-chapter 10, The mystery of Myrenthall-

The next morning arrived, perhaps a bit sooner than it was wanted.

Phoebe unintentionally woke me up...

-tiredly- Me: "What's going on?..."

I let her go so she could get out of bed.

-softly- Phoebe: "Go back to sleep honey.."

-softly- Phoebe: "I'll get Nina to school, you sleep in for a bit."

She took some of her clothes out the dresser and then headed to the door.

-softly- Phoebe: "I'll call you when I'm on the way back.."

-tiredly- Me: "Don't forget... the gps on my phone."

-softly- Phoebe: "Oh right..thanks...I almost forgot."

-softly- Phoebe: "See you in a little while."

-tiredly- Me: "See you..."

-softly, sincerely- Phoebe: "Love you."

-sincerely- Me: "Love you."

And with that she left...I slowly drifted off back into sleep, slept for maybe another hour, when I woke up again, I heard Charley crying from his room, so I got up, got dressed, and went to see him.

Me: "Goodmorning Charley..."

He stopped crying and gave me a cheerful look...it always amused me how he stopped crying the instant anybody showed up.

-cheerfully- Charley :"Gamawey...dahwy"

-adoringly- Me :"Hehehe.."

Another half hour later we were having breakfast together at the table, Phoebe had already left with Nina quite awhile ago, so Charley and I were alone, and Charley was happily eating the pancakes I had made for him. It didn't take him very long to realize his mother wasn't here.

-concerned- Charley: "Dawhy weh mawa?"

-concerned- Charley: "Cawey no see mawa.."

Charley: "Cawey dunno..."

Me :"She left to take Nina to school, we'll see her in a little bit, don't worry."

-cutely- Charley: "Doh wowhee."

Me: "Mhm."

Charley: "Newa es ah skoo?"

Me :"Mhm.."

-unsure- Charley: " wheh newa go lur theens...?!"

Me: "Right...that's where she goes to learn things."

Me: "You remember that from yesterday don't you?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me :"-sighs-, you're such a mystery sometimes you know that?"

Charley: "Cawey wa watch teephee..."

Me: "Well I don't know how much time we're gonna have before your mother calls."

Me:" And you haven't finished eating yet little guy."

Charley: "Cawey wa teephee.."

Me: "No tv until you finish your pancake."

Me: "Or..atleast most of it."

-somewhat concerned- Charley: "Cawey no huhwy."

I knew he only said that because he thought it would get him in front of the tv faster.

Me :"You will be later if you don't eat now."

-somewhat upset- Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me :" Hey don't worry..you'll get to watch tv.."

Me: "If we have to leave before you finish you can watch it in the car."

-jokingly- Me :"You little couch potato."

I sat back and took a sip of some cold oran berry juice as he finally began to eat.

A few minutes after that, Phoebe called.

-into phone- Me: "Baby girl... what's up?"

-on phone- Phoebe:"I'm about to leave Nina's school. How's Charley? Can I talk to him?"

-into phone- Me:"He's ok.. but, I just got him to start eating so...yeah..I'm afraid if I let him talk to you I won't get him to finish his breakfast."

-on phone- Phoebe:"Awwwee...ok...I understand, well, you have a few minutes before you have to leave...I sent you the address this morning so you should just have to type it in the gps or whatever..."

-into phone- Me:"Mhm..I got it.."

-on phone- Phoebe:"Ok...then, I guess that's it."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"I love you."

-into phone- Me: "Love you too baby."

She hung up.

-calmly- Me: "Allright Charley, finish up, we have to leave soon."

Over the next few minutes he finished most of his pancake.

I took a little time to clean him up and set the plates in the sink before taking him out to the car.

-unsure- Charley:"Dawhy whegowee?"

-playfully- Me:"You wanna go see Mommy?"

-cheerfully-Charley: "Mawa!..."

Charley:"Cawey wa see mawa..."

Me:"Allright then."

I set him in his car seat, and before long we were on our way to the portal.

About an hour of driving later we made to the garage, Phoebe was already waiting for us.

Me: "How long have you been here?"

Phoebe: "Not long, just a few minutes."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "I already spoke with them, we can just drop off the car and leave."

Me: "Ok."

We took a few minutes to move Charley's car seat over to her car, before piling in and leaving.

Me: "Well that's taken care of."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "I hope they won't mind us being late for work."

Phoebe: "I think they would have called us in if they needed us that badly."

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "I missed you."

Me: "Hehe...I missed you too baby."

Charley: "Mawa...Newa ahh schoo?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

-cutely- Charley :"Newa go lur thees.."

Phoebe: "Mhm..."

Phoebe: "It seems like you're learning things too little guy."

Charley: "Mawa...tay neewa schoo?"

Phoebe: "Mhm..."

Me: "On the way over here he was questioning everything I said.."

Phoebe: "Well, that's how he learns things."

Me: "I know.."

Me: "But he just has so many questions, and there's not a whole lot of answers I can give him that he can understand."

Phoebe: "I know...I feel the same way.."

-confidently- Me: " I guess we'll just have to teach him one thing at a time until he has more of a base to work with."

Phoebe: "Exactly."

Phoebe:"We'll help him figure it out together..."

Me:"Mhm."

Eventually we arrived at the experiment facility, and stopped to see if they needed us for anything.

Unfortunately we couldn't help with the portals because the alert status had not been lifted yet. However, the trail had gone cold, so no searches were being conducted today, although the surveilance team had their skarmorys out, searching for Christine and or Myrenthall. So we were instructed by doctor Nash to head home and that we would be contacted if we were needed.

