Sorry for taking so long and canceling the story. I don't know what came over me tonight, maybe it was because I was drunk, but all of the sudden I had a spark of motivation and I was able to map out the rest of the story. It will be finished. Once again I apologize. But I'm back and here's Chapter 4 :)

Chapter 4

Deep in Victory cave, a tall man with blue hair stood in front seven Team Rocket Grunts.

"When we arrive in Moltres' chamber, I want four of you to release your koffings and order them to use toxic. The other three of you," he said pointing to the three specific grunts he wanted, "will then move in and use the capture device. Does everyone understand!"

A chorus of "Yes sir" rang through the cavern.

"Good. Let's move out then."

The eight of them pushed forward deeper into the cave led by the blue-haired man. After walking for about an hour, they stopped and the lead man signaled for them to filter into the cavern.

Each man slowly edged their way into the shadows of the chamber. A warm glow emanated from the sleeping Moltres threatening to expose the sneaking Rockets' positions. However, once the four Rockets with the Koffings reached their positions behind Moltres, they silently released their Pokemon into the chamber and with a quick nod the four Koffing released a strong toxic attack. Moltres eyes snapped open and with a shriek of pain, it spread its fiery wings and took to the air. With the chamber in complete chaos, the blue-haired Rocket Elite yelled "Everyone hold your positions! Do not let Moltres escape!" Then turning to the remaining three grunts with him he screamed "string shot maneuver!"

The three grunts released their newly issued caterpie, and ordered all of them to perform string shot to try and slow down Moltres. This only managed to upset the legendary bird more, causing it to aimlessly shoot flamethrowers all throughout the cavern. "Greg!" the elite shouted using the grunts first name for emphasis, "order another toxic! QUICKLY!"

Greg turned to the other three with the Koffing "You heard him! Do it now!"

Just as the attack was let out Greg heard a loud scream. Turning to the man next to him, he saw that one of Moltres flamethrowers had found its mark. The man next to him, Anthony! Greg thought, was burning alive, the molten flame causing his flesh to bubble and pop. This is wrong Greg thought. A creature with this much raw destructive power should not be caught. But fearing death, Greg continued to follow orders.

All of a sudden, the Moltres stopped firing flamethrowers and began to lose altitude. "Prepare the capture sequence!" The elite yelled triumphantly.

The three other grunts with him rolled up a metal structure that looked somewhat like a tennis ball shooter with a single pokeball loaded in it. Flipping the switch, the pokeball began to crackle with dark aura. With a jolt the ball flew out and struck Moltres right in the forehead. With one last shriek, the powerful bird was sucked into the magnetically altered pokeball and caught.

"Hahaha! We've done it! Giovanni will be pleased!" The elite said turning to the rest of his men.

"Please!" pleaded a voice from across the chamber. "Please help him!"

The Elite slowly walked over to where Greg was crouched over his dying comrade.

"We cannot help this weakling," the blue haired man spat out.

"We have to do something!" Greg argued frantically.

"Ok," the elite said cooly, then releasing a pokeball, he ordered "Sandslash, slash." And with a sickening thud, the sandslash ended the other mans life. "Let's go," the elite said while picking up Moltres' pokeball leaving Greg stunned, kneeling over his dead brother.

Ash awoke with a jolt hitting his head on the top bunk. "OW!" He exclaimed rubbing his head. Pikachu opened his eyes.

"Pika pikapi?" He asked.

"No I'm ok Pikachu, just hit my head is all. But now that we're up we should get the others up and ready to go. We start towards Mount Silver today."

Soon enough, everyone was up and ready to go.

"Alright," Brock started taking out a map, "we are going to head up route 22 towards Victory cave. We should be able to get there by nightfall and then up route 23 and towards Mount Silver. That will take a bit longer. So I suggest that we stock up on supplies before we leave Viridian. Sound like a plan?" Brock asked.

Misty and Ash nodded in consent.

"Good then why don't you two head to the grocery store and pick up a few things and I'll head to the pokemart."

Everyone headed off to do their tasks.

"Ash," Misty began, "How is your arm feeling?"

Ash started to answer when he realized something, the gash that had been there the night before didn't even hurt anymore. "Actually, it feels like it didn't even happen." He replied seriously.

Misty chuckled "That's a good attitude to have, hopefully you'll be able to resume training in the next couple weeks!"

"No seriously Misty, it doesn't even hurt." Then lifting up his sleeve, he showed her the cut, to both of their surprise all that was left as evidence that the injury had even happened was a wispy scar.

"Wow." Misty said astonished.

