Welcome everyone to the epic finale of the Celadon City Siege of the NTR. Will Gregg succeed in free Danny and the others? Can Charmeleon lead the other Pokémon into the Department Store? Read this chapter to find it out!
Last time on Danny's Journey: After the New Team Rocket took over Celadon City, Danny met Gregg and together they managed to take over the Game Corner. Realizing the entire NTR will be looking for them they made a plan which included Danny 'getting captured' and locked up with the others to make them ready for combat. Meanwhile, Pidgey managed to find all the Pokéballs of the captured trainers and, together with Erika's Victreebel, knocked out a NTR grunt. Charmeleon, Squirtle and Danny's other Pokémon prepare themselves to find the captured Pokémon and form a second army to take down the NTR.
"Danny! Step forward." A grunt screamed as he opened the prison doors.
Danny looked up.
"No please?" He asked with a grin. Just as Richard had done earlier, Danny decided not to work along at all.
"You can get a slap across the face if you don't get here within 5 seconds." The grunt said angry.
"Sure, I'll be on my way." Danny said with a wink.
Once at the door the grunt roughly took him away.
Danny saw the entire building as both had to walk the stairs. Apparently the elevators where only for the important people and a grunt with a prisoner wasn't important enough.
After 25 staircases they finally arrived at the level of Gordon's office. The grunt kept pushing Danny forward until he commanded Danny to stop.
"Sir Gordon, I have the prisoner you asked for." The grunt said as he nodded on the door.
"Come in." A voice was heard from the other side. The grunt opened the door and Danny walked into a regular big office.
Danny hadn't really seen Gordon up close before so it kind of shocked him: Gordon had blond hair and wore the regular uniform, only this one was white instead of grey, showing that he was important. All together he didn't seem like the monster Danny had pictured.
"So you are the guy that has been messing with my city?" Gordon asked.
"Well, it's technically not your city." Danny randomly said.
"Don't be so brutal." The grunt shouted and he raised a hand to slap Danny, but Gordon commanded him not to.
"You can leave us." He said to the grunt, who saluted and walked away.
"You know Danny, you and I are not that different. We both are strong trainers" Gordon started.
"I'm afraid that's where the similarities end." Danny quickly responded. "You are evil, I try to be good. You hurt people whenever you like which I really despise. Do I need to continue?"
Gordon was a little bit surprised by Danny's brutal reaction. He had hoped that the thing he had done to Richard had been enough to make Danny more uneasy, it seemed to have been the other way around.
"Aren't you afraid I will slap you? Like I did with your friend?" Gordon tried.
"You can slap all you want. I do know that I will get you when this thing is over." Danny said, now angry.
"Get me? That's amusing. May I ask how?" Gordon said, pretending to enjoy the conversation.
"It doesn't matter how. Just know that it will happen." Danny answered.
"Well, I don't think so." Gordon started. "How do you like it here? In the Pokémon World?"
Danny was a little bit puzzled by Gordon's question.
"Fine." He simply answered.
"Well, I guess you would really like to remain to live in this world." Danny started to get a bad feeling. "I guess you would hate to be send back to your regular world, wouldn't you?"
"How do you…" Danny started, completely shocked.
"It doesn't matter how I know. You aren't from this world. You came here a while back and now you have a 'Pokémon journey' and, while you're at it, destroying our plans. I have halve a mind to send you back, but I want you to join our cause instead." Gordon explained with an evil grin.
"Why would you want me to join you?"
"You took over the Game Corner, fought against 30 grunts and won. That strength will be rewarded within the NTR you know? Irena might make you an admin like me." Gordon said. "Would you like that?"
This was it, the reason Gordon wanted to speak with Danny in the first place, he wanted to make him join the New Team Rocket.
Danny was thinking. He didn't want to go back, sure he enjoyed his life but this life was so much better. Including that his parents and Richard where all in this world as well. On the other hand, he couldn't join the NTR. He would hate himself for doing it.
"I won't join you." Danny murmured.
"What was that?" Gordon asked.
"I will not join you." Danny responded, now nearly shouting.
"Are you sure? Otherwise I will have to send you back to the regular world." Gordon said.
"Send me back then. If I would join the NTR this world would be worse than the one I came from." Danny's reaction seemed to anger Gordon a great deal.
"Fine than. Take him back to prison." Gordon screamed and the grunt came running in and took Danny away.
