Chapter Ten: Cally's real identity
When Cassidy arrived at the flat she was worried that Jesse would make some comment out how horrible it was as Cassidy stepped aside to let them into the room. Jesse didn't say a word maybe she was too upset about James to think about picking on her rival. It was Meowth who sniggered when he saw the wallpaper peeling off of the walls and the spring sticking up through the sofa. Cassidy felt her temper rising. Who the hell did that cat think he was? She could start a fight over it but that wouldn't solve anything. "Just make yourselves comfortable and I'll get Butch" Cassidy said taking her leave and going into the bedroom. She could hear them talking among themselves. Cassidy knew they were talking about her and chose to ignore them. "Butch?" she called softly. He was still fast asleep. Cassidy sighed and decided to let him sleep for now. Butch had tossed and turned all last night whimpering in his sleep Cassidy thought it best that he get some rest. As she stepped back into the front room she heard Meowth finish saying. "I always knew dey'd end up like dis and I can't say dey didn't deserve it". That did it! Cassidy and Butch had paid for they're past mistakes and Meowth wasn't exactly perfect. Cassidy didn't have to invite Meowth and his friends back here. She didn't have to help them. "Shut up!" she shouted glaring angrily in Meowth's direction. "I know you think we deserved this but you are no better than us so just shut up!" Jesse's eyes widened and she shot an icy glare in Cassidy's direction at her yelling at Meowth.
"At least I didn't sell out old friends just to be the Boss's pet" This struck home as Jesse had intended it too. Cassidy and Butch had given away James' secret just so they could be the Boss's favourites again. "Guys stop it" Cally butted in before Cassidy could say anything back. "Look we're here to help find James so lets stop all this bickering ok?"
"Fine" Cassidy growled. "What do you want to know?"
"Where's Butch?" Meowth asked suddenly.
"He's sick" Cassidy said quietly. "I didn't want to wake him" This brought down an uncomfortable silence until Meowth started speaking again. "So what do yous know about dis gang dat have Jimmy?"
"Giovanni used to tell me that they were clever. They'd leave no clues to where they had gone. Their base was never found though both Madame Boss and Giovanni sent teams looking" Cassidy paused before continuing. "The only one who ever got close to finding where they were was Miyamoto".
"My mother?" Jesse asked. "She never talked about them with me".
"Of course not" Cassidy said a little impatiently. "After Madame Boss killed the Darkness's leader she sent Miyamoto with another team to track down the base. This was a few months before the Mew mission. They searched all round Kanto and the Orange Islands but had no luck. Madame Boss was nearing the end by that time and wanted Miyamoto back on the trail of Mew. But just before Miyamoto was recalled she got a tip off that the Darkness were all hiding out in Johto. Miyamoto wanted to get another team out there but Madame Boss refused." Cassidy paused when she saw the tears in Jesse's eyes. Miyamoto was a painful subject for Jesse even now. Cassidy hadn't wanted to upset her. But she felt that Jesse and the others would want to here about anything that might lead them too James.
"Dey left no trace dat dey had ever been in our house" Meowth took over from Jesse. "It looked as if Jimmy had just disappeared".
Cassidy nodded "That's the Darkness all right. Their trait was to leave nothing behind"
"Will they hurt him?" Jesse asked suddenly. "And tell me the truth Cassidy please" Cassidy didn't know what to say. She knew very little of this gang and from what Giovanni had told her they were pure evil. If they had reformed and had James for future sight then things were looking really bad. Cassidy knew she had to phrase her answer carefully. "As long as James does what they say then they will not hurt him," Cassidy answered at length.
"And if he doesn't?" Jesse asked.
"They won't kill him. He is too valuable for them to just kill" Cassidy allowed but Jesse knew what she meant. They might not be able to kill James but they could cause him a lot of pain. The group was silent in their own thoughts for a while. Cassidy didn't know why she felt so much pity for her rival and her boyfriend. Cassidy couldn't say that she hated Jesse but still the fact that she even cared what happened to them shocked her a little. Cassidy was jolted from her thought when Jesse screamed.
"What is it?" Cally demanded getting up and looking wildly around.
"Something grabbed my arm" Jesse cried.
"That's impossible" Cassidy started to say but then she remembered that day in the flat. She was sure something was in the room with her. So instead of rounding on Jesse she said, "You felt it too?"
