Popito stuck his index finger in his mouth and licked it profusely, then he took it out and raised it to test the direction of the wind. He felt nothing, and it was of no use whatsoever because he was in a cave, but he did it every time before starting his favorite activity of throwing rocks at a trash can. The trash can, which had been placed a few feet away from him, had Ghetsis' face painted on its surface. There weren't any trainers around, and it was quiet enough for the rocks to make the perfect reverberations at the contact with the metal, it was the perfect time to get a rock throwing session going. Popito reached into his pocket and took out a rock, he kissed it, leaving rather disgusting traces of gravel on his lips, and then threw it with energy at Ghetsis.
Suddenly Helma appeared, she walked in front of the trash can at the same time the rock traveled toward it with violent intent, and hit her hard on the temple. She grabbed her head with both of her hands and crouched down while screaming, out of anger rather than pain, although it was obvious that the pain was fueling her anger. Without hesitation, Helma grabbed the same rock that hurt her moments ago and threw it back at Popito with scary precision. He covered his face with his arm, which turned out to be a wise move since the rock hit him hard on his forearm.
Popito uncovered his face and saw Helma running at him, she tackled him to the ground, grabbed him by the collar, then raised her fist in the air,
"dear lord! Please don't hit me, if you let me go I'll let you kiss me!" He shouted, alerting the ears of Jonny who was nearby. He deduced the situation and went over to help the rock throwing rascal, arriving at the right time to see Helma raised her arm, preparing to strike. Jonny walked over to them with his hands in his pockets, and said nothing,
"help me!" Popito shouted at Jonny whilst trying to knock Helma off him. He was too weak to overpower her however, and stayed under her,
"why are you fighting?" Jonny asked in the most monotonous way possible,
"he threw a rock at me," Helma said as she finally let Popito stand up,
"again?" Jonny asked, "how many times has it happened?"
"Just twice," Popito answered as he dusted off his vest, "hey, I've been throwing rocks here since before you got here so excuse me for not minding your wandering heads,"
"did you use to get in fights like these?" Jonny asked once more,
"we actually met when we joined the remnants," Helma said,
"that can't be true," Jonny said,
"it is," Popito answered, "most of the time we fellow cave dwellers do not meet each other, the ruins are massive, now add to that the old part of the tunnels and victory road and you have a giant underground city,"
"indeed," a calm voice resonated around the cave, "perfect for starting a criminal organization, wouldn't you think?"
The three stood on their spot, silently looking around for the source of the serene yet somehow threatening voice; there was something in the soothing tone and the uncanny reach it had around the cave that made it appalling. They could tell someone was walking toward them, the sound of the steps became clearer and louder as it went on. Then, out of the shadows, the silhouette of a woman became visible. She stepped out of the darkness, letting the faint light on the place reveal her, it was Sabrina. She was wearing her classic red top and white pants combo. plus two black bracelets with glowing blue light coming out of them, one on each hand.
"who is she?" Popito asked as he pointed at her without a care, prompting Helma to look at him like an alien before replying to his stupid question,
"you are kidding right? That's Sabrina, the Saffron City gym leader from Kanto who specializes in psychic types, what do you think she's doing here though? Do you think she'd give me her autograph if I ask her?"
"She's probably confused," Jonny said, "maybe all that hanging around psychic pokemon finally took its toll on her brain, I'll ask her."
Jonny stepped in front of Popito and Helma and put his hands around his mouth, "there aren't any criminal organizations here miss, I promise...hey, nice bracelets, do they make them for men?"
"Jonny! Why did you asked her that?" Helma panicked,
"calm down, I'm taking her temperature."
Sabrina let out a small chuckle, there was a distinctive radiance in her unusually sun colored eyes,
"wanna see what I can do with them?" she said.
An alakazam came out of the shadows behind her, with the same glow on its eyes as her. Its long golden whiskers moved majestically until the pokemon stopped and stood right next to Sabrina. The guys panicked and took a step back, Jonny and Popito realized the severity of the situation, which Helma had intuited well before them. Alakazam shouted its name and closed its eyes, then a pink glow appeared all around its body. Suddenly the pokemon started floating, it put the two spoons it was carrying together and visibly prepared an attack. Alakazam shouted again and released a pink aura, however, instead of striking Jonny and company it directed the attack at Sabrina herself. She smiled and raised her fist completely calm; the pink beam hit her and her bracelet absorbed it on its entirety. Jonny put his hands around his mouth again, although this time he was scared,
"excuse me, I don't know what you want with us, but I can assure you we don't want any problem...!"
Sabrina extended her open hand at him, pushing the air. Then she quickly pulled it toward her and made her hand into a fist, as if she were grabbing Jonny and pulling him toward her. Suddenly Jonny started floating, and he flew rather violently to Sabrina until he was right in front of her, still floating,
"I don't care what you say at this moment," Sabrina moved Jonny's face right next to hers, he was scared to death, "because I know what you will do later, you and all your friends, and Grimsley, will bring nothing but problems and misery to the good people of Unova. If you continue with whatever it is that you are doing I will be forced to stop you, and I will stop you, be sure of that. However, I'll give you one chance, and only one chance, so get this through that head of yours, give up NOW and disappear, or face the consequences, my consequences."
