September 21, 2020, Nighttime - Bad Part of Jericho

Narrator

Aa trio consisting of a garchomp, a rhyperior and a typhlosion were plotting inside of a warehouse, they were part of Team Murk, a small-time gang.

The floor of the warehouse was made out of grey concrete, while the walls were brick. There was a skylight in the middle of the roof. Some windows were on the walls.

" I say we go through here " the garchomp pointed at a point on a map of a local bank.

" what! No! That door's hooked up to an alarm at night, it's better if we go through this window right here, Sneasel can pick it open " the typhlosion gestured to a sneasel playing solitaire in the corner of the warehouse.

" ah whatever the best I suppose " the rhyperior walked away, leaving the two to argue.

Unknown to the four criminals, a very excited riolu was standing in front of the warehouse's backdoor, there was a window beside the door.

" alright, dramatic entrance… " Joseph hyped himself up, he turned his gaze towards the window besides the door.

" wait, where are we gonna ge- " Typhlosion was interrupted by a-

CRASH!

Joseph smashed through the skylight, landing right on the table, he roundhouse-kicked Garchomp and Typhlosion and backflipped off of it.

" gah! It's a guildie! " Garchomp exclaimed while getting up.

" step right up punks! You're in for the biggest beatdown of your lives! " JoJo taunted.

Typhlosion was agitated, " you think you can just bust in here and kick our asses? Think again, come at me! " he extended both of his paws to his sides as an attempt to intimidate.

JoJo was holding something behind his back, he pulled out a pair of clackers and hurled them at Typhlosion, it barely grazed his head.

" ha! You know what? I'll give you another chance to toss that, pick up your toy and chuck it! " Typhlosion snickered.

" tsk tsk " Joseph waved a finger, " you seem to have misunderstood my attack, you see, I don't need to pick something up, THAT COMES BACK! ".

The pair of clackers boomeranged back towards Typhlosions head, before he could react it collided, blood spewed out of his skull as he was knocked unconscious.

JoJo walked forward and picked up the clackers, " well!? Who's next! ".

Garchomp growled as he looked at the unconscious typhlosion, he opened his mouth to speak.

" Hmm lets see " JoJo rubbed his chin, " you're going to say: you're gonna pay for that! ".

" you're gonna pay for that! Wha- " Garchomp paused in confusion, giving Joseph the chance to strike, JoJo charged forward, his arm glowing with hamon energy.

" ZOOM PUNCH! " Joseph's arm extended upwards and knocked Garchomp straight in the face, he retaliated by swiping at the riolu with his scythe-like arms.

Joseph ducked under the grey blade and sweeped under the dragon's legs, knocking him over. While Garchomp was down, JoJo lifted his right leg up and curb-stomped the garchomp, knocking him out.

A sharp rock whizzed past JoJo's face, he quickly turned around and saw the rhyperior loading sharp razor-like blades into the holes in his arms.

The rock monster pointed its arms towards Joseph and fired, JoJo dodged the projectiles and flipped over a table, giving him cover.

Several sharp rocks hit the table he was ducking behind, it splintered when it came in contact with the rock.

JoJo looked around for a way out of this, he looked up and saw a lamp hanging from the ceiling just above Rhyperior, he started charging up his clackers with hamon. The steel balls made loud clacking sounds as they bounced off of eachother

" next you'll say: cut that noise out and fight me! " JoJo predicted.

" cut that noise out and fight me! HUH! " Rhyperior's barrage of rocks stopped, JoJo popped out of cover and hurled the clackers at the ceiling lamp.

The ceiling lamp exploded, also taking the ceiling above it with it as it collapsed right on top of the rhyperior, the rock monster was knocked out by the force of the debris.

JoJo ran a paw over his spiked hair, " where's the other on- " his question was answered by a sneasel jumping over him and slashing him in the face with his claws. A large cut appeared on Joseph's face.

" you little- " JoJo snarled and kicked the sneasel away, the sneasel jumped at him seemingly without warning.

" heh, I knew you would do that, " Joseph smirked as he grabbed the sneasel by its outstretched paws and swung its body around, he slammed the sneasel into the brick wall, knocking it out.

JoJo knelt down, panting. " damn… " he looked around the warehouse, seeing the knocked out forms of the criminals.

" I did it, my first mission is a success! " Joseph whooped, " I wonder how the others are doing? " he wondered, suddenly his eyes widened, " ah, ACHOO! ".he sneezed.

Somewhere else…

Evie's Perspective

I walked down the gloomy streets of New York, there's something about how dark this place is at night that unnerves me, I just don't know what.

