Pokemon EX Part 1

(Pocket Monsters Exploration/Expedition)

Rating:  PG-13

This is like a prequel to Great Immortal’s A Day In The Life of Team Rocket Sequels and an early prequel to Ace Sanchez’s Pokemon Master

Part 1

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            ‘“Get it or else” those were the words that started it all. The chasing, the trapping, the battling and don’t forget the blasting off . . . again. I don’t know how I got into this mess but if you take a look back it seems my destiny had already been set out for me-straight for the mess. What was I suppose to do. I mean, it’s not easy fighting the biggest mafia organization in the world. So why keep going if I’m doing it for nothing. Maybe it’s time to throw in the towel . . . I could hear her now, her voice exercising it’s subtle control over me: ‘James if you leave you’d be going straight to jail and I know you are not a quitter’ . . .  I love her. As I said that’s what is holding me here. If I want to leave this life then I have to leave her. I am sure that she would rather stay here in this organization and do bad avenging all that has been done wrong to her and me.

            Ash beat the league at the age of 13 I think, Ash and Misty are also in love now (pardon me for the inevitable) and now they’re actually travelling around trying to catch them all; what all 250 of them. Anyways Team Rocket and the twerps have grown closer together mainly because we don’t want Pikachu anymore. There were the occasional run-ins where they would foil our plans but now, we even see them walk-by as we fight our own adversaries.

            My good friend Meowth; learned pay-day, got faster, more agile (almost as agile as Pikachu) and a lot stronger; for example not to long ago he used his fury swipes to cut a huge metal 3 inch thick door own (one swipe). I believe soon he will evolve into a persian.

            My . . . Our future, I don’t know. I guess this is good enough for now but its’ not permanent. We deserve lives too.’

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            Sunny, bright: no clouds except for the ones that he could see highlighted by the sunrise. Through an ancient forest still there to this day, walking. Ash, Misty, Pikachu and Togepi were on their way to Pewter City to see Brock. Misty and Ash had just come back from Viridian after staying there for Ash’s Victory in the Pokemon Indigo league. A million and one thoughts racing through her mind of the near and distant future, wishing that it would include the tall (as her) black headed boy. She just turned 13 last Spring and Ash had just turned 13 in the first week of fall. Misty was getting tired so the group decided to rest in the forest stream that they had found years ago. They stopped beside a long flat rock and Misty sat down near the stream looking at the water-Pokemon and fish pass bye. Ash laid down on the rock and Pikachu ran off with a few other pikachus.

            “Looks like you can’t wait to get on with the exploration” commented Ash. In response Misty smiled and walked over to where he laid.

“What no answer?” Ash inquired. She lies down facing the blue sky on top of him.

“I was getting to that . . .”, she explained, “where will we go first unless were gonna stay in Pewter city”.

“Don’t worry I have it all under control” he said.

“I want to go home first and see my mom then its off to the Dai Dai / Seafoam Islands. We can stay at the hotel and come across the Gym leaders of some of the islands unless my pretty Waterflower objects”, he asked in a rhetorical way. Unfortunately, misty didn’t take it too rhetorically.

“But what if I don’t want to visit the Seafoam Islands”, she asked.

“Then you don’t have to come” he remarked.

“But what abou …”

“Pikachu and I will go on without you”.

“Y-You mean it”.

“Of course not”.

“Hahaha, very funny”, she said sarcastically, “Besides I was just testing your loyalty”.

“Or do I”, Ash said continuing from what he was saying earlier completely ignoring what Misty said.

“Do What”.

“No I don’t”.

“What are you talking about?”

“Or do I really”.

“Urr”, she grunted in frustration while turning over to beat the crap out of him.

“What’s wrong, you think I do”, he said in a playful voice as he fended of her sorry attempts to attack.

“Just shut-up and prepare to get it bad”.

“Oooh I’m shaking like it’s an earthquake down here”

They continued to laugh and play fight until they heard the screams of Pikachus.

Ash, “What was that”, Misty, “it sounded like . . .”, together, “Pikachu”. That screech reminded him of the many times he nearly lost Pika. They stood by each other for so long that he swore no mater what happened he would look out for him. The yellow stubborn mouse felt the same way when he made that promise 3 years ago.  They were up and running in a matter of seconds. The deep intricate woods were no problem for Ash or Misty. Over the years they gained a lot of strength, speed and agility. Ash was pretty satisfied with who was running in front of him. Ash admired her stamina and determination as they ran through a forest towards the screams.

They were fast. It was like a scene from Ninja scroll or DragonBall GT. They often got to speeds where they were 2 blurs tearing through a misty, damp, forest. They reached the end of the forest and came upon a large clearing where the ground was too hard for the trees to grow in. Ash took this chance to sprint up beside her and maintain the same pace as her. A small set of vines was the last thing that they needed to over come. After bursting through they came to a powerful skidding stop while scanning the place. There, Pikachu’s; 3 big and 2 small, were looking over a cliff. Ash and Misty peered over and saw Pikachu hanging about ten meters down on the cliff face over crashing water.

“Hold on Pikachu!” yelled Ash. Almost immediately, Pikachu slipped and fell. Ash jumped of the cliff and pulled out Charizard from his belt.

“Charizard go”, he said as he threw the pokeball in front of him. In a quick red flash Charizard was out free falling in front of him. Ash sped up and landed on Charizard's back. Once there he commanded Charizard to speed up and catch up to Pikachu. Ash crouched down on Chariazard’s back to increase their acceleration and their terminal velocity if they got there. Pikachu was only about 10 metres from the ground and Ash was only about a centimetre from Pikachu. Knowing his large red companion would not be able to go any faster he rolled over and hung himself by his legs around Charizard’s neck. He still couldn’t make it close enough to Pikachu in time so he told Charizard to turn up. This brought Ash close enough to Grab Pikachu in a fast swooping motion from the side clearing any debris or obstacles that they might have fallen into if they didn’t give Charizard the counter balance.

When they all went up they saw Misty who Ash knew was watching them the whole time. “All-right Ash, nice move!” exclaimed Misty who was cheering with Pikachu’s little friends.

“Thanks Misty”, he said. He then landed on the cliff still holding Pikachu in his arms. Then he got off Charizard, put Pikachu on the ground and knelt down to talk to him.

“Pikachu, what happened?”

“PIKa kachu PiKAchu pi chu Kachu [I was about to cross the log, then it broke]”, he said.

Ash then continued on “Whoa, Pikachu you’re lucky you caught on. I thought you had a sense that would tell you when danger is present huh Pika. Where was it there …”

Misty watched as Ash engaged in a happy, loving, funny conversation with Pikachu. ‘He’s cute, can be very intelligent sometimes, is determined, nice, a good trainer and loves his Pokemon’, she thought ‘what more could I want’. Then Ash stood up and patted Charizard lightly on the back “Good job Charizard…”, he said, Misty walked up behind him, “…you really pulled thr--.” Misty had spun him around and kissed him hard and long on the lips, then her arms went around his back and she pulled him in closer.

Before Ash knew it he was kissing the girl of his dreams and after realising this he put his arms around her. Misty slowly broke the kiss. Ash was staring right into her eyes with tears in and on his eyes before and right when she said, “I love you”. They hugged and he whispered an “I love you” in her ear.

They broke the hug then Ash addressed Charizard, “Hey Charizard you can fly around or basically do whatever you want as long as you come back to the camp. And Pikachu you too, just be careful”. Charizard and Pikachu nodded and Charizard flew off straight up, Pikachu was about to run off with his friends but then he asked, “piKA kachu chU? [Where are you going?]”.

“Back to camp with my pretty Waterflower”, Ash responded. Misty giggled and Ash put his right arm around her and pulled her close to his side as they walked back into the forest.

‘ChuPika? [Waterflower?]’, he asked himself, “Chu”, then he ran off with his new friends.

