A/N: Last chapter was a little late and this one was a little early; I'm just confusing you with these updates now, aren't I? I'm in a strange state of being decently ahead schedule with NPMA chapters but terrified of falling behind again (I blame the artwork I have to colour in, a feature I sadly cannot show off on this site). Anyway, I won't ramble for any longer, go ahead and enjoy the chapter!
Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure Act 6 Continued Even Further!
After a quick rest following her battle with G-Man, with her travelling companions rejuvenated, Nanka continued their infiltration of the invaded Silph Co. One quick teleport later and a small dose of nausea, and they were marching down a hallway on the top floor.
"I already have a Water Stone, so it'd make sense if I offer that to Ion." Nanka shared her thoughts with Jolt as they walked through the hallway. "I mean, I do have a Leaf Stone, but that won't do anything. After all, it's not like Eevee can evolve into some sort of Leafeon or-,"
Without warning, all the lights went out, rendering the area pitch black.
"Hold it right there!" A familiar voice called out from the darkness.
Nanka and Jolt continued to look straight ahead, as one by one, the lights in hallway turned back on.
"Prepare for trouble!" Nanka heard, smiling with joy as she saw a flash of red hair.
"Make it double!" Jolt's ears picked up on these words, an eager grin spreading across his face as he spotted a rose in the distance.
"To protect their world from devastation!"
"To unite all people within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!" The red haired Rocket stated her name as the remaining lights turned on, along with her blue haired cohort who also stated his name, "James!"
"Team rocket blasts off in the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight!" The two partners in crime sang out.
The final trio member then leapt out in front of them, declaring, "Meowth! That's Right!"
As per usual, Nanka began to applaud the trio's performance, but her clapping slowed as she noticed something different about them. Namely, that instead of their usual white Rocket uniforms; the Rocket trio was garbed in black rubber suits.
"Ummm…" Nanka mumbled as she looked up and down at Jessie, James and even Meowth's thick rubber get-up, "Rubberobo Gang cosplay?"
"No!" All three Team Rocket members snapped, with Meowth following up with, "This is our secret weapon against you, twerp!"
Nanka and Jolt stared back blankly, both puzzled as to how tight rubber suits could ever be a secret weapon against them.
"Yes, our secret weapon to assure us victory is these dreadful rubber suits." Jessie added, before pointing a finger at Nanka, her eyes a raging sea as she snapped. "Dreadful rubber suits which we've been stuck wearing for the past hour, waiting for you to arrive, only for you to be too busy flirting with your boyfriend!"
'Boyfriend?' Nanka thought, now even more confused now than she was before. 'When did I get a boyfriend?'
"Our boss is in a meeting and we won't be letting you disturb him." James explained, sending out his Weezing, also garbed in a rubber suit. "We challenge you to a battle!"
"Well, since you asked nicely… sort of." Nanka mumbled, before gesturing to Jolt. "Go on, Jolt! Have fun!"
"Pika!" Jolt yelled with delight, leaping into battle.
"Weezing is very defensive, so…" Nanka noted, before instructing Jolt, "Try and use a Thunderbolt. That should work far better, Jolt."
"Pi." Jolt agreed, sending an almighty Thunderbolt ripping through the air, blasting into the black-clad Weezing and… doing absolutely nothing.
"W-What!?" Nanka gasped, Jolt staring on in disbelief, as Weezing floated about without a single trace of damage. "How come that didn't hurt?"
As Nanka and Jolt continued to look on in shock, the Team Rocket trio began to laugh and sing with glee, "Rubber suits! Rubber suits! Suited up to stop electrocutes!"
"Now where were we? Oh yeah, Sludge it up, Weezing!" James giggled out his attack order; his two headed poison type firing a volley of Sludge at Jolt.
Jolt tried to avoid the attack with a quick Double Team, but found the hallway too narrow to escape from the widespread wave of poisonous goo, each illusion and his real self being hit. Covered in a pool of Sludge, Jolt jumped out of it as soon as he could, only to stagger on landing; poisoned.
"Jolt! Please come back!" Nanka cried out to her poisoned Pokémon.
Jolt turned to his trainer and nodded, only for a net to suddenly be cast over him. With a cry of 'one-two-three', the Rocket trio dragged the net-trapped Pikachu over towards themselves.
