September 6th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
(May's POV)
I woke up the next morning at 6:45 AM. I quickly changed before grabbing my backpack and made my way to the kitchen.
I was really nervous and wasn't really all that hungry so I decided to eat a few berries so that I at least had something in my stomach. I quickly fed my pokemon as well and returned them after they were done. I then went back to my room to put away my pokeballs, but left Skitty's and Glaceon's in my pocket. I went back into the kitchen to grab my backpack and found that Misty was already there starting to eat breakfast.
"Where are you going this early, classes are shortened today," Misty said.
I nodded my head in acknowledgement, "I know, but I'm required to go to new student orientation since I'm new here," I explained.
Misty nodded and I left to go to the auditorium to listen to new student orientation which was a bit embarrassing since it's mostly freshmen and I'm a junior. After entering the auditorium, I sat towards the back and Mr. Stone started to make his speech. I didn't really pay attention because mostly it was "welcome to the school," "please follow all rules and we will get along well," and finally "have a great academic year". I then left the auditorium to go to homeroom, when I got there, I saw that the whole gang was already there.
I sat next to Dawn, "How was orientation?" she asked.
"Dull," I said flatly. "I was embarrassed by the fact that I was probably the only junior there surrounded by freshmen."
"Aww," Drew cooed. "Is little Violet embarrassed?"
Everyone looked confused, "Uh Drew," Ash said. "Her name is Lin."
"Since my name is a flower and there's so many flower names, grasshead can't remember so he calls me any random flower," I explained in annoyance.
"Well there are so many flower names it is hard to remember yours," he teased while smirking.
I gave a smirk back, "Does that make you an airhead now since you can't remember my name," I retorted.
Everyone else just sat back watching with amusement as they saw me and Drew battle back and forth with name calling. Soon homeroom ended and we split off to our first period class. Thankfully the morning was mostly uneventful as all we did was go over expectations and receive our textbooks. Soon it was time for lunch and I started walking to cafeteria with Dawn while Paul and grasshead followed behind us.
"What do you think of Lilycove High so far?" Dawn asked as we got our food and headed to the table.
"It's okay, I don't necessarily appreciate having grasshead in all my classes so far and something tells me he's in all of them," I sighed.
"Don't worry about it. Drew isn't that annoying of a person, he'll come around," Dawn said sympathetically.
We made it to the table and started to eat. I then noticed that these four girls were staring at us weirdly.
"Umm?" I asked Dawn. "Who are the creepy girls staring at us?"
"They're the heads of the guys' fan clubs," Dawn spat. "They are sooo annoying."
"Veronica," Leaf hissed.
"Melina," Misty seethed.
"Francesca," Dawn spat.
"Who's the last one?" I asked.
"Brandi," Dawn, Leaf, and Misty said annoyed.
I sweat-dropped at their behavior, "Am I missing something here?"
"The girls always get harassed by the girls heading our fan clubs," Ash explained.
As Ash said that, the four drama queens came walking up to our table.
"Did you have a good summer Drew?" Brandi asked sweetly.
Drew flicked his hair fringe, "I guess."
Brandi then turned to look at me, "Who are you?" she sneered.
Keep cool May, just play cool, "My name is Lin, I'm new here this year," I said turning to face her.
"So you're a newbie, time to lay some rules," Veronica said in a snooty attitude. "We're the girls who run the heads of the hottie's fan clubs. We're also the most popular and best at this school."
Leaf snorted, "Best my ass, how are you the best if we keep beating you in battles all the time."
Veronica scowled at her and took a step forward, but Brandi stopped her, "No need to stoop to her level, she's beneath us," she said before smirking evilly at me. "Also since you're new here, I think you need a nice welcome to Lilycove High," she said sweetly as she started to take a glass of water and lift it in the air toward my head.
I don't think so bitch. I quickly hit the bottom of the glass so that the water would hit her instead and then turned around to continue eating.
The gang stared at me in shock while Brandi's girls looked scared though Brandi looked about ready to kill me until a teacher came by.
"Is there a problem here?" the teacher asked suspiciously.
"There's no problem here," I said sweetly lying flawlessly. "Brandi accidentally spilled water on herself."
Brandi then stomped away with her posse while the teacher went to another table.
"How in the world did you do that?!" Leaf asked incredulously.
