Myst was standing on top of a building looking through spyglasses to take a hint how the situation is on a plaza they were watching for quite some time. With her was Locker and as they waited Myst asks "How was it to break open my bag?"
He only narrowed his eyes at her, for later change the subject. "Are you sure that this group will attack this hotel?" He asked, looking around.
"I think that guy had no reason to lie. So we should see them soon." stated Myst while looking and muttered, "For a Ninetails she is has a terrible taste in fashion…"
"Who do you mean?"
"The last part was a private statement."
He shocked his head at that. Soon they saw a lot of transport trucks reaching the place, blocking every exit from the plaza or the building, and from them began to get down many men, all them in black armors with red trims, brown hoods and black masks covering the upper part of their faces. As the Syndicate boss said, they were not exactly wearing pokeballs at hand, but many types of medieval weapons as spears and sword, alongside some shields, which all them were dark red with a black star on the middle.
"But where did these guys come from? A medieval convention?" Asked Locker, eye widened.
"I doubt it… but these are very sharp… and hard to get by. These materials are normally reserved for military grade equipment. For elite troops." told Myst "I wonder how they got their hands on it… and even in this amount."
Soon the group began to threaten the people in the plaza, getting their pokeballs and placing them where they couldn't annoy them, while the big number of them entered into the hotel.
"They got inside. Okay, what is the idea? Wait here, or be a hero and kick their buts trying to get one of them for a talk?"
"We wait for a signal… while those guys get a surprise inside. THink I wouldn't prepare a trap?"
"Yes, a trap, but you saw their number? They're at least near a hundred!"
"Well… it should still give us an advance." she chuckles.
"And how?"
"Gas."
"Gas? And what will happen to the people that are inside?" Looker said. "I just hope that isn't poisonous gas."
"And kill our only clue of these guys?" she asks "I only use poison if I can limit it to my main target. Else I go with knockout mixed with a little of Salazzle poison to also get steel and poison types."
"I hope don't get a call about this from my boss." Said Looker. "And now I think, where are the others? I believe that this Fu said that you shouldn't do this type of things alone."
"She did. ANd a few should be in the building with gas masks while two should be with me… but I haven't seen them since I took the stairs up here. And I told them where I am."
"And which ones were supposed to be here?"
"Xena and… what was her name? June I think." stated Myst.
"Jane." He countered, getting a look from the Zorua. "What? As an agent, I must remember the names."
"Ok…" she shrugs and looks back and wondered "Any idea why they didn't come up yet?"
"Dunno. Tourism?"
She looks at him again "Tourism when we are not on top of a hotel?"
"And why you ask me in the first place?"
"Just wondered if you happen to know." she states and looks at the spyglasses "Why are they not going in?"
"Maybe they're making sure that nobody gets in or out of the zone."
"They better move soon… I don't know how long it takes before armed force shows up."
Soon part of the men entered the building, beginning with the noises inside. Just at that moment Xena and Jane reached it.
"We missed something?" Asked Xena.
"The guest came and simply stand in front of the hotel, doing nothing."
"Just before some of them got inside the building. By the way, what you were doing meanwhile?" Asked Looker.
"We just found an old friend here." Replied Jane.
"Male friend?" asks Myst.
"Not, female. With some luck, we will meet her today."
Myst nods and asks "The others are at least in position?"
"Ready for kick some butts."
"Then try to push some more into the hotel before I spring the trap" sated Myst while taking a remote out, turning it on.
"I doubt it. They seem more discipline that you can think for what we're seeing from here." Replied Jane.
"Wish I had some grenades," she muttered and pressed the bottom.
Soon a small explosion was heard only on the top roof, and after some minutes of silence, the men grew worried about the lack of activity from the inside and some of them got inside the building.
"Well, now there are more inside."
"And the gas is still in there" smirks Myst "It disperses only after 7 minutes."
Suddenly part of the men that went inside got out, beginning to warn about what just happened, alerting to the others.
"Now we have to step in!" she stated
"Any idea to do that?" Looker asked.
"Not really. Normally I would have a sniper rifle ready as plan b."
"So, that leaves us to wait until the smoke dissipates and ram into them?" Jane asked.
"Or you simply take these," she said and offers a few gas masks.
"An idea is an idea." Said Xena, getting one of the masks, while Jane got the other out of shrug.
Myst took the last one and they proceed to go down, while Looker stayed behind by have no mask.
While they were going down, they could see how the gas began to dissipate slowly, and also see some of the grunts knocked out on the ground.
"Well, we can take them later," said Myst and moves towards the exit.
Soon they were out, but they got surrounded by a large number of armed men.
Looking at Xena Myst asks "What do you think? 10 Minutes?"
