Chapter 53: They're Back!


July 31, 2006

Day 37: 8:04 p.m. Red's View

Location: Downtown Cinnabar Island, At Café Sunset


"And here's to the sweet taste of victory!" I said raising my glass of soda, "I like to make a toast to all of us for our great victory of Blaine today and now having the Volcano Badge in our grasp!" We were all at a nice restaurant and wearing new clothes as well to celebrate our victory, it was a hard match but it was worth it. We were all now one badge away from entering the Pokémon League!

"Cheers!" both girls said happily. We all clanged our glasses together and spilling some of our drinks on the table.

"Oops," Green said, "I'll get a waiter to clean that up!"

"We don't clean up your crap until you guys pay the bill," a waiter said walking by, "So don't even bother asking."

"Well someone is in a bad mood," Lilyana said surprised by the waiter's outburst, "That's it! No tip for him!"

"But he wasn't even our waiter!" I said.

"I said," Lilyana said strongly, "No tip for him, period!"

"Alright," I said sarcastically, "You win; I guess I'm no match for your reasoning."

"Ha ha," she said taking a sip from her glass, "Look, let's not get into a fight here. Let's all just try to relax, enjoy ourselves, and celebrate our victory!"

"Never!" Green said splashing her drink into Lilyana's face.

"Look," our waiter said coming up to us and looking directly at Green with mean eyes, "That's the fourth time you did that since you come here. Do that again and I'll have to throw you out of here. Do you understand me?"

"Yes sir," Green said sadly, "Can I get a refill?"

"Yeah right," he said with a chuckle, then he turned to look at Lilyana, "But I will take your orders now. What will you have tonight Madame?"

"I'm on a bit of a diet," Lilyana said, "I'll just have a salad… with ranch dressing… with lots of white cheese… oh heck with the diet! Give me a steak medium rare with lots of barbeque sauce and a give a big slice of apple pie for desert!"

"You have no self control," Green said.

"And you do?" Lilyana asked with a smirk. Green angrily grabbed her glass and tried to splash her, but she had nothing in it.

"I'm glad I didn't fill that back up," the waiter said with a nod, "What will the gentlemen have this evening?"

"I'll have a cheese burger," I said, "With a piece of chocolate cake for desert."

"O.K.," waiter said, "And what will the little maniac have?"

"Well," Green said trying to keep cool, "I'm not too sure. I don't eat often a fancy restaurant such as this one. What do you recommend that is good here?"

"We have such a fine variety of good food here," he said, "But if I had to pick only one that I thought was the best, then it would have to be tripe."

"Sheepy?!" Green said horrified looking queasy, "I'm suddenly and not surprisingly not hungry anymore. I need to go the restroom… oh… sheepy…" She then took off from her seat and ran into the bathroom to probably throw up.

"I'll order her some TUMs," the waiter said watching her go and then finishing writing up our orders on his small notepad, "We'll get them to you as quickly as possible and I'll see you two and your sick friend later."

Lilyana and I were now alone together at the table. From the distance, it probably looked like we were both on a date. "So," Lilyana said with a blush, "Umm… we are both are together at a fancy restaurant, wearing nice clothes, and there is no one else to bother us for a while."

"What about Green?" I asked. All of a sudden, we both heard a loud gagging noise from the women's restroom that sounded like a person was throwing up, then it was followed by a low moan saying, 'Sheepy… why sheepy?'

"Alright," I said to her, "I'll give you that. No one is going to bother us."

"Oh," a voice said from behind us, "I don't know about that. I couldn't help myself but to come over here and just see this young couple on a cute, innocent date. Though I thought you Red would be better matched with Green."

I quickly turned around and saw someone I didn't think I would at this place. It was Team Elite agent Jordan. Instead of his usual duds, he wore a press, gray suit, with press pants, a business tie, and recently buff, brown shoes. His hair was neatly combed and he was wearing cologne. The only thing that didn't change about his appearance was his dark sunglasses.

"Hey!" Lilyana said, "It's you! You're the soda drinking guy that Ranma and Akane showed us on Seafoam Islands."

"You mean champion?" he said proudly with a smile, "Yes, it is me. One of the highest, and still climbing, ranking members of Team Elite, not to mention Speed Soda Drinking Champion. I am Jordan Obsidian!"

"Like who cares?" Lilyana said.

"I do," he said, still keeping his small smile on his face, "But anyways, it is a nice pleasure to see you guys again, but I cannot talk for long."

I then notice something else about him. He carried a large black, briefcase in his left hand that was handcuffed to his left wrist. Whatever was in it, he didn't want to lose it. "What's in the briefcase?" I asked him suspiciously.

"Oh this thing?" he said lifting it up for us to see it better, "Just some useful stuff I'll need in a moment. I have a meeting with a very important client of Team Elite. I'm hoping to close a deal that'll be very useful for our organization. I'm going to be handing this over to him after the deal is made."

