Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

3. Goldenrod gym

-chapter 3, goldenrod gym-

-The next morning, around 6:00am-

I woke up, still tired, but by this point I was used to waking up around this time. Phoebe was next to me, still asleep.

-tiredly- Me:"-sighs-, baby girl... it's time to get up, you have to get Nina ready for school, ...it's your turn ...I did the ...last few... days."

-just waking up- Phoebe:"Whaaaa?"

-tiredly- Phoebe:"It's saturday... she doesn't... have... school... today."

-tiredly-Me: "It is?"

-tiredly-Phoebe: "Mhmmm..."

-tiredly-Me: "oh...okaay then...sorry."

-tiredly-Phoebe: "It's ok..."

We both fell back asleep for what seemed to not even be five minutes before she woke me again.

Phoebe :"Charley is awake."

I could hear him crying in his room, which was right next door.

-tiredly- Me:"Really...already?"

She crawled out of bed.

-tiredly- Phoebe:"I'll go get him...you go back... to sleep."

-tiredly- Me:"ok."

She quietly headed out the door.

I heard her enter Charley's room, and Charley quickly calming down soon after. He cried almost every morning, but only because he needed somebody's attention. as soon as somebody showed up to help him out of his crib, he usually calmed down pretty fast. Anyway, from what I could hear through the walls, Phoebe tried to get him to go back to sleep, but he just didn't want to cooperate, for Charley reasons, so she ended up bringing him downstairs. Not long after that, I fell asleep again and woke up about an hour later when Phoebe came back into the room.

-somewhat concerned- Me: "...Where's Charley?"

Phoebe: "Oh, he didn't want to go back to sleep, so I got Nina to watch him for us."

Me: "You woke her up?"

Phoebe: "Nooo, she got up on her own..."

Me: "Oh ok."

She crawled in bed and snuggled up next to me.

-unsure- Me:"Still tired?"

-lovingly- Phoebe:"No, I just want to snuggle for a little bit."

-tiredly-Me:"Oh... ok."

-tiredly- Me: "Why is your hair all wet?"

Phoebe: "Because I took a shower...silly"

-tired- Me: "Oh...ok."

Me:"How long have I been asleep?"

Phoebe:"Not long, just an hour or so."

Me:"Ok."

I gave her a kiss.

-lovingly-Phoebe: "You want to make out?"

Me:"Hehe..."

She kissed me and we started to make out for a little bit.

Phoebe: "Now wait a minute Cj, I just want to tell you right now, I don't want to go any further, the kids are awake, Nina could come in here any minute."

Me: "Yeah I know, I just like kissing you..."

Phoebe: "Why were you trying to get me out of my gown then?"

-unsure- Me: "Um..."

-mischievously-Phoebe: "-giggles-, never mind."

She kissed me.

Phoebe: "I love you."

Me:"-sighs- I love you too baby."

We layed there quietly, deeply in love, and in each other's arms for a few minutes until our concern for our children drove us out of bed. Phoebe went down to check on them while I went to take a shower. By the time I was done in the shower she had started to make pancakes for breakfast, and it was a pretty standard morning from then on out, aside from us not having to take Nina to school.

After breakfast, everyone went into the living room, Nina played with Charley on the floor, while I watched TV and Phoebe tried to text Melissa to see what was going on.

-somewhat bored- Me:"So did you hear back from her yet?"

Phoebe:"No, not yet, she's probably really tired though."

Me:"Ok."

-playfully- Nina:"Charley, you're so silly... cars can't eat barbies."

Charley:"-giggles-."

Charley:"Newa seewee."

Nina:"Noooooo...you're the silly one."

-commandingly- Charley: "CAWEY NO SEEWEE, NEWA SEEWEE!"

-curious- Me:"hehehe...He sounds mad."

Phoebe:"Nina, don't wind him up."

Nina:"Sorry."

-soothingly- Phoebe:" Charrrrllleeeyyy...calm down little guy."

Nina: "Can I take him outside?"

Phoebe: "No, not today, it's really cold out, he should stay inside where it's warm."

Nina:" Ok."

Charley:"Dahwhy!"

Me: "Yes Charley?"

-cutely- Charley: "Newa seewee."

-playfully- Me:" I see."

Nina:"Hey.."

Me:"Oh relax sweetheart, everyone's a little silly sometimes."

Phoebe's phone buzzed.

Me:"Melissa?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"She said she's staying home today, but she also said go in just to see how things are going."

Me:"Ok."

Nina:"Can we go too?"

Phoebe:"I don't know if we will yet, maybe we could find something else to do?"

Charley:"Wah gowee?"

Phoebe:" We don't know."

Charley: "Mawa dunno, Cawey dunno..."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Where do you want to go?"

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

Phoebe:"I thought so."

Charley:"Dahwhy wa gowee?"

Me:"We haven't decided yet."

-unsure- Charley: "Desigh yeh?

Charley: "Cawey dunno desigh yeh..."

Charley: "Mawa wa desigh yeh?"

Phoebe: "Don't worry about it little guy."

She picked him up.

Phoebe:"We'll find somewhere fun to take you."

Me:"Whirlyworld?"

Phoebe: "We could, but it may be too cold for him."

Phoebe: "I was thinking more like a movie or maybe we could visit the goldenrod gym?"

Nina: "The gym?"

Nina: "Can we go there mom? Then I could try to win another badge."

Phoebe: "Yes, but if you did win it wouldn't work with your unova badge. You would need to have at least 8 badges from the Johto region in order to compete in the silver conference.

Nina:"Awe, really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, those are the rules."

Phoebe: "But if we went to the gym I think Charley would enjoy watching all the pokemon battles."

Phoebe: "And then we can do some training and basically just let our pokemon out and have some fun."

Me:" Sounds good to me."

Phoebe: "Good, so it's decided then?"

Me:" I guess so."

Phoebe: "Ok then."

Phoebe: "Come on Charley, let's get you into some warmer clothes."

Phoebe:"Nina, get your coat, and your pokemon."

Nina:"Ok."

She took Charley upstairs while Nina headed into her room.

Anyway before long we were all in the sedan and getting ready to go.

-just pulling out of the drive-

Phoebe:"Are the guns you got last night still in here?"

Me:"No I moved them all into the safe when you were getting Charley ready."

Phoebe:"Good."

Nina:"What guns?"

Phoebe:"It's nothing you need to be concerned about sweety."

Phoebe:"Trust me, you need to rely more on your powers than weapons anyway."

Me:"Your mother is right, she rarely uses her pistol and she does just fine..."

Phoebe:"Awe...Cj..."

Me:"But where does that leave Charley?"

-somewhat worried- Phoebe:"Well, Cj... he's much too young to be thinking about that now."

Me:"Yeah, that's true..."

Phoebe:"Maybe you can do some training at the gym as well Nina..."

Phoebe:"You still haven't learned how to properly make shadowballs have you?"

Nina:"No..."

Phoebe: "Maybe we'll work on that today."

Nina: "Ok."

Me:"Hey Pheebles can you get directions to the gym?"

Phoebe:"Yeah I'm working on it right now."

Me:"Ok, good."

It was a long drive, but we eventually made it to the gym, which turned out to be quite a large and impressive place, surrounded by skyscrapers, just a few blocks away from the magnet train station.

After we found a place to park we headed inside, trying to keep up with Nina who was very eager to go in and start battling.

Phoebe: "Nina slow down."

Phoebe: "We can spend all day in there, you don't have to hurry."

Me:"What about lunch?"

Phoebe:"They'll have a concession stand I'm sure."

Me: "Yeah probably."

Phoebe:"Nina, wait for us before you go in."

Nina:"Awe...hurry up."

-annoyed- Me:"Don't be rude."

-scaired- Nina:"Sorry."

Nina reluctantly waited for us by the front door.

Phoebe: "Mhm, if you keep that up we'll just go home."

Nina: "Sorry."

We headed inside the building, there was quite a crowd of people in front of the concession stand, and many more in the main arena, watching the gym leader battle various challengers. There was an interesting little display by the entrance, that gave a brief history of the gym, its past leaders, and showed the gym's various badge designs over the years. According to the display, the gym was a very old building originally constructed by the Johto military shortly after the Kanto-Johto civil war, as a training facility for military pokemon, which basically meant any pokemon suitable for military use, with fighting types being the most common, it was turned into a gym following its abandonment some 40 years after it's construction.

The gym battles were pretty intense this time of the year, as the Johto league tournament was only a few months away, and most trainers were trying to get what would be their sixth or seventh badge. This time of year all the gym leaders were using some of their strongest pokemon to match the strength of their challengers. Even the training areas adjacent to the main arena were populated by seasoned trainers and some pretty strong looking pokemon.

Nina:"Do you think I could beat some of these guys?"

Phoebe: "I don't know Nina, these trainers seem to be above your level."

Nina: "What do you mean?"

Phoebe: "I mean that their pokemon have had a lot more training than yours."

We headed into one of the training areas, it had four regulation-sized battlefields on a dirt floor, and a large area to the left that had various training equipment for various types of pokemon scattered about. There were also vending machines for pokeblocks, snacks, and drinks, both for humans and pokemon. There were about a dozen other people in here, all of them busy training their pokemon, but there was still plenty of room left for us.

Phoebe:"So what should we do?"

Me: "I don't know, Nina what do you want to do?"

Nina:"I want to battle somebody."

Me:"Um, I don't think that's going to go very well. "

Phoebe: "Mhm, like I said earlier Nina, these trainers are way too strong for you to fight."

Nina: "Can I let Matches out?"

Phoebe: "Yes, but stay put, don't go running around."

Nina: "Ok."

She took his pokeball out of her purse and let him out.

Nina: "Hi Matches, how are you?"

She gave him a hug.

Nina:"-sighs-, you're so fluffy."

Nina: "We're at the Goldenrod gym today, you ready to do some training?"

He barked, cheerfully.

-cheerfully-Nina: "Good."

Nina:"Mom...?"

Phoebe:"Yes sweety?"

Nina: "What should we do?"

Phoebe:"Well, maybe you could have Matches spar against one of your other pokemon for now?"

Phoebe: "You can use that empty battlefield over there if you want."

Nina: "Ok."

Nina: "Come on Matches let's go..."

She headed off to the battlefield with Matches trailing behind her.

-after Nina left- Phoebe: "And she's off."

-affirmatively- Me:" Mhm..."

Me: "So Now what?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

-excitedly- Charley: "Poheymahs!"

Phoebe: "-giggles-, you see all the pokemon Charley?"

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey see..."

Me:"hehehe.."

Phoebe:"They're all training to face the gym leader."

-cutely- Charley: "Tway-eey?"

Phoebe: "Mhmmm."

Charley: "Mawa, Cawey see poheymahs tway-eey?"

Phoebe:"Mhm you can see them training can't you?"

A quagsire and a slowbro were battling nearby, he seemed to be watching them, as the battle started both pokemon were slow moving so they seemed to be relying on ranged attacks. As the battle went on frequent water gun attacks had turned the dirt arena into a mudhole, giving the quagsire a definitive advantage as the mud greatly enhanced it's mobility.

Charley:" Where he goweee?"

Phoebe: "He's sliding around on the mud."

Me:" Do you think they will dry the arena after this?"

Phoebe:" Grass pokemon could dry it out pretty quickly."

Phoebe: "They can absorb the water from it, and it heals them too."

Me:"Oh...yeah, that makes sense.."

The quagsire used its speed to hit the slowbro with a bodyslam attack, knocking it out.

-cutely- Charley:" Seewee pohemahs...he cwash."

Phoebe: "He crashed?"

Me: "Hehe..yep. he crashed..."

-playfully- Me:"Can you see who won?"

Charley:"Cawey dunno..."

Me:"You see the blue one, over there?"

Me:"That's the one that won the battle."

Charley:" blue wa won..?

Me:"Mhm..."

Me:"Wait, you don't know colors yet do you?"

-playfully- Phoebe:"No he doesn't."

Me:"Oh ok."

-cutely- Cawey:"Cawey dunno cowos.."

-lovingly- Me:"Yeahhhh, we know..hehehe..."

Phoebe:"We'll teach you sometime, don't worry."

I could see Nina on the far side of the area, she had Matches sparing against Sparky, her rotom.

Phoebe sent out Bulby.

-unsure-Me:"What are you doing?"

Phoebe: "I'm going to have Bulby dry the arena out so we can use it."

Me:"Are they even finished though?"

Phoebe:"Mhm, those were their last pokemon, their going to the center now to heal them."

Me:"Why did you read their minds?"

Phoebe:" I didn't, I overheard them talking."

Me:"Oh...ok."

Phoebe: "You want to practice?"

Me:" Sure...some training wouldn't hurt."

Phoebe:"Actually I was thinking we could just have a mock battle for Charley."

Me:"Oh...ok."

Phoebe:"Go easy, remember I have to hold him and support my pokemon at the same time."

Me:"I know ."

Phoebe:" Ok Bulby, go ahead and drink up."

