Chapter 4

Weather Or Not, Here We Come

Authors note and warning to the reader:

Near the end of this chapter it talks about a person 'exposing' themselves. Nothing much else though, so I still think it is a T rated chapter. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Anyway, hope you enjoy the chapter!

The road we were on was fairly desolate, not may cars but the ones we did see we passed without a second look. The road was not on the path I original wanted to take, but trekking through the mountains of a tropical island was not as pleasant as I thought. Hot, muggy, and no place to bathe. But, one thing is for sure… I didn't have to deal with any of the crap over Team Magma or Aqua.

I looked down, away from the straight stretch to the two new companions we had tagging along with us. They were sitting in the two cup holders on the right hand side, bickering at each other. Pichu was sitting in the cup holder closer to the front on the left hand side eyeing them down with a scolding face.

I looked back up watching as some palm trees zipped past us. Why does this bike have four cup holders anyway? Ahead I saw something, something strange. In the middle of the road I brought the bike to a stop, and watched the sky as a white flake fell on my helmet visor. "Snow?"

HOOOOONNNKKK! I startled, looking back to the road and seeing a large truck that had just came around the curve ahead. I revved the bike, throwing it in reverse and flying off the road and into the ditch as the truck flew by us. I looked around at the three pokemon that sat on either side of me. "You all okay?" I asked. Minin and Plusel just looked at me, scared, but Pichu, he was another story.

"Pi!" He jumped, and then looked at the truck that was heading away from us. "Pi! Pi! Pi-cha-chu!"

"Yeah," I said, raising the hood up. "You tell 'um bud."

Walking around the bike I groaned. "Great." The bike itself was in working order, it would drive, but the paneling on the left side was all messed up. It was spider cracked and then in one placed, right where the wheel stabilizer was bolted to the frame on the backside, completely shattered.

"Looks like it'll need body work done on it." I then signed. "This darn thing. I swear. Right when I think that I might not need to spend any more of my dwindling money stash…"

I stopped talking, watching as another flake of snow fell in front of my face one more time. I looked up, seeing a sign above me. 'Route 119' it said on it. A little ways up the road, right where it began to swing into a curve, I saw another sign. On it read, 'The Weather Institution – Next Right'.

"Weather Institution, huh?" I looked up again, seeing more snow fall. "This might be interesting."

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I rounded the corner, testing out the traction and handling of the bike from the damage. The back wheel was out of balance. If I get it up to 80 or so it starts to shake. Its probably one of the welds that broke loose.

As we drove further the weather became more and more unpredictable. It snowed, rained, was sunny, and then in the middle of the that, it was almost like a tornado was summoned.

I looked up when we reached the building. It was tall, about as wide as a football field, and had two stories on it. I took off my helmet, shaking my head as I stared up at the massive antenna sticking out of the roof of the building. "Why don't we stop in there for a bit?" I asked, as we found a spot in the parking lot. Looking down at Pichu, I raised the hood of the bike.

"Pi!" Pichu said, getting ready to jump up on my shoulder, but he was stopped my two other rodents. Minin jumped on my right shoulder while Plusel jumped on my left.

"Whoa!" I said, looking at one then the other. "Well… umm… okay."

"Pi…" Pichu groaned taking off his goggles, throwing them inside the cup holder as he followed behind me.

We walked past the cars, eyeballing all of them. They were all very similar, not by type or maker mind you, but rather, the color. I then turned to look back at my bike. "Great… it's the only thing red in this entire parking lot."

Shaking my head I kept walking, coming to the glass door, which slid open automatically. The inside was very plane, in fact, if anything it reminded me of my mothers pokemon lab. There was a long hallway that the door opened up into, which had a waiting area, and an adjacent hallway to the left. I glanced around, not seeing anyone, so, being nosey I snuck down the hallway.

Down the narrow hall was two doors, one on the left and right. Plusle and Minin's ears shot up as we peered around the right door. Inside we saw about twenty or so people in white lab coats running about, printing papers, typing on computers, and checking on forecasting's on large televisions.

"Pi! Pi, CHU!" Pichu huffed, looking up at us.

