The Omega
Mutation
by Joshua Falken
Thanks to BenRG for beta read this chapter :-D
Chapter 13 - Capture at Goldenrod City
In his office in the Team Rocket base at Black Island, Giovanni personally investigated where Delia... Omega was hiding. His agents could be very good at research, but they didn't know how their prey thought.
He knew.
He had already been informed on the attack by Omega on Sector Athena's Base two days ago. Obviously, that was where the fools were keeping Omega's offspring prisoner. And since she had already recovered her son (a reasonable idea since she didn't attack again), it was most probable that she would remain hidden for some time until she felt it was safe to move again.
The big question: Where?
She would want an isolated place, perhaps a house in the outskirts of some big city. She would want a house in the center of an area that was easy to protect and allowed her to keep watch for potential enemies. Perhaps a place that had been derelict for some time. That would avoid suspicions (and it would be easier to afford; after all, in her civil life, Omega was not rich). Most importantly, she would have acquired the property shortly after the Venonat G3 satellite detected her. She had no reason to need an alternative hideout before that time. Delia was a conservative thinker, and she would not take the risk of buying a retreat unless she was sure that she needed it.
In the Kanto Region there were not a lot of properties that matched those characteristics.
Analysing the land sales that had happened from the incident that the satellite had registered, a name jumped immediately to his eyes.
He had to laugh. It was so... obvious!
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While Tracey was checking the monolithic Pokéball racks that contained the many Pokémon caught by the Trainers of Pallet Town, Professor Samuel Oak walked to and fro. He was trying to decide what to do next. In his right hand he held a black-and-white Master-type Pokéball. That had been the Pokéball that had captured Omega, when she invaded his laboratory.
He remembered that night thirteen years ago perfectly. A noise coming from the laboratory had awoken him in the middle of the night. He went down to investigate and suddenly a... being jumped on him, seizing him by the neck. The shine of the glowing green slitted eyes paralysed him. However, before Omega could demand that the researcher help her, she cried out in pain and collapsed to the floor, writhing in pain and cradling her belly as if there were something there that she wanted to protect...
The only thing that Oak could think that this was some new species of Pokémon, and one that clearly was in pain from some injury or illness. The only thing for him was capture that "Pokémon" in a special Pokéball that he was evaluating on behalf of the Sliph Corporation of Saffron City. When he examined his newest Pokémon with his equipment, he discovered that its genes, although a fearful mix of hundreds of species, were primarily human... and that she was pregnant...
"My God, what I do?" he had asked the empty laboratory.
After hearing Delia Darkholme's story, he decided to help her. Partly it was out of pity for the terrible fate that had come upon this woman. However, for the most part it was out a sense of guilt. Team Rocket could not have achieved this transformation of a human into a part-Ditto part-human killing machine without the data produced by the Pokémon Genome Project from United Nations, a project that, as chief co-ordinator, had let him make his name in the field of Pokémon Biology.
Now, he was not sure if he had done the right thing in helping that strange, pitiful and terrifying creature.
Oak looked at the Master Ball again. He had never checked, but he was fairly sure that the ID Transponder from the ball was still inside Delilah somewhere. If he wanted to, he was sure he could recall her to the ball like any other Pokémon. Not that he would ever do something like that. Unless he had no other choice, and it was possible that the time might come, soon, when he had to make that decision. He was watching as the TV news reported the events of the last few days. The UNDF had denied it of course, but everyone knew that something had completely destroyed dozens of military bases throughout the Orange Archipelago and the Johto Region.
You didn't need to be a genius to know who was responsible.
He knew that Delilah was desperate to find Ash. He also knew that nothing could stop Omega in that objective. He also knew that the more desperate Delilah became, the more that the 'personality' of Omega, created by Team Rocket's behavioural experts to be the perfect killer, would come to the fore. As soon as Delilah found Ash, Sam was sure that she would regain control of herself. However, if she could not find him. or if he was already dead... Then only God knew what Omega was capable of and who would suffer because of it...
Oak knew her weakness. A phone call for UNDF was enough to stop Omega's rampage. But doing so would condemn Delilah and Ash to death, or worse to slavery... "What I do?" Oak collapsed into a chair, feeling every of his 58 years.
What Professor Oak didn't notice was that someone was watching him from the second floor mezzanine.
