Chapter 30: Nei joins the infiltration
Josh:
During breakfast, I updated Nei on the events that transpired between our last contact, going into as much detail as I know she needed to know. This ranged from the strange machine that soaked up radiation to the battle events involving the battle between the gym leaders and Team Magma. She along with the Glaceon, Sylveon and lake spirits listened intently, I could tell they were making sure to commit to memory the important pieces of information. She asked "since Lace is in position to feed out information, have you or Tank figured out where Team Aqua's base of operations are?" it was a good question but I answered "sadly Tank is the one whose in contact with Lace, so as much as I want to know, I don't and can't pass on that information to you"
She seemed perplexed and looked to her pokenav, I was confused when she did this and asked "what you looking at?" she answered "Team Magma you say was over here, right?" she showed me a map of Hoen and pointed to the mountain. I nodded confirming the location to be magma's base. She continued "so, since Magma is near a mountain, resembling their name, then it stands to reason that Team Aqua would place their base of operations near water. According to the map of Hoen, there's several places that have a direct connection to the sea. Since they've appeared on the mainland, that narrows it to Dewford Town, Slateport City and Lilycove City. But with Team Magma in Mount Chimney, it's possible that they'd be in a place that's a source of water like Mount Pyre" she paused and thought for a second. She asked "you said the talk between the teams were to be in Lilycove City, right?" I nodded, confirming the claim and watched as her mind went to work on the possible location of Team Aqua's base. What she said made sense and looking for their base might have been easier than the gym leaders were led to believe. She smiled to me and said "I'll be looking down to Lilycove City, since their meeting was set for then, I'll confirm if that's the area" I asked "why not talk to Tank and ask Lace to tell you where to meet her?" she facepalmed, she agreed that would be better and waited for Tank to return from his training.
Tank and Winona arrived some time later, after breakfast and some catching up. Tank said "well, the medical waste appears just when we needed her like a week ago" he was sarcastic in tone and she responded with an equally sarcastically "well and the meat head from the mountains has graced us with his presence. How did they lure you down here? With the promise of free food" Winona was shocked and before she could try and quell their sarcastic arguing, they both burst into laughing. Winona was deeply confused and Tank sat down next to Nei, Umbreon and Espeon followed closely behind. Tank asked "im guessing travel to Hoen went as well as to be expected, Josh was saying you're challenge was going well, did it?" she nodded and presented her badges and behind her was Raboot. He asked "whose this?" she answered "Raboot, they assigned him to be as I entered the Galar region and said I had to take one of the starters with me. I couldn't pick so Scorbunny, the previous form, decided to follow despite being super shy. He evolved as I was beating one gym leader after another and just finished yesterday" he nodded and once the catch up was done, he moved thing along.
"Nei, you know that Lace infiltrated Team Aqua, right?" she nodded as he continued "I'll message Lace and she'll inform where to meet you and from there, she'll help you infiltrate the base. From there you and her need to gather as much information as possible, while that's going on, me and Josh need to train more so we're more than a match for the leaders of both teams. When the fighting gets into it, you and Lace will go after Team Aqua while me and Josh go after Team Magma" she continued to nod, agreeing to the plan and understanding why. This was because both sets of people would have had direct contact with the team the plan called for. Me and Tank had seem more of Team Magma and thus know their weaknesses more, the filtration will give her and Lace the same chance to learn Team Aqua's weakness and fight them better. Tank went on to message Lace and awaited the response, this wasn't a sure thing because she was already infiltrated and needs to keep up appearances. Winona spent the time talking to Nei, she seemed to view Nei as a more rational person and much calmer than Tank yet both equally as good when it came to ways of thinking. Though Winona hasn't seen her battle, she got that feeling and not just from the uniform, that Nei knew what she was going.
Tank stood up and said "Nei, your location is set" she walked over and nodded as the lake spirits looked to. She looked to them and asked "we need to get down there as soon as possible. Think you can teleport us down there?" the lake spirits nodded, they seemed happy to be part of the adventure. Before she teleported away Tank wished her luck and nodded as they disappeared. Tank told Winona "This doesn't leave this room, as a medic she is the best and just as good as a trainer. If Lace didn't go through what she did and if Nei wasn't so passive, both would be on the level on an elite four member" I agreed, I knew they both had both skill and potential to make it that far. Winona was sceptical about this but went along with it, assuming our participation in this battle was conditional to them joining. With Tanks training done, I checked my pokedex and saw his pokemon were above Winona's, around level 80. We were ready to go to Lilycove City and see what happened to the gym leaders there, Brawly and Flannery.
Jolteon – O.O we just met again, don't leave so soon
Leafeon – she has work to do ^-^ infiltrating is hard
Jolteon – but O~O friends
Leafeon – I know but lets keep reading and find out what happens to our friends ^-^
Jolteon – e~e you know I had that suspense
