Chapter 3 – Team Rocket Cometh
The leader of the civilian guards herded ash, Misty, Brock, Ally, and Pikachu into the military base. "Can you get Ally to someplace safe?" Ash inquired of the leader. The man nodded in reply and grabbed Ally's hand, leading her to someplace safe. "ASH!" a voice called out through the panicked crowd. It belonged to Janine who ran up to the group.
"Thank god you're here Ash. You're a Pokémon Master, they'll listen to you. I mean, they're scared as hell. I need your help."
"Well, show me the way." Ash replied. "By the way, what do we know about Team Rocket's status?"
"They're armed to the teeth, about 50,000 of them coming to Fuchsia. Rumors are coming in from Japan that over 200,000 have set across Asia. We have some people inside that'll be revealing themselves during the attack. They should help us. I believe you know them, Jessie and James?"
Ash nodded and followed Janine towards a microphone and about 14,000 people all tightly crammed. Some only had some Pokéballs and close combat weapons while others had M-16s and rocket launchers.
"Is this the whole population of Fuchsia?"
"No, only about a quarter were brave enough to stay. The rest should be in the Pokémon Center bomb shelter. We're there main defense. The only other defense is if someone tries to open the door to the bomb shelter, we have enough C4 and other explosives to create a rather large hole in the Earth. They're in the inner layer of it so they shouldn't be effected but it's pretty cramped considering there's about 45,000 people down there."
Ash nodded and walked up to the microphone. "Ya know, I'm supposed to give you a pep talk because you'll listen to me. Frankly I'm a little scared myself and the only pep talk I can think of is corny. I'm only human and I'm not ashamed. But I will not let fear overtake me and stop me from fighting against Team Rocket. They have stolen our homes, destroyed our families, killed our loved ones. WE WILL NOT LET THEM TAKE OUR FREEDOM! I say we fight!!" A chorus of cheers followed his speech and Ash walked towards Janine.
"I need a gun, body armor, and a couple grenades."
Janine nodded and called someone over with them. Ash ran towards the entrance to the base and ducked down with the others.
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James was suited for action, more than any other man near him. He had at least 5 guns on him, grenades, knives, and his Pokéballs. Maybe it was because he had a different mission, one to stop Team Rocket. Or maybe it was because he was just enjoying this way too much. "You ready for this Jess?" he asked smirking and cocking the shotgun in his hand. "Oh yeah, we'll get out revenge." She replied. To the passerby it sounded like they were talking about Ketchum, but they were really talking about Giovanni. He had put them through whippings and beatings after whippings and beatings for every failed mission. Now it was their time.
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"FIRE!!" Janine screamed. The 5,000 citizens that could fit at the front opened fire at the oncoming Team Rocket soldiers. But with 50,000 it was like that no matter how many they shot, more took their place. 'Fuck, this isn't going well.' Ash thought to himself. "Pikachu, I want you to absorb all the electricity in Fuchsia and release it at the rockets. I know it'll hurt but I need you to do it." Ash told the mouse. Pikachu nodded and used its electricity to hover off the ground and put up a shield around itself. There was a loud shattering of glass as the street lamps exploded one by one, the energy flowing into the electric rodent. All the cars had their batteries drained of energy and the all the reserve energy in the dam flowed into the Pikachu. "PI….KA….CHU!!" Pikachu roared releasing the largest electric attack ever seen at the rockets. The electricity surged through at least 10,000 rockets almost completely dissolving them into atoms. And with that, Pikachu fell to the ground exhausted.
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James saw the rockets being vaporized and took this as a signal to put the plan in action. "Weezing, go!" he cried. The purple poison Pokémon had already been informed of the plan and floated into the largest cluster of rockets, and then setting off an explosion. Taking the shotgun from his back he opened fire on different rockets. As soon as he ran out of ammo, he took an assault rifle from his back and continued firing like he had. Jessie had taken out Arbok who was shooting instantly killing poison at the rockets around. She then grabbed a grenade, pulled the pin, and threw it into a hoard of rockets. "Woohoo!" James cried as he dropped his empty assault rifle and took out two Falcon Pistols. He anchored his right leg and pivoted around shooting at all the rockets around him. "Payback is so sweet." Jessie laughed.
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"TAKE THIS YOU ASSHOLES!" Ash screamed as he continued firing at the rockets. He looked around at his surrounding area and smiled.
"Cover me people, I'm gonna move to a better spot."
