Well, this took a long time to make. I'm back with the second Special Chapter. Also, I don't think I can get a second update this week because of how long it took to make this so I apologize.
Now, as usual, I like to give a shout-out to the reviewers, SpiritsOfRhythm, saptarshiban2003, Heracross0122, knight7572, Amourshipper35, Guest, Anon Omega, Ri2, AmericanWriter96, Guest, and MeganSH051. I also would like to give a special thanks to the readers, those that favorite and/or followed the story.
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Dragonite landed in the middle of the cavernous wasteland. Launce stepped off and walked to the person looking out through binoculars. Lance knew that this was a member of the international police. A fact he earned when he accidentally got in one of their investigations with his own. The agent turned to him as he walked up, "Our informant on the inside says that Giovanni has left his base and that one of his lieutenants is about to stage a takeover."
Giovanni, the former gym leader of Viridian City. After the destruction of his gym, it was found to by a Team Rocket Hideout. For about a year later they speculated if he was the leader or not. The International Police did have confirmation that he was, due to a slip from a captured Team Rocket Cell, while Lance figured it out himself when he was undercover as a Team Rocket grunt almost four years ago. "I take it you will be raiding them when that happens?"
The agent laughed at that. He found it almost hilarious at calling what they had planned a raid. "A raid? I don't think us bring a small army counts as a raid." The agent had heard about the attack plan. A Pokemon dig team would rip open holes in the underground structure of the base. Several heavy squads will begin attacking from the holes, while another team would be assaulting the HQ from outside. Anyone attempting to run would be hunt down by patrols around the base. "We're attacking one of the strongest criminal and terrorist organizations in the world, and not only that we are basically laying siege to its headquarters."
Lance looked onwards barely making out the shape of the Rocket HQ. Lance knew that in the last few years the organization had grown, despite a few major setbacks in their plans, becoming such a threat that even the criminal underworld felt threatened. Such was that having an informant and a turncoat amongst their ranks made the possibility of an assault too much to pass on. Speaking of informants Lance wondered just who it could be.
Giovanni was no fool. After his cover as a gym leader was blown the man was rather secretive. The grunts didn't know anything and even the admin that they caught was feed false information. Whoever it could be and what their motives were hung heavily on Lance's mind. "You wouldn't mind if I join you in the assault?"
The agent turned to him with a shrug. "If you want I don't see why not," Having him and has Dragonite join in wouldn't be much of a help given all the assets they were calling in but it was the thought that count. "You're already working with us for a while now anyway."
The agent returned to scouting the building as Lance turned around to leave. Dragonite flew out into the sky afterward as Lance reaching into his pocket. He pulled out a chain with a marble-like crystal edged in a dragon claw. He stared at the Key Stone as he thought of the assault. 'Perhaps I should use the Mega Stone Dianthia gave me for this.' He hadn't used it once since he was given it. 'Better late than never they say.'
Matori walked back into her office and looked over the latest reports. All of them minor and unimportant. The kind of things Giovanni usually let her do when he was here. The secretary knew that if Archer found out that the boss had stepped out even for a day he wouldn't hesitate to attempt to take over. A smirk formed on her face at this. She couldn't have planned for it to be this advantageous even if she tried.
Reaching into her purse she pulled out a Holo Caster. With a single press, she looked at the messages to the International Police. They were ready to move within a day. Just coinciding with Archer's attempted coup. The fools were both being played. Exiting this she switched over to the call function and made one on a secret channel. After a few seconds, a holographic image of her secret boss appeared. "Everything is moving just as planned sir."
"Yes and ahead of schedule I see." Lysandre looked at his secret infiltrator within Team Rocket with a prideful look. "What might I ask allowed this to happen, my dear?"
"Giovanni has decided to take a vacation sir," Matori informed him almost laughing at what a fool Giovanni was. True she had managed over the years to appear loyal to his team and managed to back it up though actions o she didn't blame him. "I have informed both Archer and the International Police that now was the time to strike."
Lysandre gave her a nod of confirmation. Taking out Team Rocket was something he had planned on the side. From what was known they had taken out the organization that was in Johto at around the same time as Team Flare's founding. The last few years only made his choice to send Matori more justified with each year. Now it seems that they finally had a chance to cut the head off their biggest adversary. "Be sure to keep Kirlia with you Matori," Her partner knew teleport which was the reason she was picked to infiltrate Team Rocket, "I want you out at the first sign of danger."
Matori had a nod in confirmation as the holographic call ended. She returned the Holo Caster to her purse as she went back to looking through Team Rocket's assists. Seeing how the organization was going to be doomed she might as well help herself to what she wanted. 'You know many I should get Lysandre's little girl a gift or two?'
She didn't know when her birthday was and sure she didn't have too, but she figured why not. Serena was her bosses daughter after all. She pulled up a few of Giovanni's private ships. Each under an alias of course but he never really used any but one of them. With a few types name change, and some basic hacking she sold all of them transferring them over to herself. 'Good, oh Giovanni you sneaky little bastard,' He had a bunch of private planes not on Team Rocket's records, but was under his personal records.
