CHAPTER 14: Lee's Choice and Butch's Plan
Giovanni was wearing some infrared goggles. He could see perfectly in the dark. Noctowls flew ahead and above the Gang of no good doers. "Jesse, is it just me, or does this creep you out?" called James. "Whatever do you mean, James? The fact that we are an army of two hundred now that we obtained more followers; the fact that it's night and we are looking for a Rainbow-making Bird Pokemon? Or the fact that Meowth is silent?" "Take your pick." Cassidy looked up at the sky. She totally was ignoring everyone, even James's complaining. He had been complaining for approximately four hours, twenty minuets. Cassidy was listening to her heart beat. So many stars. So many Pokemon...But how are we going to get God Pokemon? It's all so confusing. I wish Butch were here. But nooo, he started seeing "Lee," some Beauty. Shame. Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud man's shout, "LAKE OF RAGE! WE ARE HEEE-RE!" Cassidy broke from her trance and looked around. Sure enough, they were here. It was a beautiful site in the full moon: Crystal-like water and dew on the grass around it. You couldn't see the other side of the lake. There was an abandoned house next to the house; however the Rockets had no reason to worry. A large Garadose leaped fort the water and breached back down. SPLOSH! The waves it made lasted for a hole four minutes. But *where* was that rare Pokemon they had seen fall from the heavens? It even made a rainbow-wake behind it as it flew...er, fell. But it wasn't here.
"Look around, fools!" Cried Giovanni. "There must be at least traces of the thing lying around; footprints, scats, feathers---" He was interrupted by Meowth. "Hey-dare Boz! Look, burn marks! All of that grass is burned to a crisp to the right of them dare grove of trees!" The Pokemon said. All the Rockets strained their eyeballs and saw that the ground was indeed black as coal around those four trees. Cassidy laughed roughly. "OK. So, lets find this Pokemon. Looks like it already left this dump, so what's the use of staying here?!" Grunts, hoots and hollers came from the happy Team Rocket members. "SHHHH, imbeciles! There is a town *sleeping* next door to this Lake. Lets get going---quietly." It was a harsh, sort of loud whisper from Leader Giovanni.
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It was day, but the Rockets did not know that for they were hiding in Mt. Mortar. They were hiding from the Trainers and Visitors that came to the Lake and such. The gang was very deep in the cave. No one should find them.
"Leader Giovanni. Why do you want the rare Pokemon as well as the God Mon?" asked a small voice. It was the new member, Lee. Her baby-blue eyes were full of wonder; excitement streamed across her body like a pure energy aura. Her purple hair was almost invisible in the blackness of the cave. It blended in, I guess you could say.
"Why Lee. You have a lot to learn. You can never have enough Pokemon. You can never have enough anything, and you must FIGHT to get what you want. Rare Mon are usually Legendary, so there is only one. Everyone wants the ONE. If not Legendary, then its powerful! What a better way to get what you want: Through power!" Master Giovanni said gleefully. "But-don't you love your Pokemon? With all of your heart?" Lee asked, tears filling her eyes. "Yes. You do love them. You love them like you love a car: Keep them in good shape, and they last longer." Lee sobbed loudly at the thought of this. "Come now, child! You must treat your Pokemon harshly, to show them who is Boss. I never had a good chance at this. Have you ever heard the story of Mewtwo? He was mine. MINE! He was to work for me. I tried to show it its rights, where it stood in rank. Mewtwo couldn't understand. I couldn't make it. It was stubborn. Everything is, in it's own way. You must come to except thi-Lee? Where did you go off to?!" Giovanni had not noticed that Lee had left him during his speech.
Lee was going deeper and deeper in the cave. She couldn't see her own hand in front of her, so she soon took out her Flaffy. "Fluffmore, Flash attack!" Lee said. Fluffmore screeched and the air shook. Then, Fluffmore rustled its wool. The static flew off it, and then the whole room was lit. All in a mater of seconds. Fluffmore was happy for himself. "Good job, Fluffmore. You know, I don't believe anything Giovanni said. Or maybe I am just week? No! I won't believe that. I am going to find a way out of this damp cave and run away from the Rockets. I don't want to have anything to do with them! But I would have to leave Butch. But he's wrong too! He treats his Mon so evilly. Why can't I be more caring for my Pokemon? Am I *that* brainwashed? Why can't I be more like K., that one trainer I fought at Union Cave. I..I..-What's that ahead of us? It looks like-A Bird Pokemon! It's the rare Pokemon we saw! HEY, YOU! SHOW ME YOUR MASTER! I MUST WARN HIM---- YOUR BOTH IN DEEP DOO IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF HERE!" Lee's voice echoed. A Misdrevious flew past Lee, screeching. "YAAA! GET AWAY FROM ME!! DON'T EAT MY SOUL!" Lee began to swat at the thing, but whenever she hit, her hand went through the Pokemon's body, like gas. "That's right. You're a Ghost-type Pokemon, huh? You're sorta cute, too, but PLEASE GET AWAY! HELP!" Lee said, then, "Okay! Fine! I challenge you, Misdrevias!"
