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Ike: I'm sorry guys. Something came up today. We'll have to try this again tomorrow. *gets up and returns to his bedroom*

Ginji looks at his feet. A revised mission had appeared. Joy. He turns to Ike before saying, "I definitely wont be here tomorrow I think. I have a doctor's appointment then I'm going to work out." He mumbled as he started reading the revised mission.

Pump: *walks in* Hey guys, how's it going?

MISSION- Night Raid on Devon
Any Team Aqua member is asked to go to Devon Corporation and steal 50 PokeNAVs. But you must not be seen be anyone. Beware there are 10 guards in the building. You must enter the building. Then make your way to level 3 were the PokeNAVs are. But get them quickly and return back. All the PokeNAVs are in one box.

Pokemon you may run into on the mission (you may only run into one):
Zigzagoon
Voltorb
Duskull

Funds upon completion: 1000
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I woke up to my alarm clock. “Damn, morning already!” I got up and got in to my morning routine. Took a shower, got dressed, and ate breakfast. I ran out the door and hurried to the mission board for updates on level 1 missions. I looked at the board and it read Night Raid on Devon. I had all day to train for it. I went into the forest and sent out my 3 pokemon; totodile, baltoy, and my newly obtained plusle. I couldn’t wait to see what plusle could really do once his power was under control. I layed out a course for my pokemon to go through and started their training. I had to work extra hard on plusle since he wasn’t used to being contained. I took that into consideration for my mission tonight. It would be an obstacle if I decided to let him out. I figured it wouldn’t be that much of a problem but he still needed to be worked with. After my pokemon had run through the course a couple times I started training battles. I knew I wouldn’t be battling any trainers tonight so I decided not to intervene with them. I sat back and watched them all go at it. It would be difficult since plusle could beat totodile, but totodile could beat baltoy, but baltoy could beat plusle. It would be a good fight.

Baltoy started out with a confusion attack on plusle and lifted him up off the ground. Totodile jumped on baltoy and used bite which sent the focus off of plusle and dropped him. Baltoy dropped to the ground but threw totodile off and used take down. Plusle used quick attack and hit baltoy before he could hit totodile. Baltoy and Plusle both made head-on direct contact and fell to the ground. Both took massive amounts of damage but managed to get up quickly. Plusle immediatly used spark on totodile. Luckily totodile jumped before the spark attack could get him and sprayed plusle down with a water gun attack then turned it on baltoy. Plusle was knocked back but not much damage was done. Baltoy used confusion and deflected it. Totodile tried again and Baltoy used rapid spin to shoot it in different directions. Then he used mud-slap on plusle which almost knocked him out. Plusle used quick attack on Baltoy and knocked him away. Totodile used this opportunity to shoot him down with a water gun and baltoy was out. It was now totodile and plusle. Plusle used thunder wave and stopped totodile in its spot. Then used spark followed by a quick attack and totodile was out. After a lot of praise to all of my pokemon I went to heal them and get ready for my mission.

By the time everyone was all healed up and ready it was time to leave. I headed for Rustboro and the Devon Corporation. As I arrived the last bunch of people were leaving. I could see one guard outside and two guards in the upstairs window. This was going to be fun. Once I realized the coast was clear I sent out Baltoy and he used confusion to knock out the guard outside. I quickly made my way to the front door and found it was locked. (Imagine that) I ran back to the bushes and sent out totodile. He used water gun to break the glass. 2 guards ran downstairs to check out the noise and baltoy used confusion to knock them out too. I ran up to them and dragged them both into the bushes where I was previously hiding. I took their pokeballs and snuck inside the building.

The front desk was clear and so was the stairway. I quietly made my way up the stairs and sent out their pokemon. They were both voltorbs. There was a locked door on the second floor. I ordered one of the voltorbs to use self-destruct on the door and returned the other one. I hid on the wall of the stairway and watched the explosion take place. Not only did it knock the door down, it took a chunk out of the wall. I rushed into the room and hid in the darkness as 3 more guards ran in. I sent out the other voltorb and ordered it to use spark on the two guards. Voltorb lit up and unleashed a spark attack knocking out the 3 guards that stood in the doorway. 6 down and 4 more to go. I didn’t find anything in the locked room so I ran upstairs to the 3rd floor.

