Neo Dark Ages by Bartholomew Qbiak Part 2 edited by Anonymous 2003 ********************************************************************* WARNING: This fic contain scenes of violence and some inappropriate language. *** NOTE: I do not own Pokemon or any characters related with it. ********************************************************************* Part 2 - Pursuit Misty landed with a soft thump on next roof. She was chasing two thieves, Satoshi and Shigeru. It didn't matter to her that they had supernatural skills and could kill her with ease. Also she didn't know where the two thieves had escaped to, but her heart told her where to go... Her clothes were soaked from the rain and wind ruffled her long, wet hair. She was tired and cold. Her lungs pinched. After that I'll surely get a flu, Misty thought. She stopped to catch her breath and rested her hands on her knees. Fog came out of her mouth as she breathed heavily. Suddenly she heard footsteps behind her. Misty quickly turned and lifted her gun, staring into rainy darkness. "Misty! It's me Brock!" shouted her partner above raging wind and clashing thunders. "Are you all right?" he asked. "I'm fine.. cough.. cough.." she answered coughing. "Yeah I see..." he answered sarcastically. Suddenly they heard a faint sound of gunshots beneath them. "There's a fire escape!" Brock said, pointing to the edge of the building. Two cops rushed to the fire escape and then down to the back alley of some building. They scanned the dark and gloomy path but didn't find anything. Brock and Misty cautiously walked along the alley; they found three officer's bodies in its entrance to the main road. The redhead girl quickly checked their pulse. Fortunately they were only unconscious. The cops heard footsteps and splashing behind them. Raising their guns, both turned around as the footsteps and splashing grew louder. From the darkness emerged Jenny. "I heard gunshots! What happened!?" Jenny shouted. "We don't know! We just arrived!" Brock shouted back. "If it wasn't for the weather... searching would be a lot easier." Jenny said. "I informed all units of the situation and if they spot something they're obliged to inform me. We are controling every exit from Cerulean! They won't get away with this!" she shouted, last sentence full of anger. Suddenly her walkie talkie buzzed and then they heard a shaking voice: "We're under attack. They're disposing of my people. Our position: Marine Aveeee aaaaarghhhhh..... zzzzzzzz......" receiver went dead. "They're at Marine Avenue!" said Jenny. "There's also a museum. They proably heading there! C'mon, I know a shortcut!" said Misty and with that they rushed to the wharf. <><><> Cerulean Museum was located at the end of Marine Avenue, which runs along the coast. Full of rare, ancient exibits, of course it also had a high-tech security system. "That was the last one!" said Shigeru to his friend, then he added, "I think he called backup!" "It doesn't matter, when they arrive here we'll be at home!" said Satoshi. "We must get to the museum!". He felt something.. DANGER!! Time slowed down; he tilted his head, narrowly missing the bullet aimed at his head. As the bullet zipped past Satoshi, Shigeru quickly looked around. Before the bullet could hit the ground he spotted someone on roof of an adjacent building. He blinked. After opening his eyes, his sight had improved and now he had a clear image of who was shooting at them, as if the sharpshooter was standing right next to him. "Team Rocket!" he growled. At once he drew his guns and fired at the Team Rocket Elite. TR Elite had fired at the same time as Shigeru, but Satoshi's partner was the best sharpshooter ever. The sniper's bullet collided in midair with the first bullet from one of Shigeru's guns. Through the scope of sniper rifle, the second bullet met its target, and the TR Elite's skull was pierced through. Blood spattered around on the roof's surface but it was quickly washed clean by the rain. Shigeru stood with his guns still pointed at the place where the TR Elite stood a few second ago, guns smoking. They heard a screech of wheels; a black van stopped just a few meters from them. A white "R", the mark of TR Elites, was emblazoned on it's sides. The back doors opened and eight people armed with advanced assault rifles emerged from the vehicle. Every one of them wore the same black uniform with small white "R"s emblazoned on their chests. Satoshi's and Shigeru's eyes burned with rage hearts filled with hatred. Both of them had lost their feelings; they had become killing machines. For awhile, a black aura rose around both of them like something was trying to control them, but it abruptly faded away. The TR elites were still standing, waiting for their opponents' actions. Shigeru put his guns into strap holsters and all TR Elites laughed. "Look what he is doing! He want to fight with us with his bare hands! Hahaha, but we won't! Boys, you know what to do! FIRE!!" Their guns flashed with bright yellowish light when a series of thousands of bullets soared through the air. Satoshi and Shigeru became only black blurs, almost mist. Quickly, the TR Elites ran out of ammo. How they were surprised to see their targets untouched, without even a scratch or hole in their long coats. That was their last surprise. They were terrified when Shigeru drew a silvery long, heavy broad sword out of thin air. The TR agents froze from fear, their eyes were like saucers. They were even more terrified when they