Lukes New TR47 Fanfic Chapter II: Team Rocket Finally Succeeds?
Tac woke up to the sound of his phone ringing. He picked it up and drowsily said, "Hello?"
"GET DOWN TO THE LAB IMMEDIATELY! IT'S HAPPENING!" the person yelled excitedly.
Tac fell backwards and dropped the phone in alarm, then grabbed onto his desk and pulled himself back up. He hung up the phone, then quickly grabbed his lab coat. His hair was a mess, but he didn't care. He quickly threw on his lab coat and ran down to the lab, nearly running over three people on the way.
Tac burst through the doors to the lab and saw everybody crowded around the tank that Melanie was in. He pushed his way through the scientists and peered into the large glass tank. She was still glowing, but her body was changing rapidly. After days of waiting, it was finally happening.
The way she was changing was almost as if she was evolving, but the change wasn't as rapid. Her legs were already beginning to take the shape of a Mewtwo's, and small points were beginning to show beneath her hair. A pink circle was faintly showing up on her stomach as well.
Tac stepped back, then continued to watch, hypnotized by what was happening. Within one hour the transformation was complete and Melanie had stopped glowing completely. Tac glanced at the computers and gave the OK to open the holding tank.
One of the scientists began rapidly typing commands into the computer. He pressed the execute key and glanced up as an alarm rang out. The tank began to slowly drain a few moments later. Melanie had been suspended in the water, but as the level was dropping the wires attached to her began to pull tight. The scientist typed a few other commands into the computer and Melanie dropped slowly until she was touching the bottom of the tank.
When the water was completely drained out, the glass panel surrounding the tank was raised. Another scientist quickly wrapped a towel around Melanie to keep her warm. The wires attached to her continued to monitor her vital signs, which were still showing normal.
After a few minutes, her eyes opened slowly. Melanie squinted in the bright light, then looked around. Her head was pounding, and she couldn't concentrate. Her vision cleared up, then she looked at all the people that were watching her.
"Where am I?" she said hoarsely.
Tac stepped forward and cleared his throat. "You're at Team Rocket's laboratory."
Then her memory started to return. "What happened?"
Tac looked at the other nervously. What if she remembered how they had abducted her? She couldn't be allowed to find out. "We found you in the forest. You were nearly dead, but we brought you here and saved you."
Melanie shook her head slightly as the pounding subsided, then looked at Tac. "Liar."
Tac tried not to look too nervous or guilty as he cleared his throat again. "Why do you say that?"
"I can see into your mind somehow. I know how you think, and I saw what happened."
Tac stepped back, then looked at the others. He didn't want a repeat of Mewtwo, or Joey. They had both gone on the warpath and had nearly destroyed the laboratory. Tac ran from the lab, then headed for his office.
Melanie took a deep breath, then glanced down at herself. She felt different, but she wasn't sure why. She stood up unsteadily, then the towel wrapped around herself fell off. At that moment a scream echoed through the laboratory that could be heard throughout the entire Team Rocket headquarters.
Melanie broke down in tears and sat down on the floor of the tank. "What have you done to me?" she said between sobs.
The scientists in the laboratory were all becoming increasingly nervous. A few of them left the lab quickly, fearing for their own lives. After a few minutes, Melanie stood up again. She began to feel different, but she couldn't identify the feeling. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, then suddenly she heard the scientists scream. She opened her eyes again and saw them all rushing out of the lab.
Puzzled, she looked at herself. Her hands were glowing brightly, and a tingling sensation was spreading through her body. She didn't know why, but she held up her hands and began concentrating. Suddenly a beam of energy shot from her hands and exploded, destroying the computers. Startled, she took a step backwards and fell off the platform that was in the tank.
She concentrated again and began destroying everything in the lab. She wanted revenge for what they had done to her, and she was getting it the only way she knew how. Small fires were burning all over in the lab, and alarms began blaring.
Melanie took one last look, then flew straight up. She burst through the roof, then looked around. She wasn't sure where she should go, but then an overwhelming urge told her which direction to fly. Even though she didn't know why, she followed her instincts. Where she would end up was anybody's guess . . .
Joey walked to the building where Luke's apartment was, then looked at the number Luke had given her. She was a bit embarrassed that she had procrastinated so long, but homework kept her busy. She walked up to the door of Luke's apartment and knocked, then waited patiently.