She opened her hand and pushed it forward again, causing Jonny to fly out all the way until he hit Helma and Popito and the three of them fell on the ground,
"tell that to your boss," Sabrina continued, "I'll be back soon and if you are still here I'll make sure you beg for my mercy. so accept my mercy now."
Sabrina and Alakazam went back into the darkness and disappeared, while Jonny and company wasted no time to get up and run away scared, even though Sabrina was already gone. They stumbled their way around the cave trying to find a safe place to hide. Reaching a corner, Jonny waved his hand on the air decisively, telling Popito and Helma to follow him, and he led them as a group to the girls' bedroom, hidden behind a couple of fake boulders which they took no time to move away. Inside the room, amongst the many single beds covered with white and light blue sheets, they found Lucia sitting on one of the beds, preparing cheese balls whilst and eating some of them.
The guys rushed to her and frantically started explaining what had just happened to them as best as they could under their current anxious state. Helma told her about how Sabrina manifested herself in front of their eyes and showed them the extent of her and her pokemon's power; Jonny told her about how she lifted him up in the air and took him right up to her beautiful yet scary face to threaten him as well as the remnants and Grimsley; and Popito was too scared to formulate proper sentences so he just rambled on about how it was the end of him.
Lucia put the cheese balls down and clasped her hands seemingly unamused, but listened attentively to their every word. She waited until they calmed down a little and stopped talking, then she nodded and promptly walked out of the room. Jonny went after her,
"where are you going?" He asked,
"to give myself up," Lucia answered. Helma heard her and took a still distraught Popito with her to make sure she understood what Lucia said,
"to who?" Jonny asked again,
"to whomever it is that I need to give myself up,"
"why?!" Helma cried,
"I'm not going to go through another team plasma situation again, I'm done," Lucia said, and continued walking away,
"wait!" Helma caught up to her and grabbed her by the arm, "you can't do that, I won't let you,"
"let go of me," Lucia violently moved her arm away from Helma with noticeable anger. Then she took a deep breath and went back to her stoic demeanor, "you don't understand, I've done some stuff, I've always known there was a chance that they'd come for me, at any moment, stopping and regretting and making better choices isn't enough,"
"but you said so yourself," Helma continued, "you are out, you went straight and what not, all you want to do is live your life away from crime, on a cave, what's wrong with that?"
"I said so myself," Lucia turned her back on them, "that is not enough for them,"
"what did you do?" Popito asked her once he calmed down,
"we stole..." Jonny answered for Lucia, "...we mainly stole, convinced and deceived people to give us their stuff and pokemon...but then we gave them back...I mean when they cornered us and beat us but we gave it all back, all of them, I made sure of that myself, and now we live here away from them, we are not bothering them so you don't have to leave, let's go tell Bianca maybe she can help us,"
"no, this is it for me I'm leaving," Lucia said, then continued walking away without facing them,
"no you won't!" Helma walked up to her and put her arm around her neck from behind, then Jonny and Popito joined in to contain Lucia as she struggled with them.
Meanwhile, Colress arrived back at the place that served as his home, the enormous, solar powered aircraft known as the plasma frigate, located at the p2 laboratory near Nuvema town. It had been a while since he was last there and he hadn't gotten any sleep since, so he was rather glad to be there again. He was mere feet away from the large ship when he heard a sudden cry coming from the bushes near him, it was obvious that it came from a pokemon, a small one at that. Colress went over to check it out and was able to identify the tip of what seemed to be a vanillite; the white, curly top of its head protruded from the bush. He thought twice before kneeling down to inspect further and raised an eyebrow; he wasn't buying it.
Right then Colress felt a sudden cold sting on his back, it quickly expanded through the entirety of his back all the way to his chest. His muscles contracted involuntarily as soon the cold reached them, leaving them in constant tension and rendering them immobile. It was as if he were lifting something very heavy but he couldn't move at all, and it was as cold as it was painful, very.
"I knew you wouldn't fall for that, you are a smart one, perhaps you are too smart for your own good," Colress heard, he knew exactly who it was, "it was hard to get here undetected, utterly typical of you to be this careful, I guess you just weren't careful enough."
Zinzolin stepped in front of him and gave him a mischievous smile. Colress body did not respond him, he could only give Zinzolin a stare full of hate and anger,
"I'm sure you have questions," Zinzolin continued. He took a look at the plastic gun he had on his hand and then at Colress, "you've crafted a fine item by the way," he then added, "and I'm sure you have more, I want you to know that I will use all of them to teach the people of Unova where they belong, under the soil of my shoe, I hope that you are in a comfortable position because you will watch all of this...by the way, that vanillite is already dead so you don't have to worry about it."