Hello peeps and welcome to the sixteenth chapter of Masterquest as we travel throughout Kanto with Naruto who has now gotten half of way through his journey as he now has four badges with his next journey taking him to Silph co building to stop Team rocket from taking with them the Master X ball. Though I hope my brief explanation of it was good if not then I'll explain in more detail in here along with what plans Team rocket will have in the future so for now enjoy this chapter of Master quest.
Chapter 16: The Saffron crisis.
Silph Co Building
Naruto was running through the night as he passed by the few who were out late, before finding himself an in alley across from the Silph co building as he looked across to find some Team rocket grunts patrolling around the building making sure not to be seen by any pass Byers so as to not alert them. He looked up at the building finding it to be very large and the biggest one out of every building her in Saffron, thus he found only one solution and called out his fire/flying type Blaze who took him up to the top so that he could try and enter from the top, but once he was in the air he noticed that wasn't an option either as he saw even more grunts of top with their Pokémon on guard.
"Damn I gotta find some other way," Naruto thought.
Char Chha
"What's up boy," Naruto asked his fire Pokémon as he flew down to the middle of the building where Naruto noticed an open window." Good job Blaze you found us a way in," with Blaze flying in closer before Naruto jumped right in and returned his Pokémon after finding no one was around.
He quickly looked around the area finding that the floor he was on had the least amount of grunts guarding it as the others were farther up with more patrolling around the area and Naruto found himself going through the vents to avoid getting caught with the amount of guards around.
"Did you hear some of the boys upstairs finally got the last batch of pokeballs ready," a grunt said as Naruto listened to their conversation from above them as they guarded a heavily sealed door.
"Really? It's about damn time these prisoners were starting to get annoying," the other grunt said as Naruto smirked now knowing where the hostages were at as kept on crawling through the vents till he came into an empty room right next to the one the grunts were guarding.
"Alright King help me out," Naruto then sent out his poison pin Pokémon who looked around confused on where he was." King I need you to use Drill Run to get to the other room," King quickly nodded and started to break apart the wall until it crumbled away revealing a room full of people who were all scared as he came through the hole.
"Who are you," asked one of the workers.
"My name is Naruto and one of your fellow employees sent me to help you all escape," He said as he saw most of their worried and scared faces turn hopeful.
"Is Sasha alright," a female worker asked.
"Yes she is with the Saffron gym leader and they are getting the police so in the mean time all of you need to come with me out-," suddenly the door to the room started to open.
"Hey what are you- WHAT THE!" The grunt yelled upon seeing someone that wasn't a worker.
"Quick King Tackle," Naruto said as his Pokémon jumped up smashing into the grunt as he was sent flying back into the other grunt both knocked unconscious." Alright does anyone know a quick way out of here," Naruto asked knowing that escaping would be a little bit more difficult now.
"I know a secret route that are used for transporting heavy equipment," one man stepped forward.
"Alright lead the way then," Naruto said.
"Wait, what about the president he was taken up to the top by a bunch of those team rocket guys," another employee spoke up.
"Damn, alright then Bolt come out," Naruto then let out his electric type." Bolt I need you and King to protect these people and you lead the way. They will protect you, but you gotta make sure they are safe along with yourself," Naruto spoke in a serious tone as the guy nodded.
"I promise," he said.
"Alright now the rest of you go I'll try and save your boss," Naruto watched as the guy lead everyone down to the exit with King and Bolt both in front making sure they weren't caught up in trouble.
"Excuse me, but you might need this," the women who spoke up early walked up to him and handed him a key card.
"What is this?" Naruto asked.
"That will allow you to unlock all the locked doors and get into the presidents office. But please you must stop them and make sure they do not take any of the pokeballs or Pokémon," the lady said in distress.
"Don't worry lady I'll make sure they are safe now go with the others," Naruto said as he watched the lady smile thanking him, before heading off as he sighed, before making his way through the building with Z coming out of her pokeball.
