Disclaimer: I don't own the series pocket monsters or anything that goes with it. I borrowed some ideas from Dragoness and I do own the plot of this story. I also own a N64. The characters Holly, Azure Sky, Meyer, Lansky, and Celia are mine as well.
{Unknown POV}
In a shaded glade several figures stood. Out of the woods in front of this group I came. They all stopped talking and focused on me.
"She is North of us. Spread out and find her before she makes the change. Do not attempt to apprehend her yourselves. Call for help, and we will come. That is all," I tell them. They nod and set out. I look to the full moon and think, (It will not be long now. I wonder what you are planning to do now that we are after you?)
Pokémon Oak Styled
Vision 06: Friendship is a shield from the darkness
Steps echoed throughout the hall as the rockets hurried to repair the psychic dampener. From a closet, a pair of eyes watched from a crack in the door. Eevee turned from the door and came back to the others.
*Gary and Ash must have been caught. There are too many Rockets, and the fact is they should have been back by now, * she said worriedly.
*Well, sitting around here well get us caught as well. Our best bet is to find them first, * Growlithe said.
*True and the best pokémon to find them is Haunter, * Bulbasaur said turned to look at the ghost type who was staring at his reflection in the metal walls.
*Who me? * He asked when everyone else turned to look at him.
*Yes you. We have the plans for this building, and access to every room. We just don't know where to go. You like Ash because you make each other laugh. So will you find him and Gary for us? * Electra pleaded to the purple ghost.
Haunter thought about it for a second, and then frowned. The others faces fell, but then Haunter burst out laughing and said *Of course. You guys are so funny when you panic. * Before anyone could respond, the giggling ghost floated though the wall he had previously looked at.
Ash was pushed in to the plush room complaining loudly about his pokémon and his position. "Let go of me and give me back my pidgeotto!" He yelled at the Team Rocket member who chuckled and just closed the door of the boardroom in his face. Ash grumbled as he looked around the room, his gaze settled on a man sitting in a high backed chair at the head of the board table. He was wearing a black business suit, with a red turtleneck shirt underneath. He had black, slicked back hair and a small red pin shaped like an R pinned to his suit jacket. Next to him sat a persian sat next to him.
"Welcome Ash Ketchum, You can call me Giovanni," The boss of team rocket said. "I have been watching you. So far you have gotten more badges in a shorter time then any new trainer in the last five years. Please sit."
Ash stared at him and the chair he offered. "I don't want to sit down, I want my Pidgeotto and my ... err... rival Gary!" Ash exclaimed. Giovanni raised an eyebrow, than laughed out loud.
"Boy you are in no position to argue or demand anything with me. Sit, otherwise you just might not see you rival and pokémon again," Giovanni said with a sneer. Ash grumbled but did as the older man said. "Now watch carefully," He said pushing a button on the table he was sitting at. A small TV monitor unfolded from the table. It was angled so that both Rocket and Trainer could see, and on it was Gary strapped to a table!
Pikachu and Electra were moving trough the ventilation shafts. Haunter had told the two electric mice that Gary was being held on the Seventh floor and Ash was on the Eleventh. Pidgeotto and Sandshrew were on the Tenth floor. The two mice had deiced to free the pokémon first. Then they were going to free Gary next and Ash last since he had the most security near him. Bulbasaur lowered them to the seventh, and then they used the map to find where the pokémon storage room was.
*It this it? * Pikachu asked Electra as crouched in front of a vent.
She glanced at a crude copy of the map and said, *Yep, knock it in if the room is clear. * Pikachu nodded, then looked in. Nothing was in there but rows and rows of pokéballs. Pikachu used a weak thunder shock to blast the vent covering to destroy the hold the vent grating had. It fell to the ground with a clatter. Both pokémon made the leap to the ground.
*It looks like we have to split up, * Electra said peering at the pokéball racks in worry.
Pikachu shook his head and said, *we need to stick together. If we spilt up we will be vulnerable. We do share the same type. Besides, we can check each rack from top to bottom faster that way. *
*All right if you insist, * she answered, *but I still think splitting up may have been better. * She said as she began to search.
Growlithe, Magikarp, Charmander, and Squirtle all were headed for the interrogation room. They were following a copy of the map similar to the one the pikachu had. Charmander was in the lead because he was the only one who could hold it, followed by Growlithe, and Squirtle was last carrying Magikarp.
