Captain Hornet shook her head. "The fools." She murmured, "In any other situation that would have been a wise move." Said Lieutenant Horizon her second in command. "That's hundreds of thousands worth of merchandise teleported directly to Jenny! What will the boss say?" Horizon grinned "Nothing if he doesn't know." Hornet glanced up sharply "Are you suggesting we misinform the head of team rocket as to the where whereabouts of several hundred thousand dollars worth of merchandise?" "I'm not suggesting we misinform him I'm suggesting we don't inform him until we have gotten the items back under team rocket control." Hornet paused for second before nodding "Very well can our agent at least keep the items at the camp?" Horizon nodded "I think so the camp is as secure a place as any." "Officer Jenny won't see it that way. I know her she'll trust no one." Horizon frowned "Actually strangely enough Officer Jenny hasn't been seen in town for a little while. She might not be a problem till it's to late." "I hope so for our sake. Have our agent attempt to keep the artifacts in the base but he needs to remember his cover is more important and not to blow it till he absolutely has to." Hornet frowned "What of our men?" "On the rod just out of Cerulean according the police frequency they are driving a large black van and at least one of them is using a ridiculously stupid fake accent." Hornet put her head in her hands "We can only hope that one of the Corporals will be able too talk their way out of it."
Jorrin was facing the unpleasant future of getting a pat down search and being revealed to have a stolen police pistol and a drivers license that would only hold up to the most minor of scrutiny. So he did what any self respecting con artist would do he bluffed "I'm sorry but I cannot agree to a pat down right at the moment for your own safety." The officer raised an eyebrow "What do you mean sir?" "I have a very bad case of Stelitis it's highly contagious and I must insist for your safety that you don't pat me down for risk of infection." The officer stared at him. "Very well we carry gloves and gasmasks as standard equipment. I suppose I'll have to use those." The officer turned and lightning fast Jorrin dosed himself with Awakening then he activated a pokeball "Sing!" He commanded "Jigglypuff!" the Jigglypuff began to sing and around them the officers all fell into a deep sleep. Unfortunately the song also took out the other rockets. "Stop." He ordered. Jigglypuff stopped and Jorrin relaxed. "Balboa." Energy formed into a Graveler "Graveler." "Pick up my allies and place them in the van." He ordered Balboa walked around and taking four in each load returned the fallen rockets to the van. "Return both of you well done." Jorrin glanced around regretfully so much looting so little time oh well. He got into the driver seat and left the officers asleep on the side of the road. He drove for several minutes before turning into Cerulean city and towards where he had been told the fallback point for team Rocket was. He made it to a blank mountain side and pushed the horn several times in a specific pattern. A hiker walked out from the bushes "What do you need traveler." He asked curiously. "I find myself in need of direction to Saffron I am a fly fishermen off to sell his wares." The hiker nodded "Come in Hornet wants to talk to you." He murmured quietly Jorrin nodded "I have a number of unconscious team mates in the back of the van." "They will be dealt with." Jorrin got out of the van and part of the mountain moved away showing a long well lit hallway. Jorrin walked down threw the hallway and found a map. He decoded it and made his way to Hornet's office. "Come in." Her voice said before he knocked the door slid open and he walked inside. "Sit down Corporal you have quite a story to tell." Said Captain Hornet. Jorrin sat down, took a deep breath and told Captain Hornet what had happened. She didn't interrupt except for thee occasional question. When he explained the sergeants ploy she rolled her eyes "He got promoted because he can fight. Looking back it may not have been wise to put him in charge of this assignment." he finished the story and she nodded. "Under any other circumstances teleporting the stolen goods to camp would have been a good move. However this time it fell straight to the coppers. Our next move is obvious. We need to take back the items tonight and you will lead the assault… Sergeant Smith." She put the emphasis on 'sergeant'. "Yes ma'am." Jorrin saluted and turned to assemble a team.