"So what's the plan Naruto," Z asked.
"We need to make sure they don't get away with any of this and that all the Pokémon they are experimenting on are safe," Naruto said.
"And how do you plan to do that and save the president of silph co," Z asked curious on his plan.
"Well from what I was able to take in last time I was in here, the testing room is usually further above either below the last floor or close to it," The two quickly stopped as they waited for grunts to move about down the hal before continuing on.
"So you wanna go after the Pokémon first," she asked.
"No, I want you to go after them first," Naruto said as Z stopped running with Naruto looking back with a raised eyebrow.
"Naruto I'm not gonna let you go up their to face who knows how many are up their with him," Z said with fury.
"I can handle them and I have the others to back me up," Naruto said referring to Blaze and the others in their pokeballs.
"That still doesn't worry me any less," Z said.
"Listen we don't have time, before they realize that the hostages are gone and the police arrive. We have to stop them and I know your speed will make you great in taking them out, before they even see you so please Z I need you to do this," Naruto said as Z looked down almost in thought before sighing.
"You better be okay when I come back," She said with a serious expression as Naruto smirked back.
"Don't worry I always come back in one piece," Naruto said as he pointed Z in the direction she would be going before heading his way.
Laboratory Room
BOOOONE
"This one is a little more rowdy then the others," a team rocket scientist said as he along with others were doing some work on the ground type Cubone who was being injected and shocked with all types of equipment.
"At least it's putting up more of a fight then it's mother," another scientist said as he walked away from the cages which held all the Pokémon.
"Pokémon are so emotional," one of the scientist said as he laughed at the worried and scared looks they all had.
BOOONE CU!
"I think it's about at its end," one of the scientist said.
"Well at least it gave us some food info-"
"Ghost Hypnosis," Suddenly the scientist all looked towards the door only to get hit with the psychic type move as they all fell down asleep.
Cu Cubone
Naruto quickly went towards the caged Cubone as he looked exhausted and drained of his energy with Naruto getting angry at seeing the state of the Pokémon. But almost lost it when looking at a corner of the room and finding the dead Pokémon they experimented on with Cubones mother one of them. With the ground type Pokémon crying at the loss of its mother as Naruto stopped him from moving closer and held the Pokémon close to his chest as it let out its wails of anguish with Naruto comforting it and telling Ghost to let the other Pokémon go as he carried the ground type out of the lab with he himself letting out tears of his own.
"Damn you Team rocket. I'll get you for this," Naruto opened his eyes as they had turned red.
Gengar Gen
"I need you to lead them out of her Ghost take them through the vents and lead them out of here. I need to get deal with something," Naruto then handed Cubone to Ghost who looked at his trainer with worry feeling the anger rolling off him, but couldn't call out to him as he had already been half way down the hallway.
"GHOST!" Said ghost type turned around to see Z running up to him and noticing the ground type in his hand.
Gen Gengar Gen
"WHAT! Where did he go," Z asked once Ghost had explained the situation to her as he pointed to where he went and she quickly went down the hallway hoping to stop Naruto before he did something stupid.
Upper Floors
"HEY! Stop him- ARGGG," one grunt stood in Naruto's way as he got punched in the stomach sending him flying back knocking over a couple more grunts as Naruto ran through them, before they could even react or throw out their Pokémon.
"How is he so fast," one grunt said as the others tried to stop the fast moving Naruto.
"Luckily Z trained me to as fast a rapidash," Naruto thought, before jumping over a couple of Ratatta and using the wall as a platform to knock more grunts down.
"STOP HIM! Before he-," but the grunt was knocked back as Naruto used him to break down the door to the presidents room where once inside he saw what looked like an old man a grey business suit with a red tie as he looked towards the door in shock at seeing a young boy.
"Well well we'll look who we have here Haku," a familiar voice in which Naruto recognized as he looked to his right to see Zabuza and Haku just standing their as he quickly got up and took a defense stance as well as pulling out one of his pokeballs, but was stopped as a glow surrounded him stopping him from sending out one of his Pokémon.
