Hello all you lovely readers and writers! First off, I would to say sorry for both waiting so long to update this story which I have developed a bit of writer's block for and updating late in general. Now, I did say I would update this week and I was going to do it yesterday, but then this new anime sucked me in and I've been obsessing over Harvest Moon fics lately, so yeah. Sorry!

Speaking of anime, I've made a list of animes I want to watch and I realize that I probably won't finish that lit until I graduate college. Seriously, there are a lot and I am a very busy girl already. But I have more free time since when I came back n my vacation, I found out that one of the AP classes I was supposed this year is cancelled. So yay! Yet pressure is still on me for tennis. I hope I can survive varsity!

Enough talking. Let's get on with the chapter! But a warning to all of you, if you are a person who is a sensitive person, you might want to skip over the part where Dan and Alice are in a room totally alone (just them, no one else) and go straight to Jade's POV. From that, you might know what happens, but don't worry. It's nothing graphic. There's a reason this isn't rated M, just T. So if you're good with that, then read on!

Disclaimer: I, AKCC, do not own Pokemon at all, just the OCs I created. And there are a lot. I also don't own the song the lyrics below come from!

All my life I've been good,
But now whoa, I'm thinking what the hell
All I want is to mess around
And I don't really care about
If you love me
If you hate me
You can't save me

Chapter Four

Dan's POV

I ran a hand through my hair. "What the hell was I thinking?" I sighed.

"Umm, Dan? Are you okay?" Jade asked through my earpiece.

"I'm fine." I replied. "Have you found anything yet?"

"No. The mansion is just filled with old furniture and a couple of pokémon." she replied. "The furniture is nice though. Ohh! Is that a 17th century chaise?"

"Jade? Focus." I ordered her.

"Sorry. It just looked a lot like the ones I saw when I was looking at artwork in my free time." she apologized.

"It's fine." I rubbed my temples. "What kinds of pokémon are there?"

"Hmm. There's some pretty rare and uncommon pokémon here." she pondered. "Ditto, a few Porygon and I think I saw a Castform or two. Wow. There's plenty of defiant evidence of Team Rocket being based here once. I think there was a lab here."

"That's probably why Madame wanted us to check this place out."I looked up to the sky where my Charizard and Alice's Charizard were circling overhead. "Capture them all. We could use some more pokémon in the labs to help out."

"On it." Jade said before the line disconnected.

I sighed again. What was I thinking about before? Oh yeah. What the hell was I thinking?

"What do you two think?" I looked at my Infernape and my Blaziken who were standing on either side of me. "Do you think I did the right choice by confessing?"

They both gave me a look that says 'Dude, why are you asking us? It's a human problem, not a pokémon problem.'

"Than what do you expect me to do?" I sighed. "I haven't felt anything like this before to anyone before I met her."

They gave me another look that said 'And that's our problem how?'.

"You guys are no help." I glared at them. They shrugged and went back to checking for any people wandering around.

Suddenly, both Charizard ahead dive bombed down and landed in front of me and my other pokémon without a sound, but with a rush of wind.

Before I could scold them, Blaziken and Infernape informed me of two figures climbing up the mountain the mansion was on.

"Charizard, stay here." I told my Charizard as I glared at the two figures. He nodded and I slid down the mountainside with Blaziken and Infernape doing the same thing next to me while Alice's Charizard was flying overhead.

My gloved hands reduced the friction that appeared as I placed my hand in the mountainside as my feet knocked pebbles out of the way of the steep mountain.

I landed on my feet and Blaziken and Infernape stood in a battle stance in front of me. Alice's Charizard was busy circling overhead.

"Remind me again why you wanted to come here again?" a male voice asked.

"I told you! I saw two pokémon circling overhead around here! I want to check if it's a legendary pokémon!" another male voice exclaimed.

Okay, so one of them isn't really the brightest.

I looked up to see Alice's Charizard coming down for a landing. He landed in front of Blaziken and Infernape. Guess he wants to do some battling. I'm fine with it. He's one of the most powerful pokémon in Team Rocket.

