Three Years

Chapter 15 Part 2 - Welcome in Unova!

Hello guys!

And here we go for a new half-chapter! This chapter (including the first part), was typically one of the chapters for which I was like "meh this one's going to be short I'll probably not have to cut it in two" and guess what? Well I had to-

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy this, and thank you again to Hilda for beta-reading it!

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     To say that Green was annoyed was an understatement.

     All of them had successfully taken their plane back in Nimbasa City, and arrived at Icirrus City without a problem. During that time, his newly arrived friends could catch up with the younger Dexholders, but the Viridian Gym Leader did not learn anything new from their conversation. They could also, once again, determine that their major problem for the moment was teamwork, and everyone came with their own ideas to handle it, although none of them looked satisfying from his point of view. But those things were not what was bothering him.

     What was bothering him was the annoying "Do not enter" red sign in the entrance of the Twist Mountain, the road that was supposed to bring them directly to the lab.

     Next to him, he could hear Edward apologize, "The lab's staff thought that the best way to avoid an attack was to completely close it, so nobody can leave or enter. Because the area around the mountain's pretty dangerous and full of fog, they think it might be enough to stop them, and that it would be dangerous if they let people go inside the mountain. They won't even let other colleagues from Testsuch come in, let alone some strangers they don't really know... I'm terribly sorry!"

"So you basically mean that," Blue started, "we're supposed to protect a place but we're not even allowed to go right through a path that leads us directly to it? How the hell are we supposed to arrive in the lab on time?"

"Sorry, with all those attacks, some of us are quit... Paranoid, to put it kindly. They're usually not like that, but with the recent events... They're not really fighters, just a bunch of scientists, so they're too easily scared. As their boss, I really apologize for their attitude but..."

"The mountain is already a good obstacle for them, isn't it?" Lack-two stated. "With so many people in their group, they'll have to use the roads or ways. If we can't stop them in the lab itself, maybe we can still stop them if we guard some strategic point instead."

"We already tried this kind of strategy," Y sighed, "but it never worked. It's like they always see us before we can go through with our plan!"

"Did you see them use any gadget during the attacks? Because if they used some of them, maybe they can have things like a small camera that films what happens around them, and then..." Blue started, before X interrupted her.

"Except that time back in Lumiose City where Ama used a communication device, although we don't even know if he used a Holo Caster or something else, we saw nothing like that. And they never looked at a screen or something special before they caught us. Do you have any idea of something they can use, Mr. Edward?"

"Nothing, unfortunately," the punk scientist sighed. "If they're using such a device, it's definitely not made or supplied by our foundation."

"Maybe a sound, then? Or something else?" the Evolver theorized. "But they should've had a device like that, or maybe a Pokémon watching us. If they don't have anything like that, then it would've been impossible for them to escape every single time. We just need to find what it is, and then maybe they won't see us, or we might even be able to lure them into a trap."

"But for the moment, we still don't know what they're using," Lack-Two countered. "So, unfortunately, as long as we haven't made any progress, we'll still need to keep using other simple plans such as guarding the different entrances of the mountain."