Kates' P.O.V
We landed in front of Altru Inc. not even five minutes later, employees were angry about being kicked out of the building; some of them were trying to get back in, while others were watching in shock.
"Looks like we're a little late," Keith pointed out; I looked at the scene, that Admin was there.
"Ya think," I asked as we walked forwards, the girl noticed me straight away.
"Kate, nice to see you again, coming to our side yet?" she asked, I growled as I clenched my fists, I couldn't get angry, if I did, I would injure someone severely.
"Not a chance, she's with us, she'll stay with us," Keith said as he placed his hand on my shoulder, I calmed down, but my eyes started to glow red, the Admin shrugged as she sent a Yanmega to attack us, the capture was complete without any flaws.
"Well, this was fun, but right now, I gotta run," the Admin said before taking off, we followed her inside the building; my eyes stopped glowing once we entered.
Looking around we saw it was empty, deserted, Keith shivered next to me, it wasn't cold in the room though.
"I feel like we're in a horror movie, that anything could jump out at any time," he explained, I tried to hold my laughter in but failed miserably as I began laughing.
"Oh Keith, you're crazy, sometimes I worry about what's going on in your head," I said as we walked to the centre of the room, there was grunting heard behind us, Keith flinched, I turned to see two Dim Suns putting up two barriers at the doors, to stop people from getting in.
"There, that oughta do it," one of them said, the other nodded.
"That ought to keep out law-abiding employees and Rangers," the other said, they then turned to us, panic was evident in their faces once they saw us, I smirked at them. They began panicking saying things like they couldn't escape and the other told one of them to hurry up, I looked at Keith, who shrugged.
"Let's just go," I said as we walked towards the elevator, another Dim Sun Grunt was stood there, I crossed my arms as she turned to face us.
"We knew you were coming Kate," she said, I rolled my eyes, does every Dim Sun member know who I am? Then again, it really wouldn't be a shock if they did. An alarm began to beep as another Admin stepped out, she glared at me.
"This is the puny Ranger Mr Hall wants on our team?" she asked, then laughed, "Please explain how she got this far?" she asked, I looked at her, I smirked.
"Maybe it's because I'm head strong not weak limbed," I countered, Keith just looked between the two of us, she Admin growled as she sent her team to do her dirty work. We looked around for whatever was coming, a foul stench reached my noise, I gipped.
"Keith," I said as I held my nose, Keith looked around, seeing a Skuntank and Wheezing, he quickly caught the pokemon with ease, the stench still lingered in the air as I let my nose go, I had to breathe through my mouth, we turned to the Admin as she sent out her pokemon.
A Shriftry and two Nuzleaf, Keith looked at me, I was still holding my stomach, he nodded as he began his capture on the three pokemon, again he did it with ease.
Once that was done the Admin growled again, we smirked at her.
"Oh you're good, but I won't allow you to stop Mr Hall," she said, then smirked, "Minions grab them," she ordered, Keith began fuming.
"You have no sense of honour," Keith seethed through clenched teeth, I looked at him, I had never seen him like this before, as the minions advanced a yell was heard.
"TARGET!" I know that anywhere, "CLEAR!" it finished, the doors to the building were blasted through as Big B came running in, I looked at the doors, which were on their hinges, then Barlow.
"Kate, Keith are you alright?" he asked as he Crawford and Luana ran forwards, Crawford enveloped me in a hug as Luana smiled at me; I take it she knew about me.
"You told her?" I asked as I hugged Crawford, who sighed.
"I told the Ranger Base, if we were assisting you on this, they would need to know," he answered, I let go of him as I smiled at him.
"We Area Rangers got the call to assist you in Operation Brighton," Barlow spoke up, we looked at him, "Let us deal with dregs like these, you two need to keep going up," he pointed out, I looked at Keith, who nodded his head. Barlow, Luana and Crawford chased the members of Dim Sun that were in our way towards the corner of the room, I looked at Crawford, who nodded.
"Good luck Katherine," he said, I smiled before me and Keith entered the lift.
"Thought you hated being called that," he said, I looked at him as he walked towards a keypad thing.
"I do, but in situations like this, I don't have time to kill him," I answered, Keith nodded as he examined the keypad.
"Looks like it needs a password," Keith said, I thought for a second, "Isaac worked here, maybe they haven't taken his password out yet, but what could it be?" he asked himself, I also thought for a second, it would be something Isaac loved and cherished dearly, "How about Glasses?" he asked, I looked at him.
"What world are you in?" I asked him, Keith sighed.
"Take that as I no," he said, then began thinking again, "What about AAAA? Try that?" he asked, I looked at him in shock.
"Keith, we're thinking of Isaac here, not you," I said, he glared at me before turning back to the keypad, I sighed. A thought hit me, Isaac left because his sister was in trouble.
