We get a surprise guest that everyone likes...

Though James has a big problem with him.

Chapter 4

"You think that your salamance can beat me?!" He laughed, looking my precious dragon type up and down, a frown on his face. "Especially with one that looks so weak." I growled. I'd show him that just because he might win against others didn't mean he was going to beat me.

"Looks aren't everything." I said stepping out of the shadows. "Plus you never know when things are going to come back and haunt you, Gary Oak." His eyes went wide, seeing me coming out of the darkness.

"It can't be, you're supposed to be dead!" He yelled. Clearly in shock that I the awful Hunter J was still alive and doing my nasty deeds.

"Things can come back to haunt you. Just ask me, I'm expert. Salamance, hyper beam!" I yelled, catching the gym leader by surprise having him fly back from the power of the hyper beam into the wall. Watching him slump to the ground though, I felt a little pitty for him as he looked up at me as I walked, salamance still beside me, fear written over features.

"What do you want?" He spat, his cast up, a determination cloaking over the fear.

"Oh how you would like to know. However that information cant be released at this time." I said taking his chin in my hands so he was looking at me. "Now, if you would pardon me, I still have a job to finish and you're only one part of the puzzle."

Stepping back for a second, I then released the Inc. Beam covering the quivering boy in the golden encasement. One down 73 more to go in the Pokémon League, I had different method for the G-Men though, that would have to get passed by Giovanni though. There were way to many in the G-Men and barely anyone knew who they were. There was one way to get rid of them all in one fallow swoop though.

"Everything's done." I said into the communicator and then I was off through the front door. I was not in the clean up crew, plus there was something else in this city I wanted to make sure was taken care of before I left. A specific trainer that I'd heard about when I was in Sinnoh that hadn't been put on the list or never even been mentioned, however, I knew this trainer was here in Viridian and they could be quite troublesome.

Retuning Salamance back to him ball I stepped out of the gym, the place still as empty as when I'd first come, the only difference though now, there was an Umbreon staring at me, a very shocked look on it's face. Seeing for a just a moment though, I knew exactly where that Umbreon had come from, that was Gary Oak's Umbreon and it was a pokémon that I had to watch out for, from what Meowth had told me.

Knowing I couldn't let it get away, I aimed my Inc. Beam at it, but I missed wide when it jumped out of the way and started running down the street and into one of the empty alleyways, that I knew if I went into I'd never find my way out of there. Cursing that I'd missed, I knew that I need to get out here and quick. If that Umbreon was heading towards the police station, I needed to get out of here as fast as possible, but not before I took care of that trainer that I knew was here in Viridian.

"J, where are you, we need to get out here soon." Proton said over the communicator on my wrist.

"I need coordinates now for the Viridian Pokémon Center Proton, send them to my headset. I'll be there as soon as I take care of something there." I said, now running down the street and onto the crowded one, where people were pushing and shoving to get somewhere.

"I'm sending the location now, and what's at the Pokémon Center that you need?" Proton asked.

"It's none of your business, just be ready to take off as soon as I get on board, no second thought, be ready to take off as soon as I call, I catch up on salamance. And that's an order." I yelled, shutting off the communicator and heading through the street. Shoving through the crowds of people massing around the booths, trying to finagle down the prices of the good s the vendors were selling. There was one though that was catching my eye that quite a few little kids were hovering around.

"Get your Magikarp here!" A man behind the booth was yelling, "Will trade you any pokémon."

"But aren't Magikarp weak?" A young boy holding a pokéball said.

"You can evolve them to be a strong Gyarados though!" He said, his convincing speech luring in the little kids. It was a shame that a man had to do that to a kid, geesh, I remembered a man like that when I had been kid. He had been selling Whismurs though, and many of the kids had to get rid of them after they'd gotten them because of the loud crying. I had traded my Eevee for that stupid whismur and now looking at those kids, it made me go back to that time feeling so bad about giving Eevee up.

Walking over to the man selling the Magikarp, I looked in right in the eye. "How long does it take to evolve a Magikarp into a Gyarados though." I asked. the man sweat dropped.