I smirked, "Maybe it's because I know five forms of martial arts and I'm part ninja," I said in a mysterious tone while still eating.
The gang looked at me in shock causing me to roll my eyes, "Relax, I'm just joking," I teased.
"But seriously how did you do that?" Misty asked.
I shrugged, "Just pure luck, glad it worked though," I said with a smirk.
"You can't keep relying on luck to get out of situations with her, I swear she's pure evil," Dawn muttered.
"Don't worry Dawn, I can handle her pathetic ways of humiliation, she won't know what hit her," I said as I took a bit of my salad.
"You know that those girls are going to make your life more miserable if you do that and us guys won't be able to help you," Ash said concerned.
I looked up and smiled slyly, "Just watch me."
The bell then rang signaling fifth period. As I predicted, I had Chemistry with Drew along with Misty and Ash. Chem was okay, but rather dull since it followed the typical pattern of all the other classes of going over class rules. Next was gym which was only Monday, Wednesday, and Friday while Tuesday and Thursday were open hour. The whole gang had gym and we changed into the gym uniform of sky blue shirts and white gym shorts.
"Okay class!" Mr. Richards the gym teacher yelled. "Since class is short, we are playing dodgeball, winning team gets extra credit for today's class."
I groaned, I play enough of a "dodgeball like game" when I'm on missions, why do I need to play it for fun?
Mr. Richards then split the class down the middle. The gang was with me while Brandi and her posse were on the opposite team. Soon balls were thrown making it a warzone leading fate to play the cruel joke of having it be me against the drama queens in the end. Great, now I have to fight these morons.
"You can do it Lin!" Dawn cheered.
"Time for payback," Brandi seethed while tossing a ball really hard. "This is for ruining my new top."
I dodged it with ease as the girls all picked up a ball and aimed it at me.
"Bring it," I said with a sly smile. The drama queens tossed the balls at my legs so I couldn't run since I was toward the back of the boundary line.
"I don't think so," I muttered while jumping a few feet in the air while doing a perfect split to avoid the balls hitting me.
I then grabbed a ball and threw at the wall so that it would hit Francesca in the back. Then I grabbed a ball and aimed it at Melina who got hit on the arm. Two down two to go as Brandi and Veronica took many balls and started to throw them at me constantly. They backed me into the corner of the boundary lines and held the last two.
They smirked evilly, "Nowhere to run," they jeered.
They threw the balls as I took a deep breath. I grabbed both of them while running at the girls and threw them back to hit both Veronica and Brandi just as the bell rang to change.
Mr. Richards blew the whistle, "Lin's team wins therefore earning extra credit today, now go change," he ordered.
The gang then surrounded me congratulating on winning for the team.
"How did you do that?" Dawn asked.
"How did I do what?" I asked.
"Being able to stay calm and take them out like that?" she asked.
I shrugged, "I don't know, I just did it I guess."
Technically, being on missions constantly has taught me to keep a cool head in any type of situation. After we changed, we split up into two groups for our last class. Dawn, grasshead, and I went to coordinating while everyone else went to battling.
We reached the practice contest arena at the school and took seats in the bleachers.
"Hello everyone and welcome to coordinating," a familiar voice said.
I mentally slapped my forehead, I forgot that Solidad was teaching.
"Since it's a shortened class period today, we'll just watch some of you do your contest appeals," she said. "Let's see…...Dawn, how about you come up first."
Dawn cheerfully made her way up to the contest field, "Piplup, Buneary spotlight!" she shouted.
"Piplup, Buneary," they said respectfully while landing.
"Piplup use Bubble Beam," she commanded.
Piplup then started to spin while using Bubble Beam toward the ceiling.
"Buneary use Ice Beam."
Buneary then used Ice Beam to freeze the bubbles.
"Piplup use Peck and Buneary use Dizzy Punch," Dawn finished.
Piplup and Buneary used their attacks to break the ice bubbles and create multi-colored sparkles while landing in the middle.
Everyone clapped, "Well done Dawn. Drew, you're next," Solidad said.
Dawn sat back down next to me while grasshead stood up and went onstage.
"Roselia, Butterfree, let's go!"
"Roselia use Petal Dance and Butterfree use Whirlwind," Drew commanded.
The two moves then created a petal tornado.
"Butterfree use Confusion."
The Confusion then made the tornado have a colorful glow to it.
