ILuvPurple16 and Suicune95 present
Defoliation Arc: Mission 002
A/N: Suicune95
Yes I know I'm a horrible person and haven't been updating. No, I'm not going to make any excuses. But school is a horrible mistress. There, I said it. That and I don't have anyone to bounce ideas off of anymore. I honestly forgot I was supposed to be writing this. In November. So I guess here's a long chapter (at least I'm pretty sure it's longer). We should really pre-type these in advance… Well enough ranting, try and enjoy (if you even remember what happened last… I sure don't!)
"Alright sir, I think that's all the information we need," Agent Stephano stated, shaking the man Blake's hand. He felt the older man's hand grip his tightly, almost angrily. His cool metal rings dug into Stephano's fingers. When he finally released him, Stephano could almost feel the blood returning to his fingers.
"I hope you don't honestly think that I have anything to do with this kidnapping," Blake stated as the agents were being led back to the front door. He seemed completely at ease, but Samantha was beginning to get suspicious.
"Sir," She pointed out quietly, gently folding her arms across her chest. "I don't recall mentioning a kidnapping at all."
Blake's shoulders tensed for a second, but relaxed as he tried to smooth over his mistake, "Ah, well it's all over the news you know… Oh look there's my daughter! Hello sweetheart!" He called running over to pick the little red-headed girl up in his arms.
"Hi papa!" She called, hugging the man around his neck, "Who are these people?"
Blake cleared his throat and adjusted his daughter in his arms, "They're nice police officers, here to investigate a call."
"Hello!" The little girl shouted brightly, "Hey papa, where did that nice woman go?"
Blake looked as if he'd just gagged on something, but tried to smooth it over quickly, "Oh you mean the neighbor woman that moved away yesterday? That is who you're talking about, right Emily."
Emily scrunched up her nose, "No not that old lady, I'm talking about the nice blue haired one that was in our guest house! She promised that she would play with me today when I got done with my tutoring. She wasn't there papa, where did she go?"
The two agents looked at each other, slightly shocked. Guest house? They hadn't been shown any guest area… Stephano quickly motioned for Samantha to take the supplies and find said guest house. Nodding her head, Samantha scurried off in the opposite direction. Stephano quickly checked himself to see if the voice recorder he'd brought was still running.
Thank God I thought to bring it this time, He thought as he gently adjusted his coat to pick up the sounds better.
"Heh, what are you talking about sweetie? There was never a woman in our guest area," Blake replied in a nervous attempt to cover up.
The little girl gave her father a look that clearly said you are crazy. "Yes there was, don't you remember? And there was that man that would always come to visit her? Adam or Ashton or something like that? What happened to him? I thought he was here yesterday…"
"There was no woman in our guest house," Blake stated firmly, "that's where daddy's friends and clients stay when they do business with daddy. Understand?"
Emily still gave him that you need mental help look, but stated, "Alright daddy, whatever you say."
"Good girl," He said, setting her down on her feet, "Now why don't you go and see if Rosa and Nate are home for you to play with?"
The girl's eyes brightened at the sound of what Stephano assumed to be her friend's names, "Okay daddy!" She said running off to find them.
Blake chuckled and turned back to Stephano, "Those are the kids of two of my close friends here. They're the first people I met here in New York, bless their poor mother Hilda… Wait, where is your partner?" He asked; his gaze hardening although his mouth kept to its smile.
Stephano's hand instinctively snaked to the holster on his waist. "She, uh, went."
"I'm back!" Samantha called, bouncing right back into the hallway with Blake and Stephano. "I'm sorry, I needed to use the ladies room really quickly before our loooooooooong drive back to the station." She stated, placing more than enough emphasis on the word 'long'.
Blake was still glaring, "It doesn't take ten minutes to go the bathroom."
She giggled nervously, "I had to run back out the car and grab a few lady things," she winked, "It's very hard being a woman some weeks, ya know?"
She had to hold back from bursting into laughter when she saw his mortified expression. "Y-yes well I understand, s-sorry for questioning." He stuttered out, continuing to lead them back out silently.
"Thank you for allowing us to check your home," Stephano stated, "we'll just be going now."
"Good luck with your investigations," Blake sulked as he slammed the door.
"Get your lazy self out of that chair!" Misty shouted as she ran into Gary's office.
Gary jumped three feet in the air and almost dropped the phone he was talking on. He sighed, "I'm going to have to call you back," he told the person that he was talking to on the phone. He hung up, took a deep breath, and then looked up at a seething Misty standing straight in front of his desk.
