Disclaimer: I do not, nor have I ever, owned anything related to Nintendo's Pokémon franchise.
Legend:
"A human or a Pokémon is talking."
'A human or a Pokémon is thinking.'
"A machine is being used."
Chapter 26:
(Pokémon Gym—Sabrina's Office)
By the time that Jessie had finished speaking, the other occupants in the room were silent and tense. No one could refute the woman's statement as it was true. Without them having any Pokémon to defend themselves with, and Jessie having her Pokémon, they were trapped. The situation was made worse by the fact that Jessie had used Ekans to separate Delia from Ash and Anabel. If she tried to interfere in any way, the creature would attack her.
"I think I'll start..." Jessie closed the distance between her and Ash quickly, fast enough that he only had enough time to widen his eyes. In the next second, there was a loud smack of flesh against flesh as Jessie slapped Ash hard enough to make him stumble. He stumbled to the ground, "... now. You don't mind, do you?"
"Ash!"
Delia moved to try and stop Jessie as she went to kick Ash in the side, only to be stopped by the woman's Ekans. She stared at it as it weaved its head in the air, teeth glinting with the poisonous venom that it looked all-too willing to inject into her should she move again. She heard a cry and looked up, seeing Anabel being kicked away from Jessie and then tumble on the floor. Her heart clenched in a painful mixture of fury, sadness, and the desperate need to do something. To do anything.
"Nice try, but I'm not one to fall for such an obvious sneak attack." Jessie sneered at Anabel as she grinded her heeled boot into Ash's abdomen, effectively holding the boy down and causing him the pain she felt that he deserved for ruining her life.
"Leave him alone!" Anabel said as she got back up on her knees. Jessie made a gesture with her arm and Jigglypuff closed the distance between her and purple-headed girl. She used DoubleSlap to knock Anabel back down onto the ground before moving to slap the girl in the face. The first strike caused tears to form in Anabel's eyes from the pain which turned into a cry as Jigglypuff continued to hit her.
Ash tried to speak out, to tell Jessie to stop or maybe call out Anabel's name, but was stopped as Jessie removed her boot and stomped it into his stomach. His breath was forced from his lungs and out his mouth, accompanied by a slight spray of saliva and a bulging of the eyes.
"Stop it! Stop hurting them!" Delia shouted with tears in her eyes, heartbroken. "For God's sake! They're only children!"
Jessie turned to the woman, looking just a little bit angry. "I thought we had went over this already. You lot don't get to decide what I, or my Pokémon, do to you. You are very lucky that I haven't had Ekans attack you for your outbursts and continued interference."
Delia gripped the sides of her arm tight, holding back herself from yelling at Jessie again. That wouldn't help, but... the continuing sounds caused by Jessie, the woman's Jigglypuff, the painful exclamations, the "whooshes" of breath being lost, the painful cries, the tears... they broke her heart. They demanded that she do something, anything. Ash and Anabel were only children. And Ash was her son, the baby with tufts of black hair and a large appetite—the small boy with an undying love of Pokémon and his family—the young man who had gone out on his Journey despite her wishes to shield him from the evils he found.
Her baby was in pain. Crying out for someone to help him and his friend. And she was doing nothing.
Without thinking, Delia grabbed at a book weight on the bookshelf beside her and pulled back as the woman's Ekans jumped her. She managed to evade its glittering jaws before she kicked it away with her left foot. It hissed at her and came back again, dodging the small object that Delia had thrown at its head. Ekans jumped at her and she managed to grab its body, just managing to hold its snapping jaws away from her body.
Ekans, seeing that it couldn't get to Delia's torso, moved to attack the arms that were holding it and Delia dropped the horrid thing. It quickly slithered away and got up, preparing to lunge, only for Delia to slam it in the head with a book she had gotten. The blow dazed the creature enough to allow her to get another heavy hits in before Jessie turned towards them, drawn by the sounds of her struggle against Ekans.
"What the hell?!"
