Chapter 5: Mars of Team Galactic
Josh:
The grunt 1 was angered to being defeated by us, as what he saw, as worthless and nosey trainers looking after 4 tiny babies. Unaware to either me or Tank, there was someone hiding in the shadows. In the room where the files are kept and part of the battle taking place, there are 4 storage units and the figure is hiding behind one of them.
The odds were in our favour and if they were after documents then that means that they're up to something, I have a gut feeling Tank noticed this line of thinking just as soon if not sooner than I did. With grunt 2 in front of me and grunt 3 behind me, seems like we have the advantage. Tank turned to check on the eeveelutions at the side as they watched, almost awed by the sight of battle being won by us.
While the battle was still underway, I noticed a Zubat flew by with documents. It looked like it was carrying about 4 files with papers, it was obvious that the Zubat was taking them away to someone the question is who. I nudged Tank who after a second noticed and I called out "Gengar, use shadow ball" I pointed to the Zubat and Gengar threw a ball of shadows to the Zubat. Sadly, the attack missed but did get the Zubat to drop 1 of the 4 files and it flew behind one of the storage units as someone walked out of the shadows. It was a girl, alittle shorter than me with a white dress with black sleeves and black trousers with knee high white boots. She flicks her short, bright red hair and extended an arm as the Zubat drop the files to her and landed on her arm. Her clothes were kind of futuristic and she grinned holding the 3 remaining files.
She told the grunts, with a demanding tone "evacuate, we got what we're after" the grunts nodded, called back their pokemon and left, unaware to everyone Eevee had caught the file that had fallen and returned to umbreon. The red-haired girl looked at us and grinned as she continued "looks like we have insects, question is being are they worth it" Tank looked annoyed, Umbreon was annoyed to be called an insect and moved to Tank ready to battle her. She grinned and noticed the badges on Tanks jacket and moved back "guess I'll take care of you another time, we have more pressing matters to deal with" before me or Tank could move she ran to and used her Zubat to burst through the window and fly away. She left before we got to know her name and as I turned to Tank, Jolteon and leafeon returned to me while Eevee and Umbreon returned to Tank with the file that we both just noticed.
The file was light brown with a sticker on the tab of it with black writing on it that read "Project Crumbling Nature" Tank took it from Eevee and started to look through it as I ask "so, what's in that?" He stood there quietly and showed me what was inside. There was a map of the Sinnoh region with 4 dots in set locations, a red dot to the left on a small island, a blue dot in the centre seemingly on the top of the mountain and a green dot over to the right on a bigger island where the resort, survival and fight areas are found near the base of stark mountain. The dots were connected like a huge circle. The file also showed pictures of caves and strange symbols on a wall with just as strange statues either side of the wall at all 3 locations. The pictures had writing on next to them in black marker "Registeal, Regiice and Regirock" each one of them had a list of weaknesses and ideas on how to potentially trap each one of them individually. I turned to Tank, who seemed as curious as me "they're up to their old tricks" Tank nodded as he started "and they plan to catch the Legendary Titans, big question is why these?"
I replied "no clue, depends on what Team Galactics goal is that needs them. There were 3 other files, do you think they're after more than the titans?" He thought and nodded as I continued "means they're after more than these titans" before I could say anything else Tank said "theres no doubt about that if there are other targets then someone needs to stop them, odds are it's not a good thing since they're trying to keep it secret" I knew what he meant, the fact is Team Galactic has a base nearby with a good number of members, if it wasn't secret they wouldn't have sent 3 grunts and a team leader to come get the files. Tank continued "if we intend to stop them, we need more people who can handle this kind of thing, I'll stop them from getting the Legendary Titans" I thought about what he said and I agree, what he says makes sense, to make it to these locations the type of guy Tank is would easily be able to traverse these areas. I responded "alright, I'll see what I can find from local people about anything that may have leaked from Team Galactic while collecting badges" Tank agreed to that and continued "while I go to the base and get as much info as I can at Veilstone City sine that's their main HQ, I'll head there after I collect my last badge in Sunyshore City"
Seemed to make sense and we had a plan, getting more people involved might be difficult since I don't know people who could handle this kind of commitment to beating a large organisation. A person springs to mind but she might not be in the region, Nei. I know she could handle it as she helped me take down Team Rocket 2 years ago. I turn to Tank and say "I'll see who I can find on my travels, I'm leaving the base to you after the last gym battle" he nodded as I left the building with Leafeon and Jolteon not too far behind.