-chapter 22, more trouble with the space police-

At the lab on sunday, while we were at home relaxing, Dr. Black went through with his plan to send another group into the 80s world to be deliberately arrested by the space police. These were not agents, but interns fresh out of college, that kinda had the misfortune of being suckered into it. This didn't go very well, as expected, and after they were arrested the space police discovered and seized their cameras and radio, and after watching the portal for hours, without contact, they had yet to return. Come monday morning, guess what our job was?

We recieved the call sunday night, so the next morning after the test subjects still hadn't returned, and after we had taken Nina to school, we headed to work, fully equipped with weapons and our pokemon.

Phoebe:" I can't believe he did this. "

Me: "I know, he might as well just send them to prison. "

Phoebe: "So what are our plans? "

Charley: "Mawa, teephee bwokeh. "

Me: "Well, we don't know where they were taken. "

Me:"So we'll have to capture a space policeman and interrogate him, or...I don't if their deloreans would have navigation systems or not. "

Charley: "Mawa es bwokeh. "

Me: "If they did there could be a chance that they have coordinates stored which would atleast lead us to one of their bases. "

Normal deloreans didn't of course, they were far too old, but given the space police's penchant for technology, there supposed "deloreans" could be ufos in disguise for all we know.

Phoebe: "Yeah. "

Phoebe: "But still, he's basically asking us to raid a police station. "

Me:"Yep. "

Me:" They're gonna throw everything they have at us. "

Phoebe:"Mhm. "

Charley: "MAWA TEEPHEE ES BWOKEH!"

Phoebe: "It's broken? "

Me: "Dvd probably ran out of episodes. "

Phoebe:" Probably. "

She pressed the play button on the tv.

Phoebe: "There? Does that fix it little guy? "

Charley: "Es na bwokeh no mo. "

Phoebe:" It's not? Ok, that must have fixed it then. "

Me: "So uhhh.. "

Phoebe: "What? "

Me:" Well, this is probably going to be a huge fight, so, afterwards, you maybe wanna leave Charley with Nina and go out and have some fun or something? "

Me: "We could go dancing... "

Phoebe :"Ohhh Cj, Nina can't look after Charley that long. "

Phoebe: "I'd love too, but, Charley. "

Me: "What if we take him to my parents? Or what if Corina's not busy tonight? "

Phoebe:" I don't know. "

Me:"Baby girl, I just wanna spend more time with you. "

Phoebe:"We'll see. "

Phoebe:"Ok? "

Me:"I guess it's better than no. "

Phoebe: "Mhmm. "

As usual, when we arrived at the lab, Corina was waiting in the lounge to look after Charley for us, as we prepared for what was likely to be an intense fight.

Phoebe: "I knew it was a terrible idea to let somebody get arrested. "

Dr. Black:" Well I seriously thought they wouldn't be kept for long. "

Dr. Black: "Allright, let's go over your mission. "

Dr. Black: "You need to locate where these two interns are being held, and then you need to bring them back, alive. "

Phoebe: "Right, ok. "

Dr. Black: "Here are some recent pictures of them, so you know what they look like, your standard camera array, and a radio. "

Dr. Black: "In addition to the weapons and pokemon I advised you to bring, hopefully that will be enough. "

Dr. Black: "We're sending you back into the 80s world, just like the interns, hopefully it won't take you long to find them. "

Me: "Well, we're basically starting from scratch, so...yeah. "

Me: "To be honest, I'm not sure how we're going to do this. "

Me: "But, we can try. "

Me: "Allright Pheebles, you ready for this? "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "Ok then. "

We put on the cameras, and prepared to enter the portal. After we did so, we found ourselve in an amusement park again.

We were hoping we would have some time to explore before we had to fight, but that was not the case, the space police were already waiting for us, attempting to hide in the seemingly empty park, however, Phoebe saw through this right away, took my hand, and teleported us to safety.

I saw a brief glimpse of somewhere pretty high up, but I didn't actually get the time to see where, and then we were in an alleyway between two apartment buildings, Phoebe was exhausted so I knew we were quite far away.

Me: "What gives? "

-breathing heavilly- Phoebe: "... "

She took a moment to catch her breath.

-breathing heavilly- Phoebe: "They were waiting for us, they had the portal surrounded. "

She let go of me and began to have trouble keeping her balance.

Phoebe: "We should be safe for now. "

Me: "Damn, how far away are we from the portal? "

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

She lost her balance, and I barely managed to catch her, it was clear she was exhausted.

Phoebe: "As far away as I could manage. "

-concerned- Me: "Are you ok? "

Phoebe: "I just need to rest a little bit, and we have plenty of time now. "

She sat down against the wall of the building, I sat beside her and we stayed there for a few minutes trying to figure out what to do next.

Me: "We have to go back and confront them,

Phoebe: "They know we escaped Cj. "

Phoebe :" They'll scatter in all directions looking for us. "

Phoebe: "One should come up this street eventually. "

Phoebe: "And if our plan is to steal one of their car, that will be the best way. "

Me: "Right, cause we'll only have to fight 2 of them at most that way. "

Phoebe: "Mhm, instead of...a lot. "

Me: "How many were there? "

Phoebe: "I stopped counting at 6 so I could get us out of there. "

Phoebe :"There were many more than that though. "

Me: "Ok. "

Phoebe: "So...atleast 12. "

Me: "Ok, that's not that much. "

Phoebe: "Still more than we should face at once."

Me: "Allright then, so you just wanna rest here till one comes our way? "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "Ok. "

-relaxed- Me: "-sighs-. "

Me: "You know, this is kind of nice. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

I pulled her close and we snuggled for a few minutes. It was a warm day, though it was cooler than the last time we were here.

Me: "Love you baby. "

Phoebe: "Love you. "

-into radio- Me: "We're going to need radio silence until further notice. "

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Granted, given the situation. "

-around ten minutes later-

Me: "Are they even gonna show up? "

Phoebe: "They should, any time now. "

Phoebe:"We better get up, we shouldn't let them surprise us. "

Me:"Right. "

Phoebe: "Come on, let's go to the roof. "

Me: "Ok. "

She took my hand and she teleported us to the roof of the nearest building, a standard 5 story brown brick apartment.

We watched the cars go by on the street below, until we spotted a delorean sedan.

Me:" You see it? "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "Can you confirm... "

-interupting- Phoebe: "It's not a civilian. "

Me: "Allright then. "

Me:"Send me down, I'll lure them out. "

Me:"You know what to do. "

Phoebe: "Right. "

She teleported me back down, then went back to hiding.

I walked out of the alley way, the space police spotted me and, as expected got out of their car.

Space Police: "Space Police! You're under arrest."

Phoebe teleported in behind them.

Me: "Hehehehe...idiots."

Space Police: "What?"

Phoebe: "Sleep!"

They both fell over unconcious.

Me: "Allright, that was easy. "

We got in the car, along with the normal interior of a delorean, plus a rear seat, there was an additional computer screen with a keyboard I couldn't quite figure out at the moment, it seemed to be asking for a password.

Phoebe took a moment to hide the unconscious officers and then came back.

Me: "Can you try to figure this screen out? "

Phoebe: "Umm, ok. "

Phoebe: "Enter password? "

Phoebe: "Hmm... "

Phoebe: "Give me a second. "

She stepped out for a moment, then came back.

