Pokémon, The story of Surge
(~ Designates pokémon talk)
The pokémon Flareth is an entire fictional pokémon. I have made it up myself. It's the same with Lilandra except instead of being a made-up pokémon, she's the made-up sibling of a real gym leader.
Also, please feel free to correct any of my Japanese if it be wrong.
w00t.
List of Things I must find Original Names for (you guys can help too!): Fuschia City, Charmeleon, Wartortle
Lilandra Surge lived with her brother, Machisu (Lieutenant) Surge in Kuchiba (Vermillion) City, and spent most of her days at the gym with her brother and his friends.
Two Efui (Espeon) and three Iibi (Eevee) are resting on a grassy knoll overlooking Vermillion City. Two of the Iibi are play fighting, and another looks over the city with his parents.
~There is something strange about that child, Lilandra~ the mother Efui said.
~There is something difficult in her destiny~ the father replied.
~There is nothing we can do~ the mother said.
~Can't we help her?~ asked the Iibi sitting with them.
~There is nothing we can do~ repeated his mother.
~Future is a complicated thing, young Pandora~ his father explained
It is an early morning in Kanto, and Lilandra is asleep in her bed, quite an amazing feat because today is the day that Machisu catches her a first pokémon, and tomorrow is the day she shall begin her pokémon journey.
"Lilandra! Wake UP! We're leaving, kiddo!" Machisu yelled from outside.
"I'm up, I'm up!" Lilandra replied sleepily, snuggling further into her doona.
A few minutes later...
"I said now!" Machisu kicked open the door and threw a bucket of water over Lilandra, who had gone back to sleep.
"Aieeeeeeee!" Lilandra leapt up at once. "That wasn't nice!"
Machisu left the room while Lilandra dried up and got dressed, muttering angrily to herself.
"Hey kid, you're finally up," said Machisu as Lilandra stumbled into the gym, hair still wet. "We were beginning to think that you didn't want a new pokémon after all!"
"Raichyuu!" (the call of a Raichu)
"Oh yeah. That's what's so important about today." Lilandra yawned. "I'm still sleepy. It's too early in the morning."
This sent her brother and his friends into tides of laughter. "Lilandra, it's already afternoon!"
"You're so absent minded," Machisu said, smiling. "Let's get moving. Got all your stuff packed?"
"Knowing I'd forget it now, I packed it yesterday," Lilandra said, brandishing a pack.
"Good! Let's go!"
Together, Lilandra and Machisu headed off for Route 11, passing the Diguda (Diglett) tunnel on the way.
"So what sort of a pokémon would you like to get, Lilandra?"
"I'm not sure... Let's see what pops up!"
"Oh! That Koratta (Rattata) is just so cute!"
"Lilandra, it's a Koratta."
"...So?"
"We'll get you something better."
"Koratta is good! Their stats, even if they are lower than a lot of other pokémon, are quite well rounded! And their Super Fang attack can be quite useful! Koratta wa Totemo Kawaikute Tsuyoi desu!" (Rattata are very cute and strong)
The Koratta looked towards them and blinked. It was not quite used to having such nice things said about the power of its species.
"Very common. We'll get you something better, kiddo."
"Fine. If you say so."
"This is taking ages... What was wrong with Onisujume (Spearow)?"
"We'll get you something better. What was wrong with Doriridama (Voltorb)?"
Lilandra pulled a face. "I'll get me something better!"
They approached an Iibi (Eevee) snoozing on a rock.
"Good enough for me?" asked Lilandra, tugging on Machisu's shoulder and pointing it out.
"Now there's a good first pokémon! Let's get you that. Raichyuu, go!"
"Raichyuu!"
The Iibi woke up, and took a few steps back. It obviously had a lot of experience though, and stepped forward again.
"Raichyuu, thunderbolt attack!" Machisu ordered.
"Raichyuu!" His Raichyuu obeyed with great speed, and Lilandra knew that its Thunderbolt would be a very powerful attack. The Thunderbolt missed the Iibi by little more than a hair, something Machisu didn't notice before the dust from the explosion swept around.
"Good job Raichyuu."
"You missed," said Lilandra.
"Rai?"
"Huh? You sure?"
They all watched until the dust cleared and the Iibi stood unharmed.
"Affirmative."
"Iibi!" He tackled Raichyuu, knocking it unconscious in one hit.
"What?! Raichyuu, return!"
"Wow, that's a good Iibi."
The Iibi laughed an Iibi laugh.
"Don't get cocky!" Machisu roared.
So the Iibi winked at Lilandra, and ran off.
