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It was a dark night, and a creepy shadow was walking towards Nia Town city hall. The roads were deserted, except for that one person, strolling slowly along. It's head was covered with a brown hood, and nothing but the person's mouth was visible. It was wrinkly and dry, it's lips were dark red, as though the person had just drank human blood.
The person walked through the hall doors noiselessly, and looked around the large, dark room. The night sky started leaking rain; thunder bellowed in the distance.
Only one other person was in that room. It was a night watch man, at least he appeared to be at first, but as he grew closer, he was wearing a white lab coat, and goggles. There was a small Illumise strolling with him; it seemed to be the man's light source. The cloaked person walked up to them.
The man in the lab coat said to the hooded figure, "What buisiness do you have with Mayor Trent at this time of night?"
The hooded figure answered slowly, "Nut-hing." The voice was definately that of a mans, but he spoke as though he was trying to cover up an accent. "I v-wished to see YOU!"
At that precise moment, the cloaked man had pulled out a small gun, and pointed it at the man's face. The man seemed to freeze on the spot, his Illumise gave a small cry.
BANG!
Paff awoke with a start in a bed. She put her hand on her head, and then looked around at her unfimiliar surroundings, wondering where she was. She was in a small room with a few windows letting in a full array of the sun's light. She was laying on a white bed, surrounded by machinery. She could hear small beeps, and she felt pressure on her chest and head. She was in a hospital room.
She tried to sit up, but she was overwhelmed by an extremely sharp pain in her belly, so she laid back down. She layed in her bed, completely buried in her thoughts. She remembered everything she heared the evil woman, Neha say.
Paff wondered about Cipher, and the figure named Kinliteer.
Paff was broken from her thoughts when she heard talking from outside. It was getting closer, and clearer until the door opened.
"So he told me that I..." Paff saw that her friends Justin and Gers had walked in. They stopped talking to look at the concious Paff. "Oh! You're awake!" Justin said.
"Good timing!" Gers said smiling. "I only woke up an hour ago!"
"What time is it?" Paff said, realizing how dry her throat was.
"Oh, about eight thirty," Justin looked at his watch. "The doctors said you'd be able to leave when you got up."
"What happened?" Paff tried to sit up again, but felt the same stabbing pain at her chest, so she laid back down again.
"You don't remember?" Gers asked. He looked at Justin, then continued. "Well, after you... uhhhhhh... defeated Neha, you passed out, so, Andrew took you to the hospital!"
Justin nodded, then continued, "I think they did some minor surgery, but we're not positive. You passed out again yesterday afternoon, and haven't got up 'till now."
"Where's everybody else?" Paff asked scratchily.
"Oh, well," Justin looked at Gers. "We know that Tetra's somewhere near... I think Jasmine's still asleep. Samus, Violet and Manus are out..." Justin paused to think. "You know what? We haven't seen Yvon and Medli since at the Coliseum!"
"Yeah" Gers recalled. "Where are they? Tetra had to 'ave told them everything by now!"
"Yeah!" Justin agreed. "They must be-" Justin was cut off when a rushing Jasmine entered the room. She ran up to Paff's bed, and sat down on it.
"How're you doing?" Jasmine asked.
"I'm fine," Paff said quietly. "But I can't sit up right."
"Oh, that's just because of you bandages!" Gers assured Paff. "When they take it off you'll be fine."
"You'll come out soon," Jasmine said smiling. "Just after they check on you."
"Yup," Justin and Gers said together.
Everyone in the room was pretty quiet now. Justin and Gers were discussing matters, like they had been for a while now. They were discussing suspects for that "Kinliteer" fellow that Neha mentioned.
"What about that Jihan lady?" Gers pointed out. "Some tour guide! She left us to do what we wanted!"
"True," Justin nodded. "She has a little sister, remember? Her name was... ummm... Britteny?"
"Uhhh... yeah! It was Britteny! D'you think that she's Kinliteer?"
"We should meet her!" Justin suggested.
"Okay," Gers agreed. "What about the Captain? He's quite a suspicious man! And he seems to have his eye on you!"
"I know," Justin said. "That would explain why we're here now, of all times! What about that Ludvik guy? He's definately an angry fellow."
"Totally!" Gers exclaimed. "He's opposite his girlfriend!"
"Yeah, that Shannon woman." Justin remembered. "What about Gerald? He's a guy that would definately hide something!"
"You're right! We shouldn't trust anybody unless we are positive they aren't against us!"
"And Matthew!" Justin said slowly. Gers looked at him in a way of 'Good call'. Gers thought that Matthew was a great candidate for evil!
The boys stopped talking when they heard someone enter the room. It was Tetra.
"Hey!" she exclaimed, smiling. "You're awake! That's good! Hey guys." She turned to look out the window with the boys. "Have you guys thought about-" Tetra was cut off when the ringing of a cellphone erupted. Tetra dug into her pocket and pulled it out. She opened it, saying, "Hello! Hey, man, what's going on?"
Justin and Gers looked at each other anxiously.
"We're at the hospital, dumbass!" Tetra exclaimed into her phone. "Where are you?" Tetra listened to the other person.
Justin seized this opportunity to ask, "Who is it?"
"It's Yvon," Tetra answered, putting her phone to her chest and back again to her ear. "Why are you yelling? Are-" Her eyes widened and her hand went over her mouth. "Who did it?" she said shocked. "He's dead?"