Luke opened the door a few moments later and smiled. "I was wondering when you'd finally show up."
Joey walked inside and looked around. Luke's apartment looked similar to her own, although the furniture was different. She saw a picture hanging on the wall and looked closer. It was a photo of Luke and another girl that was part Raichu.
"Luke, who's the girl in this picture?" Joey said, pointing to the photo on the wall.
"I could show you," Luke replied, "but she's out buying groceries."
Joey nodded, then looked at Luke. "So, what's so personal that you wanted us to be alone to talk about it?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, I was telling you about how old I was. Well, I'm really only two. I appear to be 16, which is why I decided to start using that age on all my forms."
"You already told me that," Joey said.
"Yes, but that's not why I wanted to be alone. My mother was a Raichu, and my father as well. The reason I'm this way is because my mother was captured by Team Rocket, and they did some tests on her. She's still the same, but something happened when I was born. It's the same thing with the girl in that photo. We were both born as Raichus, but grew and developed much faster than most Raichus would."
Joey listened intently. She was amazed, but a sense of hatred boiled up in her when Team Rocket was brought up. "So, how did you end up like you are now?" Joey asked.
"Well, one day we were out exploring, and suddenly we both began to glow, almost as if we were evolving. The only problem is, Raichus don't evolve. A few minutes later we had changed completely, to what you see now."
Joey understood completely. She had also been created by the cruelty of Team Rocket's experiments, but in a different way. Joey had been created in Team Rocket's lab as another clone from Mew. She had managed to escape, but she had to fit in somehow. She decided to take on a more human form, but some of the Mew characteristics stayed with her.
"So, that's why you look like you're 16?" Joey finally asked.
Luke nodded. "Luckily the rapid growth has slowed to normal, so both of us are growing at the same rate as any other person would." Luke glanced at his watch. "She should be home any time now."
Moments later the door opened, and a girl walked in. She looked similar to Luke, but her fur was a much lighter color. She placed the bags she was carrying on the table, then looked at Joey.
"Joey, this is Michelle, my twin sister," Luke said.
For all of you that have read my other fanfic, this comes as a bit of a shock. I decided to add a huge twist, and I did.
Luke saw how shocked Joey was and smiled. "She's the other person in the picture. I'm the older one."
Michelle laughed and pushed Luke playfully. "You're only one minute older than I am, Lukey!"
Luke stuck his tongue out at Michelle, then looked at Joey, who was giggling in amusement. Michelle took the opportunity to tackle Luke to the ground, catching him completely by surprise. Joey giggled even louder, then walked over to where Luke and Michelle were lying on the floor.
"Are you two quite finished?"
Luke stood up, then grabbed Michelle's hand and pulled her onto her feet. "Yes. We always tackle each other when the other isn't looking."
Joey rolled her eyes, then helped Luke and Michelle bring the groceries inside. They put all the groceries away, then sat down on a soft couch in front of the TV.
"So, how come you're not attending Pokemon Tech, Michelle?" Joey asked.
"First of all, call me Michi. Michelle sounds too formal." Joey nodded, then Michi said, "I'm not going to Pokemon Tech because I work at the Pokemon Center. My job keeps me too busy to allow me to do anything else."
"That makes sense," Joey replied. "I'd be doing something worthwhile if I wasn't enrolled at Pokemon Tech."
Luke was about to say something, but then there was a knock at the door. Michelle was the first to get up, as usual. She was always the one that got the door for some reason. She opened the door, but nobody was there. Michelle looked around, a bit puzzled. Even if someone had knocked on the door and run, there wasn't anywhere they could've hidden without being seen.
"Uh, that was weird. Am I the only one that heard a knock on the door?" Everybody else shook their head. They had heard it too.
Luke stood up and walked to the door, and suddenly Melanie dropped down and landed right in front of him. She had been hovering in the air right above the door, which is why Michelle hadn't seen her.
"I suppose I'm in the right place," Melanie said quietly.
"You mean you were looking for me?" Luke asked her.
"I'm not sure what I was looking for, but something told me to fly in this direction."
Melanie then started to tell Luke about what had happened to her over the previous few months. When she was part of the way into the story, Luke interrupted her.
