SBS Time!
Kain Everguard: Is Missy's name really Platinum? It sounds more like a boy's name…
Game2002: Yes, Platinum is her real name, even though it sounds more like a boy's name. But then, Pearl sounds more like a girl's name and yet it belongs to a boy…
bunkhead: You called Politoed and Staravia by their names before their names were given.
Game2002: I called Politoed and Staravia by their species names right away because there's really no point in saying things like frog-like animal and bird-like animal. Pokemon are animal species of their own world, so there's nothing wrong calling them by their species' name before giving them a description. I expect everyone to have good knowledge of Pokemon and their appearances just by hearing the names alone. You cannot expect me to spoon-feed everyone, can you?
bunkhed: Torterra is REALLY HEAVY. How can it jump? Seriously!
Game2002: Just because Torterra is heavy doesn't mean he/she cannot jump. The move that Wig used when he jumped is actually Wood Hammer, which involves hitting the opponent with the user's own body in return for taking recoil damage. Since Torterra is slow-moving on foot, it doesn't seem possible for him/her to ram into someone forcefully by simply moving on foot, so jumping into the opponent is the best method for Torterra to use. Of course, he/she probably can't jump very high, but at least he/she can jump somewhat. Pokemon moves tend to defy physics and reality, so it is best that you don't think too deep about this.
bunkhead: It's doesn't work out that the girls know squat about Pokemon, and since Sanae is from the outside world, shouldn't she have rudimentary knowledge about Pokemon?
Game2002: I think that it's best to say that our world and the Touhou series outside world are not exactly the same in terms of pop culture and such, so we can pretend that there is no such thing as the Pokemon series in their outside world. Maybe there is a rip-off series in their outside world, haha!
I apologize for the long wait. Sometimes I take too long typing and revising the chapters that I end up taking too long post them.
Chapter 24
The Emotion that Wanders
The girls arrived at a resort-like area and looked at the beautiful bungalows and the people walking around the place casually with their Pokemon. "Wow! This place is beautiful!" Sanae commented.
Reimu noticed a wooden sign placed at the side of the road and the sign wrote Welcome to Hotel Grand Lake!
"Looks like we're here," she said.
"Before we go in there," Reisen said, "Shouldn't we do something… about my ears?"
"Right… It seems obvious from our conversation with those three kids from earlier that there exists only humans in this world," Sanae said. "With those obvious rabbit ears, you're bound to attract everyone's attentions towards you…"
"Not only that…" Marisa said, looking at Remilia and Cirno.
"You mean our wings, right?" Remilia said. "We can just pass them off as accessories. Nobody should question any further that way."
"Until they start asking where you bought them…" Nitori reminded her.
"I'll just come up with random answers to keep their mouths shut."
"It's a good thing that I can make my wings disappear and reappear at will unlike the both of you," Aya remarked.
"Then maybe I can pass off my ears as accessories too," Reisen said, and then she pushed aside the hairs on both sides of her head to reveal the lack of human ears. "As long nobody notices this… But it shouldn't be a problem since my hair is always covering these two spots, right?"
"Yeah, so keep them covered," Reimu told her.
After that, the girls continued traveling into the resort area and looked around the place. They did receive some stares from the people, but they were all casual stares that didn't make them feel threatened in any way.
Then a man dressed like a staff member of the resort came up to them with a smile on his face and bowed down respectfully in front of them. "Welcome to Hotel Grand Lake!" he said cheerfully. "Would you like to rent a bungalow? I will take you to register your names if you want to!"
"Thanks, but we would like to take a walk around this place first," Reimu said to him.
"Then feel free to do so! You can head to the registration building if you have decided to stay here overnight!"
After that, the staff member stepped aside and the girls continued on their way to take a good look at the place.
As they walked down the place, they noticed a large number of people gathered in front of a Mr. Mime which was doing what a mime does best—pantomiming. The barrier Pokemon performed acts as if he was trapped inside a sphere and was trying to get out and also pretended to ride a motorcycle or something like that. The people laughed and clapped their hands upon seeing such hilarious acts.
