Turn 06: Team Plasma's Decree

Location: Nimbasa City

Time: 3:11 AM August 7th

Condition: Low-Visibility

"And what is it you're transporting again?" A guard at the south entrance of Nimbasa asked while a few other guards were looking around the currently stopped truck.

"I thought I told you." The one driving the truck was Chris. He was currently dressed in a rocket uniform. "It's a standard supply shipment to the main building."

"Oh yes." The guard said nodding. "There it is. I'm assuming you know where to go."

"Of course I do." Chris reassured him. "Can I get going now? Proton doesn't like to be kept waiting."

"You know that's the truth." He nodded in agreement. "Go ahead."

With the okay Chris started the truck towards the center of Nimbasa City. A skyscraper stood taller than all the other building around it, the Building labelled Silph Co., but anyone who knew anything about the underworld that Silph Co. was a legal name for Team Rocket and this was their Unova HQ.

"Are you insane?" Chris asked. "You want us to walk right into our enemy's base of operation?"

"In order to achieve our goals we must first drive Team Rocket out of Unova." Lelouch stated.

"Stop talking about it like it's already done." Rosa told him. "Walking into the Team Rocket HQ isn't going to do anything but get us killed."

"Have you ever heard of Trainer Red?" Lelouch asked him.

"Isn't he that world famous trainer from Kanto?" Blake asked.

"Yes he is. Team Rocket is a strong and powerful gang, because of this they often operate as if they're untouchable. One mistake their notorious for, is underestimating their opponents. Some of Trainer Red's greatest achievements have exploiting this weakness. The most famous example was when he infiltrated Rocket HQ in Saffron City and not only defeated their boss but removed Team Rocket's presence entirely." Lelouch explained his reasoning.

"It doesn't sound so bad when you put it that way." Blake said.

"Yeah, but your forgetting something." Cross interrupted. "Team Rocket wasn't expecting Red to come in, but they're on the lookout for us."

"On seventh of every month, Team Rocket's HQ in Unova receives a truck-load of supplies for their underground operations. We will hijack this supply truck and use it to infiltrate the building. Once we're in we will execute my plan." Lelouch reassured him of the plan.

"That's great but," Cross started. "What about me? You haven't given me anything to do."

"Cross." Lelouch looked at him. "I've got something special planned for you."

Chris carefully backed the truck into the building's garage. "It's about time you showed up." A Rocket Grunt walked up to the truck's window to talk to him.

"Sorry. I was held up by the guards at the front." Chris explained he turned to one of the grunts closer to the back. "Would you mind opening the back for me?"

"No problem, the sooner we get this stuff upstairs the sooner we can get to doing something more interesting." The Grunt said taking out a key and unlocking the back of the truck. He pushed it opened and hardly had time to gasp before he got hooved in the chest sending him a foot backwards.

From the back of the truck En the Rapidash and Zack the Zebstrika quickly leapt out. Nearby Rocket Grunts pulled out their pokéball "Zack, discharge now!" Zack unleashed an electric voltage through the room knocking them all unconscious.

"Hay, what's the meaning of this." The Grunt turned for a second.

"Sorry." Chris grabbed his attention. By the time the grunt looked back at Chris he was wearing a Team Plasma Uniform with the hood pulled back. "But we're kind of taking over the building."

Chris then slammed down on him with all his strength knocking him out cold. Chris then jumped out of the driver's seat onto the floor and regrouped with the rest of the team. Standing next to their pokémon was Rosa, Blake, and Lelouch. C-Sharp then walked up to Chris putting everyone next to their pokémon.

"Rosa." Lelouch reminded her.

"Right, En use Flame Charge." Rosa commanded. Being consumed in flames and started ramming against the walls starting some of them on fire. It took a second or two for the fire alarms to start but when it did it was loud. "All unwanted personnel should be leaving as we speak Lelouch."

"And the elevators would have stopped working. Chris, start setting these up all over the first floor." Lelouch stated throwing a bag at Chris. "C-Sharp, protect him with your life."

"Right." Chris and C-Sharp saluted him.

"Now everyone else with me up the elevators." Lelouch led them towards a nearby elevator.

Zack walked up to the locked door and used its electric charge to activate the elevator. Half of them stepped into one elevator while the other half into the other. "Good luck to you Chris, I'm counting on you."

