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CHAPTER 23:
In the Italy's apartment, Frank was sleeping in bed as he was still stressed out from yesterday's insanity. Only then did his phone ring, with the ringtone of monks chanting and then someone's head getting chopped off. It went three times, only the third time Midori raised her arm and hit it on Frank's head. The weak hit was enough for Frank to say, "Too early."
Midori mumbled, "Turn the phone off."
"Wait… let me see…"
He turned over and looked over, still groggy from the rude awaking, at his phone. He closed his eyes and sighed, "Just because I said next chapter did not mean as soon as possible."
He told Midori, "I'm gonna talk to this prick here so… I'll let you sleep in."
She just answered, "Mhmmm…."
And turned over as she listened in on Frank's head. Frank flipped it and asked, "Now what?"
Payne already started it on a sour note, "Ok, what the hell is going on here, hmm? All of a sudden you break out into a murderous dance as you send whoever out to kill random strangers. Well, not 'random' random, but they seem to be famous or totally unrelated and I'm surprised nobody picked your scent up."
"Probably because every time I go to work I overuse the deodorant."
"Don't tell me you're asleep."
"No, in fact I was until you called. And you also knocked my wife out of sleep too."
"Well, tell her I'm sorry."
Frank looked over as she mentally said, 'Do I really need to say?'
Frank nodded, "And this is also the part where I say, the hell is the point of calling me last night and important enough to call me this morning?"
Payne complained, "You keep on causing these fucking problems and I can't seem to get anybody willing to deal with you or take you out!"
"So basically in order to kill me you act like me?"
"As pathetic as it might sound, yes, I did."
"Listen Payne-in-my-ass, there are several things that I'm doing right now, I got a headache from yesterday, my grandson nearly got killed…"
"Who, the one you sent on his little journey?"
"No, no, the first grandson."
"The Greninja one?"
"Yes, him."
"And how did he nearly die?"
Italy made up a story, "Basically, he and his friends went on a shootout against some other group and it wound up as an insane mess."
"Sucks to be him, and speaking of grandkids, with these little killings, don't you think you'd be worried about your own grandkid wandering Kalos?"
"Listen man, Yugo is a little dick training for the tournament, which means there's nothing I should be worried about, you should be worried about, or be wasting my time with. I mean, God, if he needs help he can call me."
"Oh yeah, sure, see that totally happening. Also, I have a 10 o'clock conference with the press on more details on the GT, please don't show up."
"Good, because I'm going to capture the highlights in the evening."
He closed the phone, and slowly got out of bed as Midori asked, "You sure you want to leave?"
He titled his head, "Well… I guess it wouldn't matter… I guess I'll tell Edward I'm lazy today."
A smiled appeared on her face, "Better say you want to have a break."
"Guess that could…"
The phone rang again as Italy mumbled, "Every asshole is calling under the sun *opens the phone* what is it Lysander?"
Lysander told him, "I had three people give a location you might want to consider."
"What? North Korea or Johto?"
"Neither, there's a location in Daraha City were we located the gym leader Clement Limon and one of the Society Leaders."
"My job was to do your job and get people shot dead. Now, I have to call Kevanin and tell him that his next job is in another fucking city. Alright, and please tell me it's easy?"
Lysander lied, "Well… yes it is."
"Alright, then I'll send in Kevanin, now please do not call in the morning."
"Sorry, but unfortunately who said I went with your schedule?"
"This said so."
He hung up and laid in his bed, only to see that Midori was gone, then teleported under the sheets on top of him. She cooed, "So… since you'll be staying in, and it's cold outside, want to do it again?"
His answer was, "As long as we don't have 'nother kid, I don't care how many times."
She then kissed him hard, only for him to kiss back and for them to make out.
(To Yugo)
His morning was off to a better start than his grandfather's. The only downsides were that Jesse was still out sick and the temperature was getting colder and colder. Right now, Yugo had to arrange a plan to get into the Christmas Sensation on the 24th. It was literally two days away and if he missed it, he'd look like a bigger loser than he already was along with his little "I'm sorry for stabbing and beating the shit out you" apology gift.
In the main city, he stopped at a café for breakfast, then went ahead to the lab and there his uncle Edward was at the entrance. The Gallade saw his nephew come by and waved, "Well, if it isn't little Yugo. What's going on this time?"
Yugo, out of breath told him, "I need… to get… Franco…"
"Him? Oh yeah, he's inside talking with Catherine on that whole event. And you on want in?"
"I need to get into the building to watch, not sing."
"Oh, well, you deal with him, I'm just running the shop after dad called saying he's staying home with mom for the day."
"That sounds like his laziness kicking in."
He opened the door as his uncle replied, "Or the cold with stress."
