Author's Note: Still looking for Character OCs! Not a single one of my 10 loyal readers has sent one in... that's very disappointing... :(
Lol whatever, just continue to read.
Chapter 39 Plan B and Another New Ally
Bill and Roy are given a modest tour of the small living area that belongs to this strange guy here, who explains how the Rockets did indeed leave this place three years ago and that they would hardly find anything useful here that could help them. The boy explains how he knew the Rockets had moved out and because he had been virtually disowned by his father he chose to live here among his pokemon who he had been friends with for a long time, which can be seen by his powerful Feraligatr, Alakazam, and Meganium. It hadn't occurred to them to introduce themselves to the humble person giving them a tour of their home.
"Oh, by the way, I'm Bill, this is my lovely Ninetales, this is Roy,"
"Sup."
"And his Blaziken, Torchie."
"Nice to meet you all, hahaha. I'm called," He hesitates for a moment, "Michael."
"Been down here so long you forgot your own name?" Bill laughs at his own joke, then continues the conversation, "Have you ever come back up from down here?"
"I sometimes indulge in a restaurant dinner once in a while by teleporting to Fuchsia, or Lavender Town with my Alakazam but other than that I've had no need. My berry planters give me fresh fruit and Feraligatr uses water gun whenever I need something to drink. It's given me time away from the world that any man would desperately want but get tired of soon after."
"It's amazing how you've survived here for so long without other human contact. And what's with the televisions set to all the news stations?"
"Well one day I was watching TV, then, there was Giovanni on the TV, and since then I've set all the monitors to different news stations. To see if any of them talk about suspicious activity. There's nothing notable other than their giant armed attacks."
"That just means they're doing their job well apparently." Michael leads them into a guest room he set up and it looks like hasn't been used since he made it. "Uh, what's this?"
"A guest room. I haven't had guests so this is the first time I've been in here in a while."
"Oh, okay, thanks…" Bill thinks for a moment. "would you mind if we continued searching the upstairs floors for any information?"
"Sure, go ahead, but you'll need a level 7 card key to enter here again, plus, like I said earlier, it's probably devoid of most important documents."
"Actually, I found some employee documents that may help us out." He pulls out a few documents from earlier, and shows them to his friends.
"Wow, I'm surprised you actually found something, but these won't help you. These people probably moved away by now." Michael was right, it was unlikely that someone from Team Rocket would stick around in Kanto after the slow breakdown of the gang.
"Well crap," Roy threw the papers into the garbage can and kicked it over in anger.
"Hey Mike, how did you find out about this base anyway?"
"Oh, uh, well, uh, my dad was with Team Rocket but I didn't like them, that's why he effectively disowned me too. He wasn't exactly the most understanding dad."
"Hey, why don't you join me and Roy and come fight Team Rocket with us?! Our friends Jacob, Len, and John are fighting them too! They were the ones on the TV when Fuchsia was attacked!"
"Well, maybe, but if you're really going to fight them then I should probably show you something," He leads them to his main room, "I spend my time here intercepting signals, and there are a lot that are just information about captives, pokemon caught, etc. They have successfully captured at least 300 different pokemon at this point, over half of the necessary amount they want." He clicks a few buttons and pulls up a video, a red-haired woman appears on the screen, starting to talk about a plan.
"This plan she's explaining now was broadcasted to the Celadon Base this morning at around 1AM, it's about an attack at Saffron, the entire city. There will be at least 60 Rocket Grunts taking SilphCo. Alone, then more will enter the city to make sure nobody leaves. Jessie and James themselves will also be overseeing the operation too, and they are the best of the best."
"Then who were Butch and Cassidy? They said they were the best but we whupped them!"
"You two are the trainers that saved Lavender town?! I'm surprised I didn't recognize you from the news reports!" Mike was taken aback as he took a few steps away. "With you two we can definitely stop the attack! I'll join you, but we should focus on battling the Rockets outside the city, that way people can escape the city."
"You're right, the people and pokemon escaping should be top priority. The cops should be able to handle the Rockets inside SilphCo." Bill was confident in their current plan, and was hoping Roy could continue to add to it.
