Intrusions and Suspicions
Chapter 8: Intrusions and Suspicions
"Rotom, find the wires that connect with the switch to the lock.", Tony whispered, as the tiny red ghost floated through the door of the warehouse. Tony, Alice, and Dorin, were all hiding behind a large pile of empty crates, not daring to make a sound. From inside the door, the seemed to be a lot of whirring and clicking. Then the door suddenly slid open with a clunk.
"Hey, that was easy!", Alice cried happily, skipping over to the Rotom, praising it on it's accomplished mission. "A bit to easy for comfort.", Tony said anxiously, walking through the door to a small dark room lined with boxes, with a staircase leading down.
Alice turned on him exasperatedly. "Sheesh, we finally make progress, and all you do is worry." Tony held up his hands in defense. "All I'm saying is that there might be a trap, so we all need to stay aware of that. That's exactly why we didn't take Meil and Kyra. It would have been to risky to bring them along on this mission. Remember, The Seekers could be here at any moment."
"Yah, yah. We know.", Alice said, rolling her eyes. "Let's all keep at least one Pokemon with us, just in case.", Tony advised. Alice brought out a feisty Weavile, who looked excited to be out in the open; sniffing the air, as if she could smell the action.
Dorin released a strangely calm and quiet Tyranitar; it's expression almost perfectly mirroring it's trainer's of quiet intensity. And Tony, a Scizor, it's blood red armor gleaming in the light of the street lamps. "If I'm right, the pipe should be at the very bottom of the warehouse. We should keep Rotom with us, just incase there are more security devices or locks."
"No problem.", Alice sighed, stretching her fingers absently.
"Something isn't right.", Tony muttered, looking around as if he expected an assassin to jump out and slit their throats at any second, as the three order members and their Pokemon snuck down the dim hallways with whispering footsteps. "What, that you won't shut up about us all being attacked?", Alice sneered, her Weavile holding her around the neck as she piggy-backed on her shoulders.
"Yes, Alice,", Tony said, bitterly. "because in case you haven't noticed, were almost to the bottom floor according to the map we saw, and there hasn't been any resistance besides the security lock in the warehouse door. You'd think you would put up a bit more security in this kind of situation."
A few minutes of uninterrupted walking later, all three stood, looking down the staircase that led to the final floor of the warehouse. "Everyone walk slowly, and steadily. Rotom, go up ahead and see if there are any lasers, detectors, anything suspicious at all." Rotom agreed, speeding off through the wall, and out of sight. A minute later, Rotom returned. "See anything?", Tony asked the ghost. The Rotom shook it's head, "no". "Good, but let's keep cautious all the same."
The stairs led to a long hallway with only one door at the very end. "There it is!", Alice shouted. Upon approaching the door, they found, unsurprisingly, it was locked tight. "Don't worry, Rotom can-", Alice started to say, but Dorin interrupted her. "Tyranitar can do it."
And before any of them could anything, Dorin's Tyranitar sudden blasted the door in with a mighty punch, which was surprising considering Tyranitar's somewhat short limbs. The door was knocked into the room, where it banged against the wall before clanking to ground, the middle of it dented so far in, it looked as though someone had stretched the steel out. "Damn...", Alice breathed, clearly impressed.
The room was small, dimly lit like the rest of the warehouse, by dieing lights on the ceiling. The room contained nothing but a large machine in the back that had three separate, empty pods attached to it, it's purpose seemed to be to keep something inside the pods. Two of the pods were empty, but the one in the middle held a small object illuminated in the faint glow of the ceiling.
Alice walked up to the pod, and peered in side. A small flute, unlike any she'd seen before, with a strange turning device on one side, and oddly placed holes down another. "I think we've found it!", Alice exclaimed, her voice ecstatic with excitement. Tony peered inside also. "Hang on, there's probably a switch to open it."
He searched the machine, and found a large keyboard of buttons. Instinctively, he pressed a small red button that said, "OPEN". The pod opened like a flower in bloom, and Alice was about to grab the pipe, when Tony grabbed her wrist before her fingers had even grazed it's surface.
"Are you kidding? It could be booby trapped!", Tony said, as if he was telling a toddler not to touch an open flame. Alice wrenched her hand away, looking offended. "I just wanted to touch it.", she mumbled, rubbing her wrist and throwing dirty looks at Tony as he had Rotom search the pipe. "Okay, here I go.", he said, taking a deep breath, before picking the pipe up from it's resting place. He flinched, as if he expected an alarm to go off, but nothing happened.
