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Episode 1: A Stranger In Familiar!

Today on Melemele, there has been a strange and rash sequence of events!

Officer Jenny has been busy, as a series of thefts has been noted across the city. The wealthy industrialist Viren has been targeted several times with valuables relating to the Pokemon Groudon.

As researchers are coming into the town today to help work on the Ultra Hole situation, on invite of the Aether Foundation, it seems that someone might have slipped through into the town. A certain woman in green might have been spotted in several of Viren's locations before a theft has been seen.

Some people might be starting to get uneasy about the influx of people. Perhaps it's time to investigate some of these rumors that a thief might have made their way onto the island...

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Officer Jenny can be found at various scenes of the crime, checking the area with her Gumshoos partner.

Other than that, she's at home.

Spider-man and that Spinarak that's been following him around since his arrival are both at the scene of the crime late at night. This dude-uh-what was his name? Viren? Something like that. Anyway, he seems to be the thief's favorite target so he's staking out the place from a nearby tree.

"Okay, Shelob. Keep your eyes open for anything out of the ordinary." He tells the pokemon. "Alright Karen, activate reconnaissance mode." He says quietly. "Dronie, I need you to watch the other side of the house."

The little spider-drone flies off to do as it's been told.

"Man, why couldn't the thief have sent like a calling card or something? It's so inconsiderate to just drop in unexpectedly like that."

"Spinarak!" Shelob states. Peter's not sure if she's agreeing or not.

On the other side of the clearing, Jenny is doing her own stakeout of the likely target. There's a chance that Viren's latest collectible, the Eye of Groudon, was going to be targeted by the thief.

Checking her binoculars, she noticed the small, almost indistinct blob that was Spider-man and frowned. "Gumshoos, you see that?" She said, passing it over to Gumshoos.

"Gum," replied her partner.

Getting out of her stakeout area, she moved quietly over to Spider-man's area and called out in a hushed tone, "Hold it. You're that new hero in town I've heard about, aren't you?"

"See anything yet?" Spider-Man is asking his new partner which replies with a noise suggesting she doesn't. "Well, it's still pretty early and who needs sleep any-oh my god!" He jumps a little and has to quickly focus his attention on sticking to the branch he's perched on. He's just upside down now. Cool.

"Uh.. yeah, Hi! I'm-I'm Spider-Man. Nice to officially meet you." He offers a small wave. Why didn't his senses go off? They're just all over the place right now and he really needs the Spideysense-not Peter Tingle (thanks Aunt May.)-to come back.

"Spina." The Spinarak says in concern, now also hanging upside down-though that was a choice.

"Well, it's nice to meet you Spider-man," replied Jenny, crouching down next to his tree and beckoning him to slide into the bushes. "I take it you've heard the news that a new thief has been making the rounds in Melemele. Gumshoos and I have been working overtime with the rest of the force. We've narrowed it down to a few spots where she could strike."

Jenny pulled out a picture and handed it to Spider-man, of a woman in a green dress. "See her? No name, no identification. She just shows up whenever there's a theft the day before. We noticed a pattern."

"Yup, sure have. That's why I'm here-staking the place out. Haven't noticed anything yet, so far." He admits before letting himself drop back to the ground, flipping around so he lands in a slight crouch. He slides over to the bushes as gestured but Shelob is choosing to stay in the tree.

He takes the picture handed to him and looks at it carefully. She doesn't look familiar-but maybe. "Since there's no identification I'm guessing no one's managed to talk to her, huh?" He's been about as Spider-Man a few times and met a few people so there's something he can at least give it a shot? He hold a hand up to where his ears are beneath the mask.

"Hey Karen, can you run a facial recognition on this picture? Just compare it to all the people we've seen since we got here."

"None so far," replied Jenny.

Given a moment, Karen could look into the facial recognition. Local hits wouldn't give anything but at the moment, a flag would trigger on the International Police Records, as a known felon alias would flag in Peter's notes as Karen would report a known burglar named Brodie used the unnamed woman as his alias as one of his many faces.

It would also Flag Looker, and alert him that one of his prime targets is in Alola. However Peter is not under suspicion for hacking and is free as a bird.

Yeah, that's exactly what Peter thought. He waits for Karen to check local faces and frowns beneath his mask. He didn't really expect that to work but he had hoped it might give them something.

"Searching other databases..." Karen informs him as she continues the search.

"So the best we can hope for is to catch 'em in the act?" He asks, not super keen on sitting in the same place for possibly hours.

"Peter, I have matched the picture as being an alias to known criminal known as Brodie. Would you like me to pull up more information?" Oh, apparently it did do something.

