Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

27. An Enemy of an Enemy

-chapter 27-

Sometime in the early morning, Phoebe woke up, sensing an unfamiliar presence within the house.

-quietly- Phoebe: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

-quietly- Phoebe: "I know you're in the house, I can hear you. "

Phoebe :"Don't come back here. "

She crawled out of the bed and slipped her dress on, then she heard a whisper from the hallway.

-quietly- unknown: "We know who you are, you have troubles with the space police too?"

-quietly- Phoebe:"Yes. "

Unknown: "You know it's only a matter of time before they find out. "

Phoebe: "I know. "

-quietly- Unknown: "Well then, grab your things and come with us. "

Phoebe: "Ok, just let me get my husband. "

Phoebe :"Cj. "

-asleep- Me: "mrrgll flrglbrr. "

Phoebe: " Cj wake up. "

Me: "Huhh...whaaaa.?"

I was disoriented, even more so than usual because of fatigue from the island, and also because I wasn't quite familiar with the room yet.

-a bit more awake- Me: "Pheebles, if this one of your stupid games I swear. "

Phoebe: "No, some people are here. "

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "They're against the space police and they want us to come with them. "

Me: "They do?"

Phoebe: "Get dressed , come on, we need to go. "

Me: "Ok, ok, ok. "

Me: "You litterally just woke me up. "

Me:"You know how hard it is to get dressed when your half asleep ? "

Phoebe: "Mhm, come on. "

-somewhat annoyed- Me :"Pheebles. "

Phoebe: "Cj. "

-silence-

Phoebe: "Come on. "

Phoebe: "You can be grumpy later. "

A few minutes later we were dressed and ready to go, thankfully there wasn't much to take with us, just her purse. There were 2 men and one woman leading us down the street, but only one of them spoke the entire time. All of them were wearing ski masks so we couldn't even see their faces.

-unsure- Me: "Ok, so you're taking us to your base right?"

-quietly-Unknown resistance grunt: "Keep quiet, there could be more bugs out here. "

We had seen a lot of secret bases before, but this was definitely one of the most elaborately hidden. Over the next hour or so, we had gone through an abandoned subway station, into the tunnel, through a door on the side, down some stairs into a huge generator room, apparently for the subways, and then down even more stairs as the concrete staircase transitioned into stone, eventually leading to a narrow corridor which led further into a large natural cave lit up with led lanterns.

Me: "This is it?"

Unknown resistance grunt: "No, but we're close. "

Unknown resistance grunt: " There's a trap door here, watch your step. "

Me :"Who made all this?"

Unknown resistance grunt: "Back during the Russo-american war these bomb shelters were setup in case of russian nuclear strikes. "

Unknown resistance grunt: "Thankfully that never came to pass and at the war's end they were forgotten. "

Me :"Russo-american war?"

Unknown resistance grunt: "Didn't exist in your world huh?"

Me: "Mhm. "

Unknown resistance grunt: "Consider yourself lucky. "

Unknown resistance grunt: "Anyway, follow me, and watch your step, we're almost there. "

Phoebe: "What's your name?"

Unknown resistance grunt: "I can't tell you, not until you're one of us. "

Unknown resistance grunt: "Anyway, follow me, and watch your step, we're almost there. "

We headed down a steel ladder, into what appeared to be some sort of bunker, way out in the middle of nowhere, ironically underneath what we could only assume was a well-populated city. We couldn't really know for sure however, because we hadn't seen much of it yet, outside from wherever the heck the portal brought us, and the handful of streets to the house they left us in. Anyway, once we got to the bottom of the stairs were met with more led lanterns, and some guns and ammo and other various supplies.

Unknown resistance grunt :"Come back here, the leader is going to want to meet with you. "

So we met with the leader.

Resistance leader: "Oh good, you made it. "

Resistance leader: "Welcome to this world's resistance against the evils of the space police. "

Resistance leader: "I am the leader of this sector, my name, Yuri. "

Yuri: "First off I must lay down some ground rules. "

Yuri: "You can't speak of this place at all in the above world, there are bugs everywhere and we can't risk it's discovery. "

Yuri: "Anyway, we already know about you, from what we understand, you broke into the space police hq on another world, and freed some prisoners. "

Me: "How do you know that?"

Yuri: "They have a network that runs between all universes under their control, we've cracked that network, it's a criminal database of sorts, and both of you are in it. "

Me: "We're criminals?"

Phoebe: "I guess so. "

Yuri: "To the space police you are. "

Yuri:"Fortunately you came in so late that we found you before they did. "

Yuri:" We know your history with the space police, but what we don't know, and what they probably don't even care about is why and how are you jumping between worlds?"

Phoebe: " Well, it's kind of our job. "

Phoebe: "We work at a portal lab, where there's all these portals, that used to just go to his world, but now they go to all sorts of worlds, even to videogames. "

Me: "But that's not our only job, sometimes we do secret agent stuff. "

Phoebe :"Mhm. "

Yuri: "Intrra-esting . "

Phoebe: "But sometimes things go wrong. "

Me :"Like right now. "

Phoebe: "Yep. "

Yuri: "How so?"

Me: "Well, it's a long story, but the jist of it is. "

Me: "We spent the last 5 days on an abandoned island, living in a makeshift house within the ruins of an ancient city. "

Me: "Over the course of those five days, we discovered that the city had a primitive, but functioning portal machine, and we were able to activate it. "

Me: "Then it brought us here. "

Phoebe: "But we don't know if the portal comes here specifically or if we ended up here out of randomness. "

Me: "Right. "

Me: "Anyway, prior to that we were on our own world, which we have since lost all communication with, I don't know if the lab got attacked or what happened, but we probably won't find out until we get back. "

Phoebe: "From what we know we're on the other side of creation. "

Me: "Which I guess is the grand total of all existence. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Phoebe:"We need to get to the other side or we won't have any chance of getting back home. "

Yuri:" You know what the odds are of you making it back home?"

Yuri: "There's as many universes as stars in the sky. "

Phoebe: "We don't have to make it back home, we just need to make it to the other side fo creation. "

Yuri: "How do you know what side you're on now?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, but we just have to keep going. "

Phoebe: "If we go through enough worlds we'll get there eventually. "

Me: "Right. "

Phoebe: "Anyway, we'll help you, but we'll need you to help us locate another portal. "

Yuri: "That's great. "

Yuri: "Now, before we get things started, the reports we read about you have us baffled a bit. "

Yuri: "You see, they state you attacked the facility with a . . . giant steel dinosaur? "

Yuri:" That can't be the truth can it?"

Yuri: "It is a misunderstanding correct?"

Me :"Um, actually. "

Phoebe "It's completely true, he does have a giant steel dinosaur. "

Me :"Of sorts. "

Yuri: "Can you show me?"

Me: "Not here, there's not enough space. "

Phoebe: "Yeah, if he sends him out here he could hurt himself. "

Me: "Or us. "

Phoebe: "Mhm. "

Me:"So, you said something earlier about being the resistance leader of this sector?"

Yuri: "Yes, the resistance exists in many sectors, unfortunately we haven't reached all of them under the space police's control. They keep portal technology tightly controlled, it's hard to get a sizable force through unscathed. "

Yuri: "Somewhere in creation they have a home sector. "

Yuri: "Where there highest ranking officials reside. "

Yuri: "We haven't found it yet, but one of these days it will be our target. "

Me: "They don't talk about it on the network. "

Yuri :"Nope, even if they did they couldn't tell. "

Yuri: "All their bases have numbers, we know a few of them, but we can't confirm what all of them are. "

Yuri: "For instance the one for this region, on this world is AB473. "

Yuri: "Another one in a city further south is AB474, and so on.

Yuri: "One from a different world, is AD102. "

Yuri: "The letters are longitudinal cordinates, the middle numbers are the world number, and the last numbers are the base number. "

Me: "Tried world 1?"

Yuri: "You'd think it would be their home base, but it isn't. "

Yuri: "World 1 is a desert planet with barely anything but an outpost. "

Me: "How did you get there?"

