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"Come on!" Chris said.
"No." Rachel answered back flat. Chris didn't seem to like that answer.
"Oh, come on!" he said, in hope of trying to persuade his sister.
But it seemed as if Rachel wasn't going to change her mind that easily. "No." she replied once again, with the same flat tones as earlier. But Chris was determined to change his sister's mind. "You can keep saying that, but you know that I'm right."
Rachel crossed her arms, so did Chris. "Now, come on…" he said and gave his sister a sarcastic look. She returned his look with an annoyed and disgusted look of her own. "Never!" she said and looked away, "I won't admit it!"
It was a late night on the end of route 119. They were soon near MauvilleCity, they would probably reach it the next day or the day after tomorrow. Yume and Hikaru were sitting in a tree not so far away from Rachel and Chris, but enough far away to not be able to hear their conversation. Rachel had earlier been mocking them about the fact that they were sitting in a tree and asked them if they would make out any minute from now. Rachel later got silenced by her brother who had wanted her to admit something she really didn't want to admit. A tired Totodile was resting next to Rachel. He had earlier been swimming around in a small lake nearby with Feebas. Feebas was sitting in Chris' lap, enjoying all the affectionate patting and hugging from Chris. Why is Chris so determined to convince Rachel to admit something? Well, it all happened earlier today, the day after Rachel and Chris left their home for the first time.

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"How long is this route!" an annoyed Rachel asked.
"Shut up…" a tired Hikaru snapped back. Rachel snorted at him and threw a rock at his backpack. Chris sighed. 'Why can't my sister get along with other human beings?'
Yume was as quiet as usual. She seemed to be on her guard a lot, always watching at the sides and behind Rachel and Hikaru. It was only Chris who noticed Yume's strange behaviour, since Rachel and Hikaru was to busy fighting most of the time. They were always fighting over something meaningless and stupid. Finally, Rachel seemed to grow tired of the meaningless fights, so she ran up to her brother. "Hey Chris, Can you tell me how you planned our approach?"
Chris looked at his sister and blinked a couple of times. He was surprised that she wanted to know that. "S-sure…" He replied and brought out his pokénav. "We're going to MauvilleCity first, but to get there we need to go through route 119, where we are right now and then we have route 118 too."
Rachel nodded, "Uh-huh…" she gave him a sign to continue.
Chris got even more confused, "So, eh, after Mauville we're going to go north again, through the desert and then to Yume's home town."
Rachel interrupted Chris, "Eh, what? No, no… No good idea, we should just skip that and go south to Slateport, but instead we take a shortcut through route 103 to Odale and then south again and tadaaah!" Rachel said and stretched her arms up in the air, "We'll be in Littleroot!"
Chris sighed, "Yeah, but Yume has to return to her hometown first she said." He scratched his neck, "She said it was urgent…"
"So?" Rachel said in a cold tone, "Just because she has to go, doesn't mean we have too…"
"Jeez, sis, you really are cold…" Chris said and gave his sister an unsure smile.
"Feh," she snorted, "I don't show respect for people I despise." She said and looked away, "Anyway, what happens after Fallarbor?"
Chris returned to look at the map, "Hm… We'll go through a cave and then go south and arrive at Rustboro. Go south through route 104, through Petalburg woods, then arrive at Petalburg city and then…"
"Yeah, yeah, I can figure out the rest." Rachel said while waving her hand at Chris as a sign to stop talking. Chris groaned at his sister's behaviour to act like a total bitch at some times.
They continued to walk down the slope, Rachel was walking at the front, and Chris was behind her and next to Yume. Then out of nowhere, Yume went closer to Chris and whispered in his ear, "We're being watched…"
"Huh?" Chris moved away a little from Yume, embarrassed to be to close to a girl. "What are you talking about?"
"There's someone or some people hiding in the bushes." Yume replied, "They're watching our every move. Just calm down and act as normal. Just wait for them to make their first move."
"Oh, look! A bridge!" Rachel suddenly called out. She was at the end of the slope, she had risen the distance between herself and the group by walking faster. Yume and Chris ran up to her. "Why are you walking so fast?" Chris asked. He was trying to catch his breath, Yume too, but she was quieter. Rachel looked annoyed, "Tssk, now when we're taking this stupid detour, I'll walk faster so we can get to the main target about the same time as we would if we took my way!" she turned around and started walking towards the bridge. Then when Yume and Chris was about to follow her, a swarm of Dustoxs blocked their way.
"Charmander, go!" Yume called and threw her pokéball to the ground, "Ember!"

