Hey guys, here is chapter 13. I believe this is not one of my good chapters. I just have been too busy with classes. Midterms are over and for me and I am now on spring break from March 21 through 25, so I should at least get another chapter in something during doing research for my research paper in Business, working on my essay paper for Gothic Literature and sleeping in. I might be able to put up the fist chapter for my new story, which is still currently untitled. Mad Experiments is still on hold until after I finish my Lit class. The constant reading is giving me a headache. Until next chapter, enjoy.


It is the next day. Giovanni was at his desk thinking of a plan of action to use on his son. If Mrs. Crimson did her job right, Ash is under his control. He gets up and walks out of his office followed by his Persian. He enters into a elevator and goes down to the hospital floor. He looks at his pokemon for a minute and reaches into one of his pockets. He pulls out a pokeball and thinks back when he received the pokemon back from Mr. Cain.

Flashback: Yesterday, late at night:

Giovanni after hearing from Mrs. Crimson that she had finally succeeding in her job of rearranging Ashes memories, and that Mr. Henry was not able to meet with him, he left his office and went straight to the lab of Mr. Cain. He entered and found him busy working on one of his many projects with some of his lab assistants. Giovanni walked up to them and one of the assistants noticed his entrance. Mr. Cain was told of his entrance and he looked up with a bit of surprise on his face. He told his assistants to keep on working and he walked up to Giovanni and bowed to him.

"What can I do for you sir?"

"Are you finished with the pokemon I sent you?"

"Yes sir, if you come with me, I will retrieve it for you."

He lead Giovanni to his office and left to retrieved the pokemon. He enter into the lab area and walked up to a shelf with many pokeballs on them. He picked up a clipboard and flip through the pages to find which pokeball he needed. He finds the reference number and sets the clipboard back down. He walked up to shelf seven and looked for number thirteen. He shudders when he picked it up. He will be glad to get rid of this pokemon.

"I wonder who thought of placing this pokemon here. I do hope it was someone's joke, but it feels like bad luck for me."

As he was walking back to his office, the pokeball started to shake violently and he drops it to the ground. The pokemon inside forced itself out of the ball to revel itself as a meowth. It looked around the lab with an innocent look on its face and found the doctor. The doctor was terrified of the pokemon and rushed to call it back, but stop when the pokemon just meowed in a sweat tone, and started to purr. The doctor brought down his arm and gave a sigh of relief. He knelt down to pet the pokemon, but it was a mistake to do so. As his hand reach the pokemon's head, the eyes of the pokemon turn mischievous. The doctor saw this and fell down and he tired to call it back inside the pokeball but the pokemon was too swift and avoided the red beam from the ball. It attacked the doctors legs shredding his pants. Giovanni heard the doctor screams and ran out of the office to see that the pokemon had cornered the doctor and some of the lab assistants were attacking it. I took out the two houndooms with a series of furry swipes and was about to start its attack on a third. Giovanni yelled at the pokemon to stop. The pokemon did as it was told and sat down on the floor and started to clean on of its front paws and keeping a eye on the doctor.

The doctor got up and sat down in a chair. He tried to calm himself down but he could not stop shaking with fear.

"You said there was no complications Mr. Cain."

"There was none sir, it was like that when I first let it out of its pokeball. It attacked me and three of my assistants before I could call it back."

A assistant came running in with a first aid kit and went to the doctor. Giovanni picked up the pokeball and recalled the meowth and placed it in his pocket. He waited until he was alone with the doctor.

"My son?"

"No one knows I had given him the serums and there will be no complications. It will take time before the first results start to show."

Giovanni smiled his evil grin which sent cold shivers down the doctors' back. Giovanni turned and left the lab and returned back to his office.

End of Flashback:

The elevator doors opened up on the hospital floor and Giovanni walked to Ashes room. He entered and found Ash awake and that his bandages where being changed. He cleared his throat and the doctor and nurse inside of the room jumped with surprise. They quickly stood up and bowed to him. He waved a hand at them to finish their work and walked up to Ash. Ash turned his head away from Giovanni. The doctor and nurse left a few minutes later and Giovanni sat down in a chair and watched Ash. The silence was broken with Giovanni.

