[Cues: jrd. - Beachy]

The Outsider's Insurrection

Indigo Iliad

Chapter 52: May the Gringey Be With You!

Translated Pokémon Speech

Pokédex Entries/Computerized Voices/Flashbacks

Reference to an Accessory in the Games

-o-

(Kumquat City, Hina Island | May 4th | 5:30p.m.)

"The city looks so pretty from the sky." Sissi said as they were flying over the city.

"It's lovely, Sissi. Even better that you're at my side." Joe said as Jian rolled her eyes.

Jian descended to show them more of the city as they got a better look at the grand Kumquat Hotel. Joe had wind blowing them his hair as he had Jian go further down to find a spot to land. Which Joe decided flying right into the hotel lobby was a good idea. It certainly gave the reception a fright to see Jian flap its razor-sharp wings.

"Sorry about that, I just wanted to ask to for directions to the nearest hot springs. And rates for staying here." Joe asked. "Just for a night."

"Joe, you don't have to put us in a luxury hotel." Sissi remarked. "Nice and all, but we're not even staying on the island for too long."

"I wanted to spoil you a bit." Joe admitted as they got off.

She sweetly assured him that it was all right and unneeded.

"There's an exhibition match in the hotel." The receptionist explained. "To celebrate May the Fourth be With You. Some Star Tre…"

"Star Wars, you rube!" Joe snapped.

The receptionist rolled her eyes.

"Look some actor from the movies is there with the leader hosting a match. Beat them, you get a one-night stay at the hotel with a buffet and autograph. Beat them under five minutes gets you a big prize pack."

"Who's the actor?!" Joe asked.

"Carrie Fisher, why?"

The receptionist only saw what once Joe's outline was as he was off to find it. This was not about just getting the room for the night but meeting a legend. Joe and Rusty both had an affinity for Star Wars, but it was something they kept hidden from others mostly to give people less things to pick on them for. Jian had awkwardly chase after her trainer with Sissi on her back.

"Never pegged him for Star Wars." Sissi thought.

They found the arena will set up as Joe clawed this way to the front saying he was here for the challenge. It would be there, he met Carrie and the woman who was the leader of the city. The redheaded mother hen of the city, Luana Ruriko. The arena was right out on the beach.

[Cues: Kevin MacLeod - Awesome Call]

"You're a new face. Welcome to Hina Island, and you caught us at the tail end of the promotion for my hotel. No one's beaten me and my darling son, Travis." Luana said heartily as Travis had a confident grin.

"Joe Rogers, I'm from Kanto, and I've come to give you a pounding." Joe said confidently.

"Oh my." Carrie said bashfully as Joe sputtered.

"Treat a woman to dinner, first." Luana said laughing it off as Travis glared at him.

"I didn't mean it like that! I'm happily in a relationship…I don't think she be down for a thre-Damn it, I dug deeper." Joe said as Sissi was giggling. "Let's just fight now."

"This exhibition match is between the Kumquat City Gym Leader, Luana Ruriko and Travis Ruriko against the challenger Joe Rogers…" Carrie said as Sissi intervened. "Challengers, Miss Fisher. I'm taking part. What girlfriend would I be if I didn't help you?"

"Well isn't that just cute. The rules for the double battle limit you to one Pokémon and the first one to faint on either side, leaves the other side as the winner. Now, begin!" Carrie said waving the flag.

[Cues: Mario Hoops 3 on 3 Music - Koopa Beach / Sunset Beach [CD]]

"Alec, you're up!" Luana said sending out her Alakazam.

"Pipsy, let's go." Travis said as the lady Pikachu on his shoulder leapt into the ring.

"Cherry, raise your hips to the beat!" Sissi said sending out her Jynx.

"Sahara, time to bring the house down!" Joe said outing Sahara.

The draconic beast of a Dark-type gave out a roar wowing the crowd.