"Come on, we have to go now!" She shouted at him, "They found where Dawn was being held! We have to go see if we can get any information out of the guy! Hurry up, what are you just sitting there for?!"
Gary smirked, "Well you're excited," Just as she was about to smack him he held up a piece of paper, "I think we'll be needing this warrant."
"We? What do you mean; you're not coming too are you?" Misty asked, baffled at his statement.
"Oh yes I'm coming," Gary stated as he stood up from his chair and walked around the desk. "You don't honestly think I'm going to allow you to do this alone, do you?"
"I don't need your help!" Misty fumed, "Who do you think you are?!"
"Your boss," He stated simply, the smirk on his face growing, "and you do need this warrant. Unless you want a lawsuit on your hands. Besides, you're more likely to get information with someone a bit less, hmm, intimidating, than you."
"What do you mean intimidating?!" Misty shouted. Gary chuckled, he could see the air practically burst into flame at her outburst. She quickly realized her mistake and calmed down.
"Come on, get in the car," She deadpanned, "and don't get in my way!"
Gary chuckled and turned off his office light. The door slammed softly behind the two, ruffling a few of the files on his desk.
"You'll be staying here now," Ash stated as he led Dawn through a large, intricate arrangement of large, wooden crates of all shapes and sizes. Her head began spinning as she tried to keep track of which way they'd come from. She eventually gave up trying around the fifteenth turn.
"And why am I here now?" She demanded, "And when do I get to see my children?"
Ash pinched the bridge of his nose, "We're here," He started, "because you decided to try and be smart by calling the cops. And now I have to deal with this. As for your children, you can see them when we're in Fiji. Now please shut up."
Why can't I see them now?" Dawn insisted. She glanced over at the label on one of the crates that read 'syringes' and shivered. The entire area was not welcoming at all.
"Because, you insolent woman, I can't have you leaving here, can I? Just understand that you are hopeless here. No one is coming for you, no one is going to help you. Now that you understand that, could you please just shut up!" Ash yelled at her.
Dawn met his steady glare with one of her own. The two had stopped in front of what looked like an office door. Eventually he looked down to unlock the door and shoved Dawn inside. She whipped around as he was about to close the door and muttered, "And you wonder why I didn't marry you."
Ash slammed the door with all his might. He seethed as he locked the door to the office. He kicked over one of the crates and stomped away from the door.
When the heck does this Stockholm syndrome thing kick in again? Ash thought angrily.
Dawn smirked at the rampage going on outside of her door. It serves him right, she thought, but her smirk degraded into a frown, but when is help coming for me?
She glanced around the room and took in her surroundings. There was a small sort of make-shift bed made of a huge bundle of blankets in one corner of the room. The rest was occupied by plenty of random office amenities. A desk here, a chair there. There was even a computer, though it looked ancient. Dawn ran over to it.
"Just my luck," Dawn muttered, "no internet connection."
She glanced over to her left where a door led into a small bathroom. It had a sink, toilet, and shower. Pretty standard, though it was missing a mirror. A quick glance under the desk revealed a fully stocked mini fridge and a small microwave plugged into the wall. Dawn wanted to be back in her nice warm house. She wanted to be snuggled in Paul's arm with Phil and Portia with her and she would sing to them softly as she would put them to sleep.
"Well I could always waste my days playing mine-sweeper and solitaire," Dawn laughed bitterly. She threw herself down into the office chair and began to sob.
Drew sat in the hospital waiting area while being prepared to hear from the doctor, anything concerning May. It was already bad enough Phil and Portia had been taken but Drew had to make sure May was still safe along with his unborn son or daughter.
"Mr. Shu, can you come with me please?" requested a nurse dressed in blue scrubs.
Drew nodded that he would follow her. He put his phone, which he was fiddling with, in his pocket, and got up and went along with the nurse. The nurse took Drew to the doctor, and as the doctor was taking Drew to May's room, she explained to Drew about May's medical condition.
"Mrs. Shu's is doing very well actually," said the doctor, "She only had a few scratches and marks from her restraints but no other major external or internal damages. We also checked the baby inside her, and it seems to be developing fine." The doctor smiled to Drew about the information regarding the baby being safe. Babies did indeed make people smile especially in dangerous times like now when Paul and Dawn's picture perfect life was being forced apart. First the twins were taken and then Dawn was taken. Paul must have been going through hell. Drew wouldn't ever forgive any bastard who took May or his child from him.
When Drew came into May's room, she was lying on the bed. Her face lit up when she saw him. He rushed over to her and they embraced each other. Then after they broke their embrace, May's eyes started tearing up. Drew could already tell the look she had when she felt guilty and bad.
