Inside the Celadon Game Corner

The three boys enter the room, taking their seats. Daisy pulls out a couple nightgowns from her storage system, tossing one to you and Jack. With that small amount of modesty available, the boys look more comfortable looking at you and the others. “So what did you find?” you ask, as everyone finds a seat.

“Oh yea,” John says. He was a little distracted by the nudity floating around the room. “So we started by just playing some slots, keeping an eye out for anything out of the ordinary.”

“Is this milk?” Roger asks looking at the buckets laying around the room.

You and Jack look to Daisy, who is turning a bright shade of pink. “Yes, just leave it all alone,” Daisy says.

“What happened in here?” Humphrey asks looking around at the state of the room. His nose scrunching up obviously smelling the excess of spilled milk and semen.

John nudges Humphrey, “Shut up and let me tell the story.” John pulls a small box out of his bag, “We actually did pretty good on the slots. We had to buy a coin case,” he tosses the case onto the bed. You pick it up to look at it, it fits in the palm of your hand with a couple buttons on the side. The display indicates that you have 13,639 casino tokens. The buttons have amounts written above them, when you press one a token digitizes out of the bottom and the total on the display changes to show the change in balance. You pick up the token slipping it into the coinslot on top watching it digitize and change the display once again. “Pretty cool, huh? You can even just insert it in the slot machines, that way you don’t need to mess with dropping tokens.”

“That’s cool and all, but did you see anything Rocket related?” Daisy asks obviously on edge about any news involving her.

“Oh yea, sorry. So we weren’t seeing anything while playing slots, our line of sight was restricted by the machines. So we moved to the card tables. Humphrey here was playing while Roger and I kept a look out,” John places a hand on Humphrey’s shoulder. “Then we saw her, your sister Ashley. She was walking through the game floor, making her way to the back. We followed her, keeping our distance of course. She went down some hallways in the back, past the bathrooms, we would rush to look watching which way she would go next. But we ran into a dead end and she was gone. There was nowhere she could’ve gone.”

“She just disappeared?” Jack sounds skeptical. “Are you sure you just didn’t miss a turn or something?”

John gives her a big smile, “That’s exactly what we thought. But before we could backtrack to look for another way she could’ve gone, we heard voices approaching. Roger and I hid behind this couch and a big potted fern. Then two guys dressed in black came into view.”

“Were they Team Rocket?” you ask.

“We weren’t sure, until they moved a hanging painting aside. There was a keypad underneath. They put in a code and a section of wall burst open. A staircase behind the opening, the guys went through and the wall closed behind them.”

“Did you see the code?” Daisy jumps in.

“No, but we thought if we waited around maybe we’d see more people come. Roger left, that way if I got caught someone would know where I was. He met up with Humphrey who was still playing at the card tables. So I stayed hidden in the corner, with my phone camera at the ready. It was maybe another hour before anybody came through, but when they did I recorded it on my phone,” John pulls out his phone handing it over to you girls on the bed.

You hit play and watched as a guy dressed in black revealed the panel behind the painting. The camera zoomed in, and we were able to make out code being entered. 762538. You watch the wall open just as John described, and the Team Rocket member disappears into the dark staircase.

“We need to take this to the police,” Daisy says.

“Keep watching,” John says, “I was about to leave when the door opened again.” Sure enough, the wall reopened and two figures walked out. A woman dressed in Team Rocket black alongside a policewoman dressed in her blue uniform. “I don’t think the cops are going to do anything to Team Rocket.” The video ends with the two of them turning the corner. “I met back up with Roger and Humphrey. We collected the tokens Humphrey had won and made our back here.”

“No wonder Team Rocket just seems to keep growing. They have the police in their pocket,” Daisy looks defeated.

“It’s getting late, and we still have some preliminary matches tomorrow,” Roger speaks up.

“Yea, he’s right,” Daisy says looking at everyone. “I’ll take this room, try to clean up some. You guys can get new rooms and sleep in preparation for tomorrow.”

“Everything will be okay,” you whisper to Daisy before you all leave her in the room. Since Daisy’s room is technically in Jack’s name, you have her come stay with you. The boys each going to their own room, needing the rest for tomorrow. You and Jack take turns cleaning up, both of you too tired from the evening’s earlier activities. You fall into bed passing out almost immediately.