Hello everyone. I hope you have been enjoying this fic. Thank you for reading it and for the reviews. Sorry it has taken so long for me to update this. This semester at school has been hell. Hope all is well. Here is the next chapter.
Also, I do not own Endeavour or Pokemon or their characters.
This will be using ideas from the Pokemon Games, Anime, and some of my own ideas.
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Summary:
Detective Endeavour Morse is probably the biggest mystery at Cowley Police Station. At least he is to his fellow police officers. He is an officer who prefers to keep quiet and not to have a Pokemon Battle when challenged. Many wonder about him, including his higher-ups.
First a Trainer, but then a Detective
Chapter Five
Summer had come to an end and with that, the autumn rains began to pour.
On a rainy night, silence surrounded a Pokemon Lab until out of the blue, loud noises could be heard within the Lab. Shouting and lights could be seen and heard inside the building as the lab security were chasing a small group of unknown people with some Pokemon. Suddenly an explosion caused a hole in a wall, letting the mysterious group escape into a wooden area that was right next to the lab. Security tried to follow them, but soon lost them.
The following morning. Oxford City Police were at the lab, investigating with Thursday and Jakes having just arrived on the scene.
"I wonder why City Police are investigating this. This is County's jurisdiction," said Jakes.
"The head of the lab called Bright earlier this morning and wanted City Police to investigate. Supposedly, a City Police officer lives somewhere on the Lab's lands. Guess they wanted that officer to be part of the investigation. Someone they know and trust," assumed Thursday.
They walked into the lab and were informed by a police constable on the situation and what they had found so far, which was not much.
"You must be Detective Inspector Thursday and Detective Sergeant Jakes," stated a voice.
The two officers turned around to face a man in a long white coat. He was in his mid-to-late thirties and was a tall, strong looking man with light tan skin. His combed back hair was dark brown and he had hazel eyes. His clothes were not expensive looking, but not cheap either. Holding onto his shoulders was a Meowth.
"And you would be?" asked Thursday.
"Professor Thomas Willows. I am the head of this Lab. Pleasure to meet you," greeted Willows, holding his hand out, which both Thursday and Jakes shook.
"May I ask how you know us?" questioned Jakes.
"Oh, one of your fellow officers told me that you would be coming to investigate," informed Willows.
"The one who lives on the grounds?" wondered Thursday.
"Yes," answered Willows.
"Where is this officer? I need to know any information that he may know," said Thursday.
"Well, he isn't in the Lab. He's searching the grounds for any signs that the intruders may have gone. Even though he only moved here at the beginning of this year, he already knows the land better than anyone who works here," told Willows.
"Was he in the lab at the time of the break-in?" asked Jakes.
"No, he lives in a cabin about half an hour walk away from here. One of the security officers ran to his cabin right after the intruders escaped. He's been searching the grounds since," informed Willows.
"We'll head to this cabin and see if we can find this officer and talk to him. If he isn't there, we'll start our own search from there," said Thursday.
Thursday and Jakes turned and were about to walk away when Willows called out, "I would be careful if I were you."
The two officers looked back at the Professor and Jakes asked, "Why?
"The beyond the Lab can be dangerous. Some of the wild Pokemon don't tend to like strangers walking around," explained Willows and then advised, "I would stick to the path. It will lead you to the cabin and you're less likely attacked by any of the wild Pokemon on it, but you might have to worry about your officer's Pokemon. They won't like it if they think someone is sneaking around their Trainer's home. They are very protective of him." With that, the Professor left.
Thursday and Jakes looked at one another before the Sergeant said, "You know, we didn't ask him who this officer is." They turned back to where the Professor was heading, but he was already gone and they could not find him.
The two of them found the path and began to walk along it.
"Hopefully we can find this officer soon. His knowledge of this area will be very useful to us," said Thursday.
"But who would want to live all the way out here, especially if they work at Cowley Police Station. It would take them at least an hour to get to the Station by car. I don't even want to know how long by foot," said Jakes. Thursday nodded in agreement.
