Author's Note: If you're a major fan of Neoshipping, you may want to stop reading... Butch and Cassidy are siblings in this fanfic. (Sorry, I'm an anti-Neoshipper...)
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon or Noir. I do own Daisuke Yamamoto and Claude Blackhawk.
Forces of Darkness
Chapter 2: The Infamous Unit
The late afternoon sun was high above the border of North Viridian as a black SUV stopped by the local auto repair shop. "Excuse me..." the driver called to young man sitting near the garage entrance.
The young man, dressed in a repair suit, with spiky gold and red hair looked up from an article in the daily newspaper to see the driver, adorned in a black beret and sunglasses. "Yeah?" he replied.
The driver rubbed his eyebrow before asking, "Think you can help this poor old car?"
The young man raised one thin eyebrow and smiled. "Of course, we can!" he replied. "Go right on through!"
"Hey, thanks!" The driver rolled up his window and drove into the garage.
The young man watched with is ruby red eyes as the brand new car parked itself within the garage walls and began its decent underground.
Though it may seem like an auto repair shop on the outside, the place is actually an elevator that makes a long and winding trip down to the Team Rocket Headquarters of both Viridian City and the Kanto region.
"...At least the password's catching on to the others..." muttered the young man known as Daisuke Yamamoto, the second youngest of the four Yamamoto siblings. But, he is possibly best known as the Black Hat Bandit: the infamous artifact and painting thief who proved his mettle to Giovanni by sneaking out of museums, undetected, with over a hundred pieces of art!
...But, that's all behind him... Though he is at the young age of seventeen, he wants to leave the Bandit life and start his Rocket career... that's if... he can keep his unit together like one big happy family...
Daisuke turned his head and called to the people to the garage, "It looks like someone's punching in for the night!"
"I'm doing the same after I punch you out!" A girl's voice yelled back. Soon after, a wrench was thrown from the darkness of the garage and right to Daisuke's head.
...Though it didn't knock him out, Daisuke was left with huge bruise on his jaw as he resisted all effort to lose his cool to the only person that was brave enough to talk back to him -- his only sister. The stubborn, fiery blonde haired woman known as Cassidy Yamamoto, the eldest of the Yamamoto siblings.
"Are you still mad that you lost the battle?" Daisuke asked calmly, rubbing the blood away from the side of his mouth.
Cassidy, with clenched fists, whined, "If we had known that Basho and Buson's team of steel Pokemon were going to wail on us before we even made out move, we wouldn't have been assigned to guard duty."
"Then it's your fault that you had to pick a fight with them." Daisuke informed, finishing off with a smile.
"You placed the bet!" Cassidy barked back.
"And you accepted it! And, you never heeded my warning." Daisuke folded his arms and quickly hissed, "...Foolish!"
"I heard that!"
"Glad you did!"
"C'mon, you two, knock it off." Another voice called from the shadows of the garage. The voice of the oldest brother of the Yamamoto family. The green haired Butch Yamamoto, the "peacemaker" of the four-person unit.
"Aren't you the least bit ticked off that we had to lose to Basho and Buson?" Cassidy asked.
Butch shook his head. "I learn from the mistakes that I make. Being on guard duty gives me the chance to contemplate a new strategy for the next time we encounter them."
"And then revenge will be delivered... Yamamoto style!" Daisuke cheered, finishing off with a small cackle.
"Finally!" the fourth voice cheered. "After many months of upgrading, it's finally done!"
That fourth voice was none other than the youngest sibling of the Yamamoto family: Mondo Yamamoto, who once worked as the "Special Delivery Trainee" of Team Rocket, driving around in a red Jeep that has now been upgraded.
"Mondo, that Jeep doesn't look any different than it did when you began upgrading it!" Cassidy remarked. "What makes you think we're going to believe you?"
"You must be blind!" Mondo yelled back. "This Jeep now has a back seat and a trunk. It's now fully functional for any mission!"