"Now Roselia use Magical Leaf."
The Magical Leaf then broke up the colorful tornado that made colorful petals fall everywhere.
Everyone clapped a little more loudly this time "Excellent Drew. Lin, you'll be the last one today," Solidad said.
I walked down to the stage, "Glaceon, Skitty come on out!" I shouted tossing their pokeballs.
"Skitty use Assist at the ceiling."
Skitty's Assist came up with Bubble and shot it at the ceiling. Alright, we can work with that.
"Glaceon shoot multiple Shadow Balls in the air as well."
Soon the ceiling was full of bubbles and shadow balls.
"Double Blizzard!"
Soon Glaceon and Skitty froze all the shadow balls and bubbles.
"Glaceon use Ice Shard."
Glaceon's Ice Shard broke the frozen bubbles.
"Skitty use Safeguard and Glaceon use Secret Power," I said finishing it up.
The sparkles fell around Skitty and Glaceon as they used their moves to give their fur a glow leaving the sparkles to glow many colors. The class then broke out into an applause equaling grasshead's.
"Well done Lin," Solidad said. "Class is dismissed, have a good day."
Dawn came to meet me at the bottom of the bleachers, "That was awesome Lin," she happily complimented.
I smiled, "Your appeal was awesome too Dawn," I complimented back.
"Not bad Iris," Drew said while tossing a rose. "That's for your pokemon."
"Stupid arrogant grasshead," I muttered with Dawn hearing me.
She shook her head and we left the practice arena to meet up with everyone else. After meeting up, we started making our way back to the dorm when Brandi just ran up and slapped me hard in the face.
"That's for lunch and gym class," she hissed.
I felt tears forming but swallowed them down, okay that is it!
She was about to hit me again when I caught her arm and twisted it behind her back hard.
"I wouldn't do that again if I were you," I whispered venomously.
I let her go while she ran away clumsily. The tears were becoming harder to hold in, but I still swallowed them down.
"Okay, that's it, I'm going after her," Misty declared while reaching for her mallet.
I raised my arm to stop her, "You don't need to do that," I said shakily. "Let's just go before I get you guys into a bigger mess."
I started to walk fast to the dorm with everyone else running to catch up. I made it back to the dorm, sat back into the couch, and took a deep breath to calm myself down as I felt a tear run down my face. It's not like I haven't been hit before, I was just surprised under the circumstances. Guess dealing with Brandi is going to be tougher than I thought.
Dawn sat next to me on my right, while Misty sat on my left, Leaf stood behind me, and the guys just stood solemnly in front of me.
I quickly wiped away the tear and did a small laugh, "Sorry about that guys. Don't know why I'm crying, it didn't hurt that badly," I lied.
"Stop lying Lin, she hit you hard. You have every right to cry," Dawn said.
"Can I please go beat her up?" Misty begged.
I laughed, "No Misty, I can take care of myself, she just caught me by surprise is all. Although I'm not gonna lie, it's gonna be difficult dealing with her. I underestimated the level of evilness she possesses," I said while touching my cheek gently only to wince in pain.
"You should at least go to the principal and report what happened," Gary said.
"And be known as a goody two shoes or a tattle tale, no thanks. Besides, her stooges would give you guys grieve for getting her in trouble."
"That's still uncalled for, those girls have never done anything this drastic," Ash said.
"Who said life will treat you nicely. They'll keep hurting me, but I'll take the hit. In the end, I'm the one that'll be on top and she's gonna regret the grief I'll give her in the end," I said with a smile.
"I'll say, it looked like you were ready to rip her arm off back there," Leaf pointed out.
I shrugged, "Well I couldn't let her hit me again. As the saying goes, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me," I said before I winced at the throbbing of pain. "Now the fun part is going be to hide the bruise that's going to show up in a day."
Dawn smiled, "We'll cover it up," she said cheerfully.
I shook my head sadly, "Thanks for the optimism Dawn, but I don't think it will cover all that well."
"How do you know it won't cover that well?" Drew asked suspiciously.
Great going May, how are you gonna explain that, "I've gotten bruises before," I said. "Makeup hides it for the most part, but it still shows up. I'll find out how bad it'll be by tomorrow morning."
Dawn stood up, "Come on Lin, we're gonna have some fun."
"What are we doing?" I asked curiously.
