Walking through the the streets of Pyrite Town, Wes and Rui eventually saw a large building on the other side of a nearby bridge.
"This is Pyrite Colosseum." Wes said as he looked at the building.
"Then let's go and get you registered then." Rui said happily as she ran past Wes towards the Colosseum.
She was barely arms distance when Wes grabbed her by the arm stopping her in her tracks.
"I thought I told you to stay close to me. Do you remember what happened last time you strayed to far from my side?" He asked while arching an eyebrow.
Rui looked at Wes sheepishly and rubbed the back of her neck.
"Sorry," She replied. "I'm just excited, To tell you the truth, I've never seen a colosseum tournament before, but I've always wanted to see one since I was a little girl."
Wes just stared at Rui silently, not even opening his mouth to respond. Walking across the bridge, the group stood in front of two large metal doors.
"Let's go inside!" Rui said as she went into the building with Wes following behind her.
Entering the building, Wes looked around this new environment. The lobby itself was small yet comfortable. Hanging above the doorway that led to the arena was a large TV that was used to show the tournaments that were taking place here. In the left corner of the lobby stood a line for a Pokemon healing machine and in the right was a PC that trainers often used. Wes soon saw the receptionist standing behind the counter in front of them with a smile on her face, as he and his group walked over to her.
"Good Afternoon, welcome to the Pyrite Town Colosseum!" The receptionist said happily. "how can I help you?"
"Hey there," Wes began "I'd like to register, for the tournament, please."
The receptionist's smile faded away upon hearing that statement
"I'm sorry," She began sadly "The tournament has already begun, I'm afraid you're going to have to wait for the next, tournament to register."
"What!?" Wes shouted. "This is kind of important, so I need to be registered now! I don't have time to sit around and wait!"
Shocked at Wes' sudden reaction, Rui ran in front of him and started to push him away from the receptionist.
"Wes, stop!" She shouted before looking back at the receptionist. "I'm sorry about my friend," She said apologetically "Can you please tell us when the next tournament is?"
"I-it's in a f-few hours." The receptionist replied, completely terrified of the cold glare that Wes was giving her.
Rui saw Wes' face and frowned at him before smacking him on the arm.
"Okay, we'll be back then." Rui said happily before guiding Wes and his Pokemon out of the Colosseum.
Outside the arena, Wes gave the girl beside him an annoyed glare.
"What was that all about!?" Rui snapped at the sandy haired trainer.
"What!?" Wes snapped back.
"You didn't have to go off on her like that!"
"I thought we were there to help the Shadow Pokemon!?"
"We were, but we couldn't enter right now, and you shouting and scaring that woman wasn't going to help anything!"
Wes and Rui glared at each other for a moment before Rui let out a long sigh.
"Look, I want to help the Shadow Pokemon, just as much as you do, but we can't do anything right now." She said this time in a much softer tone "Let's come back in a few hours and we'll enter the next tournament."
Wes closed and let out a sigh of irritation as the Rui softly smiled at him. The group then walked away from the colosseum. However, they didn't go far when they heard the sound of two people arguing.
Following the source of the now shouting voices, Wes and Company found themselves back at the town entrance when they saw a young man and and a police officer snapping at each other. The younger man had green hair and was wearing a blue coat and pants with a yellow and orange design. On his forehead was pair of orange goggles.
"How many times do I have to tell you, Mr. Johnson!? I don't know anything!" The young man snapped harshly
"Do you think I'm stupid, Cail!?" Johnson snapped in response. "I know your hiding something from me!"
"No! I'm! Not!" Cail shouted angrilly as he pulled out his pockets on his clothes. "Look do you see anything!? No! I told that I'm not hiding anything! Now why don't you run along and scarf down a donut or something!"
"Don't toy with me, Cail!" Johnson snapped "I'll let you go for now, but if your lying to me, there will be hell to pay!"
With that said Johnson stormed off leaving Cail alone with a smirk on his face.
"Idiot," He said to himself "I told you I wasn't hiding anything from you."
Wes and Rui looked at the young man suspiciously before walking over to him. Cail saw the two coming towards them and crossed his arms.
"What do you guys want?" He asked. "Are you tourists or something?"
Wes and Rui stopped in front of him but the did not respond to his question.
"you better leave town for the good of your health." Cail said as he let out a somewhat menacing chuckle.
Wes and Rui glared at the young man in front of them, not liking the attitude he was giving them.
"If your trying to intimidate us, it's not working." Wes said to him "Now, could you tell us what you and that guy were arguing about?"
"None of your business." Cail said.
"Really cause it sounded to me like you were hiding something from him." Wes replied.
"I wasn't hiding anything!" Cail snapped harshly. "Now you and your girlfriend had best beat it before I-"
Wes did not even let Cail finish that threat. Grabbing him by the throat, he shoved the him against the wall of a building.