"Hey Keith," I called, Keith turned a little, "Try Melody," I said, Keith looked at me then smiled.
"That's just smart enough to work," he said as he typed the name in, "M-E-L-O-D-Y," he said aloud, I slapped my forehead; he needed to spell out such a simple name.
He looked at the keypad again as it turned green, Keith smiled.
"It worked, we're going to the ninth floor," he said, I nodded my head, as he walked back over to stand next to me; the elevator music was familiar to me.
"It was so easy that night, should have been strong, yeah I lied," I sang as we carried on going up, Keith kept looking around the small elevator, then at me occasionally, I sighed.
"Don't tell me you're claustrophobic as well," I complained, Keith smiled as he shook his head.
"Nope," he answered, I smiled.
"Good," I said, the lift began to shake as it came to a complete stop, in the process I had fallen on top of Keith, who was blushing profoundly.
"We gotta stop meeting like this," I said to him, he laughed nervously.
"Yeah, ya think?" he asked, I laughed as I climbed off of him, sitting next to him.
"Now what?" I asked, as Keith was about to speak a new voice was heard.
"Are you alright in there?" it asked, "Hold on, I'm here to rescue you," it said as the lights flickered back on, we turned to see another Admin there, I cocked a brow at her, "Heh, I lied, it's the end of the line for you two," she said as she sent some Dusclops, I looked at Keith then brought my styler out once I saw he wasn't doing anything, I smirked as I caught both pokemon with no trouble, the Admin began freaking as she moved to the side, we used to rope to climb out, Keith went first. Once I was at the top, he held his hand out, I took it as he pulled me up, we both stumbled backwards.
"Ok, no more falling today," he said, I laughed a little.
"Yeah," I said as we began walking again, we looked at a ladder to the right of us.
"I think we can climb up," Keith said, I turned to him, my hand made contact with the back of his head.
"Ow, what was that for?" he asked, I looked at him.
"Do you REALLY want me to answer that?" I asked, Keith grumbled a moment before we began climbing, me going first this time.
Once we were at the top we had to face another Admin, Keith was the one who caught the Gabite this time, the Admin then took off running. We carried on our way up another ladder, faced the two girls that were in the volcano with Lavana, I caught their Gengar with a little work, considering they disappeared and reappeared whenever they felt like it.
We climbed up another ladder, avoided some pokemon, up another ladder until we saw a door with another Admin stood in front of it.
"Arceus, why do you torture us so?" Keith mumbled, I smirked.
"Amen," I said as we ran towards the Admin, I was running at Keiths' pace to obvious reasons.
"Welcome Ranger, I am under orders for our leader Ice, to treat you with utter most courtesy," the Admin said, Keith growled at Ices' name being mentioned, I rolled my eyes.
"Now's not the time for a hate fest," I snapped, Keith stopped growling as the Admin sent out a Mamoswine, I rolled my eyes as I began the capture, having my line broken by the ice only once, I smiled as the pokemon ran away after that. The Admin began to panic, I looked at Keith.
"I think this would be more entertaining if they did a little dance as well," I said, Keith cocked a brow then laughed at the thought of it, when we looked back, the Admin was gone, I looked at the edge of the platform, either she jumped or she ran into the other room, Arceus let it be jumped, I prayed.
We walked through the door, which lead to the vents, I think; they were big enough to stand in, which was good. We walked through until we came to an open part in the floor, er ceiling, er whatever.
Keith stood next to me, he gulped.
"You're not thinking about jumping are you?" he asked, I smirked.
"No I was thinking more along the lines of this," I said as I pushed him down, he screamed a high pitched scream before I heard him groan, I shrugged, "TRONIMO!" I yelled as I jumped down, landing on a pile of garbage, losing my footing and flying to the ground. To make it worse, Keith had only just got up.
"WHATCH IT!" I yelled, too late, Keith turned but ended up colliding with me, sending us both flying to the ground, Star and Buizel were also on the ground near the wall, I groaned as I rubbed my head, I looked at Keith, who had swirls where his eyes should have been, "Hey Keith?" I asked, his eyes came back, he glared at me.
"Yes?" he asked, I smiled.
"You ok?" I asked, he glared harder at me.
"What do you think?" he asked, I smiled.
"Well, I'm great," I said, Keith rolled his eyes.
"Just get off," he said, I did as told, I help him to his feet, before Star ran up my shoulder, Buizel copied her actions as he ran up my other.
"Why don't you ever do this to Keith?" I asked him, Buizel smiled.
"Because he's a mardy arse twat," Buizel said, Keith growled.
"I am not," he said, I laughed.
"I hear that," I said as Buizel gave me a high five, er paw, I think, Keith shot me a confused look.
"You can understand him?" he asked, I nodded, Keith turned as he walked out of the door, I followed after him.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked him, Keith sighed.