"Pichu!" I hussidly scolded, jumping away from the door and wrapping my hand over his mouth.

"What was that?" I heard some one say as footsteps grew closer to the door.

"It sounded like a pokemon." Another set came closer. I pressed my back against the wall, holding Pichu in my arms and still covering his mouth.

"It was probably Castform." Another said. "You know how it likes to goof off."

Castform?

"I don't know why Shelly wanted us to create that thing anyway." The first one chimed in again. "Is stealing and selling pokemon not enough for her, or running this organization? Instead, now she wants to play God?"

"Hey man, not so loud." The second voice said. "These morons may think its just some game, but I don't want to get killed over your stupidity."

I looked at Pichu, removing my hand from his mouth as I whispered. "What's up?"

"Pi…" Pichu frowned, pointing a finger up at Minin, and then moving to Plusle. The two looked at each other, then at my shoulders, and then back to Pichu sticking out their tongues and pulling down their eyelids.

"Piiii…." Pichu groaned, charging up static as sparks shot from his cheeks.

"No!" I said, still keeping my voice down. "No! Not now, Pichu" I then looked back into the room, spying all of the people wearing blue bandanas with white and black skulls on them. I looked back to Pichu. "All those guys in there are Aqua's. That's a TON of Aqua's. If you want to settle a score with these two varmints, then fine." I heard Minin and Plusle gulp as Pichu grinned. "But not now. Right now we are deep in it, and we need to find out what's going on."

We snuck past the door unnoticed making our way to the second door. I looked in, and saw a PC system, bed, and a PokeHealer, and no one monitoring it. I turned around; looking and making sure that no one saw us dive into the empty room. Quietly we closed the door.

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"Commander Shelly!" An elite guard ran up to this woman with bright red teased hair. She was wearing a denim blue half jacket with cut off sleeves, un-zipped and exposing her black bra. He pants were the same blue as her jacket, and high heeled boots the color of her hair. She was sporting a pair of aviator black glasses, and staring out of the window on the second floor at her newly created pokemon floating around in the sky.

"What?" She demanded.

"Sir! There is a Magma in our facility!"

Shelly spun around, tossing her hair to the side as she did. "What? Are you sure?"

"Yes, Sir!" The guard kneeled down to her. "In the parking lot, there is a red motorcycle. Fairly damaged. More than likely-"

"After our research!" Shelly cut the guard off. She then looked to the sky at the pokemon that was causing snow, rain, tornados and lighting all at the same time. "We spent years, and thousands of dead bodies to make this amazing creature. Those blasted Magmas will NOT take it from us!"

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"Alright," I said, looking around. "We need a plan." In the corner I spied some lockers. I ran to them, twisting the combinations and trying to open them. "Drat, locked."

I leaned up against them, watching Plusle and Minin run off my shoulders and over to the computer in the middle of the room. Pichu, taking his chance, ran up and jumped on my shoulder.

"Selling, trading, and creating pokemon. This sounds very familiar. I think there are some things Wynonna didn't mention to me about this Aqua and Magma stuff."

Suddenly the lights dimmed, and then a red strobe light came on as well as a sirin. "What?!" I jumped, looking around and seeing Plusle and Minin tangled up in in the wires that were inside of the computer systems.

"Ummm…" The both whimpered, then pointed to each other, saying 'he did it!' in their language.

"Oh my goodness!" I said, pulling them out of the wires as I franticly looked around. "This is not what I need right now."

"Attention!" A voice said over the intercom. "A Magma as broke into our facility."

"A Magma?" I questioned. "Hmm… I guess it's not us that set off the alarm them."

"He is in the healing room!" The voice said again. "Whom ever brings me his head will get two weeks paid vacation and a chance to battle in the League of Hoenn!"

"Sweet!" I said, getting out a pokeball. "If I can take down this guy I'll get a free shot at the league!" I then looked around and saw a sign hanging from the ceiling. "Wait…" The words on the sign read, 'Healing Room'.

