Pokѐmon Journey III: Jezebel's Voyage
Chapter 11: Visiting Mattie's Old Home Town
Mattie's Point of View:
"Are you s-sure you guys? She se-seemed fine to me." I was situated back in my uncle's home in Verdanturf Town after my victory with Jezebel at the Mauville City gym. While I was still happy over our victory, Aria and Casey had called me shortly after to talk with me about some events that took place that caused Jezebel not to act like herself.
"She may have been, Mattie, but something really wrong happened." Aria was quick to argue against me on the other side of the line. "She met up with the head of Team Aqua the other day and since then she's been depressed as shit."
"Well… in anyone's defense, they would be really worried about the head of a criminal organization." I heard Casey sigh on the other end of the line.
"Yeah, but Jez doesn't get worried!"
"Aria, Casey, please calm down…" I slowly began to talk in hopes of them calming down enough so we could talk about this. They eventually did. "I-I'll pay close attention to-tomorrow, w-when I-I see her…"
I could imagine the two of them sighing as I could hear their breathing calming down on the other side of the phone. "Okay, then. We're counting on you, Mattie. Thanks."
"It's not a problem. Goodnight." The line went dead after that, with their goodnights said as well. My team sat around me and looked worried as I lay down on my bed and they all curled around me.
"Kirl?" Guardian questioned as she placed her head on my chest. Roza was on my other side while Luna was curled up at my head, all physically touching me in some form.
"Yeah, something's up with Jezebel… just like you though." I sighed and sadly looked to all my pokemon before showing them a weak smile. "But we'll help her out, no matter how long it takes… but Uncle's right… I'm tired…" I laid my head down and allowed my eyes to slowly close. Luna was quick to jump from my head and turn off the lights while Guardian placed the blanket over us all and Luna returned to her spot. My eyes gently closed and I felt myself drift to a slumber that was centered on my close friends.
Jezebel's Point of View (the next morning):
My night was filled with off and on sleep. It was difficult to get any sleep with the haunting fact of my uncle on my mind. I'd finally decided that I would be the one to take him out, when I got the chance, but it hurt so much to think of how much it would affect my family. My father would be devastated. So would Aunt Shelly and my cousins. He means so much to them and they look up to him. He was my dad's older brother after all, and with Aunt Shelly and Caspian and Nixie… that's their husband and dad… I can only imagine how much that would hurt… especially with how much my dad has been there for me since the beginning of my life.
Due to my restless sleep, my pokemon sadly had to suffer the same fate, most of them anyway. Spinner had been peacefully sleeping on the other pillow of the bed, Silky was next to him, but unfortunately for her, her wings were fanned out over my face, she could sense and feel every action and movement I made. Blade and Blaze were no better as they lay on either side of me to keep warm during the night and keep me warm as well. I woke them up every time in the middle of the night. I couldn't help but feel extremely guilty as my body woke them with no reason. Of course that was a lie. There was a reason. I just refused to voice it and let my horrified thoughts tell my team how I really felt through Blade's psychic powers.
I'm sorry for keeping all of you up… I sighed as my thoughts drifted and Blade easily caught them in his now awakened state and he passed them through to the others. Spinner was the only one who seemed to be wide awake and had a good night's sleep. My other pokemon were all right with what they had, which was the same as me, but it seemed that Blade was slightly more irritated because of it. I'd hoped nothing bad happened today or else someone would be getting all their fury…
Without waiting for Casey and Aria, who had asked me to wait up for them in the morning to head to Verdanturf Town together, I quickly grabbed breakfast for me and my team before setting out to the west, following the fields and route of flowers.
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A short while later, as my pokenav's time neared one, I had arrived in Verdanturf Town to be amazed once again by the natural beauty of this place. Flowers cascaded over every hill and it was peacefully placed at the base of a mountain cave that led from here to just north of Rustboro. Vines and moss of all types were at the base of every house. Each house seemed to have thick concrete walls to keep the plants from deteriorating it. These plants seemed to then cascade over the walls- at least the vines did- and work their way up to nearly the roofs. It was a town entirely dedicated to nature and a more natural way of life than that of the modern day cities that we often traveled through on a day to day basis.
