Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, I only own Violet Hawke as my OC.

Summary: Violet Hawke wanted nothing more than to be a Bug Pokemon Trainer, but with how people viewed those types all she got was ridicule until the day she bumped into the local Professor. Now on a journey, she tries to make her goal a reality, but with an Organization coming out of the shadows she has to decide just how much she's willing to risk to realize her goal.

Chapter 16: Attack on the SS. Anne

It's been one day since Violet fought Green in a rematch and she was frowning in thought.

Right now she was in the training room available on the ship, having all three of her Pokemon out, trying to get some training in, especially with the ship sailing through another storm right now.

She says trying because something weird was going on.

The moment Stinger hit thirty in terms of levels, he was starting to slow down a bit compared to past training which baffled her because she knew bugs grew quickly compared to other Pokemon, but for it to just slow down like that?

Perhaps she should call Prof. Oak to ask about that?

But he did learn a move called Pin Missile so that was some progress and they were currently trying to get the move Rage down, the memory of Oak's warning going through her head at that.

While she knew that Stinger would rather injure himself than attack her, she wasn't naive enough to think that using Rage wouldn't change that, it was why they needed to train it before an incident happens.

Which was why she had both Silk and Parasite facing him at the same time, just in case he would lose himself when he used Rage and from how loudly he was buzzing and stabbing at them wildly, it was clear that he was losing himself.

So she kept a hand on his Pokeball, ready to recall him the moment she needed to, given how he was the strongest member of her team in terms of level.

But she didn't need to worry as Silk used Confusion long enough to hold him, allowing for Parasite to knock him down with Body Slam.

Seeing Stinger hit the floor rather harshly made Violet wince but she knew he could take it and it knocked some sense back into him given how the buzzing died down as Stinger shook his head before lowering it in shame.

Seeing that they were done for the moment, Violet walked over towards Stinger and crouched to be at eye level with him. "Hey it's fine you're making good progress." She said despite how the bee didn't believe her. "You'll get it down."

On the bright side this was also good training in teamwork with Silk and Parasite given they were working well together and Stinger was learning to take on more than one Pokemon at a time.

She should see about doing training that required all three of them to work together soon enough. And someday hold a free-for-all fight to see which one of them could win if it came down to it, they might enjoy that one honestly.

"Then we should do the same once we have a full team, should probably make that a regular training session to keep their skills up, perhaps once we have a full team we could do three on three, switching it up on occasion so they can keep their teamwork up." Violet began to mumble at a rather quick pace with her team just ignoring it at this point, though Stinger and Silk did so in a fond manner. "Perhaps we can go back and revisit each Gym to challenge their real teams after getting the Gym Badges? Doing so would be great training for the League, but would I have time to do so? If I can get the TM for Teleport it would be easy considering Silk or the Venomoth I plan to get can learn it."

Teleport would really make going around the Kanto Region much easier, provided she trains it up enough.

Especially if she wants to visit the friends she made over the course of her journey with Brock, Misty and Bill coming to mind immediately.

"Bzzt!" Stinger flew up and landed on her hat, breaking Violet out of her mumbling considering she was starting to go on and on with it.

That was when Violet realized that some of the other trainers in the training room were staring a bit weirded out and she blushed in embarrassment, idly pulling the front of her hat down a bit while Stinger stayed on easily.

Though she did glance back at her team and wondered what else they could train up.

Stinger is starting to resist psychic attacks a little, but only with the lower tier ones, if a Pokemon used the move Psybeam or Psychic however he would easily be taken down, it would be awhile before he could resist those ones.

Then you have the frailty that Bug Pokemon were known for, sure both Stinger and Silk knew Harden, but she rarely used it anymore, even then it would only work for the Physical Defense, not the Special one which would defend against non contact moves such as elemental or psychic attacks.

She'll have to work on that.

Right now, Parasite was her bulkiest Pokemon but her typing made her very frail against Flying and Fire Types due to the double weakness she has to both. Dry Skin made fire types even worse which was why she's been working on her speed and evasion including with moves such as Dig.

It didn't matter if she can take more hits than the other two, she didn't want her to take any if possible. Once she has Scyther and Pinsir she'll have more much needed bulk on her team.

Silk is the only Pokemon with long range attacks, sure Stinger has Pin Missile now, but it was one move while Silk has a whole arsenal such as Confusion, Gust, the spore attacks and will most likely learn more as time goes on.

Double Team and Substitute would be a good move to learn now that she thinks about it.

"Focus." Violet told herself. "Just work with what you have."

She needed to have them master what's already available before she tries to think of other moves.

Meanwhile on the other end of the ship, Green frowned as he was on the phone with Prof. Oak, exchanging his Kadabra for Magikarp to begin his training.

"So you plan on catching a Vulpix over in Cinnabar Island?" Prof. Oak asked curiously, knowing his grandson's plan for a team.