I was wearing my usual brown sable fedora and white scarf, pinned to my scarf was a badge showing my allegiance towards the Agency.

My stomach grumbled, I could really do with a snack right now, I peered into the distance and saw an extremely lit cafe, my face beamed with anticipation as I paced down the street towards the building.

The walls that were facing the street were windows, when I looked into them I could see that the floors were made out of white and black tiles, the place had a dark red wallpaper.

Lined up around the inside were circular barstools and square tables, the overall architecture of the cafe seemed to be from the human-era. The place was sparsely populated.

I pushed open the glass door and went inside, above the door was a bell that rang whenever the door opened. The cafe had a cozy feel to it. The bartender: a floette, greeted me.

" hello there, what can I get you? " the sentient flower asked me.

" eh, just a grilled cheese ".

I sat down next to one of the tables, after a minute the floette placed a plate with a grilled cheese sandwich on the table, I thanked her and passed a couple of coins to her.

I held the sandwich with one of my paws and bit into it, the melted cheese felt like heaven in my mouth.

Ding…

The door opened, a froakie walked through, the froakie had a replica brownie camera hung around his neck, he was also wearing a ( hopefully ) synthetic leather bag, the blue frog hopped into the middle of the cafe, he seemed like he was looking for someone.

His vision darted around the cafe, his gaze finally rested on me, he smiled in relief and hopped over to my table. Who is this 'mon?

" you're Evie Williams right? " the froakie asked me.

Great… another archeology geek.

" before you say anything I just want to clear this up, I am NOT going to sign any autographs, capisce? " I set my sandwich down on the plate

" So you're Ms. Williams! My name's Owen, I'm a freelance reporter, I'd like to ask you a few que-" I interrupted him by holding out a paw.

" how did you know I was here? It's only been a few days since I stepped foot in Jericho, " I shot back.

" well uh, there were only rumors of you being around, but I had to see if they were true. If I could only get a few pictures of you I would get the biggest payday ever! " Owen explained.

" and why should I help you? You see, I'm not keen on the idea of everyone around me knowing who I am ".

" ah, I never thought about that, " Owen scratched the back of his head.

I turned away from him and continued to eat my sandwich, " if you can't convince me just run along and report on something else " I said with my mouth full.

He stood there, mouth agape at my attempt to brush him off, " please! Nothing interesting happens in this city, it's only going to be a few questions I promise! " he begged, wow... he is one stubborn froakie.

" I don't see why any of that is my problem " why can't this kid just piss off!?

" ah come oooooon " he groaned.

" I swear if you keep pestering me I WILL scream " I threatened.

He backed away for a bit, " alright alright, hear me out this one time, how about we split the earnings of whatever I get from it, " Owen negotiated while moving his hands around.

" Hmm " that is a good proposition, " fine, sit down ".

His face shined, " you won't regret this miss! " he said as he hopped onto a barstool on the opposite side of me and aimed his camera.

Click

He pulled a slip of paper out of the brownie camera and smiled.

" please, just call me Evie ", I removed my brown fedora and set it down on the table.

Narrator

Unbeknownst to the eevee and froakie, another character was in the cafe with them.

Elise the delphox sipped a cup of tea, she set it down and sighed.

" oh how peaceful the city is at night, it almost makes me wish I didn't don the mask, it would be nice to feel the sun's rays one more time ".

She heard the two small pokemon chattering, her long fox ears twitched as they listened in on their conversation.

" Evie eh? I thought she died ".

She suddenly heard Evie say JoJo's name, she was surprised and almost sat up, " a Joestar? " she muttered, " Lord Dio told me about the Joestars, there's no doubt that this one is going to meddle in our plans ".

It was official, it was time for her to mobilize the followers.

September 23, 2020, Early In The Morning - Peacekeeper Agency HQ

Raymond's Perspective

Sleep.

It's something most take for granted, but not us, especially after all of those jobs we took.

This bed was quite possibly the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in, I'm not sure if that's because I'm exhausted or this is genuinely a good bed.

Click

It's the intercom, oh no…

" wakey wakey guildies! " Vance spoke through a speaker hidden in my room and everyone else's.

Oh come on… just five more minutes.

" uhh, you aren't leaving your room, WAKE UP! " the intercom crackled at the sudden shift in volume, I swear if he starts banging pots and pans…

CLANG CLANG CLANG

" WAKE THE FUCK UP! " Vance screamed into the intercom, pots and pans were being smashed together accompanied by the nice relaxing sound of unholy screeching.