Delilah closed her eyes with a sigh. 'Everybody that I touch... ends up suffering,' she thought, biting her lip. Then she shook her head and went to the room where Ash was staying until their family home was repaired. There she found Pikachu and Chikorita.
When the Pokémon saw their Trainer's mother, they leapt to their feet in excitement.
[Mrs. Ketchum!] Pikachu blurted.
[You come back!] Chikorita cried out, just as surprised.
"Yes, I returned," she replied. "I've come to take you back to Ash!"
Delilah didn't need to say anything else. The two Pokémon leapt into her arms without hesitation. Delilah extruded a vine whip to grab Ash's Pokébelt (carrying Charizard, Totodile, Noctowl and Cyndaquil). Then she concentrated, blurred like a bad TV picture and teleported away...
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Misty entered in the room, carrying a tray with a snack for Ash. She found him, looking at his wrists. "Is there anything wrong, Ash?"
"Nothing at all, it's just a strange itching in my wrists." He shrugged.
Misty sat down in the bed and looked at her boyfriend. Although he still looked like he had been run over by a bulldozer, he seemed stronger than he was when Mrs. Ketchum freed them. The advantages of an evolved healing factor, she couldn't avoid thinking. She stood up, forgetting an empty glass sitting on the bed. As she got up, it over balanced.
"Hey, Misty!" Ash caught the glass and, in the moment that he stretched out his arm, a jet of sticky cord shot out of his wrist and stuck to her back.
Misty gasped in shock. The cord resembled a bug-type Pokémon's String Shot attack. Ash grimaced. "I'm sorry, Misty," he said at last. "Mom said that my body is still trying to get its' equilibrium back. I keep on waking up with new organs! I was burping Weezing poison gas most of last night!" Ash leaned forward to try and pull his webbing from his girlfriend's back. However, some reaction made the spinnerets on his wrist retract the webbing. Misty stumbled backwards and fell on top of Ash. The two of them were face-to-face, their lips very, very close to touching. Ash and Misty were paralysed by surprise and some other... feelings. They just lay there, staring into each other's eyes.
That was how Delilah found them when she was materialised in the room. She smiled wryly as she observed the strange tableaux. "I think arrived at exactly the wrong moment..." she commented with a dry chuckle. Ash went bright red, like an emergency light, in embarrassment, as did Misty.
Eventually, Delilah had to use a Muk's acids to dissolve the steel-like cord connecting Ash and Misty. After the two teenagers were untangled, Delilah took the orange-haired girl aside. 'Uh oh...' Misty thought, getting ready for a sermon.
Instead of that, Delilah gave her a cell-phone and said: "Call your father."
"WHAT?" Delilah repeated the request. "Um... Mrs. Ketchum? You do know that my father works for the UNDF, don't you?"
"Yes, I know. Please, Misty, it is really very important that you speak to him now."
Couldn't she ask something easier, like... capturing the Unown, for example? "But... Ash and I were prisoners of UNDF! I mean, my father with certainty knew..." Misty wasn't sure that she knew what she was trying to say.
"No, Misty. He didn't know about that." Delilah said in a tone of certainty that surprised Misty.
"But... how can you be sure?"
The mutant woman turned her head and she didn't answer. A chill went up the young trainer's spine when she realised that Ash's mother had probably asked him. Probably most forcefully. "Just call your father, Misty. The phone has the number stored on it."
The girl looked at the woman for a while, before pressing 'Call'. After a few moments, a man's voice, tired and surprised, answered. "Hello?"
"D-dad?"
"Misty? My God, where are you? Are you okay?"
"Yes, I am." She was surprised with the intensity of his concern. "I... I can't say where I am Dad."
"Why not?"
"Well... I..."
Delilah covered the phone with the cold hand. "Tell him that you want to meet him tonight in Rosalind Franklin Park in Vermilion City."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Trust me." Misty did what she was told and ended the call.
"Mrs. Ketchum... do you know what are you doing?"
Delilah cocked her head like a curious bird. "I hope so," she said after a disturbingly long silence.
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That afternoon, Pikachu and Chikorita were the first Pokémon to help a human to train to use Pokémon-like abilities.
"Then, Ash, extend your arm to the front, with the palm of the hand upward." Delilah explained. "Take aim in the direction of the object and curl your forefinger into the palm of your hand." Ash bit his lip in concentration and executed his mother's instructions. The glands (that seemed a permanent fixture now) spat a jet of Spinarak web that struck an old vase that Delilah had selected as a practice target and stuck to its' side, still attached to his wrist at the other end.