In the streets of Celadon City
Translated from the Pokémon Language
"Can you guys keep up?" Charmeleon asked. He was looking at Krabby and Grimer, who apparently where the slowest of the bunch.
Charmeleon seemed concerned, but Grimer nodded his worries away.
"Sure. We are just covering your backs." He said with a wide smile.
"Okay great, if we need to slow join just ask." Charmeleon explained. He was happy everything was alright. He was also happy to have Squirtle helping him out: Even though it was only a small team Charmeleon felt it was difficult to have all that responsibility. He really missed Beedrill, who was an evolved Pokémon and due to that seemed more mature.
But Squirtle had proven himself to be a great help for the Flame Pokémon.
"Where do we need to go?" Bellsprout asked. Charmeleon had been lost in thoughts so he completely missed the question.
"I think we have to go to the right here." Squirtle answered. Bellsprout nodded.
Charmeleon shook his head. "Sorry, I was lost in my thoughts."
"I didn't know you could think?" Bellsprout said and he started to laugh. The others kept silenced though;
"Come on guys. A joke to lighten our current mission."
"Not the right moment." Abra answered. "Also not a laughable joke."
"His attempt was laughable though." Squirtle said. Everyone either grinned or started laughing, except Bellsprout who seemingly got angry.
"How is that funny but my joke isn't?" He said frustrated.
Krabby, who had kept himself silent the entire conversation, decided to respond.
"The thing he said wasn't really that funny, it was your face at the moment you heard it what did the trick." Everyone started to laugh again which made Krabby happy.
"Even you? I thought you were the only one who respected me." Bellsprout pretended to be heavily offended.
"I do." Krabby said. "Just not now."
What no one knew was that Grimer and Krabby had been talking about how Krabby should speak up more and make jokes. In the few hours Grimer had shared with the group it became perfectly clear to him that Krabby was really shy and he wanted to change that.
"Well done." He whispered to Krabby, who became proud from hearing that.
In the Celadon Department Store
A grunt was walking around the building, seemingly lost. It was of course Gregg, who hadn't been in this building before.
"What are you doing here?" a blond haired man asked. Seeing his white clothes it was Gordon.
"I, uhh…" Gregg started.
"Why don't you salute me? I am your boss." Gordon said.
"Oh sorry boss." Gregg jumped up and saluted.
Gordon looked at him miserably. "If you forget it again I will have you shoved out the upper window."
"Yes sir." Gregg saluted again as Gordon walked away. "I'll deal with you when this is done." Gregg whispered angrily.
Now he had to find the keys. The plan wasn't too difficult, but he did need a key. It would of course be easy to steal the key from one of the guards, but there were five guards and all where armed as well. The safest option was the sixth key, which Gordon probably has.
Gregg decided to follow the NTR admin to upstairs but he had no idea how to get the key yet.
"You there!" Gregg turned around and saw another NTR member walk towards him. "Do you have anything to do at the moment?"
His brain was making extra hours. He had no idea what he could be doing at this point.
"No? Okay good, come with me." The member said. Just at that moment Gordon looked behind him.
"Crap." Gregg whispered, knowing he had no option but to go with the member. He nodded and followed the guy.
On the ceiling of the Celadon Department Store
Translated from the Pokémon Language
"That's the last one of them." Sandshrew came reporting to Pidgey and Victreebel. Once the grunt was defeated they had started to open up all Pokéballs. Richard's Sandshrew, Voltorb and Eevee as well as Janine's Weezing where the first ones to come out.
"Thanks Sandshrew." Pidgey said.
Victreebel turned around and looked at the Pokémon: There where grass types like Tangela, which was also Erika's. There were flying types like Pidgeotto and Fearow. Most common where Rattata and Raticate.
"So I think we should let the flying types fly down aside from the building and attack from there." a Meowth started. Even though it was mostly determined that Pidgey and Victreebel where in charge (Victreebel had the most battle experience off all of them and Pidgey saved them all) the Meowth still thought he could claim the non-existing third leader position.
"Stop it right there." Sandshrew responded.
Pidgey nodded to his friend. "The best chance we got is to strike them all together."
"Won't it be better if there are different armies?" the Meowth asked. "That is what I would do."
"Maybe, but you are not in charge." Eevee said cocky. She was missing her trainer and had to release her unpleasant feelings towards someone, might as well be the Meowth.
"The plan is simple really." Victreebel started explaining with a huge sigh. "We are one army. According to Pidgey his trainer has a second armada outside of the building. Pidgey will fly out to find them and make sure they will join our cause."
