The Greater Enemy
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, this I know. If I did own Pokémon I'd be very rich. I also don't own the "big bad mystery guy for the first few chapters" either. Suing me would be pointless as I'm broke.
Part 2
"Faster!" Yelled Ash as they sped after the Meowth balloon. Officer Jenny and Co. had made some progress chasing after Team Rocket, but they had the advantage of a direct route and a head start. Officer Jenny shouts, "Hang on!" as the car leaps over a bump in the road over a patch of trees. The car lands with a loud thud and the group proceeds to dash after Team Rocket.
James leans over the edge and says, "The police are chasing us, shall we give them the usual warm welcome?" while holding a bomb and a match. Jessie says, "sounds good to me" while tossing down two lit bombs. The bombs explode right in front of the car tossing it up into the air. They land with a crash, and Officer Jenny just barely dodges James' bomb.
Meowth says, "what's a matter? No brains and no aim?" Meowth loads up on bombs managing to get 5 in his tiny arms, and tosses them over. The bombs bounce off the car's windshield and rollaway. Jesse looks at him and screams "LIGHT THEM FIRST!!" James commands Growlie to use flame-thrower attack, which he does. The car swerves off the road because Jenny can't see through the windshield while covered with flame. They come to a stop and look at the retreating Meowth balloon. Ash screams at Team Rocket and calls for Pikachu, Team Rocket laughs in response. Jenny assures Ash that they'll catch up with Team Rocket and nail them as soon as they land.
Some time passes and Team Rocket arrives at Rocket Headquarters. Meowth looks at the scene wide-eyed. James gasps and manages to get out, "I..I can't believe it!" Jesse looks out at shrugs "The place has looked better that's for sure." Team Rocket headquarters lies in ruins, the place ablaze and walls caved in. The large R lies on the ground broken in half right down the middle. Team Rocket takes the balloon down for a closer look.
James hops out first, walks a little ways and falls down in a hole. Jesse shouts at him "You're such a klutz! Can't you go 5 minutes with out falling into a hole?" Meowth walks up and notices something about the hole. He pulls a tape measure out of nowhere and quickly zips all around the hole. He comes back and says "Guys, I got BAD news?" James pulling himself out asks, "Wonderful, what is it?" Meowth shouts, "THIS ISN'T A HOLE, IT'S A FOOT PRINT!!" Jesse and James look shocked a moment, and they quickly scout out the hole, discovering that it is indeed a footprint. James starts blabbering "b-b-b-b-bi-bi-BIG!!" Meowth nods solemnly and says "Looks like it got the boss too."
Jesse looks around and says "Looks like we're the last of Team Rocket." A voice from somewhere says "not so fast Jess." Jesse glares and says, "Cassidy? Where are you? You stuck up little brat?" Cassidy says, "Under a piece of wall with Butch and the Boss, could you get us out?" The Boss's voice comes from the same area, "Yes, we'd rather appreciate it." Jesse and James hurry to get their boss out, having to pull out every last Pokemon they have and make it help push the section of wall. They get the Boss and Butch and Cassidy out, and they tell them to find as many TR members as possible. After a while the Boss says that they'll move their headquarters to the Seafoam islands until they can recover, and orders all members of Team Rocket to make their way there. Jesse and James finally remember Pikachu just before the Boss takes off.
"BOSS, WAIT!! Please?" James holds out Pikachu and announces that they caught it. "So, this is the Pikachu you've spent so much time trying to catch?" "Yeah boss, it's really powerful!" "Show me." With that Meowth opens the container just enough for Pikachu to look out, it sees Butch and Cassidy and decides to thunderbolt them. Butch, Cassidy, and Raticate go through a silly electrocution sequence before being blasted back about 6 feet. Team Rocket is for the most part packed up and left, and the Boss says, "Well, that is impressive, especially for a lowly Pikachu. I'll take it with me if you don't mind." Just then the Police car tears in sirens a-blazing, Officer Jenny hops out and says they're all under arrest. The Boss bolts into his limo before he can take Pikachu, and Team Rocket panics, running away and dropping Pikachu.
Ash runs up and unties Pikachu, Pikachu shouts out an excited little "Pika-pi!" and hugs Ash. Ash hugs Pikachu then looks around at the massive devastated building. Officer Jenny says that they'll get some people in to go through the rubble and rescue anyone still buried. Brock shouts for everyone to come, and he points to a hole he's leaning over, which is the footprint James fell in. Everyone sits there breathless with a terrified expression.
Later a large group of people clears the rubble and saves the few remaining Rocket members. Being criminals though they're put into jail as soon as they recover. A team of scientists also inspects the area. Some skin of the creature is found, it's harder than most rock-type Pokemon, and it's DNA clearly shows that it is in no way any sort of Pokemon. With measurements of the footprint, they are able to conclude that the creature is anywhere between 350 and 425 feet tall. They try to keep it under wraps, but with nearly identical attacks repeated throughout the world with similar evidence, the whole land is soon in a panic. Everyone asks the questions; "What is this creature? Where will it strike next? Can it be stopped?" But no one can answer them.
Currently with our heroes;
Ash, Misty, and Brock stand at the seashore wondering how to continue onto the Seafoam islands. Misty doesn't want to try surfing on her small water type Pokemon, but surfing is the recommended route. The three heroes find a ferry that is taking on passengers, they pay and enter. They sit down, right beside another trio, who looks painfully familiar but they still can't be placed.
