-1Author Notes/ Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. I don't own anything, but the plot and original characters. :3 Sorry, punks. (Although I'm not quite sure why you would want to…)

The Adventures of Copycat!

By: Lily Chan

Chapter Two:

Training for Cookies?

The little girl fell unconscious since the Team Rocket member had knocked her out. She woke up in the back of a wooden wheelbarrow with the other obviously kidnapped children. The violent haired one, whose hair was in a ponytail, looked at Caroline, and started to speak, "Where did you come from?" she asked. It was pretty obvious that Caroline was crying because of her mother's betrayal and red, puffy eyes. "Where did you come from?" she repeated. Apparently her fame as Copycat didn't make it very far. The girl gave Caroline a strange look. "Why did you repeat me?" "Why did you repeat me?" "Can you please stop that?" "Can you please stop that?" "Please?" Caroline decided to stop. She really wasn't in the mood and she did the repeating out of habit.

The violet haired little girl decided to try again. "Where did you come from?" "I came from Saffron City." Caroline said under her breath, but the girl caught it. "I come from Fuchsia City." she said with a small smile. Caroline didn't feel like smiling. "Did your mom give you up?" Caroline bitterly asked. The girl was taken aback, and a sad expression appeared on her face. Caroline didn't realize that she had struck a chord, but she didn't see nor want to care. "My mother was dead after I was born." the girl said sadly. Caroline looked down at the moving ground. "What happened?" Caroline asked. "I don't know. Daddy said that I was a cursed child." the girl explained. Caroline didn't budge. She just watched the road go on behind them. The girl didn't keep going, so she decided to be quiet.

"So…what's your name?" she asked finally. "I'm Caroline, the copycat of Saffron City!" Caroline said, finally looking up at the girl. "Haven't you heard of me?" The girl was clueless and shook her head. "No…we don't travel much…" Caroline mentally slapped her forehead. "So what's your name?" Caroline asked. The girl smiled slightly at this random act of kindness and chirped. "I'm Lilac!" she said happily, as if it's a name to be proud of. Before Caroline opened her mouth, there was a masculine voice behind them. "What a stupid name. To be named after soap."

Caroline turned around while Lilac looked behind Caroline. Caroline had this urge to mimic him, but she wanted to try and control it since she WAS in a dangerous area. Sadly it was to no avail. "What a stupid name. To be named after soap." The boy was shorter then the girls, as they usually are and he had brown hair that was too long. In fact, if it wasn't for his deep voice (for a 7 year old), they would've mistook him for a girl. "Stop mimicking me, you stupid girl!" "Stop mimicking me, you stupid girl!" "Caroline! Please don't mimic him!" Lilac pleaded. It was obvious she was scared, for someone from a tough town like Fuchsia City. Caroline gave her a not too pleased look as the boy's temper rose. "I hate copycats, especially you!" he said to her.

Caroline turned back, and that immediately stopped her from mimicking him from that moment on. "Well, I'm not like those amateur copycats. I'm the real thing! I'm the infamous copycat from Saffron City!" she said as she pointed to herself, proudly. Lilac hid behind Caroline as she praised herself, nodding away. The boy snorted. "I don't care. Just don't mimic me. I hate that. You're like my stupid sister." Caroline gave him a snide look and continued her conversation with Lilac.

Finally, the wheelbarrow stopped. Soon there were cries of wanting to go home around them. The Team Rocket members were cursing at them to get them to stop. Caroline watched as one member grabbed the boy. The boy was fighting them every step of the way. He was doing everything pretty much imaginable in order to break free. She was staring at him, lost in space, but she was brought back to earth when she heard Lilac scream behind her. Next thing she knew, she was being carried by a fat Rocket grunt.

"Upsey daisy!" he said gruffly. "Upsey daisy!" Caroline repeated. The grunt decided to ignore that and proceeded to the entrance of the Team Rocket HQ in Viridian City.

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Inside the dark HQ of Team Rocket, Giovanni was planning his possibly biggest scheme. Of the month, that is. He was sitting in his big boss chair, rubbing his loving Persian as it meowed occasionally.