Pidgey nodded. "The third party is currently in lockup. If we can free them we might be able to take over this building again."
"Then we have the building. What about the city?" Meowth once again started. "I suggest…" Meowth started shaking and fell to the ground. Voltorb laid next to him.
"Me being sick of him." He simply said.
Everyone in the room started to laugh, as they all shared the dislike towards Meowth.
"But how do we plan to take over the city?" Eevee asked. The last thing she wanted was another battle.
"Don't worry about that little Eevee." A low voice said. Everyone turned around and saw a Golbat on the roof.
"Who are you?" Victreebel asked.
"I am Golbat. My trainer is the Elite 4 member Agatha." The Golbat started. "She is currently residing just outside of the city with a big group of police officers."
Pidgey stepped forward with a surprised look on his face. "Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure." The Golbat smirked. "I just came from there."
The Bat Pokémon stepped further into the room.
"But the police forces can't enter and attack the city until all of the hostages are freed, that's why I was send here. If you could free the hostages and send someone to fly over to the police forces and give the okay sign." Golbat explained.
Pidgey looked around him, seeing two Fearow, a few Spearow, some Pidgey, five Zubat and even a Pidgeotto. They'd have enough Flying types to send someone over even if halve got hurt in the battle.
"That's a deal." Pidgey said.
"Okay good, I will be back and inform my boss you have this under control. Good luck!" Golbat walked out of the room and flew away.
"Did I miss something?" Meowth got up again.
"Shut up or I shock you again." Voltorb said and Meowth did a few steps back.
"I'll go and find my trainer." Pidgey said.
Victreebel nodded. "I'll lead these guys into the building."
Pidgey reached out with his right wing and Victreebel released a vine and shook Pidgey's wing in a sign of mutual respect and to wish each other good luck.
With that Pidgey looked at his friends and they all nodded.
"Good luck man." Sandshrew said.
"Make sure Squirtle is okay, yeah?" Eevee added.
"Get trainer to us." Voltorb responded, while Weezing and Venonat where nodding in agreement.
"I will, good luck to you too. Stay safe." Pidgey took a few steps forward and they all shared a hug. After that Pidgey took flight and flew away.
"Do you think he will be okay?" Eevee asked Sandshrew.
"Of course he will." Sandshrew assured the Evolution Pokémon. "So we're leaving as well?" He said as he turned to Victreebel.
"Yeah. Everyone, with me!" Everyone lined up and followed the gym leader's Pokémon.
Meowth started walking faster so he could walk next to Victreebel.
"What do you think you're doing?" The latter asked.
"This way we can discuss battle strategies." Meowth responded.
Victreebell shook his head, for as far that's possible. " I don't think so." He released two vines, pulled Meowth up and carried him over the entire group of Pokémon. He eventually placed the Normal type at the end of the line. Everyone started laughing but the Meowth growled.
In the Celadon Department Store
Meanwhile, Gregg followed the NTR grunt to the other side of the building.
"So what do you need help with?" Gregg asked.
"I need one more man for a search party through the city. The boy was captured but there was another with him. At least, that's what the men captured in the Game Corner told us."
So they are free again, Gregg thought.
"We're leaving in 10 minutes, get ready cause we'll be out for 6 hours." The grunt informed.
Gregg quickly looked around him and noticed there was no-one there.
"No we won't" He answered and punched the grunt right in his face.
"What the.." The grunt fell backwards. Gregg stepped forward and managed to grab the man's collar and punched in his face again, he felt bone breaking and his hand started to hurt as well. The grunt's nose started to blood and he passed out.
Gregg dragged the body out of sight and went back to where he came from, still with the problem of not having keys.
Then he saw a familiar face: Dawson. He had a bandage over his arm and was still a little worn out but apparently back in business. He might have keys.
"Sir." Greg put his cap more down so Dawson wouldn't be able to see his face.
"What?" Dawson snarled.
"There has been a problem down with the hostages, I was send towards the boss to get extra keys just in case, but now I see you walking here I wondered if you had a pair.
Dawson, obviously not interested in what this was about, took his keys from his belt and threw them at Gregg.
"I want them back within an hour, do you understand?" He commanded.
"Yes sir. Thank you sir." Gregg nodded and walked towards the cellar where the hostages were held.
Dawson walked on towards the stairs to meet up with Gordon, until he realized something.
"Wait a minute, why would they need six pairs of keys?" He asked himself out loud. He turned around and hurried down the path Gregg had just taken.