"Is that also a Pokemon? It looks like a human…" Reimu commented.
"Well, I guess they come in all sorts of appearances," Aya said.
Just then, a Buneary came hopping up to them and looked up at the girls. "Hey! It's a rabbit just like you, Reisen!" Cirno pointed out.
Reisen bent down in front of the Buneary and said her, "Hello! How can I help you?" The rabbit Pokemon just looked back at her without making a single sound, but when Reisen reached an arm to the rabbit Pokemon to touch her head, the Pokemon suddenly uncurled her right ear and slammed it into Reisen's face really hard, knocking the lunar rabbit backwards.
SLAM!
After Reisen was knocked out on her back, the rabbit Pokemon quickly hopped away. "Uwaaaaa…" Reisen groaned while rabbits hopped around in circles over her face which had swirly eyes.
Soon after Reisen had recovered, the girls headed in the direction of a restaurant. "What say we head over there and have something to eat first?" Reimu suggested.
"Good idea! I feel like sinking my teeth into something at the moment-ze!" Marisa said, rubbing her belly.
"Wait a minute… We don't have the currencies of this world, do we?" Sanae said all of a sudden.
"You have a point," Alice said.
"Um… You're right…" Aya said. "We can't buy anything in this world if we do not use this world's currency."
"Who cares? We just only have to pay them money and then we can have whatever we want!" Cirno said.
"You're not listening, are you…?"
As the girls were talking among themselves about this matter, the same teenager who registered under the name 'Red' went into the restaurant. The moment he stepped inside the restaurant, all the diners turned their heads to look at him, and then an elderly pair of gentleman and lady stood up from their chairs and threw out their Pokeballs, sending out a Hoppopotas and a Bibarel respectively.
"Heh! Exactly what I expected to happen!" the teenager said as he reached for two of the six Pokeballs strapped around waist. "Go, Pika and Lapras!" And then he threw those two Pokeballs to send out a Pikachu and a Lapras. "Pika, use Thunderbolt on that Bibarel and Lapras use Ice Beam on the Hippopotas!"
The Pikachu jumped near the Bibarel and then released a large amount of electricity from all over his body to electrocute the beaver Pokemon. Meanwhile, the Lapras fired a white beam out from his mouth and the Hippopotas froze into a block ice upon getting hit by it.
"Oh my!" the elderly lady said. "It looks like we've lost, and so easily as well!"
"It's been a while since I witnessed such a quick but exciting fight!" the elderly gentleman said. "Well done, kid! You seem to have a talent in Pokemon battling after all!"
The teenager scratched the back of his head and said with a blushing face, "Yeah, that's what everyone says to me all the time! I can't deny that I really do have talents in Pokemon battling after all!"
Suddenly, the door behind the teenager swung open and the girls came rushing in. "What happened in here?!" Reimu asked. "We heard some loud noises from the outside!"
"Oh, sorry for frightening you," the teenager apologized to her. "We were just having a Pokemon battle in here."
"Pokemon battle?"
"Yes, it is common for Pokemon battles to occur in this Seven Stars Restaurant," the elderly lady replied.
"The moment someone who looks like a trainer comes inside," the elderly gentleman further explained, "the diners will immediately challenge him or her to a two-on-two battle. It's basically to test the trainers on how they react to people suddenly attacking them. This place is quite popular among trainers because of this and many of them come here every day just to engage in Pokemon battles!"
"I see… This place sure has strange policies-ze..." Marisa commented.
"So… do you get anything in return if you win the fight?" Reimu asked, "Or do people engage in battles just for the heck of it?"
"Well, if the losers are generous enough, they would reward the winners with some prize money," the elderly gentleman replied.
Hearing this, Reimu turned to her friends and asked them, "What do you say we have a Pokemon battle with some of the people here? We can earn some big bucks if we win!"
"Are you forgetting the fact that we do not have Pokemon with us?" Alice reminded her.
