I Don't Own Pokemon
"Could you calm the hell down! I can barely think when your sociopathic self is this annoyed. Where are we even going?" Good point, I didn't break stride as I continued walking, listening to the sirens around me while following the sounds, still I took a small breath in and forced emotions out of my main thought space, they were just getting in the way at this point taking up my main thought line, thankfully I can focus on more than just one thought at a time, even with annoying things like the emotion of anger bugging me.
"I hate admitting your right, you should know that right off the bat. Anyway, we're heading towards the T.V. slash radio station. The channel they were streaming from it local so clearly they have to at least play a tape from there, which means at least a single grunt is there at the moment. But to have the tape playing as long as they did, well it means that there must be a small group there, and considering the level of arrogance of their new leader, I can figure that more than likely the entire building has been taken over instead of the only floor that they would need"
I was mostly talking out loud to keep me focused away from my annoyances at the moment, it wasn't helping and unlike the first few times I got caught up with those idiots I have gotten back to my near prefect level of self control, whatever, it's still Team Rocket and I doubt even under new employment that the idiotic grunts would suddenly become an actual threat.
"Ok I get it, emotions are beneath you and all that but could you not just suddenly stop feeling next time, you're going to give me whiplash. Also, sorry, I must have miss heard, as sad as I am to admit it, you are not stupid enough to charge head first into a building full of dangerous criminals" I actually snorted when she said dangerous, one thing this group is not, it's dangerous, well at least for me. Is that arrogant? Probably.
"Thanks for the compliment, I'm never letting you forget that, anyway we don't have anything to worry about from them, and besides you're not going in with me" Maybe emotional repression is effecting my judgment as well, as the second I had finished my sentence she grabbed my hair and yanked hair enough to bend my head upwards so she was looking down on me, with a face of murder. I didn't bother to stop walking, in fact I was steadily picking up the pace to be honest.
"What the hell do you mean I'm not going with you?" Ok, maybe I was a bit to blunt, but that doesn't the fact that while the sentiment is nice, she isn't a battler, and even though Team Rocket is nothing but an annoyance to me, that doesn't mean I'm even close to arrogant enough to put Riolu even close nearby to a criminal organization that has had a hit list out for my head, because if they aim for my head there's also a chance they'll hit her on my shoulders instead.
"You're going to be sitting outside with the police while I do the heavy lifting like always. Like you said, I'm not stupid, and you are getting nowhere close to the action" She didn't seem happy about it but before she could say anything I had noted that we were quickly approaching a large amount of cop cars. Great the fun is about to begin, I know that it's just words but make sure to note the sarcasm. Anyway, I walked up to the first Jenny I saw and said.
"Hi, mind keeping an eye on this one, I'll be back in a minute" Ignoring the fact that Riolu was trying to rip my hands apart at the moment so I would let go of her, I dropped her down on the car hood and started to make my way towards the entrance of the building. Surprisingly it took a good six seconds before anyone was screaming at me to stop. Still, I did, just long enough to dig into one of my coat pockets and pulled out my badge. Turning around, I called out to them while walking backwards towards the building.
"Name's Kyu, if you don't recognize that then don't ask, the number of people that know me is to big as it is. Anyway I'm an officer and at this point I think I deserve dibs on this group of idiots, I'll be back in a couple minutes" I wasn't going in yet actually, I need one more bit of information but walking towards the door adds a bit of urgency to the police to give me all the information required, and my name drop makes them trust me, which is a bonus I actually don't mind in this case. And after a moment the Jenny, who was now thankfully holding onto the struggling form of Riolu called out.
"Wait! There's a total of twenty-seven reported hostages, we can't go in yet!" I figured, otherwise this building would be swarmed with police and their Pokemon by now, and now that I know the exact number I can do something as simple as this. And with that I looked down at my shadow were from the increasing darkness of it, Mismagius seemed to be upset, not surprised, while some on the team don't have experience with this group, everyone hates them from stories, and Mismagius, who has dealt them is very clearly not an exception.
"They're most likely in a single room somewhere, if they're unguarded bring them out, if not let me know. Make sure you aren't seen and find out what their defenses look like" She didn't say anything but my shadow suddenly was a lot more lighter in color so she was clearly gone at the moment. Taking a breath to myself, mostly to refocus my mind around what was about to happen, more than likely a battle is about to break out, I haven't had one in a while, couldn't find anyone in the forest that wanted to battle. After a moment, Mismagius floated up in front of me and was pouting, not the best sign.
"Their all held up on the top floor, Captain, with guards on all the stair entrances. the hostages are in a corner of the floor in a glass room being watched on by a bunch of humans" Oh joy, I could still give the order to get the hostages out of there, but that would most likely lead to the grunts panicking, and when idiots are backed into a corner they act even more like idiots which could lead to a situation I'd rather not deal with. Oh, wait, that's an idea, now to make it into a plan well as much of a plan as I normally have.