"I get the feeling this is going to take a while, so why don't you come in and sit down? I'm sure Joey would like to hear this as well."
Melanie blushed, because she realized that she had been rambling on and hadn't allowed Luke to talk at all. She stepped inside and Luke closed the door behind her, then she sat down next to Joey on the couch. Once she had introduced herself to everybody, she began telling the story over again.
Joey became angered when she began telling about the experiments Team Rocket had done on her. It was bad enough that Team Rocket was doing experiments on Pokemon, but humans? They had gone way too far this time . . .
Tac took a deep breath and walked into the boss's office. Not only would he have to explain to the boss about Melanie escaping, but he would also have to take the blame for the damage done to the lab.
"What news to you have for me, Tac? Good, I hope."
"Unfortunately it's not," Tac said quietly. "Melanie escaped."
"Who is Melanie, and why is this important to me?"
"Melanie was the female subject we were giving the Mewtwo DNA. The experiment went well. A little too well, if you ask me."
The boss turned red and turned in his chair to face Tac. "You're telling me that the one subject who actually responded to the tests managed to escape?"
"Not only that," Tac said, "but the lab was damaged severely in the process. It will be weeks, if not months, before the lab will be fully operational again."
"Get the problem fixed, and get back to work. I want you to find out exactly what went wrong and eliminate that problem! NOW GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!"
Tac quickly left and walked back to his own office. He locked the door behind him and sat down at his desk. He looked at the paperwork that had piled up, then pushed it off his desk in frustration. The papers scattered across the floor, then Tac noticed one in particular that landed next to his foot.
Tac bent down and picked the paper up off the floor. It was an old documentation of one of their older experiments. In fact, the paper was dated quite a few years earlier. The paper was titled Project: Joey. Tac opened a drawer in his desk and put the paper in it, then closed the drawer slowly.
The paper had given Tac an idea. Perhaps Joey was the answer to their problems. Why were they wasting their time trying to create a powerful Anthro Pokemon, when they could just force Joey to join sides with them? Tac smiled evilly, then picked up the phone and dialed the boss's number.
"Sir, consider the problem fixed . . ."
Tac woke up to the sound of his phone ringing. He picked it up and drowsily said, "Hello?"
"GET DOWN TO THE LAB IMMEDIATELY! IT'S HAPPENING!" the person yelled excitedly.
Tac fell backwards and dropped the phone in alarm, then grabbed onto his desk and pulled himself back up. He hung up the phone, then quickly grabbed his lab coat. His hair was a mess, but he didn't care. He quickly threw on his lab coat and ran down to the lab, nearly running over three people on the way.
Tac burst through the doors to the lab and saw everybody crowded around the tank that Melanie was in. He pushed his way through the scientists and peered into the large glass tank. She was still glowing, but her body was changing rapidly. After days of waiting, it was finally happening.
The way she was changing was almost as if she was evolving, but the change wasn't as rapid. Her legs were already beginning to take the shape of a Mewtwo's, and small points were beginning to show beneath her hair. A pink circle was faintly showing up on her stomach as well.
Tac stepped back, then continued to watch, hypnotized by what was happening. Within one hour the transformation was complete and Melanie had stopped glowing completely. Tac glanced at the computers and gave the OK to open the holding tank.
One of the scientists began rapidly typing commands into the computer. He pressed the execute key and glanced up as an alarm rang out. The tank began to slowly drain a few moments later. Melanie had been suspended in the water, but as the level was dropping the wires attached to her began to pull tight. The scientist typed a few other commands into the computer and Melanie dropped slowly until she was touching the bottom of the tank.
When the water was completely drained out, the glass panel surrounding the tank was raised. Another scientist quickly wrapped a towel around Melanie to keep her warm. The wires attached to her continued to monitor her vital signs, which were still showing normal.
After a few minutes, her eyes opened slowly. Melanie squinted in the bright light, then looked around. Her head was pounding, and she couldn't concentrate. Her vision cleared up, then she looked at all the people that were watching her.
"Where am I?" she said hoarsely.
Tac stepped forward and cleared his throat. "You're at Team Rocket's laboratory."
Then her memory started to return. "What happened?"
