Interlude Part 3: To fight for chaos and oblivion.

A black helicopter floated through the sky, approaching a tall building the rose from the dark forest that was north of the Lake of Rage. Inside the two rockets Henry and Starr approached the headquarters.

"We will arrive in ten minutes," the pilot told them. Henry nodded to him then looked at the rain falling past the moving the airship. The normally stoic Henry was worried. From what had happened to his partner and him in Ecruteak City he believed that he was now a part of something big"

The two rockets had been bailed out of jail and were quickly rushed to this facility. They where worried that they would be severely punished for the lost of the tin base. That is why when the landed on the roof, the where reluctant to leave the helicopter. But they did, rushing to the door to get out of the pounding rain. Shaking water from their clothes and hair the two looked around the open stair well.

"Agents Henry and Starr, release your pokémon in waiting room five. Then report to debriefing room three. That is all," said a cold voice from an intercom.

"Jeez, we don’t even get a chance to relax," Starr complained.

"Don’t worry. Let’s just get this over with," Henry said. They quickly walked through the base with a sense of familiarity. They made several turns and went down several flights of stars. They both stopped in front of a large double door. The red headed fem rocket opened the door. Inside was a large Olympic sized pool, a sports gym, a boxing ring, and a large indoors grass field with sunlamps. Several pokémon ran, exercised swam and played in the large room.

"Come out everyone," Henry said releasing his six pokémon. The arbok, ariados, crobat, haunter, magcargo, ditto looked at their master as he spoke, "All right guys and gals, you get a chance to relax for awhile so don’t waste it."

"Showtime everybody," Starr said letting her six pokémon free as well. Her espeon, umbreon, vaporeon, jolteon, flareon, eevee all look toward her as she addressed them. "Keep out of trouble, and try not to draw attention to yourselves. Have fun." And with those words the pair left the room closing the door behind them.

The pair briskly walked down the hall and into an elevator. The elevator quickly dropped, and soon was going down a glass tube inside of a large geo front.

"So what do you think the red division wants with us?" he asked. "They only deal with high level work."

"Well, I have no clue. All I know about them is rumors. Some say the handle assassinations; others say they are just glorified security guards. Still one thing is for sure, they only report directly to the boss." She replied as the elevator stopped on the floor they wanted. The two of them walked to the door of debriefing room three and very nervously opened the door. Inside of the door was a large rectangular table with five chairs around it. Also there was a curious blue half-sphere in the middle of the table. At the moment the room was empty. The two sat on the on the right side of the table, with Starr closer to the door. As soon as they did, a blissey opened the door, and in came Meyer and Lansky.

The two assassins sat down across from the two white shirts. Meyer nodded to his pokémon and said to the others, "Mint here will be a part of the debriefing." The others nodded. Now all we need to do is wait for the good doctor. As he was saying that a voice spoke from the door.

Then there will be no need for that," said a tall pale man in a white lab coat. He had on black slacks, matching boots, a white shirt and black wavy hair. He had a brown eyes and an athletic build.

Hello Dr. Price. Now that you’re here will you start by telling us what you found out about our targets?" Meyer asked.

"Certainly Mr. Meyer," he answered as he sat down at the head of the table. A holographic display appeared above the dome in the table. A video played of Jennifer fighting cyber Raikou. "As you can see from these video clips of one of the focus holders in action, you can see that they are much stronger than normal pokémon. They also have moves that other pokémon don’t have. But these seem type exclusive." The projection vanished.

"That would explain why that one jigglypuff managed to defeat all of my pokémon and Meyer’s as well," Lansky said. (That little devil!)

"Was that what we where up against in the tin base?" Starr asked. (No wonder we lost as well.)

"Yes, but that won’t happen again," said Dr. Price.

"Oh why not?" asked Meyer staring at the doctor coolly.

"Allow me to show you," the doctor said as another projection started to appear.

Meanwhile, the pokémon were keeping themselves busy. All of Lansky’s and Meyer’s pokémon with the exception of Mint, where released in waiting room five.

*Ok Mystic, I want you to stay with Bubbles like always. Caesar please make sure Marzipan doesn’t kill anyone. Marzipan, try not to get carried away, * Freedom said.

*Hey it’s not like I try to start something, * the wigglytuff said.

*I know, but I also know how you get in battle, * Freedom said. As Meyer’s pokémon stood in a corner of the room discussing how they where going to spend their day, Lansky’s pokémon where looking at all of the other pokémon and judging there strengths and weakness.

Grimm watched all of the pokémon in the room and pointed out each one and how easy it would be to kill them. She pointed out a scared primeape exercising on some of the equipment.

*I could take him in one minute, tops, * she said to Raze who was perched next to the gengar.

*I am sure that you could, but how about some thing a little more challenging? Like that umbreon over there, * Stalker said to the skarmory and the ghost. He pointed to Starr’s umbreon Fallia who was watching her youngest brother and sister play around.

*That might be fun, seeing miss high and mighty being challenged for once, * Trample adding in her two cents as she stomped up to the trio. *I’m bored and I would like to see a good fight. *

*Maybe, if Ravage and Pummel want to watch too. I could use some fun, * Grimm said. *Does anyone know where they are? * She asked.

The two pokémon in question where hanging out by the pool, where Pummel was about to beat the living daylights out of Henry’s ditto Shifty for making fun of him. Spinner seeing trouble called over to Nightflier and together they when to help their friend out.

*What seems to be the problem? * He asked as he and the crobat reached the poolside.

*Nothing’s wrong spider. Pummel here is going to teach this blob a lesson in respect. If you two are smart you’ll go do something else, * Ravage suggested in a menacing way. And nothing is more menacing than a large red gyarados. (Oh boy, what has Shifty done now?) Spinner thought looking at Shifty who was starting to get nervous.

