Lance walked down the corridor into the generator room. He reached into the pocket of the black team rocket uniform. His hand close into a fist around a small metallic object. It was a bomb. Lance casually strolled over to the engine and pretended to examine it, he flicked the latch-on bomb onto the bottom of the transformer housing and it clicked a quiet click. Lance knew that when he chose to the bomb would be fired via a remote in his pocket. The success of his mission assured, Lance decided to use his well-earned uniform to explore the base.
After resigning from being champion Lance had signed onto the branch of the spy-network. He quickly applied his skills as a Pokémon trainer and became one of the best agents the nation had. He had spent 4 months on this assignment; to infiltrate and destroy a secret team rocket research laboratory.
Lance backed into the darkness as a scientist rushed hurriedly into one of the labs with a clipboard. It took half a second for Lance to identify that particular scientist as Cynthia, the former Champion of the Sinnoh region who had also taken up the occupation as one of the greatest spies the world might ever see. Lance decided to investigate the Lab.
Lance opened the door and went into a long, wide, corridor-like room; it was painted white, with an azure blue tile floor. Lined around the room were stasis pods large enough for a fully grown man to fit inside and in the centre of the room there were as many work desks as there were pods. Lance walked over to Cynthia who wore her blue, mission dyed hair in a long, trailing pony tail that flowed over her shoulder. Lance walked over to her.
"The moon is full" Lance said quietly under his breath, this was the previously agreed signal for the bomb placement. Cynthia looked up with a look of horror and glanced at the stasis pod nearest her desk. Lance looked over too and saw a young girl, about 10, in the pod. She had Cynthia's long hair, but it was Cynthia's natural shining blond colour. The girl was very pretty, with Cynthia's nose and her lips as well. Lance looked at the girl and back at Cynthia.
"A word please grunt" Cynthia said and she opened a door into a cupboard and motioned for him to step inside the large enclosed science storage room.
"What is it?" Lance asked wondering what was so important that it could give away one of the biggest missions of the century
"I don't expect you to understand, but listen" Cynthia said with a panicked tone in her voice that was so unlike her usual calm complexion "Team Rocket has been growing clones-"
"Like Mewtwo?" Lance asked hurriedly, referring to a previous project that Team Rocket has devised and carried out concerning the created Pokémon that was bred from the DNA of Mew the legendary Pokémon.
"Yes… and No," Cynthia answered "Team Rocket grew people, mere children and mixed their DNA with that of a Pokémon. There are 5 of these children here and each one is jointed with a different Pokémon."
"Why does this concern our mission?" Lance asked, his brain cogs turning to comprehend why his usually steel-firm companion was worried and what she was worried about.
"Because… when Team Rocket decided to start this project they needed DNA, human DNA. They chose me to give my DNA into one of the children, she's my daughter!"
" You cannot let this effect the mission. This child could be dangerous!" Lance whispered aggressively, angry that his partner had let her emotions cloud her judgement and block out the importance of the mission.
"These children are innocent, and that girl out there, she is my daughter!" Cynthia said her eyes where wet and shiny and tears started to cascade down her face.
"Let's say I agreed to help you aid your 'daughter' and the other 'children' to escape, how would we plan that?"
"If you detonate the bomb then the scientists will panic and run. We can defrost the children and get them to run to the escape chopper, we can save their lives!" Cynthia said as she appealed to Lance's natural chivalrous nature."
"OK, when do we detonate the bomb?" he asked Cynthia as his hand felt for the detonation device in his pocket
"Now" Cynthia said and Lance pushed his thumb onto the trigger of the bomb. An explosion rocked the base as the Transformer exploded, the scientists screamed and ran out of the Lab, dashing for safety.
"Press the auto release on the pods!" Cynthia screamed at Lance as she dashed back and forth pressing buttons on various Stasis tubes. Lance hit a large button on Cynthia's 'daughter's' pod and the lab started to fill with stasis smoke and water vapour. The girl's body went limp and Lance swung her over his back. Meanwhile Cynthia had the hands of two children, a girl and a boy. Lance saw two other children, a girl and a boy as well, who were wide eyed and looked scared.
"Grab my hand and run" Lance said too them as the boy grabbed his left, the girl, his right and he sped off quickly with Cynthia in hot pursuit.
They all sped off into the night and rendezvoused with the waiting helicopter. The children ran in after Lance and Cynthia. The young girl on Lance's back began to wake up finally, and her eyes flicked open and she saw Cynthia. For a brief moment their eyes met and Cynthia felt her heart rush and her happiness mount as she saw her very own daughter, the daughter she had always wanted, and then the young girl's eyes closed and she dropped off to sleep upon Lance's lap with her head and shoulders on Cynthia's legs.