Chapter 41

"Frankfurt Airport Chase"

This Christmas Eve was getting more and more interesting. What began as a short trip to find a second location for Gunsmith Cats in New York had transformed into participating in an investigation involving the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft. Now, Minnie and I were in the Pan Am terminal at Frankfurt Airport searching for two more Pan Am employees who belonged to Team Rocket.

Within minutes of getting the news from Pan Am Frankfurt management, we dashed up to the ticket counter and came up to a blonde haired agent. Her name said Bete, meaning she was the one who called in about our suspects.

"Are you the one who called us?" I asked, taking out my badge and showing Bete.

"Yes, she just walked off," answered Bete. "About 20 minutes ago."

"Do you know where she was heading?"

"She headed into the back and that was it. Said she was taking a break."

Suspicious, we headed behind the counter and went towards the back office which could only be asked by an employee badge.

"Excuse me," I whistled to a Pan Am employee who allowed us inside. "Thank you."

Stepping into the office, I drew my gun and tried to keep myself quiet as possible in case Shayna or Andrew were in the office. We checked all the offices and found no one inside, but there was one room we hadn't checked.

"Shayna Loring?" I called, leaning myself up against a wall leading to the employee breakroom. "Andrew Leary? Open the door!"

"The door's locked," remarked Minnie May. "What should we do?"

Again, I banged on the door, demanding for a sound to be heard.

"Shayna Loring! Andrew Leary! Open the door or I will kick it down!"

Still there was no response. Running out of patience, I decided to take my gun and shoot our way into the room.

"Last warning!" I called. After a minute, my patience ran out and I fired my gun into the doorknob, shooting it off and allowing us to push our way inside. But once we were inside, there was no one inside the breakroom, except for the sounds of a Pokemon locked inside one of the breakroom closets. "Minnie, over here!"

We then forced open the closet door and to our shock, we found an Eevee tied up and hanging on the coat rack.

"It's okay, it's okay," Minnie whispered to the Eevee, untying it from the coat racket. "It's okay, we got you, Eevee."

The evolution Pokemon shivered and shook out of the fear that was coursing through it's tiny body.

Then we heard another noise, almost like a crying noise from the women's locker room.

"Minnie, in there!" I whispered while Minnie held the Eevee tightly. I then kicked the door open and proceeded into the women's locker room where the Pokemon cries grew louder.

"CUBONE! CUBONE!"

Immediately, I could tell that a young Cubone was inside and it didn't take long to find the crying Pokemon. It was stuffed into a locker almost like a cage animal.

"Son of a bitch…" I whispered, the Cubone having scars all over it's tiny body. "Hang on, little guy. I'm going to get you out."

But the locker was unable to be opened. There needed to be a code to get the Cubone freed and only Shayna Loring could unlock it.

"HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?!" I heard a loud voice scream. "GIVE ME THE EEVEE AND GET OUT OF HERE!"

Throwing the door open, I saw a blonde haired woman in a Pan Am uniform staring down Minnie May as she continued to protect the Eevee. The woman reached into her jacket for something, but I stopped her.

"KEEP YOUR HANDS UP, SHAYNA!" I shouted, drawing my gun at her. "DON'T DO ANYTHING FOOLISH!"

"Give me the furball," Shayna growled. "That's Team Rocket property you have in your hands, missy!"

"The Eevee is coming with us back to where it belongs!" I said, stepping slightly towards Shayna. "And you're under arrest!"

"Hand the Eevee over or else," Shayna said defiantly, reaching into her jacket and pulling out a small white pistol.

"Drop the weapon, Shayna! Don't make it worse than it already is!"

But it seemed that Shayna wasn't going to go down without a fight. Her weapon was already in her hands and she was not afraid to use it.

"You think I'm just going to comply so easily?" Shayna hissed, pointing her weapon at us. "I'm leaving with the Pokemon in my care and you can't stop me!"

"It's all over for you, Shayna!" Minnie said. "We already have your friend, Peter Cronin, in our custody!"

"Peter? What did you do to him?"

"He tried to run and is paying for his actions," I said and suddenly, Shayna snapped wildly, making a mad dash for the door as I began to give chase, telling Minnie to stay with the Eevee and the Cubone.

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Despite wearing heels, Shayna was able to keep up a decent pace with me, pushing people out of the way as she tried to run her way through the security checkpoint.

"SHAYNA, STOP!" I shouted, trying to keep pace as the chase went past the security checkpoint and into the gate areas. But Shayna wasn't stopping and attempting to reach her way onto the tarmac. Unfortunately, she didn't account for a spillage of water on the floor and wound up on the floor with a loud scream. She attempted to get back on her feet only for me to jump on top of her and prevent her from advancing any further.

"Get off of me!" Shayna demanded, struggling against my bonds. "Get off me, bitch!"

"Stop resisting! Stop resisting!" I ordered, just as a group of airport police officers surrounded her.

"Are you all right?" asked an officer.

"Yeah, thanks to you."

As Shayna was forced to her feet, she gave me a scowl that almost had a look of death. She then spat at me as she was led away.

"There's a Pokemon locked up that only you can unlock, Shayna," I said. "There is nowhere left to run, so I suggest you cooperate."

Shayna said nothing as the Team Rocket symbol was exposed from her ripped uniform Pan Am sweater. Under our supervision, Shayna released the captive Cubone from the locker and then was brought to the airport police station.

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At the same time, Andrew Leary was also captured while trying to board a Pan Am Flight to London and this time, he didn't put up a fight, surrendering willingly to minimize any bloodshed.

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The bad apples were rounded up and the Pokemon held captive were freed, there was still the matter of finding of more bad apples…if there were any.

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