Yuri: "We managed to capture a portal machine that was in transit awhile back. "

Yuri: "We've been fooling around with it, but it's hard to get that much power down here without anyone noticing. "

Yuri: "They require an incredible amount of electricity to run properly. "

Yuri: "So we built up a battery bank, out of car batteries we've aquired through various means, we couldn't use the power grid as it would raise suspicion. "

Yuri: "We needed to amass almost 100 of them to get the machine to wrok. "

Yuri: " Unfortunately that was the only trip we could take, those we sent to world one barely made it back before many of the batteries died and a few even exploded. "

Yuri: "After all that work we found that a hundred batteries could only keep it running for three hours, give or take, and world one is nothing but a desert wasteland. "

Me:"That's what? 1200 volts?"

Phoebe: "I don't know. "

Yuri:"Something like that. "

Yuri:" Anyway, we're still trying to replace atleast 20 batteries without being detected, so to get you to a working portal machine anytime soon, we're going to have to raid one of their bases. "

Yuri:"However we're a bit low on man power at the moment. "

Yuri:"So before we can even consider that, we need you to raid one of their prisons and free some of our recruits. "

Yuri:"Your track record shows that you've already done that before, so it should be no problem for you now. "

Yuri:"Same idea, just a different building. "

Yuri:"In fact, it should be easier, Chief Hooperman's kind of a pushover compared to the chief you were dealing with there. "

Yuri: "That's why we have bases here. "

Yuri: "In the sector you were in we'd never get away with this. "

Yuri: "Anyway, that said, you two need to get back to your house, and get some sleep. "

Yuri: "We'll contact you again tomorrow. "

Me: "Wait, your portal machines can select worlds?"

Yuri: "To a limited extent, basically we just have the worlds that the space police control, and we can also direct the portal to a random world, which will be off the space police's radar, but is also extremely dangerous. "

Phoebe: "Ok. "

Yuri:"Furthermore, tomorrow they'll try to move you to a different house, since all the bugs failed in the one you currently reside in."

Yuri:"Do what you can to prevent them from doing so, next time all the bugs fail, whether you did it or not, they won't give you the benefit of the doubt."

Yuri: "So go on, and get back to your house, get some sleep, and once again, we'll contact you some time tomorrow."

Me: "We have to go all the way back up there now?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, come on Cj. "

Phoebe:"The quicker we get back, the more sleep we'll get."

Me: "Alllllright. "

By the the time we got back we were so tired, I don't even remember when we fell asleep. In fact, I pretty much forgot most of the trip back.

We woke up sometime the next morning. There was no clock in this room so I had no idea what time.

-just waking up- Me: "oooooooh, what are we going to do today?"

Me: "Pheebles?"

Me: "Oh you're still asleep. "

-cutely- Phoebe: "Mmmmmmwhaaaaa?"

She was barely awake.

-cutely- Phoebe: "Hold me.. "

Me :" Oookaayy. "

Me:"They said they were going to meet us again, but they didn't say when. "

Phoebe: "They also said the stupid police were going to move us to another house."

Me: "Yeah, they did didn't."

Me:"I don't know about you, but I'm going to take a shower while I can. "

Phoebe:"Ok. "

Phoebe:"I might too... in a little bit. "

Me:"Ok, well you stay alert baby girl, it's only a matter of time before the space police figure out who we are, and when they do, you know they'll come after us, relentlessly. "

Phoebe:"I know. "

Phoebe :"Wait Cj. "

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "Do you think Charley is ok?"

Me: "Hehe, he'll be fine, I know he will. "

Me:"Just keep your head in the game so we can make it back safely."

Me :"That's what's important now, to make sure we can make it back."

Phoebe: "I hope you're right."

We both took showers, then we sat on the bed, and frankly, neither one of us really knew what to do at this point. We decided to watch some tv, specifically the news, to try to learn a little bit about this world, but we didn't even get much time to watch tv before we heard a knock on the door.

It was the same person that had originally showed us to the house, a plain clothes agent of the space police.

Space police agent: "Listen, we need to move you to another house, we didn't know it last night but this one has a bug problem. "

Me: "It's allright we don't mind. "

Space Police agent: " No listen, we're moving you to another house, so the exterminator can fumigate this one. "

Me: "Um ok. "

Me: "Where too?"

Phoebe teleported behind him and knocked him out.

-surprised- Me: "Pheebles...what the heck?"

Phoebe: "You know he was lying Cj. "

Me: "I know, but you didn't have to knock him out. "

Phoebe: "I don't want to move to another bugged house. "

Phoebe :"They told us to stay here."

Phoebe: "Come on, help me drag him inside. "

Me: "What about his van?"

A white panel van, a bog-standard Chevy Express was parked out front, nothing interesting to note about it at all, just a newer version of the rusting piece of crap van we had back home.

Phoebe: "Ummmm. "

Phoebe: "I don't know. "

Phoebe: "We don't have a garage here do we?"

Me:"Nope. "

Phoebe: "Wait, I have another idea. "

Me: "It better not be blow up the van. "

Phoebe: "No, it's not. "

Phoebe: "Listen. "

Phoebe:"I can control our friend here and make him report that everything is ok."

Phoebe:"I just need to alter some of his memories."

Me:"How long will that take?"

Phoebe:"I don't know, but it's our best shot."

Phoebe:"I can make it so he thinks he hates the space police for killing his whole family."

Phoebe:"And that he's currently undercover to destroy them."

Phoebe:"The more details I can come up with, the more authentic his memories will seem, and the longer they'll last."

Me:"Ok."

Me: "You'd never use this on . . . "

Phoebe: "no, Cj, never."

Phoebe: "Otherwise our love wouldn't be real."

Phoebe: "Now quiet you, I have to think...very carefully."

Her hands started to glow as she placed them upon his head.

Phoebe: "Let's see what we got to work with."

Phoebe :"He has a wife, and three kids."

Phoebe: "And now he should think they're all dead."

Phoebe: "The space police killed them because they got caught in the crossfire."

Me:" No, not that."

Phoebe: "Shhh..."

Phoebe: "If I lose too much concentration I can screw up his whole memory."

Me: "That's forgivable make it so they killed them."

Phoebe: "Why?"

She stopped for a moment.

Me: "Because that's harder to forgive."

Phoebe: "No, why did they kill them?"

Me: "Because they tried to get him to leave the space police."

Me:"And Hooperman didn't like that very much."

Me: "So he ordered them to be killed."

Phoebe: "Ok, that might work."

Me:" And his best friend carried it out."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "But nobody knows, that he knows."

Phoebe: "And why is that?"

Me: "Because he overheard...no, he borrowed his friend's cellphone one night and saw the texts."

Phoebe: "Poookayyy."

Phoebe: "You're better at this then I am."

Me: "About time."

Phoebe: "Ohhh don't be like that."

Phoebe: "Now quiet so I can put all this in his brain."

Her hands began to glow again, and I stayed quiet while she did her work.

She had her hands on his head for atleast 20 minutes before she finally decided she was done.

Phoebe:" Ok, I'm going to wake him up now, hopefully this will work."

Me :"They've probably sent backup by now."

Phoebe: "Well it takes awhile ok? I have to go through all his real memories and make sure they match up with the ones I'm implanting completely."

Phoebe: "The more flaws there are the easier he can see through it."

Phoebe: "But eventually he'll realize the truth."

Me:" He will?"

Phoebe: "Yes, because he's basically in his own reality, at somepoint somebody will say something that doesn't quite match up."

Phoebe: "Then he'll start to question his own memories."

Phoebe: "And from there he'll keep picking at them until the entire illusion falls apart."

Phoebe: "Anyway, here goes nothing."

Phoebe: "Cj, bop him on the head."

Me: "Why?"

Phoebe: "Just do it."

Me: "Oookayy."

Phoebe: "I need you to leave a mark."

Me: "Ok, hehehe."

I punched him.

Phoebe :"Allright then, let's wake him up."

A weak psychic pulse from her hands and the man woke up.

Space police agent:"Where am I ?"

Phoebe:"You slipped on the grass and banged your head on the sidewalk."

Phoebe:"You said you were from the space police?"

Space Police agent:"Yeah um...I got.. I got stuff to do, thankyou, but I have to go, goodbye."

He braced his head in pain as he hobbled out the door, got in his van and drove away.

Me:"What just happened?"

Phoebe:"He's carrying out his plan for revenge on the space police."

Me:"You don't think this will backfire?"

Phoebe:"No, but I'm hoping we won't be here long enough for it to backfire."

Phoebe:"He'll figure it out eventually."

