A/N: I am so slowly this took so long. Gomen!!! I've been in China for the last few weeks just got back a like two weeks ago. And one, the internet speed there isn't that fast and two, I didn't bring my laptop along this time. So after so long of a wait. Here's chapter six.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon.
Chapter Six
"If anyone sees this child please call 1-800-missing…."
A big beefy man groaned as he switched off the TV in his office. He was getting tired of the news. It was always about that kid. The news never reported when a store was robbed by mysterious villains dressed in black or white. This man was important. Important to the world of crime anyways, this man ran a powerful underground organization known as Team Rocket. Since last year, the man's organization grew ten fold with the joint corporation of Team Magma and Aqua of the Houen Region. He now owned every organization all over Indigo, but still it wasn't enough. This man Giovanni Sakaki Roketto was a man that wanted power. He wanted to be the biggest, most important man. He envisioned himself ruling the legendaries.
'It is in your blood.' That's what Giovanni remember his mother telling him. All his life he was shadowed by his family. It was his ancestors wish to rule all of Indigo Island. It was his parents and grandparents joining together to build Team Rocket. They died leaving Giovanni himself to build Team Rocket to the powerful empire it is now. His mother's last words to him were 'it is in your blood'. Giovanni believed that and thought out to rob the world of its power.
But he remembered one person, no two families that had destroyed his family's plans. They always crushed his parents' plans. How could Giovanni had known that a child would be born from such union? That child, Ashura Ketchum was the descendant of Ashton Ketchum, Pokémon Master, but Giovanni sent Ashton out of this world. Now it was his son's turn. Giovanni found it in the hidden language of the ancient Egyptians was where his fame and glory laid.
Giovanni discovered a way to banish Ashton into the Shadow World, but even then the plan had a lope hole. There was a way to free Ashton. The way was either using the Chosen One that the gods of Pokémon chose or by using a descendent of the one imprisoned. There was no indication of who the Chosen One was or when he or she would appear. As for Ashton's son, Delia had already taken care of him. To Giovanni's joy, Delia and the old Prof. were of some use. Those stupid, caring people had placed Ashura under a spell. All memories of Ashton were destroyed from the boy. There was no one to destroy his plans, or so Giovanni thought. How could he know that Ashura would possess the same skills of a Pokémon trainer and have the same burning ambition as Ashton? Ashura was almost like a mirror image of Ashton.
It wasn't till the Indigo League that Giovanni knew Ashura had the same weakness as his dad. Their weakness was for the ones that they love and Pokémon. Ashura was easily crushed in Indigo, and Giovanni thought that was the end of Ashura's career to become a Pokémon Master. Giovanni was mistaken. With the lost at Indigo, Ashura came back even stronger in the Orange Islands, Johto, and Houen. What broke Ashura at the Master League was still a mystery to Giovanni. But now there was no Ketchum to stop him. The three members of his organization that he thought were the most useless turned out to be the ones that brought the kid to him. Jessie, Meowth and James, why he let them into Team Rocket was a mystery to some to begin with.
Jessie was the daughter of his most trusted adviser. Before her death, Giovanni promised her that Jessica would be well taken care of and away from Team Rocket. Giovanni found the two-year-old a loving home away from Viridian. But Jessica came back, when she turned twelve she returned with James. Giovanni didn't know Jessie was Jessica, or he would have turned her away. Jessie and James were soft hearted. They could never do well in Team Rocket. To them Team Rocket was just fun and games, she was just like her mother. That's why Giovanni fell for her. That's why Giovanni sent her to find the legendary Pokémon Mew. That's why she's dead now. That's why Jessie has no mother and no father.
But now Giovanni couldn't be mad at those three, they had accomplished something that no other rocket but them had managed to do. They had managed to kidnap Ashton Ketchum's only son Ashura.
He growled as he waited for the next part of his plan to take action. He couldn't banish Ashura into the Shadow World. You couldn't banish two kin into the Shadow World. Giovanni wasn't much for rules, but he was afraid of what the old Egyptian said to him when he was granted the ancient Egyptian tongue. Giovanni could lose it all if he didn't follow the rules. But all his plans was coming together with the discovery of the legendary vial, it was all experiment. Ashura would be his lab rat. He would test the vial on Ashura and the other on his most trusty adviser. If things went as planed, there would be no more Ashura Ketchum.
Giovanni blasted at the intercom summoning Jessie, James, and Meowth. Mondo had taken the three on a vacation to the islands. The four were scheduled to be back today. Giovanni wasn't much for rewards especially not to those three. "Jessie! James! Meowth! Get your ass up here," shouted Giovanni. A reply was sent back before Giovanni closed the intercom. He was planning on keeping it vacant these days to await the message from Namba.
Minutes later three rockets walked into the Boss's officer. They immediately bowed then walked forward. "You needed you see us Boss?" asked Jessie.
"Yes. Your next assignment…"
"Next assignment?" said Meowth. Its eyes immediately light up with his partners. They were all hoping for a promotion from the boss.
