I know it is a lame title, but it the only thing I could come up with. Recap of the past chapters. Giovanni finds out he has a son with the help of Doctor Gann testing a sample taken from Ash. He has order that Luke and Kaleen to kidnap Ash the night before his big birthday party, which he only thinks that it will be May, Max, Misty, Brock, Gary, Tracey, him mom, and Professor Oak, and also his pokemon. But unknown to him, his mother has invited with the help of his friends many of the Gym leaders, and people he has meet and befriended on his travels from Kanto, Johto, Orange Islands, and Hoenn. With the discovery of him missing, the whole group goes out searching for him when Officer Jenny finds sleep powder all over the house. They do not find him and all are worried and sad that he is missing. They believe it could be about anyone who has taken Ash, from Team Rocket, Magma, Aqua and others. They get even more depressed with his disappearance when pikachu brings out the presents he was going to give out. And what is the deal with serums that Giovanni is having research done, and why does he want it for human use? To find out, you will have to keep reading.
This chapter takes place the same time as the last chapter. Enjoy and review.
It was about midnight, and Delia had just gone to bed, and left Mimmie in charge downstairs. Ash was still awake, and thinking what it would be like to be with all of his friends again. He has not seen them in six months, since the Hoenn League Championships. He will be happy to see them again. He looks as his best friend pikachu, and starts to scratch his head. Pikachu just moves closer to him. Ash is glad to have a best friend like him. He just thinks of the reactions of his friends and mother will have when they receive their presents form him.
"I know Misty and May will be happy with their presents. I worked very hard to get them. Brock who knows, but he will still be happy to get subscription to that magazine anyway. Max I hope he loves his present. I wanted to get him a bird pokemon, but when that poochyena came up to pikachu and I, he was actually happy to see us and was friendly, I knew he would be a good pokemon for Max. I did not even have to battle him; he caught himself when I took out a pokeball. He just jumped up and hit it with his nose. Tracey and Oak were the hardest to get presents for, but what I got them should be good. Gary. I hope he likes his present. Oh well, I guess I should get some sleep, but I am just too exited to go to sleep." Ash thinks to himself
Just then, Luke, and Kaleen enters the Ketchum's house after taken out Mimmie, Delia's pokemon. They are wearing sleek black outfits, almost like a divers suite, and are wearing gas masks. They creep upstairs, and have vilepulm use its sleep powder again. The sleep powder spreads throughout the house. The occupants of the house go deeper into sleep from the effects of the sleep powder. Luke recalls his pokemon and enters into the first room. It happen that is was Ashes room. Kaleen pulls out some rope from his bag, while Luke pulls back the covers coving Ash and tangling pikachu up in the process, and flips Ash over on his stomach. Kaleen starts tying his legs and wrists together, and places a blindfold and gag on him. They gather there stuff, and exit the way they came.
As they get into the woods, they remove their gas masks, and change into their Team Rock uniforms. Some what different from the others, they wear black pants with black shoes. They wear long sleeve thick shirts with the Team Rocket's red R stitched on the collar of their shirts. They have an armband that is white with the red R on their left arm. They also place face masks on just incase they are spotted. Kaleen throws Ash over his shoulder and they head off to the pickup spot.
The reason they wear different clothes is that these two and a few others are Giovanni's best recovery agents. He will have them sent out to kidnap anyone that is high priority. He will also have them to help break out some of his members who wind up in jail, including Butch and Cassidy.
Soon Kaleen and Luke make it to the pickup point and are picked up by helicopter and they contact their boss.
"What?" Giovanni says in half shadow, sitting in his chair.
"Sir, we have completed with phase two of the mission. We had no problems with the operation. We are on our way back and will be there within the next four hours." Kaleen said while facing a computer screen.
"Good, when you arrive have him brought to my private cell." Giovanni said and turned off the link.
"Man, this mission was easy. I can hardly wait to get back and have a shower. I hate camping out." Kaleen said as he rummaged through his bag trying to find something to eat.
"Come on Kaleen, think it as a vacation, you got to be one with nature, and made a good friend." Luke said chucking at his partner.
"Yah, I made a good friend. That rattata was easy to capture, and I guess I will call it Road-Rash, after it ran over my face." Kaleen said tossing the pokeball up and down. "If it could have dodged all the rocks I threw at it, it must have been a good pokemon to have.
"I guess you are right, but I did not think you would have had capture it. I thought you wanted to kill it for stealing you lunch from today, and running over your face." Luke said eyeing his partner
"Na, I won't go that far, but he should come in handy for later."
As they were talking, a man comes out from the cockpit, and walks straight to the two. He takes a quick look at what Kaleen and Luke brought with them. He clears his through to get their attention.
"Kaleen, Luke, when we arrive and finishing delivering the kid to the boss, you two need to report to the operations master, and Luke, here is your pokemon back." the man said
"Thank you Captain Henry." Luke said returning his pokemon on his belt.
"Yes sir." Kaleen said.