Drew patted May on the back and whispered "Shhhhhhh…it's ok, it wasn't your fault and we'll find Phil and Portia. Don't worry, Paul and Dawn told me that they don't blame you one bit. The same thing could've happened if either of them were in that situation." Drew wiped May's tears from her cheeks and May stopped crying. She wasn't completely happy but Drew made her feel a little better. Drew searched near May's side and found her hand under the covers. He brought up May's ring finger to remind her of one of their most happiest and cherished moments. Then Drew's eyes caught something that didn't belong on May's had. There was a red thread or something of the sort entangled with May's wedding ring. Could it be…red hair?
Drew quickly turned his head away from the ring and faced May and asked "May, you described the people who took Phil and Portia to the CSI's, right?"
May coughed a little as she spoke "Yeah. I told them that they were both dressed in tight black clothing and I could tell that on was a male and one was a female. The female was the one who was fitting the bomb on me while the other one was taking Phil and Portia out. I could only tell the female's body features and that she had long red hair, not like Misty's it was darker but she was still wearing a mask over her face. The male had blue hair that kind of spiked out of his mask. I couldn't see exactly what he did to Phil and Portia, just that he took both of them outside."
Drew then said "One was a female and one was a male, right?"
May nodded 'yes'
Drew kissed May on the forehead and then said "Ok, I think I might have an idea of who it might be. I'll take your ring in case it has any other evidence in it. You just rest tonight, don't worry I'll be back in time for us to decide baby names. Remember. I love you." Drew gave May a kiss full on the lips then left her room and the hospital building after wrapping May's wedding ring and the hair piece in a napkin.
He started his car up and headed straight for NYPD.
"Freeze, dirt-bag!" Misty screamed as she kicked open the door to the large dwelling. She almost had to face palm at how stereotypically cop-like that sounded. The moment passed and she started maneuvering through the house looking for the one called 'Blake'. Three other officers, equipped with SWAT gear also entered. They were prepared for trouble.
Gary slid in behind her, splitting up from her, near the entrance. He almost chuckled at the line, but remembered the weight of the situation and remained stony-faced. As he glided through the house he took note of the appearance.
Geez, he thought, plasma screen, every gaming console known to man, and is that real gold inlaid in the wall molding? Expensive tastes. Where does he even get the money?
He heard three shots go off a few rooms over. He almost dropped his gun in surprise as he took off to see what happened. Gary eyed the three bullet shells that remained still in the corner of the room. Neither person in the room had any bullet injuries on them.
"You worthless son of a-" Misty shouted as another shot went off, "Put the suitcase down and tell me what you know if you want to keep your legs functioning!"
Gary ran in just as Misty was holding the barrel of her gun to the man's head. Sweat was beading at the roots of his curly ginger hair. He looked like he was about to pee himself, but that might have just been Gary's imagination.
"Misty!" He shouted at her, "What are you doing?!"
"This worthless waste of space knows something about what happened to Dawn and I swear I will kill him if it makes him talk!" She continued to scream, "Now tell me where she is before I blow your head off you sorry son of a-"
Gary gently walked over and pulled her hand away from the man's head. He hadn't even noticed how much she was shaking before. He placed her arms back at her side and looked her dead in the eye, "Misty, we're not getting any information out of him if you kill him," He reasoned, trying to ignore the frustrated tears already forming in her eyes.
"This is why I didn't want you to come with me!" She shouted. He swore his ear drums would burst by the end of this. There was pain in her voice.
"And If I hadn't then this man's brains would have been painted all across this wall," Gary replied evenly, "Now, are you going to calm down or you going to have to sit in the car?"
Misty huffed and holstered her gun, "You have ten minutes, and then I'm painting a Van Gogh with his blood."
Gary couldn't help but smirk when he caught the man flinch in his corner of the room. "Alright then."
"Look, I don't know anything about your friend," The man started, "I was just about to leave for the airport. I'm going on vacation to Mexico for business-"
"I don't remember asking you for an excuse," Gary stated coldly as he turned to face the man. "I want your name. No excuses, no explanations. Your name. Got it?"
"I don't even- Do you know who I am?!" The man asked indignantly.
The man looked taken aback when Gary chuckled. "It's funny how you think I care about your status. Would I be asking your name if I knew who you were? Look, I'm investigating a kidnapping. I want your name. Now."
The man gulped and shook his head. His ginger curls bounced with each motion of his head. Obviously his tactics weren't working, he would have to try and play along. "Alright, my name is Blake Graham." He replied.
