Book 2: teravoltXturboblaze

20: Surprises and it's not my Birthday

<<Sorry for the late update, we had tons of projects for the past weeks and for next week actually. Anyway, this is Gray's POV, don't forget to vote :D>>

I looked at the bunch of reports Looker told me to read. I seriously think that all of these are just a waste of time (and paper). We should really take action instead of sitting in some cubicle and tire our eyes out. I scanned through different faces and different places printed on the paper. Aspertia City... Castelia City... Driftveil City... Mistralton... Icirrus... Undela... Humilau... you name it. Every single place seem to be teeming with Team Plasma. Oh sure we caught a lot of them and recovered stolen or captured Pokémon but all our efforts are not even making a dent! They were starting to harm civilians if they fought back. The gym leaders were keeping watch but the enemy had stronger Pokémon now. 

"Screw this I'm done," I pushed the papers away, scratching my head. They fell on the ground. Ugh. 

I scrolled through the computer and a lot more reports flashed to my face. Sometimes I wonder why I accepted the job. A video from Opelucid caught my eye. It was a random vid in the internet posted by some random person. It was the weirdest thing I had ever seen: a flying ship. I hypothesized that the vid was caught on a PokéPad. The cameraman was weirded out and there was a lot of muffled voices in the background and some shuffling. The camera zoomed, showing its blue and brown exterior but before I could take a closer look, the ship flew above a cloud. The vid ended a couple of seconds after that.

"What in Lickitung's-" I muttered as Shiny, my Cincinno picked up the forgotten fallen papers and hopped next to me.

There were a lot more vids in the internet showing the same thing. One from a camper in White Forest and three more from Black City. 

"Sure, Team Plasma has hideouts and warehouses everywhere! But one thing that's intriguing me is that we don't have any idea where their base is! Their old castle was broken down and we have contacts and access to majority of Unova region, even the coastguard bases and  rangers!" I remembered Looker's words as I stared at the screenshots from the vids. 

"Oh Arceus," I said as I opened my XTransceiver. 

If we were going to defeat Team Plasma, we would need Air Support.

<<Rakutsu's POV>>

There were eight participants in the Driftveil Tournament. Me, Hyuu, Faitsu, Cheren, a Black Belt named Pete, a Battle Girl named Darlene, a Waiter named Louis and the hooded guy who was suspiciously called 'Sir Loc". The pairing went like this:
Sir Loc----------Darlene          Faitsu----------Pete          Cheren----------Louis          Hyuu----------Rakustu

I had to face the power of Hyuu's team: Snivy and Vibrava were powerful. It was almost a tie when Hyuu's last Pokémon Snivy and my only Pokémon Muro fainted almost at the same time, Snivy fainting three seconds earlier than Muro. Hyuu was pretty impressed. Faitsu herself fought valiantly with Bubu, her Pignite, Snow, her newly evolved Ampharos and Spike, her Krookodile. Louis and Darlene stood no chance against Cheren and Sir Loc.

The next phase of the tournament was the lose to lose and win to win battle. I won against Cheren who took his defeat gracefully. Hyuu also triumphed in the lose to lose competition. I was shocked when Faitsu's team was knocked down by Sir Loc's team, though the battle was very very close. Now I was going to face him.

"I couldn't see a glimpse on his face," Faitsu shook her head. "He's wearing a scarf and a hood."

I stepped up the arena for the Championship. My heart was beating fast as I tried hard to look at Sir Loc's eyes. They were yellow and I swore I saw them before.