"Must be another Aura power." Ash said equally astonished.

The two continued to walk to the grocery store in silence, lost in their own thoughts.

Night was just beginning to fall when Ash began to sense more people walking towards him.

Turning to Misty and Brock he whispered "Guys, I think we should stop for a bit."

Seeing how serious he was, the other two nodded. "What is it Ash?" Misty asked.

"I...I sense people coming towards us," and closing his eyes he reached out with his aura.

"Ok..." Misty said dragging out the word, "we always run into people though..."

"No this is different. These guys are all sticking to the treeline. There's seven of them all in V formation."

"Weird..." Brock said wondering what could be going on and not really adjusting well to Ash's 'sixth sense'.

"Even weirder, one of them has an unusually dark aura," Ash continued.

"Maybe we should investigate?" Misty offered.

Suddenly, Pikachu jumped off of Ash's shoulder and took off towards the unknown men.

"Pikachu get back here!" Ash half whispered half yelled taking off behind his partner.

"Well," Misty began "Looks like Pikachu made the decision for us." And she and Brock took off in pursuit of Ash.

Once they caught up to him, they found an extremely angry Pikachu, cheeks sparking with pent up electricity, confronting seven team Rocket operatives.

"Oh look," the blue haired one snidely said, "a little Pikachu. And what has you all worked up may I ask?"

"Pika pik pi pika!" Pikachu aggressively stated taking a step towards the front man.

"Pikachu!" Ash said as he stepped up to back his friend, "What's wrong?"

Pikachu pointed to the pokeball at the lead man's waist.

"There's something in there that doesn't belong?" Ash asked.

"Pika pikapi!" Pikachu nodded.

"Well well well as you can see I caught it fair and square would you like to see what it is?" the man asked as the other rockets spread out to surround the trio and pikachu.

"Ash..." Misty warned as the man reached for the pokeball.

Ash turned around to see that he, Brock and Misty were completely surrounded. "You two think you can handle those guys?" Ash asked.

"Piece of cake," Brock replied. Misty just smirked as the three of them stood back to back.

All at once, Grunts released their pokemon, each releasing a Caterpie or a Koffing, while Misty chose her Gyarados and Brock his Sudowoodo. But what happened next, neither Misty, Brock or Ash expected. The Rocket elite threw his pokeball and out with a chilling screech came Moltres. Except, instead of having gold eyes, it had glowing black ones.

The trio of heroes looked on in awe as Moltres took to the sky awaiting orders. Pikachu's sparks grew wilder in anger.

Laughing the elite shifted his eyes towards the angry Pikachu and venomously spat out "You three kids are in a whole lot of trouble." And the battle commenced.

The Koffing and Caterpie began attacking Gyarados and Sudowoodo with little effect. But Moltres let out a blazing flamethrower straight for Pikachu. Jumping into action, Ash pulled up a shield in front of his Pokemon to block the attack before issuing his own command for a thunderbolt. Surprised that the flamethrower didn't melt all of his enemies, the elite stood shocked before smiling, "I was warned about you, Aura guardian, and I believe that I will get an extra bonus for bringing in your charred body to my boss. Moltres, drill peck and then flare blitz!"

"Pikachu dodge it with agility and use thunderbolt again!"

Both pokemon went into action, Moltres dove at top speed, beak spinning and spewing flame, straight for Pikachu and Ash, but Pikachu's agility was too fast and he dodged letting go a tremendous thunderbolt but it seemed to glance right off of Moltres's back harmlessly.

Meanwhile, Misty and Brock had just finished off the last of the Grunts' pokemon and with the grunts themselves fleeing, were turning around towards Ash's battle, but upon noticing that the ineffectiveness of Pikachu's powerful thunderbolt, they rushed into action.

"Sudowoodo, Wood Hammer!"

"Gyarados Hydro Cannon!"

Both attacks hit, with the Hydro Cannon knocking Moltres from the air. The elite looked around seeing that his grunts had all been defeated and that Moltres was tired and injured from its capture, he grunted in frustration. "Another time then." He said getting on Moltres back. "But the next time you won't be so lucky. With the other legendary birds soon to be under Rocket control, you and anyone else who tries to oppose us will crumble." And then he was gone.

Ash stood there staring straight ahead, his jaw locked in determination, for about a minute before anyone spoke up.

"Ash," Brock started, "What are we going to do?"

Turning to his two friends he stated, "We have to call in the calvary."

Sooo, that was that. Feels good to write again. Let me know what you think of the new chapter and what you think is going to happen next! Drop me a review. I like them!

thanks for reading,

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