"No you don't. Leave him alone! He's MINE, and if you want to battle--- Lee? Lee, my dear! THERE you are!" It was Butch, and following him was a large rainbow colored Pokemon. The Mon was three heads taller than Butch, and fire seemed to be brewing and drooling from its mouth.
"B-B-Butch! You have to get out of here! Giovanni wants to steal your Mon!" Lee said. "Ahh, nah. It's okay, because I'm a Rocket. He wouldn't steal from me. And anywho, I could give this Ho-Oh to him. I would become Giovanni's aide, and I would rise above them all!" Butch was power-hungry. "And I would rise to power, since *I* caught Ho-oh. It was simple, too. Get some Master balls that we stole from Silph ago, hoard them from their hiding place, get a few. We have lots. We stole them three years ago and put 'em in storage. Heck, I could catch LUGIA if I wanted. But I am going for the big bait. I will overthrow Giovanni! I am going to catch the God Mon that I fought with Ho-Oh, Entei, he called himself, I believe. And then the well-known Suicune. Then I can have it all! Glory!" "NO! I won't let you!" "But you can't stop me, Lee. I thought you were more than this. I challenge you to Immense Battle! If I win, I get my way. If YOU win, then I crawl away and give Ho-Oh to Giovanni and give him the credit. But I doubt I will loose. Glory is mine, never that frag Gee-oh-vann-eye-ee! Heheh!!" "Fine. Prepare yourself, Butch my ONCE but not any more Boyfriend. Whom will you send out?" Lee said. "Hmm.. I'll save Ho-Oh for last. I think I will send out...Golem! Golem, GO!" "Okay then. Blite, Go!" A large ball came forth, and out came Crobat! "Hsss! Greef-cha!" Blite screamed. And the Battle-Fight-To-The-End-Battle was to take place.
Lee was first. "Blite: Double Team!" Blite rocked back and forth really fast, so fast that it looked like there were two Blites. Then, Butch: "Golem, Rock Throw!" Golem did as told. "GRR!" He lifted his plates on his back up as he threw boulders at Blite. Blite evaded attack! "Good job, Blite! See, Double Team rocks! Now, Earthquake" Blite clapped his two tops wings together, and the ground began to shake. Shuka shuka shuka! BOOM! The ground split open and struck Golem. Critical hit. Butch did not determine if it was very affective, for his own sake. He had pride. "Golem, SELFEDESTRUCT!!!!!" Golem's eyes went totally white and he began to enlarge. "NOOO, BLITE! HURRY, FLY!" Blite flew up high, just to get hit by flying rocks and energy. Blite was down. "Blite babe! Return!" Lee gasped. "You brute, Butch! Don't think I actually love you!" "fine, don't love me! I was into you for other reasons anyway," Butch commented. "What does that mean?! You-You-You were using me?! NO! I thought you were more than that. More than a Rocket. Rocket's are pure vile, and now your full of lust! You'll pay! You'll see! Pixvulia, go!" The Vulpix emerged. "FINE! Beedrill, do ye'r stuff!" "BZZZZ-drill!" A huge Bee emerged from a rather dinky Ball. Lee gasped. She was once attacked by a swarm of angry Beedrills. Her baby brother didn't survive. Lee as terrified, she could not move. "Glue shoes or what, Lee? Tell the command!" Lee heard the voice...It was so far away...so, familiar. Where was the voice? Where was Lee? Fear! The fear everywhere...something was rubbing on Lee's leg. Lee screamed so loud that Zubats began to swarm up on the roof of the cave. "AHHHHH! Help!" She cried. Butch laughed evilly. "I know you can hear me, Lee. I'll battle you later----" Those words...So familiar.....---"Bye Slut." And then a loud bang came from nowhere, and "Team Rocket is blasting off again!" and he was gone. It took a few moments to get back in reality; Lee finally realized that Beedrill was gone. She picked up Vulpix, who was still leaning on Lee's leg. About two hours later, Lee and her Mon were safely out of the cave. LIGHT! FREEDOM!
.....
Or was it death, evil, Rockets?
Lee had to clear her mind of such thoughts. Then she had an idea. K. was a nice trainer. Maybe K. would help Lee get Ho-Oh safe, and disband Team Rocket for good. K. seemed to be that kind of person. Lee just had to look for her. Lee had faith. But how strong was this faith?