"You don't see that shit in Star Wars." Carrie said surprised. "Most of the Pokémon were all pretty small and cute….welp, this one's huge."

"You! So, you've put me out to fight at last! About time I crush something!" Sahara bellowed.

"A pleasure to be working with you." Cherry said politely. "Cherry."

"Sahara. Don't get in the way." Sahara said tersely.

"Bigger they are, hard they fall." Pipsy squeaked.

"Sissi, I need Cherry to get on Sahara's back. Just do it." Joe said in a near whisper.

"If you say so." Sissi said before calling for Cherry to get on Sahara's back.

"What are you planning?" Sahara snarled.

"The simple solution, my dear Sahara. Use Earthquake!" Joe said as Sahara smirked.

"No foreplay? My kind of man!" Sahara said glowing orange before stomping on the ground.

Pipsy? She went down easy. Travis had gotten lucky considering he lived in an area where most trainers would have water or flying types. Alec? Was injured but still standing.

[Music Ends]

"Pipsy's down…so the winner is Joe and Sissi. And with beating them in a less than five minutes, you get the special grand prize!" Carrie said with a wry grin. "You've got a hell of a Pokémon, Mr. Rogers."

"I couldn't be prouder." Joe said as Sahara had a small little smile.

"I'm sorry, Mom. I…" Travis said taking up Pipsy.

"It's all right, dear. You got caught off-guard. It will happen." Luana said comforting him. "I didn't expect someone to waltz in with that."

"Next time, I want a longer fight." Sahara said before Joe returned her.

Cherry was returned as the crowd cheered. It would be a little while later, during the buffet, that Joe was presented with the prize pack. The autographed photo of Leia, box set of the original trilogy, a replica of the Slave Leia outfit, and a special photo.

"You're…uh topless in this picture." Joe stammered.

"Oh that? Funny story, you see when I was shooting the film back then, the crew were fighting over who got to help me out of that bikini. So, I just photocopied pictures of my girls and gave them out. But that picture is the one I let an intern take. A bit of a special Star Wars merch no one else has. I hedged it as a bet because I thought no one could beat Luana in less than five minutes." Carrie mused. "Well, I was wrong. Enjoy it."

Joe was going to treasure that photo especially, but when Sissi offered to try out the replica…the photo was hastily forgotten about.

"Well, he's showing to be a keeper for her." Luana thought eyeing them.

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(Gringey City, Hina Island | May 4th | 7:30p.m.)

[Cues: Donkey Kong Country OST – Fear Factory]

"Ugh, what a shithole!" Misty said as they walked into the city.

The place was a bustling mess of factories, poorly kept apartment buildings, liquor stores, and all the ingredients needed to make the set of a Captain Planet episode. Did Crimson feel old for thinking about that? He had mixed feelings about that. He and Misty could only glare at Ash, who's bright idea it was to come.

"I didn't think it would be that bad." Ash said as they walked the empty streets.

"Ash, Gringey City is literally on the top 20 for most polluted places in the world." Dex Bulma rattled off. "The water's so toxic…"

Crimson, Ash, and Misty looked out at the polluted water seeing a few Pokémon out on the water. Crimson had no plans to capture any as he already had the trustiest Poison-type, plus there was Sabrina to deal with next. It was then they noticed that the streets were strangely empty…with no people out. Crimson sensed a weakening power from Pikachu and saw him looking rather faint.

"Pikachu!" Ash said as the mouse tumbled off his shoulder.

"Toxic air plus the static electricity this place is giving off is overloading him." Dex Bulma remarked. "He'll need rest and time to offload that power."

Ash gently held him as his cheeks sparked with electricity to which Ash had to use the rubber gloves to hold him. Crimson just put on the facemask while going the same for Misty, Ash, and Pikachu.

"Bulma, please tell me you can locate the center." Crimson asked.