With the hostages
Danny was walking along the bars. He was nervous, Gregg was late.
"Come sit down." Janine asked him. "There's no point in working yourself up like that."
"He should be here by now." Danny whispered back. Even though the guards didn't seem to pay attention at all, he wanted to make sure they couldn't hear him anyway.
"There's nothing you can do about it." Richard said as he got up, which resulted in a painful grin.
"I know, that's the point." Danny growled.
Richard wanted to say something but he silenced when they all heard footsteps approaching.
"You're off duty." A, for Danny familiar, voice said. "Orders of the boss."
"Yeah man!" One of the grunts cheered. "I've been sitting here for hours, I could use me some beer." His comrades laughed as well.
"Who will be guarding those guys?" One of the grunts asked, pointing towards Danny and the hostages.
"I'm here already, 3 others will come over." Gregg replied.
All the man laid their keys on the table and walked away. Gregg let out a loud sigh before he walked towards the bars and opened the door.
"Do you realize all the trouble I had to go through to get some keys, only to see that they leave them here when they leave?" Gregg said annoyed.
"Well, it worked." Danny said with a wide grin. He reached out with his hand and Gregg shook it. "Good to see you made it." The young trainer said.
"I had to." Gregg responded with a smile, which was rare for him.
Erika walked up to the two.
"So you are our savior?" She asked.
"The name's Gregg miss." The older man replied.
"I swear I know you." She stated. "Well, no time for that. We need to go up."
"No way." A voice behind them said angry. They all turned around and saw an angry NTR grunt holding Gregg at gunpoint.
"Dawson…" Danny said, just as angry.
"No-one is leaving this cellar. Everyone back inside."
They had no choice to obey so they walked into the cellar. Dawson walked forward and locked the door again.
"I'll be here guarding you since apparently all grunts are idiots." He said.
Danny looked from Gregg to Richard and Janine and back. They were in deep trouble now!
Near the Celadon Department Store
Translated from the Pokémon Language
"What now?" Squirtle asked his friend.
"I don't know. Too be honest, I haven't figured this out yet." Charmeleon answered. They were hiding in a pair of bushes near the giant building.
"It is hopefully clear that none of us can walk into that building in our current state." Abra stated.
"No kidding genius." Bellsprout said cynical. "Can't you just teleport us onto a higher level?"
Abra scratched his chin. "Your suggestion isn't completely horrible, but I am not certain if I have the needed amount of power to teleport every single one of you into the building."
"One at a time might work though?" Grimer asked, but Abra shook his head.
"We need to be quick otherwise the enemy in the building will notice us." The Psy Pokémon responded.
"I got a place you can teleport them to."
They all looked up and saw Pidgey flying above them. He circled around once more and then landed.
"Pidgey! How've you been?" Charmeleon reacted. The entire group gathered around to hug with the Tiny Bird Pokémon, who was happy to see all of the familiar faces again. Grimer stayed out of it, as he never met Pidgey before.
"I assembled an army on top of the building, all of the captured Pokémon." Pidgey explained with a smile. "Squirtle, I need to give you the regards of Sandshrew, Eevee and Voltorb."
"I'm glad to hear they are all right." The Water type responded.
Pidgey looked around the group. "Where's Beedrill? Didn't he come along?"
"Beedrill's hurt." Krabby said sadly. "That's why Grimer's on the team now."
Pidgey's smile froze. "How bad is he?"
"He will be healthy again soon, he is with the professor now." Abra explained.
"Well, I guess you'll be on the team then. Nice to meet you, my name is Pidgey." The Flying type walked towards Grimer to meet the latter.
"Well, I'm Grimer and it's certainly nice to meet you too." He said with a huge smile.
"So, what is this place you talked about? Where I can safely teleport all of us towards?" Abra asked.
"Above the building. The group of freed Pokémon might still be around, but even if they aren't, it's a safe space for us to go."
Abra nodded. "Okay, who shall go first?"
"I'll fly there." Pidgey reacted.
"Can I go with you?" Bellsprout asked. "I'm not looking forward to being teleported."
But it was your idea?" Squirtle interrupted.
"It was on my no-go list." The Flower Pokémon explained.
"Then it's decided, you go first." Charmeleon laughed.
Abra nodded and disappeared together with Bellsprout.
"I'll see you guys up there." Pidgey nodded and flew up as well.
During the following minutes Abra kept returning and teleporting, taking each one of the teammates up to the building, until only Charmeleon was left.