Matori had a mischievous giggle as she began taking ownership of his jets. Sure she'll give one to Serena but the rest will give her a nice profit. Matori wondered if Lysandre might just make her an admin in Team Flare for this. 'You know I wonder how much he will miss his cars.'
Lucario backflipped summoning up a bone shaped construct as he rushed to strike his opponent. While he was a performer at heart he still trained himself for battle and right now he had help on that front. "Electivire, use Fire Punch!" Gary yelled out as Electivire gave his trainer a nod.
Flames surrounded his right arm as Electivire threw a punch. His flaming fist smashed into the bone construct as Lucario struggled to hold his ground. The Aura Pokemon managed to quickly switch his footing in such a way as to allow them to stalemate their attacks. Electivire had a smile at this. The Thunderbolt Pokemon spoke with a deep yet jolly tone to his voice, "You know you're not half bad at battling for a Showman."
Lucario had a chuckle at this. "To me battling," Lucario dug the other end of the Bone Rush into the ground and jumped back the Bone Rush holding just enough to get away but also knocking Electivire off balance. "Is a show of a different kind." Lucario formed an Aura Sphere in his hands and tossed it right at Electivire.
Gary had to admit Serena had raised Lucario well. Off on the side, he noticed Serperior, Braviary, Bulbasaur, Torterra, and Infernape watching the battle on the sidelines. "Come on my dear, I know you have a flair for the dramatic," Serperior rolled her eyes at her mate's general style, "But perhaps it's time to try out your new move for once?"
Lucario had a smirk as his eyes motioned to her. During his time helping Braviary, Bulbasaur and Torterra return the ranch into an ordered environment he had managed to break the four move limit. "Very well," Lucario raced forward before delivering a barrage of punches and kicks as he used Close Combat.
Electivire was knocked on his back at this attack but he wasn't knocked out. The bulky Pokemon picked himself back up as he looked at Lucario straight in his eyes, "Close Combat? Eh, always wished I could learn that move." Electivire got back up into a batting stance.
Before they could continue Tracy came running up to them with a panicked expression on his face. Stopped taking a minute to catch his breath while everyone stared at him. "Tracy, what is it? Why were you running so fast?"
"It's the Tauros herd!" Tracy pointed towards the section of the ranch were Ash's Tauros herd practically claimed as their own. They mostly stuck to themselves in that area. That is outside a few of the new arrivals from other trainers who thought picking a fight with a herd of thirty Tauros was a good idea. "The fence broke and now they are running wild out in Route One!"
This wasn't good at all. If they didn't find and stop them they could end up stampeding into Viridian City. 'Great if that happens my grandpa lab could be shut down.' Gary turned to the Pokemon assembled around them. "Braviary can you fly overhead and locate them?" The Unovan Pokemon wasted no time and took off for the sky. Gray turned to Tracy, "Get the herds pokeballs from storage I'll see what I can do to slow or hopefully stop them before they get to Viridian City."
Tracy gave him a nod as he raced to the laboratory. Inwardly Tracy was starting to make plans to get the fence upgraded. It was something that was long overdue. He just hoped that no one would end up in the way of the rampage.
Alain looked overhead noticed the flock of Pidgey flying freely in Route One. In the time since coming to Kanto both he and Mairin had traveled across Kanto after landing in Saffron City airport. Getting to Pallet Town seemed simple enough to him. Along the way, Mairin had got herself her third Pokemon. He was currently watching as Chespie trained with said new Pokemon. "Alright, Scales use Venoshock!"
The aforementioned Scales was the new Pokemon she managed to catch after befriending after nearly falling from her usual trips. She was an Arbok, a serpent-like Pokemon with purple scales, with a large hood just below its head, and a pattern on it that was vaguely resembling that of a scary face. Scales, as Mairin had nicknamed her let out a blast of green venom right at Chespie he jumped out of the way.
Scales stopped as she turned her head to the side. Being without any legs Arbok, and similar Pokemon like them, were better at feeling vibrations of the earth. After all, when you drag most of your body on it you tend to need to watch out for potential attacks from below. Mairin looked at her with a confused look. "What is it Scales?"
Mairin and Alain turned in the direction as they could make out a dust cloud coming for them. "Wait, a minute," As the cloud got closer they could see that it wasn't a dust cloud but a herd of stampeding Tauros. "What in the world?"
From what Alain knew there was no wild Tauros outside of the Safari Zone within Kanto. So a stampeding herd of them charging in Route One wasn't what Alain thought would be possible. The one thing was that they weren't heading in their direction, though Mairin panicked a bit as she knew what was. "Alain wait isn't Viridian City that way?"
Alain pulled out Charizard's pokeball as he tossed it into the air. In a flash, the pseudo-dragon appeared and noticed the herd of Tauros. He turned his head back to his partner as Charizard took a guess at what they were going to do. "Mairin listen," Alain had an idea about where the herd had possibly originated from. "Go to Pallet Town and see if Professor Oak can help I'm going to see what I can to stop the herd."
