Mostly Minecraft -- A Youtuber Oneshot Book

P.K.M.N. GO -- Zerkstar123

A/N: Josh doesn't get introduced until a lot later so just bear with me ok :) this is a long one

It's dark in the city, the air like pitch in its hue and humidity. The stars tonight are clouded over, muffled, and almost every window is closed. The rough brick fortifications of the alleyway rub against Vik's back, but he hardly feels anything through his black bulletproof vest. What he can feel are the stab wounds plaguing his arms, legs and face, and the grinning glares of the three armed men in a semicircle around him. Vik glances at his AK, kept in perfect condition, which it lies propped at his side like a shadow.

Vik's never used it, but he knows how. He glances over it, eyes catching on the flat metal nameplate, engraved in which are the letters PKMN G O. If he were to turn around, a matching logo, though in grey vinyl, would be visible on the back of his vest.

The "P.K.M.N." stands for Pokemon Keepers Military Network. And Vik is a member of a select group of top ranked agents, known as G.O: Global Officers. After the release of the app, Pokemon Go, came the inevitable subsequent releases of more and more game-based products. The Pokemon Goggles turned a mere game into a virtual reality experience. It got to a point around 2018 where no one didn't have a set of goggles. Real world currency was replaced by in-game coins, and the team system broke down into a new gameplay method: Gangs.

High level players would create a team, invite (or in most cases, haze) other players to join them, and pool their coins and Pokemon into a virtual, metaphorical pirates chest.

While most of these rugged organizations mug innocent people in the streets through Pokemon battles, the team Vik had been chasing had a far more insidious aim.

Team Veil.

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Vik hadn't known at the time he'd accepted his mission. He made his base on an apartment building rooftop, and clicked to train his high tech goggles on the intersecting alleys he'd been told was their main attack point. Checking his database, he frowned. The intersection was a PokeStop. Unusual, as such an area attracts public attention, not something a criminal would want. Even more unusual, there was a lure on it. Mentally he compared resources and realised the lure was put down by a member of Team Veil.

As he watched, a small girl, maybe nine or ten, walked unerringly towards the Stop, eyes trained on the pink and purple glitter of the lure. That was Vik's first hint that this should never have been a solo mission, that something darker was going on. A Jynx appeared, causing the girl's eyes to light up. Vik's breath caught in his throat and his eyes widened as he understood why was happening.

Usually, every Pokemon had a name tag above their head, that said, along with the Combat Power and the Pokemon's name, whether the creature was owned or wild. A recent glitch, however, had caused the name tags of taller Pokemon to sink in height, making them invisible to anyone shorter than the Pokemon. Vik, from his trained perspective on the roof, could quite clearly see the tag of the Jynx, labelled as property of the same man who'd set the lure. He was dealing with a team of kidnappers.

The Jynx retreated into the shadow of the alley's walls, swaying hypnotically, and the girl followed, eyes excited. This was meant to be a scouting mission. Find the gang, figure out if they're a threat, and get back to headquarters, but Vik couldn't merely watch anymore. He rose up to a crouch, hugging the strap of his AK, and skilfully flipped onto a closer roof, moving only at angles in which no light would be impeded by his body, giving him away. Running low along a clothesline, he dropped down, vaulting from the rope to an almost impossibly soft landing on the roof directly above the alley.

Leaning cautiously over the low concrete banister, he scanned the scene. The girl was pulling a pokeball from her pocket, but movement across the corridor caught Vik's eye. Two crouching figures in black glared hungrily at the girl from behind dumpsters, and the moment Vik saw them, he could see more. Along the end of the alley, hiding in cardboard boxes, they totalled eleven in all. Seven inside the alley, and another four outside of it, on the opposite side of the girl.