Hello again People, you have all been waiting for this moment. Haven't you. I am happy to say I have no intention of disappointing you with this story. I have so many ideas it is amazing. Hope you enjoy this and I hope you all support me with feedback. Let's begin. I am going to show a speech system so you all understand.

Forms of speech: ("Normal speech"), ("Telepathy")

Chapter 1: Deep

In the last six months, a lot has changed in the world. People and Pokémon have grown together a lot greater, the bond is strengthening as a whole. Contests, tournaments and races of all sorts have become more popular. The future for all regions is becoming greater even with the high population of the world of Pokémon. The wonderful beings of diversity and evolution at the helm of it whether with a human or in the wild. Yet despite the efforts of everyone trying to make a great future, there are still those who abuse Pokémon for personal gain or to commit atrocities or even to hurt others just for fun no matter what happens to the Pokémon.

In an undisclosed Location inside a large facility it was quiet. Two men were walking down a hall way wearing uniforms. One man spoke "You know, mate. Do you think we are going to begin full operations once again and make our presence known to the world again, especially the Kanto and Johto Regions?"

The second man shrugged his shoulders to answer this "I don't know, the leaders of the Great Team rocket have been silent lately. It is quite odd". It was revealed they were two Team Rocket grunts and it was an unknown Team Rocket facility. The Frist grunt spoke again "Do you think it might have something to do with the new Champion, that we have been quiet".

The second grunt shook his head "What was his name, Ash Ketchum. He is only a little kid, he couldn't' possibly have a chance against team Rocket". The first grunt smirked to this claim "Although rumour has it, he has been causing trouble for two of our operatives for years, and the fact he defeated the old Champion would make him a worthy opponent". The Second grunt made a laugh towards this "You really expect that little champion to be a match for any of us, much less for the bosses, of Giovanni himself".

The second Grunted held his hands up into fists and smiled "I would love to take on the champion and bring him down a notch or two and show the world the protector of the Kanto and Johto regions is just a weak Kid". The First grunt was amused by the arrogance of the other grunt "Be careful what you wish for. The champions have disrupted some of our operations in the past before".

The two grunts proceeded down the rest of the hallway heading down. But as they passed by a Pokémon stepped out of the shadows and looked down at the grunts who were walking. It was an Espeon and was looking watching them carefully. Suddenly a figure stepped out from the shadows dressed in a team Rocket uniform looked before turning the way they came and said "Let's go Espeon".

The Sun Pokémon looked to the human and made a nod "I sense no other Pokémon near". The person nodded as his face was slightly concealed and said quietly "Good, let's hope it stays that way". The human walked down the hallway followed closely by the Espeon which became apparent was the human's Pokémon.

"So do we know exactly what we are looking for"? The human shook his head but didn't speak "The Professor said, they had stolen a container from him a couple of month ago. So we are here to return it but also make sure we disable the systems here so Team Rocket here will be vulnerable to the authorities". It appeared the two were having a telepathic conversation which was peculiar for a human.

They entered a room which connected the hallways. There were at least three Team Rocket grunts stood in there having an idle chat while the concealed man and the Espeon walked by looking non-suspicious "So are we going to get some action soon, I want to steal some little trainers Pokémon". Another grunt laughed "Yeah, we have been so quiet I am itching for some action. Bring a gym leader down a peg or two".

The man made a small glare towards them even though his face was partially covered. He looked away and continued down the path while a Rocket grunt was looking at him and was grinning "Hey man, you look lost". The man looked to him and said "I am looking for the manifest room, I need to return a Pokémon for collection later". The Grunt stood up and nodded "No problem man, follow me". The man nodded as he and his Espeon followed the grunt who begun leading down a hallway.

The grunt looked back "So where did you get the Espeon man, I haven't many with them except the big shots". The man made a smile saying "Let's just say, a Trainer…gave it to me". The Grunt made a laugh towards this "Nice man, feels good stealing Pokémon doesn't it". The Espeon walking with its trainer made a smile towards this "If only he knew".

