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MISSION- Shadow Sneak

We�re getting word that the supposedly abandoned Shadow Pokemon Lab in central Orre is active again. I need you to go there and find out what�s going on.

Take this Disk. It�s got a Data Retrieval Program to copy the files we need. Just get to the Lab�s mainframe and plug it in.

Stealth is critical and I don�t know what their security setup is like. But if you set off the alarm, you�ll have to fight your way out. (If you�re discovered, fight 2 guards with 2-3 pokemon each)

Pokemon:
Since this is a stealth operation, you should avoid wild pokemon.

Rewards: 2000-2500

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One bright and sunny morning, Sora was in his room sleeping in on a beautiful Saturday. His pet panda was trying to wake the sleeping Sora up by shaking him, but Sora didn’t wake up a bit. The panda walks over and grabs a pokeball. Somehow, the panda knew how to work it after watching Sora use some pokeballs. The panda releases the pokemon inside the pokeball and a giant, red lizard appears. It roars and roars loudly and looks at Sora. Sora had awakened from hearing the loud roaring and had fallen over his comfy bed. He stands up and looks at Charizard, the lizard, and Primula, the baby panda. “How were you released X? I don’t remember letting you out of your pokeball,” Sora says rubbing his head with a sleepy face. Primula smiled at Sora ran to him to give a hug. Sora looks down and sees that Primula is holding a pokeball. It seems that she never let go of it. “I guess I know who released Charizard now, right Primula?” Sora said picking up the baby panda. Primula kept smiling and gave Sora the pokeball. Sora then returns Charizard into his pokeball by pressing a button and Charizard turns into a red light. The pokeball opens and Charizard goes inside the pokeball. After the pokeball closes and is put away. Sora then looks around the place. “Well, today is a nice day. Let’s go do something fun together,” Sora says putting Primula down. “Let me go change and then we can decide where to go.” He begins to walks towards his closet full of clothes and takes out one. He then walks into his bathroom and changes.

He comes out all ready to go, as though he was going to be journeying. “Alright Primula, it’s time to go,” Sora says picking up the baby panda. He walks over to the door and puts his hand on the knob. He then turns the knob and opens it. Sora and Primula then sees some kind of scientist rushing towards Sora. Sora was surprised and soon enough… boom! Sora and the scientist crashed while Primula was safe since when Sora was hit, she landed on the couch. The scientist stands up and quickly closes the doors, shuts the blinds, and makes sure no one is looking. Sora gets up and looks at the scientist with a mad face. “Hey! Why are you in...” Sora said before he was interrupted by the scientist. “I’m sorry for intruding, but this is very urgent,” the scientist said calmly. Sora and Primula looks at the scientist with a curios face. “I am Brandon, a scientist here in the Aqua labs. I work with other different scientists and people who aren’t scientists. Anyways, it is time to talk about the important stuff. Some scientists and others have recently discovered that the laboratory in Orre has just been active. We don’t know why, but we believed that no one used it anymore. I want you to go and see what is going on in there. Here I want you to take this to copy down data,” Brandon says, taking out a miniature disk that says “Data Retrieval Program.” “All you have to do is slide it into the lab’s mainframe and you should have it. Easy as can be,” Brandon said, holding the disk out to Sora. Sora looks at the disk and grabs it. He walks over and places it into his backpack and then puts the backpack on his pack. “Okay. I got it now. A new mission is to be done,” Sora says looking at Brandon. Brandon bows to Sora and begins to walk out of the room. He then closes the door.

Sora turns his head towards Primula. Primula was a bit sad that she wouldn’t be able to spend time with Sora. “It’s okay Primula. We’ll have a great time tomorrow,” Sora said with a smile. “I should be back at nigh time, I hope. I’ll see you then,” Sora says as he walks out of his room. Primula was on the bed and covered herself so she would sleep. Sora closes the door and heads out of Aqua, going to the entrance door. He says high to others and waves to them. He then reaches the entrance door and holds on the handle. He then pushes and walks out.

The bright sun was shining bright. The pokemon that are around here are all playing and having fun. Sora smiles a bit and then grabs out a pokeball. “Alright, go X,” Sora says throwing the pokeball. The pokeball reacts and releases the pokemon inside with a white flash. The same pokemon in the room appears in front of Sora, roaring loudly and louder. Charizard then stops roaring and looks at Sora. “Now X, we need to get to Orre. You know where that is right?” Sora says getting on to the neck of the fiery lizard. “I know where Orre is alright. Just hold on tight,” Charizard says, flapping his large wings. Charizard takes flight and begins to head towards the sky. He then flies off to Orre.

