“Looking mighty skilled there with those knots. Any particur reason why? I mean you even had rope on hand.” Fnnery asks me as I tie up the unscious criminals.

  “Well one day I was w how you would look dressed in only rope, so I bought some and was learning how to use it.” I fire back distractedly. It takes me a moment to realize what I had just said, as I am fog on making sure the bindings are tight, but as I do I am sure my face could light up the room with how red I am. I try not to aowledge my faux pas as I g Fnnery. I begin to giggle as I see her mouth doing an impressive impression of a Magikarp. I notice that Bea is blushing as well and not looking at us, but her ears are bright red. “I was j-”

  “All you o do is ask.” Fnnery squeaks out. Unfortunately for her, my ears are particurly sensitive.

  “Well, that is good to know…” I smile wryly as I finish tying up the st criminal. After tying them up, I realize that we them outside somehow and I furrow my brows. “Bea, you think your pokemon would be willing to haul these guys out with us? I would rather not have to spend time waiting for them to wake up.”

  “I will ask them. I don’t think they will have a problem though.”

  “Great! Now, let's see what we do about these lights.” I say as I look around to find the light sources. Now that I have a ce, I see three different flood lights, simir to those that are used during night stru in my old world. I look over the closest one and I find that it could easily be colpsed down and then moved by hand. The body of it was just big enough that we could drape two bodies over eae. “Hey, what about tying them to the lights and wheeling them out all at once?”

  Bea walks over and checks out the lights with me. “It looks like the light bars fold over the top, so maybe we use it to hold them in pce? Unless you have more rope?” She asks with a small smirk.

  I give her a small giggle before answering. “Nope, fresh out of rope.” My response makes her giggle as well. Over the en minutes, we arrahe knocked out criminals on top of the floodlights and pio it with the post of the light itself. I end up cutting the rope into three ses to keep them tied up, just in case. Ohe st light is off and the Rockets are situated, Bea’s pokemon grab the front of the light maes aart heading out of the area. With the three pokemon in front, the rest of us follow behind the lights to keep our prisoners knocked out. Our journey returns to boredom soon enough. The racket the Rockets previously made with their wonton capturing and herding of wild pokemon is causing all the wild pokemon to run off and hide.

  We see the exit out of the mountain after a few more hours of walking. Surprisingly, the Rockets didn’t have to go that far in to do their dirty deeds. I’m fairly certain most trainers would have ighe issue or they might have missed the area they were w in. From the exit, I smell the st of a bead feel a gentle breeze, a wele ge from the stillness of the caves. As we step out into the open sky, we are greeted by a beautiful western style su, painting the sky in reds, es and yellows. We take a moment to enjoy the sight that we have been deprived of since we went underground. It was only a few days but it felt lohan it should have.

  We are brought back to reality by the groans of our charges. I quickly go around and make sure they are not waking up soon. Once I make sure that they are still out, I take out my phone and look up the number of the Jenny offi Cerulean City. While I am looking up the number I notice that Fnnery has her pho as well and cheg on something, maybe the forums for information about Team Rocket. I look back at my phone and then call the Jenny Office.

  “Thank you for calling the Cerulean City Jenny Office, how may I assist you?” Asks a calm sounding female voice.

  “Hello, I am Frost Oak and I would like to report a capture of five criminals from Team Rocket. They were trapping and catg rge numbers of pokemon in Mount Moon with high powered lights.”

  “Alright, I will send out a couple of officers. Where are you currently?”

  “We just left Mount Moon, only about teers away from the entrance. We were able t the lights out of the tunnels as well, so you might want to send something to pick them up.”

  “I will hat down. Someone should show up in the hirty minutes.”

  “All right, we will be waiting.” I reply as I hang up. I look over at Bea and Fnnery just to see them look at me as well. “An officer should show up in about 30 minutes.”

  “I see,” Fnnery says with a nod. “I should apologize about my reservations on attag them. I found the posts about them in the forums. I have read how they will steal rare pokemon on trainers, attack different pces that don’t have anything in on, and how they catch rge swaths of pokemon for no clear reason. They sound like the worst kind of people.” I just wave off her apology as there was no harm done. While we wait, I decide to check the notifications that I am ign while we are underground. The notification is much like the chegine light in a car, you notice it but ig if you want.