*It's right up a head, * Charmander said to others in a whisper. They all gathered around a vent to see in the room. It was a large rectangle room. The only things in it where a table with straps, a counsel like device, and an electric generator. Gray was strapped to the table his shirt was off and in the corner. There were electric leads attached from the generator to different parts of his body. A rocket was at the counsel waiting for something. Gary was glaring at the Rocket. Suddenly a camera lowered from the ceiling.
The Rocket smirked at Gary and said, "Now smile for the camera."
"I'm not going to tell you anything," Gary said to him.
"I know," he said before turning a dial sending an electric current through Gary. At first the young trainer just gritted his teeth. After all he did train a pikachu. But as the intensity went up he finally started to scream.
"Stop that!" Ash screamed at Giovanni as he witnessed his former friends torment.
"I can't, but you can. All you have to do is join Team Rocket. Then he'll be fine." The gangster said.
"I can't," Ash said turning away.
"Of course you can," Giovanni stated. "You just choose not to. Still I hope your friend can forgive you. If he is still alive..."
"You wouldn't..." Ash stammered.
"Of course I wouldn't. I can't because I'm here with you. I can't be in two places at once. So your friend's pain is on you and you alone," He said looking down to go over some papers on his desk. Ash looked at him, then the monitor in horror.
Gary in the meantime had stop screaming. The Rocket had turned off the current to give him a rest. He was ordered not to kill the boy after all, at least not out right. Growlithe and Magikarp were horrified about was being done to the trainer and friend, and Charmander and Squirtle were frozen in shock.
"That's enough rest for now, on with the fun!" the rocket said. As he activated the machine again Growlithe and Magikarp had to be restrained from busting in there and torching and tackling him into oblivion.
*Remember the plan! We can't go attack until Haunter gives us the OK, * Squirtle said holding Magikarp back. Charmander was blocking Growlithe's way.
*You are only saying that because it isn't your Trainer that is in danger, * Magikarp said trying her hardest to get to Gary.
*That's not true and you know it, * Charmander said. *It's the fact that we don't know where that camera is sending to and who is watching. If we go early the others could get caught and we would be in even more trouble. *
At said location, Ash was agonizing over his choose. His conscience was saying that he should give in and join Team Rocket, but his pride said he shouldn't. After all Gary wasn't his friend right? (NO!) He thought. Gary may have not been his friend, but noone should have to suffer like that.
"All right I'll do it!" He shouted. "I'll join Team Rocket." The second he said that, Gary stopped being electrocuted.
"Excellent," Giovanni said. "Such loyalty is what we need in Team Rocket,"
"Elsewhere in the building, Eevee and Haunter searched for the second psychic dampener. Apparently, there was a second device on the fourth floor, and the two of them where going to destroy it.
*Haunter which way, * Eevee asked.
*This way, * the ghost pointed to the left. Eevee left the vent and headed to down the hall. Running up to a locked door.
She looked at him and asked, *so? *
*So what? * He responded looking back at her.
*Open the door! * She growled.
*Oh! * Haunter said. He moved to phase through the door, but he froze when the door slid open revealing Holly!
"Hi you two, there's no need for you to be here. I sabotaged the machine in there. You two better find Ash; because in about an hour all heck will break loose," Holly said running between the two of them and down the hall. The two pokémon looked in the room and found about twenty-five rockets and various pokémon lying on the ground in a range of positions, all of them unconscious. What was left of the Psychic Dampener sat silently around the room, dead. (Whoa...) was all the two shocked pokémon had running though their minds.
Gary was dragged through the halls of the ninth floor of Sliph Co barely aware. He was tossed carelessly in a break room and the Rocket locked the door and turned around snickering. But he stopped when he saw Growlithe and Charmander who immediately torched him with a duel flamethrower attack. Magikarp and Squirtle tackled the charred man knocking him out. Now the only the locked door stood between them and Gary.
At first they tried fire attacks, but they weren't strong enough. All of the doors in the building were fireproof safety doors. Squirtle tried his water gun with Charmander and Growlithe both tried their flamethrower again. After a few moments and a lot of steam later, the door was still standing. The next tried knocking it down with scratches, tackling, and taking downs, but it repelled their best efforts.
*Now what? * Charmander said.
Electra looked around at each pokéball. She stopped sniffing each one when she heard Pikachu called out. Looking up she found him on the top shelf holding two pokéballs, one with a small Ying-yang symbol on the top of the red part of it.
*I found them! Electra uses the card key to turn off the security! * He called down to her.
