Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

9. Manic Monday

-chapter 9-

The next day we headed to the lab after taking Nina to school.

Unsurprisingly, what happened at the club last night was all over the news. Fortunately we weren't mentioned, but the big story was about Team Rocket's return.

The story was basically a bunch of crap, stating that Team Rocket had returned, even though there was no way team rocket was as powerful as it used to be. It was less like actual team rocket we used to fight and more of just a rag-tag group of former team rocket members that managed to escape imprisonment. Their leader was gone, their facilities were gone, they didn't have anywhere near the strength and presence they used to have. However, this event still had James flustered, security was beefed up at all the prisons, especially the ones which housed Team Rocket's most notorious scientists and leaders. The news story then continued to attempt to explain why Team Rocket had kidnapped a presumably innocent old man. At this point in time, the general public was completely unaware of Myrenthal, as his existence was kept secret.

Unfortunately, Christine was confirmed to have recently escaped, another former member somehow managed to let her out of her power bracelets...and at that point there was no stopping her, she escaped along with about 60 other prisoners, 48 of which were rearrested shortly afterwards, but the remaining twelve had not yet been apprehended and were still at large, I wouldn't be surprised if they were the other team rocket grunts we had encountered yesterday.

So basically, a small team of former team Rocket Members, presumably led by Christine, had taken Myrenthall somewhere. What they intended to do with him was anyone's guess.

After we arrived at the facility and headed inside, we were approached by Dr. Nash just outside the lab.

Dr. Nash: "Ok, you two are agents, I can't let you take part in any experiments yet, as of 5:00am Director Bund has placed all forces on high alert."

Me: "You mean James right?"

Dr. Nash: "Affirmative."

Me: "K."

Me: "What's the deal?"

Dr. Nash: "If you haven't seen the news yet, yesterday Team Rocket was spotted attacking a nightclub in downtown Goldenrod, they abducted an unidentified old man.

Dr. Nash: "If Team Rocket is still around it makes our company look bad, so all agents are to be on high alert while the surveliance team keeps a sharp eye out for further activity. "

Apparently he was unaware we were at that club as well.

Me: "But they're not back...they can't be."

Phoebe:"Yeah, we only saw 12 of them yesterday..."

Until Phoebe inadvertantly blew our cover...

Dr. Nash:"What did you say?"

-realizing- Phoebe: "Um..."

-somewhat annoyed- Me: "Pheebles..."

-hesitantly- Phoebe: "We were there...we saw it..."

-hesitantly- Phoebe :"The old man they kidnapped wasn't some innocent guy, it was Myrenthall."

Dr. Nash:" What?"

Phoebe: "I know it's weird, it looked like they were working together but then...um...whoever was leading them double crossed him."

Me:"It was Christine..."

-correctively- Phoebe: "Cj...we don't know that for sure..."

Dr. Nash: "So they have Myrenthall?"

Me :" Mhm."

Dr. Nash :"Hmm."

Phoebe: "I already told Melissa so there's no need to tell them."

Dr. Nash :"So James already knows this?"

Phoebe: "He should."

Dr. Nash: "Ok, I'll still have to make sure though."

Dr. Nash: "Anyway, protocol states that all agents on staff are to meet in room 258."

Dr. Nash: "It's on the other side of the building, so just follow this hallway around, head up the stairs, find the room and wait for further instruction."

Phoebe: "What about Charley?"

Dr. Nash: "He should be fine with you, for now."

Phoebe: "Ok."

It was a long walk to 258, but we eventually got there and took a seat inside. A handful of other agents were here as well. The facility really didn't have too many agents on staff, just us, and a few that acted as security guards, humorously disguising themselves as scientists and even janitorial staff. Anyway Charley was getting a bit anxious and began to act up.

Charley: "Mawa...Cawey wa dow..."
Phoebe: "Charley I can't let you down, there's alot of people in here."

Phoebe: "I can set you on the table though."

She carefully set him on the table.

Phoebe: "Just stay away from the edge."

He began to crawl towards me.

Phoebe :"Cj watch him, he's heading for you."

Me:" Oh...hi little guy."

Charley: "Dawhy."

Me: "Watch where you're going."

Charley: "Cawey see..."

Me: "What do you see?"

He pointed towards the back of the room.

Me: "What? I don't get it."

Phoebe: "Me neither.."

Phoebe: "What are you pointing at...?"

Charley: " Cawey see ...gwow..."

Me: "You mean the floor?"

Phoebe:"The ground is only outside sweety."

Charley: "Cawey wa go ow-sy.."

Phoebe: "No..."

Phoebe: "We have to stay here."

Charley: "Cawey wa oswa..."

Phoebe: "Um...let me see."

She began to look through her purse...eventually she found Charley's oshawott plush.

Phoebe: "Here you go sweety.."

Charley: "Oswa..."

-happily...cutely- Charley:" Mawa...Cawey luh oswa...mawa geh oswa fo Cawey.."

-enamored- Phoebe: "Mhm.."

Me:"Hehehe."

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

Phoebe: "Awwwwe... I love you too."

Me: "So what's oswa going to do today?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno..."

A strange man entered and approached the front of the room.

Phoebe: "Looks like he has something to say."

