Chapter 8
Gimme Shelter
Sabrina went rushing to the door, hearing the doorbell ringing over and over again.
"James?" she said.
"Yes, it's Jessie, Meowth and I," James said. "Have you seen the television report?"
"No, I haven't," Sabrina said.
"You need to see it," Jessie said.
Sabrina allowed the three inside her house, then turned on the television, seeing the news at Mahogany Town.
"That's your balloon," Sabrina said.
"But we weren't in it, obviously," James said. "It belonged to Team Rocket, and someone from Team Rocket must have found it where we hid it."
"Cinnabar Island," Sabrina said.
"Right," Jessie said.
"Don't worry, I know you had nothing to do with this," Sabrina said. "That was Blaine who got on that balloon and did these things."
"But we don't know how he got the Blaster Bombs," James said. "The only place he could have figured out how to make them would have been-"
"Silph Company," Sabrina said.
"That's right," Meowth said.
"There is apparently someone who e-mailed Blaine that information from Silph Company," Sabrina said. "Will is going to have to figure out who that is."
"We need to stay here," James said.
"Because you're afraid that people are going to start accusing you of doing this," Sabrina said.
"Boy, she's good," Meowth said.
"Don't worry, I'll tell my parents you're staying here," Sabrina said. "There are several open rooms you can stay in."
Sabrina showed the three former Team Rocket members to their rooms, then told her parents about them. She saw that Liza was sleeping, as it was around 10:00 pm. She decided to call Will, who was also sleeping.
"Will, Blaine got the information about the Blaster Bombs," Sabrina said on the videophone to him.
"How do you know?" Will asked.
"Mahogany Town was bombed by someone in a Meowth hot air balloon, and it wasn't Jessie, James and Meowth," Sabrina said.
"How do you- oh, that's right," Will said.
"It wasn't my psychic ability this time; they're at my house," Sabrina said. "Anyway, we've got to do something about this."
"Should we go there?" Will asked.
"That's my job," Sabrina said. "You have to go to work tomorrow and question everyone- and I mean everyone. Someone there e-mailed Blaine the Blaster Bombs information, and you have to find out who it was."
"You sure you're going to be fine?" Will asked.
"Of course," Sabrina said. "Now get some sleep."
Sabrina hung up, then teleported to Mahogany Town. She walked around the terrible destruction, seeing the destroyed gym. She also saw Gold's destroyed house, which was completely ruined. Even the basement of the house, where Gold's mother had been, was burnt to a crisp. Sabrina sensed something, which she felt must be a sign that someone had been killed in the explosion at this spot.
"How terrible," she said sadly.
She then saw something flying through the air. It was Skarmory, with Gold, Jasmine and Whitney on the back of it. They flew right into the Meowth head of the hot air balloon, forcing it to come crashing to the ground. Sabrina rushed over to the destroyed hot air balloon, but she found no one there. Suddenly she found herself being thrown to the ground by an unseen force, and she felt herself begin to be choked. She teleported away an instant later.
"Good job," Jasmine said to Skarmory, as Skarmory brought the three trainers to the ground.
"Let's see who was in this balloon," Gold said.
Gold found no one in the balloon, however.
"What?!" Gold said.
"Gold, look at this," Whitney said.
Gold rushed over to where Whitney was standing. He looked at where his house had been. Now there was just rubble. It was destroyed all the way down to the basement.
"My mother's been killed," he said sadly. He then began to cry. Whitney and Jasmine began to cry as well, and Whitney hugged Gold.
"I'm so sorry," Whitney said.
"It's my fault," Gold said angrily. "It's my fault!"
Gold then felt himself shoved to the ground by an invisible force.
"Gold! Are you okay?" Whitney asked.
"I don't know what hit me!" Gold said. "Ouch! Ow!"
Gold was now being punched by an invisible force.
"We've got to get him out of here," Jasmine said. "Quick, Skarmory, pick him up!"
Skarmory rushed over to Gold, picking him up with its wings.
"Now get us too!" Jasmine called to Skarmory.
Skarmory scooped up Jasmine and Whitney, then flew the three trainers away. Jasmine directed Skarmory back to Olivine City. There the trainers went back to Jasmine's house. They were all totally stunned and saddened by the day's events. Silver was in jail. Gold's town was destroyed. Gold's mother was killed. And some sort of invisible force attacked Gold. What was going on?