"We never do that." She countered. "Let's leave that to when we finished them."
"I am not going for a betting pool. I wondered how long you think does it take to knock them out." Myst stated and sighs loudly."Let's tackle them on.
"But where are the rest of girls?" Jane asked.
"They should be around as well. And I told them that I prepared the place."
Soon they saw some of them flying into the area and crashing on the ground, while Fatina, Lucy, Isis, Ruby and Merida get there with the girls.
Myst laughed "Where did you take your time? Shopping?"
"Indeed!" laughed Isis "And we got a nice dress like way back when we were younger used to wear!" and holds up a shopping bag.
The group of men got disturbed by the appearance of the girls, but one with a full black and red armor stepped between them.
"Don't get scared, boys! They're low in number!"
"Oh please… that isn't something we didn't face before" called Myst and she runs towards the group and hits some with her arms and they fell down, knocked down.
"Get 'em, now!" Ordered the boss, and all the soldiers rushed at them.
"Hey, don't leave us out the party!" Said Xena and she and the other rushed against them.
"Then hurry! Or I have the party alone!" teased Myst and threw a needle, hitting one of them and he collapsed.
Xena punched and shocked some of the grunts, while Jane used her maw for grab one of them and throw him to a group of them, and Ruby began to kick the ones that got near of her.
Fatina on the run phases in and out of the ground and delivers quite some surprising Shadow balls into their guts while Lucy kicked and punched every one of these guys over, leaving them in a mess. And Myst moved to join up with her old friend, to team attack the more of them in shorter time.
Isis aided Myst dealing with the grunt in the front, while Xena aided them from behind with her electric attacks, taking more of the grunts.
Seeing it, the boss rushed to the back of one of the trucks. "Activate it!" He ordered to inside the truck, and then looked at them. "Let's see what you can do now against this!"
From the truck got down what seemed a humanoid heavy armored robot similar to an armor, and soon the machine turned to them walking to them, leaving dents on the ground at every step.
"What is this?" asks Myst "And how do we break it." regretting that she isn't having something that could break through armor easily.
Fatina moves over to phase into the robot to mess with its insides. But the inners showed things that she never saw. And some odd of energy source inside the robot forced her out.
"I have no idea, but what keeps that moving isn't normal!" Yelled the ghost type, just for avoid an attack on the machine.
"They're really lost. They have no idea of how to deal with a Clockwork Man…" Mussed the boss with an evil grin under the helmet.
"How does it look like inside?" asks Myst, hoping she can provide with some ideas. While looking at the outside for anything they could use as weakness.
Suddenly the machine grabbed a streetlight, holding it as a baseball bat, ready for attack.
"The only form I can describe that is as a mix of 'steampunk' and 'magic'."
"THen it must have a clockwork in it to work." she stated, "Try to jam that."
"You think didn't try it?"
Myst looked at that thing and runs her mind while her comrades are engaging that thing.
The girls constantly tried to attack it the hardest that they could, but the constant attacks of the machine and the wide reach of the streetlight he held made it difficult.
As they continued, they also searched for a weak point… some explosives would be nice to drop on it.
Xena tried to electrocute the Clockwork, but the mechanical being seemed unaffected by the attack. The same with Fatima and her ghost attacks.
Myst looked at her friends "THink you can cover me long enough that I can get close in for a better look at that the details of this thing?"
"You're crazy, right?! We have to deal not only with this thing but with the rest of goons!" Stated Ruby, headbutting one of the soldiers.
"Got a better idea how to find weakpoints?" asks Myst while kicking another in the balls she hits another with a chock of her palm. "I am all ears."
"And why not simply send you flying directly to it? Is faster after all." Said Ruby, avoiding an arrow from a grunt with a crossbow.
"HAHA!" she shouts and threw a dagger at the crossbow, rendering it useless and hurt the holder along the way.
"Just try something!" Jane said, ducking for avoiding an attack from the robot. Not really liking to attack without a plan, Myst got two of her smoke bombs and threw at the robot, to see if it could be disoriented with smoke.
The machine seemed to be unable to attack correctly inside the smoke, surely being unable to detect anything inside it. "ONe hiding point," she muttered and moves into the smoke, to get close and personal with it. Mostly from the back, but was dangerous to get closer because the robot was swinging the streetlight, trying to hit anything inside the smoke around him.
Myst used her full agility to avoid being hit and finally got to the back of the robot, noticing two tubes "Well if this doesn't scream weak point" she whispered to herself and jumps on the back of it, placing on one of the tubes a small explosive.
The robot kept attacking itself, forcing Myst to move away quickly. After she got some distance, she triggered the explosives with her remote, hoping she went on the right idea here. The explosive blew up, breaking one of one of the tubes, soon causing it to act erratically, but still was dangerous to get near to it by how he attacked with the streetlight.