"Ash how do you feel?"

Ash turned his head to face Giovanni but did not speak a word.

"Ash do not be mad at me. I am only trying to help you."

"Then why where you not there for me? Where were you? Mom told me you took off…"

"Easy Ash, I am sorry, but I was not the one who took off. She took off and I did not know where she went. I have been searching everywhere for you and now that I have found you and taken you away from that terrible place, why don't we drop this subject. I am sorry that your stay here has been a bit, troublesome, but from now on, I do hope we can corporate together? Hum?"

Ash nodded his head yes. He sat up in bed and reached for a glass of water. Giovanni put a hand up and gave him the glass. Ash looked over to Giovanni's Persian that was sitting down by his father. He reached out a hand to the pokemon. Persian snub him, not wanting to do anything with him.

"Do not worry, it takes time for it to warm up to someone. I have a present for you."

Giovanni reach into his pocket and pulled out the pokeball. He handed it over to Ash and Ash took it from him.

"What's inside?"

"Why don't you release it for yourself to find out. I will warn you though, it is a bit feisty. I do not know how it will react to you."

Ash let out the pokemon and the meowth appeared at the foot of his bed. It looked around and gave a small yowl. Ash reached out his hand to let the pokemon smell his hand. The pokemon butted its head against Ashes hand for it to be petted. Ash did as the pokemon wanted and it started to purr away. Giovanni smiled and placed a hand on his son's shoulder.

"Now I want you to get plenty of rest. At the end of the week I will be sending you off to begin your training. Your teacher will be Mr. Henry."

Ash blanched at this and looked up at his father.

"Now, do not worry, Mr. Henry has forgivin you for what you did to him. I will be leaving you now. I will try to see you again this week, but I do not know about my schedule. I will apologize in advance if I do not. I do expect you to follow what Mr. Henry tells you to do."

Giovanni got up and walked for the door. As he open it up, Ash spoke up.

"Dad, I am sorry for how I acted. I will make it up to you, somehow."

"That is okay Ash, I understand. I should be the one at fault. I took you away from your mother and friends in the middle of the night not knowing that you will be confused and mad for what I did."

"But I am glad you took me away from them. In truth, they did not care for me."

"Lets us not dwell on this. Let us put it in past move on. Now get some sleep."

Ash laid back down and pulled the covers closer to him. His meowth moved closer to his chest and laid down by him. Ash placed a hand around him and closed his eyes. Giovanni walked out and shut the door. Once shut his cold grin appeared on his face. He walked away and traveled back to his office. He entered and found Mr. Henry waiting for him.

"I am sorry I was not able to meet with you yesterday. Mr. Bishop was having trouble with some of his new recruits and I volunteered to help him. I do hope you received my letter."

"Yes I did and it was helpful for it freed up some of my time to take care of a errand. I am glad that you accepted the reasonability to train my son for me. What cause you to accept?"

"I accepted for I like how your son thinks and how determined he was to escape. I see potential in him and I would like to bring it out of him."

"Good. At the end of the week, I will be sending you and my son to my private island in Johto. You will be his mentor and when you deem him ready, bring him back. During this time, you will be in charge of a small group of people. I will warn you though, Team Magma and Aqua are on the move. His safety will be in your hands. You will have your way with him."

"Thank you sir, I will not fail you. I will leave you now and get myself prepared."

"Get with Mr. Thomas for what items you want to take with you."

"Sir."

Mr. Henry got up and grabbed the cane he had with him. Giovanni watched as he walked out. Once he was gone he lean back in his chair wanting to laugh out viciously, but he kept it inside of himself. He began thinking of the future of having a son and his plans of expanding into Hoenn.

