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The three friends soon made it back to the place where they had left the other two rockets and where surprised to find the pair of them asleep in each others arms. James stared at them in shock, he never knew the pair were a couple. He glanced across at Jessie, who looked just as shocked as he was, and asked, “So do we wake them up or what?”
“I suppose we better.”
James nodded and bent down to lightly shake the pair awake, it didn’t take too long. The pair sat up blinking and wiping sleep out of their eyes. Cassidy glared angrily at Jessie and James. Meowth noticed she was about to say something and quickly cut in by saying “We’ve something important to ask you so can we leave the hostilities till afterwards.”
Cassidy stared at him before nodding softly. “So what’s so important then?” she asked.
“Well you see I just caught a new pokemon but there’s something strange about it.” Jessie replied.
“What?” Butch asked.
“It’s got a tattoo.”
The two other rockets looked at each other and the looked back at Jessie and James.
“You’re joking right?” Butch asked.
“I wish.” Jessie said, “It says TR followed by a number. We guess the letters stand for Team Rocket but as for the number we’ve no idea.”
Cassidy nodded, “You’re right that is pretty strange, I wonder what all this means.”
“We were hoping you might know.” James said, sitting down on the sand, “I mean you seem to be higher in the bosses favour these days.”
“Perhaps,” Butch said, “But you’re the ones wearing the white uniforms not us.”
“This is hopeless, we’re never gonna find out what it means.” James said with a sigh.
“We could always ask The Boss.” Meowth said with a laugh.
“Good idea Meowth, I sure he’d tell us.” Jessie said, shaking her head slightly.
Cassidy was frowning slightly as if trying to decide something, she sighed and said, “This place has gotta have a lab somewhere right?”
“She’s a doctor do I guess so.” Butch said, frowning he was guessing where he train of thought was going.
“Then all we have to is find the lab computer, I’m sure the answer to this puzzle will be in there somewhere.”
“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Butch asked, placing one of his hands on hers.
“Don’t worry about it, we need answers and this is the only way to find out the answers.”
“I guess.” Butch replied, but he didn’t look convinced. He hated the idea of Cassidy putting her self in danger. If The Boss found out about this there would be hell to pay.
Cassidy stood up and brushed loose sand off her body, “Lets get going then.”
The others nodded and began to walk back to the house, when they reached the kitchen, Butch suggested that the girls go and get changed, they agree seeing as if was probably safer to wear more clothes when snooping round a lab. Butch went with seeing as his clothes were kinda wet and James agreed to meet them in the main hallway.
Once they had split up James and Meowth headed through the dinning hall and into the main hallway. While he was waiting James decided to check out one of the door on the right side of the room, Meowth decided to wait in the hall and sat down on the stairs to wait. He ignored the brown door and opened the blue door that stood next to it instead. It opened into a small cloakroom where a few coats were hung on hoods. There was another door leading out of that room and continuing to the right. He opened it and found himself staring at another toilet.
He heard a noise behind him, he spun round but there was nothing there, then he noticed something on the floor. He bent down and found that a pair of marbles were just sitting there. He could have sworn they weren’t there when he came into the room. With a shrug he picked them up and dumped them into a pocket of his shorts, thinking you could never know when a pair of marbles could come in handy.
He headed back out to the main hall and sat down on the stairs next to Meowth to wait for the others. Meowth looked up at him and said, “Did you find anything interesting?”
“Nope, just a couple of marbles.”
Meowth sighed, typical James to call marbles interesting. They didn’t have to wait much longer for the others to get there. The girls were wearing the same clothes they’d put on before getting changed for the beach and Butch was wearing another pair shorts and another T-shirt.
James and Meowth got up and James told them what he found behind the blue door. The others nodded, Butch pulled open the brown door and the five entered. They found themselves in a long corridor, with a white carpet and two windows to left that looked out to the helipad in the front of the house. They followed the corridor round to a door. They opened the door and walked into another corridor, it was a small corridor which lead to a flight of stairs leading up a another door.
James reached for the door only to find it locked. He frowned slightly, seeing as this was the first locked door they had come across. He looked at the others and said, “I guess we’ll have to leave this one for now, unless someone’s got some lock picks on them.”
The others all shock their heads, “Oh well maybe we’ll find the key.” Butch said, as he lead the group up the stairs to another long corridor. There was a door at the end of the corridor with a couple of doors one to the left and the other opposite it. James walked up to the one on the left and opened it. He stepped in and looked around, it was obvious to him that they had found the Doc’s bedroom. He was about to leave again when he noticed a picture that stood on the dressing table. He walked over to it, picked it up and almost dropped it again.
It was a picture of the ghost, well the ghost and The Boss anyway. Though The Boss looked a lot young in the picture and was also wearing a white Team Rocket uniform. He looked at the picture for a couple of minutes before quickly shutting the door behind him. The others we leaning against the wall waiting for him, Jessie frowned when she noticed how pale he looked.
She walked over to him and placed a concerned hand on his arm, “You all right?”
James nodded and said, “Yeah, I’m fine, I’m just tired I guess.”
Jessie nodded but she didn’t really believe that was all there was to it, but she wasn’t going to push the subject with Butch and Cassidy standing there. They looked into the other door but it turned out to be another bathroom, so there was no where left to go but out the door at the end of the corridor. They walked through the door and found themselves above the main hall.
They decided to enter the door next to the one they had just exited and they found themselves in another corridor. This corridor was almost totally empty apart from another door an a small stuffed Growlithe that had been mounted into the left wall. They walked past the stuffed pokemon, not really paying to much attention to it, though James felt a little sad as he remembered his own Growlithe that he’d left back home.
They walked through the other door and found themselves outside on a huge balcony which over looked the lush jungle on the island. From here they could see the beach, the lake and the meadow that they hadn’t visited yet.
“Well,” James said, with a sigh, “I guess that’s it then, unless we can get that door open we’re not going to find the lab.”
The others nodded and they return to the corridor with the stuffed Growlithe, but as they walked past it, Cassidy happened to glance at it and gasped in surprise. “Hay guys, this thing hasn’t got any eyes.”
The others stopped and turned to look more closely at the stuffed pokemon and soon discovered that the eye sockets were strangely empty.
"That's odd,” Butch said, shaking his head, “Why stuff something and then forget the eyes.”
“Maybe they fell out years ago and she never got around to getting it fixed.” Jessie said, with a shrug.
“You’re probably right.” Butch said.
James reached into his pocket and pulled out the two marbles he had found earlier. They looked like they might fit, and he didn’t really need them so he reached over and pushed them into the eye sockets. There was a loud click and suddenly the Growlithe’s mouth opened causing the five rockets to jump back. Something fell from the Growlithe’s mouth and landed with a click on the hard wooden floor.
James bent down and picked up the object, turned round grinning. “It’s a key and I can almost guarantee it’s the key to the labs.”
“More then likely, but what kinda person leaves a key inside a stuffed animal.” Jessie said, with a frown.
“The type of person who doesn’t want people snooping around in their labs.” Meowth suggested. The others nodded and they started for the locked door down stairs, but Butch couldn’t shake the feeling that all this was kind of familiar somehow.