Master Six 2:

Truth and Consequences

Chapter 6

They followed Dr. DeWhisple and Dr. Joseph Wander to the Pokemon House.

The two of them entered the burned out mansion, and after several secret buttons and levers, they arrived in the basement. The three of them weren't seen at all. The scientists never even bothered to look behind them. All they seemed to care about was going to the basement.

This was pretty easy. Pretty too easy.

Pretty too easy?

Does that work?

"This is pretty too easy," Psycho commented from behind a gargoyle statue facing the entrance to the elevator that would take the team to the basement. The two scientists descended only a couple of minutes ago. The three of them appeared to be alone.

"I would have to agree," Specks agreed, "but what do you want. I don't suppose anybody is supposed to go down or even into this old house."

"What do you suppose then is down that elevator?" Psycho asked.

"Let's take a look then shall we," Specks answered unstrapping his backpack. He pulled out a rather large looking pair of goggles. "These are my X-Ray goggles. I could use these to get a pretty good view of the floor below us."

"Knock yourself out," Psycho said, "I think I'll explore a little. Lindsey?"

"I'm gone," she answered as she melted into a Vulpix.

"Okay, don't get lost," Psycho answered and he headed off in another direction. Lindsey scampered off in the opposite direction.

"Whatever," Specks muttered to himself. He put the goggles up to his eyes, and flipped a switch on the side. The goggles emitted a low hum, and Specks pointed them down to the ground.

"Nuts," Specks commented as his goggles couldn't see through the ground, "floor must be really thick." Specks took off his goggles, and held them at his side. He looked around the room, and couldn't see very much. He hoped Psycho and Lindsey weren't getting into too much trouble.

He moved over to the elevator. Dr. DeWhisple and Dr. Wander had put some kind of code into the panel on the wall next to the elevator. This meant that the destination of the elevator was really important.

Also really secret.

Specks now had to find a way to get in the elevator and go down. He put the goggles back on, and flipped the switch. He looked at the control panel. Then he looked through the control panel. The wiring was all there, and it didn't look all that impressive. Specks stepped back, and took off the goggles. This isn't going to be too hard he thought. Just smash in there and pull some stuff and switch some stuff. It would be easy.

CRASH!

What?! Specks looked behind him. Something crashed, which wasn't a good sound. Probably Psycho. He doubted that Lindsey would get into trouble. Then Specks heard shouting. It was definitely Psycho. Specks sighed and put the goggles back in his backpack. He walked over to the sound. He walked through a doorway, and came upon a possibly hilarious pokemon fight.

"Confusion Attack!" Psycho commanded his Kadabra.

The Kadabra used its psychic powers and blasted the opponent Magmar.

"Flamethrower Attack!" the Burglar roared at his pokemon.

The Magmar spouted fire from its mouth and blasted the Kadabra. Psycho's Kadabra bounced back, but Specks could tell it wasn't hurt.

"Psycho!" Specks shouted, "Quit foolin' around!"

"Kadabra! Return!" Psycho ordered as he lifted a pokeball and the Kadabra returned.

"Hah you little punk," the Burglar called out, "shouldn't lower your defense to an opponent who cheats. Pinsir! Koffing! Oddish! Venonant! I choose you all!"

And so all those pokemon joined the Magmar in facing Psycho. The Burglar was going to stop Psycho no matter what. Specks came to the conclusion that the Burglar didn't know about the secret elevator over in the other room. This was probably some loser trying to rob a burned down dump mansion.

"Now you get out of my way kid," the Burglar ordered Psycho.

Psycho just smirked.

"What's so funny?" the Burglar asked.

"Mew! I choose you!" Psycho said silently lifting up a fancy looking ball. A Master Ball.

Then in a flash of light, the small pokemon flew from its home. The most powerful pokemon on Earth was not a large monstrous beast, it was a little, white creature with a long flowing tail. It flew up in front of Psycho, and just zigzagged through the air a little. "What the hell is that!?" the Burglar wondered, "Who cares. Pokemon Attack!"