*Right! * She exclaimed after taken the key card out of her mouth. Scampering down the row, she stopped right at the end. A small card reader was attached there. After a no small bit of climbing and moving around she managed to swipe the card in the reader.
*Take 'em Pikachu! * She called. He nodded then pulled both balls from their holders. The tow electric types took them and headed for the nearest exit. Suddenly a message popped into their heads.
[Hey you two, the second system is gone. We're headed for the others. Meet us at the cell,] Haunter sent.
(Ok!) Electra thought back. The two raced off.
Meanwhile Gary was lost in memory, the pain of his body was being echoed in his mind. It was trying to forget were he was now.
(I'm alone. I'm always alone. Yes, this is better then letting others in. This is better then letting myself be hurt. I remember when May, the only one who cared, the only one who paid attention to me, she turned on me too, didn't she?)
Gary watched as May met Ash in the front lawn. He watched as the exchanged greetings. They ran off, but Ash looked back, directly at the window that Gary was behind. It was like he could see the young boy behind the window. Gary watched as he turned and left. (Ash...)
(She was just like Mom and Dad. So busy working that we never saw them. I don't even remember what they look like. They're always on some assignment for Sliph Co, or something...)
Gary blew out the candles on his seventh birthday. He wished for the same thing he did every year. (Please come home. I think I miss you...) the boy thought as he looked longingly at the door. Ignoring his sister, his grandfather, his friend, and his friend's mom. (Please...)
(Even Grandpa forgot about me. All he cared about was his work. All he talked about was how Ash did this or that. I wonder why he trusted me even to go on this journey?)
Gary was in Cerulean City. He had just beaten the Gym leader and was excitingly calling his grandfather. As soon as the sleepy professor picked up, Gary confidently started to extol his victory, but stopped when the professor seemed to almost be falling asleep.
"Gramps? Are you there?" Gary asked.
"Oh I'm sorry, Ash sent me a injured pokémon and I had to stay up all night to help him. I sure winning your first badge was quite the achievement. Well done. But you're behind the others so you really should try to catch up. Anyway I have to go, so I'll talk to you later," He said hanging up.
"Bye Gramps, I love you too..." Gary said to the black video screen.
(I wonder if my pokémon will even come for me. How do I follow my heart if I can't even find it?) He was startled out of his reflections when Magi, who had evolved into a gyarados, ripped the door off its hinges.
*Did some one call the Calvary? * Growlithe asked as he charged in.
Ash watched as the rocket leader pushed a button on his desk, activating an intercom. "Billie come to my office now," Giovanni said. Seeing Ash's questioning gaze he said, "All rockets need a partner." They both waited for a few moments then a girl came in to the room. She was about Misty's height and she had long, dark brown-black hair that fell to her waist. Her eyes were an interesting shade of gray. She was wearing the black variation of the Team Rocket uniform.
"Billie this will be your partner," Giovanni said to her.
"As you command," She said. She and Ash looked curiously at each other. But before anymore words could be said. A Rocket came running into the room followed by one of the Rockets assigned to watch the bottom floors.
"Boss! There are some trainers storming the place. They're wiping us out with their pokémon," He said gasping for air.
(It must be Misty, Brock, Janine and Sabrina. I wonder what took them so long?) Ash thought. "Umm... shouldn't we go help?" He asked Giovanni.
"No. I want you to go with Billie and get some equipment. I will handle this small problem," The boss ordered as he and his Persian left.
"Come on," Billie said as she dragged Ash out of the room by his arm. She set a quick pace out of the room and to the elevator.
"Wait I don't want to go anywhere," Ash shouted pulling away from the girl.
"What you want doesn't matter. It's only the bosses way that does," Billie said tugging him back on course. "Things will be a lot easier if you remember that."
Elsewhere Gary was searching though his backpack. He had recalled both his gyarados and his fearow. He pulled out what he was looking for. A firestone.
"Growlithe, Acry, I know you learned a lot, in fact all of your moves. I got this and I was wondering..." Gary asked.
*Say no more. I was waiting for this, and I'm ready, * Growlithe said.
Gary nodded, then placed the stone to his forehead. White light engulfed the fire canine and he grew and changed shape. The growlithe became bigger. Still covered in orange fur with black stripes, now he had white fur tuffs growing from his legs. He had a large white mane and a cream under belly with the same white tail only bigger and longer. Growlithe evolved into an Arcanine.
