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A Plan in Action: Fall of the Elite

The Indigo Plateau was busy as usual in preparations for the upcoming tournament in two months. Lance was busy with some paperwork in his office concerning the sponsorship of the tournament. There were several hundred sponsors and each one had its own contract that needed to be reviewed. All in all it was a very tedious process that he wished someone else could do. Maybe I should've taken Karen's suggestion and hired a secretary. He thought to himself. He would much rather be out training his pokemon then doing this.

He was so lost in thought that he wasn't even reading the paperwork anymore and just started to sign off on some randomly while throwing away others. He was so lost in thought in fact that he didn't even hear his door open or see the person walk in until a large beefy hand suddenly slammed on his desk accompanied by a very loud and deep voice.

"Lance! How you been buddy?" Said Bruno as he watched lance jump about five feet out of his chair.

"Bruno do you have to do that every time you get the chance?" Asked Lance exasperatedly "What brings you here anyway?"

"What do you mean? You called for a meeting with all the Elite Four. Didn't you?" Asked Bruno confused.

"Umm…I don't think I did, but I could be wrong." Said Lance trying to remember if he called a meeting or not.

"This is why I told you to get a secretary to plan out your day Lance." Said Karen as she walked through the office doors. "You sent out a memo two days ago for all of us to meet here to discuss the plans for the new tournament structure. Remember?"

"No actually I don't remember." Said Lance still trying to figure out what these two were talking about. "Although we do need to discuss that so I guess now is a good of time as any. Where are Koga and Will?"

"Right here." Said Koga from the door as he and Will walked into the room.

"Alright then let's get down to business." Said Lance

"Cassidy are you in position?" Asked the voice of Giovoni through Cassidy's headset

"Affirmative sir awaiting your command." She responded from her position overlooking the Indigo League headquarters.

"Fire" Said Giovoni simply

Cassidy raised her rocket Launcher and looked through the scope to get a perfect aim on Lance's window. She waited for him to get up and close the blinds before depressing the trigger and sending a high impact rocket straight for the window. She watched with unprecedented glee as the missile crashed through the window and detonated tanking out the whole corner of the building. Nothing could survive that.

"Mission complete. Returning to base." She said through her headset. Then she took out a pokeball. "Alakazam Teleport."

The loyal pokemon materialized and teleported itself and its trainer away from the scene.

Brock had been back in Pewter for almost a year now. He had managed to turn part of the Gym into a breeding center which he himself managed. It was a pretty lucrative side business since he made everything from his patented pokemon food to his revolutionary grooming products he got plenty of clients. He stayed out of the Gym Leader scene mostly unless his brother or father absolutely couldn't battle. Then Brock would take Onix and Graveler and crush almost any opponent seeking a Bolder Badge. Today was one of those days.

"Onix Fissure!" Commanded Brock

"Vileplume Petal Dance again" Yelled his opponent.

Unfortunately for the trainer his Vileplume began to get confused after using Petal Dance so many times and didn't manage to avoid the large chasm opening in the ground. The trainer had no choice but to recall his pokemon.

"Nice try but my Onix hardly ever misses a Fissure attack and you should know that Petal Dance makes your pokemon confused the more you use it." Said Brock knowingly

"I don't need training tips from you!" Said the trainer.

Wow this kid sounds a lot like Ash. Thought Brock. "Just some helpful advice kid. Send out your next Pokemon."

"KID!" I'll show you!" Said the trainer indignantly. "Go Mantine!"

"Tine!" It said as it appeared from its pokeball

"Mantine Bubble Beam attack!"

"Onix Harden. Then Bind it!"

Onix used Harden to raise its defense but the attack still did a lot of damage. However Onix shrugged off the pain and managed to wrap itself around Mantine.

"Oh no Mantine!" Yelled the trainer "Use Supersonic"

"Onix Slam it before it uses that attack!" Yelled Brock

Mantine began emitting a high pierced noise causing Onix to loose its grip and roar in frustration and pain from the awful noise.

"Now Mantine while it's confused use Hydro Pump!"

"Onix snap out of it!" Yelled Brock

Unfortunately for Onix it was too late and the high powered water attack struck him full on causing the mighty serpent to topple to the ground.

"Not too bad kid." Commented Brock as he returned his pokemon to its ball. "You beat my strongest pokemon. Too bad it took you two of yours to do it. Go Graveler!"

Graveler materialized from his pokeball with a loud "GRAVELER GRAV!" (FOR ONIX!")

"Ok Mantine this should be easy use Bubble Beam on it!"

"Graveler Defense Curl and use Rollout to dodge it!"

Mantine shot a stream of concentrated bubbles toward Graveler but the attack missed and Graveler continued to roll around the field picking up speed.

"Now Graveler hit it!"

"Mantine Water Pulse!"

Graveler picked up even more speed and headed straight for Mantine only to be hit with a thick cloud of mist and sonic waves. However thanks to the continued Defense Curl he still managed to hit Mantine with the Rollout attack. Mantine fell out of the air winded but not out of the fight.

"Graveler now's your chance use Rock Throw!"

"Mantine Protect!"