"I don't think that would be wise," another man this one with glasses and white spiky hair said as he pushed his glasses up looking in his direction with his Hypno using his power to stop him.
"Now what do we have here, but a young naïve boy who thinks he can meddle in the affairs of the grown up," the last person in the room who was facing the president stood up and turned around to face Naruto who looked at the supposed leader of team rocket a man in a black businessman type suit with a red tie and the team rocket logo on his front pocket.
"Screw you," was all Naruto said, before he was flung back into the wall as he grunted from the pain.
"Now now Kabuto no need for that," the man said as he raised his hand with the now named Kabuto nodding and letting the boy go from Hypno's Attack.
"What do you wanna do with him boss," Kabuto asked.
"I could take his Pokémon and dispose of him with no one finding the body," Zabuza said with glee as he still found their last encounter a salt in his wounds.
"No Zabuza I think I'll deal with him. He's peaked my interest," the boss said as he watched Naruto get up slowly as he held his ribs which he felt were slightly injured.
"You won't get away with this," Naruto said as he raised his pokeball.
"Tell me young Naruto what is it that drives you," the boss said stopping Naruto as he raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"What drives you. To keep going to always perceiver no matter what the situation presents," the boss walked closer to Naruto as he started to walk away to try and get closer to the president.
"You should already know. I mean I have stopped your guys schemes at every turn I get," Naruto said.
"Yes, yes you have in fact you haven't even beaten some of our top agents. For that I thank you," this confused Naruto.
"What do you mean, thank you?" Naruto with confusion asked.
"When Team Rocket was first created we were a mere group of thugs whose plan to take over the world involved the need to capture every type of Pokémon. Weather they be normal day encounter ones or even the rare ones," he walked towards the large glass of windows which allowed him to view the open city and below it as he saw the many police cars just now arriving." Of course we were stopped by a kid just like yourself and in the end I failed them. I soon left to gather myself and gather more skillful and powerful members to our cause and in that time I left team rocket to suffer. Though it hurt me to see them suffer it was for the better, because upon my return did Team rocket not only return with a stronger goal, but a stronger team. It was at that point my drive to make Team rocket number one in all of the regions with me Giovanni as the one who did it," the man then turned towards Naruto who had gotten in front of the president for protection.
"Yeah I know your story and I know your team was once defeated. Of course no one remembers it, because of fear and of course you use that to your advantage. But for me I know that deep down that defeat still haunts you and your still afraid that one day a trainer just like before will stop you and that eats at you every day," Naruto said as Giovanni narrowed his eyes at him, before smirking and walking towards his briefcase as Kabuto opened it and allowed for him to choose of if the three pokeballs inside.
"Then I guess I'll do what I should've done last time and stop that fool, before it's to late," Giovanni then sent out his Pokémon which happened to be a Nidoqueen only this one was bigger." Nidoqueen use Hyper Beam," Naruto widen his eyes as he quickly pushed the president behind the couch with the attack hitting the place he was in causing the top to come collapsing down along with the floor they were standing on as they fell down, but a yellow blur quickly grabbed the two, before disappearing in a flash.
"Sir the police have entered the building and the chopper is waiting above for you," Haku said as she put away her phone.
"And what of the pokeballs," Giovanni asked.
"They are being packaged and are being taken up along with the plans for them," she said as Giovanni smirked before returning his Pokémon and walking away from the ruined office.
"Then let us head off shall we," the four then walked out followed along by any team rocket member that hadn't been captured. As for the ruined office the rubble and smoke was blown away as Z appeared with both Naruto and the president in her arms as she lay them down with Naruto rubbing his head as he looked at the unconscious man checking to make sure he was okay.
"Thanks Z though I think I had it handled," Naruto said, but was smacked in the head as he held his already injured head.
