Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon or Noir. But, I still own Claude, Daisuke and the officers mentioned in chapter 1.

Forces of Darkness

Chapter 3: Fearless

(Scene: Outside of the fake repair shop.)

"I know you're out there!" Claude yelled, gazing at the small park behind him. "Come out and show yourself."

"...Daisuke Yamamoto, I presume?" a voice called. To Claude, it was a hauntingly familiar voice.

Both Claude and Daisuke turned to the lone tree and found a mysterious girl with magenta-colored hair, dressed in a long, dark green cloak, walking towards the two.

Daisuke gave a half-smile. "I suppose you're the one called 'Noir?'" he asked.

"...Yes..."

"Quite an interesting alias... So, what brings you all the way out here?"

"Actually," Claude interrupted. "she came for the same reason as me: to kill you."

"Really?" Daisuke asked in false joy. "Now I have two people to watch out for."

"Daisuke," Mondo called. "hurry up and get in the car!"

"Mondo, is the car running?" Daisuke asked.

"This is a very bad time to joke around!" Cassidy remarked.

"Answer the question! Is the car running or not?"

"It is!" Butch stated.

"Good... Now, Mondo, I want you to do me a big favor, okay?"

"...Yeah." Mondo said uneasily.

"I want you to put the Jeep into sixth..."

"Oh, come on!" Claude yelled. "You don't want them to see you die an honorable death?"

"...and floor it!" With that said, Daisuke threw a smoke bomb to the ground, shrouding Claude and the Noir girl in a white cloud as he made his escape, jumping into the passenger's seat of the moving Jeep.

The Jeep made sharp left turn, nearly driving on the right side of the tires as it headed into the heart of the city.

"Bye!" Daisuke sarcastically said as he looked back at the smoke cloud. "Thank you mysterious girl for your distraction!"

A speck of light shimmered from the cloud and flew past Daisuke's arm, leaving behind a thin red line of blood in its wake. Daisuke stared at the tear in his disguise for a moment before bursting out in laughter.

"Great!" Mondo remarked. "Our commanding officer has finally lost it..."

"No, no," Daisuke said. "(...Well, at least not yet...) Seems to me that there's a new form of law enforcement in town... and it looks like she's relentless. Damn! I have new competition! I'm not going to get bored now!"

"'New competition?'" Butch asked.

"If my enemies can't hit me during our first encounter, they're not considered to be competition. That girl wasn't going to see me leave until she gave me a warning."

"Speaking of which..." Cassidy said. "Who was that girl anyway?"

"Noir..." Daisuke hissed. "She goes by the name of Noir... but that's gotta be an alias."

"Still, it's a creepy name for a creepy girl..." Mondo stated.

"You actually thought she was scary?" Daisuke asked.

His siblings nodded.

"You're sad!" Daisuke remarked with a sweatdrop. "All of you..."

"You didn't think she was the least bit scary?" Cassidy asked.

"If I was afraid of her, I wouldn't be alive right now." he muttered as he covered up the wound with his right hand and closed his eyes. "That's all there is to it..."

(Scene: Outside of the fake repair shop.)

Minutes after Daisuke's escape, the white smoke cloud dissipated, leaving a very annoyed Blackhawk in it's wake.

"Dammit, Yamamoto!" Claude screamed. "You coward!" He scanned the are around him, in search of Noir... but, unfortunately, she was gone too. Claude was left alone... standing by his police car... with four newly slashed tires. Looks like she doesn't want me to join in on the fun... he thought as he picked up the walkie-talkie. "Calling all units: a speeding vehicle has been spotted in North Viridian, heading downtown. It is a red Jeep, bearing the Team Rocket logo. It's also been reported that the Black Hat Bandit is in that vehicle..."

(Scene: Main Street.)

Word of the speeding Jeep spread fast among the Viridian Police as the first four police cars chased behind Mondo's "eighty-in-a-forty" Jeep that raced along Main Street.

"Hey, Mondo!" Daisuke called. "What time is it?"

"About five o'clock..." Mondo replied.

"Ahh, you don't get it..."

"What did I miss?"

"I know what time it is!" Butch stated.

"Do you?" Daisuke asked.

