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 Godzilla or anything of much import.
Part 3
Jesse, James and Meowth scale the wall slowly but surely, James stops to admire a rose garden on the third floor windowsill, and is quickly jerked up. James whines, "Ah, come on, there were some nice roses I would have liked to take." Jesse snarls, "We steal Pokemon, NOT flowers." James whines, "Ah, come on I'm down to my last one, and what's the difference, stealing is stealing right?" Jesse glares at James and says, "remind me to hit you when we get up there."
Meanwhile all the heroes are sleeping soundly. Pikachu and Togepy are each snoring cute little Pokemon snores, "piiikaaaaa…chu!" "Tooooogeee…pi!" Two shadowy figures appear in the windowsill, and open the window. A small cat-like shadow hops in after them. Jesse, James, and Meowth are somehow in disguise as a cleaning crew. Team Rocket starts to tiptoe around the room. Jesse points to the bed Misty is on and says, "The secret panel's supposed to be under the bed." Jesse and James crouch by the bed and slowly push it to the side. James accidentally pushes a little too hard and the bed makes a creak across the floor. Meowth smacks him and hisses "Watch it!" James glares and says; "At least I'm working." "You should know by now that my position in all matters involving manual labor is supervising," answers Meowth smugly. Jesse barely refrains from hitting them, and makes James finish the work. Once they move the bed a few feet they start checking the floor. Misty was slightly stirred by the move, and is still half-awake and half-asleep. She groggily asks, "What are you doing here at this time of night?" Jesse quickly answers, "Uh, we're just the cleaning crew! We missed some spots yesterday." Misty doesn't have a functioning brain at the moment, and therefore accepts this and goes to sleep.
Meowth fails to find the secret panel, as does James, and Jesse doesn't find it either. Meowth smacks his forehead and says, "You moved the wrong bead ya numbskulls!" James replies, "Well, a good supervisor would have caught that wouldn't he?" Meowth almost scratch attacks James but Jesse mashes their heads to the floor, with a thud. Team Rocket freezes and looks at the good guys in fear. They turn and mumble, but aren't waken up and Team Rocket breathes a sigh of relief. Jesse and James start to move Brock's bed. Brock turns around and starts muttering something about Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny. Jesse moves herself into another position, which happens to be closer to Brock and starts pushing again.
James says, "Almost got it" just as Brock does something unexpected. He might have opened his eyes, he might not have, but at any rate, he did wrap his arms around Jesse's neck and mumble something about a beautiful woman. Jesse jumped a little and pulled back a fist to punch him. James softly stops her and whispers to her that they can't wake him up. Jesse realizes he's right and starts trying to slip out of Brock's grasp, but her insane hairstyle stops her. She tries unclasping Brock's hands but can't seem to do it. James and Meowth are trying very, very hard not to laugh for they know that their lives depend upon it. Jesse shoots an evil glare at them and bares her teeth at the sleeping Brock.
James can't figure out how to move the bed with Jesse in her little 'situation' so Meowth crawls under it to look for the panel. Meowth crawls about a foot, and finds it; the panel's too small for a human to fit through oddly enough. Meowth pulls it up, and there's a switch underneath. Figuring he has eight more lives in case anything goes wrong, he flips it. The WHOLE floor of the apartment disappears into the wall dropping hero and villain alike down to the slide below.
Jesse, James and Meowth all scream as they hurtle down the dark slide. Ash, Misty and Brock somehow sleep through it all. All the main characters rush through the dark, no one knowing where the next turn would lead, and 3 not caring at the moment. Ash, Misty and Brock float out of their beds somehow and start sliding behind them. Jesse and James cling together and start going on about how they were going to die in a booby trap. James starts crying and Jesse gets weak-eyed, and they scream together as they see a light, which happens to be illuminating a very rough, quick stop to the trip. Meowth screams too, yelling "Team Rocket ends like this?! Smears on a wall?! WAAAAHHH!!"
Just as they're about to smash into the wall at a hundred miles an hour, a trap door swings open. The group hits another slide that sends them coasting in smoothly to a large room. Jesse and James stop, still holding each other, too afraid to look up yet and Meowth coasts over them and lands right in front of them. Brock's bed stops to their left and Misty's to their right. Ash's sleeping bag stops shortly before hitting Team Rocket. Misty flies into her bed, under the covers. Brock does the same, and Ash flies into his sleeping bag. All three look like they had never moved.
