Chapter 11

Unwell

The next morning, Joe went to his class with Roxanne, who came into the classroom angry.

"I've had it with the disrespect I've been getting from you students," she said. "Any more of that, and you'll automatically fail."

She then went on to lecture about Pokémon battling, but she mainly just bragged about how great she was at battling.

"We get it already," a student whispered.

"You may leave," Roxanne said to the student, as she heard what the student said. "You get an F."

The student looked puzzled, but Roxanne was serious. "Get out!" she yelled.

The student quietly picked up his book and backpack and left the room.

"Anyone else want to fail?" Roxanne asked.

The room was silent.

"That's what I thought," Roxanne said. She then continued her lecture.

After the class, Joe went back to his dorm room, completely frustrated. He needed to pass this class in order to graduate, but it was looking less and less likely, with all the problems Roxanne was giving him. He called Giselle again.

"Yes?" Giselle asked.

"It's terrible," Joe said. "Roxanne failed someone today just for whispering something. She's out of control."

"I wish I could go beat her in a battle," Giselle said. "That would teach her a lesson."

"I don't understand why anyone would act like this," Joe said.

"I tried my best to talk to the dean, but he refuses to listen to me," Giselle said. "I don't know what to do."

"I'll just try my best, and see what happens," Joe said.

That afternoon, Will went to Sabrina's house after work. He had no luck getting any more information about Team Rocket's plans or if anyone had knowledge of them.

"My boss said yesterday that only the police had been in the building before us workers," Will said to Sabrina. "And I questioned everyone yesterday. They all said they had no knowledge of Team Rocket's plans, and they were all telling the truth. Today I tried looking all through my computer for more of Team Rocket's plans, but I found none."

"You said only the police were there," Sabrina said.

"That's right," Will said.

"I'm starting to figure out some of this puzzle," Sabrina said. "But I don't know enough yet."

During the evening, Officer Jenny came to give Silver his food.

"I'm feeling really ill," Silver said. "Could I see a doctor or something?"

"You're a prisoner," Officer Jenny said. "You don't have any rights!"

Silver then saw Lt. Surge walk over to Officer Jenny.

"Are we going to eat out tonight?" Lt. Surge asked.

"Please don't bother me right now," Officer Jenny said, "but yes."

Lt. Surge then walked away.

"Got a boyfriend?" Silver said.

"Shut up," a blushing Officer Jenny said. "I don't care how you feel, I know you're just trying to get out of jail."

"No, I'm really not," Silver said. "I'm telling you the truth again. I didn't commit that murder, and I really feel sick."

"Or maybe you're lying twice," Officer Jenny said. "So long."

Officer Jenny left without even giving Silver his food, leaving Silver in his jail cell, hungry and sick.

"This isn't fair," Silver said, taking out his Eevee from its Poké Ball. "Eevee, you've got to let Jasmine know I'm sick, but I don't know how you can do that… just try."

Eevee then escaped through the bars of the jail cell, running through the police station, and finally making it to the door, sneaking out as Officer Jenny and Lt. Surge were walking out.

"Whose Eevee is that?" Officer Jenny asked.

"Who cares?" Lt. Surge said. "It's an helpless creature, and it won't cause any harm."

Eevee found its way to Jasmine's house, as it was familiar with Jasmine's house from going there many times with Silver. It began scratching at the door, causing Jasmine to open the door to see what was making that noise.

"Eevee!" Jasmine said, picking up Eevee in her arms. "It's so good to see you."

"That's Silver's Eevee, right?" Gold said.

"Yes," Jasmine said. "Silver must have let him out to come see me."

Eevee then began pretending to be in pain.

"Eevee, what's the matter? Are you hurt?" Jasmine asked.

Eevee then jumped out of Jasmine's hands and pointed towards the door, then started pretending to be hurt again.

"Wait a minute… is Silver ill?" Jasmine asked.

Eevee nodded its head.

"Oh no, my Silver's sick, and he's stuck in jail," Jasmine said.

"We've got to go tell the police that he's sick," Gold said.

"Who knows how helpful they'll be, though," Whitney said.

The three trainers brought Eevee with them to the police station. Whitney spoke up to some of the police officers that were there.

"Excuse me, but could we visit a prisoner?" she asked.

"Which one?" a police officer asked.

"Silver," Whitney said. "He's ill, and we need to help him."

"I guess, though we'll be watching you closely," another police officer said.

A police officer showed the three trainers to Silver.

"Silver!" Jasmine said. "Are you okay?"

"No," Silver said. "I'm really ill."

"We've got to get him to see a doctor," Jasmine said. "Officer, is there a doctor that could check on Silver?"

"I suppose we can get our town's Nurse Joy to check on him," the police officer said.

"Hey, why are you being so cooperative to us now, when you weren't before?" Whitney said to the police officer.

"That was Officer Jenny," the police officer said. "I don't know what it is, but she's come over here from Saffron City and been awfully bossy towards us."

"That reminds me," Silver said. "Officer Jenny is apparently going out with Lt. Surge."

"The Lt. Surge that was part of Team Rocket?" Whitney said.

"Yeah, him," Silver said.

"Maybe that can explain the way she's been toward us," Gold said.

"Now could you go get Nurse Joy?" Jasmine said.

"Yes," the police officer said, going to find Nurse Joy.

"Jasmine, come close to the bars," Silver said.

"Yes," Jasmine said, coming closer to Silver.

"I want you to know something: I love you too much to ever jeopardize our future by committing a crime like that," Silver said. "You can trust me that I didn't commit that murder."

"I trust you, Silver," Jasmine said. "You're innocent; the truth will come out."

"It will come out," Silver said. "And eventually everyone will see."

"I'll do anything to get you out of this," Jasmine said.

"I'd kiss you, but I don't want to make you sick," Silver said.

About a half hour later, Nurse Joy came with a police officer. She performed a checkup on Silver, not finding any serious illness with him besides a fever.

"You're going to have to feed this guy better," Nurse Joy said. "You don't want him to become sicker."

"We're fine with that," the police officer said. "Only Officer Jenny has been giving us problems with doing that."

"I haven't gotten to eat tonight," Silver said.

"We'll get you some food right away," the police officer said.

After about an hour of Silver's friends talking with him while he ate, they were told to leave, which they did.

"Poor Silver, being stuck here," Jasmine said. "I know he's innocent."

"I think Officer Jenny is trying to frame him," Whitney said. "She's going out with Lt. Surge, a former Team Rocket member."

"And remember that Blaine is also a Team Rocket member," Gold said. "If we could only figure out who killed Super Nerd."

That problem weighed heavily on the three friends' minds as they went to sleep that night, with Silver's trial lurking closer and closer.