Ash jumped out from behind the steel wall protecting them and opened fire on the rockets once again. They fired back but he somersaulted away before they could get him and opened up fire again. "GO REX!" Ash yelled as he threw a Pokéball into the giant pack of rockets. "THRASH ATTACK!" The giant lizard paused for a second than flailed its arms and legs like it was having a temper-tantrum. Bullets ricocheted off his rock body and continued thrashing. A hailstorm of bullets rushed towards Ash and he quickly ducked behind a building. "Whoa, that was close." Ash muttered. He didn't realize it until he had stopped that he was so tired.
"Urgh…This sucks…"
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"Giovanni has said to capture the traitors!" a rocket ordered to the others. They nodded and started advancing towards Jessie and James, unwillingly backing them into a corner. "Oh fuck." James said. It was the last thing he was able to say as the rockets jumped them and started beating the shit out of them.
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"Damn you Mewtwo!" Sabrina yelled. "Ash can't stand this much longer. He's going to die if we don't help!" "It is not our place." Mewtwo replied with a wave of his hand. "He must defeat Giovanni without our help."
"Without our help?! You are blinded by the extent of your own power! If you had not been so brave you would have looked into the future and saw that he will die too soon without our help."
Not caring to listen to Mewtwo any more, Sabrina teleported away.
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Ash swayed in his hiding spot. He felt like he was going to collapse. After about another 10 minutes of peeking from behind the building and shooting, he did collapse and was near unconscious when a bright blue flash lit the area. He felt someone put two hands on his head and concentrate. An energy he hadn't felt in a long time rushed through him, washing away his exhaustion. Ash jumped up and turned towards the person to see Sabrina looking into his eyes. "I'm here to help Ash." Sabrina declared. "I am sort of working for Mewtwo, but he's angry at me for coming down here to help you." Ash blinked taking this information in and then formed his mouth into a smirk. "So, how you gonna help?" He inquired.
"If you can cover me while I power up a psychic blast, we should be able to get the rockets running."
Ash nodded and pulled a second assault rifle from his back. Placing each assault rifle into the crooks of his shoulders, he jumped out from the building and began firing. Sabrina began glowing a freakish blue. Psychic power lifted her off the ground and the rockets paused for a moment before trying to turn their fire on her. "Not today!" Ash laughed unloading another couple of rounds into the rockets. Sabrina stopped suddenly in mid- air and giant flash of psychic energy exploded from her. It spread in a shock-wave pattern and started knocking down rocket after rocket and killing them instantly. The few left stood dumbfounded until one spoke up and yelled, "RETREAT!! RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIVES!!!" The rockets didn't need to be told twice and dropped their weapons sprinting away from the area, but with the two traitors in tow. "WOOOHOOO!" Janine whooped as she jumped out from behind the barracks. One of her arms was hanging limp by her side and she was limping but that didn't seem to matter. "RUN YOU MOTHER FUCKERS!! RUN! AHAHAHAHA!" she laughed firing her gun into the air. Sabrina slowly fell to the ground buffered by the little bit of psychic energy left, and landed in Ash's arms. "It's over Sabrina. You did it." He said smiling. She smiled back and closed her eyes, falling asleep from exhaustion in his arms. Ash smiled once more and walked back towards the base.
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The Elite Seven were beaten, chained, and being dragged away. They had been totally unprepared for the attack. Just after receiving the letter from Ash, the rockets had attacked taking control of the Indigo Fortress. It had been a massacre, everyone but the elite had died, and the elite only because they were needed for bait. "God dammit…" Lance moaned through cracked lips. "I hope Ash is still free. He's the only one who can do anything now." With those words said, the pain overtook him and he fell unconscious.
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"SIR!" a man declared saluting Giovanni. "The troops from Fuchsia are back and unfortunately sir, only 1/8 of the troops are still alive. The good news though is that the resistance is severely injured and we captured the two traitors." "GOD DAMMIT!" Giovanni roared. "Was it Ketchum?" Giovanni's eyebrow twitched in what seemed to be the beginning of a nervous tick. The rocket only nodded but that was enough to send Giovanni over the edge. He slammed his fist down onto his desk, breaking straight through the cherrywood and snapping the desk in half.
"Send in the Black Tulip! I want that little bastard dead. He has interfered with the Mt. Moon project, the Lake of Rage experiment, the Power Plant operation, and the Goldenrod Radio Station takeover not to mention countless other operations! I WANT HIM ELIMINATED!!"
The rocket grunt nodded and ran out of the office as fast as his legs could carry him.
