Chapter 10

Ghostbusters

Gold, Whitney and Jasmine had decided to fly back to Mahogany Town on Skarmory. They had Haunter with them the whole way. When they landed, Haunter started getting really excited about something.

"What is it, Haunter?" Jasmine asked.

"Haunter! Haunter!" Haunter said.

Haunter licked the air.

"That was sort of pointless," Gold said.

Suddenly, Sabrina appeared, as she had decided to teleport back to Mahogany Town. Her eyes turned blue as she began to focus her psychic energy. Within a few minutes, a person began to materialize in front of Haunter, right where Haunter licked.

"Who is it?" Gold asked.

The trainers then saw a paralyzed Blaine standing right in front of them.

"How? How is it possible to make me appear again?" he said.

"Psychic power is stronger than your Anti-Silph Scope, which is the device you used to turn yourself into a ghost," Sabrina said. "That's why I was able to make you come back to normal."

"You were the one who bombed this place," Whitney said. "What do you have to say for yourself?"

"Team Rocket is alive and well," Blaine said. "Sabrina, you should never have left us."

"You're going to jail this time," Sabrina said. "Now tell me, why are you three here?"

"My mother was staying right here at the time of the explosions," Gold said. "I lived here as well, but I wasn't here when the bombings went off."

Sabrina paused. "I am sorry to say, but I can sense that someone was killed here," she said.

"It's okay," Gold said, although his eyes began to get watery.

"Look what you did!" Whitney said to Blaine, kicking him.

"Hey, that saved me some trouble," Blaine said. "I was planning on bombing New Bark Town afterward."

Whitney kicked Blaine even harder.

"Please, let's allow the law to punish him," Sabrina said. "Where did you three come from?"

"Olivine City," said Jasmine.

"Let's take him back there," Sabrina said. "He's paralyzed, so he won't escape. You fly him back, and I'll teleport there."

Sabrina teleported to Olivine City. The trainers brought Blaine into Olivine City after about a 15-minute flight.

"Let's take him to the police station," Whitney said.

The trainers took the paralyzed Blaine with them to the police station. Officer Jenny looked shocked when she saw Blaine.

"This is the man responsible for the bombings at Mahogany Town," Whitney said.

"How can you be sure?" Officer Jenny asked.

"He turned himself into a ghost somehow, and since no one could be seen flying the hot air balloon that dropped the bombs, it had to have been him," Whitney said.

"Turned himself into a ghost? You think I'm going to believe that?" Officer Jenny said.

"I'm a psychic, and I have a way of finding the truth in situations like this," Sabrina said. "What Whitney said was correct."

"Well, we'll see how the courts handle it," Officer Jenny said. "That will be ¥10000 in bail."

"Why does he get bail?" Jasmine asked. "Silver didn't get bail, but this guy does, and he bombed a whole city!"

"Sorry, but that's the way it goes here in Olivine City," Officer Jenny said. "It would be higher bail in Saffron City, where I used to work, but it's only that much here."

The paralysis wore off Blaine, who pulled ¥10000 out of his pocket.

"You've got a trial in five days," Officer Jenny said. "It will be the day before Silver's trial."

Sabrina teleported away, back to Saffron City, while the other trainers walked out unhappily. The three friends went back to Jasmine's house.

"How could Blaine possibly get away with this?" Whitney said angrily.

"I don't understand," Jasmine said.

"This isn't fair!" Gold said.

"And to top it off, Silver's still in jail," Jasmine said.

"I wish we could find some sort of evidence that proves Silver's innocence," Whitney said.

"Same here," Gold said.

Jasmine turned on the television, seeing a report on Silver's murder.

"Why do they have to keep on rehashing this story?" Jasmine said.

"I don't remember having anyone else come into the store that day," a person was saying on the screen.

"Wait a minute, did you hear that?" Whitney said.

"So you figure it must have been Silver?" a reporter on the screen said.

"Yes," the person responded, who was the worker at the register at the Pokémon Mart.

"And that bloody knife pretty much confirms it," the reporter said.

"That's right," the worker said.

"No one else was there but Silver," Jasmine said. She turned her eyes downcast, beginning to cry. "We'll never be able to prove that he didn't do it."

"No!" Whitney said. "You stop thinking that way. I have a feeling Blaine has something to do with this."

"Blaine couldn't have committed it," Gold said. "He was battling me at the time."

"But what evidence proves that someone else besides Silver did it?" Jasmine said. "I know it wasn't Silver…"

"We'll figure it out, eventually," Whitney said. "Relax."

The frustrating events of the past two days had completely confused the three trainers, who went to sleep that night wondering if things would ever get better for them.