Justin and Gers stood up straight in surprise. Gers asked, "What happened?"
Tetra kept on listening to the phone, but she moved away to another window, to Paff's right. She put her hands in front of the sun to get a clearer look. She gasped suddenly; Justin and Gers joined her.
"What is it?" Justin asked hastily. "Tell us!"
Tetra pointed out the window, her phone on her chest. "See that small tube of smoke over there?" she asked quietly. The boys looked, and saw the far-away cloud of smoke. They nodded at Tetra. She continued, "It's the Radygoas! It's burning up!"
"What?" the boys hollored. "How?"
"And..." Tetra sounded sad. "Larry's dead!"
"Oh-my-God!" Jasmine said, shocked. She had overheard what Tetra had been saying. She got up, "From the fire?"
"Yeah," Tetra answered. "Yvon and Medli are there now!"
"Oh crap!" Gers said. "We should get there, too! Try to help everyone out!"
"You're right!" Justin said. "But how?"
Tetra said into her phone, "We'll meet you there, okay? Good! See ya!" She hung up her phone and put it back in her pocket. "Good thing I rented a car yesterday!"
"What? Where?" Justin asked her.
Tetra smirked, "There's a garage down the road! We have a lot of money, so, I didn't even think twice!"
"Who cares!" Gers said rushingly. "As long as we have some transportation! I'll drive!" The three stormed out of the room after saying bye to Jasmine and Paff, and headed outside through the lobby.
The morning air in Pyrite town was refreshing and warm, the three took a few short breaths before heading into the parking lot.
All the vehicles were new and shiny. Tetra knew from the lot where she got the car, that vehicles and roads were sorta knew to Orre. Cars were a thing that Tetra, Gers and Justin knew lots about.
Tetra led them to a red 2005 Corvette C6 coupe convertable.
Justin looked at it in awe, "Wow! I never thought I'd ever ride in something like this!"
"It's old, though!" Gers complained. "And it's not as cool when it's a convertable!"
"Who cares!" Justin said. "It's still nice!"
"Would you boys shut up and drive?" Tetra shouted.
"Fine," Gers said. He entered the drivers seat, as Justin jumped into the back and Tetra jumped into the passengers seat.
"You have no idea how to enter a convertable, Gers!" Tetra smirked.
"Oh, shut up!" Gers said. He started the car, and drove out the lot.
There was a semi-large highway that lead around Orre, but the three saw that it wasn't completely finished. Workers were still building new overpasses and turns on the highway on certain spots. Fortunatly, the way to Gateon Port was done, so it was smooth sailing.
Tetra, Justin and Gers were able to see the smoke of the burning ship very clearly. Upon reaching Gateon Port, they could see and hear all the firetrucks trying to put out the flames. A few police cars were there as well.
Gers decided to park in the lot of a grocery store. Yvon and Medli had followed the car.
"Hey guys," Yvon said. "Nice car! Anyways, the ambulance already took Larry's body away."
"Where?" Justinasked getting out of the car. "And where's Marrik?"
"Oh, well," Medli started. "They took them both to Nia Town! Poor, Marrik. He's all alone now without Larry!"
"Where's Captain Yisp?" Gers asked.
"Who?" Yvon asked back. "You mean the ship's captain? Oh! He went to Nia Town, too."
"We want to go talk with him!" Tetra said. "Are you two coming with us?"
"By road?" Medli asked.
"We'd mine as well! We have a car!" Gers said hastily.
"Good luck!" Yvon started. "There are no roads leading to Nia Town except for local roads! Marrik and the Captain had to take a copter!"
Tetra, Gers and Justin looked at each other.
"We could take the train!" Justin suggested. An explosion sound came from the still burning ship. The five turned to look. Fire fighters were using hoses and pokémon to put out the blaze. Even strangers had their pokémon helping out. The teen's conversation continued with Justin saying, "The train leads to Nia town!
"We could drive to Phenac and take the train from there!" Gers said. "Will you guys come?"
"Ummmm," Medli thought about it. "I don't know. What will you guys do there?"
"Whatever we want really," Tetra answered. "If we need to leave Nia Town in a hurry, you guys can stay! Deal?"
"Deal!" Medli said and she hopped into the car with Tetra.
Yvon looked at the car, then to Justin, "Fine! Just... don't get us into trouble again!"
"Fine!" Justin said. He jumped into the back with the girls, and Yvon jumped into the passenger seat. Gers boarded on the drivers side, and revved up the engines.
Gers went onto the road out of Gateon Port, towards where they had came. However, Gers didn't turn off at Pyrite Town, he kept on going towards Phenac city. They were having a conversation in the car.
Justin asked Yvon, "Was the fire arson for sure?"
"Yes," Yvon answered in a sigh. "The authorities said that the fire started in the ducts and went down. Someone must've thrown a torch into the tube ducts."
"How?" Tetra asked. "That's pretty high up!"
"Yeah, I know!" Medli said to Tetra. "I said the same thing! An officer told me that somebody must've used a pokémon to do it!"
"Damn," Justin muttered.
"Okay," Gers told everyone. "We're here!" Gers pulled the car up to a lot to the sandy entrance to Phenac. All the rivers surrounding the city were flowing about around the road. The five got out of the car, and entered the watery city.
They climbed the bunch of stairs to the second level of Phenac, then up the the third. They remembered which side of the third level to climb in order to reach the station; the left. They climbed up the stairs, onto the familiar platform.