"It felt human" Jesse continued, "But that's impossible right?"
"Dares something in dis room," Meowth said. "I can feel it."
"I can't feel anything," Cassidy said.
"Me neither" Cally added.
"I know dis is going ta sound really strange but it feels like a Pokemon attack. I can sense da same energy" Meowth said.
"Then why can't we sense it?" Jesse asked.
"It goes back ta da beginning of time Jess" Meowth started to explain. "Human's and Pokemon both had other senses dat let dem become more in touch with da world around dem. Pokemon give off an energy when dey use an attack. Human's used to be able to sense dis energy as much as da Pokemon did but human's progressed too fast and over a long time da extra senses" "What attack is it Meowth?" Cassidy demanded.
Meowth thought for a moment. "I don't know," he said finally. "It's gone now"
"Look this is getting us no where" Jesse said. "We have to start searching for this gang right away"
"We?" Cassidy echoed.
"You and Butch have to come" Jesse snapped. This would have turned into a full on fight but they heard Butch shouting from the bedroom.
Butch was woken from sleep when he heard voices in the front room. He sat up thinking he was having some weird dream when he heard Jesse and Meowth as well as Cassidy and another voice that he didn't recognise. He had become used to the room spinning slowly as he shakily got to his feet and walked out and into the front room. Maybe Cassie's right? He thought to himself maybe I have got some kind of infection. Butch soon discovered that it was indeed Jesse and Meowth with Cassidy. There was also a pretty girl with blue-green hair that Butch didn't recognise. Cassidy was talking about some gang or other and Butch listened for a moment to get an idea of what they were talking about. From what he could gather Jesse and James had got themselves into some sort of trouble and wanted his and Cassidy's help. Cassidy didn't seem happy with the idea through. "So what have you two done now? And where's James?" Butch asked. They all ignored him and continued to talk. Butch sighed thinking how rude they were but he learned from listening that some gang called the Darkness had taken James and Jesse wanted information on them. Butch remembered the Darkness. Giovanni had sent him and Cassidy on a mission into Johto to locate a possible hideout of the gang. They never found one and Giovanni assumed that the rumours of them reforming under a new leader were lies. What would the Darkness want with James? James said himself that future sight was gone. Butch tried to talk to them again sick of being ignored. Still no one even looked up. Butch was getting frightened now. This was like last time! In utter panic he grabbed Jesse's arm. Jesse screamed and instantly they all looked around. Jesse and the other girl looked directly at him but they didn't seem to see him. Butch didn't want to hear anymore of this. He raced back into the bedroom and found Cassidy's makeup bag on the floor. He hunted through it until he found the little hand mirror she always kept in there. Butch looked in the mirror and saw nothing. The mirror was showing the door behind him but he himself was not in the reflection! "What the hell is happening?" Butch whispered to himself. He had thought that the mirror was broken but what were the chances of two mirrors in the same flat being broken. And if they were then he would not see anything in it. Butch closed his eyes and breathed slowly for a few minutes trying to calm himself. Slowly he opened them and looked back in the mirror. The reflection was hazy but gradually formed and after a few seconds Butch could see himself again. "What it happening to me!" he shouted in frustration. Butch hurled the little mirror across the room and it shattered. "Why is this happening?" he shouted tears forming in his eyes. What was happening to him? Why was it happening? Was he ill or something? All these questions buzzed around in his head until Butch was on his knees sobbing. It was then that the room door burst open. Cassidy raced to his side and put her arms round his shoulders holding Butch as he continued to cry. "Butch what is it?" she whispered as he clung to her. Cassidy was terrified. Butch was never like this. He never cried and now.Cassidy looked up when she saw Jesse, Meowth and Cally watching them. "Give us five minutes," she said. "Go and get the car or something. I have to talk to Butch and pack our things"
"Ok" Jesse said unnaturally quiet as she and the other two left them alone.
"Butch what is it?" Cassidy asked when they had gone. "What has happened?"
"I'm scared" Butch whimpered. "Something is happening to me Cass. I don't know why and I'm so frightened"
"Is this to do with those headaches?" Cassidy asked.
Butch shrugged "I don't know Cassidy. Every time I get up I feel sick, dizzy and I don't know why. Then it happens." he trailed off and Cassidy had to prompt him to continue.
"When what happens?"