"You said that you make Poffins, right? How about a Poffin bake-off? I'm curious to see how good your Poffins are."
I laughed, "Okay, you're on."
We headed to the kitchen and got out berries of all sorts and some herbs for me. Everyone else watched and were curious because they knew Dawn made good Poffins and wondered how mine would stack in comparison. Soon the kitchen was a whirlwind as we made Poffins.
After a while, they were finally done, "Misty, Leaf, you wanna call one of your pokemon out to taste test?" Dawn asked.
"Sure," they said and called out their pokemon.
Misty choose Azurill while Leaf choose Furret as Dawn gave them each a Poffin. They tasted them and smiles lit up on their faces. Then I gave them one of mine and they also had smiles on their faces.
I laughed at their responses, "I think we can declare this as a tie," I said.
"Sounds fair enough," Dawn agreed as she grabbed two pokeballs. "Piplup, Buneary come on out."
"You too Skitty and Glaceon," I said as I let them out.
We fed them Poffins as a reward for doing well in the practice appeals that they had done a little bit earlier. After they were done eating, we returned them and I started gathering some herbs to make a salve for my cheek, the pain was killing me.
"What are you doing Lin?" Leaf asked.
"I'm making a salve for my cheek; the pain is killing me."
Dawn looked upset, "If I knew you in pain, I wouldn't have asked you to make poffins," she said.
"Don't worry about it Dawn, your Poffin competition is what I needed to get me in a good mood," I said with a smile.
I finished making the salve and started to put it on my cheek. Thankfully the color of the salve was a light pink so it didn't stick out too much.
I then heard a small beeping noise and decided that it was time to leave for my room, "I'm gonna video call my brother, I'll see ya later," I said going into the room, but slipped back out into the hall to listen.
"Hey Lance," Ash said.
"Is the room secure?" Lance asked.
"Yeah Lance, Lin just left for her room to call her brother," Gary said.
"Good, so we have Jupiter and Saturn in our custody, but we have a hunch that Mars will try to strike soon as well," he said.
"Huh," Leaf said. "That's exactly what May said yesterday when she helped us out."
"She was there again? She's been showing up at the same time as us recently, that girl is insufferable," he said gruffly.
The same can be said to you to buddy.
"What's the deal with you and her anyways?" Ash asked. "She has been extremely helpful and nice to us. Except for Drew because he can't keep his mouth shut."
Well…..the grasshead has it coming if he's gonna keep smirking, flipping his fringe, and insulting me.
"She's an annoyance and outside help is not necessary. She's probably doing it to gain more attention," Lance said.
Excuse me! I do what I do to help other people and pokemon, NOT to gain attention you friggin' jerk!
"I can agree with that," Drew said. "She is a bit of show-off."
"You're just ticked off because she flipped you a few days ago," Gary teased.
"Just keep eye out for Mars," Lance said tiredly and signed off.
I went back to my room and let out Riolu. We then walked to the kitchen and I gave him some milk to drink.
"How is your brother doing?" Leaf asked.
"He's doing fine," I lied. "He's been busy training."
"Hey Gary, we should get back to the game since we still need to keep leveling up," Ash pointed out.
The guys then decided to take over the TV and play video games while the girls went to go train with their pokemon. I went into my room and started to practice the piano while Riolu sat on my bed and watched me in curiosity.
The evening passed by quickly and I was working on history homework when Dawn came back from training.
"How was training?" I asked looking up from my homework.
"It was good, wish you could have joined us."
"I know, I wish I could have, but it would have been hard to cover my bruise."
Dawn frowned slightly at the mention of it, "How is your cheek?"
"The pain is starting to go away. The salve I made really helped, maybe it won't appear after all," I said optimistically.
I then got ready for bed and fell asleep, worrying about the bruise that would show up in the morning.
September 7th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
The next morning I woke up a little bit early because I wanted to check to see how my face was. I saw that the swelling was almost non-existent, but there was a nasty blue/purple mark on my face which I would have to cover before classes.
I then changed and grabbed my key pendent that my parents gave me on my seventh birthday, the day they died. I only wore it when I felt I needed the strength of my parents to be close to me.
I went into the kitchen to start eating breakfast as everyone started to trickle in.
"Lin, how in the world did you not cry from that slap, your bruise looks terrible!" Dawn cried as she sat next to me making everyone turn their heads to look at me.