Phoebe: "Password is L...3...M...0...N...donuts... "

Me: "Lemon donuts? "

Phoebe: "No L-3-M-0-N donuts. "

Me: "Pheebles it's the same thing. "

Phoebe: "Oh...ok. "

-a few seconds later-

Phoebe: "No it's not, it didn't work. "

Me: "I meant they're pronounced the same. "

Phoebe: "Oh...ok. "

Phoebe: "L-3-m-0-n, donuts. "

It seemed to be accepted as the password screen gave way to something that resembled a gps.

Phoebe: "Ok, we're in. "

Phoebe: "I found a menu. "

Me: "What's it say? "

Phoebe:"Um, satelite radio,cb radio, set destination, history, vehicle settings, radio settings, program settings. "

Me: "History. "

Phoebe: "Right ok. "

I wondered what vehicle settings was.

Phoebe: "Um, that amusement park we just left, Jolly Time donuts, 6534 Emery drive. "

Me: "Yeah it's probably the last one. "

Me:"Allright then. "

Phoebe: "Ok it's giving us directions now. "

Me: "Good. "

Radio: "Unit 43 what is your status? "

Me: "Ah crap. "

Phoebe: "What should we say? "

Me: "Um... "

Me: "Just ignore it for now. "

-2 minutes later-

Radio: "Unit 43 what is your status? "

-a minute later-

Radio: "Unit 74 check on unit 43, last known location should be on your console now. "

-on radio- Unit 74: "Roger that, en-route to cordinates. "

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

Me: "Shut the door, let's get going before they find us. "

Phoebe:"Ok. "

I pulled away and we began to head to the destination, it took awhile to get used to the strange sedan, it was big but quick, and just a bit more tail happy thanks to the engine being behind us. It was also a bit loud, and aside from the gps screen and other non-standard accesories the space police had added, not as luxurious as one would think, although it was seemingly quicker than deloreans from our worlds, thanks to a turbo charger.

Me: "We just gotta get there before they find out what's going on. "

Phoebe: "So how are we going to do this? Are we going to charge through the front door? "

Me: "No...I don't know...we don't even know if it's a normal building. "

Me:"We'll decide when we get there. "

Phoebe:"Ok. "

Approximately 30 minutes later, after leisurely cruising to our destination, obeying traffic rules and trying not to make a scene, the space police, unable to find us without overtly cheating, used the gps in our car to find our exact location, we heard this on the radio, and seconds later there were several cars chasing us. We could have switched cars and been rid of them, but without the gps there was litttle chance we would find their headquarters, even if Phoebe managed to memorize the map. The chase was inevitable anyway, it's not like they wouldn't notice us raiding their headquarters.

They didn't turn on any lights or anything, apparently not wanting to draw attention to themselves, as this city wasn't abandoned and civilian traffic was flowing at a normal rate. When a rare break in traffic finally occured they took the oppourtunity to send us this lovely message on a loudspeeker.

-on loudspeaker- Space Policeman: "PULL OVER! YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR MULTIPLE COUNTS OF DIMENSIONAL TRESSPASSING AND INTENTIONAL THEFT OF A VEHICLE BELONGING TO THE SPACE POLICE!"

-curious- Me: "Where's the loudspeeker button? "

Phoebe: "I don't know. "

Me: "You don't know or you just won't tell me cause you know what I'll do if you tell. "

Phoebe: "Why would I tell you that if I did? "

-playfully- Phoebe:"You know I'm a sneeky girl when I want to be. "

Me:"Yeah... I know baby girl. "

Me:" Hehehehe, you think about tonight? "

Phoebe;" We have to get this over with first. "

Me: "Yeah, that's true. "

-concerned- Phoebe: "Are you going to shoot at them? "

Me:" No, not yet, no reason to escalate things until we have too. "

Me: "Besides if we start shooting at them they'll have reason to use even more powerful weapons and that will be annoying. "

Phoebe:" Mhm true. "

-meanwhile, at Space Police HQ, Earth 212, (the version of earth we were on at the moment.)

Dispatcher: "It's these two again sir, the third time they've trespassed into a universe under control of the space police and the second in our universe, this time they've gone so far as to steal one of our vehicles."

Commander 212G: "They're undoubtly heading straight for us, that's why they stole our vehicle. "

Commander 212G: "Tell everyone to get ready for a fight, I want the doors barricaded, we'll corner them outside and we'll have them promptly arrested. "

Dispatcher: "What about the beasts they have? "

Commander 212G: "The what? "

Dispatcher: "The giant metal dinosaur thing, have you seen the report from earth 164? "

Commander 212G: "I've seen it, but I don't believe it. "

Commander 212G: "They probably just made it up as an excuse for why they couldn't capture them.

Dispatcher: "But Commander we got video_. "

-in disbelief- Commander 212G: "Shut up, the video is a fake, there is no way a giant steel dinosaur appeared out of nowhere and attacked us. There is no way. "

This particular commander was not exactly known for his experience, a more seasoned commander wouldn't laugh at the audacity of such things, they are the space police after all, they've encountered beings and technology unheard of by most. The previous commander of this dimension would have been much less foolhardy, but he had retired the previous year, and, well they had to get somebody to replace him. Because of earth 212's comparitively primitive technology, security was lax, and maintaining control of the planet was a simple matter of creating wars in the east and funneling money to ROA President Rickson, amoung various other world leaders. More experienced personel were sent to other planets that could pose a more serious threat to the authority of the space police, particularly ones aware of their existence.

Commander 212G: "That version of earth has a movie called Mecha Godzilla, they probably just edited real footage with clips from that in order to make up an excuse for why they failed to apprehend the tresspassers. "

Commander 212G: "Now, stop with the bullshit, and get 20 armed men by the front door, that should be enough to hold them off. "

Commander 212G: "Also, dispatch the APCs, and have them guard as well, in case they decide to do something stupid. "

Dispatcher:"Yes sir. "

- about 30 minutes later-

After a chase that was so unremarkable it wasn't worth talking about, space police refrained from using sirens, and with all the traffic, and no shooting, it was basically a game of who make the riskiest driving moves. We deviated from the gps route for a moment to go on the highway, where I lost them by taking and exist at the last possible second, giving them not enough time to make a turn, and forcing them to either crash, or continue down the highway until they found a point to turn around, sadly, nobody was stupid enough to crash. After that we went back to the gps route, and we made it there without further interuption. Parking the car a block away, we headed towards our destination on foot.

It wasn't hard to figure out what building it was, many armed soldiers and a pair of apcs were suspiciously guarding the entrance of an otherwise ordinary small bank building The apcs were marked with S.W.A.T decals, to fool the public into thinking they were the regular police. The street was blocked off with "road construction" signs as well, complete with parked construction equipment so there was convieniently no civilian traffic around to see this.

Phoebe: "No I can't knock them all out, there's too many, they'll shoot me. "

Me: "I know, that and the apcs. "

Me: "And those cars we lost earlier are undoubtly on their way over here. "

Me: "We can use Aggron to charge at the building, he can take out the apcs and then. "

Phoebe: "Bulby? "

Me: "Yeah petal dance, that worked well last time. "

Me: "And, if we use Blossom to mix it with sleep powder. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "Allright then lets do it!"

Aggron charged at one of the apcs, it fired a weird beam at him, but he just absorbed it without any noticeable effects, he crashed into it, flipping it over, then turned towards the other one which was still rotating it's turret, Aggron proceeded to rip the turret off the tank and pummel it to pieces while the crew escaped, then it caught on fire and started to burn.

At this point, all the officers were now firing at him, for all the good that it did. This left Bulby and Blossom unapposed, and once the petal dance\sleep powder combination started they began to drop like flies. Aggron suddenly fell unconscious shortly after.

