The shrill alarm pierced the silence like a steel needle, red lights flashing wildly in the cold metal corridors.
Shelly and Courtney had no idea that Linda had actually followed them and secretly boarded the ship.
As far as they knew, they had slipped up somewhere and exposed themselves, but that did not matter. Stealth had its tactics, and being exposed had its own way of proceeding.
With their sheer strength, it was not as though they could not handle these Team Plasma small fry. Even if they ran into an officer, they were confident they would not lose.
After all... who among them had not been an officer once?
Besides, they did not believe Team Magma and Team Aqua were any worse than this Team Plasma!
After releasing their Pokémon, Shelly said gravely, "Proceed with plan B. Gengar, stay here and keep the engine room safe. Courtney, we're storming the control room!"
This plan had been drawn up long ago, so Courtney naturally had no objections. The two opened the engine room door and charged straight toward the deck where the control room was located, following the route they had already committed to memory.
Their figures flashed through the corridor like two bolts of black lightning.
At one intersection, they came face-to-face with several Team Plasma members hurrying past. Naturally, those members were shocked to see intruders somewhere like this.
"Control room! Intruders spotted on the second floor..."
Before he could finish, however, Courtney's Pokémon had knocked him to the floor.
With almost no effort, the two dealt with these Team Plasma members and continued onward.
However, they also picked up on something odd in that member's brief report.
These people...
Had they been so surprised because they had not known the two of them were on the second