As the Team Rockets get closer to headquarters in Viridian City, Giovanni is in his office leaning back in his chair waiting patiently for the arrival of Ash. His Persian is sound asleep. He is happy with the report he has gotten from Kaleen and Luke, and from the previous mission of pokemon retrieval and a lab raid. None of his members were captured and they caught more pokemon then expected. He sees that this week was good, and that nothing will go wrong.
Four hours later, the helicopter containing Ash has arrived at the Team Rocket Headquarters. Ash has slept through it all; not knowing what is happing to him. As they land, Kaleen and Luke pick up Ash by the arms and take him to Giovanni's privet cell. They enter in an elevator and head down four floors, exit and go down many hallways. As they get to the cell, Giovanni is there waiting. The two walk into the room and despot Ash on the bed, and take off his restraints and leave the room. Giovanni walks over, and brushes hair away from Ashes face and looks at him for a minute. He sees he has two black eyes and a burse on his forehead. He soon quickly leaves the room and has the door closed behind him. Kaleen and Luke have already left to report to the operations master for their next assignment. Giovanni returns to his office to deal with errands he needs to run.
Few hours later, Ash is waking up. He is cold, but just thinks he kicked his blankets off during the night. As he opens his left eye, he sees it is still dark, but as his feet hit the ground, he feels cold concrete. He gets up too quickly and walks right into the wall.
"Where am I?" He says hopping to find a light switch. "Pikachu, where are you? Pikachu!" he yelled when he did not get a response.
As he feels around, Giovanni is watching all of this going on one of his monitors using night vision. His Persian is also watching, purring as he is being petted. Soon Ash gives up goes back to the bed in the center of the room. He covers up, waiting what will happen next, thinking this is not happening to him, and why is it.
"I think I will let him settle in first before confronting him." Giovanni thinks to himself, while scanning through some reports.
Few minutes later, two people walk up to the cell door of where Ash is being held at. The man of the group hands a note to one of the guards. The guard reads it, and passes a key card in a slot. The door slides open and a light turns on in the cell room. Ash jumps awakes with all the noise, and is temporary blinded with the sudden appearance of light into the room. He covers his eyes to shield them. The door closes after the two people enter.
"Get up, so you can be measured for new clothes." the man said to Ash.
Ash jumps up, and walks into a corner of the cell.
"Who are you? Why have you taken me? Where is pikachu?" He said with his arms at his side.
"We are not here to answer questions, now get over here before I make you." The man said as he shifted his weight, not in the mood to be talked to like this.
As Ashes looks at the man, he sees an R stitched on the sides of the person shirt collar.
"You're from Team Rocket, what do want with me." Ash yelled at the man
"Shut up and get over here now." The man said as he walks towards Ash.
As the man came closer, Ash charged at the man. All the guy did was pulled back his arm and punched Ash in the stomach, causing Ash to fall down on his knees, gasping for air. The man just placed a hand on the back of Ashes neck tighten his grip and pulled him up to his feet.
"Next time, I will knock you out, now stand still."
While Ash stood there getting measured by the lady of the group, the man is watching him while leaning against the door. As the women finished measuring him, she walks towards the door and exits. Ash just stays put watching the man come towards him, pulling something out of his pocket. The man reaches out and grabs Ashes right arm. Ash tries to pull free, but the man just tightens his grip and twists his arm back behind his back. Ash is forced down on one knee, and yells out in pain. The man just smirks and places the item on his wrist. He releases Ash and leaves the room. Ash is left on the floor, watching the man leave the room.
Ash gets up and walks back towards the bed and just sits on the floor, leaning against the bed for support. He studies the item on his wrist, wondering what it is. It is about two inches thick and two inches wide, and is silver in color. It has the Team Rocket logo on it. Ash tries to take it off, but he can not figure out the mechanism that keeps it locked. He just pulls his knees up against his body wondering how he would get out of here and to find pikachu.
"Why do they want me? I thought they always wanted just my pikachu. I know I have missed up some of their plans, but why kidnap me also. What do they want with me?" He thought to himself
Two hours later, the same man comes back with clothes for Ash to ware. As he walks in he sees that Ash has fallen asleep on the floor. He walks over and pushes him on the back with his foot, telling him to wake up. Ash gets up and stares at the man with hate in his eyes. The man walks closer to Ash and drops the clothes on the bed and orders for him to change, and leaves.
Ash looks down and sees what was brought to him. He sees a pair of black pants, socks, and pull on boots. A red long sleeve shirt with a white strip running on the underside of the long sleeves, which was pulled though a black short sleeve shirt. He also finds black fingerless gloves. Ash changes into these clothes, tucking in the red shirt.
"I don't like this place, and why would they give me clothes?" he thinks to himself wishing he was home with his mom and friends.
Soon the door opens again and the same man walks in. He just glares at Ash.
"Come with me now." is all he said.
As Ash followed him out, he glances around. He sees two guards station at the door to his room and security cameras down every hallway. As he follows the man, he notices an elevator down one hall, and deiced to try and make a run for it. Ash runs up to the man, and rams him with his body. As the man fell, Ash took off running for the elevators. The man just gets up and waits till Ash is almost at elevators. As Ash reached up to push the button to call for an elevator, the man just pushes a button twice on his watch. An electric current is shot through Ashes body. It is enough to stun him, and he falls to ground. He tries to gets up but falls back down on the ground. So he just lies their felling sick to his stomach. He thinks to himself that he has never felt anything like this when he got shocked by pikachu. The man walks up to Ash and kneels down by him, placing a hand on his back.