" alright alright! " I pushed the blanket off of me and rolled off of the bed, I laid there on the ground for a few seconds before shakily getting up and pushing open my quarter's door.

" ugh, I'm so tired, " Charlotte pushed open her door, she had bags underneath her eyes.

Oliver's door opened, he fell face-first through the doorway and laid limp with weariness.

The main door into the barracks opened, Vance pranced through it looking more well rested this morning then we could after an afternoon in the common room. I noticed that he was carrying a large metal bucket of water in his mouth.

" Anyone still asleep? " he lightly swung around the bucket, a tiny bit of water spilled.

" I haven't seen Evie or JoJo get up yet, and Tom's doing overtime in the R&D department so he's not here, ", Charlotte rubbed her eyes.

Vance slowly opened the door intp Evie's room and peeked in, Evie was under the blanket reading a book.

She lifted the covers off of her head right before Vance spilled the entire bucket on her, " wait I'm awake I'm awake! " she held her paws up.

Vance had the bucket of water right above his head, he brought it back down and held on to the handle with his mouth, "

" you'll stay dry this morning, for now… " Vance walked out of the room and into Joseph's, much to his glee, JoJo was a heavy sleeper.

" attention trainees! Get into JoJo's room, it's time you kids see a little demonstration ".

We all cautiously went in, Vance was holding the water bucket high above his head, " this is what happens when you dont wake up on time " he tipped the bucket a tiny bit onto the riolu, a small bit of water spilled on him.

" just a little bi- WHOOPS! " he tipped the water bucket upside down right on JoJo's head, Joseph Jolted awake screaming.

" wha-what's going on! Why am I wet!? " he flailed around while still in his sheets, he accidentally rolled off of the bed and collided with the floor. JoJo groaned as he tore off the now wet blanket, " what was that for!? ".

"You overslept, get up, yo Charlotte did you catch that? " Vance asked the meowstic, who was holding a camera.

" yep, " she handed him a picture that was printed from the camera, Vance chuckled at it, " perfect ".

" you little… " Joseph growled.

" everyone get ready and meet me outside, training starts today! " Vance tossed the picture at JoJo and walked out, everyone else including me walked out with him.

JoJo got up, still soaking wet and grumbling to himself. " I swear I'm gonna… " I left him alone to his business.

I opened the door outside and was met with the sight of dozens if not hundreds of guild members frolicking about, I guess they have the day off.

I saw the others grouped up in a line in front of Vance, I went over there and stood in line as well.

Vance cleared his throat, " alright… today kids you're getting trained by a different colleague of mine, he should be here any moment " he glanced around.

" what kind of pokemon is he? " Evie asked.

" You wouldn't recognise him, he's a mythical, " Vance said.

Evie's ears perked up, " a mythical? Thats co- ".

" AH-CHOO! " JoJo who was now dry stood beside us, he abruptly sneezed in his elbow.

" woah! Did that bucket of water give you a cold dude? " Oliver inquired.

" I think you should get that checked " JoJo didn't seem to have any problems before, so this was strange to me.

" it's probably nothing, just get a tissue. Oh he's here! " Vance turned around.

" ello there! Oim your coach for this session " A victini emerged out of nowhere besides Vance. The victini had a heavy accent, but his voice was really high, wait why is he holding a riding crop?

" This guy here is my buddy: Victini, " Vance introduced him.

" You gois can call me Vinnay " Vinny put his left paw on his chest.

" why are you holding a ri- " I was interrupted by Vinny zooming up to my face and whacking me on the head with the stick.

" that's woi " Vinny smirked and floated back to Vance, why did I feel… " weird " when he hit me with that?

" alroight kiddos, oi am classified as the ' victoray ' pokemon, so oi feel that it's moi dutay- "

" this guy is really getting on my nerves, wouldn't you agree? " Charlotte telepathically asked me.

" yeah, am I just tired or did I just ' like ' getting hit by that stick? " I thought to her.

" you're just tired, I hope "

" OI! Both of you! Stop daydreaming and pay attention! " the victini snapped at both of us.

We both shut up and nodded frantically.

" where was oi? Oh roight, today all of you will be sent into the ' No 'Mon's Land to retrieve a mock lost item and bring it back 'ere, any questions? " Vinny explained.

We all had the same question, " whats the No 'Mon's Land? " Charlotte asked.

A sly smirk spread across the victini's face, he raised his riding crop in the air with his right paw, something started glowing behind our quarters, " you'll see ", he quickly brought down the crop, suddenly all of us were engulfed in light.

