Chapter 4

Team rocket

Author's note: Thanks for reading this. I actually wrote an original story similar to this before but this is Pokémon so it's different. Also I understand I made Lance a bit different then how he is in the show this is originally how I pictured him before I Googled his picture. Also I am not really going to go into the specifics of what levels Pokémon evolve please do not take offense Anyway I hope you enjoy the story please R&R

Also thank you bloody massacre I am glad you like my stories and I am thankful for all of your reviews. ON WITH THE STORY!

"You there!" they called out and grabbed their pokeball and before I could even pull mine the two people were ordering their bee drill and Machop to attack. I was momentarily startled as the two Pokémon barreling toward me. I was frozen and couldn't move. With one smooth swipe of his hand Lance brushed his cape aside and threw his pokeball. I giant Charzard appeared and Lance only muttered one thing.

"Flame thrower." With a billowing roar the Charzard blew out a stream of fire and that one move defeated both of the other Pokémon. I stared at the Sean as the two Pokémon fainted. The trainers gritted their teeth and returned the Pokémon and dashed down the hallway. I looked at the Charzard in shock. Lance smiled and gently pet the dragon on the head. "Thank you Charzard." Lance said quietly before sending Charzard back to his ball. We began walking again and the Pokémon charging at me replayed in my mind. They were going to attack me. Even though I didn't have any Pokémon out they were going to attack me. I had no defense and they didn't care.

"Who-who were they?" I asked Lance his expression was grim when he replied.

"They are members of a group called team rocket. They are a group of thieves with no regard for others. They steal Pokémon from other trainers their goal is to have every Pokémon in the world. This is one of their hideouts." I looked up at him.

"How do you know all that?"

"I have been fighting them for a long time now. Sometimes I raid a hideout like today sometimes I disguise myself and infiltrate their plans either way I am against them." I was disgusted at the thought and became full of anger.

"Lance…I want to help. I want to help you take down team rocket." We walked in silence for a few minutes before answering.

"It's too dangerous."

"You can't just expect me to sit aside do you?"

"After we are finished here you will go home and return to your normal life. There is no need to drag an innocent into this."

"But!"

"No! Not another word on the subject. I will not let you get dragged into this." momentarily I was offended he was treating me like such a child but I knew he was just trying to protect me so I let the subject drop and we continued walking in silence. Soon the hallway gave way to a room a counter ran across the wall and a single pokeball rested on it. There was a machine a few feet away from it and the sign in front of the room read "Acquired Pokémon room 003" the counter had spots meant to hold poke balls but there was only one. Lance picked it up and put it inside the nearby machine. The screen above it lit up and showed a picture of a Pokémon with words beside it and a female mechanical voice read.

"Growlith, a fire pokemon obtained march 23, attacks, flame thrower, tackle, bite, and growl. Level 20." Lance typed something into the keyboard infront of us his eyes quickly scaning the screen as things popped up and disapeared before I could read it. then he reached into the machine and pulled the pokeball back out.

"Take it." he told me as he held the ball out to me. I looked at him and stepeped away. "It belongs to you now I changed the name on the ball it legally belongs to you." I shook my head. "They stole this pokemon from someone. And they would just mistreat it if we left it here. I cant take it I have a full party. You however do not. Do it for the pokemon." I slowly reached out and took the ball from him. "See it's fine." I put the ball on my belt and he led me down another hallway. We came it spread out into a large indoor balcony overlooking the center of the underground building. I looked out over the large room it was full of comotion people walking this way and that. it was to loud to hear anything then suddenly a voice broke out above the others.

"BOSS BOSS!" Two men cried out as they ran toward the center of the room. Lance watched them intentlly and I followed them with my eyes and saw they were the same people who Lance defeated earlier. "Geovoni there are intuders!" they approched a man standind directly in the middle of the room veryone else stopped and stood silent to watch. The boss had black hair and brown eyes and was wearing a suite. I froze.

No, no, no, NO! I thought franticlly. I turned and ran down the hallway we had come from. Throug a blind run I found my way out of the building and colapsed. When Lance found me I was under a tree crying. He got down on his knees beside me.

