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Change of Plans

It took several hours of non-stop traveling, which was almost a whole 24 hours, for them to get close to their destination, the grunts put a sheet over the cage to prevent them from being seen by the townspeople. An hour after they put the sheet on, the truck was coming to a stop. The grunts got out the truck and were talking to some other people.

"This your haul?" asked G3.

"Yeah. It's not much, since we didn't have much time to work with and we weren't told which ones to get." said G1.

"I hear ya. Just last week I had to get a bunch of beldums from Iron Island in a week. Talk about cutting it close."

"Why do we have to rush all of the sudden?"

"The boss says we're close to achieving our goal so everyone has to work like they're two people to prepare."

"Whatever. After all this is over, I'm asking for my vacation days. Later." The two grunts, 1 and 2, loaded the cage of pokémon on a dolly and rolled them to the nearest elevator.

They went up to the third floor, walked down a hallway and into a room. There wasn't anything special about this room. It was mostly bare except for a couple of bookshelves, plants, and desks with computers. There was a woman sitting at one of the computers.

"We've returned from our mission." said G1.

"Did you get all that I asked for?" asked the woman.

"Well, not exactly. You see, we didn't get the list of pokémon you wanted, so we just went out and gathered as much as we could with the limited time you gave us." replied G2. The woman got up from the computer and walked over to the grunts.

"So you're telling me that you not only failed in getting me the pokémon I asked for, but you captured a bunch of random pokémon in hopes that it would make up for it?" she said getting more irritated with every word she said.

The woman was tall and slender, except when it came to her hips. If she were to put her hands at her hips, she would look like a vase. Her hair was purple and was divided into four individual sections, which looked like she had four cocoons on her head. Though she had the appearance of being a calm person, she was very intimidating. The two grunts looked to the floor to avoid looking her in the eyes. She looked at the sheet-covered cage and almost didn't want to know what was under it. She moved past her underlings and removed the sheet from the cage. .

"...Useless." she said after a long pause. "Except for the riolu, and possibly the eevee, they're all useless. We could probably sell the eevee at a high price in the black market and once that riolu evolves into a lucario, we can use it for heavy lifting." She studied riolu from head to toe as if deciding what to do with him. "Do either of you have a fighting type with you?" she asked still looking at Kai.

"Yes ma'am. I have my croagunk with me." G1 responded.

"Perfect." She opened the top of the cage and reached for riolu, but was stopped by Mia and eevee by biting toward her hand. "Tsk. You little punks." Just then, a second door opened behind them and Kai was snatched away by the neck before anyone had time to react. Kai struggled to get away from the G2's grip so he could breath, he wasn't strong enough. He dropped Kai in the middle of the floor. When Kai finally caught his breath, he looked up to see a croagunk looking at him.

"What?" he asked himself looking back between the woman and croagunk.

"Look, you have two choices right now: fight or get the canines knocked out of your little muzzle." she said.

Croagunk didn't wait for the young riolu to get ready and charged at him. Kai sensed croagunk approaching and quickly turned around to deflect an incoming jab to his side. He quickly countered with an uppercut, but croagunk dodged it and used poison jab. Kai evaded the first couple jabs with ease, but was soon struggling to keep up with the speed of the croagunks' punches. He eventually got tired of being on the defensive and thought of a way to tip things in his favor. When croagunk threw another poison jab, he dodged, grabbed his arm and used croagunks' own momentum to throw him over his shoulder. He capitalized by flipping onto the croagunk and pinning its arms with his feet. With his arms pinned, Kai was free to wail on his face. He got a few good hits in before croagunk got serious and rolled backwards to reverse the pin, now croagunk pinned Kai. He sprayed Kais' face with poison sting and flipped him over onto his belly so that he could sit on his back, facing his tail. Since croagunk outweighs Kai, there was no way for him to get up at all. Now that croagunk was serious, he wasn't gonna show any mercy. He powered up his poison jab and hit both of Kais' legs four times each. He then grabbed his legs, locked them under his arms, stood up and pulled back, bending the legs and spine of the little riolu backwards. The pain of the poison working its magic and being bent backwards was too much for riolu to handle. He started tapping the floor as a sign of giving up. It wasn't until a few moments later that the woman told the man to call off his croagunk.

"Mmm, it has potential. Nothing a little training won't fix." she said as if she had a whole plan figured out.

"What do you want us to do with the others?" asked G2.