With it nearing one, I thought it would be a good time then to actually get some food for my pokemon and me. Blaze and Blade walked before me and opened the door to the pokemon center for me and the others and we all sat down at a table. I pulled out a menu and handed one to all members of my team so we could look over what there was to eat.
"Jezebel?" I blinked when I heard my name and looked up. Right there was Mattie in the doorway with his three pokemon with him. Luna was in his arms, enjoying being on her back and playing with her tail while Guardian and Roza stood at Mattie's sides, holding onto the boy's planted legs in order to not be separated from him, even in the very small crowd of people that were here.
"Hey Mattie, good afternoon." I gave the boy a smile and pushed all worries of mine to the back of my mind while I began to converse with him.
"Hi… wh-what are you doing here?" He looked away from me for a moment before he walked over next to my table.
"I'm here for some lunch. We got hungry." I handed him my menu. "Would you like to join us?"
He quickly shook his head, and most likely would have done the same thing if his arms were free too. "No… but… I was go-going to call you soon…" I raised my eye brow at him as he seemed to have reverted back into his old self and became shy, looking away as he was mulling over what he wanted to tell me. "My fa-family and I-I wanted t-to invi-ite you over t-to ou-our home for lu-lunch…"
"Oh? That's sweet of you guys." I pulled back my menu and set it on the table, as did the rest of my team who had one in their hands. "Your family and you didn't have to do that for us."
"Bu-but we w-want-ted to." The boy's face suddenly flushed red in embarrassment. He hid himself behind his hair. "Please?"
I smiled at the boy and stood up. I pecked the sweet boy's cheek and he whipped his head up to look at me at his side. "Lead the way." I motioned for my team to follow after me and they were quickly standing before Mattie and his pokemon. He only had to think about it for a moment before he nodded and quickly took my hand in his (after shifting his arms so Luna still had a hand holding onto her while she continued to play with her tail, that was.)
A short walk later I found myself before a very large house right on the edge of the mountain. It was a cute house that fit many of the descriptions of the other houses around town, but this one also seemed to have many personal gardens planted around it and many berry trees. Outside of the home I actually saw a woman with dark green hair that only looked a few years older than Mattie that was picking some berries with a couple local grass type pokemon that seemed to belong to her.
The first was a pokemon known as Nuzleaf. It was a first evolution of a seedot, who also happened to be surrounded by a group of its pre-evolution. Seedot were small acorn looking like pokemon that had small feet at the base of their bodies and eyes just below their acorn cap heads.
Nuzleaf, the evolved form, has a body that has a bit of a human shape. Its body is a brown color and seems to have some sort of thicker tan, clothing-like piece that went over its pelvis area. Tan circles were around its eyes and a leaf had sprouted on the top of its head. Its nose was also pointed out. I pointed my pokedex at the two of them.
Seedot, the acorn pokemon. If it remains still, it becomes impossible to distinguish from real nuts. It hangs off branches and absorbs nutrients. When it finishes eating, its body becomes so heavy that it drops to the ground with a thump. Seedot nests are rare and tend to only be found on routes one-oh-two, one-seventeen, and one-twenty.
Nuzleaf, the wily pokemon and the evolved form of seedot. It is a forest-dwelling pokemon that is skilled at climbing trees. Its long and pointed nose is its weak point. It loses power if the nose is gripped. Nuzleaf nests are extremely few to none and are only recorded to be found on route one-fourteen.
The other set of pokemon that was out with the woman was a set of desert-dwelling grass type Pokemon- The spiky grass types known as cacnea and cacturne. Cacnea, the first stage of the evolution series of this breed, was a small spiked grass type that had two thick arms and stubby little feet attached to its body. It was a light green in color and had a small yellow flower on its head. It had some black spots on the front of its face that represented its mouth. A small group of them were gathered around at the base of the cacturne's feet.
The cacturne on the other hand was very tall and had both thick arms and legs. A thick crown of dark green had grown on its head like a triangular cap. Its entire body was a light green color like its pre-evolution and had dark green spikes all over it. Its eyes were a bit more serious than all the other pokemon. It almost seemed to be acting like a bodyguard more than anything else while it's pre-evolution, at its feet, was gathering berries.
Cacnea, the cactus pokemon. Cacnea live in deserts with virtually no rainfall. It battles by swinging its thick, spiked arms. Once a year, a yellow flower blooms. It can survive for thirty days on water stored in its body. Cacnea are rare and tend to only be found on route one-eleven in the desert.
