Chapter 4: Drakken's Prisoner

In the last chapter, Emma and her friends lost against Dr. Drakken and his assistant Shego, while Rosalind was taken hostage.

Just now, Rose starts to wake up from her unconsciousness and feels dizzy. She's laying down...on a table? That can't be right, she thought, but then she couldn't move her arms or legs...

"She's waking up." replied a sharp female voice.

The voice was nowhere near to be Emma's...or anyone else she knew, for that matter. It sounded cool and critical, bitter and smooth. Rose kept her eyes closed and thought back to what happened a while ago.

'There was a battle... Pokemon being controlled under black spirals... a doctor with blue-skin named Drakken... a black haired woman in a green and black jumpsuit with supernatural powers named Shego...Emma and Ash send out their Pokemon... smoke surrounds the place...can't see anywhere... lose contact with friends... grabbed by someone and then blacked out...'

"Machavelli?" a male voice talked this time. "I know you're awake. Open your eyes now."

Rose recognized the voice, it belonged to the doctor with blue skin. She was kidnapped... and so were the Pokemon from the laboratories. She whimpered in fear and opening her eyes, finding herself tied down by metal bonds, her surroundings were a lab but it was very familiar... like she had been here before.

"Where am I?" Rose asked, in a quiet and scared whisper. "And why am I even here?"

Standing nearby was the kidnappers, Dr. Drakken and Shego. They knew that the girl did not like her prisonment, besides her permanent groundmentation (1).

"Good questions," Shego agreed, low enough for Drakken to hear. "I'd be asking the same if I were in that position."

The mad doctor glared at his assistant, then he stepped forward toward his hostage. "This is my lair, Miss Machavelli. If you don't remember, I am Dr. Drakken and this is my assistant Shego. We kidnapped you for world domination, supposedly since you're a Pokemon Master and you rule this world."

"Not really," Rose lowered her eyes in that 'You got to be kidding' look. "My cousin is the real Master, but since I'm second in command, we really don't rule this world."

Drakken stared at the girl, half out-raged and shocked. "WHAT?"

"The truth hurts, huh?" Shego asked, in the voice that said 'I told you we'd screw up'.

Rose laughed, but low enough that she wouldn't get in trouble. "Anyway, since you probably don't need me anymore, could you let me down so I can go back to my friends?"

Drakken was frustrated that his plans were not going as well, he didn't even want to deal with his hostage. "No, you're staying there until I say so."

"But why?" Rose whined.

Shego felt bad for the girl (2), she didn't want to see the hostage suffer under that much pain and misery. "Drakken, you know as well as I do that she can't survive like... that. You should let her down."

Drakken sighed, he had to agree that the girl was really no use to doing anything while tied up, and he really didn't want to fight back with Shego. "Okay fine." He went over to a machine and pressed a button.

Rose was released from her bonds, she sat up on the table and rubbed her sore wrists and ankles. "Thanks," she muttered to Shego.

"Don't mention it, kid." Shego waved the comment off. "Now lets get out of here before Doc blows his temper over something else."

"I know how to control my temper, Shego!" Drakken growled to his assistant's retreating back.

"Then maybe you should control your pedophilia!" Shego snapped back, her voice echoed through the lab, right before the door to the lab slammed shut.

Drakken cursed under his breath, a good scheme down the drain. Why didn't he figure out that the Pokemon Master's only rule over Pokemon, not the world? Well, until he found the answers, that girl was not allowed to leave.

§To Be Continued§

(1) That means she can't leave the lair unless permitted by Drakken.
(2) Reference to Shego occasionally caring about Kim in the episodes.