章 68: Dissatisfactory payback
I got quite a few stares as I walked through the gates of the town but I ignored them to walk over to the nearby Jenny. "I would like to report a crime." I said while ignoring the wary look the Arcanine at her side was giving me. Arcanine were almost synonymous with the the Jenny clan as they were perfect pokemon for crime fighting with their sharp senses and instincts. They were also rather powerful which made sense considering their size and type. The jenny noticed her partners wariness and looked at me seriously.-
"What crime are you wanting to report?" she asked sternly. "There is a warehouse on the south side of the town that is the being used as the base of operations for a thievery and pokenaping operation." I said casually and her eyes widened. She drew her gun on me "You better start explaining yourself now!" she demanded sternly. I didn't even twitch as I stared down the barrel and into her eyes. "One of the members of that group tried to rob me on the way here and told me about the warehouse after a friendly chat." I said calmly.-
"And where is this informant of yours?" she asked while lowering her gun a bit since I obviously wasn't concerned with it. "No clue , he vanished after I let him go." I said with a shrug. "You will stay here with my partner while I go get back up to check out this warehouse of yours." she said and I merely sat down on the ground cross legged. The jenny grit her teeth in frustration before running off to do what she said. I remained completely still while the Arcanine glared at me in warning to not try anything.-
I had no intention to anyways so I ignored it in favor of reaching into my bag and handing Tank another berry. I rolled my eyes when I saw the Arcanine flinch as I did so but chose to ignore it. I knew why the pokemon was so wary of me clearly. My close proximity to my pokemon without bathing over the last week meant that I smelled heavily of them. This Arcanine is definitely smelling them on me and having a instinctual tug of war as it fought it's instincts that told it to run far away.-
About twenty minutes later the jenny showed up with three others that each looked only slightly different from each other. "Has he done anything strange while I was gone?" the jenny asked her partner but the pokemon shook it's head. "Alright then Alexander this is how this is going to go , you are going to the station with us and then we are going to have a nice long conversation before you spend the night in a cell." The jenny said sternly. "So you are arresting me then?" I asked calmly. "Yes I am , got a problem with that?" she asked daring me to argue.-
"Why?" I asked without any change in expression. "Suspicion of criminal activity." she said smugly. I stood up at that and held out my hands calmly "If you say so one seven seven three six." I said calmly. She and the others stiffened when they heard me but I was entirely calm. I was aware of the reason for this little charade but refused to give them any pleasure from it. The Joy and jenny clans were both tight knit groups so it was easy to understand that this was retaliation for my previous actions involving my leaving of Iron town.-
'Play nice with those groups it is then.' I thought calmly as I was cuffed and led away. The police station was a simple metal building much like the pokecenter in design except it had a dark blue roof and grey walls. As this was a small towns station the building was fairly small and I had to duck when I walked in. The glares I got told me that I was right on the money about what was going on. Still I cut off all emotion with my ability and deadpanned the entire time I was led to the interrogation room.-
I was told to sit down on the hard purposefully uncomfortable chair and I did. The jenny left me in the room and I closed my eyes to meditate and wait. Thanks to my aura I could vaguely feel my surroundings so I knew that there was several jenny's on the opposite side of the mirrored glass. I ended up waiting close to two hours before it seemed to dawn on the jenny's that I was willing to wait it out indefinitely. Shortly after that another jenny entered the room and slammed her hands on the table to try and get a reaction from me.-
I slowly opened my eyes and looked at her without expression , it was pretty clear that my total calmness was starting to get under the jenny's skin with the look of frustration this one had. "Will you cooperate?" she eventually asked coldly. "I am" I said flatly. She grit her teeth "Are you part of a criminal organization?" "No" "Why are you in this town?" "Passing through to Rustboro." this back and forth went on for several hours but the jenny got more and more bothered as time went on as I had made sure that not a single muscle had twitched wrong in my body.-
In the end I got placed in a small cell while all of my belonging were taken alongside my pokemon who I can tell you were NOT happy , Tank even ate a jenny's cap. I sat on the floor cross legged in the cell and meditated for the whole night ignoring the periodic banging on the bars a jenny would do in an attempt to keep me from sleeping. I wasn't alone the whole night though as some aqua grunts were tossed in eventually but I ignored them.-
Meanwhile a meeting was being held in a room in the station with all the jenny's here. "Cut him loose in the morning." a elderly woman in uniform said while looking through a window. "But we haven't so much as gotten a twitch out of him despite all of this , he's making us look like fools!" the jenny that brought Alex in said angrily. "That's because we are fools , none of you have even noticed it have you?" the elderly woman asked with a sigh. "Noticed what that he is about as reactive as a corpse?" another jenny asked sarcastically.-
"So none of you have noticed that he has not moved at all this entire time. Not a single micrometer. He is not reactionless , that IS his reaction! You can't use stuff like this against people like him , they might as well be trees with how little it bothers them. So cut him lose we have had our toll from him so there won't be a repeat of this in the future , we aren't criminals." the elderly woman said and despite looking bitter about it none of the jenny's argued with her.
