After several moments, the forest was calm and peaceful once again, but Ginan couldn't help feeling a bit freaked out. "Should...we go in?" she asked tentatively, peering into the trees.
"Well, we healed all our pokemon at the center, and we checked out our room, and we have really no further reason to stay in Azalea, so I think we should still go, how bad could it be?" Angelica replied, beggining to stroll into the trees.
"I suppose I'll go with then." Ginan sighed, follwing her freind. The Ilex forest was not very hard to traverse through. The trees formed pretty much a straight forward path, and there weren't any particularly strong wild pokemon. "There doesn't seem to be anything here, but I wonder what that boom was..." Ginan mused, while kicking aside some sticks with her foot. Angelica shrugged, not actaully having a clue either.
"I don't know, but I heard there was a special shrine to a legendary pokemon somewhere in this forest, and I kind of wanted to visit it..."
"Oh, you'll stay away from our plans." Angelica and Ginan heard somebody growl. The two whirled around to see two figures in black unifroms looking at them. "We had instructions to gaurd this place." one said, gesturing behind the two figures where Ginan could see a forest clearing, and more people in black uniforms, which meant...
"Team Rocket!" Angelica spat, clenching her fists. "You're back so soon, what are you doing this time!" The two grunts simply scowled at her, and pulled out pokeballs.
"Our orders were to keep intruders out, go Rattata!" the grunts yelled, throwing forth several pokeballs, and revealing purple rodents with long, front teeth.
"Oh, so it's a battle you want, go Eevee!" Angelica cried. Ginan, catching the drift, released her Flaaffy to fight the grunts.
"Bite!" the grunts called in unison. Opening their mouths, the vermin rushed at Flaaffy and Eevee, ready to chomp them.
"I've Rattata enough to know how to handle them, use quick attack!" Angelica called. Eevee ran between the two rats, and swiftly tackled one, making it roll back, as Ginan yelled,
"Flaaffy, thundershock!" the electric attack nailed the other normal type, causing it to shriek in pain and collapse, as Eevee delivered another quick attack to it, knocking it out.
"Now, let me get in here, I just know you goons are up to something bad in there!" Angelica screamed, pushing the two grunts aside and charging into the clearing, as Ginan followed suit. More grunts wre in the clearing, digging trenches, and placing what looked like explosives into them.
"You again, well, since you're just here to stop us, I'm going to say; LEAVE!" A voice behind Angelica drawled. The aftermentioned girl spun around to see Draco standing there, his arms crossed over his chest and a scowl on his face.
"What are you guys even doing here?" Angelica asked, matching Draco's scowl with one of her own.
Draco sighed and began pacing back and forth. "We're going to put exlposives by the shrine-" he began, pointing to a small brown sturcture in the middle of the clearing, "and detonate them, which sould summon the pokemon Celebi, which Team Rocket can in turn capture, and use to travel back in time to get back our leader, Giovanni."
"You're going to blow this place up, and endanger tons of wild pokemon here too in hopes of catching Celebi, just so you can get that fatass back? You're sick!" Angelica growled as her Eevee stepped forth.
"I got more dynamite!" another person, who on closer inspection Angelica could see was the pervert Zak, told Draco, holding up a large brown package.
"Very well, but deal with the girl's accomplace for me first." Draco responded, pointing to Ginan, who was looking at the operation with a big frown.
"Yes, master."
Angelica snorted loudly. "Whenever Team Rocket mixes with pokemon, especially legendary ones, something goes ver wrong!" Angelica said, glaring at Draco. "So of course I'm not going to stand down and just let you take Celebi!"
Draco narrowed his eyes, pulling out a pokeball. "Then so be it, I assure you this battle will make up for our small skirmish at the Ruins of Alph."
"You again, you know I'm pretty mad about you just humiliating me back in Cherrygrove." Zak barked at Ginan gripping a pokeball tightly.
"It's not my fault you just suck so much." Ginan sneered, raising her eyebrows as Zak growled back at her,
"Grr you arrogant little prick, I'll show you to respect me and Team Rocket!" he yelled, throwing forth his pokeball. A green plant like creature appeared, leering at Ginan. Never having seen this pokemon before, Ginan quickly scanned it with her pokedex.
Weepinbell, the flycatcher pokemon, a Pokémon that appears to be a plant. It captures unwary prey by dousing them with a toxic powder.
"Sounds kinda creepy..." Ginan murmered, rolling her eyes at Zak's comment. "But we can handle it, right Flaaffy?" The eletric type nodded, and got into a battle pose as Zak narrowed his eyes, though Ginan was releived to see he wasn't trying to check her out again."
"Weepinbell, use vine whip!" A green vine extedened out of the grass type's plant like body, and proceeded to whip Flaaffy, who sprang aside just time to avoid it.
"Let's use this new move! Flash now!" Ginan called as the pink bulb at the end of Flaaffy's tail lit up, and extended a harsh, vivid light over the area as Zak and Weepinbell covered their eyes. "And it gives me a perfect distraction to attack, use thundershock!" A thin ray of electricity flew toward Weepibell.