Delia reared the book back like it was a club and bashed it into Ekans' skull as if it was a baseball. The force of the blow sent the creature flying backwards, crashing into Jigglypuff who had left Anabel to come at Delia, as Jessie had ordered. Crashing against one another, both fell down in. Delia didn't focus on them, much, as she had dived towards Jessie. The woman caught her punch easily and sneered at the pathetic attempt to hurt her.
A knee was brought up and suddenly both women fell backwards as Jessie stumbled off of Ash's body. The boy, breathing heavily to get fresh air in his lungs, could only watch as Jessie and Delia fell into a messy tangle of limbs. A moment passed as each women took their bearings before Jessie punched Delia in the face. Hard. Delia tumbled backwards from the blow and landed on her side as blood trickled down from her now-broken nose.
Jessie took her time in getting up. She stood above all the fallen people, feeling a mixture of satisfaction and fury. She had thwarted the woman's attempt, but the fact that she had been able to even make an attempt... how was that even possible? Ekans had been poised to strike and should have been able to stop her. Instead, the brown-haired woman had managed to stop Ekans from injuring her, hit it with a book enough to daze it, and then sent it flying towards Jigglypuff like an overgrown baseball.
"You should have stayed where you were, woman." Jessie hissed as she approached the downed woman. She would personally make sure that she didn't get a chance to repeat her miraculous feat again. Then she would get back to taking revenge on the twerp and the twerpette. "Any last words?"
In the following moment, two things happened. The first thing to happen was that Ash got up on his knees and lunged the distance between him and Jessie's legs, desperate to stop her before she hurt his mom. The second was that Delia rolled away from Jessie's stomp, leaving the magenta-haired woman to hit the small bloody smear on the floor. Off-balance because of Ash, Jessie tripped and fell onto the ground as Ash let her go.
"Yeah! Stay away from my mom!"
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(Saffron City—Silph Co. Building—President's Office)
Domino felt much better. After she had released Ekans on those pathetic Silph Co. employees, they had sung like Chatots. She quickly learned the location of the information she required and, while not happy about having to traverse to the other side of the damn building, she had received an unexpected bonus when she walked in the room.
The bonus: a sweating, brown-haired, green-eyed man in a slightly wrinkled, black suit hiding underneath his desk.
"Hello, Mr. President~" Domino purred as she quickly grabbed Silph's arms and pulled him out. She twirled him around at the same time as Ekans popped out of its Poké Ball with a pop of displaced air. Seeing the spinning, flailing man, Ekans quickly slithered over and used its body as makeshift rope to quickly wrap the man up with. He stumbled to the ground, "You and I have some things to talk about~!"
"What do you want?" Silph whispered.
Domino smiled. "I just need you to tell me one itsy bitsy thing and then my men and I will be on our way..." This was really cool. She had thought that she would have to spend a lot of time breaking into the safe where Silph's employees said he kept copies of important projects. Now, having Silph and having him at her mercy, she no longer had to waste her valuable time. "You just have to tell me how to get into your safe so I can look through your blueprints."
"My safe? Why would you...?" Silph wondered. Realization soon dawned on him and he looked up, "You came here for something Silph Co. has been working on!"
Domino rolled her eyes. Really? The man hadn't even figured that out yet? Why else would her superiors order an operation to infiltrate and steal from a company specializing in high-tech gadgets? So that they could invest in the company? Buy flowers? Silph must be stupider than she had given him credit for, which wasn't much as he was still in the building after coming to know it was under attack. Oh well. She wasn't going to complain about something good.
"Duh..."
"But—But Silph Co. specialized in developing gadgets that help Pokémon Trainers! We wouldn't have anything people like you would want!" Silph protested.
Silph Co. was the first company to develop a way to mass-produce Poké Balls where, before, Poké Balls had to be custom made. In addition, Silph Co. had helped fund the growth of medicinal companies which had eventually turned into the developers and suppliers of medicines, like potions, that Trainers used to heal their Pokémon when there wasn't a Pokémon Center nearby. The company had also managed to develop a pair of glasses-like objects, called Silph Scopes that allowed people to see Ghost Pokémon when they didn't want to be seen.
