A Rocket’s World- Part Two

	The next day Jake woke up, got dressed, and walked downstairs into the 
kitchen to eat breakfast. After breakfast, he went into the living room and put 
on his hat and jacket. Then he said goodbye to his mom and grandma, and made his 
way off to school.
	“Hey, Jake!”
	“Hey, Mike!” yelled Jake.
	Mike ran over to Jake.
	“I saw you sneaking into my dad’s reservation again,” said Mike
	“So? Some of those Poke’mon haven’t seen a human since your dad’s 
grandfather started that place!” replied Jake.
	The tall, brown haired boy didn’t reply.
	“Come on, man! I was only kidding!” Jake chuckled
	“Yeah, I know.”
	He and Mike kept walking on towards the school. But something caught Jakes 
eye. A man, dressed in black seemed to following them from afar.
	“Tauros! Go!” yelled Jake. Tauros appeared in a flash of red. “Jump on, 
Mike.”
	Jake and Mike hopped on Tauros. 
	“Tauros! Take us to the Earl’s School for Poke‘mon Trainers!” Jake yelled. 
Tauros started charging towards the school. Jake looked behind him. No black-
dressed man was following them. Then he heard a faint voice say, “Go, Ponyta!”
	Jake told Tauros to go faster, but he wasn’t fast enough. The man sped up 
on his Ponyta. Jake turned around and gave Tauros’s Poke’ball to Mike.
	“Here, take this!” said Jake, “When you get to school, return him to his 
Poke’ball and send him to my PC. I’ll take care of this guy!”
	Mike nodded. Often Jake had been challenged to battles, for he had the 
Poke’mon of Ash Ketchum, the former Poke’mon League Champion of Hoen, Johto, and 
Kanto.  Of course, Jake always won.
	“Tauros! Stop!” he yelled. The bull Poke’mon came to a halt. “Listen to 
everything Mike says. I’ll see you later.”
	Tauros snorted, let Jake off, and sped away again. Jake then looked at the 
man with the Ponyta, who had stop a few seconds after they did.
	“So, you are Jake Ketchum. Thought you might be a few years older. Oh 
well. I came for a battle, but all I found was a runt!” said the black dressed 
man.
	“We’ll see about that. Go! Typhlosion!” 
	Typhlosion appeared in a flash of light.
	“Obviously, you’ve never fought a member of Team Rocket! Go! Muk!”
	“Team Rocket!”
	“Muk! Sludge attack!” the Rocket ordered.
	The Muk sent a stream of toxic sludge at Typhlosion.
	“Typhlosion! Sunny Day!”
	Typhlosion started glowing. Then, he sent a ball of fire into the sky. 
Jake took off his jacket.
	“Now, Typhlosion! Fire Blast!”
	Flames started spurting from Typhlosion’s mouth, directly at he Muk.
	“Return, Muk! Go, Ponyta!” yelled the Rocket.
	“Good job, Typhlosion. Now return! Go! Crawdaunt!” said Jake. 
	“A water Poke’mon? Don’t you remember? Your Typhlosion used Sunny Day! 
He’ll be useless!” laughed the Rocket.
	“That can be altered. Crawdaunt! Rain Dance!”
	The lobster-like Poke’mon started walking around in circles. Then faster. 
And faster still. Then he stopped walking and sent a geyser of water into the 
sky. It started raining. And hard. Jake put his jacket back on.
	“Now, Hydro Pump!” ordered Jake. Crawdaunt opened its big claw and sent 
out a horizontal geyser at Ponyta.
	“Return, Ponyta! Go, Kingdra! Now your in for it.”
	“Whatever you say! Return, Crawdaunt!” said Jake, sarcastically. Then he 
pulled a helmet out of his backpack. “Go! Dewgong! Hail!”
	Dewgong started spraying snow out of its mouth. Then balls of ice started 
falling from the sky.
	“Now! Ice ball!” yelled Jake.
	Dewgong grabbed some ice with its mouth, swallowed it, the sent it right 
back out of its mouth, towards the Kingdra. It hit the Poke’mon right in the 
head and broke, knocking it out cold. No pun intended.
	“Return! That’s it! Go, Dustox! Use Sleep Powder on the trainer!” yelled 
the Rocket.
	The bug Poke’mon flew over to Jake and spayed yellow powder on him.
	“Return, Dewgo…”
	The Poke’mon returned to its Poke’ball before Jake hit the floor.
	Jake woke up in a dim lit room.
	“Ah, so your awake!” said a voice in the shadows.
	Jake tried to reach for Typhlosion, but he was tied to the chair he was 
sitting in.
	“Who are you?” he yelled, struggling to break free.
	“My name is Giovanni. I am the leader of Team Rocket,” said the man.
	“So? Team Rocket is a bunch of thieves and liars! All you do is cause 
chaos!” yelled Jake.
