X: Hello world. It's X. Since I went on a vacation last chapter, it was Flinky's turn.
Red: Yea, he's lazy.
X: Come on, give him some credit. He wrote your personality from scratch.
Red: Fair enough. I guess he has some of my respect. Don't tell him that though.
X: Your secret is safe with me. Now, Flinky gave me a list of things to talk about. Stuff like this chapter is shorter, story is going through a major change, and his phone broke so he can't write for a while. But there are already 2 more chapters already written so by the time those are uploaded he can write again.
Leaf: Well that's a relief.
It was a half-hour after I caught Omni. After looking around the room, we deduced that he escaped on his own.
"Great. This is just GREAT. Red knows where we live and Team Rocket can attack at any given moment." It was obvious Gold was stressed.
"Gold, we have to be rational about this. Calm down." It is usually very rare for me to talk like that, but the situation called for it.
"Red, you're right. Now, our base will be attacked, so we will have to evacuate. I will assign everyone a region that they are responsible for. It is your job to take down the towers of that region. I was about to send Red on a job to take down Pewter Tower, but it seems like that will have to wait. Now, I have something I want to show you."
He led everyone into the armory and explained it the same way he did to me.
"Now, everyone grab whatever you want, pack up your bags, and get out of here."
I went over and took two pistols, (with ammo), a knife, and three grenades. Along with weapons, I got my collection of Pokéballs, several Super Potions and Full Heals, and some random evolution stones that I found. By the time everyone was ready, we looked like a zombie apocalypse squad.
Gold said "Okay. Is everyone ready?"
"Yea!" Everyone said in unison.
"I'm sorry, but we can't let that happen."
I turned around and saw Professor Birch pointing a gun at us.
"Now, we need you to stay there until the grunts come and take you away."
Gold yelled "YOU TRAITOR!"
"Well, helping you just put an arrest warrant on us."
"Wait, us?"
"Yep. You think any of us cared about you?"
Professor Oak and Elm walked in, both armed.
I reached for Omni's Pokéball.
Birch said "Red, stop or I'll shoot."
"Blissey, use Protect!" I yelled out.
Omni appeared disguised as a Blissey and put up a Protect shield around us. The Professors began firing but the bullets were blocked.
"Wally, have Gardevoir get us out!" I yelled.
"Uhh...Right. Gardevoir, you heard him!"
Gardevoir was able to teleport us outside.
As we came outside, some Rocket helicopters appeared over the horizon.
"Let's move!" I yelled.
The choppers started firing at us as we ran for cover. Gardevoir needed some rest before teleporting again, so we were on our own.
We were just lucky that none of us were hit with a bullet.
I noticed that there was a bush with a gap in it.
"Does anyone have Secret Power?"
Brendan said, "My Linnone does."
"Have him use it on this hole."
"Uhh sure. Linnone, use Secret Power on that bush!"
Linnone did that and it opened a cavern.
"Everyone get in!" I yelled.
We all climbed inside. The bush was much, much bigger on the inside.
"Red, how did you know that would work?"
"This is normally used for making a secret base. I had one before I joined Poké Underground. They shouldn't be able to find us here."
"If you say so."
Thankfully for everyone, my PC was in the base so we were able to barricade the entrance and get beds to sleep on.
We waited in the base for a day, just to be safe. When morning struck, I slowly walked out. I have a signal to the others and they followed.
"Well that was close," I said.
Gold had a serious look on his face, and then said, "Red, I wanted to ask you something."
"What?"
"Yesterday, your quick thinking and wisdom saved us from being captured or killed by Team Rocket. You gave all the commands while I just prayed for it to be over. Given this, I would like for you to be the leader of Poké Underground. Or what's left of it."
"Humph. It would be a good thing to get rid of you."
Silver rarely talked, and when he did, it was usually to insult Gold.
"Does anyone have any objection to this?"
"I do." Everyone looked at Wes.
"It's because of Red that we can't return home, that original Red broke into our base, and that we were exposed and became targets."
"Maybe I did. Maybe I messed up. But it was through these mess-ups that I progressed further. We can now look for and take down the towers. We can share the message with the world. We can't just have 12 kids expect to take down a nation. Hiding could only bring us so far. We can now advance and make a real change!"
There was a fair amount of clapping.
"Thank you, thank you very much," I said with a bow.
"Now, I think the best thing we can do now is split up. We'll send groups of four for each region. Is everyone fine with that?"
Everyone nodded his or her head.
"Good. Gold, Lyra, Kris, and Silver. You will get Johto. May, Brendan, Wally, and Wes, you guys get Hoenn. Leaf, Blue, Michael, and me will take Kanto. Is that ok?"
Everyone said "Yep" simultaneously.
"Now, we are outside of Pallet Town, correct?"
Gold said "Yep."
"Ok. Gold, does your group have a way to cross the ocean to Johto?"
"I have Feraligatr."
"My Pidgeot can do the trick."
"I think that I can ride Omastar."
"Humph. I can use Fearow."
"Ok. Wally, is Gardevoir ready for another teleport?"
"Yea."
"Ok. You can take your group to Hoenn. Does everyone have a way to contact? Like I have my Pokégear."
"Me too."
"I have a Pokénav."
"That should do. This will be the last time we will see each other face to face for a long, long time. From here on out, we need to take down the towers by beating the executive. To make sure everyone is safe, at the end of every night you must call every other group. Are we clear?"
"Yep."
"Okay then. This is goodbye."
There was a round of sad farewells. Luckily, I tried have the friends stay in the same group so it wasn't so heart-shattering.
It was time to begin. Gold's group was off first, then May's, and now we had to walk to Pewter city.
This was the start of a new lifestyle. We can't go back to the base until Team Rocket is defeated. We will travel until Kanto is liberated.
X: There it was. Now, Red and his group are going to travel around Kanto and take down the towers and all that jazz.
Red: You could of said it with more enthusiasm.
X: No.