The man smiled towards the Espeon as the man lead them towards a double door with a keypad next to it as they turned right. "Here we are". The grunt punched in a key code ad the door came open "In here man". The grunt stepped and the man stepped in to see a room full of items and stolen items such as a rack of Poke balls. The man stepped in and the door closed behind them and the grunt said "Alright mate. So what do you need to return"?

The man made a smile and said "Actually I am here to recover". The grunt was confused "What". The man didn't waste any time "Psychic Espeon". The Espeon eyes lit up Blue energy and immediately the grunt was trapped in energy and subdued. He wasn't being mentally attacked but he was trapped in energy. "What are you doing?"

The man smiled and looked away and around the room. He saw many cases stacked up on one rack and stepped forward. He begun looking at the labels one by one and he walked across looking at each of them. He went through the labels seeing they weren't what he was looking for. He looked to the Grunt who was trapped by Espeon and he said to him "Where is the case stolen from Professor Oak".

The Grunt spat at him "I don't negotiate with traitors". The man made a sigh before saying calmly "Answer my questions and I will see to it you are not harmed. And second I am not even a member of team rocket". The Grunt glared even further towards this "So an infiltrator then, your Espeon doesn't scare me". Espeon made a little glare "Do you want me to put more pressure on?" The man looked to his Espeon "No, As much as he is team Rocket, You don't hurt people even how wrong they are. It doesn't achieve anything and it makes us as bad as them".

The man took a step forward and said to the grunt "Look, what have you got to gain by protecting a case that doesn't belong to Team Rocket. I am only here to collect back what was stolen, Are you really going to make this worse on yourself just for a case". The rocket grunt looked down with his eyes for a moment as he thought about it.

He realised the infiltrator was right that nothing to be gained from defending the case "Alright fine, it is to my left and on the middle shelf". The man looked to his right and walked to the shelving's. He looked and saw a case that was labelled as Professor Oak's property and the man smiled. He took it and placed it on the floor. He then opened the container to something peculiar.

He saw it was an arrangements of patterned and strange coloured stones. There was many in them and he saw another one which was in the form of a watch with a symbol at the top "What are these". The grunt shouted out "Only Professor Oak and the bosses know. They are expected to be collected by an executive for transporting to our Headquarters".

The man hearing this closed the container and picked it up. He then strapped it around him in the form of a bag with a strap. He then walked back towards the door with Espeon continuing to hold the Grunt. The man looked to the Grunt "Where is your Power generator room".

The grunt then spoke "Why, you said you were only here for the case". The man nodded "I am, I need to make sure I can get out". The grunt looked down before relenting "Okay, it is two doors down from here. You need a code to enter. The code is P.E.R.S.I.A.N". The man shook his head "Persian. Named after Giovanni's I assume". The grunt nodded as Ash spoke "Espeon bind him with those ropes and use that tape for his mouth".

The Rocket grunt was shocked and said "You said…" The man however interrupted him "I said, you would not be harmed and I am honouring my word, but you can't give us away. Don't worry, someone will find you. But until then we can't let you ruin our escape". Espeon took the ropes with Psychic and bound up his arms and legs before getting tape and placing it over his mouth and he started murmuring trying to speak. The man nodded to him until Espeon followed him once more.

They exited the room with the case in tow attached to the man's back in a bag. He looked around before the door closed behind him. He looked to his right and he made his way down at a quick pace to ensure the element of surprise would remain. He knew his cover was going to be blown soon but until his final objective is complete that is all that matters.

In the Manifest room the Rocket grunt was struggling to get out of his bindings as the Espeon had placed them tightly around him. He was struggling badly and said out loud "I got to alert the base". He looked around quickly, looking for something to be able to work with. He suddenly saw an alarm button on the wall next to him. He smiled and he slowly begun angling himself around. He could still move his legs well and he after struggling through he finally positioned himself and lifted up his bound legs. He then pushed them forward and smiled as he pressed the alarm button.