"Do whatever you want with the others." she finished as she walked out the room. Eevee and the others couldn't believe how cold hearted these humans could be. She didn't even seem interested in seeing how badly hurt Kai was. They watched as the two grunts picked up Kai and casually tossed him in the cage. Luckily, the twins and Perry were there to catch him, preventing further injuries. Everyone surrounded Kai to see how badly he was injured.

"Is he gonna be alright Mia?" asked Nina getting teary eyed. Mia didn't know what to say. Without proper medical treatment it would be hard to tell if he would pull through with poison in his body.

"I'm not sure. The only thing we can do now is hope he'll be fine." she said sadly as she stroked the small vixens' head. Eevee looked over the damaged legs.

'His legs are starting to swell and they're looking a little red.' he thought. 'This is gonna be tough to pull out of without some sort of antidote.'

"..Hey...Don't... act like I'm... dead yet." Kai said through his heavy breathing.

"Don't talk little pup. You need your rest." Mia said soothingly while scratching behind his ear. Kai leaned into it and slowly closed his eyes to go to sleep.

"Is there anything we can do to help him?" asked Tammy

"I want to help him too." added Kato.

"Sorry, but the only thing that we can do is let him rest."

While this was going on, the grunts took them in the elevator and went down to the basement floor. This was the floor where Team Galactics' science and research development branch was located. There are actually two basement floors and the only way to get to the floor below was either the stairs or the second elevator. Since the basement is underground, it took them a while to make the floors big enough for research, experiments, hallways, and study rooms. Once they exited the elevator, they walked into a big room that was almost half the size of the building. There were lots of tables with beakers and tubes with colored liquids, and charts with papers attached hung on the walls. It was like a super lab for science geeks.

Not even halfway into the room, there was an explosion coming from the other side of the room and several people were screaming. Of course, this caught the attention of everyone else in the room. Not long after the explosion, there was a scientist running really fast with a pokémon egg in his hands.

"Aaahh, someone help me!" the scientist screamed. Once you looked behind him you could see a Gallade chasing him.

"Get your filthy hands off my child!!!" the gallade shouted.

Other scientists and the two grunts that were pushing the cage released their pokémon to help the scientist. Several zubat, golbat, croagunk, and two metang appeared like an army ready for war. Almost simultaneously, the metang launched their sludge bombs, the 'bats used air cutter and the crogunk shot their poison sting.

"Your petty attacks cannot harm me!" he shouted. His eyes glow a light blue color and he used his psychic power to stop the attacks. He then sent the attacks right back at them with psychic energy infused in them. The attack was super effective against the croagunk and the 'bats, but the metang weren't phased by it since they're psychic/steel type pokémon. The metang got closer to the gallade while shooting sludge bombs, to lower his chances of countering them. While this was going on, the frightened scientist was frantically pushing the elevator button so he could use it to escape. Gallade charged head-on into the barrage of sludge. His arms suddenly sprouted green blades of energy and he used it to literally cut through the sludge. He followed up by getting close to the metang and unleashed several kicks/punches/slashes on them. The attack left them stunned and gallade continued his pursuit. Eevee and the other pokémon watched in awe as the gallade made quick work of all the opposing pokémon. The scientist, now scared out of his mind, pushed the button as hard and fast as he could. He checked to see how close the gallade was and saw his fellow galactic members thrown aside by the gallades' psychic abilities.

"I've got you now!" gallade shouted as he got closer to his goal. The scientist had his back pressed up against the elevator door.

"Oh arceaus, if I get out of this alive, I promise to turn my life around for the better." the scientist pleaded.

As if his prayer was answered, the door opened behind him and he fell back on his butt, still holding onto the egg. He didn't realize it at first, but someone was standing next to him. Eevee recognized him right away; it was the man with light blue spiky hair from his dream. The blue haired man took a glance at the charging gallade and waited for the right opportunity to make his move. Once he was close enough, the blue haired man quickly reached behind his back and pulled out a gun and pointed it at gallade. This caught the gallade off-guard, as well as Eevee and Mia. Before they knew it, the man fired his gun. Eevee and Mia feared the worst, so they closed their eyes and looked away. The other pokémon didn't know what a gun was or the danger of them, so they only flinched when the shot rang out.