Officer Jenny drifted in and out of the shadows. She couldn't move she felt paralyzed all she saw was darkness… Terrible unending darkness. Occasionally she felt Ninetales's soothing presence but other times she felt alone horribly alone with dark clouds swirling around her and the pain flowing threw her. Occasionally she would get glimpses of the outside world. The sound of people she dimly recognized as her friends shouting her name. The sound of someone whom she knew she respected talking softly to her. These were mere glimmers bits and pieces of her life. Sometimes memories flashed before her eyes terrible dark memories the ones you struggle to forget for the rest of her life. She wasn't aware of the passing of time but at the end of what seemed like a thousand years she heard someone with a Hoenese accent chanting and the darkness started to broil and shift with small bits of light forcing themselves threw. He was chanting something in the ancient language that covered the walls of the ruins that dotted the landscape. She could feel Emptiness that surrounded her lifting and finally the voice said a name "Jenny." It was simple but with it came a flood of power which shot threw her body and forced her back into the world. She snapped up sitting bolt upright. She was in a hospital bed, naked and a man with dark skin was standing over here. "Good, Good it's good to see you return to the light." He said with a thick Hoenese accent. "Why am I naked?" She asked. "Simple young woman your body must be in its purest most natural state for the magic to work." Said the man smiling a Sableeye stood next to him its gemlike eyes glimmering. "I am Jokah and this is Mor'ku." He said gesturing at the Sableeye "I am a… What is the word in this language? a…. Mystic? Yes a Mystic and you've ran into quite a bit of dark energy young woman." "The Tower…" "You need to get some sleep Jenny. Your system is overwhelmed." "I have to tell the." "No you have to Sleep." His last word was wracked with power and she felt tiredness overwhelm her.
Misty stared blankly at Barnubus so far he had shaken off every attempt Jokah had used to make him sleep so Jokah could cleanse the madness. But every time Jokah did the charm the magic seemed to dismantle itself and be ripped to pieces. "Why isn't it working?" Daisy whined. "It only works on one of weak or currently weakened mind I assumed that he would be weak enough to fall prey to the power." Jokah smiled ruefully. "I suppose I'll have to try other means…" "Mor'ku Hyperi!" He ordered. The Sableeye stared at Barnubus. Power flooded forward in the form of large rings of psychic energy which hit Barnubus repeatedly. "Ooh… Pretty colors." Said Barnubus staring at the psychic energy. Nothing else happened. Jokah stared at Barnubus who when he noticed he was being stared at smiled and said "You know I understand that its been a good harvest this year." "For what?" Jokah asked "Milk crates." Said Barnubus. "Well then." Jokah turned to Misty "Well water-leader what ever dark force cursed him knew what it was doing. I could try when he falls asleep naturally but I have know doubt he would just wake up." "We need silver bullets." Said Barnubus seriously "Why?" Asked Misty. "I see dead people!" Barnubus said patiently. Misty turned to Jokah "He keeps saying that every thing else is completely-" "Salad!" "Random but he always says that." Jokah pause "Ah…" He murmured something in Hoenese. "What?" "Nothing but I wonder." He walked over to where Barnubus was sitting in the middle of the stage and kneeled down placing his hand on Barnubus's forehead. He began chanting and energy formed and flowed threw the kneeling figure then he stood up and dusted off the voluminous robe he wore. "I thought so." "What?" Misty asked curiously she had been watching the entire incident with a bemused expression on her face. "Whatever has driven him over the brink has also awakened some latent physic abilities." Misty stared at Jokah "… So." Jokah rolled his eyes "So you need some silver bullets." He said calmly. "I enjoy the smell of mountainous tea cups." Said Barnubus. "What?" Asked Misty. But Jokah nodded "I agree mountainous tea cups smell delicious." Barnubus grinned enthusiastically "Especially on a tree day!" He said enthusiastically Jokah nodded in agreement.