He held the pipe, looking down at it with an expression of disbelief. "We've got it!", he said, his voice now filled with the same feeling of accomplishment as Alice's had been. "Good, let's get out of here. I'm getting tired of walking around this stupid place.", Alice groaned.
All three emerged into the fresh, night air. Tony shook his head, still clutching the pipe tight in his hands. "I can't believe we did it. It was nothing! No interference at all!"
"There may be if we stick around to long.", Alice said, in an almost perfect imitation of Tony, who threw her an annoyed glance as he climbed onto his Salamence with his Scizor.
"Hah, hah. Very comical, Alice.", he said in a tone of sarcasm. "Let's not be to comical, we may call to much attention to ourselves. Watch out! Those bushes could jump up and strangle us at any moment!", Alice mocked, using her "Tony" voice again, making herself crack-up, and even Dorin could not help half-smiling at the look on Tony's face.
Alice jumped down from her Honchkrow whooping and cheering as they landed in the snowy valley, the cave in sight beyond a cluster of evergreens. "Man, I can't wait to tell Meil and Kyra! We're going to destroy that pipe for good, dammit!" Yet Tony did not look as exhilarated, in fact, he looked rather nervous. "Did anyone else hear that?", he asked, and Alice fell silent. "Hear what?" Tony turned his eyes to the stars. "There was flapping like wings around us, other than our wings I mean.
As if we were being followed." Alice scratched her head, her face screwed up as she tried to remember. "Oh, yah. I did hear that. It was sort of a whooshing sound. I thought it was just the wind or something." "Me too. But then I thought I saw something also. Something in the clouds. It disappeared as soon as I saw it, but there was definitely something there." Alice suddenly laughed.
"Tony, you are so paranoid! Every time we go outside you think someone is going to kill us-" BOOM! There was a massive explosion of snow from behind them, showering them in a cascade of snowflakes, and all three of them, including their Pokemon, whirled on the spot to see an enormous shadow looming over them.
A Dragonite, at least five times bigger than a normal one, it's eyes glowing in a sinister fashion, gave a deafening roar, making all of them hold their ears. "What the hell is that!?", Alice screamed, running to clutch her Honchkrow's feathers, as if she intended to cut and run at any moment. Her Weavile hid her face in Alice's hair as the Dragonite roared again, echoing louder than ever.
Then, the Dragonite crouched low to the ground, crushing entire trees under it's belly as it's passengers slid off it's back to face the order. Three men stood beside the Dragonite. One wore a military uniform.
He was the largest of the three, thick, bulky, and tough, a serious look on his snarling face. The second was the shortest, hunched over, holding a long walking stick with a Pokeball placed on top, wearing long robes of white, with strange golden symbols embroidered on the fabric. His tanned face was wrinkled and flabby, like a toads.
He had dark rings around his tired looking eyes, and over a golden chain he wore around his forehead were tufts of white hair, like clouds. And standing next to him, was a tall man, younger than the other two, twenty years old at the most, with dark rings around his eyes like man beside him, but with more, ink-black hair, much paler skin, wearing a long black jacket that went down to his knees. The first man was undoubtedly a man from the military organization.
The second man was most likely Father Genesta. And finally, the last man was Coal, looking coldly down at the order members as they stood paralyzed, as if frozen solid. Coal walked beyond the two other men to look down at Tony, who was now staring back at Coal with the fury contorting his once handsome face. "You followed us?!", he snarled at Coal, who did not flinch.
"Obviously.", Coal muttered, his voice cold and bitter like the snow under his feet. "How?", Tony demanded. "I got General Siege here,", he jerked a thumb back at the tall man wearing the military uniform. "to put a GPS chip on a fake pipe so that we could track it's location, after that, we knew you'd find it by your computers, knowing you would pick it up at the warehouse, and lead us straight to your base."
Tony stared, feelings of anger and stupidity at his own ignorance bubbling up inside him like boiling water. "I should have know this was one of your tricks." Coal laughed; a deep, rattling noise. "You'd think that after all those years we lived in the same house, you should of known I was always a step ahead of you.