"I'm lacking a fire type and considering who my rival is I need to have one." Green said that part without thinking, the act making Prof. Oak smile as he saw that he was finally accepting Violet as a rival. "And considering the next badge is in Celadon it would be a good time to train one up and I'm going to try and train my Pidgeotto up to evolve."

Once that happens he'll be able to fly anywhere he wants as many trainers have a Pokemon like Pidgeot to get around easily. Thankfully now that he has three badges he'll be able to have his Pokemon fly him around without any problems.

Over the years there has been a system in place around the badges for Pokemon taking certain actions.

In Kanto ,if you have one badge your Pokemon can use the move Flash to light up caves, if you have two you can cut down trees, three is for flying.

It goes on and on, but it's illegal for trainers to use those moves without the appropriate number of badges given how dangerous the moves can be.

Flash for example is so bright it can blind people and more than that you can anger a whole colony of Pokemon inside of a cave into attacking if you're not careful. Cut is self-explanatory and while flying you can fall off which isn't pretty.

You also need the appropriate badges in other regions to use them there as well.

Though there was a work around on getting an actual license in case no one was doing the Gym Challenge but that process was rather tedious in comparison.

"I also want to try and get Magikarp to evolve before then if I can." Green continued and that made Prof. Oak give a concerned look.

"Just be careful, Gyarados are very dangerous and prone to being vicious, even to their own trainers." Prof. Oak told his grandson. "And I can attest to how true that is."

Green gave a nod, knowing that his Grandfather has a Gyarados of his own from his Trainer Days much like how the Champion Lance has one.

That's how powerful Gyarados were.

It was why a lot of trainers sought one out. But they don't try to raise one from a Magikarp. Doing so actually makes them less vicious, it doesn't take it away completely but it's much easier than trying to catch a wild one that won't respect them.

Any further conversation was interrupted when the power just cut off much to Green's surprise, now in a dark room as he wondered what that was about.

Did the storm do something about the power?

Feeling a little uneasy, Green sent Raticate out so he can investigate.

"Huh?" Violet blinked as the power was cut off while she was now leaving the training room to head back to her room.

Was this a part of the cruise or something? They did some strange things to entertain the guests at times.

Apparently the other day there was some sort of 'Murder Mystery' Event that some passengers could take part in, it happened while she was battling Green so she missed it.

Still she sent Silk out considering she could see in the dark and continued to walk, noting how surprised the other trainers were, some of them releasing Pokemon that helped light up the area such as Electabuzz, Pikachu, Ponyta, anything that helped light things up.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Violet muttered to herself as Silk landed on her back, giving a small cry of agreement as she saw the other trainers moving out of sight towards where the ballroom was, probably wanting to be in a big area while this was happening.

So she followed them.

Unknown to her, she was being watched as a Magneton was outside of the window, tracking her progress before it crashed through the window, the sound making her head turn towards it as it seemed to stare her down.

"What in the-?" Violet whispered right as it began to glow blue, teleporting a figure right in front of her.

Violet took a step back, fear beginning to show when she spotted the red 'R' on the jacket the figure wore, his face obscured by a mask of red bandages wrapped around his face, his eyes glaring down at her.

"Well, well, well if it isn't the Trainer that keeps getting in our way," The voice sounded distorted showing that whoever this person is, they were disguising their voice. "And all alone too, no Gym Leader in sight to save you now."

Ignoring the fact that Magneton can apparently learn teleport, Violet took a step back in fear, something that amused the man who took a step forward, pulling some Pokeballs out as he sent a few Grimers out.

Violet couldn't breathe the moment she saw the Grimers as suddenly it was like she was back in Mt. Moon, the stench filling her nose as she shook, obviously having flashbacks to her near death experience as Silk quickly got in front of the girl.

The figure gave a dark laugh. "I was right, it would seem your experience with Grimers left you traumatized," He said purposely picking them to mentally attack the trainer who he assumed had some slight PTSD when it came to the sludge Pokemon before snapping his fingers. "Kill her."

Silk immediately began to use Confusion on the Grimers, but the Magneton unleashed a Thunder Wave that paralyzed her right when the Grimers were about to reach Violet.

"Thunderbolt!" A blast of electricity knocked both the Grimer's back as Raticate got in front of Violet while Green ran towards them.

He was investigating nearby when he heard the window breaking as he passed the hallway.

"Are you trying to get killed?" Green asked, a bit annoyed that she didn't seem to try and dodge only to realize she was hyperventilating, the annoyance now disappearing as he turned from her towards the Rocket Executive, tensing as he knew all about Team Rocket. "So you're behind the power going out."

This was bad, they needed to get out of there, but he was pretty sure that this guy wouldn't just let them.

Checking his Pokedex, he cursed when he saw that the Magneton was at least 55.

Way too strong for either of them to take on.

The Executive took notice of that, now very interested in what that device is if two kids had them.