-Meanwhile, in the van-

-on radio- Space police dispatcher: "Did you move the new arrivals to the other house yet?"

-into radio- Space police agent: "I'm going to kill you."

-on radio- Space police dispatcher: "Did it not go well?"

-into radio- Space police agent: "Everything is going fine."

He didn't know what the dispatcher was talking about, but he didn't care, he had revenge on his mind, so he just said something to appease him for the moment.

-on radio- Space dispatcher: "Good, well, uh, return to base and wait for your next assignment."

He turned the radio off.

-angry- Space dispatcher: "Oh I'll return to base, don't you worry about that."

Phoebe didn't know she just created a monster, in fact neither of us would find this out for quite some time.

-back to Cj-

After the van pulled away, we went back to watching the news on tv.

-on tv- News Reporter: "Good Morning Grande America and welcome to today's news."

-on tv- News Reporter: "Comming to you live from the state of New Montanecut, All hail the space police!"

Me: "The state of what?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "Montana is a state isn't it?"

Me: "That's not what they said."

Phoebe: "I don't know."

News Reporter: "In today's news Michhale Hooperman, director of world famous startup Dimensional technologies limited, is giving a speech at Montgomery City Hall center, in Hastings, East Virginia, about the science of intersteller wormholes."

Phoebe: "Hooperman?"

Phoebe: "Do you think it's S.C hooperman?"

Me: "As in the director of the space police?"

-correctively- Phoebe: "Sector Chairman."

New Reporter:"In other news, Dimensional Technology's houses for the dimensionally displaced program, which has been ongoing for 8 years, has reached record numbers of participitation, however the homeless percentage of the population is remaining relatively the same across the country, raising concerns over whether the space police are more concerned with our own people or with the interest of outsiders new to our dimension."

News Reporter: "We here at Channel 9 news will be providing live coverage of Hooperman's speech, and later on we will discuss today's pressing issues in further detail."

Me: "So we're dimensionally displaced?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, we're not in the dimension we want to be in."

Me: "True."

Phoebe: "Hey, I just want to say,, if I don't make it back."

Me: "Oh honey you're going to make it back, don't worry about it."

Phoebe: "No, seriously."

Phoebe: "If I don't make it back, keep fighting to get back to Nina and Charley."

Me: Ok."

Phoebe: "Promise me."

Me: "No."

Phoebe: "Why not?"

Me: "Because then you won't have as much to loose."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "It's hard to put into words, but what I mean is, you'll feel like it doesn't matter as much if you make it back or not."

Me: "But it needs to matter as much as it possibly can."

Phoebe: "You'd go back anyway, I know you will."

Me:" You know nothing."

Phoebe: "I know more than you think I do."

-dismissive- Me: "Crazy girl."

Me: "Getting so worried about things that will never happen."

Phoebe: "Just promise me."

Me: "Fine, I promise."

Me: "Like it means anything if you know I'd go back anyway."

Phoebe: "It means a lot."

Me:"Really now?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "-sighs-, if you say so."

Phoebe:"Hehe."

We heard a weird noise.

Me: "Did you hear that?"

Phoebe: "Someone came in through the back door."

Phoebe: "It's probably someone from the resistance."

resistance grunt: "Hello?"

Phoebe: "Hello."

Me:"What's going on?"

resistance grunt: "Good , you're still here."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Why'd you barge in?"

resistance grunt: "Didn't want to wait outside the door and make a scene."

Phoebe: "Ok.."

resistance grunt: "In 1 hour a taxi will come by to pick you up."

resistance grunt: "Get in it, and we'll take you to where you need to be, we'll brief you on the way."

Me: "What do you know about Mickhale Hooperman and Dimensional technologies?"

resistance grunt: Mickhale is S.C Hooperman's son, he isn't the leader of the space police."

Me: "Oh...ok."

resistance grunt: "They are not the same person."

resistance grunt: "Now throw me out."

Me: "What?"

resistance grunt: "Act like you caught me trying to break in."

Me: "Ok, get out!"

resistance grunt: "Get angry."

-false anger- Me: "Get out of the house!"

resistance grunt: "Now push me out of the house."

Me: "Ok."

After that awkward ordeal was over, we went back to watching the news, with nothing better to do. It didn't seem like a good time to go exploring, we didn't have a vehicle and there likely wouldn't be anything interesting in an hour and a half's walking distance.

Phoebe: "If we don't get out of here soon, we're going to need to find some groceries."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Are you hungry?"

Me: "Not really."

Me: "Let's just relax for now."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "We haven't eaten anything since yesterday."

Me :"I know, don't remind me."

Me :"I was getting sick of those birds..."

Me:" It was like...mushy roast beef."

Phoebe: "What makes you think I wanna be reminded?"

Phoebe:"I never want to eat another bird again."

Me:"Does that include chicken?"

Phoebe:"Um...no, but no chicken for a long time."

Me: "Ok, fair enough."

Phoebe: "Now let's stop talking about it."

Me: "Ok."

- a few minutes later-

Phoebe: "I don't know about you, but I'm hungry."

Me: "Did you check the fridge?"

Phoebe :"I checked it earlier, it's empty, there's nothing but an ice tray inside."

Phoebe: "How do they expect us to survive without any food and no money?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "I mean are we really supposed to build a life in an urban wasteland starting with nothing, but a house?"

Phoebe :"And we can't even keep it. we have to move out in a few weeks."

Me: "What are we supposed to do starve until we get our first paycheck?"

Phoebe: "I guess so."

Me:"What a load of crap."

I let out a sigh, realizing how insane this world was.

Me: " Well, I guess you can get water, from the sink."

Me: "It's not much but it might get you by."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I'll go get some."

When she came back, I shared an idea with her.

Me: "You know something, there's no pokemon in this world except for you and our own."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "What if we took over?"

Phoebe :"What do you mean?"

Me: "You can control people's minds, you can get them to give us things for free."

Phoebe: "I told you Cj, it wears off after awhile."

Phoebe: "Maybe we could save a few dollars that nobody will get suspicious about but we're not going to get anything for free."

Phoebe: "There will be consequences, you know it's stealing, it's illegal."

Me: "Ok, fine."

Me:"It's not about the money you know, I was just thinking, if we could aquire a vast amount of wealth, we could build an army, and overthrow the space police, without having to put our pokemon at risk, maybe we could even drive the space police out entirely."

Phoebe: "I know, but it's just too slow, I don't plan on spending more than a week here."

Phoebe:" We don't have the time for that."

Phoebe:"Besides there's already an army fighting the space police."

Phoebe:"What do you think the resistance is?"

Phoebe: "Ok, so let's just help the resistance with their thing, and get out of here when we can."

Phoebe:"I don't think the TTG intended for us to spend several years heading a war campaign against the space police in order to save just one world."

Me: "Well, if that's how you want to do things."

Phoebe: "It is."

Me:"It doesn't have to take several years you know."

Phoebe:"You just expect to be able to buy an army over night?"

Phoebe:"Aquire and spend a bunch of money and have tanks, men and fighter jets delivered to our front door?"

Me: "I wasn't expecting to use fighter jets, or tanks...just men with guns."

Phoebe: "You just expect them to show up?"

Phoebe: "How are you going to find them?"

Phoebe: "What about training?"

Phoebe: "I already told you I don't want to be here for more than a week."

Phoebe: "This isn't our war."

Phoebe :"Let the resistance handle it."

Phoebe: "We'll help them while we're here."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "If that's what you want baby girl."

Phoebe: "All I want is to get back to the kids."

Phoebe: "I just want to find out that Charley's going to be ok."

Me: "He's going to be allright baby girl."

Me: "You don't have to worry about it."

Phoebe :"I can't help it."

Phoebe: "I know I'm supposed to think about what we're going to do."

Phoebe: "But we can't even do anything right now."

Phoebe: "Except watch tv."

Me :"Well...there is something else we can do."

Phoebe: "No, not right now, especially if another resistance guy can just barge in here at any given moment."

Me: "Yeah, that's a good point."

Me: "You want to go for a walk?"

Phoebe: "Hmm?"

Me: "Just to see if maybe we could find a store or something."

Phoebe: "Ok, sure."

Me :"Allright then."