As Sora reaches Orre and the laboratory, the place begins to get dark. If you look up, the place seems as though there was going to be a dangerous storm. Sora didn’t understand why when it was sunny and bright. Charizard lands down on a spot where Sora and Charizard can’t be detected. Sora gets off Charizard and quietly returns him. Sora looks at the laboratory a bit nervous and tries to get in undetected.

He goes to a wall and hides himself from being seen. He then looks at the front entrance and sees that there aren’t any guards. He carefully walks in the laboratory and looks around. The place was a mess like something bad happened and still no guards to be seen anywhere near. The place was getting weirder and weirder every second. Sora sees two ways to go. One way was glowing with the colors of green, purple, and red. The other way wasn’t glowing at all. He begins to walk the path with the colors glowing.

As he continues forward, he begins to see some people. He tries to hide and climbs up the wall with two hands on one wall and two legs on the other. The guards pass by without seeing Sora. Sora then climbs down carefully, trying not to create noise. He then walks forward and sees a creation of stuff. He sees all kinds of pokemon and researchers everywhere. Sora didn’t see the mainframe anywhere though. He had taken the wrong path. He begins to turn around and walks back.

He reaches the beginning again and begins to walk the path with no glowing light. He was then spotted by the two guards that he hid from when climbing the walls. “Hey! We got a runt here, trying to figure us out. Get him!” one of the guards said. “Alright. Let’s double team him. Go Honchkrow,” the second guard said as he throws out a dark pokeball. “Go Houndoom,” the first one said as he throws out a dark pokeball. Sora looks as the two pokemon were released. “Dang it. I was caught. Well, I guess it’s time for a battle. Show them what you got Buzz.” Sora throws out a pokeball and an electric spark is made. Then a pokemon appears as the spark turns into powerful amount of electricity. “Now go Bliz,” Sora says releases another pokemon. Some giant shards of ice appear together from the ground and then breaks. The electricity is broken and an electric pokemon shows its true self. It was an Electabuzz. As the ice shards broke an elegant pokemon appears beautifully. It was a Froslass. The two pokemon looked at one another and then the other pokemon. “It’s time to get this battle started,” Sora said thinking.

G1: Fine. Houndoom use Flamethrower on Froslass.
“Buzz, shock that Honchkrow with Thunder.”
G2: Use a Dark Pulse on Electabuzz.
“Bliz, use Icy Wind on that dog.”

As the trainers told the pokemon what to do, the pokemon listened and began to use them. Houndoom charges up fire in his mouth. Electabuzz punches his fists together and charges up electricity. Honchkrow charges up energy in his mind. Froslass swirls her hand around and around. All pokemon were on different sides. Electabuzz on the lower left, Froslass on the lower right, Houndoom on the top left, and Honchkrow on the top right. The attacks would collide in the middle and create a giant explosion. The attacks were launched at one another. The ice wind quickly headed to Houndoom first. Houndoom then lets out his flamethrower, making the ice melt, but Froslass kept on pushing the attack to try and get farther and attack Houndoom. Electabuzz and Honchkrow then add on and use their attacks. Electabuzz lets out his hands shooting powerful rays of thunder at Honchkrow while Honchkrow sends out pulses to break the rays. Soon enough all four attacks collided, but nothing happens. The attacks were going back and forth. Now it was the matter of strength unless something goes wrong.

“Don’t give up Buzz, Bliz.”
G1: Keep blowing fire Houndoom.
G2: Use the pulses to defend and attack.

The pokemon kept trying and trying, not giving up. A couple of seconds have past and all four pokemon were tired. Soon enough the attacks connected together and created something in middle. It was very strange and it was a combination of the four elements of electricity, ice, fire, and dark. This was very new to Sora and after a couple of seconds… BOOM!!!

The smoke clears as the sound of red sirens ring. Sora sees his pokemon have lost and so have the guards. It was a draw. It didn’t matter to Sora though. Once that alarm went on, he knew that a lot more guards would come. He quickly returns his pokemon and runs off. The guards try to follow him, but couldn’t from all the smoke. Sora had on goggles and keeps on running with his backpack. His mission wasn’t to get the data yet, but to run without getting captured and dieing.

He quickly spots a room and runs into it. He locks the door and sees a bed. He must have gone the way to the dorm. He spots a pokemon machine to the far right corner. He walks over and quickly places down the two pokemon he fought with. He then unlocks a door and walks out carefully.

The sirens went out, but guards were everywhere. He did the climbing he did with the other path and climbed the walls. As guards passed by, he went down without making a noise. He then carefully walks towards a huge laboratory. As he enters, he sees a giant machine.