Mairin gave him a nod as Alain hoped onto Charizard's back. Charizard took off into the air as the two of them flew over the herd. All around the Pokemon that lived in the area could be seen getting out of the way of the Tauros not wanting to be trampled by the rampaging Pokemon. "Charizard, use Flamethrower in front of the herd!" A stream of fire shot from Charizard's mouth as he aimed it in an arc creating a wall of flames in front of the stamped.
The leader of the herd rared his legs up as the rest stopped just short of hitting him and the fire. They looked upwards noticing the Charizard overhead. For a moment the herd almost thought it was the Charizard they knew. That was until they got a closer look as he landed. Besides not only not being him this Charizard also had a different trainer. As the fire died out the herd leader, a Tauros that was rather large for his kind, stomped forwards almost demanding to know what was going on.
Charizard roared at him telling the leader to stop the rampage or else. The leader didn't like being told that. He turned to the herd as he made it clear that he was going to challenge the pseudo-dragon on his own without their help. Alain seeing this turned to Charizard who had a nod. It looks like that they were going to have to battle the Tauros to get them to stop. "Charizard Dragon Claw now!"
Green claws formed around his arms as Charizard jumped forward. Tauros' head was covered in a psychic pulse had he rammed into the Dragon Claw with Zen Headbutt. The two pushed against one another. Finally, Charizard managed to push Tauros back but the two attacks had canceled any damage they would have down out. Tauros smashed his hooves into the ground as pillars of stone shot out. "Charizard fly up now!"
Charizard shot upwards as the Stone Edge missed him. Tauros glared at this. He always found battling flying Pokemon annoying. "Charizard use Flamethrower now!" A stream of flames were let out of Charizard's mouth and aimed to Tauros who dodged out of the way of the attack. Charizard let out a few more as Tauros dodged each. "Now fifty degrees to the left!"
Charizard let out another stream this time seemly nailing it. However, instead, a glowing barrier formed as Tauros used Protect. Tauros shot Charizard a look almost asking him what he was going to do. "Charizard use Steel Wing!"
A metallic sheen covered Charizard's wings as he raced down to Tauros who's head was once again covered with a layer of psychic energy. Tauros jumped up looking to ram his horns into Charizard. "Grab the horn now!" Charizard's claws grabbed onto the large Tauros' horns as he was pushed back. The two fell to the ground as Charizard wrestled his weight to stop them. The Zen Headbutt still hurt though. "Pick up Tauros and toss him now!"
Charizard lifted it up by its horns with a bit of a struggle. The Tauros not only weight a lot but lifting from the horns wasn't the best way to do so. As soon as he was overhead Charizard tossed Tauros to the grand with a thud. "Use Flamethrower!" Charizard let out a stream of fire hitting Tauros head on even managing to knock up a cloud of dust and smoke.
Alain and Charizard both looked at this expecting the fight to be over. However, Tauros stood up a glare on his face. His eyes glowed red as a similar colored aura surrounded his body. With a load moo, Tauros charged slamming into Charizards chest causing the pseudo-dragon's eyes to widen in shock. Charizard was tossed back by Tauros who continued to stomp the ground in rage.
Alain mentally sapped himself. He had underestimated the Tauros it seems. Charizard pulled himself up as Tauros' Outrage glow faded away yet its eyes remained red thanks to confusion. Alain knew he could end this easily with using Mega Evolution. As he was about to do so Mairin's voice called out. "Alain, I got help!"
Turning his head he saw Mairin racing to him with both Gary, Tacey, Lucario, and Infernape right behind. Gary and Tracy pulled out each of the Tauros pokeballs as returned them one after another. The herd leader, however, in his confused state mistook the disappearance of his herd as something else. He raced at Mairin with intent to harm her. Both Lucario and Infernape sprung forward at this and each one let loose a barrage of kicks and punches as they both unleashed Close Combat on the Normal-type.
Tauros fell over soon afterward unconscious from the pummeling he had received from the two-part Fighting-types. A red light shot out as he was returned to his pokeball and with it, all the Tauros was finally accounted for.
Lysandre sighed as he looked as he left Coumarine City. His mind drifted back to his ex-lover. The city made him remember her and yet instead of pushing the memories out he let them flow. He had met her after watching one of her races. The race was something the mayor of Lumiose wanted him to attend after helping a fundraiser. Like before he heard the people whisper about his intentions.
Lysandre clenched his fists at this. It was always the same it seems. Some people never could believe in the honesty of others. Yet if your wealthy and from an upper-class family it seems that you can never truly be trusted. He had funded schools, hospitals, cheap yet comfortable housing projects, and even made great pains to get their issues noticed. Every time it seems that there was just some who would think he was only doing it for selfish reasons.
"I never understood why it was." If they wouldn't join hands and help make the world now a battle place on there own then why was it that they would berate him for doing so? It wasn't long before Lysandre realized why this had happened. The inner imperfections caused by the outward state of their worldview. The biggest obstacle to a beautiful world was the fact the world as it was. 'A world that seems too late to reform,'
He had told Grace about it. During their relationship, he made his dream known and she was all supportive of him. Where did that all go wrong was something he had asked himself numerous times. Perhaps it when he started voicing his thoughts on the possibility of destroying the old world and remaking it? In the last year of their relationship, he had grown more vocal about it.