-softly- Phoebe: "Ok Charley time to quiet down now."

unknown agent: "Allright everyone, listen up."

unknown agent: "Is there anyone here that doesn't know what's going on?"

unknown agent: "Ok good, that means I don't have to explain it."

unknown agent: "However, there are some other announcements I need to make on behalf of Director Bund."

unknown agent: "First off, Devon's official stance is that team rocket is gone, they have not returned, and we will not be fighting them again..."

unknown agent: "But, the events that occurred last night seem to indicate a new threat."

Unknown Agent: "Need I remind you that the anomaly known as Myrenthall that escaped from the portals just a few days ago is still out there?"

Unknown Agent: "Anyway, here's what's going on..."

Unknown Agent: "At this moment the surveillance team is monitoring cameras all across the city, looking for any sign of these Team Rocket wannabes, and for the anomaly….their skarmorys have also been released and are already on patrol as we speak."

The surveillance team also had several trained skarmorys equipped with radios and cameras. Giving them an overhead view of areas the camera system didn't cover, such as residential districts. The skarmory were also able to locate and pursue specific targets. In effect, they were used almost like a police helicopter, with numerous advantages. They could also outperform and outrange a typical helicopter, and had drastically lower maintenance costs. That said, your typical, unarmed police helicopters are a rare thing in the pokemon world, for the price of maintaining one, you could have an army of well trained, powerful flying types.

Unknown Agent: "When and if they are found, the police will be notified, and the agents closest to the area will be called to the scene."

Unknown Agent: "However, since Goldenrod is a large city, and since most of our agents tend to be condensed around our facilities, because we are on alert status, we need to be more spread out."

Unknown Agent: "So, over the next few hours, you've all been assigned sections of the city to patrol."

Other unknown Agent:" So what? We're the police now?"

-somewhat annoyed- Unknown Agent: "Please save all questions until after briefing."

Unknown Agent: " And no, this is a Devon matter, the normal police wouldn't be expected to handle, ."

Unknown Agent: "The police department has been notified of the situation, and will assist by evacuating civilians and other non-combatants in case a fight breaks out, as well as provide backup if necessary."

Unknown Agent: "If you don't have a car, or even a car you're willing to risk, we can provide you with one, you will also be provided with power bracelets, radios and weapons if you need them."

Unknown Agent: "If you happen to possess any strong ghost or bug type pokemon, those would also come in handy, though all responsibility will fall on the trainer."

He picked a stack of papers up off the desk.

Unknown Agent: "Anyway, here is a map of the city, and the next two pages contain a list of all the allotted sections and who they're assigned too."

Unknown Agent: "Find your names, and get to your section as soon as possible."

Phoebe: "Do you think they split us up?"

Me: "I doubt it..."

We waited as he passed out the maps.

Each section contained about 4-8 city blocks, depending of course on the size of the blocks and the terrain. They were identified by a very loose coordinate system. The section Nina's school was in, coordinates (A,A) was one of the largest, consisting of almost the entire east border of the city, of course there was a wide boulevard there, so it didn't take long to travel from the north side to the south. Anyway, we were assigned a residential section, (Q, J) , just a few blocks west of where James and Mellissa used to live before their house was destroyed a while ago.

For the first time ever, we brought Charley along with us, thinking he'd be safe in the car. Once we got to our section, we parked in a lot next to a park, and had some lunch we had picked up from a drivethrough on the way. The radio was on the correct channel, so if the surveilance team spotted anything, we would hear them. After we finished our food, Phoebe decided to take Charley out to the park, while I stayed in the car to man the radio. Every few minutes the surveilance team would chime in with a status report, usually stating that hadn't seen anything yet, or that they may have seen something suspicious in a particular section, and that whoever was patrolling that section (which never seemed to be ours) should go check it out. Needless to say, it was kind of boring, and I kind of wished I could take the radio out of the car so I could go join my wife and son in the park..., but this idea was obviously unfeasible so I had to settle for just watching them play from afar.

-on radio- surveillance agent: "Cj, Phoebe are you there? Requesting status report..."

My mind had wandered off for a moment...

Me: "Uh..."

-into radio- Me:"Yeah we're here, what's going on?"

surveillance agent: "Nothing...just wondering if you were still listening."

-a bit let down- Me: "-sighs-..ok..."

Me: "Um...yeah we're here..."

Surveillance agent: "Ok good enough.."

Several minutes passed, Phoebe was doing a good job keeping Charley occupied.

They looked so happy, it was hard to stay in the car.

The radio kept chattering on...until the van we saw Neo team rocket escape in yesterday was apparently spotted in section (Q,G) , in an alleyway between some small shops. The agents responsible for patrolling that section were called in to investigate, while everyone in the surrounding sections, including us, were told to be ready.

So I left the car for a moment to get Phoebe, who was playing in the sandbox with Charley.

Me: "Uh baby girl, they found the van...we should get going."

-unsure- Phoebe: "The van?"

-confused- Phoebe: "Our van?"

She was a bit distracted by Charley.

Me: "No, the van Neo Team Rocket escaped in yesterday...they got the plates from the security cameras at the club."

Phoebe:" Oh...ok."

Phoebe:" Come on Charley, we have to go..."

She took a moment to brush the sand off of his clothes... before picking him up.

-playfully- Phoebe: "Up we go!"

-unsure- Charley: " Cawey wa dow?"