"Wish I had the time to place a second one" muttered Myst before kicking behind her to make her feet, meet the face of a bad guy.
"What was that?" Asked Lucy, using her psychic to send away some of the bad guys away.
"This robot got tubes on the back. Got an explosive on one of them and blow it up," she told before yudo throw another one and shadow balled a third.
"Catch them!" Ordered the boss after heard her answer.
"Should we let them do that favor?" jokes Xena to Myst and the girl took a moment "Nah! That would ruin the fun."
And the two girls teamed up to mow down the incoming attackers, while they also used the rampage of the robot to… get some misfortunes for the enemy.
"You can get all the fun you want but, you could also figure how to get to the robot, right?" Asked Fatima, throwing a shadow ball to one of the bad guys.
"We need to break the other tube on the back," called Myst.
One of the steel objects of the group fell on the ground near the liquid that was on the tube before, causing a spark that soon provoked a large fire on the spot.
"Wow! That liquid is really flammable!" Exclaimed Ruby, getting away from it.
"No wonder the bomb worked so well," called Myst and went into the distance as well.
"And what we do now?"
"You know? I am not sure." she said "I lack the experience for robots. And I prefer not to find out how much damage is caused by that gas."
Soon the smoke began to dissipate, giving at the robot full visibility, aiming for attack Myst.
Myst, however, dodged it barely but her clothes got a cut, exposing her stomach "Some inches higher and I need a new bra." she muttered while throwing the next smoke bombs.
Even being covered again with the smoke, he kept attacking for a while to the front being dangerous for Myst to stay there any longer so she moved as fast as possible to get out of it's front, wondering when any of the others try to stop it. But evidently all the girls were focused on the goons that were attacking them, so now Myst was alone with the robot.
"Just great… how to get to it's back again?" she muttered. "Maybe if I confuse it a little…" and began to move around it.
Soon she was able to get behind the mechanical being while was attacking around with the streetlight, showing more signs of she used her illusion to fit into the surroundings while moving in, to place a second charge of explosive. But when she placed it, the machine made a sudden move turning around with the streetlight.
"Shit!" she shouts and starts running, wanting to be out of reach first before even trying to reach for her detonator.
The robot began to follow her waving violently the streetlight, but was slower than the Zorua, making her possible to evade it.
She jumped out of the way and managed to get the trigger in her hand "Goodbye!" she called and went to press the trigger but were suddenly tackled by one of the goons around here, causing her to lose the trigger. "Damn!" and she kicked the guy off, picking up her remote.
But another grabbed her from behind, holding her still while another prepares for punch her. Luckily Xena electrocuted it, stopping him on the spot.
Myst threw off the other and then punched the trigger, causing the explosive to blow up, damaging severely the robot, which soon fell to the ground and stopped to move.
Taking a deep sigh while kicked one grunt into the balls she stated: "I hate such drastic measures."
Seeing how the robot fell and how his men were falling too, he began to run away. Myst noticed him running and called her friends to follow him. While running, he turned around a corner, but an arm stretched in front of him, which cause to impact on it and fall to the ground.
Coming up she looks at knocked him, thinking that was one of her friends and smirks "Nice move!" But got confused seeing who was, because wasn't one of her friends.
The person, if that's the correct word, was a slim and curvy Nidoqueen with a large breast size, wearing revealing black and dark colored clothes typically used by punks. "Don't need to say. Myself have some things to deal with that clowns." Said the Nidoqueen.
"Nidia!" Said Xena, running where they are. "Thanks for catching him. Opportunist as usual." The Nidoqueen called Nidia just shuddered at her words.
"Something wrong?" smirked the Zorua as she saw that reaction to the poison type.
"Bah, nothing, just helping." She said. "And who are you? I didn't saw you before?"
"Maybe you saw her on the pictures in the guild." Said Xena.
"Ah, right, that photo! You're the Zorua that was kicked away that day? You didn't change a lot."
"I heard that a lot." she nods and holds her hand out "Myst."
"I'm Nidia" She shakes her hand. "Looking forward a good time here." she grinned "WEll. how about some cleanup?"
"That's a good idea." Said Xena.
The leader on the ground reached to a bag on his belt, putting the hand on it.
"NO NO NO NO!" Yelled Nidia when saw that.
Too late, when they wanted to know what's happening, the leader disappeared in a flash of blue light.
"Damn it! Now that I caught a big one!" The Nidoqueen cursed.
"What was that?"
"I don't know how, but they seems to have some object that allows them to teleport immediately to their hideout. Every time I had them in my hand, they used that. And the ones used by the leaders are worse, they teleport to everyone that was at his command."
