Chapter 3 – Team Rocket Cometh

   The leader of the civilian guards herded ash, Misty, Brock, Ally, and
Pikachu into the military base.  “Can you get Ally to someplace safe?” Ash
inquired of the leader.  The man nodded in reply and grabbed Ally’s hand,
leading her to someplace safe.  “ASH!” a voice called out through the
panicked crowd.  It belonged to Janine who ran up to the group.

   “Thank god you’re here Ash.  You’re a Pokémon Master, they’ll listen to
you.  I mean, they’re scared as hell.  I need your help.”

   “Well, show me the way.” Ash replied. “By the way, what do we know about
Team Rocket’s status?”

   “They’re armed to the teeth, about 50,000 of them coming to Fuchsia.  
Rumors are coming in from Japan that over 200,000 have set across Asia.  We
have some people inside that’ll be revealing themselves during the attack.  
They should help us.  I believe you know them, Jessie and James?”

   Ash nodded and followed Janine towards a microphone and about 14,000 people
all tightly crammed.  Some only had some Pokéballs and close combat weapons
while others had M-16s and rocket launchers.

“Is this the whole population of Fuchsia?”

“No, only about a quarter were brave enough to stay.  The rest should be in
the Pokémon Center bomb shelter.  We’re there main defense.  The only other
defense is if someone tries to open the door to the bomb shelter, we have
enough C4 and other explosives to create a rather large hole in the Earth.  
They’re in the inner layer of it so they shouldn’t be effected but it’s
pretty cramped considering there’s about 45,000 people down there.”

Ash nodded and walked up to the microphone.  “Ya know, I’m supposed to give
you a pep talk because you’ll listen to me.  Frankly I’m a little scared
myself and the only pep talk I can think of is corny.  I’m only human and
I’m not ashamed.  But I will not let fear overtake me and stop me from
fighting against Team Rocket.  They have stolen our homes, destroyed our
families, killed our loved ones.  WE WILL NOT LET THEM TAKE OUR FREEDOM!  I
say we fight!!”  A chorus of cheers followed his speech and Ash walked
towards Janine.

“I need a gun, body armor, and a couple grenades.”

Janine nodded and called someone over with them.  Ash ran towards the
entrance to the base and ducked down with the others.

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   James was suited for action, more than any other man near him.  He had at
least 5 guns on him, grenades, knives, and his Pokéballs.  Maybe it was
because he had a different mission, one to stop Team Rocket.  Or maybe it
was because he was just enjoying this way too much.  “You ready for this
Jess?” he asked smirking and cocking the shotgun in his hand.  “Oh yeah,
we’ll get out revenge.” She replied.  To the passerby it sounded like they
were talking about Ketchum, but they were really talking about Giovanni.  He
had put them through whippings and beatings after whippings and beatings for
every failed mission.  Now it was their time.

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   “FIRE!!” Janine screamed.  The 5,000 citizens that could fit at the front
opened fire at the oncoming Team Rocket soldiers.  But with 50,000 it was
like that no matter how many they shot, more took their place.  ‘Fuck, this
isn’t going well.’ Ash thought to himself.  “Pikachu, I want you to absorb
all the electricity in Fuchsia and release it at the rockets.  I know it’ll
hurt but I need you to do it.” Ash told the mouse.  Pikachu nodded and used
its electricity to hover off the ground and put up a shield around itself.  
There was a loud shattering of glass as the street lamps exploded one by
one, the energy flowing into the electric rodent.  All the cars had their
batteries drained of energy and the all the reserve energy in the dam flowed
into the Pikachu.  “PI….KA….CHU!!” Pikachu roared releasing the largest
electric attack ever seen at the rockets.  The electricity surged through at
least 10,000 rockets almost completely dissolving them into atoms.  And with
that, Pikachu fell to the ground exhausted.

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   James saw the rockets being vaporized and took this as a signal to put the
plan in action.  “Weezing, go!” he cried.  The purple poison Pokémon had
already been informed of the plan and floated into the largest cluster of
rockets, and then setting off an explosion.  Taking the shotgun from his
back he opened fire on different rockets.  As soon as he ran out of ammo, he
took an assault rifle from his back and continued firing like he had.  
Jessie had taken out Arbok who was shooting instantly killing poison at the
rockets around.  She then grabbed a grenade, pulled the pin, and threw it
into a hoard of rockets.  “Woohoo!” James cried as he dropped his empty
assault rifle and took out two Falcon Pistols.  He anchored his right leg
and pivoted around shooting at all the rockets around him.  “Payback is so
sweet.” Jessie laughed.

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   “TAKE THIS YOU ASSHOLES!” Ash screamed as he continued firing at the
rockets.  He looked around at his surrounding area and smiled.

   “Cover me people, I’m gonna move to a better spot.”

