Chapter Thirteen
Fakes and Criminal Masterminds

Previously:
Tony was about to approach, when the man suddenly shouted and pulled a pokeball out from his coat.

Johnny jumped back as well, as the Man's Raticate stood where Johnny just was. Their screams and shouts, and only Lloyd, Tony, Johnny and the man remained in the building, everyone else fled in fear. As Johnny jumped back, his pokeball fell off his belt and landed on the ground. It rolled in front of Johnny, and Tony could see a smirking face on it.

"A voltorb?" Tony asked, and Johnny nodded, "When did you get a Voltorb?" Tony asked.

Johnny looked back at Tony, "Right before we entered Rock Tunnel. I keep him magnetically attached on my belt to look like a pokeball."

"Nice." Tony smirked, but the man stamped his foot, "Enough!"

Johnny's Voltorb sat on the ground, looking very much like an overlarge pokeball, and the Raticate growled in fury.

The Raticate leapt at the Voltorb, but it rolled away and sent a flurry of sparks at the Raticate, which dodged and Leapt again, this time landing on the ball and Gnawing at it. Each time its fangs closed it created a bright light, and the voltorb finally managed to throw it from its dome.

The Voltorb started spinning, until it built up speed, the Raticate watching carefully, before with a loud screech, the Voltorb hurled across the polished floor, creating a large skid mark, and ramming into the Raticate, which collapsed in the corner.

The Man recalled the Raticate, and let loose a Zubat, which was quickly zapped and defeated. The man ran from the room, and left the door wide open. A breeze swept in, bringing with its rain and cold, and Lloyd shivered, "What just happened?"

Johnny looked at Lloyd and shrugged, before lifting up the poster the man was standing in front of. Underneath was a large switch.

"What does that do?" Tony asked, and Johnny shrugged again, "Should we go get someone?"

"Oohh! What's that do?" Lloyd asked, seeing the button for the first time, and placing his hand on it, pushing. The button moved in with a loud click, and nothing happened.

"Dude! You idiot!" Johnny yelled, and Tony swore, looking around. Suddenly the floor to the right of them moved down, forming a staircase into darkness.

"Lets do it…whoever's down there obviously wants to stay hidden, maybe its some secret plot!" Johnny smirked, rubbing his hand together, and Tony looked at him doubtfully, "Or maybe we'll be killed." Lloyd said, peering into the new passage.

"Your just being a Wussy lets go." Tony said, walking down the steps, Johnny following after.

Lloyd remained at the stairs, looking around, until the door slammed shut from the wind, and Made Lloyd hop in fright and rush down the stairs. The room they entered was large; a sort of lobby, and very dimly lit. Tony, Lloyd and Johnny strode into the room, which had two hallways leading to the left and right, and plants lined the walls of the Lobby. They walked over to investigate the plants, and while Tony was peering at a Poster that said, "CONFORM NOW OR SUFFER" Lloyd let out a high-pitched giggle.

Turning Tony saw Lloyd holding a shiny item, and he had a smirk on his face, "I found this is the pot of this plant! Cool huh!" He said loudly, and Johnny sighed.

"Quiet you dumbass!" Tony hissed, when they suddenly heard footsteps coming from the left hallway, and a Man dressed in Dark clothes, with a shiny red R printed on the front. He was holding a flashlight, which flashed on Tony as the man growled, "Hey! Your not supposed to be here kid! Come here!"

Tony took a fighting stance and reached to grab a pokeball, and the flashlight followed his hand.

"Oh? A trainer huh? This should be fun!" The man smirked, grabbing his own pokeball. Tony suddenly looked behind him to find Johnny and Lloyd gone, hiding behind the potted plants.

"Come on!" The man yelled, and his Raticate stood growling.

"Go, Gyarados!" Tony called, and his monstrous fish was released. The Rocket's eyes widened and he stammered out, "Wh-wh-who are you?"

Tony only smiled, and then frowned as his gyarados flopped on the ground as though it was still a Magikarp. The rocket grinned, "oh, never mind, it must be retarded or something. Raticate, rip it apart!"

As the Raticate charged towards gyarados Tony scowled, "Gyarados, show them what you can do."

As the Raticate charged, it tried to bite the much large gyarados, but to no avail, as the gyarados just kept flopping. As the Raticate stopped its onslaught, the gyarados suddenly flopped its tail, landing it directly on the Raticate, who squealed loudly as it was crushed. When the tail lifted from the rat, it was unconscious on its side, and the Rocket recalled it, sending out another Raticate, which was defeated in the same way.

As the rocket fled the base, Lloyd and Johnny emerged from their hiding spots and walked out to meet Tony.

