Chapter 1: Renegades

Year 2024

World: Pokemon Indigo Island

In a lonely street of abandon city two lone figures walked though the streets. The look of the two figures could easy give away the status of the two. Both figures were draped in a muck and dirty old black cloak with a wooden stick in one hand. The two figures looked tried and hungry from malnutrition as their backs were bent and nearly all ounces of their strength was gone.

One of the figures looked up and breathed a heavy sigh. The sigh of giving up as it looked up at the tattered building which once held a grand stadium. One of the best a long time ago, but now it was nothing but a memory to all. Not a single soul lay upon the streets of this originally lively town. It was a mere ghost town now. One of the figures flipped over its hood revealing a young woman no more than in her late twenties. Her hair was deep red, but it was dull. The young lady in her teens cared dearly for her beauties and hair, but now it was all a matter of survive with her partner. Her face was cut and held many bruises that told the story of her life. The lady sat down on a rock covered deeply in dust. Normally in her childhood she would refuse to sit, and her partner would reason that special things on the road were hard to come by, but now the roles were reversed. The lady had to pull her dear partner next to her. Before the other figure sat down, it reached over and wiped the dust away from the rock. The lady wrinkled her face as she watched her partner sit beside her. The figure also pulled off its hood revealing a young man around the same age as his partner.

The lady made a couple gestures to her partner only to be returned by a simple shake. The lady sighed as she leaned closer to her partner. The man immediately enwrapped his arms around her.

"Time sure has changed huh?" asked the woman.

"You said it," said the man sighing.

"I still remember the last time we were here so long ago. Remember thirteen years ago when we were here? It was so lively back then. Don't you wonder what ever happened to all the people?" asked the woman. She sighed and leaned closer to the man.

"To the underground." The man's eyes were pleading as if the two had discussed the subject many times.

"Please, we've talked about it before. We won't join. We can't join. We'll be working with the enemy," said the woman quickly.

"No, I'm serious Jess. We've lived like this long enough, maybe too long. It's been years since it all started if we don't join we may not live at all," reasoned the man.

"No, what if they come back? We can go back to living like we use to," persisted the lady.

"No, if they were coming back they would have done it years ago. They're gone Jessica, they're gone," said the man kindly.

"No. No! I refuse they wouldn't. They couldn't," mumbled the lady.

"Please live with the fact Jess. Look around you what do you see?" asked the man.

The woman did as her partner said and looked around. She turned back to face him and sighed. "I see nothing," whispered the woman.

"Exactly cause it's all gone. What's left of it is just a few nearly diminished buildings, this rock, and a few other broken pieces. Can't you see Jess? Life won't ever be as it use to. I say we join the cause," said the man.

"No!" shrieked the woman. She immediately clapped her hand tight over her partner's mouth. "If we join, we join the enemy."

"Jessica," said the man sternly. He pulled his partner's hand away and looked at her sternly. "Listen to me. In the world we live in now there are no enemies in humans. It wasn't humans that did this Jessica. Can't you see? Our old lives are gone. Gone with the wind, as some would put it. We can never be that carefree again. Everywhere we go we're outcasts. We don't belong. We aren't in any group anymore. It's just you and me running. Running from it all. I can't live like this anymore Jess. I say we join Thunderbolt."

"No," moaned Jessica again. "I refuse to fight."

"Then you will die. We're at war now Jessica," said the man.

"No, please James. Just one more day. Give me one more day to prove that we can live without fighting please," begged Jessica.

James sighed as he looked down as his partner's loving royal blue eyes. "Fine, just one more day," said the man. Jessica sighed for she knew that all must be done in one day. All her life she had fought for the wrong side, the dark side. During her youth her heart was purge into stealing with her lifelong partner. Her heart was of her mother who had long died before she turned three.

"Come on Jessica," said the man. The woman nodded as she raised her hood. The two lone couple with a stick apiece walked away from it all. They left the lone streets where the old Indigo Plateau resided and wondered deep into the forest where danger was alert in every direction. They were entering the domain of the Pokemon.

The sun left the sky as dark clouds surrounded the forest. The leaves rustled as the two walked bravely though the forest and entered the pitch-black cave. James immediately lighted the lantern that was hanging from his belt. The warm glow reassured Jessica as she snuggled closer to James. Both knew how to coop with dangers and won't afraid to use bunt force. A squeak was held as Jessica immediately flinched.

