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Quick A/N: Sorry for the late update and Happy Halloween!
Psychic talking: Bold
Pokemon talking: italics only
May held her breath, stepping forward silently as a she, Dawn and Clemont passed by a room filled with Rockets. She carefully released her Venusaur as Dawn released Togekiss. She silently asked her grass type to use Sleep Powder while Dawn had Togekiss use Gust, spreading the powder into the room.
Slowly one by one, every guard fell, including the few spare random pokemon that littered the room.
Clemont waltzed in slowly, garnering help from both Chespin and Bunnelby to help him tie the grunts and return the pokemon surrounding them. With the grunts tied and properly gagged thanks to Clemont, the trio moved again, keeping their minds open to the psychic connection Sabrina had pronounced.
"Shuppet!" The little ghost type whispered, appearing before them.
Dawn nearly shrieked, steeling her nerves quickly before letting out an unsteady breathe. Giving a quiet nod to the small Pokemon.
"She is telling you that many pokemon lie ahead of you, follow her." Sabrina's voice echoed through their heads. "Stay alert, however, many Rockets have been alerted of a breach more than likely thanks to the few Psychic types that lie around you."
"Thanks Sabrina." May responded, following Dawn as Ash's Shuppet twirled before them.
The little Shuppet gave another quiet cry, before darting back towards the left. They each followed, returning their pokemon as they quietly sprinted after the ghost type.
Shuppet twisted and twirled, giving quiet cries to ensure they were still following her. She weaved by a door in which the others would be forced to open. She could do little as any of her attacks would most likely cause alarms to blare.
She glanced down the hallways, humming deeply as her eyes flashed red, allowing her vision to go past the walls. Her body stiffened before her odd cloth bottom flailed and spiked angrily. She growled, summoning up her strength as she waited patiently.
The door beside her opened, causing her to turn and hiss. The three trainers paused and took a step back.
"Over here!" "Alakazam use psychic!" "Houndour use Dark Pulse."
Shuppet turned, her body brightening dangerously before she dipped pass the Dark Pulse.
She gave a loud cry, her body enveloping in a white bright light. The two rockets and the two Pokemon cried out, shielding their eyes from the pain enveloping their retinas. Houndour stepped back, giving a pained howl as it twisted it's leg momentarily. Alakazam had jumped back, slipping and slamming painfully on the floor.
Before any more damage could be done, Shuppet let out a shriek, pink mist surrounding it's frame before forming a blade and driving it towards the Houndour.
"Fire Blast!" "Psychic!"
Once again Alakazam let it's eyes glow blue, enrapturing Shuppet in it's hold. Houndour gave a feral growl, standing up shakily from the previous attack, a harsh heat began to build in it's mouth. With a rabid howl. Shuppet braced for impact, gritting her teeth in frustration as the ball of flame appeared before her. She screwed her eyes shut, gasping slightly as the flames licked her body.
"Togekiss Protect!" "Skitty use Assist!"
Immediately the large white winged pokemon appeared before her, calling her name as a blue shield cut off both the psychic attack and the fire blast. The small pink cat pokemon stood beneath the Togekiss, twitching her tail as she called her name. An ice beam appeared before her muzzle, crackling slightly before it shot off. Alakazam skidded back with a sharp cry, Houndour, however, kept it's ground against the cold.
"SHUPPET!" She screamed, her body twisted one more and a familiar fairy wind harshly slammed down a charging Houndour.
She turned, only to see the two cute pokemon viciously strike down Alakazam.
She turned to the two rockets who were already pulling out another pair of poke balls. She zoomed forward, eyes flashing dangerously her eyes glowing red.
The two grunts froze twitching slightly before their bodies collapsed.
Clemont had immediately ran up to the two to tie and gag them, his Heliolisk by his side sending a stream of electricity through the rockets nervous system. The grunts spazzed slightly, before falling unconscious.
Clemont ignored the brutality and followed Shuppet as she spun with an urgent cry. She zipped past the turn and fazed into a door, hearing the cry of the pokemon there.
