"Kya!" Rachel let out as she tried to get out from the unknown guy's grip.
"Hey, hey!" Take it easy, I'm on your side!" he said as an attempt to calm her down as he voided her wild punches.
"Oh yeah?!" Rachel said, "And why am I supposed to trust you?"
He sighed, "Because I'm here with a group of other people to find out what this Team Aqua wants to do here and what their main goal is. We're also investigating if they're having some connection with Team Magma."
Rachel froze, "Team Magma?"
"Yes, apparently there's two big criminal gangs roaming around in Hoenn," The guy said, "We're not sure what their main goal is and we have also received reports about common gang fights between the gangs so we're also investigating if they have some kind of connection to each other."
"So…" Rachel said and tried to make her free, but this time more calm and gentle, "You and your other pals here are good guys?" she asked.
The unknown guy loosen his grip little, "Yeah, my group is supposed to keep a watching eye on Team Aqua. That's why we're here."
"Okay, but, I'm still not sure that I can trust you." Rachel answered.
The guy sighed, "Well, first off, I'm not wearing an Aqua uniform. Second, I just put myself completely on the line, does that mean absolutely nothing to you?"
Rachel thought for a moment before she answered, "I guess so…"
"Good," The guy said and let go of Rachel. He let out a sigh of relief. Rachel took a few step forwards and turned around. 'Oh, wow!' Rachel thought, 'If I had seen your looks first I would have trusted you right away!'
The guy in front of her gave her a questionable look as he raised his eyebrow. Rachel slapped herself mentally as she tried to keep her cool and not start asking too stupid questions too soon. He brushed his hand through is snow-white hair. He had emerald green eyes and a good taste in clothes, according to Rachel. He adjusted his headband, "So, what's your name?" he asked.
"My name is Rachel, what's yours?"
"Yuuki," he answered, "Now let's go. It's no good if we stay here in the same place for too long," he grabbed Rachel by her wrist and headed for the stairs.
"Leaving so soon?" An Aqua member stepped out from the shadows and blocked their way.
Yuuki halted, "Shit, I was too careless!" he picked out a pokéball from his belt, "Mudkip, use your water gun!"
The ball hit the ground and the white light formed to a blue pokémon who immediately sprayed water when it reached its normal shape. The water knocked the Aqua member over and Yuuki dashed towards the staircase with Rachel and his pokémon running behind him.
This time, it was Rachel who was slow on the stairs. She was having a hard time keeping up with Yuuki's speed. At the top of the staircase he kicked the door open.
"Are you sure that door was even locked?" Rachel asked.
"This is the top floor," Yuuki said, "I assumed this would be like their base o that they're keeping something important up here."
They carefully walked in and had a watching eye for traps or Aqua members.
"Why do you think that they would hide something here?" Rachel asked as she looked at a shelf filled with ornament boats and other things.
"Because you have to pass the most security to get here," he replied and walked over to a desk furthest in the room. Rachel continued to look around in the room a little, her eyes landed on Yuuki for a long time when he was going through the papers on the desk. Suddenly, a whining sound was heard.
"Did you hear that?" Rachel asked.
"What?" Yuuki said while continuing to go through the paperwork on the desk, "Shoot, only weather reports and bills," he started to look in the drawers.
"That weird sound," Rachel said and looked at the other desk, a bit away from the desk Yuuki was standing at, "It sounded like a dog whining... or something like that..."
"Oh," Yuuki replied while digging through more papers.
"What are you looking after?" Rachel asked as she examined Yuuki from the other side of the room.
"I'm looking for any reports or fact about Team Aqua and Team Magma," Yuuki replied.
"Okay, I'll help!" Rachel said, "I'll look over here," she turned around and walked over to the desk. She walked behind it and lifted up a few papers and felt that she bumped in to something with her right leg. She looked down to see what it was.
"Oh, my god!" she exclaimed.
"What?" Yuuki asked and finally lifted his head from the papers.
She pointed to something next to her on the ground, "Look! I think that this may be some kind of hint!"
Yuuki looked over at Rachel's but couldn't see what she was pointing at. "I can't see what you are pointing at," he replied and moved his head to try to see, "The desk is in the way."
Rachel bent down to do something, Yuuki watched her before he walked away from the desk and walked to her. As he was about to ask her what she was doing she lifted up a metal cage on the desk. The paper was flying around and Yuuki backed a step in surprise. It was a metal cage with a pokémon in it, which was too big for the cage. You could see that it was suffering.
"This is horrible, we have to let it out!" Rachel said and started to look after the lock on the cage. Yuuki found it before her and assisted her on opening it. After a few futile tries he put his bag on the floor and picked out a chunk of metal that he folded out to a crowbar. He forced the lock to open and Rachel opened the cage and let the pokémon out.
"I wonder what pokémon it is," Rachel said.
Yuuki picked up something red and rectangular. He pressed a blue button and the thing folded out. Rachel looked curiously at the object Yuuki was holding, "What's that?" she asked.
"It's a pokédex," Yuuki replied, "It's a good thing I just updated my pokédex recently. This is one of the new eeveelutions that was quite recently discovered."
Rachel looked at him, "What's it called?" she asked.
"Leafeon," he replied shortly, "A grass pokémon. But what would Team Aqua want with a grass pokémon?"
"Uh, why would they not want with a grass pokémon?" Rachel asked.