Tac looked at the other nervously. What if she remembered how they had abducted her? She couldn't be allowed to find out. "We found you in the forest. You were nearly dead, but we brought you here and saved you."
Melanie shook her head slightly as the pounding subsided, then looked at Tac. "Liar."
Tac tried not to look too nervous or guilty as he cleared his throat again. "Why do you say that?"
"I can see into your mind somehow. I know how you think, and I saw what happened."
Tac stepped back, then looked at the others. He didn't want a repeat of Mewtwo, or Joey. They had both gone on the warpath and had nearly destroyed the laboratory. Tac ran from the lab, then headed for his office.
Melanie took a deep breath, then glanced down at herself. She felt different, but she wasn't sure why. She stood up unsteadily, then the towel wrapped around herself fell off. At that moment a scream echoed through the laboratory that could be heard throughout the entire Team Rocket headquarters.
Melanie broke down in tears and sat down on the floor of the tank. "What have you done to me?" she said between sobs.
The scientists in the laboratory were all becoming increasingly nervous. A few of them left the lab quickly, fearing for their own lives. After a few minutes, Melanie stood up again. She began to feel different, but she couldn't identify the feeling. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, then suddenly she heard the scientists scream. She opened her eyes again and saw them all rushing out of the lab.
Puzzled, she looked at herself. Her hands were glowing brightly, and a tingling sensation was spreading through her body. She didn't know why, but she held up her hands and began concentrating. Suddenly a beam of energy shot from her hands and exploded, destroying the computers. Startled, she took a step backwards and fell off the platform that was in the tank.
She concentrated again and began destroying everything in the lab. She wanted revenge for what they had done to her, and she was getting it the only way she knew how. Small fires were burning all over in the lab, and alarms began blaring.
Melanie took one last look, then flew straight up. She burst through the roof, then looked around. She wasn't sure where she should go, but then an overwhelming urge told her which direction to fly. Even though she didn't know why, she followed her instincts. Where she would end up was anybody's guess . . .
Joey walked to the building where Luke's apartment was, then looked at the number Luke had given her. She was a bit embarrassed that she had procrastinated so long, but homework kept her busy. She walked up to the door of Luke's apartment and knocked, then waited patiently.
Luke opened the door a few moments later and smiled. "I was wondering when you'd finally show up."
Joey walked inside and looked around. Luke's apartment looked similar to her own, although the furniture was different. She saw a picture hanging on the wall and looked closer. It was a photo of Luke and another girl that was part Raichu.
"Luke, who's the girl in this picture?" Joey said, pointing to the photo on the wall.
"I could show you," Luke replied, "but she's out buying groceries."
Joey nodded, then looked at Luke. "So, what's so personal that you wanted us to be alone to talk about it?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, I was telling you about how old I was. Well, I'm really only two. I appear to be 16, which is why I decided to start using that age on all my forms."
"You already told me that," Joey said.
"Yes, but that's not why I wanted to be alone. My mother was a Raichu, and my father as well. The reason I'm this way is because my mother was captured by Team Rocket, and they did some tests on her. She's still the same, but something happened when I was born. It's the same thing with the girl in that photo. We were both born as Raichus, but grew and developed much faster than most Raichus would."
Joey listened intently. She was amazed, but a sense of hatred boiled up in her when Team Rocket was brought up. "So, how did you end up like you are now?" Joey asked.
"Well, one day we were out exploring, and suddenly we both began to glow, almost as if we were evolving. The only problem is, Raichus don't evolve. A few minutes later we had changed completely, to what you see now."
Joey understood completely. She had also been created by the cruelty of Team Rocket's experiments, but in a different way. Joey had been created in Team Rocket's lab as another clone from Mew. She had managed to escape, but she had to fit in somehow. She decided to take on a more human form, but some of the Mew characteristics stayed with her.
"So, that's why you look like you're 16?" Joey finally asked.
Luke nodded. "Luckily the rapid growth has slowed to normal, so both of us are growing at the same rate as any other person would." Luke glanced at his watch. "She should be home any time now."
Moments later the door opened, and a girl walked in. She looked similar to Luke, but her fur was a much lighter color. She placed the bags she was carrying on the table, then looked at Joey.
"Joey, this is Michelle, my twin sister," Luke said.
