The Great Cookie Capers!

[Xenoic]

*Xenoic glances up and is surprised at the appearance of Mr. Fuji despite being unfazed at the sight of Bailey and the cadavers*

"I didn't realize you would actually bring THE Mr. Fuji, considering his stance on genetics now. Mr. Fuji, I understand this is not what you wanted to do in your spare time but, what I'm trying to accomplish is the saving of life through... unorthodox methods. This type of science can be applied to the medical field too and understand anatomy and cells better. I have always released important discoveries in the field, as I'm sure you know. Understand that the subject and specimen will be under sedatives and anesthesia to make sure they don't suffer."

*Xenoic then looks at Duplicat* "Preserve the cadavers over there," *Points towards a newly made tank full of ice imported from Unova's famous Kyruem-made ice in Opelucid city after the event* "And after that transport Bailey into the observation room" (The room consists of a closed environment with a biometric lock door and glass windows to observe specimens within)

"I have no specific vendetta against Bailey but whatever works I guess, I going to need to patch her up a bit also. Mr. Fuji I would appreciate if you began the construction of the body. Start off with the aquarium tank by filling it with the blood and check the DNA with Duplicat please."

[Dragonstrike]

The rangers hadn't noticed.

But the agent's pokemon had.

This time, it was his Solosis that had noticed as someone had stolen into the hospital and left with more than they had entered the building with.

Purrloin had run into Solosis as well, and informed him of the sabelye. Needless to say, Solosis was quick to contact Gardevoir, as well as a pokemon that was able to tail the culprit who had sneaked into the hospital.

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The last few hours had been rather boring, as Dragonstrike had expected. Not much going on except breakfast, apparently. Gardevoir hadn't informed him yet of either of the people in the house leaving it.

When Gardevoir received Solosis's message, though, she was rather startled. A strange sableye and someone invading the hospital? She got the agent's attention very quickly.

He'd been just sitting there for awhile, hat pulled low over his eyes, confident Gardevoir would inform him of any changes.

Well, she did. But not because of the changes he was expecting...

"Hm? What is it, Gardevoir?" He pushes the hat's rim up so he can look at Gardevoir. She looks rather alarmed...not at all what he'd been expecting to see if someone had left the building they were watching...Gardevoir points at Dragonstrike's coat pocket.

"Alright, alright, I'm pulling it out..."

He reaches into his pocket...and pulls out a box like device with two antennas. He plugs some headphones in and turns it on...anyone who took only a quick look would think he was just listening to some sort of music. "Alright, Gardevoir, whatcha got?"

Gardevoir makes the usual pokemon noises...and the device crackles to life!

"There's some sort of disturbance in the town, sir. Something about a Sableye wearing armor arriving at the docks, and someone stealing something from the hospital. Nobody except our comrades seem to have noticed, either. Both occurrences were very discreet. The sableye had no human nor pokemon company and was staying in the shadows, and the hospital break in was done by a single person of indistinguishable features."

"A disturbance in the town? Damn it...and here I thought this was going to be a nice, boring day of just watching the Cookie Thief and the Chief Ranger...alright, I'll go check this out. Ask the hospital to do a sweep of their building, find out what went missing. You stay here and continue to monitor those lovebirds. Notify me when they leave the building. And make sure to tell the others to keep an eye out for that sableye, and not to engage it unless I'm there."

He summons Gallade from his pokeball, and recalls Absol. "Alright, Gallade, we need to Teleport to the Bealbeach Hospital, ASAP."

"Of course, sir. Teleporting in 3...2...1..."

*Blip*

(Now, here's the question: Is the Cookie Thief too preoccupied with making Breakfast to notice Agent Dragonstrike is gone, or the strange activities in town?)

[Lord Windos]

*Xenoic glances up and is surprised at the appearance of Mr. Fuji despite being unfazed at the sight of Bailey and the cadavers*

"I didn't realize you would actually bring THE Mr. Fuji, considering his stance on genetics now. Mr. Fuji, I understand this is not what you wanted to do in your spare time but, what I'm trying to accomplish is the saving of life through... unorthodox methods. This type of science can be applied to the medical field too and understand anatomy and cells better. I have always released important discoveries in the field, as I'm sure you know. Understand that the subject and specimen will be under sedatives and anesthesia to make sure they don't suffer."

*Xenoic then looks at Duplicat* "Preserve the cadavers over there," *Points towards a newly made tank full of ice imported from Unova's famous Kyruem-made ice in Opelucid city after the event* "And after that transport Bailey into the observation room" (The room consists of a closed environment with a biometric lock door and glass windows to observe specimens within)

"I have no specific vendetta against Bailey but whatever works I guess, I going to need to patch her up a bit also. Mr. Fuji I would appreciate if you began the construction of the body. Start off with the aquarium tank by filling it with the blood and check the DNA with Duplicat please."