"That's what you get for being reckless. Next time be sure you have the situation handled else you'll have me and all your Pokémon worried," Z said as she looked at him showing how worried she was as Naruto felt bad for making her worried and gave her a hug as his eyes returned to normal.
"Sorry I let my emotions get the better of me. But right now we have to stop them, because I think they are trying to leave," Naruto said.
"I heard from some of the retreating grunts that they are packing at least dozens of master x balls along with data on the creation of them," Z said as Naruto looked down knowing that if they were able to escape with either of the two things it would be disastrous.
"We have to stop them," Naruto with a determined face as Z gave a vicious smirk.
"Then what are we waiting for"
Rooftop
Three helicopters were on the rooftops as many team rocket grunts packed inside them with others trying to make sure the officers didn't send in any flying types. Suddenly the commotion stopped as Giovanni stepped on the roof looking at all the grunts, before his eyes settled on a pair of scientist who were ordering a couple of grunts to finish packaging some things into boxes.
"Ryan how goes the process," Giovanni asked as his head scientist turned towards him.
"All the x balls are packed and we are just trying to load them into the chopper," the man named Ryan said.
"And the data," Giovanni asked as Ryan pulled out a small hard drive.
"Here you go sir," Ryan said as he was about to hand it over to his boss, but in a red blur the drive was taken out of his hand with him getting shocked, before two bolts of lightning struck the chopper with the master x balls and the one next to it as all the grunts on the roof turned towards the entrance to find Naruto standing with a smirk as Bolt and Z (who had clothes wrapped around him) standing by his side as Tahlia and Blaze flew around the area each ready to stop any grunt along with Ghost scaring the ones by the working chopper with Kurama appearing by his side along with King as he handed over the data drive.
"Where do you think you all are going the fun is just starting," Giovanni just sighed at the persistence of this kid.
"Somebody deal with that kid and get that flash drive back. Ryan get the master x balls into the other chopper," Giovanni said as he started to walk away with the other grunts and Zabuza pulling out their pokeballs.
"So was this part of your plan," Z mentally asked Naruto.
"To be honest no, but I take what I can get," Naruto said as all his Pokémon rolled their eyes, before getting serious as Team rocket released their Pokémon.
"Now go in all of you," Zabuza said as he sent his Aggron to assist the others.
"Blaze deal with the Aggron," the steel type was suddenly slammed into the ground as Blaze had used its tail to push it back to Zabuza.
"So your little lizard grew," Zabuza said as Aggron got up and growled at the smirking Blaze, before charging in.
"Zubat Supersonic," one grunt said.
"King dodge it and hit them with Drill Strike," Naruto called out as his Pokémon jumped out of the way of the attack, before starting to spin towards towards the flying bat as it's horn grew as well hitting it and causing it to be knocked out.
"Bolt wanna help me with a Thunderbolt combo," Z asked the other electric type who gave a smirk as the two unleashed a wave of lightning that hit a group of koffing knocking them out in the process.
"Tahlia go in and help Ghost by using Steel wing," Naruto called out over the mass chaos as he saw Ghost was having trouble with a couple of spearow and Zubat with his flying shiny quickly diving down on the unsuspecting bat and bird who were taken off guard as they flew straight into the awaiting Ghost who hit them with Ice Punch.
"Naruto don't you think this is overwhelming you a bit," Z asked as she used Thunder Punch to knock more team rocket members and Pokémon out.
"Nah in fact this is good experience if I'm in multiple battles. Call it multitasking, Kurama use Flame Charge to save King," Naruto called out as his fox Pokémon become unguided in fire, before rushing over and slamming into a group of Rattata as King gave a cry of thanks.
"Ah you always gotta be difficult Naruto," Z thought as she continued attacking the grunts.
"Sir we are barely holding them back and the team rocket members we sent to distract the cops have been captured and they will be up here any second," Kabuto responded as he walked towards Giovanni who boarded the helicopter.