For all of you that have read my other fanfic, this comes as a bit of a shock. I decided to add a huge twist, and I did.
Luke saw how shocked Joey was and smiled. "She's the other person in the picture. I'm the older one."
Michelle laughed and pushed Luke playfully. "You're only one minute older than I am, Lukey!"
Luke stuck his tongue out at Michelle, then looked at Joey, who was giggling in amusement. Michelle took the opportunity to tackle Luke to the ground, catching him completely by surprise. Joey giggled even louder, then walked over to where Luke and Michelle were lying on the floor.
"Are you two quite finished?"
Luke stood up, then grabbed Michelle's hand and pulled her onto her feet. "Yes. We always tackle each other when the other isn't looking."
Joey rolled her eyes, then helped Luke and Michelle bring the groceries inside. They put all the groceries away, then sat down on a soft couch in front of the TV.
"So, how come you're not attending Pokemon Tech, Michelle?" Joey asked.
"First of all, call me Michi. Michelle sounds too formal." Joey nodded, then Michi said, "I'm not going to Pokemon Tech because I work at the Pokemon Center. My job keeps me too busy to allow me to do anything else."
"That makes sense," Joey replied. "I'd be doing something worthwhile if I wasn't enrolled at Pokemon Tech."
Luke was about to say something, but then there was a knock at the door. Michelle was the first to get up, as usual. She was always the one that got the door for some reason. She opened the door, but nobody was there. Michelle looked around, a bit puzzled. Even if someone had knocked on the door and run, there wasn't anywhere they could've hidden without being seen.
"Uh, that was weird. Am I the only one that heard a knock on the door?" Everybody else shook their head. They had heard it too.
Luke stood up and walked to the door, and suddenly Melanie dropped down and landed right in front of him. She had been hovering in the air right above the door, which is why Michelle hadn't seen her.
"I suppose I'm in the right place," Melanie said quietly.
"You mean you were looking for me?" Luke asked her.
"I'm not sure what I was looking for, but something told me to fly in this direction."
Melanie then started to tell Luke about what had happened to her over the previous few months. When she was part of the way into the story, Luke interrupted her.
"I get the feeling this is going to take a while, so why don't you come in and sit down? I'm sure Joey would like to hear this as well."
Melanie blushed, because she realized that she had been rambling on and hadn't allowed Luke to talk at all. She stepped inside and Luke closed the door behind her, then she sat down next to Joey on the couch. Once she had introduced herself to everybody, she began telling the story over again.
Joey became angered when she began telling about the experiments Team Rocket had done on her. It was bad enough that Team Rocket was doing experiments on Pokemon, but humans? They had gone way too far this time . . .
Tac took a deep breath and walked into the boss's office. Not only would he have to explain to the boss about Melanie escaping, but he would also have to take the blame for the damage done to the lab.
"What news to you have for me, Tac? Good, I hope."
"Unfortunately it's not," Tac said quietly. "Melanie escaped."
"Who is Melanie, and why is this important to me?"
"Melanie was the female subject we were giving the Mewtwo DNA. The experiment went well. A little too well, if you ask me."
The boss turned red and turned in his chair to face Tac. "You're telling me that the one subject who actually responded to the tests managed to escape?"
"Not only that," Tac said, "but the lab was damaged severely in the process. It will be weeks, if not months, before the lab will be fully operational again."
"Get the problem fixed, and get back to work. I want you to find out exactly what went wrong and eliminate that problem! NOW GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!"
Tac quickly left and walked back to his own office. He locked the door behind him and sat down at his desk. He looked at the paperwork that had piled up, then pushed it off his desk in frustration. The papers scattered across the floor, then Tac noticed one in particular that landed next to his foot.
Tac bent down and picked the paper up off the floor. It was an old documentation of one of their older experiments. In fact, the paper was dated quite a few years earlier. The paper was titled Project: Joey. Tac opened a drawer in his desk and put the paper in it, then closed the drawer slowly.
The paper had given Tac an idea. Perhaps Joey was the answer to their problems. Why were they wasting their time trying to create a powerful Anthro Pokemon, when they could just force Joey to join sides with them? Tac smiled evilly, then picked up the phone and dialed the boss's number.
"Sir, consider the problem fixed . . ."