Me: "What the... aggron?"

Phoebe: "He's out. "

Me: "Huh?"

Phoebe: "He's not hurt, he just fell asleep. "

Me: "Because of the sleep powder or?"

Phoebe:" I don't know, he did get hit quite a few times."

Me: "Do you think their lasers can put people to sleep?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me:" They didn't seem to do anything else to him."

Phoebe :"Yeah, but it is Aggron."

Me :"Awe well, we're through the front door now."

Me: "Thanks for the help Aggron, you can rest."

I returned him along with Blossom as we proceeded through the front door, leaving a trail of unconcious space policemen behind us.

There were a few more inside, but with Phoebe's abilities, most of them didn't have a chance, and then we got lost for a moment, because, well, oddly enough, this building seemed like a completely legitimate bank building, complete with a closed vault that was begining to look very suspicious.

Me:"There's nowhere else to look, you have to open the vault Pheebles. "

Phoebe:"What if this is a real bank? Then we'll be in huge trouble. "

Me:"It's not a real bank Phoebe come on, real banks do not have apcs as part of security detail."

Me:"Armored cars maybe, but not apcs with machine guns. "

Me:"Besides do you see any staff here? "

Me:"Do any of these unconcious guards have any knowledge of banking, or accounting even? "

-defensively- Phoebe:"This one took classes at college. "

Me:"Seriously Pheebles? Come on, open the vault already. "

Phoebe:"-sighs-, ok fine. I just need a few minutes to get some information. "

She walked round the room, probing the minds of the unconcious guards, looking for information.

Phoebe:"Drag this guy over to it, we need his fingerprints. "

Me:"Ok. "

Then the cars that were chasing us earlier began to arrive, more charged through the door, I fired at them, but they started teleporting again.

One of them teleported behind me and forced me to the ground, but Phoebe quickly took him out which bought me enough time to send out Magnum, who proceeded to electrecute the others.

Phoebe: "You ok? "

Me: "Yeah, just shaken up a bit. "

Me :"They're still not using lethal force. "

Phoebe: "Maybe they don't want to. "

Me: "Yeah maybe. "

Phoebe: "Besides what about those ray guns is non-lethal? We've never been hit we don't know what they do."

She was encapsulated by a strange purple glowing bubble of plasma.

Phoebe: "Hey what the? "

Phoebe: "What? "

Me: "Pheebles? "

Space Policeman: "You're Under Arrest. "

Me: " Magnum? "

-strained- Cap'n'Magnum: "Mag... "

Me: "Crap, he got you too? "

Space Policeman: "Surrender. "

Me: "Yeah right. "

He teleported, I instinctively turned around and pinned him to the wall.

Me: "Undo whatever the hell you did or I'll fucking kill you. "

-in pain- Space Policeman: "I can't. "

I shot him in the knee.

Me: "I'm not fucking joking. "

-in more pain- Space Policeman: "Stop...please. "

Me: "We're beyond games, undo what you did or else. "

Space Police:" They'll lock you up forever. "

I shot him in the other knee.

Me: "Do it. "

Space police2: "Freeze!"

I turned around, the officer behind me fired another energy bubble, I moved just in time for it to hit the other officer instead, gluing him to the wall and covering him up to his neck.

I turned my gun on the other officer, who appeared to be trying to teleport.

Me: "No you don't!"

Me: "Unfreeze them!"

Space police2: "Wait, stop. "

Me: "I'll kill you if you don't. "

Space Police2: "That's a capital offense, they'll lock you up forever. "

-unconcerned- Me: "Good luck with that. "

Me: "Unfreeze them. "

He flipped a switch on his gun, and fired at the energy bubbles, causing them to disperse into a fine pink powder.

-confused- Magnum: "Mag? "

-frustrated- Phoebe: "What just happened? "

I yanked the gun out of his hand, now that I understood how it worked, I flipped the switch back, and promptly encased him in a bubble.

Space Policeman: "You're both going to pay for this. "

-unamused- Me: "Yeah, yeah yeah. "

Phoebe: "What is this stuff? "

Me:"I don't know, but I got the gun that shoots it! "

Phoebe: "-sighs-, You and your guns. "

Me: "Well hey, this is a non-lethal weapon, if I use this, they won't be able to retaliate with lethal force. "

She quickly put the encapsulated officer to sleep.

Phoebe: "Yeah, maybe you're right. "

Me: "Especially since they don't have revives here. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "Ok you still got the vault? "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "Allright. "

Me: " Magnum, guard the entrance, and don't get caught in the bubble again. "

Magnum: "Mag!"

Phoebe eventually managed to open the vault. What we found inside was not stacks of money, nor valuables of any sort, rather, it seemed to be an elevator, with the doors already open.

-meanwhile, below the bank of fakeness- Dispatcher: "That's it, they've incapacited everyone on the ground level, and all the units we had dispatched. "

-panicking- Commander 212G: "... "

Dispatcher: "Commander? "

-shocked- Commander 212G: "Elevate threat status to level 2, and I want everyone we have inside guarding the elevator. "

Dispatcher:"Consider it done. "

Dispatcher: "Should I advise other universes as well? "

Commander 212G: "No, not at this time. "

Dispatcher: "Yes sir. "

Dispatcher: "You know, they are a threat to our HQ now, we could possibly get authorization to use lethal."

Commander 212G: "Yes, but then there'll be an inquiry into why we made such a request."

Dispatcher: "There's nothing wrong with that commander."

Commander 212G:" There's everything wrong with admitting we couldn't handle these two cretins."

Commander 212G:" They could strip me of my rank for allowing this to happen."

-back up above-

Before we entered the elevator, I returned Magnum.

Me: "Told you it wasn't real. "

Phoebe: "-sighs-, you were right. "

Phoebe: "Now what. "

Me: "I guess we go to the bottom. "

Phoebe: "Why? "

Me: "I don't know, most likely place the holding cells will be? "

Phoebe: "Your guess is as good as any. "

Me: "Odds are they're going to have people waiting for us. "

Phoebe: "How come? "

Me: "Well there's only so many places we can get out at, and I doubt they used all their forces just trying to keep us from comming here. "

Me: "So odds are whatever is left will be waiting for us on the other side of these doors. "

Me: "So what you need to do baby, is teleport us behind them all as soon as you can, then we can take cover in whatever rooms are available and pick them off from there. "

Phoebe: "Ok. "

Me: "Sound good? "

Phoebe :"Mhm. "

Me: "Good. "

Phoebe: "Now be quiet, because I'm going to need to focus to do this right. "

Me: "Ok. "

Phoebe: "Shhh. "

Me: "I haven't even pressed the button yet. "

-playfully- Phoebe: "Shhhhh. "

Me: "Pheebles. "

-playfully- Phoebe: "shhhhhhh... "

Me: "-sighs-. "

-playfully- Phoebe: "Shhh. "

-playfully- Me: "Shh yourself. "

I pressed the elevator button for the lowest floor, the doors closed and we began to descend.

She calmly took my hand and stared at the seam between the doors the entire way down.

The doors opened to reveal atleast a dozen space policeman, but I only got a glimpse of them before Phoebe teleported us to safety.

Phoebe: "Let's go! Come on!"

Me: "Mhm. "

Me: "Blossom, come on, cover our tracks with sleep powder. "

Phoebe :"How's that going to cover our tracks? "

Me: " It won't, but it may put them to sleep. "

Unfortunately Blossom couldn't run very fast, so I had to return her before the space police caught up with her, but she still managed to produce a cloud of sleep powder behind us. There was a corner up ahead. An officer suddenly teleported in front of us only for me to slam him into the wall, and he was out like a light, entirely bad timing on his part.

