Chapter 3
"YOU'RE SON?" Touya asked, shock covering his face. The little boy, Jacob jumped and ran to his mother's side, cowering behind his mother from the strange man that was yelling. Touko nodded.
"Yes." She said, her eyes were growing cold as she glared at her brother.
"..." Touya's mouth fell open and there were three growls heard.
One from beside Touko, one from behind Katone and the third from behind
Touya. The boy looked around. Katone's Tysplosion, Tyler, was glaring at him along with a Zoura from beside Jacob. He whirled around only to come face to face with Touko's shiny Haxorus, Baratha.
"It's alright. We're gonna talk about this in a minute. Baratha, could you take Jacob and Eva out back for me?" Touko said.
The dragon nodded her great head, giving a glare to Touya before picking up the little boy and carrying him out back, Eva and his Zoura, Nola, tagging along.
"Bye, Mama." Jacob said and waved over Baratha's shoulder. She smiled and Waved back to her son. Then she turned on her brother, her eyes going cold.
"In." She said, grabbing Katone's hand and pulling her in too. She pushed Touya into the kitchen and sat him down in a chair, letting go of Katone's hand.
"You have questions." Touko said. Touya nodded, lance shot Katone a confused look. She mouthed the word 'Jacob' and he nodded in understanding.
"You get three questions. Start now." the woman said, leaning against the counter across the table from her brother.
"How old is he?"
"Five. Next."
"When was he, ya know... Made?" He asked, being as delicate as he could.
"Opelucid City, before I left for victory road to fight N and Team Plasma. Next." She said, her arms crossing over her chest.
"When you left did you know you were pregnant?" He asked.
"No." she frowned and a sad look crossed her face.
"I didn't find out until I got to Kanto. That was my first stop. After he was born we moved around a lot. That is until we moved here, to Johto. New bark town with Katone. Then when he was two, Clair offered me to be Gym leader and I accepted. And here we are." Touko explained. Touya nodded, his face was unreadable, and then he looked at his sister as another question came to mind.
"Who is his father?" He asked.
"That's four questions, I said three. Sorry but that one's not getting answered." She said. The doorbell rang as Touya opened his mouth to retort something back. Touko sighed and walked back out of the room to the front door.
"Miss. Touko! Good your back! We need to talk!" Janice said as Touko opened the door, the girl and Adam standing there with Silver behind them.
"Um, okay. Come on in?" Touko said, not sure what was going on.
"Is everything alright?" she asked as they walked back into the kitchen. Silver shook his head, standing next to his wife, Katone.
"You saw the news report on the TV about the missing gym leaders?" He asked. She nodded.
"Yeah, we did. Checked out Morty's gym to see if anything was left behind. Found nothing. Why?" she asked.
"There's more you need to know." Silver said. "Told them what you told me."
"Well, Miss. Sapphire and Miss. Hikari called me. Mr. Red called Adam. All three were looking for you and they said that they needed to talk to you. I told them that I could take a message and they told me what they wanted." Janice started.
"Get to the point." Silver growled. Touko shot him a 'shut it' look.
"Right, sorry, Mr. Silver. Anyway, all three said that there was a missing gym leader in their region, but their gym trainers hadn't reported it to the police because they said that they wanted to wait a few more days before they called it in. And...And..." Janice said, her voice breaking.
"And then Mr. Alder called, three more gym leaders are missing but they're the old gym leaders so no one really noticed." Adam said, stepping in for his friend. There was silence in the kitchen for a few minutes.
"When did they call?" Touko asked.
"Miss?" Adam asked.
"When did they call? Sapphire, Hikari, Red and Alder, when did they call?" she asked again.
"Right after we talked with you, Miss. We were going to wait for you but then Mr. Silver was walking to the gym and saw us. He asked what was going on so we told him." Janice explained, looking at her feet.
"Did they give you names?" The woman asked. Janice nodded.
"Yes ma'am." She said.
"Who?"
"Miss..." Janice said, a sad look crossing her face.
"Who are they?" she growled.
"Mr. Red said that...that..."Janice started but she broke in to tears. Katone started to comfort the girl, patting her dark hair.
"It was Mr. Blaine in Kanto, Miss. Roxanne in Hoenn, Miss. Maylene in Sinnoh, Mr. Brycen, Mr. Cress and Miss. Lorna in Unova. Miss. Touko? Do you have any idea what's going on?" Adam asked. She didn't answer.
"Miss. Touko?" Adam asked again.
"No, but I don't like it. Why are gym leaders going missing?" She wondered.
"There's more." Silver said. Adam nodded.
"Miss. Hikari, Miss. sapphire, Mr. Red and Mr. Alder are on their way here, along with some others. They didn't say who, just to be ready for some people to be here." Adam said. As if on cue, the doorbell rang for a third time. Touko side and walked out of the room.
"Hi, Touko." Leaf said, smiling as Touko opened the door. Behind her stood 19 people. Touko's jaw almost dropped.