The large pokemon moved to the side of the arena, stuck it's vines into the ground and began to absorb the water from it. It took a few minutes, but eventually the mud hardened, and the arena returned to normal.

Phoebe:"See good as new."

Me:"Cool."

-somewhat tired- Bulby:" ."

Phoebe:" You're full?"

Phoebe:"That's ok...Bulby, you don't have to drink anymore."

Phoebe:"Hey I know, maybe you could watch Charley for us while we practice."

-unsure- Bulby:"Saur?"

Phoebe:"Mhm, just be gentle with him and don't let him wander onto the arena.

Me:"You sure about that?"

Phoebe:"Mhm, he's really good with Charley remember?"

Phoebe:"Charley, be really good for Bulby now ok?"

-excitedly- Charley:"Po-eemah!"

Charley:"boolphwee."

Phoebe:"Mhm, you've seen him before."

She carefully set him on Bulby's back.

Phoebe:"There you go Bulby, keep an eye on him for us."-excitedly-Charley:"Po-eemah!"

-playfully- Bulby:"Venusaur!"

Phoebe:"Allright Cj."

Phoebe:"I'll take this side."

Me: "Ok then."

I headed to the other side of course.

Phoebe: "So which pokemon should we start out with?"

Me: "I don't know."

Phoebe:"Remember, go easy ok? I don't want it to get too violent and scair Charley."

Me: "Allright, then, if that's the case, I'll send out blossom."

Phoebe: "Good choice."

-unsure- Phoebe:"Um…."

Me:"What?"
Phoebe:" I don't have cloudela with me…..weird, I swear I brought it along."

Me:"Maybe you left it at home by mistake?"

Phoebe:"Maybe…"

Phoebe:"Awe well…Go, polli!"

Me:"Hehe...I thought you'd do that."

Me:"Ok blossom, this isn't a serious battle so don't worry too much."

Blossom: "Bellosom..."

Phoebe:" Same goes for you polli."

Polli:"Pollitoad polli... pollitoad."

Phoebe: "Yep, it's for Charley...good guess."

Phoebe:"Ok let's start with, a bubblebeam."

Me:"Counter it with petal dance, but aim for the center of the arena."

Blossom moved towards the center and began to twirl around at high speed, eventually creating a colorful vortex of petals, surprisingly, Polli's bubblebeam got absorbed into it, and the bubbles joined the vortex along with the petals and got carried up to the ceiling where they harmlessly exploded with a crackling sound.

Me:"Cool."

Phoebe:"Good idea Cj."

Me:"I didn't know that would happen."

Phoebe: "But it's still cool though."

Polli:"Pollitoad, polli."

This vortex went on for a few minutes into Blossom tired out and couldn't dance any more.

Phoebe: "Awe...she got tired..."

Phoebe: "Polli go now, hypnosis."

I looked away as Polli, began to dance and sing in a very strange manner. Unfortunately Blossom was too tired to look away and quickly fell asleep.

I looked back after Polli stopped singing to see blossom passed out on the floor.

Me: "Awe, come on..."

Phoebe: "Hehe, looks like I won."

Phoebe: "You see that Charley?"

-from the sidelines- Charley: " Po-eemah go beh...-giggles-"

Phoebe: "-giggles-."

Me: "Awe well."

I returned Blossom, and sent out Cap'n'magnum.

Me: "If that's how you want to play."

Phoebe: "Cj be carefull."

-somewhat annoyed- Me: "I know."

Me: "Ok magnum, you have a type advantage so this battle should be easy, but this isn't a really serious battle, so hold back please."

Cap'n'magnum: "Magnazone."

-somewhere off to the left- Nina:" Takedown, thundershock."

Cobalt suddenly attacked Cap'n'magnum from the side, and Sparky suddenly attacked Polli.

-confused- Phoebe: "Nina?"

-annoyed- Me: "What the hell?"

Magnum was hit hard, but he was still floating, cobalt turned around and faced him.

Cobalt: "Beldum...bell."

-playfully- Nina:" Threeway battle!."

-somewhat annoyed- Phoebe: "Nina, that's not how you'r supposed to start battles."

Phoebe: Besides, I was already battling with your father, and you interupted us."

Me: "You ruined it..."

Phoebe: "We were trying to put on a nice battle for Charley that wouldn't be too violent for him to watch."

-in pain- Polli: "Polli...politoad...poli..."

Polli was struggling to get back up, he got hurt more than magnum due to being weak to electricity.

-somehat angry- Phoebe:"Great now you've paralyzed him, thanks a lot Nina."

-scaired- Nina: "sorry."

Polli finally managed to stand.

Phoebe: " You ok polli?"

-hurt- Polli: "Pollitoad, polli, pollitoooooad."

-annoyed- Captain Magnum:"Magna, magnazone, magna, maaagnaaazonnne!"

He hovered towards Cobalt in a somewhat threatening manner, starring right at him with his one large eye and electricity began to crackle around him.

Me:"Settle down magnum, he probably hurt himself more than you with that attack."

-somewhat scared- Cobalt:"belldum...bell?"

Cap'n' Magnum:" Magnazone...Magnaaaaa."

-terrified- Cobalt:" Bel?"

-quietly- Me:"Don't do it."

I saw a bright flash of light accompanied by the sound of arcing high voltage electricity, accompanied by a loud thud as Cobalt quickly fell to the ground unconcious.

-greatly annoyed- Me:"Dammit, Magnum, I told you to back off."

-worried- Nina:"COBALT!"

-somewhat angry- Phoebe:"What the heck Cj?"

-defensively- Me:"He got angry, I told him to back off he wouldn't listen."

-meanwhile-

-from the sidelines- Charley: " Po-eemah go beh... ageh..-giggles-"

-from the sidelines- Bulby:"venussssaurrr, venusssssss." (That's not a good thing, little buddy)

-unsure- Charley:"Cawey dunno..."

Bulby:"Venusssssaurrrrrrr sauuuuurrrrrr." (He could really be hurt)

-unsure- Charley:"Owie?..."

The large pokemon quietly nodded

-calmly- Cap'n'Magnum:"Magnezone, magnaaaa, magnaaaaazonnnne."

Phoebe:"He says he's sorry, but Cobalt got what he deserved."

-facepalm- Me:"Why did you do that?"

Nina:"Cobalt are you ok?"

Nina:"Cobalt?"

-weakly- Cobalt:"Bel...b.b. ."

-concerned- Me:"Return him, now!"

Nina:"Return."

She returned Cobalt.

-worried- Phoebe:"Why don't we head to the center and get him healed?"

Me:"You too magnum..."

Me:"I'm kind of dissapointed in you."

-hurt- Cap'n'magnum:"Magna?"

Nina:"Come on out gulpin."

Me:"Nina, for the last time we're not battling you."

Nina:"But why not?"

Phoebe:"Nina, return your pokemon, now you're in very big trouble."

-very worried- Nina:"I'm, sorry."

Phoebe:"I'm sorry Charley, but, your sister decided to interupt the battle."

Charley:"Mawa Cawey huhwhy..."

Charley: "Booolphy ses po-eemah geh owee..."

-surprised- Phoebe:"Oh...You can understand him too?"

Bulby: "Veeenusssaurrrr. (He seems to .)"

Phoebe: "Well, anyway, thankyou for keeping track of him Bulby, I wish we could stay longer, but, I'm just really mad at Nina right now."

-cutely- Charley: "Newa seewee?"

Phoebe: "I didn't think it was funny, what if she decided to attack you and not Polli?"

Charley of course didn't understand.

Phoebe:" Come on Bulby, return to your ball for now, if a warm day comes up I'll let you out outside again.."

Bulby:"Veeeenusaur...(sounds good)."

She returned Bulby, and then came over to where Nina and I were.

-somewhat angry- Phoebe:"You're in trouble Nina, interupting our battle like that is one of the rudest things you've ever done."

Phoebe:"Go return Sparky, and then we're leaving."

Nina:"But mom."

Phoebe:"No buts."

Sparky: "Rotom...tom tom rotom (I zapped him like you said)."

He seemed to be oblivious to the situation.

Sparky:"rotommm.(Did we win)?"

-sadly- Nina:"No sparky, they don't want to battle, I'm sorry, but I have to return you now."

She returned him to his ball.

Me:"Come on Nina, lets get going."

Phoebe: " Charley is hungry."

Me:"I guess we could get drive through on the way home."

-sighs-Phoebe:" I guess."

Phoebe:"Nina come on, we're going now."

Nina:"But mom..."

Phoebe:"No buts..."

Nina:" I'm sorry."

Me:"You know Pheebles, maybe we are overeacting a bit?"

Phoebe:"-sighs-, you're probably right."

Phoebe:"Nina, we'll talk over lunch ok? Maybe we'll come back this afternoon."

Nina:"Ok."

Me:"So are we still getting drive through or...?"

Phoebe: "Why don't we go to the usual place, ok?"

Me:" Allright."

-hungry- Charley: "Cawey Huhwy..."

Phoebe: "We know sweety, just give us a moment."

Charley:" Cawey wa fooo..."

Me:" Hehe... we know."

We left the gym, already over the situation, however we still needed to make sure Nina wouldn't try something like that again, anyway, we headed to the Tauros steak house, got a table, and got Charley some bread to eat while everyone else waited for their food. Nina was a bit tense, she knew she screwed up.

-nervously tearing up- Nina:" Mom...I'm sorry.."

Phoebe: "Calm down sweety."

Me: "You realize if you pulled that crap on someone else you could lose your trainer's license."

-surprised- Nina: "What?"

Phoebe: "He's right."

Nina: "Why?"

Phoebe: "Because you can't just attack somebody else's pokemon unless they agree to a battle, and aside from that, you interupted our battle, which is extremely rude."

Nina: "I just wanted to fight both of you at the same time."

Phoebe:" It doesn't matter, you didn't even ask us before attacking."

Me: "You're not going to make it very far as a trainer if you can't follow the basic rules of a pokemon battle."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina: "I'm sorry."

Phoebe: "We know, but..."

Phoebe: "We just need to make this clear, if you want to be a trainer you have to learn to follow the rules."

Phoebe: "If we didn't stress this like we are now, what would stop you from randomly attacking someone else's pokemon?"

Phoebe:"What were you thinking, did you see how fast Magnum took out cobalt?"

Phoebe: "You can't beat us in a fair fight Nina, your pokemon aren't strong enough yet."

Phoebe:"That's why we don't want to battle you yet, because we don't want your pokemon to get hurt."

Nina:" Sparky beat Polli."

Phoebe:" That's because you had a type advantage and sparky is a bit stronger than your other pokemon."

Phoebe: "That and once again, we had no idea you were going to attack us."

Me: "It was a cheap shot."

Phoebe:" Mhm."

Me: "So you think that's enough?"

Phoebe: "I don't know..."

-whispering- Me: "I think she understands."

Phoebe:" Nina, listen, we aren't going to ground you, but you need to learn from this."

Nina: "I can learn mom..."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey wa mo bweh!"

Me: "-sighs-, here, I'll get you some little guy."

Phoebe: "-giggles-, we know sweety, we trust you."

After lunch we made a visit to the pokemon center to get Cobalt and Polli healed before heading back to the gym. When we got back, the gym was less crowded than it was this morning, as many people had left to get lunch as well. The gym leader was also taking a break, so the main arena was open as well.

-after entering the gym-

-sadly- Nina:"Awwwe the gym leader isn't here anymore..."

Phoebe:"Oh don't worry Nina, they'll be back in a little while."

Phoebe:"Do you still want to try to battle her today?"

Nina:"The gym leader is a girl?"

Phoebe:"I think so, there's a sign out in front of the building."

Nina:"Oh, ok."

Phoebe:"Nina, if you do battle her today, don't worry if you lose ok?"

Nina:"I'm not going to lose."

Phoebe:"Nina,you can't win every battle."

Me:"Being a trainer isn't about winning, it's about learning and becomming stronger, by finding someone who can beat you..."

Phoebe:"-giggles-...Cj..."

Me:"Sweetheart, if you're planning to face the gym leader today, it would be best for you to get in line now, before all the people who were here earlier come back from lunch."

Nina:"Ok."

Phoebe:"Your father and I are going to go back to training for a while, but we'll come back to watch you ok?"

Nina:"Ok"

Phoebe gave her a hug.

-lovingly- Phoebe:"Goodluck sweety."

She went to go wait in line behind a mere handful of other trainers. Once the gym leader returned, it wouldn't take long for her to get to the front.

Anyway with quite a bit of time to spare, we headed back to the training area.

Phoebe:"Do you think Nina will be ok by herself?"

Me:"All she has to do is wait in line, I don't think there's anything that can go wrong."

Phoebe:"I hope so."

Unknown trainer:" I was wondering when you would come back…."

-unsure- Phoebe:"Who are you?"

Unknown trainer:" You won the johto championship a year ago."

Phoebe:"No I didn't."

Me:"You must have her mistaken for somebody else."

Unknown trainer:" But you have a venusaur, she had a venusaur, and you're both gardevoirs….."

