~* Part 5 ~ new forest, new rockets *~
And now for the plot!
It was a silent walk. Ash was thinking of Brock and their old days while Misty was thinking of how much she DIDN'T miss the forest. No, they weren't in a forest, but, a forest was in sight and rapidly approaching. "So," Misty started, beginning to slow down, trying to delay walking through the bug-infested woods. "What's this forest called?" It was in truth, an honest question. She couldn't recall this forest ever being here. From the corner of her eye, she could see Ash's confusion as well.
"It's called rocket Forest." Ruby answered, shuddering.
"Rocket forest? Like, Team Rocket?"
Joey nodded. "Yea, Eighty years ago, Ash, -" Ruby added 'and Misty' before Joey could continue. "…stopped Team Rocket, but three years ago, rocket sightings was seen in this forest, therefore named Rocket forest."
"Most people don't like going though here," Ruby continued, "But it's the fastest way, and hopefully we won't run into any rockets."
Joey grinned. "What's it matter? I got the best pokemon! I'll protect us!"
Ruby rolled her eyes and looked at Ash and Misty. "Do either of you have pokemon?"
Ash and Misty both looked at each other before shaking their heads. "No…" Ash said carefully. "I want to be one though, just haven't been good at catching them."
Misty nodded. "I want to be a pokemon nurse, so I'll get a Chansey when I go to school."
"I see, maybe you can catch a pokemon in this forest!" Joey said cheerfully. He stuck his hand through his pocket and pulled four, small blue and green round objects. "You can have some of my poke'balls. I stock up on them anyway." He handed two to Ash, and the other two to Misty. He winked. "Use the wisely."
Ash studied the 'poke'balls' carefully. 'So the poke'ball changed too…' He thought. He brought the tiny poke'ball up closer to his eye to examine it while Misty stood beside him and laughed silently.
They walked in silence for a few more minutes before Ash stopped and turned around to look at Misty. As they got closer to the forest, Misty was slowing down considerably. "Are you sure we should go this way?" She said nervously. "I mean, it's Rockets!"
"And bugs." Ash added, grinning. He grabbed a hold of Misty's arm and pulled her towards the forest. "Let's go before Misty bolts."
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"I wanna go home!" Rebecca whined.
"Just shut-up and deal with it!"
"But – "
"Just sit there and be quite! I hear something."
Rebecca shut her mouth and leaned back on the tree. There were two other guys, one of which was her commander, the other was a partner. She sighed deeply. "We've been sitting here for over four hours," She said more quietly, but the annoyance hadn't left her voice. "Can't we go back to headquarters?"
The boy next to her, no older than 30, sighed and shook his head. "No! YOU don't have to report to the boss anyway, I do. I'm not in the mood to hear him yell at me today."
"Joel," Rebecca smirked. "How'd YOU become a commander? You don't even like the boss!"
Joel lifted his head indignately. "I happen to be a very good rocket, just because I don't like the job, doesn't mean I'm not good at it."
Tyler shifted. "Then why not be in the police department?" He was sitting beside Rebecca with his poke'ball in hand. He had brown hair and looked no older than 20.
Joel gave a small smirk. "Too good." He turned back to his position behind the bushes. "Now, hush, I hear people coming." Both Rebecca and Tyler leaned over to see what their commander saw.
"…them!"
"You're too paranoid!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"SHUT-UP!" Came a new voice. A fiery red-head walked in front of the arguing pair and glared. "You WANT the rockets to hear us? If there are any here, they'll come from miles away because of you two!"
The red-headed boy folded his arms and turned away from the black haired girl whom his was arguing with. "I'M not the one scared of rockets."
"I'd be scared of them with you around!" She countered.
"That's our cue…" Joel whispered.
"You should be scared!"
All four heads shot to over to the nearby bushes where Joel had jumped up. Behind him, Rebecca and Tyler had jumped up as well. "Here we come!" Joel started.
"So get ready to fight!"
"Give us all your pokemon!"
"And we'll end all your plight!"
"Joel!"
"Tyler!"
"Rebecca!"