Somewhere Else…

I opened my eyes and found myself in a dark, damp, cylindrical tunnel. The walls were made out of dirty concrete and in the middle of the tunnel where I was standing was a stream of weird looking water.

I knelt down and dipped a vine into the water, wait a minute, is this place…

" EW! " I quickly jumped to the side and out of the stream. This is a sewer system!

" ugh, I'll never be clean again… " I grumbled as I flailed my wet vine around, I looked up and saw a circular sewer grate on the ceiling of the tunnel.

I extended a vine out of my yellow collar and had it push up the grate, I grabbed the edge of the opening and pulled myself up.

I kept my head down while I pulled myself, once I was completely standing up did I look up at my surroundings.

" woah " it was as if nobody touched this place for decades, it was the normal urban cityscape I was familiar with in Jericho but almost completely covered in trees and foliage, vines were running down just about every building, and I'm no botanist but I'm pretty sure trees can't just sprout up in the middle of a concrete road.

" heh, looks like the concrete jungle became an actual jungle~ " I quipped.

BARK BARK!

A pack of feral poochyena were nearby and coming in my very direction, I only have about five seconds before they see me.

I frantically looked around and saw a cluster of vines and leaves on the road, I jumped onto it belly-first, covering any part of my body that wasn't green with leaves.

The pack was now just in front of me, they didn't seem to notice me.

They continued to walk down the road, I stifled some grunts as they unknowingly trampled me.

A minute passed before I gathered enough courage to open my eyes, when I did they were long gone. I let out a sigh of relief.

Alright, now I just need to find that Item that Vinny told us to find.

I went up to a building and started climbing up it with my vines, I got up to the roof and surveyed the area around me.

" if I were a mock item where would I… be " my gaze rested on a little blue riolu getting chased by a big grey feral.

Evie's Perspective

I was prone under a dilapidated car, holding my breath, standing right in front of the car was a feral nidoking. If I'm not careful it could probably punt me across the city.

It was suspicious, I was hiding from it ever since I teleported here, my paw was pressed against my mouth, " don't look under here… ".

Creeaak…

The nidoking lifted the car by its bumper cover and saw me hiding under it.

" uhh, bonjour… " I waved my paw at it.

" AAAAAAH! " a blue blur screamed in the distance, the nidoking turned its head to look at it, giving me time to roll away.

" RUN AWAY! MAKE WAY! MOVE! " JoJo called to me while unknowingly running in the direction of the nidoking.

ROOOOAR!

An ear-piercing roar bellowed behind JoJo, it was a Arceus-damn tyranitar, it was stampeding right behind the riolu, JoJo finally managed to notice the nidoking in his way and swiftly slid under the gap in between the feral nidoking's legs, the tyranitar couldn't stop in time causing both of the colossal pokemon to crash into each other spectacularly.

Both the nidoking and the tyranitar growled as they pushed each other away while getting up, the nidoking swung at the tyranitar, provoking both of them to lock horns.

I was suddenly hoisted up by my back and quickly carried away, I looked at who was carrying me and saw JoJo, once we were a safe distance away he set me back on the ground.

" whew, I think we're safe " he wiped his forehead.

I softly grunted, " wait... who's that in the distance? ".

A green pokemon in the distance was waving frantically at us, " Evie! Joseph! ".

" Ray!? " we both exclaimed.

JoJo's Perspective

The snivy maneuvered around some debris to get to us, when he finally did we exchanged hive-fives before going off to look for the mock item.

We went down an alleyway, completely in the dark on the item's location.

" there should be some sort of clu-... ACHOO! " I sneezed into my elbow again, accidentally knocking over a small garbage can. Miraculously the contents of the can spilled in such a way that they formed a map of the entire No 'Mon's Land.

" Hmm, lets see here, these two toothpicks form an X on this street, we're over here so… this way! " I pointed towards the end of the alleyway.

Evie and Ray looked at me dumbfoundedly, " a-are we going to talk about what just happened? " Evie asked.

I shrugged and led them down the alley, Ray took another quick glance at the map before coming along with us.

Some time later…

" Here it is, whatever we're looking for should be right here ", we were in front of what seemed to be a mansion converted into a museum, the front doorway had two pillars on the side holding up a small balcony above it, ( overgrown ) trees and grass surrounded the mansion. It was two stories high with windows around the outside.

I slowly opened the door, the entryway room had a white wallpaper and some plain wooden planks as the floor, to the left was a doorway leading into another room, on the side of the left doorway was a black grand piano, on the right of the entryway.