-defensively- Phoebe:"That doesn't mean we're the same person."

Unknown trainer:" And you lost to her in the finals….."

-playing stupid- Me: "Eheh…..What?"

Phoebe:"He's not going to leave us alone is he...?"

Me:"I guess not."

Phoebe:"Fine, you're right."

Phoebe:"I suppose you want to battle me?"

Unknown trainer:"Mhm...my name is Ian by the way..."

Phoebe:"Ok..."

Phoebe:"Why don't you battle Cj first, if you can't beat him I know you can't beat me."

Me:"Say what?"

Ian:"Sure."

Phoebe:" I just want to see if he can beat you."

-unsure- Me:"What are you trying to do here?"

Me:"You know we both made it to the finals, you're not that much better than me."

Phoebe:"I know, but still."

Phoebe:"How many badges do you have?"

Ian:"Six."

Phoebe:"See he hasn't even beaten all the gym leaders yet Cj, it should be no problem."

Phoebe:"And besides that, you need to keep your image up too, it's been awhile since either of us have battled."

Me:"Yeah, I guess you're right."

Me:"Allright, where should we do this then."

Ian:"Um, what about that field over there?"

Me:"Ok, sure."

Me:"3 on 3?"

Ian:"5 on 5."

Me:"4 on 4."

Ian:"Deal."

Phoebe:" 4 on 4, Cj...what are you doing?"

Me:"Well, I don't really want this to take too long, remember Nina's battle against the leader is comming up."

Phoebe:"Oh...right, nevermind."

Me:"You want to start?"

Ian:"Sure..."

Phoebe:"Charleey...you want to play with Bulby some more?"

-excitedly- Charley:" Mawa bulphy es po-eeema..!"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

-cutely- Phoebe:" Come on..."

She took him over to the other side of the area, where he wouldn't see the battle.

Then she left him in Bulby's care once again, and came back to start the battle for us.

Phoebe:"Ok so this is a four on four battle, both sides ready?'

Ian:"Mhm."

Me:"You got it baby girl."

Phoebe:"Go!"

I sent out Hellblade, Ian sent out a piloswine, which was a very odd looking pokemon indeed, it looked like a giant pile of fur, but with tusks and a pig nose..

Ian:"Looks like you're at a disadvantage..."

Me:" Ehhhhhh... we'll see about that."

Me: "Ready Hellblade?"

He barked in affirmation.

Me:"Go! Use flamethrower.."

Ian:"Dodge it and use Mud bomb..."

Hellblade managed to hit it with flamethrower, but the piloswine was able to shake it off and began to throw balls of mud at Hellblade, with surprising accuracy considering it couldn't see very well. However, Hellblade was still able to dodge its attacks, and hit it with flamethrower once again, but it was still standing.

Ian:"Come on Piloswine get moving, use takedown.."

Me:"That thing is pretty tough."

It began to charge at HellBlade, with surprising speed, but not fast enough to catch him.

Ian: "Keep moving, don't let it hit you again."

-ferociously- Piloswine: "Piloswine!"

Ian: "Icy wind, then another takedown."

Me: "Huh?"

Unbelievably, it's Icy wind attack hit and managed to slow HellBlade down enough for it's takedown attack to land as well.

Me: "What the?"

Ian: "Hehehe.."

Me: "HellBlade you ok?"

He got back up, still able to fight.

-relieved- Me:"-sighs- Good."

Phoebe:"Come on Cj, don't let him do that again."

Ian:"Icy wind, take down again."

Me:"Don't worry baby I got him."

Me:" Keep looking at it...don't look away, don't move."

Me:"Wait for it."

I waited till after it's icy wind attack... after it began to charge, right up until it was almost point blank.

-urgently- Me:"Fireblast! now!"

Ian: "Wait, piloswine turnaround..."

The piloswine attempted to turn around, but was hit point blank with a fire blast...it collapsed and slid to a stop.

Ian:"Piloswine?"

-in pain- Piloswine:"Pilo...swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnne."

Ian:"-sighs- Piloswine return..."

-jokingly- Me:"Nervous yet?"

Ian:"That was just my first pokemon, I got three more."

Ian:"Come on out Feraligator."

He sent out what I could only assume to be his starter, a vicious looking Feraligatr, Hellblade was immediately at a disadvantage, so I had no choice but to switch him out.

Me:"Allright Hellblade return, he's a water type, you can't beat him."

Me: "Allright, go Blossom."
Me:"Stun spore then gigadrain."

Ian:"Dodge it quick, then crunch it to pieces!"

Feraligatr are typically very fast and dangerous pokemon, and this one was no different, unsurprisingly it came at Blossom at such speed that she was barely able to dodge it's massive jaws. But if she could manage to land a stun spore on him, I knew he wouldn't be too hard to finish off.

Phoebe:"Be careful Cj, I'm going to go check on Nina."

Me:"Ok."

Me:"Allright Blossom, hang in there..."

She was doing all she could just to avoid being hit, waiting for a oppourtunity to use stun spore was taking too long.

-worried- Blossom:"Belllllosom...bellll."

Me:"Allright, try to slow it down with giga drain..."

Ian:"What? Feraligatr back away..."

Some roots came from her arms, and briefly stabbed feraligator in the arm before disipating. It didn't do a whole lot of damage, but it dried out his skin...a real pain for water types.

Feraligatr:"-roars in pain- Ferrrallllll...!"

Ian: "You just made a big mistake."

Me: "Oh really?"

Ian: "You made him angry."

-unamused- Me:"-sighs-."

Me:"Ok Blossom, why don't we just end this with sleep powder?"

Blossom: "Bellawwwwsom!"

She whipped up a cloud of sleep powder.

Ian:"Hold your breath..."

Me:"Gigadrain, one more time."

She hit Feralligator in the other arm.

-in pain- Feralligator: "Ferrallllll!..."

It breathed in, and fell to the floor unconscious shortly afterwards.

Me:"So, you were saying?"

Ian:"-sighs-, rest well Feraligatr."

-solemnly- Ian: "I forfeit, you're too strong..."

Me: "Well kid, don't be so hard on yourself."

Me: "Your next badge should come pretty easilly."

Ian:"I hope so."

Phoebe came back in.

Phoebe: "Cj, the gym leader is back..."

-unsure-Phoebe: "What's going on, did you win already?"

Me:" He forfeited."

Phoebe: "Hm? How come?"

Ian:"He's too strong."

Phoebe:"Oh..ok, I see."

Phoebe:"Where are you going?"

Ian:" To get my team healed so I can challenge the gym leader today."

Phoebe:"Well you might want to hurry up the line is starting to get long."

He hurried out of the room.

Phoebe:"We better hurry too Cj, Nina should be up against the gym leader in just a few minutes."

Me:"Allright then."

Phoebe:"Bulby, can I have Charley back please?"

Bulby:"Venussawwwwr."

He picked up Charley with his vines, and slowly handed him to her from the other side of the room.

-worried- Phoebe:"Uh..."

-cutely- Charley:"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

-worried- Me:"Careful..."

-relieved- Phoebe:"Bulby, I'd rather you just walk him over to me, but thankyou anyway.."

Bulby:"Venussssawwwr."

Phoebe:"No, you're doing great with him."

Phoebe:"But don't do that again, please."

Bulby:"Sawwr."

Phoebe:"Thankyou Bulby."

-cutely- Charley:"Bulphy!"

Phoebe:"Mhm, say goodbye to Bulby for now.."

-cutely- Charley:"bye Bulphy fa now."

Phoebe:"-giggles-."

She returned Bulby, and then we left the training area, bought some popped cornn berries at the concession stand and found some seats in the bleachers of the main arena. There were quite a few spectators for a gym match. The gym leader, a middle aged woman, was currently in battle with a young trainer.

Me:"So what's the gym leader's name?"

Phoebe:"I think her name is Olivia, if I remember the sign correctly."

Me:"Ok."

Me:"Where's Nina?"

Phoebe:"She's not at the front of the line yet, but, she should be in just a bit."

Me:"Ok."

We watched a few battles, getting a decent look at the gym leader's tactics and strategys, she used a lot of normal types, kind of like Whitney in the games, she had a fairly strong tauros and a Snorlax, both of which were giving the challengers a hard time. Tauros can be ridiculously tough and resilient . Fighting a snorlax, on the other hand, is like fighting a pillow, they are soft, doughy, and damn near indestructable, though they usually don't attack very often. Aside from those two, she also had an electabuzz and a scyther.

Anyway, despite this we had no idea what pokemon she would use against Nina, when Nina's turn arrived, she would have to switch teams, as Nina wasn't quite as experienced as the others.

This seemed to be a pretty tough gym, of the four battles we saw before Nina's, only one of them ended in victory for the challenger, and that was a close call with the challenger's final pokemon being too wounded to stand.

Phoebe:"Cj can you hold Charley for a bit?"

Me:"Sure."

She handed him to me, and then pulled out her phone.

Me:"Who are you texting?"

Phoebe:"Melissa sent me a text."

Me:"What's it say?"

Phoebe:"Um...(reading)...She wants us to go in on Monday when Nina's back in school."

Me:"Oh...Ok."

I saw Nina enter the arena.

-excited- Me:"Hey, Pheebles..."

-excited- Phoebe:"I know, I see her.."

Olivia:"Hello miss, um, according to the receptionist you only have one badge."

Nina:"Yes, but it's from a different league."

Olivia:"I know, but it still means this isn't your first gym battle, and either way, I'd like to take a break to change my team to keep things fair, is that ok?"

-cutely- Nina:"I want to battle your tauros."

Olivia:"Don't worry, I have another one you can battle."

Nina:"Ok."

Olivia left the arena and headed to the back room which likely contained a pokemon storage pc and a healing machine reserved for the gym leader.

Announcer:"And right now Miss Olivia is taking a break to change her pokemon."

Announcer: "I believe we have a special treat for you today."

Announcer: "If I remember correctly our current challenger is the daughter of famous heros kanto champion and runner up Phoebe and Cj."

-worried- Me: "Oh great..."

Announcer: "Which likely means they're somewhere in the audience."

Everyone began to look around for us.

Announcer:"But don't bother them too much folks."

Announcer:"They just came here to have fun like the rest of us at Goldenrod Central Gym."

Me: " Goldenrod Central Gym?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, I forgot to mention there's another gym in the west, but they're not a league certified gym."

Me:"Oh...ok."

Phoebe:"It's actually not too far from Nina's school."

Me: "Neat."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"And settle down Cj, they won't see us. there's too many people."

Me:"Ok."

-timidly- Charley:"Cawey wa dow.."

Me:"Charley I can't let you wander around here."

The gym leader came back.

Announcer:" And it looks like Olivia has returned..."

Announcer:"Allright, now both trainers will meet in the center as usual."

Nina: "So six on six?"

Olivia: "I was thinking more three on three if that's allright with you."

Nina: "Ok."

Nina:"Coin flip?"

Olivia:"No, it's allright, I'll go first dear..."

Nina:"Ok."

Announcer:"It looks like they have come to an agreement."

They returned to their respective sides of the arena.

-Nina's perspective-

Olivia:" allright, go dunsparce!"

I watched as she sent out this ugly yellow, snake...worm...bug...thing, it was pretty big, but it didn't look too tough.

Me:" Ok Matches, this is your fight, it looks like its a bug type."

Olivia: "Wrong..."

Me: "Hmm?"

Olivia: "Ok dunsparce, let's start off with earthquake."

-surprised- Me:" What?"

It dove into the ground, and then the arena started to shake like crazy.

Me:"Matches, look out!"

-in the stands-

Phoebe:"...this looks bad."

Cj:"Yeah..."

-unsure- Charley:"Whe po-emah go?"

Cj:" under the ground."

-cutely- Charley:"uhhhh..gwow?"

Me: "Mhm."

Matches was tossed around helplessly...he couldn't avoid the attack and he couldn't fight back.

Olivia:"Finish it off with dig!"

It scaired me when the large pokeon came up underneath Matches and tossed him into the air. I returned him before he hit the ground so he wouldn't get hurt from the fall. Though I had my doubts he would be able to continue anyway. This pokemon was a lot more dangerous than it looked.

Me:"Matches return, I was wrong it's a ground type."

Olivia"Wrong again."

Me:"Go Cobalt!"

Olivia:"A beldum?"

Olivia:" I don't see one of those everyday."

Olivia: "But, even so, dunsparce can use flamethrower."

Me:'What?!"

Me:" Cobalt dodge it, now!"
Thankfully Cobalt was fast enough to avoid it's flamethrower attack. This worm thing, whatever it was knew both fire and ground attacks.

I was starting to get annoyed because I couldn't even tell what type of pokemon it was. It was such a weird, ugly thing, it had wings but could barely hover a few inches off the ground. It wasn't very fast either, but it seemed to be able to use a vast array of attacks.

-unsure- Me: "It's fire\ground type?"

Olivia: "No, it's a normal type, in case you're wondering."