"That item located around you wrist is a control device. You do not behave, you shall be discipline." the man said as he picks up Ash by the arm.
With the sudden motion, Ash starts to heave and the man makes him sit down in a chair. The man waits a few moments till he comes down, and grabs his arm and starts to lead him down the hall they were going down. Soon they came into an area with a person sitting at a desk. She nods to Ashes escort and they walked up to a door. He knocks twice, open the door, and pushes Ash through the doors. As Ash walks in, he sees a big maple desk, and a back of a chair facing him. To the right of the chair, he sees a Persian staring at him.
"Sir, here is the person you requested." the man said with a bow.
"Good, now leave me with him Mr. Thomas." Giovanni said
Mr. Thomas give the man one more bow and leaves. Ash is wondering what is going on. As the door closes with a click, the chair starts to swing around. Ash just glares at the man.
"Who are you? Why have you taken me? Where is pikachu?" Ash says to the man
"Where your pikachu is, well he is not here. Why I have taken you I will tell you."
"Where's pikachu?" Ash moved forward but fell to the ground due to Giovanni's Persian pouncing on him.
Giovanni just laugh as he watches Ash struggling to get out from underneath the pokemon. Giovanni gets up and walks towards Ash.
"I did not take your pokemon when I had you taken. Off Persian."
As Giovanni's Persian gets off Ash, Giovanni's picked Ash up off the ground and flung him into a chair, and went back to his chair. His Persian went back to his spot and watches Ash closely just incase he attacks his trainer.
"Why did you take me and who are you?"
"That is easy to for me to explain. I am head of this organization." Giovanni said in a cool tone. "The reason why I have taken you is because you are my son."
"You're not my father. My father is on a pokemon journey." Ash said as he stood up getting angrier at the man
"I am your father, I knew your mother when we were young."
"My mom would never go out with someone like you."
"Oh she did, and here is the proof." He said as he slides a picture towards Ash.
"This can't be my mom, she would never go out with you."
"Oh but it is true."
"It is not true, you are nothing but a cruel person and my mom would never go out with scum like you." Ash said, but was slapped across the face and fell to the ground.
"I am your father, and you will obey me from now on. Mr. Thomas take him to Mr. Bishop." He calls out
"I will never obey you. You are not my father." He said from the floor
"Oh, but you will."
Mr. Thomas came back in and grabs Ash by the arm and walks him out of the office. Ash was stunned to see a picture of his mom with this person that calls himself his father. He does not believe that this person is his father. His mother has told him that his father was on a pokemon journey of his own. His father is not the head of a crime organization. Ash was in a stupor that he did not notice he was being lead to an elevator till he heard the doors open. He looked back at the man escorting him, and was rewarded with him being boxed in the ear, and shoved into the elevator. The man pulls out a card key, and inserts it into a slot, and pushed a button. They travel down many flights till they reached six floors below the surface. Ash is then pushed out, and taken through many hallways till they reach a security desk. As they came closer, Ash can see a man talking with the person at the desk.
"Mr. Bishop, here is the kid." Mr. Thomas said
"Hum, does not seem much to me. What does the boss want me to do with him?"
"He is your responsibility now. Do with him as you please."
"Good, I will do that. Where do I keep him?"
"The room next to yours. It has already been set up for him. Good day Mr. Bishop" The man says and turns back towards the elevator.
"So, you're the boss's brat. I guess I'll take you to your room now."
"I am not his son." Ash yelled to the man
"If you are or not, I will be still in charge of you. Now come on." He said and took off down the hall with Ash following him.
Soon they made it to Ashes new room and he was ordered to enter. Ash did as he was told. Not likening how everything was going. The door was shut behind him and was left alone.
"I want to go home. No way in hell he is my father, but what about the picture he showed me. It was my mom and she was with him. It could be fake, but I never seen a picture of my father. What if it could be real and he is my father. NO! He can not be my father. He is on a pokemon journey, he would never hurt anyone or pokemon. It can't be true." Ash thought to himself as he paced around the room.
The new room he was placed in was bigger. It had a bed to one side of the room, a small table and chair, a dresser, and a bathroom. Ash soon sat down on the bed and a sigh a sigh of fatigue. He has not eating anything all day, and is really worked up from the events that have happen to him today. He lays back and within no time he falls asleep. Soon Bishop comes walking into Ashes new room. He sets down a tray of food on the table and leaves the room.
"Weird, come to know the boss has a kid, and I thought he would be older, not fifteen. Well it will be changeling to train him. He must not like being taken from where he was, but he will soon like it here, one way or another." He chuckles to himself as he makes his way to his own room for the night. "One way or another."
So how did you like this chapter. It took me a bit to get the interaction scene of Ash meting with Giovanni. I still do not like it, but it is as it is. I would have had this chapter up a few days ago but I am studying for my finial. The next chapter is now currently being worked on. Title Rough Days Ahead. Thanks for reading and review.
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