"Yes, next assignment. I need you to keep the captive's friends at bay. They must not know we have the kid here," said Giovanni. He crossed his hands as he watched their features immediately change.
An unison of groans were heard before Jessie looked up. "Boss…" muttered Jessie.
"Yeah?" asked Giovanni. He knew that Jessie was going to ask for a raise. He sighed. She was just like her mother. "And you'll all receive a nice bonus and a raise on your salary."
Their eyes immediately light up. "I…I was going to ask," started James. He was immediately stopped by Jessie and Meowth.
"Thank you, Boss," said Jessie.
"Very well. Keep up the good work," said Giovanni. He watched as the three walked out the door. Lightly he shook his head. James was a dunce. Giovanni's mood was immediately enlightened when his intercom rang. He pushed the button to hear Namba's voice.
"Boss, the vial was a complete success. We'll ready for the captive. We can begin right away," said a muffled voice.
"Very good. Contact Richard. I'll be right down," said Giovanni. He closed off the intercom and stood it. His day was going great. Even though he gave the three imbeciles a raise, they'll mess up, and he'll take the raise away. It was prefect. Giovanni chuckled as he lightly stroked his Persian's head.
"Soon my beauty. Soon we'll be powerful," muttered Giovanni.
"Per," growled the Persian. The Pokémon rose from its blanket and walked out the door with Giovanni. The two were greeted all the way to the lab. It's good to be the Boss. Giovanni chuckled as he watched the imbeciles work. How stupid? They know nothing about having power. They're nothing like me.
Giovanni simply greeted his workers before getting to the lab. The steel door was before him with the words 'keep out', and everyone did. No one but chosen few had ever got to see the inside of the lab. He neatly punched in 'Roketto' as the password. The door opened, and Giovanni walked in with Persian by his side. He looked at the machines that he spent millions to purchase for this experiment. It had to be a success. If it was, he could be the ruler of the world.
"Giovanni," shouted a gruffly old man. Giovanni looked up and there stood his most trusted scientist. He had more scientists, Giovanni knew that. Somewhere deep in his brain somewhere he couldn't register if there had been another who had served him better. But things always go wrong, what Giovanni couldn't register. But this scientist, this scientist Prof. Namba he was his most trusted scientist for now, he only failed in one experiment, the capture of Lugia. Foolish! Especially to think they could beat Ashura that way. Richard did well, but he showed his true color... just like his old man. Richard may have became friends with Ashura, but it was all a setup to destroy Ashura. Now it was time.
The man was no other than Prof. Namba. The man walked over to his boss and beamed. In his hand was a clipboard of all the information. "Well, Namba. Is it ready?" asked Giovanni. He was ready to once and for all to destroy Ashura. When Ashura is destroyed, there will be no more Ketchum to ruin his plans. He would be the most powerful human in this world, the ancient prophecy will resurrect.
"Yes, Boss. It will work perfectly. The prisoner will be destroyed," said Namba. His voice was full of uneasiness. There was one part of the experiment that he didn't tell his Boss. Things that could happen in the experiment, something that Giovanni wouldn't be happy about, but Namba had counted the probability, and it was a skim chance. The experiment, the vial which caused the experiment had a prophecy tied to it. One who passed the test would have all the powers.
"Very good…" said Giovanni chuckling. He had seen into Namba's thoughts. The old man was afraid of failure, that why he was the perfect professor. He was careful, almost more careful than Mondo and himself.
"Father!" shouted a boy. Giovanni turned around. There stood his son, the future heir of Roketto, Richard Roketto. Richard walked over to his father. "What do I have to change into this time, Father?" asked the boy eagerly. He had done this type of experiment many times. He rarely saw himself as his true self anymore. Since the Indigo League where he met his father, Richard had never been the same. His dear, dead foolish mother told him of his father. Told him that his father only made love to create an heir, Richard agreed to join Team Rocket if his dad wouldn't kill his mother. Richard found out later he did anyways. Richard escaped from Team Rocket but was found once again in the Whirl Islands with the capture of the Lugia. The next time Richard was fully subdued into evil. He forgot all the good in Pokémon training and became the true heir of Team Rocket.
"A Pokémon trainer," answered Giovanni simply.
"A Pokémon trainer?" asked Richard with disbelief. His father never let him become a Pokémon trainer again. He hadn't even seen his original Pokémon in years.
"Yes, a Pokémon trainer, but not any old trainer. Richard if this experiment goes as plan…" Giovanni walked over to his son's side and patted him neatly on the back. He placed one hand in front of Richard and moved it around the room. "You could have all of this."
"Huh?" asked Richard. He didn't get what his dad was trying to tell him. It didn't make sense at all.
"I'll decide to step off the stool permanently," said Giovanni.
"Huh?" asked Richard.
"I'm going to let you take over. If what you have been taught is all that you follow, then this mission will be a success. I will know your true color, for that I will give you Team Rocket to rule until you create heir for yourself to one day after we are both gone," replied Giovanni.