After a while, they came upon a small cabin that was next to a small pond on one side and woodland surrounded the rest. Walking up to the cabin, they saw that the door was slightly opened.
"The intruders might be inside," whispered Jakes.
They slowly walked up to the cabin and gently pushed the door until it was open all the way. The two of them went inside, cautiously. Inside the cabin, it was empty.
Relaxing a bit, the two officers looked around the cabin. Inside there was a kitchen and table with chairs on one side of the room and a large bookcase that was full of books, a desk and chair that was against with a window in front of it that had some items on it, including a little radio, and a reading chair with a lamp that was on a table stand that was right next to it on the other side. In between the two sides was a fireplace with a mantle that had nothing on it. In front of the fireplace was a small sofa with a table stand on one side. Near the kitchen side of the room was a door that led to another room, most likely a bedroom. On the other side was another door the led to a bathroom. A large chest was against the back of the sofa, facing the door that Thursday and Jakes just came through.
Thursday and Jakes turned to face each other before Thursday nodded towards the bathroom, wanting Jakes to go check it out while he headed to the bedroom.
The bedroom was a medium size room with not many personal objects in it. It had a small bed that was nicely made with a large chest at the foot with another sizeable chest opposite of the bed with another desk, which had a record player and a few LPs on it, with a chair and a smaller bookcase that contained many records and books. Next to the bed was a nightstand with a lamp on it. On the other side of the bed was a door that led to a closet. And against the wall facing the door that led to the living room was a large dresser.
Thursday headed to the closet and looked through it, finding a few button shirts, jackets, pants, ties, a coat, and a pair of shoes. He walked away from the closet and went up to the chest that was at the foot of the bed. Opening it up, he saw that half of the chest contained a box full almost to the brim with Poke Balls. There had to be hundreds of Poke Balls of different types like Poke Balls, Great Balls, Net Balls, Nest Balls, etc. and all of them were in their reduce size form. In the other half of the chest was another box, but this one was sealed and when Thursday tried to open it, he found that it was locked. Not wanting to mess with it any more than he had, the Inspector closed the chest.
He then went to the other chest and opened it. This one had a different contents. In this chest, there seemed to be a few frames and another large box. Not wanting to mess with the box yet, Thursday looked through the frames. He was surprised to see a set of badges, each of them had a different design and color. It took a moment for Thursday to realize that these were Pokemon Gym Badges, each of them from a different region such as the Kanto, Johto, Orange Islands, Kalos, etc. Looking through the frames, he was a bit surprised at seeing the collection of badges.
Putting the frames back, Thursday closed the chest and was heading out of the room when a faint glowing caught his attention. He turned to the bed where he saw a round object leaning against the pillows at the head of the bed. Walking to the bed, Thursday picked up to the object and examined it. He realized it was a Pokemon Egg. It was white with blue and red triangular spots and kind of large and heavy. As he gazed at it, the Egg suddenly glowed again.
Suddenly Jakes walked into the room and said, "No one's in the cabin and nothing seems out of the ordinary." He then saw that Thursday and asked, "What do you have there, sir?"
"A Pokemon Egg and it's going to hatch soon," answered Thursday. The Egg glowed again. Setting the Egg back where he found it, he two of them left the room and were heading out of the cabin.
"I didn't find any evidence of who lives here. Did you?" wondered Jakes.
"None, but whoever it is, he's a powerful Trainer," told Thursday.
Jakes was about to say something as they stepped out of the cabin when they realized they were not alone. They were surrounded with their back to the cabin by several Pokemon. There was a Mightyena, two Poliwags, a Totodile, a Durant, a Spearow, a Pansear, a Pansage, a Panpour, a Furret, a Stantler, a Chatot, a Pidove, a Hawlucha, and a Luxio. They all were wearing either a black collar or armband and all of them did not look happy to see them.
"Sir?" asked Jakes, looking questioning at Thursday.
"There must be the Officer's Pokemon," assumed the Inspector. His hand slowly went to his belt, reaching for one of his Poke Balls.
The Mightyena saw this and growled at him, taking a step closer.
