I'm going to be honest here, I'm a little nervous about this chapter. This chapter could very well push the rating up and I don't want that too happen. Also I'm dealing with some other stress but I don't want to bore you all with that so I'll just go right ahead to the story. Enjoy...
"Alright, here are your assignments..." Sirius began, Ryan raised his hand. "What is it recruit?"
"What's with the different colored uniforms?" Ryan asked.
"I guess I should explain that." Sirius answered, he pointed to the TDS members wearing the white uniform. "Those with the white colored uniforms are the Delta Squadron, they are basically the R&D Team. Those in green are the Omega Squadron, they are the main soldiers and field operatives, they use to be known as the Beta Squadron but ever since the incident at Mt. Moon, they had to change their name to protect their identity. As for the members in blue, they are the reconnaissance and capture group. Their main job is to study the land they are tasked eith and capture any pokemon they can find for testing, pokemon owned by trainers are included. They are known as the Alpha Squadron. Any more questions?"
The three graduates nodded. "Good." Sirius stated. "Now for your assignments, the Delta Squad will stay here to complete Operation Chimera and continue development for Excelcus and Project MD. Omega Squad will head towards Cerulean, I'll give you further instructions once we get there. As for Alpha Squad, you will go out and gather as much pokemon as you can."
The door to the room opened, the TDS admin that was in Mt. Moon entered.
"Typhoon, good timing! I need you to take your recruit and watch over her." Sirius explained. The other admin, Typhoon, nodded.
"Your name's Pandora right? Come on, we'll head over to Viridian Forest, the pokemon there are weak." Typhoon stated, Pandora nodded, she was nervous but willing to work.
"Alright, now that we all know our assignments, let's hop to it!" Sirius announced. With that, everyone left, Delta Squad headed over to the labs, Omega Squad entered a moderately sized aircraft that was large enough for around 30 people. They headed north towards Cerulean City. As for the Alpha Squad, they entered a number of similar aircrafts, though they were much smaller, small enough that only about 3 people would fit, the one Pandora and Typhoon were in was heading North east towards the Pewter City entrance to Viridian Forest.
Pandora, Typhoon, and another TDS grunt arrived just outside of Pewter City in no time flat. They were in front of the entrance of the Forest, Typhoon was giving the two their orders.
"You." He said, referring to the other grunt, "I want you to head Route 3 and catch as many pokemon as you can, it doesn't matter what you catch, just get them." The grunt nodded in understanding, he pressed the badge on his uniform which sucked in the grunt's uniform, leaving him in his casual clothes. He then headed off towards Route 3.
"Alright Pandora, I'll show you how to catch a pokemon." Typhoon said.
"B-but I already know how to catch them..."She argued.
"Oh, we don't catch them the way you're familiar with. Using pokeballs is much more costly, it's a bit more barbaric, but we use these..." He handed Pandora a later gun, he armed himself with one. Typhoon looked around for a pokemon to test the weapon with and he saw a wild Poochyena. Typhoon aimed his gun and shot at the Poochyena, the gun shot out a rusty gold beam that trapped Poochyena in a floating orb of the same color. Poochyena howled in shock, the howl seemed to resonate much more than a normal Poochyena, some wild Pidgeotto flew away in response to the Howl, as if Poochyena warned them to get away.
"And that's how it's done!" Typhoon said, smirking under his mask (Pandora and the other graduates wear masks as well).
"D-does it hurt the pokemon?" Pandora asked nervously.
"Of course not." Typhoon answered flatly, despite her anxiety and doubt, she knew Typhoon was serious when he said that. The two entered the forest, they stopped when they reached the center. "I'll go into Route 2, you stay here and catch anything." Typhoon left Pandora alone in the forest to complete her assignment.
Ryan and his team arrived in Cerulean City, Sirius gathered the group around him to explain the next part of their mission.
"Alright team, we need to set up the charges around different locations of the city. We'll split up into groups, if all goes well then we'll be back at base by sundown. Any questions?" The group nodded their heads, they understood what they needed to do and they were going to get it done. "Good, let's go!" All of the grunts headed off in different directions around the city, except for 3 of them, Sirius needed to talk to them privately, Ryan was one of the three. "You three, you get the most important job, the Cerulean Gym houses an aquarium that houses a number of Water - Type pokemon from the 6 different regions, once the charges go off it'll give the 3 of you the perfect opportunity to get as many as you can."
"When will the charges go off?" Ryan asked.
"They'll go off at around 12:30 tomorrow. Ant other questions?" Sirius answered.
"What about you, where will you be?" Another grunt asked.
"I'll be back at base, the bosses asked me to accompany them. Alright, no more questions! You're burning daylight so get a move on!"
Ryan seemed a little unsure of this plan, but he was told that this would make him stronger and he didn't want to pass up this chance...