Richard and Namba's eyes both grew to plate size. They couldn't believe what Giovanni had said. He was stepping off and giving it to Richard, but why. Why after his experiment? What was so special about this experiment? Both Richard and Namba knew bits and pieces about the experiment; they both knew that till this point Giovanni hadn't been willing to tell them the complete story of the experiment. None knew who the prisoner was.
"Why Father?" asked Richard. He was curious at his father's plans.
"You'll see. This experiment won't be as easy as you think. This mission will end everything. It will be the beginning of a new age with you on the throne, Richard," said Giovanni. "Can't you picture it, Son?"
Richard's eyes glittered with power. It was finally happening. All I've been working for the last two years. I'm finally going to be the ruler of Team Rocket. This mission will be a piece of cake. I mean how hard could it be?
"Bring out the prisoner," shouted Giovanni. The steel doors bolted open as five mighty muscular rockets walked in. In the middle of the crowd a young boy could barely be seen. His clothes were in shreds as mud was spread all over his face. Tears were falling from his face as he was trying with all his might to escape.
"Let me go! I don't want to!" screamed the boy. He tried punching and hitting the rockets, but it was no use. It was almost as if he was hitting a brick wall. He almost managed to escape once only to be dragged down again. Richard waited with confusion as he watched what was happening. The prisoner, he seemed familiar in an odd way. As if he knew the prison… as if they had been friends a long time ago.
Giovanni grinned as he signaled for the rockets to throw the prisoner down. The boy fell with a thud. He looked up at the head of Team Rocket. His lips were bursting with blood. His eyes had black circles around it. His face was muddy as he looked up at Giovanni. "You won't get away with this," shouted the boy. His face was full of determination, and his voice was full of strength. No longer did the tears fall from his amber colored eyes.
"Oh yes, I will," said Giovanni chuckling. "No one knows you're here. No one just like your poor, defenseless father, like father like son, I will dispose of you two from his world.
"Liar!" shouted the boy. "My father died in a rock slide!"
"I ain't lying, Boy." Giovanni chuckled. "Your mother knows the truth, she and that old professor hid it from you."
"No! You're the liar," shouted the boy. He tried to get up but one of the rockets behind him punched him. The pain of that punched threw him back on the ground. A mouthful of blood spilled out of his lips.
"You have the same fire in you as your plentiful father." Giovanni chuckled at the sight.
The boy growled with anger. "You son of a bitch," shouted the boy. That was enough for Richard. He was done hiding behind his father's back. Nobody insulted his dad and grandmother like that.
"You ass hole, my father is the one that has you captured you not the other way around," shouted Richard. The boy looked up and gasped at the sight.
No, it couldn't be. It couldn't be.
Giovanni grinned. He had recognized Richard. This could get interesting. "I see you recognize, my son Richard," said Giovanni.
"No! No, it can't be," shouted the boy. He looked at the boy that Giovanni called his son. "Are you?"
Richard grinned as the sight of the prisoner. "Yeah, I am Richard Hiroshi Roketto, the son of Giovanni Sakaki Roketto."
"No, no. It couldn't be. Run, get out of here…" shouted the boy.
"What a little imbecile." Richard chuckled as he looked at his father.
"No, Richard. What he says is true, don't you recognize him?" asked Giovanni.
The boy looked at Giovanni then at Richard. He recognized that what Giovanni said was true. "Throw him into the chamber," shouted Giovanni. The rockets pulled the boy up with little force. The boy had gone into shock. What Giovanni said was true. It was all true, but why did his mother and Prof. Oak lie to him. As they reached the chamber was getting ready to throw him into the liquid, the boy finally learned to coup with it all. It was to protect him from this, this destiny. He would die. But he had to know for certain.
"Richie!" shouted the boy. The words reached Richard's ears as he looked up. The prisoner was thrown into the chamber of the liquid. There was a small window within the chamber and Richard caught the prisoner's face. It was clear this time. He recognized him.
"Ash!" Richard screamed at the thought. "Father?" Richard looked up to see Giovanni grinning. It all made sense now. "I'm going to be Ash Ketchum ain't I?" asked Richard.
Giovanni nodded.
"But I can't, they'll recognize me. I can't do it," snapped Richard.
"Where does your alliance lie? With me and the future of Team Rocket, or with your stupid so called friends that abandoned you?" asked Giovanni.
Richard looked at Giovanni then at the tank. Ash's body once again floated to the window this time his eyes were closed. Richard bowed his head and whispered a silent prayer to Ash. I'm sorry, Ash, but I have to do this. It's too late to save you anyways. I'm sorry, but I can't disobey my father. This is my destiny.
Richard looked at Giovanni. His face was full of sinister and evil. "With you, I am Richard Roketto heir of Team Rocket," said Richard with full determined. Giovanni chucked. Yes, Richard is ready. He will do fine.
"Then in you go," said Giovanni. He motioned for Richard to walk through a door. He nodded and with Namba by his side worked into the other room where his transformation was to begin.
"Take the prisoner out and lock him down," with that said Giovanni left the room. A smirk slowly appearing on his face.
A/N: Was it okay?