"Um… You're right… But maybe they won't mind if we fight by ourselves?"
"You don't have a single Pokemon with you?" the elderly gentleman asked them. "That's not exactly a surprise considering there are also many people out there who aren't trainers and don't carry any Pokemon around with them. Sorry, battles between humans and Pokemon aren't allowed. Pokemon moves are usually too dangerous to be used against humans."
"Okay… Never mind… Forget that I said anything in the first place…"
The girls then turned to leave the restaurant, but as soon as they stepped outside, a bright flash suddenly appeared in the air and grabbed everyone's attentions. "What is that?!" a random person exclaimed.
The thing continued to glow in midair for a few seconds, but then the light disappeared to reveal a blue creature with a partially magenta face and four droopy appendages coming down from the sides of its head.
The sight of the strange creature made everyone curious, and the people started to move closer to the creature to get a better look.
"What is this?"
"Is this a Pokemon?"
"I have never seen this kind of Pokemon before!"
"It must be an undiscovered one!"
"Quick! Someone call the news reporters!"
Hearing this, Aya raised an arm and happily said, "Here I am!" The tengu girl got out her camera and ran up close to the strange Pokemon and said to it, "Stay still and don't move! I'm going to take a nice picture of you! I can give you a copy of your picture afterwards if you want to!"
Just as she brought up the camera in front of her face to take a picture, the sound of engine could be heard and suddenly, a jeep came rushing into the place and the people who were in its way quickly moved aside as not to get hit by it.
"Hey! Vehicles aren't allowed in here!" a staff member shouted to people driving the jeep. "Who let you drive into this place?!"
"Oh really? Unfortunately, we ran through the front door without bothering to stop to listen to what the gatekeeper had to say," said a red-haired woman who was sitting at the back of the jeep. She stepped down from the jeep and looked at the strange Pokemon that was hovering in the air. "We found at last, Mesprit! Did you really think you could escape us?" She held up a handheld device that had a small screen on it, showing what appears to be the map of this region. "As long as we have this Pokemon tracking device, there is no way you can escape from us! No matter where you go, we will always be able to track you down! We tried to capture you in Lake Verity, but you made a run for it and we had to chase you all over the place until we finally came here. You better not run away this time! We're going to catch you right here and right now! Catch that Pokemon at once!"
"Yes, Commander Mars!" the two people sitting at the front seat the jeep said. They got out from their seats and each threw out their Pokeballs to send out a Golbat and a Dustox (the Dustox belongs to the one driving the jeep).
"Hey! Those people are wearing the same costume as the ones we encountered at the drained lake-ze!" Marisa pointed out.
"Those people are from Team Galactic!" a random person pointed out.
"Isn't that the evil organization that once terrorized Sinnoh, but has now decided to become a more beneficial organization?" another one asked. "If so, why are they after this Pokemon and even drove into this place when such a thing is not allowed?!"
The Golbat and Dustox flew towards the Mesprit to attack it. Seeing the enemy Pokemon approaching, the Mesprit raised his arms in their direction and formed yellow energy stars that shot forward a high speed, striking both the Pokemon and knocking them onto the ground with ease.
The woman was unpleased to see this. "Tsk! Useless bunch of fools! Looks like I'll have to do this myself! The both of you go and get the capsule ready while I deal with this Pokemon!"
"Yes, Commander Mars!" both the Team Galactic grunts said. After the woman named Mars stepped out from the jeep, they went to the back seat and took out a glass capsule from there.
Mars took out a Pokeball and threw it to send out a Purugly. "Purugly! Use Shadow Claw on Mesprit! Ghost-type moves super effective against psychic-type Pokemon!"
The tiger cat Pokemon leaped into the air and a shadow-like energy appeared around her right arm as she swung her claws at Mesprit. Mesprit quickly moved back to avoid getting and then countered by firing energy stars. The Purugly was struck in the face by the energy stars, but she managed to endure it and then jumped at Mesprit again, this time with her limbs sprawled out to hit it with a body slam.