"Phew…that was close…lucky we defeated him." Johnny said, and Tony gave him an angry glare as he recalled his Gyarados. They moved back up to the stairs, and noticed another staircase leading deeper. With only the exit behind them, they moved deeper.

As they emerged from the stairs, into a lighter room, there was a rocket standing in the middle of the room, and he was looking around, spotting them he charged forwards, and released his Zubat. Lloyd stepped forwards, "I'll take this one, I haven't hade a good battle in a while."

The Rocket sent out a Zubat, which flapped in the air, and Lloyd released his Mankey.

Tony leaned over to Johnny, who was shaking his head, "That Zubat has the advantage over Mankey doesn't it?" he asked, and Johnny nodded.

The Mankey ran at the Zubat, before jumping sideways, and walling up the wall, leaping from it and punching the Zubat into the ground, where it viscously beat it. As the rocket recalled his Zubat, the Primape started glowing, getting bigger and more muscular, when it was done, it had become a Primape, which Tony quickly recorded.

"Wow…I underestimated Lloyd, Mankey evolves at a high level." Johnny said, smirking, and Lloyd turned to look at Johnny, "I've been training Mankey a lot since Charmander evolved." He explained, before his Primape swiftly knocked out the remainder of the rockets pokemon.

They approached a large maze of apparent panels, and Tony stepped on one, and it immediately sent him zooming across the floor, and before he knew it he was across the room. Looking over at Johnny and Lloyd, Tony failed to see the blow that knocked him unconscious.

Johnny and Lloyd both watched as a rocket knocked Tony across the back of the head and disappeared around the corner, Tony over his shoulder.

"Wha...what was that?" Lloyd asked, as Johnny grabbed Lloyd and dragged him onto the platforms. They eventually found themselves standing in front of the place they had just come from. Johnny noticed the staircase leading up that they hadn't gone through, and moved towards it.

"What…what about Tony?" Lloyd asked, and Johnny looked over his shoulder, "He's gotta be here somewhere."

The first thing Tony noticed was the pounding of his head, and he opened his eyes to see a man with light blue hair staring at him, resting on a table. He was dressed like a normal rocket, his dark cap leaving few locks of hair to be shown, only instead of the large red R most rockets had, He had a large blue R.

He looked down at Tony with little interest, and looked to be waiting for someone.

"Ugh…" Tony moaned, shifting his head, and the man looked up at Tony and scoffed, "So, your awake?"

"Where am I? Who are you?" Tony asked, as he struggled with the ropes that had him tied up. He noticed his belt on the table, along with his pokeballs. His Pokedex was lying on the table, opened up. The rocket ignored his question, flipping through the Pokedex.

"I asked who are you?" Tony said louder this time, and the man looked at him, "Your not in any position to be asking questions kid…or…Tony is it?" he asked, looking at the name written on the Pokedex.

Suddenly a melodious voice came from across the room, "Oh now Drew, be nice. He's just asking a question." Tony looked towards the voice to see a girl, with black hair sticking out from under her hat, and wearing a rocket uniform with a similar blue R on it.

"Hmph." Drew said, and he looked down at Tony, "I see you have a Wartortle…so do I, I wonder whose would win…" He said, and Tony could see the girl shuffling through some cabinets before pulling out a small mechanical device with a small satellite dish on it. There was a small blue light on, but it blinked every once and awhile.

"Dreeeew…" The girl whined, and drew looked back at her, "The thingy's out of batteries!"

"Well, that's all we can do then, we don't have any replacements, so it looks like the rains gotta stop."

Tony looked up, "What? You guys are who's been having it rain for this long?"

The girl, who was fidgeting in her cloths, looked at Tony, "He's loud…Drew, I hate these Rocket uniforms, their so uncomfortable!" she whined, and drew looked up from the machine, "well, good news then, we can get out of these cloths and into out Team Aqua uniforms, theirs no reason to pose as these disgusting Rockets anymore. Lets go."

"What? Your just gonna let me go?" Tony asked, as Drew looked at him, "Why shouldn't we, your just gonna cause problems for these rockets, I got no problem with that."

"But…" Tony started, and Drew swiftly walked across the room, landing a punch square across Tony's face, "Shut up. We're letting you go alive, you should be happy with that, Frankly, if she wasn't here," Drew spat, jerking his head towards the girl, who stood as though nothing was happening, "I'd have no problems feeding you to my Pokemon…"

As Drew finished that sentence, a purple spiky shape appeared, floating behind him, wicked pointed teeth showing as it cackled silently. Its eyes shown Brightly and Tony felt Drowsiness come to his head

Tony felt someone pushing his shoulder, and he abruptly woke up to see Johnny and Lloyd standing next to him. He realized his arms were untied, and he quickly grabbed all his stuff. There was also a shiny key sitting next to his Pokedex, with the words on it, "Lift Key".