Phoebe:"No...Charley, we need to go..."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Come on."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Let's go play with daddy.."

-a bit overwhelmed- Me: "Hehe..."

We started to head back to the car.

Me: "You know we really need to get a portable cb."

Phoebe: "So you can play with us?"

Me: "Yeah."

-unsure- Phoebe: "They were lending some out at the facility, why didn't you take one?"

Me: "Um...they were?"

Phoebe:"Mhmmm."

-unsure- Me: "Ummmmmm..."

-awkwardly- Me: "Why didn't you take one?"

Phoebe: "I didn't think we would need one..."

Me: "Hehe...me neither."

Phoebe: "We'll take one next time."

Me: "Fair enough."

We returned to the car and got in.

-into radio- Me: "Any updates...are we still on alert? I think we're in section…(S ,F) at the moment."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "We have a few agents covering the van...why don't you move a few sections west to (Q, I)? In case they need support? "

-on radio- unknown agent: "This is Chuck...we found the van, no sign of the anomaly or any suspicious individual."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "Ok, proceed to investigate the surrounding buildings, just know that we won't be able to see you once you're in there."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "Everyone in the surrounding sections, I need roadblocks setup on every street in the eight square sections surrounding the one under current investigation."

-on radio- Surveliance Agent: "Everyone in the nearby sections, in the 5x5 square of (O, E)-(S,I) should assist with the roadblocks if necessary."

Phoebe: "What does that mean?"

Me: "I guess it means we have to find a road leaving the section, block it off, and make sure Christine or any of those rocket guys is not allowed to pass."

Phoebe:"What about the others?"

Me :"I guess we'll have to let them pass...we aren't looking for them."

Me: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "Cj, I don't think we should have Charley with us, he could be in danger.."

-on radio- Surveliance Agent: "Cj you still there?"

-into radio- Me: "Yeah?"

Phoebe took the radio from me.

Me: "Hey what are you?"

-into radio- Phoebe: "Look um...can we go to the pokemon center real quick, the one in (S,E)?"

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "If you hurry"

Phoebe: "Good."

Phoebe: "Cj let's go the center."

Me: "Why?"

Phoebe: "So the Nurse can look after Charley for us, for a bit."

Me: "They can do that?"

Phoebe: "Well, the one at the center we usually go to will probably understand."

Me: "On such short notice?

-somewhat desperate- Phoebe: "Just go...please?"

Phoebe: "You know we shouldn't bring him with us."

Me: "Yeah...-sighs-...you're right."

-concerned- Charley: "Mawa..."

He wasn't crying but it seemed like he was about too.

-calmly- Phoebe: "Charley don't worry...it'll be fine..."

Me: "What's he upset about?"

Phoebe: "He sees me acting scared...so...he's a bit nervous too."

Me:"Why are you so scared? Nothing is happening right now."

Phoebe: "I'm not...anymore...now that we're heading to the center."

Me: "If you say so."

-concerned- Charley: "Cawey dunno mawa alwy..."

Me: "hehehe..."

-calmly- Phoebe :"I'm allright Charley...just settle down."

We arrived at the center about a half hour later, it was a fair distance away, and traffic wasn't helping things. Phoebe brought him into the center, while, once again, I stayed in the car, manning the radio in case something crazy happened.

It was atleast another 10 minutes before Phoebe came back out.

Phoebe: "Ok the nurse said she'll keep an eye on him for a little bit."

Phoebe: "But she also said this isn't a daycare, so...this will just have to be a one time thing."

Me: "We need to find a daycare..."

Phoebe: "Yeah...we should."

Phoebe: "Did anything happen while I was gone?"

Me: "No not really, they didn't find anything in the building on the right, so now they're looking through the one on the left."

I started the car, and we headed back over to our assigned section.

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me: "Are you afraid of having to go up against Christine again?"

Phoebe: "Cj..."

She gave me a strange look.

-overconfidently- Phoebe: "Nina... took her down last time..."

Me:"She got lucky, Christine didn't know she had Sparky."

-realizing- Phoebe:"Yeah, I guess that's true."

Phoebe: "What, are you trying to make me afraid?"

Me: "No..."

Me: "I'm just making sure you're not so I know I can rely on you..."

Phoebe: "Aweeee...Cj..."

Me: "Now, what about Myrenthal?"

Phoebe: "As long as he doesn't make another amplifyer, I think we'll be ok."

Me: "He seems to have a bit more than just his powers though."

Me: "I don't know if magic exist in this world, or if it just exists in his, but remember what he did to Charley?"

Phoebe: "He encased his soul into an orb..."

Me: "I don't think any Pokémon can do something like that.."

Phoebe: "So he could have abilities we don't even know about?"

Me: "Mhm."

-on radio- Agent Chuck: "This is Chuck again, we found some...unconcious individuals...bringing them outside for confirmation..."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "Allright...the database is ready, put them up against the back of the van so we can get a visual, an ambulance will be sent momentarilly."

-on radio- Agent Chuck: "Roger that."

-into radio- Phoebe: "Is one of them a gardevoir?"

-on radio- Agent Chuck: "No mam...all human."

-on radio- Agent Chuck: "Still no sign of the anomaly either."

-into radio- Phoebe: "Ok."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "Are you on your way back now?"