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            Ash went behind a large rock taller than him to change into a green shirt with yellow stripes down the sides and green shorts. Misty was walking over to the fresh spring near the river where Ash was changing to fill up 2 water bottles. After she filled up the first bottle she looked down the river and saw a fairly large rock about the size of a Starmie in the water. The reflection of Ash bounced of the curved water and she saw him wash his face with rock pond water from the rain of the night before that rolled off the trees. He could tell it was clean because it had just filled up. Misty saw him and couldn’t stop staring, why . . . because his shirt was off and well . . . she just couldn’t help herself. Although all she could mainly see was his back she still couldn’t stop looking. Then ash put his new shirt (a basic replica of his old training clothes only tighter [green or orange training clothes he used to wear when he was ten only these are a larger size]) on and stepped out.

“Hey Misty, I’m done, you can change” he said.

“Ok”, she said. Misty put her filled bottles in her bag and grabbed a grass green shirt vest with grass green gym pants. She then headed for the same rock that ash was behind and began to change. Ash went into the forest looking for certain flowers, roots and herbs and some useful other roots he didn’t really need but knew they were good to have on him just in case. All the information from Brock he had gotten made it really easy for him to pick the right ones. As he was walking he came across a broken glass bottle to his far left. He looked at it closely and it showed the reflection of Misty, he couldn’t help but stare. All she was wearing were green pants and a bra. She let her hair down and she also noticed the rock pond and splashed some water on her face once and again but running the water through her just lower than shoulder length hair. Next she put her hair back in the knot it was in before. The only difference was that it looked a little better than before probably because it was just retied in a knot for the first time in a while. Finally she put her shirt back on and the still imbalance in the woods returned back to normal (in other words Ash stopped staring and continued picking). After he filled the little paper bag he went back to camp.

“Well, ready to go”, he asked her.

“Just about yeah”.

“Good . . . PIKACHU . . .CHARIZARD”.

“Will they listen to that?”

“Oh yeah they’ll be here any second”.

The duo had just packed up their stuff and Ash was just putting on his gloves when Charizard arrived.

“Hey Charizard where’s Pikachu”, he asked.

“Gurhmm mhuff [I don’t know]”

“PIka pi KAchu [I’m right here]”

            “I just woke up Togepi . . . and I’m done so let’s go”, explained misty. Ash then commanded Pikachu to enter into his backpack.

            “Charizard Return” he commanded and a transparent red beam escaped from the pokeball he was holding and it was virtually engulfing the large fire Pokemon and turning it into the same red beam substance fired out then it returned into the ball it left. After that the duo left for Pewter city.

            ‘That was a pretty interesting morning since we stopped to rest from our early morning walk to just now. So many things have changed; I’m taller than Misty and a lot stronger, even the league jacket I used to wear is tucked inside my backpack, I don’t wear it anymore like I evolved from it or something and my favourite hat I didn’t even wear this morning or for the last week, yeah it’s in there too. I’ve only been in love with her for the last week since I went home after I won the Indigo League and I feel like we’re the perfect couple. Ah well, all’s well that ends well…living with Misty now is perfect how about later… just the same like I thought’. Misty put her arm around his, leaned her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. “Ash, what are you thinking about?” Ash wasn’t startled but he was abruptly brought back into the real world from his trance like state. “Just trying to contemplate the future and its many possibilities”, “Well continue and have fun”, Misty said. Ash felt her head increase in weight and he knew she was soon to fall asleep. He took of his school bag and put Pikachu on the ground. “Time to walk Pikachu” he said as he picked up Misty.

            A few feet later she woke up dazed and confused. “All that running this morning . . . must have been so much that . . . I fell asleep”. She was so startled that she jumped up and right off him. “Thanks” she said “but I can walk by myself”. Ash could tell that she was still dazed but he respected her wishes so they continued to walk. 

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            The old man looked back angry. His face showed disgust for youth. Collectively, the older people on that street showed somewhat the same emotion. Different age groups reacted respectively to the event as they would normally. His attention got him thinking about his attractiveness in this situation. Bursting past more people and jumping over the fence, he was running through the high walking pass right under the acute criss-crossing free way looking scared and panicky. Far, back in the distance, there were 4 broken windows and inside, the rooms were virtually destroyed and completely searched. From above… another person running with perfect correspondence to the boy running below ran almost ninja like. Only difference, he was on the over pass of course. Suddenly he gained speed and jumped perfectly straight in line with the boy below, why, because the overpass is criss-crossing and it was ending meaning he either jumped or stopped. After jumping from the overpass the blue haired man fell on a perfect interception course with the boy. Inevitably, he landed on top and finished by rolling twice while adding a little summer to it resulting in him facing the downed boy when he stopped rolling forward. After getting up from his crouched position, the blue haired man walked over and searched the boy; first checking his pulse and came to the conclusion that he was just knocked out, then he smiled as he came across a pokebelt. This wasn’t what he was mainly looking for anyways. The situation for him looked grim but the he figured out that he had to find the right pokeball. He opened 5 out of the 6 that seemed to be on him and emerged an Electakid, a Pidgeotto, a Charmeleon, a Blastoise and a Ghastly. After they were all out they just looked around and were wondering what they were doing out now and why their trainer was on the ground not moving. The blue haired man had the sixth ball in his hand and then began to talk to his watch.

“I got it, Where are you?” he asked.

“Right under you” replied a fussy female voice. During that short conversation the blue haired man backed up slowly because the pissed off Pokemon were slowly advancing and charging up there attacks but it was then when he heard the news of the others position. He backed up until he reached the guardrail. Then the Pokemon fired but just before they did the blue haired man had done a 1 and a quarter back-flip off the railing falling about 20 meters and landing back first on top of a meowth balloon, bounced once and landed chest down sliding off but luckily he caught on to the steering rope and slid into the base of the balloon.

“Nice job James”, commended Jessie.

“Look straight up, a Pidgeotto and a Ghastly headed this way”, said James.

“I got ‘em”, said Meowth. The little talking cat Pokemon jumped onto the wall of the base of the balloon and then onto the balloon and climbed up to the top. Once there he materialized 2 gold coin oval like medallions and charged them with energy. He threw one at the bird sending it back where it came from and another at the ghost but it just passed right through. The Ghastly had used transparency to get by but just in time. This time Meowth brought out his sharp claws then he jumped faster than Ghastly’s eyes could see and before you knew it Ghastly was suffering a bad case of the fury swipes combo. Ghastly defeated fell down to the nearest over pass into a fountain 100 meters below.

“That’ll teach ‘em for stealin’ from Team Rocket!” exclaimed Meowth.

“Well James let’s see what the boss wanted back that was so important”, said Jessie. James grabbed the pokeball from his pocket and threw it on the ground in the Balloon. A Rattata popped out. He returned it and threw it into the same fountain as the Ghastly.

“Damnit the boy still has it, I have to get it back”. James then quickly pulled the fuel cord and they rose. When they got back up the boy was gone they were looking around when Jessie saw him enter the elevator going for the bottom level. They dropped as fast as possible but when they got there the boy was already on the move. The boy came to an intersection and knocked someone of his or her motorcycle as the rider was waiting for green. Seconds later Jessie jump-kicked another person of a motorcycle and landed right on top of it. They both floored it but the boy had a big head start. Jessie pulled out a ninja star and threw it at the boy’s front tire. The boy planted, went flying and was saved from hitting the ground by being grabbed out of free flying by Jessie. Then she turned him around and punched him out cold. She searched his jacket and found the Pokemon they were retrieving. A rope dropped from above hanging in front of her. She grabbed on and was air lifted up high. Right then some people ran up to the area where the boy lay. Team Rocket made their escape silently from above.

Inside the Team rocket Head Quarters Jesse, James and Meowth were waiting for his response. “Finally, you are doing something right”, Giovanni stated, “you’ve been doing a lot of chores right lately… so I’ve decided to give you a raise. 2 more accomplishments and you get a bonus. 6 more and you get a helicopter to use”

“Thank you so much sir”, they all said simultaneously.

“Right now spend your weekend well”, ordered Giovanni.

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             It was hot. James knew how to be cool. One of the senior members like Jesse and James had thrown a party and all senior and intermediary members wee invited. ‘Geese I’m in the perfect place during a heat wave and I still can’t smile. A helicopter, that would be fun. Hopefully its one of the new PHS (for Personnel with High Speed) types. Man, those things are fast.’ James was lying on a water lounge chair and enjoying the sun with a few other Rocketeers. Jessie was diving and was doing it pretty well actually. She went up again and saw a no look face on James. She decided to bring some liquid sunshine. ‘A cannonball would be the perfect remedy for the blues’, she thought.

