47 Big black dog

It's about midnight at the moment, the lights in the house went out about an hour ago and she's moved to her bedroom and hasn't moved according to Slowpoke who's keeping an "eye" on the situation.

I ended up looking around for about 3 weeks for the perfect target, one that lived alone with no Pokémon and also gave Zigzagoon a "pick up" boner…

She's head of the city development projects for the Viridian council, a semi important liaison for the league and a VERY vocal advocate of tracking down the gangs and bringing them to justice..

She lived in a rather large Queen Anne style, 3 story mansion with a red roof and mild grey brick walls with windows a plenty…

She has no pokemon, lives alone with the only people who step into her house being friends and those who come to clean the outrageously big house…why she doesn't have live in maids is beyond me but it works out better for me I guess..

It took this long to pick her out because I had to watch the house and see the comings and goings, when she slept, potential pokemon and whatever else over the weeks, it only took a week to find the house and 2 more of watching and learning..

I don't know what she has in there but it's gonna be mine soon enough…

I'm prepared with hefty black sack to cover her head incase I need to ask her about a possible safe combination if machop can't just pull it open.

I even picked up a voice modulator from the trainers retreat…no idea why they sold them there but they do.

Wearing all black, with a hoodie and a balaclava with my trusty fanny pack for some quick tools and also one of my silph co bags just incase I want to pinch heavier things..

Her bedroom is on the 3rd floor with a small stone balcony filled with potted plants where she seems to like having her morning coffee..

By my side is Slowpoke and Zigzagoon, where normally I would have Meowth or now Persian out with me, he's a bit big for a break in now….so Zigzagoon, who's been training hard both physically and criminally had taken his place as my 2nd mon out

And I made sure he was a good 2nd before hand though, when I asked him if he cared about killing a human if we had too, he seemed fine with it…

Slowpoke gave the all clear, no cameras and no people around and with a nod from me he levitated all 3 of us up onto the balcony, the only thing stopping us from entering was a sliding glass door with a flip lock on the inside of the door…

Slowpoke shimmers slightly and with a very faint click the door was unlocked… while he can't open your average key centred locks….yet….he can easily flip a latch on the opposite side of the door or window latch…..something he's gotten pretty good at with a little practice..

With the door unlocked I slide it open very slowly and with practically no sound and enter in through the large white curtains that would block an outside view through the glass.

My "target" Susan sutseko was sleeping peacefully on her back with a sleep mask covering her eyes, black hair, chubby frame and middling stature…. And….kinda ugly to be honest…

Without needing a signal Slowpoke yawns and a small pink glow surrounds Susan, making sure she stays asleep and before you know it the black sack is pulled out of my fanny pack and slipped over her head without taking off the sleeping mask, double insurance I guess?

I taped up her hands behind her back and legs together to ensure nothing goes wrong before moving to the hallway outside the room, letting out persian who would have made light coming out of his ball and coming back into the room…

"Alright buddy, keep and eye on her while we run around and pick the place apart"

Persian was assigned with babysitting incase anything goes wrong while me Slowpoke and Zigzagoon took off in search of treasure!

40 minutes of following around Zigzagoon around the room and adjacent rooms we found a bunch of jewellery, solid gold most of it sprinkled with plenty of incrediblely valuable gems that would fetch a mint when I went to sell em….in pewter city in like 5 years….I'm not crazy enough to sell a league representatives jewellery in the town I took it in….that's practically begging to get caught…

The house was really fancy with furniture to match… but unfortunately I wasn't here for that, as much as it pained me to leave it all behind….I'd take it if I was going to kill her and burn the house down….should I?…no i probably shouldn't….although…..no….no I shouldn't…

Taking everything of value I could find I still hadn't found whatever sent zigzagoons tail in a frenzy…we went floor by floor, room by room. There had to be hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewellery and gems but it did me no good at the moment as I can't pawn em off for awhile…

It wasn't until we made our way back up to the 3rd floor and walk in front of an incredibly large painting of what looked like a man and his growlithe that zigzagoon froze and mechanically turn his head toward it…

It had to be the big score…

I walk up to the painting and try and move it only to get nothing but resistance…isn't there normally like a switch or something?

I look around for awhile and find nothing, but I notice a few hall tables with statues on them and thinking back to potential hiding places for a switch I guess it's as good as any so I start fiddling with a few and finally feel an impression on a statue that seemed glued to the table..

With an audible click from the statue followed by another from the gigantic painting as it swung open, I was expecting some sort of safe or something but what I was met with was stoney stairs that lead into darkness…

Well I guess this is a risk it for the biscuit moment…

I look down to Zigzagoon who's patiently waiting with with tail standing straight up like there's a big pay day down there..

"Go and check it out, be silent and careful"

I whisper to him and he jaunts over into the darkness and disappears…

I will admit it was a stressful few minutes waiting for my trash panda to make his way back but he came back with a light step and a strange expression on his face as he beckoned us to follow and we did…

There was at least a few stories worth of steps before we came to a big dimly lit room that was filled with….cages?

I walked along the dimly lit room before I had enough of that and had Slowpoke use flash the right way this time, he glowed and projected light all around, it was bright but wasn't so bring I couldn't look at him this time…but it did illuminate the surroundings and…..it wasn't pretty..

Most of the cages were empty some had died blood but I noticed 3 were occupied….

Side by side there were 3 cages that had….children….fucking hell, do people in this world hate kids or something?

2 boys and a girl, no older than myself, all 3 looking emaciated and starved with dead eyes. All 3 were awake and looking at me….for fuck sake…

What do I do here? Kill 3 kids that have obviously been tortured and abused to save myself from being potentially ID'd? By either the cops if I turn this shit in or Susan when she eventually asks about me and my Pokémon if I left them here….or kill Susan? I mean that's probably the go….kill everyone and be done with it?

