Chapter 3: Meet Team Rocket
Ok Kenyo, I'll try and add you in somewhere, but it wont be for a while. Except you cannot be grass and ground. Sorry. Pick something else
And sorry for the very late entry. I'll try a lot harder to do the chapters a lot more quickly!
Akina and Kyoko are now off the Southern Golden Pass and now have reached Silvervale city, now all hey have to do is try and find Ned's place…
"It's too rainy," Kyoko grumbled , kicking the ground with her feet on the warm PokéCentre carpet.
As Akina and Kyoko had arrived the day before it started pouring with rain, unfortunately. So the only place they had to go was the nearest PokéCentre which they had found out from one of the locals. Vulpix wasn't too pleased either, as Kyoko found out when she almost lost again when it ran to take shelter. They soon found the building with the pokéball on top and they ran it, soaking from head to toe.
"Are you two alright?" said a soft voice from behind them, Akina and Kyoko turned around, behind them was a tall young lady with turquoise hair, with a white and pink nurse dress on.
"Yes, we're fine. But... Who are you?" Akina asked, looking up to the stranger.
"I am Nurse Kitai, I run the PokéCentre here," the lady said.
"Nurse Kitai? What is the point of a PokéCentre?" Kyoko asked, unsure as she had never seen a building like the one there where in before.
"A PokéCentre is where young trainers, like yourselves, come to refresh and restore themselves and their Pokémon," the nurse explained.
"Really? How?" Akina asked, taking her only pokéball off her bag strap and looking at it in the palm of her hand, Kyoko glanced over to Vulpix.
"Here I'll show you," Nurse Kitai said, walking over and taking Akina's pokéball from her and picking up Vulpix, who, strangely, didn't complain. Kyoko wondered how she did that.
Nurse Kitai then walked behind her desk and put Vulpix and the pokéball on a flat machine, the screen beneath it glowed a green colour then faded away.
"All done!" the nurse smiled, handing back the girls' Pokémon, "They are both now fully restored,"
"Wow!" Kyoko grinned, eyeing the machine, "That's amazing!"
The nurse grinned at Kyoko's comment.
"By the way…" Akina started, "Do you know a man called… Ned?"
"Oh yes, he lives just over there, in that small cottage, with the petunias out the front, but I doubt you should go out in this rain, it is too dangerous." Nurse Kitai warned.
"Vulpix certainly wouldn't like it," Akina smirked, teasing how Kyoko's Pokémon didn't like her much.
"Oh get off it," Kyoko snapped, glaring at Akina's smile, "Your terrible,"
Then a middle aged man walked in through the doors, Akina and Kyoko quickly spun around to look at him, he was sopping wet, even though he was carrying an umbrella over his head.
"Well, girls, looks like you wont have to go out in the rain after all! Hi Ned!" Nurse Kitai smiled bowing at the man.
Kyoko suddenly brightened up, "Hi Ned! I'm Kyoko and this is Akina and we have come from-"
She was rudely interrupted by a violent judder than made all of the people in the room fall over.
"Whoa! What was that?" Akina asked, grabbing her head and watching as part of the roof caved in a bit.
Soon there was the shape of what looked like the cockpit of a blimp, a window on the side of it opened and a young adult man and woman in black outfits with a purple R on the shirt jumped out.
"Prepare for trouble!" The girl announced.
"Make it double," The boy added on.
"We announce to you our devastation,"
"How we infect all people within our nation,"
"To throw away the truth and love,"
"And confirm our power to the stars above,"
"Adam,"
"Jane,"
"Team Rocket! We'll beat you with all our might!" Jane said
"Give us your Pokémon now. Or you'll surely lose the fight," Adam said.
Suddenly a small child dressed in a Bulbasaur costume jumped out as well shouting, "Yoinkers! That's right!"
Nurse Kitai frowned, "Team Rocket."
"Team Rocket?" Akina and Kyoko asked together, they had never head of such a thing.
"We are here to nab your Pokémon and take them to our boss. That will make him exceptionally pleased with us!" Adam said, beaming, then Jane smacked him over the head, shaking her fist at him.
"Your not supposed to give that valuable information away, loser," Jane murmured to him, a little too loudly. As the small child shook their head, it was hard to tell wether it was a girl or boy.
The Nurse leant over to Akina and Kyoko as the Team Rocket members started squabbling about something, "Can you girls please get rid of them. I need to make sure they don't get into the back room,"
Nurse Kitai ran off, closely followed by Ned, who had obviously decided to help her too. Akina turned to Kyoko.
"Looks like we'll need to battle them, in order to save the other Pokémon," Akina stated.
"Thanks Captain Obvious," Kyoko smirked, who started looking around for Vulpix who didn't happen to be anywhere in sight.
"Go Staryu!" Akina said, a little more confident at battling after her first conquer. As she said that, Kyoko ran into a different room still looking for Vulpix.