            “Lock and load everybody”, said Jessie.

            “No way, she’s doing a cannon-ball from up there”, said one TR member.

“Everybody inside we’ll continue the party inside then come back out later”.

Everyone went inside except for James and Jessie. Jessie jumped, James . . . she curled up and fell, he didn’t move, she splashed down, he stayed the same, Jessie soaked James and finally he sat up.

“What the . . .”, James wondered. Jessie swam over to him in her blue bikini (ya know the one in her dreams on the Saint Anne).

“James snap out of it, you haven’t said a word since we got here”, she begged him to say something.

“James please tell me what’s on your mind maybe I can help”, she got closer and near his head to stroke his hair. ‘Well if I can’t talk to him then I’ll just make it happen’, she thought. She grabbed James’ right arm and dragged him under with her. He was startled and was getting defensive when she grabbed him. She pulled him in closer and kissed him on the lips under water. To James it felt like energy was surging through her body into his. James grabbed her and gave her the same passionate kiss right back. Then they rose to the surface.

James pulled her close, forehead to forehead.

“I’m sorry Jessie”, he explained, “I was just thinking about how things are gonna turn out in the future”.

“Don’t worry whatever we do, it doesn’t matter, for better or for worse things will turn out fine”, remarked Jessie, “Come on let’s dance”. James wasn’t the best wasn’t the worst but he didn’t want to make her feel bad. They got out of the pool, and James held Jessie in his left arm and they walked to the porch door opened it walked in and danced their way in through other dancing people.

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The center wasn’t busy but people could still be seen walking in and out of it at rate that almost matched the flow of the new centre in Pallet when it was on its busiest days. Ash walked out of the Pokecenter carrying 6 perfectly healthy Pokemon in pokeballs and 1 charged up yellow mouse. Right behind him emerged Misty and Togepi. Then they headed for the Pewter City Gym, it was nearing dinnertime and their stomachs started to grumble. According to Nurse Joy the Gym was a little harder to get to since Brocks Dad had begun to renovate the entire gym. They came across a park filled with tons of cherry blossom trees. The path they were walking on had inscriptions as far as the I could see. ‘Talk about renovation’ Ash thought as he looked at Misty who noted that she was making the same assumption as him. The walked through the entire park until they reached pure forest with no path. Ash looked ahead as far as he could but he still couldn’t find the gym. Misty looked to her left and saw another path leading to it and called Ash over as she swiftly moved her way there. Misty walked up to the steps and stood there looking at the massive doors that she remembered were not as big as these ones. Ash slowly toke the steps to the doors and was about to place his hand on the door. To him it felt like he was a small animal, a chipmunk, in the middle of a highway hearing the honks and rants but still not moving. Then once he touched the door it hit. The memories started to flood back to him like water going down a drain. He just stood there.

Misty came up to him and put her hand on his to help him push. The feeling of her being there brought him back from the trance he was in. He pushed the doors open and walked inside. The first thing Ash saw was a little blue blur zip from a huge boulder to behind a lower smaller one. To inspect this, he tilted his head a little to the left and advanced slowly. Once he stepped on the battlefield the rock where the blur had gone exploded into a million pieces of dust and pebbles. With an unobstructed view, Ash and Misty could clearly see the cause of the explosion. A red fox was obviously charging up another fire blast because of the fire that fluttered out from the rim of its mouth and its red eyes. Feeling no danger present from Vulpix and Zubat they walked around the battlefield confident Brock was in there somewhere.

“Hey Brock it’s me Ash… Misty’s here with me!” Ash yelled. Brock jumped from behind the stone he was hiding from into the open.

            “Ash, Misty, how was the victory celebration”, he asked.

            “It was O.K., I got to pass on the title to Gary officially and then I was interviewed on national T.V.”, Ash explained. They continued a happy conversation and went into the door behind the altar. They came across a canyon like battlefield.

            “Onix, Geodude, to me” Brock commanded. Instantly two, rock Pokemon emerged from behind a standing canyon wall and came right to them.

            “Sorry guys practice is over”, said the large rock Pokemon trainer. Then he recalled them back to their pokeballs. They left for the battlefield again and when they entered all they saw were fireballs and controlled shockwaves flying on the same plane and sometimes colliding.

            “Heh, you two are really fighting ”, said Brock. Red beams hit the pokemon and they were gone. The trio re-entered the altar door but this time turned right to walk down the hallway instead of just cross it. They went to see Brock’s dad, Flint, who was working on the third battlefield, before they went out to eat (Ash’s suggestion of course). They walked into an elevator and they went down some 30 meters. When they got out they saw a large network of stalagmites and stalactites even some sticking out of the wall. They were made off limestone slag and many numerous minerals from quartz to highly compressed carbon or diamond. These huge water pumps filled with these minerals and such sprayed onto magnetic pads forming these crystals and stags over a short period of time.

            “Hey Dad my friends are here!” yelled Brock.

            “I’m up here!” Flint yelled back. Then as everyone looked up he came down on a belay type pulley system.

            “Hi I’m Ash and this is…” he didn’t get to complete his sentence because Flint interrupted.

            “I met you before Ash, Misty”, said Flint.

            “Hey dad, were going out to eat at the Magic Wok”, said Brock.

            “Alright, whatever”, remarked a non-caring Flint. Then a high repetitive fairly loud tone rang not to warning like. That was when Brock sighed.

            “What was that?” asked Misty.

            “It was the challenge alarm, a trainer wants his but kicked”, said Brock, “I got it dad. Could you hand me the two-way radio”.

            “Why do you need that”, Ash asked as flint pulled the two-way radio out of his pocket and tossed it to Brock.

            “It keeps the trainers busy till I get there because if no one’s home who wants to stay” he said. Brock caught the radio and pressed a preset on the number panel. Ash watched in awe as Brock began to big talk to the challenger on the battlefield. Brock, looking full of himself, walked over to the elevator while he engaged in a mocking show-off-like voiced conversation with the challenger. Once he entered the elevator he motioned Ash and Misty to ride with him while waving to his dad who didn’t turn around. They went up to the hallway floor with Brock still talking to the trainer. After getting out Brock looked down the hallway at a large big screen monitor/TV. It was getting feedback from a camera inside the battlefield on the challenger. Brock made a comment about the boys bad taste in clothes and the duo giggled. The trainer began to lose his temper. Brock pointed to the balcony doors and told them to be quiet. 

            “Enough talk. Show yourself” said the young brown haired boy wearing a blue roots hat and a white T-shirt with black pants. Mystic like, Brock emerged from the Altar, only as a silhouette. There was an air of silence upon the room as the everyone except Brock (and Flint) waited for the first words to come out of the silhouette.

            “3 Pokemon each, the first trainer to 2 wins, wins”, he said, “you first”.

            The challenger, noticing that a battle was actually about to begin, changed his style to a very serious chancing style: like he had just ante-upped in a high stakes gamble. The corner of his mouth turned up like he was hiding something. Either that or knew he was in for a good battle. Misty’s reaction to the challengers face: quote “I don’t think he knows what is about to happen to him”.

“Fine I’ll start you off with something easy, go Victribel” said the young boy. He ruffled his T-shirt back and grabbed a pokeball of his belt and threw it in the centre. Instantly, a large yellow fruit like plant appeared in front of him on the battlefield. Brock stepped out of the shadows and into the light.

            “Geodude, I choose you”___ very solemnly as said by Brock as he threw a pokeball nearly to centre court. Geodude materialized on the field as he used his own powers to hover.

“Hmm…wait I got it, use your Razor leaf attack”, said the over confident boy. Ash was shaking his head in disappointment at the boy who used a matter-based on a strong agile ROCK pokemon like Geo. The plant obeyed his commands as 2 large razor sharp leaves flew over to Geodude fast and spinning. Brock gave no counter command so Geodude just floated there and when the leaves hit, it didn’t even take a scratch.

