The whistle of Hana, which symbolizes the sucess of the aversion of the worst case scenario: Anthony being abducted and the Team Rocket becoming sucessful in their objectives, making their destruction of their nearest secret base in the center of the Pokemon protection sphere of the World Government worth it. It also means that Hana's role in this matter will be over, something that Karen and Oak knew is non-negotiable.
In any case, the children are already safe and the Pokemons as well, they're most likely on their way back to the field. Prof. Oak really doesn't care about the fact that Hana would most likely not help in the subsequent investigations as long as Anthony is not implicated again, he doesn't have time to mule on who can help the world government on catching the already bleeding tail of Team Rocket and those who can't.
_I have already gotten soft... sometimes, Agatha's words is right..._
As Oak judged himself due to his carelessnes, he once again turned on the mic and said somberly:
"The crisis has been averted, as of now, my staff are already calling the attention of the Interpol President to put this matter to their highest priority. I will release an official statement after a brief meeting with them... for now, just to be sure, Karen's Houndoom will do a mandatory sniffing inspection and anyone who refused to have their things and body sniffed by Houndoom will be detained as a potential accomplice."
Prof. Oak didn't dwadled on the field further as he saw the interns of his coming towards their mom and dad as well as their other family members that have the time to have a reunion. As Prof. Oak walked, he saw that his interns have deep marks of ropes on their hands and feet while some are visibly shaken, either having their whole body or eyes trembling. In this regard, Prof. Oak didn't tell a word as he went the opposite direction of the interns.
However, for a moment, the interns seem to stop their sprint as they saw the eyes of Prof. Oak. Most of the time, these interns knew of Prof. Oak as the gentle professor that he is, that they can probably disturb in his office to ask questions (though they didn't do it for obvious reasons), but for some reason, the interns remembered the identity of the professor before becoming the Pokemon Professor that he is right now.
Pokemon trainer Samuel Oak, rival of now Elite 4 Agatha.
Such were the thoughts of the interns that were momentarily in a stupor before a red aurora flew above their head towards the two Pokeballs in each hands of Prof. Oak. He then made it shrink before stuffing them in the inner pocket of his lab gown.
He have finally recalled Pidgeot and Braviary.
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The Pokemon Lab of the Knto Region, like most Pokemon research labs in the world of Pokemon is a huge compound that holds the greatest events in the field of research in the world such as conferences in Pokemon medicine, social science, environmental implications, Pokemon training and breeding among many others. Sometimes, if some citizens are lucky, they would even be able to see other Pokemon Professors of other regions having a stroll after, maybe presenting their own proceedings and research article in the lab.
However, most of the time, when these monsters in the field of Pokemon research came together, it's always because of the update on their main research fields, maybe some of them may invite the other for a field observation or be a panel on their dissertations.
And oftentimes, it happens in the conference hall where Prof. Oak have just entered, however, no Pokemon professor other than him was present. Instead, there are two women sitting. One has a cheeks length green hair that's hanging on both side of her face in a wolf cut and brown eyes that are being covered by a pair of prescription glasses. The lady looks staid and strict as she wear a white long-sleeved turtle neck tucked inside dark blue pants while being under a dark leather jacket.
She's the president of the Interpol and also the head of the Jenny family, Officer Elizabeth Jenny, maybe the only officer Jenny one would see without the police's standardized haircut which is just standardized because trainers finds them fun. This is because Elizabeth Jenny doesn't want to and being flashy doesn't benefit her job in any way.
In any case, Elizabeth is the head of her family, so she can do whatever she wanted to to some extent. Going back, the other is a woman with simple attire, long black hair and a t-shirt and pants, this is Hana Dover former Pokemon trainer and once was a strong asset of Interpol before she and her husband retired and limited their connection to the world government.
The two of them is sitting patiently as they glanced at Pro. Oak who continued to glance around as if in confusion as he sat down with the two ladies.
"Where's Elite 4 Agatha? I believe we need her here."
Just as when the two ladies were about to reply at the question of Prof. Oak, the door of the conference room that was tacitly used as a debriefing room of the current situation suddenly creaked open and an aged voice rang out whilst all 3 heads inside craned towards the direction of the door.
"You bet you do, you soft old fart, how can your medical unit get infiltrated by some mafia bastards?"
Agatha, wearing her usual attire as an elite 4 member of a maid attire of the previous era entered as she slowly closed the door. She's holding her cane rather weirdly with the blunt on the ground and the point in her hand, furthermore, obvious drops of water can be seen suffusing from the blunt. Prof. Oak, Hana Dover and President Elizabeth Jenny didn't ask Elite 4 Agatha about the reason for this kind of arrangement and instead waited for her to sit down.
Agatha choose the sit on the other end of the long table facing the Interpol president directly, whom, without even introduction immediately looked at her left side where Hana was in and immediately asked.
"I have to thank you for giving Agatha a heads up on this, I know this is for your son but it ended up giving us good lead on the Team Rocket's motives and their fears. Specifically, we now know that they fear your husband's sudden returement just being a hoax, causing them to attempt abducting your child and gather information from him, now I have to ask you: what's the exact situation inside the medical unit when you entered it and how do you think it would relate to Team Rocket's modus operandi?"