"Get back here!" she yelled, chasing after it. "Oniisan (big brother), see you back at the gym later! I've got enough food and water for a few days! Don't worry about me!"
"Lilandra, WAIT!!" Machisu bellowed after her, but it was no use.
Lilandra had a strong will of her own.
And it was likely to cause her much heartache.
Lilandra chased the Iibi all of the way into Yamabuki (Saffron) City. The problem with Yamabuki City is that it is one very big city. The problem with big cities, is that it is easy to get lost in them. Lilandra got very lost in Yamabuki City.
"Oh no, I don't know where I am. This was a stupid idea," said Lilandra to herself as the sun began to set. "I need somewhere to sleep."
By some bizarre, unlikely possibility (or just bad writing), Lilandra had ended up lost right by the Yamabuki City Pokémon Center, so she walked in there.
"Hello, how can I help you today?" asked Nurse Joy.
"May I please stay here for the night?"
"Of course you can."
The next day, Lilandra woke up a lot earlier than usual, to the sound of pokémon trainers talking as only pokémon trainers do; loudly and aimlessly.
"Whatcha doing?" she asked, walking up to the two loudest trainers, two guys. One had long black hair, brown pants, and a blue jacket open to reveal a white shirt. The other had glasses, an untidy, spiky mass of brown hair, green pants and a black skivvy.
"We're discussing the rumour that's been going around about the rare pokémon around the old science labs on the edge of town," said one.
"Sounds good, doesn't it?" said the other.
"Sure does... Rumour say what kind of pokémon?" Lilandra wondered aloud.
"Just that it's so rare, nobody's ever seen it before!"
"O....kay."
"I'd go out there myself, but there are so many dangerous pokémon around there."
"And criminals... All those kids have gone missing there..."
They both shivered.
"So who're you guys, and where're you from?"
"I'm Laguna Loire, and this is Iggy Koopa." (I was REALLY stuck for names, okay?!) "We're both from Fuschia City."
"Come a long way then, huh?"
"Yeah, fair way," said Iggy. "So who're you?"
"I'm Lilandra Surge from Kuchiba. Nice to meet you both."
"Lilandra Surge? Not THE Lilandra Surge?" asked Iggy, surprised. "Little Sister of THE Lieutenant Surge?"
"That's me!"
"Say, how about I challenge you to a pokémon battle?" suggested Laguna.
"What, do I look like a pokémon trainer?"
"You're not a pokémon trainer?" Iggy was in a state of severe shock. "But... but... you're Lilandra!"
"Well, not a trainer yet. I was actually out with my brother catching me a pokémon for tomorrow..." Lilandra told the two boys the story of how she got there.
"So you want to find this Iibi?" asked Laguna.
"We'll help!" volunteered Iggy. "Let's go look by the labs!"
"Isn't that dangerous?" Laguna said snidely to him.
"We'll have Lilandra with us! Nothing will dare attack us if we have Lilandra with us!"
"Hello! Does anything penetrate that thick skull of yours, Iggy? Lilandra isn't a pokémon trainer!"
"So?"
"And if you even paid attention to news, then you'd notice that all of the people going missing around the labs were chics!!"
"So?!"
"Hey! She's leaving!" yelled Laguna suddenly, pointing at the door where Lilandra was trying to leave unobtrusively.
"I get the idea you don't want us to come with you," said Iggy, a little while later on their way to the old Yamabuki (Saffron) science labs.
"No, I welcome your experience. At least you know where you're going."
"Most of the time, anyway." Laguna gave Iggy a meaningful glance.
"Shut up!" snapped Iggy.
"Who, me?" asked Laguna innocently.
"Never mind, stupid."
"Who're you calling stupid?"
"You, stupid."
"Um, so how many badges have you two gotten so far?" asked Lilandra to quell the fighting.
"Well, from Fuschia we took routes 16-18 up to Tamamushi (Celadon) City and got the badge from there."
"It was real hard to get inside the gym long enough to get Erika to accept our challenge!"
"Next we took route 7 here. We haven't fought against Nashime (Sabrina) yet. She's deeply scary."
"Okay."
The old science labs were surrounded by an eight-foot electric fence. There were many holes where others had evidently entered.
"This is creepy," said Iggy, shuddering. "Completely deserted."
They looked around the perimeter of the fence.
"Nothing out here," commented Laguna.
"But look!" Lilandra pointed excitedly at an Iibi running off inside the compound. "Lucky!" She started to carefully crawl through one of the holes in the fence.
"Hold it right there!" a loud voice ordered from behind them, making them all jump about as high as the fence. "What do you think you're doing here?"
