A/N
Ash has had dealings with Team Rocket in the form of Jessie and James off screen, it happens quiet often and they deal with it quiet easily so it is often skipped unless it actually has an interesting variation instead of their usual no plan attack.
Ash, Misty and Brock stood tense in the police station. They had been preparing to leave when the news of the police's fate reached them. It was a small station, being run by only a handful of officers over all. They had taken the news of Team Rockets arrival in their stride though.
All they said was 'Everything will be ok' but now, a whole day after when the officers had been expected to return things were looking bad. They had left as soon as they heard, they knew Team Rocket had a tendency to make quick get always so had been eager to get out as fast as possible.
But then, shortly after they called back to report that they had discovered Team Rockets base and were planning further investigation the line went dead. The remaining officers were clearly freaked by this.
Jenny was the chief in this station, and she had brought two more officers with her. All that was left was a rookie who barley had any Pokémon and while fully trained lacked experience beyond what they got in this small hamlet.
He did the only thing he could think of, try and call a bigger police station to request back up. But that didn't go well either. As soon as he tried he realised that the station had been disconnected from the rest of the world. The internet, phone lines and everything else they thought of trying were failing.
He knew this was Team Rocket. They weren't exactly being subtle about it. It was surprising, although they were only a small village it was off for Team Rocket to be so aggressive. Usually they were known for small hidden plans and fleeing as soon as they suspected the police was onto them.
Them being so bold was not a good sign.
Ash, Misty and Brock were still at the police station with Damien. The room was small with uncomfortable chairs and various police and crime related posters on the wall. There was no receptionist at the desk. The one remaining police officer currently too busy trying to re-establish communications.
Ash looked at the three other Pokémon trainers before him; they were all quiet and sullen refusing to look up. "So what do we do now?" he turned to Brock hoping that as a former gym leader he would know what to do. Gym leaders often were involved in assisting the police.
Unfortunately this didn't seem to be the case. "Ash this isn't good, I tried calling Forrest to get some more Pokémon transferred but I couldn't. I also couldn't contact the league" they all frowned at this Misty nodding showing that she had come across the same problem.
Ash said irritated by having sat around so long whilst Team Rocket was out there. "We know where the base is, so we could attack it ourselves"
"Don't be stupid, if they beat the police their clearly not push overs" Misty pointed out knowing that doing whatever Ash said was rarely a good idea.
"Misty we might have to" they all turned to Brock, who was rarely interested in violence beyond watching battle yet now seemed to think they should. "As a gym leader it's my duty to go into battle when the police can't handle it"
Misty frowned at him "Your right, as gym leaders we have to go"
"I'm going alone" Brock said quickly dismissing her.
"What? Why? I'm a gym leader too you know"
"Yes but your also just a kid, involving you in something like this is irresponsible" Brock said feeling like he needed to act like an adult since they weren't capable of it.
"It would be more irresponsible going by yourself, Onix is your strongest Pokémon and without him you wouldn't stand a chance" Ash chipped in unwilling to let his friend do something so stupid.
This went on for a while, Brock insisting he should go alone with Ash, Misty and Damien saying that as Pokémon trainers it was also their duty. Eventually Brock gave in, knowing that they were right. He hadn't done any serious training in months and only had two Pokémon with him. There was no way he could do this alone.
He still didn't like the idea of them going with him though, but he knew it was unavoidable. He now knew what they really needed was a plan. Something which they also had trouble with, they all knew they weren't powerful enough for a direct assault was out.
Damien suggested trying to find more people to help. But Brock said it wouldn't work, if they had found the police they would be on high alert. They were probably already trying to leave, if they were to wait until they could get some help it would be too late.
The best they could hope for was a gym leader anyway, and they already had two of those, although they were young leaders of low ranked gyms.
It was then that the police officer returned. "Ok guys, I think you should be on your way now" he said trying-and failing-to sound like he was in control.
