[Pokemon World] Mage Quest

"...Of course its VoidCo. Why wouldn't it be? Why wouldn't they have their dirty little paws in this, as well?! HAHAHAhahahahaaaaaaaAAAAAA!"

Charles takes a deep breath, snapping out of the pained screaming, before it gets too loud. They decide to forward the scan data to the memo.

"...I should go back home. I'm going back home. I, trust you all can handle this."

Charles recalls Swoobat back to his Pokeball, and uncaptchas a flower. If there is anything you would like to say, before he leaves, this would be the time.

The jr rocket and the youngster just kinda give Charles a weird look.

"...fucking voidco..." Nick whispers under their breath. It seems they have even more bones to pick with that company now.

Noticing Charles preparing to take off, Nick says something.

"I'll train hard to face these voidco clowns. In the meantime though, stay safe out there."
Nick gives Charles a soft hug.

Meanwhile, the sirens are getting louder.

A moment after Charles's disappearence, Officer Jenny arrives to the scene riding a patrol cruiser.

"Officer Jenny of Crossroad PD. What's the situation here?"

Not exactly having a very good relationship with law enforcement, Nick can't bring themself to say anything to Officer Jenny.
"HAZEL, can you explain this?"

"a... hyper beam gun? And this is the thing that launched it?" Officer Jenny asks.

"somehow, yeah."

"Hm." Officer Jenny looks over at the junior rocket. She then pulls out some slightly smaller handcuffs than usual.
"I'll need to get this juvenile delinquent questioned at the station and call their parents."

"Good luck getting any of that outta me!"

"My arcanine begs to differ." Officer Jenny continues making eye contact with the junior rocket. She then walks on over, gets onto the play structure, and handcuffs them.
"You are under arrest for suspected pokemon theft and menacing. You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to legal representation. Anything you say in a court of law can and will be used against you. You may be a minor, but you have rights and responsibilities like the rest of us."

"Blablabla. I'll get outta this one eventually. Team Rocket always wins!" The junior rocket is escorted to the police cruiser and is sat in the attached side-car.

"I'll need that hyper beam gun as evidence. Also, you two will likely need to be questioned as well. Make sure you stay in town until then. We'll be calling you when the time comes." Officer Jenny holds out a gloved hand towards HAZEL.

Meanwhile, Nick is really not liking being in the middle of something like this. They sigh and find a spot to sit down.

Officer Jenny accepts the hyper beam gun and puts it into a plastic baggie labeled "evidence".
A number of other members of the local police force show up. There's some investigation and questioning. It seems to go as expected. The youngster is given a chance to call their parents and is given a ride home.
After a bit, Nick and HAZEL are offered a ride down to the precinct.
Nick isn't particularly pleased about the whole debacle, but fortunately things seem to be going relatively smoothly.

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The junior rocket is refusing to say anything of use while in custody, only offering up the codename "kid" to be called by.

They ask for their one phone call and end up calling a number that seems impossible to trace by normal means.
"Hey, I got busted, but those three did show up. Any chance on getting busted out?"
A pause, inaudible words that only Kid can hear.
"...what do you mean I'm stuck here?! You said I was gonna get something outta this! Getting tossed in the slammer wasn't part of the deal!"
Another pause. Another silence.
"...well fuck you too!"
Kid slams down the phone receiver.

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After hours of police procedural bullshit, Nick and HAZEL walk out of the police department, finally free, though its unclear if the case will ever go anywhere officially.
Its sunset at this point.
Nick yawns, tired of having to put up with being so close to law enforcement.
"Its been way too a long of a day..."

"I swear, I just can't around cops. It was bad enough that I forgot that my counterpart is legally dead over here when I gave them my legal name. Made the whole process a mess and a half. I came up with the stupid excuse of 'i came from another version', as if that would have meant anything in the first place. I always get the feeling like they're gonna arrest me or shoot me for doing nothing."
They continue walking towards the pokemon center.
"At this point, I'm just glad we aren't tied down around here anymore. Like, while I'm sure I still need to do some training to face the gym leader here, its still nice to know that we aren't legally stuck in crossroad."
The center is just a few paces away at this point.
"That reminds me, do you happen to know anything about the gym leader this time around? In the story I wrote, the gym leader was a robed figure called Shrouder who used a nuzleaf and had a pair of gym trainers who used bug types. I think Shrouder was meant to be a dark type gym leader? I have no idea..."
Nick rambles on a bit as they open the doors to the pokemon center. Since they have an official trainer's license now, they should be able to get a free place to sleep here... if there's enough beds available.