Rocket grunts were stationed in front of Bill's house, guarding the front door. Sabrina grunted in annoyance as she hid behind a bush nearby, with Erika and her Vileplume next to her.
"Vileplume will need to put them to sleep," Sabrina thought out loud.
"What then?" Erika asked skeptically. "We just waltz on in?"
"I haven't figured that part out yet!" Sabrina frowned. "Misty's the stealth queen, not me."
The three of them ran from cover to cover, being as quiet as they could until they were around the side of the house. There was a side door nearby that also had a Rocket grunt guarding it, but thankfully it was obscured from view by a hot water heater.
"As soon as Vileplume uses Sleep Powder, that guy's gonna hear us," Erika told Sabrina. "You're gonna have to draw him in, then we can put them all to sleep at once."
"How am I meant to do that?"
Erika rolled her eyes, then unzipped Sabrina's skin-tight leather top a little, exposing her cleavage.
"Use these for good. Just for once," she suggested. "Vileplume, get ready."
Sabrina smiled wickedly at Erika as Vileplume edged closer to the corner of the house, ready to step out and sneak attack on Erika's command. Erika flattened herself against the hot water heater as best she could. Sabrina stepped out, then sultrily sauntered over to the one guard at the side door.
"Hey, who are you?" the guard asked, reaching for the door handle, but Sabrina used her telekinetic abilities to stop him.
"Shh…" she whispered, placing a leather gloved finger to the grunt's lips.
"Whoa…" he gasped as Sabrina pressed her body against him.
She smiled and bit her lower lip as she ran her finger down from the grunt's lips, tracing all the way to his crotch, then with a little squeak from her glove, gave it a firm squeeze. He flinched, but she wasn't causing him any pain. She inched towards his ear, then began to whisper in it, her lips brushing gently against it. The grunt was totally spellbound.
"I can do things to you that you never knew were possible," she whispered, making the grunt shudder with excitement. "Interested?"
"I-I...I can't leave my post…" he stammered.
Slightly annoyed, Sabrina gripped his crotch a little tighter, then gently bit his earlobe. The grunt's eyes almost popped out of his head, and he could barely contain his excitement.
"Your loss, not mine," she whispered. "I'm sure your two friends will be more fun anyway."
"Wait, wait!" he said quietly as Sabrina let go of him and began to walk off. She grinned, then turned back around slowly.
"Those two assholes aren't gettin' any of this," he told her, his eyes scanning her whole body, not sure where to look first. He placed his hands on her boobs, squeezing them firmly, then greedily ran his hands down to her ass and gave that a squeeze as well. Sabrina suppressed the urge to vomit, then grabbed his wrists.
"Not here," she whispered. "In private, I can do so much more to you."
"Okay, sure," the grunt grinned, practically drooling. "I can't wait for this."
"Neither can I."
She snaked her arms around his neck, and the grunt leaned in for a kiss. Sabrina grinned, then tightly hugged his face into her chest, smothering him so completely that he was unable to make any sound at all. Surprisingly, he didn't protest, even when Sabrina began dragging him backwards, leading him towards Erika and Vileplume. Eventually he started to panic, and began pushing at her, then tugging at her arms, desperately trying to take a breath. Once they'd reached Vileplume she released him, and grunt sucked down several lungfuls of air with a big smile on his face.
"Wow, you're really naughty!" he praised her, then realised he'd been tricked. He looked at Erika, who just winked at him, then kicked him in the chest, sending him flying backwards towards the other two grunts at the front door, landing a foot or two in front of them.
"What the –"
"Pluuuuume!"
Within seconds, all three grunts were deeply asleep. Sabrina brushed herself off, wiped her boobs, then zipped her top back up and smiled at Erika with a look of intense satisfaction.
"Took you long enough," Erika complained.
"I enjoy what I do," Sabrina smirked back at her. "These grunts, they never get any smarter."
"If that's anywhere near as fun as you make it look, maybe I'll give it a try next time."
"I'd recommend wearing something a little more...revealing," Sabrina chuckled, taking a handful of Erika's pretty floral dress. "If you try and seduce someone while wearing that, they'll probably try to take you to church."
"My dresses are cute," Erika frowned. "But I see your point. Anyway, let's get inside. We're wasting time. Those grunts won't stay asleep forever."
She headed for the front door, but thought better of it and headed for the side door instead. She turned the doorknob slowly, then tested the door to see if it squeaked. It did – loudly. The two girls grimaced, listening for any noises on the other side of the door before proceeding. Hearing nothing, Erika decided to open the door quickly instead, and it worked. The door opened without a noise, and the three of them stepped inside, being as quiet as they could. Sabrina grabbed Erika's wrist, and she halted immediately. She stepped closer to her so she could whisper, her tight leather mini-dress squeaking slightly as she moved.