Iggy, Laguna and Lilandra all turned around and found themselves face to face with... Officer Jenny.
Relieved, Laguna and Iggy started spurting out all kinds of nonsense explanations.
Officer Jenny silenced them by holding up one hand. "I'm going to have to take you all in to the police station for questioning."
None of them noticed the figure watching them from the darkness inside the compound.
A while later Iggy, Laguna and Lilandra were sitting in the police station listening to Officer Jenny's explanation of why they shouldn't be around the labs.
"I don't think I need to tell you how many people have gone missing around there lately?"
As Iggy and Laguna shook their heads in submission, Lilandra made a pact to watch the news more often.
"So what were you three doing around there?"
"Looking for my Iibi," explained Lilandra loudly before Iggy and Raguna could make something up.
"Well next time you should just alert the authorities that your pokémon is missing, instead of looking around in dangerous places that you shouldn't be! I would hate to be the one that had to call your parents up and tell them that you'd been killed!"
"Killed? Don't you mean missing?" asked Laguna.
"No. All of the girls that had gone missing around the labs were found later. Dead. Do you understand why I don't want you around there?"
"Thanks for finding us then," Lilandra said. "My brother would be devastated if anything were to happen to me."
"You're very welcome. But I'm going to have to call your parents anyway, and tell them what happened."
"Oh no. My mother will be so angry," said Laguna.
"Your mum'll be angry?! What about mine?!!"
"Oniichan (Big bro) is gonna kill me..."
So Officer Jenny phoned up Laguna and Iggy's parents, who got talked to quite thoroughly, and finally got up to Lilandra.
"Name?"
"Lilandra Surge. You're going to have to ask for my oniisan (older brother), he's my legal guardian."
She phoned up Machisu (Lt. Surge). One of his friends answered.
"Hello?"
"Hello, this is Officer Jenny of Yamabuki City. Can I talk to the legal guardian of Lilandra Surge?"
"Um, yeah, I guess. He's in the middle of a battle right now, but I'm sure he'll talk to you. Is Lilandra okay?"
At the gym, Machisu was having a tough battle against a challenger when his friend came up to him.
"It's for you."
"Can't it wait?"
"It's the cops, about Lilandra."
"WHAT?!"
The challenger and the two pokémon battling just stood there and watched as Machisu's face changed colour dramatically.
"Is she okay?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"You don't mind if we take a quick recess? Didn't think so!" Machisu walked into the other room and answered the phone.
"Who's Lilandra?" asked the challenger.
"That's his little sis," explained Machisu's friend.
"Hi, this is Machisu Surge. What's the matter? Is Lilandra okay?"
"She's okay, but she quite easily could not have been. I phoned to tell you that I found Lilandra in the company of these two pokémon trainers wandering around the old Yamabuki City labs."
"The Yamabuki City labs?! What was she doing there?"
"Looking for an Iibi, allegedly."
"Lilandra! Stop skulking around and talk to me!"
"Hi."
"Lilandra, what on earth did you think you were doing, wandering around the old Yamabuki labs?!!!" Machisu was yelling so loud it was scaring the challenger.
"Man, his sis got found around the old Yamabuki labs? That could have been disastrous," the challenger commented to Machisu's friend.
"Yeah, I've never seen him this mad before."
And at the police station, Lilandra had to lean away from the telephone while her brother ranted so she didn't damage her hearing. Once he was done yelling at her, he started yelling at Laguna and Iggy.
"And what did you two think you were doing, letting her go there?!"
"Okay, I think that's enough," said Officer Jenny.
"Send her back here right now!" demanded Machisu.
"I'm sorry, but I can't do that. I'll give her a lift back tomorrow morning, if that's okay?"
"No, I'll come pick her up tomorrow morning," Machisu said.
The next morning, Lilandra got up earlier than usual. She had no objections to going home, but she had to say goodbye to Yamabuki. She was sure that her brother was never going to let her go on her pokémon journey now.
Officer Jenny made everybody some toast for breakfast, and Lilandra went outside to eat hers in the (relatively) fresh air of outside, before she'd even put on her shoes.
Out the front of a police station, is a place that you'd expect to be very safe.
Two motorbikes approached the station.
"Oha!" (mornin'!) said Lilandra.
The strangers who hopped off the bikes were clad in black, and giant red R's were emblazoned onto the backs of their leather jackets. They grinned at each other, and then leapt forward. Each of them took one of Lilandra's arms and tied her up.
"Hey! HEY! Help! Somebody, HELP!"
Iggy, Laguna and Officer Jenny raced out of the police station as the two strangers finished tying up Lilandra.