"First of all, she's not my girlfriend." Wes said calmly yet angrily. "Second of all, it's not wise to threaten me, because I can guarantee you that it won't work out well for you. Now, I'm not in a good mood right now, so I suggest you had best tell me what is your hiding, or I'm going to make sure you end up in the hospital."
"Look I'm, telling the truth I'm not hiding anything!" Cail said with panic in his voice as Wes clenched his fist ready to strike.
"Wes, let him go!" Rui snapped.
Wes held Cail by the throat for a moment longer before releasing his grip. Cail fell to his and coughed violently as he tried to get the air back into his lungs.
"Look," He wheezed "If you want to find out whats going on, go talk to Officer Johnson. He should be able to tell you what you wanna know."
Wes glared down at Cail until Rui put her hand on his shoulder and tried to get him to go the opposite direction. Wes eventually turned around but not before looking back at Cail who had now gotten back to his feet.
"I've got my eye on you." Wes said in low tone that made Cail nervous.
Wes and his group eventually walked away from Cail and made there way to the Police Station.
Entering the station door, the group say an elderly police officer sitting behind a desk. Although the officer was the first thing to that Rui saw, Wes was looking at something completely different. Behind the officer, were several wanted posters of different criminals. Wes grew very worried for a second but calmed down when he noticed his face wasn't on any of the pictures.
"I don't how I'm not wanted after all the trouble I've caused here in the past, I don't even know why I'm not being recognized by anyone in town." Wes thought to himself "I guess that's a good thing though, it makes things a whole lot easier for me."
Taking a moment to now actually look at all the posters, Wes recognized several of the faces that were on them. Several of these criminals have been wanted for a long time, Wes even battled a few of them during his time with Team Snagem.
Wes looked at all the posters as well as the rewards for the criminal's capture. However the poster that caught the young trainers attention the most was the one at the end. The criminal had black eyes and was bald headed. What really made him stand out though was he his huge eyebrows as well as his gigantic mustache. Glaring at the poster, Wes read the description under the criminal's picture.
Gonzap
Leader of Team Snagem
Wanted for: Robbery, Assault, Murder, and Stealing Pokemon
Reward: $500,000
Dead or Alive
Wes simply stared a the picture with a look of hatred on his face. The history he had with his former boss went all the way back to when he first became part of Team Snagem. It was Gonzap who had taught Wes everything he knew about snagging and stealing Pokemon. The two would often go on several big missions together, just the two of them. There was always a form of comradery between the two of them. However, that comradery was now nothing but a fading memory that was soon to be blown away from his mind like dust in the wind.
Still, Wes couldn't help but wonder what became of Gonzap and where he was now hiding, but in the end, Wes didn't know or care. All he could do now was shake his head at the poster in front of him.
Now looking at the Elderly Police officer. Wes opened his mouth only to be silenced by someone bumping into him. Looking behind him, the young trainer saw another police officer with a panicked look on his face. It was the same police officer that was talking to Cail.
"Chief!" The officer shouted. "Chief, We've got trouble! there's been talk that thugs have been using strange Pokemon!"
"strange pokemon?" Wes asked himself in thought. "could be talking about..."
Looking back at Rui, she gave him a worried look, she was probably wondering the same thing.
"Calm down, Johnson, this is nothing I haven't heard before." The police chief replied calmly.
Looking back at Johnson Wes and Rui went up to him.
"Um, may we ask you a question?" Rui asked him earning a nod in response. "Did these Pokemon seem highly aggressive and violent?"
"Um, yeah, they did." Johnson replied. "Tell me how do you know about these Pokemon."
"That's none of your concern," Wes quickly said as he crossed his arms. "All you need to know is that we may be able to help you if you tell us everything you know."
Looking into Wes's eyes Johnson could tell that he wasn't kidding around.
"Well," Johnson began "There's not really much I can tell you. Ever since these guys from a group called Cipher came into town, things have gotten more crazy than normal."
Wes and Rui looked at Johnson with confused expressions on both of they're faces.
"Cipher?" They asked in Unison.
"Sorry," Johnson said "I can't tell you anything about them cause I don't know anything about them. I only know the groups name because two men came running in here last night saying there were from Cipher and started begging for me to arrest them."
Johnson pointed towards a closed door that must have lead to the cells. Suddenly Rui had an idea.
"May we go inside and talk to the two men?" She asked Johnson.
"Um, I'm not really allowed to let visitors into the station jail area." He said hesitantly
"Please?" Rui asked sweetly.
Staring at the girl in front of him Johnson saw how cute she was acting as she gave him large adorable puppy dog eyes and a face that no one could say no to. Johnson tried to look away from Rui but he just couldn't.
"All right, I'll let you in, just stop staring at me like that." Johnson begged as he tried not to look her in the eyes. "but I can only allow you to be in there for five minutes."
A smile beamed onto Rui's face as Wes just stood behind her dumbfounded.