Graveler dug its hands into the stadium floor and pulled up a large chunk of rock and hurled it toward Mantine, but the Protect stopped the Rocks in their tracks.

"Mantine one more Water Pulse should do it!" Said the trainer

"Graveler Dig!" Said Brock

As the Water Pulse headed toward Graveler he dug a hole and waited for his next command.

"Now we've got you!" Smirked the trainer "Mantine Earthquake!"

"Oh Crap!" Said Brock he knew Graveler was too weak from battling to move fast enough to get out of the whole, but he still had to try. "Graveler get under it and use Explosion!"

Mantine soared high into the air and prepared to ram the ground at full force. Meanwhile Graveler got right under Mantine's position and started to head up. As Mantine came crashing toward the ground Graveler started growing a bright white and unleashed a powerful blast that knocked both himself and the Mantine out.

"Hey! What'd you do that for!" Yelled the trainer "You where gonna loose anyway why'd you have to hurt my Mantine!"

"For one I didn't hurt your Mantine too much it's just fainted." Said Brock "And two my Graveler wanted revenge for your Mantine knocking out my Onix. Don't worry according to the rules you still get your badge."

"What's it matter what the pokemon want they're here to battle for us and that's it!" yelled the trainer.

"Listen kid-" Began Brock

"Stop calling me kid my name's Chad and I'm from Mahogany Town!" Said the trainer now identified as Chad.

"Fine Chad" Said Brock "You need to treat your pokemon with respect otherwise you won't make it much farther." Brock then walked over and handed him his badge. "You win but if you think you can win based on elemental advantages alone your sadly mistaken. Remember my Onix still took down your Vileplume even though it was at a type disadvantage. Do you know why?"

"Because you respect your pokemon?" Asked Chad mockingly "Pokemon are tools for battle nothing more and I don't need a lecture from someone who Lost to me to tell me how to battle. Bye Looser."

On second thought he reminds of Gary not Ash. Thought Brock as he watched Chad leave the arena. Better get back to the breeding center to heal Onix and Graveler.

"Are the agents in position?" Asked Giovoni into his communicator

"Yes Boss we are all standing by to receive your orders." Replied Butch "All our Agents are ready to attack the Kanto Gyms once you give the signal."

"Proceed." Said Giovoni. He then hit another button on his radio to switch to a new channel "Kason are you ready? The attacks begin in a matter of minutes make sure to look like the hero of Fuschia."

"Understood sir." Said the voice on the other end, Kason. He was the current Fuschia Gym leader whom Giovoni put into the spot when he saw the opening after Koga's successor left to train in Johto. "I will not let you down."

"Giovoni heard a loud rumble outside the Gym and he knew the attacks had just started.

Misty was training with he pokemon in the large pool of Cerulean Gym. The battles for the day had been easy so she decided her pokemon could practice their moves on each other.

"Gyradose Twister, Corsala Mirror Coat!" She ordered her pokemon.

Gyradose launched his Twister straight at Corsala who used her Mirror Coat to reflect the attack back at him. Gyradose moved and the no large water spire headed toward the doors of the pool hall just as Misty's sisters Violet and Lilly were heading into the pool area. They both screamed as the twister dissipated and turned into a large wave that drenched both of them.

"Like control you pokemon little sis!" Yelled Violet angrily. "You could've like hurt us or something!"

"The sign on the door said: WARNING TRAINING IN PROGRESS." Said Misty "It is not my fault that you two can't read!"

"Whatever!" They said in unison. "We like need to use the pool before you let all the water out of it with that thing." Continued Violet as she pointed to Gyradose.

"My Gyradose is not a Thing!" Yelled Misty "He's my cute little pokemon. Right Gyradose?"

"Gyrooooooooo" ("I am not little!")

"See he agrees with me!" Shouted Misty "You two can have the pool I'm done training anyway."

She was about to recall her pokemon when a loud rumble was heard from the other side of the Gym near the performance pool. This was accompanied by the ear piercing scream of their other sister Daisy.

"What the hell!" All three said in unison before remembering the second sound they heard. "DAISY!" and they took off down the hall toward the sound Misty's pokemon close behind.

Meanwhile in Pewter City Brock was just putting his pokemon in the rejuvenator when suddenly there was a loud explosion accompanied by malicious laughter.

"Prepare for trouble"

"Make it Double"

"To infect the world with devastation"

"To Blight all people's within our nation"

"To denounce the goodness of truth and love"

"To extend our wrath to the stars above"

"Fiona!"

"Creig"

"Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light"

"Surrender now or you'll surely loose the fight"

"Grandbull" ("That's Right")

"Team Rocket?" Asked Brock confused. He knew that there were other members of the team besides Jessie and James but after seeing them for so long it was a little hard to believe being attacked by another team. And this team was a bit different then Jessie and James. They had Blue uniforms with red R's on the chest and the girl had blue hair and green eyes while the man had long red hair that was in a Ponyta tail down his back with piercing purple eyes. The Grandbull looked like any other Grandbull except it was wearing some kind of charm around its nick that looked like a golden claw on a chain with a silk scarf wrapped around it. "What do you want?"

