On a bar of Teak City sat Myst, with their looks at the being resembling Misty from the Cerulean City with purple hair in a cafe, wearing a silver kimono, preparing a tea after an old ceremony, while waiting for the one asking her to come to this place.
Soon a man with normal clothes, blonde hair with a small ponytail and glasses just sat in front of her. She looks at him and asks "Can I help you, Mister?"
"Well, depends on the mood of the day." He started looking to a side.
"The sun is being a cloud but it is still warm. It is a good day for a tea," she answered while continuing with the steps of that tea ceremony to prepare the liquid. As she wondered what kind of guy would ask for her services.
"Yes, and glad you came here, miss. My name is Robert Kent. Surely you had read my news. And sorry for the passphrase. Just as a safety measure."
"It wasn't the first time I got to deal with a passphrase" she stated while pouring the water on the herbs "What can I do for you Mister Kent? You don't look like one of my usual customers."
"Well, is because I'm not the type of man that hires somebody to kill. Is just I need other of your abilities for this job."
"Stealing something, rescuing somebody or even simply espionage are in my usual offerings as well but you don't look like somebody who needs a thief or somebody to rescue a person of importance."
"Well, I tend to get some information from, certain people or groups that want to keep secrets, you know, secret, and tend to hire other people to find them. And don't worry, I can pay you well." He replied at her.
"Mister Kent… if you couldn't I wouldn't be here. I tend to check potential clients before meeting them. Mostly for how far I can trust them and if they can pay me."
"Thanks, I think." He said scratching his head. "Well, returning to business. You have knowledge about the Aether Foundation?"
"Some," she said and rose an eyebrow.
"Well, maybe you knew about this." He showed an old newspaper from Alola from months ago, showing some news about the Ultra-Gates experiment and the experiments related to the named 'Code Null' pokemon.
She looks at him and wondered "What about it?" she mused "It is hardly a secret if you can read it in a newspaper."
"Well, the truth is that I still believe that they're still hiding some secrets, and surely this news is only the tip of the iceberg. After all, this news is months ago." He answered. "I want you to go to the Aether Paradise and get any type of information that nobody wants to know."
"Then I ask that way: Why meeting here instead of Alola?"
"Well, as you know, the Aether Foundation has agents working on the four islands, and knowing my reputation, if they see me there, they could fire all alarms and rise the security." He replied. "Just thought that meeting somewhere was safer for you to infiltrate there."
She nods "I see." and took a sip of the tea "Not taking some of the tea?" before she places the cup down "Well, you have to assume that you have to pay a bit more than planned. While I can get in, for some of the info I need to sneak in somebody as well who can do the hacking work for me. And he wants some cash as well of course. When do you expect first results?"
"The sooner you can, the better." He replied. "And don't worry, I'm thinking on pay you 250.000 Pokes in exchange for your work."
"300 000 so my partner gets a fair share and we have a deal."
"Okay, 300.000." He replied.
"That's a good quantity for that job." Suddenly said a female voice.
The two turned to the voice's origin, seeing a woman that is exact to Myst's disguise, but her hair was blonde and her kimono was gold, sitting on a table near them. Except for that things, she was a carbon copy of Myst's form. The two just stared at her completely confused for some seconds.
"Who, the heck are you?" asked Myst as she stood up in surprise, having to keep her will together to not just drop her illusion.
Robert was too shocked that was unable to say nothing at that.
"My name is- Ups! I nearly spell it!" She replied. "And if you wonder, I'm so good as you in your job. A girl with good disguising and combat abilities."
"Quite the claim!" told Myst with a frown and rolled her eyes. THen pointed at the doppelganger "And why do you think, making a copy of how I look like is proving your point? You just called only attention to us by anybody who knows something is off once two identical people show up in one place. Exception Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy."
"Look, if I simply wanted to copy you, I could have used the same form." She replied. "And, leave tell you that I can do that work by myself, without help."
"Oh? You have the knowledge to crack a type X Shira Encryption with a modified Key Encoder?" asks Myst while moving closer "Because that is very specialized knowledge. And for my knowledge that trade secret is closely watched and only two or three hackers in this region could hope to crack it."
She giggled a moment and then raised her hand lifting three fingers. Myst looked surprised for a moment but regains composure. "Good you know how to crack it but I have at least a plan how to move that amount of data without raising alarms," she states.
"You got it wrong. The fingers represent three days. Is that what you need to forget your hacker and prepare everything, right? Then I will wait to get inside the Aether Paradise for three days. And then we will decide who is better."
"And I know you won't cheat and get everything in the meanwhile, because?" asks Myst with crossed arms.
"I want to play fair with you. Only that. But if you want to be sure, I promise you to pay 450.000 pokes if I cheat."
Myst pulled out a card and tossed it over "Call that guy. Let him watch you three days and I consider it a fair match."
She looks at the number. "Are you sure? Who can say that he can be in Alola, and not get lost in Unova?"
"The tickets he won a month ago from a lottery. Had to hand over the cards as I had a job that didn't allow me to pick up the prize in time." said Myst offhandedly with a shrug "So I know for sure.".
"Okay, whatever you want." She shrugs and stands up.
"With that, I am on my way… and sorry for what comes now." and tapped her feet twice on the ground and a set of smoke bombs went off. As the smoke cleared, Myst was already gone.
"We will see that…" She murmured with a smile.
Myst, now looking like a simple businesswoman, had a phone in her hand and dialled a number. As she heard the song of a waiting feed of a service centre, she simply told "Zeta X-158 Code Myst, Marathon." and the song stopped as she heard as her call gets redirected over several call centres to wherever her hacker is sitting at the moment.
"Myst, what a moment for a call, you know? Just now I'm a little busy." Said a voice on the phone.
"So busy that you aren't interested in a trip to the Aether Foundation?" asks Myst with a smirk, knowing his guys' tendencies "Or perhaps the chance to feel their paradise?"
"You mean the Aether Paradise?" He asked. "I know about that place, but you the security systems that this centre has?
"Do you think I would call you if I didn't know? Come on. 150 000 and a trip to that place. I doubt that is something that won't get your attention. Plus to told me you always wanted to prove that you can crack it."
There was some silence on the phone for a moment. "175.000 and I accept."
"165." countered Myst "Need to cover some travel cost after all. While you get over for free." chuckling at this part of their… foreplay. (To settle on a prize is their kind of game)
"175, they don't have an X Shira Encryption only. Also, they have in their system a Polygon guarding the programs. A wrong digit and you get a Bolt from the computer, wherever you are in the world."
"As you need to sit in front of a PC while doing your thing." muttered Myst "Or me sitting in front of it." and sighs "Why suddenly being that nervous? Last time we talked you said that would be a cakewalk for you."
"Look, I know a friend that tried to hack their systems from Unova. He missed a digit during the process, and without warning received a Bolt attack coming from the computer. Whoever created that system and trained that Polygon, made sure that any failed hacking attempt get severely punished."
Myst cursed under her breath as over half of her reward would be lost "You better get me a flight or room as well for that prize as it is more than half of my reward for that job."
"Okay, deal."
"I tell you more once we are in Alola. Hope you have enough Sun Cream. And no hot wires" she smirks.
"Okay, okay, I get it."
"Bye," she said and ends the call.
