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Chapter 12: The Havok City Massacre

"Ahhhh, what's happening!?"

"Somebody is here, sound the alarm!"

"Help! He's got me! Ahhhh!"

"Shut up and die! DIE! Hahahaha!"

"Someone... help me..."

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Location: Havok City, Alleyway

All of Lloyd's good feelings went away when he was awakened. He wasn't in his bed, he wasn't even in the brotherhood headquarters, he was alone, cold and had a huge headache. Lloyd stood up and tried to walk, his head was pounding so loud and hard it was like a whole army of pokemon was stomping their way through the alley.

Lloyd began to walk out into the street, hoping to see where he was, what he saw was horrifying.

Several buildings were destroyed, the roofs caved in. And the body's of pokemon all around, Lloyd couldn't tell if they had fainted, or something worse, had been killed.

What's happened? What could have done this?

Lloyd knew he wasn't going to find out here. As quickly as he could, Lloyd began to make his way back to the brotherhood.

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Location: Brotherhood HQ, Front Entrance

"I can't just stay here!" Rita was arguing with Ewan, every since this morning everything was in total chaos.

"I know you're worried about Lloyd, but the thing is, he could be anywhere by now, and the last thing we need is you wandering around while some mad pokemon is out causing all this destruction."

"Listen Ewan, he's my partner, I'm not leaving him to get killed out in the street!"

They continued to argue, neither noticed for a while that Lloyd was making his way towards the HQ at that time.

"Listen Rita, I am your superior and you will listen to me, you are staying right here until things are safe!"

Rita was about to go back inside, stamping her feet along the way, but at the last minute she saw Lloyd, he was heading this way.

"Lloyd!" She yelled, and dashed out of the HQ, Ewan didn't try to stop her.

She was so excited to see Lloyd alive, from what she heard this intruder everyone was talking about had actually killed a bunch of pokemon, not just Brotherhood members, but also citizens of Havok City.

Full of joy and worry, Rita leaped into Lloyds arms. Lloyd wasn't expecting such enthusiasm and was knocked over, his headache had stopped hurting so much so Lloyd didn't mind.

"Glad to see you too Rita."

"Oh Lloyd, I was so worried, I thought you were dead somewhere, I'm so glad you're safe!"

"That's great, could you get off me now please?"

Embarrassed, Rita stepped off of Lloyd, letting him get up off the road.

"Lets go back to the HQ, I'd like to know what's going on."

They both walked back the main entrance of the HQ, Ewan was waiting for them.

"Ewan, what's going on here? Why was I in the street like that?"

"We won't know until the scouts return from searching the city. We're pretty sure this intruder is gone, but we want to make sure. Meanwhile, I want you two to go and sign that paperwork I told you about, it'll be in your mail box, in the mail room."

"Where is the mail room?" Asked Lloyd.

"Just down the hall from here, first door on the left, you can't miss it."

"Come on Lloyd lets go." Rita and Lloyd both left the main hall, leaving Ewan in the main hall, awaiting the first scout reports.

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Location: Brotherhood HQ, Mail Room

Rita and Lloyd found the mail room easily, it looked just as both imagined. It had holes all over the walls, each labelled with the names of the brotherhood teams, the only thing else in the room was a desk, at which sat a Buneary, who was sorting a few envelopes.

"Excuse me." Said Rita. "We're new, and Ewan said to come here to sign paper work."

"Oh yes, I was expecting you." She said this without looking at them, she was still focused on her sorting. "The stuff you need to read is in the cubby hole with a red label, that's yours and that's where you will find any mail in the future, including your mission for the day."

Lloyd and Rita looked around the room and saw that every label was white, except for one, one the lowest row, right near the door, was a red one with no name, it was filled with things.

Lloyd took them out, one bundle of papers was stapled together, with 'Recruitment Forms' written at the top.

"These must be it." Said Lloyd.

"Hey you two!" It was the Buneary. "If you'd like you can use my desk, I have to go get some more stuff from the back." Buneary was obviously a workaholic. She frantically rushed to the back to do whatever it was she needed to do so badly.

Lloyd sat in the chair she was just sitting in before she bolted, took a pen that was laying there are began to read the forms. But right off the bat he reached a question he couldn't answer.

Name of Team

_________________

"Rita, we haven't thought of a name yet have we?"

"No we haven't... What are we gonna name ourselves?"

"Lets think for a sec..."

What could we possibly name ourselves? Thought Lloyd. The only team we even know is Team Torrent, we have no idea on what kind of names there are... Then an Idea came to Lloyd.

"Lets check the labels of the mail boxes, get some ideas."

"Good idea, you do it since you're taller then me."

Lloyd got out of the chair and read the names on the labels. But Lloyd noticed they didn't use the full names, only the first three letters. Team Hur., Team Jol., Team Bun., Team Dar., none of these were helpful.

"Ok this isn't gonna work, the names are shortened on the labels."

"Well it looks like were gonna have to think about this then, just leave it blank and we'll come up with one later on."

Lloyd sat back down and read further down, the second thing on the form reminded them of a second problem they had forgotten about.