Instead however he returned the two Grimers and sent out an Electabuzz that the Pokedex identified to be around Level 52.

They were really outmatched here.

So he quickly placed a hand on Violet's shoulder, surprised when she violently flinched. "Come on, we need to move!"

"You're not going anywhere." The Executive said snapping his fingers as both electric Pokemon fired a blast of Thunder at them, Green having to tackle Violet out of the way to make sure they didn't get hit, but his Raticate and her Butterfree took the hit and were instantly taken out.

Being tackled out of the way was enough to snap Violet out of her panic attack as she shook her head while Green returned his Raticate, annoyed that he sent his Kadabra back to Prof. Oak as Teleport would've really come in handy here.

Now back to her senses, Violet quickly returned Silk and went to send out Stinger only for Green to grab her wrist and take off running. "Wha-?!"

"Their levels are too strong, there's no way we can win in a straight up fight." Green said quickly as the Executive had them fire another blast of electricity, nearly hitting them, but it hit the roof above the kids, collapsing their escape path, trapping them with the man. "Damn it!"

"Shouldn't have stuck your nose where it didn't belong kid, the girl is the one I'm here to kill." The Executive said, shaking his head at how stupid these kids seem to be.

Hearing that, Green frowned.

"Why?" Green asked cautiously, not sure why Team Rocket would bother with someone like Violet.

Yes he was starting to accept her as his rival but for criminals to want to kill her?

Something wasn't right.

"None of your business, if you're smart you'll leave," The Executive moved to the side to allow him to pass. "You're not the target after all."

Green answered by glaring.

He might be cold, but he wasn't going to just leave someone to die.

The Executive actually seemed amused by the glare before nodding to his Electabuzz who began to walk towards them, sparks emanating from its fur as both kids tensed.

"I believe that will be enough of that." A voice spoke out as both kids suddenly disappeared from view with a blue flash.

"What?!" The Executive asked before hearing a noise behind him and he dove out of the way, coming up to a roll as a Psybeam nearly hit him while Will stood there as he was giving a grin, an Alakazam being out along with a Slowbro.

"I knew something was off when the power went out." Will said, still grinning but none of that was reaching his eyes behind his mask. "I didn't think Team Rocket would be stupid enough to attack a Cruise Ship like this."

The Executive said nothing, tensed up as he heard stories of the Ace Trainer Will who was said to be close to Elite Four Level and that was without his own latent psychic abilities.

The only positive thing about this encounter was that none of the psychic Pokemon could read his mind thanks to the electromagnetic interference coming from his electric Pokemon.

And none of the Grunts would be able to give anything due to the mental blocks placed by their own Psychic who the Executive knew was leagues ahead of Will in terms of being a Psychic despite her young age.

But then he relaxed and straightened his posture before placing a hand to his ear where the com link he had was. "Plan B it is, all of you know your target, kill her and be done with it."

Will's smile dropped as he knew exactly who this Executive was planning to kill now, no longer keeping the fake act of being amused up.

He wasn't going to let Yukiko's daughter get killed.

Both of them stared each other down before the Rocket Executive reacted first, throwing a Pokeball right at Will who tilted his head to keep it from hitting his head, only for it to open to show an Electrode that was now glowing.

Alakazam barely had enough time to use both Reflect and Light Screen as the Electrode exploded, keeping his trainer safe only for the Magneton to fire a Thunder Wave at the psychic, slowing it down as Electabuzz went to deliver a Mega Punch.

Slowbro intervened, delivering a Psychic that blasted the electric type back while Will brandished his cane only to pull a short blade out of the end of it, having been trained to fight with it.

The executive smirked as Will disappeared from view, the man drawing a combat knife from his jacket, feeling the air shift behind him as he spun around and blocked the strike, Will's eyes widening when he saw the knife.

It was a knife that was forged during the war for exceptional soldiers.

That meant that this man was a veteran or it was stolen from the dead.

If it was a veteran there was a suspicion on who this was, but Will wasn't sure because it didn't make any sense.

Surge would never go against Kanto.

Yet there weren't many that were this tall, this man specialized in Electric Pokemon and handled himself like a Veteran.

Whether it made sense or not, Will was almost certain that this was Surge.

"Where did you get that knife?" Will asked in a rather dangerous tone

"It's quite easy to steal them from the crypts of the dead soldiers." The man stated with Will narrowing his eyes at that before he begin to teleport around the man who was on the defensive, blocking strike after strike with ease, showing experience with psychic users.

Meanwhile the Pokemon were trading blow after blow but the Executives Pokemon seemed to have an advantage as they were trained specifically to fight without direction while Will's haven't reached that level yet and with Alakazam paralyzed things weren't looking good for the psychic trainer.

Both Magneton and Electabuzz were aiming to take down the Alakazam but Slowbro managed to back it up by hitting an Ice Beam on the Electabuzz, freezing its leg as Alakazam attempted to recover, before the Magneton unleashed a Toxin on the Hermit Crab Pokemon.