"Nice shot," Delilah said in a quiet, unhappy tone of voice. She hated the fact that this had happened to her son. However, now that it had happened, she had to train him to use his abilities properly and keep them hidden from the rest of the world. "Now, concentrate on retracting the webbing back into your spinneret gland." Nothing happened. Delilah hummed thoughtfully. "Okay, let's try something else. Extend your forefinger again." Ash did as he was told and the webbing was retracted so quickly that the vase was thrown towards him. Pikachu and Chikorita barely got out of the way in time.
[Be careful!] Pikachu squeaked.
[We're not the targets, remember, Ashy?] Chikorita added loudly.
"Sorry, guys!" Ash said, a great droplet of sweat appearing at the side of his face.
Delilah smiled as she listened to the two Pokémon scold their Trainer. She stood up and started setting various objects on shelves and chairs scattered around the room. "I want you to keep practising, Ash," she instructed. "Concentrate especially on catching the object that you snare in your Spider Web attacks when you retract it. Remember that your senses are far more acute and your reaction times are far quicker than a human's are. Use this advantage to help you." Ash nodded mutely, not liking the implication that he wasn't human. Delilah smiled and kissed her son on the forehead. "I'll be back in a short while," she said. "Misty and I have to deal with some business first."
Ash watched his mother leave and then looked at his wrists, noting the congealed webbing in the small of his wrists. 'I bet Spider Man never had to go to this trouble,' he thought bleakly. He launched another Spider Web and, much to his annoyance, the webbing came loose from his spinneret and glued an old book to the wall. "I've got to figure out how to control this stuff," he snapped.
[You don't have to tell me that,] Pikachu replied.
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That evening, a Dragonite dropped out of the sky over Rosalind Franklin Park, carrying a young redheaded Pokémon Trainer. The girl dismounted and looked around her without much enthusiasm. "Do you think he came?" she asked.
"I am sure that he came," the Dragonite replied before morphing into a tall blond woman wearing a long coat. Delilah looked to the east her eyes, which had many of the same adaptations as a Pidgeot's, power-zoomed and adapted to the twilight gloom. "Is that him standing by the lake?" she asked. "You specified that you would meet him there."
"Yes, that's him," Misty said, unable to keep the excitement out of her voice. She turned around and saw that Delilah had moved away from her. "Where are you going?" she asked.
"I have to check some details regarding our return to Indigo." The mutant woman explained, forming dark glasses on her face. "Misty... I'm sorry."
"For what?" Delilah Ketchum didn't answer. She couldn't. She just walked away with a silent tread that would impress a Persian.
Misty swallowed dryly and started to walk towards the man that her super-powered associate had seen. She was surprised to see the burns on the man's face and neck, as well as the bruises that covered his face. As soon as the man heard her approach, he leapt to his feet. "M-Misty?" he asked, sounding more than a little afraid.
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Meanwhile, a blonde woman awaited somebody in an alley. A white-haired and badly shaved man appeared. "Miss Koontz?"
"Yes. Are you Mr. Renner?" The blonde asked.
He nodded in confirmation. "Here is what you asked for," he said, giving her a package. "And my payment?"
Without saying a word, she gave a package of money. Satisfied, he turned to leave, when he asked. "How did you know about me?"
"We have a... common friend," she replied cryptically.
He shrugged and left. 'Miss Koontz' examined the package and confirmed that this was what she wanted. "This is satisfactory," she said to herself. "Now, I have another appointment." With a firm stride, she headed off to the west. There were arrangements that she had to make. She had to be sure that, should the worst come to the worst, her son would be safe.
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"What happened, Misty?" General Kent Williams exclaimed to his daughter. "Your sisters said that you had just disappeared from the Gym!" After he had arrived back to his base the first thing that he did was call Daisy. His oldest daughter had sounded very confused as she explained that everyone in the Gym had blacked out for some reason and that, when they recovered, Misty was gone...
Misty sighed deeply. She was certain now that her father had nothing to do with her and Ash's abduction. Of course, she was already fairly sure thanks to what Mrs. Ketchum had told her. Now came the hard bit. She knew that her father was a loyal soldier and a good man who was proud of the work that the UNDF had done to unify the human race. However, it was her duty to give him the shock of his professional life. "Um... well, Dad, I don't know how to say this... But I was kidnapped by some of your comrades-in-arms."