            “Geodude, shockwave”, commanded Brock who had a growing smile like he already knew the outcome of the match and most people did too. Geodude acknowledged Brock’s command by going into a more ready position to fight. Then it flew up high and back towards Brock at an acute angle. It fell flying forward quickly, hitting the ground hard. A shockwave, in this case an invisible wave of kinetic energy only recognizable by the earth that ruptured and cracked folding over in some places and creating a large wide V pipe, travelled along he floor towards the enemy’s position knocking it back far into a large standing stone. It passed out. The league scoreboard inside the field’s room showed a loss of a purple bar on the challenger’s set of 3 bars.

            “You’re right, that was easy’ said Brock. He went back to sit in the altar chair.

            “Luck, that’s all, just luck…”, said the boy. He returned his Victribel back into its pokeball and brought out a Graveler.

            “A rock Pokemon . . . I’ll make this interesting . . . Vulpix”, said Brock. Brock lifted his hand and a pokeball from the altar zipped to his outstretched hand. He tossed the pokeball so that it would land closer to himself on his side of the battlefield. Vulpix was now in his half of the field.

            “Graveler . . . tackle that puny thing”, the boy said. Graveler ran towards Vulpix with high acceleration.

            “Vulpix . . . Use practice program 1 . . . stance, foxfire” said Brock calmly to his fire Pokemon. Vulpix stood lower to the ground in a ready to jump position with eyes flaring. The Graveler was about to tackle Vulpix when the fox seemed to disappear leaving a ball of fire in its place. The graveler couldn’t stop because of its already high velocity and momentum. The graveler suffered a mild burn to the side while wondering what happened as it came to a stop. Much to the challenger’s surprise, Vulpix was standing on top of the graveler.

            “Use your fight attacks Graveler!” exclaimed the boy in his furiousness of being mocked by a fox. The graveler spun around and tried a back handed punch with it’s left but it missed Vulpix like it had been swinging at air since the beginning of the battle while finally coming to a stop. It advanced to Vulpix and tried to use a series of punches and swipes but Vulpix just kept dodging: the graveler punches with the right straight across and Vulpix ducks then it punches low with the left and Vulpix moves to its right, the graveler tries a spin punch by turning clockwise 270 degrees and throwing its right all around but Vulpix jumps out of the way, the graveler believing it had an opportunity tried to use a flying shoulder bash while Vulpix was in the air but Vuly just moved so fast that to the fox it was swimming through the air behind the graveler, once there, Vulpix fired a fireblast hard enough to shoot the graveler a little bit forward. The graveler landed on its front. Quickly getting up it was obviously angry with Vulpix. Very angry.

            The challenger thought that the vulpix he was battling was just fast but not strong. Boy was he in for a surprise.

            “Graveler use your shockwave!!” commanded the challenger to his large angry graveler. Vulpix began to charge up its nova as the graveler ran back all the way to its master. It began to run as fast as it could and 5 steps later it jumped. Vulpix watched in a bluffing face that it wasn’t gonna be able to hold up to a massive shockwave. The graveler landed the same way Geodude had. The blast from it blew some rocks back but the real attack hadn’t arrived yet. Vulpix put all its might into a the one fireball to counter the advancing Shockwave. When Vulpix fired, the fireball was so full of fire, so compressed and so hot that it was white. Once it met the ground where the shockwave was coming from there was a wave of light that erupted first. Vulpix seeing this as its last chance to head for cover dove behind a large rock on the field. It put its paws over its head and prepared for the worst. Misty was still watching the battle and was wondering what that light was when Ash tackled her to the floor of the balcony. Brock walked into the shadow of a large rock as well. The boy and his Pokemon stood there unaware of what was about to happen but once the blast came the boy was down in time. The graveler was burnt and rocked back into a large rock that broke on impact of the Pokemon. Vulpix’s rock was wearing away from the instant erosion cause by the blast but the blast finished up before it could get to the fire fox. The boy got up and ran over to his graveler.

            “Are you OK Graveler?” asked the challenger to his Pokemon. The graveler tried to grunt a response but then it went unconscious. The scoreboard deducted another purple/indigo coloured bar from the challenger and put a “WIN” under Brocks side and a “LOSE” under the challenger’s side.

            “Take your Pokemon to the Pokemon centre quickly and take this with you”, said Brock as he threw a small spray bottle of a super power potion containing the ready nutrients and elements that Pokemon use to power up for all sorts of attacks. This particular bottle contained a formula for use on rock Pokemon. The boy caught the bottle lifted up his medium size but heavy Pokemon and jogged out of the Gym, badgeless.

            “Nice battle Brock”, commended Ash who was helping Misty up after the explosion. Brock looked up at Ash and Misty on the balcony and smiled in thanks. His face immediately turned to a surprised-sweat-dropped-embarrassed-for-an-other look after Ash’s stomach grumbled.

“Well I did get a little side tracked and we were supposed to eat dinner”. They walked out side through the park and onto the street sidewalk.

“Where to?” asked Misty walking in front of them.

“Anywhere is fine for me I’m just h—” said and interrupted Ash.

“Hungry, yeah we all heard that before” interrupted Misty.

“Let’s go to the Magik WOK. They have good Chinese food there”, answered Brock. On arrival, Brock grabbed Ash by the collar when Ash tried to jump into the buffet.

They all had fried shrimp, chow mein, moo goo gui pen, teriyaki steak and chicken up until Misty thought it was time to go home.

“I’m tired,” complained Ash. Brock gave him a look that suggested go to bed in an annoyed way. Ash quickly realized the pain he was in for if he didn’t go to sleep so he went to the guest room Brock showed him.

“Good night Misty . . . Brock” said Ash as he carried his backpack up the stairs at the lounge.

“Good night Ash. Brock do you have a computer with internet access?” Misty asked.

“Yeah this one right here” he stated as he turned around and pointed at a desktop at the other side of the lounge. To keep in touch with her sisters in a cheaper more effective way she got a net email address at some internet utility place allowing for larger storage (25 Mb). She connected to her email and checked it there was an email from her sisters inside it. She read it and began to blush. She quickly closed up all the open Windows she had opened and shut the computer down.

“You know what Brock, I think I’m gonna go to sleep too” explained Misty to Brock as he scanned all the channels on his satellite.

“Alright I’ll see you tomorrow early in the morning cause I’m making you guys a good breakfast before you head for Pallet City”, answered Brock to Misty’s statement (yes Pallet City now). Brock was now the only one up and after scanning all 200 and something channels on the satellite he found that there was nothing on. He came to the conclusion that there was nothing to do at 10:00 pm on a Monday night. He headed for his room on the second floor as well.

Misty creaked open Ash’s room door to tell him that they had to wake up early for Brock’s good home cooking but he was sound asleep; not snoring or anything. ‘He looks so peaceful’ thought Misty. She walked in and knelt beside Ash’s bed facing him. He was on his side but the soft pillow turned his head up slightly. She kissed him lightly on the lips. He woke up.

“Uhhh, Misty . . . what’s up?” he said as he rubbed his eyes and sat up.

“It’s Ok just wait there, we should wake up early tomorrow morning so that we can catch a good breakfast from Brock before we leave for Pallet.

“Your right. I’ll set my watch for 6:00” explained Ash as he fiddled with his Timex until the alarm was set. Ash didn’t even say good night he just flopped back down into his bed and went back to sleep. Misty toke her bag off her shoulder and walked into the washroom across the hallway. At this time Brock was still scanning the satellite. She pulled her pyjamas out and changed into them in the washroom. She walked back outside into Ash’s room slid him over a bit and slipped into the bed. Misty thought Ash was asleep but when she was about to dose off, Ash grabbed her left hand with his right (because they were facing each other). She opened her eyes and he opened his.

“Good night” he said with the little awareness he had left. Misty replied the same and went to sleep. Brock reached the top of the stairs and walked over to Ash’s room. The door was left partially open so he peeped in. He saw Ash and Misty there lying together holding hands asleep. ‘Kinda much for 13 year olds. Ahh well, they’re love was inevitable it’s just about time for them to see it too”, he thought to himself although it changed to what he had said to himself (‘   ”). Brock walked into his room and went to bed with his boxers.