Jorrin walked into the room where the team Rocket members he had asked for were assembled. Grunt Perkins was there along with corporals Parker and Jackson the other ten people were all of Captain Hornet's and Lieutenant Horizon's choosing. "Ok people." Said Jorrin standing up in front of a large map of the camp. "This is a map of the camp as it was when we occupied it." He pulled a pen out of his vest pocket. "Our original wall was mostly destroyed in the battle so the police force has placed 'fortifications' around it as they attempt to find important documents that were not hurt in the fire. The barricade is around here. Jorrin drew a circle on the map around a significant part of the camp. "The barricade is made of concrete and would not be quiet to say the least. So we'll have to go over it. Not an easy task due to the dozens of motion sensors and security cameras that have been placed. It is patrolled near constantly. The teleport defenses that we placed are still there." Jorrin smiled "Therein lies their mistake. The key to deactivating the teleportation field is a pretty simple code that everyone Lieutenant rank and over knew. Lieutenant Horizon gave it to me freely so now we have a simple path in." Jorrin pointed at a point on the map "We are going to be teleporting into one of the few tents left standing after the fire. The police force is using it to store stolen items. Unfortunately the items themselves are warded against teleporters so the only way to get them out is quite physical. So our next step is to get Grunt Perkins virus into the main database. It should bring down the police forces cameras. After that it is a simple matter to incapacitate every single police officer in the camp." Jorrin smiled broadly "Try to stay non lethal we're going to get enough negative press from this as is. Any questions?" One of the Corporals Captain Hornet had set Jorrin up with raised her hand "Yes?" "Why isn't Captain Hornet leading this mission personally?" She asked barely keeping the contempt out of her voice. Jorrin glared at her for a second before answering "Captain Hornet is grieving her Scyther was killed by a Psibeam during the battle." "What about Lieutenant Horizon?" "Lieutenant Horizon's skill set lies on the more administrative side of war." "What about-" Jorrin interrupted her mid-complaint "Look Corporal I am the best leader for this mission simply because I have extensive experience in both pokemon training and stealth missions so you can either shut up or get up, leave this room and go tell Captain Hornet that you didn't approve of her choice for commander!" Jorrin then walked over and opened the door. "By all means corporal." He said coldly. The Corporal looked down at the table and muttered something "What did you say?" He said "I said… Yes sir." She said resentfully. "Anyone else?" There was a general muttering along the lines of "No sir." "Good does anyone else have any questions?" Corporal Jackson raised his hand "Yes Jackson?" He asked.
"Why don't we deal with these guys like we dealt with those dumb asses at the museum." Jorrin shook his head "These aren't night watchmen from the local museum these are ex solders, survivors from the war with Johto they won't let a simple trick like a Jigglypuff's sing stop them. As far as I understand it each one of them wears a gas mask with shaded eyepieces to fend of hypnosis or the various powders. Their hearing is processed threw a massive computer in Cerulean city that takes data and spits out orders I understand hundreds of Porygon Z inhabit it and they can edit what the marines see hear or smell. So no mere sleep based attack is even goanna slow these boys down. Also even without the mask I hear that these guys chug Awakening like the rest of us drink coffee so I'm doubting usual tactics will work on them." Another Rocket raised their hand "Then how are we supposed to non -lethally remove them?" Jorrin took a deep breath. "I'd use a brick maybe a good hit to the back of the neck, a bullet in the leg." The rocket member grinned and nodded. "Remember people we need to do this fast. They will never be out of touch with each other so we'll have to move with incredible speed in order to get the items before reinforcements arrive. To carry the stuff we'll be using humanoid pokemon like Machop or even simple pokemon with arms like Graveler. We will be out pokemonedd and out gunned in this battle so bring the best you've got. You have till tomorrow." Jorrin turned and walked out of the room. He made his way back to his designated quarters and after stripping laid down on the bed and contemplated that tomorrow would probably be the second most dangerous mission in his life after of course the Pewter city incident.
Officer Jenny woke up in the same hospital bed in the same room as where she had been healed she was pleased to note that she did have clothes of some sort this time. She felt reasonably normal so she tried to sit up and found it easy. Then she got out of the bed and stood up. "Oh. Good you're awake." Said a voice from the door Officer Jenny turned a young woman with pink hair wearing a surprisingly low-cut nurse uniform was standing in the doorway. "Where am I Joy?" Officer Jenny asked. "You're in the Cerulean city community hospital and you really should be resting." Officer Jenny glanced at the bed "No. So how long have I been out?" Officer Jenny asked "Before or after the Mystic healed you?" Joy asked placing the linens she was carrying on a table off to one side. "Both." "All in all two days. It took him a couple of hours to get here by plane and then he had to prepare a truly elaborate ceremony to as he said 'purify' you. Then he did that weird 'sleep' thing and you were out again he said you would awaken when the healing was complete." "Ok. What happened?" Officer Jenny asked "As far as I can tell you were hit by something that did something to your mind. At some point your Ninetales tore someone's throat out then you teleported to the police station and passed out. They rushed you over here and there was nothing I could do until the called in a foreign mystic who did some ritual that ended with him chanting for like half an hour then saying your name." Nurse Joy paused for breath "Then he put you to sleep again then told me that you would wake up when the healing was complete then the chief came and took him to work on the harmlessly insane team rocket member who lives in Misty's gym." "I need to see the chief" Officer Jenny said firmly "and where the hell is my fucking uniform." "You need to rest!" Nurse Joy stepped forward "The healing is done and I feel better than I have in years. But there is a storm brewing in Lavender town and it needs to be known."