- Mission Start-
Myst adjusted her sunglasses as the cruiser that is supposed to stop at the Aether Paradise to give tourists a tour was closing in at there. The female had a detailed plan to get in but given security, she had one problem… one key part depends a bit too much on luck but within three days she couldn't come up with a better adjustment. Normally that kind of infiltration is planned over the course of a week… but that challenge made her rush things what Myst absolutely hates in planning to break in somewhere. At least the layout should be the same from her last visit.
The cruiser soon reaches the Aether Paradise port, receiving them a worker of the foundation, who soon began to guide them around the complex.
As they were passing a terminal to get a visitor card for themselves with pass photo, Myst was glad that her ability of Illusion is also able to fool cameras and while she stood at the terminal to type in the info of her disguise and photo taking, she holds a smartphone at the side of the terminal. The two touching machines exchanged something in that short moment but nobody watching her took notice before her visitor pass got printed out and she took it to put it on her t-shirt, moving away from the terminal.
During the tour, she could have some good view of the security measures and people guarding the area, looking for an opportunity to execute her plan.
Then a planned stop in the garden was called and Myst took the moment to went to the toilet… before asking a passing by a worker of them for help. As he got in, she knocks him out, took all Id's on him and placed him in one of the cabins, tied up with a knot around his mouth to prevent him calling for help. Her finger pressed on a mini communicator in her ear and asks "Zeta. How is everything on your side?" hoping he at least took over the communication already.
"I'm pretty fine, thanks. Luckily their communications are easier to hack."
"How's security and the access to the secret files?" she asks while strolling towards the elevator, acting like any other member of the Foundation to not arouse suspicions. There she selected first the ground level as she couldn't risk the underground yet without being sure Zeta covers her tracks.
"I have to admit it. If they're hiding something there, they're doing a very good job hiding it under this security system. Good, I came prepared."
"I would be surprised if the three times your normal space requirements were due gaining weight." she chuckles
"Just give me some minutes, okay?"
"Of course" nods Myst, hoping it wouldn't take too long or she might run out of excuses. To buy time, she went towards a random direction that ensures she is outside to see the sea, making it look like she takes a short break.
While doing it, soon noted that one of the female workers of the foundation was acting suspiciously, getting inside the building. Getting curious, she followed her at a certain distance, soon seeing how she used the elevator, getting down.
Myst had a suspicion but could hardly just jump after her without raising suspicion so she had to wait for Zeta's ok. Wondering why he didn't tell her yet another hacker is trying to get in as well, as her rival needs one… or the passcodes…
"If it was her, how did she get these?" muttered Myst while getting nervous.
Meanwhile, the girl just got to the underground laboratory and began to walk into one of the tunnels, soon reaching inside a laboratory, making sure that nobody was there. She got in front of a pc and began to operate it.
"Okay, which was the password she used…" She said, beginning to think. "Ah, I think was this." She began to touch the buttons for putting a word on the computer. "AFRULES. Yeah, pretty stupid."
While up Myst asks "Zeta, I know better than to rush you, especially in your current job, but do you have it soon? I fear our rival is already two or three steps closer to our target."
"I'm going the fast I can without mess it! I can try to get faster but don't blame me if we get electrocuted."
"Just a dumb question… how I am at risk being electrocuted if you are the one hacking from INSIDE the system?" asks Myst, having that question on her tongue the entire time.
"You want to ask me dumb questions now? Or you want me to do the work?"
"We talk about it later. Did you at least got a code for the elevator?"
"Yes, I have the code of the elevator. And I think I found the password to enter into one of the computers. Trust me, you will laugh about it."
Myst called for the elevator and asks "What is the code for the lower levels?"
"142845."
She typed it in and as they descend, she asks "So what is the joke?"
"The joke is the password of the computer you will use. AFRULES, from 'Aether Foundation RULES'."
Myst began to chuckle and shakes her head "If I ever have kids, I tell them about that one." and they reached the lower levels "Did you get the camera feeds?"
"Fortunately yes."
"Then A) Ensure security only sees what they want to see and B) Look for anybody who came down recently… that one must be our rival," told Myst as she moves to find a computer or terminal to get access. "Also what is the status regarding the secret files?"
While the girl was looking inside the files of the computer. "Mmm, a secret project for training Ultra Beasts for military purposes? That's pretty bad, boys. But I think there is something more interesting than that." She keeps looking in the files, soon looking something that makes her whistle. "What's this? Change Pokemon types using artificial breeding procedures? Really, I just don't want to see a Hydreigon with Fairy type instead of Dark. Oh, boys, this will fall on you like a hammer." She began to copy the data on a USB disc, and when the copy was 100%, she took it and turned off the computer.
After she got out of the laboratory, holding the USB disc at her hand with a smile. "Piece of cake."
"Now tell me where you get the codes for that kind of easy access" stated Myst calmly from the side she is coming from.
"I would tell you, but is a secret." She said looking at Myst. "By the way, you're late."
"Unlike you, I hadn't the official cheat book for that game." she stated "And to find in on my own… and security might be after you soon. If you sneak into a place in disguise… try to act as you belong there."
"Maybe, but I didn't shot any alarm in my way down here and without use hacking tools." Then kisses the USB disc. "I can really feel these 300.000 pokes in my hand just now."
"You haven't won yet" she smirks, getting down to fighting pose.
"Oh, you want a fight?"
"Think I let myself sit on the cost I had to get here?"
"Then got it if you can." She said at her.
Myst started with throwing a knockout dart at her. She just moved to a side avoiding the dart and rushed to where Myst was. The Zorua threw an arm up, knocking into her chest. She grunted but grabbed her arm and pushed her to a wall."
Recognizing the move, she used her free hand to get the opponent at disbalance and threw her down the ground with the own weight. But when she landed, she spins around, kicking her legs for throw her to the ground.
"You got well trained" acknowledge Myst and began to starts to throw around punches and kicks to get close.
"Yes, I had a good teacher." The girl replied, countering the attacks of the Zorua.
So Myst had to grab deeper into the collection of her tricks, slowly showing that she is the more experienced in fighting is.
After keep fighting, the two were grabbing at each other, when suddenly the two looked to a side, finding a security worker of the Foundation, staring at them with a plastic cup on his hand, until he dropped it.
"Uh oh." Said the two girls at the same time.
"Intruders!" Yelled the worker, soon sending a Machoke and a Midday Lycanroc out.
Myst reacted quickly and threw the Machoke a knockout dart, while the girl suddenly does the same as Myst but with the Lycanroc, surprising Myst a little.
The worker then rushed and pushed and alarm, soon sounding on all the centre.
"Damn, just what I needed." The girl cursed, but then saw Myst's hand grabbing the USB disc she had. "Hey!"
"Sorry but I got an escape plan." said Myst and runs off, pressing on the communicator "Zeta. Escape Plan Beta. Wreck all you can, throw the security in chaos and then we meet at the agreed coordinates. Give me the last confirmation before I throw away the communicator."
Soon the girl began to chase Myst, beginning both girls to fight for the USB disc while trying to get an exit for the complex. The zorua got on the elevator first and hits the button to get up one level, before kicking her rival off the platform. But she was quick enough to stop back stepping and jump in the platform before began to move up.
"What do I have to to get you out of my hair" snarls Myst at this moment, in her anger forgetting humans cannot snarl.