Gary recalled everyone except Pikachu, Eevee, Arcanine, Electra, and Pidgeotto. "Let's go," He said, leaning on Arcanine to walk out of the room. As they when through the halls of the ninth floor, the heard a voice behind another looked door. Gary nodded to the others, then opened the door the Eevee, Pikachu, Electra, and Pidgeotto rushed in to subdue anyone inside, but stopped when they saw who was inside.
Janine watched as Venonat took out another grimer with a psybeam. "Hey Brock, there are no end to these guys," She said to the rock trainer. He nodded as his vulpix fainted another rocket pokémon.
"I know. But still we can't give up. We have to find Ash and Gary," He said.
Meanwhile both Misty and Sabrina had skipped up to a couple of floors and were on the eighth floor. They had just secured that floor when the bumped into Gary and the pokémon.
"Are you Ok? Where's Ash?" Sabrina asked.
"I'm looking for Hat boy as well. Sammy could you help me with something?" Gary asked her.
"I'll try to help. What do you want me to do?" She asked quizzically.
"Teleport them out," the boy said pointing over his shoulder. Both girls looked over to see a group of people walking up behind him. These were the employees who did not join the rockets when they took over Sliph Co. The President was there as well.
"No problem," the master psychic said.
Ash was totally frustrated. Billie finally convinced him to put on a Team Rocket uniform. (I feel so silly in this get-up,) Ash thought. (Still this is only temporary.)
"Now that you have a uniform and a pokémon we need to talk to the boss for a assignment," Billie said.
"No need to look for me then. You two come with me," Giovanni said, Persian following him in. Ash was going to protest, but Giovanni said something that made him come quietly. "And hurry up if you want to see them again." The rockets left for Giovanni's helicopter on the roof.
A short time later Gary, Misty, Brock, Janine and Sabrina stood in the boardroom with Haunter leading them.
*He was just here, but not anymore, * the ghost said. *This is where the strongest psychic impression of him is. I think they may have taken him to another place. *
Gary staggered over to a chair a fell on to it. Eevee nuzzled his leg in concern.
(Ash, I'll find you,) He thought. (I'll find you.)
The next Vision:
Ash is stuck with the rockets,
Gary heads to Pewter with Janine,
Someone evolves and someone is born,
And he meets Holly again.
And the vision fades to a new concept as new things are realized.
{Unknown POV}
In a shaded glade several figures stood. Out of the woods in front of this group I came. They all stopped talking and focused on me.
"She is North of us. Spread out and find her before she makes the change. Do not attempt to apprehend her yourselves. Call for help, and we will come. That is all," I tell them. They nod and set out. I look to the full moon and think, (It will not be long now. I wonder what you are planning to do now that we are after you?)
Pokémon Oak Styled
Vision 06: Friendship is a shield from the darkness
Steps echoed throughout the hall as the rockets hurried to repair the psychic dampener. From a closet, a pair of eyes watched from a crack in the door. Eevee turned from the door and came back to the others.
*Gary and Ash must have been caught. There are too many Rockets, and the fact is they should have been back by now, * she said worriedly.
*Well, sitting around here well get us caught as well. Our best bet is to find them first, * Growlithe said.
*True and the best pokémon to find them is Haunter, * Bulbasaur said turned to look at the ghost type who was staring at his reflection in the metal walls.
*Who me? * He asked when everyone else turned to look at him.
*Yes you. We have the plans for this building, and access to every room. We just don't know where to go. You like Ash because you make each other laugh. So will you find him and Gary for us? * Electra pleaded to the purple ghost.
Haunter thought about it for a second, and then frowned. The others faces fell, but then Haunter burst out laughing and said *Of course. You guys are so funny when you panic. * Before anyone could respond, the giggling ghost floated though the wall he had previously looked at.
Ash was pushed in to the plush room complaining loudly about his pokémon and his position. "Let go of me and give me back my pidgeotto!" He yelled at the Team Rocket member who chuckled and just closed the door of the boardroom in his face. Ash grumbled as he looked around the room, his gaze settled on a man sitting in a high backed chair at the head of the board table. He was wearing a black business suit, with a red turtleneck shirt underneath. He had black, slicked back hair and a small red pin shaped like an R pinned to his suit jacket. Next to him sat a persian sat next to him.
"Welcome Ash Ketchum, You can call me Giovanni," The boss of team rocket said. "I have been watching you. So far you have gotten more badges in a shorter time then any new trainer in the last five years. Please sit."