The leader of the civilian guards herded ash, Misty, Brock, Ally, and Pikachu into the military base. "Can you get Ally to someplace safe?" Ash inquired of the leader. The man nodded in reply and grabbed Ally's hand, leading her to someplace safe. "ASH!" a voice called out through the panicked crowd. It belonged to Janine who ran up to the group.
"Thank god you're here Ash. You're a Pokémon Master, they'll listen to you. I mean, they're scared as hell. I need your help."
"Well, show me the way." Ash replied. "By the way, what do we know about Team Rocket's status?"
"They're armed to the teeth, about 50,000 of them coming to Fuchsia. Rumors are coming in from Japan that over 200,000 have set across Asia. We have some people inside that'll be revealing themselves during the attack. They should help us. I believe you know them, Jessie and James?"
Ash nodded and followed Janine towards a microphone and about 14,000 people all tightly crammed. Some only had some Pokéballs and close combat weapons while others had M-16s and rocket launchers.
"Is this the whole population of Fuchsia?"
"No, only about a quarter were brave enough to stay. The rest should be in the Pokémon Center bomb shelter. We're there main defense. The only other defense is if someone tries to open the door to the bomb shelter, we have enough C4 and other explosives to create a rather large hole in the Earth. They're in the inner layer of it so they shouldn't be effected but it's pretty cramped considering there's about 45,000 people down there."
Ash nodded and walked up to the microphone. "Ya know, I'm supposed to give you a pep talk because you'll listen to me. Frankly I'm a little scared myself and the only pep talk I can think of is corny. I'm only human and I'm not ashamed. But I will not let fear overtake me and stop me from fighting against Team Rocket. They have stolen our homes, destroyed our families, killed our loved ones. WE WILL NOT LET THEM TAKE OUR FREEDOM! I say we fight!!" A chorus of cheers followed his speech and Ash walked towards Janine.
"I need a gun, body armor, and a couple grenades."
Janine nodded and called someone over with them. Ash ran towards the entrance to the base and ducked down with the others.
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James was suited for action, more than any other man near him. He had at least 5 guns on him, grenades, knives, and his Pokéballs. Maybe it was because he had a different mission, one to stop Team Rocket. Or maybe it was because he was just enjoying this way too much. "You ready for this Jess?" he asked smirking and cocking the shotgun in his hand. "Oh yeah, we'll get out revenge." She replied. To the passerby it sounded like they were talking about Ketchum, but they were really talking about Giovanni. He had put them through whippings and beatings after whippings and beatings for every failed mission. Now it was their time.
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"FIRE!!" Janine screamed. The 5,000 citizens that could fit at the front opened fire at the oncoming Team Rocket soldiers. But with 50,000 it was like that no matter how many they shot, more took their place. 'Fuck, this isn't going well.' Ash thought to himself. "Pikachu, I want you to absorb all the electricity in Fuchsia and release it at the rockets. I know it'll hurt but I need you to do it." Ash told the mouse. Pikachu nodded and used its electricity to hover off the ground and put up a shield around itself. There was a loud shattering of glass as the street lamps exploded one by one, the energy flowing into the electric rodent. All the cars had their batteries drained of energy and the all the reserve energy in the dam flowed into the Pikachu. "PI….KA….CHU!!" Pikachu roared releasing the largest electric attack ever seen at the rockets. The electricity surged through at least 10,000 rockets almost completely dissolving them into atoms. And with that, Pikachu fell to the ground exhausted.
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James saw the rockets being vaporized and took this as a signal to put the plan in action. "Weezing, go!" he cried. The purple poison Pokémon had already been informed of the plan and floated into the largest cluster of rockets, and then setting off an explosion. Taking the shotgun from his back he opened fire on different rockets. As soon as he ran out of ammo, he took an assault rifle from his back and continued firing like he had. Jessie had taken out Arbok who was shooting instantly killing poison at the rockets around. She then grabbed a grenade, pulled the pin, and threw it into a hoard of rockets. "Woohoo!" James cried as he dropped his empty assault rifle and took out two Falcon Pistols. He anchored his right leg and pivoted around shooting at all the rockets around him. "Payback is so sweet." Jessie laughed.
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"TAKE THIS YOU ASSHOLES!" Ash screamed as he continued firing at the rockets. He looked around at his surrounding area and smiled.
"Cover me people, I'm gonna move to a better spot."