- on the way home-

Phoebe: "So I guess we have the day off?"

Me: "Yep, seems that way."

Me:"What do you wanna do?"

Phoebe:"Well, if its warm enough, we could take Charley outside and try to teach him how to teleport."

-defensively- Charley :"Cawey no wa telpo..."

Phoebe:"You have to learn how to teleport, it's essential."

Phoebe:"Like it or not you have powers Charley, you need to learn how to control them properly, or you could seriously hurt yourself."

Charley: "Cawey dunno..."

Phoebe:"You'll get it someday.."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Don't you want to teleport like mommy?"

-playfully- Phoebe:"It's really fun."

Charley: "Mawa telpo?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "All the time."

-concerned- Charley: "Cawey no wa mawa telpo...!"

Phoebe:"Charley."

-concerned- Charley:"No Mawa fo Cawey..."

He seemed to think teleporting was dangerous. Like she could just dissappear forever.

Phoebe:"Oh quit being silly, it's not that dangerous."

Phoebe:"There's no reason for you to be so scared."

Phoebe: "We're here to help you."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"And we won't let anything happen to you ok?"

-lovingly- Phoebe: "But it's important that you learn to teleport."

Me:"Can he understand all that?"

-unsure- Charley: "Cawey dunno mawa say-en"

Phoebe:"Apparently no...but it was worth a shot."

Charley: "Mawa.."

Charley: "Cawey no wa telpo..."

Me: "Well tough luck kid...your mother is very determined to teach you."

Phoebe: "-giggles-."

Charley: "Wa dawhy sayen?"

Phoebe: "He says you're going to teleport."

-loudly- Charley :"Cawey no wa...!"

Phoebe: "Oh, don't be so grumpy."

Once we arrived at home, it seemed pretty warm out, so we made plans to bring Charley outside once again in an attempt to teach him how to teleport. We used a different method this time. After we removed his bracelet, Phoebe held him and teleported around with him for awhile. Because she was much stronger than him she could keep him from teleporting away from her. This allowed her to peacefully teleport Charley around the yard with her, getting him more aquainted with it. She had teleported with Charley before, such as when we brought him to the gardevoir city, but not nearly often enough for the little guy to remember.

She had just teleported to the other side of the house, I was on the other side, so I had no idea where she was at the moment.

Phoebe: "See Charley? It's not that bad once you get used to it."

Charley: "Mawa telpo?"

Phoebe: "Mhm..."

Phoebe: "Anywhere you want to go sweety?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Phoebe: "We can go up on top of the house, we can go back into the forrest. We can sneak up on Daddy."

-cutely- Charley: "Mawa telpo ageh?"

Phoebe: "Ok ."

She teleported diectly behind me without me noticing.

-somewhat concerned- Me:"Baby girl, where'd you go?"

I suddenly felt her kiss me on the cheek.

Me:"What the...oh...really?"

-jokingly- Phoebe:"Who are you looking for?"

Me: "-sighs-, looks like you got me.."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "-giggles-"

-playfully- Me:"Hey Charley."

-cheerfully- Charley: "Dawhy, mawa telpo Cawey."

-playfully- Me:"I see."

Me: "You like teleporting now?"

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

Me :"Ok..."

Phoebe:"I think it's about time we see how he does on his own."

Me: "Yeah, he seems pretty comfortable."

Phoebe: "Are you ready Charley? "

She looked into his eyes.

-lovingly- Phoebe:"My little baby boy?"

-cutely- Charley :"-giggles-, Cawey see Mawa.."

Phoebe: "Ok Cj back up a bit, I'm going to set him down."

Me: "Allright."

Phoebe :"Don't get scaired Charley, I know you can do this."

She kissed him on the head before carefully setting him down on the ground, keeping her hands on his shoulders for a few seconds before finally breaking contact.

It was only a few seconds before he teleported over to me.

-cutely- Charley: "Dawhy!."

Me: "Hey little guy.."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Charley, come over here sweety."

Charley: "Mawa...Cawey fow dawhy.."

-playfully- Phoebe: "There's tv.."

-excitedly- Charley: "TEEPHEE!"

He teleported a few times before finally making it over to her.

-amused- Me: "Hehehe..."

He seemed to have much more control now. As he was generally teleporting where he wanted to go, in kind of a loose S pattern, teleporting only about a yard or two at a time. It also didn't scare him as bad as it used too and he actually seemed to enjoy it. About a half hour of teleporting between Phoebe and I really tired him out. So we put his bracelet back on and took him back inside so he could rest.

This also meant Phoebe and I had some alone time together.

-in the living room-

Me: "So what do you wanna do now?"

Phoebe: "just snuggle and watch tv..."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Do you want more?"

Me:"Do you?"
Phoebe:" I'd rather wait till tonight, if that's ok."

Me:"Ok."

Me:"fine with me baby girl.."

Phoebe:"Good."

-cutely- Phoebe:"Because you're so snuggly."

She affectionately nuzzled me.

-awkwardly- Me:"eheh...ok."

I put my arm around her, and we watched tv like that for about an hour or so, there wasn't much on today, we ended up on a channel that was showing an old documentary about the seven wonders of the world such as the pyramids or the great wall of seemed to have a fascination with anything involving history.

Phoebe:"Where is China?"
Me:"It's a few hundred miles or so west from Japan, over the ocean."

Phoebe:"So it's far away then?"

Me:"Yeeeeeah, it's on the other side of the world."

