Were they even in this department? Stracion’s info could have easily been wrong. Where were they?Īfter the tenth room with no luck, anxiety was starting to creep up on me. But I still hadn’t seen any sign of them yet. Good thing all three of the experiments were so big, otherwise it would have been impossible to search each room quickly enough to make it through them all. I threw open door after door, stopping just long enough to scour each room before moving on to the next. Which meant I only had a few minutes, if that, to blitz through as many unlocked rooms as possible. The previous hallway was already clear, as all the grunts had run off to locate the source of the lightning. The instant his form dissolved into the Pokéball beam, I bolted in the opposite direction as fast as I could. It was tiny compared to his usual Thunderbolts, but it still blackened the opposite wall and split the air with a resounding crack. Sparks leaped off his golden fur, soon giving way to scattered strings of electricity, and then finally a jagged lightning bolt shooting across the hallway. “*I should have enough charged up for at least one… *” he muttered. Just how big was this base?Ĭhibi glanced back and forth down the passage, nodding to himself. From the peeling paint and chipped tile, it looked like it hadn’t been used in years. What was he planning? I walked over and opened the door to reveal a dimly lit passageway lined with several other, similar doors. “*There’s no one on this side,*” he said, gesturing for me to follow him. His expression turned thoughtful, like something had just occurred to him, before he walked over and pressed an ear to it. “*Thought so.*” He glanced around the office, his eyes falling on a door opposite the one I’d come in through. But now that he’d said it, a diversion did seem like the best course of action… if he was in any state to be making one. I… honestly wasn’t sure what I was asking of him. “*You’re asking for a diversion,*” Chibi said bluntly. We need to draw the Rockets away from that area so I can search without someone else spotting the others as soon as I find them,” I explained. But I didn’t really have a choice at the moment. He didn’t look fine, and it still didn’t seem right to send him out when he was like this. “*I’ll be fine,*” the hybrid muttered, not making eye contact. The Pikachu appeared in a flash of white light, immediately clutching his head with his paws. I ducked inside the first unlocked room I could find-an office of some sort-and released Chibi. There was no way it couldn’t be-otherwise there’d be obvious signs of forced entry.īut that also meant it would be pure luck whether or not I stumbled across the experiments before the Rockets did-not a comforting thought. Also… the room they were hiding in had to be unlocked.
The fact that no one had seen the experiments in a good ten minutes probably meant that they’d stopped running and hid at some point. I stopped and leaned against the wall, pretending to fiddle with my R-com while I watched the others out of the corner of my eye. But ‘fewer Rockets’ still meant ‘Rockets.’
The rumor that the experiments were in D block obviously hadn’t reached any executives yet, because there were way fewer Rockets here than the other departments. Stracion’s warning had come at the perfect time. No one questioned me as I made my way towards D block, moving as quickly as possible without outright running.
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