Cacturne, the scarecrow pokemon and the evolved form of cacnea. It lives in deserts. It becomes active at night when it hunts for prey exhausted from the desert's heat. There are no known cacturne nests in this region.
I put away my pokedex just in time to for the woman to notice us and turn around. She gasped and smiled brightly when she saw us and hurried over to Mattie, hugging him briefly before then hugging me. I blinked in shock.
"Oh, thank you for joining us today, Jezebel! I've heard so much about you from Mattie!" The woman pulled back and handed the basket to the pokemon she was with before holding out a hand for me to shake. "I'm Mary, Mattie's cousin. We were just gathering some fresh berries to make some dessert for after lunch."
I took her hand. "It's nice to meet you as well, but…" I blushed slightly from under her innocent gaze. "You didn't have to do any of this for me."
"Oh, but we wanted to!" The girl nearly squealed into my ear. "Mattie hasn't had a friend in a really long time, and to see him so excited to begin his journey as a pokemon trainer and moving around is such an amazing thing!" She suddenly yanked me into her arms. "You don't know how much we appreciate all you've done for him!"
"M-mary!" Mattie shouted with a heavy blush and a bit of hesitation in his voice.
"Oh, don't be like that, Mattie! She's such a sweet girl!" She pulled along on my arm and dragged me toward the house. "You should come inside! My boyfriend and mother are really interested in meeting you! Oh and you have such cute pokemon too!" She bent her legs to reach their level, or at least that of Blade and Blaze while looking up to my head and shoulders to face Silky and Spinner. "What are all their little names?"
"This here is Blaze, my combusken." He shook her hand with his clawed one, nodding to her. "And this is Blade, my kirlia." Blade only nodded to her, still in quite the sour mood today. I then pointed up on my head. "This is Silky, my beautifly, on my head, and on my shoulder is Spinner, my surskit." Both of them gave her happy cries and gently shook her hands with one of their own.
"Oh it's so lovely to meet you all!" She tugged on my hand again. "Come inside! Dinner's almost ready and I'm starting in on those pies now that I have some fresh berries! I heard from Mattie that you love iapapa berries! We're making that pie specifically for you!"
"…Thank you." The words flew out of my mouth before I could even think about what to say. This was a real family before me that wanted to thank me just for being friends with their nephew and all the outcomes that have come up because of it. I couldn't believe it, I've never met a family that was so… happy… or nice… or that wanted to get to know me. My mother never allowed that, which was why I was always alone…
"Jezebel?" I turned to Mattie and he held out his hand. "Come inside, I-I'll introduce you to everyone." I nodded silently, still stunned by the extremely warm welcome, and allowed the younger boy to lead me toward the house with my pokemon and my sides and Mary trailing not far behind, giggling behind her hand.
Mattie led me through the front door, which was a vibrant mahogany red color, and within the large home was an elegant open floor plan of the entire first floor. A set of stairs was right before me, but off to the side was an open living room where a large flat screen TV was on and a couple males were watching a pokemon match, most likely what was going on in the pokemon league right now. On the opposite side, there was an extremely large dining room that a woman was setting up at that moment. She looked much like Mary with vibrant green hair that was braided on her head and hung off her shoulder.
"Oh, hello there! You must be Jezebel!" The woman was quick to finish her work at the table and look over at me. "I'm Lucy, Mattie's aunt and Mary's mother. Welcome to our home."
"Dude, she's here?" I whipped my head to the side and watched as an older male teen boy around Mary's age leapt over the couch and raced at me. A male with spiky black hair and a muscular looking figure that actually looked like someone who worked with logging jumped out before me. Bright blue eyes glanced into my emerald ones and he grinned when he saw my pokemon. "Dude! About time you got here. I've been wanting to meet you for ages now!"
"Dustin! We do not talk to guests like that!" Lucy snapped at the male, but he seemed to be ignoring her as he focused on me.
"So what was he like? The leader of that criminal gang? How'd you beat him? I wanna sock the guy!" Dustin began throwing his fist around as if the leader of Team Aqua was right here, right now. Mattie's uncle was quick to the rescue by running around the couch and grabbing the boy's arms and twisting it behind his back, instantly calming him down as he howled in pain.
