Chapter 7: The Fall of Team Rocket
Ech: Took ya long enough!
I know, I was busy.
Roo: And do you own anything?
Let me check... Nope, nothing but you guys.
Wex: Well, let's get this thing done with.
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The young boy entered the underground hideout, and was horrified by all of the Pokémon he passed. He hadn't even seen some of them before. There were normal, Johto-native Pokémon and some Pokémon he'd only seen in Kanto, but one Rocket Grunt he passed had something that he called a Seviper. He said that he caught it in the Hoenn region when he was stationed there to keep Team Aqua and Team Magma in line. After a conversation that seemed to last an hour, the kid found out that Team Aqua and Team Magma were rivals who kept fighting over what would rule the world: land or sea. After they were defeated by a lone trainer, though, they quit trying to catch the two ultra titans: Groudon and Kyogre. After that, the trainer disappeared. They never saw him again. Anyway, the Seviper and Arbok that the Rocket Grunt sent out to show off were all scarred, and most scars weren't from battles, but instead from what the Grunt said that his boss called "aggressive training." The trainer knew he had to stop the boss immediately, no matter what the cost was to him. He approached the door at the end of the hall that read "Training Ground" The boss would definitely be in there or somewhere adjacent to it. The kid started to turn the doorknob when... it clicked.
"Looking for this?" the trainer heard a feminine voice to his right.
"You! How could you?"
"Easily, kid, I'm in this for the same reason you are."
"But, you, Misty! How could Team Rocket not know who you are?"
The Rocket Grunts in the hallway behind them looked their way with the mention of Misty's name. she covered herself with "Oh, yeah, kid, we took care of her about three years ago, didn't you see the news?"
"But you're–!" "Shh!" Misty interrupted. "You know Doc, don't you?"
"Well, I just met him about ten minutes ago, but, yeah."
"He's kept me hidden from everyone, including the Elite Four, for three years." Misty explained, "He stayed hidden from them too, especially by taking me to Hill Valley, but they found him. I don't want to remember that day. After I returned from the mall, I found him lying unconscious on the ground. Four of his Pokémon were gone, but fortunately, Team Rocket hadn't found his Flux Ball. I couldn't take Doc to the hospital, because then Team Rocket would make sure he was a goner. I kept him company for the last couple of years and helped him try to find some way of stopping Team Rocket."
"So, why did you pick me?"
"I remembered when you beat me in the Cerulean Gym. You said something about getting a gear back for the Power Plant from there that was stolen by a Rocket Grunt. I figured that you'd be somewhere near here after you found the Flux Apricorn tree that Doc planted."
"So, you planned this whole thing?"
"No, I just planned the part of you dressing up like Ash. I figured it'd scare the crap out of their boss, Giovanni..."
"Wait, Giovanni? Wasn't he the one who quit after Ash beat him the first time?"
"See, that's why I had Doc dress you up like Ash. If he sees Ash and Misty back, he'll have second thoughts and leave Johto and Kanto alone!"
"Well, let's get him. Ladies first."
Misty sighed and opened the door as she said to herself "Just like Ash."
The trainer and former Kanto Gym leader walked into the training room, getting more than a few stares from other Rocket members. After all, if the younger and less experienced Rockets were in the hall leading to it, then the training grounds would have the veteran Rockets.
"Young man, take off that vest and hat immediately!" a woman called from across the room.
"Don't worry yourself, Karen, the kid's with me."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Washenflatrovitz, I didn't know." Karen, the Team Rocket Administrator, walked away to attend to another rookie Rocket trainer.
"Washenflatrovitz?" the boy said after a pause, "Where'd that come from?"
"Well, I almost gave my real name, and I did the best I could to save myself." Misty answered. "Well, why don't we go see Giovanni."
They continued to the door on the other side of the room, telling each Rocket member that they were on their way to get the boy's uniform from Giovanni. The boy reached for the doorknob to turn it, and it started to turn on its own. A man in a green suit walked out and almost into the boy and Misty. His hair was slicked and graying, and he wore the eight Kanto Gym Badges and six of the Johto Badges on his red shirt. He even had a few badges that the trainer hadn't even seen before. He assumed that they were from that Hoenn place.