Before anything could happen though, a voice called out, "Mightyena, stand down." The officers and the Pokemon turned to look to the side in the same direction to see someone coming out of the woods. The Pokemon were not surprised, but seemed happy. It was the officers who was surprised. It was Detective Constable Morse who was coming towards them.
Mightyena and soon the other Pokemon quickly went up to Morse, who knelt down and began to pet Mightyena and Furret.
"Morse," called out Thursday.
Morse looked up at the Inspector and stood up, saying, "Sir."
"So you're the one who lives here," stated Jakes.
"Yes," said Morse and then turned to look at Thursday and said, "Sorry about this, sir. They probably thought you were the intruder." He walked right up to them, Mightyena by his side with his other Pokemon right behind him.
"Probably didn't help that we just came out of your cabin after searching it," told Thursday.
A confused expression appeared on Morse's face as he said, "Searching for what, sir?"
"We saw the door open and thought that the intruders might have been in there," told Jakes.
Realization quickly appeared on Morse's face as he answered, "Oh. I always leave the door open so that my Pokemon can go in and out as they please."
"Any luck on your search?" asked Thursday, wanting to change the subject.
"No sign of them so far. I've checked about a fifth of the land with no luck, mostly because any tracks would have been washed away the rain. All my Pokemon have probably been told to watch out for any strangers, which is why my Pokemon here treated you unkindly. I am sorry for that," said Morse.
"No harm, no foul," said Thursday. He then said, "We have some questions for you though."
Morse nodded and said, "Might as well do this inside." He looked towards his Pokemon and nodded his head to side. With that, they left, except for Mightyena. He followed the officers into the cabin.
After refusing tea, the three officers took a seat at the table with the Inspector and Sergeant facing the Constable.
"Tell us what you know," said Thursday.
"Late last night around midnight, one of the Lab's security guards knocked on my door. I was asleep at the time and was woken up by this. He informed me that a group of people with their Pokemon broke into the Lab and stole some file. The security guards tried to stop them, but they were overpowered by the thieves and their Pokemon. They escaped by blowing a hole through the wall and running into the woods. With the cover of dark and the rain, the guards lost track of them. This occurred less than an hour before I was awaken by the guard. As soon as I was ready, I went in search of any trace left by the thieves, which was difficult because of the rain. As I search, any of my Pokemon I saw along the way, I told them to watch out for any strangers and to inform me immediately, which is what happened when they saw you and I came as quickly as I could and found you," informed Morse.
"Do you have any idea who did this or why?" asked Jakes.
"Well, I don't know who did it, but I have an idea of why," told Morse as he petted Mightyena's head.
"Which would be?" questioned Jakes.
"They were probably looking for any information and most likely the whereabouts of a Pokemon or maybe multiple Pokemon," explained Morse.
"Why do you say that?" asked Thursday.
"Because of the research that this Lab does," said Morse. When the two officers looked at him with questioning expressions, he explained, "This Lab researches about everything on the specific Pokemon. Such as type, abilities, stats, moves, evolution, etc. They even research the locations that you could find them and why they live there. This Lab has a file on almost every Pokemon there is. These thieves probably took a file so that they could know the location and any information on a certain Pokemon or many Pokemon. The Lab won't know which Pokemon until they find out which file or files are missing."
"That could take a while," said Jakes. Thursday nodded in agreement.
"So you searched about a fifth of the grounds," stated Thursday.
"Yes. I've searched the lands near the lab and any spots that thieves could have been hiding, but there hasn't been any signs of them having been there. I was heading to some tunnels that they could staying in when my Pokemon alerted me about you," informed Morse.
"We'll come with you," said Thursday.
The three officers and Mightyena walked out of the cabin and headed to the tunnels with Morse and Mightyena taking the lead.
"I hope you're not the only one searching the grounds. It'll take too much time with just you," said Thursday.
"I'm not the only one. Strange is searching the other side of the grounds. He's the only other officer who knows these lands as well as the people who works at the Lab. Some other uniforms are with them," informed Morse.
After about a five minute walk, they arrived at a large hillside that had an opening that lead into the hill. Inside it was very dark with only minimum lighting coming from mining chain lights that were connected to either sides of walls.