"What was that?" asked Jessica. Her skin immediately turned cold.

"Probably just your imagination," said James quickly. Jessica was satisfied with the answer as she dropped to face her partner.

"You saying I'm going crazy?" asked Jessica angrily.

"No! It's just that…"

"Just what?"

"It’s a Pokemon okay," said James angrily. Before he could contain himself to hush up. The whole cave began to shake badly. Rocks fell around them alerting all that trespassers was about. The two knowing it was just the beginning of the rock Pokémon's attack. James immediately pulled on his partner's near cold hand as he torn off for the exit.

"James stop," mumbled Jessie. Her throat was hoarse and her arms and face strung from the rocks that fell upon.

"No, Jessica if we stop we die," said James angrily. "I can see the exit just hang on." The man leaped through the boundaries of upon. He risked a look from upon and what he saw scared the hell out of him. The walls and the roof of the cave were packed with angry Pokemon. James's blood ran cold when he saw the bloody red colors of their eyes, the eyes of the devil. He quickly snapped out of his thoughts and eyed away from the Pokemon and aimed all thoughts to the exit. He cringed when he saw that the rocks were piling over the exit.

"No," shouted James. "You can't close up." He turned around and saw his partners a few inches behind him with a Zubat tailing her. "Duck!" shouted James. His words were without veil as she continued to run without knowing a Pokemon was tailing her. James not wanting to lose his lover en loped his arms around her waist just as the bloody Pokemon enclosed its bloody fangs for teeth around her cap lifting both into the air. Jessica screamed in fight as she felt the cold deadly teeth reaching closer to her skin. The feeling of poison paralysis her as darkness nearly engulfed her. James feels his heart song leaving him quickly panics.

"Jessica stay awake come on you have to," said James. His partner squints her eye and gently raises her arm and bushes the tear from his eyes.

"You w-were r-right w-we should have j-joined T-team T-thunder b-bolt." Jessica smiled a pitiful smile before the pain was too much to bare she fell into darkness.

"Jessica. Nooo!" James screamed in agony as he felt her body grows cold. Hatred fills his soul as he looks up at the Zubat.

"You killed her," he screamed. Pulling one hand from Jessica's limp body he gave the Pokemon a punch right near the mouth cause him to let go of its hold on Jessica's neck. Blood spurred from its mouth as wing broke in half. The bat Pokemon, James and Jessica in his arms fell into the base of the cave. James screamed knowing that soon he too would be dead with Jessica, and sooner or later he would became food for his enemy. James closed his eyes as he hugs Jessica even closer. "If I have another chance at life with Jessica, we will join Team Thunderbolt and destroy the evil." With his deepest desire said he wanted for his fate to overcome him.

A soothing yet familiar song filled his ears. Thinking he was already in heaven James opened his eyes to find them blurry. In the squirt of his eyes he saw a brief outline of a child dressed in all white with a smile on his face yet his eyes were filled with determination.

"I'm I in heaven?" asked James though the pain.

"Only if we're both dead," said the boy grinning.

"Then who are you?" asked James. His voice was weak as all the bones in his body burned in pain. Before he could hear the child's answer, the pain surrounded him, and he fell into complete darkness.

******

"All's clear here Gen. Kasumi." A man said silently into an old worn out walkie-talkie that was filled with static when every word was said. The man looked to be about fifty in his attire, but really he was no more then entering his twenties. He sighed as he placed the machine on to his belt and walked through the winding tunnel. The man was tired and exhausted of his midnight round and was eager to report back to his headquarters and get some rest.

The next bend looked so far away as he had the trenches climb. The headquarters were only three turns away both those three turns to him seemed like a million. The man sighed as he neared the end of the tunnel. To his surprise within the tunnel he saw a faint trace of moonlight. Knowing that any outside light was impossible and it couldn't be a soldier returning he immediately pulled out his best gun.

"I'm warning you I'm armed," said the man bravely. Even though he knew if it was the enemy a gun couldn't protect him. The man walked forward and grasped at horror at what he saw. It wasn't the enemy. It wasn't a soldier returning from an outing. It was two bated humans before unconscience.