Mesprit flew out of the way to avoid getting hit but Mars immediately sent out both her Crobat and Bronzong to go after the emotion Pokemon. The Crobat slashed her wings against the air to shoot out wind blades while the Bronzong flipped over to point its underside at Mesprit, and out from the opening in its underside, a ball of silver light was fired.
Mesprit saw the attacks coming at it and thus stretched out its arms to create a spherical barrier that was greenish-blue in color. Both the attacks were nullified the moment they touched the shield.
"Tsk! That's why I hate the move Protect!" Mars grumbled upon seeing it. "They're capable of stopping almost every move you throw at it!"
The Mesprit then pointed both its arms at the Crobat and the Bronzong and launched an energy wave of sorts that sent both the Pokemon spinning backwards through the air.
Suddenly, the Purugly leaped up into the air from behind and raised her claw over Mesprit. The emotion Pokemon was caught off guard by the tiger cat Pokemon's sudden appearance and was struck by her Shadow Claw attack and sent hurtling through the air.
The Crobat and the Bronzong recovered from being attacked and then charged at Mesprit while it was still hurtling through the air to attack it. The Crobat used her left wing to smack Mesprit in the other direction and then the Bronzong slammed its own body onto Mesprit from above to knock the Pokemon forcefully onto the ground.
SLAM!
"Good!" Mars said with delight. "It seems that it still hasn't fully recovered from our previous battle at Lake Verity! All right, boys, time to trap it inside the special capsule!"
"Yes, Commander Mars!" the two Team Galactic grunts said. They both carried the capsules in their hands and ran towards the fallen Mesprit to capture the Pokemon, but suddenly, a pair of vines was swung at them and knocked them to the side while the capsule fell onto the ground, but did not break. "Uwa!"
"What?!" Mars gasped. She turned to look at the attacker and saw that it was a Venuaur who did this and standing next to him was that same teenager. "Hey you! Who do you think you are? Don't think you can get away with it by getting in the way of Team Galactic's business!"
The teenager pointed to himself using his thumb and said, "I'm Red, and I don't know what you are doing, but I can tell that you are not doing the right kind of thing!"
"Oh? How can you tell? What if we are simply trying to catch a rare Pokemon?"
Red pointed to the glass capsule on the ground and said, "That's not something you would normally use for capturing Pokemon, and I heard the other people saying that your organization used to be evil. By connecting the pieces together, I somehow deduced that you are trying to capture that Pokemon over there for selfish reasons."
"Well, I can say the same for everyone else as well! Everyone captures Pokemon for no better reason than to own them, am I right?"
"That may be true, but we treat Pokemon with love and respect after capturing them. Knowing you people, you're probably going to capture it and then perform dangerous experiments on it. Whatever the case is, I won't let you lay a hand on that Pokemon! And also, did you seriously think I have no idea on what that Pokemon is?" Red pointed at Mesprit and said, "That is the legendary Pokemon, Mesprit!"
Mars smiled and said, "So you did your homework after all! Correct, that is the legendary Pokemon of Lake Verity, Mesprit the Emotion Pokemon! My companions are sent to capture the other two and from what I've heard, they managed to get their hands on them already. I'm the only one left who hasn't captured my target, so I'm not going to waste any more time here! I'm going to capture Mesprit no matter what it takes or else the boss will not be pleased!"
"But like I said, I won't let you capture Mesprit!"
"You're asking for a fight if that is the case! Get them, my Pokemon!" Mars shouted at her Pokemon, and so all three of her Pokemon charged at Red to attack him and his Venusaur.
"Saur, use Razor Leaf!" Red said to his Venusaur. Saur nodded and then shot out a barrage of razor-sharp leaves out from the flower on his back.
The Purugly was cut in various parts of her skin by the razor-sharp leaves and yelped painfully while pulling back. Both the Crobat and the Bronzong were also hit, but due to typing advantage, they weren't hurt very much by the razor-shaped leaves and then flew higher into the air. As the two Pokemon attempted to dive them down at them, Red quickly pulled out another Pokeball and threw it to send out a Charizard. "Go get them, Charizard!"