"I have a bit of an issue. Interfere it seems…something is mucking with the internet around here. Seems like whatever it is doesn't want anyone to connect with the outside world. I can look into it, but you're on your own for seeking out the center." Dex Bulma said before going back on standby.

"Well, guess we're touring the city." Ash said trying to cheer them up.

[Cues: FFVI OST – Magitek Research Facility]

He got glares from Crimson and Misty which lightened up a tired sigh. The city itself was desolate with smoke clogging the night sky. They noticed a few Ratatta scurrying about in the dark, but Crimson and Misty took note of what they were saying. A lesson Misty was picking up from Crimson was listening to the Pokémon around you clued you in. Being that Pokémon would have no idea that the humans understanding them, it was a matter of feigning ignorance.

"Maybe I should ask if Crimson should teach me a bit more about ninjutsu." Misty thought.

"So, hordes of wild Grimer and other poison Pokémon have been attacking Pokémon and people for the past week." Crimson thought icily. "And it looks like we got compa…is that freaking Gi?!"

[Cues: Pokémon Anime OST – Raid]

No doubt from seeing her, that was Gi form Captain Planet only dressed up as a Pokémon Ranger. Crimson noticed the outfit was the ORAS version only in pink and black. At the moment, she was running from a horde of Grimer. She was not alone either as an injured Poliwrath running along…or struggling to. Crimson sprang into action, shoving sunglasses on Misty and Ash's face before running ahead.

"Kimiko! Get out here!" Crimson said sending out Kimiko. "Carry the chick in pink and the Poliwrath to safety!"

"I'm on it!" Kimiko roared before flying after them.

Poliwrath hurled Gi on Kimiko's back before letting himself to be held by Kimiko to be flown up leaving the hoard of the Grimer confused.

"Must get girl."

Their sentences were listless and simplistic…something was off-putting about the way they spoke. Crimson would have put more thought, but he needed to get everyone to safety.

"Solar Flare!" Crimson said creating the bright flash of light blinding the Grimer.

"Crimson, duck!" Ash said as a Muk leapt out to Body Slam the swordsman. "Go, Dusk Ball!"

The ball slapped the Muk capturing it and Crimson was shocked Ash did not just use a regular one. The ball waggled, but it clicked and vanished heading off to his PC.

[Music Ends]

"Thanks, Ash. Nice throw." Crimson said earnestly as he was tossed back the glasses.

Kimiko came down with Gi and the Poliwrath.

"Thank you so much for the save." Gi said panting before returning Poliwrath. "We got ambushed."

"Yeah, you can tell us all about it after we find a center." Crimson said as Gi had to scoot back for him to get on.

Ash, in turn, sent out his Pidgeot to fly him and Misty away from the dazed Grimer. Of course, flying was another issue. They did not want to fly too high to get caught in the smoke from the smokestacks or too low to hit something.

"Bulma, tell me you have something?!" Crimson asked.

"Still working on figuring out what's interfering with the connectivity. But I did get to the local Ethernet and get a map of the town. Center's up ahead…you can't miss it." Dex Bulma said.

"You have a device that talks to you with the voice of Bulma from Dragon Ball Z? A man of taste." Gi snarked.

Crimson rolled his eyes playfully as they flew on to find the center.

"Ok, who designed the centers? Did they get the guy from The Fountainhead to design it?" Crimson asked himself as they landed.

Inside, the Nurse Joy was in the midst of some 'private time'. She honestly despised being stationed in Gringey for both petty and non-petty reasons. The town was growing into a toxic cesspit due to the lack of care for the environment and a rush to industrialize with a plan for the future. Joy used to love going to the beach in this city, but she could no longer than go near the water. Gringey was the Muk of Hina Island, anyone with a brain kept away. Plus, with the recent gang of Poison-types attacking people at night, it made it bad to go out at night. On the pettier side, she used to be able to get a partner for the night, but now…not so much. No, her pocket pleaser would be her company…and the batteries were also out of juice. Add the workload of the factory worker's Pokémon and the mayor strangling her pay…making a recipe for a cranky Nurse Joy. She got to the point where she was seriously considering resigning and bringing for a transfer to anywhere else.