Another wrench was thrown by Cassidy to Mondo's gut. "Don't ever say that I'm blind!" she scolded.
"All right. You're not blind." Daisuke said.
"Why, thank you, Daisuke." Cassidy replied.
"But, you're slow at catching wits!" Daisuke muttered, finishing off with a small laugh.
Cassidy, enraged by the remark, threw the rest of the tool box at Daisuke's head.
...Direct hit...
Butch stood in silence, sweatdropping at his fighting siblings. "Y'know, there are some times that I believe I'm adopted..." he muttered to Mondo.
"Well, knock on wood... or in this case, metal." Mondo remarked with a sweatdrop as he knocked on the hood of the engine. Swiftly, the hood popped open... along with a six-barrel chain gun. Mondo slid behind the gun and quickly closed the hood.
"Was that a chain gun that just came out of your Jeep?" Butch asked as he as well as Cassidy and Daisuke gave off blank stares.
"...T-that was only a figment of you imagination." Mondo stuttered with another sweatdrop. "Honest!"
Daisuke turned his head as he heard the sound of an oncoming vehicle -- a white patrol car bearing the name of the Viridian Police.
"Patrol car at three o'clock!" Daisuke called to his unit. "Act busy!"
Ignoring orders, the rest of the unit looked as though they were bored while Daisuke face-vaulted.
The patrol car stopped near the entrance to the garage. The driver's door opened and out came a familiar looking police officer.
"Why, if it isn't Claude Blackhawk!" Daisuke cheered in false joy.
"Daisuke Yamamoto!" Claude cheered back. "Long time, no see!"
"You never call!" both rivals spoke simultaneously. "You never write! How the hell am I supposed to keep up with you! Ah-ha ha ha ha ha... (pause and stare) Ha ha ha ha ha..."
Mondo, Butch and Cassidy couldn't help to sweatdrop at the sight of the two rivals "getting along."
"So, what brings you all the way out here?" Daisuke asked. "You're going to try and kill me again, are you?"
"Heck, no!" Claude replied. "At least not today..."
"Oh, ho! Such the jokester, you are."
"Actually, I was wondering..."
"Yes?"
"Do you possibly know somebody that goes by the name of Noir?" Claude asked.
"Noir?" Daisuke asked. "Noir... Noir... Nope, doesn't ring a bell..."
"Really? Well, in any case... she wanted me to give you this." Claude gently reached into his pocket, pulled out the thin dagger and gave it to Daisuke.
"What an interesting little present..." Daisuke muttered as he studied the dagger.
"Like that mysterious girl, I didn't come empty-handed, either." Claude said as he pulled the gun out of his holster and aimed it at Daisuke. "That would be rude of me..."
Daisuke looked up and saw the barrel of the gun in front of his face. "I thought you said you wouldn't kill me..." he said calmly, raising his hands.
"That was then, this is now! The opportunity is right in front of me! I must take it... as well as the bounty on your head!"
"You greedy bastard!" Daisuke said with a smile. It was at this time he heard a strange rustling noise in the lone tree to the right of him. Noises only a human would make...
"Daisuke, get out of there!" Mondo yelled.
"Mondo, it's under control." the calm Daisuke called back. "Now, I want you to go and start up the Jeep. Butch and Cassidy, get in the back."
"But..." the three siblings reiterated.
"No buts. That's an order."
"Oh, but they just want to see you die before they leave." Claude said with a disturbingly wide grin.
"Then, go ahead." Daisuke hissed.
"'Go ahead?'" Claude asked.
"Yeah! Go ahead and shoot! I dare you!"
Claude hesitated, stunned at what Daisuke said. "Wow..." he said in awe. "I can't believe you're making this easy on me." He began to pull the trigger when something silver knocked the gun right out of his hand... A dagger, identical to the one Daisuke held, even with the same hole set in between the blade and the handle.
To be continued...
Must stop there... must draw... suspense... Meh, you can go on the next chapter. I can't stop you...