There was no train on the tracks as the five could see, so they sat down on a bench. Medli looked up at a luminating sign on the back wall. She read it, then told it to her friends.
"Guys," She said. "We missed the train leading to Nia Town."
"What?" Gers asked hastily. "What do you mean we missed it?"
"Shut up!" Medli said loudly. "We could still take the other train around! It does lead to Nia Town!"
"Oh, whatever," Yvon shrugged. "As long as we end up there!" He gave a glance to Justin, who was staring at a group of people on the other platform that were having a pokémon battle. Tetra was watching them as well.
"I hope we'll be like them soon," Tetra muttered. "Then we can battle left and right!"
"Yeah," Justin agreed.
A few minutes passed before the five's train finally arrived. They boarded it quickly, and sat down at the back of the train. They were completely silent until the train started moving again, for they wanted to be sure nobody would listen.
Gers broke the silence and whispered, "Do you think their going to have a funeral for Larry?"
"Doubt it" Yvon answered. "He only had his son with him, right? I don't think a funeral would be necessary."
There was a short silence, except of coarse rushing of the train on the tracks.
Medli asked suddenly, "Why do you guys want to talk to the Captain?"
"First of all," Justin breathed. "We want to see Nia Town for the hell of it! Second, we think that the Captain might know something."
"What?" Yvon asked.
"He told us about some girl, and," Gers answered. "We want to meet her."
"Is she in Nia Town?" Medli asked.
"We dunno," Gers continued, "We think she might know something that we have no clue about..."
"That makes real sense." Yvon said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Thank you," Gers said.
The train speeded up as it left the station, following the river up the mountain tracks. The sun was shining through the train windows with a glorious light. The river shone with reflected sunlight; it's crystal clear water almost beckoning to be disrupted. The mountain's peak was blocked by a gathering of grey clouds, spinning around the summit.
The five teens stayed mostly silent until the train finally came to a halt. "Now stopping at the PHQ! Next stop, Nia Town! HOWEVER!" This shout made the leaving passengers jump. "If you wish to go to Nia Town, you must wait about an hour while the train collects it's cargo!"
The five teens made a groan, and lazily got off the train. They slouched as they left the station; they headed for the PHQ lot. People were laughing, crying, and screaming in the lot. The five took a seat at a table to talk, but before a word was said, a man slammed his hands on the table.
"You kids!" he shouted. "You left us! And worse! You almost got yourselves killed!"
Justin, Gers and Tetra knew from the man's clothing that he was a scientist at the PHQ. The scientists must've found out what happened at The Under. Medli and Yvon asked the man, "What?"
"You kids," the man started to back up. "Come inside, please. You need to tell Krane what happened."
The five didn't speak. They followed the man stiffly into the PHQ building. The man showed them into a room; the door sign read Prof. Krane.
They walked in with the man, and sitting at the desk at the back of the glass-walled room was Professor Krane, and standing with him was the woman, Lily.
Professor Krane looked in shock, then said to the man, "You found them?"
"Yes, Krane," the man answered. "They came off the train, I think."
"Good work, Hanson!" Lily smiled at the teens.
"Thank you!"
"You can go now, Hanson," Krane motioned that the man leave with his hand. Hanson obeyed, and left. "Kids, we want to know everything that you heard!"
Yvon waved his arms, "Oh, no! We weren't part of all this!"
"Well, then!" Lily hushed Yvon. "Keep silent!" Lily then made a small nod, telling Justin, Gers and Tetra to talk.
"Well," Justin started. "We... uhhhhhhhhhh... Well, you're guys were right! Cipher has returned!"
"Again!" Tetra added, loudly emphasizing it.
"Yeah!" Gers agreed.
"Okay!" Krane got a little louder. "We already know Cipher is back! What we need to know is what their planning!"
"We don't know!" Justin got louder too. "Paff killed the Admin before we got anything out of her!"
"Did you hear the Cipher boss's name?" Lily asked calmly.
The teens all stared at Lily until Gers answered her question quietly. "Yeah. It was Kinliteer."
"Kinliteer?" Krane asked. "That's a really strange name..."
"You're right!" Lily said. "Thanks kids."
"Can we go now?" Medli asked. "We need to get to Nia Town."
The two scientists looked at each other with desperate looks. Krane said to them, "We recently had one of our own killed there!"
"What?" Yvon asked loudly.
"He was found dead last night at Nia Town city hall," Lily said to them. "Oh... Why did we dig up The Under?"
"What do you mean?" Tetra asked.
"Well, eight years ago," Krane stood up. "The Under was a famous city. Lot's of models and TV stars lived there. However, Cipher used the city as a hang out. After their first defeat, we buried the city. We dug it up, two years ago, to counter Orre's sudden rise in population. We also built Nia Town, Michael Town, and Golden Bar Town."
"Oh," the five teens nodded.
"We didn't think," Lily said. "That Cipher would return a third time! We needed to get the population under control! We've expanded every city, overflowed Orre with pokémon, and created new jobs for everyone. But now, we've put everyone and every town at risk! And what's else, Cipher seems to be getting it's revenge for it's first two defeats! They've already killed Dennis and Trevor! We're next!"
"Where can we find other targets of Cipher?" Justin asked Lily.
"That's the thing!" Krane said for Lily. "One of our quitters, Flora, lives in Nia Town! You should talk to her while you're there! She's a famous model now! And she has a daughter about your age! Find her and tell her what you know!"
