(Hazy- Manifest... fits well while reading this chapter)
Daylight came quickly, and Paige was woken up by it hit hitting her face through the window. The snowstorm must have faded away overnight, which meant there was possibly smooth traveling ahead of them. She covered her eyes with her arm and slowly got out of the bed without waking Ryan up.
There had to be more clothes in the dresser for her to put on, especially for the cold weather outside. While searching through the drawers, she found a red parka that was leather in material. She also found a slightly thin black jacket that she would put on under it along with two pairs of blue jeans that all looked like it would fit her average height. It brought her to wonder why Davin had such feminine clothes, maybe someone else usually stayed here. She flinched as she heard a voice suddenly come from behind her and turned around to see Ryan standing behind her. "You scared me! Morning..." She grinned shyly since she'd thought of the pretty passionate night they'd shared.
"That looks like it'll be a cute getup, I have to get something that'll keep me warm out there too." Ryan returned her grin and stretched out his arms a bit.
"Well, I'll change into this, you should go check on the pokémon." She laid her outfit out onto the bed as she said this.
"Alright, be back." Ryan wanted to give her privacy anyway, he closed the door behind him and walked over to the next room. As he slowly opened the door, he saw that both Aura and Lucc were awake; Ryan found it adorable how they were snuggled up together.
Lucc was laying overtop of Aura's backside a bit with his right paw draped over her side, as if protecting her from all harm. Lucc looked up at Ryan, along with Aura. He'd know they were a thing for sure now.
"You two are together huh? Cute couple, saw it coming." He smiled and was happy that Lucc had found happiness at a time like this as he did. "Well, we're getting ready to head out, so be ready alright?" Ryan walked away and noticed Silva beginning to wake up as he left. He took a few steps to the room that Paige was in and lightly knocked on the door.
"Come in!" He heard her voice from behind the door and opened it. "Does...it look good on me?" She had her parka unzipped, which revealed the black jacket underneath.
"It looks great, y-you look beautiful in it." Ryan choked that statement out, not because it was forced, but because that was the first time he'd complimented her like that.
Paige giggled to herself at how shy he seemed while complimenting her. "You're sweet Ryan, you can dress up for the weather now. I'll go see if Davin is up." She smiled and slipped past him through the doorway while softly gliding her left hand across his waist area.
Ryan grinned for a moment and went over to the dresser, luckily finding both a blue and a black jacket that was slightly thicker than what Paige had. He also found a pair of black jeans, Ryan could handle the weather out there more than Paige could apparently, so what he had would work for him. He began changing into his outfit quickly to catch up with her in the living room. He decided to keep the blue jacket underneath the black one.
"Well, I have both a son and a daughter, they moved out a while ago though. Just left some clothes behind, you can take anything you please. Even have something else for you in fact." Davin got up from the couch and sifted through a small dresser nearby the fireplace. He eventually pulled out a pair of black leather gloves, a red scarf and a pair of black boots and handed it over to Paige. "This'll help keep you warmer out there." Davin nodded and pulled up his baggy blue jeans around his white undershirt.
"Thank you, they're cute!" Paige put the gloves on and lightly wrapped the scarf around her neck once so that it draped down over her chest. She also put on her boots.
"Oh! Somethin for you too." Davin said as Ryan appeared from the hallway along with all of the pokémon. Davin came back from the dresser with a fuzzier pair of dull colored blue gloves and brown boots and gave those to Ryan. He got into the boots now and held onto the gloves for the time being. "Now you'll all have to be cautious out there, I'd spare a weapon for you if I could." Davin went to go sit back down, but heard a knock at the door. "Huh...never get company. You two wait here." He walked over and opened the door just a bit, his shotgun leaned against the wall by the left side of the doorway. "Uh...can I help you two?" He recognized them immediately, those people he always sees walking around. Timə agents.
"We're searching for two teenagers, one male and one female. Have you seen either of them recently?" One of them asked.
"No...no I haven't sirs!" Davin smiled and tried to sound believable - even though he was nervous in reality. He didn't know what was going on, but he wouldn't give Ryan and Paige away, these two agents didn't seem kind. They also didn't seem to be buying his claim either; saw right through him.
"You recently saw nothing out of the ordinary?" As Davin was being questioned, Ryan quietly pulled Paige and the pokémon back to their room.
"Paige, we can't stay here. We have to go, now!" Ryan almost whispered to her.