Inside, Yugo looked toward the counter to see his other grandfather Bender at the counter. Only he was more or less relaxing in the chair with his feet on the counter. Yugo asked, "Um, Grandpa?"
Bedner opened an eye, "Ah, Yugo, nice time to drop by… sort of. What'da'ya need?"
"Uh, where Franco is?"
"In the nature room."
"Thanks."
"Welcome."
And resumed his "stance". Yugo went down the hall and found Franco talking with both his mother and aunt. Yugo entered the room, with Rose who spotted him first and waved, "Hi Yugo!"
Catherine and Franco looked over as Franco assumed what he wanted and Catherine was neutral party. Yugo waved back, "Hey everyone, sorry for whatever interruption I may have made, I just wanted to ask Franco for…"
Franco cut in, "Let me guess, you on in for free again?"
"Well… with two more coming in."
He groaned as he then said, "Look, there's a back entrance to the building where you can get in. All I can do say is get dressed in some suits and dresses. And please do not cause another problem like last time."
Yugo raised his hands up, "Ok, ok, act more like formal dicks, got it. And, what else happened here?"
"Basically I'm getting Aunt Catherine and Aunt Rose into the whole event in two days."
Yugo asked, "Both? You usually do just Aunt Catherine."
Catherine told them, "Yeah, but who do you think is an understudy or a secondary…"
Rose also put in, "Or a different voice?"
Yugo nodded, "Ok, so basically more girls in the picture, yeah. And what about your mom?"
Franco rubbed behind his neck, "Uh… she sucks in terms of vocals and Payne is nice enough to have right now the Gardevoirs and Gallades sing alongside humans, ok? Besides, nobody wants to see a *bipedal Froakie* singing 'I'm singing in the rain'. It's not… exactly good looking."
"Neither's grandpa's record, but that's another story. Anyway, so behind the building?"
"Yes, behind the building."
"Ok, thanks!"
Yugo ran out of the room and out the door and a long trip back to the camp. There, he saw Rebecca training a couple of the Pokémon as Reeka was the only one standing aside with Judas training Elene and Jacques… or at least trying to get them with faster movements.
Yugo went to Reeka and asked her, "Hey Reeka, wanna do some training since… well, everyone is getting trained?"
She looked up and weighed it, then nodded. Yugo nodded and said, "Alright, let's go over to the field."
She asked, "Field?"
"The one we go to."
"Oh… there."
"C'mon, you'll be battling me, not Eriktar."
Reeka just titled her head and got up, and from there they walked over to the fighting ground. At the fighting ground, Yugo got on one end as Reeka got to the other, then Yugo charged out a random attack as Reeka just went flying over him and then…
She kicked down on the back of his head, plunging his face into the dirt. Yugo got up, with a mouth full of dead grass, spiting it out, and then mumbled, "Dammit."
Reeka tried not to show a smile of laughter, and proceeded in kicking his ass… err stomach. The training he gave to her was pretty decent seeing as she had to constantly update and he found her pattern of attack. The two were fighting on pretty high levels as they kept missing each other and worn each other out.
After the training session, Yugo sat down with Reeka sitting opposite of him. He asked, "So… is that enough training… or should we continue?"
Reeka answered, "Maybe… after lunch?"
"Yeah… after lunch…"
Both of them got up, but only to hear someone scream as Yugo asked, "Now what?"
They strolled on over and found that Rebecca just got beaten by Jacques. From what Yugo assumed, must've been a twisted limb. He ran over and asked, "What the hell happened?"
Judas answered, "Oh, Jacques beat Rebecca, no problem."
"Yeah, I heard her scream, and that sounded like her leg got twisted."
Rebecca seethed, "My arm is twisted dumbass."
"Oh, well, can't really get anyone to…"
Judas bent down and attempted to untwist, which worked but she screamed even louder and then side swiped Judas, pressing her palm on his neck. He choked out, "I fixed yer fuckin' arm dammit!"
Rebecca yelled, "It still hurt like hell!"
Yugo mumbled, "The day's ruined."
Lunchtime was takeout once again, and while they may have enjoyed, there was a tenseness in the air that made no sense between Yugo and some of his Pokémon. Judas and Rebecca were unease, Reeka was looking wary with Ghezirha, and everyone else was trying to decipher why.
Once lunch ended, the next big thing was to get ranged training done. Yugo took Reeka again as the other two trained the other four. It was a massive mess for them. Yugo and Reeka however, they were training quite fine odd enough.
Very little happened in terms of events and by the time it was evening, the darkness settled in and everyone was ready for bed… ok, they had dinner and then went to bed.
After going to bed though, Ghezirha popped her head into the tent once again…
"Ahem."
Reeka stood next to the entrance as Ghezirha asked, "I thought you were…"
"Asleep? I know what you want and you're not getting him."
