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Shadow Games
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Chapter 8– "Will you marry me?"
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"Why are we being carried to Agate again in metal cages?" Silver said to Lark, Jessie, and James. The four were in a large metal cage in a jet.
"Because, Team Cipher totally beat us, and now they're going to take over Agate," James said.
"Oh, yeah. Thanks for reminding me," Silver said.
"I still can't believe Ho-oh saved me. It's like it had a personal grudge against Cipher and it knows only I can stop them," Lark said.
"Stop gloating, so a bird saved your life," Silver said whacking Lark in the back of the head.
"I don't know why Ho-oh saved us either, we're supposed to be bad guys!" Jessie said.
"You guys can't be bad guys! You're my mom and dad!" Lark said. Jessie and James sweatdropped.
"Well, you know those twerps Ash and May?" James said. "We used to try and steal Pikachu from them!"
"Yes, we were part of Team Rocket," Jessie said. "But we retired years ago when we got married! What are the odds that we would meet up with those twerps again?"
"So… you guys were bad guys? And you used to try and steal my friend's Pikachu?"
"Well," Jessie and James sweatdropped again. "It was business," Jessie finished.
"And we had a cool motto!" James added in. He sighed. "If only Meowth were here… we could recite it for you!"
"James, where is Meowth anyways?" Jessie asked.
"You gave me Meowth when I decided to become a Pokémon Trainer," Lark said. "If you want Meowth back, you can have him. I never used him much anyways. I prefer flying Pokémon."
"Hey, I heard that!" Meowth said in his New Jersey accent as he jumped out of Lark's backpack. "Team Rocket?" Meowth said when he saw Jessie and James.
"Yes, Meowth! Ready to do the motto?"
"You bet!" Meowth said.
"Ok, then, let's go!" James said.
"Prepare for trouble!"
"And make it double!"
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite all peoples within our nation!"
"James, what do I say next?"
"Umm… I forget."
"Guys, you mean you don't remember the motto?"
"It's been five years since I quit Team Rocket!" James said.
"Yeah, me too!" Jessie said.
"And when we don't want to be evil anymore, then why remember the motto!" James commented.
"Ok… for a motto that was pretty lame," Lark said. "But then again, you are parents… that is what they're for."
"What's what being parents is for?" James said.
"Being lame…" Lark said.
"I'm not lame!" James said.
"QUIET BACK THERE! IT'S NOT EASY TO FLY A PLANE, YOU KNOW!" A voice said.
"Sorry!" everyone yelled back up. All of a sudden the plane came to a stop. A man came into the back.
"Ok, hand over your Pokémon everyone. Come on," The man said. He put a sack into the cage waiting for the four heroes to put their pokéballs into.
"Fat chance," Silver said. "Magneton, use thunderbolt!" Silver threw a blue and red pokéball into the air, and a Pokémon that looked like three silver balls with eyes and magnets for arms. It started to glow blue, and a thunderbolt came from the sky and hit the plane.
"Somehow, I think that was a bad idea," James said to Silver.
"Too bad! You had your chance! And I like that Magneton. It looks pretty powerful," the man said. He held up a pokéball and threw it at Silver's Magneton.
"No! Magneton!" Silver screamed. "Return!" She held up her pokéball, but Magneton could not go back in. "No… that man has a snagging device!"
"We have bigger problems!" Jessie said. The cage they were in was detaching from the plane! "We're blasting off again!"
The cage jerked and fell from the plane.
"Aaaaah!" Everyone screamed as the cage fell to certain doom below…
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"Huh?" Ash said. "What was that?"
"What was what?" May said. She was too occupied with making out with Ash to have noticed anything.
"I heard a crash! By the entrance."
"Why does that bother you?" May asked.
"Well, we can't sit here all day."
"Why not?" May said. "I like kissing…"
"I hope you didn't forget about Team Cipher," Ash said. "For all we know, they could have gotten here already…"
"We could just go back to Hoenn, you know. Just forget about all this," May said.
"We can't do that, May. We're on an assignment," Ash said.
"Ok," May said. "We'll go check it out."
Ash and May left the room and took the elevator down to the lobby. They opened the front door to the hotel and…
"Eek!" May screamed and jumped behind Ash. "Ash… there's… a… a cage in front of the door! With people in it!"
"Lark? Silver? Team Rocket? What are you all doing in a cage?" Ash said.
"Well, we were captured by Team Cipher, and, they dropped us here after we refused to give them our Pokémon," Jessie said.
"And they… they stole my Magneton!" Silver wailed.
"They stole you Pokémon?" May said. Wes and Rui came down the stairs, and saw the four people in a cage.