They all turned and looked at him shocked by what he just said "We can't leave, the police are missing. We need to do something" Misty said glaring at the small timid man.
He still stood firm, becoming noticeably more confident than when he first entered "This is no matter for children. I hate to say this but you'll have to leave"
Brock stood up walking towards the much smaller man "We're also gym leaders; it's our duty to deal with this sort of thing"
The officer paused for a second, fiddling with the sleeve of his shirt. During this time Ash stared at him, looking at his strange attire. His shirt was too small, the body and sleeves being noticeably uncomfortable and the trousers stopped at his ankles.
His behaviour was just as strange, he seemed looking around a lot. As if he was trying to find something. It made sense sort of, after all they were looking for the other members of his squad, but the way he was behaving still seemed …off. Ash didn't know what but he definitely didn't like something about this man.
"I'm sorry, but this is official police business. If you don't leave I'll be forced to arrest you"
They looked at him shocked; it seemed like quiet an overreaction when they were offering help. Finally Brock spoke up again "As gym leader in cases like this, where the chief of police is absent, I have authority. You cannot make me leave, or arrest my assistants"
"That only applies if we are in the same town as your gym" the officer rattled off surprisingly quickly, as if he had memorised this fact.
Misty was done with this, they were trying to stop Team Rocket and this man was doing nothing but getting in the way. "Shut up! We're doing this so just accept it"
The man jumped, literally jumped about a foot back when he heard this. "I'm sorry, but with Officer Jenny gone I'M IN CHARGE and I'M saying that YOU leave" they all stared at him passively "In that case I have no choice but to force you" he reached behind his back producing a poke ball "Go Grimer" the small purple slime Pokémon appeared in a flash of light.
It smelt terrible "Oh my God! What kind of Pokémon is that" Ash said as he lifted his Pokémon to scan it.
"Grimer, a Sludge Pokémon. Born from sludge, these Pokémon specialize in sludge attacks." It rattled off the information its screen also displaying some other random information. Ash ignored most of it though instead focusing on its type. It was poison type, which meant that he wouldn't be able to have a type advantage.
"Now let's all calm down, I know your stressed and everything but this is no time to fight" Brock yelled moving between Grimer and Ash to stop the fight he knew would come, Ash was always too impulsive.
"SHUT UP! I'm sick of being told what to do by you, Jenny, the rest of the force I'm sick of it you hear me. Grimer, attack the gym leader now!" before anyone would react Grimer had moved onto Brock sucking him in and beginning to drown him in its disgusting purple body.
With a shout Ash, Misty and Damien all rushed forwards trying desperately to free the Pokémon breeder. Every time they tried though it failed, Grimer's body was liquid so every time they grabbed some it would just roll off and re-join the rest of it. "Fearow grab the officer" Ash yelled throwing the ball that released the proud bird.
It attacked quickly, grabbing the small man and lifting him into the air with ease. "Hey let me go" he tried to resist but Fearow just held him tighter hurting his arms.
Ash ran over and grabbed the ball from the man's belt "Grimer return" the Pokémon returned unable to dodge the beam of light headed for it. Ash rushed forward to check on the breeder "Are you ok"
Brock smiled weakly at him "Thanks Ash, it smelt really bad under that thing" his face was bright red, presumably from either his inability to breath or maybe from being crushed but was slowly getting back to normal.
"What the hell's wrong with you, why'd you attack us?" Misty yelled walking up to the hanging police officer.
He just looked at them, not saying a word before turning away. "You have to let me go. I'm a police officer" he sounded so smug that Ash wanted to punch him in the face.
"I think your lying, I think your part of Team Rocket" Damien said walking forward and looking at the man.
"WHAT?" Ash, Misty and Brock yelled all at once.
"Think about it guys, what other explanation is there for all of this?" he pointed to the man who was still held captive by Ash's strongest Pokémon "He also has a Grimer, just like most the other members at the base I was in" he said pointing to the ball.
