It is the next day since Kaleen and Luke have been drop off in the forest around the town of Pallet. Luke has been up for about a couple hours, and is enjoying himself. Unlike his partner, he likes being outdoors. He was glad to have been assigned on this reconnaissance mission. Right now he is in a cheerful mood. He was able to watch a beautiful sunrise. He has not been able to see one in a long time. He believes that the last time he has seen a sunrise was before he joined Team Rocket, which was about five years ago. One wild pokemon has caught his attention. A rattata, it is running around the perimeter of their camp. He believes it is trying to see if it can't enter into their campsite and steal some of their food. He just chuckles to himself at the pokemon's boldness.
About eight in the morning, the same rattata comes running straight thought their camp, and as he does, it runs over Kaleen's face and exits back into the forest. Kaleen was pissed off that this happen and started throwing anything he can find at the laughing pokemon. None of his pitches hit the pokemon due to it dodging every throw, and Luke is rolling in laughter.
"SHUT UP LUKE! That's not funny." He gets up and rubs his nose that was run over by the wild pokemon. "What time is it?"
"It is eight-twenty"
"What is for breakfast Kale, I am starving."
"Here, a Team Rocket's special, an instant heat food pack. Just pull the string, and your food is instantly ready for you to eat in just five minutes, and just pull back the cover and dig in"
"Ha, ha, I know what to do with the rations pack. Dam, I hate it here. How long do we have to do this?"
"I believe till the boss tells us differently, but first we need to collect that sample for the boss. I have a plan that might work."
"Good, I have not been able come up with any ideals, expect to go over to the kid and knock him out, collect a sample, and get out of there, but I doubt the boss would like that. Good my breakfast is ready."
A few yards away from the Rockets, three people are spying on them. It is none other than Jessie, James, and Meowth. From where they are, they can not hear what the two are saying, but they can smell what they are eating. All three of them are in a trance from the smell, and their eyes are glossy over, drooling and daydreaming of eating the food that they smell. All of their stomach rumbles at the same time, breaking them out of their trance. They all just sigh, and try and come up with a plan to still some food, Ashes prized pokemon pikachu, and think of a way to get back at the rattata that stole the last of their food.
As Kaleen was about to place another fork full of food into his mouth, he heard a noise coming from somewhere off in the woods. He looks at Luke with a puzzled look on his face. He has never heard noise like that before.
"I believe that noise belongs to a set of three stomachs that just rumbled with hunger, and I believe the owners are a certain trio that are always missing up and making the boss even madder." Luke said, coming to Kaleen's rescue with an explanation.
"What the hell? Jessie, James, and that talking freak show. Oh great, like we need them missing up our mission. What are we going to do about them?" Kaleen said taking another big bite out of his meal to release some frustration that the trio was there.
"Well we do not have to worry about them; I had contacted the boss last night after midnight, when I heard some noise while I was on watch. I went and investigated and behold, I found them about where they are now, snoring away. The boss was not very pleased about it, but he will be taking care of it, and speaking of, here comes a delibird with a letter to be delivered to them."
"Good, I do not think I could have had them around me, and making me screw up on this mission." He said as he stood up, throwing his empty food container into the fire.
"Man, I am so hunger, I could eat a, OUCH" James yelled, but was not able to finish, due to Jessie hit him on the head with her fist.
"Shut up about food James, I do not want to hear you compiling that you are hungry. Do you see me compiling, no, so shut up." Just as she finished her statement, her stomach voiced its opinion. She just bowed her head, and the stress tear droop appeared at the side of her head.
That is when the delibird appeared, and coos to them to get their attention. Meowth gets up, and walks over to the bird.
"Meowth, what does that pokemon want." Jessie said.
"It is saying that it has a letter from the boss."
James got up and took the letter from the bird pokemon. He is still rubbing his head where he got hit by Jessie. As he got the letter, it flies off.
"Hey! What if we need to send a reply back to the boss you stupid bird." She said with one arm raised in the air, and shacking a closed fist at the delibird, and the stress x appears on her forehead.
She ended up having to dive into the ground to avoid an attack from the pokemon. Then it then flew back where it had come from. James starts to reads the letter out loud for everyone to hear it.
"REPORT BACK AT HEADQUARTERS NOW!"
"Wow! It looks like the boss is mad with us." Meowth said.
"When is he not ever mad at us?" Jessie said.
"I state we get going right now, and see if we can't beat that delibird back at HQ." Meowth said
"I believe you are right, it would not hurt" James said
"Wooba, wooba fet"
"GET BACK IN YOUR POKEBALL; YOU LAME EXCUSE OF A POKEMON." Jessie yells at her pokemon.