"It's not so bad, it barely hurts and there is hardly any swelling," I said optimistically.
"You sure know how to take a hit," Gary said.
Technically he was right since I took multiple hits when fighting bad guys constantly although I never took this hard of a hit in the face.
"I think we can cover that up nicely so no one will notice," Dawn said cheerfully as she started dragging me back to our room.
She then went into her makeup stash and pulled out a bunch of different colored foundations and she started putting it on my bruise.
"Voila!" she said happily as she gave me a mirror.
"Wow!" I said surprised. "Thanks Dawn; you can't even see it at all!"
"All in a day's work of a fashionista," she said happily.
I checked my poketch, "We better get going to homeroom or we'll be late," I said as I turned to grab my backpack.
We then headed into the common room to find everyone waiting for us, "Wow Dawn, you did a good job covering her bruise," Leaf said surprised.
"Was there any doubt?" Dawn asked cheerfully.
"Yes," Paul grunted causing Dawn to pout.
I smiled while shaking my head as we left to go to homeroom. When I got to homeroom, teens started whispering loudly, "that's the girl who got punched", "Brandi is gonna kill her", and "how is she still able to show up after yesterday".
Misty gave them a glare that made them shut up. I gave her a grateful smile and she smiled in return.
"It looks like your attracting a lot of attention Heather," Drew said arrogantly.
I ignored him. I'm not gonna give him the satisfaction of retorting back because I'm better than that so I started to doodle on a blank page in my notebook.
"Iris….Petal…...Rose… Lin," Drew finally said.
"Yes," I said pleasantly as I turned around to face him.
"I said you're attracting a lot of attention," he said while flicking his hair fringe.
"I heard you the first time."
"Why didn't you answer then airhead?" he asked arrogantly.
"I only respond to my name and I didn't hear it until now," I said teasingly. "And I'm not sure if I'm the airhead here. After all, I know what my name is, what about you?"
After saying that, the bell rang and I left to go to first period. The morning was uneventful with only a few whispers here and there, but I ignored them. The bell finally rang for the end of history and I followed Dawn to the cafeteria.
"How were your classes this morning?" she asked anxiously.
"Classes were fine. Grasshead was being his arrogant self and there were only a few whispers here and there," I reported.
We got our food and made our way to the table where everyone else was. Everyone was either chatting, ignoring someone, or hitting/yelling at someone while I sat and ate my lunch watching everyone else's antics.
Soon Brandi and the other drama queens came up to our table, "I'm surprised you decided to show your face, I thought you would have left the school by now," Brandi said snootily.
"Why should I leave, nothing has happened that gives me cause to," I said lazily while still eating.
"You need to show some respect, we're a lot better than you and the loser girls here," Francesca said.
"Excuse me!" Leaf yelled starting to stand up along with Dawn and Misty.
"Um…..hello, we are the most popular girls here and it's about time you showed us some respect," Brandi said while inspecting her fingernails.
"Oh please," I said trying to hold back laughter. "Just leave before you say something else stupid."
"Okay, that's it!" Brandi screeched as she was about to hit me.
"Chick fight!" someone yelled.
Unfortunately, there were no teachers in the room so right now I didn't have a lot of help. The girls started to make their way to help me, "Gary, Ash, Paul, hold the girls back, I've got this," I said as I dodged Brandi's hand.
The guys grabbed the girls while they protested and soon there was an empty circle with people on the edges wanting to watch. Brandi kept trying to scratch me, but I just kept dodging calmly not hitting back. I couldn't retaliate without a whole bunch of trouble. She was about to kick me in the gut when I grabbed her foot to keep her off balance.
"I think we've had enough fighting for one day sweetie," I said in a fake sweet tone.
I then twisted her foot making her twist her body causing her to off balance. So to finish the deed, I pushed her gently so that she would trip in her ridiculous high heels into a table and land the top half of her body in mash potatoes and salad dressing. Everyone started to laugh at the ridiculous scene of Brandi lying in food.
"I think it's about time we made our exit," I told the gang while grabbing my backpack.
We quickly grabbed our stuff and headed to a bench in a hallway by the library.
"That was awesome!" Dawn said in awe as she sat on the bench.
I laughed and then stopped, "Maybe not," I said in thoughtful tone. "I think she's gonna kill me now or worst, get me expelled."
