Hey guys! Long time no see, huh? I have been working on developing the plot on this story, only, my stinking computer deleted all the stuff I had on my disk v_v! I had to start all over again from square one! Thankfully, I had already downloaded the most "descriptive" chapter of the story already. ^_^ I am now saving every five words. (so how many times have I already saved? ~_^) This chapter starts right where we left off. Here we go!
Oo~ Rockets and Meteors ~oO
Lynn studied the pegs and rope pieces in Kyle's hand. "It looks like someone really doesn't want us getting any farther. The ropes are barely threads anymore and the wood looks like soot!"
"Only the best for our little prize!" came the sinister answer. Lynn noticed a girl with shoulder length dark green hair and deep purple eyes. "Don't worry, Lynn. We'll take you home and take good care of you. Right, Bennie?"
A boy with shocking orange hair in a small ponytail on his neck and navy blue eyes jumped out of a tree. "Of course we will, Claudia! That's what Team Meteor does!"
"I know I'm gonna regret this," started Kyle, "But who are you? And what exactly is Team Meteor?"
"I'm very glad you asked little boy. Bennie?" Claudia beckoned for him to start something.
Ben cleared his throat before starting, "To shake the world with our halation!"
Claudia picked up right after him, "To ravage each planet without invitation!"
"To announce the darkness of every light!"
"To denounce and destroy each and every right!"
"Bennie!"
"Claudia!"
"Team Meteor! The cursers of the cursed!"
"Give it up or prepare for the worst!"
A 'shining' Teddiursa with dark brown fur and a black crescent moon on it's forehead burst out of it's Pokeball and shouted out. "Teddiursa-a-a!"
"Well, Team Meteor, or whatever, if you don't get out of here and leave Lynn and me alone, you'll suffer the consequences!" Kyle pulled out his Pokeball and got ready to unleash his first Pokemon. He whispered out of the side of his mouth to Lynn. "I'll keep them busy. You try to get to Valley Grove." Lynn nodded and got ready to make a quick escape.
"Not so fast, my pretty one," Bennie snickered. "I have a little present that I think you WON'T enjoy!" He slung a sticky webbing at her from behind his back. "Spinarak Gak Attack!" He yelled out.
Lynn was suddenly bound up tight in a sticky, stringy substance that soon became a cocoon, binding her arms to her body and making it impossible to move her legs. She landed roughly on her backside. "Yuck! What is this nasty crud?!" She wriggled in the quickly contracting goo that was starting to become solid.
Claudia snickered cruelly. "It's the famous Team Meteor Spinarak Gak. When kept cool, this is the equivalent of a Spinarak's string, but thanks to science and alterations in the chemical make up, when it touches something warm, like a human body, it hardens and contracts creating a perfect cocoon with our little butterfly for the boss inside. Despicable, yes?" She fluttered her eyes on the last part. "Ready to go home, Lynn? Roxanne and Wesley are worried sick." Claudia mocked.
"She's not going anywhere! Go, Scorcher!" He released a Cyndaquil who's back immediately burst into flame. "Tackle, Scorcher!" He ordered quickly.
"Go, Teddy! Use Faint Attack!" For a moment, it looked like Teddiursa was using Double Team, but then it hit Scorcher hard for a one hit K-O. "Ha haha! Is that the best you've got little boy?" While Kyle and the two weirdo's were occupied, Lynn was trying to free Basil to help with the battle or the gunk, one when Claudia noticed her. "What do you think you're doing?! Go! Ariados! Use Spider Web and trap that little pest against the cliff wall!" Ariados almost had Lynn and would have had her penned against the cliff, if it weren't for Basil escaping from his ball just in time. Unfortunately, Basil being extra weight, got Lynn slung off the Cliffside where the bridge once was. Lynn was now dangling in the air about 10 feet from the top and 40 from the bottom. Basil used Vine Whip to pull her back to the Cliffside and tried to pull her up to him.
Claudia saw this and shrieked, "Ariados! Reel her in! Don't let that little pipsqueak get to her first!" With the command, Ariados jerked the web up and Basil lost his footing and tumbled down into Lynn's lap.
"Chica ri? (Lynn?) Chica chica ri ca ri? (Are you alright?)"
"I'm Okay. You?" Before he could answer, she felt the tug on the web again. "Basil! Wrap your Vine Whip around me and then reach out for the other side of the cliff! Hurry!" Basil did as he was told and just barely reached a ledge on the other side. "Good boy! Now pull us to the other side! Come on, Basil! I know you can do it! Just a bit further!"
Then she felt the Ariados pull harder on her, not wanting to displease it's master. Basil pulled harder and Lynn was now being pulled in two directions from around the waist over a ravine with sharp rocks and water below.
"Scorcher! Try to help Lynn!" The small mouse climbed down the webbing to the girl and began chewing on the web, only to get himself caught in the sticky concoction. Lynn was being pulled tighter and tighter and breathing was getting hard.