"Hey, who are you?" a boy with black hair, a red and white cap on his head, and a Pikachu on his shoulder asked.

"Ash! Wait up!" another boy looking around the same age as the first with spiky auburn hair ran up the mountain with him as they appeared. They both looked around Alice's age. In fact, the first one looked a lot like Alice before she officially joined.

"Gary! I found something!" Ash yelled down to him.

Ash and Gary? Why did those names sound so familiar? Oh yeah! Ash was Alice's brother while Gary was their childhood friend. And they were the ones who made Alice run away in the first place! Now I know why Alice's Charizard wanted to battle.

"You know, little kids shouldn't be playing where they're not supposed to." I glared at them.

"Who are you?" Ash asked.

"Ash, look at his shirt. He's a member of Team Rocket for crying out loud!" Gary yelled at him.

So Ash is the one who isn't the brightest. Go figure.

"Your friend's right. And we're in the middle of a mission here so I appreciate it if you kids just run along. I said.

"What are you even doing here?" Gary asked as he took a pokéball from his belt.

"If I told you that then it wouldn't be an important mission, now would it?" I raised a brow. "Let's just get this over with. Charizard! Flamethrower!"

"Blastoise!" Gary threw his pokéball out and a Blastoise popped out. He stood in front of the two trainers and withdrew into his shell as he took the blast of the Flamethrower head on.

"Pikachu! Thunderbolt!" Ash yelled.

"Pika?" Pikachu looked shocked as he looked at Alice's Charizard. Is it possible that he recognized him? If so, Charizard certainly didn't like it. He only growled in response.

"Pikachu! What are you waiting for?" Ash whined.

"Pi? Pi! Pikachu!" Pikachu launched a Thunderbolt at Charizard.

"Flamethrower again." I yawned. These trainers are rather pathetic.

Charizard opened its mouth and released a stream of fire that cancelled out the Thunderbolt.

"Hydro Pump!' Gary yelled. Blastoise set its cannons and two streams of high pressured water shot out of its two cannons in its shell.

"Flamethrower." I yawned again. This is getting boring. The two attacks collided and a cloud of steam rose.

"Dan. We swept the entire mansion, but we couldn't find any traces of the M-2 Project being here lately." Jade reported in.

"Pull out than. Rendezvous at the back of the mansion. I'll be there shortly. I have some pests to deal with." I told her through the earpiece.

"Roger." she said before disconnecting.

I sighed. Time to finish this. "Charizard! Fly up!" Alice's Charizard flew out of the steam cloud and high above everyone. "Blast Burn!"

A red orb appeared in Charizard's mouth and a glowing red stream of fire was fired at Blastoise and Pikachu. When the attack hit, an explosion appeared. Using this cover, my Charizard quickly flew over and I grabbed onto him and climbed onto his back. I returned Blaziken and Infernape while Alice's Charizard flew behind us.

My Charizard led us to the deserted garden behind the mansion where the grunts, admins, and Jade were waiting. They all had their equipment with them. Both Charizard returned to their pokeballs as the admins called out their psychic pokémon.

"Was the problem taken care of?" Jade asked.

"We have no problems." I told her. "Teleport us back to the base."

With that, the psychic pokémon lifted their arms and their eyes glowed blue. In a flash of light, we were gone.

Alice's POV

Are you sure you want to do this? Lucario asked as I paced around the cave.

"Why does it matter to you? You never even met him." I told her.

Physically no, but I have seen him in your memories. she replied.

"You looked through my mind?" I stopped my pacing. "Why you-!" I charged up an Aura Sphere and threw it at her.

Now, there's no need for unnecessary violence. she deflected it. The Aura Sphere crashed into the cave wall. And yes I did. I was just an immature Riolu back then and I was wondering what kind of person you are.

"You had six years ahead of you to find and you couldn't wait?" I glared at her.