"Be careful. Some parts are not as lighted as others. There are also quite a few wild Pokemon and some of my Pokemon that live here so be cautious, especially of where you step," told Morse.
As they started to make their hike into the hillside, it was eerie. It was completely quiet, not a sound could be heard.
"Why is it so quiet?" asked Jakes, his voice at a bit of a whisper.
"The Pokemon here are probably still asleep or have gone out through another tunnel. Besides the one we just came through, there are three other openings. They could also be in a different cavern. These tunnels and caverns are long and go pretty deep. It's easy for anyone to get lost, particularly if they don't know the layout," informed Morse.
"How many caverns are there?" asked Thursday.
"There are two large caverns and several smaller caverns," answered Morse.
"Are there any other hillsides with tunnels, caverns, or caves on this land?" asked Thursday.
"There is. It's about a forty-five minute walk from here and then you have to cross the large lake to reach the closet entrance from here. It takes over an hour to reach it from the entrance we just came from," enlightened Morse.
"And I guess there are a bunch of Pokemon in there too," said Jakes.
Morse nodded.
Without warning, a loud roar echoed through the tunnel.
"What was that?" asked Jakes.
"Druddigon. He must have woken up," said Morse and then said, "He probably knows that we are here." As he finished saying that, they had just walked into a large cavern. Looking around, they saw a lot of Pokemon having just been woken and were beginning their day. Soon a few Pokemon, a Geodude, a Machop, a Whismur, and a Crobat, were coming up to them. Like Morse's other Pokemon, they had either black armband or collars on them.
Morse held his arm out, allowing Crobat to land on it. He turned to his fellow officers and said, "I had Crobat here check all the tunnels and caverns to see if any of the thieves had come by or used this area as refuge." He then looked at the purple bat and asked, "Anything?"
"Crobat cro cro bat bat," said Crobat.
Sighing, Morse said, "Nothing. There has been no sign of anyone unusual having come through here."
"Where could they be?" muttered Thursday, more to himself.
"We could try that other hillside," suggested Jakes.
"It would be for the best. Morse, is there a quicker way to that other hillside?" asked Thursday.
"Yes, there is a tunnel that we can take from here, which will take us about halfway there," told Morse. He then looked at Crobat and said, "Keep an eye out for anything." With that, he let Crobat fly away with the other Pokemon soon following.
They began to head in direction with Morse in the lead and were halfway through the cavern when they heard something coming at them. As it was coming closer, they saw it was a Druddigon. Thursday and Jakes took a step back, but Morse and Mightyena stood their ground. The Inspector and Sergeant were surprised when they saw Druddigon, who had a black collar around his neck, stopped right in front of the Constable and Mightyena.
"Hey Druddigon," greeted Morse, raising his hand as the red and blue dragon moved his head to it and nuzzled his Trainer's hand gently. With his other hand, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a Cheri Berry, giving it to Druddigon, who quickly ate it.
"Keep an eye on things here, Druddigon," said Morse, who patted Druddigon's snout gently. With that, Druddigon left.
"That was your Druddigon?" asked Jakes.
"Yes. He just came to check who was walking across his territory," said Morse, as he began to walk towards another tunnel. Thursday and Jakes followed.
"What would have happened if you weren't there?" questioned Jakes.
"He would have attacked you," said Morse, in matter-of-fact tone.
They walked into another tunnel and after over ten minutes, they walked into the sunlight. Outside, they were surrounded mostly by tree with one side being a large lake.
"It's not too far from here. Just about a five minute walk from here," informed Morse.
Before they arrived at the hillside, there was a loud explosion and smoke could be seen coming from an area that was on the other side of the trees. Without saying a word, the three officers and Mightyena quickly ran towards the smoke.
Coming through the trees, they came upon a path where four Pokemon were having a battle with two Trainers. It was a two-on-two Pokemon Battle with the two Trainers on the same side. Both of the Trainers were wearing the same black long sleeve shirt with pants and boots and on their heads, their heads were covered by black beanies. One of the Trainers was a male and the other was a female. The male Trainer was commanding an Electrike and the female Trainer was ordering a Poochyena. They were up against a Totodile and a Fennekin.