"I'm not easy to deal, as you see." She said and grabbed the USB from her. Only to find her fist in the stomach as a reply, causing the female to drop the USB stick.
"Urgh, you know that isn't polite to hit a lady in the stomach, even when being a lady?"
"With our business?" she asks seriously.
"Simply a comment." She replied, making a sweep to take her down and grab the USB. While she grabs the arm and pulled her in for a headbutt.
She groaned by that hit, holding her head. "Evidently, headbutts are nothing elegant…"
"Don't really care of that." Myst stated while taking the stick back "At least during a mission where it isn't required."
She kicked her stomach just before of make another sweep to her leg. Myst went to jump as she grit her teeth and tries to ignore the pain into her.
She grabbed the disc again, and when they reached the floor, she rushed to the exit. Coughing loudly she shakes her head before rushing after her.
Outside the building, the girl rushed to the railing and there began to look the sea from a side to another, as looking something.
Myst got to her and pulled her back on land, threw her on the ground and grabbed the stick before putting it into a waterproof bag, hold it with her mouth and jumps over the railing into the water.
She shook her head and stood up, seeing how Myst fell into the water. Where she climbs upon a waiting Mantine and began to surf away.
She just watched her for a while until she jumped into the water too, calling to a second Mantine and surf away, in the other direction, while she stared where was going Myst, with a smirk on her face.
Later
IN her hotel room, Myst boots up her Notebook, expecting her partner on that job to come soon. And just as the computer connects with the internet, she saw that Zeta is uploading himself on the computer "What the hell happened?"
"OUr rival happened," said Myst simply while plugging the USB into the computer.
"Oh, really? I hope you got better than she."
"Snatched her USB from her." was the simple reply.
"Well, then let's see what's inside. it."
"Just let us open it" and she clicked on the folder.
There she only saw a picture file, and when she opened it, the screen was filled with a black background with the icon of a white zorua head, showing the tongue and with a finger on the eye, as mocking her.
"How the heck did she switch out the USB?" she growled while slamming her hand on the table and looks at Zeta "I hope you managed to grab something useful."
"I just tried, but the only thing I was able to get is a part of a project of training pokemon, but I couldn't get which type of pokemon. And if I can be sincere, I have a lot of doubts about how she got the data and information needed for infiltrating into the complex."
"What do you mean?"
"Is a supposition, but seemed that she knew everything in the Aether Paradise. Or she was there before, or somebody spoke about the place."
"There before could be possible… but I have my doubts about how she ended up making anybody talk. I mean I didn't manage it and I know my business." he replied.
"If I should try to say something about that girl, all that could say would be resumed in a question," Zeta replied at her.
Who is that girl?
"That is a question that I like to be answered as well." she admits and sighs "But for that, we need to find her first."
"But where is she now?"
"She could be anywhere in the region by now… if not even in a plane or ship." grunts the girl.
"Any idea of how found her?"
"How to find her? Not really sure aside from passing her up by the client," explained Myst and rubs her chin.
Days later, the mysterious girl, disguised as white-haired brown coloured girl with bright blue eyes was in a bar in Lumiose City in Unova, reading the newspaper regarding about the secret projects from Aether Foundation revealed by her client, she has a smile of it.
"I want to have some words with you, miss." A voice said and a hand moved down the newspaper, revealing a girl with a similar form as she.
"Ah, really?" The girl said.
"Yes… and these words won't be tasteful." was the reply.
"Okay, then tell me what you want to say." She said, putting the newspaper aside. "By the way, you liked my little joke?"
"How the heck did you know I would get it in the first place?" she asks with irritation "OR how much your little joke cost me? It's not like I can simply effort that without having trouble with my reputation."
"Well, I have my secrets the same you have yours."
"So?" she asks "Then tell me… why they bother to challenge me?"
"You could take that as a… curriculum if you want to call it…"
She looks at her in wonder.
"I'm only saying that maybe you would like to have a partner."
"And you're offering yourself for that position?" asks Myst in curiosity.
"Yes, that right. But sure you will tell me that you work alone, right?"
"Normally yes… but I got the feeling if I simply tell you never to cross my path again, you would ignore it and cause me trouble wherever I go." stated Myst with crossed arms and put one leg over another "That leaves to a different question though… why? Why do you want to be my partner? And going through all that trouble to get my attention?"
"Well, I would want to keep it as a secret." She replied at Myst. "But who wouldn't want, or wish, to be the partner of the legendary Zorua Assassin?"
"Fewer people than you think." she admits to her "Most of them only partner up for a very large price tag. Why else I am so costly? Not only for covering my bills for all the hideouts and equipment or a good life. Also because any help I require gets expensive."
"Well, I wouldn't get so expensive, if you want to know it." She replied.
Suddenly Myst slammed her hands at the table. "I had enough! Now you're going to tell me who the hell are you!"
The girl then sighed "Well, if you want to know that so badly… you have to get me." She fell on her back out of sudden with the chair and after rolling away she rushed out of the cafe.
"Seriously?" grunts Myst and went after her, moving fast, spotting her fast after exiting the cafe and runs after her "COuld it be…" she muttered and keeps on moving.
She kept away of her pursuer at some distance until she turned on a corner, getting herself inside a sewer hole. Myst came around as well and looks around and spots the sewer entrance "Great…" she muttered and lifts the part and jumps in.
Inside the sewer, Myst began to look around, trying to get a clue of where the girls were.
"You're brave for getting inside here, knowing that this could be a trap." Said the girl hidden somewhere.
"You were trying to set up a trap, you would have made it less obvious," she said and threw a dagger, missing the girl by inches, showing her herding works well enough to identify whereabouts.
"I was only a comment. I wouldn't dare to put a trap for you." She said, beginning to move away. Myst followed her carefully.
Then she got hidden again, and when felt Myst was near, she threw a flash grenade to her. THought Myst recognizes it and close her eyes and covers her ears to ensure that it wasn't affecting her when it gets off.
The girl began to run away, but Myst threw a dagger at she, scratching her arm just before she hid again.
The assassin followed and looks around carefully to find the other again.
"That hurts, you know?" She asked, holding her scratched arm with her hand while hiding herself.
"Try having an actual knife or bullet in there." was the counter and uses the call to orientate herself.
"Don't need to say it." She replied.
"Good." and went closer to her hiding spot.
When knew she was close, Myst threw a Flash grenade with the intention of blind her target momentarily, and then blew, she jumped and prepared for attack her, but suddenly got frozen for what she was seeing.
In front of her was not a human girl, but a female Zorua that, the difference to her, her fur was white, her mane black, the red furred areas were orange, and her eyes were bright blue.
"That… that…" she stammered, due to the fact the last thing she expected to happen is to see a fellow Zorua. Granted her colours are odd but still…
"I told you that even me had my secrets." She said and then began to run away.
Staring for a few seconds, Myst snapped her senses back and began to chase after the fellow dark type.
She kept running until she suddenly stopped, looking at a wall in front of her. "Oops, wrong route!"
"Next time use a sewer Navi," told Myst as she appears behind her and began to move closer.
She turns around and looks at her. "Well, seems I have no form of escape… unless you move away."
"And I am not moving until we cleared up a few things. For starters… why would a Zorua like you do the same line of work like me? I get that Zorua's and Zoroark's is ideal for that but most don't consider out of fear how humans could react." crossing her arms "Not to mention that with your colours you have a hard time to fool others if anybody sees your face even once."
