Second chapter

Second chapter! Second Chapter!! Hope you liked the first! Anyway, if you're
reading this it means you were interested and you want to see what happens
right? Well, I hope that you will be surprised!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, they are owned by a company that is not
mine. I do not make any profit out of this. I do this for my own amusement
and those of others who read this. Also I don't own any people in this fic.
They own themselves. Well I hope they own themselves....

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Ash, Misty and Tracey continued on their route to the next town. They had a
bit of walking to do because when they arrived on the island, the closest
town was on the opposite side, and it was unable to be reached by sea.
Luckily, no further incidents occurred, but there was an eerie silence
between all of them. They continued their march until they passed a sign.

"Madrin Town up ahead!" Ash said happily, thinking that the mystery of
Tracey zoning out would soon be solved.

"Hey Tracey, you said you'd call a plant specialist, right?" Misty inquired.
"Who is it? You said it was a girl? Is it your Girlfriend?" She asked doing
her 'it's so romantic pose'.

"No! She's not my Girlfriend, she's my step-sister!" He said in an annoyed
tone.

"Step-Sister? I didn't know you had a sister. In fact I don't even know
where you come from." Ash said entering into the conversation.

"Yeah Tracey, you never told us about yourself, how come?" Misty asked.

"You never asked I guess." He said.

"So where do you come from?" Misty and Ash both said at the same time.

"I come from Celadon." He answered matter of factly.

"Celadon? Really, I thought you would live on one of the Islands, because
you know so much about them." Ash told him.

"I'm good at geography, what can I say? And I've always wanted to come
here." Tracey said.

"Oh, so who is your step-sister? You know I went to Celadon once, I got my
Rainbow badge there!" Ash said.

"Ash! Celadon is a big city! What are the chance we've met with Tracey's
step-sister?" Misty scolded Ash.

"Actually, I think you've met her, she is the Gym Leader Erica." He said.

"Haha, once again Detective Ketchum solves another mystery!" 'Detective
Ketchum ' said.

"Ash, there wasn't even a mystery to be solved!" Misty said, snapping him
back to reality.

"I was just joking...." He said trying to reason for his actions.

"Yeah whatever" She sighed. The Trio continued on to Madrin town, which
luckily was only a few minutes away by foot.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Team Rocket Dungeon*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Hey wakey wakey."

"Huh? Who said that?" James slowly opened his eyes. He felt like he had been
hit by a train. An electric train that is. That phaser sure packed quite a
punch. He looked around and saw two figures in the back. He couldn't see
them very well, as his eyes weren't adjusted to the dark. He tried as best
he could to find out who had spoken to him, and to maybe get some answers.

"I did!" Said the person, who suddenly popped her head up close to his,
making him shrink back somewhat. He looked at her. She had spiky short red
hair, brown eyes with a hint of bright red, just like her hair. But the most
unbelievable thing was that she had cat ears on top of her head. He took a
better look and saw she had claws on her hands. Not knowing exactly what to
do, he did what comes naturally, and screamed.

"AHHHHHH!!!!! WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU?!" He backed away, as close to the wall as was possible.

"I'm Akai, That's what I am." She said, and approached him with a very
friendly smile on her face, but still James was afraid.

"Akai stop! Can't you see you're scaring him?" A voice from the back snapped
at the young red cat-girl. That voice was also a girls, but he couldn't see
the speaker because she was in the darkest part of the room. James returned
his gaze to the thing known as Akai. He saw that she looked about 12 years
old. She was a normal kid height, about an inch over the Pokémon-master in
training twerp.

"Sorry Shadowcat, me not wanted to scare him." She said, ashamed while
turning towards the voice.

"You shouldn't be saying that to me, you should be telling that to him." The
voice, or the one James supposed was Shadowcat, said. Akai turned towards
James.

"Me sorry mister, me didn't want to scare you. Me really sorry." Akai said.
James couldn't help but notice that she wasn't able to talk correctly, but
that didn't matter much. What mattered is what had happened to the others.
But before he could ask anything Shadowcat started to talk. He being a
gentlemen let her talk.

