Chapter 10: Slateport
"So what time do you think we will hit Slateport?" Ray asked Briney as they slowly made their way to the open sea.
"Oh less than a few hours." Briney said as he opened the engine up and hit top speed. "Ha this old girl moves fast now that she is empty of cargo."
"Hell yeah she does." Ray said surprised by the speed. "How you doing Jarvic?"
"The sooner we make port the better." He answered looking green.
"Port? Ha I'm more of a rum man!" Briney said with a hearty laugh as he looked at Peeko and Tink chase Chuck. "You know I saw your match on the beach."
"Oh?"
"Tink there seems to be very kind."
"Yeah she is but ghost pokemon tend to put me on edge." Ray said watching her.
"Why is that?"
"They are prone to swift mood swings." Ray said. "Also tend to snap and use their full power if pushed to far."
"What's got you smiling boy?" Briney said noticing the smirk on Rays face.
"She reminds me of someone." Ray said as his pokenav started to ring and he moved to the back of the boat to answer it.
"Who would she remind himself of?" Briney asked to himself.
"Easy. She is just like me and him." Jarvic said before throwing up.
"Hello?" Ray said as he answered his pokenav.
"Oh, hello, Ray? This is Roxanne of Rustboro City. I heard from Brawly that you're moving up through the ranks of trainers at an incredible clip. Well, I'd rather not think that I can't beat you. I promise, I will shape up my gym so that you may challenge us again. I hope you'll be looking forward to that occasion as much as me!" Roxanne quickly said before hanging up.
"Well that was weird." Ray said as his pokenav started to ring again. "Hello?"
"Hey, I'm in the Hoenn area." A voice said over the pokenav.
"Great. Birch has plenty of space at his lab so that shouldn't be a problem."
"Good. Any subjects yet?"
"Well there is a mudkip with a thing for electricity that I left in my mothers care. Also I am traveling with ghost type that is part dark type."
"Really? Anything to report on that?"
"I still don't know if the typing is permanent yet. I will send a sample later today."
"Got it. Word is that you are taking the gym challenge." The voice said with a quack like laugh. "I thought you didn't want to do that."
"Fuck you. Certain things came to light and my plans changed."
"Look if it's about the ranger thing, pulling a few strings is easy."
"No it's not that." Ray said lowering his voice. "I'm being tested by something."
"What's testing you?"
"Hell if I know. All that I know is that it can make a mew very frightened."
"Hmm, I will look into it."
"Also I need full reports on the legendary pokemon of Hoenn. I will be staying at the pokemon center in Slateport tonight."
"Right keep me updated." The voice said before hanging up.
"So what do you need to do in Slateport?" Briney asked once Ray rejoined him.
"I have a delivery to make to the shipyard."
"Oh you going to see Captain Stern? He is a good friend." Briney said with a smile. "We are nearly there!"
"Jarvic just hang in there a little longer." Ray said as they approached the port.
"Land!" Jarvic cried once he flopped out of the boat onto the docks.
"Ok first stop is getting you to the pokemon center." Ray said returning Chuck to his pokeball. "Let's go before you pass out."
"No I'm good." Jarvic said slowly standing up. "Just gimme a berry."
"Ha now that is a tough pokemon." Briney said as Ray gave Jarvic a yellow berry. "You better hurry and do what you came here for."
"Thanks for the ride." Ray said to Briney before looking around and spotting May laying on the beach. "Ha go much for trying to stay ahead of me."
"What?" Jarvic said looking around finally seeing May among the many families on vacation. "Wow, and she wants to be champion?"
"Christ they sleep like a brick." Ray said once they where next to her and her three pokemon. "Well at least the budew looks happy."
"Yeah." Jarvic said with a smirk spotting the sun block in her bag.
"Shit, she has the organization skills of ape." Ray said finding her pokenav and pulling out a piece of paper. After registering each other he puts it back and write a small note.
"So this is May?" Tink said looking her over. "I am way better than her."
"Wait, are you a little jealous there Tink?" Ray said with a smile.
"No!" Tink said quickly.
"Right fine, let's go."
"Yup and quickly!" Jarvic said as he quickly walked away.
"What the hell did you do?" Ray said as he joined him in quickly leaving.
"Nothing!" Jarvic said quickly wiping sun block off his hands. "Hey look an open market!"
"Ok but I still want to know what you did." Ray said as the walked through market.