"I want to keep that secret, and you will have to move…" She closed her eyes. "Unless you want to be tackled, and hard." She opened her eyes furiously, a sun mark appearing on her forehead.
She steps back in surprise "What the? But that… cannot be…" recognizing that specific mark of the sun "What… what is your connection with Solgaleo?"
Then the girl roared, her white fur turning light yellow and the orange fur yellow, jumping and then falling on Myst's direction. The Zorua was jumping to the side, rolling on the ground to avoid the hit "By Arceus…"
When impacted the ground, the area exploded in dust and water, even causing a small quake that was felt on the city. When the dust cloud disappeared, the girls were nowhere near.
"Just… just… who are you?" asks Myst in shock, standing up again, too shaken to actually try to find her again.
Some days later
Myst was searching the town for the one she is looking for and found him soon. She tapped his left shoulder while standing to his right side. He turned first to the left and then to the right, soon seeing she there.
"Excuse me?" the boy asked at her.
"Is it that hard to joke?" chuckles Myst and winked at him.
"Myst? Is that you?" He asked, recognizing the girl's voice.
"Yep. It is." she grins and chuckles "How are you?"
"I'm fine." He replied. "And what are you doing here?"
"I need an expert for legendary dogs. Namely Solgaleo" said Myst bluntly and looks around. "And I prefer it somewhere where we won't be interrupted."
He just blinked at that proposal and then looks to both sides before look at her. "We will talk in the Pokemon Centre, okay?"
"Ok! Lead the way Daniel." she nods to him.
"Okay," Daniel replied and began to walk.
Why ask Daniel, when he was an Entei Class Poketian? Well, the correct term here is 'was'. For made a very long story short, he had in the past some noxious encounter with something called an 'Ultra-Gate', and there somehow he lost his Poketian ability, and for put things worse, a new Entei Class Poketian was born shortly after. Trying to figure an answer of how return to being a Poketian, he went to Alola after hear a tale about an incident similar to his which happened in the past, and while doing the Island Challenge while figuring about the tale, he somehow got to be in a Poketian again, but not as a Entei, but as a Solgaleo Class. Myst knowing that story, she thought that he could be the only one with the answer she wants to get about her white doppelganger. A try doesn't hurt, right?
After a while, the two reached the Pokemon Centre and got inside a private room.
"Okay, what do you want to know?" Daniel asked Myst.
"I met a white colored Zorua… and she was able to use Solgaleo's signature attack and on her forehead, even his symbol appeared shortly before usage." she explained and leans back on the chair "The question is… have you any idea how that could be possible? Or more preferably, do you know if that particular move can be passed down by breeding?"
Daniel scratched his head after hearing her questions. "Being sincere, I have no much idea. Come on, is true that some Legendary Class Poketians can have bred with other species, but there is a small chance that the young can birth knowing certain signature moves." Be replied and sighed. "But I never heard about a Solgaleo having offspring like that. But if that Zorua is a descendant of Solgaleo, first time I know that."
Nodding, Myst crossed her arms and thought for a moment "Call me crazy… but is it possible to find out who was the last Solgaleo Poketian? Perhaps if we follow that trail we might find out. From the time frame, we know that one must have been alive and old enough to mate, around…" she paused and jiggled some numbers and assumptions in her head based on what she saw "twenty years ago. That is roughly the age of that Zorua."
"In that case I doubt it…" He waved his hand between them. "For what that priestess told me, the last Solgaleo that existed before I lived around two centuries ago… and trust me, isn't easy to get into one. After all, you must do a ritual for do be one, and I prefer to hide how is that ritual."
"And the chances are that she might be a descendant of that last one is ridiculously low with that." groaned Myst "She cannot have just appeared out of nothing."
"Really low… it's an either/or situation: or she came from another universe, or from another time." He puts his hands on his head.
"In both cases are mighty headaches" she sighs loudly and shakes her head in frustration.
"But before keep going with this, why you're interested in that Zorua?"
"It has something to do with a job," she admits and began to tell to story regarding that.
Daniel heard the whole story, giving a loud sigh after she finishes it. "Really, this is getting odder and odder."
"I am aware… sadly" and sighs loudly with a shaking head. "I need a fucking drink."
"You have the bar there." He signals the wet bar.
"Thanks," she said and moves over there. And gets herself a cocktail. Once she is done with that, she looked at her "Well… is your bed free for tonight?"
"Yes, is free." He nodded at her.
"Thanks" she nods to him and finished her drink.
"Better?"
"Much better. Thanks." she nods to him.
"Good to hear that."
And she began to take her clothes off.
He just stood there while she took her clothes, thinking she is going to the bed now. Though she looks at him "Are you coming?"
"Really? Thought you wanted to rest."
"You know… I sleep better with some company." she winked to him.
"I see if you want to." He replied and began to take off his clothes.
And she gets to the bed, laying down there and pose for him. And he gets with her after getting naked and began to kiss her. Murring she returns the gesture and pulled him closer, making his chest pressing against her.
And they began with their adult rated activities of the night…
- Next Morning -
Myst began to open her eyes and saw at first only a blurry white. Soon noted that Daniel was still on his Solgaleo form, sleeping at her side. Chuckling to that, she starts to scratch his chest.
He murred, soon starting to wake up.
"Morning" she smiles at him.
"Morning." He replied back.
"Did you sleep well?" she wondered and rolled on top of him.
"Yeah, and you?" He asked, rubbing her belly
"I had a wonderful night…"
"Glad to hear that." He said. "Tell me, how was do it with a Solgaleo?"
"That was an experience I couldn't believe that existed" she explained and stroke his chest more "I bet all your other girls are happy."
"You can say it." He said with a chuckle. "And I bet that no one of your other 'boyfriends' can surpass me, right?"
"Nope. None of any I know so far."
He just chuckled at that answer. And the two kissed deeply once more, she lay on him.
Soon he broke the kiss. "You know, just thought on a possible idea of how to find who is this girl."
"And how?" she asked in wonder.
"For what you explained me… she seems to act something similar as you, which means that if we can figure how she could contact her clients, maybe we can find a form of track her to where hides." He explains. "If really acts like you, she will surely have some safe house in some cities."
Thinking she sat up and rubs her chin "It makes sense… but the problem lies to find a solid clue on her pattern. Everybody has patterns, it's natural. But we can start a small elimination of likely locations. The safe house will either be so isolated only a dedicated search team finds it if she needs to disappear for a while. Or it is placed within large towns so she can become invisible. Either in the shadiest of buildings or the most luxurious, where it is common that the owners only appear once a while. For client contacts… that is more difficult. I use a combination of codes, contact person and numbers for one time use only."
"I see… but, if we get a visual contact with her, any pokemon that could catch her smell could follow her."
"Normally true and I would her scent now if I had paid the attention. But sewers and being surprised aren't helping"
"Well, for the next contact with her, I have some pokemon that can follow her scent."
"Then perhaps we should start with the search for her" she smirked and stroke him some more "Or do you need some morning exercise?"
"Well, that could depend on you." He said with a smile.
"Well… I think we go and get breakfast" she murred to him and chuckles.
"Good idea."
After getting cleaned up and clothed, they head down for breakfast. And a healthy one due to the energy they spend last night.