The man immediately ran forward to the two figures. He grasped in horror at what he saw. There were two humans that looked like that they had been badly beaten. The man inched his shooting arm forward and removed the hood of both figures. The man almost screamed at what he saw. There was a nearly deformed woman with a face in the shade of white. The man inched his hand down and sighed when he felt a faint trace of a heartbeat. He was astonished that the young lady had lived through what ever she did. Next he removed the other figure's hood and found a not so beaten up young man but what scared the man was the blood that covered the man's hand. The blood wasn't any type of blood it was an evil Pokémon's blood. The man sighed when he saw that both strangers were alive but unconscience. He stood up and pulled out his walkie-talkie and quickly dialed to headquarters.

"Gen. Kasumi, I'm sorry to bother you ma'am but I found two renegades in cannel nine both unconscience and nearly dead. One has blood of a Pokemon on his hands…." The young man sighed as he heard his commander's reply.

"Yes Gen. Kasumi," said man replaced his walkie-talkie and looked at his predicament. Here were two unconscience people both older than he was, and he had to move them to the hospital ward ten turns from here.

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One hour later the two renegades were both hooked to a life safer as the man talked spoke words to his commander. "You sure they were completely unconscience when you found them?" asked a young woman. She had feisty orange red hair and a wonderful slim body, which was very productive.

The young man nodded his reply. "Very well. All we can do now is wait," said the woman. Before the young man could make his response the hospital door opened revealing a thirty-year-old woman dressed in nearly all white.

"Gen. Kasumi. Lt. Hiroshi. The renegades have awoken," said the young nurse. Kasumi turned around and sighed in ultimate relief.

"Thank you Joh-I," said Kasumi. She got up from her seat and with Hiroshi beside her walked into the room. As if on cue the moment the hospital door closed Joh-I locked the door shut and sighed in relief. Kasumi and Hiroshi walked down the rows and rows of the small cubics that held the sick or injured from the battles. Both young adults had long gotten use to the rotting smell of sick and the odors that adore the ejected blood fluids and blood that littered without the ward. Both commanders bid a look of greeting before arriving to the end of the ward where their subjects laid. Hiroshi immediately walked forward to set in a chair next to the babbling renegades. While Kasumi held her posture as she walked the scene of confusion that play out before her. Both renegades were awake but still weak. Just as Hiroshi had explained it the two were badly injured. But behind the front was something else. Something strange, something very familiar that laid in her soul. Before she could come to terms with it, she felt a small pat on her back. Kasumi immediately turned around to her delight to see her comfort. "Takeshi," said Kasumi with delight.

"You want to question the renegades together?" asked Takeshi. Kasumi nodded before looking over his shoulder. To her disappointment he wasn't there.

"Where's Sakaki?" asked Kasumi with confusion.

"He couldn't make it. He is an important board meeting with some of the corporals about the last failed battle. Said that if we liked these renegades he'll meet them at the invitational meeting," explained Takeshi. Kasumi nodded before approaching the suspects.

To her horror the moment she came into view the two renegades stopped their bricking and looked at her. The male grasped as the female looked for great surprise.

"Does she look familiar to you, Jessica?" asked the man. He turned to look at his female partner upon the bed next to him.

"Yes, she does," said the woman. The man nodded as he dug deep into his memory trying the pinpoint the face. His face was filled with surprise as he shouted out his realization.

"It's the twerp's friends," cried the man. His female partner gave him a weird look before the picture was clear in her mind. She grinned too.

"Why so be. It is the twerp's friends," said the woman. Kasumi and Takeshi hearing the two renegades words looked in confusion as they walked to the two's beds.

"Do we know you?" asked the two together.

The renegades smiled a sly grin before nodding at each other. The female grinned then spoke up. "Prepare for trouble."

"And make it double."

"To protect the world from devastation."

"To unite out people within our nation."

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket! Blast off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

The thought within Kasumi and Takeshi's minds lit up as the recognition hit them. Minutes flew by as not a word was heard. A sweat drop formed on Kasumi and Takeshi's foreheads, as four within the room said nothing.

Breaking the stupid silence Kasumi spoke up. "Where's the rest?"

