Author's note: See? Its a good thing I am no longer updating daily because I'd be on chapter 41 right now, and that's only 9 chapters from where I am now! I definitely do need more time to write more quality work so enjoy 37 so I can bring you chapter 50 and have it be good! Maybe when it's the holiday season and I'm not in school I'll update daily again, as long as I can write a good chapter daily. I'm thinking of you fans while I do this! lol.
OH, and I'm also accepting OCs for the pokemon league tournament to happen later in the story. Check my profile page at the bottom for details on what you must PM me. Enjoy chapter 37!
Chapter 37 Which Pokemon and The Abandoned Base
"And that's what we gathered…" Jacob had just finished explaining their side of the night, what they found out, what the next mission is, and most of what Robbie told them. They were in the backyard of Jacob's home, it was sometime later in the afternoon, and just beforehand John and Len explained the deal with the gene splicing and Professor Birch. They really had no idea what the best course of action was at this point.
"If anything you two should definitely not go back to the night-watch job. They probably found the two grunts we locked in those lockers by now, and will probably suspect you should you return."
"You're probably right Len, we definitely can't go back there, and we definitely can't call the cops because they have hostages… But we can't just let their plan go down in Saffron! We have to at least warn Sabrina and hope she'll take us seriously."
"Well I've heard somewhere that she can read minds so she'd definitely be able to tell you if you're telling the truth, Jacob." Len opened up a small book: "Guide to the Gym Leaders of Kanto". It was a year old, so it was probably outdated by now. "She can also use psychic abilities herself, this says."
"Let's do that. We'll go to Saffron tomorrow, and try to get Sabrina to help us. She probably has psychic disciples as well that could help too."
"We can't count on that for every Gym Jake," John was right, Brock's gym was just himself, as is Erika's and Surge's. Misty has swimmers training about and Koga has his ninjas, "there isn't anything to say Sabrina will have nothing but her Psychic-type pokemon."
Heidi, whilst petting her Eevee, finally broke her silence, "If anything we probably need to make our pokemon stronger, fast."
Jacob replied, "And how do you propose we do that?"
She pulls from her bag the stones she took from the Game Corner's Prize Room last night, and throws them on the table. A Thunder, Fire, Water, Moon, Shiny, and Dusk stone are now in front of the other three boys. In awe, John asks, "Where did you get these?!"
"I, kinda took them from the game corner last night…"
"Well what's done is done, we should be able to put these to use." Jacob grabs the Shiny stone. "Togetic needs one of these to evolve, right?... No, I won't use this yet."
"Well I don't know about you, but that water stone could really set me up well!"
"I thought you liked bugs John."
"That doesn't mean I can't have a Starmie!" He grabs the water stone and releases from a net ball a Staryu. "Yo, buddy, you wanna evolve?" He hands the stone over to the Staryu, which takes a good look at it. It turns the rock over in its appendages, and touches it to its crystal. It glows white at the point of contact, as does the rock, and the glow spreads all over the body. After a few seconds a Starmie is standing among the group. "Well I'm satisfied! You guys use the other stones." He puts Starmie back in its ball, making it rest for future battles.
"I'm gonna use the fire stone on Eevee soon!" Eevee looks up at Heidi, looks at the stone, and turns its head to it. "I didn't mean now! I mean when you want to! You know I need fire-types!" The Eevee considers this, and nods as if it is saying, 'Ok, I will be a Flareon, but not till I'm ready!'
"If that's the case…" Len picks up the dusk stone. "I'll save this for future reference. A Honchkrow will be really cool to have!"
"Don't you already have six pokemon Len?" The inquisitive Heidi asks.
"That doesn't mean I can't carry seven or more! When they say to enter six pokemon in a battle, that means only six of what you're carrying! That means I can carry as many pokemon I want!" At discovering this loophole, Heidi makes a mental note of every pokemon she wants to carry with her as well.
"Ok, enough Len. Jacob and I both know that you just wanna copy me because I have nine pokemon with me. Well, we have four days before the Rockets attack Saffron. We should be able to convince Sabrina before then." John stood up and stretched.
"Let's leave tomorrow morning for Saffron. We should head to the mall and buy up some potions and stuff now, so we can keep all our pokemon in check."
"We should leave Thursday, we can train some of our pokemon here with Erika in the time being."
"You're only saying that Len because your Houndour is great against grass types," after Jacob pointed out Len's ulterior motive, Len sighed and said,
"Well it'd be much more attractive to go into battle with a Metagross alongside your Snorlax, or maybe even an Aggron."
"You know as well as I do that training them is going to be such a hassle."