That made me even more suspicious of what was inside it and what Jordan's intention was. Whatever it was, anything that would benefit Team Elite couldn't be good at all. Who was this client of his actually? "What's in the big briefcase?" I asked him, "What's this deal you're taking about?"

"Sorry," he said waving his index finger, "I can't tell you anything. It's a matter of secrecy that I cannot tell to anyone outside of Team Elite."

"Come on," I said.

"Nope!" he said looking at his right wrist and seeing his wristwatch, "Well, looks like better get set up, I'll see you two hopefully in the future. It's always a pleasure to run into you Red, and say hi to Green for me."

And with that, he walked away from our table and over to the other side of the room. Once over there, he took a seat, took of his cuffs and his briefcase, he set it on the right side of him, and opened up the menu. "Well," Lilyana said taking a sip from her glass, "Compared to the other agents, he was a much more pleasant person to meet."

"I don't trust him," I said watching him, "And I don't think you should either."

"I never said that I trusted him," Lilyana said, "And I agree with you on that fact. Judging by the look on your face, you are as suspicious as me about that briefcase he has."

"You want to get a closer look at it," I asked her.

"Let's do that!" she said with a nod. We both headed over towards his direction, but we ducked behind potted plants and tables so he wouldn't see us sneaking up closer to him.

We ducked behind an empty table and started to watch him. He didn't do anything out of the ordinary; he just looked in the menu and drank the water at the table. Then we saw him watch into his jacket pocket.

"What did he pull out?" Lilyana asked me.

I took a closer look at the thing, but I was disappointed by what he had. It was just a Gameboy Advance. "Alright," he said to himself, "Time to conquer the world in Advance Wars!"

"Well that stinks," Lilyana said, "I thought he had something cooler, like a spy weapon or something."

A waiter walked over to him and said to him, "Sir, we don't allow customers to play with Gameboys in the restaurant. It bothers other patrons."

"Ok…" he said sadly placing the Gameboy back into his pocket.

"Anyhow," the waiter said pulling out a small note pad, "Are you ready to order now?"

"Yes," Jordan said calmly, "Well, I'm not really in the mood for any food at the moment, but I will have a Mountain Dew."

"Alright," the waiter said writing his order down, "Anything else sir?"

"Could you do me a small favor?" Jordan said. The waiter nodded and Jordan whispered something into his ear. He then said out loud, "Could you handle that right now?"

"Certainly," the waiter said. He then walked over towards our direction and stopped at the table we were hiding behind.

"The gentleman over there said could you stop spying on him?" the waiter said to us, "He also said to say that you two were very obvious the entire time you were ducking behind tables and he automatically knew what you were up to since he saw you two talking earlier after he left your table."

"Busted…" I groaned.

"You got to work on a duck and cover technique," Jordan said from his table to us, "Otherwise there is no hope you guys sneaking up on me."

"Darn it," Lilyana mumbled. Both of us walked back to our table. Once we sat down, I glanced back at him. He only smiled and waved before returning to his business.

"Alright!" Green said coming up to us looking better than before, "I feel a little weird after all of that, but over all I'm just fine now. I still won't be eating though. Anything happen while I was gone?"

"Look over there for yourself," I said point over to Jordan, "There's what happened since you been gone." Green turned over to his direction just in time for him to wave at her.

"What's he doing here?" Green asked surprised.

"He's said he had a meeting with an important client," I explained to her, "I have a lot of suspicions about that meeting. He also has a black briefcase that he plans to hand over to this person. He said that all of this was very beneficial to his organization, meaning that this can't be good."

"Did you try spying on him?" she asked me.

"Yeah," Lilyana said, "We did, but he saw us right away from the beginning."

"Did you figure out who he is meeting?" Green asked us.

"He didn't and wouldn't say," I said, "But we'll find out once we see who goes over there and sits down with him." Just then, someone familiar walked into the restaurant. We couldn't believe who we saw and where he went.


Team Elite Agent Jordan's View


"Ah!" I said once my client arrived through the doors, "Bill my man! Over here!" That's right; my meeting was with the famous Pokémon Manic of them all, the creator the Pokémon Storage System, and famous researcher, Bill… I don't know his last name.

"There you are Jordan!" he said walking over to me and taking a seat, "It's nice that we were able to have a more civilized meeting in person instead of an online chat like usual."

"Well I'm glad too," I said with a smile, "I hope we will be able to settle our deal here instead of online."

"Oh my dog!" a voice shouted, "It's the alien from before!!" I glanced over in Red and his friends' direction to see that it was Green who shouted. Then Red quickly placed his hand over her mouth and tried to shut her up. Amusingly enough, I believe she was referring to Bill.

"Alien?" I asked with a chuckle.

"Yeah well," he said looking over at them, "I had a run in with them about a month back. She thought I was an alien when we met, I would tell you the story, but it's kind of long."