"Well, if you have noticed by their name, Team Aqua loves the sea and all the water pokémon. I'm currently investigating a theory held by my comrade that Team Aqua wants to expand the sea so more pokémon can live at sea and they can explore the sea more." Yuuki answered, "He said that he had overheard their leader talk about something like that to Team Magma's leader so that questions Team Aqua's and Team Magma's rivalry even more. And by the way, my friend is the one that you clobbered down earlier."
"Oh." Rachel answered shortly. Then she thought for a moment. "So, uhm, where's he now?" she asked.
Yuuki was quiet for a moment, "Shit!"
Rachel smiled weakly, "I'm sorry, I... back there I thought that you guys were in those Team Aqua things and..."
Yuuki cut her of by putting his hand on her shoulder, "Hey, I would had thought of the same thing if I were in the same position as you," he sighed, "Anyways, I guess I'll have to go and look for him now. I don't think there are any more clues in here."
"Uhm," Rachel began, "What shall we do about this Leafeon?" she asked.
"I think we should take her with us," Yuuki said and picked Leafeon up from its cage. Then suddenly they heard the sound of someone turning the doorknob.
"OH SHIT!" Rachel yelled out as she started to panic. Yuuki ran up to her and grabbed her arm and pulled her further back in the room. Since Rachel threw out lots of swear words Yuuki had to cover her mouth, as she didn't seem to stop, like she had Torrente's syndrome. The door slowly opened and in walked two shocked Aqua grunts.
"What are you kids doing here?!" One of them asked and pointed his finger at them.
"Uhm, run!" Yuuki said as he grabbed Rachel by her arm and pulled her to the door. Rachel thought that Yuuki first was suicidal, running straight at the enemy first but apparently they were too shocked to do something about them so Yuuki tackled away them from the door and ran down the stairs with Rachel running after him.
"Who were those guys?" Rachel asked as she panted from all the running, "Team Water or what they're called?"
"Team Aqua," Yuuki replied, "I thought you'd know their name by now."
"Well," Rachel sighed, "When I'm stressing or panicking I forget more easily."
"That seems logical," Yuuki said and kicked the door open to the second floor, "Follow me!"
"Tssh, like I'm not already doing it!" Rachel called after and ran across the room. As she turned around she hoped that the ones from Team Aqua hadn't followed them. But she only turned around to see that they were now blocking the exit and brought reinforcement.
"Damn, we're surrounded!" Yuuki said and backed off to the window, he looked around to see if there were any possible exits, but there was none to be found. He looked down on the Leafeon he was carrying and took out a pokéball and gently tapped it on the fainted Leafeon. A successful capture and he passed the pokémon to Rachel. She looked confusedly at him.
"I guess we'll have to use the emergency exit..." he mumbled quietly to her.
"What emergency exit?!" Rachel yelled at Yuuki as she glared at him, "We can't even get pass these guys, how are you planning to get out of here?!"
"We'll create our own exit," Yuuki said simply.
Rachel looked at him confused, "What?"
Before she could react, Yuuki grabbed her wrist and pulled her with him as he threw himself out of the window. For a short moment Rachel blanked out before she was able to melt the things in her brain of what had just happened. Then she looked down at the ground, which was about seven floors down. Yuuki reached for her arm and grabbed it gently, "Gotcha!" he looked at her with a calm face, "Are you ok?"
Rachel's reaction to his calmness didn't soothe her at all, "KYAA! WHAT THE HELL!" She screamed, "I DON'T WANT TO DIE SO WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TAKE ME WITH YOU?!"
"Stop screaming already!" Yuuki groaned and picked up another pokéball and let the pokémon out of it. A metal bird flew to them and grabbed their arms with its claws without hurting them. Yuuki sighed, "Do you think I would really jump out of a window without a plan?"
"How am I supposed to know, I just met you," Rachel replied coldly. There was an awkward silence between them.
"You can let go of my other arm now..." Rachel said as she finally broke the silence. Yuuki did as she said and looked away from her to a distance. As if it hadn't been enough awkwardness between them both of them found it annoying to have silence between them and as usual it was always Rachel who swallowed her pride and turned it in to courage to dare to speak up, "Where are we going by the way?"
Yuuki looked at her as if he never expected her to talk, "Uh, to our Headquarters."
"So you're also in one strange organization like Team Aqua, huh?" Rachel asked.
He sighed, "Strange maybe, but we stand for completely different things. Team Aqua and Magma's true disposition have not yet been confirmed so we're trying to figure out what the heck they want to do..."
Rachel looked at Yuuki as she moved away all of her "What do your team stand for? You know... what side?"
"What do you mean with side?" Yuuki asked. Rachel groaned over his stupidity.
"You know, good or evil!"
Yuuki tapped his finger on his cheek as he thought for a moment before answering. "Well, good and evil are based on personal opinions, but I guess that we're pretty good..."
'I think that you should know if you fight for good or evil at the start when you pick sides...' Rachel thought for herself as she gave Yuuki a bored look, "Yeah, so anyways, what do you guys fight for?"
"We of are the investigators Venn and we're trying to find a way to restore our polluted world back to its normal healthy state."
'Eh? Is our world so completely destroyed and polluted that some new crazy organizations takes drastic measures?'
"Is... uh, is our world really that polluted that you feel like you really have to search for a new way to heal it?"
"We're not sure. But as our world slips further down the path of destruction we're working on way to save it before it's too late."
Rachel sighed as she moved away her bangs with a swift move and looked at him, "So... where are we headed?"
"To our headquarters," Yuuki answered and patted with his hand on Skarmory leg, "Kakumei's headquarters."