Disclaimer: I can speak Japanese, but I'm not much lf a whiz when writting it. So I can't have owned the series!
"Since you are an ex-Team Plasma member. My dear friend Faitsu."
Time stilled. Her bodystilled, refusing to move as she stared at her dear pendant in the hands of someone she had considered trusting. The sly smirk playing on his lips was not in one bit attractive, as every girl in the school would say, more like scary. She was sweating? Or so she believed because the heaters were turned on but the classroom still felt chilly to her.
What's a girl to do?
"H-h-how-" she said, voice going into a landslide of stutters, but at the moment, she was cut off.
"Ah, not important." Rakutsu said, giving the pendant a slight toss in the air. She froze, wondering if she should grab it, but considering her options, which were her height, and strength. She decided against the notion.
"Wha-what do you wan-" She said, but still got cut off by the boy.
"Don't really want anything if you're thinking I'm blackmailing you" He said smoothly, as if he had been in these situations before. Her brain had gave her a clear answer though- yes.
"You... Who are you?" She asked, her voice laced with uncertainty. Rakutsu shrugged nonchantly, "Not important" He said, pocketing the pendant, Faitsu could only glare and wished to the high heavens that it was intimidating.
"Why are you taking my pendant? Wait. How did you even know it was mine-" She said, trying to filter out her memories with the boy, he only waited as she stared at the ground, she gasped. "When you helped with my things..." She mumbled. Then in an angrier voice, she said to him "You stole it!?"
Rakutsu shook his head. "Could give it to the police". A suggestion? Or statement she supposed, he was playing her, watching her reaction. "Wh-why?" She said.
"Why what dear Faitsu hmm?" He asked, leaning o the table a bit more, a smirk ever present on his face. She paused, really unsure of all her questions now. What would she want fro him? What would he want from her?
"Why are you doing this..." She said finally, Her Foongus friend could only stare in defeat.
"Because, I'm curious"
"Oh, Miss Cecelia how nice to meet you aga-" Colress started, but was cut off by a stamp to the foot by Faitsu's very own mother. He retrected his foot, and gave her a look that screamed 'why'
Cecelia lifted her foot and positioned herself to stand tall, to not show weakness was what she hoped. Colress sighed. "If this was ablut your daughter, she already declined" He said, not daring to look the mother in the eye. As if she were the mother of a pokemon, they always did say mothers are the fiercest when their children are lost.
"Good, so you knew" She said, making a move to sit down on one of the many placed chairs in the teacher's lounge. One teacher, who Colress knew as Proffesor Juniper quickly muttered a 'good luck' and left the room, making him stand awkwardly with Cecelia, since the teacher only seemed to be the last on here, with him.
"Ok, I'm sorry? Now may you leave?" He asked, gesturing to the exit. The woman snorted. "Are you even serious?" She said. Not moving at all from where she frowned, confused, he never did understand women.
"Am I serious what?" He asked, raising a careful eyebrow. Cecelia stood. "Why are you here. In a school. Specifically this school, Colress." She said, a dinger pointing in his direction. He could tell she was serious, seriously pissed. For some reason?
"Uh, That's a secret." Was all he could utter at the moment, backing away from the woman who looked like she could murder at the moment. She shook her head, his mind immediately registered a sentence, which was 'no? not the answer?'
"Not the answer" She said, like she repeated his concious. "Oh" he muttered.
He sighed, this is why he never married. And a few other reasons. Colress was a busy man, he had no time for women. He thinks.
"Look, I can't just give you information like that, You're not even in Team Plasma anymore, much worse is that we've split, and for your information you're kind of on the opposing side right now" He said, a hand trying to soothe his oncoming headache that he felt was sloly forming. Cecelia however, did not seem to enjoh this answer too. Her face was in the full position to pout.
"Fine. Look, I can at least tell you why I'm at this school, but in all seriousness it's mostly because I need a job for money, so I tried to get a teaching job and somehow winded up in this school, all an accidednt really!" He said, hoping the answer would at least satisfy the woman abit. Which by the looks of her raised eyebrow, did?
"Really?" She said, but it sounded mkre like a statement than a question. He nodded. "I'm kinda low on cash" He added soon after.
"If that's the case why did you steal my daughter's pendant hmmm?" She exclaimed. Standing up again witha finger at his face. He gave her a confused look.
"Pendant? Why would I ever steal her pendant?"He said, very confused. Cecelia paused, if Colress was as innocent as he said he was, then if she were to question further, the man would soon know why the pendant was important.
She laughed awkwardly.
"Oh ho, my mistake, if that's the case then it probably wasn't you then hoho, pardon my intrusion ha!"
He raised an eyebrow in her general direction, which was at the moment, the exit.