Just after she had left him, without telling him about her pregnancy he might add, that he founded Team Flare with his friend Xerosic and a few others. The goal to bring an end to the current world and rebuild a new on its ashes. 'A world that wouldn't be made from the mistakes of the old.'
His dream sadly required that a lot of death. Team Flare tried to find another way for years but soon Lysandre started to rationalize, weighing the options they had, and soon Lysandre was ok with the idea of killing much of the world in order to make it better. The burly man looked at himself. In order to do this he broke his families promise and began rebuilding the Ultimate Weapon. His Holo Caster started to ring braking him from his thoughts. Pulling it out a holographic image of Xerosic, "Sir I have great new."
"Really and what might that be?" Lysandre knew that Xerosic was currently working on a means to locate the last real threat to their plans. Sereginia, the daughter of Zygarde and right now the one thing that could potentially stop them. "Have you found a way to locate Sereginia?"
Team Flare's lead scientist had a nod at this. "We have run several tests and can discern the difference between Primal Energies." Xerosic looked at a tablet in his hands, "Though we had interference strangely enough from the Mega Stones in our inventory."
Alain was surprised to learn that the whole Tauros heard belonged to a single trainer. Usually, only farms, ranches, and wild herds had this many Tauros. Gary Oak, the grandson of famous Professor of the same name, and Tracy Sketch as the two people Mairin had brought with her had already been looking for the herd when she nearly tripped into them.
Tracy turned to Gary with a sigh. "It may take a week to get the fence back up so they don't just run out."
"Well, hopefully, Ash would be thinking about switching Garchomp for one of his Tauros." Actually, Gary never did ask just why Ash had so many of the things. One was more than enough but why did he catch a whole herd he'll never know. 'I should probably call up Misty or Brock and figure it out.'
Alain paused for a second as he heard this. Ash was the trainer of the herd of Tauros. Mairin spoke up in surprise about this. "Wait, Ash as in Ash Ketchum?" Mairin motioned over to Allain., "Alain came here to see him so do you know where he is?"
Gary turned to Alain almost analyzing him after Mairin's words. True a few trainers had come by his grandfather's lab asking about Ash but Alain was different. For one he wasn't the usual young trainer who saw him on TV with his Mega Charizard. No Gary had seen the Mega Stone around his Charizard's neck. He very likely knew about it himself. "Really? May I ask why?"
Alain didn't answer for a few moments almost causing the group to stop. "I heard about him while in Hoenn," He thought back to the battle with May and her Blaziken. "I faced a Cordatoir and her Blaziken with Charizard." Gary had a chuckle at this. The young scientist couldn't believe how coincidental this was. "What's so funny?"
"Sorry its just May talked about her and Dawn meeting a trainer with a Charizard that could Mega Evolve, and having a battle between her Blaziken and it while Mega Evolved." Gary had a smirk as he looked at Alain's dumbfounded expression. "I take it that was you then?"
Alain finally pulled himself from his shock at hearing this. "It was." It was a tiny bit awkward to him to think that he was already being talked about by the girls from before, "I take it they have their extra Pokemon at the lab?"
"Only Skitty, but then again she mostly stays with grandpa." Dawn it seems wasn't thinking of catching other Pokemon anytime soon though like with him, Ash, and May he was sure that she'll want to have her Pokemon be at the ranch with their friends. "So, I take it you'll looking to face him or something?"
Facing off against Ash was something he had hoped to do. Charizard had never fought another one of his kind that could Mega Evolve, and after watching the recording from the Sinnoh League he was curious to see what they could do. However, he had other things besides just facing off against him. "I'm an old friend of Serena, she used to talk about Ash and while I do want to face him I kinda want to see if he actually is as great a person as Serena made him out to be."
Tracy and Gary both felt that wasn't much of an issue. "Well maybe you can ask Lucario about it then," Gary pointed to the Aura Pokemon. He had managed to hold a conversation with him before thanks to his aura powers and found it rather fascinating. "He's one of Serena's Pokemon after all."
Alain was actually surprised to hear this. He didn't take Lucario for a Pokemon that Serena would have. Though if he thought about it he hadn't seen her in years and wasn't even there when she was allowed to pick a starter from Professor Sycamore. Mairin looked at Lucario in amazement. She remembered Cynthia the Sinnoh Champion was rather famous for her Lucario and Garchomp. To learn that Serena was the trainer of one herself caused her to want to meet her even more, "No way! Does she have any more with you?"
"Milotic is in the lake with the other Water-types, Braviary who helped us find the herd." Tracy motioned overhead at the Unovan flyer glided over them. "And finally Serperior who is back at the ranch."
