In the last part I actually skipped ahead a few days, so this part will
be of how Aaron and Jen came to be at that mall in Celadon.  This part
is rated PG-something for lots and lots of blood and violence.


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First Blood


"So, this is Cerulean City, huh?"

The two Agents and Pikachu had flown all night to reach Cerulean city,
and in Aaron's opinion, it wasn't worth the energy.  The things he had
seen across the galaxy made this place look like shit.

"I've seen better dumps," he snarled.

Jen sneered at him.  "Don't put down these places till you've seen all
there is to see."

At that moment, they passed by the pokŽmon gym, and at that exact
moment, the three gym trainers were sunbathing out front.  Aaron, of
course, liked what he saw.  "I take it back, I love this place."

"Shut up."

"Wait, didn't the rodent say there was a battle fought here?"

Jen looked around curiously.  "Yeah, he did."  She looked down at him.
"Didn't you say Mew was here?"

Pikachu suddenly remembered a few details about that battle.  "I...I
remember!  I saw Mew destroy this weird guy with a massive energy
explosion, and it took out over three square blocks!  All this
shouldn't even be here!

Aaron took one more look at the three trainers and scoffed.  "Fuck you,
you're remembering the wrong things.  Everything's fine.  See?"

Pikachu took another look around.  "I guess..."  He still had lingering
suspicions that his memories were right.  But if all this was still
here, Mew couldn't have destroyed it all, right?

"Where are we going?" Pikachu asked.  He was still being carried by his
head, so he was eager for Aaron to get where he was going so he would
put him down.

"I don't know," Jen answered, "I'm thinking we go to the pokŽmon center
to rest up before checking out that cave.  I think they have rooms for
rent there."

"Whatever," Aaron said absolutely indifferently.


Once at the pokŽmon center, Aaron went straight to Nurse Joy and asked
if there were any rooms available.

"Why, yes, there is," she answered brightly.  "Will that be one room or
two?"

"One."  Then he put a hand to her face.  "Sleep."

Jen noticed what he was doing.  "Okay, why're you putting her to
sleep?  She's giving us a room, right?"

Aaron grinned.  "I'm just putting a little post-hypnotic suggestion in
her mind.  She should wake up in a few minutes and not remember what I
did, don't worry."

"Fine.  Let's just go to our rooms."

"Room.  Singular.  I don't want to pay for two when you can just sleep
on the ceiling."

"Fuck you, I'm not..."  They argued all the way upstairs.

Once in their room, Aaron finally set Pikachu down on the bed, then
went to check out the rest of their room.  Jen immediately jumped on
the bed, then Aaron threw her off.  She turned on the TV to a porno
channel which was currently showing a woman getting reamed by a
Rhyhorn.  According to the expression on her face, she was having mixed
feelings about it.

About an hour later, Aaron heard a knocking at the door.  He went to
answer it, knowing full well who was on the other side.  As the door
swung open, he got a view of Nurse Joy, wearing nothing but her nurse's
cap.

"Why, Nurse Joy, I do believe you're trying to seduce me."  He took
another *long* look at her.  "It worked."  He pulled her inside, then
they both fell on the bed.  "Jen, I'm going to need the bed tonight."

Jen walked in just then and got an eyeful of Aaron and Joy rolling
around on the bed.  She emitted a disgusted groan, then walked out.
"Damn fuckhead.  Can't keep his mind on the fucking job."  She grabbed
Pikachu before walking out the door.  "Come on, this ain't a fucking
peep show."

She went downstairs and left the pokŽmon center in search of a decent
meal.  She ended up in a diner on the other side of town.  It was a
fairly nice place, but it still had the occasional roach.  She sat down
in a booth and set Pikachu down next to her.

"Why am I here?" Jen asked no one in particular.

"What?"  Pikachu didn't exactly know what she was talking about.

"Aaron could do this job on his own, but since I was assigned to him as
his partner, so now I have to come to this shithole of a planet and
play babysitter to a rodent."