"Oh…yeah, I'm almost…" Nurse Joy moaned out only for the help bell to ring. "….Oh come on!"

And then the battery died leaving Nurse Joy to angrily throw the thing aside before resigning into a bit of misery. She looked at the time seeing it was after ten and she groaned with annoyance. She thought she could actually have the alone time to herself after doing her job. Bad enough, there was an outbreak of flu. She hoped it was not some dumbass with a problem a potion can fix. She did not bother getting dressed in the uniform instead getting on her fluffy pink bathrobe, fuzzy Blissey sandals, and her nurse hat. She came out with a clear sour look on her face.

"Do you have any idea what ti…" Nurse Joy said before her anger deflated to see a police badge in her face.

"I'm sorry for the intrusion, but I could use your medical help." Gi said haggardly.

"So, you're a member of the International Police Force. Had a feeling the black meant something." Crimson remarked.

"Allow me to properly introduce myself. Gi Kishiko, the Aquatic Ace of the Guardian Rangers." Gi said dramatically.

"The Guardian Rangers?" Ash asked.

"A super-secret group of Pokémon Rangers who deal with the poachers and eco-terrorists that regular police cannot handle." Gi touted. "But you didn't hear that from me."

Then she winced in pain again looking a bit sick and Crimson should sense her own energy was fighting poison. Nurse Joy sighed in annoyance taking Gi and her Pokémon inside for treatment.

"It's a miracle you came when I was still up." Nurse Joy said as Gi was in a hospital bed in scrubs. "I can treat the poison in your system, and you Pokémon will be right as rain tomorrow."

"Damn, then we may be in trouble. Normally, I shouldn't spill details…but…wait, you…you're the leader of the Black Dragons." Gi said recognizing Crimson.

"What? Do the International Police have me on their shitlist?" Crimson asked as Misty and Ash looked at him in concern.

"Not exactly. I can't exactly tell you everything, but…they and many others have you in their sights. Mostly because of your name being thrown around in the criminal underworld." Gi said as Crimson was able to fill the blanks.

He knew he had to ask Neo and Torchwick about this, but he pushed that aside to ask about the trouble.

"About that, I was on a solo mission. I had discovered that some of the factories are a front for a pair of criminals. Verminous Skumm and Dr. Barbara Blight. They're using the factories to produce synthesized Night Howler to sell on the market while polluting this place further. They even invented something that can mind-control pure Poison-type Pokémon…I was able to discover that...but I was ambushed by those Grimer and Muk." Gi explained.

"That explains it! Their device must be partly interfering with the Wi-Fi, or they're dampening it. Either way, I think I can trace the source…and got it." Dex Bulma said only for the power to go out.

"Didn't you have the Officer Jenny helping you?" Nurse Joy asked.

"About that…she's been blackmailed to turn a blind eye and keep her mouth shut. She wouldn't tell me what they had on her." Gi said worriedly. "That's why I was called in by her."

"Well then, I'm going to deal with this mess. For one, I have a real hate for dickheads like them. Secondly, pretty sure Team Rocket is paying them for that crap. So, I'll gladly deal with them." Crimson remarked.

"Wait, you just need to get the blackmail. I have agents surrounding the city, but they're not moving until Jenny gives the signal." Gi explained.

After learning who had the blackmail, Crimson immediately went to change into his Black Dragon gear. Ash had wanted to come and help but had to stay to help Nurse Joy and his Pikachu. Gi had vowed to come despite Joy's warnings. Thus, Crimson and Misty were on the hunt speeding on his bike through the streets. Gi was back on Kimiko and fully dressed.