"Alright, travel me up to the second highest floor near the staircase, preferably where there's a lack of cameras" I got a nod and a salute before she floated down into my shadow, and right as it opened, I listened to a loud gasp from behind me and that was it before I fell into the shadowed mess underneath me. Taking a step out of the dark circular shadow that was on spreading across an open wall. I looked around for a moment, taking in my surroundings before noting that someone was grabbing at my leg.
I had an attack order on the tip of my tongue in under a second, but thankfully I was able to glance down quicker than I could say my order to Mismagius, and saw that the enemy was in fact not an enemy and instead was in fact Riolu. Looking down at her for a moment, I thought about all the things I wanted to say and instead of saying any of them, I just sighed and said after a moment of contemplation.
"If I have Mismagius send you back out you're just going to limp your way back in there aren't you" It was a statement not really a question but she just glared at me and nodded nonetheless. I let out another long suffering sigh before deciding that it wasn't worth arguing over at the moment, and while I wasn't against the idea of sending her away again, I don't like the unknown factors she would bring into this by trying to get back here, so instead I just grabbed her and put her on my shoulders again so I could at least keep an eye on her though it just lead to me having to listen to her complain.
"I have no idea why you think I need protection, isn't that the whole reason you shoved those TMs down my throat a couple months back? I'm not some useless accessory that can't do anything, and if you think about leaving me behind again I'm going to yank out your hair" I guess that's true as that was the reason why I gave her the TMs for Protect and the like, but that doesn't mean I've suddenly changed my mind that this is in anyway a good idea, but then again, since when have I ever cared if my ideas were good or bad in theory.
"Yeah yeah I get it, don't leave you out of the incredibly dangerous stuff, I'll make sure your on the front lines for the next legendary we come across. Now that that's out of the way, time to get to the fun part" I couldn't see her reaction to my words, but I'm sure that it was amusing, anyway, with that I reached down to my belt and pulled off the first and third pokeballs from their slots.
Priming the two pokeballs, I under hand tossed the pokeballs out into the air and watched as Servine and Absol appeared in front of me. While I mostly sure that I could deal with this with only Mismagius, this can at least be turned around into something practical for theses two Pokemon in front of me. They haven't battled in a while and this should get them warmed up for both the soon to be contest and gym battle.
"Sorry to say this isn't what you two were expecting to be sent out to, but as it happens that group you've heard about, Team Rocket, well they're trying to pull off a sequel. And because everyone else has dealt with this group, I figured that at this point it's some messed up form of hazing for the team so here you two are. Ready to follow in the steps in your elders, also before we get started, never tell the others I called them the elders"
Honestly, I'm the oldest Pokemon here expect for Zekrom, but they don't really count, so I feel like most of the team wouldn't like me calling them the old ones. Though to be fair, Mismagius is technically older than me in terms of age of body but I still have a few years on her in terms of age of mind. Anyway back to the topic at hand, the taken over building and all that, I made sure that my two Pokemon nodded to me before I walked forwards, out towards where I'm pretty sure the stairwell was.
Looking out from the corner of the wall I was next to, I noted that a grunt was standing there, looking bored out of his mind, well that's about to change isn't it. Turning to look back to my Ghost, I nodded my head in the grunts direction, before nodding over towards the wall opposite of me. She just grinned before dropping into the floor. Ignoring the looks that everyone was giving me at the moment, and instead walked over towards the wall opposite of me while counting to three in my head.
Pulling back my arm, I waited until a mass of shadow spread out over the wall then threw a fast jab out as a panicked looking man fell out of the shadows, nailing him right in his face, dropping him onto the ground more than likely unconscious. Looking down at the man, I noted that everyone present, besides Mismagius, was looking at me in shock, I wonder why, though on a side note I haven't knocked someone out in a while, kind of forgot how hard I have to hit, I only thought about it because the man on the ground was slowly stirring already.
Smashing my foot down on his head, I waited a moment until I was sure that he weren't moving anymore before nodding to myself and made my way over towards the stairwell. Opening it up, I stepped to the side while my Pokemon walked in, jogging up the stairs, I made it to the top floor and waited a moment as I stood up again the door with held breath, before whispering to my Ghost.
"How many is on the other side of this doors?" She blinked before closing her eyes, probably working on remembering what she saw the first time around rather than going to look on the very rare chance of her getting spotted, good, glad she remembers that trick, never be sneaky when you don't have to be, the risk is hardly worth it no matter how good you get at not being seen.
"By the door, two, and in total I think about seven of the normal ones but I know one of them isn't dressed like the others, blue hair, weird white suit, and they like monologuing" Wait, that idiot is here? How in the world is he that god damn stupid? I've been working on the assumption that the leader would be miles away and that everything on the tv was just a prerecorded message, that level of ego and arrogance is ridiculous.
"Good to know, be in my shadow, and be ready to attack at a moment's notice, I'm curious about how arrogant and egotistical this 'leader' is" I got a nod from everyone, before turning to face the door before smashing my foot into it, it was probably locked anyway, and ripped it from the wall, letting it crash onto the floor as I strolled into the room, humming to myself to draw attention to me while looking around while the sudden distraction was still in effect and no one would notice that I was gathering information.