"Team Rocket here to take pokemon for the boss!"
"Because if we don't, it'll be our loss!"
"That's right!"
"It's Team rocket!" Ruby and Joey shouted together. Ash and Misty stood in the background with sweat-drops. "I thought Jessie and James were bad…" She whispered to Ash. Ash felt a smile crawl onto his lips as he nodded in agreement.
"Go, Pigeot!" Joel threw his poke'ball and out with a red beam came the magnificent bird known as pigeot. Rebecca and Tyler got in a battle stance and threw out their own poke'ball.
"Go Raticate!" A large rat pokemon bared it's large need at it's opponents, waiting impatiently for Tyler, it's master.
"Go Ariados!" Out came a red spider pokemon. Misty let out a small screech and hid behind Ash.
Ruby eyed Misty before turning back to the battle, her hand on one of the poke'balls on her belt. She felt a hand on her shoulder before she could pick a poke'ball. Joey only turned to give her a small grin before turning back to the rockets. "I'll handle this one." Surprisingly, Ruby pulled her hand away from the belt at her waist and stepped back waiting for Joey to do his job.
Joey reached a hand down to his waist and pulled out a poke'ball and threw it as hard as he could. "GO PLATO!" A bright red beam came from the small poke'ball and disappeared as quickly as it had come. What was left was, well, a yellow and blue blob. The colors were mixed his with its jelly like body as it bobbed slowly up and down it it's position on the ground.
Joel grinned and ordered his pokemon to do a flying attack. The tips of Joey's lips curled up. "Fire!" The blue and yellow blob was suddenly replaced by a burning inferno that erupted to fast and close for the pigeot to turn back. The Pidgeot finally emerged from the fire and collapsed to the cool ground beside it. Joel growled and returned his pokemon. "Don't' just stand there, you idiots!" He yelped at his comrades to save his pride. "Do something! Attack together!"
Rebecca and Tyler quickly nodded and moved in front of their leader. "Attack!"
Raticate ran headfirst into the flames as Ariados flung sticky string at the fire. Raticate disappeared as well as the string. Joey laughed. "Ha! You think that's' going to stop it?"
Rebecca growled and returned her pokemon when raticate appeared completely singed from head to toe. Once all pokemon were recalled, Joey allowed the fire to disperse and the yellow and blue blob returned.
Joel decided to take control and run of into the woods. "We'll be back!"
"We'll be waiting…" Joey called after the retreated rockets. "…NOT!" He turned to his three companions behind him. "Let's go before they come again."
Ruby quickly agreed and continued walking right behind Joey. It took Ash a minute, but as soon as he returned from his surprise, he raced up to Joey. "What kind of pokemon was that?"
Joey gave him an odd look. "Don't you know? He's a Plato. It's like a Ditto, the difference is that Ditto's change into their into elements like lightning, fire, and even plant. Can't believe you didn't know that."
Ash gave a nervous laugh "… we were kind of…secluded…".
Misty smiled slightly and turned her attention to Ruby. "Why are rocket sill in existence if w-Misty and Ash defeated them?"
Ruby's red eyes looked back at her. "I really don't know." She looked forward again and unconsciously nodded. "I can tell, now can we PLEASE get out of here?"
Misty nodded. As they resumed their walking, she asked, "So why is Team Rocket here?"
Ruby unconsciously moved closer to Joey. "I guess they got a new leader or something. I'm hoping it doesn't get too bad, they haven't been much of a problem, and I know Misty and Ash beat them good if it took them eighty years to make a come back."
"seventy-five." Joey correct.
Ruby rolled her eyes. "Fine, seventy-five years."
Silence filled the air. Ash and Misty were both thinking the same thing – was this why they were here?
The silence was broken by a sudden thought entering Misty's brain. "Does anyone know where we're going?"
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New Pokemon: Plato ~ A yellow and blue pokemon much like ditto, that controls elements instead of changing into a pokemon or object. No Plato has the same design.
Ooookay… so I got lame at the end… maybe if you people would review and help me out a little ^_~ Anyway Review!
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