On our right was a beige couch with a ( inactive ) tall lamp beside it, hanging behind the couch was a ( ruined ) painting of what seemed to be a human general from way back then, yes I definitely remember this place. Had I been here before?

" I think I read about this place before, this mansion was the headquarters of the first human president in the continent during the american rev- " Raymond was interrupted by Evie

" boo-ring, lets just find that item and get out of here " she walked through the doorway to our left.

On the right of us when we walked in was a board with some writing on it, Evie ( or any of us ) couldn't reach it due to our short stature.

" It's probably nothing anyways " I mumbled.

This room had a patterned green carpet and wallpaper, to our left was a beige chair in front of a closed window. Besides it was a green chair that blended in with the overall color scheme of the room, above that chair was an ornamental yellow mirror. In the middle of the room was a green couch accompanied by two green chairs, besides the couch was a small white table with a somehow intact tea set on it and some weird tin thing I couldn't describe even if I wanted to.

Behind the tea set was a giant rectangular mirror with yet again, another green chair besides it.

What caught our eye the most was a white fireplace on the far right wall, two vases were on both sides of it, on the middle of the top were several candles with a mirror behind them.

" it doesn't seem to be in here " Ray observed, " lets try the other rooms ".

And so we walked out of the room and into the nearest one, which was on the other side of the entryway, still no luck.

" you know… Vinny never told us what the mock item looked like " said Evie while we were busy pilfering cabinets.

" I guess it's so distinct from the rest of the stuff here that we'll know when we see it

We continued our search through the mansion, deciding to check the main hall last. We walked under the arch-shaped doorway into the hall.

The floorboards were the same as the ones in the entryway, the wallpaper was light blue with flower patterns, and smack dab in the middle of the room was...

" a-are you fucking kidding me ".

-was a big cardboard box with " Peacekeeper F " marked on it, are we blind?

" I guess we're pretty much done now " Raymond went over to the box and opened it, confetti bursted out of the box and into his face, me and Evie chuckled.

Suddenly I started to get engulfed in light, so was Evie and Raymond, the last thing I saw was their shocked expressions before we were teleported back to HQ.

Back at the Peacekeeper Agency Headquarters

Narrator

" wot do ye mean dose sabre cunts got to the shipment!? It wos your job to protect it! Fucks sake… " an agitated victini slammed the telephone receiver back on its mount, Vinny rubbed his forehead, " the guild masta won't loike this " he grumbled.

" Yo Vinny! The trainees are back " Vance popped in and out through a door.

" oill be roight there " Vinny floated out of the window of his personal office and into the guild's courtyard where he saw all 6 of the guild trainees.

" So! Which one of ye got the item? " Vinny asked them.

Oliver, Tom and Charlotte pointed at the trio, Vinny managed to form a genuine smile, " is that so?

" why yes we did! " JoJo bragged, " it was pretty easy actually ".

" please elaborate, this assoignment was supposed to take several days at least, and it's only been loike… an owa ", the victini pulled a clipboard out of nowhere.

" well… how do I explain this, I knocked over a trash can and it made a map of the entire area " JoJo nervously explained. Everyone else except the trio and Vinny struggled to hold in laughter.

" oi see… " Vinny wrote something down on the clipboard.

" wait, you believe us? " Evie inquired.

" Yeh, oi am ", unknown to the trainees, the victini could see a tiny purple thorn protruding out of Joseph's arm, he concluded that this is what probably caused the map to be formed.

" oh well then, off you go, I need to check something with the guild masta " Vinny said goodbye to the trainees and headed off towards the bastion tower.

" okay then, anyone up for celebratory donuts? The bill's on me, " JoJo suggested to everyone.

" hell yeah! " the trainees whooped in unison.

Inside of the Bastion…

Vinny awkwardly rode the elevator up the geometrical tower, twiddling his thumbs, " how long is this damn lift? " he grumbled to himself.

DIng

The doors opened, the victini floated through them and into a break-room, couches and tables were scattered everywhere, and a phone booth was set up on the end of the room.

Vinny floated up to the phone booth and took off the receiver, he pressed a few buttons on it, the receiver made a " doooot " sound as it connected to whoever he was talking to.

" oi, this is Vinnay, " the victini said into the receiver.

…

" yeh, it's about the Joestar ryo-lew ".

…

" he moi be developing a stand, he was able to figure out the location of a faraway package in under an owa, it's probablay his stand abilitay ".

…

" aight, Vinnay out ".

Click

Chapter 18 End