Again, I said I was an immature Riolu. she shrugged.

"One with a giant mouth." I muttered.

Which I rubbed off on of you! Lucario said louder.

"Damn it! I'm already pissed off from you, but finding that jackass Mewtwo here is total Tauros-shit! Fucking machine!" I exclaimed as I threw down the psychic energy indicator.

I proved my point. Lucario said.

I took a deep breath to calm myself. I need to be emotionless. Any kind of feelings will just cloud my judgment. And I really don't need that right now.

I pressed a button on my earpiece. "Sapphire, any progress down there?"

"No ma'am! All teams reported that they found nadda!" she replied. "We're still combing through all the floors though."

"Report to me if you find nothing." I told her.

"Yes, ma'am!" she exclaimed before the earpiece crackled with static.

I leaned against a rock and sighed. I could watch over my team, but this spot was where the signal was the strongest. Well, until five minutes ago when it suddenly cut off. I looked towards my pokémon. A small river was nearby so Blastoise was resting in it while Lucario was near the river, meditating. Pikachu was currently on top of Blastoise, eyes closed.

I took out one of my stars and stared at my reflection in it. My red eyes were basically glowing in this dark cave. My white hair reflecting any light available. When a person looks at me, they will see a girl. A girl who is passive. One who can kill.

I never directly killed anyone. Not that I stayed long enough to see it. I just throw my stars into the flesh of anyone disturbing our missions. I tried to aim for non-vital spots. I don't want to kill. I will hurt though. I don't stay to see them suffer. I run. I run like a coward. Like a weakling. They may die from blood loss or internally bleeding, but how should I know if I'm never there to see them past on. It's their fault though. They always try to get the stars out of their bodies. They really shouldn't. The stars actually block any more blood getting out. I just wound them. They cause their own deaths.

But now, I have to commit a death with my own hands. How though? My only weapons are my stars and that dagger. They're usually meant to wound, not kill. Though I can make them kill though. Should I? Should I take away an innocent life? A life connected to a boy with friends and family? No. It doesn't matter. I was family, but I'm dead. Why should I feel for him? Why should I feel for them? They made their choice. They all turned their backs on me. They all forgot about me. If I don't exist right now, than should they really care? They already lost one. They would have no feelings on losing another. It's decided then I will have no remorse or second thoughts when I commit this sin.

"General Alice!" Sapphire basically screamed in my earpiece.

'Report."I winced when she did.

"We gotta intruder! From the looks of it, it's the Gym Leader!" she said.

That red-headed pest? "Fall back. I'll take care of her." I ordered her.

"Gotcha! People! Get back! Alice will take care of it!" Clearly, Sapphire didn't realize that she had had her earpiece on.

I sighed as I turned it off. I looked towards my pokémon and nodded. Lucario went back to her pokéball on my belt and Pikachu rushed in a yellow blur. Blastoise yawned as I jumped on to of him. He sped off in the river and somehow, it led us towards the entrance where none of my team was there. They listen well. The only person there was that Gym Leader.

"Ah. I see that you finally decided to do something."I said as Blastoise slowed down as we approached her. "Took you long enough."

"Team Rocket." Misty gritted her teeth. "What are you doing here?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" I said as I stepped off of Blastoise's shell. "Unfortunately, I can't really tell you. Top Secret and all that Tauros-shit."

"Whatever it is, I'll stop you! Go! Gyarados!" Misty threw out a pokéball.

"Gyaaa!" it roared when it popped out.

I yawned as it did. "Very well then. If you want to battle it out, then let's just get this finished with. Blastoise, up front." I narrowed my eyes.

"Blastoise." he growled as he rose from the river and stomped his way in front of me.

"Why does he-" Misty stared at Blastoise.

I better stop her from getting any closer. "Blastoise, Hydro Pump." I ordered.

Blastoise set his cannons on his shell and two jet streams of water blasted into Gyarados, pushing it into a cave wall.

