Back at the Team Magma base, Maxie was forming a plan of action to retrieve Mandy from the Aquas. After a lot of thought, Maxie finally decided to do exactly what Team Aqua had done to him. Maxie now went to get a group together so that they could go invade Team Aqua's base to get Mandy back. Once he had his group together, everyone ran out of their base to pursue the Aqua agents.
~*~
Meanwhile in the Team Aqua base, Archie was watching his little captive sleep. "I've never had a baby prisoner before….. I hope I know what I'm doing….." Archie muttered.
Just then a siren started going off, and Mandy woke up and started wailing. Archie quickly lifted her up into his arms and began rocking her, "Shh……. Don't cry, Mandy, it's all right…… I won't let anything happen to you."
After a few minutes Mandy stopped crying and snuggled up against Archie and fell back asleep. "Aw……. What a darling child. She doesn't even know me and she trusts me……." Archie thought.
Just then some grunts entered.
"What's wrong?" Archie asked while holding Mandy.
"Team Magma has invaded our base, we think they're after Mandy." A grunt said, while eyeing Mandy in a concerned manner.
Archie looked down at his blanketed bundle before he said, "Here, take Mandy out the secret entrance to our randevouz point." Archie said, while handing Mandy to the grunt.
"What should we do if she starts crying" The other grunt asked.
"Just rock her, and her crying should subside after awhile. Now get going, I'll try to hold them off for as long as I can."
"Yes, sir!"
The grunts now left the room with Mandy and hurried through their base to the secret entrance, and they exited their base. Mandy was still asleep in the grunt's arms and she had no idea that she was being moved again. They soon reached the randevouz point and they moved out of sight and sat down to wait for Archie.
~*~
Meanwhile, back in the Team Aqua base Maxie had found Archie. "I demand that you give me back my daughter! She's mine by blood." Maxie demanded.
"I doubt that, but I'll give her back to you if you can beat me in a battle." Archie said slowly.
"Agreed." Maxie said, while drawing a poke ball from his belt.
Archie did likewise and drew a poke ball from his belt. They both threw their poke balls and a Mightyena and a Torkoal appeared. The battle now got underway.
"Torkoal, use Flamethrower!" Maxie yelled.
"Mightyena, use Swagger." Archie said calmly, while hoping that the grunts had gotten Mandy to the randevouz point by this time.
~*~
Back at the randevouz point, Mandy had woken up and was begging to be let down.
"What do you think, do you think it would hurt if I put her down?" The grunt holding Mandy asked his companion
"I don't think it'll hurt so go ahead and let her down. Who knows maybe she can learn to walk." He said nonchalantly.
The other grunt set Mandy on her feet and his companion took Mandy's hands so he could support her a little. "Come on, baby, you can do it, take a step." The grunts encouraged.
Mandy lifted her foot and took a step.
"There ya go, keep coming." They encouraged.
Mandy took another step, and the grunts cheered. "That a way! Now try to walk on your own." The grunt now let go of her hands and Mandy tried to take a step, but she fell in the attempt. Mandy looked disappointed, so one of the grunts helped her up and said, "Don't give up, keep trying and you'll get it."
Now Mandy tried to take another step and this time she didn't fall. The grunts cheered, "There you go, you're doing it!"
Mandy took a few more steps before she walked back to the grunts and sat down. The grunts continued to keep a watchful eye on her since they would be the ones who would have to answer to Archie if she got hurt.
"I wonder how the boss is doing……" One grunt said.
"Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing." The other grunt replied after a pause.
With not much else to do, the grunts and Mandy waited for Archie to come, but it was uncertain as to how long it would be before Archie showed up.