In addition to all of that, the company had even done two major redesigns on the standard Poké Ball when it came to their attention that the standard Poké Balls didn't always have such a great catch-rate. And, while the Great Ball and the Ultra Ball weren't perfect, they had helped a lot of people by making their lives easier—something that Silph and his company had always strived for.
So... why? Why would a group like Team Rocket want to attack them and try to steal one of their inventions?
"You don't understand a thing, do you?" Domino asked with a condescending smile. "Your companies little trinkets have made it
easier for us to operate." She turned away, putting a finger on her lips. "Hm... maybe, once I get the information of how to get into your safe, I'll tell you how~! You would certainly like that, Mr. President..."
"I—"
On Domino's command, Ekans began to constrict and squeeze Silph's body and cut him off before he could speak again. "I'm sorry, Mr. President~" Domino said as she turned back towards Silph, eyes glinting underneath her black Team Rocket beret. "I need you to tell me what I need to know now. If you don't, then I'm going to have to hurt you."
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(Saffron City—Police Headquarters—Conference Room)
Chief Jenny could currently be found ordering her men through a special frequency on all of the walkie-talkies that each officer was equipped with. Around her, people dealt with the phone calls that concerned and panicked citizens were sending in, putting a pin where Team Rocket had just been spotted on the map, or working with the chief to help direct Saffron's police force.
Earlier that day, Team Rocket had attacked the Magnet Train station and made the technicians and mechanics repairing it hostage. The situation had barely resolved itself, with several teams of Saffron's finest storming into the area after throwing in sleeping gas bombs and having able Pokémon using Sing, before calls began coming in. Calls of people reporting an arson, a bombing, a robbery, an attack, vandalism of property, and so much more.
It was too much.
Team Rocket was proving itself to be a worthy foe. They had designed a plan to use their men to distract the police by having the police be spread thin around the city to deal with them. While they knew this, however, none of them could think, or had the time to think, about who Team Rocket was really targeting. If they were targeting someone. It could just be that Team Rocket was trying to bring down Saffron City. But, if that was so, then what was the reason?
Chief Jenny slammed her walkie-talkie down on the long, paper-covered table with a furious expression. "Damn it all!" She swore. "They're now holding Kiyo and his students' hostage at the Dojo!"
The chief's anger was understandable. Not only had she been up coordinating with her people to direct out her officers on the field, a group of her officers had just finished with another hostage situation down at the Pokémon Center. The Pokémon Center could be excused, as it was a place of healing and Nurse Joy nor her Pokémon assistants fought, but Kiyo? Kiyo was a master of karate, a master Trainer, and had an unusually strong body that seemed to be made to take damage.
How in hell had Team Rocket managed to capture him?!
"Should I arrange for the nearest officers to go and offer assistance, chief?"
Chief Jenny sighed, "Yes. Make sure to—" the walkie-talkie crackled, "—tell them to check the building before going in!" She grabbed the walkie-talkie and held it to her ear, "Report! ... I see. Bunker down and wait for reinforcements!"
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(Saffron City—Pokémon Gym—Sabrina's Office)
As soon as Jigglypuff had gotten off of her, Anabel had weakly gotten up from the floor and onto her knees. She attempted to get up and help Ash and Mrs. Ketchum, but was stopped by the feeling of a hand on her leg. She tensed and was about to swat the hand away before she saw that it was her Kadabra, blinking sleepy eyes open.
"H-How...?" Anabel whispered.
"Trainer hurt." Kadabra projected this thought to her as he became more aware, sending her a mental picture of her bruised, swelling, and tearful face. The anger in the Psychic Pokémon's was unmistakable and Anabel felt like she could cry again.
Anabel's voice drifted across the room, catching the attention of the two now-untangled forms of Ekans and Jigglypuff. They turned and saw that Kadabra was helping Anabel get up, gripping onto the spoon she had given him as if it was the one that had hurt her. As the spoon bent, the two Pokémon charged at the two. It was only luck that had Anabel turn towards where Jessie, Ash, and Mrs. Ketchum was and saw the approaching Pokémon.