"You might be wondering where you are right?" She asked. "You're in the
dungeons, that's how I like to call it. This is were they put the
experiments that don't quite fit their standards."

"They?" He looked at Akai "Experiments?"

"Yes they, Team Rocket They, and experiments like Akai and...Me." She came out from the shadows. She was Half-human half panther, but the thing that was different was that she had a feline face, and not a humans like Akai
did. She was pretty tall, about an inch or 2 over James. From her height and
her appearance, James could see she was about his age. He also noticed that
she had a long tail behind her. Unlike like he had done with Akai, he didn't
scream, nor yell. He just stood there waiting the rest.

"As I was saying, they put the experiments that don't quite fit what they're
looking for done here." She finished.

"What are the standards?" He asked

"Somebody that is ready to do anything they ask, even to kill." She said.

"To kill? Team Rocket doesn't kill!" He said, shocked.

"Probably not a member of your rank, but yes Team Rocket does kill. They
kill anybody that stands in their way." Shadowcat explained.

"Ohh.... I didn't know that about TR, If I knew I would have never
joined.... But tell me, why am I here?" He asked not really wanting to know
what the future had in store for him.

"Probably to do some experiments." She said confirming his fears. Then
another thought occured to him. What happened to his friends?

"I don't know if you'll know this, but I had 2 other people with me. I was
the first to be caught, I don't know what happened to them. Were they caught
to?" He inquired.

"Nope, no other people. If had me would talk to them 'cuz you talk boring"
Akai said finally entering into the conversation. James sighed in relief, he
didn't want Meowth and of course Jessie to be with him and become guinea
pigs. "Only thing that came with you was a white ball a fluff with a shiny
gold thingey on his head." She added.

"Akai I told you it's called a meowth. Beside he's been unconscious since he
was taken out of his Pokéball. It's weird though, why would they bring a
Pokémon here? They already tried some experiments on Pokémon. But it turned out that they were just as stupid as there former form." She said.

"Wait, did you say a meowth?" James asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Well that's one of the people I was talking about!" He exclaimed.

"Why do you talk of him as he was more then a Pokémon? It's not like it can
talk or somet--"

"That's exactly why I talk about him like that! He can talk. Were is he?"
James asked.

"Fluffy white ball is in corner." Akai said pointing to a corner in the dark
part of the room. "He not wake up"



*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Madrin Town Pokémon Center*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Tracey, Ash and Misty entered the center. Tracey went over to the videophone
to call his step-sister, who was none other then Celadon's Gym Leader. He
dialled the phone number...

"Hello, The Yasashii, Amai Kosui shop (Sweet, Soft Perfume shop in
Japanese), How may I help you?" A girl said, not looking at the screen
because she was busy writing something.

"Hey Kayna, why don't you look at the screen." Tracey said to the girl with
blue hair down to her chin, and with sparkling green eyes.

"Tracey? Is that you? How are you? Did you met som--" She was cut off.

"Kayna, please go and get Erica on the phone, OK?" He asked.

"OK. Be right back" She said. She left the room, and shortly Erica came onto
the screen.

"Hey Tracey! I'm so glad to know you're alive! You know you could have
called sooner. Your mom is worried sick!" She went on like that for a bit
until she noticed Ash and Misty leaning closer to the screen. "Is it just me
or do I know you two?" She asked, pointing to them.

"I'm the one who saved your Gloom when your gym was on fire." Ash said.

"Oh that's right.... You dress up like a girl as well, right?" She queried,
trying to remember more information about him. Ash blushed a bit at that
comment.

"Yeah..." He said ashamed. Tracey looked at him with inquisitive eyes,
shugged at it and took a mental note to ask him about it later.

"Anyways, Ash, Misty, this is sort of a private call, so could you
please..." He made a little wave sign.

"Fine, but you know you always listened in on my calls to Prof. Oak ." Ash
muttered as he left. Misty followed him. Tracey made sure that they were out
of earshot and turned towards Erica again.

"Look Erica, I'll get straight to the point why I called you. I'm having my
flashbacks again, like when I was younger..." He confessed.