章 69: Birches call
I was well rested after meditating for the entire night and even made some slight improvement in my aura. "Your story checks out Alexander , you can go." a jenny said with clear dissatisfaction but I made no mention of it as I stood up and the aqua grunts all flinched as my joints loudly popped. "My pokemon?" I asked calmly while staring down at the jenny as she undid the cuffs they never took off of me. "At the front with the rest of your things." she said and moved out of my way as I started walking forward.-
Just because I was feeling extra petty after this over the top retaliation I channeled my aura to the soles of my feet and cracked the tile floors with every step. I arrived at the front desk and stared down at the person manning the desk. "My things?" I asked calmly. They acted like they hadn't heard me so I started to rearrange the things on the desk until they stopped me. "My things?" I asked again calmly while staring down at them. Knowing that they couldn't ignore me any longer the jenny handed over my bag and all my pokeballs.-
I couldn't help but feel slightly amused when the jenny struggled to hand over my spear that was still attached to the back holster I keep it in. I took it with a single hand and placed it on my back with little effort before starting to look through my bag as if I was counting my items. "Do you think we would steal from you?" the jenny asked with a clearly offended look. I didn't answer but place my bag back over my back on top of the spear holster. Wordlessly I walked out of the building cracking every tile I stepped on on the way out.-
I finally released my emotional suppression ability that I had been holding since I noticed the start of this trouble and everyone within a twenty meter range recoiled in fright as all that suppressed rage came pouring out at once in the form of near physical bloodlust. I took a moment to breath deeply and control myself before walking down the street of the town and entering the pokemart. I needed to stock up on a bit more food before I left the town and did so politely since I had learned my lesson.-
Even if rather uncomfortable it was not worth the hassle that came with dropping pretenses the first chance I got. After dropping a thousand poke on food I made my way out the opposite side of the town and released my pokemon immediately. Gaia wasted no time at all leaving thick furrows in the road while Vulcan melted it from pure fire type energy. Tank took his place on my shoulder and Rune merely glared and snorted at the nearby jenny. My pokemon are great am I right?-
With that inconvenience done with we continued our journey towards Rustboro for our first gym challenge and badge. About ten minutes after we left the town though my pokenav started to loudly make noise. I took it out of my bag and opened it which apparently was enough to answer the match call. "Alex? You there?" Birches voice came through he small speaker at the top of the device. "Yeah what's up?" I asked casually while holding the device next to my face. "Be straight with me here , did you attack a jenny and joy before proceeding to make said joy cry a few days ago?" he asked seriously.-
"Is that the story they are telling now? Doesn't matter I guess but no I did not do any of that. What really happened was that the joy thought we were friends or something and chased me after I left the town since I hadn't said goodbye. Vulcan thought it might be an attack and fired a warning shot to get the charging Dodrio to stop. After that I calmly explained the truth of the situation and the joy left crying over something that never existed." I explained honestly. Birch was silent for a moment as my words sank in.-
"So this whole thing was started because of a misunderstanding?" he asked tiredly. "Funny how often that is the case isn't it?" I asked with a chuckle. "You're lucky I have some sway with the regions matriarchs in those two clans and can get this matter settled without things escalating." Birch said tiredly. "Speaking of what's up with this list of pokemon I just got after the Jenny clan hazed you like night?" he added curiously. "You must be referring to Tank and Rune I assume? I found them in the unexplored land between the towns. Pretty cool right?" I asked with a grin.-
"Be honest right now are you some sort of chosen one or something because your luck is bordering on terrifying!" Birch said with no small amount of envy. 'Oh you have no fucking clue.' I thought with a snicker. "Don't know about that chosen one thing but I sure as hell am not going to question my own luck so long as it helps me." I say with a laugh. "Well in any case try and keep yourself out of any more of these "misunderstandings" will you? I'm putting my neck out here and I rather like my current reputation thank you very much." Birch said half jokingly half seriously.-
"Not to worry I plan to play nice from now on though you can sort of expect me to never use a pokecenter for anything beyond jobs from now on." I said honestly. "Can't say as I can blame you to be honest , I'm told the hazing that the jenny clan gives troublemakers is a taste of what actual criminals are subjected to." He says and I can hear him shudder through he speaker. "It was just as uncomfortable for them as it was for me I can tell you that now , you should have seen their faces the whole time." I said while laughing.-
He sighed "I'm sure I will hear all about it when I talk to the matriarchs. Call me after you reach Rustboro , Birch out." he said before hanging up. "Well I'd say that went well , what do you guys think?" I asked my pokemon and got the equivalent of a shrug. "Welp who wants to go terrorize the locals?" I asked and all my pokemon cheered together. 'I think I might be a bad influence.' I thought with a chuckle before leading my strange group into the dense forest.-
The day went great after that as Rune gained five levels thanks to the experience he got from battling wild pokemon. None of them were exotic or anything like that and the strongest we saw was a mere level thirty Linoone. Still Rune got a three more moves out of it in the form of smokescreen , tail whip and thunderwave. Contrary to what you may think smoke screen was actually a normal type move which was frankly weird but I didn't question it.
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