"You want a Gyarados?" He asked. "Then what kind of pokémon do you have to trade me?" the kids eyes were in awe, a grownup was getting a Magikarp?

"Sir, I don't want a Magikarp, nor do I want a Gyarados, and taking these kid's pokémon isn't a just thing to do, so I would either get of this place or else you might not a have a stand left after I'm done with you." I threatened. "Ariados," I said calling out my bug type pokémon. "Destroy this stand." I said, Ariados gave out a cry then sent out a string shot that tore away the stand ripping the cheaply made thing fall to the ground within a matter of seconds. The salesman behind it running off his bag of pokéballs strung over his shoulder, and heading off into the forest.

"Wow, I want an Ariados!" A little boy said, looking up at the Spinark that was perched on his shoulder. "Me and you Spinark will become the strongest team ever." The Spinark gave out a cry and then the boy was gone, the others trailing in his wake, a Growlithe and Weedle following the two other boys. I sighed. At least those kids would have a good chance of not being scammed out of their pokémon like had been. Still to this day I wonder what happened to my Eevee. Sighing, I still had a mission and that little side thing had delayed me. Already though I was staying longer in Viridian than I wanted to.

Leaving the now destroyed stand though, I made my way to the Pokémon Center, which had only been up from the Magikarp Salesman. People still everywhere though, I made my way around to the back of the building, hoping and praying that the one person I needed to get rid of was back here or else I was going to have to forget about them and make my back to the ship a liability out there.

Sneaking to the back there were two battlefields in the ground, and there were two people out there training their pokémon. Neither of them though were the person I was looking for. Their trademark pokémon no where in sight. I cursed under my breath frustrated that I'd have to leave Viridian, a person who could make a major dent in the mission out there. There was an advantage though to coming to the pokémon center, there was the woods where we'd hid the ship right behind it, so now I didn't have to go back out onto the street and risk being recognized. the tough part, I now needed to get by to the woods without the trainers seeing me. This was easy though as I found out. The kids were so distracted by their training that I slid by them with ease.

Safely inside the woods now though I called Proton up. "You can take off now, and make sure you put the invisibility cloak on." I said into the communicator.

"We're off now J." He said and then there was silence.

"Salamance let's go." I said releasing the pokémon, and jumping onto his back. Lowering the visor too." I flicked the invisibility cloaking feature on and I was able to see the ship clear as day flying over the forest and heading south towards Pallet Town, we weren't going there, but I thought we might make a little drop off.

Salamance took off from the ground, flying like an arrow towards the ship which I was leading him towards. Though by now, I think Salamance had gotten used to find the ship when it had been invisible. After all, we'd made so many trips from the ground to catch up to the ship when it had taken flight, it wasn't hard to find the ship when it was invisible, all you had to do was listen for the extremely low sound generating motors. The visor still helped though, when you had to find the air lock entrance into the ship.

"Salamance, go up a little bit," I said ordering him to fly a little higher. "Now go forward till I tell you to stop." I said. Ordering him to fly through the narrow space of the air lock container. Now go down. I said, feeling the solid metal fall underneath us and hearing the sliding grate shut and the one entering the ship opening allowing us to get inside. Feeling relieved that Salamance still knew how to go into the air lock though, I was happy that my most trusted pokémon still had faith in me.

"Hunter J, we're glad ya made it back alright." Meowth said, his arms folded over his chest, standing right in front of everyone else. "The kids in the main deck right now, Proton was waiting till you came back till we sent the message." I nodded.

"Good job. Now we need to plan the next one. There's also a few things, I must say." I said looking around at the crew which couldn't be more than thirty. "I want everyone right now to plan for our most challenging capture, which will be that of the six champions. They might not be next or in the next ten, but I want everyone planning and preparing themselves for that because by that time, everyone will be helping out in our cause to take them down so Team Rocket can survive!" I yelled.

When I said Team Rocket though, everyone yelled. "For Team Rocket!" I smiled. At least I knew that everyone was one the same page and that his was being done for the greater good of Team Rocket.

Questions!

Who do you think Hunter J was looking for in Viridian City, but didn't find. And it's not an OC

Also her first capture and it went pretty smoothly. This won't even come close to being the hardest though.

So till next time!