Olivia:" Dunsparce aren't the strongest pokemon around, but they can learn a wide variety of moves. I could keep you guessing what type it is all day if I wanted."

Me: "It seems pretty strong to me."

Olivia: "Then maybe you need to do more training."

Me: "No, I can do this."

Olivia:"If I remember correctly the only thing Beldum can do is takedown."

Me:"Thats all it needs."

Olivia:"-sighs-, we'll see about that."

Olivia:" Dunsparce,another flamethrower."

Me: "Dodge it and find a way to use takedown."

It couldn't turn fast enough to keep up with Cobalt, and eventually Cobalt managed to a land a hit, but the big pokemon shrugged it off and retaliated with more flamethrower attacks.

Me:"It's still up, this isn't good."

Me:" Gain some height, I don't think it can fly, but if you go up high enough you can stay out of it's range."

Cobalt: Bel...(Ok)."

He flew up, out of range of dunsparce's flamethrower attacks, he was safe for now.

Olivia:"Ok then dunsparce, solarbeam."

Me:"Huh?"

It sat there for a few seconds before firing off a solarbeam, beldum was hit, but still able to continue, grass type moves didn't hurt him that much.

Olivia:"Keep using solarbeam I think we can weaken it."

Me:"Keep dodging it Cobalt."

Solarbeams were really fast, Cobalt was hit several times but still managed to stay up, however dunsparce soon tired out from firing so many.

Olivia:"Allright then bury yourself before it can strike back."

The large pokemon quickly burried itself again.

Me:"What now?"

Ref:"Start the timer."

Me:"What, what timer?"

Olivia:"If neither pokemon attacks within 2 minutes both will be considered out..."

Me:"What?"
Me: "But I can't hit you."

Olivia: "And I can't hit you."

Olivia: "Allright dunsparce, dig, then flamethrower!"

It suddenly erupted from the ground, it jumped pretty high and used flamethrower midair, but Cobalt was narrowly able to avoid it.

Olivia: "-sighs-, allright dunsparce try again."

Me: "Cobalt, wait till it comes up again then use takedown."

Cobalt: "Beldumm...bell...(I'll try.)"

Ref:"kill the timer."

It went on for awhile, dunsparce would jump out of the ground, use flamethrower, then immediately go back into the ground, only to jump out again a few moments later. Fortunately it wasn't very good at actually hitting Cobalt. But Cobalt wasn't getting anytime to launch it's own attacks.

Me: "Come on Cobalt, just hit it from behind, make him crash into the ground."

Dunsparce came up once again, used flamethrower, then dove back down.

Then I found it's weakness...

-loudly- Me: "Hit him in the butt!"

Cobalt smacked into its backside, which caused it to land square on it's face at high speed.

Olivia:"What?"

Olivia: "Dunsparce, you ok?"

The pokemon curled up and rolled over onto it's back, too hurt to move.

Ref:"1...2...3...Dunsparce is unable is unable to battle."

Olivia: "-sighs-, didn't see that coming."

Olivia: "Good fight dunsparce, return."

Me: "-sighs-, one down."

Olivia: "-sighs-. allright, I admit, I didn't think you were going to win that one."

Olivia: "But let's see how well you deal with this."

Olivia: "Go Munchy!"

She sent out a snorlax, which is basically a big fat pokemon that sleeps a lot. Except something was strange about this one, it was standing up and wide awake. It also wasn't very big for a snorlax, it was still taller than me, but I've seen Olivia use an even bigger one in some of the battles before mine.

Olivia: "Munchy is a bit different from your typical snorlax, he's still in training, but he's also very energetic for a pokemon of his kind."

Munchy: "Snawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwr!"

Me:" Awe...you named him..."

Olivia: "Of course, I have more than one snorlax so it gets confusing if I don't give them different names."

Me:" Ok, Cobalt another takedown, aim for it's big belly."

Olivia: "Big mistake."

Cobalt hit Munchy in the stomach, but he didn't even flinch, and to make matters worse, Cobalt bounced off of him and into the ground.

Olivia: "You should know it's not a good idea to use physical attacks on a snorlax."

Olivia:" Ok Munchy, lets show them your strength."

He began to move, he was fast for such a big pokemon, he tried to punch Cobalt many, many times, but he managed to hit him only once, however, it didn't do much damage.

Me: "Ok Cobalt return."

Olivia: "Are you forfeiting?"

Me: "No I got one more pokemon left."

Olivia: "True, but I have two fresh pokemon, you only have one."

Me: "So?"

Me:" I choose you cloudela, go now!"

I sent out Cloudela, that I secretly took from mommy's room.

-meanwhile, in the stands, Cj's perspective.-

We were surprised to see that Nina had "borrowed" Cloudela from us. Phoebe was probably the angriest I've seen her in quite awhile.

-angry- Phoebe:"That little sneak!"

-angry- Phoebe:"Rrrr…."

-worried- Charley:"Mawa…noooooo."

-calmly- Me:"Shhhh."

Me:"Honey you're scaring Charley.."

Me:"Besides, it's not like she's going to keep him."

Phoebe:"She stole my pokemon.."

Me: "Let her finish the battle."

Me: "Interfering would be rude."

-grumpily- Phoebe:"-sighs-, you're right…"

Phoebe: "She is so grounded…."

Me: "I know."

-somewhat upset- Charley:"Cawey no wa mawa scweee."

-unsure- Me: "You don't want her to scream? Is that what you said?"

Phoebe:"I'm sorry little guy."

-back to Nina's perspective-

-confused- Cloudela:"Clou….cloudelllla?"

Me:"Shh, mommy said I could use you in this gym battle."

Olivia:"Hmm, a cloudela hey?"

Olivia: "You sure have a lot of interesting pokemon little miss."

Olivia: "Care to explain why it's registered to your mother?"

Me:"Um…..she said I could borrow it."

Olivia:"I'm sorry, but you have to use your own pokemon dear, it's the rules…"
Me:"What?"

Olivia:"Why don't you come back some other time?"

Me:"What?"

Olivia:"You're disqualified…."

Nina:"But…..why?"

Olivia:"You can't fight a gym battle with someone else's pokemon."

My heart sank, I didn't know what to do, so I just, returned Cloudela and bolted out of the arena.

I hid my face from crowd and tried not to cry, but I couldn't hold back the tears.

-meanwhile, Cj's perspective-

Me:"Great."

-somewhat worried- Phoebe:"That little idiot."

Me:"Pheebles,"

Phoebe: "Take Charley out to the car, I'll go find her."

Me:"No, you take Charley to the car I'll find her, you're too mad."

Phoebe:"What if she went into the girl's bathroom?"

-unsure- Me:"Uhhhhhhhh.."

-calmly- Phoebe:"Take Charley to the car."

-calmly- Phoebe:"It'll be ok."

She kissed us both on the cheek, which was a bit reassuring that she wasn't as mad as she was a few minutes ago.

Me:"Allright."

I got up and left the arena, and headed out to the car, once there I put Charley in his carseat, got in the driver's seat and waited for Phoebe.

Me: "Your sister has really done it this time."

Charley: "Newa seewee."

Me: "Too silly."

Charley:"Cawey luh Newa."

Me: "I love her too, but she has a lot to learn."

Me: "Just like you little guy."

Me: "Did you have fun today?"

Me: "You got to see all the pokemon."

Charley: "Po-eema!"

Charley: "Buhlphy es po-eema. "

Me: "Yeah, Bulby is a pokemon."

-Five minutes later-

-cutely- Charley:"Cawey wa teewee."
Me: "Well, I don't know when your Mom is planning on coming back."

I felt my phone go off in my pocket, I pulled it out and found I had received a message from Phoebe. "we're outside." It said.

I started the car, and pulled up to the entrance, they got in and we drove off. Nina was a mess, it was obvious she had been crying a lot.

Me:"Is she ok?"

Phoebe:"She'll be fine."

Phoebe:"But we'll have to talk to her when we get home."

Me:"Ok."

Charley: "Mawa!"

Phoebe:" Hi Charley, did you miss me?"

-concerned- Me:"Nina you ok?"

Nina:"-sniffles-"

Phoebe:"Cj, just let her have some time to think."

Me:"Ok."

Me:"What did you do?"

Phoebe:"Nothing, when I found her she was crying her eyes out."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe:"I calmed her down."

Me:"Ok."

-cutely- Charley:"Newaaa..."

Charley:"Cawey luh Newa."

-enamored- Phoebe:"Awwwweee.. Charley, how sweet."

Nina:"-sniffles-, Charley...?"

It was a long drive home, but we eventually arrived, we had a long talk with Nina on the couch, however Phoebe eventually decided that grounding her wasn't neccesary, she was being really hard on herself after all, she spent the remainder of the afternoon on that couch.

Nina:"I can challenge the gym again right?"

Phoebe:"Possibly, but you'll have to wait until next weekend."

Phoebe:"She didn't say you were banned atleast so you should able to go back."

Phoebe:"But you have to use your own pokemon next time ok?"

Nina:"Ok..."

-lightheartedly- Me:"No more of this crap Nina, get your act together."

Nina:"I know."

Phoebe:"Ok, now that that's settled."

-playfully- Phoebe:" Charley, what are you doing, come back over here."

He had wandered over to the far side of the room, close to the entrance to the dining room.

Phoebe used her powers to bring him back over to us.

-cutely upset.- Charley:"Cawey no wa fwy.!"

Phoebe:"Oh you're fine, I was extra careful."

-jokingly- Me:"Yeah baby girl, he doesn't want to fly."

Phoebe:"Well if you don't want to fly then stay over here silly."

Phoebe:"But one of these days little guy you'll have to learn how to levitate on your own."

Phoebe:" One of these days you'll realize you're going to have powers like mine and its best that you learn how to use them."

Phoebe:"Otherwise you won't be able to control them."

-unsure- Charley:"Cawey dunno wa mawa ses."

Phoebe:"-giggles-, you will someday little guy."

She picked him up and held him for awhile. We all spent the next hour or so on the couch until Phoebe went to go make supper and Charley decided he wanted to play on the floor again, so Nina joined him and I went to go bother Phoebe.

Me:"Watcha doing baby girl?"

Phoebe:"What are you doing?"

Me:"Nothing, just watching you."

-cutely- Phoebe:"Why?"

Me:"Because..."
She hugged me.

Phoebe:"Shhh"

-whisper- Phoebe:"You want to have fun tonight?"

-enamored- Me:"eheh baby girl."

She kissed me.

Phoebe:"Go keep an eye on Charley, make sure Nina doesn't teach him anything scary."

Me:"Wait watcha making for dinner?"

Phoebe:"Just some...um...spaghetti...or sandwhiches if I screw up."

Me:"Ok...you need help?"

Phoebe:"No I got it."

Me:"Ok."

-mischeivously- Phoebe:"Now get out of my kitchen."

Me: "Oh it's your kitchen now?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "-sighs-, allright.."

Me:"What if I ..."

Phoebe:"No...'

i gave her a hug and a nice, long kiss.

Me:"That was great."

-playfully- Phoebe:"-giggles- ,You done now?"

Me:"Are you?"

-cutely- Phoebe:"Cj, please, just let me cook..."

Me:"-sighs-, allright."

She kissed me back.

-whisper- Phoebe:"Now go, that's all you get until tonight."

Me:"Ok, ok..."

-sincerely- Phoebe:"I love you."

-sincerely- Me:"Love you too baby girl."

I went back into the living room to keep an eye on Charley.

Me:"Nina remember, play nice with him, no killing, no eating things...just play nice."

Nina:"I know..."

Nina:"Today he's racing cars."

Me:"Oh, ok."

He had some hotwheels in his hands, and there were several more on the floor.

-playfully- Me: "Which one is winning little guy?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "hehe..I thought so."

Me:"Which one is faster?"

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

I picked out a fictional gt car from the assortment Nina had set out for him to play with. I don't remember what the model was and it wasn't printed on the car either, but it had always been one of my was painted light blue with flames, a simple but eye catching paint scheme none the less.

-playfully- Me:"What about this blue one, is it fast?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

-playfully- Me: "Why don't you try it out?"

Me: "Go on little guy you can take it."

He timidly took the car from my hands.

Me:"That one is really fast."

Charley:"Es fas?"

Me: "Mhm."

Charley: "Cawey dunno dawhy ses fas..."

Me: "Well then let me show you."

I picked up two more cars and set them next to eachother on the floor.

Nina:"Are they going to have a race?"

Me:"Mhm."

I rolled both cars forward, one slower than the other so he could see the difference.

Me:"See Charley, this car was faster because its farther ahead."

He rolled the blue car across the floor as well.

-playfully- Charley:"es fas..."

Me: "yeah..I guess so."

He didn't seem to get what I was saying, but he started to roll his cars across the floor, as opposed to pushing them along like he had been doing, so it seemed that I taught him something atleast.

-cutely- Charley:"es fas..."

Nina:"I don't think he gets it."

Me:"That's allright, he will eventually, he's having fun, that's all that matters."