"K-Kadabra!" Anabel stammered out as she took a step backwards, behind her first Pokémon.
Kadabra whipped out its spoon like it was a sword before it and Kadabra's eyes began to glow with blue, psychic energy. With a wave of the spoon, the energy was unleashed at the two incoming creatures whose distance, two feet away, caused them to crash head-first into it. The energy blasted them backwards like a concussive explosion before, with another flick of his spoon, Kadabra used his powers to take hold of them and hoist them into the air.
Anabel shuddered in relief even as she leaned onto Kadabra to keep herself from falling down. For a moment, she had frozen up and been unable to think of what to do. If it weren't for Kadabra... she didn't want to think about that.
"Use Confusion..." Anabel managed to say after a moment, pushing those dark thoughts away. She needed to be strong, now. She needed to help Ash and Mrs. Ketchum like she had been unable to do before. If she didn't mess it up, that is, like she had messed up trying to get Ash away from Jessie.
There came twin flashes of blue energy before both Ekans and Jigglypuff crumbled. With them already under his control, it had been almost too easy for Kadabra to hit them with Confusion. Kadabra was sure to use it on their heads, so they would be knocked out. He could have done it elsewhere, but then it wouldn't have been as fast and his Trainer, his Trainer's friend, and that woman needed his help. All of the others were spread out on the floor, sleeping due to the attack Jigglypuff had used.
"Kadabara... Help."
"Thank you, Kadabra." Anabel smiled painfully.
"Yeah! Stay away from my mom!" Ash said from the other side of the office as Mrs. Ketchum rolled away from Jessie's stomp and he let go of the woman's legs, causing the magenta-haired Rocket to trip and then fall onto the floor.
Silence enveloped the room for a couple of moments as all those involved slowly took of what was happening. Anabel noticed some bruises forming on Ash's face and the blood slowly falling from Mrs. Ketchum's nose. Ash helped his mom off the ground before turning around with her, coming to see Anabel's swollen and bruised face, her Kadabra, and Jessie's fallen Pokémon.
Jessie noticed all of this too. As Ash and Anabel began to recall their sleeping Pokémon while Delia watched, she took her chance and lunged towards the brown-haired woman. This was all her fault! If it weren't for that woman, she would've been able to kill the twerp and his little friend. But, no! The woman had decided to be a nuisance and had managed the impossible in defeating Ekans before engaging her. It was past time that she took the woman out and reestablished control over this situation.
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(Meanwhile—With Sabrina and Jonathan)
"You don't really seem to need me, Sabrina." Jonathan said towards the woman after Sabrina and her Kadabra had taken down a couple of hidden Rockets, who thought they could ambush them, before the Rockets had a chance to move. It was a little disquieting to see how Sabrina did as such, but Team Rocket had set off a bomb and killed several people in her Gym. She obviously wanted retribution.
Sabrina shook her head, "Actually, I do. You make it appear as if I'm not myself in the eyes of the Rockets and makes them start thinking about what their plans to ambush us are. I have been using that to find out where they were hiding so Kadabra and I could dispose of them."
"... You're using me as bait?" Jonathan deadpanned.
"Would you rather separate from Kadabra and I and then find yourself ambushed without any prior warning?" Sabrina asked as she stopped, catching an incoming Rocket with her telekinesis and then raising the black-clothed man in the air. With but a flick of the wrist, she slammed the Rocket into a nearby wall, sending him into blissful unconsciousness.
So, he wasn't one the rare Rockets that hadn't set up the bomb, hurt any of Sabrina's people, or had vandalized the Gym.
Jonathan sighed, "No. It's just that you could have told me that I was going to serve as bait."
He wasn't so naive as to believe that he could have taken on so many Rockets on his own. His battle with Pierce had proved that, while he could still come up with an effective plan, his skills were rusty. If he had gone out on his own, he and his team could've been surprised during a Rocket ambush and gotten hurt. Or, worse, they could have been taken out before they had a chance to defend themselves.