We left the house and walked down the street. Surprisingly enough Phoebe didn't need to disguise herself, after all, this entire block was inhabited by beings from other dimensions. It was safe to assume she wasn't the only one that wasn't human per se. The house across the street was inhabited by something that I could only describe as a living potato man, with a leaf on it's head. Despite the oddity, he seemed friendly. Next to him lived a creature with a dark, lanky body, red eyes and a very strange disk shaped head that appeared to have a close encounter with a steamroller.

Potato man: "Hey! New Neighbors."

Phoebe :"Hello."

Me: "Hi...uh..."

Potato man: "The name is Paul."

Paul: "From earth 3827F, Vegatara cluster."

Me:"What?"

Paul: "That's what they call it atleast."

Paul: "We always just called it earth."

Me: "So, you're from a planet inhabited by sentient vegetables?"

Paul: "Nope, just potatos, like me."

Me: "So what do you eat?"

Paul: "Nothing."

Paul: "We get our energy from the sun."

Me: "Oookayy."

Me:"What about the guy next door?"

-quietly- Paul:"Oh, that guy? I'm a little worried about him, he's been here lomger than I have and he hasn't said anything the entire time."

-quietly- Paul:"In fact this is one of the few times I've seen him out of the house."

-quietly- Paul:"His contract is about up though, so they'll evict him any day now."

Me:"Yeah about that."

Me: "I know you don't eat, but how does anybody out here afford any food?"

Paul: "You have to get a job."

Paul: "The idea is your supposed to get a job and then move out."

Paul: "A minimum wage job, should be able to get one of the cheeper apartments in this city."

Paul: "Sadly they're cheep for a reason, it's a neighborhood worse than this one."

Paul: "I went over there once, and, even though I can afford to move out, I decided to stay here until the contract expires in a few weeks."

Me: "Ok."

Me:" So we don't have much of a shot here?"

Paul: "No, not really, unless you get lucky."

Paul: "And I have it easy, I don't have to buy food."

Me: "True."

Phoebe: "Well, we're going to go exploring, goodbye for now."

Paul: "Goodbye."

We continued down the street.

Me: "Well that was weird, I'd never thought I'd be in a conversation with a potato."

Phoebe: "-giggles-."

Me: "Can we trust him?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, his brain is...it's different."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "I can hear it, but I don't understand what I'm hearing."

Me: "Oookay."

Phoebe: "He seems nice."

Me: "Yeah, but what if he's working for the space police?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, I'm as deaf as you on this one."

Me: "Well, I think, given our situation, a 'seems nice', isn't going to cut it."

Phoebe: "I agree."

Me: "Good."

Phoebe: "When do you think we should head back?"

Me:" I don't know."

Me:" We'll just go a few blocks down the street."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me:"Sound good?"

Phoebe:"Yep."

It was quite an uneventful walk, after three blocks we found a gas station, but we didn't have any money to buy anything, but before we could go home Phoebe decided to go inside.

Me: "Pheebles we don't have any money."

Me: "There's no point in looking to see what they have, we can't buy any of it."

Phoebe: "I know just, hold on, I have an idea."

-quietly- Me: "They have cameras you know? You can't just take stuff."

-quietly- Phoebe : "Shhh...I know."

Phoebe: "But I'm hungry."

Phoebe: "Listen mr. cashier..."

Cashier: "No free food."

Phoebe: "Aww, but I'm hungry."

Cashier: "You're not the only extra-dimensional that's come in here begging for handouts."

Phoebe :"Is there anyone outside?"

Me: "Not at the moment."

Phoebe: "Good."

She teleported behind the cashier and knocked him out.

Me: "Pheebles."

Me: "-sighs-, I'll wipe the cameras, take what you want, but not so much that anyone will notice."

Phoebe: "Ok."

5 minutes later we left the gas station with 2 slices of pizza, a handful of candybars and a few bottles of soda, thankfully, nobody else showed up during the whole process.

Me: "I can't believe we just did that."

Phoebe: "We had too, we were hungry."

Me: "You were hungry."

Phoebe:" Well then fine, no food for you."

Me: "Pheebles."

Phoebe: "I asked nicely."

Me: "I know, but still.."

Me: "What ever happened to 'no it's stealing' ? "

Phoebe: "This is different, we need food."

Phoebe :"We don't need to build an army."

Me: "Whatever Pheebles."

Phoebe :"Awwwe, Cj.."

Me :" Just tell me before you plan to do things like that in the future."

Phoebe: "Ohhhh ok I will."

Me:"Did you atleast wipe his memory?"

Phoebe: "Um..."

-awkwardly- Phoebe:"Hehe..."

Me: "Pheebles..."

Me: "You know when he wakes up he's going to remember our faces..."

Phoebe: "I...uh...I'll go back really quick."

Phoebe: "Here take all this stuff, I'll see you at the house."

Eventually I made it home, and for the first time in several days I finally ate something, that wasn't some avian creature. The single, warm slice of pizza tasted sooo good, I tried to savor every bite. And the rootbeer, the rootbeer was heaven. Phoebe got back ten minutes later.

Phoebe: "There, we're clear now."

Me: "Did anyone see you?"

Phoebe: "No...we're clear, he'll wake up, and he'll never even know that we were there."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe: "Now where's my pizza?'

Phoebe: "Please don't tell me you ate it."

Me: "No, I'm not that mean."

Me: "It's over here baby girl."

Me: "Enjoy."

Phoebe: "Yayy!"

Phoebe:" I wuv you."

Me: "Why, because I didn't eat your pizza?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "No because you're my hubby."

-cutely- Phoebe: "And I wuv you."

She kissed me on the cheek.

Phoebe: "Oops, I got sauce on your face."

Me: "You goofball."

Phoebe: "Here I got it, don't worry."

Me: "Ok."

-playfully- Phoebe:" Hold still, I'll just lick it off."

Me :"What the heck?"

Phoebe: "-giggles-."

Me: "Your crazy, but I love you."

Phoebe: "Wuv you."

She barely had enough time to finish her pizza slice before the resistance came by in a taxi to pick us up.

Me: "Allright so where are we going now?"

Driver: "Well, we have a mission for you."

Driver: "You know about their technology right?"

Me: "The deloreans and the bubble guns?"

Driver: "Yes, well, they're transporting some of the plasma guns in a truck today."

Driver: "They have them built in the European Empire and shipped overseas."

Driver: "Now they're en-route from the docks to the base."

Driver: "We've intercepted them before, but since then they've beefed up their security, and it became too risky to put our men on the line."

Driver: "But if that giant metal dinosaur you have is as powerful as reports would lead us to believe."

Driver: "Taking the shipment should be a cakewalk."

Me: "We have better options that won't draw as much attention."

Phoebe: "What about the jail break?"

Driver: "We'll get to that, but we have some other things to do first."

Driver: "Also, say goodbye to that house, we're moving you to one of our places."

Driver: "After this it's very unlikely the space police will fail to recognize you, it won't be safe there anymore."

Me: "Right."

Phoebe:" Ok."

Phoebe:"Do we get our own room?"

Driver: "Yeah, don't worry about it."

-on radio- unknown: "The convoy just left the docks."

-on radio- Driver: "Roger that, heading to intercept point as planned."

Me: "How much time?"

Driver: "We'll have plenty of time to anticipate their approach, don't worry."

-on radio- unknown: "Two large trucks, four escort vans, 6 guards each with conventional assault rifles."

Driver: "Roger that."

Me:" What does he mean by conventional?"

Driver: "They use normal weapons, no bubbleguns, or any of their techno-stuff."

Driver: "That way they can be inconspicuous."

Driver: "The general public isn't aware of these shipments, or that the space police produce weapons in this world."

Me: "How do they keep it a secret?"

Driver:" They build their weapons in a country that is not particularly friendly to outsiders and for good reason."

Driver: "A country that very few people know anything about."

Driver:" In this world, Quinglong."

Me: "What?"

Driver: "It's a small country east of China."

Me: "It's not Korea?"

Driver:"Korea doesn't exist in this world, it's part of Quinglong."

Me:"So you've been to other worlds then?"

Driver: "Yeah."

Driver: "It's pretty common for worlds to have different countries."

Driver:" Based on things like different outcomes of wars both in ancient, and recent history, and even just different decisions made in naming."

