Chapter 29

"When we bust in there, they're going to notice very quickly. It will get very chaotic with the number of grunts garrisoned here, so try to keep out of tight situations," Mewtwo began giving the final instructions to the group sat before him, "And please keep in mind that it will be very dangerous in there, so don't take any undue risks,"

The group, which consisted of the three mewtwos, Mew, Ubui and Lifyra (whose leg had healed up quite nicely with the sitrus berries) were in the forest only a few hundred metres from Team Rocket's headquarters.

"We are going to attack now, once we get in, stick with your designated partner and try to find where the weapon is, it should be in the centre of the building according to the file I read, and it's really big, so you won't miss it," Mewtwo said as he began floating towards the headquarters.

The rest of the group began following apart from Joasia and Mateusz.

"Please be safe, Mateusz, and meet me at the weapon once you find it," Joasia said as she and Mateusz hugged for what could be the last time.

"I will try my best," Mateusz said as they released each other and caught up with the rest of the group.

The designated pairs they were to enter the building in were; Ubui with Mateusz, Joasia with Mewtwo, and Mew with Lifyra. Each member walked (or floated in Mew and Mewtwo's case) next to their partner, almost noiselessly approaching the ominous looking building as they came out of the forest and into the rocky valley in which the headquarters was situated in. The large building vaguely resembled a Nazi fortress due to the heavy use of concrete and monotonous colour.

The group now neared the front entrance to the base. A number of guards patrolled the perimeter of the base with automatic weapons. The moment these grunts saw the fast approaching group, they opened fire, bullets flying in the direction of the group and the smell of gunpowder filling the air. Mewtwo and Mew stopped the bullets mid-air using telekinesis. The confused grunts stopped firing for a moment.

At this exact moment, Mewtwo and Mew unleashed the captured projectiles upon the unsuspecting guards who attempted to dive for cover. There was no cover, and the bullets collided with the soft flesh of the guards, causing spurts of red blood to erupt like volcanoes. None of the guards moved after this relentless attack. The group continued to move towards the entrance. They reached the entrance with no further trouble, no alarm, no anything.

They halted at the large, foreboding looking entrance. This entrance would have done castle owners in the middle ages proud.

"Step backwards for a moment everybody," Mewtwo told the others.

They obeyed and Mewtwo began using his telekinesis on the door.

BOOOOM!

The large door flew from its hinges and landed on the ground.

"Might as well make an entrance since we're already here, especially since this could be the last time we break into a Team Rocket base," Mewtwo said as he turned to face the others.

A loud klaxon sounded almost immediately after this, signalling that they had finally been spotted and reported, probably by a camera mounted somewhere on the building…


"Sir, someone just smashed our front door in!" a panicking grunt said as he burst into Giovanni's office.

"Who is it?" Giovanni asked; eyes narrowing as he swivelled in his tall-back chair to face the man who stood before him.

"Three mewtwos, Mew, a quilava and a sandshrew," the grunt disclosed.

"What an odd group, wait, did you say three mewtwos?" Giovanni asked, brows furrowing.

"Yes sir, we saw them on the front cameras approaching the entrance, and everyone in the surveillance room panicked, so we didn't sound the alarm, and then they killed all the guards at the front before destroying the front entrance," the grunt explained.

"Three mewtwos, we created two, so where did the third come from?" Giovani said to himself as he stroked his chin before addressing the grunt, "Go and tell the guards inside the building that they need to search for three mewtwos and Mew. Make sure the elites take the psychic inhibitor launchers with them so they can stop them. As for the quilava and the sandshrew, have the regular guards capture them and send them off to the labs for scientific experimentation, it's always good to have a large supply of research participants,"

"Aye sir!" the grunt said as he saluted and ran out of the room.

Giovanni swivelled back to where he was previously facing; the window through which he could see the finishing touches being done on the weapon Team Rocket had spent millions of pokedollars on. Once the scientists had it up and running, he would immediately test it on the mewtwos whom were infiltrating the base…

Joasia and Mewtwo:

"Watch out, there's a group of grunts approaching from your right," Mewtwo informed Joasia before launching a shadow ball at some grunts directly in front of them.

Joasia turned to face the oncoming group of grunts who were running down a narrow hallway and charged up and shadow ball. She launched the shadow ball with precision that only a mewtwo could have, effectively knocking down the entire group like bowling pins.

"Thanks for the warning," Joasia said to Mewtwo whom had finished dealing with the grunts ahead.

The pair continued advancing down the central corridor, searching for the entrance to the room that beheld the weapon that Mewtwo had been telling them about. Loud bangs in rapid succession of each other echoed down a hallway to their right and bullets whizzed past them, missing them by mere inches. Mewtwo and Joasia jumped backwards behind to behind the corner so whoever was shooting at them could no longer do so.

Mewtwo slowly leaned around the corner to find the grunts that had been shooting at them. A group of four with pistols ran down the hallway towards them, and began to shoot once more. Their bullets stopped mid-air, surrounded by a blue glow…


Mew and Lifyra:

"Woah, that was close!" Lifyra said as a bullet came within centimetres of clipping her nose.