The Totodile had a black armband around his arm and Fennekin had a black collar around her neck.
"Totodile. Fennekin," called out Morse.
Totodile and Fennekin looked to the side and became happy at seeing Morse.
"Toto toto," said Totodile.
"Fennekin fenne," said Fennekin.
"Damn it," cursed the male Trainer.
"Sir," someone shouted.
All of the people looked to see Strange and a few other uniform officers coming towards them.
"Sir, they're with the thieves. There were two more with them," informed Strange as he and the other officers came to a stop.
"Morse, take care of these two. We'll catch up with the others," ordered Thursday, but as they took a step towards the direction that the other two thieves went, a volt of electricity stopped them in their tracks.
"We're not letting get pass up," shouted the male Thief.
"You'll have to get pass us," told the female Thief.
"That won't be difficult. Fennekin, Ember. Totodile, Water Gun," ordered Morse.
"Poochyena, use Shadow Ball," shouted the female Thief.
"Shock Wave, Electrike," commanded the Male Thief.
Fennekin fired a blanket of small orange flames from her mouth. Totodile released a spiral of water from his mouth. Electrike's body became surrounded by electricity and released a beam of light blue electricity from his body. A black ball of energy began to form in front of Poochyena's mouth and was soon fired. The four attacks hit one another, causing a large smoke cloud to form between them.
Before the smoke cleared, Morse instructed, "Fennekin, use Flame Charge on Electrike. Totodile, Ice Punch on Poochyena."
An icy blue light surrounded Totodile's fist as he charge into the now thin layer of smoke and came out of the opposite side, making a direct hit on Poochyena. Red-yellow flames covered Fennekin's body as she stormed through the smoke and soon slammed into Electrike, also making a direct hit.
"Now finish it with Ember and Water Gun," directed Morse.
Another array of attacks shot out from Fennekin and Totodile. Ember had hit Electrike while Water Gun had struck Poochyena. This caused both of the Thieves' Pokemon to be knocked out.
"No," cried out both of the Thieves. They both quickly returned their Pokemon to their Poke Balls and tried to get away.
"Oh no you don't," shouted Jakes. Soon all of the officers and Morse's Pokemon came to a turn in the path, they heard a cry of surprise up ahead. They came upon the two Thieves, who were sitting on the ground with a dark green vine wrapped around each of them. Right next to them was an Ivysaur with a black armband one of his front legs.
"Good job, Ivysaur," praised Morse.
"Ivysaur ivy," said Ivysaur.
Thursday turned to two of the uniformed officers and commanded, "You two, stay with me. Take them down to the Station."
"Ivysaur, stay with them until you reach the Lab," ordered Morse.
"Yes, sir."
"Ivy ivy."
The two officers and Ivysaur left with the two Thieves, who were still wrapped in vines.
Soon Morse, Thursday, Jakes, and Strange along with Mightyena, Fennekin, and Totodile ran along the path, hoping to catch up with the two other Thieves. Soon the path split and they had to split-up. Jakes and Strange took one way and Morse and Thursday took the other way with his Pokemon following them. The direction that the Inspector and Constable were heading was towards Morse's cabin.
Somehow they managed to catch sight of the two Thieves coming out of Morse's cabin. One of the Thieves was carrying the Pokemon Egg that Thursday had saw earlier. They come to a stop at a bit of a distance from the Thieves.
"Put that down now," shouted Morse when he saw the Egg in one of the Thieves' hands, who was a female. The other one was male, who was carrying a bag.
"Why should we?" asked the female Thief and then said, "Having this will make sure that you don't try anything. Now where are the other two who were with us?"
"They've been arrested, which you two will be so give it up," called out Thursday.
"Not while we have a chance," said the male Thief, who tossed a Poke Ball, calling out, "Go, Gurdurr."
"Gurdurr gur."
The female Thief pulled out a Poke Ball and tossed it, shouting, "Come on out, Kirlia."