"Dustin, what have I told you?"
"Yeah, yeah Pops, I got it." The male sighed and walked over to Mary and put an arm around her waist. "But seriously Jez, you gotta tell us about how you took him out!"
"Dustin!" Mary was the one to snap this time and actually hit her boyfriend's arm. He flinched a bit at that as she scowled at him and turned back to look at her.
"He let me go, and everything that I was doing too." This grabbed all the attention of the people in the house, even Mattie as he worriedly looked at me. "He didn't do anything to me and neither me to him either. He let the parts go, but he said he'd be back for the submarine." I shook my head. "I don't wanna talk about this anymore."
"And rightfully so, you poor thing. Get that man out of your head and go wash up, you and all your pokemon, for a home cooked meal." Lucy was quick to change the subject as she wrapped an arm around me and glared at Dustin. "Go get the food and sit at the table, Dustin, and if everything's not there when I get back, oh trust me, you're going to get it."
The younger male nodded easily and, with a heavy head, walked toward the kitchen.
"Now don't worry about him; he's just curious." Lucy smiled and led me to the table. "The bathroom is that door right straight ahead. Go on and wash up and I'll help Dustin bring out the food." I nodded and walked to where she pointed.
Mattie rushed up to my side. "I'm r-really sorry Jezebel; I didn't t-think that Dustin w-would be like that…"
I shook my head. "Don't worry about it, just because he asks doesn't mean I have to answer."
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After the short introduction to the rest of Mattie's family (and finally getting over my knowing feelings in my chest from thinking about my uncle), I found out a whole lot more about his family. Dustin was a logger that worked in the woods to the north of town where the forests are. He worked with his family there for a pretty good pay. Mary and her parents ran a berry farm here on their house lot and a section to the side where they sell berries to trainers and non-trainers for flavor and status healing reasons.
They asked questions about me too- where I came from, who my family was. Dustin took great interest in my father being the Petalburg gym leader, asking about the types of pokemon he used and what kinds of pokemon as well. I tried to give as few details to him as I could. While I was a trainer that would put all the knowledge I knew about a gym leader to good use in battle with them, I would never openly tell others about the weaknesses of my father and his team. It makes the battle entirely unfair and uneven for those who want a good battle. Even if Dustin wasn't a trainer, that didn't mean I was going to reveal every detail to him.
The meal that Lucy and Mary had cooked for us was one of the most amazing I'd had in all my life. Everything was extremely fresh, as if they'd just pulled it out of the garden moments before cooking it for our supper. We had potatoes, fresh salad, a green bean casserole and a berry salad, not to mention some fresh meat that was cooked and some fish that was just picked up from the market in Slateport just a few hours prior to my arrival. My pokemon looked to be all so stuffed that they didn't know what to do with themselves.
When the meal was finally over, Mattie had offered to show me the berry trees in the orchard and Mary and Dustin offered to come along. I'd been told to take some berries with me for my journey through the desert and soot routes tomorrow, and so they wanted me to have plenty of fruit that would provide me and my team with enough nutrition and liquids until we reached either Fallarbor Town or Lavaridge Town, depending on which paths are blocked or open. I'd need to get to the top of Mt. Chimney to get to Lavaridge, otherwise I'd have a long climb ahead of me. In the instance where the tram wasn't working or I'd need to find another way there, I could rest at Fallarbor Town for a night and then try again the next day when I'd have more energy.
Looking through the trees now, I reached to pick another pecha berry from a tree before adding it to my almost already full basket. My team and I would most certainly not be going hungry tomorrow. I had berries of all kinds in it, of all flavors of spicy, sour, sweet, dry and bitter. All of my pokemon and even I had different tastes, it was better to have a wide variety than not.
"Does this look like enough Jezebel?" Mary walked over to me with another basket in hand, entirely full of berries. I gaped at the older girl and sighed.
I shifted in my spot. "But I'm out of room, Mary; I don't think I can take all these berries with me. Not to mention, this is a lot more then I feel comfortable taking from you, even if you have said it's okay."
She waved it off. "Don't worry about it. Before you go, my mother and I plan to repack a nice large basket with all of these little berries for you, so you don't have to worry about that."
I sighed. "If you're sure."
"I am."