Just outside and arriving at their destination the man and his Espeon saw red lights come on and an alarm sound had gone off. The man grunted "We are running out of time lets finish this up". The Espeon nodded as the man punched in to code to the door which read positive and the double door opened.

He ran in and saw two grunts standing guard and saw him "Hey why are you coming in here. There is an alert. This room is sealed". The man grunted for a moment and hesitated before saying "Espeon, Psychic". The Espeon quickly had his eyes light up again before grabbing the two grunts and holding them against the wall. The concealed man closed the door and immediately saw a camera recording looking down at him in the room.

In a control room, two operatives looking into the camera system saw the concealed man with his Espeon in the generator room. One operative made a laugh towards this "Ha, looks like we have an intruder. Put the base on high alert, and I want a squad ready outside the generator room".

The man seeing the camera grunted upon this. He took out a poke ball and threw it "Garchomp lets go". The poke ball opened to reveal a powerful Garchomp who stood in front of him "Garchomp use brick break and hold the door shut". The Garchomp nodded and powered up both of his claws. He then smashed them into the door on both parts and begun holding them.

Ash then ran up to the main computer console and looked onto it "We are running out of time". One grunt made a laugh "You realise you have no escape, squads will be coming here now just to stop and capture you right now". The man ignored them and begun typing and pressing keys on the computer which controlled the power generator. "I just hope all that training with computers pays off now, otherwise this will be extremely difficult after this".

Suddenly there was struggling at the door which Garchomp was holding still and was trying to keep them closed. The man saw Garchomp struggling a little "Hold on a bit longer Garchomp almost there". The man typed through and eventually he pressed a few final buttons. He then pressed the final key and the screen went red "That should do it now".

The man zoomed to see the door stopped moving and he said "Garchomp step back". Garchomp released the door and stepped back and the man said to Espeon "Bind them with the rope there". Espeon saw some more rope which proved convenient and set about using Psychic and binding up the grunts. They all then faced the door and readied for it "Garchomp get ready with Straight Draco meteor".

Garchomp readied itself and a small orb appeared in front of Garchomp's head. The door came online once more and the concealed man held up his arm waiting for Garchomp to go. The door made a jolt and it begun to open. "NOW". Garchomp then fired the Draco meteor where multiple projectiles of Dragon energy unleashed from the orb which fired forward through the door creating a gap as many Rocket grunts and their Pokémon got pushed back by this. The man made a smile and said "Alright let's get out of here now". The man and his Pokémon immediately jumped through the door way to see many Pokémon were wounded by the Draco meteor attack which provided them an opening to escape as they ran through and begun running up the hall way.

Some of the grunts recovered and one shouted "After him now". Many got up and begun to give chase to the man and his Pokémon. They ran down many hallways as more grunts begun to give chase to the man. As they made a run towards an exit which became in site. The man looked back and saw how many grunts were chasing as they came to the exit.

They ran outside into broad day light "Garchomp dragon pulse at the door". Garchomp quickly turned around and powered up a sphere of energy before shooting it forward into the entry way causing smoke. The man smiled to this saying "Great, now Espeon use calm mind and then multiple future sight".

Espeon nodded and became enveloped in blue energy for a moment which strengthened him before his eyes glowed. He then repeated it a couple of times as they backed up as they were on an upper part of the base which they came to an edge of a wall on a cliff. The smoke cleared and multiple grunts came running out.

They surrounded the man and threw out their poke balls summoning their Pokémon which mainly consisted of Poison type Pokémon such as Venomoth. Some Golbat, Tauros and a couple of Rhydon's. The concealed man looked around to see he was surrounded and stood as a big man stepped outside shaking his head who was wearing what looked like black sunglasses.

The Rocket leader stepped forward and smiled "I got to hand it to you, raiding into a team Rocket base like that. It takes guts. But you are a fool too". The man looked on as the Rocket leader took out a poke ball and threw it out to reveal a Skarmory which cawed towards them "I think it is time to give up now, your impossibly outnumbered, If you surrender now, I promise that you will walk away whole, or does this need to get ugly".