***A light in the darkest places; Light for hope, dark for despair, constantly fighting to get to the surface of Reality. They were clashing. So many choices. But *this* meant the World!***
Giovanni was wearing some infrared goggles. He could see perfectly in the dark. Noctowls flew ahead and above the Gang of no good doers. "Jesse, is it just me, or does this creep you out?" called James. "Whatever do you mean, James? The fact that we are an army of two hundred now that we obtained more followers; the fact that it's night and we are looking for a Rainbow-making Bird Pokemon? Or the fact that Meowth is silent?" "Take your pick." Cassidy looked up at the sky. She totally was ignoring everyone, even James's complaining. He had been complaining for approximately four hours, twenty minuets. Cassidy was listening to her heart beat. So many stars. So many Pokemon...But how are we going to get God Pokemon? It's all so confusing. I wish Butch were here. But nooo, he started seeing "Lee," some Beauty. Shame. Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud man's shout, "LAKE OF RAGE! WE ARE HEEE-RE!" Cassidy broke from her trance and looked around. Sure enough, they were here. It was a beautiful site in the full moon: Crystal-like water and dew on the grass around it. You couldn't see the other side of the lake. There was an abandoned house next to the house; however the Rockets had no reason to worry. A large Garadose leaped fort the water and breached back down. SPLOSH! The waves it made lasted for a hole four minutes. But *where* was that rare Pokemon they had seen fall from the heavens? It even made a rainbow-wake behind it as it flew...er, fell. But it wasn't here.
"Look around, fools!" Cried Giovanni. "There must be at least traces of the thing lying around; footprints, scats, feathers---" He was interrupted by Meowth. "Hey-dare Boz! Look, burn marks! All of that grass is burned to a crisp to the right of them dare grove of trees!" The Pokemon said. All the Rockets strained their eyeballs and saw that the ground was indeed black as coal around those four trees. Cassidy laughed roughly. "OK. So, lets find this Pokemon. Looks like it already left this dump, so what's the use of staying here?!" Grunts, hoots and hollers came from the happy Team Rocket members. "SHHHH, imbeciles! There is a town *sleeping* next door to this Lake. Lets get going---quietly." It was a harsh, sort of loud whisper from Leader Giovanni.
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It was day, but the Rockets did not know that for they were hiding in Mt. Mortar. They were hiding from the Trainers and Visitors that came to the Lake and such. The gang was very deep in the cave. No one should find them.
"Leader Giovanni. Why do you want the rare Pokemon as well as the God Mon?" asked a small voice. It was the new member, Lee. Her baby-blue eyes were full of wonder; excitement streamed across her body like a pure energy aura. Her purple hair was almost invisible in the blackness of the cave. It blended in, I guess you could say.
"Why Lee. You have a lot to learn. You can never have enough Pokemon. You can never have enough anything, and you must FIGHT to get what you want. Rare Mon are usually Legendary, so there is only one. Everyone wants the ONE. If not Legendary, then its powerful! What a better way to get what you want: Through power!" Master Giovanni said gleefully. "But-don't you love your Pokemon? With all of your heart?" Lee asked, tears filling her eyes. "Yes. You do love them. You love them like you love a car: Keep them in good shape, and they last longer." Lee sobbed loudly at the thought of this. "Come now, child! You must treat your Pokemon harshly, to show them who is Boss. I never had a good chance at this. Have you ever heard the story of Mewtwo? He was mine. MINE! He was to work for me. I tried to show it its rights, where it stood in rank. Mewtwo couldn't understand. I couldn't make it. It was stubborn. Everything is, in it's own way. You must come to except thi-Lee? Where did you go off to?!" Giovanni had not noticed that Lee had left him during his speech.
Lee was going deeper and deeper in the cave. She couldn't see her own hand in front of her, so she soon took out her Flaffy. "Fluffmore, Flash attack!" Lee said. Fluffmore screeched and the air shook. Then, Fluffmore rustled its wool. The static flew off it, and then the whole room was lit. All in a mater of seconds. Fluffmore was happy for himself. "Good job, Fluffmore. You know, I don't believe anything Giovanni said. Or maybe I am just week? No! I won't believe that. I am going to find a way out of this damp cave and run away from the Rockets. I don't want to have anything to do with them! But I would have to leave Butch. But he's wrong too! He treats his Mon so evilly. Why can't I be more caring for my Pokemon? Am I *that* brainwashed? Why can't I be more like K., that one trainer I fought at Union Cave. I..I..-What's that ahead of us? It looks like-A Bird Pokemon! It's the rare Pokemon we saw! HEY, YOU! SHOW ME YOUR MASTER! I MUST WARN HIM---- YOUR BOTH IN DEEP DOO IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF HERE!" Lee's voice echoed. A Misdrevious flew past Lee, screeching. "YAAA! GET AWAY FROM ME!! DON'T EAT MY SOUL!" Lee began to swat at the thing, but whenever she hit, her hand went through the Pokemon's body, like gas. "That's right. You're a Ghost-type Pokemon, huh? You're sorta cute, too, but PLEASE GET AWAY! HELP!" Lee said, then, "Okay! Fine! I challenge you, Misdrevias!"