   Ash jumped out from behind the steel wall protecting them and opened fire
on the rockets once again.  They fired back but he somersaulted away before
they could get him and opened up fire again.  “GO REX!” Ash yelled as he
threw a Pokéball into the giant pack of rockets. “THRASH ATTACK!”  The giant
lizard paused for a second than flailed its arms and legs like it was having
a temper-tantrum.  Bullets ricocheted off his rock body and continued
thrashing.  A hailstorm of bullets rushed towards Ash and he quickly ducked
behind a building.  “Whoa, that was close.” Ash muttered.  He didn’t realize
it until he had stopped that he was so tired.

“Urgh…This sucks…”

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   “Giovanni has said to capture the traitors!” a rocket ordered to the
others.  They nodded and started advancing towards Jessie and James,
unwillingly backing them into a corner.  “Oh fuck.” James said.  It was the
last thing he was able to say as the rockets jumped them and started beating
the shit out of them.

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   “Damn you Mewtwo!” Sabrina yelled. “Ash can’t stand this much longer.  He’s
going to die if we don’t help!”  “It is not our place.” Mewtwo replied with
a wave of his hand. “He must defeat Giovanni without our help.”

   “Without our help?!  You are blinded by the extent of your own power!  If
you had not been so brave you would have looked into the future and saw that
he will die too soon without our help.




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   Ash swayed in his hiding spot.  He felt like he was going to collapse.  
After about another 10 minutes of peeking from behind the building and
shooting, he did collapse and was near unconscious when a bright blue flash
lit the area.  He felt someone put two hands on his head and concentrate.  
An energy he hadn’t felt in a long time rushed through him, washing away his
exhaustion.  Ash jumped up and turned towards the person to see Sabrina
looking into his eyes.  “I’m here to help Ash.” Sabrina declared. “I am sort
of working for Mewtwo, but he’s angry at me for coming down here to help
you.”  Ash blinked taking this information in and then formed his mouth into
a smirk.  “So, how you gonna help?” He inquired.

   “If you can cover me while I power up a psychic blast, we should be able to
get the rockets running.”

   Ash nodded and pulled a second assault rifle from his back.  Placing each
assault rifle into the crooks of his shoulders, he jumped out from the
building and began firing.  Sabrina began glowing a freakish blue.  Psychic
power lifted her off the ground and the rockets paused for a moment before
trying to turn their fire on her.  “Not today!” Ash laughed unloading
another couple of rounds into the rockets.  Sabrina stopped suddenly in
mid-air and giant flash of psychic energy exploded from her.  It spread in a
shock-wave pattern and started knocking down rocket after rocket and killing
them instantly.  The few left stood dumbfounded until one spoke up and
yelled, “RETREAT!!  RUN FOR YOUR FRIGGIN’ LIVES!!!”  The rockets didn’t need
to be told twice and dropped their weapons sprinting away from the area, but
with the two traitors in tow.  “WOOOHOOO!” Janine whooped as she jumped out
from behind the barracks.  One of her arms was hanging limp by her side and
she was limping but that didn’t seem to matter.  “RUN YOU MOTHERS!!  RUN!
AHAHAHAHA!” she laughed firing her gun into the air.  Sabrina slowly fell to
the ground buffered by the little bit of psychic energy left, and landed in
Ash’s arms.  “It’s over Sabrina.  You did it.” He said smiling.  She smiled
back and closed her eyes, falling asleep from exhaustion in his arms.  Ash
smiled once more and walked back towards the base.

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   The Elite Seven were beaten, chained, and being dragged away.  They had
been totally unprepared for the attack.  Just after receiving the letter
from Ash, the rockets had attacked taking control of the Indigo Fortress.  
It had been a massacre, everyone but the elite had died, and the elite only
because they were needed for bait.  “God dammit…” Lance moaned through
cracked lips. “I hope Ash is still free.  He’s the only one who can do
anything now.”  With those words said, the pain overtook him and he fell
unconscious.

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   “SIR!” a man declared saluting Giovanni. “The troops from Fuchsia are back
and unfortunately sir, only 1/8 of the troops are still alive.  The good
news though is that the resistance is severely injured and we captured the
two traitors.”  “GOD DAMMIT!” Giovanni roared. “Was it Ketchum?”  Giovanni’s
eyebrow twitched in what seemed to be the beginning of a nervous tick.  The
rocket only nodded but that was enough to send Giovanni over the edge.  He
slammed his fist down onto his desk, breaking straight through the
cherrywood and snapping the desk in half.

   “Send in the Black Tulip!  I want that little bastard dead.  He has
interfered with the Mt. Moon project, the Lake of Rage experiment, the Power
Plant operation, and the Goldenrod Radio Station takeover not to mention
countless other operations!  I WANT HIM ELIMINATED!!”

   The rocket grunt nodded and ran out of the office as fast as his legs could
carry him.