After a few moments, Eevee and Mia opened their eyes. When they did, they couldn't believe what they saw. It wasn't the pool of blood and a dead gallade, it was the lack of blood and a dead gallade. In fact, the gallade was still alive. The only thing wrong with him, from what they could see, was that there was something sticking out his neck and he was wobbling around like Jackie Chan in "The Drunken Master". (If you haven't seen this movie, you like Jackie Chan, and love old kung-fu movies when their lips don't match what they're saying, then I suggest you watch it. I liked it.) The gallade crashed into the nearby tables before falling face-first on the floor unconscious. The scared scientist looked beside him to see who had rescued him and nearly jumped out his skin when he saw who it was.

"B-b-boss!" he stuttered. "W-what are you doing here, sir?" The blue haired man simply looked down at the scientist.

"Where are you pokémon?" The scientist looked away as his face turned red out of embarrassment.

"When we took the egg away from the gallade, he... threw all our pokéballs away and..." he voice trailed off.

"Whatever." the blue haired said as he walked in the room surveying the damage. His name is Cyrus. He's the leader of Team Galactic. Though his objectives are unknown, Team Galactic has made a name for themselves in the Sinnoh region. At first, no one considered them a threat and thought they were just a group of oddly dressed people. As time went on, the police were having trouble dealing with the Galactic members and officially considered them a threat to the public.

Cyrus made his way over to Eevee and the others. He looked at them for a minute with a puzzled look on his face.

"What are these pokémon doing in this cage?" he asked in a general direction loud enough for everyone to hear. The two galactic members in charge of bringing them in jumped to attention.

"We were sent on a mission to gather pokémon and we just returned." said G1.

"...And you came back with these?" Cyrus asked coolly.

"Uh, yes sir." replied the grunt with a hint of fear in his voice.

"Not to sound like dumbest person in this conversation, but what were you two thinking when you captured these useless pokémon?" he asked in an annoyed tone. The two grunts were now sweating. They had to come up with a good enough reason to get away clean.

"We uh, brought them to...help us gather more powerful pokémon." he blurted out.

"What?" G2 and Cyrus said together. Luckily for G2, Cyrus didn't hear his outburst.

"Yeah, see, because my partner and I only have croagunk and golbat we thought should get a variety of pokémon under our belts before we head out again."

"Why didn't you just use pokéballs to catch them?" Cyrus asked.

"We forgot to bring some with us. We're on our way to get some from our rooms and we'll be on our way back out."

Cyrus stared him for what felt like minutes. His partner was sweating bullets. "You two had better come back with stronger pokémon or not come back at all. Do I make myself clear?"

"Crystal sir!" they said together. With that, Cyrus walked past them to the elevator and went about his business. Once they were sure he was gone they let out a held breath they were didn't know they were holding.

"Man, where did you learn to lie like that? I nearly pissed myself when you told him that lame excuse." said G2.

"I have no idea. It just came out. It was the only thing I could think of." the grunt replied.

"Keep thinking like that and we'll get out of so much trouble later on. So where are we really going anyway? I just been following you"

"We have to get those pokéballs, so we're going to see that new recruit that came a couple months ago."

"You mean the one with the kid? I hate going over there." G2 said actually pouting.

"Yeah I know, but she has lots of spare pokéballs lying around."

With that said, G1 and G2 grabbed their caged pokémon and made their way through a series of hallways before coming to a stop in front of a door. G1 knocked on the door. A few moments later someone came to the door but didn't open it.

"Who is it?" someone asked from the other side of the door. From the sound of the voice, the person was female.

"Open the door Sophia. It's us." G1 replied.

"I don't know anyone named "us". Are you sure you got the right room?" asked the female. The grunts were getting impatient.

"You know who we are you little brat. Just open the door!" G2 said obviously not looking to play around. The door suddenly swung open, revealing a little girl. She looked like she was about the same age as Eric. Her name was Sophia She had green eyes and long brown hair separated and pulled back into two ponytails. She wore a simple white dress with some shorts underneath.

"I'm not a little brat you big meanie!" she shouted.

"Yeah, yeah, cry about it on your own time." G2 said as they pushed their way into the room, nearly knocking Sophia over. "Where's Jasmine?"

She glared at him for moment before she turned around and ran to the room in the back.

Sophia knocked on the door before opening it wide enough to poke her head in.

"Mom, those guys are here to see you again." There was a woman leaning on a counter was eating a sandwich. Her name's Jasmine. She had beautiful brown eyes that match her long brown hair. She wore a green blouse that had sleeves a little longer than her arms and blue jeans that hugged the curves of her legs.