Speaking of the ranch, they had finally made their way to the outskirts of Oaks ranch watching as Bulbasaur, Torterra, and a few others were making a temporary patch to the broken hole in the fence. Braviary landed on the ground in front of them as Serperior turned her head to her mate. "I take it that you got to the herd in time," She raised an eyebrow at both Alain and Mairin, "Who are they?"
Lucario looked at Alain and Mairin out the corner of his eyes before replying. "They helped us with the herd," He leaned into the other Pokemon as he for a second looked over to Allain. "The older one has a Charizard with him that was wearing a Mega Stone when we saw him."
Archer walked down the hallways of the Rocket HQ with a squadron of Rocket agents following behind him. A smile was on his face as he walked into the Rocket meeting room with the other Executives seated around the table. This was almost too easy. "Archer where have you been!" Proton yelled as he looked as the squadron of Team Rocket grunts behind him. "What is the meaning of this? You know Giovanni forbids having anyone but else in these meetings."
Archer just had a smile. The fools believed that this was a meeting held by Giovanni. Giovanni wasn't even at the base right now. Another door opened as Matori walked in looking at the assembly of Executives. The secretary turned her eyes to him. How it paid to have an ally as close too Giovanni as Matori. "I'm sorry my associates but Giovanni." He and the grunts pulled out their pokeballs, "Is no longer leading us."
With several flashes of light, their Pokemon appeared and began to attack. Matori watched as the Executives tried to react but it was futile. Houndoom leaped forward and slammed Proton into the ground. Proton screamed as Houndoom sank his teeth into the Rocket Executives neck. Proton struggled to pull him off but it didn't matter.
Matori turned her head away as she heard the screams of the Executives as the grunts Pokemon ganged up on them. As she did Archer's voice was heard over the intercoms signaling the beginning of the takeover, "Attention Team Rocket, this is Archer the new boss," A few of the grunts started to talk to themselves as Matori made her way to her office.
Matori looked at her Holo Caster as the International Police had sent her a warning to leave before the attack they had planned could begin. It was rather nice that they would warn her for her safety. 'At least they are helping Team Flare, even if they had no idea.'
Matori ignored the rest of Archer's words as she started to hear the sounds of battles starting. Matori stopped as a stream of fire past right in front of her. She stopped and look at were the flames had gone as she saw a Golduck which let out a boiling Scald attack. Its target was a Magmar who let out a Flamethrower. Matori waited as the two attacks hit and exploded in s cloud of steam before running through the cloud and back to the other side.
She let out a curse as the sounds of battling, yelling, and screams of pain were starting to get louder. Matori pulled out a Luxury Ball and let out her partner. In a flash, Kirlia appeared looking at her. "You mind teleporting me to my office?" Another explosion of steam was heard forming behind them. "There is something I need to get before we head back to Team Flare,"
Kirlia gave her a nod of understanding. Kirlia placed her land on Matori's leg and in a flash, they disappeared and reappeared within Matori's office. Walking to her desk she pulled out several papers placing them in her purse. If she was leaving she might as well take the papers that gave her ownership of what Team Rocket assists that she could keep. "Alright, Kirlia we're out of here."
Kirlia nodded walking up to her and in a flash the two of them disappeared. A second later a Tyranitar was tossed right through the wall. Butch looked at his down Tyranitar with a gasp. His opponent laughed as his Machamp laughed at this. "Well, Branch looks like you picked the wrong side in this."
"My name is Butch!" Butch yelled still annoyed that even after all these years. At least his partner Cassidy no longer made that mistake. Speaking of her he wondered what she was doing right now.
The walls in the underground sections of the ripped open as Two Excadrills ceased their digging. Behind them, International Police Swat teams began to march into the building. The squads began to march into the halls as they came across a battle between Team Rocket rebels, and the Rocket Loyalists. Cassidy looked at the squads her eyes widened. "The International Police!"
"Excadrill use Drill Run!" The squad leader commanded as the two Pokemon shot forward spinning like an actual drill. They knocked away several of the Pokemon in front of them as the Squads raced forward to capture the grunts with stun batons. Cassidy made an escape running away as more holes started to open up in the walls with Pokemon and swat teams walking in.
Outside on the building proper, Lance and his Dragonite flew by the helicopters with assault teams ready to blow a hole into the building. One of the assault troopers tossed out a Great Ball as a Steelix appeared from it. "Steelix use Iron Head!"
The Iron Snake Pokemon's head was surrounded by a metallic sheen as it rammed its head into the wall of the building. The wall broke apart creating a large hole as the assault teams swarmed the building in force. Lance gave a nod as Dragonite's mouth opened unleashing a Hyper Beam into the building and blowing open a hole for themselves. Dragonite landed within the hole as several of the grunt looked at the Dragon Pokemon with shook. "What in the world!"
"Dragonite use Ice Beam!" Lance commanded as Dragonite let out bolts of frozen energy almost hitting the grunts who managed to jump out of the way. One of them readied to toss out a Pokemon only for Lance to give a new order. "Dragonite use Hyper Beam!"