"Ooh, look at this!" A man said as Ray was looking at herbs. "The seaweed you can get in these parts is fresh and full of life! Why, it looks like it can rear up and attack!"
"Yes it does look very fresh." Ray said looking at the seaweed as it quivered a little. "What the fuck?"
"Um I meant that figuratively." The man said as Ray saw a familiar set of jewel eyes jump out and hug his face. "Holy shit!"
"God damn it." Ray said throwing the sableye on the ground and pulling out a pokeball. "That's twice now."
"Sable?" The pokemon said as Ray threw the ball at him but he caught the ball.
"Well shit." Ray said as he watched sableye run off with the ball. "That was my last one."
"Ha looks like you have a stalker." Tink said as she was laughing with Jarvic.
"Right." Ray said smacking the two in the head. "Let's go."
"Hey look at the line out side that building." Jarvic quietly said. "Isn't that Team Aqua?"
"Holy shit it is." Ray said looking as they passed by. "Well at least the female uniforms look good."
"Hmm." Tink said as she looked at the uniforms. "I can look like that if you want me to."
"Remind me to run a few tests on you later." Ray said as the entered the shipyard. Looking around he found that no one there seemed to be in charge. "Hey where is Captain Stern?"
"Don't know." A man said looking up from a set of blue prints. "I'm Dock. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"No I have something for Stern." Ray said looking at the blue prints.
"Oh well he said he had work to do somewhere else." Dock said looking at the prints again. "Can you read these? I can't."
"Well first they are upside down." Ray said rearranging the plans. "Also you need the light on so you can read them all at once."
"Oh that is much better." Ray heard Dock say as he left the shipyard. "So if I was a sea-captain where would I be?"
"Bar? Brothel?" Jarvic asked.
"Smart ass." Ray said as they past the building Team Aqua was lined up at. "Hey what would Aqua want at a museum?"
"Cultural enlightenment?" Tink said floating to the sign.
"If that's what they are there for then I'm Liz Taylor." Ray said making his way to the museum entrance.
"Oh I can look like her if you want!" Tink said shifting into a young Liz Taylor. "See."
"That's great but she had violet eyes, not green." Ray said as she shifted into her normal human form.
"Well shit." She said opening the door. "I normally get the eyes right."
"Welcome to the Oceanic Museum." The receptionist said. "It's fifty poke a person."
"Oh here you go." Ray said handing over a hundred while Tink smiled at him. "You know what, I think you might be right Tink."
"Ha I can't believe it either." She said looking around at the grunts reading and looking at the displays.
"You know you are going to pay me back the fifty for your ticket right." Ray said as the moved around the museum.
"Oh really?" Tink said rubbing up against him. "I can think of a few ways that I can pay it off."
"How about you use your skills to find out why they are here. Wait a second." Ray said as he spotted a familiar looking grunt. "Oh this will be good. Stay here with Jarvic."
"Ok then." She said watching him walk over to the grunt.
"Hi guy." Ray said tapping the grunt on the shoulder.
"Yeah what do you... oh shit!" The grunt said as he saw it was Ray. "Please don't hurt me."
"You can go and change your pants later." Ray said grabbing the grunts arm. "Tell me why you guys are here."
"We were told to look for information here but they didn't tell us what kind!"
"That it?" Ray asked gripping his arm tighter.
"Ok we knew if we followed around Stern, we would be able to get the package back."
"Fine get out of here." Ray said releasing him.
"You don't need to tell me twice." The grunt said as the started to leave.
"One last thing first."
"Yeah make it quick. I'm starting to stink."
"Do all the women have to wear tight shirts and pants?" Ray asked looking at a group of female grunts looking at a display about whirlpools.
"Hey there are a few perks working for Aqua!" The grunt said before running out of the museum.
"You know I could have gotten him to talk with out making him shit himself." Tink said as the made their way to the second floor.
"Yeah but that isn't much fun." Ray said as they looked around and saw that there was only one person on the second floor. "Well at least it isn't a butt pirate convention up here."
"What you don't like the pirate look?" Tink said shifting to look like one of the female grunts. "I think they are kinda sexy."
"Right turn back to normal." Ray said looking at the man staring at a model of a submarine. "I think that is the guy we are looking for."
"Yes? If you're looking for Stern, that would be me." The man said hearing Ray.
"I have a package here for you." Ray said as two Aqua grunts rushed over.
"Hold it!" They said. "We will take that package!"
