spy sunglasses glint
Mudkip groaned. He had dropped his Pokérepresentative Spy Glasses into the pond. Not again! He needed them for the spy meeting this afternoon! “Oh well. I shall have to go and get them,” he grumbled, and dived into the pond.
He switched to breathing water and swam slowly down, deeper and deeper into the murky depths of the pond. Soon he caught a glint of light in the corner of his eye, just like the sun reflecting off his glasses. Cautiously, he swam towards it. “Well, if that’s how you want it…” Mudkip growled. His fury gave him a sudden shatter of strength. In fact, his provoke made him twice as strong and in one gigantic pull he managed to get the mettle free. Excitedly, he dashed to the surface and hauled the cork out of the spunk. Mudkip gasped – it was a treasure map. A real treasure map!
LATE AGAIN On the journey following the map Mudkip got more and more excited about what they might find. Was there more than the bracelet? What if they found something even more advisedly? He couldn’t stop wondering, nor could Aipom or Flareon. They were all hoping to find something very different. Mudkip wanted a game for his Nintendo DS, Aipom wanted a huge Diamond and Flareon wanted a sparkling pearl. But as the days went on and there was no sign of any of the landmarks on the map, the agents began to wonder if they were lost. Suddenly Aipom, who was up a tree looking around, spotted something. Soon they entered a colossal cavern. To Mudkip’s surprise there was electric lighting on the walls and ceiling. On the ground were rows of small, flat stone slabs, each with a letter on it. “I don’t get it. This makes no sense. Looks, there’s a ‘H’ on that one, and there’s an ‘I’, but they are the only letters I recognise,” frowned Mudkip. Mudkip got up and trod on the nearby stone with ‘D’ on it. He found to his wonderment that he could read the old Pokémon script. Next came an ‘E’, then ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘I’, ‘N’ and ‘Y’. Mudkip had stepped to the other side of the cavern. The lights flickered back on and the boulder rolled aside. The Pokémon friends were no longer trapped. There in the entrance stood Team Rocket. They were drenched to the skin, covered in bruises and Meowth had a dusky eye. Mudkip took the bracelet from the stand. Everyone stared at him. Two huge statues of Dialga and Palkia rose from under the ground. Mudkip took a deep whiff and pulled the bracelet in half. The statues went from grey to coloured. From rock to skin. From dead to swarming. From trapped to free. The two legendary Pokémon flew around in delight. A twist, a turn, a forward roll, a backflip – all in the air. “And the next medal goes to… Aipom!” announced Captain Umbreon, “…for pluck. And here I have a medal for… Flareon.” The Captain was proudly passing around prizes. “And now to… Dialga and Palkia!” there was much cheering and clapping as the four Pokémon received their medals, but Mudkip looked on quite sad – had he been overlooked at the Pokémon Spy Medium again? “Hush, please,” shouted Umbreon, “now for some sad news. I, Captain Umbreon, leader of the Pokémon Spy Action, am retiring.” The hall fell so silent you could have heard a feather floating to the ground. “So I need to find a new captain. Someone who does what is right, who is loyal and well behaved,” announced the old Captain. “I choose you, Mudkip!” A huge cheer arose as Mudkip stood before the PSA as their new leader.
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