She had brown layered hair that was quite long, and she had red streaks on her bangs. She looked about 15 years old. She was quite busty, but it didn't affect her looks that much if one is used to seeing her. She was not that tall, but she wasn't all that short. She had the Class A outfit on, black dress with stripes at the edges. Of course, she had the Team Rocket logo on her dress. The dress was fairly short. She also had white boots that looked like they would be on a Lolita dresser. Her arms were covered with the white material as well.

"Boss, the children are here in the HQ." the girl meekly said as she saluted him. There was a shadow that covered his face so she didn't get a real good look at him. When he spoke, his voice sounded distorted. How, she will never know because they were talking face to face. But she didn't want to pry into it. She knew that he smiled. "Good. Are they in the screen room?"

The girl nodded. "Yes. And the other Rockets are waiting for your orders." The boss's chair turned towards the wall. "Excellent. You are very well on your way to become the next Naomi Takamoto – turning to an executive at such a young age." he praised.

The girl was indeed flattered at this compliment. "Thank you, boss." she responded. "Now, the orders, sir?" she asked, getting a bit impatient. "Ah yes. The orders: Keep the children there. Make sure they don't escape. If one tries to escape, kill them." The young girl wanted to say something, but she bit her tongue. "Y-yes sir…" as she turned to walk out the Boss's quarters. "Why must he kill everyone that tries to escape this god forsaken place!" she thought angrily.

"Miss Rocket, if you have a problem with how I run things, please. Let me know. I'm very curious on what my favorite Rocket wants to do." he said as an afterthought. "Yes, sir." she said as she started to walk out, angry thoughts still floating in her mind. Soon she had closed the door to his quarters. The hallway was dark, if not darker, and she wonders why her boss wants things to look so cheesy and mysterious.

Giovanni was still petting his Persian when he saw a tick. "Hmm, what is this we have here?" as he picked it up off his Pokemon's fur. Persian had yowled, but it was soon calmed down by the soothing touch of its master's hands. "Ah, it's nothing but a tick. We know what we do with it, right, Persian?" he asked his faithful companion. The Persian looked at him curiously. In between his thumb and index finger was the tick he had picked. The tick was struggling to get out. "It looks like it's been there a while. Look how fat it is. Well, I know what to do with it." He started to squeeze it, but it didn't burst.

"Stubborn one, aren't you?" as he placed it on the table. He got out a knife; the tick saw the knife and knew of its fate. It tried to run away so to speak, but Giovanni had such good aim when he threw it, the tick didn't have to take over 5 crawls until it was caught underneath its blade. "Oh look now, Persian. We have a mess." He smiled. The Persian meowed in agreement as he pressed a button. "Kiki, come back up here and clean this mess." He was still smiling snidely.

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The children were in a dark room and they were bundled up together in a way where it was very uncomfortable. Caroline sat near Lilac who was also near that boy they encountered on the wheelbarrow. "Caroline…" Lilac began to whisper. "I'm scared." she said, in a worried tone. Caroline didn't say anything, and chose not to say anything. The boy sneered at Lilac. "Stupid girl, you're from Fuchsia City, and you're scared." he whispered to her. "W-well, I was born in Lavender Town…my daddy moved us to Fuchsia City after my mommy died…" she corrected him. The boy and Caroline both rolled their eyes. The room was filled with not only darkness, but the cries of the scared children.

"Quiet! All of you!" cried one of the Team Rocket Grunts. The children where startled but they were quiet. "Oh please. Even I can tell these babies to be quiet and it'd worked." Caroline arrogantly thought as she flipped a pigtail out of her way. Soon the whole room was completely quiet and all they could here was the sound of high heels clocking on the floor. Then a spotlight was turned on a girl, which had assisted Giovanni earlier. "We bring you, children, to this wonderful place! I hope you enjoy this little movie we made!" she said, trying to make it sound interesting. The cries started to fill up the room again, but it wasn't as loud as it was before.

Of course, Caroline rolled her eyes again. She repeated what the girl said under her breath because, well, she was the copycat. And plus, she didn't want to get shot by the Team Rocket members. The girl went on with her speech.