"It's time to prepare!"

"Prepare?" Cassidy asked.

"Prepare for trouble!" Daisuke noted.

"And we might as well make it double-double!" Mondo added.

"There you go!"

"To infect the world with devastation!" Cassidy began.

"To blight all peoples within our nation!" Butch added.

"To denounce the goodness of truth and love!" Daisuke continued.

"To extend our wrath to the stars above!" Mondo finished.

"Cassidy!"

"Butch!"

"Daisuke!"

"And Mondo!"

The four pulled off their light blue repair suit disguises to reveal their black Team Rocket uniforms (except for Mondo, who wore a white uniform). Each of the discarded disguises flew onto the four windshields of the trailing police cars, blinding the drivers inside and causing the cars to sway uncontrollably.

"We're Team Rocket circling the Earth all day and night!" Butch and Cassidy stated as two of the police cars crashed into cars parked on the sides of the street.

"Surrender to us now, or you'll surely lose the fight!" Mondo and Daisuke finished as the last two cars crashed into store windows.

(Scene: Outside of the fake repair shop.)

"That's right!" Claude yelled over the walkie-talkie. "For the tenth time, I am telling you the truth! Noir was there and she slashed my tires all to hell!"

"And that's why you can't chase after them?" Officer Tezuka paged back.

"I'd be chasing after them right now if that damn Noir girl didn't show up!"

"Speaking of which, where is she?"

Claude swallowed. "I think she went chasing after the Jeep."

"On foot?"

"Not sure. But keep an eye out on both the Jeep and Noir."

"Gotcha. Right now, a couple squads a putting up road blocks to stop the bastards in their tracks."

"Good. Keep me posted, okay?"

"10-4."

"Ogawa, how are things on your end?" Claude asked.

No response.

"Ogawa?"

"Actually, sir..." Ogawa replied. "I accidentally went window shopping..."

"Meaning?"

"The Jeep blinded all the cars that were chasing after them, and I ended up going through a store's window... No one was hurt thankfully..."

"How are the others?"

"I'm not sure... but there's this one girl dressed in green and she looks like she's helping the other officers out of the cars."

"Ogawa... is she wearing a green cloak?"

"Yeah, that's right."

"Then... I... don't think she's helping them..."

"Oh, hang on a sec... Um, hello, miss... Don't worry about a thing here. Everything's under cont-"

Claude fell silent after hearing Ogawa's last words. That's quite an assassin I hired... he thought. Looks like she doesn't want anyone to join in on the fun... Well, that's a shame...

(Scene: Main Street.)

Still along Viridian's Main Street, the speeding Jeep was reaching a dead end as a few police cars began to block their path.

"Stop!" Officer Tezuka yelled. "In the name of the Viridian Police, you're all under arrest!"

"Great!" Daisuke whined. "Now we have to give up!"

"That'll be a cold day in Hell!" Mondo yelled as he pushed a button behind the steering wheel. The engine hood opened slightly and a pair of six-barrel chain guns appeared from under the hood.

Oh, that's right! Daisuke thought. Mondo can go berserk during a police chase...

"The Jeep's armed!" Officer Tezuka yelled to the other police car that was blocking the street. "Fire at will!"

The other police officers fired warning shots at the speeding Jeep, but they were unsuccessful to slow it down or shatter the bulletproof windshield.

"You're gonna have to do better than that!" Mondo yelled as he opened fire on the police cars, eventually hitting the gas tanks and causing both of them to explode. And once again, the Jeep sped past the burning rubble and police officers staring in awe.

"Blackhawk," Tezuka called on his walkie talkie. "we have a problem."

"What?" Claude yelled back.

"The road block didn't work!"

"What do you mean it didn't work?"

"Never mind that! Get the hell over here! The green angel of death is he-!"

(Scene: Outside of the fake repair shop.)

Claude could only listen as Tezuka's words were cut short. What the hell's going on? he thought. Why is she going after my men as well as Yamamoto? He picked up the walkie talkie once more and screamed, "I need a chopper NOW!"

To be continued...

Wah-ha! Now the story's getting somewhere (and I'm working on very little caffeine, so bear with me)!