Jesse and James each open one eye half way when they hear some chuckling. They are now in a room full of tons of male & female groups with really funky hair. Jesse and James realizing they've been seen by their Team Rocket co-workers jump away from each other and straighten their clothes out. Butch and Cassidy laugh at them openly. Cassidy remarks, "So, Jess, you're into stupid men now?" Jesse growls at Cassidy and clenches a fist. Jesse pulls out a mallet and so does Meowth, James holds his rose like he thinks it's a club. They start yelling at each other, and it looks like Team Rocket Elite A3 is going to get in a fight with Team Rocket F4 when Giovanni steps in and tells them to stop it.
All Team Rocket members put away their weapons and get on their knees. "Please don't fire me!" comes the unanimous cry. Giovanii makes a frustrated sigh, and speaks to Jesse and James, "So, do you still have the Pikachu? I didn't have a chance to grab him before the police arrived." Jesse, James, and Meowth all promptly put on their scared faces and go into a huddle. Giovanni groans, "Oh no, you lost it again?? You are THE MOST INCOMPETENT IDIOTS!!" Butch asks what's the deal with the beds, and says, "hey! You brought those goodie-goodies down here?! What were you thinking?!" Giovanni gets even angrier, "YES, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?"
James freaks out and starts crying, Meowth runs around in circles waving his arms, and Jesse is groveling incoherently. Giovanni just gives a look, to nobody in particular, that says, 'talk about pathetic.' Jesse and James start blabbing the story of how they got lost, found the room, and got in at about 75 miles an our. Giovanni seems to actually understand them and says, "Well, hostages can be useful." Meowth says, "Yeah, and look! There's that Pikachu! And Togepi, that's a rare Pokemon!"
Ash gets up now, rubbing his eyes he sees dozens of people with really bizarre hair. They're also wearing Team Rocket uniforms. Ash screams for Misty and Brock to wake up. Misty and Brock fly out of bed with a scream of shock and fall down to the floor. Togepi and Pikachu spring awake too. Everyone looks around at the virtual Team Rocket army and screams. Ash yells, "I don't know why you took us here, but you won't get away with it!!" Giovanni laughs and says, "Is that so? You've been blundered in here by Jesse and James. You really shouldn't have seen this place, so you'll have to be our hostages. You won't be needing your Pokemon so we'll just take them off your hands." A dozen members of Team Rocket move for Ash and co, but they aren't about to give up their Pokemon without a fight!"
Ordering out the troops, our heroes get ready for the biggest fight of their lives. "Go Onix! Geodude! Zubat and Vulpix!" "Staryu and Starmie! Horsea! Go Goldeen! And Psyduck!" "Pikachu! Bulbasaur and Squirtle! Go, Go Pidgeotto!!" Using teamwork and great Pokemon tactics Ash, Misty, and Brock are able to inflict three times the losses on Team Rocket's Pokemon than what they take. The sheer numbers of Team Rocket overwhelm them though, Squirtle and Horsea take down the last rock and ground Pokemon before being knocked out. Pikachu is tired, but he's the only one still standing. Ash says, "Pikachu, we're counting on you pal! You're our only hope of getting out of here!" "Pika!! CHU!!" Pikachu sends loose a thunderwave stopping most of Team Rocket. Pikachu fires a thundershock that takes down two water Pokemon and a trainer. Pikachu then lets loose two thunder attacks and four thunderbolts leaving much of Team Rocket fried. Pikachu collapses while firing another thunderwave that paralyses five more Pokemon. Ash yells, "Pikachu!" and picks up the electric mouse. Giovanni chuckles and says, "Very impressive kid. You have convinced me that this Pikachu is powerful enough to belong to Team Rocket." Team Rocket surrounds them, taking their Pokemon and tying them up. Ash desperately fights for Pikachu, and in an act of desperation throws out Charizard. Charizard clobbers 8 trainers and 19 Pokemon before being subdued.
Ash, Misty, and Brock are tossed into their cells while Jesse and James laugh at them. "Told you Team Rocket always wins kid!" "You could have saved yourself some real trouble by giving it up the first time!" The trainers make last desperate cries for their Pokemon before the bars close. Jesse gives James a pat on the back, "Great! We finally did it! We might get a raise and some respect from the boss!" James sadly says, "I guess you're right…but why do I feel like such a complete heel?" Jesse gives a glare and says, "because you're a sentimental fool." James looks like he's about to cry and runs off, Jesse looks guilty. She tries to catch up with James and shouts "James!" once she sees she can't catch up she says "…I'm….I'm sorry…" and walks away.
