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I would like to start this chapter with a bit of a disclaimer as from now on the theme of the chapters is going to be slightly more on the mature side of things so reader discretion is advised. Also, Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. And any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Chapter 47: Interrogation

On Frost's orders, Stone had left Ash with his friends and was now back at the mobile HQ where Frost's Noivern had just brought in the shipping company's manager.

"Ember when did he arrive?" Stone asked as regarding this unexpected package.

"Just a few minutes ago, Good job Noivern." Ember added as she fed him his favorite berry.

Stone looked at the man again and observed the obvious bruise on his face.

[He was knocked out cold but them so if he is gonna talk we need to wake him first.]

"Get him prepared and also ask Spark to get some dirt on him, the kind we can use to get info out of him quick," Stone asked Ember as the woman in question nodded and dragged him away.

30 Minutes Later

(SPLASH)

Brown woke up in a dimly lit room, he had a terrible headache and his vision was blurry but he knew that he wasn't alone in there he could barely make out two figures standing a considerable distance from the metal chair he was tied to.

[Who are they?... where am I?] such questions flooded his mind as he was starting to feel drowsy again, although this was interrupted by another glass of water being thrown on him.

He wheezed as he jolted awake.

"Don't go sleeping on us now you little shit." He heard in a feminine voice.

"Joseph Brown..." He heard his name from the other figure this voice being coarser obviously belonging to the towering man on the left of the women.

"You have quite the file here, I must say I am impressed." he continued.

All Brown could do was listen at this point.

"Look us Rangers don't like to beat around the bush so I will ask this right now."

"What did your company ship for Team Galactic other than building materials for their new base, we have a manifesto here that says that two weeks ago your company shipped a nonspecified package of non-specific dimensions."

"We need to know what was in that shipment." The women added.

Brown had now remembered the events that led him to this as he smiled wickedly and replied

"Haha...(Cough) and why should I sell my clients out like this."

This got him a free punch from the women, red hair as he finally got a glimpse.

"Such an asshole." she cursed as she stepped back.

After a small coughing fit the Brown heard the man's voice again.

"Well, we knew you would say something like that...(Sigh) I wish it didn't have to come to this." the man said as he left the room itself, leaving Brown alone with the redhead.

"Tina Brown... nice name for your daughter Mr. Brown." the redhead started as the realization dawned upon Brown.

"Don't you dare think of touching her!." Brown growled in anger.

"Oh... such vigor if only you showed this before." the women teased as she read Brown's file again.

"Lumious School Of Business Studies isn't all that far from here Brown so I would like you to choose your next word very carefully." she threatened.

"What was in that shipment?"

"I don't know they never told me."

"LIES!" the woman slammed the file on the table as she yelled.

Brown gulped at the fact that he was caught lying.

"Look my colleague is about to walk in with your Daughter pretty soon so if you don't want her to see your true self you better start talking honestly because otherwise not only will your daughter get to see the true scumbag her father is she will also get a front-row seat to when I will put a bullet through your head."

Ember knew that Brown was broken obviously his daughter was not involved as she was a civilian but Brown did not need to know that. Ember played with his feelings for his daughter and with Stone's on point acting, in the end, got all the important information out of him even confirming the location of the Galactic base.

It was around one when she finished getting want she wanted and was now lounging in the mobile HQ's many couches with Stone writing the follow-up report for Frost and the others.

You can say she was lounging but the information she got from Brown had her visibly unsettled.

Spark had let them know that Frost and Rain had returned and Leaf was currently patching them up, they didn't really worry too much about the injuries considering Leaf was there helping them patch up.

Another half-hour of waiting and Leaf returned from escorting Rain back to her room.

"Sup guys!" she said as she waved her gloved hand towards the duo of Ember and Stone.

"How are they?" Stone asked.

"Rain got cut pretty badly and there was a lot of bleeding but Leader had already got that controlled when I walked in so nothing she can't handle other than this both of them had few burns here and there and when I asked them how they got them... well it seems there teamwork is a bit off after so many years." Leaf ended with a sigh as she propped herself on the same couch as Ember.

"I see..." Stone replied as Ember was still silent.

Noticing this silence Leaf asked the usually roaring Ember

"Well you interrogated the guy right found something?"

Ember looked at Leaf seriously as she answered

"Yeah... we got him to talk." as she looked at Stone and then back at Leaf

"But the situation is worse than we thought... much worse."

"What is wrong Ember you usually aren't like this." Leaf said now a bit unnerved.

"It's not a base of operations for Galactic... it's a research laboratory as well." Stone replied in place of Ember.

"The special Shipments were a mix of Pokemon, weapons, lab equipment and lots of medical supplies," Ember said as she clenched her fists in frustration.

Leaf was smart enough to put two and two together it was a laboratory experimenting on Pokemon illegally.

"Arceus.." Leaf muttered in shock.

"Dammit, how did we not catch hold of this sooner how did this slip under the Kalos HQ's radar?" Stone growled.

Spark who had just returned after getting Noivern to rest in a quiet place was also not in the best mood right now.

"Babe so you know what Brown told us?" Leaf asked immediately.

"Yeah... I was watching the footage of his interrogation live, it's fucked up there I am not sure we should get Leader and big sis up to speed asap." Spark replied as he took an empty stool and sat down.

After a few seconds of silence, Spark continued

"Well, I did a bit of research on the medical equipment they were transporting and although there wasn't a lot of it some of the materials were similar to what they use at Prof. Sycamore's lab to study mega evolution but the list also had a lot of weird names that were numbered probably named so to keep the contents a secret."

"So basically it is related to Mega Evolution but we are not quite sure right now." Leaf said.

"Yeah." Spark replied weakly.

"Leaf how long do you think Leader and big sis need to rest for? Because we need them to know this." Ember asked in a hurry.

"Well...they need about a day or two but considering them they will just come here in the evening."

"Good that gives us a few hours... alright everyone get back to work we need as much information on this as possible after all we need to brief our seniors." Stone said and continued

"Spark take Leaf with you and get more info on the encrypted shipment products and the medical supplies, medicine is Leaf strong suite, Ember take over this report for me and complete it send it to Captain Forester when you are done." Stone said taking temporary command.

"What about you then." Ember pouted as she was given the boring work.

"I need to get Ash back here I am sure Leader would want the champions to also know about this."

With that said all of them went back to work and as they all left Ember behind with an incomplete report to write she sighed

"This day could not have gone worse."

Author's Notes:-

Yeah... I am sorry for the almost two-month delay a lot happened in December exams, Christmas, New Year, etc. I could not find the time to write. Anyways I hope you guys have enjoyed the story so far and I would like to hear your opinions on the same in the comments below. Be sure to follow so you don't miss any updates (the late ones as well yeah.. sorry for that.).

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