"Ash Ketchum!" he gasped, "You can't be here! It's impossible!"
"Believe it, Giovanni!" the boy told him, turning his hat around.
"Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Mary. You've earned yourself a promotion."
"Actually, Giovanni, it's not just Ash who's here." Misty said as she took off her black cap, revealing her orange hair. "I'm actually Misty Waterflower, Leader of the Cerulean Gym, and I believe you owe me for it."
"I owe you nothing, girl. I'm even being nice for not killing you both right now."
"Let's just get this over with, Giovanni. Send out your first Pokémon!"
"All right, boy. Let's see you reprise what you did 13 years ago!"
The boy sent out the Pikachu that Doc let him borrow, while Giovanni sent out his Mightyena. Luckily, the vest that Doc had given the kid had a Pokédex in it, and the kid looked at its index. The first thing that it prompted was Pokédex type. The kid was used to the Johto Pokédex, but he wanted to find out just what it did, so he picked the last one on the list, pointed the reader to the Mightyena, and waited for data. "Pokémon Number 3473095: Mightyena, the Bite Pokémon. Height: 3 feet, 3 inches, Weight: 81.6438 pounds. A Pokémon originally native to the Hoenn region, Mightyenas have recently been populating other regions as well, including Kanto, Johto, and Orre." "Well, that was... helpful. Okay, Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"
Giovanni watched the Pikachu run towards his Mightyena and smirked at the trainer. When the Pikachu's attack finished, Mightyena was still standing! "I guess you've been out of practice, Ash."
"I've been more in practice than anyone else in the entire world!" the boy yelled back. "And now I'm gonna show you. Pikachu, Volt Tackle!" Pikachu rushed towards the Mightyena once again, this time doing enough damage to knock it out. Giovanni wasn't finished yet, though, and he sent out his pride and joy, Nidoqueen. "Aw, crap."
"Nidoqueen, you know what to do." The Nidoqueen used Earthquake, rocking the entire city and knocking Pikachu out in only one hit! The boy knew that he shouldn't reveal his identity, so he sent out the best guy for the job, Psycho. "Ah, so you are the one who got me my Mewtwo. Thank you, boy. In fact, I'll just take it back right now."
"Your inferior mind is no match for me, Giovanni." Psycho used his psychic powers to say.
"So, you have a problem with me? That can be fixed." Giovanni replied to the powerful Mewtwo, now that he was holding a Master Ball. "I'm glad that I stole that machine when we were in Orre." Giovanni threw the ball, capturing Psycho in it, and causing the trainer to yell out to Giovanni. "That's not fair at all!"
"Since when was life fair?"
"That's it, Giovanni. If you're gonna cheat like that, I have no other choice. Neo Psycho, Hot Psycho, ESP Psycho, Cyndi Quil, come out to fight!"
"This other Pokémon isn't gifted like we are, Neo." Hot Psycho said telepathically.
"Well, with Psycho captured by Giovanni, we'll have to make do with giving her some of our power."
The three remaining Psychos used their telepathic abilities to alter Cyndi Quil's and allow her to use them on her own. "I feel so different. What's happening?"
"It's all according to plan, C.Q." Hot Psycho told her, "All you have to do is help us to stop Giovanni and get Psycho back. Then you don't need to use these powers anymore."
Unfortunately for the team of Pokémon, Giovanni had no real limit to the amount of Pokémon he could send to the field. He sent out nearly every Pokémon known to any one of the nearly 100 professors, even including the top three, Professors Oak, Elm, and Birch. Even the one professor in the wilderness of the Arctic, Professor Pine, couldn't name many of them. Even the Psychos couldn't take on the overwhelming majority of Dark-type Pokémon discovered by then. The boy and Misty feared that they would lose for sure, when suddenly, three sonic booms rocked the already rocking room, and a Pidgeot with a white haired man on its back flew out of a hole in the space- time continuum followed by a Celebi.