I guess it really didn't matter that I was the younger brother, right Tony?"
"Rotom, find the wires that connect with the switch to the lock.", Tony whispered, as the tiny red ghost floated through the door of the warehouse. Tony, Alice, and Dorin, were all hiding behind a large pile of empty crates, not daring to make a sound. From inside the door, the seemed to be a lot of whirring and clicking. Then the door suddenly slid open with a clunk.
"Hey, that was easy!", Alice cried happily, skipping over to the Rotom, praising it on it's accomplished mission. "A bit to easy for comfort.", Tony said anxiously, walking through the door to a small dark room lined with boxes, with a staircase leading down.
Alice turned on him exasperatedly. "Sheesh, we finally make progress, and all you do is worry." Tony held up his hands in defense. "All I'm saying is that there might be a trap, so we all need to stay aware of that. That's exactly why we didn't take Meil and Kyra. It would have been to risky to bring them along on this mission. Remember, The Seekers could be here at any moment."
"Yah, yah. We know.", Alice said, rolling her eyes. "Let's all keep at least one Pokemon with us, just in case.", Tony advised. Alice brought out a feisty Weavile, who looked excited to be out in the open; sniffing the air, as if she could smell the action.
Dorin released a strangely calm and quiet Tyranitar; it's expression almost perfectly mirroring it's trainer's of quiet intensity. And Tony, a Scizor, it's blood red armor gleaming in the light of the street lamps. "If I'm right, the pipe should be at the very bottom of the warehouse. We should keep Rotom with us, just incase there are more security devices or locks."
"No problem.", Alice sighed, stretching her fingers absently.
"Something isn't right.", Tony muttered, looking around as if he expected an assassin to jump out and slit their throats at any second, as the three order members and their Pokemon snuck down the dim hallways with whispering footsteps. "What, that you won't shut up about us all being attacked?", Alice sneered, her Weavile holding her around the neck as she piggy-backed on her shoulders.
"Yes, Alice,", Tony said, bitterly. "because in case you haven't noticed, were almost to the bottom floor according to the map we saw, and there hasn't been any resistance besides the security lock in the warehouse door. You'd think you would put up a bit more security in this kind of situation."
A few minutes of uninterrupted walking later, all three stood, looking down the staircase that led to the final floor of the warehouse. "Everyone walk slowly, and steadily. Rotom, go up ahead and see if there are any lasers, detectors, anything suspicious at all." Rotom agreed, speeding off through the wall, and out of sight. A minute later, Rotom returned. "See anything?", Tony asked the ghost. The Rotom shook it's head, "no". "Good, but let's keep cautious all the same."
The stairs led to a long hallway with only one door at the very end. "There it is!", Alice shouted. Upon approaching the door, they found, unsurprisingly, it was locked tight. "Don't worry, Rotom can-", Alice started to say, but Dorin interrupted her. "Tyranitar can do it."
And before any of them could anything, Dorin's Tyranitar sudden blasted the door in with a mighty punch, which was surprising considering Tyranitar's somewhat short limbs. The door was knocked into the room, where it banged against the wall before clanking to ground, the middle of it dented so far in, it looked as though someone had stretched the steel out. "Damn...", Alice breathed, clearly impressed.
The room was small, dimly lit like the rest of the warehouse, by dieing lights on the ceiling. The room contained nothing but a large machine in the back that had three separate, empty pods attached to it, it's purpose seemed to be to keep something inside the pods. Two of the pods were empty, but the one in the middle held a small object illuminated in the faint glow of the ceiling.
Alice walked up to the pod, and peered in side. A small flute, unlike any she'd seen before, with a strange turning device on one side, and oddly placed holes down another. "I think we've found it!", Alice exclaimed, her voice ecstatic with excitement. Tony peered inside also. "Hang on, there's probably a switch to open it."
He searched the machine, and found a large keyboard of buttons. Instinctively, he pressed a small red button that said, "OPEN". The pod opened like a flower in bloom, and Alice was about to grab the pipe, when Tony grabbed her wrist before her fingers had even grazed it's surface.
"Are you kidding? It could be booby trapped!", Tony said, as if he was telling a toddler not to touch an open flame. Alice wrenched her hand away, looking offended. "I just wanted to touch it.", she mumbled, rubbing her wrist and throwing dirty looks at Tony as he had Rotom search the pipe. "Okay, here I go.", he said, taking a deep breath, before picking the pipe up from it's resting place. He flinched, as if he expected an alarm to go off, but nothing happened.