-into radio- Phoebe: "Mhm."

-on radio-Surveilance Agent: "Ok, why don't you head to the section immediately to the right of where Chuck's team is? There's other teams there, but they're busy setting up roadblocks."

-on radio-Surveilance Agent: "There's a few low rent apartments there you need to search. It's just a few blocks from where the van is parked. "

-on radio-Surveilance Agent: "With any luck they may have spent the night there."

-into radio- Phoebe: "Ok."

-on radio-Agent Chuck: "There's a loft apartment here too, but its empty."

-on radio-Surveilance Agent: "That makes sense, I don't think they would stay that close to their van...it's too obvious."

-on radio-Agent Chuck:"Right."

Phoebe: "I wonder what he's up too."

Me: "I don't know...you mean Myrenthall right?"

Phoebe: "Mhm...did he escape from Christine, or does she still have him in bracelets?"

-on radio- Surveliance Agent: "Agent Chuck...we can confirm those two individuals were involved in the incident...however, given their current state there's not much we can do but take them to the hospital, an ambulance should arrive shortly. "

-on radio- Unknown Agent: "Road block setup in our section..(O,I)...haven't seen anything suspicious yet.."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "We know agent, we can see you on the camera."

I turned the radio down.

Me: "Who knows, personally I'm a bit more afraid of him than Christine...we've beaten her before."

Phoebe: "Yeah."

Phoebe :"We can't let Nina know she escaped again..."

Me: "I don't know about that..."

Phoebe: "What do you mean?"

Me: "Maybe it would be better if she knew..."

Me: "She'd know to look out for her that way. In case she comes for us again."

Phoebe: "I don't think she's going to come after us for quite a while though. I think she has something else in mind...at least, for now."

Eventually we arrived at the apartments, they were fairly tall buildings. There were too many rooms to search in a feasible amount of time, so we just strolled down the halls and relied on Phoebe to use her powers to detect the rockets... Even that was somewhat difficult because there were so many people. It took a solid hour to search both buildings this way, and Phoebe was exhausted afterwards.

-tired- Phoebe: "Can we take a break now?"

We had just entered the elevator...

Me: "Yeah, I think that was the last floor..."

I pressed the button and we started to head back down to the lobby.

Me: "Why so tired?"

Phoebe: "There's over 400 people in this building, I had to check all of them..."

-tired- Phoebe: "I have such a headache right now."

Phoebe: "All their thoughts in my head at the same time.."

Me: "That does kind of sound like it would suck."

Phoebe: "Tell me about it..."

Phoebe: "I heard some gardevoirs can't even shut it off...so...they tend to avoid crowds.."

Me: "You can shut it off?"

Phoebe: "Well duh...Cj come on..."

Phoebe: "How do you think I'm able to avoid reading your thoughts all the time?"

Me: "I thought you just ignored them?"

Phoebe: "-sighs- Yeah.I 's kind of like that..."

-stressed- Phoebe: "I don't know...my head hurts..."

Me: "Just relax baby..."

Once we made it to the lobby we left the elevator and headed out to the car.

Phoebe immediately put the seat all the way back.

Me: "Comfortable?"

Phoebe: "Trying to be..."

Phoebe:"Can you keep the radio down?"

Me: "I'll keep it as low as I can sweety."

Me: "We still need to hear them though."

Phoebe:" I know."

-Into radio- Me: "This is Cj, we just finished searching the apartments, we did not find anybody."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "Do you not have a portable radio?"

-into the radio- Me: "Not at the moment..."

-on radio- Surveliance Agent: "There's a hot pursuit going on the highway in sector (T,S)."

-surprised- Me:"What?"

-on radio- Surveliance Agent: "It's an old Rocket sedan, the plate number matches one we've been searching for for quite a while. They must have had it stashed somewhere, or maybe even bought it back through one of their aliases. The police tried to pull it over, but it's fast and not stopping, I think we may have found them."

-on radio- Surveliance Agent :"Some agents are already heading over there, you have one of their sedans, go help them."

-on radio- Surveliance Agent: "They must have ditched the van and headed further south."

I began to hear a siren in the distance.

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "On the south end of sector (T,Q) there's an on-ramp, if you hurry you should be able to intercept them, another team of agents should pass you shortly, follow them, they have sirens, they'll escort you so you can disregard the speed limit. "

-into radio- Me: "Cool."

Just moments later an agency sedan with lights flashing and sirens blaring arrived, slowing down just enough for us to catch up to it. We raced down the streets, ignoring almost every traffic law, going nearly 130 in some places. We had to slow down once we got to sector (R,H), as the road blocks had made traffic fairly heavy.

It took only seven minutes for us to get to the highway, a little less than half the time it would have usually taken.

Once we got there, we pulled over and waited for about a minute or so until the rocket sedan passed, followed by 2 more agency sedans, and a skarmory trailing behind, flying surprisingly fast.

We both joined the pursuit and began to chase after them.

Phoebe: "I'm so glad we left Charley at the center now if he was here he'd be screaming."

Me: "Just hang on baby."

Me: "Relax I got this..."

Me: "Besides, Charley would love this."

She just looked at me like I was crazy and didn't respond, but just a moment later I could swear I saw her smile from the corner of my eye.

-on radio- Unknown Agent: "It's no use they're faster than us…."

