Karl surveyed the surroundings. They had entered the inside of the base. "This could be dangerous."
They entered a hallway, staying out of sight from any passing grunts. They were weak without their starter Pokemon, and had to find them first.
"We're going to need a map of the place," Kevin admitted. "How are we going to find anyone in this big lab?"
"We'll need to use Professor Oak's homing device to track him down." Hadley then realized, "Wait, we'll need some kind of map for the Pokedex to pinpoint the location. You're right, Blue."
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Daisy and Bill were confined in small cells.
"What's your plan, Bill? We've got to get back to Green, Red, and Blue."
Bill then eyed Blowtorch, Flora, and Koopa. "I think I've got an idea. Hey, Pokemon!" The three then looked at Bill. "Try forcing your way out."
Blowtorch tried to set the cell on fire, but then realized that this wouldn't be possible with steel.
Koopa considered ramming through with his shell, but there wasn't enough room to gain speed, and the bars would be too strong, anyway.
Flora, however, could reach beyond the cell – with her vine whips. She pulled out her whips, and lashed them outward. The only problem was: what was she supposed to do now? She shrugged at Bill, confused.
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Karl, Hadley, and Kevin entered a room.
Hadley sat down at a terminal. "Let's see the status on Blowtorch, Flora, and Koopa."
"Or Ultima?" Karl added.
Hadley used the Search feature on the desktop to search all the servers for "Ultima".
After clicking on the results, an error message, "You do not have the permissions necessary to view 'Ultima Final.pdf'" appeared as a dialog box.
"It's locked," Kevin said in disappointment. "They must really be uptight about security."
"Hold on, I think I can send a bot in there to crawl the server."
After a few minutes of typing, she pressed "OK" Soon after, she had received the "Ultima Final.pdf file. Also included were PDF files regarding the three other Pokemon.
Hadley saved the files onto her USB flash drive and printed them.
"We'd better not stay here any longer," Karl warned as he took the papers. "Sooner or later, somebody's going to find us in here. We'd better read these somewhere else."
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In a room, test tubes populated one side, filled with purple ooze. The Pokemon inside were reaching maturity, ready to be released from their tubes.
One of these, however, obviously wasn't any of the known one hundred and fifty Pokemon.
It had the head of Articuno, the body of Zapdos, and the legs and wings of Moltres. In other words, a hybrid of these Pokemon.
"OK, we've run the diagnostics." Sandy checked the digital dials on the hybrid's tube. "Ultima's in excellent health."
Conner then blurted, "We've reached, what, the climax of this story?"
"Pretty much," agreed Sandy. "I bet those kids are in the lab right now."
Darkao was confused. "Please, get this story talk out of your head. It's distracting."
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Flora cracked her right whip at a lab coat. There has to be some sort of key in that coat!
But she had no idea how to get the key out of there, or if there was even one in there. She then realized that she would have to search the pockets for anything. If anyone was about to come in here, she had to act fast.
Finally, her whip pulled out a key card attached to a chain. Letting it slide down her whip, she pointed it towards Blowtorch, who took the card.
The Charmander poked his arm out, searching for a slot to insert the card. Upon finding one on his right, he pulled his arm in, took the card, and inserted it.
He heard a "click" and pushed the door open, leaping down, taking the card with him.
Blowtorch looked at Flora and Koopa. They were too high up for him.
"Get something to stand on," Daisy suggested.
Blowtorch examined the room for something, and found a flat board. He stood up on the board, but it hardly made any difference.
"Get a crate," directed Professor Oak, gesturing what one would look like.
Blowtorch scoped the room, and pushed a small metal crate over to Flora's cell.
He could finally reach the card slot, inserting the card.
A "click" was heard. Blowtorch pulled open the door. Flora emerged and leaped to the metal floor. Why didn't she think of this before?
"Why didn't you think of that the last time we were here?" Blowtorch asked curiously.
"I didn't know I could," said Flora. "Plus, there wasn't some careless scientist who left his card in his lab coat before."
"Hey! Let me out!"
Blowtorch then released Koopa.
People had entered the room.
Metal clamps had caught the three.
"A-ha! I didn't think you wanted to relive those bad memories." Darkao was the leader.
Blowtorch grew angry. His flaming tail turned to a bright blue color. He took a deep breath, but the clamp was too uncomfortable for him to attack.
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Karl, Hadley, and Kevin reached the test tube room. Nobody else was around, fortunately.
Hadley then saw the hybrid bird Pokemon in a tube. It was still asleep. The bird looked like the drawing on the plans.
