Thanks to all who reviewed! I hope I can finish this story soon, but there will be lots more chapters.
Maybe a sequel, but I'm not sure yet. It depends on how I won't to end it. I really don't know yet.
But I have an idea of how it will end.
Please enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own pokemon
CHAPTER 8: Team Shadow
"That was a great plan Jesse! You really outdid yourself this time!" James said sarcastically.
"Like you could do any better!"
"Well I could!" They were arguing and bickering once again, while Meowth took a nap. This time however, Meowth was trying to think of a good plan.
'Maybe we could...no that won't work' Meowth thought. That was about the tenth plan he had mentally eliminated. He sighed and went back to thinking.
His ears went up as he heard footsteps. He looked up to see a dark haired kid approaching.
His hair was kinda messy like Ash's, but he looked nothing like him. He was dressed in black everything. Black sweater, gloves, boots, pants, socks, and even had a black visor and sun-glasses on. There was a Sneasel sitting on his shoulder.
Over all, he had a very strange appearance...Of course, so did Team Rocket at the moment.
"What in the world..." The kid mumbled to himself.
Jesse and James payed no notice to the kid. Probably because they were busy fighting at the second.
Meowth sat up and watched the kid as he walked up to where he was sitting.
"If your their pokemon, I could easily gain a victory" The boy said in an 'I know everything there is to know' kind of way.
Meowth was angry that this kid thought he could just walk up and insult him. He stood up and pointed a claw at the boy.
"Yeah, you don't look very talented yourself!" Meowth yelled.
The boy jumped back in surprise as Meowth started talking.
"Y-you can...talk...in human" He said slowly with a shocked look on his face.
Meowth rolled his eyes. "Yeah, what's it to you?"
"How would you like to be one of my pokemon and travel with us?" He said bending down to look at Meowth at his level.
"I thought you said I was weak!"
"Well, what I meant was that you could use a little training" He lied.
Meowth once again rolled his eyes.
Jesse and James had finally seen the kid talking to Meowth and walked over to them.
"Who is this Meowth?" Jesse asked.
"I dunno, but tell him to leave me alone!" Meowth said stepping behind James.
"I don't need your loser pokemon anyways. I bet you guys couldn't defeat any of my pokemon!" The kid said.
"We could too!" James yelled.
"Fine, your on! Make it a double battle"
"Fine!" Jesse yelled.
"Hey wait, what is dat' kids name?" Meowth asked.
"I'll tell you if you win!...Like that could happen." He said as he threw out a pokeball.
"Murcrow!" The pokemon shouted when it came out of the ball.
"Let's go Sneasol!"
"Snea!" Sneasol ran out to the field to stand beside where Murcrow was flying.
"Dark pokemon?" Jesse said as she saw both of his pokemon.
James threw out his Cacnea as Jesse chose Dustox.
"Tox! Dustox!" It said looking at its opponents. It knew dark pokemon were weak against it, and waited for Jesse's command.
"Confuse Ray the Sneasol Dustox!" Dustox did as it was told and fired a confuse ray at Sneasol.
It hit the pokemon and Sneasol started wobbling around. Everything it saw was fuzzy.
"Sneasol, Bite that Dustox!"
Sneasol looked around for Dustox. It saw something in the air and jumped on it, dragging it to the ground.
After it was done, the pokemon it attacked was returned.
"Sneasol you idiot! That was Murcrow!" Sneasel's vision returned to it, and Murcrow was gone.
"Sneeee...?"
"GET THE CACNEA!" He shouted to Sneasol, but was too late as Dustox use Shadow Ball and it fell over unconscious.
"We...won..." James said amazed that they had defeated this boy.
"No, I won. You just stood there." Jesse corrected him.
"Fine...you just got lucky... My name is Matt. I train dark pokemon." Matt said walking up to them.
"We work for our boss, Gi-" James said before Jesse and Meowth put a hand (paw 4 Meowth...) on his mouth.
"We're in Team Rocket." Jesse said quickly.
Matt raised an eyebrow at them. "Team Rocket? Why don't you join Team Shadow?" He said holding out a black shiny business card with the initials T.S. printed on it in grey letters.
Meowth snatched the card and tore it to shreds. "No way!" He said.
"We are in Team Rocket, and plan to stay in Team Rocket!" Jesse told him.
"Yeah!" Added James.
"Fine. You'd just slow us down anyways." He said, walking off to where ever he was headed before.
Gary fell to the ground on his back painfully. He sat up and rubbed the back of his head. 'Dang! That was the 5th time!' He thought to himself as he got to his feet.
Rika had been trying to show him how to ride a ponyta bareback...he was failing.
"Come on Gary! You can ride an Arcanine but not a little ponyta!" Rika shouted. She was enjoying this. They were about a fourth of the way to Rustboro City.
'That is where I can get my first Hoenn badge' Rika thought.
"Vee!" Eevee cried running up to Rika with a Zangoose right on it's tail.
"Eevee, don't run! Fight back!" She said getting into her battling mode. "Try a leer attack!"
Eevee skidded to a stop and turned around. The Zangoose stopped too.
Eevee looked it in the eyes, its own glowing yellow. Zangoose just stood there for a moment, before it broke the leer and use roar.
It growled loudly as Eevee ran behind Rika in fear.
Rika sighed and picked Eevee up.
"Ponyta, use stomp!" Ponyta ran over to the ferret like pokemon and stomped its front hooves, pinning Zangoose's tail to the ground. It tried to escape, but was stuck.
"Ponyta ember!" Rika said to the fire horse.
It neighed in response and shot an ember attack out of its mouth.
"Pokeball go!" Rika shouted as she threw a pokeball at the injured Zangoose.
The ball moved around a little, before Zangoose popped out and darted into the woods.
"Awww...I thought I had it" Rika said sinking to the ground.
"Vee eevee!" Eevee said, happy that that 'thing' was gone.
"You can't catch em' all the time. Now back to the pony remark. I seem to recall someone almost falling of Arcanine if I wouldn't have been there" Gary said teasing her.
"Hm...nope don't remember who your talking about!" Rika said putting a hand to her chin supposedly thinking.
"Ha ha, very funny." Gary said walking up to Ponyta. "I just think this thing hates me..."
"Or you just can't ride horses...oops, I mean ponies..." She said walking up to her Ponyta and jumping on its back.
"See? He let's me on"
"Yeah yeah. We need to keep moving. Our break is over." He said putting up anything that happened to be out of his bag.
"Thanks again Umbreon." Rika said taking the egg she carried from the black fox.
"Breon." It happily answered.
"I can't wait till this hatches!" She said hugging the small egg.
"You know you'll have to send in a pokemon when it hatches right?" Gary asked her.
"Yah I know. It just depends on what type it is when it hatches."
She got all of her things together and returned Ponyta.
"So will we be at Rustboro by tomorrow?" She asked Gary.
"Hopefully..." He said as they continued down the path to the next city.
Unknowing to them, someone had been watching them leave.
The person pushed a button on their headset and spoke into it.
"One of these two would be perfect for the experiment. There's a girl and a boy. Which one does he want?"
They listened for a moment before speaking again.
"Right. I'll have a group ready right outside of Rustboro"
With that, the figure followed silently through the forest, watching everything that Rika and Gary did.
'Enjoy happiness while you can...' She thought to herself.
Wow...I never planed that ending...Please Reveiw!
-kitsune