Me:"Everything on this show is on the other side of the world."

Phoebe:"Why?"

Me: "Because civilization started over there."

Me: "For instance, the great wall was constructed thousands of years ago."

Me: "To put things in perspective, this country itself is only about 250 years old."

Me: "It took time for people to move out here and form civilizations. "

Me: "Which is why ancient structures like this are virtually non-existent here."

Me: "But you know, that doesn't mean there isn't any interesting landmarks out here."

Phoebe: "I know."

Me: "I wonder if the St. Louis arch still exist."

Phoebe:"Hmm?"

Me: "It'd be the closest one, I think."

Me :"If you want to go see one for yourself.."

Phoebe: "-giggles- Oh Cj, don't be silly."

Phoebe: "We'll never have the time for that."

Me: "You don't be silly, you never know baby girl."

Me: "We might have to go out there for a mission."

Phoebe: "Yeah right..."

My mind started to wonder off.

Me :"We could trick Myrenthall into going there so we can go there."

Phoebe: "I don't think that would work Cj, we'd have to find him first, and we don't even know what portals go over there."

Me :"We could say...that...we have...something else to deal with over there.."

Phoebe: "They would find out."

Phoebe: "-giggles- It's allright Cj, we don't have to go."

Phoebe: "I'm happy enough just being here."

Phoebe: "As long as you're with me."

-speechless- Me: "..."

I pulled her a little closer.

-sincerely- Me: "I love you .."

-sincerely- Phoebe: "I love you too."

-cutely- Phoebe:"Now quiet down, I wanna watch this."

Not five minutes later, the documentary moved on to the leaning tower of Pisa.

Phoebe:"Where's Italy?"

Me:"Um...it's south of germany."

Phoebe:"Where's that?"

Me:"West of China."

Me:"We need to get you a map."

Me:"There's probably one at the store, I'll be right back."

-playfully- Phoebe:"No!, you stay here."

Me:"Baby girl I can't really show you where everything is aside from everything being west of China."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "I don't want a map right now, I just want you to stay here and hold me like this."

Me:"Allright, if that's what you want."

-jokingly- Me:"I'll just be your pillow for the afternoon..."

Phoebe:"Oh, you can be a little more than that..."

Phoebe:"Oh, you can be a little more than that..."

-about 45 minutes later..

We were lying on the couch, completely naked, with the tv still playing, although it was showing a different documentary now. She originally offered only a footjob, but of course we ended up getting carried away and having sex.

-overjoyed- Phoebe: "Cj you naughty boy..."

-jokingly- Phoebe:" I can't believe you did that.."

-jokingly- Me: "Like it was all my fault."

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

Phoebe:"It's my fault too.."

Phoebe:"I could have just made you cum on my feet, but no I just had to kiss you, and then you put your arms around me and then...I couldn't stop kissing you, and then you took off my clothes..."

-aroused, loudly, very awkwardly- Phoebe:" and then...Oh arceus hit me again Cj come on!"

She presented herself to me and temptingly slapped herself on the ass. She said it loud enough I was surprised Charley didn't start crying upstairs.

-awkwardly- Me:"Um...honey, you're doing it again..."

She gave me a confused look.

-cutely unsure- Phoebe: "Wha? "

Me:"Ohhhhh...you crazy girl..."

Me: "I would if I could but we litterally just did 5 minutes ago."

-embarrased- Phoebe: "ohhhh...Um...eheh...ehhhhhhhh."

She turned around.

-realizing- Phoebe: "sorry Cj...I lost it for a moment."

Me :"Ehehehe..."

Phoebe: "We better get dressed before Charley wakes up."

-sincerely- Me :"Yeah, you're right."

-lovingly- Phoebe: But we're definitely going to have more fun tonight.."

Me :" Sounds good."

We kissed before getting up and putting our clothes back on.

Me:"Are you hungry?"

Phoebe:"A little bit."

Phoebe:"Wait here I'll go get some popcorn."

Me:"Ok."

She finished dressing herself and headed into the kitchen. She came back with a bag of popcorn 3 minutes later and we snuggled up and continued to watch tv.

-jokingly- Me :"Hey, you wanna do it again in a little bit?"

I wasn't really being serious, i just wanted to see if see if she would work herself up again.

-cutely- Phoebe:"No CJ, I see what you're trying to do.."

Me:"Yeah, I'm trying to see if you're cute even when you say no."

Phoebe: "Cj..."

Me :"And you are so.."

Phoebe :"Cj.."

-sternly- Phoebe: "Cut it out."

Me: "Ok so you saw through it, but I really meant it though, you are cute."

Phoebe: "Cj..."

-somewhat annoyed- Phoebe: "-sighs- you big goofball."

Me: "I'm sorry, but that just came out of nowhere."

Me:"Hehehe."

-jokingly- Me:"I know you like it baby girl, but I can't keep up like that."

-sternly- Phoebe:"Stop laughing or I'll make you forget about it."

Me: "Oh calm down."

Me:"It was funny, we're having a good time, just relax."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, yeah, your right."

Phoebe:"Now please don't talk about it anymore..so we can continue."

Me:"-sighs-, ok..."

I put my arm around her again.

Me:"I love you baby."

Phoebe:"I love you..."

Phoebe:"Now let's just watch tv like we were supposed to."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe: "And try to keep from doing that again.."

Me: "Only as long as you try too baby girl."

She snuggled up to me.

Phoebe: "I remember when you fainted when you realized I was a princess."

