Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

12. MoM part 3 The hunt for Christine

-chapter 12, the mystery of Myrenthal, part 3-

On monday we got up and took Nina to school, then we headed home and waited for the inevitable call to work. Charley was playing with some hotwheels on the floor along with his blocks, and Phoebe and I were snuggling romantically on the couch, watching an old disney movie on the tv, since Charley was around. As I watched the old disney logo animation, a tidal wave of nostalgia came over me as I remembered seeing it so many times as a kid when my parents would go out, get some pizza and rent a few vhs tapes that came in these big leather-bound cases. I had this little tv\vcr combine in my room, and would spend hours a day watching tapes. Considering the video rental store doesn't even exist anymore, it was quite a long time ago indeed, and now Charley would get a taste of this too...

Well..he would have...if Phoebe hadn't gotten a text shortly after the opening scene, shortly after we had just gotten comfortable, shortly before we were just about to start making out.

-bzzzzzzzzzzt-

Phoebe:"huuuh, that's probably Melissa..."

She sat up and retrieved her phone from the lamp stand.

Me:"aow, are you kiddin me?"

Phoebe:"We have to go in now."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"Sorry Cj."

Me:"Ehhh, yeah I guess we can record it and watch it later."

Phoebe:"Yeah, that would be great, then Nina can see it too."

Me:"But then we won't have the couch to ourselves."

Phoebe:"Oh don't worry, I think she'll be fine sitting on the floor."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Especially once we start hugginnnng and kissssing and lovvving..."

Me: "ehehe...you're gonna gross her out?!"

Phoebe: "Well if we have too -giggles-."

At least I was begining to feel normal, no longer constantly feeling thirsty or hungry.

Anyway, about a half hour later we arrived at the facility, with our pokemon and chosen weapons, ready to fight if neccesary. Corina was there to take Charley off our hands while we were shown to the briefing room once again. Once there, we were informed that today we would be going after Christine, as Myrenthall had fallen off the radar for the moment, likely because Phoebe severly wounded him during our last encounter.

So after a typical briefing session, we headed out to the south eastern part of Goldenrod, this time we borrowed a radio in case we needed backup, since Phoebe's camaro didn't have one. We ended up in a heavy industrial area, with a water treatment plant, and large port with many cargo ships and fishing boats. The fishing boats were unloading crates contaning thousands of frozen magicarps, which would be sold to restaurants, pet stores, and other various places.

Anyway, after driving by the port and seeing all the ships we arrived at a small, cheap apartment complex that the skarmory team had seen Christine around yesterday. She was even harder to track than Myrenthall, she knew of the cameras and teleported around frequently to throw them off. There were also atleast 3 remaining grunts under her command, but since they were merely human and not particularly competant trainers, no one was really paying attention to them.

Anyway, we began to ask around, but nobody had seen her, we couldn't find her in any of the rooms and Phoebe couldn't find any of her associates with her powers. When all hope was lost a small child came up behind us and spoke.

Unknown child: "I saw this lady yesterday that looked alot like you."

Phoebe: "Oh really?"

Unknown child: "Mhm."

Unknown mother: "Billy what are you doing over there? Leave those people alone, they're busy."

Billy: "But they're looking for another garwar lady..."

Billy: "You saw her too mommy...you know.."

Billy's mother: "I'm sorry I don't know what's gotten into him."

Phoebe: "Ohhh, it's ok."

Phoebe: "So Billy when did you see her?"

Billy: "Right after lunch, before I went out to pway, she went through the door away from ours."

Billy's Mother: "But honey, I didn't let you go out to play yesterday."

Billy:" Yes I did mommy, you're lying."

Billy's Mother: "-sighs- I'm sorry about this, he has a crazy imagination..."

Billy's Mother: "Come on Billy, let's go, we have to get you ready for preschool."

Billy: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Wait, can you tell us what really happened yesterday after lunch.?"

Billy's Mother: "We had breakfast, Billy asked me if he could go outside, I said no because it was too cold out, nobody saw anybody."

Billy's Mother:"Once again sorry I'm can't help you."

Phoebe: "It's ok."

Phoebe:"-sighs- Looks like little Billy is the only one who remembers."

Me:"So let me clarify this, she brainwashed everyone?"

Phoebe:"Mhm, he's not making it up, I can tell."

Phoebe:"But neither is his mother."

-quietly- Phoebe:"He must have been playing outside when she wiped everyone's memory, and Christine may have forgotten about him."

We watched what room they entered and immediately checked out the door across from it.

The door was locked at first, but it took all of five seconds for Phoebe to unlock it with her powers. Inside there was an official team rocket poster on the wall, a few random weapons and pokeballs scattered around, a nice flat screen tv, a rudimentary kitchen, and two bunkbeds.

Me:"Team rocket buys apartments?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "Maybe they've been living here for awhile."

Me:"Maybe, but this place is fully furnished, they had to have had it set up in advance."

Phoebe: "I don't know, but maybe there's a clue in here as to where she went."

Me: "Maybe."

Upon a coffee table lay a pistol, several handwritten notes, atleast a half dozen cheap cellphones and several lists of contacts.

Me:"It looks like somebody was trying to contact someone."

Phoebe:"Well maybe we can find out where she went?"

Me:"I don't know, you see those bunkbeds, I don't think she was the only one here."