noticed that Satoshi had a long katana which was made of some strange black alloy. They were paralyzed in terror. The thieves advanced in their direction with devilish smiles. <><><> "Aaaaaaaaarghhh!!" "Did you hear that?" asked Misty. "Let's hurry!" After just a few seconds they were near the museum. Waves were crashing over the harbor, changing the black water into little droplets which splashed their faces. What they saw terrified them, and they'll probably have a nightmares about it for their entire lives. The floor was carpeted with sliced corpses... blood... blood was everywhere although it was raining. Different parts of bodies layed around. "It's horrible..." Misty said weakly. After seeing this she didn't feel well. Of course she had seen horrible things but never anything like that... Brock crouched down and examined a few of the sliced corpses. Seconds passed and he said in low voice "The bodies belong only to TR Grunts...". When he said and checked pulse of one of the officers and then next one "They're knocked out.". "But why were only TR members killed?" asked Jenny. "I don't know..." he answered quietly. <><><> Satoshi disabled the door's security system and then Shigeru quickly lockpicked them. Sneaking in silently, the thieves entered a long, dimly lit hallway. From what they knew, the main hallway had laser sensors and a few cameras. Satoshi quickly localized the security cameras and disabled them with his EMP Gun. Next they donned their Infra-red Radiation Goggles and prepared to pass sensors. First to go was Satoshi as Shigeru watched behind them. He leapt up, coat flapping behind him, jumping over the first group of sensors; after landing he instantly did a somersault and the next few sensors were left behind. He crouched, looked up and then he did a tiger's jump between four crossed sensors. By now he was securing Shigeru as he passed the sensors. They were in main hall. Under the glass show-cases, ancient exhibits of vases, tools, weapons, coins and the like seemed to peer out at them. But they weren't interested in any of this. The item they wanted was in the next, smaller room. After neutralizing security cameras they studied the arrangement of lasers and they realized that they were more advanced and complex than those in the hallway. The lasers crossed at strange angles and if that wasn't enough they were slowly moving, blocking every way to get in. "Hmmm... so what do we do now?" asked Shigeru. "Same thing as in the PokeTec Laboratory." whispered his partner. "Pikachu." Satoshi whispered, and from his backpack emerged a brown Pikachu with green stripes. "Pikachu stop fooling around." After these words Pikachu's fur changed to normal yellow with brown stripes. "Pikachu pika pi." said Pikachu. "I know you're bored so here's a little action for you, pal. See this sensors?" "Pika." "Good. When they come to this point you'll go and use Mirror Move so we can pass them." "Pi." When the sensors were in suitable position Pikachu ran to them and before two sensors could make a contact with him he created a tunnel of invisible mirrors, through main hall to next room. It was one meter (three feet) wide and one meter high. "Thanks little buddy," Satoshi whispered sincerely. "Pika pi pikachu." and with that he scrambled back to Satoshi's backpack. With this, the thieves crawled into tunnel. Abruptly, when they were halfway through, the tunnel behind them started to collapse. The sound of broken glass echoed through the entire museum. They sped up. The tunnel was collapsing right behind Satoshi's foot. Shigeru flew out from the tunnel and quickly grabbed his friend, who was still within, by the hand and pulled him out. As he did, the tunnel completely collapsed. One of Satoshi's feet was milimeters (inches) away from a laser sensor. "Uff... thanks Shigeru." "You owe me one." "Yeah, sure." he answered sarcastically. The engineers who designed this room were so sure that no one would get here without setting off the alarm, that they didn't put any lasers here; however, the display stand had a set of sensors. In center of small room was a show-case. Inside lay a very old, thick, black book framed in leather with strange signs on the cover. It had odd silver lock on it, which made it impossible to open. But this was least of their worries. Shigeru pulled out a spray can from his backpack, which contained liquid nitrogen. He sprayed the edges of the show-case with it, disabling the sensors as their circuits were quickly frozen. As he began to cut a hole in the glass, the alarm and lights were switched on. "Damn!" They heard footsteps in main hallway and instantly after that, police sirens. "So backup managed to get here in time," said Satoshi, before smashing the show-case with his forearm and grabbing the book. <><><> Reinforcement arrived shortly after they found the dead bodies. Before Jenny knew it, Brock and Misty already were in museum; she was going to go after them but... "Officer Jenny!!!" shouted her superior, stopping her from following her comrades. Oh shit, she thought, now I'm gonna get it. Misty busted in, Brock after her. She ran through laser sensors and set off the alarm. She crouched and clung to the wall before entering main hall, then looked around and spotted a broken show-case in the small room opposite her. Turning her head to face Brock, she told him "Watch my back." Still crouching, she entered main hall, frantically looking left and right trying to spot hostiles, but there were