"Jezebel, s-she means well. W-we all do." Mattie came up next to me and took hold of my free hand. "W-why don't we g-go and get th-these berries packed up a-and you can stay here w-with us for the night." The boy's face was entirely red as he said this, but he held his ground and looked quite determined.
I couldn't help but smiled at his cute face. "Sure Mattie, that sounds really nice. Let me just get the other basket from Mary-"
"Damn you fucken thieves! Get the fuck back here and give back those berries! Cacturne, attack!" I whipped my head around to see vaguely the resemblance of a battle taking place where we could hear Dustin's voice. Mary gasped and set down her basket before taking off in that direction.
"Dustin!" she cried out to him.
"Come on, Mattie!" I dropped the basket in my hands and raced with my pokemon, Mattie, and his own pokemon to the same location. I gasped when we first got there; I was not expecting this to be taking place in the small town of Verdanturf.
Dustin had been forced to the ground by a male that was dressed in darkly colored clothes that seemed to be a dark grey color. The clothes were shaggy looking; they seemed to cover all of his body up to his upper chest, where a red hood was there that covered the top part of the chest too. A strange symbol looking like that of a 'm' was on his chest and the hood covered his face. Four others seemed to be with him, they all had out pokemon and were carrying machines that were rapidly picking the berries that were in the fields.
"The berries!" Mary screeched when she saw this, and then again at her boyfriend. "Dustin!"
"L-let h-him go!" Mattie had all of his pokemon out and they growled at the five invaders. "Give us back our berries!"
"Like we'd listen to you. Now run away to mommy," one of the few of them said, the only female of the group who was working the machines that were collecting berries.
So this must have been the infamous Team Magma… at last we meet. I couldn't help but inwardly grin at what had taken place. While the day that I'd spent with Mattie and his family was amazing, I needed something a bit more… stimulating to unleash and control my anger from thinking about my uncle as the leader of Team Aqua.
"Silky, Blade, take back what they stole." My arms crossed themselves as my eyes locked onto our opponents. The female only glanced at me as Silky leapt off my head and Blade's eyes glowed.
"Ha! You really think you can stop the amazing Team Magma? A little girl like you doesn't know anything!" The woman only laughed as she returned to what she was doing.
I shook my head as I watched my pokemon become angry from her statement and Silky took to the sky above. Blade's eyes glowed a solid purple color before he raised a hand and Dustin disappeared from where he was held down on the other side of the field. He re-appeared next to Mary, and gasped when he could let his arms go and they flopped out against his sides.
"Dustin!" Mary rushed to his side, and once he was out of the way, Silky fluttered her wings before she fucken threw a tornado at them.
All five members were already startled when Dustin had vanished from their grip and now their equipment and berries were flying in the air, out of control. The container of berries and the berries themselves landed behind us, most of the berries landing back inside it. Once they were out of the way, Silky let the air die down before she threw a destructively beautiful silver wind at the other party.
"Now Blaze!" My fire type jumped forward and took a sudden breath before he ignited the vortex and Silky fled back to me. I took her into my arms before I suddenly turned away from the fire and heard the explosion and felt the enormous and sudden heat on my back.
I could hear the screams of the Team Magma members on the other side of the fire. I felt grateful to get out some frustration on them, but I felt a bit bad that they were being burned practically alive. I released Silky from my arms and turned back to look at the blaze, only to see that the fire was practically out and all the members were gone. I hissed; they had gotten away, but at least they were harmed. Now Team Magma had to look out for me too, and I had another group of villains on which to take out my anger…
"Jezebel?" Mattie was quick to come over to me once the battle was over. "A-are you alright?"
"I'm fine. They didn't exactly do anything to me; it was more I who was hurting them." I looked around at the area of the battle; sadly a few trees got part of their branches burned and were still on fire. I turned to Spinner. "You think you could put out those last little things of fire?"
"Sur!" He jumped from my shoulder and raced over to the trees and started to fire water attacks at them to put out the fire. While he did that, I turned to Mary.
"I'm sorry for singeing a few of your berry trees-"
"Oh, Jezebel! You saved the berries and our berry farm!" The girl tackled me in a hug that sent us flying onto the ground. "Oh, you have no idea how thankful I am! Don't worry about the little burns! We'll cut them off and new branches will grow in the next year's crop! They needed a trimming anyway! And with the help of that evil organization, we don't have to pick most of the berries and can head to the big farmer's market tomorrow and make lots of money so we can keep up with this lovely lifestyle we have! Thank you! Thank you!"
