Once a month, my father would leave me alone at the lab and head to the town just outside the forest. My father took my mother with him, but he always made her get into her Pokeball before leaving. I didn't understand why, but I accepted it. My father always came back with food, supplies, books for me to read and study... but this time would end up being different. He'd come back with everything like usual... but something else came back with him. I had no idea that today would be a fateful day... one that would end up changing my life forever.
The first warning my father and I had was when my mother (who was sitting on my father's shoulder) turned around, and went into a panic. "Mewmewmewmewmewmewmewmewmewmewmew!" "What is it? What's the matter?" My father and I turned around... and that was the first time I met them... Team Rocket. I didn't know who these intruders were then or what they were doing there, but I knew that if their presence had sent my mother into a panic that they had to be a problem. Then as I studied them, I felt terror come over me... something was horribly wrong. The intruders were two male humans and 2 Pokemon, but that in itself wasn't what caused the terror I felt. It wasn't the black caps and shirts with the "TR" logo on them the humas were wearing either... like I said, I didn't know what it meant back then.
What had caused the terror to come over me was the Pokemon: a Fearow and a Sandslash. They wouldn't have had that effect except for one thing: the way they looked. They looked like they had been trained for one thing and one thing only: battle. That combined with the strong psychic aura of anger and hatred the Pokemon were giving off terrified me more than the prospect of battling against a Dark-Type did. (I hadn't fully gotten over the lesson that my father and mother had taught me about the limitations of my psychic abilities despite having learned non-Psychic attacks.)
One of the humans stepped forward and smiled evilly. "So you're the "mysterious scientist" that we've heard about. It looks like you've found a nice place for yourself... our superiors are looking around for something that would serve as a secret base, and this looks like the perfect place!" The second human smiled evilly as well and said: "However, we might be persuaded to overlook our discovery if you hand over both of your Pokemon."
My father's response came as a surprise to me and them... it was cold and clear in the anger and disgust that I could sense emanating from my father's psychic aura, and was strengthened further by a similar aura from my mother. "Never... never will I agree to such a thing. The Pokemon on my shoulder is named Comet, and she has been the only family I had for a long time, and my constant companion for even longer. The lab behind me was nothing but a decaying ruin when Comet and I first came upon it, and I would rather return it to that state than hand her over to you!"
As my father continued, I began to understand how important I had become to him, banishing all doubts as to how he felt about me, and easing my terror as my father showed he knew quite well that something was horribly wrong with the intruding Pokemon. "As for the Pokemon behind me, she was born out of our efforts... cloned from DNA taken from myself and Comet. We worked day and night in the lab behind us to bring that Pokemon into this world... she looks upon us as being her parents, and no matter what the world may say, that is what Comet and I are! She is our own flesh and blood... and we will never sell her to anybody for any price! I will not see her become as your Pokemon have become: mere tools to be used or discarded at your whim... consumed by hatred, anger, and the desire for battle without thought for anything else! As for merely handing her over... never! I will never hand her over to be enslaved, to be broken to the will of those who have lost sight of what true power is! Leave now... or we will force you to leave!"
The two humans had stopped smiling as my father had begun speaking, and as he continued had become confused and then angry. "Looks like you need to be taught a lesson in manners! Fearow, attack!" "We'll teach you to disrespect Team Rocket! Sandslash, take care of this dimwit!" My mother started to glow with a visible aura... and so did my father! I'd seen my mother mainifest a visible aura before when I'd been trained by her to control my psychic abilities... but I'd never known that my father had psychic abilities as well! What I did know was that the intruders didn't stand a chance; despite her size, my mother was extremely powerful, and the aura my father was giving off suggested he was quite powerful as well when it came to his psychic abilities. One attack from my mother and father, and the intruders were raised high above the ground, and then flung with incredible speed over the trees surrounding the lab... and then out of sight.
I was really happy that the intruders were gone, and I went to ask my father if they would come back. They surely wouldn't after that lesson... at least that's what I was thinking. However, one look at my parents and that illusion was shattered. The aura they gave off and the looks on their faces told me they were sad... more sad than I'd even seen and/or felt them being in my entire life. "Mom... Dad... what's the matter? You took care of those bad people and their Pokemon! They won't be coming back... right?" My father looked at me and said sadly: "If only that were the case... but they'll come back... and they'll bring others like them... others from their criminal organization." "Is their criminal organization Team Rocket? Surely they can't be a threat if that's the best they can do!" "It is far from the best they can do... those two men didn't have the capacity to comprehend what they were up against, but they'll survive to tell others, and word of us will reach those who can comprehend it. We can't stay here any longer... it's not safe anymore." "Mewwwwww..."