"I beg your pardon?" Williams blurted to his daughter.
Misty told him what had happened as quickly and as clearly as she could. When she told him about the "Evil Twin", her father's expression became wary and alert. A woman who could pass as Misty's twin? He remembered that the day following the attack on Clearview Valley Base, Major Sandra Stormer, one of Jeffrey Straker's immediate subordinates, was found in the forest... with her face unrecognisable. Whoever had done it hadn't amputated the woman's face, but they had come close. The finest plastic surgeons were saying it would be months, possibly years, before her face even looked human again, let alone a passable double of his youngest daughter... Kent remembered how much Major Stormer's resemblance to Misty had disturbed him in the past.
Misty concluded her story. "And what had happened."
Williams licked his lips before continuing. "Misty, by any chance, this unit who arrested you and your... friend. Did their uniforms have a unit patch like the United Nations emblem only with an Greek statue instead of the world map?"
Misty blinked. "Yes," she said in a confused tone.
General Williams exploded. Now he understood everything. "Son of a...!" He was too upset even to complete that thought. "Then was that imbecile Straker that caused all of this! That stupid bastard has been competing with me since we were both junior officers! No wonder that Mrs. Ketchum thought that I was involved! He would love to frame me for one of his..." Williams suddenly closed his mouth. He had said too much.
Misty was leaning forward, her blue eyes bright with worry. "What? Was Mrs. Ketchum with you?" When her father didn't reply, she asked another question, one of more importance to her. "Did she hurt you?"
What now, General Einstein? Williams asked himself. "Well, let say that after your disappearance and that of your friend, Mrs. Ketchum became somewhat... upset. We had a meeting, and not a pleasant one. However we did come to an... er.... understanding..." He explained, unconsciously rubbing some of the bruises on his chest. Williams sucked in a deep breath. Now it was his turn to get confirmation of something that Mrs. Ketchum had said. "At the end of our... meeting, Mrs. Ketchum told me something, Misty. She said that... that... that you didn't hate me, but that you thought that I was angry with you. Is that true?"
Misty was silent for a moment. Her head was spinning with contradictory emotions. "Yes, Dad." She whispered. "It's true. I always thought you blamed me..." She hiccuped as tears began to stream down her cheeks, "for mom's death... I... always thought that..."
Kent Williams was pale. "Oh, God, Misty!" he said at last, his voice trembling. "I never blamed you for anything! And never for Rose's death! I thought you and your sisters blamed me for that! That you hated me for her death! For being. a coward that was never there when you needed me! For..." He began to cry, liberating an anguish that had been locked inside of him for too long.
"Dad..." Misty had started crying too. She collapsed into his arms and the two could only hug silently as their tears mixed together.
After a few minutes, Misty managed to get back control of her voice and looked up into her father's eyes. "I have to go, Dad," she said. "Mrs. Ketchum is waiting for me. You aren't going to chase her are you?"
"No, with certainty not." 'I think I owe her that,' he added silently. "Honey, there is only one thing I have to know," he said. "If Ash hadn't been in danger, would she have gone on a rampage the way that she did? Would she ever hurt anyone?"
"She was so gentle before all this happened," Misty replied. "I can't imagine the Delilah Ketchum that I knew before hurting anyone." That was the only thing that she could say with certainty at this stage.
They said good-bye and went their separate ways. She, to go back to her boyfriend's side. He, to have a discussion with Jeffrey Straker, that demon that wore the uniform of an officer and a gentleman.
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Misty and Delilah, in the form of a Dragonite, landed silently in front of the house in Goldenrod City. Misty dismounted and Delilah assumed her human form. "You are furious with me, aren't you?" Delilah said. It was really a statement rather than a question.
"I don't know what to think, Mrs. Ketchum! I can't believe that you thought..." Misty couldn't continue the sentence. She was furious with Delilah, she knew that much.
"I was wrong, Misty! I recognise that, but... please listen to me!" The mutant woman grabbed the girl by the arm. She felt a need to explain herself. "You have to understand that I wasn't thinking clearly. With Ash in danger, I could only think about saving him. Nothing else mattered. You can't hold anyone else responsible for this." Delilah released Misty's arm and sighed, wishing not for the first time that she could run her hand through her hair without feeling... weird. "Any mistake made was mine and mine alone," Delilah concluded.