We examined all the notes, trying to make sense of them, it wasn't very often that we had to do investigation work, but if we could figure it out without having to call anyone else in we could maybe find Christine just a bit faster.

Phoebe:"Hmmm...Matt."

-unsure- Me:"Heh?"

Phoebe:"That was her boyfriend's name wasn't it?"

Me:"I don't really remember."

Phoebe:"There's an address next to his name, maybe he lives at this address?"

Me: "How could he live there? He should be in prison."

Phoebe:"He was only given a few months, he should of been out on parole by now."

Me:"Just a few months?"

Phoebe:"The prison systems here work differently Cj, they use hypnosis and other abilities of psychic pokemon to fix people, instead of incarcerating them for long periods of time."

Phoebe:"Unfortunately gardevoirs are immune to such treatment."

Phoebe:"If Matt was released he probably remembers very little of his time as a team rocket grunt."

Phoebe:"He might not even remember Christine."

Phoebe:"Though she could use her powers to reverse some of the treatment."

Phoebe:"Maybe we should pay him a visit."

Me:"Mmmmaybe."

Me:"But there's also a number here for a Team Aqua commander."

Phoebe:"Sooo?"

Me:"We're near a port, Team Aqua has ships, what if they're planning to use them to escape?"

Me:"Speaking of which, there's the name of a ship written below his."

Phoebe:"The T.A.S Blackwater?"

Me:"Sounds cool doesn't it?"

Phoebe:"hmm, this is a tough call."

Me:"We could check the port, see if the ship is docked there."

Phoebe:"Yeah we could, and then we can go pay Matt a visit."

Me:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"Allright then let's go."

Me:"Right."

We quickly left the apartment, got back in her car and headed back down to the port.

There were many commercial ships docked here today, but of course, we were only looking for the Blackwater. When we couldn't find it, we got out and started to ask around. It wasn't long before one of the workers spotted us and tried to tell us to leave. According to his nametag, his name was Jerry.

Dockworker Jerry:"What are you doing here? This warf is off limits, it's employees only."

Phoebe showed him our ids.

-defensively- Dockworker Jerry:"So you're like cops? Look we didn't do nuthin illegal."

Phoebe:"We're not looking for you we're looking for a ship."

Phoebe:"The T.A.S blackwater."

Dockworker Jerry:"Ohhh...I haven't seen it."

Dockworker Jerry:"Let me get my supervisor, maybe he's seen it, I only work on this warf, so unless you're looking for the R.J.S Lantern over here, I can't help you."

He called his supervisor and we ended up meeting with him.

-into phone- Dockworker Jerry:"Hey Donny, get over here we got some Devon agents looking for a certain T.A.S..."

Me:"What does T.A.S stand for?"

Dockworker Jerry:"Tailow Air and Sealine."

Dockworker Jerry:" Rumor has it it's secretly a front for team aqua, but nobody really knows for sure."

Dockworker Jerry:"Oh there's my supervisor."

-urgently- Supervisor Donny: "Ok Jerry get back to work, I'll take it from here."

Dockworker Jerry:"Uhhh right boss."

Supervisor Donny:" Please you really need to leave the area you could get hurt."

Phoebe:"We're looking for a ship."

Me:"The T.A.S blackwater."

-urgently- Supervisor Donny:" It just left this morning, those T.A.S ships are strange, they don't seem to have any regular routes and they very rarely load or unload cargo. I've heard the rumors, but personally I think that's all they are."

Supervisor Donny:" Now if you don't mind we got crates to unload."

-peeved- Phoebe:"Fine we'll leave...so rude."

She teleported us back to the car.

Me:"Did he even know we're agents?"

Phoebe:"I don't know it doesn't really matter now."

Phoebe:"The ship just left this morning huh?"

Me:"That's enough time for Christine to get on board."

Phoebe:"But who knows where it is by now?"

Me:"They could send the skarmory team out to look for it."

Phoebe:"Yeah, I'm going to talk to them on the radio to see if they're interested in looking for the boat , and then why don't we go visit Matt?"

Me:"Ok, sounds good."

Me:"Or I could drive for awhile..."

Phoebe:" No..."

Me: "Why not?"

Me:"We could save a few minutes, and you can keep talking to them on the way to Matt's."

Phoebe:"-sighs-, ok, but you better be careful."

Me:"I will, don't worry."

So I drove us over to Matt's apartment, which was in the suburbs on the outskirts of Goldenrod, around route 34 where a modest residential district eventually gave way to a lonesome highway alongside the coastline, aside from the highway, the magnet train line could be seen in the distance, rising over a forrest. There were many trails into the hills that were very popular with trainers looking for pokemon, however this time of year there wouldn't be too many people up there due to the cold.

It was about an hour and a half before we got to the right neighborhood.

After informing the experiment facility of our where-abouts, Phoebe began to text Mellissa, seemingly distracted from the task at hand, which was somewhat strange for her.

Me:"Hey Pheebles what was the address again?"

Phoebe:"Ummmm."

Phoebe:"It's 1256 9th street loft."

Me:"Ok."

1256 turned out to be a bakery.

Me:"Ok so it's above the bakery then?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me:"Ready?"

Phoebe: "When you are."

Me: "Allright then."

We got out and headed up the stairs.

Phoebe:"He's not here, all I can pick up is the bakers next door."