"Still it could just be a coincidence…" Brock stood rubbing his chin with his finger a contemplative look on his face.
Ash also went silent for a second before "We could just ask him"
Misty responded instantly "That's stupid even for you, he will never tell us the truth"
Ash smirked at her "Your right Misty, it's not like we have a Pokémon that can hypnosis's him or anything…" Damien quickly caught on releasing his newly capture Poliwag.
"Use hypnosis so that he'll tell us everything" the Pokémon looked at the man a few 'polis' being spoke as his eyes turned into swirls eventually the man stopped resisting and went limp. "Is he hypnotised now?"
"Yes…" the Officers voice was dull and lifeless, as if he was simply going through the motions.
After this an intense interview began. The officer really was hypnotised, admitting to having joined Team Rocket believing he could use it to raise though the ranks and become more powerful. He also gave them some information on Team Rocket and there base.
But it wasn't good news.
They were already planning to move out, taking the police they had captured with them. Beyond that he knew little, just that they would be gone by the afternoon and that he shouldn't expect to see the rest of the force again.
Ash tried to find out what defences they would have, but he didn't know much in that regard. He also seemed pretty clueless as to what Pokémon they had. In fact they only thing he did know was that they would be going in large trucks to move most the equipment and would have to pass through town. They were expecting him to turn a blind eye, and also expecting him to get rid of anyone who wouldn't. Apparently that was what he was trying to do to them.
Unfortunately he really didn't know how to re-establish communication, all he knew is that they would re-activate once they were gone. So sadly it meant that they had no way of even dreaming of getting help in time.
After this they left, the hypnotised officer coming with them since he could be useful.
They were now waiting near the town edge. They knew that Team Rocket would be coming by soon. Apparently the truck would be big and in a convoy, at least ten rocket grunts plus their leader who they knew had a really strong Pokémon. Ash wondered what the Pokémon was but the police officer didn't know he didn't seem to know a lot actually.
They decided on a simple but hopefully effective plan.
They had set up a road block, the plan was to separate the trucks by letting them though one at a time. This way they would be vulnerable to attack.
Then they would jump in and free the officers. Admittedly it wasn't the best plan, but they didn't have a lot of time or resources so this was unfortunately the best they could do. Then they hid in the bushes lying in wait.
After a shockingly short wait they saw a truck, one which the hypnotised one nodded to as signal to show it was Team Rocket. They also had two more trucks behind the first one. All with 'warning contains live Pokémon' written on the side, they were very large making Brock wonder what type of Pokémon was inside them.
They saw the trucks come to a stop, before a man dressed in brown trousers, black shoes and shirt and a white over coat came out. He approached the officer with a scowl on his face. "What is the meaning of this Smith, I thought you knew how important this is" he spat as he walked towards the man.
Officer Smith looked at him with dull eyes "I'm sorry, there's a slight problem. I'm going to need to talk to you about something's" Misty face palmed; his voice had no emotion at all. It sounded completely face, they would see right through it.
They were slightly surprised that they couldn't hear any sounds from inside the truck, after all the police were meant to be in them but they didn't dwell on it since they weren't sure how much time they had and were pretty sure it was just the result of a gag or soundproofing.
Damien knew what he had to do, reaching for his belt and getting the desired ball. He remembered when he had been captured, forced to be jailed and had wanted nothing more than to have this Pokémon what him. After all, with this Pokémon escaping would have been easy, but unfortunately he hadn't.
"Abra go" the Pokémon appeared, fortunately not asleep-something that was quiet rare for Damien's Abra- and looking ready. "Teleport into the truck, the teleport the people inside to the station" it gave a quick nod before disappearing. They felt a little bad; taking the police by surprised like this but knew it was necessary. If they had teleported them nearby Team Rocket might have noticed, they figured that the police station was a safe bet though.
Team Rocket would never want to be near there. At least they hoped that was true since they had no other options.