"Acid!" Zak grunted. Weepinbell shot a pile of purple sludge out of its large, gaping "O" shaped mouth, but due to the flash, the poison attack missed, landed on the ground instead, and hissing madly.
"Cotton spore!"
"Geh, it's behind you, take out those spores with acid!" Zak roared, seeing Flaaffy approach Weepinbell from behind. Weepibell spun on its axis, then fired acid at the spores coming from Flaaffy's wool coat. The poison ripped thorugh the spores, and hit Flaaffy, who spueled in pain.
Ginan gasped. "Don't take that, use thundershock!" The eletric attack hit Weepibell right on, but the grass type did not seem to be affected much.
"Don't you know that electric is not very effective on grass?" Zak asked. "But whatever, use sleep powder now!" Weepibell opened its mouth once more, and released a cloud of dust, which began to drift toward Flaaffy.
"I knew that..." Ginan muttered, even though she actaully didn't. "But two can play at that game, use cotton spore!" The white cotton spores flew right into the cloud, dissipating it, but the spores were pushed outward, and attactched themselves to both pokemon! Flaaffy and Weepibell slowed down signifigantly, and then fell asleep.
"Huh, the sleep power must've attached itself to the spores." Zak mused. "See? You're not thrashing me around this time!'' he exlcaimed.
"We're still even! And I will admit, your little plant is better than that stupid spider." Ginan responded. After a few moments, both pokemon began to get up sluggishly still slowed down.
"Thundershock!"
"Vine whip!" The attacks struck at the same time, Weepinbell whipping Flaaffy with its vine, while Flaaffy hit the grasst type with a ray of electricity. The two pokemon stumbled about, then collapsed, both unconciouss.
Zak narrowed his gaze as he returned Weepinbell. "You can't beat me! I'll win this, go!"
Ginan shook her head, and reached for her own pokeball, sending out Aipom. The purple normal type screeched, bounncing about on its tail.
"That filthy monkey again...go Zubat!" Zak shouted, sending out the same bat pokemon Ginan had fought when facing Proton at Slowpoke Well. "Let's see how it works out this time..."
"You're not going through with your plan, Draco!" Angelica growled as Eevee got into a battle stance.
The pale, blond boy sighed and shook his head. "Tiresome as ever, Angelica. And why must you always insist on stopping us?"
"Becuase I-" she began, but quickly stopped. "Becuase what you're doing is wrong!"
"Suit yourself, but you can't always stop us, not in Kanto, and not here!" Draco retorted, throwing forward a pokeball while Ginan and Zak's battle raged nearby. "And soon, I'll just have to give the command, and this place will be blown up, and Celebi will appear!" Draco said while a black, bipedal weasel like pokemon with sharp claws sprang from his pokeball.
Angelica glanced curiously at the pokemon, figuring it must be a new Johto pokemon of Draco's, and whipped out her pokedex
Sneasel, the Sharp Claw Pokémon. Sneasel can extend or retract its claws instantly during attack.
"Use quick attack!" Draco commanded while Angelica stashed away the device.
"You too!" she instructed Eevee, but Sneasel was fast. The dark type pinned Eevee to the ground, holding him down with its sharp claws. Angelica smirked, she herself had used a tactic like this herslef against George in the Violet city contest. "Quick! Quick attack then dig!"
"Ice shard!" A series of blue shards of ice flew at Eevee, who managed to spring out of Sneasel's grasp just as Draco called the attack. Barreling into the ground, Eevee avoided the ice shards, as it began to burry frantically. A few seconds passed, and Eevee sprang back above ground fast and furiously, tackling Sneasel hrashly.
"Ice shard again!" Sneasel fired off several more shards, but Eevee wasn't as lucky this time. The shards hit the normal type right on as it winced.
"Don't take that! Use hidden power!" Eevee launched a flurry of glowing orbs at Sneasel as Draco called,
"Counter that with fury swipes!" Sneasel swung its sharp claws around madly, slashing apart the glwoing orbs, and ripping them into a storm of glowing sparkles.
"That's a contest technique!" Angelica gasped, as Eevee looked at the sparkles, mesmorized.
"Right, see? I know more than you give me credit for!" Draco smirked. "Now use icy wind!" Sneasel complied, breating a gust of freezing wind at Eevee, as the normal type snapped out of its distracted state.
"Shadow ball!" Eevee fired a crackling ball of drak energy at the icy wind, as the two attacks collided. Ice and shadow particles spewed everywhere, slamming into the trees and some into the ditches, much to the dismay of the rocket grunts. This ceased just in time for Sneasel to see Eevee rushing at it, and then hitting it right on with a quick attack. Sneasel grunted, and retaliated with an ice shard.
"Use some of that power! Hidden power!" Eevee fired off the attack, but instead of exploding harshly, the hidden power orbs wrapped around the shards, and brang them all flying toward Sneasel, who was kinocked out, Eevee panting heavily from the effort. "Hah! That was a pure contest move! Ice shard isn't too powerful, so we could doinate it with hidden power!" Angelica hooted, a smrik on her face.
Draco sighed, but sounded annoyed by now. "Enough, I will NOT let you interfere here!"