Phoebe:"We should go there, they just came out with fresh poffins."

Me: "-sighs-...Aren't they toxic to me?"

Phoebe:"No, that's rare candy silly."

Phoebe:"Poffins are like jelly donuts, you'll like them."

Me:"I never really cared for jelly donuts, I just kinda like the glazed kind."

Me: "Come on baby girl."

Phoebe:"They have glazed poffins too, they're like scones."

Me:"Ok."

She unlocked the door and we headed inside.

It seemed like a completely normal appartment, everything in decent condition, no rocket logos anywhere, there was an empty energy drink can on the coffee table, as well as a cellphone.

Me:"Maybe Christine allready picked him up?"

Phoebe: "maybe."

Me: "If she didn't we should probably get out of here before he comes back."

Phoebe:"Ok."

She took my hand teleported us into the bakery...

Me: "-sighs- Pheebles."

-defensively- Phoebe:" I want some poffins."

Phoebe:"If you don't want any you can go back to the car."

Phoebe:"But I'm driving now."

Me:"Ooookay."

I don't know why she was starting to act like a brat all of sudden, but I just let it go.

I headed outside and waited in the car for a few minutes until she came out and got in.

Me:"Phoebe are you feeling ok?"

Phoebe:"I'm just a bit worried."

Me:"About what."

Phoebe:"You want a poffin?"

Phoebe:" I bought you some cicao glazed."

Me:"Allright."

She handed me one

Me:"But what's wrong?"

She seemed to be trying to dodge the question.

-solemnly- Phoebe:"Nina..."

Me:"What's wrong with Nina?"

Phoebe:"Nothing, it's just, watching her win that gym battle a few days ago, and then travelling all the way over here to the edge of the city."

Phoebe:"She's growing up, really fast."

Phoebe :"She could set out on her own next year."

-tearing up- Phoebe:"I don't want her to go."

Me:"-sighs deeply-"

Me:"I know how you feel."

Me:"But she'll come back to visit, you know that."

-tearing up- Phoebe:"I know."

-tearing up- Phoebe:"But we won't be able to protect her."

Me:"She has her pokemon."

Me: "Don't you remember the last time Christine tried to kidnap her, she escaped on her own."

Phoebe: "She got lucky."

Me:"Yeah...welll."

Me:"-sighs-, Pheebles just calm down for now ok, we'll talk later."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me:"We got other things to worry about right now."

-still sad- Phoebe:"I love you."

Me:"I love you too baby."

Th surveilance team told us to wait by the coast so we would be close by incase they spotted the ship. So we stopped by a small rocky beach and kind of just snacked on the poffins for a few minutes.

Me:"So now that we have some time you want to talk about Nina some more?"

Phoebe:"Ummmm..."

Phoebe:"No, I just want to enjoy this moment."

Phoebe:"I think you're right, she'll be fine."

Me:"Allright."

She kissed me on the cheek.

Phoebe:"How much time do you think we'll have?"

Me:"Not enough to do whatever you're thinking."

-let down- Phoebe: "Awwwweeeee really?"

Me:"You know how it would look if we were caught while we were supposed to be working?"

Phoebe:"I know."

Me:"And why do want to now? "

Phoebe:"Because it sounds like a good way to pass the time."

Me:"I know, but I don't wanna get started and then have them call us out before we can finish."

Phoebe:"That's true."

Me:"Because we don't know when they're going to need us."

Phoebe:"Mhmmm."

She slipped off her coat.

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

Phoebe:"What? It's getting warm in here."

-unaware- Me:"It is?."

Me:"You know we're in public right?"

Phoebe:"I know silly, I'm just taking my coat off."

Me: "You wanna get out and walk along the beach?"

Phoebe: "Um...ok, sure."

It was cold outside and it was a rocky beach, so there wasn't a lot of people around, Goldenrod had many natural beaches on the south and east sides.

We took the radio with us and made sure not to wander too far.

We walked to the north a little bit along the shore, and then we found a nice big flat rock to sit upon and watch the waves come in. Not long after we sat down, a wild seel came out of the water,shook itself off, and clambered up onto the shore.

Phoebe:"Awee look at that little guy."

-unsure- Me:"What's a seel doing up here?"

Phoebe:"Sometimes in the winter they'll head up north."

Phoebe:"He probably came all the way from Kanto."

Me: "All by himself?"

Another one came up.

Phoebe: "Nope."

Soon, several more seels came up out of the water and before long they were making quite a bit of noise, all of them barking in a similiar matter to a regular seal.

Me:" Wow, there's so many of them."

Phoebe: "It's an entire herd!"

Me: "Seems that way."

-cutely- Phoebe:"They're soooo cute!."

Me:"Yeah, kinda."

Phoebe:"What do you mean kinda? They're big fluffy butterballs!"

Me:"If you say so."

Phoebe:" Come here cutey!"

Me:"Are you going to catch them?"

Phoebe:"No, I just want to see them up close."

Me: "Ok."

One of the seels started to hobble towards us. They were so much better at swimming than walking. Phoebe got down on her knees to pet it.

Phoebe:"Hi there little guy..."

A few more approached.

I pet one just out of curiosity, they were covered in an extremely thick fur, that had a soft, but somewhat greesy feeling, it also didn't feel very wet, despite them just getting out of the water a minute ago, it only felt slightly damp from the greese.