As they went up the elevator Rosa noticed Lelouch was rubbing his head. She wondered about it for a second until he interrupted her thought process. "Command En to use agility as we wait."

"Right." Rosa agreed. "En' you heard him."

Not too soon after that the doors opened. "Flame Charge!" Rosa commanded. En then charged in knocking down a golbat to the ground. There were a handful of Rocket Grunts collected there as if waiting for them.

"Ohgi, rock slide." Lelouch commanded whipping a hand forward in the Rocket Grunt's direction. Ohgi then leapt into the air crashing his thick skull into the ceiling. Chunks of the ceiling then began to fall on top of the grunts and their pokémon.

It missed some of them and the grunts commanded their raticates and golbats forward. "En, use stomp on the first raticate!"

"Ohgi, standstorm!" Lelouch commanded as a sandstorm was whipped up in the middle of a building. En then stomped on one of raticates and dodged another's attempt to use crunch. The sandstorm made it easier to dodge opponents attack. A raticate and golbat both aimed for Ohgi but did little damage to him.

"Ohgi, quickly retaliate with a rock slide directly above you." Lelouch commanded.

"En, flame charge again." Rosa told her.

En moved first do to her speed boost; she clashed right into one of the golbat knocking right into a grunt's chest. Ohgi then leapt up back into the ceiling after finally shaking free of the two pokémon sending chunks of ceiling down on his enemies. "Raticate, hyper fang that rapidash!" the last of the grunt's pokémon charged at En full speed, it bit into her. En wailed in pain before delivering a powerful kick to the face getting rid of it.

"Now." Lelouch walked in front of the remaining grunts in his way as the sandstorm subsided. "Get out of our way!"

The grunts spared no time in fleeing the area. "Wow, that was amazing!" Rosa said. It was thrilling to be winning the battle for a change.

"We have no time to spare. In the rooms that lie ahead, dozens of caged pokémon to be sold on the black market. Blake, same to you." Lelouch spoke into his transceiver. "But be sure to keep the elevator system active for me. Ohgi and I will be headed for the top floor."

"The top floor?" Rosa asked. Lelouch walked passed her as he headed for the elevators with Ohgi. "What's there?"

"I believe," Lelouch said stepping into the elevator with Ohgi. The doors started closing before he finished "Some call it, destiny."

"He's a really weird dude." Blake told Rosa through the transceiver.

"You can say that again." Rosa agreed before she and En started down the hallway.

An alarm started going off. From a mess of pillows and blankets on a bed a figure sheepishly began to arise. It was Kyouhei, who was experience a horrid case of bedhead. He sat up before glaring off to the nightstand next to the bed. On the nightstand was his x-transceiver. He reached over to turn the alarm off. "I don't remember setting an alarm this early in the morning. Stupid thing must be broken."

He grabbed it and looked at it for a second. On the watch's face it said in big bold lettering, "Nimbasa Silph Co. Building". Upon seeing this he almost fell right out of his bed.

"You can't be serious." Kyouhei jumped up and looked at himself in the mirror. "The one time I'm not prepared to do anything is the perfect opportunity to finally catch Team Rocket with their pants down."

He started fixing himself up so he looked a least mildly decent. He grabbed his two poké-balls and made sure to place them in his bag before running out the door. He had known for weeks that the Nimbasa Silph Co. Building was just a front for Team Rocket, but he never had enough evidence to get a warrant. This was a once in a life-time opportunity, he now had an excuse to enter the premise. "I'll get you this time Proton!"

"Zack, Volt Switch!" Blake commanded. Zack knocked a nearby golbat to the ground, electric energy surging through its body. "Nice job buddy."

They walked into a room full of computers. "Looks like this is the place. Now let's see what kind of dirt we can get on Team Rocket." Blake pulled out a flash drive and plugged it into the computer.

He clicked on a few files that were locked but the flash drive was hacking into them and downloading them anyways. Zack walked up and looked at the screen. "Team Rocket, you're ours." Blake smiled before unplugging the flash drive and walking out. He placed the flash drive into his pocket and then suddenly a rocket grunt ran up to him letting his Alakazam out.

"Crap, Zack take him down with volt switch!" Blake told him. Zack ran up and kicked the Alakazam with a mighty electrical force backing it up, but it took the hit rather well.

