Lucki

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Lucki's first thought was a linoone stole it. The rushing pokemon could be even more troublesome than their pre-evolved forms of zigzagoon. But there was no reason why a linoone would open her bag and run off with just her pokeballs. They'd just make off with the whole bag.

Pokemon thieves.

Lucki shuddered. To think someone like that had come in the night while she was sleeping, without her knowing anything...

But who would do something like that? Team Magma?

Those creeps would definitely do something like that. They hadn't thought about right and wrong when they tried to steal those blueprints from Devon, why would they this time?

They wouldn't get away with this. She'd...

...what? She was out here without her pokemon. She could try to get to Mauville or Fortree, but that would take hours, and by then the thieves could be gone. She was on her own. Completely.

Lucki smiled suddenly. I bet the last thing they're expecting is for me to cause them trouble...

There! Lucki thought in triumph, spying figures moving a little way below her. She was lying on her stomach on the ground, concealed by the heavy vegetation that covered the edge of the small cliff she was on, a thick mixture of trees, bushes and grass. And even if she could have been seen, none of the figures seemed to be paying any attention to the area above them.

The figures below were on the large main path, by a white pickup truck. I knew it! Two of them, both in the distinctive Team Magma outfits – two red cloth bands around either arm, gray-black gloves, gray pants with a red belt and more of the red bands around their ankles above their gray shoes. And of course the weird red hood with black horns on either side, like they were pretending to be some sort of demon.