Simon was with the other members of Delta Squadron, they were in the TDS labs doing their job. Simon looked at the containers in the room, there were pokemon inside them. The last time he had seen them, there were only 3 there were 4 now. The new pokemon looked like the small pink but it was much larger, the majority of its body was grey instead of pink and it's tail was purple.
"Interesting aren't they?"' A female voice said. Simon turned around and saw two scientists behind him, one of them was a short young man, his hair was dyed purple. The other was a young lady who was taller than the other boy but shorter than Simon, her hair was red and in a neat bun. "The new pokemon that was brought in just yesterday is Mewtwo, it's said to be extremely powerful and a clone of Mew." The girl continued.
"What about the other pokemon?" Simon asked.
"I honestly don't know, I haven't really seen them before. My name is Sandra by the way and this is Max." Sandra greeted, Max shook Simon's hand.
"Do you know what they plan to do with these pokemon?" Max asked.
"No idea..." Simon answered "Oh, I forgot to tell you my name! I'm Simon"
"It's a pleasure to meet you Simon, we'd best get to work, we don't want to be caught slacking off!" Sandra addressed, the two boys agreed and began to work, they had been tasked with building the M.D. and making sure Project Chimera was successful.
Pandora had a lot of trouble in capturing pokemon with the later gun, and she was running out of time. She had until 15:30 (3:30 p.m.) to catch pokemon and she hadn't even caught one, plus it was already 15:00 (3:00). She saw a Pichu in the grass and aimed the gun at it.
"I got you!" She said, the Pichu looked up and saw Pandora aiming at it. Seeing that this was her only chance, she took the shot. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) the Pichu ran away and avoided the shot. Pandora began to break down, what would Typhoon say? What would the boss say? How much trouble would she be in? These thoughts were interrupted when Pandora heard what sounded like a Caterpie crying for help, Pandora did capture something! She approached the Caterpie and took out a small box from her bag, this box would contain the pokemon she captured with the ray gun, it was sort of like a mobile PC. When she deposited Caterpie in the box Pandora checked the time, she had to check back in with Typhoon in 3 minutes! She hurried over to the rendezvous point as fast as she could.
Hours had passed, Pandora returned to the TDS base, she and Simon were talking to Ryan through a PC.
"Sorry I can't be there with you guys, I have to stay in Cerulean until the job is complete." Ryan said.
"Don't worry about it, just get the job done." Simon replied, Typhoon entered the room.
"Pandora, don't forget to show the boss what you caught!" He said, Pandora left to go see the boss.
She entered the boss' room, he looked at Pandora expectantly, he picked Pandora because he believed that she had potential to be one of the strongest members of TDS, even surpassing Typhoon and Sirius!
"Well Pandora, what have you brought me?" He said, Pandora became incredibly nervous, she only caught a Caterpie. Simon watched from behind the door. Pandora released Caterpie from the box, it looked afraid. The boss of Team Dark Star did not look happy, he looked down at the Caterpie, then back at Pandora.
"Is this it... THIS IS ALL YOU HAVE?!" He snapped. Pandora flinched at his response. "I EXPECTED MORE FROM YOU! WE AT TEAM DARK STAR DO NOT TOLERATE FAILURE!"
He lifted his boot into the air, Caterpie knew what was about to happen and tried to run... but it couldn't get away in time. With one sickening crunch, everything became silent. From outside the door, Simon looked disgusted, shocked, and gobsmacked. A Caterpie was just crushed, Pandora began to have a breakdown. She screamed and cried, but as soon as the Boss spoke again, she became silent.
"I'm giving you one more chance to prove yourself. Don't screw up again!" He threatened. He sent Pandora off, she ran out of the room and past Simon who ran after her to calm her down. They passed by Sandra and Max who were confused at this but ran after them, they wanted to help too. Eventually Pandora locked herself in her dorm room that was provided for her by TDS.
"What's going on?" Sandra asked.
"The boss did something that made Pandora go into one of her... episodes." Simon explained.
"Whatever he did must have been truly evil!" Max said, Sandra smacked him for saying that. The three of them tried to comfort Pandora.
Inside of some strange dimension of white nothingness, Caterpie had materialized. It looked around calling for its family and friends. It began to cry, after a few moments a large shadow towered of Caterpie, it looked up at the shadow to see a large white and gold pokemon. Whatever it was spoke to Caterpie.
"It is not your time, go back and fulfill your destiny!"
The strange pokemon began to emit a golden light that engulfed Caterpie, the next thing Caterpie knew, it was back in Viridian Forest. It heard it's family calling for him. It joined them, happy to be home... happy to be alive again!
Well, that's done! *sigh* I honestly felt bad about writing about that Caterpie, the only reason I had it revived was just so it wouldn't be too violent and cruel. But it was only done to make you, the readers, hate the Team Dark Star boss. Anyway, starting next chapter I think I'll go back to the main group. As for Team Dark Star themselves, what are they planning to do with Mew and Mewtwo as well as they other pokemon they have in their possession? What is Excelcus and the M.D.? I guess you'll have to wait and see!