"We want whatever we can take." Said the girl, Fiona, smirking "Like the motto says surrender now or you'll surely loose the fight."

"I've beaten creeps like you before and I sure as hell can do it again." Said Brock

"Oh, big words for such a puny man!" Said Creig mockingly. He was a lot taller then Brock so to him Brock was a little-man.

"Enough of this" Said Fiona as she drew a pokeball from her belt "Go Dunsparce!"

Her partner fallowed her motions and withdrew his own pokeball "Lanturn destroy!"

Brock withdrew two of his own pokeballs "Forretress, Lombre, I choose you!"

The pokemon materialized inside the Breeding Center and took their battle positions.

"Dunsparce Flamethrower that Forretress"

"Lanturn Thunder on that Lombre!"

"Lombre water gun on that flamethrower, Forretress block that Thunder!"

Dunsparce took a deep breath and sent a long stream of flames toward Forretress however Lombre blocked the attack with its Water Gun. Forretress tried to take the Thunder for Lombre but it wasn't fast enough and the attack connected with its intended target. Lombre being part grass type wasn't hurt too badly by it, but it still did a good bit of damage.

"Dunsparce Flamethrower again hit that Forretress!"

"Lanturn poison that Lombre with Toxic!'

"Forretress send the Toxic back with Rapid Spin! Lombre block that Flamethrower!"

Again the attacks were unleashed. When the toxic started heading toward Forretress Dunsparce hit the poison with its fire attack causing it to be set ablaze. Forretress being extremely weak against fire stopped his Rapid Spin and moved attempted to dodge the tainted fireball unfortunately he was hit full force by the Flamethrower. Meanwhile the flaming toxic was put out by Lombre's Water Gun and the attack was neutralized. Lombre sighed in relief until the Grandbull slammed into him with a vicious Body Slam attack. Both of Brock's pokemon were down.

Brock reached for another pokeball but was stopped when he heard a pistol being cocked. "Don't move or I'll shoot each one in the head one by one." Said a new voice from behind him. He turned to see another Rocket this one in a normal grunt's uniform with a pistol aimed at his baby brother's head. The rest of his family were also there surrounded by yet more members of Team Rocket.

"Surrender!" Demanded Creig

Brock had no choice he recalled his pokemon and put his hands above his head.

Daisy Waterflower had been practicing some show routines with her Dewgong when one of the walls suddenly caved in and debris flew everywhere, and just like at Pewter there was a triumphant cackle fallowed shortly thereafter with a pair of chorusing voices.

"Prepare for trouble"

"Make it Double"

"To infect the world with-"

"KNOCK IT OFF I'VE HEARD THIS STUPID MOTTO MORE TIMES THAN I CAN COUNT GET TO THE POINT ALREADY!" Screamed Misty as she and her sisters arrived in the stadium.

"You do NOT interrupt the motto!" Screamed Cassidy

"It's our trademark" Said Butch

"You two again!" Asked Daisy "Like we beat you last time can't you just leave us alone already?"

"You may have beaten us before but it won't happen this time!" Declared Butch as he drew a pokeball from his belt "Sableye get them!"

The darkness pokemon appeared and waved to the girls and their pokemon with an evil glint in its pale blue eyes. "Sableye eye?" ("Remember me?")

"Gyradose Dragon Breath!" Commanded Misty

"Dewgong like use Aurora Beam" Said Daisy

Cassidy quickly released her Alakazam and gave it orders "Disable those pokemon now!"

The attacks were stopped in their tracks and the two pokemon where unable to move.

"Go Kingdra!" Said Misty as she sent out another pokemon

Kingdra appeared in the pool ready for battle. Before Misty could give her pokemon any orders there was a shout from the other side of the stadium causing everyone except the Rockets to turn. "Hold it right there!"

Another group of Rockets all in black uniforms and shades came pouring into the stadium. There were about 30 of them and they each had at least two pokeballs each. The sisters knew when they were beaten so they had no choice but to recall their pokemon and surrender.

In our top story tonight the members of the legendary Elite Four of the Kanto and Johto regions have been killed. At around 9:00 a.m. this morning the members where all in the office of Grand Master Lance Dracone when an explosion destroyed the office and killed all the occupants of the office including Master Dracone himself. It has also been confirmed that 30 additional casualties occurred during the explosions as well as dozens of severely injured. Investigators say that the explosion was caused due to a projected rocket of some sort. Any information on the whereabouts of the perpetrator or perpetrators who committed this vile act is greatly appreciated.'

In a related story the Indigo League Pokemon Gyms situated throughout the Kanto region where attacked today by Team Rocket. This was a massive assault which targeted all eight of the Gyms. It has been confirmed that only two Gyms remain standing in Veridian and Fuschia Cities, however, these buildings still sustained major structural damage. The other six Gyms are completely in ruins and the Whereabouts of the Gym Leaders in unknown, but due to the state of the Gyms they are presumed dead.

It is unconfirmed but these two incidents may be related. We will keep you posted on any further developments. This is Joel Speedmon: Kanto Network News signing off.

A/N: Well that's done. R & R. Till next time, See ya!