"What? You're having them again? The things that make you completely stop
what you're doing?" She inquired, in a slightly shocked voice.

"Yeah.... I thought they stopped. Do you know what that means?"

"No sorry Tracey, I don't know. Usually you have them when something big is
about to happen, good or bad right?"

Tracey nodded.

"Well I don't know if it's much, but your friend that you started to travel
with, huh, that weird girl, Gene is her name right? She called a week or two
back. She asked if you called. She said she was in Saffron, and she wanted
to know where you were. Then she said she wanted to rejoin you, wherever you were." She said.

"Gene called!" He exclaimed. Happy that his friend he left back in Celadon,
the person that made him live some of his dreams, had remembered him. He was glad because one day she left without reason, except for a hasty explanation that something important had come up. She told him she would explain everything when she saw him again. He was so deep in thought he didn't hear what Erica was saying to him.

"...so anyways, she gave me the number for where she was staying. I'll call
her and tell her that you're at... Where are you anyway?" She asked,
bringing Tracey to back from is dream land.

"I'm in Madrin Town, on one of the orange Islands." He said.

"Wow, you sure get around! Well I'll call her, so just stay there, and
she'll join you."

"That's great, but how? She doesn't have any flying Pokémon." He asked, but
it was too late because Erica had already hung up. 'Oh, well Gene always
thought of something.' He thought. He got up from the videophone booth and
went over to his friends, who were bubbling with curiosity. He started to
fill them in about his friend, but left a lot of details out. Things that
they would only know later.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Team Rocket Dungeon *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"So he's been like this ever since he was out of his pokeball?" James ask
pointing to Meowth.

"Yeah. I think someone gave him tranquillisers. That would explain why he's
sleeping." Shadowcat said. "He should be coming round any time soon, they
only last 8 hours."

"8 hours? I've been here 8 hours?"

The cats both nodded their heads.

"You were sleeping most of the time." While Akai said that, Meowth started
to twitch a bit. "Hey look, fluff ball is waking up!" She said excitedly.
Meowth slowly opened his eyes, making it seem like they weighed a tonne
each. James knelt down and helped him to sit up.

"What happened?" He asked groggily.

"You were captured, and we think they gave you some tranquillisers." James
explained. Meowth nodded in understanding. He looked around. "Your in the TR dungeon." James said.

"I guessed dat from dos experiments." He pointed to the 2 girls.

"You knew about this?" Meowth nodded.

"I don't really like thinking about it. One of the reason the boss stuck me
with you and Jess--" He cut himself off to ask a question " Hey, was Jessie
captured too?"

"I was hoping you knew, but I think she managed to escape. Or else she would
be here with us." James said.

"What do you mean by 'the boss stuck me with you...'?" Shadowcat inquired.
Meowth explained to them about him being the boss' favourite, till he was
replaced by a Persian.

"I often accompanied him when he went to da labs.... I know a bit of what
was going on, but not much. I knew he made experiments, but not on people."

"Me no understand now. Me go to sleep, you all boring." Akai said, lost in
the conversation. She went over to a corner and curled up in a ball and went
to sleep.

"Sweet kid." Shadowcat said referring to Akai.

"Ain't she a bit young ta be a member?" Meowth asked.

"She not a member, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I
think she's been here her whole life. She told me she doesn't remember
anything from before, that she was always like that, or like she calls
herself, a 'Phoenix cat'. She doesn't remember being human, that's how young
she was when she was brought here." Shadowcat said. "I've been here for a
long time myself, but I was older the Akai, so I mostly took care of her."
She poured her feelings out to them. "I should have never have joined...."

"I think we all regret becoming a member of Team Rocket." James said. Meowth and Shadowcat nodded.

Just then, a bright light shone on the three of them. The door opened, and
they could see the silhouettes of a group of people. One seemed to be
wearing a labcoat.