"J-Jolt!" Nanka cried out as Jessie held up the rubber lined net that contained her poisoned companion. "Are you okay, Jolt?"
"Piiikaaa." Jolt groaned, as he struggled with the net.
"B-Beauty! We've got to rescue Jolt!" Nanka announced, sending out her Vulpix.
Beauty only needed a couple seconds to take in the situation, but given what she had been asked to accomplish, she was nervous. Gulping once, Beauty dashed forth towards Jolt in the hopes of freeing him, only for her path to be blocked by the two grinning smiles of James' Weezing.
"Beauty! No!" Nanka cried as she cradled her defeated Vulpix. "You did well, Beauty! I know you tried your best."
"We… We're gonna win this. We're actually going to win this." James repeated in astonishment, as his injured Weezing struggled to remain afloat, his rubber suit now melting against his purple bodies. "We can win this!"
Just then, James' Weezing was knocked down to the ground by a speeding Eevee, "My Weezing! My victory! Nooo!"
"Thank you, Ion! You did great." Nanka said as she pointed over to her trapped Pikachu. "Now let's go save, Jolt."
Jolt scowled at his Eevee companion from within the net, an Eevee companion who sighed at the request and reluctantly started making his way over to Jolt.
"Not so fast!" Jessie yelled out, as her Arbok slithered up to Ion, staring at him with glowing yellow eyes. "You're staying put."
Ion froze up at the sight of the snake's yellow eyes, his whole body tingling with paralysis, all whilst Jessie boasted, "Glare worked perfectly. Now Arbok, whilst he's paralysed, go bite down on that mangy fur ball."
"Eeeevvvv!" At the mere accusation of his fur being mangy, Ion growled, eyes burning with rage.
"Ion, you should-," Nanka started to warn Ion, only for her enraged Eevee to leap up and hail down an onslaught of shooting stars at Arbok, then finishing off the poisonous Pokémon with a Quick Attack-"…okay, we're good. Good job, Ion."
"Pi, Pik, Chuuu." Jolt said mockingly at the still huffing Eevee, causing Ion to look over and scowl at Jolt.
"Eevee, vee!" Ion yelled at Jolt, only to end up conked on the head by a Pay Day coin.
"Ka, Pikachu, chu!" Jolt snapped back from within the net, sticking his tongue out.
"Jolt, Ion, please stop fighting!" Nanka pleaded to her two bickering Pokémon.
"And stop ignoring me!" Meowth Screeched out at Ion and Jolt, though the two continued to squabble with one another.
"Nyaaarrr! I'll just Slash you down while you're ignoring me then!" Meowth declared as his sharp claws extended out further from his paws.
Meowth then lunged towards Ion's back, the latter Eevee still facing and bickering with Jolt, coming down upon the normal type with a Slash. Without even turning around, Ion rolled out the way and around the attacking Rocket, and then quickly proceeded to Quick Attack Meowth. The critical attack struck the surprised Meowth and flung him conveniently into Jessie and James.
"Nooo!" Jessie screamed out, the net containing Jolt flying out of her hands and conveniently landing right beside a relieved Nanka.
"Awww, we lost…" James sighed from the defeated pile he, Jessie and Meowth were in. "Like always…"
Nanka immediately knelt down and began to untangle the net Jolt was stuck in, overhearing the Team Rocket trio moan, "Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light… again."
Nanka looked up to see the defeated trio walking away, eyes cast downwards in defeat, "W-wait!"
Jessie, James, and Meowth all stopped, turning around slowly to face the victorious girl who had just bested them for the fourth time.
"I-I, ummm…" Nanka started to say, fidgeting on the spot as the motto-singing criminals stared at her, "…You see, I um, know you're Rockets and bad guys and netted Jolt an all, b-but, um… do you think maybe, we could, we could be friends?"
The rubber clad Rockets stared back at Nanka, dumbfounded, whilst Nanka continued to twiddle her fingers and avoid eye contact.
"W-why?" Meowth uttered in disbelief.
"Yeah, we're thieves. Thieves!" Jessie added.
"I-I know, but…" Nanka began to say as she faced the criminals, smiling brightly, "I think you're super cool!"
Silence followed, and as the two humans and one talking Pokémon stared back at her, Nanka returned to fidgeting with embarrassment.
"Y-you think we're cool?" Nanka heard James utter, looking back and seeing the three Team Rocket members teary eyed.