"No you don't. Leave him alone! He's MINE, and if you want to battle--- Lee? Lee, my dear! THERE you are!" It was Butch, and following him was a large rainbow colored Pokemon. The Mon was three heads taller than Butch, and fire seemed to be brewing and drooling from its mouth.
"B-B-Butch! You have to get out of here! Giovanni wants to steal your Mon!" Lee said. "Ahh, nah. It's okay, because I'm a Rocket. He wouldn't steal from me. And anywho, I could give this Ho-Oh to him. I would become Giovanni's aide, and I would rise above them all!" Butch was power-hungry. "And I would rise to power, since *I* caught Ho-oh. It was simple, too. Get some Master balls that we stole from Silph ago, hoard them from their hiding place, get a few. We have lots. We stole them three years ago and put 'em in storage. Heck, I could catch LUGIA if I wanted. But I am going for the big bait. I will overthrow Giovanni! I am going to catch the God Mon that I fought with Ho-Oh, Entei, he called himself, I believe. And then the well-known Suicune. Then I can have it all! Glory!" "NO! I won't let you!" "But you can't stop me, Lee. I thought you were more than this. I challenge you to Immense Battle! If I win, I get my way. If YOU win, then I crawl away and give Ho-Oh to Giovanni and give him the credit. But I doubt I will loose. Glory is mine, never that frag Gee-oh-vann-eye-ee! Heheh!!" "Fine. Prepare yourself, Butch my ONCE but not any more Boyfriend. Whom will you send out?" Lee said. "Hmm.. I'll save Ho-Oh for last. I think I will send out...Golem! Golem, GO!" "Okay then. Blite, Go!" A large ball came forth, and out came Crobat! "Hsss! Greef-cha!" Blite screamed. And the Battle-Fight-To-The-End-Battle was to take place.
Lee was first. "Blite: Double Team!" Blite rocked back and forth really fast, so fast that it looked like there were two Blites. Then, Butch: "Golem, Rock Throw!" Golem did as told. "GRR!" He lifted his plates on his back up as he threw boulders at Blite. Blite evaded attack! "Good job, Blite! See, Double Team rocks! Now, Earthquake" Blite clapped his two tops wings together, and the ground began to shake. Shuka shuka shuka! BOOM! The ground split open and struck Golem. Critical hit. Butch did not determine if it was very affective, for his own sake. He had pride. "Golem, SELFEDESTRUCT!!!!!" Golem's eyes went totally white and he began to enlarge. "NOOO, BLITE! HURRY, FLY!" Blite flew up high, just to get hit by flying rocks and energy. Blite was down. "Blite babe! Return!" Lee gasped. "You brute, Butch! Don't think I actually love you!" "fine, don't love me! I was into you for other reasons anyway," Butch commented. "What does that mean?! You-You-You were using me?! NO! I thought you were more than that. More than a Rocket. Rocket's are pure vile, and now your full of lust! You'll pay! You'll see! Pixvulia, go!" The Vulpix emerged. "FINE! Beedrill, do ye'r stuff!" "BZZZZ-drill!" A huge Bee emerged from a rather dinky Ball. Lee gasped. She was once attacked by a swarm of angry Beedrills. Her baby brother didn't survive. Lee as terrified, she could not move. "Glue shoes or what, Lee? Tell the command!" Lee heard the voice...It was so far away...so, familiar. Where was the voice? Where was Lee? Fear! The fear everywhere...something was rubbing on Lee's leg. Lee screamed so loud that Zubats began to swarm up on the roof of the cave. "AHHHHH! Help!" She cried. Butch laughed evilly. "I know you can hear me, Lee. I'll battle you later----" Those words...So familiar.....---"Bye Slut." And then a loud bang came from nowhere, and "Team Rocket is blasting off again!" and he was gone. It took a few moments to get back in reality; Lee finally realized that Beedrill was gone. She picked up Vulpix, who was still leaning on Lee's leg. About two hours later, Lee and her Mon were safely out of the cave. LIGHT! FREEDOM!
.....
Or was it death, evil, Rockets?
Lee had to clear her mind of such thoughts. Then she had an idea. K. was a nice trainer. Maybe K. would help Lee get Ho-Oh safe, and disband Team Rocket for good. K. seemed to be that kind of person. Lee just had to look for her. Lee had faith. But how strong was this faith?
***A light in the darkest places; Light for hope, dark for despair, constantly fighting to get to the surface of Reality. They were clashing. So many choices. But *this* meant the World!***