"Stop right there!" demanded Officer Jenny.
"Diguda (Diglett)! Stop them from kidnapping Lilandra!" Laguna sent out a Diguda.
"Go, Gorubatto (Golbat)!" said each of the strangers, sending out two Gorubatto.
"Parasu (Paras), give Diguda a hand!" Iggy sent out a Parasu to join the fray.
"Gorubatto, supersonic!" The supersonic from the two Gorubatto confused Parasu and Diguda into attacking each other. Laguna and Iggy returned them to their pokéballs, and sent out two more pokémon to fight. Charmeleon was Laguna's, and Wartortle was Iggy's.
"Go. Charmeleon!"
"Give them something to cry about, Wartortle!"
"Gorubatto, supersonic!"
"Wartortle! Get into your shell and spin the supersonic back at them!"
"Nice thinking, Iggy! Now Charmeleon, flamethrower!"
Raguna and Iggy defeated the two strangers just as a third rolled up on another motorbike.
"Go, Kurobatto (Crobat). Hyperbeam."
The new stranger's Kurobatto knocked out both Charmeleon and Wartortle in one hit. He gave the two other strangers a small hand signal, and they began to load Lilandra onto the back of one of their motorbikes.
"Lilandra!"
"Garidi (Growlithe), get those kidnappers!" shouted Officer Jenny. A Garidi ran out of the police station, and ran at them.
"Kurobatto, takedown!"
The Garidi was knocked out.
The kidnappers were just beginning to drive off when Machisu arrived in his massive army truck. The final stranger leapt onto his bike and went with them.
"Oniichan!" (more affectionate form of big brother) Lilandra shouted from the back of one of the bikes. "Help me!"
"Lilandra! Damn it!" Machisu slammed down the acceleration and drove after them.
"Kurobatto, stop that truck!"
The Kurobatto flew back a tried to puncture all of the tires of Machisu's truck, but being a decommissioned army truck, the tires were basically bullet proof, so the Kurobatto used Acid on the front hood instead, completely destroying the engine.
"No! Lilandra!" Machisu jumped out of the truck and started running after the kidnappers. "Go, Raichyuu! Thunderbolt!"
"Raichyuu!"
"Kurobatto, safeguard!"
The safeguard stopped the thunderbolt and the kidnappers escaped with Lilandra.
"Iie (no)..." Machisu slumped to the ground. "LILANDRA!!"
Lilandra was taken to the abandoned labs.
"I guess I'm about to find out what happened to those other girls," Lilandra thought drearily as she was unloaded from the back of the bike. She shuddered at that, but realised that in this situation, fear was useless, and marched forward with the two cronies at her sides to prevent escape. She just had to be careful of the uzi that the last guy had pointed at her back.
The guy with the Kurobatto stopped them after they'd entered one of the decrepit labs, and carefully sealed the door behind.
He signalled one of the others over to him. "Get Nao," he ordered. "Tell her to bring the tranquillisers. And hurry."
"Yes sir!" he scurried away.
Lilandra took a step away. The crone that was left lifted her up by the collar, and then threw her into a corner by the door.
"Stay there!" he snapped. "Don't you go pullin' nothing!" She cringed away, and the leader laughed.
"You heard him, stay there. Now I don't believe we're been properly introduced yet. My name is Taopaipai," (did I mention I was stuck for names?) "and I'm the head of operations at this Team Rocket Testing facility."
"Team Rocket? You scum!" Lilandra stood up and glared at him defiantly.
"That's better! With all that cringing you were doing I wondered if you really were the perfect specimen. If this works, you'll make a fine Flareth."
"Flareth? What the...?"
"Sir, the tranquillisers." A middle-aged labcoat-wearing female scientist with greying hair and kind eyes framed with glasses walked out of a side corridor with a small, loaded dartgun.
"Good! Now Nao, I'd like you to meet our newest experiment. I believe her name is Lilika Surge."
"That's LILANDRA Surge!"
"Whatever. If this works you'll just be known as Flareth, and if not you're just another failed experiment."
"What on earth is a Flareth?!"
Ignoring Lilandra, Taopaipai turned back to Nao. "Take careful aim, we wouldn't want you to miss," he instructed.
"Yes sir." Almost reluctantly, Nao did as she was told. Lilandra took her hesitation as a chance to kick the uzi out of Taopaipai's hands and make a run for the door.
She got within a step of it, but then twenty or so armed guards piled out of doors and corridors. The guys with her already pulled out handguns, and everybody pointed their weapons at her. "FREEZE!" they all yelled as one.