The remaining 4 guards were sitting together playing cards so I snuck into the shadows and sent out the remaining voltorb one more time. It rolled up to the guards and they freaked out. Once they realized it was only the voltorb they started asking questions. It sparked 2 of the guards and immediately the other 2 went on the offensive. I snuck up behind them and knocked their heads together making them disoriented. After that I snapped their necks and left them laying there. I grabbed the box of pokeNAVs and immediately ran downstairs and out the door. As I was running down the road a wild zigzagoon jumped out of the grass and challenged me. I sent out baltoy and it was on.

Baltoy automatically used rapid spin on zigzagoon. It dodged but was still grazed by the attack. Zigzagoon used sand attack blinding baltoy for a brief moment long enough for it to use tackle. Baltoy came back with another rapid spin but zigzagoon dodged it that time. It hit baltoy with a headbutt attack knocking him to the ground. The wild zigzagoon jumped back but baltoy got up quickly and used mud slap. The attack was a direct hit weakening zigzagoon greatly but it wasn't down. It came back again with another headbutt but baltoy countered it with a take down. The two pokemon made direct contact. Both were sent flying. Baltoy was out and zigzagoon was severely weakened. Totodile was sent out to finish it off. Zigzagoon used sand attack and blinded totodile. It was getting predictable. It quickly hit totodile with a headbutt knocking him down but he got up and used made direct contact with a scratch attack knocking the wild zigzagoon out. I returned totodile to his pokeball after praising him for a job well done. I sent out a pokeball and it hit zigzagoon absorbing it in red light. It shook 1 time. 2 times. 3 times. *Bing* Zigzaggon was caught. After healing my pokemon I made my way back to the Aqua HQ. I was pooped but the mission was a success.

(Let's try this one. I edited the second battle alot and a little work was done to the first battle but I don't know if there was anything wrong with the story itself.)

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MISSION- High Tide

The moon is out, the tides are swelling, and the fish are jumping! Get down to the shore and catch yourself a water Pokemon!

Pokemon:
Any non-evolved, non-legendary water-type

Rewards: 400
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Knuxy’s sitting in side her lonely room in the Team Aqua base staring outside the window. “Ooo look at all the pretty butterfrees out,” As she says this she turns her head to notice no ones in her room. “Mousy? Batty? Oh they must have gone out to eat”. Samantha (Ralts) Crawls out from under the bed. “Oh, Sammy this is perfect just the two of us can enjoy each others company.” Sammy attempts to fly away. “Sammy, you silly little Ralts you can’t fly like Batty. We should do something fun! The nights are so boring, Let’s go out to the beach for a dip!” Sammy says using her psychic powers ‘But aren’t the beaches closed at night?’ Knuxy smiles a sinister smile at Sammy. “Of course they are” she grabs Sammy’s arm and rushes out of the room and out of the base. Mousy and Batty Walk into Knuxy’s room with some pizza and slurpies. “Where did she go?” asks Mousy. “Who cares? More for us,” Replies Batty.

Walking down the sidewalk Sammy and Knuxy start to hear some creepy noises. ‘What was that? I’m scared Knuxy let’s go back’ Sammy says as she tries to fly again. “It’s okay Sammy! This will protect us,” As she says this Knuxy pulls out a yoshi egg. “My dear sweet Hampa Will keep us safe from evil Doers” Sammy thinks of all the times Mousy and Batty ranted about how Knuxy was crazy, now she believes them. "Oh! I think I see the beach! Race Ya!” Knuxy, still holding the Yoshi egg starts to run down the street” the shocked Ralts runs after her. ‘Slow down Knuxy!!’

