Wes was on his way to Phenac City. He didn't really have a goal, he was just on the move after leaving the only family he knew. Then again, they weren't really his family since he took charge.
"Help! Someone let me out! Kidnappers!"
He followed the sound and saw two guys holding a huge bag that seemed to be squirming. One had black hair done in buns, the other had spiky blond hair.
"Tch! That tape didn't keep her yap shut." Said the guy with his back to Wes. "Hey, quit your shouting."
The other guy noticed Wes and they dropped the bag.
"Looks like you have a terrible luck." Said the blond guy as he pulled out two pokéballs.
Wes stared him down. "A battle will just draw attention. It would be smarter for you to run while you can."
He stepped back in recognition. "Wait, that face. Are you...?"
"Leave!"
They did so just as a runner came closer. Not wanting to draw attention to himself, he decided to be a good samaritan and help the person out. She said her name was Rui and asked about any "peculiar pokémon" the two had.
That sounded familiar, so Wes decided to help Rui a bit and see where this led.
They went to the Major Es Cade's house who said he'd look into it. "In the mean time, why don't you check out our Pokémon Stadium?"
That was of no interest to Wes, what was of interest was Rui talking about a "shadowy aura" certain pokémon had. His intensity forced him to tell her the truth.
He said how he was a member of Team Snagem and was in fact one of their best snaggers. She was taken back until he asked where all Orre's pokémon came from, that they rescued pokémon from slavery and bad trainers. That was until Gonzap took over and changed their mission. He tried ignoring everything, but he couldn't any longer when Gonzap aligned with Team Cypher. That's when he stole the snag machine and left.
After taking a few minutes to come to terms with what he just said, Rui and Wes agreed to find the strange pokémon and take down Cypher.
She made a remark about how Orre didn't have pokéballs, which got him to smirk and take her to his bike.
He drove her to the Outskirt Stand, where he stepped on a pokéflute and pocketed it.
When he entered the train, he went to the owner.
"Hey, what can I get for you?"
"Pokéballs." Wes said quietly. Before the owner could say anything, he continued. "I know you worked for Team Snagem and I know you have plenty of pokéballs that would be hard to get rid of. I don't want to cause you trouble, I just need to buy some pokéballs from you sometimes."
The owner looked conflicted, but gave him a few he had on him. "Next time, use the back entrance."
Wes nodded and discreetly took them. "Well, it'll have been an hour by the time we get back." He said to Rui. "Let's see what the Major found."
When they arrived, however, Es Cade wasn't home but Rui's kidnappers were. Along with their boss.
Miror B. told the two to clean up their mess before leaving his his colour coded bodyguards.
Wes sent out Umbreon and Espeon while the blond guy, Folly, sent out a Lotad and the black haired one, Trudly, sent out a Makuhita.
Rui gasped. "Wes," she whispered, "that's the pokémon I was talking about."
Wes nodded and palmed a pokéball.
He didn't want Umbreon any near Makuhita, so has him deal with the Lotad while Espeon dealt with it.
It was a tough battle, but by the time Lotad has fainted, Makuhita wasn't looking too good himself, that's was when Wes threw the pokéball. It struggled a bit, but was caught.
Panicked, the two ran away again, while Rui congratulated him on the snag. Wes, however, knew this wasn't over.
When they left, they immediately saw the green Cypher goon blocking the left entrance. He looked around and saw the blue goon blocking the main entrance, and the red goon blocking the right.
Rui was worried. "What do we do now?"
"Nothing." Was all he said before walking towards the Pokémon Centre.
Rui was shocked and had to run to catch up with him. "So that's it? You're just giving up?"
"My pokémon are injured, there's nothing I can do."
After he got to the Centre, he gave his pokékon to be healed and asked for a private room to wait.
When they got to the room, Wes sat down and explained to Rui the plan. "I've met those three before. The green guy has a Bayleef, the red guy has a Quilava, and the blue guy has a Croconaw. I'm willing to bet those are the Shadow Pokémon but when I snag one, the other two will run. So, I have to decided now which one to snag."
While he thought, he decided to clean sand out of the pokéflute he found.
Not long after he was done cleaning it, he had a call that his pokémon were healed.
He grabbed them and decided to snag [BLANK].
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