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            5:30 am. A man was running across the rooftops at a recklessly, dangerous speed jumping from one to another. Finally he jumped of a building and landed softly and quietly on the ground. Staying low to it he took about 9 or 10 running steps until he jumped up high to land on top of the gym’s roof and began to survey the area. Running around stealthily and climbing on all sides spider-like until around 5:45 am he found what he was looking for. He hung there outside Ash’s room above the window upside down peering in with a digital camera and scope. He began to smile an evil grin.

            Brock opened his eyes.

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            5:00 am. A mountain at the southeast point of Viridian City. The forest covering the mountain’s northern side. A hidden residence/complex inside the forest. 3rd floor of the building. West facing wing. Room 310. James wakes up on his bed moments before his alarm goes off. He carefully hits it off so that not to disturb the sleeping beauty beside him. He slipped out of bed like a snake would do as not to wake up Jessie. He walked over to the dresser and pulled out, from the second drawer down, a pair of Adidas running shorts, soft training pants and a Nike T-Shirt. He put the pants into a bag with bottled water. He changed into the running shorts in the washroom, brushed his teeth and washed his face. While drying up his hair he pulled it all up into the centre so that it looked like his chi force was at a rage or something. Laughing quietly, he took one last look in the mirror and walked away towards the bathroom door as he fixed his hair into its everyday normal style. In the bedroom, James went over to the mini-bar/fridge and wrote a small note to Jessie reading that he would be at the exercise gym (Team Rocket partially in ownership again). Jessie knew James would go there all the time like her in the evening so they would turn it into a danger room together to home their skills as mafia assassins.

As James was about to leave the hotel room, a challenge would arise for him because of his squeaky room. He would have to walk over to the noisy door and open it without making a peep loud enough to wake up Jessie. As he walked towards the door he was very curious and anxious to get to the creaky part of the room to see how he would traverse it. He walked slowly and took soft steps at a normal pace until he was about to take a step that just didn’t feel right. Before he could apply pressure to the that spot he jumped up using the last bit of footing he had left with the right foot that was not touching the squeaky, old part of the floor. Instead of landing on the floor past the squeaky area he stuck his hands out in the hallway as not to land on the area of the floor, which he was unsure about. After making a hypothesis about where the floor beams would be that support the room (also the location of the quiet floor boards) he set down his right foot to control how evenly the pressure was applied. Finally making it to the door after 2 more steps he unlocked it and pulled it open slowly and smoothly. The door still managed to let loose a few barely audible squeaks. But to James, the screeches that the door made were being especially loud. He made sure he had his key card to the room before he left with his medium size backpack. He walked to the elevator at the junction of the west wing and the south wing. Inside the elevator (as he went down to the ground floor) he began stretching, as a runner would do before a big race. At the main floor he walked out towards the main doors in the lobby. At the first set of doors he walked right through while pulling out a card and at the second set of doors he swiped the card on the door.

Once outside he put the card, back in his pocket and secured the bag to his back more tightly. He jogged a fairly quick pace along the path from the residence to the Viridian City Gym. As he ran by a camera focused in on him. He waved at the lens as he ran off the narrow little road and joined at the bend of the larger road that went right around the right side of the gym where he was about to run by. He looked left and tried to see if there were any cars that he had seen from before that sometimes left from behind the gym in the parking lot. After taking the turn around the Viridian City Pokemon Gym he jogged about 1km west then he turned north and jogged about 500 metres that way. This placed him 250 metres north of the Viridian City Pokemon Centre. As he jogged along another quiet road west 300 metres he arrived at the rarely used Viridian City Fitness and Athletics Centre. He walked through the other parts to get to the Viridian City Gym sponsored Kung Foo court (actually sponsored by Team Rocket). He walked towards a small changing room at his right side or the north side of the gym. He changed from shorts to thick soft training pants. He threw his bag and shirt to the side of the gym where they landed on a table then he walked to the middle of the gym with no shoes or socks. He took a deep breath and exhaled. He spread his feet apart about 3 feet and did a keyukuneus. After followed a series of kicks punches and forceful moves that would surely cause a lot of damage. He jumped up high to do a backside tornado kick with his left leg. Once he landed a floor trigger activated which removed a metal dome that concealed many intricate log placements. As the dome widened James ran to the side of gym and narrowly missed the arrangement that just fell from the ceiling. The floor of the court was now a danger room/obstacle course. He walked up to the beginning and looked straight ahead. ‘Might as well do this then do nothing’ he thought as he noticed moving logs in the distance. Suddenly he ran up quickly at the first log and blocked the non-moving protruding wooden sticks that stood out of it. After putting all four sticks in a blocked lock position he did an elbow to the top of the log then extended his arm and hit the side of it with his fist and followed through, then his left fist followed the same path as his right fist and, continuing the momentum, he did a round house kick and broke the wooden karate pole. He ran over a large wooden block, left of one, right of another and through two poles held 4 feet off the ground horizontal. After he jumped he rolled into a ball and rolled twice then stood up and continued to run. He ran up to another karate poll but this time he stepped on the lower part of it then the middle: it started to bend over backwards while tearing at the front, then he stepped hard on top and jumped doing a back flip. He then landed on the centre of the poll breaking the poll at the holder on the ground and snapping it in two in the middle. He then jumped of and did another keyukuneus and large logs fell from the ceiling in the general open space. He dogged most of them until the place was filling up with pillars he had no place to go when the last one came down about to crush him. Thinking quickly, he kicked the log in front him breaking it and knocking it down. Then he moved into that open space just before the log landed. He then leaned against a log to rest but heard something turning at the bottom of all the logs. Not wanting to wait around and find out what it was he put his left foot on the near bottom of a log then pushed off and put his right foot on another and pushed of continuing the same motion with two or more steps until he got to the top and right when he got there each and every log launched tiny wooden spikes all around them. He then used a technique he learned from training when running by staying low and taking long strides to clear the area quickly. Once he reached the edge of that area a horizontal log swung down and luckily he jumped between the two ropes holding it and did a swan flip and landing it perfectly on the floor of the room. It was then when he saw the tiny logs fly at him from different directions. He started to dodge them by ducking, jumping, spinning, moving front back, side-to-side, bending over backwards and barrel rolling. After they randomly came he passed the area in silence and looked around. Then quietly a large ball made of wood swung down from behind him. Acting as fast as he could he did a small jump to turn him horizontal then he fell the 3 feet he had jumped to the ground. Lying on his back the large ball swung over him at a clearance of only a centimetre ruffling his pants and hair as a symbol of the ball’s pendulum velocity. After it passed he did a handspring to get up and went into a crouched position. As the ball swung down again he jumped just in time so he could clear the ball but as he flew he did a tornado kick to the rope breaking it and letting the ball fall straight to the ground shattering into hundreds of pieces. In the rubble of the wood were two concrete bricks with 3 pieces of thick wood. Each piece had the word finish on them. Knowing what to do to finish this off he laid them across the bricks. He then did another keyukuneus and brought his hand down very fast to shatter the wood. Right then Jessie (wearing jeans, an ice blue shirt and a jean jacket) was clapping her hands near the southern entrance.

            “Nice job James, I have to find a challenge for you”, she said mockingly and evilly at the same time. Meanwhile James walked over to a table where his shirt was and he was just about to put it back on when Jessie walked up behind him and put her arms around his waist. He then turned around gave her a short kiss on the lips and said, “You won’t find a challenge for me”.

            “Oh please you aren’t tha . . .”, remarked Jessie as she was interrupted by James who put a finger on her lips then hugged her.

            “We’re being watched”, said James as the fake hug continued.

“Hold on a sec”, she said as she pretended to look around the room at James’ destruction of the gym and as she looked around at the top of her eye she saw a black ninja and turned around.

“I see him he’s at the high window right behind you”, informed Jessie. James then reached into Jessie’s back pant pocket and pulled out a knsi knife and threw it fast towards the area where the ninja was camping. The knife travelled to the west side of the gym. The knife broke the window and the blast of glass cut the person’s arm leaving a tiny blood splatter near the high window that he or she was at.