*Hey what a minute. Before you do something that you will regret later, think. We belong to team rocket so if we fight amongst ourselves without orders we will be sent to the training gym, * Starr’s vaporeon Aqua said from the pool behind Ravage. All the pokémon present paused at the thought of reeducation.

*You lucked out blob, * Pummel said. *If the vap hadn’t interfered I would showed you what an executive trained pokémon could do. *

*Of course you still will, if you can’t convince me other wise, * Grimm said waltzing to the gathered pokémon.

Back at the meeting Dr. Price had told all of the trainers his plans and was listing to the first had experience of fighting the focus holders. Henry was bored of listening to Meyer give his report on the events of Viridian Forest. He thought back on why he joined Team Rocket.

{3 years ago}

A young black-haired teenager walked into a building in Viridian City. On his back a spinarak on his tattered backpack. He looked around at the façade of the hotel like lobby and approached the desk with a blank expression on his face.

"I heard from a reliable source I could find a job here. One that would provide excitement, danger, and risk," he said to the man at the reception desk, flashing the man a black card with a red R on it.

The man looked at the card then at the young man holding it. He smiled and said, "Maybe I can help you."

{End flashback}

(All of this time and this job still isn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. Still it has gotten interesting of late. ) Henry reflected as Meyer finished his report. (Still I wonder how Spinner and the others are doing.)

The raven-haired rocket’s pokémon where at that moment discussing a challenge that was placed before them. In order to avoid a fight between Shifty and Pummel they had to ether tell a very good story or beat Grimm in a competition of her choice.

*I think we should challenge Grimm. I mean she’s not as a strong as she says she is, * Slither said.

*If you believe that, then your going to lose before you start. Only Freedom over there is stronger than her, * Spinner said rebuking the arbok. *But we might have to anyway because we don’t have a good story. What do you think Speedy? * He asked.

The magcargo didn’t answer. She was still wondering about what she was going to do with her free time.

*I have an idea. Why don’t I give you a story? * Said Fiery, Starr’s Flareon.

*Ok, I guess, * Spinner said.

*You guess? I’m taking it! * Shifty exclaimed.

*Good. Now listen close, * Fiery said as he started his tale.

Grimm and the other pokémon that Lansky had waited as Spinner and his group moved over to them. The other pokémon in the room listened in to the events that where happing next to the pool.

*We’ve got a story we want to tell, * Spinner said confidently.

*Well I hope for your sakes it is, * Stalker stated. Fiery trotted over to where Sunny was laying down and relaxing.

*I told them what you wanted me to say, * He said to the Espeon. He looked over to Spinner as he told the tale that Fiery gave him; the tale that actually happen to him too.

{Sunny’s POV 6 years ago}

I watched as my trainer and friend Starr looked out of the window. Of late she had grown restless and had taken to exploring. I knew that she had always wanted to be more then just some who raised eevee and their evolutions on her parents ranch. I was wondering where she would go this time.

"Sunny, how would you feel like exploring the ruins north of here?" Starr asked.

*I won’t mind at all, * I responded. And with that we set out. We headed over to the ruins close to Violet City. It was a fun trip and the last time we had such innocent fun in a long time. We arrived at the ruins and that is when everything went wrong.

"Well what do we have here?" Said a voice from some trees on a hill. We had stopped next to a small like and where going to enter the caves that contained the ruins. We looked up to see a man in black shirt, black pants, with white gloves and boots. He was a wearing a black cap. But what really pulled attention to himself was the blood red R on his shirt.

"Who are you?" Starr asked.

"Who I am is of no importance. All that matters is that you give me your pokémon," The man said. "We in Team Rocket have a need for those of the eevee family. We can breed that one," He said looked at me with greed.

*I’m going nowhere! * I exclaim as I power up for an attack.

"Now give up!" The man said throwing out a pokéball. "Attack Kadabra!"

"Sunny, use swift!" Starr ordered. I complied by firing a multitude of golden stars, which buffed the opposing psychic type. Kadabra responded with a psybeam. That didn’t do much to me.

*Is that all? * I asked. The Kadabra created a barrier using Reflect. I just responded with a Reflect of my own.

"Psychic then, Quick Attack!" Starr ordered. I slammed the other psychic type around inside of his shield until it broke, then I charged toward him, slamming into him. He responded by throwing me after a command from his trainer caused him to use confusion. While still in the air, I turned and fired a Hyper Beam. It took him unprepared and blasted him into a tree and knocked him out. Landing gracefully I just stare at the now flustered Rocket.

"Um... you’re pretty strong. Would you think of joining Team Rocket?" He asked calling his defeated pokémon back. I smirked realizing that Starr would never join team rocket. But I was surprised by her response.

"Sure. I don’t have any thing better to do. Besides I think I could do a good job," She said. We both stared at her in shock.

{Present}

And that’s how we got here today. Anyway, I let the spider pokémon and the others use the story, just they embellished it a bit.

*Speedy and me took at the last six by ourselves even with a type disadvantage, * Slither said.

(Ok, so there embellishing it a lot,) I thought.

{End POV}

*Do you expect me to believe that you did that? * Grimm said. Henry’s Pokémon nodded. She was going to respond but she held it back when the door opened. Meyer, Lansky, Starr and Henry.

Four sets of voices said, "Return!" (It looks like its time to go to work,) Grimm thought as she was called back. They four Rockets left with the doctor, their mission set.

Kain watched the world in from his throne. The crystal showed Stadium Island peacefully sitting in the ocean.

"All is in readiness. Now all I have to do is wait," He said. "Just wait."