"How are you holding up?" He asked Abra.
"Well, it is quite an intense business, I think I might take a small nap when we arrive at the top of the building." The psy Pokémon responded.
"You can sleep later, let's go."
Within a second they had disappeared.
….
"I swear I will never do this again in my life."
When Charmeleon arrived Bellsprout was still shaking. The others found it amusing to watch.
"Everyone alright? Charmeleon asked.
"Yeah, we're all fine." Grimer said.
When Charmeleon turned around to face Abra a strong white light blinded him.
"No way." Bellsprout stopped complaining. "Do you guys think what I think?"
"He's evolving." Pidgey claimed. "That's awesome!"
When the white lights disappeared, Abra had grown. He had gained a spoon and a mustache. His tail had grown as well and he had three red stripes on his belly.
"Congrats." Charmeleon said.
"Thank you." The newly evolved Kadabra responded. "I honestly don't feel tired at all, forget what I said earlier about that nap."
Charmeleon started to laugh and the others joined in.
"It seems like the others have all left, let's move down and find them." Pidgey explained.
In Gordon's office
"That's excellent work Dawson." Gordon wasn't the one to give compliments but he realized how disastrous it would be if all the prisoners had escaped. Not all guards were carrying guns so it would be really hard to stop them.
Dawson nodded.
Gordon stepped up and walked towards the window.
"What are you waiting for sir?"
"My Golbat….. Ah, there it is." The chief opened the window and a Golbat flew in.
"Let's see what you brought me." Gordon took a small device from the table.
"You know Dawson, the boss had this little device developed that will help us with our plans." Gordon pressed on a small red button. "It was expensive, I'll admit it, but with this we have a major edge over whoever where facing."
The chief turned towards his Golbat. "Now tell me everything."
"All the Pokémon above have escaped." The Golbat announced. Dawson's mouth dropped open.
"I-it talked." He stuttered.
Gordon nodded. "Go on."
"They took the stairs down, I told them to go safe the hostages, so that's where they will be heading." Golbat replied.
"Good. Machoke, come on out." The humanoid creature emerged from the red light and looked at his master.
"Go with Golbat towards the stairs and wait for the Pokémon from above, I will make sure all the other grunts will send their Pokémon as well."
Both Pokémon nodded and walked or flew away.
"I'll go with them." Dawson said and followed his boss' Pokémon.
"Okay, one more thing Dawson." Gordon said. "We will be leaving this night, there's nothing more for us here. The machine we needed is already being smuggled out of the southern end of the city as we speak."
Dawson nodded and left.
With the hostages
"What now?" Danny had returned to his walking past the bars mood, while Gregg, Richard and the others were sitting on the ground.
"Just shut up." Dawson said irritating. "There's no 'what now', whatever kind of plan you made, it has gone wrong.
Danny sighed and sat down next to Gregg.
"I'm sorry Danny." He said, quite loud. "I had no idea he would be following us."
"It's not your fault. Our plan was too risky." Danny said.
Dawson started to laugh.
"That Game Corner trick you guys pulled, that was a good one. Even though we outnumbered you we still lost. But we don't fall for tricks twice in a row."
"I guess not." Danny said with a sad expression. If you knew it all, he thought.
On top of the Celadon Department Store
Translated from the Pokémon Language
"They most likely went this way." Pidgey gestured his friends to follow him. There was a smaller cabin on top of the building, right next to the bigger one Pidgey had found the Pokéballs and Venonat in, which served as a stairwell.
"Let's go then." Bellsprout ran towards it, ready for action as always.
Krabby nervously scratched the top of his small crown with his claw.
"Hey, be calm man. You can do this!" Grimer responded directly.
Charmeleon nodded. "We got your back, nothing to worry."
"Thanks guys." Krabby said with a nervous smile. He followed Bellsprout towards the stairwell and the others followed after.
The Department Store was a giant building, so it had a lot of stairs. It didn't take them too long to catch up with the big group.
As a real strategist, Victreebel had organized their travel: A group of 6 Pokémon had left earlier to make sure there weren't any traps and another group of six had left later to deal with any pursuers. Charmeleon and his group first caught up with the last group, who directly signaled the main group that there was more backup.
While there were a lot of stairs, every few meters had a small platform with a door, leading to multiple offices on the level they were on. While these platforms weren't large enough to have every single Pokémon of the army stand on, it was large enough for a cheerful reunion between Squirtle and his teammates.