"M-mary! Get o-off of her!" Mattie rushed over to pull the older woman off, but sadly his thin, frail arms could do nothing against his older cousin.
"Let me help you out there, shrimp." Dustin walked over to the smaller boy that I called my friend, and easily hooked an arm around Mary's waist and threw her up and over his shoulder. She screeched and hit his back when he did that, but he only smiled at us.
"I'll take her back to the house and tell the folks the good news; I'll meet you guys back there so we can pack your baskets, Jez." I nodded to him from my spot on the ground and the older male took off with his girlfriend shouting at him the entire time. When he faded from sight, I turned back to Mattie.
"H-here Jezebel… l-let me help you up." I took the boy's extended hand and he threw his entire weight into helping me up, so that when I made it to my feet, he slipped out of my grip and fell himself. My eyes widened and I gasped, hurrying over to the boy.
"Mattie! You okay?" The boy nodded and looked up at me with a sad look. "What's wrong?"
He shook his head. "It's n-nothing."
"Here," I shot him out my hand. "At least let me help you up since you fell from helping me up."
He took a moment to think the idea over while I waited there for him to decide. After a moment, he finally decided yes because he took ahold of my hand and I yanked him up. He let out a yelp as he was pulled harshly to his feet.
"There, all back on your feet." I gave the boy a grin and he smiled at that.
"Jezebel?" I blinked at him. "C-can I ask you a question?"
"Technically you already did, but sure, ask away." I snorted a laugh and I saw him lightly smile before it slowly vanished and he looked at me worriedly.
"I w-was wondering… would you m-mind if I traveled w-with you for a w-while?" I tilted my head almost vaguely to the side at his question. "I-I want to l-learn how to g-get str-ronger… I think I-I can do t-that with you… I… I want-ted to ask you b-back in Rust-boro… but I-I…" his face flushed red with embarrassment, "I d-didn't think you would say y-yes…"
"Mattie, relax." The boy dared to look up at me with worried and hurt eyes and I quickly pulled him in for a hug. "I do want you to go with me. I'd love for you to journey with me, you're such a good friend, and I love talking with you, not to mention, you've put up one of the best battles that I've ever seen in a long time." I snorted a laugh as the boy looked at me stunned, once again. "Matthew Ashling, will you journey with me across the Hoenn region so that we may learn and become some of the best trainers out there?"
"Yes!" He raced to hug me again and I laughed as he did so.
"Hey! There they are!" I turned my head toward the voices I heard and watched as Aria and Casey rushed up to us, running through the trees before they stopped before us and panted as if they'd been jogging for a really long time.
"What's up, you guys?" I turned to face the two of them. Aria sighed and hissed before she swatted Casey. He yowled at the pain before he raced to hit her and I grabbed his arm before he could do so, twisting it behind his back and he howled in pain again.
"Why are you ganging up on me?" He cried out and hissed when Aria began to approach him. "Back off, you bitch!"
"Hold him still for a minute, Jez, I need to hit him a few more times!" Right as she was about to take a swing at him, I let him go and he jumped out of the way before he charged at her. The two of them then started to hit each other in the middle of the orchard. A few words including 'sleeping in too long' and 'fucking bastard' came to my ears.
I shook my head and took Mattie's hand. "Come on, Mattie, let's leave them to their own devices, then." Mattie nodded and followed after me as I led him away.
Third Person Point of View:
Within a faraway hidden base in the deep sea routes of the Hoenn region, Archie Twain sat at his desk watching some footage of the battle that took place between the girl he knew and his team's archenemy, Team Magma. He sighed heavily as he looked over the footage again and again to see the girl so easily take out an operation and the sheer command over her team she had without even having to let out a command, as if they knew her commands and never had to say them. Although she did have a psychic type on her team…
"Archie." The man raised his hand and looked to the beautiful woman at his side. It was the same woman who had been on the boat with the orders to obtain the scanner a few weeks ago. She placed her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek before sitting on the edge of his desk. "Going over the footage of that girl again?"
"Yeah," he sighed. "I just don't understand how this girl works, Shelly; I don't understand why she's against us."