"If I had told you, then the surprise on your face when they attacked wouldn't have been genuine." Sabrina countered as the pair began walking again. "They would have realized something was wrong and pulled back before either I or Kadabra could have caught them."
"Stop trying to justify it." Jonathan said.
"Very well, Mr. Ketchum." Sabrina replied in a similar dry voice. That said, the two adults stopped talking to each other and focused on looking out for any nearby Rockets. Finally, after turning left at a fork at the end of the hallway, Sabrina startled almost unnoticeably before her eyes narrowed. "Prepare yourself, Mr. Ketchum. We are going to walking into another ambush: six Rockets with a Beedrill, two Weezing, two Arbok, and a Nidorina are waiting for us near at the end of the next hallway."
"Shouldn't you have kept that to yourself so that my reactions would be "genuine"?" Jonathan asked. It didn't really matter if Sabrina told him or not, since he hadn't been doing anything besides accompany her since she had taken care of Pierce, so... he couldn't really complain.
Sabrina turned to him, "Not this time. They are well prepared for anyone that comes towards them, having bunkered down in one of my storage room's when radio contact between them and the Rockets of the first floor were cut off." A brief pause. "Do you think you could recreate that improvised move you used earlier, Mr. Ketchum?"
It was kind of scary how Sabrina knew that about the Rockets. Still, what was he to expect? She was one of the most powerful human psychics in the country so, of course, she would be able to do this. Sabrina could probably do a lot more than that, too, but had probably decided to allow him to help her. Jonathan was pointedly not thinking about the fact that Sabrina was reading his mind, too. If he did, he would be really creeped out and might lose focus.
He could always be creeped out later, when all of this was over.
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(Saffron City—Outside of Kiyo's Pokémon Dojo)
When Chief Jenny had sent him to help assist with the hostage situation at Kiyo's Dojo, he hadn't expected what he had found. Instead of the standard Team Rocket Grunts outfitted with Poison and Dark-Type Pokémon, he and his fellow officers had found that the Rockets there were psychics. His first thought had been 'No wonder Kiyo and his students' were captured...' while his second was about the difficulty he and his fellow officers would soon be undertaking.
Psychics were not a bunch to be messed around with unless prepared to deal with them. Unlike regular humans, their bodies possessed the ability to channel and direct mental energy that was very similar to the mental energy that Psychic-Type Pokémon used. Psychics could control this energy by undergoing a rigorous mental training and, once controlled, could produce a wide variety of supernatural abilities.
To deal with a psychic, one first needed to know of how powerful that individual psychic was. From there, they could hopefully develop a strategy that would lead to the defeat and capture of the psychic. Of course, since there were more than one psychic hear, making a plan to defeat them would be difficult.
Timothy took out his walkie-talkie, "Officer Greenly reporting in with an update. The Rockets at Kiyo's Dojo are all psychics: seven in total. My Zubat has scouted around and saw that the psychics are keeping Kiyo, his students, and their Pokémon suspended in the middle of the room, in the air. As of now, the psychics are spread about the Dojo, facing the door, to bombard whoever comes in it."
Officer Greenly heard Chief Jenny swear before telling him and his fellow officers to wait until they could come up with a plan before doing anything. After confirming her orders, she hung up and he moved to tell his officers he had called the chief before going back into his former spot. It gave him a good view of the building and, from here, the psychics within the room couldn't see what he was doing. It probably didn't matter much, if some of them were actively using their mind reading abilities to scan for other humans and Pokémon, but... meh.
"Officer Greenly. I want you to listen to me very closely." Chief Jenny's voice called from his walkie-talkie and Officer Greenly nodded. "With the situation as it is, you and your fellow officers probably only have one shot before those psychics attack. The plan we were able to come up with is the best that we have been able to come up with, knowing all of the resources in your area."
Three minutes later, Officer Greenly clipped his walkie-talkie back onto his belt and moved over to relay the plan to his fellow officers. It wasn't foolproof, as no plan ever was, but it was the best that the chief and the people around her had been able to come up with based on the information he had given them.