Dragonite let loose a mighty beam of energy slamming into the grunts body and knocking him straight into the nearby wall. His body fell over unconscious from the impact of the attack. Most of the grunts turned tail and ran away from the Kanto-Johto champion after this. Really Lance? Having Dragonite use Hyper Beam on someone?" Lance turned his head to the side with a glare as he knew that voice.
Dr. Zager stood in front of him with a suitcase in hand. Lance knew the man all too well. The champion helped the authorities raid his old lab near Mount Silver nearly five years ago. He had escaped custody son after with no idea where. "Zager, I see that your apart of Team Rocket."
Zager had a chuckle at the champion's words. "I was always apart of Team Rocket." Lance wasn't surprised to hear this. Team Rocket had a lot of associates and agents hidden around the two regions. Zager looked at the assault teams flooding into the Team Rocket HQ, "I am surprised they let you in on their attack though."
Lance wasn't in the mood for a conversation with the mad scientist. Neither did Dragonite who responded with a Dragon Pulse aimed at the doctor. With a tap on his side, a flash of light escaped from a pokeball on Zager's person. The Dragon Pulse exploded on contact with the glowing figure which turned out to be a Clefable. Lance just had a deadpan expression at this. 'You have got to be kidding me.'
Zager had a smirk at this. True he had an escape plan for just this occasion, but perhaps he could play a bit with the Champion. Just a little after all he had a schedule to keep. "Clefable Moonblast!" The Fairy Pokemon gathered a ball of pink energy before tossing it at Dragonite who brought his arms up to defend.
The Dragon-type was natural knocked back by the super effective move. Lance pulled out another pokeball. "If that's how it is then how about you both face someone else?" He tossed the pokeball up as in a flash his Charizard appeared with a mighty roar.
Zager's eyes noticed the belt around Charizard's waist along with a Mega Stone edged into it. At this Zager's expression became one of disbelief. "Impossible!" Lance just smile as he pulled out the Key Stone from his pocket.
"I'm a Champion Zager, of course, I have a Mega Stone on me." The Key Stone reacted to Lance as both it and the Mega Stone around Charizard started to glow. The light consumed Charizard as his body shifted and changed. His wings growing, an extra horn forming on his head with two small wings on the arms. The glow ceased as Charizard had become Mega Charizard Y.
Diathna had hoped to give him Charizardite X but Lance wasn't complaining. After all, his Charizard specialized in special attacks anyway, plus he did have it to counter Fairy and Ice-types anyway. "Charizard, use Heat Wave!" With a flap of his wings, Charizard sent a gust of heat and light flames right at Clefable knocking the Fairy-type back.
Zager gritted his teeth before he calmed himself. He shouldn't become consumed about battling Lance. After all, that wasn't what he was supposed to do. "Voltorb, come out now!" A red and white ball-shaped Pokemon appeared out. Clefable got back up grab ahold of his coat as he placed his hand on Voltorb. "Use, Teleport now!"
"No!" Lance tried to tackle him away but it was too late. He had already disappeared from sight. The Champion punched the wall in frustration. He turned to Dragonite and Charizard. They still had to mop up the rest of Team Rocket.
Mairin looked at all the Pokemon on the ranch. Overhead Pidgeot and Braviary landed next to Braviary the two sharing a meal together. Just to the side she noticed Snorlax sleeping under the shade of a tree. Within the darkness of the branches, Ash's Shiny Noctowl was also taking a midday nap. Finally looking at the lake she saw Milotic swimming by the surface with both Croconaw and Kingler swimming alongside her.
While she looked on in amazement, Alain, however, was striking a conversation with Gary about Ash. The grandson of Professor Oak went on about some of Ash's more embarrassing beginnings even talking about how Charizard was at a time disobedient costing him the Indigo league. Though Tracy did add that Ash's team had been tired from fighting Team Rocket before the battle. That lead to the fact that Ash seemed to have three criminals following him around and given they had been failing for years Gary didn't consider them much of a threat.
Alain was divided on whether to feel worried for Serena or if he should laugh at how stupid someone had to be just to follow someone for a Pikachu. He couldn't understand why criminals who claim to be after rare Pokemon went after a common Pikachu. On the word of organizations like Team Rocket, they started talking about his other adventures with Teams Aqua, Manga, and Galactic.
Speaking of Team Galactic Tracy couldn't help but point out the obvious obstacles in remaking the universe. "Ok, seriously I get he had both Palkia and Dialga, but wouldn't that you know force Arceus' hand?" Gary and Alain both had to agree with him.
Changing the very foundations of reality could never go well. There was also no guarantee that Palkia and Dialga couldn't just undo the whole thing and remove Cyrus from reality after all was said and done. Now Alain was much more curious to meet Ash. "Where is Ash currently?"
Gary shrugged his shoulders. "He was at Coumarine City but I don't think he'll stay there for long."
"Coumarine City?" Alain was surprised to hear that he was in Kalos. It made sense though now that he thought about it. Serena was with him, and he did hear her at one point talk about how Ash wanted to visit Kalos. "So, Serena took him to Kalos."