"Good to see you guys are okay." Squirtle said. Even though he enjoyed spending time with Danny's team, his own was like his family and he was glad to see them again.
"I was really scared, I'm so happy you're here." Eevee cuddled up against Squirtle, quickly followed by Voltorb.
"I zapped bad Meowth." It proudly said.
"Yeah, you sure did." Sandshrew petted the Ball Pokémon.
"Sorry to interrupt you, but we need to keep going." Victreebel announced.
"Yeah, you're right." Charmeleon nodded.
The army, consisting of over 60 Pokémon, continued their travel down the building.
"Where will we enter the building?" Charmeleon asked.
"The plan is to invade from the ground floor." Victreebel began. "But two groups of five Pokémon will leave earlier: One on the third floor and one of the second floor, to cause some more disturbance."
"Smart move. Can I join one of those two groups?" Bellsprout asked. Victreebel looked at his pre-evolution.
"Sure, why not?"
"Wouldn't you rather fight besides your teammates?" Grimer asked.
"Most of the time I would, but I really want to battle and with a smaller group I'll get to do more battling." The Flower Pokémon smiled.
As usual, armies don't move that fast but eventually they made it to the third floor, where the first group would start wreaking havoc.
"Well guys, I'll see you on the other side." Bellsprout joined the small group and went through the corridor door as soon as the entire army had past.
Two grunts walked by and suddenly saw five Pokémon ran through the doors: Bellsprout, a Fearow, a Growlithe, a Poliwhirl and a Doduo.
"Attack!" Bellsprout screamed, but is was hardly necessary. The Fearow alone had short work with a grunt and Poliwhirl joined up with Growlithe to take down the second one.
"Okay, next battle I will do the battling. Okay?" Bellsprout said semi-angry as they ran through the halls.
In Gordon's office
"Sir, there are Pokémon on the loose in the building." A grunt said through the radio.
"Yes, I know that. My Golbat and Machoke are already taking care of it." Gordon replied.
"No sir, not on the ground floor. These Pokémon are on the second and the third floor."
"Well than get your men and take them out." Gordon ordered angry. Golbat hadn't said anything about which level they would go out, what if his guess had been completely wrong?
No, it couldn't be. The second and third floor had no importance at all. The most important offices where in the top and the hostages were in the cellar, below the ground floor.
He took the radio. "Dawson, get here."
It took a while but then the response came: "I am currently making sure the hostages are not escaping sir, there has been an incident halve an hour ago and since no grunt is apparently smart enough to do their job, I will do it."
"That's impossible, you were here with me halve an hour ago." Gordon replied.
At that moment the radio fell out.
"Dammit." Gordon cursed as he smashed his radio onto the ground. Something was wrong. He took his gun and ran out of his office. Whoever was trying to sabotage this mission was going to get it.
With the hostages
"That's strange." Dawson said as he tested his radio. "Boss?" No reaction.
Dawson said down. At one point he felt something was wrong, why would Gordon think he had been with him during the past halve hour? But he couldn't go away, he needed to guard the prisoners. Although, they were all locked up again, if there was a danger if wouldn't come from them.
Dawson made a decision. "If I catch any of you free in the building I'll shoot." Dawson said strict as he ran off.
"Well, that worked." Gregg said to Danny and the latter nodded.
"True." Danny responded. "You got the key?"
Gregg nodded. He took the key out of his pocket and walked to the door.
The other prisoners completely lost their minds.
"What!? I thought you had dropped your keys on the table?" Richard asked.
"I did, but I took these out beforehand." Gregg answered as he opened the door. Danny went out, followed by Janine, Erika and soon the others. Gregg was the last one to leave.
"I'm afraid I don't follow you anymore." Erika said.
"This is all part of the plan." Danny answered. "But we must hurry."
Danny and Gregg went to the stairs up and the group of ex-hostages followed them. They took the stairs until they reached the ground floor.
"Okay, one of us needs to go to the border of the city and signal the police and Agatha." Gregg explained. "We will need their help."
"I can run fast." A guy stepped forward.
"Well, I guess you can go …." Gregg stopped, as he didn't knew the man's name.
"My name is Riley sir, I can go."
"Well, go on then."
Riley nodded and swiftly walked towards the doors.
"Riley, one thing." Gregg said quickly. Riley turned around. "Don't get caught."
"I won't" Riley smiled and walked through the doors.
Danny looked around him. "Where are all the grunts?" He wondered.