"Sure whatever." Ray said as he stuck his hand into Tink. "Let's see now, nope, no, whoa that ain't it..."
"What are you doing!" Stern said in shock.
"Ah here it is." Ray said handing over the case.
"Ha ha finally!" One of the grunts said opening it up. "Wait, what is this shit? These ain't the parts from Devon!"
"You honestly thought that I would have them?" Ry said with a smirk. "I got the original ones back from you when you stole them. Why the hell would they give them to me to deliver after that?"
"Because you are strong and would he the best choice for it?" The grunt said confused.
"No I would be the worst choice. You would know what I look like and how strong I am. I'm just a decoy."
"What? Fuck! You have the parts! Give them to us now!" The grunts yelled sending out a carvanha and a poochyena.
"Um dude." One of the grunts said to the other looking at the carvanha flail around on the floor. "A fish pokemon?"
"Yeah not my best choice." The grunt said as he returned it to its ball.
"Right then." Ray said after watching the grunts. "Jarvic take care of it."
"Right." Jarvic said as he made his way over to the poochyena. "You know I don't feel so good."
"You sure you still want to do this?" Ray asked Jarvic.
"Yeah I'm good." He said before throwing up on the poochyena. "Ah much better now!"
"Sick man." The grunt said returning his pokemon. "That was just wrong."
"I came to see what was taking so long to snatch some parts, and you simps are held up by a mere trainer?" A man dressed in black said coming up the stairs.
"Holy shit is Disco Stu." Ray said looking at the man and laughing. "Look at you. A black leisure suit with a blue bandana? What are you trying to be, king of the butt pirates?"
"Silence!" The man shouted. "We are Team Aqua, and we love the sea! And I am Team Aqua's leader, Archie!"
"Oh dear." Ray said chuckling. "I can see that I upset you. Well I would be mad too if I was stuck in a time warp."
"What makes you interfere with us? ...No! You can't be! You're not one of Team Magma? Wait, that can't be right. You're not dressed for the part. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... pokémon, people... all life depends on the sea. So, Team Aqua is dedicated to the expansion of the sea." Archie said ignoring Rays comment. "Don't you agree? What we are doing is a magnificent undertaking!"
"No you retarded piece of shit." Ray said looking at Archie. "The earth is already 70 percent water. If you increase that you make less land for pokemon and people to live on."
"Ah, fine... You're still too young to understand our noble objective. But, I warn you, don't even consider interfering with our plans again. The consequences will cost you dearly! And don't you forget it!" Archie said before leaving with his grunts.
"Thank you for helping me." Stern said once Aqua was gone. "So are you really a decoy or do you really have the parts?"
"Oh I have them." Ray said once again sticking his arm into Tink. "Just let me find them."
"Will you stop that!" Tink shrieked as Ray searched.
"Hey I thought you wanted me inside you." Ray said quietly as he fell inside of her.
"Um this is weird." Tink said as everybody was looking a her.
"Ok. I'm back." Ray said as he fell out of her head holding the Devon case. "You really need to clean in there."
"Oh thank you." Stern said as he opened the case. "These are the parts alright. There's no time to lose! We have to set out on our ocean-floor expedition really soon."
"No problem." Ray said.
" Thanks again, but now I've got to go! Feel free to wander around and check out our facilities, though!" Stern said running out of the museum.
"Well not that's done, we are getting you to the pokemon center." Ray said as he picked up Jarvic and exited the museum.
"So, um, what did you see while in me?" Tink quietly asked while blushing.
"Nothing much." Ray said as they entered the pokemon center. "I think I landed where all of your pens are. How many do you have? Do you collect them or something?"
"Yes I do actually."
"Well at least I know I will always have something to write with."
"Hello!" Nurse Joy said with a smile. "How can I help you this afternoon?"
"Well I got a seasick cubone here." Ray said flopping Jarvic down.
"Fucking boats." Jarvic muttered.
"I also will need a room."
"Ok sir."Joy said handing Jarvic to a passing chansey. "We have two rooms left at 100 a night and I will need your name."
"How about 300 and we forget the name?" Ray said quietly.
"Can you at least show me an id?"
"I think this will cover that." Ray said pulling out his pokedex.
"Yes it will." Joy said quickly. "Right this way Mr. Dansk."
"Dansk?" Ray asked once Joy showed him to his room.
"If you don't like it tell me your real name." She said with a smile.
"Yeah I'd rather stay under the radar for tonight."