"I say we keep our teams going into Saffron to four, that way it'd be easier to keep track of our pokemon, and that way we don't lose all our pokemon." Heidi's suggestion was indeed a good one, but for some, choosing the pokemon they bring would be difficult.
"I dunno who I'll bring in that case, I got a lot of strong pokmeon because I've been away from the challenge for so long."
"What pokemons do you have Johnny?"
"Typhlosion, Escavalier, Starmie, you know about, then my other six are Scyther, Fortress, Heracross, Exploud, Larvesta, and Shedinja."
"Holy crap, when did you get all of those?!" His old friend was surprised at how many pokemon he had come across after he went home. Jacob, now realizing one of John's pokemon was a strong Normal-type, asks kindly, "Hey, buddy of mine! Mind if I trade a pokemon for your Exploud?"
Knowing his friend's love for the Normal-type, John agrees, "Why don't I just give him to you? I only caught him 'cuz I thought, eh, why not, an Exploud could be cool, but he's been kind of a jerk to me lately. He probably needs a trainer that'll use him more often." He reaches in his back and tosses over a quick ball to his friend, who in turn releases the pokemon inside. A large purple mass comes out, and stretches its arms and legs. It looks at its master and growls loudly.
"How ya doin bud?" The Exploud turns and looks at Jacob, "I'm gonna be your new trainer from today!" The Exploud looks up and down Jacob, punches him in the stomach, walks over to the corner of the yard, and sits down, watching the group. Jacob, now slightly keeled over, starts yelling at John, "What the hell is this?!"
"I told you he's a jerk." The Exploud chuckles aloud and goes to sleep. Jacob returns it to its Quick ball and slaps his friend upside the head.
"Anyway, let's just bring four each then. I'll bring Snorlax, Magneton, Metang, and Exploud, how about you guys?"
"I'll bring Mightyena, Umbreon, Sneasal and Houndour."
"I'll bring Typhlosion, Escavalier, Heracross, and Shedinja."
"And I'll bring Eevee, Hootie, Arcanine and Riolu!"
"Try not to kill anyone with Arcanine Heidi…" The group laughs at Jacob's joke, now making their way back inside the house. "We leave tomorrow!"
Bill and Roy were once again more than halfway down route 14 on their way to the possibly deserted Rocket Hideout. Accompanied by their Fire-type pokemon, the two were confidently on a mission to uncover some secrets of Team Rocket. The level six Card Key was sure to get them in most rooms of the base, and through that they hoped to uncover a lot of information.
"Ugh, not catching the pokemon I want is frustrating!"
"Calm down, you got yourself a Yanmega. Isn't that enough?"
"You only have Ninetales and that Hitmonchan, are those the only pokemon you use?"
"I rarely use Hitmonchan as it is. Ninetales is the only one for me!"
"What happens if it faints in battle."
Bill glares at his partner, with an intensity he's never seen before. "I will never let my baby faint."
"Oh Billy, you're so wonderful!"
"Heheheh, I knooow~!"
Roy and Torchie both give Bill an odd look. "Well either way we're bound to dig up something, old or new. We'd have to go back to Koga to see if any of it is useful."
They round the corner on to route 13, walking seemingly becoming a chore. After another few hours of walking filled with random side conversation, they make their way up to the barn again. The Mankey inside causing another ruckus.
"Heh! Huh? Who's there?! Oh, it's you two fellers. Ya forget something?"
"No, we need to investigate something, do you use the well in the back?"
"Huh, oh, no, that dang thing don't have water in it. It definitely won't be good anyway after the eruption and what not. Why do you need to see it?"
"No real reason. But if you don't see us come up from the well, call the police."
"What are you talkin' 'bout boy?"
Roy begins to explain, "There's a Rocket Hideout down the well. We are gonna see if we can find anything related to what they are doing now."
The old man's expression changed. "Well good luck to ya, but they abandoned that place three years ago. I should know, I was the guard, here all by my lonesome with Mankey," the mention of its name makes it smile at its master, "Let me know if those bastards have any plans to reimburse me! They said I'd retire in style!" He starts going off, rambling about the past, old Rocket officials he had the 'in' with, and several grunts he befriended and trained. The two ignored him and made their way to the well in the back. Bill tugged the rope four times and a small wooden square came up from the depths of darkness. Roy took a step on it and was lowered slowly below the ground's surface.
After a few seconds the walls opened up around him to reveal a small hallway in front of him with a door. He stepped off the plank and yelled up for Bill to come down, whom after another minute or so, joined his comrade in the darkened hallway. They opened up the first door using the Card Key given to them by Koga, and walked further into the bowels of the base, not knowing what they would encounter.