Chapter 5

They had walked for at least 5 miles encountering a few other travelers when Amy finally asked if they could both stop and make camp. The sea air was fresh and salty. The sun was also setting rather rapidly.

"Hey Amy"

"Yeah."

"Do you know how to set up this tent? Cause I have no idea how to." Cash said pulling a rather small black box out of the pack he was given.

"Sure you simply push this." Amy said gingerly pushing a small hidden button.

She then jumped back and watched the mayhem unfold! The entire thing expanded and engulfed Cash as it inflated.

"Help get me out of here!" He yelled. Amy simply laughed her ass off. It was hilarious to watch the thing. He was essentially smothered by the bottom of the tent.

His voice was muffed but it could be heard clearly.

"Help! Get me out of here!"

"Just push it off of you it only weighs 30 pounds when inflated." Amy said.

"Oh…I knew that." He said pushing it off of him. He took a fresh breath of salty air.

"Ah much better."

Cash took the coat off along with the mask He hated wearing that stuff.

Amy used flamethrower to light a campfire. They sat by it and talked about various things. Particularly how the planet worked. Cash learned very little from her. She had been born into a fairly well off (wealthy is stretching it) family. Everything had been mostly taken care of for her.

From what he could gather from her endless ramblings the world was divided into two hemispheres. North and South. Most Pokémon occupied the southern hemisphere and what was left of humanity was allocated to the north. Both hemispheres had a few "reservations" that were basically concentration camps.

The southern hemisphere was all one large united faction but the northern hemisphere was separated into several factions as humanity had been prone to do. Since one hemisphere was a large united force for the most part the southern hemisphere bullied a lot of the northern factions, ones that shared her borders physically and were within 100 miles of her coasts. This was about the extent of Amy's knowledge on geopolitical subjects.

"Cash."

"Yeah?"

"What's our plan for tomorrow? Like, where will we go? How can we be sure we will get there safely?"

"I plan on heading through Mauville up to mount chimney on the cable car and then climbing through the mountainous areas to meteor falls. Bypassing route 113 and the desert half of route 111."

"Why meteor falls?"

"Because then it's an easy path to Fallarbour town."

"Why not just go through the desert on route 111 and then travel west on route 113? It would be much easier to walk instead of hike through mountains.

"But you've forgotten Fallabour has no airport like Slapteport Mauville or Rustboro does, so rout 113 and 111 are heavily loaded with traffic to Fallarbour. That traffic would most defiantly be patrolled by police and military guys looking for individuals on foot. Also I don't like being covered with volcanic ash from the sky or being in deserts."

"How do you know this and I don't?" Amy asked.

"I read a little pamphlet I picked up earlier on our way out of Slateport. It was a tourist info pamphlet on the best ways to travel around Hoenn." Cash said.

Little more than an hour later they had both fallen asleep.

Amy was woken up with a jolt! Someone was pulling her out of her sleeping bag and out of the tent! She decided to defend herself by attacking them!

"Ah what the AHHHH! " Cash yelled. "Oh god my leg." He groaned.

Amy realized what had just happened. She had just hi-jump kicked Cash's left leg, it was most certainly broken.

"I'm so sorry I thought you were a pervert or someone trying to attack me!" Amy cried.

"It's okay you just wouldn't wake up and I didn't know how else to wake you. We need to get going now before the sun comes up. Cash said he was sitting on the ground holding his leg.

"Before the what?" Amy said looking around.

"Hey! What time is it?" She whined.

"6:00 AM (06:00), the sun will be up soon and we need to be in Mauville by sunset we have about 10 miles of walking before we reach the New Mauville power plant." He said with a grunt.

"I'll pack our things up you take care of that leg." She said gently.

Getting up Amy stretched and started packing up their stuff while Cash found the first aid kit and put his leg in a splint. He then put on his coat and mask while Amy held him up.

"Hey could you help me up?" Cash asked. It was easy for Amy being a Pokémon her strength was at least 10 times Cash's.

"I'll carry the packs okay?" Amy said. As she put his pack on her shoulder while holding him up.

"I'm sorry I broke your leg." She said in a soft tone.

"It's okay. It was an accident and everything will be fine, at least we can walk and take our time for now." Cash said reassuringly. He had a remarkable way of assuring people that things were better than they really were.

They both got underway going down the road. Cash supported his weight on a thick stick he found while Amy walked along beside him.

They were holding hands.

Location: Lilycove city,

A dark room was illuminated by large flat screen TVs showing important military information. The center of the room was taken up by a oval shaped table with a large hole in the middle it was made of two horseshoe shaped pieces. Several highly decorated military personnel of various Pokémon species. "We have no idea where he is or what his intentions are. We know only that he was last seen in a coffee shop in Slateport and may be on his way toward Odale Town as we speak. He may have a hostage.

"Who is the hostage?" A more highly decorate officer asked.

The de-briefing officer moved a slide on a PowerPoint he was giving on a screen Amy's ID mugshot came up.

"Amy long. Female, Umbreon 5'5 Weight: Data Expunged, Sister to Former Captain Josh Long." He read.

Another officer spoke: "Any anomalies about Captain Long? Any record of unusual mis-conduct of a strange manner during his service?"

"No sir, none other than the usual stuff. He is the one who filed the report for his sister being kidnapped and for having confronted the Human in his living room. He has already been interrogated and released under surveillance."

"Good. I think that's all we need to know."

Another officer spoke up. "I propose we now engage prism spyware and take active control of the security systems in the larger cities. Then send several patrols to sweep back roads and un-heavily traveled routes to find it."

"Agreed." The others said.

Josh sat in his living room. He watched his GPS. The two red dots on it that indicated where Cash and his little sister were at. They were traveling together. Just as he feared. He wished he could have gone with them to make sure she was safe But someone had to cover up for them.

Josh sighed. He knew someday it would happen. He had been getting visions of it being a physic type with a dark type sibling meant you saw things like this that would happen to them or someone they cared for.

"Cash has no idea what this will all lead up to. He will end up regretting all of this. He doesn't even know where he's going or why. He only knows that he must go where his gut is leading him. He probably will never know the truth."

"Amy." Cash grunted.

"Yeah?" she replied.

"Can we stop for a few moments? I just need to rest my legs."

"Sure. I'll get us our lunch out."

Cash perked up. "Lunch? We can't stop for lunch we have to get to the New Maulville power plant before sunset! They are probably looking for me right now. And if I was them I would send patrol teams down every route looking for me!"

"Calm down Cash there's nothing to worry about. Look how high the grass on the road is. You can't hardly see the pavement beneath it. This route is rarely ever traveled on." Amy said.

"Yeah I guess you're right."

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