After receiving the letter, they take off in their hot air balloon, shaped like a Meowths head, and take off towards a local Team Rocket base, which was none other than the main office of their operations in Viridian City.
As Kaleen, and Luke tidy up their campsite, they watched as the delibird delivered its message and the commotion it caused. They were glad that the trio has final left when they saw their hot air balloon air leave.
"Glad that is taken care of, let's get going." Kaleen said to his partner.
"Ok, we will, now let see, I believe that the kid's house is this away." said Luke, as he looks up from the poorly draw map they received from the operations master. He just sighs, stuffs it back into his shirt pocket, and they leave their camp behind, but not before they left a vileplume standing watch over their campsite.
It took them about four hours to finally to find the kid's house. Kaleen was very pissed off, and took it out on the shrubbery around them with his machete.
"Kaleen would you knock it off, it was not my fault, so calm down, so we can get the first part of our mission done." Luke said, keeping some distance away from him.
Kaleen just stopped and gave his partner a cold glare, and sheath the machete back in its holder, and started walking in step with his partner.
"I am sorry, it is just I hate having to be in the woods for a long periods of time."
"It is okay Kaleen, if we get this first part of the mission over with, we may only be here for a few days, and assigned on a better mission. Also, the boss will be happy with us, and will we be in good favor with him."
"Yah, I guess your right. Hey there's that kid. Man looks at all of his pokemon, hey who is that with him?"
"I think that is his mother, a Delia Ketchum, let me look at the info the boss gave us. Yah, she is his mother."
"So, what was your plan to get the sample the boss wanted?"
"I hope you like the performance of my pidgey. I will have him fly close to the kid, faking that he has a flying problem, due to a hurt wing. He then will crash land close to the kid. He will fake struggling tiring to get back into the air. After a few tries, it will act like he is in pain. The kid will see all of this, and comes to see what the matter with it is, and try to help it. When he bends down to calm it, my pidgey will then use quick attack on him, knocking him down to he ground, and grab off with a claw full of hairs. The kid will then be left stun and wondering what just happened." Luke said, smiling at himself with what he had come up with.
His partner just stares at him, with a dumb look on his face, at what his partner had come up with as a plan.
"Crap, that is a great plan; I can't wait till you do it. When did you come up with this plan?"
"Last night after I contacted the boss, with the news of Jessie, James and that talking Meowth was in our area. My pidgey already knows what to do. So if you are ready for a good show, sit back, and enjoy." Luke said as he threw the pokeball up in the air.
His pidgey came out, and off it went. About half way there he started his act. It was hard for him to do, but he was doing it very well. Ash, his mother, and pikachu all stop their work in the garden, to see what was going on. The pidgey finally made its crash landing, and slid on its belly. It got up with one wing sticking out, and tried to fly again, but quite after a few tries. It started to cry in fake pain. Ash got up and ran over to it. Pikachu and his mother right behind him. Ash started to bind down to clam down the pokemon.
"Easy pidgey, it is okay. It looks like you hurt your wing. Let me take you to Professor Oak, he can help you." he said to the pokemon.
As he was reaching out, pidgey did his quick attack, hitting Ash in the head, knocking his hat off at the same time. He fell back, hitting the ground hard. The pidgey got up in the air and swooped down and grabbed a claw full of hair, and took off back to his trainer, Luke. Luke and Kaleen, where trying there best to keep from laughing out loud. Ashes mom, and his pikachu, where laughing at Ashes misfortune with pidgey also.
"OUCH! What was that for." as he got up, rubbing his forehead. "Why did he do that? I was only trying to help him."
"I do not know Ash, but he probably didn't want to be missed with when you came near him. So he reacted, by attacking you, and it got away."
"Yah, but it did not have to pull my hair, man that hurts more than getting hit in the head."
"Pika-pika" said patting his trainer's knee.
"Come on Ash, pikachu; let's go see if lunch is ready." His mom said
As she rounded the house to go back inside, she pulled her gloves off, and had a big smile on her face, still playing in her mind what happen to Ash a few moments before.
"Come on pikachu, let's eat." Ash said as he got up, and ran to the house, with his pokemon trailing behind him carrying his hat for him.
As Luke's pokemon comes back, he singles for it to follow them deeper into the forest, and when they think they are far enough from being heard, they let out their laughter. Luke gets Ashe's hair from his pidgey, and places them in an envelope. With a smile on his face, he places a small backpack on his pidgey, and straps it to him. He then slips the envelope into the bag.