The flame Pokemon let out a roar before taking off into the air to engage the two enemies. "Fire Blast attack!" Red commanded the Charizard, and so the flame Pokemon took a deep breath before shooting out a large burst of fire that resembled the Chinese character for 'big' (大).
Both the Pokemon were unable to avoid the incoming attack and got engulfed by the flames and knocked out of the sky and onto the ground. "What the?!" Mars gasped in shock.
"Heheh! How'd you like that? Hot enough for ya?" Red taunted.
"Argh! Don't get too cocky just yet!" Mars growled. She then turned to look at the Mesprit and saw that it had gotten back up and was taking off into the air again. "Oh no, it's escaping again!" She turned to look at the two grunts and said to them, "What are the two of you still doing over there?! Hurry up and capture that Mesprit at once before it escapes!"
"Yes, Commander Mars!" they said. They picked up the capsule and set it upright before opening the top. After that, they held up the capsule and pointed its opening at the escaping Mesprit, and then electrical currents came out from the interior of the capsule and caught the Mesprit, and then it began pulling the emotion Pokemon inside it.
Suddenly, a pair of dolls armed with sticks charged at the grunts and struck them in their legs to knock them over as well as making them drop the glass capsule onto the ground. After that, the dolls transformed their sticks into hammers and then used them to smash the glass capsule into pieces.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!
"OH NO!!!" Mars gasped. "Now we won't be able to capture Mesprit with ease!"
The Mesprit looked at Alice and seemed to smile and nod its head, and then it quickly took off into the air as fast as it could. Mars turned to look at Alice and said, "Those dolls that are moving by themselves! It was your doing, right? How dare you?!"
"Do you have anything against my way of doing things?" Alice asked her in a threatening tone.
Suddenly, a loud voice could be heard. "Team Galactic, stop there at once and don't move!" the voice said. Mars turned to see the source of the voice and to her horror; saw the police running over to the scene.
"Curses, it's the cops! I'm out of here!" she growled. She quickly called her Purugly and Bronzong back into their Pokeballs and then grabbed onto the legs of her Crobat. The Crobat flapped her wings as fast as she could and then took off into the air, carrying along her master.
"Commander Mars, don't leave us behind!" the two grunts shouted as they ran after her, but Saur used his vines to catch them by their legs and made their fall over. "Ow!"
"Sorry, but I think it's better that you submit yourselves to the police rather than going back to face your boss's wrath," Red told them. "Though admittedly, I have no idea on how your boss is like."
Soon afterwards, the two Team Galactic grunts were rounded up and taken away by the police. As for Red, he was talking to a police officer dressed in a brown trench coat. "I'm Officer Looker," the police officer said to Red while showing him his police certificate. "I assume that you are the one who stopped Team Galactic from capturing that Pokemon, right?"
"Yeah, I'm the one," Red said with a nod, and then he pointed to Alice, "But that girl over there also helped out a bit."
Looker turned to look at Alice and the other girls and smiled at them saying, "I would like to thank you for your help as well!"
"That was nothing," Alice said. "I was just doing what I think should be done." Shanghai, who was being carried in her arm left arm, waved at him as well.
Looker turned to look at Red again and asked him, "May I have your name, kid? Wait, calling you a kid wouldn't be appropriate…"
"Never my mind, I'm still young after all, haha! Anyway, my name is Pokemon Trainer," Red replied, but then he quickly changed his answer. "Wait a minute! That's not it! Dang, the name they gave me in that tournament really is starting to make me forget my real name! Anyway, my real name is Red."
"Tournament?" Reimu said in a surprised tone upon hearing that term.
"Red… I believe I know that name! Are you not the champion of the Pokemon League in the Kanto region?"
Red nodded and said, "Yep, that's me!"