"Are the master x balls onboard," Giovanni asked.
"We are getting the last of them on right- HEY!" Ryan was cut off as Ghost appeared in front of him holding onto one of the boxes, before tossing it to Blaze who threw Aggron off him and caught the box looking at the ghost type with a raised eyebrow.
Gen Gengar Gen Gen
Blaze nodded before throwing the box into the air as he unleashed a fire blast that blew it apart along with the x balls inside of them as Giovanni narrowed his eyes and saw Ghost taking the other box with all the x balls inside.
"That kid is starting to become really annoying," Giovanni then saw Kurama scaring away some team rocket members and grew a smirk." Kabuto would you mind distracting our friend so that we may escape," Kabuto looked to where his boss was pointing and gave a cruel smirk as he sent out his Hypno who used Psychic at Kurama who was taken by surprise as Naruto looked at his Pokémon with wide eyes.
"KURAMA!" Naruto yelled causing his other Pokémon to stop what they were doing.
"Now Naruto unless you want your Pokémon to not fall to its fate I suggest you tell your ghost type to hand over the box," Giovanni said as Naruto glared at the man, before his eyes soften as he looked at his struggling fox Pokémon who looked at him with those same innocent eyes the day they first met each other, those same eyes that had been through so much….just like him.
Vul Pix Vulpix
"But I cant not without hurting you Kurama," Naruto said as Kurama looked at him with determination.
VUL VULPIX
"Naruto," Z thought as She saw her trainer look down clenching his fist, before looking at the smirking Giovanni.
"Fine you win Giovanni..,"Naruto said as the head of team rocket smirked as Naruto looked up at Gengar and told him to come down as he pulled out the data drive and looked at the retreating team rocket who got one of the chopper working.
"Now give me the data and the box boy," Giovanni said as Naruto and Ghost came closer, before stopping just a few feet away as Naruto looked up with a smirk.
"GHOST NOW!" Naruto then threw the drive up in the air as Ghost did as well with Kabuto telling his Pokémon to throw Kurama over and catch the two items as Kurama yelled out being thrown over the side as Naruto ran like a blur jumping over the railing and down towards the falling Kurama.
"TAHLIA GO AFTER THEM! Bolt lets go," Z said as she and Bolt quickly unleashed bolts of lightning that destroyed the box and the data as Hypno was blown back by a flamethrower by Blaze.
PIDGGG
Tahlia in a blur was diving down towards the falling duo as Naruto had Kurama in his arms making sure if they did hit the ground that he would be safe from harm. With Tahlia trying to quickly reach them as they seemed to only get farther and farther away from her as she saw her friend and trainer the one who caught her, the one who saved her from being hurt or worse. The one who showed her that just, because she was a small bird doesn't mean she was weak and brought out the best in her something no tiger trainer would've done if they saw her getting attacked by groups of Spearow. She would not let her trainer die not now nor never, because his dream was hers as well and together they would reach their limits and beyond.
Suddenly Tahlia started to glow as her size started to grow and her wings started to grow wider with her speed increasing as she was a blur with Naruto seeing the ground coming closer closed his eyes expecting the end to come only to feel something pull his shirt and a sudden jolt up made him grunt as he slowly opened his eyes and looked down on the lit city as he found himself being flown through the air and as he looked up into the eyes of Tahlia only this time she was different.
"Tahlia…TAHLIA!" Naruto yelled as he smiled along with Kurama as the two smiled upon the newly evolved Pokémon that was now a Pidgeot as she gave them a smirk, before down towards the others.
"It would seem her resolve to save you allowed her to evolve," Z said as the other Pokémon smiled and congratulated the flying type, before focusing back on Giovanni with the rest of the grunts having left with only Giovanni and his group being the only ones remaining.
"You are really a pain, but maybe it could be useful if you join us Naruto," Giovanni asked.
"Sorry, but I'll never work for you," Naruto said as his other Pokémon growled at them.