"KUSO!"
(~ Designates pokémon talk)
The pokémon Flareth is an entire fictional pokémon. I have made it up myself. It's the same with Lilandra except instead of being a made-up pokémon, she's the made-up sibling of a real gym leader.
Also, please feel free to correct any of my Japanese if it be wrong.
w00t.
List of Things I must find Original Names for (you guys can help too!): Fuschia City, Charmeleon, Wartortle
Lilandra Surge lived with her brother, Machisu (Lieutenant) Surge in Kuchiba (Vermillion) City, and spent most of her days at the gym with her brother and his friends.
Two Efui (Espeon) and three Iibi (Eevee) are resting on a grassy knoll overlooking Vermillion City. Two of the Iibi are play fighting, and another looks over the city with his parents.
~There is something strange about that child, Lilandra~ the mother Efui said.
~There is something difficult in her destiny~ the father replied.
~There is nothing we can do~ the mother said.
~Can't we help her?~ asked the Iibi sitting with them.
~There is nothing we can do~ repeated his mother.
~Future is a complicated thing, young Pandora~ his father explained
It is an early morning in Kanto, and Lilandra is asleep in her bed, quite an amazing feat because today is the day that Machisu catches her a first pokémon, and tomorrow is the day she shall begin her pokémon journey.
"Lilandra! Wake UP! We're leaving, kiddo!" Machisu yelled from outside.
"I'm up, I'm up!" Lilandra replied sleepily, snuggling further into her doona.
A few minutes later...
"I said now!" Machisu kicked open the door and threw a bucket of water over Lilandra, who had gone back to sleep.
"Aieeeeeeee!" Lilandra leapt up at once. "That wasn't nice!"
Machisu left the room while Lilandra dried up and got dressed, muttering angrily to herself.
"Hey kid, you're finally up," said Machisu as Lilandra stumbled into the gym, hair still wet. "We were beginning to think that you didn't want a new pokémon after all!"
"Raichyuu!" (the call of a Raichu)
"Oh yeah. That's what's so important about today." Lilandra yawned. "I'm still sleepy. It's too early in the morning."
This sent her brother and his friends into tides of laughter. "Lilandra, it's already afternoon!"
"You're so absent minded," Machisu said, smiling. "Let's get moving. Got all your stuff packed?"
"Knowing I'd forget it now, I packed it yesterday," Lilandra said, brandishing a pack.
"Good! Let's go!"
Together, Lilandra and Machisu headed off for Route 11, passing the Diguda (Diglett) tunnel on the way.
"So what sort of a pokémon would you like to get, Lilandra?"
"I'm not sure... Let's see what pops up!"
"Oh! That Koratta (Rattata) is just so cute!"
"Lilandra, it's a Koratta."
"...So?"
"We'll get you something better."
"Koratta is good! Their stats, even if they are lower than a lot of other pokémon, are quite well rounded! And their Super Fang attack can be quite useful! Koratta wa Totemo Kawaikute Tsuyoi desu!" (Rattata are very cute and strong)
The Koratta looked towards them and blinked. It was not quite used to having such nice things said about the power of its species.
"Very common. We'll get you something better, kiddo."
"Fine. If you say so."
"This is taking ages... What was wrong with Onisujume (Spearow)?"
"We'll get you something better. What was wrong with Doriridama (Voltorb)?"
Lilandra pulled a face. "I'll get me something better!"
They approached an Iibi (Eevee) snoozing on a rock.
"Good enough for me?" asked Lilandra, tugging on Machisu's shoulder and pointing it out.
"Now there's a good first pokémon! Let's get you that. Raichyuu, go!"
"Raichyuu!"
The Iibi woke up, and took a few steps back. It obviously had a lot of experience though, and stepped forward again.
"Raichyuu, thunderbolt attack!" Machisu ordered.
"Raichyuu!" His Raichyuu obeyed with great speed, and Lilandra knew that its Thunderbolt would be a very powerful attack. The Thunderbolt missed the Iibi by little more than a hair, something Machisu didn't notice before the dust from the explosion swept around.
"Good job Raichyuu."
"You missed," said Lilandra.
"Rai?"
"Huh? You sure?"
They all watched until the dust cleared and the Iibi stood unharmed.
"Affirmative."
"Iibi!" He tackled Raichyuu, knocking it unconscious in one hit.
"What?! Raichyuu, return!"
"Wow, that's a good Iibi."
The Iibi laughed an Iibi laugh.
"Don't get cocky!" Machisu roared.
So the Iibi winked at Lilandra, and ran off.