At this moment, as Hana knew that this is something that can affect the future of her son as a trainer, she cooperated immediately. After all, before the current Pokemon trainer Red, she and Ben are known to be the greatest headaches of Team Rocket. It's obvious that she knew a lot about them.
"First of all, they're very simple in terms of structure: Establish a base, and make sure it's a secret and connect it to other bases. This is the reason why they're so hard to find but once you find one of them, you have found them all, subsequently, this is also the reason why I found it odd that the Interpol and the elite 4 didn't connect Viridian City Gym and Team Rocket. Let me tell you this, even one indication of Team Rocket members gathering in one place is an immense flag of the base of theirs."
Hana then sighed before continuing.
"Going back, when I entered the medical unit that I have to destroy partially because we're being swarmed by dark-types, all personnel are tased and detained to some random room. I suppose this is so that I would have a hard time saving them. Furthermore, all Pokemons are caught without consent and their trainers also detained in random rooms..."
Hana, as if suddenly finding a fond memory had her gaze slowly lit up.
"Also, if I may add, when I entered the room where Anthony was in, all of the grunts are already taken care of. However, he was still very scared about all of what happened and rested his head on my shoulder while hugging me."
Officer Elizabeth Jenny and the other people present in the conference room looked at Hana that's obviously emphasizing the first sentence of her last statement in silence. In the end however, they weren't able to say anything as she's the one that first made the connection that the communication department of Interpol might have several Team Rocket moles. In the end, President Elizabeth instead said.
"He's quite talented, huh... In any case, I want to thank you for giving us hints, we will not be holding you any longer."
Hana simply nodded at this, she doesn't really have anything to say with this matriarch of the Jenny family. On one hand she have interacted more in the previous matriarch during her active days and the current President Officer Jenny is formerly a coordinator and not a trainer like her, so she barely knew the woman. Hana said goodbye to Prof. Oak and Elite 4 Agatha who nodded at her briefly, Elizabeth Jenny immediately looked at Agatha.
"Ma'am Agatha, we now need you to take on the floor."
As Elizabeth is here to acquire the full intel about the situation, she didn't ask a lot of question and instead politely asked for Agatha to go speak. Oak and Jenny knew that this old woman have confronted the base leader of Elite 4 who of course 'didn't cooperate'.
"Yes, I already curated a detailed map of all the current existing bases of Team Rocket through the double spy. Apparently, she's already considered an important member despite only being in charge of just one base, and a barely successful one."
Upon hearing this, Prof. Oak, who was looking at the map had his eyes suddenly widen.
"It seems that... Team Rocket is already in their last leg..."
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Anthony who's on the right leg of Mama Kangaskhan being given berries by Baby Kangaskhan that's inside the giant pouch of its mom alongside Zubat and Miltank, also being fed by berries took the berry that's abnormally big to be a berry was on a mood to rest. For a moment, he looked at Mama Kangaskhan with doubt (or what can he muster from his stiff face) before munching on it silently.
It was the least he could do to endure the nervous atmosphere of the spectators and also a rest from the festering of Glen on how cool he might have looked when he get to get out of his sticky situation. Anthony doesn't feel cool at that time however because he still felt his knees weakening in relief when his mother arrived.
Though that might be a natural reaction given the situation.
After some time, when Anthony is just wondering on how can a berry become so big, he saw his mom walking back to them. Some people wanted to talk to her and ask on what would the Professor say, however, Anthony and probably even the parents felt that Hana's mood is not quite right, so they let her sit on her Pokemon alongside her son.
_Mom seems grumpy..._
Anthony, who already knew that this is because she have interacted with the government at a rather deep level grew curious about the true reason on why is his mom always in a bad mood or at least unwilling to do something when the government requested her to.
If only he doesn't know any better, then he would have already asked.
Just as Anthony continued to observe his mother, he suddenly saw Prof. Oak who have already clamed down compared to before holding a mic with Elite 4 Agatha and a very unique officer Jenny.
_That's... Elizabeth Jenny, apparently she's a coordinator before becoming the President of the world's police force..._
As Anthony mulled of such words, Prof. Oak immediately explained about the exact situation is. First off about the secret operation, about how Team Rocket got outsmarted by a 7 year old kid as well as how the situation is now fully under control.
Despite these assurances however, no one become relaxed, for one all of them are shaken as they realized that even the haven for Pokemons can be riddled with danger and another is that even if there's a 7 year old that outsmarted a bunch of adults, not all interns are as sharp as the said 7 year old. Some who doesn't have experience or pride in battling even thinks that it was only natural because he was the offspring of the monsters named Hana and Ben.
_I knew this would be a very big headache for Prof. Oak..._
Anthony sighed as well as Prof. Oak as he immediately said:
"I know that all of you are now apprehensive because of this situation and while I'm sure and I myself will make sure that this will not happen again, I can't just assure you with the words of an old man like me. In this regard, I will be giving you the full control on the cancellation of the enrollment of your children in the internship program, all of their credentials will still be with them and will not expire no matter what, however several matters like their long term project Pokemons needing day care center partnership are still required by law."
Prof. Oak then looked at the interns as if sad that his precious children will go away.
"You can give me your decision by tommorow."