Driver: "In some worlds the Axis wins ww2, in others either one of the koreas wins the korean war, in some, neither the korean or vietnam wars were even fought to begin with. "

Driver:" In some worlds the countries are completely different, and none of the wars that you may may be familiar with have occured. "

Driver:" What it all boils down too, is people making different decisions."

Me: "So how did you get here?"

Driver: "Random portal."

Driver: "I've been trying to get out of here since."

Driver: "But these damned space police."

Driver: "I met the resistance, they hooked me up with this taxi job."

Driver: "I moved out of that freaking prison house."

Driver: "And I'm still waiting to get out."

Phoebe: "They're not going to do the same thing with us are they?"

Phoebe: "We can't stay here, we have kids."

Driver: "Yeah, the boss told me about your situation."

Driver:"You realize in normal circumstances it'd be best to just forget them?"

Driver:"Chances you'd randomly make it back to your world are incredibly slim."

Driver: "Like it or not we're still your best chance of getting out of here."

Driver: "In this world the space police are the only ones in possesion of dimensional travel technology."

Driver: "So, when it gets to the prison raid, I want go with you."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Driver:" The space police haven't claimed your world yet."

Driver:" It'd be good for your world if the resistance was able to get a head start."

Driver: "And then maybe, I could get back to my own world."

Phoebe: "It's a long shot, but, sure."

Me: "As long as you pull your weight."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me :"And you could also tell us your name."

Phoebe: "It's Vince."

Driver: "How?"

-nervous- Driver: "It's John, see the idea."

Phoebe: "No, it's Vince, your I.D is fake."

-bewildered- Driver: "How?"

Vince: "How do you know that?"

Phoebe: "Hehehe."

Me: "She can read minds."

Vince: "No, seriously how."

Me: "She can read minds, I'm not joking."

Vince:"That's incredible..."

Me: "She's from a world of superpowered creatures, called pokemon."

Vince: "And all of them can do that?"

Phoebe: "No, just the psychic types, and some ghost types."

Me: "There's fire types, steel types, water types."

Phoebe: "Electric types, fairy types."

Me: "There's lots of types, just leave it at that."

Me: "Just name a type and it probably exist."

Vince: "Sound?"

Me: "Name a different type."

Vince: "Wind."

Phoebe:" Well there's flying, it's basically the same thing."

Me: "Mhm."

Vince: "Undead?"

Me: "That's ghost."

Phoebe: "Pretty much."

Vince: "Earth?"

Phoebe: "Ground."

A few minutes later we made it to the interception point, on top of a bridge over a busy freeway, from there, Vince left us up on the bridge and drove off to who knows where, all we knew was that we were waiting to intercept a truck, and that it was in a convoy, so it wouldn't be hard to spot, after all not every truck has escorts.

Me:"Ok Pheebles."

Me:"Why don't you teleport up the highway a little bit? Try not to get hit, and then teleport back when you see the truck as an early warning?"

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me:"But don't teleport so far away that you exaust yourself allright?"

Me:"Remember you still have to make it back."

Phoebe:"I know."

Me:"Allright then."

Me:"I'll wait here."

Phoebe:"Don't do anything stupid."

Me: "Same goes for you baby girl."

Phoebe: "Hehe."

Me :"Randomly knocking people out..."

Phoebe:"Hey, it worked."

Me :"It would have been nice if you could've said something first."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, I could of."

Me :"Allright, get going, I don't think we have much time to sit around and talk."

Me: "We can't screw this up or we might be stuck here even longer."

Phoebe: "Yeah, you're right."

She kissed me on the cheek and teleported away.

Some time passed as many cars and trucks passed by on the freeway below, and even behind me on the bridge, though at a slower speed. I prepared to send out rhyhorn, I didn't want to send out Aggron as he could easilly take out the entire freeway. A pile up of civilian cars was definitely not something I wanted to happen. For ten minutes on that bridge, until Phoebe finally returned.

Phoebe:"It's comming."

Me: "When's the closest break in traffic?"

Me: "Rhyhorn is going to need to get a good run up."

Phoebe: "It's moving slow so most of the traffic is passing it."

Phoebe: "Once you see it you'll have plenty of time."

Phoebe: "There it is up there see? That's the lead van."

Me: "I see."
Phoebe: "You take it down, I'll try to keep people from getting hurt."

Me: "Allright."

Phoebe: "Goodluck."

She kissed me once again before teleporting away.

Me: "Ok Rhyhorn, ready for this?"

Me: "The black van, take it down."

I took his pokeball from my pocket and sent him out.

He charged down the freeway, and smacked head-on into the van, mangling the front end, the truck following it couldn't swerve in time and clipped the back end as well, spinning it around as rhyhorn struggled to free himself. The truck continued on with a slightly damaged front along with the second van, a third van, another truck, and yet another van. Meanwhile, armed guards were escaping from the wreckage of the first van, while rhyhorn was try to free his head from its radiator.

Phoebe: "Come on let's go."

She teleported in behind me.

Me: "Where?"

She teleported us to the roof of the 2nd truck...well slightly above the roof anyway, just enough to nearly fall off of it.

It wasn't long before the 4th van was firing at us. As the truck passed under the bridge, I lost sight of rhyhorn in the distance.

Me: "What about rhyhorn?"

Phoebe: "We'll go back for him."

Me: "This is crazy."

Me: "Stay down, don't get shot."

Phoebe: "I know."

Phoebe: "Rocky should be able to take that van out."

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

Phoebe: "Just do it."

Me: "Ok just give me a sec."

Me:" I gotta reach for his pokeball and somehow not lose my grip."

Me: "Ok, got it, here goes."

I sent rocky out.

Me: "Ok Rocky, roll out, take out that van!"

He leapt off the back of the truck and pretty much landed on the van, it dropped back further and further and further.

Me: "Pheebles, if I lose two of my pokemon."

Phoebe: "We'll go back for them."

Phoebe: "And what? What are you going to do?"

Me: "We don't have time for this."

Me:" Just take out the driver."

Phoebe: "Right, ok."

We slowly made our way to the cab, once there she knocked out the driver, threw him out and the truck was ours.

Me: "Now what?"

Phoebe:" That first truck, it's still going."

Me: "Well come on then, floor it."

Phoebe: "This is as fast as it will go."

Me: "You gotta switch gears pheebles."

-confused- Phoebe: "How?"

Me:"Just stop the truck we'll get a car or something."

Phoebe:"Ok."

A bullet broke the mirror.

Me: "Ok don't stop the truck just go."

Phoebe: "But the gears."

Me: "Just go."

Me: "Push the clutch, um, where's the decal that says where the gears are."

Phoebe :" What's that?"

Me: "It's the third pedal."

Phoebe: "Oh."

Me: "There, it's on the shifter."

Phoebe; "The clutch is on the shifter."

Me: "No the thingy that tells where the gears are."

-unsure- Phoebe:" Aren't they in the transmission?"

Me: "Just drive."

Me: "Damn, what gear are we in now?"

Phoebe: "We're slowing down."

Me: "Let off the clutch, don't push it yet."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me:"We'll just try to put it in 8th and see what happens."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me:"Push the clutch I'll change the gear and then we'll go."

Me:"Just try not to slow down too much."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Thankfully we were moving fast enough that the truck was able to pull the tallest gear without stalling.

Phoebe: "Now what?"

Me: "Just keep driving we have to catch up to the first truck."

Me: "Come on, there's got to be something in here."

I looked around the cab and found a pistol in the glove box.

Me: "Ahah..."

Me: "Look, Free Gun!"

Phoebe: "Oh arceus."

Me: "Well I kind of need it now."

Phoebe: "True."

Phoebe: "Just remember you can really kill people here."

Me: "Damn you're right."

Me:"Well..."

Me:"They are just space police aren't they?"

Phoebe:"They're still people."

Me: "Ohhhhh."

Me: "Pheebles..you know."

Me: "We can't shoot the truck, we need it."

Me: "It's already damaged we're lucky if the radiator's still intact."

Me: "I can try to shoot the tires out on the vans, but I can't guarantee anything."

Me:" They might be bullet proof for all we know."

Me: "And I want to end this fast so we don't get too far away from Rhyhorn and Rocky."

Phoebe: "Do what you think is right."

Phoebe: "I trust you."

Me: "Thankyou baby."

Me: "Keep your foot on the gas, if, you slow down too much we'll have to shift gears again."