"Included the ones that are now lying on the ground back there?!" Asked Xena, shocked by the information.
"Then let's get them interacted before things turn ugly!" shouts Myst and rushes to the enemy to get useful info before they got off. Sadly, all the grunts were gone when they reached, included the robot. All, but one that was KO on the ground.
"How this one is still here?" Asked Xena.
"If you ask because all the others ones disappeared... maybe because in the brawl I ripped the bag that this one had. when all them disappeared, the bag too." Explained Ruby, staring the only grunt on the ground.
Nidia soon fell on her butt, panting, and laughing softly. "And thinking that I should start again..."
"So you were after them longer?" he asks.
"Yes, they gave me a lot of headaches for a while." She said. "At least we have a physical proof about them."
"And a guy to ask" smirks Myst "Has been a while since I placed that game."
"What are you talking about?" Fatima asked.
"Never questioned people before?"
"Well, you have your interrogation methods. We have a Meowstic." Said Isis, signaling Lucy.
"So much for fun."
"Let's take him to the guild. There will get some info from him."
"WHo can carry him the easiest?"
Without say nothing, Nidia grabbed the knocked out man and placed on her shoulder. "This answer your question?"
"It does." she states "Any plans for the evening aside knocking information out of this guy?"
"Depend on what we can take from this guy." Said Merinda. "Is our only clue after all."
"Then let's see how well we can play with him!" grinned the female Zorua "Lets head back be-" she stopped, her ears twitched and turns around, facing at one of the roofs, her throwing knives in hand, glaring up.
SHe stood there for several seconds before relaxing.
"What was that?" Asked Xena
"I thought I felt watched for a moment… by somebody who… shouldn't be here at all." replied Myst.
The girls looked at each other shrugging, and then they left, not knowing that a Mega-Banette was watching them from the roofs. Following them with the gaze until the Guild were gone from the ghost types sight, making a sinister grin.
In the guild, the grunt was still unconscious, but now was sitting on a chair tied up, with Lucy in front of him and the girls at distance of them.
Myst was sitting on a chair, wondering what they would do to wake him up. The usual bucket of cold water?
The Meowstic soon placed her hands on each side of his head without touch it and raised her ears, her eyes shining for a moment before close her eyes.
"Now she will read his mind now that is cold out." Said one of the girls.
"I really wasn't here for too long," he said.
She continued reading the guy's mind, but her face showed that somehow was seeing many things and that something was hindering her. After a while she broke the connexion and got a way to him, panting loudly.
"What is wrong?" asks Myst concerned, moving over to her comrade, giving her an opportunity to lean on her, as she seems like she would fall down.
"I'm okay…" She said, painting. "But we have to isolate him, for now…"
"Well… I haven't checked yet but as far I know we never planned cells in the guild," admits Myst
"We will take care of it." Said Annabel. "We will take him to the police and put him in a cell alone for now."
"What you saw, Lucy?" Asked the Sceptile.
"Later… but now I need Rick for a while." The Meowstic replied and left the room.
The girls were completely confused by that, staring at each other, being Marinda the one to talk. "Is the first time this happens. Usually, she doesn't look for a session with Rick after of read the mind of somebody…"
"Maybe I'm the last one to be asked, but somehow I felt that she was aroused. Very aroused." Replied Hira.
"If that's true, what she saw on his mind?" Asked Nidia, staring the unconscious grunt.
"Properly a guys dreams… and this one must have quite the imagination to make a girl wet." stated Myst "OR… it was his reason to play along with this gang."
"Whatever, we have to wait until she finishes now…"
"How about we get something to eat? My tread" smiles Myst.
An hour later, Lucy 'finished' with Rick and she was now showering on the bathroom, and the girls were near her. Evidently, Locker and Annabel were out of the bathroom.
"Okay, can you tell us what you saw exactly on his mind?" Asked Jane. The other girls were eager to hear what the psychic type had to tell to them.
"Well, from where I begin…" Said the psychic type. "For start, when I told you to isolate him, is that he seems to emanate a strange energy I never saw, or anybody else, that affected something my powers, with caused me to have a mess trying to read his mind. And for what I saw, you will not believe me."
"Try it." Said Ruby.
"Well, you know what is a monster, right?" Said Lucy
"More or less, yes." Replied Dolly.
"And you know what is a gjinka, right?"
"Still surprises me that people disguise as pokemon for that." Said Dracea.
"And anybody knows how is usually portrayed a succubus, right?"
"You don't need to say it." Said Pixy.
"Then… mix all that together."
Myst blinked a few times "YOu… are telling me they have a monster gjinka succubus in their rows?"