A waiter came by just then, which silenced Pikachu's comment just then.
"Can I take your order?"  Jen starred at him for a few seconds before
ordering.  He was one of the best-looking things she had seen since
coming here.

"Sure!"  She tried not to seem to eager, but her excitement broke
through her sensibility.  "I'll...uh, have a club sandwich."

"Okay, and anything for your Pikachu?"

"Uh, no thanks, I just fed him."

The waiter walked away, then Jen got up and followed him.  She watched
as he went into the kitchen, then heard a cook ask him to empty the
trash outside.

Faster than could be seen by human eyes, she rushed outside to meet
him.  He was moderately surprised to see her, but pleased as well.  She
motioned for him to come closer, and he quickly obliged.  Jen smiled,
then took his head in her hands, then, before he could react, twisted
it left, then right, breaking it with an audible *snap!*

"Well, I'm satisfied."  She let the body fall to the floor, then
rejoined Pikachu at the booth.


Later that day, the two returned to the pokŽmon center.  Jen left
Pikachu out in the hall for reasons she kept to herself.  She opened
the door and walked in, then saw the reason she went in alone.  The
room was covered in blood, the carpet soaked, even the ceiling had some
of the red liquid sticking to it.  And on the bed was the obviously
dead form of Nurse Joy with a look of total and absolute horror on her
face.  The room itself was a shambles, the light fixture and every
single lamp smashed, all the furniture broken.  The only thing that was
intact was the TV, which still had the scene of the woman getting
fucked by the Rhyhorn.  It had been recorded and set in an infinite
loop so the entire scene would play over and over.

"Aahhh...."  Aaron walked in just then with a *very* satisfied look on
his face.  He put his hand on the wall, then pulled it away covered in
blood, and proceeded to lick it off.  "That was fun."  He gave one last
glance at the TV, then smashed it.

Jen grinned, sharing the feeling of a job well done, then became
serious once again.  "You better not let the rodent see this."

"Why?  You afraid he might attack us?  He can't hurt us."

"Yeah, but if he starts shocking us in public, more than a few people
will get suspicious."

"I guess..."  He smiled again.  "Why don't we just go to the cave now?
The rodent won't see the mess, and we can get away before anybody
discovers...this."

"Okay, let's go, but you owe me a body."

***

Before he knew what was happening, Pikachu was lifted by his head and
carried downstairs and outside.  "Let's go," Aaron said simply before
leaping into the air and flying away.

Two hours later, they reached their destination.  A small cave in the
middle of nowhere, behind a river and covered by a forest.  There was
no chance anybody could find it if they didn't know what to look.  The
two Agents entered the cave, much to Pikachu's objection.

"Come on, there may be spiders in there!" he complained.

"Then we'll feed you to them," Aaron replied, very serious.

Pikachu kept quiet after that, and just waited for them to get where
they were going.  They met a lot of pokŽmon on the way to...wherever,
including Chansey's, Raichu's, and some very powerful Kadabras.  The
Agents ignored most of them, but the ones that got violent were quickly
dealt with.  A single shot from their guns instantly killed any
opposition.  "What are those things, anyway?"  Pikachu decided the best
way to satisfy his curiousity was to actually ask a question.  Then
again, curiousity killed the cat...or electric mouse.

Aaron just looked at him and sneered, but Jen was a little more
forthcoming.  "They're plasma guns.  You do know what plasma is,
right?"  Pikachu shook his head.  "Well, in basic terms, when free
electrons move around in a cloud, they crash into each other, breaking
into smaller particles called plasma particles.  That's about the best
way to explain it without it becoming too complicated."

"Whatever," Aaron growled just before shooting another Kadabra.  "We're
almost there."

"Where?" Pikachu asked.

"The end of the line."  That was all he said on the subject.

After another few minutes, the two Agents finally started running
through the cave, and they reached their destination in a matter of
minutes.  Pikachu looked around nervously for Mewtwo and his mother,
but all he saw was just a rock wall.  All they had reached was a
dead-end, and Mewtwo was nowhere in sight.  "What the hell?"  Aaron
said, then he set down Pikachu on a rock, and proceeded to investigate
the cavern.  He pulled a small metal padd out of his coat, then pressed
a few buttons, apparantly scanning for...something.  "Hmmmm..."

