Police Pov
It was a slow day as I sat in my office going over complaints from the past few days. The organizations known as team aqua and magma were beginning to pop up frequently. Wherever they would go they would leave destruction in their wake along with enraging the local wildlife.
'I should make the call to the ranger hq as soon as I'm done with these files'
With a goal in mind I began to get back to my work. I would've been done a while back if it weren't for arcanine disrupting me every now and then.
In the midst of my work the phone began to ring. Thinking it was another lost and found report I picked it up.
"Hello, this is the rustbro police department how may I help you?"
"We finally got them, what should I say Glaze"
"...Tell….about...members" He could hear another less audible voice speak.
"Me and my friend are stranded in petalburg forest with team aqua. We managed to gain a disguise by stealing a couple of their uniforms. But it seems like an admin is monitoring the area and has used a number of area altering rain dances"
I went over all the information I had received. It seemed like these organizations were starting to make big moves and if an admin was present then getting them arrested would be the top most priority.
Though the safety of these kids should be the first priority.
"Are there any other members around you right now?"
"No, at the moment all the other members seem to be away. Only the admin seems to be at their base of operation"
"Hmm… for now try to distance yourself from this admin and try to get as close as you can to an exit or find a safe place to hide. We'll be arriving soon"
He placed the phone down and got up from his chair.
"Infernal we got work to do"
The arcanine gave a hearty bark and followed me out of my office.
Let's have the new recruits tag along shall we?
Glaze Pov
"They are coming for us. The inspector I spoke to said we should probably distance ourselves from the perimeter of this any ideas how to do that?"
I thought for a moment then spoke.
"We should probably find the aqua member from earlier and just volunteer to patrol along with him. If we could gain his trust we could eventually make it to the exit easily. That's the best I got"
"I can't decide on a better idea so let's go with that then"
So we walked away from the base and began our task to search for this elusive aqua member.
"It would have been easier if we'd had his name" Matthias said.
We had walked quite a bit around the forest and met up with a number of aqua members. Though we didn't join any of them since they were in groups of 3 more. Plus some of them seemed like they had experience battling.
We exchanged greetings and information with them since we were on the hunt for the traitor. Though all the information I received was insignificant which was about the fact that this traitor was a strong trainer who had some sort of relation to the aqua boss.
It was interesting information but meaningless in the long run.
Though Matthias letting out an 'eep' every time we came into contact with an aqua member kept me from succumbing to boredom. Hypocritically I might've been more scared than him as I kept making him the one to initiate conversation.
Things were starting to look bleak but just then we came across the same member from before. Compared with my mental image his dark brown hair and almond eyes were definitely the same not to mention the carefree look he had on his face.
He also didn't seem like he could take on two people at once.
'Should we just knock him out and make a run for it?'
No. No. That would be too risky who knows how many aqua members would be chasing us.
Well no point in ruminating anymore.
"Hey", I said as I waved at him.
We slowly made our way towards him.
"Oh it's the two you, did you need any help?"
"Not necessarily. It's just as you know we're newbies so we would appreciate it if you could help guide us in how to be an aqua member. Sir" I said.
"Sir" He uttered my last sentence as his chest seemed to swell up with pride.
"Of course we need to show the necessary respect to our seniors, right?" I said as I nudged Matthias.
"For sure you sir are the epitome of a leader. I don't have any idea how that Zac guy managed to gain the position of admin when an intellectual like yourself was present"
"Haha you guys I'm not that special" the aqua member replied.
Well we seemed to have ensnared him in our web of lies.
'Now onto the next part'
"Well sir we would like to know your name so we could communicate more easily" I said.
"Oh my name it's Rylan"
"I'm Matth- I'm..Woodrow pleased to make your acquaintance"
"And I'm Avenir nice to meet you"
"Nice to meet the both of you. So shall we head out. I'll show you the skills necessary for an aqua member. Try to keep up"
And with that we began to follow the naive Rylan as we made our way around the forest.
After a few minutes of walking and listening to Rylan's speeches we took a minute of rest.
"Avenir should we try now?"
"No, not yet. It seems like we might need some more time"
If only the gang of shroomish from before were around to sleep powder this guy up. The shroomish tagging along with me didn't seem to know the move sleep powder which was a shame.
So we did the next best thing and listened to Rylan's instructions on how to be a great aqua member like himself.
We thought this would continue until we encountered a bizarre sight. An entire portion of the forest was frozen. Pokemon, aqua members all writhed in pain as they were connected with the cold ground.
As far as I could tell none of them were seriously hurt.
Then it began to hail.
My stomach began to sink as I felt a strange feeling take over me.
"Look out-" Rylan said as he tackled me.