Me: "hehe...they really are butterballs."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Seel:"Seeeeeelll seeell?"

Phoebe:"We're on break."

Phoebe:"What are you doing here?"

Seel:"Seeel...seeeel."

Phoebe:"Just exploring hmm?"

-curious- Phoebe:"Hey.. I wonder."

Me:"Wonder what?"

Phoebe:"Shhhh!."

Phoebe:"Seel, we're looking for a boat, the ss blackwater, have you seen it?"

-unsure- Seel:"Seel..-pauses-...seeel?"

Phoebe:"Oh right I forgot, seels don't know how to read."

Phoebe:"Oh well, thanks anyway."

-cheerfully- Seel:"seel!"

-cutely- Phoebe:"hehehe..."

Me:"Ah well, the skarmory team should find it any minute now."

Phoebe:"I hope so."

Dewgong:"Gong! gong! gong!"

Me:"Huh?"

Phoebe:"It's a dewgong."

A dewgong came out of the water and joined the large group of seels already present.

Phoebe:"I think he's their leader."

The seels that had come to see us hobbled back over to the others

Phoebe:"Why don't we go back to the car, we should probably leave them alone now, their leader might think we're trying to harm them."

Me:"Ok."

About halfway back to the car we heard the surveilance team on the radio.

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "We found the boat, Cj, Phoebe, what's your location?"

-into radio- Me: " We're on a beach on the west coast."

-on radio- Surveilance Agent: "Ok, um, head back to the experiment facility, we'll have a helicopter waiting to take you out to the ship."

-into radio- Me: "Ok."

Phoebe seized the radio from me.

-annoyed- Me: "Hey.."

-unsure- Phoebe: "We get parachutes too right?"

Surveilance Agent: "Of course."

-unamused- Me: "You know if you wanted it you could ask..."

-playfully- Phoebe: "I know but it's more fun to take it from you..."

Me: " And what? Did you think they just expected us to jump out?"

Phoebe: "I was thinking they would try to land on the ship, which would be very risky."

Phoebe: "If it's an aqua ship it will probably be guarded."

Me: "True."

Phoebe: "We're going to need our pokemon to make sure we can land safely."

Phoebe: "Good thing I thought to bring them."

Me: "Yeah...hehe..you were right."

About an hour later we arrived back at the facilty, thr chopper was already waiting for us, but as it was already passed 1:00pm Phoebe tracked down Corina to ask her to pick up Nina if we didn't get back in time.

About 20 minutes after that we were riding on the chopper over the water on the west coast. Along with the pilot, one of the members of the survelance team was with us, though it wasn't the one on the radio.

Surveilance Agent 2:"Allright we've had tabs on the ship up until we took off, the skarmorys came under hostile attack so we had them withdraw. "

Phoebe: "Are they allright? "

Surveilance Agent 2: "They'll make it back, but now we should expect them to give us the same treatment."

Surveilance Agent 2: " We'll fly above the ship and you two will jump out, my skarmory will cover you."

Phoebe:"We brought our own pokemon too."

Surveilance Agent 2: " Good, that's what we were counting on."

Pilot:"Get ready back there, I think I see it in the distance."

Me:"-sighs-, ready Pheebles?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

We started to slip into our parachutes. After I had mine on, I pulled magnum's pokeball out of my pocket, preparing to send him out once we got close enough.

Phoebe:"You're going to use magnum?"

Me:"Yep."

Me:"What about you?"

Phoebe:"I think, I'll use Cloudella."

Me:"Ok..."

Another 30 seconds and we were ready to go, as small arms fire began to ping against the side, I sent out magnum, Phoebe sent out Cloudela, and the surveliance agent sent out a skarmory. And they all headed down to the ship while we waited for them to take care of the grunts on deck, this proved to be more difficult than it seemed, not just because our pokemon could not hear our commands very well over the helicopter, but because the grunts had their own pokemon, a pair of hostile pelippers joined the fray, trying to avoid magnum, but actively attacking skarmory and cloudela. However a single thunderbolt from magnum was able to knock both of them out. And before long there was a break in the firefight, during which Phoebe and I jumped from the chopper and parachuted onto the deck of the ship, joining our pokemon.

Me: "Ok we know something's up, they wouldn't have fired at us if everything was ok."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

She kindly returned the unconscious pelippers to their pokeballs,

Between us and the deckhouse on the back of the ship, there were many metal shipping containers, the blackwater wasn't a huge ship by any means, but it was bigger than a tug boat, if that makes any sense.

Phoebe:"Now what I don't see Christine anywhere."

Me: "We need to check out the lower deck..or decks, I don't how many there are."

Me: "There's a cabin on the back we need to go to, it should have accees down below."

I proceeded to head towards the deck house.

Phoebe:"Wait!"

Phoebe:"There's more grunts hiding behind those containers."

Phoebe: "But they have mightyenas too."

Me: "That's not good."

Cloudela:"Clou."

One of the aqua's mightyenas began to bark at the surveilance agent's skarmory, which was still flying overhead, the others soon joined in, a well-aimed swift attack managed to hit all of them at once, but they were still up.

-from helicopter- Surveilance Agent:" Skarmory come back we have to get going."

The skarmory returned to its owner and the helicopter got out of harm's way.

Me: "-sighs-, they're still up, how are we going to do this?"

