If you're wondering why I don't put the disclaimer before each chapter... I just feel like that gets repetitve... You all know I don't own Pokemon nor Team Rocket... if I did, I'd be a very rich man... All I own are Josh and Harris...
And BTW, like I've requested before... please review!
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10 minutes later
Meowth had just finished telling Mondo the whole story about his saving the kid's life, his face growing more and more sorrowful...
"So you're saying that you actually rescued this kid from a murderer??", Mondo asked, his eyes wide as dinner plates
"Uh-huh."
"..and now he's out to kill YOU?"
"Looks dat way...", Meowth answered, shuddering a little in fear
"Part of me wants to believe you...", Mondo started to say before he turned his attention fully to the road, "but part of me wants it to be a lie..."
"I understand why you'd want that..", Josh said softly, "I wish it was all a lie myself... I really do... but it's all true... and I can prove it too..."
Finally, they pulled up to a cabin with a mailbox out front reading Jessie/James/Meowth
"Here we are!", Mondo shouted as he stopped the jeep and climbed out, "Rocket Residence!"
"Dump, sweet dump..." Meowth said jokingly as he got out of the jeep
James, Josh, and Jessie climbed out slowly and entered the cabin as Farfetch'd flew in after them
"Hmm.. Nice feng-shui arrangement.", Josh couldn't help but mutter as he looked around the cabin's interior for the computer, admiring all the plants, the cozy-looking furniture, even the dartboard of what appeared to be a black-haired boy wearing a red cap and with a Pikachu on his shoulder. Finally, he found the media table where the black-framed monitor of the computer, the gray keyboard, and the red power tower rested with a small blue modem laying on the very top of the frame and he motioned for everyone to join him by the P.C. As everyone sat around the teen, he turned on the computer and, after it loaded up, logged onto the internet
"Now I must warn you all, these reports are NOT pretty. So if you have weak stomachs, I'd suggest either looking away, or getting a barf bag handy."
In response, Jessie pulled out 6 paper bags and handed them out to everyone, keeping one for herself. But when she handed Josh his, the teen promptly crumpled the bag up and tossed it over his shoulder
"After all I've seen... gore doesn't sicken me anymore...", he said coolly
"Ok...", Jessie said, a little puzzled
Josh proceed to type very fast on the computer, his finger speed impressing the others. When he had hit the final key, he looked around at the others surrounding him.
"Is everyone prepared..."
Upon seeing the others nodding in agreement, he slowly pressed in the ENTER key and a black glow emenated from the monitor. As the 6 looked on, a whole set of links to reports concerning Belger's crimes appeared on the screen. Some of the link names were grisly in and of themselves.
Mondo clicked on the topmost link and as the report came up... three words immediately sprang into everyone's mind...
"Oh... my... god..."
The report they were looking at told about how Harris had kidnapped a budding young trainer right before a battle at the Celadon City gym and used his switchblade to gouge out the trainer's eyes in the shape of the Celadon gym badge, leaving the body on the gym's steps for the leader, Erica, to find
James immediately clicked on a second link, only to look away quickly with a cry of "Holy fuck!!'. The report they were looking at now described how another victim and his Clefable were found full of stab wounds and buried in a shallow grave near the Indigo Plateau, only days after the Pokemon League Tournament had ended
"What kind of man would do these things?!", Meowth asked, gagging and trying to hold down his lunch
As they clicked on report after report, they soon learned that what Harris was capable of was nothing short of ghastly and that was NOT referring in the slightest sense to the ghost-pokemon. After one report, detailing in graphic detail how Harris used his switchblade to bisect a Beedrill and actually eat its stinger, Meowth couldn't hold it anymore and he barfed violently into his bag
"This guy's not a killer.", Jessie muttered in horror, "He's a fucking monster!!
By this point, Josh was also getting uneasy as some of the atrocities that he was learning that Harris had committed were borderline sadistic. He just wanted to get to the last link... the one that would help validate his story..
"One last report, one that'll prove that Meowth helped me escape from his clutches.", he said as he scrolled down and clicked on the bottommost link
As the link's information came up, the 5 of them could only look in shock at the screen at what was displayed in the monitor
"It can't be..", Jessie whispered in shock
"There's no way..", Mondo muttered in horrified dismay
The report told about how Harris escaped his prison, and about who helped put him in jail in the first place, namely Josh and Meowth, and it was then... finally then... that they believed the teen's tale...
"So it's true.", James admitted, all the doubt he may have had wiped out by that one single article
"Every word of it.", Josh replied as he turned off the P.C. screen, "It's all true."
"Then that means.. my life really is in danger!!", Meowth uttered before collapsing into James arms, sobbing, while Jessie just looked at Josh with a scared look on her face
"So this guy's out for Meowth's head?"
"I'm afraid so.", Josh replied, "But Meowth saved my life once before.."
As the teen said this, he reached behind his back towards the long object strapped and, with a single swift movement, pulled it out to reveal a long, sharp katana. Along the blade's edge, a trail of black symbols could be seen imprinted
"..and now it's time I protect his! By any.. means.. necessary!!"
Jessie, James, Meowth, and Mondo could only stare in awe and shock at the huge sword that was now in Valentine's hands..
"Where... where did you get that... that... that... that sword?!", Mondo barely managed to stammer out
Josh gently ran his fingers along the blade of the katana as he looked towards his Farfetch'd
"Farfetch'd, would you care to tell how?", he asked the duck-pokemon
Farfetch'd gave a coy smile and said "That's actually a pretty interesting story... That sword wasn't the only thing we got..."