As soon as I appeared behind the corner, Leaf rushed to me.

"Ven, you`re alive!" She screamed and tried to hug me, but my brutal gaze stopped her. She retreated and fixed her hat. "Ahem… I`m glad you survived. What happened?"

I actually wanted to tell her everything that just happened, but I can`t. I even have to close my mind now. I just can`t let the International Police know about a perfect pokemon flying around.

"This is not Kanto Stalker." I said, believing it is true. "There were no missing trainers. The lead has to be somewhere else."

Leaf didn`t like my answer and immediately tried to crawl into my head. Finding nothing, she retreated.

"But… what about the psychic barrier?" He asked with interest.

"You said yourself that there are Slowpokes and Slowbros live on the lower levels…" I now began to lie. "Something weird happened to them all, making them to unleash tons of dangerous psychic energies. I guess some sort of resonating happened there. All my guys got wounded badly, we barely escaped."

The girl was listening to me carefully, trying her best to understand whether I lie or not.

"Send there some troops to take care of things." I gave her an advice. "But choose strong men that can resist these damn psychic interferences. Don`t even think about going there – if you could not pass the barrier, then the epicenter will literally kill you."

Leaf seemed to believe me, but she clearly saw that I do not tell her everything. Nodding in return, she started to slowly walk away and I followed her.

"But then… what do you think about missing people?" She asked with interest. "The problem still remains."

Damn, what should I tell her? I can`t make them search all over Route 24 and spoil the poor grass pokemon that Harry and me tried to protect. I can`t send them to Cerulean City either, otherwise they may uncover the Black Market.

"This cave may be a false track. Try to observe the outskirts." I decided to tell her. "On Route 5 we fought poachers, so there may be more criminal activity than we think."

Leaf lowered her eyesight, blinking quickly in deep thought.

We had no more talks. Each of us had their thoughts to think and things to do. All I need now is safely escape as soon as I leave this cave.

I just hope this young lady lets me…

"Do you hear it?" Suddenly Leaf asked me and carefully pressed herself to the wall. "The voices."

Right near the exit, I woke up from my thoughtful slumber and looked far before us. The sudden bad feeling appeared in my soul, burning like hell.

I followed her and listened. I didn`t perfectly memorize voices of her companions that left to guard the door, but the ones we heard were DEFINITELY not them.

Only one corner was dividing us from the exit, and I gently pushed the girl back to take her place near it. After listening for some more, I finally got the courage to look over it.

I was right. The entrance into cave is no more guarded by International Police. Now there are some men in black suits with purple stripes on sides. A set of black pokeballs was pinned to their belt and a modified gun hanging on their backs. High hoods covered their heads from behind, but I already knew what exactly is hiding under them.

The feeling of wild fear overwhelmed me, I even jumped back away from the corner. Heart is beating like crazy and I feel that air is not enough…

"Oh my god, no…" I barely said through the emotions. "They found me…"

"Who have found you?" Leaf obviously was worried too, seeing me in a state like this.

I made a deep breath and exhaled, trying to calm myself down. Damn, I can believe I`m saying it again…

"The Unity."

The strong energetic impulse in her mind struck like an electric charge, making her distract hand from him and retreat back. Taking a bit of her time to recover, she carefully looked around – everyone in the room seems to experience the same thing.

"You… you saw that too, yes?" The girl asked everybody.

"Yes. What… was it?" The woman shook her head and focused on the body lying before them all.

"It was his memory…" Misty stood up and answered surely. "The beginning of his trainer career since Kanto. But it was… strange! Something was wrong…"

"So, we managed to open his memory to see the events of almost nine-year ago?" Sounding a bit disappointed, another woman answered. "We don`t need it! We need to know what happened yesterday!"

"But wait! Maybe, it still can help us." The girl interrupted her. "In his memories of Kanto he mentioned Nagatha… That means he was there before. He perfectly knew what to do and where to go."

"He did have a plan, as always…"

The moment of silence fell upon the room.

"So, when you read his mind, you translated everything into us as well?" Misty asked again.

"I didn`t control it!" She answered. "I don`t even know how this works…"

"Don`t push her. Let her do her job!"

"Still, we need to move forward." Woman declared. "We can`t lose any more time. Can`t we jump forward in his memories?"

"I don`t know, but I will try." The voice answered her.

She wanted to uncover this mystery too. So she did not hesitate and stretched her hands forward to his head once more…