-on radio- Unknown Agent: "If they get a break from traffic they'll pull ahead."

-Into radio- Me:" We have the same car they do, we should be able to keep up."

-on radio-Unknown Agent: "But you'd be taking them on on your own."

-Into radio- -Into radio- Me: "We don't have much of a choice do we?" ;

Me: "Unless we have more guys up ahead." ;

-on radio- Unknown Agent:"Go for it."

-into radio- Me: "Allright, then."

We were already flying, going nearly twice the speed limit, the agency sedans carefully let us get out in front, and before long we barring down on the rocket sedan, which was pretty much identical to ours except it still had badges. It also seemed to be a bit faster, which was strange, I honestly couldn't figure out why at the time. Eventually we came across a pair of busses, which took up both lanes and allowed us to catch up. We were trying to figure out who was in the car, if it was just a grunt or Christine, but the windows were so dark it was hard to tell. The driver panicked and beeped the horn ceaselessly until the busses pulled over because of the approaching agency sedans. I was a bit quicker to go through the resulting gap than they were. I just barely pulled ahead of them when they rammed me, and it was then that we discovered why their car was faster, it wasn't reinforced, it had the same engine as ours, but was a civilian model, and at least a ton lighter. We almost spun out but I was able to regain control. They regained control as well, though by then we were firmly ahead of them.

They scratched our paint and put a dent in the door, at the cost of their right headlight, which was now smashed out, and some pretty bad looking damage on their front right. However the damage wasn't yet catastrophic, so they weren't done just yet.

Phoebe: "That was close, that was too close."

Me: "It's allright."

Phoebe: "How are we going to fix this?"

Me: "We'll fix it don't worry."

-tense- Me: "Calm down baby, I need to stay ahead of them."

-somewhat worried- Phoebe: "mmm."

-int0 radio- Me: "I don't think their car is as strong as ours, they did more damage to themselves than to us with that little stunt."

-on radio- Unknown Agent: "That's good to know, try to stay ahead and slow them down."

Me: "Right."

I slowed down a bit, and used the mirrors to try to keep them from passing me. There was a good, long break in the traffic, and we were starting to swerve all over the road, trying to keep them from passing…they were angry…. They fired at us …though it didn't do them any good, the bullets harmlessly pinged against the back window.

-scaired- Phoebe: "Arceus.."

Me: "You don't have your gun do you?"

Phoebe: "no…"

Me: "-sighs-."

Me: "Me neither…"

We weren't really expecting any action today.

Me: "Well here goes nothing."

I slammed the brakes and let them pass just enough for me to slam them into the right hand barrier, their car rolled up and over it, then proceeded to roll end over end several times before coming to a stop back onto it's wheels, however, it was far too damaged to move. We pulled over and went to investigate, with the agents arriving a few moments later, we had the car surrounded, all the windows were broken, but the airbags had deployed so we still couldn't confirm who was inside.

The back door swung open. A grunt fell on the ground, shaken, but still alive.

-exhausted- unknown grunt:" I give up..."

Me: "Is there anyone else with you?"

-correctively- Phoebe: "There has to be a driver...Cj."

Me: "True."

-playfully- Phoebe:" You goofball."

Unknown Grunt: "oh crap it's you two..."

Me: "Do we know you?"

Phoebe: "We got him busted before back on Cinnabar, atleast according to what he thinks…I don't remember him."

Me:"Me neither."

We heard a loud clanging noise as the skarmory crashed to the ground, unconscious, it landed on it's camera which promptly shattered into small bits of plastic.

-surprised- Me:"What the ?"

Unknown Agent:"That's one of the surveilance team's skarmory."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "We lost our cameraman."

Unknown grunt:"hehehehehe..."

Me:"What the hell is so funny?"

Unknown grunt: "You'll see.."

Another agent proceeded to put him in cuffs and placed him under arrest.

Just them I heard our car start up.

Me:"What the hell?"

Phoebe:"Hmm?"

We caught a brief glimpse of Christine behind the wheel...before she sped off.

Me:"You've got to be kidding me."

Me: "Allright this is personal."

-angry- Me:"She's gonna burn..."

Phoebe:"Cj..."

Me:"What?"

-cutely- Phoebe:"Calm down..."

Me:"-sighs-."

-Unsure- Unknown Agent: "I guess she must have teleported out..."

Phoebe suddenly teleported us away.

Me: "Wha? Where are we?"

Phoebe: "Just a few miles ahead."

Me: "Miles?"

-breathing heavily- Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe:" It's a straight road…there's no buildings in the way…."

-breathing heavily- Phoebe: "This is probably the only place in this city I can safely teleport this far."

Phoebe: "Ok get back, I have an idea."

Me: "What are you gonna do?"

Phoebe: "Just watch….this will be cool I promise."

She closed her eyes and her hands started to glow... a nearby streetlight shattered, and then, very slowly began to bend.

-unsure- Me :"You broke the light?"

-strained- Phoebe: "SHHH... I need to concentrate."

She managed to bend it far enough to block off the road, traffic was quite a bit away at the moment, so the risk of causing an accident was minimal.

When she was done, she opened her eyes and almost immediately fell to her knees, exhausted.

Me:"You ok?"

I helped her back up.

-tiredly- Phoebe:"I'llll be fiiine..."