He was amazed as he was the machine and quickly ran up to the machine. He takes out the disk Brandon gave him and slid it into the mainframe. The data loads onto the disk fast. Sora waited a few minutes and the disk wasn’t done with the data. The data seemed to have a lot of information. He then hears the door close shut. He turns around and sees the same guards from last time. “It’s time we settle the score with ya runt. This time, we won’t mess up. Go Tyranitar,” the first guard said, throwing a dark pokeball. “Ya. Go Drapion,” the second guard said, throwing a dark pokeball. Two pokemon appear in front of the guards, blocking the way out. Sora had to win this battle to get out. “Fine. Go Blast and Beta,” Sora says throwing out two pokeball. One pokemon was releases and a high rise of water appears. The pokemon appeared inside of the water. A purple bubble floating in the air appears and the pokemon was inside. After a couple of seconds the water burst and the bubble breaks. A giant, blue pokemon that looked like a turtle appears on one side while a small, floating pokemon that looks like armor appears. It was a Blastoise and Bronzor.

G1: Tyranitar, use Earthquake.
“You know Earthquake also hurts your teammates pokemon. Who cares though? Use Hydro Pump on Tyranitar, Blast.”
G2: The runt is right about Earthquake. Drapion, use Fire Fang on that metal armor thing.
“That metal armor thing has a name ya know. Send a Gyro Ball at Drapion.”

Tyranitar’s attack goes first. Tyranitar jumps into the air and slams down. An earthquake is created and hurts Blastoise and Drapion. Blastoise was almost sent down to yellow life while Drapion was sent down below half of his Hp. Blastoise then charges up his cannons and fire out high water at Tyranitar. It hits Tyranitar sending him down to a red life bar. Drapion then runs towards Bronzor and bites him with fiery teeth. The attack hurt Bronzor as it left a mark on him. The mark then burns Bronzor. Bronzor was now burned from the Fire Fang. Bronzor went down to yellow life because of the attack and the burn. Bronzor thinks and then begins to create a silvery ball. The ball was made up of Drapion’s speed. After the ball is complete from charging, Bronzor lets the attack out at Drapion. The attack hits Drapion, but it didn’t KO him. Drapion has 3% of his life now. Everyone was hurt on the first attack.

“It’s time I finished this up. Send out another load of Hydro Pumps Blast.”
G1: Use Hyper Beam on the Blastoise.
“Use Payback on that Drapion.”
G2: Crunch on Bronzor.

The attacks were all ready to be launched at. Blastoise and Tyranitar sent out their attack at each other. Blastoise keeps on shooting out high water while Tyranitar attacks with a high beam. Drapion runs up to Bronzor crunches him. Bronzor was easily sent down to red life because burn did much damage and the attack Drapion used added on. Bronzor then uses Payback and sends Drapion flying backwards, hitting the wall. Drapion was easily KO’d after the attack. Blastoise and Tyranitar kept on going. The beam was weakening while the launches of water were lowering. The two attacks were lowering down until they quickly charged back up to high amounts of energy. Blastoise was sending out maximum amounts of water at Tyranitar. Tyranitar was sending out maximum amount of energy at Blastoise. Soon enough an explosion happened.

Smoke was everywhere again, but not too badly. A sound was then heard and Sora turns around. The data was completely loaded onto the disk. He quickly runs over with his goggles on and takes out the disk. He then turns around and looks at the battle. The smoke clears and both Blastoise and Tyranitar were down. Sora had won since Bronzor was still alive. Sora returns his pokemon. The guards were distracted by smoke and the door was broke open since Tyranitar slammed into the door after the explosion. Sora quickly runs out of the large room and grabs out a pokeball. Sirens were still running as he kept on running trying to get to the entrance. He sees a bunch of guards coming his way and releases the pokemon inside. The lizard appears and Sora jumps on him. “Get us both out of here fast,” Sora said holding on tight. Charizard quickly flaps his wings and burst through the ceiling. Charizard then flies back to Aqua Base, but makes a stop at the Pokemon Center.

Charizard stops at the Pokemon Center. It was in Kanto though. Charizard waited outside like a guard. Sora enters the Cerulean Pokemon Center and walks up to the front desk. A beautiful lady dressed like a nurse saw Sora. She then smiles as Sora stops.

