Chapter 2: The Impossible List

Tyler made it to Pallet Town, he collasped but before he fell to the floor, two police who were waiting for him grabbed him and put him inside their car. The police drove to the police station, helped Tyler out of the car and helped him walk into the station. He was led to a fairly large office. In the office were Officer Mark, Tyler's parents, an Officer Jenny, and a detective (Tyler saw his detective badge). Tyler's mother was crying while his father was comforting her. Tyler fell into one of the chairs.

"So what's going on here?" Tyler asked.

The detective pulled up a chair near Tyler and sat down to face him.

"Your sister has been abducted, by Team Rocket." the detective said bluntly.

"What!?" Tyler exclaimed. "Why would they do that?"

"We're not quite sure." the detective said, "but the kidnapper called us and said he will call back when you got here."

"What's he want from me?" Tyler asked, not believing any of this.

"We don't know, that's why he's calling back." the detective said. "You didn't...take anything from Team Rocket or did anything to them, have you?"

"Of course I haven't! I'm not that stupid!" Tyler yelled.

"Detective Carter! Tyler is in enough stress with his sister being gone and him having to stall his dream of being a pokemon trainer. We don't need you pointing fingers all of a sudden!" Officer Jenny said.

"Jenny, I was only trying to..." Detective Carter tried to say but was interrupted by a phone ring.

At first everyone froze for the first two rings, but than Officer Mark turned on the video screen and speaker phone. On the video screen was the face of a creepy looking man with dark hair and evil looking eyes. He had a grin on his face.

"Is Tyler there?" the man asked in a haunting voice.

Tyler jumped up and stared into the video screen.

"Where's my sister?" Tyler asked loudly.

"She's here with me." he said.

"Is she okay?" Tyler asked.

"Please. She's in the clutches of a madman. Would you be okay if you were in her position?" the man replied still smirking.

This man was starting to get scary. He really did look like a madman. His eyes looked as if he were hungry for hate.

"What do you want?" Tyler questioned the man.

"Not much. Just a few errands for you to do." the man said.

"What kind of errands?" Tyler asked.

"You ask too many questions. I'm obviously going to tell you otherwise calling you would be useless. Cops, you might want to fetch a piece of pen and paper." The man said.

However the whole conversation was being recorded on the computer anyway.

"First errand, capture and...oh I have it saved on my phone here, I don't need to say it over. Ahhh, there. I've sent you a copy of the list. Enjoy!" the man said.

Out of the fax machine came a piece of paper which was the list. Here's what it said.

'1. Collect all the official gym badges from Kanto and Johto

2. Capture and give TR the three legendary birds.

3. Capture and give TR the three legendary dogs.

4. Capture and give TR the mythical Ho-oh and Lugia.

5. Capture TR's creation, Mewtwo, and bring him back to TR.

6. Find 5 Moon Stones and give them to TR.

7. Discover (or create) a new powerful pokemon, and give it to TR.

8. Steal the Master Ball from the Silph Co. labs and give it to TR.

9. Steal the great dragon master's, Lance's, prized pokemon, Dragonite and give it to TR.

10. Complete all these tasks in 18 months.'

After Officer Jenny read it out loud, Detective Carter called out.

"That's a load of Miltank dung! How is that possible. One, none of those legendary pokemon exist. Two, what is Mewtwo?. Three, how is Tyler alone going to pull this off in 18 months?"

"Now allow me tell you something, detective." the man said, "One, the legendary pokemon do exist. Two, Mewtwo is a lab creation, a clone of Mew. Three, Tyler is able to pull this off."

"Nonsense!" Detective Carter yelled. "It would be easier for us to just look for you."

"And it would also be easier for me just to slit the hostage's throat." the man said evilly.

Tyler's mom cried out loud.

"Please, no!" she screamed.

"Relax, I rather have the errands done. Tyler listen. I'll give you the details and rules applied to your little quest. Numero Uno, don't try to look for your sister. If you do she dies and you along with her. Your main focus are the tasks. Number two, I'll allow you to have a few travelling partners. It may make your quest easier. The only trouble is if you fail, they die along with you and your sister. Number 4...oops 3, this is for you cops. No contact with the outside world. I'm hooked to your phone line so no calling other cops. I've got a few bombs set around your town. Don't try to disable them because I'd know about that too. Just try to cooperate and I'll see to it that no one dies. Okay Tyler, good luck. Call me if you need anything. See you in 18 months." the man said.

He went off screen and came back holding Eve by the arm.

"Say goodbye Eve, bye bye!" the man said before he hung up.