By the time they were done swimming it was well past midnight. “Before we leave we should get a bite to eat,” Knuxy’s stomach growls. ‘You can just eat at the base, let’s get going we need to sleep eventually,’ replies Sammy. “No, I want something to eat now!” Sammy wonders how anyone can deal with Knux’s child like behaviors. The hungry girl starts to search around the beach. ‘What are you looking for?’ asks Sammy. “Found it!” Knuxy picks up a stick and starts to tie a string at the end of it. “I don’t have a fishing rod, so I’m making one.” Sammy walks up to Knuxy and stares in awe at her work. ‘I think your forgetting something..’ Sammy tells the not-so-hard worker. “And what would that be?” asks Knux. ‘A hook,’ replies Sammy. “Oh Sammy! I don’t need a pirate for a fishing rod!” A light bulb appears over Knuxy’s head. Sammy seems to wonder where it came from. “Oh right a fishing rod hook!” Sammy doesn’t quite understand how Knuxy mixed this up in the first place. Knuxy pulls out a needle and threads it onto the fishing rod. “Good enough!” Knuxy pulls out a loaf of bread and sticks it on the needle casting the rod before Sammy has a time to act. ‘KNUXY! We could have eaten that!!’ “Then how would we have gotten the fish?” says Knux calmly.

After A Few minutes of sitting in the sand waiting for something to bite on the rod Knuxy gets frustrated. “What kind of fish doesn’t like a loaf of bread?” Knuxy yells at Sammy. ‘I’m guessing the kind that needs to chew,’ Sammy replies. “There could have been tons of full fish that we could have eaten by now! What are they doing?” ‘Maybe they are sleeping? Like we SHOULD be doing,’ Sammy stares at Knuxy. “Is it Illegal to assault a Pokemon?” Knuxy glares at Sammy. Just then the something catches on to the rod. “Oh Sammy! I’m sorry help me get this fish!” Sammy and Knuxy tug on the rope until a Horsea comes flying out. “Oh what an appetite that thing has,” Knuxy says in quite a shock. ‘It looks mad,’ Says Sammy.

The horsea leaps towards Knuxy. “Ahh! Sammy do something,” Knuxy screams. ‘You’re the trainer you have to tell me what to do… remember?’ “Oh that’s right,” says Knuxy after dodging the rabid Horsea. “Okay Sammy go on and use psychic!” Sammy concentrates and uses psychic on the rabid Horsea. Horsea fights back with water gun. ‘That hurts a bit.’ “Use tackle Sammy!” screams Knuxy. ‘Resorting to normal type moves now?’ Sammy rams against Horsea. Looks like it’s starting to affect the horsea. Horsea uses tackle on Sammy. ‘Horsea seems to be playing fair.’ “Well we aren’t anymore, Psychic Sam!” Sammy concentrates and uses psychic on the rabid Horsea. Horsea looks pretty weak now. Horsea squirts water in Sammy’s face. ‘Ooh.. I’m in pain.’ “How is it that water hurts so much?…” Knuxy pulls out a pokeball and throws it at Horsea. Dun-dun-ding. You caught A Horsea! “Oh sweet I caught that rabid thing!” Knuxy looks at Sammy. Knuxy frowns, “I’m sorry Sam, you weren’t well trained, you look exhausted.” Knuxy walks up to Sammy and picks her up. “We can go back to the base now.”

Knuxy walks into the base and walks into her room. She looks on the floor and sees Mousy and Batty passed out next to about 5 or so pizza boxes. Wow, they sure can eat. I better get some sleep now. She puts Sammy in a basket under the bed (Sammy’s favorite place) lies in her own bed and falls asleep. Knock-knock. “Hey Knuxy get up I got a job for you,” yells Brian from the other side of the door. “Brian I had to fight a rabid fish last night, just let me get off the hook, I need some sleep!” Knuxy tries to fall back asleep. Brian confused leaves Knuxy’s door and let’s her get a good days sleep.

Too short. And...not enough explaining. Missions should be about 1 or two pages in MS Word. Also capitalization problems. Instead of hitting the Tab button for a new paragraph, you can try hitting the enter or return key twice to start a new section in Gaia. It helps us grade.

Pass. This is much better then the original. Not quite perfect, but I'll let it slide seeing as it is a level one mission. You get the Zigzagoon and the 1000 PD. The story was cool also.

*Ike walks out to the lobby where he sees Genji grading Missions*
Ike: Busy? *Looks at the grades he handed out* Looks like it. sweatdrop *Suddenly remembers the team mission* Genji! This is really urgent! If it's only us, we need to team up so we can get this done!