"Alright," I said, "No need to make this meeting long. Did you bring the CD with all the files I asked for?"

"Yes I did," Bill said pulling out a CD-Rom from inside his jacket, "I'm just a little curious though, why did you ask for these files about my research on Legendary Pokémon anyhow?"

"Well," I said with a smile, "Let's just say this, the place that I work for is very interested in Legendary Pokémon and so am I. We really would like to know the most about these strange creatures."

"Alright," Bill nodded, "All in the name in knowledge, right?"

"Of course," I said lifting of my briefcase, "And this should be able to fund more of your projects and keep you going for quite a while. I'm wondering though, did you even include that file about the Dotted Hole and Tanoby Ruins right?"

"Yes," Bill said, "I have all the information from the trips there and all of my research I done about the strange markings at the places. I was even able to crack the code and have a translation chart include on the CD."

"Excellent!" I said rubbing my hands taking the CD from him and handing over the briefcase, "I like to thank you for contribution to my company and I hope you like my contribution."

"I'm sure I would like it," Bill said with a nod, "So, should I stay here and order something or should I go?"

"Well now that I finish what I came here for," I said to him, "I'm going to go pay the bill and take off now. See you later."

I turned around and looked at an empty table. "See you guys later as well," I said, "Also, like I said, work on sneaking up and your dive and cover moves. See ya Red, Green, and other girl whose name I don't know yet."


Red's View


I stood up with the other two girls from behind the table. Jordan gave us a smile and walked away from us. "How does he do that?!" Green said surprised, "I thought he would never see is when he was talking with the alien!"

"Bill is not an alien!" I told her, "He's just a nice guy who gave us tickets so that we were able to attend the party on the second S.S. Anne."

"Yeah," Green said, "Remember how well that turned out?"

"Shut up!" I told her, "Let's go see what was in that briefcase!"

We both headed over to Bill who was watching us. "Hey you guys," Bill said to us with a smile, "What's up?"

"Bill," I said to him firmly, "What is in that briefcase?!"

"Well," Bill said, "I'm just about to see what's in here. Let's open up this briefcase!" He unlocked the latches and opened up the briefcase. Inside it was at least over 10 million dollars in hundreds!

"Whoa!" Lilyana said shocked, "Whenever you see this in a movie or show, this is a big sign that whatever just happened was definitely illegal. What did you just do and how do you know Jordan?"

"Well," Bill said, "I was recently sent an email by him asking me about my research in Legendary Pokémon and mysterious locations. We talked for a while and 

he asked for my information, and in return, he would give me something very useful. I didn't realize how useful. This will for sure help pay for my next trip and project."

"Wait a moment everyone," I said to them, "I want to go talk to Jordan for a moment about this and a few more things." With that, I headed for the entrance to talk to Jordan. When I go there, I saw him walk out the door and into the night.

"Wait a minute!" I shouted to him, "I want to talk to you." I saw him stop outside on the sidewalk. I ran out there after him.

"Alright," I said to him when I got outside, "I have a few questions for you about that money in the briefcase and why you wanted all of that information."

"Like I said before," he said with a smile, "I can't tell you. This is Team Elite personal business and I can't tell you what all of this was. So good night to you and pretty girlfriends inside."

He started to walk away, but I shouted, "Don't you walk away! I want to know something about you and Team Elite."

He stopped in his tracks and slowly turned in my direction. "So you want to know something about us?" he said with a big smirk, "Alright, I tell you something. We of Team Elite love Legendary Pokémon like you heard and are very interested in the secrets and mysteries that surround them."

"Is that all?" I asked.

"Oh there's more," he said, "But I can say only so much. The last thing I'm going to tell you for a while is this. I said we like Legendary Pokémon and the mysteries that surround them. We also have an interest in people who have special connections like Ash Ketchum, a certain group of Pokémon League Champions, and couple of others, then there are the people who have witness legendary Pokémon in person, like you and your friends."

"What about all of us," I said narrowing my eyes.

"We have interest in these types of people," Jordan said as his smirk grew bigger, "We want to know what their connection to these Pokemon is so we'll keep a close eye on these people until we find out what it is. In other terms, we are watching them and we are watching you. Have a good night…" And with that note, he walked away into the night.


Author Notice: I have some good news! Two people have response to my O.C. request and have offered their O.C.s for future chapters. After I get the last bit of info for the characters, I hope to use them. I'll be keeping the authors who responded a secret so everyone will be surprised by their appearance.

I finally got myself a DS! I hope to get Pokémon Diamond or Pearl in the future. If I like the game enough, I might just have another sequel in Shinnoh region. However, either way, the final sequel will take place in Orre where everything will come to light.

In the next chapter, our heroes head out the Sevii Islands to enjoy some fun under the sun. But as any normal person knows, the fun won't last for long!


Next to Come: Chapter 54: Welcome to the Sevii Islands!

Date: 3/24/08

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