it has this feeling like I'll never forgot it" He chuckled lightly "I have a feeling I'll see you again soon"
Wes nodded "Maybe you will you never know"
Theman nodded "That I don't, no one knows when a familiar face is going to stare them down in the heat of battle. When their pokemon give it their all to defeat the opposing side that is when the heart shows it's true power" He chuckled "It's that power within that will consume all who stand against you whether or not they were once your allies"
Wes got wide eyed as he suddenly recognized the man
The guy chuckled and bowed slightly as he made his exit
Yuki just stared in silence and said "What was that all about"
Wes recovered from his shock and said "I don't know but something tells me that I will see him again…"
Yuki said "really what"
Wes said "Just this feeling I had."
Yuki said "Well let's go see the mayor"
Wes nodded "Yeah" he said quietly and both entered
The mayor, who is a chubby man with gray hair, notices them enter and walks out from behind his desk "Ah" He cried out in a cheerful manner "You must be travelers Welcome to Phenac City I am Es Cade the mayor of this fine city"
Wes smiled "Pleasure I'm Wes"
Yuki also smiled "and I'm Yuki" She then turned serious "Uh Mayor Es Cade I noticed something interesting in a battle and people told me to tell you"
Es Cade said "Interesting you say like what"
"There was this pokemon" Yuki started "it has a dark blue cloud around it and it attacks were extremely powerful and it would attack people without commands"
Es Cade nodded slightly "Hmm…"
Yuki continued " it was very scary I made mention to it and just as I was leaving thugs captured me and knocked me out I awoke in a bag and called for help and Wes saved me from them
Es Cade eyes seem to flash slightly but then he said in a tone of anger "They would hurt a pretty thing like you oh those fiends I'll have an investigation started at once"
Yuki smiled and said "Oh thank you"
The T.V suddenly blared a breaking new alert "We bring you an update on the Snagem Hideout explosion"
All turned to catch the news
"a captured Snagem Member has told that the Snagem HQ exploding was due to a fight between the group and a member that has gone rogue" The news woman said "He has also told that the large snag Machine was destroyed by the rogue member and that he has also taken a small portable snag machine. The member would not give up that rogues name or the looks of this snag machine all are warned of a suspicious character with purple glowing pokeballs to be the rogue member and to not engage him in battle you pokemon may be stolen if knocked out. This has been Orre News"
Wes thought to himself "Oh boy… hope she doesn't start asking questions"
Yuki commented "Wow that something… Team Snagem I heard about them. Quite a few Trainers mentioned that they were victims of that group"
Es Cade said "It serves them right for the crimes they committed but I wonder where that rogue member could be now."
Espeon growled in a I know nothing tone
Wes said "Yeah I wonder…"
Es Cade took notice of Espeon and said "By the way young man you look like a trainer you should check out our Gym and Stadium it has some of the best trainers in the city. If you stick around I'm sure you find that this city is one of the best in the whole region"
Yuki nodded "Sounds like fun"
Wes said "Maybe I will check it out"
Es Cade nodded and said "Enjoy yourselves"
Yuki nodded "We will… bye" she said as they left
When they were both gone Es Cade turned furious and turned to a nearby screen "This is Boss Evice I need Admin Miror B on screen now!"
A slim faced guy with a big afro of hair in a pokeball style color appeared on the screen "What the Groove Boss?"
Evice growled and said "Miror B where are your two underlings they were supposed to take the girl to you"
Miror B said "they just came into town I was about to meet with them to receive the package"
Evice said "The package is here free as a bird. She was just here reporting about the you know what"
Miror B said "But that impossible my boys would never fail on a mission. As a matter of fact here they are now, Boys tell our Boss that the package is here"
Trudly and Folly both appeared on the screen "Well" Folly chuckled nervously "We had some difficultly, we got intercepted by a rider just as we were leaving the city he KOed my Pokemon before I could even blink. The battle drew the attention of another with a Castform and it scared us off with a thunderbolt. If we stuck around it would have been murder,"
Evice growled "Murder it's going to be for all of you if you don't get your behinds back here and get the girl I invited her to stick around here for the time being."
Miror B said "Don't worry Boss I'll personally make sure that she is in our hands"
Evice said "See that you do" and hung up "That boy" He wondered "Could it be possible that who Nascour mentioned" He recalled what the silver haired man told him just before Wes and Yuki showed up
"Boss Evice, I have urgent news to report." Nascour said "It seems we have lost Team Snagem due to an attack on their hideout. Gonzap reports that the Snag Machine has been destroyed by a rogue member and that he is also taken their portable fully functioning prototype."
Evice said "Could the day go any worse first this report of a girl with the ability to see our modified pokemon differently and then this"
Nascour said "I also have another report from a source that wishes to remain unnamed, He told me the rogue power if used with control he will destroy Cipher with their own power.
Evice said "How no one can use our Pokemon much less beat them they are unstoppable."
Nascour said "You may think that but the power of light is much stronger then you think those of pure hearts will force open the door."
Evice took this into thought "Hmm"
Back in the Present Evice asked outloud "Could he be the one…" to no one in particular