Excerpts from text conversation between our villains
Ted: Are you alone?
Athena: …Yes.
Richard: Y.
Liberty: Yeah, what's up?
Peter: Uh oh…
Ted: If I tell all of you something in confidence… promise to keep it a secret?
Athena: Of course, Ted. Always.
Richard: We're here for you, man.
Ted: NO ONE has seen this, but I need your opinions. Promise you won't judge me?
Miranda: We love you no matter what.
Ted: Okay, Here goes… (shows a gif of his Scrafty humping a boot)
Athena: ARCEUS, Ted.
Miranda: 😂😂😂
Julius: Billionaire. Philanthropist. 8-yr-old.
Richard: Speaking of… did anyone see what our ratfucker-in-chief just did?
Liberty: Yes. Day = ruined.
Peter: Infuriating.
Athena: At least the hunt is coming up. Nothing better than going out to The Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables and their Pokémon.
Miranda: We promised not to talk about 'The Manor' on text!
Ted: Viva El Manor!
Liberty: DELETING THIS THREAD!
Richard was enjoying himself.
He and his Rockruff were on a private plane, flying off to an unknown place where the big day would come.
The two of them were eager to start the hunt that they and their friends had planned during the past year; their targets were locked up in the back of the plane, and were drugged enough so they wouldn't wake up until tomorrow.
As the two of them relaxed, they failed to see the flight attendant trying to get their attention.
"Excuse me?" she asked for the third time, finally grabbing their attention, "Can I get you a snack?"
"Huh?" Richard asked, seeing that the flight attendant was there.
"Um, excuse me sir, I don't mean to interrupt," she asked, "I just wanted to see if you'd like a snack,"
"Um… sure," he decided, "What's up?"
"We have some fantastic caviar," the flight attendant said, "It's osetra, fresh from-"
"Have you ever had caviar?" Richard asked.
"No, sir,"
"It's delicious. It is, yeah, but I had some last night,"
Richard's Rockruff tugged on his sleeve to get his attention, and whispered something into his ear; the man looked to the flight attendant again.
"Tony here's in the mood for something a little bit more Mediterranean," he told her, "Do you have, like, a grilled vegetable thing with some figs or even, like, any kind of small fish?"
The woman looked a little nervous, as there wasn't anything of the sort.
"I'm sorry, sir," she began, "We don't have a full kitchen here. How about a glass of champagne for you two?"
"Sure," Richard said.
As the flight attendant went to pour some champagne for Richard and Tony, Richard caught a glimpse of the bottle she held, and noticed how old timey it looked.
"Hey, is that the Heidsieck?" he asked, referring to the bottle.
"I'm sorry?" the woman asked, unsure of what he meant.
"A German sub sank a ship on the way to Tsar Nicholas II," he explained, "Couple years back, they found the wreck and a case of the 1907 Heidsieck. They sent a little robot down there to bring it back up. Athena bought three bottles at 250K per, and no one even knows what the stuff tastes like,"
The woman held the bottle up for him to look at, and said "It's just plain old champagne,"
As she walked back towards the man and Rockruff with two champagne glasses, he decided to ask her something else.
"You like working for Athena?" he asked her.
"Yes, she's… sweet," she told him.
"She's sweet?" he asked in surprise, "Don't let her hear you say that,"
That's when the worst happened.
Shouting noises were heard from behind, and when Richard, Tony, and the flight attendant looked, they noticed something was wrong.
One of the captives that the gang had captured, and his Sylveon, were both awake, and were stumbling around the plane with no idea where they were.
The human looked at least 20, but no older than 27, and was wearing a dark blue hoodie, and jeans, as well as a plaid undershirt and sneakers.
The Sylveon was a shiny Pokémon, as the fur that would usually be pink was light blue, nothing else significant.
"What's going on?!" the man asked in a panic, "What's happening?!"
"Two of them are fucking awake, man!" Richard said, blatantly pointing out the obvious.
An older man sitting nearby, Ted, and his Scrafty, both sprung to their feet and rushed up to the captives.
"Sir, calm down," Ted told the young man, "Everything's alright,"
Scrafty looked at the flight attendant, and pointed to some towels that were nearby, prompting her to fetch them.
"Sir, it's all right, I'm a doctor," Ted told the young man, seconds before the flight attendant rushed up to him with two towels.
Ted asked her to lay the towels on the floor, and while she did so, he asked Richard for the man's name.
"Uhh… Squealer, I think?" Richard said, unsure of what the guy's actual name was.
The man got in Ted's face, and with a slurred voice, he told him his name: "Randy,"
"Okay, Randy, I just need you to go down on the floor," Ted told him, "Just lay down on the towel,"
Randy was unsure on whether or not this guy was trustworthy, but nonetheless, he obeyed him and gently laid down on one of the towels, while Scrafty calmly had the frightened shiny Sylveon lay down on the other, flat on her back.
"Okay, ma'am, can I use your pen?" Ted asked the flight attendant, who gave him her pen.
Clicking the pen on, he held Randy by the neck, pinning him to the floor.
"Okay, Randy, Scrafty and I are gonna put you and Sylvy back to sleep now," he told him, "You both woke up before you were supposed to, and we can't have that,"
"Woah, Ted, doesn't this seem like a bit much?" Richard asked, feeling a bit concerned, "I mean, it hasn't even started yet,"
"Come on, they woke up," Ted told him, "And we can't have them talking about this, now, can we?"
As he prepared to stab Randy with the pen, Sylveon caught a glimpse of it, and stretched one of her ribbons at Ted's wrist, pulling it towards her and Scrafty, who was pinning her to the floor in similar fashion.
Scrafty tried to grab the pen so he could deal with Sylveon, but she was faster, and grabbed the pen first, stabbing the Hoodlum Pokémon in the leg with it.
Ted noticed this, and tried to use his free hand to pin her to the towel again, distracting him from noticing Randy reaching for an empty bottle.
Randy swung the bottle at the back of Ted's head, knocking him to the floor, and freeing Sylveon, who ran up to her trainer and held onto him as he smashed the base of the bottle, and got back up on his feet.
Holding onto the broken bottle, he swung it at the people and Pokémon onboard the plane, threatening to harm them if they tried anything.
He was so caught up in protecting himself however, that he didn't notice a woman and a female Meowstic sneaking up behind him with syringes.
The woman was Athena Stone, the organizer of the hunt, and she and Meowstic had been napping in another part of the plane, when they heard what was going on outside.
Sneaking up behind Randy, Athena jabbed the syringe into the side of his neck, releasing an anesthetic into his system.
The unconscious Randy dropped to the floor, and when Sylveon rolled next to him, Meowstic jabbed her syringe into her rear, also filling her system with an anesthetic, and knocking the Intertwining Pokémon out.
"Put them in the back with the rest," Athena ordered Ted.
"This isn't right," Richard said, relieved that the two were out again, but still unsure about their well-being, "I mean, they don't even know! The hunt hasn't even started yet!"
"No sentimentality, comrade," Athena said, "War is war,"
As she walked back to her bed, with Meowstic following suit, Ted handed the flight attendant her pen back, then started to drag Randy back to where he was on the plane when it took off.
He dragged the man into a nearby room where the other eleven captives were kept, and Scrafty followed suit, dragging the unconscious Sylveon behind him.
Both Randy and Sylveon were dragged into a dark room where 11 humans and 11 Pokémon were, also abducted by the elites.
As Ted and Scrafty placed the two back where they were, they left the room, closing the door behind them.
When next Randy and Sylveon woke, they would have more problems than what went down on the plane.