Ghezirha was a bit surprised on how she knew this, then told her, "Well… he's probably the first human I've ever known to care for me. I wanted to show him…"
"You did, and you showed me, now leave before I kick you."
Ghezirha made a frown, and looked down at Reeka, "At least I show him, you don't."
Reeka growled, "I'm his first Pokémon, you're not."
They butted heads, only then to separate and go back to their own sleeping areas.
(6:30 PM Dahara City)
The gangster group was at the outskirts, driving in, to go and find Clement and Mortem. They just finished playing "Clint Eastwood" with Jake softly singing along to the ending instrumental, "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad; I got sunshine in a bag. I'm useless, but not fo long, my future is…"
The music cut as he brashly complained, "Dammit, I can neva' get the sync right!"
Jerome told him, "Calm down, you sing too slow."
Austin threw in his two cents, "No, you can't match it. Yo ears are tin."
Jake retorted, "I don't got no tin ears!"
Kevanin joined in, "Well, every time we play an instrumental, if any, you seem to miss it at the end by a few seconds."
"Who cares?"
The whining and bitching continued until Kevanin stopped the car suddenly, giving everyone a light whiplash. Austin whined, "The hell ya doing frog?"
Kevanin shushed him, "Shh!"
And raised his finger to enforce it. The three of them did not know what the hell was going on as Kevanin said, "Put on those anti-psychics, quick."
They put black cloth hats over their heads as Kevanin did so as well. He whispered to them, "I'm going out, you hopefully know my weird signals for these situations."
Jake nodded, "Yeah."
"I'll go out first, then I'll signal one by one. First Austin, then you, and then Jerome."
He teleported out, walking quietly until he was at least 50 feet from the car. He stopped the raised two fingers and moved them forward. Austin got out, made sure he had his gun, and followed along. Kevanin then held his palm out, signaling to stop.
He repeated it with Jake, only he got sent ahead of Kevanin. Jerome was sent behind and then to the left. Afterwards, Kevanin pulled a pistol out and aimed for the bush, then spun around and aimed opposite to the other side of the road. He signaled them to do the same. They pulled out CZs and regular semis, aimed where Kevanin aimed and then the Greninja signaled to fire. And when they fired…
Kevanin used teleport to teleport all of them around 180, single file into the bushes in front of them, shooting up the leaves and hearing, not only bullet shots, but people getting actually killed. Once they emptied the first load, Kevanin yelled, "Run!"
They headed to the car as bullets were flying from the bushes. Kevanin teleported everyone into the seats as one window went down, causing Kevanin to use a psychic shield as Austin fired an M4A1 at the bushes. Jerome hit the pedal, letting the wheels get spun into the dirt, then turn around as three guys jumped out on the road, only for a pistol to teleport outside, held in midair, shooting all three in the head.
The car drove forward, but then a Delphox, very tall and without the fur dress, stood in front of them as he, not only wasn't afraid of them, but he was definitely going to get them. He lifted a huge gun up, cocked it…
Jerome looked and said, "Huh, that's a .50 caliber rifle… OH FUCK THAT'S A .50 CALIBER RIFLE!"
Kevanin yelled, "FLOOR IT!"
Jerome took his advice as the Delphox fire the trigger, but the car teleported before the bullet made it, then reappeared in front of the Delphox, plowing right into him, flinging him over the car as the gun went slam onto his head. The car screeched to a halt as then Jerome backed up quickly, ramming the car's ass into the already injured Delphox, giving it a bigger injury, and then driving off opposite from the city. The Delphox just muttered, before standing at his failure, "I'll get you… just not today."
(Italy's lab 11:04 PM)
Italy heard from the group that they failed getting into the city after nearly having the car blown to bits. His concern no longer remained on the targets because if Kevanin gets killed his daughter in-law with target him. Besides, he got most of them… sort of.
Before he shut down the computer, he an email appeared in his inbox. He rolled his eyes and clicked on it, opened it, and then the letter printed out. Frank was perplexed since that was not supposed to happen. The letter printed out, he took it, and he read:
"Dear Francesco J. Italy…
"There has be a fame that has arisen for a while in Kalos and I am very much interested in meeting you in person. I may be in Dahara city, I may be in a different area for your comfort, but I will be giving a feast for your arrival, so please do not be late or simply forget."
He wrote it down, "Ok, don't be late for dinner at weirdo's house."
He continued reading:
"We, of course have several similarities in our terms and we even have our own connections. We both trade weapons, we both have our own goals and friends, and… we even have our own dislikes.
"Please be at my manor by 6:45 tomorrow. The location will be listed at the end of the letter.
"Signed, W."
Frank asked, "W? Some relative to N?"
He shook his head and closed up the lab for the next day.
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