"You'll think I'm crazy" he sniffed fresh tears forming in his brown eyes.
"Butch I love you" Cassidy said firmly. "I am not going to think you are crazy I promise" Butch took a deep breath and told her everything. By the time he had finished Cassidy was almost crying as well. "You think I'm mad right?" Butch asked.
"No" Cassidy said. "But I do think that you need help. I'll tell Jesse we can't help her. Then we'll get you to a doctor".
"This is no medical condition" Butch cried pulling away from her
"Then what the hell is it Butch?" Cassidy shouted.
"I don't know" Butch yelled back. "I thought you were going to help me!"
"I am Butch" Cassidy cried. "I just don't know what to do". Butch turned away from her. He just wanted to get as far away from Cassidy as possible. She did think he was crazy. He closed his eyes and when he opened them he was not in the flat anymore but out in the street. Butch sighed and leaned back against a shop doorway. He could see Jesse and her new friend a little way away by a jeep. He assumed that was their ride. Butch wiped his eyes and fought back more tears. He couldn't believe Cassidy. He had trusted her and she wanted to get him to see a doctor! Butch felt deep down that there was some other reason for this. He hardly looked up when the van pulled up a few metres from where he was standing. Butch didn't even look up when two men got out and walked slowly towards him. "Are you Butch?" one of them grunted.
"Yeah what's it to you?" Butch replied barely listening to what they were saying. They didn't reply, and just smirked uneasily making sure no one was looking their way.
"What are you doing?" Butch yelled as one man grabbed him pinning his arms behind his back before he even knew what was happening. "Let me go!" Butch shouted but like James his cries were muffled when the second man pressed a piece of cloth over his nose and mouth. Butch, like James, also recognised the stuff on the cloth as chloroform. He kicked the man holding the cloth and it was withdrawn as the man sank to his knees gasping in pain. Butch turned his attention to the other guy next. He stamped down hard on the man's foot and when the man flinched Butch twisted out of his reach and floored him with a punch in the jaw. Butch had an advantage that James had not. Butch knew how to fight especially when the odds were not in his favour. At the Team Rocket training camp they all had to take fighting lessons and James had taken part at first and was actually good at it but James had hated hurting the other guys and in the end allowed himself to get beaten up just so he wouldn't have to hit them back. Butch had thought this stupid and that James was a fool especially as the instructor thought he had talent but as far as Butch was concerned James was a wimp. But of course Butch could not know that the men that were attacking him now were also the ones who attacked and kidnapped James. Butch felt a little dizzy from the effects of the chloroform but he had not inhaled enough of it to seriously affect him yet. Butch made a dash for where Jesse and her friends were. Cassidy was with them now. But the men had recovered enough to give chase. Butch was tackled from behind and fell down hard onto the pavement. Instantly the men were on him again and were pinning him to the ground as they tied his hands behind his back before hauling him to his feet. "Cassidy!" he shouted as the man with the cloth pressed it again this time more tightly over his nose and mouth. Butch was aware of Cassidy screaming his name before he blacked out.
Cassidy couldn't believe what Butch had told her. He was angry when she suggested a doctor but this could be some rare illness or something. Cassidy just didn't know but she loved him so much and desperately wanted to help him. Yet Butch was pushing her away and thought she was calling him crazy. Cassidy would never think that. She just wanted to get Butch help. What was so wrong with that? Cassidy turned to tell him this but he disappeared right in front of her! How was that possible? Even through Cassidy believed Butch 100% when he told her what he could do she still couldn't believe what she was seeing. Realising that she had to catch up with him Cassidy raced out of the flat. She found Jesse, Meowth and Cally in the street by Cally's jeep. "Where's Butch?" Meowth asked. Cassidy was about to reply when she heard Butch calling her name. She whirled round and saw him the other side of the street being grabbed by two men. Then without warning Butch went limp in their arms as Cassidy started to scream his name. She started towards him looking round for someone to help them but they were alone. "Cassidy don't!" Cally yelled after her. Cassidy ignored the girl. She had to get to Butch no matter what.
"Damn it" Cally hissed when Cassidy ignored her. She didn't want anything to happen to the blonde haired woman but she was ordered to protect Jesse and Meowth. Still maybe she could help them. These guys had to be stopped from killing again. "Get in the jeep and start the engine," Cally ordered handing Jesse the keys.