"Thank you, officer Johnson." She said happily
Johnson walked away from the group in front of him and made his way to the jail area door.
"How the hell did you do that?" Wes asked Rui.
"Oh, a girl has her ways." She said in response as she brushed a strand of hair from her face.
Wes rolled his eyes at her response as he heard the jail area door open.
"The two men are in the first cell on the left." Johnson said "Remember you only have five minutes."
Wes and Rui both nodded their heads and went inside. Both were very surprised to see that the jail area was almost completely empty, They figured a town know for scum and villainy would have many of it's notorious thugs behind the bars, but there were only three people in here.
Knowing they didn't have long Wes and Rui made they're way to the cell they were told about. However when they reached the cell they were surprised to see two familiar faces.
"Crap, Trudly, look!"
"Come on man, haven't you already humiliated us enough?"
The look of surprise soon left Wes's and it was replaced with a look of amusement.
"Man," Wes said to two thugs. "When Johnson said two men came in begging to be arrested, I should have know he was talking about you two."
"Hey what choice did we have?" Folly said "After you beat Miror B. we decided to turn ourselves in for stealing that truck. Being arrested is a far better punishment than facing an angry Miror B."
"We don't care how you two got arrested." Wes snapped as he stepped up to them "We came here because we know you guys have an idea on what's been going on around here." Kneeling down, the young trainer gave them the glare that always made the two thieves cringe in fear when they saw it. "Your going to tell us what we want to know, do you understand me?"
Both Trudly and Folly nodded their heads violently as Rui stepped up to them.
"Now," Rui began "Officer Johnson said that you two were from a group called Cipher. Tell us, who that is, what they're doing to pyrite town, and what is they're connection with the Shadow Pokemon."
"Okay, yes, we're with Cipher, but we don't know what's going on, we swear." Trudly said "All you need to know is that you better not mess with Cipher if you know what's good for you."
"Sound's like a challenge to me. You had best be telling the truth about not knowing anything." Wes warned even though he didn't believe them.
Without another word Wes and Rui looked at the clock and saw that they're five minutes was up. Both of them turned they're backs and left the cell. Neither of them saw the evil grins on the face's of Trudly and Folly as they were leaving.
"I can't believe they fell for that lie." Folly said
"Yeah, what dopes," Trudly responded "Looks like it's time to put Miror B.'s plan into action."
Both of the thieves chuckled menacingly as Folly held up pair of key's that they had swiped. It was the key's to the cell door.
Back in the lobby, Johnson looked at Wes and Rui.
"Well, did you get any info out of them?" he asked the two
Wes shook his head in response.
"They swear that they don't know anything," Wes began. "but I know that they're lying, keep a close eye on them."
"I will," Johnson responded with a nod of his head. "I think that there is someone else who may know something about what's happening. Why don't you go talk to Duking, our towns chief enforcer. I'm sure he may have an idea of what's going on."
"That sounds a little bit promising," Rui said before looking at Wes. "What do you think Wes, should we give it a shot?"
Thinking they really had nothing to lose Wes simply shrugged his shoulders.
"Sure, why not." He said as he began to make his way to the exit.
Rui turned around and bowed to Johnson and the Police chief.
"Thank you both for your help." She said before running to catch up with Wes who had already left.
Now all alone Johnson turned to his boss.
"What do think chief," He began "You think those two might be able to actually be able to help us out?"
"They seem pretty intent on it." The chief responded before smiling "I like these youngsters they got a lot of spunk."
"I'm not sure it was my best idea to send them to Duking though." Johnson said worriedly.
The chief nodded his head in agreement. "Yeah that wasn't your best idea, especially-"
"KOFFING USE SMOG!" A voice suddenly shouted.
In a split second the enter station was filled with a dark green gas both the Police chief and Johnson coughed gagged and choked as the smoke that had caught them off guard became to much for them to bear. The two eventually fell unconscious as the smog began to clear. Coming out of the jail area was Trudly and Folly who had smiled at their handiwork while Folly returned Koffing to it's Pokeball.
"Well, that was easier than I thought it would be." Trudly said with a chuckle.
"What did you expect from Pyrite's pathetic cops?" Folly said. "Now, let's get moving we need to keep moving on with, Miror B.'s plan."
laughing evilly both thugs ran out of the station.
Author's Note: Annnnnnnnnnd We're back! I though I'd never get an update done again. I want to apologize for another lengthy delay. I've had a bad case of writers block that just wouldn't go away. I know what I want to write a just have trouble putting into words. However now that it's gone I can continue on with the story. Hopefully there won't be another long delay.
Anyway now here come's the fun part, adding my own plot into the story. Oh boy this is gonna be interesting. Hopefully I won't make you cringe to much.
I apologize for any grammar errors you may find.
It seems there's big trouble brewing in Pyrite town. What is Miror B.'s big plan? It looks like we're gonna find real soon.
I'll see you all next chapter. :)