Chapter 5 

"Someone Please Rescue Me!!!"

          Lance saw what was happening and decided to try to help me, but before he could, ten Rocket Grunts attacked and surrounded him to be sure that he couldn't get to me.  He had no choice but to fight the grunts, and while he was doing that, a Rocket Executive grabbed the netting that trapped me and pulled it off of me.  Then he seized me and dragged me off to their hideout.  The grunts were defeated easily and I followed them in high hopes that they would unknowingly lead me to their hideout, so that I could rescue Rosella.  The grunts realized that I was following them, so they threw some sort of vial to the ground, which caused a smoke effect, and it allowed them to make their get-away.

I knew that she must be absolutely terrified and I angrily thought and asked myself, "Dadgum it!  Why on earth was I not keeping a closer eye on her!?  Now I'll have to get her back, and lord knows how easy that's going to be!  The rockets will guard her like a swarm of hawks." 

Then I knew what I had to do, so I pulled my cell phone out from one of the pockets of my black cape and called my other Elite friends.  Bruno answered the phone and asked, "Bruno speaking, who's this?" 

"Bruno, its me, Lance." 

"Oh hi, Lance, what's going on?  Did you find Rosella?"  Bruno asked.

 

I replied, "Yes, I found her and it's about her that I called." 

"What about her?" Bruno asked. 

"Bruno, Rosella was kidnapped five minutes ago, and there was nothing I could do to save her."  I told him. 

"Lance, pull yourself together and meet us back at the plateau.  When you get here, we'll devise a plan of action to rescue her."  Bruno said. 

"Okay, I'll be there as soon as I possibly can."  I replied. 

After that conversation, I ended the call and threw out my poke ball containing Aerodactyl, and flew back to the Indigo Plateau.  When I got there I recalled Aerodactyl and went inside the HQ building.  I found my friends and we decided to hold an urgent meeting in a couple of minutes.  When the rocket executive arrived at Rocket Headquarters with his prisoner, he took me inside, and once inside the executive tied me up and he led me into the boss's office.  Giovanni bid him leave, and I was set on a chair, still tied up.  A Meowth was curled up asleep on Giovanni's desk chair.  Giovanni paced around me slowly, a glass of brandy in his hand.  He swirled the drink slowly, seemed to be in thought.

"What is your name." 

It wasn't a question.  I was so scared, I wanted so much for this nightmare to end, that I didn't answer, and just closed my eyes. 

"Answer me.  NOW." 

"Rosella." 

He stopped I didn't need to open my eyes to know that. 

Then he started walking very fast, toward me.  He grabbed my chin and leaned down, looking me in the face.  He was so close that I could smell the alcohol on his breath. 

"Open your eyes." 

I opened them, fear now apparent in them. 

"You kidnapped me." 

I said quietly, tears starting to fall.  Giovanni once again stood up. 

"I haven't hurt anyone.  I just had you brought here." 

"LIAR!" I screamed.  "YOU STILL KIDNAPPED ME! I WAS HAPPY BEING FREE ON MY POKEMON JOURNEY!"  "SILENCE!" 

Giovanni roared, waking the Meowth up.  I broke down and began to sob, hard. 

He walked over to his desk, and pushed a button on his call box "Todd, I have an errand for you to run." 

Todd, the executive that brought me here, rushed into the room immediately. 

"Yes, boss?" 

The executive cried in a high voice. 

"Take this girl down to the detention block, cell K.  We'll interrogate her later."  His boss said. 

The executive untied me and then forced me to stand.  I walked with him, wishing, wanting, anything better than this hell to continue. He led me into the detention block I had stopped crying at the point, and he took the keys from the key ring and then took me into Cell K.  He roughly indicated to me that I was to sit on the makeshift bed that apparently had already been prepared for me.  I sat, because I knew from what Lance had told me earlier that Team Rocket was perfectly capable of hurting me.  The executive saw I followed his command and instead of speaking, he pulled the wrist chain that was mounted into the wall and fastened it around my right wrist and locked it with one of the two keys. 

Then he turned to leave, and at the door he paused and faced me once more and he said, "Rosella, give us no trouble and you'll be fine, but if you give us trouble you'll see just how badly we can hurt you." 

Then he said, "Escape is out of the question, so don't even try." 

After he said that he walked out of my cell and locked the cell door with the other one of the two keys behind him.  Alone and scared in the gloominess of the dungeon, I wondered what Lance was doing.  I hoped that he was coming up with a plan to rescue me.  With nothing else to do, I lay down on the bed and tried to get some sleep.