"Get your hands off that Master Ball, Giovanni!"
"Doc!" Misty and the trainer yelled together.
"Hang on, guys!" Doc yelled back, holding out a rope of flags.
The trainer and Misty grabbed the rope and the trainer kicked the Master Ball out of Giovanni's hand. The ball opened on the ground, releasing Psycho again and allowing him to escape with the other three Psychos. He was about to go through the hole in time made by Celebi when he remembered: he had unfinished business with Giovanni. Giovanni's Electrode was going insane on the ground around him, so he used his powers to throw it into the wall and cause it to explode! Psycho escaped the Rocket hideout just as the time portal closed and trapped the Rocket members in their exploding lair.
Psycho, Neo Psycho, Hot Psycho, and ESP Psycho landed on the ground, and Cyndi Quil landed next to them, losing her borrowed psychic powers. Doc made sure to drop Misty off back at his house in Hill Valley before he talked to the trainer again. "Listen," he said, "I'm going to say this quickly, and I'm not turning back, but I'm going to live in the Old West of the 1880's. Take my Celebi, I want you to have it. You're a responsible boy, and you won't use it to disrupt space-time. Thank you for fulfilling this one last wish of mine, you did a great job. Celebi, open the rip in space-time, but don't come with me. You're this boy's Pokémon now. Goodbye." Doc walked into the portal, and saying one last thought: "Remember, kid, your future is whatever you make it."
"Well Celebi, since you've been to so many different eras, and you're like my other four great Pokémon, I'll name you Era Psycho. Come on, let's go home." The boy opened a different rip in space-time and went back to where and when he was when he left.
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Well, there it is, Era Psycho's finished.
Antiech: His moveset is Psychic, Future Sight, Recover, and Perish Song.
Antiroo: Next up: MiniPsycho!
Platypous: Please review! TTE can't do much without them.
Princess Aquaech: See you next time!
Ech: Took ya long enough!
I know, I was busy.
Roo: And do you own anything?
Let me check... Nope, nothing but you guys.
Wex: Well, let's get this thing done with.
________________________________________________________________________
The young boy entered the underground hideout, and was horrified by all of the Pokémon he passed. He hadn't even seen some of them before. There were normal, Johto-native Pokémon and some Pokémon he'd only seen in Kanto, but one Rocket Grunt he passed had something that he called a Seviper. He said that he caught it in the Hoenn region when he was stationed there to keep Team Aqua and Team Magma in line. After a conversation that seemed to last an hour, the kid found out that Team Aqua and Team Magma were rivals who kept fighting over what would rule the world: land or sea. After they were defeated by a lone trainer, though, they quit trying to catch the two ultra titans: Groudon and Kyogre. After that, the trainer disappeared. They never saw him again. Anyway, the Seviper and Arbok that the Rocket Grunt sent out to show off were all scarred, and most scars weren't from battles, but instead from what the Grunt said that his boss called "aggressive training." The trainer knew he had to stop the boss immediately, no matter what the cost was to him. He approached the door at the end of the hall that read "Training Ground" The boss would definitely be in there or somewhere adjacent to it. The kid started to turn the doorknob when... it clicked.
"Looking for this?" the trainer heard a feminine voice to his right.
"You! How could you?"
"Easily, kid, I'm in this for the same reason you are."
"But, you, Misty! How could Team Rocket not know who you are?"
The Rocket Grunts in the hallway behind them looked their way with the mention of Misty's name. she covered herself with "Oh, yeah, kid, we took care of her about three years ago, didn't you see the news?"
"But you're–!" "Shh!" Misty interrupted. "You know Doc, don't you?"
"Well, I just met him about ten minutes ago, but, yeah."
