Chapter 4

The next day underneath Mist Island there was a fury of activity. Dozens of people in dark blue jumpsuits were working on the war heads of the recently captured ballistic missiles. Dr. Bailey himself walked in and said to one of the technicians, "How's everything going."

The technician replied, "Pretty well we just finished converting the war heads to hold the retro-virus. If all goes on schedule, we should be able to make tomorrows midnight launch deadline you set for us."

"Excellent!", said Bailey. "For once everything seems to be looking up."

Suddenly, Dr. Bailey's communicator beeped. Bailey growled, "Figures." He picked it up and said, "This had better be important." He listened for a moment then said, "I'll be right up."

Moments later he was in the island's control room. He said, "What's so important that it needed my attention?"

One of the controllers said, "Sir, radar spike, we have a contact. Roughly around 15 miles out near the trench."

Bailey said, "Shit. Is it the Navy?"

"No sir. Scans say its civilian, research type ship."

Bailey replied, "I thought that the Navy shut down all civilian traffic." He then thought for a moment and said, "I might just be able to use this. Send out an attack team. The orders are to capture not kill. I want to make absolutely sure the new retro-virus really works and they just became my test subjects."

"Right away sir." said the controller. "Fire teams Alpha and November report immediately to docking bay."

Meanwhile, back on the ship, Morris was at the controls of the radio controlled mini sub. Glitch said, "We are at two miles down into the trench. Don't you think we would have seen the colony by now?"

Ash said, "Yeah, where's all the Relicath?"

Morris answered, "I don't know, usually this trench is filled with them. I'll try diving a little deeper."

Max yawned and said, "We've been at this for half the day. You think we would have seen them by now."

May replied, "Yeah, are you sure someone wasn't just pulling your leg when they said there was a huge colony of Relicath down here?"

Morris said, "They showed me a video taken by there mini sub and I've checked everything, it was a forgery or any type of trick photography. Either these things live deeper than I originally thought, or something really freaky must have scared them all away."

Pikachu suddenly pointed at the screen and Ash said, "What is it buddy?" Ash looked at the screen and said, "What's that?"

Morris looked at the screen as well and saw a faint shadow resting on a cliff jutting out of the canyon wall.

He said, "What the hell is that?"

Glitch said, "Hold on I'll magnify the area." Enlarged the area was still pretty dark.

Morris said, "Max, can you flip the switch that has the words infra-red on it?"

Max flipped the switch and Morris studied the screen again. "Hmm, the thing is giving off heat--very faint though--flip the switch that says dark light on it."

Max asked, "What does that do?"

Glitch replied, "Quite basically it acts like the eye of some nocturnal creature. It sucks in all the light no matter how faint. It allows us to see anything in perfect darkness."

Max flipped the switch, and the shape became clear. Everyone gasped and Glitch said, "What the bloody hell!" It was a submarine, lying on its side. It's tower was missing and there was a hole blown open at the nose.

Brock exclaimed, "Is that the missing sub everyone is looking for?"

Morris grimly stated, "Probably." He then steered the mini-sub along side the wreck. On the side of the sub was written C.H.N.S. Tempest. Morris was watching the monitor and said, "Yep, definitely the missing sub.

Doesn't look like it had a reactor failure, and these blast holes. Either this thing ran into a school of Gyarados' who decided to fire hyper beam all at once, or something on the inside of the sub exploded. Either way there could be no survivors."

May grimly stated, "How sad."

Brock said, "There is no way a school of Gyarados would attack a ship that size."

Before anyone else could comment, something came flying into the research room portal. Before anyone could react, red gas filled the room and all dropped into a deep sleep. Glitch looked around in a panic, being man made he didn't breathe so the gas had no affect on him. He heard footsteps, and said, "Ah crap, I got to hide." He quickly saw an open cabinet and dove for it, closing it behind him. Two men in dark blue jumpsuits and gas masks walked in and one said, "You were right--your Heracross can use its horn to accurately catapult a gas grenade through a ships portal. You lucky sob I now owe you $10. We had better get this ship back. The longer we take the more impatient the Doc gets. Did you tie up the motor boat?"

The other invader replied, "Yep." He then looked out onto the deck and saw his Heracross and said, "Great Shot. Return you deserve a rest." The bug Pokemon was recalled into its ultra ball and the invader picked up his communicator and said, "This is fire team November. Ship secured."

"Roger That--This is fire team Alpha, we're waiting at the dock. Bring her in."

"Copy that. November out."

A few minutes later the ship reached the side of the island. Part of the cliff wall opened revealing a hidden dock. The research ship was guided in and docked. One of the blue jumpsuit soldiers yelled up, "So how does something that big handle?" The invader steering the ship replied, "Surprisingly well despite the fact that its so outdated. This thing still runs on fossil fuel. Whoever built this must have been in a coma for the past thirty years. It wasn't converted to hydrogen fuel. Other than that everything else seems to have been updated.

Bailey walked onto the dock and smiled. His cat like eyes glimmering in the dim light. "Excellent." He then looked at the ships bow and said, "Hmm. Devon Corporation Research. Only they would have enough resources to get one of their ships out in the water. So what were they researching anyway?"

One of the invaders handed him the log he found on the ship. Bailey opened it and smiled, "So there fossil resurrection project worked. This ship was studying Relicanth habitat and behavior so they could figure out how to reintroduce formerly extinct Pokemon into the current environment. Talk about being in the wrong place at the right time--For Me!" He then burst into a fit of laughter, which was quickly silenced when he saw the crew of the ship being transferred on stretchers. He looked at their sleeping forms and quietly said, "What are the chances. Fate must really hate you guys. Put them in the holding cells, tell me when they wake up, I want to have a little talk with them."

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