"Beder ena mnute." she said with food in her mouth. Despite the food in her mouth, Sophia understood what she said and relayed the message to G1 and G2.

A few minutes later, Jasmine came from the backroom.

"So, what do you two want this time?" she asked casually.

"Hey, we're your superiors. Show some respect." said G2.

"Though you're my superiors, you two always come to our room for something you should already have." Her comment made G2 shut up real quick.

"Uh... yeah. Sorry for his rude behavior. He's had a rough day" said G1. "Anyway, the reason we're here is because we need some pokéballs from you. We ran out after our last mission and we're heading back out again as soon as we get what we need from you."

"Is that why you have those pokémon in that cage?"

"Yeah. So are you gonna give us the balls or what?" Sophia let out a little cough from a laugh she tried to hold in. When they understood why she laughed, the grunts' faces turned red and Jasmine laughed as well. Jasmine went back to the backroom and returned with a bag full of pokéballs.

"Here are your "balls", now hurry up and leave. We have things to do."

As soon as she finished her sentence, an alarm rang out throughout the building. Not long afterwards, the PA system turned on.

*Btz* "Attention, all Galactic members. Attention, all Galactic members. The rampaging steelix has returned and is now attacking the building. All available personnel please assist in repelling the steelix. All available personnel please assist in repelling the steelix. That is all." *Btz*

"Great, now we have to deal with that steelix again. You know every time that thing comes by, some of the pokémon we capture go missing?" said g1.

"I know. Plus there's a masked woman that appears every time and runs away right after, so there's been talk of someone working on the inside. Well, let's go help with that steelix so we don't look like slackers." replied G2.

"Wait, what about the pokémon?"

"Just leave 'em here. They're not going anywhere." That being said, the two grunts left the room, leaving Eevee and the others with Jasmine and Sophia.

A couple minutes went by in silence as Eevee stared at Jasmine and Sophia to see what they were going to do. Jasmine made the first move and walked up to the cage. Mia and Eevee moved in front on the younger pokémon and growled at her. She slowed down her approached and knelt down in front of them.

"It's okay, I'm gonna get you out of here." she said with her hands up like she was surrendering. She looked behind them and saw Kai. "I can help your riolu friend in there if you'll let me." she said as she reached slowly into her back pocket and pulled out a blue bottle. Eevee looked at it and recognized it immediately. It was the same bottle of medicine Eric had uses after he had battles with other pokémon, but he wasn't sure if there was medicine in it or not.

"Mia, Go get that bottle from her." he whispered.

"What? Are you sure we can trust her?" she asked.

"No, but if she's telling the truth, we can heal Kai. I just need to be sure if that stuff is safe."

Mia took a moment to think about his request before slowly approaching Jasmine. She held out her paw to take the bottle, which Jasmine gladly gave up. She went back next to Eevee.

"How are you gonna see if it's safe?" she asked.

"Like this." Eevee lifted a paw to his mouth and bit down hard enough to draw blood.

"What are you doing?" Mia said in shock.

"Testing the bottle, spray some if it on me."

Mia complied and sprayed Eevee with the liquid. After a quick burning and numbing sensation, Eevees' paw felt like it had never got bitten.

"Well?" Mia asked curiously.

"It's fine. We can spray it on his wounds." Mia nodded went to go treat Kais' injuries. Eevee turned to face Jasmine, who was now joined by Sophia. He bowed his head as a show of thanks, which she happily returned.

A couple moments later, sighs of relief were heard on the other side of the cage. Eevee turned to see Kai sit up with Nina's help.

"Ugh, my legs hurts." Kai said weakly.

"At least you know you're alive now." Nina said nuzzling under his chin. Kai simply smiled and scratched her behind her ear, which she enjoyed.

"Yeah, it's good to be back. Who's the human?"

"She's the one who gave us that medicine to heal you."

Kai smiled gratefully at Jasmine and said "Thank you very much."

Jasmine smiled, got up and opened the top of the cage. "No problem. Now let's get you all out of here."

"You're getting us out of here? But what about the steelix that's outside?" Nina pointed out.

Since Jasmine didn't understand what Nina was saying, she asked Kai to translated for her since he could talk to her.