"You'd better hurry!" Lily started to shove them out. "Your train is about to leave!"
"We'll do our best, okay?" Gers told Lily as they walked out
"Yes, yes! Just go!"
Sort of dumbstruck, the five teens walked to the station and, as Lily predicted, it was boarding passengers.
"They got done loading cargo quite fast!" Tetra inquired. "They said an hour, but it's only been ten minutes!"
"I know," Justin looked at his watch. "Weird, eh?"
The train took off slowly at first, but sped up once they reached outside the station's view.
The way over there was cold. Justin believed this was so because the tracks were in the shadow of Mount Battle. The five thought that this side of Orre was much more lush that where all the cities were. They only saw two towns; one they guessed was Golden Bar Town, hence it was actually golden colored. The other they knew as Nia Town, because they were heading right for it. It was a large city, but it didn't level upwards like Phenac, or level downwards like Pyrite. It was flat and surrounded by forests and small ponds.
The train slowed down as it neared the Nia Town station. The conductor walked into the passenger car and yelled, "Now stopping at, Nia Town! Next stop, Phenac!"
The five waited for the train to stop completely before exiting. The station was almost empty, except for them and a few other people. They walked through an opening to the heart of Nia Town.
The town was-as anyone would put it, gorgeous. There were plants and flowers growing all over the place Trees were growing beside buildings. Vines were climbing flag poles, stairs, statues, and fences. Billboards towered above the city, all bearing pictures of the same red-haired person. They guessed that person to be Flora.
They moved to the closest billboard, and stared at it.
Gers said, "Wow! She is hot!" Medli couldn't help a small chuckle.
"Thanks!" The five heard someone say. Justin looked beside him and jumped. A girl was standing beside him, looking up at the billboard as well. She looked at the five with her, smiled, and said, "That's my mum up there!"
The girl was shorter than Justin, but she was quite attractive. She was holding a small handbag, and was wearing a white sweater and jeans. Her long,brown hair was neat, and her bangs were long. Justin liked her hair like that.
"Wow," Justin muttered. The girl giggled.
Tetra rolled her eyes. "Is your mom's name Flora?"
The girl made a serious face, "How do you know that?"
Yvon quickly walked in front of Tetra to get a good look at the girl. He said, "Well, actually we came to meet her!"
"Rreeeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllllyyyyyyyyy," The girl smiled again. "I'm afraid little ol' me has to ask you what for?"
Justin told her, "We came to warn her of something!"
"Hmmmmmmmmm," The girl bit her lip. "What's your names?"
"Justin,"
"Gers,"
"Yvon,"
Tetra rolled her eyes again. "My name's Tetra. This is Medli."
Medli stuck out her hand to shake, but the girl didn't move. "I don't shake hands with..." She looked at Medli carefully. She didn't finish her sentence. She then directed her words back to the boys, "The name's Kailee."
"Cool," Gers muttered.
"Can you please take us to your mom?" Medli asked the girl named Kailee.
"Whatever," Kailee said. "She's signing now, so, I guess you can see her. Come on, I'll take you there."
Kailee happily led the way through the town. She eventually led them into a book store where some people were gathered. Kailee shoved her way through the small crowd, her followers close behind. The Flora woman from the billboards was in the middle of the room. She was posing for pictures with strangers, smiling happily.
"Mom!" Kailee shouted. "I need to tell you something!"
Flora looked at Kailee, then whispered something to a man beside her. She then left her pose to go talk to Kailee.
"What's up, Kailee?" She asked.
"These guys wanted to talk to you about some warning," Kailee answered.
Tetra started to talk, "Yeah! Professor Krane sent us!"
"Oh," Flora looked more convinced now. "Alright, then. Just let me tell Kyle." She went back to the man she had been with and whisperedd something to him again. He nodded and whispered something back. She came back to the teens.
"Kailee, I'll talk with these guys at home," Flora said. "Are you coming?"
"Yeah, sure." Kailee shrugged. "Why not?"
Flora smiled, then grabbed her purse. She led the teens out of the store, and down a road. She led them to a large mansion in the middle of a street. The front yard was covered in plants and flowers and small fountains. Justin, Gers, Yvon, Tetra and Medli stared at the house in awe. They thought that Flora must be a very rich woman.
As Flora unlocked the door, she asked aloud, "How old are you kids?"
Medli answered, "We're all sixteen."
"Oh, you're Kailee's age!" Flora exclaimed. She opened the door, revealing the gigantic interior. Flora's words echoed throught out the house, "Such a great age you teens are at! Wonderful!"
"Wow!" Tetra gasped. "This house is huge!"
"I know!" Medli agreed.
"Isn't it just the best?" Kailee boasted. "I just love this house!"
Flora walked through a few rooms into the kitchen. She placed her purse on the table, and sat down. Kailee ran off to another room, but the other five kept looking around in awe. They were speechless until Flora asked them, "So, what is it that Krane wanted me to know?"
The five teens looked at her. Justin answered, "Oh, uhhhhhhhhh... He said that you... might be a target for Cipher."
Flora's eyes widened, "What do you mean? Cipher has returned?" She stood up hastily. "And their trying to kill me?" She started pacing around the table.
"Uhhhh, Mrs...?" Tetra asked trying to calm her a little.
Flora glanced at her, "Call me Miss Konn, okay!" She was paniking in her thoughts.
Gers said, "You should leave this place! Go tell someone!"