Me:"Yeah well, I remember when I was trying to catch rhyhorn, and you slipped up and we almost got trampled."

Phoebe:"I remember when, you almost got killed by those ghosts in lavender town and then I saved you."

Me: "I remember when you were so scaired you didn't want to go down into the crypt."

Phoebe: "-giggles-, it was a scary place..."

Me: "-sighs-, We can go on and on baby girl."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: " I remember when , we were at this hotel, and you were in this sexy little swimsuit, and you slipped and almost fell on your ass."

Phoebe: "Wow...that was a long time ago."

Me: "Yeah...you've done that a lot though."

Phoebe:"My feet get slick when they're wet."

Me: "And then when you saw a horror movie for the first time, you thought the monsters were real."

Phoebe: "Well, I'd never seen a horror movie before, Cj I grew up without a tv."

Me :"Oh yeah that was, also before you told me you were a princess."

Phoebe: "And then there was that night in Japan."

Phoebe: "With Rio."

Me: "Yeah I don't think we will ever ever know what actually happened that night."

Phoebe: "Nope...never."

Phoebe: "And you drove like a crazy person on these really crazy roads and almost went off the edge."

Me: "Yeah...well."

Phoebe :"You were showing off."

Me: "Hey I litterally just got the car of my dreams, I wanted to push it a little bit."

Phoebe: "That doesn't mean over the edge."

-sincerely- Me: "Yeah...yeah...I know."

Phoebe:"And then there was that time you almost set the house on fire."

Me: "And then there was that time I did set the house on fire."

Phoebe: "But you were trying to protect Nina that time."

Me: "Yeah...true.."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"The first time, if I remember correctly you were trying to see how high you could send a paper tank by strapping an entire pack of bottle rockets to it."

Me:"Um yeah,...uh.. something like that."

Phoebe:"And the answer was zero because it flew through an open window and into the kitchen."

We spent the next half hour doing something between watching tv, eating popcorn, and reminiscing. It was quite a fun afternoon afternoon, and we felt even closer together because of it.

When Charley woke up he was greeted by what may have been the happiest parents in the world.

Phoebe: "Goodmorning Charley."

Charley: "Gamawy mawa...dahwhy.."

-cutely- Charley: "Howayou..."

Phoebe: "We're ok.."

Charley: "Cawey huhwhy."

Me: "Hehe, ok."

Phoebe: "We'll get you something to eat in a little bit."

Phoebe: "Actually Cj why don't you go get him something to eat? I'll get him changed and dressed."

Me: "Ok."

After getting Charley some bread to eat, we watched tv for a little bit. When it came time to pick Nina up from school, Phoebe headed out by herself, so once again I was home alone with Charley.

It was only about an hour after she left that the unexpected happened, she sent me a text saying we had just been called in, that she had left Nina at school to battle her friends, and that Corina would be arriving shortly to look after Charley. Of course as soon as she arrived I would have to head there too. I took a moment to gather my pokemon as well as my pistol, and Phoebe's pokemon as well.

Me:"Ok, Charley, listen carefuly."

Me: "I have to go back to work with your mother so Corina is going to look after you for a little while."

Charley:"Cowewah?"

Charley:"Cowenah?"

Me: "Yeah, you've met her before."

Me: "I'll be back in a little bit ok?"

I heard a car pull in.

Me:"Hm..Well that didn't take long."

I got up to answer the door.

Corina: "You've heard you've been called back in right?"

Me: "Yeah. "

Corina: "Do you have a car? If not you can take mine.."

Me: "Ehh, I can take the skyline, the facility's not that far away."

Corina: "Ok."

Corina :"Charley."

-unsure- Charley: "Cowewah?"

Corina: "Mhm..."

Me :"Remember he likes his milk at room temperature..."

-sternly- Corina: "I know, Phoebe allready informed me, you need to get going it's urgent, they need you."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "Charley be nice for Corina ok, I love you son...be back in a little bit with your mother."

-lovingly- Me: "Goodbye."

-cutely- Charley: "Gahbye Dahwhy..."

Me: "Hehe.."

I opened up the garage door and got in the skyline, fired it up for the first time in quite awhile, and hit the road into Slabtown.

Arriving at the experiment facility about 10-15 minutes later. Although it took another ten minutes to get out of the portal building, traffic was pretty light at the moment. I got there before Phoebe did and headed in without her. Once I went in I was escorted to the same briefing room we met in the day before. James was waiting inside, I was the only one in the room aside from him. For James to be here in person, I knew it had to be serious.

James:"Is Phoebe not here yet?"

Me:"She's on the way, she's farther out than I was."

Me: "She was probably on the other side of town when you called."

James: "Oh...ok."

Me :" Sooo...what's the mission?"

Unknown agent: "We found him."

Me: "Myren-whatever?"

Unknown agent: "Correct."

He turned on a holoscreen.

James: "One of the ST's skarmorys spotted him heading into this building. For the last two hours we've had atleast one skarmory circling the property, and we have yet to see him leave."

The screen showed the associated footage, from one of the skarmory's cameras, it looked a lot like it was shot from a helicopter.

James: "The property is a warehouse that has been abandoned for atleast a decade, so there shouldn't be any ammenities in there."

Me :"I don't think he'd be familiar with them anyway."

Me: "So you want us to go there and attempt to capture him?"

James: "Yes."

James: "But it's not that easy, if he uses this building as his base of operations, there's no telling what he has inside."

Me :"In addition to the fact that he has some strange powers that not even pokemon have."