none. Once she arrived at the scene of the crime she called to Brock "Clear!" He straightened up and ran to were Misty was. Covering the floor were sparkling pieces of shattered glass. Noticing Misty was swearing profusely, he said "They escaped us again." He paused. "Maybe it's better." "What?" she asked not beliveing in what she heard. "I mean..." started Brock and then stoped to think and after awhile he continued. "What I mean is-" he was cut off in mid-sentence by a loud noise above them. In this time rest of the assault group entered the museum. "Over here!" shouted Misty, "They're on upper floor!" she turned to Brock. "C'mon." "Wa- Wait!" He ran after her to the staircase, some officers of the assault team following them. <><><> "Did you had to make so much noise?" asked Shigeru in a hushed voice. "The doors were locked, what was I supposed to do?" Satoshi answered with question while brushing the dust off of his long coat. "Point taken. Anyway why are we leaving from the roof? We could leave the museum by the front doors, even if the police were there, couldn't we?" He followed Satoshi up the stairs and ladder leading to roof. "No." Satoshi answered coldly. "Why?" "Because we can get out of here without harming anyone, and even if we can escape through the main door without harming anyone they will follow us." Then he looked at Shigeru and cut him off before he could say anything, as if he was reading his mind, or maybe he was? "Even if we escape them, before we do we'll proably lose more time and I want to be home before my and Pikachu's Thunderstorm wear off." he explained. "Ok, ok." Shigeru lifted his hands in defeat. They were standing few minutes on top of the parallelogram-shaped roof as they spoke. They spoke too long, though. Suddenly the hatchway, from which they entered the roof, was loudly opened and the redhead girl emerged from it. "You never give up, do you?" asked Satoshi with sly smile. "I'm impressed with your determination... hmm... that reminds me of someone." said Shigeru with a faint smile. Suddenly cops were washed with wave of fear. They were standing in front of two mens who disposed of the S.W.A.T. Team, police patrol and probably killed TR agents with ease. However Misty didn't care, something was telling her that nothing bad will happen to them. "Hands up! The building is surrounded and I'll make sure that you won't escape this time, no matter what!" Misty said coldly. She still couldn't rid the image of sliced corpses from her mind. She was sure that it was they who had killed TR Elites, even if she didn't have proof. One of the officers from assault team started to advance on them, but Misty quickly stopped him. "I'll do it." She was slowly walking in direction of the roof's corner where they stood. When she was few feet from them, it happened. Brock emerged from hatchway and shouted, "Misty what are you doing!". It startled her. She quickly spun around and slipped on slippery roof, twisting her ankle. Her terror grew when she saw that she wasn't going land on flat part of roof; she was slipping quickly from it. She tried to dig her nails into the ridges of the tiles, but they were too slippery. Brock, Satoshi, Shigeru and the rest of the officers watched in terror as she slipped. Thankfully, she managed to hold her grip on the building's gutter. Suddenly gutter snapped apart and she was falling. The sound of a loud splash reached their ears as Satoshi quickly walked to edge of roof; he saw that beneath them was the raging sea. Everyone breathed with relief. Everyone except Satoshi and Shigeru, who knew that she had twisted her ankle. Even if she hadn't, the raging sea would swallow her up. Both knew that she hadn't any chance of surviving. Satoshi turned to his friend and told him quickly, "We'll meet at hideout." He jumped onto the slanted roof and started to slide down on his boots, but before he reached the roof's edge, where he would surely fall off, he pushed his legs against the roof tiles and leapt into sea. <><><> Misty was trying hard to stay on surface. Wave after wave smashed her underwater... after a few minutes of helpless struggling against nature she became exhausted and gave up. The crushing waves pulled her underwater. With neither the energy or the oxygen to stay aware, she started to loose consciousness. I'll never see my friends again... my pokemon... my sisters... but at least I will see Ash... She passed out. Something grabbed her hand and pulled her to the water's surface. Her lifesaver next pulled her onto beach near the edge of a forest. The red-haired girl, unconscious and unbreathing, layed on her back over the sand. What to do, Satoshi thought. Mouth to mouth. He started to blow oxygen to her lungs; after a few times she coughed. Her vision was blurred. "Ash?" she said weakly before once again losing consciousness. Satoshi heard a familiar voice behind him. "Hmmm... that mouth to mouth reminds me of something..." Shigeru said smiling. "Oh shut up. We've gotta get her to the hideout, lucky for us it's not too far." "Yeah." ***End of Part 2 _____________________________________________________________________ A/N: I'd like to thank a person who helped me with grammar and edited this part. Thanks Anonymous 2003. Soon will be 3rd part of Neo Dark Ages. Review. E-MAIL: bartholomew_qbiak@op.pl STARTED: Date: Friday (15), August, 2003 Time: (GMT +01:00, CET) 03:59 (03:59 AM) FINISHED: Date: Friday (29), August, 2003 Time: (GMT +01:00, CET) 02:57 (02:57 AM)