"Master!"
"Master saves us! Masters Please!"
"I want home!"
"Memma! Baba!"
"It HuRtS!"
"I'm Burning!"
"Help Us Please!"
Shuppet felt her resolve fade, her previous adrenaline and anger fading as she swept by the pokemon in cages. She had felt their presents, seen them but had completely ignored their calls.
Not now.
"Help Us!" A Sandshrew cried. "Please help us!"
Shuppet felt her frustrations grow, tearing up as she prayed for her sister to be safe.
She would not like a place like this.
"I cannot help." She whispered. "Not yet, trainers are coming to help you-."
"NOT TRAINERS!"
"MASTERS?!"
"Please, I just want to go home!"
Shuppet bit her ghostly lip, twirling in place before she heard the trainers try and break into the building, and another trainer try to come through the door on the opposite side. She zoomed towards the other door, determined to find out who it was. There was no way it was a rocket, they would have just walked in already. She burst through the wall, her face twisted into a snarl until she saw the familiar yellow tail of her older comrade.
"Pikachu!" She gasped in delight, just as the yellow mouse looked up.
"Sister!" "Shuppet!" The two pokemon next to her trainer cried softly, giving encouraging smiles.
"Great to see you safe Shuppet." Ash huffed heavily. "Pikachu thunder wave, clean and quick."
The mouse nodded, letting an easy and fast stream of electricity through his tail into the keypad. The three pokemon and single human waited with baited breathe as the pad sparked slightly before short circuiting. The door swung open, allowing them to rush in, Ash gripped the edge of the door, and forced it close with all his might, grunting in exertion before sighing in relief.
Shuppet floated to Ash with worry, trilling ever so sightly to ensure her trainer's safety. Ash turned to her with a smile, petting her gently despite his own frazzled nerves.
"I'm alright girl." He sighed. "Go lead the others to the labs, I'll stay here and free the pokemon, okay?"
"Got it Ash." She nuzzled him softly, before turning and nuzzling the two pokemon.
They gave soft sighs and nuzzles in return, looking at the younger pokemon in slight sadness before she floated away. They turned back to Ash with determined nods, hearing the slight welding on the opposite door grow silent.
He approached the first cages, listening in to the frightened whispers of the pokemon.
"Human, Human!"
"Please spare me!"
"Help Me, Help Me fellow Pokemon, I burn, I burn!"
He turned his attention to the wailing pokemon, growing ice cold at the sight.
It was a young Oddish, it's once blue body was a bright orange, while it's leaves were a sickly red as opposed to a grass green. It's red eyes stayed constant, but it's usually chubby body was thin and dehydrated.
Pikachu moved closer, placing tiny yellow paws on the cages the small Oddish reached a frail leaf out. Before it could touch the small mouse, it screamed.
"IT BURNS! IT BURNS!"
Banette moved forward, her small zipper like mouth turned into a frown. She phased between the cages and sat next the Oddish, eyes blinking pink for a second before her hands were coated in mud. Slowly and gently she lathered the Oddish with mud, soothing and calming the grass type.
"It burns, it burns." It murmured weakly.
"Ash, you might want to get Bulbasaur and Squirtle out!" Pikachu murmured as he passed by the multiple Pokemon cages. "Some of these pokemon are young and the others look like their badly burnt!"
"You might need to get it Pika." Ash said, glancing at the monitors. "Looks like we have company soon."
"It looks like their using Fire types in this facility." Banette called as she got out of the cage. "The other labs I have visited have pokemon of the same status."
"Dully noted!" Ash grunted, as he slammed the keypad.
In a moment the cages started to spark, scaring all the pokemon to the back of their cages. But the metal didn't move.
"Banette work on getting those cages open! Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur I choose you!"
Pikachu bounded forward with a loud growl, watching in irritation as the door slowly opened. Both Bulbasaur and Squirtle appeared with growls, glaring heavily at the door. Banette began to crack open the cages with swipes of her claws, grunting in pain as electricity ran through her arms.