Yume's Charmander started spewing fire over the Dustoxs. A couple fainted and the rest of the pack fled. Then they saw Rachel almost completely over the bridge. She was running, almost as she was running from them.
"Oh, sis, come on!" Chris called after her, "They're not that bad!" Yume and Chris ran after her. But as Rachel was only a few boards away there was a snapping sound heard and the board she had her right foot on broke in two.
"Oh, shit!" Rachel said as she clanged to the rope railing.
"Sis!" Chris called out and hurried to her, "You clumsy shit!"

Rachel turned around to look at him, "It's not my fault that the board broke!" she jumped over the broken board and continued over the bridge. She let out a small sigh of relief when she made it to solid ground. Chris quickly followed her and did the same thing when he got there.

"Oi, what are you guys doing here!" A voice demanded. It sounded kind of hostile, they looked up and saw two men with a black and white striped t-shit and a pair of blue pants with some kind of white pattern on the sides.

"Someone please call the fashion police…" Rachel said and held her hand on her forehead, "Just looking at their clothes gives me headache!"
"What did you say!" one of the men asked.
Before Rachel could answer back, Hikaru stepped in front of her, "I'll take care of these to myself. You guys should go ahead and see what's going on."
Before Chris said something he was being dragged along with Rachel. Chris couldn't keep up with her speed, so she let go of him after a while. She ran ahead and then she was out of their view.� Yume caught up with Chris fast and walked with him towards a tall building. Even the atmosphere told them that there was something strange going on there.

"You slowpokes!" Rachel hissed at them as she pulled them down behind the bushes. Rachel did a bigger peeping hole so Chris could also see something. Yume did her own peeping hole since she didn't want to share and she knew that Rachel wouldn't share with her. There was a crowd of people standing outside the tall building. Rachel spotted a sign behind one of the people.
"Weather… Institute…" Rachel whispered, "When did the Weather Institute become such a famous tourist spot?"
"Since never," Chris replied, "They occasionally have a guided tour around the building, but the groups have never been this big."
"Oh, I remember!" Rachel said as she snapped her fingers, "We've been here before, like five years ago!"
Yume hushed at her, "Not so loud!"

Rachel simply replied with giving here the finger. Chris sighed over their childishness. They sat there for a while and watched the crowd of people.
"There's something fishy going on here," Rachel said, "You know, they all have the same type of clothes. Blue pants, bandana and a black and white striped shirt."
"Do you think it's some kind of criminal group trying to take over the Weather Institute?" Chris whispered.
"If so, why the Weather Institute?" Yume asked.

"I have no idea," Chris replied, "Must be something that can only be obtained from there."

"What could that be?" Rachel asked, but before anyone could answer they noticed that the crowd was startled by something
"Oi! What are you doing here!"
All three in the bushes froze, but after a second they noticed that the crowd wasn't referring to them. There was someone else who had been busted.
"Shit!" a familiar voice said, "Go, Cyndaquil!"
Then it clicked in Rachel's head. A clumsy person getting busted, familiar voice and a Cyndaquil…
"HIKARU!" Rachel yelled as she stood up in the bushes. The unknown people now looked at her too.
"Oh, shit!" Rachel slipped out as two of them ran towards her, "Uh, go, Totodile!" Rachel threw her pokéball to the ground. Chris sighed and got up too, "Go, Phoebe!"
"What are you guys doing!" Yume hissed at them. She was still hiding in the bushes.
"Saving and kicking ass," Rachel replied, "Totodile, use your Water Gun attack!"

