Dis: You may use anything but the characters I have created. You may also use 
the Prof.'s. 
I do not own any Pokemon but my own.

			                            ****Jade Hearts****
                                                                                 
By: StarrybluMew




****Back at the Brimming's house****



		"Oh, really Prof.! I don't see how anyone could just....uh huh. Yes 
I know that but, arghhh! Please listen to me Prof. Aspen! I know it's not 
anyone's fault but her own. *sigh* Yes, well I just wished life worked that 
way." She placed the phone back on the hook and returned to the sink to wash the 
dishes. "Momma!" The mother turned around to find her daughter, Ashley, standing 
at the door covered with mud. 

	"Ashley? Well, I'll be darn what'cha do to yourself child?" The mother 
bent down and opened up her cabnit and she took out a washrag. She walked over 
to where Ashley was standing and handed Ashley the washrag. "Here," Momma told 
Ashley. "Go in the ketchin and  get yourself washed up. You're a mess." Ashley 
sighed. "Yes Momma," Ashley murmured as she made her way to the ketchin. All of 
a sudden, the phone began to ring. Momma rushed into the ketchin and picked up 
the phone.

	"Hello?" She asked sweetly. "What?!" Ashley turned around to find out what 
was going on. Momma was holding her face in her hands, crying. She looked up and 
spoted Ashley. "Ashley!" Momma cried. "Yes Momma?" Panic began to creep into 
every part of Ashley's body. "Go to Prof. Aspen's lab!" Ashley just stood there, 
confused and scared  at the same time. She's never seen her mother act this way 
before. Never. "But Momma, what's wro-" "Go now!!!" Ashley didn't even have to 
tell herself to run because before she knew, she was out the door and was just a 
few miles away from the Prof.'s house.


****Meanwhile at Dagger Headquarters****



	A stack of messy papers sat on a desk. The room it's self was a big mess. 
Paperwork was everywhere you looked and only one little patch of gray floor was 
shown.  Sitting at the desk was a teen age girl with red hair that was put up in 
a purfect bun. The message machine on the girl's desk suddenly made a large 
beeping sound as a little red button came on. The girl listened carefully as a 
deep dark voice filled the room.

	"Did you do the job?" The girl smirked and replied with a "Yeah." "I need 
more of a response than that." The girl rolled her eyes at the machine. "Hey, I 
did the job didn't I?" "Yes, you did. But the question is was that your best 
performence or what?" The girl didn't replie. "Sonya! Answer me!" Sonya pushed 
up her glasses and said in a sarcastic voice "Whoa. Keep your shirt on, V.D." 
Veriden snarled "You haven't changed a bit, Sonya. Still using blasted nicknames 
of your liking or are you having a little mid-life crises?" Sonya muttered 
"Whatever." as she pet her beloved Delcatty as it jumped up in her lap. "You 
better have killed that fool." Veriden said. 

	Sonya said in a calm voice, "I don't kill anyone that I know. Or love, for 
that matter."


****At Prof. Aspen's lab****


	Ashley arrived at the Prof.'s lab in time to see police cars and alot of 
officer Jennies running around the place and dusting for fingerprints. Ashley 
tryed to ignore all of this as she slowly and carefully made her way into the 
Prof.'s lab. 

	Inside the lab, there were 2 Jennies standing beside a man. The man 
appeared to be Prof. Aspen, but he sure didn't look like the prof. For 1, Prof. 
Aspen wasn't wearing his dorky glasses. For 2, he looked as if he'd been busted 
in the head with a mallet and slamed into the back by a baseball bat at the same 
time. For 3, the Prof. was stuttering. He never stuttered unless....unless 
something happened to his daughter, Aleah, or one of his Pokemon. 

	
	"Can you tell us what the two burglers looked like?" Asked Jenny number 1. 
Prof. Aspen quickly turned away from all of the Jennie's attention as he greeted 
Ashley. "Why, hel.....lo Asssshley." Aspen gave her a friendly smile. "Um, Prof. 
Aspen? What happened to you?" Jenny number 1 gave Jenny number 2 a worried look. 
Ashley noticed this and asked, "What's wrong?" Jenny number 1 scratched the back 
of her head as she said "Well, you see there's been a robbery." Ashley's eyes 
widened. "Robbery?" Jenny number 2 offered to  explain.
"Sure has." Ashley, curious, asked Prof. Aspen "What did the burgler look like?" 
Jenny number 1 sighed. " We've been asking Prof. Aspen that all day." Ashley 
frowned. "Has Tommy been here?" Jenny number one looked confused. "Who?" she 
asked. 

	"Oh, Tommy's my brother. He pushed me in the mud while I was keeping an 
eye on Prof. Aspen's Pokemon." Prof. Aspen gave Ashley a heart warming smile as 
he said,  "Oh he did, did he?"  Prof. Aspen's voice kinda cracked as he said 
that, but at least he wasn't stuttering as bad as he had been. Ashley quickly 
nodded in agreement with what he had said. "Well, thaaat's n...nnn...ot what 
heee....he told me." Jenny 1 gave Ashley a "haha! You're busted!" type of look.

	"Where is he?" Ashley demanded. Jenny number 2 stepped back and in the 
place that she had been standing, Tommy stood with a smirk on his face.


A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chappy!  In the next chapter, it'll be more about 
Pokemon and it'll answer most of yaw's questions so stay tuned!!!