Chapter 23

"Disturbing Video Evidence"

When we returned to the Ketchum residence that night, we were greeted by someone who was at the door seemingly waiting for us. Trusting my instincts, I got out of the car and crept over to the shadow of the person who was at the door. However, the intruder seemed to surrender quickly and I wanted to get the shadow into the light.

"Come out," I said, turning on the street lights. "What do you want?"

"Jeff," said the intruder, revealing himself to be Andrew. "It's only me. Ash nor his mother was home and I couldn't find the light."

I then looked in his hand and saw what appeared to be a series of DVD's in a packaged box. To me, it looked something that I would buy on or something. Of course, giving the fact that I was in Japan and not back in the United States, there was no possible way about me ordering something on .

"What is it, Andrew?" I asked, calming down. "Give me the box and let me see what it is."

"It's from the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Jeff," replied Andrew, giving me the box. "You two have got to enter this into evidence."

I examined the box and I read the message that was attached to the box. It said a few words that made me shudder and that it was video evidence of Pokemon being tortured by Pokemon Criminal Associates. I showed the box to Amanda and let me tell you, she had a very similar grim expression.

"My God," she gasped. "This is video footage of Pokemon being abused by these people. What's wrong with them?"

"I guess we have no other choice, Amanda," I said. "These people need to see this video. Thanks, Andrew, for bringing this to our attention."

Andrew nodded off and walked into the night as we looked at the box again. We could not help but ask ourselves why Pokemon would be treated this way by these people. To us, we came to the conclusion that we were dealing with not just the world worst terrorist attacks, but a modern day Holocaust.

So, the next day, I approached the podium and faced the eight judges on the bench and asked them if we could show the video.

"Your honors," I said. "The U.S. prosecution wants to show video evidence to the court with your approval."

"So ordered," said Judge Avery. "The prosecution may show the video evidence."

So, a court officer pulled down on the screen and another court officer turned out the lights and turned the projector on and the video began with the words "Pokemon Concentration Camps" appearing on the screen and each video showed each Pokemon Criminal Organization mistreating the Pokemon they held captive. Of course, the first one was off Team Rocket officers bringing in captured Pokemon and injected them with the obedient substance. Another clip showed them lined up and being yelled at by a drill sergeant.

"As of right now," he shouted in the video. "You will never see your trainers or your homes again! You belong to Team Rocket now and you will serve us in our quest for world domination!"

A sense of disturbed looks appeared on the faces of some of the defendants, especially Jessie and James, with whom they had always terrorized Ash and his friends. Jessie and James even began to cry a little as they were now filled with shame for their actions.

The video continued to show Pokemon being whipped as they were chained up and forced to build weapons and buildings for Team Rocket. Another clip showed a Team Rocket agent showing a group of brainwashed Pokemon a map of the United States and telling them to focus on attacking the area on the map that they were being assigned to.

Another clip was perhaps the most disturbing of them all, which show Pokemon that were useless to Team Rocket being thrown in the furnaces and being burned alive and then the video showed their burned corpses being pulled out of the furnaces. Several people in the gallery had to leave the courtroom either because they were filled with emotion or because they were disgusted by what they were seeing.

The next clip was of Team Aqua members bringing a commandeered Merchant ship into Somalia and bringing in the captured crew in front of Archie. Behind him was a group of Sqiurtle and Vaporeon who then fired both water and ice at the captured crew members, freezing them to death and then taking possession of their Pokemon.

A similar clip was used for Team Magma only they brought in a captured busload of Pokemon trainers in central Uganda in the summer of 2006. Maxie was in the video ordering a group of Magmar and Charizard to burn the captured trainers alive using their flamethrowers. Both leaders and members of Team Aqua and Magma were horrified by what they saw and knew that their actions were exposed for the world to see.

Another clip showed Team Rocket grunts teaching fighting Pokemon how to assist the 9/11 hijackers in taking over the cockpits of the planes that were targeted and several were even teaching a group of Machoke how to kill the flight crew and one passenger while another clip showed Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee being taught how to break down the cockpit doors. Clips of Team Aqua and Team Magma grunts were then shown of them teaching Pokemon how to attack cruise ships and cause natural disasters like the Asian tsunami in 2004, the destruction of the levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the earthquake in Haiti in 2010.

With each clip that was shown, the more sickened people became in how these people carried out their attacks. Even Amanda and I were becoming sickened by what we saw, but we both knew that this evidence had to be shown to the world.

After the last clip was played of the Pokemon criminal organizations cheering and celebrating over the two 9/11 attacks, the video ended and the lights were turned back on. However, the judges were so sickened that they got up and left the courtroom without Judge Avery banging on the gavel. Apparently, everyone else got the same idea and rose to their feet to leave. Amanda was even crying silently over what she saw and I looked at the defendants one last time with a hateful look on my face over what they had did in the video.

As they walked back to their cells, Giovanni could not help but deny the actions of himself and his comrades. Even after showing disturbing video evidence to get him to feel guilty, he was still denying the actions of himself and he colleagues.

"You know, it was such a nice day," he muttered to Lieutenant McGovern. "Laughing and joking and then they show that horrid film. It's nothing but propaganda, meant to scare us into submission and give in to those prosecutors. Well, they are not going to get away with this."

A little while later, the defendants were thrown back into their cells and all of them went to bed that night filled with disturbance and hate for their actions that were shown in the video. However, Giovanni and his fellow leaders knew that they could not let the video distract them from their true mission and that was to walk away from this trial free people.

Of course, that was not going to happen that easily…