Flora - I mean - Miss Konn started to shout, "Who, huh? They'll just find me! Oh, God! KAILEE!"
They heard Kailee reply, "WHAT?"
"I'm sorry honey!" Miss Konn yelled. "But we have to leave!"
Kailee made a large, loud groan. She stormed down the stairs, her shoulders slouched and her arms hanging. She made a defiant look to her mother, and then headed out the door, as Justin could hear.
Miss Konn made a gesture dissmissing the others out of the house. They turned to leave, but Miss Konn walked up to Justin and whispered, "Could you just watch Kailee while I go talk to someone? She can't join me."
"Whatever," Justin shrugged and joined his friends outside. Kailee was at the sidewalk, staring at the other five teens.
"Look," she said. "I know my mum's in trouble, and I know she asked you to watch me, but I'm fine!"
"I know," Justin said.
"We have things we have to do!" Tetra said meanly. "We have to meet someone!"
"Oh yeah!" Kailee rebuttled. "Who?"
"A boy named Marrik, and Mr. Yisp," Gers said.
"Oh, really?" Kailee talked cutely now. "The Captain's at the coffee shop! I'll take you there!"
Tetra made a groan as Kailee started walking through a small, plat filled park. She led them down a few streets, until she came to a row of small shops. One of them read; The Nia Coffee House. They walked in, and immediately saw the greatly recognizable Captain Yisp.
He was talking to the dark skinned, female bartender. "And now I have no ship! Who would want to burn down a mate's ship? It was just a boat, but itwas my boat!"
The bartender was cleaning a coffee mug with a cloth. She shook her head, and took away the Captains cup. "More espresso, Rhett?"
"Please, Ayanna," she took his cup. "Thanks, mate."
"Captain," Kailee said aloud. The Captain gloomily looked at her, then smiled.
"Kailee!" He clapped his hands together. "Ho lovely to see you, miss!" Then, he took a look at Justin, Tetra and Gers. "Oh! Kailee... you know these blokes?"
Kailee shook her head, "No, sir. I just met them. They said they wanted to talk to you."
"Really?" The Captain looked at Justin oddly. "Well, the same goes here! I was looking for you, little fellah!" Justin knew this meant him. "I got more things for you!"
Justin stood up straight, ready to receive. Gers rolled his eyes. The Captain handed Justin a brown bag, full of something. Justin peered inside. There were about...say... fifteen little golden blocks. The kind of blocks you'd think a five-year-old would build a tower with.
"Is this real gold?" Justin asked shocked.
"No, mate!" The Captain said. "They're pokéblocks!"
"What?" Justin, Gers, and Tetra asked together.
Kailee told them for the captain, "You see, when you pick berries off of plants, you can turn them into pokéblocks. You can use pokéblocks to raise an attribute to a pokémon!"
"Yes, miss, good work!" The Captain smiled. The bartender, Ayanna gave the Captain a cup of espresso. "Thanks, Ayanna."
"Sure thing," Ayanna smiled. "Who are all these big kids, Rhett?"
"Oh, actually, mate," Captain Yisp started. "Ayanna, these are the kids I talked to you about before! They came from the west. Kids," he directed his voice to the teens. "Remember Gerald? This is his girlfriend Ayanna."
"Hello," The teens said.
"Hey," Ayanna said. "Rhett, they're good trainers, right?"
"Oh, yes!" Captain Yisp said. "This one beat me!"
"Wow," Ayanna said. "Hey, I'm on break in, like, two minutes. Meet you kids at the Dual Triangle?"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhh," Tetra started. "Sure, okay!"
"Great," Ayanna smiled and left for another customer.
"Anyways, where were we, mates?" The Captain thought for a moment. "Ah, yes! That bloke Andrew told me about what happened at The Under yesterday. He also mentioned you had a Feebas, mate!"
"Yeah, so?" Justin said.
"Feed it those and it will evolve faster!" Kailee said.
"Really?" Justin said fast. "Awesome. Thanks, Mr. Yisp!"
"Come on, mates!" The Captain chugged his espresso, and started leading the six teens out the door. "Let's go to the Dual Triangle!"
Yvon and Medli broke from the group. "Can we leave?" Medli asked Tetra. "'Cause we don't need to be a part of this!"
Tetra looked as though she was going to refuse, but she just said, "Fine, whatever."
Yvon and Medli skipped away into the distance. The now four teens followed the Captain into a small dirt field. In the middle was a large white triangle. This must've been it.
Justin, Gers, Tetra and Kailee saw a couple of trainers battling. They only recognized a few trainers that were there. They saw the 'tour guide' Jihan there. She was standing with a brown haired teenager who had a Jolteon on her shoulder. The teen was petting it. Justin wondered whether or not this hurt her.
Jihan noticed the five coming, "Oh! Rhett! How nice to see you! Oh! And you brought those kids with you!"
Captain Yisp smiled, "Yes, Jihan I did! These mateswere looking for some battles!"
"Really?" the teenage girls said. "Can we battle?"
"Whoa re you?" Gers asked.
"Oh, well," Jihan said. "This is my sister Britteny!"
"Oh," Justin smiled tuitevely. He had found the girl he was looking for. He didn't think however, that she was his age. But he nicely shook her hand.
"I've been waiting for ten minutes," Jihan said. "That's longer than you Brit, so I'll battle first."
Justin looked behind him to his friends. He thought that they forgot that finding out a person's weakness was key. He stepped forward.