She sent out bulby.

-cutely- Phoebe: "Hmmmm?"

Me: "I guess so."

I sent out Bubba as well.

-quietly-Me: "Allright, we're going to have to do this very carefully, one row at a time.

-quietly-Me:"Magnum, Bubba, you go down the middle."

-quietly-Me: "Pheebles you come with me."

-quietly-Phoebe: "And that means that Bulby and Cloudela need to take the right."

-quietly-Me: "Right."

-quietly-Cloudela:"Clouuuu clowww."

-quietly-Me :"Just be careful not to attack eachother."

-quietly-Phoebe: "Mhm."

-quietly-Phoebe: "Actually bulby why don't you go down the center with Bubba, and then magnum can go with Cloudela.."

-quietly- Me" Magnum, and cloudela can hover, so they can go over the top."

-quietly-Me: "Bubba, you take the left with Bulby, we'll go right."

A mightyena suddenly ran around the corner.

-screaming- Phoebe: "Ahhhh!..."

Bubba: "Blast!"

Bubba quickly used hydropump and knocked it clear off the ship.

Me: "Good shot..."

Me: "allright we're running out of time, lets go!"

Phoebe: "Right."

We headed around the right side of the first row of containers, Bubba and Bulby took the opposite side, Cap'n'Magnum hovered over the right stack of containers, Cloudela followed behind.

Another Mightyena darted towards us, I drew my pistol and fired at it, but I ultimately had to rely on one of magnum's trusty thunderbolts to knock it out.

A grunt came out, but Phoebe kept me from firing at him.

-urgently- Phoebe: "No Cj Don't shoot him!"

Cap'n'magnum: "Magna?"

Me: "Why, what gives?"

The man took his shirt off and jumped over the side.

Phoebe: "He just wanted to save his pokemon."

Me: "Ohhhhh...ok..."

Phoebe took my hand and teleported us up on top of the container stack.

Me:"Now what gives?"

Phoebe: "There's too many mightyenas, you know I can't deal with them."

I looked where we were before, and there were already 3 more mightyenas there, angrily barking at us.

Me:"Magnum we need help!"

Me:"Magnum?"

-stressed- Magnum: "Magna magna!"

enemy swampert:"Swammmmp."

He was already preoccupied by an enemy swampert that had climbed up onto the next stack of containers.

Me: "Magnum it's ground type, use your magnet bomb on it."

Me:"Didn't expect them to have a swampert."

he went in close, Swampert retaliated with mudshot and got a direct hit, Magnum was hurt, and the mud made it so he couldn't see.

Me: "awe...crap..."

I returned magnum before he fell off the side. Swampert then turned its attention to us.

Me: "Not good."

It was just about to use another mudshot on us, but cloudela hit with a lightbeam from the side.

- a bit relieved- Phoebe: "Hehe."

Me: "Go get bulby."

Phoebe: "Right."

She teleported to the stack on the left while Cloudela continued to hold the swampert at bay.

Me: "Come on Cloudela, you don't have defeat it, just buy us some time to get Bulby over here.

Cloudela: "Clouuuu clou."

Me: "Focus on dodging, Bulby has more powerful solar beams than you do."

Swampert kept swatting at it with its forearms, until it realized it couldn't actually harm it that way. Then it resorted to mudshot, but Cloudela kept dodging it. I didn't shoot at it because I didn't want to draw it's attention. This went on until Bulby got close enough to hit it with a solar beam, knocking it off the container. Right on time too, as Cloudela was starting to tire out.

Phoebe:"Thanks Cloudela..."

Cloudela:"Clouuuu."

The mightyenas tried to attack Bulby, but Cloudela guarded him with light beam, giving me enough time to send out Blossom and have her cover them with sleep powder, they fell asleep before they could get close enough to do damage.

After that, Phoebe teleported me back down to the deck so we could continue.

We made it passed the second row without any trouble, but some grunts cut us off at the third row, and quickly sent out two more pellipers, who were a little bit more difficult to deal with now that magnum was out. In addition a sharpedo came out of nowhere and was jumping over the ship on occasion. I didn't see anyone send it out, but it had to be a trained pokemon because wild sharpedo would never do that. That and we were in the wrong hemisphere to be seeing wild sharpedo. Phoebe hid behind the containers, trying to stay out of it's sight, while Bulby kept trying to hit it with razorleaf. Bubba and Cloudela were dealing with the pelippers, I had already returned Blossom at this point for her own safety. I was keeping my head down to get a shot at a grunt, but the grunts were thinking the same thing.

-panicking- Phoebe: "WHERE DID THE SHARPEDO COME FROM!?"

Me: "I don't know...it must be one of theirs."

-worried- Phoebe: "I don't like this."

Me: "Me neither..."

She teleported from behind the right most container stack, to back behind me.

Then I heard a deep growling noise from the sharpedo as it leaped out of the water again, this time it headed right for bulby, and bit him pretty bad.

-in pain- Bulby: "venusaurr."

Phoebe: "Bulby!"

-worried- Me :"Crap that's a lot of blood."

I shot at the damned thing, but the bullets didn't seem to phase it much. Bulby tried to pry it off with his vines, but it wouldn't let go. Bubba finally blasted it off the deck with a hydro pump...

Bulby was still alive but his leg was torn up pretty bad.