"Hm, shame you would've been a great addition, but alas your just another obstacle for us to go over," Giovanni said as he signaled the chopper to take off.
"Yeah well you'll learn that I'm not as easy to get rid of as others so good luck in trying," Naruto said as Giovanni just gave a small smirk, before closing the door as the helicopter started to fly away.
"We're not going after them," asked Z.
"No, besides I think some of us are to tired to chase," Naruto said as he looked at his exhausted Blaze and Bolt with the others having minor injuries.
"Sir why didn't you allow us to get rid of him. We could've dealt with him," Kabuto asked as he knew him, Haku, and Zabuza still had Pokémon to deal with all of Naruto's injured Pokémon.
"If your receding to how his exhausted Pokémon would have made it easier for you to deal with him then you are mistaken. You wouldn't have been able to deal with him," Giovanni said as the three looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"What do you mean? That kid wouldn't have last a minute with my fully prepared Pokémon," Zabuza said.
"But his Pokémon were prepared for you. Did you not see their eyes they showed something all of your Pokémon don't have," Giovanni spoke.
"What did they show?" Haku asked.
"Trust. In their trainer and themselves, even if you were able to beat them whose to say the police wouldn't show up to support him or if they stopped you. You must think more clearly and never underestimate your opponent otherwise we will fail as we have now," Giovanni said.
"What do we do now sir," Kabuto asked realizing their goal was lost.
"We re-group and wait for a better time. Besides we still have project M-Y as insurance," Giovanni said with Kabuto nodding.
"How do you want us to proceed sir," Zabuza asked.
"Continue your assignment and watch out for any sighting of it. We may not have the tools to make this as simple as catching it, but we do have the tools to still capture it," Giovanni said as he stared out into the rising sun all the while his mind thought back to Naruto." You remind me of him to much and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing," Giovanni then thought of way back when a young child stopped him and his team. No word of where that person was or where he had gone only that he had disappeared once the death of his mother occurred." Maybe if our paths cross again will you be a changed man just as I did when I grew up."
END.
That's the end for this chapter and as you can see it was not so much a quick chapter. More so a Team Rocket chapter so that I can confirm with you all that Giovanni is still the leader and I'm not gonna add somebody like Madara to it also as you can tell I'm using both anime and games in this story as I actually got an idea for the future of course I will have to change something's so that it kinda makes sense you can guess what it will be. But hey we will see anyway Tahlia evolved saving Naruto which I thought would be pretty good timing and if your wondering no we will not go straight to the next gym as I wanna go through more shit for him. So the next few chapters may be short I don't know yet. But anyway leave a review and tell me what you think.
Naruto's Main Team:
Main Pokémon: Zeraora(Electric) Nickname Z – Moves; Thunderbolt, Thunder Punch, Plasma Fists, Close Combat, Slash, Throat Chop, Dual Chop, Fire Punch, Iron Tail.
Charizard(Fire/Flying): Nickname Blaze – Moves; Dragon Claw, Dragon Rage, Flamethrower, Fire Fang, Fire Blast, Blast Burn, Thunder Punch.
Pidgeot(Normal/Flying): Nickname Tahlia – Moves; Wing Attack, Peck, Mirror move, Detect, Steel wing, Double Team, Quick Attack.
Nidorino(Poison): Nickname King – Moves; Double Kick, Dig, Drill run, Poison sting, Smart strike, Tackle, Focus Energy.
Jolteon(Electric): Nickname Bolt – Moves; Thunderbolt, Discharge, Double Kick, Pin Missile, Bite, Quick Attack.
Gengar(Ghost/Poison): Nickname Ghost – Moves; Shadow Ball, Shadow Claw, Lick, Dark pulse, Dazzling Gleam, Drain Punch, Ice Punch, Fire Punch.
Vulpix(Fire): Nickname Kurama – Moves; Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Flame charge, Fire fang, Iron Tail, Confuse Ray, Dark Pulse, Quick Attack.