"Uh... yeah, sure Karen, lets do that." He's not gonna get in trouble for this, is he? He's a good guy-he'll only use the information for good.

"That's what a stakeout is for," replied Jenny with a little mirth behind her tone. "You haven't done many stakeouts before in your time as a crime fighter? More of a punch them up, web them up sort of person, Spider-man?"

"Gum," replied Gumshoos, handing Jenny some coffee as she sipped at it.

"Part of police work is knowing when you have to wait for the criminals to strike after all."

"Uh.. no, not really." He admits, thinking about how the last stakeouts he did ended. "I mean, I try not to like.. punch anyone 'cause I don't want to hurt anybody-but yeah. When I'm out patrolling I just kinda web people up and let the police handle it after."

But he'd actually managed to track Toomes down so he must have done at least some decent detective work. And where was Karen with that information? Was so little known about that guy? Karen will come through, she always does.

"So like, what kinda security does this guy have? Alarms, security cameras? Anything that this guy might accidentally trip?"

[This is all very curious. While Yotsuyu knows very little about the Alolan isles, still, she was in charge of an entire country herself, once. Despite the fact that it was ruled by her iron fist in a velvet glove, that experience has served her well in the past, and she hopes it serves her well now.

She chooses to speak to Viran herself--truly, she is simply an innocent Faller, new to the realm, with the purity of good in her heart. Were anyone from her past here, they would laugh. But Yotsuyu has ever been cunning, and it entertains her to think she can pit her intellect and wit against those of this thief. So for once, she tosses her hat in the ring on the side of good.]

Pray tell, my good sir, had you noticed anything...strange, before your items went missing? New faces? Odd happenstances? Something that may have acted as a distraction?

"Viren has state of the art security. Alarms, laser security, keypads. I'm surprised if they actually get through it..." Said Jenny.

Gumshoos nods, and then stiffens for a moment. "Gum!" He barked in alarm seconds before a Skarmory swoops out of the darkness, claws aimed at Spider-man's head. "Get down!" She exclaimed, hitting the dirt as a Fury Attack was aimed right for the group.

"Gumshoos, Protect!" Exclaimed Jenny, as the Skarmory swooped around for round two, aimed for the Spinerak.

[Viren had so graciously accepted the talk, from a most humble Faller as herself. A esteemed guest from the most wealthy Lusamine, President of Aether Corporation, he couldn't turn her down.

Leaning back in his chair and swirling his wine, he scowled.]

I noticed that several times when I arrived to work, people would say that a lovely lady in a green dress would arrive on scene, looking around, being all interested in my stuff. So they would give her a tour. You know, be the bigger man and all, I even gave her a tour myself! She was real interested in my solid gold statue of me!

And you had never seen her before, my lord? [Old habits died hard, and it certainly couldn't hurt that Yotsuyu has fallen into the dialect of servitude.] Should you see her again, could you pick her out in a crowd?

Was she interested in your other valuables as well? The statue itself has not been taken, correct?

[Taking notes--as meticulously as she can, now.] Is something now missing in all the locations where she appeared and received a tour? Or only some, as if this individual chose specific things that they desired? I do not intend to rub salt in your wounds by any means, I am hoping that by practically scouring your memory, I might unearth something that a mere once-over might miss. I pray you understand.

Hmmm... [Viren leaned back and frowned, folding his arms.]

Come to think about it... she was real interested in the new Legendary Pokemon Collection I just got. I paid a fortune for this stuff to have it shipped here from Hoenn. They said it was dug up from an old Team Magma Base, and I paid out the nose to have it here.

[Yotsuyu did not know much about the islands, yet, but she had been learning about the various Teams that had gotten up to mischief in the past. Magma had been one of them. Her lip twitched but a moment, and she schooled her look of disdain to one of distant interest. But didn't he think it had been stolen? Ugh.]

Team Magma, you say? They are defunct now, yes? As I am new here...could you pray tell me why there might be interest in such a thing? Please? There are no other teams that might be springing up, sending an operative to...pilfer your new collection?

They disbanded years ago. Dunno what happened to them. Some say that Kyogre and Groudon rose from their slumber and wrecked havoc in their region and some trainer stopped them. But I don't give a damn about that. All I care about is my stuff not being messed with. But, with all these ex-members coming in from their ranks from their scientists being all "reformed" [and at this he wiggled his fingers in quotation marks] Bah! Bah I say!

Here, c'mon I'll show you.

