Please note I do not own the pokemon frachize or any characters, places or anything having to do with it. This is only a fan fiction and none of the sources pulled form the pokemon franchise are not mine. Chapter 1 The beginning Dark of Night Solders Fight To be consumed by fear and gloom The blood red R shall spell their doom The sky was darkened by storm clouds that hovered over the city like a giant black ghost, enveloping the land below in shadow. These clouds were spouting tears of rain upon the ground as if they knew of the terrible events soon to come. Nearly the entire skyline was hidden by the watery veil. A large white truck pulled up in front of a loading dock jutting from a nearby bulding, it's tires screeching like a shrill cry of pain upon the slick pavement. The loathsome, rusty vehicle was guarded by a small group of imposing solders, each standing in attention despite there black uniforms being drenched by the downpour. Two workmen scramble from the truck like rats, covered with filth and grime. One of the men ran to the back of the truck. He grunted as he pulled open the heavy, rusted, door. Inside of the vehicle was a stack of large wooden crates, each marked with the same symbol that was smeared across the side of the truck, a blue pokeball. The man that opened the door climbed into the truck, he lifted one of the crates and gave it to the other workman. He slowly drudged to the loading dock with the crate when the two of them heard a noise coming from a nearby alleyway. One of them peered into the darkness and saw two figures wearing black cloaks, their faces obscured by the shadows cast by their hoods. This was enough to scare the workmen off. The dropped there crates and bolted off into the city streets away from the figures in the alley One of the solders decided to investigate what had happened. He motioned to his comrade closest to him to enter into the shadowy abyss. " Activate your night vision." The solder on the right said to his brother in arms to the left. The two solders almost simultaneously pressed a button on the side of their black facemasks. They scanned the alley, looking to the left and then to the right, and saw nothing Just as the men began to exit the alley a voice from behind them called out " Smokescreen!" and a thick toxic mist surrounded them. The two solders began to wheeze and cough as the sickly green smog started to envelope a larger area. . The other solders franticly rusted to the scene, their boots sloshing through the filthy water that covered the streets. They raised there guns to the smokescreen, hands shaking when all of the sudden they heard a feminine shouted out " Poison Vapor!" Upon hearing those words a sickly green haze filled the air. Their guns dropped to the ground, the sound of splashing water was a clear sign for the shrouded attackers that their work was almost complete. The gasping solders cried out as they could feel death's cold hands start to grasp their necks. Blackness followed and the vicious attack was over. The smokescreen disappeared reveling two ominous figures. They stood as still as gravestones their long black cloaks fluttering in the breeze. There hooded faces scanned the area. The rusty truck, the flailed solders but most importantly the crates that were left by the fleeing workmen. The two figures were not alone however they were accompanied by three pokemon. One of these creatures was a massive snake, purple in color with the hood of a cobra that sported a yellow, red and black design that resembled a pair of eyes. The second was what appeared to be a trio of large rocks that had a number of holes in them The two largest of the rocks had a face on it and the largest wore a skull and crossbones symbol under it's face. The third and final pokemon was a cat like creature that stood on two legs and had what appeared to be a gold coin attached to its head. The cat like pokemon walked over to one of the crates and cut it open with its claws. Inside was a large stash of pokeballs, each labeled with a small tag that had the name of the pokemon inside scratched across it. " Looks like we got ourselves a primo catch Jess." Meowth said to the hooded figure on the left. Jess removed her hood to revile her long, red hair and crystal blue eyes. " Are you coming James? "Jessie said to the other hooded figure as she walked over to the crate. " Yes, yes I'm just trying not to wake up the solders." James said in a nervous tone as he walked tip toed over to join Jessie and Meowth at the crate. While walking around the solders James tripped on one of the guns falling face first into the dirty water reveling his mid length blue hair and blue eyes. Meowth chuckled a bid and Jessie went over to help James. She grabbed his right hand and pulled him out of the water. She turned to him with a look of anger on her face and spat " Next time could you be a little less clumsy, that gun could have fired you know." James, unaffected thought back to the first time Jessie had yelled at him for his incompetence. He could remember clearly that day it was there first mission together. They were to steal a rare pokemon from the laboratory of a local pokemon researcher, Professor Redwood. Redwood was a tall, imposing man with a gruff face and chiseled muscles but he was known for falling asleep on the job. This would have been an easy task for most rockets but James remembered the one mistake he made. The group was in the middle of the dimly lit lab. The tables were covered with old papers and notes and there was a musty smell all around. Perhaps it was from the few days old sandwich that lay neglected on the table, James thought to himself. Redwood was asleep on the chair; drool dripping down his scruff beard. Jessie, James and Meowth were creeping along as silently as possible, trying not to awaken the sleeping bear of a professor. The pokeball that their prize was held in was almost in sight when James stepped on something sharp. " Ooh my foot!" James cried out. Jessie turned to James with a look of rage on her face and yelled " BE QUIET JAMES!!!!!" Jessie's yelling woke up the sleeping Professor Redwood who was ready to charge at the trio of vagrants. James Jessie and James hugged each other and cried out pleas for mercy. It seemed as if their pleas had worked as Redwood tripped on an electric cord and fell on the hardwood floors of his lab, knocked himself out. This was the first time that James hugged Jessie, and was the beginning of what would become an undying love. James look at Jessie with passionate eyes, he said, " Jessie, your yelling reminded me of our first hug, don't you remembered that, we haven't hugged in a while so…" " You don't need to say it." Jessie said to James. That memory now clearly played in Jessie's mind. She could remember how they felt holding on to each other for dear life. She two longed to feel like that again, carefree and optimistic about life, but those times were over. For a moment however Jessie felt compelled to go over to James and hug him. She shyly walked over to James and put her arms around him. James shocked by this did not know what to do, his only reaction was to put his arms around Jessie as well. " Enough with the reminiscing we have work to do!" Mewoth snapped at James and Jessie in the middle of hugging. Jessie motioned to Arbok, the snake like pokemon who accompanies her, to come over to the crate. She handed a bag to the pokemon and it took it in its mouth and Mewoth garbed as many pokeballs as he could and loaded them into the sack. They went over to the other crates in the back of the truck when a ringing sound emanated from under Jessie's cloak. She franticly shuffled through her belongings and took out a communicator that looked like a black cell phone with a blood red letter R stamped across back of it, showing there allegiance to the nefarious Team Rocket. The rocket trio gathered around the communicator and stared into its small screen, a shadowy figure appeared before their eyes. " You must return to Rocket headquarters at once for briefing on your next mission!" The muffled voice hissed. " Were not finished with this mission," Jessie pleaded with the voice. " The current mission is unimportant so get over hear NOW!!!" The voice yelled. " But, but…" Jessie tried to say as the figure left the communicator screen. " We have to go, the Boss wants us to go on another mission." Jessie said. " Were not done with this one! there's tons of pokeballs hear we could make a fortune and your going to make us pass it up!!!" Mewoth snapped at Jessie. " I don't think that we should anger the Boss" said in a worried tone. Mewoth and James then started arguing when a red welt started to appear on Jessie's head, She looked like she was about to explode " Stop your arguing and just take the bag that we already have." With that Meowth and James stopped there arguing and looked at Jessie, Meowth said in an uneasy tone " Well I guess that's a good idea." Each of his words being slightly longer then the rest. James nodded his head and grabbed the sack of pokeballs from Arbok. Arbok and Wheezing, the other pokemon returned to there pokeballs and the Rocket trio waked into the darkness unaware of the looming threats. To Be Continued……….