Battle Scar 「POKEMON」

41 | INTO DARK WATERS

Team Aqua's base never felt like a comfortable place to begin with. It felt more like a solder's military base than a terrorist organization base, maybe it could be due to the fact that Team Aqua was also dubbed as Pirates for other Hoennese people. Which meant every grunt almost had a serious look on their faces, walking everywhere, sometimes shouting or even drinking.

They really were no different from pirates.

But one thing they learned, was that nowhere was safe. Occasional meetings with the higher ups, aka the Aqua Admirals, Walker and Ursula, would usually end with a beat down or torture, if any of them pissed them off. It was what happened to a few grunts after they're run in with group of teenagers they encountered multiple times.

That's why, it was a big mistake for two of the Aqua members to let their guard down as they were walking down a hallway.

One sighed. "How long until it's ready," he asked.

"I'm not sure, we already have one part of the artifact, we just need to retrieve one more part,"

"Hey man, do you ever regret doing this?"

The other man responded by putting a hand over his mouth. "Shhh!! Would you keep it down! Do you want to get killed?!"

"Look sometimes I just felt like I'm making the wrong decision and..."

He continued on until they walked pass by a door to a storage room. They probably did notice considering the number of times they walked pass by this area, but what they didn't notice, was the door slightly opening.

"....and I'm just saying that I-"

But the grunt couldn't finish what he was saying. Because the door suddenly opened and two arms grabbed each grunt by their shirts and pulled them into the room.

"What the-!"

"You!"

Both grunt shouted, until silence suddenly filled them. Arceus knows what happened to them.

After a few minutes, the door opened and two people walked out. But they were different people, Corvis and Calem.

Corvis readjusted the bandanna on his head so that it would cover all of his hair and stop just right above his eyes. "This bandanna feels stuffy," he whined.

"You wanted to come here so suck it up," Calem shot back as Corvis rolled his eyes.

"Encouraging," he commented as both of them held up their gearphones, pressing a few buttons.

"You remember the plan?" Calem asked in an authorative tone.

Corvis nodded. "You find where Aqua is hiding the artifact, I'll find Sara,"

Calem took out a black rectangular tablet like device that was small enough to fit his hand. Corvis called it a phone but the vigilante insisted that is wasn't.

"It's more likely they're holding Sara in their prison cell, I can only assume the artifact is in the main room here since it's the most important thing,"

"Does this mean we split ways?"

Calem nodded. "Let me know once you find Sara, I'll try to find the artifact as soon as possible,"

"Got it," Corvis was about to turn around to head into another direction of the hallways until Calem called him out.

"Corvis?"

The teenager stopped in his tracks and turned around to see Calem staring dead into his eyes. "Don't die,"

Corvis smiled. "You too,"