A camera was set up with said stupid man in front of it, so it's a live broadcast that quite interesting, seems I interrupted something, I'm not sure I'm going to like the end result of this but since when have I ever liked the after effects of my interactions with this group. So with that I walked forwards, while noting that the glass room Mismagius talked about was a recording booth, probably for the radio announcers.
In there was a group of a large amount of terrified looking people, good they're out of the way. Looking over towards the criminals of the room, I noted that every grunt here was looking at me in terror, glad I live up to expectations. Though since it's clear that they've recognized me then enough time has passed that the surprise has worn off, then it's time to start talking.
"So your the new leader of Team Rocket, honestly I think you're even more unimpressive than the last one, I didn't even know that was possible" Playing on vanity isn't exactly all that hard to do, putting people down is hardly a hard thing to do. Anyway, the leader, who I'm barely sure's name is Proton, mostly because I hardly cared to remember it.
"How dare you! Who do you think you are scum!" Wait does he actually not know me? Ok, I can understand the ego to some degree clouding his judgement but how in the actual fresh hell does the leader of team Rocket not know me, I mean it sounds a bit narcissistic but it's me for hell's sake. If anyone would know of me it would be the man trying to become the leader of the organization I've destroyed. Oh well, I can play this around to get to the others, who also seem a bit curious about the lack of recognition, reputation comes in handy.
"Me? Oh that's an easy one, my name's Kyu, you might have heard of me from that time I destroyed your criminal empire" I just smiled as I watched as his entire body tensed in very sudden fear, but that expression was just to cover up my sudden suspensions, clearly he's never seen me before, if he had then he would have tensed when he first saw me not after I introduced myself, which sent off a mental alert that something was wrong here.
I know it isn't my ego when I say that everyone past and more than likely present in Team Rocket knows my face and name, I've had a bloody hit out on my head for over a year, hell for all I know it's still in place, it's just that no one is stupid enough to try and collect it, and the reactions from all the grunts in the room shows that to be true. So with that in mind I know for a fact that he should know who I am, but he's only heard of my name before, not my face which is something really easy to find from one online search.
If he didn't even bother doing basic information about the organization's main threat outside of the tradition police force, then why is he the leader, ego aside, no one is that stupid. I'm clearly missing a piece of information, but for right now I can't keep my thinking revolved around this one task, I can do it later, but as it stands at the moment I'm still surrounded by criminals, so time to bluff.
"Listen, I'd rather not have this end in a battle, so if you give up then I'd happily arrest you and no one, well it would only be you, gets hurt, how about it" Ok, maybe it wasn't that much of a bluff, because I'll be honest I'm fully comfortable with every human in this room leaving in an ambulance, as technically the hostages are in a subsection of this room which is technically different, like a broom closet.
"Look kid, I don't care who you are, we aren't like the weaklings of the past, and I for one won't listen to such arrogance from a brat, so here's what you can do, leave and no one, you and the hostages only, gets hurt" Cute, if I didn't have a stunted form of fear that only really comes out when it comes to very certain things, I would almost think he was trying to doing me a favor, but I can see past it, he's worried and is trying to out bluff me, to bad for him I can actually back my claims up.
"Well that makes one of you I have to beat into submission, not like that's going to be difficult, still, because I'm a nice guy, as it stands the rest of you still have a chance to leave and go to the cops if you want to, so what will it be, make note that I would much rather not have to be here so if you delay me, I'm not going to stay all that nice" As I was talking, I let my smile along with my happy body posture drop into my natural state of showing bored indifference, before turning that in a small glare and watched as most of the grunts took a step backwards, cowards. Though I have to give them something, no one was walking away immediately well I gave them the chance.
"I gave the chance, really was hoping some of you would take it, I hate large battles in doors, always leads to a mess, and personally I am not paying for anything you break so get ready for a lawsuit when you're in jail" That seemed to spook the guy to the left of me as instead of pulling out a pokeball, he turned and tried to sprint past me, key words on tried, because as he tried, I grabbed his arm and just held on as he ran and was very abruptly stopped with his legs running out from underneath him, dropping him to the ground.
One gentle face stomp later and he was unconscious with from the crunching sounds his nose made, a broke bone to remember me by. Looking up at the rest, I raised an eyebrow and watched as Proton's confident, fake now that I'm really observing it, look broke away to mild shock, I just continued with my raised eyebrow before he gritted his teeth before stepping forwards while drawing a pokeball out. As that was happening it seemed that the grunt cowards got some confidence from having a front man to rally behind as the remaining six also pulled out pokeballs. Well now for the main phase.
I was going to put all this into one chapter but I dragged out some of the parts at the beginning after the fact and decided that a five thousand or so word chapter was a bit much for one post and because I'm cheap I make the most of what I have so I made this a small cliffhanger. Anyway, See ya.
