CHAPTER 8

~When the time comes, strike.~

All right, all right. I know, you all hate me for the last chapter. WELL SORRY!

Lulz, jk. But Seriously, I know the last chapter was bad. Normally I don't kill off characters like that but I mean common, it was either that or have a character from my old stories named Dark show up, and I didn't want to bring HIM into my stories yet.

So I don't feel that I need to summerize what happened last because if you don't know, don't look. I'm not to proud of how I executed that.

So as for what's going to happen next, well we're off to go rescue Casey's sister from... whoever the hell took her. So... let us begin.

I sat down on a branch, don't ask me how the hell I got up here. I glanced over to the others, Casey, Wave, and Midnight. We were just outside their base.

"Here we are guys. This is where the map leads." I said looking at the parchment attached to my arm. "This is their base."

"So inside is Casey's sister?" Midnight asked from the branch on the opposite side of my tree.

"Aye. But remember, when the time comes, strike."

~Yesterday~

I woke up bright and early, this time not by Casey. I stood up and stretched, looking out the window.

'I should get ready to head out.' I thought to myself. I strangely didn't get a response from Shadow. I jumped off the bed and walked out to the hallway. Out there, Midnight was waiting.

"You're finally up?" Midnight asked.

"Aye, is something up?" I responded.

"Yes, Wave said he found something on the Mightyena." I noted how she didn't refer to him as he was, but didn't mention it.

"Thanks."

Down stairs Wave was standing by the door, leaning against the wall. A piece of paper was in his hand, he was reading it carefully.

"What is it Wave?" I asked him. He tossed it at me as if it was a playing card. It skid across the floor to my feet where I stepped on it to stop it's movement.

It was a map, leading from the entrance to what I assumed was Rustborough City to some building in the far corner, practically not even in the town.

"This is... a map..." I stated the obvious.

"From what I know of the town, it leads to a building just behind the Devon Corperation's building." Wave explained."I've looked around it before, there's no entrance."

"There's a back..." I heard Casey say. I flipped it over and sure enough, there was a second half of the map. I seemed to lead towards Rusturf tunnel.

"It says there's some sort of Cave entrance in Rusturf tunnel... but I'm pretty sure the miner's there would've noticed it, right?" I commented.

"Not nessisarily, not if it's well hidden." Wave pointed out. "Or if it's not INSIDE the cave at all."

"Well first thing's first, We need to get to the place." I walked over to the kitchen and grabbed a random piece of string on the desk.

"Casey, can you help me tie this to my leg?" I asked. She tied it consideranly well.

"Alright, so we going Wave?" He nodded

"Uh..." I heard Casey start to say.

"Wait, are you two GUYS leaving without us?" Midnight finished.

Both of us stopped walking, I recognized that tone. We both turned the same way, practically mirroring eachother, and looked back at them. Midnight did not look happy.

"Well... er... that is to say..." I started to stammer. I looked to Wave as he did me, both of us looking terrified. We gulped.

~Later that day~

Soon we were walking through the forrest normally. Me and Midnight walking beside eachother while Casey was on my back and Wave was traveling by his prefered method, the trees.

Eventually we came to the gate of Rustboro City. I noted to myself how little I had actually paid attention to the senery, it's not every day you get thrown into a video game

(slowly looks at )

I was about to walk in when Wave jumped in front of me. "I don't think we should just walk in." He said simply.

"Where do you suggest we go?" I questioned.

"We should head around, keeping a good eye on who's in the city while we go around." He suggested.

"Why do we need to see who's in the city?"

"Reasons, we are going to need a quick escape route."

I decided not to question his reasoning there. "Then how do you think we're going to watch? Only you can see over this wall."

"Not nessisarily..."

~A few minutes later~

"I can't believe you're having us do this..." I muttered as I was lifted into the tree. I glanced to Casey. "Are you sure you're ok Casey?" I asked.

She glanced up, she was the one getting me up with her psychic powers. "Y-yeah I'm fine. Just focus on getting up there before I can't hold you anymore." She said.

I waited till I was in jumping distance of the branch, then did a midair leap onto the branch.

I turned and saw Wave throw Midnight up, which she didn't quite like. It was actually kind of funny to watch. I then watched Wave carry Casey, where she returned to my back.

So then we jumped from branch to branch until we could see our destination.

"Alright, so what's the plan Wave." I asked.

"Well from what I can see, the only entrance we're going to get into is from the roof." He infromed.

"I didn't realize you had exelent sight." I commented.

"It's the aura, it enhances my sight so I can see further and more accurate. It's just my choice of how I use it." He explained. "So anyways, I took a closer look at the map, it actually leads straight to the spot where we need to go. I don't know how he could've possibly gotten that information, irony is it leads to the main hall."

"Then let's get a better view of the situation inside before we make the strike."

I sat down on a branch. I glanced over to the others, Casey, Wave, and Midnight. We were just outside their base.

"Here we are guys. This is where the map leads." I said looking at the parchment attached to my arm. "This is their base."

"So inside is Casey's sister?" Midnight asked from the branch on the opposite side of my tree.

"Aye. But remember, when the time comes, strike."

Casey helped me jump over to the top of the wall. It took a minute to keep my balance because of my awkward position, but Casey helped out with that.

We followed the path to the main hall, strangely not seeing any guards. That is, until we were just outside of the main hall. Where two guards were standing there, both in different outfits. I wasn't pleased with either of them. I had everyone duck back behind the wall exept me and Wave.

"Wave, I'm assuming you know which team wears those uniforms." I wispered.

"Yeah, the one in the Red is-" He began,

"I know who the red team is, what about the other?"

"No... I've never seen them here in Hoenn before." He thought for a moment. "Do you?"

"Unfortunately yes." I sighed. "The red is team Magma. The black... is team Plasma."

So now we have a perdicament (not sure if I spelled that right cause I really don't care), why would Team Plasma be in Hoenn? And why is Team Magma still around? What could be their plan? How the hell should I know I only tell the story I don't write it XD.

So why would I make a chapter like this, well recently I've gotten into the Assassin's Creed games and I love playing it. So I figured I may be able to impliment that into chapters of my stories, and I figured since we were breaking into the enemie's base, that we should sneak in. The tree thing was just for the Lulz.

So as for the wristband map, that was Shadow's idea. If you notice, I didn't mention Shadow at all in this chapter, which is strange considering how Shadow is a form of conscience for Red, being as Shadow pretty much directs Red what to do.

Well as I mentioned in the past, I don't want to make Shadow one of the staples of the story, even though he's important to Red in just about every story I've put this Red in. So what I did is I showed that Red is capable of thinking and acting on his own, as he is a strategist in training (betcha didn't know that) and Shadow is sort of like his mentor. A little backstory that there is no way you could've known.

Now for Casey's Psychic abilities. In the begining I believe I had her say that her confusion attack wasn't strong enough in here current state, which is true. She's around level 3 if she would be in the game so she doesn't even have confusion as an attack in the beggining, but as you can see I'm implimenting experience not just from training but from growing in general, so now she can use it. Even if it's still not as good.

As for the small comedy between Wave and Midnight, Casey can't use psychic type attacks on Midnight so somebody else had to do it, and since fighting types are stronger that dark types, I had him throw her. And since fightings weak to psychic, he carried her instead. That and she's delecate compared to the rest of them

Red's a horsie XD

So for the usual, till the Hero of Flame Returns, it's time to flash!

~Redanato Sacato the Hero of Flame