Nanka nodded, all three Rockets throwing themselves at her and hugging her, Jessie chirping between appreciative tears, "That so sweet of you brat!"
After several minutes of chatting away with her new friends, Nanka waved good-bye to Jessie, James, and Meowth, watching as they blasted off… which means they left leisurely via the teleporter.
"I probably shouldn't be making friends with crooks…" Nanka noted with a little giggle, "but I'm glad I did. Those three are funny!"
"Pi…kachu." Jolt slowly nodded, admitting his own appreciation of his favourite punching bags.
Smiles on their faces, the Pallet Town girl and her Viridian Forest Pikachu skipped on down the now lit hallway. Before them were large glass windows, offering up a nightly view of the whole of Saffron City, or at least as much of everything within its viewpoint.
"Wooowww!" Nanka said in awe, admiring the view from up high, when a funny thought came to her and caused a slight giggle. "You know Jolt, it's a little bit funny, but I doubt we would have been allowed to the top floor of a massive company building like this if it weren't for the Rockets taking it over."
"Pi, pi, piii." Jolt chuckled, before turning to two wide doors behind them, just beside the hallway they had come from. "Kachu… chu."
Nanka looked around to the doors Jolt had noticed; the final room at the top of the Rocket controlled Silph Co, and gulped.
Nanka opened the doors to the head office, knowing full well that the Rocket leader was likely behind those doors. Fear of Giovanni and his Persian as well as the sadness of Mother Marowak plagued her mind, yet in having beaten countless Rockets and saved several hostages, Nanka had a newfound confidence crushing her worries.
'We… we can do this!' Nanka declared internally with resolve as she and Jolt stepped into the office room. "Giovanni! We're here to-,"
Nanka stopped as she heard something land behind her, soon feeling her bag fall away from her; its straps slashed away by claws. From the corner of her eye Nanka saw the now loose bag, batted away with a creamy paw and into Jolt. By this point Nanka had started to turn around to witness what was going on, only for the mysterious something to lunge at her, pushing her down onto her back.
"Ah, Nanka! So we meet again!" Nanka heard someone say as a familiar Persian stood over her, pressing a claw to her throat.
Mere minutes later, Jolt was forced to stand in a corner of the room, watching Nanka sit down alongside the sneering Persian. Jolt wanted to run over and help his trainer, but when he moved even the slightest of an inch, the Persian would start to dig one of his claws into Nanka's cheek. Besides the almost faded cut on Nanka's face were two new scratches, and Jolt dared not risk a third.
Nanka sat shaking; glancing across the room to the quivering director of the company, then back to the intimidating Rocket leader staring her down.
"Fun-loving girl…" Giovanni said from the seat opposite to Nanka, his tone quiet and posh, but his voice deep and menacing, "The director and I were just discussing a vital business proposition when you… so rudely interrupted."
The Rocket leader looked over to the scared silent director, who sunk as far back into his cushioned seat as he possibly could, before turning to face Nanka with a smug smirk, "Not that an aimless girl like yourself would understand. You have sadly failed to grasp quite what you're dealing with."
"I-I understa-aaahhh-," Nanka tried to retort, only to end up screaming as she felt Persian's claws dig deeply into her arm, slowly cutting down it.
"Persian, enough! I told you only to do that when her rat moved." Giovanni commanded with absolute authority, briefly looking over to the furious yet resolutely still Pikachu, before looking back to his malicious normal type and chuckling. "Besides, if you cut her up here, my men won't have a chance to get their own payback for their losses."
Persian bowed his head, removing his red soaked nail from Nanka's arm. A yelp escaped the wounded girl's lips, pained tears falling from her eyes, despite her best attempts to hold in the pain.
"Now where were we…?" Giovanni mused, his posture both confident and relaxed as he sat back in his seat. "I believe you were trying to say you understood, but no; you don't. You've stuck your nose into grown-up matters."
Placing down his glass of wine, Giovanni freed one of his hands so he could pull from his chest pocket a phone, and then present it to Nanka. "You may have trounced my underlings here, but Team Rocket is a vast and powerful organisation built with my own two hands. Back-up will be arriving shortly; another Rocket to replace each one you've struck down today. Your meddling has all been for naught."