"What?" Jesse demanded. "Cally we have to help them"
"I will" Cally said drawing the gun from inside her jacket where she always hid it. Jesse and Meowth both gasped when they saw it.
"Cally what is going on?" Jesse asked her voice trembling as she spoke. Cally wanted to reply but she had to protect them all.
"Just get in the jeep," she snapped before racing towards the men. Cally caught up with Cassidy and grabbed her arm. The men were shoving the unconscious Butch into the back of their van now.
"Let me go" Cassidy cried. "I have to save him"
"I will" Cally said showing Cassidy her gun. She then turned it on the men and fired a warning shot at the van smashing the back window as they slammed the door and locked it.
"Let him go you assholes" Cally shouted pointing her gun at them now. "Do it now believe me I am not scared to shoot"
Both men chuckled and produced guns themselves. "Nor are we girl so get out of the way"
"I said let him go!" Cally shouted again and to accentuate the point she fired a couple of shots at their feet. Cally weighed up the situation. She could risk firing now the men had their guns trained on Cassidy rather than her but she couldn't fire at both men at once so there was a chance that Cassidy could get killed. "Cassidy run back to the jeep" Cally shouted as she opened fire on both of the men but not before swiftly stepping between them and Cassidy. Cally cried out in pain as a bullet hit her arm. She sank to her knees but carried on firing as bullets whizzed all around her. She was very lucky that the men were bad shots but there were two of them and Cally's gun had run out of bullets. Cally closed her eyes expecting to be killed any minute but the men just turned round and climbed in the van. As they started the engine up and blur of white raced passed Cally and dived through the shattered window and into the back of the van. Then they were gone. "Butch!" Cassidy screamed taking off down the road after it but Cally knew that she could never keep up with a van. She set her gun down and took her jacket off and tied it round her arm to stop the bleeding.
"Shit, shit, shit" Cally repeated over and over as Jesse came over to her.
"Cally what is going on?" she demanded. "They could have killed you"
"Well they didn't" Cally snapped. "Just get in the jeep. We have to find Cassidy and get the hell back to Saffron City"
"Who are you?" Jesse asked as the truth dawned on her.
Cally sighed and stood up. "I'm a police officer"
When Cassidy arrived at the flat she was worried that Jesse would make some comment out how horrible it was as Cassidy stepped aside to let them into the room. Jesse didn't say a word maybe she was too upset about James to think about picking on her rival. It was Meowth who sniggered when he saw the wallpaper peeling off of the walls and the spring sticking up through the sofa. Cassidy felt her temper rising. Who the hell did that cat think he was? She could start a fight over it but that wouldn't solve anything. "Just make yourselves comfortable and I'll get Butch" Cassidy said taking her leave and going into the bedroom. She could hear them talking among themselves. Cassidy knew they were talking about her and chose to ignore them. "Butch?" she called softly. He was still fast asleep. Cassidy sighed and decided to let him sleep for now. Butch had tossed and turned all last night whimpering in his sleep Cassidy thought it best that he get some rest. As she stepped back into the front room she heard Meowth finish saying. "I always knew dey'd end up like dis and I can't say dey didn't deserve it". That did it! Cassidy and Butch had paid for they're past mistakes and Meowth wasn't exactly perfect. Cassidy didn't have to invite Meowth and his friends back here. She didn't have to help them. "Shut up!" she shouted glaring angrily in Meowth's direction. "I know you think we deserved this but you are no better than us so just shut up!" Jesse's eyes widened and she shot an icy glare in Cassidy's direction at her yelling at Meowth.
"At least I didn't sell out old friends just to be the Boss's pet" This struck home as Jesse had intended it too. Cassidy and Butch had given away James' secret just so they could be the Boss's favourites again. "Guys stop it" Cally butted in before Cassidy could say anything back. "Look we're here to help find James so lets stop all this bickering ok?"
"Fine" Cassidy growled. "What do you want to know?"
"Where's Butch?" Meowth asked suddenly.
"He's sick" Cassidy said quietly. "I didn't want to wake him" This brought down an uncomfortable silence until Meowth started speaking again. "So what do yous know about dis gang dat have Jimmy?"
"Giovanni used to tell me that they were clever. They'd leave no clues to where they had gone. Their base was never found though both Madame Boss and Giovanni sent teams looking" Cassidy paused before continuing. "The only one who ever got close to finding where they were was Miyamoto".
