A Brief Moment in Time

A woman in a black uniform and white lab coat rushes down the hall to the elevator. She had no time to waste. She had to inform her.

She entered the elevator alone. No one took that elevator unless summoned. This woman wasn’t, but this, this was an extreme emergency.

Her foot tapped as the elevator went up, floor by floor.

At least there isn’t any dumb elevator music on, she thought to herself, or I would punch a hole in the wall.

*Bing*

The doors slowly open and the woman once again rushes down a hallway, ignoring the pictures on the wall, to heavy, wooden double doors.

She opens a door easily and enters in a rush.

A figure sits in a chair, her eyes closed at the moment. “Mother!”

Her eyes open. “Ah, Ashley. You’re finally here. I was told that you were coming, and in a hurry I might add.”

“Mother, Professor Thorn and I found Celebi!”

An eye cocks at the statement. “Are they both destroyed?”

Ashley takes a step back. “Uh...”

The woman in the chair suddenly stands up and in a furry slams a fist onto her desk.

“THEY ARE NOT DEAD?!”

Ashley falls to the ground and puts and arm up for defense. “Mother it’s not my fau-”

“Of course it is you little-” but she stops herself for some reason. The woman sits back down in her chair. “What happened? Tell me every last detail.”

Ashley remains on the ground, but sits up. “Well, it’s like this-”

“Sit in a chair you insolent little Grunt.”

Ashley obeys.

“As I told you earlier on the cell phone, Professor Thorn is a rebel, she has Pokemon in her red bag and she asked for the emergency kit of Pokeballs to capture Celebi. When I gave them to her she started to follow the flowers, as if they were a path. I follow her and she reaches the end of the trail. Then for several moments she just stands there, like she’s waiting for somethin’. Then she just starts walking again, not even bothering to follow the flowers.”

The woman in the chair brought a hand to her chin as she concentrated.

“Then she comes to this clearing then just drops on the ground and starts crying. I don’t know what. Then after a few minutes she looks to her right and walks to a tree. I maneuver around behind her and see what she caught a glimpse of. Mother, it was Celebi!”

“So you told me.”

“Yes, well... When I threaten to kill her all she did was beg me not to, but I don’t listen. But-” she cuts herself off.

“But what Ashley?” the woman says in a tone that won’t be patient for very much longer.

“But when I fired they were gone!”

“Gone?!” she stands to her feet. “What do you mean gone?!”

“The bullet never reaches her head. There was this powerful flash of light, then both Celebi and Professor Thorn were gone!”

The woman sits back down at the news and steeples her hands. So, Celebi rescued Rose by time-travel.

A smile appears. Perfect.

“Get out of my sight Ashley! But I’ll need you later. Do not be far.”

“Alright Mother.” And Ashley disappears through the heavy doors.

The woman presses a button on a speaker that is attached to her desk.

“Sire?”

“Yes Mrs. Ketchum? What do you want?” said the impatient voice.

“I have just been informed that Celebi is alive and has transported a human through time.”

There was a silence.

“Shall I order the army and the scientist to the site?”

“Yes, we need to do it as soon as possible, while the tear is fresh.”

“Yes sire.”

@---}-----

The sounds of many feet crunch through the forest, following a woman named Ashley Ketchum.

She had been leading them to the ‘site’ for many hours. Others are doubtful that she knew where she was going, but they were instructed to follow her, so they do.

Besides, they can’t afford not to look good in front of the bosses, which were also coming along in a jeep.

With no hint of what was happening, the army of Team Rocket Grunts and Executives push forward through the overrun forest.

@---}-----

An hour later a jeep pulls up to the site.

A man in dark clothing and black cape stands up and exits the vehicle, a woman, dressed similarly, follows suit.

The Rockets clear a path to the site, where there are Rocket scientist bustling around a very high tech machine. It was an arch made out of electrical and mechanical parts connected to wire that was hooked up to a large computer.

“Oh! Your grace! I didn’t realize you would be here so quickly.”

The man does not answer right away, but gives an evil sneer at the old man.

“Is it ready to be tested?”

“With a few minor adjustments-Ucck!”

The man in black had taken the scientist by the throat and was holding him up.

“That was not what I asked old man! Is it ready for the transaction?!”

The scientist held up a thumb, it was ready. He suddenly dropped to the ground.

“Activate it! NOW!”

The scientists once again buzzed around the machine.

“Are you sure it will work?” the dark man asks the scientist that was still next to him.

The other stood up and dusted himself off. Then he started talking while he fixed his glasses atop his nose.

“We have hypothesized that when Celebi uses it’s powers it leaves a tear in the space time continuum and reseals it after Celebi passes through. This machine will reopen the tear and we will be able to travel to the time that Celebi went to. So, I suppose you can say, in a way, we can track it through time. But we have yet to find out if it is forwards or backwards in time or even if a being could even live in a different time. We don’t even know where it would go or why or where it would go afterwards-“ he cuts himself off.

The dark man was growing impatient by the old man’s rambling.

“So we have a 50/50 chance that we’ll end up in the past?”

“Yes, that is correct. But that is after the fact if it’ll even work at all.”

There was a sudden blast of an ultra white light. The archway now had a white door-type boundary.

He turned around and started walking to the rows of Grunts. He grabbed an arm of one nearby and roughly dragged him to the machine.

“Congratulations young man. You have a once in a lifetime opportunity to further expand the terror of Team Rocket. But don’t worry about packing, we did all the work for you so you don’t to worry about a thing.”

And at that moment he pushed the young Grunt into the portal.

There was a heavy silence at the realization of their master’s action.

After several minutes he looked at his watch.

“He should have been back by now!”

Just then a figure came back running through the portal. It was the young Grunt.

“Well?! What did you see Grunt?! Speak up!”

“A, a Pokemon! It was chasing me through the air!”

The army of Grunts and Executives burst into a roar of laughter, but then it was immediately quiet because of the evil look that their master had given them.

“A Pokemon! Perfect! That means that Celebi traveled into the past, which means, we will too.”

“Sire?”

It was the woman in black.

“Yes Mrs. Ketchum.” He said in an irritated voice.

“What is you plan exactly?”

He turns to her.

“Haven’t you been listening? We will lead the army into the past and take it over! Then this Era of Evil will be even more glorious!”

“But-”

“Do not contradict me Ketchum! You know what happens to people who do!”

She bows low.

“Yes sire.” She says as meekly as she can sound.