Mairin had overheard this and almost laughed. They were in Kalos not long ago. Now it seemed they were heading back to Kalos anyways. "Since it looks like we are heading back to Kalos," She thought for a second as she had a question for the longest time she wanted to ask him, "Maybe we could enter the Kalos League?"
Alain thought about her question. Alain had wanted to take on the League before. The thing that got in the way was more his missions from Lysandre. Strangely enough, the billionaire was rather quiet at this time. To add to that Ash was likely taking part in the League so they were bound to meet at some point. "You know I think I might just do so."
On the side, Infernape looked on with Lucario. Infernape wasn't surprised that Ash had gained another rival. What was surprising was that it seemed that Ash didn't know about him. 'At least until he switches Garchomp out for one of us.' Infernape hoped it was him this time.
"Alright looks like we're heading back to Kalos!" Mairin couldn't wait to take on the League herself. Now if only she could find a Pokemon to go with the Mega Stone they found for her. It would be nice to actually use it for once instead of just watching it.
"Hey, seeing how you're heading to Kalos mind doing something for my grandpa?" Gary reached into his backpack and pulled out a cut of Garchompite. "Sycamore let my grandpa study it for a time and has been meaning to give it back."
Alain took the Mega Stone looking at it in thought. He hadn't seen Sycamore in years. Sure, Alain had meant to visit him but he just kept putting it off. Maybe he could at least catch up with him. "Sure."
Lumiose Cathedral, one of the oldest buildings in the city. Having stood for nearly a thousand years the building had two proposes. The first was more modern one, was to be the site of the battle to challenge the Kalos Champion. A throwback to older times in the Kingdom's history. Its primary purpose was as the center of the regions religious orders.
Walking down the room the respective who went with the League rep, looked over everything Valerie had told him. Olympia was a very credited source her predictions haven't been wrong yet. Rumors of her family being descendants of the Oracles of Dialga was something a few had spoke about in these halls at points. However, this wasn't quite enough for most of the others. As he walked he stopped by the relics stored under glass.
The first two pokeball like objects found in the ruined temples of Xerneas and Yveltal. Destroyed during the first Kalos Civil War by accident the only thing of importance was these two things. The design utterly baffled scientists when they allowed them to study them.
In the case next to them was a bottle with six rings surrounding it. The bottle was said to contain the powers of Hoopa. A Pokemon which brought a host of legendaries to itself with its rings all so they could fight him. The Arceus Priest in the village managed to seal away the being's power when it went on a rampage.
Finally, the last relic was by far the most valuable. The Pixie Plate found in on the very ground were the Cathedral stood. Until recently it was the only Plate that was confirmed to be found. Team Galactic was reported on having found three others, but their location was being made a closely guarded secret.
Pulling his attention from the notepad he noticed someone staring out into one of the stain glass windows. Normally that wouldn't be a problem as each depicted important pieces "Can I help you?" The man turned to him almost like he wasn't even thinking about where he was.
"Oh sorry its just looking at the window it's quite amazing," He took a look again noticing that it was just a generic bunch of stain glass colors. Nothing of note to look at. "I mean not now but in a year or two you really should see what will be here." The man motioned to the window like it was some masterpiece.
The official looked at him unsure about what to do. His first instinct was to ask how he managed to this room. This room wasn't open o the public after all. The second thought in his mind was what he was getting at. The window wasn't going to be replaced, it was put in only ten years ago! "Sir I have to ask you to leave this place right now."
The man crossed his arms and rolled his eyes at this. "Well, that seems rather unwelcoming." He turned away from the window and walked to the display cases. His eyes moved to the two balls in the cases. "I mean I know you can spare me the time to talk." The man turned back to him, "Oh, and by the way, in a few months you might want to not be in Lumiose City say around."
The man tried to figure out when it was but the official had enough of this. "Alright, that's enough you're not supposed to be here right now so I ask you…" The man grabbed the report straight out of his hands, "Hey you can't just take that!"
"Yeah, yeah I'll give it back in a minute." The man dismissed him as he looked over the report. "Sereginia? Really that's her name?" The man wanted to roll his eyes at the name. It just felt complicated if he would be honest. "Oh, well whatever as long as she likes it." He handed the report back with a raised eyebrow, "Are you thinking of making the gym leader an official Priestess I take it?"
The official just looked at the man before him. It was taking a lot of control not to punch him, or something along those lines. "I do not have to answer you, sir." He wasn't going to approve it at this point anyway. There wasn't enough evidence for them to approve it. Though the man in front of him sure didn't need to know that, "Leave before I call the authorities and make you leave."
The man let out a sigh. "Fine, I'll leave."
He turned and walked away as the official watched him for a few seconds just to make sure he wasn't coming back. As soon as he turned back to the artifacts though he stopped in his place. The Pixie Plate was glowing a faded glow. The official turned around almost immediately at where the man had been. To his surprise, there was no trace of him. 'I…' He tried to wrap his mind around what had just transpired but just couldn't. 'I think I'm going to just approve ms Valerie's request.'