Will cursed as he teleported a few feet away from the Executive, starting to feel a bit of a strain given the number of times he's been teleporting.

To think this man was capable of keeping up with his team after the training he's been implementing to join the ranks of the Elite Four.

He's heard rumors of how strong the Executives were, but this was something else.

And he can't have his Slowbro use Earthquake given they were on a ship, that would cause more damage than good.

"You're good," The Executive complimented with earnest showing in his tone. "Better than I expected, but it's time to end this."

With that he pulled out another Pokeball with an electrode and threw it straight at Will.

"Oof." Violet grunted as both she and Green were now in the Ballroom where countless other trainers were, a lot of them surprised by the sudden entrance the two ten year olds made while the room was lit up thanks to the work of some electric Pokemon.

"Get off of me." Green said in annoyance as she landed right on him.

"S-Sorry." Violet apologized, immediately getting off, looking around cautiously, only to sigh in relief.

They were surrounded by trainers, enough to where Team Rocket wouldn't try anything.

Green pushed himself up and did his own observation, wondering how they got here.

Obviously someone teleported them but he didn't know who and that made him uneasy.

But there was something more important to investigate.

"Why was he trying to kill you?" Green asked looking at Violet who tensed up, unsure of how to even begin to explain this.

"I-." Violet looked down, her mind kept flashing back to Mt. Moon as she lowered her head, the hat hiding her eyes.

First there and now here?

She wasn't even looking for Team Rocket, why can't they just leave her alone?!

"-y!"Green shook her shoulder given how Violet wasn't saying anything, the young trainer now looking annoyed by how she was acting. "Are you going to answer or what?"

Slowly, Violet looked up at Green before she began to explain, lowering her tone so none of the other trainers could hear. "In Mt. Moon I ran into them when they were digging for fossils, I had Silk put them to sleep so I could slip by, but one of their Executives got a hold of me and-," She shook, remembering the Grimer before pressing on. "If Brock didn't show up when he did I would've died, but I ended up getting a lot of their members arrested because of that."

Green looked rather surprised, not expecting for someone like Violet to do damage to Team Rocket of all people, but it made sense given how that man was dead set on killing her.

And now he was most likely on that list too due to interfering.

"What a mess." Green muttered, shaking his head. "And you dragged me into it too."

"I didn't ask for you to help." Violet snapped at him.

"Well excuse me for making sure you didn't get yourself killed." The sarcasm was evident in Green's tone while Violet glared. "Still we need a plan, if Team Rocket is willing to board this ship to kill you, there's no telling what else they will do."

Plus with the communications down they were cut off from any possible help.

With Raticate unconscious all he had was Eevee, Pidgeotto, Sandshrew, Shellder and Magikarp, the last one wouldn't be of help that's for damn sure.

And he knew that all Violet had was her Beedrill and Parasect.

But none of that matters given how the Executives Pokemon were pretty high in comparison to theirs.

Loud crashes could be heard as people screamed, making the two snap towards it to see countless Pokemon breaking through the windows.

Golbats, Arboks, Weezings, Raticates, Hypnos.

All Pokemon that Team Rocket were well known for using.

They were followed by their trainers who clearly had more considering the amount of Pokeballs on their belts, showing that it was like a small army.

Green cursed when he pulled out the Pokedex, seeing that they were in their late thirties in comparison.

Not as tough as the Executive, but tough for the average trainer.

The Weezings began to unleash a toxic gas while the others were dispatching the trainers before they could release their Pokemon, causing for quite a few of them to fall, much to Violet's horror as she was unsure if they were unconscious or dead.

But there were also Trainers who began to release their Pokemon in retaliation and soon enough the Ballroom was turning into a war zone.

Green followed them by releasing all of his Pokemon except for Magikarp while Violet did the same with Stinger and Parasite.

The two Bugs went off upon seeing Team Rocket, with Stinger almost falling into Rage from how loudly he was buzzing.

"Pidgeotto, use Whirlwind!" Green ordered as the bird began to do just that, the attack, knocking the gas away and causing some of Team Rocket's Pokemon to return to their Pokeballs, causing enough chaos for some of the other trainers to make a counter attack, one of them using a Pikachu to Thunder Wave a few of them while a Gloom was switching between Sleep Powder and Stun Spore.

Violet took note of that in case she ever needed to have Silk use the attack like that.

A Raticate nearly took her head off before a Pin Missile slammed into it with Stinger sticking close to Violet, his head snapping left to right to take down threats.

Parasite on the other hand was using Stun Spore on any other ones that got too close in tandem with Green's Shellder using Supersonic, leaving them open to a Slash from Sandshrew and a Quick Attack from Eevee.

"Here!" Green tossed her a Revive. "Use that on your Butterfree, we could use some psychic coverage here."