They both arrived at the police kiosk and a brief talk with Jenny put them in the right direction. Jenny would not tell them what the pair of criminals, but Arcanine inadvertently let Crimson and Misty realize exactly why. As the three walked on foot with Crimson returning his bike to a capsule and Kimiko to her ball, Misty had a bit of worried look.

"So, how does she handle the knotting…" Misty said as she realized she just unintentionally clue Gi in. "I…"

"Forget what Misty said, we don't know who's listening." Crimson said covering for her.

Crimson did not have too much of a hard time sensing Skumm…has energy was both foul and bigger than the average man. This worried him as he wondered if Skumm was a mutant like in the show, did he have weapons on him, or any Pokémon. He was flying partly blind into this, but he would get through it. Gi had shown them the area she was ambushed in with them all from a distance. There at the apartment were the targets. Skumm had looked ratlike, but not as mutated much to Crimson's surprise. Blight looked ripped right off the show.

"I was in the middle of watching something on television." Skumm snarled.

"I needed the power off for me to leave under the cover of darkness. That Pokefucker needs to think I'm still in this cesspit with the blackmail." Dr. Blight said with her arms crossed. "Speaking of which, where is it?"

"Why only have one copy?" Skumm said showing the flash drive.

"Simple, copies of the blackmail would lead to disaster. We only need one copy anyway; all these bitches look the same!" Dr. Blight snapped. "And make sure, you don't break that machine I put in your disgusting apartment. Fine tuning it to control those disgusting poison Pokémon took a lot of time."

Dr. Blight moved for her car as Skumm asked where she was off too.

"I have a client to deal with outside this city, and she's agreed to test out of my experiments. She needs it to help clearing the waters for a theme park and resort. Just need to kill off a flock of Tentacool and burn a coral reef down." Dr. Blight said starting her car up. "So, don't screw with this up!"

Gi was seriously considering going after Blight, but she knew that getting the blackmail was more pressing. Crimson exactly knew who Blight's client was and was glad that Rusty stayed behind in Porta Vista.

"Wait, how's the machine running without power?" Skumm asked.

"Simple, you ignorant fool. A simple backup battery. It's not secure, but I doubt we're going to get hac-WHAT THE HELL?!" Dr. Blight said as the power came back on.

"Had she bothered to secure her system; I wouldn't have able to disable the battery." Dex Bulma said. "I also got the location of where the device is. It's in one of the factories."

"Ok, go deal with the device. I'll deal with Skumm!" Gi said readying herself.

Blight had taken off speeding past the heroes missing them as Gi took off after Skumm. Crimson and Misty headed for the factory.

"I don't know if Blight will be heading for the control unit for the machine or not. I'm trying to steal as much data as I can." Dex Bulma said as Crimson and Misty were back on the bike.

"Good excuse to hit the nitrous then!" Crimson said flipping it on as they went faster.

They arrived at the factory and they entered to find confused Pokémon wanting answers to why they were here. Crimson and Misty were to explain everything and even get shock collars off several of them.

"There's others. I remember that blonde woman having Pokémon in a fish task in the back office. You should bust it out." A Grimer said woozily reorienting herself.

"Thanks." Crimson said as they were interrupted by Blight.

"What is this?! Why aren't you lazy creatures working?" Dr. Blight said. "And what's this? Intruders! Seize them!"

"Well. Are you going to listen to this bitch?" Crimson asked they all turned to angrily face Blight. "From the look on your face, I'm going to assume either you don't have Pokémon or any Pokémon is going to be useless. From the fact you look like animal abuser, I'm guessing the first one."

The Pokémon all spat poison attacks at her while chasing the fleeing scientist. Crimson and Misty went up to the back office and Crimson kicked the door open. Misty found the Pokémon in question in the tank.

A brown aquatic Pokémon that resembles a common sea dragon. It has a purple face and neck, red eyes rimmed with black, a tubular, upturned snout, a leaf-like pectoral fin on either side of its head, and a large, roundish lump on top of its head. A light blue, round growth is attached to the back of its head by a thin brown stem. Its back has a slight hunch with a blunt spike. On either side of its body is a rounded, light blue fin and it has a striated, purple belly. Its tail is composed of three leaf-like fins.