Founding Three Members

__________ __________ __________

"We still haven't gotten ourselves a third member."

"Don't worry about that, remember, Ewan said we had a whole month to find one."

"I'm just saying, and lets try not to put it off, I don't wish to get kicked out because we couldn't find a third member."

Lloyd wrote down their names, and left the last space blank.

The remainder of the forms were simple to answer, containing things like 'What are your reasons for forming this Team?' and 'Do any founding members have a criminal record?', all of which Lloyd answered to the best of his ability.

When the forms were finished, the last thing was what to do with it all.

Please place forms into brown envelope provided and leave them in your mailbox.

Lloyd looks in the pile of things that came in the mail box, one of them was the brown envelope. He took all the forms, folded them and inserted them inside. He handed the envelope to Rita.

"Put this in the mailbox, and then were done."

She did so right away.

"So, looks like were official members now... right Lloyd?"

"As long as Ewan hasn't left out any more steps, I guess we are."

"Is there anything else in the stuff from the mail?"

Lloyd saw that there was three things left. Both packages, both boxes, and a letter. On the top of one it said 'poke for new team'. Excited, Lloyd opened the box and as promised, the box contained five thousand poke.

"Finally!" Said Rita. "Some real cash to spend."

"Rita, this is for supplies, for our missions, not fun stuff."

"Oh come on, five thousand just for supplies? Can't we buy something for us to do in the room after a mission? A television, or maybe a decent radio..."

"We have a radio."

"I broke it!"

"... You broke it already?"

"The knob was stuck."

Lloyd sighed. "Fine, we'll buy something CHEAP next time we can for the room. But the rest is for supplies."

Lloyd closed the box with the money and put it down on the desk, he took the other box and read the top of it. 'From Ewan.' Inside was even more poke, another five thousand. As well was a small note.

I managed to get the reward for the capture of Zar, I told them it was me who captured him, so they gave me the poke. I took some as a little 'thank you' present of coarse though, I like a little cash in my wallet too.

Good luck on your first mission. I took the liberty of choosing an easy one for you. You are to leave at noon exactly, be sure to take plenty of food, its a long walk.

Ewan.

"So, what's in it Lloyd?"

He showed her the contents of the box.

"Aww, that's awesome! We have to spend this money, we earned it."

"Well that's true, we'll see when we go shopping before we decide now ok?"

Rita sighed. "I guess... What's the last thing from the mail."

Lloyd assumed it was their mission. He opened the letter and began to read.

Dear Brotherhood

I ask for your assistance at Pipton. The fish from our lake have disappeared and I suspect that something happening in the mystery dungeon 'Celsius Cave' is the reason behind this, I believe this because a group of three strange pokemon entered the mystery dungeon yesterday, and have yet to leave.

I can't offer you much in terms of money, but I personally will do anything I can to satisfy the team you send.

Issac, Son of the Mayor of Pipton

"It's our first mission, Ewan picked it for us."

"Where is it?"

"Some place called Pipton."

Rita laughed, "Oh I can't wait for this."

"Why?"

"Piplup, the pokemon that live there, are total morons, they act like the missing link between us and wild pokemon. They are totally stupid!"

"Well this letter came from the mayors son, he didn't sound all that dumb to me."

"Wow, a Piplup that can read and write? I'm surprised they don't consider him a god or something."

"Come on Rita, they can't be that bad can they?"

"Just wait Lloyd, just wait. We should probably leave now. It's a long way to Pipton."

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Location: Brotherhood HQ, Main Entrance

Before leaving, Rita went down the elevator to get some apples, leaving Lloyd behind, he didn't want to be sick for his first mission. When they were all ready they began to head out the same entrance where they were this morning. Ewan was still here, now surrounded by pokemon frantically trying to get his attention. Rita and Lloyd figured they were the scouts he sent out into town.

"Hey Ewan!" Call out Rita. "We signed all our stuff, and got the money from you. Thanks so much for thinking of claiming the reward for yourself."

"It was no problem at all." He looked in Lloyd direction. "You should consider yourself lucky you know, from the scouts report, ninety six pokemon confirmed dead, including twenty Brotherhood members."

"Ninety six pokemon were killed?!" Exclaimed Lloyd. "What could have done such a thing?"

"Well the thing is, nobody got a clear look at the pokemon. The most anyone saw was that it was black, taller then most pokemon, and seemed to be in some kind of frenzy, like it had lost its mind."

"So, this pokemon got away then?"

"Yep, we searched the entire town and found nothing, other then its trail of death and destruction, its basically disappeared."

"Are you sure it safe for us to go on our first mission with that madman loose?" Asked Rita.

"Your missions are never safe, even without a mad pokemon going about killing folk. And without your help that town is gonna starve to death, it would be silly to stop doing missions today because of this."

Rita and Lloyd couldn't help agree with that, their mission was too important.

"So you two, you better go right away. It's a long walk there, and I have things to do here. Good luck."

Without another word, Lloyd and Rita left the Brotherhood headquarters and headed towards the town gate, onwards towards the first real mission together.