-moaning in pain- Bulby: "Saaaaaaauuuuuuuuuurr...venuuusssssssssssss...ssauuuurrr."

The large pokemon fell to his knees,

I grabbed Phoebe before she ran over to him through the cross fire.

-panicking- Phoebe: "-breathing heavilly- Cj! Let me go now!"

Me: "Stay here! Do you want to get shot? Just return him before he gets worse."

-worked up- Phoebe: "-breathing-."

-urgently- Me: "Come on...get to it, he's in pain."

She took a moment to calm down before finally returning him.

-calmly- Me: "He'll be allright...come on, we've got more work to do."

-worried- Phoebe: "Is it dead?"

Me: "The sharpedo?"

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

Me: "It's hurt..."

Me: "I shot it, Bulby whipped it pretty hard, Bubba shot it."

Me: "If it's not dead, it's not at full health that's for sure."

Me: "Bubba are the pelippers gone yet?"

Cloudela: "Clou..."

Phoebe: "Ummmm...Cj...?"

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "We got company."

She pointed off into the distance, a helicopter was approaching.

Me: "That's not the one we came in on is it?"

Phoebe: "I don't think so."

Me: "Allright, come on team, we need to get moving."

Phoebe sent out polli.

Phoebe: "Come on polli, I'm going to need you to cover for Bulby now."

-affirmatively- Polli: "Politoed."

Phoebe: "Keep your head down."

We waited for Bubba and Cloudela to take down the pellipers, then Phoebe incapacitated the grunts on hiding on the left while I took out the ones on the right. After that it seemed we had cleared the deck because we were able to make it to the deckhouse without any more opposition. A pair of mightyenas tried to ambush us at the entrance, but a hydro cannon from Bubba quickly knocked them out. Once we were inside we didn't have to deal with as many hostile pokemon, as quarters were tight, and even Bubba found it difficult to get through the tight corridors, so I returned him, but we left Cloudela and polli out in case we needed some more backup.

Phoebe:"Hehe Cloudela you're doing pretty good, you're one of the first pokemon we've sent out aren't you?"

-cheerfully- Cloudella:"Clou!"

Cloudella:"Cloudella...clouu...dellla."

Phoebe:"Well it doesn't matter if you haven't knocked any one out."

Phoebe:"Every attack helps."

Me:"Yeah at this rate maybe you'll evolve."

Phoebe:"Hehe."

-realizing- Phoebe:"shhhhhhhhh!"

Phoebe:"There's more grunts up the stairs."

Me: "Odd's are if Christine's on this tub she's below deck."

Phoebe:"I know, but maybe we should go up first so they don't trap us."

Me:"What difference does it make?"

Phoebe: "If we get trapped up here I can teleport back out onto the deck."

We heard a chopper approaching.

Some more aqua grunts parachuted down.

Me: "Awe crap."

Phoebe: "We forgot about the heli.."

Me: "Mhm."

4 grunts jumped out of the chopper and landed on the deck, they didn't need parachutes as their chopper was able to get a lot closer.

Phoebe: "I'm going to go hide if you don't mind."

Me: "Ok."

I sent out bubba again to deal with yet another pair of mightyenas, however these two were larger and obviously more skilled. Even though they were stronger then the others we had defeated today, Bubba was still able to fight them, with occasional light beams from Cloudela to catch them off guard, it only took a minute or so to defeat them. Meanwhile Phoebe made short work of their pellipers and then we procceeded to take down the grunts.

The chopper fled.

Me:"Ok Bubba, stay here, and look out for any more helicopters, I doubt they're just going to leave us alone."

Me:"We're going to go back inside."

Just then an alarm went off.

Announcer:"Hostiles on the main deck, all crew be advised we're in code red repeat code red, all combat trained personel please report the the main deck for battle."

Me:"Took them long enough."

Phoebe:"They must have thought they could stop us until now."

-yelling- Grunt: "Stop right there! Hands on the ground, both of you, now!"

I put my hands up, and then moved slightly to the right so Bubba could get a clear shot, he took the shot without me having to say anything, knocking the grunt into the wall of the deckhouse, knocking him out cold.

Me: "Hehehe...thanks Bubba."

-cheerfully- Bubba: "Blastoise!"

We left Bubba to guard the deck and headed into the deckhouse, then up the stairs into the control room, quickly seizing control of the ship from the Captain who Phoebe quickly incapacitated, we shut down the engines, and turned off the alarm, just a minute later several mightyenas came up the stairs, Polli and Cloudella held them back long enough for me to pick them off, then more armed grunts came, Polli got shot so Phoebe returned him and together, coupled with Cloudela's thunderbolt attacks we took out the rest of the grunts until they stopped comming up the stairs. Once it appeared that the coast was finally clear we began to headed back down to the deck, and then further down below deck, to a living quarters with racks to sleep in, a full size kitchen and a cafeteria, just ahead of the engine room. We found Christine in the cafeteria, along with a handful of team aqua and former team rocket grunts.

Phoebe:"Joining team aqua now Christine?"

Christine: "How'd you find me?"

I kept my gun trained on Christine and while Phoebe approached, one of the aquas sent out a mightyena but Cloudela and I shot it to pieces before it even get close to her.

Me: "That was a stupid move..."

Me: "Do you aquas even give a damn about your pokemon?"