"Anything?" Jen asked.

"No, not yet.  Wait, hold on..."  He narrowed his eyes on the padd for
a few seconds, then his mouth opened slightly, partly in shock, then
he growled fiercely, frightening Pikachu.  "Ohhh....fuck me!"  He threw
the padd at Jen in anger, but she caught it easily.

"What is it?"

"They're gone.  They're fucking gone!!!"

"What do you mean?"

"Take a look at the padd."

Jen looked over the scans, but they made no sense to her.  "So?"

Aaron snarled at her, then punched the rock wall, knocking some rather
large stones loose.  "Our dear friend Sean sent a message to Mewtwo,
and now he's gone.  According to the amount of psychic energy around
here, Mew's gone too, so we're fucked."

Jen took another look at the padd, then something on it made a litte
bit of sense.  "Check this out."  She threw it at him, he caught it,
and looked it over again.  "The message originated from Celadon City.
If Sean wanted to meet Mewtwo, he probably wouldn't leave yet, and
Mewtwo doesn't fly that fast, so if we go to Celadon now, we can still
catch up with him."

Aaron thought about this for a few moments, then figured she was right.
"Okay, we'll take the shortcut."

"What shortcut?" Pikachu asked.

"This shortcut."  Aaron pointed to an empty space between them, then
the space curved, opening a rift.  "Go ahead, step inside."

"No fucking way!"  Pikachu took a step back, but Jen quickly grabbed
him by the head and threw him in the rift, head first.  The two Agents
stepped through next.  Soon after, the rift closed, with no evidence
that they were ever there.

***

In an abandoned building in Celadon City, a rift in space opened, then
a Pikachu and two humans popped out, and the rift promptly closed.

"So..." Aaron started, "Where would Sean go if he wanted to meet up
with Mewtwo?"

"Someplace private," Jen answered, "An alley somewhere, maybe."

"Mm-hmm, but we don't have time to search every back alley and dead-end
street in the city."  Aaron paced back and forth, trying to figure out
Sean's next move.  "What if Mewtwo hasn't arrived yet?  Where would he
go?"

"If Maggie was with him?"

"Yeah."

"The mall," she answered quickly.  It'd be where she would want to go.

Aaron stopped pacing and turned to her.  "Okay, but which one?"

Jen smiled.  "The biggest."


In a matter of minutes the two Agents found their way to the Mall of
Celadon.  They weren't there for the shopping, however.  The plan was
to wander around till they ran into Sean or Maggie, preferably both.
But first, they stopped to grab a bite to eat.

"McDonalds?"  Aaron had never heard of it.  "Oh well, what the hell?
Can't be that bad, right?"

"Right," Jen replied, "So stop your bitching and sit down!"

Aaron set Pikachu down at one of the tables, then sat down next to him.
Jen went to the counter and ordered some food, then when it was ready,
took it back to the table.  Aaron unwrapped a burger, then, for some
reason, pulled his gun and set it on the table.  Jen quickly noticed
it.  "What the hell are you doing?" she hissed.

Aaron grinned.  "If Sean's here, this is the best way to find him."

"What the fuck are you talking about?!"

"Watch."

Before they got one bite of their food, they heard the cry of fear from
one of the patrons, and the police quickly responded.

"What's all this?" a familiar voice called.

Aaron recognized it as Officer Jenny, one of the local cops.  No real
danger from her, but then again.....  He stood up and grabbed the gun,
then quickly raised it and pointed it at her head.

"Guess what, officer?" he said, smiling.  "You're a hostage!"

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Ah, damn, I can't think of anything to say.  Oh yeah, I wanted to say
the Rhyhorn idea was something I got from one of Cubone's stories, and
if it's not too much trouble, could someone take a shot at making a pic
of it?  I'd appreciate it.


The Master of Eternal Darkness,

Shadow