Pokemon Special: Team Rocket's Last Stand
Chapter 2a: The Legendary Problem(Ruby POV)
According to Green's call's, we immediately got onto the S.S Tidal and were immediately heading off to the Kanto region. The thing is that I received this call after I was spending some time conversing with Wallace. I told him that I wanted to do my best to avoid being seen by Sapphire, and he dressed me up to the point where I looked like a gangster, and he made me take off my lucky hat. Wallace and I were both on the deck, having ourselves a merry little time until I heard a scream that I could decipher from a mile away.
"Hide! She's here!" I exclaimed while hiding Wallace behind the dining table. Of course, she was heading over here. While I was panicking Wallace just stood up without the realization of what was going on.
"Well, if it isn't little Sapphire! How have you been?" Wallace introduced himself.
Sapphire cleared her throat, "Um, I have been, okay." she said surprisingly cleanly. A bit too cleanly, one might even question if it was her.
"You are much more fluent than you were before? What brought about the change?"
"I want to be with Ruby, and, english must improve. So that I, can be with him…" She said with a blush.
"You are so adorable, Sapphire! I am supporting you completely! Hey Rookie! How long are you going to be under the table?"
Damn, Wallace! Okay, I'm going to try playing this as smoothly as I possibly can. I have to trick Sapphire into thinking that I am not here.
"Yes sir Wallace! I was only checking to make sure that nobody had been hiding under the table. There was a report that somebody had been stealing food." Wait,WHAT? What the heck did I just say!? This must be the desperation of trying to get out of here, because I swear that I can come up with a better excuse than that!?
"Yes, just go make sure that none of the other guests are dissatisfied with their service. It is against this ship's policy to even have one dissatisfied customer! It's a long trip from Hoenn to Kanto, so make sure everybody is relaxed and comfortable!" Wallace replied.
"Wait a minute," The silent Emerald had finally spoken up, "That looked a lot like Ruby!"
"Non, non! Ruby is currently taking on new challengers at the Master Contest in Lilycove City! He has no time to be on a ship like this one!"
"What do you mean by that? I heard that this is serious! For Ruby not to be here at a time like this is just cruel!" Emerald yelled.
"I will try contacting him, so just cheer up! Also, tell me, what do you mean by 'at a time like this'?"
"Team Rocket, they're back. According to Green they've kidnapped a friend of ours, and they're creating these monsters that Green is calling Super Soldiers. Also, they used some kind of messed up technology to use the Friends pokemon for terrible things! Another of our friends was almost killed by it! If this isn't an emergency, then what is!?" Emerald cried out.
"Still as dire as the situation is, there is no need to be angry at your friend. If you take care of a friend, then he will take care of you just as much or even more. An ally is somebody who stands by you on a battlefield, but a friend will be with you wherever you go."
"If he's my friend, then where is he now? When we need him most?!"
"Emerald! You will stop now! No need to throw insults at Ruby any longer. He will come, he promised." Sapphire stopped Emerald with a smile.
Wallace walked over to me, "Sorry my friend, I may have accidentally made things worse…"
"No problem, he has every right to be mad. But, I just can't show my face to Sapphire yet. I'm not ready…"
Suddenly, the boat began to tilt. At first, it only managed to rock the boat but then we began to feel everything move to the side. We were caught in a gigantic net, and we were being pulled in by someone. Everybody was hanging on for dear life because the boat was almost overturned. The screams that filled the boat were loud as expected, but they demonstrated perfectly the fear that we were all experiencing.
"We have captured you all now! You will listen or we will destroy the ship along with everyone in it!" The man was on the enemy ship that had trapped us in the net. On his shirt, was a G. If my memories were working correctly, that's the G from Sinnoh's Team Galactic. But, what would a man from Sinnoh be doing in Hoenn waters, interfering with a boat that is supposed to be delivering materials?
"You can't stop us! Burn the net!" Sapphire had begun her attack, and her Blaziken had gone to attack the net. However, the net had not been broken. Sapphire continued to attack the net, but to no avail.
"You dare to defy Team Galactic?"
"You're in the way. That is all."
"I see, everyone commence the attack on the S.S Tidal. Make sure there are no survivors."
"I'm sorry everyone…" Sapphire had told herself.
"Please do not worry, Miss Sapphire. It will take more than a couple of Grunts to take me down!" Wallace told her. And thus the battle began, all of the passengers of the S.S Tidal. my self included, against Team Galactic.