-cheerfully- Charley:" Caw es fas.."

Me:"Hehe...yep."

Nina:"Here Charley, I'll race you."

She picked up a car.

Nina:"Ready?"

He kept rolling his cars around.

Nina:"Charley wait, we have to go at the same time."

-playfully- Me:"Come on Charley, wait a moment."

I helped him race his car against hers, and that gave us something to do until supper.

After supper, not much happened until after the kids went to bed...

-upstairs, just outside Charley's room.-

Phoebe quietly closed the door.

-quietly- Phoebe:"Ok, Cj."

-quietly- Me:"You've got something planned don't you?"

Phoebe:"-giggles-."

Phoebe:"Go downstairs, send Nina to bed and leave me alone for a few minutes, just wait on the couch for me."

Me:"Ok."

I had no idea what she was up to, but it had been a few days since we were intimate with eachother, I wanted her, and it was obvious she wanted me just as bad if not more.

I sent Nina to bed, and then waited patiently for Phoebe. I eventually turned on the tv and kept the volume down so Nina could sleep.

About half an hour passed and I was beginning to wonder what was taking so long, but just a moment later all the lights in the house shut off, but the tv stayed on.

-unsure- Me:"What the?"

-quietly- Phoebe:"Cj..."

She came down the stairs, wearing her nightgown and some slippers.

Me:"Wha baby girl?"

Phoebe:"Sorry didn't mean to scare you."

Me:"Did you do that?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"Come on lover boy."

-genuinely curious- Me:"What did you do this time?"

She took my hand and led me up the stairs. Our room was dimly lit by what seemed to be hundreds of candles.

Me:"How?"

Phoebe:"Well, remember when you let me go pickup Nina after the zombie thing?"

Me:"Yeah..."

Phoebe:"I went by the department store before that."

Me:"Ok..."

Phoebe:"There incensed candles."

Me:"Oh..."

Phoebe:"They're supposed to increase feelings of attraction."

She used her powers to shut the door behing me.

Me:"I don't think I could be anymore attracted to you then I already am."

-cutely- Phoebe:"Awwe Cj..."

-lustfully- Me:"baby girl"

-softly- Phoebe:"Why don't you go ahead strip down and get in bed."

Me:"Of course baby girl."

Phoebe:"This is going to be a fun night."

Me:"I can tell."

After I got in bed wearing nothing but my underwear, she began to undo her gown, quickly revealing that she wasn't wearing anything underneath.

Me:"Hehe..you're so sexy."

Phoebe:"One more thing Cj."

Me: "Mhm"

Phoebe:"Some of these candles also enhance my powers."

Me:"Oh really?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

She climbed into bed and got on top of me.

Phoebe:"Now just relax, I'll get you started."

Me: "Wait."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me:"I love you so much you know that?"

Phoebe:"I love you too Cj, that's why I went so far to make this special."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "You know you don't have to try so hard?"

Phoebe: "I know but, you mean alot to me."

Me: "You meen a lot to me, which is why this kind of bothers me because I have no idea how to repay you."

Phoebe: "Cj maybe you're trying too hard."

Me: "No I'm pretty sure it's the other way around."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Oh you, just relax, let's have fun, just you and me."

Me: "-sighs-, allright."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Can I continue now?"

Me: "Of course baby."

Phoebe: "Good."

We began to make love in the dim candle light. It was a long night, but for the right reasons. I don't think we got to sleep until well after midnight after having sex on and off for several hours. The candles had this weird effect that allowed us not to tire even after having orgasms. Let's just say by the time we were done the candles were almost burned out. And we held eachother tight as our tired, well loved bodies finally got the rest they would need for tomorrow, and even then we continued to have fun in our dreams, by morning the room still smelled of the candles, and we were still fast asleep. Unfortunately this meant that neither of us heard Charley wake up in the adjacent room.

We finally awoke, still naked and still holding eachother. Neither of us had any idea what time it was.

-tiredly- Phoebe:"Goodmorning honey."

Me:"Goodmorning."

We made out for just bit.

-concerned- Phoebe:"Wait a minute Cj, how long did we sleep in?"

Me:"I don't know."

Phoebe:"The clock is on your side."

Me:"I know."

She looked towards the window for a moment.

Phoebe:"Oh arceus it's almost noon."

Phoebe:"Charley is probably soooo hungry."

Me:"Maybe Nina took care of him?"

-concerned- Phoebe:"Yeah but she doesn't know how to feed him."

She got out of bed, quickly put on her gown and headed out the door.

-somewhat hurt- Me:"Baby girl?"

-to self- Me:"-sighs-, I guess she is right, Charley is more important."

I was hoping we could hold eachother just a bit longer. But she was right, we were late. I struggled to get out of bed and put some clothes on, then I headed out the door. Nina was holding Charley, who seemed to be ok.

Nina:"He started screaming so I went up to check on him."

Phoebe:"Did you feed him?"

Nina:"Mhm...I fed him some toast..."

Phoebe:"Ok..."

Phoebe:"You changed him too didn't you?"

Nina:"Mhm..."

-impressed- Phoebe:"Good job sweety, you did well."

Nina:"Why'd you wake up so late?"

-awkwardly- Phoebe:"That's none of your concern."

-suspicious- Nina:"Right..."

Phoebe:"-sighs-."

Phoebe:"Cj why don't you go take a shower I'll bring you some fresh clothes in a bit."

Me:"Ok."

I headed back upstairs.

Phoebe:"Nina keep watching Charley for awhile, you're doing great with him."

Nina:"Ok."

I got in the shower, Phoebe came in a bit later and brought fresh clothes for both of us, then she got naked and joined me.

Phoebe:"I hope this makes up for this morning."

Me:"I don't see why not."

Phoebe:"Why don't you leave before me and then you can just say I took a shower after you?"

Me:"Ok."

We started to make out. We didn't have sex though because we were still tired from last night and we needed to keep quiet. I held her tight as the warm water rained down on us.

Phoebe:"Ok Cj, go ahead and get out."

She turned the water off.

Me:"I thought you were staying?"

Phoebe:"I am, but I have to make it convincing."

Phoebe:"Go get dressed."

I got dressed and left the room, Phoebe turned the shower back on a minute or so later.

I sat down on the couch and turned on the tv.

-cutely-Charley:"Dawhy!"

He crawled over to me.

Nina:"He wants to see you."

Me:"I see, come here little guy."

I picked him up and set him next to me.

Nina:"Can we go back to the gym today?"

Me:"Umm...I think it would be better if you did a bit more training first."

Me:"Maybe next weekend."

-dissapointed- Nina:"Awee."

Me:"Charley, what are you doing?"

He crawled over to the other end of the couch, then he tried to climb up on the armrest.

Me:"Hey be careful."

I picked him up.

-cutely-Charley:"Dawhy..."

Charley:" Cawey wa dawhy holb."

Me:"Ohhh...is that why you were trying to climb up the couch?"

-cutely- Charley:"Cawey dunno."

-unsurprised- Me:"I thought so."

Charley:"Whe mawa?"

Me:"She'll be down in a bit, don't worry."

-cutely- Charley:"Doh wohwy."

Me:"Hehe..."

Phoebe came down a few minutes later.

Phoebe: "Allright everyone what should we do today?"

Nina: "Can we go back to the gym?"

Phoebe :"No Nina, you need to do more training first so you won't have to cheat next time."

Nina: "I didn't cheat."

Charley: "mawa!"

Phoebe: "You got disqualified because you broke the rules, that means you got caught cheating sweety."

Nina: "aweee.."

Me: "I already told her we weren't going..."

Phoebe: "Oh really?"

Charley: "mawa!"

Phoebe: "Nina don't try to use me to go around your father, you know better than that."

Nina: "-sighs-"

-suddenly- Charley: "MAWA!"

Phoebe: "Ooohhh hi Charley."

She picked him up.

-shocked- Me:"You didn't have to yell."

Phoebe:"Awe, but he's just so happy to see me..."

Phoebe: "Aren't you little guy?"

-cutely,excitedly- Charley: "Cawey luh mawa..."

Phoebe: "Ohhh I love you too.. mmmah."

She kissed him on the cheek.

He giggled in excitement.

-cutely- Charley: "Mawa, Dawhy ses doh wohhwyy.."

Phoebe: "What does that mean?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno..."

Phoebe: "-giggles-, you little goofball."

Charley: "Seewee mawa, Cawey no goobah.."

Me: "hehehe."

Nina: "He sure has a lot to say..."

Phoebe: "Well he is just learning how to talk, so he thinks he has too talk as much as possible."

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Phoebe: "Say I dunno alot of things.."

-cutely- Charley: "Caw...eee...I...dunno...law...thees."

Phoebe: "-giggles-"

Me: "Why don't we go get some lunch?"

Phoebe: "I could make some."

Me: "We could go to the cafe in Slabtown, we haven't been there in awhile."

Phoebe: "Allright, that sounds good, give me a minute to get ready."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Come on Charley, lets get you ready too."

Ten minutes later we were in the car, on the way to Slab Town. We headed to the cafe, which was awkwardly located further down main street on the other side of the portal machine. It had been a long time since we had been there, in fact this was Charley's very first time. It was always a bit strange going out in public in Slabtown, as there was always a chance of comming across people I knew before the disaster. I had gotten so used to the way the world was now, that I had forgotten there was a world before the disaster. Which is another reason why we usually just went onward to Goldenrod.

Me:"Allrigh here we are."

Phoebe:"I'll get Charley."

Me:"Ok."

We headed inside and got a table.

Phoebe:"Wow this place hasn't changed much."

Me:"Nope."

Me:"Except it seems they sell berries here now."

Phoebe:"I hope they have orans."

Me:"I would think so."

Waitress:"What have you guys been up too? We don't see you around too much anymore."

Me:"Not much really."

Phoebe:"We have jobs in the pokemon world...other than that we kind of just keep to ourselves."

Waitress:"Well Cj, your folks were here a few days ago, they said you two travel around a lot."

Me:"Yeah, that's true."

Phoebe: "We've haven't been traveling too much recently though."

Waitress:"How come?"

Phoebe:"This little guy over here."
-enamored- Waitress:"Awwwwe...I heard you had a baby I just didn't know for sure."

Waitress:"I have to admit Cj, back in highschool, I never thought yoy had it in you."

-somewhat embarassed- Me:"Eheh..."

Nina:"Whaaaa?"

Waitress:"So, anyway, what would you all like to drink today?"

-still embarrased- Me:"Um, rootbeer would be nice."

Waitress:"Ok, and you miss?"

Phoebe:"Uh, I'll just have orange juice."

Waitress:"Miss we haven't had orange juice in quite some time."

Waitress:"We have oran berry juice though..."

-excited- Phoebe: "That's even better! I'm Phoebe by the way."

Waitress:"I thought so, I just wasn't sure."

Waitress:"And you sweety?"

Nina:"Rootbeer!"

Waitress:"And what about the little guy?"

Phoebe:"Oh um, I'll just share mine with him."

Waitress:"Ok."

The waitress left to fetch our drinks.

Phoebe:"Who is she? She seems to know you.."

Me:"Yeah we went to the same high school, years ago."

Phoebe:"What's her name?"

Me:"Ashelyn...I think..."

Phoebe:"Ok..."

Nina:"Was she your girlfriend?"

Phoebe:"Nina that's not a very nice question."

Me:"Of course not...I never had a girlfriend till I met your mother..."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"Awe...Cj..."

Her phone buzzed.

Me:"Melissa again?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me:"I thought she quit.."

Phoebe:"No wait this is somebody else.."

Me:"Who?"

Phoebe:"Melissa must have given them my number."

Me:"Ookay."

Her phone buzzed several more times.

Phoebe:"Ummm, let's see."

Phoebe:"He says his name is Dr. Nash."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe:"He says he's at the lab right now."

Phoebe:"And the portals are starting to act up again."

Nina:"What did it suck somebody else in?"

Phoebe:"No, but they're changing again."

Me:"Hmm, weird."

Her phone buzzed several more times...

Phoebe:"Hmm...it's Melissa."

Me:"Really?"

Phoebe:"Ummmm, she has orders from James..."

A combat mission...I wondered what it would be about, it had been awhile since we had done anything for the defense division."

Me:"What is it?"

Phoebe:"He won't say, but he wants us to meet him in Goldenrod as soon as possible."

Me:"Where in Goldenrod?"

Nina:"Does that mean I don't get lunch?"

Phoebe: " No sweety, we won't leave until we're done here, ok?"

Nina:"Ok."

Me:"So is Team Rocket back...or?"

Phoebe:" I already told you, he won't tell me."

Phoebe: "-sighs-,Looks like we have to go see James today and Mr. Nash tomorrow."

Me:"It'll be alright."

Phoebe:"I know."

Nina:"What about me and Charley?"

Phoebe:"Well you did very well with him this morning."

Phoebe:"If we're not going to be gone for more than a day Nina..."

Phoebe: "Would you be willing to babysit for us?"

Nina: "But I need time to work with my pokemon."