"Pikachu Thunder wave, Bulbasaur Stun Spore, Squirtle Yawn!" Ash commanded quickly.
Pikachu let out another heavy stream of electricity, jumping back as Bulbasaur filled the air before them with stun spore, preventing the grunts to yell immediately. Squirtle gave a loud yawn, a bubble forming before floating quickly to the grunts. The bubble popped, and the grunts grew drowsy for a second before falling asleep.
Ash sighed, giving a nod to his three pokemon before releasing Meganium and Chespin. The two grass types let their vines out, tying the grunts before severing the dead vines. The two struggled slightly before eventually dragging the trio of grunts inside the room, and gagging their mouths.
Ash turned away, fulling trusting the two starter grass types as he watched the four smaller pokemon work their magic. He reached forward grabbing some cages with his bare hands and ripped them from their bolts, surprising the Pidgeys' hiding at the very back of the cage.
"Its okay you guys." Ash whispered softly. "I'm here to help you out."
The Pidgeys' stayed back, but Ash could see they were slightly more convinced. He moved out of the way and continued on with the next set of Pokemon.
"Ash."
"Sabrina?" Ash whispered in slight surprise. "What's wrong?"
"The admins, two of them I believe are coming your way, will you be able to hold them off?"
Ash looked at his pokemon who were slowly leading the other pokemon out. His frown deepened.
"I don't think so." Ash admitted. "My pokemon are strong, but we're also trying to protect some others as well, our first priority is the safety of these little guys."
"Ash ending the admins would make it easier for them to heal!"
"Not if these guys end up dead." Ash scowled. "Some of these guys can barely stand, let alone take a hit. I'll be able to hold them off for as long as I can, but we deal with Grunts, not Admins, and Admins are the higher ups for a reason."
Sabrina stood quiet, silently mulling over Ash's proposition.
Ash really didn't care, He had dealt with Team Magma, Team Aqua, Team Galactic and Team Plasma. He's dealt with Rocket and Flare grunts but has never really tasted the full strength of Team Rocket. And even then, most Rocket Grunts were ten times harder than Team Galactic, one of the toughest organizations he had ever faces.
Sabrina had only ever dealt with Rockets, and everyone else he currently was traveling with, didn't have much experience with organizations aside from Brock.
It was frustrating for Ash to not know the level of danger the rocket Admins held, but in his current course of action it would be the safest routes.
"Alright Ash, I'll lead Brock, Paul and Gary to you." Sabrina whispered carefully. "The rest of us will round and trap them in, there aren't many rockets in this base."
"Which means it's not the main base." Ash grunted. "But we have others attacking the ones in Saffron. Koga sent me an update, found rocket Gold activity and is currently taking it down as we speak, already told everyone about the files, so we'll receive them once the battle is over."
"Confirmed." And with that, Sabrina grew quiet.
Ash turned to his pokemon, giving them soft smiles before he turned to the door with a hardened glare. His pokemon sensed his unease, his oldest pokemon stepping forward and in front of him. Banette and Chespin rounded up the injured pokemon, using silent words to calm their unease.
"We need to hold them off until everyone gets here." Ash stated strongly, forcing the bandanna to tighten around his skull. "You guys up for it?"
"Getting injured?" Squirtle murmured.
"Fighting for our lives?" Bulbasaur mimicked.
"For the world?" Meganium, whipped her vines up, glaring at the door.
"Sounds like the family business." Pikachu grinned slightly.
Ash let out a sigh, watching impassively when the door swung open.
"Let's do this."
A/N: Hello, sorry once again for the late update but it seems like a regular for now, so I guess I should stop apologizing for this.
I hope you all enjoyed this, I had this partially done but with persona things I've set alot of shit back. This is getting closer and closer to the end, and hopefully I finished Dark shadows as well so I can start a new story but who knows.
So this is it for now, so please as always, Review! And with that,
-Maiden Out.