"Get back here!" she yelled, chasing after it. "Oniisan (big brother), see you back at the gym later! I've got enough food and water for a few days! Don't worry about me!"
"Lilandra, WAIT!!" Machisu bellowed after her, but it was no use.
Lilandra had a strong will of her own.
And it was likely to cause her much heartache.
Lilandra chased the Iibi all of the way into Yamabuki (Saffron) City. The problem with Yamabuki City is that it is one very big city. The problem with big cities, is that it is easy to get lost in them. Lilandra got very lost in Yamabuki City.
"Oh no, I don't know where I am. This was a stupid idea," said Lilandra to herself as the sun began to set. "I need somewhere to sleep."
By some bizarre, unlikely possibility (or just bad writing), Lilandra had ended up lost right by the Yamabuki City Pokémon Center, so she walked in there.
"Hello, how can I help you today?" asked Nurse Joy.
"May I please stay here for the night?"
"Of course you can."
The next day, Lilandra woke up a lot earlier than usual, to the sound of pokémon trainers talking as only pokémon trainers do; loudly and aimlessly.
"Whatcha doing?" she asked, walking up to the two loudest trainers, two guys. One had long black hair, brown pants, and a blue jacket open to reveal a white shirt. The other had glasses, an untidy, spiky mass of brown hair, green pants and a black skivvy.
"We're discussing the rumour that's been going around about the rare pokémon around the old science labs on the edge of town," said one.
"Sounds good, doesn't it?" said the other.
"Sure does... Rumour say what kind of pokémon?" Lilandra wondered aloud.
"Just that it's so rare, nobody's ever seen it before!"
"O....kay."
"I'd go out there myself, but there are so many dangerous pokémon around there."
"And criminals... All those kids have gone missing there..."
They both shivered.
"So who're you guys, and where're you from?"
"I'm Laguna Loire, and this is Iggy Koopa." (I was REALLY stuck for names, okay?!) "We're both from Fuschia City."
"Come a long way then, huh?"
"Yeah, fair way," said Iggy. "So who're you?"
"I'm Lilandra Surge from Kuchiba. Nice to meet you both."
"Lilandra Surge? Not THE Lilandra Surge?" asked Iggy, surprised. "Little Sister of THE Lieutenant Surge?"
"That's me!"
"Say, how about I challenge you to a pokémon battle?" suggested Laguna.
"What, do I look like a pokémon trainer?"
"You're not a pokémon trainer?" Iggy was in a state of severe shock. "But... but... you're Lilandra!"
"Well, not a trainer yet. I was actually out with my brother catching me a pokémon for tomorrow..." Lilandra told the two boys the story of how she got there.
"So you want to find this Iibi?" asked Laguna.
"We'll help!" volunteered Iggy. "Let's go look by the labs!"
"Isn't that dangerous?" Laguna said snidely to him.
"We'll have Lilandra with us! Nothing will dare attack us if we have Lilandra with us!"
"Hello! Does anything penetrate that thick skull of yours, Iggy? Lilandra isn't a pokémon trainer!"
"So?"
"And if you even paid attention to news, then you'd notice that all of the people going missing around the labs were chics!!"
"So?!"
"Hey! She's leaving!" yelled Laguna suddenly, pointing at the door where Lilandra was trying to leave unobtrusively.
"I get the idea you don't want us to come with you," said Iggy, a little while later on their way to the old Yamabuki (Saffron) science labs.
"No, I welcome your experience. At least you know where you're going."
"Most of the time, anyway." Laguna gave Iggy a meaningful glance.
"Shut up!" snapped Iggy.
"Who, me?" asked Laguna innocently.
"Never mind, stupid."
"Who're you calling stupid?"
"You, stupid."
"Um, so how many badges have you two gotten so far?" asked Lilandra to quell the fighting.
"Well, from Fuschia we took routes 16-18 up to Tamamushi (Celadon) City and got the badge from there."
"It was real hard to get inside the gym long enough to get Erika to accept our challenge!"
"Next we took route 7 here. We haven't fought against Nashime (Sabrina) yet. She's deeply scary."
"Okay."
The old science labs were surrounded by an eight-foot electric fence. There were many holes where others had evidently entered.
"This is creepy," said Iggy, shuddering. "Completely deserted."
They looked around the perimeter of the fence.
"Nothing out here," commented Laguna.
"But look!" Lilandra pointed excitedly at an Iibi running off inside the compound. "Lucky!" She started to carefully crawl through one of the holes in the fence.
"Hold it right there!" a loud voice ordered from behind them, making them all jump about as high as the fence. "What do you think you're doing here?"