A few tense minutes passed, it was taking so long that Ash was convinced there was a problem. That it had been somehow captured, taken by Team Rocket ending their plan here and now, but then it reappeared. It looked a little tired but generally it wasn't struggling.
They watched as the hypnotised man continued to stall the irate scientist. He clearly was not a patient man and now looked like he was going to tear his eyes out.
They repeated this process two more times, glad that they had a break as by the last time Abra was exhausted "Thanks Abra, you were great"
After this they returned to the police station, they were surprised the plan had gone so well. They had all been there because they expected to be caught and wanted to be able to put up a decent battle. Yet clearly that wasn't necessary.
Only when they arrived they didn't see what they expected. They expected it to be full of police officers, all running about and doing their best to get things under control or wondering how they had gotten back to the station.
Instead what they saw was really surprising, something that they really didn't see coming; it was Pokémon, lots of Pokémon, running around and generally wrecking the place. They didn't seem to have malicious intent; it seemed more like they were just playing.
But they were strangely powerful.
One of the Pokémon, a Bulbasaur was unusually coloured, being a little bit greener then what Ash believed to be common and was currently running around playing in the station. It didn't seem to realise it was accidentally breaking things.
"Abra did what it was supposed to, only instead of police men and women there were these" she gestured to a series of Pokémon running around the station.
"S-so what do we do now?" he looked to Brock, something he was doing frustratingly often recently hoping for an idea.
"There isn't much we can do; they still have the officers somewhere else. We couldn't even get communications back" he gestured to where the hypnotised police officer was once again working on the machines.
"We should attack the trucks" Brock looked at Ash tiredly, he really wasn't being helpful.
"What'll that achieve? They don't have the officers; if they did Abra would have brought them"
Ash went silent, not happy at being wrong but knowing Brock was right. He also knew that it would be a bad idea for other reasons; if they attacked when they were in the city they would run the risk of someone getting hurt. They also didn't know what Team Rocket could do, for all they knew they weren't strong enough for a direct assault.
"Attention puny insects!" a voice magnified by a megaphone yelled at the station "We know you have stolen our property and will now be taking it back, if you do not resist you will not be hurt"
Everyone in the room went stiff, the Pokémon included, at the sound of the scientist's furious voice. How had he realised so fast? They knew he would figure it out, back when they still thought they were saving police officers rather than freeing Pokémon, but they thought they would at least have a few hours.
They barely half an hour, it was utterly ridiculous.
The Pokémon all ran to their human saviours, attempting to hide behind them. The Bulbasaur, that seemed to be greener than the rest hiding behind Brock muttering its name quietly.
Behind Misty was a Psyduck. It was actually quite normal looking which was weird by the standards of these Pokémon. Ash was beginning to notice that most the freed Pokémon looked slightly different. Some having unusual colourings others just being bigger than normal, it was strange that so many abnormal Pokémon would be in one place. "We can't let them take these Pokémon"
They all rushed out front where the scientist form earlier as well as several grunts stood looking angry. "My name is Dr Vile, return the Pokémon now, or we will be forced to use force"
"We know your Team Rocket, we're not going to let you mistreat them Pokémon anymore" Ash yelled trying to seem as threatening as possible. Unfortunately the man didn't seem to find him very threatening.
"You don't understand do you? These Pokémon are not normal and…" he released a Charmander from its ball taking a needle and injecting it with something "Their not the only ones" the Charmander's eyes shot open and its tail flame started burning more powerfully than before, its size increasing to until it as nearly as big as the Pokémon itself, tossing and turning in pain.
"What are you doing?" Ash couldn't help but feel sorry for the Pokémon; no Pokémon should be abused like this.
"These are special injections I made to make Pokémon stronger" he bragged holding up the now empty needle proudly "They unlock powers and ability's they wouldn't usually have. At least in the strong ones" his voice trailed off as an evil glint showed in his eyes.
"What about the weak ones?" Ash felt he knew where this was going and he was furious, this was no way to treat Pokémon.