The Team Rocket Trio just looked at the TV screen with no emotion on their faces. The news crew showed the International Police, aided by the Champion Lance as one of the images showed, rounding up much of Team Rocket from the destroyed remains of their Headquarters. "We have confirmation that similar raids have also been held around, Kanto, Johto, and even the Hoenn regions by either local police forces, or members of the International Police."
Before the tv could show the images Meowth turned it off as the trio just looked forward. Their minds still processing what they had just seen. Team Rocket, the organization they spent years working for had just been dismantled. The sound of a device ringing finally brought them out of it as James pulled out their receiver.
Luther appeared on the screen looking at the three of them. The former Rocket Admin had known that today was the day that Team Rocket was going to fall. It seemed that from the expressions of the trio that they had just seen it. "I see you also heard the news."
"It actually happened." Jessie was still in a state of total disbelief. She wanted to deny that this had actually happened. "There is no way that Team Rocket could collapse from something as simple as being attacked by the International Police!"
She was sort of right in a sense. The team sent to capture Giovanni had reported that he wasn't at the Orange Islands like they had been informed. Furthermore, a few members like Dr. Zager had escaped them or were not at the locations where they should be. Domino, however, was confirmed to be in Kalos and after him, and she was the only one that they a confirmation on.
However, seeing how he technically was working for the International Police, and because he still pretty much saw them as terrible criminals he decided to lie just a tiny bit, "Sadly yes, the Executives are either dead or captured and our boss it seems didn't make it."
Surprisingly the trio were not as sad as they thought they would be. Sure, they had dedicated their lives to something that was no more but after thinking about it. The last few years made them jokes in the eyes of the Team. The boss had basically abandoned them seeing how Luther was given control, and now that the Team was gone a strange feeling had swept over them. "Wait, that means your no longer in charge of us right?" James asked and received a nod from Luther.
"Correct," Luther put a hat and sunglasses on after those words left his mouth. It was just for show on his part. "Now then if you do not talk about me, I will not talk about you." It wasn't like they could anyway. In fact thanks to his own actions they didn't have a Rocker record anymore. "It has surprisingly been a pleasure."
With that, the last things they saw was Luther dropping his recover before stomping it and killing the freed. The trio sat together in silence wondering what to do now. Meowth and James already knew they were getting as far away from Palermo as possible. Meowth especially after overhearing that she just murdered Aria's parents for petty reasons.
Beyond that, the trio had no real clue about what they should do. After all they were criminals first and foremost, however, the reason for their employment was now gone. Jessie turned to her two teammates, or was it, former teammates, now? That was a question that was starting to hang in her mind. With all that had happened were they a group because of Team Rocket or were they one out of choice. "So, what now?" James shrugged his shoulders.
Giovanni took a sip from his glass as he looked over the recordings of his nephew's battles. It was nice catching up with his sister but alas he was now off to his "vacation" as he told Matori. Just on time, a new bulletin came on about the fall of Team Rocket's HQ. Giovanni let out a sigh. "Oh well, the organization was getting too bloated for my likings anyway."
Giovanni had always suspected that he would be brought down by the disloyal members and while he did tell Matori much he never told her everything. True organization was now soon to be no more, that much was clear, but that didn't mean the Team was dead. Far from it, Giovanni had always planned for just this case.
They were never kept at the HQ, his most valuable assets weren't even in the building contrary to the words he gave his admins. He always had a shadow council within the organization. Never did they meet in any known form to the rest of Team Rocket. No with the fall they were likely to meet him at the location where they will rebuild.
"Isn't it weird?" Giovanni watched as Charizard fought with Blaziken in the Johto league. His mind was barely on this as he watched. "How everyone seemed to think they were always a step ahead of me when really I had played them all."
The ship he was on was heading for a series of major islands in the Great Ocean. A region in of itself that had a sizable population from Kanto and Johto, mixed with the native culture of the great islands. From his reports, no similar organization had formed in the region. A large group of hoodlums had become organized but that was really of no concern to him. Now a few members of Team Plasma had hidden in the region but from what was reported he had nothing to worry about.
'Yes, this would make a perfect location for a new Team Rocket to rise.' The name didn't really fit with them raising from the Ashes. 'Raising from the Ashes.' When he was younger he visited Johto remembering a the Bell Towers. He remembered the legend, in the fire three Pokemon perished and on the next day were reborn. On that, the Rainbow Bird Ho-Oh showed her last appearance to the town. 'Rainbow Rocket.'
Yeah sorry for not having a Mega Pokemon battle. I just couldn't feel myself making one, and given how everyone was expected it I apologize. At the very least the next chapter will hopefully make up for this. Yes, I may be setting up for a sequel story. I mean did you really expect Giovanni to be taken out like this? Yeah, not like this and not right now I still have stuff I wish to do with him.
Now then let's get on to the questions.
Ri2- Not all ghost-types can and its not common to see so yeah.
saptarshiban2003- Aria already figures that's the case though if they meet Ash's group we'll see.
Guest- Yes I will don't worry.
Cya all next time and I hope you're day is treating you well.
