By: PiperSpoon13
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or the characters I just enjoy enhancing the back stories to my own twisted fancy
Summery: Butch and Cassidy and how they ended up wrapped up in the crime of team rocket.
Author's note: This entire chapter is from neither Butch or Cassidy's point of view but is excretal for the story line.
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Being a recruiter for the boss was difficult enough without him demanding that they be really young with no desire to go home. Heck, I wanted to go home to see my family every once in a while, and if Harmony's family weren't all up tight, she would miss them, but they were controlling and had their hearts on her running the family business of the factory, which plotted the air on a daily basis. If one thing kept Harmy from being a superb rocket was her love for nature, which she contagiously gave to me; I'll find myself doing the same sorts of things. It is because of her flower-child-ness, that we are recruiters to begin with. She was agents using nets and anything that could possibly hurt the poor defenseless pokemon during the capture. She would capture them by using gram crackers and other snacks and then rolling a pokeball at them most would think it was another snack. The boss told us not to consider it a demotion, but he didn't need pokemon that would fall for such tricks; however think of it as a promotion for bringing in future rockets and get them ready for training, only the cleverest rockets can pull that off. And so it was that time a year again. The time of year when we must find a two youngsters and convince them to join our crime team. Harmony will find out the most recently robbed stores and I'd hack into security tapes to see if they were what we were looking for. "You find anything, Pierce?" she hollered at me laying down another news paper to the two foot pile below. "Try looking up a that convenient store on hw 22. They think it was done by kids." So doing as I was told I typed away until I found the security tape dated two weeks ago. Sure enough it was kids a boy and a girl, both around 13. He seemed to be the strong one, but she was fast. They took only food and soda with exception of the boy taking all the camel cigarettes he could fit in his bag.
"Harmy. I think we found our baby rockets." she comes over excitedly and watches the video clip from my lap, her bright blue hair now blocking my vision.
"I think your right, Pierce but how.." she never finished her sentence as her Ninetails rubbed up agenist her demanding attention. She of course refused to lock it in it's pokeball if it pleased to stay out. "How are we gonna find them?"
"I guess we can stake out the area this probably isn't a one time occasion. It seems that they're stealing for survival. Their going to have to eat again." I said confidently
She smiled and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek before saying," I'll go pack our bags and load up the van. You see if you can find anymore information on these kidos". Shortly after she left the room I felt the room shake a bit. With a smile, I turned around to see my Golem carrying a suit case to the door. Looking back at the fuzzy black and white picture of the young thieves, I studied their appearance. The boy had darker hair but couldn't tell the color; the hair went just to his collar bone and his bangs hung unevenly between his eyes and his eyebrows. The girl for sure had fair hair down to her mid back, tied into two braids. After watching the video searval times, I began to be able to read their lips. The first thing I understood was the girl saying to the boy as he was bagging the cigarettes', "Hutch, do we really have the time.." I couldn't read the rest and the name was uncertain. Harmony then popped in the room with and Ninetails, "you did a good job Golem," she said patting his hard body. "You ready to head out Hun?"
After shutting down my computer, I packed up and left to where the robbery took place.
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I never knew why Pierce had joined the team, but everyone has their reasons. I looked over at him, driving the van with his light brown hair blowing in the wind. This was only our second year of recruiting and I much preferred agent work to this. It seemed kind of cruel to blind sight people, especially kids, into joining an organization where they could be easily aresseted before age twenty. Pierce and I had only been caught once in our one year of being agents, but I knew plenty of others who are in and out of prison all the time. My feet were beginning to feel like fire as my Ninetails fell asleep on them; I had to move her. "come on sweetie why don't you take a nap in your pokeball, just until we get to a stopping spot." she looked up to me annoyed but returned anyway. Poor Golem weighted too much and had to stay in his pokeball from the beginning. Soon enough we pulled in to the town closet to the robed gas station and got a room. "So," I said looking up to him, "Where do we start looking for them?"
Looking at the city map, he said, "I say we wait till midnight and drive to every siren we hear. If it's not them we will bolt, but if it is, we will just wing it. Maybe we can walk around town looking for them and eavesdrop on where they might be planning to go next."
"Aww. but they seem like young lovers we can't eavesdrop on anything personal." I wined; I hated when other rockets whispered about us. We were called the hippie rockets. Just because I didn't like their capturing tactis, and took a just as effective but genteler aproch.
"We won't listin in on anything like that and besides they can't be too serious. They look fourteen at the oldest and thats just the boy. The girl looks twelve." So Pirce and I sent the day wondering the town, his Golam seemed to like this the most it was a hot summer day the kind he would just roll around the yard in back home. It wasn't untill we went in to the Ditto-Mart to get some sandwichs that we got any leads. Heading for the checkout line I heard kids talking. Elbowing Pirce we quietly listing in as we followed them.
"I don't know Butch. I think we're making this a habit." the blond said as she look up to the male.
"You don't think it's necessary, Cassie?" the teal haired boy said almost angrily, but his voice softened. "Cass...It's just that you haven't eaten in over a day. It's not good for you and the Pear tree isn't gonna be around much longer most of the fruit is bad or has bugs eating on them. I'm just worried about you. Cassie?" the girl seemed to suddenly drop to the floor.
"I'm fine Hun. We'll find a place tonight. It wasn't that hard the last time and I'm sure the place a block behind the other will have crappy security there too." She said as the boy helped her up.
"you've gotta eat something babe" he said helping her up and then he shoved a can of fruit in to his jacket. "They don't have what we're looking for do they Sarah" his voice wasn't hushed like it had been in fact it was almost as he wanted people to hear.
"Nope, Bob, looks like mama isn't getting her blackberries today." she said at the same tone. Walking back to the hotel Pierce and I discussed what we were going to do and how we were gonna convince them to join.
"So we know their going to try to rob the convenient store on the corner, here tonight." I said. "Maybe just talking to them is going to work."
"Did talking to you work when you were their age?" He was right I was conked on the head by rocket recruiters after TP-ing another factory. They had confronted me before but stealing pokemon wasn't what I wanted out of life, but after spending a week with my recruiters and being paired with Pierce I felt I could change the world boy was I wrong.
"Your right but we're not bonking them on the head; they're so scrawny I think it might kill them."
"No, from what I saw Cassie is the speedy one. I say we get a sleeping dart and pretend to take her hostage and tell the boy to get in the van. From there we can BS it they're obviously running from something, and we can give them a escape rope." he paused seeing my face of uncertainty. "And if they're really not into it we'll let them go and find some other kids"
So that was the plan. It was a little rough for us but the last kids came and knocked on our door thy were best friends and nasty rough little boys. I was glad when John and Wayne left for the real training as John had actually broke Pierce's arm and Wayne wouldn't stop flirting with me, but that didn't matter now we had to get these kidos to join or the boss would have our necks
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Authors Note: Thanks again buneary709, I might be posting more than I am already I tend to write when I'm depressed (I just found out something really sad, nevermind) or board and I have the rest of this one pretty much planed out upstairs (if you know what I mean) and another neoshippy, Rocketshipy and a bit of pokeshipping pened in a notebook that I'll probably type up soon. Thanks for reading.