"I knew it! Your name is pretty well known throughout the world! They said you accomplished several feats such as defeating the evil organization of Kanto and Johto, Team Rocket. Is that true?"
"I can't deny that one as well. Yeah, I did put an end to their evil antics."
Looker stretched out his arm to shake hands with Red. "It's a pleasure to meet a well known person like you! I may be asking too much from you, but perhaps it would be of great help to us if you can help us defeat Team Galactic. The International Police has been on their trail for quite a while already, and we thought our job had come to an end when their leader Cyrus went missing, resulting in the organization wanting to become more beneficial to the society, but rumor has it that their leader has returned and made the organization do evil once again…"
"I'll be glad to help!" Red told him. "I'm not really the kind of person who would tolerate evil and let bad people such as Team Galactic run around doing whatever they want."
"That would be great! I'll contact you if any problem regarding Team Galactic arises."
"Okay," Red said with a nod. "I'll give you my phone number if you want to. Give me a call if you need any help!"
"Okay, we'll be looking forward to cooperate with you!" Looker said, and then he walked over to the girls and said to Alice, "May I have your name as well?"
"Alice Margatroid," Alice replied.
"Red said that you also helped him, so I would like to thank you for your support!"
"Like I said earlier, that was nothing," Alice told him. "I'm afraid I have to turn down your offer if you want me to cooperate with you. At least you will have to get the consent of my friends over here first."
Looker looked at the other girls but Reimu raised her arms and shook her head saying, "No thanks… We don't want to get ourselves into situations like these… We'll take the pass."
"I won't force you," Looker said to her. "But I would still like to thank you for your help as well!" After that, Looker turned to Red and said to him, "I'll have to leave now. It's better to take these two Team Galactic grunts into confinement as soon as possible. We will also interrogate them to learn something useful from them. I'll be letting you know if we need your help."
"I'll be anticipating it!" Red said, waving good-bye to him.
Looker waved good-bye to him as well before leaving the place with the other police officers and the handcuffed grunts. After they have left, Red turned to the girls and said to them, "Hey, thanks for the help earlier! I saw what you did just now and that was pretty amazing! Are those two dolls your Pokemon or what?"
Alice shook her head. "No, they're simply dolls that I was controlling."
"Cool! I know there are people who work as puppeteers, but I have never seen one who can controls puppets to that extent!"
"They're dolls, not puppets!" Alice said, sounding rather offended.
"Um, sorry… Dolls, not puppets… I'll remember that…"
Reimu then walked up to Red and said to him, "Excuse me, but from your conversation with that police officer from earlier, I heard you saying something about a tournament, is that true?"
Red nodded and said, "Yes, but I've been in several Pokemon-related tournaments before. If you want to be precise, the tournament I was referring to earlier would be… Nah, you probably won't believe what I said since not many people are aware of this tournament's existence…"
"If I guess correctly, you're referring to the Smash Brothers Tournament, am I right?"
Hearing this, Red's eyes widened in surprised and said, "Whoa, you're right! How did you guess that it was the Smash Brothers Tournament?!"
"What if I tell you that my friends and I all came to this world using the World Light? I'm sure you've heard of the term World Light before, right?"
Within a secret area, two groups of people were met together face to face. The leaders of both groups were sat on a couch facing each other while their subordinates stood all around them, and sitting in the center and in front of them was a third person hidden in the shadows, and the third person was sitting behind a podium of sorts as well.
"Well, Cyrus," said the leader of the group on the left side. He is a man with neatly trimmed hair and is dressed in a brown suit. "I hope that our alliance will help you achieve your goals which will in the end benefit the both of us!"
"Let's hope that it does, Giovanni," said the leader of the group on the right side. He is a man with spiky blue hair and was dressed in a combination of black, white, and gray, and there is also a capital letter 'G' imprinted on the left side of his shirt.
"Just think of it!" said the first man, Giovanni, "Two of the most notorious criminal organizations working together to achieve the goal of world domination! Imagine how the world will tremble if they hear about this! Fufufufufu!"