Iggy, Laguna and Lilandra all turned around and found themselves face to face with... Officer Jenny.
Relieved, Laguna and Iggy started spurting out all kinds of nonsense explanations.
Officer Jenny silenced them by holding up one hand. "I'm going to have to take you all in to the police station for questioning."
None of them noticed the figure watching them from the darkness inside the compound.
A while later Iggy, Laguna and Lilandra were sitting in the police station listening to Officer Jenny's explanation of why they shouldn't be around the labs.
"I don't think I need to tell you how many people have gone missing around there lately?"
As Iggy and Laguna shook their heads in submission, Lilandra made a pact to watch the news more often.
"So what were you three doing around there?"
"Looking for my Iibi," explained Lilandra loudly before Iggy and Raguna could make something up.
"Well next time you should just alert the authorities that your pokémon is missing, instead of looking around in dangerous places that you shouldn't be! I would hate to be the one that had to call your parents up and tell them that you'd been killed!"
"Killed? Don't you mean missing?" asked Laguna.
"No. All of the girls that had gone missing around the labs were found later. Dead. Do you understand why I don't want you around there?"
"Thanks for finding us then," Lilandra said. "My brother would be devastated if anything were to happen to me."
"You're very welcome. But I'm going to have to call your parents anyway, and tell them what happened."
"Oh no. My mother will be so angry," said Laguna.
"Your mum'll be angry?! What about mine?!!"
"Oniichan (Big bro) is gonna kill me..."
So Officer Jenny phoned up Laguna and Iggy's parents, who got talked to quite thoroughly, and finally got up to Lilandra.
"Name?"
"Lilandra Surge. You're going to have to ask for my oniisan (older brother), he's my legal guardian."
She phoned up Machisu (Lt. Surge). One of his friends answered.
"Hello?"
"Hello, this is Officer Jenny of Yamabuki City. Can I talk to the legal guardian of Lilandra Surge?"
"Um, yeah, I guess. He's in the middle of a battle right now, but I'm sure he'll talk to you. Is Lilandra okay?"
At the gym, Machisu was having a tough battle against a challenger when his friend came up to him.
"It's for you."
"Can't it wait?"
"It's the cops, about Lilandra."
"WHAT?!"
The challenger and the two pokémon battling just stood there and watched as Machisu's face changed colour dramatically.
"Is she okay?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"You don't mind if we take a quick recess? Didn't think so!" Machisu walked into the other room and answered the phone.
"Who's Lilandra?" asked the challenger.
"That's his little sis," explained Machisu's friend.
"Hi, this is Machisu Surge. What's the matter? Is Lilandra okay?"
"She's okay, but she quite easily could not have been. I phoned to tell you that I found Lilandra in the company of these two pokémon trainers wandering around the old Yamabuki City labs."
"The Yamabuki City labs?! What was she doing there?"
"Looking for an Iibi, allegedly."
"Lilandra! Stop skulking around and talk to me!"
"Hi."
"Lilandra, what on earth did you think you were doing, wandering around the old Yamabuki labs?!!!" Machisu was yelling so loud it was scaring the challenger.
"Man, his sis got found around the old Yamabuki labs? That could have been disastrous," the challenger commented to Machisu's friend.
"Yeah, I've never seen him this mad before."
And at the police station, Lilandra had to lean away from the telephone while her brother ranted so she didn't damage her hearing. Once he was done yelling at her, he started yelling at Laguna and Iggy.
"And what did you two think you were doing, letting her go there?!"
"Okay, I think that's enough," said Officer Jenny.
"Send her back here right now!" demanded Machisu.
"I'm sorry, but I can't do that. I'll give her a lift back tomorrow morning, if that's okay?"
"No, I'll come pick her up tomorrow morning," Machisu said.
The next morning, Lilandra got up earlier than usual. She had no objections to going home, but she had to say goodbye to Yamabuki. She was sure that her brother was never going to let her go on her pokémon journey now.
Officer Jenny made everybody some toast for breakfast, and Lilandra went outside to eat hers in the (relatively) fresh air of outside, before she'd even put on her shoes.
Out the front of a police station, is a place that you'd expect to be very safe.
Two motorbikes approached the station.
"Oha!" (mornin'!) said Lilandra.
The strangers who hopped off the bikes were clad in black, and giant red R's were emblazoned onto the backs of their leather jackets. They grinned at each other, and then leapt forward. Each of them took one of Lilandra's arms and tied her up.
"Hey! HEY! Help! Somebody, HELP!"
Iggy, Laguna and Officer Jenny raced out of the police station as the two strangers finished tying up Lilandra.