"My mother?" Jesse asked. "She never talked about them with me".
"Of course not" Cassidy said a little impatiently. "After Madame Boss killed the Darkness's leader she sent Miyamoto with another team to track down the base. This was a few months before the Mew mission. They searched all round Kanto and the Orange Islands but had no luck. Madame Boss was nearing the end by that time and wanted Miyamoto back on the trail of Mew. But just before Miyamoto was recalled she got a tip off that the Darkness were all hiding out in Johto. Miyamoto wanted to get another team out there but Madame Boss refused." Cassidy paused when she saw the tears in Jesse's eyes. Miyamoto was a painful subject for Jesse even now. Cassidy hadn't wanted to upset her. But she felt that Jesse and the others would want to here about anything that might lead them too James.
"Dey left no trace dat dey had ever been in our house" Meowth took over from Jesse. "It looked as if Jimmy had just disappeared".
Cassidy nodded "That's the Darkness all right. Their trait was to leave nothing behind"
"Will they hurt him?" Jesse asked suddenly. "And tell me the truth Cassidy please" Cassidy didn't know what to say. She knew very little of this gang and from what Giovanni had told her they were pure evil. If they had reformed and had James for future sight then things were looking really bad. Cassidy knew she had to phrase her answer carefully. "As long as James does what they say then they will not hurt him," Cassidy answered at length.
"And if he doesn't?" Jesse asked.
"They won't kill him. He is too valuable for them to just kill" Cassidy allowed but Jesse knew what she meant. They might not be able to kill James but they could cause him a lot of pain. The group was silent in their own thoughts for a while. Cassidy didn't know why she felt so much pity for her rival and her boyfriend. Cassidy couldn't say that she hated Jesse but still the fact that she even cared what happened to them shocked her a little. Cassidy was jolted from her thought when Jesse screamed.
"What is it?" Cally demanded getting up and looking wildly around.
"Something grabbed my arm" Jesse cried.
"That's impossible" Cassidy started to say but then she remembered that day in the flat. She was sure something was in the room with her. So instead of rounding on Jesse she said, "You felt it too?"
"It felt human" Jesse continued, "But that's impossible right?"
"Dares something in dis room," Meowth said. "I can feel it."
"I can't feel anything," Cassidy said.
"Me neither" Cally added.
"I know dis is going ta sound really strange but it feels like a Pokemon attack. I can sense da same energy" Meowth said.
"Then why can't we sense it?" Jesse asked.
"It goes back ta da beginning of time Jess" Meowth started to explain. "Human's and Pokemon both had other senses dat let dem become more in touch with da world around dem. Pokemon give off an energy when dey use an attack. Human's used to be able to sense dis energy as much as da Pokemon did but human's progressed too fast and over a long time da extra senses" "What attack is it Meowth?" Cassidy demanded.
Meowth thought for a moment. "I don't know," he said finally. "It's gone now"
"Look this is getting us no where" Jesse said. "We have to start searching for this gang right away"
"We?" Cassidy echoed.
"You and Butch have to come" Jesse snapped. This would have turned into a full on fight but they heard Butch shouting from the bedroom.