"Very well I will send your cubone over once he is healthy." Joy said before leaving.
"Well not bad day today." Ray said to Tink. "Got a badge, pissed off a crime group, made some new friends, and you only had one mental break down."
"Oh ha ha." Tink said unamused. "Let's see if I can do this."
"Do what?" Ray said looking at Tink as she shifted to look like Ray. "Nice but I'm not that short."
"Yeah this is as tall I can go." She said being a head shorter than him. "Maybe once I evolve I will be able to."
"Here is your cubone all healthy." Joy said walking into the room and seeing the two of them. "Oh these rooms are sound proof if you are into that kinda thing."
"What?" Ray said quickly looking at Tink and seeing that she shifted into her normal human form and was nude. "It's not like that. She's my pokemon."
"I know." Joy said with a smile before leaving. "Have a nice night."
"Well you did say I have to pay you back." Tink said once Joy left. "So what do you want me to do?"
"Christ. You're worst then May." Ray said shaking his head. "What do you guys want for food. Not pizza or tacos."
"Apples!" Chuck said popping out of his ball.
"I got you covered there." Ray said pulling out his pokedex. "Are you sure that's all you want?"
"Fuck yeah man!"
"Ok then." Ray said pressing a few buttons making a large crate of apples to appear. "Here you go. Burgers ok with you guys?"
"Yeah." Jarvic said. "I want fries too!"
"I will have the same." Tink said.
"So what am I getting myself into here?" Tink asked Jarvic once Ray left. "He is so weird."
"What are you talking about?" Jarvic asked as he turned on the tv and started to surf the channels.
"Well he hasn't fucked me yet."She said shifting back to her pokemon form and floating next to him. "A few of my past trainers would have abandoned me by now if I didn't sleep with them."
"Uh, how many trainers have you had before?"
"Six." She said. "Not counting the ones I just use for fun."
"So those other six trainers made you have sex with them?"
"Yeah isn't that normal?"
"No. No it isn't." Jarvic said shaking his head. "You should really keep that to yourself though. Ray would not like that one bit."
"Oh he only likes fresh pokemon?" She asked sadly.
"What? No! The whole time I have known him he never really showed any interest in pokephila."
"Oh then why shouldn't I tell him about them?"
"He will report them for abuse. That kinda thing just became legal."
"Oh, but what kinda kinks does he have?"
"Ok I just said his isn't into that kind thing and you are still going to try?"
"Hell yeah I am." Tink said with pride. "I never met a man who I could not fuck."
"Christ, if you keep going like that he will kick you out of the team."
"What! Really?"
"Yeah just be yourself, if it happens then have fun. Just don't push him." Jarvic said stopping at a movie about large underground monsters. "Why where you abandoned, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Oh I um, killed a few pokemon while battling them." Tink said quietly. "Then the last two just used me then left."
"Well he will show you how to use your power." Jarvic said with a smile. "Don't worry I will keep this little talk to my self."
"Thanks." Tink said hugging Jarvic. "It was nice to be able to talk about that."
"I will keep it to myself to." Chuck said causing both of them to jump.
"Right foods here." Ray said entering the room.
"Sweet!" Jarvic said taking the bag and handing out the burgers. "What, none for you?"
"I ate on the way back." Ray said taking his coat and hat off. "So Tink I want to run a few tests on you."
"What kind of tests?" She asked as she ate the burger whole. "Hey I thought you said you had long hair?"
"I bought hair ties, and nothing much I just need you to pop in this ball for a little bit." Ray said holding up a black pokeball.
"Um, I'm not too sure about that." Tink said looking at it.
"Well we can do this the old way." Ray said pulling out a needle.
"What are you going to do with that?" She asked hiding behind Jarvic who was still eating and watching tv.
"This." Ray said stabbing the air and the vial filled with blood. "Thanks for the sample mew."
"What are you going to do with my blood?" Mew said turning visible.
"I'm going to cone you and make an army of super pokemon and take over the world." Ray said labeling the vial. "Just kidding. I want to see if your cells really have the DNA of every single pokémon."
"Oh and how do you plan on doing that." Mew said floating over to Jarvic and stealing some of his fries.
"I will think of that later." Ray said looking at mew. "Hey you're a genderless pokemon right."
"Yeah, what of it?" Mew asked eating more fries. "Oh shit."
"Grab it Jarvic!" Ray said and Jarvic jumped up and grabbed on to its tail.