Fortunately the truck wasn't that fast to begin with, so even though we were near it's limits we weren't exactly speeding, 70 was about all it was good for, that said, we were eventually able to catch up to the lead truck.

The back doors of the rear van opened up.

Phoebe: "What the?"

Me: "Duck, they're going to shoot."

Me: "Magnum go now, use magnet bomb on the van."

I ducked down and cracked open the door to let magnum out as bullets smashed through the windshield, thankfully neither of us were hit. Cap'n'magnum's appearence caught them off guard, and soon their bullets were directed towards him, as usual, this did them no good, a single magnet bomb obliterated the tires and sent the van out of control into the median wall.

Me: "One down."

Me: "Go for the other van Magnum."

Me: "If you can."

Cap'n'Magnum: "Magnezohhhne..maaag."

Phoebe: "Return him, he can't fly that fast."

Me: "He's kept up so far."

Phoebe: "We're at the limits of his speed."

Me: "Yeah, I see, he's falling behind now."

Phoebe: "Hurry before he gets too far away."

Me: "I'm on it baby girl."

I returned him before he got too far away.

Me: "Ok one more van and then we can take the truck."

Phoebe: "Right."

Me: "Except we have to pass the truck to get to it."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "I hope rhyhorn and Rocky are ok."

Phoebe: "You keep telling me Charley will be ok."

Me: "Charley isn't in immediate danger."

Phoebe: "True."

Me: "Both of them are alone, they're on the highway and there's enemy agents in their vicinity."

Phoebe: "They can handle things themselves."

Me: "I hope you're right."

Me: "Ok, here we go."

The last remaining van pulled out in front of us, the rear doors opened up as they prepared to fire at us.

Phoebe pulled up behind the truck, blocking there view.

Me: "Good thinking."

Phoebe: "Now they'll have to slow down if they want to get us."

Me: "Mhm."

They did slow down, and soon they were along side us, with the man in the passenger seat firing out the side.

We ducked in time, but, I realized there was a good chance they also hit the fuel tank, giving us maybe 5-10 minutes before this truck ran out of fuel.

Phoebe: "I'm hit!"

Me: "What."

Phoebe:" My leg."

Me: "Just keep driving we're almost done."

Me: "Magnum, time for you to take down the last van for us!"

I let him out through the window on the passenger's side.

Once again all fire was directed towards him, but another well placed magnet bomb sent the van out of control , this time it struck the median at an angle that caused it to roll up over it and onto the passenger side, from there it gradually slid to a stop.

I returned magnum, and then we were free to focus on the truck.

Me: "-sighs-, this is a disaster."

-in pain- Phoebe: "Owww."

Phoebe: "Cj, it hurts bad..."

Me: "Which leg is hurting?"

-wimpering- Phoebe: "I don't know , the left...it hurts...just help."

-strained- Phoebe: There's a potion -gasps- in my purse."

Me: "I'll get it for you ok?"

I started digging through her purse, which she somehow managed to hold onto through all of this.

Me: "Just keep driving."

Me: "But don't try to pass yet."

Me: "Just calm down, it's going to be allright."

Phoebe: "I know, but it hurts now!. "

-in pain- Phoebe: "Owwww..."

Phoebe:"Just help me."

Me: "They shot your purse."

-wimpering- Phoebe: "That's ok, I'll get a new one, just get the potion..hurry.."

Me:" Crap something's leaking."

Me: "Oh god they may have hit the potion."

Phoebe: "NOOOOOOOOO!."

Me: "No wait, no, we still have a potion."

Me: "It's just the full heal."

Phoebe: "Arceus,just hurry up...please."

Me: "Here I got the potion."

Me: "Ok hold still."

She was breathing heavilly, trying to cope with the pain. While I tried to apply the potion to her wounded leg in the limited floor space of moving truck cab with bullets occasionally pinging against it.

Phoebe: "Fuel is going down."

Me: "Yeah, they probably hit the fuel tank."

Me: "We should have enough time to catch the other truck though."

Me: "Though I don't know how they'l get it to where they want to take it."

I sprayed the potion on her leg, and her wound began to heal.

Me: "Ok, it's on now."

Me: "Feel better?"

-relieved- Phoebe: "How bad was it?"

Me: "They barely hit you."

Phoebe: "Really?"

Me: "Well, it was a bit more than just a graze, but yeah."

Phoebe: "Well did they hit me or not?"

Me:" Well, um..."

Me: "If it's really that important we'll talk about this later."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: " Look, just pull up next to the cab."

Me: "I'll take out the driver and try to jump over."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Be careful."

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "-sighs-, should've used magnum from the begining."

Me: "But I didn't want to make any civilians crash."

Phoebe: "No civilians have crashed so far, you're doing great."

Me: "Yeah, but two of my pokemon are MIA, so...yeah."

Phoebe: "What's that mean?"

Me: "It means I don't know where the are, what they're doing, or even if they're still alive."

-meanwhile, at the space police hq-

Space Police agent: "We've recieved a distress call from our weapons convoy, they're being attacked by strange creatures in broad daylight, in view of many witnesses."

Commander 473AB: "Do they have any reason to believe it's a weapons shipment?"

Space Police agent: "Not to our knowledge, the trucks haven't been opened."

Commander 473AB: "Ok then."

Space Police agent: "Some of our agents are stranded."

Space Police agent: "We've lost all the vans and there's only one truck still running."

Commander 473AB :"A 24 man escort team, and all of them are out of commision?"

Space police agent: "18 survivors, 5 critically injured."

Space police agent:" One group is saying they were attacked by a weird looking rhino and the other is saying they were attacked by some sort of round lizard creature. And yet another states they were attacked by a miniature UFO."

Space Police agent: "What do you want to do sir?"

Commander 473AB: "Inform our contacts with the news that this is street gang activity, inform the survivors that they are to surrender to the police without conflict and they will be picked up at a later date."

Commander 473ab:"Tell them to keep quiet about the UFO and the strange creatures, and finally.."

Commander 473ab: "Tell them to use explanation C56. Convoy attacked by rival gang."

Space Police Agent: "Should we attempt to salvage the truck?"

Space Police Agent: "We could send a helicopter."

Commander 473ab: "No, we can't deal with more publicity at this time."

Commander 473ab: "It's the resistance again, I know it is."

Commander 473ab: "If that incompetant buffoon Hooperman didn't have our hands tied this wouldn't be a problem."

Commander 473ab: "When we pick our escort team up from the police station."

Commander 473ab: "I want all of them interrogated, I have reason to believe we have a spy in our midst."

Commander 473ab: "They couldn't have known about that shipment otherwise."

Space police agent: "Yes sir."

Space police agent: "What if the regular police happen to get a hold of a truck?"

Commander 473ab: "Then they are to be removed from the case."

Space police agent: "How?"

Commander 473ab: "Kill them you fool."

Commander 473ab: "Nobody but us is allowed to know what's in those trucks."

-back to Cj and Phoebe-

We gradually pulled up alongside the 2nd truck, it took awhile, as it was traveling close to it's top speed. I think the only reason we gained on it at all was because we were losing fuel and it's front end was damaged enough that it was slightly pulling to the left.

When we made it up to the cab the driver began to fire at us, I fired back, and managed to kill him since he was trying to drive and shoot at the same time. Then I cracked open the door, and jumped over to the other truck, nearly falling off as I opened the door and pulled the driver out, causing me to nearly fall off again as his body fell under the rear wheels, after that I hurried up and got in the truck, which was now slowing down and tightly sandwhiched between Phoebe's truck, and the retaining wall.

From there we brought both trucks to a stop, got out, and tried to figure out what to do next.

Both trucks were damaged, but still operable atleast for now. Phoebe's was leaking diesel all over the place, the fuel tank was only punctured about halfway up though, so it wouldn't run completely out of fuel, hopefully it would still hold enough to make it to wherever they intended to take them.

Just a minute later Vince showed up in the opposite lane. Two men got out to take the trucks from us. Then we got in the back of the taxi and headed back along the freeway to retrieve my pokemon.

We passed the wrecked vans again without them noticing, we found Rocky making his way down the highway between the second and third van, and rhyhorn further down between the first and second. By the looks of things they were able to fight off the escorts on their own, though they were a bit injured. Especially rhyhorn from colliding with the van. Thankfully though, they would survive.