James :"Really, Like what?"

Me: "Well, in addition to teleportation and your basic psychic stuff, he also seems to be able to take people's souls, encapsulating them in these strange black orbs."

Me:"That's probably how he escaped from Christine."

James:"Is that what he did to the rockets in a coma that aren't reacting to revives..."

Me:"Right."

James:" Can that be fixed?"

Me:"Yeah, but you have to get the orbs, and he probably has them."

Me:"He's probably got some other tricks too, which, kind of bothers me."

James: "You'll have backup, we'll have the place surrounded, but we're counting on you two to take him down."

Me:"Allright."

Me:"You're not going to let him go again once we arrest him?"

James:"Of course not, we're throwing him back in his portal, and then we're going to shut it down. We won't have to deal with him again after that."

Me:"Sounds like a plan."

Me:"Now we just have to wait for Phoebe to get here."

-at the door- Phoebe:"James?"

-cheerfully- Phoebe:" What a surprise."

Me:"Hey honey."

Phoebe:"Hi.."

She affectionately brushed up against me.

James:"Good you're here too, you both should get going, We don't know how long he plans to stay in that building."

Phoebe:"What building?"

Me:"I'll tell you on the way."

James: "The address should have been sent to your phones by now."

Me: "Allright then let's get this guy...again."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe :"Wait...how's Melissa?"

James: "She's a bit rough at the moment, but she'll make it."

Phoebe: "Well tell her I said hi."

James:"Will do."

Phoebe: "Allright let's go."

Me: "Ok."

We left the briefing room and headed outside.

Me: "Phoebe, If you want to come to the skyline real quick I brought your pokemon."

-sincerely-Phoebe: "Oh...thanks Cj...I forgot to ask you. "

Me:"Hehe..."

Phoebe: "Also, the mechanic called me, while I was gone."

Phoebe: "He said we won't be able to get the car back till the end of the week."

-somewhat sadly- Me: "-sighs-, great."

Phoebe: "Oh come on, at least you can use the skyline now.."

Me: "Until it runs out of fuel, and then we'll have to find more."

Phoebe: "Hydro-conversion?"

Phoebe: "We can afford it."

Me: "I don't know if it will like it though."

Phoebe: "I'm sure the mechanics can figure out how to make it work Cj."

Phoebe: "It's their job."

Phoebe: "Besides, that way you can drive it more."

Me: "We'll see."

Phoebe: "Ok."

We collected our pokemon from the skyline and then we got in her camaro and left the facility, heading to the abandoned warehouse which we now had plugged into the gps on my phone.

When we arrived there it was quiet, no people were around, the warehouse was in a fenced-in area, with some old shops and apartments on each side, nearly all of which were closed, except for a small cafe on the corner. Which itself was empty, except for the staff. A few of the buildings were condemned, and others seemed to have been abandoned for little to no reason at all, a weird car, that looked like it was from the 1960s, sat abandoned in an alleyway. It had been parked there for who knows how long. What's strange is there was nothing around that was living, not even any pokemon, which was strange, because in places like this you could atleast find a murkrow, or pidgey or something, perhaps even a meowth or rattata. Even a wild houndour could be found in the city on occasion, but there was nothing here, not even any birds.

Beyond that, something about this place just didn't seem right.

Phoebe:"You feel it too don't you?"

Me:"Feel what?"

Phoebe:"It's like a general sense of dread...like depression, but for no logical reason."

Me:"Yeah I think I know what you mean."

Phoebe:"That's why there's nobody else here."

Me:"They all left."

Me:"Is Myrenthal causing this?"

Phoebe:"I don't know."

Me:"You ready to go in?"

Phoebe:"Yeah.."

Me:"Allright then."

We got out of the car and walked towards the warehouse.

The sense of dread we were feeling seemed to increase the closer we got to the door.

Phoebe:"Maybe we should turn back."

Me:"No, we have to keep going.."

Me: "If we turn back we'll lose our jobs..."

Phoebe:"It's better than dying."

Phoebe:"Or is it?"

Me:"Pheebles..."

Me:"I think the depression is getting to your head."

Phoebe:"I don't know how to stop it."

Phoebe:"I'm sorry."

Phoebe:" I don't want to do this anymore can just go home?"

Me:"Don't leave me, I need you, I'm worthless without you."

Me: "Let's go come on..."

Phoebe: "We won't make it."

We made it to the door. At which point we both felt completely hopeless.

Me:"Well we made it."

Phoebe:"I don't want to find out what's inside, let's just go."

Me:"I don't to find out either, but I like this job."

I opened the door and stepped inside, the feeling of depression instantly went away.

But the inside of the warehouse, looked much larger than it should have been.

There were rows and rows of empty shelves as far as the eye could see,

I thought it was a mirrror at first, but it wasn't.

Me:"Pheebles,you have to see this."

Pheobe:"I wanna go see Charley."

Me:" Pheebles, come on, it's not that bad once you come inside."

I took her hand and pulled her in, she was so scaired she dropped down on the floor, so I ended up having to drag her in.

-panicing- Phoebe:"Stop...nooo what are you doing?"

She calmed down as soon as I brought her passed the door.

-confused- Phoebe:"What the...wa...?"

Me:"I told you."

I helped her up.

Phoebe:"What's going on?"

Me:"I don't know, it looks like some sort of trick."

Me: "Remember that psychic gym we went to that had something like this?"

Phoebe: "Mhm..."

Phoebe:"But it takes alot of power to bend space like this."

