Chapter 10: The Poison Type

"We have the ice type, Master, and we're on route to the poison type," E reported. She and the other Rocket mews were in a big airship. E was in a back room of the ship kneeling before a large monitor. On the monitor's screen was none other than Giovanni himself. Since the PokeMew project was so important, he made sure that E reported directly back to him.

"Good," Giovanni replied. "Now make sure you gather all the others, including the rebels. Team Rocket and all its advanced technologies are the only thing that can help them return to a normal life. After you assist us, of

course."

"Anything for you, Master," E said. "I swear my eternal devotion to you."

"I have faith in you, E," Giovanni said. "Don't let me

down."

The connection was broken, and E stood back up. She went into one of the ship's more common areas where Mallory was training with Kaylene, and Elizabeth was coloring in a sketchbook.

"Don't you think I would be prettier if I was part Mismagius instead of part Misdreavus?" Elisabeth asked as she held out her sketchbook, revealing a cute little-witch type design. "I could keep my own hair and everything. I could be beautiful again."

"Elizabeth, Team Rocket can make you beautiful again, nothing else," E explained.

"Ice Beam!" Kaylene shouted as the ice beam shot from her fingertips.

Mallory dodged with ease. "You're gonna have to try harder than that," she challenged. "Give me all that you've got! No holding back!"

"Ice Shard!" Kaylene was determined. She let her burning hatred fuel her force. Mallory dodged again, but just barely this time. "Frost Breath!"

Kaylene's Frost Breath attack had Mallory on the floor trembling. "So cold..." she muttered.

"Time to die, Steven," Kaylene whispered to herself. "Blizzard!"

The whole room was filled with various bits if snow and ice, and Mallory was frozen. "All right, that's enough, Kaylene. Take her to be thawed," E instructed.

"Where's a fire type when you need one?" Elizabeth commented.

"You got that right," E responded. "We've almost reached the location of the poison type, so make sure Mallory is melted and ready."

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"I've still got a chill," Mallory grumbled as they left their ship.

"It doesn't matter," said E. "We have a mission to complete."

"But she should not be allowed to pretend that I'm her stupid brother just to be stronger!" Mallory complained. "I'm nothing like that baffoon! It's insulting for her to pretend I'm him, even if it's just for training purposes! Can't she just wait for the real battle to kill him?"

"Silence, soldier!" E ordered. "We'll discuss this later."

"Target ahead!" Elizabeth pointed. "The scanner says it's that nerdy boy there."

Elizabeth was pointing at a twiggy adolescent who had ginger hair and light violet eyes.

"He looks weak," Kaylene remarked. "This should be easy. He'll need hard training later to become strong, though."

"It's your turn to wield the machine," E told Kaylene.

"With pleasure," Kaylene replied. "Once you feel the horrible sting of the machine, all you ever want to do is inflict that pain on another."

She made her way to the boy and pressed the machine to his back. He screamed (like a girl) from the pain. He fell to the ground face first. He was now wearing afull-body skin-tight light purple rubbery suit with scarce dark purple spots, a dark purple choker with a mew pendant on it, and dark purple mew accessories. He now had nidorino ears and a nidorino horn. "Ow..." he moaned slowly as he stood back up.

Our four cruel beauties couldn't help but begin to chuckle at the sight of this new mew's ridiculous looking form. It was the first male mew for their team, so they didn't have too much of an example of how the males were. But they had seen the good boys while kicking their butts, and they looked a lot more serious than this new guy.

"Look at that!" Elizabeth exclaimed. "And to think that I considered my new look hideous!"

"Yeah, at least we look pretty hot," Kaylene said.

"Like total badasses," added E.

"He just looks like some dork in a costume," Mallory pointed out. "I mean, just look. Other than ears and a horn, there are no physical alterations. Not like my hair becoming a huge set of chompers, now that's pretty impressive."

While Elizabeth and Kaylene agreed with Mallory's statement, E found herself unamused. It sounded more like they were describing her. Didn't she look like a mere dork in a costume?

"What's your name, kid?" E asked the boy.

"Manley," he answered. This caused an uprising of laughter from the other three girls.

"But he's so stringy and weak!" Kaylene laughed.

"Yes, I'm aware of the irony..." Manley replied shyly.

"Knock it off, girls!" E commanded. "Don't you remember what it felt like when you first discovered you were a mew? How you realized you were an oddity, not like all the normal humans? How terrible and cursed you still feel about it? Did any of your fellow mews make fun of you? No, because we all understand how it feels. So back off the new guy, he doesn't deserve this harsh treatment."

"Ok, we get it," Mallory said thoughtfully.

"At least now we have some perspective to see that comparatively, we really don't have it that bad," Kaylene mentioned.

Kaylene, Mallory, and Elizabeth went back up into the ship.

"Hey, um, I really don't know what's going on here, but thanks for sticking up for me," Manley thanked E.

"Hmph, it's nothing," E responded coldly. "Don't think we're friends, I'm the leader here. Got it?"

"Yes, Ma'am," Manley saluted.

"Now, let me tell you about the mews."

End of Chapter 10

A/N: When I was designing Manley's character, I knew I wanted his name to start with the letter M. So I looked up baby names beginning with M and thought that the name Manley was wonderfully ironic (yes, it is totally a real name). We'll get to see more of the irony later when he's actually doing stuff.

So, here we have our first all Rocket mew chapter. We get some insight into what they do when they're not causing problems For Damian and his friends. Fun stuff. Leave a review of you want :)