- My apologize if the title isn't the best, I just could not come up with a better name. Still I hope you do enjoy the story. -
Chapter 1: Caught
Professor Oak was on a nature hike with his assistant Tracey, walking along a trail in the woods near his lab. Aside from enjoying the fresh air and sounds of wild pokemon in the distance, Oak was also going check up on a small group of caterpie that he discovered on a previous nature hike, Tracey was going with the Professor because Oak asked if him if could help move the caterpie to a safer spot in the forest, as the area the caterpie currently are in, is territory claimed by a nasty flock of spearow during the spring and summer months. As they were walking, Tracey asked Oak, "So Professor, which part of the woods are we going to move the caterpie to?" To which the Oak said,
"We going to take them to a small pond on the edge of the forest, it's near the lab, so I can check up on them more frequently and it should be safer there, since I'm pretty sure the caterpie won't get into too much trouble with that magikarp that lives in the pond." As they got nearer to the spot where the caterpie were, he and Tracey both saw a purple circle lying in the trail. Curiously, the two of them walked towards the circle, Tracey thinking it was a frisbee that some kid must have thrown too far, but he and Oak soon saw that circle was oozing toward them like water flowing downhill until it came to a stop right at Oak's feet and it reformed into a perfect circle.
Tracey reached for the circle, but just before he able to make physical contact, the circle retracted from his hand. He tried to grab the circle once more, but it quickly retreated a foot away. Tracey then said, "Shy little thing, I wonder what it is. Professor, maybe you can try to see what it is, I don't think it likes me."
"Alright, I'll see if I can get it." Oak said as he went toward the circle. He reached out his hand to try and scoop up the circle, since it seemed to be semi-solid. The circle did not shy away from the professor's hand like it did with Tracey, but instead, as soon as Oak made contact with it, the circle crawled into his hand and formed into a sphere. Professor Oak held the newly formed sphere closer to his face to see what it was made of, the sphere suddenly formed two black, beady eyes and a small, thin smile. Oak smiled back at the sphere, he then looked at Tracey and said, "Well look what we have here, it's a ditto, what a cute little fella."
But as Oak had his head turned away from the ditto, its smile turned a little sinister and it stretched out a piece of itself to form a hand, the hand quickly jabbed at Oak's neck, hitting a nerve point with great pressure, knocking him out. As Oak fell to the ground, Tracey grabbed a pokeball and threw it towards the ditto saying, "Marill, go!" the pokeball opened and a marill energized out of it, letting out a cute squeak to announce its presence. Tracey then said, "Marill, use water gun to get that thing away from the professor!" Marill then shot a stream of pressurized water at the ditto, but jumped into the air avoiding the water. When the ditto made contact with the ground, it lost its sphere shape, but it did not reform into a ball, instead it stayed in a more blob like and loose shape, like a ditto would usually be.
Before Tracey could give another command, he heard a voice that seemed to come from nowhere shout, "Ditto, use transform!" and ditto changed into a perfect replica of Tracey's marill. Two figures then jumped out of the trees and landed next to the impostor marill, they wore black uniforms with a red R in the front and wore a face-mask that covered up most of their face, except the eyes, indicating that they were members of Team Rocket.
When Tracey saw them he yelled, "Team Rocket!? What are you doing here!?"
One of the Rockets then said, "Sorry kid, that's classified. All I can say is, that we need the professor to come with us for some, scientific advising, and unfortunately for you, we can't have any witnesses, so you'll have to come with us as well." The Rocket grunt then said, "Ditto, use water gun on that kid's marill." He then looked at the other Rocket grunt who had been quiet and said to him, "Get the professor and head to the extraction point, I can handle this kid."
As the silent Rocket ran towards Professor Oak, the ditto fired its water gun towards Tracey's marill. Thinking on his feet, Tracey said, "Marill jump to avoid that water gun and then tackle that guy heading for the professor!" Obeying his order, Marill jumped into the air just dodging the attack, and then Marill dove for the grunt, knocking him down to the ground. But Tracey did not realize that after Marill jumped over the watergun, the attack was heading straight for him. He did not have time to avoid the water and took the blast head on, sending him flying backwards and landing a few feet away, knocking him unconscious. Marill saw what happened and ran to Tracey, Marill nudged and poked him, hoping he would wake up, but nothing happened. A shadow was cast over Marill, he turned around and saw that is was the Rocket grunt that he tackled. Marill tried to intimidate the grunt with an angry growl, but the growl was more cute than anything else. The grunt simply laughed at Marill's attempt to be tough before he kicked Marill hard enough to for him to be sent flying and be knocked out when he slammed into a tree.
The silent grunt then picked up Tracey and threw him over his shoulder and then walked to Professor Oak and threw him over his other shoulder. The more talkative grunt recalled ditto and said, "Good kick, I'll remind myself to give you a call if I form a soccer team. Anyways, head to the extraction point, I'll get that little blue rat." The grunt that walked to the unconscious Marill and picked him up, saying, "This little guy's a bit heavy for something so small." he then caught up to the quiet one and made it the extraction point without any problems. They stood in a large field, quite a ways away from Pallet Town and just outside of the forest. The talkative grunt then pulled out a handheld radio from his belt satchel and spoke into it, saying, "This is Team Rocket Grunts #930 and #931, we have the package and two add-ons, we are ready for pick-up, over."
A voice responded from the radio saying, "We receive you #930, prepare for pick-up, over." A few seconds later, the ground surrounding the two grunts began to shake and the ground that they were standing on began to sink. They were gently lowered into a secret tunnel system that was built by Team Rocket using a variety of pokemon capable of forming tunnels and caves.
Right in front of the two was an armored van with a Team Rocket logo painted on both sides, they walked to the van and opened the back and found a duffle bag, they placed the unconscious of Oak, Tracy, and Marill down on the floor of the van and opened bag. Inside the bag were handcuffs, high powered shock collars and duct tape. Immediately knowing what to do with the restraints, they put them on Oak and Tracey as well as taping their mouths closed, while stuffing Marill into the duffle bag.
They closed and locked the back doors, then made their way to the front of the van. With the keys in the ignition the talkative grunt took the driver's side and the quiet grunt took shotgun. The one at the wheel started up the van and started driving to their destination, he decided to pass the time by saying, "That mission went pretty good, almost no problems whatsoever. Sure, that kid was there, but we took him out without even trying! That should get us in good with the boss, maybe we'll get a promotion! Ya think so dude?" The silent grunt continued to be silent. The driver then said, "Someday I'll get you to talk, you can't be that quiet for your whole life." Still saying nothing, the quiet grunt glared at the driver, he was able to see the glare in his peripheral vision which made him a little fearful for his well being and said, "Well, I guess you can be quiet for now." The drive was silent for the rest of the way.
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