I Don't Own Pokemon
"Ah yes! Kyu, I've heard quite the many things about you" I just nodded to Elm as he started talking about random subjects he seemed to think I would want to listen about while wondering if it would have been a better idea to just not be here and instead just head to New Bark's Pokemon Center and register to the League here before leaving to get as far to Cherrygrove as possible before the sun goes down.
It certainly seems that it would have saved me some time as I was about to just walk away but I decided not to, might as well wait it out, not like I have much else I have planned for today when I noted the back door opened as three familiar people rolled in. Of course sadly it wasn't the three humans that I was use to, in fact one wasn't even human, though I've already run into them before, in fact I've had them arrested twice now in fact. Well, doesn't this raise some questions.
"Oi, idiots one, two and three, didn't I arrest you lot, like a year ago?" The three looked up at me, before scrambling backwards, in a look I assume is fear, before realizing that they were being intimidated by a teenager and quickly stood up, not like that was really all that worrying. I quite literally beat them with not even a week of experience, it would be sad if I thought they proposed a problem to me nowadays.
"It's that mega twerp! He's the one that caught the Boss! How dare you!" The blue haired one, I really had to struggle to remember his name. James? That's probably it, looked horrified to be in front of me, while.. Jessie? Well she looked like she was about to go into a rage. Taking note of that, I made a show of yawning, which wasn't all that hard as I was actually pretty tired at the moment, while looking bored before saying after a moment.
"Yeah I did that, you know he was quite the headache, I mean, not him specifically of course, he was actually kind of pathetic once he stepped out from behind his army of weaklings" A simple anger tacit as from general knowledge the three of them worship that scum of a human if I remember right and considering that I actually saw their eyebrows spasm in annoyance and/or rage, before both stood up ready to defend their Boss, like the loyal idiots that they are, I figured I remembered correctly. No then.
"Mismagius, Phantom Force" My shadow seemed to come to life as a part of it shot out from it's original location under the three before opening up underneath them all. Watching on for a few moments I finally called out to my Ghost to let them out as they all did come out. From the roof onto the ground where they seemed to have gone threw quite the journey as none got back up.
Sure Meowth was a Normal type but he can still be dragged into the move, just the move itself won't damage him, but vertigo on the other hand, from moving around so much in a chaotic pattern I'm sure my Ghost had fun following, would be more than enough to knock them out or at the very at least incapacitate them to the point where, well that Pokemon wasn't going to be getting up in a while. Looking over to the shocked Professor I said simply.
"Would you mind calling the police?" He nodded after a moment before hurrying off. I didn't really get all that anger anymore, something I'm really glad about, but I have a special place in my mind were most of my cooled internal rage now mostly resided that acted up when it comes to anyone from Team Rocket, no matter how little of an actual problem and more like a pest they really are closer to being.
Still, ignoring that unneeded anger, looking back at the three on the ground, I wondered mildly if I keep arresting them then at some point would I get a punch-card to keep track. And if I get a certain number would I then get a favor or something from the police. I wonder how that would work actually, I mean, I'm technically apart of the police force as well, so would I then own myself a favor?
Sure this is just a hypothetical but still, this is something I should get an answer about at some point, not for any serious reason really, I just want to know now that's I've thought about it. Though speaking of stuff that I should think about, I wonder how those three got out in the first place, I mean I haven't really stayed up to date on things, but I'm sure I would have heard if Giovanni got out some how.
Which means that either they got out on their own, which is just a bit unlikely, or that the got out a while ago and this is just the first time I've run into them since that time in...Cerulean? I think that's the last run in I had with her was there, I might be wrong of course, but that sounds like it's probably right. So I'm going to assume that my assumption is correct.
The only other event I could think about it was that thing in Vermilion with that whole raid, maybe I had fought them as well there, but I highly doubt it, I think I would have had remembered that better. Though to be fair, I was unconscious for a part of it so maybe they showed up at some point, no wait, Lance, I'm pretty sure had everyone arrested that was found during the raid, so that can't be it.
With no other option bu to accept that I was right the first time around, I just sat down in a nearby seat while listening to the frantic sounds of the Professor talking to, probably, the police. At least that's who I'm hoping he is talking to, otherwise this is a really inopportune time to catch up with a friend over the phone or something. Though while that was happening, Riolu, who hadn't made much noise recently, spoke up with a confused ton in her voice.
"So why are you angry? Because those three don't really seem like that big of a problem even with this apparent history you have with them" I blinked out of my mind at her voice as I recognized after a moment that I was in fact feeling the emotion of anger, I though I pushed most of it away but it was still there, just now it was burning cold, after a second of analyzing the feeling I answered her.
"It's not really them, it's their organization that I really have a history with" She just smacked me on the back of the head, which I wasn't really sure what I did to deserve that in particular and was about to reply by tossing her off my shoulders in completely justifiable revenge, but before I could get to that point she spoke up again.
"That doesn't answer my question. Why are you angry? And what is this history with them and you anyway?" Oh, oops, I seemed to be to lost in my head that I didn't actually answer her question like she wanted me to. I wasn't going to apologize of course, but I did correct myself by answering in the way she wanted me to this time, which I think is better than what I was about to do, so she shouldn't complain about my bluntness.