Vince:"So you keep those creatures in those little balls?"

Me:"Mhm."

Vince:"How does that work? "

Phoebe:"We don't really know."

Vince:" Are you one of them?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "They're called pokemon."

Vince: "But he doesn't keep you in a ball."

Phoebe:"That's because I'm his wife, you moron."

Me:"I let you out before that."

Vince:"You know how many guys would love to have their woman on a leash?"

Me:"Yeah, but that's not how love works."

Phoebe:"Yeah, you tell him Cj."

Vince: "How come you can talk and that rhino thing can't?"

Phoebe: "That's because I'm a sentient pokemon."

Phoebe: "Not all pokemon can learn human language."

Vince: "Interesting."

Me:"So where to now?"

Vince:" Now I take you back to our base."

Vince: "And we'll get you two a place to stay the night."

Phoebe:"Where are we going to stay?"

Vince:"There's an old hotel that we own, it will work for now until the boss feels we're ready to attack their headquarters."

Phoebe: "When will that be?"

Vince: "Most likely before the end of the week."

Phoebe: "Is there anything you can do to speed it up?"

Vince: "Nope, not really."

Me :"Does this hotel have like a basketball court or something?"

Vince: "Um...no...it has a lobby."

Vince: "Do hotels have basketball courts where you're from?"

Me: "No, not really."

Vince:"Why?"

Me:"I need to check out my pokemon in greater detail."

Me: "So I can assess their injuries."

Vince: "Ok."

Me: "If your hotel is like most, there isn't a whole lot of room to let them out is there?"

Vince: "You can use the lobby, or the pool."

Vince:"Or the parking lot."

Me: "I can't use the pool, they're ground types, they hate water."

Phoebe: "If they fall in they'll sink to the bottom and then they'll drown."

Me: " Yep, pretty much."

Vince: "Well maybe they could clear out a room or something, it shouldn't be much of a problem, there's lots of rooms to spare."

We got a good view of the city as we headed to the hotel. Occasionally a police car or ambulance would speed by, presumably to go investigate the mess we left on the highway.

Vince: "The hotel is free of bugs, so are the surrounding stores, so if you need anything feel free to do some shopping."

Vince: "But don't go to the other streets, they know you're with us now, and if they catch you alone they'll come for you."

Me: "We can just fight them off."

Phoebe: "Wouldn't it be better if we conserved our pokemon for when we raid their headquarters?"

Me: "Yeah, you're right."

Me:"I can't wait till we get out of here."

Phoebe: "Me too."

Eventually we made it to the hotel, we were given a room, and arrangements were made to clear the adjacent room so I could use it to inspect my pokemon in private especially since they weren't really well known in this world, and it would freak a lot of people out for a monster to just appear out of nowhere, not unlike that which was common during the first few weeks of the disaster, since, even in our own world, there were still many who weren't familiar with pokemon. Anyway, once the adjacent room was deprived of all it's furniture, I let rhyhorn and rocky out so I could check their wounds. As we had a limited supply of potion, I decided to only treat the most serious of wounds. But for the most part they didn't seem to have any.

Me : "Ok both of you need to stay quiet ok?"

Me: "I let you out so I could make sure you not too beat up from earlier."

Me: "Since we were kind of in a hurry to get out of there."

Me: "So, let's start with the most severe, any broken bones?"

Me: "You both look ok for having gone up against a van."

Phoebe: "They look fine to me."

Phoebe: "If they were hurt they'd let you know."

Rhyhorn had little pock marks all over his body, where bullets had hit and disintegrated. He had a little bit of blood in some places, but it was nothing severe.

Rocky seemed fine on the other hand.

Me: "Yeah, they look allright."

Me: "Just need to get Rhyhorn cleaned up."

Phoebe: "I'll get a towel."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "You feel ok rhyhorn?"

Me: "If you're not comfortable we can get you a potion."

He looked up and grunted at me.

Me: "Ok, I don't know what that means."

Me: "You're still bleeding a bit aren't you?"

Me: "Just wait till Phoebe gets back."

She happened to be right outside the door when I said that.

Phoebe" Oh he's fine, he doesn't feel a thing."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Come on rhyhorn, let's get you cleaned up."

Me:" Yeah but he's still bleeding."

Me: "Wouldn't it make sense just to use enough potion just to patch up his wounds?"

Me:"Otherwise he's just going to keep bleeding so there's no point in cleaning him up."

Phoebe: "Well his cuts are so minor if you leave him out for a bit they'll probably close up on their own."

Rhyhorn grunted again and she wiped his face off with the towel.

Me: "Easy boy."

Rocky: "Golem...gol."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "Oh he's just telling Rhyhorn to relax."

Me: "Ohh ok."

Me :"Well Rocky you can hang out in here for a little bit or you can go back into your ball."

Me: "We can't let you go outside right now you could freak some people out."

Me: "Don't play rough, and try not to damage the room, this isn't our house.

Rocky:"Golem.."

Rhyhorn just looked at me for a moment, and did nothing.

Phoebe: "He's ok with staying out for a bit."

Me: "Ok."

Me:" So Pheebles."

Me: "If you would come with me to the other room."

Me: "I need to make sure you're ok."

Phoebe: "Oh really?"

Me: "Mhm, you did get hit remember?"

Me: "I need to clean you up."

Me: "There's still blood all over your legs."

-unsure- Phoebe:" Ohhhh allright."

Me: "Come on then."

We headed back to our room.

Me: "So why don't you just get up on the bed?"

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Like I don't know what you're trying to do."

Me: "I just want to make sure my wife is ok."

Me: "That's all."

Phoebe: "Really?"

Me:" Mhm."

Phoebe: "I really just need to take a shower."

Me: "I know."

Me:"But, you know we have the afternoon?"

Me: "So I was thinking we could fool around a bit."

Phoebe: "Awww Cj..."

Phoebe: "I was thinking the same thing, but I didn't know if you'd let me."

Me:"Well, let's get you cleaned up first baby girl."

Me: "You lay there I'll go get another towel."

Phoebe: "ok."

I headed into the bathroom, quickly found a towel, put a little bit of water on it from the sink and came back out.

Me:"Ok, let's clean you up."

Phoebe: "Don't get the bed wet."

Me: "I won't, just hold still."

Phoebe: "Ok."

She squirmed a little bit as began to wipe the blood off her leg.

Phoebe: "Ooooh it's warm."

Me: "Yeah."

Me: "I honestly don't know what we're going to do about your dress though."

Phoebe: "Well I'll just have to get it washed."

Me:" Where?"

Phoebe: "There's got to be a washing machine around somewhere."

Me: "But you have nothing else to wear."

Phoebe "Well then I'll just have to where my disguise coat until it's clean."

Me: "Actually does it really matter?"

Me: "You can't go out in public here anyway."

Phoebe: "True."

Me :"Anyway, you're pretty clean now."

Phoebe: "I am?"

Me: "Yes."

Me: "But, we need to do some tests to make sure your wound healed properly.'

Phoebe: "Really?"

Me: "Mhm, it's very important."

Me: " So I need to take your shoe off."

Me: "Make sure your foot is ok."

Me:" and your polish isn't chipped."

Phoebe: "You're going to start with my feet again huh?"

Me: "Gotta start somewhere, and it makes the most sense."

Phoebe :"Really?"

Phoebe: "I was shot in the leg Cj..."

Me: "I know."

Me:"But this is how it's done."

Phoebe: "Oh really?"

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "I didn't know you were a nurse."

Me:"I failed medical school and never got my license."

Phoebe: "Well that's reassuring."

Me :"But I aced this part of the class."

Phoebe: "If you say so."

Me: "Ok, first...we have to do the smell test."

Of course I was just pretending.

Me: "It smells good."

Phoebe: "What does that have to do with anything?"

Me :"Well, that way we know it isn't dead."

Phoebe: "But ..."

I stuck her toes in my mouth, and licked her silky smooth sole.

Me:"Taste good."

Phoebe:"Now I know that has nothing to do with it."

Me: "But now we need to make sure you still have feeling."

Me: "Cause if you don't it didn't heel completely."

Phoebe: "Wait whaehehehehe."

She laughed as I tickled her.

Me :"Yep, see you can still feel."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me:"And now we need to test the other one for comparison."

Phoebe:"No waiit what? Ehehehehehe Cj."