Grunt: "Well I uh..."

Me: "Shut up..."

He returned his battered pokemon while Phoebe teleported behind him.

Me:"You saw I had a gun but you sent out one that's vulnerable to bullets?"

Me:"What were you thinking?"

Phoebe: "Here.."

She knocked him out.

Phoebe: "Don't even try to escape Christine. We're in the middle of the ocean, there's nowhere you can run."

I saw her vanish, then I blacked out, only for Phoebe to wake me up just seconds later.

Me: "Oww...what the?'

Phoebe: "She knocked you out..."

Phoebe: "Come on, she couldn't have gone far."

Phoebe: "I heard her go up the stairs, she's probably back on the main deck."

Me: "Ok."

We headed back up the stairs, pausing only to take out a few grunts for the second time, because Christine had woken them up again just to stall us. When we finally made it to the main deck, Christine was now fighting Bubba.

She looked towards us and barely managed to dodge a shadowball, which Bubba immediately followed up with Hydro pump, making her soaking wet, and very angry.

Christine: "Stupid beast..."

-annoyed- Bubba:"Blast!"

-yelling- Phoebe: "Leave him alone..."

Phoebe: "You want to fight, let's fight."

Me:"You ok Bubba?"

Bubba:"Blastoisse."

He wasn't even phased.

-angry- Christine: "You took Matt away from me!"

Phoebe: "Don't you know how to restore his memorys?"

Christine: "I did, but he doesn't want to escape with me, he likes his new life now."

Phoebe: "Well good for him."

I had her lined up for a shot...but Phoebe forced my arm down.

Phoebe: "Cj let me handle this."

Me: "But..."

Christine:"-sighs- You woke your husband up?...guess i'll just have to kill him this time."

Christine:"After I kill you in front of him."

-angry- Phoebe: "I've been waiting all day for for this."

Christine: "So have I..."

The two gardevoirs began to exchange shadowballs.

Christine seizing the oppourtunity, woke up the mightyenas blossom had knocked out earlier.

Phoebe simply avoided them by teleporting, and it didn't take long for Bubba, Cloudela, and I to quickly knock them out again. Afterwards it was just Phoebe V.s Christine, because they were hovering and teleporting around so fast not one of us could see where this was going. We were just doing our best not to get hit by stray shadowballs. Eventually they both exhausted themselves and fell to their knees.

-breathing heavilly- Phoebe:" Ok...go get her Cj..."

Me:" Do we even have a power bracelet?"

-into radio- Phoebe: "This is Phoebe, Christine is weak..., if you want her you have to come... NOW!."

Me: "You've had that radio this entire time?!"

-breathing heavilly- Phoebe: "hehehehe...how did you not notice?"

-breathing heavilly- Christine:"I'm sorry but I have to...blbwuh..."

Bubba used hydro pump on her again, almost sending her off the side.

Me :"Hehehe...Bubba that's enough, you don't want to kill her.."

Phoebe :"Actually..."

Phoebe: "Bubba, keep her pinned.'

Bubba: "Blast!"

Me :"Go on..."

He continued to spray her with water.

-tired, soaking wet- Christine: "No wait...!"

-breathing heavilly- Phoebe :"Cj..do you have a knife?"

Me: "Why?"

Phoebe: "Well if you did ...we could cut out her psyhorn out...and then she'd never be able to use her powers again."

Christine: "I'd rather... you just kill me."

Phoebe: "You don't get to make that decision."

Me: "Pheebles calm down, I'm not doing that."

Phoebe:"Fine then I'll do it."

She took a knife from one of the incapacitated grunts and stood up.

Me: "Pheebles don't do this come on."

Phoebe:"It's the only way we can keep her from escaping."

Me:"There's other ways."

Phoebe:"Cj we have to..."

Me:"Do you want to go on the run again?"

Me:"We could lose our jobs, you realize that don't you?"

-scaired- Christine:"No please."

Phoebe: "Christine by the authority invested in me as the princess of the hearthome forrest Gardevoir city, for the crimes you have committed against humanity and your fellow gardevoirs, I inflict upon you punishment 98. Removal of your psyhorn and the forfeiture of your powers."

-somewhat mad- Me: "OH YOU IDIOT!"

so much for that being a secret...

-realizing- Christine: "Oh ...you you you .You're the princess?"

Phoebe :"Mhmmmm..."

-calmly- Phoebe: "Now hold still."

I didn't want to do it, I knew it was really, really stupid, I knew Christine would get away, but it was the only way I could get her out of her insanity. I pointed my gun...at my arm...and pulled the trigger. It hurt a hell of a lot worse than I thought it would.

-shocked- Phoebe: "Cj what the? Wha? Why?"

Phoebe: "You Idiot..."

She abandoned Christine to tend to me.

Phoebe: "Why did you shoot yourself?"

-annoyed- Phoebe: "That was so stupid."

Me: "I know it was stupid.."

Me: "Stupid.."

Me: "I didn't want to watch your light fade..."

Phoebe: "-hmmm- ?"

-confused- Phoebe: "So you shot yourself?"

Me: "You didn't want to listen, i didn't want to grab you because you were holding a knife."

Phoebe: "That wouldn't hurt as bad as shooting yourself you moron."

Me:"I did it for you."

Phoebe:"Bubba throw Christine overboard."

-worried- Christine: "I'll drown."