The Burglar's pokemon all began to advance on Psycho and Mew. Mew turned in the air to look at Psycho. Psycho nodded slowly, and Mew turned back around.

With an unbelievable power, the little Mew raised its hands, and launched a Psi-wave at the attackers. All of them were lifted from the ground, and thrown through the air all the way into the next room. The Burglar wasn't going to get up. Psycho had won. Mew flew down and landed softly on Psycho's shoulder. Psycho petted it on the head, and turned to Specks.

"Hey Specks," he said calmly, "what you up to?"

"I think I've found a way onto that elevator."

"That's cool. Where's Lindsey?"

"Right here," came the reply. Lindsey appeared through a doorway to their right. She was human again. Mew flew off of Psycho's shoulder, and landed on Lindsey's. It wrapped it's tail lightly around Lindsey's neck. Lindsey petted its head.

"Okay, we're all here," Psycho said taking control, "how do we got on this elevator?"

"What was with that Burglar?" Specks asked, changing the subject.

"He was just some kind of rabble found in an abandoned building. He got in my way, so I took him out."

"Right," Specks responded, "well, follow me."

The three of them walked back into the room with the elevator in it. Along the way, Specks pushed a gargoyle statue over.

"What did you do that for?" Psycho asked, more excited than annoyed.

"This," Specks said as he picked up a piece of jagged stone. He brought it over to the panel, and slashed it as hard as he could into the wall panel. With a ding, the elevator opened.

"Pretty impressive," Psycho commented.

"Thank you," Specks answered.

The team walked in, and Specks pressed a button that they hoped would take them down, and it did.

They descended slowly at first, then they began to pick up speed. They seemed to go down forever, the floor just never seemed to arrive.

After about three minutes of descent, the elevator began to slow down. Then, it finally stopped. The doors flew open, and the team hit the floor and crawled out. This was enemy territory. No need to get seen. Specks heard someone speaking over to his left, and so they crawled over there.

They knelt down behind a counter. A better look around revealed not very many people in the lab. Only Dr. DeWhisple and Dr. Wander, and some other guy. Wander was on the other side of the lab, and DeWhisple and the new guy were talking quietly.

"You called for us sir?" DeWhisple asked.

"Yes, you shouldn't really go out very much," the new guy answered.

"We needed supplies," DeWhisple urged.

"It doesn't matter, we have assistants and such to get anything we need."

"But we also needed to get out sir. We're cooped up down here without any sun or anything. It's like a dungeon down here."

"Quit complaining, we are doing great work down here."

"I just don't know anymore. This is starting to freak me out."

"If that's the case boy, you can be replaced. And I don't have to remind you how Team Rocket replaces people that know things."

"Yes Dr. Lapier, sorry."

"Dr. Lapier?" Specks mouthed to his teammates behind the counter.

Psycho shrugged and looked equally confused.

Lapier?

"Now get back to work," Dr. Lapier ordered.

"Yes sir," Dr. DeWhisple answered, "by the way, how is the Red Project coming?"

"Just nicely," Dr. Lapier answered, "no go."

Dr. DeWhisple turned and walked to join Dr. Wander on the other side of the laboratory. It was a long ways away, so Specks figured they would be out of speaking range. He stood up, Psycho looked worried, but only for a second. Psycho stood as well, and then Lindsey followed.

They walked around the counter. Dr. Lapier was busy tinkering with something, and his back was to The Master Six.

"Dr. Lapier?" Specks spoke up trying not to sound as afraid as he actually was.

"Yes?" Dr. Lapier answered without even turning around.

"Dr. Lapier," Specks repeated, "as in Malcolm and Heather Lapier?"

"Heather?" Dr. Lapier whispered as a shocked shiver went through his body.

"Sir?" Psycho asked.

Before he got an answer, Dr. Lapier whipped around and slammed Specks in the side of the head with some device. Specks went down hard.

And the last thing Specks saw was Dr. Lapier moving towards Lindsey. A flash of incredible light from Mew.

And then black.