"That's Ultima," she said in shock.
"Wow! It's got three parents!" exclaimed Kevin. "Totally messed up."
"Come to think of it, where are the parents?" Karl saw the child, but not the parents. "What are we supposed to do with Ultima?"
"We've gotta terminate it for the good of the world!"
"Not so fast, pals!" Becky had run into the room. "You're not getting away with that! You're coming with me, buddies! And I'd like you to meet some of my friends."
"We're the Rocket Brothers!" one Team Rocket Grunt declared. "I'm Hans Sontial."
"The name's Franz. We've got a gig to run, so you're not going anywhere."
"Horst here, and if you try to run, we'll attack!"
"I'm Klaus, and we would be proud if you joined us for our lab experiments."
"You guys aren't so tough." Kevin wasn't convinced. An Elite and four grunts? What a joke! Koopa would... wait, he didn't have Koopa.
"Let's go, Psycho, let's teach your old trainer a lesson!"
"You call out any Pokemon, and Mach will crush your head," warned Becky.
"I give up," said Karl in defeat. "You can take us prisoner."
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Flora, Blowtorch, and Koopa were dangling over a vat of glowing yellow liquid, their feet chained to the ceiling. Scientists were their audience.
What was this, some kind of dipping show? That didn't sound so exciting.
But the strange part was that the yellow ooze would do something to the Pokemon.
Blowtorch dangled himself, hoping that once he fell, he would fall away from the vat. But then they would toss him in anyway, and he stopped.
Koopa considered spinning in his shell to break free, but his legs had to be free for that to happen.
Flora was upside-down, and couldn't focus to use her vine whips.
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Karl was pushed into some room somewhere.
"Well, long time no see." He had come face to face with the leader, Giovanni, once again. "I knew that you'd come here to stop our plans again. You failed to foil our plan at Silph, and you'll fail again, especially without your powerful Pokemon."
"Where are they?" questioned Karl.
"Oh, don't worry, your friends will see what's going to happen."
"What are you talking about?"
"Insta-evolution!"
Karl then knew that Team Rocket could fully control Pokemon. With Ultima, they could control the climate, and possibly the other planets.
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"Drop the Pokemon!" ordered Darkao.
The Pokemon were released from their chains and into the vat.
All the Pokemon bunch could see was yellow. Everything was warm, but they could feel themselves growing bigger... and bigger... and bigger! They struggled to pull themselves to the surface.
The three splashed out of the vat. As they exit, however, they looked at the reflective metal floor to see that something horrible had happened.
Blowtorch was now a Charizard. He could now fly, but was now much too big and dangerous to live in Karl and Hadley's house.
Flora was now a Venusaur. Her whips were now much longer and her seed had bloomed into a full flower.
Koopa was now a Blastoise. His shell now had water guns in it.
"What happened?" Kevin couldn't believe what he had just saw.
"They're... evolved... I don't get it." Hadley couldn't stand how Team Rocket could control a Pokemon's evolution.
Enraged, the three roared out, destroying much of the room. Much of the people left in panic, trying to stay out of the way.
The fully-evolved Pokemon stormed the facility, breaking all of the test tubes. Ultima was now free to roam the world.
"Yes! We've done it! Ultima may now roam the earth and control the world!" Darkao had done it. Giovanni would be pleased.
"Oh, no! They could melt the ice caps or erupt all of the volcanoes!" Hadley had lots of ideas of what could happen next..
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"Now Karl, I must admit that I merely wanted to take control of weather..."
"Well, that just comes naturally, you know." Meteorology was weather and climate. "Humans are helpless to change it. We're not meant to do that."
"Now that Ultima is free, I've chosen to let you go."
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The Elite Four had arrived at the lab to see a Charizard burst out.
"Ultima is free." Lance couldn't believe it.
Lorelei saw Blowtorch flying towards the hybrid. "But Charizard's chasing it!"
"You're right!" Bruno saw that Koopa was trying to fire water at the bird to stun it.
Karl emerged from the doors. "We saw it! Those Pokemon evolved! Blowtorch! Get down here!"
Rockets had left the building in a hurry. Blowtorch flew down.
"What happened to everyone else?"
The Pokedex showed that Blowtorch said, "They're off to a ravine that extends down to Mt. Moon. Force fields immobilized Flora and Koopa, but I escaped. Hop on! I'll take you to the ravine. No time to lose!"
"All right, then, let's go!" Karl mounted the Charizard. "Yah!"
Blowtorch then flew away with Karl.