Nanka tried to put on a brave face, but with a bleeding arm, a tear stained face, and the prospect of more Rockets arriving, the colour drained from her. As Giovanni's phone rang, her lip trembled in sync with the villain's broadening grin.
"Talk." Giovanni commanded as he answered the phone.
Nanka could just barely hear a voice yelling through the phone, "B-Boss, we've a problem… surrounded, the dojo… back-up-argh!"
"What! Answer me!" Giovanni bellowed, his calm and smug expression shifting quickly into a scowling face full of rage.
As Giovanni heard no response from his Rocket, listening to the sounds of people and Pokémon alike fighting and yelling, he was caught off-guard by the sound of his Persian shrieking. Turning around, any and all emotion dropped from his face as his stunned Persian crashed down by his feet, looking to see the bleeding girl and her livid Pikachu standing confidently before him.
"You!" Giovanni growled, crushing the phone in his large hands. "You shall experience a world of pain!"
Nanka forced a smile on her face, pushing down the fear and pain she was feeling, as the Rocket boss before her sent out his Nidarino. The pinkish-purple Pokémon immediately lowered his horned head and charged at Nanka, but Nanka swiftly sent out Arid, whom speedily knocked the Nidarino away with a Slash attack.
"Thank you, A…Arid." Nanka managed to say, despite a brief gasp as a wave of sharp pain came from her bleeding arm.
"S-shreeewww." Arid looked back to his bleeding friend, eyes beginning to tear up.
"Arid, don't look away!" Nanka shouted out, alerting her ground type to the once again charging Nidarino.
Arid blocked the oncoming Horn Attack in the nick of time, pushing the persistent Nidarino back, giving himself some space. Arid once again casted his blue eyes back towards his pained trainer, only to once again have the Nirdarino charge at him.
"Pi Pikachu, Kachu, Pikaaaa!" Jolt shouted out to Arid as the Pikachu grabbed the first piece of material he could find from Nanka's bag, rushed over to Nanka, and began wrapping over her cut arm with it. "Ka, Pikachu."
"Sa, Sa!" Arid said, nodding his head as he turned to face Giovanni's Nidarino, determination spread across his face.
Knowing that Jolt was taking care of Nanka's injuries, to the best of a medically untrained Pikachu's abilities, Arid was now able to focus on confronting his opponent. After a fierce exchange of Slashing and Double Kicking between him and his Nidarino opponent, Arid bested the Nidarino.
"A-Arid's already triumphed over your Nidarino, and we'll triumph over the next Pokémon!" Nanka faked bravado, as she held her now blood-stained nightgown against her stinging injury. "So send out your next Pokémon; we'll defeat them!"
Giovanni smirked, "I already have."
Giovanni's Persian shrieked with joy as he leapt towards Nanka, his red jewel glistening as he readied his claws. Giovanni's Persian then shrieked with horror as he was smacked aside by an angry Nidoqueen.
"T-Thank you"-Nanka managed to say before her trembling legs failed her, the scared girl dropping down to the floor at the close encounter with the terrifying Persian. "T-Thank you, Venom."
Venom looked back to her pale trainer, shaking all over as Jolt comforted her, trying his best to wrap and tie the nightgown around her wounded arm. Venom then nodded, turning to face the snickering Persian for the second time, cold hatred flowing from her eyes. The Persian stopped chuckling and glared back, screeching once more as he pounced towards the charging Nidoqueen. The two clashed fiercely, Venom eventually managing to Double Kick the Persian and knock him down.
Huffing and puffing, Venom stood over the fallen Persian, only faintly hearing cheers from Arid and Jolt alongside stuttered praise forced out by Nanka. After a few seconds, Venom turned her back to the normal type.
Giovanni's malicious eyes glistened with delight as he saw, from the playful smirk on his Pokémon's face, that his Persian was merely playing dead. That delight vanished as Venom dropped down a Double Kick on the faking Persian, kicking the 'fainted' Pokémon into the floor for good measure.
"Rhyhorn! Eliminate them!" Giovanni ordered hastily, his composure lost to rage.
Venom Double Kicked the oncoming Rhyhorn and pushed back the dead-eyed rock type back, but despite delivering a super effective blow to him, the Rhyhorn barely reacted to the attack.
Feeling a sense of déjà vu, and with her shaking dread slowly disappearing, Nanka blurted out, "Venom! Horn Drill, quickly!"