A tiny little thing that looked like it wanted to die. It looked up weakly at Misty and Crimson who had looked of concern.

"Crimson, can you tell me what Pokémon this one is?" Misty asked.

Crimson hastily tore out plugs as Dex Bulma answered Misty's request.

"Skrelp, the Mock Kelp Pokémon, this Pokémon vanishes into seaweed and remains perfectly still to avoid attacks from large Pokémon. Rotten seaweed is its main food source. They spray liquid poison on its unaware foes before finishing it off. They store power for evolution. While Kalos is its region of origins, clusters of them have been seen in Hoenn and Alola. This male one is at Level 35 with a Timid nature, Poison Touch as his ability, and knows: Acid, Bubble, Poison Tail, and Camouflage."

"Hey, little guy. Where's the last time you ate something?" Misty said trying to comfort it seeing the state of the tank.

"Food? I don't know…last week." Skrelp said Misty tore off the lid yanking it out. "Whoa!"

Immediately, she got it food. While it was not seaweed, Skrelp was just happy to be fed food and comforted. Crimson finished and immediately smashed the machine into pieces before lighting it on fire.

"We need to jet and meet up with Gi. Secure the blackmail and at least get one prick arrested." Crimson said firmly. "And is he feeling better?"

"A little, but the poor guy needs TLC. Is it a water Pokémon, right?" Misty asked.

"Yeah, a Poison/Water type, but…" Misty said as caught it with a Dive Ball. "Never mind."

He could always tell Misty later. As they left, Misty was on her phone with her sisters letting them about on Skrelp's situation. She hung up relived Skrelp was going to be fine, but Crimson's phone rang to which he answered.

"Ash? What's going on? What? Hostage situation? Look, we're on our way, try to stall for time!" Crimson said before hanging up. "Misty, we got an issue. Skumm's holding Nurse Joy hostage…seems Gi chased him all over."

-oxo-

At the Pokémon Center, Ash had gone in one of the rooms before Skumm had come in taking Nurse Joy hostage with his team of Raticate. Gi did not want to risk Nurse Joy being harming putting things at the stalemate. Skumm had threatened to kill Joy if Gi sent out any Pokémon or moved even having a gun to Joy's head. Ash decided to take a page from Crimson's book. Ash had crept over to get Pikachu and had an idea. If Pikachu was overloaded, why let it offload?

"Pikachu, I know you're not well, but I need you offload the biggest Thunderbolt you can give." Ash said in a whisper.

"You got it, Ash." Pikachu said with a nod.

"Let the nurse go, Skumm. You don't have to add attempted murder to your rap sheet!" Gi said.

"You're such a bleeding heart, but you have no brains. I have leverage, and I have a demand to get the hell out of this city before Joy here…"

"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!" Ash said coming out as Pikachu electrocuted Skumm. "Everyone else! Defend the Pokémon!"

Clefable, Pidgeot, Charmleon, Wartortle, and Ivysaur all came out and took on the Raticate. Gi took the chance to send out Quagsire as Ash hopped on the counter double kicking Skumm back letting Quagsire trip him to fall on his back with his head hitting the ground. Before Skumm could attempt to get up, Crimson's foot came down on his skull knocking him out as Ash's Pokémon defeated the last of the Raticate. Pikachu was even feeling better get all that electricity out of his system.

Gi took up the blackmail and turned to Crimson, Misty, and Ash.

"Thank you three for your assistance. On behalf on the International Police, you have our gratitude. A shame that Dr. Blight got away." Gi remarked. "Either way, you three should get going. Agents will be swarming the place…you got five minutes to clear out. That's all the time I can give you."

"I'm mapping out a route, but we need to get in the air now." Dex Bulma said as Ash returned all his Pokémon except Pidgeot.