Nurse Joy: It is very nice to see you again, Sora.
“It is also nice to see you again, Nurse Joy.”
Nurse Joy: How can I help you?
“I need you to heal my pokemon please,” Sora says taking out some pokeballs.
Nurse Joy: Alright. This will only take a couple of minutes. Sora hands Nurse Joy the pokeballs and then headed towards the healing room. Sora stands and looks around at the others waiting. Nurse Joy came back with his pokeballs and hands them it.
Nurse Joy: There ya go. Have a nice day now.
“You too, Nurse Joy,” Sora says walking out. He puts away the pokeballs and looks at Charizard. Two people were going to enter the Pokemon Center, but saw Charizard. They carefully walked, trying not to get Charizard mad. Charizard then turns his head at the two. He gave an angry face. The two people ran off scared. Sora then jumps on Charizard. “What was that for? You mad me look stupid,” Sora said angrily. “It’s not my fault. Anyways, we should head back to Aqua HQ now,” Charizard said heading off. Charizard and Sora fly off to Aqua HQ.

After a while, it was dark since it was night time. Charizard lands at Aqua HQ and jumps off Charizard. Sora returns Charizard and walks into Aqua HQ. Primula then rams into him and Sora falls down. Sora looks at Primula and smiles. “I’m back,” he said standing up, holding the baby panda. He then walks towards the Aqua lab, holding the disk he downloading the data on. He walks over and opens the large door to the laboratory. He looks around and sees all kinds of experiments. He then spots Brandon and walks towards him.

“Hey Brandon. I got the disk with data,” Sora said holding out the disk. Brandon smiles at Sora and takes the disk. “Thank you for your hard work Sora,” Brandon said. Sora smiles back, holding Primula and walks out of the laboratory. He then heads off to bed.

Primula was sleeping on the bed with him. He was tired and already ate, brushed his teeth, and was in his pajamas. He was thinking what the data was about. He then goes to sleep and wakes up the next day.

He had a fun day on Sunday from going to the park with Primula. They both spent time together and a nice, warm day. The day was great while Brandon was in the laboratory, studying what the data was about.

*Reading over the mission, my eyebrows furrow in concern*

I have this sneaking feeling that you type too fast. There are more minor typos in this mission than I could count. For a level 2 mission though, minor typos alone aren't enough to fail. Please, in the future, run a spell check on your report.

You had a decent storyline for the mission, which is good. Keep practicing your style and turn "decent" into "awesome." blaugh

My main concern this time was the relative ease of the battles. Four trainers with only a single pokemon each? I'd hope the ringleader should have more pokemon than his minions. Particularly when he calls them "weaklings!"

As a "battle rules" note, Swift targets both foes in a double battle and cannot be dodged without Protect, Detect, Dig, Fly, Dive, or Shadow Force.

Even so, since this is a level 2 mission, I'll let you squeak through with a passing grade. But be sure to brush up some more on your next mission!

Deryx walked outside after leaving his room for the first time and released the four of his pokemon that were in their pokeballs, so they could stretch, and Troy, Pombii, Sturn (Skarmory), Hippopotas, Notty, and Totodile, ran about messing around, and they all marveled at Sturn with his body that shined in the sun. Except Totodile who could care less, "Totodile doesn't seem to like Sturn." Troy said poping up out of nowhere, "I know, he is the one that had to battle him to, so its not so happy about how it got attacked."

Miko walked in."Sorry I haven't been in here lately." She said, smiling.

Level 2
MISSION- Clone Clearout
Must complete Fearow of Water

The word in Lavender Town is that Team Aqua has been moving large amounts of equipment out of the Power Plant. But we don't have an installation there, so it can't be our doing.

I've looked over the legband recovered from the Fearow, and it looks like the work of Team Clone.

Your mission is to get inside the plant and find whatever is left of their operation. Bring back any documents you can get your hands on. Try to go unseen, but you might have to fight anyway. (Fight 0-3 guards with 1-3 pokemon each)

Pokemon: Any basic stage Electric or Ghost type

Funds: 1000-1800
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I went down to the lab where Thard was. He had invited me there, though it was more like a summons. I had no clue what for, as he had dropped no hints. Walking over to him, Thard sighed. "Do you remember the legband you brought me a while back? The one from the Fearow?" I nodded. "Well, I've finished analyzing the data from it, and it looks like Team Clone was behind it." Staring at him in disbelief, I asked, "What could they be up to this time?"

Thard shrugged. "I have no idea. All I know is that it looks like they're work. And now, they're moving stuff from the Power Plant and framing us for it." "How do you know about this?" I asked. Thard replied, "We've been trying to track their movements for a while, but its been hard to. We knew what they were doing at first, but then the trail went cold and we lost them. Now, a few days ago, we found them."

I nodded. "I had wondered what they were doing, and what we were doing about them, and now I know." Thard said, "Well, we need you to go to the Power Plant and try to find out exactly what they're up to. It may be difficult, but they might have some plans lying around that we can get something from." I nodded again.