"Nothing, let's just get this done ok?" he asked, I grabbed his arm.
"Not until you tell me what's wrong," I ordered, my voice stern, Keith smiled at me, he pulled my into a hug, I was shocked but hugged him back.
"When this is all over, I'll tell you, I promise," he said, I sighed, I knew there was no point in arguing.
"Fine," I said, I grabbed his hand as I dragged him to a wall, only just noticing the Dim Sun Grunts that were in the hall, we listened as they spoke, four blue dots on a wall thing turned red, I cocked a brow.
"I'm getting word that Ranger have infiltrated the building," one of them said, I smirked, oh yeah, "Is the Yellow Gem secure?" the same person asked, our heads shot to the gate that was there.
"The Yellow Gem's in secure storage in the back here," the one on the wall said, "The gate's not about to open easily, there's nothing to worry about," one of the others smiled.
"Yeah, our Miniremo units are the key to the gate, unless the Rangers can find and beat all four of us, there's no way that gate's opening," I rolled my eyes, really? You don't just say that in the open.
"Yeah, I agree with that, even the Rangers can't take all four of us out," the first one said, I smirked, we'll just see about that.
"Ok, everyone understand their rolls?" the one at the gate spoke up again, "If you see any Rangers, we nab them, then bind them a smidgeon on the tight side. That done we march them to Ice and file our report, got it?" with that they all ran off somewhere in the opposite direction, Keith pulled me to one side.
"Ok, so now we know where the Yellow Gem is," he said, I nodded.
"We just need to beat these Dim Suns then we can get it," I added, Keith nodded as we took off down the hall, we walked into the first room we saw two Ariados, a scientist and some toilet stall, at the back of the room was something with a red top.
"I got a feeling we need to make it rain," Keith said, I nodded as I ordered him to wait there, as I rushed out the room to find a fire type.
I walked into the next room which was dark, too dark for me to even see, I sighed as I ran up the corridor and into another room, I ended up having to catch some pokemon form one of the Dim Sun Admins.
She sent out a Mismagius and a Bayonet, which was caught with ease, I then caught an Electabuzz as I walked back out of the room; I walked past the wall to see one of the lights had turned blue.
I sighed as I ran at full pace back to the room Keith was in; he was making conversation with the scientist.
"Keith, you're coming with me instead," I said as I dragged him into the room next to that one, I used Electabuzz to light the room up, to our surprise a Dim Sun jumped out, Keith readied his styler as he sent some pokemon to attack. Keith caught the Espeon and Umbreon with ease; we smirked as the Dim Sun ran off.
"Next room," I said as I dragged him out, I guess getting rid of those ghost types gave me a little buzz.
"Kate, have you eaten sugar lately?" Keith asked slowly, I looked at him and shook my head.
"No, I guess getting rid of the ghost types gave me a buzz," I said as we walked up, then to the right into another room just passed the wall. Once we were there I was there was a piece of metal blocking the way, "Wait here," I said as I ran at full pace to the room we were just in, I returned a few minutes later with a Scyther, Keith smiled as I used it to cut the metal, we then entered.
As we walked in, with me going first I was blasted with a ball of fire, my hands flew in front of my face as I felt the heat burn my arms, before any real damage could be done I was pulled out of the room.
"Kate," Keith said as he held my hands, I winced in pain, he looked at them, then Buizel who was looking a little worried, "Use water gun, keep her here, I'll deal with this," Keith said as he walked into the room, I wasn't sure what was going off as the water cooled my hands down.
Keiths' P.O.V
Every time it's Kate who gets hurt, every time, well not really if you count that one time I got captured by Heath, but you get my point, well no really you don't, my point is that every time she gets hurt, I feel useless, like it's my fault it happened. I shook my head as I caught the Blazekin that was in the room, it wasn't really a challenge, walking to the back of the room, I saw another Dim Sun Grunt, who turned and sent out a Claydol and Bronzong. I was rushing to get back to Kate, this made me lose I little life but not too much, once that was done I ran back out to her, getting cut by the Scizor in the process.
Once I was back outside, I saw Kate flexing her hand and fingers to get the feeling back, she turned to look at me, I smile on her face as she did so.
"Hey," I said, she turned to me.
"Hey," she answered, she looked at my arm, "And you say I'm the damsel in distress," she muttered, I laughed as she helped patch my wound up, I smiled as I showed her the Blazekin, which apologized for hurting her, Kate petted its head.
"Well, let's head off for the last Grunt," I said, Kate smiled as we walked towards the first room we were ni, we avoided the Ariados and walked to the thing with the red top, I had Blazekin use fire on it, which made the sprinklers go off, I thanked Blazekin before it ran off. Kate laughed as Star ran under a table to hide from the water, Buizel climbed up onto my shoulder, I didn't tell him to get down like usual, I let him stay there, Kate smiled at me.