At the end of the week, Ash was able to move around for a few minutes before tiring out. His new pokemon was a joy to have. Giovanni had not been able to visit him, but he was okay with it. He was watching some television when his door open up. Mr. Henry walked in carrying something. Ash was a bit afraid of the man and he swallowed when he saw that his leg had a brace around it and he was walking with a cane. Mr. Henry saw his expression and smiled at Ash. A nurse followed in behind him with a wheelchair.

"Don't worry kid, I forgive you."

He walked up to Ashes and placed the cloths on his bed. The nurse busied herself removing the medical equipment attached to Ash. She helped him change into the cloths and left. Ash got into the wheelchair and his pokemon jumped into his lap, curling into a ball. Henry called out and a grunt walked in and came behind Ash and started pushing the wheelchair. They went up in the elevator.

"Mr. Henry, where are we going?"

"We will be heading to the roof and leaving on a helicopter to one of your fathers private airstrips. Your father can't say goodbye to you, for a emergency has arisen. He says he is sorry."

The elevator doors open up and they exit out onto the roof to find the helicopter waiting for them. Ash recalled his pokemon and they boarded the helicopter. It took off east of the city and it landed a few minutes later at a air strip. The place looked abandon. A huge pontoon plane that looked like a cross between B52 and a huge water air craft, was taxiing on the runway when they landed. Henry lead Ash to the plane and they climb on board and sat down at the front. Some Rocket grunts came aboard. They saw Henry and many paled at the sight of him. They quickly found a seat and kept quite as the last of the supplies and personal was loaded onto the plane. Within a few minutes the pane was ready and it took off. Ash watched the view from the window before falling asleep.

Hours later, Henry woke Ash up as the plane was landing in the water. He undid his seatbelt and followed Henry to the back of the plane and waited till the back door of the plane to open. It reviled a clear starry night. Henry order the grunts to start unloading the plane and he lead Ash out to a awaiting jeep. Both got in and was taken to a two story building down a dirt road. Once the jeep came to a halt they walked toward the house.

"Ash, your room is on the top floor, at the end of the hall. You have some cloths in you room already. Get changed in some fresh cloths and meet me in the living room."

Ash did as he was told and enter into the house. Henry looked around and found a small building was being built to hide the entrance to the underground base. He order the driver to gather all the grunts for a meeting. He left the man and enter into the house. He walked pass the living room and found it was a complete mess with two grunts drunk and passed out on the floor. He let it be for now and went up stairs to his own room. He changed his uniform for sweat pants and shirt. He exit and found Ash coming out of his room. They went downstairs and he lead Ash to the kitchen and found a large pot of stew cooking away. He left Ash there to eat and exit out to a small area lighted by a single light, with many people waiting. He looked around and found the two drunk grunts wobbling on their feet. He was happy to see their displeasure on their faces when he arrived. He cleared his through and made his speech.

"For those who do not know me, I am Captain Henry Snake. I will be in charge of this base and your worthless hides for the time being. Many of you have been sent here because you do not meet expectations to be giving the name Rocket. You will be revalidated on your performances. When you are topside, you will be wearing plain cloths that have no visible markings to Team Rocket and no more then twenty people are permitted. This place is to look like it is a business retreat. The house is off limits to everyone unless otherwise declared. There will no be consumption of alcohol and smoking while I am here. I find one drop of alcohol, one discarded cigarette butt, not one, but all will pay. I expect that everyone will follow these rules and others. One mistake and it is your last. Now you have a job to do, get the plane off loaded now."

Henry turned around and headed back to the house. Some of the grunts started to complain about having to sleep in the uncompleted underground base. Henry enter into the house and went to the kitchen. He found Ash fudging with his meal and he was distracted with something. Henry got him a bowl and sat down by Ash. He looked at him, taking in a deep breath.

"I see you are not happy at this moment. Is it that your father was not able to see you off?"

Ash looked up at him and let out a sigh.

"Yes, but I understand that he is busy and all, it is just that…."

"You will be able to talk to your father in the morning. Afterwards, we will start your training. Now it is almost ten and you need to get some rest. I will wake you up in the morning. "

Ash got up and headed to his room. He laid down on his bed thinking he will not be able to fall asleep. His meowth curled up against him, falling asleep. He stared at the ceiling thinking what his life will be like now that he is away from his mother and so called friends.