Phoebe:"I can't even do this."

Phoebe:"You would need an army of gardevoirs to take a building this small on the outside and make it this big on the inside."

Me:"You can bend space?"

Phoebe:"What do you think shadow ball is?'

Phoebe:"And no not like this..."

Phoebe:"Shadowball is a low level form of this though."

Phoebe:"Basically how this works is they took one section of the building and made several copies of it. "

Phoebe:"You see, space can't be created out of thin air, but it can be copied."

Phoebe:"If you try to make something without copying anything, that's how shadowballs form."

Me:"I thought you said they were formed by focusing energy to your hands or something like that."

Phoebe:"They are, but if I were to think of another object,

An idea popped into my head.

Me:"Can you copy money?

Phoebe:"No Cj...that's illegal and it would have the same serial number as whatever I copied it from ."

Phoebe:"Aside from that it's not a true copy."

Phoebe:"Spacial distortions require energy to maintain."

Phoebe:"If I were to get tired, the copied money would dissapear."

Phoebe: "Which means, if Myrenthall is causing this, he has a lot of power to spare."

We heard a loud clanging sound, suddenly, a very strange looking thing came out from behind the shelves.

8 trashcans arranged in a vaguely humanoid shape, not human, not a pokemon, not something that should even have freewill, not something mechanized that a rotom could take over, Just a weird creature composed of empty metal trashcans, It's head was a single trashcan with 2 holes cut into it for eyes, it's arms consisted of two trashcans each arranged in an L shape, with the outer can shredded on the end, vaguely resembling fingers, its torso consisted of a single trashcan, with both of its legs being upside down trashcans. Even stranger, all its limbs were disembodied, having no apparent physical connection to the torso.

Me: "What the heck is that thing...?"

-jokingly- Phoebe:" Looks trashy.."

-amused- Me: "eheh..what?"

Me: "It's just a bunch of trashcans, shouldn't be too hard to beat."

I sent out rhyhorn.

Me: "Take that thing down."

He charged at it.

The trashcan monster put up it's arm to defend itself. Surprisingly it held it's ground.

Me:"What?"

Phoebe:"I guess it's tougher than you think it is."

It picked rhyhorn up and tossed him into the wall. Even though the walls appeard to be made out of tin, rhyhorn didn't even put a dent in them.

-concerned- Me: "Rhyhorn?"

-in pain- Rhyhorn: "-growls-."

He tried to get back up but was in too much pain, I returned him before the monster could injure him further.

Me: "Allright, we're going to have to step it up."

Me: "Pheebles, you with me?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

I sent out Bubba, she sent out Polli, and they both used hydropump, striking the monster simultaneously, knocking it back quite aways.

Phoebe: "It has no thoughts."

Phoebe: "It's not actually alive...it's some kind...of...drone..."

Me: "Weird."

The monster began to resist, slowly making it's way towards Bubba and Polli.

Me: "Ok, Bubba, skullbash from the side."

Phoebe: "Keep it up Polli, you're slowing him down."

Bubba hit it from the side, catching it off guard and knocking it down since it was still trying to fight against poli's attack. Polli had to stop for a break soon after though, Unfortunately he couldn't keep hydropump going forever. The can on the monster's torso was dented severely, but to our surprise it managed to heal itself, popping out all the dents until it was like new.

Me: "What? It can heal itself too?"

She returned Polli and began to charge a shadow ball.

Phoebe: "Return Bubba, I have an Idea."

Me: "Ok, Bubba return."

She hit the monster with shadow ball, oddly enough, it reverted to a pile of trashcans.

Phoebe: "Come on let's go."

She bolted right and ran passed the shelf towards the back along the right side of the building. I followed her.

Me: "Why are we running?"

Phoebe: "We can't kill that thing, it isn't alive in any sense, it's a drone controled entirely by psychic powers."

Phoebe:"No matter how badly damaged it gets, even after that shadow ball, it will heal itself. "

Phoebe:"Thankfully it doesn't have any ranged abilitys."

Me: "No why are we running?"

Me: "Can't you teleport?"

Phoebe: "Not here, it's not a good idea, if Myrenthall does control this place he can change the dimensions on a whim."

Phoebe:" I think he got his hands on another amplifier, that's the only way he can have this much power."

Phoebe:" Fortunately that much power can be a curse in it's own way, he's got so much to micromanage right now, he hasn't realized he could've killed us the moment we walked in."

Me:"He could've?"

Phoebe:"Easilly, but there's so much going on in his head right now, he can't keep track of it, that's what that trash can thing is here for, it's a guard he created to protect himself so he can focus on other things, and even it is kind of slow and clunky."

Me:"Ok."

Me: "So where is he then? "

Phoebe: "I don't know, but he has to be somewhere in here."

-urgently- Phoebe: "Lookout!"

She quickly took down another trashcan monster that was hiding behind one of the shelves.

Me :"Crap there's more than one of those things.."

Phoebe:" Um actually it could be the same one.."

Phoebe:" He just copied it to a different place."

Me:"Phoebe you're really starting to confuse me right now."

Phoebe: "Sorry."

There was a lot going on, the situation was getting tense and nothing about this place was right, sure, we had been in much stranger places, but the thought that Myrenthal could control this place on a whim was somewhat unnerving.

After running for what seemed to be several minutes, we finally made it to the backwall of the warehouse. But Myrenthall was nowhere to be seen.

Me: "I don't get it, where is he?"

Phoebe: " Maybe he's more towards the center?"