"Whatever," he said. "I'll battle you. Double or single?"
"How about we just battle our best pokémon!" Jihan said. "That way it'll be quick!"
"Oh, yeah it will!" Justin said.
"This'll be good!" Tetra said.
"Don't be too confident!" Kailee said a little irritated. "Jihan is powerful!"
"So is Justin!" Gers rebuttled. "Show her, dude!"
Justin pulled out Articuno's ball, but told Jihan, "You first!"
"Whatever!" Jihan shrugged. "Go! GARDEVOIR!" There was a flash, and Jihan's Gardevoir appeared. It gave everyone a cute smirk.
Justin listened to his earpiece as usual, "Gardevoir, level 35, female, Psychic."
Justin threw his ball yelling, "Go! ARTICUNO!" There was a flash, and Justin's Articuno appeared. It looked at Gardevoir, and screeched a loud 'Uno!' The Gardevoir seemed to be stuck staring at it.
Jihan ordered, "Gardevoir! Use PSYCHIC!"
The Gardevoir made an evil-like smirk, and pointed one of it's arms at Articuno. The Articuno didn't move, until it suddenly got hit back, asthough it was puched by an invisible person. It shook it's head to wear it off, and then got into focus again.
Justin yelled, "Articuno! Use ICE BEAM!" The Articuno took a deep breath, tilted his head back, and shot out a blue beam at the Gardevoir. It flew back a few feet, but still seemed okay.
Articuno desided on it's own to finish the Gardevoir with a WING ATTACK. It jumped up to the Gardevoir fast.
SMACK!
The Gardevoir was sent hard to the ground, It tried to get up, but fell back hard to the ground. Jihan ran up to it, Britteny was laughing. Justin, Gers, Tetra, cheered. Kailee wondered how in the world Justin was able to get a pokémon like that! Jihan called back her Gardevoir, and rubbed her shoulder.
She went up to Justin, "Damn, you're good! I can see now that you actually did beat Rhett on his ship!"
"Yup!" Justin said.
"Can I battle one of you?" Britteny asked.
"Sure! Mine as well make time!" Gers said.
Britteny made a giggle, an her Jolteon jumped off her shoulder. It gave a cute little growl, awaiting it's opponent. Justin listened to his earpiece, "Jolteon, level 12, male, Electric."
Gers sent out his ball, "Go! POOCHYENA!" There was a small flash, and Gers' Poochyena appeared. It also gave a small growl.
Britteny ordered, "Uhhhh... Use SHOCKWAVE!" The Jolteon made a little pause, then it's fur stiffened up. A large charge of electrical energy shot out, and headed for the little Poochyena. It was able to dodge it, however.
Gers said, "Poochyena, get it with TACKLE!" The Poochyena reered up, then struck the Jolteon with a huge ram. The Poochyena stood a little hurt, however. It must've been shocked a little.
The Jolteon got up, but the Poochyena rammed it again with a TACKLE. This finished the poor Jolteon. Like her sister, Britteny went down.
"Aww, man!" Britteny whined. "This sucks ass! I got beat so quickly!" She called back her Jolteon into it's ball. She didn't look too happy.
Jihan exclaimed, "Hey! So did I!"
Gers called back his Poochyena, and turned to his friends. They all said congrats and stuff and turned to talk to Captain Yisp. He was talking to the woman, Ayanna. So, instead, they just stood there for a second.
"So, Britteny," Tetra said. "Are you a trainer?"
"Naw," Britteny smiled. "I just like pokémon I guess. I love your Articuno!"
Justin looked at Articuno, and said, "Uhhhh... thanks."
Kailee said her first words in a while, "How'd you get it?"
Justin looked at Articuno again, and answered, "Someone gave it to me."
"Wow! Really?" Britteny smiled. That seemed to be what she loved to do. "I wish I had a friend generous enough to give me something like that!"
"Yeah," Tetra said.
"What are you kids going to do now?" Jihan asked them.
"We dunno," Gers answered. "Maybe we'll go to Golden Bar Town. We could drive there."
"Okay! I could take you!" Jihan offered. "I have a van I rarely use! You don't mind if Brit comes too? I actually wouldn't mind shopping around there! Let me go tell Rhett!"
"Whatever! Geez, you sure are a talker!" Tetra said. She whispered to Gers and Justin, "Maybe we can find someone who knows about Cipher there!"
"Good point!" Justin whispered back. He turned to his Articuno, who was looking at him eagerly. "You go, Articuno. If you need me, I'll be at Golden Bar Town, alright?" Articuno gave a 'Cuu' and flew off excitedly.
Britteny watched Articuno fly off, and asked Justin, "Do you just let him go wherever he wants?"
Justin nodded, "Yeah. He can take care of himself." Britteny smiled.
Jihan clapped her hands together, "Alright, I just told Rhett that we're leaving."
"Can I come with you guys?" Kailee asked. "I should probably leave my mum alone here."
"Alright," Gers said. "We really don't care."
"Whatever," Kailee said. "Let's go already!"
"Ummm..." Jihan said. "Alright! Let's go then! To the van!"
The kids followed Jihan down a street after saying bye to Mr. Yisp and Ayanna. They went to what seemed like Jihan's house. It was a two story, blue house with a large window on it's second story. It's garage had two vehicles inside; A red Volvo, and a red Windstar. She opened up the Windstar with an unlock button on her keysand everyone jumped in. Jihan and Kailee were in the front, Justin and Tetra were in the middle, Gers and Britteny were in the back.
