Wow, so after, like, forever, I'm back. I'm so flattered that people actually are still reading this. I've wanted to write for a couple of days now, but I haven't got around to it. Trying to get myself further into the writing mood I logged in. I don't know what made me want to look at my story traffic, but I did. I really just can't believe how many people still read my story! Thank all of you so much!

To reward you guys for being extra awesome people, I'm giving you a chapter that's about double the length. Unfortunately, I'm not starting back up in the most exciting of places, and because I'm a bit out of practice with writing. I'm sorry if this chapter is really boring. I promise you, though, that the next chapter I put out (which should be in a week, I'm trying to commit this time) will be an epic battle against Red, along with some other fun, Pokémon logic stuff if I can find anything.

Again, thanks so much, all of you, for being so amazing!

Disclaimer: Pokémon, along with any people, places or things from it are not mine, nor do I claim it to be. The only thing I do own is myself and the dream this all started from.


"Um," I stumbled before pulling myself into an improvisation mindset, "I don't like having my mind read. It feels a little like a violation of privacy to not know when you're being listened to."

"I know what you mean," Mew responded.

I had to struggle hard to keep my thoughts away from my last dream, in which Mew's ability was questioned before Mew took off. It would make sense that Mew wouldn't want to be heard by Arceus because of this incident.

I replaced my understanding before it had the chance to surface with fake surprise, "Why would you be worried about your mind being read? Isn't only other legendaries that can use telepathy?"
"Well," Mew started. I felt a wave of uneasiness from Mew. I could now feel her emotions, I wondered if it was a side effect of having the telepathy connection last for so long without it breaking, "for as long as I can remember Arceus has been keeping a watch over me with telepathy. I've never once had a moment of privacy. It hasn't been so bad until now. Now I don't want her to know I've made a huge mistake that could have killed you, thus causing a severe problem for not only me, but all of the legendaries. But I can only keep that part of my mind walled off for so long before she breaks through."

I could tell that Mew was choosing her words carefully, trying not to reveal too much about herself and the other legendaries. She didn't know that the careful choosing was wasted on me, because I already knew much more than I should have. On the end of this thought I tacked on a 'why bother keeping more from me?' to make it seem like I actually didn't know much about her.

The next series of thoughts that tumbled around in my head were about her last four words, 'before she breaks through'. Did that mean that Mew could break through the barriers I was creating in my thoughts? Could she break through to listen to the secrets I was keeping from here?
"What exactly are you keeping from me in there?" Mew telepathically replied, hearing mythoughts. She knocked on my head with her paw.

"Things," I responded.

"To answer your question," Mew said, now seeming a little more light-hearted than before, "No, I've only managed to break down small mental barriers. What you have in there is kept behind a shield as thick as the earth's crust, and as hard as the body of an Onix. You must have put a lot of work in that baby."

A wave of relief washed over me before Mew added another point after a fairly lengthy silence.

"There is a weaker point though. You generally don't see that unless it was broken through before. Once broken through that part of the mental wall gets weaker. I wonder if Arceus has already broken into your thoughts."

Only one word managed to leak into my thoughts, "Shit."

"Oh," Mew said, "I'm sure Arceus isn't too interested in any of your petty human secrets. She was probably just making sure that you had only good intentions. Being the one who brought this world alive, your thoughts are very important."

I again thought quickly and covered my thought up, "Not that. There are people staring at me."

It was true; my standing here for however long Mew and I had been communicating for had attracted attention, though neither of us had made any noise. There were a few grunts gathered a fair distance away from us and were staring at me.

"Maybe we should avoid attracting any more attention," Mew suggested.

I agreed and quickly walked over to the Pokémon Center and entered it.

After some more planning between Mew and I through telepathy, while I absentmindedly picked at a plate of fries Nurse Joy gave me for lunch to not attract attention I headed back out of the Pokémon Center and to where Team Rocket was: the Silph Company building.

It was easy to get into the Silph Company building as the guard outside had fallen asleep. I quickly checked to make sure no one else was able to see me before darting into the building, making sure to make as little noise as possible so that I wouldn't wake the grunt.

The first floor of the Silph building was beautiful. It was lined by pretty potted plants and had an enormous, gorgeous fountain in the middle. The floor was also deserted, so I quickly ascended the stairs up to the second floor.

From the top of the stairs on the second floor I walked to the south and into another room, which was being guarded by a grunt. I was expecting him to be a little bit better than the grunts back in Celadon, and he was, but not by much. He used five level 25 Pokémon.

In this room there was another grunt that used two level 29 Pokémon. There was also a scientist who used three level 28 Pokémon. All of these battles were very easy for my over-levelled Rhydon to battle. There were also a few locked doors, but I couldn't do anything about them yet.

There wasn't anything else of much interest on this floor. There was an elevator and a white spot, which I knew was a warp pad. I was going to ignore the warp pads for now and only use the stairs. I did exactly that and went up the next flight of stairs and headed into a hallway that branched out into another hallway to the south.