"Guys? Are you ok?" Wes said to the four caged members of the group. "We need to get you out of there!"
"No problem," Ash said. "Go, Machamp! Try and bend the bars of the cage so they can get out! Gee, I never believed I would be helping Team Rocket."
"Pikapi…" Pikachu said, her head sticking up from Ash's backpack.
"Machamp!" Machamp yelled as he used strength to easily tear the cage apart.
"Thanks, Ash," Lark said as he helped Silver out of the cage. Team Rocket stood up too.
"Thanks, twerp. We could have easily gotten out ourselves, though," Jessie said.
"Don't celebrate yet," a voice said from above the group. A helicopter was flying above. "You may have escaped last time, but this time, I'm coming to dispose of you myself." A tall grey-haired man dropped from the helicopter. He wore a purple uniform. Wes recognized him instantly.
"Nascour!" Wes yelled.
"Ah, Wes. I didn't think you had survived. Most unfortunate that you did. But… it's not you I'm after." Nascour aimed an icy glare at Ash and May. "You two… interesting how one of my top operatives 'kills' you and I find him and fifteen of out men electrocuted and incinerated when I come to see for myself."
"So you're the head of Cipher?" Ash said.
"No, he's not. Evice…" Wes started to say.
"Evice?" Nascour seemed amused. "I took care of that old fool long ago. He was too careless for his own good. Now, if everyone will back off, I would like to battle you two."
"You want to battle us?" Ash said. "No offense, but May and I have beaten everyone we've came across, and we've also both beaten the Hoenn league, so…"
"Fools. I don't care about your accomplishments. I know one thing, though… and that's that you are both… no, you are all going to die right here. All of your struggles have been in vain."
"Could you please stop giving us long speeches and battle us already?" May said. "I'm kind of annoyed."
"Foolish girl. If I were you, I would be delaying my death as much as I could. But, if you wish to die here and now, I will hesitate to kill you no longer. Go, Blaziken and Gardevoir!" Nascour thundered.
"Now, you're speaking my language," Ash said. "Pikachu, go!"
"Venasaur, you too!" May yelled. The electric mouse hopped out of Ash's backpack, and the giant plant-like dinosaur emerged from May's pokéball.
"Pikachu, thunderbolt attack on Blaziken!" Ash ordered.
"Venasaur, use solar beam on Gardevoir!" May said.
Pikachu fired a thunderbolt attack that hit Blaziken square in the chest. Blaziken fell over, extremely exhausted.
"Yeah! That's one for us!" Ash said.
"Not exactly," Nascour grinned. "Blaziken, reversal!" Blaziken started to glow red and charge at Pikachu…"
Venasaur opened the petals on its back and fired a gigantic white and green beam at Gardevoir.
"Gardevoir, reflect!" Nascour said. A large mirror like screen appeared in front of Gardevoir and dilated the solar beam so much that it barely scratched Gardevoir. "Now, psychic!"
Gardevoir started to gather an invisible force in its hands, and large explosions appeared around Venasaur. "Vena… saur…" Venasaur's legs gave in and it fell to the ground.
"No! Venasaur, return!" May said. "Oh, I just hope Pikachu can manage…"
"Pikachu, dodge it and use iron tail!" Ash said. Pikachu jumped up into the air to dodge Blaziken, and came down on Blaziken's back with a large slam from its tail.
"Blaze…" Blaziken toppled over in defeat.
"Grrr…" Nascour growled. "Blaziken, return! Gardevoir, use thunderbolt on Pikachu!"
"Pikachu, use a thunderbolt of your own!" Pikachu and Gardevoir both started to gather electricity, and they both shot a thunderbolt at each other. The thunderbolt hit Pikachu, but didn't do much damage since Pikachu was an electric type. Pikachu just jumped right back up. Gardevoir, however, couldn't handle Pikachu's thunderbolt and fainted.
"Hah!" Ash said. "Who's good now?"
"I can't believe… I lost so quickly…" Nascour said.
"Oh, Ash, I knew you could do it!" May said flinging her arms around Ash's neck.
"I'll be back," Nascour said. "Believe me, I'll be back." Nascour hopped up into the helicopter and it started to fly away. "And little girl, we don't want your Pokémon." A pokéball fell from the plane, and Silver's Magneton came out.
"Magneton!" Silver said. "Let me return you to your real home…" Silver took out the great ball that she stored Magneton in and put Magneton inside. "Thank you guys so much…"
"Heh, no problem!" Ash said. Then, he turned to May. "May… I know that we just got back together yesterday, but I know we've really loved each other for years." Ash took out a box from his backpack and got down on his knee. "May, will you marry me?"