Phoebe:"You'll still have time don't worry."

-worried- Nina:"You'll come back right?"

Phoebe: "Nina sweetheart, of course."

Me: "We would never leave you sweety."

-worried- Nina:"But what if you die?"

-calmly- Phoebe:" Nina, you shouldn't think about things like that."

Me:"We've made it this far sweety."

Phoebe:"Besides we don't even know what he wants us to do yet."

-about an hour later.-

Phoebe and I were talking with James, while Nina and Charley were waiting in the car.

-somewhat surprised- Phoebe:"You want us to go all the way to Sinnoh to raid a galactic base?!"

James:"Yes, it's a matter of grave importance."

-somewhat surprised- Phoebe:"Why?"

James:"If our reports are to be believed, this base contains a working portal network."

- surprised- Phoebe:"So?"

Me:"Pheebles calm down."

Me:"Let me guess, their portal network is linked to ours so there is a chance they could be experiencing the same problems."

James:"Correct."

-still surprised- Phoebe:"What's wrong with that?"

James:"They don't have the safety mechanisms we have, not only is it illegal for them to have that kind of technology without a permit, but it's also more dangerous then they could possibly imagine."

James:"They stole our technology, we believe they did so in order to create their own simulation, similiar to how they tried to create a new world for themselves using giratina's power twenty years ago, but they are also dabbling with the recent phenomena you should be familiar with by now."

James: "But's that's not our concern."

James: "Our concern is what may come out of their portals at any given moment, because their portals are connected to the same ones our are, whatever comes out has an equal chance of comming out at our facility or theirs, and also because the portals may also allow them to aquire advanced and extrememly powerful weapons that we can't allow them to have. Like those guns you took from that zombie world...without authorization..."

Phoebe:"-giggles- Cj."

Me: "I didn't know I needed authorization..."

James: "-sighs-, well nevermind it now."

James:"Your mission is to go in there, apprehend everyone on sight, and shut down their portals, we already have undercover agents on the inside that will be there to assist you."

James:"And we're rallying even more agents to the location as we speak."

Phoebe:"And our children?"

James:"I've already arranged for Corina to look after them while you're gone."

-surprised- Phoebe:"You had her come all the way from Unova?"

James:" Of course."

James:"When the twins are born, we've made plans to hire her full time."

Phoebe:"Ok..."

James:"Anyway, you have a few hours to prepare, Melissa will bring Corina by your place within the hour."

Me: "Allright."

-about an hour later, after we returned home and Melissa arrived with Corrina-

Corina:"So this is your house?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Corina:"Wow, the one you had in Unova was so much nicer."

Me:"Hey this house isn't that bad, it may not have a pool...but its got a big yard."

Corina:"I guess that's true."

Corina: "Hi Charley, remember me?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno..."

Corina:"I think you've grown a bit since I saw you last."

Nina: "I remember you."

Corina: "hehe, That's good."

Corina:"It's nice to see you two again."

Phoebe: "Come on inside I'll show you around."

Phoebe:"You want to come too Melissa?"

She hadn't even left her car.

-sickly- Mellisa:"I think I should go home and lie down."

Phoebe:"Ok, be careful."

She pulled out of the driveway and slowly drove away.

Phoebe:"Poor thing."

Corina:"James said she's due in just a few months."

Phoebe: "Did he tell you she's having twins?"

Corina: "Yeah, but I didn't believe it..."

-in disbelief- Corina: "That's amazing."

Phoebe: "I know right?"

Nina:"Mom? Can I stay outside and work with my pokemon?"

Phoebe:"That's allright sweety."

-excited- Nina:"Yay!, finally."

She teleported to her room, collected her pokemon, and immediately teleport back out with all her pokeballs gathered in her arms.

-happily- Nina: "Come on out everyone!"

She set all the balls on the ground and used her powers to open them all while the rest of us headed inside. Phoebe showed Corina around the house, and then we prepared to leave for the airport.
Phoebe: "Ok Charley, be good for Corina, we'll be back soon, I promise."

Me: "Take care little guy."

Phoebe: "Allright Corina remember what I told you."

Corina: "I know, he likes his milk at room temperature, he likes pancakes for breakfast, he likes tv, but no violent or scary tv for him..."

Phoebe: "Right."

Phoebe: "Ok let's go Cj."

She gave Charley a quick kiss goodbye as we headed outside.

Me: "Nina, behave yourself, we're not sure if we'll be back tonight or tomorrow."

Nina : "Ok, as long as you come back."

-playfully- Matches:"Grrrrufff!"

Phoebe: "We will sweety, don't worry."

We got in the car and pulled out of the driveway, and headed to Golden Rod Airport, once their James flew us over to Sinnoh on his private jet, he continued to brief us on the way over.

James: "Allright this is a pretty simple operation."

James: "Once we land in Sinnoh you will be issued a HMAV, which you will take to the outskirts of Team Galactic's secret portal facility, located in sector 11 of the Great Marsh."

Phoebe: "I thought it was illegal to build there."

James: "Yes, but the base in question is an old nuclear missile site that was constructed prior to the marsh being designated as protected land. "

Me: "Wait...they have nukes?"

James: "Not that we know of, that base is over 80 years old, the missiles were decommissioned and destroyed long ago."

Me: "Oh, ok."

James: " The base itself has been officially abandoned for 60 years, but according to our spies, Team Galactic has made a few renovations."

James: "This envelope contains all the documents you will need, photos and information about the informants so you know who they are, gps coordinates of the base, and all the schematics we could obtain. "

James: "Once you arrive at the base you will meet up with the other agents assigned to this mission, then the informants will let you through the gates, and then you will all storm the base together."

James: "Keep in mind we need their scientists alive, on the off chance they might have discovered something we haven't about the recent phenomena, they may even be responsible for it, for all we know, we may also need them to shut down the portals as well."

James: "Also, I don't think they're expecting a raid, so resistance will probably be minimal, as this is a research facility, not one of their illegal operations."

James: "So please refrain from using fire and explosives."

Me:"We don't even have explosives."

James:"Good."

We arrived at Heathome city airport in Sinnoh a few hours later, just after sunset. We were shown to our HMAV, which turned out to be another one of those jeep like vehicles we had been issued awhile ago, this one had a hard top, further instructions inside the vehicle gave us a map and told us to head to Pastoria. But, since Phoebe knew the area well, we barely needed a map.

Phoebe: "This so strange Cj, we're doing a mission where I grew up..."

Me: "Ehhh, not quite, the gardevoir city is to the west isn't it?"

Phoebe: "Yes, but I've been to Pastoria before when I was six..."

Me: "hehe...ok..."

Me: "It's probably changed since then.."

Phoebe: "It couldn't have changed that much."

Me: "True."

The drive into Pastoria was an interesting one, leaving the highway south of Hearthome and continueing further east along blacktop roads, over flat, open land, it almost reminded me of home, until we came to a bridge at a river crossing, where a large group of slug-like shellos and gastrodons were hanging around the far support of the bridge like a group of sea lions. It was a strange sight, to see so many wild pokemon at once.

Me:"Look at all of those things..."

Phoebe: "Yeah, they gather around like this when they're getting ready to hibernate, in a few weeks they will all bury themselves in the banks, and in the river bed, and then they'll come out again in the spring."

Me :"Really? Cool."

They weren't frightened at all as we crossed, they just carried on with their business, whatever that was.

After we crossed the river, it went back to flatland for a few minutes, then briefly into timberland which eventually gave way to marshland before we arrived in Pastoria.

Pastoria was a small riverside town located north of the river we had crossed earlier, not much different from the games, it had a gym but no airport, and because of it's location the lower parts of the town had a tendency to flood in high rainfall and in those areas many of the buildings were built with high foundations to avoid being damaged in such situations. That being said, this also made the town the ideal place to catch and raise water pokemon.

Once we arrived in town we turned north and headed into the Great Marsh, eventually ending up on some very rough dirt roads that headed deep into the forrest. The roads were not very well maintained, so it was a rough drive. The ground was very wet, and there were some places the road was so bad it was basically just a puddle of mud. After slogging through the forrest, trying to stay on the road, and trying to not get stuck in the occasional mud hole, we came across another Hmav that had strayed off into a shallow pond and had gotten completely stuck.

Phoebe: "Hey Cj stop for a minute..."

Me: "Hmm?"

Phoebe: "They might be agents."

-correctively- Me: "Actually Pheebles, I'm pretty sure they're agents, why else would they have one of these?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, you're right."

Phoebe: "But we should help them."

Me: "Yeah, I know."

We stopped for a moment and looked around, but we couldn't see anyone. Suddenly the radio blared out.

Radio:"Agents -real last name- can you hear me?"

Phoebe: "We hear you...who is this?"

Radio: "This is Agent Maddox, If you come across an abandoned Hvac, just leave it be, we'll come back for it later."

Phoebe took the mic since I was driving.

Phoebe: "Oh ok,... we just found it..."

-on radio- Agent Maddox: "The road leads to a clearing on higher ground up ahead, we'll meet you there."

Phoebe: "Ok, sounds good."

Radio: "Also leave the quagsire alone, he's guarding it for us."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "Hey look over there."

There was a quagsire with just the top of it's head poking up out of the water.

-frightened- Quagsire: "Quag!"

It sat up and walked up onto the bank.

Phoebe:"Ohhhhh, don't mind us just stay here and do...whatever you're doing..."

-affirmatively- Quagsire: "Quagsirrrreeee..."

Me: "Is it wild or is it one of the agents pokemon?"

Phoebe: "I think it's wild...that other agent didn't say it was his..."

Me: "Hmm...ok..."

Phoebe: "There's whooper and quagsire around here too, but they usually get ready to hibernate this time of year."

Me:" Ok."

We continued down the road until we came across the clearing speaking about, according to the maps, the silo complex was about a mile up the hill from there. There were also a few other hmav jeeps parked here, and about a half dozen agents, some wild staravias were also hanging about in the trees.

Anyway we parked the jeep and got out.

Rio:"I was hoping you would make it."

Phoebe:"Rio, you're here too?"

Rio:"Mhm."

Agent Maddox:"Allright so almost everyone is here."

-mischeivously- Phoebe:"Who got stuck?"

Agent Maddox:"Grayford fell asleep while driving Rio and Apollo here."

Phoebe: "Where's he?"

Agent Maddox: "He fell asleep again..."

Agent Maddox: "It was a long flight over here, he litterally just got back from vacation in Hoen and then James decided to send him here."

Agent Maddox: "I told him it was a terrible idea.."

Phoebe: "Allright, so who else is comming?"

Agent Maddox:" The twins should be here momentarilly."

Me: "Who?"

Phoebe: "I guess he mean the twins we met when were taking down team rocket?"

Phoebe: "I think their names were Serina and Katrina."

Me: "Ohh..yeaaah...ok.."

Me: "They're psychic right?"

Phoebe: "Mhmmmm."

Phoebe:"And Pinecone?"

Agent Maddox:" Last I heard he was still on vacation in Kalos, couldn't be contacted in time."

Phoebe: "Ok..."

Me:"So the base is still quite a bit away from here.."

Mr. Sibbons: "Yeah, but we're not all just going to go to the front door."

Phoebe: "Mr. Sibbons, you're here too?"

Mr. Sibbons: "There's a tunnel in the forrest that leads up the hill into the complex."

Mr. Sibbons:" Rio, Apollo and the twins will take tunnel, while the rest of us will hit the front. "

Phoebe:"Where is Apollo?"

Rio:"He should be back soon, he left to scout out the tunnel too make sure they don't have it sealed off or heavilly guarded."

Phoebe: "Oh, ok."

A few minutes passed before yet another hmav arrived.

Phoebe: "Looks like they're here."

The twin sisters got out and came over to us.

Maddox:"Nice to see you two again..."

-somewhat annoyed- Serina: "Good afternoon."

Katrina: "So Mr. Sibbons, what's the mission?"

Mr. Sibbons: "You have the same documents we do."

Serina:"Sorry, but we were paying more attention to the scenery."

Katrina:"There's so many pokemon out today."

Phoebe:"I know right, did you see all the gastrodons by the bridge?"

Katrina: "Um, no, I don't remember a bridge, I think we came a different way."

Katrina: "We saw a carnivine, some quagsires, and some skorupis..."

-surprised- Phoebe: "You saw a carnivine? "

Phoebe: "They usually live much deeper in the forrest, that's strange."

Serina :"It was trying to catch the skorupis..."

Katrina:"Poor things..."

Mr. Sibbons: "Allright everyone, as soon as Apollo returns we're going to split up and head out."

Mr. Sibbons: "Kat, Serina, if you come here, I'll explain the details of the mission to you."

-unenthusiastically- Serina: "Allright."

Rio: "Sooo, Phoebe I see you and Cj are still together.."

Phoebe: "Of course we are...what about you and Apollo?"

Rio:"Yeah, but we're taking it a bit slow..."

Phoebe: "That's allright."

Apollo suddenly came out of the forrest.