The alakazam struck back with a psychic but Zack managed to somehow dodge it. "So you're a little tougher than the other Rocket Grunts, We'll still show you the power of Plasma. Zack Ion Deluge!"

Electric energy started to emit from the zebstrika's body. The alakazam attacked again with a mighty psychic this time hitting hitting Zack pretty harshly. Ion deluge makes all normal type moves electric type, which give Zack STAB when I do something like this, "Zack, use Hyper Beam!"

Flaring from Zack's mouth with massive electric energy backing it up the hyper beam flew across the field towards the alakazam with the force of one ton of pressure, blasting it completely out of the building from a nearby window. The Rocket Grunt gapped at the display of power just shown him before Blake walked up and punched him in the face.

"Don't mess with the plasma." Blake said walking away with Zack. He started toward the elevator before he heard something coming from a nearby staircase. Blake went to go investigate before someone leapt from the staircase knocking him onto the ground.

"A Plasma Grunt?" Kyouhei was the person standing over him.

"Hay, I'm not just some grunt." Blake said standing up. "I'm Blake and you better stay out of my way."

"Sorry, I'm not here for Team Plasma today." Kyouhei explained. "I'm here to shut this place down."

"You and Lelouch seem to be thinking the same." Blake told him.

"Lelouch?" Kyouhei hesitated after hearing the name. He started to head back to the staircase. "I kind of owe him a favor, but I need to get some dirt on Team Rocket so sorry."

"Wait." Blake called for him to halt. He wasn't sure if he should trust him, he knew that Rosa would if she was here but he didn't know if he was capable of that kind of trust. He reached into his pocket pondering if he could get away with trusting him with the flash drive. He took his hand out of his pocket giving him a thumb's up instead. "Good luck with that."

"Thanks." Kyouhei said climbing the stairs.

"No problem." Blake averted his eyes almost ashamed he couldn't follow his commander's example.

Just up the stairs Kyouhei found a room full of pokémon. Kyouhei took out a camera and a poké-ball letting Mako out. He started taking pictures of the pokémon and opened note-books lying nearby. He glared painfully at the sight as he read some of what these guys were up to here. Selling these pokémon on the black market would have been preferable to what they were doing here to be sure.

Mako growled at Kyouhei getting his attention. Team Rocket Grunts were climbing the stairs towards his position. "Water Pulse."

Mako jumped in front of the stairway and shot a water pulse down knocking several pokémon off the staircase, others were just forced up to the wall and the golbats simply flew out of the way or back up. Things didn't look good for Kyouhei and his dewott. "Mako-kun come back!" Mako returned to her poké-ball in a flash of energy.

"Riley-kun." Kyouhei let the Braviary out. It stretched its wings while screeching. Kyouhei climbed onto his back. "Get us out of here."

Riley screeched in response and they started flying towards a nearby window. Kyouhei braced himself as they broke out from the glass into the new morning sky. Kyouhei patted the back of Riley's head. "Good job Riley-kun."

Lelouch began to rub his head. "Are you okay Lelouch?" Ohgi asked.

"The higher up we go the worse it get." Lelouch frowned. "I can't let that get in my way though."

"Don't push yourself too hard Lelouch. It was only a few weeks days ago that you didn't have your powers, maybe your using them too much." Ohgi suggested.

"I appreciate your concern." Lelouch said. "But we have too much at stake right now."

"Right." Ohgi sighed.

"It seems like the most powerful imprisoned pokémon are here in the top floor." Lelouch told him. The doors of the elevator opened up.

It was a horrifying sight. Garchomp everywhere strapped to walls like pelts. Most of them were deformed in such a way that they looked half Mega-Evolved and half beaten to death. "What is all of this?"

"According to the information Blake has received Team Rocket has been working on ways to making the mega-evolution permanent the way that normal evolution is." Lelouch explained his grip tightened. "It's disgusting what some people are willing to do for power."

"Yeah." Ohgi said looking at one of the more mutilated looking pokémon.

"Gah!" they heard a shrill shriek from a nearby room.

Lelouch and Ohgi went to go investigate. Strapped to a table with a scientist in a lab coat looming over her was the woman from before, the one that gave Lelouch his powers. Holding onto her head was an Elgyem. They were torturing her and as they did his head began to hurt a little more.