"I wouldn't worry about it," Leaf said. "You didn't start the fight and you didn't throw a punch."
"Plus, that is one of the best forms of revenge I've ever seen," Misty laughed. "She had it comin'."
"I have to say, you have made school more interesting and it's only been two days," Gary said.
The bell then rang signaling the end of lunch and we soon split up to go to class. Chemistry was a bit boring since we continued to learn about safety procedures. In the middle of learning about the importance of googles, the class phone rang. Mr. Elias went to answer it and then hung up.
"Linnea Mason, please report to the principal's office," he said as he made his way back to the white board.
I started to gather my stuff and Misty gave me a worried look. I shot her an "it'll be okay" look and left the room making my way to the principal's office. When I got to main office, the secretary and Mr. Stone were talking.
"Miss Mason, please follow me," Mr. Stone said as he started to walk to his office.
After entering and sitting down, he shut the door behind him, "If this is about the cafeteria incident, I'm really sorry about that," I apologized.
He raised his eyebrows in interest, "It's not though now I am interested."
"Um…a student tried to pick a fight with me and wound up covered in food," I summarized.
"I see. I heard students buzzing about something that happened," he murmured before sighing. "This isn't the first time I've heard this happening. I think the instigator will need some time away from school. Anyway, the reason you were called here is that we have a mission for you."
"We?" I asked curiously.
"The 'we' means Mr. Stone and I May," Professor Oak said as he came into the office.
"What are you doing here Professor Oak and how did you know it was me?!" I asked surprised.
"I came here to talk to Mr. Stone here about a theft that happened at my lab last night," Professor Oak said grimly. "Some files of my research went missing that I would like returned. I came to ask Mr. Stone if he could help but he suggested you since you were attending school here in disguise."
"What does this have to do with me, shouldn't Officer Jenny handle it?" I asked.
"Along with the files taken, I noticed that a piece of a map that I was trying to research was missing as well. It's top secret so I don't want the word to spread," Professor Oak explained.
"I wish I could help you, but I don't want to leave school yet. My roommates think I got in a bunch of trouble from earlier today and it would cause a lot of suspicion," I said concerned.
"I understand, would it help if you could investigate after school?" Professor Oak asked.
"That'll be fine," I agreed with a nod.
Professor Oak smiled, "Good, we can leave the school by helicopter later today."
"Here's a pass for coordinating class," Mr. Stone said as he handed me a slip of paper. "If your roommates are concerned, just tell them you were filling out an incident report."
I nodded in understanding and left the office for the practice arena. When I arrived, Solidad was explaining something when I handed her my pass and made my way to sit next to Dawn.
"Where were you?" she asked curiously.
"I got called to the principal's office during fifth hour," I said while sitting down.
"So you got in trouble, get detention?" Drew teased.
"Nope, had to explain my side of the incident and fill out paperwork," I explained before turning back to listen to Solidad.
The class was about over when Solidad told us to stop, "One quick announcement. Start preparing for the battle tournament on the twenty-fourth, the date will approach quicker than you think. Have a good day," she said as she then dismissed us.
We met up with the rest of the gang outside of the academic building, "Lin, what happened after you got called to the principal's office?" Misty asked concerned.
"He just wanted me to explain what happened and then fill out some paperwork," I said as Misty sighed in relief.
"That's good, cause if you got in trouble, then I would have beaten Brandi to a pulp," Misty said while making a fist and punching it into her other hand.
"Linnea, can you come here please," Nurse Joy called from the front of the building.
"We'll see ya later Lin," Leaf said as the group headed back to the dorm.
"Yes Nurse Joy?" I asked as I reached the front of the building.
"Mr. Stone would like to see you in his office," she said cheerfully.
"Okay, thanks," I said and walked to the principal's office.
"Are you ready to leave May?" Professor Oak asked.
"Not yet, I need to quickly grab my gear and I'll meet you at the helicopter. Also please call me Lin if you see me like this," I asked kindly.
"Of course," Professor Oak said with a smile. "I'll meet you at the helicopter."
I quickly left the office to the back of the building where the dorm was. Thankfully there was a tree that was near where my window was and I silently crept up to it. I saw that Dawn wasn't in the room so I quietly opened the window and slipped inside. I quickly changed into my mission outfit and grabbed my gear when I heard Dawn talking outside of the door. I quickly leapt to the window and slid out to hide in the tree.