The ninja began to run over the roof clutching his left arm where it was bleeding not in pain but not to leave a blood trail. Jessie and James ran into the centre of the gym where James finished the course. James heard the footsteps on the ceiling of the gym, picked up a cement brick and spun around with it in both hands. He let go of the brick and it hit right under the running ninja. Meanwhile the ninja was running until the ground below his feet grew at lightning speed to a large partially broken hump 2 feet high and 3 feet wide sending him flying about 6 feet high on the roof and landing back first just in-front of the hump. He looked back but saw nothing but a hump. James had heard the ninja fly and land about 8 feet in front of the brick. After he threw the first brick he picked up the second brick with both hands and spun faster than before. The ninja got up and was running the last quarter of the gym’s roof. James let go. The brick flew a lot faster than before and this time it blasted right through. The ninja thought the last attack was a lucky shot by something down there, but then as he was about 15 feet from the gym edge he was blasted high into air by a large brick that broke threw the roof colliding up his shins and knees until it hit his stomach at full force straight on sending him flying. The blast created a funnel of wood shards cutting the ninja all over. He flew 10 feet up and 20 feet forward clearing him of the gym making him fall another 30 feet to the ground with a loud thump.

“Well, I got him”, James concluded. They both walked outside to where the ninja supposedly fell and there he was not moving with a cement brick on and impressed in his upper body. James checked his pulse and he was fine, just in a coma and bleeding badly with probably broken ribs, a broken leg and a broken arm. Jessie searched him and found a tiny handheld communicator. It had the letter ‘D’ written on the back twice with one ‘D’ on the top left corner of it. Both ‘D’s were the same size and they were grey also. Jessie reached into her small shoulder bag and pulled out black chalk and paper. She then put the paper against the ‘D’ logo and coloured over it getting an impression on the other side and colour on the visual side. James walked over to a pay phone near the road leading to the gym and fitness centre.

“Hello, hi, how are you”, he continued to talk in his unnatural voice to the 911 response team and told them about what they saw. He then walked back inside to get his things and change quickly and they left on their way for the residence they were staying at. After they left an ambulance arrived.

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            In an organization on a large boat in the sea between Japan and Pokemon Island, a devious plan is under way.

            A tall man is looking out over the sea, when a very strong large man walks in.

            “Where are my spy’s”, asks the tall man. The large big man hesitates for a moment.

            “Umm . . . well . . . the one assigned to Team Rocket was just busted out of the hospital”, said the large man with a hint of fright in his voice.

            “How far are the Rockets in discovering our secret”, implied the tall man.

            “They have just taken our logo and are trying to find who and where we are about now so we should still be able to get out of here before they even come close to finding us”, answered the large man.

            “Fine, prepare my boat and Mercedes for I have a visit to make with the Silph Company”, said the tall man as he walked through the doors where the large man had just walked through.

            What the tall man or the large man didn’t know was that there was a bug under the table that tall man was standing near. Right above the area on the large boat on the roof was Cassidy who had just stood up from a crouched position with her hands to her Sony headphones listening to the conversation going on below. After she stood up she looked of in the distance while taking of her headphones for about 3 seconds pondering the situation and the future. She turned around and walked back towards the centre of the ship. Her view was being cut off by the edge of the platform. As she walked away she threw the headphones behind her and they fell about 50 feet until they collided with the water and broke.

            ‘They aren’t very far behind as you think’

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Ash had thought he heard a screeching sound on the window a while before he was fully awake. Outside a ninja uses a ninja star to cut an arm size hole near the window lock latch. A few blocks away in a tree is a turquoise haired man who is in a crouched position facing the ninja with his eyes closed. He is sensing the exact time to make his move. It was like he was waiting for something. Soon enough his wait was over, he opened his eyes and dropped from the tree. After he landed he sprinted faster than expected and quieter too. When he reached the patch of grass behind the ninja he did the same wall climbing jumpy thing that James did when he was training at the point where he was escaping from the logs with spikes but the man did this with a tree and the gym wall. As he reached the second last hop up to the ninja, the ninja heard him coming and busted through the window, this woke up Ash immediately. A split second later the ninja lurched for Ash and Misty; katana and all. Ash came to his senses just in time to roll on top of Misty, grab her in his arms and roll of the bed with her. Misty then woke up and looked around wondering what was going on as the turquoise haired man crashed in, landed and did a round house kick for the ninja’s head. The ninja ducked, ran for Misty and grabbed her. Ash then put his arms between them and tried to separate them. He couldn’t detach the ninja so he punched the ninja as hard as he could in the stomach then the face. The ninja fell and landed on his back. Just then the turquoise haired man put his foot on the ninja’s neck and the ninja grunted in slight pain.

“Butch?” Misty asked. That was a big enough diversion for the ninja; grabbing Butch by the leg he toppled him over. He moved like it was a reflex.

“Oh Team Rocket, geese! You stay out of our lives this far then you just walk back in like you never left. Please! Get a life”, Ash commanded. Butch then grabbed the running ninja before he could jump out the window by putting him in a bear hug.

“Listen I didn’t want to come here and spoil everything”, he stated, “but unless you want a ninja to take her hostage you’d better shut up, help me tie him up and help me administer sleep powder to him”. Just then a crash was heard from Brock’s room and . . .

Brock pushed his hands through the glass of the trophy case and grabbed the staff made of pure bedrock. He used it to defend himself but when the picture of his mom was knocked off his bedside table he got a little angry. The two three pointed daggers suddenly rushed at him and as that happened Brock swung the incredibly heavy staff and hit the ninja in the stomach sending him out the door into . . .

            Then another ninja landed in the doorway of the room with Ash and Misty inside. The ninja on the ground looked above and behind and himself because he was on the floor and saw the other ninja being held buy someone from Team Rocket. The ninja being held by Butch gave a sort of quick simple sign language almost understandable by everyone else. Just then Brock ran in and was in a thrusting position with his arms in a stabbing position. He then pulled down and the ninja made a narrow escape by rolling backwards and twisting facing Butch. After that, the ninja, being held by Butch, looked down at the ground allowing the other ninja to jump-kick Butch in the head and free his colleague. As a result Butch slammed into the wall right next to him and fell down in some pain that would go away. He was still conscious. Then the ninja that jump-kicked Butch turned around and looked straight at Misty who was behind Ash.

“I got it Ash”, said Misty who ducked under Ash’s arm, which was raised in a ‘You ninja’s won’t get around me’ position. Misty stood there in a kick boxing stance but her legs where not as wide as the normal stance. The ninja folded his arms and chuckled under his concealed nose and mouth then he did a round house quick enough for a K.O. but not fast enough to do her neck damage or break her neck but right then Misty did a trip (swipe kick, ground kick) and the ninja fell on his back. Misty put out her arm to help him up and Ash asked, “What are you doing?”. The ninja grabbed Misty’s outstretched hand and pulled his self up but when he was just about there the ninja was in the process of punching her face. Misty who had anticipated this twisted the arm that the ninja grabbed her with behind his back. At the same time Butch had gotten up and grabbed the other ninja’s arms using the broad part of his arms to hold him in the wrestling double arm position.

“Give him one for me”, said Misty. Ash then punched him out.

“Whenever you’re ready you can take this one out too”, said Butch then ash walked over to him, “and make it look good this time”.

“Why do I have to knock them out again?” asked Ash.

“Because Ninja’s are very tricky they can fake being hurt or being tied up” Suddenly the ninja broke free but before he could go anywhere Ash pulled a combo out of his memory when he was training Pikachu. He did a right punch straight on, then a left punch straight on and then it looked like another right punch but this time he spun clockwise doing a 270 spin and punching the ninja with his right and finishing with a dragon kick (barrel roll kick, side twin tornado kick or spinning head kick), all this lightning fast and with the result of a K.O.O. R. (Knock Out Of Ring, Knock Out while being hit out Of Ring {he was knocked out while being hit out of a window} Well I know some of you won’t get it). Butch then picked up the ninja, which was inside and was about to go outside and get the other ninja.

“I’m going with you, I wanna know what’s going on”, said Ash as he walked towards Butch. Butch was about to protest when Misty grabbed Ash’s left arm.

“Wait don’t go he can just call us or email us later, the less involvement with us the better”, said Misty. Ash turned around and was about to say he wouldn’t go and to get back to them, but before he could, Butch had jumped out the window picked up the other ninja and vanished (not literally). Brock just walked over to the window and sighed as he saw the arm size hole and the broken window, “I just redid this place and he sure made a mean exit and you should have gone he’s carrying 2 men over there and where did you learn that fighting and how come Team Rocket was here and we weren’t fighting them and…”

Brock kept rambling on and Ash looked a little soulless and concerned. Misty gave him a peck on the cheek.