"He's kept me hidden from everyone, including the Elite Four, for three years." Misty explained, "He stayed hidden from them too, especially by taking me to Hill Valley, but they found him. I don't want to remember that day. After I returned from the mall, I found him lying unconscious on the ground. Four of his Pokémon were gone, but fortunately, Team Rocket hadn't found his Flux Ball. I couldn't take Doc to the hospital, because then Team Rocket would make sure he was a goner. I kept him company for the last couple of years and helped him try to find some way of stopping Team Rocket."
"So, why did you pick me?"
"I remembered when you beat me in the Cerulean Gym. You said something about getting a gear back for the Power Plant from there that was stolen by a Rocket Grunt. I figured that you'd be somewhere near here after you found the Flux Apricorn tree that Doc planted."
"So, you planned this whole thing?"
"No, I just planned the part of you dressing up like Ash. I figured it'd scare the crap out of their boss, Giovanni..."
"Wait, Giovanni? Wasn't he the one who quit after Ash beat him the first time?"
"See, that's why I had Doc dress you up like Ash. If he sees Ash and Misty back, he'll have second thoughts and leave Johto and Kanto alone!"
"Well, let's get him. Ladies first."
Misty sighed and opened the door as she said to herself "Just like Ash."
The trainer and former Kanto Gym leader walked into the training room, getting more than a few stares from other Rocket members. After all, if the younger and less experienced Rockets were in the hall leading to it, then the training grounds would have the veteran Rockets.
"Young man, take off that vest and hat immediately!" a woman called from across the room.
"Don't worry yourself, Karen, the kid's with me."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Washenflatrovitz, I didn't know." Karen, the Team Rocket Administrator, walked away to attend to another rookie Rocket trainer.
"Washenflatrovitz?" the boy said after a pause, "Where'd that come from?"
"Well, I almost gave my real name, and I did the best I could to save myself." Misty answered. "Well, why don't we go see Giovanni."
They continued to the door on the other side of the room, telling each Rocket member that they were on their way to get the boy's uniform from Giovanni. The boy reached for the doorknob to turn it, and it started to turn on its own. A man in a green suit walked out and almost into the boy and Misty. His hair was slicked and graying, and he wore the eight Kanto Gym Badges and six of the Johto Badges on his red shirt. He even had a few badges that the trainer hadn't even seen before. He assumed that they were from that Hoenn place.
"Ash Ketchum!" he gasped, "You can't be here! It's impossible!"
"Believe it, Giovanni!" the boy told him, turning his hat around.
"Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Mary. You've earned yourself a promotion."
"Actually, Giovanni, it's not just Ash who's here." Misty said as she took off her black cap, revealing her orange hair. "I'm actually Misty Waterflower, Leader of the Cerulean Gym, and I believe you owe me for it."
"I owe you nothing, girl. I'm even being nice for not killing you both right now."
"Let's just get this over with, Giovanni. Send out your first Pokémon!"
"All right, boy. Let's see you reprise what you did 13 years ago!"
The boy sent out the Pikachu that Doc let him borrow, while Giovanni sent out his Mightyena. Luckily, the vest that Doc had given the kid had a Pokédex in it, and the kid looked at its index. The first thing that it prompted was Pokédex type. The kid was used to the Johto Pokédex, but he wanted to find out just what it did, so he picked the last one on the list, pointed the reader to the Mightyena, and waited for data. "Pokémon Number 3473095: Mightyena, the Bite Pokémon. Height: 3 feet, 3 inches, Weight: 81.6438 pounds. A Pokémon originally native to the Hoenn region, Mightyenas have recently been populating other regions as well, including Kanto, Johto, and Orre." "Well, that was... helpful. Okay, Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"
Giovanni watched the Pikachu run towards his Mightyena and smirked at the trainer. When the Pikachu's attack finished, Mightyena was still standing! "I guess you've been out of practice, Ash."
"I've been more in practice than anyone else in the entire world!" the boy yelled back. "And now I'm gonna show you. Pikachu, Volt Tackle!" Pikachu rushed towards the Mightyena once again, this time doing enough damage to knock it out. Giovanni wasn't finished yet, though, and he sent out his pride and joy, Nidoqueen. "Aw, crap."
