Chapter 11: Wes and Rui to the rescue…NOT!

"Oh. So you graduated?" asked Wes. Rui nodded eagerly. "Ok. Fine. Let me get my trusted pals first," Wes continued, calling for Espeon and Umbreon.

"Oh, so you caught them? It must take such bravery and expertise to catch such powerful pokemon. I had chosen the perfect person to help me in this rescue mission!" cried Rui, impressed.

Wes blushed and sweatdropped. He did not really catch them. Just stole them. But Rui did not need to know that.

"Ooh, they aren't in pokeballs? They must trust you a lot, so much that they don't need pokeballs…" mused Rui.

Wes turned into a deeper shade of pink. He did not put them in pokeballs not because he was trusted a lot, but because he had absolutely no idea where to get them. Again he lied and said, "Yeah…Yeah…"enjoying seeing Rui getting impressed by him.

"Oh, and since you are such a trustable pokemon owner, and also because you are an Expert at snagging, I believe you have the right to this snag machine I stole while on another mission," Rui smiled. "It might help you in future."

Wes took the snag machine, feeling guiltier and guiltier every second. He had only passed the test to get the rank "Expert" in snagging by copying the exact same moves from the friend next to him. However, he had forgotten everything over the past two years.

"Ok! First stop, Ice Kacang shop!" cried Wes as they got into his speeder.

"Huh? Why?" asked the puzzled Rui.

"You will see! I will succeed in my mission!" smiled Wes confidently.

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"Ok! Everyone put your hands over your heads and crouch down!" cried Wes, jumping straight into action as soon as he reached the Ice Kacang shop. He brandished the snag machine as if it were a gun and waved it around.

"Uhm…Snag machines aren't guns…" mumbled Rui, as everyone in the shop laughed their heads off.

Wes gave everyone the evil eye and stormed to the shop owner.

"Where's Aish Katcheng! He must be here, right? His name sounds like Ice Kacang!" Wes shouted into his face.

Rui slapped her forehead. "That's the dumbest assumption in the whole wide world…" she gave an inaudible mumble.

"Uhm…" said the shop owner, offering Wes a bowl of Ice Kacang.

"Stop pretending! You are a member of Sifer, aren't you!" Wes cried.

The poor, puzzled shop owner was at a loss. He then dug into his drawers and found a sieve.

"Here, sieve-r," said the shop owner, who had a low education level, tossing the sieve to Wes.

Wes dodged it and glared at the owner. "This is the IMH, your hideout!" he accused.

"Huh? You are H? Is that your codename or something? Well, sorry, H, but this is NOT whatever you are looking for! Get out! Scram! Shoo! Shoo!" cried the owner, chasing Wes and Rui out with a rolling pin.

Rui shrugged. The totally redfaced Wes was not happy about being humiliated in front of Rui.

"Psychic, Espeon!" cried Wes. Espeon twitched and Psychic-ed everyone…including Rui. The only two it spared were Wes and Umbreon.

Wes grabbed the sieve and gave Espeon a light hit and it retaliated with a Swift. Thank goodness Wes was still mentally fit, though. He then carried Rui out, Espeon and Umbreon at his heels.

"Dang!" exclaimed Wes as he put Rui into his speeder. He remembered what happened the last time he said "Dang!" and gagged himself with his handkerchief.

When Rui recovered, she blinked, and then glared at Wes. "Just for your information, that was a complete fiasco!" Rui glared at Wes. Wes took out his gag immediately.

"I'm so sorry Rui," Wes said, then paused. Now was the perfect time to recite Rui the poem which he had memorized. Wes blinked. "This is from the bottom of my heart," he said.

"I have always loved her,

She is standing right before me…"

After Wes recited the whole poem, he looked nervously at Rui, only to find out that she was…sleeping.

Wes glared at her, gagged himself, and started swearing into the gag. A sound, sounding uncannily like 'Dang' even through the gag, erupted out of his mouth.

Wes then checked the map for the IMH once he was done swearing. Although it was obvious and eye-catching enough to be seen, Wes' puny mind practically blacked out at the 'tons of information' on the map.

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Yep. Ok. Another chapter done! Please review! And I may not be writing for a long, long time until October. Sorry. And please review!