“Don’t worry everything will be fine”, said Misty.

“I’m not worried about that, I just forgot to give him our emails and phone numbers”, stated Ash. Just then Pikachu, Zubat and Vulpix ran and flew, in Zubat’s case, into the room.

“Pi Pikachu? [What happened?]”, inquired Pikachu.

“A little late huh guys”, said Brock in a sarcastic way.

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Back at the Team Rocket Viridian Headquarters 4 rocketeers are using there skills of persuasion to get some answers (Although I haven’t seen any use of any kind in any wa***{WE’RE SORRY ABOUT THAT. OUR NARRATOR IS EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES… OH TECH BOYS SAY HE SHOULD BE FINE NOW}.

“What is your main objective?” *** What the… am I on… Oh, sorry***asked the male scratchy voice at the far right. There was no answer.

“What does your boss want with the Silph Company?” asked the male with the devious voice from the far left. The left unmasked ninja looked with a curious cat face.

“What do you know about the Silph Company and us?” demanded the ninja. Suddenly a bright light shone right into his eyes.

“We’re the ones asking the questions here”… Jessie.

“You must be Jessie”, said the untalkative, still masked ninja. Jessie turned to look at the ninja. A million and one thoughts ran through her head at that moment, ‘how does he know my name, my voice is so distinctive to him, what else does he know, what else does he want?’ She was in a sea of curiosity and was drowning without a clue which way was up and there was one thing that could at least give her a breath of air.

 “How do you know my name?” she asked. The ninja just looked at her for about 3 seconds and then went back to the looking at the ground.

“How do you KNOW my name!?” she asked again this time taking a staff and pulling his shirt up with it the same way someone would lift up someone else by their shirt.

“Wait leave him alone. Are objective was to obtain information about Ash Satoshi Ketchum and Misty Kasumi Williams for our boss then a course of action would be set up and we would ta…” the unmasked ninja would not finish his sentence.

“Shut up, that’s enough”, said the masked ninja. Jessie let go of the masked ninja turned and walked between James and Cassidy. James looked back at Jessie as she walked out the door. Cassidy looked at James and nodded then James nodded back as if to confirm something. James left the room and went in search of Jessie.

“Anyways that’s probably all we’ll get out of them besides I promised that former master that I would tell him what’s going on and what we learned from these two. I wonder should I tell him the truth, I’m not sure he should know”, said butch. Cassidy just turned and looked at him for the longest time until she came back into reality.

“Tell him the truth” she replied still as she turned to look at the two ninjas. Butch left the room and took the elevator to Basement Garage; the second lowest level they had. On the way he thought to himself, ‘I wonder how she’ll handle them and I wonder what the boy and girl will do’.

Cassidy was thinking of a way to scare the hell out of the ninjas when it came to her from below (ya know… way, way down there in he***{NOT AGAIN BRING IN THE REPLACEMENT***I’ll kill you all*** get him under… ah… he’s attacking me------------------------------GEESE HOW’D HE GET HIRED THE NEW GUYS HERE YA SAY OH …GOOD***})

“Do you guys have anything else to tell me before you go to the delimber” she said slyly. The two looked at each other and turned back to the girl in the dark.

“What’s the point you’ll just kill us anyway”, said the unmasked ninja.

“I might be persuaded to spare your lives if your information is sufficient enough” she said. The unmasked one smiled and was about to speak when the masked ninja interrupted.

“Sorry, but no matter what we can’t give away anything”. The other ninja just looked at the masked one and was really about to tear something to shreds.

“Ya know what”, he said, “You basically just killed us. Damn it I demand you beat him to a bloody pulp before dismembering him” ordered the unmasked ninja.

“Sorry, I don’t take requests . . . BOYS!” yelled Cassidy. Almost instantly 2 other henchmen-like rocketeers walked in and grabbed the two ninjas. Cassidy walked out and the men followed her.

Butch arrived at the back garage and saw nothing but cars and bikes, motorbikes to be exact. But one caught his eye; it was a new, shiny sleek looking Kawasaki and the keys were in it. He put on the helmet started it up and drove towards a garage door . . . a closed one at the fact. He was already doing 80 km in the garage no longer than 5 houses in a row. When he was approaching the door it automatically fired explosives sending the door up quick. Inevitably the bike and man approached smoke and…

“Fine he goes first then” said the unmasked ninja.

“For the last time I don’t do requests and if it’ll make it any better when you both go down together he’ll be right in front of you ok, good, now shut up”, as said sarcastically by an angry, pissed off, had it up to here Cassidy. Anyways just like she said it happened. They went down with the masked one in front and as they slid down the tube the unmasked one’s yells could be heard all throughout the building and he was saying things like “Die, DIE” or “Ya see, I hope you’re happy now” and “How dumb do you get remember ‘Sorry can’t say a thing; would rather be chopped up’”. In the slide, which was really what it was when you say they were going slanted, they heard the sounds of a large dicer and the unmasked ninja put his hands over his eyes. Then the sounds got louder and louder, sounding like they were just about to reach the dicer and then . . .

He had burst out of the smoke and did a power slide and when he regained grip he went as fast as possible and popped a wheelie too. He came around the Gym and had entered the street when two ninja’s dropped from the trap door above the main entrance limbs and other body parts still attached. The unmasked one was kissing the ground and then he got up and walked towards the masked one.

“It was just a speaker making those sounds I’m alive”, said the masked one.

“Not for long”, said the unmasked one who was about to tackle the other ninja.

‘Heh heh, one down and one to go’, Butch thought to himself.

“Sometimes I really wish that thing was real”, said Cassidy with passion.

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Ash was packing up his things on his bed and came across a picture and smiled. It was a picture of him, Misty and Pikachu. Pikachu was taking cheers and looking out into the crowd somewhat towards the camera the picture was the exact moment when Misty was hugging him after she had said ‘I knew you could do it’: her voice faded out in his mind as a knocking was heard at the window of his room when he turned around no one was there. He got up and walked over to the window to check who was knocking. He opened the window and looked all around and saw no one. Ash had to find out who was there so he relaxed and that sixth sense that we have when we know someone is present was used to find where the stranger was. He sensed he or she was above.

“Whoever you are”, said Ash without looking up, “and whatever you’re doing . . . you’re obviously right above me, so get down now”.

“Well it’s me”, said Butch, “and boy do I have news for you”

“Fire away then”, said Ash.

“The ninja’s who were trying to get Pikachu, Misty and you are from another mafia organization called the Dark Defiers. The ninja’s were sent to take information and then a course of action, probably kidnapping would be sought out they after they got their info of you and the girl. They radioed back on there communicators and where probably given orders to kidnap one or both of you. We still don’t know why they want you but they might want your Pokemon to extract genes or they might want to study the scientific connection of you and your Pokemon or they might just want to kill you I don’t know for sure”, explained Butch.

Ash just stood there and had that soulless look to his face and when he was thinking about the things Butch had said. Butch tried to get him out of the trance by talking to him; “Ash, hey kid, snap out of it”. He was about to grab his left shoulder and shake him out of it but about a split second before he could touch him, Ash put his right hand quickly between Butch’s hand and his shoulder.

“Whoa! Kid, take a chill pill. Anyways they will probably go after you with a little more determination and force so we might drop in a while to protect you. You’re almost like bait for us because we want them again”, said Butch perched with his hands and legs on the top windowsill looking like he’s going to fall over. Ash then walked back to his bag around the bed after closing the windowsill without saying goodbye, which hit the wrong keys with Butch. Ash continued packing as he thought about how to break the news to Misty, ‘Maybe right after lunch’, he thought. As he was going through his bag he saw something that wasn’t there before it was a tiny black ball with a silver coloured line-chain attached to it and a letter attached to the chain with tape, he opened it. It read:

This chain will help you defeat the Dark Defiers if you need to. I know they will be coming back for you and Misty so take this everywhere. If they kidnap you press the red R twice to activate the homing beacon. If attacked hold it down for more than 3 seconds and it should fire a magnetic pulse rendering everybody unconscious. 1 press will allow you to see the silver ball that broadcasts the wave. This when exposed can bend light literally.