"We can't just leave Davin Ryan…" She looked out of the doorway and still heard the ongoing interrogation.
"Paige, if they catch us, they'll likely kill us. We have to go, we can get out through the window." He slipped on his gloves and walked over to the window while Paige quickly grabbed the CTX-252 from the pocket of her old outfit while Ryan was occupied.
Just as he began to lift the window up, the close echo of a gunshot boomed throughout the house and filled the sky. Everything froze for a few seconds, including Ryan and Paige as they gazed in horror down the empty hallway, no one knew what happened or who had gotten shot. Ryan kept his eyes on the doorway and took silent steps until he was pressed against the right side of the doorway. This way he wouldn't be seen, he motioned for Paige to stand on the other side of the door along with the pokémon.
Lucc turned on combat focus and stood by Ryan and Aura near the wall while Flare and Silva stood by Paige. He was prepared to fight and knew he could take down almost anyone. The floorboards creaked under footsteps that sounded like they were coming from the living room. That definitely wasn't Davin. 'Penetrate surfaces,' Lucc saw both agents immediately after activation and a heat signature draining from a body on the ground that was by the front door, which he assumed was Davin. Both agents were walking with rifles pointed in front of them as they cautiously made there way through the house, and they were getting closer to the room by the second. Lucc perked his ears as they were close enough so that he could hear their dialogue.
"Check the room on the left, I'll sweep the right." They were right in front of both rooms now, everyone's heart pounding.
A moment later, Ryan saw the barrel of the agents black rifle enter the doorway and had to act while they still had the element of surprise. He exhaled deeply before reaching out and grabbing it, he tried to pull it away from the agent but he must have had a tight grip as it wouldn't budge. "Ughn…" Ryan pulled again, hard enough so that the agent was forced forward into the room. At this point, the agent panicked and began spray firing the rifle, Ryan had to swiftly move to the side to avoid being hit.
While the agent was pretty much defenseless and continuously pulling at the rifle, Paige leaned down quickly and tripped him backward with her hands. Not a second later and the agent took a high pressured hydro pump from Aura to the face, this immediately threw his head back and snapped his neck.
"Paige, behind you!" Ryan saw the other agent appear in the doorway, obviously unsure of how to handle the situation. Faster than they could react, he took a grenade out from the pouch on his waist and pulled the pin. "Oh no…" Ryan scrambled up to his feet and ran, shoving the agent onto his back. This didn't help however, as the agent dropped the active grenade and it still began to roll into the room. "Run!" Ryan grabbed Paige's arm and tugged her along as they ran to the front door with Lucc and Aura following.
Silva and Flare had began to run down the hall as well but Silva felt something suddenly grab ahold of her left hind paw and fell forward onto her stomach. She looked back and saw the agent gripping onto her tightly; she couldn't move. Silva could only desperately paw at the floor in front of her and whimper helplessly. Flare did attempt to help by running back and biting at the agents arm so that he would let go.
"S-Silva!" Lucc had already made it outside with the others but began to run back inside of the house to get to her.
"No Lucc!" Ryan dived after him and was able to grab ahold of his body before Lucc could get back into the house. The last thing Lucc saw of his friend was the horrified expression on her face. It was followed by a sudden bright flash and a loud and airy explosion coming from the back room of the house. Afterward came dead silence, everyone stared at the black smoke that came from the back room.
"Silva…" Lucc deactivated his nanocam and felt his heart shatter. He wriggled his way out of Ryan's hold and darted back inside of the house, at least half of the room was blown to pieces and there were no sign of bodies anywhere. Silva was dead, Lucc's only friend. His best friend at that. 'I won't let this go silently Silva. None of us will, don't you worry…' Lucc took a deep breath and slowly made his way back outside.
"I'm sorry Lucc...I couldn't lose you." Ryan felt terrible for what he did in a way, but he didn't want to lose his pokémon.
Lucc understood this; he was glad Ryan stopped him from doing something so stupid in a realistic sense.
Aura didn't know what to say to him to give Lucc any comfort, but she stood by him and gave him a loving kiss on his cheek.
"They're going to be looking for us all over now." Paige looked around at the open field of snow surrounding them.
"I know, unless they think we died. Our best bet is to find out if they have a base here...Lucc, warn us if you see any other agents." Ryan said, he had no clue where to start walking, but he wouldn't give up. Not without shutting down Jared's operation for good.