"Whats wrong?" he asked me. "Why did you run away?" and between sobs I told him.

"That man-the boss- he….he's my father." I buried my head in my hands. How could he do this to me? how could he hide that from me from Ruby? He's the leader of team rocket and he didn't even tell us he leaves us for weeks at a time not knowing. How could he? I was overcome by a wave of sorrow and betrayl but also by a wave of anger and rage. The fact my father hid that from us the fact that we never should have trusted him that he betrayed me filled me with sorrow but the idea of him hurting me hiding it from Ruby filled me with anger. Lance seemed shocked and couldn't move for a second but when he regained his composter he put a hand on my back and I looked up at him. He gave me a forced smile and I looked deep into his kind Sapphire eyes.

"It's ok. You didn't know. I am here for you. Your not alone." He pulled me into a long hug and I felt safe in his arms. I felt I could trust him. Finally when we pulled apart he smiled at me kindly and wiped the last of my tears away. "Everything is going to be ok." I couldn't stop myself from smileing at him and he helped me to my feet. He began walking me back to town. He walked me back to my house. And he left me at the door.

"I cant stay Claire I have to go I have work to do."

"Goodbye." I said "Will I see you again? I want to come with you I want to help you stop my father." and he smiled at me.

"Yea I promise I will come back for you."

"You will take me with you? I will traval with you?"

"Yea sure." He replied we smiled at each other and I took one last look at his Sapphire eyes before he ran into the woods disapearing into the forest shadows. I walked inside and ran to Ruby's room. I could hear her music booming and I froze before I knocked on her door. She doesn't have to know. I didn't want to leave her in the dark but sometimes its better to have bliss in ignorince.

My sorrow passed replaced with anger for my father, I became filled with rage. He betrayed me. he betayed Ruby he hurt me he is evil. I became fuled with ambition to stop him. I cant hate him, I could never hate him. he is my father but it doesn't mean I have to sit aside and let him do this, doesn't mean I should sit aside and let that evil compant thrive. I began throwing things into my backpack, hair brush, toothbrush, toothpaste, extra pokemon food, supplies, ECT. I just unpacked I should have left it all in the bag. I thought as I raced around the house collecting items. Sudenlly I heard a rapid knock on the door and I knew it was Lance. Quickly I made sure I had all my pokemon and I slung my bag over my shouler.

"Bye Ruby." I called as I raced towards the door.

"You are going out again? How long will you be gone?"

"I'm not sure I think I am going to traval some." I replied

"What should I tell dad?"

I froze and took a serious tone. "Tell him he will see me soon." And with that as my farewell I ran out the door to where Lance was waiting. He looked impaitant and seemed almost parinoid. He kept glanceing over his shoulder towards the ficility.

"Hey." I greeted but he didn't seem to be in the mood for small talk.

"Come on we gotta go." He said quickly. I cocked my head in wonder and listened. I could hear a faint alarm from the direction of the building. I looked at Lance aslight smile playing at my face. He grabbed me by the wrist and we started running through the forest away from the place. We emerged at the road leading to the next town, Pewter city. We ran for a while before I got tired and slowed to a stop panting. I wasn't use to that much running. I snuck a peak at Lance but he didn't seem at all out of breath. He was looking behind us and I could have sworn I saw something black move in the bushes. My eyes went wide and he asked me.

"This is to slow." He pulled out a pokeball and his Charzard emerged in a red light. "Quick climb on." He said as he held onto Charzard back. Charzard looked at me and I was momentarily frozen with fear that he would eat me. Lance reached out a hand and I took it as he pulled me up to the spot between Charzard's wings. Charzard was large I knew even for other Charzards, and probably twice as strong.

"Let's go Charzard." Lance said and with a flap of its large wings we were off the ground. The wind sent my hair flying behind me I watched as the grass, bushes and leaves were wiped back and forth with every flap of his powerful wings. The trees began getting smaller as we got higher and higher and I saw a group of three people swarm around where we had taken off. All of them were dressed in black and they glared up at us as they got smaller and smaller. Then there was a flash of red light and a zubat and buterfree appeared and within seconds were rapidly closing the distance between us. As they drew closer Lance yelled over the roaring wind.