"Not everyone sees things the same way as us. At least we know she's against Team Magma as well." The woman looked at the footage once again. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all."
"True, Love, but what bothers me the most is that she is able to control her pokemon so easily and that they contain such power… to have that kind of strength behind us would be amazing."
"Such a child as that won't be easily swayed, Hon." Shelly shook her head. "Caspian and Nixie are with the grunts in the warehouse right now going over our pokemon stock. Should I give them some more orders once they finish?"
"No, send them home. As much as I appreciate all that they are doing for us and share our support in a common dream, I don't want the two of them to get too deep. If we were to be caught… at least my brother would take them in, but still… that would take us away from them."
"I know the risks, and so do they." The woman sighed and looked down at her hand to see the gold band on her finger as well as the engagement ring. "I'm just glad Jezebel isn't a part of all of this large mess. She has to deal with so much shit from her mother already… I hate to say it, but I'm glad it's just her mother she has to worry about."
"You and me both, Shelly." Archie sighed. "Now we have to get back to other things. Send in Admin Aqua. I have a new mission for her."
"Right away, sir." She jumped off the table; the informal matters dealt with, and now was back to business. She opened the door to Archie's office. A woman with short red hair and glittering ice blue eyes walked into the room.. A neutral look was upon her face as she stepped up to the desk in her admin uniform of a long blue skirt that was split on the side up to her hip and a strapless black shirt that covered her chest along with a set of blue boots that reached up to her knees. She stood at attention before the desk while Shelly stood off to the side.
"Admin, I have a new mission for you over in the east." Archie stood up and stepped before his desk while she stood at attention. "Now that we've discovered a more solid possible location for where Kyogre's whereabouts are, I want you checking out all caves to the east, and I want your undercover partner that infiltrated Team Magma to give me an update as soon as possible, we need to know what they plan to do soon."
The woman slightly bowed to him. "As you command, sir; we'll have an update for you tonight; tomorrow night at the latest, should it be hard or difficult to get through to him." She stood up and slowly made her way out of the room to leave her boss alone to deal with his own work and thoughts.
Once Admin Aqua was outside of the office, she dived for one of the storage rooms before she set out. She set herself behind a large set of boxes and containers before she looked at both of her arms. She then put her mouth on the end of the longest finger and pulled, and suddenly the skin seemed to be pulled off, only to reveal a mechanical arm. She did the same thing with her other hand before she opened one of the arms to reveal a pokeball inside, one that was cushioned and hidden. She grinned madly when she saw it before she licked it and allowed the arm to close.
She then turned to the other arm and used a couple buttons that were set up on it. It took a few minutes for a small signal amplifier and screen to appear on her arm as well, the rod sticking out of her tallest finger and the screen on the underarm. Once it was on, the screen took shape of a man on the other side of the screen. He was in a Team Magma uniform, but seemed to have a similar look to that of the female. He had short red hair as well, but his seemed to be slightly longer when compared to the length of the hair on the female's head.
"All right, Razi. They're sending me out, finally," Admin Aqua, or her real identity, Rosalie Agustino, said to her younger brother.
"I know Sis; I just got news of that myself. We finally moved into our hidden base in Mt. Chimney. Some of our members that can stand up to the heat down toward the center of the volcano and those that are digging tunnels down there are trying to search for Groudon. Maxie's got me down here right now working on that."
"Good, and how many members have you recruited into our forces?"
"The number's still a bit low, Sis, but I got a few more today. It's a bit of a slow process to sway some people to our side since it's hard to judge some of these members and make sure they're not so afraid of you that they don't work under you, but are afraid enough not to double cross us."
"Whatever you have will do, Razi. I shall contact you again later tonight for information about Team Magma's plans up near Fallarbor Town. Archie wants to know as soon as possible."
"You got it Sis; I'll see you later, then. Don't kill too many people and pokemon while I'm gone. We need to stay in disguise for a little while longer until we get enough forces that are strong enough to take down Violet and Gwyn once and for all."
"And then my dream will come true… a world without them… and where my husband and I rule the world!"
Witch's Note:
Oh boy… here we go. We now see what happened to Rose and Razi, they're being sneaky little bastards, aren't they? But it's so cute that Mattie and Jez plan to travel together! I can't wait to show you guys what happens between them on their journey together!
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Halloween Witch