Phoebe:"eheheheheh stop tickling me."

I got a little carried away and started to tickle her arms and hips and well.

Me:"But your laugh is so cute."

Me :"Anyway we have one more test."

Phoebe :"What?"

Me: "We need to see how strong you are.."

I began to take off my pants.

-jokingly- Phoebe: "By how hard I can kick you in the nuts?"

Me: "No."

Phoebe: "Oh ok, just making sure."

Phoebe: "So you want a footjob then?"

-playfully- Me: "Well it's the only way we can properly test."

Phoebe: "Ok ok, you naughty boy."

Phoebe: "You know I can't grip it that tight cause my feet are so soft."

Me :"Mhm."

Me: "But it's not just about strength it's about dexterity."

Phoebe: "Ohhh I see."

Phoebe: "Well then lay down."

Phoebe: "And now I'm going to have to test you."

Phoebe: "To see how hard you can get."

Me: "Fair enough."

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

Phoebe: "love you too ."

Phoebe: "It looks like you're getting hard."

Phoebe: "Soon I'm going to have to taste test you."

Me: "ohh really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "I didn't get hit though."

-playfully- Phoebe: "We don't know that for sure."

-playfully- Phoebe: "What about the shrapnel?"

-softly-Phoebe: "Just relax honey."

-softly- Phoebe: "Feel my sexy little feet all over your cock."

-softly- Phoebe:"And now my lips."

Phoebe: "mmmmm."

-in heaven- Me :"Baby girl."

-playfully- Phoebe: "mmmah...No...this won't do."

-playfully- Phoebe: " It tastes good, but we're going to have to do more testing."

-overwhelmed- Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

She removed her dress.

Over the next half hour or so we made love, and then we layed together in bed for awhile, nearly forgetting that Rocky and rhyhorn were still out in the next room over.

Me:"-sighs-, baby girl."

Me: "As long as I have you I don't even care what I have to go through."

Me :"You make everything worth it in the end."

Phoebe: "Awwwwe Cj."

Phoebe: "I'm glad you're here too."

Phoebe: "You're so strong."

Me: "You do most of the fighting."

Phoebe:" That's not true, you're always there with me."

Phoebe: "I didn't even use any of my pokemon today."

Phoebe: "And I would've died back there if you didn't get me that potion."

Phoebe: "I would've crashed the truck for sure."

Phoebe: "That shot really hurt."

Me:" It barely hit you."

Phoebe: "Cj, I've seen you get shot many, many times, and you keep fighting until you litterally fall unconcious."

Phoebe: "I get shot once I can't even concentrate."

Phoebe: "Without you, I'd be too worried about Charley to even do anything."

Me: "Awwe baby girl."

Me:" You're too sweet you know that?"

Me: "Just my sweet little baby girl."

Phoebe:"Not that little."

Phoebe: "Atleast you didn't call me cute."

Me :"But you are cute."

Phoebe: "No, I'm sexy."

Phoebe: "You're cute."

Me: "Oh really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, every time you try to seduce me you're like the cutest human ever."

Me: "But...it worked..."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj...I'm just messing with you."

She kissed me on the cheek.

Phoebe:" I love you big boy."

Me: "Love you too princess, love you too."

Me:" -sighs-, I could stay here all day."

Phoebe:"Yeaaaah."

Phoebe:"We've been here before."

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "Just enjoy it while it lasts."

Phoebe:"Yep."

-an hour or so later-

Me: "I just realized Rocky and Rhyhorn are still out in the next room."

Phoebe: "Yep."

Me: "Do you think rhyhorn is good to go?"

Phoebe: "His wounds should be healed by now."

Phoebe: "Why don't you go return them and come back?"

Me: "Ok."

I did just that.

Me: "Allright now what baby girl?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe :"Round 2?"

Me: "If that's what you want baby girl."

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me: "You don't?"

Phoebe: "Nope."

I got in bed next to her.

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me :"Well I can help you make a decision if you want."

Phoebe: "I was hoping you would."

Me: "Ok then."

Me: "How?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "You're very strange baby girl."

Phoebe: "I know."

-cutely- Phoebe: "But you wuv me."

Me:" True."

Me:"How about this then?"

I rubbed her little nether region.

-enamored- Phoebe: "oooh...that's a good start."

We gradually started to make out, and it wasn't long before we were making love again.

Sometime later we were snuggling in bed, just like before.

Me: "Are we really going to do this all day?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe :"We could try to find something for dinner."

Me: "True, but what?"

Phoebe: "Don't they have a cafe downstairs?"

Me: "Is it open?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, but I thought I saw one."

Me: "Well come on, let's go see."

Phoebe: "Ok just let me get dressed first."

Me: "Nope you gotta come down naked."

Phoebe: "What? Why?"

Phoebe: "Ok fine."

She got up and headed for the door, butt naked.

Me: "What, baby girl, wait."

Me :"I'm just joking."

Phoebe: "I know."

Phoebe :"You goofball."

Phoebe :" I wouldn't even do that if you were serious."

Me: "Well I would hope not."

Phoebe: "-giggles-."

Me: "Get your dress on and come here."

Me: "I just want to kiss you one more time."

Phoebe: "Ohh ok."

We got dressed then I pulled her close and we kissed again.

Me: "I love you baby."

Phoebe: "I love you."

Me: "Allright let's go get some dinner."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

We left the room, and headed down to the lobby, into the cafe where many fellow guests were eating, some of them with the resistance, others were just civilians. Once again not all were completely human, one man in particular stood out. A large, round man with a round head. Skin was a normal color, but his face seemed to be highly unusual. The best way I could describe was...a blobfish, he had the face of a blobfish, a huge mouth, and relatively small eyes.

The food was typical fare for a cafe, it was probably average, but the fact that we had nothing but birds and candybars for the last few days made it seem like the best food in the world, it felt so good to have a cheeseburger, it was like having sex for the third time today, no, it was better than that, it was like, the first time, in several days, except it's not sex it's food and...well, yeah..duh.

Anyway, after we were finished eating we stayed in the cafe for a awhile, just to observe the variety of creatures leaving and entering.

Eventually we were approached by a strange lizard man, who had a very reptilian face, scaly, olive green skin, and wearing a navy blue suit.

Unknown lizardman: "Um, hello miss."

Phoebe: "Hi."

Unknown lizardman: "I just want you to know I find you very attractive."

Phoebe: "That's nice, but I'm married."

Unknown lizardman: "What is married?"

Phoebe: "It means I belong to him."

Unknown lizardman: "How much do you want for her?"

Me: "She's not for sale you freak."

Phoebe: "Cj don't be mean."

Phoebe: "That's not how it works."

Unknown lizardman: "But if you belong to him that means he owns you."

Unknown lizardman: "You're his slave right?"

Phoebe: "No, he belongs to me too."

Unknown lizardman: "I don't understand."

Phoebe: "Look, I'm sorry, but no matter what you say or do, you can't have me."

Phoebe: "My heart belongs to Cj."

Unknown lizardman: "Why not?"

Phoebe: "I told you why."

A man that looked like a humanoid owl barged into the conversation, he had a very owl like face, but arms like a human, he wore a navy blue suit as well, but his had holes cut in the back for his wings, attached in a similar manner to a classical angel. His body was also covered in brownish feathers, and his hands were dark gray and scaly.

Unknown owl man: "Rippa what are you doing?"

Unknown owl man: "You know what these two are capable of?"

Unknown owl man: "They'll kill you if you anger them."

Unknown owl man: "I apologize for my friend here he's from a planet were marriage doesn't exist, it's his natural mating season, and he wants to screw everything that has a you know what."

Unknown owl man: "Yesterday he tried to pay some random guy to you know what with his dog."

-disgusted- Phoebe: "Ewwww…"

Rippa: "I didn't know it wasn't sentient."

Unknown owl man: "Come on, leave these two alone, you can try your luck with the front desk lady again."

Rippa: "Ew no, she's all old and wrinkly."

Unknown owl man: "Not that one, the other one, she just got out of high school for the day and should be starting her shift any minute."

Rippa: "Um….ok."

-after they walked away-

Me: "What a freak."

Phoebe: "Let's go back to the room."

Phoebe: "Before he comes back."

Me: "Ok if you want too."

And that was pretty much everything interesting that happened that day.