Misty looked at her and was silent for a moment. "All right, Mrs. Ketchum," she replied at last. Then she turned and went in direction to the house.
"Did you talk with your father?"
"Yes." The girl said without turning. "But don't think that I thank you for that."
Delilah didn't say anything. She couldn't.
Delilah stood alone for a long time before her senses picked up something nearby. She frowned and lashed out with a vine whip. She looked at the Rattata with the camera strapped to its' back for a while, noting the red 'R' painted on the camera. Anger and fear boiled up and she tightened her grip, crushing the rodent-like normal-type to death in her coils. It seemed that her former colleagues had located her.
She strode into the room where Ash and Misty were talking, her face expressionless. "Time to leave," she snapped.
Misty shivered, seeing Delilah disappear once again, and seeing Omega take charge.
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Some minutes later, Giovanni was informed that Omega knew that she was being watched. He was not alarmed. He had expected Delia to find out eventually. "Domino, put the plan in motion," he told his agent. "And Domino, I won't tolerate mistakes or your brand of 'initiative'. Omega must be captured alive. My order on her son is still in force. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir!" Domino said smartly.
Giovanni cut the connection and contacted Professor Ivy. "I understand that your method to capture Omega is flawless, my dear Madeleine?"
"Yes," Professor Ivy replied, clearly still feeling uncomfortable being in her white-and-grey Team Rocket uniform again. "Omega cannot escape from us this time."
"Good." He cut the connection, sat back in his semi-darkened office and waited.
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About one hour later, three people arrived in Goldenrod City Central Train Station: a tall blond woman in a long black coat, a blond boy whose hair was in a ponytail and a girl with long black hair. A Pikachu was riding on the girl's shoulder while a Chikorita was running ahead of them.
"Mom, I feel ridiculous with this wig!", Ash murmured to Delilah.
"Ash, we needed a disguise to travel to Pallet Town." The mutant woman explained with a smile. "Besides, I think that you look far more handsome like this."
"To be honest, you are a better catch now than you are normally," Misty said with a giggle.
Pikachu and Chikorita started laughing.
"Misty..." Ash growled through clenched teeth.
While, Ash and Misty started a low-volume argument, Delilah's eyes scanned the interior of the train station. There was no sign of UN Defence Forces soldiers or Team Rocket agents. Delilah's plan was very simple: They would travel by train to Pallet Town. They would hide out in a house near Professor Oak's laboratories, at last until she could come up with a decent plan to end this chase once and for all. She was confident that the false identities that she had arranged would allow her son and his girlfriend to have a measure of a normal life. She sighed. At least, her stupidity had not hurt their relationship. She was enough honest to thank to God that.
Of course, the biggest continuing threat to Ash and Misty's happiness was her continued existence. Worse come to worse, Professor Oak had chemicals in his laboratory that would allow her to permanently remove that obstacle.
Sighing, she looked at the clock on the terminal walls. It was half an hour before the Goldenrod to Saffron express left the station. She didn't like being exposed like this, but they had no other choice. The fugitives sat down in the central lobby.
A stomach growled loudly and Misty and Delilah looked around in surprise at the source. Ash blushed.
Delilah barely managed to avoid laughing aloud. "I will get a snack for us," she promised. The mutant woman went to a kiosk where a middle-aged couple served the customers. Why did she have the sensation that knew them?
"Two... no, three cheese salad sandwiches and two glasses of orange juices, please." Ash was still a little weak - he needed food. Besides, she could subsist on dirt and solar energy for weeks thanks to the little bits of Oddish that Team Rocket had put in her.
"Sure... Omega."
"WHAT?!" Delilah was stunned.
The woman turned towards her and flung off her disguise revealing a familiar blonde-haired woman. "To infect the world with devastation."
The man threw off his disguise revealing a Team Rocket uniform and hair that was dyed leaf green for some reason. "To blight all people of every nation."
"To denounce the lies of truth and love."
"To extend our wrath to the stars above."
"Cassidy!"
"Butch!"
"Team Rocket! Circling Earth at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or lose the fight!"
Delilah got over her shock enough to start laughing, making Butch and Cassidy look at each other nervously. They must be mad! She had already shown these imbeciles that attempting to take her by surprise was nearly impossible! An open assault like this would indicate that they were insane or just suicidal!
Several smoke bombs exploded throughout the station, creating a stampede of panicking would-be passengers. At least thirty Rocket Agents abseiled down for the glass roof, releasing several fully evolved Pokémon, especially Charizards and Typhlosions.