Me: "Ok where are the holding cells? "

Phoebe: "A sign back there said they were down this way. "

Me: "Ok. "

Eventually we found them towards the end of the hall, there were about a dozen of them, and most of them were empty, no wonder they were so crazy about arresting people.

Me:"-sighs-, they got biometric locks on the cells too. "

Phoebe :"Yeah I see. "

Phoebe: "Why don't you go bring one of the guards over here? "

Me: "Allright. "

An alarm went off.

Me:"Awwwwe crap. "

Phoebe: "Actually, I'll go with you. "

Me: "Yeah, sounds good. "

We made our way to the nearest unconcious officer, by this time some officers from other floors were comming down to fight us. We had Blossom set another cloud of sleep powder strategically around the corner, once we had what we needed, Phoebe teleported us behind it, I returned Blossom and we headed back to the holding cells dragging an unconcious guard along behind us.

Phoebe: "Ok, which one are they in? "

Me: "I don't know. "

Phoebe: "It's the one on the end. "

Phoebe: "Come on. "

unknown intern: "Hey it's a gardevoir. "

Phoebe: "Yep, it's definitely who we're looking for. "

unknown intern2: "What's going on? "

Phoebe: "We're breaking you out. "

Phoebe: "Come on Cj. "

-defensively- Me: "Hey this guy weighs like 300lbs with all this armor, give me a bit. "

I finally got him over to the cell door.

We put his hand up to the lock , the machine made a clicking noise, then Phoebe used her powers to bypass the redundant key lock and open the door.

Phoebe: "Come on let's get out of here. "

Intern: " Comming. "

Intern2:"Yeah. "

I knew right away these two were going to be trouble, by the look on her face it seemed that Phoebe felt the same.

Me: "Ok, do exactly as we tell you and you might make it out of here. "

Intern: "Can I have your extra gun?

Me: "No... "

Me: "If you kill somebody here that will just make everything more difficult, to the best of what we know, they don't have revives, they'll consider it murder. "

Me: "As long as they remain non-lethal, we'll remain non-lethal. "

Intern: "Ok. "

We headed back through the hallway, by now the clouds of sleep powder had settled, covering the floor and the officers it had drawn into unconciousness.

We took the elevator back up, but it ended up stopping on floor three, where even more officers were waiting for us. We took cover in the elevator, Phoebe teleported behind them while I started shooting them with the bubble gun. After that the elevator was completely dead so it seemed that were trapped on the third floor for a moment.

Me: "The elevator's dead, I knew they'd shut it down. "

Phoebe: "Atleast we made it halfway. "

Me: "Yeah, that's true. "

One of the interns took a bubble gun from one of the unconcious guards.

Me: "You even know how to use that? "

Intern: "I can le... "

The gun fired, and the intern had attached himself to the floor.

Me: "Really? "

I turned the switch and unstuck him.

Intern: "Yeah, I see your point. "

-unamused- Me: "Mhm. "

Phoebe: "Ohhh, come on Cj, let's see if we can find some stairs. "

Me: "Right, that's our only chance of getting out of this dump. "

Me: "Though there wasn't any stairs in the vault. "

Phoebe: "True, but maybe there's more than one exit. "

Me: "Maybe. "

Me:" If the floor layout makes any sense it's probably on the other side of the hall.

Phoebe: " I just hope it's not hidden in another vault? "

Me: "Why would they do that? "

Phoebe: "I don't know, they have bubble guns, why wouldn't they? "

Me: "Because it still doesn't make any sense. "

Phoebe: "Neither do the bubble guns. "

Me: "No..they make sense, they're just, beyond our comprehension. "

Phoebe: "Do they run out of ammo? "

Me: "I don't know. "

Me: "I already switched out with another one just in case though. "

Intern: "What if we can't get out? "

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

Phoebe:" Unlike you this isn't the first time we've been in this situation.

Me: "If there isn't another way, we'll just use our pokemon to make one. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "If we have too we can cut through a wall and dig up towards the surface. "

Phoebe:"We can? "

Me: "Yeah, it's just concrete. "

Phoebe:" Reinforced. "

Me:" Hmm.? "

Me:" Well still, it would take some time, but we'd still be able to get out. "

Me: "Although finding another set of stairs would be alot more convenient.:

Intern2: "What if we end up in the sewer? "

Me: "Ummm. "

Phoebe: "Ewww...no... "

Me: "Well then Phoebe can teleport us up... "

-objectionably- Phoebe: "I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE NEAR A SEWER!"

Me: "Ok, okayyyy... "

-amused- Me:"Hehehe, You're still cute when you're mad. "

Phoebe:"Cj not now. "

Phoebe:"I need to concentrate, there could still be more officers hiding around. "

-a bit dissapointed- Me:"-sighs-, business as usual? "

Phoebe: "Yep. "

Me: "You're cute when you're all serious like that. "

-sternly- Phoebe: "Cj... "

Me: "Hehehe. "

Intern: "Are we getting out of here or what? "

Phoebe:"Yes, just be patient. "

Me: "Wait, shouldn't they have a parking garage? "

Me: "For all their fancy deloreans? "

Phoebe: "Maybe you're right. "

Me:" Well where else would they keep them? they can't just park them all out in the street. "

Me: " If there is, we can steal another one and get out of here. "

Phoebe:" Mhm. "

By now we had made it to the other end of the floor.

Me: "Hey whadda ya know, looky here. "

There was a door clearly labeled, 'Parking Garage'.

Me: "It's locked. "

Phoebe: "Hmmm, let me try. "

She tried to unlock it with her powers, but failed.

Phoebe:" I can't unlock it. "

Me: "Really? "

Phoebe: "Yeah, I guess there's another lock besides the key lock. "

Me: "Hmm, must be remote. "

Me: "Allright everyone get back. "

Me: "I'm going to send out rhyhorn, and he will break the door down for us. "

We retreated to the other end of the hall and then I sent Rhyhorn out.

Me:"Allright buddy, take down that door at the end of the hall. "

He began to charge and had more than enough room to get to top speed. He hit the door a.d took it with him, along with a good portion of the wall.

Behind the door was a long, concrete lined tunnel, What was on the other side was unclear because rhyhorn was blocking the way.

Me:"Ok that's enough rhyhorn... "

Me:"Rhyhorn? "

He roared and struggled to move.

Phoebe:"I think he's stuck. "

Me: "hehe, ok. "

Me: "Allright, Rhyhorn, return. "

I returned him, which freed him from the tunnel and allowed us to pass through. After I returned him, the twisted hunk of metal that was once the door fell to the ground in a battered heap, as he was still propping it up until now.

Me:"Thanks Rhyhorn, enjoy your rest buddy. "

We procceeded through the tunnel.

-meanwhile-

Dispatcher: "They just gained access to the parking garage. "

Commander 212G: "Blast them and those...beasts they have control of, how many do they have? "

Dispatcher: "I don't know sir, including that rhino, the steel dinosaur, the plant, and the ufo thing, that's atleast 4. "

Dispatcher: "But maybe the girl is one too. "

Commander 212G: "But she didn't come out of one of those ball things. "

Dispatcher: "I don't know sir, but she's clearly not human. "

Dispatcher: "They're breaking into car 320. "

Commander 212G: "BUT THAT'S MY CAR!"

Dispatcher: "We're getting a call from Commander 212H, 212 brazilian sector."

Commander 212G: "Put him on, audio only."

Dispatcher: "Ok."