At the very next moment an ice beam struck the spot where I was standing at.
"Tch, so you managed to protect your buddy. Well it won't matter anyway, Mist Ice beam once more!"
"Spheal take the hit," Rylan said as he tossed out his pokeball.
A spheal appeared and rolled in the path of the beam heading towards us taking the brunt of the chilly attack.
I breathed out a sigh of relief that materialized a bit of fog due to the surrounding temperatures.
Shroomish began to head towards the lapras but I stopped it. Fighting an ice type wouldn't be a good choice.
"Absol I need your help", I said tossing my pokeball.
"Prism, provide assistance", Matthias followed up by tossing his own.
Finally standing up with Rylan's help I took a look at this so-called traitor.
She was a girl about the same age as Matthias and us at least in appearance. She had dark blue hair tied into a ponytail with blue-green eyes and a pokeball earring on her left ear. Her attire resembled the aqua member outfit though it seemed the colors were slightly modified to be darker.
"Should we go for a counterattack?" Matthias asked.
Neither Rylan nor I answered. This girl as far I could see was far stronger than any of the grunts we faced up till now.
It was a mistake that we had chosen to dress up in aqua attire. Since I don't think giving her the truth that we aren't with team aqua would work at least at this point of time.
'And here I was hoping the enemy of enemy to be an ally'
Matthias and Rylan were caught up in a battle of gazes with the traitor.
"Spheal attack" Rylan ordered.
As Spheal went charging on the attack me and Matthias shared a glance and nodded.
"You too Prism"
"Support them absol"
"Spheal go with rollout"
Spheal began rolling faster and faster as it headed towards Lapras.
"Mist confuse ray"
Lapras's eyes glow white and emit an eerie light at spheal. The move manages to affect Spheal who misses it's rollout and finds itself tackling the ground in confusion.
"Now body slam" she continued.
Lapras used it's appendages and struck at the spheal.
"Absol use quick attack to get spheal out of there"
Absol immediately dashed past Lapras and pushed Spheal out of the attack's range. Prism who wasn't very involved in the fight suddenly came behind lapras.
"Signal beam now"
"Counter with Ice beam"
The Ice beam and signal beam clashed though the former overpowered the latter.
"Prism!"
Leaving behind a frozen Prism to fall from the sky.
"That Ice beam is...way too...overpowered" I said as I shivered due to the frigid temperatures.
Well I won't be backing down though. Let's keep the assault going.
Prism luckily enough managed to thaw itself from the impact of hitting the ground and we kept the exchange of attacks going.
"Ice beam"
"Pursuit"
"Psybeam"
"Rollout"
Absol and Prism don't seem to be doing well and spheal also doesn't really seem to be helping much as much as I don't want to admit.
The ground had been lashed at and cracked due to our relentless attacks. A number of ice shards lay scattered around the area with pieces of rock embedded in them.
"Haah..Haah" I wiped the cold drops of sweat sticking to my skin.
Matthias and Rylan didn't seem to be doing much better while our opponent didn't seem to be fazed in the slightest.
This arrangement wasn't working. I needed to think of something new.
"Rylan head back to the base and get Zac here," I said as I instructed Absol to go for another lunge.
"But what about you guys-"
"We'll be fine just get Zac here"
"Understood" He said as he scattered away.
This situation was starting to grate on my nerves. We were supposed to be against the same people but now I need to tattle-tale for my self preservation.
With Rylan gone I turned my focus back to the battle where ice beams and signal beams were constantly being exchanged.
I could see our opponents' expressions start to change so the battle was beginning to wear on her too I assumed. But she was just more durable than us school kids.
"Absol stop" I said as Absol was beginning to go for another strike.
Matthias turned to me as my motives seemed to dawn on him too.
"Prism disengage"
At our words both of our pokemon came back to our side.
"So you're giving up it seems that you came to terms with your defeat quite easily"
"We aren't giving up," I said.
Saying that we were just academy students lost in the forest probably wouldn't fly as an excuse. I'm pretty sure she'll just deny it.
"We aren't actually part of team aqua"
"At least come up with a better lie. I can see the uniforms on you along with the fact that you immediately attacked Mist"
"The only reason I retaliated was due to the fact that you almost froze me to death. And if you're uncertain about us just come along the police are going to be arriving soon"
"I can't leave yet not until I deal with Zac and I can't let the two of you go either. Mist end it, fire!"
Lapras who we weren't paying to had been preparing an ice beam for the entire duration of our little talk.
It was an inescapable attack; the range of it seemed to on it's own cut off all known exits we could see.
Our pokemon along with shroomish stood in front of us ready to take the brunt of the attack.
But the attack never came.
