After about thirty minutes of focusing hard enough and actually doing it, everyone was free from the cages. Missy and Chad were the ones who were most worn out, having doing all the work. Missy panted, and Chad did so, too, next to her. Missy stood up, after getting her breath, looked around. She saw a door nearby, and nodded towards it. She turned back to the others.
"We might be able to get that door open." She said, leaving the others confused. "Alisha can do it. All Chikorita's have a vine whip. If Alisha can harness that power, we can escape. We can take this stuff away from here to help out future people that might be like us."
Alisha nodded. "Ok, I get the plan. Let me paraphrase it so everyone could understand it…"
After about a minute of explaining the plan, Alisha stared at the door handle, closed her eyes, and focused on vine whip to come out and open the door. Missy knew she could do it. Soon, two little vine whips came out of the neck of Alisha, and headed towards the door, wrapping around the door handle.
"Yes, now pull!" Rick said, getting excited about escaping.
Alisha moved the vine whips like it was a part of her own body, turning the handle, and slowly opening the door. Everyone cheered. It was late at night now, no one was out here.
Missy saw a bag from the corner of her eye, and walked over to it, grabbing it with her mouth. "We can take some of the stuff here and put them in this bag." She looked at Alisha. "You know what to do."
Alisha nodded, controlling the Vine whip easy enough to wrap around some of the beakers that all had tops on, and placing them in the bag. Everyone was excited, except for Blake.
He sat back, watching, not caring for them. Mary tried to get him to come and help, but it was no use. He wouldn't budge an inch. Mary gave up and went back to helping everyone.
"Time for cleanup." Butch said with a yawn. "Why do we have to do this?" he complained to Cassidy.
"Because these stupid scientists are lazy." She replied. Soon, they both started to put up Project X, into the place it always been at. One, Cassidy thought she heard a glass break, and looked over to Butch. "Did you break a glass?"
"Nope." He said. "You think someone is here?"
Cassidy nodded, and put down the stuff she was holding. She motioned for Butch to look the other way while he goes this way. Cassidy looked all around, not seeing anyone, except that the door to the Dud Pokemon was open and the Pokemon weren't inside.
"Butch, the Pokemon in this room are gone." She said to him.
"Huh? How?"
"Looks like they learned how to use attacks." She said, noticing some of the bars on the ground.
Missy tried to keep everyone quiet. Two people were here. Missy could tell by the voices that is was those two people that called themselvesTeam Rocket. She hid behind a door, Alisha hid next to her. Mary was under a table next to a wall, Chad was ducking behind a trash can, Rick was behind another door, and Blake was still where he was, but hidden.
Cassidy and Butch both searched the room. Some of the stuff they stole was gone. "Where did it all go?" Butch asked Cassidy.
"I think we got some smart Pokemon here." She said, and you could tell there was a hint of a growl there. Whenever Cassidy and Butch had their backs turned, Missy tried to tell everyone to slowly move towards the open door, to not make a sound.
They all moved at once. Since Blake was closet to the other door, where Cassidy was in, he quickly shut the door, and bolted for the exit. Missy wondered why he did that. Well, it alarmed Butch to everyone's location. He saw them all, and everyone tried to escape at once. It was a hasty move, but they did it, and everyone escaped, making Butch trip over a fallen table.
Missy and the others soon made it out of there, out of the nasty place. They kept going until they knew the people wouldn't find them. Missy panted hard.
"Man, I dropped the bag." She whined.
"You had to. It would've slowed us down, you would've gotten caught." Mary said, trying to make Missy feel better. Missy smiled, and nodded.
"But what about Blake?" Chad asked.
"I don't know. He's always been like this," Alisha said, looking down. "He never liked to accept help from others."
"You know Blake from before all this?" Missy asked.
Alisha nodded. "Yea, he's my best friend's older brother."
Missy sighed. "Well, for right now, we should find some shelter, and some food to keep us going through the night."
"I'll look for the food." Alisha announced, looking for berries, apples, anything.
"I'll pick up twigs for the fire." said Chad, as he went about.
"I'm going to help find a shelter." Missy said, heading off with Rick and Mary. Soon, they all came across a cave, Mary and Rick took shelter there, while missy stayed out for Chad and Alisha to find her.
Alisha came up with two vine whips full of food. Chad came back with a bunch of twigs in his mouth.
"Wow, Alisha. You mastered your Vine whip attack." Missy said, heading in with her.
"Yeah, well. My dad always said I was a natural."
Chad set the twigs up while Alisha gave everyone a fruit to eat. Chad then focused for a flame thrower attack, and set the twigs ablaze, giving them all warmth. Everyone sat around the fire, just talking about their lives before all this.
Driving through the forest, Sherice, Randall, and Chloe were driving towards the nearest laboratory. They told the entire scientists there that they were coming. They knew about Project X and wanted to help out. Well, it started to rain hard, and their car broke down nearby.
"Man! Great, now we're stuck in the rain." Randall complained.
"Maybe we should look for a cave nearby." Sherice suggested.
"Yeah. Come on, Randall." Chloe said. Randall sighed, following them. Soon, they all came across a cave. Chloe stopped short. "There's Pokemon there."
"Come on, Chloe. If they wanted to attack us, they would've." Sherice said, walking ahead of the cautious Chloe with her husband. Chloe followed behind, making sure no Pokemon attacked from behind them. She didn't trust any Pokemon anymore. They al could be carrying the virus. Soon, they all came across the entrance to the cave. Some Pokemon were sleeping in it, around a fire. They all sat down, not to wake them up, and started to talk about the virus, unaware that one of them was listening.