Dawn walked into the room puzzled, "That's funny, I don't remember this window being open," she said and quickly closed it while also drawing the shade down.
Whew, that was close. I quickly rocket skated my way to the airport to find Professor Oak waiting at the helicopter. We soon were in the air and making way to Pallet Town.
"Professor Oak, what is so important about this piece of map that was stolen?" I asked in curiosity.
"I wish I knew. I found that small piece of map a few days ago when I was doing research around Mt. Moon. I was going to look at it more closely today, but that was when I saw that it was stolen along with a few other files of important research," he said sadly.
"Don't worry Professor Oak, I'll find it," I said optimistically.
After a couple more hours, we finally reached the lab. Professor Oak then led me to a mechanical door that was open with a few burn marks by the keypad. Inside the room, I saw a bunch of filing cabinets and one had the same burn marks on them as the door keypad. I quickly took out a pair of infrared glasses and pressed a button for a piece of metal to bend out with a red light at the end and then went to look for any other evidence. This is weird, there isn't any, must be the work of a pro. I quickly put away the glasses and called Max on my poketch.
"Hey Max, can you do a scan on these burn marks?"
"Sure May, just scan the area with your poketch."
My poketch lit up and started to scan the burn marks that were on the file cabinet.
"Hmm…..…the scan shows that the marks were made with some sort of electric device, it's hard to tell," Max said thoughtfully.
"Can you download the security footage for me?"
"Sure thing May," Max said as he started to type fast.
Soon a holographic image of the security footage came up. A woman in her early twenties took out a short weapon of some kind and poked into the keypad. Once the door opened, she crept inside to the file cabinet and did the same thing. She then stole the files, closed the cabinet, and left. A funny thing I noticed was that she kept her face away from the camera as if she knew where they were, same with where the files were.
"Max can you do a recognition scan from what we can see of the thief and compare it to the criminal data base?"
"Sure thing May, but it'll take some time to do that though. I'll ping you when it's done."
"Thanks Max," I said and signed off.
"Gramps, why didn't you tell me you were robbed?" a voice said concerned.
Oh no, how did they get here?! Professor Oak said he didn't tell anyone.
"Gary what are you doing here?!" Professor Oak asked surprised.
So Professor Oak was telling the truth. The question is then, how did PHPA find out.
"My friend's and I came as soon as we heard from PHPA to investigate," he said concerned.
Everyone then noticed I was in the room, "What are you doing here?" Drew asked annoyed.
"I came to investigate because Professor Oak asked me to," I said shortly.
I then turned my attention to Professor Oak, "I've done all that I can in here, I'll check outside before I leave."
Professor Oak nodded in agreement, "Please do."
I started to leave when Drew put out his arm to stop me, "What did you find out?" he asked.
"Why should I tell you, you don't seem to appreciate my help and besides, you're smart enough to figure it out," I said annoyed.
"Please May?" Leaf asked.
"I wish I could tell you who did it, but I don't even know myself. All I know is that it was done by the work of a pro," I said honestly. "Hmm….….give me a sec."
I dialed up Max again, "Hey Max, can you pull up a blue print of the lab with all the placements of the security cameras?"
"Sure thing May," he said as he quickly typed on his computer.
A holographic map came up. It looked like there was a window down the hall with no placement of security cameras and I quickly pulled out my infrared glasses.
"Why do you need sunglasses inside airhead?" Drew asked.
I smirked, "They aren't sunglasses grasshead," I said as I pushed the button to activate the glasses.
I then walked over to the area to see a shape of an object outside the lab. I quickly went outside to the window and put the glasses away before picking up an object that looked like a black tulip. Suddenly another one flew at us and I pushed everyone out of the way. The thrown item was a black tulip that gave off an electric shock. I looked at the flower closely and quickly stepped back as it gave off a huge electric attack.
"It seems someone is too curious for their own good," a voice called from the roof.
I took a battle stance, "Who are you, show yourself!"
The voice laughed and made her way down to the ground gracefully to pick up the tulip.
She was the thief from earlier, she was in her early twenties with curly yellow hair and wore a Team Rocket uniform.
"Who are you?" I asked again.
"That's for me to know and for you not to," she said as she aimed her tulip at me.