Phoebe: "This building has thin walls, maybe he thought the center would be more secure."

Me: "Maybe."

Phoebe:"We weren't looking, we could have missed him."

Me:"True."

We started to head back down the left side of the building. Somewhat afraid a trash can monster was following us.

We walked a bit slower this time, and began to examine each aisle.

Each aisle looked exactly the same, lined with shelves and lit with some incandescent lightbulbs dangling from the ceiling. I personally found it odd that not one bulb was burned out. There were so many lightbulbs it seemed impossible to maintain them all. But whatever, perhaps there wasn't really as many as there seemed to be.

After walking passed coutless aisles, occasionally changing sides to hide from trashcan monsters, we noticed a break in the shelves, within this break was a strange, ramshackle wooden cabin, constructed from several several haphazardly cut pieces of wood nailed together. Apparently Myrenthal was not much of a carpenter.

Me:"He has to be in there."

Phoebe:"Is it even safe to go in their?"

Me:"I know it looks like crap, but it has a door and it seems pretty solid."

Me:"Why would he make it if there was nothing in it?"

Phoebe:"I guess your right."

I opened the door, the cabin couldn't have been more than just 10ft long, but inside was a narrow corridor I couldn't see the end of.

Me: "What the heck?"

Me: "Now I'm even more confused."

Phoebe: "It's a warp within a warp."

Her hands started to glow.

Phoebe: "Come on, we should go."

Me: "Is it going to keep going on like this forever?"

Phoebe: "No, even with an amplifyer, he'll use up all his power eventually and he won't be able to warp space any further."

Phoebe: "Since the trashcan monsters can't even keep up with us, I think he turned the amplifyer up too much."

Phoebe: "So once we find him, we should be able to capture him easilly without a fight, because he's probably completely out of it right now."

We headed into the impossible corridor, with her lighting the way.

Phoebe: "This is kind of like the time you were in my dreams."

Phoebe: "Except both of us are awake now."

Me: "Ok."

We kept walking for what seemed to be several minutes, until we finally saw a light in the distance.

Me: "It looks like there's a door."

Phoebe: "Another room?"

Me: "Maybe."

Beyond the door was another, light corridor, in what seemed to be a movie theatre.

Me: "Weird."

Phoebe: "There's an old theatre not too far from here, perhaps he used his powers to create a portal to there."

Me: "You mean here?"

Phoebe: "Yep."

Phoebe: "Or he copied it."

Phoebe: "It would be easy to tell if we could find a window or something."

Me: "Um you want to see a movie?"

Phoebe: "Cj, now's not the time."

Me: "Why are we in a theatre if he isn't watching tv?"

Me: "We should atleast check them out to make sure he's not here."

Phoebe: "Ok."

This theatre complex had been closed for awhile, so no movies were playing, there were only 2 screens, and nobody nobody was around, so nobody would get suspicious if Myrenthall had snuck in unnoticed.

What we found next as we headed into the theatre 2 was, extremely awkward.

You see, a movie was playing, but not just a movie.

The screen was divided into about 36 sections and each section had a different porn video playing, there was no audio, as 36 videos running at once would be hard to make out.

Me: "What the hell?"

-speechless- Phoebe: "Eheh...eh...wha..."

And in the center of the front row, was the silhouette of a figure we could only assume was Myrenthall.

Me: "Wait, there he is."

Phoebe: "Why is he watching people having sex on tv?"

Me: "You don't know what porn is?"

-blushing- Phoebe: "Um...no."

Me:"Well...I would guess its because he's a lonely old man with no wife or girlfriend, they never had anything like this in his medieval time, so I'm not really surprised he got carried away with it once he discovered it."

Me:"I wonder how long he's been here..."

Phoebe:"I don't know, can we get out of here?"

Phoebe:"This place is starting to freak me out..."

-confused- Me:"I thought you liked sex."

Phoebe:"Oh Cj...don't be silly...I loooove sex, but...I don't like watching other people have it...sex is an exclusive experience to all involved, it's not meant to be shared with everyone else."

-amused- Me:"-sighs- Pheebles, you really crack me up sometimes."

Me:"Allright let's get this guy."

Phoebe:"Careful Cj."

We went up to him.

He didn't even notice us, he just kept staring at the screen.

Me: "Myrenthall? You there?"

-completely out of it- Myrenthall:" Quiet...you...I'm watching...the girlsssssss."

Me: "You mind if we take your helmet?"

Myrenthall: "I said quiet..."

-completely out of it- Myrenthall: "So many girls..."

-completely out of it- Myrenthall: "I think I'm in heaven..."

-completely out of it- Myrenthall: "You can watch too, if you'd like.."

-completely out of it- Myrenthall: "They don't care who they please."

I looked at Phoebe for a moment.

Me: "You're right, he's completely out of it."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Let's make sure this isn't a distortion first before we try to move him.'

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Otherwise, if we remove his helmet the space will start to unravel and who knows what will happen."

Phoebe :"We could end up outside this dimension again."

Me: "That would suck."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"Cj..."

-somewhat jealous- Phoebe:"Don't look at the screen!"

Me:"Sorry."

Phoebe:"Come on, let's see if we can get to the lobby."

We left the theatre and headed back into the hall.

We made it to the lobby, where we could see the street outside through the glass doors.

Phoebe: "Ok, outside exists, so we're really here."

Phoebe: "But that also means if we move him we'll have to walk all the way back to the warehouse."

Me: "Do yo have your phone? "

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Call James, maybe we can get a ride."