"Stop right there!" demanded Officer Jenny.
"Diguda (Diglett)! Stop them from kidnapping Lilandra!" Laguna sent out a Diguda.
"Go, Gorubatto (Golbat)!" said each of the strangers, sending out two Gorubatto.
"Parasu (Paras), give Diguda a hand!" Iggy sent out a Parasu to join the fray.
"Gorubatto, supersonic!" The supersonic from the two Gorubatto confused Parasu and Diguda into attacking each other. Laguna and Iggy returned them to their pokéballs, and sent out two more pokémon to fight. Charmeleon was Laguna's, and Wartortle was Iggy's.
"Go. Charmeleon!"
"Give them something to cry about, Wartortle!"
"Gorubatto, supersonic!"
"Wartortle! Get into your shell and spin the supersonic back at them!"
"Nice thinking, Iggy! Now Charmeleon, flamethrower!"
Raguna and Iggy defeated the two strangers just as a third rolled up on another motorbike.
"Go, Kurobatto (Crobat). Hyperbeam."
The new stranger's Kurobatto knocked out both Charmeleon and Wartortle in one hit. He gave the two other strangers a small hand signal, and they began to load Lilandra onto the back of one of their motorbikes.
"Lilandra!"
"Garidi (Growlithe), get those kidnappers!" shouted Officer Jenny. A Garidi ran out of the police station, and ran at them.
"Kurobatto, takedown!"
The Garidi was knocked out.
The kidnappers were just beginning to drive off when Machisu arrived in his massive army truck. The final stranger leapt onto his bike and went with them.
"Oniichan!" (more affectionate form of big brother) Lilandra shouted from the back of one of the bikes. "Help me!"
"Lilandra! Damn it!" Machisu slammed down the acceleration and drove after them.
"Kurobatto, stop that truck!"
The Kurobatto flew back a tried to puncture all of the tires of Machisu's truck, but being a decommissioned army truck, the tires were basically bullet proof, so the Kurobatto used Acid on the front hood instead, completely destroying the engine.
"No! Lilandra!" Machisu jumped out of the truck and started running after the kidnappers. "Go, Raichyuu! Thunderbolt!"
"Raichyuu!"
"Kurobatto, safeguard!"
The safeguard stopped the thunderbolt and the kidnappers escaped with Lilandra.
"Iie (no)..." Machisu slumped to the ground. "LILANDRA!!"
Lilandra was taken to the abandoned labs.
"I guess I'm about to find out what happened to those other girls," Lilandra thought drearily as she was unloaded from the back of the bike. She shuddered at that, but realised that in this situation, fear was useless, and marched forward with the two cronies at her sides to prevent escape. She just had to be careful of the uzi that the last guy had pointed at her back.
The guy with the Kurobatto stopped them after they'd entered one of the decrepit labs, and carefully sealed the door behind.
He signalled one of the others over to him. "Get Nao," he ordered. "Tell her to bring the tranquillisers. And hurry."
"Yes sir!" he scurried away.
Lilandra took a step away. The crone that was left lifted her up by the collar, and then threw her into a corner by the door.
"Stay there!" he snapped. "Don't you go pullin' nothing!" She cringed away, and the leader laughed.
"You heard him, stay there. Now I don't believe we're been properly introduced yet. My name is Taopaipai," (did I mention I was stuck for names?) "and I'm the head of operations at this Team Rocket Testing facility."
"Team Rocket? You scum!" Lilandra stood up and glared at him defiantly.
"That's better! With all that cringing you were doing I wondered if you really were the perfect specimen. If this works, you'll make a fine Flareth."
"Flareth? What the...?"
"Sir, the tranquillisers." A middle-aged labcoat-wearing female scientist with greying hair and kind eyes framed with glasses walked out of a side corridor with a small, loaded dartgun.
"Good! Now Nao, I'd like you to meet our newest experiment. I believe her name is Lilika Surge."
"That's LILANDRA Surge!"
"Whatever. If this works you'll just be known as Flareth, and if not you're just another failed experiment."
"What on earth is a Flareth?!"
Ignoring Lilandra, Taopaipai turned back to Nao. "Take careful aim, we wouldn't want you to miss," he instructed.
"Yes sir." Almost reluctantly, Nao did as she was told. Lilandra took her hesitation as a chance to kick the uzi out of Taopaipai's hands and make a run for the door.
She got within a step of it, but then twenty or so armed guards piled out of doors and corridors. The guys with her already pulled out handguns, and everybody pointed their weapons at her. "FREEZE!" they all yelled as one.
"KUSO!"