Ash stared at him and the chair he offered. "I don't want to sit down, I want my Pidgeotto and my ... err... rival Gary!" Ash exclaimed. Giovanni raised an eyebrow, than laughed out loud.
"Boy you are in no position to argue or demand anything with me. Sit, otherwise you just might not see you rival and pokémon again," Giovanni said with a sneer. Ash grumbled but did as the older man said. "Now watch carefully," He said pushing a button on the table he was sitting at. A small TV monitor unfolded from the table. It was angled so that both Rocket and Trainer could see, and on it was Gary strapped to a table!
Pikachu and Electra were moving trough the ventilation shafts. Haunter had told the two electric mice that Gary was being held on the Seventh floor and Ash was on the Eleventh. Pidgeotto and Sandshrew were on the Tenth floor. The two mice had deiced to free the pokémon first. Then they were going to free Gary next and Ash last since he had the most security near him. Bulbasaur lowered them to the seventh, and then they used the map to find where the pokémon storage room was.
*It this it? * Pikachu asked Electra as crouched in front of a vent.
She glanced at a crude copy of the map and said, *Yep, knock it in if the room is clear. * Pikachu nodded, then looked in. Nothing was in there but rows and rows of pokéballs. Pikachu used a weak thunder shock to blast the vent covering to destroy the hold the vent grating had. It fell to the ground with a clatter. Both pokémon made the leap to the ground.
*It looks like we have to split up, * Electra said peering at the pokéball racks in worry.
Pikachu shook his head and said, *we need to stick together. If we spilt up we will be vulnerable. We do share the same type. Besides, we can check each rack from top to bottom faster that way. *
*All right if you insist, * she answered, *but I still think splitting up may have been better. * She said as she began to search.
Growlithe, Magikarp, Charmander, and Squirtle all were headed for the interrogation room. They were following a copy of the map similar to the one the pikachu had. Charmander was in the lead because he was the only one who could hold it, followed by Growlithe, and Squirtle was last carrying Magikarp.
*It's right up a head, * Charmander said to others in a whisper. They all gathered around a vent to see in the room. It was a large rectangle room. The only things in it where a table with straps, a counsel like device, and an electric generator. Gray was strapped to the table his shirt was off and in the corner. There were electric leads attached from the generator to different parts of his body. A rocket was at the counsel waiting for something. Gary was glaring at the Rocket. Suddenly a camera lowered from the ceiling.
The Rocket smirked at Gary and said, "Now smile for the camera."
"I'm not going to tell you anything," Gary said to him.
"I know," he said before turning a dial sending an electric current through Gary. At first the young trainer just gritted his teeth. After all he did train a pikachu. But as the intensity went up he finally started to scream.
"Stop that!" Ash screamed at Giovanni as he witnessed his former friends torment.
"I can't, but you can. All you have to do is join Team Rocket. Then he'll be fine." The gangster said.
"I can't," Ash said turning away.
"Of course you can," Giovanni stated. "You just choose not to. Still I hope your friend can forgive you. If he is still alive..."
"You wouldn't..." Ash stammered.
"Of course I wouldn't. I can't because I'm here with you. I can't be in two places at once. So your friend's pain is on you and you alone," He said looking down to go over some papers on his desk. Ash looked at him, then the monitor in horror.
Gary in the meantime had stop screaming. The Rocket had turned off the current to give him a rest. He was ordered not to kill the boy after all, at least not out right. Growlithe and Magikarp were horrified about was being done to the trainer and friend, and Charmander and Squirtle were frozen in shock.
"That's enough rest for now, on with the fun!" the rocket said. As he activated the machine again Growlithe and Magikarp had to be restrained from busting in there and torching and tackling him into oblivion.
*Remember the plan! We can't go attack until Haunter gives us the OK, * Squirtle said holding Magikarp back. Charmander was blocking Growlithe's way.
*You are only saying that because it isn't your Trainer that is in danger, * Magikarp said trying her hardest to get to Gary.
*That's not true and you know it, * Charmander said. *It's the fact that we don't know where that camera is sending to and who is watching. If we go early the others could get caught and we would be in even more trouble. *
At said location, Ash was agonizing over his choose. His conscience was saying that he should give in and join Team Rocket, but his pride said he shouldn't. After all Gary wasn't his friend right? (NO!) He thought. Gary may have not been his friend, but noone should have to suffer like that.