The water knocked over one of them.

"Why are there kids here?" the one who still stood up asked, "I'll make sure you run home crying to your mother! Go Zubat!" he called as he threw a pokéball to the ground. His Zubat flew up around the air and let out a piercing shriek.

"Phoebe, tackle that Zubat!" Chris called.

"Totodile, aid Feebas with your Water Gun!" Rachel called shortly after her brother. The water pokémons attacked Zubat. "If it's a double battle, then I'm in!" A female criminal jumped in, "I'm the prettiest one in Team Aqua! Go, Jigglypuff!"
"Then I guess everyone you're normally are with pretty UG-ly…" whispered to her brother. Chris snorted, but got quickly serious again, "Team Aqua?" he asked, "What's that?"
Rachel laughed, "Team Aqua? What a lousy name!"
Both of the criminals looked offended.
"Wh-what did you say!" the male roared, "Zubat, ignore the pokémon and strike that trainer!"
"Say what!" Rachel yelped as the Zubat flied towards her. She let out a scream as she shielded her face and waited for the worst.
"Charmander, Ember!"

Zubat fell to the ground. Rachel slowly opened her eyes and put her arms down since nothing happened. Yume grinned at her. Rachel answered back with the finger as usual.

"Damn it! Zubat, retreat!" The male said.

"Uhm, what is this 'Team Aqua'?" Chris asked.
The female stepped up, "Team Aqua is an organization for people who love the sea and—"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Rachel interrupted her.
The female Team Aqua member looked at Rachel, "You're wearing a red jacket… are you from Team Magma?"
"What's that!" Rachel spat out, "Totodile, bite attack!"
Totodile leaped forward and bit Jigglypuff on its head.
"Hey!" The female Aqua member yelled.
Rachel grinned, "The battle was never over! Totodile, now use your Scratch attack!"

"You impudent!—" the female Aqua member began.
"Phoebe, Tackle!" Chris commanded.
"Kyaa! No!" she yelled as her Jigglypuff fainted, "Jigglypuff, return!"
Rachel pushed her aside as she ran to the entrance. When she made it to the door she started to pull as hard as she could. Chris quickly came to aid her.
After a lot of struggle, the door swung open and the sibling fell backwards to he ground. As the door began to close, Rachel placed her foot in the gap and then quickly got up. "And what do you think, you're doing?" An Aqua member said.

"Totodile, Water gun!" Rachel commanded as she pointed at the Aqua member. She helped Chris up and against her will they waited for Hikaru and Yume. But when they were at the door two other Aqua members showed up.

"Don't worry, we'll take care of them!" Hikaru said.

Yume pointed at the door, "Go!"

Chris nodded and quickly opened the door. Rachel began walking in but then she hastily turned around and looked how Yume and Hikaru were handling their double fight with the guards.

"Rachel, let's go already!" Chris said as he grabbed his sister's arm and pulled her with him inside the building. Chris let go of her when they had come inside.

"Okay, while Yume and Hikaru are taking care of the guards, we should be investigating in here." Chris said and closed the door, "We should be as careful as possible so we don't get caught."

"Uh, I think it's a little late for that..." Rachel said and grabbed her brother and turned him around.

"Oh, err..." Chris started to say, in front of them stood a Team Aqua member.

"Oi! What are you kids doing here!" he yelled at them, "This is no playground!"

Before they could do anything he had run up to them and grabbed Chris by the wrist.� Chris let out a small cry of pain. Rachel shivered when she heard her brother's cry. Without thinking, she dashed forward the Aqua member and grabbed his arm with both of her arms. "Let go of my brother!" Rachel screamed with a high-pitched voice full of fear. She shook the Aqua member's arm in hope for him to let go of Chris. The Aqua member groaned and pushed her away.

"Rachel!" Chris tried to get out of the Aqua member's grip. Rachel quickly wiped away the blood that had run out from the corner of her mouth. She tried to calm down her now terrified brother by looking calm and whispering 'its okay, its okay...'