As they ate, Myst took a break with jam and bites into it before looking carefully with her eyes, no head movement as she felt being watched.
"Something happens?"
"I thought for a moment somebody watches us" she whispered to him, her eyes still scanning a bit to be sure.
"Really? Who would be watching us here?"
"Aside from anybody who might try to get me… any enemies on your side?" she asks but couldn't find something out of the ordinary so she began to relax.
"Maybe you're tense because there is somebody with your own tactics."
"Perhaps…" she nods and sighs "I need holidays after that… a real one."
He nods at her, taking more of his meal. Doing the same, the two enjoyed their breakfast until they are finished and placed the tables away.
"Well, now we have to think about how to have a contact with her to track her."
"Give me a day to get on some contacts and I might find something with a bit of luck." she said in deep thought "But then the tricky part is to get a meeting or so without getting her suspicious."
"Yes, that could be a problem…"
"Especially if we don't know the full extent of her services…" she mused and looks at him "Say… is here somebody you want to get into trouble?"
He coughed after hear that and took a drink of water, panting loudly. "That was a joke for you?"
"Nope. And I am not asking to get somebody killed. Just trouble. Like the leader of a gang suddenly hanging in front of the police station or so." states Myst and waves her arm "Come on. We both know that the easiest way of getting to her is to offer a job. And it is obvious why I cant… even if I have quite a list of people. Or should I play the game and let her be my partner as she suggested?"
"I don't want to have something to see with that, you know." He said but rubbed his chin thinking thoughtfully. "But… I think there is some special cop that could try to talk with her… and we know of which special cop I'm talking, right?"
"Oh he will be happy to hear from me again." she chuckles loudly and took out a phone and starts to dial a number.
After a while, the other phone is caught. "Yes?"
"Hello, Loki!" grins Myst while sipping her tea.
"What the- What are you doing calling me just now?!"
"Am I interrupting your breakfast?" she asks and chuckles
"That's not the… you have some idea of the mess you have done? Have you read the news recently?"
"Not the today ones." she stated and shrugs "Had to track down a few people."
"And that has something to see with the Aether Foundation incident? That thing had your mark everywhere? The executives are over my bosses to solve this! Even some of them want your head served!"
"Then we got a common interest… you see I were beaten by somebody to it. I had no chance to get anything out of it."
"You? Beaten? I don't believe to you say these words in the same phrase referring to you."
"Believe me… I wouldn't tell you if I didn't need some cooperation. Especially after I found out WHAT our opponent is." stated Myst.
"And what is? A perfect imitation of you?" he said sarcastically.
"Well, you are partly right. She is good at doing my style and seems to know a lot about me and how I work. However, the difference is… she is a white zorua."
There was silence for a moment on the other side. "Are you kidding me, right?"
"If I were kidding I wouldn't call you with one of my throwaway numbers." she stated in a deadpan "What I need is a way to capture her so I know who she is and how she does that all."
"And what are you suggesting to do that?" He asked. "You know that any trick that we used for getting you failed."
"Well you had a perfect opportunity once~" she sang a little "You hired me once, remember? Also, she seems to be trying to be my partner for some reasons. Not to mention if she acts like I would do, where ever she learned it, I know the counters."
"Mmmm, well, I can try to ask to my superiors and-"
"And then you mess up and we lose any chance to properly get her again. She got my kind of training somehow. DOn't you think she would see the police coming a mile away?"
"Ah, now that you think about it…"
"What we need is a believable set up of meeting her as a client."
"Just leave think about that…"
"Fine" she sighs "When should I call back?"
"No idea, I have to think thoughtfully about this. And about the fact of hiring you, we were not desperate in that situation. Doubt we can find some case that needs somebody has you. Have you ever thought about looking for somebody who needs part of your… 'services'?"
"You do realize I run a literal website for my potential custom-" she stopped and took out another smartphone and types on it. "You little…" and turns to the phone she is using for calling Locker "Where can I send in legal proceedings for a hijacked website? That little bitch somehow got mine and rebranded it."
"Ouch…" Said, Daniel.
"And I wondered why I didn't get any emails in the last month…" she muttered.
"Hold on, you said that she hacked your site and… rebranded it? If she didn't know you found that…" Daniel began but then thought. "You HAVE a website for YOUR work?"
"In the darknet, yes. One of my ways to get customers." shrugs the Zorua then saw his look "What? Every little business got a website. You know, modern times. Is not like you go to your local Information broker for jobs offline to these days."
He raised an eyebrow for a moment but shook his head. "Anyway, you think she would figure that you could found about this?"
"She should know I find out within 24 hours. I check my E-Mails daily. Except on job or places with poor reception of course." she stated, "And she rebranded the side as Mysti Moon."
"Mysti Moon? Why that sounds very 'Sailor Moon' to me… and don't look at me! When was younger I saw in TV whatever was put, that being one program!"
"As long you didn't watch Wedding Peach," she said. and huffed "Seriously… that is a very childish here. Even the contact is a joke. I mean the phone number is the birthday of Locker. And the address… is…" she falls silent "It… it is… where I was born."
"Wait, what?" asked both Daniel and Locker from the phone, while the first one looked at the address.
"Don't bother Locker. The building mentioned doesn't exist anymore and it lacks the floor number," told Myst while being shocked about the detail. And that she has slipped that to Locker. But what shocks her more… how did that Moon know that? She has told absolutely nobody.
"This starts to get eery." Commented Daniel
"I know… and… that freaks me out. Beyond anything I ever knew before." admits the girl and shakes her body.
He began to worry but then thought on something. "Call me crazy but… you ever tried to enter in the account with your password? If she really wanted to work with you, even after rebrand your web, surely wouldn't dare to change the password for increase the insult."
She shrugs to that and typed in her password to open her account. Which to her surprise wasn't changed. So she opens it and looks into the contents.
"Why you don't look in the mail? Surely there is some draft of a clue about a potential client for her."
"Aside multiple emails of the Hitman Collection Agency in their adepts to recruit me the only thing that is of interest is-" she gets silent "Locker… I got a mail… with a request… to Giovanni. The leader of Team Rocket. And it was opened."
"To Giovanni? And what it says?"
"You don't understand! SOmebody requests to try and kill Giovanni! No hitman with any sense of self-preservation would even think about taking that." told Myst "And that request especially wants that his head shall be removed by a blade forged from a Skarmory feather and placed at the door of the Viridian City Gym. That's not a job. That is a suicide mission."
"And… who sent the request?"
"I don't know. Requests are anonym for protection. Normally I use contact information attached to the mail to agree to a first meeting. But that file only contains the account info for a bank in Kanto. Including password and all. That is an obvious trap." explains Myst "No matter how full that account is… and given I wiped out an entire wing of them in the past, I can see why it would be laid out for me."
"And what we do now?"
"Find her and hope she is so smart and not fall for that trap as well." she states "Or we lose her."
"Let's think in perspective a little." Said, Daniel. "Who says that she accepted the job?"
"A reply mail with a confirmation of acceptance." she stated, "That's why I am so freaked out."
"And how we can find her? Nobody knows either where is hidden Giovanni or the Team Rocket. And doubt he returns to his Gym." Said, Locker.
"HEre is two ways… asking actual leading Elements of operations. Or certain contacts. Both hold risks." explains Myst "I mean even if you leave the team, you either get a hitman or brainwashing on your way."