"Don't worry, the steelix is mine. Every few days or so, I would tell him to attack the building so that I can sneak a small amount of captured pokémon like you out of this place. It's my way of protecting as many pokémon as I can." she responded after Kai translated.

(Trans.) "But why don't you try to get all of them out at once?"

"If I try doing it that way, there would be too much chaos and my cover would blown." she said as she picked up Kai and cradled him in her arms. She then reached toward her belt and unclipped a pokéball from her belt. "Here, you guys can ride on metagross." She expanded the ball and released metagross.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, the door was kicked opened, revealing an angry red-headed woman on the other side."I knew there was something fishy about you the second you stepped into this building. I knew there had to be a reason for some of our pokémon disappearing every time that steelix attacked. The only thing I needed was proof that it was you, and now that I have it, I'm gonna take you down." She reached for her pokéball, but Jasmine was faster.

"Sorry Mars, but I can't let you mess this up. Quick metagross, use psychic!" she yelled. Metagross' eyes glowed red and the red haired woman was thrown headfirst into the wall just outside the room, knocking her out. "Make sure when we come back to wipe her memory." Metagross nodded.

"Come on! We don't have time to just sit here! Steelix is probably getting tired of fighting right now!" Sophia yelled. Jasmine nodded in agreement and took the pokémon out of the cage, put them on top metagross and left the room with Sophia.

The group made their way down a couple hallways before Nina remembered something.

"Wait, we have to go back for the egg!"

"What did she say Riolu?" asked Jasmine noticing Nina shouted something.

"She said we have to go back for an egg." Kai translated. "The name's Kai by the way." he added.

Jasmine apologized to Kai. "An egg? Aren't you a little too young to be having children?" Jasmine asked.

Nina's face turned bright red at the remark. "It's not my egg! It belongs to the Gallade!" Nina told them of what happened in the lab. Kai translated the story to Jasmine and Sophia.

"I'm not sure if we have time to go back and it." Jasmine said disappointingly.

"Of course we have time; just send her and metagross to look for it and the gallade." Sophia said with determination.

Not one to be a negative person, Jasmine agreed with her plan and moved forward with the rest of the pokémon. The group traveled down a few more hallways before coming to a stop in front of a door. The door was made of steel and it had a keypad and card swipe indicator next to it. Jasmine reached into her pocket for something, but was surprised to not find what she wanted. She started to panic when she realized she had forgotten something.

"Shoot, I left my ID back in the room!" She exclaimed.

Sophia rolled her eyes and groaned. "Jeez, you're helpless without me around." She reached for her belt and unclipped a pokéball. She tossed it out in front of her and the ball popped open, revealing a magnaton. "Magnaton, use thunderbolt on the keypad." Magnaton charged up for a couple seconds, then let loose a powerful burst of electricity. After a few moments, the keypad exploded and the door opened to outside the back of the building. "Thanks magnaton." She said as she recalled him back in his ball. "Hurry up, we have to get steelix now."

Once they rounded the corner to the front of the building, they saw the giant iron snake pokémon fighting a bunch of zubat and metang. From the look of things. Steelix looked like he was enjoying giving them a tough fight.

"Alright, it's almost time." Jasmine said to herself. The group stayed out of the sight of the Galactic members by hugging real close to the building. After a couple minutes, steelix let out a mighty roar.

"That's the signal." She suddenly pulled out a ski mask from out of nowhere, put it on, and took off her clothes to reveal shorts and a dark blue tank top. She then ran toward steelix with her new attire. Sophia had picked up the tossed clothing and after folding them, tucked them under her arm. The Galactic members saw that a masked person was coming.

"It's that masked woman again!" one of the grunts shouted.

"That's enough steelix. I think we taught these guys a lesson in pain. Let's go!" Jasmine said in a deeper voice than usual to hide her identity.

Steelix let out a roar and started twisting its' body in a circle that was picking up speed very quickly. In a matter of moments, a sandstorm surrounded his body and it expanded to cover everything in a twenty yard radius. The galactic members were blinded by the eye-irritating sand.

"Golbat, use whirlwind!" someone shouted. All the golbat flapped their wings at great speeds to produce a powerful whirlwind that would take a snorlax its' feet. The sandstorm was cleared out in a few seconds and the galactic members that gain their vision first saw that the steelix and the masked person had disappeared without a trace. On the top floor, Cyrus was watching the event unfold.

"Who the hell is that woman?" he asked himself.