"Hey! That the key we were looking for!" Lloyd said, as Tony picked up the key.

"Yeah, all the elevators were locked." Johnny explained, "What happened to you?"

Tony explained about Drew and the mechanical device, before they left the room and headed to the elevator. On the elevator, pleasant elevator music played, and Johnny grew increasingly angry at the crappy sound, until he had his Voltorb short circuit the system, sending all three of our heroes into smoke. They burst from the door, smoke pouring out, and two rockets came running out, "You must be the Intruders we heard about!"

Tony coughing, threw his Meowths pokeball into the air, releasing the Cat. Johnny reacted as well, sending out his Parasect, which Skittered across the ground. The rockets Pokemon came out, a Sandshrew and Ekans. The Meowth quickly disposed of the Sandshrew with a water pulse, while the Parasect Shooting a spore and mauling the sleeping Ekans.

The rockets sent out a Sandslash and another Sandshrew, which were both defeated by Tony's Meowths Water pulse again, while the Parasect contented itself in spreading Spores across the Battlefield, and Lloyd tripped, landing in the fluffy trap, falling dead asleep.

The two rockets looked at each other, before grabbing their last pokeballs, releasing another Ekans and an Arbok. The Ekans and Arbok both fell asleep from the traps Parasect laid, and they both beat on the weakened pokemon.

The two rockets, having had their Asses kicked, decided to bail, running from the room as the door they were guarding opened up.

They entered the room, which was small and darkened, and could make out someone sitting on a small couch, smoke flowing around his face from a cigar. Lloyd noisily got to his feet and stumbled over, holding himself up with one hand on the doorframe, "Who's that?" he asked.

"Me?" the man said in a hard voice, standing up, "I should be asking you three that." He said, walking around the table to stand in front of them, smoke unfurling from his cigar, his hands in his pockets. He was well dressed, with a slicked back black hair, and he didn't look happy, "You come into my headquarters? You attack my men? You even have the nerve to approach me? Giovanni, the master of all of Team Rocket?"

He growled, grabbing a pokeball from his suits insides, "Come…I must vent my anger. I challenge each of you to a one on one match, you first!" He barked, tossing his pokeball at Lloyd's feet. In a flash, a huge Onix stood towering over them, and it roared.

Lloyd tossed out his Primape, and the Onix tried to crush it with its tail, but the Primape leapt out of the way, climbing up the Onix like a tree, it Cross its hands and pummeled relentlessly on the Onix, and it came crashing down, tearing the wall and ruing plants and a picture frame. Giovanni growled, recalling his Onix with no remorse, and sent out a Rhyhorn, which landed in front of Tony, snorting.

Tony, his Meowth still out, had it launch a barrage of Water pulses at the Rock creature, and it fell to its side, rock crumbling off it. This time Giovanni spat at the Rhyhorn in disgust, before recalling it. His last Pokemon appeared in front of Johnny, Towering, the Kangaskhan, which roared loudly, its baby imitating the cry.

Johnny let his Ivysaur out, and with a flurry of Razor Leaves, had the large beast blocking in a defense, Finally the Ivysaur tripped the beast to the ground, and peppered It with Leaves, sticking into the belly of the beast, and claws as it tried to protect its baby.

Giovanni recalled it without a word, and stared silently at each of them in turn. "You could make a fortune working for me…" He grumbled, "But I don't suppose you did all this to ask permission to join." He walked backwards, to a computer at pressed a button, typing something quickly. He slowly got up and walked directly past our heroes as thought they weren't there, and right before he entered the elevator, turned to them, "If you think I'll forget this…your wrong…from this day on, all three of you are dead men walking…but you are men…I'll give you that."

With that, he was gone.

Tony walked over to the computer and looked at the screen. It said in big letter, "E-mail has been sent." As Johnny and Lloyd searched the room, Tony went back on the computer to read the E-mail that was sent.

"Silvia, Alert my daughter that the base had been abandoned, don't respond to this. There was a problem."

Blinking, Tony looked up to see Johnny holding a pair of goggles with the words "Silph Scope" on the sides, "What's that?" he asked.

"Says here, used to see anything at all, ever. Even what is normally impossible to see." He replied, and Tony got an idea.

"Guys, we gotta go back to lavender, trust me!" Tony said, closing the laptop, and Johnny looked curious, but nodded.

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