Cassidy gives Jesse a mean, "Looks like the Boss might not fire you after all." Jesse just lets her fist fly and leaves Cassidy lying on the ground. Little birds fly around her head and her eyes spin around in a spiral pattern. Jesse walks by a Team Rocket doctor who's treating the wounded from Charizard and Pikachu. Jesse points back towards Cassidy and says "I believe you missed someone." Jesse went to her room and spent the rest of the night sulking. She might as well have written her last will and testament that night, for the great enemy was nearby, and it would not wait much longer to strike.
The mind of the beast
The last week had been very productive. Over a dozen cities in ruin, countless homeless, and most importantly, it had found the major characters. None of these pathetic Pokemon could hurt the great monster, and it was sure that these would prove no different. This city would be ablaze soon, and Ash and his friends out of the way. Team Rocket would be destroyed totally as well. The few remaining towns would fall, and it would rid the world of every last Pokemon, then nothing could challenge it for world domination.
It smiled as it slept, and dreamed. It dreamed of ruling the world, and crushing all opposition. And, it dreamed of the end of Pikachu. The end of Team Rocket, the end of the world as these puny humans knew it. Then it dreamt of home, three weeks ago it had set out to find the land of Pokemon, and it missed its normal routine, but soon it would be all over.
Scary huh?
Ash and Misty sat in their cell, worrying. Brock had looked the place three times over and had not seen a single way out. Ash then started looking, Brock said, "What don't you trust me?" Ash said, "Of course I trust you. I just don't have as much faith in your eyesight is all." Brock looked hurt a moment but sat down and let Ash look around. Ash sees a loose stone and starts moving it back and forth. Misty says, "Hey, what's that?" Ash answers, "A loose stone, but it'll take forever to work out of the wall!" Ash, Misty and Brock slump over looking depressed. They jump up at the sound of footsteps by the door. A familiar face looks in at them.
Brock sneers, "James, here to gloat some more?" James just gives a sad look, and turns away from the door. James is very still a moment and the good guys start asking each other questions. James turns around and says, "It was never anything personal….I only wanted the rare Pikachu, well Meowth and the Boss wanted it more than me…but, what I'm trying to say is, I didn't want to see you lose all your Pokemon and get tossed in jail like this to be used as hostages." Misty walks up and says quietly, "If you really feel sorry for us, If you really want to help us…" James leans in closer, "GET US OUT OF HERE!!" James' hair frizzes out and he clenches his teeth as his eardrums get blown out. He just says, "I can't do that" and leaves.
They work on the stone for about 5 minutes, and jump back to the door as soon as they hear more footsteps. "Is that you again James?" Jesse comes into view and glares, "I don't look much like James do I?" Ash says, "So, are you gloating?" Jesse smirks and says, "Why yes. It's what you kids deserve for trying to kill us all those times. I quite frankly look forward to using you as human shields. I do hope I get to do it." The heroes are at a loss for words fuming and steaming. Jesse walks away, thinking that somehow that didn't feel nearly as good as what she thought it would.
Team Rocket Hospital
Pikachu looked around, Ash was nowhere to be seen. There were tons of Team Rocket members and Pokemon making recoveries. Pikachu also saw some friends, Geodude, Vulpix, Togepi, Psyduck and Bulbasaur. "Pika-Pi! Chu! Kachu! Pikachu!" "Bulbasaur! Saur! Bulba-Bulba!" "Psy-aye-aye!" "Togeeepiiii!" "Vul!" "Geo! Geo-Dude!" A human walks in and waves a stick at them menacingly, "Now, don't be planning any prison escapes on us. The Boss won't like it at all." The Pokemon shrink back into their cages, afraid of the stranger.
The Pokemon wait until most everyone's gone and they turn out the lights in the Pokemon section until they start again. Pikachu tries to thundershock it, but his cage is rubber lined. Pikachu talks at Bulbasaur in a series of "Pika"s "Kachu"s "Ka"s "Chu"s and "Pikachu"s that roughly translates to "Bulbasaur, I can't thundershock my way out of here, can you use your solar beam to blast through?" Bulbasaur answers that he can't because there's no light for him to channel. Pikachu sighs and slumps, then brightens up and shouts "Pika, Pika!" as he uses just enough electricity to glow brightly. Bulbasaur perks up and tries solar beam, before remembering that it has to be sunlight. Bulbasaur tells that to Pikachu and all the Pokemon slump over looking sad.
The Pokemon and Ash & co continue their attempts to escape. Team Rocket looks to be gathering in power despite the loss of their corporate building and several agents. The enemy is preparing to strike, and no one is ready for it. Is this the end of the Pokemon cartoon series? Find out in part four of…The Greater Enemy!