We looked around as we saw one of the Dim Sun Grunts run out of one of the cubicles, Kate laughed at the expression on their face, I only smirked at them.
"Aw man, now I'm all wet," Kate froze as her face filled with disgust, as did mine, man I need to stop being dirty minded some times. The grunt glared at us as he sent out a Tyranitar and an Aggron to attack, Kate was the one who handled it this time. She dodged and jumped as she circled and looped the pokemon, in the end she won, with a few scratches on her arms, nothing to serious. The grunt began to panic as he ran out of the room, I looked at Kate who nodded, we walked back up to the wall thing.
Once we got there we saw the grunt panicking about the wall having gone, I smirked as we walked over to them, Kate by my side, Buizel and Star both on my shoulders, I have no idea why.
"I'm the gate, try to get by me, I dare you," the grunt said, I looked at Kate, who smirked, her eyes glew red as she opened a black portal, the guys face went white as he went off screaming like a little girl, I looked at Kate, who was laughing her ass off, I shook my head.
"You shouldn't scar the life out of people," I said, she looked at me.
"Would you rather I sucked the life out of people?" she asked, I gave her a disgusted look, she flushed red, "NOT LIKE THAT!" she yelled as she walked towards the door, "Arcues, you're such a pervert," she said as we walked through the door.
"The Yellow Gem, it's here," I said, I sounded so stupid, Kate rolled her eyes as she walked forwards, pushed a button and took the Gem, ok that was too easy, "Too easy," I said, Kate nodded in agreement. Two scientist ran towards us after I said that, I readied my styler as did Kate, but when we saw they had no Miniremos, we lowered them.
"Rangers," one of them said, we turned to him, "Please rescue Prof. Isaac, his little sister is being held captive, they're threatening her with harm to make Prof. Isaac comply. He's being forced into making the final adjustments to the towers software," Kate went red with anger at this.
"I. Will. Kill. Lavana. And. Ice," she said as she clenched her fist in front of her face.
"Erm, is this normal?" asked the scientist next to me, I sighed.
"You get used to it," I answered, he nodded.
"Prof. Isaac should be up on floor 10, he's the brightest and youngest star among our firm's scientists. Oh, I'm sorry, I have to unlock the door for you, I'll do that right away," with that, the scientist ran towards a control panel and unlocked the door.
"The door's open, now you can go to floor 10," he said once it was done, we nodded.
"We got too caught up in our research and became too blind by our actions," the one next to Kate said, we turned back to him, "We failed to imagine what our research was really being used for, it's far too late for regrets but," he trailed off, Kate smiled a small smile.
"We understand, we'll rescue Isaac and Almia, we promise," she said, with that we ran out of the room, Kates' styler began to beep as we walked up the stairs to floor 10.
"Voicemail, voicemail, this is Rythmi calling," Ryths' voice came, Kate answered the call.
"What's up?" she asked, Rythmi smiled, I stood behind Kate, behind Rythmi were Hastings and Erma.
"Prof. Hastings and Erma want to know how the mission's coming along," Ryth said, Kate smiled.
"We've recovered the Yellow Gem, we're heading to floor 10 to rescue Isaac, at this rate we should be done by lunch," Kate said as we reached the top of the stairs.
"I expected Keith to make jokes like that, not you Kate," Rythmi scolded, Kate shrugged.
"Hey, I'm only tryin' to lighten the mood," she said, we heard voices from the other side of the door, "Gotta go," Kate said before ending the call.
We walked through to the door to be greeted by more Admins, Kate groaned.
"Never ending supply," she muttered, I nodded, they didn't waste any time talking, they got straight to it, sending out a few Spinarak to attack, Kate did about five loops around the spiders before they were caught.
"Gaah! We've failed our chance, retreat," the head of the group said, we shrugged as they all ran off.
"Well," I said, I decided to have a little fun before we started this next phase, "Katherine Jones, you have just completed the first phase of the biggest mission of your life, so the question remains, what are you going to do next?" I asked in a game show host voice, she cocked a brow but smirked.
"I'm gonna kick my best friends ass if he doesn't stop prating about and help me rescue Isaac," she answered, I looked at her.
"A very good answer indeed, well folks the question remains, will Kate kick my ass? Will she rescue Isaac and Melody? Will she be able to stop Blake? Stay tuned until next time on The Pokemon Ranger Show," I said, I left something kick my ass, literally.
"Who the heck are you talking to?" Kate asked, I laughed.
"Erm, I have no idea," I answered, Star and Buizel began snickering, I glared at them.
"Well anyway, let's just begin phase two, without the show host commentary," Kate said, I nodded my head, with that we walked down the hall to begin phase two of our mission.
I'm ending it here folks, the last few chapters should be up late in the week, I think, or maybe next weekend, anyway please REVIEW :D