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PART: ONE HUNDRED & TWELVE

A shadow passed over Jack causing him to flinch slightly, his team snaped their attention towards him suspiciously, none of them had smelt, heard or even sensed the humans' presence, this was the cause of considerable concern to them.

“Weavile…Vile…Wea…Vile?"

[Where did he come from?]

Oni snarled leaping back a few feet, her stance lowering as she leaned back onto legs ready to push off into an attack, the weavile was at a complete loss as to how the male human had managed to creep up on them with such ease, it annoyed her as much as it frustrated her.

“Blazi…Ken…Bla…Zi…Ken...Blaziken…Ken…Ken…Blazi"

[I don't know I didn't even detect his presence until now]

Blaze clucked pushing herself between the man and their trainer, her mind racing to figure out what kind of technique might have been implemented to bypass the combined acute sensed of all four pokémon present. Lucy felt as if she had jumped right out of her own hide as the stranger made his presence known to them.

“Lu…Car…Rio?"

[Is he a threat?]

They all watched as the man walked around the blaziken, it was a surreal sensation to all four of them as neither Blaze, Oni or Lucy did anything to challenge this action. Only Bunny stepped in his way her motions just as deceptively slow as his, her eyes softening as she smiled up a him her arms held cutely behind her back. The man paused stopping mid step his words leaving his lips before any of them realised the man had begun speaking to them.

“Easy now, I'm Detective Stone of the international police, I didn't mean to startle any you but I can assure you, I'm not here to harm your trainer."

The man chuckled softly, his eyes softening in just the same way as Bunny had, his smile was as equally disarmingly, but this was something the lopunny knew all too well in fact she often used it to get the upper hand apon those she sought to lure into a false sense of ease. From what she could tell as her eyes scanned every inch of him currently presented before her, he was as tall as he was broad though despite the kindness in his eyes Bunny refused to lower their guard even if subconsciously the others had.

“Lop…Unny…Punny…Pun"

[I smell blood upon this one]

Bunny chirped endearingly, this time it was Stone's turn to step back as her smile grew more and more friendly. She took a single step over James, her paw like feet had been positioned either side of her beloved human in a clear unspoken message for him to come no closer while retaining her cute adorably expression.

“Weavile…Weav…Vile…Weavile…Weavile…We…Vile…Weavile"

[Aye this one's dangerous it's true, but he desires to help Jack]

Oni mused slowly moving to her rabbit colleague, she approached from the side attempting to re-frame from making any sudden movements. She held back from placing a hand on Bunny's hip, while she would like to have reassured her, doing so would very well have triggered the lagomorph into launching an attack at the man. Blazes kept one of her strong feathered arms out stretched to bar Lucy's way, the lucario found herself puzzled by both this as well as the rest of the teams' hostile posture towards the human, he seemed nice enough to her, true he had a scar running down from his forehead; along his left eye and down across his lips; coming to an end upon his chin. But she couldn't see anything to identify him as a possible threat to Jack, so why where they so on edge? It would only be when at last she noticed it, his aura or rather the lack there off; that was when the poképenny dropped. This male had no presence other than direct line of sight; something was not right, not right at all.

“thank you sir"

Jack spoke warmly to the man whilst sitting up he only for Oni to plant a paw like foot firmly on his chest and forcing him back down against the floor, he had to admit she was far stronger than she looked. He tried again only for the same results to happen on third attempt the weavile relented, Oni was either unwilling to keep trying to keep him on the ground where she was convinced that they could better protect him, or she had been far too distracted with Stone approaching them once again. What disturbed Oni and the others the most was the simple fact that they had watched him slowly taking each step towards their beloved Jack but they had been unable to react, every motion of his body was fluid with an unsettlingly graceful motion as he reached into his inside coat pocket. The man's voice was as calm as it was clear as he spoke, it was as iff trying to put all four pokémon at ease.

“I'm just getting my warrant card, so please remain calm"

Stone informed them, to which Bunny gave him a low un-prey like growl as she observed his hand withdrawing from his dark beige trench coat, slowly producing an official looking warrant card.

“See, I'm one of the good guys, I just want to help your trainer up, that is all"

He announced holding it up for them to see, he doubted that would sway them but it would be a start to ingratiate himself with them. Bunny moved her back leg over Jack so she was no longer standing over him yet still barring Stone's way, the rabbit pokémon crouched down as she assisted her confused human to his feet. For Jack's part he was still unable to fathom as to why there was so much tension in the air, it was unsettling seeing his dear friends acting like this especially Detective Stone had been so friendly towards them.

“Best get yourselves patched up at the pokémon centre"

Stone suggested taking a few steps back then stepping aside as three of the four pokémon escorted their trainer away, the man smiled to the lucario who had bowed her head politely to him gathering up Jacks belongings and hurrying to catch up. He would wait until he could no longer see them before fishing out his phone out from within his coat, tracing an 'R' across the screen with his thumb the device flickers into life to reveal the team rocket symbol. With a right swipe across the screen the image starts to rotate bringing up a number of apps onto the screen, it didn't take him long to find the function he required, raising his phone to his lip he began to speak in a hushed tone.

“Requesting psychic pokémon presence, we to alter numerous civilian memories, have an agent locate and retrieve the third civilian for memory alteration as well, additional directive, locate all local CCTV device and remove all footage of the subject's presence."

There was no response to his words though there was no need for any, he knew those that where his subordinates would have already begun their assigned tasks, if there was one thing the organisation he was a proud member off, had learned after all the defeats from those young trainers in the past, it was how powerful a team could become when they were in sync with one another. This potential resource was proof of that, true all the files along with captured video feeds had at first given him cause to doubt this but after witnessing the fight just moments ago, he was forced to re-evaluate his former conclusion. Such pokémon would be too chaotic to be reconditioned, to free spirited to be have their will bent by anyone or thing be it technology; Psychic or any other means and yet fiercely loyal to those able enough to gain their trust. Even if Team Rocket was able to steal the subject away, he highly doubted they would be successful in forcing him to comply. Then to add the native pokémon of the anthro region in to the equation it would merely end in an exercise in futility. So no, despite how much the organisations top echelons may rant and rave about it, no matter how many times one might do the math in this it was clear to Stone, that Ahsoka's way regrettably was their best shot in infiltrating evolution park, all they all need do was to simply be patient as they played the long game in all this.