	“Now, is that any way to talk to your grandfather?” said Giovanni. “Yes. I 
am your father’s father. And I have a proposition for you. I want you to become 
a Rocket Executive, one of the highest ranks in Team Rocket! A rank that takes 
years of loyal service to get, at the start of your Team Rocket career! So, what 
do you say?”
	“Not on your life. Even if you really were my grandfather, I wouldn’t join 
you! Now let me go!” yelled Jake.
	BOOM!
	“Return, Onix! Swampert, Hydro Pump!” yelled a strange voice.
	“Umbreon, Bite the ropes!” yelled another voice.
	The ropes that tied him to the chair loosened, then broke. Jake stood up 
sent out Typhlosion.
	“Typhlosion, Take Down attack on that man!” he pointed to Giovanni.
	Typhlosion rammed into Giovanni, sending him into the wall and knocking 
him out. Then he turned on the people who broke in.
	“Who are you?” asked Jake.
	An alarm stared going off.
	“No time!” said the first person. “We need to get out of here before more 
Rockets come!”
	All three of them (and their Poke’mon) ran through the passage they made. 
They made it out of ye building without anyone seeing them. When they got 
outside took a break.
	“Who are you two?” Jake asked again.
	“The name’s Brock. And this is-”
	“Prof. Oak?” Jake said, stunned.
	“For now just call me by my first name, Gary,” said Prof. Oak.
	“We need to get out of here!” said Brock, “Follow me!”
	They walked into an alley.
	“Do you have a Bird Poke’mon?” asked Gary.
	“No,” replied Jake, “but I can call Charizard!”
	Hew took a metal whistle out of his pocket and blew in it. It didn’t make 
a sound. But then, the great Fire Poke’mon flew overhead.
	“Charizard! Down here!” yelled Jake.
	The dragon-like Poke’mon landed right next to them. 
	“It’s been a while since I’ve seen this Charizard. Didn’t Ash leave it in 
the Charific Valley?” stated Brock.
	“Wait, how do you  know my father?” asked Jake.
	“I traveled with him through three continents.  I helped save this 
Charizard’s flame from going out when he was a Charmander. Does he listen to 
you?”
	“Yeah. All my Poke’mon do. Why?”
	“You father lost in the Poke’mon League the first time he was in it 
because this Charizard fell asleep!” replied Brock. “No more time to chat. Let’s 
go.”
	Gary nodded. “Go, Pidgeot!”
	Gary got on Pidgeot, and Jake and Brock got on Charizard.
	“Where are we supposed to go?” asked Jake.
	“Pallet town!” said Brock. Charizard took off.
	“My mom never said anything about you when she told me about my dad’s 
adventures. Wait, were you the Gym Leader of Pewter City?” said Jake.
	“Yup!”
	“My mom told me that my dad beat you with one Tackle Attack from his 
Butterfree!”
	“That’s not exactly what happened. You see-”
	“We’re here!” yelled Gary.
	“Why are we in the reservation?” asked Jake as he dismounted Charizard.
	“This is where your father’s secret base is,” said Gary.
	“Secret Base? Oh, I remember learning that if you Poke’mon knows Secret 
Power then you can make a Secret Base at certain places. And what do you mean 
by-” said Jake.
	“Aha! Here it is!” said Brock as he picked up a chain that was nailed into 
the ground. “Guys, come here and help me pull this open!”
	Al three of them started pulling on the chain. A large chunk of ground 
came up and revealed a stairway. They went down the stairs into a hallway, lit 
by lights hanging from the ceiling. At the end off the hallway an opening to a 
bigger room. There were many people sitting at a table in it. Including……
	“Mom? Grandma?” yelled Jake.
	“Oh, Jake I was so worried! When they said that Team Rocket had kidnapped 
you, oh! I was so worried,” said Jake’s mom, while hugging him.
	“Whoa! Misty! Don’t strangle  him!” said Brock.
	“Who are all these people?” asked Jake.
	One of the people stepped forward and held out his hand for Jake to shake 
it. “My name is Lance. Former Poke’mon League Champion. You can guess who beat 
me for the title.”
	“My Dad!”
	“Nope! It was Gary who beat me first, then your dad beat him.”
	Then a woman stood up and said, “My name is Jesse.”
	The man next to her introduced himself to Jake as James. Then next to him 
was-
	“A talking Meowth?”
	“That is everyone’s reaction when they first meet me. I’ve gotten used to 
it,” said the Meowth..
	“So, what are you guys? Some kind of chess club?” asked Jake.
	“I’ve been asking them that since they brought us here!” yelled Jake’s 
mom.
	“I guess you could call us  a Team Rocket Rebellion,” a voice said from 
the doorway at the end of the room.
	“Ash?” said Misty.



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