"That complicate the things a lot."
"A very lot" she confirms and bit her lip, her brain running strong to make a good call now for that turn of events.
"But why she would accept that?"
"Fame." was the simple answer "if I had to guess fame. Any hitman's dream is it to get the biggest prey. And on size terms, you don't get a bigger one. But the majority is smart enough to not even dare to think of that even in the best opportunity. You can say what you want about the grunts and lower ranked operatives. But the high ones and elite guards are killing machines with their Pokemon. I only dared once the try and sneak in their hideout. And that was just to recover a single Pokemon. Barely escaped with my life. One of my few failed missions."
"Yeah, but I even doubt that she could be this stupid for what you told me. Here is something more… But that doesn't care to anybody if even she can't find Giovanni's hideout."
"Still… what is her game?"
"There is a time limit for that work?"
She checked again "It has to be done between the fifth and the tenth of the next month." and narrows the eyes "That is a rather specific time frame. Most have a deadline. Nothing that specific… except it is expected to be the either the easiest time to hit. Or has the desired effect."
"That doesn't help neither a bit."
"I know" she grits her teeth "Not without further information. We need an Operative of them."
"And where we find one?"
"Well… I think that is fast to learn." smirks Myst "I got an idea…"
Daniel just raised an eyebrow looking at her.
"Daniel… we are going to find one of their recruit centres. They keep one or two of them there for training. And they always need Grunts!"
He stares at her until something snapped on his mind. "Wait, you're not thinking about what I believe that you're thinking, right?" He said with a nervous tone.
And she had a very bright grin on her face. A grin that told him her answer.
"Ah, no! Bad idea, very bad idea! I had my problems with them in the past, and even they have a photo of me to keep an eye if I try to get near their hideouts! Without mentioning the small problem I had with that Rainbow version of them in Alola!"
"I still try to figure out why they came to a bad idea of using Rainbow…" she admits.
"Anyway, forget me for that!"
"Good… then it will be a solo trip for me. Don't know anybody else I trust enough for that shit without trying to arrest me."
"Is because that mission is a kamikaze one." He said. "I doubt you can ever find somebody so dumb as for infiltrating into the Team Rocket."
"I met three of Lockers colleagues that went in. Two even got out alive." she countered to him.
"And what happened to the other?"
"Was in the headquarters that housed Mewtwo before he… left..." explains Myst in a slow tone.
"Ah."
"So… if you think we should leave that alone, how do you think we get the info we need?" she asks him.
He then began to think thoughtfully, until he thought on something. "I believe I thought in a form of find what we need. But can be risky." He then turned to Myst. "What do you know about a pokemon called Hoopa?"
"I was one of his… playmates as he would put it like." she answered to "So yeah, I know him and prefer to avoid him. But I guess you want to ask him in kidnapping that operative?"
"Not exactly… what we could ask him to look into his rings and look WHERE is Giovanni." He answered. "If he can take things from his rings, I bet he can do it in the other direction for taking a look."
"I am not completely convinced…" she said honestly "After all… he doesn't care from where he takes most of the stuff he pulls from his rings."
"Is just an idea, and if he can't, at least he can take an active executive for interrogate him and send him to Locker later."
"I pray that his promise to marry me once we see each other again was a bad joke of his" stated Myst "Let's find him."
After of look for the pokemon Hoopa, until they found his hideout and asked him to get an operative of Team Rocket, but…
"You're the second to ask me for exactly that." Simply replied the pokemon genie and opens a ring to reach his hand in and wondered "Still mad for that joke propose I made?"
"Take a guess Hoopa," she stated.
"Before you take that… who asked you to do that?" Daniel asked.
"Well, that's easy, there aren't many white Zoruas wandering around."
"Her… of course…" sighs Myst and shakes her head "Did you do that?" then she shakes her head "Of course you did… the better question is why did you do that for her?"
"Well… let's say that she… offered me something I couldn't reject…" He replied, rolling his eyes to a side while blushing.
"Do I want to know?" Myst wondered and looks at Daniel "I don't know why but I feel strongly against the thought that she offered him anything that would even make that guy remotely blush."
He raised an eyebrow at her words but looked at Hoopa. "And… at least you know what she knows?"
"Depends." he scratches his check "What do you need to know from that operative?"
"Anything related to Giovanni." was Myst simple reply.
A large building at the middle of a city that seemed normal, but the real thing was that this building was the new headquarter of the Team Rocket, hidden at the public with an obvious normal building owned by a fake company with all the legal papers for not be investigated.
Giovanni, after some meetings with his men, returned to his office. When tried to turn on the lights, they didn't turn on, making himself a note to send somebody to see the lights later. He moved to the table and faced his computer, but his eyes soon were placed on the monitor, where appeared an email about a request to kill him… in his secondary email page.
"You really thought that it could work that easily?" Asked a female voice in the room's darkness.
Folding his hands and smirks "SO you were able to see through it? May I ask how you did that?"
"I prefer to keep my methods in secret for now, but let's say that there is nobody enough mad as for ask for an assassination against you… if we take Getchis out of the equation evidently."
"Then you seem to have never met the right person." stated Giovanni "The amount of wannabe killers is quite large. We're already filling the eleventh river with them."
"I said enough mad, not brainless."
"Sometimes they are close enough to each other. Like madness and genius." the boss of team rocket waved off "So what do you plan to do now? If you strike now, you won't leave that building alive."
"Why? By the special explosives that you have in this building? Why don't tap under your chair?" He raised an eyebrow and tapped with his hand under his chair, noting something on it, turning pale. "I just made some adjustments to the one in which you're sitting."
"You turned my chair into a bomb?"
"In some sense." She replied. "If I die, it will explode; if you stand up, it will explode. But if I get far away, as for example away of the building, the bomb will defuse itself. I'm not going to kill you, just I want to give you a fair warning."
"Then why are you here?" he asks with narrowed eyes.
"This is the warning: Whatever you do or plan, leave the Zorua Assassin or me alone."
"Then leave my operations out of your business." he countered and points at her "Or I cannot make any promises."
"Just make sure of not start any type of your 'vendetta campaign' against us. If you try to attack us with that intention, the Team Rocket will be eliminated, and you will be the last one to fall!" Suddenly she threw a black card with the white mark to his table, stabbing itself on it.
He narrows his eyes while picking up the card and looks at it "Going to follow the Zoruas style?" But he received no answer from her. In fact, seemed she left the room without her noticing it.
He growled and leans back, eyes narrowed "I will find you…"
The girl, disguising herself with normal clothes, just got out the building and after of get some distance she turned around, just before of connect a speaker on her ear.
"You see something?" She spoke at it.
"Yes, I can see him, and for how he presses his hand to the card, surely he didn't take your warning as true." Sounded a female voice on the speaker. "I can scare him?"
She then smiled. "Push the button."
Seconds later, while Giovanni was thinking if take the warnings seriously, the box under his chair exploded but was not strong as for kill somebody, but for cause the chair to jump, making him jump and fall to the ground, his head trying to reason what just happened.
"This will teach him sure to take me more seriously." She smiled, supposing what happened.
"Okay, I call the police?" Said the female voice.
"Yes, I bet they will reach here in 30 min, time enough to get the essential and leave the building."
"Okay, I'll call and later return to the room. I will work out Elsa for when you came for celebrating this, Moon."
