Disclaimer: at the end of chapter 4
Forces of Darkness
Chapter 4: Fight and Flight
The red Jeep continued its race down Viridian's Main Street when Cassidy noticed something along the five-story buildings. "Daisuke." she called. "I have a question."
"Yeah?" Daisuke replied.
"Which person can be a substitute for a Christmas tree?"
"A Christmas tree?"
Cassidy pointed to the green cloaked girl that ran along the rooftops, catching up with the Jeep.
"Damn, she's fast!" Butch remarked.
"Can this Jeep go any faster?" Daisuke asked Mondo.
"It's too heavy!" Mondo whined. "One person has to get out in order for this car to go to a hundred!"
"You better not throw me off!" Butch and Cassidy stated.
Daisuke pulled out a Pokeball that was attached to his belt. "The cops are after you three." he stated. "That girl's only after me." He threw the Pokeball into the air and released the flying, fire breathing lizard, Charizard.
The mighty Charizard grabbed onto Daisuke's hands and threw the trainer up over his head and onto his back.
"I want you guys to head to the east edge of town by the port and wait for me there." Daisuke ordered. "If I'm not back in an hour, Cassidy, I want you take over my position, understood?"
"Sir!" Cassidy replied with a nod.
"If the police are still chasing after all of you when Cassidy's takes over... you know what to do..."
"Fight to the death?" Butch asked.
"Damn straight!" With that said, Daisuke took off riding on the noble Charizard and flew above the buildings and the cloaked girl. "Over here!" he called to the assassin as Charizard took a sharp right, parting from the Jeep. "Come and catch me!"
The cloaked assassin was still surprised about the orange dragon coming out from what appeared to be a red and silver baseball... But, she kept her thoughts and opinions to herself and didn't let it interfere with her mission.
...Except, one thing just had to interfere... A young man with black hair wearing a green shirt and a red headband was the only one walking down the sidewalk at the time. He carried a sketchbook in one hand, a pencil in the other, and had the dumbest smile plastered to his face. The assassin merely smiled and threw a dagger to the Pokemon watcher's neck before running along the rooftops once more to catch up with her real target.
(Scene: A home in Minnesota.)
At the same time, somewhere in Minnesota, a young writer woke up in the middle of the night screaming, "There is a God!"
(Scene: Main Street.)
As Mondo had predicted, the Jeep began to slowly speed up as soon as Daisuke left, now racing at a hundred miles per hour.
"Aww, no..." Mondo whined as he looked into the rear view mirror.
"What?" Cassidy asked.
"The police are sending in the big guns now!"
A few blocks back, a white police helicopter appeared from another street and began to catch up with the Jeep.
Mondo, reluctant to be captured, pushed another button behind the steering wheel. A pair of hidden doors opened up behind Butch and Cassidy and another pair of six-barrel chain guns appeared.
Blackhawk was stunned. The Bandit wasn't in the Jeep but his siblings still were. "All right, where the hell is Daisuke?" he screamed to the Jeep over the megaphone.
"Ha! Like I would tell you?" Cassidy asked as she flipped the helicopter off.
"If you won't tell me, Cassidy..." Claude said as a chain gun appeared from underneath the helicopter. "I'm going to make sure Mondo and Botch will-"
Before Blackhawk could finish, a hail of bullets volleyed the helicopter, eventually hitting the propellers and sending the chopper skidding... um... gracefully to earth.
"Can't you even get my name right!" Butch yelled, standing up in the Jeep, holding one of the rear chain guns.
(Scene: The sky above Viridian City.)
Meanwhile, the chase between Daisuke and the cloaked girl among the rooftops seemed to continue without end...
"I'm getting pretty ticked off here..." Daisuke said with a twitched eyebrow. "How 'bout you, Charizard?"
Charizard gave a low growl in agreement.
"Then, let's teach her a lesson she'll never forget!"
Charizard turned to face the cloaked girl, still in a mid-air glide.
"Don't mess with the Black Hat Bandit!" Daisuke said as Charizard blew a powerful flamethrower at the girl. The girl swiftly dodged to the right and countered by throwing another dagger at her target.
Daisuke was thrown completely off of Charizard's back and fell to the alleyway below, landing in the garbage dump. Charizard followed after Daisuke, calling to him in a series of un-translated roars.