"Never mind the door," Erika moaned. "Your squeaky clothes are gonna give us away."
"Just be grateful I'm wearing this and not one of my shiny ones," she frowned back at her, unimpressed. "Bill's somewhere to the right. He's under guard. By someone important, I think."
"Right," Erika nodded. "Vileplume and I will put everyone to sleep between here and the front door, while you go and get him."
"Be careful," Sabrina frowned with seriousness. "There's at least a dozen powerful Pokémon in here, and almost as many Rockets, and all but one of them is between here and the front door."
"Don't worry about me," Erika assured her. "Now go!"
Sabrina took off to their right, disappearing down a corridor while Erika and Vileplume headed left. They'd briefly studied the layout of Bill's house before they left, but trying to remember it in the heat of the moment wasn't as easy as it seemed at the time. She knew there was a large hall-like living area taking up much of the front of the house, with a long corridor that led all the way around it. There were four rooms – or was it five? - situated symmetrically around it, but she couldn't remember where they were exactly.
No matter, I'll just go through them one at a time and Vileplume can put everyone to sleep.
She proceeded down the hallway, staying half a step behind Vileplume, and managed to get to a door on her right without seeing anyone. She listened in, hearing two grunts inside, and assumed they had at least one Pokémon each.
"Alright, Vileplume," she began whispering, taking a deep breath. "I'm gonna open this door slightly, and when I do, spray your Sleep Powder in, okay?"
Vileplume nodded, then waited. Erika carefully turned the doorknob, which thankfully made no sound, then slowly inched the door open. After two inches though, it made a horribly loud creak.
"Who's there?" came a voice from inside.
Erika froze, then quickly snapped out of it and pushed the door wide open.
"Now!" she yelled.
"Pluuuuuuume!"
Once the powder had settled, she peeked inside, and saw two Crobats and two Rocket grunts fast asleep on the floor. With a huge sigh of relief, she shut the door and looked down at Vileplume, who was glaring at her.
"Plume, vileplume!"
"I'm sorry!" Erika whispered. "Bill really needs to get some silicone spray or something! It's not my fault!"
"Gotcha!"
Erika spun on her heels, her eyes wide with shock, and saw two more grunts standing in front of her, along with a Raticate and a Venomoth.
"Vileplume, use –"
"Sleep Powder, Venomoth!"
Erika's heart skipped a beat.
I was too slow!
But Vileplume wasn't. She launched a pair of petals with incredible speed, managing to knock Venomoth to the ground before it could deploy its sleep powder.
"Raticate, Quick Attack!"
The Raticate charged forwards, smashing Vileplume into the hallway wall. Vileplume got up quickly though, and immediately began spraying Sleep Powder. Erika covered her mouth and nose, then backed up a few paces to avoid it. Both grunts, Raticate, and Venomoth all fell asleep, and Erika took a deep breath.
"The whole house would have heard that," she told Vileplume. "If they know we're here, then Sabrina's in danger."
She considered all the factors for a moment.
She's got psychic powers, so she can handle herself. But I only took down four Pokémon and four Rockets. That leaves plenty to go after her. As good as she is, I doubt she can handle all the rest of these guys on her own.
"Vileplume, I need you to continue going that way, and put everything you see to sleep, okay? I know you can do this. I need to go back the way we came and help Sabrina. I'll meet up with you at the other end. And watch your back. I'll come and help you as soon as I get Sabrina."
"Vileplume plume," Vileplume nodded, then headed off, disappearing around the corner, along the front of the house.
Erika ran back down the hallway, stopping at the end to check for anyone coming before turning the corner, then decided it didn't matter. She kept going, and found two rooms along the hallway at the back end of the house. The door furthest from her was open, and appeared to be another small hallway – a master bedroom, Erika assumed – so she opened up the nearest door and ran inside, finding that it was another tiny hallway, leading to a mini research facility of some sort. She immediately saw Sabrina, who was slumped on her knees in front of an Umbreon. The Umbreon looked nothing like Gary's one. It was much larger, and was very clearly a Shadow Pokemon.
It looks...wrong, sort of. Even for a Shadow Pokémon.
"Sabrina!" she squeaked.
"Erika, stay back!" Sabrina pleaded, and was immediately punched in the cheek for her trouble.
"Quiet, twerp!"
I know that voice…
Erika decided to throw caution to the wind and charged into the room, tackling Sabrina's captor and taking her by surprise. The two of them crashed into a computer desk, knocking the keyboard to the ground and tipping the monitors over. Erika grabbed the keyboard and attempted to hit the Rocket grunt over the head with it, but hesitated for just a moment when she realised who it was.
"It's you!" she growled.
Unfortunately, this was just enough time to counter her, and Erika found herself spinning around and hitting the ground, having been punched herself. Not wanting to let Sabrina down, she rolled over and got to her feet again, biting the pain.
