Professor Namba found himself in a small dark room that stank of rotting meat. He and the other Team Rocket scientists had been living out life sentences for their roles in the Omegamoah Crisis. Last night he was abducted from his prison cell by persons unknown. The next thing he knew, he woke up chained to a chair. He struggled for a minute, when suddenly he heard agonized screaming echoing from somewhere else in the building. A few moments later the door was opened by a terrifying woman in a black cloak. She had a pale tattooed face and short black hair. Her hands were stained with blood, and there was some trickling down her lips.

"Professor Namba, it's a pleasure to finally meet you. I'm Eris, the leader of Team Chaos. I trust you've heard of me?"

Namba was silent.

"I'll take that as a yes. Let's get right down to business; I need some information from you. You and your fellow Rocket scientists were responsible for creating the Pokemon Omegamoah… I'd like to know how you did that."

Eris produced a large knife, which was also stained with fresh blood.

"I'm a girl who always gets what she wants. We can do this the easy way, or the fun way…"

Eris licked the knife, and then she waved it back and forth over Namba's hand. It was as if she was trying to figure out which part to start with.

"What's it going to be?"

"Team Rocket's goal was to create the ultimate Pokémon. Several projects were tried, but Omegamoah was the one that worked. Our mission was to create a specimen that had an unmatched arsenal of attacks and could adapt to whatever it fought. We did this by combing the genes of hundreds of different species. Ice Pokemon can't be frozen, Pokemon with the Volt Absorb ability heal themselves when struck with electric attacks, dark type Pokemon are unaffected by psychic attacks, and so on."

"Yes, I already knew that."

Eris took out a toothpick and fooled around with her teeth for a minute. Namba saw something that looked disturbingly like a piece of skin.

"The others told me the same… I imagine you needed some kind of proverbial glue to hold the resulting specimen together… not to mention give him the power to destroy an entire city with his Death Beam. Are you going to tell me how you did that, or am I going to have to make room for seconds?"

Namba had heard the rumors regarding this woman, and they made his blood run cold. It beginning to look more and more like those rumors were true.

"Well?"

"One of our agents found something in the Johto region. At first we thought it was some type of unidentified evolution stone, but the energy readings it gave off were inconsistent… We used its power to stabilize Omegamoah and amplify his abilities."

"Did it look like this?"

Eris produced an eerily glowing crystalline stone. Its shape was similar to the one that Team Rocket had used to create Omegamoah. Now that Namba got a better look at it, he realized that these stones were fragments of a whole.

"Yes, that's exactly like the one we had…"

"These idiots had no idea what they had in their possession… Then again, I don't imagine Giovanni would have fulfilled their true purpose even if he did… The only things people like him care about are money and power… and it makes me sick."

Eris spun her knife around in her hand for a minute. Namba didn't know whether it was the sound of her voice or her silence that bothered him more.

"Where is the stone now?"

"I don't know. Everything that we had was seized by the government when Team Rocket fell. If you want the stone, you're going to have to get it from them."

"One final question… What's that thing on your face?"

"What thing on my…YAAAAAGH!"

Before Namba could finish his sentence, Eris drove her knife into his forehead and twisted it like a corkscrew.

"Oh right… it's my knife. HA-HA!"

(To be continued)