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Chapter 8 Never Should Have Seen That
Devil was on a rampage. She darted around everywhere trying to decide what to draw. The igloos? The ranger base itself? Or the magnificent waterfall that could be heard from the ranger base? Of course they wouldn't let her leave the town. Lela (The commander) had said this to her when she asked "No, going out there without a styler is asking for trouble, not to mention you could get trapped in an avalanche or worse." What was the point of going all the way out her if you couldn't leave the half mile of civilization? Well, she had no reason to doubt it, or at least not yet.
Devil trudged through the snow. It was the second day, and she had sketches of just about every square inch of the camp. She was dying of boredom, there was nothing, nothing to do except freeze. And where was Tue? On another mission! Lela had already given Tue at least four already, and she hadn't even ask Devil to go on one. "Finally," Devil thought "I've gathered up the courage to complain about it." Which was true to say the least, she had spent half the morning wondering what to say. Her only resolve was that if she did nothing for another moment she would go mad. So she walked up to the snow covered ranger base and shook of the snow. As usual the ranger base was empty; even though the area protected by the shiver camp rangers was large there was usually not much trouble. The only problems Devil had heard of so far were avalanches. So usually the ranger bases two rangers Jericho, and Ice were out clearing away snow that fell on random Pokémon.
Even though they were out Lela almost always stayed in, but Devil assumed most base captains would. Although something was…. different when Devil walked through the door. Something was missing, and yet something else was there. It drove Devil crazy and she looked around all over the first room with her eyes to find out what. Then she noticed that the styler charger lady wasn't there. "Maybe she's on break?" Devil thought confused. However being in safety for so long had numbed her instincts, and she continued on. The door leading to the bedrooms were opened a crack. In the middle of all the doors and stairs leading down into the showers, and hot springs. Through the crack glowed a warm orange light, and came a murmur of voices. Inside was Lela, looking very, un-Lela like. Lela wasn't exactly the tom-boy type, but she was tuff and could seem cold. However she currently looked, warm.
She sat on red leather chair that Devil did not remember being in the lobby. She was wearing a black spaghetti strap dress, and draped over her shoulders was the fur of some brown and white animal. To top it all of her hair was curled, and she was dripping in gems. Kowtowing in front of her was a short, bald man in a fur coat. "If the progress was coming on nicely then why did you have to capture them?" She snapped while keeping her voice level. "We-well milady, you s-see the big girl f-fell through the ice into the middle of the lab. And with those other rangers with her we had no choice but to capture them." "Well, Jenkins how do you suppose we explain that to Devil, remember her? She's the artist that came with the fat girl. She may be skittish but those red eyes of hers capture everything. I want you to pick her up to night, now go back to the lab and keep those three idiots quiet.
The bald man began to shuffle out of the room and Devil move into the shadows quickly. Stealth was something she was good at, even though she was a bit rusty. The man mumbled things that Devil couldn't quite here, but she was pretty sure he was complaining about Tue. After a few short minuets they reached the camps borderline. Devil almost considered turning back, but this wasn't just about her anymore. Devil glanced back. As long as the creepy guy didn't turn around she was safe. In order to make it not look as if she had followed him to anyone else she had been stepping in his tracks (although he was a small man he had very, large feet). She snapped back to attention, all of her lollygagging had allowed the man to get a little too far ahead.
The seemed to trek on forever, surprising enough no Pokémon came there way. In fact it almost scared Devil a bit, Jericho had given them stylers for emergency's and practice only of course. However this was an emergency Tue, Jericho, and Ice were missing, why had she even come out here? Did she think she would be able to save them? No, or at least not alone. Of course there were no Pokémon around so that makes 'not going in alone' rather difficult. The short man suddenly stopped, causing Devil to stumble. She froze, not even breathing. Devil was sure he was going to turn around see her, and she would be of worse help than she already was.
However a miracle appeared, in the shape of a monkey. It was a small aipom, but of course all aipoms are small but this one was more so. Unlike most aipoms that moved around on their tail-like hands this one waddled on its small feet. All of a sudden the aipom launched itself at the man, tackled him by the knee. Devil moved quickly behind a large lump of snow it was possible that during the struggle he could see her. They struggled, and after a few curses the man pulled the aipom off and threw it onto the hard, snowy, ground. He stepped on it a few times out of anger, but when he was satisfied he continued on. After he was very, far away Devil stepped out from the snow. Cautiously she approached the aipom with her styler out.
Laying on its back the aipom opened its big brown eyes. It looked like an adorable little baby at that moment, but after he saw Devil it went into full attack mode. Devil stumble back and quickly mumbled the words "Capture On!" activating the styler. The gold stream of light whipped around the aipom like a lasso. However this only lasted a moment. The aipom recuperated quickly and smashed his tail on the light, breaking it. Devil knew she had to hurry; otherwise the man's tracks would be covered up by the blowing snow. So she whipped around the golden lasso at blinding speed, being careful to avoid the aipom. To her surprise after only a minuet the styler sand "Capture complete".
The little aipom waddle up to her. It held out its little hand, and Devil put hers out to the aipom. When they had almost met the aipom whipped its tail around and slapped Devil's with all its might. It felt worse than slamming your fingers in a door. Devil wasn't in the mood to deal with an irritated aipom. So she grabbed its small body and brought it up, face to face. "I don't know why you attacked him, and I don't know why you're attacking me. But I'm pretty sure you and I are on the same mission, to save our friends. If you help me I'll help you." Then she dropped it on the ground and went after the bald man. After only a moment the aipom had jumped onto her shoulder, and they went after the man, double time.
It didn't take them long to get where they were going. It appeared to be a snow covered hill, but the large hole in the top took away that image. The steps led to what seemed to be nothing but stone wall. Aipom jumped off of Devil's shoulder and stood in front of the wall. He whipped his tail back and whacked the wall with it. The outline of a door appeared and it shifted back and slid to the right, disappearing completely. Devil picked up the aipom and walked in the hill. The room led into a hallway with multicolored tiles. The tiles colors kept switching from red and white. By the beginning of the tiles was a slip of paper on the new looking white painted wall.
Instructions-
The white colored tiles are the ones you are allowed to step on. However if you step on the red you will sound the alarms. Any workers will be given the patterns of the tiles. Any intruders will be thrown out.
"That makes no sense…." Devil mumbled to herself, "If the people working here know the patterns then why do they need to have that sign? " "Pom-pom!" Aipom chirped. Devil watched the tiles flicker trying to figure out the pattern. After figuring those out she continued on, but this wasn't the only tile puzzle there was. After what seemed to be at least two dozen more of the puzzles she made it to a door. The door led to another hallway, but these opened up into rooms with hamster wheels. Inside the wheels were rattatats were running for their lives. "Pom-pom!" Aipom squealed and went up and repeatedly attacked the cages.
Devil tried her best to calm him down, but he wouldn't listen. She decided there was nothing she could do so she ignored him and turned toward the bard. She tapped one with the tip of her styler. "Level two, cut" the styler sang. The aipom had noticed what she was doing and climbed on her shoulder again. Devil hurried to find a Pokémon with a level two cut, and too her surprise she found many Pokémon in the building. Finally she found a scyther hiding in a back room and quickly captured him, and with blinding speed she released the rattatat from there prison.
Devil continued to slip along the hallways undetected. She was confused all of the Pokémon she had come across had been from hotter regions not Hia Valley Pokémon. There was no use in complaining about it these Pokémon had been helpful enough. Finally she made it too some double doors and she peered in the window, and couldn't believe what she was seeing.