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Drew- Great
Me- * Glares*
Drew * Puts finger over his mouth*
Me- * ^_^* This continues form the cliffhanger.
May- So without further ado.
Me- On with the chapter-
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'Pokemon Speech'
Chapter 9- Progressing Plot
"You dint answer my question, where are you?" Paul asked trying to ignore Dawn's sad face. His heart was inwardly sinking.
"We are at Prof Pine's." Brock replied.
"Wha...?" Paul was taken aback.
"Yes, we..." Brock started but was interrupted by Dawn.
"We got teleported." the blunette explained further. "actually we ended up in a forest near Prof Pines Lab and he found us there."
"B..but... how in the name of Arceus did you teleport?" Poor Paul was astounded. For the first time he forgot to hide his feelings from being shown on his face in front of Dawn.
"Wow Paul, I dint know you could show expression." Dawn teased.
Paul almost blushed but hid it by laughing a little, "Then you dont know me well." was his retrod.
"Guyzz? Can we get back to the point please?" Brock interrupted. I do want those two to get together but this is hardly the time, we have an emergency here!
"So, you were rescued by Prof Pine huh? When did you teleport?" Paul asked.
"Yes that was surprising one minute we were walking towards the dining hall and the next minute we were in a forest." Brock explained.
At this moment the others came rushing into booth No 9.
"Dawn, Brock are you Okay?" Ash asked.
"Yup, we are fine." Brock replied cheerfully.
"We looked for you everywhere." Misty said mainly addressing the blue haired girl.
'Pika-pi' Pikachu was relived as well.
"I'm fine; No need to worry!" Dawn reassured everybody. ((A/N- Lol I couldn't resist adding it =P))
"For once im glad to hear that phrase!" May laughed.
"So, what happened? Where are you?" Drew asked.
Brock sighed, "Paul would you mind doing the honors?"
Paul quickly explained all that the two of them had said being prompted by Dawn in between. The others were astounded and half inclined to disbelieve them.
Brock called Prof Pine on the phone to talk to the others partly to make them believe his story and partly because Prof Pine wanted to talk to them.
A tall middle aged man walked into sight of the video and May noticed with some amusement that his little mustache bobbed each time he took a step, which she immediately mentioned to Drew in a whisper who chuckled and kissed her forehead. Prof Pines lab coat swished around his Black trousers and he cleared his throat when he decided he was in a good enough position to talk to the five heroes on the ship.
"Hello." he greeted the five, "So you are the lot I have heard so much about from Profs Oak and Birch."
"Hello Prof Pine.." chorused May, Drew, Misty and Ash. Paul just nodded. Dawn noticed this and smiled to herself.
"Have you really heard that much about us?" May added.
"And me too?" Drew and Paul asked, because they had never met Prof Oak or Birch.
"Yes all of you!" said Prof Pine a little impatiently, "Lets see if you can live up to expectations..." his beady black eyes twinkled as he said that.
"So, sir do you know what transported Brock and Dawn there?" Misty asked the Prof politely.
"And why?" Ash added.
"Well... its said that whichever Pokemon is doing this or most probably more than one Pokemon is doing it to help the people because after they teleport a natural disaster usually happens and the death toll would have been quite high if I... I mean the Pokemon who teleport them wouldn't. This teleportation though was... wait! I got an idea! That's it! I got it!" Prof Pine finished his explanation suddenly and rushed off the view of the camera to go do some experiment in his lab about his new 'idea' probably.
Brock and Dawn sweatdropped as they looked off screen at something that was going on to their right. "Sorry, when he get an idea hes usually like this..." Brock explained chuckling.
The five over on the cruise ship sweatdropped.
"So... anyway you guyz come to the lab and we'll wait for you here okay?" Dawn asked.
"Yup" Ash confirmed.
"Sounds like one of your best plans Troublesome." Paul said.
May checked the ships Cruise Compass, "We should be there by this time tomorrow."
"Okay, see you here" Brock said.
"Take care!" Dawn added.
"Bye" everyone except Paul said and shut the phone.
All of them looked at each other all of them had a mixture of shock, surprise and relief on their face with the quantities of each expression varying from one face to the other .
!-!-!-!
After Prof Pine hurried off the video-cam, two Pokemon figure unknown to our heroes -as they were invisible- were talking to each other telepathically. One was small fluffy and pink while the other was a whitish greyish colour with a pink belly. The second one was about double the size of the first.
'Why did you get him off the screen like that?' Figure 1 asked.
'You made him give away too much information.' Figure 2 replied.
'Well they have got to know.' Figure 1 argued back.
'I think they should find out on their own! Wouldn't it look suspicious if Pine told them everything?' Figure 2 reasoned.
'Yeah but why did we control him then?' Figure 1 asked.
Figure 2 sighed, 'You should listen to me when I explain my plans instead of playing with those silly pink bubbles you make! He dint know about inviting the kids over, we made him do that remember... now... wouldn't it look suspicious if he invited them then dint know anything about it? So we controlled him get it?' Figure 2 sighed again after his long explanation.
Figure 1 sighed, 'I still don't get why we cant tell them face to face.'
'We are doing what we are told and I don't question master Ho-Oh's orders and I don't want them to see me anyway plus you must get ready with that document I told you about, I need to send it to the kids laptop.' Figure 2 told him
Figure 1 nodded 'Hey! Those two we teleported are coming back shouldn't we take control of Pine again?'