"Okay, Athena, see ya."
She closes the speaker and began to walk away, when suddenly a running Herdier clashed with her, soon followed by an old woman who was chasing the pokemon.
"Get back here you rascal!" called the woman and runs after the Herdier. ONly to pause a bit and bows down to Moon "I am so sorry for the behaviour of my Herdier." before starting to chase after the normal type again.
She chuckled a little. "He, don't worry, miss." She smiled and began to walk away.
Around a corner, in a dark alley the old Lady looks back and smirks while turning to the Herdier "Looks like we got it."
The Herdier nodded and suddenly transformed into Zoroark in front of her. The old Lady turned into Myst and smirks "I got it as well. Time to tail that White Girl."
The girl, after of walk for a while inside the city, entered into an apartment building and went to an apartment, soon opening the door entering directly. The apartment was pretty normal, with space for three people. Then she found two people, one being a female anthropomorphic Decidueye, who was wearing a purple leotard, two long purple gloves and two long purple high heel boots, who was sitting on a chair; the second one was an Alolan Ninetales wearing a dark blue sleeveless shirt, large brown panties and long black stockings, sitting on a chair while tipping on a laptop.
Soon the Decidueye looks at the girl and stood up. "Welcome back, Moon!"
"Thanks, Athena." Replied the girl, turning into a white Zorua. "You weren't working up Elsa."
Athena put her hands behind her. "Well, I wanted, but Elsa told me that we should really wait for you."
"Yes, right." Replied the Alolan Ninetales, surely being Elsa. "After all, I'm pretty busy now with a program just now."
"Come on, even you say that when you're 'enjoying during work', you work much better." Replied Moon.
"Yeah, but I just wanted to concentrate a little." Replied Elsa.
"By the way, sure it has worked?" Asked Athena.
"Only a form of found it." Replied Moon and went to a chest of drawers in the apartment. She opens the top drawer and from it take a newspaper where it could read in the front page.
"TEAM ROCKET DECLARES WAR OPENLY TO THE ZORUA ASSASSIN."
She sighed, seeing the header of the newspaper, but then see how that news began to change in front of her.
"That time travel thing is still something hard to grasp, even when we have done it." stated Elsa and looks at Moon "What is the title now?"
She stared at the title for a while, processing her mind until she smiled and looked at the others. "Team Rocket just gave up. They're not going against her, neither us. We did it."
"That is great! That's worth a party." stated Athena while getting a bottle of wine "Something to snack on as well?"
"I wouldn't mind something to me."
"Then I get the potato chips" she grins and heads for the kitchen.
Sometime later, while the three are watching a Movie with some wine and chips, the bell was ringing and Elsa mused "That must be the Pizza Delivery. Who goes to the door?"
"I go," said Elsa and stood up, heading towards the door with the money they put together for the Delivery. Opening the door she smiles "Hello! Thanks for… bringing… the pizza." and looks at the one who holds the pizza at the moment… the holder sporting a wide and toothy grin.
"Err, sorry for the pause, is that I expected a man doing the delivery." She replied at who was holding it and turns around. "Anybody knows if the Pizza shop uses anthros as deliverers?".
"In this region?" asks Moon "Most would be targets for Team Rocket. Why?"
"Because there's one holding the pizza."
"Really?" asks Moon and looks over the couch but couldn't see properly "Then ask the person in. I would like to see the one." and starts standing up.
Then looks at the person. "Can you enter, please?"
Who came in and all could see who it was… and Moon's eyes widened. "You must be kidding!"
"What happens?" Asked Athena, staring at the person.
"You seriously didn't tell your comrades about me? I am hurt."
"Oh, crud…" Moon sweat dropped, looking to another side with her eyes.
"Moon? You know her?" Asked Athena.
"Of course she knows me… she is the one who runs around with MY name." the "pizza girl" told and her eyes narrowed.
The two anthros stared at Moon and then to the pizza girl. "You call yourself Moon too?"
She looks at the two in disbelieve before she facepalmed "I talk about my Title. Zorua Assassin." and groans and looks at Moon "Really. Are these two the smartest help you could find or is that some sort of running gag I am not aware of?"
The two stared at her for a moment, and then to Moon, who still nervous nodded to them. Suddenly the two stared at the Zorua Assassin. "You're the Myst, Zorua Assassin?!"
"At least my reputation got to your ears." she replied and the sighs, "Thought I prefer my real name were still a great secret that only trusted people know."
Then she shakes her head "TIme to talk! And don't think of running. We got that place covered."
For her surprise, both Athena and Elsa stood in front of her and began to bow repeatedly at her. "Is a great honour to meet you in person! An honour we will never forget!"
"What… did I just miss?" asks the Zorua in surprise, lost because that goes against anything her expectations or experience taught her.
"Girls, stop that, you're embarrassing me," Moon said, putting her hand on her face.
"Seems things are going a little weird here." Daniel just entered begin Myst, getting the attention of the girls.
"That is?!"
"The Solgaleo guy?!"
"Okay, this starts to get creepy." Was Daniel's reply.
Myst was looking at the two girls, then Daniel, then Moon and back to the girls and points at the girls and Moon "I had a proper speech in mind but now you spill everything to explain it! From the very beginning!"
"Okay, okay, but at least tell me how you fo- wait a minute…" Moon said with a hand on her head. "The old lady, right? Then the Heinder should be… Zoroark, right?" She asked and then Zoroark appeared behind Daniel waving her arm to her.
"A good deduction. Wasn't hard to find out WHERE you would be. The most complicated part was to get in contact but for some reason, you tend to use all of the mine disguises in different colour schemes so far. Now to your story."
"Well… how I can start with it…" Moon began to mumble trying to figure how to explain her, when Daniel soon noted the newspaper on the table, taking a view to it, his eyes widening.
"Myst, look at this!" He said sharing the newspaper to Myst, who took it and looked at it.
"Is a newspaper, and?"
"Just look the date!"
Evidently, even if was a newspaper, the date said that… should appear in seven years from today.
A look of shock filled her face "That must be quite the misprint" but as she read the contents… too much doesn't add up unless it is the future. Especially as she reads a section about a company she put some of her money as an investment to wash it for one of her secret IDs… it is a small startup, not a million worth business spanning through three regions.
The gaze slowly shifts from the paper towards the white Zorua "You're… from the future?"
"Well, this… um… yeah, but..." Moon was blushing trying to explain herself.
Then Zoroark came, after of inspection the apartment and find something that both Myst and Daniel should see:
Something similar to an old photo with three people. What was shocking on it was that in that photo appeared them, somewhat older, with a small white zorua at Myst's arms.
The two began to look at the photo and Moon repeatedly, the white Zorua nodding at her nervously, until suddenly they said at the same time a sentence that was heard outside the building.
"YOU ARE OUR DAUGHTER?!"
Myst falls on the knees and stares in disbelief "My… daughter… but… I like Daniel yes but I never considered Mateship." and shakes the head but then the iris shrink somewhat "Could… could it be…" and looks down on her stomach "I… I don't… feel ready…"
Daniel was speechless at the situation for a long while, until he shook his head and looked at them. "Okay, let's get things clear, and for start: If you're really our daughter from the future then, why the heck you're here in the past?!"
Myst looked up, Daniel has a good point.
