A Pokemon World 7 - Caught

Caught

They decided to go to the space station, where they had to wait for another tour to finish. No one was allowed anywhere for fear that they might launch a nuke or something.

“Tour group seventeen is grouping.” Said the alakazam that had suddenly appeared in the doorway to the center. He was dressed up, which was odd for pokémon, as they had fur that covers any obscenities, in a uniform that looked suspiciously like he ripped it off from a bus driver.

“Finally” Ninetales said as she stood. She grabbed her bag in her mouth and tossed it over her back. “Let’s go.”

When the entire group had assembled, (our heroes, a family of kangaskhan, several jigglypuff and wigglytuff, and a rhydon) the tour guide shut the doors behind them. Everything went completely black. Then, a series of dashed red lights lit up on the walls.

“This way” He said, pointing down the hallway.

“Like we could go another way” Riley whispered to Lucario.

Riley bumped into something. He looked up to see the tour guide glaring down on him. “What was that?” He asked in an extremely menacing tone.

Riley froze. “N-nothing sir” He said. The guide gave him a last angry look and turned around to continue walking down the hall.

“Don’t let him get to you.” Riley looked back. A wigglytuff was standing over him.

Riley felt himself feeling better from his words. “Thanks” Riley said. He continued following the guide.

They found themselves in a hallway full of glass display cases and model space shuttles. A banner hanging from the ceiling dubbed this hallway the “Future Technologies”.

“-used for inter-galactic travel.” Said the tour guide. Riley had been drifting in and out. Learning was not his strong point. “Any questions?” He asked. No one spoke up. The guide smiled. “Then let’s continue towards our modern technology wing.”

Riley began to lose focus again. He was engrossed in several manikins of lunatone, solrock, and clefairy scattered around a red landscape. In the background there was a sign that read “could there be life on other planets?”

The tour guide, knowing full well that Riley was being left, only looked back for an instant before going to the next wing.

After several minutes of examining every small detail, Riley stirred. He looked for the group, but they weren’t anywhere to be found.

“Mother… Where did they go?” He asked himself.

He looked back into the hall with the red lights, but the lights were off. ‘Not there’ He thought.

He looked through the door to the modern technology wing. They had moved on from there, but he knew that he had no other option but to look through there.

He sighed and stepped in. A light turned on. ‘I need a motion activated light in my room.’ He thought to himself. As he looked around, he tried not to get stopped at the models. He didn’t enjoy reading the information that went with them, but he thought it would be fun to put them together.

‘Crap’ He thought, looking at two different doors leading from the same wall. He looked more closely at them. One read “Employees Only” and had a biohazard symbol on the front. He gave a short, self conscious laugh. ‘Let’s not take that one, shall we?’

He took the other door.






“Where did Riley go?” Andrew asked. They were almost done with the tour, and the gift shop was in sight.

Lucario, Lauren, and Ninetales looked around. He was nowhere in sight.

Lauren walked up to the tour guide, who was eyeing a baby kangaskhan that was looking at a plaque suspiciously. “Sir, one of our friends was left behind.” She said.

He sighed, and then glared down at her. “Oh really?” He asked in his annoyed don’t-bother-me-right-now tone.

Lauren backed up a step. The guide was intimidating enough without the voice. “Yes sir.”

He sighed again, and then pushed the other pokémon into the gift shop. “Let’s go look for him then.” He said. He walked out of the door, retracing his steps.

Riley had given up searching. The space center was like a labyrinth. He chose to wait for the next group and blend in with them. He was staring at a model of a pokéball with a text pad on the top. A noise sounded from a door. Riley spun around to see what it was. It opened to show Andrew, Lucario, Lauren, and Ninetales.

Lucario ran up to Riley and started shaking him. “What the hell were you doing?” He yelled.

The guide scoffed. “What a touching and heart wrenching reunion” He said. He walked to an ‘employees only’ door. “Would you five please come with me?” He asked.

“Why should we?” Lucario asked, blue aura pulsing from his paw.

The guide got up close, and put his muzzle into Lucario’s. “Because I said to” Lucario muttered something, but followed him. The others followed.






The guide shoved them into a Plexiglas case and shut the door.

“What the crap are you doing!?” Riley shouted. No answer. The guide walked off.

All around them was white. The walls were a white metal, with blue stripes painted on. Inside their cell was a yellow triangle with a number 4 painted in it. The floor was white linoleum, and it obviously had been cleaned recently for Riley looked at his reflection in the white floor. The ceiling was white as well. The fluorescent lights were the only light source. The only thing that wasn’t white was the Plexiglas that surrounded them. It was a light blue, but still transparent.

After what they guessed was an hour, two bipedal pokémon in hazmat suits came in and grabbed Lucario.

“Hey! What are you doing? Let me go!” He shouted. They didn’t seem to hear him. They continued walking. He was struggling as best he could, but to no avail. Riley tried his best to make them drop Lucario, but they just shoved him away.

He ran at the as fast as he could, but they shut the door, causing him to smash into the blue film.

“What are they doing with him?” Andrew asked.

Riley turned back toward him. “How the hell would I know!?” He snapped. Riley’s best friend had just been dragged away from him.






They waited for hours on end. Finally, a pink gas started spewing from the floor. It made them feel extremely drowsy. None of them lasted a minute before they fell asleep.

They awoke when they heard a door slam. The suited pokémon were walked away.

When everyone had had their fill of watching two hazmat suits walking away, their attention focused on Lucario.

“Holy… Lucario! What happened?” Andrew asked, as astonished as he was curious.