"Now off with you, pidgey. Make sure you deliver that to the boss. Do not let anyone else get to it, and obey what he has to say. You got that."
His pokemon just nods its head and flies off, to Viridian City.
"That was good Luke; your pokemon did a great job."
"I am very happy with him."
"I did not know you had a pidgey, when did you get it."
"I had got him a few months ago. I can hardly wait till he evolves, but that will be a while before hand. Hey, let's get back to our campsite, and I'll make you a home cooked meal, then having one of those rations packs. It will have to be hotdogs though."
"I am game for that ideal."
As they walk back to their campsite, Ash and pikachu sit down to enjoy their lunch. His mother turns and looks at him quickly, and get back at divvying out the meal. She just sighs, and thinks of what happen to his father. She does not like telling Ash a lie that his father is on his pokemon journey. She really does not know where he is. But she just smiles at the son she has, and glad that she has something to remind her of Michele. As she sits down the bowls of stew, Ash looks up at her, smiles, and thanks her for the lunch she has made. She winces at the state of his face.
"Ash, it looks like you are going to have two black eyes from that pidgey."
Ash gets up, and goes to the bathroom, to look at himself in the mirror. When he looks at himself, he sees that the burse is around the top half of his eyes, and he has a good size bump where pidgey hit him. He touches and gives out a small whine. His mother comes in, with a bag of frozen peas for him to place over his eyes.
"That pidgey did a number on you Ash. I do not think that this will help much. Your eyes are going to swell up some. Why don't you lie down after lunch?"
"Okay mom" Ash said, as he sat down to eat his meal.
Pikachu just looks at him for a moment, and goes after his own meal. When they finished, Ash went and lay down on the couch with two bags of frozen peas over his face, and pikachu lying down on his stomach, both of them falling asleep.
By five pm, Jessie, James, and Meowth make it to Team Rocket Headquarters. They arrived a few minutes before the delibird made it. As they get into the reception area of the HQ, a sectary of Giovanni's, greets them, and takes them to a room they have never been in before. As they enter, he is in his usually way of the top half of his body being hidden in shadow, and swirling a wine glass in one hand and resting his face on the other hand. His Persian sees them, and gives them a low growl of warning. They are lead to a circle of light, and pay their respects to their boss.
"I will be assigning you three on another mission. It seams that you can never do anything right, and steal one simple pokemon for me. You three will be heading out to an ice island north of Hoenn. A new Team Rocket base and will be following orders of the person I have in charge over there." As he was saying this, the trio was shock that they were not being yelled at and where they are be reassigned.
"Sir, but we had a plan to catch that…" Meowth started to say, but was cut off by Giovanni.
"You had plenty of time to try and catch that pokemon, five years, and you keep on failing me. You will do as I say, and no buts. He said as his voice rose in anger.
"Sir, we accept the mission." They all said with their head bowed.
"Good, you will be leaving right now"
"Sir, can we first stop off at the cafeteria for a quick bite to eat" James said
"I think not, you have enough debt with me." He said as he reaches down, and pressed a button on his armrest. The floor underneath the trio opens up beneath them and they fall down a tube, and land in a rocket, barely enough room for two people. On a small television screen, an image of Giovanni appears. "Do not fail me, for if you do, it will be your last." With that, the television screen turns off, and the rocket engines are engage, and they blast off.
"Team Rocket blasting off, again" They all said
Wobbbuffet pops out of his pokeball, which makes the inside of the rocket even tighter.
"You stupid pokemon, when I get my hands on you, you will regret ever popping out of your pokeball." Jessie says as she tries to get a hold of her pokemon.
By five-forty that night, Giovanni was in his private elevator heading to the research labs, he was reading a report from the lab on a new research projects that was going well, and old projects producing new results. He thinks he could have made that rocket that sent the trio, smaller to save some money. For tonight, if Luke and Kaleen got the first part of their mission done, he will look over the expense of it. As he steps out on the main floor to get to another elevator, there is a commotion going on. A couple of his grunts are trying to capture a pidgey that is flying lose in the building. The pidgey is evading every attempt of capture.
His Persian is watching it with great interest, waiting for an opportunity to pounce on it. All Giovanni see is the grunts causing a mess, so he yells for them to stop and stand down from their attempt at catching the pokemon. The pidgey seeing him flies towards him. Persian readies itself to pounce on the pokemon but stopped when his trainer told him no. Pidgey circles Giovanni for a moment till, he stretches out an arm for him to land on. It lands very softly on his arm and looks at Giovanni, and cooing at him. Persian is mad that it did not get to pounce on it. Giovanni look down on his pokemon and just scratches it. He takes another look at the pokemon, and sees it has a small bag strap to it, and a tag attach to one of the stapes with the wording: Please deliver to the president of the company, Luke. He reaches inside and finds two envelopes, and a pokeball. He opens one, and it is from Luke and Kaleen.