"Well, My- erm, mon, believe it or don't, you were a good mother for me… the time we were together…" Moon replied with a sad tone.
"I dropped dead at some point" Myst sighs, connecting the obvious dots "Where did I go above my league? Because if I had a natural one, you wouldn't bother to be here."
"Well, if you're dead or not, I don't know that. Before, the front page of that newspaper as that. There was the reason why we didn't meet again. And that reason was the Team Rocket."
"Team Rocket?" Daniel asked.
"You mean the job you took?"
She sighed loudly. "At the date of that newspaper, Team Rocket began an all-out war against you, not minding the repercussions with the authorities thanks to the pokemon they had. When that happened, you left me with some people you trusted and left, not being able to see you again, surely to keep hiding and keep me safe while you dealt with Team Rocket. Evidently, you forced to... dad... to not help you in that."
Daniel was silent at her explanation. THinking about it, Myst stood up "What did happen afterwards? And with who I left you, I don't know many people where you could be safe in that situation."
"After you left me, I never saw you again. And with who you left me, you left me in the only place you knew I could be safe at that moment… with aunt Fu and the others."
'Nymph Warriors Guild, that's logical.' Thought the black zorua, after hearing the answer from the white one. Thought one question did burn in her mind "Who trained you? I know the Guild wouldn't have taught you the art of the assassin. They don't deploy it." She has a guess a deep guess as it was one of the few logical explanations but she needs to hear it.
"Well, half was by instinct and the other half… emm, I promised to never reveal his name…"
"Was it EAGLE?" asks Myst, using the codename of her own master. A codename passed down from one master to the next.
"Sorry, no name, nor codenames, nor surnames… nothing, I gave my word." She replied, but that type of answer gave her what she needed to know.
"I see." nodded Myst and wondered "So… given you just made a paradox, what will happen now?"
"And talking about a Paradox." Interrupted Daniel. "I'm not an expert about that, but you travelled to the past for change that future. Now you have done it, you shouldn't have disappeared already? How is that you're still here, in front of us?"
"Time Travel is complicated" sighs Myst and shakes her head "Given that Dialga is not sharing much how his thing works, many make an assumption. Like for example, while Moon made a Grandfather Paradox, theoretically it could wield two ends for her. Either she disappears as you suggest or she created a new universe with that change, while her original still exist and thus allows her to exist but not return due blocking her door home by herself. OR she created the base of a Stable Time Loop."
"Look, from my opinion, the last one you're insinuating isn't the answer, because that could mean that our actions didn't change nothing and just we caused the problem, and the newspaper is the proof of that the third idea is impossible." Interrupted Elsa, nodding to Moon.
"The truth is…" Began Moon. "Is that we found a form of travel to the past, but Dialga busted us and gave me a fair warning: If we change the future, we will be unable to return."
"Dialga still let you go? HE is no big fan of time changes. Time loops OK but direct changes?" asks Myst in disbelieve.
"It didn't cost me to convince him a lot because you helped him once and told me that if we changed the time, we could make a timeline where I wouldn't need to travel to the past," Moon replied. "Not returning back in time was the price for that. A price I accepted."
"So what will you do now?"
"The truth, I was so fixated on solving this, that we never thought on what to do after this.".
Myst sighs loudly and rubs her temples while she is working on trying to process the entire input. And still isn't sure what might be the bigger blow to her mind. That she is expecting a daughter from Daniel… or that said Daughter travel to the past to save her life.
"One of the ideas I was shuffling was to travel to Ocrye for a while and visit the veteran girls on their prime in Nymph Warriors Guild." Said, Athena.
"Nymph… what?" Daniel asked at her, confused
"The place that was for a time my home and is the home of the most trusted people I know." explains Myst "Just don't show up if you don't plan on an orgy." then she grins "Not to mention your Pokemon might be challenged by Ricks size."
Elsa giggled at that while Moon replied. "We grew there, we have an idea of how they 'play'. And if you didn't note, we three met there. We are… were the new generation of Nymph Warriors Guild!"
Now Daniel was more lost than ever, trying to understand what they were talking about.
Myst laughed loudly "I should I have guessed that!" and slapped her lab a little and shakes her head.
Daniel looked more confused at that, while Elsa and Athena laughed for a moment.
"Don't worry… you're finding out eventually" laughed Myst and looks at them "So, how did the guild hold up in the future?" and chuckles "Not that this future might remain."
"They had their ups and downs, but they were still up and working when we travelled." Replied Moon.
"I see… and of them getting mates or kids?" asks Myst, really curious if she is the only one who got knocked up or could hope for others to follow.
"Well, let's say that some of them left the guild by… different reasons…" Athena replied, scratching her head.
"Are you sure you won't tell me?" asks Myst with a grin.
"How do you think to force us?" Moon asked.
"Who said I force you? I just ask. I really want to know." she purred and chuckles "Well Moon… if you weren't my daughter I had an idea how we could sweeten up that conversation."
Moon chuckled weakly at that, blushing.
"Sure that will stop you on doing that?" Elsa asked while Daniel face palmed guessing to where are going the shoots.
With that Myst looked at the Ninetales in surprise. Then she looked at Moon "Your thoughts?"
"Well, umm… if the other girls and… dad is in the lot." Moon replied innocently, making Daniel's eyes get wide.
"What?! Really?! For the love of…" He said an looked Myst. "You won't dare to tell me that you approve that idea, right?"
"Well… from all the things I have done… that was the only thing I haven't tried yet." she admits to him with a shrug "One half is screaming at me NOT to… but the other half wants it. And I have a strap on in my bag."
"I'm not going to accept that unless there is a good reason for that! For the love of… if you didn't figure it, is MY daughter too! I'm not going in that if I don't get something in exchange for that… nonsense."
"Technically she isn't even born yet." chuckles Myst loudly "And second, we haven't decided on anything yet."
"Come on! Please, somebody, help me with this!" He stared at the other girls, soon staring Zoroark.
And all were looking at him, wanting a final answer from him. And all he gave was a loud groan, giving into his fate.
A few weeks later…
Myst was sighing deeply as she stood in front of the doors of her old guild in Ocrye (look Nymph Warriors Arc) and stroke the door "That's… going to be complicated…" and pushes the door open.
Inside she spots two of her former partners of the guild, the Jolteon Xena and the Feraligator Merinda, talking between them until they spotted Myst.
"Myst! What are you doing here? When you came back?" Xena asked, looking at the black Zorua with a smile.
"A few unexpected surprises" she admits to them with a weak laugh "Is the Madame in her office?"
"Yes, she's there."
"Can you ask if she has… time for me?" the Zorua asks Nervously.
"Yeah, what happens?"
"I prefer to tell the Madame first and later the rest of you guys."
"Really? Must be huge for have to talk with her first before that with us." Commented Merinda.
"You have no idea," she admits
"Well, I will talk with she, just wait," Xena said and went up to Madame Fu's office.
Later...
Xena got down the stairs. "You can come."
Nodding Myst entered the office and bowed respectfully towards the Mienshao Madame Fu. "Madame Fu… thank you for seeing me."
She was silent for a moment until she spoke. "I can know the reason for your visit?"
"Because I am in need of help...personal help. No connection with my work," she stated and laid something on the table… a test result of the looks of it.
Madame Fu just took the test result and stared at it for a while until she looked at Myst. "Tell me…"