"I have no interest in minor goals such as world domination," said the second man, Cyrus. "What I am seeking to accomplish is to recreate the world into my own liking! I shall create a world where the weak-spirited do not exist! Last time I failed thanks to the appearance of Giratina as well as the meddling of some kids. After that, I stayed in the Distortion World for a while to come up with a new plan. Now that I am once again the leader of Team Galactic, I shall bring this organization back to its former glory and accomplish the plan which I previously failed!"
"Fufufufufu! You really are an interesting person!" Giovanni said, sounding amused. "Your ambitions indeed are a big one! Admittedly, I never h much ambition asides from making Team Rocket well known throughout the world, but hearing about your plans really makes me more ambitious! Surely we can work together to build a world where we shall rule!"
The person sitting in the center and among the shadows shuffled a deck of cards in his hands over and over laughed and said, "Heheheheheh! I would say that the both of you made the right choice in joining my own organization as well! We are currently looking for more people to help increase the number of people in our organization, but things haven't been so successful. The both of you are without doubt welcome additions… as long as you can prove yourself to be competent enough."
Cyrus turned to face the shadowy person and said to him, "Don't get me wrong. I do not have much interest in ruling the kind of world that you told us. I am only thankful for the fact that you provided us with the technology that will help us accomplish our plans with ease."
"Oh, don't say that! I'm sure you will change your opinion soon! You definitely will not be disappointed in the new world that I spoke of!"
Suddenly, he received a phone call and so he quickly reached into his pocket to take out his cell phone. "Excuse me…" he said before answering the phone. "Hello?"
"Boss, is that you? This is me, Mars!"
"Mars, what is it? Have you accomplished in capturing Mesprit yet? Saturn and Jupiter have both captured Azelf and Uxie respectively. You are the only one left who hasn't report to me your result."
"I'm sorry, boss… Mesprit managed to escape from Lake Verity. I chased it all the way to Hotel Grand Lake, but it managed to escape again thanks to some meddlesome brats. On top of that, the special capsule used for capturing the legendary Pokemon… has been destroyed by them as well…"
Cyrus was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then he said, "Mars."
"Um… Yes, boss…?"
"This is my order for you: Go and capture Mesprit at once. Do you have any objections?"
"Um… Yes, boss… But how do I…?"
Cyrus interrupted her however. "Do you question my orders?"
"No, boss… I wouldn't dare question your orders… I'll go… capture Mesprit… at once… I will not fail you… I promise you… I will not fail this time… Definitely won't…"
"Good, so get to it," Cyrus said ending the call. "Useless underlings… After I have recreated the world, there will be no more weaklings existing. I shall make a world where only the strong ones exist!"
"If you want to," Giovanni said to Cyrus, "I can send my Rocket Executives to capture Mesprit in case your admin can't do things by herself."
Cyrus nodded and said, "Very well. This is the perfect opportunity to see what you Team Rockets are capable of. Do not disappoint me."
"Fufufufufu! I assure you that you will not be disappointed! Come to think of it, our organization names fit with each other perfectly, don't they? Team Rocket and Team Galactic... A rocket that soars through the galaxy! Haha, this is way too fitting!"
"I assume that you are right. Let us hope that this alliance will pay off in the end."
"Well then," the shadowy person said as he continued to shuffle the same deck of cards over and over, "I hope the two of you gentlemen succeed in what you do if you want to prove yourself competent enough to be part of my organization, heheheheheh!"
TO BE CONTINUED
Next chapter: Raid on the City, Knock Out, Evil Tusks
Trivia:
1. While Mr. Mime's name may imply that it is a male-only species, but that is far from the truth. Mr. Mime's Japanese name, Barrierd, is a gender-neutral name, so finding female Mr. Mime is not surprising. The gender ratio is even fifty-fifty.
2. In the Pokemon Adventures manga, Diamond and Pearl also battled against an elderly pair of gentlemen and lady who used a Hippopotas and Bibarel respectively inside the Seven Stars Restaurant.