"Johnson—we'll be using your Arcanine and its ExtremeSpeed to break the door in. From there, its Roar should scare the psychics long enough for them to lose their holds on Kiyo and the others." Officer Greenly said before turning to another couple of officers. "Adams, Jacobs, Quil—you three and your Pokémon will come in from the windows while Arcanine is distracting the psychics; if you see an opportunity to knock one of them down, do so."
"What about you, Greenly?" Officer Quil asked.
Officer Greenly smiled, grimly. "I'll be riding on Jonathan's Arcanine's back, Quil. If all goes well, then I'll release my own Pokémon into the room to help you, Adams, and Jabcobs deal with the psychics. If not... well, I'll be giving you guys time to help free Kiyo and his students'."
"But, that's—!" Officer Jabocs began to say.
"—Right." Officer Adams interrupted with a nod to Officer Greenly before he turned towards his fellow officers. "You heard Officer Greenly! This plan came from the chief herself! So stop bickering like children and actually show why you were made into officers in the first place!" A pause, "Do you hear me?!"
The two officers' semi-forgotten training from their time in Kanto's national army, before they had been honorably discharged and became police officers, came into effect. Both of their backs automatically straightened out, their heels clicked together, and they barely resisted the urge to salute to Officer Adama. "Yes, sir!"
"Let's move, then!"
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(Saffron City—Pokémon Gym—Sabrina's Office)
"Kadabra, use Psychic."
Jessie all-but snarled as she felt her body suddenly stop in its lunge towards Delia as a blue glow enveloped it. It had been a long shot from the start, attacking the brown-haired woman without either Ekans or Jigglypuff there to back her up, but her pride had gotten the better of her. She had thought that she could quickly get rid of Delia and move on to the kids, using her Team Rocket training to deal with the twerpette's Kadabra.
Maybe in a parallel reality, that could have happened, but not in this one.
Delia looked with widened eyes at the hovering, blue-cloaked visage of Jessie that was only a foot away from her body. If Anabel hadn't spotted Jessie moving and ordered Kadabra to act... she would've never even seen it coming. Shuddering, she took a step backwards and away from Jessie as her son glared at the woman, thinking she had done something to his mom to make her shudder.
"Please don't instigate her anymore, honey." Delia managed to say, stopping Ash before he could talk and/or threaten Jessie again. "Anabel's Kadabra may have her so that she can't hurt us anymore, but I don't want to give her anymore reason to come after us. Let's just go."
"But, mom—" Ash began.
"I don't want to stay in this room and we need to find some supplies to help you and Anabel. Please, honey?" Delia interrupted with a pleading look. She would've been more firm with him but, honestly, she was too tired for that and they had all just been through a traumatic experience. "Can't we just go?"
Ash glanced back at Jessie, his mom, and then where Anabel was standing next to her Kadabra with the Egg Case in her hand. Finally, he turned back to his mom and nodded. Delia smiled at him before the group, bar the still-floating Jessie, left the office. Kadabra's Psychic would eventually fade and release Jessie but, until then, she would be stuck there while they moved to somewhere safe.
As Ash, Anabel, and Delia left Sabrina's office, none of them noticed how the egg within the Egg Case began to slowly rock back and forth on its cushion. Nor did they notice the miniscule crack that began to form around the tip of the egg. The one person that did see all of this didn't see much importance of a stupid Pokémon Egg beginning to hatch and was more focused on figuring out how she would get out of this situation. And planning vengeance on the three that had just left.
Ash's Pokémon Team:
Eevee (Female): Level 25.
Attacks: Tackle (Normal), Sand Attack (Normal), Scratch (Normal), Tail-Whip (Normal), Helping Hand (Normal), Growl (Normal), Bite (Dark), Quick Attack (Normal), Covet (Normal), and Take Down (Normal).
Pidgeotto (Male): Level 20.
Attacks: Sand Attack (Ground), Tackle (Normal), Gust (Flying), Peck (Flying), and Whirlwind (Flying).
Rattata (Male): Level 21.