The child in the Balbasaur costume ran over to the room Kyoko just walked into and slammed it shut behind her, locking it.
"Hey!" came Kyoko's muffled voice from inside the deadlocked door. Akina gasped, looking at the door, then wide-eyed back at Team Rocket.
Adam and Jane smiled evilly at each other then sent out their Pokémon. Adam had a Sandshrew, and Jane had a Pidgey. Together they let off an attack that created a sandstorm and Akina quickly closed her eyes and put her hands as a shield in front of her face.
"Ahhh!" Akina yelled, as she felt little dust particles sting on her skin roughly.
"Akina! Help me! Are you alright?" Kyoko's voice was shouted through the door again, "I found… Vulpix! No! DON'T DO THAT VULPIX!"
As the sandstorm slowly died off Akina opened her eyes, she checked Staryu, who had only a few minor scratches. And Team Rocket had disappeared!
Ned suddenly came running out, "They've stolen some of our sick, rare Pokémon! Akina! Can you help? Where's that other girl? Kyoko?" He asked, looking around.
"In that room," Akina said pointing, already running out of the door into the pouring rain, clutching Staryu. She looked up to the sky.
"See you suckers!" Yelled the child back down to where Akina was standing. Team Rocket had managed to capture most of the rare Pokémon in a big net that was hanging from under the cockpit. But the evil trio where already flying away in their blimp, which was in the same shape of a plump Charmader's tail.
"Staryu, how will we get the Pokémon?" Akina asked her Pokémon, putting him down.
Staryu then did a cartwheel on its legs, as if it was trying to say something. Akina thought for a moment, then understood what it was saying.
"You want me to throw you!" Akina smiled, "That's a brilliant idea!" Then she looked up the roof of the Pokémon Centre, Kyoko was on it, and she jumped from the edge, grabbing onto the bottom of the net.
"Kyoko! What the hell do you think you're doing?" Akina yelled up to where her best friend was.
"They've got Vulpix in their cockpit, I need to save her!" Kyoko shouted back, then starting to climb the rungs of the net. Akina sighed, there was no way Staryu could save the Pokémon with Kyoko on it.
A few minutes later Kyoko reached the top of the net, the blimp didn't fly very fast because of all the Pokémon weighing it down, so it didn't go too far. Kyoko climbed into the hole in the bottom of the blimp which the net was held.
"Finally, you ready Staryu?" Akina asked her Pokémon, who nodded.
Akina grabbed two of Staryu's legs and swung it around once, then twice then on the third time around let it go flying towards the blimp.
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There was a sudden jerk and Kyoko was thrown off her feet. 'What the?..' she thought to herself, crawling over to where the net had been held in place. The net had been sliced at the top, making all the Pokémon fall back to earth and also making the blimp a lot lighter, so it jerked upwards.
Suddenly Adam and Jane ran in from the front part of the cockpit, gasping.
"What did you do?" Jane growled at Kyoko.
"I swear it wasn't me!" Kyoko said, angrily, "Where is my Vulpix?"
"Oh it's yours is it?" Adam smiled, pushing a button on the wall, where a section below it rose up, revealing a knocked out Vulpix.
"VULPIX!" Kyoko yelled, running over to it, but it was shielded by glass. Kyoko frantically looked around, seeing a spray can marked 'Sleeping Smoke' she quickly grabbed it and sprayed it around the room, Kyoko covered her mouth and nose until the dust had settled, revealing two sleeping Team Rockets.
Kyoko grabbed the can and smashed the glass in, which woke Vulpix up. It looked at it's two kidnappers on the floor, then to its owner, with Sleeping Smoke in her hand. It smiled, and finally decided to give Kyoko its trust, leaping into her arms, happily.
Kyoko grinned, her Pokémon finally trusted her. She was about to jump out of the blimp when she got an idea. She opened the ventilation system and cracked off the top of the spray can with the side of the container Vulpix was in, then she threw in, before running over to the open hole in the ground, grabbing a parachute, thrusting it on her back and jumping out.
"Vul!" Kyoko's Pokémon said happily, as Kyoko pulled the string and getting jerked back into a floating position.
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As soon as Kyoko landed on the ground, Akina ran over to her, throwing off the deflated parachute.
"You where amazing!" Both the girls said at the same time, grinning.
Ned and Nurse Kitai ran over as some of the Police people started taking the Pokémon back into the PokéCentre.
"That was the best display of Pokémon rescue I think I've ever seen!" Ned smiled, taking out a small package and handing it to Akina, "That's the package for ol' Professor Turpentine, take good care of it, and would you like to come stay at my house for the night?"
"Sure!" Kyoko said, happily.
"And look the rain's stopped!" Akina smiled, looking down at Staryu.
"Well I'd better tend to the sick Pokémon, I hope to see you again soon!" The nurse bowed quickly and ran off to where the Police where helping out.
Ned led Akina, Kyoko and their Pokémon back to his house, as a rainbow formed behind them.