Butch was woken from sleep when he heard voices in the front room. He sat up thinking he was having some weird dream when he heard Jesse and Meowth as well as Cassidy and another voice that he didn't recognise. He had become used to the room spinning slowly as he shakily got to his feet and walked out and into the front room. Maybe Cassie's right? He thought to himself maybe I have got some kind of infection. Butch soon discovered that it was indeed Jesse and Meowth with Cassidy. There was also a pretty girl with blue-green hair that Butch didn't recognise. Cassidy was talking about some gang or other and Butch listened for a moment to get an idea of what they were talking about. From what he could gather Jesse and James had got themselves into some sort of trouble and wanted his and Cassidy's help. Cassidy didn't seem happy with the idea through. "So what have you two done now? And where's James?" Butch asked. They all ignored him and continued to talk. Butch sighed thinking how rude they were but he learned from listening that some gang called the Darkness had taken James and Jesse wanted information on them. Butch remembered the Darkness. Giovanni had sent him and Cassidy on a mission into Johto to locate a possible hideout of the gang. They never found one and Giovanni assumed that the rumours of them reforming under a new leader were lies. What would the Darkness want with James? James said himself that future sight was gone. Butch tried to talk to them again sick of being ignored. Still no one even looked up. Butch was getting frightened now. This was like last time! In utter panic he grabbed Jesse's arm. Jesse screamed and instantly they all looked around. Jesse and the other girl looked directly at him but they didn't seem to see him. Butch didn't want to hear anymore of this. He raced back into the bedroom and found Cassidy's makeup bag on the floor. He hunted through it until he found the little hand mirror she always kept in there. Butch looked in the mirror and saw nothing. The mirror was showing the door behind him but he himself was not in the reflection! "What the hell is happening?" Butch whispered to himself. He had thought that the mirror was broken but what were the chances of two mirrors in the same flat being broken. And if they were then he would not see anything in it. Butch closed his eyes and breathed slowly for a few minutes trying to calm himself. Slowly he opened them and looked back in the mirror. The reflection was hazy but gradually formed and after a few seconds Butch could see himself again. "What it happening to me!" he shouted in frustration. Butch hurled the little mirror across the room and it shattered. "Why is this happening?" he shouted tears forming in his eyes. What was happening to him? Why was it happening? Was he ill or something? All these questions buzzed around in his head until Butch was on his knees sobbing. It was then that the room door burst open. Cassidy raced to his side and put her arms round his shoulders holding Butch as he continued to cry. "Butch what is it?" she whispered as he clung to her. Cassidy was terrified. Butch was never like this. He never cried and now.Cassidy looked up when she saw Jesse, Meowth and Cally watching them. "Give us five minutes," she said. "Go and get the car or something. I have to talk to Butch and pack our things"
"Ok" Jesse said unnaturally quiet as she and the other two left them alone.
"Butch what is it?" Cassidy asked when they had gone. "What has happened?"
"I'm scared" Butch whimpered. "Something is happening to me Cass. I don't know why and I'm so frightened"
"Is this to do with those headaches?" Cassidy asked.
Butch shrugged "I don't know Cassidy. Every time I get up I feel sick, dizzy and I don't know why. Then it happens." he trailed off and Cassidy had to prompt him to continue.
"When what happens?"
"You'll think I'm crazy" he sniffed fresh tears forming in his brown eyes.
"Butch I love you" Cassidy said firmly. "I am not going to think you are crazy I promise" Butch took a deep breath and told her everything. By the time he had finished Cassidy was almost crying as well. "You think I'm mad right?" Butch asked.
"No" Cassidy said. "But I do think that you need help. I'll tell Jesse we can't help her. Then we'll get you to a doctor".
"This is no medical condition" Butch cried pulling away from her
"Then what the hell is it Butch?" Cassidy shouted.
"I don't know" Butch yelled back. "I thought you were going to help me!"
"I am Butch" Cassidy cried. "I just don't know what to do". Butch turned away from her. He just wanted to get as far away from Cassidy as possible. She did think he was crazy. He closed his eyes and when he opened them he was not in the flat anymore but out in the street. Butch sighed and leaned back against a shop doorway. He could see Jesse and her new friend a little way away by a jeep. He assumed that was their ride. Butch wiped his eyes and fought back more tears. He couldn't believe Cassidy. He had trusted her and she wanted to get him to see a doctor! Butch felt deep down that there was some other reason for this. He hardly looked up when the van pulled up a few metres from where he was standing. Butch didn't even look up when two men got out and walked slowly towards him. "Are you Butch?" one of them grunted.
"Yeah what's it to you?" Butch replied barely listening to what they were saying. They didn't reply, and just smirked uneasily making sure no one was looking their way.