She was about to pass out when a voice from the other side yelled out, "Use your Furry Swipes, Teddiursa!" Lynn looked up to see a young girl with blue eyes and blonde hair in a blue and white skirt outfit. The little bear easily sliced through the webbing and swung on Basil's vine with Lynn to the other side. Once they were on the ledge, the girl shouted to the Meteor duo on the other side, "So you're the ones who ruined the bridge! As a Pokemon Trainer, I am disgusted with you! Teddiursa, Swift attack!" The teddiursa's attack hit them dead on and the two trouble makers in navy colored uniforms with gray and black lining were shot off into the sky. "AND DON'T COME BACK!!" she yelled out.
Teddiursa climbed up to it's trainer and she called down to Lynn, "Are you alright? Can you climb up here?" Lynn tried to get up and climb but her strength was drained and she slid down every time she tried to climb up.
"I need a rope or something. Is there a vine up there long enough?" The girl disappeared for a minute then replied.
"Here, grab this." A vine started inching toward her.
"I got it!" Lynn yelled. "Wrap the end once around a tree trunk and let me have the rest of it." The girl obeyed. Lynn tied the first end around her waist through her belt loops and used the other end to hoist herself up. When she finally got to the top, she glanced over at Kyle. He had recalled Scorcher and was waiting for her instructions on how to get across. Lynn tied a rock to the end of the vine and yelled, "Catch, Kyle!" He barely caught the rock and tied it to a tree trunk. Lynn tied the end on her side too. " Okay, Kyle. Basil is going to reach out with his Vine Whip and steady you while you climb across, okay? You going to have to come out a bit though. You can climb it upside down and crawl, like a Weedle when it's on the bottom of the branch, only wrap your legs around the vine." Kyle did so very slowly. Every so often, Basil would tighten his grip and take out the slack to help him move faster.
When he was safe on the other side he asked the little girl, "What's your name?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Molly Hale. Who are you?"
"Hi, Molly. I'm Kyle and this is Lynn. We heading to Valley Grove. Would you happen to know where that is from here?"
"Sure! It's not even a mile down the path! I'll walk with you. I have to tell Officer Jenny about the bridge anyway." She walked ahead in a cheery mood as if nothing strange had happened that day. 'She's a sweetie. Just like Sandy…' Lynn started thinking.
~Team Rocket HQ~
Giovanni was watching the monitor which was playing a recording of this morning's Fearow-cam footage. It didn't have sound, but he had gotten good at lip reading in the many years he'd been doing this. Behind him, Domino was waiting silently for the Boss's commands. A Team Meteor member had been seen on the premises just after the recording and it was thought that they had locked something of value in the barn.
Giovanni didn't care about the "valuable," he was only interested in the creature that he had been looking for sense the word of a 'forgotten' secret mission that was aborted got out. He couldn't for the life of him remember what that mission had been about, but he knew it had something to do with immense power. Then he had heard of Team Rocket's rivals, Team Meteor, doing some genetic experiments and coming up with some ferocious weapons and an invincible creature. He wanted that creature for his own and had spent the last four years tracking it, trying to find it. It was only recently that the Team Rocket satellite had picked up a very interesting message from the Team Meteor communications satellite. He kept close watch on the communications ever since and it was finally going to pay off.
"It's close, Domino. Do you feel it's power? I can almost taste it." She only nodded. The Boss was finally cracking, she thought. Any wrong move and he would come at your throat anymore. She didn't even try to explain things to him anymore. He assumed things for himself.
"Send out the best Rocket Grunts and scour the land for it. Leave no stone un-turned. I want this creature before Matsamoto and Team Meteor find it. Follow them if it's necessary. BRING IT TO ME!" He slammed his fist and his Persian hid beneath a computer board to keep from being kicked.
~Team Meteor HQ~
Matsamoto was watching a satellite screening for any trace of disturbance. If she let off her first power spurt, his Meteor Grunts would be on it in 5 minutes flat. She would be dangerous until she could control her power and that wouldn't happen until he could direct her correctly. He turned around to look at Checker. Giovanni had his Black Tulip, Domino, and he had his White Rose, Checker. She was far smarter and stronger than any of Giovanni's greatest Rocketeers, plus 2. She was a far better actress too. Her long, curly black hair and brown eyes were the exact opposite of her arch enemy's. Checker had hated Domino every since they were young children. They had been brought up together and immediately became bitter rivals.
Most of the Meteor members wore uniforms much like Team Rockets, only they were navy blue and had white M's on them with gray and black trim.
"Checker, I want you to seek out my project. She is vital to the future of this organization. As of today, our progress and Team Rocket's were differed by 15%. We had the extra 15%. I want to see that number come up to 50% at least by next week. I want you to find her and bring her back." He held up a gold coin. " I promise I will make it worth your while. Don't fail me, White Rose 009." He turned back to his Houndoom. "I'll let you know the instant Team Rocket hacks into our information again, so you might expect Domino." Checker visibly cringed. "You will give her a special welcome won't you? From both of us?" She caught on as he tossed her a small hand grenade. "Make sure it's one she'll never forget!"