"If they are too weak to survive the process there's no point to them, they deserve to die" Ash stopped thinking at this, ignoring that fact that as a Pokémon trainer his greatest chance of success was Pokémon he charged at the man.
He drew his fist back, pure rage driving it as it smashed into the old man's face knocking him to the ground. "Grimer" a voice said and Ash looked around in horror as more and more of the sludge Pokémon was released.
"Come on out…everybody" he wasn't very adept at using multiple Pokémon but since he was trying to fight nearly twenty enhanced Pokémon, they were mostly Grimer which was an advantage but some other Pokémon like Zubat and Ekans seemed to have gotten into the mic too, he figured it was necessary.
He heard his friends also releasing their Pokémon. Brock releasing Geodude and Zubat, Misty releasing Staryu and Starmie as well as Squirtle, Damien also joined in throwing out Charmander, Abra and Poliwag to fight.
The battle that ensued was insane. It was nearly impossible to control, he would be trying to get Fearow to take down a Zubat one second just to have to switch and get Clefairy to try to use sing. Unfortunately this strategy was cut short by the recently injected Grimer jumping on Clefairy.
It fell asleep, fortunately, but only a few seconds after Clefairy was returned to its ball by the emergency recall. No doubt was in Ash's mind that Clefairy was poisoned but he wasn't able to do anything about it right now.
"Caterpie string shot to ground that Zubat" Ash commanded watching on as the string based attack rapped its wings causing it to fall with a thud into the hard ground. Ash now noticed that none of Team Rockets Pokémon was being recalled, even after defeat they just lay on the battlefield.
He was sure they had been damaged enough but they stayed out of the balls, it was worrying. He didn't want to risk hurting them too badly and if they couldn't be recalled that was a real risk. "Jump" he watched as Caterpie was able to avoid the swish of Ekans tail by mere hairs length.
"Now go into a tackle" it connected, the combined force of the jump and the tackle all focusing on Ekans head knocking it down and unconscious. It too was not recalled.
He quickly checked on his other Pokémon, Beedrill and Fearow seemed fine. They were working together to take out the stronger Pokémon and were doing so with surprising ease. "Paras use spore" it did so quickly knocking out another Grimer with it.
Ash cursed when he realised this wasn't working, there were just too many to beat them all. It was made especially bad by a particularly strong looking Grimer. Right now it was fighting off Geodude and Brocks Zubat by itself with ease.
The Pokémon didn't even seem to be taking damage. This called for serious action. "Magikarp use dragon rage on Grimer" he hated doing this, the attack still hadn't been perfected so after using it he would have to return Magikarp. But he knew this was his best shot.
The ball of light connected, a huge explosion ensuing knocking Grimer back and kicking up a cloud of dirt. Brock had already warned his Geodude and Zubat to keep their distance so they weren't affected by the attack "No guys move in and attack with everything you've got" Brock yelled pointing at where Grimer's silhouette was becoming clear in the fog.
They did move in finding Grimer to be down but far from beaten. Ash returned Magikarp knowing that was all it could do, the battle was now in Brocks favour and that was more than good enough.
Damien was struggling. He was currently having Abra use teleport to go around the room and occasionally attack a Pokémon. It was more of a supportive role that anything else, working to break the focus of the enemy's so that stronger Pokémon could move in but that was important to.
He was also using Charmander and Poliwag to battle. He wasn't doing too well though, he watched in horror as another sludge attack hit Charmander sending it flying and hitting Poliwag. Both were returned by emergency recall leaving Abra as his one remaining Pokémon.
Ash was now commanding Fearow and Beedrill; the two were having some trouble due to being so severely outnumbered since Clefairy had been defeated. Clefairy lost due to a bad metronome attack of self-destruct, it had defeated the opponent-a very large an intimidating group of Grimer but due to the effect of a move like self-destruct it had been left with no energy forcing Ash to recall it.