Gregg looked around as well. Nothing was to be seen. They tried to walk slowly through the lobby, but there was no-one. What they didn't know was that all grunts had gone to the second or third floor.
When they got the doors that led to the staircases in sight they saw a Machoke, a Golbat and a NTR member. The latter turned around and noticed them.
"How did you get out!" Dawson took this gun as the Golbat and Machoke also turned around. "Get them."
Seemingly not happy with taking commands from someone lower ranked as their boss, they charged forward… for a few seconds before Dawson smashed his gun against the head of the Machoke.
The Golbat turned around and noticed they were being betrayed. Before he could act a Flamethrower went through the door and blasted the Golbat away, followed by a group of Bubbles and a strong Razor Leaf. The Golbat smashed against the wall and fainted.
The Machoke was still awakened and took Dawson by the throat. Seconds later he was lifted into the air and had to drop Dawson. He fainted as well after being smashed into three different walls.
Danny ran forward to see what had happened: Out of the door the army of Pokémon came stepping forward. Charmeleon and the others saw Danny and ran towards their trainer. Squirtle, Sandshrew, Voltorb and Eevee hurried towards Richard and Venonat and Weezing made their way toward Janine. All Pokémon met up with their trainers.
"I'm so glad you guys are okay." Danny said. "And you evolved!" Kadabra nodded enthusiastic.
Janine simply cuddled with her Venonat and Weezing. "I missed you so much." She said.
"Well well well."
Everyone turned around to see Gordon with a whole group of grunts, as well as a group of Pokémon.
A few grunts stepped forward and threw ten Pokémon forward, not fainted but wounded. One of them was Bellsprout.
"If you think you can fool me that easily, you are wrong." Gordon said. "And I don't want you fooling with me any longer."
Danny hurried forward, as well as a few other trainers, to get their Pokémon.
"Bellsprout, are you okay?" He asked.
The Flower Pokémon nodded weakly.
Danny took Bellsprout's Pokéball and absorbed the Grass type into it.
"How dare you hurt my Pokémon?" Danny asked angrily.
"I can do whatever I want. You are standing in my building in my city!" Gordon said aggressive. "I was too merciful, I should have slaughtered you when I had the change. But now I will, none of you will see the light of day ever again."
Than he noticed Dawson, standing with Danny and the others.
"Dawson, what the hell are you doing there? Get over here." Gordon said furious.
"I already am here." Dawson stepped forward from the ranks of grunts.
Everyone, including Dawson himself, was confused. Two Dawsons?
"You said we couldn't fool you." Gregg said. "But you were wrong."
"One more thing Agatha." Gregg hurried before the connection was gone."
"Yeah?" The Elite trainer asked.
"Could you send sir Gregor into the city? I believe he is a higher ranked Police Officer."
The fake Dawson stepped forward as well with a mean smile.
"I hear you needed me boss."
Gregg and Danny turned around. A NTR grunt that looked exactly like Dawson stood behind them.
"Good to see you Gregor."
The two shook hands.
"Danny, this is Gregor, the twin brother of Dawson." Gregg introduced. "Gregor, this is Danny, my companion."
"Nice to meet you." Gregor took a fake mustache out of his Pokémon and put it on.
The fake Dawson pulled off what seemed to be a fake mustache.
"I am not Dawson, I am Gregor."
"You." Dawson said angrily.
"Who is this man?" Gordon asked pissed.
"That sir, is my twin brother. He joined the good side after the old Team Rocket fell."
Gordon's mouth fell open.
"While you were explaining 'Dawson' about being able to talk to Pokémon, you explained it to me." Gregor said with a smile. "But the main reason I was there so I would know what you're plan was, so I was able to fold it."
"I'll go with them." Dawson said and followed his boss' Pokémon.
"Okay, one more thing Dawson." Gordon said. "We will be leaving this night, there's nothing more for us here. The machine we needed is already being smuggled out of the southern end of the city as we speak."
Gregor opened his NTR outfit and showed a couple of wires.
"The police was listening to every word I, and you, said. The machine is most likely already in our hands as we speak."
Gordon's head grew red.
"Kill them! Kill them all!"
Pokémon as well as grunts and ex-hostages ran forward and clashed.
Charmeleon fired off as many Flamethrowers as he could and managed to hit several Zubats and Golbats. Victreebel liked to get more physical and straight-out attacked the grunts.
Dawson found Gregor and punched the latter in the face.
"You filthy traitor." Dawson said.