"Well, I guess I'll have to do this to try to stop Team Clone from giving us a bad reputation. I can't let them turn the world against us and have people form a new team called 'Team Anti-Aqua' to stop us." Leaving the lab, I sat for a while pondering the mission. Once I arrived at Power Plant, I would have no place to switch Pokemon, so I wanted to bring good Pokemon. Finally, I decided on Salamence, Wartortle, Prinplup, Tyranitar, Espeon, and Houndoom.

I went outside and hopped on Salamence, who flew me to a place near the Power Plant. I returned him when I got there and cautiously moved forward, on the lookout for guards. However, I saw none outside and entered the Power Plant. I saw movement coming towards me and dived for cover behind a wall. Peering around the corner, I saw a Team Clone member walk by, dressed in an Aqua uniform with a headband. His face was one I didn't recognize. I had the urge to jump out, tackle him, and beat him up, but resisted. The mission was about stealth, getting in and out quickly. Once he had passed, I waited for him to reenter and then followed him.

I looked like the person imitating me, so nobody would suspect me of being a real Aqua member, unless the Team Clone member that looked like me came across me, which would be just my luck. However, he didn't turn up, as he either wasn't here or was occupied with other matters. I was hoping for the latter, as if he wasn't here, it wouldn't be good for him to show up randomly. I followed the person until there was a fork. He turned left, and I turned right. Hoping I wouldn't be missed too much, I entered a room that looked empty. Of course, it was empty. It had the look of disuse in some places, with half an inch of dust. However, there were some foot imprints there and a clean spot on a table in there, which probably meant that something had been taken from there.

Exiting the room, I entered another room. A table was in there, but the room didn't look like the previous room. This room looked clean, and there was a paper on the table. Picking it up, I quickly scanned over it and put it in my pocket. It had seemed useful, and I was hoping Thard could get something from it. Looking for other things in the room, I found none and left. I heard voices getting louder and louder, so I moved towards them so I could listen. They were coming from the hallway I had followed the Team Clone member in.

Listening in on the conversation, I heard and saw Brian and Hunter's clones coming towards me. Trying to hide, I couldn't enter the door that I was next to, as it was locked. The two clones paid me minimal attention, nodding at me as they passed. However, I could pick up a few of their words, like 'frame Aqua' and 'Power Plant.' I couldn't hear any other words, though, and continued the way they came from.

A few doors down I heard a thrumming noise coming from one of the doors. Entering, I noticed a huge screen that showed some views of the Power Plant and a huge computer that had tons of data which I didn't understand on the screen. Plugging my TADS into the outlet, I downloaded all the data and forwarded it to Thard, hoping that it was useful as the paper might be. Then, entering what the paper had on it, I sent that to Thard as well, just in case my mission didn't go as planned.

I exited the room and went back down the hall, looking for more items to send to Thard. I found another couple of very important papers that had obviously been misplaced, something that the true Team Aqua wouldn't have done. I sent them to Thard and headed for the exit, trying to avoid all suspicion by yelling out the door after someone I had just invented. I didn't attract much attention by the guards patrolling there (which hadn't been there on my way in) and sent out Salamence when I was out of sight and continued to yell. When it was time to go, I stopped, and knew I would draw suspicion when I didn't return, and flew away as fast as I could.

I knew Team Clone would figure out that somebody had been there and snooped around, and I knew that they would immediately suspect Team Aqua, or to be more specific, me. They knew that I had been in on the legband thing and taken one, they knew I had found out about the Power Plant somehow, and they knew that I had gotten valuable information, which would probably make them rush their plans so I couldn't stop them, and possibly make them make a mistake.

I flew back to HQ and went immediately to Thard, making sure he had the data and giving him the data from my TADS and the original papers to see if there was anything on them that I couldn't have sent to him. There was nothing, and Thard thanked me for my work and started trying to work out what the data was. I went upstairs to my room and went to sleep, as I had had a hard day (not physically, but avoiding detection for so long) and slept for many straight hours.

Deryx sat on the couch, Troy was on the chair asleep and snoring, and Pombii was in the air vents, as usual. Deryx hand released Sturn in the room while he watched TV and Sturn was watching SL as she was grading the missions. Sturn seemed to notice everything. Deryx looked at Sturn, "Sturn you know it's not nice to stare." Sturn seemed angered at being talked to like a little kid, "Skar, Skarmory." Sturn said angered then went back to watching SL.

Jay returned his Pokemon and went into his room. When he got to his room he turned on his Playstation 2 and started to play Kingdom Hearts.