The Campagna Adventures

Chapter 16-Julian the Venator

Phil woke to the sound of a Fletchling singing. It's beautiful melody floated through the window, and into his ears. The sweet song tickled his ears, waking him gently.

Phil stretched and walked down stairs. He was alone this morning, for, his Pokemon had slept onside their Pokeballs the previous night. Phil spotted Denny, once again enjoying breakfast, with another short, Johtoian looking boy.

"Hey, Denny, who is this?"

"I am Julian, Denny, is this Phil?"

"Yes, Julian, this is Phil. Phil, this is my friend to help us with our problem."

"Oh, so, how do you do it?"

"Venator secret, sorry."

"It's fine, come on, I'll lead the way. Wait, what is a Venator?"

"We are trackers, extremely skilled ones at that. We must get moving though."

So, Phil lead the small group to where the man teleported away. He retold the events of yesterday for Julian.

"How did you get in? The bar is twenty-one and up."

"Invisibility."

"Oh, so that is what I was picking up from your coat."

"Yes, so anyway, what can you do?"

Julian closed his eyes, appearing to go into deep concentration. Phil closed his eyes, and watched as Julian's Aura spiked. It glowed with power, a brilliant blue. It then surged outward, and slowly began to circle a small spot.

"Phil, I can now go on a recon mission."

"I'm coming with you."

"I have years of stealth training."

"I can turn invisible and silent."

"Julian, just let him go with you."

"Fine, not my fault if he dies."

"Thanks for the encouragement," Phil sarcastically responded.

Julian directed Phil to grab his hand, and once again, Julian concentrated. Phil, for the third time ever, felt like he was being squeezed through a very small tube. Just when it felt like he was going to suffocate, he popped back out.

They were in a very militaristic looking base. With metal walls, boxes stacked everywhere, and a generally strict feeling atmosphere. Phil noticed various uniforms though, one was black with a red letter. Another was black, again, with a strange hat and a shield emblem. Yet another looked more like a Alolan Pirate outfit. However, the weirdest one looked like a spacesuit with a G on it. The people wearing this uniform had hilarious bowl-cut hair.

Julian slipped off, and Phil split up with him. Heading in the direction that was down. He passed through some labs, seeing all kinds of horrible experiments. He found files for a Project Red Velvet, Project Blueberry, and a Kalos Madman. He found the crushed remains of a hearimg aid, something he found odd. He found still other files of a Project Cosmos, Project Stars, and Project Switcheroo.

Phil quickly swept up the files and stowed them away. He left the hearing aid, assuming it belonged to an impaired scientist.

He looked through the building, finding evidence of many criminal acts. Including, theft, kidnapping, murder, illegal and immoral experiments, and other horrid things.

The building's lower labs where locked. He couldn't get in without loud noises echoing through the building. So, he turned around. He came upon officer's quarters, which included some odd objects that seemed related to Aura. Were they studying it?