"Oh, I see where they are, now it's time to have some fun," Mew said as he did a somersault in the air, coincidentally dodging another burst of bullets in doing so.

"So how do we deal with this lot then?" Lifyra asked.

"Well, we'll have to break through and continue looking for that weapon like Mewtwo said," Mew responded before rocketing at high speed into a grunt who was reloading his weapon, effectively knocking him to the ground.

Mew continued whizzing through the group of grunts at high speed through the corridor, knocking most of them over and painfully winding them. Lifyra followed behind at a much slower pace, taking care of any grunts that had not been knocked unconscious by the speeding pink projectile. Lifyra eventually caught up to Mew who was waiting at the end of the corridor in front of a door labelled; "Central Construction Laboratories and Offices".

"What took you so long?" Mew asked in a cheeky tone.

"I can't fly, remember? So I have no chance of keeping up with you, especially when you're recklessly charging through a group of armed men at supersonic speed," Lifyra responded in an annoyed tone with a roll of her eyes.

"Alright then, I meant no offence," Mew clarified with a grin before asking, "Are you ready to go in now?"

At that exact moment, a voice came over the PA system that was installed in the base, causing Mew and Lifyra's ears to perk up.

"The weapon is complete and ready for use, testing on the intruders will commence in exactly 5 minutes," a monotonous voice said.

"Looks like we better get a move on then and find this thing, before we all die," Lifyra said.

The grin that had previously been on Mew's face had now vanished and in its place was a look of complete seriousness, a very rare thing indeed for him. One could have almost sworn they could hear 'The Final Countdown' playing as the monotonous voice began marking the time left till the weapon was activated…


Ubui and Mateusz:

"Don't you think it's weird how we haven't seen any guards or anyone patrolling?" Mateusz asked the sandshrew who walked next to him as they searched for the room that contained the weapon.

"Perhaps they're all on a break or something like that, but then again, probably not because the alarm is still going, and it's getting painfully annoying…" Ubui said before looking up at one of the red flashing lights on the ceiling in annoyance.

"Well, we're probably just the lucky ones who didn't come across any troub-" Mateusz was cut short as a flat disc shaped projectile with a little red light on it flew past him and stuck to a wall.

Ubui and Mateusz looked for the source of the projectile, and at the end of the corridor they stood in was a man, dressed in some rather advanced looking combat gear and holding what looked like a grenade launcher. The man took aim with his weapon and pulled the trigger. Another disc shaped projectile whizzed toward Mateusz. Mateusz tried to stop it using telekinesis but it kept on coming. Mateusz was forced to duck to prevent the projectile from hitting him.

It collided with a door behind him and stuck fast, beeping in time with the flashing red light. The man began inserting another flat disc into the launcher; clearly intent of making one of them hit Mateusz.

"I think we should at least try to get past him rather than just standing here letting him shoot things at us," Ubui said before rolling into a ball to perform a rollout attack.

Ubui rolled down the hallway at high speed, before colliding with the man's chest, sending him flying backwards as a loud crack was heard, probably being one of the man's ribs. The injured man made no noises from where he lay, clearly knocked senseless by the impact of the sandshrew.

"Nice job!" Mateusz said as he caught up to Ubui, "I guess we should try to find the weapon now,"

"The weapon is complete and ready for use, testing on the intruders will commence in exactly 5 minutes," a monotonous voice said.

"Crap! Come on, let's go, we've barely got any time!" Mateusz yelled with a worried look on his face.

Ubui and Mateusz hurried through corridors strangely unhindered by any grunts, until eventually they reached a window overlooking a large room full of scurrying scientists and engineers, who were busy going about instruments and button panels.

"I think this might be it!" Mateusz said as he pointed the room out to Ubui, whom had gone slightly further than Mateusz down the carpeted hallway.

"The weapon will be activated in one minute, all scientists and engineers currently in the same room as the weapon must vacate immediately, or risk being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation," the monotonous voice came on over the speakers that were on walls throughout the base for a second time.

"Damn it, there's no time to find the door!" Mateusz thought to himself before cautioning Ubui, "I'm going to smash the window and we'll both enter through there, stand back!"

Mateusz used his telekinesis to lift a fire extinguisher off the wall. He flung the red object at the glass window, effectively shattering the large pane of glass into a million tiny fragments, making a loud crash followed by the quiet tinkling of the glass falling all over the concrete floor of the room. By this time the scientists and engineers had already left the room, so Mateusz and Ubui stood alone in the vast space filled with scientific equipment and panels. There was no sign of the weapon.

A door at the opposite side of the room burst open, and Mew came through with Lifyra in tow.

"So ya managed to find the place, huh?" Mew asked in a cheeky tone.

"Yeah, it was too easy, what with there being only one guard on the way here," Mateusz responded before asking, "Where's Mewtwo, he should know what to do,"

As if to answer his question, Mewtwo and Joasia entered through a door to their right.

"Weapon activation in: ten… nine… eight…," the voice said over the intercom as the weapon appeared for the first time.

A large hatch in the centre of the room opened and a three metre wide antenna with sharpedo fangs painted on the side began to rise from the ground…


Will the weapon be destroyed in time? Will they all survive? Find out in chapter 30, coming soon...