"Well good luck in teaching, I hear the students get reaaaally rowdy, bye!" She cried, her voice trailing out the door as she walked.
Leaving Colress all alone in the teacher's lounge, with a very, very confused lookon his face.
"Uh, Thanks?"
Blue and Silver stood by the abandoned building in awe, the whole thing looked as if it had crashed down from some violent battle. Beside them, stood a brunette with a scowl. on her face "Nothin's here ya'know" she said surveying the area a little, a bored loo, present on her features. Silver shrugged and walked into the building to look for clues.,
"Sapphy, there's bound to be something" Blue answered the girl as she tip-toed through the mess to look for some evidence. Her Wigglytuff everpresent at her side. 'Sapphy' flipped her bangs unhappilyand started to jump up onto the metal bars that hung around the place, she was Blue's strong man, well, a strong girl for this mission, as 'Sapphy had incredible talents that no one had. After a few hops around the place, she smiled toothily, "Bet Roob won't even wanna walk if he was here" she said bouncing of a few things to look for something.
"Ruby has his reasons Sapphy, now c'mere, I think I found something" Blue said, dusting away piles of dirt. Only to find a door, which would most likely mean a hidden entrance. "Helloo there" she said tapping it a few times, then switching to a few knocks to see if it were hollow. Which it soon turned out to be . A grin on her lips was soon plastered on her lips, Silver walked over in mild interest, squatting to her level to check the door out. "How do we open it?" He asked, looking around for, hopefully, a switch.
'Sapphy' clicked her tongue in dissapointment at something then bent over to grab the handle of the door. "Ya gotta' think the easier way" She said, giving the door a large tug. And it was soon off it's hinges and in 'Sapphy's' hand. Her face was one that was waiting for compliments to come. Blue immediately started clapping.
"Wow Sapphire! I knew you could do it" she said, nudging Silver in the ribs, hoping he got the gist of it. Which he did. Her pokémon imitated her actions.
"Even I'm impressed" he said. Sapphire rubbed her nose victoriously, like she was expecting the compliments all along. "Awh shucks don't mention it".
Blue waved off her gesture as she peered into the underground 'room?'. She frowned, she did not enjoy the atmosphere it was giving off. Alltogether the whole thing seemed quite... out of place, as she would put. Silver seemed to have the same reaction as her as she could see the look of fear etched onto his face. Sapphire too, had frowned in displeasure, but was the only one to voice her thoughts. "I don't like the vibes this room gives"
Blue nodded, her thoughts exactly. So she steeled her nerves for both Silver and Sapphire's sake, and quickly made a jump into the room, returning her pokémon back into it's pokéball . Once she landed, she was quickly hit with a strong feeling of nausea.
Silver hopped down soon after, like her, he immediately tipped backwards once he landed, a sign of nausea. Blue did not like this one bit. Sapphire, after a few sniffs, then frowning, said "It smells terrible"
"My thoughts exactly" Blue said. Taking a few steps foward to survey the area. She picked up a small stone and tossed it foward, the sound continued to echo foward. "So a tunnel". She muttered, gesturing for Silver to retrive a flashlight.
Sapphire hopped into the tunnel with them. But unlike her and Silver, Sapphire's reaction was much worse, because as she landed, she immediately fell onto her backside, a hand immediately at her nose and mouth to cover the stench. That was strange, sure she had a powerful nose, and the air itself smelled foul. But Sapphire never ever showed weakness. She legit walked into the men's toilet before as a dare to see if she could take the stench, and came out with a gleeful smile after that. And
a counseling lesson too.
"B-Blue..." She said, her voice all muffled from her hand. At the rim of her eyes, were tears, no doubt. "I.. Can't breathe..." She said, her voice into a sob. Too slow, Blue had told herself, as she ran over to where Sapphire was, recovering from her state of initial shock at the poor girl not being able to breathe. "Silver, help me hoist her up" She cried, and her brother complied, helping lift the poor girl above them again, where she could get fresh air. Sapphire took in a large breath once outside, but she never stopped, her breathing continued to come out as deep and large.
"Sapphy? Sweetie you okay?" Blue asked, craning her head to get a look at the girl. Sapphire nodded, sniffing and wiping tears away as she did. Blue sighed in relief. But now, she had to worry about the reason on why she had reacted like that. Sapphire wasn't one to cry either.
"Okay sweetie, we're gonna need you to stay there and wait for us, you okay?" Blue asked, and Sapphire replied with a nod. At this, Blue tossed a pokéball at the girl, which she quickly caught. "If anything happens, my dear Wigglytuff will protect you" She said, as she clicked the flashlight in her hands on. And nodded to Silver as a gesture to continue onward.