Along this hallway to the south I found another grunt, who helped me to level both Rhydon and Poliwrath to level 46. I also found a room with a warp pad in a room, and two warp pads down at the southern end of the floor.

I ignored these warp pads and went up to the next floor by stairs.

I was now on the fourth floor of the Silph Company building, but I knew I was far from taking down the force that had taken it over. There were still many locked doors and hidden rooms to go to with warp pads, along with many floors, plus this one, which I hadn't explored yet.

Like I had on the second floor I walked south and into a small room. A grunt awaited my arrival there, but was no match for Venusaur. Once finished with the grunt, I picked up an item off of a table, the TM for Torment. I then walked out into the hallway and followed it south and into another room, though not without battling a grunt first.

The room contained nothing but a warp pad, so I ignored it and walked back over to the stairs to climb up to the next floor: floor five.

On this floor there was another room to the south of the stairs, so I entered it only to find another trainer. This trainer wasn't a grunt or a scientist though, he was a Juggler. This surprised me, but since he was in here and was willing to battle, I battled him. He was no tougher an opponent than the grunts.

This floor also was guarded by two grunts and a scientist, which I took care of quickly. I was almost disappointed that Giovanni hadn't set up a more difficult challenge for me to face in here. But then again, I was only on the fifth floor.

I then climbed the next set of stairs to floor six. I was almost immediately greeted by a grunt, who I beat quickly. It turned out that this grunt, along with another grunt at the southern end of this room, were keeping many of the employees of the company hostage in the room. Along with the two grunts I took out a scientist.

I turned back toward the captured employees after defeating the three Team Rocket peons, "You're free to go now. All of the trainers on the lower floors have already been beaten."

The employees stared at me blankly for a second, then turned back toward each other without a word.

"Uh...do you not understand English? You're no longer being held captive by Team Rocket. You can leave." I told them a second time.

Again, my only response was a few seconds of dead silence and many pairs of eyes staring at me before, once again, the employees turned away.

Though I was thoroughly confused, I just shrugged my shoulders and continued up the next set of stairs. I had grown to stop questioning the logic of the people in this world.

Floor seven was full of rooms I couldn't enter because there were so many locked doors. In the areas I could get to I battled another two grunts and a scientist. I also picked up an item, a Calcium before climbing the next set of stairs.

This floor was also pretty useless, with exception of one grunt. Once I had defeated him all of my Pokémon were at level 46. There was another grunt and a scientist on this floor as well, though they were easy to take care of, like all of the other trainers in this building.

I went through the same process of climbing stairs and battling grunts and scientist, as well as picked up the occasional item for another three floors. By the time I had made it to the top, floor eleven, I had picked up an Iron, a Carbos, a Rare Candy, an Ultra Ball, and a Zinc.

Now it was time to go back through the building and go through the warp pads. I took all of the warp pads in the building that I could get to without being able to unlock the locked doors, and in the process picked up the TM for Focus Punch, and battled three trainers, causing Rhydon, Kadabra, and Poliwrath to level up. I also found the Card Key while exploring with the warp pads. Though you didn't need to go into a room that you could only get to with a warp pad, you did need to use a warp pad to get to it. There was a grunt and a warp pad blocking a path on the south side of a floor. If you get past them by taking the warp pad, then taking the one on the other side back you would find the Card Key.

My next job was to unlock all of the doors and get into those rooms. I again started on floor two and went up from there. By doing this I found a Hyper Potion, a Max Revive, an Escape Rope, a Full Heal, a Protein, an HP Up, an X Special, the TM for Bulk Up, and battled two trainers. I also found a woman who let me rest in a bed to heal my Pokémon and take a much needed rest myself.

Resting in that bed had been a little bit of a mistake, it seemed. I woke up before I was fully rested to the woman who had told me to rest there staring creepily at me, smiling. I decided that maybe going to the Pokémon Centre instead would be a much better idea for some well needed rest.

After healing at the Pokémon Center I headed back into the Silph Company building and took the elevator to floor three, where I had left the warp pad. The warp pad was in the first room to the west of the grunt on that floor. I stepped onto the warp pad and was transported to a room on the seventh floor.

Standing in this room, talking to one of the scared employees was a boy in a red baseball cap, Red.

"Red, what are you doing here?" I asked as I walked up behind him.

Red turned around to face me, "Oh, hi Jenn," he replied, "I'm here to defeat Team Rocket."

"What beef do you have with them?" I asked.

"Nothing really," Red admitted, "But that doesn't mean I shouldn't try to stop them. They're an evil group of gangsters, stealing Pokémon for a living."

I nodded, "Well, I guess we need to battle now..."

Red nodded back, "Of course."

Like always, our battling screens shot out of our watches, showing the same screens that we were used to looking at.

I was hoping that I would beat Red so that I could be sure that I defeated Giovanni before he had the chance to. I had a personal vendetta against the head of Team Rocket now, and I was going to get back at him for what he had his grunts do to me. While Red was going through Team Rocket for a fairly noble cause, to stop them, I was bent on revenge, and I wouldn't be stopped. Not by some weakling grunts, and not by a boy with a red had from Pallet Town.