Phoebe: "You won't drown, but you won't be able to escape either."

Me:"You realize you blew your secret?"

-softly- Phoebe:"shhhhhhh...no I didn't, she has no reason to believe I was telling the truth."

Me:"It seems like she believed you."

She cut up one of the grunt's shirts and used it to bandage my arm.

Me: "Owww..what are you doing?"

Phoebe: "Hold still, if you black out on me again... I swear..."

Phoebe: "Is that too tight?"

Me: "It'll hold.."

Phoebe: "Don't do that again.."

-in pain- Me: "Well then you don't do that again..."

-in pain- Me: "That's my thing..."

-in pain- Me: "If I say it's too much it's too much."

-lightheartedly- Phoebe: "Ok ok ok...don't be so pushy."

Me: "Hehehehehe."

Phoebe: "hehehehe..."

Phoebe: "-sighs- You know Cj...I wasn't going to do it anyway, I was just trying to scare her..."

Phoebe:"Like you do sometimes."

-in pain- Me:"Well you...god dammit you could have said something.."

-in pain- Me:"Ok just say something next time..because I don't know what you're thinking."

Phoebe:"I will, I promise."

She hugged me.

Me:"Oww... watch the arm."

Phoebe:"Sorry."

We kissed as Bubba threw Christine overboard, she was able to tread water until a chopper arrived to pick us up. Then she was put in power bracelets and we all headed back to the experiment facility, while another chopper came in to pick up the rocket grunts. Once we got back we had to wait for Corina who had already left the facility to pick up Nina from her school, taking Charley along with her. Needless to say it was already passed 3:00pm. Only Christine and the rocket grunts were arrested this time around, the aquas were left on the ship (which was still functional) as there wasn't much of a case against them.

When Corina returned to the facility with both of our kids, we thanked her, then headed home after a visit to the pokemon center.

It wasn't until the afternoon when we heard the terrible news.

The prison had had it with Christine, so much so that this time they actually called James, begging him to give Matt a chance to save her, because their own treatment, which had changed many humans for the better, just didn't work on psychic pokemon like her. So, from what we heard, sometime after we had left the facility, Matt, James, the Goldenrod Chief of Police, and the warden of the Johto Prison, all had a meeting, about just what the heck they should do with her. Because nothing was working, they couldn't contain her, and they couldn't actually change her using their usual methods. And from then on it was agreed that Matt would take charge of her, but, she would be forced to wear special power bracelets that only James and the Warden would have the keys to. The keys were of a special digital type, making them incredibly hard to forge, and the lock invulnerable to psychic powers. So after being in a small holding facility within the experiment facility, for merely a few hours, Christine left with Matt, completely legally. The rest of the grunts, were shipped back to the prison with a few more months added to their sentences.

Me:"-sighs-..why bother.."

-annoyed- Me: "I can't believe they just let her go like that!"

Phoebe: "At least she has to wear power bracelets."

Phoebe: "But...listen, James says if she messes up again...we're authorized to kill her."

Phoebe: "Because they're litterally at their wit's end."

Phoebe: "By the looks of things she was trying to join team aqua."

Phoebe:"She doesn't show any signs of wanting to stop being a criminal."

Phoebe: "That's why I wanted to inflict punishment 98 upon her."

-surprised- Me: "You said you were joking!"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Maybe I was...you'll never know, hehehehe."

-annoyed- Me: "-sighs-...dammit Pheebles."

Phoebe: "Aweee settle down, it's not that bad."

Nina: "What's not bad?"

Nina came in, she had been playing with her pokemon outside since we got home.

Phoebe: "Nothing sweety...just go back to playing."

-sadly- Nina:"mmmmm..."

Phoebe: "Nina there's just some things you shouldn't know."

Phoebe:"And don't read your father's mind or i'll erase his memories."

Me:"If I have to forget today you're grounded."

-sadly- Nina:"Mmmmmmmmm... ok."

Phoebe:"And stop moping around, you were having fun outside just a few minutes ago."

-concerned- Nina:"Dad... why is there blood on your arm?

My armed was still stained with my own blood even though I had it healed at the facility.

Me:"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

-awkwardly- Me:"Eheh...becauuuuse."

Phoebe:"He got shot in the arm...he's ok though he's healed, it happens sometimes sweety it's allright."

-suspicious- Nina:"Ok..."

She headed into her room.

Charley was quietly minding his own business playing with his toys on the floor, until he stopped playing and crawled over to Phoebe. He put his tiny arms up against the couch and pulled himself up onto his legs.

-cutely- Charley:"Mawa... Cawey huhwhy.."

-cutely- Phoebe:" Awwwe..look at you, standing up..."

-cutely- Charley:"Mawa may foo fo Cawey?"

His legs were starting to get tired and he was wobbling quite a bit.

Me: "hehehe.."

Phoebe: "I was wondering if Corina got you anything to eat or not."

-hungry- Charley:"Pleee mawa cawey huhwhy."

Phoebe: "Ok then, come on little guy let's get you some food."

-excitedly- Charley:"Cawey luh foo!"

-lovingly- Phoebe: "hehe...I know."

She picked him up and brought him into the later, Nina left her room and quickly darted back outside. Somehow, the rest of the day passed by without anything out of the ordinary happening, we just spent some quality time with the kids and that was about it.