"Holy shit." She said, her eyes wide.
"Mama! Look! Turbo Evolved!" Jacob's voice said as the little boy ran up behind his mother, a Mightyena trailing behind him. But as soon as his eyes fell on the group of people, he hid behind his mother, peeking out at the people from behind her leg.
"Hey, Jacob!" Leaf said, smiling at the little boy. He knew Leaf and her brother Red. He smiled at her as Touko looked down at her son.
"Um. Why... Why don't we all go out back? You can come in through the house." Touko said, picking up Jacob and carrying him back inside, everyone else following her.
"I think introductions are needed." Katone said, looking around at the group of people. They all looked at Touko.
"Uh, yeah, right. Well. So, you all know me. Um. That's Leaf, Red, Green, Katone, Ethan, Silver, sapphire, Ruby, Wally, Hikari, Lucas, Jun, Touya, Cheren, Bianca, Mei, Nate, N, Hryu, Alder, Kudari and Nobori." Touko said, pointing at each one as she said their name. "And that's Adam and Janice."
"Right. So now that we know each other, why are you here?" She asked.
"As you know, gym leaders are missing." Alder said. Touko nodded.
"Well. We're pretty sure that someone's taking them." Green said. Touko nodded again.
"Makes since. That would be why we didn't find anything. Did you search each city that the gym leader was missing from?" She asked. They nodded.
"Yeah, we did. Nothing." Mei said.
"It's like they vanished into thin air!" Nate added.
"But the thing is, we have no idea who took them." Hikari said.
"We were hoping..." Wally started.
"That I may have an idea." Touko finished.
"And?" Cheren asked. She nodded.
"Yeah. But I just hope I'm wrong. For all our sakes." She said. Jacob tugged on her jeans. She looked down at him and gave him a smile.
"What's up?" She asked.
"Hungry." He said quietly, loud enough so that she could hear. She nodded and looked back at the others.
"Um, anyone else hungry?" She asked. They looked around before nodding.
"Okay. Um, pull up some chairs and put a few tables together, I guess." She said before picking up Jacob again and bringing him into the house with her. Turbo and Nola following them. Nobori looked around and went into the house to, wanting to talk with the gym leader.
"Hey." He said, closing the door behind him. She turned, a pot in her hand and her eyes went wide.
"Uh, hi, Nobori." She said. Jacob giggled, petting Nola and Turbo, also watching his mother out of the corner of his eye.
"It's been a while." Touko said, putting the pot down on the stove and grabbing something out of the fridge.
"5 years. You alright?" He asked.
"Yeah, well, you know. There's this thing with the gym leaders going missing, then there's taking care of my son and now I have to cook for, oh what, 24 people? Yeah, I'm great!" she said, sarcasm thick in her voice. Nobori raised an eyebrow at her.
"Your son?" He asked. She nodded.
"Uh, yeah. Jacob." She said, pointing her head in the direction of the little boy.
"You have a son? Who's...?" His voice trailed off.
"His father?" She finished.
"Yeah."
"Umm. Well, you are."
Nobori's face showed shock and she looked worried a bit. She waved a hand in front of his face before going back to what she was doing.
"When?" He asked.
"Oh, Jeezz, I don't know. Maybe it was 5 years ago when we were still dating and spent that night together before I went to go fight N." She said, rolling her eyes.
"Oh." He said, realization hitting him. She nodded.
"Now you remember." she said.
"You said you were trying to keep him safe, what do you mean by that?" Nobori asked, helping the woman out.
"Uh, yeah. I left Unova for a reason." She said.
"Why?"
"To protect everyone..." Touko's trailed off and her eyes went wide as something clicked into her brain. She turned to her son, walking over to him.
"Jacob, honey. I need you to do something for me okay?" she asked. He nodded.
"I need you to grab your things and out it into your trailing bag alright? Grab your Pokémon too. Can you do that for me?" she asked. His head tilted to the side.
"Mama, what's going on?" He asked.
"I have to look into something and I want you to stay safe, alright? Please?" She said and he nodded, getting up and running up stairs, Nola and Turbo following behind him.
"Touko? What's wrong?" Nobori asked, she ignored him and ran outside.
"What did you say about the others that weren't reported missing?!" She said, Nobori followed her and everyone looked confused as she walked up to her gym trainer.
"Miss?" Adam asked.
"What did you say about the other gym leaders that went missing, there was Blaine from Kanto, Roxanne from Hoenn and who else?" Touko asked. Adam blinked.
"Miss. Maylene from Sinnoh, Miss Lenora, Mr. Brycen and Mr. Cress from Unova." He listed.
"That's four missing from Unova." Touko muttered.
"Touko, what's going on?" Touya asked. Again she ignored him and pulled out her Pokegear, pressing some numbers into it.
"Hi, yes, this is Gym leader Touko White, I need a prisoner check."