Jihan turned over her seat and told them, "I have to go to City Hall for a second, alright?"
"Why?" Justin asked her.
"Well," Jihan started. "Ever since that man got killed at City Hall, people think that someone tried to kill the Mayors. They're asking for everyone to show their passports to the administrator. I still need to."
"Okay," Tetra smiled. "But let's go with her! Learn stuff!" She made one of her usual winks that everyone (except Kailee and Britteny) knew of.
"You're really taking this seriously," Kailee said to Tetra. "Aren't you?"
Tetra was about to answer, but Jihan had started the van up, making everyone quiet.
Britteny spoke however, "Isn't this odd? Well... it isn't really odd, it's just awkward that I just met you people and now my sister is driving you to Golden Bar Town! Isn't it wierd?"
"Who cares!" Gers blatently exclaimed. Britteny looked out her window quietly.
The van made a stop with Jihan asking everyone, "You all are coming in, right?"
Everyone said yes, and hopped out of the van. City Hall was a huge, three story building with pillars holding up a giant sign reading; Nia Hall. They walked through it's large front doors into the giant, open spaced room. It had a checkered floor, with tiles as big as small cars. In the middle of the room, there was crime tape. Everyone thought that the murder took place right there. They cautiously moved around the scene, towards the front desk. There was a woman there. Justin, Gers and Tetra recognized her as Shannon.
Shannon looked at the people moving up to her. "Good afternoon!" She smiled nicely. "Have you come to show your passport?"
Jihan smiled back and answered, "Yes, I have! The kids wanted to see the hall!"
Shannon looked at the kids. "Oh, yeah! I remember you! I saw you at the Dual Circle!"
"Yeah," Justin recalled. "We did!"
Jihan pulled out her small passport, and handed it to Shannon. She took it, and scanned it with some small machine. The machine started to glow green. Shannon smiled, and handed Jihan's passport back to her.
"Thanks," Jihan put it back in her purse with a slip.
Everyone heard a nearby door open, and they all looked towards it in curiosity. Out stepped four men. Justin, Gers and Tetra knew one of them as the German man Ludvik. Two others were most likely guards for the man in the middle.
The man asked Shannon, "Who are these people?"
"Oh," Shannon stood up. "This woman checked out, and these kids came for the sights!"
The teens nodded. The man straightened his tie. The teens not from Orre thought that this man must be Mayor Trent.
The Mayor said, "Shannon, dear. You know these kids?"
"A bit," Shannon admitted. "I lost a single battle to this one."
Ludvik jumped out from behindthe Mayor."These brats are troublesome! I don't like teenagers!"
"You are obviously an evil man," Tetra said.
"You guys don't like Ludvik?" Kailee asked her companions. "Me neither! He's a creep!"
Ludvik said annoyed, "Quiet! You little - ARRGGHH!" At that moment, for some reason, Ludvik had fallen backwards. One of the Mayor's guards tried to catch him, but failed.
Justin made a small gasp. He saw something that caught his full attention. There was dried blood all over the bottom of both Ludviks shoes. Justin doubted that Ludvik could have 'accidentally' stepped in a huge puddle of blood.
Justin spoke up, "Why in the hell is there blood all over your shoes, eh Ludvik?"
"What?" Jihan, Shannon and the Mayor's guards all said at once. One of the guards tried to look at Ludvik's shoe, but, as Justin, Gers and Tetra knew, Ludvik was an angry and rash character. Almost instantaneously, Ludvik pulled out a small pistol from his pocket, and shot the guard right in the head!
BANG!
Human blood shot out in every direction. The Mayor's second guard tried to pull out his gun, but Ludvik was able to shoot him in the chest before he did anything. His body fell down with a loud thunk. Kailee screamed as loud as any girl on Earth could.
The teens not from Orre started to run towards a nearby desk. Tetra pulled the completely frozen Kailee in behind a desk that Gers and Justin flipped over. They motioned Britteny to join them, but Jihan was trying to escape through the front entrance; oh so far away.
Ludvik turned suddenly, pointing his gun to Jihan, yelling, "Don't move! I'll shoot you!"
The Mayor took this opportunity to reach into one of the drawers in the front desk, but Ludvik could hear. He turned suddenly, and nailed a bullet right into the Mayor's shoulder. He fell down, right beside the frozen Shannon. She made a scream.
Gers thought that getting Ludvik to monologing would stall enough to get everyone out of there. He climbed over the desk slowly.
Ludvik took some notice, and shouted, "Vat are you doing, brat?"
Gers smirked, "So, you are with Cipher!"
Ludvik smirked back, "Yes! I am - as they say - an Admin!"
"Ah," Gers started walking around Ludvik, taking his attention off of Shannon and Jihan. "Cipher Admin Ludvik! It just folls off the toungue! But, Admins are supposed to pokémon battle their foes!"
Ludvik lowered the gun, "Yes, I suppose so. Fortunately for me, you are just a child!"
"Suuuuuuurrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I am!" Gers thought that a battle would stall plenty more than a monolog. "Alright! See if you can handle my Poochyena and Chinchou! GO!" There was a flash, and Gers' pokémon appeared. Justin and Tetra stood up to watch.
Ludvik smirked, "Fine then! Go! PIKACHU AND HOUNDOUR!"
There was a huge flash, and the pokémon that Ludvik had called appeared.