"All right I'll do it!" He shouted. "I'll join Team Rocket." The second he said that, Gary stopped being electrocuted.
"Excellent," Giovanni said. "Such loyalty is what we need in Team Rocket,"
"Elsewhere in the building, Eevee and Haunter searched for the second psychic dampener. Apparently, there was a second device on the fourth floor, and the two of them where going to destroy it.
*Haunter which way, * Eevee asked.
*This way, * the ghost pointed to the left. Eevee left the vent and headed to down the hall. Running up to a locked door.
She looked at him and asked, *so? *
*So what? * He responded looking back at her.
*Open the door! * She growled.
*Oh! * Haunter said. He moved to phase through the door, but he froze when the door slid open revealing Holly!
"Hi you two, there's no need for you to be here. I sabotaged the machine in there. You two better find Ash; because in about an hour all heck will break loose," Holly said running between the two of them and down the hall. The two pokémon looked in the room and found about twenty-five rockets and various pokémon lying on the ground in a range of positions, all of them unconscious. What was left of the Psychic Dampener sat silently around the room, dead. (Whoa...) was all the two shocked pokémon had running though their minds.
Gary was dragged through the halls of the ninth floor of Sliph Co barely aware. He was tossed carelessly in a break room and the Rocket locked the door and turned around snickering. But he stopped when he saw Growlithe and Charmander who immediately torched him with a duel flamethrower attack. Magikarp and Squirtle tackled the charred man knocking him out. Now the only the locked door stood between them and Gary.
At first they tried fire attacks, but they weren't strong enough. All of the doors in the building were fireproof safety doors. Squirtle tried his water gun with Charmander and Growlithe both tried their flamethrower again. After a few moments and a lot of steam later, the door was still standing. The next tried knocking it down with scratches, tackling, and taking downs, but it repelled their best efforts.
*Now what? * Charmander said.
Electra looked around at each pokéball. She stopped sniffing each one when she heard Pikachu called out. Looking up she found him on the top shelf holding two pokéballs, one with a small Ying-yang symbol on the top of the red part of it.
*I found them! Electra uses the card key to turn off the security! * He called down to her.
*Right! * She exclaimed after taken the key card out of her mouth. Scampering down the row, she stopped right at the end. A small card reader was attached there. After a no small bit of climbing and moving around she managed to swipe the card in the reader.
*Take 'em Pikachu! * She called. He nodded then pulled both balls from their holders. The tow electric types took them and headed for the nearest exit. Suddenly a message popped into their heads.
[Hey you two, the second system is gone. We're headed for the others. Meet us at the cell,] Haunter sent.
(Ok!) Electra thought back. The two raced off.
Meanwhile Gary was lost in memory, the pain of his body was being echoed in his mind. It was trying to forget were he was now.
(I'm alone. I'm always alone. Yes, this is better then letting others in. This is better then letting myself be hurt. I remember when May, the only one who cared, the only one who paid attention to me, she turned on me too, didn't she?)
Gary watched as May met Ash in the front lawn. He watched as the exchanged greetings. They ran off, but Ash looked back, directly at the window that Gary was behind. It was like he could see the young boy behind the window. Gary watched as he turned and left. (Ash...)
(She was just like Mom and Dad. So busy working that we never saw them. I don't even remember what they look like. They're always on some assignment for Sliph Co, or something...)
Gary blew out the candles on his seventh birthday. He wished for the same thing he did every year. (Please come home. I think I miss you...) the boy thought as he looked longingly at the door. Ignoring his sister, his grandfather, his friend, and his friend's mom. (Please...)
(Even Grandpa forgot about me. All he cared about was his work. All he talked about was how Ash did this or that. I wonder why he trusted me even to go on this journey?)
Gary was in Cerulean City. He had just beaten the Gym leader and was excitingly calling his grandfather. As soon as the sleepy professor picked up, Gary confidently started to extol his victory, but stopped when the professor seemed to almost be falling asleep.
"Gramps? Are you there?" Gary asked.
"Oh I'm sorry, Ash sent me a injured pokémon and I had to stay up all night to help him. I sure winning your first badge was quite the achievement. Well done. But you're behind the others so you really should try to catch up. Anyway I have to go, so I'll talk to you later," He said hanging up.
"Bye Gramps, I love you too..." Gary said to the black video screen.
(I wonder if my pokémon will even come for me. How do I follow my heart if I can't even find it?) He was startled out of his reflections when Magi, who had evolved into a gyarados, ripped the door off its hinges.