-on speaker-Commander 212H: "G as you should already be aware there is an anomaly in your section."

-on speaker- Commander 212H: "I'm here to request access to your camera network, to observe it first hand."

-into speaker-Commander 212G: "There's nothing to see H, it was just a tire."

-in disbelief- Commander 212H :"Uh huh, right..."

-on speaker- Commander 212H: "We have a satelite image of the building, we can see the apcs, are you trying to tell me a tire flipped them over?"

-into speaker- Commander 212G: "Um...it was...uh..."

-quietly- Commander 212G:" Kill it."

-objectionably- Dispatcher: "Commander!"

-on speaker- Commander 212H :"Right, I think we have all we need to know, requesting permission to bypass your security from General 212."

-into speaker- Commander 212G:" Dammit H, don't do it."

-Back to Cj.-

We managed to hotwire a nice gold delorean sedan, and, using this we were able to leave the parking garage, the door opened automatically for us as we approached it, which was strange, but we finally made it out of the HQ.

-meanwhile-

Dispatcher: "They're escaping, nearly all available units are incapacitated. "

Dispatcher: "Should we call for backup from other units? "

Dispatcher: "Or we could involve the local police? "

Commander 212G: "If we couldn't handle them there's no chance the locals will be able too. "

Commander 212G: "And we're not calling for backup, you know what would happen if this news got out? "

Dispatcher: "We might have the slightest chance of catching them? "

Commander 212G: "No you idiot! I will be ridiculed by all the other commanders!"

Commander 212G: "They might even demote me!"

Commander 212G :"This never happened, everyone is to have their memory wiped for the past 48 hours. "

Dispatcher: "But commander, we've gained vital... "

-angry- Commander 212G: "THIS NEVER HAPPENED!"

Commander 212G: "Tell whoever is left to get their asses in their cars and chase them down. "

Dispatcher:"We could get aid from the european division. "

-unamused- Commander 212G: "Dispatcher, for the last time...THIS NEVER HAPPENED!"

-back to Cj-

It was a fairly relaxing drive back to the portal, kind of a letdown really.

Me: "Well this is going a lot better than I thought it would. "

Phoebe: "Yeah, I think our pokemon caught them completely off guard. "

Me:"Yeah, but you know, they'll catch on eventually, and then they'll be even more trouble. "

Phoebe: "Mhm, I know. "

Me :"You got the gps figured out? "

Phoebe: "Mhm, it should lead us back to the park now. "

Me: "Allright. "

Phoebe: "Password was L-3-M-0-N donuts again. "

Me: "Why don't you tell Dr. Black we're on our way back. "

Phoebe:"Ok. "

-into radio- Phoebe: "Allright, Dr. Black, we don't need radio silence anymore. "

Dr. Black: "How's it going? "

-into radio- Phoebe:"Good, we got your interns and we're heading back to the lab. "

-correctively- intern2: "Former interns!"

Dr. Black: "Oh thank Arceus, their parents were starting to call. "

-awkwardly into radio- Phoebe: "ehehehe heh... "

-into radio- Phoebe: "We'll be back in a little, we got a ways to drive. "

Phoebe: "But I think I knocked all of them out. "

Me: "We. "

-into radio- Phoebe: "Ok, yeah, I admit, Cj knocked one guy out... "

-jokingly- Phoebe: "Of about 50... "

-unamused- Me: "Hey. "

-into radio- Phoebe: "because he was really bad at teleporting... "

-unamused- Me: "Pheebles. "

-into radio- Phoebe :"Ehehe, I have to go now. "

-annoyed- Me:" You forgot to mention the part where I saved your butt. "

Phoebe: "-sighs-"

Phoebe: "Yeah you did, you saved my butt. "

She kissed me on the cheek.

Phoebe:"Thankyou. "

Me: "-sighs- Pheebles. "

I gazed into her eyes and we came to a stop at a traffic light.

Intern: "When did he save you? "

-in unison- Me and Phoebe: "STOP RUINING THE MOMENT!"

Intern: "Sorry. "

Intern2:"It was probably before they saved us stupid. "

Phoebe:"Mhm. "

Intern2:"Also, thanks for saving us. "

Phoebe:" Oh, it's no problem. "

Intern:"Get arrested he said, they'll let you go cause you didn't nothing wrong he said. "

Phoebe: "Not what they had in mind was it? "

Intern: "Far from it, they were going to make us stand trial, and if we lost they were going to erase our memories and we would have to spend the rest of our lives in this weird 1950s world. "

Phoebe :"Really? "

Intern: "Yep. "

Me: "Why? Just so you could be under their jurisdiction? "

Phoebe: "I guess so, what other reasoning would they have? "

Me: "-sighs-, These guys are weird. "

-playfully- Phoebe: "What gave it away? "

Me: "Hold on. "

I saw another delorean sedan in the rear view mirror.

Me:" Great there's another one. "

Me:" We haven't gotten away yet. "

I gunned it when the light turned green, the other delorean doing everything it could to keep up with us, passing other cars and tailgating us by the time we made it to the end of the block.

The driver hit our back wheel with a bubble, which made it loose all traction and caused us to spin around helplessly until we came face to face with a lightpost. which shattered the winshield, deployed the airbags, and ruined the front end.

Me:"&#$*"

Phoebe: "Arceus!"

Intern:"Are we dead? "

Phoebe: "No we crashed. "

-shaken- Me:"Everyone ok? "

I struggled to get the damned airbag out of my face.

Intern:" I think so. "

Intern2:"Mhm. "

Me:" We're going to need to switch cars. This one's trashed. "

Phoebe:"Mhm. "

Me: "You two stay in here until we tell you. "

Intern: "Ok. "

We got out while the lone space policeman left his car as well.

Me: "You really think you have a chance, we just took down most of your base. "

Me: "Yet here you are, all alone. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

-nervous- Space Policeman:" I have to try, for justice. "

-nervous- Space Policeman: "Space Police, you are under arrest. "

-nervous- Space Policeman: "For...too many crimes that I can be bothered to list right now. "

Phoebe: "No we're not. "

I fired at him, he dodged but I bought Phoebe enough time to teleport behind, he swung around and managed to grab her arms to keep her from knocking him out.

Space Policeman: "No!, You're under ARREST... "

Phoebe: "Hey let go!"

I shot him in the back with the bubble gun.

Space Policeman: "NO!, Let me go, this can't be happening, we're the Space Police god dammit."

Me:"It can, and it just did. "

Me: "Go on Pheebles. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

-panicking- Space Policeman: "No, don't please. "

Me: "Oh shutup, it's not like we're killing you. "

She knocked him out, then we got in his car, and motioned the interns to get in as well.

Me: "Allright set the gps again. "

Phoebe: "Mhm, already on it. "

Intern: "That was kind of sad. "

Me:" Yeah, I think most of their officers are asleep now. "

Me: "Hopefully that will be the last one we'll see today. "

Phoebe: "Yeah hopefully. "

Phoebe: "That guy was just in training, he wasn't even a full blown officer. "

Me :"That explains the cowardice. "

Phoebe: " Yeah, but still, he stopped me, he knew I was going to be behind him. "

Me:"Yeah I saw that, they're catching on. "

Me:" It's not surprising he probably saw how you fight on the security cameras that place was wired with. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "That or whatever the hell kind of machine allows them to know when a portal opens up. "

It was a solid 10 minutes of driving before we met any more action. Somehow, when we had to stop at another red light, there was an SP delorean on every side of the intersection. Thankfully, the presence of a lone civilian car seemed to keep them from doing anything stupid. Though I could tell by the expression on the civilian driver's face, he new something was quite strange about there being 4 identical cars arranged in such a way, especially since the ones to the left and right weren't moving on a green light.