Attacks: Bite (Dark), Tackle (Normal), Quick Attack (Normal), Hyper Fang (Normal), Scratch (Normal), Pursuit (Dark), Quick Swim (Normal), and Sucker Punch (Dark).
Beedrill (Male): Level 20.
Attacks: String-Shot (Bug), Poison-Sting (Poison), Bug-Bite (Bug), Fury Attack (Normal), Tw needle (Bug), and Rage (Normal).
Clefairy (Female): Level 17.
Attacks: Sing (Normal), Pound (Normal), Metronome (Normal), DoubleSlap (Normal), Defense Curl (Normal), Follow Me (Normal), and Bestow (Normal).
Paras (Male): Level 19.
Attacks: PoisonPowder (Poison), Stun Spore (Grass), Sleep Powder (Grass), Spore (Grass), Leech Life (Bug), and Fury Cutter (Bug).
Anabel's Pokémon Team:
Kadabra (Male): Level 27.
Attacks: Teleport (Psychic), Psyshock (Psychic), Confusion (Psychic), Psychic (Psychic), Disable (Normal), Miracle Eye (Psychic), and Ally Switch (Psychic).
Butterfree (Female): Level 20.
Attacks: Confusion (Psychic), Poisonpowder (Poison), Stun Spore (Grass), Harden (Bug), Sleep Powder (Grass), String Shot (Bug), Gust (Flying), and Supersonic (Normal).
Sabrina's Pokémon Team:
Kadabra (Female): Level 40.
Attacks: Psychic (Psychic), Teleport (Psychic), Psyshock (Psychic), Confusion (Psychic), Kinesis (Psychic), Disable (Normal), Miracle Eye (Psychic), Ally Switch (Psychic), Psybeam (Psychic), Reflect (Psychic), Telekinesis (Psychic), Recover (Normal), Psycho Cut (Psychic), and Future Sight (Psychic).
Jonathan's Pokémon Team:
Mandibuzz (Female): Level 35.
Attacks: Fly (Flying), Gust (Flying), Leer (Normal), Fury Attack (Normal), Pluck (Flying), Nasty Plot (Dark), Flatter (Dark), Faint Attack (Dark), Punishment (Dark), and Defog (Flying).
Sigilyph: (Male): Level 19.
Attacks: Gust (Flying), Miracle Eye (Psychic), Hypnosis (Psychic), Psywave (Psychic), Tailwind (Flying), Whirlwind (Normal), Psybeam (Psychic).
Yamask (Female): Level 20.
Attacks: Astonish (Ghost), Protect (Normal), Disable (Normal), Haze (Ice), Night Shade (Ghost), Hex (Ghost), and Will-O-Wisp (Fire).
Jessie's Pokémon Team:
Jigglypuff (Female): Level 32.
Attacks: Sing (Normal), Defense Curl (Normal), Pound (Normal), Disable (Normal), Rollout (Rock), DoubleSlap (Normal), Rest (Psychic), Body Slam (Normal), and Gyro Ball (Steel).
Ekans (Male): Level 35.
Attacks: Wrap (Normal), Leer (Normal), Poison Sting (Poison), Bite (Dark), Glare (Normal), Toxic (Poison), Screech (Normal), Acid (Poison), Stockpile (Normal), Swallow (Normal), Spit Up (Normal), Acid Spray (Poison), and Mud Bomb (Ground).
A/N: Author's Note: Well, that's the end of the second out of the third chapter of the "Battle of Saffron City" mini-arc. The next chapter will finish the fighting and then start to deal with the aftermath of such having an organization such as Team Rocket attack a city. So, highlights from this chapter? Jessie taking out her revenge, Domino meeting Silph, Chief Jenny and her officers dealing with the crisis, Jonathan realizing he was just acting like bait for Sabrina and her Kadabra, and Jessie being thwarted.
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P.S.: What do you guys think of the newest cover that I put together? The old cover didn't have that good of lighting and sections of it were cut off, so I made a new one. And, unlike the last one, I will be able of putting those Pokémon currently in Ash's team on it~!