As they walked, the stench only seemed to get worse. "Smells like someone died" Silver muttered, although Blue had no idea on weather he was suposed to be joking or not. She chose not to answer as they walked.
They eventually came to a halt infront of a door. Blue had to frown here. The tunnel did not only go straight, but downwards as well.
Like it was meant to hide something.
This was not a good sign. Silver was crowched somewhere, staring at what was a small patch of dried blood. He looked up, "Do you think...?" Blue nodded, and immediately kicked the door down, inside, as they flashed their light, was a bunch of decayed bodies. "I knew it" She muttered, taking a few steps backward.
Silver walked into the room with a steady stride, even his sister was surprised. "Looks like it was only a punishment room of sorts." He muttered. Blue took a step in. She frowned, It didn't really feel like a punkshment room, she loomed around further.
"No, not punishment.." She said, Taking a look at the decaying bodies around. All pokémon. No humans, no whip or dangerous tools. But that was not the only thing to prove that it wasn't a sort of punishment room.
"They look like they've been experimented on..." She said, taking a closer look at the poor Ratata, which looked like it died the most recent as it's skin was still looking ok, save the bits of dying flesh here and there. But the odd thing about this little creature, was the fact that it looked so mutated, to the point where she couldn't even tell it was a ratata if not for the fangs and curled tail.
Silver could only cough in reply. He turned his gaze over to another pile of bodies. "Probably won't find anything in a dump..." he said.
Blue nodded and stood. Noticing a little glint at the end of the room, she walked over. "Maybe, not" She said, pushing a few bodies away, rubbing her nose with her sleeves multiple times, in fear the smell would stick. She scrunched her nose in disgust after the deed was done. She was going to get a major manicure done after this, and a very thorough head to tke shower.
She stared. At the little key, which was being reflected from the light, which led to a small door which was left ajar. She followed the light, behind her, Silver followed her lead, stayimg closly behind her. As they neared the door, they heard a large thump outside, followed by a scream, which Blue guessed belonged to a male, considering it's deep octave.
She opened the small door, slowly, as to not scare whatever it was outside. When she did, she heard a loud yell, which most likely belonged to Sapphire, "What'cha sneakin' around for huh?!" She said.
Blue took a breath in and crawled through the hole, which the door had opened. Outside, was indeed Sapphire, and her Blaziken, holding a man, which Blue guesses was in his thirties, by the arms. He trashed like crazy.
"Let me go you crazy little grrrrr" He yelled, Sapphire's Blaziken held him tighter, the man in return howled in pain. Blue could only feel pity for him. Sapphire, who of course noticed Blue's footsteps immediatly turned to her. "I caught this guy bein' sneaky" She said, pointing at the man, who glared at Blue like she owed him money.
"What a haul." She said, walking around the Blaziken as an attempt to show authority. Silver stood from where he crawled out of, and the man immeditely yelled. "You! You little wench! Where were you when Team Rocket was searching huh?!".
At this, Silver paused to glare at him, a frown on his beautiful face. "Petrel, always a pleasure" he said, walking to the man. Petrel kicked the air.
"You know the guy?" Blue asked a thumb at his direction. Silver nodded, "worked with my father, before I was... y'know.." He replied. Blue nodded.
"So! Mr. Petral? Was it? What are you doing at this old abandoned building?" Blue asked, nearing the guy, who seemd very put out from all the kicking. He frowned at her. "Non o' ya' Business!" He cried.
Sapphire nodded at her pokémon who bent one of the man's wrist in a painful way. He yelled out in pain. "Hey, die, no die? Up to you" Blue said to him with a little shrug. He growled at her. "It's none o' ya business ya hear!?" He repeated.
"Hmm, that answer won't do" Blue said, flicking her wrist, a gesture for the Blaziken to continue, more cries were heard. After a few more tortured yells, the man seemed to have passed out.. Saphire stared at his broken arm " Well he wouldn't talk..." She muttered, Blue had a guess that it was to save herself from guilt.
She stared at his arm too, the guilt creeping back up, but she pushed it down. Silver walked up to him, and opened the man's palm. Where a bunch of documents were held. "Wow, I didn't even notice.." Blue said, as Silver opened them up from their crunched up state.
"Experiments..." He muttered.
Blue sighed, Team Rocket has some weird shit going on about them. But their main concern wasn't Team Rocket from the start. She stared at the man, who was currently passed out on the ground. "We just lost our chance to ask about your dad" Blue said in realization, Silver nodded, and she groaned loudly.
"Let's get him to the police, I know a guy"
"How rare of you to actually bring a real criminal here." Rakutsu said, staring at the poor unconcious man that Blue, Silver and Sapphire had caught. An admin from Team Rocket according to their current data. The boss would be pleased.