[Getting up, he went over to the vault, keyed, opened it, and showed off the collection in the room where there was a huge pile of loot, all displayed in a room. There was a lot of high quality polished things; statues, golden figures, pieces of old treasure. And there was a cracked blue orb that was literally taped together.]

This is everything that the lady was scoping out. Normally it's downstairs in the display cases, but when she started poking around, we brought it up to the vault. I was going to toss the orb though, even though its made of Sapphire, it's worthless now if it's just a chunk. Here.

[And he plucked it from it's casing and handed it to Yotsuyu. You sense that it is Very Important.] Take it. As a gift. It's still worth a penny. At least five mill Poke.

I do understand being skeptical about one's reformation. [Oh, how dry she was being now. As her own 'reformation', as it were, was still in question! So far Gosetsu has been staying close to her, but he strays a bit around the room now, and she glances at him, briefly.]

Do not get into trouble here in Lord Viren's place, Gosetsu. We are working. We shall play later, if you like. [She would have carried him, but she still has not found a proper way to write and do so at the same time. Her next comment is more for form's sake--she can tell this sphere is important, but Being a Delicate Lady demands a certain form!]

Oh, my lord--are you certain? It may not be whole any more, but sapphires that large cannot be that commonplace...if you are sure, believe me, I am grateful for your kindness! [She will wait for it to be offered again, but Yotsuyu will accept it, with dainty grace, and bestow upon him a smile.]

Troublemakers. Aether recruits from all of those old "Teams" all the time, and I wonder if we're just scooping up all of those big brains of theirs.

[He smirked.] Keep it. As payment for a good time tonight with a lovely lady. [He said, waving his fan in his hand.]

Well, if Karen's right about who this thief is then it kinda fits the MO. "So then they probably have like tools or something to get passed-Shit!" Peter lets out as he's suddenly dive-bombed. He rolls out of the way and hops up on his feet, ready for a fight.

But then the thing is after Shelob. Why? "Shelob! look out!" He cries before firing a web at the Pokemon and pulling her close. "Hey buddy, maybe pick on someone your own size?" He calls up to the skarmory.

You have my thanks, my lord. Both for your cooperation, and your generosity. [He gets a very proper Eastern bow from Yotsuyu, then.]

Should you have need to contact me again, you may ask for Yotsuyu Naeuri at the Aether Corporation; I do not precisely work there, of course, but as a Faller, I am under the...observation? Care? of President Lusamine and her family. [Nor does she have anything with her like a cell phone or a tomesphone to be in contact with her, yet. Or even a Pokedex, for that matter. Though whether that is a contact device or not, she is uncertain. She knows linkpearls. These are not that.]

In case we have missed anything, of course. [She tucks her notebook and the sphere itself in a pouch at her belt, closes it, and leans down slightly.] Come, Gosetsu. We have taken up enough of this good man's time. Lord Viren, I do thank you again for your help!

"Type battling!" Exclaimed Jenny as the webs gummed up the Skarmory's wings as it skidded off Gumshoos' Protect. "Sometimes, it just sort of happens!"

The Skarmory skidded along the ground, dragging its wings to clear its wingtips of webbing as it tried to use Slash to free itself but failed. Instead, it reared back its wings and fired a Air Slash at the group.

"Dodge!" Exclaimed Jenny, as she and her partner hit the ground rolling. "Sandstorm!"

"Gumshoos!" Exclaimed Gumshoos, blowing up a arc of sand around the opponent, blotting out the area with a whirlwind of sand as the four of them disappeared into the choking sand.

Battling? He's been reading about it off and one since he got here-specifically reading about Spinarak. He knows this! Before he can fully call anything out though, there's suddenly sand and Peter is so glad he doesn't have asthma anymore as he goes to cover his face. Well, at least he's wearing a mask.

"Hey Shelob, how about uh-String Shot?" He cries out to her.

"Spina!" The Spinrak says in agreement before shooting her own webs at the the skarmory.

Blinded by the Sandstorm and webbed up, the Skarmory is unable to do anything but struggle inside it's cocoon. And as the sand died down, there was nothing but a shaking bubble and then, silence.

For a moment, it seemed like the battle was over.

But suddenly, the cocoon cracked open and there was a large hole in the middle of the ground, as the Skarmory had used Dig to escape into the ground, leaving nothing but a endless trail.

"Ah! After it Gumshoos!" Exclaimed Jenny as Gumshoos dove into the ground. Turning towards Spider-man, she dusted herself off. "Looks like we've got someone who tried to head us off the trail. I'm radioing this in."

Be sure to drop by again, I could use the visit. [said Viren as they left.] At least I got rid of the junk.

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