"What are you doing?" Butch yelled as one man grabbed him pinning his arms behind his back before he even knew what was happening. "Let me go!" Butch shouted but like James his cries were muffled when the second man pressed a piece of cloth over his nose and mouth. Butch, like James, also recognised the stuff on the cloth as chloroform. He kicked the man holding the cloth and it was withdrawn as the man sank to his knees gasping in pain. Butch turned his attention to the other guy next. He stamped down hard on the man's foot and when the man flinched Butch twisted out of his reach and floored him with a punch in the jaw. Butch had an advantage that James had not. Butch knew how to fight especially when the odds were not in his favour. At the Team Rocket training camp they all had to take fighting lessons and James had taken part at first and was actually good at it but James had hated hurting the other guys and in the end allowed himself to get beaten up just so he wouldn't have to hit them back. Butch had thought this stupid and that James was a fool especially as the instructor thought he had talent but as far as Butch was concerned James was a wimp. But of course Butch could not know that the men that were attacking him now were also the ones who attacked and kidnapped James. Butch felt a little dizzy from the effects of the chloroform but he had not inhaled enough of it to seriously affect him yet. Butch made a dash for where Jesse and her friends were. Cassidy was with them now. But the men had recovered enough to give chase. Butch was tackled from behind and fell down hard onto the pavement. Instantly the men were on him again and were pinning him to the ground as they tied his hands behind his back before hauling him to his feet. "Cassidy!" he shouted as the man with the cloth pressed it again this time more tightly over his nose and mouth. Butch was aware of Cassidy screaming his name before he blacked out.
Cassidy couldn't believe what Butch had told her. He was angry when she suggested a doctor but this could be some rare illness or something. Cassidy just didn't know but she loved him so much and desperately wanted to help him. Yet Butch was pushing her away and thought she was calling him crazy. Cassidy would never think that. She just wanted to get Butch help. What was so wrong with that? Cassidy turned to tell him this but he disappeared right in front of her! How was that possible? Even through Cassidy believed Butch 100% when he told her what he could do she still couldn't believe what she was seeing. Realising that she had to catch up with him Cassidy raced out of the flat. She found Jesse, Meowth and Cally in the street by Cally's jeep. "Where's Butch?" Meowth asked. Cassidy was about to reply when she heard Butch calling her name. She whirled round and saw him the other side of the street being grabbed by two men. Then without warning Butch went limp in their arms as Cassidy started to scream his name. She started towards him looking round for someone to help them but they were alone. "Cassidy don't!" Cally yelled after her. Cassidy ignored the girl. She had to get to Butch no matter what.
"Damn it" Cally hissed when Cassidy ignored her. She didn't want anything to happen to the blonde haired woman but she was ordered to protect Jesse and Meowth. Still maybe she could help them. These guys had to be stopped from killing again. "Get in the jeep and start the engine," Cally ordered handing Jesse the keys.
"What?" Jesse demanded. "Cally we have to help them"
"I will" Cally said drawing the gun from inside her jacket where she always hid it. Jesse and Meowth both gasped when they saw it.
"Cally what is going on?" Jesse asked her voice trembling as she spoke. Cally wanted to reply but she had to protect them all.
"Just get in the jeep," she snapped before racing towards the men. Cally caught up with Cassidy and grabbed her arm. The men were shoving the unconscious Butch into the back of their van now.
"Let me go" Cassidy cried. "I have to save him"
"I will" Cally said showing Cassidy her gun. She then turned it on the men and fired a warning shot at the van smashing the back window as they slammed the door and locked it.
"Let him go you assholes" Cally shouted pointing her gun at them now. "Do it now believe me I am not scared to shoot"
Both men chuckled and produced guns themselves. "Nor are we girl so get out of the way"
"I said let him go!" Cally shouted again and to accentuate the point she fired a couple of shots at their feet. Cally weighed up the situation. She could risk firing now the men had their guns trained on Cassidy rather than her but she couldn't fire at both men at once so there was a chance that Cassidy could get killed. "Cassidy run back to the jeep" Cally shouted as she opened fire on both of the men but not before swiftly stepping between them and Cassidy. Cally cried out in pain as a bullet hit her arm. She sank to her knees but carried on firing as bullets whizzed all around her. She was very lucky that the men were bad shots but there were two of them and Cally's gun had run out of bullets. Cally closed her eyes expecting to be killed any minute but the men just turned round and climbed in the van. As they started the engine up and blur of white raced passed Cally and dived through the shattered window and into the back of the van. Then they were gone. "Butch!" Cassidy screamed taking off down the road after it but Cally knew that she could never keep up with a van. She set her gun down and took her jacket off and tied it round her arm to stop the bleeding.
"Shit, shit, shit" Cally repeated over and over as Jesse came over to her.
"Cally what is going on?" she demanded. "They could have killed you"
"Well they didn't" Cally snapped. "Just get in the jeep. We have to find Cassidy and get the hell back to Saffron City"
"Who are you?" Jesse asked as the truth dawned on her.
Cally sighed and stood up. "I'm a police officer"