"Gyarados!" Misty exclaimed. "Alright then. Gyarados! Use Crunch!"

"Withdraw into your shell." I flipped my hair, bored already. Blastoise retreated back into his shell as Gyarados went on and broke his fangs in Blastoise's indestructible shell. "Now use Ice Beam." I commanded as I narrowed my eyes.

Suddenly, Blastoise poked his head under Gyarados and fired an ice blue beam at it. Gyarados was frozen as his was preoccupied smashing his fangs away.

"Zen Headbutt." I ordered.

Blastoise brought out his remaining limbs while the top of his head glowed blue. He moved his arms under Gyarados and headbutted into its underside. The ice broke as Blastoise pushed Gyarados into the river.

"Now, are we done here?" I asked as Blastoise got out of the water.

"Not yet!" Misty shouted as her Gyarados rose out of the water. Will that thing ever give up?!

"Ma'am! We went through the entire cave, but we found nadda! Not a trace!" Sapphire reported through my earpiece.

"Tch." I clicked my tongue. "Rendezvous at the deepest part of the cave. I have some business to finish here." I told her.

"Roger!" Sapphire shouted before signing off.

"Geez, she really needs to tone it down." I muttered to myself. I looked back towards the battle where Blastoise and Gyarados were wrestling with each other. "Blastoise, enough stalling, finish this thing. Hydro Cannon."

Blastoise pushed Gyarados off of him and set his cannons. Two glowing blue orbs appeared in them and two large glowing blue streams of water shot out. The water crashed into Gyarados who slammed into the cave wall, crack appearing under it.

"Gyarados!" Misty cried as her Gyarados slid down, fainted. She returned it with a defeated look.

While she was busy doing that, Blastoise went back to his pokéball and I brought out some of my stars. With deadly accuracy, I threw them and Misty was dragged and pinned to the cave wall.

"What the-?!" Misty exclaimed.

"Listen here." I slowly walked up to her. "Let this be a warning. Mess in the affairs of Team Rocket again, I won't spare your life." I glared at her.

She gasped when I looked her in her eyes. "It can't be."

I gritted my teeth. It's been six fucking years! How the hell does she remember?! I snapped my fingers behind my back.

"Forget that you even saw me." I hissed. Pikachu swiftly ran in between us and a flash of light appeared from her. I quickly put up an invisible barrier and backed away. I grabbed Pikachu in my arms and ran back into the part of the cave where I was before. I put down the barrier when I was out of sight. I slowed down to a walk and place Pikachu down.

"Ma'am! How did it go?" Sapphire asked. She was there along with the rest of the team.

"She's taken care of. We won't be seeing her meddling anytime soon."I coolly told her. "Prepare for teleport."

I walked up to them and stood in front as some of the grunts brought out their psychic type pokémon. I nodded my head and we all teleported back to the base.

When I opened my eyes, we were back in the training room. I could see that all of the other grunts, admins, and commanders are there.

"Where's Dan?" I asked Jade who was walking towards me with Ruby and Garnet.

"When we came back, he immediately went to somewhere else. He said nothing about where." she answered.

"How did your mission go?" Ruby asked.

"We found nothing. We had a very brief trail of psychic energy, but it was faded and gone by the time we had a sample of it." I replied.

"Sounds like Jade's mission. The only thing she got were pokémon and no Mewtwo." Garnet jerked his thumb towards her direction.

"At least I got something out of it." she defended.

"Yeah. When you weren't busy looking at furniture." Garnet rolled his eyes.

"Both of you, knock it off." I scolded them.

"Sorry, ma'am." they looked at their feet.

"Stay here while I go find Dan." I ordered them.

"Yes ma'am!" they saluted, with Sapphire being the loudest.

"And sapphire, try to tone it down a bit." I added.

"See?! I'm not the only one who thinks that you're loud!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Says the boy who just yelled in my ear!" Sapphire shouted.

I rolled my eyes and exited. I'll just let Jade and Garnet handle them.

