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Chapter three: Oak

Giovanni

"So how are our puppets doing?" it was late, we were in deep shit and Jesse obviously just wanted me to piss off and annoy someone else. She sighed and rested her hands on her keyboard glancing towards the first person view of Viridian forest. She ran a hand through her silky mauve hair; she didn't need this right now.

"Ruby killed a while back leaving Gold and Ash our two surviving members" she replied sighing heavily, we obviously weren't doing well. I flicked a cigarette butt into a nearby waste paper basket and wandered past her computer to numerous others observing our team's progress.

"They won't survive you know" Jesse spat bluntly; I made my way back over to her.

"Whether they succeed or not makes no difference," I began harshly "Project M will be ours whether the old man chooses to hand it over or not, we will have our way, and he will beg for mercy before I kill the little piece of shit myself" I could tell she was attempting to ignore me, staring profusely at her keyboard, her eyes darting from letter to letter.

"And what about Lance and the Elite four?" she asked just as I was about to leave. I stopped in my tracks and replied simply.

"If its out in the open the P virus can cause hallucinogenic effects in humans, by the time my Silph operative kills them they won't even remember their own names….."

Ash

I swept away the swarm of rabid purple mice with the barrel of my handgun and examined the wound on Gold's neck hoping against hope that I wouldn't die on my own. Eventually I got an indication that he was alive, he spat blood out of his mouth obviously wondering why he joined S.T.A.R.M.I.E, which was something I had been asking myself since the start.

Run by the ex-leader of Team Rocket Giovanni, I'd had fucked with Giovanni's plans too many times, so why had I offered to join his squad? Probably came down to brainwashing.

"Gold, can you hear me?" I asked in the vain hope he'd nod his head

After about a minute of no response I grabbed him by the arms and gradually dragged him towards the entrance to Viridian city, just one problem, that being the huge ball of carnivorous feathers spiralling towards me.

I didn't have a chance to attack before three, sabre toothed two headed Pidgeys tearing the flesh from the back my neck, I screamed as I felt blood spurt and ligaments rip. Quickly swearing under my breath I raised my handgun and blasted myself in the back of the neck.

Instantly I fell to the floor from the blast but thankfully the three monsters went shooting off into the darkness.

The entrance wasn't that far away, I could make it; I had to make it…

"Ash…." I stopped dead in my tracks and knelt beside Gold, his blood filled mouth slurring his voice.

"Hey Gold, I'm here"

"Ash, I can't hold out much longer" the pitch of his voice was lowering; I could tell his time was growing short.

"Don't trust Oak, he's…he's…"

That was when his head exploded.

Not instantly but it began with parts of an interior head bursting out at various places. From what I could distinctly tell it was a Beedrill, the baize pointy chin and blood red ruby like eyes explained itself. The flesh of Gold's head seemed to melt away before the Beedrill began to burst out of his body. The arms suddenly became two razor sharp swords, the murky translucent wings springing from the back and the cone shaped stinger out of the ass.

Gold threw me away with his stingers slicing a gaping cut in my stomach. Attempting to stay upright, I clutched myself with my free hand and firing at Gold with the other.

Knowing it was hopeless and that I would die soon I made my way towards Viridian entrance whilst being occasionally jabbed in the back by the Remnants of Gold.

But then it stopped.

Amazed I spun round, ready to face my death, but it didn't come. Gold was lying on the ground unconscious as he had been no Beedrill, no Pidgey. Seriously confused I made for the entrance, leaving him. This was too weird, even for me.

Birch

I stood at the end of that tunnel watching my beautiful beasts close in on the leader of the elite four. How I enjoyed watching Lance cower, helpless. That was when that stupid bitch Loreli reached down and literally dragged him up the ladder. She ruined my fun.

Well, they would all get what they deserved.

My Zubat were useless now. I tapped a detonator switch held in my cupped fist, and from the centre of the ceiling, a wave of fire spread throughout the corridor, killing my Zubats.

It was a shame, I thought as I watched the ashes fall to the floor, I would have to try something harder.

Lance

Loreli pulled me up onto the floor of the reception, a bit battered and cut by the bats, but more or less fine. Loreli was panting, but when she caught her breath she asked me "What the hell were you doing?" I shrugged off an answer, sweating like mad.

Loreli then poked her head back down into the tunnel.

"They're gone!" she exclaimed. I went over to look and sure enough the Zubat eggs were gone! Was it some sort of illusion? Loreli wasn't waiting to find out, she jumped down the ladder and started tip toeing down the corridor to find… nothing! Excited as I was, I gave Bruno the thumbs up, he responded by saying "Wow! Our fearless leader has a weak spot. I ignored Bruno and jumped down into the corridor after Loreli.

We both edged up the corridor until we reached another ladder at the end. Without words, I ascended followed by Loreli.

We emerged into a walkway above a crater below. The walkway didn't seem very stable; the metal looked very brown and corroded on the bottom, liquid rust dripping about five hundred foot to the crater floor. I was unafraid of heights so I gradually started across, but was halted by Loreli yell in a very high-pitched squeak "There is no fucking way I'm going across that!" I remark to that I replied "Just walk forward and don't look down!" Loreli took a deep breath and started forward. The walkway was extremely long; this obviously took us to the facility below Viridian.

We were about ten yards from the end, the bridge creaked. I glanced around; Loreli had frozen, her face turning a pale green; Held back as if by some supernatural force.

I quickly dashed to the end, whirled around and yelled out to Loreli "c'mon, its as easy as that!" she still couldn't move. I was about to go back and drag her to the end, when the bridge broke.

Oh curse the day that Iron was priced so cheaply! The centre of the bridge completely snapped, bringing the bridge caving in. Loreli quickly leapt the ten yards knocking me backwards as the bridge gave way.

I got up removing Loreli's grasp from me, she was still shaking.

"Well no one said this was going to be easy" I told her, and went over to check the next corridor.

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