Omega, now in full battle mode, launched herself from the cover of the smoke. Hyper-beams and water gun blasts shot in every direction, sending Team Rocket agents and Pokémon tumbling end-over end.
Immediately Ash and Misty released their Pokémon and ordered them into the battle.
Omega was furious. She couldn't believe that Team Rocket would do something like this when there were so many innocents around who could be injured. She was so focussed that she didn't see Butch and Cassidy sneak forward, carrying rifles.
"Don't even think about it!" Ash yelled, throwing a String Shot that snatched the rifles from the surprised agents' hands. And Ash pointed forwards. "Pikachu, Thunderbolt attack!"
A helicopter with the Team Rocket sigil painted on the side flew low over the station. A hatch on the underside opened up and dozens of Voltorbs dropped out. "Use Explode attack!" Domino ordered from inside the helicopter.
Omega teleported most of the electric/steel-type Pokmon outside of the station. However, she grabbed two, intending to use them to blow the Team Rocket helicopter out of the sky. She launched herself into the air on Dragonite's wings. As she ascended, she saw that the helicopter had launched several rotating metal rings.
Omega immediately recognised them from Ash's report of Lawrence III's insane attempt to capture the Legendary Birds. Suddenly the rings swept towards her and surrounded her like a cage. The rings began to emit a powerful electromagnetic field that polarised every molecule in Omega's body, holding her rigid. As Delilah struggled to free herself, the rings carried their victim back towards the helicopter.
"MOM!" Ash screamed. Before he could think what he should do, several Team Rocket Skiplooms cruised overhead, shedding Stun Spores. Everyone in the station was knocked out immediately.
Omega, now feeling as rigid as stone, was dragged aboard the helicopter. She watched helplessly as Domino walked forwards. "You don't have a Togepi to save you now," Domino said with an evil grin. She fastened a red plastic collar with inlaid circuitry around Delilah's neck. "Pleasant dreams, Omega," Domino said as the mutant woman slid into an electronically commanded sleep state.
As soon as she was sure that her mission objective was secure, Domino turned to her grinning pilot and mimed wiping the sweat from her brow. "Let's get out of here before our luck runs out," she commanded.
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Ash snapped awake, instantly alert. Around him, the other people were recovering more slowly. "What happened, Ash?" Misty asked groggily.
He was trying to figure this out himself. Then everything came back: The attack by Team Rocket! And Team Rocket capturing his mother. "Misty, come on," he hissed. Misty looked up in confusion but allowed her boyfriend to lift her to her feet. Ash strode away, a confused Misty, Pikachu and Chikorita following close behind. He had to get to Pallet Town. Then he had to figure out what was his next move.
Whatever that was he swore that he would rescue his mother... whatever the cost.
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While Ash and Misty made their exit from the stage of the preceding events, a brunette was eagerly talking to a blond man with a video camera. "Did you record everything?" she asked urgently.
"Everything! You bet!" the man responded.
"Did you record that blue thing that was fighting against Team Rocket?"
"Yes, I recorded it!"
"Then, let's go!" ordered Michelle Crossridge, star reporter of the Indigo News Network. "We've got a news special to broadcast." The woman was already dreaming of accepting the International Pulitzer Prize. She had the scoop of the century... No! She had the scoop of the millennium!
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Delilah Ketchum, or better, Agent Omega of Team Rocket, opened her eyes. She was floating in a clear grey liquid. Several tubes and wires were connected to her body. The mutant woman tried to move, but nothing happened. It was as if something had shut down all her motor nerves.
Then she felt the all-too-familiar weight around her neck. It was something that she had prayed that she would never feel again. It was a Team Rocket control necklace. How could this have happened? Then she remembered the battle at the train station. 'Oh God, Ash, please be okay,' she prayed devoutly.
Then she noticed that someone was watching her. Her confusion and fear gave way for a mortal rage: she knew that "person" (and she used the term lacking anything more accurate) far too well!
The person was a violet-haired woman a little shorter than Delilah was, with narrow dark eyes. She was the one who had transformed Delilah in the monster in that she was now: the top geneticist in Team Rocket, Professor Madeleine Beryl Ivy.
Professor Ivy gave a step forward and she looked at directly at her greatest creation. "And so the prodigal daughter returns... Welcome back, Agent Omega."
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