Jesse looked up from her newspaper and moved her neck side to side to get rid of the stiffness; she sees Ash and co right beside them and quickly goes back to reading. James is in a surf-dude type disguise, and seems to be filling in the "act-like-an-idiot" part incredibly well; he's trying to find someone giving out peanuts. Meowth is back to the baby roll again, and is in a little baby seat. He's chugging down a carton of milk but no one notices. Jesse is disguised, as…something…they apparently didn't have any good disguises left and had to mix and match a few extras.
A half an hour pass and Team Rocket is still not noticed, despite the fact that Ash and co have actually started talking to them. Trying to both pass the time and find out why these people are so familiar, Ash drills them with a few questions. Jesse is getting really annoyed and may burst out into violence any moment now. Suddenly the boat lurches tossing everyone around.
People scream and panic, the crew tries to calm them down and finally succeed. The boat is tossed around some more, and then the source is seen. A large snake-like form swishes back and forth as it moves away from the boat, the first big jolt was from a collision, and the smaller rocking was caused by water displacement as it moved. Ash asked, "what…was that?" Even Brock looked stupefied and said, "I don't know. I've never seen any Pokemon that looked anything like that! Gyrados and Dragonair both have the long shape, but they don't have those spines or get that large!" Misty said, "Maybe it's a giant Pokemon, like Tentacruel?" Ash and Brock consider this when an ear-shattering roar shakes the boat and moves the sea itself. The nearly gone snake-form disappears into the water as a larger part of the beast comes out. It is too far away to see any details, but it's BIG and it's tail was what had rocked the boat so!
Later on a stop on one of the Seafoam islands, Ash is thinking--a rare event if I don't say so myself. Misty says, "Ash, you look tired, have you been trying to think again?" Ash glares and says, "That thing we saw…do you think that's what has been doing so much damage all over the country?" Brock nods and says, "It certainly was big enough, and that was no Pokemon." Misty gives a thoughtful "hmm" and says, "It could be…" The trio looks out into the sea, wondering.
Team Rocket was hiding behind them, donning worried expressions. Jesse makes a nervous noise and hugs her knees. Meowth says, "I think they're right!" James says, "So that could be the thing that leveled Team Rocket Headquarters? And we're here with it?!" Jesse scowls, "Stop being such a coward!" James, "but all of Team Rocket had no chance against that thing? What can we do?" Meowth says, "We'll think of something. If nothing else, Pikachu over there will teach it a lesson." James looks slightly relieved, 'yes, if anything can stop it it's that invincible Pikachu.' Jesse motioned for them to move, "Let's go before they find us."
The passengers start to return to the ferry after their little outing, when suddenly the boat lurches away from the harbor. Everyone gasps in surprise, and then the roar is heard again. Terrified mobs of people run as quickly as they can, and the boat is dragged under the ocean's surface. Some witnesses described a huge scaly hand reaching up and tearing long gashes into the boat's hull. Others reported a long huge claw, others said some really ridiculous stuff, but no matter which way it happened, the boat was gone.
Brock says, "looks like we're staying here tonight." Misty just kind of glares at him as does Ash. They look around and find a small town with a hotel. The team asks for a room, each separate, but due to lack of vacancies they all have to share a room, with two beds. Upon entering Brock flops down on the bed and goes to sleep. Misty and Ash glare and each other and race for the bed, they get there at the same time and start fighting. Pikachu thunder shocks them and they stop. Ash looks at Misty and makes a fist, Misty looks confused a second then makes a fist too. They do the paper-rock-scissors game and Misty wins. Misty jumps on to the bed and celebrates, "Yay!" Ash looks annoyed, pulls out his sleeping bag and sleeps on the floor.
Jesse, James, and Meowth finally find their rendezvous point after being lost a while. Meowth says, "we could have been here hours ago, but YOU had the map upside down!" James looks at the cat annoyed and says, "You handed it to me that way! How was I supposed to know?" Jesse bashes both their heads with a mallet and walks into the hotel. She walks up to the desk clerk and puts on her "sweet personality." James and Meowth walk in cautiously behind her. "Hello, we need a room. We'd like 15B, we have reservations." The clerk sweat drops and says, "Uh, we figured you weren't coming for some reason and rented it out." Jesse looks annoyed and says, "To whom?" "Uh, a trio of kids, they had a Pikachu and a cute little Togepi." Jesse's, James' and Meowth's faces all instantly fell. Jesse is about to go postal on the clerk, but James and Meowth haul her outside in time.
Jesse, "Great! Now how are we supposed to get there? The Boss said that the only entrance he'd let us use was hidden in that room!" Meowth says, "Hey, we could sneak in real quiet like and open up the secret passage way and they'd never know about it!" Jesse says, "That might work, if we didn't have the world's biggest klutz right here." James looks hurt and says, "hey, I can be quiet when need be…" Meowth, "We have to get to the new HQ, do you have any better ideas?" Jesse admits that she doesn't, the camera fades out and back in real quick, when we come back Jesse, James, and Meowth are scaling the outer wall will little suction-cup devices on their hands and feet.
To be continued…
The menace is here, and it will soon show itself! Or will it? Brock hasn't fixed that eye problem, and Team Rocket is trying one of the stupidest things they've ever done, how will it work out? Find out, in part 3!