Apollo:"Sibbons, I found the tunnels, I checked them out and there's nobody there, but they seem to go on for quite awhile."

Mr. Sibbons: "Good, that means they should lead right into the base."

Katrina:"What if it's more guarded at the entrance?"

Mr. Sibbons:"It shouldn't matter too much, that's why we're sending Cj and Phoebe down there."

Phoebe:"What why?"

Mr. Sibbons:"Because you two have stronger pokemon than us, if you can get into the base you'll be able to gain control more easilly."

Mr. Sibbons: "Rio and Apollo will assist you."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Rio: "Allright then let's go..."

Phoebe: "Hey wait..."

Both lucarios dashed away before she even finished speaking.

-from the edge of the forrest- Rio: "Come on..."

-worried- Phoebe: "-sighs-, slow down, you know we can't move like you can, and I can't even track you cause you're part steel type."

Mr. Sibbons: "Wait, one last thing, unfortunately we can't communicate with you once your're inside the complex, as radio waves can't make it through the walls, so once you leave, we're going to hit the front as soon as possible, and hope we get there before you."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Mr. Sibbons: "And try to keep those two in line."

Phoebe: "We'll try."

We followed them into the forrest, they only slowed down enough so we could keep track of them through all the plants and trees. It was quite a long walk uphill before we got to the entrance of the tunnel.

Apollo: "Here it is...see there's nobody around."

Phoebe:"Well, we'll just have to see what's inside, I'll take the lead from here."

Rio: "Sibbons didn't give you a radio?"

Me: "Well if you two didn't just take off, you would've heard him say that we can't communicate with them once inside the base, so a radio would be practically useless."

-somewhat annoyed- Rio: "Oh...ok..."

Of course, it was pitch black inside and hard to see. The walls and floor were made of a somewhat aged, rough, but still solid concrete, with a bit of graffiti scribbled on them here and there. With Phoebe lighting the way we were able to make quite a bit of progress, keeping quite as to avoid waking the countless sleeping zubats we came across. And we procceeded deeper and deeper inside, the tunnel began to seem like it would go on forever.

Me:" How much longer are we going to be in here?"

Apollo:"I don't know, I never went to the end, didn't feel like walking into a trap."

Me:"-sighs- I might get tired before we even start fighting."

Phoebe:"Oh Cj, relax..."

We took just a few more steps forward.

Phoebe:"Hey look, here's a door."

-unsure- Me: "Where's it go?"

She tried to open it.

Phoebe:" Um it's locked."

She tried to open it again with her powers.

Phoebe: "And the lock is too rusted to move the tumblers."

-impulsively- Rio:"Let me try.."

-unsure- Phoebe:"Uhh..."

Rio punched the doorknob so hard it went through the door, and fell to the floor on the other side, the door slowly coasted open afterwards.

-somewhat surprised- Phoebe:"Okkkayyy."

Me:"I guess that works.."

-smugly- Rio:"Hehehe..."

We proceeded through the door, into a hallway with more concrete walls, it was still dark, and there was still nobody around, there wasn't even a single zubat now. The walls were still covered with graffiti, the names of mischeivous kids and cartoon pokemon and what not, though not quite as dense as the tunnels, and there seemed to be rooms down here, but they were all mostly empty.

Of note there was a large team galactic logo spray painted on the wall of one the rooms, so large it almost took up the entire wall. The hallway seemed to circle around the tunnel's end, with maybe 6 or 8 rooms connected to it, that said, we were still in pitch black darkness and it was hard to find a definite way out.

Phoebe:"Some of these paintings are kind of cool..."

Me:"Yeah I know, but are we on a mission or an art exibit?"

-mischeivously- Phoebe:"I don't know."

Me:"Do you think it would be faster if we used our golbats to get some bearings atleast?"

Phoebe:"Um, maybe, they can do better in the dark than we can."

Phoebe: "And since golbats are native here they could easilly be mistaken for wild ones. "

Phoebe:"So, you think it's worth a shot?"

Me:"Yeah I think so."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Phoebe:"Hold up everybody."

I pulled my golbat's pokeball out of my pocket, and sent it out the same time Phoebe sent out Buzzer.

Me: "Allright Golbat, we need you to scout ahead for us. Keep flying ahead, and turn back when you come across somebody else or a dead end."

Phoebe:"We're counting on you two...you can navigate the dark better than we can."

Golbat: "Golbt..."

They both flew off into the darkness, making many high-pitched squeeks, which they had to do in order to use echolocation.

We procceeded through the corridor, it was only a few more minutes before Buzzer came back, and apparently told Phoebe that the hallway came to an end at a doorway.

A few more minutes later we came upon the doorway with my own Golbat waiting patiently beside it.

Phoebe:"Just like she said.."

Rio:"I got it..."

Phoebe:"Rio wait..."

She punched the door, it opened up right away and slammed against the wall with a loud clang.

Phoebe:"-sighs- That door wasn't locked..."

Rio:"Um..."

Rio:"Sorry."

Phoebe:"We need to keep quiet you know?"

Apollo:"She's right, we don't want team galactic to know we're down here."

Rio:"How do we know they're even here? We haven't even seen any sign of them yet."

Phoebe:"Yes, but this is a big place, they're probably on the higher levels."

Me: Yeah, this is the lowest level of the building."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Rio: "So we should be looking for stairs then?"

Me:" Presumably."

Me:" Go on ahead golbat."

Golbat: "Golbt..."

He slowly hobbled through the door, then took off, making more strange squeeking sounds, Buzzer followed shortly after. Then we followed after them much more slowly.

Me:"So can you sense anyone?"

Phoebe:"I'd tell you if I did Cj."

Me:"I guess the way this place is built, you won't be able to hear them till we're atleast on the same floor."

Phoebe:"Mhmmmmm"

Phoebe:"We're surrounded with metal.."

Me:"Yeah well, this place is built to withstand a nuclear blast."

Phoebe:"Really?"

Me:"Yeah, it probably housed a nuclear missile at some point, so in case something went wrong, it was built to withstand the missile exploding within the building, and possibly also in order to survive enemy nuclear strikes."

Me: "That's the way they were built on my world anyway."

Phoebe: "Yeah well, it sucks now.."

Me:"Oh relax, we'll be fine."

We passed several rooms before making it to the the end of the corridor, and came across an open door which led to an old metal staircase.

Phoebe:"Our golbats must be waiting for us up top."

Me:"I guess so."

The stairs were old and rusted, many steps were rusted through and unsafe to use.

And they kept going up as well, passed one floor, then another, and another, we had to get out on the fourth floor up though, because the door to it was open, and we needed to be sure our golbats hadn't wandered through it.

It was still pitch black, and there was no sign of team galactic, although I couldn't imagine there being too many more abandoned floors.

Like the lower floors, this one was covered with graffiti, though not quite as much.

If it wasn't so dark, we would have left Rio and Apollo to guard the stair case, but since Phoebe was the only source of light they had to come with us.

Anyway, we eventually found Buzzer, who informed Phoebe that my Golbat had gone up further, so Phoebe returned her for a moment and we headed back to the staircase.

The higher we went, the more shaky and dangerous the stairs became, our progress had slowed to a crawl by the sixth floor, a locked door. The stairs ahead were nearly rusted through. Rio and Apollo made it across easilly. Then, once we figured out which steps were stable and which were instant death, Phoebe brought me across, and continued upward, meeting up with Golbat on the 9th floor.

Golbat: "Golbt...golb, golbahhhh, golbt..."

Phoebe: "He says he saw light 4 floors up."

Me: "Ok, so galactic must be using those floors."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Thanks golbat, we'll take it from here."

I returned him to his ball, then made sure my pistol was loaded as we continued up the stairs, by the next floor it appeared that some attempts had been made to repair the rusting steps, patches of newer metal had been welded in along with some additional reinforcements. While the patchwork was ugly, it did make the stairs safer so it wasn't long before we made it up to the floor that Golbat must have seen.

The door was locked, as usual, but there was a noticable glow comming from underneath it.

Phoebe and I quietly put our ears up to the door, trying to listen for anyone who may be on the other side.

Me: "Hear anything?"

Phoebe:" No..."

Me: "Allright, let's go."

She used her powers to unlock the door, it worked this time because galactic had replaced the old, rusted lock with a new one.

On the other side of the door were several portal machines, but nobody was in sight. The portal machines were a bit smaller than the ones Devon had, these were just big enough for a person to fit through.

The lights were on, so we could spread out a bit more.

Me:" Allright we'll take the rooms on the left, you take the ones on the right."

Rio: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Shhhh..."

-quietly- Phoebe: "I'm getting a weak signal...someone's here."

She slowly proceeded down the corridor.

-a bit worried- Me: "Where are you going..?"

Phoebe: "I got this don't worry."

A grunt suddenly game out of one of the portals..."

Unknown grunt: "Doctor it's a madhouse in there, I don't want to go back..."

Me: "Huh?"

-surprised- Unknown grunt: "Who are you?"

I pointed my gun at him.

Me: "Shut up and no one gets hurt..."

Rio quickly tackled him.

Rio: "Stay down galactic scum!..."

Me: "Um...what the hell?"

I heard a loud thud from the opposite end of the hall.

Me: "Huh?"

Phoebe: "I got him...he's out cold."

Unknown grunt: "Doctor!"

She came back through the corridor.

-unsure- Phoebe: "Hey where'd this other guy come from?"

Me: "Out of the portals, where else?"

Rio handcuffed the grunt, while Apollo went to retrieve what was apparently the doctor...

Me:"Ok I guess this floor is cleared."

Phoebe: "Mhm, I don't hear anyone, but these two."

Unknown grunt: "You killed the doctor?"

Phoebe:" No, he's just unconcious..."

Phoebe: "Should I knock you out too?"

Me: "No, wait a second Pheebles..."

Me: "How many others are here?"

Unknown grunt: "Like I would tell you."

Me: "I think you would..."

Me: "If you don't want to get shot."

Unknown grunt: "Ok ok...um...I don't know...30..40?"

Me: "How many scientists?"

Unknown: "Just 3, including the doctor, there's 2 more on the upper floors...don't kill me I'm just a grunt..."

Me: "-sighs-, we're not going to kill you relax..."

Me: "Your panicking annoys me."

Phoebe: "hehe...Cj."

Phoebe:"Sleep time now?"

Me: "Go for it."

Phoebe: "Ok mister, time to sleep."

Unknown grunt: "No wait, what, I thought you said..."

She put him to sleep, still thinking we were going to kill him.

Me: "Allright, next floor."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

We headed back to the stairs.

We came across another grunt before we even made it to the next floor, but we were able to quietly knock him out and still keep an element of surprise.

Rio:" We'll take the floor above you."

Me: "Ok, just take it easy."

Both lucarios continued up the stairs while Phoebe and I prepared to break into the next floor. However the door wasn't even locked this time, so after quietly listening for movement on the other side, we slowly opened it, revealing a large room with several portals, not much different from the last.

-quietly- Phoebe:" There's some scientists further back."

Me: "Ok."

We headed to another corridor at the back of the room.

At the end of the corridor was a large armored door which, more than likely led into the old silo, which is where the missile would've been housed before this place was abandoned.

Anyway, alongside the corridor were two smaller rooms that appeared to had been quickly retro-fitted into labs, filled with computer equipment, presumable to control the portals.

Here we found the scientists the grunt had mentioned earlier.

Unknown Scientist: "Hey what the?"

Phoebe:" Goodnight."

Other unknown scientist:" Wha noo...wait...magnaton help me out here."

He sent out a magnaton.

-nervous- Phoebe: "Huh?"

Me:"Leave her alone you stupid tin can."
I fired at it...just to draw it away from her, I knew it wouldn't do any good.

-angry- Magnaton: "MAG!"

I heard a zapping noise and then began to shake uncontrollably as it shocked me, it hurt like hell, I fell to my knees, and tried to get a pokeball out of my pocket, fortunately it was low level, otherwise it probably would've killed me. It didn't have the amperage nor the strength to keep it going long enough to cause any fatal damage. It still basically felt like getting hit with a taser, not a particularly pleasent experience.

-worried- Phoebe: "Cj?"

-shocked (literraly)- Me: "Ga-get his trainer..."

Phoebe: "Right.."

She teleported behind the other scientist and quickly knocked him out.

The magnaton didn't like this and shocked her too...

Me:"Look out.."

Magneton: "MAG!"

I heard another zapping noise..., though it didn't seem to affect her as much as me.

Phoebe: "Owww, you..."

Phoebe:" Crap, you're steel type..."

Me: "Hellblade, faflamethrower now!"

I barely managed to send him out, even though the magneton wasn't attacking me anymore I was having difficulty controlling my arms.

He hit the magneton point blank, it fell to the ground, unconcious.

Phoebe: "-sighs-...that was close..."

Me: "Good wawork heHellblade..."

He gave me a concerned look, I was still on my knees at this point, shaking uncontrollably,

Me: "I'll be fafine...it wasn't that stastrong..."