She threw her pokéball to the ground.

"Totodile, Bite!" she commanded and pointed at the Team Aqua member. Totodile replied to Rachel's call by waving its arm and saying "Dai daile!" He ran up to the Aqua member, jumped up to his arm and bit it. The Aqua member let go of a strangled cry and let go of Chris.

Totodile let go of the Aqua member's arm and used its water gun to knock him out. Rachel grabbed Chris, "Let's go!" she said and helped him up. They ran to the stairs and Totodile quickly caught up to them.

"Chris, are you alright?" Rachel asked as she picked up Totodile. Chris held his hand where the Aqua member had grabbed him, "Yeah, I'm okay."

Rachel looked around, "Hey, look, there's a staircase that goes up here." she said, "Shall we go upstairs?" "Shall we go upstairs?"

Chris nodded, "Yeah, let's."

They ran up the stairs. Chris called to his sister because he was falling behind. "Chris, hurry up!" She called at him from the top of the staircase. Chris tried to catch his breath, "Could you slow down a little?"

Rachel sighed, "We have to be quick and stealthy!" she said, "We don't want to get caught."

She opened the door and walked in on the new floor. Both of the siblings gulped when they saw another Aqua member. They began freaking out when they saw that he started to turn around to their direction. "What are you doing here!" he demanded. Rachel let Totodile free, "Go!"

Chris followed her lead and unleashed Feebas. "Phoebe, do your best!"

"A battle, ey?" the Aqua member said, "Well, fine by me, prepare to lose!"�� He threw two pokéballs to the ground.

"An Abra and a Poochyena..." Chris said to himself.

"Whenever you're ready, bro." Rachel said.

Chris nodded, "Rach, use Totodile's Bite attack against Abra until it faints." he whispered to his sister.

"Uh, oh-okay!" Rachel said and gave her brother thumbs up. "Totodile, use your bite attack on Abra!"

Totodile arched forward and bit Abra on the head.

"Feebas, Flail attack on Poochyena!"

"So far, so good." Rachel whispered to her brother. He nodded and Totodile let go of Abra's head and returned back to its battle position. Then it was the opponent's turn.

"Abra, use your flash attack!"

"Flash attack?" Rachel asked as a strange image popped up in her head. A blinding light came from Abra. Rachel covered her eyes with her hand. "Chris, what the hell was that!"

"It was a flash attack, a move to either light up the environment like in dark caves, or to lower the enemy's accuracy."

"So what, does that mean that there's a bigger risk now that Totodile's next attack will miss?" Rachel asked.

"Jupp, so try not to use attacks that sometimes miss."

Rachel looked at Chris, "But all attacks sometimes miss!"

Chris sighed, "Yeah, but some attacks are more likely to miss.

"Oh yeah?" Rachel said, "Like what?"

Chris waited to answer and waited for Poochyena attack.

"Rachel seemed a little annoyed, but she continued to wait for her brother to answer.

"Poochyena, tackle Feebas!" The Aqua member commanded. "Feebas, dodge the attack! Go to your left!"

Rachel looked at her brother, "So, will you answer my question now?" she asked. Chris looked back at her, Then she stretched her arm forward and pointed at Abra, "Totodile, bite Abra again! And be careful not to miss!"

Totodile jumped forward and bit Abra on its right arm.

"Phew that was close!" Rachel said and gave a sigh of relief. Totodile let go of Abra's arm and returned to its position.

She looked at Chris again, "Well?" she asked.

"For example, 'Thunder' is more likely to miss since the accuracy of the attack is 70, but when its rain or heavy rain the accuracy rises to 100."

"Oh..." Rachel said.

"Feebas, Flail attack!" Chris commanded.

"Poochyena! Tackle against Totodile this time!" Poochyena jumped forward and tackled Totodile, who flew forward and landed exactly in front of Rachel's shoes. "Totodile!" Rachel bent down and helped Totodile up, "Let's kick ass and Bite that Abra again before he commands it to attack!"