"What about your Kadabra?" Violet asked, letting Silk out to wake her up with the Revive, the bug Pokemon looking a bit dazed before she pulled out a Potion to heal her.

"I sent him back to Gramps to begin training up a new Pokemon right before the ship's power went down." Green was kicking himself for that.

If they survive this he was making sure to keep Kadabra on him at all times.

But he pulled out another Revive and used it on Raticate, allowing for his now awakened rat to let off some elemental coverage with both Thunderbolt and Bubblebeam.

Silk added to it with Esper Spore, taking control of the spores to make them fly towards the right targets.

The Executive smirked as the explosion blew part of Will's face off only to be surprised when the body dissolved into nothing showing it to be an illusion.

"The hell?" He asked, not expecting that only for Will to appear behind him, aiming his cane at the man who turned in time for the magician to fire a card out of the cane, the edges actually cutting into his hand forcing him to drop the knife.

"Now, now a magician never reveals his secrets." Will tsked at the man. "It's over."

"For you maybe." The Executive snarled with Will frowning only to be hit by a blast of Thunder Wave making him cry out, his limbs locking up as he fell to his knees. "You should've kept an eye on your Pokemon."

Fighting against the paralysis, Will was able to turn his head to see both his Alakazam and Slowbro taken out while both the Electabuzz and Magneton were still ready to fight despite the damage done to them.

The Executive picked the knife back up with his good hand and glanced back at Will. "I think I have you figured out, you're quite the illusionist that's for sure."

Still trying to move, Will forced a grin on his face. "Then you should know that things aren't what they seem."

Suddenly both the Alakazam and Slowbro melted much to the Executive's surprise that turned into caution when he recognized the move only for his Electabuzz to take a combination hit of Hydro Pump and Psychic as both the Pokemon he thought he took down were now standing up, stepping between Will and the Executive.

He should've expected Substitute.

Their files on Will always said that he wasn't one for a head one battle, always liking to use tricks in his battles.

Electabuzz was panting rather heavily while his Magneton was wary of taking both on at the same time.

Seeing that happen, the Executive gave a sigh as he pulled out a syringe with Will tensing despite the paralysis, having been informed of the drug that Team Rocket has been developing.

The reports of the Rampaging Snorlax was fresh in his mind right when the Executive did something Will wasn't expecting.

He injected the Electabuzz with it as it convulsed.

"You did it to your own Pokemon?!" Will asked with anger at the callousness of the Executive who gave him a look.

"To fight what's coming, we need to do what we must." The Executive said in a simple tone, but there was a hint of anguish showing that the man didn't want to do this.

But his wants didn't matter right now.

Will was confused by his sentence.

To fight what's coming? What did he mean by that?

He had no time to think on it as the Electabuzz began to discharge a ton of electricity, going beyond the wattage limit its species were known for as the Alakazam kept Will safe, the Slowbro however was blasted back with so much that it was going into cardiac arrest.

Eyes widening, Will fought against the Paralysis and returned the Slowbro, putting him in stasis in hopes of being able to save him while the Executive turned and left, the Magneton teleporting him away.

Leaving him with the feral Electabuzz that was now charging at him, bolts of electricity spiraling off its fur making it impossible to touch.

The electricity was also messing with Alakazam's psychic abilities, unable to reach its mind to shut it down, instead using Psybeam to blast it away, but the Electabuzz just backhanded the energy away, the Alakazam having to push his trainer away right as the Electabuzz made contact, grabbing the Alakazam with enough force to break an arm as electricity began to surge through the psychic Pokemon.

Raising a fist to deliver a finishing blow, the Electabuzz stopped as a strange feeling overcame it.

That was followed by blood dripping down its face, barely registering Will with his blade piercing the skull, having to teleport above the Pokemon with his blade, letting gravity do the work while he convulsed from the voltage going through it, blasting him away into unconsciousness as the Electabuzz fell over, dead to the world, the only one still awake was Will's injured Alakazam who leaned against the wall with exhaustion showing.

The Alakazam forced itself up, ignoring the pain of its broken arm as he made his way to Will, his trainer's safety being his main priority. But he collapsed halfway towards him, the injuries being too much for him to keep awake.

It was still complete chaos in the ballroom as a lot of the trainers on the cruise ship were down and out, though Team Rocket lost some of their members too, so things weren't looking too good.

Stinger kept close to Violet the whole time, firing String Shot to blind the Pokemon, having used Harden multiple times to prevent himself from being so frail, Silk having done the same.

Throughout the fight both her and Green ended up on the outside deck, out in the rain both barely keeping the Rockets that attacked them at bay.

Violet was very grateful that she had Silk practice Esper Spore given how it kept a lot of the Rocket Pokemon away or took them out of the fight.

