Captain Hornet sat in the 'command cavern' of the small network of Onix dug tunnels that team Rocket had declared a fallback point in the event of an emergency. "I assume you silenced Barnubus?" "What kind of amateur do you take me for?" The voice seemed offended. "Of course not. You didn't do anything permanent did you?" Hornet asked worriedly "Of course not just a simple case of harmless insanity," "What do you mean by that?" "They won't be getting any coherent information out of him for months to come." The voice seemed amused. Someone knocked on the metal door that separated her cavern from the rest of the network. "What is it?" She asked calmly. "The boss is on the horn he doesn't sound happy." "Patch him threw." "Yes ma'am." She pushed a button on the computer that was sitting on her desk. A dark figure in what looked like a shady smoke filled room. She snapped to attention and saluted standing up. "Ah. Captain Hornet by all means sit down. Would you like a drink?" Hornet sat down ignoring the fact that she had just been told to sit down in her own chair and that she had just been offered her own alcohol. "Greetings sir." She said staring at the point she thought his eyes were. "Hello Captain Hornet." Said the shadowy figure "I understand you have failed Me." the man's voice was cold. Captain Hornet nodded "Yes sir. There were too many my men were overwhelmed." The figure in the shadows leaned forward showing Italian features and a closely cut crew cut. "Excuses Captain Hornet? I thought better of you." Captain Hornet shook her head "No sir. Reasons." She was having trouble keeping the fear out of her voice. Giovanni laughed "Of course… Reasons." Then he leaned back and a Persian took the opportunity to jump into his lap and start purring loudly. He stroked it absent mindedly. "What are the reasons Lieutenant Hornet's very delicate operation was hindered by one of your men? Or the reasons that your men had a well publicized shoot out where several local law enforcement were killed?" Giovanni shook his head "These things make me… Sad and we both know what happens when I get… sad." He turned his chair away from the computer "But fortunately for you your usefulness still outweighs your incompetence. Consider this a warning captain." Hornet struggled to contain her relief "Ye-yes sir. What do you want me to do next?" "You're going to clear out of Cerulean and fall back to the Celadon game corner. From there you and your men will be assigned apartment space and you will lie low until your faces fade from memory. I want any of your men that have been captured to be silenced permanently." Captain Hornet's confidence began to return "and as for this 'Jorrin Smith' Character he interfered with our operations but has also donated much to our coffers. He stays I will be interested to see where his career goes." Captain Hornet saluted the back of Giovanni's chair "Yes sir. I'll see to it at once!" "You do that." Said Giovanni coolly.
Officer Jenny hated Lavender town with a passion the place always gave her the creeps. The locals were a Superstitious lot who got pissed if your shadow crossed theirs. But this time it was down right weird the locals seemed to be avoiding her moving about there business at a frenzied pace and occasionally sending a nervous glance at the tower which loomed huge over the rest of the town. She finally managed to get directions to the police station but when she got there she noticed immediately that something was wrong but she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was. A very polite police officer led her to the local chief's office. She knocked "Come in Officer Jenny." Said a voice. She opened the door and stepped inside. "How are you today Inspector?" Asked the chief. His back was turned to her. "I'm doing well." She said. Something was definitely wrong. "What brings you to are little town?" The chief's voice seemed odd slightly off beat. "Chief Taylor sent me to find a Channeler to deal with someone who we think may have gotten twisted by some sort of intelligent Ghost or physic pokemon." "You may have trouble finding a Channeler." "Why's that?" The chief seemed to be staring intently at his wall. "They have all gone up into the tower for some weird ass rite." Now Officer Jenny noticed something else the chiefs breathing seemed slightly erratic and what skin she could see seemed a little pale "I'm sure they would help you if you went to the tower however." Don't trust him. She didn't know where it came from but she suddenly felt those words running threw her mind "Chief… Are you ok?" "I'm fine. Now if I were you I would go up to the tower and see if they have a Channeler free." Officer Jenny placed a hand on her pistol "Sir I'm goanna have to ask you to turn around." The chief shook his head "I'm sorry but I've got some sort of flu and my face isn't the most pleasant to look at at the moment." He is lying. Again the words just flowed threw her head. "Turn around now." She said coldly. "If you insist officer inspector Jenny but I can guarantee you'll regret it." The 'chief' turned around. His face was waxen and pale his eyes stared out of deep furrows and seemed to have a dead glassy look. "Chief?" Officer Jenny took a step back. The not-chief smiled "You have pushed it little one. You have pushed it too far." Officer Jenny did what her instincts had been screaming at her to do ever since she had seen his face. She shot him and sent him stumbling backwards. "You will regret that." The not Chief moved his hands and murmured an incantation. An orb of dark energy formed and flew at her. She dived out of the way and it hit the door splintering it. The not chief wasn't breathing and the bleeding from the gunshot wound had stopped. Suddenly around her seemed to grow dark and she felt a terrible pain hit her forcing her to drop her gun. Pushing threw it she reached to her belt and activated a pokeball "Help me." She murmured and pressed the button. "Nine tails." Her oldest friend appeared and blasted the not chief in the face with a powerful blast of fire. "Foolish creature you will know the meaning of pain!" Ninetales snarled and around her and around Officer Jenny a protecting aura formed and the pain stopped. The not-chief snarled and a bolt of dark energy flew and stopped directly in front on Ninetales whose eyes were now glowing with a fiery red light. The darkness faded. Ninetales unleashed an Inferno destroying the desk in front of her and setting the not chief and the wall behind him ablaze "How dare you? I fight for our own kind!" Ninetales's eyes glowed even brighter "Is that so… Then you've chosen your fate." Ninetales launched herself forward and ripped the not chief's throat out. Then it turned and ran up to officer Jenny who was laying on the ground shivering. Ninetales nuzzled her gently and she grabbed on to it and pulled herself up. Outside of the office she could here shouting and the sound of people running "Get-us-out-of-here!" Ninetales nodded and then teleported. Officer Jenny reappeared in the cerulean city police office and felt herself pass out,. As the darkness fell over her she heard people shouting .