But the upside was that the battle seemed to be drawing to a close, with almost all of Team Rockets Pokémon defeated-although there weren't very many left of their side either-but since Brock had succeeded in finishing off the altered Grimer after it was hit by dragon rage things seemed to be going good.
"Zubat use leach life on the twerp" the scientist called and instantly Ash was attacked by a hungry looking bat with huge fangs. He tried to resist but he wasn't strong enough and was soon over powered. The fangs bite into his neck painfully; his blood being drained quickly and painfully. Something he had never felt before, it was so painful that he roared out in pain every time the bat Pokémon sucked on his neck.
"Squirtle tackle that thing to get it off of Ash" the turtle did it well, launching itself and crashing into the offending Pokémon knocking it to the floor. Unfortunately though this wasn't the end, the energy it had stolen from Ash meant that it was more than ready to continue.
It raced forward with a crazed look in its eyes, ready to bite down and drain Squirtle just like it had Ash. "Squirtle use water gun before it can get near you" Misty commanded as she ran over to where Ash had fallen to his knees having been knocked of balance due to Squirtle's attack. "Are you ok?"
He wasn't sure. He was still conscious, which was a good sign, and he seemed to be generally in control of his body. He just felt tired. "Ash your pale" she touched his forehead which was now as white as a sheet "And cold, this isn't good" she said helping him up.
He found that while he felt weak he could walk, but having Misty support him was still nice. When he was distance away he sat down, feeling a little light headed but then stood up. They were still battling they needed him "Paras quick, turn and use scratch on the Ekans behind you" it did stopping the surprise attack before it could be done.
"Ash stop your injured, we can handle this" Misty exclaimed pushing him back down.
"No you can't" the leader of the group said stepping forward flanked by Zubat, Misty looked to see that Squirtle had been defeated. "It's over, your beaten" his Charmander from earlier which was one of few Pokémon still able to battle stepped forward.
He turned to see the small purple lizard that was his prisoner "Ah, I see you've come to surrender as well" he said turning away from the injured teen and the redhead.
"I won't let you take them" Ash tried to stand but ended up standing slumped and weak looking.
"Terrifying…and even if you could do something before, now you definitely can't" he turned and injected the Charmander with another needle from his pocket before they could act. "With this Charmander has had the full treatment, with this, Charmander's power will be increased beyond that of any Pokémon here"
It once more howled in pain collapsing to the ground with its tail flame once more growing to the size of its body. But it didn't stop there; it continued to grow, moving around the body of the powerful lizard Pokémon so that it was surrounded by fire. "Chaaaaaaaaar" its scream was long and pained as its flame continued to grow brighter and hotter.
It burned powerfully, slowly standing up as it was completely enveloped by powerful flames. It looked at Ash and Misty with fury burning in its eyes, the flames surrounding it seeming to pale in comparison to the fire burning in its eyes. "Chaaaaaaaaar"
Then it started to glow a bright white.
A/N
This was really long, and I had to rewrite the thing like 6 times because I kept changing my mind on what exactly should happen, but I think this is good, or as good as I can get it.
While this is a major confrontation with Team Rocket you'll notice it's not against Giovanni or anything, that's deliberate since it thought starting Ash off against the most powerful villains and having him fight legendary might be a bit weird. Magikarp isn't even evolved yet, he wouldn't stand a change. So instead he will be starting with comparatively small threats then building up, but he will be dealing with some quiet major things in time and definitely will have a real confrontation with a main villain at some point-I hate that the anime completely avoided him ever fighting Giovanni even in a gym battle instead having him fight Team Rocket, that wasn't interesting at all since he always beats them up!
It was a little awkward getting to the battle I think, I didn't want them to just attack Team Rocket with no plan like idiots so I had to do what I did. The Abra thing isn't to major in my mind though since they are common near where this would logically be in game terms.
Did it work out, please say if it didn't so I can spend another weak trying to think of a way to make it work.
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