"I don't know, and the succubus isn't the only thing I saw… his mind was a mess for me. But, I was able to get at least a normal image of that mess: the picture of a Rapidash with a box on his back."
Locker and Annabel turned to the door after hearing that, the man talking first. "A Rapidash with a box on his back? That must be Rapitrans."
"Can you tell anything about it?" asks Myst further "Because here are dozens of Rapitrans alone in reach of a day. And who knows how many exist in the entire region."
"Well, as you know Rapitrans is a famous transport business," said Locker.
"Yes, but if I remember correctly when the economic crisis hit, the region received the biggest hit, and Rapitrans was forced to abandon their expansion project here. Actually, there are two centers/warehouses on different points of the region." Explained Xena.
"I thought there were more." admits the Zorua.
"If there are two, they can hide in any of them, or in both. That means that we have to divide between both buildings." Said Isis.
"Ever heard of scouting?" asks Myst "Why split forces if to each only one or two sneaks in and check if it is the place we seek?"
"Yeah, and if both places are occupied?" Said Dracea.
"Then we still can gather intelligence and plan accordingly. Do you think I got such a good record for moving into places blind and without a plan each time?" wondered the Zorua.
"Fatima can do that too." Said a female voice from outside the room, Madame Fu entering the bathroom. "How to like if you divide, but before of enter, you and Fatima infiltrate and explore the places as far as you two can, and later you ram inside?"
"A valid strategy," said Myst while taking one of her many smartphones out "Can somebody quickly pass me the addresses of the buildings? Then we could try to get some blueprints. Got an associate that could try it."
The girls looked at each other before look at Myst.
"Nidia, would you-"
"Go with the other half of the group and have an eye of them. You don't have to worry about that, Fu." Said Nidia to Fu.
A pair of hour later, Myst, alongside Isis, Xena, Merinda, Kara, DOlly, and Dracea was near to one of the two emplacements they found. For what they could see from their hideout, said the place was abandoned, except for some patrolling goons with the same armors and weapons of before looking outside the complex.
"At least this place is occupied by them." whispered Myst while using Spyglasses to check it out "I can make out three entrances from our position, one of them on the roof. And up there is no guard… from the looks the best spot for starting an infiltration." then she concentrates on the windows of the building, to see if she could spot something there. At least she saw there some activity, but she didn't know what they could find inside the complex. "Ok… guess I have to go in now." and lowered her spy glasses "Or are here objections?"
"Just watch out. Don't get spotted before we can enter." Said Xena. "We don't want you to have all the fun."
"Don't worry… I don't plan to take down anybody before you get your fair share" and Myst began to sneak off, checking from all sides to find the best way to reach the roof. And she found a potential route but required quite some timing.
The route seemed guarded by a pair of guards that were patrolling the zone constantly for an intruder. However, the pair left a short blind spot that she can pass without seeing… and once it started, she runs and dives into a 'luckily' empty trash bin and closed the lit at the moment one of the guards were about to look at her. After of see that nothing was there, the guards kept patrolling to zone, soon giving her another chance. Which she took while leaving some herbs close to a bush… catnips with a little extra to attract any cat in the surrounding area before she reaches her next hiding point and waits. Once the expected cats are coming and gathering at the bush, starting to meow and purr due to the herbs, the guards moved to shoo the animals off while Myst scales up the wall in a shadow to reach the top as fast as she could without an additional sound. ONce on the top she quickly looked over to see if up here are any guards or security. For her shocking surprise, she spots another of that robots watching the area alongside a pair of guards. Quickly hiding she was whispering curses under her breath while crawling to the entrance she had in mind, thinking of how to distract them long enough that she can disappear in there.
For her luck, she figured that the robots seemed inactive, meaning that they could only activate it if there were troubles, so only she had to avoid the two guards looking around. She watches the guards carefully to see their pattern. Once she had them, she used them to move in their blind spots and reach the door checked if it was open or if she needed to hide for an opportunity to crack the lock. Fortunately for her, the door was open, so she could get inside, avoiding the guards without making noise.
And she slipped in as she had an opportunity and close the door behind her to avoid suspicion… before heading down the stairs, sneaking and the eyes wide to catch any detail.
To her surprise, she found herself on what seemed the office building of the complex, but even she knows that the big things should be in the warehouse building. Luckily for her, complex as this one had paths that connect both office and warehouse. The question is, where? IN worst-case ground level but she needs a disguise… or a sneaky way. She pondered if she should risk air dust.
After all… she has to investigate without being caught… and she has no doubt they would kill her if she gets caught. While she was looking around, soon spotted a pair of guards on a cabin, surely having a rest, and we're talking about them.