Me: "How the ? "

Phoebe: "Maybe their cars can teleport too? "

Me: "Can this one teleport? "

Phoebe: I don't know. "

-on cb- Space Policeman: "Space Police, you're surrounded, surrender!"

-into cb- Me: "Why do you always say that? "

Me: "Honey, I know this will take a lot of strength, but, can you pop the tires on those cars? "

Phoebe: "No, but I can take the valve stems out. "

Me: "Ok good enough. "

Intern: "What are valve stems? "

Me: "They're the little bits that keep the air in the tires, if you take them out all the air escapes."

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Her hands started to glow, I could barely see the tire cap fall off of the car to the right, followed by the sound of air escaping, soon the car on the left was doing the same. The expression on the driver's faces as the cars slowly began to sink was priceless.

Phoebe: "How's that? "

Me: "Good. "

Me: "Now can you get the one across from us? "

Phoebe: "I can't see it so no. "

Me: "-sighs-. "

The light went green, only the civilian car moved, very nervously, after he made it across the intersection the SP car across from us gunned it, while the others stepped out of their cars and began to approach.

I threw the car into reverse and did a 180, which was easy with the mid-engine layout, we got hit in the back pretty hard by the sp car behind us, but not hard enough to disable the car.

Me: "Protect the tires!"

Phoebe: "Right. "

Our pursuer once again began to fire bubbles at us.

Phoebe: "Let me try something. "

Me: "What? "

Phoebe: "I never thought of this before, but. "

Her hands started to glow. Nothing happened.

Phoebe: "Nope, can't, he's too strong. "

Me: "What are you trying to do? "

Phoebe: "Seeing if I could make him crash by taking control of the steering wheel. "

Phoebe: "But he's too strong so I can't. "

Phoebe :"Especially since we're moving, and it's hard to concentrate. "

Me: "Awe well. "

Me:"Here, take the bubble gun, fire back at them if you can. "

Phoebe: "Ok, I can try. "

She managed to hit the car a few times, covering the front in the strange, glowing gum like substance. Another shot shattered the windshield. And a third hit the driver in the face, causing him to lose control, the car scraped the side of a building, and then proceeded to take out a fire hydrant, a bench, and a newspaper machine before finally comming to a stop by a lightpost, which fell over seconds later.

Intern: "Woah did you see that? "

Me: "Ehh, we've seen better. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me: "Good shooting. "

Phoebe:"Thanks. "

30 minutes later, a normal policeman in a contemporary Dodge Monaco spotted us, and because the back end of our car was damaged, and undoubtly atleast one of the tailights were broken, decided to pull us over.

Me: "Are you kidding me? "

Intern: "Go!"

Phoebe: "It's not the space police though. "

Me :"Pheebles take cover, we're going to have to try our luck. "

Phoebe: "Are you sure? "

Me: "Either that or start a giant police chase. "

Me: "I'll pull over, you teleport out when we stop. "

Phoebe: "Ok. "

Phoebe: "But we have no valid license, or insurance... "

Me: "Crap your right... "

Me: "We can't run though, that will set them off for sure. "

Phoebe: "I can teleport all of us out, if he's a normal officer he won't know what to think. "

Phoebe: "We only got a few blocks to go. "

Phoebe: "We can walk. "

Me: "I guess that's our best best now. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Phoebe: "I'll keep to the roofs, the rest of you will blend in fine down below. "

Me: "Right. "

Me: "Except we're on the freeway. "

Phoebe: "I can get us off. "

Phoebe: "I can get us to that roof up there. "

Me: "He'll see us. "

Phoebe: "Maybe, but, without my powers there's no way we could get up there, just pull over. "

Me: "Ok ok. "

I pulled over, everyone joined hands and we abandoned the car for the roof of a nearby office block.

Me: "Ok, now how do we get off of here? "

Phoebe: "Just a second. "

Phoebe: "Let's try to find the park while we're up here. "

Phoebe:" See it's over that way, you can see the ferris wheel. "

Me: "Mhm. "

Me: "So we just need to keep heading that way? "

Phoebe: "Yep. "

Me: "Allright then let's go. "

Phoebe: "Ok, everyone join hands again. "

She teleported us down to the ground, and from there we proceeded along the sidewalks in the general direction of the park, which was now obscured by several tall buildings.

Me: "Allright, Pheebles, get behind me, you, walk alongside her, and you walk behind her. "

Phoebe: "Really? "

Me: "Well we have to keep others from seeing you, you know, otherwise they might think you're an alien or something. "

Me: "And who the heck knows what will happen then. "

Phoebe: "I guess I am technically an alien here. "

Phoebe: "But we all are. "

Me: "And you don't have your bomber pilot disguise and the roofs of the buildings vary too much, that and we're going diagnally. "

Intern2:" Bomber pilot disguise? "

Phoebe: "Ehehe..it's a long story. "

Me: "Not really. "

Phoebe: "Well still. "

Me: "Still what? "

Phoebe: "I dunno. "

Me :"Hehe, it's allright baby. "

Me: "Anyway, with all that teleporting, it will probably tire you out before we get there. "

Phoebe: "True. "

Intern2: "A few blocks away you said... "

Me: "A few office blocks maybe. "

Phoebe: " We're farther away than I thought we were, sorry. "

Me: "It's allright, we got this. "

Me:"Just stay together, and don't get lost. "

Intern: "Can't we just steal another car? "

Me: "No, unless we come across more space police. "

Me: "If we take a civilian car it will be reported stolen and then the normal police will be looking for us. "

Me: "As for the space police cars they can't be reported stolen without admitting their own existence. "

Intern: "Ok.. "

Intern2: "Can we stop to get something to drink? I'm really thirsty. "

Phoebe: "How? We don't have any money that works here. "

Phoebe: "If we come across a fountain then maybe, but we can't buy any drinks. "

It was shaping up to be a long walk back. It wasn't long before we were making our way through a seemingly endless sea of civilians, trying not to stand out, but at some point, we passed through a market, and this is where it became a challenge to keep track of the interns who were getting distracted with window shopping.

Phoebe: "What are you looking at? "

Intern: "I always wanted a vintage tv like this. "

Me: "You can get one in my world you know, they're practically worthless. "

Me: "That and this is a new tv here and it's selling for 200 dollars we don't have. "

Me: "And you'd be overpaying for it anyway, in my world tvs like this a free for the asking. "

Intern: "Don't you mean 1940s? "

Me: "Nope. "

Phoebe: "Not in his world. "

It was one of those giant wooden-cased tvs, it was neat to see them for sale brand new, but man were they obsolete.

Intern: "You're psychic, can't you hypnotize the clerk into thinking he sold it to me already? "

Phoebe: "I could, but I won't. "

Intern: "Why not? "

Phoebe: "Because it's still stealing. "

Me: "Hehehe. "

Phoebe: "Besides, do you really want to carry it all the way back to the portal? We still have quite a few blocks to go. "

Intern: "-sighs-, you're right. "

Phoebe: "Mhm, come on now. "

-a few steps later-

Me: "Wait, where'd the other one intern go? "

Phoebe: "Oh no. "

Me:"What? "

Phoebe: "She's in there, trying to mooch a drink off somebody. "

Me: "Great. "

Phoebe: "What do we do? "

Me: "Lay low, try not to intervene, there's not much we can do. "

Me: "I'll go get her. "

-meanwhile-

She was in a store, trying to convince a total stranger to buy her something to drink.