Misty had just gotten a pokemon league official challenge from a trainer. She as a gym leader was duty bound to accept but Barnubus was making it difficult. Right at the moment he was sitting in the dead center of the training field eating popcorn and apparently arguing with some invisible force "Irrationality is one of the fundamental aspects of human nature!" He said coolly "Without it we would have long ago starved to death!" He paused apparently letting his unseen and unheard rival get a word in "Leave her out of this!" pause "Well yo mama-" pause "Oh now you're asking for it!" Barnubus launched forward at midair and landed in the swimming pool kicking and punching. Within several seconds he calmed down and came back to shore. He turned to the trainer who had challenged Misty "Can you believe that guy?" The trainer shook her head obviously hiding amusement. "Completely inconsiderate." The trainer said "Yes. We need silver bullets." The trainer raised her eyebrows "What?" "I see dead people." His voice was serious but then he turned to Misty "So how's being a award winning actress?" He asked happily "Ann please get it out of my battle field." She muttered to the apprentice standing next to her. "I'm on it." "Hey Barney!" Barnubus looked at the apprentice "Yes?" "Want to go steal a chimney?" Barnubus nodded enthusiastically Ann grinned "Well then let's go!" "Right!" Barnubus dived into the swimming pool and started to do laps. Ann nodded "He'll be at this for a while you two can fight now ." The trainer nodded and drew a pokeball and activated it energy formed into a Dragonair Misty sent out Starmee and immediately hammered it with a Psibeam.
They drove without trouble up until the point they hit Cerulean city where they were pulled over by one of the Cerulean City police cars. They did the logical thing and simply sat and waited preparing for action. "I'm sorry sir but every car that comes into or out of Cerulean hast to be searched." The sergeant shook his head and in an incredibly stupid cheesy sounding accent he said "Ima sorry amigo me cargo is delicate and I know want you to get your greasy Kantonian hands all over me merchandise!" The officer shook his head "I'm sorry sir but I assure you that I wash my hands hourly and I can guarantee none of your merchandise will be harmed." "Ima sorry I don't speaka to good Kantonian." Jorrin put his face into his palm and muttered to Perkins who nodded slowly. "Can you have 'dispatch' call them with something more important?" Perkins shrugged "I'd take me few minutes." Jorrin nodded "I'll give you that time." He put on a slightly more realistic version of the sear gent's over the top accent and rolled down his window "I'm sorry sir my father's little old fashioned. He doesn't like foreigners much.." The officer turned to Jorrin "He needs to learn to show some respect." "I know. But I assume you have a warrant?" The officer nodded "Yes of course." "May I see it?" The officer nodded and walked back to his car. "Ok so now we have about ten seconds to come up with a functional plan. Perkins?" Perkins was staring at his screen "I can't make it upload faster." Jorrin glanced around. They were on a crowded interstate with cars zipping by "Well killing him isn't an option." Perkins nodded "Unfortunately." "Well how many Abras did we bring?" Corporal Parker shook his head "Not enough to move this much weight." He said indicating the van "Then let's use them to move the cargo." they had the Abras teleport the cargo back to base. At this point the officer returned holding a piece of paper "Here it is." Jorrin nodded and took it as he read it his face paled. "Damn." he muttered "Yeah can you believe it seven officers killed." Said the officer, "One of them was my partner." He looked down sadly. "Well… Every thing seems to be in order you can go ahead." The officer nodded "I'm goanna have to ask you all to leave the vehicle." Presently several more police vehicles arrived. "Damn it." Muttered Perkins.