The man made a smile which confused the Rocket leader until suddenly sudden attack of psychic energy pierced into multiple Pokémon making them faint or collapse down as Skarmory was hit but was fazed by the attack "What the?" The man smiled towards this as the Rocket leader shouted "Skarmory, use Steel wing now". The Skarmory wing's lit up and charged forward.

"Now Garchomp use Brick break". Garchomp powered up its claws and charged forward intercepting to steel Pokémon and throwing it back down. The Rocket leader grunted at this as Garchomp landed back in front of the concealed man. "Great work Garchomp return". The man took a poke ball and returned Garchomp to the poke ball before looking back to the Rocket leader. Even though he was in a Rocket uniform his eyes were concealed with the hat.

The Rocket leader glared and said "Do you really think you can escape after all of this". The man smiled which confused the rocket leader. Suddenly a sound could be hear and electricity begun sparking off all electrical equipment and was being disabled. The Grunts and the Rocket leader saw the base was getting shut down by the electrical discharge as small pieces of hardware flared out with smoke.

The Rocket leader wash shocked by this and shouted "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" The man simply nodded to him and said "I tampered with your generator which has disabled all electricity for your base so now you are vulnerable". The man grunted and prepared another poke ball until suddenly explosions occurred around him.

Many electrical bolts fired from above and hit a Pokémon or made a small explosion to confuse the grunts. The man looked up to see a big flying Pokémon flying down towards them. He took a closer look at it and was immediately shocked by this "A Zapdos". The big Flying Pokémon was indeed a Zapdos as it flew down firing multiple electrical attacks.

Suddenly a small Pokémon jumped off the Zapdos and suddenly an electrical sphere formed on its tail and it shot down towards the leader. He immediately jumped back for the sphere to smash into the ground in front of him and cause smoke blocking his vision of the infiltrator.

The small Pokémon landed on the man's shoulder who stroked his face "Good timing Pikachu, good timing". The man ran towards the edge with Pikachu and Espeon waiting as the Zapdos came flying by "Let's get out of here Zapdos". Zapdos came flying alongside and the man jumped on its back along with the Pikachu and Espeon "Alright lets head back now".

The Zapdos nodded and immediately begun flying up in altitude and begun flying away. The smoke cleared for the Rocket leader to see the infiltrator flying away on the Zapdos heading away at a quick speed. He grunted angrily "Absolutely Useless. I need to speak to Giovanni about this". A Grunt then stood up next to him "But Sir, all electrical systems are knocked out, it isn't possible". The leader then shouted at him "So fix it before someone else comes along to mess things up".

The Zapdos was flying away who smiled greatly "We actually pulled it off, I didn't expect it to be easy". The Pikachu laughed towards this and spoke "You always assumed the worse". The man shook his head before turning to the Espeon who was sat beside him on the Zapdos "You did amazing in there Espeon, Your becoming stronger every day". He gave the Espeon a stroke on its ear and said back "Thanks. I did quite enjoy the whole sneaking thing. And you're welcome Ash".

The man immediately took off his hat and it was revealed that the man was Ash Ketchum, current Pokémon Champion of the Kanto and Johto region. Zapdos who was ahead asked "So did you get the case?" Ash took the case off his back and held it "Yeah, and it is Professor Oaks". Espeon became curious and asked "So what is in the case Ash".

As shook his head "Many stones with strange patterns and symbols. I have no idea what they are for though so maybe Professor Oak will tell us when we return them to him". Pikachu then curiously said "Well we better not keep the others waiting". The Zapdos narrowed his eyes with a smile a little "I am going fast but not too fast so you lot don't fall off but I can if you want to". Ash made a smirk to this "Well technically I can fly myself. But…" Zapdos smiled as they flew on heading off into the distance further away from the Rocket base with their mission complete.

Okay that was the first chapter. I bet this has raised many questions for you and I hope to know what you all think of the first chapter. I will see you in the next one.