"Whaaaat? What js that suposed to mean hm?" Blue answered, feeling abit offended. Rakutsu looked at the man as he spoke, "Considering the few times you brought in innocent people who just honestly mean no harm to you most of the time."
"Ehh, well. Since we helped you catch and actual baddie and a source for you on finding Team Rocket..." She trailed off, eyes darting off onto the right, with a low whistle to boot.A suspicious act as one would say. She continued her speech, "... You could, maybe, I dunno. Pay us? For all the hard work we've done hmm?"
Narrowed eyes were presented at her. Her friend sighed, "What do you think the international police do? Spend time growing cash on tress?" He said, shaking his head in clear dissapointment.
"Well your pay beats any job out there! Come on Rakutsu! Do it fow a fwend?" She said, trying to coo the money out of him. It worked, he didn't really want to put up with her shenanigens as Green had. "Ugh. Fine, but one one condition." He said, raising a finger to specify the 'one' in his many conditions. Blue nodded, "Sure, if it's within my ability! She said.
"Just a question, nothing much." He said. "Where did you even find the guy?"
Here, the girl paused, blinked, then laughed. "Aha, well. That question won't really be necessary to answer... I mean, uh"
"The abandoned Team Rocket base", Silver said from behind, making his Sister turn dramatically at him. Rakutsu's eyes widened along with the answer. "You mean you guys went in, without any authorization-"
"For the money!" Blue cried.
"To find something" Silver said.
"It sounded kinda cool" Sapphire said.
Rakutsu look horrified. "I'll get punished for this ugggh" He said, a hand rubbing his temples non-stop. Blue eventually giggled and muttered "Sounds kinky" under her breath. He had to only glare at her.
"I hate you" He said to her, like a child would say to their hated sibling. He stamped a foot and grabbed Petrel by the arm. Then he paused for a few small seconds. "You broke his arm?!" He cried, turning to give the three a look of disbelief.
"He wouldn't taaalk" Blue said with a shrug.
"He deserved it." Silver said.
"Yuep" Sapphire said.
He glared at his so-called friend. A sigh came after that, "At least he's alive I suppose" He said to noone. Blue looked like she was about to say something, but Silver stopped her. She pouted unhappily.
"Sooo, the money?" Blue asked, batting her eyelashes as she would to get her way.
"Wait for my co-worker to return, he keeps the cash" He replied, carrying the unconcious body away. As he did, Looker appeared at the door, there he cried "There were tresspassers at the site sir!"
Rakutsu turned to him "What... site?" He asked, hoping that it was not what he thinks it would be. Looker produced a document from his coat and read the name of the site to him, "Abandoned Team Rocket headquarters sir!".
Rakutsu groaned loudly. Looker looked at him confused, until he spotted Petrel. "Isn't that..." He said, trailing of to dig around his memories for a name. Rakutsu just nodded and told him to look into their files again.
Looker sighed and turned to the three who were in the waiting area. "Oh yeah, pay them for finding this guy will you?" Rakutsu said, opening another door which most likely led to some jailcell.
But Looker did not hear him, he was staring intently at Silver. "You look... familiar..." He said, causing the boy in question to flinch. He turned away sheepishly, and Looker knew then. "Ah, Giovanni's son!" He said, a fist connected to his palm.
Silver huffed and nodded. "Aha, sorry about that, if I scared ya or anything, well here's the cash k?" Looker said, grabbing something from his pocket and handing to to the leader of the trio, which was of course, Blue.
She stared at the figure on the check.
"What." She said, rubbing her eyes over and over. Looker frowned, "Sorry but this is all we can give at the moment, is it not to your liking miss?" He asked, a slight furrow to his brows. Blue immediately shook her head, furiously at that.
"Nope, no no, more than enough oh gosh" She said, placing the check on the spot right above her breasts, hands covering the check so delicately as if it were a baby Mew. "Thank you sir.." She said, in a daze. Sapphire raised a questioning brow, a tilt to her head was even added.
"How much did we get senpai?" She asked, pointing at the check. Blue giggled, "I'll show it to you later hmm?" she said happily. Sapphire could only nod.
N stared at the orange hues of the sky, watching as the darker colours of night slowly took over.
"Not long now" He said, walking off the bridge he stood.
I totally did not kill all of the money I got from Looker in one go, no sireee. Uh, I'm going to say this first, Team Magma, Aqua and Galactic won't really be a big part in this story, as I can't place them anywhere without throwing the plot into chaos. Sorry about that guys (/¤\°).
By the way, If you're a little oldrival fan, please go check out my sister's oneshot. In my opinion, I think she managed to capture them adorably well! It's called - A Day with Blue. Read it if you can. 谢谢啦~
Thank you!
Happy 2017 by the way!
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