I kicked it out of her hands and started to fight her. I hated to admit it, but she was really good. She grabbed the tulip that I found out of my hands and shot an electric attack that made me fall to the ground paralyzed. She quickly grabbed the tulip I kicked out of her hands and had a small round ball in her hand.
"That was a bore, I was thinking you'd be more of a challenge. See ya later loser," she laughed and threw the little ball at her feet causing a puff of smoke to cover her escape.
"Butterfree, use Gust!" Drew shouted as he tossed his pokeball.
"Butterfree," it shouted and used Gust to clear the smoke away only to show that the mysterious woman had disappeared.
"She is so getting beaten the next time I see her," I said as I lay on the ground paralyzed.
"I highly doubt that. As I recall, she just kicked your butt," Drew said with a smirk.
"Can it grasshead, I don't need to take crap from you right now," I said annoyed trying to move.
"When else are you going to get it," he teased.
"Drew, leave her alone. She did help us out and save us from that tulip attack. So if you make one more insult to her, you're gonna face my mallet," Misty threaten. "Got it?"
"Why shouldn't I tease her, she did get her butt kicked," he said arrogantly while flicking his hair fringe.
Misty took out her mallet and hit him on the head hard making everyone cringe.
"I warned you," she said as she put her mallet away.
"Not that I want to take attention of grasshead's pain, but does someone have an idea how to get me out of this state of paralysis?" I asked.
"Hmm…..I believe the way to get you out of the state of paralysis is for an electric type to touch you. That way, the shock waves can be absorbed by an electric pokemon with harming them," Professor Oak hypothesized.
"Pikachu, you wanna help?" Ash asked Pikachu who sat on his shoulder.
"Pika," he said as he hopped down and scampered to me before putting his paw on my hand absorbing the electric currents.
I was able to finally move, "Thanks Pikachu," I said cheerfully as I grabbed a piece of Pokeblock from a side pocket and gave it to him.
"Pika," he said cheerfully as he ate it while I scratched his head.
After he finished eating, Pikachu then hopped onto Ash's shoulder.
I started to stand up but was weak from the paralysis and almost fell over when Drew caught me causing me to blush a little.
"Falling me already airhead," Drew teased.
"In your dreams. Thanks for save though, I'm just weak after that attack," I said trying to be nice while grabbing an Oran Berry to eat.
"I just think you can't help swooning over my good looks and that attack wasn't that bad, maybe you can't take a hit," he teased as I quickly ate the berry.
"Okay grasshead, two things; one, that is the last time I try to be nice to you and two," I said as I punched him in the upper arm, "Who's the one that can't take a hit now?" I asked with a smirk as he cringed and grabbed his arm in pain.
Everyone laughed while Paul smirked at our antics.
"Dude you really need to keep your mouth shut," Gary said while shaking his head at the ground and laughing.
I heard a ding come from my poketch, "Hey Max, what's up?"
"The scan just finished and it came up with an 87% match up to a mysterious agent named Domino who uses a black tulip as a weapon," he reported.
"Okay thanks Max," I said before signing off as a helicopter flew overhead.
"See ya guys later," I said doing a two finger salute before grabbing my grappling gun to shot it at the railing of the helicopter. I then flew up, climbed in, put on a head set, and buckled in. I looked down to see everyone staring at me and I signaled the pilot to leave.
As we flew back to Lilycove City, I kept replaying what happened during my fight with Domino. I couldn't believe I lost. Then again, I have been a bit lazy with training and I haven't trained with Blaziken in a while. After we made it back to Lilycove High, I quickly went back to the dorm, changed into my pjs, and saw that it was 8:00. I decided to quickly eat and feed my pokemon before doing homework and crashing.
I was about done with my math homework before everyone came in at 10:00.
"Where were you?" I asked curiously. "After I came back here, I didn't see anyone."
"Right….ummmmm…we went to train with our pokemon," Misty lied.
"We didn't notice it was this late until we finished," Leaf said.
"Where were you?" Dawn asked curiously.
"I was busy helping with the pokemon in the Pokemon Center here on campus. Nurse Joy needed some help," I lied. "Then I came back here and did homework."
"Crap," Dawn cried. "I forgot we have that history quiz tomorrow."
"Don't worry, just do the reading and you'll be fine," I said reassuringly before turning to head to our room.
I quickly finished the homework and climbed into bed. I took off my glasses and fell asleep as my head hit the pillow.