"Kir kirlia."
"Now you're going to let us go or we can fight, but know that if we lose, the Egg takes a great fall and like they say, 'All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again.' It would be for the best if you let us go," advised the female Thief.
Something though caught Morse's eyes and he said, "I don't think so. Lucario."
Suddenly Lucario rushed down from the roof of the cabin and was soon next to the female Thief. He grabbed the Egg, pushing the Thief to the ground. Lucario quickly backed off until he was right next to Morse.
"Good job, Morse," praised Morse.
"Lucario cario," said Lucario, holding the Egg close.
"Damn it. Gurdurr, Rock Throw," shouted the male Thief.
Gurdurr slammed his steel beam into the ground, causing a bunch of rocks to fly at them.
"Mightyena, dodge it and then use Fire Fang," ordered Morse.
Mightyena swiftly dodged the rocks as flames filled his mouth and shortly bite Gurdurr's arm. Flames surrounded the area until Mightyena released him.
"Kirlia, use Magical Leaf," commanded the female Thief.
Kirlia raised her hands above her head and then brought them forward, releasing multiple glowing light green leaves from her hands. The leaves flew right at Mightyena, making a direct hit. Mightyena was pushed back, but shook it off.
Thursday reached for a Great Ball and tossed it, calling out, "Espeon, lets go." Out of the Great Ball came an Espeon.
"Espeon espe."
"Espeon, use Shadow Ball on Kirlia," ordered Thursday.
"A black and purple ball of energy formed in front of Espeon's mouth and soon shot it at Kirlia, making a direct hit, pushing Kirlia back and causing quite a bit of damage.
"Gurdurr, use Power-Up Punch on Espeon," instructed the male Thief.
Gurdurr's fist began to glow with an aura that was red-orange. He charged at Espeon.
"Espeon, Psychic."
Espeon's eyes started to glow light blue. Suddenly, just as Gurdurr was near Espeon, he came to a stop, a pale blue light outlining his body. He was then thrust backward, past the Thieves, colliding with a tree.
The male Thief was shocked. He accidently dropped the bag.
"Kirlia, Psyshock on Espeon."
Kirlia floated into the air and closed her eyes. Out of the blue, three thick masses of light blue, blue, and purple energy formed around the front of her body. She then fired the orbs at Espeon.
"Mightyena!"
In a flash, Mightyena placed himself in front of Espeon, using his body as a shield, taking the hit. Surprisingly, the attack caused Mightyena no harm.
"Psychic type attacks have no effect on Dark types," enlightened Morse.
"But Fighting types attacks do. Use Wake-Up Slap, Gurdurr," shouted the male Thief.
Already on his feet, Gurdurr charged at Mightyena with his hand raised to attack.
"Iron Tail, Mightyena."
Mightyena's tail glowed silver and struck Gurdurr with it before he could have landed his attack. This finished Gurdurr.
"Nnnnoooo," yelled the male Thief, returning Gurdurr to his Poke Ball. He went to pick up the bag, but unexpectedly, the bag was gone. Looking around, he saw that Lucario had the bag, that he had given the Egg to Morse before going to retrieve the bag.
"Damn it. No other choice then," muttered the female Thief, pulling off her beanie, revealing shoulder length chestnut color hair.
When Morse saw this, he was surprised. He recognized her. Thursday saw this.
"Mightyena, Crunch," quickly ordered Morse.
With his fangs shining white, Mightyena charged at Kirlia.
"Kirlia, Double Team," commanded the female Thief.
Kirlia's body began to shine a bright white light and created multiple copies of herself. At this, Mightyena stopped in his tracks, his fangs not glowing anymore.
Soon the two Thieves were standing next to each other.
"You win this time, but it won't be the same like last time," said the female Thief and then she ordered, "Kirlia, Teleport."
With this, the three of them were gone, causing the copies to disappear.
Sighing in relief, Morse sat down on the ground with the Egg in his arms.
"All right, Morse?" asked Thursday, looking down at him.