"Hey what are you going to do?" Mew asked trying to shake Jarvic off.
"Well I need to examine a genderless pokemon that isn't man-made for my research." Ray said putting on a rubber glove and holding mews tail up. "You don't mind do you?"
"Hmm, I see that I came at a bad time." A deep voice said from behind them.
"Hey there Psy!" Ray said looking at the alakazam. "I was just about to do a little research."
"Hell no!" Mew said trying to get free. "Let me go!"
"Ok look this really isn't the worst thing you caught me doing."
"True but couldn't you at least use lube?"
"Hmm, fair point." Ray said as mew continued to struggle. "Look you're a fucking mew. You could have just teleported away at any time."
"That's no fun." Mew said floating away.
"What you want to get probed?" Ray asked as he watched mew steal more fries.
"Maybe."
"Christ, anyway Tink please get in the ball." Ray said holding up the ball once more.
"Fine." She said jumping in it and quickly being forced out. "What? That's it?"
"Yeah." Ray said handing the ball to Psy. "Wait one more, hey Chuck."
"You called boss?" Chuck said rolling over to the group. "Holy shit! A mew!"
"Wow really?" Mew said floating over to him. "You just now noticed me?"
"Sorry I get distracted while eating. So what you need?"
"Just jump in here real quick and you can go back to eating."
"Sure boss!" Chuck said jumping in and out. "That's it?"
"Yeah that was it." Ray said handing the other ball to Psy. "You have the reports?"
"Yes." Psy said handing over a couple of papers. "Sadly there isn't much data at this time."
"It's alright."Ray as looking over the papers. "You want to stay? I can grab you something to eat."
"No thank you." Psy said before teleporting away.
"Right it's nearly ten now." Jarvic said yawning "I'm going to sleep."
"I'm going to go, do stuff." Tink said as she shifted into her human form and left.
"And what are you going to do mew?" Ray asked while looking at the data on his pokedex.
"I'm going to see if there is any good movies on." Mew said as it flipped through the channels.
"So you can't let yourself be caught by me but you are still following me around."
"Yup."
"Ok then." Ray said tossing a pokeball at mew and watching it get sucked up inside and hearing the ping of a successful capture. "Ha well that was unexpected."
"What the hell just happened?" Mew asked and it popped out of its ball.
"Ah well it looks like I caught you." Ray said picking the ball up.
"But how? That shouldn't have been possible!" Mew said floating around.
"Meh, whatever." Ray said breaking the crystal inside of it.
"Wait." Mew said after watching Ray break the ball releasing it from Ray. "You just caught me, a mew, and you are just going to let me go?"
"Yeah, you are going to follow me around anyway right?" Ray asked while going back to reading the data taken from Tink.
"True, but still who just give up a legendary pokemon?"
"Hmm, it seems that Tink needs some more vitamins. Her typing changes every two weeks do to a ghost types high metabolism." Ray said ignoring mew and started to read Chucks data. "Oh fuck."
"What?" Mew said looking at the worried face on Ray. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Ray said putting down the pokedex and going over to Chuck who was looking at the moon. "Hey, you ok?"
"Hey boss." Chuck said quietly as Ray sat next to him. "I take it that you found out?"
"Yeah, is there anything that I can do for you?"
"Ha no man." Chuck said with a smile. "All I wanted to do is find a trainer who could make me happy. I know I don't have much time but I promise I know the best replacement for me."
"Look maybe I can find something that can fix this."
"That's kind of you but I know there isn't hope." Chuck said with a smile. "You will love my friend man. I met him in the deepest part of the sea."
"Come on man, you are talking like you will drop dead any second now."
"Ha if I do put me back in the ocean."
"Will do."
"Good." Chuck said looking up at the moon. "I always liked how the moon looked. Ha I just thought about how well my friend will fit in with you."
"Oh? How?" Ray asked.
"You have a ghost that will sleep with anything, a cubone who loves fire, me, and lazy ass mew."
"Hey I heard that." Mew said from the couch. "Just because you are going to die doesn't mean I wouldn't still kick your ass."
"Wow where did that come from?" Ray said chuckling.
"And the biggest freak is you, boss!" Chuck said with a smile. "A trainer who catches a legendary mew and lets it go!"
"Yeah well hey." Ray said with a smile patting Chuck on the head. "If you ever need anything just let me know ok?"
"Yeah sure thing boss." Chuck said as Ray headed to sleep.
So there you go. Can i please get some reviews now?