-tiredly- Phoebe:" See..I blllocked the road."

Me: "I see."

Phoebe:"She can't get passed."

She collapsed…

Me:"Pheebles?"

I helped her back once again.

-out of breath- Phoebe:"-gasps-….so much metal…"

Me: "Baby girl stop pushing yourself."

Me: "You're starting to scare me."

Me: "Christine will be here any minute and without my guns and Pokémon, I don't think I can stop her."

Me: "If you're too tired to fight then we're screwed."

Phoebe: "We're not screwed."

Phoebe: "She'll have to ditch our car because if she gets stuck here long enough…the other agents will catch up."

-in pain- Phoebe: "Owwwe.. my head hurts….."

Me: "Are you going to be ok?"

Phoebe: "I'll be fine…I just need…. some rest."

Me: "Ok."

The oncoming traffic saw the light, and gradually began to slow down and accumulate in front of it. When Christine arrived about 2 minutes later, there was a pretty long line of cars in front of her. Some people were angry, but Phoebe and I were able to keep out of sight so nobody knew who to blame.

Phoebe:" We need to stay near the people so she can't find us…"

She teleported us onto a nearby bus.

Bus Driver:"What the?"

Bus Driver: "You two have a bus pass?"

Phoebe: "We're hiding from someone, we just need to stay here for a little while."

Bus Driver:" You're the ones that blocked off the road aren't you?"

Phoebe: "It's just for a little bit ok? Please don't be mad, we're trying to catch someone."

-tiredly- Phoebe:"-yawns-."

She sat in one of the empty seats and slumped down, she was pretty worn out and close to falling asleep.

Bus Driver: "Oh…all right….."

Bus Driver: "You can stay on, just for a little while."

Unknown passenger: "You're Cj and Phoebe aren't you?"

Me: "No…"

Unknown passenger: "Oh come on, you look just like them."

-tiredly- Phoebe:" Wee get that…-yawns- a…lot…"

We heard sirens in the distance.

Unknown passenger:" Admit it, you are them…"

Me:" Why? So everyone on this bus can get our autographs?"

-as kindly as possible- Me: "Lady we're not them ok? Get over it. "

Unknown passenger:" –sighs-…sorry…it's just….."

Unknown passenger: "It would be so cool to meet them in person."

Me: "Why?"

Unknown passenger: "Because they're heros….they've saved countless people from the evils of Team Rocket."

Phoebe:"And she doesn't even know the half of it."

Me:" Hehe Yeah…"

Unknown passenger:"Huh?"

Me: " Nothing…I was um… agreeing with you."

Unknown passenger:"Oh..ok."

As the sirens were getting closer and closer, Phoebe rested for a few moments, regaining some of her strength.

Phoebe:" Well, I think it's time we get going….CJ."

Me:"If you say so."

-realizing- Unknown passenger:"Wait what?"

Phoebe teleported us off the bus before she figured it out.

We made our way over to our car, as the agents we were working with earlier began to arrive.

Christine:" Oh great…..I knew something was up."

Phoebe:" Give up Christine, you can't win."

Christine:"Oh really? You look tired, your little baby keeping you up at night?"

Phoebe: "His name is Charley and no, he sleeps like an angel."

-confused- Me:"Huh?"

-unsure- Christine:"O….k…"

She got out of our car, looked back at the on comming agency sedans for a moment, before looking back at us with a discomforting grin.

Christine:"Well…it's been nice, and it looks like I could kill you really easilly this time, but….gotta run…"

Phoebe:"Hey, wait a minute!"

It was no use….she teleported out.

Me:"Son of a…"

-Worried- Phoebe:"NO!"

-upset- Phoebe:" It's not fair…"

-upset- Phoebe: "Now we're back to where we started."

Me: "Calm down...we're not entirely screwed.."

Me: "Baby girl you couldn't have taken her anyway in this state you're exhausted and she's at full strength."

Me: "I'm glad she ran because I don't want to lose you."

-realizing- Phoebe: "-sighs-, you're right, what was I thinking?"

After the rest of the agents arrived we explained what happened, they used their own pokemon to fix the street light and return traffic flow to normal, because at this point Phoebe was too tired to fix it herself. Christine had escaped, for now, but we were able to get the captured grunts to spill the beans that she didn't have Myrenthall anymore anyway, he had escaped from them sometime during the night, incapaciting two of them in the process which were the two Agent Chuck found earlier. They were in a coma, just like Charley. There were three more grunts in the car, but only one of them was conscious, the other two were knocked out cold by the crash…and by the way they spoke, after being revived, it seemed that neo team rocket was already finished. After Myrenthall escaped, several grunts parted ways leaving just 6 of the original 12 under Christine's control.

Of those six we had capture 3, meaning there were only three more out there, presumably at a hideout.

That said, it was getting late in the afternoon. So after retrieving our car we got permission from the surveillance agent to quit for the day, we picked up Charley up from the center after which it quickly became evident that he had seen a lot of pokemon in the few hours he was there. He kept talking about pokemon we never even mentioned around him before.
Charley: "Mawa…"

Phoebe: "Mhm?"

Charley: "Cawey see selur"

Me:"What?"

Me: "What's a selur?"

Me: "You mean seel?

Charley: "selur gah owie…"

Phoebe:" No it can't be a seel… where'd he get the 'r' from?"