Venom and Rhyhorn charged at one another, their horns colliding. In the end, Venom's shimmering horn cut through Rhyhorn's horn, allowing the Nidoqueen to strike down the now hornless opponent.
With a helping hand from both Jolt and Arid, Nanka got to her feet, a spot of colour and a smile returning to her face. "Thank you, Venom! You're doing great out there."
Giovanni meanwhile remained motionless, statue-like, all apart for his wandering eyes. Looking back and forth between his downed Rhyhorn, to the victorious Nidoqueen, to the small girl currently besting his team; Giovanni grinned. He then chuckled, which quickly spun off into mad laughter, bellowing throughout the room.
"Truly, my point has been proven." Giovanni began to ramble to himself, unsettling Nanka as the broad shouldered criminal sent out his own Nidoqueen. "There are still stronger Pokémon out there; that I must have!"
"And for that goal I must have the Master Ball!" Giovanni continued to ramble, the director of the company flinching at the mention of 'Master Ball' and trying to inch his way to the doorway. "Get back to your seat! We'll finish our conversation after I trounce this child!"
Having scared the bald director of Silph Co into paralysis, Giovanni returned his attention to the battle, facing Nanka with a stare brimming with greed. "Nidoqueen, show her whose boss!"
Giovanni's Nidoqueen swung a claw at Venom, Scratching deep through Venom's blue plated skin, causing her to reel back in pain.
"Venom!" Nanka cried out as her Nidoqueen struggled to fend off the battle-scarred veteran Pokémon of Giovanni's.
The two Nidoqueen had locked claws, pushing against one another, though Venom was struggling to gain ground against her burlier opponent.
"Nidooo!" Venom yelled out as she used her opponent's own forward momentum to trip them up, lifting them over her shoulder and slamming them down to the floor with a quick burst of strength.
Without hesitation, Venom followed it up by Body Slamming the Nidoqueen, again and again until Giovanni's final Pokémon had fainted.
As Giovanni's Nidoqueen lay unconscious, the nearby director cheered, "Hooray! We're sav-"
"This can't be!" Giovanni snapped, slamming his fists down on a nearby glass table, shattering the entirety of it with his immense strength. "Blast it all! To have my plans for Silph and the Master Ball ruined by some… some goalless brat!"
"Y-yeah." Nanka squeaked out, before raising her voice, casting a look of determination towards the enraged villain. "This 'goalless brat' and her friends have stopped you!"
"Pika!" Jolt added in, standing beside a glaring Venom and Arid… though Arid was unable to hold a 'mean face' for very long.
Giovanni turned to Nanka with a scowl of pure malice, snarling, "Yes, you did… this time."
Standing tall, Giovanni traded glares with the brave-faced heroine before him, "But Team Rocket will never fall!"
Without warning, the building began to rock, accompanied by a deafening sound. Nanka and her travelling companions were all thrown off their feet as the nearby wall was blown apart.
A dazed Nanka quickly sat up, turning to the direction of the explosion, and seeing the Rocket Boss marching to a helicopter hovering outside the recently made hole in the building.
"Nanka!" Giovanni shouted out as he grabbed onto the helicopter's rope ladder. "Never forget that all Pokémon exist for Team Rocket! Unlike you, I aim for greater heights, greater strength!"
Nanka could only groggily watch as Giovanni flew off; the sun rising on the liberated Saffron City as her vision faded to black.
The sound of a hammer slamming down startled Nanka awake, where she found herself standing within a dark void, "W-where am I…?"
"Miss Chandler," A voice called out, and before Nanka's eyes, a white wigged judge with no discernable face appeared from the darkness, "The court has found you… guilty!"
"G-guilty!" Nanka exclaimed, panicking as more and more people began to materialise around her, all staring at her. "Guilty of what!?"
"Murder-der-der-derrrr!" The Judge's voice echoed. "Murder of our most beloved and dedicated Saffron City guard!"
Nanka continued to panic, tearing up and breathing heavily as she looked around the room, the hoard of people to continuing to stare at her and solely her, "N-no, I didn't, I… please stop staring!"
"We really, really, reeeallly like that guard." The Judge explained, pointing a finger at Nanka. "So your punishment shall beeee… death!"
"P-please, I…"
"By Persians!" The Judge shouted as he and the rest of the people in the dark void morphed into terrifying cream coloured beasts.
"Noooo!"