"Umbreon, Dark Pulse the gothic twerp again! Destroy her mind!"
Sabrina gritted her teeth, grabbing her head and clawing at it in what looked to be unbearable pain. Erika dove at the Umbreon, but it turned the attack on her instead. Erika was stunned for a moment; she felt like she'd been hit in the chest by a shovel made entirely of despair, but she recovered, and tried once more to stop the Umbreon. Instead, she was dragged away by her feet. She kicked desperately, and connected more than once, but it did little to stop her attacker.
"Pluuuuume!"
Suddenly Vileplume burst in, and started flinging petals at both the attacker and the Umbreon. The petals began to shoot out with increasing frequency, and Erika realised it was Vileplume's Petal Dance.
She's giving me a diversion. Time to go!
She quickly crawled towards Sabrina, then grabbed her by the armpits and helped her to her feet.
"Bill! We...have to...save Bill!" Sabrina told her, still in immense pain.
"Where is he?"
"Other...room. Tied up. Go!"
"Come on then!"
"No…just get him and go!"'
With all the commotion caused by Vileplume, Sabrina was the only one who noticed Erika escaping. She got to her feet and ran out of the room as fast as she could, grabbing the door frames as she reached them to help her turn the corners quicker. She found Bill tied to a chair with an Electivire standing in front of him, and he looked so badly injured that Erika wasn't sure whether he was even alive.
Oh dear...I hope I'm not too late.
"Bill! Bill!" she squeaked desperately as she untied him.
"Elec...tivire…"
Hurry, hurry!
The Electivire looked angry, although she noticed that it appeared to be a little worn out.
Probably from torturing poor Bill.
"Come on, Bill, you have to wake up!" she begged him, her voice becoming shaky as the Electivire became angrier, and electricity began to spark from its body.
"Oh...hello...unggrr…oh, it's...Erika. How...delightful…"
"Bill!"
She finally finished untying him, then began to help him up, trying to be careful with him as he was obviously a little fragile at the moment, but also panicking because the Electivire seemed as though it was about to burst. She made it about four steps before she heard it charging up, and quickly pushed Bill into a wall, hoping he would stay on his feet. Suddenly her entire body felt like it was on fire, and every muscle contracted at once, then she fell to the floor spasming. After a few moments she was able to move again, and rolled onto her side before slowly getting back to her feet. She looked over at Bill, who had fallen and crashed into a bookshelf, and was slumped next to it. She winced in pain, then crawled over to him and began trying to get him onto his feet again.
"Leave...me…"
"I can't!" Erika said through clenched teeth. "The whole reason we're here is to get you out!"
"I'll never...make it...just go!"
Erika grunted in irritation, then summoned as much strength as she could and wrenched him to his feet. He grimaced, and he wasn't even able to support his own weight, but Erika somehow managed to get him out of the room. She stole a glance at the Electivire, who still seemed just as angry as any other Shadow Pokémon she'd ever seen, but was puffing in exhaustion. Relieved, she kept going until she reached the doorway to the mini research centre, and sat him down just inside the door.
"I need to get Sabrina and my Vileplume," she told him hurriedly. "I won't be a moment."
She stepped inside the room to find the Rocket leader asleep, her Vileplume knocked out, and the Umbreon using a constant stream of Dark Pulse on Sabrina, who was convulsing in a fetal position against the wall.Her eyes went wide with shock, and she reacted by grabbing the preposterously strong Umbreon and throwing it as hard as she could against the wall. It didn't stay down; instead, it quickly got to its feet and prepared to attack her. She panicked, running out of the room, and was blasted with another Dark Pulse attack. She hit the ground hard, landing on her knees and elbows. Several tears rolled down her face as she tried to get back up, and realised that she'd actually been hurt pretty badly.
If I don't get moving, I'm going to get worse than just hurt.
She worked through the pain once more, getting to her feet and limping heavily out of the room. The Umbreon followed her into the main bedroom, and she quickly shut the door on it.
I hope it hates Electivires more than it hates me.
She limped over to Bill and helped him up, then realised she had a problem.
There's no way known I can get all four of us out by myself. I'll have to do this one at a time.
She listened for the Umbreon, and heard it growling like a feral Persian, and knew she had to hurry. She wasn't sure it would fight with the Electivire, and even if it did, it wouldn't stop it for long.
"Come on, we have to go, Bill," she insisted, limping her way towards the side door.
"You're...hurt, Erika," he said breathlessly.
"Not as badly as you are," she replied, determined to keep on moving.
She made it to the door, opened it, then helped Bill to sit down against the wall of the house, noting along the way that the grunts Vileplume had used Sleep Powder on were still totally fast asleep. She tapped her earpiece, then made her way back to Vileplume and Sabrina.
"Ritchie? Can you hear me?"
There was no answer for what seemed like an eternity, but was in reality only a few seconds.