"I missed you too brother." Gregor responded as he spit out a bit of blood, before stumping Dawson in the stomach. The latter released a big amount of oxygen due to this.
"Did you never listen when dad thaught us how to fight?" Gregor started. "Never be vulnerable." Gregor hit Dawson below his chin and the punch lifted the evil twin up in the air before he fell to the ground.
In the mass of fighting, Erika and Richard managed to find Danny, who just hit a grunt.
"Gordon's gone." They said together.
In Gordon's office
The NTR admin ran into his room and locked the door behind him. He had managed to get out of the masses.
"They won't get me alive." He said with an evil grin.
"Irena, get me out of here." He screamed through the radio. Seconds later he heard her reaction "Affirmative."
He ran towards the desk and took the money out of it.
Suddenly he heard the sound of something burning and when he turned around he saw the door going up in flames. Through the flames came two boys, a Charmeleon and the local gym leader.
Danny. That was his name. The boy that had managed to destroy everything.
"You can slap all you want. I do know that I will get you when this thing is over." Danny said, now angry.
"Get me? That's amusing. May I ask how?" Gordon said, pretending to enjoy the conversation.
"I told you I would get you." Danny said bittersweet.
Gordon looked around him. He had nowhere to go.
"At least I'll get the change to kill you." He said with a false grin as he pulled his gun.
"Charmeleon!" Danny screamed. Charmeleon released an Ember at the gun and set it on fire. Gordon dropped it due to the heat.
"Now you've lost." Erika said.
Gordon heard a familiar sound and smiled. "Now, now I win."
He sprinted towards the window, opened it and jumped out…. Right into a helicopter.
Danny and the others ran towards the window as well.
"Next time I will deal with you." Gordon said angrily before the helicopter doors shut and the machine flew away. Danny, Richard and Erika where left alone with nothing.
Later
"All the grunts are arrested." Jenny informed Erika.
Danny, Richard, Janine, Erika, Jenny, Agatha, Gregg and Gregor where sitting together in the Police Office.
Right after Gordon had left, Riley had arrived with the Police forces. Now hopelessly outnumbered, the grunts directly surrendered. Jenny had rushed towards the upper level only to find out that Gordon had left.
Riley had been happily reunited with his Meowth and Dawson was found still unconscious.
"It's bad that Gordon left though." Agatha said. "He was the most important link. Through him we could have reached Irena."
Erika nodded. "But you did recover the machine?"
"Yes we did. Ten grunts tried to get it out of the town but we overwhelmed them." Agatha said.
"So the entire Celadon mission failed." Jenny said relieved.
"Yes it did, and not in the least thanks to these heroes. Danny and Gregg." Agatha replied.
Everyone mumbled in agreement.
"It was nothing." Gregg waved the compliments away.
"No it wasn't." Gregor stood up. "I was part of the old Team Rocket and I am glad everyone forgave me. I am now fighting for the good side and I never felt better. But there is another man that deserves forgiveness. Giovanni." He pointed towards Gregg.
"You are Giovanni?" Danny responded confused.
Gregg simply nodded. "Yes I am. After I abandoned Team Rocket I had to go undercover and train. Ever since this new Team Rocket was founded I tried to make all their missions fail. Since I couldn't do this as the former Team Rocket boss I needed to have an alibi."
"But why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I wasn't sure if I could trust you." Gregg, or Giovanni, said with a soft smile.
Agatha stood up as well. "Giovanni, the actions you took years ago in name of Team Rocket are all forgiven, you showed us all today you're true nature."
Giovanni nodded as a thanks.
"We could use someone like you in the police." Gregor said with a smile, but Giovanni shook his head.
"I'm not ready for that. I would rather continue what I am doing right now. As an anonymous person."
"Well, you made quite a name today." Janine answered. "You both did." She pointed towards Danny as well.
"That is true, you will need to be more careful now." Jenny said. "I don't want to hear three trainers went missing."
They all shared a laugh.
"I'll keep an eye on him." Richard replied.
"And so will I." Janine added.
Jenny raised her glass. "To Danny and Gregg, the saviors of Celadon City."
Everyone joined in. Luckily no-one was really harmed. Although Danny kept wondering if Gordon really had the power to send him back to the real world.
Holy sh*t. This is a really, really long chapter. Almost 7000 words, that is more than double than a usual chapter. I hope everyone is happy with how I wrapped this up, I might change it up a bit later, but I think the main aspects have been pointed out. Let me know what you thought of this!