"I'm okay, Charizard..." Daisuke muttered as slowly got out of the dump. "I just wished that I would've fallen in something softer and cleaner than a pile of garbage bags."
Charizard roared back in shock, seeing that his master was wounded by a dagger to the right shoulder.
"Yeah, I know..." Daisuke replied. "She got my good arm..."
The cloaked girl jumped from the roof above and stood before Daisuke and Charizard, literally cornering them. "Daisuke Yamamoto." she said in her eerie child-like voice.
"Who the hell would like to know?" Daisuke asked the mysterious girl as he pulled the bloodied dagger out of his shoulder.
"...Why would I give you my name when it would only be meaningless after your death?"
"It's only courteous that I know the name of the one that is after me. Even if it means that I will die soon after..."
Silence fell between the two...
"...It's Chloe..." the girl finally said.
Daisuke smiled. "See? That wasn't so hard, now, was it?"
"Now, are you done wasting my time?" Chloe asked as she pulled out another dagger hidden within her cloak.
"Well, before you send me to Hell..." Daisuke stated. "I have to inform you that you're too far away to kill me."
"To me, any distance from my opponent is excellent to deliver a fatal blow."
"That last blow wasn't pretty fatal, was it?" Daisuke grinned, pointing at the deep wound. "...Now, I'm going to let you have one free shot to kill me off here and now-"
Charizard roared to Daisuke in the form of an objection.
"It's all right, Charizard..." Daisuke said, calming the overgrown lizard. "As I was saying, all you have to do is step forward once and then you can deliver the final blow. I won't dodge it, I promise."
Chloe stepped forward once, but before she could throw the dagger, the sound of three people screaming could be heard falling from the sky. Falling closer and closer before landing... right on top of Chloe...
"That was a nicer landing than the ones in the past..." the blue haired boy proclaimed.
"Yeah..." the talking Meowth added. "Who'da tink dat a Christmas tree would break our fall?"
"Would you two take a closer look?" the red haired girl shouted. "We didn't fall on a tree!"
It was obvious to Daisuke that the three that fell on top of Chloe were none other than the other (bumbling) trio of Team Rocket: Jessie, James and the talking Meowth. Like Mondo, Jessie and James dressed in white Rocket uniforms, showing that they were among the lower ranks, unlike their high ranked rivals, Butch and Cassidy. To be saved by them... he thought, means I'm more likely to die now...
"It's a goil!" Meowth said as the three stared at the unconscious Chloe.
"Not to mention, a very strange girl in a cape." James added.
"She looks like she could be a superhero from the medieval times..." Jessie remarked.
Chloe quickly regained conciseness as she opened her eyes and gave the Rocket trio a hellish-looking glare. But, before she could get up to retaliate, Charizard took the trio into his arms and flew away.
"You three were closer to death than I was!" Daisuke said as he rode on top of the flying Charizard. "I gotta say that you're all pretty lucky!"
"Lucky, as in: 'Lucky Lucky nice to Mewtwo?'" James asked.
"If you start singing, I'll make sure Charizard drops you!" Daisuke warned.
"WOOOBBUFFET!" the annoying Wobbuffet proclaimed as he came of his Pokeball and put more weight on Charizard's back, causing the winged creature to sink closer to the ground.
"Get back inside!" everyone else screamed.
(Scene: Port of Viridian.)
Along the ocean side of town, an empty cargo ship made its entrance into the port.
"Duke, we're right on schedule." the girl in the blue and black pirate uniform said to the guy with the matching outfit.
"Good to hear, Pearl." Duke replied. "We'll contact Archie as soon as we've captured the K specimen."
"Right."
The sound of the waves crashing into shore were quickly drowned out by the sound of screeching tires turning a corner. At first, the pair inside the boat couldn't see what it was that was making the noise... until, a few seconds later, when they saw the flying Jeep above them and landing right in the sturdy cargo ship.
"What in Team Aqua's name...?" Duke asked as he saw the people within the Jeep.
"Out of the ship!" Cassidy ordered as she and Butch, armed with the rear chain guns, aimed at the Aqua members.
"Now, just hold on a minute!" Pearl yelled. "Who the hell do you think you are?"
Cassidy posed, ready to recite the motto, but then quickly remembered. "We've already recited the motto once in this fanfic!" she yelled. "What makes you think we're going to recite again?"
"Fine!" Duke said. "Then we'll just have to recite our motto!"