I'm a piece of shit, I've accepted that but I don't think I can kill these kids for just seeing my Pokémon….ugggh why can't I just have a normal burglary….every time I've done this so far it's turned into an episode of "law and order: SVU"….Pokémon edition

Fuck it, I'll figure that out after I get the loot…

I walk past the caged kids with Slowpoke and Zigzagoon who both seemed ok to leave them where they were as we followed Zigzagoons tail to a door in the back…

A reinforced wooden door to be precise….while your average human couldn't do shit to it, a Pokémon though?

A couple headbutts later and the door was splintered on the floor leaving me looking into the room that was stacked with metal boxes, containers and….cash! Lotsa lotsa bundles of cash!

And without a second thought while being very out of eyeline and possibly earshot of that caged kids I let out machop and miltank to help me sort through these boxes….there were a lot…

Most of the metal containers held gold and the like, bricks and chunks, a good amount of jewellery which I decided to leave because if it's in this room it probably means something…

Plenty of evolution stones of all types just sitting around. While evolution stones aren't the most expensive thing in the world, the league only let so many into the open market and control the price so they don't spiral out of control….what's the point of the stones if half decent trainers can't afford them right?

I'll count the cash later but I probably wouldn't need to pull any jobs again in awhile after this….definitely the biggest haul by far…gotta be 7 figures if not close…

But a lot of these boxes contain shit I wished I never seen…whoever those kids were out there they definitely weren't the first if these pictures are anything to go by… and I doubt they released the kids back into the wild after they were done with em.

Susan was in a fair few of them along with other people who I've never seen, I leave all that….there's even a bunch of tapes labeled as with names and dates but I leave them as well….

After clearing out everything of value in the room I ball machop and miltank and make my way back out to the kids already deciding what I'm gonna do with all this..

I stand i front of the cages as all 3 kids look at me with dead eyes that almost had a hint of defiance in them..

"You want out of the cage?"

All 3 don't hesitate and nod their heads, not making any noise

"Well here's how it's gonna go, I'm going to leave and in a little while some people are going to come and rescue you, they are going to ask questions about who was responsible for breaking into this place….it was a tall man with a face mask and a big black dog following him…got that?"

They looked confused for a second before catching on to what I was saying and the oldest boy speaks up with fear in his voice

"What about Miss beautiful? Is she going to come back?"

"Who?"

"The women who keeps up here, she makes us call her that when she….hurts us…"

"Nah she won't be coming back… just remember big guy with a black dog if anyone asks about me…that's all you know and all you saw, do that and I'll consider us even for saving you"

They all nod as I stepped out wondering why I'm putting myself out like this…it would be way easier to just kill everyone and burn the place down…but I guess I'm still above murdering abused kids?

I made my way back up the steps coming to the painting that was still swung over before having slowpoke rip it off it's hinges so it can't be closed and heading back up to Susans room and as I head inside I see a phone…

I test my voice modulator before picking it up and dialling 911, which is the emergency number in the Kanto…a few rings in and…

"This is 911, what's your emergency"

" I need to speak to a Jenny, it's very important and time is a factor so put me through"

"Sir that's not-"

"Kids are in trouble and the Jenny's are the only ones I'd trust with this information.."

"…..one moment please…."

-Officer Samantha Jenny POV-

Arceus I hate night shift, from confronting the gang wars and trying to dig people out of the snow for the last few months to sitting at my desk filling out paperwork is nothing but the worst kind of punishment for someone like me…

I need to be where the action is!…but unfortunately that guy wasn't as guilty as he looked and got me stuck with night shift paperwork for the next month….

*sigh*

*riiiiinng riiiiing*

I pick up the phone

"Officer Samantha Jenny speaking"

"Ah yes hello, I'm from the 911 operations center and I have a man on hold who claims to have time sensitive information about children in trouble and is only willing to speak to a Jenny…so, that's why I'm calling…what would you like me to do?"

"Patch him through of course!"

"Right away office Jenny!"

There was a few beeps before a deep, heavily modified voice rang through the phone

"Officer Jenny?"

"This is Officer Samantha Jenny, I'm told you have some information for me?"

"Yes, I'm going to tell you about my night and then I'm going to hang up…so please don't interrupt me…"

"Sir if this is some kind of prank-"

"I went to burgle a house tonight, a house owned by a league liaison named Susan sutseko, I made it inside and started my work after she was asleep-"

"YOU'RE CALLING TO CONFESS A CRIME!?"

"Don't interrupt me Jenny, you're gonna want to hear this…."

"…..fine…."

"Well I looted most of her personal jewellery and some random things around her house before I noticed a big picture….it looked suspicious so I checked it out and eventually found it opened to a stairway the leads downstairs…"

"…"

"I found cages down there….some had blood, some didn't but most of them were empty except for 3…"

I'm not liking where this was going…

"I found 3 kids locked up down there, abused and terrified….I found pictures and video of what they'd done to those kids and the kids before them….I'm a piece of shit, I know that and I'm not trying to make excuses for why I do what I do… a persons gotta eat ya know…but what's going on down there….I just couldn't let that slide….so I left Susan sutseko bound and blindfolded on her bed, the kids in the cage and decided to call you… with all the league bullshit lately I thought a Jenny would be appropriate for this….I'll be long gone by the time you arrive, no point getting thrown in the slammer myself right? But you make sure you look after those kids Jenny….they didn't deserve that…the address it 112 Parkview way….good luck Jenny"

*click*

I sit there for a second processing all that I was told before I jumped to my feet, grabbed my coat and pokeball before rushing out the door to save those kids and see Susan get what's coming to her if the mysterious voice was telling the truth….the voice may get away tonight but I'll catch him eventually as well…

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