Suddenly, however, some women came into the building. Ludvik looked past Jihan and Britteny to them. He shook his head, "You stupid Peons! Vy can't you come faster! Deal with all these people and the pathetic teenagers."
The two Peons both sent out a pokémon. A Beldum, and a Yanma.
Justin and Tetra looked at each other, and sent out their pokémon. Justin sent his Feebas while Tetra sent her Shroomish. Justin took out his back of pokéblocks that the Captain made him. He tossed one at the Feebas, who caught it in it's mouth, eating it. Justin threw another, and it caught it and ate it again. Justin really wanted it to evolve.
By now Gers' battle with Ludvik was more intense. His Chinchou had taken many hit's from the Pikachu, but was successfully wekening the Houdour. Gers' Poochyena was TACKLING the Pikachu mercilessly.
Justin sent his Feebas to use WATER GUN on the Beldum. The Beldum was quite weak, for it went down in one hit, as Justin expected. He fed his Feebas another couple of the golden pokéblocks, it seemed to really like them. Tetra's Shroomish was using ABSORB on the Yanma, but it didn't do much damage. Justin' Feebas helped it out.
Justin and Tetra motioned Britteny and Jihan to join them. Britteny ran quickly, and Jihan slowly went backwards. Kailee was still frozen behind the desk, wondering whether or not to do anything. She decided to run- not away, but towards Gers and Ludvik's evenly matched battle. She went behind Ludvik. Gers saw this, but didn't say anything.
Kailee stuck out her hand towards Ludvik's gun. Slowly, oh how slowly.
YOINK!
Kailee grabbed the gun, and pointed it at Ludvik. He turned, and made an evil smirk, "You think you can use that? I bet you couldn't even reload it!"
Kailee stood still, wondering how she was gonna get rewarded when this was all over. But suddenly, Ludvik was able to steal back the gun, with a series of flexible arm movements. He pointed it at Kailee, as she stood, looking in horror.
Justin and Tetra continued to battle the Yanma. Justin didn't dare use his earpiece, for it might give his foes an opportunity to get him. He continuously tossed the pokéblocks at his Feebas, and it kept eating them.
Tetra's Shroomish missed a TACKLE on the Yanma, but the Feebas shot a jet of water at it, bringing it to the ground. The Shroomish then tried another tackle, but hit it this time.
Gers, on the other hand, was able to finish off Ludvik's pokémon while he was distracted with Kailee. He mosied up to the enemy, and tapped on his shoulder.
"Vat!" Ludvik spat.
BAM!
Gers punched Ludvik in the face as he turned. He sailed and smashed his head onto the desk. Shannon was still standing there. Gers guessed that she probably was still surprised that her boyfriend killed four people.
Ludvik got up slowly, blood poured down his face. He made an extremely angry look, then turned to Shannon. She made a small squeal. Ludvik grabbed her by her hair, and put his arm around her nack. She writhed and wiggled about as Ludvik brought her up to Gers and Kailee. He took the gun, and pointed it at Shannon's head.
He made an evil laugh, "Sorry, Shannon, dear! You kids just love to pss me off, don't you! And vat do you get for it! Another dead person!"
"No!" Kailee yelled.
BANG! BASH! SMACK!
Instead of shooting Shannon like he wanted to, Ludvik's ass was kicked by Shannon's defencive skills at full power. She kicked him, twisted his arm, pinned him down, and gave him a full elbowed body slam. He layed on the ground completely motionless. Shannon blew her hair out of her eyes.
"Wow!" Gers complimented her. "You're good! How'd you learn to do all that?"
Shannon smiled, "Oh, you'd be surprised at whatwomen like me can learn!" As Shannon said all this, Ludvik was getting up from the ground. He still had his gun, and he was pointing it at Shannon's head.
"Look out!" Kailee warned her. Shannon turned around, seeing the gun pointed right at her face.
BANG!
Ludvik's body thunked onto the ground hard. Gers, Kailee and Shannon looked forward with wonder. Mayor Trent was standing behind the desk with a gun that had been just fired. His arm was covered in blood.
"What a mean fellow!" Mayor Trent said.
Justin, Tetra, Britteny and Jihan knew nothing of what was happening until now. Everyone was sidetracked by the shot they justheard. The two female Peons saw their Admin dead on the ground, so they split, calling back their Yanma.
"Halt!" Mayor Trent commanded, but he was ignored. Justin, Tetra and Britteny went over to Ludvik's body; Jihan was fixed in place. Tetra called back her Shroomish, while Gers called back his Poochyena and Chinchou. Justin peered into his back of pokéblocks; only one was left.
He looked at his Feebas; it loooked a little weary from the battle. It looked ready enough for him. He fed it the last block via hands, and stepped back. Everyone else was looking at Mayor Trent.
"You kids are so brave! And Shannon! You're tough!" Mayor Trent told them.
"Thank you sir!"
"You know!" The Mayor started. "I oughta-" The Mayor stopped talking after he saw something.
Everyone looked behind them, seeing in awe what was happening.
It seems that Captain Yisp had made just enough pokéblocks for Justin's Feebas. It started to shimmer, and glow! It's light radiated all over the room, and all the peoples looked... that's all they could do.
The form of the Feebas dissapeared into white, shapeless form. It churned around a bit, before morphing up into a larger, greater form. The whiteness faded into it's proper colors.
Justin clapped his hands together excitedly. Kailee said in awe, "How gorgious!"
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