The two shrugged as Jessie looked downcast. Kasumi felt a wave of depression hit her as she realized that their fate and everyone else's here was all the same.

"So Jessie, James. For these last seven years you've lived in outside world?" asked Kasumi. She decided that extracting the necessary information from both of them was needed before offering them a place here.

"Yes. It was a horrible and hideous time period. We ran for our lives after it happened," said James. His voice was full of remorse as Kasumi went on the question two.

"What were you doing before you landed in our base? How did you did the teleportation pad?" asked Kasumi with great interest.

"Base? Where are we?" asked James with curiosity.

"You are in the hospital ward of front 1 of Team Thunderbolt," said Kasumi with bewilderment. "How can you not now?"

"We're inside Team Thunderbolt?" asked James with great surprise.

"Yes, where else would we be?" asked Kasumi.

"Here let me explain."

"You better for I am very lost."

"Well we were where the original Indigo Plateau was shading ourselves from the direct rays of the sun when we decided to venture into the cave outside of the Plateau leading to Silver Cave. We where just near the exit when this great big Zubat grabbed Jessie up into the air, and I hung on to Jessie. We were carried high into the air as the Zubat was emitting poisonous rays into her blood. I struck the Zubat and all three of us fell to the bottom of the cave. Jessie was already conscience then. I thought we were die when out of no where this song rang through the cave, and I found myself in the arms of a young boy dressed in white."

"A boy in white," whispered Takeshi listening to his childhood enemy's strange and peculiar tale. "Kasumi didn't Kenji and Tooru both claim to have witness this being too before?"

Kasumi grasped at her partner's words and grew immediately stern. "They were sick and nearly dead. They must have dreamt it all up like James here. This boy in white is all an imagination," Kasumi snapped loudly before getting up nearly knocking the chair that she sat upon over.

"If I may speak," started James.

"Which you may not. No more talk of this nonsense person it white. Do you want to join Team Thunderbolt and fight for the cause of destroying the evil within all Pokemon?" asked Kasumi. James started at how the conversation turned from talking about a young boy to joining immediately turn to Jessie. He gave her a pleading look as Jessie sighed. She uneasily nodded causing James to smile.

"We will join," said James all too quickly.

"Very well. Hiroshi will take you to your chambers and fetched you at 3 when you met all the commanders," said Kasumi simply. James and Jessie nodded as Kasumi taking Takeshi's arm walked out of the hospital ward.

"Kasumi really! Being that rude to them wasn't proper," snapped Takeshi.

"Proper! There is no proper way of doing things any more. There hasn't been one in years. What do you think there will be one now? We fight now Takeshi. We go by pseudo names of our Japanese origin. There is no more proper way of doing things. Talking of the boy in white doesn't ease my nerves, Takeshi. You should know that," snapped Kasumi. She put on an evil glare upon her face before turning around. The flow of long silky orange hair slipped through Takeshi's very veins as he sighed. Before Kasumi could move any farther from him he gently grabbed her left arm stopping her.

"Kasumi, please! Don't be so ignorant. The sign will come Misty," said Takeshi gently before removing his arm from her.

She stopped in her tracks as she gave a small sigh before turning around. Her eyes were filled with the emptiness it had stored years ago. "You don't understand Brock. You have the one you love in front of you, but I don't. You have a reason, and I don't. We live in different world. Do you know how it feels to be alone, alone without hope?" Kasumi stopped waiting for a simple answer of her request.

"No," whispered Takeshi. His eyes were bent down as he sighed.

"I thought so, Takeshi."

"But Kasumi you weren't the only one that lost someone. I lost him too," whispered Takeshi. His voice was filled with grief, yet he knew he couldn't help Kasumi. Nobody could help her, nobody but him. The one that she gave her heart to so long ago.

"But you didn't lose him like I did, did you? You didn't hear his words to you," Kasumi asked.

"No," mumbled Takeshi. He lowered his eyes as he stared plainly at his shoes.

"See, you don't understand, and you tell me to be reasonable."

"I would understand if you tell me," pleaded Takeshi.

"Which I can't. I couldn't. Just don't be late for the board meeting. I got to go." She nodded to Takeshi before taking a tunnel to the headquarters leaving Takeshi sighing.