Chapter Eleven: Team Rocket's Revenge

That night…

"Yes!" Janett whispered. "We've got her right where we want her!"

"Yup." Daniel said "So we wait by the skylight then ambush her when she least expects it. Right?"

"Of course, you dolt! Now, let's prepare shall we?" Janett commanded.

The following morning…

Gloria yawned and stretched out on her bed. Getting up, she called Bulbasaur, Pikachu and Raichu, and walked out of the room and down the hall. Just as she got to the end, the skylight above her shattered, and she screamed at who she saw leaping out of it…

"Huh?!?!?!" Michael raced down the hallway, still in his boxers. He could've sworn he'd heard a scream from the east hallway. When he got there he saw none other than Team Rocket's own Janett and Daniel! They'd ambushed Gloria and were holding her hostage.

"Hahahahahahaha! You're too late! You want her? Come and get her!" Janett yelled. Then the duo vanished in a cloud of smoke.

When the smoke cleared, there was nothing but a card with an R instead of an Ace. Michael shook his head. They'd done it again, this time practically under his nose!

"What's going on?" Asked Julie, Charmander on her back, poking its head out from behind her, worriedly.

"That $#%& Team Rocket has kidnapped Gloria! We…we've got to do something!" Michael replied. He was so upset that he didn't even notice his Eevee until it begun sniffing the playing card.

"Vee! Vee! Eevee! Eevee! Vee!!" it squealed excitedly, hopping up and down.

"Hey!" Michael pulled Eevee away. "You got a scent or something?" He tied an Escape Rope around the little guy's middle. "Show us!"

"Hey! I think we should wake up Joshua. I'd swear that boy could sleep through a hurricane." Julie commented, the second part in a half-undertone.

"Right. I'll wake him up, you call Officer Jenny." Michael said as he raced back down the hall.

"Hey, put me DOWN!!!" Gloria demanded. The duo had taken her into a tunnel somehow.

"Shut up, you little rat!" Daniel hissed. "We'll give you the scoop. You tell us how you …transformed, we'll let you and your 'pals' go without a scratch." He produced a small cage with a Bulbasaur, a Pikachu, and a Raichu inside of it. "If you resist, we'll find other ways... No drawbacks, no disadvantages, just that. How's that sound…?"

"No, no, and NO! I refuse…" Gloria hissed, a furious look on her face.

"Ooooo-kaaaaaaaaay." Janett said as she pulled a Pokéball out. "We'll see how you deal with THIS! Abra, go!"

A weird-looking Pokémon was released, wearing an even weirder looking helmet.

"Teleport, and this time don't fail!"

The Abra's eyes glowed and next thing Gloria knew, she was in a dark, smelly prison cell of some kind.

"Bullllllllllllllllllbaaaaaaaaaaasaurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" a voice cried from somewhere in her cell.

Gloria looked about. "Bulb, bulb bulbasaur!" she cried (I'm over here!). She hoped that was her Bulbasaur.

"Huh? You speak my language?!" The Bulbasaur asked.

"Yes. Where are ya'? Come here! It's me, Gloria!"

Out of the darkness, Bulbasaur came crawling to her, followed by Pikachu, and Raichu, their eyes showing fear and confusion.

"Shhh. It's going to be okay," she said picking Pikachu up and stroking its back. "We'll get out somehow. I don't know or care how, but we'll find a way…"

Back at the Pokécenter…

"Hey! Wake up!" Michael said shaking Joshua.

"Huh? What?" he said sleepily.

"Get up! We've got trouble! I'll tell you more later."

Joshua rubbed his eyes and got out of bed. "What's wrong?" He asked, "It sounds bad."

"Squirtle, squirt!" agreed Squirtle.

"Well," said Michael "let's just say Team Rocket's got Gloria, and we got to get her out of there!"

"WHAT?!?" said Joshua grabbing a still snoozing Farfetch'd off the bed and startling her. "Why didn't you say so?"

Back at Team Rocket's HQ…

"Oh great…Now what?" Gloria thought as a Kangaskhan opened the door.

"Come on." It said in English " There's not much time. I'll bust ya' outta' here in no time!"

"Huh?" Gloria said surprised. She never knew Pokémon could talk in English, much less adopt slang.

"SHSSHHHHH!" said the Kangaskhan. "You want the others to hear me?" It then grabbed Gloria and put her in its pouch.

"Uhhhh, could ya' get that Bulbasaur, Pikachu and Raichu too?" Gloria asked quietly.

"No problem. Just lie low and I'll do the rest." It replied as it grabbed Bulbasaur, Pikachu and Raichu one by one and put them in too. "KANGA! KANGA!" It said as it hopped down the hall.

"Hey! Shsssh! Slow down!" Gloria yelled.

"Sorry-KANGA! KANGA! No-KANGA! -Time." It said as if trying to hide the fact it could talk.

"Hey!"

"Oops. Busted." Said Kangaskhan.

"A-HA! Caught you red-pawed!" said Janett as she raced out of a door.

"Boo hiss." Gloria said with a groan, poking her head out of Kangaskhan's pouch.

"How'd you get out of your cell anyway?" said Daniel.

"Forget that," Gloria said hopping out of the pouch, "I'm getting out of here, and YOU can't do anything to stop me!"

She grabbed Pikachu, Bulbasaur, and Raichu and turned into an Illicuno. "Come and get me, if you can!" she stuck out her long, red tongue at them, made a flatulent sound, and ran down the hall, Kangaskhan following fast.

"After her!!!!!!" Daniel yelled, chasing Gloria and company.

"That's my line!" Janett yelled back with a glower of impatience.