"Wait!" I backed up, looking around the room. "That means…"

"There he is!" I head voices say. I spun around, looking at the door and seeing it pried open by guards wearing blue and black stripe outfits with skulls on their shirts. "Get him!"

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"We have him on the video feed, Sir!" An Aqua member grunt said, pulling up a surveillance camera on the overhead television. Shelly walked over to the grunt, staring at the screen and watching the boy in the green shirt trying to break into the lockers.

"He his pretty clever for a Magma grunt." Shelly commented, watching him scramble. "Getting in here by using three electric type pokemon as a cover. Now he's looking for information right in our hidden storage area." She then glanced over, reaching past the grunt at the computer and flipped a switch. The lights dimmed and a red siren sounded. "Attention!" she said over the intercom. "A Magma as broke into our facility. He is in the healing room! Whom ever brings me his head will get two weeks paid vacation and a chance to battle in the League of Hoenn!" She smiled, watching the video as he took the three pokemon he had in his arms. "Magma scum."

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"Freeze, Magma!" One of the Aqua's said, standing in the door as they all readied their pokeballs.

"Guys," I said half hearted laughing. "Cant we all just get along?"

"As if!" One of them screamed as he tossed out a pokeball. In the air floated a very weak looking Zubat. "That spot in the League is mine!"

"Yeah…" I laughed. "Man, and to think I was worried about you losers. Hey, better yet, lets even the odds," I then raised my hands up. "Come on everyone, release all your pokemon."

"You asked for it!" The man screamed as he yelled back to the rest of the group. "Lets get him!" Before long the room was filled with about thirty Zubat, several Poochyena, and quite a few Carvanha just flopping on the ground like a Magikarp. It was so packed that the trainers couldn't see what was going on from all the pokemon in such a small area.

"Now," I said lowly to the three little mice I was holding onto in my arms. We crept to the window, watching as the Aqua members began to bicker and fight amongst themselves about which pokemon was which. I slowly pushed it open, releasing Beedrill outside as I slid the other three out first. When I was outside I put them on his back.

"Plusle, Minin," I said, watching them shake, scared on the back of the giant bee. "This is Beedrill, and we don't have time for introductions, so just hang on tight." I then looked at Beedrill. "I know this is a lot to ask, and hard on you, but I need you to take us to the top of the building. Can you do it?"

Beedrill nodded, picking me up by the shoulders with his feet as his wings began to flap violently. He pushed hard, pulling us off the ground as the Aqua members began to all crowd around the window. I laughed, seeing them gasp as we landed on the roof.

Beedrill was breathing hard. This is the first time in four weeks that I let him out of his pokeball, and I made him lift nearly four times his own weight about thirty feet in the air. "I'm sorry bud," I said, patting him on the head as I recalled him. "You have earned a rest."

"I should have known that those grunts wouldn't have what it takes to defeated a Magma spy!" I turned around, seeing a woman wearing hardly anything up-top, and a long pair of jeans. In fact, her hair covered more of her body than her clothes did.

"You're… You're…" I stuttered

"Yes!" she laughed. "I am the famous leader of this underground Team Magma group, Shelly!"

"No…" I stuttered again as I gave her a completely confused look. "You are nearly nude. Did you know your boobs are falling out?"

"Wha-" She then blushed.

"Yeah, really." I said, pointing at her chest. "Your boobs, they are exposed, big time. You really should zip that thing up, its been snowing lately around here. I know its normally like, 120 degrees, but trust me, no one wants to see you exposing yourself."

"How… dare you…" She cursed, as a vein rose up on her head. "Come into my base and insult me?!"

"Your, base?" I then thought about what she had said earlier. "Oh! You're Shelly. I heard your peons down there talking about you." I then smiled, grabbing a pokeball off my belt as I talked. "I had a few questions for you. I heard that you steal pokemon and sell them. And you also create pokemon too. I knew of an organization that did that very same thing, they were called Team Rocket. Do you know of them?"

"Know of them? Know of them?!" She screamed. "Those amateurs had no idea what they were doing. As soon as Giovanni was out of the picture they crashed and burned. Just like you are going to do before I tell you anything about my operation!"