Before the infamous motto music began to play, Jessie, James and Meowth fell on top of Duke and Pearl.
"You could have dropped us a little nicer!" Jessie whined.
"Look who came to save my life!" Daisuke cheered as Charizard landed in the boat.
Butch and Cassidy stared at their rival Rocket trio in shock.
"You must be kidding!" Cassidy blurted. "They saved you from Noir?"
"In your case, it's very hard to believe, but I tell the truth!"
"They... saved you?" Butch asked before he muttered inaudibly, "Were you really that desperate?"
Daisuke nodded to the first question. "The assassin let her guard down for a split second, enough time for these three to make their crash landing."
"Unbelievable!" Mondo remarked.
"Isn't it though?" Daisuke agreed.
"Well, not only that, but that prototype body armor really works!" Mondo said, pointing to the hole in the right shoulder in Daisuke's uniform.
"What?" Butch asked.
"While I was working on upgrading the Jeep, I created light-weight suit that was able to block any attack that can prove fatal."
"Uh, Mondo..." Daisuke interrupted. "I'm not wearing the armor..."
"Then, you're really..."
Daisuke nodded. "I told you, she wasn't going to see me leave until she warned me of what's to come."
The sound of the police sirens wailed as they entered the port.
"Now that she's warned me," Daisuke added. "we all have to leave, and very quickly."
"Now?" James asked.
"But, what about our mission to capture dat twerp's Pikachu?" Meowth asked.
"Put it on hold." Daisuke ordered. "It is a known fact that all of us in this boat have seen that girl's face..."
"What girl?" Duke and Pearl asked.
The Rocket members ungracefully face-vaulted.
"That's right." Daisuke said. "You haven't seen her... Therefore..."
The two Aqua members were thrown from the boat to the top of the parked police car. Officer Tanaka and a very battered Blackhawk got of the car to see what hit them when at the same time, the cargo ship, now with the six Rocket members, made a full-speed exit out of town...
"We're too late..." Tanaka informed.
"Don't worry about it." Blackhawk said, looking out to sea. "As a Global Police officer, those Rockets haven't even left my sight."
"Well, if you have jurisdiction throughout the world, why can't you go after them now?"
"I would, Tanaka. I would in a heartbeat. But as you saw with the other officers..."
"But that wasn't Team Rocket that did all of that."
"That's right! Those officers fell because of-"
"The girl standing right behind you?" Tanaka asked.
Blackhawk turned around to find Chloe standing in front of him, pointing a dagger to his face. He smiled back. "As you can see," he said. "the Black Hat Bandit is not one of the easiest criminals to apprehend, and not to mention, kill. And his siblings are not a big help either..."
Chloe continued to give a cold stare at Blackhawk.
Claude closed his eyes and folded his arms. "I guess I should be the one to blame here, seeing that sending out my men was a futile move..."
"Your men hindered my chance to kill Yamamoto." Chloe said. "I had no other choice but to kill them..."
Blackhawk opened his eyes then quickly narrowed them. I wouldn't think of it as 'hindering,' he thought, not expressing his opinion to the intimidating assassin. More like helping you to slow down that SOB from escaping...
"If you wish to go after Daisuke," Chloe continued. "go ahead. But, if you get in my way, I will kill you..." With that said, she turned and left the officers, walking up the somewhat ruined Main Street.
"Wow..." Tanaka said in a whisper. "At least I'll know better not to cross her path... Hell, I guess it's better to avoid her altogether, huh, Blackhawk?"
Claude said nothing as he watched Chloe scale the incline along Main Street.
"Well, we better get back to HQ and inform the chief about this..." Tanaka continued.
Ha! Blackhawk thought, not even listening once to Tanaka. She's going to kill me? She wouldn't dare! After all, I am the client that hired her to stop the Bandit in his tracks. I'm the one that gets to kill him and claim the bounty in the end. Then, I'll retire rich and happy at 30!
To be continued...
The suspense is over... for now. But the mystery still remains... OOOOOH! All right, I'll shut up... And, yes. I had to throw in a little twerp-bashing. I've always wanted to do that! AND, that young writer from Minnesota is me. But, honestly, I'm not a religious fanatic...
Disclaimer: Don't own Pokemon. Don't own Noir. Don't sue me... I still own Claude, Daisuke and Tanaka, though. Plus, two new characters: the Team Aqua members Duke and Pearl.