Intern2: "Please can you buy me something to drink? "

Intern2: "I don't have any money on me, but I'll pay you back later I promise. "

Stranger: "Sure what do you want to drink? "

Intern2: "Really, oh, thankyou mister. "

I waited patiently for her to leave the store, while Phoebe and the other intern hid in an alleyway.

Me: "Hey come on, what are you doing? "

Intern2: "Getting a drink. "

Me: "You're going to pay him back later? "

Intern2: "No I just said that so he'd buy me one. "

Me: "-sighs-, well, enjoy your drink, I guess. "

I led her back to the others in the alleyway.

Phoebe: "Don't leave like that, if we lose you here we won't be able to bring you back to your home world. "

-mockingly- Intern2: "Ok Mom... "

Phoebe: "-sighs- "

Intern: "Can I get a drink too? "

-sternly- Me: "Share. "

Intern2: "Ew, no way. "

Me: "Allright, get back in formation and let's get going. "

Intern: "Fine. "

Me: "Except now, you stand to her left, and I'll stay in front. "

Me: "That way we can pass the store windows. "

Intern: "Ok. "

Intern: "But I'm thirsty. "

Me:" We'll get back to the lab in a little while, then you can get whatever you want from the vending machine in the lounge."

We made it about one block before we passed a playground that had a water fountain out in plain sight. Before we could say anything about it, the intern already spotted it and headed straight for it.

Me: "Pheebles?"

Phoebe: "Mhm?"

-concerned- Me: "How long are those officers going to be out?"

Phoebe:" Give or take four hours."

Me: "Ok so, we have... what? 2 and a half hours before some of them begin to wake up?"

Phoebe: "Something like that."

Phoebe: "Don't worry, that's plenty of time to make it back."

Phoebe:"Actually I'm thirsty too."

She started to head towards the fountain.

Phoebe: "You might as well get one too."

Me: "Yeah, I guess."

Me: "But what if the children see you?"

Phoebe: "I'll just tell them it's a costume, it worked last time."

Me: "We're not in the park though."

We all took a drink from the fountain, aside from the intern that was still sipping one from earlier.

And then we finally resumed our journey.

We left the playground, passed several stores, found a Studebaker dealership, and oggled at the new 1984 Avantis for sale. The Avanti was always a strange car, but the 1984 model that never was elsewhere took this up to eleven, namely because it was midengined, front wheel drive, engine was a 3.8l v6 turbo, similiar to that used in the Buick GNX and Pontiac Transam. The body was strange to say the least, though references to the Avanti I knew were still present. The front end was completely smooth, no grill, just a pair of circular headlights and the studebaker badge in the center. Kind of similiar to a porsche 928, but more blunt, and with a more pronounced bumper. The back end was rather generic and boxy looking, the only thing that stuck out were several vents in the trunk to allow the engine to cool. Other models for sale included several Champion sedans, which were basically little more than contemporary Chevy Impalas with Studebaker badges and a weird, split grill, and some hawks which we had already seen.

Eventually we left the dealership once some salesmen spotted us and began to attempt to sell us some cars, which we obviously had no money for.

The rest of the trip wasn't very eventfull at all, it was practically a solid row of shops for the rest of the way back. We did come across some familiar restaurants though.

Me: "Holy crap it's a Mcdonald's."

Intern: "Yep."

Intern: "What's Mcdonald's?"

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

Phoebe: "It doesn't exist in the pokemon world Cj."

Me: "Oh...right."

Me: "It's like the largest chain restaurant in the world."

Intern: "It is?"

Phoebe: "His world anyway."

Me: "Or it was until the disaster."

Phoebe: "Hmm."

Me: "I don't think there is any chain restaurants anymore."

Many of the franchise places had reoppened, but were technically no longer associated with their franchises, operating as independant, small restaurants selling mostly home made food. Some changed their names, and other's kept the name of the franchise, and consistency between restaurants was of course out of the question.

We also came across a Sonic, and a Burgerking, and a steakhouse humorously called Bill E. Bob's. Another hour later of comparing this world to my own, and the amusement park was finally in sight.

Me: "-sighs-, we're almost there."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Intern: "Holy Smokes! Look at the line."

Intern: "We're never going to get in."

Intern2: "Forget that, how are we going to get in without any money?"

Phoebe:" Ummmm."

Intern: "Arceus you're right? How are we going to get in?"

-quietly- Phoebe: "Should I tell them?"

-quietly- Me: "Just wait a bit, I wanna see how far this goes."

Intern: "Maybe we can sneak past the gate?"

Intern2: "But we can't, they have mantraps don't they?"

Intern2: "We can't get in without a ticket."

Intern2 :"But what if we talked someone into buying tickets for us?"

Me: "Ok this is getting boring."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Intern2: "We can pretend to be a couple that lost their luggage on the flight over..."

Intern: "Hmm...that might work..."

-interupting- Phoebe: "Or how about, you two stop being idiots, and I can just teleport us in?"

Intern :"Oh..."

Intern2: "Right, I forgot...you can do that."

Phoebe: "You forgot?"

Intern: "Wait a minute? You'll break into an amusement park but you can't help me get a tv?"

Phoebe: "We have to do this to get back, you don't need a tv."

Phoebe :"Besides, we talked about this already, were you really going to carry it back all this way?"

Intern: "Right, I forgot."

-unamused- Phoebe:" Mhmmm."

A few minutes later we made it to the fence.

Phoebe: "Ok everybody join hands, I'll teleport us to the other side, and then we'll just have to get back to the portal."

She teleported everyone to the inside of the fence, and then we made our way back to the portal.

Phoebe: "Ok how about you two go on a head through, we have something else to take care of real quick."

Intern: "Um, ok."

Phoebe: "Here, take the radio and our cameras."

Intern: "You sure you don't need them?"

Phoebe: "We'll only be a few minutes."

Intern: "Ok."

They went on ahead, taking our cameras and radio with them.

Me: "What all this about?"

She hugged me.

Phoebe: "Nothing I just wanted to be alone with you for a bit."

Phoebe: "After we go through that portal, you know Dr. Black will be there to bombard us with questions."

Phoebe: "This could be the only chance we get to have some alone time today."

Me:" So I take it that's a no for our date tonight?"

Phoebe:"I don't know Cj, I was thinking maybe we could just find somewhere quiet and have some fun...real quick..."

Me:" Not really what I had in mind."

Phoebe: "Why not?"

Phoebe: "I can take us to the roof of a building, nobody will see. I'll get naked, and then..."

Me: Why can't you just wait till tonight, when we're in bed, then we can snuggle afterwards and we won't have to hastily get dressed and walk out of the portal hesitating at any sign of suspicion."

Me: "After I take you out, we can get dinner, we can go see a movie, we can go dancing if you want."

Phoebe: "But the kids."

Me: "If Corina won't babysit them for us, my parents will."

Me:"Either way, I just don't feel like it right now so you'll just have to wait."

Me:" You're worth the wait aren't you?"

-disapointed- Phoebe: "mmmmmm."

Me: Well you are to me atleast."

Phoebe: "But you don't have to wait, we can go right now."

Me:" Nah."

Me: "Besides you've made me wait so many times, you can wait for once."

Phoebe: "Is that what this is about?"

Me:"No, not really, now just isn't a good time."

Me: "Don't you remember that time in antartica?"

Me: " On the ship?"

Me: "We hadn't done it for weeks and it was freezing."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, yeah, I remember."