Mr. Fuji, after getting a quick read on the data (and begrudgly admitting that its interesting findings), turned to face Xenoic, still looking somewhat peeved at his 'inclusion' into Tianlong's affair's. "Save your breath, kid, Tianlong already gave me that speal. Still doesn't change the fact that what you two are doing is utterly mad. Not only are you tinkering with DNA on a scale that exceeds the original Mew Cloning Project, but you are trying to create Pokémon-Human hybrids on top of that. Add in who knows how many innocent lives that have been and will be adversely affect by this research, and the fact that this will only encourage more scientists and criminals to engage in Genetically modifying Pokémon for their own gain..." Dr. Fuji just let out a tired sigh, pinching his nose in frustration, before giving a frustrated, yet ever so slightly understanding look to them.

"*Sigh* . Look, kid, I get where you are coming from by doing this project of his. Back then, I thought I was doing the world a favor by creating Mewtwo, advancing mankind's knowledge of the origins of Pokémon, and perhaps make so that death isn't just a terminal end anymore. Then everything slowly went to hell. My own cloned daughter literally began melting away before my eyes, as her unstable DNA just...fell apart, despite all my carefull, painstaking sequencing. Mewtwo happened, and nearly destroyed the world as we knew it several times, before it finally calmed its ass down some. Team Rocket nearly abused my research to their own ends, and I nearly died several times over throughout all of that."

"Xenoic...take it from me: the line of work you are doing will only end disaster, one way or another. Either you catastrophically fail with this project, or it goes horrifically right for any number of reasons. I can't do anything to stop what is going on before my eyes, but you still can. You are in charge here; you can put and end to this before any chaos can occur." Saying his piece on the matter, Fuji did what he was told to do, and began to do what the geneticist ask him to do. He just hope that his speech reached whatever moral fiber that lay within that man. Otherwise, shit was going to hit the fan. Spectacularly so, even.

Tilting his head at Dr. Fuji, they just waved the man off, clearly unconvinced of the merits of the doctor's argument. "We wouldn't listen to the man, if we were you. His views are jaded and biased, both stemming on his own shortcomings and failures, and despite what he's telling you, some part is eager to see what comes of this project of ours. After all, no one has ever done this level of genetic modification upon a Pokémon before, not even him. Even he's curious what will become of this experimental data, in spite of his belief that it is nothing good at all. Just continue on working, and everything will come together in the end. We can only hope so, anyway." To save both Xenoic and Duplicat time, the masked benefactor transported Bailey's body to the biometric chamber themselves. After all, time is a precious commodity. It can make fools out of them all, but it could make them great man yet.

[Lord Windos]

The rangers hadn't noticed.

But the agent's pokemon had.

This time, it was his Solosis that had noticed as someone had stolen into the hospital and left with more than they had entered the building with.

Purrloin had run into Solosis as well, and informed him of the sabelye.  Needless to say, Solosis was quick to contact Gardevoir, as well as a pokemon that was able to tail the culprit who had sneaked into the hospital.

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The last few hours had been rather boring, as Dragonstrike had expected.  Not much going on except breakfast, apparently.  Gardevoir hadn't informed him yet of either of the people in the house leaving it.  

When Gardevoir received Solosis's message, though, she was rather startled.  A strange sableye and someone invading the hospital?  She got the agent's attention very quickly.

He'd been just sitting there for awhile, hat pulled low over his eyes, confident Gardevoir would inform him of any changes.

Well, she did.  But not because of the changes he was expecting...

"Hm?  What is it, Gardevoir?"  He pushes the hat's rim up so he can look at Gardevoir.  She looks rather alarmed...not at all what he'd been expecting to see if someone had left the building they were watching...Gardevoir points at Dragonstrike's coat pocket.

"Alright, alright, I'm pulling it out..."

He reaches into his pocket...and pulls out a box like device with two antennas.  He plugs some headphones in and turns it on...anyone who took only a quick look would think he was just listening to some sort of music.  "Alright, Gardevoir, whatcha got?"

Gardevoir makes the usual pokemon noises...and the device crackles to life!

"There's some sort of disturbance in the town, sir.  Something about a Sableye wearing armor arriving at the docks, and someone stealing something from the hospital.  Nobody except our comrades seem to have noticed, either.  Both occurrences were very discreet.  The sableye had no human nor pokemon company and was staying in the shadows, and the hospital break in was done by a single person of indistinguishable features."

"A disturbance in the town?  Damn it...and here I thought this was going to be a nice, boring day of just watching the Cookie Thief and the Chief Ranger...alright, I'll go check this out.  Ask the hospital to do a sweep of their building, find out what went missing.  You stay here and continue to monitor those lovebirds.  Notify me when they leave the building.  And make sure to tell the others to keep an eye out for that sableye, and not to engage it unless I'm there."

He summons Gallade from his pokeball, and recalls Absol.  "Alright, Gallade, we need to Teleport to the Bealbeach Hospital, ASAP."

"Of course, sir.  Teleporting in 3...2...1..."  

*Blip*

(Now, here's the question: Is the Cookie Thief too preoccupied with making Breakfast to notice Agent Dragonstrike is gone, or the strange activities in town?)