"You heard the news?" Said one of them
"Yeah, seems that the raiding group was badly beaten by a gang of local monster girls. And even the Clockwork Soldier sent was destroyed too." Replied the second.
"I bet the Grand Maestre will be fuming about that. After all not only didn't get any pokemon from the raid but also seems that they lost a man."
"Yeah… by the way, did you heard if they had any progress in the main base?"
"So long I know, seems that they're starting to transform some of the pokemon, and have some results, but by some reasons, some of them are immune to the Demonic Energy, more exactly the cataloged as Dark Type."
"That could be a complete back off for the plan."
"Don't worry! When we drop them in the regions and leave them to do what that thing knows better, the world will know the real danger of these monsters and they will aid us."
"Yes, surely they will know that even hell can have another meaning."
Myst was narrowing her eyes. Demonic energy? THat sounds like Supernatural stuff… which she hates it. She needs to know more… and went to search for another guard. Preferred one that was alone for whatever reason.
"Hey, can you hear me?" Said Xena's voice across a communicator in her ear. "How are the things there?"
"NOt good… I got part of their plans… they seem to use something supernatural to create something out of Pokemon." she whispered in reply while sneaking some more "But not here."
"Something else? I ask because some of the girls are impatient for getting inside." Warned Xena.
She relied on what she has seen so far and that she is looking for a way to A) Distract the guards for a surprise attack and B) gathering some evidence before they start a clean up due the attack. And also mentions to please tell Locker to NOT keep trying to hack her e-mail account as she constantly gets buzzes from her smartphone with the message somebody tries to hack in.
"Well, okay, but keep in mind that if the other group has the same scenario, the group on that other place could warn these people, and vice versa." She warned. "So we should get ready for ram into the building."
"That's why one of the things I look for is their communication center... " she whispered as she keeps moving carefully, wondering if they are checking on each other. But also wondered if, using said 'medieval' weaponry, they ever have such center. On the other hand, they need SOMETHING to communicate with the others.
Soon he spotted a guard that was giving his back to her just at that moment. She thought on a good moment for strike one out when.
"Any movement there?" She heard a voice and forced her to hide inside an empty room, keeping an eye on him.
She could see how he was taking from his small bag of the belt what seemed a small mirror with a shining yellow orb on the low area.
"Nothing here." He replied to the mirror. That told Myst enough that they were using somehow mirrors as that for communication between them.
"Keep the guard up. After the problem of before, we could get visit at any moment, and for we were informed that at least one of these savage females is expert on getting inside buildings without being noticed."
"Got it." He said and the orb of the mirror lost shine before or put it in the bag. The ZOrua smirks and kept silent to wait until he passed her door… before she would pull him in and silence him.
When she got her hands on the object, soon knew she had no idea of how exactly operate it. So she gagged and tied the guy up and put him in a spot where nobody would look that soon and pockets the mirror. For being extra careful she put a dose of ehr knockout darts into the guy's bloodstream. After that, she contacts her friends and told them about the mirror before heading out of the room and took the form of the down man.
As long she doesn't have to say things she doesn't know, nobody would blink for now.
While looking for an access to the warehouse, she was soon found by a guard.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Asked the guard to her, thinking she was one of them.
"I am sent to check the posts, as some haven't replied to the usual reports." was Myst simple reply "As well if the locked doors are still locked."
"Is that true? Which is your position? We're pretty far from the doors."
"Normally, the third corridor of ground level." she said, using the usual pattern such guys use for their position naming "And I wasn't referencing to the entrances."
"Ah, I see. If they were going to want to check entrances, they would send the nearest guards, and don't worry, they're well locked. So now return to your spot before one of the monks finds you wandering out of your post!"
"Of course" Myst nodded "Only hitting the toilet quickly before heading back. Took too much to drink before duty." then she thought aloud "Where was the nearest one again…"
He sighed slapping his face. "Over there." He signaled a direction.
Myst nods with thanks and moves there, entering the toilet. She doesn't mind if the guard thinks of her as stupid… as a toilet offers a few ways.
When had the opportunity, she got out the toilet, this time trying to avoid more guards for avoiding more questions, having on her head the warning about the said 'monks' that surely are there. If that soldier was worried about them, surely these monks would have higher ranks than them.
She wondered what she should do if she finds one of these guys… questioning them would be quite profitable but without a clear idea what they could do with the supernatural involved. One of the reasons she hates it. While moving she reaches the areas where she assumed the books or whatever they use to store information. Obviously, this could be a good spot for finding any information from them, but sadly only had data of the company that used them in the past, But at least had some planes of the building. Less is nothing.
So she studies these plans in hopes to find something noteworthy before she would leave… but initially curses of how clear these guys work. She never met a criminal organization that doesn't have at least some basic information or orders on paper at their respective hideouts.