"Yes, I can hear you, Erika. What can I –"
"Send me three Pidgeots, as fast as you can! I'm at the eastern side of Bill's house. Please hurry!"
"Sure thing, but what's happened?"
"I'll explain later, but you have to hurry!" she told him desperately. "Please, this has gone horribly wrong, we need those Pidgeots right now!"
"I'll see what I can do, but there'll only be one. The rest are with Brock and Lieutenant Surge, evacuating Misty, Ash and Gary right now. We didn't think you'd need Pidgeots with Sabrina around."
"Just CALL THEM!" she shrieked, then realised she may have been a touch too loud, as she heard at least one of the Rocket grunts stirring at the sound of her voice.
"Sure thing, Erika. I'll get right on it. Should only be a few minutes if they fly at full speed."
"Erika OUT!" she whisper-yelled in frustration as she reached the mini research lab. Sabrina was still passed out, although she'd stopped spasming now, and Vileplume had woken up.
"Can you walk, Vileplume?" she asked as she tried to lift Sabrina.
"Plume."
Vileplume stuck her head underneath Sabrina's legs, using her large petals to lift Sabrina up with her back against the wall. Eventually they were able to get her into a kind of sitting position on top of Vileplume, and Erika was able to hold her still while Vileplume took most of her weight. Together, they managed to make it halfway down the corridor towards the side exit before they heard a loud crash, and turned around to see the Umbreon standing there, facing them down. And it looked cross.
"It was a good plan, but not quite good enough."
Erika turned her head back the other way, and saw the Rocket leader, flanked by two grunts.
We were so close…
"Where's Bill? Tell me, twerp!"
Erika turned to Vileplume instead.
"Take Sabrina outside. Help is coming."
"Plume, Vileplume."
"Don't move another step!" the Rocket leader screamed. "Do you want her to die?"
"She'd rather die than be of any help to you," Erika told her sternly, using strength she wasn't sure she actually even possessed. "And so would I. So you may as well kill us."
"Don't tempt me," the Rocket leader growled. "As much fun as that would be, I don't think you'd get very far before being recaptured anyway. An injured Vileplume that's already been knocked out once, a gothic psycho-twerp that's an inch from death, and a pathetic flower-loving princess that can barely walk don't exactly inspire anything even approaching fear."
She had to admit, she was right.
I wouldn't even make it to the door. Sabrina doesn't look like she can take another Dark Pulse attack, Vileplume's running on fumes, and I can barely keep my own feet moving.
"Do your worst, bitch," Erika snarled. "I'm not afraid of you, and I'm not afraid of your Shadow Pokémon. We've stopped you once before, and we can do it again."
"Maybe so, but this is no ordinary Shadow Pokémon," the Rocket leader smirked.
"They all look alike to me," came a booming voice from the doorway.
Erika's eyes lit up as she saw Surge standing there, filling the entire doorway and even having to duck to get through it. A little Raichu stepped in after him, and his cheeks were sparking with enthusiasm.
"Bella, get in here," Surge commanded.
"Sir!" Bella stood at attention.
"Get Sabrina outside, prepare her and Vileplume for evac."
"Sir!" Bella acknowledged, then promptly lifted Sabrina over her shoulder and carried her outside.
"You too, Erika," Surge ordered. "You look like you've taken a bit of a beating too. Get yourself loaded up. I'll take it from here."
"Oh, you'll 'take it from here', will you?" the Rocket leader laughed. "I don't think you have any idea who you're messing with, Lieutenant."
Surge laughed back at her, much to her chagrin, as Erika limped heavily out the door.
"I know exactly who you are, Jessie. And Erika's right, we've stopped you before, and we'll do it again. Raichu! Thunder!"
Surge quickly backed out through the door after Erika, as the entire house flashed brightly, and several windows blew out. It was then that Erika noticed that there were two Pidgeots, instead of the one she'd been promised.
"Quickly! That damn Umbreon is already getting back up! We gotta get outta here!" Surge shouted.
"Erika, you're with me and Sabrina," Bella told her. "The Lieutenant can take Bill and Vileplume. Just hold on tight to Sabrina, and to me."
She nodded, then hopped on the back of the Pidgeot, with Sabrina between her and Bella. Surge picked Bill and Vileplume up, one under each massive arm, and loaded them onto his Pidgeot. Before they knew it, the Pidgeot had taken off and were speeding away at almost supersonic velocity back towards Pallet Town.
"What was that thing?" Bella asked.
"You mean Jessie?"
"No, the Umbreon," Bella laughed.
"I don't know," Erika sighed. "But it wasn't normal. It was horribly strong, and savage. Awful, ghastly Pokémon."
"You're not wrong," Bella agreed. "But we can go through all that when we get back to Professor Oak's place. I'm kinda looking forward to seeing everyone again. You just hang on tight back there, okay?"