"I guess my dream to be a Pokemon Master will be on hold. I wonder what training I have to do, I doubt I will be able to do much with this leg. I wish dad was around while I was growing up. I might had have a better life growing up with him. He tried to help me out, and what I do, cause him hell. I guess I will try and make it up to him somehow."

Ash closed his eyes and fell asleep. The next morning Henry woke Ash up around five in the morning. He looked at the cuts on his back and help him change some of the bandages. He brought him down to the living room and open up the closet. He pushed coats to one side and pushed a button on top of the door frame. It open up to revel a small stair case and he lead Ash down it. They stopped at the base and Henry pushed a false panel which open up to have key code pad.

"Ash, to get through here, your password is 5483. You, I and two other people will be the only ones to use this entrance."

Ash nodded and Henry punched in his password. It open, and they walked into a large room. It looked like a huge office with everything imaginable. Henry walked to the computer on the desk and turn it on. Ash noticed a window and walked up to it. He looked out into a larger room that had many computers with people working behind them. Henry walked up to him and smiled.

"That is what I would call Mission Control. It is the nerve center of this base. Communications, Doppler, radar, sonar, and many other technology junk. Come your father will be calling in a minute."

Ash and him walked back to the computer and Henry sat down. A ring was heard and Henry opened up a communication link. Giovanni was seen sitting in his half shadow.

"Ash I am sorry I was not able to see you this week. I believe Mr. Henry told you I had an emergency I needed to attend to. Now, I have a suggestion for you. I would like you to change your name, but you can refuse this request if want to. I do like your name, which it means bold, but I believe changing your name will be easier for you to forget the past and move on. What do you say?"

Ash thought of it and nodded his head yes after a few minutes.

"Good, I have came up with one for you. Thurston is the one I like, it means thundering, but remember that you have the right to refuse."

"No, I like it and I agree with you about changing my name to forget the past."

"Good. Now Mr. Henry take care of my son. I will try and talk to you more later this week Thurston. I would have liked to talk to you more, but I have not resolved the emergency that had arisen when you left. Good luck with your training.

The link was cut and Ash looked up at Mr. Henry.

"Come, we will get breakfast first and I will show you around the base."

They got up and left though the office door into the command area of the base. People made room for Henry or found a different route. If you ask the members of Team Rocket who they are afraid, first would be their leader, second would be Mr. Henry, third will be Mr. Bishop, fourth would be Mr. Thomas, followed by Mrs. Crimson. They enter into the cafeteria and went though the line. Thurston (Ash) looked down at the end of the line and noticed a cash register. Henry laugh at his confused face.

"Your father is a ingénues man. Like any major company that has a cafeteria in their building, he charges for their meals. In his mind, why take money out of his pocket when he can put more of it in." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a necklace that looked like a army dog tag. "Here, this is yours. Perks for being the bosses kid."

(From now on, and until further on in the story, Ash is now know as Thurston.)

Thurston took the necklace from him and placed it around his neck. As they neared the cash register, Henry pulled out the same item from underneath his shirt. The person at the register picked up a scanning device and scan the barcode on the back and did the same on Thurston. They left and found a place to sit and eat.

"Now Thurston, there are few things you need to know. While we are here, we are on a low profile. We are posing as people on a retreat from work. If someone comes on the island, and you do not think they are part of Team Rocket, let me know right away. If they ask what you are doing here, say that your father runs a business retreat. Now finish eating and I will give you the tour of this place."

The two of them finish eating and Henry lead Thurston around the base. Once done he lead him topside and ordered him to walk around the island till lunch. Thurston called out his meowth and started walking.


I do hope you like the name I gave Ash. I picked it for not he had pikachu, but a link to his father, after the father; like after the lighting. You will laugh at what I found for Giovanni's. From the book of baby names I have, (which helped me out to pick some names out for my characters), his is jovial, happy, believer. It is Italian.

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