The Collector

"Well, let's go over there then," Xander replied, pointing over to the street that Myukou stated would contain a bigger street.

"ok," Myukou replied as she led them a block along the busy street to a traffic light. The other street seemed busy not but not as near as busy as the street named Lockon Blvd. It could be seen from the street sign that the name of the street was Docker Ave. Myukou waited for the light to turn and then she crossed the street. The rest followed her and looked straight down to the street which started to look dirtier and dirtier.

"What's with all the filth?" Sylva suddenly asked as she avoided a puddle of dank, smelly sludge.

"No one cleans up here," Myukou said as they passed under a freeway. Salyu looked at the freeway with disgust, not being used to them. While Huntur didn't seem to like it. For Posachu it triggered nostalgia of his city days.

As Xander followed Myukou under the freeway, he looked up to examine it when he suddenly felt his foot step in something wet, thick, and unpleasantly warm. He looked down to see his foot stuck in sticky, black gunk that had a fain smell of gasoline. "Ugh...hope my pads didn't touch the stuff," Xander commented as he continued on, dragging his foot against the concrete to wipe the stuff off.

After the freeway overpass it looked worse. What was dirty houses, were now even dirtier houses with broken windows with rotted exterior covered in graffiti. There were also some apartments in the same state but the higher floors were at least a little bit better. In the front laws and on the patios of the apartment were myriad Pokemon all dressed in rags that seemed to have been gotten from a thrift shop years ago. Their long hair and fur was messy and wild. They all were glaring at the newcomers, none of them looking at each other. Posachu and Huntur immediately started shaking getting scared from all of the glares that they were getting. Myukou just looked ahead trying to look away from all the glaring Pokemon. Salyu tried to do the same.

Xander didn't really care about the other pokemon glaring at him. When he spotted Posachu and Hunter shivering in fear behind him, he picked them both up in and carried the two of them under his arms as he continued following Myukou. Ivana and Sylva, like Myukou and Salyu, did their best to ignore the stares.

After walking a couple of blocks nothing had changed. Many cars had passed by them, yet when one car, a nice white expensive car started rolling by, one of the pokemon on the other side of the avenue picked up a rock and threw it at the car. It crashed into one of the windows which prompted the driver to park his car and quickly get out of the. The driver picked up the rock and yelled out, "Who the @#$$ threw this at me!?" He was a Houndoom with greasy hair and a gold chain around his neck. When he looked at the one who threw it a Sandlash with a distinct red shirt on. He charged at him and yelled, "YOU LITTLE @$%@!!!!" He chucked the rock at the Sandlash's house breaking a window. Then he fired off a flamethrower which melted part of the front room of the house. The Sandlash fried back by running at the Houndoom and socking him hard in the stomach. This caused a large rush of blood to flow out of it. When Myukou saw this she got into a run trying to get away from the fight that was coming underway. Salyu noticed this too and rushed up too.

Xander looked at the fight and simply shrugged, jogging a little simply to keep up with the girls as all four of them ran.

Soon the fight started to involve all of the people around the area and Myukou kept on speeding up. Up ahead there was another fight in which there was a Vulpix-Pikachu being kicked many times by three large pokemon. The Vulpix-Pikachu had on a backwards cap with a large M on the front of it. He had pikachu ears and long Pikachu like hair. His body shape was Vulpix like though except for his tail was a pointed tail like a Pikachu's except for it was red. His footpaws had pointed feet but they were like Vulpix feet. He had on a gold chain that was lying on the floor, and a ghetto black shirt and baggy jeans. When he saw the group of them he quickly called out, "Help me!" The other three pokemon turned around took one look at them and proceeded to beat him up.

When the fight between the Houndoom and Sandshrew escalated, Xander actually stopped to watch, enjoying the fighting intensity. "Oh! Oh! He slammed his head in the car door! This is awesome. Oh look, now the houndoom's--" Xander commented before being dragged away by ear by Ivana. "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, alright! I'll follow!" Xander exclaimed. Ivana trusted him and let go of his ear. Shaking the pain out, Xander followed the girls and, in an act of courtesy, fired an aura sphere at the three pokemon attacking the Pikachu. "You 6 might want to run now," he hinted as he set Posachu and Huntur down.

The three pokemon where hurt by the aura sphere and turned around to look at Xander. "What'd you do THAT for!" one of them shouted.
"YEA! Why would you want to help a mafia member?" another one asked. When the vulpix-Pikachu heard this he cringed. He got up and started to run away. Myukou, Salyu and Posachu all started off running away on Xander's advice. Huntur stayed still and just watched the fight in the distance.

"Mafia member?" Xander asked curiously. "All I saw was three Pokemon gang up on someone who seemed unable to fight back and asked for help," he explained.

"WEll he's a mafia member!" one of them shouted. "We were beating him up to get our money back,
another added.

"If you say so," Xander replied with a shrug before turning to continue on his way, picking Huntur up and carrying him as he went back to following the others.

Huntur eeps and watches himself get carried. The three pokemon just watch as they go glaring. Soon enough they get to a street named "Hopson Blvd." "This is where we turn," Myukou pointed out after turning. The Pikachu-Vulpix was following them shaking and practially trying not to be seen.

Xander felt the presence of the Pikachu/Eevee following them but did nothing to stop him. He followed Myukou and the others as they rounded the corner to travel along Hopson blvd.

As they rounded the corner right on the left side of the street was a big hangar like building. The windows had boards on them and it's presence seemed weird. There were no other buildings like it in the neighborhood. It had a strange aura and covered up quite a bit of the block. There was two large metal doors on the side that were boarded up with large boards.

"Is that it?" Xander asked Myukou, pointing to the abandoned-looking building.

Myukou just nodded and continued to look at it. The rest of them even the Pikachu-Vulpix continued to look at it.

Xander shrugged, put Huntur down, and began walking up to the building. Ivana and Sylva just looked at it, feeling it unsafe to approach. Why they didn't stop Xander even they didn't know.

Salyu and Myukou both went with Xander. The rest of them just looked at the building with fear in their mind. Even the Pikachu-Vuplix who was a native to the area was afraid of it. It was surprising that even though Myukou was the youngest and by far the weakest, (Yes weaker than Huntur XD) she wasn't very afraid of the building. Even Salyu was afraid of it more. "Are you going to bust it open?" Myukou asked.

Once he approached, Xander grabbed hold of one of the boards and ripped it off the door. He casually tossed it aside before doing the same to the other oned and opening the doors of the warehouse.

Inside of the building was a Raichu like the one that they had met at the lake. It was working on building some metal object. All of them looked but none of them dared to go in yet. Salyu and Myukou was waiting for someones lead.

"I take it you're Huntur's boss?" Xander immediately asked as he entered the warehouse. "And the same Raichu we met at the lake?" he added.