(Writers note: Some things may not make sense to you if you have not read the first story in the series 'Welcome to the VPS'. However feel free to read this first if you'd prefer)

Virtual Rocket Storm

So the storm starts

Earth July 22nd 2018

It was the morning of the sixth day in the VPE. Yesterday Tyson had been confronted by the head of Team Rocket, who he now knew to be Yukio. It had only been the fourth day when he had met Bill and began a dangerous quest to beat the evil group known as The Seven. Yukio was one of the members of the group and Tyson and his friends Jack and Yumi had brought his wrath upon them. Yesterday was close, if it hadn't been for the thing from the sky they would have been beaten by Yukio and their adventure would have come to a swift end.

Tyson was sat in his kitchen he'd been eating the same piece of toast and drinking the same orange juice for the last hour. Five more minutes and he'd have to enter the Pokémon world once again. To start with it was fun, even when they had Team Rocket after them Tyson had enjoyed exploring the virtual world, but now with The Seven after them playing seemed more like a chore. Only five days of game play and he'd been selected to decide the fate of the virtual world.

He got up off of the chair and sighed heavily as he slowly walked towards his garage door where the VPE was waiting to engulf him. He reached out for the door handle thinking about how many rockets would attack them today, but at the same time fearing another attack from Yukio. Bill was their only hope of even coming close to understanding what was really going on here. As the VPE turned on Tyson couldn't help but to think, why couldn't he just play the game like everyone else? Evil group free!

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By the time he got online Jack and Yumi were there waiting for him. Jack was a ten year old boy that Tyson had met on the first day. He was very hyperactive and excited twenty-four/seven. Even though Jack occasionally drove Tyson up the wall he was a good kid, and Tyson had thoroughly enjoyed playing the game with him. Yumi on the other hand was different - it was only recently Tyson had begun to like her after day four when her Charmander was stolen by Team Rocket. Before that she'd been arrogant and selfish, the fame had gone to her head. Once she'd lost her Pokémon she realised that she needed Jack and Tyson.

They had logged off inside the Poké centre in Cerulean city yesterday after narrowly escaping Yukio. Normally they logged on at twelve exactly, but today they'd arranged to log on an hour later to throw Team Rocket off. It had appeared to work until they got outside the safety of the poké centre, where they were confronted by two hotshot rockets. As soon as they spotted Tyson, Jack and Yumi they sprung to action. Their choice of Pokémon wasn't that fantastic, but they still had four of them. Jack wanted the pleasure of taking them out himself.

Jack sent out Raticate, Pikachu and Wartortle. One of the rockets ordered their Pidgey to attack Raticate, Jack responded with a thundershock aimed at the wing. The effect was that Pidgey went spiralling out of control eventually crashing into the rockets other Pokémon. Next one of the ground types used dig, Jack followed the possible lines with his eyes, and ordered Wartortle to cover the ground in front of them with water. As the ground softened the movement of the Diglet was made clear, Jack quickly ordered Pikachu to jump high in the air avoiding the attack. As it showed its head Jack told Wartortle to spray it with water, without instruction Pikachu shocked it with electricity, knocking the enemy out.

With the advantage in numbers Jack finished off the rockets in a few attacks. Once they were sure there were no more rockets about Tyson, Jack and Yumi ran as fast as they could unsure if Yukio would be following. Every second they were away from cities they were vulnerable to attack. Even if they were in a city Tyson was sure it would only be a matter of time before Yukio caught up with them.

It wasn't until they reached the underground pass that they were ambushed. However they'd been expecting an attack here, before the rockets could even say, "Hey there they are!" The twerp trio had sent out all their Pokémon and were waiting to attack.

Tyson's Combusken was first to attack. This was because it was a rare - Bill had called it a 'Super Stat'. Its speed statistic was four times higher than it should be, making it extremely fast. Combusken took out three Rockets before they even attacked back, but a water gun hit Tyson's Pokémon as it ran past. It didn't knock it out but it did stop it in its tracks. The battle didn't last long even with five rockets Yumi's Charmeleon flamed the rest of the Rockets' Pokémon.

Without any Pokémon left the rocket horde ran off, and with the way clear Tyson, Yumi and Jack continued through the pass to Vermillion City for their third gym battle.