I walked down the hall and towards the executives' offices. It was a long shot, but I have to try.

I turned a corner, but a hand suddenly pulled me into a room. On instant, I elbowed whoever grabbed me in the stomach.

"Oof! Relax, it's only me!" I recognized that voice. I turned around and saw Dan wincing while holding his stomach.

"Sorry." I muttered. I felt heat rising up to my cheeks, but I forced it down. I can't show any emotions!

"It's fine." he groaned as he straightened up. "Madame Boss wants us in a video conference. She's having it with Giovanni."

"Giovanni?" I raised a brow. By the way she was talking about him with me in private, she sounded like she hated him.

"Yeah. And she wants us right away." he led me out of the room and down a set of stairs. We walked in silence with no taps this time. Seems like she was able to get the hang of it.

We walked down to the lowest floor where there was a single door at the end of the hall. There was two locks so Dan and I brought out our IDs and swept them through the locks at the same time. The electronic locks beeped and turned green. The locks clicked signaling that they unlocked.

Dan opened the door and let me go in first. I walked in and Dan followed me with the door closing behind us. Giovanni was sitting behind his desk facing the giant monitor behind him which had a view of Madame Boss in her own chair.

"Sir! Madame!" we kneeled at the same time.

"Rise." Giovanni said as he turned around to face us. We did as told.

"So, I see that both of you have returned from your missions. Have you located the M-2 Project?" Madame Boss asked.

"No Madame." I answered. "We found no recent leads at any of the locations."

"I see." she leaned back in her chair.

"Have you had any disturbances?" Giovanni asked.

"We had a few pests meddling, but we took care of them." Dan answered.

"Good." Giovanni nodded.

"We actually have one last lead on the M-2 Project." Madame said. "I want you two to go undercover and find out anything at any means necessary."

Dan decides to take a risk and ask a question. "And what would that be?"

"We had information that the pristine Professor Oak has some data on Mewtwo courtesy of a certain thorn in our side called Ash Ketchum." Giovanni said.

I froze a bit when he said that. I didn't let that show though. I can't let them see.

"I hope that the both of you are able to take care of this new mission amongst any other things." Madame said.

"Take only your commanders to go undercover. The rest of your teams will hide and strike when the time is right." Giovanni added. "Both of you are dismissed.

Dan and I saluted before walking out of the office. We walked up the stairs and through the halls until we reached a private training room reserved only for Dan and I. There were no security cameras in the room, so we were safe.

I stood in the middle of the room as Dan closed the door tightly. I clenched my fists tightly as I tried not to let anything show. I can't. I just can't.

"Alice." Dan placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Don't. Just don't." I told him.

"I saw him today." Dan said.

My eyes widened. "You what?" I turned towards him.

"I was on my mission when he and his friend interrupted us. I battled him before we had to retreat." Dan said.

"Then he will definitely know." I said quietly.

"What do you mean?" Dan asked.

"I met one of his old travelling partners today. She walked in. I had to battle her and made sure that she doesn't disturb us. But when I warned her, she knew." I said quietly.

"And you're afraid of her telling him?" Dan asked.

"Yes. If she was able to see that it's me after all these years, than he would have no problem." I said.

"So you're not going to do it than?" Dan asked.

"No. I am going to do it. I have to." I replied. After my little debate in my head, I confirmed it. I need to. To get it out of my head.

"You're not serious." Dan said.

"But I am." I narrowed my eyes. "I know I haven't done anything like this before, we all have to make choices we have to live it. Well this is my choice. I don't care if they all hate me, they all forgot about me. They didn't care about me. You saw how they were at that funeral, they didn't give a piece of shit about me. And since they don't, I don't care what they think. To them, I'm a total stranger who is also a murderer."

"You are not a murderer." he said.

"Not yet. But once this mission is over with. I will be." I said as I faced away from him.

"You're not like that." Dan said as he wrapped his arms around me.

"How do you know that?" I asked him as I closed my eyes..