I returned Hellblade, while Phoebe returned the magneton to it's ball.

Phoebe: "Can't just leave him, out he could die."

Me: "True."

-concerned- Phoebe: "Are you ok?"

She helped me up, but I couldn't stop shaking...

Me: "I tried to kakeep him from zazapping you, but I gaguess it didn't work."

Phoebe: "Ohhh... it's ok Cj, I have potions.."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, you goofball."

Phoebe: "You didn't have to do that.."

Phoebe: "I'm not as fragile as I look..."

Me: "-sighs-, I knaknow."

She handed me a potion. it relieved the burning, but it didn't do much to relieve the shaking..

Me:"It's nanot wawaworking, I can't...staha-op sheshaking."

-sarcastically- Phoebe:"Great..."

Phoebe:"You're paralyzed."

Me:"Dadamn.."

Phoebe:"Maybe we should just wait it out.."

Me:"mammaybe..."

Phoebe:"Sit down, you need to relax..."

Me:"I dadon't know how.."

I suddenly realized I couldn't control my legs.

Phoebe:"-sighs-, this isn't good."

As soon as I could feel my legs again I sat down, then she sat down next to me.

Me:"You should gigo, I'll be fafine here."

-sternly- Phoebe:"No, I'm not leaving you..."

Phoebe:"You should know that by now, nothing you say will make me leave."

Me:"hehehe, yeah-ah, I guess your're raright."

Phoebe:"Besides, it should wear off in a few minutes, since you still have intermittant control."

Me :"So ththis is what it's like?"

Phoebe:"Shhhhhhh...don't move, it goes away faster if you try not to move..."

Me: "okakay..."

Phoebe: "-giggles-."

We sat there for awhile, we could faintly hear Rio and Apollo fighting it out on the floor above.

It was about five minutes before the shaking showed any sign of letting up.

Me: "Ok...I think..it's starting to go away..."

Phoebe: "Good."

Phoebe: "Try to stand up."

I managed to stand, I was still twitching on occasion though not as violently as before.

She stood up as well.

Phoebe: "Lets try to make it back to the staircase, I'll lead, in case there's more galactics to deal with."

-tiredly- Me: "Ok."

The shaking had tired me out, it was obvious to me that the rest of this job would be a grind, but I had to keep going.

We made it up to the next floor, Rio and Apollo had done a number on the place, what was left seemed to be some kind of lab, with a only a handful of portals this time around. There were several grunts lying on the floor in handcuffs, all of them still conscious, prompting Phoebe to go around and put them to sleep.

Fortunately, it seemed that there were only a few floors left to go until we would meet up with the others on the surface.

Me: "You know you didn't have to destroy everything..."

Rio: "So...?"

Rio: "What happened Cj you don't look so good?"

Phoebe: "He got zapped ..."

Rio: "Oh...ok..."

Apollo: "I think we got everyone on this floor."

Phoebe: "Ok then, if you want to take the next floor, we'll take the one after that.."

Apollo: "Right..."

They both ran back to the stairs, leaving us both bewildered.

-confused- Phoebe:"How are they not tired yet?"

Me: "I don't know."

We headed back to the stairs, and eventually made it to the floor after the next. I could now see the top end of the staircase, so we were only a few more floors from the surface.

This next floor was some kind of recreational area, up front there was a tv and a few couches, chairs, and a table for some kind of chess-like board game. And the end of the corridor there was also another armored door leading into the old silo. The walls were freshly painted, with a large, stylized Galactic logo adorning the left.

Phoebe: "I can't hear anybody..."

Me: "Hmm..."

Me:"Let's check out the back rooms just to be safe."

Phoebe:"Ok."

I took the room on the left, she took the one on the right, both rooms contained about a half dozen bunk beds. All of them empty.

Phoebe:"There's no one here."

Me: "Maybe it's because we're getting close to the surface?"

Phoebe: "I hope so."

Me: "Why don't you go back and tell the others, I'll check out the next floor."

Phoebe: "Ok."

We headed back to the stairs.

If the other team did attack the front, they should have drawn most of grunts on the upper floors to them, so chances were the upper most floors would be empty. The base didn't seem to have an alarm system, so the grunts and scientists we apprehended on the lower floors may have been completely unaware that the other team was attacking the front gate. This seemed more and more to be the case, as I ascended up the stairs to the next floor and and after thoroughly search found it to be unnoccupied as well.

This floor was a lot like the last, a lounge area with tv in the front, but it had a bathroom in the back, a small, shabby kitchen, and another bunkroom.

It was quiet, except for some kind of sports game playing on the tv. I searched every room and couldn't find anyone...I also took a soda from the fridge in the kitchen because I was thirsty after climbing all the stairs. Then I sat on the couch and watched tv for a bit until the rest of my team arrived.

Phoebe: "-giggles-,What are you doing?"

Me: "Taking a break, waiting for you."

Me: "There's nobody here either."

Phoebe: "I know that, but where did you get the soda?"

Phoebe: "I'm thirsty..."

Me: "There's a kitchen back there, there's a few more in the fridge...I think they have some oran berry juice too.."

Phoebe: "I hope so."

Rio: "Hey I'm thirsty too..."

Apollo:" Me too."

She headed to the kitchen, the lucarios followed, they helped themselves to some drinks and came back out.

Phoebe: "Ok, we need to get going again..."

Me: "I'm pretty sure we won't run into anyone else down here."

Phoebe: "Yeah, there's only two floors left, everyone else probably headed outside to fight the other team."

Phoebe:" Which is why we need to get going, in case the other team can't hold them off."

Me: "Oh allright, let's go then."

We headed back to the stairs, the next was clear, and the floor after that, was the top.

We could here occasional gunshots and various pokemon attacks, there was a battle going on outside, the other team hadn't made it through yet.

Phoebe: "Atleast we're not underground anymore."

Me: "Yeah."

We found ourselves traveling down yet another corridor, with tiny windows on the right where we could catch just a glimpse of the outside world.

On the left there was the occasional room, first another bunk room, then some bathrooms, and then another room with a large open vault that was apparently full of guns and pokeballs not too long ago. A few dorm rooms with more luxurious appointments than the bunk rooms, And finally a room that appeared to be some type of office, possibly for some higher ranking galactic official. After that we came across a large, armored door at the end of the corridor that just had to be the exit. It wasn't locked, so with some effort we were able to push it open.

Phoebe: "OK, give me a moment, there's gallies all over the place..."

Me: "Gallies? That's what you're calling them?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Oookayy."

Phoebe: "wait a minute..."

Me: "Huh?"

Phoebe: "I'm contacting the twins..."

Phoebe: "They say the other team is allright, but they're pinned at the front gate."

Phoebe: "Maddox is trying to get in from the back..."

Phoebe: "Um..."

Phoebe: "Yeah Maddox has gotten in...if I'm hearing this correctly..."

Me: "How can you tell?"

Phoebe:" He's in the base and he's the only one in the base that's thinking about shooting galactics aside from you."

Me :"Oh."

Apollo: "Where is he then?"

-excitedly- Phoebe: "Just a second."

She took my hand and teleported us to the roof. The roof was also concrete and was kind of round shaped, so it was a bit awkward to walk around on.

-somewhat worried- Me: "Pheebles?"

She promptly went up behind a lone sniper and knocked him unconcious.

Phoebe: "Be careful, we're on the roof."

Phoebe:"With this guy up here we couldn't safely leave or he would see us."

Me: "I see what you mean..."

Phoebe:" Most of the grunts are at the front gate, but there are a few that stayed back just in case."

-on radio- unknown grunt: "Bunker this is the front gate, we have the intruders pinned, still no info on who they are yet..."

Phoebe: "Um...that's not good."

Me: "Can I see that rifle?"

Phoebe: "Um...sure, I guess."

Me: "Sweet thanks babe.."

Phoebe: "-giggles-."

Phoebe: "Another new toy for you?"

Me: "Hehehe, I guess so."

Phoebe: "-giggles-"

Me: "Can you get to the front gate from here?"

Phoebe: "No, sorry, it's too far away, and even if I could, there's too many grunts Cj, I can't take them all out in time."

Me: "True."

Me: "Then I guess that means..."

Phoebe: "Yeah, it probably does..."

-menacingly- Me: "hehehe.."

I layed down on the roof.

Looked through the scope of the rifle, and found the front gate, it was atleast a mile away, across relatively flat, open land. There wasn't much around here besides the bunker, and the ruins of a few old wooden buildings.

Phoebe: "Do you think you can get them?"

Me: "It's worth a shot.."

Phoebe: "That's not funny."

Me: "It wasn't supposed to be.."

Phoebe: "Well, then I'll leave you to your work, I'm going to go find Maddox."

Me: "Just be careful baby girl."

Phoebe: "I know."

She teleported away, leaving me on my own. To a different kind of fighting, sniping was all about precision. I was far enough away that they wouldn't see me, but I could see them thanks to the scope that adorned my newly aquired toy. Of course I only had a few shots before they realized what was going on, so I had to make them count. It felt weird to be fighting without Phoebe, but I tried to stay more focused on the mission than on my concern for her, she would be fine, she knew where all the grunts were.

I shut the radio off so I could be free from it's constant chatter. I had to hold the rifle steady to get the precision I would need, but my body was weak from the electric shocks, my hands were trembling uncontrolably, making it difficult to keep the recticle on a target long enough to pull the trigger. But after I minute or so I made my first mark, then a second, then a third, and so on until the other team was finally able to breach the front gate. Little did I know another grunt had snuck up behind me.

Grunt: "Drop it..."

I had no choice but to comply.

He kept his gun trained on me, the look in his eyes, he wasn't planning to let me live...

Grunt:"Who do you work for?"

Me:"What's it to you?"

He shot me in the leg.

-in pain- Me:"hehehe...owwww..."

-angrily- Grunt:"Who do you work for?"

It hurt, but after all the crap I went through during the disaster, I was used to it by now, or maybe I was just too tired or too focused to feel the full brunt of the pain, regardless the pain prohibited me from getting back up.

Fortunately Phoebe suddenly came up behind him and used her powers to throw him against the ground with force. She was only like this when I got hurt...

-angrily- Phoebe: "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"

Me: "Hehehe you're screwed now..."

-concerned- Phoebe: "Arceus, Cj you're bleeding.."

Phoebe:"-sighs-, I leave you alone for five minutes, and you're bleeding..."

Me: "It's just one shot, I'll be fine.."

Phoebe: "Then get up..."

-busted- Me: "Eheh..."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "-sighs-, Cj...What am I going to do with you?"

She closed her eyes, as the grunt's arms began to twist backwards causing him to scream in unimaginable pain..

Me: "Baby girl go easy on him..."

Phoebe: "He shot you."

Me: "So?, you don't need to turn him into a pretzel..."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, see you are nice.."

-still annoyed- Phoebe: "lucky for him..."

She let him go, then knocked him out.

Me: "Where's Maddox?"

Phoebe: "He's with Rio and Apollo."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe:"You need a potion again don't you...?"

-masking the pain- Me:" Probably..."

Phoebe: "-sighs-."

Phoebe:"You know you're going to have to take your pants off...the potion won't soak through them very well."

-in pain- Me:"Yeah I know.. just give me the potion..."

Phoebe:"Ok ok..."

She finally gave me the potion, I quickly took my pants off, healed myself, and then got dressed again.

Me:"There, good."

Phoebe:"Ok let's go."

She took my hand and we teleported away.

We met up with the rest of the team, and then we made our way towards the front gate, meeting the other team about halfway.

Mr. Sibbons:"So I take it the inside is secure?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Apollo:"We handcuffed everyone we could find.

:"Ok, good."

Agent Grayford:"That was you, with the rifle?"

Me:"Yeah..."

Agent Grayford:"You really saved our asses..."

Me:"Ehhh it was nothing..."

Phoebe:"-sighs- oh Cj..."

:"The works not over yet, we need to do a complete search of the facility, we need to interrogate the scientist, and well, I highly doubt Team Galactic is going to sit back and let us take one of their bases."

:"So we need to evacuate the building, grab their scientists and all their documentation, and light this place up before their reinforcements arrive.

I noticed some choppers comming in from the distance.

Me:"Our those ours?"

Phoebe:"I hope so."

:"I believe that is our cleanup crew."

We waited for the choppers to arrive. Once they did, countless agents of lower rank hopped out and headed into the bunker. I never thought about it before, but apparently we were the elite, we were the ones that did the damage, and the others just cleaned up after us after the dust settled.

Awe well, I was tired, and couldn't be more thrilled when we boarded the chopper on a trip back to the airport, Serina and Katrina stayed behind in case Galactic reinforcements arrived early.

Once at the airport, everyone parted ways, Phoebe and I took an arranged charter flight back to Goldenrod, during which we both fell asleep on the plane. After we got off the plane, it was very late at night, and the normal 50 minute drive home seemed to last forever just because we were so tired. Eventually though, we made it home. Then we both sat on the couch and fell asleep sometime later, not even awake enough to make it up to our room...