Totodile nodded and responded to Rachel's suggested before Totodile dashed to Abra and Bit it on its head again.

But before Totodile let go of Abra fell Abra to the ground.

"Nooo! Abra!" The Aqua member cried out.

"Yes!" Rachel cheerfully said and gave her little brother a nudge.

"Hey, cut it!" said and pushed Rachel away little.

"Phoebe, Tackle Poochyena!"

"Hey, Chris..." Rachel whispered.

Chris looked at her, "What?" he asked.

"Abra has fainted now, what should I do now?" Rachel asked.

Chris sighed, "How about using your own brain for once?" Rachel looked offended.
"Pssh, Totodile, finish off with your water gun now!" Rachel grabbed her little brother by the wrist and started running. Chris returned Feebas back to its pokéball and Chris was dragged along with his sister. Totodile put its remaining energy on its last attack to knock Poochyena as far as possible and well succeeded. Poochyena flew backwards with s much power that it knocked the trainer over too. Now they could run without being persuaded by that Aqua member. But they didn't make it very far.

"Oh, shit, not another one!" Rachel cursed some more and her brother just sighed, "What the heck is going on at the Weather Institute?" Totodile quickly walked up next to Rachel.
Rachel agreed with her brother and pointed her finger daringly at the female Aqua member. She flicked her short black her and took a few steps closer to the siblings. Rachel changed her pointing to giving the Aqua member the finger. The Aqua member halted with an offended look on her face before she burst out with rage towards them, "Shut up Magma kid! It's not my fault that you're angry because you picked the losing team!"

"Magma kid?" Rachel asked and looked at her brother. He shrugged his shoulders, he was just as confused as his sister. They returned to the Aqua member and awaited her next move. But since it didn't come, Chris stepped up and did the talking for Rachel, "What do you guys want from here?" Chris asked.

"Yeah!" Rachel agreed, "And why do you guys always call me Magma kid?"
Since Chris' voice sounded more loudly and demanding than Rachel, she got ignored by the Aqua member and all her focus was on Chris at the moment.

"We want the weather pokémon!" The Aqua member said, "But what the thing we want the most isn't here."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Rachel said, "We don't really care about what you guys want, just stock the things you're doing!"

The Aqua member looked offended, "Shut up you impudent Magma kid!" she pointed her finger at Rachel, "We, Team Aqua, love the ocean and will never give up on our dream!" She picked up a pokéball from her belt and threw it on the ground, "Go, Poliwag!"

"Go, Feebas!" Chris said before Rachel could even react, "Rachel, there's obviously something strange going on here," he said, "I'll hold this one up while you go and try to find out more about what's going on in here."

"Tell me something I don't know," Rachel said, "I knew that there was something fishy going on here when we walked down that slope before we crossed that bridge!"

"Well, thing will get more 'fishy' around here when our plan succeeds!" The Aqua member said with a sassy tone.

"Oh yeah? Not that I understood what you meant with that, but anyways, we're going to stop you!" Chris said, "Phoebe, tackle that Poliwag!" he turned to Rachel, "Go!"

"Yeah, yeah," she whispered to herself as she started to run to the next staircase that went up. As she was running up the stairs she could her someone calling, but she chose to ignore it and continued to run. But after a while, the calling became louder and she realized that it was to her. She turned around and saw a panting Yume. Rachel waited up her at the top of the stairs.

"Are you deaf?" Yume asked as she caught up with Rachel, "I must've called your name like a million times before you turned around!"

Rachel sighed, "Tsk, well, with your high-pitched voice nobody wants to hear you!" Both of them were quiet for a while.

"Is that door locked?" Rachel asked when they were at the door. Yume turned the doorknob and pushed.

"No, but something's blocking the door," she said as she continued to push the door. Involuntarily, Rachel aided Yume. They pushed the door open enough for them to slide through. They looked carefully around for Aqua members and other danger. Then, they heard running in the stairs and they began to panic.