"Because we known each other for six years. and in those six years, I somehow fell in love with you." he said quietly.

"Dan. please don't. I can't handle any of this anymore." I begged as he turned me around to face him.

"Just hear me out." he lifted my chin up. My eyes snapped out when I felt something on my lips. I saw Dan was kissing me. I lost all feelings in my body as I closed my eyes and just let it happen. His arms wrapped tightly around my waist and started to push me back against a wall. I placed my hands on his chest and just kissed him back.

He broke and started to kiss my neck. I gasped when I felt his hand snake to the back of my neck, where the zipper to my shirt was.

"Dan. I'm not sure if I'm ready." I told him, staring up at the ceiling while he was still kissing my neck.

"Do you trust me?" he stopped and stared at me in the eyes.

"Of course." I nodded.

"Then trust me when I tell you this, I will never do anything to harm you." he said.

"You already had this planned?!" I pushed him away.

"I'm always prepared." he smirked as he held up a wrapped condom. I glared at him, but he quickly pulled me in another kiss so I forgot about it.

I felt him rip off my vest and gloves while he did the same to his. I kicked off my boots and Dan did the same as he pushed me away from the wall and towards one of the mattress we used for fighting practice in the room.

I gasped again when we pushed me onto the mattress. I never seen him this commanding before. I have to say, I find it attractive.

Dan crawled over me and took off his shirt. I placed my hands on his bare chest as he kissed me again. I wrapped my hands around his neck as he moved down to my neck. I felt him take off my shirt and skirt. I ditched the leggings and converted to a mini skirt long ago. I sighed as he pulled away to remove his pants. While he did so, I quickly grabbed a blanket from a pile next to the mattress and draped it over us as Dan went in for another kiss.

We laid there, making out with only me in my bra and underwear and Dan in his boxers. I passionately kissed him as our legs got tangled with each other in the blanket. Finally, Dan decided to unwrap the condom.

I'll end it there. I know that you know what happened the rest of the night. If you don't, let's just say that I never felt so alive in my entire life.

Jade's POV

"Where do you think they are?" I asked as the four of us walked down the hall.

"Didn't Alice say something about finding Dan?" Ruby brought up.

"Yeah, but she said that a while ago." Sapphire pointed out.

"They did have to report to Madame." Garnet added. "Maybe they're doing that."

"It's been a while though." I pointed out.

"Hey look! Their private training room is locked!" Sapphire noted as we passed by. "Whatcha think they're doing in there?"

"I don't know. We can't really go in there." Ruby said.

"And it's soundproof." I added.

"Wait, Sapph got superhuman hearing! Maybe she can hear what's going on in there!" Garnet exclaimed.

"Garnet! That's an invasion of privacy especially to our Generals!" I scolded him.

"Oh my Arceus!" Sapphire gasped.

"What? What did you hear?" Ruby asked.

"I can never ever forget that! Seriously?! Who does that?!" she cried out.

"Sapphire! Are you okay?"I asked her.

"No! That was plain nasty! Argh! I never thought they would do it!" she replied.

Horror washed across my face and Ruby's as we realized what she meant.

"Do what?" Garnet asked.

I facepalmed. We lived with this guy for almost all of our lives, yet did he not learn anything from our health homeschooling lessons?!

"Garnet, I don't know how to put this, but when a female and a male love each other very much-" Ruby started before Sapphire hit him.

"Idiot! That is not how ya explain that kinda thing!" she exclaimed.

"Maybe we should discuss this somewhere else." I suggested. I looked up to see the cameras currently down for the moment, but it was still risky to talk about it here.

"Let's go to our rooms." Ruby suggested. We went to a set of stairs and walked down to where our rooms were. We quickly ducked into Sapphire's and Ruby's connecting room and closed both of the doors.

"Okay." Ruby said as he pulled away the screen separating both rooms. "What should we discuss first?"

"What the thing everyone is talking about which I don't know?" Garnet spoke up.