Me:"Shelder?"

Charley:"Selur…"

Me:"Ok…I'll assume you mean shelder.."

Phoebe:"You got to see all kinds of pokemon didn't you sweety?"

Charley:"Gwima smell…bah"

Me:"Hehe, grimers smell bad huh?"

Me:"I take it you saw one."

Charley: "Cawey see gwima es po-ee-mah."

-somewhat unsure- Me: "Yep."

Me:"We're running pretty late, we might as well go get Nina, we'll be a few minutes early, but by the time we get home, we'll be late."

Phoebe:" Ok, sounds good."

Phoebe: "Charley...you want to go see Nina?"

-cheerfully- Charley: "Newa!"

Phoebe: "-giggles-…ok."

Charley:"Whe newa...Cawey no see..."

Phoebe:"She's at her school silly, we have to go pick her up first."

Charley:"Schoo...?"
-curious- Charley:"Mawa...Wa skoo?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "It's where Nina is..."

-worked up- Charley: "No dawhy, Cawey wa mawa..say."

-surprised- Me: "Ok...ok...-sighs-."

Phoebe: "It's where Nina goes to learn things...silly."

Charley: "Newa es ah skoo?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

We arrived at her school about an hour later, and then we waited in the parking lot for another ten minutes or so until a steady stream of teenagers emerged from the entrance.

Phoebe:" -sighs- where is she?"

Me: "She's never the first one out...in fact I think she's usually one of the last."

Phoebe: "I know...what on earth is she doing in there?"

Me: "Probably just talking to her friends...I don't know.."

Phoebe: "She takes her time.."

Me: "Mhm."

-bored- Charley: "Cawey wa ow..."

Phoebe: "Hold on Charley, we're going to leave in a few minutes once Nina comes."

-realizing- Phoebe: "Oh... there she is..."

She emerged from the crowd...

Phoebe rolled the window down.

Phoebe:" We're over here sweety."

Me: "Ohhh...don't do that you'll embarass her."

Phoebe: "Nonsense, nobody else knows who we're talking too."

She came over and got in the back, next to Charley.

Me: "Hey sweety how was your day?"

Nina: "It was ok..."

Nina: "We got to go to the beach for science class..."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Why?"

Nina: "Because it was a lesson over how the tides work so...the teacher thought it would be fun."

Me: "Ok."

Nina:" Why are all of you here?"

Nina: "Are we going somewhere?"

Phoebe: "No..."

Phoebe: "Work was running late so once we got off we just came to get you otherwise we'd be late to pick you up."

Nina: "Oh...ok..."

Nina:" What happened to the car?"

-cutely- Charley: "Hi Newa!"

Nina: "Awe...hi Charley.."

Charley:" Cawey see Newa..."

-jokingly- Me:"I would hope so."

Phoebe:"-giggles..."

Phoebe:"Allright let's go home."

Me:"Sounds like a plan."

We had a slight hope we could dodge the question.

-concerned-Nina: "But what happened to the car?"

All hopes were gone.

Me: "Somebody tried to cut us off, it's no big deal..."

Phoebe: "Mhm, we'll take it in for repairs tomorrow."

Me: "Right."

Me: "Actually honey, why don't you check with Melissa, find out where the agency sedans get repaired at..."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Me: "Because that place will know how to work with armored vehicles.."

Phoebe: "Oh...ok.."

Phoebe: "I'm on it."

There was nothing seriously wrong with it, it was just scratched on the left side and had a small dent on the other. The car that had caused the scratches was...well, it wasn't much of a car anymore, more of just a pile of broken metal.

Me :"So Nina do you like science class?"

Nina:"Yeah, it's pretty fun."

I had good memories of science class...where I was partnered with beautiful girls who I had not seen in a long time since graduation...I wondered if they were still around...if they survived the disaster...although I had the love of my life now, it would be nice to know they were ok.

-cutely, adoringly- Phoebe:"Awe...CJ..."

Me:"What? I didn't say anything?"

-Awkwardly- Phoebe:"Right...um..."

-awkwardly- Phoebe:"Right."

Me: "Just admit it..."

Phoebe: "I read your thoughts...but they were so sweet...I'm sorry."

Me: "hehehe, you know that's how I really feel right?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Oh Cj..."

-disdainfully- Nina: "Oh brother..."

-cutely- Charley: "Bwa-wuh!..."

Nina: "Awe..."

Nina: "Yes you are my brother aren't you..?"

Charley:" Cawey dunno bwa-wuh..."

Nina:" But you're my brother.."

Charley:" noooo..Newa...Cawey es Cawey... Newa seewee."

-playfully- Nina: "No you're silly"

He let out a loud giggle as she began to tickle him.

Phoebe: "Nina, don't stir him up too much."

Nina:"Sorry."

Phoebe: "Oh...and..."

Nina : "And what?"

Phoebe:"Don't be rude.."

-annoyed- Nina: "mmmm."

-defensively- Nina: "But you're being so cheesy..."

-sternly- Phoebe: "We're in love, it's normal, deal with it."

Phoebe: "You'll understand some day."

-disdainfully- Nina: "I don't wanna.."

-mischeivously- Phoebe: "Hehe That won't matter when that day comes..-giggles-."