"Hide!" Rachel hissed at Yume and dived behind a desk. Yume chose a bad hiding spot, but she didn't have anything else to choose from so she hid behind a large bushy potted plant. Two more people walked in to the room. They looked suspiciously around and then headed for the potted plant Yume was biding behind. Rachel knew that she had to do something. She grabbed a bid wooden ornament that must've fell down from the desk and waited for the right time to strike. "Huzaaah!" she screamed as she jumped up on one of the guys and clubbed him with the wooden ornament until he fell to the ground, fainted. She quickly got up and looked around in the room for the other guy, but he must've fled. Yume slowly and carefully crept out from behind her hiding spot and looked at Rachel as she got up on her feet.

"I saved your ass there," Rachel said, "You owe me a big one." Her face was shining with pride. Yume felt that she had gotten trampled by Rachel's pride and therefore decided to keep quiet. She wiped her forehead, "So what are we going to do now?" she asked. Rachel flicked her hair, "That's obvious," she said, "We're going to find out what this Team Aqua is doing at the Weather Institute. So let's go kick Aqua's butt!"

Yume nodded, "Let's look around in the other rooms on this floor."

"Stop pulling my leg," Rachel said, her cheerfulness had changed in to her normal sassy attitude, "Let's get to the top floor already, I have a feeling that their leader is there!"

Yume sighed, "For hints," she said and turned the doorknob to the door close to them, "Things has gone great this far, but what if the coming doors are locked? Having all the keys are a huge advantage."

"Why not just go to the janitor's office and fetch the keys?" Rachel suggested.
"Do you have any idea where it is then?" Yume asked.

Rachel yawned, "Probably the first floor,"

"There are only two rooms on the bottom floor and I already checked them," Yume answered and then she gently pushed the door open, "There we go."

"Fine whatever," Rachel said and crossed her arms as she walked in to the new room after Yume, "I guess we could wait up Chris."

"And Hikaru," Yume filled in as she searched through all of the stuff that was on the table in front of her. Rachel had just been walking around a little in the room, now turned around rapidly, "What!" she asked, "Why wait for the asshole?" she almost yelled. Yume looked at her, "The reason why he's with us is because I'm dragging him along because I think that he might be useful in the future," Yume said.

Rachel groaned, "To what? What could an asshole possibly be useful for?"

"You'll understand when it happens," Yume replied. Rachel got even more annoyed now. The only one Rachel liked in her group other than her was her little brother. But he too could be an asshole. She crossed her arms and looked at the wall. There was a metal ring hanging on the wall, a metal ring with lots of keys. Rachel looked at Yume to see if she had noticed the keys to, which she hadn't. Waiting for the right time, she quickly grabbed the keys and dropped them in her pocket. Rachel placed her hands in her pockets as she walked up to Yume.
"Do you find anything?" Rachel asked.
Yume's head popped up from behind the desk, "Actually, no," she dived down again.
Rachel looked at her, "This is stupid, come on, let' go!" she growled as she was growing more impatient.

"You go on ahead and wait outside," Yume waved her hand to her, "I'll continue to sears around here for a while."
Rachel groaned, "Fine!" she growled at Yume and stomped out from the room. She closed the door and she felt the clinking metal in her pocket and it's coolness to her skin.
She pulled out the keys in her pocket and smiled.
"Sucker! I already have the keys, you're searching for nothing!" She flicked her hair and started walking, "I should really become an actress! I've got the keys and can go anywhere I want in this building. Time to explore behind closed doors."

A strange cracking sound was heard. Rachel looked at the direction she thought the noise came from. She continued looking at that direction as she took a few steps back. Then suddenly felt that she bumped in to something. Her first thought was that she had backed in to a wall. But in a blink of an eye, her mind went blank with panic as one hand grabbed her shoulder and one other hand covered her mouth. She was pulled backwards in to another room. A few seconds later the door opened and Yume came out, "Hey Rach, did you say something?" she looked sideways. There was no one else in the room. "Rach?"