Green's Eevee kept close to him while Pidgeotto was providing air support to ensure that none of the Golbats got close enough to bite any of them, Silk pausing from Esper Spore to use Confusion whenever she could to help him out.

"This is getting worse." Green mused, forcing himself to be calm, something that Violet will admit to being envious of. "We might have to rush past them to get inside."

At least that way they wouldn't run the risk of being surrounded.

"We could use Parasite or Sandshrew to dig a way out." Violet suggested, given how that would be a good ticket in, given how there were still a good few floors before the bottom.

Green gave a surprised grunt, but acknowledged it as a good way of escape.

They were about to enact that plan when a familiar voice spoke. "Tri Attack."

Before they could react, a blast of energy slammed into the ground between them, the attack separating the two as the Executive ended up teleporting behind them.

"Now where were we?" The Executive asked with a smirk.

He did give his men a look, telling them to leave this to him as they backed off, going in to handle the other trainers.

Green took note of the injured hand and the fact that he only had the injured Magneton.

They might have a chance-.

A cry made his attention snap towards Violet to see quite a few Magnemites surrounded her, blasting Stinger, Silk and Parasite away before unleashing a Screech on her, making her cover her ears as she fell to her knees.

Eyes widening, he went to have Raticate use Ice Beam only for the Magneton to blast his entire team with a Thunder, taking them down showing that despite being weakened this man's Pokemon was not one to be messed with.

Green almost cried out when he saw his Shellder get knocked into the water, not knowing if he would be able to find it again.

"I have to say, I didn't expect this much resistance from you brat," The Executive said to Violet despite how her hearing was currently impaired. "To think we gave the Grunts so much trouble in an actual fight instead of sneaking around them, I was right to come after you while you're weak."

Giving a nod to the Magnemites, he watched as they began to electrocute Violet who screamed in pain.

It wasn't enough to kill her, the man planned to throw her into the ocean when she was unconscious, have her drown as a message to anyone who tries to interfere with Team Rocket.

Green bit back a curse given how the only Pokemon he had on him was his Magikarp and that would be of no help.

He tried to pull out some revives, but the Magneton wouldn't have that and blasted the ground near him.

"Don't even think about it." The Executive said without turning around, watching as the Magnemites finished electrocuting Violet with her slipping unconscious. "You have guts but this doesn't involve you."

But Green didn't listen and managed to get one of the Revives to his Pidgeotto with the Executive looking amused at his action, thinking that he would just end it easily only for Green to call out a move that he wasn't expecting.

"Whirlwind!"

"Thund-." The Executive went to call out but the blast of wind hit both the Magneton and the group of Magnemites, forcing them to return to their Pokeballs.

Cheeky little-.

Green quickly followed up with a Sand Attack, keeping the man busy while he returned his other Pokemon, doing the same to Violets.

But he barely had time to pick Violet up only for the man to have enough as he managed to get his Magneton back out, taking the bird down, forcing Green to return it.

"No more games." The Executive told them as he nodded at the Magneton who blasted Green with a Thunder, the force of it making him cry out in agony as he was blasted off the deck, still holding Violet into the waves before as the man watched them disappear before turning to walk away.

It took longer than he thought it would, but that nuisance was taken care of so he placed his hand on the com link.

"We're done here, pull out before any of the League show up." The man ordered in a strict tone.

He had no idea if Will managed to get word out or not, but he wasn't risking it anymore now that his target was dead and he sent a message on how dangerous Team Rocket was, now he needed to continue the mission.

Hopefully their intel on the Legendary Bird Articuno being in Seafoam was correct while Koga was checking the Abandoned Power Plant for the Legendary Bird Zapdos.

They had a theory that the sudden surge of storms and the strange blizzard were caused by the two legends.

If they were true then that meant finding the last of the Legendary Birds Moltres would be a piece of cake.

The man did glance back, feeling some guilt over what he did but like with everything else that he felt guilty for he pushed it down.

There was a time and place for it and it wasn't here.

To Be Continued…

Party Data

Starter

Name: Stinger

Species: Beedrill

Type: Poison/Bug

Gender: Male

Nature: Naughty (Up Attack/Down Sp. Defense)

Characteristics: Capable of taking hits. (Up Defense)

Lv. 30

Caught at Lv. 3

Ability: Sniper

Moves: Poison Sting, String Shot, Harden, Fury Attack, Focus Energy Twineedle, Rage, Rest and Pin Missile.

Special Moves: Poison String (Poison Sting/String Shot)

Became Violet's Starter in Chapter 01: The Phantom Pokemon.

Evolved into Kakuna and again into Beedrill in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.

2nd Pokemon

Name: Silk

Species: Butterfree

Type: Bug/Flying

Gender: Female

Nature: Bold (Up Defense/Down Attack)

Characteristics: Thoroughly Cunning (Up Sp. Attack)

Lv. 29

Caught at Lv. 5

Ability: Compound Eyes

Moves: Tackle, String Shot, Harden, Confusion, Poison Powder, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Supersonic, Whirlwind and Gust.