*The Cookie Thief is informed of Agent Dragonstrike's sudden departure, as well the reason why by his Ghost Pokémon*

*Both of the Thief's eyebrows shot up, and quickly placed the Blueberry crumble he just retrieved from the oven down on the counter*

*Lets out quiet, but profuse swear* Bloody fucking hell, that bastardous traitor is at it again now of all times. He sure does have a great sense of timing, if they were aiming to ruin both mine and my future wife's day off!

*Just rubs his temples, before he finished up with the hashbrows, bacon, eggs, and toast*
*Makes a plate for Phantom, and goes over to their bedroom*

I haven't even told my honeybun about our diner plans with Agent Dragonstrike yet, and now this happens. Jolly well fantastic. Looks like I'll be surprising them with far more than breakfast in bed...

*Enters Phantom's grand bedroom, and walks over to the still sleeping angel, before gently shaking her awake*

My love, its time to get up now. I was going to let you sleep in, but several things have come to my attension recently, and none of them are good. First, though, eat this meal I prepared for you. Bad news is best handled with a full stomach, after all.

[Dragonstrike]

Dargonstrike arrives at the hospital. He makes his way inside discreetly, but uses the front entrance. After making sure nobody's around, he walks up to the front desk.

"Hello there, mam. There seems to be an issue that's arisen..."

He flips open his badge. "Agent Dragonstrike. Interpol. Someone apparently just snuck into this hospital and made off with something or someone. I need the hospital's staff to do a sweep of the place immediately and report if anything or anyone is missing. Discreetly."

The receptionist's eyes go wide when she hears this. She'd been expecting a normal day at the office, just like any other day. She quickly picks up the phone on her desk and dials her supervisor's number...

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It took them a half hour to discover one of the patients was missing. One of the rangers, apparently, injured from the recent pirate attack. After it was all said and done, Dragonstrike wiped the staff's memories of him with his Beheeyem's help and left them to figuring out their end of this mess on their own.

'What the heck does someone want with a ranger? Ransom or something? I'm getting some bad vibes from this...'

The pokemon that had been tailing the patient snatcher reported in just then. They'd lost their target and had been unable to pick up the trail again.

'Damn it...someone knows what they're doing if they managed to get away from one of my Zoroark pursuers...'

[Xenoic]

*Xenoic listened to Mr. Fuji's rant and nodded at the end*
"I understand your... concerns and from your experience, this shouldn't be done. The implications of forced genetic modification on Pokemon in the future is immoral. Whether or not this project ends up a success or failure or both, science is a double-edged sword and no matter what, it's going to be used for both the side of good, evil, and the neutral. The only change would be the method. If the project could end up clearly showing the negative effects outweighing the positives for all parties involved, then I will take matters into my own hands and end whatever monstrosity I had created in the end. You could be 100% right but.... we well I don't know until I try for myself."

*Xenoic gave a solemn yet passionate look*
"Enough chatter, we gotta get to work."
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Meanwhile,

*Sableye had begun infusing the scrap metal with so much energy that the metal became unstable. Then Sable had started weaving the metal throughout the walls of the sewers with a plan in mind, already weaved the metal into at least 30% of the sewers.

[Lord Windos]

*Xenoic listened to Mr. Fuji's rant and nodded at the end*
"I understand your... concerns and from your experience, this shouldn't be done. The implications of forced genetic modification on Pokemon in the future is immoral. Whether or not this project ends up a success or failure or both, science is a double-edged sword and no matter what, it's going to be used for both the side of good, evil, and the neutral. The only change would be the method. If the project could end up clearly showing the negative effects outweighing the positives for all parties involved, then I will take matters into my own hands and end whatever monstrosity I had created in the end. You could be 100% right but.... we well I don't know until I try for myself."

*Xenoic gave a solemn yet passionate look*
"Enough chatter, we gotta get to work."

Dr. Fuji just shook his head slightly at Xenoic determination, but despite that he couldn't find himself too disappointed in them. He's been in there position before, so he is well aware of the passion that comes with making these bold, new, and strange discoveries. "Very well then. Don't say I didn't warn the both of you, though. You are not going to give me hell just because this experiment of yours implodes on you, got it? With the both of us putting all of our knowledge and effort into this project, though, I just pray that such an outcome doesn't happen at all. I'm afraid what success would look like, but I'm even more frightened of what the price of failure would be." Getting the last word in on the matter, he re-doubled his effort on completing his given task, making sure absolutely nothing was going to fuck up. Not now, not ever!

Sastified that both Fuji and Xenoic has come to an agreement, Tianlong give a sharp nod of his head, before he began walking out of the laboratory. "As you two seem well acquitted now, I'll be heading back to oversee my end of this venture. Do as you have done before, and inform of any major developments, needs of yours, or any idea you brainstorm. Until then, I wish you the best of luck."

[Dragonstrike]

(By the way, the device the agent pulled out looks kinda like this: )



(Look familiar? )

[Xenoic]

(By the way, the device the agent pulled out looks kinda like this: )



(Look familiar?  )

(I have no idea) (OHHH i know what it is now)

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

(Look familiar? )

(Oh, it does. As expected from a good Secret Agent. C: )