A horrid and shrill beeping startled Mikayla awake. The alarm clock. She felt around for her shoe on the ground, picked it up, and threw it toward the horrible noise creator. Somehow that shut off the alarm clock, but probably broke it in the process.

"Mikaylaaa…" Erin tiredly uttered, "that wasn't smart."

Blue came out of the bathroom to investigate the noise, still sweaterless and with a toothbrush in his mouth. He saw the broken clock on the ground next to Mikayla's shoe and burst out laughing, and then returned to the bathroom. Mikayla rolled out of bed, stood up and threw her arms up in an exaggerated stretch; her hair was a tousled mess. Erin pulled the blankets over her head as she commonly did. Mikayla threw open the curtains, flooding the room with sunlight. She looked across the street and the Game Corner Casino, coloured lights still ablaze. She watched disoriented customers leave the casino completely baffled that they had gambled all night, and squinting at the bright sun. Two shady characters caught her eye, they were dressed completely in black and stalked into the casino, they were probably Team Rocket grunts. Erin got out of bed and watched them too.

"At least we know we're in the right place" Erin apprehensively sighed, brushing her messy, dark hair out of her face.

Mikayla stood there in silence, her limp hands balled into fists at her sides. There was a burning intensity in her chest, she was ready. Ready to get even. When Blue left the bathroom in his purple sweater and black jeans, Mikayla dashed into the bathroom with her clothes in hand. She rested her shaking hands on the white counter and looked up at her reflection in the mirror. The burning hatred had found its way back into her blue eyes, she looked at the almost healed gash on her cheek and thought of Volkner. She wondered what he was doing now that she was gone, was he sad? Did he even care about her anymore? Was he still with Candace? Ugh Candace, the thought of her made Mikayla's lips purse with rage and her hands return to fists. She shook her head and lost her enraged look, this was no time for any personal feelings, she had to defeat a crime syndicate today. She quickly threw on her white tank top, slipped her black vest over it and hopped into her denim shorts. She slung her hair back into her familiar spikey ponytail, did everything else in her morning routine and exited the bathroom. She put her pajamas back into her bag, snapped her Pokémon belt to her waist and pulled the drawstring on her bag, closing it. She sat on the unmade bed staring at broken clock on the floor; several dismembered buttons lay strewn on the floor. She walked over and picked it up and placed it back on the nightstand, she placed a gold decorative pillow on top of it so that housekeeping wouldn't notice until they were long gone. Blue laughed.

"I guess that fixes everything?" he teased her.

"It'll do" she placed her hands on her hips and turned to him. "Why were you up so early this morning?"

Blue sat up from his lying down position on the couch, leaned back, and threw his hands behind his head of brown hair.

"Couldn't sleep" he said simply. "You feeling any better today?"

"Much better, I'm ready for anything!" she spun around, a burning intensity in her eyes.

Blue smiled, he got up and folded the blanket and placed it neatly on the couch, he walked to the window. He watched as new customers excitedly entered the casino. Mikayla walked over beside him and did the same.

"How are we going to do this without getting noticed?" Blue whispered confusedly.

Before Mikayla could answer, the bathroom door flung open and Erin jumped out, a very shocked expression on her face.

"What's wrong?" Mikayla asked and she turned around.

"We forgot to call Koga!" Erin's hand flew up to grab the side of her head.

"Oh, haha, we should do that!" Mikayla laughed, obviously not as concerned as Erin.

Erin flipped open her PokeGear and dialed vigorously, Koga's face lit up on the screen.

"I was wondering when you'd call!" he winked at Erin.

"Sorry! We were so tired when we got to Celadon, we must've forgotten!" she looked legitimately apologetic.

"No worries!" Koga laughed, "Luckily for you, the stone hasn't moved at all."

"Could you tell us WHERE in the building it is?" Mikayla asked and she walked over beside Erin.

"Unfortunately, no, all I can tell you is that it is on the right side of the building" Koga looked serious again. "You guys should get moving before the stone moves again" he looked solely at Erin again "Good luck!" the screen went black.

The three of them left the room, gave their money for the night to the same unhelpful employee and dashed out of Celadon Towers. The three of them stood in front of the casino, a little confused.

"Team Rocket knows our faces, how are we supposed to do this undetected?" Mikayla turned to her friends.

Erin's eyes lit up.

"Oh! We'll need aliases and DISGUISES!" she said excitedly.

"Like spies?" Mikayla said with childlike excitement.

"Hell yeah!" they high fived.

Blue smiled and rolled his eyes, they dragged him into the nearby department store. Erin established her alias as Teddy Gregory, a reporter for the Goldenrod Gazette, here to do a leisure article on the casino. She ditched her white beanie and pulled her dark hair into two loose pigtails. She bought fake, thick rimmed glasses and wore a pair of dark jeans with a silver off-the-shoulder sweater on top. Mikayla's new name was Evelyn Gray; she was an aspiring actress from Hearthome City and was in Celadon on vacation with her fiancé, Sam Evans, a writer. Mikayla let her wavy hair down and placed a simple white headband in it. She wore a dark pink sundress with a white sash and ditched her bulky hiking boots for white flats. She also bought an oversized pair of round sunglasses and a dirt cheap cubic zirconia engagement ring. Blue sported a pair of Ray Ban glasses and wore a black dress shirt with white jeans. The trio left the department store and continued to the casino. Cold air rushed past them as they walked in. There were no windows; the building was a colourful melting pot of different lights and sounds. Erin split from Mikayla and Blue to create the illusion that they did not know each other, they made plans to call someone on their PokeGear the second they learned where the stone might be. Erin walked slowly around the casino looking carefully for any signs of Team Rocket or the Master Stone. Many times, scantily clad waitresses would ask if she needed any assistance, she just smiled politely and told them she was only looking around. She overheard Mikayla telling a detailed backstory to a sweet old lady. Apparently Evelyn and Sam met at a commercial shoot, in which Evelyn was the star and Sam was a writer. They dated for six months before Sam popped the question while filming another commercial, rather quick. Their wedding date was set five months from now on September 28th, Evelyn's 23rd birthday. Yeah, Mikayla could probably pass for 22. Sam wants kids, but Evelyn really wants to establish a reliable acting career before that. Erin laughed to herself, Blue had his arm placed lovingly around Mikayla's waist the whole time she was talking, they were a really believable couple. She walked on to look for the stone. She had wandered to the back of the casino where no one was and leaned against the wall, looking out at the whole casino. Where could this stone possibly be? They were losing valuable time. Erin was getting a bit frustrated. She stretched her left arm out and accidentally whacked a promotional poster for a casino show she'd never heard of. A loud click was heard, and the wall beside her slid open to reveal a staircase that appeared to descend into the basement of the casino. She flipped open her PokeGear.

Mikayla and Blue were still conversing with the old lady, when Mikayla's PokeGear started to ring.

"Meet me at the back of the casino, I've got something!" Erin whispered through the screen.

"Okay, be right there!" Mikayla smiled. The screen went dark.

She looked up at the old lady.

"I'm sorry," she began sweetly, "but a friend of ours needs to meet us."

"That's quite alright, dear!" the old lady smiled. "It was nice talking to you."

Mikayla and Blue headed toward the back of the casino. The old lady opened her blazer and whispered into the lapel, there was a small microphone on it.

"They're in." she whispered.