Butch

‘After lunch’ he thought, ‘definitely after lunch’.

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James searched the entire headquarters but couldn’t find Jessie anywhere. He went to find Cassidy because he had no idea where she could be. He wanted to comfort Jessie but what could he do when it was impossible to even find her. Maybe Cassidy could help.

Jessie was on the roof and was boarding the balloon when Umiko (a real Japanese looking woman looking a little like Erika [same hair but no hair band]), one of her well-known friends came along with her.

“Room for one more . . . I need to get some things from the old residence too”, said Umiko. Lately a lot of Rockets had been going to the old team rocket headquarters to get their belongings from the basement of it. The basement housed over 1000 people underground.

“Get in”, said Jessie very flatly.

“So you guys are have got your raise already huh”, asked Umiko.

“Yeah we’re high and dry not like how we are always deep and soaking wet. What about you?”

“I’m getting a raise when Kytty is done training those new recruits 2 days from now and that means a jump in our salary for a long time and she decided to take a third of what she makes during the training and she’s sharing it with me”, answered Umiko. Through the entire time Umiko was talking and Jessie was looking off into the distance at nothing in particular, not listening too closely to what Umiko was saying. Umiko noticed this soon after she stopped talking.

“What’s wrong? You seem really out of energy or something, are you sick?” asked Umiko.

“No it’s just that… never mind it’s nothing really”, Jessie said. Umiko gives Jessie the “yeah right” look as she bends down to get something out of her bag.

“And I’m suppose to believe that… well I’ll believe it anyways because no more involvement for me”.

James was sitting in the lounge thinking about where she could be. Some other workers were in there watching some Pokemon battles in the orange league and were making fun of the gym leaders tests. He got up and walked out of the lounge. As he left he saw Cassidy and she saw him.

“Haven’t found her yet?” she inquired. No answer from James then a sad “No” lifted from the silence.

“Don’t worry, I know stuff like this. Remember when the silent ninja said “Ah you’re Jessie” or something like that, well she could virtually see the future in a blunt description. She’s thinking she’s probably gonna get more involved with these people in the future and that she’s already far enough involved… oh and not when we all go in and take out double D at the kidnapping, I mean way later”, she said. James was staring right at her for the longest time with the ‘What the hell’ look on his face.

“You’re right”, he said changing from his previous look to an almost astonished/surprised/happy look.

“So what should I do for now?” he asked.

“Give her a bit of space until she is back the way she was, only pry at her once and that’s it, too much will get her angry”, remarked Cassidy.

“Will she be remote during the take out?”

“Not really she should be partially okay”

Ten minutes later he went back to the Residence. At his floor he looked out the window when the door creaked open. It was Jessie. He was turning on the inside: wanting to ask her a million questions but on the outside he remained calm gave her space and took Cassidy’s advice.

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            The twenty-one year old Ash was looking off the cerulean city tower with Shadow Pikachu on his shoulder. He was wearing a black cloak and a brown pack-sac. Shadow Pikachu then jumped into the air and in a long enduring bolt of lighting, Shadow Pikachu went from Pokemon to lightning to katana landing in Ash’s hand. After that he jumped of the building with his hands in an index finger gun position like kids would do playing cops and robbers except pointing straight up with 2 fingers. Then in a flash, energy surged through his body and at tornado speeds a storm cloud appeared just above the tower.  After he landed he rose up his right hand and brought it down. As he brought it down lightning came crashing down in a long and powerful duration. The tower was blown up and the blast seemed to hit him. The blast merely grazed him before he jumped at an amazing speed to a tree branch about 25 metres away. Then in a zoom in and a flash his dream was over.

            As Ash woke up he woke up to a Pikachu lying on his lap. The dream was almost familiar to him even though he hadn’t lived that long yet. He hadn’t remembered even 50 % of it. Then he started to think; he was smiling all the way through, he knew what was going to happen to him before he even saw any sign of recognition and he felt like having a challenge, not Pokemon battle but human battle. After all this he gets up and walks out the door in his boxers and T-shirt.

            -thump, thump, Thump, Thump, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP!!!, THUMP!!! Immediately after walking out the door Misty runs towards him and collides into him grabbing him in her arms and taking him to the floor, kissing him.

            “Just in case you don’t make it home tonight” she says. After he returns the kiss he gets up with her in his arms. It was about an hour after they ate lunch when Ash broke the news. After lunch he went into his room to get a little more sleep before heading for Pallet.

“Of course I’ll be fine but I thought they were after you remember”, he commented. She looked at him with a weird look on her face and said “Maybe you should be a little more worried for me”. She then walked away and was heading for the bathroom when Ash grabbed her, kissed her against the wall and went down stairs, “Hey, I care”. Misty went into his room to get her clothes and change. Meanwhile, Ash was downstairs watching Brock prepare a snack for them on the road. Ash walked upstairs and when he was about to walk into his room, Misty emerged (wearing a blue blouse that had no sleeves. It was supported by a strap that went from one side around her neck and crossing over the same strap to the other side. The top seam of the blouse followed this path: it went slightly higher from where her under arms would be as it went across her chest higher than any visible parts of her breasts. It went down slightly at her other under arm and went strait across her back to rejoin the other area. The blouse extended down to her white shorts. On top of her blouse she wore a featherweight completely pure white partially see-through Hawaiian shirt). She was putting on blue-black shades as she walked by him.

“You better hurry up Ashy. We’re leaving in 30 minutes.” She said evilly as Ash entered the room. Ash changed into white shirt with a black Nike symbol on it with beige shorts. He walked into the bathroom and splashed water into his hair making it shine with radiance. He had already taken a shower that morning and was ready to leave. Ash and Misty had all their things with them and were about to give farewells to Brock. Pika ran out from the Pokemon lounge (filled with food soft areas and a pool) holding tonnes of Pokemon chow in his arms. Silently he jumped into Ash’s backpack and stashed the loot in his bag. Misty woke up Togepi in her bag and put an even smaller paper bag filled with chow inside her bag so that her baby Pokemon would not go hungry.

“See you in about a month” said Ash to Brock as he walked outside. Misty hugged Brock and joined Ash on the walkway as well. They both waved back to Brock as they walked through the park.

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The day was long. They had already made it into West Viridian Forest just before it was completely dark. They had decided to walk a little longer until they reached the old pool they found years ago. As they walked Ash heard a ruffling in the bushes near their position. He didn’t stop to hear what it was. To him it was probably an animal or a Pokemon. They continued to walk. Another ruffling of a bush startled Ash and this time and he stopped. More ruffling and Ash grabbed Misty and began to run . . . so did the forest.

As Ash accelerated with the amazing speed that he had at that age Misty the ninja’s appeared behind them from the bushes. Jumping flipping and dive rolling got the ninja’s to surround them in an open clearing.

Ash dropped his bag and went into a fighting position. He wasn’t going down easily. Misty did the same.

Each ninja ran in towards them at a high speed. Simultaneously every ninja jumped up and inward toward the duo . . .

End part 1

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Authors note: This is the rewrite of the first chapter of a fic I wrote in January (of 2002). It was really bad back then because I told some people I was writing the early prequel to Ace’s fic. They kept pressuring me to get it up so I wrote it as fast as I could and didn’t even have time to use spell check or read it over. I was planning to re write it before Jake (asdfdadfasdf or whatever) said I should re write it (He’s just some guy who doesn’t like me at all and gives me a hard time). I took down the old one because I wanted this one represented as almost a new fic. I had also put up Part 2 Preview because of the same reason but I pulled that down a while ago and I am in the process of re writing that to. You can expect to see the whole of part 2 up in about 2 weeks from now. Please do not forget to review this.

            Sincerely,

Shockwave

P.S. I forgot to include explanations of things that I made up or just don’t make sense at the end (like keyukuneus and stuff). If you want an explanation about them send me a message and I’ll send you an email including all of those things. I would rather you use this email instead of my kusu_alpha@hotmail.com Therefore: elete86@hotmail.com . I check both but I check the second one more often.