He held the pipe, looking down at it with an expression of disbelief. "We've got it!", he said, his voice now filled with the same feeling of accomplishment as Alice's had been. "Good, let's get out of here. I'm getting tired of walking around this stupid place.", Alice groaned.
All three emerged into the fresh, night air. Tony shook his head, still clutching the pipe tight in his hands. "I can't believe we did it. It was nothing! No interference at all!"
"There may be if we stick around to long.", Alice said, in an almost perfect imitation of Tony, who threw her an annoyed glance as he climbed onto his Salamence with his Scizor.
"Hah, hah. Very comical, Alice.", he said in a tone of sarcasm. "Let's not be to comical, we may call to much attention to ourselves. Watch out! Those bushes could jump up and strangle us at any moment!", Alice mocked, using her "Tony" voice again, making herself crack-up, and even Dorin could not help half-smiling at the look on Tony's face.
Alice jumped down from her Honchkrow whooping and cheering as they landed in the snowy valley, the cave in sight beyond a cluster of evergreens. "Man, I can't wait to tell Meil and Kyra! We're going to destroy that pipe for good, dammit!" Yet Tony did not look as exhilarated, in fact, he looked rather nervous. "Did anyone else hear that?", he asked, and Alice fell silent. "Hear what?" Tony turned his eyes to the stars. "There was flapping like wings around us, other than our wings I mean.
As if we were being followed." Alice scratched her head, her face screwed up as she tried to remember. "Oh, yah. I did hear that. It was sort of a whooshing sound. I thought it was just the wind or something." "Me too. But then I thought I saw something also. Something in the clouds. It disappeared as soon as I saw it, but there was definitely something there." Alice suddenly laughed.
"Tony, you are so paranoid! Every time we go outside you think someone is going to kill us-" BOOM! There was a massive explosion of snow from behind them, showering them in a cascade of snowflakes, and all three of them, including their Pokemon, whirled on the spot to see an enormous shadow looming over them.
A Dragonite, at least five times bigger than a normal one, it's eyes glowing in a sinister fashion, gave a deafening roar, making all of them hold their ears. "What the hell is that!?", Alice screamed, running to clutch her Honchkrow's feathers, as if she intended to cut and run at any moment. Her Weavile hid her face in Alice's hair as the Dragonite roared again, echoing louder than ever.
Then, the Dragonite crouched low to the ground, crushing entire trees under it's belly as it's passengers slid off it's back to face the order. Three men stood beside the Dragonite. One wore a military uniform.
He was the largest of the three, thick, bulky, and tough, a serious look on his snarling face. The second was the shortest, hunched over, holding a long walking stick with a Pokeball placed on top, wearing long robes of white, with strange golden symbols embroidered on the fabric. His tanned face was wrinkled and flabby, like a toads.
He had dark rings around his tired looking eyes, and over a golden chain he wore around his forehead were tufts of white hair, like clouds. And standing next to him, was a tall man, younger than the other two, twenty years old at the most, with dark rings around his eyes like man beside him, but with more, ink-black hair, much paler skin, wearing a long black jacket that went down to his knees. The first man was undoubtedly a man from the military organization.
The second man was most likely Father Genesta. And finally, the last man was Coal, looking coldly down at the order members as they stood paralyzed, as if frozen solid. Coal walked beyond the two other men to look down at Tony, who was now staring back at Coal with the fury contorting his once handsome face. "You followed us?!", he snarled at Coal, who did not flinch.
"Obviously.", Coal muttered, his voice cold and bitter like the snow under his feet. "How?", Tony demanded. "I got General Siege here,", he jerked a thumb back at the tall man wearing the military uniform. "to put a GPS chip on a fake pipe so that we could track it's location, after that, we knew you'd find it by your computers, knowing you would pick it up at the warehouse, and lead us straight to your base."
Tony stared, feelings of anger and stupidity at his own ignorance bubbling up inside him like boiling water. "I should have know this was one of your tricks." Coal laughed; a deep, rattling noise. "You'd think that after all those years we lived in the same house, you should of known I was always a step ahead of you.
I guess it really didn't matter that I was the younger brother, right Tony?"