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They did in fact know and Lance had to admit they were impressed with the amount of swear words Misty knew.
“I take it you know him?”
“Know him? Of course we do. He’s the jerk who left Ash’s Charizard to die when it was a Charmander.” Brock said.
“So that’s what this is about. Do you have a surname? It’ll make finding him easier.” Lance said.
“Sorry we don’t.” Misty said.
“Unfortunate, but that just means searching for him through the Trainer database will just take longer.” Lance tells them.
“Oh man can you imagine what Charizard is going to do when he finds out?” Brock said to Misty.
“That reminds me have either of you see any of Ash’s Pokémon? Professor Oak reported they’ve all gone missing from the lab as have Ash’s Pokémon at Kukui’s in Alola. Likely doing their own search.”
Misty and Brock exchange looks before shaking their heads in negative. “No we haven’t sorry.”
“You think it wouldn’t be hard to spot a herd of that many Pokémon on the move, but it’s like they’ve disappeared from the Earth.” Lance said. Then his phone goes off.
“One moment let me answer this.” Lance said before grabbing his phone. “Hello?”
To Misty and Brock’s worry Lance’s face turns white. “Are you serious? He’s where? I’ll be coming right away. Don’t go anywhere till I get there.”
“Lance? What’s wrong?” Brock asks. Without even missing a best Lance replies.
“They’ve found Ash.”
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They of course being Ash’s Pokémon. They were at Sunyshore City General Hospital. How Ash got from Kanto to Sinnoh was another question that would need to be answered Lance thought as he and Brock arrive via a teleport provided by Will’s Xatu. Misty had chosen to stay in Kanto to tell Delia the news.
Ash’s Pokémon we’re all there. The larger ones all waiting outside while he saw some of the smaller ones: a Scraggy and a Totodile run out of the entrance and start chatting to a Krookodile excitedly. Even the Ultra Beast Naganadel and the Sun Pokémon Solgaleo Ash had taken care of in Alola was there.
He goes into the hospital and asks the receptionist where Ash’s room was showing her his G-Men badge. She gives him the number and heads there.
Upon arriving in the room he finds Cynthia sitting at a chair by the window with another woman who was dressed as Giratina for some reason.
Pikachu was on the bed with Ash curled up between his legs. Brock went over and tap him on the head. Lifting their head the mouse’s face broke into a smile at the sight of a familiar face and climbs up Brock’s arm to sit on his shoulder and starts chatting excitedly.
“Cynthia.” Lance said getting her attention and the two exchange a nod. His eyes turn to the Giratina dressed woman in the room.
“And you are?” He asks.
“This is the person who saved Ash.” Cynthia said standing up. She turns to the woman and gently places a hand on their shoulder. “It’s okay Lance can be trusted.” The woman looks between them before nodding slightly.
“If I may ask how did she save Ash?” Lance questions.
“Like this.” The woman replies reaching behind her to tap the window glass which begins to ripple like water and a hole opens up revealing a tunnel to where Lance could only guess. The woman pulls her hand away and the portal disappears.
“I pulled him through a mirror, but it shattered as he was coming through and his leg…” she trails off and looks down guiltily.
“It wasn’t your fault.” Cynthia tells her soothingly.
“Should have been faster.” The woman replies solemnly.
“Alright could you please tell me who you are?” Lance demands catching both women’s attention.
“Lance.” Cynthia hisses. “You need to be respectful.”
“What?” Lance said confused why was Cynthia acting like this? The way she spoke to the other woman was almost reverently. Who was this person?
Cynthia bites her lip before replying.
“Lance… this is Giratina.”
“Giratina?” Brock echoes behind him.
“I’m sorry could you repeat that?”
Instead of repeating Cynthia said something else,
“There lived a Pokémon in a forest.
In the forest, the Pokémon shed its hide to sleep as a human. Awakened, the human dons the Pokémon hide to roam villages.”
Lance wasn’t an idiot he understood what Cynthia was saying and he had seen a lot of weird stuff in his time as a G-Man.
“Alright, but how did she know Ash was in danger?”
“…He saved me and was kind to me. Not many people have done that so I watch out for him as best I can.”
“You watch him?”
“Through reflective surfaces.” Cynthia explains before adding. “And apparently Ash has made a lot of enemies.”
“Others have come for revenge?”
“Yes.” Giratina said simply.
“Remnants of the various gangs he’s help deal with.” Cynthia clarifies. “Among others.”
“Sometimes they even went after his mother.” Giratina adds. “None of them have succeeded.”
Lance was tempted to ask what she did with them but decides not too. It wasn’t like he was going to argue morality and the legal system with one of the oldest beings in existence.
“Father said I could do so as long as I was discreet and not seen.” Giratina adds again. “I was not happy I could not help during that mess with Zygarde.”
Arceus had given the okay? Yeah he wasn’t going to even bother.
“It figures I would fail when it was a bunch of nobodies. Ash came out of his house before I could deal with them.” Giratina said with a grumble.
Wisely Lance chose not to comment.