"Nidoqueen, you know what to do." The Nidoqueen used Earthquake, rocking the entire city and knocking Pikachu out in only one hit! The boy knew that he shouldn't reveal his identity, so he sent out the best guy for the job, Psycho. "Ah, so you are the one who got me my Mewtwo. Thank you, boy. In fact, I'll just take it back right now."
"Your inferior mind is no match for me, Giovanni." Psycho used his psychic powers to say.
"So, you have a problem with me? That can be fixed." Giovanni replied to the powerful Mewtwo, now that he was holding a Master Ball. "I'm glad that I stole that machine when we were in Orre." Giovanni threw the ball, capturing Psycho in it, and causing the trainer to yell out to Giovanni. "That's not fair at all!"
"Since when was life fair?"
"That's it, Giovanni. If you're gonna cheat like that, I have no other choice. Neo Psycho, Hot Psycho, ESP Psycho, Cyndi Quil, come out to fight!"
"This other Pokémon isn't gifted like we are, Neo." Hot Psycho said telepathically.
"Well, with Psycho captured by Giovanni, we'll have to make do with giving her some of our power."
The three remaining Psychos used their telepathic abilities to alter Cyndi Quil's and allow her to use them on her own. "I feel so different. What's happening?"
"It's all according to plan, C.Q." Hot Psycho told her, "All you have to do is help us to stop Giovanni and get Psycho back. Then you don't need to use these powers anymore."
Unfortunately for the team of Pokémon, Giovanni had no real limit to the amount of Pokémon he could send to the field. He sent out nearly every Pokémon known to any one of the nearly 100 professors, even including the top three, Professors Oak, Elm, and Birch. Even the one professor in the wilderness of the Arctic, Professor Pine, couldn't name many of them. Even the Psychos couldn't take on the overwhelming majority of Dark-type Pokémon discovered by then. The boy and Misty feared that they would lose for sure, when suddenly, three sonic booms rocked the already rocking room, and a Pidgeot with a white haired man on its back flew out of a hole in the space- time continuum followed by a Celebi.
"Get your hands off that Master Ball, Giovanni!"
"Doc!" Misty and the trainer yelled together.
"Hang on, guys!" Doc yelled back, holding out a rope of flags.
The trainer and Misty grabbed the rope and the trainer kicked the Master Ball out of Giovanni's hand. The ball opened on the ground, releasing Psycho again and allowing him to escape with the other three Psychos. He was about to go through the hole in time made by Celebi when he remembered: he had unfinished business with Giovanni. Giovanni's Electrode was going insane on the ground around him, so he used his powers to throw it into the wall and cause it to explode! Psycho escaped the Rocket hideout just as the time portal closed and trapped the Rocket members in their exploding lair.
Psycho, Neo Psycho, Hot Psycho, and ESP Psycho landed on the ground, and Cyndi Quil landed next to them, losing her borrowed psychic powers. Doc made sure to drop Misty off back at his house in Hill Valley before he talked to the trainer again. "Listen," he said, "I'm going to say this quickly, and I'm not turning back, but I'm going to live in the Old West of the 1880's. Take my Celebi, I want you to have it. You're a responsible boy, and you won't use it to disrupt space-time. Thank you for fulfilling this one last wish of mine, you did a great job. Celebi, open the rip in space-time, but don't come with me. You're this boy's Pokémon now. Goodbye." Doc walked into the portal, and saying one last thought: "Remember, kid, your future is whatever you make it."
"Well Celebi, since you've been to so many different eras, and you're like my other four great Pokémon, I'll name you Era Psycho. Come on, let's go home." The boy opened a different rip in space-time and went back to where and when he was when he left.
________________________________________________________________________
Well, there it is, Era Psycho's finished.
Antiech: His moveset is Psychic, Future Sight, Recover, and Perish Song.
Antiroo: Next up: MiniPsycho!
Platypous: Please review! TTE can't do much without them.
Princess Aquaech: See you next time!