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Chapter 9

Silver was thrown through the doors, landing on the floor. He stood up, rubbing his head as he looked up to find himself facing a man.

"So, we meet again, Silver, my son," said the man in the chair.

"Heh. So we meet again, my father." Silver said back to the man in the mahogany finished chair.

"So, son, looks like you grown up quite a bit since I last laid eyes on you. I see that you have finally tamed that wild beast mane of hair on your head." The man chucked slightly at his own rudimentary joke. "Looks like you are also in good health, I presume."

"Well, father, it looks like you are still the very same man I knew before; you haven't changed a bit since our last encounter. And like wise you seem to be in exceptionally good health as well," Silver retorted back to his father.

"I'm glad you think that way, but a change of subject, if you don't mind, how has life been treating you, son?"

"Fine, but of course, no thanks to you." Silver brushed a clump of hair from his face. "Father, let's quit this idle banter. You know why I'm here, and I'm well aware of the fact."

"Kids these days, you can't even hold a decent conversation. They think that they know everything about the world, always serious. It seems as though you are just as impatient as the kids, much more so than I originally thought. So I presume that you're here to thwart Team Rocket for good?"

"You would be correct. I've come to the realization that Pokémon are not just tools, but real beings, something you have not yet come to the realization of. I've come to stop you and try to make you realize your cruel and unjust ways you treat Pokémon."

"Well said, son. I couldn't have delivered a better speech if I was in your position. Fine, I accept your foolishness plans to thwart Team Rocket, but I hope that you are well aware that this base is one of several bases, whose powers are steadily growing. Even if I were brought down, there will be someone else to replace me."

"Don't worry; I've already dealt with each of those other so called bases." The man's eyes widened at that.

"You what?"

"Oh, you didn't know?" Silver chucked, just as manically as his father had done. "I would have thought with all of the money that Team Rocket had, that new of their disbandment would have reached you, but I'm afraid that I assumed wrong."

"No, that can't possibly be!" The man clutched his head with his hands. How could you have single handedly brought them down.

"I guess that you haven't been watching me as thoroughly as you should have." Silver picked a ball from his belt around his waist. "Go, Feraligatr!" He pressed the center of the ball and the ball grew. Silver threw the ball and out came a blue monster, about 8 feet tall.

"I will not have this!" The man grabbed a Pokéball from his desk. "This ends here! Go, Tyrannitar!" The man threw the ball and out came a green-scaled monster, about the same height as the blue monster across from it. "Mud-shot."

The green Pokémon shot from its mouth a blast of mud, almost projectile in shape. The Feraligatr didn't flinch at all as the projectile of mud hit him.

""Ha! Is that the best you could do? Is this all the great, world-renowned criminal could do! The gym leader of the Viridian Gym and the Leader of Team Rocket! Giovanni!" Silver laughed. "I was looking forward to this battle, and I was expecting more. Go, Feraligatr, Hydro Pump."

The giant blue alligator monster cocked its head back, and ball of water began to form in front of its mouth. It flung its head down and from the ball came a jet of water, which hit the Tyrannitar. The green monster flew through the air and slammed against the wall.

"This is the power of friendship, bonding with Pokémon, becoming companions" Silver began walking towards his father. "I was once like you father, I thought Pokémon were merely just tools; tools which were meant to be exploited for their power, but I met some people who helped me to realize that was looking at Pokémon all the wrong way. I continually lost against this guy named Gold. He kept on blabbering about how I couldn't ever beat him because I mistreated my Pokémon. I didn't believe him. I thought he was just full of himself because he continued to beat me. I didn't heed is words. Slowly, though, I began to realize the truth behind his words. So now, here I am, to give you the option to change your ways and your thoughts about Pokémon." Silver finished and took a breath.

"Hah!" The man laughed at his son, Silver. "You think that'd believe that shit! Friendship, what a joke; it is only a hindrance. Pokémon are just tools to us. You think that your relationship between your Pokémon is friendship, but it's just like a master and their slave!" The man was now standing and shouting hysterically.

"No, you're wrong, Giovanni, we help Pokémon and they help us. We become inseparable from our Pokémon through this friendship. You are just too blind to understand this.

"Fuahahaha! I can't believe you truly think this! Get off your high horse, Silver! You are so concede –" Giovanni stopped abruptly, blood pouring from his head. Silver just stared in horror at is now lifeless father.

"He was always just a pawn." The stranger stepped from the shadows. "You have one minute to get out of here and by the way, here is your girlfriend." An unconscious Kotone was shoved from where the guy was just standing, in the shadows.

"Kotone!" Silver exclaimed as he ran to catch her. "Who are you?"

"Take this and come to the place marked on the map and all of your questions will be answered." The glass ceiling shattered, causing pieces of glass to rain upon Silver and the unconscious Kotone in his arms. A ladder fell, which the stranger grabbed and climbed up. There was a helicopter waiting for him at the top.

"Wait!" Sliver yelled after the man, but the helicopter blades slicing through the air muffled his cry. As soon as the man reached the top of the ladder, the helicopter zoomed off into the distance.

SELF-DESTRUCT WARNING! ONE MINUTE REMAINING FOR ESCAPE

Silver jumped at the alarm. He reached for Kotone with his bloody arm and pulled from her bag a Pokéball and threw it. A Typhlosion popped out.

"Typhlosion! Fire Blast, aim for the wall!" He exclaimed at the fire being. It reared its head and sent a giant ball of fire at the wall and melted it. Silver grabbed the lifeless corpse of his father. Just as he reached for him, though, a chunk of the ceiling hit Silver in the back of the head and knocked him out cold.

Black out.

End of chapter.

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