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Jacie sighed and stood up and stretched, enjoying the late afternoon sun on her face. "I suppose."

"If we're going to make this plan work then we need the Darkrai Stone. And rumor has it that one of them either has it on them or knows of it's location." Keri said looking down the cliff at the ocean below.

Jacie had an odd feeling about her. One that told her she was being watched. Jacie looked around and saw the man from before, staring at her with a cell phone up to his ear. "I found our first target." she whispered to Marcus.

"Good. Signal to the other three and get the job done." Keri said and hung up. She took a deep breath and leaped off the cliff.

Jacie felt that odd feeling grow stronger. She stopped dead in her tracks and tilted her head to the left a bit, away from Marcus. Finally she whipped around. But by then, it was too late. A woman in a black suit with black sunglasses had an arm wrapped around Jacie's mouth and quickly restrained Jacie's hands with her own. There was a certain scent about the cloth that Jacie had noticed that the woman had in her hand. A scent that Jacie had smelled before. Jacie struggled against the woman, trying to get her nose up to clean air. But with every struggle, the woman seemed to grow stronger and stronger and the world seemed to grow even more blurry with every passing second. Soon, everything was black.

The man that had been up against the railing watching the bird pokemon fly over the sea quickly turned around at sight of the signal. He calmly walked over behind Marcus and karate chopped the pressure point in his neck.

'Don't just stand there! Get in there and help him, Marshall!
Keri was watching from above in the skies of Jubilife City. Which wasn't that easy to do considering the place was towering with skyscrapers.

The woman rolled her eyes and lugged Jacie up on her shoulders. "Alec you're such an idiot." she pulled Alec up to his feet and then kicked him in between his legs to wake him up.

Alec doubled over in pain but was wide awake, just as the woman had planned. "Traci you're such a b***h." Alec whimpered.
"Suck it up. Let's go." Traci said before heading off behind Marshall.

Keri sighed and shook her head in disgust. She couldn't believe that this man was one of her best agents. What was the world coming to? Luckily Traci was just as cunning and smart as Marshall was. Otherwise this plan would have failed miserably. She roared a bit and then swooped down and landed in front of her group. A few pedestrians gawked at her when she landed and roared once again, taking advantage of her Shadow Lugia form. She turned her back to her underlings and then nodded her head, signaling for them to get on her back. This wasn't her original intentions but Alec had made enough of a scene back there that it really didn't matter now. The people of Jubilife were clueless anyway.

Traci ran up to Shadow Lugia and hopped on effortlessly, even with Jacie slung over her back like she was giving the blue haired girl a piggyback ride.

Alec winced as he got to his feet and winced some more as he ran towards Lugia.

As soon as the limping Alec was on her back, Keri forced herself into the air and flew away as quickly as she had landed. 'I expected things to go a little more smoothly than they did, Alec.' Keri's mental voice hissed. She had meant the message to be for Alec only but didn't bother with the details. Instead she let the other two hear her as well. 'But on the other hand, excellent work from you two. As expected.' Keri's tone wasn't at all charming. In fact it sounded as if she was scolding Marshall and Traci instead of praising them. But that's just how Keri was. The only person she showed any emotion other than anger around was Marshall. And that was only on occasion. Aside from recently. For some reason she was becoming more open to him. And part of her hated it. But she wasn't about to let him, nor anyone else, know that.

"It's not that you need to check up on us, Sir. Some of us just need to pay a bit more attention to your lessons and briefings." Traci said implying that Alec was the one at fault.

Alec simply rolled his eyes. He didn't like the way Traci treated him but a part of him knew she was right. And as much as he hated to admit it, he knew that Traci would make a better Commander than Keri. Keri was clueless. She had one thing in mind and didn't care what she had to do to achieve that particular goal. But Traci, Traci and Marshall cared about the side jobs. They took things step by step. And in some ways, that was more powerful than Keri's brute force.

Keri's thoughts raced as she listened to the chatter of the three conscious people on her back. Eventually her thoughts overtook and their conversation became nothing but a blur.

"I'm not sure about that, Chief." Traci laughed. "Commander Keri would have a hard time finding someone to replace you. I'm not even sure if that's possible." Traci wasn't trying to stroke Marshall's ego. She was simply saying what was on her mind like she always did. That was the main reason why she was the most liked and most hated Admin in Omni.

Finally Keri made her land at the base. She had heard the last bit of conversation and remembered that no one but Marshall knew that she was Shadow Lugia. Everyone else thought Keri was simply in control of it. Thus she couldn't transform right away like she had planned. 'Have Traci and Alec take these two to two separate holding cells.' the message was specifically for Marshall and Keri made sure that he was the only one who heard it.