Ash jumped out from behind the steel wall protecting them and opened fire on the rockets once again. They fired back but he somersaulted away before they could get him and opened up fire again. "GO REX!" Ash yelled as he threw a Pokéball into the giant pack of rockets. "THRASH ATTACK!" The giant lizard paused for a second than flailed its arms and legs like it was having a temper-tantrum. Bullets ricocheted off his rock body and continued thrashing. A hailstorm of bullets rushed towards Ash and he quickly ducked behind a building. "Whoa, that was close." Ash muttered. He didn't realize it until he had stopped that he was so tired.
"Urgh…This sucks…"
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"Giovanni has said to capture the traitors!" a rocket ordered to the others. They nodded and started advancing towards Jessie and James, unwillingly backing them into a corner. "Oh fuck." James said. It was the last thing he was able to say as the rockets jumped them and started beating the shit out of them.
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"Damn you Mewtwo!" Sabrina yelled. "Ash can't stand this much longer. He's going to die if we don't help!" "It is not our place." Mewtwo replied with a wave of his hand. "He must defeat Giovanni without our help."
"Without our help?! You are blinded by the extent of your own power! If you had not been so brave you would have looked into the future and saw that he will die too soon without our help."
Not caring to listen to Mewtwo any more, Sabrina teleported away.
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Ash swayed in his hiding spot. He felt like he was going to collapse. After about another 10 minutes of peeking from behind the building and shooting, he did collapse and was near unconscious when a bright blue flash lit the area. He felt someone put two hands on his head and concentrate. An energy he hadn't felt in a long time rushed through him, washing away his exhaustion. Ash jumped up and turned towards the person to see Sabrina looking into his eyes. "I'm here to help Ash." Sabrina declared. "I am sort of working for Mewtwo, but he's angry at me for coming down here to help you." Ash blinked taking this information in and then formed his mouth into a smirk. "So, how you gonna help?" He inquired.
"If you can cover me while I power up a psychic blast, we should be able to get the rockets running."
Ash nodded and pulled a second assault rifle from his back. Placing each assault rifle into the crooks of his shoulders, he jumped out from the building and began firing. Sabrina began glowing a freakish blue. Psychic power lifted her off the ground and the rockets paused for a moment before trying to turn their fire on her. "Not today!" Ash laughed unloading another couple of rounds into the rockets. Sabrina stopped suddenly in mid- air and giant flash of psychic energy exploded from her. It spread in a shock-wave pattern and started knocking down rocket after rocket and killing them instantly. The few left stood dumbfounded until one spoke up and yelled, "RETREAT!! RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIVES!!!" The rockets didn't need to be told twice and dropped their weapons sprinting away from the area, but with the two traitors in tow. "WOOOHOOO!" Janine whooped as she jumped out from behind the barracks. One of her arms was hanging limp by her side and she was limping but that didn't seem to matter. "RUN YOU MOTHER FUCKERS!! RUN! AHAHAHAHA!" she laughed firing her gun into the air. Sabrina slowly fell to the ground buffered by the little bit of psychic energy left, and landed in Ash's arms. "It's over Sabrina. You did it." He said smiling. She smiled back and closed her eyes, falling asleep from exhaustion in his arms. Ash smiled once more and walked back towards the base.
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The Elite Seven were beaten, chained, and being dragged away. They had been totally unprepared for the attack. Just after receiving the letter from Ash, the rockets had attacked taking control of the Indigo Fortress. It had been a massacre, everyone but the elite had died, and the elite only because they were needed for bait. "God dammit…" Lance moaned through cracked lips. "I hope Ash is still free. He's the only one who can do anything now." With those words said, the pain overtook him and he fell unconscious.
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"SIR!" a man declared saluting Giovanni. "The troops from Fuchsia are back and unfortunately sir, only 1/8 of the troops are still alive. The good news though is that the resistance is severely injured and we captured the two traitors." "GOD DAMMIT!" Giovanni roared. "Was it Ketchum?" Giovanni's eyebrow twitched in what seemed to be the beginning of a nervous tick. The rocket only nodded but that was enough to send Giovanni over the edge. He slammed his fist down onto his desk, breaking straight through the cherrywood and snapping the desk in half.
"Send in the Black Tulip! I want that little bastard dead. He has interfered with the Mt. Moon project, the Lake of Rage experiment, the Power Plant operation, and the Goldenrod Radio Station takeover not to mention countless other operations! I WANT HIM ELIMINATED!!"
The rocket grunt nodded and ran out of the office as fast as his legs could carry him.