"Now tell us everything you know, the pain will only get worse." The scientist explained.

"Stop!" Lelouch shouted holding his head.

The scientist turned in shock. "What? How did you?"

"Ohgi," Lelouch commanded.

"Way ahead of you." Ohgi leapt forward ramming into the scientist and knocking him down before knocking the Elgyem off of the woman. Lelouch let go of his head. Once he was certain they were far away enough from her he slammed the ground sending chunks of the ceiling falling on the both of them.

Lelouch walked up and began to unstrap her with one hand and check her pulse with the other. "She's a little faint. Zekrom, can you hear me?"

"Don't call me that." He heard her voice faintly in his head.

"We'll get to that later. Right now we need to get out of here." Lelouch explained picking her up.

"Hay, I hear footsteps." Ohgi explained. "Let's get out of here."

"Right." Lelouch nodded and they ran towards the elevator. They stopped and waited for the door.

"Don't bother." A voice called to him. "I've had my men cut down the cables, it's not coming."

"So there is a competent member of Team Rocket after all." Lelouch said turning to face the one who quiet literally cut off his main escape route. It was Proton and an entourage of grunts and pokémon.

"So you do exist." Proton said his Crobat ready for anything. "And I was beginning to think that my grunts had stooped to coming up with stories for excuses, especially when they named the Black Prince as the man who stopped them."

"I trust you are Proton one of The Four Executives, Boss of Team Rocket's Unova Branch and the so-called Iron Fortress." Lelouch presumed.

"You've cause me quite a bit of trouble, Lelouch." Proton glared at him. "I was planning to track you down and kill you myself, but you saved me the trouble."

"I'd be honored that you have taken such an interest in me, if I wasn't sick to my stomach of people like you." Lelouch told him. "I'd see you burn in hell for everything you've done."

"Likewise." Proton smiled. "But that doesn't matter now, because I've got you right where I want you, or as you'd always say, checkmate."

"Is that so?" Lelouch muttered. "Tell me Proton, are you familiar with Castling?"

"I can't say that I am." Proton shrugged.

"It's a chess maneuver. Imagine if you would that your king is in check, if you move to the right, you're dead, if you move to the left, your dead, if you move to…" Lelouch began.

"Alright I get the idea you're in checkmate." Proton urged him to get to the point.

"Not exactly." Lelouch continued. "You see only four spaces away is a rook. Using the Castling Maneuver I move my king two spaces towards my rook placing him agreeably out of danger. It also moves my rook one space towards the king making them right next to each other."

"That's great, but this isn't a chess match. I still don't see how it applies." Proton pointed out.

"Oh really? Then perhaps you'd like a demonstration? Abra!" Lelouch said and suddenly an abra appeared next to Lelouch. "I command you…"

Proton's eyes widened. He finally understood what Lelouch was getting out. "Crobat, cross poison now!"

"Teleport." Lelouch commanded the abra as the crobat encroached on them. Before the crobat could hit them they had disappeared into thin air.

"Dammit!" Proton stomped the ground in anger and as he did the entire building began to shake after a loud bang. Curiously Proton looked down from a nearby window; smoke was rising up from the bottom floor. Cop cars and fire engines were surrounding the building. Proton sighed taking out a poké-ball. "Crobat return."

Proton headed up the stairs. "I hope my helicopter is still there." He stated blankly.

He stopped, stomped on the ground a few more times in anger before continuing. "I will get you for this Lelouch of Plasma."

Lelouch, Ohgi, En, Rosa, Zack, Blake, Chris, C-Sharp, the mysterious girl and a handful of abra all appeared on a dirt road just west of Nimbasa City. Standing nearby with a satellite dish next to them was Cross and Gidra. He then walked over to make sure they were all alright.

"Well done Cross." Lelouch congratulated him. "You make for an excellent rook."

"Yeah, well I wish that you would've given me something more to do then just sit around." Cross huffed.

Before Lelouch could respond Ohgi started to glow with a white energy. Ohgi was evolving. Cracking open from the shell of the pupitar was a fully sized tyranitar. Ohgi howled with energy to the winds celebrating his great success. "And a congratulations are in order for you too Ohgi."

"Wow," Rosa remarked at the size of him. "You're a tyranitar."

"So, Cross." Lelouch returned to business. "Did you have time to upload the broadcast?"