"Charzard use flame thrower!" with a tremendous roar, Charzard let lose a blaze of flames and tried to hit the two Pokémon. He hit the butter free head on and she fell from the sky fainted and disappeared in a burst of red before she hit the ground but the zubat avoided the stream of fire. And came charging at us baring its sharp yellow fangs it flew right at Lance and me and without thinking I grabbed Piggy's pokeball and clicked the button on it. Sending out Piggy in a flash of red glory.

"Piggy peck!" I cried and Piggy fearlessly flew at the Zubat that was undoubtedly twice her size. Piggy slammed into the bat and with rapid speed hit it 6 times on the head but the zubat fell back then slammed into Piggy full force knocking Piggy out of the sky sending her plummeting towards earth. "NO!" I screamed and fumbled with the pokeball. I clicked the button but the red line missed her and she was out of sight before I could try again. My eyes went wide and Lance seemed as if he was about to jump after it.

"Charzard dive down we need to get Piggy!" Lance commanded but instead Charzard spiraled right forcing me and Lance to hold on for dear life as gravity threatened to push us off. When the spinning stopped I looked down frantically searching for Piggy. Instead a saw a flash of white light and a form rapidly approach us. A Pidgeotto emerged flying towards us and missed us but barely the wind from its wings sent my hair flying up. I held on tighter to Charzard and the Pidgeotto turned and came back at us slamming into the zubat as hard as it could. I stared in wonder and confusion but Lance began to smirk. The Zubat went down and disappeared in a red light just as the small clearing we had taken off from disappeared behind us and the next town came into view. The Pidgeotto kept pace with us but didn't attack. We landed a few miles away in a small clearing right outside a cave entrance. The town was in walking distance and the Pidgeotto landed beside us and with a caw came up to me as if it were waiting for something. I stared at it confused and I heard Lance laugh behind me.

"Are you going to return her?" his voice dripped with amusement and I looked at him wondering what he meant. "That's your Piggy. She had enough experience to evolve before she hit the ground. She is a Pidgeotto now." Pidgeotto smiled at me and began to understand what he meant I had heard about evolution though only once or twice I had never actually witnessed it.

"Thanks Pidgeotto." I said. "Pidgeotto you saved us up there." I clicked the button on the pokeball and she returned. I strapped it back onto my belt and turned to Lance. "I need to go to a Pokémon center soon I think they are tired." Lance nodded in agreement and answered.

"We will stop at one in the next town." I turned to Charzard.

"Thanks Charzard you saved us." I pet him on the head and he smiled and let out a low rumble of satisfaction.

"Great job Charzard, have a nice rest." Lance said as he returned the dragon. In a flash Lance and I were alone in the field and we stared at each other for a long moment. I knew my hair was messed up from the wind and I could still feel the Adrenalin slowly pulling out of my blood stream a feeling I am not use to and I smiled at Lance feeling giddy and hyper from the rush of events. He returned a smile equal to mine and without a word we began walking side by side towards Cerulean city.

Meanwhile back at team rockets hideout:

"Sir." A team rocket goon said as he ran up to a man in a black suite. The man was sitting in a large red chair behind a large wooden office desk with a Persian on his lap as he stroked it fur gently.

"Report. Were you able to capture the intruders?" the man behind the desk commanded powerfully.

"No sir our mission was a failure the two intruders escaped on a Charzard headed towards Pewter city." The worker replied.

"Do you have any clue as of who they are? What they looked like? Do you fools have any information at all?"

"There were two intruders, one boy one girl. The boy was hidden in black with a cape."

"Lance." The man said calmly. "When will he realize his attempts are fruitless? That this is for the greater good and what about the girl?"

"No one really saw the girl well enough she was too far away."

"Lance does not normally travel with a partner. It is a mystery as of now who she could be."

"Sir. Giovanni what are you going to do now?" Giovanni reached across the desk and rested his hand on a picture of two young girls soaking wet and tumbling over each other smiling at the camera on a hot summer day. "You say they headed off to Pewter? Then I will go after them. I can't trust you fools with anything. But first, I will stop at home. I need to see my daughters again."