Chapter 32: confrontation time

~flash back~

Flannery:

We arrived in Lilycove City where the meeting between Team Magma and Team Aqua is to take place. Brawly was still as chill as he could be and we walked deeper into town, in search for the meeting place. I asked "where do you think this meeting would take place?" we both pondered for a moment before Brawly replied "wouldn't have the slightest idea, as big as this city is, there are several places they could meet up and appear normal among the crowd" he was right, even wearing that uniform for both of the organizations, no one would bat an eye at people just being there in the most public of places. Whether that be the contest hall, shopping building with several floors or even like how we are just standing in the middle of the city. "Brawly asked "why don't you take the contest hall while I take a look at the beaches?" I had the feeling that he just wanted to go surfing and I couldn't help but to facepalm, though his idea to split up was concerning but made sense. "I think that I should go to the beach, and you go to the shopping building. Once we scout the area's we meet up in the middle of the city" he seemed disappointed, which confirmed that he wanted to surf and relax for a while. It was typical of Brawly to spend most of his time like that and he headed up the stairs to the shopping building.

I left to go to the beach and saw the people sunbathing, even some kids playing in the sand, whether it was digging holes, tunnels or building sandcastles. The beach was nice, it was sunny, warm and the people seemed to be having fun both in and out of the water. The sea spread out over the horizon and was nice to see people surfing the waves that would roll in. unfortunately, there was no sighting of either Team Magma or Team Aqua admins anywhere I looked. I continued to wrack my brain, where would they most likely end up meeting? Team Aqua would have the advantage, being near water and their pokemon are all water types, not to mention they'd be in public so they wouldn't be able to go into a full on fight without alerting us and everyone else in the city to their location.

Continuing my search, fruitless as it was getting, and I felt like the search wasn't going to be completed. As I was about to give up on my search, a boat pulled into the beach and a big, muscular guy stepped out. Oddly he wasn't wearing a shirt but was wearing blue trousers that appeared torn at the top and blue gloves that were torn around the wrist. He was accompanied by a woman with long brunette hair, a blue tank to, her belly was exposed and she had blue trousers on too. I just noticed they had a circle pattern as part of their outfits design, she also had blue streeks in her hair too. They had in some way, the guy had it painted on his chest while the woman had it as part of her outfit in the same place, the symbol for Team Aqua on them. They walked up the beach and to the lighthouse, seemingly impatiently as they stood there. I followed and messaged Brawly to come back to the lighthouse and back me up.

I hide by the rocks next to the platform where the lighthouse was on and it wasn't too long before the admins for Team Magma walked to them with their pokemon pulling this huge looking crate. I was curious what was inside and they started talking. With how far away I was and the crashing waves next to me, I couldn't hear what they were saying. Shortly after, a girl with long brunette hair walked to them, wearing similar Team Magma attire and had surprisingly bright green eyes. I assume the girl was a member of Team Magma and I moved closer to hear them better. Courtney argued "you're late, Madeline, we expected you to be here to help with the transportation of the materials for negotiations" she simply nodded and, I assume Tabitha asked Team Aqua "we've got what you need and you've got what we need, is it so wrong that both our goals can be met when the collaboration?" they stood there, seemingly unimpressed.

The woman in blue stepped forward "we seem to have the upper hand in this deal since we have the computer work that you need to traverse the seas, which is our goal. Me and Matt here will be getting the better end of this deal, providing that we agree to even work with you" she turned to her comrade, Matt. I was confused, the Matt we knew looked different.

"Agreed, Shelly" Matt spoke in a deep voice, Shelly? Even she was different from the Shelly we knew, its like the admins we're use to wasn't the same people. I felt more confident thinking they were the same admins as they were years ago, but they're new but with the same leaders. Brawly appeared next to me and I caught him up with what was happening. A Sharpedo made splashing noises in the waves next to us, it startled us and Shelly laughed saying "looks like you've been followed and you need to deal with them. We both ran up and cornered all five of them. I didn't know what to say and Brawly too charge claiming "you five are under arrest by the word of the pokemon association, please come along quietly and without resisting" he sounded so commanding and my worry only grew when all five of them, didn't seem so impressed. Matt and Tabitha stepped forward as Shelly asked "and if we refuse, do you intend to battle us all?" we didn't have much of a choice. I called out my Magcargo and Brawly called out his Machoke as we prepared for the double battle ahead.