"I will be," answered Morse. Mightyena walked up to him and sat down by his side. Lucario went to his other side and dropped the bag onto the ground, taking a seat next to him. Fennekin and Totodile came up to him, checking that he was all right.
"All of you did very well," praised Morse, petting his Pokemon gently with the Egg on his lap.
Abruptly, the Egg started to flash white and then glowed white before transforming into a Pokemon. When the light died away, it revealed to be a Togepi.
"Togepi toge," cheered the newly hatched Pokemon, looking up at Morse.
"Well, this is a surprise," said Thursday as his Espeon walked up to them, gazing at Togepi.
Togepi looked towards Thursday when she heard his voice and then at all the Pokemon around b them with wonder in her eyes.
"Welcome to the world, Togepi," greeted Morse, lifting her up in his arms.
"Sir," shouted someone.
They turned to see Strange and Jakes coming towards them.
"Did you find the Thieves, sir?" questioned Jakes.
"We did. Got the files back, but they escaped using Teleport," informed Thursday.
Strange walked up to Morse and said, "Hey matey, your Egg hatched."
"It just did," said Morse. He stood up and face them, turning Togepi around in his arms so that she could see them too.
"What is it?" asked Jakes.
"This is Togepi," informed Morse.
"Well, before we focus on the newly hatched Pokemon, we best return these files to the Lab," said Thursday, picking up the bag. He then returned Espeon to her Great Ball.
"Sir," said the three officers.
Morse turned to face Lucario, who was now standing next to him.
"Here Lucario. Watch Togepi while we finish this," said Morse, handing Togepi over to Lucario.
"Lucario," said Lucario, taking hold of the Spike Ball Pokemon.
As the four officer headed to the Lab, Fennekin and Totodile stayed with Lucario and Togepi while Mightyena stayed with Morse.
After returning the bag of files to Professor Willows, who was thankful. With this, the police began to back up.
Morse watched this from a distance with Mightyena sitting by his side.
Thursday walked up to him.
"Bright should be happy. Retrieved the stolen files back and caught two o0f the four Thieves," said Morse.
"He should," agreed Thursday and then said, "Take the rest of the day off. I'll clear it with Bright. You can write your report tomorrow morning."
"Sir…" began Morse, but stopped when he looked at Thursday and saw that there was no point in arguing.
"Yes, sir."
"I do have some questions for you," said Thursday. Morse looked at him with a curious expression.
"You knew that girl. The one with the Kirlia. She seemed to know you. How?" questioned Thursday.
With a heavy sigh, Morse began to say, "For quite a few years, I use to travel."
"You use to travel," said Thursday and then explained, "I saw the Gym Badges. You're pretty good."
Morse shrugged and continued to say, "Anyway, during my time in the Kanto and Johto regions, I came upon her. Her name is Alexa. She became part of this group called Team Rocket."
"Team Rocket?"
"They were a group of thieves who tried to steal or capture rare and strong Pokemon and sell them on the black market to fund their projects, which were to conduct experimental research on Pokemon. Most of them were cruel," informed Morse.
"What happened to them?"
"A handful of Trainers, including myself, decided to stop them so we fought back along with the police in those regions and some other officials. And it worked. Their leader, Giovanni, was arrested along with his second-in-commands. It was the last time I've seen or heard from or about them," told Morse.
"And this girl? Alexa? Who's she?"
"She was a top level grunt. She had a bit of a command over some of them. I don't know what happened to her or several other members of Team Rocket. Never really thought about it until now," informed Morse.
"So Pokemon Thieves," stated Thursday. He stared at Morse before he said, "They probably came after you quite a bit. Your Pokemon seem very strong to me."
"They did. To the point of annoyance. They especially went after Lucario," said Morse.
"Lucario?" asked Lucario.
"Well, Lucarios are kind of rare and if trained properly, they can be very strong," said Morse.
Thursday nodded and said, "The question is, what is she after?"
"I'm not exactly sure, sir," said Morse.
There was a moment of silence between them before Jakes came up to them, telling Thursday that they were ready to leave. Jakes walked away and Thursday followed him, but stopped. He turned to Morse and said, "You did well, Morse. Very well."