"And do you live here, Mr. Graham?" Gary questioned, "Does anyone else besides you live here?"
"Yes I live here, and I'm with my daughter, Emily," He stated. He knew he should have gotten out of the country sooner.
"What have you done with Dawn Shinji?"
"I told you I haven't-" The man was cut off by a swift kick to his gut from Misty.
"Do you think this is some kind of game?!" She screamed, "My friend is out there and you can just sit here with a straight face and say you know nothing?! Are you even human?! What have you done with her you scum bag?!"
Each sentence was punctuated with a kick or punch from Misty. Blake's face looked something akin to a warzone by the end of the third sentence. He used his arms as defense. He didn't want to fight back in any way in that it might provoke the two officers of law in front of him, he'd just get nailed with assaulting an officer. He also wasn't the type of criminal to fight. He stayed prepared with smart tactics in his business area and relied more on sneaky tricks and hit men. He hadn't however, been prepared for the sheer brute force of the girl attacking him.
"Misty! Stop it! What are you doing?!" Gary yelled. After his split second of shock he ran up to her and pulled her off of the man by her waist, "What did I say about killing him?!"
She thrashed in his arms, "Let me go! Let me go! He knows! The bastard knows and he's going to talk if it kills him!"
Gary winced at the hard hits she was landing on his shins, but he steeled his grip and refused to let her go. "Hush now, I'll get him to talk. You have to calm down, save it for when we get to Ash, he's the one responsible for all of this."
"I know; it's just that…" Misty broke off into sobs, but her kicks and hits died down.
"I know," He sighed and rested his chin on her head as she sobbed, "I know…"
Once the fight had gone out of her, Gary released Misty and sat her down on one of the chairs in the room. He finally returned his attention to the man, Blake. He was still cowering in his corner; his hands were covering his face. The blood had already pooled on his shirt and pants, and his face looked like it had been torn up by, well, an angry Misty.
"Alright," He croaked out, "I'll tell you what I did with the girl. On one condition that you give me credit for cooperation with law enforcement. I stay out of the prison with the thugs. You get your information and we're all happy"
"That can be arranged. Now speak." Gary raised an eyebrow.
Misty looked up expectantly from her position on the other side of the room. She saw in her peripheral vision that Gary took out a note pad and a pen to write it down.
"I gave her over to that Ash guy. He took her to my warehouse for a few days. They'll be getting on a plane out of the country as soon as possible. I don't know if they've left already or not though, probably not."
Gary scribbled everything the man said down, including the address to the warehouse. Misty couldn't hear anything past the confession. The blood was roaring in her ears and she couldn't block out the sound of her own thoughts. She stood up in a daze and stood beside Gary again. He pulled out his phone, probably to call for someone to arrest the man. Without thinking, as they turned to leave Misty spat on the man's face.
"Come on," Gary muttered. He grabbed Misty's wrist and pulled her back toward the car. Once he'd called for back-up at the warehouse's location he finally addressed Misty once more.
"That sure was something you pulled back there," Gary chuckled, "You'll be lucky if the guy doesn't get you on police brutality."
"Oh shut up," Misty snapped, only half joking, "Do you think that we'll be able to charge him on anything else too?"
"Of course," Gary comforted, "the forensics team found Dawn's hairs all over his guest house. Not to mention she left one her shirts there. We'll get him on assisting a kidnapping, at least. Not to mention that guy is an alleged drug dealer."
Misty snorted, "Well that explains the house then."
Gary said "Okay. We have to report this lead we just got to the FBI. I'll probably need Cassie to prepare a larger SWAT squad for us."
Misty rolled her eyes at the mention of her. "Okay, as long she won't be annoying. Either that, or send us in different groups." Misty had a stoic look like she couldn't care less about which decision Gary made. She would just have to handle the situation professionally.
"Don't worry. You girls will just have to try and play nice, but in seriousness, I'll make sure Cassie knows her job in this assignment. I'll keep her away from a few meters radius of you," said Gary.
"Thank you very much Mr. Director Oak," said Misty with a half-smirk. Gary just of the FBI, Misty was now so close to finding Dawn and… Ash. She had no clue what was waiting for anyone heading there. All she was thinking of was if Dawn had been hurt and whether the twins were safe or not. She had support though. Gary was helping her, Drew, her comrade and also May she knew gave her support and of course Paul wanted Misty to bring Dawn, Phil and Portia back was running out as the car drove past the nearly clear highway,
Misty exclaimed "Alright! Let's go get Dawn back then!"