Nanka screamed as the Persian leapt at her, knocking her over onto her back with it's… wet feet? Nanka forced her eyes open, no longer seeing a dark void or malicious Persians, but to a concerned Vaporeon.
"Vapooor!" The Vaporeon purred softly, gently brushing Nanka's long green hair.
"I-Ion!?" Nanka blurted out, disoriented by her nightmare, and still unused to her recently evolved Eevee's new form.
Sitting up in bed, with her messy bed-hair head jumbled by her nightmares, Nanka began recollecting recent events.
Once defeated, Giovanni left Silph Co. via helicopter. Not long after, members of the dojo stormed through the building, them and the city folk being the ones responsible for stopping Team Rocket's back-up.
It had been a couple of days since they had found her lying unconscious, surrounded by her Pokémon, so they had been letting her rest whilst repairs on the city started.
Ion sat on the bed with Nanka, being gently stroked as his trainer continued to sort her head out.
Nanka remembered mostly resting; trying not to use her bandaged right arm too much. The scratches on her cheek were already healing, disappearing as quick as the first cut, but the gash on her arm… that was said to likely to leave a scar. Thankfully, the pretty pink nightgown of hers that had been used as a bandage had been thoroughly cleaned, allowing her restful days to be spent in a non-blood soaked nightie. She also recalled giving Ion a Water Stone, her Eevee evolving into the blue skinned and finned Pokémon that is Vaporeon, along with the Director of Silph Co. giving her some gift. She was still recuperating from the shock of the battle, so her memories of what had been given to her was hazy, some kind of purple topped Pokéball.
"Oh yeah… there was going to be some kind of celebration tonight." Nanka recalled aloud, before asking her pampered Vaporeon. "S-should I go the celebration, Ion? I'm… a little worried they'll ask me to do a speech or something; I'm not good with that sort of thing."
Nanka couldn't help but frown as memories of her school play came to mind, wherein she was encouraged into the lead heroine role, and then promptly fainted when the play began. A crowd of people focusing their attention on her… really discomforted her.
"Veee." Ion mewed, placing a reassuring paw on Nanka's shoulder. "Vapor, Vaporeon."
Nanka smiled back at her Pokémon, "Well… I am assuming things after all, and I've already been invited; attending would be the polite thing to do."
"Kaaachuuu!" Jolt cheerily yelled out as he saw Nanka wide awake, leaping up to happily greet his trainer, then turning to scowl at Ion. "Chhhh."
"Vvvv." Ion scowled back, with Nanka sighing at her two arguing Pokémon.
"Good morning to you as well, Jolt." Nanka greeted her starter as she slid out bed and walked over to her nearby shoulder bag. "We've got a party to attend tonight, so I believe I've slept in long enough."
"Pika?" Jolt questioned with a raised brow, looking over Ion, who chirped in a quick explanation that their trainer had decided to attend the party after all.
After getting dressed, braiding her hair, replacing her bandages and many other preparations, Nanka and her travelling companions made their way to Silph Co.
'I hope it isn't fancy dress.' Nanka worried, looking down at her regular trainer attire, cleaned and repaired of any damages it received during her explosion filled Rocket fighting spree the other day. 'And I really, really hope they don't single me out for a speech.'
Nanka continued to worry about these small details, even as she entered the now Rocket-free building.
Nanka was currently both happy and baffled. Happy because she and her Pokémon were having an enjoyable time, but baffled because she found herself being treated… normally.
Her fears, as the girl who had defeated Boss Rocket, of becoming a magnet for grateful rescues, were proving unfounded. She did receive many thanks for having freed or untied them, but with exception to the nurse who had overheard her battle with Rocket Thief Carl, not a single hostage appeared to think she had fought any Rocket members.
She was completely fine with that. It allowed her to enjoy conversing with employees, city folk, and dojo members without being placed on a pedestal. She chatted in peace as her Pokémon ran about, most of them devouring the buffet.
Later on, Nanka decided to take a small and peaceful tour of the company building, free to let her curiosity guide her in the now Rocket free zone.
"Miss." An unfamiliar voice called out, catching her attention.
Nanka turned to see a smiling man bow his head before her, "Ah, miss! Let me first thank you for helping free so many employees."
"I-it was nothing, really." Nanka replied with a stutter at the level of gratitude.