Special Moves: Esper Spore (Confusion/Poison Powder/Stun Spore/Sleep Powder)

Joined the team in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.

Evolved into Metapod in Chapter 03: Dangers of the Forest.

Evolved into Butterfree in Chapter 04: Rock Hard Determination.

3rd Pokemon

Name: Parasite

Species: Parasect

Type: Grass/Bug

Gender: Female

Nature: Naive (Up Speed/Down Sp. Defense)

Characteristics: Hates to Lose (Up Sp. Defense)

Lv. 29

Caught at Lv. 7

Ability: Dry Skin

Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore, Bide, Leech Life, Dig and Body Slam

Special Moves: Quick Sand (Dig/Scratch)

Was captured in Chapter 06: Trials of Mt. Moon

Evolved into Parasect in Chapter 12: A Surging Battle

Day Journey Started: April 4th, 20XX

Current Day: May 9th, 20XX

Time Spent as a Trainer: 1 Month

Now for Green's Team, just to give an idea on what he has.

Green Oak's Team

1st Pokemon

Starter

Species: Eevee

Type: Normal

Gender: Male

Lv. 30

Caught at Lv. 5

Ability: Adaptability

Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Sand Attack, Growl, Quick Attack and Bite

2nd Pokemon

Species: Raticate

Type: Normal

Gender: Male

Lv. 28

Caught at Lv. 3

Ability: Guts

Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, Bubblebeam, Focus Energy, Dig and Thunderbolt.

3rd Pokemon

Species: Pidgeotto

Type: Normal/Flying

Gender: Male

Lv. 29

Caught at Lv. 2

Ability: Keen Eye

Moves: Gust, Sand Attack, Quick Attack and Whirlwind

4th Pokemon

Species: Kadabra *Stored*

Type: Psychic

Gender: Male

Lv. 27

Caught at Lv. 9

Ability: Magic Guard

Moves: Teleport, Thunder Wave, Mega Punch, Bide, Seismic Toss, Confusion, Kinesis, Disable and Psybeam

5th Pokemon

Species: Sandshrew

Type: Ground

Gender: Female

Lv. 20

Caught at Lv. 13

Ability: Sand Veil

Moves: Scratch, Sand Attack, Dig and Slash

6th Pokemon

Species: Shellder

Type: Water

Gender: Female

Lv. 19

Caught at Lv. 12

Ability: Shell Armor

Moves: Tackle, Withdraw and Supersonic

7th Pokemon

Species: Magikarp

Type: Water

Gender: Male

Lv. 5

Caught at Lv. 5

Ability: Swift Swim

Moves: Splash

Well who expected any of this to happen? From there being a fight scene between Will and Surge-the trainers themselves-to how much more of a threat that Team Rocket is in comparison to Canon? The trainers in the Adventure Special Manga fought as well if you think about it, so I wanted to add something like that.

There will be repercussions for this attack as now the League will come down harder on Team Rocket in response, but Surge believes that it's worth it considering how he took down someone who is a threat to their plans or will be.

… Or did he?

But we now have the very reason he's going to Seafoam Islands in the first place to catch Articuno and I've been giving hints on Articuno and Zapdos appearing for the last few chapters every time I brought up the sudden storms near Rock Tunnel or the intense blizzard on Seafoam?

I'm surprised no one caught onto them to be honest, I thought everyone would've when I first typed the hints.

Now before I go into the Reviews I have quite a few things to explain.

I hinted at how Stinger was beginning to slow down in terms of levels? It's because I wanted to show what the average level was for various trainers being in their thirties while the more experienced ones were reaching the forties.

With the Pokedex both Green and Violet were actually making strides in reaching those levels sooner given the amount of information it shares.

It's my own explanation on why despite it being years for some trainers they're barely in the fifties in terms of levels while the Elite Four have Pokemon higher than that in the sixties.

I'll try to have a more detailed explanation later on.

Next up we have Will and his fight with Surge, I figured anyone joining the Elite Four would be trained to dispatch the trainer they're fighting if it's a life and death situation which Team Rocket certainly qualifies as given how once you take the trainer down the Pokemon would be left on its own, most likely enraged after seeing its trainer taken down making it much easier to subdue if one knew what they were doing. Will is a powerful trainer but the weakest of the Elite Four because he's still training to take his place amongst them which was why he was evenly matched with Surge's real team. His true strength comes from both his latent psychic abilities and his knack for illusions, being a magician and all, hopefully that shined on through in this chapter.

As for his psychic capabilities? While powerful they pale in comparison to Sabrina who is a prodigy with them as I'll show much later on. Unlike her he can't use telekinesis to pick things up, only teleport and read minds. Sabrina can do that and more.

I also tried to have a bit of a counter for Psychics being the electromagnetism that Electric Pokemon give off, it's not a complete weakness but it prevents them from reading minds whenever a strong Electric Pokemon is present.