Me: "We didn't even finish cause it was too cold."

Phoebe:"Yeah, I know, it was terrible."

Me :" So how about I take you to dinner, then we can see a movie or something, and then I'll take you home and we have fun all night long?"

Me :"That sound good baby girl?"

We exchanged a few kisses.

Phoebe: "Awwwwwe...allright, I'll go out with you."

She hugged me again and kissed me on the cheek.

Phoebe: "-sighs- I love you. "

Me: "Love you too baby."

I gave her a kiss on the cheek.

Me: "Now let's get back before they start to wonder what we're up too. "

Phoebe:" No wait."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"Just hold me a little longer. "

Me: "Hehe, ok. "

-softly- Phoebe:"You sure you don't want too?"

-softy- Me:" I'm sure baby, now come on."

Phoebe:"Noooo just a little longer."

Me:"Allright."

A few seconds later she finally let go.

Me:"You ready now?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me:"Allright then."

We held hands as we returned to the portal.

Dr. Black: "Allright now that you're back we have some question prepared for you."

He handed us some sheets of paper work.

Phoebe: "Where are the interns?"

Dr. Black: "Unfortunately they both quit."

Dr. Black: "One made a beeline for the exit as soon as he came through, I nearly called security because he was acting so strange."

Dr. Black: "But the other stayed briefly to answer some questions, fearing I would send others in to be arrested if I didn't get enough information, which, is a fairly accurate assumption."

I felt something leave my pocket.

-quietly- Me: "What Pheebles, what are you?"

She used her powers to steal my bubble gun, which she then handed to Dr. Black.

Phoebe: "We found this weird gun, it shoots something that looks like gummy energy bubbles that encapsulate things."

Dr. Black: "Really? "

Phoebe:" Mhm, Cj says it's a non-lethal weapon."

-very annoyed- Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "Maybe you can study it and discover something."

Dr. Black: "Maybe."

Dr. Black: "Anyway fill out those papers, and then you can take a break while we get another portal set up."

Phoebe:"Ok. thanks."

Me: "I can't believe you did that."

Me: "I found a free gun, and you just gave it away."

Me: "And it was a really cool one too."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj, relax, it's not like we can't just get another one."

Phoebe: "You know we'll probably encounter the space police again, I don't think they'll let this slide."

-feigning sadness- Me: "But that one was mine."

Me: "I shot the space police with it."

-playfully- Phoebe: "ohhh poor baby."

Phoebe:"I wonder what Charley is up to?"

Me: "I don't know, looking for pizzas?"

Phoebe: "Hehe, maybe."

Me:"Hey, we could get pizza tonight and bring some home for him."

Me :"We can microwave it the next morning."

Phoebe: "Will it last that long?"

Me: "Yeah pizza is one of the best leftover foods."

Me :"You can just put it in the microwave and it's good to go."

Phoebe: "Ok."

We entered the lounge where Charley was playing.

-playfully-Phoebe: "Charley."

Charley: "Mawa!"

Charley: "Cowewah loo es mawa."

Corina: "Mhm, I see."

Corina: "Are you done for today? "

Phoebe: "No they're setting up another portal for us to investigate."

Corina: "Oh, allright."

-whispers- Me: "About tonight?"

Phoebe: "Oh right, um, are you busy tonight?"

Charley: "Mawa."

Phoebe: "We need somebody to look after Charley and Nina so we can go out."

Me :"Nina's not that much of a problem, she usually takes care of herself."

Phoebe: "Yes, but she does silly things sometimes."

Charley: "Mawa."

Phoebe: "She might let Matches out in the house."

Corina: "Matches?"

Phoebe: "That's her little growlithe puppy."

Me: "Not really a puppy anymore."

Phoebe: "Yeah he's grown alot since we got him for her."

Phoebe: "Anyway last time she let him out in the house he almost burned it down."

Charley: "Mawa."

Phoebe: "Anyway can you look after them for us, just for tonight?"

Corina: "Sorry, but I have a date too."

-quietly- Me: "What's wrong Charley?"

Phoebe: "What? With who?"

Corina: "You don't know him."

Phoebe: "Well congratulations."

-somewhat upset- Charley: "No dahwy, Cawey wa mawa."

Corina: "Thanks."

Phoebe: "Allright then, it's no big deal. Cj's parents will probably be willing to watch them for us."

-quietly- Me: "Ok ok..."

Corina: "Ok."

-loudly- Charley: "MAWA!..."

Phoebe: "Charley don't yell it's rude."

Me: "I tried to stop him, but he wants to speak to you."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey miss."

Phoebe:" Awe, I missed you too."

She picked him up.

Phoebe: "How have you been little guy?"

Phoebe: "Have you been good for Corina?"

Corina:" Oh he's been pretty well behaved, he got a little upset when I pulled him away from the vending machine, I didn't want him to get caught in it or anything."

Phoebe: "Oh, that's allright isn't it little guy?"

Phoebe: "Charley?"

-quietly- Charley: "Cawey luh mawa."

Phoebe: "Hehe, ok."

Phoebe: "I can hold you for awhile, but then we have to go back to work."

We sat down for a bit, she held him for awhile, then he wanted down.

Me: "Is he tired, he seems pretty tired?"

Phoebe: "Umm, maybe, maybe he just wants to snuggle right now for some reason."

-softly- Charley: "Cawey miss dahwhy."

Phoebe: "Well tell him that, not me."

Me :"Huh?"

Phoebe: "He said he missed you too."

Me:"I know, I heard."

Me: "I missed you too little guy."

Phoebe: "You're just playing favorites today aren't you sweety?"

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

Phoebe: "-sighs- it's allright, we know you love us both."

Charley:" Es Newa ah scoo?"

Phoebe: "Yes, Nina is at school."

Me: "He remembered."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Charley :" Cawey miss."

Phoebe: "I know, but you'll see her this afternoon."

Phoebe:"Maybe you'll go to school someday, how about that."

-somewhat upset- Charley: "Nooooo...Cawey no wa go schoo."

Phoebe: "Why not?"

Charley: "No mawa dawhy...Cawey miss."

Phoebe: "Ohhh, I see."

Phoebe: "But there will be other children for you to play with."

Charley: "Noooo mawa, Cawey no wa."

Phoebe :"-sighs-, allright, we'll just have to see."

Charley: "Schoo es seewee."

Me: "Hehe."

-jokingly- Me :"He already has his priorities in line."

Phoebe: " It's not silly, you just don't understand it."

Charley: "Mawa es seewee."

Phoebe :"Oh really?"

She tickled him into submission.

-cutely gigling- Charley: "kekekekeekeekeheheheehe no mawa no mo..."

-enamored- Corina: "Awwwe his laugh is so cute."

Me: "hehe, yeah."

For whatever reason, it's really hard not to laugh when a baby laughs.

-playfully- Phoebe: "No more?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "No more what?"

Charley: "Kekekeekekekekekhehehhehhee...-coughs-.."

Charley: "-coughs-."

Phoebe: "Charley?"

He had a short coughing fit then started to cry out of confusion.

-scaired- Charley: "Mawwaaaa!"

-playfully- Corina: "Uh oh.."

Phoebe: "Awwwe Charley."

Me :"I think you made him laugh too hard."

Phoebe: "Maybe."

Phoebe: "shhh...it's ok sweety."

She held him close for a bit, he wasn't that upset so it didn't take him long to calm down this time, he was just a little scared because he had never coughed like that before and he didn't know what was going on.

Anyway, a few minutes later we were called back to the lab via the intercom system, and had to leave Charley with Corina once again.