"You all have been chosen to be new members of the prominent Team Rocket!" she said, feigning enthusiasm just so she could get out of there. She had other things to do. Her best friend, the son of Naomi Takamoto wanted to talk to her about something. "Roll the tape!" she yelled. The member in the control booth nodded, signaling that he heard her and pushed a button that apparently turned it on. The young girl started to walk off the stage to the exit. "This better be important, Nagi…" she thought, a bit frustrated as she took her leave.

The movie had started and there was ominous music. "B-but she said that it's going to be a movie…" Lilac whimpered. Caroline wanted to smack her for: being an idiot, being scared of music, being whiny and annoying, and for being an idiot. But she decided not to. She would probably cause a scene. Caroline chuckled inwardly at the thought which obviously amused her. "Heh that scene would've been funny." Caroline said aloud. "What would be?" Lilac asked nervously. "Shh! It's starting, Lilac!" Caroline said as she placed a finger on her lips. Lilac nodded and reluctantly looked at the screen.

For the first few minutes, the screen was black. But soon it slowly started to light up as the ominous music ended. There was a man, but his face was hidden by a shroud of darkness. His voice was distorted so thankfully the children wouldn't recognize whom he was. "Children," the voice started to say, "As Miss Rocket said, you are chosen to be the new members of Team Rocket. I apologize if you are hurt, you will receive medical attention as soon as the program's over. Welcome to Team Rocket. The biggest and most prominent organization in the world and it's also the most feared. We had to take you out of your homes by force because your parents might have plagued your minds that all Team Rocket are just a bunch of scoundrels who just steal Pokemon. Well. That's not entirely true."

The voice then chuckled as Lilac grabbed Caroline's arm out of fright. (Plus the boy smacked her on the head earlier for doing the same.) She whimpered as Caroline sighed out of frustration. Knowing what had happened earlier; Caroline decided to spare her of another blow. The voice continued. "What we at Team Rocket do is capture rare Pokemon to study them, make them stronger, and to make our organization stronger. We also have access to the most secluded areas of your favorite cities," as a glorious map of Kanto and Johto appeared on the screen. There were sounds of amazement and awe from different corners of the room.

Caroline rolled her eyes for possibly the third or fourth time. "These babies will buy into anything, won't they?" she thought as she chuckled at her peers' behavior. Lilac, on the other hand, was still frightened as a small puppy. Caroline looked to her side to see Lilac, whimpering and clinging like a, well, child. "Hm, perhaps I don't give Lilac enough credit. Maybe she's smarter then she seems. I'll keep her and that boy around. Perhaps he'll help her grow up when I'm not around." Caroline thought as the voice continued trying to convince the children to join Team Rocket.

"Our training program will not only help you make friends, but we'll give you these delicious cookies made from our large kitchen as your reward as you begin to climb the ladder of Team Rocket." Then a picture of the sweetest old lady getting out a cookie sheet that was covered in seemingly delicious cookies appeared. She smiled, picked one up, and acted like she was handing it to the camera.

"That's it? They're giving out cookies for REWARDS in TRAINING?" Caroline thought aloud. But thankfully none of the Grunts heard her. There were mixed yells of cheers and jeers. However, the movie wasn't quite over. "It doesn't matter if you want to join us or not. You're going to join Team Rocket whether you like it or not!" the voice yelled.

The movie was then over. The lights came on and the Grunts started to line the children up to get their training uniforms. As Caroline mimicked everyone, just to get a rise out of them, the boy and Lilac were bickering yet again. Caroline rolled her eyes as the Grunt threatened her again. She was already used to it – and she already arrived there! However, she just couldn't get over the fact that they use the old Freudian trick, feeding the dog when the bell was rung.

Ending Notes: Yep, second installment of this possibly long series so soon. ; I hope you'll review! I don't bite! I'm not hopefully that clichéd! So please, review? And yes. I just had to enter my characters from well, The Adventures of Kiki Rocket!! Why? Cause it'll seem interesting, and plus I can. XD That's why, you silly willies! Plus I need to work on something else besides it, huh? ;O