Me: "hehehe...Pheebles you're gonna drive her crazy."

Me: "Now, we got about a half hour before we get home.."

Me: "What were we talking about... science class?"

Nina: "Mhm."

Me: "Ok then let's get back to that."

Eventually, we made it home, it had been a long, but interesting drive.

Nina went to her room to work on some report for her history class.

It was starting to get cold outside, so Phoebe and I played with Charley on the living room floor. If it was a warmer day, we'd take him outside to help him learn how to teleport.

Everything was going well, then Nina came out of her room.

Nina: "Mom..."

Nina: "Can we go to this museum?"

Phoebe: "Why?"

She handed her a pamphlet for the Goldrenrod History Museum.

Phoebe:" Where you'd get this?"

Nina: "The teacher handed them out during class."

Nina:"He said it would help with our report."

Phoebe: "The one you're working on now?"

Nina: "Mhm."

Me:" When is it due?"

Nina: "Next friday."

Phoebe:"We'll think about it tomorrow ok..."

She handed me the pamphlet.

Phoebe: "We'll have to take you there right after school."

Phoebe: "I don't think it stays open very later..."

Me:" Says here it closes at seven."

Phoebe: "How far along are you on your report?"

Nina: "Not very far, I just started today."

Nina:" I need to write 5 pages about the history of the Johto region."

Phoebe: "Ok...that shouldn't be too hard.."

Phoebe: "If nothing comes up tomorrow we'll take you to the museum. Ok?"

Nina:" Ok..."

Me: "Five pages...really?"

Nina :"Mhm."

-surprised- Me: "I don't think I ever had to write that much for history class."

Nina: "Really?"

Me: "Yeah..."

Me: "But.. your school probably does things differently."

Me: "I imagine theirs probably a lot of other things you don't have to do."

Nina: "Maybe."

She went back to work on her report for a little while before comming back and joining us on the floor with Charley. The rest of the afternoon passed by without anything out of the ordinary occuring.

Like every other night, after the kids were in bed, Phoebe and I went up to our room to retire for the night as well.

Me: "So you contacted Melissa about the car right?"

Phoebe: "Mhm..."

Me: "I just realized if the car is in for repairs we won't have another four-door."

Phoebe: "What about your cars you have stashed behind the store?"

Me: "What... the mustang?"

Me :"You know I've been thinking about giving it to Nina..."

Phoebe :"Really?"

Me: "Not now...but someday."

Phoebe: "And no, not the mustang, silly, one of the others."

Me: "I think I have a crown vic...police package...but none of those cars have hydro conversions, and gas is like 500 a gallon..."

It was an old 99 model that was once a police car that had been decommisioned and auctioned off before the disaster. Aside from that, there was a 2002 firebird, a 3000gt, and an old 1950s F-100 pickup, that we would probably use more often if it was in operating condition. And of course, the mustang, all of them ran except for the truck, but with gas in short supply they were cheep, which is why I picked them up, sometimes, excluding the mustang, which I had plans for, on rare occasions we would get calls on the landlines, asking for a trade, if a better car came along, I would accept, but that rarely happened. We still kept tabs on the store, we worked at it and visited it in our free time, but at this point it was mostly owned and operated by Will, who was previously just the butcher. We were only called in on the higher value trades, and even that was rare. Of course, this meant that Will was making nearly 95% of the income from it, which was completely fair as we had another job anyway.

Me: "There's a reason we've left them there for awhile."

Phoebe:"Ok..."

Me: "I guess we could all fit in your camaro if we needed too."

Phoebe: "But Charley's car seat won't fit in the back."

Me:" True..."

Me: "We could try to take the van.."

Phoebe: "The van doesn't have rear seats."

Me: "Why don't you take Nina to school on your own, and then I'll take Charley to the facility in the skyline and meet up with you there."

Me: "And then either one of us could take Nina to the museum later."

Phoebe:" Ok."

Phoebe: "You going to put the car seat in the skyline?"

Me: "Don't have much of a choice do I?"

Phoebe:" Nope."

Me: "Oh wait..."

Me: "But we'll have to take the car in."

Phoebe: "True..."

Me: "So we'll all have to fit in the camaro anyway..."

Phoebe: "Or I could drive the car in, Nina could drive the camaro, and you can drive the skyline."

-concerned- Me: "Are you ok with her driving on her own?"

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

Phoebe: "So I guess we'll just all have to squeeze into the camaro somehow."

We both crawled in bed and snuggled up.

-realizing- Me: "Wait...nonono...You take Nina to school...and then Charley and I will take the car in while you're on your way back, so only you, me and Charley will have to fit in the camaro."

Phoebe: "But how are you going to find the garage?"

Me: "I'll use the gps on my phone, it's no issue."

Phoebe: "-sighs-...well I guess that is our best option.."

Me :"Mhm."

Phoebe: "Ok then, that's the plan."

She kissed me on the cheek.

-cutely, lovingly- Phoebe:"Goodnight honey.."

Me:" Goodnight baby girl."

Me: "I can't believe it took us that long to figure that out.."

Phoebe: "Well, we're both tired..-yawns-..that probably plays a large part in it."

Me: "Yeah..I guess. -yawns-"

Me :"Love you baby."

Phoebe: "Love you."

We kissed eachother goodnight and we both fell asleep sometime later.