Before I start, I would like to ask my readers to comment when they review whether I should up the rating to R or keep it at PG-13. Right now I am riding the line in between.

Chapter 5

Down in the detention level, Morris, Brock and Max were trying to wake Ash up. They had been working on this for the past hour without success. Brock said "typical he can sleep through world war III. "Morris said, "I had a brother like this. Watch how you wake up the dead." Morris leaned over and yelled "Fire!!!" Ash sat up quickly knocking Morris over in the process saying "Where, What, When?" Morris rubbing his head said "there's no fire we just couldn't find a way to wake you up. You sleep like the dead." Ash said, "Do Not!." He looked around for the first time and saw that they were in a room with two pairs of bunk beds bolted to the floor, a toilet, sink, curtain dividers to conceal the facilities, a water fountain, and a big clear plastic door with air holes. "Ah, guys where are we?" Max said, "that's what we've been trying to figure out. May is gone, and when Morris pounded on the door some guy in a tan jumpsuit walked in and punched him in the stomach." Ash said, "Where is our stuff? Where's Pikachu?" Brock replied, "we don't know when we woke up all our stuff was gone." Morris said, "at least they didn't take my swatch watch." Everyone looked at Morris. "Hey I like swatch watches, all right?" Glancing at his prized watch he said, "it's been roughly 5 hours since all of us woke up, except for you" he said looking at Ash.

Suddenly they heard a noise coming from outside the cell. A voice was heard saying "Are you two here to relieve me? Because if you are you are about 4 hours late." A familiar voice was heard replying "Ah, Ah, we're new here. We didn't know what floor this place was on." The other voice said "typical no one tells new people anything. I'm going on shore leave. You don't have to look into the cells to check the prisoners. Just watch the monitors back here. If they act up, shoot them with this stun gun. If you get hungry or thirsty in the mini frig is come left over barbeque chicken pizza and a couple of bottles of Mike's Hard Lime Aid. Do you want me to bring you back anything?" The voice all recognized said, "Actually, when you think about it I could use--" Suddenly a female voice cut him off saying "Shut up James. Forgive my friend, he's so impolite. We can make do with the leftovers." The other voice said, "O.K. I'll be back in about 6 or 7 hours. If you get a call from the Doc don't hesitate, just grab someone at random from the cell and haul them up to the lab."

In the cell they heard footsteps and a door opening and closing. Then they heard footsteps heading towards their cell. Ash was thinking, "Please not them--not now." Outside the door appeared Jesse, James, and Mewoth. Mewoth pressed some buttons and the door to the cell opened. Brock said, "What are you doing here? Don't tell me you are going to steal from us while we are locked up, cause that's low, even for you guys." James shouted "shut up do you want to get killed? We're getting you twerps out of here, what for I don't know." Morris said to Ash, Brock and Max "You know these weirdos?" Max replied, "Yep, they constantly try to steal Pokemon from us. Especially Pikachu for some reason unknown to us."

Mewoth said, "let's just say we are temporarily on hiatus, and besides do you want to be experimented on?" Ash sounding bewildered said "Experimented on?" James replied, "Yeh, this place is full of psychos calling themselves Team Tech." Morris suddenly said, "Hey wait I've heard of them. They are a group much like Team Rocket, they operate in the United States and they like to use insect and electric type Pokemon in all their schemes. Nearly all their members are either skilled scientists or hackers. They're much more subtle than any other organizations and they don't come into the open too often." Brock asked, "What are they doing here half way across the world?" Mewoth said he had overheard them talking about expanding their dominance into the area and said that they were experimenting on some sort of genetic soldier project. Max looked at them and said, "this sounds like something out of a B movie. Are you sure your not making this up?" Mewoth said, "I didn't make up this cell, and that they took your friend what's her name up to the lab did I?"

Max shouted, "They're going to experiment on my sister?" Morris started to gather their things and said, "we'd better get her and ourselves out of this place. I heard that Team Tech is not very friendly when it comes to intruders." Brock exclaimed, "We don't have our Pokemon or equipment. How are we suppose to rescue May and get out of here?" Jesse, James and Mewoth in unison put their hands behind their backs or in Mewoth's case paws and out of no where they pulled out everyone's equipment including Ash's Pikachu in a shock proof glass box. Ash said while opening the box, "Pikachu are you ok buddy? Pikachu happily squeaked in answer."

The group walked out of the cell area and up to what looked like a security station. It was decided to join forces at least until they escaped. James said "we had a hard time finding where you guys were, how are we suppose to find May and the lab?" Morris said, "I have just the solution." He put his oversized plastic clam shell backpack on the ground and began to rummage in it saying "let's see, laptop, MP3, instant food mix, data discs, portable DVD player, pornographic Japanese animation to play on it...." Everyone was watching Morris as he dug through his things and James said, "People actually watch that stuff? He must have his mind constantly in the gutter." Morris said, "I heard that! Ah, here it is." He pulled out an ultra ball and pressed the button to enlarge it. Morris said, "step back, I haven't let him out lately because he's been kind of a brat, so I recommend that you stand at least five feet away."

Morris pressed the button and the ball clicked open. Out came what looked like a bird made out of multicolored crystal. It suddenly said, "I know I don't have to eat, sleep, or breathe, but did you have to keep me in there for so dam long?" Max said, "How the heck did you get one of those?" Ash added, "What is that?" Ash pulled out the pokedex and he instantly identified the thing. The entry said Porygon 2. The digital Pokemon. Thanks to this upgrade version it can now exist outside computers. Because it is not affected by the environment, it is a valuable research tool for scientists of all fields. Mostly used by governmental and corporate research agencies, few are given out to the public, usually won in contests. Trainer level 45. Morris said using Proygon 2's nickname, "Glitch, can you hack into the security computer we need to find a certain laboratory?" Glitch looked up at him replying, "It will cost you!" "Fine, I promise not to put you back in the ultra ball for a month," responded Morris. "And" said Glitch. "Fine, I'll get you that software upgrade" said Morris. "Ok, now what kind of laboratory do you want me to find?" asked Glitch. Morris replied, "A genetics lab with a specimen in it, namely May." Glitch replied sarcastically, "Please hold, I'll be with you shortly." His eyes lit up and suddenly the security computers lit up and data began rapidly dancing across the screen. Brock said, "we'll be able to find her in no time." Morris not to excited said, "Why is it that out of thousands of artificially created Porygons did I have to get one with a sick sense of humor and never ending demands for power?" Glitch said, "I heard that! I don't know who this May is but the labs you are looking for are all on level B5, a couple of levels above us. According to the records there is an experiment going on now on a new recruit in lab L-05." "We'd all better hurry if we want to save May. Which way to the elevator?" Ash said.

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