Drew could hear various phones going off and other computers and scanning machines going giving off their own melodies as he walked through NYPD. He knocked on the glassed room in which he could see chief Montiago with the remainder of his FBI team. An FBI agent came and opened the door for him. He thanked the agent then went straight to chief Montiago. Drew said "Hey Chief! I think I have some evidence regarding your blue-head killer and the Shinji's abduction,"
Drew repeated to Chief Montiago, everything that May had told him and then showed him the long red piece of hair that was entangled with the ring. Drew even suggested to Montiago about running the DNA against Misty's already recorded DNA, just to make sure. After the tests were finished, the science pretty much told the truth. It had been none other than the infamous Team Rocket. They were helping Ash in his entire scheme.
Chief Montiago asked "So, you remember these guys?"
Drew responded with "Yeah, I worked on a case involving them a few years back. It was one of my first cases. As far as my knowledge goes, Team Rocket is just a partnership involving two con artists. Jessie and James were mostly involved in laboratory burglaries accompanied by some petty crimes here and there."
Then, Drew pressed a button on the phone-set that put tech analyst Nora on speaker. Drew requested "Nora, did you find any other info on Team Rocket?"
Nora's voice came through the speaker phone "Yup. Loads of info. Team Rocket is all over the web. I guess people think of their crimes as a means of entertainment. They haven't done anything serious like kidnapping or murder before though. They have been in jail multiple times in various different countries though so their records are all over the place."
Drew processed the information Nora gave him then he asked "Okay, can you tell me their current property right now or any other property that was issued to them in say,… the last year? Actually, just find me any location that could be a lead to us finding the twins."
"Ok, Agent Shu, no worries about that, I got you some juicy juicy information. Jessie and James don't have any property issued under them but I would say James did pull a pretty stupid move, he just posted where Team Rocket took the twins on a criminal social networking site called CrimePage. Not exactly the craftiest criminals, are they? I just had to translate the page from Italian to English. Don't exactly know why but I got the address and I sent it to your phone, so good luck," explained Nora.
"Okay. Thanks so much Nora. You've done it again," said Drew smiling, then he turned the speaker off and turned to Chief Montiago "Okay Chief, mind if I borrow a SWAT team?"
"Get up!" Ash snapped as he slammed into Dawn's little office room.
"What do you want?" Dawn irritably replied. She pulled the covers on her makeshift bed back over her head.
"We have to leave now!" Ash yelled. He threw a shirt and a pair of pants at her.
Dawn shook her head to clear it, "And what's got your panties in a twist? Misty coming for me?" Dawn smirked. She could just imagine her fiery red headed friend screaming and waving her gun around as she searched the place.
The look on Ash's face told the whole story. She was almost giddy with excitement. "So no one is coming for me, huh?" she poked at him, "I'm stuck with you forever, eh?"
"Shut up woman!" Ash screamed. He threw the trash can that was beside the door and it hit the wall that was opposite to the one Dawn was sitting against. She flinched, taken aback at his sudden violence. Only for a moment though.
"Don't you dare speak to me like that!" She fumed. She stood up and got in his face, "I swear you are an insensitive jerk. You wonder why I never wanted to date you? Well take a good look; you're just drowning in your own self-pity! You can't even calm down enough to prevent yourself from damaging everything around you! Paul might not be perfect, but at least he doesn't act like a spoiled brat when he doesn't get what he wants!"
Before she even knew what happened, Dawn felt the sting of a slap across her left cheek. Shocked, she stared in horror at her former friend.
"I told you to shut up! And never mention the name 'Paul' around me again!" He shouted, "Just keep your mouth shut you stupid bitch!"
Dawn brought her hand up to her stinging cheek. She could almost feel it swelling under her touch. She swallowed, and almost gagged as she tasted the metallic flavor that indicated to her she'd bitten her cheek. She held back tears and gingerly covered her cheek with her hand. Shocked into silence, Ash nodded and left the room, mentioning she had five minutes.
"He's a psychopath." Dawn whispered to herself after he'd left.
A/N: ILuvPurple16
Hi everybody!
Yea, I know it's been so long.
Well, yea I apologize again for this entire delay. Hopefully we will have 002 done by next week, and then Suicune and I will decide on a 003. If we do have a 003, we will most likely have to finish it by August because when our school starts, communication and availability end up becoming an issue, but that'll all get decided later.
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I would completely understand if you had to read the story from Chapter 1 because you forgot it. Honestly, I forgot the story as well as I was writing this more recent chapter.
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