"The pokemon's awake, go and get him" He told the others. James stood in
front of Meowth to protect him. He knew that they would take him to be
experimented on. One of them came at him with the same type of phaser that
had Crystal used on him. But this time he didn't get it as badly. He got a
shock just strong enough to paralyse him. Shadowcat slowly backed away,
knowing what would happen if she stayed close. The second man came after
Meowth who was still too tired from the tranquilliser to fight back. He was
carried away. When the men closed the door Shadowcat went towards James.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"Why did you let them take Meowth?" He croaked.

"There wasn't much I could do. If I did something, I would have been shocked
until I passed out.

"YOU COULD OF HAVE AT LEAST TRIED!! " He yelled at her. "He's the only friend I have left! Who knows if I'll ever get out of here!" He said, then
he whispered quietly 'Who knows if I'll ever see Jessie again...'

"Please, silence! Me want to sleep!" Akai said as she woke up. They turned
towards her as she came over to them. "Hey, where is fluffy white ball?' She
asked.

"He got taken away..." Shadowcat said.

"Oh....Will me see him again?" She questioned.

"Sure you will, you'll just have to wait..." Shadowcat responded.

"OK, then me will go to sleep now." With that she returned to her corner.

"I should go to sleep too. It might take some time before Meowth comes back,
you should get some sleep as well." She went over to a wall, sat down
against it, and close her eyes. Having nothing better to do, James did the
same.

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"Wake up you guys if you want to eat!" A voice boomed. James carefully
opened one eye and looked at the door. He saw a little slot open at the
bottom and three trays slid inside. He saw Akai happily running towards it
and Shadowcat walking in the same direction. Akai came back with two trays.
She went over to James and gave him one of them.

"Here mister, take, eat." She sat down next to him and started to wolfe down
her food. James looked at his, it looked appalling, but James was never one
to complain about food. He started to eat. It wasn't that bad, but it wasn't
that good, is how one could describe it. Shadowcat came over to him and
Akai.

"Here Akai, take my crackers, I know you love them." She handed her a small
bag filled with crackers.

"KYA!!!CRACKERS!!! Me love crackers, yum!!" Akai eagerly opened the bag and started to eat them. James looked at her inquisitively.

"Kya?" He repeated.

"Yeah , KYA!!!" She said.

"What does kya mean?" He asked.

"It doesn't mean anything ." She said.

"Then why did you say it?"

She shrugged her shoulders.

"Don't know, just do..."

James sighed. He turned to Shadowcat.

"Say, did Meowth come back?" She shook her head. Just then the door opened, and three people became visible in the doorway. Two of them were carrying a shorter one, that seemed to be being dragged. The two larger ones threw the smaller person in the cell. Akai rushed over to the person, as did James and Shadowcat.

"Who that?" Akai asked to no one in particular. The person was unconscious.
The person was in fact a 13 year-old-boy. He had blond hair on the top of his head and then close to his neck became a light brun. He was also wearing somesort of medal around his neck.

"Is that your friend Jessie?" Shadowcat asked

"No, Jessie is a girl. I've never seen him in my life." The boy in question
slowly started to open his eyes, which were a beautiful Clear blue.

"Huh, what happened?" He asked.

"Who are you?" Akai asked.

"Don't ya guys recognise me? I ain't changed, right?" He asked. Form his
brookland accent James suddenly understood....

"Meowth is that you?"............

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Unknown place ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Who are you?" A boy said into the dark.

"Join me" A voice responded.

"But Who are you? What are you?" He asked again.

"Join me" It chanted.

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Cliff hanger, Cliff hanger!!!!! When you read them you hate them, but when
you write them, you LOVE THEM!!! Anyways, what do you think? Tell me in the review!! Hope you guys were a bit surprised!!

Anyways, here are the people that played in the fic. There was Akai and she
wanted to say Kya. If you actually want to know what Kya means, never mind,
because it actually doesn't mean anything. Then there is Shadowcat fondatore
Of D.O.T (Defender Of Tracey). There is also a small role played by Kanya,
very very small. And finally I was mentioned, and I will appear in the next
chapter. And no, it's not really self-insertion, I play Gene, And I'm not
Gene..... Never mind, it's hard to explain.

Anyway , I would Like to thank Loconik Digi, because Like always, he edits
my fic.

- Geneviève