"Well, I'll take the west entrance, Bill, you take the south entrance, and Mike, you should either take the north or east, three of the entrances lead from cities, but Lavender Town isn't exactly the safest place to run to right now too."
"If we could get Sabrina's help then maybe,"
"Sabrina would probably be protecting her own pokemon from the attack, Bill. We can't rely on her if you think about it."
"You're right Mike, she'd be busy protecting the Gym… hmmm…." The group collectively thought about what to do about the situation. Bill finally spoke up and said, "Why don't we ask for help from Len's sister? She lives at the Daycare Center so she could guard the north entrance. But, if anything happened Len would never forgive me…"
"It's worth a shot. She probably knows her brother is fighting for the cause, so she might want to help."
"You obviously don't know her Roy. She's not really into battling her pokemon, I don't even know why I suggested it in the first place!"
"You said she lived at the Daycare Center?" Mike's interest was piqued.
"Yeah, why?"
"Let's go and ask her! Alakazam, Teleport us to the Daycare Center."
In a flash of purple light they were immediately transported a foot off the ground across the road from Len's house. After landing gently on his feet, and watching the other two fall flat on their asses, Michael turned and looked at the house, the sunset hitting the windows and sending a glare into his eyes.
"So is this the place?"
Bill looks around, gets up and says, "Yep, let's see if anybody's home." The three, alongside their three pokemon, walk up to the door, where Bill knocks gently a few times. The barking of a Lillipup is heard from inside the door, followed by a girlish voice telling it to quiet down as she opened the door. The girl with long brown hair to the middle of her back, slender arms and legs, and eyes that reflected the orange of the sky stepped onto the stoop with a Lillipup around her feet and a Pichu in her arms, greeting the six figures in front of her.
"Hello, how can I help you?"
"You don't remember me?! I'm so offended! Gosh! What did I ever do to deserve this hatred!" After the first line she started giggling, now recognizing her friend with erratic fake mood-swings, and giving him a half-hug.
"Oh Bill, I haven't seen you in so long! How are you doing?"
He pushes her away, "No! No love for you!" She starts to giggle again.
"Can you at least introduce me to your friends?"
"I'm Roy, and this is Torchie,"
"And I'm, Micheal, and this is my Alakazam."
"Hello all, please, come on in, we are starting to prepare dinner if you want to eat here."
Bill took over the conversation from here, "No thank you kind miss, we are here just to ask a favor. You know Len is helping Jacob to fight Team Rocket, right?"
"Yeah, he told me over the phone a few weeks ago, before the eruption, that he was going to help Jacob defeat Team Rocket."
"Do you know where he is now?"
"I don't, sorry, is there anything else I could do to help?"
"Actually, we came here to ask you if you wanted to help us. There's going to be an invasion of Saffron City this Friday and we need one more person for our plan to work. Can you help us?"
She shies back towards the door, looking somewhat frightened from the prospect of taking on an evil organization, "I-don't know, I'm not very good when it comes to battling, I just don't train my pokemon for that."
"If it's about your concern for your pokemon we can give you some of ours instead. We just really need the help."
"Why not call the police?"
"They will be too busy taking care of the Rockets in the SilphCo. building, the police can only do so much."
"Plus," Mike decided this was the time to butt in, "There are probably Rocket Members among the police force too. They may not do a thing in the end."
She pondered this for a few moments in a wishy-washy, moving her body around manner. A figure appeared from an open window overhead, a man with short black hair and a mustache pops his head out of the window and yells down to his daughter, "Just go, help your brother's friends, I'll even let you take Nidoqueen with you!" He tosses down a beat-up pokeball with many scratch marks across it, landing softly in Alexandra's hands.
"But dad! I don't know if I can…"
"If need be Nidoqueen will protect you. Don't worry about it." He closes the window overhead. She smiles at the beat-up ball and at her new teammates.
"Let me get my pokemon." The smiling girl returns inside the house and fills her backpack with a few changes of clothes, her pokeballs carrying her four favorite pokemon, and other various girlish needs that are too detailed to get into now, and heads out the front door knowing well that she won't be home for a while.