Kimiko was sent out as they all took off bidding goodbye to Gi and Joy.

"Damn it, why did you have to send them away? I could have gotten laid tonight." Nurse Joy bemoned glumly. "Those two looked so cute…better than the usual people who come here!"

-o-

(Kumquat City, Hina Island | May 4th | 11:30p.m.)

Crimson, Misty, and Ash landed in the hotel lobby, all tired and wanting a hot bath. Gringey City air was putrid, and Misty had a feeling she may have to burn her jacket.

"I'd like two rooms just for the night." Crimson said as Joe came out laughing it up with Carrie and Sissi. "Wait, is that Princess Leia?!"

"The one and only." Carrie said mirthfully.

While Crimson was not the hugest Star Wars fan, he could not say it was a pleasure to see her alive and well. It reminded that he had to buy Lucasflims before Disney could.

"Jeez, what happened to you guys? You smell like death." Sissi said as Misty sighed.

"Ash here decided it was a good idea to go to Gringey City." Misty said as Ash looked sheepishly.

"That city. Why would you even go there? There's an outbreak down there." The receptionist said concerned.

"Ok, can you all stop dunking on Ash for this?" Ash's Pidgeot asked.

"To be fair, it was a stupid idea." Kimiko said shaking her head.

Crimson got the room keys, tossed Ash his key, before going to find the nearest laundry. Thankfully, the hotel had one. With his and Misty's clothes in the wash, he and Misty sat in their hotel room in robes. Kimiko had taken a bath before she was returned to her ball.

"Well, that's the last time I'll ever agree to go anywhere with Ash. Though, I guess I was a bit hard on hi. Arecus knows that I've walked into worse." Crimson remarked.

"I know, but at least you backed Ash up." Misty said. "Plus, from what he said, he did take one out of your playbook."

"At least, he's showing promise with the training I had given." Crimson said with a sigh. "Shit part is I think I have an idea of who Blight's going to."

Crimson's phone rang and he looked down at it.

"I need to take this one." Crimson said going out on the balcony before answering, "Moshi moshi."

"Crimson, mind explaining why the hell one of my contacts saw you with the International Police? The Guardian Rangers." Neo asked before Crimson had to explain. "Oh well that's pretty bad."

"You know them?" He asked.

"They were a part of a company…a criminal one that did anything illegal for profit. They were warring with IPs for years. One went straight siding with the IPs, one died from a heart attack, and the third one was killed by Balalaika herself. Let's just he was the reason that Roanapour is a smoking crater." Neo remarked. "But Blight, she's insane. I'd call her an omnicidial maniac in the making."

"Well, I got good news. I know where she's heading and who her next client is. She'll be in Porta Vista, and I'm heading back there tomorrow." Crimson said sternly. "Listen, I could use your help."

"You got it. World's better off with her dead." Neo said darkly before he hung up.

He thought about asking her about what the police knew about him, but he decided against it for now. He was in need for some sleep. He went back inside to find Misty having shed the robe.

"Got enough energy for a quick one?" Misty asked.

"You're in the mood?" Crimson asked as she took off his robe.

"Good way to get some frustration out." Misty said with a snicker.

Of course, Crimson was not the only one. Joe sat on the bed with a big dopey grin on his face as Sissi sat on his lap in the Slave Leia bikini.

"So…still thinking of that picture?" Sissi asked.

"Hmm…not at the moment. I got the real thing right in front of me." Joe said pulling her in for a kiss.

(A/N: Props to you Carrie, you did good and you can rest in peace. The story about the photocopies about her 'girls' is actually a true, though the part I added about the intern was an embellishment. As for the idea of throwing in Captain Planet, let's just I have a bit of a fondness. I still think the show is…well…really poorly written in most ideas, but there's potential. I won't be using all of it though. I could return to explaining things in the future. For now, we end this season!)