After of look the planes, she began to look for the way to the warehouse area, having on mind that in a place so huge would be a lot of guards, and she couldn't fool everybody on her disguise, so evidently she would eventually be forced to use the part two: call the girls and ram on everything they got on their way.
She contacts them and told them what the situation is. So they are up to two things… she comes out and joins them or they make such heavy rampage that she could search some more in hopes to actually find something. And perhaps knock one or two high guys out for later interrogation.
After thinking for a while, they decided to do the send option, but Xena warned that maybe they meet each other during the rampage, before cut communication.
Nodding to that she began to sneak to find a good target. But didn't took time enough because she heard a lot of ruckus in the building. Surely the girls began with the rampage sooner than expected.
"Sometimes they are too eager with that" she noted to herself and shakes her head gently.
There was a lot of movement there, surely trying to stop the girls that were causing problems just now, and she had the opportunity of keep going when saw the affluent of soldiers near reduced. Now surely she would have the opportunity of getting inside the warehouse. And she took the opportunity to move there, still careful in case one keeps in place.
Evidently, there were some robots, surely activated when the girls began their rampage and were put to protect the outer area of the warehouse, which forces her to avoid areas near the walls. SHe watches careful her route and keeps sneaking and crawling, checking if they are checking on the air ducts at this level, but every air duct she found was in the route of one of the robots, so was impossible to take these.
For her luck, she hears how the place's door was forcefully broken, causing a lot of noise that got the robots' attention. Once they are gone, she went off and gets into the warehouse, starting to look.
She reached what seemed the most inner area of the warehouse, not finding nothing, until without warning four spotlights enlightened her, nearly blinding her.
"Well, well, well. Seems that we have a small sneaking fox snooping around." Said a voice from the upper zone. When her view was accustomed to the light, he spotted a upper platform, where she could see a man with the heavy armor, and the second one with a black tunic with red trims on wrists, elbows, shoulders, tip fingers and tip boots, with a red mark with a black star on it.
"And who are?" she asks, and her eyes wanders around to determine how bad her situation is. Also how the heck they knew she is here.
"Trust me, we have our methods. But you have to admit, in the dark, nobody can see us by our outfits. And if you're wondering who is us, we are the Order of the Black Star. Or the Black Order, for resume." Said the man with the tunic, which surely was one of the monks that the soldier of before commented.
"And what are you supposed? A priest for a god that demands blood or so?" she asks, trying to get him talk while… well… simply see if she has some to deal with stereotype idiots or real deals.
"Well, blood not exactly, but our religion exist for a deal with a problem that, slowly, is taking our world to the extinction. And not in a bloody way exactly."
"And what problem is it?" she sighs "Are you like Cyrus?"
"Unfortunately we have no knowledge about that Cyrus and-"
Suddenly she heard a noise near her and a lot of hits, and soon Xena was here. "Sorry for being late, but this place is a labyrinth and… who is this guy?" The electric type stared at the monk.
"WEll… he was so rude to not give me HIS name. Only he belongs to Black Order." she shrugs "How about we get to him and ask him more personally?"
"That can be a good idea, and don't wait for the other girls, they're busy." Replied Xena.
"Even if this is an interesting conversation, in the name of the Grand Maestre, we can't allow you to mess with our activities." The monk replied. "But if you want to know what is our problem, let us show it. Release it!" He raised his hand.
Then they hard some iron box is opened, and suddenly a winged silhouette began to fly over them.
"A Charizard?" Asked Xena, looking the flying figure. "Not, seems… different…"
Suddenly the Charizard landed in front of them, but what saw wasn't the typical Charizard, and call it anthro was getting short. It was a full female girl with a revealing armor that remembered to Charizard and even had the horns, wings, and tail, having a sword in her hand. She also had an odd black shackle with a red gem on it, staring at both of them as furiously and in trance at the same time.
"That… is… disturbing." said Myst. "A lot."
"You can say it!" Said Xena, getting ready for a battle. While the Charizard girl holder the sword with both hands.
Myst reaches behind her back and gets ready to pull her daggers. But she spins around with her word, nearly slashing her stomach if she didn't jump away, but that gave Xena the opportunity of attack with an electric attack from behind, but their enemy resisted the strike.
Narrowing the eyes at this observation, Myst concludes this chick at least not using the Pokemon Typings for her armor else it would have shown quite different so she foregoes trying to use her toxic move and moves in for some direct clashes. But when was ready to attack, saw how her blade began to shine in a purple matter, similar to…
"Dragon Claw?" Exclaimed Xena, before the gjinka tried to attack Myst with that attack charged on the sword. The girl just had enough time to use dark pulse to charge her daggers and block the strike by crossing them. "What the heck?"
