The Black Market-2 

"Welcome to our humble information center trainer Aoki…" a person wearing a joker mask rubbed his hands.

"No need to be shocked, we know about everyone who enters the city."

The man was sitting in a black room with a glass wall in front of him with a small cut-out.

On the opposite side of the wall sat Aoki.

"So Aoki, what information do you want ?"

"Tell me the situation with Team Rocket, " Aoki asked.

"Sorry customer, we work for money and they have played a lot of money not to give out information about them.

If you can give me 15 million, I might give out some important information"

"Forget it, tell me the information I can get under 100k"

"Stingy with the money I see…Whatever, here is the information I can sell you at that price."

Aoki looked through the list and selected some of them like the secret of the unofficial gym, the location of the best shops, how much they know about him, etc.

The person with the joker mask one by one told him everything that he wanted to know. Aoki was surprised to hear that the black market knew about every place he had been so far and what Pokemon he owned.

"Since it's your first time here, let me give you a free piece of information.

Someone from the Team Rocket regularly takes updates about you so better watch your back"

Aoki didn't give any reaction to the information as he expected that. He had the Gyarados that Team Rocket experimented after all.

"Now for your last information.

The unofficial gym of Saffron City is a dojo to train people and Pokemon in martial arts but the master of the Dojo has an interesting secret.

He is a person who has the power of Aura. If someone has the power to use Aura, he is the best person to learn from.

He is said to have been a teacher of another trainer who can use aura and is a formidable trainer. "

"Thanks for the information, I will be leaving then"

"Don't you want to know about the formidable trainer? "

"Not, interested"

"If you need more information, our doors are always opened for you with the condition that you have enough money"

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Coming out of the Information Center, Aoki asked Darkrai about the room that he was in.

[There were around 5 master-level psychic Pokemon surrounding the room and one elite-level Ghost Pokemon in the man's shadow.]

'Did they leave any mark on me?'

[The ghost Pokemon left a mark on you but I erased it. They will most probably increase your threat level for it.]

'Thanks for it.'

With Darkrai for emergency and his Pokemon for a frontal assault, he was not worried about his safety.

Aoki looked at the list of the shop he got from the information center and started walking towards one. He wanted to get his hands on a peak-grade leaf stone for Weepinbell.

He could get high-grade leaf stones in the market but peak grades were not available normally.

The place that sold the stones kept a sample of each stone in a glass drawer to view.

Thankfully the store had a final piece of peak-grade leaf stone which he bought with 75k.

He ordered some pieces of high-quality water stones too.

Around the drawers were several boxes with different labels.

Darkrai asked Aoki to go towards the box with the label 'unknown' written on them.

"What is in this box Mr.? "

"Dusk stones….recently imported from Sinnoh region."

The shopkeeper felt not from the Kanto region going by his dialect still he was trying to imitate the Kanto dialect which made him speak slower.

"You must have hit a jackpot if you got so much dusk stone …but why is 'Unknown' written on it ?"

"Their rank is yet to be….. determined. Some of them are made into stones while some of them are not made into…. stones yet "

"Are they for sale ?"

"800k per box…no bargain, " the shopkeeper said.

'Hope it's worth it Darkrai '

Out of all the evolutionary stones, Dusk stones and Shiny stones are the hardest to get because of their rarity.

Even high-grade dusk stones go on sale for around 150k.

He made Darkrai put the box of stones in his dimension after traveling to an empty corner.

'Is there something special in the box Darkrai ?'

[Although there are only ores, they can be made into 10 high-grade and one peak-grade dusk stone.]

'Seems like I didn't make a loss. So, why do you need them ?''

[Dusk stones will nourish my chaos core increasing my mastery]

'Good to hear that '

Finally, after walking some more distance, he came to the orb and corpse store.

The store had large freezers and other accessories for keeping Pokemon corpses.

Aoki was given a list of orbs that were available.

After browsing for a few minutes, he chose the orb of an elite rank Pidgeot, a master rank Venusaor and master rank Arcanine which cost him around 1.5 million.

Aoki went with the person responsible and viewed his products before making the purchase.

'This should be enough' Aoki put the bag into his shadow for Darkrai to keep after getting away from the sites.

While going towards the exit, he went passes the bounty hunting organization notice board to look for the top bounties.

[Samuel Oak

Status: Alive only

Profession: Professor

Bounty: 300 million]

[Chamion Lance

Status: Dead or Alive

Profession: Champion

Bounty: 200 million]

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..

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[ Sabrina

Status: Alive only

Profession: Gym leader

Bounty:60 million]

[Erica...

Status: Alive only

Profession: Gym leader

Bounty:50 million]

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Oak and Lance had their name on the top of the list and everyone knew that even trying their bounty was suicide.

Among the gym leaders, Giovani had the highest with 100 million followed by Blaine with 90 million.

Sabrina and Erica were the most famous gym among the males for top-class beauties as gym leaders.

People challenged the gym many just to see the ice-cold and disgustful expression of Sabrina and the cheerful smile of Erika.

Aoki had come across many fan clubs dedicated to them. Aoki had to admit both of their beauty were indeed worthy of their fame, especially Sabrina.

Aoki realized that something major must be happening as the number of team rocket members was increasing there.

Aoki thought of a possibility of the events of the game where the main building of Silph. co. was attacked by Team rocket to steal the master ball.

If that was the case then the number was justified.

There was another possibility related to the power plant.

Aoki had heard that similar to the incident in Vermillion city, many small cities had their power plant destroyed by something.

'Must be related to Zapdos' he thought.

If that was really the case, he could get some benefits from the situation.

'Hmm…I should snoop around this area more. If I can find a high-ranking team rocket member, I will get some information out of them'

He asked for the bounty book as only the bounty of up to 40 million was visible on the screen.

In the bounty book, there were bounties of other gym leaders too but what made it interesting was one specific bounty.

[Professor Gunhildr

Status: Alive only

Bounty:20 million]

There was no picture of him, unlike other bounties.

'20 million? Hah! I thought it would be more.

At least it's more than Brock and Misty's sisters. '

As he had nothing else to do he returned to a place where an Alakazam was waiting for him to teleport to the location of the underground area.

Aoki left the area and took a taxi to go a certain distance and then walk his way home.

He took it slowly from there as he felt a gaze on him from someone but for a short time.

After ensuring that he was not followed, he returned to his house.

If he felt like he was being followed he would have gotten rid of the person like the one he did in Vermillion City.

It was around evening that he returned back.

Aoki found the house empty with a note that Misty was near the lake training her Pokemons. He had turned off his Pokedex so Misty left a note.

Aoki decided not to leave the house and get some preparation done as he decided to evolve two of his Pokemon.