Dawn and Brock had just got off the phone and were heading over to try to talk to Prof Pine.
Figure 2 yawned 'Its your turn, and I'll put that document in their laptop when they come here and open it up.'
'And I will go to Grandma's house when the boy leaves and wait for him to appear there to tell him more about this right?' Figure 1 rediscussed their plans.
'Yes and don't give away too much just enough to make him understand. And try not to get seen or play on the job like last time.' Figure 2 told him sternly.
Figure 1 sighed and nodded turning all his attention to control Prof Pine again.
Dawn and Brock had now reached Prof Pine and were trying to get some answers from him. But each time they asked something he seemed to run to another part of the lab to get some other thing for his experiment of course controlled by 'Figure 1'. Finally Dawn and Brock gave up and went out into the Drawing room. 'Figure 2' followed them.
"I'm going to find out something about this region and this town which seems like a ghost town." Brock said.
Dawn pouted "I want to come with you."
"If you come there will be no one to let the others in." Brock pointed out.
Dawn sighed, "Fine... But come quickly I shouldn't get bored!"
"Dont worry i'll be back soon." Brock grinned then his grin turned into a frown as he heard thunder outside. "I wont go now... I'll go tomorrow. Right now lets play UNO then get to sleep!"
Dawn smiled, "Yahooooooooooooo!"
Brock dragged Dawn into a room with three double beds and a single bed, and she fell into one of the double beds stretching out.
"Fine then I take this one." Brock said putting his stuff on the single bed.
Dawn was excited to play UNO. Brock and Dawn played UNO all after noon only stopping for snacks and dinner when it was time and tallied their marks. In the end Dawn had won by 4 games. She fell back in the bed and fell asleep.
Brock smiled, changed, put away the cards and got into his own bed falling asleep soon after.
!-!-!-!
"Whew! Who would have thought they would end up there of all places!" Misty said. They were in their cabin on the ship discussing the happenings and planning what they were gong to do.
"Ya and they were teleported." May agreed.
You know it just cant be a coincidence. Something or someone wants us to get to the lab fast." Drew was thoughtful as ever. "For good reasons or bad I have no idea."
"Probably good. Remember what Prof Pine said?" Misty asked. Everyone nodded.
"And even if they are calling us for bad reasons we are going, nothing can stop us!" Paul said determinedly.
"Lets do our best guyz." Said a pumped up Ash earning a glare from Misty for being too enthusiastic.
Everyone put one of their hands on top of one anothers hand so that a tower was formed of hands. "All for one and one for all." They chanted as they moved their hands up and down and removed their hands once the chant was over.
xxxxxXXX NEXT MORNING XXXxxxxx
Drew was the first one to wake up on the ship. He sat in bed and thought back to a week ago. A week ago I would not have believed it if anybody told me May would be my Girlfriend in less than a week. Everything is happening so fast and now we are stuck in a dangerous adventure with one whole regions fate in our hands... While he was thinking this Paul woke up.
He sat up in bed thinking I hope Dawn is fine... He thought everyone was still asleep so he walked over to the window and sat down, lost in thoughts of Dawn. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see Drew standing there looking have puzzled and half worried at him.
Drew had heard the boy get up and had also heard him go to the window and seen him looking dejected. He had decided to follow him and comfort him. He knew Dawn was bothering him already he had seen enough of them to notice they acted exactly like him and May had done before except their personalities were a bit different...
"Whats wrong?" Drew asked the younger boy though he already knew.
Paul sighed "Nothing" Should I tell him? He seems nice, I trust really few people with my actual feelings and Brock isn't here so I might as well..
"Are you sure?" Drew asked frowning Why doesn't he tell me already?
"Actually..." Paul poured out the whole story of how he like Dawn but everyone thinks he's cold and does not care and love anyone or thing and how he always somehow appears so in-front of Dawn and how he feels like its time to confess but does not know how to do it.
Drew listened in sympathetic silence as Paul spoke his heart out; squeezing his shoulder in encouragement and understanding when the boy finished speaking.
"You know I was quite similar to May.." Drew ventured.
"You were?" Paul was surprised.
"Yup, I was rude and arrogant and never missed a chance to insult her before." Drew laughed at the numerous memories of him insulting her.
"So how come you're together now?" Paul asked curiously.
Drew shrugged, "fate I guess." He then added, "1'm sure if you and Dawn are meant to be ull get together eventually but if I were you I would try to be a little less cold.."
Paul nodded, "I am scared that she wont like me back..."
Drew grinned suddenly, "Never fear when love is here.." he said while tapping Paul on his left chest where his heart was.
Paul smiled and nodded, "Thanks."
"No problem!" Drew replied going to the washroom to get ready for breakfast.
END
Me- that took me forever to write!
Drew- ur so lazy..
Me- * Glares* Who told you to say anything?
Drew- fine ill shut up.
May- LoveLoverGrl will update after she gets 37 reviews or she finishes writing chapter 11 whichever is faster.
Me- *Glares at May * Dont you mean 35 reviews? I'm not that greedy! How dare you
Drew- *sweatdroppes * Umm.. Sorry the authoress is not in a good mood lately because of some well... family issues which she does not like me or anybody to talk about, maybe reviews might cheer her up and motivate her to write more?
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