"Oh, I think I've already mentioned it in passing, in fact I would be surprised if I haven't. Still, to summarize quite a bit, I have a lot of hate for this criminal organization called Team Rocket, this is because on multiple occasions they've tried to steal my Pokemon, so I did the rational thing and attacked back, from there an..incident happened, the boss of Team Rocket tried to blackmail me to back off, that failed, so they put me on a hit list and tried to kill or enslave me on multiple annoying encounters over a few months.
The last one came from them chasing after a Mew, and I ended up getting involved and saved said Pokemon. Anyway, during that last encounter with those idiots, I finally destroyed the entire organization by taking on about fifty grunts and the boss, who happened to be the strongest gym leader in Kanto, at once in a massive scale battle, in which I almost died, and was then was saved by the Mew who I helped by them forcing me to evolve to heal the damage I took by taking a full powered Rock Slide point blank.
From there, me and my team won and defeated all the grunts, and after some pleasant death threats, I called the police and had the leader arrested along with the rest of the grunts that had been knocked out during the battle. I haven't actually heard anything about it now that I'm thinking about it in a few months, not since I arrived in Unova at the very least"
Ok, so many I was paraphrasing it a bit much and might have toned up the danger I was actually in during those annoying confrontations a bit much. But I mean it was completely accurate as to what happened, and because Riolu knows when someone is lying, well, needless to say she made a choking sound before just sighing and said after a moment.
"I...Kind of wish I didn't ask now. Your life has always been freaking insane hasn't it? Nothing in Unova was actually all that strange, dangerous, or even out of the norm for you, was it?" Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have been so blunt about it, I mean, to be honest, I'm kind of surprised she hasn't heard about this from the rest of the team at one point or another, or at least never came up in casual conversation, but I guess it's kind of understandable.
"Well, I mean, all my time in Unova was suppose to be a nice long vacation for me, it had some rough patches in it during the middle, but to be honest, nothing of much note really happened that was all that crazy. Besides that whole thing with Zekrom of course" Actually, now that I'm thinking about Legendary Pokemon, I wonder whatever happened to that Mew, they kind of just disappeared once the police had showed up all those months ago. Eh, I don't actually care now that I'm thinking about it.
"I'm not really sure how I'm suppose to think about that. The insane and dangerous things that happened since I've been with you, those were just during a vacation?" Ok, I should reassure her, I think that maybe the crazy has gone to her head again.
"I wouldn't worry about it, you should be a bit use to this by now, and it's not like anything that unlucky or headache inducing will happen. I already wiped out most of the organized crime in both Kanto and Johto so there shouldn't be to much stuff to really worry about. The only thing I could think of is just some smaller annoyances and that's it. You missed out on all the stuff that came from the team and my early days"
She seemed to calm down a bit which was lucky for me, as I'm not exactly all that good at comforting people on being anxiety prone or nervous about this kind of stuff. I should ask Luxray later to talk to her for a bit and I should probably make sure that everyone knows about the, as I just called them, 'early days' of my training career, which I mean is an accurate statement, but a bit weird to think about.
As that means that I've been here long enough to not be considered a weirdly good rookie trainer to a very experience trainer. I mean, isn't that just a weird thought, I've been here for almost a year and a half at this point. You know what, all this reminiscing about my starting days isn't going to get anything done. Just as I was about to think of something to actually do, the door by the lab opened and from there, in walked both a Officer Jenny and a Nurse joy.
I wasn't entirely sure why a nurse would have shown up, so it was probably because of something else instead of the issue at hand. Said nurse looked at the unconscious idiots that my Ghost had pushed into a corner before gasping at the sight, but before she could ask anything, Jenny had walked forwards quickly, while giving me a sharp nod before reaching the three and started putting handcuffs on them.
"I can't believe we're still having to round up stray members, it's been months and still more and more come out from the wood work, it's starting to get ridiculous" I raised an eyebrow at that, as I felt an annoying pit of anger formed at the thought of me having to deal with a resurgence of Rock grunt idiots trying ot pull off what they did in the Johto games. I've already dealt with this once, it better not come to me having to deal with it twice.
"Is there any organization to it? Or are these idiots just trying to fuel a dying cause?" It would be good to know if this bloody dragon can go around with it's head cut off, because if it can then I really would like to know the likely hood of me getting wrapped up in cutting off the rest of it's limbs and making sure that it can't give me anymore headaches. I think the metaphor got a little away from me at the end but the point still stands.
"It's mostly just grunts trying to cause as much crime and destruction as they can, probably trying to cash in on the still decently formidable reputation of Team Rocket to try and scare people into doing what they want. It should die down sooner or later but that doesn't change the fact that for right now their is still an annoying amount of grunts running around" I almost laughed thinking about stupid it was for someone to try and capitalize on Team Rocket's reputation.
That's when I realized that to other people, a criminal organization is probably a really scary thing and that I'm way to desensitized to this stuff. Not like anything of that can be considered new information at this point. Still, watching as the nurse walked away to the back, muttering something about a totodile needing her attention. Which I guess is the reason as to why she is here in the first place.
Looking away from the two of them so I didn't go cross eyes as the two of them went in different directions. Watching as Jenny dragged the two humans and the Pokemon outside, I thought about it for a moment before following her out, I didn't rally have a reason to stick around here at the moment, and I'm sure that she'll want some kind of statement from me, so I might as well get that over with then head out.
Nothing of to much interest happened here, so there really isn't much to add at the bottom of this chapter. Well I guess the whole scraps that remain of team rocket is something but I think I covered that well enough in the chapter itself. So, See ya.