  [gratutions Host, you have caught a pokemon. You receive one free gacha spin.]

  gratutions Host, you have stopped a criminal activity. You receive one free gacha spin.]

  I got two new spins, I guess I use them after we reach a Poketer. Fifteen mier, we hear the sound of a motorcycle getting closer and a couple seds ter we watch as it pulls up. On the back of the white motorcycle is a teal haired woman in a well trimmed poliiform with a skirt. Why she was wearing a skirt and riding a bike is beyond me.

  “Which of you three is Frost Oak?” Asks the Jenny member.

  “That would be me.” I answer as I step forward and offer my phone, open to my Pokedex which has my trainer information. I remember the Jennys in Viridian asking for information so I preempted the question. The Jenny gives me a smile while taking my phone.

  “Thank you. I see here that you assisted the Pokemoer in Viridian City when it was attacked. I hope this doesn’t bee a on thing for you.” She smiles at me and gives me a knowing smile.

  “I really didn’t pn on any of this. For Viridian, I was waiting for m to e and they attacked, and here, I saw a brightly lit area in the dark cave so I thought we should check it out, just to find the Rockets attag and colleg any pokemon they could catch.” I go on to expihing that we had seen before we took out the five of them.

  “While I will thank you for your assistahis time, iure, please tact your Jenny Station er Station for assistance. I will call in some assista these people in so you three are free to go.”

  I give her a smile and lightly bow to her in thanks. “We will do just that. For those pokeballs they were using, I would suggest you deliver oo my Grandpa, Professor Oak. It would be best to hand deliver it as I am not sure if it will transfer correctly using the transfer system.”

  “I will be sure to make note of that. Now run along, it will be night soon and you just make it to Cerulean City if you leave now.”

  With her final words, the three of us quickly walk away, leaving the knocked out Rockets to the Jenny. After about five minutes, I make sure to release Zephyr so that she finally stretch her wings again. No sooner do I let her out, listening to her happy trill, I hear from behind me a SPLAT, silence, and then some loud yelling. I swear I hear some chug ing from somewhere but I don’t know where.

  The sun had just finished setting by the time that we arrived at the outskirts of the city. Cerulean City is a much livelier city thaer was. Even though it is night time, the city’s streets are full of people still milling about ier colored neon lights. Everything about this city gives you the feel of beiher in water or under water. The buildings do not have any sharp ers, and everything just flows from one building to the . The decor oside of the buildings makes you think of a reef. The terpiece of the city is the gym that looks like a giant water droplet or sea shell, depending on which way you look at it.

  The blue colored lights gives the whole pce a magical feel as we walk towards one of the Poketers iy. We don’t try for the closest one, as that is the ohat is likely to have every traihat has passed through before us. Instead we decide on a ter that is closer to the gym. Once we reach the ter, we head up to the Joy at the ter and hand over our pokemon so that they get a check up ht. She hands us our room keys, which the three of us grab aowards our rooms. As I am climbing the stairs, I feel a tiredness catg up to me as I think of a shower, being and an actual bed.

  I reach my room and find that Fnnerys is right o mine and Bea is across the hall. We wish each ood night as we open our doors. Once my door is closed, I quickly discard my clothes, head over to the air ditioner, set it to its lowest setting of 15. It is still hotter than I want, but I quickly head to the shower and take a long cool shower. The feeling of cool liquid caressing my overly hot skin is as rexing for me as a hot shower is for someone else. I think my region will be Sinnoh as it is supposed to be much colder there, maybe I could actually wear cute clothes.

  I step out of the shower, not minding the water getting everywhere as I grab all my dirty clothes and toss them in the wash. No sense in leaving them dirty in the bag. I head bato the room and head over to the bed while doing a nice full body stretch. For once, I decide not to meditate at night and y down on the bed, spread eagle, just enjoying the feel of civilization again. It wasn’t as bad as when I stayed a week in the forest, but something about being in a cave just doesn’t scream “civilization”. I y eyes and slowly drift off to the nd of imagination, hopes and dreams.