"What do you think I've been doing for the…" Cross stopped mid-sentence. He pointed at the mysterious girl standing behind Lelouch. "Who's that?"

"I apologize." Lelouch said. "I'll have to introduce you all later. Activate the broadcast, and let's get moving."

"Fine." Cross grumbled flipping a switch on the dish.

"Let's leave Team Rocket with a reason to fear Team Plasma." Lelouch said.

People were standing around their TV everywhere hearing about the mysterious attack on the Silph Co. Building. Reports were flooding in from every source. Giant Screens on the sides of building were broadcasting it. "You can see smoke still rising from the scene of the attack." The reporter on the screen told them. "What we don't know is…"

Replacing the reporter on the screen was, Lelouch dressed entirely in black. "People of Nimbasa City, people of the world, you have gathered around your television screens with two questions on your lips, 'Who' and 'Why'. You deserve to know the truth, the world deserves the truth. I am Lelouch!"

The name was familiar and people all over the world gasped at the sound. "Four years ago Team Plasma left the world with a message, to treat your pokémon with fairness and decency. We have returned from the deepest depths of exile in shame that you have not heeded the call, the world has only gotten worse since our departure and this building is a monument to it."

"Now I will answer the why." Lelouch continued. "In the light of day this was an office building for the international Silph Co., but during the night it not only provided the world with a means to capture pokémon but is the experimentation lab for Team Rocket, the cruelest of all pokémon abusers. In this building pokémon were breed to have perfect IVs and EVs and then sold on the black market to trainers the world over, hungry to make a name for themselves in the Pokémon League. Any pokémon deemed unworthy were sentenced to be either released into a wild they are not prepared for, or disposal by the most disgusting methods. But this isn't the worst of Team Rocket's crimes in this building. Hundreds of pokémon have been strapped down and experimented upon in order to make them stronger, and even remain in mega-evolution state forever. Their attempts have been unsuccessful and deadly to those they attempted it on."

"I have obtained documents currently being uploaded to the internet expressing in more detail these exact crimes and should be more than enough evidence for police to investigate the building. Team Rocket if you don't want the entirety of your operations here in Unova exposed I suggest that you permit Team Plasma safe passage out of the city." Lelouch explained. "If you hear nothing of this after today, then it will prove that Team Rocket also has control of the police."

"We have come before you today to appeal to you and your senses as a pokémon trainer and I leave you with this," Lelouch stated. "To those who abuse their powers and enslave those weaker than they, fear us! To those who are heavily burdened and trampled on, rally behind us. We are Team Plasma and this is our decree: TRAINERS, LIBERATE YOUR POKÉMON!"

The screen went black for a moment before the normal broadcast restarted up on the screen. No one was at the news desk; everyone had left to see what all the commotion was about.

"Lelouch." Kyouhei whispered to himself as people all around him were muttering and talking to each other about what they just had seen. His x-transceiver started to ring and he quickly answered. "This is Kyouhei."

"Kyouhei, this is the chief." The voice explained. "You're being reassigned from the Team Rocket case."

"Don't tell me, let me guess." Kyouhei responded seriously.

"You've got it. That man who was just on the screen, he's your target. Kyouhei you're our best agent in Unova, I'm depending on you to deal with this guy as quickly as possible." The chief told him.

"No problem Chief-Sama." Kyouhei said hanging up.

A man wearing a grey body suit and a black flak jacket walked through the tunnels of a cavern. On the right of the flak jacket was the Team Plasma Crest. He also wore long black gloves and boots of similar design.

He walked up to a man standing in the middle of the cave. He had a black cloak with an eye-like design covering his body and long gray-green hair extending from his head. He had a sinister looking red tech-monocle over his right eye which was the same color as the iris of his exposed eye. He wielded a cane which bore the same crest on it.

"Lord Ghetsis," He bowed. "I have received word from Team Rocket. They're willing to take our deal under one condition."

"What condition would that be?" Ghetsis' question was followed by a sickening cough. He turned slowly glaring at him.

The grunt stiffened at Ghetsis' glare before finishing. "Have you seen the news today?"

Author Notes: Well it looks like Lelouch is making quite a number of enemies really quickly. First Team Rocket, the police, and now Ghetsis. What's next, how could it get worse, and how is he going to get out of this mess? Don't forget to review!

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