*Did some one call the Calvary? * Growlithe asked as he charged in.
Ash watched as the rocket leader pushed a button on his desk, activating an intercom. "Billie come to my office now," Giovanni said. Seeing Ash's questioning gaze he said, "All rockets need a partner." They both waited for a few moments then a girl came in to the room. She was about Misty's height and she had long, dark brown-black hair that fell to her waist. Her eyes were an interesting shade of gray. She was wearing the black variation of the Team Rocket uniform.
"Billie this will be your partner," Giovanni said to her.
"As you command," She said. She and Ash looked curiously at each other. But before anymore words could be said. A Rocket came running into the room followed by one of the Rockets assigned to watch the bottom floors.
"Boss! There are some trainers storming the place. They're wiping us out with their pokémon," He said gasping for air.
(It must be Misty, Brock, Janine and Sabrina. I wonder what took them so long?) Ash thought. "Umm... shouldn't we go help?" He asked Giovanni.
"No. I want you to go with Billie and get some equipment. I will handle this small problem," The boss ordered as he and his Persian left.
"Come on," Billie said as she dragged Ash out of the room by his arm. She set a quick pace out of the room and to the elevator.
"Wait I don't want to go anywhere," Ash shouted pulling away from the girl.
"What you want doesn't matter. It's only the bosses way that does," Billie said tugging him back on course. "Things will be a lot easier if you remember that."
Elsewhere Gary was searching though his backpack. He had recalled both his gyarados and his fearow. He pulled out what he was looking for. A firestone.
"Growlithe, Acry, I know you learned a lot, in fact all of your moves. I got this and I was wondering..." Gary asked.
*Say no more. I was waiting for this, and I'm ready, * Growlithe said.
Gary nodded, then placed the stone to his forehead. White light engulfed the fire canine and he grew and changed shape. The growlithe became bigger. Still covered in orange fur with black stripes, now he had white fur tuffs growing from his legs. He had a large white mane and a cream under belly with the same white tail only bigger and longer. Growlithe evolved into an Arcanine.
Gary recalled everyone except Pikachu, Eevee, Arcanine, Electra, and Pidgeotto. "Let's go," He said, leaning on Arcanine to walk out of the room. As they when through the halls of the ninth floor, the heard a voice behind another looked door. Gary nodded to the others, then opened the door the Eevee, Pikachu, Electra, and Pidgeotto rushed in to subdue anyone inside, but stopped when they saw who was inside.
Janine watched as Venonat took out another grimer with a psybeam. "Hey Brock, there are no end to these guys," She said to the rock trainer. He nodded as his vulpix fainted another rocket pokémon.
"I know. But still we can't give up. We have to find Ash and Gary," He said.
Meanwhile both Misty and Sabrina had skipped up to a couple of floors and were on the eighth floor. They had just secured that floor when the bumped into Gary and the pokémon.
"Are you Ok? Where's Ash?" Sabrina asked.
"I'm looking for Hat boy as well. Sammy could you help me with something?" Gary asked her.
"I'll try to help. What do you want me to do?" She asked quizzically.
"Teleport them out," the boy said pointing over his shoulder. Both girls looked over to see a group of people walking up behind him. These were the employees who did not join the rockets when they took over Sliph Co. The President was there as well.
"No problem," the master psychic said.
Ash was totally frustrated. Billie finally convinced him to put on a Team Rocket uniform. (I feel so silly in this get-up,) Ash thought. (Still this is only temporary.)
"Now that you have a uniform and a pokémon we need to talk to the boss for a assignment," Billie said.
"No need to look for me then. You two come with me," Giovanni said, Persian following him in. Ash was going to protest, but Giovanni said something that made him come quietly. "And hurry up if you want to see them again." The rockets left for Giovanni's helicopter on the roof.
A short time later Gary, Misty, Brock, Janine and Sabrina stood in the boardroom with Haunter leading them.
*He was just here, but not anymore, * the ghost said. *This is where the strongest psychic impression of him is. I think they may have taken him to another place. *
Gary staggered over to a chair a fell on to it. Eevee nuzzled his leg in concern.
(Ash, I'll find you,) He thought. (I'll find you.)
The next Vision:
Ash is stuck with the rockets,
Gary heads to Pewter with Janine,
Someone evolves and someone is born,
And he meets Holly again.
And the vision fades to a new concept as new things are realized.