"Dear Sir, the interview went will with the customer. Inside the seconded envelope, he sends his complements. I have sent my pidgey to aid you sir. If you do not have need of him, please give it to my supervisor and I will retrieve him later at my convenience.
Your employees,
Kaleen and Luke"
He smiles to himself, these two have been taught very well. He believes their teachers may deserve a promotion. He looks back at the standing grunts waiting for an answer with the loose pidgey. He just glares at them.
"I have been waiting for this pokemon from one of my operatives. It looks like he has been trained very well, if you can not even catch a simple pidgey."
The grunts return to their normal activities. He takes the pokeball out of the bag, and without him telling the pokemon to return, Luke's pokemon hops up, pushes the button twice, and returns itself. Giovanni just smiles to himself, and pockets it in his pocket. He opens up the seconded envelope, and discovers a fake letter inside. He feels around the envelope and finds a small bulge in the center. He pulls it apart, and finds a small bag, containing black hairs. He just smiles to himself, and resumed his original path.
As he gets to the labs, he goes off to find a Doctor Gann. When he does, he brings him to an empty room to talk to him.
"Doctor Gann, I have a project for you to do in secret, and if you leak out any information, it will be the last thing you do.
"Ye-ye- yes sir, I will keep it to myself, and only report to you with my findings. What is it I need to do for you sir?"
"I need you to do a DNA comparison on this sample I have.
He hands over the package to the doctor, who places it in his pocket.
"Yes I can do that sir, and who will I be comparing it with, sir."
"You will be comparing it with me doctor."
"Yes sir. I need some of your blood, to run the test."
"Fine, make it quick." He said rolling up his sleeve, and the doctor taking out a needle and syringe out of a cabinet.
"How long will it take to the results?"
"I will pause on my current project, and get right on it for you sir. I can have the results by morning if I work through the night."
"Good."
Giovanni got up, unrolled his sleeve, and left for his office. As he was sitting down, he reached into his pocket and took out the pokeball containing the pidgey. He looks at it for a bit, and places it on top of his desk in a cup holding his pens. His Persian watches it as his trainer sets it in the cup.
"I think you will not have him as a toy Persian. I believe I will return it back to its trainer. It may become a valuable item later."
His Persian just let out a small growl and laid down on its pallet. Giovanni went back to the lab reports he was reading early, and was pleased with the results of one, enhancement serums for pokemon. The researchers on this project are making great strides in the developments of these serums. He writes a note to have it given to the lead researcher to see if the serums can be made for human use.
By midnight, Kaleen and Luke are giving their reports to Giovanni.
"Sir, did you get the sample that we sent you." Luke said
"Yes, the pidgey created a quite a ruckuses when it arrived. From what I have found out, it went straight to the receiving clerk's desk on the main floor. She saw a tag attach to it, stating that he should be delivered to me. As she goes to grab what was inside the bag, the pokemon shot up in the air and scattered many items off her desk. Many of the grunts tried capturing it, but it dodge every attempt of capture. The pokemon has been well train, to have flown here what would have been a three days walk and had enough energy to have been able to get away from over twenty people. Whose pokemon is it?" He glares at the two through the videophone.
"It is mine sir and that I'm sorry for the trouble it has caused." Luke said. "I told it to go straight to you, and not to let anyone get what was inside the bag, and only to obey you sir."
"Very well. What about the kid."
"We have been keeping an eye on him sir. We will resume our watch in the morning." Kaleen said
"Be warn. I may have you execute phase two tomorrow. I will let you know, till than, keep your watch on the kid." he said as he turns off the link.
"Phew! I thought I was dead meat" Luke said relived he was not in trouble.
"Don't worry, it looked like the boss was pleased that we have completed phase one. Now lets hit the sack, I am tired of sitting on my rear end all day. Goodnight." Kaleen said as he was placing the computer back in its case.
"Goodnight Kaleen" as Luke slides into his sleeping bag. He thinks to himself, "I hope I wake up before sunrise again. It may be my last sunrise in a long time."
Before lying down for the night, he reaches into his backpack and pulls out a half eaten candy bar. He tosses it to the rattata from this morning. He watches it as it catches it and runs off into the forest, and finial goes to sleep himself.
