ヽ() The Rocket Team Up to No Good
About two hours later, Misty, Ash, and Tracey, who had been hungry all day, finally wolfed down their dinner.
When night fell and everyone returned to the inn's lobby, Ash eagerly prepared to invite Annie to sneak back into the metropolis's underground tunnels with them under cover of darkness. They would risk being caught to investigate the sewer monster and rescue his Bulbasaur. To their surprise, Annie flatly refused.
What was more, they then learned from Annie that she had already earned the Wheel Badge from the Grapefruit League Gym on Grapefruit Island, near the Orange Islands and not far from the metropolis's harbor—an island visible to the naked eye?
"What?"
"You!"
Hearing all of a sudden that Annie had beaten him to the Orange League's third Badge, Ash was incredulous and couldn't help feeling a little jealous. He asked urgently,
"Annie!"
"When did you get it? Why didn't I know?"
"That's so unfair!"
Though Annie often went off on her own, and had been unable to join them several times, they had agreed back on the nameless island to meet at the next place with a Gym and earn their Badges together.
But now Annie had gone and gotten one on her own. She hadn't even waited for him!
"When?"
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"Um..."
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"Probably while you were locked up in jail?"
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"So... this afternoon?"
(*︶*).
Annie thought for a moment, then answered with confidence.
That was right!
Annie had already heard they'd been caught and locked up, but she'd just eaten her fill, it was still early, and she didn't feel like rescuing them right away. So she'd first gone to Grapefruit Island. She'd had no trouble getting the Wheel Badge while she was there having fun, then returned to