"Seems that she is able to use Pokemon Attack!" Warned Xena.
"Thanks for your opinion!" stated Myst while kicking the warrior off her.
The Charizard girl took air and breathed fire against Myst, who was able to avoid the flames jumping to a side. She grabs one of her darts and threw hard at her exposed spots. But even with that, she was still wanting to fight.
"Myst, remember your word!" Said Xena, remembering her that she gave her word to not kill anybody.
"Do you think I have these variations with me?" called Myst back, before throwing some more, wishing she could use her toxic move… that would put that in a simple timed battle.
The creature continued attacking her, now trying to punch her with Focus Punch, but Xena stopped she shocking her again. Which Myst used to shoot some Shadow Balls at the face. That made her step back away from Myst, giving her more space for maneuver. And Myst began to move, and her aim was to remove that blade.
She kept a firm grip on the sword and kept waving her weapon around trying to cut Myst. Though she only hit an afterimage before Myst slams her dagger into the arm holding the blade. She cries by that, dropping the sword, but that didn't stop her from attack her with a Flamethrower.
She shouts in pain before tackling her to stop the move. And then took five of her sleep darts and slams them right into the neck. That should at least inject some of it directly into her bloodstream.
With that the Charizard Gijinka began to stagger, having the feeling that she will fall, but then the gem on the black shackle on her neck shined, and she grabbed her head with both hands, groaning in pain as if something was forcing her to do something.
"You're thinking too that this shackle is controlling her actions, right?" Xena guessed.
"Looks that way." nodded Myst and looks at Xena "Got a breaking move?"
Xena nodded and rushed to the creature, just striking the shackle's gem, shattering it. After that strong hit, the Charizard girl groaned and fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Well… time to clean up," she suggests while moving to check if the girl is really out. And if she isn't suffering an overdose.
"This result was unexpected, but don't get wrong. You will not be so lucky." Said the monk, and soon all the members of the group were teleported, the Charizard Girl included, obviously leaving the building empty, except Myst and the girls.
"I'm beginning to hate that trick of them." Cursed Xena.
"We have to find a way to block that… let see if we can find something or anything useful."
"I really doubt it, but okay," Xena said. "And maybe we should call to the other group and see if they had better luck."
Myst nods and took her phone out and calls the others for a status report.
"Yes?" Limey's voice sounded on her phone.
"Myst here. How did things go at your side?"
"Oh, well, we have done it well. This was a base of those weirdos, but we cleaned it. Sadly they got away."
"Okay, and you, by the way, fought a type of Gijinka version of a pokemon there? We fought here one similar to a Charizard."
"Really? Our one was more like an Aerodactyl."
"I have the feeling their research involves with more of those."
"Well, anyway. After this surely they will go low and don't cause troubles until we can get a new clue." Limey said and then asked. "Tell me, you're free tonight?"
"Why?"
"Well, for celebrate this double strike against those guys. I know a place where some of us go to celebrate in our style." She said, Myst guessing what she was meaning.
She smirks and wondered "Can you send the address?"
"Merinda knows the address, you can go with her."
"Alright, I tell her." she nods
"I can't believe that after all this day, the only thing we got was a grunt that isn't saying us nothing." Said Annabel, walking with Locker from the city's police station to the Guild, being pretty late now.
"Not only that, but we have no clue what they are doing right now." he muttered, "Who knows what Myst could be doing right now."
"One of these girls said that she and some of them were celebrating their work somewhere. I have no idea what celebrate, as we're mostly on the start point."
"Perhaps it is something normal here" he offered while he had a copy of Myst's notebook, trying to crack her code.
"Yeah, and what is normal here? Look, Looker, all the place is filled with anthropomorphic pokemon that acts and moves as normal people! And now we just get that this group is creating Jiginka versions of them! Just now there is nothing normal here! And still, we have no idea about the assassin that uses Carla's modus!"
"Don't you think I am not aware. Gut on the other side what clues do we have?"
"No much, sadly. The best we can do is talk to Madame Fu and see if she has an idea, even if doesn't like the idea of asking for others for know what to do." She said, being at meters of the guild. "I will go inside, you stay here, okay?"
Looker nodded at her while still working with the notebook when she left. After a while, he raised his head forsee, what seemed to his eyes, a female anthropomorphic Mega Banette passing at his side. For a moment it confused him until he returned to the notebook.
"Looker!" Called Annabel from inside the guild, making him look the building. "Call an ambulance, quickly!"
Instinctively Looker grabbed his gun and looked for the Mega Banette, but there was no trace of her, even if the street was empty.
"Looker, quickly!"