Phoebe: "I don't have his number, I'll have to go through Melissa."

Me: "Ok."

Me:"Also how are we going to move him? He doesn't seem too keen on cooperating."

Me:"What if that wakes him up?"

Phoebe:"As long as that helmet is on his head he won't wake up, its impossible."

Phoebe: "It may seem like he's watching all those naked people, but really he doesn't know where he is."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "I could strip in front of him and he wouldn't notice."

Me:"Don't do that."

-defensively- Phoebe:"-sighs-Cj I was just joking..."

Phoebe: "I think Bulby should be able to carry him."

Me: "But can he fit in the theatre?"

Phoebe: "Good point, the aisles are too narrow."

-confused- Myrenthall: "What are you doing here?"

He had left the theatre on his own.

Me: "Now he notices us?"

Phoebe: "Not really, he's still a bit slow."

Phoebe: "Go Bulby, Wrap him up with your vines!"

She sent out Bulby, who immediately wrapped Myrenthall up just as she commanded.

Phoebe:" Ok now, Cj you need to remove his helmet before I slip these power bracelets on, otherwise he'll destroy them."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Once you remove his helmet, he should return to normal, so we need to do this quickly before he can fight back."

Me: "Ok."

The trashcan monster suddenly appeared behind me, it hit me hard, sending me into the floor.

-confused- Bulby: "Saur….venusaur?"

-worried- Phoebe: "Cj!"

Everything hurt…got the wind knocked out of me, couldn't breathe. I couldn't get back up either.

Phoebe quickly teleported me away before the thing could finish me off. Bulby put Myrenthal down and decided to take on the monster, managing to hold it at bay.

Phoebe: "Cj are you ok?"

My back was cut up really bad from its metal "fingers" They weren't deep enough to hit anything important, but they hurt like hell and I was losing a lot of blood.

Phoebe: "Just hang on ok? I don't have any potions, I need to get more."

-in pain- Me:"What?"

Phoebe:"This isn't good, you're bleeding everywhere."

Me:"Just get Myrenthall, I'll be fine, even if I die you have lots of time to revive me."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Myrenthall:"Heheh I got him…Now you shall be my bride."

Phoebe removed his helmet.

-angrily yelling- Phoebe:"Get this through your thick head you annoying little pervert….he's not dead, and even if he was I will never marry you!"

-weakly- Me:"Hehe…baby girl."

-somewhat confused- Myrenthal:"What?"

Phoebe:"Huh?"

She threw him against the wall.

She was pissed.

-angrily- Phoebe: "No you're not teleporting away.."

Phoebe: "This ends now.."

Myrenthall: "-sighs-, sssso fiessssty…"

Myrenthall:"ascenfunima."

-unsure- Phoebe: "What?"

He produced another strange black orb, and dropped it on the ground.

-smugly- Myrenthall: "Smoke of the soul."

Moments later thick black smoke erupted from the orb and quickly filled the room.

-annoyed- Phoebe: "Not this again."

-confused- Me: "What the ?"

Phoebe: "Bulby get Cj."

The smoke quickly filled the lobby, making it hard to breathe and impossible to see anything.

I felt Bulby grab my arms with his vines, and then he began to pull me outside, I blacked out shortly after that, even though everything was pretty much already black because of the smoke.

When I woke up I was in the back of a car, Phoebe was beside me."

Phoebe:"Oh good you're awake."

Agent Donovan: "So we won't need a revive then?"

Donovan was one the agents that regular worked security at the facility, we met him before on the night Phoebe got sucked into that zombie world.

Phoebe:"No, he's ok."

She hugged me.

My back still hurt.

-in pain- Me:"Take it easy take it easy!"

-worried- Phoebe:"Oh…Sorry."

Phoebe: "We'll get you more potions soon, I promise."

Phoebe: "I screwed up..."

Phoebe: "I'm sorry."

Phoebe: "You got hurt, I freaked out, he escaped."

Me: "You got his amplifier though right?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "So it's not a total loss..."

Me: "It will take him some time to find another."

Phoebe: "But you got hurt."

Me: "There's no way you could've seen that coming, it's allright."

Me: "Atleast I didn't die this time, not that it really matters, but still."

Phoebe: "Hehe...yeah."

I slowly put my arm around her and pulled her into hug.

-lovingly- Me: "Stop worrying so much."

-cutely- Phoebe: "mmmm…"

Me:"So …..where are we going?"

Phoebe:"They're going to drop me off at the warehouse to get my car, then they will go get you some potions while I go get Nina, and a few hours from now we'll both be home with the kids."

-tiredly- Me:"Ok..."

-tiredly- Me:"Sounds good."

-tiredly- Me:"I think I'm just going to go back to sleep."

We arrived at the warehouse a few minutes later.

Phoebe:"Ok Cj, don't do anything silly, I'll be back home in a couple of hours or so."

-weakly- Me:"I don't think I can do much of anything until I get some potions baby girl."

Phoebe:"Well then just take it easy."

She kissed me on the cheek but refrained from hugging me.

Phoebe:"I love you."

Me:"Love you too baby."

She got out of the car and then we pulled away.

-concerned- Donovan: "You really ok back there?"

Me:"It feels like I got whipped by a truck full of broken glass."

Me:"But I can hold out."

Donovan:"There's a pokemart about ten minutes away, we can get some potions there."

Me:"Ok."

When we arrived at the pokemart, I found it too painful to get out of the car I stayed in while donovan went to get some potions.

Unfortunately, Myrenthal was following us.