"Garnet, that is a talk for another time. It's a very sensitive subject." I patted his head.

"Remember these are our Generals we're talking about. We can't let anyone else know about them." Ruby pointed out.

"Relax. Who's gonna know 'cept for us?" Sapphire waved it off.

"Hey guys." Bree greeted as she and Hood poked their heads in the doorway.

"Oh right. There's them." Sapphire said. "And why didn't ya lock yer damn door?!" she screamed at Ruby.

"I thought I did!" he cowered.

"Yeah he did, but I used Hood's tools to unlock the door and walk in here." Bree explained as she tossed a wrench in the air, which was caught by Hood.

"Without my permission though." Hood grumbled as he closed the door behind them when they walked in.

"Oh! I get it now! Alice and Dan were having sex!" Garnet exclaimed out of nowhere.

"What?!" Bree's and Hood's jaws dropped to the floor.

"Ya don't just say that with other people in the same damn room!" Sapphire yelled at him.

"Now, guys. Let's act calm about this." I settled them down. Not very successful though.

"Calm? You really want us to act calm while our friends to doing it in a private room where no one can get into?!" Ruby exclaimed.

"How long did you guys know about this?! When did they get together?!" Bree demanded.

"Will everyone just shut up?!" I yelled. "Damn it, everyone's acting like it's the end of the world or something."

"To be fair, this is Dan and Alice we're talking about. Up until now, they haven't really been on those kinds of terms." Hood pointed out.

"And what? She's only 16 while he's 18!" Bree added.

"Guys, they're our friends, right?" I asked them. They all nodded. "Then we should be happy for them. They finally see that they like each other after years of obvious signs to each other. If they're happy, then why should we care?"

"She's right." Sapphire said. "I mean, we all have to do it at some point in our lives. They just wanted to do it now."

"Yeah, but he does anything to harm her in anyway, I'll pound him personally!" Bree threatened.

"Bree, be reasonable." Ruby said. "We all care for her and what happened six years ago, we can help protect her if anything happens to her."

"Let's just hope that nothing traumatic happened to her." I said quietly. "We all know that she's alright emotionally unstable."

"She tries to hide it under her cold hard exterior, but she's still troubled inside." Garnet added.

"She's a ticking bomb about to blow." Hood spoke up.

"What do you mean?" Bree asked.

"Last year, I gave Dan a radio and satellite kit. Whatever he hears, I still get the data from it. He used it a few days ago and he listened to a conversation between Alice and Madame Boss." Hood explained.

"Oh. He does know that we can all get in trouble for that, right?" Ruby asked.

"Of course he does." Hood nodded. "In that conversation, Madame wanted Alice to kill."

"Who?" Sapphire asked.

"Ash Ketchum." he stated.

We all gasped. That's definitely not going to end well.

"Oh no. She's going to be under emotional strain if she sees him again." I sat down on Sapphire's bed.

"What do you think she'll do?" Garnet asked as he held my hand.

"I don't know. It's a direct order from Madame so she can't really deny it." Hood said.

"But he's her brother! She can't really do it. Can't she?" Sapphire asked as Ruby was comforting her.

"It's all up to her. Only she decides what she's going to do." Hood shrugged.

"And you withheld this information from us?" Bree asked.

"What choice did I have? I could be killed if anyone knew that I know this. It's supposed to be top secret, known only to Alice." Hood narrowed his eyes.

"She's our friend though! It's our duty to see that nothing like this ever happens to her!" Bree raised a fist and swung it towards Hood, but he easily caught it.

"But it's still her life. We can't control happens in it." Hood embraced her in a hug as Bree started to cry. We have never seen her cry before. But I have to say, we care a lot about Alice. It hits us hard.

"We have to promise. We tell no one about what we discussed in this room ever." Ruby stated. We did.

I looked around the room. Hood and Bree were hugging each while Ruby was comforting Sapphire. Myself, I had my head on garnet's shoulder. I guess that we all have someone to love.

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