I do plan to eventually post a side story of one shots to further expand this particular Pokemon world showing stuff I had mentioned such as the Rampaging Snorlax or Team Rocket's attempt at stealing from the Museum?

They obviously wouldn't be as long as the actual story chapters, but it would show stuff happening without Violet being involved if I do it, still haven't decided yet or not.

I did post another Pokemon Story though, this one being centered on the Shadows of Almia game, it only has one chapter so give it a look if you're interested.

And I finally got a cover art for this story by my own attempt at drawing Violet along with her three Pokemon, here's the link if you're interested.

www. Deviantart encryption5461/art/Trials-of-a-Bug-Catcher-Cover-Art-847454465

Two more things.

I took out the Secret Requirements to the Gyms, I tried to make it match the Anime in a way like how Ash always got a badge in some gyms despite not winning but it was pointed out to me on how that was a stupid idea and looking back on it I agree.

Finally this story is officially a year old! Hell yes! I'm going by the Publication on AO3 for that in case anyone is confused.

Alright let's get to the Reviews so I can post this chapter.

Starlord Master: Thanks, coming up with different nicknames is pretty fun to do. No moral to the story, I try not to keep myself limited to it.

Legion29: Haha thank you, just hearing that you enjoyed this story is more than enough for me. I hope you continue to enjoy it. The whole thing with the battle was for Green to finally acknowledge Violet as a rival given how she tied with him showing how much she improved in so little time.

PokemonKing0924: Yea, the battle was a lot of fun to type. I had a blast thinking of how the battle would go before it finished up. I figured it would add more to Prof. Oak's character and backstory if I delved a little into the relationship between him and Agatha, fun fact was that after I posted that chapter I learned that Green/Blue called Agatha Grandmother in Pokemon Masters, something I didn't even realize which I found cool. Oof yea Giovanni will have some harsh words for Surge given what he did, how harsh would depend on if he accomplishes his mission or not.

Guest7: I will soon, sorry for the wait, but please be a bit more patient.

Bronzewing: Thank you for bringing that to my attention, I never noticed that, I'll change it soon.

Guest8: Took me a second to realize what you meant, I haven't decided yet on what happened to him.

Guest9: I did a bug run to challenge myself and enjoyed it immensely, so I decided to do a story on it.

Pyrojack25: Yes he is and while normally I would agree with you on how the trainers should be able to handle Team Rocket you have to remember not only do they attack the trainers, but they're criminals who have evaded the Elite Four for a good decade, so they can more than back it up despite going AWOL.

Guest10: I will update it soon, please be patient for a bit longer. I tend to go slow with some of my updates because I want to make the chapters as good as I can.

BradiLain: Thanks, I figured it would be fun to show how they were both approaching the rematch to show both the differences and the similarities between the two. I also wanted them to be evenly matched this time because last time it was a curbstomp in Green's favor but to be fair Violet lost valuable time training after the run in with Team Rocket in Mt. Moon. I didn't want her to dominate every battle because that wouldn't make for a good story and I didn't want to turn her into a Mary-Sue by doing that. I know what you mean about the relationship between Oak and Agatha fleshing them out, that's why I did it, I have a ton of headcanons about Pokemon because I've been into this series since I was four so I've played the games a ton of times. Raticate is pretty damn good, when I had one on the Red Version Game I would always use TMs to make it pretty damn strong. When I had Green send out Kadabra, I was actually at a loss before I remembered how I had Parasite change upon evolving, so it was an on the fly addition and the more I thought about it the more it made sense. I wanted to have an excuse to use the stat changing moves more, so I figured what if the energy was similar to the energy given off when a Pokemon evolves? I might expand on it more, but I didn't want to bore anyone far too much. Hope you enjoyed your party and thank you for reading this story.

Number13teen: Thank you and yes I do agree with there being too many pure Kanto Stories but I wanted to begin it here, I'll add the other Regions as I get to them. Yes Arbok can learn Rock Slide, I looked up what the original Kanto Pokemon can learn in Gen 1 and I was astounded, you'd be surprised by the amount of Pokemon that can learn Teleport for crying out loud. I kept to the Pokedex description for Parasect and I think that it's working out well for the story and Stinger did indeed go in showing a lot of determination.

Zapking5: I'll do my best to show ways for her to keep up with them when it gets to that point, I'll admit the thought did cross my mind but I'm not going to do that, she is still ten after all.

CorruptedFlame: You've made a lot of good points there, I did the whole secret requirement thing to explain something out of the Anime, which looking back was stupid and a lot of the stuff you brought up were done when this story was in its early stages with me still trying to decide how I wanted to do things so yea I made some stupid decisions I'll acknowledge that much. I'll go back to change some stuff and I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the story. Thank you for giving it a chance and I appreciate the feedback.