"And let me apologise for treating you as third pickings," The man said presenting the white Pokéball in his hands. "When I give you this Pokémon as a token of appreciation!"
"You want me to have this Pokémon! A-are you sure?" Nanka asked as she hesitantly took the presented Pokéball.
"Most certainly." The employee replied. "You helped rescue a lot of us, and I believe this Lapras will be of more benefit to you than the other two heroes."
Nanka was a little puzzled by the mention of 'other two heroes', but her more immediate question was, "This Pokémon is a Lapras?"
"Oh yes, I should probably inform you a little about him." The Employee said before clearing his throat and pointing to the Pokéball. "Inside is Lapras; a very intelligent water and ice type Pokémon. We kept him in our lab until he-, I mean the Rockets, destroyed it."
Nanka listened intently before looking to the gifted Pokéball with a smile. "Lapras' are known for ferrying people, correct?"
Having received a new companion, Ferry the Lapras, Nanka returned to enjoying the celebrations. She eventually caught word that G-Man had also been at the party, though the two never bumped into one another, and he apparently left half-way to take on the Gym.
As the party died and the street lamps flickered on, Nanka left for the Pokécentre. To her surprise, she was given a letter upon her return.
'Yo, Nanka!' Nanka read off the letter, immediately recognising G-Man's handwriting, surprisingly refined and graceful given his character. 'Congrats on beating Team Rocket! Though I know you hate being in the spotlight, so I embellished my credit a bit. Seems most of it has already been given to your alter-ego though, but fear not, with the description I've given them; they'll never guess the Swimsuit Vigilante's identity now. Your secret is safe!'
'Now I'm off to demolish the Gym and continue onwards to become the Kanto champion. Smell ya later!'
"That does explain a lot." Nanka noted as she continued reading the letter with a relieved smile, "I was worried someone would someday make the connection. That... that was very thoughtful of G-Man."
'P.S. A pink pair of knickers would be far cuter on you than orange.'
Nanka had Beauty burn the letter to ashes.
A/N: It surprises me how many typos I had to correct on this chapter before uploading it. I wonder whether to believe the paranoid part of me in thinking that some of the words disappeared when I uploaded the document to Doc Manager or whether I simply have been rushing these chapter rewrities too much. Still, I've gone through and corrected all I could find before submitting this here latest chapter of Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure.
At this point in time, I have yet to decide on the name for the chapter, debating between Venomous Victory or Rocket Rumble (and yes, the alliteration is required). Venomous Victory works well in terms of Venom's fight against Persian, which as you might notice, I establish a particular grudge/rivalry between those two (you likewise will probably notice that Jolt and Ion don't like each other, their comrades, but that doesn't they have to like one another). That said, Rocket Rumble works very well for the chapter as a whole.
So speaking of Team Rocket, this here marks the last appearance of Jessie, James and Meowth in Pokémon Yellow. A shame that, they are the best consistent part of the anime series and I enjoyed having them in NPMA. Nanka finding them cool and funny, adoring their motto; all things I can more than relate to. I enjoyed writing their characters, but was also constantly nervous about getting right, given how beloved they are. Another character I enjoyed writing but is on the opposite end of the friendliness scale is Giovanni; I had a blast delivering my own take on this 'Power is Everything and Power is a strong team' villain. Cunning and well dressed, but broad and thuggish and with both an intimidating mind and intimidating strength; I went to great lengths to emphasise this character's authority and his cruelty. Persian in particular has been a great vehicle for displaying the cruelty of the Boss Rocket, and you'll be un-surprised to learn that Nanka has a phobia of Persians from now on.
Despite all the seriousness with the Giovanni encounter, I was still able to end things on a lighthearted note. Originally, Nanka was going to avoid the party and encounter Mimic Girl, but reader's choices led Nanka to the party where she obtained a Lapras. I'll be introducing you to him next chapter. I also originally planned to have Nanka encounter G-Man at the party wherein events would lead them to have a dance scene. Sadly, back on the original site I was uploading this story to, I ran out of room for the chapter. So I instead opted for the letter scene, to which I enjoy greatly for Nanka's reaction to it.
Act 6 was a long one, and there's still another chapter to go. Nanka can't leave Saffron without taking on Sabrina after all; Jolt needs his Gym Battles! So until next time, thank you for reading this latest chapter of Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure and I hope you enjoyed!