"Yes, sir! I'm on it, Boss!" She smiled vengefully as she decended the stairway to the floor that the aircraft was kept on. She chose her usual weapons that the Boss himself had funded for her. Her many White Roses that gave her her name, a jet pack for quick get aways, and her helicopter. It was a small craft, one person, but at high speeds and altitudes, it was better than most jet planes. She checked her supplies and set out. "Look out, creature girl. I coming for you."
~Belton~
Sandy and Clay were sitting quietly, waiting for Roxy to show. Clay was the first to hear Roxanne and Wesley talking heatedly and signaled for Sandy to stay low. They crawled to the edge of the hayloft and peered through the dark of the barn to the crack of light below the door.
"Ready?" he whispered. She nodded. Roxanne opened the door and walked in ranting.
"WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE THEY?!? THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, WESLEY!"
Wesley was walking next to her silently. He didn't much care for the verbal approach. If Roxy gave him too much lip, he'd just smack her. Why waste breath? Clay waited until they were in the stables before he climbed down. Sandy followed a bit faster than she meant to, but it didn't attract any attention. They ran to the door and slammed it shut and locked it. The key, still being in the lock, was thrown down the road where it wasn't likely to be found anytime soon. They made sure that they were well down the road by the time they realized they were locked in, but it didn't stop them from hearing Roxanne's shriek of horror when she realized that she was trapped without a way out.
Sandy was starting to slow down when they saw the Professor's place. "Professor! Professor Woods!" Clay screamed when they were with in hearing range. "Emergency! Red Alert! Lynn's in Danger!"
~Valley Grove~
"Wow!" Lynn gasped as they reached the town. "It looks a lot like Green Field, only there's more people. And the flowers are different."
"Yah. That's why daddy like's this place so much. Mommy used to live in a town like this before she met daddy."
"Well, It's much prettier than the parts of Belton I've seen." Lynn commented. "Kyle? Where will you go after you leave here tomorrow?" she was looking at the sunset and thinking of sleeping in a bed for a full night again.
"I think I'm going to the Pokemon League. I am going to do something that I haven't ever done before."
"Really? That's nice. So, Molly. What are you doing here instead of being at your house in Greenfield?"
"There's some old ruins in the caves near here and Mommy and Daddy are working on the writing on the wall together. They aren't sure what it is. It's not even about the Unown. It's some sort of Legend about an ancient mistake that isn't supposed to be repeated. I'm still waiting to hear more about the Legend. Mommy said that it's written in code. Even translated, it's very confusing. They think it might take years for them to understand what it means. Since this town is so small, no one was ever interested in the caves until my Daddy came up with the theory that there is a whole other civilization that was built down there. We're still trying to find out who built the ruins, not to mention find the place where this world," she held her hands out to show the town, "and that one meet." She pointed down underground. "Daddy thinks that's where Pokemon life might have started. But all they've been able to uncover is a few pottery pieces. He says that if we find coal or another fossil fuel, it means that there was ancient life down there and that the mission would not be a total waste. But so far, no such luck."
"Wow. To think that the bond between Pokemon and humans all started with ancient Diglett people. Interesting and frightening at the same time." Lynn was wondering why Kyle hadn't said anything yet. 'What is he thinking so hard about?' They had just gotten into the Pokemon Center when a dark shadow loomed over the town.
"Stay here, Lynn. It might be Team Meteor." Kyle ran outside to see what this was all about. Outside, a group of people were gathering in the streets, staring at the blimp with a large red R on the side. Suddenly a voice came over a loudspeaker.
"Attention good people of Valley Grove! Do not be afraid! Team Rocket only wishes to have an item returned to them. If we get this item in 30 minutes, no one will be harmed, but, if you decide to resist, your beautiful town will be destroyed. Even if you by some crazed decision decide to attack us, we have a prisoner here with us. Go ahead, Mrs. Hale, tell them where you are and what will happen if they attack." The speaker squealed as it was moved.
"I am tied to a gas tank in the cargo area of the blimp. Molly! If you can hear me Molly, run! Go get help! Wait…" she was cut off.
"If anyone attacks, the ship explodes along with Mrs. Hale. All we want for her safe return is a strange girl creature from Belton. It is rumored that she looks 15, stands 5' 10", and has lavender hair and honey brown eyes. If you have any information on her, Mrs. Hale would be grateful, as well as the fair town of Valley Grove. You have 30 Minutes. Now!"
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Ha ha haha ha! Evil Cliff hanger! Actually, I need sleep before I do the next chapter. Thanks to my Algebra 2 test tomorrow, I have to study study study! But I will update as soon as possible! I am getting stuck. See, the reason that there is all this confusion in the beginning is because I wanted to untangle it in the end, keep you reading, you know? Well, guess that didn't work, huh? R and R please!